The Business Times, 3 June 2003

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    15 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE I Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003
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    Lock icon Asian stocks power ahead on better US economic data
    869 1  -  ST Index among top gainers with 2.4% surge to its highest close since January Byy Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Asian equity markets surged to their highest levels in weeks yesterday, driven by better US economic numbers and a growing belief that the
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    Lock icon Flying again: up to a third of grounded Changi flights
    417 1  -  By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Airlines have begun restoring up to one-third of the flights they suspended from Changi Airport during the Sars outbreak. And those who do so will reap the benefits of a new $10 million incentive package announced
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    Lock icon Pilots' union wants figures to back pay cuts
    612 1  -  SIA management also told to separate Sars-indnced cuts from wage reform By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines' pilots' union says the airline must provide justification for the $200 million in wage cuts management is seeking, and provide details on wage restoration as
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    Lock icon Developers slash prices to clear old stock
    562 1  -  Over 200 units in relaunched projects are 3-15% cheaper By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE) Developers are cashing in on a happier market mood to try to clear old stock, with relaunched projects now being offered at prices between 3 and 15 per cent lower
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    75 1 STI 1*380.72 (+31.72) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,390.00 (+32.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 172.00 (+4.50) Monday Change KLSECOMP 671.K4 _+4»J8 NIKKEI m K547.1T tBM HANG SENG 9.617 51 +150.15 SET INDEX 404.7K *0.96 JAKARTA COMP -505.72 -1095 MANILA COMP .1.***** -t« TAIPK1 WP1 4.692.94 +1S7jM SEOIXCOMP 64K71 15.29 SHENZHEN B ±*64.1 +0.86
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    83 1 FOREX RATES us$ ss I'SS (SS per l'SS| 1.731 £(VSS/SS per 1.627 1816 El R()(l SS/SS/E). L168 2.022 YEN 1187 68 60 RM 3.800 2.19a HKS 7.799 4.5415 BAHT 41.71 24.09 RI PI AH 8*95 4.792 RENMINBI M99 4.794 INDIAN R1 PEE 4713 2718 AS 1.540 0.889 NZS 1.737
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      34 1 Bw can smaller distributors survive a shakedown? BBS Electronics' Jerry Hui kicks off our new Enterprise series, k starting today "PAGE 17 The Hour Glass •i feSS 1:1 #1 'w%jjh* dtttK A mL IB^
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      Lock icon US$1b pledged to new Asian Bond Fund
      679 2  -  Fond aims to help foster international investor confidence in Asian bonds Frona Anthony Rowley in Tokyo CONCRETE steps were taken yesterday towards creating an Asian bond market, when 11 Asia-Pacific central banks and monetary authorities pledged a total of US$l billion to a
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      Lock icon Global Crossing can't accept Icahn offer
      355 2  -  Agreement with ST Telemedia takes precedence: source By. Amit Roy Choundhury [SINGAPOREI Singapore Technologies Telemedia's agreement with Global Crossing prevents the latter from soliciting competing offers, an industry' source said yesterday after US financier Carl Icahn last week made a bid of US$7OO million
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      Lock icon Tensions within BOJ may threaten bolder actions
      595 2  -  Policy board split over Fnkni's unusual measures Froml Anthony Rowley in Tokyo GROWING tensions within the Bank of Japan's Policy Board over how far the central bank should stray into the realms of unconventional monetary policy are threatening to stall some of the
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      318 3 The naming ceremony of these two tugs is held today m Muara, Brunei Darussatam. Both tugs are on long-term charter to Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. Sdn Bhd. for the berthing and unberthing of UNG tankers at the Brunei Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal, Lumut, Brunei Darussalam. They will also be engaged
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      330 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jun 2 VALUE CLOSE WOmS 821.00 +317.00 IT CADI -*****.00 +174.00 WlMayMA -*****.00 +82.00 HMCMIm 375.52 +7.31 SCEquttmlhct 129.48 +2.64 1165.12 +27.66 SGEmWM 350.60 +11.62 mar iT 170.62 +3.95 SMSCI Fatam 172.00 +4.50 Stocks Vol— L&M lc 201.887,000 Chart SemiCood 26c 74.466,000 Esmart 5c 62,362,000 UniFiber 10c
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      Lock icon Strategy to focus on core businesses pays off for Cerebos
      294 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT Byy Ven Sreenivasan WHILE the liquidity-driven market rally is lifting all stocks, it is the shares of companies which are fundamentally sound and focussed on core businesses that will sustain their uptrend. One such stock is that
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      Lock icon Market hits 4-mth high on US data
      681 4  -  I-I I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan NEWS affirming a pick-up in US economic health and the shadow of an emerging bull on Wall Street powered the local market yesterday to one of its strongest sessions in weeks. And in a sign that sentiment
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      Lock icon Wall St surge, G-8 buy time for greenback
      589 4  -  hi i comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar enjoyed a handsome bounce against major counterparts such as the euro in Asian trading yesterday when a host of factors bought it a respite at least for the moment. A Wall Street surge
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    3468 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Health Index Fd 0 814/ Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 438/ Com Global tnfotec index Fd!** 0 298/ MM (no ImI Mgt (vparai Com Global Energy Index Fd 0 845/ Star Europe Eqty!** 0.63» Com Global TraveTIndex Fd 0.652/ Star Europe Bo 1325/ Com
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SingTel sells Yellow Pages
      639 5  -  Sale to CYC Asia Pacific, JP Morgan Partners is on heels of Sing Post IPO Byl Tang Weng Fai ENDING months of speculation, CVC Asia Pacific and JP Morgan Partners Asia (JPMPA) will buy Singapore Telecom's Yellow Pages (SYP) directory business for $220 million in a
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      Lock icon Challenge for banks: giving more value for money
      713 5  -  ITO!J!lk>ck siew siow li sen IT is a common perception that foreign banks are usually more expensive when it comes to providing services to companies. But a recent survey of Asian corporates had them ranking Standard Chartered the number one bank in
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      Lock icon Inno-Pac appeals fruitlessly against CAD, IRAS calls
      306 5  -  By Vince Chong BELEAGUERED Inno-Pa-cific Holdings has appealed apparently without success against the decisions of two government departments. In the group's annual report, chairman Moehamad Izat Emir said Inno-Pac appealed to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) to allow the sale proceeds of Links
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      Lock icon ei-nets wants stay on payment to ex-director
      380 6  -  :i1 exclusive! It cites risk of non-recoverability if it wins appeal By] Michelle Quah LOSS-MAKING e-services provider ei-nets Ltd has asked the court to hold off on its order, asking the company to pay damages to a former executive who had sued the
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      Lock icon Chartered expected to boost optimism for chip industry
      556 6 Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's fourth-largest supplier of made-to-order chips, may add to growing evidence of a recovery in semiconductor demand when it briefs investors today, analysts said. Chartered, which has so far posted nine consecutive quarterly losses, has been winning
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      Lock icon First State Bridge promises fixed 3% payout a year
      601 6  -  The unit trust is 50-50 weighted in bonds and equities By i Genevieve Cua LOW deposit rates plus the desire for capital stability have whetted investors' appetite for the latest hot theme unit trusts with a promised dividend or income distribution.
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        Lock icon DBS division gets SQC award
        64 6 DBS Bank said its processing and servicing division has successfully achieved the Singapore Quality Class (SQC) certification award by SPRING Singapore. This makes DBS one of the first organisations here to have its entire processing and servicing operations certified. The SQC scheme recognises organisations that
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        Lock icon New concept for Tung Lok restaurant
        104 6 ANDREW Tjioe's Tung Lok Restaurants is changing the concept of the largest restaurant in its group, Imperium Chinese Dining into a banquet-only restaurant. From June 1, the 650-seat restaurant in Ngee Ann City will no longer serve walk-in customers and. instead, entertain only events
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        Lock icon EC-Asia application monies refunded
        74 6 UOB Asia Limited said all application monies received via electronic share applications for EC-Asia International shares have been refunded through the applicants' bank accounts on May 30. As of yesterday, all application monies received from manual applications have been refunded via refund cheques through the mail.
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        Lock icon Ipoo pulls out of HK304m purchase
        107 6 IPCO International has pulled out of a HK$304 million (S$67.4 million) deal to buy a 26.4 per cent stake in Heng Fung Holdings' China Gas Holdings following its due dilligence investigation. The mainboard-listed firm had in March entered into a conditional sale and purchase
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        Lock icon Ang Kong Hua joins NOL board
        75 6 NEPTUNE Orient Lines yesterday said Ang Kong Hua and Willie Cheng have joined its board. Mr Ang joins as vice-chairman while Timothy James Rhein, a director, will assume chairmanship at wholly-owned APL Logistics from Cheng Wai Keung, who will remain as a director. Meanwhile,
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        Lock icon Intraco deputy CEO resigns
        49 6 INTRACO Limited said its deputy chief executive Leong Siew Hay resigned from the company on May 30. Mr Leong joined the company in January 1988 and was appointed deputy chief executive on Dec 19,2001. The Intraco group did not give any reasons for his resignation.
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        Lock icon K1 swings back with 9-mth profit
        137 6 MAINBOARD-LISTED Kl Ventures returned to the black for the first nine months of the year ended March 31 with net profits of $8.7 million, from a loss of $54.4 million in the previous corresponding period. Turnover rose to $50.9 million, from $34.3 million, boosted
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        Lock icon China sales lift Europtronic Q1 profits
        81 6 FILM capacitor-maker Europtronic Group said yesterday that higher sales in China have led to a more than two-fold increase in net profits to $2.3 million for the first quarter ended March 31, against f the previous corresponding three months, with turnover rising 14.7 per
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        Lock icon $6.8m windfall for Brilliant chairman
        68 6 BRILLIANT Manufacturing chairman Koh Soe Khon has reaped $6.8 million from the disposal of a 4.3 per cent stake, or 20 million shares, in the computer peripherals maker. In a statement to the Singapore Exchange yesterday, Brilliant said that the shares were sold at 34
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      Lock icon Wholesale prices up on fuel hikes
      390 7  -  =1 on the economy wholesale prices MPPI rises 2.3% yoy despite 1.2% drop in prices of non-oil products By] Kenneth Lim MINERAL fuel prices dictated overall wholesale price movements in April despite opposite changes in non-oil sectors. The manufactured products price index (MPPI), which
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        Lock icon NTUC Income gives tenants a break
        134 7 COMMERCIAL tenants ofNTUC Income will receive property tax rebates worth 20 per cent of one mqpth's gross rental in the later half of this year. The payouts, worth a total of $840,000, are savings passed on from government rebates announced in the 2003 Budget
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        Lock icon Former defence chief joins MOE
        67 7 FORMER chief of defence force Lt-Gen Lim Chuan Poh, 41, will be the Education Ministry's Second Permanent Secretary on July 1. Details about his new duties were not immediately available. A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Overseas Scholar, Lt-Gen Lim joined the SAF in 1980 and
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      Lock icon Apec maps out Sars action plan
      402 7  -  Senior officials table regional strategy to trade ministers this week By" Yang Razali Kassim AN ASIA Pacific-wide strategy to view the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak as an economic threat and to combat it is in place. Developed by senior officials from 21
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      Lock icon Venture's Wong in race for global entrepreneur award
      219 7 VENTURE Corporation chief Wong Ngit Liong goes to Monaco this week to become Singapore's first representative at the World Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He will face 25 other business hotshots from around the world. The event, now in its third year,
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      Lock icon Tepid response to KL's 'Second Home' scheme
      448 8  -  Singaporeans adopt a wait-and-see attitude By\ Leonard Lim SINGAPOREANS are not biting although Malaysia is angling for their interest in a second home in the country. "Thanks, but maybe not at the moment", sums up the response from property analysts and people when
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      Lock icon Pacific View up for en bloc sale
      222 8 A SMALLISH freehold development in Pasir Panjang Road is the latest on a growing list of properties up for en bloc sale. The mortgagee sale of the 49-unit Pacific View is being handled by Colliers International. But it's an en bloc sale with
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      Lock icon Trial scheme for F&B vans in URA carparks
      165 8 THE Urban Redevelopment Authority yesterday announced a trial scheme to allow mobile food and bevjerage vans to operate in five URA carparks during morning off-peak hours. The one-year pilot scheme i? in response to requests for such vans to cater to office
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    1058 8 Transaction date.Jun 2 DITERBAMg CROSS RATES AS C$ »t Euro jg$ lad ta RupUH Yen Won RM N2$ Pah Bs Peso S> land Sfr WT$ 8«trt Pond US$ Australia 0.892 5-390 0.556 5.066 30.675 ***** 0.771 7.830 2.468 1.128 37.497 34.592 1124 5.304 0.849 22.539 27.089 0.399 0.650 Canada
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  • FOCUS property
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      964 9  -  Managing your company's real estate requirements well could save it a bundle, says Brace Rutherford Bruce Rutherford COST reduction is an important task for companies today. For most non-manufac-turing firms, real estate is their second or third-highest cost after human resources and technology. For manufacturing companies,
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      447 9 C4ftfr4teiaao29ftt22 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. SO PURSUANT TO SECTION 29WSXB) AND IN THE MATTER OF NEXUS GATEWAY PTE LTD Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 26 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-03 S( *****4)
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      283 9 MORTGAGEE SALE BY TENDER 19 LORONG 8 TOA PAYOH Purpose-built 6-storey industrial building Easily accessible via PIE (XE and near HDB Huh Site Area: 5,456.8 sq m approx. Floor Area: 8,560 sq.m. approx. BKt 30+ 30 years HDB lease from 1 March 1993 MT, m ~M Large car parking compound
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Undue haste in boosting Japan defence?
      765 12  -  HTTT^ I bottom line OPINION anthony rowley THERE is a joke that in Japan, because of the state of legal limbo in which the nation's armed forces have operated since World War Two, army tanks rushing to repel an invading force would have to
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      73 12 'Many laws and regulations are brazenly at odds with provisions of the Constitution. But we have another problem: Who has the right to interpret the Constitution?' -HeWeif&ng editor of the 'Beijing University Law Journalon protection of downtrodden migrant workers in the cities. 'If you remain silent and
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      Lock icon Wage reforms: Let's get cracking
      589 12 EDITORIAL GETTING more companies to implement wage reform, it seems, is proving more difficult than winning workers over to the idea But without the support of companies, the government's efforts to make the wage system more flexible cannot succeed. There are two planks to the
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      Lock icon How Sars is shaping a whole new East Asia
      1088 12  -  The disease is transforming the region in the four critical areas of politics, economics, sociology and regional mindset By Eric Teo THE Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 is recognised to have begun a transformation of East Asia and East Asian societies,
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      Lock icon Another case of hypocrisy?
      247 12  -  MAILI »TiT»l Christina Chua Singapore I REFER to the article "KL invites S'poreans to live or retire in Malaysia" (BT, May 31). Singaporeans need not be reminded of Malaysia's duplicity and hypocrisy when it comes to dealing with the special status of foreigners known as Singaporeans.
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      Lock icon No-expense funds up risk in market
      245 12  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the article "S'pore to get Ist no-ex-penses unit trusts" by Genevieve Cua (BT, May 19). It states that the firm will take a performance fee of 30 per cent a year, which kicks in when returns begin
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      Lock icon Do more to woo foreign students
      251 12  -  Simon Ng Yap Peng Singapore IT is laudable that the Ministry of Education has relaxed its rules on foreign students travelling to non-Sars-affected areas. However, there are still rules, including paying a $1,000 deposit, to discourage them from travelling to Sarsaffected countries. The partial
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  • REGIONAL news
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        Lock icon HK graftbusters arrest 20 people
        102 13 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's anti-graft body said it arrested 20 people on Sunday and yesterday, including the chairwoman of a publicly listed company and a former bank officer, for suspected corruption related to bank loans. The other people include three current and a former
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        Lock icon MISC seeking US$445m loan
        91 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia International Shipping Corp Bhd (MISC) is in talks with two groups of banks led by Citibank and HSBC to raise at least US$445 million to fund the purchase of American Eagle Tankers (AET), an industry source said yesterday. "The two groups have
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        Lock icon No new Sars cases in China
        116 13 AFP AP Bloomberg [BEIJING] China yesterday reported no new cases of Sars for the first time since it began releasing figures on April 20 about cases of the respiratory virus. Two new deaths were reported, one in Inner Mongolia province and one in Zhejiang
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        Lock icon Indon minister kept waiting
        68 13 Reuters [CANBERRA] An Indonesian minister was left filming yesterday when guards at Australia's national parliament held him up so long for security checks that a meeting had to be cancelled. Indonesian Justice Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra was scheduled to meet Australia's Attorney-General Daryl Williams in parliament
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        Lock icon Genting buys unit of US energy firm
        148 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Genting Bhd, Asia's biggest casino group by sales, said it paid U5527.58 million to buy a unit of US-based NRG Energy Inc, which owns a stake in a power plant in India, as it seeks to expand its power business.
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      Lock icon Malaysia to let in foreign Islamic banks
      241 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA will open the door to foreign Islamic banks and introduce new measures to help the country emerge as a regional hub for Islamic finance, its central bank chief said yesterday. Islamic banking accounts for 9.2 per cent of Malaysia's
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      Lock icon Jakarta told to improve credibility
      600 13  -  Problems faced include corruption, poor investment climate, lack of law From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA was yesterday urged to work harder to improve the country's investment climate at the midyear meeting of the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI), although it received praise for restoring
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      Lock icon Malaysian exports grew 5.7% in April
      326 13  -  Frornl Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S exports grew a better-than-expected 5.7 per cent year on year in April, boosted by higher crude palm oil, petroleum and LNG prices. Exports of electronic components were down 5.5 per cent an improvement from the 11.4
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      Lock icon Probes into China tycoon's bank loans
      705 14 CHINA CRACKDOWN Shares of his firms, two China property developers, suspended in HE Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Shares of two Chinese property developers, controlled by a man described by Forbes magazine as China's llth-richest, were suspended in Hong Kong amid reports the owner and his
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      Lock icon Yang Bin to go on trial on June 12 for fraud
      366 14 U BEIJING AFP YANG Bin, a Dutch-Chinese tycoon chosen by North Korea to run an experimental economic zone, will go on trial on June 12, charged with massive fraud, his company said yesterday. "Yang will go on trial on
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      Lock icon China's welfare fund set to invest in stocks
      280 14 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA'S welfare fund is expected to let six fund management companies begin investing about US$6 billion of social security funds in domestic securities markets for the first time, state newspapers said yesterday. The fund managers are likely to receive final
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      322 14 SINGATRONICS LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Singatronics Limited ("Singatronics") will be held on 26 June 2003 at Mandarin Court A, 4th Floor, Grand Tower, Meritus Mandarin Singapore, 333 Orchard
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      392 15 EVIAN, France Leaders agree there's no need to intervene to calm currency markets AFP Reuters US PRESIDENT George W Bush said yesterday the United States would continue to pursue a strong dollar policy, a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman reported here. "The
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      483 15 LATEST US INDICATORS Bloomberg US manufacturing improved last month for the first time since December, suggesting the worst may be over for factories that slowed production during the war in Iraq, an industry report showed. The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index rose
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      358 15 BOURNEMOUTH, England AFP BRITISH Telecom could be hit by strikes if it persists in transferring call-centre jobs to India or other parts of Asia, a big British labour union warned yesterday. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said up to
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        107 15 Reuters [VIENNA] European Central Bank council member Klaus Liebscher yesterday said the euro's rise was no reason to worry. Asked about the euro's appreciation versus the dollar, Mr Liebscher told journalists: "I see it as not dramatic. If you look at the dollar relation
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        84 15 NYT [NEW YORK] The Random House division of Bertelsmann has stepped forward once again in the bidding for the books division of AOL Time Warner, people briefed on the auction say. The involvement of Random House, the largest consumer publisher, raises the possibility that
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        83 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] The collapse of motherboard sales in Taiwan may raise questions about the valuation of Intel Corp's shares at current levels, said a report in this week's Barron's newspaper. It reported that Samuel Liu of Taipei's Microstar International, a leading motherboard manufacturer,
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        67 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Citigroup has toppled perennial No 1 Credit Suisse First Boston as the leading underwriter of high-yield, high-risk junk bonds. Citigroup earned about US$253 million in fees for arranging US$lO.l billion of sales this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Credit Suisse,
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      289 15 WASHINGTON AFP SOME eight million low-income US taxpayers earning between U559,300 and U5554,200 a year have been left out of the US$35O billion tax cut signed into law by President George Bush last week, according to a new analysis. The findings were
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      285 16 GENEVA Reuters A RECENT flood of funds into highyield debt ignores sluggish signs of a pickup in the global economy, focusing on a potentially overly-optimistic corporate recovery, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said. In its June quarterly review, the Basel-based BIS noted that investors,
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      637 17  -  Even the most hnmble of businesses can be models of inspiration By Anna Teo ALL the talk about entrepreneurs and enterprise should either inspire or possibly leave some even those itching to take the plunge a little daunted. Feeling like they may have missed the boat,
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      753 17  -  BBS Electronics CEO Jerry Hui tells Daniel Buenas what distributorships can do to survive Daniel Buenas JERRY Hui, chief executive of electronics distributor BBS Electronics, is worried for his industry. Indeed, Mr Hui a Hong Kong-born Australian citizen who was promoted to CEO
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      189 17 NOMINATIONS are now open for the 9th Enterprise 50 ranking. Companies have to nominate themselves by completing the 2003 Nomination Form. Forms are available from: The Enterprise 50 Secretariat, Accenture, 250 North Bridge Road, #33-00 Raffles City Tower, Singapore *****1 Hotline: 6410 8003, Fax: 6410
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      162 18 the ERNST YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARDS are held in more than 150 cities across 35 nations worldwide, to recognize and celebrate the success and exceptional achievements of the world's most outstanding entrepreneurs each year. Nominations are now open for the Ernst Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Singapore 2003.
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      278 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index tell 18 points to 2127, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 84 points to 2792, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 4 points to 2078 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 148 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER: Tian Li Hai (built 1999) *****0 dwt delivery Shanghai
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      602 19  -  Closer int'l cooperation on maritime security issues needed: Tony Tan By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore is making "good progress" in security pre-screening of US-bound cargo containers less than three months after US Customs officers were posted at the port, according to Deputy Prime
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      116 19 Reuters [TOKYO] Visitors looking at a North Korean spy ship (above and right), sunk in a gunbattle with Japan Coast Guard vessels, displayed at Tokyo's Museum of Maritime Science on Sunday. More than 12,000 people visited the museum to see the rusted vessel
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      246 19 Bloomberg [ST PETERSBURG] Finland and Denmark called on the Baltic countries to ban oil tankers with single hulls to increase safety at sea and avoid oil spills similar to the one caused last year by the sinking of the tanker Prestige near Spain.
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      165 19 Reuters [MANILA] Philippine-based International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) said yesterday it had acquired the Baltic container terminal in Gdynia, Poland, for US$4l million. ICTSI president Enrique Razon said in a statement that investments in the Polish port could run up to US$BO million
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      446 19 Govt's 15% stake is worth aronnd 304b won Bloomberg (SEOUL] South Korea will set the price today for its sale of a 15 per cent stake in Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co as it recoups money spent bailing out the world's second-larg-est shipbuilder,
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        35 19 Reuters [CHICAGO] Carnival Corp, the world's largest cruise company, said an over-allotment option was exercised on US$ll6 million of senior convertible securities in a previously announced private placement of the securities.—Reuters
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        99 19 Reuters [RIGA] The Latvian Shipping Company (Lasco) said it planned a major overhaul to renew its mid-size tanker fleet by 2010, ridding it of Soviet-era "rust buckets" and getting in line with new EU rules. Lasco deputy chairman Girts Rungainis said the company also
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        879 20 Subic is now a bustling freeport and a top eco-tourism attraction a decade after US troops abandoned the Philippine facility AFP [SUBIC, Philippines] WHEN the last US naval ship sailed out of Subic Bay in the Philippines in 1992, so did the GI Joe-dollars that
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        830 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        476 26 Pilots to accept wage cats and more flexible work procedures AP [TORONTO] Air Canada reached a tentative agreement on Sunday with the union representing its 3,150 pilots on cutbacks, clearing a crucial hurdle in its effort to restructure under bankruptcy protection. The agreement
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        252 26 AFP [PARIS] Eighty per cent of scheduled airline flights to and from France were likely to be cancelled today due to a strike by air traffic controllers over pension benefits, airport authorities said. The civil aviation authority DGAC said earlier
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        474 26 Some of the 71 planes that had been grounded now back in the air Reuters [WASHINGTON] Signs of a recovery in air traffic have prompted Deutsche Lufthansa to bring grounded planes back into service, but the airline still expects to make a
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        300 26 AP [CANBERRA] The Australian government should be wary of imposing onerous security rules such as full body searches of passengers following an attempted plane hijacking last week, Qantas Airways said. The government said last week it would review security rules at airports after
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        143 26 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines System Corp. Asia's biggest carrier, said it will extend a programme to get workers to take unpaid leave to cut costs, because of a slump in travel demand caused by the spread of the Sars virus. The Tokyo-based carrier's
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        225 26 Cnts to Asia flights dne to Sars fears behind move AP [EAGAN, Minnesota] Northwest Airlines expects to furlough 150 more pilots because of cutbacks in Asia flights stemming from travellers' fears about Sars, the union representing its pilots said. Although Northwest said that
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        207 26 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Airways has suffered huge financial losses over recent months as the Sars panic causes passenger numbers to plummet, its president Kanok Abhiradee said yesterday. Mr Kanok told the Bangkok Post that losses in April alone stood at 1.9 billion baht
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