The Business Times, 15 August 2003

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MUA (P) 024/03/2003 Inters »t- ->t!p.//business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE FRIDAY. AUGUST 15, 2003 85C
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    Lock icon Sias seeks 5,000 to commit to research initiative
    769 1  -  -ii exclusive Members asked in letter if they'll pay $10 a month for stock coverage By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) is seen to be competing head on with independent research outfit Netßesearch-Asia for retail subscribers following
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    Lock icon Hollywood, big business and politics a power mix for Arnie
    644 1 AFP Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Action star Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday named billionaire businessman Warren Buffett as his chief economic adviser, adding heavyweight muscle to his campaign to be California's next governor. The ex-bodybuilder's coup in enlisting one of the world's
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    Lock icon MARKETS
    74 1 sn 1,598.97 (+7.49) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,601.00 (+9.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 197.30 (+1.40) Thursday Change KLSECOMP 727 46 ♦3.23 NIKKEI 225 9511.47 OHO 72 HANG SENG10.374 .02 4UI SET INDEX 518.83 Mum CO.MP 5101.1 -1.1# MANILA (UMP 1.***** .1*0 TAIPEI WP1 5.4*75 552 SEOTLCOMP ***** 1393 SHENZHEN B. JUL 4115
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    82 1 FOREX RATES US* SS ISS (SSperlSS) 1.751 Sll'SS/SS per V| I.C13 1824 ra Ro<rss/ss E) i.m 19M YEN 1194 «8 .20 KM .1X00 2.170 HKS 7.799 4 t BAHT 4I.CC 23 79 HJFIAH H.5C0 4.HX8 RENMINBI H.299 4.739 INDIAN Rl PEE 4591 2«22 AS 1.518 C.8C7 NZS I.K97 0%9
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    Lock icon Take up jobs in manufacturing, S'poreans urged
    869 1  -  Ng Eng Hen says they should accept jobs now filled by foreign workers By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] To tackle unemployment, Singaporeans must take up jobs which foreigners are doing, including in sectors they have typically eschewed, Acting Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen urges.
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      81 1 Sias should keep focus on watchdog role HOCK LOCK SIEW Page 3 f Whether the banking industry... or in the arts, helping those who have a dream^^^K to go live it too many people pack their dreams away and t become accountants.J Investment banker, Champion of The awardee, raconteur... the
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      Lock icon Govt will lower HDB prices if wages dive
      489 2  -  Minister promises 3 and 4-room public flats will be kept affordable By. Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore will keep its public flats affordable and adjust prices if wages sink, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said yesterday. If, for example, wage levels were
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Going to great lengths for Yao Ming
        166 2 TAILOR to the rich and famous Manu Melwani had a tall order. Literally. He was asked by Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming, who stands at 2.26 m, to make two shirts. The popular basketball player, 22, placed the orders with Mr Melwani, of
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        Lock icon One omission is all it takes
        142 2 FORMER Hong Kong financial secretary Antony Leung kept meticulous records of every gift he received when he was in office. Right down to the last lychee. But Mr Leung omitted one important item he forgot to declare his vested interest when he bought a
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      Lock icon Post N-Day surge lifts STI to 13-mth high
      403 2  -  Index has gained 6% in 7 consecutive sessions since Angs By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The Straits Times Index yesterday gained 7.49 points to 1,598.97, continuing a postAug 9 National Day rally that has taken prices to a 13month high. The index has
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      Lock icon Port alliance? It's up to PTP, says KL minister
      498 2  -  Recent appointment of new PSA chief said to be conducive to tie-np From\ Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN the first official reaction, a senior Malaysian government official yesterday welcomed the possibility of the leading port operators in Malaysia and Singapore
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Ong, Oei reap good paper returns from NatSteel
      368 3  -  Counter closed at $2M, np about $1 since Jan, when Ong's 98 Holdings won control By] Kenneth Lim SLUGGING it out in a takeover battle for Nat Steel hasn't been all that bad for tycoons Oei Hong Leong and Ong Beng Seng
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      Lock icon Awards for good governance
      196 3 COMPANIES that observe high standards of corporate governance can now look forward to a newly created recognition award. The Singapore Corporate Governance award was launched yesterday by the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) in conjunction with the National University of Singapore Business School, Institute of
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      Lock icon Sias should keep focus on watchdog role
      568 3  -  homcILIJIMUMM ven sreenivasan SHOULD an association that represents small investors be in the business of equity research? And how does this role sit with its stated objective of being an advocate for retail investors? These are questions the Securities Investors Association of Singapore
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      Lock icon Total Auto saving cash for acquisition
      351 4  -  Byl Kenneth Lim TOTAL Automation said yesterday that it is pursuing a possible acquisition and has accumulated $12.9 million cash for the move should it materialise. For that reason, shareholders of the mainboardlisted instrumentation and controls engineering specialist could receive a one-for-four bonus share
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      Lock icon Inter-Roller posts profit of $3.2m for H1
      464 4  -  It's back in the black thanks to strtng orders secured in 2002 Byt Serena Ng AIRPORT baggage-han-dling systems maker InterRoller Engineering has swung back into the black with first-half net profit of $3.2 million and has proposed its first interim dividend. The company,
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      Lock icon Sars takes a big bite out of United Food's Q2 profit
      381 4  -  But upbeat meat producer trebles HI dividend payoot By I Serena Ng THE Sars outbreak has dented United Food Holdings' second-quarter performance, but the China-based meat producer stays upbeat, proposing yesterday to treble its first-half dividend payout. Net profit
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      Lock icon All 2m JEL Corp shares sold online taken up
      205 4  -  By Joyce Koh ONLINE share application has gone down well with investors. judging by how fast all two million placement shares offered by JEL Corporation via the Internet were snapped up yesterday. Choo Chee Kong, chief executive officer of SBI E2Capital
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Royal Click's Q1 profit slumps
        131 4 APPAREL and sporting goods retailer Royal Clicks saw its its first-quarter net profits almost halved to $857,000 from the previous corresponding period. This was better than expected as the impact from Sars was not as severe as initially feared. Revenues rose 13 per cent to
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        Lock icon Progen H1 profit inches op
        106 4 DESPITE lower turnover, Progen Holdings saw interim net profits rise marginally to $388,000, from $385,000 in the same period last year. Revenues for the half-year ended June 30 was $1.8 million, down from $2 million previously. Earnings per share rose marginally to 0.143 cent, while
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        Lock icon AsiaMedic's loss widens in H1
        108 4 A COMBINATION of absent contributions from businesses that have either been divested or ceased operations and the Sars impact saw Asia Medic's interim net loss widening to $1.5 million from $504,000 in the previous corresponding period. Turnover for the half year ended June 30 fell
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        Lock icon Lee Metal H1 profit nearly doubles
        159 4 LEE Metal Group yesterday said its net profit for the six months ended June jumped 91 per cent to $2.5 million, while turnover rose 54 per cent to $88.9 million. The company, which is in the steel merchandising business, also proposed a 0.3 cent
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      1330 4 t WW BANQUES POPULAIRES COMPARATIVE CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS m 11**—*" w i Assets in millions of EUR EUR UabilitiM A Shareholders' Equity in millions of EUR EUR Interbank and money market assets 42.084 22.757 Interbank and morn* market labilit.es 46.184 35.624 01 which institutional activities 1.453 1.279 Of which institutional
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  • FOCUS parliament
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      Lock icon Living standards will have to slide: BG Yeo
      409 5  -  Minister says market will force it evenifS'pore doesn't adjust By Chuang Peck Ming WAGES may have to come down to keep Singapore competitive. Already, they are under pressure because of economic weakness and challenges from low-cost rivals such as China and India,
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      Lock icon Building Act to be amended
      256 5  -  Proposed system to iqject more flexibility into industry Byi Andrea Tan THE Building Control Act will be amended to bring about more flexibility in terms of design and services in the construction industry and to be more responsive to the market, National Development Minister Mah
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      Lock icon Bills on financial laws moved
      502 5  -  Financial Advisers Act, Securities and Futures Act to be finetuned By Wong Wei Kong BILLS to amend the Securities and Futures Act (SFA) and the Financial Advisers Act (FAA) were presented in Parliament for initial reading yesterday in the first part of a two-phase review
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      Lock icon Govt won't subsidise NEL operations
      396 5  -  By\ Samuel Ee THE North-east Line will be viable in the medium to long term and the government will not subsidise SBS Transit for losses it now faces in running the service. Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong told Parliament yesterday. Mr Yeo had been asked
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      2725 5 If you are facing any of the following: You need to keep your payroll absolutely confidential. Your payroll staff are bogged down, and are bored with the routine of rushing payroll every month, and there is limited room for staff development for payroll processing functions. You or your payroll staff
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      325 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 14 VALUE CLOSE IT OS/OS 402.00 +194.00 BTCAM -*****.00 +108.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +40.00 432.63 +2.08 gCEjdbwEhct 157.76 SGEMMMFIh 1365.44 +15.88 M Equities Prop 396 15 +1.95 WCI Sinppori 197.3B +1.29 SfttSCl Futurw 197.30 +1.40 Stock* Volmm GES Intl Ltd 20c 70,718.000 MultiVisHK70 58.947,000 Dtgiland
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      Lock icon MSCI inclusion may prompt upgrade of SingPost's 80¢ target price
      268 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRAMT Byi Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Singapore Post hit a record high yesterday as the market got hold of news that it will be included in the closely-followed Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index. The counter jumped
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      Lock icon A take first, talk later approach
      746 6  -  ■l i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy STOCKMARKET payers these days ap- proach equities in much the same way people behave at gourmet buffet meals. Most can't bear to be left out, especially when confronted with an appetising array of up-wardly-mobile goodies on which to
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      Lock icon Is the US dollar cup half-empty or half-full?
      578 6  -  I-ii comment CURRENCES Singapore dollar firms on expectations of farther cost-cutting measures larry wee THE US dollar's fortunes continue to wax and wane in line with the tug of war between equities and bonds. Yesterday, a Wednesday-night spike in bond yields weighed
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    3239 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ■nffXTTITSTSBHHH Commanbar* Aawt Mgt Com Global Finance index Fd 0846/ Com Global Utetrfe Index Fd_ 0*7/ ty> c Com Global Healin Index Fd 0J27/ Sc Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0.441/ SflISS ow Com Global mfotec index Fd'" 0J12/ J Com Global Energy mder Fd 0 898/
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Changi Airport traffic on rebound since May
      422 7  -  Transport minister expects pre-S&rs passenger levels by the end of the year By Vince Chong PASSENGER traffic at Changi Airport has improved since Singapore was cleared of Sars at the end of May, with numbers down just 7.6 per cent year on year
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      Lock icon Banks unlikely to raise prime rates
      656 7  -  By I Siow Li Sen BANKS are unlikely to raise prime rates despite presure on interest rates because they were not adjusted down when interest rates fell in the past two years. Early this week, DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank and OCBC Bank announced
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      Lock icon SingTel adds to Wi-Fi access network
      407 7  -  Tie-np with GRIC will bring 2,000 global hotspots By, Angela Tan SINGAPORE Telecommunications said yesterday its Sing Net customers will enjoy immediate Wi-Fi (wireless LAN) access at more than 2,000 locations in 14 countries, following its its partnership with global roaming carrier GRIC Communications.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Infrastructure financing: a welcome U-turn
      794 8  -  THMH bsbs fOPaajiON anthony rowley ONE by one, the tenets of the oncerevered "Washington Consensus" on neo-liberai economic principles fall into disrepute, and with them goes much of the credibility of those erstwhile pillars of US global influence, the World Bank and the International Monetary
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      34 8 'Jobs will return when the economy picks up. They will not come from keeping foreign workers out.' -NgEngHen Singapore's acting manpower minister, defending the government's foreign worker policy in Parliament yesterday.
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      Lock icon Resurgence of the Indian economy
      558 8 EDITORIAL TODAY, on the occasion of India's 56th Independence Day, the Asian giant can look upon the state of its economy with some satisfaction. Although countless problems remain and will probably fester for several years yet India is showing distinct signs of economic dynamism. And
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      Lock icon Indo-Pakistan peace: false hopes again?
      794 8  -  Concili&tory talk is being heard at all levels on both sides bnt realpolitik may preclude a rapprochement By Mike Collett-White Reuters [ISLAMABAD] Amid words and gestures of goodwill between bitter foes, you could be forgiven for thinking lasting peace was about to break out between
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      Lock icon Companies doing fine on disclosure
      240 8  -  MAiLirm Ernst Young Singapore WE refer to the report, "S'pore firms fight shy of disclosing directors' pay" (BT, Aug 14). Our Corporate Governance Disclosures Survey documented the corporate governance disclosures of 30 large companies by reference to the Code of Corporate Governance. The survey covered
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      Lock icon High costs turning consumers off
      203 8  -  Chuang Kuang May, Pam Singapore I REFER to "What's ailing Singapore's broadband market?" by Angela Tan (IT Comment, Aug 11). In my opinion, it is not small market size or lack of infrastructure that is impeding the growth of local broadband it is high costs
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      Lock icon Doomed to be broadband 'low-speed city'?
      407 8  -  Dr Oskar Lee Singapore IT'S hardly surprising that broadband ("What's ailing Singapore's broadband market?" by Angela Tan, IT Comment, Aug 11) is not taking off in Singapore. For that to happen, the public must be wired up at an affordable cost. And as long
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Overseas firms cut bids for M'sian rail contract
      548 9 KUALA LUMPUR They are now bidding a combined &M2ob after lower bid from local group Reuters FOREIGN consortia bidding for two Malaysian phases of the trans-Asia rail project have cut their prices by about a fifth to RM2O billion (559.2 billion) after
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Shell may sell assets in Thailand
        106 9 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe's biggest oil company, may sell its assets in Thailand, said a spokeswoman in its Thai office. "Shell is always reviewing its assets to help it fit with its portfolio," said Gloyta Nathalang, external affairs manager at Thai Shell
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        Lock icon More attacks expected in Indonesia
        98 9 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia, which has already told its nationals to stay away from targets in Indonesia like hotels and shopping centres, said yesterday that terror attacks could be launched there on Sunday, Indonesia's national day. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he feared a possible terror
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        Lock icon HK homeowners in negative equity
        81 9 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] About 106,000 Hong Kong homeowners owed more on their homes than the properties were worth at the end of June, up more than a quarter from the end of March, amid a further slide in property prices in the city of 7
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        Lock icon Telkom to get 478b rupiah payout
        56 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's PT Telkom will receive 478 billion rupiah (5597.5 million) in compensation for losing its fixed-line monopoly earlier than planned. Post and Telecommunications Minister Agum Gumelar said yesterday. "The Indonesian government will have to pay that amount to Telkom," Mr Gumelar said,
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      Lock icon AMMB, Commerce Asset close to deal
      228 9 UKUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S second biggest lender Commerce As-set-Holding Bhd and fifth largest AMMB Holdings will sign a pact this week to merge their banking and finance operations, industry sources said yesterday. Under a memorandum of understanding, AMMB will sell its retail banking operations
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      Lock icon Ting's imminent departure won't affect KFC: MD
      484 9  -  Ongoing revamp and operations won't be disrupted, he says From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE imminent departure of George Ting the man who helped run the KFC fried chicken franchise on both sides of the Causeway won't affect the company or its
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      Lock icon HK watchdog aims to shorten trading probes
      209 9 HONGKONG Reuters HONG Kong's securities watchdog said yesterday it hopes to halve the time it takes to probe potential insider trading cases, after regulators took more than two years to probe an analyst at Goldman Sachs (Asia) for selective disclosure of price-sensitive information.
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      Lock icon Philippine court suspends central bank chief
      624 10 MANILA But Buenaventura and aides can stay on pending appeals in bank closure case Reuters A PHILIPPINE court has ordered a year-long suspension of governor Rafael Buenaventura and other central bankers over the closure of a commercial bank, but the ruling cannot take effect
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      Lock icon Citic Capital hires analyst once rapped by Zhu Rongji
      225 10 HONG KONG Ex-BOC Int'l employee Ho Chenk-ynet suggested ending HE dollar peg to US dollar Bloomberg CITIC Capital Markets Holdings, halfowned by a Chinese government-controlled company, hired Ho Cheuk-yuet as an analyst in Hong Kong, nine months after thenPremier Zhu Rongji
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      Lock icon New chairman appointed to First Financial
      238 10 TAIPEI T&ishin Financial's Steve Hsieh to take reins of island's biggest listed bank Reuters TAIWAN'S finance ministry named a veteran banker to head First Financial Holding Co, the island's largest listed bank, yesterday, a day after the company's chairman and president both quit. Finance
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    1092 9 Transaction date:Aug 14 atTBRBAMK CROSS RATES AS C$ ftwb Eto HK$ twd ts HfUk Yen Won W Wh Pw S$ »mt Sir MTS Bafct Hmat US$ Australia 0.908 5.465 0.581 5.136 30.235 ***** 0.786 7.748 2.502 MM 38.025 36.171 1.153 4.860 0J99 22.648 27.432 0.408 0.659 Canada 1.101 6.019
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      1191 9 Notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER ENGINEERS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Chapter 50, the Final Meeting of the Members
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Germany goes into recession; eurozone growth flat in Q2
      449 11 BONN Bloomberg AFP GERMANY slipped into its second recession in as many years in the first half as the stronger euro hurt exporters in Europe's largest economy. The economy shrank 0.1 per cent in the second quarter after contracting 0.2 per
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      Lock icon US trade deficit narrows to US$40b in June
      427 11 WASHINGTON Trade gap beats expectations as exports rose 2.4%, imports stayed flat Reuters AP THE US trade deficit narrowed sharply in June, as improving economic growth overseas propelled exports to their largest monthly increase in three years and imports were unchanged, the
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      Lock icon Scandal-hit SK Global posts 3.8t won Q2 loss
      185 11 Bloomberg [SEOUL] SK Global Co, the trading unit of South Korea's fourth-largest industrial group, which is embroiled in an accounting scandal, said it posted a 3.8 trillion won (555.7 billion) loss in the second quarter. That compares with a 14.4 billion won
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Bush says US$1.7t tax cuts enough
        71 11 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush said the US$l.7 trillion in tax cuts he has signed are "robust enough" to create jobs and suggested further tax breaks are not needed anytime soon. "The other thing that's necessary is to make sure we have spending
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        Lock icon Ex-Merrill trader in 2nd fraud probe
        114 11 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Daniel Gordon, the former energy trader under investigation for embezzling US$43 million from Merrill Lynch Co in 2000, is also being probed for allegedly defrauding US$2.5 million from Allegheny Energy Inc, the company he joined after leaving Merrill, according to a
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        Lock icon Fewer bankrupt Japanese firms
        54 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Fewer Japanese companies declared bankruptcy in July as the world's second-largest economy extended a recovery from its third recession in 12 years. The number of corporate failures fell 19.8 per cent from a year earlier to 1,377 cases, credit researcher Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd
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        Lock icon Sadam letter incites jihad on West
        72 11 AFP [DOHA] A handwritten message purported to be from Saddam Hussein and read out by Al-Jazeera 7Vcalled for Iraq's majority Shiites to wage jihad, or holy war, against the US and British occupiers. The message on the Qatar-based satellite news channel called for the
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        Lock icon SK Global posts 3.8t won Q2 loss
        89 11 Bloomberg [SEOUL] SK Global Co, the trading company embroiled in South Korea's biggest accounting scandal in four years, said it had a second quarter net loss of 3.8 trillion won (555.7 billion) on liabilities at overseas affiliates. SK Global, the trading arm of
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      142 14 IN HIGH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Companies Winding Up No. 1790f 2003/ X In the Matter of the Companies Act, Chapter 50 And In the Matter of OFFICE SHOPPING NETWORK PTE LTD (Registration No *****5310R)' NOTICE OF WINDING UP ORDER IN THE MATTER OF OFFICE SHOPPING NETWORK PTE
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      145 14 if IN THE MATTER Of fUCCOMPAMES ACT, CHAPTER 50 Members^ company will be held on 15 September 2003. at 3 p m at 10th Floor. No 200. Sec. 3.NankingE Road.Tape«.Taiwan. ROC The Meeting s being held for the purpose of having an account laid before the Members showing the manner
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      434 15  -  By Kannan Chandran EVERY generation has had its child stars. From Judy Garland to Michael Jackson and Charlotte Church, they must have been born singing. No different for Hayley Westenra, the latest "angelvoiced" teenager to hit the spotlight. This New Zealander, who will
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      274 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 12 points to 2326, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 24 points to 3240, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 11 points to 2217 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 9 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER: Bulk Europe (built 2001) *****0 dwt option Bulk Asia
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      524 17  -  Transitional govt setting np commission to review all contracts taken ont in Liberia By. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Liberia's shipping registry has come under renewed focus with the possibility of a review by the incoming transitional government following the departure of the country's former president
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      555 17 US govt exploring ways of preserving famous wreckage Reuters [NEW YORK] The Titanic is being quickly claimed by the icy waters in which it sank as man and nature cause rapid disintegration some 18 years after the wreck's discovery off the coast of Canada.
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      69 17 [BATH, Netherlands] Picture taken from the Dutch coast near Bath showing two cargo ships, the 186-metre long long Panamanian Nada V(left) and the 214 metre long Italian Grande Nigeria (right), both carrying cars, that collided early on Wednesday in the estuary leading to the Belgian port
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      270 17 Dalian shipyard to deliver USs6s.6m carrier in 2005 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's biggest oil shipper China Shipping Development is to buy another crude-oil carrier for U5565.6 million to expand its fleet. The 298,000-ton carrier, to be built by Dalian New Ship Heavy Industry Co
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      219 17 [SINGAPORE] Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong told Parliament yesterday that a Malaysian proposal to replace the Causeway with a bridge is not expected to have a significant impact on Singapore's ports. He said shipping lines that ship containers out of the Malaysian port of
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      880 18  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK English court overturns arbitrator's ruling that charterer cannot make use of 15-day option period -By I Selva Kumar AN English court ruled last month that the time charterers of a vessel could extend the period of the charter by
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      46 18 AP [DUISBURG, Germany] A ship on the river Rhine passing by the western German city ofDuisburg. Due to the heat wave, the level of the Rhine is very low and ships can load only a small part of their usual cargo. —AP
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        822 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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        544 26 Supporters say move would save fands for war risk insurance, security AP [WASHINGTON] Airport and airline officials have given strong support to a Bill that would allow the US Federal Aviation Administration to contract out the jobs of more than 2,000
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        287 26  -  By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Qantas has picked its Singapore-based Asia general manager for the airline's top overseas post. Stephen Thompson, who is presently Qantas and British Airways Regional General Manager Asia, will take over the top job for Qantas in United Kingdom/Europe
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        229 26 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam Airlines will resume flights to Beijing from Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi today following a three-month suspension due to the Sars crisis, an airline official said yesterday. The route linking the two Vietnamese cities to the Chinese capital was cut
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        113 26 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's no-frills airline Air Asia will fly between the northern tourist island of Langkawi and Thailand's Phuket island from January, officials said. The flights are part of a tourism promotion campaign discussed by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his Thai
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          49 26 Xinhua [JAKARTA] An Indonesian media group leader has bought a BAe-46 jet plane that previously belonged to the British queen. Surya Paloh, who owns Media Indonesia newspaper and a respected Metro TV news broadcaster, bought the 50-seat plane for his presidential campaignsacross Indonesia. Xinhua
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          93 26 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yesterday launched its new scheduM service between Kuala Lumpur with Manado in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, via Kota Kinabalu. MAS would now operate the route twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays, departing Kuala Lumpur at 8.45 am and reaching
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          71 26 Bloomberg [VIENNA] Flughafen Wien AG, the manager of Vienna International Airport, said the number of travellers using its terminals in July rose 6 per cent as the containment of severe acute respiratory syndrome encouraged people to resume flying. The passenger count rose to 1.28
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        807 26  -  While the threat of bankruptcy is not so imminent, it would be premature to declare the airline out of the woods, says Doron Levin Doron Levin Bloomberg WITH the threat of bankruptcy subsiding at Northwest Airlines Corp at least temporarily the drive for
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      184 17 Bill to privatise US air controllers 1 jobs gains backing BACK PAGE Cost-cutting gets more difficult for Northwest BACK PAGE FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE (FEFC) NOTICE TO SHIPPERS INCREASE IN DOCUMENTATION FEE The Member Lines of the FEFC wish to announce that the Singapore Documentation Fee (including BL, DO and
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