The Business Times, 14 August 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MTA (P) 107/09/2001 •n'erriui n,tp //Dusiness-times.asial com.sg/ SINGAPORE TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. 2001 a»
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    71 1 □«n UMLM (-15.29) n»« ftj CU4 (-6.37) nn-DCDEZFimTBES mm mbim (-9.00) nfIDDCIFUmES 14 ll&ao (-1.00) STOCK MASKET INDICES Monday CbanfB USE POMP +QM NBOffiiai- 1U77J4 -WH HAW SENG lljmn -7L6J SET INDEX dosedJAKABTAOOMP 441.18 +W1 MANILA OOMP _1.30S.86 +142 TAIPEI WPl i42a?8 +4i» SEOUL COM? —mm SHENZHENB *7171
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    78 1 FOBEX KATES ITSS S) OSS (SS per OSS) LTtt £(USS/S$p«r£) 1.427 till EOO{USS/SS/E) 0.896 U78 DM 1184 L2» YEN 121J Nil* RM _im 1151 HKS 7JM 4.424 BAHT 462S 25.6* HJFIAH 1775 4J77 •S$ to 100 units PUKE RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA JS.M BANGKOK 950 MANILA
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    Lock icon Govt to unveil enterprise plan by year-end
    683 1  -  Aim is to build an 'eco-system' of big and small, local and foreign businesses Reports by Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The government will announce by the year-end a comprehensive plan to build what the Economic Development Board calls an "enterprise eco-sys-tem" in Singapore, Deputy
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    Lock icon DPM Tan: S'pore economy too reliant on electronics
    586 1 Move into life sciences one way to remedy this defect [SINGAPORE] The current downturn has highlighted a structural weakness in the Singapore economy it is too dependant on electronics, said Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan. Given the high dependence semiconductors and electronic
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    Lock icon No request yet by SIC to appear for hearing, says DBS Bank
    705 1  -  Bnt SIC has asked for document in centre of takeover saga, bank says By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Just as the dust is about to settle on DBS Group's takeover attempt for Overseas Union Bank (OUB), DBS said it
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    Lock icon NOL resumes trading; its shares slip 8%
    785 1  -  Company says it has discussed the forced suspension with SGZ and put the matter behind it By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) shares fell 10 cents yesterday to $1.06 after they came out of what many analysts consider to be an
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      132 1 DHBPB Top stories UOB launching $1b bond issue to finance OUB takeover. Pg 4 Datacraft acquires Korean systems integrator for USs3sm. Pg 3 Rupiah powers to 10-month high on hopes of IMF funding. *9 14 HK property stocks tumble on disappointing land auction. Pg 13 Mounting pressure for radical BOJ
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon SembCorp Industries unit sees $2b projects in hand by end-02
      680 2  -  BTiamiuiuj David Boey [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Industries' construction unit expects to have $2 billion of projects in hand by the end of next year up from $1.42 billion now. Paul Chain, president of SembCorp Engineers and Constructors, told BT the company's
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Good show, M&C
        73 2 LOCAL hotelier Kwek Leng Beng's London-listed hotel arm Millennium Copthorne-Hotels (M&C) has been included in the FTSE4Good Index. This is an ethical benchmark index managed by the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times. M&C met the three main selection criteria for inclusion: maintaining environmental sustainability; development
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        89 2 NANO-BlOTECH—what's that? Something super-small with very big potential, that's what. When you're working with genes, as scientists in the hot field of biotechnology do, you want tools that can observe and manipulate at this microscopic level. Enter Professor Kemin Wang from Hunan University in China. Prof Wang
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        Lock icon Hard Times Cafe?
        36 2 ITS a sign of the times when Hard Rock Cafe advertises a "recession menu" of lunch for two at $12.80 on designated days. As its ad says: "Eat well. Hard Times are ahead."
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      Lock icon Court orders injunction against Inno-Pac's 3 new directors
      447 2  -  Move initiated by ousted chairman bars them from exercising any powers By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The tug of war for control of Inno-Pacific Holdings continues with its just ousted chairman extracting yet another court injunction against three newly-appointed directors. J Koh Co,
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      Lock icon Pressure on Megawati to arrest Tommy
      600 2  -  Observers say it wonld restore public confidence in govt and the rnle of law From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AS Indonesia's police step up the search for the fugitive son of former president Suharto amid accusations that he was behind the gangland murder of
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      501 2 KPMGSemiiirSeries Statement of Accounting Standard Mr; fjl Financial Instruments Recognition and Measurement fj Itr\ Tuesday, 21 August 2001,9.00 am to 5.00pm 1 i\ I V-4 Grand Hyatt Hotel Singapore I \J What Y Statement of Accounting Standard No 33 establishes, for the first time, accounting and reporting standards for financial
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  • TAIWAN reforms
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      Lock icon Taipei acts to clean up financial sector
      568 3  -  Govt takes over 36 credit cooperatives, farmers' associations and is expected to force them to merge, be acquired or liquidated Fron Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN'S government seized control of 36 ailing credit cooperatives and farmers' associations yesterday in what analysts hail as
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      Lock icon Curbs on China-bound investments eased
      620 3 Move aimed at thawing icy ties and reviving Taiwan's sluggish economy AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan is embarking on moves to end a halfcentury ban on direct economic links with rival mainland China in a bid to thaw icy ties and revive the island's sluggish economy, analysts
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon UOB launching $1b bond issue to finance OUB takeover
      412 4  -  Sources say bonds will have 15-year maturity By Ling Su Ann UNITED Overseas Bank will launch a $1 billion bond issue this week to help finance its takeover of smaller rival Overseas Union Bank. Sources say the bonds, denominated in Sing-dollars,
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      Lock icon SembLog's H1 net profit soars 256% to $76m
      428 4  -  Boost from exceptional items, Swiss-based anit By Conrad Raj SEMBCORP Logistics, the supply-chain management arm of the SembCorp Group, has surprised analysts with a sparkling set of interim results as net earnings soared 256 per cent to $76 million. The earnings for
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      Lock icon Bank mergers will yield better economies: S&P
      301 4 SINGAPORE'S banks will achieve better economies of scale from the current consolidation in the sector, but risks will rise as well, global credit rating agency Standard Poor's said yesterday. In a new report on the sector, S&P said "the sector is likely to
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      Lock icon Other timely moves needed
      705 4  -  HOCKlf.'J'UIJ'HH loh hui yin YEARS ago, Singapore moved its clocks an hour ahead to be in sync with Hong Kong. Now, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra wants to do the same: bring Thailand's clocks forward by an hour to keep time with Singapore, Malaysia and Hong
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      Lock icon Datacraft buys Korean systems integrator
      559 5  -  ItpaysUSs3sm cash; analysts concerned about outlook for F702 By Serena Ng DATACRAFT Asia said yesterday it has bought Korean network systems integration company Dasan Electronics for US$35 million cash in a move aimed at strengthening its presence in Korea. "The acquisition comes as the Korean
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      Lock icon JM gives rationale for sale of VDH assets
      413 5  -  Group not in position to develop the businesses, it says By Serena Ng VAN Der Horst's judicial managers said yesterday the disposal of the bulk of its assets to little-known Fargro Pte Ltd for around $12 million was because they felt VDH
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      Lock icon NZ PM slams reports of her favouring SIA in Air NZ bid
      577 5  -  Helen dark says she maintains a totally open mind' on the issue By Beth Jinks NEW Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark yesterday denied reports she had sided with Singapore Airlines in its battle with Qantas for a bigger
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      Lock icon Results this year won't be as good as last year's: Achieva
      386 7  -  But GEO is confident turnover will be buoyed by several new distributorships By Andrea Tan MAINBOARD-listed IT distributor Achieva Ltd has cautioned that while it will remain profitable its results this year may not be as good as last
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      Lock icon Delgro confirms talks with Beijing car rental firm
      341 7  -  PUnned USs3om venture will offer 3,300 cars for hire By Rachel Ong TRANSPORTATION. group Delgro Corporation yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Beijing-based Jin Jian car rental company to form a US$3O million joint venture. Delgro will have a US$24 million
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      Lock icon Total Automation bucks trend with 18.5% rise in interim profit
      365 7  -  It announces bonus issue of one share for two existing ones By Rachel Ong WHILE most companies have to contend with lower profits, main board-listed Total Automation Ltd is sitting pretty in the current gloom. The company yesterday announced that
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      293 6 NOL 16,279,000 FuYuMlglOc 7327,000 JKYarning 20c 7,557,000 Golden Agri USIOc 7,324,000 Frontline 5c 7,039,000 Econlnti20c 7,015,000 Startech 10c 4,842,000 OUB 4,509,000 Autron 4,343,000 Tianfin Zhong 4,334,000 U06 42,840,100 OUB 42,606,050 Datacraft 10c 21.080,061 0C8C 19,536,720 NOL 17,456,480 OBSGrp 15,621,466 Chart Semiconductor 26c 12,659,306 VenturoMlg25c.... 10,428,186 SIA 8,802,400 SPH 8,191,222 jfcha
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      Lock icon STI slides as investors stay hesitant on lack of leads
      613 6  -  I-1 i comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market started the week on a lacklustre note, with blue chips sliding in thin trading amid a lack of leads. Investors appeared to be steering clear of the bourse amid continuing
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      Lock icon Kian Ho wrt: liquidity a drawback
      185 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan HOW wrong can you go if you invest in a warrant priced at just 1.5 cents? Well, that was the price of yesterday's top percentage gainer, the Kian Ho Bearings warrant. It ended the day half a cent up
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      Lock icon Parkway may see gradual recovery
      228 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE sale of Parkway Holdings' lossmaking London Heart Hospital doesn't seem to have wooed back long-term investors just yet. The healthcare company's stock fell for the third straight session yesterday, slipping 1.5 cents to close at 89 cents. Some 2.7
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      Lock icon Rupiah explodes 6% as US$ continues to sag
      529 6  -  CURRENCIES Greenback off some of last week's lows but still looks vulnerable larry wee THE greenback was kept in the doghouse yesterday by US tech sector worries that forced Wall Street's Nasdaq index to a four-month intraday low of 1,916 points last
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2873 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Aaeet Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Chine Opportunities Fdl** 0.895 0.941 Global MNC Fd 0.678 0.713 Global Technology Fdl** 0.544 0.572 UK Blue Chip Fdl** 0.706 0.744 American OpportFd 0.767 0.806 Cont Euro Eqty Fdl«* 0.976 1.025 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.08S 1.140 Asien Fixed Income
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      23 7 [«T@F| Lianhe Zaobao I I What other I Kitißnl I from the I I DBS Group? I ISIXII I rT E i*' T
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Parties will be allowed to campaign on Net in next GE
      618 8  -  YESTERDAY DT PARLIAMENT Websites can include party manifesto, candidate profiles, discussion forums By Chuang Peck Ming THE government will allow campaigning on the Internet in the coming general election despite talk to the contrary. Yesterday, Minister for Information and
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    • PARLIAMENT Briefs
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        Lock icon 30 employers in People for Jobs scheme
        85 8 OVER 30 employers have signed up for the new People for Jobs Traineeship Programme launched in June by the Ministry of Manpower to help older and less skilled retrenched employees make the switch to new jobs. Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yam said the
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        Lock icon No to use of Medisa for health checks
        59 8 THE government has said no to dipping into the Medisave account for health screening, including annual medical check-upe. Health Minister LimHngKiang Mid there are many types of health screenings, of which many are not coeteffective. Certain cost-effeetife check-ups*— affordable at polyclinics. Also,
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        Lock icon Skip haircut,go for breast screening
        79 8 SAVE on one hairdo and use the money for a breast screening—that was the advice Health Minister Lim Hng Ktsng hart for women who want an early check-up for breast cancer. It was also his response to Lily Neo (Kreta Ayer-Tanglin), who wanted the government
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        Lock icon Most schools have parental suport
        75 8 TWO in three schools have parent support structures to foster shared responsibility between parents anpi teachers in the children's education. Tlay come in the form of registered Parent-Teacher Associations (about 5 per cent) or Parent Support Groups (about 66 per cent). "The PTAs snd PSGs
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      Lock icon Legal changes in store for patent agents registration
      566 8  -  Bl Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE'S local expertise in intellectual property (IP) law will get a boost with the Patents Amendment Bill which was read for the second time in Parliament yesterday and is expected to become law before year-end. The proposed amendments
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      Lock icon Uniformed services retirement fund to start on Oct 1
      534 8  -  Superannuation plan to replace contract, pension schemes By Chuang Peck Ming THE government yesterday got the green light from Parliament to launch INVEST Plan, a savings and retirement fund for the police and other uniformed services in the Ministry of Home
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      Lock icon CapitaLand's Levelz likely to set benchmark for prime projects
      583 8  -  By Vince Chong CAPITALAND will soon put on the market a 126-unit condominium along Farrer Road, an event which is being closely watched as the prices asked would likely set a benchmark for developments in prime districts. Average prices for the
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      Lock icon MOE to up teacher intake by 1,000
      200 8 AMID the spate of retrenchments by private-sector companies hit by the economic downturn, the Ministry of Education hopes to recruit about 3,300 new teachers this year almost 1,000 more than last year. The boost is in line with a trend of rising recruitment
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      Lock icon Global linkages both good and bad
      359 8 THE business cycles of the world's major economies have become more in sync because of enhanced linkages. And this spells bad and good news, says a paper by Overseas Union Bank (OUB)'s economists. Business cycles not only differ in shape over time, they have
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      Lock icon Bid for OUB may well surprise
      217 8  -  MAiLirm Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to your article "DBS concedes defeat, lets OUB offer lapse" by Angela Tan (Aug 11) and reckon the low acceptance rate of 1.2 per cent, alter all the effort and expense Incurred to ensure the success of DBS'
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Signs of CapitaLand eyeing KepLand ?
      710 10  - Signs of CapitaLand eyeing KepLand PROPERTY Any bigprovlglonby KepLand wonld make it a vary target lee han shih BOTH are huge government-linked property companies. One makes a huge provision for its land and properties, while the other decides it is not going to provide for anything. Is it just a
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      Lock icon HDB shelves build-to-order scheme at one site
      293 10  -  Strong interest for 3 other Sembawang, Sengkang sites By Andrea Tan THE Housing and Development Board's (HDB) pilot build-to-order (BTO) scheme may have attracted 3,300 applications for some 2,500 flats, but the HDB is calling off the deal for one of the four
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  • BIZ woman
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      Lock icon MCA party puts bow in Cupid's hands
      642 11  -  eileen m reports on the first matchmaking event for Chinese Malaysians EILEEN NG AFP IN a dimly-lit hotel ballroom, hundreds of single ethnic Chinese danced the macarena and mingled at Malaysia's first matchmaking party aimed at boosting the community's low birth rate. Some
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Logic gives way to emotion in Middle East
      752 12  -  THEJHHHH OPINION leon hadar The writer, BT's Washington correspondent, is visiting Israel BOTH Israelis and Palestinians are finding it almost impossible to react rationally to the kind of violence that has been taking place these past weeks. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew
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      113 12 'People are praying that we are not headed for a deep recession. They want to be reassured. There are serious doubts about him. We don't know if Bush is there when he's there.' -lulfitnff a professor of management at the University of Southern California, on President Bush
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      Lock icon Unsettling times for brokers
      603 12 EDITORIAL ITS certainly worrying times for stockbrokers. Trading volumes have been declining and commissions have been cut drastically. One dealer with 15 years in the business says a broking licence today "isn't worth the paper if s printed on". A gross exaggeration perhaps, but if s
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      Lock icon High-tech exports still the way to go for M' sia
      1113 12  -  Despite the global electronics downturn, economists see Malaysia riding ont the stamp with help from sub-sectors like palm oil production From Diana Oon Abdullah The writer is a BTcorrespondent based in Kuala Lumpur in Kuala Lumpur THE much-hoped-for upturn in
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      Lock icon Devaluationists could be wrong
      805 12  -  COMMENTARY A weaker dollar is a questionable prescription at best for the US economy By Caroline Baum The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own. Bloomberg GENERAL Motors is grousing about the strong dollar cutting into exports. Manufacturing and agricultural
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  • FINANCE
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      Lock icon Futures dip in line with stocks
      320 13  -  ST Indav/MSCS ITpore Index CK Lau Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd EARNINGS concerns sent Singapore stocks tumbling yesterday in a thinly traded market as investors dumped selective blue chips and technology shares. Also hitting sentiment was the fall in Japan's Nikkei. At the close, the
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      Lock icon Futures end firmer after drifting
      251 13  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Daniel Wong Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd TAIWAN stocks rose led by state-controUed banks after the government seized 36 financial firms in an effort to clean up the industry. At the close, the MSCI Taiwan Stock Index gained 2.26 points or 1.07 per
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      Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
      239 13 Lobdm Reuters The US dollar fell more than half a per cent to a threemonth low against the euro and a five-month low against the Swiss franc yesterday as doubts that the US economy will soon recover continued to dog sentiment. Meanwhile, its early gains in the yen
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Norway's Telenor is new majority owner of DiGi
      538 13 KUALA LUMPUR News foils to boost shares of cellular network operator Reuters SHARES of Malaysian cellular network operator DiGi.Com barely budged yesterday despite the emergence of Norway's cash-rich telecoms giant Telenor as its new majority shareholder. State-controlled Telenor said it had secured
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      Lock icon MBf Capital dives on debt, capital reduction plans
      424 13 KUALALUMPUR Property and credit card company will ask creditors to forgive 85% of RML3b debt; reduce capital by 95% Bloomberg MBF Capital Bhd lost almost half its market value in its biggest fall after unveiling plans to slash its capital and asking
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      Lock icon Malaysia Airports expects 'reasonable' profits in '01
      228 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFX MALAYSIA Airports Holdings Bhd said it expects to register "a reasonable level of turnover and profits" this year, with the local economic conditions seen influencing the results. The company said its performance in the current financial year may be affected
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    • LATE Briefs
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        92 13 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian authorities yesterday raided the offices of an opposition newspaper in search of video compact discs (VCDs) containing recordings of political speeches, the editor said. The move followed a ban over the weekend on the sale of VCDs and cassette tapes with
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        70 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's savings bank, Rank Simpanan Nasional, issued a warning yesterday to tardy personal computer vendors participating in a troubled state-run programme to put a computer in each household in the country. The state-owned hank suspended one of its 10 main
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        68 13 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Some 70 per cent of Malaysia's small and medium-sized industries (SMls) are facing cash flow problems as the global slowdown begins to bite, a report said yesterday. Worst hit are industries involved in building materials, automotive parts, printing, electrical
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        54 13 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesia will not agree to an international probe into the massacre of 31 people in strife-ridden Aceh province because it would infringe upon its sovereignty, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said yesterday. "We rule out the possibility of sending an international team to Aceh,"
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        118 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] CLP Holdings Ltd. Hong Kong's biggest electricity generator, said first-half profit fell 4.7 per cent because of a tower property development profit Profit for the six months through June fell to HK52.79 billion (*****.5 million), or HKSl.ll a share, compared with HK52.93
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        68 13 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Cellular Corp, Taiwan's largest mobile telephone service firm, posted strong first-half profits yesterday but said it would no longer depend on new subscribers to drive growth in the highly saturated market. The firm said January-June net profit rose 17 per cent
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      148 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's president yesterday handed control of the bank restructuring agency (Ibra), whose huge wealth has left it open to repeated political interference, to State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi. "President Megawati has assigned the State Enterprises Minister to control the operation of Ibra,"
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      533 14 JAKARTA Ibr&'s plan to step up asset sale helps; exporters say their earnings will be hit Bloomberg, AFX THE Indonesian rupiah surged to its highest level in almost 10 months on optimism a resumption of international funding to the country
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      304 14 M'sian govt is also studying similar link from Kota Kinabalu to Mt Kinabalo in Sabah AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A cable car linking the world's tallest office building, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, to a popular hilltop casino 50 km away
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        69 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] The value of Hong Kong's external trade by sea totalled HKJ569.4 billion (Ssl2B billion) in the first half of2ool, a decrease of 3.6 per cent over the same period in 2000, the Census and Statistics department said yesterday. Trade
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        57 15 AFP [MADRAS] The southern Indian city of Madras was tense yesterday after a night of violence that left six dead and more than 100 injured. The violence erupted at an evening political rally held by the regional DMK party to protest the arrest
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        76 15 AFX [HONG KONG] Cheung Kong Group and New World Group are planning to issue shares in China by spinning off and listing their assets on the mainland or launching secondary listings there, the Oriental Daily cited market sources as saying. The sources said the
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      223 15 BEIJING Reuters CHINA will act to curb soaring house prices to help stave off a property market bubble, the People's Daily overseas edition reported yesterday. National average house prices rose 11.1 per cent year-on-year in the first half of this year, with
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      618 15 Top regulator says crackdown on market irregularities will go on despite slide in share prices Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's top stock market regulator has vowed to pursue a crackdown on irregularities in the country's speculative markets despite falling share prices and said regulators should not interfere
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      510 15  -  Honghom site sold for HKsl.o9b, 25-40% below expectations From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong THE largest government land plot to go under the hammer this year fetched some 25 to 40 per cent below expectations yesterday, as property developers seem to have
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      624 17 LEVERKUSEN, Germany Group now willing to sell pharma nnit or play second fiddle in a partnership Reuters, Bloomberg, FT BAYER AG said yesterday two top pharmaceuticals groups were interested in its own drugs business and admitted it no longer excluded putting the unit on
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      345 17 NEW YORK FT GENERAL Motors has started formal discussions with Echo-Star, the US satellite TV group that wants to buy the carmaker's Hughes Electronics subsidiary. This indicates that Echo Star's public courting of the subsidiary may have forced GM to take its offer more
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      241 17 NEW YORK FT THE fog of uncertainty cloaking US companies is thicker than ever and drifting east across the Atlantic. Companies that spent much of the 1990s boasting about "the vision thing" are suddenly complaining about a collective "lack of visibility" of orders,
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        84 17 AFP [SEOUL] A US consortium, led by American International Group, has agreed to buy Hyundai Group's financial interests in return for an infection of public ftinds. The group will pay two trilttoti won (512.7 billion) for Hyundai Securities Co and Hyundai Investment Trust
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        81 17 AFX [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp, trying to court potential suitors for AT&T Broadband, held meetings with officials of Microsoft Corp and Walt Dis&ey Co, the Wall Street Journal said, citing sources. Three weeks after AT&T's board rejected an unsolicited US$4O billion stock bid from
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        64 17 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] Lion Nathan, Australia's No 2 brewer, must sell 19 per cent of wine company Montana Group New Zealand by the end of the week after losing an appeal to New Zealand's High Court Lion asked the court to delay the
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      868 20  -  Expectations ran high as central bank's Policy Board meets for 2nd day From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo EXPECTATIONS that the Bank of Japan will be forced to take fresh mone-tary-easing actions will be running high today as the Japanese central bank's Policy Board
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      572 20 NEW YORK PC makers accuse IT soft of making desktop-icon conditions onerons NYT ONE company's idea of flexibility can be another company's notion of contortion. A month ago, Microsoft announced it would give personal computer makers greater freedom to place the software and
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      287 20 SEOUL AFP DAEWOO Group founder Kim Woo Choong took at least US$7.5 million of company money before disappearing as his empire collapsed in the world's biggest bankruptcy, according to court records released yesterday. Kim, the target of a global arrest warrant, spent US$5 million on
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      393 20 NEW YORK FT INVESTMENT banking job cuts have topped 25,000 this year, and the sluggish pace of the capital markets is fostering fears of more cutbacks. A Financial Times survey puts the number of investment banking job cuts at 25,570, but
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      989 21  -  A check list from HBUBSh lim, who leaves for studies in UK shortly MELISSA LIM AS the start of the term draws near, those going away have a daunting task ahead of them packing for the year ahead. It may seem a simple enough
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      693 21  -  Baltimore By Ng Ching Ging ON my 125 th day in the United States and feeling like I'm a million miles from Singapore, I've finally made some friends in class. The Americans are not as different as I thought them to be.
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      943 22  -  If companies don't make this mindset change, they'll find it harder to attract and retain top talent, HR expert Thomas Davenport tells hughmblow EUGENE LOW FEW company executives and management experts would disagree with the notion that a firm's employees are its assets. Compared with
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      319 22 Seek J Immediate The recurring budgeting cycles and the seemingly endless forecast changes and reconciliations are guaranteed to stress out even the best finance Wouldn't it be wonderful if you have flexible financial fjYr management tools that can streamline processes, |i and whose intelligent filters can crunch through y numbers
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      174 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI)fell 10 points to 982, the Baltic Panamaz Index (BPI) lost IS points to 880, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) dropped 54 points to 7,903 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was down nine points to 1478. BocimarCSßCtypeDelivery Far East spot trip via
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      722 23  -  German ports bock trend of slowing tax growth of other European rivals Bi Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The German ports of Bremen and Hamburg have bucked the slowing container growth trend of rival key European ports for the first half of 2001, both recording
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      349 23 [SINGAPORE] The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is to claim more than US$l million in back pay for 240 seafarers stranded in Dover aboard the cruise ship Ocean Glory I. The claim is believed to be the largest
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      91 23 AFP [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] A tremor measuring 5.45 on the Richter scale rocked the south-eastern Bangladesh port city on Sunday for the second time in a week, officials said. There was no report of casualties from the brief tremblor, whose epicentre was in neighbouring Myanmar, 377
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        525 24  -  Sooth Korea's main gateway will have 9 berths ready in the first stage in Jan 2006 By P T Bangsberg THE first new berths in the upgrade of Korea's Port of Pusan will open in January 2006, a year and eight months
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          86 24 AFP [TAIPEI] Two Taiwan missile destroyers were damaged and a soldier was injured after the warships were rammed by a South Korean cargo ship on Sunday, the navy said. The incident occurred when the 7,000-tonne Hansung 7 bulk cargo lost control and collided with
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          71 24 [SINGAPORE] China International Marine Containers has reported a 66 per cent year-on-year increase in first half profits earning 338.7 million yuan (5571.46 million). The results were attributed to wider profit margins from higher box prices and lower raw material costs. However, the
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          69 24 [SINGAPORE] Denmark has become the second flag state to recognise Filipino seaman's competency certificates after it followed The Netherlands in signing an agreement last week. The agreement assures Denmark of a steady supply of seafarers for its commercial fleet, and ensures security of employment for more
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          78 24 [SINGAPORE] Two ships which lost power during harsh conditions off Australia have been brought under control and and are understood to be heading for repairs. The 44,000 dwt Maersk Tacoma is anchored off the Victorian coast and will be repaired in Melbourne after losing
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        749 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesued stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the individual
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        491 32 Competition on North Atlantic routes has increased greatly, say the 2 carriers Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways pic and AMR Corp's American Airlines say global airline alliances have increased competition so much on North Atlantic routes that their partnership is not a threat to consumers
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        380 32 European carriers fear for safety of crews Reuters [JERUSALEM] Lufthansa and British Airways have joined other major European airlines in altering schedules to Tel Aviv to avoid flight crews having to stay the night in Israel because of worries about security. "As of today, our
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        265 32 Sept meet to address faring developing countries [SINGAPORE] The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) does not see the global economic downturn affecting safety regulations at airports in Asia. "The airport and services provided by the airports and the aviation services in general will
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        133 32 Xinhua [BEIJING] The first electric railway in North-east China, a 550-kilometre-long railway linking Harbin and Shenyang, capitals of Heilongjiang and Liaoning provinces, was completed and will be open to traffic in mid-August, Economic Information Daily reports. The Harbin-Shenyang railway is a part of the electric
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          129 32 AFP [HANOI] State-owned Vietnam Airlines is to lay on Ave extra flights a day between Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur for next month's South-east Asian Games in the Malaysian capital. On Sept 6,12,13,16 and 18, the V ietnamese flag carrier will
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          103 32 Bloomberg [MOSCOW] Boeing Co, the biggest planemaker, said its venture with Russia's Sukhoi Civil Aviation and Dyushin Design Bureau will start producing its first small jetliner by 2006. The three companies, which have been studying potential demand for the jet in Russian and abroad, sees Russian demand
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          120 32 AFP [MANILA] A Gulf Air Airbus 340 carrying 264 passengers made an emergency landing at a Philippines airport last Thursday after an engine foiled, officials said. None of the passengers and 13 crew were hurt, Ninoy Aquino International Airport manager Edgardo Man da said.
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        64 32 [TOKYO]O» the eve of 16th annversary of the world's worst single-aircraft crash, people float paper lanterns on the Kanna Miver at the foot of Mount Osutaka, northwest of Tokyo. Sixteen years ago on Aug 12,1985, a Japan Airlines Boeing 747, on a domestic flight, crashed
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        335 32 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co and Boeing Co face a lawsuit from two British sisters and their mother by mid-Septem-ber unless compensation can be agreed, 16 years after their father died in the world's worst air disaster. "If there isn't a fair figure by the
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      431 23 Lawrence Saow is the new Singapore representative of the Port of Osaka, Japiri. Mr Seow was formerly the Asia Pacifk representative for the European potts of Brem&i Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal has appointed managing director Jimmy Sarbh as chairman. The rapidiy growing P&O Ports suteidtory recruited the former managing
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