The Business Times, 15 January 2002

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    11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPOftf internet" h.tp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY. JANUARY 15, 2002
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    76 1 Dsn 1,***** (+27.45) SMI 70MI (+14.44) ST INDEX FUTOBES 1,***** (+33.00) sobsgi fotoies ***** (+4.40) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP 698.46 -169 NIKKEI 226 Closed HANG SENG _J 1109.42 >4197 SET INDEX 225.66 +111 JAKARTA COMP _416£4 +406 MANILA COMP -1,***** +1.12 TAIPEI WPI 6,611.86 -75.72 SEOUL
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    69 1 FOBEX BATES uss s$ USS (S$ per USS) L838 £(US&SS per L448 1661 EUBO(fSS/SS/E). 0*94 1.641 DM 1189 L191 YEN 111 J6 71.70 EM 1800 1067 HKS 7.708 4142 BAHT 4199 2180 RCPIAH 10,408 6,661 PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 515 KUALA LUMPUR 8.40 HONG KONG 5.125 JAKARTA 19.00 TAIPEI 6.725
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    Lock icon Political risk insurance seen rising alter ISD arrests
    639 1  -  BTfJ7.il I l-U'i J Terrorism concerns pat country risk insurance on corporate radars By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Insurers say the recent arrests of 15 people for terrorism-related ac- tivities in Singapore have prompted a re-think by companies here about the need to
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    Lock icon DBS rakes in $1.3b of unit trust sales
    692 1  -  BrnsVMimwj Swoop on deposits pushes it ahead of competitors; bank also scores on SRS despite tough year By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank has been rewarded well in its drive to convert its large deposit base into unit trust investments. Despite a
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    Lock icon STI stages surprise rebound to 8-month high
    487 1  -  Prices open weak on Greenspan warning but end 27 points ahead Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Bulls in the Singapore bourse took another stab at the market yesterday despite a scary opening following Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's cautionary speech over the weekend. The turnaround
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    Lock icon Working group set up to review financial hub strategies
    431 1  -  By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The SubCommittee on Service Industries has set up a Working Group to review strategies for developing Singapore as an international financial centre. Chaired by Robert Stein, chief executive officer (Asia Pacific), Deutsche Bank, the Financial Services Working
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      223 1 DKBPE Top stories ICPAS defers adoption of accounting standard. Pg 3 Restructuring charge may dent Datacraft. Pg 3 Home sales pick up at weekend. Pg 7 KL stock market set to sizzle with rash of new listings. Pg 11 China will continue to keep yuan stable: Dai Xianglong. Pg 15
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      39 1 KOIZUMI TAKES THE STAND l -A-. V -A---"When it comes to the klolkil economy, ram does not f«ill on one roof alone." AND the shrinkini; Japanese expat community Anti-piracy pact a top priority, says Koizumi Shipping Times Page 1
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      Lock icon Japanese companies here slip to 1,600
      668 2  -  smmiuwu Number dwindles with slump at home By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The new Ja-pan-Singapore economic cooperation agreement may reverse one recent trend: The size of the Japanese business community continued to decline last year. And while the nature of Japanese operations in Singapore is
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      Lock icon Koizumi defends his structural reforms
      512 2  -  By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday defended his government's structural reforms to the nation's economy, and conceded that they might be painful. Delivering the 20th Singapore lecture, he also proposed stronger cooperation between Japan and Asean. In his 40-minute address, delivered
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      Lock icon Japan for broad front ties with Asean
      326 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Japan prefers to build closer links with Asean on a broad front rather than follow China's footsteps in seeking a narrow free trade deal. And the broader cooperation Tokyo is seeking with Asean will not be an exclusive
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      Lock icon Ship fuel tested here had cleaning solvents: DNVPS
      412 2  -  Bnt chemicals found by US lab were not present, it says Beth Jinks (SINGAPORE) Contaminated ship fuel that was sold in Singapore and tested locally was found to contain damag ing cleaning solvents and paint thinners but not the chemicals detected by
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Sure to make her hackles rise
        127 2 IF you're guilty of discreetly passing over female colleagues in the workplace, here's a lesson worth remembering. A British employment tribunal has recommended a £1.4 million (553.7 million) award to former Schroder employee Julie Bower on the grounds that her £25.000 bonus more than
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        Lock icon Wonder what the girls here made?
        67 2 THAT aside, Schroder continues to perform rather well as a fund manager on the Asian side. A report by fund tracking firm Lipper yesterday reveals that it emerged among the top five Asean as well as Singapore funds in 2001, while coming out tops
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        Lock icon Top Asian golfers in town today
        107 2 SOME of Asia's top golfers will tee off at this week's Accenture Champion of Champions Tournament at Laguna National Golf and Country Club. The three-day tournament the final event on the Singapore Golf Circuit's 2001 calendar begins today. Twenty-three golfers in the top 26
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      223 2 Extracts of Mr Koizumi's speech, Pg 10 -r L ORDER FORM GST No MB-*****37-6 |SggL f»T" i Singapore Illustrative Financial Statements 2001 assists users to Singapore Illustrative Financial Statements 2001 fll -prepare financial statements that comply with the accounting and N disclosure requirements of the Companies Act (Chapter 50), Singapore
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon ICPAS defers adoption of accounting standard
      369 3  -  Many banks not ready to implement key requirement on derivatives By Quak Hiang Whai THE Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) has deferred the adoption of a key accounting practice on financial instruments and derivatives a standard which banks here are having
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      Lock icon Restructuring charge may dent Datacraft
      554 3  -  It conld post its first-ever loss this week, following 12% workforce layoffs By Serena Ng NETWORKING systems integrator Datacraft Asia may this week post its first-ever loss as it is expected to take on a hefty restructuring charge following layoffs of 12 per cent of
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      Lock icon KepFels seals US$400m power deal in Brazil
      399 4  -  This is one of the utilities services provider's biggest foreign contracts By Conrad Raj KEPPEL FELS Energy, the utilities services unit of local conglomerate, Keppel Corporation, has clinched one of its biggest foreign contracts to date a US$4OO million job to supply electricity
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      Lock icon Tong Meng majority holder to buy out minorities
      246 4 TONG Meng Industries' controlling shareholder is seeking a voluntary delisting of the company with an offer that minority shareholders are unlikely to reject given the company's illiquid status. The $5.25 cash offer proposed by Tong Meng Holdings Pte Ltd is more than
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      Lock icon SembLog seeks to double China sales in 5 yrs
      648 4 It hopes car#* handling deals with Knehne 4 NageL, Goodpack will np turnover Bloomberg SEMBCORP Logistics expects to complete new cargo handling agreements in China this year as it tries to meet a target of doubling sales in the fastest-growing major
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      Lock icon SembCorp Marine owns 85% of Atlantis
      165 4 Bloomberg SEMBCORP Marine Ltd paid $11 million to increase its stake in a shipyard operator, part of its strategy to focus on core businesses. The company bought a 50 per cent stake of Atlantis Shipyard Pte from Neptune Orient Lines Ltd, Singapore's biggest traded
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      Lock icon Chuan Hup rewards the patient, steady investor
      770 4  -  wong wei kong AFTER bursting into life some two years ago on a spate of positive news, Chuan Hup Holdings shares returned just as quickly to obscurity, apart from moments of sporadic interest. Yet this is a company whose top directors have been
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      Lock icon Vikay to resume trading today after clearing JM
      495 5  -  Order was lifted yesterday following completion of rescue package by E-Path By Ven Sreenivasan LIQUID crystal display maker Vikay Industrial Ltd which has been under judicial management for the last four years will resume trading on the Singapore bourse today. Vikay was
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      Lock icon Kyodo-Allied rises as much as 78% on first trading day
      401 5  -  By David Boey THE first initial public offer this year, launched by Kyo-do-Allied Industries Ltd, got off to a flying start yesterday, soaring as much as 77.5 per cent in intraday trade on Sesdaq. Shares of the clean room specialist
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      Lock icon Report: M1 looking to raise $500m
      121 5 Reuters SINGAPORE'S second mobile phone operator Mobile One (Ml) is looking to raise $500 million to fund its operations, industry sources said yesterday. Ml officials were not immediately available for comment. The shareholders of Ml are Singapore Press Holdings, Keppel Corp, Britain's Cable Wireless
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Intel to buy US$100m PCRD bonds
        84 5 PACIFIC Century Regional Developments (PCRD) will issue US$lOO million worth of secured redeemable exchangeable bonds to Intel Capital Corp, a unit of Intel Corp. Intel has the right to exchange all or part of the bonds for Pacific Century CyberWorks shares currently held by
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        Lock icon Enersave to post loss in 2001
        99 5 Dow Jones Newswires ENERSAVE Holdings said yesterday it expects to post a net loss for the year ended Dec 31,2001 due to the downturn in the construction industry. The company said the second half of the financial year has been worse them expected. This
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        Lock icon Acma expects 2001 H2 loss
        152 5 ACMA warned yesterday that due to changing business circumstances, the group expects to incur a loss for the second half of2ool. It cited further weakening in global market conditions in the fourth quarter, delays encountered in the delivery and completion of certain significant projects, and
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      396 3 KPMGSeminarSeries Form IRBA Workshop 2002 31 January 1 February 2002, 9.00 am to 5.00pm Orchard Hotel Singapore What The Form IRBA for 2001 is due on I March 2002 and preparing the form wrongly can be costly. The complicated rules do not make the task any easier. Employers must thus
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      745 4 CHOSEN HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 17 Woodlands Terrace, Woodlands East Industrial Estate, Singapore *****2 on 7 February 2002 at 10.00 a.m. for the purpose of
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      15 5 PROPERTIES The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 402 568. Cmmm Buy It Sell It Find h.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      317 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 14 VALUE CLOSE ROMS 804.00 +20.00 nam -*****.00 +30.00 ITlMvM -*****.00 +80.00 MMtpiil 452.88 +4.30 ttEpMM Ebct 152.52 -2.56 1476.04 +37.92 MIpMll hip 472.33 +5.14 ■MMm 216.40 +4.40 Stocks Volume KyodoAII 5c 48,077,000 Beyonics 10c 23,830.000 Poh ban 10c 20.879.000 ChinaAvOil 5c 19.735.000 Keppel Corp 50c
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      Lock icon TPV likely to see profit-taking despite 'outperform' tag
      252 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THIS column has featured the stock of LCD monitor maker TPV Technology several times in the past few months. We first recommended it during the second quarter of last year, when it was trading around 20
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      Lock icon Bank, property stocks power market
      739 6  -  mrrrr TffTHTtl STOCKS ven sreenivasan STRONG buying of banks, property stocks and other blue chips yesterday helped the Straits Times Index close at its highest level in more than eight months. After a weak opening around 1,684 points, investors began to bargainhunt blue chips and
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      Lock icon Greenspan's remarks unseat US$ bulls
      554 6  -  CURRENCIES First suggested support levels tested In Asian trading larry wee A REALITY check from US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on Friday put Wall Street on the defensive, and led currency traders to test some first retracement areas in Asian trading yesterday. The US
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    3016 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ■VTtfVSTTimHHHHHH CitiBood Spore A/J 170V CrtiBond Spore B/S 1227/ Citi Money Sing Dollar Class B 1.0357/ AMI Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Citi Pan Europe Equity Fund 1.0V Star Europe Eqty!« 0.82/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Balanced 1 3/ Star Europe Bd 0 994/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 1.25/
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Edmund Baker resigns from IEA
      304 7  -  By Andrea Tan EDMUND Baker, the outspoken chief executive officer of the Institute of Estate Agents, left quietly at the end of last year. "Edmund Baker has left to pursue his own career path," lEA's first vice-presi-dent Anthony Chua told BT. "He submitted his resignation
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      Lock icon Reclamation work at Chek Jawa deferred
      224 7 THE government has decided to defer land reclamation work at Pulau Übin for as long as the island is not required for development. The Ministry for National Development (MND) said yesterday that Chek Jawa and the rustic nature of Pulau Übin would be preserved
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      Lock icon Economy on course for recovery: Amex
      261 7  -  Zfyi Chuang Peck Ming THE recent unearthing of terrorists in Singapore won't scare off investments or derail the economy's recovery this year, according to American Express Bank's chief economist. After the Sept 11 outrage in the US, American corporations quickly came to accept that
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      Lock icon Home sales pick up at weekend
      559 7  -  Over 100 units each of Butterworth 8, Rio Vista sold Bi Vince Chong KEPPEL Land's relaunched 216-unit Butterworth 8 in Tanjong Pagar achieved more than 100 sales at an average price of $685 psf at the weekend wiping out memories of a poor showing
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      Lock icon Varsities urged to create knowledge
      348 8  -  No longer enough to just disseminate knowledge and train manpower By Engene Low AS Singapore strives to remake its economy, its universities must make the transition from merely providing education to creating knowledge, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said yesterday. Speaking at the annual Singapore-Massachusetts
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      Lock icon My role in DTZ has expanded: Tie
      333 8  -  MAILKEffI Edmund Tie Executive Chairman DTZ Debenham Tie Leung (SEA) Pte Ltd Singapore I REFER to your article "Edmund Tie steps down as CEO of DTZ" by Vince Chong (Mailbag. Jan 4), on the recent management changes at DTZ Debenham Tie Leung (SEA).
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      Lock icon Govt serious about jobs for Singaporeans, says MOM
      738 8  -  Ms Jean Tan Director, Corporate Communications Ministry of Manpower WE refer to your article "Jobs galore but jobless S'poreans just too picky" by Catherine Ong (BT, Jan 8). We are disappointed that Ms Ong left the Jobs Task Force (JTF) press briefing
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      Lock icon Stock trading subject to rules
      245 8  -  Peter Chia Executive Vice-President Head of Securities Clearing and Depository Singapore Exchange I REFER to the letters "Remember Clob when trading in Aussie shares" by Narayana Narayana (Mailbag. Jan 8) and "Beware loopholes in Aussie shares" by Alison Cousland (Mailbag. Dec 29), questioning whether local
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      116 8 SO PLEASURE BOATS/ SEA SPORTS Glide your eyes over here if you love a splashing good time. The Straits Times Classified > HENRY BUTCHER 4W APPRAISAL GROUP PTE. ifl For Sale Lend Area 120.867 eqft Total Built-in Ame 332,682 sq It Tenure Lease expiring in 2033 Description TWo inter-Hnked buildings
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      100 8 We welcome letters. E-mail us at bttetterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore*****s. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind libel
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Doing business in public toilets
      529 9  -  PROPERTY S'pore companies should consider building and manning toilets In hhim lee han shih TODAY, in this column, we won't be talking about houses or offices or factories. Instead, we'll focus on a lit-tle-discussed form of property: public toilets. While no one would dispute that
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      853 9 SINGAPORE ACCOUNTANCY ACADEMY TRAINING ARM OF THE INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS OF SINGAPORE presents Financial Modeling Spreadsheet Skills See how Financial Modeling can be uaed for financial analysis and valuation purposes, and to illustrate the impact of Value Drivers on Enterprise Value, and on the company's ability to generate
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Wake-up call for Indian telecoms
      691 10  -  wnnnmssat OPINION yogi aggarwal The writer is a Bombay based journalist who contributes regularly to BT ADRENALINE levels in the fastchanging Indian telecommunications sector were lifted several notches as the recent entry of a private sector major as a long-distance carrier saw the cost of
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      107 10 There is this vacuum, this "king is dead" feeling.' 6 -Paul Hobby who runs an investment firm and whose family has long been influential in Houston, the hometown of Enron. 'We had baggage. Now we have an employee strength of 2,000. When the downturn (post-Sept 11) happened,
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      Lock icon Bangkok dangles a new carrot
      583 10 EDITORIAL THE foreign business community in Bangkok was pleasantly surprised by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's better-late-than-never scheme to attract major foreign companies to shift their regional headquarters to Bangkok Thailand Inc, it seems, is beckoning at last Coming from a government that until recently kept
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      Lock icon Acting together and advancing together
      1240 10 The following are extracts of a speech given in Singapore yesterday by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi titled 'Japan and Asean in Blast Asia A Sincere and Open Partnership' TODAY, I would like to speak about cooperation between Japan and Asean and my concept of
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      Lock icon Hints of a grand game plan
      874 10  -  COMMENTARY There's more to Koizumi's new Asia initiative than meets the eye Patrick Smith The writer is a former Bloomberg correspondent in Asia and the author of Japan: A Reinterpretation. The opinions expressed are his own. Bloomberg WHAT makes Jun-san run? It's a good
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon KL stock market set to sizzle with rash of new listings
      499 11  -  BTia-MIIML'i*! Finns are rushing to take advantage of fresh investor interest in equities Reports from Diana Oon Abdullah in Kiiala Lumpur THE race for new listings on the Malaysian bourse is hotting up as companies rush to bring their
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      Lock icon Merger with KLSE turning things around for Mesdaq
      441 11 At least 3 M'sian IT firms eye listing debnt this year IT companies in Malaysia are hoping that this year will be the year for Mesdaq the technology exchange set up close to three years ago to give IT start-ups access to
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      Lock icon Tenaga cuts 2002 spending by 26%, defers projects
      436 11 KUALA LUMPUR It expects power demand growth to slow to 5% this year Bloomberg AFX TENAGA Nasional Bhd, South-east Asia's biggest power company, said it has cut fiscal 2002 capital spending plans by 26 per cent and deferred three power plant projects
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      Lock icon Anwar's lawyer cleared of sedition charges
      263 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A lawyer for Malaysia's jailed exdeputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was cleared of sedition charges yesterday after the government withdrew its case. High Court Judge Augustine Paul discharged Karpal Singh after newly appointed Attorney-Gen-eral Abdul Gani Pattail told the court he
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      Lock icon Priceline.com's ticketing idea set for Asia launch
      523 13  -  Customers get to state own prices for a travel service; Priceline will find a hotel or airline to accept offer From Audrey Tan in Hang Kong SICK of being over-charged by your travel agent? Then log on to a website, state the price
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      Lock icon Mindanao war games take on a real enemy
      258 13  -  From Al Labita in Manila UNITED States and Philippine troops will launch today their annual joint war games in Mindanao the backyard of the notorious Abu Sayyaf terrorist group which is allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qai-da network. The six-month-long exercise
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      Lock icon China will continue to keep yuan stable: Dai Xianglong
      314 15 BEIJING Aim to maintain AaU'a fimmrinl stability unchanged Reuters CENTRAL bank governor Dai Xianglong has reaffirmed China's pledge to keep its yuan currency stable to help maintain Asia's financial stability. "We will continue to implement and improve the managed float exchange
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      Lock icon Indonesia revises privatisation strategies
      429 15 JAKARTA Govt hopes to beat target by raising up to 8t rupiah or more by mid-year Reuters INDONESIA is revising privatisation strategies in a bid to beat its 2002 privatisation revenues target, which if successful would mark a significant plus for the country's thus-far lagging asset
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon RHB-Utama talks almost over
        95 15 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR) Negotiations for the merger of RHB Bank and Utama Bank have "more or less" been concluded and an announcement should be made this week, according to RHB executive chairman Abdul Rashid Hussain. The talks were held up owing to differing views regarding the
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        Lock icon India to invite bids for IDD licences
        69 15 Dow Jones Newswires [NEW DELHI] India will invite bids for international phone licences starting Jan 26. Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan said yesterday, adding that he hoped the entire process would be completed by March 25. State-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) currently holds a
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        Lock icon Dp M gives nod for MTUC proposal
        79 15 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR) Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has agreed in principle to a long-standing proposal by the Malaysian Trade Unions Congress (MTUC) to legally enforce a minimum wage scale for the country's 10.2 million workers and employees, Utusan Malaysia reported. Quoting MTUC president
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        Lock icon Philippines may still hit deficit target
        89 15 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines may still hit its 2001 Budget deficit target of 145 billion pesos (555.2 billion) despite an initial estimate showing the deficit overshooting target by two billion pesos, a senior government official said yesterday. "It's still preliminary, but we think we
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      472 16 HONGKONG Move comes amid a restructuring of HK ops ahead of BOCs first share sale Bloomberg BANK of China, the nation's largest foreign currency lender, is under investigation by US regulators, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported. The Office of the Comptroller of
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      256 16 SEOUL AFP PRESIDENT Kim Dae-Jung of South Korea yesterday made an unprecedented display of atonement for corruption scandals rocking his administration as another top official, this time the country's top prosecutor, quit. The Nobel Peace Prize winner made three apologies during a five-minute
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      418 16 BOMBAY Musharraf s pledge to curb militants raises peace hopes Reuters INDIAN and Pakistani financial markets rallied yesterday on hopes Pakistan's weekend vow to curb terrorism will bring peace between the two nuclear-capable South Asian neighbours. The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange 100-share index
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      261 16 BEIJING Reuters CHINA blasted a move by Taiwan's government to put the word 'Taiwan" on its passports, calling it a step towards independence, the official China Daily newspaper reported yesterday. The passport move, announced by Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian on Sunday, was an excuse
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      279 16 CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIAN right-wing firebrand Pauline Hanson resigned yesterday as leader of her floundering One Nation party in a move aimed at reducing her profile as she prepares to face electoral fraud charges this year. One Nation, railing against Asian immigrants and special treatment
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        153 17 Bloomberg [GENEVA] The European Union said it won World Trade Organization clearance to impose trade sanctions against US companies after the WTO ruled that a US tax break violates global export-subsidy rules. The 15-nation EU must now decide whether to press for as
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        99 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] Last year was the worst ever for corporate debt failures, as 211 companies worldwide defaulted on U*****.4 billion of debt, said credit rating agency Standard Poor's yesterday. Both the number of defaults and the dollar amounts are records. The old records were
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        90 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] HSBC Holdings Pic, Europe's largest bank by market value, may write down as much as US$l billion for bad loans in Argentina in 2001 and more this year, analysts said. "If you combine the bond portfolio, the conversion of customer loans to pesos and
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      406 17 NEW YORK FT THE quarterly earnings of American companies should be subjected to greater scrutiny amid a rise in earnings manipulation and doubts raised by the collapse of Enron, according to US accounting experts. "Unquestionably there is more financial information available to investors today
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      516 17 NEW YORK Some of it may show economy's recovery; other data may suggest the opposite Bloomberg AFX INVESTORS will get a dose of economic news of mixed nature this week after a steady flow of benign economic data, cheery corporate outlooks and
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      509 17 LAT—WP [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush briefly lost consciousness on Sunday after he choked on a pretzel while watching a football game on television, the White House said. After fainting, the president tumbled to the floor from a couch, bruising his lower
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      897 18  -  LETTERiJJ.I..IUIiU.II.I..W!I 'Enronpttp' thrmtfamg tn Hamagn tha Hiwh leon hadar THINGS would indeed look quite familiar to the imaginary' Washington ian who fell into a coma on September 10,2001, and woke up four months later, on January 10,2002. He or she would recognise the sights and
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      762 18 NEW YORK They prospered bat at the expense of the energy firm's long-term health NYT WHAT the world is now awakening to is that the Enron Corp was not much of a company, but its executives made sure it was one hell
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      203 18 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Arthur Andersen LLP employees were directed to destroy most documents related to their audits of Enron Corp in an Oct 12 memo, four days before Enron disclosed a US$6lB million loss, Time magazine reported on its website. The memo told auditors to destroy everything
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      886 19 IBM and furniture maker Steelcase design Blue Space, a model office that uses technology to solve frustrations of daily work life NYT [NEW YORK] WANT to know what the workplace may be like in a few years if IBM and Steelcase have it
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      1118 20  -  Companies need to devise effective workforce management strategies to be well-positioned for an upswing, says DHARMA CHANDRAN The writer is a senior consultant at Towers Perrin THERE has been much public debate in Singapore on effective strategies for managing the workforce in the
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      273 21 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose nine points to 950, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 27 points to 1,050, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed one point to 6,832 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up one point to 1,041. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Corona Luck (built 1969)
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      272 21 MX HQ JaaM m CWT Distribution 0.65 -0.01 269 ChuanHup 0.40 -0.01 1065 Cotco inv*stm*nt -.035 -0.01 387 Freight Links 0.07 -0.01 714 Cfl Holdings 0.51 0.03 25 IMC HoMn«S-HK—5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holdings 0.17 -0.01 226 KappalCorp 3.30 ai6 ***** K*pp*l Marina 0.21 -0.01 1293 Kiml TiM
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      468 21  -  He also pushes for cooperation in strengthening energy security By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] A formal agreement on Asia-wide cooperation to combat piracy is a top priority, Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reaffirmed in Singapore yesterday. Citing the need for greater international action across
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      300 21  -  Drop of 4.2% from Oct not as steep as in first half of last year By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Cargo throughput volumes at Singapore's container handling terminals dipped again last November by 4.2 per cent from October, according to the latest figures from the
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      233 21 Reuters [NEW DELHI) The Indian government has set Feb 18 as the deadline for suitors to put in preliminary bids for state-run Shipping Corp of India (SCI), a key company on the country's privatisation list. In an advertisement in the Financial
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      81 21 Reuters [PORT EVERGLADES] Windstar Cruises' 617-foot-long, 308-passenger, Wind Surf sailing cruise ship arrives at Port Everglades escorted by a water-squirting tug boat. The vessel began sailing seven-day cruises to the Bahamas and Key West, Florida, on Sunday, marking thefirst time in a decade a Windstar vessel
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      470 21  -  Bat shipping executives claim rate-rise needed to recoup losses as costs increase From P T Bangsberg in Hong Kong CDI7TDAT SEVERAL mam steamship groups are to impose today new terminal handling charges (THC) in most Chinese ports, despite opposition from shippers and others
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        849 22 Rotterdam, already the European port with the most extensive feeder network, is now optimising its services with a system called Central Allocation Feeders, which has been operational for the last half vear Port of Rotterdam THE sight of feeders buzzing through the port of
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      136 22 PACE FoonqSun 5 Appenship 5 BSA 6 Fuiitrarts 4 B'tinq Mas 6 Onurtrifts 4 CMACGM 3 H4n 9 h 6 COSCO 3 Columbus 6 Hhioq-A 3 i Central £x 6 Inter** 5 China Shpq 5 ,R,y 5 i Couq* 6 KienHurq 6 CVT Gtobelink 6 Kyowt 6
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        209 29 January 21 United States: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday January 2« Australia: Australia Day February 1 Malaysia: Federal Territory Day February New Zealand: Waitangi Day February 11 Japan: National Foundation Day Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve Vietnam: Chinese New Year Eve February 12 Brunei: Chinese New Year China:
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        798 29 THIS report compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        384 30 US Airways pilot arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, making terrorist threats Reuters [PHILADELPHIA] A US Airways pilot was arrested on Sunday on charges of disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats for comments he made at a security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport.
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        200 30 But Swiss airline also holding meetings with other airlines AFP [GENEVA] The Swiss airline Crossair is holding talks with German airline Lufthansa about a possible alliance, a Crossair spokesman said. Spokesman Patrick Jeandrain confirmed a newspaper report of recent meetings between officials from the
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          122 30 Reuters {MADRID} Three crew members died yesterday when a cargo plane crashed shortly before landing at Bilbao airport, officials said. "The (plane) has been found and also the three bodies of the crew members," a spokesman for the Basque regional police said. The Embraer 120 twin
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          171 30 AP [JAKARTA] Seven people were injured when an Indonesian passenger jet crash landed immediately after taking off from an airport near the town of Pekanbaru yesterday, officials said. After hitting the runway, the Lion Airlines Boeing 737 came to a halt just off the
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          147 30 AFX {BEIJING} Chinese airlines have begun a price war in the run-up to the Lunar New Year, with 30 per cent price cats on key routes making air travel cheaper than sleeper berths on the railways, the Beijing Evening Post reported. Flights from Beijing
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        145 30 Dow Jones [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International's vice-chair-man Thanong Bidaya is believed to be a strong candidate to become the new president of the flag carrier by the end of January, the Business Day reports quoting a government source. Mr Thanong, a former finance
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        215 30 Reuters [NEW YORK] Low-cost airline Jetßlue Airways is expected to announce plans to buy additional Airbus aircraft valued at about US$5OO million, according to a source familiar with the situation. Privately held Jetßlue has signed a contract to purchase the Airbus A32os the
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        278 30 Reuters [WASHINGTON] a federal judge on Friday refused to block a presidential order preventing United Airlines mechanics from going on strike. US District Judge James Robertson rejected a motion for a preliminary injunction by the International Association of Machinists union, saying the
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        267 30 A TALE OF TWO AIRPORTS Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's airport handled less cargo and fewer passengers in December and in all of 2001, mainly because of a drop in demand as the Sept 11 terrorist attacks hurt an already slowing global economy.
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        217 30 Reuters [DUBAI] Dubai airport handled 632,000 tonnes of cargo in 2001, a 10 per cent year-on-year increase, despite a global slowdown after the September attacks in the US, official figures released showed. The Dubai Civil Aviation Department also said in a statement on Sunday
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      308 21 AWARDS Chairman of International jßfji Maritime Carriers in Singapore, MMfrl Frank Tsao, will be presented QK|lK!"*3b^A with the annual Connecticut i ffjA Maritime Association's mT N Commodore Award at the aff group's Shipping 2002 trade show and exhibition in March. i PEOPLE Internationally-recognised expert in aviation emergencies and disaster management,
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