The Business Times, 9 May 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES mita (py 107/03/2001 SINGAP ORE I Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2001
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    76 1 □m 1,70L96 (-12.86) mJk 682*89 (-8.34) □ST INDEX FOTUBES MMLOO (-8.00) sniscEnrnjßEs 21*00 (-0.20) STOCK MAEKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSEOOMP ***** -6.08 NIKKEI 226 14,289.06 -240J6 HANG SENG ll*49.81_ -69J7 SET INDEX dosed JAKARTA COMP 372S7 -2M MANILA OOMP —1,427.28 -4.63 TAIPEI WP! 6,176.71 -6122 SEQUL COMP Smi
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    84 1 FOSEX RATES us$ s$ US$(S$perl T SS) 1.826 £(US$/SSper£) 1.432 1614 EUBO(USS/S$/E) 9.887 1.618 DM 1206 1109 YEN 121.6 66.70 RM 1806 1061 HK$ 7 .806 4176 BAHT 46.61 _26.0 RUPIAH 10,925 5,988 *SS to 100 units •SS to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.88 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA
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    Lock icon A blueprint to pull Indonesia from the brink
    875 1  -  -iiexclusive Megawati team ready for tough measures but will avoid rocking the boat From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta POISED on the brink of assuming power, Vice-Presi-dent Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDIP) has formulated a comprehensive economic strategy that it hopes will
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    Lock icon Senior ministers try to mend rift between Gus Dur, Megawati
    598 1  -  Jakarta rife with talk Abdurrahman's govt is on the verge of collapse From, Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S political crisis showed no signs of easing yesterday as senior Cabinet ministers desperately attempted to mend ties between President Abdurrahman Wahid and
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    Lock icon 'Great sale': DBS slashes home rates
    612 1  -  -liexclusive Package matching cheapest offer In market seen halting home lean war By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank has thrown in the towel and slashed housing loan rates to prevent customers jumping ship to banks offering cheaper mortgages. By piling in, Singapore's biggest
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    Lock icon Serial's ex-CEO fails to meet SIC deadline for takeover
    423 1  -  Regulator holding hearing next week on fling's fate Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Former Serial System chief executive Eddie Chng has not come through with a takeover bid for the company despite a Securities Industries Council (SIC) extension which expired yesterday. The
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      129 1 mauiE Top stories reaffirms commitment to open up its economy. Next Page Sing Tel hits new low as Optus slides 32%Pg4 Dell to cut 10% of its workforce. Pg 19 BT Comment Lee Han Shih: Are SembCorp's 'extraordinary items' really all that extraordinary? Pg 4 Singapore companies in sectors from
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      Lock icon China committed to opening up economy: Jiang
      741 2  -  He also reaffirms 'one country, two systems' in HE, calls for global peace From. Audrey Tan in Hong Kong muin i ms aneaa 01 unina s expected entry into the WTO and amid strained China-US relations, President Jiang Zemin yesterday reaffirmed China's "unswerving"
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      Lock icon Jiang meet Clinton: report
      226 2 WhiteSonse says Clinton travelling as 'private citizen' AFP CHINESE President Jiang Zemin is to meet with former US leader Bill Clinton on the sidelines of a global economic forum here, the Hong Kong iMail reported yesterday. The two men, who met on several occasions when Mr
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Goodies for Paillart and Jackson Tai?
        153 2 FOLLOWING our story last week about bank directors' pay and remuneration, it seems some DBS staffers are wondering what the package will look like this year. According to DBS' 2000 annual report, directors' fees and remuneration rose 46 per cent to $19.7 million, comprising
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        Lock icon Global situation is serious
        58 2 LAST week, The Business Times ran an on-line poll with the statement: It looks like S'pore's economy will only pick up in Q4. Readers made their choices in the following manner: Yes, the economy should be healthy by then: 36%. No, it won't because the global
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      463 2 KPMGSeminarSeries Non-Life Loss Reserving for Insurers Monday Tuesday, 4th sth June 2001, Orchard Hotel Singapore What The financial services industry is undergoing profound changes globally and Singapore is no exception. The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced on 17 March 2000 that it is introducing measures to enhance the protection of
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      10 2 China banks on reforms to boost bigger listings. Pg 13
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SingTel hits new low as Optus slides 3.2%
      611 4  -  Anssie telco shares fall on fears earnings will be lower than expected By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecommunications shares sank to a new low yesterday as the window for arbitrage re-opened because of a steep fall in the share price of Australian
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      Lock icon Nothing extraordinary about these provisions
      646 4  -  lock siew lee han shih IF investors wonder why SembCorp Industries is lurching from one aborted attempt to another to raise $300 million, they need only scrutinise its recent annual report. They need to look beyond the fancy cover, the long descriptions of SembCorp's five
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      Lock icon SembCorp unit buys UK company for £15m
      266 4  -  Byl Conrad Raj SEMBCORP Engineers Constructors (SembCorp E&C) is buying UKbased process engineering consultant Simon-Carves for £14.9 million (Ss39 million). Under an agreement signed last Friday, SembCorp E&C will purchase the entire issued capital of Precis (1999), which holds SimonCarves, from London-listed Simon
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      Lock icon Horizon placing out 5m new shares
      262 5  -  750 each share; 2nd time this year it's issoiognew shares By, Andrea Tan INTERNET services firm Horizon.com yesterday said it will place out five million new shares at 75 cents each, the second time this year the firm is raising funds by issuing new
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      Lock icon DBS to offer higher bond yield, say investors
      316 5 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] DBS Group Holdings Ltd, which said last week it would sell a quarter less of bonds than first expected, will offer a higher yield than on its existing debt to ensure the sale's success, investors said. South-east Asia's largest bank
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      Lock icon OCBC to lower capital adequacy ratio to 14%
      763 5 Move will enable it to make better use of foods and boost profitability Bloomberg OVERSEA-CHINESE Banking Corp, Singapore's No 3 lender by assets, plans to almost halve the amount of capital it sets apart against lending in a bid to boost profitability.
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      Lock icon Norelco Centreline gets listing nod
      249 7  -  Plans include US marketing liaison office, China factory By\ Melissa Sim ENGINEERING company Norelco Centreline Holdings has received in-principle approval to list on Sesdaq. "We hope that the listing will enhance our corporate image and help us secure new customers," CEO Peter Koh said yesterday.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Ang Kong Hua Joins SingTel board
        42 7 SINGAPORE Telecommunications has appointed Ang Kong Hua a non-executive director. Mr Ang, president of Nat Steel Ltd since 1975, is also a director of Government of Singapore Investment Corp and chairman of the Securities Industry Council.
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        Lock icon Datacraft in tie-up with Cygent
        42 7 Reuters NETWORK systems integrator Datacraft Asia is partnering US-based e-business solutions provider Cygent Cygent's e-business support solutions will be packaged with Datacraft's business and operations support systems software, and aimed at telecommunications carriers and service providers. Reuters
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        Lock icon PCL acceptances at 90.56%
        95 7 HO VERT Investments, a vehicle of the Kuok Group, said yesterday its takeover offer for Pacific Carriers (PCL) has received acceptances representing 90.56 per cent of the issued share capital of PCL. The offer closes at 3.30 pm today. Hovert will pay the enhanced offer price
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      Lock icon Venture earnings to rise 24%: SG
      139 7 Reuters SG SECURITIES sees Singapore electronics contract maker Venture Manufacturing posting a 24 per cent rise in 2001 net profit to $131 million, driven by new customers and products. The brokerage said in a report it has a $15.80 price target for the stock,
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      Lock icon NUH's former surgery chief joins Raffles Hospital
      292 7  -  By Liew Hanqing FORMER National University Hospital chief of surgery Walter Tan has joined Raffles Hospital as medical director and consultant surgeon. He will manage and develop the hospital's clinical specialties and sub-spe-cialties. "I am very excited to have someone of Prof Tan's
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      320 6 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 25,447,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 24,611,000 Autron 17,853,000 Tianjin Zhong 16,442,000 Parkway H 25c 16,176,000 PacificCenturylOc 14,263,000 WahShing R 2.5c 13,142,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 8,339,000 PCI 25c 8,314,000 Strike W*****5 7,976,000 Stocks S Chart Semiconductor 26c 48,759,750 DBSGrp 45,790,934 SingTel 15c 42,794,500 Datacraft 10c 29,978,080 SIA 28,991,799 OCBC
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      Lock icon Tech recovery hopes help as bellwether stocks go soft
      609 6  -  I:l I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan IT WAS a case of post-long-weekend blues for the Singapore bourse as stocks drifted south in thin volume. Blue chips and heavyweights sank in a lacklustre session marked by profit-tak-ing, while expectations of a year-end
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      Lock icon KepT&T wrt looks overpriced but could see further upside
      186 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan RECENT reports on the potential sale of controlling stakes in mobile phone operator Mobile One has helped fUel interest in Keppel Telecom Transportation. Keppel Telecom owns about a one-third stake in Ml. The stock has almost
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      Lock icon KepCorp: rally could fizzle out if volume shrinks further
      188 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan KEPPEL group companies have seen their stock prices rising on expectations that the group could be heading for a major restructuring. Keppel Corp itself has bounced back strongly from its 10-year low of $2.95 last month.
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2799 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss):May 9 *b«rd«in Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNCFd 0.796 0.836 Global Technology Fd!** 0.720 0.756 UK Blue Chip Fd!*« 0.797 0.837 American Opport Fd 0.870 0.914 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.102 1.158 Japan EqtyFd!** 1.329 1.397 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.107
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Wholesale prices down in March
      294 8  -  P=W3 on the economy wholesale prices By Liew Hanqing FALLING petroleum product prices resulted in a drop in Singapore wholesale prices in March, despite a rise in non-oil product prices. Petroleum products leading the price drop were diesel fuel and kerosene. Weak demand and poor
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      Lock icon PM: FTAs ensure others, Asean stay engaged
      528 8  -  He says they do not undermine Asean, nor pro vide backdoor into regional market From, Harish Mehta inPhnormPenh SINGAPORE'S Free Trade Area initiatives with key partners outside the region do not undermine Asean, but, instead, ensure those countries stay engaged with Asean, Prime
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      Lock icon Temasek Capital launches inCube
      598 8  -  It will help take start-ups, early-stage and established tech firms to world markets By i Conrad Raj ENTREPRENEURS with ideas but no cash to develop them can now seek help from one of Singapore's largest government bodies, the Temasek group, to make their dreams come true.
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      Lock icon SingTech set to benefit from BAE Systems know-how
      416 8  -  By] David Boey BAE Systems, Europe's second largest defence contractor, said yesterday it is gearing itself to transfer advanced fighter aircraft technology and defence electronics know-how to Singapore Technologies as part of the group's strategy to land a multi-mil-lion-dollar contract here. Charles
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      Lock icon 20 units each sold at 2 condos in Kembangan over weekend
      437 8  -  By' Vince Chong TWO condominium projects in Kembangan the freehold Heliconia and the 99-year leasehold The Trumps reported sales of about 20 units each over the Vesak Day long weekend when they were officially launched. But figures for The
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      Lock icon S African province woos investors
      412 8  -  By\ Rachel Ong THE Gauteng provincial government in South Africa aims to attract US$l2.5 billion in foreign direct investment over the next 10 years as part of the government's plan to move beyond 4 per cent annual growth. It will do this through Blue IQ
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      124 8 4® ÜBS Warburg A Business Group of ÜBS AG Incorporated in Switzerland ÜBS AG acting through its London Branch Placing of SGD Quanto 18,000,000 call warrants due 2002 relating to the ordinary shares of Cable Wireless Optus Limited Issue price: 5GD0.***** for each call warrant April 2001 This announcement does
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Be more appreciative, Raffles shareholders
      676 9  -  Lay Chee Seng William Singapore I ATTENDED Raffles Holdings' shareholders' meeting. It was one of the longest annual general meetings cum extraordinary general meeting I have attended. As a shareholder, I was keen to learn from the management their basis for making certain investment/divestment decisions,
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      Lock icon When goal isn't that great in real terms
      238 9  -  S Ananthasainan Singapore I REFER to your article "Not a mindless obsession" (BT, Editorial Opinion, April 26). International comparisons may not be a mindless obsession; but it evolves into an obsession, due to the overall competitiveness which is felt down the line
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      Lock icon How did S'poreans get so spoilt?
      144 9  -  Annie Chua Singapore I REFER to your editorial "Not a mindless obsession" (BT, Editorial Opinion, April 26). I have been in Singapore for a year and, before that, lived in many countries. Singaporeans are very lucky. Sadly, they lack an understanding of their comforts
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      Lock icon CPF investments call for personal responsibility
      302 9  -  Teri Tan Teow Tee (Ms), Christopher Ee I REFER to the letter "Too much CPF in insurance?" by Neo Aik Guat (Mailbag, April 21). Mr Neo expressed his concern that too much CPF money is going into insurance products under the CPF Investment Scheme
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      Lock icon S'pore Power has taken steps to improve service
      194 9  -  T P Manohar Senior Manager Customer Services Power Supply Ltd I REFER to the letter "Answering machines are a big waste of time" by Bernard Low Fook Yui (BT, Mailbag, May 2) who commented that he experienced an engaged tone in calling
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      62 9 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg orfaxusat *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore*****s. 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 libel laws. We reserve
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Is the US plan about offence or defence?
      801 10  -  riTT^ bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent STUDENTS of information theory are familiar with a standard exercise that assesses the way our cognitive processes operate. We are asked to view a figure that seems susceptible to two
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      98 10 'It's easy to agree on something that's not going to happen tomorrow and that you don't have to do anything about today.' -MohdFuidlbhdAiiiiß of Malaysia's state-owned Petronas Oil Company, on Asean's plan to link together thousands of kilometres ofpipe to form a massive natural gas pipeline. 'What's
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      Lock icon The Singapore phoenix revisited
      597 10 EDITORIAL THE Jurongßird Park's Breeding and Research Centre has spawned a successful programme for breeding birds, including several endangered species. Underlying the success is a combination of high-tech breeding techniques, sawy know-how and good old TLC (tender loving care). Something like that may be needed for
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      Lock icon FTAs: Singapore's good sense In going it alone
      1189 10  -  Negotiating such pacts will help ensure the continued inflow of talent and investment, particularly in services By\ Brace Gale Dr Bruce Gale is an independent political risk analyst based in Singapore. He contributed this article to BT. DESPITE concerns expressed in some
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      Lock icon Stealing a march on the US and Nasa
      926 10  -  COMMENTARY Dennis Tito's flight with the Russians wasn't a mere Disneyfyingof space By Amity Shlaes FT SO now the Russians are too capitalist, are they? That at least seems to be the consensus in the West, where Nasa and the media alike
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon SC may delay further rate cut in July
      505 11  -  Brokers have asked Daim to postpone fall liberalisation of commissions by 3 years From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE restructuring of Malaysia's overcrowded stockbroking sector has hit another snag as the earlier plan to make brokerage rates fully negotiable by July
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      Lock icon KL March industrial production growth lowest in 2 years
      443 11  -  From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S industrial production expanded by 0.5 per cent in March, its smallest growth in over two years after it tipped into negative territory in 1999 following the economic downturn. "The numbers were a bit
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      Lock icon Malaysia foreign reserves up US$100m
      342 11  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA reversed a more than 11 months of continuous decline in its foreign reserves, chalking up a rise of US$lOO million to U5526.4 billion in the last two weeks of April. The rapidly declining reserves in the earlier
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      Lock icon Bakun uncertainty weighs down Tenaga shares
      355 11  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TENAGA Nasional has been knocked off its perch as the largest company in Malaysia by market capitalisation as lingering concerns over its precise stake in the controversial Bakun Hydroelectric project in Sarawak takes its toll. Leo Moggie, Minister
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Samsudin making comeback again to corporate M'sia
      368 13 KUALA LUMPUR SOUTH Africa-based Samsudin Abu Hassan describes his unsuccessful return to the Malaysian corporate scene in 1999 as a "premature" move as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was already at its peak then. "It (the stock market) was at the top, and
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        Lock icon NPLs held by Dasharta up RM520m
        106 13 AP (KUALA LUMPUR] Non-performing loans held by Malaysia's bad debt agency increased by RMS2O million (5&49.3 million) in the first three months of2ool, and average defaulted loans almost doubled. Danaharta Nasional said NPLs in its portfolio increased by RMS2O million to RM4B.Q2 billion at
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        Lock icon NSC decision by month's end
        77 13 Bernama [MANILA] A decision on whether to lease or liquidate an ailing Malaysian-owned steel company will be known by end of this month. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Lilia Bautista said the SEC is currently reviewing a proposal from a local private entity to lease
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        Lock icon Manila bourse wants broken penalised
        36 13 AFX-Asia [MANILA] The Philippine Stock Exchange is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose penalties on eight brokers allegedly involved in the manipulation of Reynolds Philippines Corp share prices. —AFX-Asia
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        Lock icon Putrajaya convention centre short list
        68 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] Four local companies have been shortlisted for the construction of the RM6OO million (*****.7 million) convention centre in Putrajaya, The Sun said in a report yesterday. Sources said the four are Putra Perdana Bhd, IJM Corporation Bhd, Road Builder (M) Holdings Bhd and
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      Lock icon China banks on reforms to boost bigger listings
      572 13 HONGKONG Top regulator says plans are in place to raise regulatory standards Reuters CHINA'S top stock market regulator Zhou Xiaochuan said yesterday plans are in place to raise regulatory standards to encourage more of China's big state-owned firms to seek listings on
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      Lock icon Thaksin to woo investors at HK forum
      461 13 BANGKOK Foreign investors wary after remarks on baht and economy canse confusion Reuters THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday he would use a key speech today to encourage the return of overseas investors after the damage done by a series of
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      Lock icon Honasan's lawyers in talks for his surrender: official
      394 13 MANILA Ads in papers link Estrada cronies to the recent riots AFP, AP LAWYERS for a Philippine senator wanted for allegedly helping launch a failed power grab against President Gloria Arroyo were yesterday negotiating for bis possible surrender, an official said. Senate
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      Lock icon US slowdown could cause big Asean job losses
      506 13 KUALA LUMPUR Asean pins 3 labour ministers to discuss issue this week AP MASSIVE job losses could hit South-east Asian countries as a result of the economic slowdown in the United States, government officials warned yesterday. Thousands of jobs have already been
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      Lock icon Taiwan cuts trade forecasts for 2001
      515 16 TAIPEI Disappointing April trade data prompts govt to cat forecast 2nd time in a month Reuters TAIWAN lowered its 2001 trade forecasts for the second time in a month yesterday after the release of disappointing April trade data and a downbeat assessment of prospects
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      Lock icon Call to boost regional cooperation
      466 16  -  Top China and HK officials say it will complement economic revamp From, AndreyTan in Hong Kong TOP financial officials in China and Hongkong yesterday called for more regional cooperation on economic and financial matters, saying that this*is necessary if Asia is to return to the
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      Lock icon Taiwan Cellular to buy mobile phone firm: report
      112 16 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN Cellular Corp is to acquire a local mobile phone company for more than NT$l2 billion (***** million) to become the island's largest mobile phone operator, it was reported yesterday. Taiwan Cellular would buy nearly 100 per cent of TransAsia
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon CNOOC may buy Aussie gas field stake
        84 16 Bloomberg [PERTH] Australia LNG, the country's liquefied natural gas marketer, said it's in talks with China National Offshore Oil Corp to sell a stake in natural gas fields to secure part of a US$lO billion supply contract to China. CNOOC, China's No 3
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        Lock icon GM and Fiat's Chinese partners in talks
        80 16 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] General Motors Corp and Fiat SpA's Chinese venture partners are in talks to form an alliance that would cement the local ties between the world's largest automaker and Italy's biggest industrial company. Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp, which makes Buicks, and Yuejing
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        Lock icon Indian firm Infosys' website hacked
        67 16 AFP [BANGALORE] The website of India's top IT software firm, Infosys Technologies, was hacked on Monday, a company official said. "A portion of www.irtfy.com on banking solutions was hacked. We are yet to ascertain the source and are looking into the matter," a spokeswoman said.
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        91 16 AFP [NEW DELHI] India has decided to limit the entry of 300 consumer goods items such as liquor, toys and edible oil to only 11 entry points, officials said on Monday. The country in its recent 2001-2002 trade policy lifted import curbs on 715
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        60 16 Reuters [TAIPEI] Former Taiwan premier Vincent Siew flew to China to try to win Chinese leaders over to his idea of a regional common market as part of reconciliation efforts "I feel we need to let economic and trade ties between the two sides build
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      305 14 AFX-Asia [LONDON] Bank Indonesia governor Syahril Sabirin said he might step down before his term ends in May 2003 even if he is cleared of charges in the Bank Bali trial. In an interview with Central Banking, a
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      283 18  -  Should 'white pomps' be set up, it would be irreversible All reports by Christopher Tan DROP prices across the board or face new players who will, Case has told oil companies. At a press conference yesterday, the Consumers Association of
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      535 19 DALLAS It aims to continue with price war, np its market share NYT, AFP SIGNALLING it has no intention of easing the price war in personal computers, Dell Computer Corp said on Monday that it would cut 3,000 to 4,000 jobs, or about
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      270 19 SANTA CLARA, California Bloomberg 3COM Corp will eliminate 3,ooojobs, or 30 per cent of its workforce, and may make other spending reductions as the maker of computer-networking equipment tries to become profitable in the next year. 3Com will trim its staff
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      208 19 TOKYO Bloomberg PERSONAL computer shipments in Japan rose 17 per cent in the January-March period, boosted by higher sales to companies and consumers who wanted Internet access to listen to music and watch videos, an industry group said. Domestic"
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      224 19 NORWALK, Connecticut Moves are part of its management realignment AP PRICELINE.COM, the name-your-own-price Internet company, replaced its president and chief executive officer Monday as part of a management realignment. Richard S Braddock was appointed CEO, replacing Daniel H Schulman. Mr Braddock previously served as the company's
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      240 20 TOKYO Bloomberg SOFTBANK Corp says profit for the year ended March 31 likely tripled after it sold some shareholdings in companies like Yahoo! Inc and offered shares to the public in some of its units. Japan's largest Internet investor projects group net income
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      422 20 BEIJING It says it's 'shocked' to be linked to 2 scientists charged with stealing Path Star info Bloomberg A CHINESE company linked by US officials to the theft of Lucent Technologies Inc software denied wrongdoing and said it was "shocked" by the allegations. Datang Telecom
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      331 20 SEOUL Seoul Guarantee agrees to step into the 5t won deal AFP CREDITORS are putting final touches to a crucial US$3.9 billion rescue package for South Korea's second largest semiconductor company after a state-funded guarantor ageed to step in, bankers said yesterday. Korea Exchange Bank
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      111 20 AP TYCOON Richard Li took aim yesterday at Japan's telecommunications market, which he said is held back by restrictions that hinder competition and keep local access charges excessive. Mr Li, who runs Pacific Century CyberWorks, caUed it "inexplicable" that Japan can be
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        56 20 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan plans to contribute 1.27 billion yen (Ssl9 million) to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help promote IT in the region, the Japanese Finance Ministry officials said yesterday. An official announcement of the plan is due to be made tomorrow by
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        64 20 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's dominant mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc will reduce its monthly cellphone service charges next month in the midst of increasing competition and brisk earnings, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun financial daily said on Tuesday. The daily said that the rate
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        46 20 AP {REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp on Monday announced a deal to provide banks with software designed to make their Internet transactions ultra-secure. The technology is designed to allow banks to be sure of whom they're dealing with on the Internet. —AP
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        44 20 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Pioneer Corp indicated fourth-quarter earnings fell by 54 per cent year-on-year. Its implied earnings fell to 5.7 billion yen (SsBs million) in the period ended March 31 from 12.3 billion yen in the same quarter last year. Bloomberg
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        52 20 Bloomberg [MADRID] Terra Networks' first-quarter loss widened on costs related to acquisitions. Terra said it had a loss of 174.5 million euros (Ss2B2 million) compared with 70 million euros in the year-earlier period. It had a loss before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of 76
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      990 21  -  WSiT^ffromwashingto^ The picture portrayed during the campaign doesn't look qnita *n vrtnt vikram khanna IT sounded sweet in the presidential campaign: a whopping US$l.6 trillion tax cut over the next 10 years that would take money out of Washington and put it
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      437 21 SACRAMENTO, California Reuters, AFP THE California Assembly approved a plan on Monday to sell US$l3.4 billion in bonds to pay for electricity during the state's power crisis, marking what would be the biggest municipal bond issue in US history. The vote came on
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      639 22  -  Blair meets Queen Elizabeth to ask for dissolution of Parliament From, Neil Behrman in London UK Prime Minister Tony Blair called a general election for June 7, with polls predicting an overwhelming victory for the incumbent government. "Earlier today I saw the
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      295 22 LONDON Bloomberg BP pic, the third biggest publicly traded oil company, said first quarter profit rose 52 per cent to a seventh straight record because of takeovers, rising US natural gas prices and better margins from refining. Net income on a replace-ment-cost
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      476 22 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE productivity of US workers fell in the first quarter for the first time in six years and labour costs accelerated, government figures showed yesterday. Productivity, a measure of how much employees produce for every hour worked, fell
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      393 22 WASHINGTON NYT US Secretary of Defence Donald H Rumsfeld was to propose later yesterday a sweeping overhaul of the Pentagon's space programmes, sharply elevating the importance of outer space in the nation's military strategy, defence officials said on Monday. The proposal will be
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      472 22 BEIJING It also protests resumption of surveillance flights AP Reuters. AFP CHINA refused yesterday to let a damaged US Navy spy plane fly home and protested the resumption of American surveillance flights off its coast. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman
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        72 22 Bloomberg CLONDON] Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co strategists f cut their recommendation for European stocks and halved their fomarta for 3001 earnings growth in the 111! > region, European equities were cat la "neutral" from ;:I "overweight" by Richard Davidson, head of Morgan Stanley's equity
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        65 22 Bloomberg {SEOUL] Korea's central bank left Interest rates unchanged tor athird straltfiimarithas fester inflation 111 ruled out cutting rates to boost a sagging economy. The Bank of Korea left the benchmark call rate, charged to commercial lenders for overnight loans, at 5 per cent
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        64 22 Bloomberg [MINNEAPOLIS} US Bancorp, the eighth largest US bank, agreed to buy Nova Corp, a credit card payment processing company, for US$2 billion. Buying Nova will make US Bancorp the No 3 US processor of payments for merchants and bolster an operation
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      381 23 MIAMI Firms make offer while they appeal USsl4sb award AP THREE cigarette makers, who lost a record-setting US$l45 billion verdict to sick Florida smokers, agreed to pay them US$7lO million, no matter how their appeals turn out, attorneys for both sides said. "That amount
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      291 23 TOKYO Bat group forecasts turnaround next year Reuters JAPAN'S largest cosmetics maker, Shiseido Co Ltd, stumbled into the red yesterday with its first group net loss in 55 years, but the company famed for its skin-whitening creams forecast a return to
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      548 23 Presktait ateiMkiig moretnufe-BegrtlAtta ptwtrs from Gtngrftss Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush urged Congress to expend presidential authority to negotiate market-opening agreements and said be will send his trade agenda to the legislators this week. Mr Bush said he also wants Congress to
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      269 24  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Report ST bdeg/MSCI S'pore Index Wong Arm Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd SINGAPORE stocks dropped yesterday, led by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) on falling advertisements revenue. At the close, the Straits Times Index cut 0.75 per cent to settle at 1,701.98 points with
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      231 24  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd TAIWAN stocks yesterday fell amid the state's dismal projection for the exports sector due to falling global demand. At the close, the MSCI Taiwan Stock Index was down 0.7 per cent at 236.73
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      227 24 Reuters IfiMiiiftn THE US dollar scaled oneweek highs against the yen In early trading yesterday as concern that Japan's government would delay a key plank of its reform programme weighed on Tokyo stocks. The greenback's gains of over half a per cent against the yen also lilted it
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      2834 25 HONG KONG Reuters Hang Sag -5*97 HONG Kong stocks ended slightly lower yesterday following renewed fears of a US slowdown. The benchmark Hang Seng Index of 33 blue chips closed down 0.44 per cent at 13,540.81. Turnover was light at HK$5.Bl
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      1101 25 Reuters H Shenzhen B Index *1(168 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed sharply higher yesterday as investors returned from a week-long holiday cheered by a cut in interest rates on foreign exchange deposits during the break. The Shenzhen B Share Index rose 2.83 per cent or 10.68 points to
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      373 25 AFP pWP Index -5122 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.0 per cent lower yesterday amid a lack of fresh leads. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 53.22 points to 5,176.71 on turnover of NT550.62 billion. The market's trading activity remained lacklustre as investors were reluctant to push prices
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      2076 25 TOKYO AFP Nikkei 225 -2MLM SHARE prices in Tokyo ended 1.7 per cent lower yesterday as profit-taking and a lower close in US markets depressed leading high-technology issues. "Investors took a break and took profits following a rally on hopes for the new Premier
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      396 26 AFP POwnpqateliidg -106 MALAYSIAN shares closed 1.1 per cent lower yesterday on selling by traders. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 6.08 points at 570.91, while the Second Board Index slipped 1.22 points to 104.68. Volume came to 121.53
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      275 27 AFP jy) Composite Indei -4,63 PHILIPPINE stocks fell 0.3 per cent yesterday, weighed down by concerns over next week's general elections. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped 4.63 points to 1,427.28. Volume slumped to 397 million shares. —AFP »«T» COOQ) Abacus Construction 0.60 unch 20 Aboitiz Equity 1.24
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      729 27 AFP Q Composite Index jjl INDONESIAN share prices fell 0.7 per cent yesterday in quiet trade due to profit-tak-ing after last week's strong gains. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.59 points at 372.97. Traded volume stood at 507.6 million shares worth 331.8 billion rupiah. Declining stocks
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      266 27 AFP DMBB4O -18J3 NEW Zealand share prices fell 0.9 per cent yesterday in light trade with the market unable to find any overall direction. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 18.93 points at 2,049.82. Turnover amounted to NZ$65 million. —AFP N*t iO (OOP) Advantage HDS 0.88 unch 14 Air
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      543 27 AFP NAD Ordinaries -14.0 AUSTRALIAN shares closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday after a lacklustre performance on Wall Street caused uncertainty among local investors. The All Ordinaries Index ended 14.0 points weaker at 3,279.9 while the SP/ASX 200 finished 15.9 points down at 3,338.9. National turnover was 476.4 million
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      308 27 AFP C 3 Composite ladei -&50 SOUTH Korea's Composite Index fell 5.59 points to 590.91. Volume was 476 million shares worth 2.1 trillion won. —AFP MM Won Anam Semi 4820 145 Brain Tech 620 -20 Central Bank 170 unch CheilComm *****0 ***** Dm Cu Bank 14B5 30 Daesanq Corp
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      284 29 Where to wine, dine and entertain..."^ Treat mummy dearest to Marriott's greatest Mother's Day Celebration Specials 13 May 2001 East or west, Marriott offars tha bast for lunch, high til and dinner at Marriott Cat* and Wan Hao Chinasa Restaurant, avan on tha ava of Mother's Day. Prices start from
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      180 29 On 13 May, Mothers deserve a treat at A Cafe Vic's Long High-Tea and Buffet Dinner with a T delectable choice of International Long High-Tea 528.00 (Adult) j| (includes a stalk of carnation for every mother) $14.00 (Child) Buffet Dinner $35.00 (Adult) (includes a stalk of carnation for every mother)
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      89 29 Say thanks to mum by giving her a real treat on Mother's Dayl Invite her to St. Gregory's Brasserie. Weekend Long Lunch Tempting Oriental Western Dishes. $24 for adult and 40% less for children Seafood Buffet Dinner Delightful seafood and Japanese Items. $36 for adult and 40% less for children
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      853 29 I ne Dusmess i imes, vveunesuay, way i rml ■^iiTrgf:^■ j|s The Babysitters Club. (MM) Gelora. Beyond/Knowing Asia. 4.00 Caprice's Travels. ff.flO Taman Indah. 5.00 Asia Today. I #.00 AM Kids Central: Alle- ISO Planet's Funniest Ani- 040 Rentak Sihat. 540 Asian Market Report. gras Window. mals. ISO Piramid. 040
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      266 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS ing below public house (9) 1 Short-tempered agent had short 5 Criminal offence of trading done sleep inside (6) by prisoner? (7,7) 4 Find that flip-side is being 6 Taxi in small building (5) played? (8) 7 Change but not study transla--10 Heard Jean's in border town,
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      864 30  -  New breed of female icons in movies and on TV are hardly wilting flowers. Young and not so young fans love the change, says MARTHA IRVINE MARTHA IRVINE AP MOVE over Wonder Woman. There's a new generation of tough girl in town and she's not taking any guff.
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      116 30 projecteyebail. MM THANK YOU. wrote M to for the ,4iizs4 National Kidney JHMU|Syte^gßi^p Tan Dawn Wei, who their SMS and e-mails, gets behind to the heart of the NKF's BMt XT *bdH strategy, finds jH|-j tfr UU whether the methods Jjjfa Ij have become too fqijEHL wm9* invasive. Want to
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      1128 31  -  -ii comment CURRENCIES Little to boost S$ meaningfully as euro and yen don't look like they're going higher; local factors, regional concerns have not been too S$ friendly larry wee THE US dollar's quick downside correction may have well run its course over
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      954 31 BT Forex Survey April/May2ool StHI higher US dollar expected over Q2 and Q3 2001 could get as high as Ssl.9 and 138 yen (Hypoverainsbank), and may even hit 15,000 rupiah (Barclays). By Larry Ww LEADING research houses in Singapore expect a much higher greenback versus aH Asian currencies
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      47 31 Results in TheßusinbssTimes INTELLIGENCE CHANCES EVERYTHING Thursday, 10 May 2001 Grab your copy at: BUZZ Kiosks BP Caltex Esso Mobil Shell SPC Borders Carrefour Giant NTUC Fair Price NTUC Food Fare NTUC Cheers Shop N Save 7-Eleven Cold Storage Times The Bookshop Guardian Pharmacy Your neighbourhood newsstands
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      544 32 Asian Bourses introduces a performance evaluation system that will tell you which broker is spot on with their recommendations, and whose calls you should avoid AS ILLUSTRATED last week, it is becoming increasingly clear that it is beneficial to "analyse the analysts". This week we shall
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      638 32 PORTFOLIO TRACKER THE US stock market appears to have reached its bottom in early March, sending an angry bear back to its cave for some rest. April was a positive month for most markets, and for most of our blue chip stocks, with just
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      535 32 Share buybacks are an efficient way of returning cash to shareholders WHY do many companies on the SGX that are cash rich sell at low PE, or even at close to their cash holdings with little value left for the business? Clearly,
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      531 32 ByWong Shoon Shy&n andWong Bui J&u 1 FIRST, decide how much cash you have to invest and for how long. This depends on how much risk you want to take. If you are going to need the money in three to five years' time, it is
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      816 33  -  Whatever they say will happen simply won't happen, says kbmmbtb x. L.iuui-iu Now is not the time to get hack in, so wait KENNETH L FISHER IT is still a long way to this bear market's bottom. I stick by my forecast of
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      1460 33  -  jusioEiznma Janns, Capital get into Datacraft, Schroder buys Venture; meanwhile, Singße chairman sells out By Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Score Lab Asia Ltd. He is assisted by Ngia Soon Chai, Singapore News Desk ALTHOUGH there was some profit
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      1069 33 Deposit amount 1-mth 3-mth 6-mth DBS Bank A$ S10.000 A24.999 4.1900 4.0900 4.0100 A25.000 A49.999 4.2100 4.1100 4 0300 Dmk S10.000 Dm99,999 4 2100 4 2200 4 2200 DmIOO.OOO Dm149,999 4 2600 4 2600 4.2700 Eur S10.000 Eur49,999
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      1009 34  -  Investors may be shying away from politically unstable Asian markets, but those who are in there, are betting on China and Taiwan. A rachel ono reports RACHEL ONG ASIA is in danger of losing its lustre to international investors who have been moving their money out
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      1225 34 Why US stock markets have a capacity to bounce back from bear markets THINK of a rubber band stretched horizontally between two fingers. If you pull the rubber band lower, it forms a V shape. But let go and it snaps back to horizontal.
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      1309 36  -  Sheer numbers don't tell the whole story when it comes to quality of fund management GENEVIEVE CUA finds out what really matters GENEVIEVE CUA DBS ASSET Management has rocketed to pole position in the size of its unit trusts under management, streaking past the $2 billion
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      1397 36 SO how do the costs of investing in a unit trust compare against that of an investment-linked insurance product (ILP)? This is a legitimate question, given that both are avenues into investment funds. But it's an issue that's fairly difficult to pin down.
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      532 37  -  Tankers must co by 2015 under IMO's accelerated phase-out plans, seminar in Singapore told By. Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] At least 5,398 existing tankers will be scrapped before 2015 as part of the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) accelerated single hull phase-out plans.
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      309 37 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's debt-rid-den China Shipbuilding Corp (CSBC) may become bankrupt before the year-end as its deficits continue to snowball. The state-run CSBC had planned to make NT$3OO million (5516.50 million) in the second half of 1989 and 1990, but instead it lost NT$6.5
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      299 37 Source: BRIDGE sm 'ooo w>» ss w CWT Distribution 0.55 0.01 12 Chuan Hup 0.30 -0.0) T74 Cosco Investment 0.19 0.01 261 Freight Links 0.08 unch 1000 08 Holdings 0.38 -0.01 130 IMC Hotdtngs-HK 5.60 unctl 0 Jaye Holdings 0.15 unch 155 KeppelCorp 3.22 0.06 786 KeppelFELS 0.86
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      438 37  -  INDEX ASIA 2001 Bilateral level pacts needed to rid seas of piracy, human smuggling, pollution By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Fuelling speculation that the Singapore navy is pursuing greater patrol access to neighbouring waters, Minister of State (Defence) David Lim has called
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      74 37 [CONSTANTA] Romanian rescue ships surround the burning Bulgarian oil tanker Mestajust outside the Black Sea port of Constanta on Monday after an explosion killed one of its crew of 34. Six people, including the captain, remained trapped on the 75,000-tonne capacity oil tanker,
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      894 37  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer LATE last month, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) managed to achieve a compromise agreement on the accelerated phase-out of singlehull tankers that appears to have satisfied everybody, just about. More importantly the revision of the International Convention
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        665 38  -  Hong Kong carriers answer allegations that while terminal operators have lowered charges for lines, the savings are not being passed on to shippers, r t baxgsbbrg reports P T BANGSBERG CHARGES that Hong Kong shipowners are "greedy" and generating "undue" profit by refusing
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      271 38 PACE Ahrenkiel 12 AppensMp 5 AsiaOCL tl Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 12 B'tangMas 6 BSA 7 BTL 12 Bangladesh 11 Baiaji 4 Batamindo 11 CCW 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 i Central Ex 6 Chahaya 12 ChoYang 5 China Shpq 5 Confer 12 Cougar
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      17759 44 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES Page 8 EXPORT WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 200 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'ivoire 16/05 30/06 COSCO EMPRESS DRAGON 0109W 65-22(1900 16/05 30/06 ZIM/Seth ASIA CROWN 2W 65-*****12 18/05 W/06 MOL P&O NEDLLOYD ORINO
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        767 49 Vessel VoyNo Berth Arrival Departure r Jn|M Spc Capricor 58 JC 08/05/5:45 OO/OS/MOO Dives 110 J13 08/05/7:10 08/05/2330 Winstar 8 OOTSa J03 01/05/7 JO 08/05/6:00 Bayswater118 M1112 J02 08/05/8:20 08/05/1600 El 23 83 J02 08/05/10:00 08/05/1730 Prakasa 3 1 J15 08/05/8:55 09/05/17 JO Tanjong 4 JOS
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        1984 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Mulct Rstb Ship Voy Mo Ett/Btr Ported Fw To Fw AOUJA 2M 10/8*0 07/1500 07/MM MOO a mime otmn otmoo a 07/1700 06/0659 06/0900 1 01/0700 0MH 00/MM 4 01/1200 00/MM 00/1700 ACX 0AHUA 0340 1/23:30 07/1500 07/MM MOO U
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        190 49 May 7 Malaysia: Vesak Day Singapore: Vesak Day Thailand: Vesak Day Indonesia: Vesak Day lfay 8 France: Victoria Day May 11 Denmark: General Prayer Day ■by 14 Finland: Mother's Day May It Thailand: Royal Ploughing Ceremony May 17 Norway: Constitution Day May 24 Belgium: Ascension Day Finland: Ascension
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        773 49 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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        489 49 Cartoa 180 Max 991.0 0.5 13.3 0.07 39 0.03 May 3 Density Water Residue Ask AImmMm Sad inn lit No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 %M/M 380 Ave 984.2 0J 12.7 0.06 23 0.02 tuw 380 MM 990.7 0.9 IS.6 0.11 67 0.04
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        294 50 Parent Air New Zealand completes takeover of regional airline Hazelton Reuters [WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand said on Tuesday that Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) had cleared all of its operating fleet of 10 Ansett Boeing 767 aircraft that were grounded
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        218 50 Xinhua [LOS ANGELES] Los Angeles International Airport has begun a six-month pilot programme to recycle food "leftovers" into electricity to feed the local power grid, airport officials said. The programme, which city officials believe to be the first of its kind, will
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        278 50 FAA rilling applies to nearly 7,000 planes now in service and fntnre aircraft Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US regulators told Boeing Co, other aircraft makers and airlines to review fuel-tank designs to prevent explosions like the one believed to have caused the 1996 crash of a
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        502 50 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Swissair Group said it is lending its 10 per cent stake in Austrian Airlines AG, including voting rights, to Credit Suisse First Boston ahead of a planned sale of the holding to raise cash following its worst-ever loss.
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        551 50 It expects to earn 50-60 US cents in qtr ending May 31 Reuters [MEMPHlS, Tennessee] Express package shipping giant FedEx Corp, battered by a slowdown in the US economy, on Monday issued another profit warning for its fiscal fourth quarter and said fiscal
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