The Business Times, 26 October 2001

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  • 847 1  -  It wins 56 seats, including 5 due to disqualification of WPteaminAlnutied Bui Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] The People's Action Party was returned to power for the ninth straight term when nominations closed yesterday, but there wasn't much jubilation. "I don't think we
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  • 825 1  -  COMMENTARY Byx Anna Teo ~W~ T'S the economy, stupid!" This I now-famous line in Bill ClinI ton's successful 1992 US presi- dential campaign against inJL. cumbent George Bush Senior has entered the annals of American election history. Come November 4, the day
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  • 935 1  -  Investors torn a blind eye to bad news on recession, war Fromi Catherine Ong in New York THE big question here is: Is the turnaround on Wall Street the real thing? After hitting bottom on Sept 21, the
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    • 210 1 DfSXDE BT Comment Property: Why 10% downpayment shouldnl be a contract, says Lee Han Shih. Mmxt Pmgm Top Stories M 1 shareholders abort sale of firm, citing weak *97 SMRT interim profit dives 54%. Pg 9 Exec Lifestyle Going J potty over Harry I EL U f-QYQf story Close lights
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    • 677 2  -  But benefits are greater for home buyers By] Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] A statement from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday allowing part of the 20 per cent cash downpayment to be deferred is good news for private home buyers. The benefits to developers,
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    • 960 2  -  Maker of anthrax antibiotic accused of potting profits first Froml Catherine Ong in New York BAYER AG, the German pharmaceutical company, has a problem any company would love to have: soaring demand for a patented product. Yet, the manufacturer of Cipro, the
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    • 792 2  -  COMMEMTARY By Lee Han Shih THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's "new" rule on cash downpayments could open the way for some speculation in residential property and this time, the government should encourage it. On paper, the MAS rule that allows developers to accept
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 57 2 IT seems that you can now officially be a Jedi in the United Kingdom. Jedi, the fictional faith in Star Wars films, has been coded by the UK Office of National Statistics to appear in the next census, because so many people listed it
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      • 53 2 THE numbers are looking good for the Workers' Party candidate for Nee Soon East, Poh Lee Guan. He arrived at a nomination centre in a new saloon with the numberplate 3886 considered to be a lucky number because, in Cantonese, three sounds like "alive"; eight, "prosperity";
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      • 147 2 GREAT thinkers don't always have their best ideas lazing in the bath (Archimedes) or watching apples fall from trees (Newton). In a story on how the climate and creative buzz of California attracted many Nobel prize-winners, the San Jose Mercury News interviewed Nobel laureate for
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    • 63 2 fjBI Results of tender for _hW| taxable book-entry Government eH| ItSm 2001 due 1 February 2004 to be issued on 2 November 20flH| Tenor approx. 2 years Amount Offered Allotted 552,000,000,000 llHhhqS Interest/Coupon Rate 3.500% p.a. Average Yield Price 1.74% p.a. and on Allotment 104.745% Cut-off Yield and Price 1.75%
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    • 10 2 War on terrorism: Rises in US insurance rates, Pg 16
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    • 203 3 cOrus *1* i i*i 1^ opens on a high note in Malaysia Celebrate with Corus as MingCourt Vista Hotel Kuala Lumpur and Paradise Lagoon Hotel Port Dickson join Corus |HBF»W Regal hotels, one of United Kingdom's leading hotel |HHV groups. Owned by The MUI Croup, the 97 hotels span the
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  • GENERAL election
    • 1045 4  -  ELECTION J&l&n Bes&r GEC and single-seat wards Chna Clin Kang and Nee Soon East could be among the hot spots By] Eugene Low THE fight for several single wards and five-member GRCs could prove to be stiff for the ruling People's Action Party. Jalan
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    • 377 4  -  Bu Teh Hooi Ling OPPOSITION Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will focus on economic issues in the current election, its secretary-general, Chee Soon Juan, said yesterday. "(This general election) is one of the most important ones in the history of our nation,"
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    • 655 4  -  Bnt he says winning margin of 60 per cent and above of votes "wonld be good' By* Anna Teo WITH the opposition contesting fewer and fewer seats in elections, the margin of votes has become a "less reliable" measure of performance
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    • 428 4 "Today is Day Three of my political life but Day One of my 2007 campaign Khaw Boon Wan, former MTI permanent secretary and newly-returned MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC "This is not a time to express your unhappiness over personal problems. Send a strong signal to people
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    • IN brief
      • 51 6 VOTING on Saturday, Nov 3, opens at Bam and closes at Bpm. Eligible voters in contested wards will begin receiving their poll cards today, and all should receive them by Monday. Voters can check their polling details at the Elections Department website at
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      • 90 6 THE Singapore Broadcasting Authority said it will provide TV and radio airtime for party political broadcasts during the election campaign. Eligibility for airtime will be determined by the number of candidates fielded by a recognised party. Those fielding fewer than six candidates, and independents, will
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      • 68 6 FORMER SDP candidate Low Yong Nguan was seen at Greenwood Primary School, the nomination centre for Nee Soon Central, Nee Soon East and Sembawang. When questioned, he said he was there to support the PAP's Ong Ah Heng, who is vying for Nee Soon Central.
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      • 69 6 SDP chief Chee Soon Juan's brains work faster than his tongue. "Let's talk about Sing Tel and the acquisition of Dao Heng. Have we overpaid for these companies?" he said, when asked if he was advocating a "spend, spend, spend" policy. He meant, of course,
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    • 718 6  -  Most eyes on former MAS MD Th&rm&n; but Hng Ki&ng is 2nd finance minister Byi Chuang Peck Ming THE announcement yesterday that Dr Richard Hu is stepping down didn't cause as much excitement as the big question his departure raises who's going to
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    • 570 6  -  ►USUI ELECTION Statutory declarations omitted name of electoral division By\ Serena Ng THE Workers' Party will not be contesting in Aljunied GRC because all its five candidates' nomination papers were found to be incomplete when they were submitted yesterday morning. WP chief Low Thia Khiang
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    • 1146 6 East Coast GRC and Joo Chiat SINGLE-SEAT ward Joo Chiat wUI be a straight fight between the PAP's Chan Soo Sen and an independent candidate, property executive Ooi Boon Ewe. Mr Chan told reporters he is not afraid of a chaUenge. If elected, he
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    • 547 6  -  By\ David Boey THE upgrading scheme for Housing and Development Board flats was criticised yesterday by opposition politician Chiam See Tong, who claimed it was an election offering of the People's Action Party that has "failed miserably". The Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) chairman,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 575 7  -  By Genevieve Cua THE rate at which Centred Provident Fund (CPF) savings sitting in the Ordinary and Special Accounts is being invested in insurance slowed sharply in the third quarter, reflecting heightened caution as well as possible investor fatigue. In
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    • 250 7  -  Byi Chua Hui Min MAINBOARD-LISTED Informatics Holdings yesterday bucked the downtrend, announcing first-half earnings growth of 25 per cent. After-tax profit for the six months ended Sept 30 rose to $9.6 million. Turnover was up 16 per cent to $100.8 million, while earnings per share
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    • 458 7  -  Bids for Ml believed to be nnder par; partners will continue to fond its growth By l Conrad Raj THE shareholders of cellular phone services provider Mobile One have halted the planned sale of the company because of poor economic conditions.
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    • 595 9  -  Repayment to LTA for asset purchases slashes interest and investment income By i Christopher Tan A RARE drop in train ridership in recent months has emerged as a major worry for listed rail operator SMRT Corp, which reported a
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    • 341 9  -  By. Angela Tan COMPUTER cable servicing company Lantrovision yesterday launched the first initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the US and all 39.18 million new shares have been taken up on the back of the group's
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    • 345 9  -  Discnssion reported to be about network services deal By' Tang Weng Fai OPTUS, the whoUy owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, is in talks with Hutchison Telecommunications Australia about their network services contract. According to a report in the Australian Financial Review yesterday, Hutchison Australia has
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 59 9 DBS Group and Singapore Telecommunications have jointly set up a company, Integrated Payment Venture Pte Ltd, through which they will own stakes in Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd or Nets. On Sept 10, Nets announced that it had selected a consortium
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      • 99 9 CHEW Eu Hock has asked that trading in its shares be suspended from 9am today ahead of announcements of some corporate exercises and its full-year financial results to July 31,2001. The company also said that based on discussions with the auditors and on the
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    • 176 9 Bloomberg CREATIVE Technology Ltd yesterday saw its biggest three-day stock rally since May 3,2000 on expectations the largest computer sound card maker may weather the economic slowdown by cutting costs and offering lower-priced models this Christmas. The shares, which were down 50
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    • 321 9 Bloomberg ST Assembly Test Services Ltd (Stats), Asia's second-largest chip tester, said it wants to set up chip packaging services in Taiwan to extend its revenue stream beyond its Singapore base. Stats paid US$2B million (5551.2 million) three months ago for a 51 per
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    • 774 9  -  locksievv anthony rowley THE litany of bad news on Japan's economy has been unceasing, and yet the Tokyo stock market seems to have become completely inured to the dismal tidings. Having sunk to an 18year low approaching the 9,000 level a few weeks ago,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • Article, Illustration
      333 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 25 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 229.00 -165.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +1.00 BT 10-day MA *****.00 +23.00 DBS 50 Index 458.32 -2.67 0C8C90 454.80 -2.90 /UkSGEjMftfes 375.79 -1.59 SGEqaitfes Elect 108.26 +2.40 SG Equities Fin 1178.69 +2.47 SG Equities Prop 357.74 +0.67 MSCt Singapore 174.76 unch SiMSO
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    • 261 8  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANTS By' Ven Sreenivasan KEPPEL Corp, after rising sharply in recent days amid rumours it could be headed for a merger with SembCorp, pulled back yesterday when the two companies confirmed that talks are taking place.
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    • 776 8  -  I-li comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE pattern of trading yesterday did little to dispel the notion that the local market is now dominated by intra-day and other short-term players prices moved in narrow range before closing mixed, an outcome very much in line with
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    • 555 8  -  I=ll comment CURRENCIES Some players unsure if greenback can sustain pace of recent gains larry wee THE US dollar held firm in Asia yesterday, revisiting a July 18 high of 551.8320 on renewed yen weakness, as well as continuing concern
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  • 3668 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS *b»rd»in Am* Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio American Opport Fd 0.715 0.751 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.135 1.170 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.854 0.897 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.927 0.975 Global MNCFd 0.635 0 668 Global Technology Fd!** 0.478 0.502 Indonesia Equity Fd'** 0.590 0.620 Japan Eqty
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 314 11  -  ■R7=roh the economy visitor arrivals By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE tourism felt the impact of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the US last month, with visitor numbers sliding 3.1 per cent year-on-year the sharpest contraction since April. As expected, arrivals from the Americas were hit worst,
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    • 162 11 CITIBANK yesterday launched yet another credit card, this time aimed at customers in their twenties. Called the Citibank Clear because it is translucent, the bank is offering applicants who sign up an interest-free instalment plan and rebates on professional courses. The card
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    • 276 11 WITH debit card spending proving to be somewhat re-cession-proof, the Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Nets) expects to see 10 per cent growth as people turn cautious. While credit card players are already reporting flat growth for card billings, spending
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    • 314 11  -  MAILI^m Eric Lim Yew Tou Director Chemical Industries (Far East) Ltd I REFER to the letter "Three questions for Chemical Industries" by M Bhaskar (Mailbag, Oct 18). We thank Mr Bhaskar for his interest in our company and would like to clarify the three
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    • 490 11  -  Seniors voice concerns over plan for lawyers to donble as estate agents By Kalpana Rashiwala A PROPOSAL for lawyers to double as real estate agents has been referred to three sub-committees of the Law Society, after nearly two hours of spirited discussion yesterday evening
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    • 457 11  -  BT Online forum sees company chiefs, SIAS, public logging in By Paul Chan A FOCUSED strategy, strong human capital, innovation and financial prudence are critical success factors, say the winners of the inaugural BT/LEK Shareholder Value Scorecard (SVS), in an online forum hosted by The Business
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    • 262 11  -  By Raju Chellam THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) and DBS Bank are the first two organisations here to collaborate with Microsoft Corp to develop Web-based services that will be delivered through Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system. Microsoft Singapore revealed this yesterday at
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 731 12  -  Bi!l=l bottom line OPINION toh han shih Dr Toh Han Shih is a Singapore-based technology writer who contributed this article to BT THE Chinese are coming. China is drawing investors around the world. But it's not a one-way street We should also look
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    • 109 12 'Will burning the haystack find you the needle? Or will it escalate the anger and make the world a living hell for all of us?' Anmdhati Roy Indian novelist. on America's war against terrorism in Afghanistan. 'PCs are a commodity now. Most of the margins have been
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    • 551 12 EDITORIAL ON Monday, a govern-ment-appointed committee announced that it is studying proposals to give companies greater leeway when executing their share buyback schemes. The proposals are aimed at streamlining current buyback rules and if implemented should help revive flagging interest in share buybacks. For instance, companies
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    • 1355 12  -  There is very little donbt that anti-terrorism will help shape US international relations over the next few years From Leon Hadar The writer isßT's Washington correspondent in Wash ington BEFORE Sept 11, the conventional wisdom that dominated the foreign policy community in Washington
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    • 492 12  -  COMMENTARY Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group IF you are designing an "economic stimulus", you need some notion of what you're doing and why. The idea is not just to throw money at the economy on the theory that one dollar is like any other. The
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    • 414 12 Merrill Lynch International Co. C.V. To: All holders of European Style Yield Enhanced Share (YES) Warrants issued by Merrill Lynch International Co. C.V. relating to the ordinary shares of DBS Group Holdings Limited Dear Sir Madam. EXPIRY OF WARRANTS The rights comprised in the European Style Yield Enhanced Share (YES)
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 533 13 SINGAPORE Fallout from Sept 11 will hit Taiwan and Korea hardest; India likely best performer Reuters ASIA'S technology and airline companies are expected to see the biggest profit declines this year Compared with last year, with Taiwan and Korea the hardest-hit countries,
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    • 350 13  -  From I Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur HUAREN Management Sdn Bhd expects to have found a buyer for up to 17 per cent of Nanyang Press Holdings by the end of this year. "We are currently in talks with
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    • 282 15 MANILA Bloomberg FIRST Pacific Co, a Hong Kong company that controls i the Philippines' biggest phone company, is not seeking to sell its stake in *Manila-based property developer Metro Pacific Corp, a Metro executive said. Business World reported, citing an unidentified potential buyer,
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    • 507 15  -  Mr Akbar is accused of having taken 40b rupiah from Bnlog From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIAN president Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday authorised the questioning of parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung by the attorney-general in connection with a major corruption scandal, a move
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    • 537 15 JAKARTA Reuters FOUR years of economic crisis, political mayhem and violence are starting to test the stamina of some of Indonesia's more hardy stockbrokers which are cutting jobs and giving up opulent office space to survive. "We have to be realistic, we cannot keep
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    • NOTE Book
      • 81 15 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Seagate Technology, the world's leading provider of storage technology for Internet, business and consumer applications today launched its newest Consumer Electronics Testing and Engineering Center (Cetec) in Singapore. The Cetec labs would serve to help consumer electronics customers in Asia to integrate
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      • 109 15 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared the head of the stock exchange of allegations of insider trading in the shares of Cosmos Bottling Corp, the nation's second-biggest soft-drink maker. "There is no material non-public information to speak of that directly affected
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      • 73 15 Bloomberg [MANILA] Coca-Cola Co and San Miguel Corp agreed to spend 11.6 billion pesos <Ss4o7 million) to buy control of Cosmos Bottling Corp, to extend their domination of the Philippine soft-drinks market and shut out rival PepsiCo Inc. San Miguel and Coca-Cola will pay 6.09
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      • 74 15 Reuters [BANGKOK] The state-owned Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT) said yesterday that it would seek a foreign partner at the end of this year ahead of a planned listing on the Thai stock market. TOT president Sutham Malila said it would go ahead with
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      • 103 15 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai environmental authorities have approved the construction of a controversial gas pipeline from the Gulf of Thailand to Malaysia, Thai state energy firm PTT pic's senior vice-president for its gas business, Prasert Bunsumpun, said yesterday. He expected gas flow to begin by late
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      • 70 15 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd, the sole operator of the country's 37 airports, said third-quarter profit rose 18 per cent on an increase in passenger traffic. Profit rose to RM48.2 million (Ss23 million), or 4.39 sen a share, in the three months ended
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      • 63 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT International Nickel Indonesia, a unit of Canada's Inco Ltd, said profit in the third quarter of this year fell 94 per cent because of low prices. Profit in the three months ended Sept 30 fell to US$l million from US$l6.3 million in
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  • WORLD news
    • 446 16 WASHINGTON But Fed Beige Book report points to recovery from Sept 11 attack AFX, LAT-WP A SLEW of poor economic data released early yesterday raised the odds of a 50 basis point Federal Reserve rate cut next month, analysts said,
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    • 254 16 war owm.j.iauL'.i NYT [NEW YORK] The US terrorist attacks have triggered steep insurance price increases across the country, raising costs for small businesses, factories, farms, and homes, as well as the largest corporations. Far from being limited to cities and companies that seem most
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    • Political front
      • 111 16 LAT-WP, AP [WASHINGTON] In a surprisingly downbeat assessment, a senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday that the Taliban has proved to be a tough foe and warned that US forces face a difficult struggle to dislodge the regime's troops from the crowded cities of
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      • 67 16 AFP [LONDON] Chief terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden bought anthrax spores by mail order at least three years ago, according to one of his chief lieutenants, a British daily reported yesterday. Osama paid £2,500 (556,500) to buy the bacteria through an Islamic separatist group in
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      • 71 16 AFP [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan authorities have detained a former top government nuclear scientist over links between his relief agency and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, a military spokesman said yesterday. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, who was a project director in Pakistan's nuclear programme in the lead up to the
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    • 439 18 WASHINGTON Protectionism is not the answer to the Sept 11 attacks, says Fed chief NYT, Reuters CALLING globalisation "the antithesis of terrorism", Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, set out a case on Wednesday night for continuing to knock down trade barriers and integrating
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    • 410 18  -  WTO forecasts sharp trade slowdown; SE Asia worst hit From D Ravi Kanth iti Gerteiw THE World Trade Organization yesterday presented a downbeat assessment for global merchandise trade this year. It projected a sharp slowdown in growth to 2 per cent in volume
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 132 18 AP Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] New orders for US big-ticket durable goods fell 8.5 per cent last month, the lowest level in five years, led by a slump in bookings for aircraft and automobiles while the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose
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      • 89 18 Bloomberg ITUKYUJ Sony Corp had an unexpected second-quarter loss as prices for electronic products and components slumped. The loss masked the first profit for its game unit since the Play Station 2 console's debut in March 2000 and a turnaround for its
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      • 88 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The House on Wednesday narrowly approved a US$lOO billion tax-cut package that House Republicans and President Bush said would help revive the slumping US economy. The House Bill, approved on a party-line vote of 216-214, focuses on corporate tax reductions
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    • 626 19 NEW YORK Many shift focus to bonds, bat analysts sound note of caution NYT THE overwhelming majority of workers are frightened about the declining value of their retirement accounts, and nearly half intend to change their investment strategy if the stock market remains weak at
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    • 243 19  -  From Neil Behrman in London ADVERTISING revenue of the Financial Times, the UK business publication, slumped by 40 per cent following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US. Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson, owner of the FT, said in a Wall Street Journal
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    • 1024 16 Notices Sim Siang Choon Ltd (Incorporated in Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2001 Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Company will be held on Friday. 16 November 2001 at 21 Changi South Avenue 2 Sim Siang Choon Building Singapore *****0 at
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    • 1965 17 LION ASIAPAC LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF 31ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the 31st Annual General Meeting of Lion Asiapac Limited (the "Company") will be held at The Conference Room at 10 Arumugam Road #10-00 Lion Industrial Building Singapore *****7 on Thursday
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    • 1375 17 CybemKQst Limited NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Cybermast Limited will be held at 627 A Aljunied Road, #07-02, Biztech Centre, Singapore *****2 on Friday, 16 November 2001 at 10.00 a.m. for the following purposes: As Ordinary Business 1. To receive
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  • 2579 18 Transaction date: Oct 25 KUALA LUMPUR vol »M COOP) A M Realty 0.75 unch 0 ADnc 1.85 -0.01 163 ACP Industries 2.75 unch 28 Advance Synergy 0.46 0.01 35 Affin Holdings 0.23 unch 2 Ahmad Zaki Res 3.72 0.02 3 AlCCorp 3.62 -0.02 1 Aikbee Res —.2.29 0.01 854
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    • 128 21 I Going potty over Harry H JWUp The boy-wizard Harr\ Potter has indeed cast a strong spell: not oni have hlS 00^s crea ted waves in the publishing world. J WMA MBKf I have also spun a movie ancl a whole arra\ of products. PARVATHI NAYAR looks at the Potter
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      • 1733 22 US Muggles may engage in some make-believe wizardry on Halloween tomorrow, but for super-fast Nimbus 2000 broomsticks and silvery Invisibility Cloaks in short, Real Magic make a date with Nov 22, the local premiere of a much-anticipated film. Not forgetting there's an assortment of action figure
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      • 171 22 HARRY Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (also called '...the Philosopher's Stone' in some markets) is where the saga starts. Harry Potter is an orphan living with the Dursleys his uncle, aunt and cousin who collectively redefine "obnoxious". What with boa constrictors exchanging chatty banter and unexplained instances of
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      • 627 23  -  Dining at the Tanjong Pagar restaurant was a rather interesting, but tricky experience for CORINNE KERK BRING your sunglasses. That was the advice someone proffered before my recent visit to Shev Shev Restaurant Wine Bar. Apparently, dark glasses can come in handy because the white walls in
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      • 118 23 CRAVINGS IT hails from China, is small, hairy and thin-shelled. Most of all, it has golden roe or milt and it is yummy. Yes, the Shanghai hairy crabs are now available for your dining pleasure steamed, tender and served piping hot with a piquant black
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      • 199 23  -  Compiled by Corinne Kerk LIKE fungi? Then check out the mushroom festival at Le Meridien Singapore's Cafe Georges. From now till Nov 17, some 15 varieties of mushrooms from eight countries will be served. Diners can have their appetisers prepared in the Chinese, Japanese, Italian or Indonesian
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    • MUSIC
      • 667 24  -  ...and his fans went wild as he posed, preened, pandered and pouted his way into their hearts, reports TAMHWEEHWEE TAN HWEE HWEE MOST teen idols pushing 30 tend to end up in bargain bin at HMV, but last Saturday night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Robbie
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      • 125 24 Robbie Williams, SOMEBODY SOMEDAY Ebury Press Word* by Mark MoCrttm Photos by Scarlet Page Border*, $49.06, 256 pp SINCE Robbie Williams didn't talk to the local media while he was in Singapore, the royal jester of pop's new autobiography is probably the only way
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    • CINEMA
      • 1504 25  -  By Susan Tsang THIS week offers typical Hollywood fare, where bland commercialism rules. The Princess Diaries is your predictable, pleasing comedy, Training Day is a violent actioner which doesn't stand up to logical scrutiny, as the set-upon hero rises, Energizer-bunny-like, from repeated bashings, and Hardball is a commercial
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      • 103 25 Cathay Causeway Point 767 1588 Orchard 732 5874 Cathay Movie Line 235 1155 Eng Wah Empress 777 5867 Jubilee 454 1640 Suntec 836 9074 Sun Plaza *****47 Toa Payoh 251 1370 West Mall 898 9230 Qolden Village 24-hr easy booking; 1900-912-1234 Bistian Boon Lay Eastpoint Grand Marina
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      • 531 25  -  'Band of Brothers', a 10-part mini-series about World War 11, costs HBO USsl2om to make By i Cheah Ui-Hoon MOVIES and shows about war are as common and compelling as those about love. Which is why they are never far from our cinema
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      • 1073 25  - Life and death in the ghetto 'Training Day'and 'Hardball' both portray the bleakness and violence of the hostile nrban landscape Byi Geoffrey Eu THE international war on terrorism may be indelibly seared onto our collective consciousness right now, but for Americans, another war on the home front conspicuously absent from
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    • THE ARTS
      • 473 26  -  By. Aaron Lye THERE'S really nothing else like it out there right now as a look back at the world of English theatre in Singapore, Theatre Life! A History of En-glish-language Theatre In Singapore through The Straits Times (1958-2000) could well be the definitive work
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      • 858 26  -  Adrian Pang, star of the forthcoming Barefoot in the Park, talks to PARYATm kayak about the play and why he came backlo S'pore PARVATHI NAYAR "WITH all the trouble today, you see a couple of newly-weds, you figure here's hope for the world." Neil
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      • 740 27  -  Cambodian dancer Em Theay, who survived the Pol Pot years when nine out of every 10 dancers were killed, tells chkah ui-hoom her story CHEAH UI-HOON THE period: the mid-*****. The scene: dancers from the Cambodian royal palace displaced, scattered. Some, like Em Theay, are working the
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      • 516 27  -  By\ Frank DeMeglio The writer is a classically trained concert pianist from the University of Michigan STAGE presence and charisma are what often makes or breaks a live performance. When encountered in a performing artist, their force is unmistakeable. During his performance last Saturday,
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      • 1009 28  -  Whether adding an aristocratic touch to a racing event or being stranded on a high mountain, the globe-trotting Princess Michael is always a picture of glamour, tamhweeewee discovers TAN HWEE HWEE DON'T care much about ■I fashion," ■H Princess Michael told me. That's a surprise, coming from a
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      • 618 28  -  Writing started as a hobby for Atima Srivastava, but it just took hold of her By Tan Hwee Hwee "EVERY trip back to India was traumatic," Atima Srivastava says, recalling the trips she made back to India every three years. Born in Mumbai, the author of
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    • 168 25 Meet Mr Tan, Our MD Many have tried to convince him to hang up his tools and stay behind the desk, but Mr Tan insists on a more hands-on appoach. And when you consider that m. Hemsley has already had 29 successful years with f just this sort of approach,
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 290 29 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed six points to 897, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost four points to 882, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell 35 points to 7,006 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down nine points to 1,028. TCME-GBA1OT2B: ♦Marina (built 2001) 76,500
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    • 263 29 SU 000 oaa a n CWT DHtrUxjtton 0.52 0.02 10 Chun Hup 033 met) 194 Coice Investment—0.22 0.01 1563 Freight Links 0.06 unch 590 GSHoMngs 0.39 unch 0 IMC HoMngs-HK —5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.16 undi 200 KappalCorp 120 -0.06 5832 KappelFCLS U54 unch 125 KeppelMarine Oil
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    • 589 29  -  PAO Princess Cruises expects 4th quarter occupancy rates to hit 95% By 1 Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] In a sign that the travel industry may be slowly getting back on its feet, UK cruise operator P&O Princess Cruises said it expects fourth quarter
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    • 340 29  -  By 1 Beth Jinks [SlNGAPOßE] Leading port industry R&D experts will be in Singapore next week to share the latest research, practices and experiences from around the globe during the Inaugural Conference on Port and Maritime R&D Technology. Organised by the Maritime
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    • 298 29  -  By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Most major container lines have agreed to raise their rates for US exports of wastepaper, hay and scrap metal to Asia, claiming eroded margins made shipping the cargo less economical than sailing with empty space. From December,
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    • 58 29 [WASHINGTON] The Joint Venture High Speed Vessel (HSV) as she cruises during a recent US Army training exercise. The new high-speed cargo ship that resembles a huge catamaran just returnedfrom an 18-day voyage from Tasmania, Australia. The HS\ is capable 0f35-40 knots and it sailed back from Tasmania
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    • 764 29  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar JAPANESE shipping major Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) recently won an action to stay proceedings against it in Hong Kong for the misdelivery of cargo shipped on its vessel. The shipment was for carriage of cargo from
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      • 729 30  -  The First International Conference on Ballast Water Management, to be held here next month, will see experts come together to help battle against environmental threats posed by ballast water, beth jdiks reports BETH JINKS AN estimated 12 billion tonnes of ballast water are carried
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    • 245 30 PACE Ahrenk* Appensl* 5 Assets 5 Avant 10 BtangMas 6 BSA T BSC 9 BTL 10 Baiap 4 Batamindo 9 CMACGM 3 C0SC0 3 Central Ex 6 Chahaya 10 CtmaSlvq 5 Confer 10 t Cougar 7 CWT Gtobetmfc 6 Detmas 4 Diak Lloyd 6 Dongnama 3 EP
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    • 12846 35 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voy age Teiepfton* SIM OwT» Nana H— Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire OS/11 07/12 Kien Hung NORTHERN ENTERPRIS ETWS 65-*****33 05/11 U/B CMA CGM COM RENOIR MGW 65-*****00 07/11 28/n MOL MOL SASSANORA 0603A 65-*****66 07/11 M/B Deimas
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      • 808 39 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Depart u Spc Capncor *****3 25/10/194: Bt Harapan 3 ***** J01 25/10/825 25/10/641 BtJaMSur ***** J01 25/10/8:05 25/10/164: Bt Satria 3 ***** J01 25/10/84)0 25/W20J Tropical 28 19*01 J07 25/10/855 25/10/17:0 Bud*aftari2 B***** J04 25/10/8:25 25/10/18 0 Winstar 8 K36S01 J03 2S/K»/84)5 25/10/221
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      • 1967 39 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/EM Mice Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To Fron AOU OHAN C1S3I 27/WO 24/1500 24/1*5* 24/1*00 U 24/1700 25/045* 25/0*00 21 24/1700 25/045* 2 VOW 3 2V0700 25/115* 25/M00 4 29/1200 25/M9* 2VT700 MJFM.COM 0221 27/2030 K 2A/190C
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      • 200 39 October 29 Ireland: Halloween Weekend October 31 Taiwan: President Chiang Kai Shek's Birthday November 1 Belgium: All Saints Day Finland: All Saints Day France: All Saints Day Italy: All Saints Day Philippines: All Saints Day November 3 Japan: National Culture Day Sweden: All Saints Day November 11 Belgium:
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      • 816 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine 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
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      • 575 39 Carbon 180 Mai 977.1 0.4 M.5 0.06 34 0.04 Oct 18 Density Watar lni*N Ask Atumrmim Sediment No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 380 Ave 987.4 02 14.1 0.07 36 0.02 t— 380 Mai 9912 0.6 17.4 0.10 47 0.04 wwi v/v M/»
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      • 487 40 Govts to work closely to cope with rhallpngA faring transport industry AFP, Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Southeast Asian countries are expected to rationalise airline routes because of the drop in the number of people flying since the Sept 11 attacks in the
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      • 307 40 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Airlines (JAL), Asia's biggest carrier, said October bookings for overseas flights fell 40 per cent from a year earlier and it may cut capacity further to adjust for slumping travel demand after the terrorist attacks. Bookings for
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      • 513 40 Govt aid not enough to combat revenue plunge, higher costs Bloomberg [FORT WORTH, Texas] American Airlines parent AMR Corp had a record US$4l4 million loss in the third quarter as a slumping US economy and the Sept 11 hijackings reduced travel demand and led to
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      • 216 40 AFP (AMSTERDAM] Schiphol airport in Amsterdam has introduced iris scans as a new way to check the identity of passengers. According to Schiphol airport authorities, iris recognition is a quick and reliable form of controlling the borders. At the moment, the scans
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      • 635 40 President to decide if 28,000 baggage screeners should be pat on govt payroll Reuters [WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush will fight hard for passage of a Republi-can-sponsored Bill to make airports safer, the White House said on Wednesday, indicating he would not
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      • 307 40 US leisure fares slashed 40%, some intl fares cut Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Major US airlines matched AMR Corp's American Airlines, the biggest carrier, in reducing some US leisure fares about 40 per cent and cutting some international ticket prices to spur demand after the
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