The Business Times, 13 October 1999

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/98 85C SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1999 I inicrnet: httoiVbusiness-times.asial .com.sg/
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    57 1 sn 211&27 (-3.96) mm 714.73 (-3.96) rismsamuiES STUCK lil&ET UUJ1122) Tuesday Change KLSE OOMP 74U7 -LB NIKKEI 18.M&81 +28J3 HANG SENG 12,759.36 -28U7 SET INDEX 401J6 +1148 JAKARTA COUP —J7LH 1168 MANILA OOMP —UK6.49 -177 TAirei WPI 7,***** SEOUL COMP 8B4JS +tlM CLSA CHINA B 7tt» -127 AUSTALLORD
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    74 1 maims uss ss US$ 1.680 £(US$/SSper£) 1.666 1781 EURO(US$/SSperE) 1.066 1.790 DM 1.836 QJ16 YEN 106 J 1580 KM 3.800 0.442 HKS 0216 BAHT 39.46 0.043 RUPIAH 7,830 0.021 'StIP mmria PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 6.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 815 TAIPEI A07 SYDNEY
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    Lock icon Malaysia backpedals on super banks plan
    996 1  -  Mahathir gayS h*nkg can choose own anchors; crisis committee to review plan after strong protests FromE* Eddie Toh, Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong IN a stunning reversal that floored foreign fund managers, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday effectively unravelled a merger plan to create
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    Lock icon Meet Y2K bug busters -at the Conrad hotel
    675 1  -  I :'i i exclusive HOTELS GET SET FOB mLLEMMIUM PART? By\ Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] From Raffles Hotel to the Shangri-La, the last New Year's Eve of this millennium will see hotels here gearing themselves up for revellers to celebrate the big flip
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    Lock icon Cables on Li's land lawful: SingTel
    550 1  -  It is contesting a suit by tycoon Li Ka-shing's Japnra By < Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel) yesterday denied that its international submarine cables are trespassing on land sold by the government to a company owned by Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
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      90 1 IH SIDE Top stories 40% discount on share options? KLW says it's a good way to motivate staff. Pg3 En-bloc sales continue to hit the market pge Fewer jobs will be created in the years ahead. Pg 10 Asia's first real-time financial portal is on the Web. Pg 11 Thai
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      68 1 Brokers at sixes and sevens, Pg 13 BHL owners accept Southern Bank's offer, Pg 13 m I dr/////J L /^^v/ i n K. J The movement Heir to a proud watchmaking tradition MP Sf SINGAPORE: Chopard Boutique, 65/737 64 51, Fax 65/235 82 00. Dickson shops: The Centrepoint, shops: Lucky
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon The winds at Carnoustie
        113 2 AS the professional golfers who battled it out at the British Open in July will testify, the winds at Carnoustie in Scotland can be furious. A Singapore banker, who played at the course recently during a trip to the UK, found out that battling the winds
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        48 2 THE story now going around is that the distributors of Suzuki cars will take over the failed distributorship of Korea's Kia cars. According to one wag, the new distributorship could call itself "Kia-Su Motors". For the uninitiated, kiasu means "afraid to lose" in the Hokkien dialect.
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        Lock icon Repricing the yankee
        112 2 THE Malaysian government is negotiating to reprice its US$l.35 billion (552.26 billion) club loan signed in December last year, according to basispoint, a newsletter for investors of fixed-income securities. Apparently, Kuala Lumpur has figured that it is paying too much at 290 basis points above US treasury
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        Lock icon The new man at SSB
        102 2 SALOMON Smith Barney (SSB) has appointed Donaldson Hartman deputy head of financial institutions equity research for the Asia-Pacific region. SSB said Mr Hartman, based in Bangkok, was instrumental in developing the firm's investment banking business in Thailand and played a leading role in Siam Commercial
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        83 2 A PARLIAMENT of crows which make their home on the golf course at the Singapore Island Country Club would have done the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu proud. Here's what our feathered friends do, according to a golfer. They send one of their number to
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      Lock icon 2.7% upturn in Q2 home rentals
      661 2  -  Gain reverses six quarters of decline bat level still 40.6% lower than '96 peak By] Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Private home rentals have risen for the first time since the third quarter of 1997, according to the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore's rental index of
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      50 3 > i *"-«t N A. A V Mr Keiichi Iwasawa, General Manager, Mitsubishi Corporation Millenia SINGAPORE PONTIAC MARINA PRIVATE LIMITED Pontiac Marina Private Limited is a subsidiary of the Pontiac Land Group of Companies. One Temasek Avenue. Millenia Tower, #41 00, Sinyapore *****2 Telephone 65 332 8888 Facsimile <65 3JB
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon New businesses to fuel FJB growth
      455 4  -  Chief exec mentions Next Media and the Man U franchise By' Toh Han Shih THE future drivers of fashion retailer FJ Benjamin's growth will be new businesses like Next Media and its Manchester United franchise, said its chief executive officer (CEO) FJ Benjamin yesterday.
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      Lock icon NMH offers 23m shares at 46 cents each
      455 4  -  Offer price is at 14.4* historical PE, 13Jx prospective PE Byl Eugene Low NM Holdings (NMH), a homegrown manufacturer of plastic packaging materials, is offering 23 million shares at 46 cents each in its initial public offer for a Sesdaq listing. Of
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      Lock icon L&M confirms plan to list geotechnic division on SES
      241 4 L&M Group Investments yesterday confirmed a BT report that it was planning to list its geotechnic division, one of its main operating divisions, on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. It said that "an underwriter has been appointed to explore the feasibility
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      Lock icon Radanasin purchase looks promising for UOB
      654 4  -  locksiew siow li sen THE best that could be said of United Overseas Bank's foray into the Thai consumer banking sector is that it came at a low cost with most of the risks known, said one analyst. This remark generally reflects the general
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      Lock icon Asia Dekor gets approval for SES mainboard listing
      349 4  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng A MAKER of laminated flooring in China is heading for a listing here, even as two companies report good response to their respective initial public offers. Asia Dekor Holdings yesterday said it had received in-principle approval for a
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      Lock icon KLW puts sharp 40% discount on staff options
      448 5 DOOR maker KLW Holdings is asking shareholders to approve an employee share option scheme that includes exercise prices with a generous discount of up to 40 per cent of the market price at the time of granting the options. Sesdaq-listed KLW said
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      Lock icon DBS Land exercises Hind Hotels option
      321 5 It will buy 534% stake for $89m, not $100 m as expected DBS Land has exercised its option to buy a 53.9 per cent stake in Hind Hotels and will be issuing a general offer document within 28 days. However, the purchase price will
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon MHE in wireless messaging business
        129 5 AFX-Asia MHE Holdings said it has launched a wireless two-way messaging and e-commerce business. Wholly-owned subsidiary Mhe.Com Pte Ltd will market GWcom Inc's wireless technology in South-east Asia, India and the Middle-East The two companies have targeted sales of at least 15 systems in the
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        Lock icon Leong Hin buys $11.5m property
        85 5 LEONGHin Holdings said that with the approval of shareholders yesterday, it has exercised an option granted by LHP Investments to bay a freehold property at Surrey Road for $11.5 minion. The property can be devetoped into a residential project with an aggregate built-up area of
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      Lock icon Planet Hollywood Int'l revamp doesn't affect Asian venture
      406 7  -  JV company says it's separate from PHD which has filed for Chapter 11 By\ Marissa Chew THE debt restructuring at Planet Hollywood International Inc (PHD) and the closure of nine restaurants in the US will not affect the operations of Singapore-based Planet
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      Lock icon Low acceptances, so offer for Scotts lapses
      295 7 THOSE who accepted Stamford Holdings' conditional cash offer for Scotts Holdings will have their shares returned. DBS Bank said that as of the close of Stamford's offer for Scotts yesterday, acceptances had been received for 130,952 shares representing 0.06 per cent of Scotts'
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      Lock icon CSE wins $17m deal from Philips
      164 7 IIUItMUUKQ contract is far EBP systems here Reuters [SINGAPORE] CSE Systems A Engineering said yesterday that it had been awarded a five-year maintenance contract by Philips Singapore Pte Ltd valued at $17 million. The company said in a statement the contract was for the
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      Lock icon Pac Century unit sells 635m shares
      144 7 Bridge News HONGKONG-listed Pacific Century Cyberworks placed 635 million shares after the stock market closed yesterday, sources said. The shares were priced at HK$6.lO, or an 8.3 per cent discount to yesterday's closing price of HK56.65, they said, adding that the funds will be
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      8 5 Share option schemes carry own risks, Pg 12
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon UOL warrant a good bet on property sector revival
      211 6  -  WABBAMT WATCH -By R Sivanithy THE property segment has been out of favour for some time now interest rate worries, unstable currencies and a wobbly Wall Street have taken their toll on the sector. Also, transactions in the physical market have
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      Lock icon Stocks stuck in limbo, play centres on telecoms, electronics
      561 6  -  l-iricommerit STOCKS r.sivanithy YESTERDAY'S trading pattern was a repeat of Monday's, with stocks making a brave attempt at rallying at the start before being dragged lower by a lack of decent buying incentives. Not helping sentiment were the weak Hongkong market
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      Lock icon FJ Benjamin seen correcting further
      275 6  -  HOT STOCK -By Wong Wei Kong FJ Benjamin shares were again heavily traded yesterday, but retreated this time round after their sharp gains in the previous session. The stock tumbled 9.5 cents or 14 per cent to close at its day's low of 58 cents,
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      20 6 Short of cash to invest 7 r 323-3955 >I< I )[',SBANK Larry Wee's ourrencie* ootamn is on pafe 30 BizIT
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      126 7 This announcement appears as a matter of record only October 1999 EASTGATE TECHNOLOGY LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 16 December 1989) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 100,000,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.10 EACH COMPRISING 50,000,000 NEW SHARES AND 50,000,000 VENDOR SHARES AS FOLLOWS:(1) 40,000,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.50 FOR
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Heavy job
      140 8  -  By\ Eugene Low THE construction of Exxon Chemical's US$2 billion (553.4 billion) petrochemical complex Singapore's third cracker— is on schedule and the project is about 40 per cent complete. The facility is due to come onstream in the fourth quarter of next year. Exxon Chemical said the lifting
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      Lock icon Bidding opens on three en bloc sites
      537 8  -  COLLECTIVE Holland Road, Kateng parcels seen going for a total of $522 m By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE stream of collective sales continues to flow into the market, and the latest properties to be launched are the 210,375 sq ft Grenville site off Holland
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      Lock icon Rubber prices on the rise, consumers underbought
      490 8 Supply also scarce due to bad weather, overtopping in the past 2 years Reuters RUBBER prices are still looking up, with major consumers short on nearby shipments and supplies scarce because of bad weather and overtapping during the last two years, traders said
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      Lock icon Whither M'sian business climate?
      545 8  -  John Tremayne Perth, Australia via Internet I REFER to the two news agency reports "M'sian bank stocks seen rallying after Dr M's remarks on core banks" and "Tenaga to merge its smaller units by next Sept" (BT, Oct 11). These, to my mind, are typical of
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      Lock icon MAS clears air on home loan refinancing
      253 8  -  W Leong Sing Chiong Assistant Director (Corporate Communications) Monetary Authority of Singapore IN "Where is the prudence, MAS?" (BT, Oct 9), Mr Philip Lim asked if the Monetary Authority of Singapore was being prudent in allowing banks to refinance housing loans at more
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      Lock icon Trading costs: look at Chuan Hup case
      175 8  -  Chow C K Singapore via Internet I AM in full support for the letter by Yee Soo Chai (Cut out banks from CPF share buys, BT, Oct 8) on the need to reduce the transaction costs currently charged by our custodial bauiks. Take
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      47 8 taxable book-entry Government 8188 l B|§| 1999 due 15 May 2004 Hi be issued on 15 Oct 1999^H BB| Amount Offered Allotted *****,000,000 fIpHH Amount Applied 551,564,404,000 Interest/Coupon Rate 3.375% p.a. ■Hh| on Allotment 3.68% p.a. and 100.079% HI Cut-off Yield and Price 3.72% p.a. and 99.913%
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      2 8 Email: btletter@sph.com.sg
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      228 9 i^^p There's more to total security than meets the eye. For instance, knowing about a break-in is useless, unless can be acted upon immediately. From installing and monitoring burglar alarms to security is a complex business operation, supported by five consultancy, one company has the ability to think fast, act
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Only 60,000 new jobs a year
      582 10  -  11ZI parliament Workers will no longer be spoilt for choice, cautions Boon Tang By. Audrey Tan THE post-crisis economy will yield just 60,000 more jobs each year, even if it grows at the target 5 per cent, Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang said in
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      Lock icon Building contracts down 40% in Q2
      293 10  -  the economy construction By\ Marissa Chew THE value of construction contracts awarded in the second quarter fell by 40 per cent, latest figures from the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) show. The figures, updated on Sept 20 on the BCA Web site, show that
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      Lock icon NTU offers double degree with Swiss school
      292 10 MBA students will spend a year each at NTU and St G&llen FROM next July, students in the Nanyang Technological University's Masters of Business Administration in International Business programme will be able to spend part of their course at the University of St
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      Lock icon Advertising's social role
      356 11  -  PEOPLE By, Andrea Tan THE role models of today are not politicians or religious gurus but the people featured in slick commercials and glossy advertisements, said Ho Kwon Ping, president of Wah Chang/Thai Wah Group yesterday. The Wah Chang/Thai Wah group is a regional conglomerate engaged in
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      Lock icon Startup launches real-time financial info portal on Web
      362 11  -  It'll also be available on Sing&poreONE from end-Oct W Raju Chellam {SINGAPORE] You can now get live or real-time financial information including stock quotes, currency exchange rates, and news by subscribing to a new Webbased service, called WhatzOn.net, launched by a startup
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      Lock icon Two brothers sell their homes to pursue .com goal
      285 11  -  By. Andrew Wee TWO brothers have taken the technopreneurs' baptism of fire, selling their homes to build up an Internet business. Ray Tham, 37, and Alex Tham, 31, sold their Housing Development Board flats to raise $500,000 for their newlyformed Internet
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      154 11 fl R 6 S 0 r t That's Also fl Home Imagine being able to, quite literally, stroll down to the beach at the end of your working day. You can at Mandarin Gardens, Singapore's only full service apartments by the sea. Apartments range from one bedroom to a penthouse,
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon New rules can help global investment
      736 12  -  mm I bottom line OPINION reginald dale The writer is a columnist with the International Herald Tribune, where this commentary first appeared A TIRESOME radio advertisement for a major international carmaker frequently aired in the US goes to great lengths to stress that not
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      112 12 5 We live in a kind of vacuum of power: no law, no order, no police, no judicial system.' -Bishop Carlos Bdo East Timor's spiritual leader, on the situation in his newly liberated country. 4 I am worried because there are many groups which are so fanatic,
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      Lock icon Is the US tiring of free trade?
      617 12 EDITORIAL THE trade ministers who will convene in Seattle in November were planning an agenda for a three-year series of negotiations aimed at lowering trade barriers in services and agriculture and setting rules for electronic commerce. The United States, the locomotive of the
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      Lock icon Share option schemes carry their own risks
      1389 12  -  A good plan most carefully consider specific terms of options, snch as the exercise price By Mak Yuen Teen, Ho Yew Kee Mak Yuen Teen is an associate professor and deputy head, while Ho Yew Kee is an assistant professor, at the Department
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      742 12 Habibie's feree WITH the Indonesian presidential election only nine days away, President B J Habibie is under pressure to accomplish his national duties one by one. Yesterday, he dropped the curtain on a dramatic comedy show while demonstrating strong confidence concerning his future. When the recommendation
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  • MALAYSIA bank mergers
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      Lock icon Foreign brokers at sixes and sevens over KL flip-flop
      596 13  -  WINNERS Bank merger policy reversal makes it hard for them to advise clients From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong FOREIGN brokers and analysts virtually threw their hands up in despair yesterday at the latest policy pronouncement by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Maybank may shop for other banks
        62 13 MAYBANK inched up 20 sen to RM12.90 yesterday on talk that it may now choose to buy other banks instead of those selected by the Malaysian central bank. Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday eased the rigid blueprint unveiled by the central bank in
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        Lock icon No chance still for RHB?
        47 13 RHB Capital, which owns 70 per cent of RHB Bank, eased 12 sen to RM3.36 despite the relaxation of the banking consolidation plan. Although Malaysia will allow more than six anchor banks, analysts said RHB Bank may not be the chosen one.
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        Lock icon PhileoAllied boss may cash out
        49 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh PHILEOALLIED, which owns Phileo Allied Bank, shed 6 sen to RM3.10. Tong Kooi Ong, controlling shareholder of the aggressive and young bank, is said to be willing to cash out as long as the bank gets cash from Multi-Purpose Bank.
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      Lock icon BHL owners accept Southern Bank's offer
      627 13  -  Major shareholders owning 45% stake agree to share swap From'. Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MAJOR shareholders of Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd (BHL Bank), believed to be members of the Yeap and Goh family owning nearly a 45 per cent stake, have accepted
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      Lock icon KL needs to ensure capital bases not too stretched: S&P
      278 13 SINGAPORE Bridge News, Reuters RATING agency Standard Poor's has applauded Malaysia's apparent turnaround in its bank mergers stance, as it believes that a forceful consolidation of Malaysia's financial institutions into six core banking groups would erode capital bases of anchor
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      Lock icon Arab-M'sian an anchor bank? Chief won't say
      183 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bridge News ARAB-MALAYSIAN banking group chief, Azman Hashim, yesterday declined to comment whether he was negotiating for his Arab-Malaysian Bank to become a lead bank in the forced merger of local banking institutions. But he hinted that an announcement could be
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      447 13 KPMGSeminarSeries Insurance Seminar Tuesday, 2 November 1999,9.00 am to 5.30pm Orchard Hotel, Level 3, Ballroom 1 The Insurance Steering Committee of the International Accounting Standards Committee ('IASC') is expected to release an issues paper on accounting for insurance contracts in the last quarter of 1999. This is part of a
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Hold on to your shares, KL index will rise: Dr M
      587 14 KUALA LUMPUR M'sian PM urges Chinese businessmen to help the Malay community hit by the Asian fiwiirial crisis Reuters, AFX-Asia PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday urged Malaysians to hold on to their shares and said the key stock market
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      Lock icon Olympia to pump EM53.2m into brokerage unit
      316 14 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S Olympia Industries Bhd said it won creditor approval for its plan to pump 53.2 million Malaysian ringgit (5523.5 million) into its brokerage unit, Jupiter Securities Sdn, to help shore up capital and fund its trading operations. The capital injection
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      189 14 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Tobacco Company Bhd (MTC) said yesterday several parties had shown interest in taking over its listed status or to inject their assets into the firm. "MTC and its substantial shareholder, Chelwood Trading Investment Co Ltd, have been approached by
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        34 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuato Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) will begin monitoring stockbroking companies from Dec 1 to determine if they meet capital adequacy requirements, the government said yesterday.—Reuters
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        55 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's TA Enterprise Bhd has entered into an agreement with The Manila Banking Corporation to sell its 30 per cent stake in TA Bank fior 007.5 million pesos (5135.4 million) in cash. TA Bank was bought for 562.5 million pesos
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        55 14 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Sunway City Bhd yesterday said it plans to issue a substantial block at shares in the company to a foreign investor. It is also finalising a deal to sell a 48 per cent stake in Sunway Pyramid. The plans are part
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      436 15 SINGAPORE Currency seen continuing uptrend; investors expect Moody's upgrade Bloomberg THE Thai baht strengthened for a second day, as the latest economic indicators suggested an improvement in the country's economy. Thailand's September exports rose 1.6 per cent from August to the highest level
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      352 15 MANILA Reuters, AFP THE Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday it would investigate Macau tycoon and casino mogul Stanley Ho's entry in BW Resource Corp, as well as the meteoric rise of the company's shares. "The SEC as a matter of
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      272 15 BANGKOK AFX-Asia BROKERAGE incomes in the third quarter will be sharply higher than a year earlier due to a significant rise in daily turnover on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), Seamico Securities said. In a note it said: "Average daily turnover at
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      302 15 BANGKOK Asset management firms taking over state banks'bad loans, says BOT Bridge News BANK of Thailand (BOT) governor Chatumongkol Sonakul said yesterday that the finance sector's 2.645 trillion baht (*****.4 billion) in nonperforming loans (NPLs) as at end-July would contract by 800
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      934 16  -  I :"i comment ASEAN Dark horses emerging In presidential race yang razali kassim BARRING a last-minute reversal, Indonesian President BJ Habibie has as good as secured his position as the Golkar party's official candidate for the presidential race next week, surprising even
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      283 16 AFP [JAKARTA] The health of the 78-year-old former Indonesian president Suharto is continuing to deteriorate and he now has difficulties speaking, his lawyers said yesterday. "Compared to when he was not yet sick, (his condition) has greatly deteriorated. It is of great concern," Juan
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      37 16 (JAKARTA] Indonesian marines participating in a show of force in central Jakarta yesterday. Thousands ofmilitary personnel will be deployed around the Indonesian capital to curb any violence ahead ofnext Wednesday's presidential election. REUTERS
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      320 16 JAKARTA Two-day executive meeting likely to give final endorsement Reuters INDONESIA'S former ruling party Golkar is set to retain President BJ Habibie as its presidential candidate yesterday despite his deep unpopularity with the public, party officials said. Golkar senior officials told Reuters a two-day executive
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      426 16 JAKARTA It wiD decide whether the fall results of an independent audit should be made public AFP, Reuters INDONESIA'S Supreme Court will soon issue a legal opinion on whether the full results of an independent audit on the
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      368 16 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S presidents will face a yearly review of their leadership that could see them impeached or a fresh election called in a bid to avoid abuses of the past, a political leader said yesterday. Amien Rais, who heads the People's
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      743 17 BEIJING Whether currency is devalued depends on balance of payments, say economists Reuters FEW economists see a yuan devaluation in the cards if Beijing fails to gain entry to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this year. China's bid to join the WTO
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      574 18 BEIJING Central bank seen cutting bank reserve ratio Bloomberg CHINA'S central bank may cut the amount of money banks must keep in reserve in a bid to boost lending and fuel economic growth, according to government officials and local press reports. Dai Xianglong,
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      498 18 BEIJING FT, Bridge News TOUGH action by China to enforce foreign exchange controls last year prevented more than US$lO billion (5516.8 billion) in illicit currency transfers in just four months, Zhao Yongji, viceminister for public security, has said. The figure underlines the pressure exerted
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      234 18 HONGKONG AFP CHINESE oil giant CNOOC Ltd yesterday launched an initial public offering in Hongkong as part of a plan to raise some US$2.5 billion (554.2 billion) and seek a stock market listing here and in New York. The Hongkong offering is
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      346 18 SHANGHAI AFP CHINA'S first batch of securities brokerages and fundmanagement companies has begun raising funds on the country's interbank market under financial reforms, the official Shanghai Securities News reported yesterday. Citic Securities Co Ltd on Monday carried out the ceremonial first transaction, obtaining a three-day
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      267 18 Capital level exceeds current and planned requirements Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hang Seng Bank Ltd announced its plan to solve a problem most lenders only dream of: What to do when you have too much cash. Hongkong's second biggest bank, one of the
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        43 18 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] The High Court has sanctioned the merger terms of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Futures Exchanges, paving the way farther for the proposal to merge the exchanges and the clearing houses. —AFX-Asia
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        90 18 Bridge News [TAIPEI] An NT$5O billion (512.6 billion) package of disaster reconstruction loans for quake-stricken small and medium-sized enterprises will assist over 2,500 of the companies carrying out reconstruction and new equipment purchases to resume production, according to a statement released yesterday by the
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        94 18 AFP [BEIJING] China will soon issue railway construction bonds worth 3.4 billion yuan (SI886million), the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The bonds, to be issued by the Ministry of Railways, include 1 billion yuan of five-year bonds and 2.4 billion yuan of 10-year
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        57 18 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] The Special Administrative Region is losing its favoured role as the regional base for multinational computer vendors despite the growth in Internet start-ups, the South China Morning Post reported. "There has been a definite shift away from Hongkong," Dennis Philbin, vice president
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      496 19 ISLAMABAD Turmoil after Sharif sacks army chief; firing comes after talk of coup Reuters PAKISTAN was plunged into political turmoil yesterday after the official residence of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was surrounded by troops shortly after it was announced that he had sacked
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      216 19 NEW DELHI Bloomberg HERO Honda Motors Ltd, India's biggest motorcycle maker, said its fiscal 2000 secondquarter profit rose 44 per cent as it sold more vehicles. The company's profit jumped to a more-than-expec-ted 428.8 million rupees (5515.4 million) in the three months ended
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      199 19 BOMBAY Bloomberg SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, India's fifth-largest computer software company by sales, said profit rose 67 per cent in its fiscal second quarter, helped by contracts from new customers. Profit for the quarter ended September rose to 307.4 million rupees (Ssll.l
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      113 19 BOMBAY AFX-Asia SILVERLINE Industries Ltd said it plans to offer American Depository Shares to raise US$75 million (*****.7 million) for funding overseas acquisitions. It said it has identified three potential companies for takeover in the US and Europe and will complete the
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      53 19 [NEW DELIA] The Congress Party's Sonia Gandhi is all smiles after being elected leader of the party's parliamentary group in New Delhi yesterday. However, Congress, which has ruled India for 45 of the 52 years since independence in 1947, faced its worst ever defeat in the recent mid
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      498 19 NEW DELHI Bat inadequate Upper House numbers may be a hurdle: analysts Bloomberg, AFP ATAL Behari Vajpayee, the first incumbent prime minister to be voted back to power in India in nearly three decades, said he and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance are
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      597 20 SEOUL Move ensures flat panel supply; US firm signs USsB.sb contract for LCDs Bloomberg DELL Computer Corp, the biggest direct-seller of personal computers, will invest US$2OO million (*****.2 million) in Samsung Electronics Co in return for a stable supply of flat panel displays,
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      428 20 LONDON USslb bond largest credit card securitisation by a European bank FT BARCLAYS Bank is to break new ground in the UK by becoming the first British bank to launch a bond secured against debt owed by consumers to its credit
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      303 20 TOKYO Bloomberg SQpO Co shares rose 8.8 per cent after the mid-sized Japanese department store chain operator said it will eliminate 450 group jobs in a bid to return to profitability. The Osaka-based retailer rose 17 yen to 173, the
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      230 20 TOKYO Toxic iodine escaped for 12 days through an unchecked ventilator AFP RADIOACTIVE particles spewed for 12 days through an unchecked ventilator at a Japanese plant after it suffered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the site's operator said yesterday. The
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      591 20 SEOUL Government says brokerages and trusts will share Daewoo bond losses Bloomberg SOUTH Korea said the nation's brokerages and investment trust companies will share losses from bonds sold by the Daewoo Group, in a bid to calm fears of mass sales of
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      51 20 (LONDON) A picture taken on Monday of the British Airways (BA) project ofa giant millennium ferris wheel that was lifted to a holding position 65 degrees over the Rwer Thames on Sunday. The sponsor BA predicts the project will be open by the eve of the millennium.
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        76 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] Bank of America is expected to announce today a service that lets companies build an on-line store through the US's second-biggest bank, The Wall Street Journal said. It will collect a fee of US$lOO (Ssl6B) a month from merchants using the service
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        61 20 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Telstra, Australia's No 1 phone company, has entered talks to buy an information technology business from a group of Australia's top general insurers and develop it into an Internet-based network. It said if s the preferred bidder to buy Insurance Network Services Pty
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        62 20 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel, the No 1 semiconductor maker, said if s working with leading mobile phone maker Nokia to make television set-top boxes that combine features of the Internet with broadcast TV. The set-top box, to nm on an Intel chip, will
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      523 21 LONDON It's a line-np of young reformers; only 12 of original 22 ministers left Bridge News, AFP BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair finally got the government he wanted with a line-up of young reformers in his own image, British newspapers said
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      296 21 GENEVA Exec says it may take control of the USslob venture Reuters A DEUTSCHE Telekom AG executive said yesterday the group may take control of Global One, its unravelling corporate communications venture said to be worth at least US$lO billion (5516.8 bil-
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      346 21  -  It agrees to restore developing countries' concerns in the draft From D Ravi Kanth in Geneva IN an about-turn, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has agreed to include all the concerns placed on the table by nine developing countries in a draft text
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      351 21 STOCKHOLM Egyptian-American researcher gets chemistry prize Reuters, AFP DUTCH physicists Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman won the 1999 Nobel Physics Prize yesterday, while the Nobel Chemistry Prize went to an Egyptian-American researcher Ahmed Zewail. The Dutch physicists won the prize for their studies of
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      569 22 LONDON Bnt earnings growth can only go down from here: analysts FT CORPORATE America is heading for the best earnings growth in the third quarter for at least four-and-a-half years. That is the good news, according to First Call/ Thomson Financial, the research
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      222 22 NEW YORK Bloomberg MERRILL Lynch Co, the biggest US brokerage firm, said third-quarter profit more than tripled, boosted by record asset management revenue and a recovery in trading from last year's global bond rout. Profit from operations rose to US$572 million (Ss96o million),
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      217 23  -  SSKELReports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market suffered minor losses yesterday but drew comfort from the low volume transacted. The property sub-index slumped on oversupply concerns emanating from the recent spate of en-bloc residential sales. The Straits Times
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      187 23  -  MSdlUmatatiiM Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index ftitures extended its winning streak for a second day yesterday, surging 12.0 points or 3.6 per cent to end at 349.4. The underlying Taiwan Weighted Price Index staged a sparkling rally, closing up 228.26
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      303 23 ENERGY REPORT AFP {LONDON] Oil prices' latest rebound moved up a gear yesterday as buyers gradually purged memories of last week's spectacular sell-off. Benchmark North Sea Brent crude for November delivery was trading 49 cents higher at U5521.72 a barrel by 1005 GMT, building
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      342 23 AFP, Reuters London THE US dollar continued to look soft against the yen yesterday with the market nervous ahead of today's Bank of Japan policy meeting. The meeting will be scrutinised for any steps the BOJ might take towards easing monetary policy following comments from Japanese officials in
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      2772 24 HONGKONG AFP PlhngSqig -23X37 HONGKONG share prices plunged 1.8 per cent yesterday amid concerns over liquidity problems arising from a planned series of cash calls, dealers said. "Investors are worried about a liquidity drain in the market," said Michael Ng, deputy managing director at
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      1867 24 TOKYO AFP Qffiuo&s *«JI SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday on gains in hightech issues following a surge in the United States' technology-heavy Nasdaq the previous day, brokers said. The Nikkei Average 0f225 selected issues rose 28.63 points to end
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      905 24 AFP QjVwmhfa -4171 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares closed down yesterday as early optimism over government measures to boost the market quickly fizzled, analysts said. Although B shares initially rose, selling rapidly returned as investors expected the move to offer little support to the market in the short term,
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      366 24 AFP QWF Index ****** TAIWAN share prices closed 3 per cent higher yesterday in active trading, buoyed by positive corporate results for September and overnight gains on the tech-heavy Nasdaq, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index soared 228.26 points to 7,835.37. Trading focused on technology stocks
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      361 25 AFP DOwnpoate Index -LB2 MALAYSIAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday on light profit-taking after recent gains amid continued speculation over the progress of bank mergers, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index finished at 745.57 points, down 1.82 from Monday.
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      266 26 AFP nOwnpoßtelnißi ♦2LBI THE Korea Stock Exchange Index closed up 21.86 points at 856.25. Volume was 295.5 million shares worth 3.2 trillion won.—-AFP Oct 12 *f~ tomsm*... "500 «o BraMTacli »»0 "30 Central Bank—— 2740 20 Cha4l Contm ***** >000 Dae Gu Bank 4065 Deo*angCo<p *•*> Ow oo Corp
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      283 26 AFP Q Manila -3.77 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower in the absence of foreign buying and as investors took profits on a third-line gaming stock. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index slipped 3.77 points to 2,066.40. Volume fell to 2.8 billion shares valued at 3.8 billion
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      263 26 AFP ♦ICIM NEW Zealand shares rose 0.5 per cent yesterday on the back of a rise in Telecom Corp, dealers said. The NZSE--40 Capital Index gained 10.01 points to 2,070.42 on total turnover of NZ$BB.B million. Telecom hogged most of the market's attention, gaining 16 cents to NZ$7.9O. —AFP
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      554 26 AFP HiaONlMriM *7.7 AUSTRALIAN shares closed 0.3 per cent firmer yesterday amid lacklustre trading as investors followed Wall Street's lead, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index rose 7.7 points to 2,934.1. The All Industrials Index rose 15.6 points to 5,056.1 while the All Resources Index
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      767 26 AFP Q SET Index +12.48 THAI share prices surged 3.2 per cent yesterday, breaking the psychologically important 400-point level, amid speculation Moody's Investors Service will upgrade Thailand's sovereign rating. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index gained 12.48 points to 401.36, while the SET 50 Index of selected stocks
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      681 26 AFP QOnpotflbln •12*8 INDONESIAN share prices dropped 2.2 per cent yesterday as investors fretted the ruling Golkar party will keep backing President BJ Habibie for a new term in office, dealers said. A dealer at a local brokerage said the market's sharp fall was an indication that the latest
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      622 28  -  Tap Dogs exhibit raw male energy onstage with their version of tap dancing SayS PUTAID MITAR PARVATHI NAYAR Testosterone channelled through tap dancing: If the combination sounds funky and different, well then, so is the show that brings them together. Tap Dogs, which has been called the
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      487 28 FOOD Reuters [NEW YORK] Like a souffle that continues to rise long after others have fallen, America's most famous home cook, Julia Child, has returned to television with yet another cooking series. The 87-year-old Ms Child is collaborating with her long-time friend,
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      364 29 ...but did the concert drive its message of poverty and ways to alleviate it into wallets too? Reuters THE Net Aid rock concert to fight global poverty had a record viewership for its Internet broadcast, nearly 2.4 million visits, promoters said on Monday, but
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      394 29 Where to wine, dine and (OD Enjoy BIG discounts Catch our talented +a (3^BB* local duo, who will c. ,^3L^m serenade you with J* popular love songs yM of today and yesteryear Aj ij W as well at great country r y\ *%A HAIFT UUUK and western type music. Bdopm
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      1090 29 CBTPTIC CROSSWORD lection first was made with care (8) I I I I j 11 Able to dance a spell (7) Hit rump unexpectedly with great success (7) 13 Endlessly view a part of an 3 P I *****111 opera MB* jHT 15 Forceful measure to get in lit--17 Imagined
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      1061 30  -  I :'i comment CURRENCIES Greenback's near-term top of 551.6850 reinforced over past week larry wee CENTRAL bankers in the United States as well as Europe chose to hold their fire last week, and none of three closely-watched meetings in the US, the UK, and
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      621 30 Region's debt-servicing burden manageable with a one-point rise in rates Y2K worries probably pale in comparison with the expectation of another Fed rate hike before the year-end and the potential for an increase by the European Central Bank early next year. Although a
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      237 30 for interest rates on Deposit. Upon maturity of the I 19 j j d 'ill 1 i I 1 ti I on preva-l-nQ e*c^a r 9e rate as of '9 August 1999 for a 1-montfc tenure wth tt»e deposit, Citibank will return vour v i J 1 1 I 1
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      168 31 Bridge News, Reuters TRADING was even slower than normal for a Monday with holidays in Japan and Canada and a partial holiday in the US curbing some activity. Capesize rates remained strong, but the market talk was largely rumour led. Futures drifted slightly on the only traded position,
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      235 31 acta a CWT Distribution OO -0.02 43 Oman Hup 1.68 -0.03 1649 Caaco Invastmant 1.13 -0.05 M FralgMUnki 0.32 -0.01 219 9&Suim2p 0M lio, 297 IMC HoldM*-HK 540 unci) 0 JW HoMngs 0.92 -a 01 44 Jurang SMpyard 7.75 met) gM=55 5S KappalMarina 2.13 unch 223 KappalTala 1-86
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      442 31  -  Member lines of FEFCwill also impose bunker surcharge next month By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Shipping lines on the westbound Asia-Eu-rope trade are planning two general rate increases next year totalling US$4OO (Ss6Bo) per TEU (20-ft equivalent units), and tha introduction of a bunker sui
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      64 31 [SAINT PETERSBURG] Specioivessels collect oil-water mixture on the Neva river, near Saint Petersburg after an accident involving a tanker on Sunday. The tanker Nefterudovoz- 7 ran aground after the captain who was drunk made a bad manoeuvre, according to local authorities. The tanker spilled 300
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      161 31 Reuters [AHMEDABAD, India] A new port that began operations last year at Mundra on India's western coast will be expanded with the construction of a container terminal and mechanised cargo handling facilities, an official said. "We are now planning to build a state-of-the-art container terminal and
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      245 31 (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is confident that Port Klang will move seven notches up its current position as the world's 22nd busiest container port this year, if it maintains its 230,000-TEU (20-ft equivalent unit) monthly throughput in the fourth quarter. In a report
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      706 31  -  STRAIT TALK By I Seafarer IF the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) really wanted to irritate shipowners, it is hard to see how it could have done better than imperiously announcing a "commission" to grandly tour the world inviting submissions from,
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        754 32 Low demand reflecting Y2K concerns is causing airlines to cut more flights than usual for New Year's Eve NYT [NEW YORK] Airlines typically reduce the number of flights on Dec 31, because experience has taught them that most people have already arrived at their destination
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      272 32 PACE ESPUMI 13 AMI 3 Evergreen 6 Accord S Fooo 9 Sun Ahrenkiel 14 WIMj 14 Appemiilp 5 GU k 4 icij ocl 13 CetMrtrins 6 Austral s <***> 13 Avar* 14 GW B'tang Mas M bja 7 HatSuoHup 12 BTI M M|»N 5 n** Bangladesh 13
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      19191 39 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartisar Vassal Voyaga THapTKXW ETA ETA Advart.sar Vassal Voyaga SIN Dast'n Name Nam* Numbar NumOar SIN Dast'n Name Nam* Number Numoar 20/10 15/11 COSCO EVER GENTRY 0005* 65-*****00 J To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'I voir# Mm WJJ e«ntry momw* 20/10 27/II DUmas
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        691 45 *mt» Voy Mo Bftti Anlvl Dtxrturi SpcVlrjo *****9 12/10/8:45 12/KV1700 Soon Sln« JAM-99 J03 12/10/8:05 12/10/23:59 Rtftt) J ***** J01 12/10/8:10 M/M/ttM SoAri World M J09 12/10/9:55 0/KV300 Aqui lucky M/99 J03 12/10/9:45 12/10/23:00 M Pat NO795 ***** J01 12/10/11:05 12/10/23:59 M Giiiftmidi ***** J01 12/10/10:40 12/10/2359 St
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        1895 45 receiving or export fcl containers and lcl carm Booking/Mane* Htts SWp Voy Wo Etb/Btr Ported Fro* To Frow ACX UUC 0041 12/23:00 IVBOO n/*» RAM a nmoo bmm o/o*« a w/1700 Bjww iww A NAN tHUM U4N U/V00 RAM 11/1*5* n 1*00 a ivnoo o/o*5* >2/0*00 a 11/1700
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        191 45 Oct 18 Hong Kong: Chung Yeung Festival. Oot 23 Thailand: Chulalongkorn Day. Oet 25 Ireland-Republic OF: October Holiday. New Zealand: Labour Day. Taiwan: Restoration Day. Oot at Austria: National Day. Oet 28 Greece: Oxi Day. Novl Philippines: All Saints Day. Nor 3 Japan: Culture Day. NOTS Brunei: Meraj.
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        762 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a mote comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem Market move menu are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        394 45 Cataa HOHn WU U ICJ OJM 74 (MM Ort 10 DmsKt Hater 8mMm Art AJmHh MmiI Wo rtOM E2S 1 1 I C C C 222 WMW 380 Ave mJS 03 1U 0X7 30 0X2 (BH 300 MM 995.5 a* 17.9 O.tl 58 0.04 U/tri %W*
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        588 46 BA's choice of A3IB leaves 8717 without any commitment by nuyor airline so far Reuters [SEATTLE] Boeing Co's struggling 106-seat 717 model took a major body blow on Monday when British Airways pic ordered 12 competing jets from Airbus Industrie,
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        294 46 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] General Dynamic Corp's Gulfstream Aerospace Corp unit said it is still studying jointly developing a supersonic business jet with Lockheed Martin Corp, even as Dassault Aviation SA shelved plans for such a project. Gulfstream plans to make an early stage prototype in
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        208 46 New model scheduled fer delivery in December 2000 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Boeing Co, the world's largest aircraft maker, said it will produce a new version of its business jet with a roomier interior and more cargo space. The new jet, known as BBJ 2,
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        416 46 NYT [NEW YORK] Theodore Weise, the president and chief executive of Federal Express Corp (FedEx), will retire in January, the package-delivery company announced. He will be succeeded by David Bronczek, the executive vice-president and chief operating officer. The move came as
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          82 46 Reuters [LONDON] Virgin Atlantic said it had launched a fere war with rival British Airway* by halving ticket prices on Its long haul routes. Chairman Richard Branson said Virgin's new feres were among the lowest ever across the Atlantic for this time of
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          40 46 AFP ITOKYO] Japan's trading house Toman Corp and in the Philippines.*n» two Arms and CoUd control fecilities at five international and 15 domestic-flight airportsas weß aa Qve radio communication stations in the Philhmines. —AFP
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          40 46 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan carrier China Airlines' (CAL) latest offer from a NTSB.S billion (*****.l million) note issuance fecility (NIF) received a higher rate but remained popular with 1.7 times oversubscription, underwriters lIhIMHB 1111 ISP
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        59 46 [BEIJING] Visitors admiring the Ford P2oooHybrid fitted with the latest fuel cell technology at the International Electric Vehicle exhibition in Beijing yesterday. Ford Motor Company hopes to produce the world's most advanced fuel cells, which can power the vehicle with zero emission when hydrogen is stored
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        273 46 Reuters [ROME] Rome's main airport ran out of jet fuel on Monday, forcing the delay, cancellation and diversion of several flights. Officials said the problem could repeat itself in coming days despite an emergency fuel delivery to Fiumicino airport after supplies dried
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