The Business Times, 10 August 1999

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04^1^98 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, AUGUST 10,1999
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  • 52 1 STOCK HAIXET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COUP 668.21 -34.88 NIKKEI 17.190.46 >106^1 HANG SENG .11H147 221*9 SET INDEX 433.46 -169 JAKARTA COMP 694.11 -1173 MANILA COMP __1256J0 -4134 TAIPEI WPI 7,028.01 -21.73 SEOUL COUP 948.97 ♦19.71 CLSA CHINA B ***** -37.19 AUSTALLORD 1976.90 -30.10 Noon EOT Change POW
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  • 76 1 FOBEX BATES USS SI CSS 1.171 £(US$/SS per 1.618 1704 El'RO(l'S$/S$ perC) 1.074 L7M DM 0.918 YEN 114.4 1.412* RM 1800 0.440 HKS 7.763 0.215 BAHT 3716 0.046 RUP1AH 6,996 0.024 "St lo 100 units PUME 1ATES SINGAPORE* 1.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7J5 JAKARTA 40.00 BANOKOK 10.00 MANILA. 11.00 HONGKONG
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  • 1299 1  -  Views differ as more and more SES-listed companies jump on buyback bandwagon By< Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singaporelisted companies are planning to return more than $7 billion to shareholders through share buybacks even at a time when western multinationals are flocking to the region in
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  • 909 1  -  But analysts expect M'sia to cope with outflow of funds From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN shares fell another sharp 5 per cent yesterday, fuelled in part by continued foreign selling as Malaysia's original year-long curb on repatriation of
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  • 62 1 [SINGAPORE] The night sky was agk>w last evening as the 34th anniversary celebrations of Singapore's independence ended in a burst of fireworks. For the spectators at the National Stadium, as well as those watching the celebrations on TV at home, it was a fitting finale to a year
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    • 179 1 mamE Ike rityetlj Oohmm A recent land sale in Hongkong offers good insight into how developers here in Singapore might respond when the government resumes selling land next year, Pf 4 Yeltsin fires $nt Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday fired the government for the 4th time in 17 months, sending
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    • 64 1 Getting YHS moving again After taking an $89m earnings hit last year listed Yeo Hiap is working to fatten its ;iflP Jg Exclusive with J||p director Leong Jh&II Horn Kee, rJETI -v- Today's Companies Markets pages are in the f main section of the paper. See pages 14-20 BankNegaracute intervention
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    • 66 1 List ci companies opting for share buy back, Pg 16 Capital reduction is no magic formula, Pg 14 Chaifhantam 11 m& nk, I t' -t£ *■>■». -w .< r- m. *^Jh|.?| t I p L i USB# j i ;5Ka wPn r i^A-| r^ -i j® -f- r '•"fMMTTr'^- *1
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 533 2  -  25,000 cards sold in one month compared to 24,000 new post-pay subscribers By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPOREANS have taken so strongly to pre-paid mobile phone cards that demand has exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts of operators. In the one month since such service
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    • 297 2  -  E7E OH THE ECONOMY Prices By\ Eugene Low PRICES of exported goods rose for the second consecutive month in June, inching up 0.5 per cent year-on-year, latest figures from the Department of Statistics (DOS) show. Compared to May, the Export Price In- dex was unchanged after
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  297 words
    • 563 2 Some part of cut may be restored in January: B6 Lee The Straits Times WORKERS may see part of their CPF cut restored as early as January, but the government will also study if the long-term contribution rate should go back to the pre-re-cession rate
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    • 328 3  -  Expansion into non-food businesses gaining mnmAntnm By\ Rahita Elias SODEXHO Food and Management Services, which specialises in industrial catering for companies and institutions, plans to double its staff strength from the current 350 in the next two years as its
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
    • 626 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Will developers here put In high bids to send a signal when govt land sales resume? By Lee Han Shih A RECENT land sale in Hongkong offers good Insight into how developers here in Singapore might respond when the government resumes
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    • 402 4  -  Higher property prices fael index's 10% climb by June By] David Boey [SINGAPORE] A survey of Singapore private property prices commissioned by international property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has found that prices became "less affordable" for first-time buyers in the second
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    • 197 4 [SINGAPORE] Interested to know whether the residential property market is on a sustainable upward trend? Are other sectors moving in the same direction? The Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) will be organising the first of a regular series of seminars to
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  • ASIA OH THE MEND
    • 466 5 50 basis point cut with immediate effect; move aimed at spurring growth Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has cut the key rate it lends to banks for the first time in three months in order to spur economic growth by lowering the cost of
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    • 124 5 Bridge News [MANILA] Philippine Finance Secretary Edgardo Espiritu yesterday said he does not see the peso's sharp decline as worrying. Asked by reporters if he is worried about the peso's fall yesterday, he replied: "No, I'm not." The peso fell to its sixmonth
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    • 356 5 It is the fastest ye&r-on-ye&r gain since end-1997 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's industrial output grew 8.3 per cent in June, the fastest year-on-year gain since the end of 1997, as factories churned out more electronics, cars and other goods to meet demand. June's production
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    • 556 6 Using NTA would place all on the same benchmark and be fairest, say analysts Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Fair valuations will be key to the successful completion of an ambitious Malaysian plan to merge 58 financial institutions into six large groups, banking analysts
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    • 385 6 Package, including tariff cuts, aimed at speeding up recovery Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand is set to unveil a multi-billion dollar trade liberalisation and investment stimulus package this week designed to speed the country's recovery from recession, officials said yesterday. The package probably worth US$2
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    • 353 6 Recovery poshing GDP to above pre-crisis level Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea's central bank raised its 1999 economic growth target for the second time in a month, expecting second quarter growth at a higher-than-ex-pected 9 per cent. The Bank of Korea
      Bloomberg  -  353 words
    • 250 6 Bnt economists say it will struggle to attain 5-6% growth Reuters [HANOI] Vietnam yesterday unveiled a range of economic targets for next year, but economists said the country would struggle to reach its goal of gross domestic product growth of 5 to 6 per cent.
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    • 392 6 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday it might cancel a controversial deal under which PT Bank Bali paid an US$BO million (*****.7 million) commission to recover loans from failed banks. The debt-collecting company owned by a ruling Golkar party
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    • 229 6 ak JM Gkm 11IIW Mfc?-jl»»feißßgP ecial Feature August '99 Make waves in a knowledge-based economy Singapore's position as a major maritime hub has never been more important. Especially now that the Trade Development Board aims to step up its efforts towards building an efficient trade system, excellent transport and logistics
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 396 7  -  But Estrada says Congress free to probe surge in shares of tycoons linked to him From Al Labita in Manila BROKERS yesterday opposed any congressional move to probe why share prices of listed firms owned by President Joseph Estrada's alleged cronies had been
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    • 246 7 MELAKA Premier denies ex-DPM was victim of a conspiracy Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday his jailed former deputy Anwar Ibrahim has long plotted to bring down national leaders, including himself, while in the government. While denying that Anwar was a
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    • 138 7 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN President BJ Habibie, warning of an environmental disaster, called yesterday for action to stop forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo from spreading. "I just want to remind you of the need for us to be ready in facing
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    • 256 7 BANGKOK Lobby groups, state workers press govt for early polls AFP THAI Prime Minister Chuan Leek pa i will not bow to pressure for an early dissolution of Parliament despite calls from lobby groups and state workers, officials said yesterday. Jurin Laksanavisit, a coalition
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 332 8 BEIJING Stimulus policies and shotting down loss-making firms pay oft paper Reuters CHINA'S state-run industries made profits of 24.3 billion yuan (5&4.88 billion) in the first half of 1999, nearly triple those of a year earlier, the official People's Daily said yesterday. State
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    • 66 8 [XIANGPI MOUNTAIN, China] A group of Tibetan herders playing a game of billiards as a flock of goats and horses graze on the pasture near Xiangpi Mountain in China s western Qinghai province. Qinghai is part of the Qinghai- Tibet Plateau, also known as
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    • 234 8 HONGKONG Guangzhou Itic to be one of the Ist to undergo conversion Bride News CHINA plans to restructure the country's troubled international trust and investment corporations (Itics) by converting foreign debt into equity stakes in new joint venture banks, the Chineselanguage Hong Kong Economic Journal
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    • 247 8 TAIPEI Meeting aimed at winning US$L5b deal for Boeing AFP UNITED States Senator Slade Gorton met Taiwan's top transportation official yesterday in a last-ditch effort to sway a US$l.5 billion (552.5 billion) deal to Boeing Co from Airbus Industrie, reports said. But
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    • 139 8 SHANGHAI AFP LAWS to speed up the development of a venture-capital industry are on Beijing's legislative agenda, the China Securities daily yesterday quoted a top parliamentary official as saying. Cheng Siwei, the vicechairman of the National People's Congress, flatly ruled out the establishment of a sec-
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    • 790 8 COMMERZBAN K ■■HH 31 Dec 1998 31 Dec 1997 1 Jan to 31 Dec 1998 1 Jan to 31 Dec 1997 Assets fin DM m) in DM m Interest received 31,071 28,507 Cash reserve 13,171 12,755 Interest paid "25,061 '21.957 qoiqo Net interest income 6,010 6,550 Claims on banks 113,764
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  • ASIA
    • 440 9 SEOUL It backs foreign creditors seeking guarantees for loans AFP IN an unusual move, the United States has stepped into the Daewoo fray, urging Seoul to treat overseas creditors of the sinking group fairly, officials said yesterday. But the authorities looked set to rebuff
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    • 72 9 [NAGASAKI] Dovesflying around the Statue of Peace during a memorial service to mark the 54th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese port city ofNagasaki yesterday. Some 25,000 people gatheredfor the memorial ceremony at the foot of the Statue of Peace a bronze figure
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    • 293 9 TOKYO However, strong yen continues to fuel fears of deflation Reuters JAPAN'S wholesale prices edged up in July from the previous month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) said yesterday, but the results are not expected to dispel the threat of deflation that looms
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    • 151 9 SEOUL AFP THE jailed owner of ailing Korea Life Insurance Co has launched a court battle in protest at the government's decision to nationalise the insurer, his attorney said yesterday. "An injunction will be Filed today to freeze and invalidate the government's decision," attorney
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 64 9 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] New Zealand posted its first trade deficit in June for 14 years as imports rose, while exports struggled against low commodity prices and weak demand. The merchandise trade deficit was revised to NZ$l73 million (S$l52J2 million) in June, the first June deficit since
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      • 64 9 Reuters [BOMBAY] The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy yesterday said the signs of a turnaround in the economy had gathered momentum. The 7 per cent growth in the industrial sector in May, healthy growth in major industries in the first quarter (April-June), rising foreign trade, falling
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      • 91 9 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Former shareholders of nationalised Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and Nippon Credit Bank are preparing to sue the banks' auditors for failing to do their jobs properly, said the plaintiffs' lawyer. The group of 11 ex-shareholders is asking for 28 million yen (S$408,800)
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  • THE WORLD
    • 673 10 MOSCOW Replacement ofPM by Federal Security Service head seen by many as political manoeuvring Bloomberg RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin yesterday fired the government for the fourth time in 17 months, sending stocks and the rouble tumbling, less than two weeks after it
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    • 459 11 LONDON Bat some of the uncertainty may be erased if Fed raises rates on Aug 24 Reuters THE latest bond sell-off has left some peripheral markets especially battered as investors flee to safety and the trend looks like continuing for a while yet,
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    • 251 11 WASHINGTON Bloomberg SALES at US wholesalers rose in June at their fastest clip in more than two years, outpacing a buildup in inventories, government figures showed yesterday. Wholesale sales grew 1.9 per cent to U*****,123 billion (*****.96 billion) in June the fifth increase in a
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    • 324 11 LONDON Companies warned not to fix prices, form cartels or create monopolies Reuters COMPANIES which violate Britain's stiff new competition laws could end up paying fines running into millions of pounds. Trade Secretary Stephen Byers said yesterday. Mr Byers' proposal spelling out the
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 772 12  -  BOTTOM LDVE OPINION By Shoeb Kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent INDONESIA'S ruling Golkar party has been working tirelessly since the fall of former president Suharto to overhaul its image from that of a corruption-ridden political apparatus to one of a
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    • 128 12 'Japan's economy has been seized by fear of a strong yen for nearly 30 years, and we should break that spell.' Toy oo Gyohten director of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo and a former special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. The Chinese
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    • 630 12 EDITORIAL ITS only August in Washington but both the Republicanled Congress and the Clinton administration seem to feel that the new era of Budget surpluses marks the start of the Christmas season in the US capital. And, indeed, both Congress and the White House looked
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    • 1294 12  -  Communist leaders fear appeal of Falun Gong for Chinese who feel they have nothing to lose By Linda Jakobson Linda Jakobson is the author of'A Million Truths: A Decade in China'(M Evans Co), a book drawn from her experiences while living
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    • 893 12 THE haze hazard caused by the uncontrolled burning of forest and brushfires across Indonesia is back again. Some experts even believe that given predictions of a hotter and longer dry season this year, the threat of severe air pollution in a number of regions in and
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 460 13  -  Stupendous things will happen during tomorrow's total solar eclipse, says paul majemdie PAUL MAJENDIE Reuters BIRDS stop singing, badgers leave their lairs and bats fly into new-found night when a total eclipse of the sun turns the natural order upside down. "There is nothing in nature
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 767 14  -  INTERVIEW WITH MANAGING DIRECTOR LEONG HORN KEE The bulk of the restructuring of the company's F&B and property lines will be completed before the year is out Reports by Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] YEO Hiap Seng is gunning for its food and beverage (F&B)
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    • 433 14 Options nnder study, projects to go at firmer prices [SINGAPORE] Beverage firm Yeo Hiap Seng may not hive off its property business, and will go ahead to either launch or relaunch three projects at firmer prices later this year. In a
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    • 384 14  -  Revision likely to make offer less attractive From'. Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE joint offer by Malaysian infrastructure company United Engineers Malaysia (UEM) and Telekom Malaysia Bhd to buy Clob shares may be revised if the KL stock market continues to
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    • 618 14  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Wong Wei Kong WHEN Scotts Holdings announced a capital reduction exercise earlier this year, it had to refute criticisms that it was an attempt to win-dow-dress its balance sheet. Scotts is not alone. Several listed companies this year have
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    • COMPANIES
      • 409 15  -  Its satellite Internet delivery network will offer services to Asian consumers fYom Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RICHARD Li's newly acquired and restructured Pacific Century CyberWorks plans to offer products and services through its satellite Internet delivery network to a
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      • 331 15  -  From Brian Gomez in Sydney PT ANEKA Tambang, one of Indonesia's top 20 listed companies, yesterday successfully completed the first dual Australia-Indonesia listing. The diversified mining group opened at As 2 and hit A 52.05 before closing at A 51.95, a 13cent gain
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      • 593 16 Analysts also wary of problems in its graphics card business AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Analysts have downgraded their forecasts for Creative Technology Ltd's current year earnings because of new, Internet focused capital spending and problems in its graphics card business. Analysts AFX-Asia spoke to cut their forecasts
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      • 323 16  -  Sale of 68.2 m shares may raise RH3O7m, help to cut loans From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumjrur ARAB-Malaysian Corporation Berhad, which has not managed to find a buyer for its stake in subsidiary AMMB Holdings for more than one year, will
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      • 267 16  -  Global depository receipts could raise USs36om: reports From Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN computer connector maker Hon Hai Precision Industry is to float 50 miUion global depository receipts (GDR) before the end of the year to raise working capital. Local reports said
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      • 257 16 Bridge News [HONGKONG] Kerry Properties chairman Edward Kuok yesterday attributed the company's increase in interim net profit to the zero provision for declines in property values in January-June. Kerry recorded a net profit of HK)659.6 million (SJI42 million), up 18 per cent from the
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 516 17 More than 10 out of 98 members said to have been cnt off from system daring test on Saturday Bridge News [HONGKONG] Some traders said problems continued to emerge during the latest simulation test conducted by the Hong Kong Futures Exchange (HKFE) on
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      • 216 17 Reuters [LONDON] Equitable Life, Britain's largest mutual life insurance company, could be forced to make further provisions of up to £1.5 billion (Ss4.l billion) because of new solvency rules, the Times reported yesterday. The controversial new rules, which change the way insurers value their
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      • 43 17 [MOSCOW] Muscovites buying dollars at a street exchange office in Moscow yesterday. The rouble fell 3 per cent to 25.29 a dollar at the central bank rate after President Boris Yeltsin sacked the government, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. AFP
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      • 420 17 Regulator warns investors to discount banks' claims Bloomberg [PARIS] Societe Generate SA and Banque Nationale de Paris SA, France's two largest publicly traded banks, will have to wait until Aug 17 to find out which of them got investors' backing for
        Bloomberg  -  420 words
      • 375 17 Reuters [SYDNEY] Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which has the largest slice of the mortgage market, has flagged moderate second half earnings growth but its push to establish electronic commerce alliances is capturing the most attention. The bank, one of the nation's big four with total
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    • REGIONAL MARKETS & COMMODITIES
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        709 18 AFP □Composite Index -13.73 INDONESIAN share prices closed 2.2 per cent down but off their lows yesterday on persistent worries over a possible US interest rate hike, dealers said. An analyst with Harita Kencana Securities said the market fell sharply on Friday's news of buoyant growth in US employment,
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        869 18 AFP Q SET Index -3J59 THAI share prices slipped 0.8 per cent yesterday on fears of higher US interest rates and a possible devaluation of the Chinese yuan, analysts said. The benchmark index, however, closed off its earlier lows on late bargain-hunting in finance and property stocks. Many investors
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      • 307 18 AFP Oman* -43.34 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 1.9 per cent yesterday, weighed down by a volatile peso and fears of a possible rate increase in the United States, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped 43.34 points to close at 2,255.30. A total of 1.35 billion shares
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      • 394 18 AFP H Composite Index +10.71 SOUTH Korean share prices rose 1.1 per cent yesterday, led by semiconductor and financial stocks on bargainhunting by local investors, dealers said. SK Securities dealer Kim Joon Ki said investment trust funds turned substantial buyers, outweighing continued foreign selling. The Korea Stock Exchange Composite
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      • 646 18 AFX-Asia QAn ftnflmarjflg -30J AUSTRALIAN share prices yesterday closed lower after Wall Street fell in the wake of strong labour data for July, dealers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed down 30.1 points at 2,976.90. The All Industrials Index closed down 65.3 points at 5,12i.80, while the All Resources
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      • 282 18 AFP P Wellington +0.75 NEW Zealand stocks closed flat yesterday with Australian miner BHP and local leader Telecom Corp accounting for two-thirds of the light turnover. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was up 0.75 point at 2,189.80 on turnover worth NZ556.7 million. AFP *n> «a *h coo») A0vant*9* HOS 2.40
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      1450 19 AFP QlhngSeng -22L50 HONGKONG share prices dropped 1.7 per cent yesterday to below the 13,000-point level amid concerns over US interest rates, dealers said. "Fund managers were trimming down their exposures on fears of higher US interest rates," said Alex Tang, research head at Core-Pacific Yamaichi. "This is also
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      567 19 Reuters nShenzhen Blndex -3.72 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B share index closed 3.94 per cent lower yesterday, following the decline in Hongkong stocks triggered by fears of a rise in US interest rates. The B share index lost 3.72 points to end at 90.67 but trade was sluggish with turnover
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    • 341 19 AFP QWP Index -21.73 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday as investors stuck to the sidelines amid tensions with China, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index slipped 21.73 points to 7,028.01 points on turnover of NT$74 billion. Despite a 3.3-per cent rally on
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    • 1645 19 AFP Q Nikkei 225 +10*21 SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 0.6 per cent yesterday as the yen weakened against the dollar, brokers said. The Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 106.21 points to close at 17,190.45, finishing off a high of 17,313.97 touched in the morning
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 8211 20 1999 Last Day Net Cap nm> Lew Cl—«ny '000 Hl» Lew PfK M 440 255 AJinomoto 306 -14 3 320 302 19.4 124.0 174 46 Angkasa 85 10 206 91 85 125.3 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 278 -12 31 280 278 9.7 111.2 294 115 Bar jaya Land MS
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      • 417 20 AFP Q Composite Index -34.88 MALAYSIAN share prices plunged 5 per cent yesterday on sustained foreign program and retail selling amid disappointment over merger partners for local banks announced last week, dealers said. The sharp decline came despite the central bank's move to cut
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    • 297 21 Bridge News, Reuters TANKERS: The Caribbean and east coast Mexico Aframax market remained in the doldrums due to the lack of business. Rates have now slipped back to a weak worldscale 101.5 with so few vessels fixing. ♦The Paola I was fixed at an easier ws 101.5 to
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    • 588 21  -  They want New Delhi to raise shipbuilding subsidy by 10 per cent From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi [NEW DELHI] Shipyards in India say Korean, Japanese and Chinese rivals are practising dumping and have asked the government for a 10 per cent
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      • 109 21 [LONDON] Mutual P&I (protection and indemnity) and hull insurer the Swedish Club has issued new recommendations foUowing initial findings of the investigation into the engine room fire on the passenger ferry Prinsesse Ragnhild last month. Although the ship was not entered with the club, it
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      • 75 21 [LONDON] The Port of Rotterdam recorded a throughput of 151.6 million tonnes in the first half of 1999, a drop of 3.7 per cent on the same time last year which the port said was caused by falling iron ore imports. Container throughput grew 4.7 per
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      • 66 21 [LONDON] Norwegian shipping group First Olsen Tankers recorded a second quarter loss of US$2.6 miUion (554.3 miUion), compared to a profit of US$l.4 miUion in the same period last year. The company blames its poor performance on the start-up costs for two newbuUdings
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      • 43 21 [LONDON] Former managing director of Stewart Grand Prix David Ring has been appointed the new chief executive officer of UK-based maritime services company A&P. Mick Holding, who had been acting chief executive officer, has been made deputy chief executive.
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      • 48 21 [LONDON] Norwegian conglomerate Leif Hoegh Co (LHC) announced a first half operating profit of U5524.5 million (5541.16 million), down from US$45 million at the same time last year. LHC places some of the blame on the tough operating conditions being felt by Hoegh Lines.
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    • 157 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] Kvaerner ASA, Europe's largest shipbuilder, said it amended its agreement with authorities in Philadelphia to aUow it to seU the Philadelphia Shipyard, which it bought in 1997. The amended agreement with the state of Pennsylvania, the city of PhUadelphia and the
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    • 144 21 [SINGAPORE] The American Bureau of Shipping Affiliated Companies (ABS) has become the first classification society to be authorised by the US government to issue certificates to carriers on its behalf. The authorisation, which comes from the US Coast Guard, will allow
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    • 295 21 Asset writedown forsaleofnnit Sea-Land Service Bloomberg [RICHMOND. Virginia] CSX Corp will take a third-quarter pre-tax charge of at least US$3OO million (Sssol million) to write down the value of international shipping assets it is selling, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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      • 534 22 STPMBg HARBOUR OIL SPILL Aust authorities want to prevent repeat of disastrous spill before Olympic Games next year AFP [SYDNEY] Oil tankers using Sydney Harbour during the 2000 Olympic Games could face new regulations to prevent a repeat of last week's major spill, authorities said
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      • 508 22 Reuters [SYDNEY] The Italian owner of the tanker which leaked 80,000 litres of oil into Sydney Harbour has ruled out sabotage, but investigators were not satisfied with the explanation of how oil leaked from manually operated valves. Italy's Fratelli D'Amato SpA said that "there
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      • 188 33 Aug 12 Thailand: HM Queen's Birthday. Anf 10 Belgium: Assumption Day. Hong Kong: Sino-Japanese War Victory Day. Luxembourg: Assumption Day. Anf 17 Indonesia: National Day. Aug 29 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Anf 30 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Ant 31 Malaysia: National Day. Sapl Mexico: State of the
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      • 797 33 THIS report, complied by Cocken Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket Prices shown are baMftxi average sized stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 294 34 AFP (MANILA) The Philippines yesterday opened a new 5.3-billion-peso (*****.3 million) terminal at Manila airport to ease congestion and boost tourism. President Joseph Estrada said the terminal, funded by a soft loan from the Japan Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund and designed by
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      • 513 34 Incident was carrier's second at Hongqiao airport in less than a year AFP [SHANGHAI] China Eastern Airlines said yesterday it was investigating the cause of a botched landing at Shanghai over the weekend, the carrier's second such incident here in less than
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      • 640 34 Changes anion has made to agreement are too substantial, airline says NYT [NEW YORK] A tentative agreement between Ameri can Airlines and the union representing its pilots fell apart over the weekend, dashing hopes that a bitter eightmonth dispute over the acquisition of
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      • 178 34  -  From Brian Gomez in Sydney TWO airworthiness inspectors from Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) have provided safety clearance for Air Niugini flights to Cairns and Brisbane, a Casa spokesman told The National yesterday. The inspectors had flown to Port Moresby during the weekend
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      • 131 34 Bridge News [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand is increasing the number of flights to Australia, the US, Japan and the Pacific Islands for the northern winter in anticipation of increased demand due to the millennium and the America's Cup yachting race, the company announced
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      • 49 34 [BEIJING] A train pulls up at one of the metro stations along the existing east-west subway line yesterday. Beijing's long awaited 7.51 billionyuan (SSI.S billion) extension on the city's major east-west subway line has been completed and will go into trial operation next month AFP
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      • 218 34 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan and Russia are expected to sign an aviation agreement early next year to open direct air links in April or May, the Commer cial Times reported yesterday. The breakthrough came in bilateral air talks after Moscow agreed to
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    • 566 21 Sydney harbour oil spill: Tankers may face new curbs Authorities want to prevent repeat of spill before Olympic Games next year. Page 2 I I GODIG Carter will be based in the Global distribution Thomas Miller office in company TNT Worldwide Mar* Carter is moving London. Express has appointed from
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    • 20 21 Botched China Eastern landing probe begins Incident was carrier's second at Hongqiao airport in less than a year. Back Pmge
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