The Business Times, 18 March 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 SINGAPORE t. Http '/business-times.asial .com.sg- MONDAY. MARCH 18. 2002
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    64 1 STOCtKAMETDnHCES Wek Change OT 1778J8 J9.01 smsamuBB-a&M -iw BT-SRI 7*7J -«7 KLSECOMP 7SL64 +4.01 NIKKEI 11,648.11 -217.78 HANG SENG _1L2101» -JU6 SET INDEX ***** ltM JAKARTA COHP_«7Jt_-7.U MANILA U7M1 -UU TAIPEI WP! MCLtf 4U9 SEOUL COUP _8MJI >86.89 SHENZHEN B_JM* -9X AOSTALLORD-UML70 71.49 DOW JONES _1MW» *K74 NASDAQ
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    67 1 FBUKIASB 08$ St US* (S* per US*)— L8» per 1.418 1HI EC80<US*S*/E).«»# 1.604 OB tta 1J19 YEN 1SSJ ***** RM 4-UM 1084 HI* 7.791 4178 BAHT tUt 28.70 RIJPIAH 9*2 6.M4 PUKE KATES SINGAPORE* 5 a KUALA LUMPUR (.44 BONO KONG fclli JAKARTA 39 M TAIPEI 6.728 TOKYO iJ7g
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    Lock icon Taiwan, Singapore start talks on FTA
    456 1  -  iiexclusive Taipei conducting feasibility study, hopes for progress on deal by year-end From. Macabe Keliher m Taipei TAIWAN'S Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) held talks recently with its Singapore counterpart with a view towards establishing a Free Trade Agreement. Although the talks are preliminary,
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    Lock icon FCC cranks up its China property business
    1098 1  -  CTrngimwa It is eyeing projects to build 5,000 homes in Shanghai and Bering Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] First Capital Corporation, the Singaporelisted vehicle of Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan, appears to have woken from its seeming slumber, to aggressively pursue opportunities in China.
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    214 1 {SINGAPORE] Advertisers can now reach consumers in a dynamic way through Singapore Press Holdings' free standing inserts (FSI) every day of the week. Available in all SPH newspapers, the FSI are separate flyers distributed together with the dailies. Advertisers can also now use
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    Lock icon Silicon Valley youth say 'no' to high-tech jobs
    652 1  -  Soriqy findings raise concerns ef tow te fill pendens in fntnre From Jennifer Lien tnSihoon Valley SINGAPORE isn't the only economy with a shortage of high-tech talent within its shores. Silicon Valley, according to a new report, has the same problem starting
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      121 1 in hide BT Commont V A metanational model can benefit S'pore. Vikram Khanna, Mi mmxi rmff9 There's room for M'sian stocks to climb further Eddie Toh Top Stories Europtronic plans further China inroads Pgß Jan property caveats soar 21% from Dec Andersen's UK practice in merger talks with other accountancy
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      Lock icon A metanational model can benefit S'pore
      661 2  -  vikram khanna Two key forces have brought about this paradigm shift: one is the collapse in the costs of distance. The other is the fact that key competencies, technologies and consumer trends are now widely dispersed. For instance, some of the most cutting-edge ideas
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      Lock icon Ballooning bankruptcies strike fear in Japan
      736 2  -  threat to an already fragile banking system Frrmn Anthony Rowley in Tokuo WITH Tokyo stock prices rebounding by some 25 per cent over the past month and exports bottoming out of a long fall, the immediate sense of crisis has passed in Japan. But
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      245 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 15 VALUE CLOSE W—*» 271.00 -158.00 WOW -*****.00 -U.00 -***** 00 ->-27.00 HMhl 470.61 ->0.41 jMpW»Bwt 170.13 -0.99 Mipfclfti 1543.13 41.61 474.11 40.99 matkmrnn 224.84 40.41 wmamtm 225.90 40.80 •PC020C 142,716,000 IPC Corpn 5c 97.370,000 UrfFood HK25c 06.064,000 BH. InO US20C 67,300,000 Goldtron5c 65.196.000 Food Empire
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      Lock icon China Aviation back in play as profit surges
      284 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan CHINA Aviation Oil seems to be back in play as market players cheer its trebling in net profits. After a steady decline from midJanuary through most of February, the stock has started trending higher over the
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      Lock icon Is all really well in the market ?
      743 4  - Is all really well in the market i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy HERE'S a quick question: How do you start a small business? Answer: You open a big business, list it in Singapore, then wait a few years. Funny? Maybe. But there is a kernel of truth behind that seemingly
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      Lock icon Yen see-saws as Asia ends mixed
      712 4 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies put in a mixed performance last week, with the yen, the Australian dollar and the New Zealand currency showing gains but the Philippine peso, the Indonesian rupiah and the Singapore dollar falling against the greenback. The Thai baht was
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      131 4 ♦SEMBAWANG Kimtrans; will go ex-divktend(firgt < and final dividend of QJO cent tax exempt) on Jane Lastdayfbrbuying-inona cum basis is Jane 6. Date payable is June 18. ♦NATSTEEL will hold its EGM today at 1.30 am, Level 4, Conference Room, 22 Tanjong Kltng Road. ♦INNO-PACIFTC Holdings will hold
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Europtronic plans further China inroads
      518 5  -  Electronics component maker plans IPO launch next week By] David Boey EUROPTRONIC Group Ltd, an electronics component manufacturer, plans to use money raised from its upcoming initial public offer (IPO) in Singapore to grow its presence in China and expand its distribution network into new
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      Lock icon Venture capital firms are coming back
      578 5  -  And some of them are moving to China to help portfolio companies there By Vince Chong VENTURE capitalists are returning to the market after a slow 2001, with some planning to set up offices in China to help portfolio companies in that market. This
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      Lock icon SIA terminates revenue share deal with Air NZ
      332 5 Reuters [WELLINGTON] Singapore Airlines has quit a revenuesharing arrangement with part-owned Air New Zealand, the New Zealand airline said yesterday. An Air NZ spokesman said that Singapore Airlines which owns 4.5 per cent of Air NZ, down from 25 per cent last
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      170 5 OCBC, Wearnes Walden Management (S) Pte Ltd Managing venture capital and private equity investments in the Pacific Rim region wishes to appoint: VENTURE CAPITALISTS Candidates should preferably have a Degree or relevant qualifications in Business/Finance/ Engineering and have at least 5 years' working experience. Besides carrying out investment evaluation and
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      173 5 I USA I I Football I vf_ I I UK I I Football I I M I AUSTRALIA I I Football I I Never underestimate I I the importance I I of local knowledge. I To truly understand a country and I I its culture, you have to be part
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      Lock icon Jan property caveats soar 21% from Dec
      729 6  -  Developers' deferred payment schemes, attractive pricing did the trick By' Vince Chong SOME 1,473 caveats were lodged for properties across the board in January, up a strong 21 per cent over December, according to a Real ink report. This appears to bear out
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      Lock icon Retail sales down 6.4% in January
      313 7  -  p on the economy retail sales -By] David Boey RETAIL sales fell 6.4 per cent in January compared with a year earlier, the Department of Statistics (DOS) said on Friday. Excluding motor vehicles, total sales dropped 4.5 per cent year on year. In dollar
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      Lock icon Apply 5-yr rule on top listed firms
      464 7  -  Tan Kok Tim Singapore I REFER to the report "Temasek to study auditor rotation for its companies" (BT, March 15). I applaud the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for announcing the Five-year ruling on change of auditors for all banks in Singapore. It
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      Lock icon Auditor rotation rule: kiasu or progressive?
      437 7  -  Lu Kee Hong Singapore I REFER to the article "MAS: Banks must change auditors every 5 years" by Siow Li Sen (BT, March 14). I am surprised that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) resorted to mandating this requirement on the banks in Singapore.
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      1201 6 m»HST k ft- ft 0 PTinco PT INTERNATIONAL NICKEL INDONESIA Tbk NOTICE FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS PT INTERNATIONAL NICKEL INDONESIA Tbk The Board of Commissioners of PT International Nickel Indonesia Tbk hereinafter referred to as "the Company" hereby invites all shareholders to attend the Annual General Meeting of
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      436 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CHAPTERS* BASE SALES AND SERVICES PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company convened on 13th March 2002. pursuant to Section 179(6) of the Companies Act (Cap. 50). the following resolutions were duly passed: "That the Company be
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      331 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF TAY LEE CHEONG (PTE) LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAI. MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50 that a Final Meeting of the Members of the
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      809 6 IN THE MATTES Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAR 30 AND ZENITH CONTROLS ASIA (PTE) LTD (In Mambw't Voluntary liquidation) NOTICE Of fINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pureuom to Section 308 of lh« Componws Act, Cap 50 that lit* Final Maaftng of th« M*mb*r of ifw obownomad Company wilt b*
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      167 7 A highly interactive, one day workshop on Par tnershi]«Lp r Friday 26 April 2002 J. Speaker: Ron Kaufman Author of Bestselling Book "Up Your Servic^^^ w»v mam w ihhDHH Since 1975 our worldwide staff of over 275 multi-disciplined professionals p 1 r H including lawyers, chartered accountants. |l "Wf j
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      71 8 -v- V /-It-'; m■ a I Could you get a $159 billion economic workforce to do better? Or mobilise 100,000 people to avert I a national crisis? How do you attract international I talent and persuade our brightest to stay? Could I you move 4 million people as one? V"---.
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      Lock icon Calpers had its eye on KL bond sale: Mahathir
      340 9  -  US fond was keen on recent USs7som issue despite polling ont of KL bourse From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has disclosed that the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers) had eyed Malaysia's recent bond issue,
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        Lock icon Yuan will remain stable, says China
        66 9 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's central bank governor Dai Xianglong said he sees no reason why the Chinese yuan should be weakened, given the country's foreign reserves rose to a record last month. "The yuan's stability is good for China, and good for the rest of
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        Lock icon Taiwan may revamp bureaucracy
        65 9 Reuters [TAIPEI]"A preliminary government study has recommended creating a more powerful Ministry of Economics and Trade (MOET), while greatly reducing the influence of the finance ministry, a mass-circulation daily reported yesterday. The committee for streamlining government has suggested financial policy, now entrusted to the Ministry of
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        Lock icon Vietnam mulls foreign firms' listing
        63 9 AP [HANOI] Foreign-owned Companies could be listed on Vietnam's fledgling stock exchange under a proposal from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, a government official said on Friday. Companies with at least 30 per cent foreign capital would be eligible if they've operated in Vietnam
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        Lock icon India's economy reviving: Sinha
        76 9 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Saturday he saw signs of a rebound in the economy and hoped a series of measures announced in the federal Budget would spur growth. "There are signs of a pick-up in the Indian economy. There are
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        Lock icon OSK Holdings to sell stake in HK unit
        74 9 Reuters IKU ALA LUMPUR] Malaysian brokerage OSK Holdings Bhd said on Saturday it has agreed to sell its entire stake in its Hong Kong unit OSK Asia Corp for double its original investment cost. OSK Holdings said in a statement that it
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        Lock icon China's diplomatic complaint to US
        49 9 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China has handed a diplomatic complaint to the US, saying their relations were undermined by a recent visit by Taiwan's defence chief to the US and reports Washington had contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Xinhua News Agency reported. Bloomberg
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      Lock icon There's room for M'sian stocks to climb farther
      739 9  -  KL STOCKS Market nnderplnned by llqnldlty, ratings upgrades and tnraaronnd in the i»wwiftiny eddie toh THE Malaysian stock market index has risen by over 10 per cent in less than three months. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended last week
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      Lock icon Oil closes at highest price since Sept 11
      912 10 COMMODn Weeklyßounduy AFP [LONDON] Oil prices rallied last week, topping US$24 a barrel for the first time since September, while the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers meeting last Friday in Vienna decided to maintain their output cuts. GOLD: Gold prices stabilised
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  • US economy
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      Lock icon Recovery soon? Are forecasts credible?
      1360 12  -  Forecasters have been mostly spot-on in the past but multi-year recessions have caught them off-guard, says PRAXASHUHmoAMi PRAKASH LOUNGANI The writer is contributing editor of the IMF Survey, a fortnightly publication of the IMF IF economic forecasters are to be believed, an economic recovery in
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      Lock icon Fed expected to keep rate unchanged this week
      483 13 WASHINGTON Incentives lore customers as manufacturers boest output Bloomberg US manufacturers are boosting production as incentives on autos and discounts for other goods keep luring consumers, signs the economy is growing. A report on Philadel-phia-area manufacturing is likely to show expansion for
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        Lock icon Five killed in Pakistan church attack
        128 13 AFP [ISLAMABAD J Five people, Including a US diploma? s wife and daughter, me killed and 46 others Injured in a grenade attack yesterday during a prayer service at a Protestant church near the US embassy here. Sri Lankan ambassador Srilal Weerasooriya, his wife
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        Lock icon Allfirst CEO set to quit: report
        66 13 Reuters [LONDON/DUBLIN] Susan Keating, head of Allied Irish Banks' US unit Allfirst, is set to bow to investor pressure and resign after surviving a cull at the scandal-rocked bank, The Sunday Times reported. The paper said the chief executive would be gone by September
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        Lock icon Q1 profit less with Compaq:HP
        56 13 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co's fiscal first-quarter profit would have been nine cents a share less had the second largest computer maker owned Compaq Computer Corp, according to a regulatory filing. The combined company would haw earned 16 cents a share and had net
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        Lock icon Indons urged to shed corrupt image
        80 13 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday said she was concerned about the results ofa poll that listed the country as the most corrupt in Asia and called on Indonesians to work hard to shed the image. "No matter whether the results of the
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      Lock icon Tanaka overtakes Koizumi as person most wanted as PM
      394 13 TOKYO AFP, Reuters SACKED former foreign minister Makiko Tanaka has toppled Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as the most desirable person for Japan's premiership, a poll showed yesterday as an opposition leader threatened to drive him into snap elections. A nationwide poll
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      Lock icon With Sabirin appealing, jury's still out on BI saga
      682 13  -  shoes KAfIDH offers post-Sabirin scenarios SHOEB KAGDA Foreign investors keeping a close eye on Indonesia should be forgiven if they are confounded by some recent developments in the country involving top government officials and legislators. Last week, central bank governor Sjahril
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      413 13 The Inaugural Human A Capital Conference 2002 22-23 Apnl 2002, Raffles The Plaza, Raffles City Convention Centre, 4th level Conference2oo2 To commemorate our 30th Anniversary, STADA will be organizing the Inaugural Humoi Capital Conference 2002 together with Civil Service College. Th confofßnce wi V OO some new insights on how
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  • ANDERSEN woes
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      Lock icon UK practice in merger talks with other accountancy firms
      430 14  -  It moves to head off exodus of clients; Deloitte named as potential suitor From. Neil Behrmann in London ANDERSEN'S large UK accountancy practice is believed to be in merger talks to dissuade clients from leaving. Deloitte Touche is top of the
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      Lock icon HK practice seekinga partner among its rivals
      274 14 HONGKONG It is exploring opportunities in case global solution proves elusive Bloomberg, NYT. Reuters ANDERSEN Hong Kong said it's seeking a local partner from among rival global accounting firms in case Andersen LLP fails to achieve a sale or merger at global level.
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      Lock icon Andersen's defence to shredding inadequate: experts
      389 14 NEW YORK Bloomberg n ANDERSEN LLP's assertion that senior management played no role in des stroying Enron Corp documents may be inaded quate to win acquittal on oba struction of justice charges n because partnerships are lid able for the acts of even one
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      Lock icon Global Crossing spreads pain far and wide in telecom sector
      521 15 Tetecemaecter has seen same 500,000 jabs tat, USs2t of paper lasses AP [LOS ANGELES] Global Crossing's sudden implosion has done more than sting shareholders, creditors and employees. It has burdened the suffering telecom industry with new worries about solvency and
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      Lock icon Cisco Systems expects sales to telcos to stay 'challenging'
      222 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Cisco Systems Inc, the biggest maker of equipment to link computers, expects industrywide sales to telecommunications companies to "remain challenging" for as long as a year as carriers trim spending. "The service provider environment unfortunately still remains challenging
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      295 16 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp has agreed to sell fi-nancial-transaction programs from SunGard Data Systems Inc in return for the software maker's help in promoting IBM products. IBM, the largest seller of computer services and hardware, will market
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        95 16 CANON last week launched a colour printer and a scanner at very affordable prices. The S2OOSP printer (right) J costs $179 and offers up to 2,880 dpi printing resolution, with an image processing technology that, Canon says, produces more intense colours that cannot be displayed on
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        118 16 DELL Computer, Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific and Toshiba Singapore recently unveiled their new range of notebooks running on the Intel Pentium 4 processors. Dell's Inspiron 8200 series starts at $3,499 and boasts stunning graphics with the help of nVidia's GeForce 440 Go video chips. Fujitsu is selling
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        97 16  -  Compiled by Chen Huifen US-BASED Christie Digital Systems has introduced three new projectors under the "Vivid LX" series The heavyweight Vivid LX3S (below) delivers a brilliant 3500 ANSI lumens, with power lens zoom, and a contrast ratio of 800:1, which is the highest in the market. Slightly lighter
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      741 17  -  ll comment INFOTECH The clash between Jfet and Java Is ultimately one about standards. And so long as the middleware can suimort all these standards, does it matter If the services have been delivered via Jfet or Java? tang weng fai The writer
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        56 17 NETWORK for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Nets) said it is considering running an electronic payment infrastructure in India with Bharti Infotrac, a subsidiary of Indian telecommunications equipment maker, Bharti Teletech. Nets said the two partners will do a study to see which Nets
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        49 17 SINGAPORE'S LKN-Primefleld, a hotel and housing developer with computer interests, has formed a joint venture with China's Xinhua A V Distribution Co Ltd. The venture win make co-branded PCs and distribute them through Xinhua bookstores and by bundling with Xinhua's point-of-sales systems for SMEs.
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        49 17 Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd, an affiliate of Singapore logistics company YCH Group, announced it win provide supply chain software to Zhongshan Wan Rong Commercial Co, a supermarket operator in China. YCH said it has also signed a three-year distribution contract with the Chinese company.
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        46 17 SYNjstiX—a joint venture between information provider Reuters and Capco, a financial software firm —has launched a service which translates data held in different IT systems into a common format for greater consistency. The price starts at £15,000 and varies with data volumes.
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        31 17 GERMANY'S Siemens Industrial Building Consultants has set up an Asia-Pacific office in Singapore. The company provides engineering, design and planning services for semiconductor and other hi-tech factories.
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        37 17 A ONE-DAY seminar by Apple Computer, "Beyond the PC: Defining a New Computing Generation" will be held on March 26 at Suntec City. For details, visit www.aski.apple.com/seminars, call *****974 or email apple@aci.com.sg
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        33 17 A FORUM entitled "Directions 2002: IT Leadership For the Rebound", by IDC Asia-Pacific, will be held on April 19 at Suntec City. Few details, fax 65-6220-6116, or email directionsSG@idcap.com.
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        43 17  -  Compiled by Chua Hui Min CISCO Systems is holding a competition, "Networking Challenge", with a top prize of $3,000. The contest is open to JC, secondary and international school students. To enter, log on to http://www.cisco.com/sg/networkingchallenge before April 90.
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      260 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] AOL Time Warner Inc's discount Internet service, CompuServe, has been testing the Mozilla Web browser as an alternative to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer, a source close to AOL said. The trial rekindles the debate over whether AOL
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      414 17  -  S'pere, lTsut are its key South-east Asian markets By Chua Hui Min FOR lona Technologies, which saw its first loss last year since its Nasdaq listing in 1997, Asia is proving a welcome ray of light. The integration software firm expects to
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      447 17  -  By Chen Huifen COMPUTER giant HewlettPackard last week launched six new servers for a range of users that span from en-try-level to high-end. Based on the Intel architecture 32bit chips, the new suite of servers will run on both Windows NT and Linux
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      260 17 Reuters [TAIPEI] Prices for flat display screens will come under less pressure as demand for notebook computers revives and consumers swap traditional monitors for liquid crystal displays (LCDs), a leading LCD maker said on Thursday. After almost halving last year because
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      134 17 NGEE Ann Polytechnic has another arrow in its Com-puter-Aided Design (CAD) armoury, thanks to a software contribution from Drawbase Software, a leading US supplier of solutions to the building industry. Drawbase is offering 100 design and drafting software licences to the polytechnic's electrical engineering
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      651 18  -  -ii exclusive The company aims to triple, the share of its fast-growing Asian operations to 30% in the next three years, reports tamo whmu fai TANG WENG FAI BUSINESS-integra-tion software firm Tibco, which posted US$3l9 million in worldwide revenues last year, aims to triple the
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      315 18  -  By I Chua Hui Min ONLINE exchange operator Free Markets Inc said last week it aims to double its Asia-Pacific revenue this year by increasing trading volumes in the region. Its managing director for Asia, Daryl Rolley, said the Nasdaq-listed firm,
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      533 19  -  New unit created to simplify expansion of its regional energy services By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singaporelisted Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) has centralised its product tanker operations by creating a subsidiary called Neptune Associated Shipping (NAS), in a move aimed at simplifying its regional energy sector
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      373 19  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] In the latest move to cut costs in the wake of tight freight rates, Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line) will launch a new Asia-South Africa service (ASA) together with Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC) and Singapore's
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      274 19 AFP {HONG KONG] Hong Kong authorities have recovered the body of a foreign sailor missing since a collision between a dredger and a container vessel in the territory's busy shipping lanes, a police spokesman said yesterday. The body was discovered
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      660 20 LINER SCENE THE quarterly and annual reports of major carrier P&O Nedlloyd (PONL) provide a good indicator of the state of the container shipping. So it comes as no surprise that the line's results make for gloomy reading. Last year started
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        570 30 Km Mmes after FAA examines flight data on last year's NT crash Reuters [WASHINGTON] Airlines will have to check the tails of certain Airbus planes that have made violent manoeuvres after an American Airlines crash in New York last year when the
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        418 30 Reuters [SYDNEY] Transport group Patrick Corp yesterday said its half-owned discount car- rier Virgin Blue was looking at buying regional airlines to help it snare half of Australia's aviation market. "I think the Virgin team are looking at the regional airlines and working
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        275 30 Money will into development of A3BO airliner Bloomberg [PARIS] France has agreed to loan Airbus SAS's French division 1.213 billion euros (5|1.95 billion) to help the company develop its planned 550-seat A3BO airliner, the Transport Ministry said. The loan "is at market rate and
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        324 30 AP [WASHINGTON] An EgyptAir pilot told American investigators two years ago that the co-pilot of Egypt Air 1 990 crashed the plane into the Atlantic Ocean to take revenge on a company executive who had just demoted him and was riding as a passenger,
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        287 30 litis will restore &8m of 10m jobs lost: industry group Bloomberg [LONDON] World demand for tourism and travel will increase by 6 per cent in 2003, alter slumping 7.4 per cent the previous two years because of slowing US growth and
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        129 30 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Xiamen Airlines, 60 per cent owned by China Southern Airlines Co, the nation's largest carrier, wiU start flights to Kuala Lumpur from April, Xinhua said, citing Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik. Xiamen Airlines will fly to Kuala Lumpur from
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          111 30 Bloomberg [ARLINGTON, VirginiaJ US Airways Group fine said It will add backs? trans-Atlantic flights that were suspended after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks curtailed travel demand. The sixth-largest US airline win increaae to 96 from 61 its weekly round tripe between Charlotte. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
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          57 30 Reuters ITUKyo] The Jiqpmeee government is set to ban flights near Worid Cop stadiums during the tournament later this year. trnaportaUnietry souroee said on Saturday Co4koste3onth Korea announced in December that die country would Impose ncvflyaonee over World Cup venuee in response to the
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          31 30 AFP Philip Hsmt-haiung Wei as the new pr*aldauL CAL board of directors approved the nomination of Mr Wei by it» lariat shareholder China Aviation Development Foundation.—AFP
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