The Business Times, 12 November 2001

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 com.sg/ SINGAPORE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2001 85C
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  • 69 1 STOCK MA&KET INDICES Week Change STI uc.77 +H10 SD4SCI FITCRE_167JQ +170 BT-SRI 461.71 +8J8 KLSE OOXP 599.44 +180 NIKKEI 1W1W1 -118.97 HANG SENG -423.19 SET INDEX 288.11 -111 JAKARTA COMP-177J4 -HI MANILA OOMP _909i79 +4*4 TAIPEI WPI 4,***** +126J0 SEOUL OOMP 676.76 +24.18 SHENZHEN B ***** -7J0 AUST
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  • 69 1 FOBEX KATES uss ss USS {SS per USS) L817 £(USS/SS per 2) L466 1661 EURO(USS/SS/E). 0898 L631 DM 1171 1.199 YEN 120.7 6140 RM 1800 1091 HKS 7.800 1291 BAHT 4149 2149 RUPIAH 10,566 1816 PUKE tins SINGAPORE* Uft KUALA LUMPUR 140 BONO KONG MO JAKARTA #.00 TAIPEI Ml
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  • 807 1  -  i I exclusive Autonomy law, new S'pore Consulate are opening up opportunities From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta A GROWING number of Singapore companies doing business in Indonesia are locating their factories and operations on the Riau mainland in Sumatra instead of the
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  • 533 1  -  From Ravi Kanth in Doha, Qatar TAIWAN won admission to the World Trade Organization yesterday, gaining the unanimous approval of WTO members barely a day after China. Its entry was formally approved by Qatari Economy Minister Youssef Kamal, chairman of the WTO conference now under
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  • 746 1  -  Pillexclusive By Genovieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Australia's second-largest financial planning group has acquired the agency sales force of Insurance Corporation of Singapore, in a deal that has surprised even the insurance players who bid for the 195-strong sales team. The acquisition by Professional Investment
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  • 590 1  -  Downgrading of economic forecast is worrying markets From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S surprise admission last Friday that its economy will contract by nearly one per cent in the current fiscal year is expected to batter the Tokyo stock market this
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    • 417 2  -  Contract awarded for 37b baht airport which will be ready by December 2004 From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND is making a bid to become the region's air transportation hub with the opening of its new international airport in 2004. An ambitious
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    • 488 2 Rebonnd on the back of higher auto, chain store sales AFX [WASHINGTON] US economic indicators to be released in the coming week will show consumer spending recovered in October, with retail sales back into positive territory after a sharp fall the
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    • 1055 2  -  The Fed probably knows the two aren't the same thing for US economy, says Anthony Rowley Anthony Rowley IT HAD been a year or more since I called Alan Greenspan at the US Fed. That was back in the halcyon days
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    • 973 2 BAN JOO COMPANY LIMITED 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 Thursday. 29 November 2001 at 95 South Bndge Road #07-28 Pidemco Centre Singapore *****7 at 3.00 p.m. to transact the following
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 801 4  -  Tom Jones is taking Citigronp's global investment and private banking business places By Angela Tan HE'S no Hollywood sex bomb or hip-grinding crooner, but Citigroup Inc's Tom Jones sure delivers some sexy numbers of his own. The chairman and chief
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    • 494 7 Any rise likely due to cost savings and data revenue growth: analysts AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom's earnings will likely remain unimpressive over the next three years, with any marginal growth seen likely to be driven largely by cost savings and growth in
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    • 375 7  -  By Vince Chong MAINBOARD-listed HTL International has called an extraordinary general meeting on Nov 28 to approve a proposed bonus issue. The wholesale leather upholstery maker wants to hand out one new share for every two existing shares held, as
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      316 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 9 VALUE CLOSE BTO&QS -267.00 +54.00 IT CAIN -*****.00 +93.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -27.00 on 50Wn 441.70 +11.38 0C8C30 436.11 +11.60 AMGEpHn 367.18 -*-6.40 SflhcMnEltt 107.94 +3.34 1128.80 +30.37 SG EmMm Prof 353.27 +14.38 MSC1 Statapor* 163.62 +4.66 SiMSCI Futures 167.90 +3.90 Stocks Volume Datacraft
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    • 262 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy CHINA plays have certainly been hot over the past few months, thanks to the market's expectation that the country would soon gain membership into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This finally happened on Saturday. An additional
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    • 788 6  -  BTM.I.'.ImU.H STOCKS r. sivanithy AFTER Friday's session, all Wall Street indices are now standing above their pre-Sept 11 levels, completing a recovery from their Sept 21 lows that took seven weeks to accomplish. In five of those seven weeks the major US indices posted gains
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    • 570 6 But yen's steady rise tempered by fears that BOJ will intervene AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies ended last week higher against the dollar as the greenback was hit by uncertainty over the US economy following the terrorist attacks on New York
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  • 3475 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aherta— Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio American Oppon Fd 0.727 0.765 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1149 1.184 China Opportunities Fd!** 0 862 0.906 Coot Euro EqtyFd!** 0.955 1.004 Global MNCFd 0.645 0 678 Global Technology Fd!** 0 518 0.545 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.574 0.604 Japan
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    • 164 6 Market Notices ♦INFORMATICS Holdings Ltd will go ex-dividend (interim dividend of 0.40 cent) on Nov 19. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on Nov 22. Date payable is on Dec 7. ♦INTRACO Ltd will go ex-dividend (special dividend of 11.0 cents) on Nov 9. Last day for
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    • 475 7 I COPING WITH RECESSION How SMEs May Benefit from Government Measures Schemes Friday, 23 November 2001 9.30 am -12.30 pm CLSF Boardroom, Pidemco Centre Singapore is experiencing its worst economic downturn since independence. How can SMEs cope? Find out more about government measures and schemes that you could tap to
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 324 8  -  37% of visitors to career portal's S'pore section in Oct are from abroad By Anna Teo UNEMPLOYMENT may be hitting a high here, but there appears to be no lack of interest in job opportunities locally, especially from abroad. One online career portal, monster.com, registered
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    • 228 8 THE government is keeping to its forecast of a 3 per cent contraction of the Singapore economy this year. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told reporters yesterday at the closing ceremony of the Clean and Green Week that there were no signs
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    • 486 8  -  Asia is fastest growing market for e-learning firm Rti Anna Teo NASDAQ-LISTED SmartForce said to be the world's biggest e-learning company is moving its Asia-Pacific headquarters from Sydney to Singapore. While others in the industry have had to scale back their investments
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    • 339 8 4on the economy exports DESPITE the rise of the Chinese economy, South-east Asia will still figure prominently as a key target market for Singapore's exports and services industries, says Idea Global. Neighbouring South-east Asia will remain the main engine of growth in
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    • 351 9  -  Deborah De Souza (Ms) Executive Public Relations Officer for Chief Corporate Development Officer Housing Development Board I REFER to the letter "Options for elderly HDB homeowners" by Juliana GY Ling (Mailbag, Oct 25). We would like to inform Ms Ling that HDB has
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 550 10  -  I -li comment KL STOCKS Farther strengthening of economy can only be good for stock market eddie toh THE Malaysian economy still has a clean bill of health despite the rapidly deteriorating global economy. Latest data from Bank Negara shows that the country is
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    • 177 10 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S stock exchange revenue for the year to June 2001 tumbled 58 per cent as trading volume shrank on the slowing economy and the slow pace of corporate debt reorganisation. Revenue, derived mainly from clearing fees, fell to RM183.4 million
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    • 404 11 BEIJING This is the ninth cnt this year; further reductions not rnled out in future AFP CHINA has decided to slash the US dollar deposit interest rates for the ninth time this year and does not rule out further rate cuts in the future,
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    • 294 11 KUALA LUMPUR AP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has assured Malaysia's large ethnic Chinese majority that their rights will not be harmed by the prominent position of Islam. Dr Mahathir had raised concern among Chinese recently by declaring that the South-east
      AP; AFP  -  294 words
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      • 93 11 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday his government was commissioning American lawyers to take action against any US efforts to patent an American version of Thai jasmine rice. Mr Thaksin told reporters this would be an issue in talks with US
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      • 67 11 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines asked three prospective buyers of National Steel Corp to submit more details on their plans to rehabilitate and operate what was once the nation's largest steelmaker. Voest Alpine AG and Philippine companies Allengoal Steel Fabrication and Trading Corp and Cathay Pacific
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      • 42 11 AFP [HONG KONG] A newly formed coalition of Hong Kong political and non-political groups said yesterday a second term in office for unpopular Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa next year would spell disaster for the territory. AFP
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    • 209 11 MANILA Official says the amount may go up after Japan's appraisal AFP THE Philippine government has asked Japan for a US$l.2 billion financing package under Tokyo's aid budget, finance officials said yesterday. Socio-economic Planning Secretary Dante Canlas said the amount of official development assistance could
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    • 386 14 I NEW DELHI It's almost 20% of country's GDP; fake currency is another big problem: report AFP INDIAN tax-dodgers are cheating the national government of US$B5 billion of revenue every year, a report said yesterday. The Pioneer newspaper said the staggering sum accounted
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    • 416 14  -  LETTERfu.i..B..m.nEl al labita RUMOURS of a coup has kept swirling in Manila, fuelling speculations that President Gloria Arroyo has yet to command the loyalty of a polarised and politicised military. Though there are no unmistakable signs that a coup is in the offing, Ms Arroyo
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    • 3121 12 I ay O IC. FHTK HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of FHTK Holdings Ltd will be held at 20 Harbour Dnve #06-02 PSA Vista, Singapore *****2 on 28 November 2001 at 12 noon to transact the
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    • 476 13  -  Bot key differences still exist between indnstrialised, developing nations From Ravi Kanth in Doha DESPITE sharp differences among the 142 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the launch of a new round of trade negotiations, Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister
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    • 633 13 China s industries will see widely divergent impacts, ranging from near-disastrous to very positive, after the country's entry into the World Trade Organization, analysts expect. The need for Chinese enterprises and producers to speed up reform has become more urgent. Below is a list of industries
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  • 890 13 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices rallied for the second week running as Opec energy chiefs readied a hefty output cutback and leading non-Opec producer Russia signalled a willingness to jump aboard. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is expected to slash output
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  • WORLD news
    • 633 15  -  They also say Europe's consumers and investors don't respond to rate cnts From Neil Behrmann in London THE United States will rebound sooner than Europe and Japan, economists say. In addition, some economists are worried that European consumers and investors are becoming unresponsive
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    • 197 15 Bepart says it's preparing to offer USslob for th« company Bloomberg [LONDON] Thomson Corp, an electronic distributor of legal, financial and educational information, is preparing to offer US$lO billion for Bloomberg LP, the financial news and data company owned by Michael Bloomberg, the Observer reported
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    • 477 16 OMAHA Sept 11 claims came to USs2.3b; Buffett vows review of General Re Bloomberg BERKSHIRE Hathaway Inc had a third-quarter loss after US$2.2B billion in insurance claims from the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, prompting a mea culpa from its billionaire chairman, Warren Buffett. The company,
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    • 336 16 WASHINGTON Their deputies will decide which airlines will get loan guarantees AP THE board set up to supervise distributing US$lO billion in federal loan guarantees to the troubled airline industry in the wake of the Sept 11 terror attacks is losing its big-name members.
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    • 239 16 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said a further rise in the yen would be unfavourable for Japan, adding that he had ordered his staff to consider currency market intervention, a domestic newspaper reported yesterday. "A further strengthening in the yen would
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    • WAR ON TERRORISM
      • 118 16 Reuters [JABAL-US-SARAJ, Afghanistan] Afghan opposition forces, supported by relentless US bombing, advanced on several fronts yesterday and said they were ready to move cm the capital, KabuL The Northern Alliance, which on Friday took the key northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, yesterday said it had captured
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      • 97 16 AFP [LONDON] Prime terror suspect Osama bin Laden has the Ingredients for a nuclear bomb, but lacks the capability to make one, according to British Defence Minister Geoff Hoon. "We are certainly aware that he has tn his possession certain material that could contribute to a
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      • 90 16 Reuters [BEIRUT] Hizbollah called on Arab states yesterday to resist pressure from the US to freeze the guerilla group's financial assets. Ammar al-Moussawi, a senior official, said Washington was seeking to destabilise Lebanon's banking system and put pressure on Syria and Iran, who back HizboQah's
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      • 67 16 AFP {BANGKOK] Some 20,000 Thai Muslims gathered at a sports stadium here yesterday to pray for an end to US military action in Afghanistan. The nation's Islamic spiritual leader Sawat Sumallayasak, who led the rally, urged the nation's Muslims, who make up 5
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    • 518 18 SYDNEY Other concerns include economic management, tough border policy Dow Jones Newswires Bloomberg AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard yesterday said one of his first tasks this week after his reelection is to discuss the government's response to a bid by two Melbourne businessmen to
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    • 210 18 SYDNEY AFP IF John Howard does retire in 18 months time and hands over to his treasurer Peter Costello, then Australia would find itself run by a 44-year-old former industrial lawyer damned as mean and tricky by his own party allies
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    • 302 18 BOCA RATON, Florida New chairman Pitt reconciles agency with industry Dow Jones Newswires SECURITIES and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt cannot help but be nice to everyone, including his predecessor, Arthur Levitt. In an interview on Friday, Mr Pitt called Mr Levitt "a
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    • 413 18 fl NEW YORK Reuters TOP Wall Street firm Merrill Lynch and Co Inc once envisioned a global army of stockbrokers peddling shares and bonds from Hong Kong to Toronto, but no more. The New York-based firm is retreating from foreign retail businesses
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 85 18 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Ssangyong Motor Co creditors may approve a US$96l million bailout of the automaker today to keep the maker of Korando sport utility vehicles in business, Yonhap News said. Lenders to Ssanyong, whose debts have exceeded assets since 1999, may convert 1 trillion won
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      • 66 18 Bloomberg [BUENOS AIRES] Argentina's central bank said it would order the nation's banks to transfer to Buenos Aires about US$l.7 billion of reserves deposited in a Deutsche Bank account in New York. The central bank is seeking additional funds to cover deposit withdrawals after
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      • 67 18 AFP [TAIPEI] Some 2,000 workers took to the streets of Taipei yesterday to demand government action to combat unemployment. Their demands include subsidies for labour and health insurance for the jobless, education fees for children of unemployed families and severance pay for laid off workers. Taiwan's
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    • 350 19 It stresses crucial need for support by other key producers to avoid a total market collapse AFP [VIENNA] The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oU cartel is set to slash output by up to 1.5 mUlion barrels per day (bpd)
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    • 456 20 LONDON Report suggests possible layoffs following takeover by Dynegy Bloomberg NYT DYNEGY Inc's acquisition of Enron Corp is at too early a stage for either company to know how many UK jobs will be eliminated, an Enron spokesman said, after a newspaper
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    • 153 20 TOKYO Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc plans to establish two subsidiaries to buy bad loans from Asahi Bank Ltd, which is aiming to write off up to 300 billion yen (554.5 billion) of the shakiest loans in two years, an Asahi Bank official said
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    • 539 20 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US companies such as Microsoft Corp, Procter Gamble Co and Pfizer Inc are asking Congress to cut taxes on profits from overseas operations so that they would pay a rate of about 5 per cent compared with current rates of
      Bloomberg  -  539 words

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    • 309 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD §||ij ||g| Jatt BLl_ I 5 German physicist who was 1 Weak father having trouble green but (S) (8) 4& 9 Act appropriately as al( 6 Ru|ef wjth sma terrrto ry musiciansshould(6. 3,5,4) waft ter(7) 10 The sound of the hooter? (5) 7 Sense smaller portion is 11
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  • BizIT
    • 653 21  -  p exclusive As PC demand slows, customers want better service along with quality products, regional chief Alex Leung tells chem hoxfen CHEN HUIFEN FUJITSU PC Asia-Pa-cific is responding to the industry-wide slowdown in demand for PCs with plans to spend $20 million over the next
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    • 693 22  -  Its failure to penetrate US PC makers and the onset of big name competition is ominous, says paulcham PAUL CHAN Revolutionary pow-er-saving chips from six-year-old chipmaker Transmeta Corp are appearing in more and more ultra-light notebooks nearly every major Japanese notebook manufacturer
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    • 225 22 Hove typically signals start of battle to control company's direction Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co director Walter Hewlett, son of company co-founder William Hewlett, has hired a proxy-solicitation firm as he opposes the second-big-gest computer maker's planned US$l9.B billion purchase of
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    • 211 22 AFP [SINGAPORE] Increasing numbers of Singaporeans, led by company executives, are turning to cyberspace for entertainment, with visits to Internet game sites jumping 42 per cent in six months, according to a study released last Friday. Global Internet intelligence firm NetValue said 246,830
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    • IT TAKES
      • 53 22 SINCE the launch of Microsoft Window XP two weeks ago, police have seized over 4,000 pirated copies of Microsoft products, mostly copies of the new operating system, in seven raids across Singapore. Those convicted of piracy crimes can face jail terms of up
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      • 39 22 "TECHNO Achievers' Congress 3001: innovation creativity in the new millennium", will be held on Nov 15-16 at the Singapore International Convention Exhibition Centre. It is organised by Eventis International Pte Ltd. For details, e-mail iiifo@standflnt.com.
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      • 37 22 A TWO-DAY conference on "Electronic 828 trade: security and finance—linking the supply chain" will be held from Nov 19 at Shangri-La HoteL It is organised by IBC Global Conferences. For details, e-matifrederique borrtt@infifrma.com.
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      • 37 22 A TWO-DAY conference on "Asia Pacific mobile location services" will be held from Nov 20 at Hilton HoteL It is organised by IBC Asia Ltd. For details, fex *****87 or e-mail Juliana. lim@tbcasia.com.sg.
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      • 38 22 A SEMINAR entitled "Maximise ROI with your e-strategies", will be held on Nov 26 at The Pan Pacific Hotel. It is organised by Vignette Corporation and IBM. For details, fax *****92 or e-mail vicky@apcommunicationi.com.
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      • 32 22 A FOUR-DAY seminar, "Developers'Fest .win be held from Nov 20 at the Suntec City MalL It is organised by Microsoft Singapore. For details, visit www.microsoft.com/ Singapore/deafest or e-mail denise@apcommu7iications.com.
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      • 35 22 COMMERCE Exchange, which provides e-solutions for trade, finance and logistics, has appointed Ray Lee Hoo Cham as president of Comex HK Pte Ltd. Mr Lee was previously with IBM China/Hong Kong Ltd.
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      • 31 22 LEXMARK International has appointed Ng Chee Soon as managing director for the South-east Asia region. Mr Ng was previously regional director of market development for Asia-Pacific at Compaq.
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      • 37 22 PACIFIC Internet Ltd has appointed Eddy kuk as managing director for its wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary Pacific Supernet Ltd. Mr Kuk was previously director of sales and marketing for Pacific Supernet.
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      • 99 22  -  Compiled by Leo Kee Chye THE disk storage systems market m tne ASia-racmc (excluding Japan) for the first six months of 3001 recorded an increase of 4.7 per cent in revenue, and an addition of 14,325 terabytes in total capacity (up 93.6 per cent)
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    • 654 22  -  The machine, capable of lJ6t calculations per second, will be the institute's most powerful server By Tang Weng Fai THE Institute of High Performance Computing's purchase of IBM's latest mainframe-class Unix computer places it in the top 50 institutions worldwide measured
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    • 815 23  -  Its goal of becoming the country's No 2 telco service provider for businesses is well within grasp, officials say. serena mo has the details SERENA NG EVEN as local telecom bigwigs are finding themselves squeezed by competition and the economic downturn over the past
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    • 546 23  -  SAYlia Mew opportunities are opening up In movie theatres, shopping malls and In the video Industry vincent leung The writer is marketing director (Asia-Pacific), InFocus Systems WHEN you think of digital projectors, you get a picture of business presentations, training sessions, seminars and video-conferencing.
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    • 559 24  -  111 comment INFOTECH Putting a computer on the table of civil servants will not make Singapore a thinking society, if the people In front of the computers Insist on thinking the same old way lee han shih SO Singapore wants to create a
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    • 397 24 10% of households polled bought a product after receiving e-mail AFP ONLINE direct marketing via e-mail and Internet advertising is set to take off despite the global economic slowdown and dotcom bust, but improved technology is crucial, industry executives said. E-mail
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    • 265 24 Reuters [NEW YORK] Internet surfers flocked in late October to Xbox.com, the website dedicated to Microsoft Corp's new video game console, according to a new survey. Xbox.com drew 589,000 I unique visitors to the site during the week ended Oct 28, soaring 71 per
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    • 254 24 AFP [BANGALORE] A wireless telephone, known as the 'poor man's mobile' has gone down a storm in India's IT capital, a company official said. Subscribers in Bangalore can use their handset to make calls anywhere in the world as long as they are
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    • 704 24 Firm prepares to create wholly owned subsidiary for its operating system Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Handheld computing leader Palm Inc's faltering performance took down its number one executive last week, even as the company moved to separate its software and hardware operations. Chief executive
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    • 444 25  -  Consulting firm Andersen sees this Western trend taking hold in the region, reports chen huifeh CHEN HUIFEN AS Asian markets continue to deregulate in the technology and communications sectors, outsourcing of IT services will become more acceptable here, according to professional
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    • 317 25 (foar 160,000 pro-registered detbiz domain names have already been activated AFP [WASHINGTON] Internet sites are getting a new name tag with dotbiz, which last Wednesday joined dotcom and other top-level Internet domains, the registry company for the domain said. The US-based firm NeuLevel, the
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    • 307 25 Reuters [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp says it will build a supercomputer that is smaller and 15 times speedier than the current fastest computer, enabling users to solve complex questions more quickly and opening the door for its commercial use. The
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    • 430 25 All the pieces of a network could be plugged into the Utility Data Center Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Hew-lett-Packard Co has announced a system that it said would double the productivity of corporate computer networks and save money for clients by tying
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    • 380 26  -  It's all part of the company's new consumer services strategy. Leo kee chte finds out more LEO KEE CHYE HEWLETTPackard Singapore has launched its first music portal in Singapore, saying it is the first of many online initiatives aimed at complementing HP's wide range of
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 91 26 LEXMARK has unveiled two new printers, including an Inkjet that Lexmark claims is the workTsfaatest colour printer in its class. The Lexmark C9lO InkJet (top) costs $MBB, offers up to 2,400d0ts per indies (dpi) resolution, prints up to 29 pages per minute (ppm) In both colour
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      • 107 26  -  Leo Kee Chye US-BASED lomega Corp, which provides portable data storage, has unveiled its 16x10x40 External CD-RW (CD-ReWritable). It costs 1379, supports USB 2.0 and provides near-universal connectivity with Mac and PC computers. The CD-RW "burns" a 60-minute audio CD In less than five minutes, says
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    • 355 27 HE firm's losses narrow 53% to HKs77min Q3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Tom.com Ltd, a Hong Kong Internet and media company, will keep its unprofitable online business, even as other businesses abandon their Internet strategies, chief executive Sing Wang said. The company expects Internet sales to
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    • 385 27 US giant applies for NYSE listing; IPO proceeds to pay for licences, clear debts Reuters [CHICAGO] Verizon Wireless, the US' largest wireless telephone company, on Friday said it hopes to complete an initial public offering by mid-2002 after delaying the sale more than
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    • 708 27  -  Byl Anshuman Daga, Caroline Humer Reuters [BANGALORE] Just as rapid growth inspires action and creates opportunity for the hyperactive high-technology sector, so too can fears of a devastating fall from grace. As companies worldwide lick their wounds from the Sept 11 attacks,
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    • NET impact
      • 773 28  -  Its tie-up with Pearson will strengthen its e-learning offerings to schools in Asia, founder Richard Yen tells leo bee chte LEO KEE CHYE Homegrown Ednovation Pte Ltd, already the biggest educa-tion-software publisher in Singapore, has won a major global ally as it gears
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        • 87 28 DISPUTES over Internet domain names can now be resolved more easily in Singapore. The Singapore Network Information Centre Pte Ltd (SGNIC), in association with the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SlArb), has launched the Singapore
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        • 68 28 SINGAPORE-BASED Out-Smart, which provides payroll and HR outsourcing services, has launched Smart-Tax. Out-Smart teamed up with payroll software provider Creative Software to offer this online service, which helps companies complete employees' tax returns at a mintmnm fee. Companies need only spend less than two hours submitting and checking
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        • 74 28 MYBIZ Singapore Pte Ltd, a subsidiary ofMyßis International Limited, has tied up with CWT Distribution T.imitwH to implanyfflt lnjtertft in lif capabilities for Myßiz's network of customers. CWT will provide logistics services such as inventory management, warehousing management freight management and transportation of cargo, while
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        • 60 28 CNET Networks Inc announced the merging of ZDNet Asia and CNETAsia last week. CNETAsia, launched as a portal of best-of-breed content from CNET Singapore, CNET Malaysia and CNET Bong Kong, will be run by CNET Networks' Asia-Pacific division. The three sites will continue to provide
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        • 60 28 BORLAND Software Corp wUI host a global webcast tomorrow at 12 noon Singapore time. Titled 'Taking the J2EE Platform Mainstream", the webcast win discuss latest technologies for customers to develop, deploy and integrate Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. It features executives from Borland, META
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        • 68 28 SGS GROUP (Societe Generate de Surveillance), which is to the verification and certification business, has launched SGS evaluate*. This is a Web-based service aimed at building trust online. Potential buyers who click on the SGS eValuate+ icon on a member website or eMarkatplace can have access
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        • 113 28  -  Chen Huifen CORPORATE networking solutions provider Avaya I Asia Pacific announced a new converged voice and data communications solution. Called the Avaya IP (Internet Protocol) Office, it is targeted at SMEs and can be used by up to 180 users or 75 contact oentre agents.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 278 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WHILE there has been endless speculation in the market regarding possible fresh sales in the dry bulk sector, very little seems to have actually been concluded. V-_j i f Vessels sold for tether trading WMommn ♦Capella: 73,048 tdw bit 3/97 Samsung. ♦Polaris: 73,105
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    • 594 29  -  French port has overcome labour woes; embarked on expansion project By 1 Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Port of Le Havre Authority has embarked on a goodwill tour of Asia, arm in arm with stevedoring union representatives to present a united front following
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    • 324 29  -  US court says 1994 award excessive for oil spill off Alaska By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] A US federal appeals court has set aside US$5 billion (SS9.I billion) of punitive damages awarded in 1994 against Exxon Mobil over the Exxon Valdez oil spill,
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    • 167 29 [SINGAPORE] Most of the world's major shipping lines will increase their minimum wastepaper carriage rates from Dec l, and indicated a follow-up hike on March 1. Members of the freight rate forum Westbound Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement (WTSA) APL, Cosco, Evergreen, Maersk, P&O Nedlloyd,
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    • 144 29 AFP [MANILA] Nineteen Filipino crewmen of a cargo vessel which sank at the height of tropical storm Lingling's fury last week have been found alive by a passing ferry, the coast guard said yesterday. The men were aboard the 5,800-ton Ho Feng 8 and en
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    • 934 30  -  IJXER SCENE By David Hughes HERE we go again. Two more new reports apparently find that liner conferences and similar "price fixing" agreements are anti-competitive and working against the interests of shippers. The most significant of the two comes from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation
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      • 160 39 November 12 Taiwan: Birthday of Dr Sun YatSen United States: Veteran's Day MmrtH 14 Malaysia: Deepavali Singapore: Deepavali Norcabar23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day WoTMDbw 30 Philippines: Bonifacio's Day December I Finland: Independence Day Dwwwbw 8 Argentina: Immaculate Conception Italy: Immaculate Conception DhmAW II Brunei: Hari Raya Puasa Malaysia:
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      • 762 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 at the market Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 276 40 Merger will create the world's sixth-largest airline: report AFP [TOKYO] Japan's top carrier Japan Airlines will merge with Japan Air System, the country's third-big-gest airline company, next year, a business daily said yesterday. The two airliners are finalising details for the merger that
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      • 571 40 Discount carrier is grounded despite court protection AFP [TORONTO] Canada's second largest airline, Canada 3000, halted operations on Friday after its planes were seized, stranding thousands of passengers worldwide. But its management continued to meet trying to find ways to keep the
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      • 327 40 Bloomberg {AUCKLAND] Auckland International Airport agreed to cut back landing fee hikes for the next six years after unprofitable Air New Zealand dropped a lawsuit against the country's biggest airport. Air New Zealand, which will be controlled by New Zealand's government under an
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      • 520 40 Short-haul nnit DAT to fly to 35 destinations Reuters [BRUSSELS] Sabena's successor made its first flight on Saturday after two Belgian business leaders raised enough money to salvage part of the airline's operations, three days after Sabena became the first European flag carrier to go
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      • 189 40 AFP [BASEL] The Swiss-based European regional airline, Crossair, which is at the centre of a recovery plan for the Swiss airline industry, recorded a profit of 4.4 million Swiss francs (*****.8 million) in September, the company said. Passenger levels dropped by 9 per cent to
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