The Business Times, 2 April 2001

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGA PORE MIT^(PH07/M/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2001 o
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    67 1 STOCK KARKET INDICES W*ek Change STI 1,674.19—-41.12 SIMSC1 FTTURES .213.10... -5.50 BT-SRL 687.42 -7.77 KLSE COMP... .647.48. -21.79 NIKKEI 225 12,999.7#..--214.84 HANG SENG. 12.760.64...+177.28 SET INDEX .291.94 1.69 JAKARTA COMR. 381.05.. +9.58 MANILA COMR 1,446.40. +-14.83 TAIPEI WPL .5,797.92- -2.63 SEOUL COMR 523.22 -14.75 CLSA CHINA B 1,805.27
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    75 1 FOBEX BATES US$ (SS per USS) 1.803 £(l SS/SS per 1.428 1574 EURO(USS/S$/E) 0.881 1588 DM 2.219 1131 YEN 125.3 69.50 RM 3.81)0 2.108 HKS 7.799 4.326 BAHT 44.95 24.93 RUPLAH 10,420 5,780 PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR .......7.67 .JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK™ 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Chip industry set to take a battering this year
    968 1  -  ITiexcTusTve New forecasts see severe contraction, sharp change from modest growth expected just months ago From. Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THIS year could prove to be "The Perfect Storm" for the chip industry. Just when manufacturers hope things can't get
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    Lock icon More warnings precede US earnings reports
    813 1  -  Bnt analysts are expecting a rebound later in the year Fromi Catherine Ong in New York AS US investment strategists search for the elusive bottom in the stock market, a new round of layoffs and corporate warnings on earnings is deepening the gloom hanging
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    Lock icon Japan unveils 4 super-banks ahead of new moves
    901 1  -  Measures to restore banks'health to be announced on Wed Fromi Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S four new "megabanks" all world giants in terms of size were formally inaugurated yesterday when 10 formerly independent banking institutions came together through mergers or holding company
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    Lock icon One-fifth of listed firms still in the red
    589 1  -  Bnt overall, those with Dec 31 year-end show 41% growth in earnings By\ Rachel Ong [SINGAPORE] Listed Singapore companies that reported results for the full-year ended Dec 31 turned in mixed performances overall four in five (80 per cent) reported profits, but
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    181 1 In the black 223 In the red 54 As at March 31, 277 SGX-listed companies had released their financial results for the full year ended Dec 31,2000. Together they recorded $*****m in group earnings, a gain of 41.3% over 1999. The breakdown is as follows: No with profits
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      60 1 IMBIBE Top stories Launch of some premier projects held back. Maxt Pago S'pore firm plans edible hepatitis vaccine. Next Page Close match among top 4 firms in transparency index this week. Pg3 Seiyu, Daimaru trim S'pore losses. Pg 10 Sing dollar comes close to Asian crisis levels. Pg 11 t
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      17 1 Chartered, Creative may see more job cuts, Pg 5 US Jobs growth suggests no recession, Pg 21
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      38 1 -mrn ■mbmmhmmmmmmmh I -s< *fi8SR S'pore will have to to stay atop the storage ladder u Pg 2 in the sewers for IT? m Pg 4 Corporate earning* ranking, Pg 9 IPO proceeds down 18% in Ql, Pg4
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      Lock icon Launch of some premier projects held back
      601 2  -  Developers not jumping on recent good response to more affordable projects Byl Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] With the property market still struggling to find its feet, the stock market in the doldrums, and consumer confidence flagging, some developers are delaying their more upmarket launches
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      Lock icon Commercialising life science ideas
      398 2 Start-up AgroPharm wants to bring these ideas to market [SINGAPORE] "By scientists, for scientists". This could well be the motto of AgroPharm Investment, a local start-up with a vision to commercialise life science ideas in the region. "What we want to do is to be a
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      Lock icon GIC trims its stakes in Malaysian tech companies
      477 2  -  From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has pared down its interests in Malaysia's technology sector in the face of sluggish US demand for the country's electronics products. A week ago, the investment arm of the
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      Lock icon S'pore firm plans edible hepatitis vaccine
      527 2  -  i exclusive US institute molls clinical trials for the vaccine here Reports By: Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Edible Hepatitis vaccines against the Hepatitis B virus could be commercially produced here by a homegrown life science company in the next two to three years. Local firm
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon IPO proceeds down 18% in Q1 to $196m
      745 4  -  Average amount raised also falls to $l&3m, down 5.2%; outlook for IPOs remains uncertain, say analysts By] Liew Hanging IT hasn't been a rousing quarter for Singapore initial public offerings. Twelve companies raised a total of $196.1 million on the Singapore stock
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      Lock icon Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks (March 31, 2001)
      286 4 INDICATIVE NUMBER MIDDLE PRICES GROSS MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST OF DAYS OF (EXCLUDING R0)B*PT»ON RATE ($M) PAYMENT ACCRUED ACCRUED YIELD ISIN CODE (%PA) DATES INTEREST INTEREST) (%PA) 01.04.2001 N*****QZ 1999 1 7/8 960.00 1/4 1/10 181 99.99 3.66# SG********** 15.06.2001
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      Lock icon Close match among top 4 firms in transparency index this week
      1129 5  -  Serial System sees greatest improvement, climbing 14 points to 3rd place By) Paul Thompson The writer also lectures on accounting at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur RESULTS announcements came thick and fast last week, the final
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      Lock icon Chartered, Creative may see more job cuts
      553 5  -  Chartered is reviewing work hoars while Creative is seen to study staff size every quarter, sources say By David Boey JOBS may be on the line at two closelywatched technology companies, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Creative Technology. Chartered, the world's third biggest maker
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      133 4 This announcement appears as a matter of record only April 2001 SANTAKm SANTAK HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 17 February 2001) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 20,555,000 NEW SHARES OF $0.10 EACH COMPRISING:(1) 2,055,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.23 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BYWAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND
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      102 5 A business today. Without K* certifications, organisations flfcafc, get elbowed out of the race. 'X V J v /W Y crpcaltad ™,it, born'out k of the Productivity and V X X X X X Standards Board, is a system X X X assessment body that assesses X X X-Jfc customers'
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      437 6 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 386,024,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 89,571,000 PactficCentuiylOc 85.442,000 Gotdtron 5c 77,978,000 Omni Ind 10c 49,349,000 Vickers Capital 25c 43,509,000 Lankom US2c 38,285,000 GES Intl Ud 20c 36,386,000 Frontline 5c 31,437,000 Integra 5c 30,435,000 Stock* SingTel 15c 774,586,027 Chart Semiconductor 26c 410,821,201 DBSGrp 319,611,631 OCBC
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      Lock icon It's tough being caught in an investment no-man's land
      640 6  -  Icomment STOCKS r. sivanithy YOU have to feel sorry for Singapore Telecom. The local telco is clearly caught between a rock and a hard place with its proposed takeover of Cable Wireless Optus (CWO) and so far, it's finding that being
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      Lock icon Shunned Ekran warrants reflect plight of shares
      198 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy TO say that the accompanying graph illustrates the plight of the majority of stocks here and in Malaysia would perhaps be a statement of the obvious. Unfortunately, it happens to be an accurate state of affairs. For the
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      Lock icon Goldtron: charts show weakness
      255 6  -  HOT STOCK w Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of electronic component distributor Goldtron was the second most actively traded counter on the local bourse last Friday. Observers were at a loss to explain the surge in activity on the stock. It closed unchanged last Friday at 5.5
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      134 6 Raffles Holdings will hold its AGM on 27 April at 10.30 am, The Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Raffles Hotel, 1 Beach Road. ♦Hersing Corporation Ltd will hold its AGM and EGM on 18 April 2001, at 9.00 am, 3 Bishan Place #05-00,CPF Bishan Building. ♦Unisteel Technology Ltd will hold
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      Lock icon Yen and baht lead slump in Asian currency markets
      547 6 AFP [HONGKONG] The Japanese yen led another poor week for Asian currencies, hitting its lowest level since October 1998. Japanese yen: The yen plunged to a two-and-a-half year low against the dollar during the week as Japan's economic outlook remained gloomy,
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    Lock icon Corporate earnings ranking for year ended Dec 31,2000
    3711 9 RANK COMPANY FULL-YEAR EARNINGS ($m) CHNG TURNOVER ($m) CHNG RJLL-YEAR EPS CHNG 2060 1000 2000 1000 2000 1000 1 Jardine Matheson 1614.0 359.6 348.8 *****.0 *****.0 -2.9 291.60 59.41 390.8 2 DBS Group 1388.8 1071.8 29.6 2931.0 3028.9 -3.2 113.00 97.00 16.5
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Seiyu, Daimaru trim S'pore losses
      654 10  -  Seiyu hopes to be in the black this year; Daimam expects to break even By] Kalpana Rashiwala JAPANESE retailers Seiyu and Daimaru did not achieve a net profit last year for their Singapore operations as they had earlier forecast but managed to slash losses. Seiyu
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      Lock icon Nu Skin outstrips sales forecasts for Singapore
      573 10  -  Republic now accounts for 35% of S-E Asia sales: VP By I Liew Hanqing NEW YORK-LISTED Nu Skin Enterprises, which made its debut in Singapore last December, is expanding rapidly with actual sales of its personal and skin care products far outstripping original
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      Lock icon Bank loan growth slows to 7.1%
      297 10  -  r=M =J on the economy bank loans By 1 Marissa Chew TOTAL bank loans continued to grow in February, but at a slower pace of 7.1 per cent compared to the same month a year ago. Bank loans hit $157.7 billion in February after
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      Lock icon Q1 private home prices fall 1.7%: JLL report
      555 11  -  Lower pricing at new launches sees 1,175 nnits sold, np 35% from Q4 2000 By Marissa Chew PRICES of private homes slid 1.7 per cent in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, as more realistic pricing in the new homes
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      Lock icon Sing dollar comes close to Asian crisis levels
      404 11  -  Local unit fell to $1.8033 against the US$ last Friday By I Siow Li Sen THE Singapore dollar remained weak against the US dollar on Friday, staying past $1.80 and not far from the levels seen during the Asian crisis. It fell
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      Lock icon Germany's DVB opens Asian HQ here
      440 11  -  By Ling Su Ann GERMAN transport-finance specialist DVB Group has set up its Asian headquarters in Singapore and is aiming for a bigger slice of growing business in Asia. "Customers like us because we are a transport bank, and focus entirely on transport financing,"
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      Lock icon RTC members not alone in their plight
      432 12  -  RAFFLES TOWN CLUB SAGA Lee Eng Wah Singapore, via Internet THE last few days have seen a flurry of letters on the management of proprietary clubs following the Raffles Town Club saga. It is apparent that despite our sophistication, we have not properly
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      Lock icon How about a refund?
      140 12  -  Ho Meng Jang Singapore, via Internet IF I am given the chance for a refund, I will take it but not because the Raffles Town Club is not providing me a service. It is. But I feel I've been taken for a ride and am powerless
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      Lock icon Some suggestions cm the RTC saga
      217 12  -  Low Siew Aik Singapore I AM not a member of the Raffles Town Club but I think its 19,000 members have been unfairly treated. Had there been no legal battle, the members and the public would not have known of the huge sums of
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      Lock icon What if funds run out?
      96 12  -  Seethor Wai Ching Mrs Blowers Singapore, via Internet AS a Raffles Town Club member, I have several points to raise. Whilst we may be ignorant of the complexity of our legal rights, what is there to lose if we try as a combined force to
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      Lock icon AIA: Why high rating despite bonus cuts?
      169 12  -  Ang Boon Leong James Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Why credit quality is crucial for insurers" by Genevieve Cua (BT, Mar 21). The article briefly mentioned a comparison between AAA-rated AIA and Asia Life's TAC to non-linked liabilities ratio. It
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      Lock icon Short-selling curbs needed
      181 12  -  Denis Distant Singapore, via Internet THE Sing Tel bid for C&W Optus has rocked the price of the shares of both companies and sent them reeling. Sing Tel shares have reached prices never seen since listing and in the process shaken the faith of those loyal CPF
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      Lock icon Is China really a strong competitor?
      178 12  -  Dharmendra P Yadav I REFER to your editorial "Tough new competitor for talent" (BT, March 21). I must commend you for the well-researched piece. Indeed, the Taiwan case study offers great learning value to Singapore. I am aware that the Singapore government is already
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      Lock icon Actuaries, tell us what type of insurance you buy
      196 12  -  Dr Tommy Tan Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "What you don't know..." by Genevieve Cua (BT, Mar 21), in which she was the only non-actuary in a seminar for actuaries. Like herself, I am one of the less
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      240 12 r Credit Bureau Services our response to national drive for transparency of consumer payment behaviour Your business is too valua- We are in the business of ble to leave to chance. In the solving problems and raising BUILDING past, business decision-makers profits yours that is. were faced with building trust
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      133 12 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon MRCB poised to unload more assets to sustain recovery
      574 13  -  Group looks set to divest control of TV3; plans for RHB stake uncertain From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) is set to unload more assets, including the country's first private TV station, in order to
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      Lock icon 3 charged with murder during racial violence
      224 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters TWO teenagers and an unemployed man have been charged with murdering a security guard early last month in Malaysia's worst racial violence in over 30 years, the official Bernama news agency reported yesterday. The 22-year-old man and the two school
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      Lock icon Khazanah sees long-term potential in Time dotCom
      188 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters KHAZANAH Nasional Bhd, the Malaysian government's investment arm, said it remained buUish on the future of telecom firm Time dot Com despite its disappointing initial public offer last month. "This is in view of Time dotCom's Ml range of assets
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      Lock icon KL ready to be proactive
      694 13  -  ii comment KL STOCKS Its readiness to act sends a strong signal to the markets eddie toh Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has decided to give the economy another shot in the arm. Faced with the prospect of an economic slowdown in the United
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      186 13 WITH CHECK POINT SOFTWARE p AND IBM UNIX SERVERS MY I I! COMPANY NO LONGER NEEDS I m4m J The Web has not only changed the way companies do business, it has revolutionised the role of network security in most major enterprises. Today's e-business infrastructure must deliver transparent access to
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      Lock icon Thai stock market to get major boost
      537 14  -  Planned listing of 14 state firms will raise market cap by about 700b baht Reports by] Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE moribund Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) will get a major boost from the planned listing of 14 state companies qver the next
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      Lock icon Thaksin: We are not protectionist
      454 14 [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has made a strong pitch for foreign investors to return to the depressed Stock Exchange of Thailand, and vigorously denied setting a protectionist agenda aimed at keeping foreign investors on the margins of the economy. In a door-stop interview
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      Lock icon Currency swap to top Asean finance ministers' agenda
      517 14 KUALA LUMPUR Meeting this week comes amid weakened currencies AFP SOUTH-EAST Asian finance ministers will meet in the Malaysian capital this week as regional currencies undergo another beating amid expectations of a global slowdown. An Asean plan for an expanded web of
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      Lock icon HK's pay-TV industry suffers another setback
      781 15  -  Liberalisation plan in disarray as TVB may be third to drop ont after Star TV, Hong Kong Network TV From i Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong government's plans to promote the pay-television industry have been thrown into disarray as it emerged another
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      Lock icon China's private economy grew 40%
      326 15 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S private economy grew by nearly 40 per cent last year with new private companies providing some 4.6 million jobs in 2000, state media reported yesterday. By the end of last year, China had 1.7 million registered private companies employing 24 million people
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      Lock icon KL offers China, India rail projects for palm oil deal
      264 15 KUALA LUMPUR Move aimed at easing palm oil glut, cushioning impact of US slowdown AP MALAYSIA has offered India and China lucrative contracts for its domestic railway projects on condition that they buy Malaysian palm oil products, a news report
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon Arrest of 'Bombay Bull' set to knock shares further
      636 16 BOMBAY Sum involved in the alleged fraud may reach 8b rupees, say police Reuters INDIAN share markets are expected to fall further this week, with investor confidence rattled by the arrest of a leading Indian stockbroker known as the "Bombay Bull"
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      Lock icon Very little known about the rich and powerful broker
      448 16 BOMBAY Reuters HOW is it so little is known about a man with so much money, influence and glamorous friends? Ketan Parekh, the stock broker whose arrest on Friday caused Indian stock markets to plunge, moved Indian stock markets. He schmoozed
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      Lock icon State Bank of India hit by co-op bank's problems
      282 16 BOMBAY Reuters INDIA'S largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), said on Saturday it had been hit by the financial woes of a cooperative bank specialising in bullion trading. The bank pegged its exposure at 395.7 million rupees (5515.2
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Foot-and-mouth may force Blair to delay polls
      668 17 LONDON Move looks certain as sources say a local election set for May 3 will have to be postponed Reuters BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday appeared to have decided to put off a widely predicted May 3 general election and take the
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      Lock icon China says US jet caused collision
      182 17 BEIJING Reuters CHINA blamed a US plane for a mid-air collision yesterday that it said had brought down one of its fighters. "A Chinese aircraft was conducting normal flight operations 10 km south of Hainan island when a US plane suddenly veered towards it,"
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      Lock icon Ban foreign takeovers when the Aussie is low, says Hanson
      377 17 MELBOURNE Reuters RESURGENT Australian farright politician Pauline Hanson yesterday said all foreign takeovers of local companies should be banned while the Australian dollar remained at low levels against the US dollar. Ms Hanson, leader of the xenophobic One Nation party
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      Lock icon Samsung is Korea's top chaebol with 7.3t won profit
      328 17 mSEOUL AFP THE Samsung Group emerged as South Korea's largest conglomerate this year as the rival Hyundai Group was torn apart by a family squabble and debts, officials said yesterday. Samsung posted a net profit of 7.3 trillion won (559.9 billion)
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      Lock icon Dresdner ready to accept 23.4b euro Allianz offer
      628 18 FRANKFURT The bid will create the world's fourth biggest financial group with a market value of 109.6b euros Reuters ALLIANZ AG confirmed yesterday a 23.4 billion euro (Ss37 billion) takeover bid for Germany's third largest bank, Dresdner Bank, which recommended the deal
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      Lock icon Marks & Spencer plans relaunch overseas: report
      314 18 Marks Spencer plans relaunch overseas: report LONDON Meanwhile French PM Jospin threatens sanctions against the UK retailer AFP BRITISH retail giant Marks and Spencer is planning to relaunch overseas, just days after announcing that it was withdrawing from Continental Europe, according to the Independent on Sunday. The move is part
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      Lock icon European M&A tumbles in Q1
      395 18 LONDON Bat analysts say many deals are still in the pipeline Reuters MERGERS and acquisitions involving European companies have plummeted by nearly 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2001, but the outlook may not be as bleak as the bare figures first appear.
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      Lock icon SEC to keep an eye on Internet stock pickers
      324 18 PHILADELPHIA Bloomberg THE Securities and Exchange Commission will start looking for operators of Internet stock-picking operations who might be preying on investors eager to recover from falling stock prices, acting SEC chairman Laura S Unger said. "We think there's a chance
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      395 18 WASHINGTON AFX TWO senior US lawmakers have authored a bill which will enable US anti-trust authorities to bring actions against the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) for collusive practices in setting the price of oil. The lawmakers authored the bill in
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      576 21 WASHINGTON With consumer confidence and spending looking np, many hope Fed will engineer soft landing Bloomberg THE ailing economy probably kept adding jobs in March even as the unemployment rate crept higher, another sign the US may avoid recession this
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      300 21 CONNECTICUT Analysts say it aims to be major lender to chain restaurants Bloomberg GE Capital Corp has agreed to buy Franchise Finance Corp of America for US$2.l billion (553.7 billion) in cash and assumed debt, expanding its lending to Burger King, 7Eleven,
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      241 21 WASHINGTON Reuters JP MORGAN Chase Co Inc nearly tripled a bonus for its chairman, Douglas Warner (below), last year to US$l3.7 million (5524.6 million) from US$4.6 million in 1999, according to a proxy statement by the No 2 US bank holding company. Mr
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      613 21 NEW YORK Another cat is likely in Kay lmt none after that: analysts Bloomberg WHILE a fourth interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve is all but certain in May, a fifth or sixth one this year is not, according
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      250 17 The Master in Public Management (MPM) is a joint programme of the National University of Singapore and the John F Kennedy School of IXI3 StCr Government at Harvard University. It was of IJI I senior non 1 "I r* profit critical =TSf»rt: programme MPM candidates will gain a greater appreciation^
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      395 17 People I y|Qyy w By Stacy Chapman, HRMS Product Strategy Manager Asia Pacific, People Soft There's nothing more intuitive than a web browser. Flashing hot links cry out to be clicked, and arrows point the way on every page. We know instinctively how it works there's no special training. It's
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      133 18 ANNOUNCEMENT We are pleased to announce that with effect from 2nd April 2001, the following Singapore subsidiaries of Daiwa Securities SMBC Co. Ltd. (formerly known as Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets Co. Ltd.) will change their names:Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets Singapore Limited to Daiwa Securities SMBC Singapore Limited Daiwa
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      1795 19  -  America's class system is rigid and stifles rags-to-riches rises, reports victoria Griffith VICTORIA GRIFFITH FT FOR as long as I can remember, I have had a story in my head about a shoe-shine boy who rises from desperate poverty to become head of
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      75 19 I .j. HOO B J'lVl j ;ki j;? 11/1 000 Kifii^^^^^H^HH^HH^Hjl^fl^l power seraya Singapore's major power generation company F,o m 1 A P ,ii 200,. p.«ers e a ya o P at s m m independently from Singapore Power. **■>*» Zmm mm *m mmm ■*■>**•» S«»S a m We are
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      2164 20 [NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 I r CYCLE CARRIAGE LIMITED (incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 32nd Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held in The Oriental Ballroom 1, First Floor, The Oriental, Singapore,
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      657 20 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 SIN IAM CHEONG SAWMILL COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Mooting of the abovonamod Company duly convonod and hold at 6001 loach Road #12-02 Goldon Milo Towor, Singapore *****9 on 26th March 2001 at 10.00 am,
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      670 20 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 ECON-IGATA RAT AM DEVELOPMENTS PTE LTD (In MmUn' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 6001 Reach Road #12-02 Golden Mile Tower, Singapore *****9 on 26th March 2001 ot 10.00 am, the
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      635 22 AFP [LONDON] The prices of metals and oil fell back, as fears persisted over global growth, but some soft commodities managed a limited recovery on supply-side factors. Oil prices were pushed lower by signs of a sharp build in stocks, while palladium prices eased on signs of shipments
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      1345 22 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SECURITIES INDICATIVE PRICES AMD YIELDS Week ended Ma r 30 i MM MM T»mi Cmp- jUtwtty C— TTM M Ofl<r Tf Cmpm mtrnHf CMt TTM K WHf 2YR 2.375 15-Har-01 N*****0W 3.66% 2.44% 99.78 99.98 5YR 5.125 01-S«p-03 N*****1X 3.37% 3.23% 104.65 104.85 2YR 1.875 OI-AjK-OI N*****0Z 3.07%
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      1966 22 S1C0H FUTURES Mar 30 RUBBER (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT(S cents/kg) ClOM Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 01 103.25 May 01 103.75 ***** 104.00 50 400 Jun 01 105.25 ***** 105.50 50 800 Jul/Sep 01 106.50 750 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume OpM
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      239 23 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG shares are expected to move within a narrow range this week, with investors looking to Wall Street for direction amid a lack of other incentives, dealers said. The key Hang Seng index had lost 177.28 points, or 1.4 per cent,
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      887 23 Sydney +2.6 INVESTORS in the Australian share market anticipate an interest rate cut this week, amid fears the local economy has become either dangerously sluggish or has completely stalled, brokers said. With little positive direction from Wall Street, and the absence of any data definitively confirming Australia
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      490 23 NEW YORK Investors cautiously return to the market but still hesitate to make big bets Reuters STOCKS limped higher on Friday as investors cautiously returned to the market on the final trading day of one of the worst first quarters
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      2013 23 Bfirii +22*32 FRENCH stocks ended up on Friday as a good showing by bank, insurance and aerospace shares beat off a late session slide in Wall-Street-influenced technology and media stocks. The blue chip CAC-40 index ended 0.44 per cent higher at 5,180.45 points with winners and losers
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      454 23 TOKYO Market awaits BOJ's business confidence data; govt economic measures AFP TOKYO stocks will be locked in nervous trading this week, awaiting business confidence data from the Bank of Japan and economic measures from the ruling coalition, brokers said. They expect a
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      290 23 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S blue chip index ended the first quarter in the red down 9.5 per cent almost matching losses in 2000, with the market anxious about the second quarter given the fragile state of the US economy. Although the
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      9602 24 INDUSTRIALS 2001 Last "'""I* Day (tot Cap High Low Company Salt '000 High Low P/t $mll 340 300 AJinomoto 310 8 9 310 300 9.3 125.6 45 27.5 Angtiu 28.5 -3 54 31 27.5 42.0 342 286 ApoNo Food Hlg 300 3 300 300 6.5 120.0 356 300 Asia File
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      424 24 AFP |JCi»miiMitalndgi -2L71 MALAYSIAN share prices will probably see quiet trading this week amid cautious sentiment, dealers said. "Investors are not interested in the bourse. They want to keep their cash for a rainy day," an institutional dealer said. Investors were generally cautious due
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      603 25 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup THE yen is likely to remain the "shitzu" (a type of Japanese dog) of forex markets this week as the new fiscal year in Japan gets off to what is expected to be an ugly start with the Bank
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      230 27 Where to wine, dine and entertain..."-? Hl^a Ewt Easter 13 -15 April Feast with great culinary delicacies plus J pastry works of art, you'll be hopping mad if you miss our sumptuous Easter 4 celebration. T For reservations, call Marriott Caf6, IT *****05 The Pastry Shop, 831 thlnklnq off you
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      103 27 If you have not tried this succulent fish, there's no reason why you should wait anymore because the master chef of Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant has prepared them in six delicious ways. There are Sambal Snake Head Fish Belly in Claypot, Stir-fried Sliced Snake Head with Ginger Spring Onion or
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      897 27 i i ic uudii icoo i iiiico, IVIUI iuaj npi n c y cuv i "g" |gg aSC S S& S-®. £~i" t 1239 MN Party Of Five. (R)/Asia And Beyond. 1039 Singapore Tonight. Nmi sTree House. LOO AM SJO Business Breakfast. 10J0 Singapore Business To-J0-00 Nickelodeon: Rugrats. ZOO Making
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      281 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS (7) 1 Played round while fish lost 6 Way to take a break? Thafs a blood (7) joke! (9) 5 A service required by the under- 7 Permitting commercial commuclass (3 4) nication (9) 9 What mine host did to be dispar- 8 Points to a Democrat's
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      789 28  -  The pro league Women's United Soccer Association debuts on April 14 and promises exciting, festive fare, writes bbrmie wilsok BERNIE WILSON AP BRANDI Chastain breaks a sweat just talking about the new women's soccer league—which means somebody could lose a shirt. Chastain has gone
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      Lock icon Norplant a safe contraceptive, says study
      471 28 It finds no serious side effects for Norplant, taken off US market in Sept Reuters [WASHINGTON] The contraceptive Norplant, which has been off the US market since September after tests showed a batch of the implants may not work, proved to be a safe
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      49 29 TOP STORIES CeBIT boosts Sunderland's listing plans Pg2 New e-security service from PwC ready P*8 ATG aims for five-fold growth in Asia-Pac **12 Singapore is world's third most wired nation Pf 12 COMMENTARIES LeeH&nShih: Getting sewerage to deliver IT P|4 Vincent Ho: The secret to e-com is c-com W
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      Lock icon 'The storage sector is still strategic here'
      745 30  -  l-ii exclusive If Singapore can master the skills to make high-end drives, those skills can be used to support other high-tech industries which the country also needs Reports by Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE needs to attract businesses with higher value-add, such as hard
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      727 30 THE Singapore government's role in promoting the HDD (hard disk drive) industry was instrumental in attracting the industry to locate in Singapore and remain here despite the rising labour costs and increasing attractions of other Asian locations. That's the view of David McKendrick, one of
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      475 30 Here's how Singapore became the HDD capital ef the world, according to authors David McKendrick, Richard Doner and Stephan Haggard IN 1982, Seagate Technology, a three-year-old HDD startup located 20 miles south of Silicon Valley, began to assemble HDD components in Singapore, becoming the first firm in
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      524 30  -  JUii exclusive The company now specialises in personal area network and wireless communication technologies, and is already profitable Frorni Serena Ng in Hannover SUNDERLAND Technologies' new Bluetooth adapter for Palm handhelds was met with excellent reception from global distributors at last week's CeBIT fair in
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      221 30 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Sun Microsystems Inc, whose server computers run corporate networks and websites, said that it has combined two product units into one to better focus its efforts, after the leader of one of the groups resigned. John McFarlane, who
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        488 31  -  Electronics giants opt for outsourcing in order to focns on marketing and development By* Jeffrey Tsang The writer heads the PR firm Asher Communications Pte Ltd THE Dow and Nasdaq have hit-their lowest points in two years, but all is not gloom in the electronics
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        620 31  -  The company says it can save the global chemical and bulk material industry about US$43 billion by eliminating inefficiencies in their supply chains By\ David Mok US-BASED Optimum Logistics Ltd says it can help the global chemical and bulk material industry save about US$43 billion (5577.5
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      763 32  -  m comment INFOTECH CityNet Telecom of the PS uses sewerage pipes to deliver broadband connectivity to Should EMV consider this approach to get Into IT In Singapore? lee han shih The writer is a BT senior correspondent INTRODUCING the next major telecom player—the Ministry for
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      300 32  -  By Marissa Chew HOMEGROWN Creation Street Pte Ltd, which matches property owners and contracts and allows owners to tender their renovation jobs online, said it now offers systems integration as an extension of its webpage building service to its members. Creation Street, a subsidiary
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      435 32  -  With Cimo end-users will have broadband access points at airports, hotels, restaurants and other public locations By Chen Huifen US-BASED networking giant Cisco Systems Inc has announced an initiative to bring mobile computing to a higher level for corporate
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      592 32  -  By Ilaina Jonas Reuters [NEW YORK] Just as flu season ebbs, it's time to worry about those other viruses the ones that affect computers. If history is any indicator, the period between spring and the onset of summer marks a peak time for
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        Lock icon EasyCall guarantees 100% uptime
        45 33 MAINBOARD-LISTED Easy Call International said it will be the first data centre in Singapore to offer a "100 per cent uptime" guarantee to its corporate network customers. As part of the guarantee, the company will compensate customers who experience network failures.
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        57 33 GERMANY-BASED Software AG said it will participate in IDA'S infocomm LIUP (Local Industry Upgrading Programme) to educate local businesses on the benefits of XML (Extensible Markup Language). As part of the programme, Software AG will conduct seminars and workshops, and organise training trips to its
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        Lock icon Fuji Xerox, Microsoft in tie-up
        49 33 FUJI Xerox Singapore and Microsoft Singapore have tied up to link Xerox's Document Centre system and Flow Port document software with Microsoft's Exchange 2000 Server. Documents can be scanned into Exchange 2000 using Xerox's solutions and accessed over a LAN or via the Net.
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        Lock icon Abacus training at Polys and Shatec
        57 33 THE Singapore Hotel and Tourism Education Centre, Singapore Poly and Ngee Ann Poly will offer courses on the Abacus travel reservations system. Abacus systems offer information on airline schedules, airfares and cruises, and are linked to more than 50 car rental companies and 50,000
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        35 33 HONGKONG-BASED e-biz integrator Web Connection, a wholly-owned subsidiary of chinadotcom Corp, has changed its name to lon Global. The company currently has 1,000 employees in 10 countries, including Singapore.
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        31 33 MICROSOFT Singapore has appointed Vernon Ameen as its technical services director to oversee three merged divisions Microsoft consultancy services, product premier support group and technical support services.
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        49 33 ARIBA Singapore has announced four appointments: Vijay Srinivasan as general manager for Asean operations; Michele Wilkinson as director of marketing for the Asia-Pacific; Stephen Kang as director for retail and consumer packaged goods and strategic accounts for Asean; and Howie Lau as general manager for Singapore.
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        31 33 US-BASED Aprisma Management Technologies has appointed Charles Chua Chee Peng as its regional sales director for Singapore, and Andy Sumpton as senior technical consultant for Northern Asia-Pacific.
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        28 33 INTERSHOP Communications (S) Pte Ltd has appointed Kelvin Teo as regional sales director for South-east Asia. Mr Teo was previously sales director at Unisys Singapore.
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        29 33 INTERACT Commerce Corp Asia-Pacific has appointed Devin Nair as sales director of Asia. Mr Nair was previously business development manager, South Asia, at Oracle Corp.
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        35 33 A FIVE-DAY course on E-Commerce technologies and e-commerce business models will be held from today at the Traders Hotel. It is organised by ECommerce Education and Consulting Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****38.
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        31 33 A FORUM on Myths and realities of 3G will be held on Thursday at the Merchant Court Hotel. It is organised by landl Asia. For details, e-mail laychintan@iandiasia.com.
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        Lock icon IBM e-biz infrastructure day
        46 33  -  Compiled by Chua Hui Min IBM Singapore Pte Ltd will hold an IBM e-business infrastructure day on April 10 at the Shangri-La Hotel. The event will include talks on Linux, infrastructure management and web hosting services. For details, visit www. ibm. com/sg/einfrastructure.
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      Lock icon PC owners to be enlisted to find anti-cancer drugs
      374 33  -  By Clive Cookson FT [LONDON] Personal computer owners will be invited this week to join the search for cancer drugs. A project based at Oxford University aims to harness the capacity of hundreds of thousands of PCs to form a virtual
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      740 33  -  k^WIT C-commerce is driven by revenue Increases, while e-commerce Is driven by cost reductions vincent ho The writer is managing director (Asean), Vignette Asia A CLEAR trend that emerged last year was the increasing momentum of bricks-and-mortar companies extending their business to the Internet. From shopfronts
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      Lock icon Comdex goes virtual
      248 34  -  Comdex Asia, the actual event, will only start from April 10. But the show in cyberspace has already begun By' Trina Foo FOR this first time, Comdex Asia will open its doors virtually two weeks before the actual physical exposition takes place. The actual exhibition, called Comdex
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      Lock icon Components makers in Asia beset by slow global demand
      940 34  -  Manufacturers left with excess capacity after they ramped up production last year By Natalia Olynec Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] A shortage of parts no bigger than a grain of salt last year kept cellphone makers like Nokia Oyj from meeting demand for new
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      Lock icon New e-security service from PwC
      557 36  -  i-ii exclusive The service offers banks and financial institutions a highly secure e-transaction environment Byl Tang Weng Fai ANEW business unit of PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) called beTRUSTed has launched a new service aimed at banks and financial institutions to help them outsource their e-security management needs.
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      Lock icon Biggest threat to electronic data from insiders
      257 36 Reuters [TORONTO] WHILE CEOs worry about external foes hacking into corporate networks, their real concerns should be the Trojan Horses disgruntled employees with the inside knowledge to easily steal sensitive secrets according to a study released last week. Over 90 per cent of
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      Lock icon HK mounts assault on software piracy
      755 36  -  New law also covers artistic works, music and film CDs, VCDs and DVDs By. Ben Rowse AFP [HONGKONG] FROM the übiquitous market stalls to the innocuous high street computer shops, pirated software is still easy to come by in Hongkong, despite the government's apparent
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      Lock icon Software maker Autodesk weathers the storm
      473 36  -  Merrill Lynch analyst calls it a good long-term stock By. Lisa Baertlein Reuters [PALO ALTO] AS scores of former stars of the bull market in technology stocks languish near year lows, com-puter-aided design software maker Autodesk Inc has been on the upswing. The company's
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        60 36 FUJI Xerox Phaser Printing Southeast Asia (previously called Tektronix) has launched its Phaser 2135 office colour printer. It comes with a 500 MHz Intel processor and prints 21 pages per minute at 1,200 dots per inch. Prices start at $13,999 for a 128 MB
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        Lock icon ...And its video management software
        62 36 FUJI Xerox Singapore and VidTools Pte Ltd have released the 'Video Management System for Knowledge Management' software, which lets users catalogue, annotate, search and view videos 'on the fly', Without delays caused by loading the content into memory. Licensing costs range from $15,500 depending on
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        Lock icon 3M's projectors and mousepad
        81 36 3M Singapore Pte Ltd has unveiled two overhead projectors the MP2660 (picture above), which weighs 5 kg, delivers 2,000 lumens of brightness, and costs $1,300; and the 2770T, which weighs 5.7 kg, offers 1,800 lumens of brightness and costs $1,490. For details, visit www.3M.com/meetings. The company
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        Lock icon Dell unveils new servers
        70 36 DELL Asia Pacific has unveiled two new servers the Power Edge 2550 is a 3.5-inch server for corporate data centres (replacing the Power Edge 2450), and the Power Edge 2500 a tower-based server for work-groups. Both support dual Intel P-111 processors and feature embedded Raid (Redundant
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        Lock icon ... And new storage products
        73 36 And new storage products DELL has also launched a range of network-attached storage (NAS) products targeted at SMEs. The range includes the Power Vault 735N, a mid-range product which offers 144 GB of storage for $17,047; and two entry-level products for simple applications the Power Vault 701N which provides 60
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        Lock icon NetTasking launches WebVisor service
        45 36 0 NETTASKING (Singapore) Pte Ltd has launched its Web Visor service, which lets IT managers monitor their networks and identify bottlenecks, and provides updates on the status of websites. Prices start from US$55O for three months' subscription. For details, see www.nettasking.com.
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        Lock icon Symantec's remote access software
        46 36  -  -Compiled by Chua Hui Min US-BASED Symantec Corp has launched its pcAnywhere 10.0 software, which lets IT administrators access servers from remote locations, to provide quicker help-desk services. The product is currently available at $263.00 per unit. For details, go to www.symantec.com.
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      Lock icon US rollout of 3G services hits snag
      663 37  -  Government reports reveal difficulties in making airwaves available By. Jeremy Pelofsky Reuters [WASHINGTON] THE rollout of advanced mobile data and voice services in the United States suffered a blow after two government reports detailed the difficulties for making available or sharing identified airwaves
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      410 37 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Motorola Inc did not award any long-term compensation such as stock options to its top executives, according to the world's second-largest cell phone maker's proxy statement. Chairman and chief executive Christopher Galvin and president Robert Growney also did not receive restricted stock and their
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      439 37 Bloomberg [DANA POINT, California] Kevin B Rollins, co-president and co-chief operating officer at Dell Computer Corp, said the largest direct computer seller is gaining on its rivals and will continue its lowprice strategy. Dell began lowering prices in October, a strategy that left
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      51 39 [MAKUHARI, Japan] Models showing off mockup of Microsoft Corp's Xbox game machine during the Tokyo Game Show Spring2ool here on Friday. Microsoft says the new machine due to be launched this autumn will be three time morepowerful than Sony's smash-hit PlayStation2, which was launched last year.
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      491 39  -  Company reportedly in talks with three record companies to license their music for use online By\ Scott Hillis Reuters [SEATTLE] A possible deal between major record labels and Internet media software firm RealNetworks Inc to offer online music subscriptions could breathe new life
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      320 39 Reuters [NEW YORK] Computer and printer company HewlettPackard Co may be weighing the purchase of troubled Internet consultancy Scient Corp, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. A spokeswoman for Scient would not comment on the matter but sources on Wall Street
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      165 39 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co, the No 2 computer maker, said it will begin identifying and replacing some potentially defective monitors, which have a risk of electrical shock if the user touches on a certain section. The HP 71 17-inch CRT monitors, model number
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      706 39  -  By, Justin Pritchard AP [SAN FRANCISCO] Ajay Jindal arrived last spring from India and tapped the Silicon Valley gold rush as a computer programmer at US$BO,OOO (*****,000) a year —10 times what he earned back home. Swept up in the giddy rise of the high-tech economy,
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        527 40  -  US-based Art Technology Group aims to be market leader in the e-customer relationship management space By\ Elizabeth Su US-BASED Art Technology Group (ATG), that provides online customer management products and services, said it is aiming to grow its revenues five-fold in the Asia-Pacific region
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        320 40  -  Survey says 47% of STpore residents are connected online, behind Denmark, US By Raju Chellam SINGAPORE is the third most wired nation, going by a new global survey conducted by France-based Net Value. The results, released last week, say that 47.4 per cent of
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          56 40 SINGAPOR£-BASED eMecca Consulting said it will advise Trans-United Corp Limited (TUC) —Singapore's third bus operator after SBS and TlBS—on a new $500,000 web-based system for routing and scheduling vehicles, and customer bookings. TUC was formed after 12 bus companies merged. It provides transport for factory workers,
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          45 40 PURCHASINGNET Asia-Pacific has released its PurchasingNet-SQL S.O procurement software, targeted at medium-sized to large organisations. Hie software supports 160 currencies, tracks pending purchase requests/runs cm Win NT servers and is compatible with both SQL and Oracle databases. For details, check out www.PurehasingNet.com.
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          38 40 PEOPLESOFT Asia has launched what it claims is the first Internet-based global financial settlement solution for 828 marketplaces. The software allows multicurrency payments, and provides multilingual ami different tax processing functions. Go to www.peopksoft.com.
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          61 40 HONGKONG-BASED Info Talk Corp, which offers language and speech-recognition technology, has tied up with Singapore-based Asian Bourses Corp (ABC) to enable ABC to deliver its web-based financial information by phone in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Hie service is already available in China, and will
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          39 40 SINGAPORE-BASED Music.com Asia has launched its Asian portal, at aski.music.com. Hie portal offers free music downloads, music-related news, feature articles, event highlights and contests. Aspiring musicians may also post original music tracks on the website.
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          50 40 SINGAPORE-BASED Way Geomancy Pte Ltd has set up an Internet arm, Way OnNet.com Pte Ltd, at www.wayonnet.com. The bilingual website offers "world and economic news from a fengshui perspective, fengshui advice, interactive community programmes, online fengshui consultations, virtual shopping for fengshui-related products and online learning," the company said.
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          54 40 THERE will be a consolidation of Internet portals this year, with about three to five major horizontal portals in each country surviving by 2002, according to new- research from International Data Corp. Internet users win access but not generate revettQe for these portals for at least a
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          39 40 US-BASED Aprisma Management Technologies has launched its Spectrum Security Manager, a security software which lets companies and service providers monitor network security from a single device. The product will debut next month. Details at www.aprisma.com.
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          54 40  -  ComplMbyi Chua Hui Min NOKIA Asia-Pacific has tied up with Japan's Capcom Asia to develop WAP games for Nokia's GSM markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Hie games will debut commercially in Q3 2001. Nokia said it will also introduce games for the web,
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      266 41 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young SK Shipping has now concluded the sale of its three older single skin VLCCs, combined with 5 years bareboat charter back. TheCFrontier/C Commander (255,000/88) were said to have obtained US$7O million "en bloc" from Island Navigation, with the younger C Voyager (bit 90)
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      301 41 sex HI m st V- m CWT Distribution 0.49 -0.01 27 ChuanHup 0.32 unch 799 Cosco Investment 0.18 0.01 206 Freight Links 0.08 unch 507 C6 Holdings 0.40 unch 0 IMC HoMlngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jeya HoMlnqs 0.14 unch 232 Keppei Corp 3.10 unch 1638 Keppei FELS 0.88
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      363 41  -  It plans to spend np to USslsom on 90,000 20-ft boxes From P T Bangsberg in Manila COSCO Pacific Ltd, the Hongkong unit of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, said profit for the year through last Dec 31 grew 6.3 per cent
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      152 41 AP [COLOMBO, Sri Lanka] The Sri Lanka Ports Authority has said it plans to invite foreign shipping lines as partners in the management of Colombo's main container terminal, as a precursor to privatisation. "We have a plan to corporatise the Jaya Container Terminal
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        102 41 THE Italian government will ban single hull tankers from seven of the country's port areas this month, news reports say. Announced by environment minister Wilier Bordon, the move will take effect from April 23, and is an extension of a directive prohibiting
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        76 41 PETROBRAS has seen its insurance premium leap by more than 600 per cent since the sinking of its giant oil rig on March 20. The US$5OO million (SsBBs million) platform sank following a series of explosions which killed several workers. The state-owned Brazilian oil company announced
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        123 41 SURVEYORS from Cyprus and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) spent two days taking measurements and samples of deck plating as part of their investigation into the damaged chemical tanker Castor. The Castor underwent a six-week ordeal in the Mediterranean Sea as state after state refused
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      369 41 It will provide global market links, transfer technology Bernama [SIBU] A well-established Singaporean shipbuilding company has been invited to assist in the development of the new Integrated Sibu Shipbuilding Park, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Communications Wong Soon Koh said here at
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      285 41  -  From Evelyn Duffy in Perth AUSTRALIAN towage company, Adsteam Marine is set to become the world's largest towage operator after reaching an agreement to acquire the Australian and United Kingdom harbour towage and related marine businesses of Howard Smith. The Assoo million
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      194 41 [SINGAPORE] Between 1,900 and 2,700 tonnes of heavy oil is estimated to have spilled into waters between Germany and Denmark from the damaged hull of tanker Baltic Carrier. The 2000-built 35,000 dwt vessel Marshall Islands registered tanker collided with the 1973-built 34,365 dwt Cyprus-registered
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        746 42  -  Singapore's response to the oil spill last year was swift and effective, a conference was told From'. David Hughes in Tampa INGAPORE's reM sponse to last year's Natuna Sea oil spill incident was an example of a success- ful operation to
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      301 42 PAGE Ahrenkiel 12 Appenship 5 AsiaOCl 11 Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 12 B'tangMas 6 BSA 7 BTL 12 Balaji Shpg 5 Bangladesh 11 Batamindo 11 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 COCOS 5 CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Chahaya 12 ChoYanq 5 China Shpg 5 Confer
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        529 53 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jra|M Kimcjpficom Ve50w J17 01/04/1055 01/04/17:30 Marcopolo 66 O6/OU J02 01/04/1230 03/04/6JO Asian Wind 7 J04 01/04/1150 02/04/1130 Primasamudra OVJun Jtl 01/04/14:10 03/04/630 Lion Glory UctK) JT1 01/04/1630 08/04/23:59 Balacacstrai 64 J05 01/04/1730 02/04/11:00 Pinqquan 125 J07 02/04/530 05/04/2330 Good Friday E349
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        187 53 AprS Hongkong: Ching Ming Festival. Apr* Thailand: Chakri Memorial Day. Apr» Philippines: Day of Valour. Apr 13 United Kingdom: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Australia: Good Friday. Hongkong: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Finland: Good
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        779 53 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 market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        502 53 Carton 180 M*x 985.4 22 12.9 028 194 0.06 Mar 29 Density Water Rtsidu* Ask Aluminium Sediment No above E25 0 10 110 *135" 380 Ave 985 J 0.4 12.7 0.07 22 0.02 Bum 380 Max 990.6 11 142 0.09 49 0.03 «W1 %M/M WW —tax
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        739 54 BOEDVG'S MEW RADICAL MEDIUM-SUED JET Giant A3BO 555-seater will enjoy monopoly bnt European group's middle-size planes will be threatened by new jet Reuters [LONDON] Airbus Industrie will find valuable opportunity but also risk in Boeing Co's plan to shelve a proposed superjumbo
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        295 54 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines, which operates Asia's largest commercial aircraft fleet, said it is interested in Boeing Co's plans to develop a faster long-range plane by the end of the decade. "The concept of a higher-speed, medium-size transport aircraft with about 250 seats has
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        240 54 AFP [NEW YORK] United Airlines (UA) planned to launch yesterday what it says is the world's longest non-stop scheduled passenger flight, linking New York and Hongkong in just under 16 hours via a polar route, a spokesman for the US airline
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        60 54 [ONTARIO] Mike Eskew, United Parcel Service vice-chairman, unveiling the UPS China Express during ceremonies to celebrate the inaugural UPSflight to China at the Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California. The maiden China fliyfit took off yesterday for the first of six direct flights weekly to China.
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        416 54 Setback for economic reform programme as the 51% stake fails to attract a final offer AFP TURKEY scrapped last Friday the sale of 51 per cent of Turkish Airlines after it failed to attract any final offers, in a humiliating setback to its economic reform
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        412 54 The big issue is how to raise op to £8b to upgrade the world's oldest subway Bloomberg [LONDON] London Underground workers' 24-hour strike last Thursday left just 19 out of 500 trains running and forced most of the three million daily riders to
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      715 42 Lines services represented by I* Members of tbe Registry of Members of tbe fcjSgjl] Accredited Shipping Agents. J3r Singapore Logistics Singapore Shipping Association Association CONTAINERS/ conventional cargo fo<rT KUNG SMGtfO E UKAItTA MNGKOK VOY ETAPKL ETA SIN ETA MALE PrIMMBIHy mi OHM 07/ tH IVM K«prr*s Lib Mtt tt/M 20/
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