The Business Times, 24 July 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITAfP) 010/03/2002 85* SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002
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    69 1 E3 LMJ3 (+29.58) ivflrmomoni U IjmM (+53.00) PlflOßCinmjißs U W7JI (+6.00) STOCK MiUET IHIMKSS Tuesday Change KLSECOMP TUX NIKKEI m *****.63 +28.62 BANG SENG _1M1139 +263.M SET INDEX J87J6 *4J» JAKARTA COUP .477.19 *L81 MANILA OOMP J4I8JS +418 TAIPH WPI, kMn—+111.7] SEOUL OOMP 743JS +XZM, SHENZHENB SMJft -U7
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    59 1 us* St USS(S9perU8S) 1.746 £(USS/SSper£) UM 17» EU80{USt/SS/E). 9.991 L728 YEW 117.4 EM tm 1178 BKS 7m 4.478 BAHT 4ttt Hit RUPLAH 8*70 5,141 PUMB KATES SINGAPORE* in KUALA UIMFUS 14* HONG KONG 6.12* JAKARTA J$M TAIPEI 1821 TOKYO 1174 SEOUL »J6 FRANKFURT 125 LONDON 4.90 NEW YORK 4.75
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    Lock icon 30% more new-home sales seen, but prices may stay flat
    559 1  -  By Vince Chong 15LN Lr j me cnanges to property nnancing rules announced on Monday could result in sales of new private homes hitting 9,000 this year, or 30 per cent more than in 2001, analysts reckon. But most of
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    Lock icon Merrill queries accounting at 4 HK blue chips
    611 1  -  Some practices, while compliant, not conservative enough From, Audrey Tan in Hong Kong MERRILL Lynch whose stock research operations in the US was itself under scrutiny not too long ago has issued a 58-page report casting doubts on the accounting standards of
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    Lock icon Dow up 88 points in morning
    97 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] Stocks were mixed at mid-morning yesterday, as investors weighed the lure of shares pounded to near five-year lows against the odds of more sharp seUoffs. At 11.30 am EST, the Dow Jones rose 88.75 points, or 1.14 per cent, to 7,873.33.
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    Lock icon Going gets tougher for smaller oil companies
    723 1  -  Market talk of BP, SPC leaving motor fuel business -f By i Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] After years of going uphill against stagnant margins and rising competition, small players in the motor fuel market look set to hang up the pump. And motorists may
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    Lock icon Properly, bank stocks ride on CPF changes, Dow futures rally
    331 1  -  By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] A strong rebound in US index ftitures yesterday helped ease fears of further losses on Wall Street and brought some stability back to regional stocks. In Singapore, sentiment was also boosted by the belief that the
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      45 1 CPF REVIEW Vlkram ghinur Correcting a distortion, but not without risk, Pg 4 lh «nw tj, baak stocks seen making gains, Pg 3 B>nk-ffM>owl HDBflats may be treated like private flats, Pg4 CxMuUreHoßej: Time for a wake-up call, Pg 28 Other reports, Pgs 3 4
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      670 2  -  Proposal will a void constant disputes over the price of water: Jaya By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore has suggested that the price for future water supplied by Malaysia after the expiry of current agreements be tied to the cost of NEWater, the
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      Lock icon Why is US$ surging despite Wall Street?
      575 2  -  -jg comment i ftt CURRENCIES US fund managers may be cashing out their overseas investments and converting the proceeds back into US dollars larry wee THE American dollar staged a smart recovery across the board yesterday as US stocks continued to suffer one
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Deja iru—over and over and...
        158 2 o puunsiiuu suine pear is or wisdom recently, stemming from interviews conducted during a fund managers' meeting in Chicago not long ago. For example, among the top performers was a manager who held Enron shares from 1996 to 1999. Why did he sell out? Well,
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        Lock icon This lady's not for selling
        119 2 NOW let's hear from the other side. You have to give Goldman Sachs pundit Abby Cohen credit for at least one thing: consistency. US stock prices are on the rise, not the slide, she told the CBS programme Face The Nation on Sunday morning. Wall
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      Lock icon Temasek: No interference in Chartered's business decisions
      650 2  -  By Angela Tan (SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd, the Singapore government's investment arm, said yesterday it does not interfere with business decisions of the companies under its stable, including Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. "The government is not involved with the business decisions at Chartered,
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      Lock icon Citigroup helped Enron keep debt off books: papers
      476 2 Bank manipulated written records of deal: investigators NYT [NEW YORK] Senior credit officers of Citigroup misrepresented a 1999 transaction with Enron in the records of the deal so that Enron could ignore accounting requirements and hide its true financial condition, according to
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  • CPF review
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      Lock icon Property, bank stocks seen making gains
      571 3  -  Analysts see a possible end to both sectors' lethargic share movements Byi Vince Chong YESTERDAY'S rises in banking and property counters signal a share price recovery in response to structural changes that will benefit both sectors, analysts believe. The changes are seen as "win-win"
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      Lock icon Tharman: changes not aimed at lifting market
      374 3  -  Lower cash ontl&y won't result in runaway prices By I Siow Li Sen LOWERING the cash downpayment on a property to 10 per cent is not intended to stimulate the property market, and is unlikely to result in runaway prices, said Tharman Shanmugaratnam,
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      Lock icon Refinancing set to boost bank loans
      426 3  -  By Siow Li Sen A FLOOD of refinancing demand from existing HDB market-rate borrowers and new HDB loans, as well as additional demand for private properties, could boost loan growth by as much as 7-8 per cent, said GK Goh yesterday. "This news is
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      Lock icon Correcting a distortion, but not without risk
      803 4  -  Giving banks the first lien on mortgages could have some unintended consequences, which need to be guarded against, says vtknm Vikram Khanna THE decision to allow banks, rather than the CPF Board, to hold the first lien on mortgaged properties removes a long-standing
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      Lock icon Bank-financed HDB flats may have curbs lifted
      492 4  -  By, Andrea Tan PUBLIC flats bought with bank loans may soon be treated like private property, without restrictions on the minimum occupation period and on subletting. Disclosing this in Parliament yesterday, Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan said: "MND is actively studying
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      Lock icon Core of housing policy unchanged: DPM Lee
      709 4  -  By\ Kalpana Rashiwala, Andrea Tan THE core of Singapore's home ownership policy remains unchanged even though new rules announced this week signal an important policy shift. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament yesterday: "The issue is how extensive our housing safety
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      Lock icon Older workers CPF rule a right step: DPM Lee
      487 4  -  By\ Chuang Peck Ming THE freeze on Central Provident Fund contribution for older employees that come with the new CPF changes would, admittedly, not do much to boost their employment prospects for now. But it is a step in the right
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      Lock icon Use CPF tool only as a last resort: Boon Heng
      160 4 ADJUSTMENTS to Central Provident Fund contributions should only be used as a last resort to address future recessions, union chief Lim Boon Heng said yesterday. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, the SecretaryGeneral of the National Trades Union Congress said the CPF
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      Lock icon Cash for properly will start two years earlier
      455 4  -  By Siow Li Sen THE halving of the cash downpayment for property purchases from 20 to 10 per cent will bring forward by two years the date from which 1 a borrower has to start forking out cash for a typical 25-year
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon DBS role upsets Teledata minorities
      667 6  -  g exclusive Some ask if creditor and indirect shareholder Awli manage rights By\ Serena Ng SOME minority shareholders of government-linked telecommunications firm Teledata (Singapore) are unhappy about DBS Bank's role as the manager of its rights issue, as the bank is also one of its
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      Lock icon SALE IPO unlikely in near future: MD
      464 6  -  But aircraft lessor still aims to expand fleet to 100 in 5 yrs From David Boey in London SINGAPORE Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE), Asia's largest lessor of airliners, said yesterday that its stakeholders are likely to stave off plans for an initial public
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      Lock icon Foreigners cut investment in Asian equities
      477 6  -  S*pore stocks bnck trend: Salomon Smith Barney By. Angela Tan FOREIGN buying of Asian equities appears to be drying up this year due to a global aversion to risk rather than concerns over valuations or profitability, Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) said in its latest
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      Lock icon DBS numbers not talking yet
      811 6  -  lock siew quak hiang whai IN RffICENT remark»SHje shortly after he became chief executive, E$S Group's Jackson Tai promised less showmanship from the bank; instead, DBS would let the numbers do the talking, he said. Looking at the flnancials from its just released Interim results,
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      Lock icon Alexandra proposes voluntary liquidation
      468 8  -  lb flotation found to pnblic free float MgimderlWfcof issied share capital By Serena Ng UNVBSTMENT firm Alexandra; Holdings, whose pMMrtuive been suspended WTCI months, yesterday proposed a voluntary liquidation after a fruitless search for a solution to the problem of its public free float being below
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      Lock icon China Aviation buys fuel firm stake
      320 8  -  370b yuan ted 33% of Pudong airport fuel firm a Rachel Ong uutia Aviauon uu (lau; yesterday said it will pay 370 million yuan (5577.6 million) for a 33 per cent stake in Shanghai Pudong International Airport Aviation Fuel Supply Corporation (SPIA). Based on
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      Lock icon MNCs dominate list of fastest growing firms
      290 8  -  By Eugene Low MULTINATIONAL corporations feature prominently in the inaugural ranking of the fastest growing 50 companies in Singapore. Almost 80 per cent which made it to the top 50 list compiled by DP Information Network, are MNCs. They include Cisco Systems, LG-Caltex
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Bank, property stocks help break loss spell
      695 10  -  comment STOCKS- r. sivanithy A. 170i»int recovery in the futures contract for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and hopes that the government's new Central Provident Fund measures will reawaken the property sector brought some relief yesterday to a market in which the Straits
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      Lock icon US$ stages broad-based correction
      774 10 Ear* poMMnr parity lavel, yen at near 2-week Wwa bejwi 117 par US$ Reuters ASIAN currencies ebbed to multi session lows late yesterday as the US dollar staged a broad-based cor rection after its recent drop. The US dollar rammed the euro below parity for the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Refusing to take those blinkers off
      733 12  -  KH S» 9 —f I bottom line OPINION paul krugman IT LOOKS as if the authors of "Dow 36,000" remember that? may have had one digit too many in their title. Let*s just hope it was an extra "3", not an extra *0". The
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      90 12 'Every time he seemed to be in trouble, he would end up with a box of chocolates.' -ChtrlafUwfa of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity, on the remarkable business career of President George W Bush. 'I was wrong/ the US Federal Reserve chairman, on his previous view
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      Lock icon Economic reform in India
      615 12 EDITORIAL WITH a change of guard in the Finance Ministry, India's ruling parly is making improved economic performance its key re-election strategy down the road. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is pitching for an ambitious growth rate of 8 per cent over the current Five
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      Lock icon More fodder for US anti-China hawks
      918 12  -  Portraying China as an aggressive military player, a new Pentagon study is allowing China baakers to posh their agenda farther From. Leon Hadar in Washington LAST year's attacks in New York and Washington and the ensuing US-led campaign against terrorism seemed to have ignited
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      Lock icon SSC clarifies on Changi clubs
      250 12  -  vtmtm Maureen Goh (Mrs) Director Group Communications for Chief Executive Officer Singapore Sports Council WE refer to the article "SSC's plan to merge Changi clubs sails into rough seas" (BT, July 18). We wish to clarify several inaccuracies in the article. First, Richard Tan is
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      Lock icon PUB fosters water conservation
      231 12  -  Chan Yoon Kum Director Water Department Public Utilities Board WE refer to the forum page letter "Do more to stop water wastage" by John Tan in The Business Times on July 18,2002. We agree with Mr Tan that water conservation must remain, notwithstanding the alternative supply
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      Lock icon Trailer fees not always beneficial
      172 12  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the letter "CPF funds: put people's financial welfare first" by Peter Edmund Mullins (Mail bag, July 15). Paying a 5 per cent upfront sales charges on an investment fond with no trailer fees and a lower expense ratio
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Panel urges stronger support for SMEs
      456 13  -  RBMAXDia SDTOAPORE It moots law to ban GLCs from govt projects under $5m Reports byl Anna Teo INTRODUCE a competition law to stop governmentlinked companies (GLCs) from competing with small local firms for government projects worth less than $5 million. Rename the Ministry of
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      Lock icon Look beyond academic excellence
      208 13 IN a society where a string of As has been and largely still is a passport to top Jobs, a govern ment-linked committee has proposed revamping the education system to de-emphasise pure academic excellence. Instead, "we should be open to the notion of non-conventional or alternative
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      Lock icon Volunteer participation rate rises to 14.9%
      266 13  -  Byi Adeline Chia SINGAPORE'S volunteer participation rate has increased from 9.3 per cent to 14.9 per cent in two years, but still lags behind rates in the UK and the US with 48 per cent and 44 per cent. The survey done by the
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      Lock icon No decision on expansion outlay
      432 13  -  BAFFLES TOWN CLUB SUIT By\ Serena Ng RAFFLES Town Club's proprietor made no decision in mid-2001 on any capital outlay to expand the club's premises and facilities, RTC's former chairman told the High Court yesterday. Ex-police commissioner Goh Yong Hong, who chaired RTC's board between
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      Lock icon Inflation is back: June CPI up 0.1%
      274 13  -  on the economy prices By\ Siow Li Sen INFLATION moved back into positive territory in June after seven months of deflation. The consumer price index for June rose 0.1 per cent year on year, according to the Department of Statistics. The last time
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      359 13 it true that Private Banking is changing? information becomes globally available. At some institutions, Private Banking still a personal banker selling mutual funds. The Private Bankers at 1 i The Citigroup Private Bank act as trusted global advisors to Asia's wealthiest families. What we do today looks more Investment Banking
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  • FOCUS URA
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      Lock icon Going to the roots to tug at heartstrings
      679 14  -  IDENTITY PLAM URA plans to bring out the charm of 15 areas to help forge a sense of belonging in Singaporeans. Andrea Tan reports Andrea Tan FACED with an increasingly mobile and cosmopolitan people, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is looking at
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      Lock icon Fostering a greater sense of history
      201 14 OLD WORLD CHARM ABOUT 500 shophouses in the Tanjong Katong, Balestier and Jalan Besar area mainly along Serangoon and Lavendar roads will join the Geylang and Joo Chiat conservation areas. URA said there needs to be an increase in the critical mass to give
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      Lock icon Scenic walks for nature lovers
      282 14 SOUTHER* BIDOBS A HILLSIDB VILLAGES DID you know that in the south-west of Singapore, there is a nine-kilometre chain of ridges called the Southern Ridges? Mount Faber, Telok Blangah and Kent Ridge form this chain. Some of the island's oldest parks can be found on
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      Lock icon More fun and games by the sea
      254 14 RUSTIC COAST WATER babies will have a field day here with the sandy beaches and a sea sports centre that could offer wake-boarding and jetski facilities at Punggol Point. And after a day at sea, dine on seafood at eating outlets dotting the
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      Lock icon Retaining their low-rise character
      162 14 URBAN VILLAGES THIS cluster, which includes popular gathering points along Thomson and Bukit Timah roads, will retain its low-rise character and see enhanced pedestrian connectivity. Existing commercial uses will be recognised while new activities may be introduced. Plans include outdoor dining, kiosks and a park at
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  • REGIONAL news
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        Lock icon GIC buys 3% stake in HDFC Bank
        88 15 Bloomberg [BOMBAY] Government of Singapore Investment Corp bought a 3 per cent stake in India's HDFC Bank Ltd for about 973 million rupees (Ss33 million). The shares were sold by J P Morgan Chase Co, whose private equity funds owned 11.5 per cent
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        Lock icon M'sia may grow 3.5% this year
        97 15 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian economy achieve 7 per cent annual growth in the medium-and long-term, but not this year, Bernama news agency reported. It said late on Monday that it erroneously reported over the weekend that National Economic Action Council executive
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        Lock icon Thaksin sees 4% growth for Thailand
        82 15 Dow Jones Newswires [BANGKOK] Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that he believes Thailand's economy can still enjoy 4 per cent growth tills year, even though he is concerned about the problems plaguing the US, including weak stock markets and a current account deficit.
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        Lock icon China pledges to keep rates steady
        120 15 Reuters [BEIJING] China's central bank has promised to keep interest rates steady in the near term, state media reported yesterday. The central bank made the decision at its quarterly meeting of its monetary policy committee chaired by governor Dai Xiangiong, the semi-official Futures Daiiy
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        Lock icon Indonesia plans coffee group
        111 15 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia is planning to set up a joint coffee consortium with India and Vietnam in an attempt to prop up world prices, an industry official said. "The three countries ha vein principle agreed to set up a joint coffee consortium and we will hold
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        Lock icon Taiwan needs NT$950b rescoe fund
        42 15 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Ratings Corp, a partner of Standard A Poor's, said yesterday the island needs at least NTIB6O billion (StGO billion), almost seven times the •tee ofthe state rescue fUnd, to clear up bad loans of
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      Lock icon Port magnate Syed Mokhtar eyeing dredging jobs: report
      394 15  -  Hnge potential for his new joint venture as BTsia has many ports From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN port tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary is venturing into dredging in a big way an activity which complements his port interests well according to
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      Lock icon M'sia Derivatives Exchange plans to trade single stock futures by Dec
      366 15 KUALA LUMPUR Maybank, Nazis, Plus seen as strong candidates SINGLE stock futures contracts may be traded on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange (Mdex) by December. Mdex is in the process of submitting the futures contracts plan to the Securities Commission
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      Lock icon Malaysia to name 3G winners on July 31
      274 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA will name the winners of its third-genera-tion (3G) mobile phone licences on July 31, industry regulator Communications and Multimedia Commission said yesterday. Sources said last week that the government might only award two of the three licences it
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      Lock icon Broker exit in Manila points to wider malaise?
      382 17  -  DBS anit is 6th foreign broking house to close operations Fromi Al Labita in Manila DBS Bank's closure of its Philippine securities unit the sixth foreign stockbroking house to put up the shutters points to a wider malaise: a languishing market that
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      Lock icon HK prices dive as spending fears persist
      386 17 HONGKONG Reuters HONG KONG, one of the world's most expensive cities, lost its reputation for value many years ago. But now its savage economic downturn is prompting store owners to cut price tags almost daily. A McDonald's hamburger, a useful benchmark of global
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      Lock icon Beijing may peg yuan to HK$ to aid territory
      240 17 XFN THE Chine* government Is boosting efforts to lift Hong Kong out of its current economic downturn, but detailed measures have not yet been released, the Business Week ly said. The paper Quoted an overseas source ss saying that Beijing Is
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      Lock icon HSBC may buy stake in China's Ping An
      489 18 HONGKONG It will be one of few foreign banks to boy into China's huge insurance sector Reuters HSBC, keen to tap China's fast growing but rigidly controlled insurance market, said yesterday that it is in talks to buy a minority stake in
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      Lock icon China to approve more foreign insurers
      116 18 BEIJING XFN CHINA will allow more foreign insurance companies to sell policies in the mainland, based on the country's WTO commitments, Li Kemu, vice-chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), said yesterday. He was quoted by the China Daily as saying companies that
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      Lock icon China is world's 3rd biggest Net user: report
      251 18 BEIJING lbr« tkaa 46b CUmm laggiag m regnhrfr,a7H%Mtomrloor«flffre AP SURGING Internet usage has made China the No 3 user of the Net in the world, a new report asserts, with over 45 million citizens now logging on regularly even as the government
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      439 24  -  P nexclusive SAP looking to replace ageing fleet of Land Rovers All reports by I Christopher Tan THE Singapore Armed Forces is test-driving a number of SUVs (sport-utili-ty vehicles) with a view to replace its aging fleet of 3,500 or
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        124 24 GENERAL Mptors will take part in a project to demonstrate fuel cell vehicles in Japan. It will bring Its latest fuel cell vehicle, the Opel Zaflra-baaed "HydroGen3", to Japan to take part in the programme. The company is actively involved around the world
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        128 25 MICHAEL Schumacher will take tome tampHng to join rally driver Colin Mcßae in a contest between them. Briton Mcßae sounded enthusiastic about the idea of a charity challenge after hisreoord win in the Saferi Rally two weekends ago, but Ferrari's Schumacher was reluctant when asked at a
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        146 25 RALF Schumacher thinks that Ferrari, rather than hie brother Mirfrael, is the factor In Form ulaOne at the moment In a recent interview with Die Wtit newspaper, Ralf said he is disappointed that his BMW-Williams team has been unable to 9 keep up this
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        120 25  -  Hi 111 ibf Christopher Tan AUSTRIAN Alex Wurz says his hopes of returning to Formula One next season rest with three teams. "My tature will be with one of three teams," the current McLaren tester and former Benetton Grand Prix driver wrote on
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      352 25 Reuters [MAGNY-COURS, France] The most disappointing race of Kimi Raikkonen's career also brought him his best result in Formula One on Sunday. McLaren's young Finnish driver was leading the French Grand Prix when, with five laps remaining, he skidded on a patch of oil
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      971 27  -  markets Major shareholders selling out of FAN, DelgroCorp, The Hour Glass By Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Asia Insider SENTIMENT among directors and substantial shareholders remained bearish despite the market's sharp fall in the past week. The Straits Times Index
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  • EXECUTIVE money
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      403 29 ENOUGH of the doom and gloom. Despite the double recession of the past few years, some companies in Singapore have grown revenues dramatically, stayed profitable and just kept chugging. Just take a look at the list of Fastest Growing 50, an inaugural ranking by DP Information Networks
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      863 30  -  Its strategic alliance with a German company—and being in the right business at the right time is paying off for SCM Microsystems (Asia), reports euceme low EUGENE LOW IF there is just one piece of advice SCM Microsystems (Asia) chairman and director Tan Tai Chew has for
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      820 30  -  Good planning and foresight has helped ATI, which services aircraft engine parts, to overcome the fallout from Sept 11 on the aviation industry. Adeline cma reports ADELINE CHIA THE four-year-old Singaporean subsidiary of US-baaed Airfoil Technology International (ATI) certainly didn't see it being
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      660 30  -  Sinoying has been ranked the fastest-growing company over the past three years, aarom low reports AAROM LOW MUCH has been said about the fiery determination of the Chinese to make it in the business world and Sinoying Singapore is a good example of that
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      951 32 Singapore's 50 fastest-growing companies come from a broad range of industries and have grown rapidly against the backdrop of recession and retrenchments WITH the Singapore economy dipping into recession twice since 1997, it may come as a surprise to find companies whose revenues have seen compounded
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      102 32 SET up in 1978, the DP Information Network (DP Info), a credit and business information bureau, works together with businesses, financial institutions, law firms, consulting firms, government agencies and trade organisations to provide a comprehensive range of credit and information-related services. DP Info delivers responsive data-aggregation portals,
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      1139 32 THE manufacturing sector made a strong showing in the lastest GDP numbers, which saw second-quarter growth at 3.2 per cent, pointing the way to recovery for Singapore. The sector's strong performance is not surprising since the companies leading the economy out of the
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      764 34  -  Extending its close connection with Changi Airport, Sing Tel Aeradio is wiring up Singapore schools and homes. adeune chia reports ADELINE CHIA FEW companies can boast of such a relationship with the 21-year-old Changi Airport There since the first day, Sing Tel Aeradio now operates almost all
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      782 35  -  Delgro Engineering is banking on the design and manufacture of specialised vehicles, as ADELINE CHIA finds OUt ADELINE CHIA "LET'S just say that the conditions of our office are very different from this," says Lim Hung Siang, chief executive of Delgro Engineering, referring to parent Delgro
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      1520 38  -  Good planning and a knowledge of the GST rules can help businesses minimise unnecessary cashflow costs, say MICHAEL VAUCHAN a nci YEOKAI ENC MICHAEL VAUCHAN, YEO KAI ENG DUE to Singapore's low Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate, businesses have traditionally concentrated on managing their corporate income
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      1320 41  -  Will companies embarking on quality improvement apply the same rigour to corporate governance as they do to manufacturing? simom London examines the issues SIMON LONDON FT WHEN Jim McNerney took the top job at 3M early last year, one of his first moves was to launch
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      381 29 DlolololololQlololololoiololo To 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1-0 1 0 1 o. 1 0 1 01 01 0 Si" OPENING THE DIGITAL WORLD i3is OIQIDIQIQIOIDIOIOIDIDIOIOIOIDIOIOIDIOIOIOIOIOIOXOIOIOIO SCM Microsystems (Asia) Re Ltd s honoured to be counted among Singapore's fastest growing 50. MICROSYSTEMS ■JJHHMHH SCM Microsystems (Asia)
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      695 43  -  decides to stay with PSA, clinching long-term deal By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Champagne flowed at PSA Corporation's headquarters yesterday as key customer Hanjin Shipping and the port operator ceremoniously signed a "long term" terminal agreement and pledged future "business cooperation". It was described
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      424 43  -  Threat of bracking worsening around war-torn Somalia Byl Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Indonesia remains the world's worst and most deadly piracy hotspot, with 44 incidents of 171 reported worldwide occurring in its waters in the first half of 2002. Four crew were killed, 14 injured,
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      367 43  - Antwerp por t's box volumes up 13.7% Bat conventional, bulk cargo down in first half By 1 Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Port of Antwerp enjoyed 13.7 per cent growth in container volumes in the first half of 2002, but suffered a "worrying" 15.6 per cent drop in conventional cargo and
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        177 43 AFP [CALCUTTA] An Indian passenger ship carrying 800 ran aground in eastern India's Bay of Bengal. There were no casualties, according to the state-run Shipping Corporation of India, which owns the carrier. However, the accident caused major holdups to ship movement to eastern India's busy
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        94 43 Dow Jones Newswires fBEIJING] The volume of cargo handled by the port of Tianjin increased 22.3 per cent on year in the first half 0f2002 to 84.9 million tonnes, of which 52 per cent came from foreign trade, the Xinhua news agency reports. The volume
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      825 44  -  STRAIT TALE -By David Hughes TO the general public, tankers are nasty things that cause pollution and sometimes catch fire and explode. Unfortunately, as Singapore knows only too well, tanker accidents do occur from time to time. But the reality is that tankers carry the lifeblood
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        769 53 THIS report compiled by Cocked Mi rlne Oil Ltd. chows price ranges in US dollars Instead at single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are baaed on average sized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        529 54 FABMBOROUOH AIR SHOW Bnt hope lies in defence spending rising to counter terrorist attacks Reuters [FARNBOROUGH, England] Boeing, the world's leading plane manufacturer, warned on Monday that the aviation industry, still reeling after the Sept 11 attacks, was suffering its worst fall
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        352 54 New Virgin aircraft is the focus of attention at display NYT [FARNBOROUGH] Leave it to Richard Branson to bring the party supplies to a wake. With the irrepressible founder and chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways on board, a new Virgin Airbus A 340-600
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        463 54 Reuters [LONDON] British industry has thrown its weight behind calls for more airport capacity across the UK, particularly in the south-east, saying new runways are vital if the country is to remain attractive to business. The calls came hours ahead of the
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        277 54 Reuters [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines returned to profit for the first half of 2002 helped by a stronger currency, South Korea's second-largest carrier said on Tuesday. It posted a preliminary 91.1 billion won (*****.8 million) net profit versus a net loss of
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        534 54 India-Pakistan imrest added to Sept II woes, but improvement seen by year-end Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Jet Airways Ltd, India's biggest private airline, said sales growth may slow this year as overseas visitors put off travelling to India because of religious riots
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