The Business Times, 6 July 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE FRIDAY. JULY 6. 2001 85c
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  • 794 1  -  -ilexclusive Bnt onus is on them to instinct agent banks in writing By 1 Siow Li Sen, Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] With minority shareholders likely to be a key factor in the takeover battle for Overseas Union Bank, questions have surfaced as to
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  • 560 1  -  Double whammy of excess space and growth downturn Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore's banking consolidation could free up a staggering 300,000 to 760,000 sq ft of prime office space in the central business district (CBD) if the current takeover
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  • 79 1 sn U8&02 (-5.69) BT-SRI 647.28 (-2.00) ST DTOEX FOTTOES 1,684 (unch) SIMSCI FUTURES aoiao (+0.50) STOCK MABKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP 617.14 +19.00 NIKKEI 225 -21.72 HANG SENG *****.48 -208.06 SET INDEX 324.88 -1.55 JAKARTA COMP 431.01 +2.00 MANILA COMP _1,402.23 +1614 TAIPEI WPI 4,***** -29.96 SEOUL
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  • 80 1 FOREX SATES IJS8 s$ OSS (SS per USS) 1.826 £(l'SS/SS per 1.404 1663 EURO(l'SS/SS/E) 0.842 1.536 DM 2.324 1173 YEN 126.4 68.70 RM 3.800 2.082 HKS 7.800 4.273 BAHT 45.44 24.89 RUPIAH 11,360 6123 *SS to 100 units PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 -JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK 9.50
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  • 525 1  -  But analysts dismiss speculation, saying no compelling reason By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Creative Technology provided one of the few speculative sparkles in a ho-hum stock market yesterday swinging through a hefty $1.20 trading range on market talk thait IBM is
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    • 67 1 dtstoe Top Stories DBS will have smaller govt link if it wins OUB. Next Page East Kalimantan govt set to wage legal battle. Next Page HK's Furama to be torn down: report. Pg 8 Mainly low-end condos in upcoming launches. Pg 9 Take-up for new property launches in H1 falls
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    • 40 1 Executive Lifestyle Govt Unlikely Mixing latte letters to use off budget measures v 4v > just yet Let s play, W!?o wants to Like w j over a bank Jaime Ee, Page 2 NBXt PagB Emotion often replaces logic in short-selling
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    • 84 1 UOBontlinm undertakings it received, Pg 4 UOB nmw corporate finance chief, Pg 4 H. ■fVf t> i^HIK RRVH| fl H I I jml If frj "w m.*i&"J9 A*J *L* -•<■*£ i *>■!/> H vn^SPra& BEIJING DUBAI FRANKFURT LONDON SEOUL SINGAPORE TAIPEI TOKYO ASPIAL Bugis Junction Citytink Mall IMM Junction 8
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    • 755 2  -  Technical recession likely in Q2, but things not as bad as in 1998 By. Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Although Singapore is likely to have slipped into a technical recession in the second quarter, the government is not expected to use off-Budget measures to give the
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    • 893 2  -  This follows filing of rhnrgftfl apinrt rnal miiiA operator for failing to divest a majority stake From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta A LEGAL battle is brewing between the provincial government of East Kalimantan and PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) over the control
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 165 2 WE all know that professional golfers require physical and mental discipline, keen hand-eye co-ordination and fine motor skills. But what about walking? Is it essential to the game? According to the US Professional Golfers Association (PGA), the answer is "yes" in the case of competitive
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      • 145 2 AP BRITAIN'S new sports minister Richard Caborn, who has been embarrassed by his general lack of sports knowledge since taking the job last month, showed up at Wimbledon and admitted he doesn't like tennis. "I'm not keen on tennis," he said on Tuesday during a visit.
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    • 640 2  -  Its future bids likely to involve shares, thus diluting govt stake to 20% or less By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] While some market players still think the Singapore government was behind DBS Group's bid for Overseas Union Bank, others point
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    • 398 2  -  Its CEO sees scope for 2 independently managed, locally based firms By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The hiatus in the battle for Air New Zealand has been interrupted with Qantas Airways' phief executive declaring that his airline is still seeking
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    • 18 2 CSFB expects 'horrendous' trade performance in Q3, Pg 9 Regional autonomy keeps governors on their toes, Pg 10
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 391 4  -  Though 'irrevocable' notwithstanding other offers, they don't hold nnder some conditions Byi Conrad Raj UNlTED'Overseas Bank yesterday outlined the undertakings it has received for its offer for Overseas Union Bank. UOB said OUB founder Lien Ying Chow and OUB associate Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) had
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    • 726 4  -  H lock siew r sivanithy WHEN it comes to the subject of shortselling, logic is often replaced by emotion. This seems to be the result of a deeply ingrained view that rising prices are good while falling prices are bad. Because of this, rules
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    • 270 4  -  By\ Ling Su Ann UOB Asia, the investment banking arm of United Overseas Bank, has appointed Leslie Koh to head its restructured corporate finance unit. Mr Koh was formerly with BNP Paribas Peregrine, where his last job was associate director. He joined UOB Asia
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    • 465 8 Jackson Tai's remarks contradict comments by Taiwan bank's chairman DBS Bank denied yesterday any interest in Taiwan's Far Eastern International Bank (FEIB), despite persistent reports from Taiwan and comments by FEIB officials. Dismissing the reports, DBS president Jackson Tai told Reuters: "DBS'
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    • 340 8  -  It says that unlike its parent, it's not facing a margin drop By David Boey DATACRAFT Asia yesterday stressed "its strong earnings outlook", despite its South Africa-based parent Dimension Data Group warning recently of lower operating margins in some countries. Shares of Datacraft, a mainboard-listed
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 78 8 AFX-ASIA EASYKNIT International has cancelled its proposed top-up placement announced on June 5 because conditions to the placing agreement have not been satisfied. Under the original deal, Easyknit was to have placed 147.1 million new shares to controlling stakeholder Magical Profits at 23 HK cents apiece, to
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      • 47 8 THE Housing Development Board has awarded two 99-year leasehold private residential sites at Bukit Batok and Woodlands—to the highest bidders, Sim Lian Group and Far East Organization. The two last week bid $78.4 million and $88.9 million respectively for the plots.
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      • 50 8 L&M Group said yesterday its directors believe there are reasonable grounds for the group and its subsidiaries to continue as a going concern, as its creditor bank remains supportive. It also said it is exploring ways to raise capital, including the disposal of non-core assets.
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      • 61 8 Dow Jones Newswires HO Wah Genting International yesterday requested a trading suspension today pending an announcement. The stock was last traded at 20.5 cents on Wednesday. Separately, Ming Wah Universal Bermuda said its shares will be delisted from the mainboard today. The company has
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    • 325 8  -  From, Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG Kong's waterfront landmark, Furama Hotel, is said to be closing by the end of this year, as its owners Capita Land, American International Group (AIG) and Lai Sun Development prepare to demolish the 27-year-old hotel to
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    • 175 4 (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE REDEMPTION OF REDEEMABLE CUMULATIVE PREFERENCE SHARES ("RCPS") OF US$O.Ol EACH IN THE CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY AT U551.***** FOR EACH RCPS Notice is hereby given that 87,983,441 RCPS are due to be redeemed on 24 July 2001 by the Company at U551.***** for
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 325 6 Stocta Votara MMI Hldgs 10c 15,616,000 Fischer 15c 15,200,000 Keppel Cap W*****0 13,564,000 PNEIndlOc 12,103,000 Autron 10,369,000 Tlanjin Zhong 9,503,000 Keppel Capital 9,202,000 People's Food HGK 50c 8,418,000 Lankom US2c 8,258,000 OngAsIa 10c 7,953,000 Stock* Datacraft 10c 36,648,099 Keppel Capital 31,775,180 OUB 28,678,263 DBSGrp 25,526,096 UOB 23,954,200 Keppel Cap W*****0
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    • 180 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WHEN OCBC made its takeover bid for Keppel Capital, the latter's warrants exploded, hitting a high of $1.46 last week. Supporting both the shares and the warrants were hopes of counter-bids from the other banks, principally UOB or DBS. Both
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    • 231 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of China-based meat-process-ing company United Food Holdings has been a regular on the actives list recently. It gained one cent to 57.5 cents yesterday as 5.9 million shares changed hands. After hitting a record 62 cents last week,
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    • 626 6  -  J i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IS the local stock market caught in a "bear trap"? Or is it merely building a base for its next rally? That depends on whom you listen to. One trading website, for instance, says
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    • 521 6  -  hi i comment CURRENCIES Greenback also hits year's high of 551.8265 and 7 month peak against euro larry wee THE greenback stamped its supremacy with unmistakable authority in Asia yesterday, hitting a three-month high of 125.5 Japanese yen, the year's high of
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    • 99 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CONCURRENT COMPUTER FAR EAST PTE LTD (In Liquidation) NOTICE OF MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed company held on 2 July 2001 it was
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 632 9  -  PROPERTY FOCUS Pre-Ghost Month offerings ride on interest in ECs By Kalpana Rashiwala LOW-PRICED housing projects are slated to dominate property launches from now until the Hungry Ghost Month begins on Aug 19, after which is a period when most Chinese people avoid buying
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    • 310 9  -  By Vince Chong DESPITE recent activity in the suburban and executive condominium (EC) markets, the average take-up rate for new launches in the first half of this year declined to 40 per cent, says property consultancy Chesterton International. This compares
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    • 307 9 BBIAP (WASH AFP THE pilot of a Silk Air plane that crashed in 1997 killing all 104 people aboard could have quickly stabilised the plane from its steep fall, the Singapore High Court was told yesterday. John Laming, an Australian pilot and flight
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    • 402 9  -  ETC on the economy liyi Anna Teo GOING by recent trends in US electronics orders, Asian exports will get a lot worse before they get any better, says a Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) report. According to the firm's regional economists, Asian
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    • 138 9 You'll Never Taste Thai This Good, Again! After six gloriously, delicious years, the Pimai Thai Restaurant will soon be but a pleasant memory. On July 13**\ we will be honoured to take last orders for a cuisine which has been lauded by gourmets at home and abroad. So, before that
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 793 10  - Power games while nobody minds the store iil!^ bottom line OPINION harish mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THAILAND'S Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is viewed by his countrymen as a white knight who will slay the evil dragon of economic problems bedevilling his country. Having promised them the moon,
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    • 88 10 4 "All the way with the United States, right or wrong" is a bad call. I mean, that's what got us into the Vietnam War.' Lanrie Brereton Australia's shadow foreign affairs minister, on the shift to Washington yes-man during the five-year rule of Prime Minister John Howard.
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    • 595 10 EDITORIAL WITH some three weeks to go before Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid faces impeachment proceedings in Parliament, the race is on —for the second most powerful job in the country, that of the vicepresident This unseemly scramble for power by the country's leading political parties threatens to
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    • 957 10  -  Running their own show now, Indon district governors are enjoying great opportunities and facing big threats From Shoeb Kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent in Jakarta IDHAM Samawi is a man in a hurry. The local bupati or governor of the district
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    • 813 10 Who'll bUnk first? TURKEY has brought upon itself the ire of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with its foot-dragging on promised economic reforms. On Tuesday, the IMF announced it was delaying a US$l.5 billion loan because of Turkey's non-compliance with conditions attached to its latest round of financial assistance.
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  • MAIL bag
    • 222 11  -  Jeannie Thng Deputy director Corporate communications Health Sciences Authority I REFER to the article "Bio-medical sciences industry gets a boost" by Chuang Peck Ming (BT, June 26). The article reported that the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) "will adopt the high standards set by the
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    • 238 11  -  Kevin W Crossland via Internet I REFER to your article "Lure of strong emotional attachments" by Conrad Raj (BT, June 30) and a claim made in it: "DBS apparently did not understand the strong emotional attachment of Singapore entrepreneurs to the businesses they founded, and the
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    • 303 11  -  Tan Hiong Hwee Singapore I REFER to your article "DBS hits the road to sell OUB takeover" (BT, June 29). While there may be some truth to all the DBS publicity about the merger with OUB being good for Singapore, etc, why not
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 583 12 BANGKOK Agreement to stockpile rubber and to cnt production Bloomberg THAILAND, Indonesia and Malaysia, the world's top three rubber producers last year, said they will unite to stockpile rubber and halt a decline in prices. Ministers from the three countries signed
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    • 216 12 KUALA LUMPUR It will meet corporate sector to gauge latter's needs Reuters MALAYSIA'S finance ministry will hold three days of talks with industrialists and business groups next week to gather ideas for the country's annual budget, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told reporters yesterday.
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    • 324 12 KUALA LUMPUR AP THE Malaysian government, which holds a tight reign on the mainstream press, vowed yesterday to go ahead with new laws to regulate the Internet. The laws could limit independent Web-based news sites' ability to criticise the government. The sites
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    • NOTE Book
      • 66 12 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the government will hold off, for as long as possible, the selling of a stake in Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) to foreign technical partners. "At the moment, if we can, we will
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      • 63 12 Bloomberg [PASIR GUDANG] Exxon Mobil Corp said it will spend US$l.5 billion to develop three oil and gas projects off Malaysia's east coast. Exxon is the largest oil producer in the country with output 0f270,000 barrels a day. It supplies 70 per cent of
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      • 51 12 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai brokerage United Securities yesterday said it would make an initial public offering of 9.2 million shares at three baht per share on July 16-18. It will be the first brokerage to list on the exchange since Thailand plunged into economic crisis in
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      • 55 12 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Typhoon Utor, one of the biggest storms to hit southern China in 20 years, is headed for Hong Kong after killing almost 20 people in the Philippines and Taiwan. The Hong Kong Observatory predicted Utor will pass close to
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      • 42 12 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] German power tools and car parts maker Robert Bosch yesterday said it would shut down its Malaysian factory for 11 days spread over the next few months to cut costs. —AFP
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      • 60 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Tenaga Nasional Bhd said it will ask two power suppliers to delay construction of plants as South-east Asia's biggest power utility faces a drop in electricity demand amid Malaysia's slowing economy. The two companies Jimah Power Generation and SKS Ventures—will
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    • 550 13  -  He plans to meet them over weekend; bat parties say they're unaware of it From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AS the impeachment deadline draws closer, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid is pulling out all the stops in order to stay in power.
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    • 374 13  -  Central bank offers NDFs to meet the forex demand of corporate clients From< Al Labita in Manila AN urgent appeal by Philippine monetary officials helped calm a jittery market yesterday, cushioning the peso's drop and allowing the stocks to rebound. The local currency closed
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    • 171 13 JAKARTA AP A SENIOR Indonesian minister has raised suspicions about the death of the nation's top anti-corruption crusader who had been at the forefront of attempts by the president to stave off impeachment, a newspaper said yesterday. However, state prosecutors denied there were any indications of
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    • 417 14 BEIJING Bnt they are still barred from owning brokerages, insurers and fund managers Bloomberg BANK of China and other lenders will be allowed to act as agents for insurers, stock brokerages and fund managers under new rules that take the nation's banks a
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    • 218 14 MUMBAI Bloomberg UNIT Trust of India (UTI) may ease the six-month freeze on mutual fund US-64 to give individual investors the option of exiting the flagship plan of the"country's biggest mutual fund, a finance ministry official said. Unit Trust told the government it
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    • 482 14 USHANGHAI AFP THE breakthrough in talks with the World Trade Organization (WTO) signals China's tortuous road to WTO membership is entering the final straight, but it will not provide an easy solution to rumbling trade rows. Against the background
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  • FINANCE
    • 260 12  -  SGX Derivatives Trading .Report ST Index/MS&STpore Index Daniel Wong Refco Singapore SINGAPORE stocks retreated further yesterday, led by computer-related counters. The benchmark Straits Times Index fell 5.69 points or 0.3 per cent to close at 1,688.02 points with 13 counters up and 21 counters down while
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    • 214 12  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Daniel Wong Refco Singapore TAIWAN stocks fell yesterday as banks declined on concerns about profit growth. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index lost 1.12 points or 0.5 per cent to end at 222.17 points. Turnover was 291.25 million with 16 counters rising and
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    • 219 12 Reuters London THE euro fell to seven-month lows against the US dollar yesterday after the European Central Bank left rates steady, remaining half a per cent lower on the day, but bouncing off its worst levels as large euro purchases triggered wariness of intervention. Expectations the ECB would
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    • 2028 14 NOTICES To advertise call toll-tree 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF KASS JEWELS PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened
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  • WORLD news
    • 495 15 LONDON Price falls as much as 53% on surprise slash in earnings forecast Bloomberg MARCONI pic shares fell as much as 53 per cent in early trading yesterday after the UK's largest phone-equip-ment maker said earnings this year will be cut in half
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    • 402 15 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's central bank yesterday cut interest rates a quarter percentage point to keep economic growth from stalling, shrugging off concerns about faster-than-ex-pected inflation. The Bank of Korea (BOK) cut the benchmark call rate, charged to commercial lenders
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    • 95 15 Reuters [SEOUL] A helicopter crashed into a tower and fell into the sea on Wednesday, killing eight people including a South Korean steel tycoon and a top Daewoo shipyard representative, officials said yesterday. The dead included Kim Chong Jin, chairman ofDongkuk Steel Mill Co,
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    • 725 16  -  Japanese finance officials say it's np to BOJ to take action to revive economy From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FINANCE ministers from the Group of Seven nations meeting in Rome this weekend will be seeking to find ways of "staving off
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    • 336 16 Bank of England also holds rates unchanged FRANKFURT Bloomberg THE European Central Bank (ECB) held its benchmark lending rate at 4.5 per cent, even as economic growth in the dozen countries using the euro stalls. The Bank of England also kept rates
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    • 312 16 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US business other than manufacturing expanded in June for the first time in three months, an industry survey found. The National Association of Purchasing Management's non-manufacturing business index rose to 52.1 last month from 46.6 in May. That's the highest this year.
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 1246 19  -  COVER STORY Having a cuppa while browsing the bookshelves is fast becoming trendy, judging from the success of the book cafes in Singapore. TAN HWEE HWEE checks out the various lifestyle spots. TAN HWEE HWEE Looking for a dose of New York lit hip? Tucked at
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      • 741 20  - Let's play Who wants to take over a bank? [•'da the cuff Transfixed by all the bank merger talk dominating the news now? Go one step further get in on the action with your very own board game jaime ee I'VE got a great idea for a new board game.
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      • 607 20 BOOKSTORES are opening cafes because they want to keep customers in the store for hours and hours. The longer you're in the store, the more likely you're going to buy something. "We designed Borders as a destination shopping store," says Christopher Tong, senior manager
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      • 444 22  -  By, John Gee NOT quite 10 years old, Benjamin 800 can claim to be a recording artist, launching his first classical music CD today. Born in 1992, the young pianist started out playing pop tunes from memory until early 2000, when The Hour
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      • 657 22  -  parvathi nayar looks at the Louis Vuitton Women's Fall/Winter 2001/2002 collection unveiled last week PARVATHI NAYAR JUST like simple things in very luxurious H WM spake designer Marc Jacobs, as quoted in Harper's Bazaar (1998). He could well be describing the wellspring for his latest creations
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    • CINEMA
      • 1132 23  -  Baz Luhrmann reveals how his three films are linked, and the inspiration behind the making of Moulin Rxmge, the last in his Red Curtain Trilogy. PARVATHX ma yah reports PARVATHI NAYAR Nothing uptight about Baz Luhrmann —other than hair in two tight pigtails that's kinda cute and at
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      • 428 23  -  Teen dance flick boasts two likeable leads and catchy choreography By\ Susan Tsang A TEENAGER'S dream of studying ballet at Julliard gets sidelined when her supportive mother dies while rushing to her audition. Shoved from her white, mid-west-ern town to Chicago to
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      • 494 23  -  But 'Moulin Rouge' Ms to get viewers to feel its tempestuous passions By Parvathi Nayar ABSINTHE: it's the perfect symbol of fin-de-siecle Paris, with its maelstrom of artistry and feverish excesses. Also known as the Green Fairy, that vio-lent-green, wormwood-distilled, an-ise-flavoured liquor was the Bohemian drink of choice.
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      • 884 24 Veteran golfer has deep concerns about changes at Angnsta National and the modern golf ball Reuters [PEABODY, Massachusetts] Jack Nicklaus made a statement at last week's US Senior Open as the Golden Bear showed he could still compete by finishing tied for fourth at
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    • EPICURE
      • 784 26  -  Lovely desserts from Les Gourmandises give the otherwise ordinary business lunch at L'ecole Gourmande a more satisfying finish, says oordiiib kerb CORINNE KERK WHEN Les Gourmandises started operating some three years ago, it was just selling imported French chocolates, candies and fine food. Then it started to make
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      • 690 26  -  RESTAURANT The ambience and cuisine at Bintan Island's Bann Aarya are delicionsly inviting By Cheah Ui-Hoon DINING at Baan Aarya is like stepping into another world, one where you can be seated in comfortable cotton cushions on rattan armchairs by early evening, in time
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      • 565 26  -  RESTAURANT Hna Ting has a new look bat its cnisine still boasts the usual high standards By* Cheah Ui-Hoon TASTEFUL is the word to describe both the decor of the newly-refurbished Hua Ting at Orchard Hotel and its cuisine. The first is a
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 143 27 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) dropped 15 points to 1,360, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) shed 24 to 1,383, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell 53 to 8,750 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down five points to 1,724. TIME-CHARTEB: ♦Capstone 2000 ***** dwt dely US
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    • 630 27  -  Proposal for dedicated boats onder banner of IMO put forward at piracy conference By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Neutral co-operative patrols are needed urgently to end the scourge of piracy in the Malacca Strait, a Singapore-based former victim says. Elaborating on his
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    • 409 27 S Korean shipping company given a year more to repay 1 trillion won debt Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Merchant Marine Co's creditors gave Korea's biggest shipping company as much as a year more to repay l trillion won (Ssl.4 billion) of loans originally due
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    • 295 27  -  Return ofMaersk Seal&nd's NZ service, expanding feeder network behind big jnmp By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The neighbouring Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) saw a 40 per cent rise in container throughput for the second quarter of2ool over the first three
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    • 240 27 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Bulk Carriers Sdn Bhd (MBC) is projecting an annual profit of RMIIS million (5555.2 million) for its current 2001 financial year, said its chairman, Captain Ahmad Sufian. He said despite the economic slowdown worldwide and higher oil prices, MBC is confident that
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 850 28  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK OHEAT BABBIBB SEEP OROOMPWO By\ Selva Kumar AS expected, Canberra's investigation into the grounding of the Malaysian vessel Bunga Teratai Satu last year has concluded that the first officer's failure to make a turn on time caused the vessel to plough
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        • 116 28 AFX-Asia [SEOUL] Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said it has won a US$2O6 million order to build two large-size container ships for Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) of Hong Kong and one oil tanker from Chevron of the US. The container ships Samsung Heavy will
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        • 90 28 [SINGAPORE] China is to invest more than 42 million yuan (559.2 million) to help Myanmar and Laos dredge a 331 km-long navigation channel in the Mekong River according to reports in China's People's Daily. An aggreement was reached last week between China, Laos, Myanmar
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        • 73 28 [SINGAPORE] South Korea and Thailand have given each other most flavoured nation status for each other's national shipping fleet, following the signing of a provisional shipping agreement in Bangkok last week. The agreement represents the culmination of a long process that has seen two
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        • 118 28 Reuters [PANAMA CITY] The Panama Canal's (above) October-to-May toll income rose 3.05 per cent over the year-ago period to U*****.1 million, the waterway's administration said. Ship transits rose by 0.9 per cent to 8,465 during the period with vessels built to the maximum dimensions of
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    • 273 28 PACE Ahrenkiel 10 Appenship 5 Assets S Austral 6 Avant 10 B'tang Mas 6 BSA 7 BTL 10 Balaji 4 Batamindo 9 Bayswater 10 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 ft Central Ex 6 Chahaya 10 China Shpg 5 Confer 10 Colony Log 5 Cougar
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    • 10474 34 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT frie ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Nam* Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 13/07 02/06 MOL P&O NED SAO PAULO 8901A 65-*****86 16/07 19/06 Kien Hung PROSPERITY CONTAIN PC103S 65-*****33 WOT 20/06 Setramar VILLE DE GEMINA 384W 65-*****33 16/07 06/06
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      • 768 37 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Winstar 1 093Sa Tol 05/07/720 05/07/930 Bt Bt J ***** J01 05/07/8:15 05/07/20:00 Bt U Bersama ***** J01 05/07/8:45 05/07/20X10 Kim Virgo Ve57 J16 05/07/7:55 06/07/630 SaraMewa M 73 J02 05/07/730 06/07/830 Aulia Seraya 19/01 J02 05/07/8:10 05/07/2130 Gm 31 1 JW
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      • 1987 37 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ported From To From ACX SEAGULL 0T7B 6/W JO W 04/1500 04/1659 Apf-00 2A 04/1700 05/0659 05/0900 04/1700 05/0659 05/0900 3 05/0700 05/1159 05/1400 4 05/1200 05/1459 05/1700 AGLAU S002 5/2159 04/1500 04/1659 Apr-00
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      • 203 37 July 9 Argentina: Independence Day July 11 France: National Day Belgium: Flemish Community July 14 France: National Day July 17 South Korea: Constitution Day July 20 Japan: Marine Day Jnly 21 Belgium: National Day Ao|ut 1 Switzerland: National Day Aopitt Singapore: National Day South Africa: National Women's Day
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      • 794 37 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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      • 752 38 Worldwide economic slowdown, high fuel, labour costs threaten profits: analysts Bloomberg [PARIS] Airlines are facing the worst slump in almost a decade as slowing economic growth, high fuel prices and rising labour costs threaten to end a seven-year streak of profits, investors say. UAL
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      • 481 38 Families of German victims will receive 118 m euros in all AFP [BERLIN] Families of the 97 German victims of last year's Concorde plane crash near Paris will receive compensation "within days," following agreement with Air France and the insurers, according to a lawyer
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      • 220 38  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Qantas yesterday unveiled a new inflight entertainment system to be progressively installed in its international 747 fleet. The RockweU CoUins entertainment system win include individual seat back video screens with movies, television programmes and games access, audio and personal phones
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      • 605 38 Bloomberg Reuters [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways chartered 10 jets as a precaution against a typhoon approaching Hong Kong and as pilots enter a third day of flight disruptions after failing to reach a new pact on wages and work schedules. Asia's
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      • 373 38 Dow Jones [LONDON] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines became the latest carrier to warn that a decline in traffic and yields, particularly from the North America and Asia Pacific routes, is impacting revenues. Significantly, the airline said it could not give an outlook
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      • 213 38 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic (BA), the largest European airline, said that its traffic fell 8.9 per cent in June on a year ago, just ahead of an 8.8 per cent fall in capacity, as trading conditions remained difficult. However, the company said in a statement
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