The Business Times, 19 June 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg/ TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2001 85C
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    80 1 RI 1,713.72 (+7.62) SMB MM* (+2.70) ST INDEX FUTURES MKLOO (+3.00) SDE9CI FUTUKES 2104)0 (-0.50) STOCK HABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP ***** -4.60 NIKKEI 225 *****.79 -9169 HANG SENG 1X9*8.78 -***** SET INDEX 318.49 -5.48 JAKARTA COMP 421.-47 +M1 MANILA COMP 1,47(192 -8J8 TAIPEI WPI 5,***** -88.11
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    78 1 FORTH SATES uss ss USS (SSperUSS) L81« £(USS/SS per 1.406 1564 EUBO(CSS*S/E) 0*3 li«7 DM 2J266 L248 YEN 129.4 67 JO RM 1800 1092 HKS 7.799 4i95 BAHT 45.31 24.96 RUFIAH 11,278 6^210 *SS to too units PUKE KATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA
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    Lock icon Export slump spells bad Q2 for S'pore economy
    790 1  -  May's 9% plunge the biggest monthly decline in more than 15 years By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Exports of Sin-gapore-made goods tumbled 9 per cent in May from a year ago the biggest monthly decline in more than 15 years. And some
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    Lock icon Australia may impose security curbs on Optus sale
    487 1  -  Move to control access to military communications By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] The Australian government hinted yesterday that it may impose restrictions on Singapore Telecom's planned takeover of Cable Wireless Optus to control access to Australia's military communications. Australian Communications Minister Richard Alston
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    Lock icon Top AIA man quits – sparking talk of infighting
    496 1  - Top AIA man quits sparking talk of infighting rTiexclusive Sources say Steph&n Rajotte asked to leave last week after just 15 mths as GM Byi Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] The general manager of insurance industry leader AIA, Stephan Rajotte, has quit abruptly after only about 15 months on the job a
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    Lock icon NOL signs US$1b note facility
    560 1  -  First tranche of Sss4om notes capitalise on current low rates By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines has seized the opportunity thrown up by the low interest rate environment by signing a US$l billion note facility. Yesterday, the shipping and logistics giant launched a
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      Lock icon SIA chief to meet NZ officials
      570 2  -  SIA chief exec will raise issne of changes to Kiwi airline ownership rules By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) chief executive Cheong Choong Kong will meet New Zealand government representatives tonight to explore changes to the country's airline ownership regulations. But ahead of
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      Lock icon US will keep IT edge for next 40-50 yrs: SM
      490 2  -  But India and China could catch np in 20 to 30 years By< Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] America has the biggest advantage in information technology and thanks to an entrepreneurial culture and an environment that supports innovation, it will maintain
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      Lock icon COE open bidding system sees slow start on 1st day
      279 2  -  Total bids less than quota of 671; highest bid stands at just $1 By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The open bidding system for the "open category" certificates of entitlement (COEs) to own vehicles got off to a slow start with fewer
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        64 2 THE slowdown in the property market has been well discussed weak sentiment stemming from the overall economic slowdown, the housing glut, and even the hitherto buoyant office sector has lost its shine of late. All of which has led one prominent property consultant to quip over lunch
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        45 2 LAST week, BT ran an online poll which said. Keppel Capital shareholders should accept OCBC's general offer. Here are readers' responses: Yes, the good value is unlikely to be matched 28% No, a better bid will come along 63°0 I don't know—9%
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SPH unit teams up with GME to tap into Asia
      369 3  -  Mind Works to engage in TV programme syndication in Asia-Pacific and beyond By\ David Boey GME, the world's largest media investment management company, has teamed up with a unit of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) to tap into Asia's growing market
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      Lock icon Oei Hong Leong buys 1m KCH shares at $3.42 each
      474 3  -  By Siow Li Sen ASSET trader OEI Hong Leong bought one million Keppel Capital Holdings (KCH) last Wednesday at $3.42 each, a sign that he expects KCH to be eventually sold at a price above OCBC's general offer of $3.38
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      Lock icon Profit warning and downgrades hit GES
      349 3  -  By I Serena Ng A PROFIT warning by GES International last week caused its shares to lose ground yesterday, as many analysts downgraded or maintained "under-perform" calls on its stock. The computer maker's shares touched an intraday low of $0,785 cents but recovered a
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      676 3  -  lock siew ven sreenivasan EVERYONE knew it happened, but nobody dared discuss it openly. At least, not until now. But all that is about to change. In what is one of the most significant moves for the financial industry in years, the US
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      Lock icon China plays back in limelight
      383 4  -  Punters switching funds from M&A targets, say analysts By. Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE-listed China plays were back in the spotlight yesterday, despite news of a Beijing crackdown on illegal mainland money flowing into Hong Kong's Chinalinked stocks. Dealers said the revived interest in the China
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      Lock icon The Hour Glass returns to black with $ 16.8m profit
      252 4  - The Hour Glass returns to black with 16.8m profit liifi Andrea Tan AFTER two years of losses, The Hour Glass (THG) yesterday reported a net profit of $16.8 million for the year ended March, keeping to an earlier forecast that It would return to the black for the period Just
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine JV in $270m Brazil job
      294 4  -  B»\ Donald Urquhart SEMBCORP Marine's Brazilian joint-venture shipyard Maua Jurong has secured its first major contract, worth $270 million, it announced yesterday. The contract is for the fabrication of top-side production modules for two floating production storage offloading units (FPSOs). It was awarded
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      Lock icon Inno-Pac to buy 20% of healthcare firm for $11.2m
      297 4  -  By 1 Serena Ng INVESTMENT holding company Inno-Pacific, whose shares were suspended all day yesterday, said last night it will buy a 20 per cent stake in healthcare services and product distribution firm Health One for $11.2 million. The purchase will
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      Lock icon SingTel may revive Lycos Asia, Sesami share sale
      234 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd, which delayed share sales in Internet units such as Lycos Asia Pte and Sesami Inc, said it may revive those plans to help finance the companies' expansion. South-east Asia's biggest phone company said in November it will postpone
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      320 6 Strik* Engg 5c 23.324.000 Ktppol Capital 22,076,000 AEM-Evtrtach 5c 21,066,000 Omni »nd 10c 21,070,000 Tlflojln Zhong 10,610,000 PC! 25c 17,710,000 6«yonica 10c 17,041,000 UnlFood HK25C 15,767,000 Food HQK 50c 12,137,000 North 22 USlc 11,510,000 Hooks A Kappal Capital 81,563,060 Omni Ind 10c 77,475,180 OUB 73,696,120 DBSQrp 45,260,514 OCBC 24,201,827 Tlan|inZhor«
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      Lock icon Market cautious ahead of Fed meet; late rally lifts STI
      622 6  -  -11 comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan ■nV"V HE market kicked off the W week on a tentative note I 1 In anticipation of a slew H t of Wall Street earnlngii cautions. Investors were also Inclined to stay on the sidelines
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      Lock icon Hai Sun Hup wrt fairly priced but..
      177 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE resurgence of interest in speculative penny stocks has rekindled interest in some warrants. Marine-based Hai Sun Hup's half-a-cent rise to three cents yesterday translated into a 20 per cent gain enough to place it at the top
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      Lock icon Volume needed as Chuan Hup stirs
      238 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan IT looks like tech stocks are In the grip of another bout of takeover fever. The unexpected cash-stock offer by Canadian firm Celestlca for Omni Industries has turned the spotlight on Venture Manufacturing and PCI two of the more
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      Lock icon Yen hammered to 4-week lows against US$ euro
      528 6  -  I-J I comment CURRENCIES Re-weighting of the World FTSE Index said to have started heavy selling of yen larry wee A CONFLUENCE of factors pounded the yen to four-week lows versus the US dollar and the euro and exacerbated the region's domestic
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    3222 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Ada Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.741 0.779 Global Technology fdl" 0 629 0.662 UKBIueChipFdl** 0.749 0.787 American Opport Fd 0.836 0.879 Cont Euro Eqty Fdl** 1.024 1.076 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.192 1.252 Asian Fixed income Fd 1.114 1148 Pacific Equity Fdl**
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Electronics exports down 11% in May
      335 7  -  l=H=l on the economy electronics exports By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S key electronics exports fell more sharply in May, with no sign of hitting bottom yet. In line with the global slump in demand for electronics goods, shipments were down almost 11 per cent
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      Lock icon Sydney-based Biotech Int'l plans to list here
      352 7  -  RT exclusive The company will also set up USssom SAD unit in S'pore By' Vince Chong SYDNEY-BASED Singapor-ean-controlled Biotech International to be known as Agenix from Thursday aims to list on the local bourse this year and set up a US$5O million research
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      Lock icon Netrust gets IDA licence
      154 7 NETRUST Pte Ltd, a provider of online security by means of digital certificates, said yesterday it has been awarded a certification authority licence by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). The licence came after an audit to ensure that Netrust's security standards, operational policies and
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      Lock icon 3G seen costing no more than 2G
      520 7  -  But multiple services may boost average revenue per nsen Nokia official By Teh Hooi Ling THIRD generation (3G) mobile phone services will be "no more expensive than 2G (current mobile) services", said the world's leading telecoms equipment maker Nokia. But because 3G can
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Non-assenting holders: Avimo misses point
      237 8  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the letter "Wrong to say non-assenting Avimo holders go a-begging" (Mailbag, June 15). The letter, by Richard Ivimey-Cook, group finance director of Avimo Group Ltd, misses the point I tried to highlight. Many companies in which I have held
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      Lock icon Portal's advice relies on data given
      482 8  -  Vasu Menon Chief Editor finatiQ Bank of Singapore I REFER to the letter "Web portal's financial advice not practical" by Leong Sze Hian (Mailbag, June 12), which made reference to an article I had written, "Let the bank come to you" (BT, May 23).
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      Lock icon Price range is a better indicator
      405 8  -  Annie Loke General Manager Property Enterprises Development Pte Ltd Singapore I REFER to the article "Developer plays the deferred payment card again" by Andrea Tan (BT, June 15). We wish to clarify our preference for releasing a range of prices as opposed to an
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      117 8 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone/lumber, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind
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  • FOCUS property
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      707 9  -  I-I I comment PROPERTY The key Issue Is what would be the "acceptable minimnm prices" for sites on the list lee han shih SO what made the property market think land sales this year would yield only 4,000 homes with 99-year leases? This seems
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      Lock icon New exec director for Redas
      394 9  -  ChiaHock Jin takes over from Ho Wing Yin, who retires By'. Kalpana Rashiwala THE Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas) yesterday announced its executive director Ho Wing Yin has retired. His replacement, just a few years younger, is Chia Hock Jin, who has 27
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon One size fits all?Easier said than done
      821 10  -  STTT^ bottom line OPINION john miller The writer is head of Singapore New Market (Asean) Development, ACCA. TOLSTOY'S dictum that "ail happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion" would seem to apply to nations. Until quite
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      49 10 "If I need to know what's going on with the economy, I don't listen to Alan Greenspan. I listen to a topless dancer." Mark Solomon a US cosmetic surgeon, on how the slowing economy is decreasing demand for breast implants and other forms of cosmetic surgery.
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      Lock icon Thaksin goes to Myanmar
      642 10 EDITORIAL IT is good that Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will arrive in Yangon today for a two-day visit aimed at mending fences with the ruling junta in Myanmar. The relationship between the two Asean neighbours can be described as prickly, at best. On the day
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      Lock icon Few in HK dare to ignore threat of Shanghai
      1403 10  -  Bat rivalry often played down in official comments as comparison is a sensitive issue From Quak Hiang Whai The writer is BT's Hong Kong correspondent in Hcmg Kong WILL Shanghai overtake Hong Kong soon? It is a question very much in
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      Lock icon Tanaka strains at the leash
      856 10  -  Her fresh approach is intended to npset decrepit apple carts By Patrick Smith Bloomberg THERE will be few links in Makiko Tanaka's leash when she holds talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington this week. This is a pity. Japan's foreign minister has
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Chinese group bids 10 sen a share more for Nanyang
      509 11  -  Offer unlikely to interest MCA's Ling who has said he'll sell if price is 5 times that paid by Hnaren From Eddie Toh in Kluila Lumpur A GROUP of Chinese businessmen has offered to buy Nanyang Press from the investment
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      Lock icon Dairy Farm sells 53 more Aussie Franklins stores
      310 11  -  USss2m deal with Pick'n Pay follows recent sale of 67 stores for USsll9m From< Quak Hiang Whai in Hong Kong DAIRY Farm International has reached agreement to sell a further 53 stores of its Australian supermarket Franklins for US$52 million cash. Less
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Protesting Indon students tear-gassed
        80 11 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian police fired rubber bullets and teargas to try to disperse more than 700 students protesting against recent fuel price increases in Jakarta yesterday, injuring at least two, witnesses said. They said police took the action after the students refused to stop burning tyres
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        Lock icon Malaysian Airline gets new CFO
        84 11 AFX Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd has appointed investment banker Ong Liang Heng as chief financial officer in an organisational revamp undertaken by the company's new management, the Malaysian Business Times reported, quoting unidentified sources. Under the reorganisation programme, Malaysia Airlines will be
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        Lock icon LJM bags RM603m Putrajaya project
        83 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] IJM Corp, Malaysia's fourth largest builder by market value, said it has won a RM6O3 million (*****.6 million) contract to build a convention centre in the new administrative capital. Work on the project will span 22 months and will be completed in
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        Lock icon Telekom M'sia sees 10% revenue growth
        77 11 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia expects to post revenue growth of 10 per cent over the next three years on the back of a 40 per cent rise in revenue at unit Telekom Cellular Sdn Bhd, Telekom Malaysia chief executive officer Mohd Khir Harun
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        Lock icon Indon policemen face murder charge
        84 11 AFP [JAKARTA] An Indonesian military tribunal yesterday charged nine policemen with the 1998 murder of anti-government student protesters, an event which triggered widespread riots that contributed to the fall of then-president Suharto. In the opening session of the trial, prosecutors at the Jakarta tribunal charged
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      Lock icon PAS appoints Chinese member to its top decision-making body
      204 11 KUALA LUMPUR AP MALAYSIA'S largest opposition party has appointed an ethnic Chinese member for the first time to its highest decision-making body, officials said yesterday. The move by the fundamentalist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, comes nearly a month after Prime
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      Lock icon Thaksin makes emotional appeal
      680 12  -  He maintains wealth concealment unintentional, caused by oversight /•Yarn] Harish Mehta in Bangkok FIGHTING back tears, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday told the Constitutional Court he "had no intention to conceal his wealth", and that non-dis-closure was caused by an "oversight". But the prosecution forcefully
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      Lock icon Revised Indon Budget clears DPR hurdle
      476 12  -  Move fulfills one of IMF's key criteria for loan package FYom Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA inched towards mending its strained ties with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by fulfilling one of two key criteria set by the IMF before it resumes its loan
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      Lock icon Thai Q1 GDP slows to 1.8%
      85 12 BANGKOK Reuters THAI economic growth slowed to 1.8 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter, its slowest rate for two years, hit by faltering exports and weak domestic consumption, official figures showed. Thailand's state-run think tank, the National Economic Social Development Board, said it
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      Lock icon Industry group sees halving of HK local banks
      256 13 HONG KONG Bloomberg THE Hong Kong Association of Banks yesterday said it expects increasing competition and narrowing profit margins to halve the number of local lenders after the city deregulates interest rates on deposits next month. Banks must improve their products, technology
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        Lock icon HK jobless rate holds steady in May
        88 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's unemployment rate was unchanged in May as slowing economic growth deterred trade-related companies, hotels and other businesses from increasing staff. The jobless rate held steady at 4.6 per cent for a third straight month after rising for two
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        Lock icon CSFB names investment banking head
        73 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Credit Suisse First Boston named Neil Harvey to head its investment banking business in Asia outside Japan, replacing Alastair Walton, who resigned. Mr Harvey, who was regional head of the bank's emerging markets group for Asia, will report to David Olson, said
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        Lock icon HK govt to auction building sites
        78 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong government will auction building sites today, the first public sale in this year's land disposal programme, which is smaller than last year's in an attempt to buoy property prices. The two sites for sale, in the suburbs of
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      Lock icon China delists loss-making company
      542 13 SHANGHAI Move against Guangdong Kingman said to be part of a reform drive and fight against speculators Reuters CHINA'S regulators yesterday pushed forward with a campaign to clean up highly speculative markets, throwing a loss-making Guangdong eel farm off the Shenzhen stock exchange in only the
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      Lock icon HK's ICAC nabs 18 over HK$1.8b credit scam
      304 13 HONGKONG Reuters HONG Kong's anti-graft agency said yesterday it had arrested 18 people for alleged involvement in a HKSI.B billion (Ss4l9 million) credit scam, including a chairman of an investment firm and a senior bank manager. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)
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  • e-NEWS
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      Lock icon Nortel's Q2 loss put at US$19.2b
      509 14 NEW YORK New Economy excesses see firm pay USsl9b for assets worth USsl67m NYT THE money pit that was once the telecommunications industry became a yawning crater last week. On Friday, Nortel Networks, a company that only a year ago epitomised stock market glamour,
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      Lock icon Microsoft-AOL talks killed by growing rivalry
      435 14 NEW YORK AOL's opposition can hinder the launch of the new Windows ZP NYT THE collapse of talks between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner this past weekend was rooted in Microsoft's strategy of making its new operating system the tool to provide a wide
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  • FINANCE
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      Lock icon Futures end mixed on low volumes
      269 14  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Report ST Index Daniel Wong Refco Singapore Pte Ltd SINGAPORE stocks inched up yesterday on speculation of possible mergers and acquisition. The benchmark Straits Times Index gained 7.62 points, or 0.45 per cent, to close at 1,713.72 points as gains led
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      Lock icon June contract settles 1.35% down
      229 14  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco Singapore Pte Ltd TAIWAN stocks slumped yesterday, led by United Microelectronics (UMC) and other semiconductor makers. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index sank 4.35 points, or 1.82 per cent, to end at 234.24. The index turnover fell to 398.99
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      Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
      219 14 Reuters liffnjffll THE yen sank to one-month lows against the US dollar and the euro yesterday after the Bank of Japan cast further gloom over Japan's economic outlook. But its losses against the single currency proved fleeting as data showing euro zone inflation at an eight-year high put
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      1244 17 HONGKONG AFP, Reuters D Hang Seng -***** HONG KONG share prices dropped 1.2 per cent yesterday to below the 13,000 mark a two-month low following losses on Wall Street. The Hang Seng Index shed 153.72 points to 12,948.78 on a turnover of HK$7.92 billion.
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      3030 17 TAIPEI Jun 18 T$ COOO) Luion Electronics 29.70 -0.60 2 Macronu In'tl 36.30 -0.00 n ABIT Computer Corp —33.50 -170 7 Microelectronics Tech...38 00 -1.20 3 Accton Tech —.40.80 -0.90 4 Micro-Star In'tl 91.00 -3.00 6 Acer 22.30 -0.70 20 Mitec Intl 21.60 -0 50 4 ACER Comm. Multi—32.40 -0.50
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      1122 18 KUALA LUMPUR AFP. AFX-Asia |j Composite Index -4^0 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday due to profit-taking in index linked stocks, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index was down 4.60 points at 584.82. The Second Board Index moved down 0.70
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      364 17  -  Labour government wants to promote entrepreneurial culture From Neil Behrman in London THE UK Treasury and Department of Trade (DTI) intend to take on companies that operate price fixing cartels. If directors of companies are found to be operating formal or informal cartels
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        67 17 Reuters [MATAMATA, New Zealand] New Zealand dairy fanners approved plans yesterday to merge most of the industry into a NZ$lO billion (557.6 billion) processing and marketing company to take on the world's food ingredients multi-nationals. The new "GlobalCo" brings together farmer-owned processors NZ Dairy
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      176 17 LONDON Reuters THE London Stock Exchange (LSE) yesterday announced a plan to encourage greater use of electronic shareholdings and said it would use its own flotation next month to push for cheaper, quicker paperless settlement. Europe's biggest exchange. due to list on its own
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      272 17 DETROIT FT CHRYSLER, the loss-making US arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler, plans to cut capital expenditure by almost 40 per cent, or US$lB billion, over the next five years, according to unpublished company figures. The move is expected to reduce the carmaker's average
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      236 17 Reuters (LOS ANGELES) Television talk show host and media entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey has agreed to buy a mansion near Santa Barbara for US$5O million in one of the most expensive residential property deals in California, the Los Angeles Times said on Sunday. The 17-hectare
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      492 18  -  Ten sinks to 4-week low while Tokyo stock market continues to slide From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE yen sank to a four-week low against the US dollar yesterday and the Tokyo stock market continued its steady slide after the Bank of Japan
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      574 18 COMMENTARY The conditions for a sharp IT spending recovery in the US are Just not in place FT [LONDON] IT is crunch time for the Nasdaq. During the two weeks running up to the end of the quarter on June 30, leading US software
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      215 18 AP [EUGENE. Oregon] A COMPUTER factory that overpaid dozens of former workers thousands of dollars in severance pay wants them to "kindly return" the money. Komag Int. a computer disc manufacturer, laid off hundreds of workers at its Eugene plant in January and
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      167 18 Where to wine, dine and entertain../-:(§>£&& For lunch, you can enjoy our ever popular Japanese culinary flavour while for dinner, you can tuck in to a sumptuous selection of Japanese. Asian and Western dishes, from sashimi to shark's fin soup to drunken chicken to even roast beef sirloin, j Lunch:
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      546 19 She shrugs off censoring of latest film Reuters (HONG KONG] VETERAN Hong Kong director Ann Hui says she would have been outraged if anyone suggested censoring one of her films when she was starting out over 30 years ago. Now, Hu 1 one of the few
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      176 19 Where's the next opportunity? Find out at this one-day Business Technology Forum 4th Singapore Optics/Photonics Forum 25th July 2001 Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore Come hear from the experts about the emerging technologies that are making waves in the high performance world of optics/photonics The Promise of Light: Technology, Markets Networking
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      265 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 5 No master or doctor In a scien--1 Small firm to employ a north- title field (10) emer (6) 6 Have a go at getting equipment 4 Ran because he had grabbed a gun (8) 7 Some shrapnel so nearly killed 9 Call as witness for ex-pupil
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      161 20 uu JII IP JO i ucougy, JUI ic Ig, tIUU I September 19-20, 2001, Forbes Magazine will be bringing the Forbes Conference attendance is by-invitation only and limited to Global ceo Conference to Singapore for a 2-day in-depth look ahead at CEOs, Presidents and selected top echelon management Technology and
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      1990 22  -  Amazing things happen when people gather in a circle with nothing in the middle, Harrison Owen, originator of the Open Space concept tells AMNA TBO ANNA TEO THIS should be a no-brainer: If you or your organisation could accomplish in two days what normally
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      26 22 Asia 2001 mm MLR Knowledge Management] Singapore (S.I As[a2ooTJ For details, drop in at www.kmasia.coni or email arfcgroup@singnet.com.sg Golf for WmBi FREE*i\ BQ mm -t f
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      802 23  -  As SMU prepares for its second batch of students, RACHEL ***** pays a visit RACHEL ONG HAT do conserJ vation, landI scaping and edf ucation have in I t common? Not much, unless ■f you're talking about SingaW W P° re Management University (SMU). SMU
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      588 23  -  from london By Lynette Kuang Lynette Kuang is a first year law student at University College. London (UCL) MAY 18 this year was a special day for me. It marked the end of my first-year university examinations and the start of the summer holidays. I was looking forward
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      598 24  -  Heiner Goebbel's witty play Hashirigaki combines disparate elements to make it one of the most intriguing and innovative offerings at this year's Arts Festival, says TAN BWEE HWEE TAN HWEE HWEE iASHIRIGAKI is a dessert buffet for the brain. Take a scoop of Gertrude
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      498 24  -  Peijalan&n shows that fusion dance can be accessible Byi Cheah Ui-Hoon PERJALANAN-An Inner Odyssey by the People's Association Malay Dance Group has redeemed the idea that the traditional and contemporary can be melded together. Especially if one has witnessed one too many failed attempts
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      164 24  -  188 ARTS By Lynn Lee IN the hope of becoming child stars, about 100 youngsters turned up, with their parents in tow, at Action Theatre's Waterloo Street premises on Sunday. Among the hopefuls were familiar faces Angelo Maniam and James Chong, who
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      289 25 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose seven points to 1,380, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 19 points to 1,366, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell 15 points to 9,036 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up three points to 1,769. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Kalahari (built 1996) 161,167
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      452 25  -  Venture will be China's 2nd largest shiprepair facility if deal gets through By'. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Marine is nearing conclusion of a joint venture deal with one of China's largest shipyards belonging to China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco). A source
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      473 25  -  Ship's master may have refused help earlier because of commercial reasons Reports by] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has publicly requested the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) to thoroughly investigate the delayed evacuation of sunken
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      270 25 [SINGAPORE] Legitimate compensation claims by Malaysian fishermen whose farm stocks were poisoned by a chemical spill in the Johor Straits last Thursday will be considered by insurers, a spokesman's statement said. A Singapore spokesman for Rotterdambased Inter Coastal Shipowners P&I Club said
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      258 25 Bloomberg [MANILAI Hutchison Port Holdings paid US$4OO million for an undisclosed stake in International Container Terminal Services Inc's (ICTSI) unit that operates overseas ports and a cruise vessel terminal in Mexico. The Philippines' largest port operator said in a statement yesterday to
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        93 25 AFP [COTONOU] A Ghanaian ship has been prevented from docking in Benin's main port of Cotonou since June 7, stranding 170 passengers on the vessel in Benin's territorial waters, the harbour master's office said. "The ship, called Alnar, is currently in Benin's territorial waters
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        102 25 [SINGAPORE] Canadian police in the port of Halifax have taken seven Romanians into custody after they were discovered in a container aboard a Zim Israel vessel and are reportedly awaiting the arrival of a Maersk Seal and vessel suspected of having two stowaways from
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        821 26  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes THE saga of the damaged, laden tanker Castor, which was towed around the Mediterranean for 35 days, will be familiar to regular readers of this column. The problem was that coastal countries, fearing a potential catastrophic explosion and under intense
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        317 26  -  From, Evelyn Duffy in Perth AUSTRALIA'S waterfront community has witnessed further tangible evidence of reform with stevedores at Melbourne, the country's premier container port, indicating they will pass on a reduction in berth hire charges to customers. P&O
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        510 34  -  PARIS AXR SHOW Large aircraft will fuel balk of demand for engines over next two decades Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE) Rolls-Royce anticipates a total market for some 100,000 civil aircraft engines worth nearly US$465 billion over the next two decades. said its chairman. Speaking
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        622 34 Both planemakers unperturbed, saying weaker market is manageable Reuters, Bloomberg [PARIS] The world's two biggest makers of commercial aircraft have confirmed that they are seeing a weaker demand for their planes as a global economic slowdown bites and the world's airlines make less money. But
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        415 34 AFX-Asia [LE BOURGET, France] Boeing chief executive of commercial aircraft Alan Mulally said yesterday the group's project to develop the Sonic Cruiser, a high-speed long-range aircraft, has attracted the interest of some 15 major international airlines. Among the carriers to have expressed an interest
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        465 34 CAA refutes paper which says one every day at Heathrow Reuters (LONDON] Aircraft at British airports are involved in an average of six reported "near misses" a month but the number is falling, Britain's Civil Aviation Authority said yesterday. "There were six
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        278 34 AP [PARIS] The head of the company that manufactures the Concorde says the supersonic jet could resume flights as early as September, according to France's Journal de Dimanche. Philippe Camus, president of European aeronautics consortium EADS, was quoted by the newspaper as saying that
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      143 25 Dockyard: IMO backs 'places of refuge' concept Pg2 Civil aircraft engine market worth USs46sb BackPg ICERSS 5 f International Conference on Engine Room Simulators Exhibition on Application of IT, Control and Automation in the Maritime Industry 26 29 June 2001 Singapore Maritime Academy Singapore Polytechnic —It is the people on
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