The Business Times, 14 November 2003

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    15 1 o MfrA<P)ttMfltt2oo3 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE I Internet, imp: 'business-times.asial com.sg FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 2003
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    Lock icon Three banks join OCBC in home-loan rate hike
    891 1  -  But move comes with a twist as 3 local hanks also cot variable rates By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank's move on Wednesday to hike interest rates on its fixed-rate home loans has sparked off similar increases yesterday by three other
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    Lock icon It's not too late to catch the Wall St rally, say analysts
    706 1  -  They see 20% upside despite risks of jumping on the boll bandwagon From Andrew Marks in New York INVESTORS returned to the US markets following a holiday displaying little of the doubt that has defined trading action in
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    75 1 Ml 1,744.74 (+29.38) ST MDEX AJTURES 1,74*00 (+25.00) ■■SMSCI FUTURES U HMO (+170) Thursday Change KLSE POMP 791.49 *118 NIKKEI 225 _10J37J7_*n 1.45 HANG SENG 12J227A7 ♦2S6 tf9 SET INDEX 658.15 +4.66 JAKARTA COMP -***** -534 MANILA COMP .IJJ4188 -19J6 TAIPEI WP1 6.035.44 +52.89 SEOUL COMP 813.11 +1180 SHENZHEN
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    76 1 FONEX RATES US$ S$ IJSt (St per ISt) 1.749 £(lISt/St per S) 1.678 1901 E>RO(l'SS/S$/E). 1.168 1019 YEN 108.1 C.70 RM 1800 1198 HKt 7.766 4 491 BAHT 39.91 23.08 RUP1AH 8,487 4108 RENMINBI 8199 4799 INDIAN RUPEE 46.44 2618 At 1189 0.803 NZt 1.587 0118 HMMTII SINGAPORE* 626
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    Lock icon Hi-P's IPO set to be biggest this year after S'pore Post's
    791 1  -  It's eyeing at least $90m with post-IPO market cap of $400m By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Hi-P International, which plans to sell 205 million shares to raise an amount estimated to be in excess of $90 million, is poised to
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      Lock icon Syed Mokhtar buys into RSH at 45% premium
      447 2  -  Move expands ties with his business partner Alabbar By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] In a move which further expands his relationship with Dubaibased entrepreneur Mo* hamed All Alabbar, Malaysia's Syed Mokhtar Al-Buk-hary has bought a 10 per cent stake in SGX main-board-listed sports
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      53 2 IN Tuesday's Hock Lock Siew column "Is NOL building up a new war chest?", we erred in saying Flemming Jacobs was CEO of Neptune Orient Lines when the shipping group acquired APL in 1997. Mr Jacobs joined NOL in mid--1999, after APL had already been acquired. We are sorry
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      Lock icon S'pore firms sign China deals worth US$880m
      478 2  -  Projects will help revitalise old industrial belt in the north-east By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE! Singapore companies yesterday agreed to invest in projects worth US$BBO million in China's north-eastern region, an industrial rust-belt which the Beijing government wants to rejuvenate. They signed 11
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      Lock icon Korean business raises FTA concerns
      416 2  -  Grace period sought for weaker sectors, among other things By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Less than two months before talks are due to start, some concerns have surfaced about a proposed Korea-Singapore free trade deal. The concerns have come from South Korean businessmen and relate
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      Lock icon Japan, China, Korea in move to set up energy market
      454 2 North-east Asian refiners plan to bypass S'pore hob and drive a bargain Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Oil Corp, China's Sinopec Group and South Korea's SK Corp said they plan to set up an energy market with other northeast Asian oil refiners
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      Lock icon China a top buyer of African crude
      119 2 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] China will remain Asia's top buyer of low sulfUr African crude oil for a third consecutive month in December, taking at least 16 million barrels, mostly from Angola, Africa's No 2 producer, traders involved in the sales said. China's load in
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Timely reminder on IPO due diligence
      672 3  -  HOCK lock siew loh hui yin BEFORE angel investor Koh Boon Hwee put his money in Chinese company KXD Digital Entertainment recently, he is said to have personally visited the workers in their dormitories in China to find out their welfare. Singapore professionals involved
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      Lock icon Four more Temasek companies likely to need funding
      486 4  -  CSFB names KeppeL, Chartered, SingTel and CapitaLand By Kenneth Lim as ureait suisse first Boston (CSFB) struggles to place out US$3OB million worth of Neptune Orient Line shares it has underwritten, the investment bank's research arm asked on Wednesday which other Temasek-linked
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      Lock icon How much of NOL placement shares is CSFB still holding?
      464 4  -  Underwriter held as much as 21% at the start of fond raising exercise By Wong Wei Kong CREDIT Suisse First Boston (CSFB) had as much as 21 per cent of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) shares on its books on Monday,
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      Lock icon SCS posts $29m loss in Q3, its first-ever
      403 8  -  Contributing to the loss was in exceptional write-off of $22.7m By Amit Roy Choudhury SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS), a part of the Singapore Technologies group, yesterday announced its first-ever loss of $29.3 million for its third quarter ended September, bucking a general
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Star Cruises Q3 profit up 4.3%
        30 8 STAR Cruises group had a 4.3 per cent rise in third-quarter profit. Net income for the three months ended Sept 30 rose to US$5B.6
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        19 8 Tifl—ißrJior Engineering year came to $4.8 ft* the perWltrebled to $39.5 million from rvis >- L *.±i* *-t
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        Lock icon Thakral earnings up 20% in H1
        75 8 CONSUMER electronics group Thakral Corporation Ltd yesterday reported net profit of $8.4 million for the six months ended Sept 30, on a turnover of $250.7 million. Yearoo-yatr, die net profit was 20 per cent higher than the $7 million it toroed in previously. However,
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        Lock icon Del Monte Q3 profit slides 56% to US$3.4m
        123 8 Reuters DEL Monte Pacific, which sells pineapple-based prodhpti and beverages, said its third-quarter net profit slumped 56 par clot due to lower sales, higher product costs and marketing expenses. Singapore-listed Del Monte said it earned US$3.4 millioaintbe three months to September against
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        Lock icon CCL raises stake in Astra to 36.3%
        54 8 CYCLE A Carriage Limited said it bought another 6.7 million shares ofBoo rupiah each in PT Astra International TWc at about 4,499 rupiah per share for about 30.3 bill ion rupiah (556.2 million). The latest investment raised CCL's shareholding in Astra t09&3 percent
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        Lock icon Lahroy unit wins two deals worth $11.6m
        91 8 LABROY Marine Limited said its Singapore subsidiary Labroy Shipbuilding And Engineering Pte Ltd has signed two shipbuilding contracts worth $11.6 million for construction of two harbour tugs. The tugs are expected to be delivered in 2004. With 2008 shipbuilding order book stands at
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        Lock icon F&N likely to past strong profit rise
        102 8 Reuttrs SINGAPORE'S third-biggest conglomerate, Fraser Neave Ltd (FAN), is expected to report a strong rise in full-year profit today, propelled by safes of property, beer and soft drinks. FAN, a 120-year-okl group worth about 12.7 billion, is one of Singapore's best perfonntDgstockstfcls year,
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        Lock icon CM Telecom profit warning
        106 8 CHINA Modon Telecom Intsrnaaoqal yesterday said it expects to post a lose for the atx month* ended 3#pt 30, as its Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) business, which was launched in August 2002, has lnnpi anticipated to break even. In sridltion. it said inlcnee rr<Bpetttionin the
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        Lock icon HMI gets nod to AGM
        57 8 MtALi M Management international said tne Registry or Companies spd Businesses has grained it until end-December to hold its annual gsnsral meeting, after it sought an extension of time to facilitate its proposed rights issue which was announced on Oct 21. It said it will
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      Lock icon PacNet net profit for Q3 jumps 175%
      199 8  -  Broadband revenue kits US$10.1m up 58.5% y-o-y By Amit Roy Choudhury LISTED Internet services provider Pacific Internet reported a 175 per cent year-on-year rise in thirdquarter net profit from US$2BO,OOO to U*****,000, its seventh consecutive profitable quarter. The Q3 net income was also
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      431 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN HmiPwumUtMmUrt HAW Par's net profit of $14.7 million (-40.7 pa: cent q-o-q) was within expectations. The dedine came from a 41 per cent tell In investment income to $13.1 mfflinn and higher effective tax rate of 20 per cent compared to 9.9 per cent
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      Lock icon JP Morgan bullish on Beyonics' prospects
      280 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan NOT many market players may know this, but mainboard-listed electronic component and contract player Beyonics Technology is now Singapore's third-largest tech sector firm by revenue (after Venture and Creative Tech) following its merger with Flairis. The merged entity
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      Lock icon Rally sparks hopes of more gains ahead
      484 6  -  BT comment STOCKS kenneth lim THE key Straits Times Index yesterday climbed higher into the 1,700 territory for the second straight day, and brokers are watching to see if the correction from recent weeks is finally over. The STI closed at its day's
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      Lock icon US$ hit hard despite Wall Street gains
      609 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar was unceremoniously hammered in Asian trading yesterday, especially against the stKalled commodity currencies, despitesivjtoins of 1.1 tpltttoer cent Instead, cqoßncy traders toEßleir cue from gold and ataring commodiryt""ices to focus on which had the moStlo
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        Lock icon Ww On Yainim IMB state aph
        116 6 VETERAN banker Wee Cho Yaw has again tightened his grip over United Overseas Bank (UOB), after his investment vehicle Wee Investments Pte Ltd an Nov 11 bought 500,000 sharee in the open market at an average price of $12.74. Hie $637 million purchase raised
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        Lock icon Jurong Tech director pares holding
        99 6 ONE of Jurong Technologies Industrial Oorp's independent directors, Wee Sing Guan, sold 50,000 shares of the electronics contract manufacturing group on Nov 12 at $1.10 per share. His sale, which reduced his deemed shareholding to 100,000 shares or a 0.03 per cent stake, comee a
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        Lock icon F&N director exercises options
        75 6 PATRICK Gob Yong Chian. alternate director to Fraser Neeve's managing director Han Cheng Fong, has exercised options for 15,996 shares at $6.67 each ahead of the diversified beverage group's ftill-year earnings report which is expected to be released today. Following the options exercise, which cost him
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        Lock icon Fund manager adds UniSteel shares
        77 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG CHAPTERED Asset Management on Nov II bought another 360.000 shares in precision parts maker UniSteel Technology at $1-2658 per share, days before the company's third quarter results release next Monday. The fond manager's deemed stake in UniSteel has been raised to
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      Lock icon Emigration: is there Nirvana?
      1333 7  -  Decide with your eyes open, for, remember, there are trade-offs when you give up one set of circumstances for another roy varghese WHAT is pushing Singaporeans? The question of emigration arises far too frequently in the discussions we have with clients these days. Most often, Australia
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      Lock icon Online ad revenues in Asia set to hit US$1.6b
      407 9  -  But S'pore,HK will have hard time keeping lip with the region's paces IDC By Amit Roy Choudhury AFTER two years of stagnation, online advertising is set to take off again in the Asia-Pacific area with a vengeance although Singapore and Hong
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      Lock icon KepLand to expand Newton condo
      256 9 Enlarged freehold project will be launched by Q2 KEPPEL Land is expanding its Pinnacles at Wee Nam condo project, which has yet to be launched, following its $88.2 million acquisition of a site next door which it will amalgamate with the Pinnacles site. The enlarged
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      Lock icon Amara's Upper Bukit Timah project going for $570 psf
      253 9 HOTEL and property group Amara Holdings is offering its 999-year leasehold development in Upper Bukit Timah at "District 9 quality but suburban prices". The Linear will be officially launched this weekend after its preview earlier. The 221-unit development is priced at
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      Lock icon Saatchi & Saatchi gives its time to various causes
      543 9  - Saatchi Saatchi gives its time to various causes By Siow Li Sen PINK dolphins and maid dignity free the first from Sentosa's Dolphin Lagoon and raise the second. These two issues have generated much emotion and debate in Singapore among people from all walks of life. But not many know
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Six ironies to resolve in world trade
      819 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION shada islam WORLD Trade Organization (WTO) members seeking to put talks on a new global trade deal back on track following the disastrous September meeting in Cancun, Mexico, lace an increasingly difficult uphill struggle. After listening to senior trade
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      49 10 'What do they think Indonesia is—a trash bin for these people? -Ade Dachlan an Indonesian immigration department spokesman, after the Australian navy towed a fishing boat carrying 14 Turkish Kurds out to sea four days after it reached Melville Island off the north coast of Australia.
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      Lock icon Hu's China, one year on
      634 10 EDITORIAL A YEAR after he succeeded Jiang Zemin as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao has come into his own —without upstaging the still-influential Mr Jiang. Often described as colourless and cautious, he was re la tively unknown to world leaders, who
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      Lock icon Mutual fund investors smarter than thought
      817 10  -  Despite the recent scandals, the majority of them think long-term avoiding knee-jerk reactions and coolly ganging where their best interests lie By Chet Currier Bloomberg THE mutual fund scandals have revived an old stereotype of fund investors as little lost lambs. If these benighted
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      Lock icon A liar can't liberate
      523 10  -  COMMENTARY Democracy cannot exist without truth and genuine self-determination By Ribert Schoor LAT-WP IT takes stunning arrogance for a president to invade an oil-rich, politically strategic country on the basis of demonstrable lies, put his favourite companies in control of its economic future, create a puppet
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      Lock icon Temasek, AirAsia mulling tie-up?
      537 11  -  While Fernandes dismisses rumours, Temasek keeping its options open From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE investment agency Temasek Holdings, which owns a substantial stake in Singapore Airlines, has not ruled out the possibility of forming a partnership with Malaysia's AirAsia, which is flying high in
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      Lock icon Thaksin tells Thai to look out for AirAsia
      106 11 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday warned Thai Airways to brace itself for the launch of new budget airline Air Asia Aviation which is half-owned by his family company. "Everybody must adjust themselves, in the near future there will be
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      Lock icon EPF invests in housing project
      309 11  -  It's the fund's first direct equity investment ever From Diana Ooa Abdullah m Kuala Lumpur IN a bid to boost returns from its investments, Malaysia's Employees Proviits in Selangor to build high-end houses. "This is something new to us. We are looking at alternative forms
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      Lock icon Big revision to KL trade data likely
      244 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S August and September external trade data may see larger-than-ex-pected revisions due to data processing problems, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. Malaysia's recent trade figures have puzzled economists who have been hard pressed to reconcile sliding exports
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      Lock icon Ibra asked to mull new Texmaco debt revamp
      186 11 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S cabinet asked the bank restructuring agency to consider a new debt reorganisation for Texmaco Group, its largest textile maker, delaying a decision on the future of the ailing company. President Megawati Sukarnoputri and key economic ministers met yesterday to
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      Lock icon APP to defend suit by two US creditors
      444 12  -  It says foreclosure bid conflicts with bena fide long-term creditors'interests From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta ARGUING that legal action taken by two minor USbased creditors was inconsistent with the recently concluded master restructuring agreements (MRA), Asia Pulp Papa* said yesterday that it
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      Lock icon China's shopping spree in US aimed at deflecting criticism
      411 12 BEIJING Reuters CHINA is going on a shopping spree in the United States, buying billions of dollars of planes, grains and automobiles to deflect criticism of its swelling trade surplus and weak currency. Deals to buy Boeing jets and Cadillac sedans
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      Lock icon Police find JI list of targets in Jakarta: reports
      271 12 JAKARTA Citibank branches, supermarkets, international schools mentioned AFP INDONESIAN police have found a terrorist target list for Jakarta which includes Citibank branches, a suburb popular with expatriates and two international schools, reports quoting police said yesterday. The Kompas daily and the
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon More chip firms go fabless
      452 13 They focus on design and let others produce the chips to lower costs Reuters 4 /N HIP makers are finding that letting others M I manufacture their technology-intensive products makes good business sense. ComV I panies ranging from giants Motorola Inc V/ and Texas Instruments
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      Lock icon Japan denies any move to bail out regional bank
      584 13 TOKYO Press report abort Ashikaga raises concern about state of Japanese banks Reuters THE Japanese government yesterday denied it was about to bail out a big regional bank after a report that a rescue was under consideration raised fresh worries about
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      334 13 Notice is hereby given that the following full set of original Ocean Bills of Lading has been lost. Bill of Lading No. ZIMUSINSOSOO dated Ist Oct 2003 (shipped via MV Zim Korea V 45/ E) issued by Zim Container Service. We also declare that this same Bills of Lading is
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      146 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF DATAWORK PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 18 Cross Street #08-01 Marsh McLennan Centre Singapore *****3 on the 10"
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      439 14 WASHINGTON Businesses look confident enough to resume hiring and sustain the momentum Reuters PROSPECTS for a continued, strong US recovery have grown but it is too soon to say all risks to a sustained expansion have .been erased, a senior IMF official said on
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      323 14 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters CORPORATIONS have increased their budgets for information technology next year, a positive change after years of contraction, International Business Machines Corp's top executive said on Wednesday. "We're seeing people planning for next year around the world—to begin to take up
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      471 15 FRANKFURT Recovery boosts hopes US won't remain sole engine of global growth Bloomberg, Reuters THREE major European economies Germany, France and the Netherlands returned to growth in the third quarter as a global economic recovery stoked demand for exports, bolstering hopes
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      274 15 SYDNEY Bloomberg GLOBAL assets such as shares and property are likely to yield lower returns in coming years than they have over the past 20 years, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor lan Macfarlane said yesterday. He said nominal rates of return on financial and real
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      375 15 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Telekom, the largest European phone company, and Siemens, Germany's top electronics maker, are the latest among Europe's big companies to boost profit as they shrank payrolls and tapped demand abroad. Third-quarter results have come from 28 members of the Dow Jones Stoxx
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      317 15 LATEST US DATA Jobless filings stay close to lowest in almost 3 years Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US trade deficit widened in September to US$4l.3 billion, as the strengthening US economy propelled imports from China and the rest of the world to
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        64 15 Reuters [VIENNA] Chicago Federal Reserve president Michael Moskow yesterday said the oentral bank plans to keep interest rates low for a considerable period of time. "AD of the dozens and dozens of economic indicators that we look at, we will monitor to
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        66 15 Reuters [CHICAGO] Wal-Mart Stores yesterday reported a 13.9 percent increase in quarterly profit, but results just mlwori Wall Street's loftier expels! tons of 4T cents per share. For the third quarter ended Octal, it said earnings from continuing operations rote US$2.O bfllkm, or 46 cents
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        44 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Applied Materials, the maker of chip production equipment, had its first profit in a year and said orders this quarter will surge. Fourth quarter net income dropped 90 per cent to UBsl&s million from U*****.2 million.—Bloomberg
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      386 18  -  By Frank De Meglie urn wEiLinaaiJAi evening, former music director Kees Bakels led the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) in a performance of concert favourites, kicking off with Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute. Bakels, now the MPO's principal conductor, was joined by violin soloist Leonidas
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      428 18  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon TWO of the most famous "bibiks" (Peranakan ladies) from both sides of the Causeway team up next week to present a fund-rais-ing Peranakan musical comedy revue for the Dover Part Hospice. Both are well-known male actors in their own right, but
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      470 19  -  By Geoffrey Eu MEN are from Mars and Women are from Venus, but Jesper Parnevik makes his home in Jupiter Jupiter, Florida, that is which is entirely appropriate because in many ways, the resident space cadet on the Men's PGA Tour might as well be
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      635 21  -  While freight rates on long-haul trades are rising, intra-Asia rates are still low By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Thai-listed common feeder. Regional Container Lines (RCL), has urged mainline container operators now enjoying healthy freight rates to consider the plight of feeder operators still struggling under
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      243 21  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The demand outlook for container shipping is favourable "until at least the end of 2005", according to P&O Nedlloyd, the world's third biggest capacity container line, which reported a third quarter profit of US$4l million against a US$67 million loss
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      989 22  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK But English court refuses to grant injunction against cargo claimant which obtained security in S'pore By Selva Kumar AN English court ruled last month that a shipowner could establish a limitation fund in England under the 1976 Convention on Limitation
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      201 22 [SINGAPORE] APL and its New World Alliance (NWA) partners Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) have upgraded their weekly New York Express Service (NYX) with larger and faster although fewer vessels. Launched earlier this year, the fixed-day all-water service will
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        161 29 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 averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        592 30 Airline cites imminent EU ruling against it in competition probe AFP [BRUSSELS] Cut-price airline Ryanair warned on Wednesday that it may shut down its operations at Belgium's Charleroi airport after seeing signs that the European Commission is set to rule against it in
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        207 30 Bloomberg [CHICAGOI United Airlines parent UAL Corp, which filed the largest airline bankruptcy last year, named its new low-fare airline unit Ted as the company prepares to take on discount competitors. The low-fare carrier, which takes its name from the last three letters of United,
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          79 30 Oana-WAM [ABU DHABI] Gulf Air announced that it has signed an aircraft leasing agreement that will increase the size of its present fleet from 33 to 36 aircraft. In terms of the leasing agreement, signed with Boeing last month, Gulf Air will take delivery
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        214 30 AFP [CHICAGO] The Boeing Company said yesterday that it had concluded a deal to sell 30 Boeing 737 jets to five Chinese carriers in a transaction worth an estimated US$l.7 billion based on the planes' list price. Air China, Hainan Airlines, Shandong Airlines,
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        312 30 German carrier posts Q3 loss of 17 million euros Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa, Europe's thirdlargest airline, said it expects to break even at an operating level for the full year, after earlier predicting a full-year loss, as it cuts costs and lower
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        193 30 AFP [TOKYO] In a bizarre twist on the traditional attractions of pretty air stewardesses, a Japanese airline is to test-market flights with all-male cabin attendants to attract female passengers, an official said yesterday. Skynet Asia Airways is offering all-male cabin service for up to 300
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      236 30 NOTICE BY FEEDER OPERATORS RATE RESTORATION EFFECTIVE 15 DECEMBER 2003 With the continuing increase in operating costs, the following feeder operators wish to inform the trade that the freight rates for all SOC Shipments (Laden and Empty) will be increased as follows with effect from 15 December 2003 From Singapore
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