The Business Times, 7 October 1999

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    13 1 MITA (P) 046/12/96 85* SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1999
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    58 1 □srn H«oi7l (+35.99) wmwr-m U7H4B (+13.80) f%aMsanmmss U mm (+7.60) 8T0C1MABKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE OOMP,..; 714.H_+U« NIKKEI 17.8K.42 +***** BANG SENG llfiilM +19JI SET INDEX MM 1A JAKARTA COMP 688.71 +2160 MANILA COMP _1*7JB -72* TAIPEI WPf 7JU1JU 4U8 SEOUL OOMP flU 1 +4171 CLSACMHAB tkmi AUSTALLORO
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    74 1 ran Bins us$ s$ U8S 1j878 £(08S/SSper£) UU 1776 EWQ(lBS/SSperE) 1J7I 1801 NW_1_ ISO ari ten im tin* RX im 0.141 HK» 7.7W Mil BART mil SMS THJPLAH 7,711 MB* •atmmuaib rami bates SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 716 JAKARTA 4000 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.26 TAIPEI .8.07 SYDNEY
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    Lock icon UOB secures 75% stake in Radanasin Bank for 6.5b baht
    598 1  -  BOT to become sole owner of bad-loan nnit which UOB will manage for a fee From. Harish Mehta in Bangkok SINGAPORE'S United Overseas Bank (UOB) has secured a 75 per cent stake in Thailand's Radanasin Bank for a net price
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    Lock icon JTC to spend $1.78b to spur knowledge economy
    615 1  -  A whole new approach to planning the industrial landscape: JTC chairman Byi Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] Jurong Town Corporation will invest 11.78 billion in its current fiscal year, 84 per cent more than tha previous yea* teanchor its entire itettfcMßt towards catering for
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    Lock icon Tan Chong may switch from HK to S'pore listing
    544 1  -  idexclusive Move aimed at improving investor recognition By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Motor group Tan Chong International, currently listed on the Hongkong Stock Exchange, may seek to switch its listing to the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Market sources said the Nissan
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      96 1 IIfSXDE Top tforlot Ong Beng BHB Seng has P "^s^o just 16.1% EmH direct bcWB control of fdlfl HPL tEB SPH profit up 17.5% to $326.3 m. *9* Aussie retailer In $33m deal to make Ossia and Pertama its springboard into Asia. P99 CityDev top bidder for Ixora Court. Pg9
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      65 1 We are wonderful j {p We are quite the i best country in Europe. In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from Englishspeaking nations that have kept law-abiding liberty alive for the future. My friends, we are wonderful. A Former
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      120 1 HK's property mindset People have told me that the formerly prevalent bubble economy seriously undermined people s work ethic and attitudes towards learning We have witnessed a gratifying change in community mindset. 4} Tung Chee-hwa, Hongkong s chief Union address t/ -V J The movement m k w •C' k
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      Lock icon SPH net jumps 17.5% to $326m
      748 2  -  Seven-fold surge in investment income to $73.7 m boosts gain By, Jennifer Lien ISINGAPORE] Boosted by a sharp jump in investment income, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday posted a stronger-than-expected 17.5 per cent rise in full-year net profit to $326.3 million. The media group's
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      Lock icon OBS and in-laws have 41.1% control of HPL
      518 2  -  Director clarifies report on family's vulnerability to takeover bid By] Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Businessman Ong Beng Seng has direct control of 16.1 per cent of his listed Hotel Properties Ltd, according to information provided by HPL. But together with his inlaws,
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Crap stock
        75 2 ROBERT Maxwell, the late newspaper tycoon who mysteriously disappeared from his yacht was reportedly not one who took kindly to investment analysts calling a sell on his stock. One analyst suffered Mr Maxwell's wrath when he put out a negative recommendation. So in his next report on the
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        125 2 THE Ritz-Carlton hotel in Singapore isn't content with having one of the "world's sexiest bathrooms". It also wants to lay claim to giving the best bathroom experience. Its bathrooms come complete with new "bath menus", according to a statement from the hotel yesterday. Guests can choose
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        Lock icon Not environment friendly
        109 2 HONGKONG Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa spent much of his policy address yesterday talking about his HK$3O billion (5|6.5 billion) blueprint on cleaning up the environment But reporters who attended the media session during the speech noticed the government's message on environment protection has obviously not reached some
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        Lock icon A Chinese rift
        138 2 SINA.COM, a Chinese-language Internet portal in which the Economic Development Board is an investor, has seen internal rifts, reports Business Week magazine. In the past month, several senior US executives have left the company, including the chief executive officer, chief financial officer and chief technical officer. Two
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Harvey Norman, Ossia to buy 50.6% of Pertama
      681 3  -  Joint venture to pay $33m for stake in enlarged capital of Pertama By Steve Jacobs in Sydney HARVEY Norman Holdings, an As 3 billion (553.3 billion) listed Australian retailer, is teaming up with sporting goods distributor Ossia International to buy 50.6 per
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      Lock icon Keppel unravels cross-holdings in KepTatLee Bank
      307 3  -  Group plans to do same for KepL&ndby end of the year By Wong Wei Kong THE Keppel Group is unwinding its cross-sharehold-ings in Keppel Tat Lee Bank and expects to do the same for Keppel Land by the end of the year. Under the
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      Lock icon UOB gets a big 'yes' for share merger
      273 3  -  By\ Siow Li Sen SHAREHOLDERS of United Overseas Bank (UQB) yesterday overwhelmingly approved the merger of the bank's Foreign and Local shares. With that, all the local banks have merged their dual-tranche shares. UOB said 100 per cent and 99.9 per cent
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      Lock icon HMI offers 38m shares at 27c each
      546 4  -  NEW LISTINGS 13.3 m shares for public; healthcare gronp expects $9.7 m in net proceeds By. Andrea Tan SESDAQ-BOUND HMI Holdings yesterday launched an initial public offer of 38 million new shares at 27 cents each, which will raise net proceeds of $9.66
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      Lock icon Medtecs scores 33% premium on debut
      233 4  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan MEDTECS International surged 44 per cent to hit a high of 26 US cents in its first day of trading yesterday as the counter hogged the top spot on the actives list. The stock, which was offered to the public at
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      Lock icon IRE Corp gets approval for Sesdaq listing
      305 4 It's a major player in the building and upgrading industry IRE Corporation (S), a building maintenance, upgrading and construction-related services specialist, has received in-principle approval from the stock exchange for a Sesdaq listing. Overseas Union Bank is the manager, underwriter and placement agent
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      Lock icon Catcha.com to list within a year
      251 4  -  By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE! Singaporebased Catcha.com, an Asian Web site and search engine, will seek a listing in Singapore and Nasdaq in the US by next year, according to its chief executive officer. The company also announced a successful second round of Financing yesterday
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      Lock icon Housing loans: local banks are used to having it good
      697 4  -  locksiew catherine ong IT comes as no surprise that DBS Bank is the first to raise the white flag in the price war on housing loans. Whatever Elsie Foh, the bank's head for individual banking, might say about the importance
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      Lock icon SPH to launch 2 new English papers next year
      468 7  -  SPH RESULTS BRffiFDIO New products to cater to Internet-savvy people: chairman By, Jennifer Lien SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) will launch two new English-language morning newspapers next year. Executive chairman Lim Kim San yesterday said the new products would replace its current
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      Lock icon Low Huan Ping heads AsiaOne Internet
      250 7 SINGAPORE Press Holdings executive vice-president Low Huan Ping has been appointed head of the group's newly set up Internet business, Asia One Internet Pte Ltd. Asia One, a wholly-owned SPH subsidiary, runs a Web site that acts as a portal to online newspapers as
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      Lock icon SPH plans to pursue share buybacks
      264 7  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Press Holdings intends to pursue share buybacks through the normal ready counter or off-market schemes "at an opportune time". In a statement yesterday, SPH cited the uncertainty over its proposed special trading counter (STC) for onmarket share buybacks. The media
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      281 4 GST Practical Complexities In A Tax It's time to discover and to resolve The Executives' Club, OCBC Centre (West Lobby) Thursday, 28 October 1999 Thursday, 18 November 1999 or Thursday, 2 December 1999 Time: Are you aware of the practical issues and complexities involved in GST compliance? Do you know
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      1622 5 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT R^HH AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR AUGUST 31, 1999 k>* fIP^H THE DIRECTORS HAVE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED AUGUST 31, 1999. 1 RESULTS 6 SEGMENTAL INFORMATION Turnover 1999 Change 1999 Change $000 $'000 $000 000 1999
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market gets boost from SPH, SingTel, but stays hesitant
      582 6  -  I-i| comment STOCKS r. sivanithy Handsome gains in Singapore Telecom and Singapore Press Holdings yesterday boosted the Straits Times Index and with it, sentiment in the local market. There was, however, a strong element of hesitancy, a not unexpected development given
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      Lock icon Bet on a small-cap recovery with Republic 2000 warrant
      201 6  -  WABBAMT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'LL keep our spotlight on the penny warrants since the signs are still reasonably positive that this segment will sooner or later enjoy a recovery if blue chips continue to rise as they have. Today's feature
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      Lock icon Khong Guan price likely to pull back
      222 6  -  HOT STOCK Wong Wei Kong KHONG Guan Flour Milling, usually a sleepy stock, sprang to life and onto the top gainers' list yesterday on speculation that the company may change hands. The stock rose 62 cents or 21 per cent to close at
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      Lock icon Diary of events Thursday, Oct 7
      149 6 progress and the outcome was uncertain. No other details were provided. The company had earlier reported it had returned to the black with a $1.5 million net profit for the financial year end- ♦9.30 am. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Diplomatic Club
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      Lock icon Speculators take a big hit
      578 6  -  i comment CURRENCIES Sing dollar, baht and rnpiah still rising against USs,bnt yen falls like a stone larry wee IT'S too early to tell for sure, but big speculative players may have overdone it last month going short of regional currencies in favour of the
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      448 6 Hocks Volume Medtecs US5c 58,901,000 'Gentinglnt 22,770,000 CM Telecom HK75c 14,083,000 Sunway Intl HK10C 12,634,000 Wing Tai 25c 12,208.000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 11,211,000 STEngg 10c 11,182,000 *TanChonglnt50c 10,413,000 GES Intl Lid 20c 8,579,000 SingTel 15c 7.784.000 Stocks SPH 42,942,940 SIA 40.711,030 UOB Foreign 37.845,314 DBSGrp 30,877,174 0C8C Foreign 26,624,712 STEngg
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      79 6 BBMIB HOLDINGS HMI HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 26 October 1998) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 38,000,000 New Shares comprising: (a) 13,300,000 Offer Shares at 550.27 each (b) 24,700,000 Placement Shares at 550.27 each Applications for shares under the public offer may be made by way of printed
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      2224 7 DATAPULSE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 15A Tai Seng Drive Datapulse Industrial Building Singapore *****5 on 30 October 1999 at 9.30 a.m. for the purpose of
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Great chance for a class act
      577 8  -  i comment TECHNOLOGY Big pay-offs if home-grown eduFAD can And commercial success in the global market kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor OVER 1,400 teachers were surveyed recently about the use of information technology in the classroom. Three out of every four
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      Lock icon Wholesale prices climb in Aug
      312 8  -  I -on the economy prices By] Eugene Low WHOLESALE prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in August, with the domestic supply price index up 4.6 per cent year-on-year. Boosted by strengthening crude oil prices, the index posted firmer growth than in July, when it
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      Lock icon Publishers, authors form copyright body
      234 8 A GROUP of publishers and authors that include writer Catherine Lim has formed a non-profit body to stop the loss of millions of dollars yearly because of widespread unlicensed photocopying of literary works in schools, colleges and libraries. Called the Copyright Licensing and Administration Society
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      Lock icon SingTel extends BudgetCall
      89 8 COME Oct 15, Singapore Telecom will increase the coverage for its Budget Call service from the current 55 to all 223 IDD destinations. Budget Call rates to Japan, China, Israel and South Korea will also be reduced by up to 38 per cent, Sing Tel said in
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      Lock icon StarHub to be NTTCom distributor
      398 8  -  This gives it starting base of 100 corporate customers By' Teh Hooi Ling STARHUB, Singapore's new operator for fixed and mobile telecommunications services, will be the exclusive distributor of NTT Communications' global managed telecommunications services in Singapore. This means, come April 1, 2000, when Star
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      Lock icon Newspapers gain bigger share of ads
      382 8  -  By Ven Sreenivasan NEWSPAPER advertising revenues have grown despite a slide in total spending by advertisers, according to the the latest AC Nielsen's AdEx survey. The survey, which is closely followed by the advertising industry, found that gross ad spending in newspapers was $48.1
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      Lock icon MCL's reply doesn't explain earlier statements
      360 8  -  —aw.Mn Dave Simpson Singapore I REFER to Joyce Chang's reply "Devonshire site has potential with its superb location: MCL" (BT, Oct 2) and thank her for her clarifications. Regrettably, they do not come anywhere near to reconciling the sensitive statements made by her superiors
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      Lock icon Big bank mergers unhealthy
      107 8  -  Torbjorn Juuso Sweden via Internet I AM writing to give some feedback on the Alan Greenspan article "Greenspan: Asia needs spare tyre" (BT, Sept 29) you carried. The current situation in the banking sector, where banks are living on fees of all kinds, is making it
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      Lock icon Big MOE boost for IT skills, job training in schools
      663 8  -  Polys, ITEs will also set np customised courses for workers under Manpower 21 By, Andrey Tan THE Ministry of Education (MOE) will not only improve the school system to produce more creative, IT-sawy students, it will also enlarge the schools'
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      Lock icon CityDev top bidder for Ixora Court, say sources
      550 9  -  -ii exclusive Deal could be test case for en bloc sale that does not have consent of all owners By. Kalpana Rashiwala IN what may be a test case for recently amended legislation facilitating collective sales without getting owners' unanimous consent, City
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      Lock icon Grounds for just staying home and not flying
      660 9  -  WHAT GAM 00 WRONG ON JAM 1,2000 By George Joseph SHOULD the jet set executive and the ordinary holiday maker avoid flying on Jan 1,2000? It's a serious question: Will planes fall out of the sky? The truth is, nobody is prepared
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      Lock icon First Summerhill units going for $650 psf on Sat
      302 9  -  By i Carol Eng CITY Developments has priced its freehold Summerhill condominium at an average of $650 per square foot, which is on the lower end of expectations. But the price applies only to the first 125 apartments which will be
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      Lock icon 3 more freehold sites to go en-bloc
      332 9 EN-BLOC fever mounts as three more freehold sites totalling some 119,837 square feet, which are expected to fetch close to $200 million, come onto the market. Owners of the 17 terrace houses along Mandalay and Bhamo Road, on the first site, can expect
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Why Microsoft fears bubbling stock market
      879 10  -  rTT^ bottom line OPINION michael lewis Michael Lewis, the author of' Liar's Poker'and 'The New New Thing a forthcoming book about Silicon Valley, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. His opinions are not necessarily those of Bloomberg News IN THE two weeks since Microsoft
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      105 10 The civil administratioii is no longer functioning. The judiciary and court systems have ceased to exist Essential services, such as water and electricity, are in real danger of collapse.' -KaAAuM United Nations secretary-general, in a report calling for a sweeping plan for the UN to take overfull
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      Lock icon Pumping up the spare tyres
      641 10 EDITORIAL IT is now clear that most Asian economies have experienced a degree of turnaround from the depths of the financial crisis that gripped the whole region in 1997 and 1998. But it is far less obvious that all lessons have been learnt Indeed, if
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      Lock icon Whatever happened to the paperless office?
      1013 10  -  Popular belief that the Internet is almighty is as much a myth as that of the paperless office By J S Gan The writer has been involved in the Internet industry since the mid-1990s in Singapore ACCORDING to a study released by The Boston
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      975 10 Germany y France GERMANY has suddenly become the economic and political sick man of the European Union, a change that has taken place in the year since the Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder was elected chancellor. Meanwhile, in the two years since the Socialist Lionel Jospin became
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Telekom shares higher on NTT talk
        153 11 SHARES of Telekom Malaysia continued to post gains yesterday on speculation that Japan's Nippon Telephone Telegraph (NTT) might take a stake in the company, though this has been denied by NTT officials. Telekom, which has picked up 75 sen, or 7.5 per cent, over
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        Lock icon Banks still in limelight
        159 11 BANK stocks stayed in the limelight yesterday as the Malaysian Prime Minister reiterated comments he had made over the weekend that the list of six banks chosen as anchor banks by Bank Negara might not be final. He said that the government would not force banks
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        Lock icon Politically-linked counters active
        146 11  -  Compiled by Diana Oon Abdullah DESPITE the announcement by the Malaysian Prime Minister that the election date had not been decided yet, politically-linked second-line stocks saw another day of active trading, with conglomerate Renong leading the way. After seeing its stock and loan stocks beaten down last
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      Lock icon Bourse that never sleeps to be set up in Labuan
      367 11 LABUAN Labnan Int'l Financial Exchange to be owned and developed by ELSE Bloomberg MALAYSIA will set up a new stock exchange in Labuan island's offshore financial centre by March 2000, allowing companies to trade mutual funds, bonds, derivatives and insurance
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      Lock icon Bank Negara to work on master plan
      153 11 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S central bank is to draw up a master plan to develop the banking sector and map out new strategies, state Bernama news agency reported yesterday. "The master plan will be formulated in consultation with the industry and all other
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      Lock icon Labuan offshore banks get access to ringgit loan market
      358 11  -  Access limited; no effect on capital controls: analysts From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian central bank has given offshore banks in Labuan limited access to the ringgit loan market but analysts said the relaxation will not affect the country's
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      Lock icon Mahathir-Daim discord over number of anchor banks?
      780 12  -  DrM says room for more than 6 super banks; central bank silent too on remarks From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur A MAJOR policy rift appears to have emerged in the controversial plan to consolidate the Malaysian banking sector. On the one hand,
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      Lock icon Hong Leong, Bumi Commerce merger talks progressing
      219 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFX-Asia HONG Leong Credit Bhd says merger discussions with Bumiputra Commerce Bank Bhd and its units, Hong Leong Bank Bhd and Hong Leong Finance Bhd, are progressing. Its chairman, Quek Leng Chan, said the board would advise its shareholders when the
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      Lock icon MCI WorldCom also eyeing Time Engg: sources
      295 12  -  US execs said to be in KL to conduct dne diligence study From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur DEBT-RIDDEN Time Engineering has another suitor in the form of US long-distance carrier MCI World Com, sources said. Executives of MCI, the sec-ond-largest long-distance
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      Lock icon Half-time net profit at Country Heights surges to RM77m
      228 12  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur PROPERTY developer Country Heights Holdings Bhd yesterday reported that its net earnings soared to 77.2 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss34 million) for the six months ended August 1999, compared to RMS.I million for the same
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      Lock icon Climate right for polls but it's not climate alone: Dr M
      457 12 ■KUALA LUMPUR Shares surge in the morning on election, Budget hopes AFP, Reuters, Bernama MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he had not made up his mind when to call a general election which must be held by
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    • MALAYSIA Briefs
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        Lock icon 2nd hydroelectric dam for Trengganu
        75 12 AFX—Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] The Trengganu state government plans to build a second hydroelectric power dam in the Kenyir lake area to generate an additional 250 MW in the next three to four years, Bernama news agency quoted state chief minister Wan Mokhtar Ahmad as saying.
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        Lock icon PM, Anwar lawyer swap legal threats
        114 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and a lawyer for his former deputy Anwar Ibrahim exchanged legal threats yesterday ova* allegations the jailed ex-minister had been poisoned. As a divisive debate over Anwar's health raged, Dr Mahathir mid the government would examine
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        Lock icon MTD Capital in bid to buy Intria stake
        81 12 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Intria Bhd said MTD Capital Bhd has submitted a copy of the latter's proposal to acquire Mekar Mamari Sdn Bhd's stake in Intria. The proposal also includes a planned restructuring scheme of Intria's debts. MTD's proposal was submitted to
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        Lock icon Petronas venture wins US$100m deal
        104 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) said one of its units and Nuovo Pignone of Italy jointly won a US$lOO million (*****.8 million) contract to design and build an LNG compression plant in Brunei. Brunei Shell Petroleum Co Sdn Bhd chose the group
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  • SOUTH-EAST asia
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        59 14 Reuters AFX-Asia, [JAKARTA) The government win make public on Saturday audits by Independent accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers into state oil company PT Pertamina and the state-run National Logistics Board (Bulog), Finance Minister BambangSubianto said. Separately, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency said yesterday it was ordering an Independent
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        65 14 AFP [MANILA] There is no proof the late dicta tor Ferdinand Marcos hid US$l3.2 billion (5522.l billion) in Swiss banks or huge caches of gold in a warehouse, Philippine President Joseph Estrada's spokesman, Fernando Barican, said yesterday. Citing Swiss government documents, he said bank statements
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        69 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Indofood Sukses Makmur approved plans to sell control of Its profitable PT Bogasari Flour Mills unit to raise cash to repay government loans. Indrfbod intends to sell up to 60 per cent of four divisions of Rogasari, which will be set up
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        67 14 Reuters [HANOI] The Vietnam General Rubber Corporation has proposed that the government ben export of raw latex in abidtostop rising thsft of the material from stateowned firms, official media reported yesterday. Saigon Oiai «kwg (Saigon Liberation) daily said the thefts took off in the
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        88 14 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund approved a US$BOO millk>n(SsB3o.omillion) credit line for Thailand, then said the ecooomywaB rebounding so test the government would probably live up to its pledge to pass up the money. "Recovery is now underway with growing signs of arebound in
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      704 14  -  MPR's rejection of his accountability speech will kill re-election hopes From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta PRESIDENT BJ Habibie will put his political future on the line on Oct 14 when he delivers his accountability speech in which he is expected to declare that there
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      179 14 MANILA AFP, Reuters THE central bank bought US dollars on the open market yesterday to prevent the rapid appreciation of the peso, a currency trader with a foreign bank said. The trader said the unit rose in tandem with the Thai baht to close
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      483 14 JAKARTA Bloomberg A GROUP of Korean creditors have called for an independent audit of PT Bakrie Investindo, a holding company for the interests of Indonesia's Bakrie family, saying its plan to restructure US$6l2 million (Ssl billion) debt isn't fair. The creditors are balking
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      619 14 JAKARTA But analysts say there's longer-term investment value AFX-Asia INDONESIAN equities are generally regarded as too risky at least in the short term for funds whose mandate does not explicitly require them to invest here, analysts said. They said while there are pockets of
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      855 15  -  Chief exec devotes much of animal policy address to environmental issues Frornt Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa yesterday declared that the worst is over for the battered Hongkong economy and urged Hongkongers to adopt a new mindset
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      437 15 HONGKONG Asian bond-backed debt securities get Moody's highest credit rating Bloomberg AXA Investment Managers Hong Kong Ltd, a unit of Par-is-based AXA SA, the world's largest insurer, raised US$6O million (*****.6 million) selling debt securities backed by Asian bonds that received Moody's Investors Service's highest credit
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      529 15 TAIPEI Legislative logjam and strong onion opposition cited Reuters TAIWAN'S multi-billion-dol-lar drive to privatise much of state industry by 2001 has shown signs of stalling with major sell-offs, mired in political and labour disputes, barely moving beyond the drawing board. Last month's earthquake
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      299 15 HONGKONG Bloomberg DAO Heng Bank Ltd, Hongkong's third-biggest listed bank, said its 1999 net profit fell by a less-than-expected 4.1 per cent, as profits from associated companies rose. The bank said net profit for the 12 months to June dropped to
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      432 15 M THE MATTER OF THE COMFANEB ACT, CAP. M AND W THE MATTER OF »l ON MACHKERY MANUFACTURE »«USTISALOOMPA»« (MR EAST) PRWATEIMTED At in extraordinary general meaeng of Tai On Machinery ManUatfrxa Infristoal Company (Far East) Prtvate Umaed Aiy convened and held M 154 Tyrwh* Road Singapore *****7 on Tuesday,
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      636 16  -  But its tiny minority casts donbts on how stable the new partnership will be From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi PRIME Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's 24-party coalition looked set to form a new Indian government with a slim majority based on initial results
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      527 16 NEW DELHI Two-thirds of country's fuel needs are from imports Bloomberg RISING world oil prices are beginning to take their toll on India, with inflation set to pick up after the government raised diesel prices as much as 34 per cent on
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      129 16 ABU DHABI AFP AN tedtanjMMOtt-hM fled &e United Arab Jaril^Kb^lndai^A^^^teHlo£^trail(tf(Seilte days 100, the Gi4r7bdap quoted market source* as ■mW" r --.-.-"L •"i v V-iv- -jl Ati6Mi tares D&n&s mil nim QKttQri the daily said, estimating total debts at aroand US$5 mfllkM(S|6-5 million). BRShetty,
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      670 17  -  Y2K may stay the hand of Fed when it next meets on Nov 16 From. Leon Hadar in Washington THE announcement by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday that it was leaving interest rates unchanged but that it was leaning towards higher rates in the future
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      378 17  -  From'. Ravi Kanth in Geneva SMALLER banks and securities firms should not be subjected to excessive disclosure burden when it comes to trading in financial derivatives, international banking supervisors and securities regulators said. Announcing a revised set of guidelines on Tuesday, the Basle Committee
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      299 17 piraopift .v r ft causes all the problems, iMiißthwhlhMcm fromlßgUMtioiu AFT [BLACKPOOL] Former UK prime minieter Margaret Thatcher launched a scathing attack on Tueeday on "mainland Europe" as the source of all the problans of her lifetime. And she toM a gathering of Scottish
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      153 17 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S economic recovery is gathering momentum, with manufacturing output and retail sales rising, but the pace of the upturn looks set to push up interest rates. The Office for National Statistics said yesterday manufacturing output jumped 0.4 per cent in August to stand 0.4
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      433 17  -  Report focuses more on competition policy thin deregulation From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE US government has called for sweeping deregulation of key areas of the Japanese economy, including a "Big Bang" in the telecommunications sector to match the one already under
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      266 17 SINGAPORE Reuters US diversified chemical giant DuPont Co is confident of potential Asian growth and remains committed to its chemicals businesses in the region. "In Asia-Pacific particularly, I am very pleased that our revenue will be over IS per cent increase (this year) over last
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      644 18 MELBOURNE It plans to sell As3b worth of ops; move seen making unit more attractive to potential buyer Bloomberg BROKEN Hill Proprietary Co said it plans to cut its steel business in half and sell around As 3 billion (553.3 billion) worth of operations to
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      322 19 LONDON Bloomberg GLAXO Wellcome Pic, struggling to develop products as successful as its ulcer drug Zantac once was, said it will cut its workforce by 6.3 per cent, close some plants and take £520 million in charges against earnings over four years. Glaxo said
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      439 19 NEW YORK Future of venture has been in question since Kay Bloomberg SPRINT Corp's Global One joint venture with France Telecom SA and Deutsche Telekom AG will be bought by one of the three partners within months, Sprint chief executive
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      470 19 CARMEL, California Bloomberg THE US media, entertainment and communications industries could approach US$l.l trillion (511.9 trillion) in revenue by 2008 as companies exploit new technologies to broaden their product lines and attract advertisers, according to a study by Paul Kagan Associates Inc. Consumer
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        59 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlinee Co, Asia's largest airlins, said it will set up three independently managed in-house companies and a wholly owned subsidiary from April 3000 to cut costs by 90 per cent JAL said it will cut costs by rsducing the
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        34 19 Bhoomberg [LONDON] Cable WirriessPlc plans to offer higlMpssd connections and servioes for building internal corporate networks and hosting a Web site to businesses that use the Internet—Bloomberg
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        66 19 Reuters [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp and British Telecommunications Pic announced plans yeeterday to roll out wireless Internet services in Europe beginning with a trial involving I,ooomobile phone users. The trial will allow staff of live major companies in Britain and Norway to use their wireless phones to accses
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        37 19 Reuters [SYDNEY] Media mogul Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd said yesterdsy it had exereiaed an option to buy a 50 per cent interest in pay television channel Fox Sports.—Reuters
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      605 19 NEWPORT BEACH, California Purchase will be second-biggest money-management takeover Bloomberg PIMCO Advisors Holdings LP said it is in talks to be bought by Allianz AG for as much as US$39 per unit in cash, as Europe's second-largest insurer seeks to benefit
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      197 19 U NEW YORK Bloomberg NOMURA Securities International Inc says it has formed a New York-based group to buy North American companies valued at between US$l bUUon and US$3 bUlion. The leveraged buyout unit wUI mirror Nomura's Lon-don-based principal finance group, started
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      417 19 SYDNEY Music, entertainment sites could spend As2om in first year Bloomberg TEN Network Holdings Ltd, a commercial television broadcaster, and cinema and entertainment company Village Roadshow Ltd have joined forces to develop music and entertainment-based Web sites in a venture that could spend
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      219 20  -  M|M ELReports IBtwgppnro TWAit Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed sharply higher yesterday foHowing the US Federal Reserve policymakers' decision to leave interest rates unchanged. The Straits Times Index closed up 35.99 points or 1.74 per cent at 2,100.71. The MSCI
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      150 20  -  MSCI Taiwan fMnrw Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index September and October contracts fell 3.0 and 2.90 points respectively yesterday as market sentiment dampened on concern that economic growth will be hurt by last month's earthquake. The Taiwan Weighted Price Index plunged
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      274 20 ENEMY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil was little changed yesterday as a decline in US inventories reported by the government offset an industry estimate that supplies rose. The US Energy Department yesterday said crude oil supplies fell by 400,000 barrels
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      315 20 AFP, Reuters Trff*« THE euro rose to two-month highs against the US dollar in Europe yesterday but failed to hang onto those gains ahead of the European Central Bank's policy-setting meeting today. At the same time, the US currency rallied to its highest against the yen since Sept
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      2771 21 HONGKONG AFP. Reuters Hang Seng +1109 HONGKONG share prices ended barely higher yesterday as late profit-taking rolled back early gains amid disappointment over Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's policy speech. "Investors took profits after seeing no signs of measures to boost Hongkong's economic
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      330 21 AFP OWPhfai -8638 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday on continued profit-taking in construction material counters following recent gains, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index slid 55.38 points to 7,501.63 on turnover of NT569.2 billion. "Profit-taking persisted in construction material shares over concerns
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      1891 21 TOKYO AFP H Nikkei 22S *11X27 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday, buoyed by talk of a bigger-than-expected government stimulus package, brokers said. The key Nikkei Average of 225 selected issues rose 112.27 points to end at 17,896.42. The Topix
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      366 22 AFP yiCtopoatelßto +3J6 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday led by financial stocks but profit-taking erased earlier gains, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 3.96 points to finish at 714.19. The Second Board Index was up 0.08 point at 157.26.
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      792 23 AFP □set latex -MS THAI share prices closed one per cent lower yesterday in thin trade, with foreign and institutional investors largely inactive, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index shed 3.85 points to close at 395.09, off a low of 394.95 and a high of 403.73.
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      280 23 AFP □Manila -7.23 PHILIPPINE shares closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday on selling by foreign investors, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 7.23 points to 2,057.53. Volume rose to 5.2 billion shares worth 4.6 billion pesos from 3.7 billion shares worth 15.3 billion pesos on Tuesday.
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      670 23 AFP FlOompoateliiei *2150 INDONESIAN shares surged 4 per cent yesterday in heavy trade amid positive political developments, dealers said. An analyst with Harita Kencana said the market reacted positively to the selection of ruling Golkar party chairman Akbar Tanjung as Speaker of the Lower House. "Tanjung's appointment shows that
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      282 23 AFP □Wellington -Ml NEW Zealand share prices eased slightly yesterday on the back of Telecom's fall to a year's low, dealers said. The Fed's decision to leave rates unchanged was no surprise. The NZSE-40 Capital Index dropped 6.69 points to 2,029.47, on turnover of NZ$74.B million. —AFP Oct >
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      552 23 AFP QADOrtoirieß -2014 AUSTRALIAN share prices fell 0.7 per cent yesterday gaining little direction from a volatile Wall Street amid worries over interest rates. The key All Ordinaries Index ended 20.4 points lower at 2,896.8. The All Industrials Index dropped 34.4 points at 4,949.2, while the All Resources Index
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      282 23 AFP |TflOimposte Index+43.7l THE Korea Stock Exchange closed yesterday 43.76 points higher at 835.31. Volume was 275.0 million shares worth 3.4 trillion won. —AFP Oct* Anam Sami —***** 2300 BraMTadi 1700 50 Cantral Bank -2720 '20 ClwM Comm ***** -500 Om Co Bar* 4110 210 DaatangCorp 4»70 60 Oaawoo
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      553 25 Animals in Africa are poshed closer to extinction as demand for their meat surges [YAOUNDE, Cameroon] Restaurant owners flock to Cameroon's Elig-Edzoa market daily in search of something different. As little as five years ago, its stock in trade, like markets across Africa, was fruit
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      991 26  -  The retro look is in for furniture as jaxme ee spots no radical trends for the new millennium JAIME EE WHILE much of society goes forward into the new millennium with visions of high-tech telecommunication and e-commerce dancing in their heads, the opposite can perhaps
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      82 26 PRIME INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR SALE BY TENDER •Address 138 Joo Seng Road Singapore *****1 Description A 7-storey flatted factory with ancillary warehouse, showroom and basement carpark Tenure HOB Leasehold 30 30 years wef 1 September 1991 Land Area Approx. 4,479.10 sqm (48,213 sq ft) Total Built-up Area Approx. 10,906.03 sqm
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      339 33  -  By Ann Toh (SINGAPORE] Princess Cruises, the cruising arm of P&O, is taking a wait-and-see stance on basing a ship yearround in Asia-Pacific waters. John Anderson, manager of international sales and marketing at the Los Angelesbased cruise company, told Shipping Times that
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        722 45 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead oT single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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        363 46  -  By( Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Asia's motor industry seems to be on the road to recovery. Sales are rising in several key markets, production lines are moving once again, and several analysts predict the market will be back to pre-crisis levels shortly. But is that
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      194 33 Y2K compliance cant fly: warns domestic carriers I Back page wr.-. ■BiWfißTil SPECIAL FEATURE OCTOBER 19, 1999 LOAD lIP WITH VALUABLE SALES LEADS The shipping industry is steaming full speed ahead into the new millennium. Container volume and port calls are up and still increasing steadily. Against this exciting backdrop,
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