The Business Times, 29 December 1999

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1999 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/
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    59 1 sn *****7 (-13.45) %M KUI (-3.22) SIIISCIFUTUBES 337.40 (-1.10) STTOCX MA1EET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 797.69 +1157 NIKKEI 18,***** +236.62 HANG SENG *****i9 +96.01 SET INDEX 466.96 +0il JAKARTA COMP —***** -4.16 MANIliA COMP 2,***** +18J2 TAIPEI WP1 444R84 +33.77 SEOUL COMP 1,028.07 +2254 C1.SA CHINA H 760.36
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    77 1 FOBEX RATES uss ss USS 1.667 £(l)S$/S$ per 1J17 2.695 EL'BO(US$/S$/E) 1013 1.688 DM 1.930 0863 YEN MM 1-628* RM 3.800 0.439 HKS 7.774 0114 BAHT 37.61 0.044 RUP1AH 7,010 0 024 *S9lo toe units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA U'MPTR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.4)0 BANGKOK 10.(» MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon Clob: MAS stands firm in response to Daim remarks
    1504 1  -  No basis to transfer shares to KL finance ministry: MAS Bv Ven Sreenivasan, Eddie Tph THE Monetary Authority of Singapore responded swiftly to a comment by Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin yesterday morning that if the Singapore share depository's nominee status
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    Lock icon SIAS advises caution over Collective Custodial's offer
    631 1  -  ELSE denies approving S'pore company's proposal; Daim says he has no knowledge of it By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The Securities Investors Association of Singapore said yesterday that Clob investors should respond with caution to the offer by Collective Custodial Services (Asia), the
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    Lock icon Brokers get headaches from retail clients over new CPF limits
    429 1  -  Problem caused by investors not checking their accounts before buying shares By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Some stockbrokers with retail clients are getting a headache from the new Central Provident Fund investment limits which came into force this month. And
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      109 1 msPB BT Comment Shoeb Kagda on the Internet fever in Indonesia's stock market. Pg 5 Top stories Sing Tel joins bid for Taiwan fixed-line licence. Next Page Lawrence Summers warns against complacency. Next Page Consumer confidence in US soared to 31-year high in Dec. Next Page ST Assembly Test Services
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      190 1 C mm Ma j or 0 f Keppel and PSA's waterfront project Site area: about 50 ha, wKh Keppel owning ha and PSA 30 ha. wM Bf I Tenure: 99 years ifljof Offices. Twfft 18-storey office towers at boundary of Keppel and PSA tB mtm sites, jointly owned by both
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      Lock icon SingTel joins bid for Taiwan fixed-line licence
      588 2  -  18% stake in consortium which also has on board Far Eastern Gronp Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] In its third attempt to have a piece of Taiwan's telecommunications market, Singapore Telecom yesterday said it has joined Taiwanese conglomerate Far Eastern Group (FEG) and other
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      Lock icon Haw Par ties up with Japan's Ryukakusan Co
      247 2  -  Healthcare unit to take 60% stake in joint venture Ky Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Haw Par Healthcare has agreed to form a joint venture with a leading Japanese pharmaceutical company to develop, manufacture and distribute health-related products in Japan. The Haw Par Corp
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon What's progress?
        103 2 REMINISCING about the past of the Port of Singapore Authority at a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday, PSA chairman Yeo Ning Hong pointed out that "I do not see many senior citizens here" who could remember a time when warehouses were called godowns. (Dr Yeo, who just returned from a
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        Lock icon No permanent foes
        76 2 BT yesterday reported that NTUC Fair Price may consider forming strategic alliances with some global supermarket players for the regional markets-as well as some business partners in the food chain industry. So when BT asked Fair Price chairman S Chandra Das (right) if he was prepared to
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        Lock icon Colombia guerillas are Y2K ready
        98 2 ACCORDING to an Associated Press report, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country's largest rebel group, has updated its hardware and software to the latest generation, including obtaining an advance version of Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 2000. The rebels are said
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        Lock icon Will foreign talent vanish in PNG?
        183 2 IF you are a foreign talent in Papua New Guinea, watch out. A cargo-cult-like movement which believes the world will go dark on Saturday and all expatriates will vanish has been formed in Papua New Guinea, said an AFP report citing the Independent weekly
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        Lock icon Top dog abducted
        93 2 A US$3O,OOO (S$50,000) land-mine-sniffing dog has been abducted by a staff member of Cambodia's embattled mine-clearance agency, the Cambodian Mine Action Center. According to the Associated Press, the Swedish-trained German Shepherd was taken for a walk by Cambodian dog handler Hoy Arith, who ushered it into a
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      Lock icon Summers warns against complacency over boom
      323 2 Asian crisis shows that reforms are needed to more effectively manage problems, he says Reuters [WASHINGTON] Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, commenting on fc{pnday on the US economy's during the *****, warned against*over -confidence that the good times will continue. Interviewed on PBS' "Nightly Business
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Developers face big competition from PSA, Keppel
      792 3  -  Waterfront project set to compete head on with Raffles Place, Orchard Sd Reportaby Lee Han Shih DEVELOPERS, who have been waiting nervously for word on PSA Corporation's and Keppel Corporation's huge waterfront development, yesterday received the worst possible news not only are the
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      Lock icon Goldtron chief to resign on Jan 17
      257 3 DEBT-LADEN Goldtron Ltd said yesterday that its executive chairman, Ong Soon Kiat, will resign on Jan 17, following his convictions in March of market rigging. The beleaguered Sesdaqlisted electronics distributor and contract manufacturer said that Mr Ong has "just been requested" by the
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      Lock icon Panpac Media.com more than doubles losses in H1
      193 3 SESDAQ-LISTED Panpac Media.com has more than doubled its interim losses and said that it expects to stay in the red for the next three years. The publications and multimedia group yesterday reported net losses of $8.3 million for the half-year ended Sept
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      Lock icon PSA eyeing regional waterfront property
      443 3 Port operator to ose Harbour Front as a showcase PSA Corporation, a port operator. yesterday outlined plans that will propel it to become a major developer and owner of waterfront properties in the region. From others, such plans would seem like a pipe dream. But
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      Lock icon ST's Stats to list on Nasdaq, in S'pore
      553 5  -  Chip packager's IPO to be done through book-building like Charterers Ry, Jennifer Lien ST Assembly Test Services Ltd (Stats) will list its shares on Nasdaq and in Singapore through a book-building process, a la sister company Chartered Semiconductor. The chip packager yesterday
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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      Lock icon Indon market's Internet fever
      740 5  -  HocKii.u'nm'.' shoeb kagda THE Internet euphoria, it seems, has caught up with the Jakarta stock market. The awesome climb in the prices of technology stocks which has helped propel the US and other Asian markets into record territory is now showing signs of doing the same
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      Lock icon SingLand to issue 69m wrts
      280 5  -  By Wong Wei Kong SINGAPORE Land announced yesterday that it is planning to issue up to 68.8 million warrants in conjunction with a transferable loan facility (TLF) and bond issue worth between $200 million and $250 million arranged by UOB Asia for Gateway Land, a
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      Lock icon L&M seeks $23.1m more via 1-for-4 rights issue
      160 5 IN AN effort to further reduce its debt, specialist engineering and construction company L&M Group Investments is raising another $23.1 million through a l-for-4 rights issue. This comes just weeks after its controlling shareholders, the Soeryadjaya family, injected $18.8 million into the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Big boys unwind as punters continue secondliner play
      527 4  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan PROFIT-TAKING led shares lower yesterday but volume was surprisingly strong for what is considered to be a traditionally quiet period for the local stock market. Brokers said the market was still in the grips of a speculative wave, although
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      Lock icon Beware momentum plays on near-dated warrants
      186 4  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan SEVERAL near-dated and usually illiquid warrants headed the percentage gainers' list yesterday as punters scrambled for speculative secondliners. Yesterday's top percentage gainer was the LC Development warrant, which doubled in value to one cent. This warrant, which expires on
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      Lock icon Econ's loss of 75-cent level a setback
      275 4  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Econ International were heavily traded yesterday but failed to hold on to most of its intra-day gains. The stock closed up half a cent at 73.5 cents, after hitting a day high of 78.5 cents.
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      Lock icon Diary of events Wednesday, Dee 29
      99 4 Singapore ♦10am. Trade Development Board sectoral briefing on the trade and logistics sector ♦11am. Tiong Woon Corporation Holding Ltd annual general meeting ♦3pm. GRP Ltd annual general meeting ♦3pm. Invitation to media conference on Singapore Cable Vision's cable modem service United States New York:
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      Lock icon Yen continues rally, with S$ and baht main beneficiaries
      347 4  -  CURRENCIES larry wee ALL but ignoring Bank of Japan intervention to halt the greenback's slide last Friday, the Japanese yen continued to test higher ground in quiet Asian trading yesterday. The yen rallied 0.5 per cent to finish at its highest
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      486 4 Stock* Volume JC-MPH WtOO 36,550,000 Kingboard USIOc 32,087,000 Benefun HK10c 24,130.000 Asia Food&Prop 22,419,000 GMG Global 5c 22.268,000 AsiaDekor HK15c 13,456,000 MIT 10c 13,071,000 China Toll 20c 13,008,000 'Gentmglnt 12 861,000 l-One5c 12,422,000 Stocks PacificCentury 47,348,700 Kingboard US10c 18,722,600 Asia Food&Prop 16,007,460 L&M50C 14,582.460 MediaRing 10c 14,574,260 MIT 10c 12.455.250
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Jobless rate seen unlikely to return to pre-crisis levels
      310 6  -  EYEPT!TiiHJ»?«l i M By. Audrey Tan WILL the unemployment rate head down towards the pre-crisis level of 2 per cent? One research house SG Securities reckons no. "The new phase of growth entails a higher unemployment rate, with less job security
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      Lock icon President's Charity Art Exhibition raises $250,000
      154 6 THE President's Charity Art Exhibition has raised about $250,000, or one-and-a-half-jtimes more than its target, for four designated charitable organisations. Robert lau, chairman of the organising committee, jjaid 52 pieces of artwork were sold for $223,000. Half of this plus cash sponsorships of $138,000,
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      Lock icon New insurance rules in force from Fri
      409 6  -  Move to raise professionalism and increase public protection ihj Soh Tiang Keng THE Insurance Intermediaries Act to promote greater professionalism in the insurance industry and increase protection for the insuring public will take effect on Friday. This was announced yesterday by the Monetary
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      Lock icon SM Lee urges small firms to take training positively
      611 6 Knowledge, skills key factors in next phase of Singapore's growth, he says SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday urged smaller companies to approach the training of workers and the upgrading of skills positively as knowledge and skills will be key factors
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      Lock icon IDA favours regulation with a light touch
      685 6  -  liATT.ltn^ Leong Keng Thai Director-General (Telecoms) Deputy CEO Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore I REFER to the two BT articles written by Catherine Ong entitled "Time to encourage competition, not just allow it" (BT, Dec 20) and "Why the free-surf war could cost
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      Lock icon StarHub gave SingTel lots of notice
      333 6  -  Shoe Hung Yee AVP, Corporate and Marketing Communications Star Hub Pte Ltd WE would like to correct SingTel's comments in its letter, "Pray tell our side of the competition story" (BT, Dec 24). In its letter, Sing Tel said that "Star Hub's trial requirements
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Summers' deficient analysis
      834 8  -  MTTT7TrIrT?r?M OPINION anthony rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THIS has been a decade of agenda-setting by America in the spheres of economics, politics and security and, as the 1990s draw to a close, there is no sign that Washington is prepared to relent in its
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      77 8 The bond market stinks. You know why? Because the economy is super-strong and the Fed is going to come in and raise rates.' Larry Seibert a money manager at liarrett Associates, about concerns the United States Federal Reserve will raise rates early next year. 'Politics is the
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      Lock icon Year of fizzle and sputter for euro
      624 8 EDITORIAL THIS time last year, analysts were falling over one another predicting that the euro was going to start with a bang, and that its manifest destiny thereafter was to be a strong currency. Looking back, they were only half-right And, looking forward,
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      Lock icon Why you should doubt the great American boom
      871 8  -  The essence of a speculative boom is that most people do not believe it is one By Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group EVERY year, I confess my sins (or some of them) even though the exercise is becoming increasingly repetitious.
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      922 8 FOR its proponents, globalisation describes a dream of opportunity and prosperity. For its opponents, it denotes a nightmare of greed and inequality. Both sides agree that technological change and economic liberalisation are creating something new and important. How is it to be governed? ...The first (challenge)
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Dr M plans to run for Umno presidency again
      404 9 KUALALUMPUR He says next party polls will be good opportunity to bring in new blood AP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday he would seek re-elec-tion as ruling party president in polls next year, dispelling speculation that he might step
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      Lock icon Malaysian debt panel wants to finish work by mid-2000
      344 9 KUALA LUMPUR It is currently working on 27 cases totalling RMl6.6b Reuters A MALAYSIAN government panel restructuring some US$B billion (5513.3 billion) in corporate debt said yesterday it was in no hurry but hopes to complete its task by mid--2000. "We
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      Lock icon Tenaga mulls new tariff structure to boost sales
      373 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg, Reuters TENAGA Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's largest electricity company, said it's reviewing its tariff structure to sell cheaper electricity to up-and-coming technology firms. The move comes as Tenaga looks to boost energy sales after its earnings were hurt by last
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      Lock icon Agriculture and services seen boosting GDP
      306 9 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian private sector ready to lead growth: Daim AFP THE services and agriculture sectors will play a leading role in strengthening Malaysia's economy. Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. Mr Daim said the private sector, hard hit by the 1997 financial crisis,
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      Lock icon Digi's chairman sells 30% to Norway's Telenor
      151 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN mobile phone firm Digi Swisscom Bhd said yesterday its chairman Vincent Tan Chee Yioun has completed the disposal of a 30 per cent stake in the company to Norway's Telenor International. It said the sale was completed on Dec
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      77 9 -f. iu 9^3bbx HL" MBfInaMMMMBMMMH B jaBHL Jtftfi Director Eric Khoo's films may well be known to movie buffs at home and around the world. But unlike an actor, a director spends most of his time behind the camera. That's why Eric carries the American Card. So now, he will
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Ibra says 3 new parties keen to buy its 40% Astra stake
      410 10 JAKARTA Move comes after setback in talks with agency's preferred US bidder Reuters, Bloomberg INDONESIA'S Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday three new investors were interested in buying its 40 per cent stake in auto giant PT Astra
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      Lock icon Thai Airways may expand share sale
      226 10 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAI Airways International pel, the nation's flagship air carrier, said it may increase the size of its planned share sale by almost a third to 445 million shares in a move to reduce debt faster. The potential addition of 100 million new
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      Lock icon Govt helps Bank Mandiri finish recap
      299 10 JAKARTA 75t mpiah bonds help boost capital adequacy ratio to 8% Bloomberg BANK Mandiri, Indonesia's largest lender, received 75 trillion rupiah (5517.8 billion) of bonds from the government, completing the bank's U5525.4 billion (5542.3 billion) recapitalisation. Transfer of the securities comes two months after
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      Lock icon Anna is dismissed
      46 10 [BANGKOK] A man in Bangkok yesterday holding up newspapers displaying pictures from the Hollywood movie 'Anna and the King Thailand's censorship committee has banned the screening of the film, branding it an insult to the monarchy and a distortion of Thai history. AFP
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      Lock icon London Sumatra's 50% sale to Lazard Asia cancelled
      413 10 JAKARTA Parties nnable to settle price; failure hurts debt plan Bloomberg PT LONDON Sumatra, Indonesia's second-largest publicly traded palm oil company, said a planned sale of a 50 percent stake to Lazard Asia Investments Ltd fell through, hurting its US$254 million (*****.3
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      Lock icon Miyazawa Fund key to Thailand's good Q3 showing: minister
      295 10 BANGKOK Bloomberg A 53 billion baht (552.34 billion) aid programme from Japan was a key reason that Thailand's economy registered its best performance in three years in the July to September period, a senior Thai official said. Thailand spent two-thirds of
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      Lock icon Thailand cuts tariffs on more items under Afta pact
      271 10 BANGKOK Reuters, Bloomberg THE Thai government yesterday approved a finance ministry proposal to cut import tariffs on another 1,227 items from Jan 1, 2000, as part of commitments made under the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) pact. A cabinet spokesman said
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon HK index hits record, led by China Tel, Net stocks
      463 11 HONGKONG Hopes of Nasdaq-like valuations and brighter economic ontlook fuel rally Bloomberg AFP HONGKONG'S benchmark stock index climbed to a record, paced by China Telecom (Hongkong) Ltd and other Internet-related companies on hopes they'll match valuations enjoyed by their US
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      Lock icon HK November exports surge 10.3%
      362 11 HONGKONG Total shipments of HKsl24.7b; rise is fastest in two years Bloomberg HONGKONG'S exports surged 10.3 per cent in November from a year ago, the fastest rise in at least two years, as the city shipped more to Europe and Asian neighbours recovering from recession.
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      Lock icon All systems go for HK transport
      59 11 [HONGKONG] A boy peering out from a double-decker electric tram, Hongkong's oldest and slowest form of public transportation, yesterday. The government and public transportation companies have reassured the territory's population that all public transport has been tested for Y2K compliance and that no problems
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      Lock icon Bank of China to merge HK, mainland subsidiaries
      180 11 HONGKONG Reuters A HONGKONG newspaper said yesterday the Bank of China will merge its 12 subsidiaries on the Chinese mainland and in Hongkong to facilitate operations, possibly in preparation for a listing in Hongkong. The bank would list at the earliest in
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      Lock icon E-commerce experiment in Beijing
      151 11 BEIJING Reuters CHINA Construction Bank has opened its online payment business for some e-conimerce firms in Beijing as an experiment the official Beijing Economic Daily reported yesterday. The state-owned bank signed online payment agreements with nine companies involved in e-com-merce on Monday and the maximum amount
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon Indian computer companies freer to buy overseas firms
      374 12 BOMBAY Govt will give them automatic approval to raise money for acquisitions abroad, says paper AFP, Bloomberg INDIAN computer companies have been given greater freedom by the government to buy overseas corporations a move that would help cashrich Indian computer companies wanting
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      Lock icon India's UCO Bank takes 300 firms to court
      319 12 BOMBAY Nationalised bank has 15.3b rupees in NPAs CALCUTTA-based UCO Bank has filed recovery suits against more than 300 corporates for non-payment of dues. The Times of India reported yesterday. The nationalised bank had nonperforming assets (NPA), valued at 15.3 billion rupees
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka's UNP rejects govt's coalition call
      403 12 COLOMBO But it's willing to back moves to resolve ethnic strife Reuters SRI Lanka's main opposition party has rejected a government call to join a national coalition, but would support efforts to seek a solution to the country's stubborn ethnic conflict, party officials
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      Lock icon ADB gives Lankans US$40m loan to save shoreline
      249 12 COLOMBO Bernama THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted Sri Lanka a concessional loan of US$4O million (5566.7 million) for a coast conservation project, the bank said yesterday. The loan, approved early this month, will cover half of the cost for the
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      Lock icon India's wheat stockpiles outpacing consumption
      202 12 NEW DELHI Bloomberg INDIA'S wheat stockpiles will likely reach more than three times the desired level by April, despite a 50 per cent duty on wheat imports and use of government stocks, said the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). India, the world's secondlargest wheat producer,
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Come on, world – stop the hatred, let there be peace
      839 13 Come on, world stop the hatred, let there be peace LONDON Achievers of this old miserable century nnite to call for a new age of peace Reuters SPORTS legends and men of god have united with pop icons and politicians in wishing the world a happy new millennium free of
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      Lock icon MILLENNIUM MESSAGES
      377 13 MUSIC MAKERS LEADERS STARS OF SPORT AND SCIENCE 'Don't panic. Never give up. Never give up. Never ever give up. 9 science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke (right) 'I hope that the next millennium would see greater success in the promotion and acceptance of the concept of common
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      Lock icon DoCoMo makes it to world's top 3
      492 14 TOKYO Telco's 6.6% jump to record high puts it behind M'soft, GE in market cap Bloomberg NTT MOBILE Communications Network Inc. Japan's largest cellular phone company, rose 6.6 per cent to a record high, making the mobile phone provider the world's third most
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      Lock icon Consumer confidence in US soars to 31-year high
      276 14 NEW YORK AP CONSUMER confidence soared to a 31-year high in December, reflecting good feelings over the nation's strong job market and low inflation, the Conference Board reported yesterday. "Consumers are in very good spirits as the 20th century comes to a
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      Lock icon Korean stocks end 1999 on five-year high
      339 14 SEOUL AP DESPITE another prominent stock trading scandal, South Korea's stock market closed for 1999 yesterday with its main index hitting a five-year-high. Speaking at a brief ceremony that marked the year's last trading, President Kim Dae Jung said the stock market has
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      Lock icon 29% more business trips in 2000: poll
      401 14  -  SINGAPORE Corporate, leisure travellers expect to use Internet more By Eugene Low CORPORATE travel worldwide looks set to rise significantly next year, according to an American Express survey on travel trends. The survey found that the number of international business trips will increase
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      Lock icon Japan Nov jobless rate at 10-month low
      368 14 TOKYO Bloomberg, AFP JAPAN'S jobless rate fell to a 10-month low of 4.5 per cent in November as manufacturers and service providers hired more staff, which may give consumer confidence a muchneeded boost and encourage people to spend more. The number of people
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      Lock icon Hijackers want 35 Muslim militants freed, US$200m cash
      491 14 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Indian minister pledges 'appropriate response' Reuters HIJACKERS yesterday demanded the release of 35 jailed Muslim militants and US$2OO million (***** million) in cash, raising the stakes for freeing 155 hostages facing a fifth night aboard an Indian Airlines plane. News
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    • WORLD Watch
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        69 14 AFP [FRANKFURT] Debt-crippled construction firm Philipp Holzmann faces another major hurdle to recovery this week when its shareholders vote on a rescue package engineered by the group and its creditor banks. The shareholders are scheduled to meet here tomorrow for an extraordinary general meeting, at
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        68 14 AP (MOSCOW] The Russian government made its last payment for the year to the International Monetary Fund yesterday, and the World Bank agreed to release US$lOO million (Ssl6&6 million) in loans intended to finance the reform of Russia's coal sector. The government transferred U5562.9 million
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        88 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] Latin pop star and actress Jennifer Lopez, along with rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs, was detained for questioning by police after a shooting at a nightclub on Monday, authorities said. Police lata* said Ms Lopez will not be prosecuted but Mr Combs
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        60 14 AFP [TOKYO] Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies this year jumped 24.9 per cent from the previous year to a record 1,160 cases, Nikko Securities said yesterday. It was the sixth straight year-on-year rise. The money paid to ftind such deals doubled from
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        57 14 AFP [STUTTGART] German-US car giant DaimlerChrysler said yesterday that 1999 has been a banner business year for the group, which saw sales rise by 12 per cent and operating profit rise even faster. Publishing preliminary figures, it said that group sales amounted to a record 148
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      244 13 BANGKOK AFP THE millennium computer bug has struck early in Thailand, spoiling plans for a mass wedding of 2,000 foreign and Thai couples to usher in the New Year, organisers said on Monday. Flight cancellations by airlines concerned about Y2K have meant
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      676 13 NEW YORK Rush to stockpile food, withdraw cash from banks could cause disruptions NYT WITH three days until the year 2000, government officials, company managers and computer experts are waiting anxiously to see if the public will remain calm.
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      483 13 NYT [NEW YORK] "Ka-blam!" Edyth Florio, a third-grader at Public School 234 in Greenwich Village, responded assuredly. "Because the whole world is going to go bonkers." "The 2 is 2000, the K is for knockout, and Y? I have no idea," said 28-year-old
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      278 15  -  SGI Derivatives TmOln&Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed lower yesterday, snapping a four-day record-setting rally, dragged down by profittaking in the broad market. The undertone remained positive, however, with no impending signs of any sharp correction expected.
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      131 15  -  MS& Taiwan futures Lee Shu Weng Refco Singapore SIMEX MSCI Taiwan Stock Index January futures yesterday gained 0.2 of a point to 391.7 while the underlying MSCI cash index closed up 1.46 points at 385.22. The Taiwan Weighted Price Index had a choppy session during
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      239 15 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil was little changed yesterday as Venezuela said it will not ask Opec for permission to increase production to fund rebuilding projects, after massive damage earlier this month caused by floods and mudslides. Venezuelan
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      322 15 Reuters New York EUROPE'S single currency slipped against the dollar and yen yesterday in extremely illiquid trading as market players pushed through orders ahead of the last foreign exchange settlement date of the year. Breaking below its recent tight trading range as US trading unfolded, the euro fell
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      2858 16 HONGKONG AFP Hang Seng +95.01 HONGKONG share prices rose 0.6 per cent in brisk postChristmas trade to close at another all-time high yesterday, dealers said. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 95.01 points to close at 16,928.29, up from
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      999 16 Reuters Shenzhen B Index +LO6 SHENZHEN'S B shares gained ground yesterday as sentiment was lifted by recent strong gains on the Hongkong stock market. The B share index rose 1.08 points, or 1.33 per cent, to 82.46 on turnover of HK$lB million compared with Friday's HK$l3 million. There was
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      369 16 AFP QWP Index *33.77 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday in the last trading session of 1999. due to government support of the market, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 33.77 points to 8,448.84 on turnover of NT5193.58 billion. "The stock market
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      2042 16 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 *238.62 SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 1.3 per cent yesterday on buying in high-tech and telecoms issues, boosted by a planned two-for-one stock split by Sony Corp designed to attract investors, brokers said. "The market took heart from Sony's stock
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      425 17 AFP. AFX-Asia Composite Index +ILB7 MALAYSIAN shares ended 1.5 per cent higher yesterday due to final portfolio adjustments by investors ahead of the year-end. "It was the blue chips which saw the biggest gains but volumes were not hefty," said an institutional dealer at
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      674 18 AFP Index +0.51 THAI share prices closed little changed in range-bound trade yesterday, gaining 0.1 per cent amid selective buying in communications and chemicals, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index closed up 0.51 point at 466.96. Declining stocks led advancers 114 to 92, with 66 stocks unchanged
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      291 18 AFP Manila +1132 PHILIPPINE share prices ended 0.9 per cent higher yesterday on window dressing by fund managers as the year drew to an end, brokers said. The Composite Index rose 18.32 points to 2,118.39. Volume was 3.89 billion shares worth 1.33 billion pesos. —1» t— *h COOP) MRC
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      724 18 AFP C 3 Composite Index -416 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday as profit-taking in the absence of foreign investors reversed gains made the previous day, dealers said. An institutional dealer said the market in general "is under a profit-taking mood after the unexpected jump yesterday".
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      309 18 AFP Q Composite Index+22^4 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed at 1,028.07 points, up 22.34 points. Volume was 253 million shares worth 4.7 trillion won. AFP Ok 21 Anam S«mi 8320 -990 Brain Ttch 1600 -120 c#ntr* Bin. -2600 175 ClwilCoffini ***** 3600 Dm Gu Bank 3260
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      700 21  -  It wants to increase transhipment traffic from neighbouring small Bohai ports By, Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The Dalian Container Terminal (DCT) is embarking on the third phase in its development to attract more feeder cargo from surrounding Bohai Rim ports to increase
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      874 21  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer POR shipping 1999 has not been, as Seafarer noted last week, a particularly good year. So it is time to forget the past year's troubles and look ahead. In doing so, Seafarer will try to break away from his
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      171 21 [SINGAPORE] IMO secretary general William O'Neil (right) is to head the new advisory board for the Panama Canal following the official ceremony marking the end of US control of the waterway. The 11-strong committee will watch over the running of the canal as
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      178 21 AFP [MANILA] The operator of a passenger ferry which sank in central Philippine waters last week, killing at least 43 people, is to face criminal charges, the coastguard said yesterday. Commodore Herbie Escutin of the Cebu coastguard said the management of Trans-Asia Shipping will
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        77 21 [LONDON] The Honduran shipping register is to expand its expulsion programme to include a further 250 ships on top of the 750 it de-registered last month for not meeting a high enough standard. Owners of these ships have 60 days to comply with the new
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        81 21 [LONDON] Thirty insulated containers owned by Cerman shipping firm Hamburg Sud have been converted into emergency housing units for victims of the Turkish earthquake and have now been set up in the Izmit area. Hamburg Sud and affiliated firm Dr August Oetker Nahrungsmittel paid for
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        86 21 [LONDON] Pilots in the Panama Canal are due to vote on their new contract today. The new deal is 200 pages long and comes after eighteen months of negotiations and sometimes heated talks between the Pilots' Association and the waterway's management. The contract
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        832 22 Major cruise companies, all Y2K ready, enjoy profit boost by getting premium prices for millennium sailings Reuters [MIAMI] THE world's biggest cruise lines have made shipshape their own computers against Year 2000 (Y2K) glitches but still face possible electronic squalls arising at food vendors
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        198 35 Dec 30 Philippines: Rizal Day. Dec 31 Thailand: New Year's Eve. Jan 1 Malaysia: New Year Day. South Korea: New Year Day. Taiwan: News Year Day. Denmark: New Year's Day. Finland: New Year's Day. Germany: New Year's Day. Jan 2 South Korea: New Year. Jan 3 Australia: Market
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        812 35 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indi rated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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        622 36 Airports, airlines and air traffic control systems round the world are Y2K ready Reuters [MONTREAL. Canada] After investing some US$3 billion (Sss billion) to squash the Y2K bug. the global airline industry believes passengers can be assured of smooth flying
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        Lock icon Malaysia is Y2E bug free
        65 36 [SEPANG] A passenger looks at a Malaysia Airlines plane while waiting for his flight at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. Malaysia has declared itselffree of any risk from the Y2K millennium bug, saying all crucial sectors are prepared. Meanwhile, MAS is cancelling 32
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        Lock icon Sale leases second B777 to Emirates
        192 36  -  By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (Sale) has delivered a second, brand new Boeing 777-300 aircraft on operating lease to Emirates, following the delivery of the first Boeing 777-300, which is also on lease from Sale, early last month. Emirates will lease
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        59 36 [TOKYO] Katsuhiko Kawasoe, president of Japan's carmaker Mitsubishi Motors introduces the company s flagship car Dignity, which has a newly developed V 8 4.5-litre engine on the limousine style body, at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. Mitsubishi will put it on the domestic market on Feb 1,2000,
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        Lock icon Taiwan opts for Japan's bullet train
        391 36 Early front-runner Euro-Train suffers setback (TAIPEII Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corp will contract with Japan's Shinkansen to build its multibillion-dollar bullet train, officials said yesterday, in a setback for the EuroTrain consortium, the early front-runner. A Taiwan transport ministry official reached by telephone confirmed state
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        174 36 AFP [HANOI) The Vietnamese government has approved flights connecting the mountain resort city of Dalat with Singapore, an aviation official said yesterday. An official from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said the government office had approved in principle the establishment of
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      55 21 Into the new Millennium Everything's shipshape, say cruise lines page 2 No fear of flying, say airlines back pg Cairo or Congo. Sailing schedules to The African Continent. 2 4 hours a day in the Shipping Gui d e Fax-On -Demand hotline 740 6000. Another innovative service offered bv Thi
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