The Business Times, 16 January 2002

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  • 10 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 85C j iri'tornet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/
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  • 604 1  -  P-liexclusive But negative equity and worsening credit profiles deter some banks By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Demand for housing loan refinancing is on the rise but some banks' enthusiasm for the business has waned as mortgages fall into negative equity and
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  • 337 1  -  Index sinks 2.1% to breach 1,700; wide losses posted By 1 R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] After defying gravity for most of this year, the Straits Times Index yesterday sank 37.04 points or 2.1 per cent to 1,694.48 following widening concerns over earnings and the strength
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  • 947 1  -  Optimism will be put to test with release of quarterly earnings From Andrew Marks in New Ynrk INVESTOR optimism that America's prolonged economic recession will end by mid-year, and that corporate profits will rebound, has propelled the S&P 500 some 18 per cent higher and
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  • 340 1 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] Merrill Lynch Co, the world's largest brokerage firm, has advised investors to reduce their holdings in stocks. The recommendation on Monday was one factor that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down that day for a sixth straight trading
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  • 733 1  -  BTiaJJIIUL'/J Bonds issued by former DBS Land in $1.25b deals By: rcn Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE) In a move that could become the final chapter of the former DBS Land's three asset securitisation deals in 1999 totalling $1,255 billion, Capita Land is exploring the possibility of
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    • 75 1 IMBIBE Shipping Times SembShip strikes major deal with Norwegian fleet. Shipping Times Pgl Commentary Wake-up call for US markets, dollar bulls. Pg 6 Dismal science not beyond hope. Pg 7 Japan-Asean ties yet to take final shape. Pg 14 Top Storlos Online fund distributors impose sales charges. MtJrt Page I
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    • 22 1 ST -aZSP^ Will 2002 be another car buyer's market? Parallel imports secure record market -hate j Another boom vear for Japanese brands
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    • 79 1 ING bets on firms with foreign earnings, Pg 4 Market alkie* over Wall St, earnings worries, Pg 6 "There is a thin line between a market that anticipates improving V fundamentals and a bubble. t 0 The equity market v may have overstepped i that line." i HOCK LOCK SIEW
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    • 646 2  -  PTT exclusive! Move initiated by fond manager CommerzbankAsia; fees fixed at 1% By Serena Ng (SINGAPORE] After a year of not charging front-end loads on index funds rim by Commerzbank Asia Management (CAM), online distributors have started imposing sales charges at the fund manager's
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 116 2 A CONTACT of ours recently visited a local branch of an offshore bank to move some money out of Singapore into a higher-yielding fixed deposit account elsewhere and found himself called into a private room to be interrogated. Bank officials prefaced the discussion
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      • 92 2 IF you thought the 300-year-old name of property firm Jones Lang Wootton (JLW) was gone for good, think again. Chicago's La Salle Partners completed its purchase of London -based real estate services company Jones Lang Wootton for U*****.2 million in 1999 to form Jones Lang
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      • 52 2 A SIGN of better times, we hope. Grand Plaza Hotel, a traditional property auction venue, will no longer hold as many such events, industry insiders say. Instead, the hotel aims to lease halls for seminars, hoping the organisers will book some guest rooms at the
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    • 535 2  -  Biflhid Hnfftnin expected to sell his 24% stake in RHB From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has urged Rash id Hussain Bhd and Utama Banking Group to speed up their bank merger talks. "We hope they will merge with
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 494 3  -  Tong Meng sparks interest on delisting plans; Vikay makes debut after hiatus By) David Boey TWO little-known stocks, Tong Meng Industries Ltd and Vikay Industrial Ltd, shot to prominence yesterday, claiming top spots on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) percentage gainer list and volume
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    • 484 3 Reuters [HONG KONG] Innovative equity-linked and hedged products could crowd out guaranteed funds from Asian mutual fund portfolios as investors position for a rise in interest rates and a rally in global stock markets. Asset management companies are rushing to structure
      Reuters  -  484 words
    • 573 3  -  Bnt average Sain dives; losers swells to almost double no. of gainers By I Serena Ng THE number of Central Provident Fund members who made net realised profits on their Ordinary Account investments reached another record high for the year to Sept 2001, but the
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    • 639 4  -  MARKET OUTLOOK It also says investors better off switching from Singapore to KL shares Reports by Angela Tan INVESTORS seeking exposure in Singapore will be better off buying firms with overseas growth drivers as structural constraints will limit domestic growth in the
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    • 367 4 It nps its target for STI to 1,900 and GDP growth estimate to 2J3% SALOMON Smith Barney is advising investors to buy Singapore stocks on their potential earnings recovery, in stark contrast to ING Barings Securities' call to underweight Singapore. Salomon said in
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    • 242 4  -  By Teh Hooi Ling LUM Chang yesterday issued a profit warning, saying it will incur a slight loss for the six months ended Dec 31,2001. "The continued weakening of the global and local economy, worsened by the Sept 11 incident,
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    • 879 4  -  |K>T??3lock siew anthony rowley A COMFORTING view for equity investors is that the US economy will recover faster than expected this year as business inventories fall and production picks up, thereby containing unemployment and encouraging ever-eager American consumers to go on a credit-fi-nanced
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    • 460 5  -  Sale of Parkway Parade units, A-Z Bldg, securities raised $150.5 m By\ Conrad Raj FIRST Capital Corp is well on its way to becoming a pure property play in its key investment areas of Singapore, London and China. The company, which is controlled by Malaysian
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    • 158 5 OLIVIA Lum, group chiel executive officer, president and managing director ol listed Hyflux Ltd, has beer appointed by Prime Minis ter Goh Chok Tong as Singapore's representative to the Apec Business Adviso ry Council (Abac) from 2002 to 2003. The Ministry of Trade and Industry
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    • 579 5  -  Net proceeds amount to $1.22 m, less than flotation cost Byl Teh Hooi Ling PROFESSOR Chew Hua Seng, founder and chief executive officer of Raffles LaSalle, thinks investors are getting shares in his company real cheap. Any cheaper and he would not want to
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 61 5 MFS Technology says its public offer tranche of 2.6 million IPO shares was 79 times subscribed. It also found takers for 41.09 million placement shares, 7.9 million reserved shares and an over-allotment tranche of 7 million shares. The shares start trading on a "ready"
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      • 71 5 METALOCK (Singapore) has announced that Robert Tan Kah Boh resigned as a director from yesterday to pursue other commitments. He has also stepped down as chairman of the audit committee and a member of the investment and remuneration committees. The company appointed lan Wayne Spence a director,
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      • 80 5 L&M Group Investments said yesterday its wholly-owned subsidiary L&M Petromas has terminated agreements to buy stakes in two gas pipeline projects in Indonesia. The deals were terminated after the vendors failed to fulfill certain conditions before deadline. Under the original agreements, L&M was
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      320 6 0T14ER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 15 VALUE CLOSE V BT OB/OS 563.00 -241.00 BT CAM -*****.00 -204.00 ITKMaylM -*****.00 +57.00 Aft-SGEarittM 445.77 -7.11 SC FpWn Did 147.87 -4.65 SG Eqdtitt Fb 1448.08 -27.96 Sfi tjuMjM 470.84 MSCIStagapoiv 211.71 -4.40 SMSClFabnt 211.00 -5.40 Mwl» V^kmmm Vikay Ind 5c 109.046.0CX) Beyonics 10c 31.362,000
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    • 781 6  -  PI IX.l.HnM.ia STOCKS r. sivanithy TRADERS did their utmost yesterday to stem a tide of selling sparked by Wall Street's weakness. But their efforts only delayed the inevitable the Straits Times Index sank 37.04 points or 2.1 per cent to 1,694.48 on
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    • 808 6  -  I-iri comment CURRENCIES But bigger move still rests on US investor sentiment larry wee A HEALTHY retracement is taking place. The Dow and Nasdaq have fallen back below their key markers of 10,000 and 2,200, stung on Monday by a Merrill Lynch warning
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  • 2846 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS cmBood s pore A/$ 1.207/ CitiBond S'pore B/S 1 23/ Citi Money Sang Dollar Class B 1 035* W Anwo Asset Mgt (S'pore) Citi Pan-Europe Equity Fund 10* Star Europe Eqty!* 0 801/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Balanced 129/ Star Europe Bd 0 9» CitiSelect Asia Tift Growth
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 529 7  -  Minns 14.5% estimate points further to a bottoming Bui Chuang Peck Ming RECESSION-HIT Singapore continued to make progress on the trade front in December, with non-oil domestic exports (NODX) expected to record the smallest fall in seven months, according to analysts polled yesterday.
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    • 807 7  -  Economists may have failed to forecast recent events, but they do have their uses, writes AXXA TEO ANNA TEO IN the wake of failed forecasts and missed cues about economic performance in recent years, will economics, the dismal science, soon pick up a new moniker—
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    • 348 7  -  By Eugene Low THE Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) will be submitting a white paper to the government's Economic Review Committee (ERC) to air the concerns and suggestions of businessmen here. The association, which represents over 2,000 companies, is in
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    • 154 7 Dow Jones News wires CONTRARY to "unduly gloomy" government and market forecasts, a strong recovery in technology exports will likely generate surprisingly strong 4.5 per cent growth in Singapore's economy this year, Deutsche Bank said yesterday. Strong export gains in coming months are
      Dow Jones News wires  -  154 words
    • 248 7  -  on the economy retail sales By' Teh Hooi Ling AFTER a weak rebound in October last year, Singapore's overall retail sales index at current prices dipped back into negative territory with a 4.4 per cent year-on-year fall in November, figures from Department of
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    • 286 7 Reuters SINGAPORE, which has detained more than a dozen suspects linked to Osama bin Laden and alleged bomb plots in the city-state, has stepped up security at airports, ports and oil facilities, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. Mr Yeo, speaking at a
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    • 198 7 JTC Corporation chairman Lim Neo Chian will head the company's board for another two years, effective Jan 1 this year. The company said yesterday the Ministry of Trade and Industry had reappointed Maj-Gen Lim for another two-year term. Besides him, four other directors
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  • MAIL bag
    • 218 8  -  MANPOWER policies Mohan Narendran Singapore THE column by Vikram Khanna "Why manpower policies need to adapt. Part II" (BT, Jan 14) raises some interesting scenarios. If "foreign talent" starts streaming in on Employment Passes (EPs), what will be the implications for employment of local polytechnic and
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    • 335 8  -  Yang Tuck Meng Singapore I HAVE been following Vikram Khanna's articles on this matter ("Why manpower policies need to adapt. Part I D", Dec 31 and Jan 14), and would like to thank you for giving a good, accurate insight into the hindrances that SMEs
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    • 132 8  -  Rahul Goswami Singapore YOUR piece on manpower policies ("Why manpower policies need to adapt. Part II", Jan 14) was most interesting and I do hope the mandarins at MOM read it in the spirit that it should be read. As an EP-wallah myself,
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    • 409 8  -  Teo Chwee Hock Singapore I REFER to the column "Why manpower policies need to adapt, Part II" by Vikram Khanna (BT, Jan 14). MOM has to ensure that its Employment Pass (EP) policies do not jeopardise the employment of the local workforce and that EPs
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 737 10  - Crony capitalism US-style isTT=! bottom line OPINION paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University NYT FOUR years ago, as Asia struggled with an economic crisis, many observers blamed "crony capitalism". Wealthy businessmen in Asia didn't bother to tell investors the truth about their assets, their
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    • 76 10 'I feel very confident at this point that he had a vasovagal episode of syncope.' y -Dr Richard J Tabb the White House physician, explaining President Bush's fainting episode. 'Nobody, I repeat nobody, can think they can put us under their control or, worse still, treat us
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    • 586 10 EDITORIAL JAPAN'S Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has given the impression of wanting to be "all things to all men" in outlining his vision of regional cooperation to leaders of five South-east Asian nations over the past week As a result, he may be in danger of ending
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    • 893 10  -  The economic programme is actually sound, and win help put Thailand back on a solid restructuring and growth path By Daniel Lian The writer is an economist (covering Singapore and South-east Asia) with Morgan Stanley Singapore THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is approaching
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    • 655 10  -  COMMENTARY The US conld apply lessons from its Korean experience elsewhere By] Nicholas D Kristof NYT [SEOUL] One of the things that we Americans are finally waking up to since Sept 11 is the degree to which we are disliked and resented around the world. Travel from
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 352 12 KUALA LUMPUR Local production has slipped bat output of rubber goods has increased MALAYSIA, once the world's largest producer and exporter of natural rubber, is on the road to becoming a major importer, with domestic production declining and consumption on the rise, reports
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    • 278 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFX MALAYSIA International Shipping Corp (MISC) plans to raise its stakes in both Bintulu Port Holdings and North port Corp but has not set any targets, a company source said. "MISC is just looking at investment-related businesses, which means any good investment in related
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    • 230 12  -  From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S financial markets were shaken yesterday by an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale, with the benchmark Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) falling four points as buildings in the nation's capital swayed wildly. "The index started to fall sharply
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    • 206 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA has shelved three major power projects for up to two years amid slowing demand for electricity, reports said yesterday. The energy, communications and multimedia ministry has endorsed a revised programme by state-owned Tenaga Nasional to keep the electricity reserve margin
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    • NOTE Book
      • 101 12 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd said yesterday that it Intends to keep its stake in gaming company Magnum Corp Bhd. "There has been no change in the company's policy with regards to maintaining its current shareholding in Magnum," Multi-Purpose said in
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      • 77 12 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] The government plans to replace the board of directors of PT Garuda Indonesia, PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines and PT Pelayaran Indonesia (Pelni), Ferdinan Nainggolan, a deputy to state enterprises minister i.akgamanj> Sukardi, says. Kompas daily cited Mr Nainggolan as saying that the
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      • 71 12 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Abdul Rahman Maidin has resigned as chairman and director of media and property company Malaysian Resources Corp. The resignation was effective last Saturday, Malaysian Resources said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange late on Monday. No reasons were
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      • 102 12 AFX-Asia (KUALA LUMPUR] Cekom (M) Sdn Bhd, the wholly-owned unit of Technology Resources Industries Bhd, has formed a consortium that includes Deutsche Telekom to bid for a Malaysian 3G mobile telecoms licence, New Straits Times reported yesterday. "We are in the middle of
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      • 121 12 Dow Jones Newswires [BEIJING] China Construction Bank president Wang Xuebing has been charged with negligence amid an inquiry into suspicious loans during his tenure at Bank of China, People's Bank of China Governor Dai Xianglong confirmed yesterday. Mr Dai told a news conference that Wang
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    • 390 14  -  DTZ survey shows just &3% may consider living in Shenzhen From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG KONG'S residential property will not be much affected by plans to relax border controls with China, since not many people are willing to live in Shenzhen,
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    • 141 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand decided yesterday to cut income tax for foreign actors to persuade more movie-makers to produce films on location in the country. A weekly Cabinet meeting endorsed a proposal to cut the tax to a flat 10 per cent rate, from
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    • 144 14  -  yang razali kassim Economic Partnership was purposeful. "This would not necessarily include a free trade area," said Mr Severino, as agriculture would be an almost insurmountable problem. A lot depends on the final shape of the Japan- Asean partnership. Until this is seen,
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    • 142 14 BEIJING AFP CHINA reacted to the inking of a freetrade pact between Japan and Singapore yesterday, saying a wider forum ought to be the main channel for promoting prosperity in Asia. The "10 plus three" plan for an area covering the 10 members
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    • 492 15 BEIJING Yen chalks op its biggest gain to US$ in almost 7 weeks after comments Bloomberg CHINA'S central bank chief urged Japan to halt the yen's slide, becoming the latest official to warn that a weaker yen may hurt Asian economies by triggering
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    • 295 15 HONGKONG They will share credit information ftiH tighten landing Reuters HONG KONG bankers agreed yesterday to share credit information in a bid to stem a rising number of personal bankruptcy cases in the territory as the economy slows. Hong Kong recorded 9,151
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    • 794 12 EES GES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of GES International Limited ("GIL") on 7 February 2002 at Shangri-La Hotel, Casuarina Room, Tower Wing, Lobby Level, 22 Orange Grove Road, Singapore
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    • 541 12 THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 HfTOflO SINGAPORE PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordmary Genera) Meeting of the abovenamed Company held on the 10th day of January. 2002 the Momng naaotution was passed "THAT the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 290(1 Kb) of the Companies
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    • 583 14 WnvConTa 4 Manob OERAiNS ASSOCIES j International Arbitration Symposium 24 and 25 January 2002 at The Fullerton Hotel Businesses are realising that when results and performance diverge from initial expectations and agreements, they need a flexible, dynamic and tailormade means of dealing with their disputes. Just as they initially negotiated
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  • WORLD news
    • 461 16 WASHINGTON Consumer spending resilient despite recession, growing unemployment AP US RETAIL sales edged down by a smaller-than-expected 0.1 per cent in December as consumers showed resilience in the face of the recession and rising unemployment. The tiny decline reported by the
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    • 235 16 They will be given USs634m in retention bonuses AP. Dow Jones [SAN JOSE] HewlettPackard Co and Compaq Computer Corp will shell out US$634 million in bonuses to key employees as an incentive to stay on if their merger goes through, both companies disclosed.
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    • 194 16 Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve officials stuck with their cautious tone on Monday but were optimistic that consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of US economic activity, will continue to provide strength. "We at the Chicago Fed believe we are in a period of
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    • 436 16 WASHINGTON Move could cost US firms billions in higher taxes Reuters, NYT US officials expressed disappointment on Monday with a World Trade Organization decision that the offshore tax havens allowed by US tax law amounted to an illegal trade subsidy and must
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 63 16 Reuters [LONDON] Vodafone sakl it would sell Siemens AG the remaining stake in engineering and automotive firm Atecs Mannesmann for 3.66 billion euros (555.96 billion). Siemens had already paid 3.1 billion euros for a SO per cent stake plus two shares in Atecs after Vodafone
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      • 58 16 Bloomberg [r AKisj societe ueneraie sa said judges nave placed chairman Daniel Bouton and chief executive officer Phillppe Citerne under formal investigation as part of a probe into suspected money laundering between France and Israel. The two men and head of French retail banking, Didier Alix,
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      • 55 16 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Charles Schwab Corp had a fourth-quarter loss as the decline in trading by individuals cut commissions at the biggest discount brokerage firm. Schwab lost US$l3 million, or 1 cent a share, in Q4, versus a profit of US$l36 million, or 10 cents
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      • 61 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] Online brokerage E-Trade Group Inc on Monday posted a sharp increase in Q4 profit, helped by cost cuts and gains from businesses other than stock trading. E-Trade said net income for the period rose to US$2l.6 million, or 6 cents per
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      • 58 16 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Wells Fargo Co said Q4 profit roae 5 per cent as lower interest rates boosted profit in the mortgage business and fee income roae. Net income at the fifth-largest US bank rose to US$l.lB billion, or 69 cents a share, from
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    • 580 17  -  House, Senate need to agree on final bill before President can sign it into law From] Leon Hadar in Washington PLACING the issue of global trade policy on the top of his political agenda, US President George Bush urged Congress on
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    • 285 17 TOKYO Bloomberg JAPAN'S machinery orders rose for the first time in three months in November, though business spending will probably decline as companies close factories and chipmakers trim production. The orders rose 15 per cent in November. Economists expected an 8 per cent
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    • 446 18 ENRON SAGA The price is a third of unit's future profits, say sources Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Enron Corp, the largest corporate bankruptcy, agreed to sell its energy trading business to ÜBS AG for the promise of a one-third share of future profits and
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    • 362 18 NEW YORK AFP, Reuters ACCOUNTANCY group Arthur Andersen on Monday rejected dire warnings over its future viability amid an uproar over its destruction of documents related to the collapse of Enron Corp. "We are a strong firm and we expect to be around for a
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    • 305 18 AFP [WASHINGTON] An Enron employee warned her bosses in August 2001 of "fanny accounting" four months before the energy titan's spectacular bankruptcy, a Congressional committee said Monday. US lawmakers revealed they had uncovered the internal memo and they demanded further information in letters to
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    • 501 19 The prohibitive costs of fuel cell engines and the lack of infrastructure stand in the way AP [WASfflNGTON] The goal of the research partnership between Washington and the auto industry, a mid-size car that would go 80 miles on a gallon
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    • 187 19  -  By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Honda Motor unveiled the hybrid petrol-electric Civic here yesterday, in a prelude to a car pooling system to be launched late next month. The car has a 1.3-litre petrol engine with cylinder cut-off capability, and an electric motor with a self-recharging
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    • 694 20  -  Aurora— Shoppers should still be getting popular 1,500-1,600 cc choices starting from $70,000 christopher tan THE Singapore car market has never been more robust. More new cars have been sold in the past three years than in the previous six. But will 2002
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    • 298 20 THE prevailing softness of the yen against the euro, which is firm against the Singapore dollar, will fuel the dominance of Japanese car importers here. The Japanese currency is now below 551.39 (to 100 yen) 8.5 per cent down from $1.52 this time
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    • 255 20  -  All reports by CHRISTOPHER TAN PARALLEL Importers garnered 5.5 per cent of passenger car sales last year a record since the market was liberalised in 1994. Estimates based on official data reveal that independent importers sold 3,700 cars in 2001, up from 1,842
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      • 111 20 Un i automotive services a fully-owned unit of Comfort Group, has launched an interest-free car repair and maintenance instalment plan. CAS, the largest auto workshop in Singapore, has tied up with credit card issuers UOB, DBS and Standard Chartered Diners to provide the scheme. With the
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      • 146 20 FORD'S announcement that it is shedding 35,000j0bs is only the beginning of industry-wide downsizing that could see more than a million workers laid off. Industry consultant autopolis released the bleak forecast this week, noting, however, that it would be positive for the trade
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      • 112 20 BMW has been ranked the top car company In Asia for the fourth time consecutively in an annnai survey of corporate executives and professionals conducted by The Far Eastern Economic Review. The neview aiso round mat among all multinational corporations operating in
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    • 1025 21  -  Buyback activity flat in past week with only 4 firms repurchasing shares worth $1.77 m By) Robert Halili The writer is the managing director of Asia Insider Ltd. He is assisted by Ngia Soon Chai DESPITE six consecutive days of decline in the US market,
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    • 824 21 Reuters [HONG KONG] Mutual fund investors in Asia saw the best returns from South Korea in 2001 with an average gain of 40.4 per cent, but most missed out on China's robust economic growth and near doubling of its surging bourses.
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    • 266 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose six points to 966, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 15 points to 1,066, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD fell 17 points to 6315 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up three points to 1,044. ♦Pacific Challenger (built 1995) 149,210
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    • 524 23  -  Sembawang will be Tschndi Eitzen's exclusive repair and dry docking facility By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Sembawang Shipyard (SembShip) yesterday announced that it has clinched a major long-term dry-docking and repair contract from Norway's oldest shipowning company, Tschudi Eitzen Holding. The Norwegian company owns
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    • PORT Shots
      • 99 23 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co announced on Monday it had won a US$lOO million order to build two oil tankers for Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). The South Korean firm said the two ISO,OOO-ton oil carriers would be delivered by
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      • 105 23 AFX [BEIJING] Ningbo Port authorities said they will invest 6 billion yuan (Ssl.3 billion) to expand handling capacity in the next few years, Xinhua news agency reported. The expansion projects will be carried out in the container and crude oil docks, said Lu Linghong,
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      • 85 23 [LONDON] WEST African specialist carrier OT Africa Line has boosted its sales and trade management teams in the UK and Europe. Romaln Berard has been appointed OTAL's African sales manager, based in London. He Joins the company from fellow Bollor subsidiary Dehnaa. Diane Mussault steps
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      • 128 23 [SHANGHAI] Yingkou Port Liability Co Ltd said it will launch an initial public offering of 100 million A-shares today. The shares will be offered within a range of 5.5-5.9 yuan each, the equivalent of between 18.66 times and 20 times the company's earnings per
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    • 212 23 Reuters [SEOUL] Korea's largest shipping firm, Hyundai Merchant Marine Co, plans to issue 500 billion won (Ss7oo million) of assetbacked securities (ABS) to help ease its financial crunches, local media reported. The securities would be backed by sales receivables of ships leased
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    • 168 23 [LONDON] ExxonMobil Marine Fuels (EMMF) is back in the Gibraltar bunker supply market, after an absence of two years, thanks to an agency agreement with Spanish oilcompany Cepsa, which will supply its products to EMMF customers. The deal covers a full range of products,
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    • 340 23  -  Charges at ITsiaii port are lower: group chairman By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Container shipping heavyweight. Evergreen Marine Corp has formally decided to shift from Singapore's PSA Corporation to Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), according to Evergreen's group chairman. When asked about the
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    • 203 23 [SINGAPORE] The Israeli government is hoping to fully privatise one of the country's largest enterprises state-controlled Zim Israel Navigation Company Ltd by March this year, according to the Government Companies Authority. The move represents the rekindling of a process initiated last year when the
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    • 714 24  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer T| HE vexed question of vessel detentions has attracted Seafarer's attention this week. The power to detain ships with unacceptable deficiencies relating to safety gives teeth to Port State Control (PSC). Few in the industry would
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      • 771 33 THIS report compiled by Cocked Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranee* in US dollar* Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. Hie Cockett Bunker Price Index chance and the Individual
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      • 548 34 Carriers will mostly try to match checked luggage with passengers Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US air travellers can expect some delays starting Friday as carriers begin screening or matching with passengers all checked luggage, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said. "I certainly
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      • 287 34 About 700 maintenance staff in Sydney will vote today Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways maintenance staff in Melbourne voted against a proposal by Australia's largest airline to delay salary increases aimed at bringing costs more into line with discount rivals, unions said. The
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      • 464 34 Reuters [ZURICH] Crossair, successor to failed Swiss flag carrier Swissair, ended a meeting of its supervisory board on Monday without providing any comment on plans to take over dozens of the defunct airline's jets and for a new brand name. "The Crossair
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      • 238 34 AFX [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) is expected to have incurred net losses in October and November due to a decline in passenger traffic following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the US, the airline's president Avelino Zapanta said. "We haven't pinned down the
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      • 269 34 Union's demands holding np sale of Ansett to Tesna Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Tesna Holdings Ltd, the company formed by two Australian businessmen to bid for the assets of failed Ansett Holdings Ltd, agreed to give its 4,000 employees a 5 per cent
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        • 87 34 AP m w [LONDON] A new campaign group aaid it win preee the government to increase the capacity of the country's air transport system. "A 'no-growth* solution is simply unacceptable. People want the freedom to fly," Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson said at the
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        • 62 34 Bloomberg [AUCKLAND] Air New Zealand aaid it wiflredaoe services to Honolulu, LoeAngalee, Taipei, Oaaka and Hong Kong as it adjuats its flight schedule to seasonal demand. Tba Auckland-baaed national carrier also said in a statement it will increaae flights to Brisbane and to Cairns.
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        • 97 34 AP {TAMPA, Florida] Tbe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled out mechanical failure in the crash ofasmafl plane into a Tampa skyscraper,. but still is not calling the crash deliberate. NTSB tnvaatigator Butch Wilson said any conclusion that 15-year-old pilot Charles Bishop intentionally hit the
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