The Business Times, 18 October 1999

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    Lock icon Tax changes seen hitting investors in Australian property
    822 1  -  exclusive Consultants advising investors U aroid bnyingnew properties and to sell «ff existing holdings From Surinder Singh in Sydney THOSE who invested in Australian real estate in the hope of making tax-free capital gains could be hit badly by tax changes proposed
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    Lock icon Start-ups seek stock options help
    865 1  -  exclusive Hake the incentive a powerful recruiting tool by relaxing rules on its use, they say By\ Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] If you talk to Mediaßing.com president Chua Kee Lock about stock options, hell tell you a tale of two engineers. Both were interviewed in late
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    Lock icon Habibie reply signals fight to the finish
    1124 1  -  polls President rejects responsibility for Suharto era errors From Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta Indonesian President B J Habibie yesterday rejected any responsibility for shortcomings during the Suharto era, a move which analysts say signals that the presidential election this Wednesday will see
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      183 1 HBBPB BT Comment KLs much-needed policy (lip-flop. NmttPmf Top storlM CK Tang gearing up for better times. 11l DBS, SPH may lace soiling pressure *4 fo%as IteMfe Strata Tracing; from tin to hotels and advertising. X rare •.•>' Three fT giants onSpora. j spw* Made-in-S'pore software for SMEs. 111 ieTisiMlsSS"
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      Lock icon The power of stock options to drive company performance
      425 2  -  B-i exclusive At two dotxoms, making workers stakeholders helps attract and retain employees By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Vikon Facilitech chief executive Keith Kithsiri is working 16 to 20 hours a day on a dream he believes will translate very quickly into
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      Lock icon A much-needed KL policy flip-flop
      808 2  -  it comment ECONOMICS Forced bank mergers radar a tight deadline was a bad Um vikram khanna THE general hand-wringing over Malaysia's change of tack over its controversial bank consolidation exercise seems somewhat misplaced, because here was one flip-flop that was actually needed. The "shotgun marriage"
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      6 2 Will Malaysia'* economic tsar quitTPg 10
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon CK Tang gears up for better times: chairman
      793 3  -  SINGAPORE 1000 He says store will return to the black in next 18 months if things stay the same By Rahita Elias CK TANG, which has been floundering in a sea of red ink, has seen the worst and is gearing up
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      Lock icon Sumitronics to launch warehouse ops in Thailand
      349 4  -  By Eugene Low SUMITRONICS (STX) Asia, which plans to list in Singapore in the middle of next year, will launch its bonded warehouse operations in Thailand with an Internetbased inventory management system at the end of the month. The new business is expected
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      Lock icon DBS, SPH may see some selling
      1076 4 Any sell-off will provide buying opportunities, says an analyst Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Some selling pressure is expected on the shares of DBS Group Holdings and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) today following the government's weekend statements of its position on shareholdings that exceed the allowed limits
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      Lock icon Straits Trading: from tin to hotels and advertising
      699 4  -  MXLLEKMIUBI COMPANY Compapy's progress mirrors the trading and commercial history ofS'nore By Soh Tiang Kong MORE than 100 years ago, in 1887, a small company was formed to pioneer tin smelting in the sleepy kampong town of Singapore, Over the years, it
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      Lock icon Battle looms in S'pore's telecoms sector
      600 7 When foil-blown competition gets underway in six months' time, Sing Tel and StarHnb are expected to sing it ont in the lucrative corporate customer sector AFP WITH barely six months to go before full-blown competition gets underway in the Singapore telecoms industry, dominant carrier
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      389 3 1 This announcement appears as a matter of record only ZZN t I ft nQjTLB LAND LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Unconditional Cash Offer by Ambeca Pte Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) to acquire all the issued ordinary stock units of Ssl.oo each in the capital
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      286 4 EFFECTIVE LOGISTICS YOUR KEY TO SUCCESS IN EUROPE The single-currency system, the EURO, is radically altering the face of distribution in Europe. Asian companies entering the European market should anticipate by re-designing their distribution networks. Three key ingredients determine your corporate success: Cost control, Flexibility and Responsiveness to customer demands.
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      116 4 Collective Sale by Tender FREEHOLD SITE I AT DISTRICT 11 p s P er7Y Double frontage to Mandalay /7 Bhamo Road J' Land Area: 4,047.5 sqm (43,567 sft) fg Plot Ratio: Up to 2.8 Height Restriction: Up to 30 storey /SL^s About 650 m to NovenaMßT Station J*/ CLOSING DATE:
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Volatile CityDev warrant still overpriced
      198 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy CITY Developments has been bashed again and again in the weeks since Goldman Sachs issued a covered warrant on it a few months back. So even though we featured the warrant in this column on Oct 2, it might be
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      Lock icon Wall Street dive casts clouds over S'pore market
      609 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy JOINED at the hip. That'd be the best way to describe the local market's lovehate affair with Wall Street over the years, one that's become even more intense since the June US interest rate hike. Since then, daily movements in
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      Lock icon GES share price may fall further
      256 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong GES International lost its winning ways and fell by a bigger margin last Friday than it had gained on Thursday following news of its latest tie-up with the world's largest computer maker IBM Corp. The stock closed down
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      Lock icon Major Asia-Pac currencies mixed against greenback
      601 6 Investors worry over fnture of US market AFP [HONGKONG] Major currencies in the Asia-Pacific region turned in a mixed performance against the greenback last week as investors fretted over the (Uture of the US market. Japanese yea: The yen turned higher against the dollar
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      22 6 DBS investor Online. You've read about it now hear us on Newsßadio 938, Mon Fri, from 3 22a m. 881 >1 >SBANK
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      735 7 sUs MAGNETICS. ELECTRO MAGNETICS (1992) LIMITED (Under Judicial Management) VOLUNTARY CONDITIONAL TAKE-OVER OFFER ("OFFER") BY GMG GLOBAL LTD FOR ALL THE ISSUED ORDINARY SHARES OF SO.lO EACH IN THE ELECTRO MAGNETICS (1992) LIMITED uakital OF ELECTRO The Judicial Managers Judical Managers") of Electro Magnetics (1992) Limited ("EML") wish to remind
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      Lock icon 23% of units sold at 2 property launches
      358 8  -  11 of 27 apartments at Celadon View taken up; 30 out of 150 nnits launched at Euphony sold By\ Soh Tiang Keng MORE than 40 apartments and condominium units were sold during the weekend launch of two new private housing projects at
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      Lock icon JTC launches centre for high-tech start-ups
      392 8  -  Technopreneurs to 25% rent discount for 3 years By Soh Tiang Keng LEADING industrial property developer Jurong Town Corporation has launched its first technopreneur centre in the proposed Buona Vista Science Hub. Housed on the ninth floor of the JTC's latest industrial building at
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      Lock icon US electronics orders rebound
      292 8  -  I 3on the economy electronics By Jennifer Lien GROWTH in US manufacturers' new orders of electronic components rebounded strongly in August at 29.5 per cent, up from a revised 10.1 per cent in July. The preliminary July figure, issued last month by the US Commerce Department,
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      Lock icon Mathivanan to head S'pore Network Services
      478 9 New HD's appointment can be viewed as a strategic decision: chairman SINGAPORE Network Services, which provides network services and software systems consultancy, will have a new head from today. Former PSA Corp executive V Mathivanan will take over from Pearleen Chan as managing director
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      Lock icon Initial public offers: hard not to be cynical
      513 9  -  MAILBOX Narayana Narayana Singapore via Internet AS your R Sivanithy wrote in "IPO pricing: offer more shares to public" (The Business Times, Sept 23), every once in a while, initial public offers leap into the limelight. By and large, applicants have little
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      Lock icon Krugman himself guilty of moral apostasy
      353 9  -  Y Y Fong Singapore via Internet I HAVE to agree with writer Peter Bolton ("Krugman just after own agenda?", BT, Oct 6) that Professor Paul Krugman's statement "economics is not a morality play", really exposed him for his narrow view of economics as being
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      Lock icon Facts and findings on aspartame
      412 9  -  Julie Howden Asian Food Information Centre Singapore I READ with interest the exchange of letters on the use of aspartame ("Is aspartame safe to consume?", BT, Oct 2 and "Aspartame is safe for consumption: ENV", BT, Oct 5). The Asian Food Information Centre, a non-profit
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Will Malaysia's economic tsar quit?
      730 10  -  Dalm's silence on changes In bank merger plan Is creating market uncertainty I:] comment KL STOCKS eddie toh IS there a rift between Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his chief economic adviser, Daim Zainuddin? Talk of differences between the two long-time friends has been
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      Lock icon Grand Prix: Ferrari's Irvine, Schumacher disqualified
      340 10 SEPANG, Malaysia AFP FERRARI'S Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher were disqualified from yesterday's Malaysian Grand Prix, handing McLaren's Mika Hakkinen a victory that ensures he retains the world title. The stunning decision was announced by Formula One's governing body FIA barely three hours after
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      Lock icon Dr M sees bank mergers completed by end-2000
      540 10 mergers PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia Reuters PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday that Malaysia's banks might not be able to finish merging by the deadline next April, but he expects them to finish the consolidation plan by the end of 2000. Dr Mahathir
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      Lock icon Southern Bank's purchase of BHL is costly: analysts
      319 10 KUALA LUMPUR Price of RM7.3lper shire exceeds BHL's RM&33 book value Reuters MALAYSIA'S Southern Bank Bhd has paid a high premium to take over Ban Hin Lee Bank by offering a cash payment of 7.31 Malaysian ringgit per share, sector analysts said.
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      Lock icon Shangri-La M'sia acceptances at 20%
      190 10 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SHANGRI-LA Asia Ltd has said shareholders holding 87.19 million shares or a 19.82 per cent stake in Shangri-La Malaysia Bhd have accepted its takeover offer. Shangri-La Asia is offering 1.037 new shares at an issue price of HK58.398 a share for every
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      Lock icon Malaysia's recovery on track but fears raised over sustainability
      527 11 KUALA LUMPUR Posh for growth higher than 5% could lead to excesses again: SO Securities AFP MALAYSIA'S economic recovery is well on track but could be derailed by a push for excessively high growth, a research report says. "With the recovery
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        Lock icon 'Final countdown'to M'sian polls
        103 11 AFP, Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's leading opposition party yesterday held a "final countdown" meeting to prepare for an expected early general election—but admitted its aim was not to win. Leaders of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which has formed a loose alliance with three other parties,
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        Lock icon MCA candidate list being finalised chief
        71 11 Bernama [BENTONG] The Malaysian Chinese Aseoclation's candidate list for the general election is being finalised, said MCA president Ling LiongSik on Saturday. "It is 90 per cent completed. I still need to send it to Barisan Nasional chairman Datnk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad and
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        Lock icon KLSE reprimand for Austral
        50 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange said on Saturday it has reprimanded property firm Austral Amalgamated Bhd for breaching listing rules. The exchange said the company had fatted to announce an acquisition of shares in RNC Corp Bhd between December 1906 and November 1907.—Reuters
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      Lock icon No shortage of jobs in M'sian plantations: KL
      327 11 ■BERUAS Bernama PRIMARY Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said yesterday that there should not be any shortage of jobs in the plantation sector since there are now between 300,000 and 400,000 foreign workers in the sector. He said that plantation owners should
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      Lock icon Shareholders okay Country Heights' gaming deal
      464 11 KUALA LUMPUR COUNTRY Heights Holdings Bhd (CHHB) has received shareholders' approval for the company's proposed investment in sweepstakes-re-lated activities following the signing of a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Usaha Tegas Group (UTSB), the Sunday Star reported. CHHB said in a statement the
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      Lock icon KL seeks fairer terms for house buyers
      210 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama HOUSE buyers will have to pay for their houses only after they are completed if a proposal by the finance ministry is accepted by housing developers. Finance Parliamentary Secretary Shafle Mohamed Salleh said the proposal would be discussed with the
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      144 11 I r Liang Court Holdings is making a strategic move to advance to a new stage of growth. Iwkk/%/ w j jp From today, our new corporate identity is r SOMERSET HOLDINGS SI?-: "«v,- To our valued shareholders, we are pleased to announce that our new trading name jj|^Bß| on
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon BTSC to ask bank for share auction review: report
      411 12 BANGKOK BANGKOK Transit System Co (BTSC), the elevated train system operator, is to ask British investment bank Schroder International Merchant Bankers Ltd to review its decision to auction 265 million ordinary shares in BTSC, The Nation reported Saturday, quoting a company
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      Lock icon Thai banks need funds, but not US$22b: Chuan
      700 12 He says 800b baht has already been injected into the banking sector SINGAPORE Reuters MORE funds are needed for the Thai banking sector, but the amount required is not as great as a recent credit rating agency's call for some US$22 billion
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      Lock icon 2 Filipinos to get share of fortune
      369 12 MANILA AFP -TWO Filipinos are among four children who will receive US$23 mfflioif* (5538.6 million) each from the fortune of their late father Larry Hillblom, the American 00-fbunder of couriers giant DHL Worldwide, a report said yesterday, vv Jellian Cuartero, four, end Mer
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      Lock icon After the violence
      44 12 [DILI] An East Timorese woman praying after Mass yesterday infront of a statue tfthe Virgin Mary that was defaced during the militia uioiencefiMowing the Aug 30 votefor independence. Close to 800 people attended yesterday's service in the grounds Qfßishopßelo's residence. AFP
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      Lock icon Thailand's Grammy sees Taiwan as gate to Asia'
      501 12 ■BANGKOK Taiwan team plans to launch 7 or 8 albums by end-2000 Reuters THAILAND'S Grammy Entertainment pic, the country's biggest music and recording firm, sees the Taiwanese market as its stepping stone to growth in the Asian music industry. Grammy chairman Paiboon
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon Taipei 'can't afford to scrap business tax on banks'
      420 14  -  Foods Deeded by govt, says ministry as it backs down from earlier plan From. Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN'S finance ministry backed down at the weekend from a plan to scrap the business tax on financial institutions, claiming it would leave
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      Lock icon i-Cable files for US$500m IPO
      190 14 WASHINGTON Wharfs pay-TV unit to trade American Depository Shares Reuters WHARF (Holdings) Ltd's iCable Communications Ltd, the only pay-TV system operator in Hongkong, filed on Friday with US securities regulators to raise US$5OO million (*****.3 million) ill an initial public offering. The company is offering
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      Lock icon HK-bound plane hits turbulence; 50 hurt
      237 14 HONGKONG Reuters NEARLY 50 people were injured yesterday when a China Southern Airlines aircraft plunged 4,000 feet (1,216 metres) after hitting turbulence. Local television showed passengers being wheeled off the Boeing 757 on stretchers, some with heavily bandaged heads and necks. A Hongkong government
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      Lock icon China Unicom to tap long-distance phone, Internet markets this year
      318 14 BEIJING Cheaper calls from 20 cities to challenge giant China Telecom Reuters IN a long-awaited move to open China's telecommunications market to greater competition, China Unicom will start offering long-distance phone services this year, a state newspaper said yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Jimmy Lai clears last hurdle to backdoor listing
      258 14 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG media tycoon Jimmy Lai is set to gain a place on the stock exchange here for his Next Media International Holdings through a backdoor listing via Paramount Publishing Group, a report said yesterday. Paramount's non-execu-tive director Peter Kok, who
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      116 14 AFTER EIGHTY YEARS .OF MANAGING CHANGE, WE'RE PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE I his month the Moscow \anxlnv Bank is celebrating the eightieth \ear of its incorporation. W illi our experience of facilitating trade and treasurv services in \sia. through mil ollices in Singapore. Moscow and Beijing < can «> 11
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon Musharraf to set up Cabinet but no time frame
      597 15 J in pakistan ISLAMABAD He also announces unilateral 'military de-escalation' along border with India Reuters, AP. AFP PAKISTAN'S new military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, said yesterday that he would set up a Cabinet after overthrowing the government but did not provide
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      Lock icon Indian stock prices seen cooling off after hitting recent highs
      337 15 BOMBAY Focus will be on earnings figures, dealers say Reuters, AFP INDIAN shares are seen cooling this week as prices consolidate after hitting all-time highs, with the focus on firms releasing earnings numbers, dealers said. Long outstanding positions and concern
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      Lock icon No tax blues for Sharif Inc
      410 15 ISLAMABAD AFP, Bridge News DEPOSED Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, whose personal fortune is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars, paid no income tax last year and filed a deficit wealth tax return, reports said yesterday. Citing documents released by the revenue department, the
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      165 15 I Compaq's Deskpro EN Small Form Factor (SFF) is the perfect fit for crowded desks, cubicles and retail environments. A full 36% smaller than conventional desktop PCs yet every bit as powerful. Better still, it's mountable anywhere (even under or on the side of a desk). And it comes with
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Mitsui, Nippon, Koa tie up to form Japan's No 1 casualty insurer
      569 16 TOKYO Merged group to command 6.09t yen of assets, overtaking Tokio Marine Bloomberg, AFP MITSUI Marine Fire Insurance Co, Japan's third-largest casualty insurer, will fortn a holding company with Nippon Fire Marine Insurance Co, and Koa Fire Marine
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      Lock icon Asarco to accept Grupo Mexico bid
      301 16 NEW YORK Bloomberg ASARCO Inc's board said it will accept a sweetened US$2.2 billion (553.7 billion) bid from Grupo Mexico SA, its largest shareholder, all but ending Phelps Dodge Corp's seven-week effort to buy the third largest US copper producer. Asarco said Mexico's largest
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      Lock icon KKR may buy two firms for US41.65b
      424 16 LONDON It's currently in talks with Siemens Nixdorf and Robert Bosch KOHLBERG Kravis Roberts Co, the world's largest buyout firm, is in talks to make a pair of acquisitions for US$l.65 billion <552.77 billion) in what would be its biggest European purchases, people
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      Lock icon The art of glass
      62 16 [SYDNEY] Two installation workers carrying an engraved glass plate to its position at an exhibition of Contemporary Australian Craft at Sydney's Customs House week. More than 130 works by 55 Australian artists make up the exhibition that shows the art of craft and design through variousforms
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      Lock icon Japanese giants to double flash memory chip output
      168 16 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S Ave major microchip makers will nearly double their production of flash memory chips by early next year, a Japanese report said yesterday. The companies' combined monthly output will be about 43 million flash memory chips in March next year.
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      Lock icon Institutions seen boosting Telstra share price in second tranche
      507 16 MELBOURNE Structure of offer means they'll have to up holdings to match index weighting Reuters AUSTRALIAN institutions will be forced to scramble for shares in Telstra Corp Ltd today when its second tranche hits the boards, underpinning its share price despite
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      Lock icon Capital region is the most 'wired' in US, study finds
      534 16 WASHINGTON LAT-WP THE Washington, DC, region is the most wired area in the United States, according to a new study that says just shy of 60 per cent of the region's adults are hooked up to the Internet. The emergence
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      Lock icon Asia's telecom privatisation moving slowly
      664 17  -  Fallout from financial crisis, incumbents' attempts to undermine regulators cited From D Ravi Kanth in Geneva ASIA'S slow and uneven progress in privatisation of telecom services is a cause for worry at a time when industrialised countries are plunging headlong into wireless telecommunications linking Internet
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      907 17 NEW YORK Investors watching every scrap of economic data Bloomberg, NYT THE near-record US economic expansion is turning into too much of a good thing for stock investors. US stocks posted their biggest weekly loss in a decade last week as
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      249 17 TOKYO Reuters, AFX-Asia VIEWS are divided over the impact of last week's drop in DS stock prices, Japan's Economic Planning Agency Minister Taichi Sakaiya said yesterday. Regarding Friday's dip in US stock prices, which temporarily fell below 10,000, Mr Sakaiya told NHK television: "When stock
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      426 17 TOKYO Economists say there's a need now to deal with anxiety about globalisation AFP CAPITALISM may have brought economic growth across the world but now markets face a rocky road ahead and changes may be needed, a panel of top economists said
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      244 17 BOSTON Reuters US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt on Saturday promised to crack down on companies that leak information to Wall Street analysts before making the same facts known to the public, saying the practice comes dangerously close
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      680 18 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices were volatile but closed slightly higher after a fall in US stock levels, while gold fell back from its recent highs on technical trades and profit-taking last week. The market embraced the latest US
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      913 19 Q Sydney -318 THE Australian sharemarket is expected to focus its attention on the debut of a further 16.6 per cent of telecommunications giant Telstra early this week although rate fears are expected to linger, brokers said. The listing of a second tranche of Telstra 33.3 per
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      260 19 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are expected to remain under pressure in this holiday-short-ened week after bad US inflation news and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's unsettling comments rocked Wall Street last Friday. Hongkong markets will be closed today for the Chung Yeung Festival holiday.
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      720 19 NEW YORK Worries of a Fed rate hike, rising bond yields and wobbly dollar are hurting stocks FT A FEW key profit warnings and a stronger-than-expected reading on the inflation front left US markets in tatters by last week's end. Friday's producer
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      327 19 TOKYO Sentiment weak despite expectations of more mergers Reuters TOKYO shares will weaken at the start of the week, after a jump in US inflation and comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on the need to prepare for a
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      385 19 ■LONDON Bloomberg UK stocks are likely to decline in coming days as concern that interest rates around the world are headed higher makes bonds and cash more attractive than equities. Stocks fell in the week, the FT-SEIOO index slipping 292.1
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      1862 19 Paris -vnsi FRENCH shares ended sharply in the red for the fourth straight day on Friday, hit by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's comments and the US economic data. The CAC-40 Index closed at 4,524.42 points, down 59.21 or 1.29 per cent. This was down 197.51
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      351 20 AFP iJComposttlndez -22.66 THE Malaysian stock market might see a rally in the coming week ahead of the year 2000 Budget to be unveiled at the end of the month, analysts said on Friday. "We expect the budget to be market-friendly. The bourse stands
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      565 21 SIMKX Weekly Roundup [LONDON] Monetary policy wUI remain the key focus in the week ahead, with major policy meetings from the G-3 having come and gone over the past two weeks leaving many questions unanswered. USD direction is likely to continue to be determined largely by
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      423 23  -  Yes, but demanding role of Cavaradossi took its toll, says amthonttommasimi ANTHONY TOMMASINI NYT THE popular Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's Tosca returned to the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday night, but the buzz in the house centred on one question only: could Luciano Pavarotti, just two
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      726 24  -  There's no formula, bestselling romance writer tells lattka dekfset LAURA DEMPSEY NYT Sparks can't explain it, but he's made note of the fact that the best-selling love stories of the past two decades have been written by men. "There's Erich Segal (Love Story). Robert James
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      555 24 AFP [PARIS] The 20th century now ending could not come soon enough for numerous observers at the end of the 19th, weary with the frenzy of end-of-century speculation that had filled books and newspapers for years. Many people throughout Europe and America greeted
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      107 25 three IT giants Kpjj^ .Vvlte S| L-jfly^^Hj^HEL^^BßS Microsoft Singapore's managing direct,* Saw Ken Wye —"——9 1 Product M|l Comment I JL fAfttnrp I II i4s We See IT: 1 mP*9 interpretation makes 1/^jHMPk^ Apple snew the difference in S, iMacs.Pg3 statistics. Pg 3 Oracle's managing director for South A sia,
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      668 26  -  l^i^xcTusiv^^ COVER STORY Reports by Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] THREE US-based IT giants Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp, and Sun Microsystems Inc are investing in Singapore and making the island a more important hub for their Asia-Pacific operations, the local chiefs of the three companies
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      327 26 [SINGAPORE] Microsoft, Oracle and Sun's financial performance in this region during the Asian financial crisis was relatively robust. In US dollar terms, Microsoft and Oracle grew for the last two years while Sun initially suffered a drop but is growing again. Microsoft survived the
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      544 26 The sonped-np Pentium 111, set to debut later this month, includes 256 kilobytes of secondary cache on the chip Bridge News [SAN JOSE, California] Intel Corp has unveiled new details of its Coppermine chips, the souped-up Pentium His set to debut later this month. The
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      Lock icon Oracle to shift Asian data centre out of S'pore
      284 26 [SINGAPORE] Oracle Corp, the world'B second largest independent software company, will shift its Asia-Pacific data operations from Singapore to its home country, the US, Oracle executive vicepresident Gary Bloom said at an conference in Hongkong on Oct 8. This is part
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      Lock icon Er, what was that statistic again ?
      615 27  - Er, what was that statistic again i we see IT Conflicting reports of market share for Lotns and Microsoft gronpware show how Interpretation makes the difference In reading data kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor THERE'S an article in the latest newsletter from Lotus Development Asia Pacific that
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      377 27  -  by Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Apple Computer South Asia last week showcased three new series of desktop computers under its popular iMac brand, with the top model running on a 400 MHz processor on a new operating system. They will debut here later this
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      462 28  -  BTIsV«Hi.kii'/sj Lotus to launch easy-to-use software package that aims to help small businesses in Asia to grow quickly By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] LOTUS Development is introducing a Singaporedeveloped software package that it says will allow small businesses in the region to "start small and grow fast".
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      490 28 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The man at the heart of efforts to manage the world's Year 2000 problem predicts phones and lights will work just about everywhere as the new century dawns but fallout from the so-called Y2K computer glitch will eat away at
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        Lock icon CrayQuest '90 winners
        79 28 THE Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) last week held CrayQuesfSe, a competition for software applications created on a supercomputer. The winners: NTTPs Cardiovascular Dynamics Lab from the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering (grand champion); NTU's School of Applied Science's Centre
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        Lock icon IITT opens S'pore office
        55 28 UK-BASED Institute of IT Training (1TIT) his opesed an office here to work with IT professionals to set certification standards. It will offer a range of programmes catering to individuals and businesses. Organisations on its advisory board include the Ministry of Education, the National Computer Board
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        59 28 LUCENT Technologies has announced two I Singapore-baaed senior managers in its BCS (business promoted to president of BCS; he was previously chief operating officer. Ban McConaghy will be BCB* chief operating officer tor the AsSa-Mficand China; he was previously regional vice-president and acting president Mr UAI president
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        Lock icon 3Com's new appointments
        54 28 3COM Corp has appointed Robert Chu vice-president for South Asia. Mr Chu, based in Singapore, wee previously managing director ofQateway 2000 for Asia. 3Com has also appointed Chlng-FengUao president of SCotn China; t be was previously chief operating officer of Alcatel g a T *I?hinaJg j- cmL,
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        47 28 COMPAQ Computer Ada Pacific Pte Ltd has promoted Sarq) Surawetra to vioe-prettfmi of the Enterprise Solution* and Servient Group; Paul BUnkhorn hae been promoted to vice-president for the Commercial Personal W] Computing Group; and Paul Llm has been promoted to vlce-presldsnt of human resources
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        27 28 ASPECT Telecommunications, which provides customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has promoted Andie Rees to vice-president for the Asia-Pacific region. e jML'. X .-V
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        30 28 "DELIVERING on the promise of e-business", a half-day seminar for chief executives, IT managers and sales managers, will be held here on Oct 22. For details, e-mail: aseanlnfb@greatplalna.com.
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        33 28 A CONFERENCE organised by the Sun-Netscape Alliance for business executives and Internet service providers "iPlanet: the solutions to dot-com your business community"—will be held here on Nov For details, tax *****61
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        36 28  -  Compiled by Andrew Wee IN our report, "HP's new S'pore-raade palmtop" in BizlT on Oct 11, we had incorrectly reported the model number as Jornada 438se. The correct model is Jornada 430se. j
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      369 28 NYT IDAYTON, Ohio] If you do a lot of research and often need to copy a few lines to use later, the Siemens Pocket Reader was designed with you in mind. The Pocket Reader is a hand-held scanner weighing only 85 grams that can
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      Lock icon Corporate online ad spending still low
      340 31  -  Firms spend less than 5% of total annual ad budgets on Web ads, survey shows By. Ang Wan May ABOUT 48 per cent of Singapore Internet users have clicked on Web advertisements but 34 per cent said they were not aware that they will
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      146 31 Reuters [TOKYO} Sony Computer Entertainment Inc said recently it plans to use the powerful microprocessor from the next version of its Play Station game machine to build workstations with graphics applications for broadcasters, filmmakers and others. A spokesman said the unlisted company plans to enter
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      Lock icon Protecting mainframe assets
      589 31  -  SfIYI.I Web-to-host technology allows large businesses to preserve their long-term Investments In legacy applications steven tan The writer is territory marketing manager (Asia-Pacific), WRQ Software Pte Ltd YOU can't open a publication these days without being bombarded by e-business news. The underlying message: if you don't move
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      327 31 FT [LONDON] A new material is set to revolutionise the world of electronics, bringing lighter mobile phones and longer CDs, writes Clive Cookson. The world of electronics is buzzing with excitement about what scientists are calling the most important new material since silicon. Potential
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      310 32 YOUNG, intuitive gut feel, and a lot of naivety these are some of the ingredients you need to make it big in the Internet space, says Silkßoute Holdings' founder, Wong Toon King. "You really need to have an intuitive gut feel to this business
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      Lock icon Uphill task for Asia's start-ups
      524 32  -  Why Silkßoute's Wong Toon King is pessimistic about Asian e-ventures Reports by Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPOREI ONLY one in 40 Internet ventures in Asia will succeed in becoming a world Haas player, compared to one in 10 in the Silicon Valley, predicts Wong Toon King,
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      Lock icon Computers that think outside the box
      328 32 NYT [NEW YORK] One of the latest problems computers are taking on is evolution —their own, that is. In many spots in the United States and abroad, scientists have created computer programs that can change and refine their own software through successive generations; the
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      307 34  -  Systems available with a configure-to-order option with service and support packages By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE! OMPAQ Computer last week launched M two new desktop computers and a noteM 1 book computer under the Proslgnia brand, targeted specifically at small H and medium enterprises (SMEs). The
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      Lock icon Y2K seen as possible cover for cyber wars
      447 34 Reuters [LONDON] If you've been worrying that the worst case scenario for the millennium computer bug is that your heating could fail for a couple of days or the traffic lights go on the blink, brace yourself. Some military experts fear that
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      910 35  -  Working from home is now as easy as working from office, since most of the technology components are available and affordable, amdrew wee reports ANDREW WEE WITH dotcom succ e s s stories making headlines on a daily basis, budding technopreneurs will find it easier
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        Lock icon InnoMedia unveils InfoTalk 3.0
        71 35 Homegrown InnoMedia Pte Ltd has launched Info Talk 3.0, a stand-alone appliance for wwUng phone «»ii« over the Internet "Users can now call any telephone in the world* even if the destination phone is not connected to another Info Talk,'' the company said. The $429 device
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        51 35 Symantec Corp is ready with StrikerS2, its virus detection and repair tedinology engineered to combat 32-bit Windows-based viruses. It is included in all NAV (Norton Antivirus) products. NAV users can update their software to include Striker 32 using the Live Update feature, Symantec said. For details,
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        Lock icon Creative's Lava! for music lovers
        74 35 Creative Technology Ltd has announced the availability of a free, stand-alone version of its new interactive media technology, Lava! Short for 'live audio visual animation', it is the first software solution to offer interactive music video entertainment on the Internet to the mass market. "Lava!
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        123 35  -  On—piled >| Raju Chellam IBM has added an array of seven optional colours to its ThinkPad i Series 1400, with two models debuting later this month, and the rest in December. Two new Think Light models—l46o and 1480—come with a small light that illuminates the keyboard
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      Lock icon IBA Tech to offer healthcare solutions
      177 35 [SINGAPORE] Singaporebased healthcare software developer SWI and Australian developer IBA Healthcare have merged for greater strength in the healthcare information systems business. The new company IBA Technologies Ltd provides technology solutions to hospitals, general practitioners and community-based healthcare systems. This year, their combined sales
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        716 36  -  Despite lagging behind the US and facing legal and cultural hindrances, the region can still catch up. toh ham shih finds out from Oracle executives at an e-trade seminar in Hongkong TOH HAN SHIH ASIA may be lagging behind the US in e-commerce now but it
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        Lock icon MHE.com to offer wireless Internet services
        464 36  -  By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-listed MHE Holdings has launched a subsidiary MHE.com which will provide wireless Internet solutions. The new unit is expected to generate US$lOO million (Ssl6B million) in revenues over the next five years. The firm has tied up with USbased GWcom
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          53 36 MALAYSIA'S mobile phone operator Ceioom launched a set of mobile communication services earlier this month. The services are based on Java-ampatiblsSiiiMraSl subscriber interface module (SIM) cards. The cards allow subscribers to access three sets of services: mobile e-mail, stock data and real-time information such as news
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          Lock icon Packard Bell's Net music PC
          78 36 US-based Packard BeD NEC hie will launch a PC in the US this month fry recording and playing digital am^ Bloombergreports the systems wlB cost U)lwumgBsBoo (S$1,000) to US$l,7OO. and cams with a CD writer, Hanaan Kanlon speakers and musk software. The MPS digital music
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          Lock icon Fujitsu's US$30 Net fund
          92 36 Japan's Fujitsu Lid will launch aUSS9O million ftmd this month to finance Internet start-ups. Bloomberg reports that Fujitsu, which owns Japan's No l Internet Service Provider (BP), will pool capital with other institutional investors such as Dai ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company. Sumitomo Life Insurance Corp
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          Lock icon Creative unit Hifi.com relaunched
          98 36 HifLcom. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ud, has redesigned its Web layout and now offers upgraded on-line shopping facilities. The company bat wsrhislve e*etaffing agreements with audio equipment manufacturers such as Merastz, Odsstisn and Cambridge Sound Works. Its consumer purchase policies include a 45-day in-harae
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          Lock icon Buy Star Wars droids on your TV
          75 36  -  nn.ii! liy Andrew Wee usere buy a Lego MindstormsDroid Development Kit by prying a button on their remote. Microsoft WebTV M/kffiiAi*W ni -»—t *-M %a _<— < pienrorK nw eervice users rouM <mcK cm me ad «m purchase the kit-which features robots from
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      287 37 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE week sawa high volume of modern second hand tonnage being sold especially in the very active Panamax and handymax sectors. In general prices continued their recent steady climb with hunger for mid nineties market tonnage seemingly greater than at any time this
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      558 37  -  TSA members to impose US$4OO rate increase per 40-ft box from May 1 By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) road to recovery is set to receive another boost from a planned US$4OO (Ss66B) per 40-foot box rate
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        59 37 [LONDON] THE US government has decided to double the limit at which US laws can be enforced from 12 miles from its coastline to 24 miles. The government hopes to crack down on the dumping of oil by ships off the US coast and to
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        65 37 [LONDON] International oil giant Mobil is offering an independent fuel buying service to ship operators. Mobil's marine ftiels manager lain White said: "Owners with sufficient resources can buy fuel in the spot markets effectively." He added that "the entire purchasing process is transparent, with customers
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        112 37 [LONDON] Figures produced by mutual liability insurer the UK P&I Club have shown that the number of claims for accidents involving crew registered with the club are as high as those involving cargo, while the accident rate for crew on board bulkers and passenger ships is on
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      73 37 Reuters [SEOUL] New foreign orders received by South Korean shipbuilders fell 15.7 per cent in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier, provisional figures from the Korea Shipbuilders' Association showed. Orders in the nine-month period totalled 5.80 million gross tons
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      258 37  -  By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The issue of piracy in South-east Asian waters remained a hot topic at last week's international Straits of Malacca and Singapore Conference. "The Straits of Malacca has, for a long time, been the theatre of operations for pirates and armed
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      742 37  -  LXNER SCENE By David Hughee MAJOR containership orders tend to hit the headlines and frequent series newbuilding contracts for post-pana' max vessels bear testimony to the rapid growth of the container transport market. But the rapidly expanding container industry is more than
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        418 38  -  Restructure planned to eliminate infighting Reports by] David Hughes IJI LAJTUIAJH SHAREHOLDERS of the Lon-don-based Baltic Exchange will this week be given the opportunity to discuss the proposed major shake-up with the organisation's board of directors. The sweeping plans would end the infighting
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        210 38 NEW tax proposals in Norway could see the amount of tonnage tax that owners pay linked directly to a 0-to-10 scale of all-round environmental performance. The new system will raise the base tonnage tax rate by 50 per cent and then give rebates based on
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        139 38 C ASH-rich players in the hull insurance market may bale out of shipping rather than face accumulating losses, according to Frans Malmos, managing director of mutual P&I insurer the Swedish Club. "We may be about to enter a period of 'quickie divorces' from
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          69 38 MEMBERS of the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (Taca) have agreed on a US$6OO (8$1006) per TEU rate rise on westbound Europe-US routes and a smaller rise of USJI6O per TEU eastbound, effective from Jan l. This is the latest in a series of rate riaeaimpoeed by Taca,
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          99 38 ATTICA Enterprises Is to buy into another Greek ferry operator, Strintzis Lines, giving Attica a 38 per cent stake in Strintzis and a voting majority on the board. The deal, approved by Attica's shareholders last week, will create one of Europe's biggest ferry companies, with
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          125 38 US-BASED Carnival Cruise Line's plans to award breakthrough cruise ship newbuilding contracts to South Korean shipbuilder Samsung HI seem to have collapsed. The letter of intent signed by Carnival subsidiary Holland America has lapeed amid worries about whether the Roraanjrard has the technical ability
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          112 38 THE shipowners' casualty representatives (SCRs) called for In the SCOPIC clause In Lloyd's Open Form salvage contracts could decide whether the clause Is successful, accordinf to the Salvage Association's (SA) chief surveyor John Waite. If BCRs were not seen as impartial, he said, It was
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          139 38 r TWO crewmembers on the 317,000dwt tanker Atlantic Prosperity had to be flown to hospital under UK police escort after a knife fight erupted. The incident happened as the veaeel entered the North Sea after leaving Rotterdam. One man was treated for a stab
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        185 51 Oat S3 Thailand: Chulalongkorn Day. Oct as Ireland Republic OF: October Holiday. New Zealand: Labour Day. Taiwan: Restoration Day. Oat M Austria: National Day. Oat as Greece: Oxi Day. Nor 1 Philippines: All Saints Day. M«*3 Japan: Culture Day. Mo*B Brunei: Meraj. MotS Indonesia: Ascension Day of the
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        771 51 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price rsngt* In US dollars Instead at single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market. Prices shown are baaed on averageitzed stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index changs and the Individual
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        236 52 Reuters [SEATTLE] Airbus Industrie, contradicting rival Boeing Co, said a recent poll showed that airline passengers prefer its A 340 wide-body jet over Boeing's 777 by a three-to-one margin. A poll by London research firm Arnold Bolingbroke Ltd found 62 per cent of
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        437 52 Key partner in Transrapid project threatens to pull ont Reuters [FRANKFURT] Germany's Transrapid high speed rail project appeared close to collapse on Wednesday after a key partner said it opposed a compromise to cap the cost of the deal amid government refusals to provide more
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        545 52 Alliance willing to help financially to block Onez's takeover of Canadian carrier Reuters [MONTREAL] Air Canada's partners in the Star Alliance global aviation group said they are prepared to help it financially to fend off the hostile takeover bid led by
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        342 52 Reuters [LONDON] Britain will restart negotiations on an "open skies" aviation trade pact with the United States this week, a UK government minister said. Transport ministpr Lord Macdonald told the House of Lords last Friday that talks would focus primarily on cargo issues
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        224 52 Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Scandinavian Airlines System said it will cancel its three flights scheduled for the night of Dec 31 to Jan 1, because concern about computer bugs has led to a slump in demand for travel. The Nordic region's biggest carrier is following other
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      86 51 I The advent of Information Technology and intermodal logistics solutions have dramatically changed the global logistics industry. In addition, Singapore is fast becoming the logistics hub of the region. To keep our readers updated. Shipping Times now features a full page on logistics on Thursday every fortnight with news of
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      102 52 Far East West Africa Trade Emergency Bunker Additional (EBA) of USD SO/TEU The under-mentioned shipping lines operating in the Far East/West Africa trade wish to inform the Trade that an Emergency Bunker Additional (EBA) of USD 50 per TEU is applicable for all shipments to West Africa effective from Ist
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