The Business Times, 12 June 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MtTA (F) 035/12/1999 1^ SINGAPORE, Internet http business-times.asial.com MONDAY. JUNE 12. 2000
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    79 1 FGBEX BATES USS St U8t LT% £(IS$/S$pw£) 1113 1110 EU80(U8|/St/E) tJM U49 DM 1*4? 8.843 YEH 1MJ IjBO KM SJM #.464 HKS 7.711 Mil BAHT 99.09 9044 RUP1AH 8,906 Itt' .wy \j.Kr6\j •st torn mm f PBIHE BATES V SINGAPORE* -W® KUALA LUMPUR 7.« JAKAKtA BANGKOK 9.60 MANILA 11.«
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    Lock icon Parting of the ways for Case, advertising standards body?
    784 1  -  I f Asas to meet today after Case withdraws secretariat, legal services over unpaid fees By' Tay Shi'an [SINGAPORE] The Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (Asas) the indus-try-led body that regulates advertising in Singapore has found itself at a crossroads following
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    Lock icon Hotel Plaza bets on spas to pull in tenants
    780 1  -  BTtJ'/JIIUMJ By Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] "If you want to open a spa to make money, I say better save it in the bank," says Tan-Wee Wei Ling, director of Hotel Plaza Ltd. "For us, the spa is a must, not
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    Lock icon Tokyo market watchers brace for likely spell of uncertain govt
    1143 1  -  All eyes are on the outcome of the crucial June 25 general election From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S majority Liberal Democratic Party played two major trump cards last week in what is becoming an increasingly bitter struggle to remain
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      103 1 IflffSXDEr BT Comment In a globalised world, Asia wIH have to depend on global institutions, says VHcram Khanna. 9§mxtPmgm Despite short-term weakness, Malaysian market may be a smart buy, writes Eddie Toh. Pg 11 i Arts Festival !V; Hf£f I Unicorn Theatre's charming production of Jemima PuddleDuck transports children to
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      900 2  -  I :j| comment ECONOMICS In a globalised economy. Asia, will have to depend on International <n«t<tnHrm gj in >>id« vikram khanna DESPITE more than a decade of high-level economic cooperation, Asian countries have yet to find a regional arrangement that can serve their
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      Lock icon US reports due this week could point to slower growth, inflation
      369 2 Housing starts seen lower, ulig nfirhangflrfl; signs of tech stock revival Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Reports due this week on retail sales, housing starts, factory output and consumer prices could very well point to slower US economic growth and tame inflation,
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      130 2 "9}k J|| 1 ifl/ON T BE AWAKE FOR ANOTHER When «<*> th* lostttipm p you get up at «a. a 'tba'P THREE HOURS I""* 1 I gom« ;t son obsession. tthich prec "'y the p.jirt behind the nt w Viper Ste el Metalwoods from T-'jy' Made, it up to on
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  • MICROSOFT split
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      809 3 Landmark anti-trust ruling shatters perception of Microsoft's invincibility NYT WHETHER Microsoft wins or loses its appeal of the anti-trust ruling that could break the company in two, its world has changed, perhaps forever. Some of the changes are linked to a growing belief that close government scrutiny
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon IPOs coming thick and fast is bad for digestion
      901 4  -  Two-thirds of 35 new listings this year are still trading below offer price; at least 25 more IPOs are in the works By Ling Su Ann THE Singapore stock market is set to see a record number of new listings this
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      Lock icon Lacklustre performance
      249 4 First half IPO roundup ■AMOUNT 18TQKV ||MHH JUNt IflH RASED CLOSE CLOSE M 2632 isbbb*-* 2 iisPi 173 mK a 6562 109 ***** ,."-''4 7 85 1792 IBHBQ- 24 pgitfinM *ag 0.515 |l' HI'i MM 93 059~ feW. r 0-425 ||ife f fIBW 2~66 90.7 0305 ijpi 0386
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      Lock icon Vickers canvasses support in full-page ad
      263 4 VICKERS Ballas took out a full-page newspaper advertisement yesterday to mobilise shareholder support for its merger with fellow listed broking house GKGoh. The open letter to Vickers shareholders in The Sunday Times was signed by its chairman Stephen Lee and cited the opinions of
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      Lock icon Hai Sun Hup plans expansion of hotel chain
      650 5  -  In South-east Asia, group is targeting Singapore, EL and Bangkok Byl Conrad Raj THE Hai Sun Hup group is trying to replicate its success story in Australasia, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In South-east Asia, the group is targeting the key cities
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      389 4 1 DAY SEMINAR FROM THE (sp*o*r.:) PIONEERS IN WAP AU-SYSTEM Mh# mtika s nlof CoMUltant OF SWEDEN AND IBM. *U System. Sweden Mr Palomald Managing Director, M-SECUMTY OUTLINE I|| H I| I I I 111 millllHlllimillllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlHllllllllllHllllimilllllHlHlHlliaig Overview of M-Security Signal paths and bearers M-Commerce fraud compared with fraud Cryptography and
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      327 4 HO WAH GENTING INTERNATIONAL LTD jj NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENBUL MEETMG NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-Sixth Annual General Meeting of HO WAH GENTING INTERNATIONAL UD win be held a I*2 Oul Chde. Singapore *****0 on Wednesday. 28 June 2000 at 11 A) an to transact the following ordinary
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      268 4 COMPANIES ACT. CAT. 91 AND IN THE MATTER OF L&TAN HOLDINGS PTE LTD Al an Extieunheary Gsnrral marling of the ebg»«iil Company duly comened and held 190 Middle Road. #14-01 Fortune Centre, Snuapnis *****9 on the Tdt June 2000 A* Special Resolution tat out below wm duty pmeed: "Reaolvad that
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      247 4 IN THf MATTBI Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND N4 THE MATTER Of BENXON SINGAPORE PTC UD (IN MEMBEIS VOUJNTAtY UOUWATON) Nona of RfsoumoN At on Extraordinary GtMfol MttttQ of fu Mooibofl of obovtAOlWld Co'npony duN con»ened and held at No 5 Upper #0306 Quartz Industrial Bidding. Sngopon *****3
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market will be hard put to sustain recent gains
      595 6  -  li comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan Having bounced back by as much as 7 per cent last week, the Singapore stock market looks distinctly overbought. Yet some market watchers believe it has at least another 5 per cent upside in the near
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      Lock icon SingLand warrant may ride higher on takeover rumour
      197 6  -  WUBAMT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan IT LOOKS like market speculation of a looming battle between Philippine tycoon John Gokongwei and banker Wee Cho Yaw for control of United Industrial Corporation is already sparking interest in Singapore Land. This UIC subsidiary would be
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      Lock icon Pacific Century breaks $14 resistance
      208 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan PACIFIC Century Regional Development sprang to life on Friday, topping the gainers list with a whopping $2.60 or 18 per cent rise to $16.90. This was its highest close since early April. The stock has retraced almost twothirds from its
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      103 6 ♦ARMSTRONG will be ft trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 0.20 cents) on JulyS. Last day for buying-in cum basis is on July 1L Date payable is on July 2S. ♦Straits Trading! Bonus Issue 0f59,400,0G0 new ordinary shares of SII.OO each in the the oompanyoß the buying-incmarambasisiion
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      Lock icon Countries' internal woes may dampen Asian units
      469 6 ASIAN currencies could dwindle this week as domestic worries make jittery investors scale back their holdings of regional units. The Indonesian rupiah should drift lower against the dollar as political uncertainty continues to roil the nation. The ongoing rift between President Abdurrahman Wahid
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      321 6 •■VS K«w ■-<yr, -Wv' .».*»TS« S DATACRAFT DATACRAFT ASIA LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (the "Company^ OFFER TO SINGAPORE REGISTERED SHAREHOLDERS ON THE BASIS OF FOUR (4) NEW SHARES FOR EVERY HUNDRED (100) SHARES HELD AS AT 8 JUNE 2000, FRACTIONS OF A NEW SHARE TO BE DISREGARDED
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      47 6 YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR CPF SAVINGS IN EICHT. important All applications for units in eight must be made on the application forms accompanying thf prospectus investors must reaa tfte prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as weiiasnse >I<| >r,s
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      Lock icon US April electronic parts orders fall
      316 7  -  ■T37Toh the economy electronics By« Jenifer Lien FOLLOWING a strong 63.7 per cent jump in March, new orders for electronic components in the US shrank 10.9 per cent year-on-year in April. This is against February's 41.7 per cent jump. All year-on-year comparisons are in
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      Lock icon SM, Chinese leader Li Ruihuan discuss globalisation trends
      283 7  -  SM Lee invited to Form after PM Bra From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew was yesterday welcomed by Li Ruihuan, chairman of s the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), at the Great Hall of the People
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      Lock icon Clash of hypermart giants expected within weeks
      696 7  -  Dairy Farm said to be advancing the opening of its first Giant hypermart in S'pore to this month By Kalpana Rashiwala IT will be a clash of the hypermarket heavies in just a few weeks when the Dairy Farm International group opens its
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      Lock icon New private home sales seen falling again in Q2
      581 8  -  But they should be better than Q1 as Q2 is traditionally most active, say analysts By Andrea Tan SALES of new private homes in the second quarter will continue to fall, its third straight quarter of decline year-on-year, but an improvement
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      Lock icon What does the Institute of Directors think?
      174 8  -  Lau Kian Hwa I CERTAINLY agree with John Soh's letter, "David Ban shareholders" (BT, June 9). A member of the board of directors has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. Remember, directors get paid directors' fees, which come directly or indirectly from shareholders'
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      1159 8 MeritaNordbankenGroup Merita Bank Pic Statement of accounts for tha year ended 31at December 1999 Consolidated Balance Sheet (Eur mutton) Consolidated Profit and Loss Account <eur mwton) 1999 1996 lfllS IMfi ASSETS Intereet Income 2 230 2 256 Liquid Marts 2411 798 Inlyt expensee -1 298 -1 36S DflW NCuridtt tor
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      Lock icon WorldCom, Sprint deal: EU voices concerns
      402 9 BRUSSELS Worries about reduced competition for top-level Net connectivity Reuters THE European Union's antitrust chief on Saturday issued another warning to US telecoms giants World Com Inc and Sprint Corp about potential competition problems surrounding their proposed merger. "We are at present examining the
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      Lock icon Hackers' shy and cool teenaged nemesis
      704 9 nana Uwitatota FBI aad Reuters [STOCKHOLM} The FBI, dMperate to trade down the source of the "Love Bug" computer virus last mouth, turned to a shy l»-yeer-okl Swedish student. Jonathan James hum mvtar the sootligh t after ha helped the world s moet famous
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      Lock icon Hackers shut down HK government Web site
      105 9 HONGKONG AFP HACKERS posted two messages on a government Web site, forcing it to be shut down fix* more than 10 hours, a government spokesman said yesterday. The home page of the Interactive Government Services Directory (IGSD) was shut down on Saturday after
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      Lock icon 20b marks for permit: Mobilcom
      151 9 BUEDELSDORF, Germany Bloomberg MOBILCOM AG, Germany's No. 3 long-distance telephone company, said it has more than 20 billion deutschemarks (5516.9 billion) available to bid for one of the nation's new mobile-phone licenses. "Our financing is fully in place," Mobilcom chief executive Gerhard Schmid said. France
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      241 9 J V v j/f--lit}-. t sl* A f T ONLY ONE THING YOU NEED TO YOUR CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP H BECOME A CUSTOMER. V mrf; Think how you'd like to be treated next time you deal y a Imagine whoever you however you chose to phone or fax they had the
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      1714 10 H FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) RESULTS FOB THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 20Q0 s. mi Financial Statement And Mvttfand Anrouncwnt Ha* year (o The Directors are pleased to make the following announcement of the unaudited results for the half year ended 31 March 2000:-
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      154 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 90 GKN VANDERVELL PTE LTD (la Member*' Vofoatary Liquidation) NomrF nr FINAI MEET-INT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT pursuant to Section 308 of the Coropaniea Act, cap. 30 that the final meeting of mem ben of the abovenamed company will be held
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      150 10 METHODS ft SERVICES PIE LTD (hVH.UpKrti) HMLNKTVW NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306 of the Compenias Act (Cap. 50) ttiit tha final fianeral Meeting of ttw Marotwri of ttw ibflyinamtd Owapay bt held it the Office of M/s Wee Seng Hono Co., 1 Coleman Street #06-10. The Adeipfil.
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Daim says he's 'absolutely loyal' to Mahathir
      398 11 KUALA LUMPUR Dismissing talk of rift, minister says he will net desert PH Reuters AFP DISMISSING speculation of a rift with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin said he is loyal to Dr Mahathir and they both worked in getting
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        Lock icon Mesdaq to shorton listing process
        56 11 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (Mesdaq) pfams to cut the listing process for IT companies from the present 78 days. Its chairman KhairllAnuar Abdullah said approval from Meedaq and the Securities Commission already took 38 working days provided
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        Lock icon Hutchison in technology venture
        48 11 Reuters [HONGKONG] Hutchison Whampoa (China) Ltd has formed a Joint venture with ChitaaPutian Industrial Corporation to focus on optical transmission technology Called Chongqing Hutchison Optel Tetecom Technology Co Ltd (Optel), the venture will have a total initial investment of 143 million yuan (5529.6 million).
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        Lock icon New head for Gudang Garam
        44 11 Reuters [SPRABAYA] Shareholders ofindooesla's largest cigarette maker PTGudang Garam picked Djajusman Suijowijono as the new president director late on Friday, replacing Rachman Halim. A company spokesman said ot Saturday that Mr PWusman had previously headed the firm's Jakarta aßkx.—Reuters
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      Lock icon M'sian market may be a smart buy
      752 11  -  B-I i comment KL STOCKS Fundamentals are Improving, the eonntry Is back on the radar screens of foreign tads eddie toh THE Malaysian stock market has finally been reinstated in the Morgan Stanley Capital International indices but investors greeted the news by dumping
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      Lock icon Expats rate Singapore's legal system best in Asia
      336 11 SINGAPORE InJueria, China, YtotMun rated worst in Perc survey AFP THE legal systems of Singapore, Japan and Hongkong are ranked as the best in Asia by expatriate businessmen, while those of Indonesia, China and Vietnam are rated as the worst, according to
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      Lock icon Thai bourse seeks tax breaks to spur trades
      313 12 BANGKOK Listed firms should be taxed less than unlisted ones, long-term investors should have tax breaks on griMi SET president Reuters THE Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and leading local brokers want tax breaks to encourage companies to list on the bourse,
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      Lock icon Don't call your Thai broker
      233 12 BANGKOK Reuters STOCK trading in soccer-crazy Thailand is likely to be thin this week as local dealers stay up late to watch Europe's football championship, traders say. Local dealers dominate the Thai bourse and have accounted for about 70 per cent of Stock Exchange of
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      Lock icon China-Taiwan trade jumps 30% in Jan-April
      170 12 SHANGHAI Reuters d TRADE between Taiwan and China increased more than 30 per cent year-on-year in the first four months of 3000 despite tension between the two diplomatic adversaries, the China Dat& Business Weekly reported yesterday. In the January to April period, China-Taiwan trade
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      Lock icon China to sell assets of 4 debt-laden banks
      171 12 SHANGHAI Miniflftmaat firms te repackage part of the debt as equity Reuters CHINA'S asset management companies are preparing to sell assets taken over from the debt-laden "big four" state banks, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. Asset management firms China Huarong
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      Lock icon Satyam Computer plans US$310m US share sale
      203 12 BOMBAY l Bloomberg SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, India's fifth-largest software maker, plans to raise US$3lO million (***** million) through the sale of American depositary receipts. The company has applied to India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board, the body that recommends foreign investment to the
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      463 11 w b• HORIZOINI.COM Notice Of Annual Gwierat Meeting HOM7QH.COM LIMITED (Incorporated In Sngipon) Notice Is HEREBY GIVEN that the Ist Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company wi be held on to transact the following business: AS PIMM MART BUSINESS 1. Jorecefre and oonelder toe Director*' Report end
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      227 12 The new Infinity ■nHpy funds, naturally their potential mm u m is infinite. Imagine, if you invested US$lO,OOO into the Standard Poor's 500 index in 1995, your investment would be worth over USS3O.OOO* today! This translates into a remarkable 25.3% return every year, for the past five years. The Infinity
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      206 13 Some people are being recognised by even more airlines than before. Are you one of them? M r A I With Aer Lingus and Lan Chile now part of oneworld™, isn't it nice to know that international travel will be even ftSi Cathay Pacific <; H easier? Our alliance will
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Satyam Computer to raise US$310m
      236 14 BOMBAY lbMf to be raised through the sale rfADBa Bloomberg SATYAM Computer Services Ltd, India's fifth-largest software maker, plans to raise US$3lO million (***** million) through the sale of American depositary receipts. The company has applied to India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board, the body that
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      Lock icon Mori: Japan has bottomed out but pump-priming still needed
      503 14 TOKYO Expansionary policy required as recovery not yet assured, he says Reuters Bloomberg JAPAN'S Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, in his most substantive remarks on the economy since taking office in April, said on Saturday the economy had bottomed out but the
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      Lock icon Noodle shop adds slurp to Mori's slips
      139 14 TOKYO Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's repeated verbal gaffes keep landing him in hot water with the public but that could become good news for noodle lovers. Ramen noodle shop owner Akihiro Iwata has decided to poke fun at Mr Mori's sagging
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      Lock icon Assad made Syria Middle East power pivot
      404 14 osmujtT NYT [PARIS] The death on Saturday of Hafez Assad, the Syrian strongman who skilfully kept his nation a pivot of political power in the Middle East, brought expressions of both apprehension and cautious hope for stability from regional and world leaders. In
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      Lock icon Experts split over threat from growing US trade gap
      422 15 WASHINGTON NYT IF THIS bionic economy has a soft underbelly, it may be trade. As Americans gorge on imported cars, electronics, clothing and other goods from abroad, the nation's trade deficit has swollen to record proportions, leaving economists and policy-makers increasingly
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank at risk of hostile bids, says CEO
      626 15 FRANKFURT 53b euro market value is too low, making bank vulnerable after failure of Dresdner merger Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Bank, Europe's largest, Is vulnerable to a potential hostile bid after the collapse of its planned merger with Dresdner Bank in April, chief
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      Lock icon Are you a chief executive officer? Beware as heads are a-rolling
      390 15 Tip czicft live seel mfl| tf —mirkft; bapstiWEt suckMisrs AFP [WASHINGTON] Heads are rolling at Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola and Mattel as several top executives have been fired in the past month. The chief executive officers are victims of
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      Lock icon Bass looking at Whitbread, Starwood
      453 17 LONDON It aims to expand its leisure business after selling its beer unit: reports Bloomberg BASS pic, owner of the Holiday Inn and Inter-Continen-tal hotels, is looking at Whitbread pic and Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide Inc to expand its lodging and leisure business after the
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      Lock icon Egg market cap expected to top £1.3b
      476 17 LONDON Shares of Prudential's Net banking unit to debut today Reuters PRUDENTIAL pic, the British insurance company, said yesterday it expected shares in its Internet bank Egg, due to float today, would be priced at 160 pence each. The price is towards the
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      299 19 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks may have completed a cyclical downturn and this week are expected to build a strong base at current levels from which to relaunch an assault on the 18,000 level over the next three months, analysts say. "The market in
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      855 19 H Sydney +5J AUSTRALIAN shares will be hostage this week to US data being released and a key speech by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, brokers said. Australian markets are closed for a public holiday today. Colonial State Bank economist, Craig James, warned that the market
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      419 19 NEW YORK Soft economic data, benign inflation news lower odds that Fed will np rates AFP INVESTORS continued to show renewed confidence this week in the high-technol-ogy companies listed on the Nasdaq exchange, while the Dow industrials slipped slightly. The Nasdaq climbed
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      430 19 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are expected to bounce back this week after Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) data released on Friday confirmed its gradual economic improvement, analysts said. Both domestic and foreign investors should react positively to the economic growth
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      332 19 LONDON AFP LONDON share prices fell during a week of lacklustre trade that saw key investors shy to the sidelines and ponder ftiture movements in US interest rates. All eyes were turned towards the US, where dealers awaited producer price data,
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      224 20 AFP Q Composite lata -2UC MALAYSIA'S stock market may see some bargain-hunting this week but investors will stay cautious till they see that it has stabilised, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange composite index ended Friday at 861.30, up 19.06 points on the day
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      678 24  -  Unicorn Theatre's charming production of Jemima Puddle-Duck transports children to a world of make-believe, reports p arv athi ma yah PARVATHI NAYAR PORGET animals on stage that look like stuffed toys. In Unicorn Theatre's charming Jemima Puddle-Duck and Her Friends, imagination converts scarves into
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      280 25 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young A VERY active and interesting week has seen a riae in the number of sales of mainstream tonnage reported, although there are still questions over sotne deals. Venois sold far farther trading ♦Lucty Wealth: 43,686 tdw bitB9Tsuneishicrs4/80ts. •Lucky Fortune: Sistership bit 90 TsuneiahL
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      303 25 Armed stowaways believed to be holding ship for political asytam in Europe AP [BOMBAY] Fourteen armed stowaways have hijacked an India-bound Italian cargo vessel, demanding safe passage to Europe, an official said yesterday. The ship, with 25 crew on board, Is reported
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      226 25 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's maritime shipping companies experienced a steep increase in acts of piracy at sea last year, mainly in South-east Asian waters, and this year could be even worse, according to a study by the Nippon Foundation. The survey of 138 Japanese shippers
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      663 25  -  UMBRSGENB By David Hughes THERE have been some interesting straws in the wind over the past couple of weeks that give some idea of the way the liner shipping industry is going. The consolidation process would, at least at first glance, appear
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      376 25  -  Shippers to pay US$4O par FEU, US$32 per TEU, US$2 per revenne tonne By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Rising marine fuel prices have again translated into fUel surcharges by container shipping lines moving cargo from the US to Asia. The 12 major shipping lines that comprise
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        418 26  -  Reports by, David Hughes in London THE final report on the sinking of the bulk carrier Flare two years ago has pinpointed insufficient ballasting in poor weather and unresolved structural defects as the main causes of the tragedy. Twenty-one of the ship's 25-man crew
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        254 26 THE International Association of Classification Societies (lACS) could find itself in court over its expulsion of associate member Polski Rejestr Statkow (PRS). The director of Greecebased Seabirds Maritime, Manolis Tripodakis, has threatened to sue lACS after one of his company's ships, classed by PRS,
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        155 26 HONGKONG-based operator Wah Kwong could be delisted from the Hongkong and London stock exchanges if a planned share buyout by president George Chao and stakeholder Bocimar succeeds. The two have made a US$O.72 per share public offer for the 57.7 per cent stake not owned
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          126 26 THE UK's shipping minister Keith Hill has said he believes that ro-ro ferries operating to and from UK ports will meet their deadlines for compliance with the 1996 Stockholm Agreement, which set up tougher rules in the wake of the Estonia sinking. His comments come
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          49 26 UK-BASED liner firm Contahip Containerlines is launching a new weekly service between Singapore, the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East Gulf. The Galex service will begin operating from June 22, although Contship has not yet announced how many ships it will use cxi the service.
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          60 26 A small Chinese-flag bulk carrier has sunk following a collision in the East China Sea, although all crew were rescued safely. The 8,070 dwt 1978-built Hai Rong Jand the *****6 dwt Maltese-flag bulk carrier Joint Miriam collided on the evening of June 2. The lightly damaged Miriam
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          86 26 TWENTY-three crewmen were rescued after the 6,562 dwt cargo ship Spring Breeze sank in the Indian Ocean. The crew abandoned the 1900-built St Vincent-flag vessel after the engine room flooded and it developed a 2S degree list All were picked op by the 68.100 dwt
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          106 26 THE Iranian government plans to give up a 68 per cent stake in National Iranian Tanker Company to two state pension flinds on the country's stock exchange. Although these two new shareholders are still part of the state infrastructure, the move could signal the beginning of
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          80 26 UK shipbuilder Harland and Wolff (HAW) has laid off *0 workers in its shipbuilding division. The move by the' troubled shipyard is part of its Ud to trim staff levels toa oore of 1,601 In tobofldtagdlviskm. cutting costs before any money from prospective orders for
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        759 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranee* in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehenaive description of the market Prices shown are baaed on averagestzed stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the individual
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        417 40 BAE said to be holding back nod nntil Airbus revamp snap resolved AFP [PARIS] The superjumbo jet A3XX "will be launched", the future co-president of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co (EADS), Philippe Camus, told Radio Classique here last Saturday. "I make
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        479 40 It's first company to publicly show interest in 747 X Bloomberg [LONDON] Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd said last week it wanted to buy Boeing Co's 747 X jetliner as well as Airbus Industrie's A3XX, becoming the first company to say publicly that
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        203 40 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian air cargo firm Transmile Group Bhd said last Friday it was eyeing new routes to Bangkok, Taiwan and Shanghai by the year-end. The company had landing rights in Asian cities but had not utilised all of them,
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        417 40 Reuters [BANGKOK] Asia-Pacific airlines have become leaner and more powerful competitors in the global market after the regional financial crisis of 1997 and 1998, Ralph Robins, the chairman of Rolls Royce, said last Thursday. The airlines had achieved improvement by dramatically reducing their
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        275 40 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European airlines' traffic grew 12.7 per cent in April from a year ago, an industry group said on Saturday, as carriers filled a record number of seats on North Atlantic routes. Airlines filled eight in 10 of their seats on North Atlantic
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        59 40 [BERLIN] People on Saturday watching airplanes at the International Aentspace Exhibition (ILA) in Berlin-Schoenefeld. Thearganisers art keeping ckmtabson visitor headcaunt in the hopesqfachieving anew record of visitors at the weekend Mort thtm 900 companies from 38 countijes display the latest technology tn aviation and aeronautic* at the ILA.
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        396 40 Italian carrier may claim damagM against Dutch airline for alliance break-up Bloomberg [ROME] Alitalia SpA, Italy's flagship air carrier, said it may ask former partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV to pay it as much as 250 million euros (*****.1
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      881 42  -  Exclusive Net explosion and strong economic recovery are driving regional growth w Toh Han Shih THREE satellite industry players investing heavily in Asia say the main driver of satellite demand in Asia is the Internet. The three —Intelsat, Interpacket Networks and Arianespace took
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        45 42 OCBC Bank has selected SunGard Business Integration "to facilitate delivery of critical e-commerce services to its customers and partners", SunGard said. SunGard, Ibmerty celkd Mirt Scibnure Tsdm<*i|iee» provides middleware and enterprise application integration solutions for the financial services faidntry.
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        34 42 I~OM m Imiln— iiliwrfTnimi Taxas4»sed DA Consulting Group (DACG), has set up its headquartersln Singapore. The outfit—at >: iPOTP mm—win offiw e-frwrtiwp c»r>KMU>ng and gytMiin integration in the 828, MCaadCatp
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        48 42  -  -n \§m iir Tang Weng Fai THE Asia Business Forum will hold a two4ayconlBrenoe on July 10 at the A SEMINAR on the use of its open PDF technology incrj,, Inn Parkview HoteL It is oJSinlsed by Adobe Systems. For details, e-mail i y-/
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      580 42  -  The giant also plans to build a 50,000 sq ft data centre By Andrew Wee US TELECOM giant MCI World Com plans to wire up IS buildings here by this year-end, senior company executives told BizlT at trade fair CommunicAsia
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      Lock icon CommunicAsia sets new records
      685 44  -  i exclusivel Thirty four per cent or about 15,000 visitors to the show, were foreigners By] David Boey THE curtains came down at CommunicAsia 2000 last Friday after a hectic four-day run, but not before the trade show set new benchmarks for exhibition space sold and
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      474 44  -  t exclusive By Kenneth James THE size of its pavilion and battery of announcements at CommunicAsia2ooo last week said it all. Lucent Technologies is pulling out all the stops in its bid to be a giant among giants in the booming Asia-Pacific telecommunications
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      428 45  -  Leggy beauties, male dancers and freebies help pull in the crowds By\ David Boey NOW for something completely different. Communications firms and IT players who set up shop at CommunicAsia 2000 last week boldly shed their staid geek and geekette image by treating visitors to
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      293 45  -  Ascom phones bought by Sing Tel and Star Hub By\ Kenneth Lee STARHUB and Sing Tel have both bought multimedia payphones from Swiss telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ascom in a push to provide public Internet-based services. Ascom Payphone and Multimedia Systems, the group's payphone division, has
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      676 46  -  i we see I Wireless could make the biggest difference of the emerging technologies, and not just because of the convenience kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor COMMUN I C A SLA2OOO, the communications mega-show that ran here all of last week,
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      695 46  -  SAY I i M Firms most protect their digital Identity mickey beyer clausen The writer is co-founder vice-president (business development). Speednames Inc According to reports, Bill Gates is trying to stop auctioning of www.billgates.co.uk for close to £2 million (555.2 million). The Salt Lake Organising
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      1304 49  -  Setting up a separate online bank is the easiest and fastest option, as no integration is needed with the bank's legacy IT systems, write AMITAVA BISWAS and ROB BKI'KKK AMITAVA BISWAS, ROB BECKER Mr Biswas is a consultant in McKinsey's Bangkok office, and Mr
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      663 50  -  Futuristic phones that cater to your lifestyle to become a reality By, Jane Cheong IMAGINE this: You board an SBS bus, and your bus fare is automatically paid by your mobile phone. Or maybe you are watching an Oscar-worthy movie and you want to send its trailer
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        88 50 HOMEGROWN MG Logic has launched Create (above), an advanced electronic pen and tablet, targeted at home, school and office users. The pressuiv-eensitive tablet comes with a pen and holder, and connects to a serial or USB (Universal Serial Bos) port on PCs or Macs.
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        42 50 8.2, the newest version of the company's solid modelling suftwms. It comes with over 300 enhwnrwnwmts, includes s unified modelling engine and supports two leading component modelling kernels, AcisandParaeoiid.lt worts with Windows and costs $8,000. For details, fex *****41.
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        75 50 itiF*- IF* «li "M GBS International Ltd has branched a new series ofLCD monitors under the DMC brand. Hie DMC iView LCD auditors come in a rotatable 15-inch or 18.1-iach flicker free flat-panel displays designed for office use. The monitors take 30 par cent less
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        55 50 BSS Softwares Singapore has announced Golden Nuggets, a software targeted at human resource managers in indurtry .lt Is targeted at small and medium enterprises, and comes with features to motivate, train and retain staff It is distributed hew hy Advance Intelligent Solutions Pte Ltd and costs
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        62 50 FUJI Xerox will this week debut its new Phaser7so colour laser printer that it says offers "superior networking, greater resolution and fester speed than comparable printers". The $5,296 printer is from its recent acquisition of Tektronix, offers 1,200 dots per inch resolution and "produces the sharpest colour
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        58 50 PHILIPS Electronics Singapore has introduced its Brilliance 150P LCD flat-panel monitor (above) that accepts both analogue and digital input. It offers 1,024 by 788 pixel resolution on a 15.1-inch active matrix screen, has built-in stereo speakers, microphone and headphone jack, and offers both tilt and swivel
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        61 50  -  Raju Chellam XIRCOM Asia-Pacific has launched a schanefia-end-users and companies to upgrade to Xircom's RealPort2 Integrated PC cards, till Nov 30. It allows users to trade in their installed PC cards of any brand for cash rebates ranging from US$l5 to US$3O to buy Xircom's integrated card
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      335 51  -  The Silicon Graphic 230 runs a choice of Windows NT or Linux on Intel Pentium 111 and Xeon processors By' Tang Weng Fai US-BASED high-per-formance computer manufacturer SGI Inc has launched new graphics workstations which target the volume market. SGI launched its new entry level
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      197 51 Bloomberg [STAMFORD, Connecticut] Xerox Corp named outsider Michael Paige director of the No 1 copier company's Palo Alto Research Center, where the laser printer and the computer mouse were invented. He replaces John Seely Brown, the scientist who is stepping down after 10 years
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      372 51  -  By Kenneth Lee LARA Croft's got a new friend in cyber space—tall, cute and minus the firepower. Launched last Wednesday by MTV and Ericsson, the equally-delectable LiLi is Asia's first virtual video-jockey (VJ), who will appear on MTV and interact with viewers. LiLi will
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      646 51 Reuters [SEATTLE] The factory floor of Photo Works Inc, where rows of workers busily process thousands of rolls of film amid the roar of machinery and the acrid reek of chemicals, screams "Old Economy". But in a quiet, air-condi-tioned room, the Seattle-based company boasts a
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        914 52  -  ThereH be a WAP hangover in the short term, but experts are optimistic over the long-term prospects for Wireless Internet toe bak shih learns TOH HAN SHIH HERE'S a caution for aspiring dotcoms with wireless aspirations. Wireless Internet has a strong long-term future but don't be
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        74 52 IN April 2000, using search engines/portals was the most common activity for surfers in all these countries, as surveyed by Nielsen//Netßatings. Telecom/Internet Services were the next most popular. Travel, which might have been expected to be more popular, was only No 11 in the US. ct unique Web
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          Lock icon Traders Hotel gets wired
          38 52 HIGH speed Internet acceee will come to the Traders Hotel in July when its rooms, bustnflee csutreand 11 ftmction rooms are wired up. The hotelwfll latmch portal where guests can review their ram bflb.
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          66 52 HOMEGROWN Woridßemind.com hat introduced its free wireless reminder service targeted at businesees which wi& be able to send reminders via email pagan- j snd mobile phones. This service, free for Sing Tel users, L wui ds avauaoie to otner teiecom operator! soon. viszc www.woridremind.conL The company plans
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          Lock icon New portal to target WAP surfers
          52 52 HOMEGROWN GenWAP.com will launch its Internet WAP (wireless application protocol) portal {wwwjenMHpjcom) in early Amort targeted at WAP surfers. Key features of this portal include the Orktopes WAP search engine, localised content and set-up I #,1 1 11 fci IX7 A Q miormaoon for
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          25 52 ICON.NET Pte Ltd haslambedan online service technology and various building blocks an available to [ffTtll SO* 1 ttllfr 1 Malaysia by year-end.
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          Lock icon Succous for Catcha.com
          47 52 MORE than half a million members have registered with lees than a year after it launched its first South-east Aalan portals. Members from Singapore and Malaysia mate up 70 psr cent of those registered. Tht company hopes to have one million members by endJOOO.
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          52 52  -  Jeyee Keh ASlACONTgW.COMhasttedapwithSportriine.com Inc sn4Bports.com Limited to taancb a sporting Web site (tg.sports.com) in Singapore. "Hie portal will contain news on a wide range at local and international sports. The three companies will roll out similar sitae in Asia with the next scheduled to South Korea later
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      91 42 Russian Scientists.com, a subsidiary of Acma Ltd, has successfully placed a number of Russian IT programmers for Singapore based companies. The programmers are based at our Moscow office and work online with their Singapore supervisors. The feedback has been that the quality of Russian programmers is very good and the
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