The Business Times, 12 March 2001

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 028/12/2000 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2001 85C
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  • 64 1 STOCK M1MET PUKES Wbek Chug? ST1 1 £96.32 -8.92 S1MSCI FllTlIRES.-244.ie- -1.70 BTSR1. 788.91 4.87 KLSECOMP. 896-26... -7.81 NIKKEI 12.627.9#....+-166.10 HANG SENa_-_-.14,194Jte...+227.92 SET INDEX. 307 00 +9.96 JAKARTA COM? .414.11. -12.92 MANILA 00MP- 1,588.39 -8.58 TAIPEI WPl 5,680.43....+180.89 SEOUL COUP 566.7* +6i32 CLSA CHINA B .2.093.67.. .+373.25 AIJST
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  • 80 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ USS (SS per US$) 1.7*8 £(US$/S$ per 1.472 1687 EUKO(US$/S$/E) «JB2 1.638 DM lOW 1.1M YEN !»J tt.10 Ml 3.8W JJ« HKS 7JN 1438 BAHT 43J6 34.78 KJPIAH 11.117 5,756 SI to 100 oaits FIDOS BATES SINGAPORE* 5J8 KllALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 3900 BANGKOK 9.50
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  • 1197 1  -  'canMAiiimm the BG Lee interview Sector will then be better positioned to grow when difficult environment changes Reports by Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore will deepen and broaden its financial sector reforms, even though the industry here faces a more difficult environment
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  • 777 1 [SINGAPORE] Singapore should have liberalised its stockbroking industry earlier and the progress made has been too slow, Lee Hsien Loong, chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), told BT in a recent interview. "It's too slow. The stockbroking industry, if anything, should
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  • 479 1  -  It may join Payment Solutions which markets payment gateway JannsX By Janice Lee [SINGAPORE] E-commerce is set to get a boost in Singapore once Nets (Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore) begins offering the service on its übiquitous network here. According to market
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    • 1091 2  -  Morgan Stanley is the latest contemplating job cats; others may fellow suit bat few expect a bloodbath From Catherine Ong in New York THE labour retrenchment seen in the US manufacturing sector is spreading to Wall Street as
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    • 86 2 Corrections clarifications IN our story "Lawyer shortage, so Aussie, NZ law degrees to be recognised" (BT, March 10), we quoted remarks made by Minister for Law Professor S Jayakumar in Parliament on Friday and erroneously attributed them as having been made by him "in moving the necessary amendments to the
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 460 4  -  Current soft market conditions role ont IPO though SGX approval was received last Kay By Eugene Low COMPUTER company GES International says it is in no hurry to list its subsidiary Digiland International and is unlikely to take it public soon,
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    • 978 4  -  Its score of 75 pots it in second place among the local banks behind OCBC By Paul Thompson The writer also lectures on accounting at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur TOP position in this week's Corporate Transparency Index (CTI) table
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    • 390 5 It may be prepared to pay more in cash, making its offer more attractive, they say Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd submitted an offer to buy Cable Wireless Optus Ltd on Friday, meeting a deadline for the final round of proposals, bankers advising on
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    • 518 8  -  To fond expansion, new investments, it will offer up to 186 m new shares via book-building route Bl Serena Ng CONGLOMERATE SembCorp Industries will today start its long-expected global share sale of up to 185 million new shares by offering them
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    • 545 8 Pressure mounts to revamp its USsl2b debt as creditors meet in New York Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Asia Pulp Paper Co, which has debt amounting to more than 180 times its market value, may move a step closer to bankruptcy this week as some of
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    • 248 8 It cites higher staff, rental costs and depredation FURNITURE retailer Novena Holdings, which was just listed on Sesdaq last December, posted a 36 per cent drop in net profit to $1.9 million for the year ended December. The company said late
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    • 267 4 Arthur Andersen D C 1 s x v —x r~i r~s r~V'l r~V\ |nn; hi n L /D r 1 Statements of Accounting Standard rSAS") No. 32 and 33 establish, for the first time, accounting and reporting requirements for financial assets, liabilities and equity (collectively, "financial instruments"), including derivative instruments
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    • 116 4 Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 26 March 1998) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OF 190,000,000 NEW SHARES COMPRISING 15,000,000 OFFER SHARES AND 175,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.22 FOR EACH NEW SHARE (SUBJECT TO AN OVER-ALLOTMENT OPTION OF UP TO 28,500,000 NEW SHARES AS DESCRIBED IN THE
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 661 6  - Time to go against the tide and be a contrarian STOCKS r. sivanithy THERE'S a growing movement on Wall Street that believes now is the time to be a contrarian and position oneself for a second half rally in the stock market. This advice is premised on the argument that
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    • 199 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE continue our review of ex-Clob International favourites today with a look at the Multi-Purpose warrant, a popular choice amongst punters a few years ago. Back in its heyday in the mid-*****, the share used to trade at
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    • 247 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan AFTER having been in a seemingly inexorable slide since the middle of last year, the stock of CSE Systems Engineering Ltd seems to be finally bottoming out at current levels. The 83 per cent rise in FY2OOO earnings to $14.3
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    • 124 6 AVTMO Grpinn o unced the appointment of Richard Ivimey-Cook as executivegroup finance director. Date of appointment was on March 5,2001. It also announced the appointment of Thierry Augendre as non-executive director, effective the same day.. ♦Osprey Maritime Ltd announced the appointment of Dag Audun Rommen as Audit Committee
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    • 559 6 AFP [HONGKONG] Word that Japanese finances were "close to collapse" and uncertainty over how Tokyo would respond pushed the yen to its lowest point in nearly two years last week and also edged down other regional currencies. Currencies also followed the lead of
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    • 1641 9  -  It targets fixed income, e-commerce, structured products as key growth areas for its regional treasury HQ in S'pore. LARRY WEE reports LARRY WEE NOT all interbank players are scaling down their treasury operations in Singapore, despite fears that consolidation will be the inevitable consequence of the
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 276 10  -  By Serena Ng THE amount of sea cargo handled in Singapore slipped 8.4 per cent to 23.67 million freight tonnes in January 2001 from the same month a year ago the lowest level seen in the past year. Preliminary estimates from the Maritime
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    • 361 10  -  Lessees will be able to choose from 1,300 replacement flats By Serena Ng FOUR blocks at Upper Boon Keng Road that are almost 30 years old have been selected by the government as the 45th site for the Selective En-bloc
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    • 209 10 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has announced two new appointments to its international offices in Europe and Eastern America. Magdalene Lee, STB's current director of destination marketing, will oversee European market activities from April 1, while Randall Tan has been appointed vice-pres-ident for Eastern USA,
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    • 412 10  -  The new operation forecasts revenue of $18m this year and doable-digit y-o-y growth By Liew Hanqing CUSTOMER Relationship Management (CRM) pioneer OgilvyOne has consolidated its Singapore operations, uniting OgilvyOne, Ogilvylnteractive, Teledirect and the Lacek Group. The new operation will be larger than
      RICHARD CHNG  -  412 words
    • 293 10  -  MAiLrm Ong Khiaw Hong Director (Taxation) Ministry of Finance I REFER to the letter by Goh Kok Yeow "Self-employed still disadvantaged" (Mailbag, March 7). Mr Goh argued that self-employed persons should "be allowed tax exemptions for CPF contributions in excess of 36 per cent
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    • 235 10  -  Jeremy J Hosking Marathon Asset Management Ltd London, via Internet I REFER to your article "De Beers finds it's not that easy going private" by your London correspondent Neil Behrmann (BT, March 6). You are quite correct to report that Marathon Asset Management
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    • 297 10  -  Veni Pasupathi for Permanent Secretary Ministry of Communications and Information Technology I REFER to your article "Government, SI A get flak for accepting report on Silk Air crash" (BT, March 9). Your report quoted the Families of Silkair MIIBS Association as expressing surprise
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    • 233 10  -  Lawrence Low Kwok Leon Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column "Why are stocks with good fundamentals given a miss?" by R Sivanithy (BT, March 9). I believe the crux of the issue is that local investors tend to trade on "expectations"
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    • 191 10  -  Chua Kian Soon Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Reserve price for 3G licences cut" by Andrew Wee (BT, March 9). Although all the telcos cheer the IDA (Infocomm Development Authority) for the latest move to reduce the reserve price downwards
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    • 208 10  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Demeaning to compare MPs with company directors: Vasoo" by Chuang Peck Ming (BT, March 8) and the letter "Why the need to be self-righ-teous now?" by Mike Tan (Mailbag, March 9). Anyone who cares
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    • 132 10  -  Ahmed Khaled New Zealand, via Internet I REFER to the Hock Lock Siew column "Why are stocks with good fundamentals given a miss?" by R Sivanithy (BT, March 9). Thank you for a well-researched article. One of the main reasons for the unpopularity of apparently
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    • 131 10  -  Johnson Tan Chin Kwang Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column "Why are stocks with good fundamentals given a miss?" by R Sivanithy (BT, March 9). You are headed in the correct general direction. But allow me to point out the following:
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 570 11 KUALA LUMPUR Clashes spread to two new areas, but police say order has been restored AP RIOT police fanned out across down-at-heel Kuala Lumpur suburbs yesterday to quell four days of ethnic violence described as Malaysia's worst in decades, which
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    • 408 11 KUALA LUMPUR AFP JAILED Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim who has been in hospital since November with severe spinal problems should undergo surgery overseas to give him the best chance of recovery, a visiting specialist said yesterday. Thomas Hoogland also said Anwar's slipped disc
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    • 646 11  -  BTI^JIIUIUJ Move, expected by Jane, will pat the light rail operator in the black: MD From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur PROJEK Usahasama Transit Ringan Automatlk (Putra LRT) the troubled light rail operator of listed Renong Bhd plans to raise its fare by
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 924 12  -  Demand may outstrip supply unless states coordinate exploration and manage oil stocks more efficiently From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo OIL and gas consumption in Asia will continue to expand to the point where it could outstrip supply unless the leading consumers learn
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    • 380 12 JAKARTA Reconciliation foram to end rifts, get IMF loan back on track Bloomberg INDONESIA'S President Abdurrahman Wahid plans to form a "reconciliation forum" aimed at reducing political infighting that has led to downgrades of the country's outlook and pulled the rupiah to fresh lows.
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    • 277 12 JAKARTA AFP EXXON Mobil Indonesia's decision to halt oil and gas production in troubled Aceh province for security reasons has forced other major companies in the area to shut, a report said yesterday. PT Arun LNG Co, a major exporter
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    • 574 13 BEIJING Layoffs, farm migration set to raise number of unemployed town folk to 18m by end '05 Bloomberg, AFP CHINA'S labour minister said the country's ranks of urban unemployed will likely triple over the next five years, as migrants leave farms to seek a
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    • 248 13 LAT [LOS ANGELES] Ang Lee, the Taiwanese-born director of this year's foreign film boxoffice hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was named best director by his peers at the Directors Guild of America awards dinner on Saturday night. Lee, who was nominated by
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    • 742 13  -  8TM.1.1.1J.1l HK STOCKS Donald Tsang's last Budget leaves tt to market forces to dictate the economy's direction quak hiang whai IF you don't drink, drive, smoke or fly, the latest Hongkong Budget doesn't really affect you. The only newsworthy items from Donald Tsang's swan
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  • CHINA venture
    • 1189 14  -  Tee Yih Jia's chief is finally seeing a profit from his Fuzhou brewery, seven years after taking over the state-owned enterprise. He now wants to expand into the beer industry in a big way From, Audrey Tan in Hongkong HE may already be Singapore's
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  • WORLD news
    • 607 15 TOKYO Picking an old guard will alienate voters and do nothing to lift markets analysts AFP AS the Japanese press welcomed Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's de facto resignation, his move puts the Liberal Democratic Party in a make-or-break situation, offering
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    • 129 15 LONDON Reuters BRITISH carmaker MG Rover, which was bought for £10 from Germany's BMW last year, is set to announce losses of £300 million (***** million) for its first eight months as an independent business, Sunday papers reported. The losses, expected to be formally unveiled in
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    • 281 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Outspoken US media mogul Ted Turner (left) apologised on Friday for calling Catholic employees "Jesus Creaks" for wearing ashes to mark Ash Wednesday. The comment last week from the man dubbed "The Mouth of the South" had outraged Christian groups. "I
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    • 372 15 SEOUL The appointment coincides with a sweeping reshuffle of the group's management AFP SOUTH Korea's Samsung conglomerate yesterday shrugged off objections from minority shareholders and named the son of the group's patriarch Lee Kun Hee as a top executive in its electronics
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    • 387 16 Warren Bnffett's strategy of avoiding high-tech companies pays off AP [OMAHA, Nebraska] A year after apologising for Berkshire Hathaway's dismal stock performance, billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered a much cheerier letter to shareholders on Saturday. The holding company's earnings more than doubled to US$3.6
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    • 357 16 FAIRFIELD, Connecticut He also got share options of USs274m and restricted stock nnits valued at USs4Bm Bloomberg GENERAL Electric Co's Jack Welch, who is retiring as chief executive, received US$l6.7 million (5529.2 million) in salary and bonus last year, and US$57.l million from exercising
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    • 273 16 WASHINGTON Reuters CONSUMER products manufacturing giant Philip Morris Cos Inc paid its chairman and chief executive, Geoffrey Bible, a total compensation of about US$l9 million (5533.3 million) in 2000, down 9.5 per cent from about US$2l million in the previous year,
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    • 186 16 TOKYO Early retirement plan starts in April Reuters JAPANESE electronics giant Matsushita Electric Industrial Co plans to cut 2,000 to 3,000 jobs at its group companies through an early retirement programme starting in April, a Japanese business daily reported yesterday. The
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    • 670 16 NEWORLEANS Growth factors are in place despite some painfnl adjustments Reuters PESSIMISM about the US economy is overdone, the head of the Atlanta Federal Reserve said over the weekend, becoming the latest central banker to express optimism about the world's largest economy. While
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    • 391 16 PORTLAND, Oregon A crisis is a breaking down of an old order and creation of new Reuters FINANCIAL crises around the globe have sparked quick reforms that have left many countries better off, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
    • 317 17 AFP (LONDON] OIL prices remained well supported last week as the market braced for an expected cut in output by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) this Friday. QOLDe glitter. An ounce of gold was selling for U*****.80 on the London Bullion Market on Friday afternoon, from
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  • MARKET outlook
    • 258 19 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG shares will be driven by the release of key US economic data this week, although positive profit announcements by local property companies could also boost the sector, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained
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    • 469 19 NEWYORK Lower than expected jobless fignres also pour cold water on hopes of Fed rate cut AFP PROBLEMS at Internet portal company Yahoo! and world number one microchip manufacturer Intel put an end to fragile hopes last week that the decline in
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    • 411 19 LONDON The UK market remains volatile, in line with Wall St AFP THE London stock market lifted off its two-year lows last week, but struggled to regain the 6,000-point threshold in trading dominated by Wall Street. The FTSE Index of 100 leading shares closed
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    • 319 19 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo will remain under pressure this week even if economic growth figures due out today show Japan escaped recession at the end of last year, analysts said. "With the end of this fiscal year looming (on March
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    • 869 19 Pi Sydney -X 3 THE Australian share market faces an uncertain environment this week as all eyes turn to employment and housing finance data to clarify whether or not Australia is headed for recession, brokers said. The local bourse ended last week 0.1 per cent lower, with
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    • 1863 19 Pfjgjg +71J7 THE Paris bourse slumped after technology stocks led by telecoms equipment maker Alcatel and chipmaker STMicroelectronics were hit hard by downgrades and peer profit warnings. Alcatel reversed recent good fortune to dive 5.97 per cent when brokers cut earnings estimates and target prices based on
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    • 149 25 NUS investing $71m to H beef up its technology > >v* Pl 2 H B ffvl al)orative Arthur Andersen Pfs centres soon I The telco is planning to offer f eUS Brace yourself for Pi; V mil niiawßf iJ M u Can you close your books 1,;.". jup?.- Kifli^l Symantec,
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    • 788 26  -  BTia'MIIUWJ Besides building data centres, Sing Tel is also taking steps to increase the regional connectivity between these data centres, and expanding bandwidth capacity at its Internet Exchange Reports by Andrew Wee SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd plans to invest more than $200 million this year
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    • 282 26 SINGAPORE Telecommunication has one aim to break out of the "vicious cycle that limits broadband Internet access growth in Singapore," according to Sing Tel Multimedia Group's CEO Andrew Buay. Among the inhibitors: lack of compelling Internet content hosted locally; more than 70 per cent of Internet
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    • 709 26  -  The Virginia-based firm now has an opportunity to take iris recognition technology beyond the realm of spies By Cynthia L Webb LAT-WP IT CAN identify people by looking into the colours of their eyes. Two years ago, a small McLean, Virginia-based firm, Spring Technologies
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    • 757 26  -  HTM'IJIIUWJ It will be spending about $13m a year on infotech over thenertfonrto five years By Tang Weng Fai THE National University of Singapore (NUS) plans to invest about $71 million over the next four years on IT to help it become
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      • 878 27  -  How do you make sure your online orders are signed, sealed and delivered? Dallas-based Exe Technologies has the answer. DiVD MOB reports DAVID MOK US-BASED Exe Technologies Inc is aiming to be the software vendor of choice for warehousing, logistics and fulfillment management systems over the Internet.
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    • 976 28  -  INFOTECH New research shows companies lag behind in e-commerce, and better gear up for the war raju chellam The writer is BizlT Editor. FIRST, the good news: Internet subscribers in the Asia-Pacific region (including Japan) will number 188 million by end-2004, up five-fold as at end-1999.
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      • 61 28 HOMEGROWN News Page Pte Ltd said it has secured US$7.5 million (SH3.I million) in its second-round of funding from Dreadner Klein wort Capital, Sing Tel Ventures, T-Telematik Venture Holding GmbH (subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG), and Viekers Ballas. News Page said the ftinds will be used
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      • 41 28 MACROMEDIA Inc has set up its first Macromedia Centre in the Asia-Pacific region at Funan Centre. The 600 sq ft centre will offer training and support for users and resellers, and feature regional websites created with Macromedia software.
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      • 61 28 US-baaed Argus Systems Group Inc has appointed Singapore's Nework Asia Pte Ltd as re-seller for its Pitßull foundation level security solutions in Singapore and some other countries. Nework Asia will provide sales, marketing and technical support for Pitßull Foundation, Pitßull.comPack and Pitßull LX. Pitßull is
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      • 36 28 LYCOS Asia, a US$5O million joint venture between Terra Lycos and Sing Tel, has appointed June Wong as its new chief financial officer. Ms Wong was previously with Easy Call International Ltd.
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      • 38 28 A BREAKFAST seminar on "How to work the media", conducted by BTs Technology Editor, Kenneth James, will be held at Holiday Inn Parkview tomorrow. The event is organised by eAngelz.com. For details, go to www.eangelz.com.
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      • 33 28 A SEMINAR on "EMC information storage solutions for AS/400", organised by EMC South Asia, will be held on Mar 16 at the Pan Pacific Hotel For details, go to www.esp2dol.com/emc.
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      • 35 28 A POUR-DAY Singapore Linux conference will be held from Mar 21 at Sunfcec City. It is organised by IDG World Expo and the Singapore Linux Users' Group. For details, fox *****22 or e-raa&)enny@klgexpo.corTLSg.
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      • 34 28 A SEMINAR on Kylix, an application development tool for the Linux OS, will be held on Mar 23 at Suntec City. It is organised by Borland Software Corp. For details, fox *****42.
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      • 39 28 A TWO-DAY conference on 828 strategies, "Ground Zero Asia", will be held from Apr 3 at the Ritz Carlton HoteL It is organised by Strategic Intelligence and Jupiter Media Metrix/Net Market Makers. For details, fox *****26.
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      • 35 28 A THREE-DAY seminar on the development and implementation of 3G technology will be held from Apr 4 at the Holiday Inn Park View. It is organised by Telefocal Asia. For details, e-mail xUmah@tei4bcal.com.
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      • 71 28  -  -OoMpOedby Chua Hui Min THE National University of Singapore has launched a new training programme on planning, legal, market research, sales, product planning and customer care issues related to the IT industry. The eight-week course is supported by IDA and candidates can get a 50 per cent
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    • 707 29  -  With the 'virtual close' you can do so by connecting the entire company via the Internet bill chang The writer is managing director, Cisco Systems Singapore IN the Internet Economy, time waits for no man, woman, or information. Just as customers want instant gratification,
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    • 284 29  -  By Adeline Chuah YOU can now write in longhand into your notebook computer. You use a special "digital pen" and write on normal paper placed on a special notepad. The pen writes with normal ink and the contents get transferred
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    • 726 29  -  With its stock selling at 15 times revenues, Informatica is Silicon Valley's latest darling By Joseph R Garber Joseph R Garber, a bestselling author, serves on the board of directors of three technology companies. Find past columns at www/orbes.com/garber. BIG companies have more databases than dogs have
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    • 396 29 Reuters [CANNES, France] Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, shrugged off gloom-and-doom predictions and stuck by its vision that high-speed mobile Web, or GPRS, devices will be a mass market product from the fourth quarter. "The mass market starts in the fourth quarter, when we
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    • 527 30  -  The aim is to be the largest dedicated e-security consulting practice in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region by this year-end By' Tang Weng Fai ARTHUR Andersen (AA) plant to beef up its global security practice here by boosting headcount and adding two dedicated electronic
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    • 318 30  -  EDA to facns on tame at 6-week long e-Odebratleaa By Chua Hui Min THE lack of security on the Internet could be a key deterrent to online transactions In Singapore, according to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). "We recognise that consumers may be
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    • 778 31  -  Bnt company does not plan to cat back on research and development spending By Chris Garther NYT (SAN FRANCISCO] The slowdown in information technology spending hit the sturdiest of computer-networking companies on Friday as Cisco Systems Inc said it intended to eliminate
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    • 538 31  -  The company offers application server software and services that can run any application on any device over any connection By Elizabeth Su US-BASED Citrix Systems Inc has launched its MetaFrame XP series, claiming it was its most powerful application serving and management platform so far. Citrix
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    • 260 31  -  Analysts estimate the market to grow between 100% and 200% a year over the next few years By Chen Huifen US-BASED Octave Communications, which offers audio-conferencing solutions, said it plans to gross 30 per cent of gross global annual revenues from the Asia-Pacific region in
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    • 255 31 NYT FROM online prayer chains to Web page altars, the computer is changing the way modern people understand and practise their faith, says Brenda Brasher, author of the new book Give Me That Online Religion (Jossey- Bass, U5524.95). "It's not that religion on
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    • 363 32  -  Want to register a domain name in your own language? Sing Net and Webvisions will soon offer this service from VeriSign By Janice Lee YOU can now register your domain name in the Asian language of your choice, via a new service that's set to debut
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    • 187 32 18-year-old ordered to help program jail computers AP [CONWAY, New Hampshire] A teenage computer hacker who defaced websites was sentenced on Friday to nine months behind bars and was ordered to help program the jail's computers. Dennis Moran, 18, who went by the online
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 63 32 STMICROELECTRONICS has unveiled a miniature camera module aimed at mobile device-makers ftr integration into their product*. The module measures 10mm by 10mm by 7.5 mm, features a CMQS-baaed colour senaor, dedicated caprocsaaar Ibr automatic exposure, and offers an image refresh rate of 15 frames per second. It
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      • 50 32 YLEZ Technologies Pte Ltd has unveiled the yLetDSMOO wireless ADSL router. It uaes the Intersil Priam n wireless LAN chipset and gives multiple ussrs wireless Internet access at 8 Mbps. It costs US$6OO (Ssl, 173) per unit Ibr 90-80 uaer*. For details, go to wwwjkzxom or fcx *****38.
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      • 112 32 NBC Singapore hat released the NBC Plasma Sync 42MP2, a 42-inch plasma monitor designed for multimedia presentations by corporate ossts. The monitor features NEC's Accußtend scan conversion technology for displaying computer graphics up to SXGA resolution, eight input options and a 9X digital soom feature.
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      • 45 32 TOSHIBA Singapore has launched its Portege349oCT notebook. Weighing in at 1.56 kg, it comes with a 700 MHz Intel Pentium ID processor with 128MB RAM, 20 GB hard disk, thin-film transistor display, three-hour battery and Win9B. It costs 14,799. Details at www.toshiba-acmm.com.
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      • 49 32 US-BASED Talisma Corp has launched Talisma 4.0. an integrated e-sales, e-marketing and ©service software suite for medium to large enterprises. The company said It guarantees installation of a basic suite within 00 days. The product costs USs3o,ooofor a basic configuration licence. For details, go to www.taiisma.com.
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      • 42 32 US-BASED eSoft Inc has released the InstaGate EX2 Internet security software for SMEs. Hie product includes firewall and virtual private networking functions, online software and security updates, and costs $1300 for up to 25 users. For details, fax *****06.
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      • 68 32 IPLANET E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape alliance, now offers the iPlanet Web Server, and three new editions of the iPlanet Application Server. The latter includes an entry-level, Java development application server, a Java 2 Platform Enterprise edition, and a high-end edition with integration and process automation functionalities. The
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      • 47 32  -  n in iby Chua Hui Min MALAYSIA-BASED Entellium Holdings has launched the eSalesForce, a web-based sales automation application for mid-sized companies. The service is available via the my*entellium customer portal for a monthly subscription of US$4O per month per user. For details, go to www.entelUum.com.
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    • 562 33  -  Company officials again say orders for chips and mobile phones are falling By Anthony Massuccl Bloomberg Motorola inc, the No 2 cellular telephone maker, had its revenue and earnings estimates cut by analysts after company executives again said orders for chips and mobile phones are
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    • 406 33 NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] In compliance with a court order intended to curb the exchange of copyrighted music, the major record labels said on Friday they have sent Napster a list of 135,000 songs—music that Napster will have three business days to prevent
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    • 392 33  -  But itsCFO remains cautions amid the US economic slowdown By Scott Hillis Reuters [SEATTLE] Software giant Microsoft Corp has not changed its earnings expectations for its current quarter, but remains cautious amid the US economic slowdown, chief financial officer John Connors said on Friday. "The
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    • 363 33 Reuters [MELBOURNE] The Internet's governing body said on Saturday its quarterly meeting in Melbourne will focus on the needs of the Internet community and not deal with heavy-hitting issues which require follow-up action. But a lack of high profile items on
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    • 172 33 Bloomberg [REDWOOD CITY, California] Work.com, a money-losing website backed by Dow Jones Co and At Home Corp, said it will close down at the end of this month because advertisers cut spending and it was unable to borrow more money. The majority of the
      Bloomberg  -  172 words
    • 345 33 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's largest telecoms group Telstra Corp Ltd yesterday said its online ventures were losing millions of dollars a year and it would steer clear of investing in small technology firms in the future. "I would say if we gathered up all of
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    • DOT com
      • 720 34  -  At least six large companies showcased their new Internet data centre offerings at the Internet World Asia exposition last week. J amice lee reports JANICE LEE INTERNET Data Centres seem to have caught on, going by the number of companies pushing their data centre
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        • 58 34 SINGAPORE-BASED Bluengine Holding Pte Ltd said it will offer wireless broadband networks in 13 A&W fast-food outlets, as well as Bluengine's 32 cybercafes, giving diners access to the Internet and corporate Intranets through laptops, pocket PCs and other handheld devices. The service will be available at A&Ws
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        • 32 34 STARHUB Internet has launched a new service, developed by NexLabs Pte Ltd, which allows users to customise Internet news alerts to their e-mail accounts. For details, see www.starhub.net.sg.
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        • 41 34 DONOVAN Systems Pte Ltd will offer a browser-based software for configuring web servers and e-maiL The Donovan System Configurator is free, comes prem stalled in Sparc-based Linux servers purchased from Donovan, or can be downloaded at www.penguin64.org.
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        • 67 34 HOMEGROWN Commerce Exchange Pte Ltd (Comex) said ISP Swiftech Automation Pte Ltd will offer Comex's eOffice software as part erf Swiftech's Corporate Digital Leased Line Access Package. eOffice is targeted at SMEs and allows employees to access information over the Internet, as well as wirelessly. Monthly
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        • 54 34 HEWLETT-PACKARD Company has released two software products HP Netactkm (which enables customers to develop, integrate and deploy e-services using technologies from newly-acquired Bluestone Software), and HP Open View (a network management software) —through its Commercial Utility Pricing programme, to offer faster implementation of new capabilities. For
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        • 57 34 IBS Singapore, a subsidiary of Sweden's International Business Systems, has launched its Virtual Enterprise and ASW 4.50 software targeted at large and medium-sized companies. IBS said the products are WAP-compatible, can be integrated with ERP software from DBS and other vendors, and includes tools for analysis
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        • 70 34 XS-MEDLA.COM Pte Ltd said it has signed exclusive deals with Panpac Media, MPH, Reader's Digest and Transportation Displays International Ltd to host their advertising space for sale on XS-Media's online Media Shop. The company said it has signed more than 60 per cent of media buyers
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        • 65 34 HOMEGROWN Cybersource Pte Ltd has tied up with Trustmarque Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of UK-based Trustmarque International, to integrate Trustmarque's Risk Guardian service into Cybersource's e-payment solutions. Risk Guardian is a risk assessment process for online screening against credit and debitcard fraud. The service will debut
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        • 103 34  -  Compiled by Chua Hui Min THE percentage of web-surfers downloading audiovisual material rose from 25.8 per cent in November 2000 to 31.6 per cent in January 2001, according to Hongkong-based Net Value Ltd. Other results: Yahoo! websites were most frequently visited by Singapore surfers in January 2001;
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 281 35 Simpson Spence Young JUST when it seemed that there would be no dry bulk sales to report last week, there was late news that the panamax bulker Transworld (71,000/93) had been committed to clients of Mykonos Shipping at around U5513.35 million. For the last *93 built panamax sale
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    • 303 35  -  Intl ferry operators will visit shipyard this month for trials From Evelyn Duffy in Perth SHIPBUILDING newcomer, North West Bay Ships (NWBS), is promising ferry operators advances in sea keeping, fuel economy and environmental advantages with its 55 m aluminium fast 470-passenger capacity
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    • 271 35 AP [HONGKONG] Eleven people have survived the sinking of the Pamela Dream, a Cambo-dian-registered ship carrying lumber that flipped over in choppy waters on Thursday morning. The confirmed death toll climbed to six the next day and two sailors were still missing, but Taiwanese
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    • 230 35 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), one of the world's 10 largest shipping companies, will probably earn more than earlier expected this year and in 2002 as it accelerates cost cutting and expands its distribution business, analysts said. Analysts raised their forecasts
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      • 204 47 Mar 17 Ireland: St. Patrick Day. United Kingdom: St.Patrick's Day. Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Wquinox Day. Mar 21 Mexico: Benito Juarez Day. Mar 26 Brunei: Hijrah. Indonesia: Awal Muharram. Malaysia: Awal Muharram. Mar 29 Taiwan: Youth Day. Apr! Australia: Good Friday. Argentina: Good Friday. Apr 12 Argentina: Maundy
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      • 807 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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      • 573 48 Move to prevent disruption of air service for 60 days while giving grace for contract talks Bloomberg [SlOUX FALLS, South Dakota] US President George W Bush signed an executive order to prevent Northwest Airlines Corp mechanics from striking and said he would move
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      • 278 48 Reuters [ZURICH] Swiss aviation group SAirGroup said on Friday its chairman and interim chief executive Eric Honegger would resign early next year as part of an almost complete overhaul of the supervisory board. The wholesale restructuring of the group's most senior decision-making body
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      • 429 48 Reuters [LONDON] The head of Go, the budget airline being sold by British Airways, expects to stay on in her post even if rival KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ends up buying the business. Speaking to Reuters after opening a new base for
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      • 349 48 News comes after TWA accepts offer of USs742m from AMR AFP [NEW YORK] The financial group TWA Acquisition Group (TAG) sponsored by businessman Carl Icahn has boosted its buyout offer for Trans World Airlines by US$4BO million (*****.4 million) to US$l.l billion,
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      • 181 48 Few bargains with most fares actually higher:report AP [SYDNEY] A war over airfare prices and claims of very cheap seats has produced only a handfUl of bargains and most fares actually have gone up, a newspaper reported yesterday. The Sunday Telegraph
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      • 242 48 Reuters [LONDON] Train drivers on London's metro set a one-day strike on Friday for March 29, threatening to bring chaos to the capital two months after a similar stoppage. The Aslef union, which represents 80 per cent of London Underground drivers, has taken strike
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