The Business Times, 14 August 2000

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MJJ^iP^o«4^/1999 85$ SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 com.sg/ MONDAY. AUGUST 14, 2000
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  • 57 1 CTOClKAIIETIllDHaS Ifeek Changp Tlu SOISCI FUTURES -.276.79 +5.30 BT8RI 825.92 +14.79 I KLSECOMP. 892.53 --12.46 NIKKEI 16,117.56....+459.14 HANG SENG 17.IRe._--211.28 SET INDEX .316.69. +5.18 JAKARTA COMP 596.79 +11.63 MANILA COUP 1,474.86. +23.68 TAIPEI IF! 7,974.66....+133.22 SEOUL OOMP ***** +1121 CLSA CHINA B. 1,299.91—+77.84 AU8T ALL080 3J70.19-+3169 DOW JONES
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  • 630 1  -  iHUiibiMiMEßaAfl Value of regional investments down 2.4%t0£&97bin first half of year From Neil Behrman inLondon ASIA-PACIFIC equities are falling out of favour with UK investment funds, their value shrinking 2.4 per cent in the first six months of this year even though the
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  • 761 1  -  It's to update himself on developments in last 10 years, he tells reporters Reports by Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who is leaving for a four-day working visit to Malaysia today, dismissed speculation in the regional press that
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  • 166 1 [SINGAPORE] It is becoming more crucial for stock exchanges around the world, including bourses in Singapore and Malaysia, to join forces with their counterparts to meet the challenges and increasing pressure from new economic forces, says Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Speaking to
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  • 165 1 St&nch&rt the other final bidder for HE retail business Bloomberg (HONGKONG] Chase Manhattan Corp has selected UK-based Standard Chartered pic and Singapore's DBS Group Holdings as the final two bidders for its Hongkong retail business, the Oriental Daily News reported, without citing
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    • 198 1 1 eWOS debacle >*, IPOs: Much needs to be done. g£* Next Page i t %•*< ffc Bad stock calls a or ratings. Mai I bag. Pg 9 POWER Mot banking on New Econo A/ex? Pacje ART 2 Pg 14 hands up if you'd like to save money on *2
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    • 878 2  -  In wake of the ill-fated eWOS listing, SGX must consider more stringent disclosure rules for issue managers 4 r sivanithy THE ill-fated eWorldofSports.com (eWOS) listing has made it clear that the IPO business in Singapore is still evolving and that much can be done to
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    • 936 2  -  ECONOMICS Banks will need to adapt to the way SMEs do business not the other way round vikram khanna WHAT role are local banks going to play in the New Economy? I was reminded of this surprisingly little-explored question when I recently spoke with
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 440 3  -  nsnEEEsn By* Andrea Tan AS the highest-ranked medical officer in the Singapore Armed Forces, he commanded instant respect, drew a fat salary and had job security. But Colonel (NS) Benjamin Ng, 43, gave it all up and ventured into the uncertainty of
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    • 665 3  -  Shares of first golf specialist to go public here will be attractively priced By\ Ven Sreenivasan SPECIALIST golf equipment distributor Transview Holdings has got the go-ahead for a mainboard initial public offering, making it the first golf specialist to go public in Singapore. Transview
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    • 500 5  -  Wee Cho Yaw's firm may develop 10-12 cluster homes in the freehold site Ry\ Kalpana Rashiwala UOB chairman Wee Cho Yaw's privately-held Kheng Leong Company is understood to have bagged the La Mansion apartment block at Goldhill Avenue put up for
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  • CORPORATE results
    • 1094 4 The MAS is clearly succeeding in its mission to get local banks to adopt world-class reporting practices Ify Paul Thompson IN a week that witnessed the customary National Day celebrations and accompanying fireworks, the interim company reporting season temporarily fizzled out with
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    • 104 4 As at Friday, 68 SGX-Jisted companies had released their financial results for the half year ended June 30, 2000. Together they recorded $3,977.6m in group earnings, a gain of 26.9% over 1999. The total included 10 foreign companies listed here. If they were excluded, total earnings would be
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 613 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy THE frustrating thing about trying to guess the direction of the stock market is how quickly stories and views can be changed to suit the circumstances. Much, it seems, depends on the momentum at any particular point in time since there is
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    • 197 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy PROPERTY blue chip City Developments has been quietly creeping up, yet the Goldman Sachs covered warrant has hardly budged. At just eight cents, this instrument ought to have been swept up in the speculative frenzy that seems to be
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    • 249 6  -  HOT STOCK Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of electronics contract manufacturer JIT Holdings soared 82 cents or 27 per cent to $3.90 on Friday after Thursday's surprise announcement of its $640 million merger deal with Nasdaq-listed Flextronics. About 31 million shares changed hands on Friday,
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    • 147 6 ♦The board of directors of Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Ltd said that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Bowden Industries Ltd, has formed a new subsidiary called Clipsal International Trading (Shanghai) Co, Ltd. Incorporated in the People's Republic of China with a US$l.5 million (552.6 million) issued and paid-up capital.
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    • 532 6 THE Indonesian rupiah should be energised this week by diminishing political worries, while evidence of strong growth in the Lion City should keep the Singapore dollar firm. Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has once again shown he's a wilier politician than most
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    • Article, Illustration
      441 6 AugB Source: JM Stocks Volume ReedGrp5c 104,879,000 PNE Ind 10c 53,866,000 SMRT10C 53,227,000 IPC020c 50,308,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 49,842.000 TTInt15c 38,888,000 FHTK HkJgs 20c 36,473,000 ITechGrp4c 34,782,000 JITHIdgs 10c 32,874,000 Links Island 10c 32,561.000 S OCBC 199,793,879 DBSGrp 186,779,344 PacificCentury 173,640,601 Chart Semiconductor 26c 140,618,340 Nat Else 10c 130,660,432 JITHIdgs 10c
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  • TRADE awards
    • 1095 7  -  What sets Venture Manufacturing apart is the host of value-added services it offers and the personal touch with which it delivers them, writes David Boey David Boey VENTURE Manufacturing Ltd treasures its relationships with its customers so much that several of its workers hardly spend a
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 715 8  -  The company strives to achieve an extra level of technical support, its managers tell Andrew web ANDREW WEE WHEN it comes to onsite and value-add-ed services, Canon Marketing Services Pte Ltd is one Singapore company that goes the extra mile,
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    • 361 8  -  They will help Knight Frank restructure and boost its property management division By Kalpana Rashiwala COLLIERS Jardine's property management stalwart Jordan Neo, who has quit the firm, is joining rival firm Knight Frank, along with colleagues Michael Tan and Michael Yeo, say sources.
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    • 306 8  -  By\ Eugene Low SINCE its implementation almost 20 years ago, Singapore's use of an exchange rate policy has been highly effective in keeping inflation at bay, OUB Bank said in a report. "The steady appreciation of the Singapore effective exchange rate has been a
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    • 536 9  -  Exports, domestic consumption not enongh to generate jobs or increase GDP, warns SM Lee By\ Eugene Low WHILE South-east Asia's economies may be springing back from the financial crisis, foreign investment inflows into the region need to increase if the recovery is
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    • 631 9  -  MAiLrrr^M Ong Ghee Heng Jeffrey ATTENTION has been drawn recently to the poor stock recommendations made by research analysts. As investors increasingly look towards the "experts" for advice on stocks, the experts seem to be giving recommendations through rose-tinted glasses, often
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    • 87 9  -  Denis Distant TRADING in the shares of Kinta Kellas pic has remained suspended on SGX since the fiasco which saw the shares being incorrectly classified as a Clob counter by both SGX and KLSE. That issue was resolved a few weeks ago. The
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    • 132 8 CATERING Sniff out a spread of yummy treats here. CATA The Straits Times Classified PAMA This announcement appears as a matter of record only The Company and the Financial Adviser are pleased to announce the completion of The Debt Restructuring Term Loan Facility to the Value of US$ 38,727,223 to
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  • e-NEWS
    • 552 10 NEW YORK New joint venture service with dealers aims to offer all makes of cars NYT IN THE biggest concession by a carmaker that the Internet is transforming its business, General Motors has proposed a joint venture with its dealers to establish
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    • 421 10 SEOUL New roles will force networks to allow access to a rival ISP Bloomberg KOREA will open up access to Asia's largest high-speed Internet market, forcing companies to allow rivals to use their networks to connect subscribers. The Ministry of Information and
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    • 86 10 [FRANKFURT] Taxi driver Lothar Mossmann demonstrates how his customers can pay with mobile phones, as he waits outside the main train station in Frankfurt, Germany. He is among the 300 cabbies taking part in one of Germany's first experiments in so-called m-commerce, which
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    • 314 10 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia It fires 185 people and will reorganise as a business helping others fulfil online orders Bloomberg VALUE America Inc. an Internet retailer that attracted high-profile investors with its "virtual" operating model, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it closed
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    • 672 10 NEW YORK Reuters MORE men than women shop online, two-thirds of women believe cybersex is cheating, and many older surfers are using e-mail to cut phone bills, a major survey on US Internet habits said on Friday. Another poll,
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 569 11 JAKARTA Markets hopeful that new team can snstain upturn in stock prices, rupiah AFP INDONESIANS, not to mention the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are nervously awaiting the selection of a new government economic team amid hopes the fresh line-up can sustain a sharp improvement
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    • 419 11 YANGON Fall sparks fears of govt intervention in the economy AFP MYANMAR's currency, the kyat, has spiralled to an all-time low against the US dollar, triggering fears of a major government anti-infla-tion intervention in the economy. On the black market, the truest
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    • 140 11 MANILA AFX-Asia THE Philippine central bank will review the effectiveness of its financial instruments in mopping up or infusing market liquidity, central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said. "We will take a look at whether our overnight (facilities), one-month and two-week windows are still
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    • 220 11 JAKARTA AFP THE Indonesian government will audit five more state firms in line with its commitment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and has already started to look at international auditors for the job, reports said last Saturday. "We
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    • 418 12  -  Stock exchange, SEC officials to discuss its implications Prom. Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINES Stock Exchange (PSE) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials meet this week to thresh out the implications of a new law which has exacerbated the share market's depressed mood. Up
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    • NOTE Book
      • 62 12 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The private sector wants the peg on the Malaysian currency at RM3.80 (551.71) per US dollar to remain for the time being, said Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin. He said the private sector felt the move to peg the ringgit
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      • 44 12 Bernama fKUALA LUMPUR] Bank Negara Malaysia said on Saturday that the investigations on Platinum l-am> Sdn Bhd were continuing. It raided the company on Aug 8 to gather evidence to prosecute the operators for an illegal deposit-taking scheme. Bernama
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      • 55 12 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan is considering importing water from China for residents of islands near the mainland An economic ministry report has called for the constructs of a 25 km undersea water pipeline to Kinmen island from the town ofWeito in China's south-eastern Fujiar province, the
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      • 41 12 AFX-ASIA [NEW DELHI] Industrial production grew 5.4 per cent in the first quarter to June, down from 5.7 per cent in the same period last year, according to figures released by the Central Statistical Organisation. —AFX-ASIA
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    • 727 12  - HK dotcoms —real GEM or passing comet? HK STOCKS Even the high profile Tomxom hasn't been &ble to stop bleeding or keep Investors' faith aUre quak hiang whai ONCE upon a time, Tom.com was the greatest company in the universe. Thousands of punters were battling in the streets across the
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    • 322 13 BEIJING While many cities have big plans few have succeeded duetoalackoffnnds AFP CHINA is expecting about US$l6 billion (5527.4 billion) to be invested in building subways and other rail systems in the next five years to ease traffic problems in large cities, state
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    • 225 13 NEW DELHI It fidb to near* km rf 4MB t» IB Mar tat nstrcn AFP INDIA'S central bonk oo Friday tried to rescue the rupee as the national currency plummeted to a record low baton stabilising somewhat at the end of trade. The Reserve Bank
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    • 174 13 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE finance officials yesterday vowed to step up tax collection efforts and keep a tight lid on expenditure, warning that if Manila exceeded its budget deficit target this year it would harm its reputation. Finance Secretary Jose Pardo said the government would
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    • 178 13 BEIJING AFP CHINA has named two new deputy heads of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, the government's top agency dealing with Taiwan policy, officials said. Zhou Mingwei, previously head of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, and Wang Zaixi, a major general,
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  • INDONESIA politics
    • 1679 14  -  Shadows of Sukarno and Suharto loom as Indonesia's leadership crisis enters explosive phase hrorn 1 Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta INSIDE the cavernous hall of the dome-shaped People's Consultative Assembly, or MPR, some 700 legislators were waiting anxiously in their seats for President Abdurrahman Wahid to
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  • WORLD news
    • 401 16 WASHINGTON But it warns Friday's rate increase can reverse the country's fragile recovery Bloomberg THE International Monetary Fund raised its economic growth forecast for Japan to 1.4 per cent this year, although it warned that an interest rate increase could reverse
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    • 197 16 NEW YORK NYT NEWS Corp, which owns the Fox TV network, has agreed to acquire Chris-Craft Industries, the TV-station company, for US$3.5 billion (Ss6 billion), a person close to the discussions said on Friday. Chris-Craft, which is controlled by Herbert J Siegel, 72, owns 10
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    • 316 16 ■SEOUL AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's embattled Hyundai Group said yesterday its ailing founder, Chung Ju-Yung, had agreed to scale down his holding in Hyundai Motor Co to help ease the liquidity crisis gripping the giant company. Hyundai said Mr Chung would turn
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    • 561 16  -  From Neil Behrmann in London BARCLAYS pic's £5.4-billion (5513.9 billion) bid for Woolwich could trigger a spate of mergers in the UK banking and mortgage sector, brokers believe. The Barclays deal comes six months after the Royal Bank of Scotland succeeded in a hostile
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    • 308 16 AP {ORLANDO, Florida] The Walt Disney Co stole ideas for a sports complex from two businessmen and should pay US$24O million (Ss4lo million) in damages, a jury ruled last Friday. Nicholas Stracick. Edward Russell and their company, All Pro Sports Camps Inc, accused Disney of
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    • 618 16 WASHINGTON They regard America's technology prowess as far more resilient than a stockmarket bubble NYT THE United States has been living through extraordinary economic times for so long now that fresh milestones sometimes pass with a yawn. With growth rates over 5 per cent, subdued
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  • US elections
    • 1627 18 NYT FOR years since college, anyway A 1 Gore had been telling friends that the very last thing he would ever do with his life was go into politics. That was fine for his father, he would say, but not for him. When he changed his
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  • COMMUDITIES & futures
    • 567 19 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices surged back over the US$3O a barrel mark as expectations of supply shortages were revived by a surprise fall in US stocks to their lowest level since 1976. The latest stock figures also revealed that
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    • Article, Illustration
      1424 19 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SECURITIES DfPICATTTE PRICES AMP YIELDS Hi'i k rnih'il .\utj_ 11 Prlct Met Tw Cwp mWly Cwhl Y T M BM Offcr Ttra Cwpw jtatwtty Clit YTM >M OWw 5 YR 3.125 OlAuqOO N*****1V 6.28% 2.28% 99.84 100.04 5YR 5.125 01-S«p-03 N*****1X 3.69% 3.63% 104.20 104.40 2YR 3.250 15
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    • 1959 19 SICOM FUTURES Augli RUBBER (future* closing ts at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwts/kq) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 00 108.00 108.00 109.00 100 Oct 00 110.50 Nov 00 111.75 Dec 00 113.00 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 00
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  • MARKET OUTLOOK
    • 721 20 NEW YORK Higher fuel costs and interest rates are blamed for lacklustre results FT WALL Street focused on an inescapable and depressing fact last week. Second quarter earnings were great, but a slowdown is coming. With more than 90 per cent of results
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    • 303 20 LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended marginally higher on Friday after a week of quiet summer trade, as gains in key stocks and dwindling expectations of a US rate rise offset the impact of a cautionary Bank of England inflation report. The FTSEIOO ended the
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    • 867 20 n Sydney +3L6 AUSTRALIAN investors will focus on the Reserve Bank's quarterly assesment due on Thursday, looking for hints of further interest rate rises, analysts said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 31.6 points, or one per cent, over the week to close at 3,270.1. "In recent times
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    • 309 20 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are expected to rise in the week ahead, with the lifting of Japan's zero-rate policy unlikely to affect stocks too badly, brokers said. "An end to the zero-rate policy may trigger modest selling when the market opens
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    • 168 20 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks ended marginally off on Friday, pressured by declining telecoms and technology shares, notably China Mobile and Pacific Century CyberWorks, but a late recovery in property and bank stocks helped offset losses. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index finished at 17,214.42, down
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    • 1919 20 Q Paris +9La The Paris bourse ended lower on Friday as technology stocks on both sides of the Atlantic retreated amid fresh worries over corporate profits. The benchmark CAC-40 Index ended down 0.2 per cent or 9.54 points at 6,553.00, rising 91.65 points from seven days ago.
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 9946 21 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 2000 Last Vol WMk Nat Cap High Low Company Sato 'OOO High Low P/t S«nM 420 310 Ajinomoto 350 unck 1 350 350 19.1 1419 156 62 Angkasa *8 -4 40 72 68 100 3 670 290 Apollo Food Hlg 462 8 5 470 462 10.0 184
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    • 434 21 AFP j Composite Index -12.46 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to be "directionless" in trade this week as retail and foreign investors continue to shy away from the bourse, dealers said. "I think it is going to be another thin trading week," an institutional dealer with
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    • 606 22 SGX Derivatives Trading Weekly Roundup [SINGAPORE] Market conditions are likely to remain on the thin side this week with summer holiday season peaking in Europe and the US, and with the onset of Japan's Obon corporate holiday week. Nevertheless, there are a number of
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    • 555 24  -  Conductor Muhai Tang and pianist Giovanni Bellucci favoured somewhat divergent approaches to Beethoven last Friday, writes p y vam P Y VAN GUEST conductor Muhai Tang's reading of Stravinsky's Fireworks: Fantasy for Orchestra Op 4 last Friday with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra was a stern, no nonsense one
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    • 376 24 (■a m%i I I I The Challenge of Profitable Growth in Asia I 9p The most authoritative and experienced voices on Asia. H W All focused on what the next 18 months will mean for your business in Asia. B 111 Oay I M |g| Hong Kong August 28th 2000
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    • 308 27 RadCitu's 9 radio fHomegrown subsidiary of Flextech Holdings wants to gross $15 million in revenue by next year, from just $500,000 currently, RadCity's CEO Fabian Benjamin tells Andrew Wee Fg2 Vice President of Symantec Enterprise Division, Cress Carter wHI bJUIMa for I the first time to speak on Internet Security
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    • 332 27 Top stories Local startups plan WAP services in region Page 4 Payback time for high-tech Indians in Silicon Valley Page 8 Do science parks make economic sense? PageO Cash is blood for dotcoms, says Peter Ho Page 12 Commentaries AGMs and board meetings online why not? The technology is now
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  • BizIT
    • 777 28  -  BTIsVMHMWJ In Asia, there are 3,000 radio stations that serve three billion listeners and their number is growing at about 10 per cent per year Ityi Andrew Wee Singapore-based RadCity Asia Pte Ltd, which is a subsidiary of mainboard-listed Flextech Holdings Ltd, and which
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    • 467 28  -  BTiq.MIIMWJ High costs may deter hotels from offering better features in their online reservation facilities: snrvey By 1 Daniel Buenas A high majority 71 per cent of Singapore hotels would like the government to help them go online. They would like to
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    • 613 28 AFP (PAßlS] Internet firms cannot impose a total geographical block on access to offensive websites, a fact that highlights the freedoms but also the legal void of cyberspace, experts say. The issue goes to the heart of a court case in France, in which
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    • 246 28 NYT [DAYTON, Ohio] The trend of going from analog recording tape, vinyl records, etc to digital optical discs, computer chips, etc —continues with the introduction of the Tera Optix CD Video Recorder. The unit looks and works like a conventional video recorder, but instead of recording
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    • 478 29  - AGMs and board meetings online why not? INFOTECH The technology is now In place to deliver these services; Singapore companies should take the lead paul thompson The writer is a BTcorrespondent. NOW that the Internet has become pervasive at least in Singapore —it might be worthwhile considering holding annual general
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    • IT TAKES
      • 101 29 SINGAPORE-based 828 e-marketplace developer BeXcom (previously called bex.com) has tied up with business partners in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan to set up an e-commerce hub in South Korea. Called BeXcom Korea, it will begin operations in Ql next year. Two South Korean firms, Hyundai
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      • 46 29 AUSTRALIA-based inter-touch Pty Ltd said it has won a contract to equip all three hotels of the YTC Group in Singapore with Ethernet-based high-speed Internet access. Under the deal, inter-touch will equip 836 rooms covering Peninsula, Excelsior and Paramount hotels in Singapore.
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      • 40 29 APPLE Computer has appointed Martin Geh as vice-president of Apple Asia-Pacific. For the last 13 years, Mr Geh was with Intel Corp, where he served as Intel's director of distribution, sales and marketing for the Asia-Pacific.
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      • 43 29 eGlobal Technology Asia-Pacific has appointed Lim Chin Chin as regional vice-president of Quintus Asia-Pacific which provides contact centre solutions for e-CRM. Ms Lim was previously Asia-Pacific regional sales manager for the call centre technology group at Cincom Systems.
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      • 39 29 E-COMMERCE enabler World Pay has appointed Jo Wright as director of its Asia-Pacific operations, based in Singapore. Before joining the company two years ago, Ms Wright was senior account manager for an Internet development company.
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      • 32 29 Peppers Rogers opens office here US-based Peppers and Rogers Group, that provides CRM and other consultancy, has opened its first Asian office here, headed by Sherman Ong, president and CEO for Asia.
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      • 32 29 A FORUM on "Next-generation deployment strategy in hosting and content delivery" will be held tomorrow at the Raffles Hotel. It is organised by Digital Island. For details, e-mail laychintan^iandiasia.com.
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      • 39 29 A FREE seminar on "Way to web: winning in the mobile e-commerce world" will be held tomorrow at Four Seasons Hotel. It is organised by Informix Asia-Pacific. For details, fax *****21, or e-mail cheryl. lee@informix. com.
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      • 53 29 COMPAQ'S new generation of Presario keyboards sold in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand will now come with direct access to their local Catcha.com search engine as the default search option via Compaq's "search button" key feature. Users of Compaq's Internet Keyboard can connect to Catcha.com's websites with
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      • 83 29  -  Compiled by! Raju Chellam JAPAN-based market-research firm, Infinite Technologies Inc, reports that by 2005, the global market for all computer displays (including cathode ray tubes) will be worth US$lO2 billion. Of this, flat-panel displays will constitute 63 per cent. The fastest growing segments will be organic
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    • 606 30  -  BTEVMIIMWJ Wapjinni.com's gateways and Webwap's mobile villages will wade through the region's WAP markets, and e-commerce is on the cards as well Ity* Toh Han Shih T WO Singapore startups Wapjinni.com and Web- wap are launching WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) services throughout the
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    • 250 30  -  HH Daniel Buenas HOMEGROWN startup Iteru.net Pte Ltd has launched lteru.net. its globally accessible mobile communications platform for WAP-en-abled mobile phones and devices. The company said it cost US$2 million (553.4 million) to develop Iteru.net. The technology allows WAP users to
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    • 437 30 Reuters [HONGKONG] Nortel Networks Corp, the world's second largest telecoms equipment supplier, is taking aim at Asia-Pacific's third-generation (3G) mobile sector after securing 3G equipment deals in Europe. Nortel's president for Asia-Pacific, Masood Tariq, told Reuters in an interview that the company
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    • 743 31  -  iIIM A networking strategy, or "one net" should offer a holistic solution sam ghebranious The writer is managing director (Asean), Novell Inc. THE network today is the enterprise. But which network? The Internet has become a great global melting pot, but almost every
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    • 394 31  -  Deb Riechmann AP [WASHINGTON] The US computer industry is applauding the Clinton administration's decision to relax export rules for speedy business computers, saying that being able to sell more of them overseas will keep the industry competitive in international markets. Still, the nation's
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    • Article, Illustration
      444 33 LAST week, Apple Computer introduced a slew of products. Here's a glimpse: ♦PowerMac G4 Cube: This $3,288 eight-inch cube-like computer comes in a crystalline shell, and is cooled by air flowing through its central vertical cooling channel You can easily lift out its electronics assembly and add
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    • 169 33 Reuters [BRUSSELS] European regulators are set to clear the Identrus network, an agreement between a number of leading banks to provide Internet services that facilitate e-commerce, the European Commission said on Friday. "The European Commission has published a notice stating its intention to
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    • 420 33  -  Region grows 23 per cent in the third quarter of this year, outstripping the rest of the world Reportsbbyy y Val Chua APPLE Computer reported its highest revenue growth from the AsiaPacific region for its Q3-end-ed June 30, with the region growing 23 per cent
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    • 967 34  -  Indians in America have created companies with combined market caps of USs23sb. Some of this money is now going back to India, as o. pajticeer reports G. PANICKER IT'S NOT a flood yet. But investment dollars from Indians in the US have
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    • 390 34  -  By, Jad Mouawad Bloomberg [PARIS) A French court has asked that Yahoo! Inc and an-ti-racist groups help appoint an expert panel to determine whether the company can block French Web users from accessing its US auction sites where Nazi objects
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    • 419 34  -  The complex structure of the Net makes it resistant to errors or failure but is also its weakness Patricia Reaney Reuters [LONDON] The complex structure of the Internet makes it resistant to errors or failure but it is also its Achilles heel, scientists
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    • 570 35  -  BTMimiUUM Do science parks make economic sense? Not many govt-funded ones in the Asia-Pacific region do, says research firm GartnerGroup Byl Tang Weng Fai MANY govern-ment-sponsored science parks in the Asia-Pacific region don't make economic sense, and are set up more for prestigious reasons, according to a
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    • 295 36  -  By] Daniel Buenas MALAYSIA-BASED Asiatravelmart.com last week launched what it claimed was "the world's first travel reservation system (TRS) to offer mobile-commerce." The service allows users to make bookings for their hotel rooms with a WAP-enabled mobile phone or device. Targeted at international
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    • 845 36  -  At a conference in California on the digital home, voice portals draw Internet execs with their innovations By\ Micelle V Rafter Reuters [LOS ANGELES] IT was hard to take my eyes off the view, a dramatic sweep of cliffs to the north and south dropping
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    • 371 37  -  Both target SMEs for web-hosting business in Asia-Pac Prom\ Surinder Singh in Sydney TWO web-hosting firms seem to be heading for a slugfest. Both companies target the SME market in the Asia-Pacific region and are active in Singapore, Hongkong, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 80 37 EPSON Corp has introduced its new Stylus Color 480, claiming that "it is the only colour inkjet printer in its price range to offer true 720 by 720 dots per inch (dpi) print resolution for both black text and colour printing, even on plain paper".
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      • 80 37 CYBERINC Pte Ltd has unveiled Z-View, a new product that lets users of its Z-Station 1 to integrate digital pictures with Z-Music. "The product is being launched first in Singapore to commemorate its 35th National Day," the company said. "The Millennium NDP 2000 Commemorative Edition is limited
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      • 79 37 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore has launched its new HP Visualize P-Class personal workstation targeted at designers, creative artists, engineers, and scientists. HP said it has also enhanced its X-Class series with more memory, graphics and processing power. The P-Class comes with enhanced cache capacity, up to 20
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      • 46 37 HEWLETT-PACKARD'S new 'Choose your office goodies' programme now lets those who buy specific HP LaserJets get rebates of up to 50 per cent on selected accessories or extended warranties. The qualifying models are 1100,2100,4050,4500,5000,8000,8100 and 8550 series. For details, visit www.buy.hp.com.sg/goodies.
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      • 73 37  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam TRUSTMARQUE Singapore has introduced Risk Guardian, a risk-assessment service implemented in Asia together with PlanetMG.com, a unit of Sony Marketing Asia-Pacific. Companies using the Net as a sales channel "can now be fully protected against credit and debit card fraud", Trust
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    • 425 37 Bloomberg (SAN JOSE, California) eßay Inc, the largest Internet auction company, said glitches that have plagued its website over the last week may continue as it upgrades computers and software used to run the operations. "The system may be just a little bit unpredictable over
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    • 191 37 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China's com puter market led a strong surge in Asian sales in the second quarter, making the region the fastest growing in the world, according to Gartner/Dataquest. China's Legend Holdings Ltd overtook IBM Corp as the No 1 computer vendor in the
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    • DOT com
      • 984 38  -  Maverick accountant Peter Ho explains why cash-flow is crucial for startups to survive, kaju reports RAJU CHELLAM ONE of the main reasons many startups or dotcoms fail is because they have assets that do not feed the company, but feed the ego. Assets that don't
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      • Briefly.com
        • 62 38 HOMEGROWN online business directory. eGuide Singapore Pte Ltd, has tied up with Pacific Internet Ltd to provide its online business directory to Pacfusion.com's users. eGuide has a database ofBo.ooo companies in Singapore and 180,000 in Malaysia. Under the deal, a co-branded website located within Pacfusion.com's
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        • 52 38 PACNET said it has tied up with US-based Internet2Anywhere (in2a) to offer in2a's Webßinger service in the Asia-Pacific region through Pacfusion.com. This free, real-time service lets online users notify offline users using existing telephone networks. Surfers need to register and download Webßinger software from the co-branded website
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        • 70 38 LEGAL firm Drew Napier has published a law guide aimed at dotcom businesses and their online suppliers and consumers. Called Your guide to e-commerce law in Singapore, it includes topics such as the legal implications of agreements made over the Net online payments, protection of
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        • 56 38 DHL Worldwide Express now lets customers access a scaled-down version erf" DHL's website at www.DHL.com from any WAP-enabled mobile phone or device. The courier company has also introduced an enhanced version of its WAP-TYack service that allows quicker access to shipment information in 21
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        • 82 38 UNITED Airlines has chosen Singapore, out of the 26 countries in which it operates, to launch its first ever live Net auction. Travellers can bid for round-trip tickets from Singapore to any UA destination, with bids starting from $1. "The UA tickets
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        • 42 38 Compiled by] Raja Chellam 828 e-com solutions provider Sesami.com Pte Ltd Mid it now offers enhanced multiple currency conversion capabilities, a browser-based administrator dashboard, and more powerful bid increment or decrement for 828 trading. For details, visit www.sesami.com.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 322 39 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WE cannot take credit for the forecast in last week's report of the spate of tanker sales. This was rather evident all round. But to see this fulfilled —with the sales of a 10-ship "fleet", an Aframax tanker and two Aframax-sized OBOs as
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    • 282 39 SM mm w CWT DMtrtMlMon 0 77 0.01 14 Chuar Hup- 0J9 unch 2*4 Coko Investment—0.20 unch 37 Freight LMl a 19 0.01 381 GBHoMnqc 0l&3 -0.02 H« Sun Hup 0J7 -a01 16 IMC HoMn«t-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jey*Hok9ngs 0.17 inch 136 KeppoiCorp 3.92 O02 3006 KeppeirtLS 1.00
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    • 449 39  -  Westbonnd freight rates improve as east-west traffic gap narrows By] Donald Urquhart [SINGPORE] While ports on the US west coast are struggling to keep up with the steady flow of goods from Asia, recent double-digit growth in exports to Asia has signalled
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    • 235 39 [PARIS] Japan's shipping industry has devised high-technology defences against pirates who infest the waters of Southeast Asia, the British weekly New Scientist said. Fifteen vessels were fitted out last month with a system called Toranomon "Tiger's Gate" that can detect when a grappling
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    • 809 39  -  DOCKYARD Ity David Hughes HIGH tanker rates should be good news for the yards, eventually. Talk of consolidation in the shiprepair scene has been rife recently but it is still too early to make sensible comments on possible restructuring within the
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    • 145 39 Reuters [AHMEDABAD, India] New York Life Insurance Company has decided to invest US$lO million (5117.1 million) in a private port located on India's western coast, the port company said in a statement last Friday. Singapore's PSA Corporation is a shareholder in
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      • 992 40 Government earmarks 31,000 ha to set up the Aden Free Zone, relying on the port's location and the nation's stability Bernama [PORT OF ADEN] After almost 40 years as the "poor man" of the Middle East, the Republic of Yemen is now opening its doors
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    • 304 40 PAGE CIS M Ml 3 ESPUn 13 8 Accord 8 Emgrwfl 6 AhreiHuei 14 FoongSun 8 5 Frt Links M AsiaOCL 13 Fl 7 Assets 8 c Link 4 Austral 8 Gemartrarts 6 Avant M Genshpg 13 B'tang Mas 8 G 106,1 '3 BSA T Glory Mav
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      • 484 53 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jurooq Port Greenisland 25 J23 13/06/12:20 17/08/12:00 0«y«i Hai Apr 00 J15 13/06/8:50 13/08/23 00 RuMt Echo 2 J05 13/06/19:00 14/08/23 00 Kurmaseiati 03/00 J03 14/08/8 00 15/08/8:00 Jmq Vang 6100 J18 14/08/8:00 16/08/15 00 Winstar 1 78SOO J03 14/08/8 30 14/08/23:59
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      • 1966 53 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACHIEVER 389 14/12:00 IA 13/1500 U/1659 13/1900 It 13/1500 13/1*59 13/1900 2* 13/1700 14/0659 14/0900 21 1VI700 14/0*59 14/0900 M/0700 14/1159 M/MOO 4 14/1200 14/1459 14/1700 »C i HIBISCUS 042*
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      • 188 53 Aug 15 Germany: Assumption Day. Korea: Liberation Day. Aug 17 Indonesia: Independence Day. An® 27 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 28 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Aug 31 Malaysia: National Day. Sep 12 Korea: Harvest Festival Day. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival. Sep 13 Hong Kong: The day following Mid-Autumn
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      • 813 53 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 market Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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      • 289 54 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co, the world's biggest planemaker, says it is trying to fix problems with its design and production processes cited by the US Federal Aviation Administration in a special audit. The agency completed the three-month audit in February and discovered
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      • 126 54 Bloomberg [LONDON] Worldspan, a computer travel reservation system owned by Delta Air Lines Inc, Northwest Airlines Corp and Trans World Airlines Inc, said last week it won an award of more than US$4O million (5568.6 million) against Abacus International Pte Ltd for breach
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      • 761 54 There are no nnresolved safety issues, says safety board, despite Egyptian charges of malfunction AUIAHOM EffigM Reuters AP [WASHINGTON] The US National Transportation Safety Board said that its investigators had concluded that last year's crash of an Egypt Air
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      • 279 54 Flight attendants threaten to boycott plane over exit doors Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Association of Flight Attendants said last Friday its 49,000 members might refuse to fly on a new Airbus Industrie jetliner if US regulators let the company put the exit
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      • 78 54 [QUEZON CITY] A worker an Saturday checking the distance of each iron bar before metal frames are erected, while his colleagues (far left) try to raise an electric cable away firm their work area in suburban Quezon City. The men are part of a
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      • 609 54 Prices lowest since 1190 deregulation as Impulse fights for Anssie market share AFP [SYDNEY] Australian discount carrier Impulse Airlines made an aggressive push to prise market share from Qantas and Ansett yesterday, slashing its one-way Sydney-Brisbane flights to As 33 (Ss33). The fare, cheaper than
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