The Business Times, 24 May 1999

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) Q4l^ja'9B TTv 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, MAY 24, 1999
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  • 74 1 FOBEX BATES US$ si USt 1.720 S(USS/S$perf) 1JM 17tt EURO (USI/SS per E) 1-069 1.820 DM L8M 0.931 YEN 1217 1JW KM trn 1452 HKI 7.714 1222 MfflAH 'SStoiOOaato ran bites SINGAPORE* M» KOALA LUMPUR HJO JAKAm J8.00 BANGKOK 14.75 MANILA 2t» HONGKONG MX uurei m SYDNEY £.45 TOKYO-
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  • 826 1  -  With rest of top 20 biding their time, there seems good upside for market By 1 Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] So who has been buying the Singapore stock market, pushing it up by an impressive 143 per cent
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  • 55 1 This is no ordinary call for Olivetti boss Roberto Colaninno, who on Friday claimed victory in Europe's biggest corporate raid ever. After a three-month battle, the Italian company has won a 51.02 per cent stake in Telecom Italia, handing it majority control of Europe'sfourth largest telecomsgroup.
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  • 340 1 Reuters. AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's finance ministry will allow foreigners to own up to 50 per cent of local banks as part of its drive to encourage mergers of financial institutions to bolster competitiveness, local newspapers said yesterday. The China Times quoted Vice-Finance Minister
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  • 547 1  -  Closed-end funds seem better bet than cash proposal From E< Eddie Toh, Siow Li Sen in Singapore THE two new closed-end fund options for the frozen Malaysian Clob shares are more attractive than the cash offer by Akbar Khan, but
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  • 1088 1  -  TSE working to regain its place among world bourses From< Anthony Rowley m Tokyo THE Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is gearing up for a major drive to improve its image among international investors and to assert its position as the
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  • 187 1 Reuters [CHICAGO] Financier George Soros said on Friday that he would not invest in Malaysia because he was concerned by the country's lack of democracy. "I am very much concerned by the lack of democracy in Malaysia and about (former deputy premier) Anwar
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 690 2  -  Republic can become Asia's Silicon Valley, suggests US human resources consultant By] Larry Wee SINGAPORE may find it easier to attract top talent in the Internet and e-commerce fields than to lure top US financial industry professionals, according to the chief
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    • 331 2  -  BYE ON THE ECONOMY CPI By\ Siow Li Sen THE consumer price index rose by 0.4 per cent in April over the previous month, according to figures released by the Department of Statistics yesterday. Compared with April last year, the index fell by 0.3
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    • 394 2  -  By, Ang Wan May COMMERCIAL and exhibition centre Suntec City and East Coast condominium The Bayshore have won top honours in an international real estate competition. The Suntec City project grabbed the overall top award, beating 143 other entries in the FIABCI
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    • 105 2  -  mmafl Ong Geok Hin via Internet Seoul, Korea WHY are bonus shares referred to as "bonus" or "sweeteners"? An example is your Hock Lock Siew column of May 19 headlined "Banks can't keep shareholders guessing", which refers to SPH's bonus shares as a sweetener. If I
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    • 1343 2 DRAKE EXECUTIVE SEARCH DRAKE INTERNATIONAL (S) LTD 8 Shenton Way #40-03 Temasek Tower Singapore *****1 Tel (65) 225 5809 Fax (65) 227 0071 Email johnkoh@drakesin.com.sg Website http://www.drakeintl.com Ml Hotung Investment Holdings Limited (Incorporated in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL. GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meetng of
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    • 896 2 I ©DBS BANK H THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD 9 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING I To: All Shareholders a NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Thirty-First Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held in J Meeting
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 466 3 BANGKOK Myanmar is &n obstacle to crucial investment and aid talks: analysts AFP OFFICIALS from Asean and the European Union (EU) will meet here today for the first time since the South-east Asian bloc's contentious admission of military-run Myanmar two years
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    • 175 3 MANILA AFP THE Philippines will reject calls by Asean to abolish tariffs on 60 per cent of imports by next year, officials said yesterday. Assistant trade secretary Edsel Custodio said his government committee was concerned Manila would lose three billion pesos (*****.9
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    • 391 3 JAKARTA No reports of serious incidents; atmosphere festive Reuters HUNDREDS of thousands of supporters of Indonesia's leading opposition party poured onto the streets yesterday in by far the biggest of campaign rallies so far for June's national election. The atmosphere was festive and there
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    • 336 3 KUALA LUMPUR AFP THE wife of jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim has voiced confidence that her newly-formed political movement stands a chance of winning the next general election. In an interview with the Sunday Star, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail admitted
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 797 4  -  CRISIS WATCH Dollar/yen rate Is on knife edge, and conld go either way; neither Is good for Asia By Vikram Khanna JUST as we have gotten used to the idea that Asian currencies have settled down after several months of instability,
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    • 150 4 Reuters [MANILA] A strong rebound in agriculture in the first quarter of the year will pull the Philippines out of recession, but a sustained contraction in manufacturing will temper the recovery, a Reuters poll showed. The continued manufacturing slump would result in gross domestic
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    • 579 4 Prospects of rates rising slim when bank loan demand is rebounding SG unit AFP [HONGKONG] Asian central banks are unlikely to tighten monetary policy as a recovery in crisis-hit regional economies accelerates, according to a research report released here at the
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    • 53 4 [BEIJING] A salesgirl dressed in a Tibetan outfit (right) attends to customers at a Tibetan shop in Beijing yesterday. The shop is decorated with posters offering tours to Tibet. Chinese authorities are promoting tourism to Tibet, bringing in much-needed revenue to one of the poorest regions
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    • 432 4 Economies' plans not specific enough: Apec business leaders AFP [TOKYO] Asia-Pacific business leaders meeting here yesterday told the region to knock down trade barriers faster and to open up investment in response to the Asian financial crisis. Industry leaders from 21 economies represented in
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 332 5 SHANGHAI Report says regulator considering allowing specialised insurance brokers Reuters CHINA may allow insurance brokers to conduct business in the domestic market next year, the Business Weekly said yesterday. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), the regulator for the insurance sector, is considering approving a
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    • 197 5 SHANGHAI Bridge News THE Bank of China plans to introduce education loans before the end of May or early June in selected larger cities to bolster efforts to support economic growth, the official China Daily reported yesterday in its Business Weekly section. At
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    • 52 5 [SHANGHAI] Promoters dressed up as mosquitos and a can of insecticide attract passers-by outside a shopping mall in Shanghai yesterday. China has admitted in a research report that the massive economic stimulus package launched by the government last year failed to produce the desired increase in
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    • 312 5 TAIPEI Countermeasnres include selling to third countries AFP TAIWAN'S DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip makers are ready for the expected anti-dumping ruling by the United States next week and mulling countermeasures, news reports said yesterday. "DRAMs may be sold to
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  • ASIA
    • 571 6 TOKYO Case shows abuse of official guarantees, lack of clear rules on use of public funds AFP THE collapse of a provincial bank named "Happiness" has exposed flaws in Japan's struggle to clean up its financial industry, choked by bad loans from the 1980s bubble
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    • 257 6 SEOUL Reuters SOUTH Korea's President Kim Dae Jung is expected to revamp his cabinet today to bolster economic reforms and prepare for parliamentary elections next year, analysts said. The presidential Blue House said on Saturday that the changes would focus on replacing politicians with
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    • 367 6 HONGKONG Many nations have higher penetration than England IHT WHILE currencies fell, jobs disappeared and businesses went under, many Asians picked up their cellular telephones and began chatting and they haven't stopped. The cellular phone market has been a singular success story amid
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    • 334 6 SYDNEY AFP THE Australian tourism industry is positioned for huge growth in the next decade with the number of overseas visitors doubling to eight million a year, figures show. Inbound tourism is Australia's single largest earner of foreign exchange, netting Asl6 billion (SslB
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    • 1559 6 1998 Consolidated Financial Statements (in millions of Canadian dollars) CONSOLIDATED DALANCE SHEETS CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME »s it October 31 MM 1997 for the yetrs ended October 31 UM J997 CASJMtESOURCES WTIKST INCOME Cash and non-interest-bearing deposits with Securities 'I'm* 'Hii f-500 Bank of Canada and other banks iU« 1354
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  • THE WORLD
    • 476 7 WASHINGTON Signals include higher consumer incomes, spending, durable goods orders Bloomberg REPORTS this week showing higher consumer incomes and spending, an increase in durable goods orders and strength in home sales for April will be among the first signs the US economy kept
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    • 170 7 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE United States posted a budget surplus in April as the booming stock market and low unemployment fueled tax collections and put the federal government closer to its first consecutive annual surpluses since Dwight Eisenhower was president. The Treasury reported a monthly
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    • 177 7 IRVINGTON, Virginia Reuters US President Bill Clinton told Democratic senators at the weekend that he was confident of reaching a deal to secure China's entry into the World Trade Organisation by the end of the year, a White House spokesman said.
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 7 [COMPIEGGNE] Organisers ofa food fair in Compiegne, northern France, set a new world record on Saturday after they presented a platter with 776 different kinds of French and foreign cheese. A court bailiff and a representativefrom the Guinness Book of Records spent more than three hours tallying up
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    • 417 7 WASHINGTON A Caribbean firm accused of illegally taking stake in bank Reuters THE US Federal Reserve has accused a little-known Carib-bean-based firm of illegally acquiring a controlling interest in a Los Angeles bank owned by controversial Indonesian businessman James Riady. Mr Riady and
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  • Special Supplement: FRENCH BUSINESS IN FOCUS
    • 1628 8 French advertising agencies have made a name for themselves the world over, including Singapore. Take Euro RSCG, recently ranked by Advertising Age as among the top five advertising agencies in the world, and Publicis, the global name which has trail-blazed its way into Asia by setting
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    • 446 9 FRENCH technological and manufacturing expertise in the medical field were on display in Singapore recently, at the HospiMedica Asia exhibition at Suntec City. The exhibition, which took place from May 12 to 15, showcased companies which design, develop and manufacture medical equipment and services around
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    • 529 9 Bridge News AFXAsia Reuters AFP Bridge AFP Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France and a member of the European Central Bank board, said last week that a "strong and stable" foreign exchange policy was the key to the ECB building confidence in the euro.
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    • 393 9 BG Lee lauds French Business Centre for its role in showing the way for SMEs amid the language and network barriers THE French Business Centre has been "very successful" in supporting French small and medium enterprises (SMEs) wanting to set up in Singapore, Deputy Prime Minister Lee
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 669 10  -  A third of Singapore companies surveyed do not intend to have a Web site By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A significant portion of local firms have not taken to the Internet, according to a survey of 367 companies in Singapore. "There
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    • 144 10 Reuters [TORONTO] Internet portal provider Yahoo Inc has launched new Canadian features, including the first free service allowing cybersurfers to chat real-time around the world via voice messages. Yahoo, based in Palo Alto, California, now lets Canadian residents exchange actual sound
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    • 352 10  -  By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Trade Net, the nationwide online trade administration system, has passed six days of Y2K tests. Although the tests revealed a couple of minor glitches, they have since been resolved, a TDB spokesman told BusinesslT. The Y2K problem
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    • 777 10  -  e"speak. US giant will add about 200 consultants in Asia to prod e-service initiatives From'. Raju Chellam in San Francisco SINGAPORE will be among the first three locations in Asia where US giant HewlettPackard Company will set
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    • 423 11  -  'Customer Relationship Management' also improves their bottomline By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore companies are starting to adopt technology to enable them to reach out to customers better, and are improving their bottomline in the process. Local firms such as Sin-
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    • 326 11 [SINGAPORE] A young local firm, Technowledge Asia, has pioneered a novel form of Internet marketing. It has launched a Web site where different companies can post their brands, Technowledge managing director Ramesh Ramachandra told BusinesslT. At this Web site, www.win-all.com.sg, users play
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    • IT TAKES
      • 68 11 THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry and the National Computer Board will jointly organise the third Internet Commerce conference, which is targeted at small and medium enterprises. It will be held on June 4 at the Mandarin hotel. English and Mandarin sessions will be conducted. The
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      • 66 11 GEMPLUS has appointed Chou Fang Soon as CEO for the Pacific Asia region and Serge Barthelemy as CEO for Greater China. The company defines Greater China as China, Hongkong and Taiwan, and Pacific Asia covers the rest of the Asia-Pacific. Mr Chou and Mr Barthelemy replace Gemplus Asia-Pacific
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      • 63 11 McGallen Bolden in Wayfarer deal MCGALLEN Bolden Associates, an Asian consulting group in communications, technology and training, has signed up with Wayfarer in Australia to be its corporate advocate for its 128-bit strong encryption program for export-grade Netscape browsers. McGallen Bolden will promote the use of high-security 128-bit encryption and
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      • 45 11 THE Ministry erf Education and IBM have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing ways of using IT to enhance education in Singapore. The projects will be implemented in "Model Schools" and may be replicated in other schools as well.
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      • 39 11 HEWLETT-PACKARD and Cisco Systems have introduced an integrated network and server policy-based Quality of Service (QOS) solution. This QOS solution protects mission-critical application performance throughout an enterprise network by prioritising transactions and traffic.
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      • 33 11 QAD, a developer of supply chain enterprise software, has opened a representative office In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The office will report to the QAD Asia headquarters in Hongkong.
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      • 56 11 STAR Micronics will launch a new visual card system at the Scan-Tech Asia '99 exhibition from June 23 to 26 at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. This card has a panel on the front that displays information. The information to be displayed can be
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      • 54 11  -  Compllftdby Toh Han Shih ACCTON Technology has entered into a standing arrangement to market its complete range of networking products online via the e-commerce store Computer Discount Super Store (CDSS). Accton and CDSS will cooperate in an e-commerce arrangement to bring the complete range of Accton
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    • 462 11  -  The target a 5% share of the market in two years By. Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] After two relatively quiet years, mid-tier PC maker Packard Bell-NEC is now set to strengthen its profile and consumer PC business in the Asia-Pacific, starting with
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    • 1075 12  -  Add Liveroiore has zoouied up the rauks iD Hewlett-Packard through sheer ability. Adcl it s testioioDv to the coDipaDy that geDder hasu't beeD aD issue, she tells seniieth james y KENNETH JAMES Meet the face resurHe wpVcL: ard Company a superachiever, intensely focused, at
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    • 276 12 Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates last week demonstrated technology for customising computer screens, known as the digital dashboard, that can constantly remind employees of key corporate objectives. Speaking at Microsoft's third-annual CEO summit, Mr Gates showed how the screen could be
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    • 117 14 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Lotus Development Corp, a software unit of International Business Machines Corp in the US, said sales in Asia-Pacific will rise at least a fifth this year as more Asian companies do business through the Internet. Lotus, whose software links information databases
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    • 468 14  -  New Unix-based systems shine on industry standard benchmarks By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] A new generation of workstations from Hewlett-Packard Company is being touted by the rejuvenated computer giant as the fastest in the industry. HP last week launched three workstation models the HP
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    • 175 14 Reuters (SAN FRANCISCO] 3Com Corp's Palm Computing division will this week announce the availability of the wireless version of its popular Palm Pilot handheld computer for sending e-mail and accessing the Internet. The Palm VII is expected to be priced at about US$599
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    • 278 14 AFP [CHICAGO] A New Jerseybased company has unveiled a powerful new tool in facial recognition technology that will help law-enforcement agencies better combat identity fraud. Visionics Corp gave a sneak preview of its thirdgeneration Facelt surveillance software engine at an international
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    • 276 14 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Apple Computer Inc said it will begin including 20 Chinese-language software programs with its "iMac" computer in Taiwan, hoping to carve out a larger share of the island's US$256 million (Ss44o million) personal computer market. Apple, whose popularity has surged
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 48 15 CLIENT/SERVER technology firm Compuware has brought its Rapid Response kit to the Asia-Pacific. Rapid Response combines enhanced versions of its fault management and testing tools for mission-critical systems. The kit adds another comfort layer for companies preparing for the Millennium Bug, Compuware says.
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      • 111 15 SEVERAL PC vendors have announced Windows NT-based models that feature Intel Corp's just-launched 550-megahertz Pentium ID microprocessors. Dell Computer Corp is including Intel's top-end "brain" in its entry-level Dell Precision Workstation 210 series. The 550 MHz PIII also powers models in its Power
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      • 54 15 FUJITSU Computers has launched what it says is the world's first external disk drive with a 1.3 gigabyte capacity in the popular 3.5-inch magnetooptical (MO) format The new DynaMO 1300SD (above) is compatible with all existing MO media, including Fujitsu's own 640-megabyte MO drive.
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      • 65 15 MAXTOR Corp has announced its Diamond Max 6800 hard disk drive that provides up to 27.2 gigabytes of high-performance storage. Touting it as the ideal storage product for applications like digital photography, video and Internet content, Maxtor put the estimated street price of the Diamond
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      • 67 15 DELL Computer Corp's Latitude CPt ups the corporate notebook stakes with a 14.1-inch screen, the largest in its line. A Latitude CPt with Intel Mobile Celeron microprocessor at 333 megahertz, 32-megabyte RAM, 4.3-gigabyte hard disk drive, 24X CD-ROM and Windows 98 retails for $3,486 with
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      • 68 15 MULTIMEDIA major Creative Technology has introduced the Blaster CD-RW 4224, a CD drive that can write onto both CD-R (recordable) and CD-RW (rewritable) media. The Blaster CD-RW 4224 will write to CD-R media at 4X speed or CD-RW disks at 2X. It will read standard CD-ROMs at
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      • 74 15  -  Compiled by! Kenneth James Compaq Computer Corp has launched what it says is the world's fastest single-processor Rise machine. Pricing for the entry-level AlphaServer DSIO starts at U553,500, estimated street price, for a system with a 466 MHz Alpha microprocessor, claimed by Compaq to be
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    • 503 15  -  Latest software from Autodesk and Partametric are Web-enabled By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software are getting a boost from the Internet. The latest software launched by two major US CAD and
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    • 132 15 Reuters [BEIJING] Most Chinese banks have completed updating their computer systems to be millennium-compliant and testing is under way, the Financial News has reported. The central bank, the People's Bank of China, had finished testing the inter-bank network and computers for currency issue, the treasury
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    • 156 14 C V Microsoft Omce2oool9 What productivity means today. thinking, and seeing things a bit differently. On 7th June, you can be a part of the eagerly-awaited launch of Microsoft Office 2000, the latest update to the Microsoft Office suite of business-critical applications. Microsoft Office 2000 is geared to change the
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 685 16  -  MUSIC Trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger evoked the lyrical and the threatening at Friday's SSO concert By] P Y Van MUCH has been written about the sound of the trumpet and many a song has been inspired by it. Even today, it is one of those instruments which always
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    • 535 16 Where to wine, dine and iHsas Ginseng, a precious age-old, revitalising plant, is the main ingredient in some of the dishes, prepared by the master chefs of Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant m the month of May. Some of these outstanding dishes include Stir-fried Lobster with Ginseng in Black Bean ($22);
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 446 17  -  Upper's new database tracks institutional stockholdings By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] With local stocks so sensitive to fund flows, most investors and corporates would love to know what fUnd managers are doing. Now they can, with Upper's database of institutional stock
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    • 169 17 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian businessman Vincent Tan Chee Yioun has proposed to buy a 30 per cent stake in Malaysian telecommunications company DiGi Swisscom Bhd after its Swiss partner pulled out in March. In a statement over the weekend to the Kuala Lumpur
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    • 843 17  -  BAMO SBWO DTSIOHT Punters ran out of reasons to bay overvalued companies By Quak Hiang Whai PUNTERS looking to buy the Hongkong market are increasingly finding themselves running short of both reasons and valuations. With no real good news in the market, the plots for "theme
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    • COMPANIES
      • 790 18  -  worn STOCK Four export-linked small-cap stocks now lead the portfolio in 12-month returns By\ Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Export-linked small-cap stocks ended the week on a high note, buoyed by the first hint that a robust turnaround may be underway in trade flows. News on
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      • 393 18 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Templeton Asset Management managing director Mark Mqbius says he'll keep pressing Hongkong companies to treat minority shareholders more fairly, the Sunday Morning Post said. In an interview with the newspaper, Mr Mobius said Hongkong's corporate governance shows no
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      • 899 19 Two more offers to buy up Clob Malaysian shares were announced on Friday. Unlike the huge price discounts in Akbar Khan's first cash offer, the latest two proposals will value the Clob shares at market prices prevailing on KLSE when the exchange into units is
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      • 597 19 CEO Colaninno says he will ensnre friendly handover of management Reuters NYT [MILAN] Olivetti boss Roberto Colaninno claimed his prize on Saturday after triumphing in Europe's biggest corporate raid ever, saying he would take over Telecom Italia with minimum disruption. After formally accepting a hard-fought
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      • 561 20 Meriwether, Flowers and Dimon plan to torn it into an investment bank Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Three of Wall Street's well-known names are discussing a takeover of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) to turn it into an investment
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      • 364 20 Alliance 6 Leicester and Bank of Ireland together have a market cap of £11.5b FT, Reuters [LONDON] Alliance Leicester, the UK bank and former mutually-owned building society, and Bank of Ireland are in merger talks that could create one of Europe's largest cross-border banking
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      • 203 20 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's financial watchdog may seek criminal charges against Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse Group over its alleged illegal dealings in Tokyo, news reports said on Saturday. The Financial Supervisory Agency, in its first probe into a foreign bank, plans to suspend the
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      • 200 20 Bloomberg, Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's banks wiU find it difficult in the medium term to match the rapid earnings growth of the past few years, David Morgan, chief executive of Westpac Banking Corp Ltd, Australia's third-largest bank, told Channel Nine's Business Sunday programme yesterday. Mr Morgan
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 545 21  -  SIMBX Weeklyßxmndup Hiroko Komiya AIMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] The US dollar is expected to continue to benefit from the market's expectation of more attractive US yields. A threat of Federal Reserve tightening
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      • 839 21 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON] Gold crashed to a 20-year low point last week in a continued show of market despair at the Bank of England's decision to sell more than half of its strategic stocks. Even reports of a take-off in demand
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 859 22 Sydney -1043 INTEREST rate-sensitive stocks are expected to hold back the Australian market in the week ahead as bonds remain unsettled, brokers said. "Until a more settled picture emerges on bond yields, turbulence will continue," said Craig James, Colonial State Bank chief economist. "It may take time
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      • 280 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG share prices will stay sluggish with few fresh incentives to stir buying interest in the week ahead as investors fret about the direction of US interest rates, dealers said. "Overall, the market will continue to consolidate on fears of
        AFP  -  280 words
      • 627 22 NEW YORK Wall St sceptical Fed will boost rates and doesn't expect harm to last even if it does Bloomberg THE spectre of rising interest rates to ward off inflation is failing to spook investors. Wall Street is sceptical the Federal Reserve
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      • 395 22 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to rise in the week ahead with investors buoyed by banks' positive earning projections in the current financial year, analysts say. "The Nikkei index is likely to climb next week thanks to positive profit
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      • 402 22 LONDON AFP THE London stock market boasted small gains over the week by close of play on Friday thanks to a mid-week rally triggered by strong company news and largely benign data indicating that interest rates may yet go down before they go up. By Friday
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      • 1800 22 Paris +74J0 FRENCH shares retreated on Friday with the market giving back some of its gains as Wall Street slipped and the final day of the monthly settlement added to the downward pressure. The CAC-40 closed down 0.54 per cent at 4,398.13 points, up 74.30 points from
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      • 8344 23 MNtlHAU Commmt pntots Lest Vol Week Nat C Hm> Low Company Sat* 'OOO High Law p/% j r MO 288 Ailnamata 1*? 46 66 380 316 2^ "5 46 Angkasa 107 24 1904 115 81.5 1S7 293 220 ApoNe Food Htg 277 23 66 293 2SS 9 6 110 204
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      • 402 23 AFP fl Composite Index +2J7 MALAYSIAN stock prices are expected to move sideways with retail players likely to dominate trading in the week ahead after posting a modest gain of 0.4 per cent over the week to Friday. "There will be minor profit-taking. The problem is
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    • WARRANTS & OPTIONS
      • 2660 24 Way 21 BOMBS, IMM ft 1AMMMVS Laat Val WNt Last Ouata Avf Hlgb Law »twa twgg *ar- C'000) High Law Buyar W»f Prtca 25 3 31<0 A Acar ******1 US$ 21 974 23 20 20 205 35.5 4.5 t 3164 Acma ******4 30 *0.5 3460 30.5 27 29.5 30 28
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      • 288 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE warrant of Kian Ho Bearings jumped six cents to 24.5 cents on a volume of 7.5 miUion units on Friday. Its underlying stock gained 5.5 cents to 42 cents as 3.3 miUion units changed hands. This in-the-money
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      • 165 24 Or 6r *2-Wk LMt V« Mm* LMtOiMt* Mf Dt« YM M MO* Hm> L— ttm Ci«9nr Uf COOP) L— 9nyr t*m CV Pft turn ~34S 173 5123 COL (2000) HK 325 M) ITTi n ***** 5124 Cattwy Pte 20c HK_720 265 U 6 2474*4 5125 Clwung KonqSOc HK.
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • Article, Illustration
        472 26 Source: JM Sassoon Steda Vthw Frt Links 20c 202,170,000 CM Telecom HK75C 110,915,000 Popular Wc 96,333,000 SamuderalOc 92,564,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 85,288,000 Econ Intl 20c 77,902,000 TeledatalOc 72,990,000 GoWtrwi 20c 67,055.000 Draco HldgslOc 63,918,000 AHgreen50c 62,031,000 Unfa DBS Foreign 284,796,969 OCBC Foreign 280,631,697 D8S 206,792,343 SIA Foreign 192,418,191 008
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      • 630 26  -  THE wiiHif ahead Rally seen to have taken on distinctly speculative tone with dangerous element of volatility By Ven Sreenivasan DESPITE a firming in interbank rates, the Singapore benchmark index managed to clamber to its thirdhighest close on Friday since the beginning of
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        67 26  -  -By Ven Sreenivasan SAMUDERA Shipping saw its volume rise four-fold from its 10-day average on Friday as punters continued to pile into the counter. The stock is just two cents below its 52-week high and is currently quite overbought. It has strong support at 45 cents, but is
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    • 1637 26 DBS Investor Online. You've read about it, now hear us on Newsßaciio 938. Mon Fri, from 8.22 a.m. S3l HtSBANK I SM G OILIL NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No- 741 12Q8 Scheme for the merger of Keppel FELS Limited and Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited has become
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 171 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young PRICES in the dry bulk sector have continued to be very firm up and there would appear to be no sign of any slowing. As we have said in previous weeks, the lack of deal sellers, has given buyers a "bees around a
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    • 431 27  -  Oil spill from sunken Son Vista under control: M'sian environment dept By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Malaysian authorities are to contact Sun Cruises regarding arrangements to salvage its cruise liner Sun Vista which sank in the Malacca Straits on Friday. Malaysian transport minister
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    • 782 27  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes Unfortunately the subject of refurbished, older cruiseships is an especially topical one at present following the sinking of the 1963-built, but comprehensively rebuilt. Sun Vista (ex-Galileo Galilei, ex-Meridian), owned by Singaporebased Sun Cruises Holdings. There are those in the industry who
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    • 772 28  -  HIGH-SPEED FERRIES Shipbuilder hopes military contracts will help it compete in the ultra-competitive high-speed ferry industry By\ Paul Tait Reuters in Hobart, A ustralia AN Australian shipbuilder hopes that expanding into military contracts will help it win a decisive battle over competitors in the ultra-competitive high-speed
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    • 20092 35 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Oestn Name Heme Number Number SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number 02/06 29/06 Delmes IRIS 004S 65-*****44 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot# D'lvolre 03/06 28/06 cosco ever gentry oooiw u-aam 03/0* 03/07 MOL
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      • 372 41 Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Sevan (kNK 5/99 K23 24.05/0830 28 05/1730 ClWnfltu 48S PW6 itooqsKX 24.05/1200 Equator Prid ***** PW1 jloogsKJe 25.05/0800 HmW 0999 PW4 alongside 23.05/1800 Macinc/P 23/05* PW7 aiongsKJe 23.05/1900 Sun Jaya 07/99 PW4 alongsK* 23 05/2300 Agus Jaya 05/99* PWU 24.05/1215 24.05/M15 Artto Pcess
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      • 1805 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booktng/BaUnco Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr P»rtod From To From Ac i Hitmen 025A 25/0700 U 23/1500 2 J/1659 23/1900 K 21/1500 2J/1659 23/1900 2A 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 21 23/1700 24/0659 24/0900 3 24/0700 24/1159 24/1400 4 24/1200 24/1459 24/1700
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      • 174 41 May 24 Germany: Whit Monday. France: Whit Monday. Austria: Whit Monday. Belgium: Whit Monday. Canada: Victoria Day. Denmark: Whit Monday. May 29 Indonesia: Waisak Day. May 31 Greece: Orthodox Pentecost Holiday. Brunei: Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment. Jon 3 Austria: Corpus Christi. Jon 5 Denmark: Constitution Day.
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      • 806 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Qil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 378 41 Cart*, 180 MM 990.3 0.9 18.7 0.08 75 0.06 ktm yft ru|>«]tw Nittr Rnidut Ash AIwrMmi SltflMMt above E25 0 !52L££ 2222—_—SiS! —~V 3« AM *73 0.4 13.5 0.06 35 0.02 JJ2 380 Mai 992.5 10 19.4 0.09 90 0.04 tt/MM if* u/h m/m mi mitht
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 438 42 Move comes after mechanics report danger of explosion from severe wear Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered emergency testing for holes in conduits carrying electrical wires through fuel tanks of Boeing Co 727 airplanes after mechanics reported severe wear of
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      • 144 42 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways, seeking to dispel fears of computer breakdowns, recently confirmed it would be flying into the millennium around the globe. "We will be ready for the date change and as ever will only fly where and when it is safe to do
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      • 369 42 Proposed new cargo terminal will jack up costs, they say Reuters [TORONTO] Already fighting its largest tenant in the courts over its C 54.4 billion (555.2 billion) expansion, Toronto international airport now has to contend with the opposition of virtually the entire freight community.
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      • 492 42 Declining revenues, higher costs set ground for 3rd hike this yean analysts Reuters [NEW YORK] Travellers booking air tickets for Memorial Day and summer vacations in the US should prepare themselves for something else to fly up, up and away as they look
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      • 214 42 Reuters [TOKYO] Tokyo will get an extra runway at its Narita airport in time for the throngs of visitors expected for soccer's World Cup finals in 2002, government officials said recently. The cabinet endorsed a plan to build a temporary runway at New
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        • 67 42 AFP [PARIS] France aims to build a high-speed TGV rail-link within five to six years between Paris' two international airports, Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot said recently. Mr Gayaaot said the link, which is aimed at cutting travel-time to less
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        • 110 42 Bloomberg [Detroit] DaimlerChrysler AG, the world's fifth-largest automaker, will suspend production this week at its Chrysler unit*s assembly plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, to tighten the supply of its slowest-selling car lines. The suburban Detroit plant makes the Dodge Stratus, Chrysler Cirrus, and Plymouth
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        • 111 42 Reuters [DEARBORN, Michigan] Ford Motor Co is recalling 279,*****92-93 Lincoln Town Car, Mercury Grand Marquis and Ford Crown Victoria sedans because of a cruise control switch problem that could cause a fire, the company said recently. Ford said it has received repents of two injuries and
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      • 315 42 Bloomberg [MANILA] Philippine Airlines Inc chairman Lucio Tan said he may ask for a onemonth extension on a June 4 deadline to raise US$2OO million (*****.8 million) required to keep the debt-laden carrier aloft. Mr Tan said he has "no
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      • 65 42 [BEIJING] A Chinese model dressed in a company outfit lounging on new car at a showroom displaying various models from a Korean automobile company over the weekend during an international fair in Beijing. Foreign car makers have been aggressively pushing for entry into China's massive automotive
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