The Business Times, 23 August 2000

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  • 72 1 □sn 2£MUa (+9.82) BT-SM MBJI (+8.34) ST INDEX FOTUBES (+32.00) F1 smsci ftjtuees U 29&50 (+5.30) STOCK HAKKET INDICES Tuesday Chance KLSECOMP MM. -LH NIKKEI 226 16,464.74 +414J6 HANG SENG 17,*****—+166S6 SET INDEX 316.48 +182 JAKARTA COMP _JW.10 +2.71 MANILA COMP _1,496*8 +413 TAIPEI WPI 8,118.05 -139.83 SEOUL
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  • 767 1  -  Ong&Co sees an attrition in the number of both remisiers and dealers By Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] Remisiers are asking broking houses for a bigger cut of the fees they generate, two months before the Singapore Exchange is due to fully liberalise broking
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  • 725 1  -  B&mb&ng among those who cat 41% stake to 12% By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Osprey Maritime shares soared almost 30 per cent yesterday after news that its Indonesian shareholders had slashed their 41 per cent stake. The Indonesians, spearheaded by former president Suharto's son
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  • 698 1  -  rTiexclusive Plan to attract fresh foreign capital has World Bank backing Front 1 Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA is seriously exploring the idea of converting its huge sovereign debt into equity to pull the economy out of its worst recession in more
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    • 37 1 Tnttle over Indon economic team, Pg 12 Meeting The US Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee met this morning to discuss whether to raise the O'jeminht ban*- /enasnc, rjtt. To find out if there was a hike, visit
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    • 620 2  -  Editor Leslie Fong expects the units to be profitable from day one By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings will set up English and Chinese units to produce TV news and current affairs programmes to sell to
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    • 394 2  -  His Bimantara has sold stakes in several firms, including Satelindo From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta HAVING seen his business empire collapse with the onslaught of the economic crisis, Bambang Trihatmodjo, the younger son of former president Suharto, is now attempting to put his
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 106 2 THE infamously dull reputation of accountants is richly deserved, according to US research. It shows they are born, not made, and their naturally dull personalities lead to their choice of career. Their inherent tedium also leads them to enjoy the lowest quality of life of all professionals,
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      • 107 2 SO what are the most important things people learn by the time they hit the big 50? Well, here are five things it took humorist David Barry 50 years to learn: L Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2.
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    • 439 2  -  (totting Personal By Corinne Kerk Whos Tan Ching Khoon, founder and chairman, Transview Holdings A#K44 Claim to fame: Mr Tan started Transview, a golf equipment distributor, in 1984. Back then, the company sold golf clubs of lesser-known brands. In its first year, Transview performed poorly
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 246 3 CSA Holdings was caught flat-footed by minority shareholders yesterday over a query on what some have dubbed "ghost shareholders". The issue was the shareholdings of Montego Assets Ltd. Shareholders wanted to know how Montego, which held 9.3 million shares or 7.2 per cent in CSA
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    • 718 3  -  HOCKinraism wong wei kong IF the government really listens to some of the industry feedback on the Supplementary Retirement Scheme when the final plan comes out next year, it will be substantially different from what was proposed a few months ago.
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    • 1111 3  -  AGM explanations on transparency and dividend evoke mixed feelings By Ven Sreenivasan COMPUTER Services Corp (CSC) is still intent on delisting CSA Holdings from the Singapore bourse. This was put across in no uncertain terms by CSC's representative on CSA's board.
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    • 405 4  -  Results exceed' 99 gronp profit, firm sees H2 sales surpassing Hi's By David Boey SESDAQ-LISTED Trek 2000 International yesterday reported net interim earnings of $4 million, eclipsing its 1999 full-year group profit. And it expects second-half sales to exceed the record set
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    • 411 4  -  Profit rises despite operating income falling 2% to $172 m By\ Conrad Raj HONG Leong Finance has shrugged off a drop in operating income to post an 11 per cent rise in interim net earnings. Singapore's biggest finance company yesterday posted a
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    • 312 4  -  Hy\ Eugene Low BOOSTED by a one-time exceptional gain of $18.7 million, Intraco's interim net profits ballooned 185.9 per cent to $16.2 million. Excluding the exceptional gain, which arose from the exchange of Insurance Corporation of Singapore shares for DBS Group Holdings
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    • 267 4 ECON International said yesterday that the expected revenue figure it gave on Monday for a Korean light rail project was wrong the collection for the first year would be US$l3O million, and not US$l.3 billion. The US$l.3 biUion figure was carried in media
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    • 512 4  -  CEO's 800,000 shares include one-off options given to reward and retain staff By Kalpana Rashiwala DBS Land president and group chief executive officer Ed Ng is sitting on a $216,000 paper gain from options he has just accepted. He accepted an
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    • 268 4  -  Byy Vivien Ng THE Fraser and Neave Group (F&N) has acquired an 8 per cent stake in a Hongkongbased technology company in a bid to grow its information businesses in China. The US$l7.6 million (5530.2 million) investment in CyberCity Holdings
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    • 269 4 EASTERN Asia Technology said substantial shareholder EAH International Holding (EAHI) has received approval from the Taiwan Stock Exchange to issue and list up to 60 million Taiwanese Depository Receipts (TDRs) to investors in Taiwan. EAHI is now awaiting approval from the Taiwan Securities
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    • 286 5 It also expects business growth in mainland flhina tn resume Reuters NETWORK systems integrator Datacraft Asia Ltd said yesterday it would get more involved in the telecommunications infrastructure business in Taiwan as the country further deregulates the industry. "Taiwan has over the
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    • 281 5 WOMEN who swear by Eu Yan Sang's famous Bak Foong Pill for relieving menstrual cramps will soon have scientific evidence on their side. Consumer healthcare group Eu Yan Sang said yesterday its Hongkong subsidiary has tied up with the Chinese University of
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 119 5 AFX-Asia ACMA Ltd said it has yet to finalise talks with parties interested in acquiring or merging with one of its Internet units, Propertybuyer.Com. It said Propertybuyer.Com, consistent with its business strategy, "has from time to time carried out discussions with various parties
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      • 106 5 FU YU Manufacturing saw turnover jump 57 per cent to $141 million for the half year ended June 30. Net profit was up 4.9 per cent at $9.4 million. Earnings per share came in at 2.1 cents, up from the previous 2 cents. The
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      • 103 5 LEE Kim Tah Holdings reported a 12 per cent higher interim gain of $4.8 million on 43 per cent higher sales of $57 million. Earnings per share improved from 1.07 to 1.2 cents. The company said rental income in the second half
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    • 521 5  -  AIA is the buyer, paying $850 psf for the Tampines block By Kalpana Rashiwala SOMERSET Holdings and SembCorp Construction are selling an office building in Tampines Finance Park for about $122.8 million or about $850 per sq ft to American International Assurance (AIA).
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 560 6  -  l^lgcomment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT was a relatively lazy but nevertheless firm day in the local stock market yesterday as big funds opted out ahead of the US Federal Open Markets Committee meeting overnight. Despite the widespread belief the
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    • 192 6  -  WARRANT WATCH ity R Sivanithy PENNY warrants topped the percentage gainer's list yesterday, although it must be pointed out volume was relatively low. Still, we will keep our focus here on the hope serious retail interest will eventually return. And until it
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    • 232 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan OSPREY Maritime shares grabbed the limelight yesterday, leaping a whopping 20.5 cents or 28 per cent to finish at 93 cents their highest close since July 1999. About 11 million shares changed hands. The surge came after reports that Osprey's
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    • 122 6 ♦SEMBCORP Marine, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembawang <->« Shipyard Ltd, has incorporated a private limited company, Sembawang Shipyard Services Ltd. ♦BRITISH and Malayan Trustees Ltd will be trading cum dividend of $0.56 per share of $10, less 25.5 per cent tax on Aug 21. It will be trading
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    • 483 6 Stocks Votunw NewWave 5c. 16,315.000 ITechGrp 4c 14.669,000 Cytech HK5c 13,354,000 Osprey M US 10c 10,995,000 Umsted 5c 10,806,000 Ionics P$1.00 8,497.000 AddvafTech 2.5c 8,090,000 Econ Inti 20c 7,910,000 SingTel 15c 7,422,000 K1 Ventures 10c.... 7,345,000 Stocks DBS Grp 44,348.835 SPH 34.154.780 City Dev 50c 28,754.020 UOB 21,214,620 SIA 20,923.300
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 277 7  -  It will take a 50% stake in London office site to be developed into a 6-storey building Byi Andrea Tan PIDEMCO Land has tied up with UK's Grosvenor to develop a prime office site in Moorgate, London, for $130 million. Pidemco
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    • 341 7  -  By Eugene Low INDERJIT Singh, entrepreneur and MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC, has made his first foray into the life science sector with a US$l million (551.72 million) investment in local biotech start-up Lynk Biotechnologies. The company was founded by Professor
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    • 279 7  -  ■Ru=Ton the economy tourism By Marissa Chew SINGAPORE is attracting more visitors, but their average length of stay dipped in April. Figures from the Singapore Tourism Board show it eased 2.2 per cent to 3.09 days. But the small fall is an improvement
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    • 539 7  -  Geylang, Kim Ke&t sites, not sold in Jane, are np for sale By] Marissa Chew THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday launched the sale of two sites one near Tanjong Pagar station and the other at Lorong Chuan. It also offered
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    • 489 8  -  He says onions must change to meet workers' needs in New Economy tty- Audrey Tan TRADE unions can help workers negotiate for a new social contract which is suitable for the New Economy, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) chief Lim Boon Heng
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    • 314 8 System means extra staff won't be needed to keep library queues under 5 mins THE National Library Board will save up to $50 million a year through its new Electronic Library Management System or ELiMS. NLB chief executive Christopher Chia
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    • 341 8 The second will come within 12 months after that: CPF THE Central Provident Fund top-up announced by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will be paid in two equal payments, the first in January 2001 and the second within 12 months from the
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    • 362 8  -  mail ran Thomas Wan C K I REFER to Denis Distant's letter "Curb short-selling, or explain why not" (Mailbag, Aug 18) and strongly agree it is time that SGX and MAS should do more to curb short-selling and be more proactive in market monitoring
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    • 251 8  - KL bank, debt issues nothing to lose sleep over? Ganesh Sahathevan IN his article "Don't lose sleep over Clob in the next 13 months" (BT, July 10), your writer Eddie Toh said investors were being overly pessimistic about the KLSE's future prospects. In support of Malaysian companies listed on the
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    • 106 8  -  Radhika Iyer I REFER to the letters, "Forget buybacks, just give shareholders excess cash" (Mailbag, July 31) and "Even Buffett was circumspect about buybacks" (Mailbag, Aug 17). As an SLA shareholder, I agree with Narayana Narayana that surplus funds for which the directors cannot find
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  • e-NEWS
    • e Briefs
      • 93 9 Reuters [LONDON] US Internet firm AltaVista has aborted its trail-blazing plan to offer flat-rate Internet access in the UK, pointing an accusing finger at Britain's dominant telecoms carrier. AltaVista said late on Monday it was scrapping its proposed service, less than six months after
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      • 48 9 AFP [HONGKONGJ Hongkong's Internet giant Pacific Century CyberWorks yesterday said its Japanese subsidiary will build a US$4O million (5168.4 million) television/website studio with Sony Corp in Tokyo. CyberWorks said that Pacific Century CyberWorks-Japan will form a strategic business alliance with Sony. —AFP
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      • 66 9 Reuters [TOKYO] Two major Japanese electronics manufacturers may jointly develop a new handheld computer with mobile phone functions, possibly in a bid to target the European market, company officials and local media said yesterday. Sharp Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp would use Europe's GSM standard
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      • 67 9 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Telstra Corp, Australia's No 1 phone company, said it scrapped plans to sell some of its online assets to Solution 6 Holdings to focus on other joint projects that the companies are working on together. Telstra, which owns about 24
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      • 122 9 Reuters [NEW YORK] Low-income Web users are going online at three to four times the rates of wealthier groups that favour upscale financial or travel sites, a US study published on Monday found. Market research firm Media Metrix of New York said a survey
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    • 361 9 TOKYO But it denies report of deal with AOL on mobile Internet services in the US AFP JAPAN'S largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc yesterday said it was looking at taking a majority stake in the Japanese arm of America Online
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    • 285 9 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S financial services regulator is forcing websites to stop publishing summaries of newspaper share tips, saying it constitutes illegal financial advice, two Internet companies said on Monday. The Financial Services Authority is telling websites it is illegal for them to reprint the
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    • 369 9 PALO ALTO, California Brokerage first to do transactions across Global Trading Web Reuters PEOPLESOFT Inc was scheduled to announce yesterday that it had helped set up for customer Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) an online exchange, claiming that the brokerage was the first company
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    • 337 9 NEW YORK AP THE National Geographic Society announced on Monday that it is taking a 30 per cent stake in iExplore, an online travel agent that offers trips to more than 150 countries through an array of tour operators. Neither organisation would disclose
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    • Article, Illustration
      51 9 [BEIJING] A woman yesterday walking by an Internet ad at a computer exhibition in Beijing. The proportion of women using the Internet rose to 25.3 per cent in June from below 15 per cent during the same period last year, according to the China National Network Information Centre.
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    • 479 9 NEW YORK Morgan, Chase take top two places thanks to their roles in three large deals Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc fell from the top spot in advising on Internet mergers in 1999 to No 8 this year, yielding leadership
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    • 250 9 HONGKONG Reuters HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and PetroChina yesterday announced an agreement to establish a business-to-business (B2B) Internet portal for the oil and gas industry in China with total investment of US$l5 million (5595.7 million). In
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 662 10  -  mr.\4 I bottom line OPINION paul samuelson The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ECONOMICS is not an exact science. It does have important laws and wisdom. But rarely are they simple. Here is an example. Are truly independent central
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    • 144 10 'Professional troops might have emotions, but they keep them inside. That is the job of professional troops, not to become emotional.' -HartUCWock an expert on the Indonesian military, on commanders who shrug their shoulders at soldiers taking sides in civil conflicts by saying: 'Oh. they have become
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    • 637 10 EDITORIAL PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's call during his National Day Rally speech last week for a change of mindsets presents a challenge that corporate Singapore ignores at its peril. For it is evident that especially with the emergence of the New Economy, the rules
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    • 1393 10  -  They are less inclined to respond to Gore's populist cry having enjoyed prosperity under Clinton From\ Leon Hadar in Washington ON the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, public opinion polls indicated that the Republican presidential candidate,
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    • 793 10  -  COMMENTARY By' Caroline Baum The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own Bloomberg THIS election, the two presidential candidates tell us, is about the people versus the powerful (A 1 Gore) or the people versus
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 425 11  -  It dismisses fears shorter settlement cycle will deter individual investors From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has confirmed that it will implement the shorter settlement system of three market days after the trade (T+3), from T+s in December.
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    • 308 11 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAILAND scrapped a plan to sell state-owned Siam City Bank, saying Newbridge Capital Ltd and other potential buyers weren't willing to pay enough. Siam City Bank's bad assets will instead be split from its books and sold to
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    • MARKET moves
      • 66 11 Bloomberg MBF Capital Bhd dropped 22 sen, or 36 per cent, to 38.5 sen, on speculation it plans to write down its share capital to repay debt, shrinking shareholders' investments. A company official denied the speculation. It was the most active stock with 8 million
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      • 63 11 Bloomberg EARNINGS worries hit large Malaysian stocks yesterday. Telekom Malaysia Bhd, the country's biggest phone company, dropped 30 sen, or 2.8 per cent, to RM10.60. Sime Darby Bhd fell 12 sen, or 2.8 per cent, to RM4.16 on concern earnings will be hurt by declining palm
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      • 67 11 Bloomberg INVESTMENT company Camerlin Group Bhd fell 12 sen, or 2.9 per cent, to RM4. The company, which controls a 24 per cent stake in Air New Zealand Ltd's owner, Brierley Investments Ltd, reported a loss of RM113.7 million (5551.3 million) for the six months
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    • 433 11 KUALA LUMPUR It proposes to bay only banking and broking operations Reuters MALAYAN Banking Bhd (Maybank), whose original bid to buy Phileo Allied was stalled over pricing, is believed to have made a fresh offer to acquire it, the Malaysian Business Times newspaper
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    • 1502 12  -  INDONESIA Old ideological clash between wyoyo-led technocrats and 'pro-sovereignty* economists returns to centre stage yang razali kassim WHOEVER makes up the new Indonesian Cabinet, one thing is for sure: the economic team will form the backbone and be pivotal in determining the economy's recovery, or
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    • 440 12 JAKARTA This includes multimedia and the Internet Reuters Bloomberg FOREIGN companies should be able to hold up to 95 per cent of telecommunications firms in Indonesia in line with a new regulation throwing open the lucrative sector, an official said yesterday. "The
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    • 288 12 MANILA AFP THE Central Bank of the Philippines is to punish five foreign banks and a local bank for speculating on the embattled peso, central bank officials said yesterday. Central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura confirmed in a radio interview yesterday that his
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    • 386 12 MANILA New role barring brokers from trading on own account will take effect next year Reuters THE Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday gave brokers until Dec 31 to liquidate their stock positions before a rule prohibiting brokers from trading on their own
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    • 409 14 Institutional response to last week's share auction was lukewarm Reuters [TAlPEl] An underwriter for Taiwan's state-owned Chunghwa Telecom has set the price for Chunghwa's initial public offering (IPO) at NT$lO4 following a disappointing response to its share auction last week. Chunghwa's IPO is the
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    • 60 14 [TAIPEI] A Taiwanese mother and child walking at the seafront in the northern port of Keelung ignore rain and powerful winds brought by Typhoon Bilis yesterday. The typhoon pounded Taiwan with strong winds and torrential rain as it approached the island, and workers shut offices and
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    • 276 14 MCALGARY Li Ka-shing firm's takeover of Renaissance will create the 4th largest Canadian oil group Reuters LI Ka-shing's Husky Oil Ltd is close to annexing Renaissance Energy Ltd with Renaissance shareholders on Monday approving a Cs3 billion (553.5 billion) takeover of the company by the Hongkong
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    • 407 14 BEIJING It will improve prospects for CNOOC listing, say analysts FT ROYAL Dutch/Shell is intensifying its commitment to China with plans to invest up to US$4OO million (Ss6B4 million) in the initial public offering of the country's third largest oil
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    • 303 14 NEW DELHI New licensing rules will allow them only 10% stake: report Reuters INDIA'S central bank, which is expected to unveil revised licensing rules for private banks, will allow corporate groups to hold only a 10 per cent stake in new private
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  • WORLD news
    • 427 16 SEOUL About 6% of Chung's over 9% stake has been sold in the market AP SOUTH Korea's largest conglomerate, Hyundai, bowed to pressure from creditors yesterday and sold 6.1 per cent of its founder's 9.1 per cent stake in its carmaking firm, company officials
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    • 708 16 WASHINGTON Fed chief betting saturation-induced slowdown will emerge Bloomberg FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is an expert student of the economy. On the psychology of consumers, though, he's still learning. "I have been strongly advised that shopping is not solely an economic phenomenon," he said
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    • 454 16 LONDON Three-digit identifier, other details most be given on unsigned purchases FT CONSUMERS will have to give far more information to retailers when using credit cards on the telephone, Internet or by post under a joint initiative from
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    • 365 16 NEW YORK Bloomberg INVESTORS should take a closer look at the hidden costs of employee stock options when considering buying shares of Yahoo! Inc. Broadcom Corp or JDS Uniphase Corp. among others, said Pat McConnell, an analyst at Bear, Stearns
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    • 300 16 ZURICH Reuters ÜBS AG, one of the world's largest managers of private and institutional money, reported a drop of 3 per cent in assets under management in the second quarter as it struggled with difficult markets and outflows of client funds.
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    • 1203 17  -  The former LTCM chief has lost none of his chutzpah, say Gary Silverman and Joshua Chaffln Gary Silverman, Joshua Chaffin FT FOR two years, John Meriwether has been trying to make amends. Since his Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund fell apart in 1998,
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    • 483 17 SEOUL Signs of financial market instability hit spending official Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies and consumers scaled back spending and exports of electronics and other goods slowed. Gross domestic product grew 1.1 per cent from the previous
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    • 244 17 LONDON Reuters MOODY'S Investors Service said in a statement on Monday it sees Lloyd's of London's losses in the 1998 to 2000 years of account totalling over £3 billion (557.7 billion), after previously estimating losses of just over £2 billion. The
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    • 323 17 ©7 The 25th FAEA Annual Conference MONETARY AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN ASIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY Date: 7-8 September 2000 Venue: Orchard Hotel Singapore The Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations was established in 1976 as a union of economic societies and associations in Southeast Asia. The FAEA currently comprises the
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    • 323 18  -  SGI Derivatives Trading/feporfe CT Index/MSCI S'pore Index Chan Yet San THE Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday with the Straits Times Index gaining 9.82 points or 0.45 per cent to end at 2,210.51 points. Within the index, 27 counters advanced while 18 declined and
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    • 253 18  -  MSa Taiwan Index Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market gave back some of its gains last week to end lower. The MSCI Taiwan Index fell 5.1 points or 1.4 per cent to close at 358.45 points. A total of 574.92 million index component
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    • 195 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil markets made fresh gains yesterday as a hurricane swept towards the biggest refinery in the West. The European Union said it had made contact with Opec to voice concern over high fuel import costs. Hurricane Debby, threatening to disrupt the
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    • 320 18 Reuters London THE euro fell to two-week lows against the US dollar yesterday after a surprisingly weak German business sentiment survey which was seen as reducing the chances of an aggressive interest rate increase in the euro zone. Even the higher-than-ex-pected rates in the European Central Bank's weekly
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2850 19 HONGKONG AFP F1 Hang Seng +16&80 HONGKONG share prices rose one per cent yesterday, led by financial and property stocks amid optimism that the Federal Reserve would leave US interest rates unchanged, dealers said. The key Hang Seng index gained 166.80 points
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      965 19 Reuters P Shenzhen Blndei 434 CHINA B share indices ended down sharply yesterday after heavy, volatile trade as local investors cashed in their counters late in the session after the hard currency shares hit threeyear highs. The Shenzhen B share index ended down 2.47 per cent, or 3.34 points
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    • 369 19 AFP QWP Index -139.83 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.7 per cent lower yesterday on worries over the island's economic outlook, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange weighted price index fell 139.83 points to 8,118.05 points, on a turnover of NT577.97 billion. "The lower-than-expected results of July's export orders have
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    • 2020 19 TOKYO AFP HWklM2g *4MM SHARES in Tokyo jumped 2.6 per cent yesterday on gains in high-tech shares following a rise in New York's Nasdaq market, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nik-kei-225 index closed 414.56 points higher at 16,454.74 points. The Topix benchmark
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    • 406 21 AFP Q Composite Index -151 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.2 per cent lower yesterday after profit-taking reversed earlier gains, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 1.51 points to finish at 807.89 points. The second board index was down 1.03 points at
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    • 287 22 AFP n Composite Index -*423 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.3 per cent yesterday with bargain-hunting in selected blue chip stocks, dealers said. The Composite Index closed 4.23 points up at 1,496.98 points. Volume rose to 567.9 million shares worth 477.1 million pesos. —AFP fct«22 Pese 000) MRC Allied 0.40
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    • 282 22 AFP nHBE-40 -1037 NEW Zealand shares fell 0.5 per cent yesterday as investors took a cautious stance ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on US interest rates. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 10.37 points at 2,096.60 points, on a market turnover of NZ5160.6 million. —AFP A* 22 K>
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    • 554 22 AFP QAH Ordinaries +14,0 AUSTRALIAN shares recovered from early wobbles to rise 0.4 per cent to another record close yesterday, fuelled by a combination of strong profit reports and takeover rumours, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 14.0 points higher at 3,312.9 points and the SP/ASX 200 rose
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    • 313 22 AFP Q Composite Index +16.03 SOUTH Korean share prices rose 2.2 per cent yesterday with the Composite Index up 16.03 points at 738.61. Volume was 300 million shares. AFP **«22 »w An«K Stmt _....n250 400 Br«inTtcl» 860 -10 Ccntrd Bank 685 uoch Ch»M Comm *****0 -1000 Om Ou Bank
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 255 27 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed one point to 1,628, the Baltic Panamax Index was unchanged at 1,564, the Baltic Handy Index firmed two points to 1,114 and the Baltic Capesize Index fell six points to 2,215. At 1345 GMT, BIFFEX was unchanged from Friday's close and
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    • 629 27  -  MAERSK PTTII mi I Analysts ask if other customers will continne to enjoy efficient service By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Maersk Sealand is confident that its 30 per cent stake in the new Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) estimated
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    • 866 27  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer THE European Shippers' Council (ESC) wants unlimited liability for shipowners in the event of an oil spill. It has said so formally to the European Commission (EC) and intends to put forward detailed proposals later this
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    • 207 27 ANN TOH [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp's Italian joint venture terminal Voltri Terminal Europa (VTE) yesterday announced a sterling 48 per cent growth in container throughput for the first half of the year as a result of the favourable Italian economy and its clinching new clients and
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    • 402 27  - Rates to go up on Far EastWest Asia trade fit/] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Another round of freight rate hikes has been announced, this time by both the main line carriers and feeder lines operating from the Far East to the Indian sub-continent. A grouping of 11 major carriers has agreed
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    • 121 27 (SINGAPORE] Keppel Singmarine Dockyard, a unit of Keppel Hitachi Zosen Group, delivered a pearling vessel to an Australian pearl producer yesterday. The multi-functional vessel, christenend Nalena Bay, was delivered ahead of schedule to Blue Seas Pearling Company (BSP Company) and is the
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    • MAERSK pullout
      • 805 28  -  Pelepas port will lure shipping lines not only from Singapore but also from other Malaysian ports as well Eileen Ng AFP [KUALA LUMPUR) Following the decision by giant container line Maersk Sealand to shift its regional transhipment hub from Singapore to Malaysia's Port of
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      • 184 41 Aug 27 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 28 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Aaf 31 Malaysia: National Day. Sep 12 Korea: Harvest Festival Day. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival. Sap 13 Hong Kong: The day following Mid-Autumn Festival. Sep IS Japan: Respect for the Aged. Sep 23 Japan: Autumnal Equinox
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      • 799 41 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 cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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      • 590 42 Passengers will also be given better information abont flight delays, cancellations AP [WASHINGTON] US Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater announced plans to relieve some of the country's air traffic choke points and to give passengers better information about flight delays and cancellations.
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      • 317 42 Reuters [MONTREAL] The union representing pilots at Air Canada said pivotal contract talks had broken off, a development in the four-month labour dispute that raises the prospect of a paralysing strike at Canada's dominant airline. In a statement, the Air Canada Pilots Association,
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      • 220 42 AP [ROME] Alitalia is cutting some Asia and Africa routes, saying rising jet fuel prices have made those long distance runs unprofitable. The Italian carrier will suspend services to Sydney, Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Bangkok. International fares also will go up by an average
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      • 49 42 [ORLY] A DC-10 of the AOM French airline is parked at Orly airport. The French civil aviation authority (DGAC) has warned AOM that its licence to run passenger flights could be revoked unless engine problems on its fleet of DC-10s are resolved. AFP
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      • 142 42 Reuters [WELLINGTON] Auckland International Airport Ltd said yesterday it was raising landing and development charges. It said landing charges would rise 8.5 per cent on Sept 1, followed by further increases of 5.0 per cent on Sept 1 in both 2001 and 2002. The development
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      • 368 42 JAL, ANA, J AS to lower fares on flights from Tokyo to Fnkuoka daring Sept-Oct Bloomberg [TOKYOJ Japan's three largest airlines say they will lower discount fares on a regional route in September and October in response to an earlier fare reduction by
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      • 255 42 Reuters [PARIS] United Airlines has ordered 12 Airbus Industrie single-aisled aircraft, exercising options originally placed in 1998, the European aircraft consortium said. Airbus said the firm orders were for six A3l9s and six A32os. The A 320 has a list price of US$5O million (SsB6
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