The Business Times, 22 August 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MTTA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 com.sg SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 2001 85c
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    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    68 1 O U3U4 (+4.72) fSSSU* Plsrnoixranmß U U&J» (+13.60) £||j FTTTTJW3 ROCS MARKET DOH2EB Tuesday Change KLSE COKP NIB® m IUMJ8—.*22.44 3A>'0 SENG 11.44&7® -2*11 SET INDEX >11.14 All JAKASTA COUP _«7JI *166 MANILA COUP lj 11.13 +4J6 TAffHWPf —mm MM SEOUL COMP M7JB -I1M SHENZHEN B +lf 33
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    69 1 ran Mm U8t S» HUSS (SS per IBS) L7I1 £(13*SS p*r«) 1.447 LUM *HHO(US«/SS/E) _0fl4 1.600 DM 1140 L2S YE* 1*3.4 Ml MM zrn HKS 7M 4.4K BAHT 44.7# «J7 RUPIAH lg» *S$ to 100 mmiit MABA I JBM BANGKOK SM MANILA ILN BONOIDNO SM 7.84 SYDNEY 8M TOKO
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    Lock icon Fed cuts rates by expected 25 basis points
    513 1  -  But central bank signals it is ready to do more if necessary From Catherine Ong in New York The US Federal Reserve yesterday delivered what the market expected cutting short-term interest rates by 25 basis points and signalled that it was poised
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    Lock icon S'pore pips HK as Thailand's top portfolio player
    603 1  -  BfWii'UHULUJ From Harish Mehta in Bangkok SINGAPORE investors decisively displaced Hong Kong to become the biggest portfolio investors in Thailand last year, buying Thai corporate assets at attractive prices. Singapore also remained dominant investors in the Thai stock market, ranking as the
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    Lock icon HK should emulate S'pore's new 'social compact: papers
    582 1  -  From Andrey Tan in Hong Kong PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's promise to create a "new social compact" has created considerable interest here for a similar move, with several commentators saying the Hong Kong government should follow Singapore's example of helping the
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    Lock icon Car sales likely to peak this year despite economic slowdown
    656 1  -  BTtq'Miium-j Record 65,000 units forecast if COE quota remains unchanged By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] John Lim is in his 40s, married with two teenage kids, a mortgage, a club membership he's trying to sell and a job that's unlike ly
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      106 1 nwaPH Top Stortos r Jobs at Lucent Technologies Singapore hang in the balance. MmxtPmgm S'pore ail for a China-Asean FTA: BG Yeo. Next Pmgm Who Is buying OUB in the open market?. Pg4 Biz Woman MiHicent hhh Danker From chasing Ip stories to Jm pitching stories. SB S Pg 13
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      26 1 Fan Fed f t—iun, NextPg Weaker en—oag takes toll on US markets, Pg 11 Motoriag: City Cab to offer car -sharing service next year, Pg 25
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      25 1 Lawyers find legal stand against SGX ruling USS: A vicious circle in the making? MBf* Insurance coverage for the right reasons ExciteAtHome's future in doubt
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Mystery of missing SIM card
        78 2 AT a media launch of Motorola's latest clam-shell phone, some journalists were fiddling with the battery compartment at the hack of the set When the Lithium-ion battery was removed, a few were wondering where the SIM card—usually underneath the battery—was. Motorola staff later revealed the
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        Lock icon Remembering e-failures
        100 2 YOU know you're history when there's a museum dedicated to you. Dotcommers and dotgoners now have their very own Museum of e-Failure (www.disobey.com/ghostsites), described by its organisers as "an attempt to actively preserve the home pages of sites that will probably disappear in the next few months". Exhibits
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        Lock icon What's a broken arm worth?
        148 2 NOT $1 million, a court decided yesterday. Singapore Airlines stewardess Tan Shwu Leng claimed in the High Court that she deserved $1 million—not just the $*****6 she was awarded in March last year for a fracture she suffered when an Airbus she was in suddenly
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        Lock icon Regional instability is biggest threat
        49 2 Last week, BT ran an on-line poll which said: Regional instability is the greatest threat facing Singapore. This is how readers voted: Yes, there's nothing we can do about it 58% No, we've faced this before: 27% If s never easy to tell: 15%
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      Lock icon 500 jobs at risk in S'pore as Lucent plans global cut
      377 2  -  JOB CUT*; Company to shed 17-23% of total staff; S'pore business unier review By David Boey [SINGAPORE] About 500 Singapore jobs hang in the balance after Lucent Technologies confirmed yesterday it will slash its work force by as much
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      Lock icon HP S'pore confirms layoffs, said to total 700
      316 2  -  By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Hewlett-Packard will lay off around 700 staff at its South-east Asian headquarters here this week, sources close to the company told BT. HP Singapore, which employs around 6,500 people at its HQ here, confirmed that jobs will be
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      Lock icon Singapore is all for a China-Asean FTA: BG Yeo
      726 2  -  He calls for direct air links with Western China From Eugene Low in Beijing SINGAPORE supports China's idea of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Asean, and will work with Beijing to further advance the proposal. Trade and Industry
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      Lock icon Full Fed statement
      216 2 The following is the full text of the statement released yesterday in Washington by the Federal Reserve Bloomberg THE Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to lower its target for the federal fluids rate by 25 basis points to 3.5 per cent In a
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Links investors find stand to challenge SGX
      610 4  -  BTia'MIIUWJ Lawyer says controversial rilling does not apply to contra sales By Serana Ng, Ven Sreenivasan A GROUP of unhappy Links Island shareholders and their lawyers have settled on a legal position against the Singapore Exchange that the exchange's controversial ruling on the
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      Lock icon UOB raises bond issue size to $1.3b
      499 4  -  Bond's 15-year callable structure first of its kind in Asia: JP Morgan By Ling Su Ann UNITED Overseas Bank, which yesterday announced the pricing of its larger-than-expected $1.3 billion bond issue, said it had no plans to come to the market again this
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      Lock icon So who has been buying OUB shares?
      455 4  -  Millions of shares changed hands a day from Aug 13 to Aug 17, but UOB, DBS and OGBCseem nnlikely buyers By, Angela Tan TRADING volumes of Overseas Union Bank (OUB) have been relentlessly active a week before United Overseas Bank (UOB) declared it
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      Lock icon DBS shares near two-month highs
      416 4  -  Stock back to levels that prevailed before bid for OUB By Siow Li Sen DBS shares appear to be undergoing a re-rating after taking a knock from the recent string of boo-boos. The stock is hovering around two-month highs, touching $13.80 on Friday —a level
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      Lock icon CP Orange's Thai foray: will it prove juicy ?
      661 6  - CP Orange's Thai foray: will it prove juicy hockll.lJl.-MM harish mehta A FLASHY newcomer to Thailand's booming mobile phone market aims to challenge the dominance of the two major players. New kid on the block CP Orange wants a third of the market within five years and aims to get
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      Lock icon Creative's new SoundBlaster aims to tap upgrade market
      476 6  -  Entire line slated for immediate shipment to global retail and online outlets By Serena Ng CREATIVE Technology yesterday unveiled a new SoundBlaster platform with top sound quality to tap the upgrade market, in a bid to boost its Christmas sales amid falling
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      Lock icon SGX "no' again to Ho Wah's new-share plan
      370 6 Insufficient infornatiMi far reeensMenttien THE Singapore Exchange will not reconsider at least for now its rejection of an application by Ho Wah Gent tag International for the listing of new shares to acquire two toll-road operations in China's Heilongjiang province, Ho Wah
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      Lock icon Face-to-face banking still preferred: survey
      319 6  -  Most prefer banking in person to phone, Internet services By Chua Hui Min r ACE-T\>r ace remains tne favourite way to bank for many Singaporeans, in spite of the convenience of online banking, a June survey by Mastercard found. For buying shares, lodging complaints, and
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      Lock icon Tata hints it may withdraw bid for Air India
      152 10 Reuters [NEW DELHI] The Tata group, which has bid for a strategic stake in Air India in tandem with Singapore Airlines, is now hinting it wUI withdraw, leaving no takers for the money-losing airline. "There is definitely concern in our minds
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      Lock icon Kotjo fails in $110,000 claim appeal
      310 10  -  TDHex-ckairaaa said to be going to Cosrt of Appeal By Serena Ng FORMER Van der Horst executive chairman Johannes Kotjo has foiled in his appeal against a High Court ruling that struck out his claim against VDH's judicial managers for $110,000 in untaken leave.
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      Lock icon Chip Eng Seng's net profit dips by 14.5%
      292 10  -  By Andrea Tan CONSTRUCTION firm Chip Eng Seng Corp yesterday said that its interim net profit fell 14.5 per cent to |3.6 million on lower turnover of $43.9 million. Turnover for the six months ended June slumped 39.5 per cent due to
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Pertama profits fall to $2.18m
        118 10 Reuters PERTAMA Holdings saM net profit for the year to June 30 Ml to $2.18 million from $3.01 million a year ago. Turnover was $186.04 niillkm compared with $211J0 million. The previous year's comparative refer to the 15 months beginning April 1,1990 to June3o,2ooo. Pertama,
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        Lock icon Hotel Negara H1 profits rise to $411.000
        63 10 Reuters HOTEL Nlpra said first-half2ool net profit rose to $410,000 from $***** a year ago. Turnover was $BJ6 million compared with $6.02 million. Hotel Negate said the increase in turnover was due to higher average room rates. The net profit included a special
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        Lock icon Stats takes 51% stake in Taiwan firm
        44 10 ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of a 51-per-cent stake in Taiwan-based Winstek Semiconductor Corp. Stats said it subscribed to new shares in Winertt.teflret oversees acquisition, tor about USf» million.
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        Lock icon F&N buys back another 237,000 shares
        63 10 DIVERsitleD soft drinks and ptuperly group Fl seer A Neave(FAN) said yesterday it had bought a further 237,000 shares from the open market at sn average ciflM apiece. This means the group has so fer bought *****0 shares or about 0.24 per cent of
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        Lock icon Share suspension for Alexandra Hldgs
        34 10 Ratters INVESTMENT Arm Alexandra Holdings Ltd said yesterday it has requested a share suspension pending an announcement The illiquid stock was last traded at |2JO on Oct 15,1988. Ratters
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        Lock icon Teampshere unit in 50-50 Aussie tie-up
        63 10 TEAMSPHERE Ltd announced that Forbes Engineering Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia, has entered into a 50-dOjotat venture agreement with Cesco Australia Ltd to share torflifien end ptir—" l transit concrete mixer, concrete batch plant, tanker end bulk materials handling equipment
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      710 4 HOTEL NEGARA LIMITED (IriLDHiUiliJ In of Stigapor*) ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Hotel Negara Limited wtahes to announce: UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 2001 MOO M-) ss St Turnover 6,366.389 6,022,804 5 52 Investment income 281,103 34,030 NM Interest income 54.548 62,102 (12-25) Profit before
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      10 4 FOOD/ ENTERTAINMENT The Straits Times Classified. (j&S Classifications 5-36. hvILMLMk.
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      288 6 -> "I ,T1 **T n ««M»'- itidhiifc'v y ,M The Housing Development Board is offering for sale an attractive land parcel in Pasir Ris Town for executive condominium housing development on a 99-year lease. Pasir Ris MRT Station, major expfmyyayf u comprehetwve bus route provide seamless connectivity EL Bl<* Cfe
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      28 7 When the internet was invented the online customer did not exist But when we built www.citibank.com.sg I it was as much the customer's creation as it was ours
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Doom and gloom ? Yes, but there are bright spots
      620 8  - Doom and gloom Yes, but there are bright spots UU comment STOCKS r. sivanithy ARE there any stocks worth buying in a market as bad as this? It's a question observers must be asking themselves, with buyers reluctant to commit, sellers refusing to sell and most fund managers choking on
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      Lock icon A victims circle in the making for US dollar?
      618 8  -  AiNu.mumjj CURRENCIES Dire consequences for many who are heavily dependent on a US turnaround larry wee SHARP falls in key stock market indices this past week were again led by the notoriously volatile Nasdaq Composite, accentuating US worries and consolidating the
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      436 8 Theorem valued before Dec 31, *98 AddMffiKh 2.5c 11,564,000 SJngTrf 15c 10,434,000 Econlni20c 9,956,000 TPVUSlc 7.486.000 Peopto 1 food HGK 50c 5363,000 TTIntlSc 5.2KJ.OOO Autron 4.935,000 Ur*FoodHK25c 4.660,000 Surf*»MTHK20c JOOO Paria*¥H28c 4.288,000 DBSGrp 50,118,691 VentuwM|p5c„ 35,730,700 uoe 35,339.100 SiniW 15c 1932&238 Datac*»« 10c 14,251.564 0U6 13,477.200 0C8C 10.444.581 Omni Ind
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2787 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen AaMt Mgt Me LM Aberdeen Select Portfolio: China Opportunities Fdl" 0.890 0.93S Global MNC Fd 0.655 0.6*9 Global Technology Fdl** 0.506 0.532 UK Blue Chip Fdt" 0.693 0.729 American Opport Fd 0.756 0.795 Coot Euro EqtyFdl** 0.954 1.002 JapanEqtyFdl** 1.038 1.090 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.098
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      464 10 NZ govt to decide on Air NZ by Sept 4, Shipping Times, Pg 12 Save up to 30%' on ANA to the USA. '>>• '-t" I < I Enjoy extra savings with ANA! miLMSB Arrive USA Depart Arrive USA It s now even more rewarding to fly ANA to the
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      38 10 IttToiT —Lianhe Zaobao I I Plans by I I Capitaland I I to investml I China's I I property I I market I I fflJgifc* I I my m/*m vlf iLJ 111 I ff I M j ULILP4
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon US may have bottomed in March: indicators
      380 11  -  By Siow Li Sen LEADING indicators from the Conference Board signal the US economy bottomed out in March, having improved for the fourth straight month, says an economist at private bank Credit Suisse. It's not that the Conference Board a private research outfit
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      Lock icon Chan Bros in $1m travel agency venture
      260 11 The vesture will have branches in major Indon cities HOMEGROWN Chan Brothers Travel is all set to spread its wings in the region, with the group announcing yesterday a $1 million joint venture with Indonesian travel company Panorama Leisure Group. Over the next
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      Lock icon HDB to offer Pasir Ris exec condo site
      428 11  -  Tender sale seen fetching bids of $140-$l7O psf By Vince Chong THE Housing and Development Board will today release a Pasir Ris executive condominium (EC) site for sale by tender. And the Urban Redevelopment Authority yesterday relaunched the tender sale of the
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      Lock icon S'pore among top 5 convention cities
      288 11 It will attract 85,000 delegates over next 10 years OVER the next 10 years, Singapore will attract 85,000 delegates worldwide to attend more than 100 international conferences as the Republic remains among the world's top convention cities. Singapore has been declared the fifth-ranked convention
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      Lock icon Skills transfer vital for foreign firms in China
      538 12  -  It's necessary for them to gaia a competitive edge over rivals: NUS study By Teh Hooi Ling FOREIGN companies that transfer knowledge to Chinese subsidiaries after Beijing joins the world Trade Organization will gain a competitive edge over their rivals, a National
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      Lock icon Bill Byrne is new AmCham chief
      228 12 New members appointed to the chamber's board THE American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham) has a new chairman in Bill Byrne, the general manager of United Airlines' local office. Mr Byrne, previously AmCham's honorary secretary, replaces Phillip Overmyer who returns this week to
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      Lock icon Selling SMEs to foreigners is like killing off a species
      210 12  -  Goh Mong Song Singapore I REFER to your article "DPM Tan: S'pore economy too reliant on electronics" by Anna Teo (BT, Aug 14). I believe that for Singapore to survive, it is vital that we have corporate leaders of local
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      Lock icon Links Island solution: try this for size
      293 12  -  MAI LI .7m Teo Chwee Hock Singapore I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column, "SGX: fair action, unfair perception" (BT, Aug 21). I have a suggestion for a solution to the Links Island share settlement problem that is most unconventional, but perhaps
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      Lock icon Here's the rub: the $30 minimum commission
      330 12  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to your editorial "Unsettling times for brokers" (BT, Aug 14). You say that the "heart of the problem is that although commissions have fallen dramatically, retail players are reluctant to trade basic equities because of the unavailability of
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      Lock icon Curt response from UOB Asia to enquiry
      123 12  -  Toh Keng Siong Singapore I REFER to your article "UOB plans $750 m subordinated debt issue" by Ling Su Ann (BT, Aug 15). It was reported that UOB planned to invite "selected investors" to its presentation to launch the 5|750,000,000 subordinated bond issue.
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      97 12  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng Singapore I REFER to the New Singapore shares scheme announced by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. It is a laudable scheme. I hope the shares will comprise a portfolio of local listed companies from all sectors. The government could set up a
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      1309 12 U Lloyds TSB Bank pic at 31 Dacrafear 2000 I for the yeer ended 31 December 2000 2000 1999 2000 1900 tedlliee million J C million million Assets Interest receivable: Cash and balances at central banks 1,027 1,276 Interest receivable and similar income Items in course of collection from banks
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      64 12 We welcome letters. E-mail us at bttotterOsph.com.ag ot fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore*****s. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verity it came from you. Pleaae use temperate language, and bem-in mind Übel laws.
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  • BIZ woman
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      Lock icon From chasing stories to pitching stories
      1320 13  -  Journalist-turned-communications consultant Millicent Danker shares her work experience and aspirations with -iimi DAZMAN MANAN NST [KUALA LUMPUR] IT IS surprising to learn that Millicent Danker, who has run the gamut of journalism, is publicity-shy. "I've been so used to being on the other side,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      282 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 6 Sewers practically unnecessary 1 H2(007)0, formula for tax avoid- (7) ance (4,7) 7 Fate of unorthodox modem 10 Gangling youth-leader called painter (13) earlier (5) 8 Operatic vessel lied at the stem 11 Is it newer way to prepare for (8) cold weather? (9) 9 Purify
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Corporate venturing is here to stay
      780 14  -  JTHEj^HBB I'i'lioiiiTmra OPINION john miller THERE are two types of corporate venturing. Hie first is where a corporation invests in new businesses. Hiis is really corporate venture capital This approach became increasingly popular in the US when hitech valuations were exceptionally high. This type
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      35 14 "I think China is running out of time. The slowdown in the world economy comes at exactly the wrong time." (Mm Aug author of the new book 'The Coming Collapse of China'
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      Lock icon Asean awaits Mega's role
      613 14 EDITORIAL INDONESIA'S new president Megawati Sukarnoputri, couldn't have made a better start The signals she has sent since taking over from the ousted Abdurrahman Wahid have been encouraging ail round —to her own people, to the markets and investors, and to the international community. Her task
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      Lock icon S'pore must deal with structural unemployment
      1465 14  -  Increasingly hard for older, less-educated S'poreans to cope with harsh labour market By Daniel Lian The writer is Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's South-east Asia economist THE prevailing unemployment rate in Singapore is 2.6 per cent and is edging towards 3 per cent given the
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      Lock icon Difficult path to peace in Aceh
      682 14 Megawati must come Hiw on ail injustices first Jakarta Post THE mixed reactions that have greeted reports of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's apology for past government wrongdoings in Aceh and her intended visit there illustrate not only the difficulties that lie in the way of
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      457 15 v L i. RPPUnpi Bw ?!»*"<- >4'>'«" r i ;:>: '*sf' w;.-*y. v Because success is sweetest after tasting the bitterness of failure. f«-' -if. z The Phoenix Award salutes the entrepreneur who, undeterred by failure, has gone on to succeed in a technology-related business. The winner will show that
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon HK growth seen plunging to 2% – from last year's 10.5%
      627 16  - HK growth seen plunging to 2% from last year's 10.5% Unemployment could hit 5% by year-end amid stowing exports, From Audrey Tan m Hong Kong HONG Kong's economy will rapidly slow to around 2 per cent growth this year, as its export sector continues to contract and domestic demand remains
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      Lock icon SCB launches tender sale of Mutiara Damansara bungalow lots
      388 16  -  Tender for the 14 lets will cleee at the eodef the north From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Liempur LISTED developer SCB Developments has caused a stir in the Malaysian property market by launching a tender sale of bungalow lots in
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      Lock icon Taiwan's property market may sink deeper as banks dump collateral
      424 16 BAD LOAMS AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's property market already at a 10-year low is set to sink deeper as more banks scramble to liquidate collateral from mortgage defaults in response to mounting problem loans, analysts said. Citibank last month launched an
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      Lock icon Thai banks' bad debt burden worsening
      295 16 Transfer of bad loans to Thai Asset Management Corp to be delayed Reuters [BANGKOK] Fresh bad news for Thai banks dragged the sector down yesterday, with the government announcing a delay in the transfer of bad loans to a new state debt body just
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        Lock icon M'sian debt workout may take 2 years
        61 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will likely take two years to complete reorganising RM3O billion (5513.8 billion) of overdue corporate debt, aaid accounting firm Grant Thornton. The Malaysian unit of the accounting and coafoMaocyfinn is helping the country's debt mediator, the Corporate Debt Restructuring
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        Lock icon Indonesia plans 40t rupiah bond issue
        72 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia, already shouldering one of the world's costliest bank bailouts, said yesterday it has proposed to Parliament to issue 40 trillion rupiah(BsBJ2 billion), in new bonds to help the troubled sector. "The bond issue is part of measures agreed with the IMF.
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        66 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Mlniater Mahathir Mohamad's top ethnic Chinese aide held unprecedented talks yesterday with journalists of an influential Chinese-language newapapei that the Malaysian loader hen armimrt of S spreading hatred against the government Matthias Chang, Dr Mahathir's recently appointed political
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        82 16 AFP [SINGAPORE) Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bombay and Seoul are among the 20 coetliest places hi the world for office rentals, with London's chic West End remaining the most expensive, a gtobal property consultancy saki. Rental growth for high-end ofltoe space "slowed dramartraffy
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        70 16 AFX (BANGKOK] Finance Minister SomkklJatusrtpttaksrtM two spsetaloosmttteee, constating of a number of financial experts, have been established to (frafte master plan for Thailand's capital markets. In ißustimsDay report, Mr Somkid said the coomittoos would work to produce a quahtyorisntod plan that met the various
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        89 17 Reuters [BEIJING] Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng defended China's expansionary fiscal policy as necessary to keep the economy moving amid slowing export growth, the Financial News said yesterday. Beijing pi*n« to issue ISO billion yuan (5131.6 billion) worth of special bonds to fund state spending on
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        99 17 AFX [SHANGHAI] Eastern Communications Co Ltd (Eastcom) said the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has asked the company to correct a range of irregularities including inadequate disclosure and a failure to seek shareholder approval for key investment decisions. Eastcom said an inspection by the CSRC
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        73 17 Reuters [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's economy is likely to post lower growth of 3 per cent for 2001 from the previous forecast of 4.5 per cent for the year, a top official said yesterday. "The factors are the airport attack, a weak agriculture sector
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        70 17 AFP [MADRAS] India's largest mutual fUnds manager on Monday tried to allay investor fears of a financial collapse and said it planned hard-hitting reforms in the wake of a scandal. Nearly 20 million investors were left in the lurch after a stunning decision by
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        104 17 Xinhua (HONG KONG] Hong Kong Financial Secretary Antony Leung left hare for a two-day trip to Beijing to boost mainland tourism to the city, sources from the government information department said yesterday. Lifting the number of mainland visitors would provide a boost for the
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        96 17 Xinhua [HONG KONG] Oversupply and Sailing prices have forced down the production value of DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) in Taiwan, according to reports reaching here from Taipei yesterday. The global production value this year is estimated to be only US$l4 billion, as compared with US$29
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      381 17 CHINA BOUND The move will allow local chip packagers to setup plants in the mainland Bloomberg, Dow Jones AFX [TAIPEI] Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will probably ease investment restrictions in China by the end of this month, paving the way for local
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      171 17 BANGKOK Xinhua CHAROEN Pokphand Group, Thailand's biggest agro-industrial conglomerate, plans to start making shrimp-feed in China, the group's largest investment hub outside its motherland, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. Pong Visedpaitoon, chief of the CP Food Company, a subsidiary of the conglomerate, will lead
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      334 17 Xinhua, AFP [BEIJING] China will beef up supervision of certified public accounting firms to avoid fraud. Yesterday's China Daily quoted Li Yong, assistant minister of finance, as saying that the ministry is conducting a nationwide inspection on the firms' implementation of accounting laws.
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      295 18  -  STbla^llßGlStinbdn C K Lau Refco Singapore LATE bargain-hunting ahead of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting helped Singapore shares end in positive territory yesterday. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed a touch higher at 1,631.64, a gain of 4.72 points, or 0.29 per cent, with
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      241 18 London Reuters THE US dollar was steady against the euro yesterday, hugging a tight range ahead of a US rate decision, but it fell against the yen after Japan appeared to rule out any near-term intervention to cap yen strength. The yen outshone other major currencies, rising over
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      586 19 SAN FRANCISCO High-tech company tries to revamp business amid persistent soft demand Reuters, Bloomberg ELECTRONICS testing equipment maker Agilent Technologies Inc said on Monday it would cut 9 per cent of its workforce and reported a thirdquarter operating loss as
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        57 19 Bloomberg [BONN] Deutsche Telekom AG is stepping up its efforts to stem a share slide after an unexpected US$OlO million sale by an unidentified investor wiped a third off its market value in two weeks. The company has held talks with investors to avoid
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        52 19 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's top executives saw their salaries soar to over £500,000 (551.27 million) last year, a survey said yesterday. Over the last 12 months, the typical chief executive got a 15 per cent rise in annual salary to £530,000, according to Monks
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        63 19 AFP (TOKYO] An affiliate of Internet investor Softbank Corp said it would buy Japanese condominium contractor Sawako Corp, which collapsed with two billion yen (5129.2 million) in liabilities. SBI Capital Investment Co Ltd, 90 per cent owned by Softbank Investment Corp, "signed a basic agreement
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        61 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nomura Research Institute, the research arm of Nomura Securities Co, said it will sell shares to the public and overseas in the largest initial public share sale by a Japanese firm this year. Nomura Research expects to raise 163 billion yen (552.4 billion)
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      297 19 NEW YORK Total number of lay-offs to rise to 8,000 or 8% of staff AFP JP Morgan Chase, the secondlargest banking group in the United States, plans to shed a further 3,000 jobs, The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. This
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      408 19 Bloomberg THE US economy is heading for a more prolonged slowdown than has been forecast, two prominent Wall Street analysts said yesterday before the Federal Reserve poli-cy-makers met to decide on the widely expected reduction in interest rates. Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co
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      260 19 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN'S top personal computer maker, Acer Inc, unveiled an estimated NT57.64 billion (Ss3B6 million) takeover of unit Acer Sertek yesterday its latest restructuring move but one likely to do little to lift profits. Under the merger plan, the companies
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      576 20 SEOUL But this may not last as falling exports force firms to cut costs, shed workers Bloomberg SOUTH Korea avoided the economic contraction that gripped much of Asia in the second quarter, though economists said the consumer spending binge that fuelled faster-than-expected
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      367 20 SEOUL Bank's shares hit by worries over loans to Ailing chipmaker Bloomberg KOREA Exchange Bank (KEB) will not increase lending to Hynix Semiconductor Inc after its exposure to the ailing chipmaker made its shares the second-worst performing bank stock in three months.
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      372 20 LONDON FT WPP, the advertising group headed by Martin Sorrell, on Monday unleashed a bid battle for Tempus, the media buying agency, by announcing an unsolicited cash offer of 555 pence a share. WPP also reported an increase in pretax profits
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      276 20 NEW YORK NYT CREDIT Suisse First Boston (CSFB), which is at the centre of federal investigations into how new stocks were sold on Wall Street in the late *****, hired Gary G Lynch, a former director of enforcement for the Securities
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      438 20 TOKYO Move seen as signal that organised labour would not oppose reforms in Japan Bloomberg, Reuters LABOUR unions at Mycal Corp and Nippon Telegraph Telephone Corp are accepting pay and job cuts, signaling that organised labour will not stand in
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      614 21 BRUSSELS WTO upholds EU charge; tax rating may hit trans-Atlantic ties LAT-WP THE United States must rewrite a controversial law that saves The Boeing Co, Microsoft Corp and other multinational companies billions a year in taxes or risk paying as much as
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      502 21 TORONTO New law increases competition at home, sets stage for M&As; stocks take the cue NYT CANADA'S five big banks began reporting quarterly results cm Monday. But whatever they have to say about past performance and future plans will be of less interest to
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      484 21 US slowdown, Argentinian crisis, credit crunch cited AFP [MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay] Latin America's economy is facing a serious likelihood of recession due to the US slowdown and the crisis in Argentina, along with a shortage of credit, now more expensive all factors conspiring against its
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      486 21 WASHINGTON Nasdaq earnings fall 50% while NYSE sees a decline of 12% Bloomberg, Reuters A STRUGGLING US economy has hurt the country's stock markets, especially Nasdaq. The Nasdaq Stock Market's earnings fell by 50 per cent in the first half of
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      959 22  -  Can Singapore golfers succeed in Europe and the US? GEOFFREY EU finds OUt GEOFFREY EU LAST weekend's PGA Championship was notable not only because the quietly unspectacular David Toms won his first Grand Slam tournament by outplaying World No 2 Phil Mickelson in a
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      128 22 -,-y |V ;> "I parked my Golf between a Rolls-Royce and a BentJey. It seemed like the most natural thing to do." Jf M i3ti®P2 j^r," Vt. *"b m s■■ s t* f• N ,-f 4** F #1' X. I Jtr,i, A llife ISHBiI 9Baß^^jHHkj I r i s!> M
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      682 23 Itkaa PSflb debt, Ifim if USs346m in latest qtr; firm's survival in doubt Reuters [PALO ALTO, California] The slaughter sweeping the dotcom sector appeared ready to take down one of the most established consumer Internet companies on Monday, when ExciteAtHome Corp said it may not
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      288 23 TOKYO Deal to develop Net phones covers only R&D for now AFP THREE major Japanese high-tech firms said yesterday they would work together on third generation mobile phone technology to take on the foreign mobile giants and increase their global market share.
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      547 25  -  City Cab to introduce first cars in Singapore to run on compressed natural gas, reports Christopher tar CHRISTOPHER TAN TAXI company CityCab is buying a fleet of 30-50 Volvos that run on natural gas as well as petrol, making the unit
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      300 25 Fleet comprises Honda Civics powered by both electricity and petrol CITYCAB will operate a high-tech car-sharing system, which when ready early next year, could improve commuting in the city centre. The DelGro-owned taxi company will run a fleet of up to 50 Honda
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      335 25  -  At less than $170,000 with COE, it will be the most affordable Jag ever By Christopher Tan JAGUAR is due to unveil its latest cub, the X-Type, in three weeks. But plans for the Singapore ad campaign are still hazy. The X-Type dubbed
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        82 25 OUB has launched a credit facility to help car buyers with the 30 per cent downpayment required by law. In a recent advertisement, the bank said its OUB Credit Link would give a customer access to $50,000 or twice his monthly salary—whichever is lower.
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        83 25 THE Automobile Association of Singapore (AAS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with CET Technologies for the latter to fit a satellite-baaed vehicle tracking and despatch system for the AAS' Vehicle Recovery Services. The GPS (global-positioning system) device will enable the call centre to
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        119 25 FORD-OWNED Land Rover is to invest more Hun US$2 billion on a new product offensive to launch five new models. Acquired from BMW last year, the brand is now targeting the North American market Bob Dover, Land Rover's chairman, told Financial Times: "In
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        119 25 FORD chief executive Jac Nasser is expected this week to give depositions to lawyers representing the legal cases involving tyre-related accidents in Ford Explorers, according to the Financial Tima. H»e depositions are intended to be an all-in-one opportunity for a variety of plaintiffs'lawyers
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        125 25 VOLKSWAGEN is considering whether to build another factory in North America to counteract toe effect of the Calling US dollar on the prices of imported cars in the US, as workers in its Puebla, Mexico plant, producing the new Beetle went on strike for higher
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        104 25 HARLEY-DAVIDSON Is planning an ambitious expansion drive to more than double its market ahare in Europe. The Milwaukee-based company, which recently teamed up with Porsche of Germany to develop a new family of engines, hopes to lift its share of the European "heavy-bike" market from 6.3
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        77 25  -  tafMhr Christopher Tan MG ROVER has clinched another major fleet sale. In a contract worth £11 million (5527.9 million) at showroom prices, MG Rover, in partnership with Arnold Clark Finance, will supply up to 1,000 cars over three years to John Menzies and
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      1259 26  -  For investors of a capital guaranteed fund which has lost 35% over 10 years, fund manager DBSAM is offering options which include rolling over into a new capital protected fund, genevieve cua has the details GENEVIEVE CUA A CAPITAL guaranteed fund investing according to Islamic principles has closed
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      269 27  -  UNIT TRUSTS Bryan Lee LOOKING for a slice of the $1.7 billion guaranteed fund market, OUB Optimix Funds Management recently launched its first capital-assured product. Aimed at deposit-based and first-time investors, the Optimix Guaranteed Fund is a Singapore-dollar closed-end fund with a fixed term of
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      1107 27  -  Dive in selling activity has led to surge for index though any excitement is capped by buyers lying low By Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Asia Insider Limited. He is assisted by Ngia Soon Chai in Singapore Although systems integrator Datacraft Asia Ltd
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      550 27  -  Price-to-book ratios for tech companies have been crashing and it doesn't bode well as the falls are likely to be due to inflated book values Bu Russell Tan PICK any tech company especially one that's been on an acquisition spree over the last five
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      589 27  -  Continuing sluggish US growth could mean more than 20% correction for Dow to about 8,000 By Jacques Chahine THIS week, we ask, "Just how weak are key economies, and how will weaker economic growth impact stock markets?" The recent US employment report for July was reasonably
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      1706 28  -  YOUR MONEY Are people getting the best deals In today's commission-driven Insurance Industry? The lack of transparency makes a strong argmnent for going term and Investing the rest genevieve cua THE Life Insurance Association last week released some eye-pop-ping numbers: total sales in the first
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      246 29 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose one point to 978 the Baltic Panamas Index (BPI) gained 17 points to 985, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD firmed two points to 7,777 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was down 13 points to 1,087. ♦Chang Ho (built 2000) 80,416
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      697 29  -  Govt in talks with underwriters to cnt massive w&r risk premiums By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Sri Lanka's deepening port crisis appears set to ease as the Sri Lankan government is negotiating to post a guarantee of up to US$5O million in exchange
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      168 29 [SINGAPORE] Up to 60,000 Malaysian seamen are looking to form a union to improve pay and work conditions, according to a report in the Malaysian Shipping Times. The paper said unionisation would also help Malaysian shipping companies overcome crew shortages experienced worldwide, by establishing
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      292 29  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Amsterdam Seaports showed a 10.5 per cent jump in transhipment traffic year on year during the first half of 2001, and authorities remain confident of a record year despite a big loss of container traffic. Incorporating the ports of IJmuiden/Velsen, Beverwijk,
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      381 29 Reuters [MANILA] Philippine port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) posted net income of 3.09 billion pesos (*****.98 million) in the first half, but would have been in the red without one time gains from the sale of foreign
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        710 30  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer SEAFARER is no "bleeding heart liberal" but it does strike me that the designation of Sri Lanka as a war risk for cargo purposes and the addition of an extra insurance premium to cover it by the Lloyd's Underwriters'
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          65 30 [SINGAPORE] An international passenger terminal will be developed at Indonesia's Belawan port beginning this year. The Indonesia Port Co announced the move in an effort to attract international investment in the project which reportedly will require 60 billion rupees (Ssl2 million) to fluid. Currently occupied
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          85 30 [SINGAPORE] The Suet Canal will be dredged to a maximum draught of 66 ft to enable vessels up to 210,000 dwt to pass through, its authority announced last week. Planned to mark the canal's 45th anniversary since nationalism, the expansion is
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          51 30 [SINGAPORE] The Philippine Port Authority will build more shelters and halfway houses for passengers stranded at its major ports. Aimed primarily at assisting women and children victims of human trafficking, the first shelter—providing temporary food, accommodation and counselling—was built at the North Harbour terminal last
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          88 30 [SINGAPORE] The Thai customs department will have an all-encompassing electronic data interchange (EDI) system up and running by early in 2002. The system is currently processing 80 per cent erf all export Invoices and 70 per cent of import documentation, but will
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          51 30 [SINGAPORE] Indonesia is reportedly willing to be regarded as a flag of convenience state in its efforts to further open up its ship registry system. n»e new open registry policy will come into effect "as soon as possible" to empower the national fleet, MAT
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          122 30 Bloomberg {HAMILTON, Bermuda] Sea Containers Ltd, a cargo and ferry ship operator, said it will sell as many as 5 million shares of Orient-Express Hotels Ltd, or about a third of its stake, worth US$lOl million. Sea Containers will 9ell the shares on the open
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          100 30 [SINGAPORE] Evergreen and the Taiwan line's sister company Lloyd Triestino have cut capacity between Asia and the Mediterranean by using smaller ships on current routes. Avoiding any service schedule disruption, the lines are reported to have withdrawn all 3,BOOTEU ships from the Far East Mediterranean
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        745 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine OU Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices far a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesiaed stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        366 40 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's Macquarie Bank said it was looking to grow its airport investment base in Europe, but declined to comment specifically on rumours it was staging a Asl.s billion (5511.39 billion) bid for the UK's TBI pic. "We have a fund
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        582 40 Other US carriers likely to match its move Reuters [CHICAGO] American Airlines, seeking new ways to cut costs amid an industry downturn, is lowering commission caps for travel agents in a further move to squeeze the middle man out of existence. American, the
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        562 40  -  Cabinet to consider status report on national carrier before making decision on foreign investment caps By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The New Zealand Government will announce its decision on ownership options for Air NZ by its Sept 4 deadline
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        62 40 AP [TOKYO] Airline workers at Tokyo's Haneda Airport check-in counter are busy dealing with passengers as flights bound for western Japan are cancelled by powerful storm Pabuk yesterday. The storm, which was downgraded from typhoon status after losing power, lashed western Japan with fierce gusts
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        245 40 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Deutsche Lufthansa won the right to add new flights from Tokyo in May after Japan and Germany agreed in aviation talks to increase air traffic from the Japanese capital to Frankfurt. Japanese and German officials agreed to increase flights starting in May
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        189 40 Xinhua [PARIS] It is quite possible that the certificate of airworthiness of Concorde be restored by the end of August 2001, the FrenchBritish Joint work team on resumption of flights of the supersonic airliner said. The certificate was suspended on Aug
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      430 29 .—nn ff The Port of Oakland board has appointed Anfl Tfcy YosMtanl (right) as executive director, replacing Charles Foster, who is retiring. T Mr Yoshitani will move up from his current position I :as the port's deputy executive director, which he has S hekj for three years. He served as
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