The Business Times, 30 October 2001

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg^ SINGAPOR It TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. 2001 85C
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  • 78 1 □sn U3UL74 (-17.51) 68&2S (-7.77) st index nmnss 1,401 (-21.00) □ffIMSCI FUTUIES 17L5 (-3.00) STOCK MAMET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COUP ***** -6.61 NIKKEI 225 19,***** -***** HANG SENG 10.17&09 -226.65 SET INDEX 278.16 -144 JAKARTA COMP -3.49 MANILA OOMP m84 -7.68 TAIPEI WPI 4,065.10 +21.53 SEOUL COMP
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  • 68 1 FOEEX KATES us$ s$ USS (SS per USS) 1.832 £(USS/SS per 1.442 1641 EURO(USS/5S/E) 0.896 1.642 DM 2.182 1.191 YEN 122J 66.90 RM 3.800 2.075 HKS 7.900 4.258 BAHT 44.83 24.47 RUP1AH 10,276 5,609 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 JAKARTA ..39.00 HONGKONG 5.50 TAIPEI .6J2 TOKYO 1.175
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  • 1188 1  -  If SDP chief doesn't take his words back, he'll have to suffer the consequences Byl Eugene Low, Vince Chong, Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] If opposition candidate Chee Soon Juan does not unconditionally withdraw and apologise for the allegations he hurled at Prime
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  • 803 1  - CapitaLand launches $740m property trust S'pore's first Sing Mall Property Trust to offer 740 million units to investors at price of $1 each By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Capita Land launched Singapore's first listed property trust worth $740 million yesterday, pitching the fund to investors for its defensive appeal amid recessionary
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  • 713 1  -  Worst HI, warnings of a Ist full-year loss unnerve investors By. Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines suffered one of its biggest dives in the stock market yesterday after its worst interim results announcement and warnings of a first ever full-year loss
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  • 173 1  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines has extended its specially discounted fares to include 11 European and four US destinations at up to 50 per cent off Under the expanded promotion, fares to each of the 15 destinations are priced
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    • 68 1 dbbpe Top Stories Outlook gloomy, but BOJ Policy Board unmoved. Mm*f Pmge GK Goh to axe 60; up to 30% pay cuts for execs. Pg 4 Keppel wins nod for condo at harbour site. Pg 7 Stanchart seriously eyeing Indonesia's BCA. Pg 10 BT Comment Are latest Guangdong TV deals
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    • 52 1 This GE is about my programmes: PM Goh. Next Page Boon Heng: Chee's got his figures wrong again. Next Page PAP'S Low Seow Chay rues PM's 'hidden agenda'. Next Page WF« 'quick fix' solutions to end downturn. Pg 3 More reports, Pg 3 Capita Land's Rett: not for individual investors?
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    • 524 2  -  Inaction comes amid news of sharp plunge in industrial ontpnt From 4 Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan's Policy Board again declined to take any fresh monetary initiative at its meeting yesterday, even as it predicted severe contraction and deflation
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 82 2 INFAMOUS hacker Kevin Mitnick, who served almost five years in a US prison for stealing corporate secrets, plays the role of a CIA computer expert helping to stop a renegade intelligence group in an upcoming TV show. Mr Mitnick features in the ABC spy series
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      • 51 2 MULTEX.COM recently spent a small fortune in overseas mail charges distributing a post-card advertisement to potential clients in Singapore. But the card didn't say what the company actually does. For those who are wondering, Nasdaq-listed Multex provides investment information and technology solutions for the financial services
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    • 590 2  -  Tony Tan and Cheow Tong debunk SDP's economic proposals W Chuang Peck Ming, David Boey [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said last night that the Nov 3 election is a fight for his compassionate meritocracy programmes. This is why posters
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    • 603 2  - Boon Heng: Chee's got his figures wrong again He has confnsed wages with labour competitiveness By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng yesterday refuted claims by Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan that the wages of Singaporeans were one of the lowest in the world. Dr Chee
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    • 627 2  -  He suggests PM's good words for SDA's Steve Chia aimed at keeping out Chee Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] PAP incumbent for Chua Chu Kang, Low Seow Chay, suggested yesterday that the "hidden agenda" behind Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong rooting for his
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    • 114 2 IN yesterday's report under the headline "PM: Give Tharman 3 months to build grassroots rapport", a production mistake resulted in a transposition of the first paragraph from another story. Here are the correct opening paragraphs of the report: "Give him three months, and new PAP candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam should
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  • GENERAL election
    • 404 3  -  By Anna Teo THE Workers' Party last night called for the return of the "people's bank" and further cuts to ministers' salaries, as two "quick-fix solutions" for the economic downturn. Yaw Shin Leong, a member of the WP's Aljunied GRC team that was
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    • IN Brief
      • 87 3 NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng said a new $400 million Jurong General Hospital will be built at the present Pioneer Junior College site in Jurong Town Hall Road and be ready by mid-2006. Mr Lim, who is heading the PAP team for Jurong GRC, said
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      • 66 3 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said the PAP is ready to lend its candidate at Potong Pasir a hand if he needs it reversing Mr Goh's earlier stand to let the candidate, Sitoh Yih Pin, fight his own battle against incumbent Chiam See Tong.
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      • 130 3 ECONOMISTS at the Trade and Industry Ministry have completed a study that shows that without foreign workers, Singapore's economic growth over the last decade could have been as much 20 per cent lower, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said. "Common sense will tell us that
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      • 65 3 THE job matching service initiated by the PAP's Jurong GRC team has offered at least 70 jobs to workers as at 1 pm yesterday, NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng said. He expects more job matches in the days ahead. The service, which
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    • 263 3 'It's not very fairfor me that the Prime Minister tries to campaign for my opponent. We all know there is some agenda hidden behind his words. But whether we reserve the (non-constituency MP) seat for Steve Chia or other opponents, it's not up to me to say
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 451 4  -  Philippine unit to be suspended; steps will not be enongh to keep group in the black /it/] Ling Su Ann GK GOH Holdings, which is facing its first operating loss since listing, yesterday said it will shed 60
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    • 262 4  -  By] Ling Su Ann UNITED Overseas Land (UOL), which last month proposed to sell Tiong Bahru Plaza mall to GRA Singapore, yesterday said the sale has been called off. In a statement to the stock exchange, UOL said: "The company wishes to advise
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    • 728 4  -  locksiew quak hiang whai CHINA'S decision to allow two foreign-linked media groups to legally broadcast in the south of the country has created much excitement. Some analysts see the move as a prelude to further liberalisation of the broadcast market and possibly the
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    • 383 5  -  This follows news of its plan to pay ont $50m in cash to shareholders By' Ven Sreenivasan INTRACO'S shares soared to their highest levels in four months following the company's announcement last Friday of plans for a massive cash distribution.
      Source: Reuters  -  383 words
    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 65 5 CONSTRUCTION, property and hotel group Low Keng Huat said net interim profit fell 56 per cent to $1.2 million, on the back of a 9 per cent drop in turnover to $81.5 million. It said full-year performance is expected to be satisfactory with
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      • 53 5 FISH farmer Qian Hu Corporation yesterday said net profit for the nine months ended Sept 30 fell 8.5 per cent to $2.1 million. Turnover was up 17 per cent to $29.7 million. Directors expect exports and overseas sales to continue making positive contributions
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      • 63 5 ST Assembly Test Services said it has established a wholly owned unit, Fastßamp Test Services, to provide high-end engineering and pre-production test services in Silicon Valley. The 34,000 sq ft facility will house the new test facility, Stats' existing test development centre in
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      • 44 5 ks i v ludge nuiumgs saiu a wiiuuy uwriea unii nas agreed to pay $1.2 million for systems integrator Icon Precast Pte Ltd and its backlog contracts, which amount to $5.3 million for FY2OOI and FY2002.
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      • 37 5 PROVISIONS Suppliers Corporation (PSC) said yesterday its substantial shareholder PSC Holdings (1988) Ltd is in negotiations to sell a part of its stake in PSC to an unrelated party.
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      • 70 5 THE Ascott Group said that as of yesterday, Dennis Foo Moo Seh has stepped down as joint company secretary and chief corporate officer. He is now managing director (Australasia) and is in charge of leading the company's business in Australia and New Zealand. Chief investment officer
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      • 30 5 GP Industries said it has raised its stake in GP Batteries International to 45.15 per cent through the open market purchase 0f207,000 shares.
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    • 496 5  -  Sats expects H2 revenue to fall, SIA Engg to defer completion of 4th hangar Hy\ Donald Urquhart ALTHOUGH Singapore Airlines' catering and engineering subsidiaries posted significantly higher interim profits, they say fragile market conditions mean they will approach acquisitions with greater caution
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • Article, Illustration
      328 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 29 VALUE CLOSE BT06/DS 176.00 47.00 BT CAIN -*****.00 -103.00 WT 10-day MA *****.00 +18.00 DBS 50 Index 451.42 -7.02 0CBC30 448.08 -6.93 At-SG Equities 372.27 -3.90 SG EaaMes Beet 109.07 -2.84 SG Equities Fin 1180.02 +1.99 SG Equities Prop 349.86 -2.89 MSCI Siagaperw 170.54 2.89
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    • 312 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines stock plunged to a week's low after the company announced a sharp fall in first-half earnings and said it faces a full-year loss. It sank about 9.5 per cent, or 90 cents, to $8.60
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    • 830 6  -  I>il comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan A SHARP sell-down of Singapore Airlines and other blue chips weighed down the local stock market yesterday, dragging the Straits Times Index below key support at 1,400 points. The fall was also in tandem with the regional trend, with
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    • 533 6  -  I I comment CURRENCIES Local unit hits 3-month low of 551.8330, before ending unchanged at 551.8305 larry wee THE US dollar yesterday carried over a noticeably softer tone against most major currencies from late last week, but this did not stop it
      Source: Reuters  -  533 words
  • 3608 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.723 0.760 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.135 1.170 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.855 0.899 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.919 0 966 Global MNCFd 0 638 0.671 Global Technology Fd!** 0.505 0.531 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.592 0.622 Japan
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 444 7  -  Condo will have 204 homes; go-ahead also for new projects by Hong Leong nnits By Kalpana Rashiwala KEPPEL Group has won provisional permission (PP) for its second condominium project on the 32-hectare former Keppel Harbour site. The approval, granted last month, is
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    • 337 7 JTC Corporation's gross allocation of wafer fab land plunged 95 per cent in the third quarter, with just 1.1 hectares of land taken up against 21 ha in Q2. And at Jurong Industrial Island, gross allocation of similarly prepared industrial land fell 68
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    • 126 7  -  MAILUEISHi Sheo S Rai Senior Consultant The PR Company Pte Ltd Singapore I READ the column "Skimping on PR cost may do more harm than good" by David Boey (Hock Lock Siew, Oct 23) with great pleasure. Singaporeans in general still do
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    • 476 7  -  on the economy outlook By Eugene Low THE off-Budget measures announced this month, as well as subsequent speeches by top policy makers, point to fundamental changes in Singapore's economic development strategy, according to a Morgan Stanley report. Daniel Lian, an economist with the investment
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 820 8  -  m,\4 bottom line OPINION frank ching Frank Ching is a Hong Kong-based freelance writer CHINA'S rapid economic transformation during the last two decades spurred much debate over whether economic reforms will inevitably lead to political reforms, or whether the country will remain as repressive
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    • 78 8 'We want our consumers feeling confident There's nothing like boosting confidence than a little extra money in the pocket' -GMrgft W Bush the US president, on speeding up tax cuts to help the economy. The violation of regulations is regarded as normal. Moreover, it's frequently done with
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    • 543 8 EDITORIAL SINO-AMERICAN relations seem to have undergone a sea change since the Sept 11 suicide attacks in New York and Washington. In fact, this international scourge brought their relations back to an even keel. Mutual suspicions after US President George W Bush took office have
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    • 1021 8  -  That's what's migging resulting, regrettably, in a plundering mentality and treating the world as an endless source of short-term profit' From, Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent in Tokyo SHORTLY after last month's attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, a
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    • 658 8  -  COMMENTARY By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University NYT CYNICS tell us that money has completely corrupted our politics, that in the last election big corporations basically bought themselves a government that will serve their interests. Several related events last
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  • FOCUS property
    • 632 9  -  i l comment PROPERTY It may have attracted good response from institutions, but they are not always right lee han shih Barring another catastrophe on the scale of the attacks on New York's World Trade Center, Capita Land's long-awaited real estate investment trust (Reit)
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 562 10  -  High level team from London &re in Jakarta totalktolbra From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta HAVING lost out once in its bid for a prominent Indonesian bank, UK-based Standard Chartered Bank is now seriously looking at the possibility of trying for the country's largest bank.
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    • 447 10  -  Bat earnings from operations dip due to higher provisions Froml Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur NATIONAL power company Tenaga Nasional yesterday reported an expected jump in net earnings of 58 per cent to RM2.I billion (Ssl billion) for the year ended
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    • 266 10 KUALA LUMPUR AFX MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday the government is carefully evaluating the offers of several companies which have expressed interest in taking over sewerage services company Indah Water Konsortium (IWK). He said parties interested in taking over Indah
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    • 174 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the country's economic growth in the third quarter was less than one per cent from the year before, as the Sept 11 attacks prolonged an export slump. The economy grew 0.5 per cent
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    • 264 10 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg SUNWAY Holdings Inc. a Malaysian builder and toll-road operator, said it hired J P Morgan Chase Co to work out a plan to repay US$79 million to bondholders. The company sold US$llO million of Eurobonds to institutional investors
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    • 475 11 JAKARTA Country's bank rescue agency may seize its assets as it faces insolvency AFP, AFX INDONESIA'S PT Bank Unibank halted operations on debt concerns and may have its assets seized by the country's bank rescue agency as it faces insolvency. The central bank
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    • 642 11  -  Reduce poverty, go beyond tariff cots, speakers at WEF summit urge WTO Front, Audrey Tan in Hong hot/;/ THE terrorist attacks have driven home the point that globalisation needs to be redefined and made to benefit all. participants at the World Economic Forum's East
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    • 346 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S top commodities official has criticised United States officials for failing to spell out clearly standards for Malaysian natural rubber gloves, which has hurt its attempts to increase sales there. Spreading worries over anthrax outbreaks in the United States
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    • 138 11 BEIJING Reuters CHINA has amended its trademark law to help combat rampant counterfeiting and bring legislation in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) regulations, state media and anti-counterfeiting lobbyists said yesterday. But Beijing has yet to meet brand owners' demands to make
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    • NOTE Book
      • 105 11 Reuters [BANGKOK] The Bank of Thailand (BOT) yesterday cut its forecasts for economic growth this year and next saying the September 11 attacks on the US had dealt a further blow to the global economy. The BOT's monetary policy committee cut its 2001 gross
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      • 80 11 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Toyota Motor Corp plans to export six times more vehicles from its factories in Thailand, as it aims to make the country its regional manufacturing centre. Toyota, also Thailand's largest car maker by market share, plans to ship about 100,000 assembled
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      • 62 11 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra plans to retire from politics in eight years at the age of 60, the Nation newspaper reported. The English-langauge daily quoted Mr Thaksin as saying in an interview that it was "human nature" to slip into
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    • 283 12 HONGKONG Only those who qualify under a planned institutional investors scheme are eligible Reuters BEIJING is considering a proposal from Hong Kong's financial authorities to allow mainland investors to buy Hong Kong-listed shares, a top mainland Chinese securities official said yesterday. Beijing
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    • 153 12 Bloomberg (HONG KONG] China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Ltd said former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will join the panel of international advisers for China's thirdlargest oil company. Mr Kissinger, who served between 1973 and 1977 under Richard Nixon's presidency, is also
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    • 227 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg JARDINE Strategic Holdings Ltd, which has been trading out of southern China since 1832, will price its US$3OO million bonds by Friday after marketing to investors globally this week, bankers involved in the sale said. The Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd unit
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  • WORLD news
    • Political front
      • 71 13 AFP [WASHINGTON] US forces may soon establish a base in Afghanistan designed to support 200 to 300 commandos in the war against the Taliban regime, USA Today reported yesterday, quoting a senior defence source. Up to 600 soldiers would provide security and logistical
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      • 49 13 AFP, Reuters [ISLAMABAD] The Taliban yesterday said an unspecified number of Americans had been arrested in Afghanistan. "There have been arrests," Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef told a news conference here when asked if any Americans had been arrested in Afghanistan. —AFP, Reuters
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      • 62 13 AFP [KABUL] Anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have agreed to launch a new offensive "within the next two or three days" to take the key northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif after a war council of commanders in the region, a spokesman said yesterday. Opposition forces are currently
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      • 87 13 AFP [WASHINGTON] Some 150 to 200 core members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network have illegally fled Afghanistan in the past two months, human smugglers in neighbouring Pakistan have told Newsweek. The so-called "travel agents" told the weekly news magazine that the al-Qaeda operatives were
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      • 78 13 Reuters AP [WASHINGTON] The US Supreme Court convened yesterday at a different location for the first time since its building opened in 1935 after the discovery of anthrax on a filter at its off-site mail inspection warehouse. Meanwhile, a New Jersey postal worker
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      • 48 13 AFP [WASHINGTON] A special US unit is training with Israeli commandos to find and, if necessary, disarm Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case of a coup against President Pervez Musharraf, the New Yorker magazine reported yesterday, citing past and present government officials. —AFP
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      • 46 13 AFP [RIYADH] Osama bin Laden was not behind a string of bombings in Saudi Arabia that has killed several foreigners, deputy interior minister Prince Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz said yesterday. "In the kingdom, we have no proof against him. Nothing." —AFP
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      • 59 13 AFP [LONDON] British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon issued a sharp warning yesterday to British Muslims not to go to Afghanistan to join the Taliban's fight against the USled attacks. He said any Britons who joined the ranks of the ruling Taliban militia could face death in Afghanistan
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    • 385 13 NYT [NEW YORK] Microsoft had a big day last Thursday as it not only introduced its new Windows XP operating system but also upgraded its flagship website, MSN.com. Windows XP and its coming-out party in New York got rave reviews, yet
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    • 389 13 U WASHINGTON Figure expected to go down to USsl2ob as slowdown bites Reuters THE White House was expected to report the first Budget tally for fiscal 2001 yesterday, with an accelerating decline in the US economy eroding the surplus by about US$3O billion to US$4O
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    • 167 13 AFP [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's Prime Minister escaped assassination yesterday after his guards intercepted a suicide bomber who blew himself up and killed three other people in the capital, officials said. Plain-clothed police deployed to protect Ratnasiri Wickremanayake were about to search the
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    • 440 14 SEOUL Move to ride ont global chip slump, grab market share as weak firms fail AFP SOUTH Korea's Samsung Electronics Co (SEC) unveiled an aggressive plan yesterday to ride out a prolonged slump in the global technology industry by accelerating production of new
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    • 233 14 TOKYO Bloomberg NOMURA Holdings Inc is in talks to buy a stake in a San Francisco-based investment bank, aiming to offset falling revenue at home by returning to a market it retreated from after losses three years ago. Japan's biggest broker may buy a
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    • 342 15 LOS ANGELES Deal would make Echo Star the largest pay TV provider in the US LATWP Bloomberg, Reuters IN a deal that would create the United States' largest pay television provider, General Motors Corp has agreed to sell its Hughes
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    • 181 15 LOS ANGELES NYT THE California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced that it has received the largest gift to a university, US$6OO million, from longtime Intel Corp chairman Gordon Moore and his wife Betty. The gift, the latest from entrepreneurs who built fortunes in the
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    • 194 15 UKVPTIC CROSSWORD 30 Play including Latin ton, musical scale (8) 31 The international river of oblivion (5) row (9) the way (5) 32 Poke swindler inside who 9 Image of foreign coin (4) YecTPnnAvc cm i mruj had suspended proceed- 14 Look after duc*s in th. cfty 9 ic 4
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  • The China Experience
    • 1147 16  -  Now's the time to make the move before opportunities dry up in a few years, writes loh hui yin LOH HUI YIN MARKETING our vast store of management skills is one way for Singapore to stay relevant to a China developing at supersonic speed. But
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    • 676 17  -  Opportunities are many in China but, warns andreatan, so are risks ANDREA TAN, IT'S a tough market, with opaque rules and cut-throat competition. But no one can afford to ignore China's potential not least, Singapore's developers. Target cities for developers like Capita Land or Keppel
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    • 565 18 A keen student of Chinese affairs, Hoong Yik Luen has put his knowledge to use by writing New China Rising. Here is an extract from the book. For all their differences, the Internet and China will have some similar impact on the world at large. Both are
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    • 505 18  -  By LOH HUI YIN HOONG Yik Luen, an equity fund manager, has spent the last nine of his 11 years of working life covering the Chinarelated market. He and his lawyer wife Chung Wei Han, a specialist in Chinese corporate law who works for international law
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    • 1141 19  -  Govt will offset hits to the trade sector with further pump-priming, writes David y m seto David Y M Seto The writer is China economist at HSBC Hongkong THE Chinese business cycle is likely to gradually trend down over the course of next year, although
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    • 721 20  -  What's in store for entrepreneurs eyeing China? Is there really money to be made, or is it mostly hype? Five local businessmen, who have taken the plunge in this challenging market, talk to loh hui yih about their impressions and experiences, their frustrations
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      631 20 If you can endure hardships, there will be good returns, says Preston Shaw WANDERLUST and an upbeat outlook about China has yielded business opportunities for Singapore businessman Preston L J Shaw. His business in China spans real estate and fast food, even a trading firm in far-flung
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    • 606 21 But Francis Quek sees changes coming to the work culture COMPROMISE, compromise and compromise. That seems to be the corporate culture in the thousands of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE), according to Francis Quek, one of the few foreigners to work in an SOE. Says Mr Quek, who
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    • 592 21 It's not easy to do business in China, but you can't ignore it, says Peter Ng PROPERTY consultant Peter Ng is a frequent flier to Hongkong and China these days. This month alone he has already chalked up at least three business trips to the two
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    • 586 21 Peter Wong was initially reluctant but Shanghai won him over INVESTING in China was the last thing on pub owner Peter Wong's mind after he made his mark on the local scene. But these days he is a cheer-leader
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    • 298 18 WfifffrnGatewav To High-Tech Manufacturing In China The Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park (wsip) is a world-class facility managed by SembCorp Parks Management, a subsidiary of SembCorp Industries. It is "Jk■ a self-contained and integrated industrial park designed for high-tech and electronics manufacturing. High-tech industries that will find the Park ideal include: Electronics
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    • 171 21 11 (lid oHjH'- ft 30 October 1 November 2001, L Hall 603, Suntec Singapore Opening Hours: 10am to 6pm (30 -31 Oct 2001), 10am to spm (1 Nov i<f'ftf| JfeC *I" show for your are a box maker/buyer/specifier, produ^sT carton box producer/maker, printer, machinery/equipment manufacturer, raw materials Corrugated Asia 2001
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  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 1178 22  -  Adopting Noel Tichy's concept of 'leaders teaching leaders' has helped two companies take their organisations to the next level reports jambs KENNETH JAMES FOUR years ago Robert M Smith was, by his own admission, more of a manager than a leader. A vice-president
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 277 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell seven points to 884, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost four points to 872, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) dropped 13 points to 6,954 and the Baltic Capes ize Index (BCI) was down 13 points to 1,006. TIME-CHASTEB: ♦Cape Kestrel (built
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    • 268 23 SSX '000 oa» $t w CWT Distribution 0.49 -0.01 10 Cosco mvitwwnt 0.22 -0.01 373 Fr*lght Links 0.06 unch 30 GBHoMkigs 0J9 unch 0 IMC HoMngiHK 5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holdings 0.16 -0.01 465 K*pp*ICorp 3.14 -OS* 1329 K*pp*IFELS 154 unch 67 K*pp*t Marin* 0.20 -0.01 3580 Kw*i
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    • 544 23  -  R&D ventures with foreign firms will create opportunities for mntn&l benefit Reports by) Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore should be used as a "test-bed" for new maritime technologies, an international marine research and development conference was told yesterday. Speaking at the inaugural International
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    • 402 23 But cargo volumes most justify construction, conference told [SINGAPORE] Massive container vessels built to carry up to 15,000 TEUs are now technically feasible and economically viable if cargo volumes meet capacity, two leading classification societies told an international maritime conference in Singapore yesterday. Both Lloyd's Register
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    • 166 23 [SINGAPORE] Chemical tanker giants Stolt-Nielsen, Vopak Chemical Tankers and John T Essberger will combine their European coastal fleets from December. Subject to European Commission approval, the new joint venture operation will trade under the name Vopak Essberger Stolt ChemPool and will have 35
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    • 506 23 Port yet to feel foil impact of Sept 11 terrorist attacks Reuters [HONG KONG] Traffic at Hong Kong's Kwai Chung container port fell for a fifth consecutive month in September but the full impact from the attacks on America could
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 547 24  -  One billion yn&n project at Port of Longtan expected to be completed in three years By 1 P T Bangsberg NEARLY five years after announcing grand plans, work has finally got under way on the largest container terminal on the Yangtze River in
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      • 154 24 [SINGAPORE] It sank during the Viborg sea battle of 1790, but modern marine technology has helped uncover the treasures of the ill-fated Swedish line ship Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta. Archived data records gave the salvage expedition a general location of the ship, which was
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    • 159 24 PACE Appcmhip 5 Assets S BSA 7 B'tang Mas 6 CMACOM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 6 Central Ex 6 China Shfxj 5 Cougar 6 CWT Glotwlink 6 Oetmas 4 0)ak Lloyd 6 Dongnama 3 ECL 4 ECU line 5/6/7 Evergreen 6 Foong Sun 5 Fuhai 6 Fu|itrans
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    • 8866 29 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone Name Ham* Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvoire 07/n SA2 cosco empress phoenix orow 65-22tmo M/n IS/12 IXmas HYUNDAI GENERAL 334W 45-*****44 n/n 21/12 China Shpg VILLE OE TANYA 401W 65-*****90 tt/n 07/12 Kim Hung EXCELLENCE CONTAIN
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      • 787 31 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Trtasan 64/01 29/10/700 30/10/700 Yurishma 01-F«b J05 29/10/6:55 29/10/13:30 Marmevrtue ***** J09 29/10/8:30 29/10/16.00 Auiia Seraya 34/01 J15 29/10/8:35 29/10/2000 WinsUf 1 141S01 J03 29/10/7:15 29/10/2200 Pioneer 76 J06 29/10/905 05/11/900 BayswaterllB M1260 J02 29/10/7:20 29/10/22.00 Pvtnmanda«i2 JD1002 JU 29/10/9:35 29/10/1700 Jasa
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      • 1936 31 RECEIVING Of EX POUT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/B*Unc» Rstls Ship VoyNo Etb/Btr Period From _To From ao*w» no 31/u 01 u 21/800 21/1*59 21/1*00 a 21/1700 n/otii a/o*oo a itrnoc n/o*59 29/0900 3 w/oroo a/1159 a/woo 4 a/goo ;ww 29/itoo ACX MACNOUA 043A WM i 21/800
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      • 201 31 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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      • 822 31 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 mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 412 32 Only 10% of S'pore freight forwarders have gone online: TDB-IDA survey [SINGAPORE] The transport and logistics sector was urged yesterday to intensify efforts to look for innovative ways to transform itself into e-busi-nesses. This was crucial in today's highly competitive business environment that is
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      • 297 32 Funds most be found by end of month to ensure their survival: Cross&ir AFP [ZURICH] Three subsidiary companies of failed airline Swissair need 204 million euros (*****.5 million) in the short term to survive, a report said. Andre Dose, managing director of Crossair, said
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      • 213 32 AFP [TAIPEI] Philippines Airlines (PAL) has begun flights between Taipei and Shanghai via Manila, increasing the options for Taiwanese wanting to travel to mainland China. Direct flights between Taiwan and China have been outlawed for decades. Beijing considers the island a renegade
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      • 542 32 Board member John Creighton takes over James Goodwin's job Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp, parent of United Airlines, said chairman and chief executive officer James Goodwin quit four days after the carrier's biggest union demanded his ouster. Board member and Unocal
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      • 397 32 Two plans being considered in merger with one of China's major airlines AFX [SHANGHAI] Wuhan Airlines is currently at a "key stage" in its negotiations over a possible merger with one of the country's major airline groups, an official in the airline's general
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      • 198 32 Bloomberg [LONDONI Engine maker Rolls-Royce is expected to get development work worth more than US$l billion from the Joint Strike Fighter programme, awarded to Lockheed Martin. The UK company will make the plane's vertical takeoff system. Rolls-Royce said the development phase of the fighter,
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    • 24 23 China begins long-delayed work on Yangtze terminal mrti Swissair units need 204 m euro bail-oat Back Page Wuhan Airlines merger talks at crucial stage
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