The Business Times, 25 July 2003

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    17 1 i, MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE FRIDAY. JULY 25. 2003 I Interna, uitp:'/business-times.asial com.sg
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    Lock icon IPO boomlet beats a full-year score in just 7 months
    949 1  -  -iri exclusive Surprising turnaround from gloom of just fonr months ago By i Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] Barely seven months into the year, the number of new listings on the Singapore stock market has already pulled ahead of the number launched
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    Lock icon Don't follow the herd in options expensing
    867 1  -  COMMENTARY S'pore should buck international trend if local conditions call for it, says Wong Wei Song Wong Wei Kong THE debate over expensing stock options isn't just about whether options should be expensed or even how they should be accounted for. More fundamentally,
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    72 1 □sn M4IJB (-7.57) ST MDCX FUTURES 1,590.00 (iinch) SiMSCI FUTURES 191.70 (+0.50) Thursday Change KLSECOMP 710,17 -150 NIKKEI 225 9.671.00 +55.66 HANG SENG 9.***** +22.55 SET INDEX 478.90 1.54 JAKARTA COMP .***** -7.68 MANILA COMP 1185.17 -1122 TAIPEI WP1 5.***** *114 86 SEOILCOMP ***** +710 SHENZHEN B ***** 106
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    81 1 FOREX RATES US* M US$ (SS per ISS) 1.749 £(1"S$/SS per 1.611 1818 El'RO(l'S$/S$/E). 1.151 1013 YEN 118.6 67 £0 R.M 3.800 1172 HKS 7.799 4.458 BAHT 41.81 23.90 Rl'PlAH 8.560 4.893 RENMINBI 8199 4.744 INDIAN RI PEE 46.18 26.40 AS 1.506 0860 NZ$ 1706 0.975 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE*
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    Lock icon Top execs hit hardest as PSA cuts pay by up to 14%
    610 1  -  No more layoffs this year but cats later not ruled oat By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation announced across-the-board wage cuts yesterday, with top executives bearing the brunt with cuts of as high as 14 per cent. After
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      Lock icon US House set to approve S'pore FTA by a big vote
      434 2  -  Republicans dismiss onion moves to block deals with Chile and S'pore From Leon Hadar in Washington BUSH administration officials and Republican lawmakers rejected last-minute attempts by labour groups to try to block the expected approval erfnew trade agreements with
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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        Lock icon Circuit Plus to place out 10m shares
        64 3 J CIRCUIT Pluasaidlt hat agreed with DBS Victors Securities to place out 16 million now shares at 11.23 cents apiece. Hie price represents a discount of 9.94 per cent to the weighted average price of 12.47 cents for shares traded yesterday. The net
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        62 3 DARCO Water Technologies' wholly-owned subsidiary Darco Water Systems Sdn Bhd has been 1 awarded a RM.*> 2 million contract to design and ivy* construct a waste-water treatment plant for the Mambang Disposal Park in Kuching. Sarawak. Darco •i said the contract is expected to be profitable and wlU
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        49 3 r MOULD design and makers KPlas Holdings Ltd yesterday said its public tranche of L55 million shares at 24 cents each was 479 times subscribed. All placement shares were also taken up. Based on a total invitation size of 19-5 million shares, the lasuewas H 39 times subscribed.
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        Lock icon OUS, UIS prefits fall in Q2
        106 3 TWO close-ended investment funds, Overseas Union 1 Securities (OUS) and United International Securities Ltd (XJtSX announced tbeir second-quarter results yesterday. OUS announced poorer results tor its second quarter ended June, with net profits flailing almost 20 per cent to $1.89 million compared with the
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      Lock icon DBS to own 29.6% stake in HK's Vanda
      381 3  -  Bank agrees to conversion of HKsl3&sm bond into Vanda shares By Loh Hui Yin DBS Bank's private equity and venture capital unit Would own a 29.6 per cent stake in Vanda Systems and Communications Holdings on conversion of a HK5136.5 million (5530.6
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      Lock icon Singatronics could get a new substantial shareholder
      243 3  -  By] Kenneth Lim MAINBOARD-LISTED Singatronics is set to have a 1 new substantial shareholder as the company disclosed I yesterday that two private 1 vehicles of chief executive Bddie Foo are selling a total slake 0f29.96 per cent in the I electronics contract
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      Lock icon Another KL-S'pore, cross-border deal
      489 3  -  Temasek sells China water firm stake to M'sian GLCSime Darby From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur A MALAYSIAN govern-ment-controlled conglomerate has acquired a sizeable asset from the investment arm of the Singapore government. Kuala Lumpur-listed Sime Darby said yesterday that its wholly-owned Sime Darby Hong Kong
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    • CORPORATE Results
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        Lock icon profit soars on
        122 4 THANKS to an exceptional gain from the listing of ft subsidiary, Roly International Holdings' net profit •oared almost five-fold from US$4.74 million to USIB8.06 million for tbe full year ended April 30. The Hdog Kong-based global supply chain management company said yesterday that it reaped a net
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        Lock icon Informations Q1
        78 4 IT-BASED education specialist Informatics managed to lift ita first-quarter earnings by 16 percent to $6 mlUkm, despite difficult market conditions and continuing looses at it? UK operations. Group turnover was $44.9 million, down from $40.6 million in Ql of last year. Its profit after tax margin improved from
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        Lock icon China ops boost Mentor revenue
        94 4 MAINBOARD-listed Mentor Media saw revenue from its China operations surge 344 per osnt to $12.6! tttiUon In the first quarter ended June 90 from $2.8$ million a year ago. Mentor, which provides integrated outsourced services to teichnology-related industries, saw revenue from overseas operations jump 260
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      Lock icon KepLand profit rises 39% in Q2
      358 4  -  Shanghai project accounts for half of the $2Gm earnings; sales op over 200% By Andrea Tan KEPPEL Land managing director Kevin Wong turned marketing man for a day yesterday. Even as the property group posted a 39.6 per cent increase in net profit to
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      Lock icon Ascott unveils 5-year plan to achieve top global spot
      349 4  -  By Vince Chong AS he gave a briefing on sec-ond-quarter results yesterday, Ascott's new head honcho Eugene Lai also unveiled an ambitious fiveyear plan for the group to become the top international serviced residence company. Mr Lai, who became CEO of
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      Lock icon A whole bunch, and counting
      152 4 New listings on SGX in 2003 Sunningdrtt 0 03e w 31 /7«3 10 76 0 0 024 m tl 18J KPI* 0 024 25/7/03 18 0 AO* 084 021 14*9 m 103 «W» Jukwilteh 0295 022 34.00 36.4 3254 33.44 4/7/03 3 27 3334 Eco
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      Lock icon Grill'em at Bonvests EGM
      899 4  -  lock siew r sivanithy NEXT Monday, shareholders of diversified hotel operator Bonvests Holdings will be asked to vote in favour of two proposals that will be tabled at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM). The financial advisers, Credit Agricole Indosuez (CAI), have recommended that the independent directors
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      Lock icon CK Tang, bank in wrangle over securitisation deal
      363 7  -  German bank snes for alleged breach, retailer says case unfounded Byi Andrea Tan A GERMAN bank is suing CK Tang for an alleged breach of contract after the retailer pulled out of a deal following a lifeline from OCBC. Both CK Tang
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      Lock icon Gwee Lian Kheng, the 'rascal' turned top hotelier
      443 7  -  He wins regional award for his work in the industry By Andrea Tan THE "rascal of Chinatown" Gwee Lian Kheng was presented with the Asia Pacific Hotelier 0f2002 award at the 6th Asia Pacific Hotel Investment Conference yesterday. The president and chief
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      Lock icon Citibanker Sng Seow Wah the latest to cross over to OCBC
      368 7  -  By Ven Sreenivasan A JOKE making its rounds has it that OCBC's acronym stands for Old Citi-Bank-ers Club. That's because of the relatively large number of Citibankers who have crossed over to the local bank in recent years. That
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      661 4 I lis JI Land I Keppel Land Limited i (incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2003 The Directors of Keppel Land Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Group for the half year ended 30 June 2003: A Second
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      306 6 OTHER SINGAPORE MOKES Jul 24 VALUE CLOSE BT mm -158.00 -18.00 wawr -*****.00 -159.00 WIMyW -*****.00 16.00 WBpMw 417.06 -2.11 HfpiBIn Ehct 149.79 -1.14 1319.92 3.42 388.15 *2.27 waaww 191.60 -0.46 maaHkrnm 191.70 40.50 LAMlc 216.409.0CX) DMXTech US5c 56.145.000 JurongTech 10c 52,170,000 Gofcftron 5c 52.066,000 PCX) 20C 51.347.000 Chart SemCond
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      Lock icon Stock split highlights Stamford Tyres' undervaluation
      248 6  -  HOT STOW WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan IT'S amazing what a bit of financial engineering can do. The shares of mainboard-listed Stamford Tyres leaped to their highest levels in four years yesterday following the company's announcement that it was doing a two-into-five split of its
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      Lock icon A bad week for contra players
      809 6  -  comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT hasn't been a good week for contra players that's for sure, especially if the targets were speculative small caps and new listings. Because of a growing suspicion that prices may have overrun their fundamentals not just here but throughout
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      Lock icon US$ nears 2-week lows vs euro on Fed governor's remarks
      830 6 Bat traders in no rash to sell greenback further as many think chances of US recovery are good AFP Bloomberg Reuters [TOKYO] The US dollar hovered near two-week lows against the euro yesterday after Federal Reserve governor Ben Bernanke said
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    22 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS t« IW. ✓>'!!«) M mil AI Htriwlt fuiuw<;St—Hp ■nMK Mf AM» wMMriaa el tnMK SP afMr (MfcaUCKA-Nan OMangOqnM Moor MvSIUtS
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      Lock icon Bush risks Iraq getting 'Vietnamised'
      806 8  -  mr.\4 I bottom line OPINION leon hadar AMERICAN troops deployed in a faraway and exotic country in Asia are coming under attack by guerillas, and the number of US casualties continues to rise on a daily basis. American television networks report that their troops are
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      42 8 'Societies have always risen and faded, and Japan will likely disappear and something else will take its place, but that's not such a problem. Greece and Rome disappeared, too.' -Hhtdtf Iwwl a population expert, on the future of Japan.
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      Lock icon Options versus shares
      580 8 EDITORIAL IN recent months, two familiar corporate names have replaced their stock option schemes with share-only plans. In May, Singapore Telecom said it will issue shares to staff provided certain set performance targets are met. Earlier this month, Microsoft said it will end all option grants to
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      Lock icon Getting Indian aviation to take off – at long last
      1095 8  - Getting Indian aviation to take off at long last A new civil aviation policy will be framed within three months by a panel headed by a no-nonsense chairman From Prem Shankar Jha in New Delhi FOR decades, India has had what must rank as the most chaotic commercial aviation policy
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      Lock icon Beware the trap of minimum payment
      272 8  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I RECEIVED an "application form for interbank Giro for payment of credit card account" from a financial institution. The form asked me to pick from two payment options either "full payment" or "minimum payment". Shouldn't the Giro form inform customers
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      Lock icon CPF investors are better off than others
      307 8  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore CONTRARY to what was reported, the statistic that "65 per cent of CPF investors worse off over nine years" (BT, July 22) is actually positive in its significance. Earlier reported statistics from time to time have shown that l-in-5 or
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Local travel firms unscathed by BA strike
      506 9  -  Only 3 in straw poll of 10 had clients needing itinerary or flight changes By' Tay Shi'an WHILE the British Airways (BA) strike wreaked havoc last weekend at London's Heathrow airport, travel agencies in Singapore were hardly affected. A straw poll of 10
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      Lock icon CBRE targets 5-10% growth on acquisition of rival
      214 9 REAL estate services firm CB Richard Ellis Singapore hopes to grow by an initial 5-10 per cent as its group client portfolio enlarges with the acquisition of rival Insignia Financial Group. CBRE's local operations will remain unchanged otherwise, said managing director Willy
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      Lock icon CPGto launch 2nd phase of Suzhou project
      231 9 SINGAPORE-BASED CPG Corp will launch its second sales phase of 150 units for its Jiacheng Apartment by the Lake development in Suzhou at the weekend. CPG which provides building and infrastructure development consulting said yesterday that 297 of its 313 phase one units
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      Lock icon Double-digit growth needed in Q3, Q4 for 0.5% full-year growth
      308 9  -  EYE OV TUB ECONOMY By. Anna Teo THE economy would have to sustain a dou-ble-digit pace of growth momentum in the latter two quarters of the year to hit just 0.5 per cent growth for the full year, says IDEAglobal.
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Foreign funds yet to make a splash in M'sian stocks
      402 11  -  Foreign investors accounted for 30% of trades in terms of value in first half of this year From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur FOREIGN fund managers are yet to flock back to the Malaysian stock market in a big way.
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      Lock icon TSMC Q2 profits rise 26% to NT$11.7m
      531 11  -  Doable-digit growth sparks talk semicon recovery From Macaho Koliber in Taipei THE world's largest made-to-order chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), posted double digit growth last quarter, giving rise to the speculation that a recovery in the semiconductor industry may be underway.
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Taiped rules out freak Sars case
        86 11 AP AFP [TAIPEI} Taiwan's health authorities yesterday jailed out severe acute respiratory syncfarome at the catoe of an illness in a 12-year-old girt returning from China with suspicious symptoms. "The case has basically been ruled out as Sirs infection, hut we still hope everyone
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        Lock icon Malaysian car sales down 12%
        88 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is set to lose its pole position in South-east Asia's auto market to Thailand after sales dipped 12 per cent in the first half 0f2003, the Malaysian Automotive Association said yesterday. Passenger car sales skidded to 161,265 units from January to
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        Lock icon Three dropped from Hang Seng index
        99 11 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Shanghai Land Holdings and Sun Man Tai Holdings, whose shares have been halted for almost two months as their chairmen are investigated in China for loan fraud, will be removed from the Hang Seng index, its compiler HSI Services said. Top Glory
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        Lock icon Thai govt mulls merger of two banks
        73 11 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's government is considering a merger of two state-owned lenders to improve their efficiency, said Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha. "The ministry is looking at the possibility" of merging Bank Thai and Industrial Finance Corp of Thailand, Mr Suchart said yesterday. The
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        Lock icon Ericsson opens RM80m hub in M'sia
        45 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson yesterday said it will open an RMBO million (5536.8 million) regional expertise hub in Malaysia to prepare for a potential boom in demand. The centre in Cyberjaya will be launched on Tuesday.—AFP
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      Lock icon Yuan exchange rate to stay for now
      334 11 BEIJING Bloomberg Reuters CHINA may adjust the yuan's fixed exchange rate in the future, as and when such a move would be of benefit to the nation's economy, Trade Minister Lu Fuyuan said. The currency will remain where it is for now, he
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      Lock icon Maybank eyeing insurance firms
      313 11 KUALA LUMPUR CEO says there are no immediate plans to boy other banks Reuters MALAYSIA'S top lender, Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank), has no immediate plans to buy other banks as the sector buzzes with merger talk, but may consider insurance firms and fund managers, its CEO
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      Lock icon Arroyo forced to deny coup rumours
      274 11 MANILA AFP PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo yesterday took the unusual step of publicly denying rumours of a military coup plot as the Philippines currency plunged against the US dollar. "We call on the public to remain calm amid these rumors of destabilisation," Ms Arroyo said
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      Lock icon Singapore open to talks with Malaysia, says Jaya
      394 12  -  But Syed Hamid's comments on water negotiations are 'mystifying From Shoeb Kagda in Bali IF Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Ham id Albar would send Singapore a communication or proposal on what Kuala Lumpur would like to negotiate on, the Republic would consider
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      Lock icon EU, Asean ministers agree on new initiative to forge closer ties
      496 12  -  Closer cooperation sought on trade, investment, regulatory issues From Shoeb Kagda in Bali FOREIGN Ministers from Asean and their European Union (EU) counterparts have agreed to explore ways to forge closer economic and trade links through a new initiative
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      Lock icon G8 should be replaced with larger forum, says EU's Lamy
      318 12 DALIAN, China AFP THE Group of Eight (G8) should be replaced by a forum including a greater number of participants, such as China and India, and dealing with a broader range of issues, EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said yesterday,
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Japan's trade surplus dive hits recovery hopes
      402 13  -  Jape exports to US down 12%; retail sales show drop in consumer spending From, Anthony Rowley m Tokyo HOPES that Japan's economy is on a recovery track were dealt a blow yesterday with news that the nation's customs-cleared trade surplus fell by a
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      Lock icon Sony's profit plunges 98% in Q1 as sales slump
      392 13 TOKYO Bloomberg SO fY Corp said first-quarter profit plu iged 98 per cent after its movie arm fail d to deliver a blockbuster and sales of tele risions and video games 6lumped. roup net income totalled 1.1 billion yen (S$ 5.2
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      Lock icon NEC Elec soars 29% on debut
      124 13 TOKYO Reuters SHARES in Japan's NEC Electronics rose 36 per cent on their debut yesterday as an improving semiconductor market and a recovering appetite for IPOs helped lure investors to the world's sixth largest chip maker. NEC Electronics Corp ended at 5,430 yen, up
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      Lock icon US jobless claims fall for the second week
      357 14 WASHINGTON Better than expected 5-month low figure points to economy picking np AP Bloomberg THE number of American workers signing up for jobless benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in five months, a fresh dose of good news for the
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      Lock icon Fear of stock markets persists in US: survey
      249 14 NEW YORK AFP A MAJORITY of Americans are fearful of putting money in the stock market, although trust in financial markets has increased somewhat, according to a survey released on Wednesday. A Conference Board survey found 56 per cent of Americans describe
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    • COMPANY results
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        Lock icon AT&T wipes off red ink in Q2
        71 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp had a better-than-expected ni second-quarter profit at cost catting countered a drop) in sales to a 14-year low. It posted net income of H USss36million, or 66 US cents a share, compared wMtli a net loss of USSI2J
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        Lock icon AT&T Wireless bears Serecasis in Q2
        59 14 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] AT&T Wireless Services Ihc said on Wednesday that second-quarter profit rose to US$BB6 million, beating analysts' expectations on demandlOdi more expensive phones and services. Second-quarter net income was eight US cents a share, double the estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson
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        Lock icon DaimlerChrysler Q2 predit dives 90%
        80 14 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler said second-quarter profit feU 90 per cent after its Chrysler division in US posted an operating kiss because of lowervehicfe sales and the cost of incentives. Net income dropped]?: to 109 million euros (*****.4 million), or 11 euro cents a share, fhxn
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        Lock icon Reyal Dutch/Shell Q2 profit up 28%
        68 14 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe's bnfi largest oil company, said second-quarter profit mmr in: 88 per cent became oil and natural gas prices wenf ut) higher than a year earlier and k made more on trnfW refining ofl. Net income surged to US$B4B
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        Lock icon Siemens Q3 carnings down 13%
        66 14 AP [FRANKFURT] Siemens yesterday reported a 13 cent drop in net profit for its third fiscal quarter wast compared to a year earlier as earnings Ml at its key l power generation division. Siemens earnedanet6Sg(o*i million euros (Ssl.3 billion) compared to 725 million euros a
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      Lock icon Fed prepared to cut rates to zero: governor
      463 15 LA JOLLA, California Jfc^ventinga slowing in inflation must be the bank's priority, he says Reuters FBDERAL Reserve goveraor Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the US central bank would be prepared to cut interest rates all the way to zero if necessary to
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      690 20  -  [•'sd the cuff We all want to be entrepreneurs. But hew many of us have the right stuff? jaime ee SINGAPORE'S reputation doesn't seem to be too hot these days. If we're not being labelled unfriendly in global surveys, we're being called cocky.
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      280 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 A water healer might be tow 11 Lean ancfworidng, showing Hi ■VTI smew (6) 12 Where fires start raging in 16 Acrowd, perhaps, runs into jflf ■Hi you once (5) —BHj_ shopping cwibe (4) ~~-"■■J 18 Tmd* licence covering store 22 Discussion group for preparing marines (7)
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      339 21 Date 8 August 2003, Friday Tim# 730pm ¥mhm Etpliwdi Concert HaM Singapore Symphony Orchoatni T«ung Yah, Conductor JhtTa,Fhfto M Haaart hiyawni Symphony No. 3S in D major, K. 385 "VMnar* Hhh Concarto Na I<n G major. IK. 313 Symphony Na 41 In C major, K. S5l ")upiwr" This aR-Mozart concert
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      232 22 PASCALE Dang's first fashion collection was launched in 1997, under the label, "Sea Lily" with a partner. They designed and made high quality, designer women's fashion, shawls, bags and shoes. This was discontinued in 1999, when her partner went back to the US, but Pascale continued
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      552 23  -  Private sector shipping will have to bear brant of security costs former FMC chairwoman By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Largely unfunded US maritime security requirements have been slammed as a "tax" on a shipping industry already "taking an enormous financial hit" by
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      235 23 New transport minister to look into measures to boost ports'business Bernama [PORT KLANG] Malaysia's ports are forecast to handle 10 million twenty-foot-equivalent-units (TEUs) this year, compared with eight million boxes last year, according to its newly-appointed Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy. He said
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      239 23  -  -By Beth Jinks [SlNGAPOßE] PSA Corporation is "still in active negotiations" with customers over its Singapore terminal charges after an across-the-board discount package expired this month. PSA chairman Stephen Lee told reporters yesterday that some terminal contracts "have been concluded, others are
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        73 23 [SINGAPORE] Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) recently set a new record for vessel productivity. Serving the Evergreen Marine vessel, Ever Repute, the terminal achieved a rate of272moves per hour, eclipsing its previous record of 256 moves per hour set in April 2000. HIT managing director,
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        54 23 AFP [DOHA] Qatar Shipping Co (QSC) said it had signed a contract worth US$22O million with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries for six tankers, each with a capacity of 106,000 tonnes. QSC vice-president Mohammed Khalifa said the tankers will be delivered between October 2005
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      339 23  -  ■By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Australia's second busiest container port group, Sydney Ports, handled a record 1.16 million TEUs in the 2002 financial year, representing a 15 per cent rise on its last annual throughput. The figure is also 14.2 per cent up
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      838 24  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Belgian carrier allowed stay of proceedings by Supreme Court of Canada -By I Selva Kumar THE Supreme Court of Canada recently overturned a series of decisions of its lower courts and allowed the appeal of a Belgium-based carrier
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      74 24 Reuters [ENGLISH CHANNEL] Cranes on two platforms preparing to cut up the wreckage of the Tricolor in nine sections, using a diamond wire-cutting system, in the English Channel The Tricolor, a 1987 built Norwegian flagged vessel carrying luxury cars worth up to US$5O million, sank in French
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        793 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        348 32 Reuters [SYDNEY] A tie-up with UK airline British Midland (BMI) remains a logical move for Virgin Atlantic and the two airlines continue to hold on-off talks on a deal. Virgin Group's Richard Branson said yesterday. "Normally people court Virgin but Virgin has been
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        133 32 Xinhua [HANOI] Vietnam Airlines is preparing to open direct flights to San Francisco, the United States, and Frankfurt, Germany, Vietnam Economic Times reported yesterday. Vietnam Airlines also plans to launch an air route to England, the newspaper quoted the national flag carrier's director
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        382 32 Airline says it will appeal against the ruling Bloomberg [TOULOUSE] Ryanair Holdings pic, Europe's secondlargest low-fare airline, has been barred by a French court from accepting subsidies in exchange for promoting its flights to Strasbourg, France. The airline said it will appeal
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