The Business Times, 2 July 2001

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  • 35 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES I An advertising wraparound S I N G A P OR E MONDAY, JULY 2, 2001 85e THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A fPIIO7/03/2001 Internet: Jittp://bu6kiess-tirQes.asial 'com,sg/ SINGAPORE MONDAY, JULY 2. 2001 85C
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  • 67 4 fpiWBt Wfeek Ouuee STL 1,726.50 +1.62 SIMSCI FUTURES -0.90 BTSRI. 667.55. -147 KLSECOMR. .592.99 +5.10 NIKKEI 225 12,969.06 .-75.76 HANG SENG 13,042.58. -111.49 SET INDEX- .322.55 +3.88 JAKARTA COME. *****. +0.82 MANILA C0MP- 1,410.07 -29.70 TAIPEI WPL 4,883.43...—-20.91 SEOUL COMP. 596.13. 4.95 SHENZHEN B 369-35. +2J6 AUST ALL
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  • 759 4  -  TTexcTuslvel OOBTASEOTER Did they act in best interests of all their shareholders? What if DBS nps its offer, the lawyers ask 9yC I Conrad Raj, Loh Hui Yin in Singapore LAWYERS contacted by BT have questioned whether some of the principal shareholders of Overseas
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  • 845 4  -  By Alvin Tay THE Chinese have a tradition of counting in groups of five—a vertical bar to denote one, two such parallel bars for two, and so on until five which is represented by a horizontal bar across the four vertical bars. This also
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  • 921 4  -  COMMENTARY With the latest liberalisation, S'pore banks will face some serious competition, says vnrRAW khamha VIKRAM KHANNA AS dramatic as it may be, the continued consolidation of domestic banking through the planned takeover of Overseas Union Bank, whether by United Overseas Bank or
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  • 120 4 LATWP [WASHINGTON] At the dedication last week of the Federal Reserve Board's Chicago visitor centre, chairman Alan Greenspan said: "I understand this centre includes, for example, an interactive computer game in which visitors are challenged to pick the right monetary policy. When asked whether I might want
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  • 1070 4  -  From Anthony Rowley m lokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's vow that nothing is sacrosanct in his plan to cut government spending means that Japan's foreign aid faces a cut of up to 10 per cent in the fiscal
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    • 85 4 maps TOP STORIES SGX market cap hits 4-month high, Nmxt Page Assessing measures that matter, Pgß Q2 office rents slide 3.4% to reach end--2000 levels: JLL, Pg7 m- .i»9 BPfc Gus Dur names police chief ambassador to M'sia, Pg 9 Tan Chong family court battle shaping up, Pg9 Jiang Zemin
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    • 28 4 In BizlT today A new BT-IBM Series j on e-biz infrastructure Pg 3 Special Supplement on Hata security Pg 5-10 I Special Series on knowledge management Pg 12
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    • 33 4 BT COMMENT R SIVANITHY First-half market report doesn't augur too well Pg 4 QUAK HIANG WHAI Shanghai as funding centre Pg 10 Next Page Doing business in Singapore is a breeze, Perc finds
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    • 549 5  -  Its edge over HE lies in its widespread nseof Engish&nd superior workforce By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE may be a pricey place, but doing business in the Lion City is almost a breeze. A recent poll of expatriates in the region
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    • 526 5  -  Surge sparked by wave of takeover, corporate activities By' Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE stockmarket's capitalisation hit a fourmonth high at the half-year mark, thanks to a sudden resurgence of market interest sparked by a wave of corporate activities. And the most impressive performer was takeover
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    • 742 5  -  From 1 Teh Hooi Ling in Paris AMIDST global turmoil in the telecommunications market, French giant Alcatel is banking on Asia to ride out of the rough patch. The company aims to more than quadruple its group revenues from the Asia-Pacific
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    • 307 5 Pfl UNIVERSITY OF university of Louisville J-J -.T A "Ranked 13th among Top 50 Business Schools in the US" "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" |UKA (^^B > Top American Entrepreneurship Singapore 22nd Intake September 2001 "Ranked Top 5 Distance MBA in Asia" by Asia Week JM■ fl| 18 months only
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 676 7  -  I-l I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy NOW that the first half of 2001 has passed, it might be interesting to take stock of things and ponder the outlook for the local market. Questions that may be posed in this regard include: Is the
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    • 196 7  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy IN our market commentary above, we gave a report card on the local market, concluding that the state of health isn't great by any means. For instance, despite what appears to be heavy rotational playing of the penny
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    • 241 7  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Neptune Orient Lines tumbled last Friday in the wake of reports that it had scrapped the listing of its oil tanker unit on Wall Street. After initially falling to a low at $1.38, it managed to close with
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    • 147 7 ♦Courts (Singapore) Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 1.32 cents) on Aug 8. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on Aug 14. Date payable is on Aug 28. ♦Singapore Finance Ltd will hold its EGM on July 17 at 4 pm, at Grand Copthorne
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    • Article, Illustration
      1294 7 Stocks Volume Keppel Cap W*****0 71,811,000 TianjinZhong 69,792,000 UniFood HK25c 69,642,000 Keppel Capital 68,022,000 OUB...„ 65,660,000 Autron 65,550,000 Omni Ind 10c 58,378,000 FuYuMlglOc 58,034,000 BeyonicslOc 54,684,000 AEM-Evertech 5c 50,857,000 Stocks > DBSGrp 634,341,328 OUB 598,689,527 Keppel Capital 242,540,900 Omni Ind 10c 227,544,422 OCBC 193,311,300 UOB 147,443,613 Keppel Cap 128,704,931 Chart
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    • 583 7 AFP [HONG KONG] Decisions by the Japanese and US monetary authorities failed to change the weak trend of the yen which seesawed against the US dollar. The Australian dollar dived a cent on global economic uncertainty and weak commodity prices. Japanese yen:
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1747 8  -  Any process to assess the chief executive officer needs to be suitable for the company, says PETER WALLACE CORPORATEI.M'iJi.M.MJ PETER WALLACE The writer is practice leader, enterprise risk management, Ernst Young Singapore. His e-mail address is peter-ian. wallace@sg.eyi.com This is part of a series on corporate
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    • 288 8 INDICATIVE NUMBER MIDDLE PRICES GROSS MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST Of DAYS OF (EXCLUDING REDEMPTION RATE (|M) PAYMENT ACCRUED ACCRUED YIELD ISIN CODE PA) DATES INTEREST INTEREST) (%PA) 01.09.2001 N*****1S 1999 21/4 1500.00 1/9 1/3 121 100.02 2.12# SG********** 01.09.2001 N*****1N
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    • 2249 9 RANK AS AT COMPANY MKTCAP CHNG CHNG PRICE CHNG %CHNG PE JUN MAY i DEC JUNE 29 FROM FROM JUNE 29 FROM FROM RATIO 29 31 29 2001 MAY 31 DEC 29 2001 MAY 31 DEC 29 2001 2001! 2000 (S$M) 2001 2000
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    • 113 8 This announcement appears as a matter of record only July 2001 m WILLAS-ARRAY WILLAS-ARRAY ELECTRONICS (HOLDINGS) LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 3 August 2000) Invitation in respect of 53,500,000 new ordinary shares of HK$O.2O each comprising:(1) 3,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.28 for each Offer Share by way of public offer;
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    • 67 9 As of Ist July 2001, Singapore Airlines Cargo will be a new company within the Singapore Airlines Group and Singapore's first all-cargo airline. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Singapore Airlines Cargo and wish them well for the future. aw& 0 \\V EAS INT LTPT(S) PTE LTD
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 529 10  -  PROPERTY FOCUS Poor sentiment to stay, bnt supply cap to stabilise Q3 rates By Vince Chong SECOND-QUARTER overall office rents pulled back to end-2000 levels with a 3.4 per cent fall, wiping out a 3.2 per cent gain garnered in
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    • 287 10  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan NET allocation of ready-built industrial space fell by 63 per cent to 13,700 sq metres during the second quarter of this year, compared to 37,400 sq m during the January-March quarter, according to the flash estimates released by
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    • 304 11  -  IM ii 11 in the economy bank loans By Ven Sreenivasan DESPITE the economic slowdown, bank lending rose for the second consecutive month in May, according to the latest data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Bank loans rose about $1.5 billion or one
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    • 40 11 IN the report "Biomedical hub: Create, own, exploit is way to go" on June 30, we wrongly stated that the pharmaceutical industry provided 36,000 skilled jobs last year the figure should be 3,600. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 269 11 PMGoh says the country will be among the top 10 in Asia by 2010 AP SINGAPORE will spend $500 million over the next five years to turn itself into a top sporting nation, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said
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    • 324 11  -  By' Trina Foo PROPERTY consultants Colliers Jardine and Egg Systems, a Singapore-based global real-estate technology enterprise, have set up a property-asset and facilitymanagement joint venture. Called Colliers International Asset Management Pte Ltd (CIAM), the 50-50 joint venture will use portal technology, as
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    • 367 11  -  MAILI.Tm Jack C Liu President, Asia Region Global Gateway, LP Singapore I REFER to your article "Global's Asia-Pac Switch Data centre major bets big on the Asia-Pacific" by Tang Weng Fai (BT, June 18). It is an interesting article and provides a
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    • 296 11  -  Ang Gey Wee Singapore I HOPE the case I'm stuck with can be a lesson to the general public and I hope those able to can offer me assistance. I was recently issued a letter of demand by a lawyer representing
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 549 12 Lawmakers, police say row over threat to declare state of emergency not over Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday appointed his defiant police chief, who has publicly objected to the Muslim cleric's threat to declare a state of emergency, ambassador to
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      • 57 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told students yesterday to stay away from protests as police investigated two fires in as many days at university halls—including one where he was to speak. Police have questioned several students of the Universiti Malaya
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      • 72 12 AFP [JAKARTA] The governors of eight Indonesian provinces and special districts have warned Jakarta politicians not to squander the country's future when they meet on Aug 1 in a session that could lead to the impeachment of President Abdurrahman Wahid. The Yogyakarta Declaration signed by
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      • 65 12 AFP [ZAMBOANGA, Philippines] Philippine troops yesterday broke a ceasefire and shelled strongholds of the country's main Muslim separatist group it had accused of sheltering Abu Sayyaf kidnappers, rebel sources said. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) regional leader Shariff Julabbi said rebel positions near Tuburan town in
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    • 380 12 KUALALUMPUR AFP PENANG, Malaysia's "silicon island" that is home to hundreds of electronic companies, is bracing for a lean year amid a global slump in electronic sales but remains optimistic it will weather the bad times. Regional Chief Minister Koh Tsu
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    • 298 12 [KUALA LUMPUR] The impending court battle between the two feuding families of the Tan Chong motor dynasty is fast shaping up with yet another counter-action filed at the High Court here, The Sun reported. The court is expected to begin preliminary hearing this
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    • 706 13  -  EI comment HK STOCKS quak hiang whai FRESH from a visit to Shanghai where he was briefed on the city's education reforms, Education Minister Teo Chee Hean was asked by the Singapore media his impression of the Chinese city and its people. Describing his trip as
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    • 443 13 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese President Jiang Zemin marked the Communist Party's 80th birthday yesterday vowing to fight rampant corruption threatening the regime and throwing open the party's doors to China's newly rich. Mr Jiang's renewed pledge to clamp down on
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    • 604 16 BOMBAY No more carry forward trades; turnover seen staying low Reuters TODAY is Day One of a new era on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Major changes in trading rules and practices take effect today, which brokers fear could keep turnover at anaemic
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    • 599 16 MADRAS Dow Jones Newswires INDIA'S ruling coalition said yesterday a provincial government had violated the constitution in jailing one of the country's most powerful regional politicians, his son and colleagues and two federal ministers an act it said was carried out
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    • 1042 15 AFP [LONDON] Oil prices fell below US$25 a barrel for the first time for months last week as dealers anticipated Iraq's return to the exporting fold and a wait-and-see approach from Opec at a gathering in Vienna tomorrow. Well-stocked US crude and gasoline reserve tanks convinced the market
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    • 70 15 Don *j|& Dine Entertain May Chan 740 1134 or Teresa Quak 740 1297 now. I I] JfPF-' JHkF m* Hfekt <* l v ||^sj'i In Jtiy,' Marina Bisfro serves up a special fcce Fair w«h faee fori and tas»v homecaoked fewowrlw: Nasi lemak {cooked wflh Basmati Rice, and based on
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    • 36 16 nrr©«n X Lianhe Zaobao I A look at I I new shares I I have fared I I in the first half I I of the year I v I I mmi I I JE®fi£ I
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  • BIZ woman
    • 1038 17 The problem of top women failing may not be the failures themselves but the increased attention such failures receive because of gender Reuters [NEW YORK] A SERIES of high-profile failures by women in senior management threatens to undermine the struggle of female executives
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 288 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS orient (8) 1 Sort everything out to get well 6 She gets a rejection by Sandunpolluted (6-5) hurst (5) 9 Conservative, innocent but dour f Corrected just as the afternoon (9) began (7) 10 Chief magistrate about to con- 8 Outrageously tease the extravafront archetypal woman (5)
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  • WORLD news
    • 476 18  -  From Ravi Kant in Geneva ATTEMPTS by the New York-based AIG (American International Group) to secure the most beneficial treatment for its future insurance business in China created an impasse last Friday in the current negotiations for Beijing's entry into
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 122 18 Bloomberg [PLANO, Texas] Electronic Data Systems Corp, the No 2 US computer-services company, may bid £5 billion (5512.8 billion) for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Sunday Business reported, citing John Meyer, European president of EDS. "We're juggling around with the idea of bidding
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      • 73 18 AFP [SEOUL] Samsung Group saw its net profit exceeding US$5 billion in 2000, more than double that a year earlier, largely on the back of good performance in its core chip making business. Samsung posted a net profit worth 6.8 trillion won (559.5 billion) last
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      • 63 18 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's trade surplus in June fell to US$l.49 billion, down 28.4 per cent from a year ago, as sluggish overseas demand pushed exports to shrink for four straight months year-on-year. June trade surplus was also down from a surplus of U551,989
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      • 61 18 AFP [WAaiiiwiiTUNi Alter nearly tnree years oi taixs, American Airlines and its 23,000 flight attendants tentatively agreed to a new contract late on Saturday. Neither side released details of the accord, but expressed satisfaction that a walkout was averted. "We are very pleased to have
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      • 85 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] Abbey National is considering making a hostile offer of £15 billion (5538.4 billion) for Bank of Scotland, derailing the Edinburgh-based bank's agreed merger with Halifax Group, Sunday Herald reported yesterday without citing sources. Abbey National chief executive lan Harley believes UK
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    • 512 18 TOKYO He says Bering must learn to play by WTO rules as officials see no early resolution Reuters, JAPANESE Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma yesterday said that Japan would not bow to Chinese demands to drop import curbs that have sparked a
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    • 602 19  -  They also commit to launching new round of global free trade negotiations Froml Leon Hadar in Washington IN a statement issued following their first summit, US President George W Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed a commitment to work together to
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    • 621 19  -  Cessation of the cnts Implies the Fed thinks it has done enough, writes fiftßOT.fllE BAPM CAROLINE BAUM Caroline Baum is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own. Bloomberg NOW that the Federal Reserve has pulled one of the two legs
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    • 256 19 NEW YORK Bloomberg US venture capital investments fell more than twothirds in the second quarter from the all-time quarterly high a year earlier, as the slide in US stocks discouraged new spending, according to Venture Wire, an information service. Investments plunged from U5527.9
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    • 435 19 WASHINGTON NYT AN investigative arm of Congress has faulted federal regulators for claiming that there was no evidence to support accusations that power companies manipulated California's electricity market. The agency, the General Accounting Office, reviewed a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
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    • 501 19 Newpl&ntople&Be EU makes no sense to shareholders: 6E NYT [NEW YORK] General Electric's proposed acquisition of Honeywell International appeared all but dead on Friday after GE's chairman, Jack Welch, rejected a last-ditch modification by Honeywell aimed at satisfying European regulators. Friction between
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    • 454 20 UNITED NATIONS NYT A PANEL of financial and development experts has called for a new round of international trade talks devoted primarily to helping countries too weak to reap any benefits from the growing global economy. The panel which
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    • 541 21 LONDON Investors spooked by weak French business confidence and high Italian inflation AFP INVESTORS battered the euro back below 85 US cents in the past week, punishing the currency for gloomy economic data pouring out of the euro zone. As the market turned instead
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    • 423 21 WASHINGTON But it sees a gradual improvement, though risks remain AFP THE eurozone economy has been hit harder than expected by the deterioration in the US economy, as well as by higher oil prices and the foot-and-mouth disease crisis, the International Monetary Fund said on
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    • 376 21 LONDON Reuters THE clouds over Europe's corporate earnings are darkening amid dwindling tech and telecom profits, but even Old Economy stalwarts are beginning to serve up nasty surprises. "It's getting worse, but increasingly we are having to separate out the telecoms, which
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    • 305 21 PARIS Bloomberg BASF AG and Bayer AG are close to buying Aventis CropScience from Aventis SA and Schering AG, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with the talks. BASF plans to buy the insecticide unit of Aventis, while Bayer would
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    • 441 22 NEW YORK Combined market for bond and stock underwriting surges 36% in HI Reuters WALL Street's stock and bond underwriters may soon need to start calling themselves bond and stock underwriters. The fitful US economy and a stock market that
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  • STOCKS sgx
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    • 541 20 SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup Reuters [CHICAGO] IMM currency futures started US pit trading mixed on Friday, with both euro and yen futures up as traders covered short positions after Thursday's sell-off to their respective two-week and three-month lows. September yen hit a twoday
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      718 24  -  I:j I exclusive Beleaguered giant Cisco Systems Inc isn't about to go soft on the region not with over USslb committed to manufacturing this year, and a China market that's still going places. KEEEETB JAMES finds OUt more from Cisco's president of Asia-Pacific operations Gordon Astles KENNETH JAMES
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    • 503 25  -  Cisco's Gordon Astles emphasises that the company remains in a dominant position vis-a-vis its rivals By\ Kenneth James GORDON Astles lets the numbers do the talking, even though the tale they tell these days is far from pretty for Cisco Systems. But trust the
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    • 721 25  -  i exclusive In Australia, retail prices for corporates and ISPs fell 50% within six months once overseas cable started connecting to the country's market By Tang Weng Fai EXPECT wholesale bandwidth prices to fall by at least 40 to 50 per
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    • 293 25 AFP [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard has unveiled software that lets computers design computer chips. The software will allow the wholesale design and manufacture of "embedded chips" the tiny electronic brains that are powering the next-generation of "smart" devices, such as clothes washers
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    • 929 25  -  Investors, however, seem to be viewing the alliance as mildly positive at best By Barnaby J Feder AP IN A move that underscored the chasm between good technology and viable products, Compaq Computer announced last week that it planned
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    • e Biz Infrastructure
      • 1060 26  -  E-biz involves not just tech concerns but also business strategy changes. DAVID moe offers a roadmap to guide companies in their transformation DAVID MOK The author is CEO of Internet consultancy, myEwizard.com WHETHER you're running a small mom-and-pop shop or the operations of a
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      • 508 26  -  Gross revenues from Net infrastructure services to hit $763 m this yean IDA survey By] Raju Chellam The writer is BizlT Editor IN the current, fast-changing economic environment, where businesses rush to offer goods and services over the Internet, two issues that most companies would rather
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    • 608 27  -  11 (comment INFOTECH Biology-based computing will eventually offer lower costs and more resiliency andrew wee The writer isaßTjournalist IF I told you scientists are growing bacteria capable of replacing the memory chips in your computer and that you would therefore have more computing power
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    • 653 27 It will function as a personal server, AMD tells andience at PC Expo Reuters THREE microchip makers last week offered strategies for thriving in what is increasingly being called the post-personal computer era, describing visions of the future that alternately embrace more powerful
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    • IT TAKES
      • 66 27 SINGAPORE Network Services (SNS) has won the Outstanding Supplier Award from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) for SNS' E-Stamping Front End System, which electronically stamps documents related to the purchase, lease and mortgage of immovable property and transfers stocks and shares electronically. It
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      • 54 27 GERMANY-BASED systems software providef, Software AG, has tied up with Finesse Alliance International Pte Ltd, which provides collaborative commerce software solutions. Under the deal, Software AG's Tamino XML Database will be packaged as an embedded database component to be included with Finesse Syndicator, which automates and streamlines
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      • 55 27 SINGAPORE'S Open Tide Asia Pte Ltd, an eSamsung company, will launch a CRM Loyalty programme here with iCo-op.net Pte Ltd, a CRM solutions provider. Actual sales of the company will be charted against sales and profit targets, and loyalty rewards will then be adjusted dynamically according to actual
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      • 47 27 IBM Singapore has announced the installation of a high-performance Linux server cluster in Asean. Up to 100 servers in two clusters will be installed at IHPC (Institute of High Performance Computing) premises, as well as at the Singapore-MIT Alliance office, by this year-end.
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      • 30 27 US-BASED communications, electronics and life sciences firm, Agilent Technologies, will use Converge Move, a collaborative logistics solution from Converge Inc, a US-based collaborative SCM solutions provider.
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      • 34 27 SINGAPORE-BASED IT security solutions provider, iSecureP, has appointed John Yong as managing director for its Singapore operations. Mr Young was previously an IT security expert in the Ministry of Defence.
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      • 31 27 DELOITTE Consulting has appointed Brett Joyce as regional marketing manager for the Asia-Pacific and Africa. Based here, Mr Joyce was previously marketing manager with Deloitte Consulting in Australia.
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      • 32 27 A FORUM on "The managed private IP-network revolution across Asia" will be held on Thursday at Park Avenue Business Centre. It is organised by landl Asia. For details, e-mail laychintan@iandiasia.com.
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      • 38 27  -  Compiled by 1 Trina Foo A FOUR-DAY "3G Technical Workshop" will be held from July 10 at the Holiday Inn Parkview Hotel. It is organised by Telefocal Asia. For details, visit www.telefocal.com, or fax *****94.
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      • 1184 28  -  Companies are finding themselves pressured into the e-world in search of higher returns but they could face costly security breaches on the Net. In the following pages, we highlight issues in data security. Safeguarding your e-business is more than just keeping intruders out. It also means ensuring that
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      • 458 29  -  The efforts put into security bode well for wireless Internet, debra joslin reckons DEBRA JOSLIN The writer is senior technical writer, Certicom Corp DURING the early years of the Internet, security was a concern, but the relatively small size and close-knit nature of the Internet community
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      • 981 30  -  Given the ease of information distribution over the Net, digital watermarking has a role to play in preventing copyright infringement and ensuring content authenticity. jerry woom outlines its potential JERRY WOON The writer is business development manager, Data Mark Technologies THE Internet has changed the way businesses are
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      • 1386 31 All things considered, the total cost of implementing public key infrastructure is significantly less than the financial return made possible by sucn e-security applications THIS article is not about technology it's about time and money. That is, organisations often ask for help with not only the
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      • 1163 33 Having good e-commerce security practices in place help to enhance business processes, forge ties with partners and customers as well as create trust by empowering staff TRUST and security are vital for the growth of e-business. With scare stories about Internet crime a regular feature of the news
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 69 34 HARD disk major, Maxtor Corp has introduced new additions to its Diamond Max family ofs,4oorpm drives: The Diamond Max DS4OX is a 40 GB per platter drive, and the 536 DX is the highest capacity ATA drive on the market at 100 GB, Maxtor said. The
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      • 54 34 US-BASED Autodesk Inc has launched the Autodesk OnSite Mobile solutions for ones who need remote access to digital design and mapping data. The solution comprises two components—Autodesk OnSite View 2 and Autodesk OnSite Enterprise 2. The former costs US$l95 <*****); and the latter, US$5,OOO. They can
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      • 196 34  -  Compiled by Rachel Ong TOSHIBA Singapore has unveiled three new notebook computers under its Satellite brand. For details, fax *****05. All the models will debut mid-July. They are: The 1800 Series: Come with TV-out connection, can accommodate both multimedia presentation and video playback. The entry level
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    • 677 34  -  Sfore Arms need to change their mindset *#> imMpa »ha fuminogg.rr gap paul rath The writer is general manager, EMC South Asia THE transformation brought about by the Internet has significantly raised the stakes for business and IT management. Today, the two roles and impact to
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    • 194 34 3M Singapore has launched five new products, including a personal projector, a "Renaissance" mouse, an adjustable notebook plaform, and a notebook palm pads. The details: ♦Personal Projector MP7220: Costs $7,900, weighs 1.5 kg, offers a brightness of 800 lumens with 1,024 by 768 pixel XGA resolution,
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    • 348 34  -  Chen Bin Managing director Bridge Minds Consulting Pie Ltd THIS refers to the letter, "Preventing Net misuse" by Roger Poh (BizlT, June 25). While I emphasised the need to use technology to address the issue of Internet misuse, I fully agree with Mr Poh that education is
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    • KNOWLEDGE management
      • 1143 35  -  The global spending on KM services will hit USsl2.7b by 2005, from USs2.3b in 2000, growing at a robust 41% a year between now and then, says IDC By' Val Chua KNOWLEDGE Management (KM), a term commonly used to refer to the collection, organisation, retrieval
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      • 455 35  -  Ultimately, it is the customer that KM has to touch, directly or otherwise, since customers help bring in the revenue By I Raju Chellam The writer is BizlT Editor IN THE new, diffused world of KM (knowledge management), it is not just the Customer
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    • 268 36 NEW YORK Reuters IN a marriage between the two best known online recruitment firms, Monster.com will acquire j Hot Jobs.com in a deal worth T approximately US$46O million (*****.7 million). Monster's parent firm TMP Worldwide, which is a leading Yellow Pages advertising and
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    • 514 36 REDMOND, Washington Release of new Windows version in Oct conld be delayed by foes or anti-trust enforcers Bloomberg MICROSOFT Corp, which last week won a court ruling overturning a judge's order that it be split into two companies, isn't out of the
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    • 551 36 TAIPEI Foundry to account for 50% of world's mainstream chips by 2010: chairman Reuters LOOKING past the current downturn in the rollercoaster microchip business, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) sees a future where its foundry business is not a niche but an industry
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    • 358 36 ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania Bloomberg AGERE Systems will cut 4,000 jobs, or 24 per cent of its workforce, in the second round of firing since Lucent Technologies sold shares in the semiconductor unit as part of a spinoff plan. The maker of
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    • NET impact
      • 736 37  -  Thanks to Christer Fahraeus, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur, writing wireless messages may get a lot easier By Richard Heller DOES typing out wireless messages on those ever smaller mobile-phone handsets make you feel like a clumsy Gulliver in Lilliput? Swedish inventor Christer Fahraeus may have
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      • 201 37  -  Trina Foo SWEDEN-BASED C Technologies showcased its C-Pen at CommunicAsia 2001 last fortnight. Using digital camera technology and image processing, the C-Pen enables reading, writing, translating, storing and wireless transfer of text to computers, handheld devices, and mobile phones. Moreover, it also comes with
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      • Briefly.com
        • 45 37 YAHOO! Singapore has launched the Yahoo! Singapore Y! Pages, at http://yp.yahoo.com.sg, in conjunction with eGuide Singapore, at www.eguide.com.sg. Under the deal, a co-branded website located within Yahoo! Singapore will offer content from eGuide, including information on new and changed business listings.
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        • 79 37 NEARLY 90 per cent of Singapore-based families live in high or moderately high-technology households, and use the Internet and other wireless devices frequently, according to a new survey by US-based Euro RSCG Worldwide's survey. Despite this, only 25 per cent of Singapore respondents agreed with the
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        • 53 37 ST TRAINING Simulation (STTS), a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd, said its e-biz division, Knowledge Alive, now powers the Civil Service College's (CSC) Open Academy with live e-learning and e-collaboration through Inter Wise's Millennium software, which is a platform for e-mentoring, virtual classrooms,
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        • 48 37 u&-based BifiA systems mc said its "campaign Manager for Web Logic" is now available in Singapore. It provides companies with information on customer behaviour and buying patterns, and allows the company to identify its most valuable customers. The program can be downloaded from www.bea.com.
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        • 57 37 ABOUT 2.03 million handheld devices were sold in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan last year, more than double that over 1999, according to a study by IDC (International Data Corp). "The influx of local vendors from South Korea and China offering cheaper alternatives to international
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        • 43 37 NEXT-GENERATHON search technologies are set to boom, says a new study by Ovum. Search vendors will generate more than US$l.2 billion in revenues this year, and will more than double that by 2006 to US$2.6 billion, Ovum said.
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        • 54 37 US-BASED NeuLevel Inc, which is a provider of registry services for .biz, said it had signed on 95 international registrar partners to offer the .biz TLD (top level domain) and the Intellectual Property Claim Service. Of these, 14 are Asia-based, the company said. For details,
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        • 48 37 HOMEGROWN alternative payments company, Redpacket.com, has developed a transaction engine that will let customers transact seamlessly via wired or wireless devices. Called "Per Pay", it will debut in Q3 this year and will be packaged together with Redpacketcorn's Pre-Paid Card System and loyalty program. r-
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        • 64 37 THE total number of on-line trading accounts in the Asia-Pacific will increase from 8 million in 2000 to more than 42 million by 2005, growing at about 39 per cent a year between now and then, according to a new study by IDC. South Korea will
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        • 52 37  -  Compiled by Liew Hanqing NOKIA Internet Communications has launched the Nokia 1P740 security appliance, that features technology jointly developed with Isreal's Check Point Software Technologies. The solution offers more than 1.5 Gbps of secure firewall throughput, and will be available in the Asia-Pacific region in Q3
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    • 120 36 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS NEWSPAPERS PRESENT Clarke Quay SSSBIS Olltttt SSI C3ll th 6 hOdiflC OB (fay to )fOW haach EH SS™S fera* """"f H H-fcook Sai.l jamn Pte Ltd llMAt# SINGAPORE .J^j—<—» Ml® LG L A NG COU R T 0 MILL S?w AL K Mk UR °NC,PpiNT m r-.ZZ
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 272 38 Simpson Spence Young OMI did not purchase the Panamax tanker Four Schooner (72,000/2000) as previously reported. However, she is now said to be tied up with clients of Hanse in Hamburg, combined with 3 years' timecharter back to the sellers. The price is said to be US$4l million,
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    • 485 38  -  Intl shipping body also calls for port state control to agree to an order of inspection priority By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has called for unity among classification societies and more discriminatory Port State Control (PSC) inspection priorities
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    • 600 38  -  Survey follows drive by Australian ports after a succession of accidents From] Evelyn Duffy in Perth PORT organisations throughout South-east Asia can expect to receive a questionnaire within the next month which is designed to ascertain the level of regional accidents
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    • 69 38 [TOKYO] A frogman is lowered from a Japan Coast Guard helicopter on the capsized No 8 Sumitoku Maru, 7.S kilometres off Shimoda, at the southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, south of Tokyo. The 499-ton Japanese freighter overturned after it collided with the Panamian-registered 1,258-ton freighter Nisseimaru in
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      • 847 39  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes IT is that time of the year again. Sanctimonious liberal imperialism has been unleashed on the shipbreaking countries of Asia once more. Last week, Rotterdam hosted a conference where worthy speeches about the evils of ship scrapping in China
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      • PORT Shots
        • 97 39 [SINGAPORE] Expected economic gains from mega-box ships including 10,000 TEU container carriers may not be realised. Group manager for port and intermodal systems at the National Ports and Waterways Institute Asaf Ashar told a conference shipowners, rather than governments, should pay for facility
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        • 64 39 [SINGAPORE] Shanghai authorities would welcome Maersk Sealand's involvement in port development and the wider shipping industry, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Huang Ju said during a meeting with representatives of the Danish giant. Maersk had earlier told the Shanghai mayor
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        • 42 39 [LONDON] Mutual P&I insurer the Swedish Club has elected a new chairman to succeed Carl-Axel Psilander of Stena Maritime. Christer Olsson of Wallenius Lines, who has been on the club's board since 1999, takes over the role.
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        • 95 39 [LONDON] Taiwan-based Evergreen Group has a new vice-chairman in Lin Sun-san, who steps up from his role as chairman of Evergreen Marine Corporation. He is succeeded in his former post by Kuo Shiuan-Yu. Both men have been with the company since the early *****. Mr Lin
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    • 277 39 PAGE Ahrenkiel 9 Appenship 5 Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 9 B'tang Mas 6 BSA 7 BTL 9 Balaji 4 Batamindo 8 Bayswater 9 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Chahaya 9 China Shpg 5 Confer 9 Colony Log 5 i Cougar
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    • 2519 45 thebusinesstimes Page 8 EXPORT LArvn 1 MONDAY, JULY 2, 2001 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvoir* 09/07 05/06 Kien Hunq ACE CONTAINER AEW3S 65-*****33 09/07 H/08 Delmas OELMAS JOINVILLE 125W 65-*****44 10/07 20/0# Setramar VILLE MORION
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      • 488 47 Vessel VoyNo Berth Arrival Departure Jareag Nrt Bt C Sepakat ***** J01 01/07/13:20 01/07/23:00 Armadamdah 02-Jan J12 01/07/17:00 03/07/19:00 Seagrand Ace 10 JOS 01/07/22JO 02/07/17X10 Sea Eagle *****W J17 01/07/23:00 02/07/1430 Vir Ginia 1424 J16 02/07/2:00 03/07/630 Cec Dawn 9522 J07 02/07/730 03/07/030 C Success 02-Jul J09 02/07/8:00
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      • 1970 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklng/Manct Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Ptftod Frow To from AC* DAHLIA 0360 3/23:00 U 01/1500 ***** 01/1900 01/1500 ***** 01/1900 2A 01/1700 02/0(59 02/0900 2* 01/1700 02/0659 02/0901 3 02/0700 02/1159 02/M00 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1700 MAMWM 454$ 4/540
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      • 195 47 July 5 Thailand: Asalha Bucha Day J«ly 6 Thailand: Buddhist Lent Day Angnstl Switzerland: National Day AngnstO Singapore: National Day South Africa: National Women's Day Angnst 12 Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday August IB South Korea: Liberation Day Switzerland: Assumption Day Spain: Assumption Day Belgium: Assumption Day France:
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      • 769 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the 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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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 586 48 Airline prepared to charter more planes, rebook passengers on other carriers Reuters [HONG KONG] Flight disruption appeared imminent for Hong Kong's busy summer travel season after Cathay Pacific Airways pilots did not accept a pay offer early yesterday ahead of threatened
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      • 269 48 Chamber of Commerce wants more fending for airport, highway projects Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Chamber of Commerce has announced the launch of a lobbying effort to improve the country's groaning network of highways and airports. The chamber said the initiative, to be called Americans
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      • 730 48 Reuters [BOMBAY] Getting around India could become easier, faster and cheaper if a number of new domestic airlines succeed in getting airborne. Two start-ups, North Star and Royal Airlines, are awaiting government approval to begin operations. Both want to fly main
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      • 283 48 AP [SEATTLE] The Boeing Co received 194 fewer jet orders in the first half of 2001 than it did during the same time period last year. Boeing took orders for 175 new airplanes, but 48 were cancelled, leaving a net of 127 for the
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      • 361 48 Bloomberg [MEMPHIS, Tennessee] FedEx Corp is using attrition to trim the equivalent of about 5,500 full-time jobs at FedEx Express, the largest over-night-delivery service, reducing expenses because demand has slowed with the economy. While the company has not set a specific number of
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