The Business Times, 23 August 1999

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  • 969 1 Will Greenspan hike rates or won't he? An interest rate rise tomorrow is not a foregone conclusion Bloomberg [NEW|YORK] There is a possibility that the US central bank may not raise interest rates tomorrow, never mind that virtually everybody with an opinion on Wall Street seems to think that a
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  • 894 1  -  Cabinet reshuffle being considered, says president's adviser From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIAN President BJ Habibie is poised to take decisive measures soon, including a possible Cabinet reshuffle, to avert the political storm building in the wake of the Bank Bali
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    • 203 1 1 '4# ■Jr?-v JMP ■pp? Mk ilf 1 T A new mission: A first-world economy It's no longer qood enough to be the best in the region. We have to look beyond the region (and) transform ourselves into a first-world economy. This means our businesses have to benchmark against world-class
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  • NATIONAL DAY RALLY
    • 2148 2  -  PM Goh on creating a world-class home attractive to S'poreans and foreign talent By t Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] It was a rallying call to Singaporeans to work together to achieve a new mission for their country: become "one of the best
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 611 3  -  DBS tops Internet hanking an^ stockbroking in S'pore, say surveys By 1 Toh Han Shih FROM stockbroking to banking, foreign outfits like E*Trade and Citibank are snapping at the heels of local financial players through the medium of the Internet. In Singapore, E*Trade and
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    • 765 3  -  Technology to laminate and stain wood helps it to make finished products for the world market By\ Rahita Elias SITKA Wood Products has hammered together a business strategy that would enhance its competitive position in the wood business internationally. Helping to advance that
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 480 4 EXIT LEVY: COUNTDOWN TO ZERO Nonewcnrbson capital flows if funds continue to move oat, says NEAC Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is well-placed to absorb any capital outflows which take place from Sept 1 when a levy on principal amounts
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    • 174 4 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's National Economic Action Council said yesterday the government will introduce a shelf registration scheme for companies wishing to issue debt securities. Quoting a statement from the NEAC, the Bernama news agency said the move would give eligible
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    • 237 4 Incentive packages planned to enhance merged banks' value Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, will issue guidelines on the pricing of banks to help them during a major banking industry consolidation exercise, Bernama news agency said yesterday. "Relevant incentive packages will be
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    • 270 4 Alliance says itll drop plan if it gets elected at next 6E AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A fourparty opposition alliance said yesterday that it would abandon the government's planned forced bank mergers if it secures a mandate from voters at forthcoming elections. "The alternative parties categorically
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    • 993 4  -  CRISIS WATCH Zbra should be audited periodically by independent accounting Anns By Vikram Khanna THE Asian crisis has spawned many banking clean-up institutions. In Malaysia, there is Danaharta, which buys non-performing loans (NPLs) off the banks, and Danamodal, which helps recapitalise them. In Thailand, there
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    • 207 4 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday that the yen's recent strength reflects hopes for Japan's economic recovery, but added his ministry will take action to deal with the yen's rise if it is too rapid. He said the yen's
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    • 9 4 Miy&zawa mm more bank mergers in store, Pg 6
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  • REGION
    • 582 5 MANILA Opponents fear Constitution changes are aimed at extending power Reuters PHILIPPINE President Joseph Estrada may find himself under siege soon unless he quickly defuses a political storm stirred up by his proposal to change the Constitution, analysts said yesterday. The first
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    • 404 5 JAKARTA He also says Megawati remains his personal choice for president AFP THE Indonesian armed forces will not try to grab the presidency in November unless civilian efforts to form a government fail, prominent Muslim leader Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid
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    • 280 5 About 10,000 drive through streets waving Islamic flag Reuters [JAKARTA] Thousands of white-robed Indonesians thronged the streets of Jakarta yesterday to show support for the rise of Islam in the world's largest Muslim nation. Chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), the crowd of
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    • 195 5 AMBON AFP VIOLENCE between Muslims and Christians in the strife-torn eastern Indonesian city of Ambon has left the capital of the spice islands paralysed and food is running short. Shops and offices remained closed, streets were deserted with no public transport and distributors from
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    • 560 6 TOKYO DKB-Fqji-IBJ alliance points to Japanese return to global financial race Reuters JAPAN'S banking sector is back in the global financial race following the broad alliance of three of the country's biggest banks. Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said on a Sunday television
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    • 474 6 HONGKONG Positive company, GDP or interest-rate news could see rise Reuters FACING a week of major corporate results announcements, economic reports and interest rate decisions, Hongkong stocks could be expected to consolidate recent gains and build a solid base for a
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    • 318 6 TAIPEI Talks to focus on tension, ties and statehood claims AFP THE United States is to send a top delegation to Taipei to discuss the island's war of words with mainland China, a news report said yesterday. The Chinese language China Times said
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    • 204 6 BEIJING Traders used fake documents to boy the currency from banks Reuters AUTHORITIES in China's southern Guangdong province have discovered widespread use of fake documents to secure foreign exchange from banks, the International Business Daily said on Saturday. Customs officials in the province examined 36,612
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    • 242 6 NEW DELHI AFP INDIA'S stock market regulator has urged the government to make it compulsory for Indian firms to shed 25 per cent of their equity in the domestic market if they opened themselves to foreign investors. "We wanted top
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    • 253 6 WELLINGTON Reuters NEW Zealand, pushing its claim to be the first nation to greet the new millennium, aims to broadcast the "first sunrise" of the year 2000. A day after a report that Tonga had decided to ensure it gets into
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 60 7 [LAS VEGAS] The lighted up US$76O million (Ssl.3 billion) Paris-Las Vegas Casino Resort on the Las Vegas strip giving tourists late on Friday a preview before its Sept 1 opening. The resort features 2,916 guest rooms, a 7,6505q metre casino and authentic replicas of French
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    • 490 7 DUBAI Oil prices hit 2-year highs above US$2l, raising fears of winter supply crunch Reuters OPEC powerhouse Iran said yesterday that it was too early for oil producers to abandon the global output cuts that have sharply boosted prices to
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    • 330 7 ANKARA AFP TURKEY could consider issuing "earthquake bonds" to cover extra financing needs that may arise as a result of the earthquake that devastated Turkey's densely populated, industrial northwest last week, a government minister said yesterday. But Deputy Premier and Minister of State in charge
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    • 310 7 HONGKONG Crash-landing amid typhoon comes after fire on board Reuters A TAIWANESE China Airlines wide-bodied jetliner with 315 people aboard crashed in flames as it landed in a tropical storm at Hongkong's airport yesterday, killing at least one person and injuring 161, officials
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    • 226 7 WASHINGTON Bridge News THE president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Jack Guynn, has expressed concern that the "great times" in the current US economy may be creating "unrealistic expectations" among central bankers, private bankers and investors. "Perhaps the most daunting legacy of
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    • 210 7 SARASOTA. Florida THE time has never been better to make money in the investment world and to get ripped off by scam artists. Securities fraud costs American consumers billions of dollars every year, and industry regulators say technological advances and investors' hunger for
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    • 471 7 NYT Intranet fraud ♦Con artists are using the World Wide Web to "pump and dump" small stocks, peddle bogus offshore "prime bank" notes and run variations of the classic pyramid scheme. Regulators suggest you should never Invest based solely on an Internet tip; do the research
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 572 8 FILM Hanoi allows Yiet-French director to shoot his film AFP [HANOI] More than four years after the release of the highly acclaimed and controversial film Cyclo, Vietnamese* French director Tran Anh Hung has just completed shooting his first ever film in Hanoi. That Hung was able
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1130 8 CUV MIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 4 Unpunctual secretary sets a ~|T HT jjjHT 10 Plane service closed to Thai- H' land, the French discover (7) 11 It's a set-back to couple becom- BM_ .HL—H_ing buccaneers (7) 12 12 Lean round in style (4) I I I I I I I I
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 587 9  -  This spells good news for electronic commerce vendors and ISPs By 1 Toh Han Shih {SINGAPORE] The Asia-Pa-cific will see a boom in the various segments of the Internet and electronic commerce, be it Internet access, e-com-merce implementation or ebusiness IT spending, according to
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    • 211 9  -  By Wong Mei-Hwen [SINGAPORE] Dell Computer wiU continue to invest heavily in the Asia-Pacific region, including Singapore, where it would employ "a few hundred" more people, foUowing strong signs of Asia's economic recovery. This was revealed by Morton Topfer, DeU's vice-chair-man at a briefing
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    • 565 9 China, Thailand and Philippines 'vulnerable' Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong may be ready for the Y2K bug but it risks catching the potenttally damaging computer glitch from less-prepared Asian trading partners, expert Roy Ko told Reuters in an interview. China, Thailand and the Philippines are viewed
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    • BUSINESS IT
      • 446 10 German airline to fly 48 planes at midnight, Dec 31 Bridge News [FRANKFURT] German airline Lufthansa expects to have 48 planes in the air at midnight on Dec 31 from its total fleet of more than 300 aircraft after preparing for the year 2000
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      • 433 10  -  It will be available here in the fourth quarter of this year Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Allaire Corporation will introduce software that makes it easier for companies to manage their Web sites, according to its Asia-Pacific director Nick McNaughton. The software, Allaire Spectra,
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      • IT TAKES
        • 63 10 KNOWLEDGE Engineering has developed and implemented E-Survey, a service that enables the submission of statistical information securely over the Internet for the Singapore Department of Statistics. E-Survey is being launched by DOS this month and will be available to all respondents of the annual surveys of commerce and
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        • 66 10 PRICE WATERHQUSECQOPERS Management Consulting Services recently opened a solutions delivery centre (SlxJ)ln Snpipore to help flnmpttnftm recurring IT operating costs. The SDC provides helpdesk services to assist clients with their SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. It will also provide clients technical support development and training. Clients
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        • 41 10 SOFTWARE supplier Viewtocity recently completed a project that provides the core infrastructure for developing a virtual trading community. The project was commissioned by Arena, an electronic commerce network for small and medium enterprises in Hongkong and southern China.
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        • 43 10 3COM, which works through partners and resellers to provide a wide range of networking products, has appointed ECS Computers (Asia) its first advanced distributor partner for Singapore. ADPs cater mainly to tht growing needs of small and medium enterprises.
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        • 86 10 A TEAM of 14 IT professionals from Singapore will leave for Kathmandu, Nepal, on Saturday as part of project INitiate-Nepal. The project is organised by the youth executive committee of the Buona V ista Community Club to Introduce IT to Nepalese youths. To achieve this,
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        • 32 10 SUN Microsystems is organising a seminar, "Transforming education for the Web economy", which will be held on Friday at the Hotel Intercontinental. Admission is free. To register, e-mail alium@mgtLcom.Bg.
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        • 27 10 SUN Microsystems has promoted Lionel Lim (right) to vice-president and managing director for Asia South, from executive managing director for the same region.
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        • 41 10 AMD has appointed Raymond Lee its Asia-Pacific vice-president of sales and marketing. He will develop and implement sales and marketing strategies for Asia except Japan and South Korea. Prior to Joining AMD, Mr Lee worked for Compaq Computer Corporation.
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        • 30 10  -  Compiled by Toh Han Shih NETWORK Associates has promoted Deb Dutta to director for South-east Asia and the Indian subcontinent, from sales manager for the same region.
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      • 691 11  -  By Tobias Pelzer The author is managing director, Netlife Singapore Pte Ltd RECENT well-publicised cases of credit card fraud have highlighted the risks of making payments over the Internet. One, featured on msnbc.com in late June, involved a US customer of Amazon.com who had
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      • 428 11  -  Singapore student partners two Germans for venture W Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A National University of Singapore (NUS) student, Eric Chia, met a German student, Mark Zondler, while the latter was on an exchange programme in NUS. With another German, Tobias Schmidt, they started
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      • 221 11  -  By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] US-based Adaptec Inc will launch its Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe software this week to help users create data, audio and multimedia CDs on PCs. Running on Windows 95/98/ NT, the program comes with Take Two, a program that
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      • 148 11 Bridge News [TOKYO] NEC Corp will develop next-generation, 64-bit mainframe computers that will have more than three times the processing capacity of the current 47-bit mainframe computers. The company will also develop operating systems that will cope with the 64-bit mainframes, a company spokesman said.
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      • 231 12  -  Investor forum for FT and telecom to attract 300 participants By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] A forum for local and international hightech start-ups in the IT and telecoms industries to meet and tie up with venture capital firms and investors will be held on
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      • 332 12 Plant will ran smoothly daring risk dates, says oil refinery Reuters New Zealand Refining said last week it had made contingencies in the event of system failure when its computers' clocks switch over into 2000. In a progress report to the New Zealand Stock
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      • 273 13  -  Claims to be the most complete solution in Asia By: Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard Company last week announced its suite of solutions for CRM (customer relationship management) applications with eight other technology partners and said it was Asia's most complete solution for CRM.
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      • 378 13 Bridge News [MEXICO CITY] Caterpillar Mexico, a unit of the US heavy construction equipment maker, is concerned about disruptions in US-Mex-ico border traffic and minor sporadic blackouts caused by the Y2K computer glitch, according to the company's CEO in Mexico. "We do worry about
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      • 870 13 The standard keyboard has remained mired in the early 80s New York Times [NEW YORK] Every time you sit down at a computer, you come into contact with an item that has been pretty much unchanged for 15 years: the keyboard. During
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      • 915 15  -  Here's a sample that addresses a range of users of Microsoft's Office 2000 suite By. Kenneth James A RECENT article in PC World magazine talked about "large, complex and mostly uncharted territory". According to the writers, "it's a jungle out there." No, they weren't
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      • ON THE SHELF
        • 73 15 SHARP-ROXY Sales Singapore has introduced the PC-A5OO (right), "the first multimedia notebook computer in A4-size." It is 29.2 mm thin and weighs 1.98 kg, runs on Intel's Pentium n 333 MHz processor with 64 MB RAM, 6.4 GB hard disk and 12.1-inch TFT display. The
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        • 87 15 FUJI Xerox Singapore has come out with what it claims is the industry's first scan-to-network digital multifunction systems scanner that lets multiple users in an office share the device. The systems are offered in the company's Document Centre range, including DC 250, 350,400,451 and 551, and
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        • 56 15 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore has announced the HP Visualize P6OO Personal Workstation (right), running on Intel's Pentium m processor at either 600,550 or 500 MHz. The Win NT-based systems come with Visualize 3D graphics and are targeted at engineers, artists and scientists for developing complex design graphics. Prices start
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        • 61 15 NETWORK Associates Inc is shipping Magic Help Desk Support Magic Edition 4.5, a help-desk solution that lets IT support staff segregate the help-desk database across both the Win Tel client or through the browser. It works with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase SQL Anywhere.
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        • 82 15 CANDLE Corp has announced its new e-Business Assurance Solutions (eBA) that come with eBA Service Monitor and eBA Service Network to monitor the throughput efficiency for e-commerce applications. The Service Monitor is available as a starter pack that measures up to 10 URLs on a Web server;
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        • 41 15 INVENSYS Energy Systems has unveiled the Powerware 3115, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with power ratings 0f300,420 and 650 VA, for use with PCs, workstations, network nodes, etc. Prices start at $140. For details, fax *****10.
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        • 71 15  -  Compiled by: Raju Chellam AMERICAN Power Conversion has announced the Redundant Switch that works with UPS systems, with two models for South-east Asia, with power ratings from 700 to 3,000 VA. It is targeted at network servers and monitors the power quality from both the primary
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      • 354 15 Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp is hedging its bets on "free" personal computers as a marketing tool to promote the Internet while the world's biggest software maker waits for proof that the concept can be profitable. Microsoft will continue to team up
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    • dot com
      • 943 16  -  Citibank making Singapore the base for the Citilnvestment Watch service, reports toh wm ann TOH HAN SHIH IMAGINE an executive in Japan wants news on the Australian dollar. Suddenly, his handphone rings, and a voice speaking in Japanese tells him a national leader Down Under has
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      • 368 16  -  By Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] PREPARE for security breaches which are inevitable, rather than try to build an invulnerable security system that's the advice of US-based security consultant Jeff Moss. "There is no such thing as a computer security system invulnerable to attack. Anyone who
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      • Briefly.com
        • 85 16 ACCORDING to the National Computer Board's 1999 E-Commerce survey of 1,000 Singapore companies, security was a concern for 59.4 per cent of e-commerce enabled companies, followed by initial set-up costs (36.9 per cent) and ongoing operational costs (28.2 per cent). Among companies with no
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        • 79 16 THE BioAPI consortium, which consists of companies such as Compaq, IBM, Microsoft and Novell, plans to develop an industry-standard biometrlc API for software and hardware. Biometrics uses a person's biological characteristics such as fingerprints, voice and eye for identification. Introduced in April last year, the consortium
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        • 80 16 THE Economic Development Board (EDB) plans to generate $150 billion worth of output in the electronics industry by the year 2010 and grow the industry 8 per cent annually, under Singapore's economic blueprint, Industry 21. There are plans to secure 150 new electronics projects comprising
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        • 130 16 ACCORDING to Yankee Group research, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), an enhancement to the current GSM mobile phone networks, is expected to have over 96 per cent of the Next-Generation Data (NGD) basic infrastructure market worth US$2 billion (513.3 billion) > over the next three
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        • 58 16  -  Oosnpfledby, Andrew Wee MICROSOFT'S second annual technical education conference, Tech Ed 99, will be held from Aug 90 to Sept 3 at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Targeted at IT professionals an<j software developers, the conference will cover knowledge management, electronic commerce, Windows 2000
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    • 386 12 Assisted by a number of one-off factors, Asia's economies have Rl|g>V staged a startling turn-around in the first half of 1999. But how Kg|fe determined are policy-makers and corporations to take advantage of the window of relief that has been created? Unless serious and pkfc. determined structural reforms are undertaken,
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    • 426 17  -  Banks agree to maintain credit lines; group raising $9.3 m through CPS By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Consumer electronics packaging firm Broadway Industrial Group has struck a deal with its seven creditor banks to restructure and maintain the company's existing credit lines. Broadway
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    • 193 17 Move end* Air NZ hopes of buying rest of Anssie airline AFP [AUCKLAND] Air New Zealand has called off its attempts to buy the other 50 per cent stake in Ansett Australia, the Sunday Star Times newspaper reported. Air New Zealand chairman Selwyn
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    • 641 17  -  Releasing frozen Clob stocks for trading will also help regain International Investor goodwill By Eddie Toh SO Morgan Stanley Capital International has finally decided to reinstate Malaysia in its widely tracked indices next February, a move that will put the country back on
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      • 446 18 The 1999 half-time reporting season is now into its fifth week. We reproduce below all the 15 interim corporate results that were released last week. They were from companies with Dec 31 as their financial year-end. Group results for the six months
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      • 483 18  -  Bank of the Philippine Islands, Far East Bank complete due diligence From Al Labita in Manila TWO listed banks are working out merger plans to create what could be the Philippines' largest bank in terms of resources. Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)
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      • 296 18 NST [KUALA LUMPUR] Fugitive businessman Soh Chee Wen and one of the two others sought by Malaysia's Securities Commission (SC) for alleged manipulation in the trading of shares have been placed on Interpol's priority list of wanted persons. Interpol headquarters,
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      • 534 18  -  Portfolio rises 18%, outperforms STI, as MSCI concerns fade W Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Small-cap stocks staged a strong comeback last week, reversing their recent losing streak as market sentiment took a turn for the better. After a weak start, stocks ended the week firmer
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 553 19 Firm ready to take necessary steps to buy Cyprus Amax, Asarco, says CEO Bloomberg [PHOENIX] Phelps Dodge Corp, seeking to become the world's No 1 copper producer, raised its offer for rival copper producers Cyprus Amax Minerals and Asarco to U552.66
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      • 232 19 AFP Saudi Prince AlWalid bin Talal said on Saturday he had pumped an extra US$lO million (5516.8 million) into the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain "to save it from bankruptcy". The fresh investment brings the prince's stake in the US chain, whose shareholders
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      • 373 19 Some of the hottest Net gurus have no investing background NYT [NEW YORK] Online stock traders, goaded by an Internet chat room leader, commandeered the shares of an obscure US company last week, taking it on the kind of roller-coaster
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      • 208 19 LA man claims he was sold notebook in 1997 which can't cope with year 2000 AFP [TOKYO] A US resident has sued two subsidiaries of Japan's NEC Corp for the millennium bug crippling a personal computer, a report said on Saturday. The
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 864 20  -  65 offshore branches of 14 banks suffer pre-tax losses of over NTs3.sb; S'pore ones worst hit From Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN banks' branches in Singapore ran up heavy losses last year as the Asian financial crisis forced a sharp rise of
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      • 303 20 Bloomberg [BOSTON] US and European money managers are stepping up their expansion in Japan and South Korea, betting on explosive growth in mutual funds as Asians seek higher yielding investments than savings accounts. Eleven fund-management joint ventures have been announced so far this year in
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      • 180 20 AFP (SYDNEY] Australian resource giant BHP Ltd is facing a difficult commercial dilemma close its massive Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea to satisfy environmentalists or keep it open in the interests of the country's crippled economy. "BHP will need
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        1582 20 PRIME LENDING RATES sank; ABN Amro Bank NV 5V« ABSA Bank Limited Agricultural bank Of Chin* 6 ANZ Banking Group 6v* Allied Irish Bank PIC 5 American Express Bank 6 Arab Banking Corp 7v« Arab Bank PLC 5V4 AsalU Bank Ltd fty* Ban Hln La* Bank BM 6vt Banca Commercial*
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    • 1635 21 SI COM FUTURES Aug20 RUBBER (fvturn dovnq as «t 5.30pm) KS1 C0*T*ACT(S cwbAfl) CIom Mm Open Mowttl Low Sett (tows) Interest j*? 99 92.00 300 900 2£2 95.25 300 300 N" 99 %.75 300 Dec 99 98.50 300 JWjarOO 102.00 300 Ajf/JwOO K».50 00 108.50 RSS3 CONTRACT (US
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      • 761 22 NEW YORK Bright corporate earnings picture will also boost stocks, say analysts Bloomberg EVEN with the Federal Reserve poised to raise interest rates, the Standard Poor's 500 Index could be a buy. That's what some money managers argue, particularly with the
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      • 303 22 LONDON AFP THE wait is almost over, but the London market was once again slave to the US monetary authorities last week and fell amid low trading volume ahead of the US interest rate decision tomorrow. The FTSE 100 Index ended the week at
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      • 861 22 Q Sydney +4M16 DEVELOPMENTS in the United States will dictate the Australian market direction this week with fears of a rate rise there holding back share prices, brokers said. "We expect the Fed will, as in June, signal a neutral policy bias,' said Commonwealth Bank economist David
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      • 360 22 TOKYO Bnt worries over US rate hike may limit upside, say traders Reuters JAPANESE stocks are set to rise this week on hopes that more banks and companies will step forward to form broader and stronger alliances, traders said. But the upside may
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      • 1782 22 □Paris *37.72 FRENCH stocks closed up 1.43 per cent on Friday, adding to modest early gains as Wall Street swung higher in late Paris trade. But strategists forecast a hesitant start today ahead of tomorrow's US Federal open Market Committee monetary policy meeting. The CAC-40 Index closed
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      • 253 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG share prices are expected to stay high in the coming week in the absence of unexpected bad news, dealers said. "I don't see any downside in the market, which is pretty firm now, unless there is unexpected news," said Howard
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 421 23 AFP Q Composite Index -9.5 THE Malaysian bourse is expected to trade sideways with an upward bias this week after the headline index fell 1.2 per cent in the week to Friday, analysts said. "There could be some seUing in the early part of
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      • 8527 23 Week ended Auk 20 MDUSTKULS Cmsmmt pnAxti 1999 Lot Vei «Mt Net Ce* High Law Campmy Sale '000 HIgn law P/l $m« 440 255 Ajinomoto 320 10 2 320 320 203 >29.7 T74 46 Angkasa KM -1 931 109 94 154 8 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 314 3 32
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      • 2826 24 Week ended Aug 20 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS m 52-Wk Lut Vol «Ht Last Ouott Avg HlgH Loo Stno Company StK Hf- COOO) High Ln Buytr S*l»r Price 104 3 s 3160 "Acer W*****1 US$ 52 *9 2778 53 39 51.5 52 80 4.5 s 3164 Acma W*****4 40 *9 843
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      • 181 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy MALAYSIA is now rich with penny warrants whose life spans have been extended by five years. Because of the uncertainty regarding capital controls and the still-pervasive view that Malaysia is a high-risk play, some may shy away from investing
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      • 217 24 H0N0K0M6 STOCKS Or Or M Vol MM Last Ouot* on on yw n* m c»p MH» L— Stno C«w»«ny COOP) Hfi L— Bwy, S—r Cw P/I Sm» ~365 173 5123 CDU2000IHK 272.5 12 272-5 270 257 5 340 8 3.7 2 9 93 S39U 5124 CattViy Pac 20c
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    • 6337 25 Week ended: Aiu; 20 u 2 LMt V* *M» Last Oust* H> Mv YM Mat Cat An Jjigh Low StNo Company SM COOP) Mlfh Law Buyr »a—r C'yr P/I JmS Prlca MULTHNMKiaV 2 17.5 m b 1000 AcmaSOc 129 »10 1203 133 114 128
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    • 1094 25 «rn. c*m—*y >/. Q& r j C% X &J£ MANUFACTURMt 2 2? C 2049 AS Auto tOc 168 *14 1640 196 167 167 169 ION OS 214 7 IT? U2 C 2091 ASJ KWqs 20c 97J ♦IS 21 fi 00 87 94 3 8 10 9 0*8 16 fl7
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        62 26  -  By Wong Wei Kong The share price of Asia Food Properties rose 5 cents to US$O.55 last Friday with 43.7 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 17.9 million units. The RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts suggest that there is still some room for the
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        532 26 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume Asia FoodiProp USS 139,503,000 'Genting Int 131,013,000 Hotung Inv NT5 98,607,000 Golden Agri USKk 98,549,000 IPC Corpn 5c 65,232,000 DragonLand 10c 44,433.000 •TanChonglntSOc 39,666.000 6ES Intl Ltd 20c 38,544,000 Eagle Brand HWgs HK75c 38,287.000 LionAslapac25c 38,251,000 Stocks D8S Foreign 171,606,221 OCBC Foreign 150,467,542 City Dev
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      • 677 26  -  TmiWmiK 4HBAD A spanner in the works is the slide in the US dollar against the yen; also, local players badly need a theme By R Sivanithy PAUL Volcker, ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve, was once quoted as saying that the
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    • 61 18 This announcement appears as a matter of record only August 1999 m COLEX COLEX HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 31 December 1971) Private Placement of 5,000,000 new ordinary shares of Sso.lo each at 550.33 per ordinary share in the capital of Colex Holdings Limited Placement Manager
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    • 266 18 NEW APPOINTMENTS ABN AMRO has announced that Mr. Waieed Hanafi has joined its regional office in Singapore as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President. Mr. Hanafi was formerly at Visa International, where he held various positions, most recently Group Manager Network Services. He has also founded a number of
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 298 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THIS week has seen a number of interesting sales, both in the wet and dry sectors. Interest for handy/handymax bulkers has continued to be a major feature and several deals have been concluded during the week. The Oceanic Success (42,000/91) was finally committed
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    • 440 27  -  Anglo-Dutch line suffers USslBm loss, HE group reports USss.7m profit By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Two global container shipping lines have seen mixed fortunes for the year so far as Anglo-Dutch P&O Nedlloyd sinks into the red for the second quarter, but
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    • 119 27 [SINGAPORE] US oil giant Chevron named its newest FPSO Kuito (above) in Singapore last week after conversion work was completed by Sembawang Shipyard. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel was named after an oilfield discovered by Chevron in Angola in 1997. The contract to
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    • PORT Shots
      • 78 27 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] China Ocean Shipping Corp (Hongkong) group president Dong Jiufeng denied rumours that chairman Chen Zhongbiao has been arrested in Beijing for unspecified reasons, the South China Morning Post reported. The paper said the rumours surfaced two weeks after the sudden departure of the
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      • 34 27 [LONDON] Arabian Ship Repair Yard (ASRY) has appointed Victoria Maritime Service as its agent in Italy and Mons x>. Its previous agent, ASRYMAR, will now concentrate on northern Europe.
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      • 31 27 [LONDON] Shipping lines belonging to the Eastbound Management Agreement (EMA) have reaffirmed the US$2OO (*****) per container increase in rates which comes into being on Oct 1.
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    • 174 27 Reuters [BEIJING] China will build five 300,000-deadweight tonne very large crude carriers (VLCC) for Iran, the official China Daily said. The Dalian New Shipyard in the north-eastern province of Liaoning signed a contract with the National Iranian Tanker Co last Friday in Beijing,
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    • 286 27  -  By\ S Shivani [SINGAPORE] Two new main haul services started at PSA Corp's Dalian Container Terminal will further boost trade between northern China and European and Middle Eastern markets. The services introduced by Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Wan Hai
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    • 671 27  -  LXMER SCENE By\ David Hughes SINCE it was created by the merger of P&O's and Nedlloyd's container businesses, Anglo Dutch carrier P&O Nedlloyd Container Line has issued detailed quarterly financial reports. That is an example of transparency other major transport firms ought
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    • 890 28  -  LONDON'S RIVER THAMES Business is booming and boats are packed with tourists wining and dining as they float beneath the Tower Bridge By. Paul Majendie Reuters in London THE sinking 10 years ago of a pleasure boat packed with young party-goers cast a giant shadow over
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      • 511 41 v,ss#l Voy No Berth Arrival Departure J»1 tat J M n £301 J07 22/08/10:15 22/08/2300 Bt Nur Dim ***** J01 22/08/T145 22/08/23:00 ***** JOI 22/08/11:40 22/08/18:15 J05 22/08/13:00 23/08/6:00 6 J09 22/08/13:00 26/08/1500 8ui n F 901 JW 22/08/1440 24/08/8:00 9906 J07 23/08/640 24/08/1540 W IM,M j ®899
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      • 1609 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Bookln«/B«l»iKe Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrkx) From To From «ci NM» 0266 24/2300 U 22/1500 22/165* 22/1*00 22/1500 22/165* 22/1*00 22/1700 23/0659 23/0*00 20 22/1700 23/0659 23/0900 J 23/0700 23/1H* 23/MOO 4 23/1200 23/M5* 23/1700 23/ai i 22/1500 own
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      • 196 41 Aug 29 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 30 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Ad(3l Malaysia: National Day. Sep 1 Mexico: State of the Nation (optional). Bep 6 Canada: Labour Day. Luxembourg: City Kemesse. United States: Labour Day. Sep 16 Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. Sep 16 Independence
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      • 739 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 339 41 twMiw Art So<t—»t E25 "f °J 1 *M/M 380 AM 984.8 0.4 14.0 0X7 37 0X2 WW* »*tt FW. j£°,j£ C35 K)05 5 0 W 3 235 0.08 ISO/Cnmc Limits Sp*c E25 991 1.0 15.0 0.10 80* O.KT "T* tiff Mo"am 9«7 0? 5Tn iwi g
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 264 42 Reuters [NEW YORK] The union representing pilots at American Airlines said it could seek a court order to prevent the airline from completing its purchase of Reno Air if a labour dispute was not settled by month's end. The Allied Pilots Association, which
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      • 490 42 Most GPS receivers in Asia were made recently, and so were less likely to face problems [SINGAPORE] Rollover of the Global Positioning System's (GPS) clock to zero yesterday morning caused few navigation or timing problems across Asia or Australia. A GPS receiver did
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      • 378 42 AFP [LONDON] Britain's train privatisation experiment ran into further trouble when regulators brandished hefty fines in a drive to coerce the rail infrastructure owner, Railtrack, into reducing lengthy delays. The rail regulator, Tom Winsor, threatened Railtrack with fines of up to £40
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      • 252 42 Bloomberg {WASHINGTON] The Federal Aviation Administration briefed US airlines on steps taken recently to respond to the carriers' concerns that air traffic control practices are causing too many flight delays. The Air Transport Association, which represents major US airlines, said it
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      • 336 42 Bloomberg [MONTREAL] Canadian Airlines rejected a proposal by Air Canada, the country's biggest carrier, to buy its international routes as part of a rescue plan that would realign Canada's airline industry. The offer came a week after the Canadian government
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      • 212 42 Bloomberg [ST PAUL, Minnesota] Northwest Airlines Corp, the largest US carrier operating in Asia, will increase passenger and cargo flights to China this year and next, building up service to the recovering region. Northwest will increase Tokyo-Shanghai service to four weekly flights from two
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    • 25 27 GPS rollover causes few problems in Asia Most GPS receivers in Asia were made recently, and so were less likely to face problems. Back Page
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