The Business Times, 4 June 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times>asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2001 85C
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  • 68 1 STOCK MAHET INDICES W*k Chanjjp ST1 1,*****. -37.97 SIMSCI FlTl-RES...m60 -5.20 BTSRI 648.25 -11.84 KLSECOMP.. 571.26. +7.54 NIKKEI -13.261.84. _...-5©4.08 HANG SENG 13.141.38 -612.61 SET INDEX. .312.06. +0.95 JAKARTA COMP 396.51 +6.39 MANILA COME 1,416.09 +5.86 TAIPEI WPL 5,013.96. -156.12 SEOUL COMP. 607.07 -17.04 SHENZHEN B. 409.67 -25.90
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  • 74 1 rora rates uss s$ USS (SS per USS) 1.810 £(USS/SS per —1.419 ***** EURO(USS/SS/E) 0.847 li334 DM 1306 *****' YEN 11&8 66.60 RM 1800 1100 HKS 7.800 4110 BAHT 46.46 26.12 RUPLAH ***** 6136 FIDOS BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 Kl'ALA Ll'MPUR 7.67 JAKARTA ...39.00 BANGKOK— _f.50 MANILA 1100 HONGKONG AM
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  • 529 1  -  President's dismissal of police chief unconstitutional, they say From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta WITH broad-based political support for him at an all-time low, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's leadership was dealt another blow yesterday as top legislators and the police chief united against him.
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  • 637 1 Others name Zeti; her deputy; former central bank governor; and Razaleigh as candidates [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he has no replacement in mind yet for Daim Zainuddin, who resigned as finance minister last Friday. "Belumfikir lagi (I've not
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  • 1499 1  -  BTiailJIIUl'U From< Catherine Ong in New York ALL the talk about foreign talent in Singapore may leave one with the impression that talent only flows in one direction from the West to the East. The Ritz-Carlton, a leading hotel group in
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    • 252 1 DHBPB Top Stories elipva: VCs defend v their track record on due diligence. Pg S Corporate governance: Why be a director? Pg 4 Soured China ties wont derail WTO entry, says US. Pg 10 wKm M Footsie seen breaking 6,000 on Labour victory. Pg 11 Countdown begins to a bond
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    • 8 1 Malaysia's economic future remains an enigma, Pg 9
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    • 933 2  -  comment ECONOMICS Fund has shown courage and humility in acknowledging mistakes in its handling of regional crisis but all will not be said until the Indonesian saga is over IT If nnur u/oll roainn oo urnl 1 nc fKn /vf O Vikram
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    • 567 2  -  Analysts see this as a way to counter political instability inS-E Asia Fromi Anthony Rowley in Hong Kong EFFORTS to weld closer cooperation between China and Japan in the economic and diplomatic spheres appear likely to gain momentum with the advent of
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    • 405 2  -  NSTB introduces 4 types of grant with no limit en funding By. Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Public-sector life science research gets a shot in the arm today when the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB), through its Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), introduces new
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1300 4  -  governance By\ Peter Wallace The writer is practice leader, enterprise risk management, Ernst Young Singapore. E-mail address: peter ian. wallace(asg. eyi.com Reading the papers these days, there appears to be a lot of coverage of directorial issues, some of which I would like to think have
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    • 1023 5  -  KT exclusiv^ Dennis Lee case an isolated incident, level of transparency adequate, they say By' Tang Weng Fai THE faking of credentials by elipva Ltd's co-founder and former chief technology officer Dennis Lee which led to his dismissal is an isolated incident,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • Article, Illustration
      1332 6 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume Tianjm Zhong 106,744,000 Autron 84,174,000 Beyoncs 10c 77,664,000 WahShmg HK1c 70,513,000 AddvarTech 2.5c 49,339,000 SingTel 15c 48,277,000 Hotung Inv NT5 47,339,000 PaoficCerrturylOc 45,221,000 GES Inti Ltd 20c 44,464,000 K1 Ventures 10c 43,579,000 Stocks S Tianjin Zhong 147,356,628 VentureMfg25c 116,582,130 DBSGrp 107,551,066 Chart Semiconductor 26c 103,138,430
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    • 645 6  -  1-11 comment STOCKS r. sivanithy OVER the past two weeks, it'd be fair to say that blue chips and second-liners have parted ways somewhat, responding differently to news and developments. As Wall Street stalled and entered a kind of investment
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    • 170 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy ELECTRONICS stocks have had a rough time of late but one that's held up pretty well over the past couple of months is WBL Corp, whose shares now sell for $2.14 compared to a 52-week high of
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    • 236 6  -  HOT STOCK Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Philippine-based food giant Del Monte Pacific seems to be stabilising lately. The counter closed unchanged at 46 cents on Friday. A total of some 4.4 million shares changed hands, significantly above its 10-day moving average of 267,000 shares.
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    • 115 6 WBL Corporation will go ex-dividend (interim dividend of 3.00 cents) on Aug 2. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on Aug 7. Date payable is on Aug 24. Pentex-Schwiezer Circuits will hold its EGM on June 18 at 3.00pm, 55 Penjuru Road. Gul Technologies S'pore
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    • 544 6 AFP (HONG KONG] The Japanese yen strengthened while the Australian dollar eased against the greenback with dealers focused on the euro and commodity prices. Japanese yen: The yen rose against the US dollar in Tokyo during the week, helped by the
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 372 7  -  P=tf =4 on the economy electronics: new orders By David Boey NEW orders reported by US electronics firms dipped 4.4 per cent year-on-year to US$lO.3 billion in April. And unfilled orders for the same month rose by 0.1 per cent year-on-year to US$lB.6 billion, figures
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    • 286 7 China presents both a challenge an opportunity for Asean: Chok Tong AP A FREE trade area encompassing China and Asean is under study, Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. The 10 countries in Asean are already working to eliminate
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    • 374 7  -  Gronp of food firms forms task force to develop key elements as benchmark By* Corinne Kerk IN a bid to prevent animal and food diseases from being passed to consumers, an international organisation of powerful food companies is developing key elements against which
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    • 232 7 AP ASIAN central bankers on Saturday said their countries may not be ready for the Bank of International Settlements' (BIS) new Capital Accord planned for 2004. "In particular, infrastructure and internal capacities in some member countries could limit their
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  • ARTS festival
    • 797 8  -  Rachel ***** finds out why Arts Festival tickets are not flying off the counters RACHEL ONG THEY'VE got the sponsors. They've done the ads. But are people flocking to see the shows in the Arts Festival? In an informal poll conducted by BT among business executives, only two
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    • 458 8 HArt Chaos (dance) Panelists: Caren Carino, Ricky Sim, Cheah H-Hoon Score'" 1 Snob Appeal Scale from 0 (look out pretentious twats around) j "7 3 to 10 (even the culturally averse will enjoy it) j 2 The Snore o Melee <*] Scale from 0 (try not to drool
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 601 9 resignation Investors nnlikely to rush back after announcement of Daim's departure Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has wrapped up one enigma with the resignation of Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin but left untouched a bigger one concerning its economic and political future under Prime Minister Mahathir
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    • 414 9 AFP (LAMITAN, Philippines] Muslim rebels, using child hostages as human shields, broke through a military cordon around a hospital in the southern Philippines yesterday and escaped with American and Filipino captives, officials said. But just hours later, fighting had resumed
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    • 404 9 KUALA LUMPUR TO restore its international image and profitability, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is likely to be re-organised into nine divisions for better efficiency and accountability, The Star reported on Saturday. Under a recently announced turnaround plan for the national flag carrier,
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    • NOTE Book
      • 62 9 AP [BANGKOK] Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who faces a possible ouster from office on corruption charges, hopes to increase his party's control of Parliament, newspapers said yesterday. Mr Thaksin predicted on Saturday that his Thai Rak Thai party could have 300 seats in the 400-seat
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      • 57 9 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government is to detain at least three arrested opposition activists for up to two years without trial under a controversial security law, officiai&aodfafl^^B^^gra^i^y^gr^^^j^ order and the three have been transferred to a permanent detention camp. They are Saari Sungib, Mohamad
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      • 53 9 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush will offer a market-opening agreement between the US and Vietnam to Congress for ratification in the coming days, a spokesman said. "We'll be sending Vietnam up to Congress soon," said Richard Mills, a spokesman for US Trade
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    • 426 10 SHENZHEN Hopes rise that talks this week will iron out differences over farm subsidies Reuters A TASTE of sweeter economic Sino-US ties emerged on Saturday after a senior Washington official said sour diplomatic relations with Beijing would not derail China's entry
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 64 10 AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian exports during April 2001 registered growth of 5.5 per cent, following the economic slowdown in the US, the Business Line reported on Saturday. Quoting provisional figures compiled by the Director-General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, the report said exports for
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      • 64 10 AP [SINGAPORE] The massacre of the Nepali royal family will hurt the country's tourism-dependent economy and could hamper development plans, Nepal's central bank governor said on Saturday. "This should not have happened. This is going to adversely affect the economy," a visibly shaken Tikal Rawal
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      • 56 10 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's vice-chief of general staff. General Huo Shou-yeh, will be appointed army commander-in-chief this month, kicking off a minor shake-up among the top brass. Gen Huo will replace Gen Chen Cheng-hsiang, who will become president of the National Defence University, the
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    • 869 10  -  I_ 1B comment HK STOCKS quak hiang whai IN a week when Hong Kong tycoons were dancing away with Uigur natives in Xinjiang thanks to the government's "Go West" political campaign BT received an in-house publication from Hutchison Whampoa which carried an extensive article on
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    • 479 10 NEW DELHI Four power companies have polled oat of projects worth USs3b, citing long delays, slow reform pace AFP FOREIGN investors are beginning to leave India for emerging economies like China, as they run smack into a cobweb of rules, regulations and intervention
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  • WORLD news
    • 771 11  -  By* John Gee THE recent eruptions of violence in the northern English town of Oldham were quickly labelled "race riots". That label may leap readily to mind, but it does not explain what really happened in that town. Moreover, it would be a mistake to
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    • 413 11  -  Low interest rates, weak sterling will spur stock rally, say fond managers From] Neil Behrman in London THE certainty of a Labour election victory is likely to be followed by a stock market rally that will carry the FTSE 100 Index through the
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    • 666 12 TOKYO Analysts fear it will nnlease bond market crash AFP A NEW economic time bomb is ticking in Japan one that threatens to cause more damage than the devastation inflicted by a collapse in the early nineties from which the country is still
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    • 257 12 LONDON FT CREDIT Suisse has admitted shortcomings in the running of its investment bank, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), in the first public statement on the subject since CSFB became embroiled in a US investigation into allocations in IPOs last autumn. Lukas Muhlemann,
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    • 288 12 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka has criticised US President George W Bush's missile defence plan as being influenced by oil executives in his native Texas, reports on Saturday said. All Japan's major newspapers reported that Ms Tanaka raised the concerns over Washington's
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    • 455 12 WASHINGTON They are expected to show drop in April factory orders, weekly jobless claims still above 400,000 AFX NEW US economic data are expected to confirm this week trends that have now been well established a recession in manufacturing and pronounced weakness in
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    • 312 12 DALLAS Reuters FRENCH telecom equipment giant Alcatel, fresh off the collapse of merger talks with Lucent Technologies Inc. said on Friday it will cut 5.6 per cent of its US workforce and close three US plants because of tough
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    • 190 12 ■JEDDAH Reuters EXXONMOBIL has won the coveted lead role in Saudi Arabia's US$l5 billion South Ghawar gas deal, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Saturday. The US energy giant edged out stiff competition from rival Royal Dutch/Shell, which was awarded the leadership
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
    • 610 13 AFP (LONDON] Oil prices held firm last week as traders fretted over Iraqi threats to withhold exports because of the latest spat over the UN-super-vised oil-for-food programme. An unexpected build-up in US petrol stocks however helped soothe market concerns over a fuel shortage in the US in the
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    • Article, Illustration
      1347 13 SmOAPORE OOVBRMMBUT SECURITIES DfDICATIYB PRICES AMD YIELDS Week ended Juu 1 Met Met Tw Cwpw MtwWy TTM K Off* Tw Cwpwi Md—ty TTM H <Wr 2-YR 2.250 OI-Apr-OO M*****0S 2.29* 2.27* 99.92 99.97 SYR 3.250 15 Mjy02 N*****0X 3.07* 2.85* 100.35 100.55 7-YR 5.625 01-JliHX) NX*****H 3.34* 3.32* t14.30 114.40
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    • 1927 13 8IC0M FUTURES Jun 1 RUBBER (futures closing as «t 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT (S centsAq) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (touts) Interest Jul 01 114.25 250 Aug 01 114.50 250 Sep 01 116.00 250 Oct/Dec 01 117.75 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US ccnts/kq) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes)
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  • STOCKS sgx
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    • 633 14 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßmmdup IS the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) reaching the end of the line on interest rate cuts? The Fed got the markets on board the easing train with a surprise 50 basis point cut at the start of
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  • New Asia Biz Woman
    • 607 16  -  Broadway ticket sales may be hotter than ever but when it conies to style, it couldn't be colder, savs ileme rosemzweig ILENE ROSENZWEIG NYT [NEW YORK] THERE are a few things you won't find going on as New York heats up with Tony fever:
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 305 16 OhiniC CROSSWORD ACROSS covered (7) 1 Get up and make speech, as 5 Mark boundary for special shop one holding stage used to de- next to US college (7) mand (5, 3, 7) 6 Defeated party more relaxed, 8 Inflexible equipment lhad (5) having lost nothing (5) 9So rudely tricked?
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    • 121 17 TOP STORIES Deutsche Post aiming for USSlbby 2004 Pg3 Local technology gives Compaq's iPaq pocket PC formidable wireless capabilities Pg6 Tapping the power of wireless Internet PglO COMMENTARIES Andrew Wee: Will t-commerce take off in Singapore? P*4 Andy Qu&k: Huge opportunities in mobile Internet Pg7 Microsoft*. .net CHASS Loo ing
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  • BIZIT
    • 1023 18  -  exclusive Top officials are confident that the milepost of US$l billion in Asia-Pac/Japan revenues will be comfortably surpassed this year By Kenneth James THE global slowdown plays no favourites, and even high-flying EMC Corp is feeling the drag. But the information storage
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    • 552 18  -  Analysts warn that after March's disappointing CeBIT, exhibitors in Taipei should not expect toomnch By\ Baker Li Reuters [TAIPEI) Plagued by a global computer slowdown, Taiwan electronic companies could face a tough sale this week at Computex 2001, the world's third largest computer
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    • 186 18 THE Singapore Information Technology Foundation (SITF) has launched the SITF eLearning Chapter to promote the local eLearning industry. Some of the chapter's initiatives include an eLearning Network for members and an eLearning portal that will provide information aggregated from its members. Infocomm Development
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    • 80 18  -  -awjiaii Leong Kok Keong Singapore *****7 PLEASE refer to last week's IT Comment, "It's time to overhaul financial reporting" by Paul Thompson. The writer mentioned that Yahoo Inc had yet to report a profit. That is incorrect. In fact Yahoo! has been able to distance itself from
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    • 97 18 Bloomberg [ARMONK, NY] International Business Machines Corp will supply server computers to Hong Kong under a twoyear contract as the city upgrades its systems to allow citizens to access government services on the Web. The contract is worth less than US$lO million, spokesman John
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    • 295 18 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwanese Acer Inc's move into wireless products accelerated on Friday when it agreed to use Palm Inc's operating system in its handheld computers through 2005. However, amid a global slowdown in demand for electronics, the struggling computer company was cautious not too
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    • 776 19  -  'We want to be among the top three in the logistics market here,' a senior official from Deutsche Post Global Mail tells euzabbib su ELIZABETH SU Deutsche Post Global Mail (DPGM) aims to gross US$l billion in revenues from the Asia-Pa-cific
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    • 615 20  -  EH comment INFOTECH With digital TV and a little Imagination, opportunities abound to take product placement to new Interactive levels andrew wee The writer is a BTjournalist WITH competition heating up among television broadcasters here, spurred by the entry of SPH Mediaworks' TV Works
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    • 255 20 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Sharp Corp will use an Intel Corp low-power microprocessor to power a version of its handheld computer that is designed to run videos, movie previews and other comput-ing-intensive applications, an Intel spokesman said. Sharp, based in Osaka, Japan. has until
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    • IT TAKES
      • 37 20 US-BASED security and availability solutions provider Network Associates has named Ang Miah Boon Asia-Pacific vice-president and managing director for its regional operations. Previously, Mr Ang was managing director of IBM's Singapore and Brunei operations.
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      • 42 20 US-BASED voice infrastructure solutions provider Sonus Networks has appointed Dave Fassnacht as its Asia-Pacific technical director. He was previously director of systems engineering at Lucent Technologies. Sonus also appointed Chris Irving and Khoo 800 Leng as senior network consultants.
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      • 45 20 SINGAPORE-BASED AVI-Tech Electronics Pte Ltd has signed an agreement with Italy's Eles Semiconductor Equipment SpA, a supplier of reliability test solutions, to provide the semiconductor industry with test specification and development equipment, board supply and test execution for new products and processes.
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      • 41 20 US-BASED company IBM has announced Linux Community Development System, a programme to provide developers with technical resources to create Linux software for the IBM eServer zSeries mainframe. Developers interested in the programme can visit www.ibm.com/linux.
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      • 39 20 US-BASED Symix Systems Asia Pacific, which provides business systems for mid-sized distributors and manufacturers, has changed its name to Frontstep Asia Pacific. The company has also appointed Joseph Ho as vice-president of South Asia.
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      • 31 20 US-BASED automation provider Ensim Corporation, whose flagship product is ServerXchange, has established its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. It will be headed by Effendy Shahul-Hamid, the region's managing director.
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      • 61 20 New role far Ernst Young CAP Gemini Ernst Young has been invited to be the strategic partner for the Singapore Innovation Awards, to be held in November. It will work with Economic Development Board, Ministry of Finance, Productivity and Standards Board and Public Services Division to co-develop a framework for
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      • 32 20  -  Compiled Ivy Trina Foo THE Enterprise Security Roadshow will be held tomorrow at the Mandarin Singapore. It is organised by Pacific Technology. For details, e-mail es2ool@pt.com.sg, or visit www.pt.com.sg.
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    • 493 22  -  Compaq Computer Singapore's latest collaboration with local company UGotACaU is making all this a reality, eladiephoa reports ELAINE PHUA Employees of networked corporations could soon have good reason to ask their bosses to get them the snazzy,
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      • 67 22 TREND Micro Inc has unveiled PC-cillin for Wireless, version 2.0 a new version of its free antivirus software for the Palm OS. Features include real-time launch scanning, familiar user interface, real-time and on-demand scanning, easy updates and security using limited memory resources. Free downloads at www.antivirus.com/wireless
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      • 66 22 DESIGN software and digital content company Autodesk has introduced 13 new updates which are aimed at optimising design process, collaboration and data distribution in the areas of Manufacturing, Architecture, Engineering and Construction, GIS and Land Development, and General design. Some of these updates include AutoCAD
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      • 70 22 APPLE Computer has introduced the 17-inch Apple Studio Display flat panel. It has a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels, a full 16.7 million colours and a wide viewing angle of up to 160 degrees. It offers a 2-port powered USB hub and the Apple
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      • 71 22 and application server.. APPLE Computer has introduced Wed Object 5, Apple's Java application server for web publishing and enterprise application development. It utilises the Java 2 Standard Edition v 1.3 runtime, supports full access to Java 2 APIs and provides interoperatability with other Java solutions. Featuring automated data access, easy
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      • 67 22 and new Mac OS X Server APPLE Computer has introduced the new Mac OS X Server operating system, which allows administrators to deploy servers that share files and printers with Macintosh, Windows. UNIX and Linus clients, host Internet web sites with Apache, enable collaborative web publishing and remote content management
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      • 65 22 APPLE Computer has unveiled the new ißook which offers either 64 or 128 MB onboard memory with increased RAM expansion to 640 MB, 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processors, 12.1-inch active-matrix 1024 by 768 resolution TFT XGA display, CD-ROM, DVD—ROM or DVD—ROM/CD-RW drive and optional CD-RW drive,
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      • 39 22 IBM has released its new Micro Portable Data/ Video Projector. It weighs I.4kg, measures scm x 17cm x 21cm and can be used with most notebook and desktop computers. It costs $9,021. For details, visit www.pc.ibm.com/us/accessories/projectors/
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      • 48 22 US company IBM has launched Project eLiza, a plan to build self-managing, self-healing servers for e-businesses. This is in line with IBM's initiative to develop intelligent capabilites across their sServer family, and will result in self-managing servers requiring little human interaction. Visit www.ibm.com
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      • 112 22 IBM has launched its i 270, iB2O and iB4O servers. The i 270 can accommodate up to 16 GB of main storage, 420 GB of disk storage, 13 PCI slots and rims on 2 processors. The iB2O has 32 GB of main storage, 4 TB of
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      • 58 22  -  Ownpflwl by Melissa Sim NEC has introduced the Multisync LCD 1530 V monitor. It has a 15.1-inch screen with multiple resolution from 720 x 400 pixels to 1024 x 768 pixels. It is compatible with PC and Macintosh computers, Sim, Silicon Graphic and other workstations and
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    • 71 22 IN our report, "HP unveils 20 new servers" (BizlT, May 28), we stated that "Hewlett Packard Company last week launched a range of 20 servers for web hosting, VPN (virtual private networks), network traffic management, web caching and media streaming". The systems launched were not servers but
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    • 226 22 Reuters [TOKYO] Handspring Inc said on Friday that it will release in Japan this year a wireless communications module for its Visor handheld computer in an increasingly competitive market for personal digital assistants. Handspring's local unit said it will tie up with Japan Communications
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    • 651 23  -  Government, telcos, handset makers, wireless content and service providers mtist work together to help it sncceed in Ag|n andy quak The writer is CEO, Air Gateway Pte Ltd FOR any WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) applications to be useful, it has to do one of two
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    • 603 23  -  A pair ofViennese turned a shoddy Soviet-era camera into a fad item. What makes them think they can do the same for a wireless device? By Finn-Olaf Jones SECOND acts even for a marketing whiz like Richard Branson are tough to pull off. But long odds aren't stopping
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    • 195 23 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's computer makers are tapping China's growing PC market, seeking orders from Legend Holdings Ltd to sidestep falling demand and saturated markets in the US and Europe. First International Computer Inc and Mitac International Corp, which make desktop and notebook
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    • 634 25 PARIS Deal makes French media firm No 2 textbook publisher after Pearson Bloomberg VIVENDI Universal SA, Europe's largest media company, agreed to buy Houghton Mifflin Co, which publishes the American Heritage Dictionary, for US$2.2 billion (Ss4 billion) in cash and assumed
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    • 366 25 WOBURN, Massachusetts Bloomberg GENUITY Inc, which sells Internet services to companies, agreed to buy Integra SA, France's largest manager of data for corporate Web sites, for 125 million euros (Ssl9l million) in stock to expand in Europe. Genuity offered 0.75 of its
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    • 197 25 WASHINGTON Bloomberg EBAY Inc, the largest Internet auction company, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 10 million common shares to be offered or issued in connection with acquisitions. EBay filed to register the securities in advance and sell them
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    • 424 25 WASHINGTON Move not unexpected as it had been selling off pieces of itself for months LAT-WP PSINet Inc, the Ashburn, Vir-ginia-based global Internet and telephone company whose name was once synonymous with an extraordinary telecommunications boom, filed for bankruptcy protection last Friday. The Chapter
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    • 159 25 SANTA CLARA, California AP HANDHELD device maker Palm Inc will cut additional jobs in the current quarter. The company, however, on Friday did not specify how many positions would be eliminated but said it would release more details when it reports its fourth-quarter and yearend
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    • 718 25  -  With more firms turning to Web procurement, why have so many 828 exchanges flopped? MEZL WEINBERG finds out NEIL WEINBERG ONLY a year ago, companies like Zethus Inc (backed by Goldman Sachs) were vowing to "re-engineer and web-enable the commercial real estate market". Riding
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      • 949 26  -  BM^xclusTve Mobile Net can live up to its promise if we understand its strengths and weaknesses. ANDREW WEE finds out more from a PWC report ANDREW WEE YOU'RE at a business meeting that's running late, with your Singapore Airlines flight to London due to
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        • 32 26 A BREAKFAST seminar, "Your Network: Investment or Expense?" will be held on June 11 at the Marriot HoteL It is organised by Anixter and Avaya Communication. For details, e-mail gerrain.ang(^anixter.com.
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        • 47 26 (g-Asia Inc. a Japan-based Asian-languages website developer, has launched www.namesnetwork.com, a website for domain name registration and resale services for Asian markets. It will partner Register.com, dot.FM, The .tv Corporation and other registrars to provide 30 domains in more than 50 languages.
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        • 49 26 US-BASED Web content management solutions provider IntraNet Solutions has tied up with Singapore's eGlobal Technology Services, an e-biz software and services firm, to form IntraNet Solutions Asia Pacific Ltd. They will jointly build direct sales, customer support, training, consulting and reseller support across the region.
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        • 79 26 Red Hat Inc, a US-based company that offers a common platform for developing, deploying and managing open source across the Internet, has announced the availability of The Official Red Hat Linux 7.1 in Asia-Pacific, including two CDs, a source code CD, an installation guide and
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        • 30 26 Singapore's ASPLinux Pte Ltd has launched its ASPLinux 7.1, with features like Graphical Linux Shell, Netscape Communicator and Apache, database servers and games. Visit www.asplinux.com.sg
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        • 39 26 US-BASED provider of customer-driven Internet applications, Vignette Corp, has released its Financial Advisor Suite application, which was developed with Accenture Global Financial Services practice, and allows personalised interaction between advisers and clients. Visi twww.vignette.com.
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        • 40 26 SINGAPORE'S hosting provider Webvisions will deploy Cisco Secure PIX Firewall from US-based Cisco Systems Inc, to enable outsourced security solutions as part of site Secure, an arm of Webvisions' Professional Managed services Programme. Visit www.webvisions.com.
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        • 52 26  -  Compiled by' Trina Foo INNOMEDIA Inc has launched the Info Gate 3020, a 1-4 port analog Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway. It is H. 323 compliant utilising advanced voice compression, echo cancellation and packet recovery algorithms. Prices start from US$B95 (551,620) per unit. For details, go
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      • 250 26  -  Andrew Wee WIRELESS applications with their anytime/anywhere capabilities will let users personalise applications to a greater degree compared to the wired Internet, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Wireless users can stand to benefit from some of the following applications being or already offered by service providers. Traffic idfoniMtkNi: wireless
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    • 285 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFTER all the recent sales and rumours in the Tanker sector, last week has been rather quiet. A couple of older Handy Tankers form the bulk of the report, the "Sea explorer" (39,800/76) at around US$2.2 million to Nigerians and Shell's "Euplecta" (31,000/80)
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    • 299 27 SCX '000 Jm\ a \M CWT Distribution 0.60 und) 0 Oman Hup 0 JO uncti 265 Cosco Invostmont 0.21 0.00 TT74 rrMmunkt o.oe 0.00 260 08 Holdings 0.46 0.01 15 IMC HoMngs-HK MO uncti 0 Jay* Holdings 0.16 uncti 346 KoppolCorp 132 -0.06 3991 Koppol FTXS 0.99 -0.01
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    • 469 27 Company straggling to find buyers for its giant passenger and vehicle carriers [SINGAPORE] Australian catamaran building company Incat said last Friday it would fire one fifth of its staff because of a downturn in world demand. Tasmanian-based Incat is the southern island
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    • 510 27  -  Move comes a day after line stops European bookings By I P T Bangsberg A DAY after halting European freight bookings, Cho Yang Shipping Co, the fifth largest in South Korea, filed for receivership on Thursday, said the troubled line's main creditor. A spokesman
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    • 317 27  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] APL Logistics (APLL) has appointed a new senior management team following its recent acquisition of two companies. Announced by chief executive officer Dick Metzler, the management reshuffle has included appointments of key staff from the acquired companies, GATX Logistics
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    • PORT Shots
      • 61 27 [SINGAPORE] Hyundai HI (HHI) announced it had successfully finished test trials on what it claims is the biggest marine engine ever built. The 93,120 bhp engine is designed for installation on four Hapag-Lloyd 7,200 TEU newbuilds currently under construction. HHI also said it planned
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      • 108 27 [SINGAPORE] Sri Lanka's Colombo Port interests will build a new US$9OO million deepwater port as part of efforts to develop the area into a regional transhipment hub, online news services reported. The project is expected to start in 2003, with the first two terminals opened
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      • 69 27 [SINGAPORE] Rolls Royce pic has acquired German ship stabiliser equipment company Intering GmbH for an undisclosed sum. The deal gives Rolls Royce the market advantage of being the only company currently able to supply tank stabilisers and fin stabilisers separately or as a combined package.
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      • 96 27 [SINGAPORE] Rotterdam and two smaller Dutch ports may continue dumping light polluted dredge sludge in the North Sea after the highest Dutch court rejected a demand by Greenpeace that the practice be stopped. The sludge contains a pollutant called tributyltin (TBT) which is a
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    • 314 27 Seven confirmed dead after overloaded vessel sank off Bangladesh coast in bad weather AFP [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] Hopes were fading last Saturday for up to 100 mostly women and children missing after a ferry sank off the south-eastern Bangladesh coast. Seven people are so
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    • DOCK yard
      • 641 28  -  By David Hughes OVER the past couple of weeks there have been numerous reports concerning the future of the large, but financially troubled, UK shiprepair group Cammell Laird (CL) The group has now been in receivership for nearly two months after it
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    • 279 28 PACE Ahrenkiel to Appenship 5 AstaOCL 9 Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant K) B tang Mas 6 BSA 7 STL 10 Bangladesh 9 Balaji 4 BataminOo 11 CCWI 7 CMA CGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 Central Ei 6 Chahaya )0 China Shpg 5 Confer K) Colony
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    • 10103 34 thebusinesstimes P a ge 8 EXPORT MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2001 ETA ETA Advertiser »«sH Voyage Teleehone SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire n/06 08/07 Kien Hum) EXCELLENCE CONTAIN EC103S 65-*****33 12/01 21/07 Setramar VILLE DC CAPELLA 379W 65-*****33 U/06 11/07 COSCO EMPRESS
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      • 545 37 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure J»1 Nrt Como 13 01-Jan JO 03/06/9:40 03/06/18:00 E*» J*n 01 J07 03/06/14:00 04/06/2100 Mma OMendo 1352 J* 03/06/15 00 06/06/6 00 B*HJIU Ottl 13* JC 03/06/1700 03/06/2000 5pc Capricor 66 J12 04/06/6:30 04/06/1900 S4* I58-Hw J08 04/06/700 05/06/W00 Bt Berkatmak *****
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      • 1902 37 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/balance Rstls SWp Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ta DAHLIA 035* V2300 u 03/1500 OVUM 03/1900 ovboo 01/1*59 ovhoo a ovnoo ovotw m/owo 01/1700 04/0659 04/0900 3 04/0700 M/W 04/1400 4 04/1200 04/M59 04/m>0 «n CTfm «wt 6/moo
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      • 171 37 June 4 Malaysia: Birthday's of Prophet Mohammed SAW Indonesia: Birthday's of Prophet Mohammed SAW New Zealand: Queen's Birthday Ireland: June Holiday Germany: Whit Monday June II South Korea: Memorial Day Jane 11 Australia: Queen's Birthday Jane 12 Philippines: Independence Day Jane 25 Hong Kong: Tuen Ng Festival Taiwan:
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      • 760 37 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 539 37 CifDor MO MM 904.1 0.5 12.5 0.07 40 0.03 Iter 24 Denny Hater Residue As* AlumiMwn SediaMt No above E2S 0 0 0 0 0 0 TZ=" 380 Ave 985.2 0J 13.5 0.06 20 0.02 bw 380 Max 990.6 0.8 16-3 0.08 45 0.04 «6/w3 v/v
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 395 38 Passenger numbers rise 1% to 2dm, the smallest gain in more than a year Bloomberg [TOKYO] Tokyo's international airport at Narita posted its biggest-ever drop in cargo volume and slower passenger growth in April, as worsening economies in Asia and the US
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      • 69 38 [AVIGNON] The train station, under construction at Avignon, southern France. French architect Jean-Marie Duthilleul drew the plans ofAvignon station which will be served by the new Mediterranee TG V high-speed train. A Mediterranee TG V travelled from the Channel port of Calais to the Mediterranean
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      • 269 38 Phones blamed for sadden uncontrolled movements mid-flight AP [WELLINGTON, New Zealand] Mobile phones have been blamed for at least two incidents in which aircraft made sudden uncontrolled movements mid-flight, the Civil Aviation Authority reported Friday. Both incidents were examples of possible electronic interference with aircraft electronic
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      • 240 38 AFP [HONG KONG] A China Eastern Airlines passenger plane was forced to abort takeoff at Hong Kong airport after a Taiwanese carrier inched dangerously close to the runway, an official said Thursday. The nose of the Taiwan-owned China Airlines Boeing
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      • 328 38 Call to change cargo booking system, cut warehouse rentals Bernama [PETALING JAYAJ Malaysia Airlines has agreed to study claims by the Airfreight Forwarders Association of Malaysia (AFAM) that its computerised reservation and cargo booking system Spectrum was not user-friendly and shunned by most
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      • 218 38 AP [SYDNEY] Australian airline Qantas admitted Friday it is training 75 managerial staff in the Philippines to stand in for striking staff in the event of industrial action by union members. Unions accused the Australian flag carrier of secretly training strike breakers at
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      • 556 38 GE, Pratt Whitney after more buyers This follows clinching of crucial Air France deal Reuters [LONDON] A joint venture of US aero-engine makers General Electric and Pratt Whitney is chasing new customers for its superjumbo aircraft powerplant after snaring a crucial deal with Air France last week. With the Air
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      • 296 38 Xiamen airport to take the remaining 51% stake in 220 m renminbi project Reuters [TAIPEI] Four Taiwan aviation firms plan to take a combined 49 per cent stake in an air cargo venture capitalised at 220 million renminbi (5547.8 million)
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    • 124 27 Narita suffers worst cargo decline GE. Pratt Whitney in April a^er more buyers B.ick P.tgc B.ick Ptige ***•->- SB H We are pleased to announce that with effect from 5 June 2001, EVERGREEN SHIPPING I (S) PTE LTD has been appointed as agents for H LLOYD TRIESTINO Dl NAVIGAZIONE S.P.A.
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