The Business Times, 22 December 2001

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  • Title Section
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    7 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend 85C DECEMBER 22-&^001
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon MAS appoints Canadian John Palmer as Dy MD
    517 1  -  He was senior official at Canadian regulatoiy body By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] A former senior Canadian regulatory official will join the Monetary Authority of Singapore as deputy managing director on Feb 1 next year. John Palmer superintendent of financial institutions at Canada's
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    Lock icon On economic soul-searching...
    1369 1  -  SATURDAY SOAPBOX a response to an interesting and provocative prescription for a restructuring of the Singapore economy vikram khanna FEATURED in this column last Saturday was a prescription for the Singapore economy ("Pointers for Singapore's economic soul-searching") by Morgan Stanley's South-east Asia economist Daniel Lian, who can
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    Lock icon 435 UOB-OUB workers retrenched
    783 1  -  Chainnan warns of more job cuts next year as banks continue integration By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Staff at Overseas Union Bank (OUB) and United Overseas Bank (UOB) who have been wondering for months where the retrenchment axe would fall got their answers yesterday. In a one-page
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  • in the news
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      Lock icon How is market reacting to recovery story?
      569 2  -  MARKET REVIEW r sivanithy WELL the economic recovery that is supposed to take place in the second half of next year lead to the rebound in corporate profits that the markets seem to be factoring in right now? Or are profits more likely
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    • Article
      Lock icon MARKETS
      73 2 Dsn 1,877.07 (-16.20) BT-SRI 642.78 (-5.69) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,886.00 (-10.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 196.60 (-0.10) Friday Change KLSECOMP 666.06 +160 NIKKEI 226 _10.335.46 -99.07 HANG SENG 11,158.10 -443.04 SET INDEX 296.69 -113 JAKARTA COMP _***** +0.42 MANILA COMP .1,146.97 +6.10 TAIPEI WPI 6,***** -199.86 SEOUL COMP 644.71 -19.80 SHENZHEN
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      Lock icon FINANCE
      67 2 FOREX RATES US* SS US$ (S$ per US$) 1.839 £(US$/S$ per 1.450 2.666 EURO{US$/S$/E). 0899 1.652 DM 2.177 1.184 YEN 129.4 70.40 RM 3.800 2.067 HK$ 7.798 4J241 BAHT 43.94 23.89 RUPIAH 10,185 5.539 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 535 KUALA LUMPUR 640 HONGKONG 535 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 679 TOKYO 1.375
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      Lock icon Asian markets barely hit by crisis in Argentina
      583 2 Country segregated from other emerging markets for some time now: analyst Reuters, NYT [HONG KONG] Asian markets were stirred, but not shaken yesterday by Argentina's deepening crisis, with most bad news priced in and fears of contagion to the region and its
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      Lock icon Prime office rents seen easing 5-8% in H1 2002
      684 2  -  OUTLOOK 2002 But iff current recession drags on, rents could be pressured further downwsrds By* Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Prime office rents in Singapore could ease by 5 to 8 per cent in the first half of next year, while rents outside
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      Lock icon US GDP decline in Q3 sharper than thought with Sept 11
      535 3 But inventories were cleared at the fastest pace ever, which may lead to a rise in production now AFX Reuters, Bloomberg, [WASHINGTON] The reces-sion-mired US economy contracted even more sharply than originally thought in the third quarter as the
      AFX; Reuters,; Bloomberg,  -  535 words
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      Lock icon Political wrangling kills Bush stimulus plan
      688 3 Senate refuses to vote on the bill hours after House passes it Reuters [WASHINGTON] President George Bush's revised plan to stimulate the US economy died an acrimonious death in the Democratic-led Senate on Thursday hours after its pre-dawn passage in the Republican-led House of
      Reuters; AFP  -  688 words
    • Article
      Lock icon 'Tis the season to stick your neck out
      659 3  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Sept ll's aftermath has put paid to just about every economic forecast neil behrmann THE prediction season is again upon us. But looking back at the forecasts in the past year would give the most seasoned of forecasters pause.
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      Lock icon Bush calls it quits, so nobody wins
      719 3  -  COMMENTARY paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University CONVENTIONAL wisdom asserted that Congress would eventually pass an economic stimulus bill. I was one of the few sceptics. Why was my scepticism vindicated? It helps to recall an observation
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      Lock icon Q4 take-up almost doubles: JLL
      468 4  -  Developers clearing units by easing prices; compared to Q4 last year when they held out for a recovery By Vince Chong WITH just days to go before the fourth quarter ends, Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) research shows the take-up rate of 1,700 new homes during
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      Lock icon Flextech issues profit warning
      254 4  -  It sees'significant* toss on electronics downturn By Eugene Low ELECTRONICS firm Flextech Holdings warned yesterday that it expects to suffer a "significant" net loss for the year ending Dec 31. "The continuing global downturn in the electronics semiconductor industry during the second half of 2001 has
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      Lock icon Chartered to acquire stake in China's SMIC
      408 4  -  In return, ft wifl license a fairly advanced manufacturing technology to chip-maker By Chua Hui Min SINGAPORE-LISTED Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing said yesterday it will license a fairly advanced manufacturing technology to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) in return for a stake and production
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      Lock icon SGX to start securities lending on Jan 7
      238 4 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) will launch its securities lending programme in a fortnight, on Jan 7. As of Thursday, the lending pool had a total market value of $534 million and 892 lending participants. Lenders whose securities are eventually borrowed will be
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      Lock icon ST Aero in UK aircraft maintenance venture
      186 4 Dow Jones Newswires [LONDON] Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero), the aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, and FR Aviation, a subsidiary of Cobham, have signed a joint venture agreement to establish a commercial aircraft heavy maintenance facility in Bournemouth, UK. ST Aero will
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      Lock icon Bank of China Ml to help APP revamp debts
      304 4 Reuters DEBT LADEN Asia Pulp Paper Co Ltd (APP) said it appointed Bank of China International (BOCI) as co-fl-nancial adviser to restructure its obligations in China and had no immediate plans to seek a re-listing of its shares. APP said on
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      Lock icon Chip equipment ratio rises to 0.73
      286 4  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY semiconductors By\ David Boey US-BASED semiconductor equipment makers posted a preliminary book-to-bill ratio of 0.73 in November the highest since January's 0.80, according to figures released yesterday by USbased Semiconductor Equipment and Materials In- ternational (Semi). A book-to-bill of 0.73
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      Lock icon StarHub, S'pore Cable Vision merger still uncompleted
      467 5 Details off tie-up to create fixed-line telecoms network being worked out Dow Jones Newswires HALF a year on, the planned merger between Star Hub Pte Ltd and Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) still hasn't been completed, said company officials and regulators. If and when
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      Lock icon PUB to spend $542m on projects next year
      342 5  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) will spend about $542 million next year on water, sewerage and drainage projects. It will develop new facilities, enhance reliability of supply and increase operational efficiency. Of that sum, $206 million will be
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Eastgate says profit unlikely this year
        78 5 EASTGATE Technology says it is unlikely to report an operating profit for the year ending Dec 31, with the global slowdown and Sept 11 having had a negative impact on its Singapore operation. This has affected ova-all turnover and operating results in the second
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        Lock icon Walter Woon no longer on NatSteel board
        38 5 NATSTEEL said yesterday that Walter Woon stepped down from its board with effect from May 23. It said it regretted that, due to an oversight, it did not announce this earlier.
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        Lock icon Food Junction food court at WTC by 2003
        75 5 LISTED Food Junction Holdings says its whollyowned subsidiary Food Junction Management yesterday accepted an offer from Harbour Front to operate a food court at 1 Maritime Square, World Trade Centre. The company will take possession of the site after the issue of
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        Lock icon Cam posts $3 net loss for first 9 months
        57 5 Reuters INVESTMENT holding company Cam International has reported a net loss of $3.01 million for the year to Sept 30, compared with a loss of $3.13 million previously. Turnover fell to $22.91 million from $23.38 million. Cam also expects profitability to
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        Lock icon Hiap Sang interim profit plunges 72%
        93 5 Reuters HIAP Seng Engineering's net profit plunged 72.1 per cent to 10.62 million for the six months to Sept 90. Turnover fell to $44.34 million from $46.06 million. Hiap Seng, which services the petroleum and petrochemical industries, says the slide in profit was due
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      • Article
        Lock icon Hua Kok to take over PD group bank debts
        118 5 HUA Kok International yesterday announced agreements to acquire new businesses in curtain walls and cladding, and secondary processing of glass to provide additional income streams. The agreements cover the purchase of some $85 million of bonk debts belonging to PD Manufacturing
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      Lock icon Insurers change claim procedure
      419 5  -  From April, drivers involved in accidents must call a hotline By] David Boey NEW insurance claim procedures will take effect from April 2002 for motorists involved in accidents, the General Insurance Association (GIA) said yesterday. From the second quarter of 2002, drivers involved in accidents will
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      Lock icon Yen hits new three-year lows against greenback
      492 5  -  CURRtNCIE s Japanese unit chaDenges key lows on multiple fronts, with US$ just south of 130 yen larry wee THE Japanese yen sank to lows not seen for more than three years in Asian trading yesterday, ending the session just south of 130
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      Lock icon DBS securitises $2.8b corp loans
      303 5 DBS Bank said yesterday it has securitised $2.8 billion of corporate loans. The transaction called a Synthetic Collateralised Loan Obligation (Synthetic CLO) involves the transfer of credit risk from a portfolio of corporate loans using credit default swaps without the need to transfer the loan
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      Lock icon Slower decline in Taiwan Nov export orders
      350 6 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's export orders fell in November at the slowest pace in seven months a sign that overseas sales at chipmakers, mobile phone makers and other manufacturers may be nearing the end of a ninemonth slide. Export orders fell 11.2 per cent
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      Lock icon Japan and China end 8-month trade dispute
      334 6 They agree to scrap punitive tariffs on some of each other's goods Bloomberg [BEIJING] Japan and China agreed to scrap punitive tariffs on some of each other's goods, ending an eightmonth trade dispute between Asia's two largest economies. Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma
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      Lock icon Suggestion to drop Suharto case draws fire
      442 6 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government was under fire yesterday for considering dropping a multi-mil-lion dollar graft case against former dictator Suharto as he lay in hospital battling a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. Doctors said the ex-pres-ident, 80, will remain in Jakarta's Pertamina Hospital,
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      Lock icon Time Engg may have to sell assets to redeem bonds
      455 6 But if II be tough to find buyers for its stakes in companies AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Time Engineering Bhd may have little choice but to sell its assets to fund the redemption of the second and third tranches of its
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      Lock icon Nokia to double China investment: report
      153 6 AFP [BEIJING] Finnish mobile giant Nokia said it would double its investment in China, its second largest market, state media reported yesterday. Nokia would plough US$l.2 billion into doubling the size of its mobile phone production plant in Beijing, making it the largest for-eign-funded
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    • NOTE BOOK
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        Lock icon India recalls envoy from Pakistan
        136 6 AP [NEW DELHI] India yesterday said it is recalling its ambassador from Pakistan and terminating rail and bus services that connect the two nations, as relations worsened following a suicide attack on Parliament that New Delhi blames on Islamabad. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nirupama Rao said
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        Lock icon Thai Airways gets acting president
        106 6 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International selected a new acting president at a shareholders' meeting which saw the re-appointment of the airline's board, a spokesperson said yesterday. Kobchai Srivilas, managing director of the carrier's technical services department, was named acting president at the meeting on Thursday
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        Lock icon Picasso comes to Beijing
        46 6 AP [BEIJING] A Chinese gallery staff briefing a visitor about Pabk) Picasso near a portrait of the artist during an exhibition of his black and white prints at a Beijing gallery. Western art is gradually finding its way into Chinese society. ~AP
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        Lock icon Thailand to borrow US$1.2b overseas
        58 6 Bloomberg (BANGKOK] Thailand will borrow US$l-2 billion overseas in the fiscal year ending Sept 30,2002, to help state companies refinance debt and bridge its Budget deficit, Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said. The government will directly borrow about US$45O million and guarantee US$7O3 million of loans
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      Lock icon M'sian Plantations drops BCA bid
      247 6  -  It may want to focus on consolidating last year's acquisitions: analyst From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Plantations has dropped out of the race to buy a majority stake in Bank Central Asia (BCA), the top retail bank in Indonesia. "Further to our announcement
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      Lock icon BOJ ready to help if a bank fails
      530 7 First time central bank chief indicates a financial institution could fail Reuters [TOKYO] Bank of Japan governor Masaru Hay ami said for the first time yesterday that a financial institution could quite possibly fail at some point and the central bank was
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon US consumer sentiment up in Dec
        110 7 Reuters [NEW YORK] A key gauge of US consumer sentiment rose for the third straight month in December, market sources said yesterday, as an improved stock market and hopes for economic recovery overshadowed concerns about job cuts. The University of Michigan's closely watched consumer
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      • Article
        Lock icon NTT DoCoMo to buy new AT&T shares
        89 7 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's topmobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc will pay US$3BO million for new shares in AT&T Wireless Services in order to maintain its 16 per cent stake in the US mobile operator. DoCoMo said it would purchase 26.6 million shares in AT&T
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        Lock icon Bank of New York to write off US$275m
        74 7 Bloomberg (NEW YORK] Bank of New York Co said it will write offUSs27s million in the fourth quarter because of bad loans to 24 telecoms companies and an energy company, which the bank didn't name. The write-off will reduce earnings by 6
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        Lock icon Citigroup names Fischer as vice-chairman
        94 7 Reuters [NEW YORK] Citigroup on Thursday named Stanley Fischer (right), former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, as vice-chairman. Mr Fischer, 58, follows a long line of Washington insiders who have migrated to Wall Street, and will report to former US treasury secretary
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        Lock icon Japan all-industries index falls 0.5% in Oct
        102 7 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan got another dose of dismal data yesterday as an economic indicator closely watched as a proxy for gross domestic product (GDP) dipped. The index measuring economic activity in all industries fell 0.5 per cent in October from the previous month,
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        Lock icon Noke Q2 income rises 8%
        115 7 Reuters [BEAVERTON, Oregon] Nike Inc, the world's largest maker of athletic footwear and clothing, on Thursday said its fiscal second quarter net income rose 8 per cent, at the high end of Wall Street estimates, on strong sales in Europe and Asia. It earned US$l29
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        Lock icon Zurich Financial wants of big loss
        80 7 AFP [ZURICH] Swiss insurance group Zurich Financial Services yesterday warned that it expected to report a net loss of US$2OO million to US$4OO million for 2001. In March, the company had forecast a profit of up to US$2 billion for 2001, but the insurance
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      Lock icon Microsoft patches second serious XP security hole
      351 7 Reuters, Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Less than two months after releasing Windows XP dubbed its most secure operating system ever Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had detected a second serious security hole in the software and issued a quick patch to fix it.
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      Lock icon JP Morgan admits larger exposure to Enron
      423 7 Exposure estimate raised to US$l J2b from USs9oom FT [NEW YORK] JP Morgan Chase on Thursday admitted that the bank's exposure to Enron Corp was much larger than originally declared but it defended its heavy involvement with the bankrupt energy trader. Marc Shapiro,
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      Lock icon Comcast's Roberts drove hard to get pole position
      681 7 Reuters [NEW YORK] Brian Roberts started in the cable industry in 1982 climbing poles and installing cable systems for Comcast Corp, the company his father, Ralph Roberts, built pretty much from scratch. Nearly 20 years later and after much hard work and
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      Lock icon Will the real Mr Dollar please stand up?
      814 8 In setting US foreign exchange policy, is Treasury Secretary O'Neill being overshadowed by White House economic adviser Lindsey? Reuters [NEW YORK] Who is Mr Dollar? Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill wears the official crown, but White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey is seen
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      233 3 Pa Kfl M Kf u u In your hands is our Christmas Card to you. This festive season, we at HSBC, are not sending out traditional Christmas cards. Instead, we are donating the money saved to those among us in society who are in need. We have donated 5550,000 to
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      1323 4 r STAMFORD TYRES CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of STAMFORD TYRES CORPORATION LIMITED (the •Company") will be held at 19 Lok Yang Way, Jurong, Singapore *****5 on 9 January 2002 at 3 p.m.
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2709 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AM Amro Aant Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!* OMV Star Europe Bd 0 9» Star Europe Sai 0889/ Star Man Tiger Eqty 0.751/ Star Asia Bond 1.21S/ Star Asia Balanced 0»1/ Star Global Technology Fund 0.311/ Star Bhv Finance Japan fundi** 081V MB Goveft (Ma) Ltd. Govett
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      323 7 FIRST ENGINEERING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (the "Company") NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 26 Woodlands Loop, #07-00 First Engineering Techno Centre, Singapore *****7 on 18 January 2002 at 10.00 am, for
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    Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
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  • week in review
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      Lock icon Top stories this week
      845 9 For the full stories, visit http://business-times.asial.com.sg POSBank won't raise interest rates on savings accounts after all Dec 20 A DBS Bank senior executive on Wednesday dashed hopes that POSBank will raise interest rates next year after it loses the concession that allows its depositors tax exemption
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      Lock icon What we said
      308 9 EDfTOMM. Dec 21 What not to expect in 2002 THE world economy should be looking a lot better by this time next year. But we may not witness anything like a V-shaped recovery in the US any time soon. That's the most plausible explanation for the Fed's
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    Lock icon KLSE
    2538 9 Transaction date: Dec 21 KUALA LUMPUR Vol MM W- r«W> A A M Realty 035 -0.02 6 Abric 151 0.01 208 ACP Industries _.3.81 0.01 48 Advance Synergy _.051 0.01 66 Atfin Holdings .033 unch 58 Ahmad Zaki Res .336 0.02 5 AJCCorp 430 unch 88 AikbeeRes 2 02
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  • in the money
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      Lock icon The cast for Year of Living Dangerously
      1221 10  -  A look back by PAUL CHAN at how Singapore stocks performed in 2001, a year beset with multiple uncertainties PAUL CHAN IN the final scene of the 1983 movie The Year of Living Dangerously, Mel Gibson's character slips past soldiers at a Jakarta
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    Lock icon BT SHARE INFORMATION SERVICE
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  • travel
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      Lock icon if you're going to san francisco
      863 11  -  Never mind the flowers in your hair. Hard plastic is what you need when you enter shopping nirvana, says TAN HWEE HWEE TAN HWEE HWEE OK, so you may get blown up while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's still one of my
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      Lock icon SECURE ALL AREAS
      342 11 Raring to go but still harbouring doubts about safety? Here are BTs Top 5 tips for the post-911 tourist 1 Learn to run like Marion Jones and catch like Yankee's star baseball player Derek Jeter. Now all US airports require you to take out your computer and
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    Lock icon FINANCE
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • what's in style food
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      Lock icon 72 hours to X'mas
      1109 12  -  With just three days to Christmas, you've probably got your festive lunches, brunches, tunches and dinners all sorted out If not and if you still plan to enjoy a nice festive meal with friends and loved ones then you're either very cool or you really should
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  • what's in style art
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      Lock icon Visual arts sees much growth
      1199 13  -  No visual arts event in Singapore may have stirred up as much controversy as the 2001 Turner Prize, awarded in Britain to an artwork that was essentially a bare room with a light that blinked on and oft But the visual arts scene here has
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