The Business Times, 17 July 2001

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Intern Mttp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2001 85c
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    77 1 sn imM (+3.62) BT-SRI €33.48 (-1.98) ST INDEX PDTUBES M6LOO (-6.00) SKHSd FUTTJIES 199.70 (-1.40) STOCK MABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP 630.10 +9.07 NIKKEI 225 *****J7 -11.78 HANG SENG 12,624.53 +11.74 SET INDEX 309.38 -4JS JAKARTA COMP ***** 181 MANILA COMP —1,397.61 +1J1 TAIPEI WH 4,368.69 -11&99
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    80 1 FOREX RATES uss s$ USS (SSpcrUSS) 1.8J8 £(l T S$/S$ per 1.401 1674 EURO(US$/SS/E) 0.868 L677 DM 1282 L241 YEN 1219 68.00 RM 1800 1088 HKS 7.800 4144 BAHT 46.74 24.89 RUPIAfl 11,343 6,172 *SS to too units PMME sates SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK .9.50
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    Lock icon Police probe hacking of new COE system
    529 1  -  Break-in attempt could lead to landmark criminal case; one person being questioned By< Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] In a shocking discovery, the authorities have uncovered mass attempts to hack into the online open-bid-ding system for vehicle COEs a finding that could lead to a
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    Lock icon Court told how trio created false MidCon market
    631 1  -  They allegedly knew five placees won't sell their stakes By l Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The trial of two of the three men in one of the most high-profile cases of alleged share-cornering that involving shares in MidContinent Equipment Group began yesterday. The
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    Lock icon Auditors cast doubts on over $1b of AFP's assets
    730 1  -  They are also doubtful over going-concern basis of financial statements By] Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] The auditors of Asia Food Properties (AFP) and its palm oil subsidiary Golden Agri Resources (GAR) yesterday issued damning statements on their accounts, saying that assets worth
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    Lock icon Incubator for fledgling hedge fund managers in S'pore?
    786 1  -  hldexclusive Bank of Bermuda looking into replicating incubator just set np in Australia By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] The Bank of Bermuda is looking into setting up an incubator for fledgling hedge fund managers in Singapore, a move which is expected to give
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      147 1 INSIDE Special Focus Getting an edge with knowledge management. A special focus in today's BT in conjunction with KM Asia 2001 Top Stories OCBC shares slip after improved KCH offer. Pg 5 GIC pays $217 m for 7 Tokyo buildings. Pg 6 M'sia not on brink of recession: Dr M.
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      81 1 BT COMMENT Is govt likely to suspend 20% property rule? Lee Han Sliih, Page 7 H k m ft I i T 1 I J J a I I I k 1 I I I I k j fj I I w-^M "ifjf i J j C"% Brain drain US
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      Lock icon Let a thousand talents flow
      478 2  -  The issue isn't brain drain or gain but brain flow, participants of the BT-Microsoft Roundtable tell Kenneth James Kenneth James The writer, BT's Technology Editor, was moderator of BT Microsoft Roundtable Sometimes a detour helps provide fresh perspective to a well-worn subject. So it was
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      Lock icon US stocks hit bottom in March; recession unlikely: fund chief
      636 2  -  exclusive Bat profit visibility will be dearer by year-end, says Jennison chairman By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The US stock market bottomed out in March and the current spate of corporate earnings alerts is testing the bottom, which is typical
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        63 2 WHERE is the safest place in Singapore to do a fire-eating act? In front of nearly 280 doctors and their spouses at a medical conference, of course. Glaxo SmithKline launched its asthma-suppressing drug, Seretide, over the weekend at a ritzy event held at a local hotel complete
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        Lock icon Face-saving rent
        64 2 A BANKER from Singapore who has just moved to Hong Kong recently found that hard-nosed landlords there still want to save face, even as rents continue to spiral southwards. "I think it's a face thing; they would rather offer one week free rent for every month than lower
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        Lock icon Soon you can wear your Vit C
        122 2 TRUST Japanese companies to be on the lookout for new market niches. Fuji Spinning Co has developed a special textile for making T-shirts, which contains pro-vitamin, a substance that turns into vitamin C when it reacts with chemicals in the skin. "The T-shirt
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      Lock icon Corrections
      111 2 IN yesterday's Eye on the Economy column, we erred in saying that May's restaurant takings fell 15.9 per cent from the previous month. The 15.9 per cent fall was over May last year. Against April, May's restaurant takings were 10.7 per cent higher. And in last Saturday's report on
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Neo Corp in reverse takeover of CEH
      387 3  -  Neo to iqject $50m building business for new CEH shares By, Andrea Tan AFTER several failed bids to either sell shares or buy into other firms, beleaguered construction firm Chew Eu Hock (CEH) Holdings yesterday announced yet another acquisition. Under the latest deal,
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      Lock icon SPH targets China TV market in tie-up
      241 3  -  By 1 Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Press Holdings has formed a Hong Kongbased joint venture to develop television programmes for the China market. The company said yesterday in a statement to the Singapore Exchange that it was providing the initial US$9 million funding
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      Lock icon CFOs at SembCorp and ST Engineering resign
      137 3 THE Singapore Technologies group lost the chief financial officers of two of its heavyweight listed units SembCorp Industries and ST Engineering this month. SembCorp Industries said yesterday that David Eaw Kok Hin, its current CFO, had resigned "for personal reasons". A statement said
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Batu Kawan buys into Chemical Ind
        50 3 MALAYSIAN chemical maker Batu Kawan Bhd has bought 4.976 million shares or a 12.5 per cent stake in Singapore's Chemical Industries. The shares, which cost a total of $5.49 mUlion at $1.10 each, were sold last Friday by Lee Chiong Investment Holding Pte Ltd.
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        Lock icon Attempt to unseat Inno-Pac chairman
        81 3 INNO-Pacific Holdings said yesterday it has been served an originating summons in the High Court by Kelvin Chia Partnership on behalf of Quah Su-Lin to notify its members of the resolutions and allow them to attend and vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting on Aug
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      Lock icon OCBC shares slip after improved KCH offer
      463 5  -  Investors refocns on weak economy, core fundamentals Byi Angela Tan OCBC Bank shares weakened yesterday as investors refocused on core fundamentals and the weak economy now that its takeover of Keppel Capital Holdings (KCH) seems to be in the bag. OCBC, Singapore's third
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      Lock icon DBS' diversity is its strength: Dhana
      420 5  -  The danger is when everybody thinks along the same lines, he tells BT By\ Siow Li Sen THE diversity in DBS Group Holdings is also its strength, says chairman S Dhanabalan. Aware that foreign talent is a "difficult issue for Singaporeans to accept", Mr
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      Lock icon Bank mergers sealed?
      443 5  -  I?!W!TTock siew angela tan THE banking consolidation that swept Singapore last month looks to be more or less over for now at least. On Saturday, OCBC Bank improved its cash offer for Keppel Capital Holdings (KCH) by 8 per cent to $3.65 a share in return for
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      342 4 Stocks Volume FuYuMfglOc 59,317,000 Huan Hsin 20c 29,208,000 Strike Engg 5c 25,210,000 Keppel Capital 15,894,000 Keppel Cap W*****0 14,171,000 PNE Ind 10c 13,456,000 Tianjin Zhong 9,577,000 Eagle Brand HK75c 9,261,000 ♦TanChonglnt50c 6,981,000 Rextechl5c 6,897,000 Slocks Keppel Capital 57,222,240 Datacraft 10c 37,070,603 Fu Yu Mfg 10c 34,517,360 OUB 30,831,250 (JOB 24,990,740
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      Lock icon Situational stocks in play as week kicks off on dull note
      635 4  -  I=ll comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE market kicked off a new week yesterday on a sluggish note, as caution reigned ahead of several key earnings releases and events this week. Nevertheless, there was some selective interest in situational counters,
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      Lock icon KeppelCap wrt: upside limited
      172 4  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan KEPPEL Capital's warrant was one of the biggest gainers yesterday, rising 10 cents to $1.26 on a volume of 14.2 million. The rise comes on the heels of OCBC Bank's upwardly revised offer of $1.28 per warrant and $3.65 per share.
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      Lock icon Stratech: next target at 60 cents
      235 4  -  HOT STOCK Byy Ven Sreenivasan THE shares of Stratech Systems have been flying high recently on talk of new contracts and expectations that the company will bounce back into the black in the first half-year. The counter gained 1.5 cents to a new seven-month
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      Lock icon Euro main gainer; Asian currencies languish
      515 4  -  I I comment CURRENCIES Caution ahead of Greenspan speech tomorrow and possible Indon showdown larry wee NEWS of a 6.5 billion euro bid by British Petroleum for a German energy group lit a small fire under the euro yesterday, while a Friday breather in
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    2882 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: China Opportunities Fd 0.950 1.000 Global MNC Fd 0.718 0.755 Global Technology Fd!** 0.612 0.643 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.732 0.770 American Opport Fd 0.823 0.865 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.985 1.035 Japan EqtyFd!** 1.187 1.247 Asian Fixed Income
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon GIC pays $21 m for 7 Tokyo blocks
      341 6  -  Purchase by real estate arm is group's first high-end residential investment in Japan Byi Andrea Tan GIC Real Estate said yesterday it has bought seven residential buildings with a total of 63 units in central Tokyo for $217.5 million. GIC RE, the
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      Lock icon SilkAir defends pilot's safety record
      316 6 crr.garp «p asm AP THE pilot of a Silk Air flight that crashed in 1997, killing all 104 people on board, had made mistakes in the past but never compromised the safety of passengers and was a good pilot, an investigator from the airline said
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      Lock icon Hiring freeze tops cost-cutting steps
      354 6  -  ■R7=Ton the economy job market By Rachel Ong FREEZING recruitment has emerged as the most common measure that companies have adopted to weather poor business conditions, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt Singapore. About 61 per cent of 377 companies polled in the second
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      Lock icon Property fund pays $25.7m for 10 Pare Stevens units
      446 6  -  At $1,100 psf, units are going at 16-20% lower than last year By Kalpana Rashiwala IP Property Fund Asia has bought 10 Pare Stevens units for $25.7 million or $1,100 per square foot on average. This is 16-20 per cent lower
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      Lock icon ACCA supports ICPAS on audit changes
      329 6  -  MAiLirm JFK Miller Head of Singapore and New Market (Asean) Development ACCA I REFER to your article "Accountants question planned audit changes" by Slow Li Sen (BT, July 4). In the UK, the Company Law Review Steering Group suggested that small companies, with annual
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      Lock icon Will you be happy with low fund returns?
      168 6  -  Artin Vaqari Malaysia, via Internet I REFER to your article "Risk-averse pour $1.48b into guaranteed funds" by Genevieve Cua (BT, July 11). How much would be the return from these investments? What I expect is that most of the investors will get
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      435 6 j| Capital Holdings Keppel Capital Holdings Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT VOLUNTARY CONDITIONAL CASH OFFERS BY OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED ("OCBC") The Board of Directors of Keppel Capital Holdings Ltd ("KCH" or the "Company") wishes to announce that the Company will today despatch a circular (the "Circular")
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      135 6 Tuesday 31 July 2001 Hotel Intcr-Contirwntol. Singapore 9.00 a m to 5.00 p.m. US. Tax Speakers Highlights of the Seminar Mr David Chong Singapore tax U.S. businesses Partner David Chong Co. Overview of U.S. Taxation of Director. Portcullis Group 4 i foreign persons U S. activities Mr Doug Morgan and
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Forget plea to drop 20% rule
      694 7  -  I-i l comment PROPERTY Developers should Instead lobby against government bodies adding to office space lee han shih MY, what busy times for developers. Talk in the market is that, for the last few weeks, developers have been meeting ministers, Members of Parliament and
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      Lock icon Prices of new HDB flats lower in third quarter
      245 7  -  By. Andrea Tan NEW Housing Board flats offered in the third quarter of this year were generally priced lower from 2.5 per cent to 3.6 per cent compared with the previous quarter. The exception was fourroom flats in Punggol 21 where
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Why we must care about Argentina
      790 8  -  bottom line OPINION vikram khanna The writer is BTs regional economics editor AT the bottom of BTs front page last Saturday was a story about the Argentine debt crisis. Argentina? Why should we care? Apart from its flamboyant soccer stars, its tango music and
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      70 8 That is really pretty gross. This is going to be viewed with a combination of hilarity and indignation. If it is true that people of colour are already buying books and buying them in larger numbers, this new strategy is quite offensive and commercially dumb.' David Levering
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      Lock icon The Olympics, WTO and Afta
      620 8 EDITORIAL THE Olympics is not just about sports; it's also about economics. China's successful bid to host the Games in 2008 will underscore further its emergence as an economic powerhouse. The implications for South-east Asia in the race for trade and capital has become too
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      Lock icon Stemming the brain drain
      2234 8  -  BT-Mlcrosoft Ronndt&ble Roundtable highlights edited by Kenneth James Kenneth James, Yap Wy-En BT: Let's start by inviting the panelists to consider what can be done to stem the flow of talent overseas. Gunning for the premier league Heng Chiang Meng: Taking the broad perspective, it's only
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      Lock icon The players
      111 8 Carmee Um: chairman, PAGi (Parental Advisory Group for the Internet) Secretariat, and director, Singapore Technologies Endowment Programme Ltd. Formerly principal, Raffles Girls' Secondary School Let Tsao Yuan: executive director, Skills Development Centre; formerly director, Institute of Policy Studies and Nominated Member of Parliament. Patrick Grove: founder and chief
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  • REGIONAL news
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        Lock icon M'sian Tobacco ups price for Binariang
        97 9 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Malaysian Tobacco Company Bhd increased the price it will pay for Binariang Satellite Systems Sdn by 16 per cent to RM1.45 billion (Ss7ol million) in one of the country's biggest mergers, ING Barings said. Malaysian Tobacco, which said it planned to
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        Lock icon Thais cut export growth target to 0.5%
        113 9 Reuters [CHIANG MAI] Thailand's government said yesterday it had slashed its export growth target for this year in the face of a worldwide economic slowdown which threatens to choke the country's main engine of growth. At a special meeting here, ministers reviewed a
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        Lock icon UTI to allow limited redemptions
        118 9 Reuters [BOMBAY] The Unit Trust of India (UTI) announced on Sunday it will permit limited redemptions of units in its flagship fund beginning August 1, a move aimed at easing the impact on small investors of its earlier decision to suspend redemptions entirely for the
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        Lock icon Tenaga mulls selling non-core assets
        83 9 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Tenaga Nasional Bhd is considering selling non-core assets as a way to reduce the utility's RM27.7 billion (5513.4 billion) debt, a Malaysia Business Times report said, quoting an interview with president and CEO Fuad Jaafar. "We are refinancing our loans
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        Lock icon India's DGA to monitor top companies
        85 9 Dow Jones Newswires [NEW DELHI] India's Department of Company Affairs has decided to closely watch and scrutinise the balance sheets of the top 1,000 companies in the country, reports the Financial Express. The local daily said the move follows a recent stock market scandal
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      Lock icon M'sia is not on the brink of recession, says Dr M
      404 9  -  He says the country does not rely entirely on electronics From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA is not on the brink of a recession like its close neighbour Singapore, according to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday. "We
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      Lock icon KL can rake in RM1b by selling 30% of airport
      428 9  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government could rake in close to RMI billion (Ss4B3 million) if it sells a 30-per-cent stake in airport operator Malaysia Airport Bhd at RM3 a share, analysts said yesterday. Although the
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      Lock icon IOI ups Palmco stake, plans full mandatory offer
      291 9 KUALA LUMPUR Move follows Sime Darby's conditional offer for Palmco Reuters MALAYSIA'S plantation and property group 101 Corp yesterday upped the stakes in a takeover battle for palm oil processor Palmco, announcing plans for a full mandatory offer for a firm it
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      Lock icon India, Pakistan in a huddle over final summit declaration
      320 10 AGRA, India Extra round of talks sparks hopes for thaw in relations Reuters INDIA and Pakistan were locked in a diplomatic end game last night, haggling over the wording of a joint declaration that was supposed to crown a summit aimed
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      Lock icon Advanced Info to buy Shin Digital from parent SingTel
      387 10  -  From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S largest mobile phone company, Advanced Info Service, says it is acquiring the country's third largest mobile phone operator from its parent Shin Corporation and Singapore Telecommunications, for 17.9 billion baht (Ss7l9 million). Advanced Info will
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  • FINANCE
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      Lock icon STI futures lower as stocks drift
      276 9  -  ST Xndeg/MS&S'pore Index C K Lau Refco Singapore SINGAPORE shares closed mixed yesterday in a thinly traded market as investors decided to trim their holdings ahead of a slew of earnings reports from US companies. The Straits Times Index gained marginally by 3.62 points,
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      Lock icon Futures fall as cash market stays weak
      251 9  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Daniel Wong Refco Singapore LED by a decline in chip major United Microelectronics (UMC), Taiwan stocks yesterday fell for the ninth day in 10 days. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index shed 5.33 points, or 2.53 per cent, to end at
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      217 9 Reuters London The euro rose a quarter per cent against the US dollar and twice that against the yen yesterday as news that British Petroleum will buy part of Germany's E.ON AG pushed the single currency to fourweek highs against sterling. Dealers said trade was thin with markets
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      Lock icon Study confirms smoking-infertility link
      267 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Women who smoke cigarettes inhale a toxin that can trigger ovarian failure, significantly decreasing their reproductive years, scientists said in the first study confirming a long-suspected link between smoking and female infertility. Researchers led by Jonathan Tilly of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said
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      173 13 MELBOURNE Bloomberg LUCENT Technologies may only get half, at best, of the A 5957 million (SsBBB million) the biggest US phone equipment maker said it's owed by failed Australian phone company One.Tel Ltd and other creditors may be worse
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      384 14  -  Experian survey concludes profits fell 7 qtrs ended Dec From Neil Behrman in London A SHARP profit downturn of UK businesses indicates that the country is under threat of recession, a report says. Experian, a business information service, surveyed 2,000 of the
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      153 17 > B. Knowledge i\/r FUJI XEROX V i; _v V.:v, V Copiers, scanners, printers, multi-functions are IT applications that effectively capture, store, distribute and retrieve knowledge without the use of PCs. Impossible? Not when they have the capability to become part of your existing IT infrastructure. Not when they can
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      36 17 INSIDE Failing to learn Pg 2, 3 Seven deadly assumptions Pg 5 Knowledge nuggets Pg 7 This supplement runs in conjunction with Knowledge Management Asia 2001, on at the Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre, July 18-20
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      451 25  -  Responsibilities of parties involved in helping vessel seek refnge will be set out Bt> Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has moved a step closer to helping vessels in distress find guaranteed shelter, it announced yestferday. The IMO's Safety of
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        1085 26 Ports will have to develop new services, even if it means competing with other parties in the transport chain Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] PORTS will need to break away from traditional functions, be more innovative and aggressive in marketing and sales to become
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        201 33 July 17 South Korea: Constitution Day July 20 Japan: Marine Day July 21 Belgium: National Day Augutl Switzerland: National Day An|uit 9 Singapore: National Day South Africa: National Women's Day Auguct 12 Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday Angut Iff South Korea: Liberation Day Switzerland: Assumption Day Spain: Assumption
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        745 33 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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        564 34 CATHAY PILOTS' DTOUSTRIAL ACTION HE carrier to stop using chartered carriers over the next few weeks AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said on Sunday it was cancelling only one flight that day, saying operations were barely disrupted at
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        292 34 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Domestic fares for flights between peninsular Malaysia and the two states on Borneo island should not be raised, Malaysia's transport minister has said. Reports last week said that money-losing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) would introduce a 30 per
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        165 34 Reuters [SYDNEY] Discount carrier Virgin Blue on Sunday launched its maiden services on the Sydney to Melbourne route, Australia's busiest route and the world's third busiest as measured by city pair traffic, according to Virgin. "Virgin Blue will com- mence a five time daily service
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        349 34 FAA airworthiness directives expected this week on PW4OOO series Reuters [WASHINGTON] Federal regulators are expected to tell airlines to remove and overhaul some older engines made by United Technologies Corp unit Pratt Whitney, industry and government officials said. Concerned by
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        261 34 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co (ANA), Japan's sec-ond-biggest airline, said it carried 9.2 per cent more passengers on domestic routes in June as it lured travellers with discount fares. All Nippon Air carried 3.8 million passengers on routes within the country,
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