The Business Times, 25 October 1999

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    11 1 MTTA (P) 046/12/98 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1999
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    57 1 MIMBfT mw««« Week Cbaoff J.017J8 -4187 SWSC1 FmHBS..i8S.».- -ISO BMKt i TTJ» -11.14 KL8E 00iqL_._- i .7»JD_-+n« NIKKEI—„_ f iJ(J7,418J8 -lfi.77 HANG SENG 1180.08 +564J0 SET INDEX. 177 .16 -814 JAKARTA COMP. 604.18 +36.26 MANILA COME. 1,946.68.....-67.96 TAIPEI WPI 7,569.63 -269.76 SEOUL COME 819.S2... -4111 CL8A CHINA B
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    75 1 FOBEZ BATES US$ SI ygj I £(US$/SS per S) 1.673 17» ElJRO{US$/S$pcrE) 1.081 IJM DM 1.810 1.922 YEN 106.4 1 J« KM 3.800 1.439 HKS 7.770 0.215 BAHT 39.19 0043 Rl'PlAH 6,900 0.024 •SttoMimks PBHE1ATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 715 JAKARTA. MOO BANGKOK 10.60 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG &26 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Indon free marketeers and communitarians lock horns
    1148 1  -  f exclusive President is expected to announce Cabinet linenp on Thursday From' Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta A FIERCE debate on economic philosophy between two groups of thinkers dubbed the "free-marketeers" and the "communitarians" is holding up the formation of a new Cabinet
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    Lock icon Another Indian techie joins the billionaire club
    540 1 Technology barons from India fly high on high-tech stocks boom Reuters [NEW DELHI] Another Indian technology baron has vaulted to the top of the country's league table of billionaires, flying high on a global boom in high-tech stocks. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, founder of
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    Lock icon Foreign firms see red over China lax deposit rules
    349 1  -  Refund only on evidence that goods reexported From. David Murphy in Beijing FOREIGN enterprises based in China are furious over a new regulation obliging them to hold potentially huge sums of money on deposit with China's state banks. Previously, imported goods
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      84 1 dcstoe BT Comment A Singkong dollar? Forget It Pg 3 Top stories 14« If Ex-white-collar ciime-buster John Koh leaves law practice to become investment banker. PW2 E5O companies: MCE has its growth all nicely mapped out P97 Flashback: The crash of 1929. Pg 17 The Arts v v■ v rft"
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      50 1 ii a i ■rw.-mw. i Hohave fared this year Pg 4 New Cabinet to include former ministers, Pg 11 IV BEHI N'P^p A PIGUET j i I -Life#" I j, I.I:■ T I Ii ft ftf j A bjffi %&M3k 1 I I hi I I t avs i'IOO o
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      Lock icon All listed firms' stock option plans eligible for 5-year tax deferral
      703 2  -  IRAS gives details of qualified ESOP scheme; deferred tax subject to interest charge By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] All employee stock option plans (ESOP) of companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) will be eligible for the
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      Lock icon Hutchison's Mannesmann plan faces obstacle?
      645 2  -  Germany's Vodafone ftflnridfrpwg hostile bid for rival: reports From', Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong HUTCHISON Whampoa could see its plans to become a partner in Mannesmann AG, a pan-European cellular operator, scuttled by rival operator Vodafone Air Touch. A Financial Times report on Saturday said that
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      Lock icon Top lawyer John Koh to join Goldman Sachs as investment banker
      492 2  -  gPBOMUB By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Former white collar crime buster John Koh is moving on again leaving his law practice to become an investment banker with leading US firm Goldman Sachs. Mr Koh, 44. who was the Commercial Af&irs
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  • COMMON currency
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      Lock icon A Singkong dollar?Forget it
      841 3  -  I-ll comment ECONOMICS The Idea of a single Singapore-Hongkong currency, leading to a common Asian currency, Is dubious from t*>ginninp to end vikram khanna BY suggesting that Hongkong and Singapore should cpnsider moving to a single currency, Hongkong's Financial Secretary, Donald Tsang, has floated a balloon
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      25 3 Check out details at all BUZZ kiosks Mianhn ?aahai» MRI -BSS7E KKHffi IT mst The Straits Times Classified Where Buy It. S«ll It Find K
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Most '99 IPOs still enjoying premiums
      1051 4  -  But 8 out of 38 IPOs in minus territory; no stunning debuts seen for rest of year By] Eugene Low THE current poor market conditions notwithstanding, most of this year's initial public offers are still enjoying premiums, with the gains ranging from a slim
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      Lock icon DBS set to announce another alliance
      195 4 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank, South-east Asia's biggest bank by assets, is set to announce a "strategic alliance" with an international financial company tomorrow, officials said. It will be the third alliance this year, as DBS strives to become a regional powerhouse. So far this
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      Lock icon SingTel cuts stake in American Mobile
      145 4 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and its affiliates have cut their stake in American Mobile Satellite Corp to 8.9 per cent of common shares outstanding. The investors sold 484,600 common shares at $13.02 to $17.39 each between Oct 1 and Oct 13, according to
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      Lock icon Singapore Food Industries can pile more on its plate: chief
      772 4  -  exclusive It aims for 20% animal profit growth, and to doable sales to $600 m by 2004 By' Teh Hooi Ling FOR every $100 of food you eat in Singapore, roughly $8 has to do with Singapore Food Industries (SFI).
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      Lock icon SFI's fruity Net offering
      176 4 FANCY some exotic fruits like sweet and Juicy Australian strawberries, Pakistani grapefruits, Indonesian mangoes or Thai botak coconuts at up to 40 per cent discount? And you need not leave your office to get them. You can now order these fruits from the Web site of
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      661 4 Seminar on International Trade Finance Operations Risks, Controls Accounting Aspects Letters of Credit are important financing instruments in import/export transactions. A badly opened letter of credit exposes the company to risks, financial loss, higher cost and bank charges, delays in arrival of goods and more. Similarly, for the beneficiary of
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  • HONGKONG IPOs
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      Lock icon Small firms rush to list on main board
      576 5 Move to tap market ahead of HK Tracker Fund and Y2K liquidity worries Reuters SMALL companies, ignoring cautious market sentiment, are rushing for Hongkong main board stock listings in the next few weeks to tap the market ahead of the Hongkong Tracker
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Network Foods warrants at an interesting stage
      204 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -Byl R Sivanithy JUST a few months ago in June, Network Foods warrants traded for as high as 95 cents while the underlying shares sold for $1.12. Both then headed south in line with the broad market but have been trading
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      Lock icon Theme for the week: US interest rates vs US earnings
      627 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanlthy THEMES in the local market come and go. Some last longer than others and are almost impossible to shake off, some only appear for a few days before being quickly forgotten. During the rally in the first
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      Lock icon No big gains seen for KepLand shares
      263 6  -  HOT STOCK -By Wong Weikong KEPPEL Land (KepLand) shares were among the most active and biggest gaining stocks last Friday when the overall market was flat in listless trading. KepLand shares finished at $2.35, up 9 cents or 4 per cent. Volume was
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      14 6 Dmiaoale K X~r*T f importing firm*, opens conference Tif yi ii.
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      Lock icon Nikkei movements seen to centre round yen
      520 6 THE fete of Tokyo stocks this week, as in past months, will centre round the yen. The rising yen has been hurting exportoriented companies like Sony, Honda and Matsushita, as a robust local currency means earnings from abroad are worth less when repatriated.
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon MCE has its growth all nicely mapped out
      581 7  -  By staying focused, the spunky metal-stamper more than doubled its revenue from 1995 to 1998 Reports by Audrey Tan THIS managing director knows exactly where he wants to go, and to prove it. Metal Component Engineering's (MCE) KC Chua whips out a
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      Lock icon Consumer price rise gains pace in Sept
      355 7  -  I on the economy inflation w Wong Wei Kong THE rate of increase in consumer prices gathered pace in September, further evidence of the recovery in the economy and the bottoming out of the interest rate cycle. Data released yesterday by the Department
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      Lock icon $ 100m promising local enterprise fund has private sector input
      549 7 100m promising local enterprise fund has private sector input THE Economic Development Board's (EDB) investment in Metal Component Engineering (MCE) is part of EDB's cluster development plans, as it seeks to help "established" companies realise their growth plans. But unlike other equity stakes in local firms held by EDB Investments
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley launches its first S'pore dollar bonds
      508 8  -  It sold $100 m of 5-year bonds at par with a 4.7% coupon last Wednesday By Wong Wei Kong MAJOR US financial services firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co has launched its first Singapore dollar bond issue as part of its global
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      Lock icon UOF offer: A 30% premium over last traded price is fair
      590 8  -  MAILBAC Narayana Narayana Singapore via Internet I REFER to Jay Lim's comments in your Mailbag ("UOF offer: It's a discount", BT, Oct 16) on the Hock Lock Siew article "UOF offer: premium or discount?" (BT, Oct 8). Your writer
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      208 8  -  Eric Ang Teck Sin Singapore via Internet I WRITE to share my opinion with regard to your report, "Know the overseas property market" (BT, Oct 21). I believe if we conduct a survey of Singaporean investments in overseas property markets, the results could
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      Lock icon Merger news: more coution should be exercised
      394 8  -  Shi Guo Ji Singapore via Internet I REFER to your reports "Tibs share price plunges 40%", "SMRT IPO likely to be next year DBS" and "Why Tibs-SMRT merger went awry" (BT, Oct 20). On hindsight, one would wonder why SMRT had not in
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Economists up M'sian GDP forecasts
      353 10 KUALA LUMPUR Economy is set to grow by 4-8% in 1999,5.7% in 2000 Reuters PRIVATE economists have raised their forecasts of Malaysia's economic growth in 1999 and 2000 as foreign buyers snap up competitively priced Malaysian products. A Reuters poll of 10 research houses showed
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      Lock icon KL set to unveil feel-good pre-election Budget
      734 10 KUALA LUMPUR Tax cats and higher spending make good political, economic sense, say analysts AFP WITH a general election looming, Malaysia's government is widely expected to announce a "feel-good" Budget on Friday, with tax cuts for individuals, homeowners and businesses and extra spending
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      Lock icon M'sian share prices are fairly valued, says Daim
      299 10 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN share prices are fairly valued, given the prospects for growth of the economy, Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin was quoted as saying by the Star newspaper on Saturday. With economic recovery expected to gain momentum in the remaining months
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      Lock icon Proton still No 1 in Malaysia
      656 10 KUALA LUMPUR Scrapping ofon imported cars could nndermine its lead Reuters FOR over a decade, Malaysia's Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) has been way ahead in the race for control of the domestic car market. But doubts are mounting over whether the national car
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      Lock icon KL exchange plans technology index
      213 10 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) plans to introduce a technology index to measure the performance of a new section comprising companies involved in hi-tech activities. The index will perform the same functions for investors as the other existing KLSE indices. The
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon New cabinet to include former ministers: Gus Dur
      538 11 JIMBARAN, Bali New Indonesian president says his first priority will be the economy Bloomberg, AFP, Reuters INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that his government's first task will be to revive the economy, and that he will include ministers from the regimes
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      Lock icon World Bank East Timor mission to start this week
      451 11 DARWIN, Australia Results of mission will be presented to Dec donors' conference in Washington AFP A WORLD Bank mission will travel to East Timor this week to evaluate the costs of rebuilding the devastated territory, starting from what resistance leaders call
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      Lock icon Thai Union and Patum Rice plan to sell bonds
      341 11 BANGKOK Bloomberg SEVERAL Thai companies are taking advantage of low interest rates to sell bonds. Among them is Thai Union Frozen Products pel, the world's second largest producer of canned tuna, which wants to sell up to three billion baht (*****.6
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon Of chaebol, nepotism and reforms
      634 12  -  HK STOCKS Hongfconfc itinfth m Koran, noadu to nndarga thft mml-gaarchlng Process go a* to maat globalisation head-on quak hiang whai SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew flew into town yesterday fresh from a round of discussions at the Seoul Economic Forum where a panel of
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      Lock icon Taiwan steel, cement counters rise in wake of quakes
      399 12  -  From, Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN steel and cement industries have been elated in the past month as their subindex share prices have risen 7 and 15 per cent respectively amid investor expectations that the two devastating earthquakes that hit the
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      Lock icon TraHKer Fund:5% minimum discount
      266 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg HONGKONG set a minimum discount of 5 per cent for local individual investors in the HKflO billion (552.15 billion) sale of its TraHKer Fund which officially gets underway today. The government is selling shares in a trust formed from its holdings in all 33
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon India corporate profits point to rebound
      537 13 BOMBAY Earnings of 46 firms grow average 12% in Q2, bnt some market favourites disappoint Reuters INDIAN companies have posted a mixed bag of financial results for the quarter to Sept 30, according to a Reuters study of 46 firms that released earnings figures
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      Lock icon Sonia may be called as witness in arms scandal case, says report
      673 13 NEW DELHI Late husband Rajiv accused of role in Bofors bribery deal AFP INDIA'S opposition leader Sonia Gandhi was likely to be called as a witness in a Swedish arms scandal linked to her late husband, a report
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      Lock icon India ready to squash Y2K bug, says task force
      484 13 NEW DELHI AFP INDIA said last week it hoped to be ready for the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem much ahead of the clicking computer deadline. A government task force in a comprehensive report released last Thursday claimed that India's 11 most
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Japanese giants finally take knife to fat
      453 15 Moves needed but will initially hurt growth, analysts say AFP [TOKYO] The big guns of Japanese industry are finally biting the bullet by cutting staff and factories but the immediate impact will hurt economic growth, analysts said. In the past week, Nissan Motor
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      Lock icon Tokyo- Mitsubishi, Lehman tie up to broker mergers
      329 15 TokyoMitsubishi, Lehman tie up to broker mergers TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S Bank of Tokyo-Mit-subishi and US brokerage Lehman Brothers plan to tie up in mediating mergers and acquisitions among Japanese and foreign firms, press reports said Saturday. The two firms have reached a basic agreement on the tie-up and are considering
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      Lock icon Japan's NTT in bid to tune into broadcasting business
      377 15 ■TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE telecoms giant NTT said on Friday it would apply for a licence to provide data broadcasting services in what appears to be a bold first step into the lucrative broadcasting business. Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp unit NTT Docomo
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      Lock icon Kim Dae Jung seeks to streamline state enterprises
      432 16 SEOUL Giant utility Kepco is prime target of privatisation drive; unions opposing move AFP SOUTH Korean President Kim Dae Jung is spearheading an assault to impose efficiency and clean governance on state enterprises abused by past rulers to prop up their authoritarian
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      Lock icon Hyundai to spin off 20 units by year-end
      228 16 SEOUL Bridge News SOUTH Korea's largest conglomerate, the Hyundai Group, will sell, spin off or merge 20 affiliates by the end of the year as It continues to restructure, a spokesman at Hyundai said. The South Korean government has been demanding that
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      Lock icon Fed rate likely to rise by 25 bps early next year
      644 17 NEW YORK Economists say rising prices, tight job market would force the move Reuters RISING prices and a tight jobs market will likely force the Federal Reserve to push up the benchmark US Federal funds rate at least a
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      Lock icon Daewoo creditors may suffer bigger losses: report
      299 17 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean financial Institutions could suffer bigger losses than previously expected through their lending to the faltering Daewoo Group, a report said yesterday. The bigger losses would require a massive and swift injection of state money to stabilise financial markets, Yonhap
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      Lock icon Wall Street holds its breath recalling the Great Crash
      694 17  -  From. Neil Behrmann in London SEVENTY years ago, the first break occurred. Oct 24, 1929 was a day on Wall Street which began unremarkably. Stock prices were firm at the opening, writes John Kenneth Galbraith in his book The Great Crash
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      Lock icon Italy may sell 30% of Enel in world's biggest IPO
      484 17 ROME Important issne for institutions since it could account for 10% of Milan index Bloomberg ITALY may sell up to 30 per cent of Enel SpA, the country's largest electricity utility, raising as much as 15.6 billion euros (5528.1 billion)
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      Lock icon Deutsche Telekom to become big E European player
      267 17 FRANKFURT IHT AFTER missing out on a handfUl of expansion opportunities in Western Europe and the US, Deutsche Telekom AG announced Friday a plan to consolidate its dominance in Eastern Europe. The German carrier will pay US$2 billion (553.3 billion) to acquire
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      698 18 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Gold prices eased closer to the psychological US$3OO-an-ounce level last week in a continuing correction from the staggering gains reaped in the past month, but oil prices rose on a possible output squeeze. Although
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      294 19 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are expected to be volatile this week, with the government's new Tracker Fund beginning its initial public offering today amid uncertainty over the direction of US stocks. It was difficult to judge short-term movements of the Hang Seng
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      609 19 NEW YORK Interest rate and Y2K concerns may dictate the market's direction: investors Bloomberg STANDARD Poor's 500 Index companies are on target to have their best quarterly earnings in four years, though that may not be enough to send stock prices higher, investors
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      322 19 TOKYO Traders say market will also look to govt stimulus package Reuters JAPANESE stocks are expected to fluctuate nervously this week, with traders fixing their gaze on Wall Street, major domestic economic indicators and earnings reports from electronics makers. Traders said the
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      398 19 LONDON Reuters THE London market surged giddily to the end of a see-saw week with a 2.6 per cent gain under its belt, but the outlook remains mixed due to fears of an end to the US boom. After tumbling almost
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      906 19 CI Sydney -25 LINGERING fears of a rise in US interest rates and a speech by Australia's central banker will be key factors affecting share prices here this week, analysts said on Friday. "The markets are prepared for a Fed rate rise on Nov 16, but the
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      274 20 AFP FlOmpoatelntoi *17iB MALAYSIAN stock prices are expected to move up this week after the central bank decided to end its forced financial restructuring plan, dealers said. "I think we can look forward to an upside in the bourse after the central
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      419 23 Broadway musical panned by critics for lacking the vitality of Travolta movie Reuters Theatre critics on Friday sent a tip to audiences for the new Broadway musical Saturday Night Fever: save US$75 (Ssl2s) and rent the movie. In an uncharacteristic display of unanimity, New York critics
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      723 24 To keep your best quality, you must play chamber, he tells susam tsamo QUESTION Liu Peng about his artistically long hair and the 37-year-old leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's cello section replies with a joke. 'Too poor, no money to get a hair cut."
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      525 24  -  THEATRE Tkere's a great script and great siagiigte appreciate By Parvathi Nayar SINGAPORE Repertory Theatre's excellent staging of They're Playing Our Song by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Neil Simon has attracted some talk. About the tickets (top price, ouch, is $130),
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      142 25 f SBCS?■ JJI Born in a Hongkong I apartment and barely JHHk j| 111 I I I three years old, this fund ll I I J 1 I manager searching for Asian start-ups to invest in is itself a classic js|iy start-up. And that gives Asia Tech Ventures a I
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      839 26  -  P-11 exclusive By) Kenneth James ASIATECH Ventures (ATV), appointed last week to manage the US$4B million (5580.5 million) Asia Java Venture Fund, is looking for more than 20 technology start-ups to turn into market successes. And those who make it into the ATV stable will receive
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      582 26  -  PBnTiexclusive Asia-Pacific printer shipments to grow 15% a year by 2003, says new IDC study By Raju Chellam THE surge in demand for inkjet printers will help the computer printer industry in the Asia-Pacific grow 15 per cent a year between now and 2003,
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      826 26 Beware what happens once technologically sophisticated adults get hold of these machines' primitive abilities SOME 50 years ago, the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov formulated the three laws of robotics. The first is, "A robot may not injure a human being or,
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      596 27  -  Asrrersuha raju chellam The writer is BizlT Editor JUST three years ago in 1996 some of these terms were considered esoteric and futuristic. Just three years from now by 2002 they would be Singapore's fastestgrowing sub-segments, plonking the island republic to top
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      488 27  -  While two e-commerce experts says the Chinese territory can, a publisher with Tricast begs to differ Reports by 1 Toh Han Shih HONGKONG can be an Internet gateway to China, say two e-commerce experts. Not so, says Peter Schoppert, a publisher with
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      Lock icon Internet lifts Taiwan's Polaris to top spot
      286 27 TAIWAN'S biggest Internet share trading house, the Polaris Securities Group, is seeing tangible benefits from its Internet share trading service, Polaris Securities vice-president Pai Wen Jun said at an e-commerce conference in Hongkong recently. Polaris launched its Internet service shortly after the Taiwanese
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      64 27 YAHOO! Singapore users can now access their mail, address book and calendar from any Net-connected computer, with the launch of a free Webbased e-mail service localised for Singapore users. The service is available at: http://mail.yahoo.com.sg. "Users can have one e-mail address for life, whether they move, change jobs
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        57 27 COMPAQ Computer Asia-Pacific has teamed up with India's Tata Technologies to offer businesses "NonStop eßusiness Solutions". The companies will Jointly market and support these solutions in areas including hardware, networks and services in e-business, ERP (enterprise resource planning), CRM (customer relationship management) and engineering automation
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        49 27 WATCHGUARD Technologies Inc, a provider of Internet broadcast security solutions, said Ingram Micro Asia Ltd, a wholesale supplier of a wide range of computer products, will distribute Watch Guard products in Singapore. Watch Guard's Live Security System is a leading turnkey security product for SMEs.
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        59 27 US-BASED Eastman Chemical Company has appointed Craig Knight its e-commerce manager, and James Romano its digital business manager at the company's Asia-Pacific regional HQ here. Last July, Eastman became the first chemical company to offer e-commerce capabilities to customers in North America. By this year, it will
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        57 27 ADVANCED Manufacturing Online (AMO) said Santa Clara based National Semiconductor Corp has selected AMO's "ECnet—The Global Supply Web" to more efficiently and economically manage its worldwide supply chain transactions. The Asia-Paclflc region is considered a vital sourcing centre in the high-tech supply chain industry as
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        52 27 THE Singapore Trade Development Board and Singapore Exhibition Services will hold a two-day Licensing Asia'W conference on "Growth and expansion through licensing" from Nov 4. It is supported by the Licensing Executives Society International, Singapore Productivity and Standards Board and the National Science and Technology Board. For details,
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        46 27 ZIFF-DAVIES Inc will hold a twoday "e-Universe" symposium from Nov 16 here. This Asean technology symposium—including conference and exhibition— will showcase all aspects of e-business, including new applications and technologies, and is expected to attract 2,000 visitors. For details, feu *****55.
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        36 27 INTERNATIONAL Data Corp (IDC) will organise a three-day Asia-Pacific IT Forum 2000 on "Navigating the new economy in the world's most dynamic IT market" from Jan 23 here. For details, Cu *****16
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        53 27  -  Cnipilei by Raju Chellam A FOUR-DAY international convention, Mip Asia, incorporating Cable Satellite Asia *90, will be held here from Dec 7. Organised by the Reed Mindem Organisation, it will bring together companies that produce and buy programs and content, with those that provide the
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      263 27 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] IBM Corp will stop selling its Aptiva home computers through retail stores in favour of selling direct to consumers on the Internet, the company has confirmed. The move is part of a previously announced overhaul of IBM's
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      1037 28  -  I-ii exclusive The Compaq express never went off-track; poor execution slowed it badly but that's been put right by the new team, senior vice-president Enrico Pesatori tells mamirfH jambs KENNETH JAMES WORLD'S largest PC company? Well, okay, yes. But secondlargest is better for Compaq Computer Corp
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      159 28 THE three-day Sapphire '99 exposition including conferences and exhibition will be held at Suntec City from Nov 1. This high-profile event, coordinated by SAP AG, will offer inter-enter-prise business solutions for the Internet economy. Singapore's Minister of Communications and IT, Yeo Cheow Tong (below),
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      Lock icon Gemplus to up smart-card manufacturing
      469 29  -  I-ii exclusive Robust demand throughout Asia-Pacific driving smart-card growth By, Andrew Wee FRANCE-BASED smartcard maker Gemplus SCA will ramp up its manufacturing capacity in Singapore to cater to the growing demand for smart cards, the company's Gemenos, France-based chief operating officer told BizlT in an
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      194 29 Reuters [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer Inc said on Friday the latest operating system for its Macintosh family of computers, beefed up with special Internet features, would hit store shelves at the weekend. The new Mac OS 9 operating system will
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      645 30  -  SAY II warren lau The writer is an engineer with the Advanced Technology Department at TECH Semiconductor (S'pore) Pte Ltd WITH the recovery of worldwide semiconductor markets and the improved Asian economy, semiconductor manufacturers in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are going full
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      109 30 ENCYCLOPEDIA Britannica announced in July that It has stopped printing books because the CD-ROM version (left) of its reference works sold far better. The company, founded in Edinburgh in 1788, now sells a minimal number of books, compared with 150,000 CDROMs every year in Europe alone. A
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      349 30 Web site crashes after an overwhelming number of hits AFP [LONDON] After the publishers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced plans to put all of its content online last Tuesday, the site crashed due to an overwhelming number of hits. Thousands of fact-hungry computer
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      Lock icon Broadband access for Pan-Pacific hotel guests
      487 31  -  Star Hub will provide the infrastructure that it is currently developing; value of the contract will depend on usage By- Justyn Olby HIGH-SPEED Internet access will become a "must-have" for the hotel industry, or so Steve Halliday, Pan Pacific Hotels and Resorts vice-president, believes.
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        87 31 TOSHIBA Singapore has launched a new entry-level series of notebook computers under its Satellite 2100 brand (above), running on AMD's K6-2 P/400 processors with aDNow! technology. Two models In the series come with 4 GB hard disk, 24-speed CD-ROM and weigh 3.1 kg each. The 2100 CDS
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        78 31 lOMEGA Corp has announced its newest Zip 250 MB USB (Universal Serial Bus) drive (above) for both PC and Mac users. The Penang-made, thin, mobile drive costs $319, and comes with one Zip2so MB disk, a USB power cable and a quick-start guide. It
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        80 31 IMATTON Singapore's improved Super Disk drives including a new USB drive for PCs and Macs—are now available. These 120 MB devices can now read data 27 times Caster than a floppy, and 10 times faster than previous Super Disk drives. The USB Drive for both PCs and
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        50 31 COMPAQ Computer has announced aiiuwtflmidMil '*1 warranty on all its Intel-based Professional Workstations, Deakpro EN Series models and commercial monitors. The new warranty offers three years of on-site service for parts and labour and is i effective for systems bought after Aug 23. Fur details, call 1800.*****11.
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        66 31 SYMANTEC Corp has come out with Norton Ghopt&O Enterprise Edition, targeted at systems administrators N for restoring, reconfiguring and cloning PCs across the enterprise. Using the software, system administrators can let up a single PC and clone a standard disk image across the entire enterprise, including local,
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        Lock icon Powerware 5140 from Invensys
        65 31 INVENSYS Energy Systems Pte Ltd has launched Powerware 5140, a new, single-phase line-interactive UPS (uninterruptible power supply) designed for the corporate computing environment Rated at 5,000 VA/6,000 watts, the $8,400 device comes with unity power factor rating, advanced battery management, extended battery modules, load segment control,
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        54 31  -  Raju Chellam MICROSOFT'S Intellimouse Explorer is now available in local outlets for $89. Microsoft said this is the first real advance in mouse technology since the 1980s. It replaces the mouse ball mechanics with an optical sensor that scans surfaces 1,500 times per second to track movement For
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      214 31  -  Byi Andrew Wee US-BASED Internet ad agency Doubleclick Inc last week set up operations in Singapore, Taiwan and Hongkong to customise ad packages to Asian Net surfers and users. In Singapore, Coolconnect, a collection of 13 Web communities, managed by a branch of the
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      Lock icon Apple rescinds price hike decision
      151 31 Knight Ridder [NEW YORK] Apple Computer has backed away from a decision to raise prices on some computers that customers had already ordered and paid for. The pricing decision threatened to blemish an otherwise positive public image for Apple. The latest controversy erupted on Wednesday
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        972 32  -  Huge opportunities abound in a country where, e-commerce will treble every year, tobbawsbib finds out TOH HAN SHIH E -COMMERCE in China presents both huge opportunities and daunting challenges. China is aggressively leapfrogging to do online transactions, be it shopping, trading shares or making phone calls. Yet
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          85 32 CK TANG Ltd said it will "boldly embrace e-commerce" when it becomes a member of the global online gift service, preanet Tangs will be part of the first international network of leading department stores that will then let customers send gifts from anywhere in the world,
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          71 32 HEWLETT-PACKARD Sales Malaysia said it will collaborate with Matrix Com Sdn Bhd to develop an enterprise Internet broadcasting business portal Called ißroadnetcosn, it will be the first in Asia to provide live interactive education and training over the Internet HP will provide its e-services tools and
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          63 32 INTERNET Service Provider (IS) CyberWty has teamed up with Arthur Andersen's Asia-Pacific security competency centre to introduce ALIS (Andersen Labs for Internet and Security) in Cyberway 1 new e-Security Gym site at www.cyberway.com.ag. The Gym is designed as a one-stop keep-fit centre to help home and office
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          56 32 COMPUTER Associates International (CAI) has warned of a new, moderately dangerous "worm" named "Badass" which has the potential to overload e-mail servers. It uses Microsoft Outlook to smd e-mail to all users in the Outlook address book. CATs latest signature file, InoculatelT, can provide the cure. For
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          59 32 THE notorious Melissa virus has reared its hydra heed again. This time the warning comes from two anti-virus firms: Symantec Corp and Network Associates Inc. Both report new strains of the virus that comes in via e-mail and can delete files on your hard disk. Hunt
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          60 32 ZENTlfifttttt* Singapore, which provides media 1' planning and buy ing services to advertisers, has launched Zoom Compass, a comprriMoslve solution for jy media management. Zenith said it is Singapore's first fUHy home gi own online media nisiwgmiwnt exhaust and is designed to aid the media
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          63 32  -  OoopMbj Raju Chellam US-BASED Great Plains has appointed Cable Media Asia Pte Ltd as its value-added partner to offer Great Plains' ff e.Commaroe, e.Order, e.View, and e.Requisition solutions. In Singapore. The company will also market j Great Plains' eEnterprise Financials and Distribution series. Cable Media
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      206 33 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE dry cargo freight market, led by the capesize sector has seen significant improvements in rates. This upswing in the freight market has seen buyers for modern vessels chasing a limited number of vessels, which is keeping prices up. Vessels sold for farther
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        785 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        258 48 Reuters [TAIPEI] Unofficial weekend talks between Taiwan and Philippine officials aimed at restoring direct air links ended in deadlock, Taiwan newspapers said yesterday. Flights between Taipei and Manila were halted when an air services agreement lapsed on Sept 30 and Taiwan refused
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      67 41 New Advertisers/Services/Agencies KYOWA LINE Direct Breakbulk/Container/LCL Service to Manila/Guam/Saipan Agents: V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd See Page 7 Daily Asia Oceanic Container Line Weekly Service to Belawan/Sin/P. Klang Twice-Weekly service to China Turn to Pg 13 Evety Mon/Wed/Fri FAR EAST EUROPE FULL CONTAINER EXPRESS SERVICE Turn To Pg 5 China Shipping
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      57 43 VbTal Dial74o-6000 Oil dGVTIdnCj (Retrieve more schedules!) Press "1" Select the port and key in the four digit code eg: To New York (NYC) 2275 I Key in your fax number your phone number Anothf innovativescrvkxoffered by Tho document Wili be 1 Hi# faxed to you* OlllrrlnU 1 liulJU for
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      654 45 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD MAIN UNE/OUTWARD: 532 36U INWARD (DID): 437 234* IMPORT STATUS (DID): 437 2371 INVENTORY (DID): 437 2420 Wtbillt hltps//www.NMdm.iM tl NO. **********0 D BOOKINGS UNE: 535 6266 (Caliq/Jassica/Mai Chqn/Jeslynn/Pora/Honim) 8 slgs/weekiy QQQ32yEIQB3 3 slgs/wcekly Stt M IvESStt Ivot sin Imaon m (pat) 21 5 ?t/10 5/10
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