The Business Times, 18 November 2003

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    15 1 MfTA (P) 024/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 2003
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    Lock icon Strong Q3 showing fuels MTI optimism for 2004
    947 1  -  It narrows 03 growth forecast to 0.5-1%; cites external factors for positive outlook By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The economy has now surprised on the upside, having rebounded more strongly than expected in the third quarter. And going by various leading indicators, the
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    69 1 Dsn (-38.60) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,696.00 (-36.00) SfIHSCI FUTURES 207.70 (-5.80) Monday Change KLSECOMP 781.95 -10.28 NIKKEI 225 9,786.83 -380.23 HANG SENG _11,997.02 206.51 SET INDEX 640.84 -16.54 JAKARTA COMP _607.79 2.55 MANILA COMP .1,328.66 16.87 TAIPEI WPI 5552.12 92.45 SEOILCOMP 794.47 -15.42 SHENZHEN B 266.76 -L31 AIS7ALLORD ;l,188.40
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    76 1 FOREX RATES us$ S$ US$ (SS per US$) 1.721 £(l'S$/S$ per £)1.688 2.906 EURO(US$/S$/E). 1.181 2.032 YEN 109.5 63.60 RM 3.800 2.208 HKS 7.760 4.508 BAHT 39.89 23.17 Rl.TlAH 8.493 4.934 RENMINBI 8.299 4.821 INDIAN Rl'PEE 45.45 26.40 AS 1,197 0.812 NZ$ UN 0.924 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    Lock icon Rate fears, US$ weakness spook region's bourses
    431 1  -  By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Fears of rising interest rates and continued weakness in the US dollar yesterday conspired to send equity markets throughout the region sharply down, led by a 3.7 per cent collapse in Japan's Nikkei to a three-month low. In Singapore,
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    Lock icon Temasek in race for South Korean lender: report
    480 1  -  Stanchart only other bidder for 36% of Koram Bank By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings has reportedly emerged as a bidder for Koram Bank, South Korea's sixth-largest lender, further signalling its interest in acquiring Asian financial assets. Besides the Singapore investment
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      Lock icon Electronics powers 21% surge in October exports
      543 2  -  Economists welcome broad-based upturn in shipments By Chuang Peck Ming JISINGAPORE] The good ,news on the economic front brought on by better-•than-expected growth in the ♦third quarter is likely to •continue in the final three •months of the year. Key 'non-oil domestic exports
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      Lock icon Keen interest in Sentosa Cove tender
      454 2  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The maiden tender for land parcels on Sentosa Cove has attracted keen interest, with about 400 packets sold in the three-and-a-half weeks since 22 parcels for bungalow, terrace and condo development were launched, BT understands. The interesting mix of overseas
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Quiet flight
        114 2 HEAR, hear. Budget travellers on Air Asia flights to Phuket and the rest of Thailand later must be aiort all times. There may not be any public announcement of the Malaysian no-frills carrier's departure and arrival details at Thai airports. This is because Air Asia is in the
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        Lock icon Boogie down
        119 2 THE Seizert Hershey Economic Outlook and Market Comments had this to say in its October newsletter: "The way investors have bubbled with enthusiasm for lower quality and cyclical stocks in hopes of an economic recovery reminds us of high school kids preparing for the homecoming dance. For months,
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        Lock icon Fed up with the Fed
        159 2 RICHARD Russell, author of the Dow Theory newsletter, recently said of the US Federal Reserve's approach to economic stimulation: "In a normal market, you have a number of sensible or reasonable choices. You can buy stocks, a home, bills, notes, bonds or all of them.
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      Lock icon Clarification
      57 2 WE refer to the Hock Lock Siew column "Timely reminder on IPO due diligence" (BT, Nov 14). The references in the article to practices undertaken by some Chinese companies were not in any way meant to explain why FibreChem's IPO application was cancelled by the Singapore Exchange. We regret
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      Lock icon Indon gas leak won't hit power to homes and businesses
      569 2  -  Three S'pore power companies have switched to diesel to fire their combined cycle plants By Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Power stations here are anxiously watching the glitch in Indonesian natural gas supplies to Singapore due to a pipeline leak, but say
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon OCBC associate to sell stake in Raffles Hotel for $53m
      567 4  -  Paffles Holdings to become 100% owner after purchase of 43-33% stake By Andrea Tan AFTER Robinsons and Fraser Neave, OCBC is now planning to divest yet another brand name from its stable. This time, it's the grand old dame Raffles
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      Lock icon Keppel may have to settle legal tussle out of court
      523 4  -  HOCK lock siew al labita SINGAPORE'S Keppel Group may just have to work out an out-of-court settlement with taipan John Gokongwei to end their protracted legal tussle over ownership of a Philippine shipyard. For one, the court battle has dragged
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      Lock icon SBS Transit earnings in Q3 plunge 92%
      550 8  -  Cat in bos services, North-East Line to blame for profit diving to $1.5m By Serena Ng SBS Transit could be in danger of falling into the red this year, with the moneygobbling North-East MRT Line (NEL) having sent its third-quarter profit diving more
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      Lock icon Robust 27% Q3 gain for Raffles Medical
      368 8  -  By Kenneth Lim WITH a 26.7 per cent year-on-year net profit gain for the third quarter, 27-year-old Raffles Medical Group may have safely removed the scars of its only full-year loss in 2001. The results mean Raffles, which only started quarterly reporting this
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      Lock icon Cerebos to pay 16c dividend as full-year profit jumps 64%
      573 8  -  Profit hits $67.5m on sale of non-core businesses, foreign exchange gains By Serena Ng HEALTH tonics and supplements group Cerebos Pacific is paying out $50 million, or 16 cents per share, in dividends after reporting yesterday a 64 per cent
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      Lock icon Frontline buys 30% slake in software company for $5.5m
      230 8  -  By Chen Huifen IN an attempt to gain a stronger foothold in the government sector, mainboardlisted Frontline Technologies Corp yesterday an* nounced that it has acquired a 30 per cent stake in Ecquaria Technologies Ltd for $5.5 million. Frontline will pay
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Magnecomp posts $7.4m Q3 profit
        57 8 MAGNECOMP International Limited has made an impressive turnaround, reporting a net profit of $7.4 million for the third quarter 0f2003, against a loss of $4 million for the corresponding period last year. The group recorded turnover of $88.2 million for the third quarter, an increase
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        Lock icon Canadian firm EPS files appeal
        81 8 OAK WELL Engineering said Canadian-based firm Energy Power Systems (EPS), now known as EnerNorth Industries Inc, has filed an appeal on Nov 13 against a High Court decision. The court last month ruled in favour of Oak well on its dispute with EPS over a
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        Lock icon Hiap Moh appoints new CEO
        34 8 HIAP Moh has appointed Paul Wong Pao Lu as its group chief executive officer. Mr Wong was chief operating officer of SNP Corporation Ltd before taking the new appointment.
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        Lock icon Big response to Amara project
        53 8 AMARA Holdings said it received an overwhelming response to the launch of its new residential project. The Linear, a seven-storey, 999-year leasehold development comprising 221 units. Seventy per cent of the S3 units under Phase 1 at an average of $570 psf were snapped up
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        Lock icon Datacraft seen porting US$14m loss
        62 8 AP COMPUTER network integrator Datacraft Asia Ltd is expected to announce a second consecutive annual loss today due to tough business conditions and restructuring costs, analysts said. It is expected to report a loss of US$l4.l million for the year ended Sept 30, according to
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        Lock icon SIA load factor down in Oct
        158 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, the world's second-largest carrier by market value, said it filled less overall space on its planes in October, the 10th straight month of declines, because it hasn't restored all flights cancelled during the Sars outbreak. The airline filled 70.6 per
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      Lock icon ei-Nets loses appeal against damages ruling
      516 10  -  It says it is able to obtain adequate funds to continue as a going concern for foreseeable future By Serena Ng SESDAQ-LISTED ei-Nets has lost its appeal against a High Court ruling that ordered it to pay substantial damages for wrongful termination of a
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank, OCBC create US$1b CDO
      249 10 Reuters GERMANY'S Deutsche Bank and Singapore's OCBC Bank Ltd said yesterday they had created a US$l billion synthetic debt deal backed by investment grade assets issued by US and European companies. The deal, known as a synthetic Collateralised Debt Obligation (CDO), will have two
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      Lock icon Banyan Tree lets spa, sand and sea do the talking
      391 10 [HONG KONG] Flippers and swimming trunks rarely make it into the luggage of fund managers. But in the run-up to the listing of Banyan Tree Hotels Resorts, Asia's most famous chain, they are a must. According to the Financial Times,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      630 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Hwar A Naavt nw 17 dMi« $il«o RESULTS were in line with our expectations. Net-profit before exceptional grew 21 percent to $273 million, in line with our estimate of $269 million. Including the exceptional gain of $60 million largely profit from the sale of
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      Lock icon China Aviation pullback offers buy opportunity
      270 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE current market consolidation can be viewed as a sign to cash out and run or an opportunity to stock-pick. If you take the latter view, this is a good time to engage in a spot of bargain-hunting,
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      Lock icon 38-point plunge sends STI below 1,700 level
      532 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy TEN years ago, it was an unexpected interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve that slammed the brakes on the bull rim of 1993-94. Now, it appears that even without rates being raised yet, investors are trying
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      Lock icon S$ hits 6-month high on strong Q3 growth
      635 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES But gains trimmed by weaker yen; gold reaches fresh highs larry wee THE Singapore dollar spiked to its highest level in six months against the US dollar in morning trading yesterday, but its gain over the course of the
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Citigroup picks up 5.48% of BIL
        116 6 CITIGROUP Financial Products has acquired a substantial 5.48 per cent stake in investment firm BIL International from Credit Agricole Lazard Financial Products Bank in a cross-trade on the Singapore Exchange at 72.5 cents per share. Hie 75 million share transaction, done on Nov 14.
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        Lock icon See Hup Sent shareholder cute stake
        123 6 ONE of See Hup Seng's biggest shareholders, Meadow Springs Enterprises, has further reduced its shareholding in the engineering group following the sale on Nov 14 of 220.000 shares at 36.17 cents each, a hefty premium to its acquisition price. Meadow Springs, which is linked
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        Lock icon ConHMTibink ups Hons Woon stake
        81 6 COMMERZBANK has emerged as a substantial shareholder of construction group Tiong Woon Corporation Holding, following an open-market purchase on Nov 12 of l.B million shares at 45.7 cents per share by its fund management unit Cammerzbank Asset Management Asia. The German bank now holds a
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        Lock icon Inter-Rotter chairmen ups stake
        74 6 LTM Yong Wah, the chairman of baggage handling systems specialist Inter-Roller Engineering, bought 113,000 shares at 72 cents apiece on Nov 14 a day after the company reported sharply higher net earnings and sales for the nine months ended September. Mr Lim's open-market purchase has raised
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        Lock icon Jurong Engg director exercises options
        98 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG LlOW Keng Teck, an independent director of Jurong Engineering, exercised options for 12.000 shares at an exercise price of $1.11 each on Nov 12. Based on the stock's closing price of 1288 yesterday. Mr Liow is sitting on a paper gain
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      393 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 17 VALUE CLOSE -966.00 -488.00 BTCOW -*****.00 -252.00 -*****.00 -97.00 mmU0trn 458.91 -10.53 nrpliinict 169.26 -4.54 mHMmm 1432.04 -47.17 nwamfm 432.30 *75 WKIIfcipUM 207.92 -5.67 Stock* Vohne BeautyChina HKIO 160.023,000 Chart SemiCond 26c 36.275,000 HorizonEduc 5c 13.634,000 ST Assembly 25c 12.514,000 NOL *****,000 SingTel 15c 11,367.000
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      Lock icon Singatronics set to change gear
      836 7  -  New owner has a blueprint for its revival, says WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG IS Singatronics finally awaking from its long slumber? Not many today realise that when Venture Corp and Nat Steel Electronics (NEL) were still fledgling companies, 'Singatronics was already an established
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      Lock icon More active approach to small-cap portfolio
      485 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE last five trading sessions have been very trying for investors, with the market alternating between buying and selling in quick succession. Yesterday, the market ended lower compared with last Monday. The Straits Times Index fell 2.5 per cent, while
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      80 9 This announcement appears as a matter of record only and has been approved and/or communicated NoV6mb6r 2003 by Deutsche Bank AG London and Singapore. 4 -4 -Jl 49 A 4 '•4 1 OCBC Global Investment Grade CDO I p j > USDI,OOO f OOO f OOO *4 I I Arranger
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon MAS curbs sale of life settlements
      543 11  -  MAS: second-hand insurance policies not suitable for small investors By Wong Wei Kong IN a notable departure from its non-prescriptive policy, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has decided for now not to allow secondhand insurance policies to be sold to small investors because of
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      Lock icon IE S'pore to attract foreign econ, trade bodies here
      135 11 INTERNATIONAL Enterprise (IE) Singapore aims to attract 20 foreign economic and trade bodies here over the next three years. Called the IE Hub Initiative, IE Singapore will help these foreign organisations to get government permits and licences, and to participate in
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      Lock icon PM Goh leaves on China visit to foster ties
      639 11  -  He'll explore new areas of bilateral cooperation with Chinese leadership By Loh Hui Yin PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong leaves today for a working visit to China at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao. Mr Goh will be accompanied
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      Lock icon Fall in Sept retail sales, but outlook remains good
      376 11  -  EYE on the economy By Kenneth Lim SINGAPORE'S non-motor vehicle retail sales in, September lagged last year's levels for th£ eighth consecutive month but economists say a recovery is still in sight. "The picture of the' overall economy is supportive that
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon HPL uses up local land bank, eyes regional sites
      624 12  -  BT exclusive Its new condo along S'pore River selling at $830-840psf By Kalpana Rashiwala HOTEL Properties Ltd (HPL) has exhausted its Singapore land bank after releasing this week its 36-unit Robertson Blue along the Singapore River at an average $830 to
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Lion Air's Jakarta-S'pore tickets sold out
      430 13  -  SINGAPORE It launches maiden trip today, with tickets for the rest of the year set to be snapped up as well By Ven Sreenivasan INDONESIAN low cost carrier Lion Air starts its inaugural Jakarta-Singapore flight today and has sold out all its tickets on
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      Lock icon Syed Mokhtar's GIIG still seeks Bakun stake
      148 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary's GIIG Capital Sdn is still planning to buy a stake in the Bakun hydroelectric power project from the Malaysian government, the joint owner of GIIG, Mohamed Ali Alabbar, said. "Everything is moving as scheduled," Mr
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      Lock icon Sunway Holdings to take construction unit private
      354 13 KUALA LUMPUR Move aims to enhance profit and free up cash Bloomberg Bernama SUNWAY Holdings Inc, a Malaysian property group, said it will take its construction unit private for 2.73 Malaysian ringgit a share, in a cash and stock transaction worth as much
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      Lock icon Debenhams debuts in Asia with M'sian store
      359 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFP BRITISH retailer Debenhams marked its debut in Asia with the launch yesterday of its first department store in Malaysia's largest shopping mall, and said it planned to expand to Indonesia, Thailand and China. Spanning four floors in the newly-opened Berjaya
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    • Article
      Lock icon China cracks down on illegal land usage
      370 15 BEIJING Five major probes launched as property boom fuels corruption among govt officials Reuters CHINA has launched five major investigations into the illegal use of property, official news agency Xinhua reported, amid a series of land scandals that have embarrassed the ruling Communist
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      Lock icon M'sia Sept and Q3 export figures to be revised upwards
      273 15  -  From Diana Ooo Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz yesterday confirmed that the Statistic was revistagoqffert numbers for Sepas errors jpSfiiMnade in previously announced data. "There was no decline. As soon as the Statistics
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      Lock icon China tycoon firm's bank accounts frozen
      263 15 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA has frozen the bank accounts of debt-laden Xinjiang Hops Co Ltd and its subsidiaries, the company said yesterday, after the chairman vanished, pushing its share price into a nose-dive. Xinjiang Hops' Shang-hai-listed shares have lost 65 per cent of their value
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      Lock icon Thailand moves to calm stock, property markets
      520 15 BANGKOK Collateral rule for retail investors to curb speculation Reuters THAILAND'S decisions to cool bullish stock and property sectors won support from analysts yesterday as timely pre-emptive moves for deflating any bubbles before they emerge to derail the economy. They welcomed a move
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Asians aren't dumping US Treasuries—yet
      773 14  - Asians aren't dumping US Treasuries —yet THE bottom line OPINION william pesek jr Bloomberg AFTER months of beating up on Asia's currency policies, US Treasury Secretary John Snow has gone eerily silent on the subject Why, isn't hard to figure out The world's largest economy /is addicted to the hundreds
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      Lock icon IN OTHER WORDS
      79 14 'Self-service machines never call in sick. You don't have to worry about scheduling issues, you don't have to worry about vacations.' -Greg Durek of a retail technology research firm, on why many people prefer using answering machines than talking to people. 'Hypertoxic rat poisons have become a
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      Lock icon Another blow to Indon banking
      554 14 EDITORIAL BY ANY measure, the fraud involving some 1.7 trillion rupiah (S$345 million) that disappeared from Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) ranks among the worst banking scandals to hit the country in recent times. Not only does it involve Indonesia's largest state-owned bank, but according to
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      Lock icon Managing human capital in a changing economy
      1062 14  -  It is short-sighted to skimp on staff development in an uncertain economy. A symposium this Friday will show what forward-looking companies are doing By Noel Goh WITH unemployment rates in Singapore rising to 5.9 per cent in the third quarter, the overall economic
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mapletree staff will stay
      215 14  -  MAIL bag Shoe Hung Yee Corporate Communications Manager Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd WE refer to your report, "Capita Land to manage Harbour Front Mall" (BT, Nov 13) by Kalpana Rashiwala and would like to make a clarification. In the article, Ms Rashiwala wrote that, "BT understands
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon Seoul out to woo investors with special tax zones
      320 16 SEOUL Singapore used as benchmark for Incheon, Busan and Gwangyang SOUTH Korea has vowed to become more competitive than Singapore in an attempt to stem the decline in foreign direct investment in the country, UK's Financial Times reported. ll FT cited
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      Lock icon China Life yet to get US nod for US$2.5b sale
      509 16 HONG KONG Regulators seeking more information to improve disclosure in insurer's prospectus Bloomberg CHINA Life Insurance Co, the country's largest insurer, delayed marketing what would be the world's biggest initial stock offer this year, because US regulators haven't cleared the
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        72 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Travelers Property Casualty Corp and St Paul Cos have agreed to combine in a transaction worth about US$l6.l billion to form the second largest US commercial insurer. The combined company, to be called The St Paul Travelers Cos, based in St Paul,
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        77 17 Reuters [DUBAI] The Gulf Arab emirate of Dubai is planning to build what it says will be the world's largest shopping mall by November 2006. Real estate firm Emaar said that the 836,100 sq m Dubai Mall would be as big as 50 football pitches
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      711 23  -  But H1 results of NYK, MOL, K Line hit by rising fuel prices, stronger yen By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Business boomed for Japan's three major shipping lines Nippon Yusen KK (NYK), Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) in the
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      204 23 AFP [SAINT NAZAIRE, France] The French prosecutor looking into Saturday's accident on the passenger liner the Queen Mary has opened a judicial investigation into "involuntary homicide and injuries", he announced. "It is too early to start speculating on the causes of this
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        113 23 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Merchant Marine, South Korea's second-largest shipping line, reported a profit in the third quarter helped by a rise in cargo rates. Net income was 1113 billion won (*****.9 million) in the three months ended Sept 30, operating profit was 118.2 billion won
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        90 23 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipbuilder, said orders for ships, offshore oil and gas production facilities and other equipment more than doubled in the first 10 months of the year. Orders in the January-to-October period rose to US$B.B billion from US$3.5 billion in
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      243 23  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's marine police chief has vowed to keep the country's waterways pirate-free with tighter patrols, after 10 months of no attacks reported to officials in its territory. SAC II Muhamad Muda said closer watch of Malaysia's ports and
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        759 24 Prestige sinking leads heirs of legendary Greek shipping tycoon to consider the industry too risky AFP [ATHENS] THE international shipping scene is losing one of its legendary names: the heirs to Greek tycoon Stavros S Niarchos said they are pulling out of shipping because
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        491 30 British celebrity architect wins int'l competition for US$2b airport Reuters [BEIJING] Beijing unveiled plans on Sunday for a US$2 billion airport terminal designed by Sir Norman Foster, the latest celebrity architect the 2008 Olympic hosts have hired to help remould a
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        270 30 Reuters [ZURICH] Swiss International Air Lines lost 613 million Swiss francs (*****.56 million) in the first nine months of 2003, a Swiss paper said, amid revenue losses on its no-frills, cheap-fare business. A spokesman for Swiss declined to confirm the figures published in the
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        631 30 Production of the mid-section to be moved overseas for the first time Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Boeing Co, the world's biggest aircraft maker, will let three Japanese contractors make the wings for its latest jetliner, moving production of the section overseas for the
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        339 30 Official report said to blame pilot for failing to slow his descent AP [HONG KONG] China Airlines is contesting Hong Kong's finding that a pilot failed to slow his descent as he tried to land here in a jet that flipped over and
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        144 30 Reuters [KUWAIT] Kuwait has moved to open up its airline sector for competition as the oil-rich Arab state approved establishment of private passenger and no-frills carriers and freight companies. "The Council of Ministers has approved granting licences for the establishment of air freight companies, passenger
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          71 30 [SINGAPORE] Silk Air, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines (SIA), will suspend its twice-weekly service to Chittagong from January. A Silk Air spokeswoman said as a result of streamlining the airline's operations, flights to Chittagong will be suspended while it continues with its daily services
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          102 30 Bloomberg [VIENNA] Austrian Airlines Group cancelled five flights yesterday morning after pilots and flight attendants staged a 15-minute strike to protest cost-cutting plans by management. Austrian cancelled flights to Prague; Bucharest, Romania; Amsterdam; Rome, and Bologna, Italy, yesterday morning after pilots and cabin crews went
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          76 30 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Emirates airline, which plans to more than double its fleet to 120 aircraft by the end of decade, will fly to Scotland for the first time next year as it seeks to expand its network in Europe. The Dubai-based carrier, which already
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          57 30 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India delayed naming an adviser for its plan to lease the airports New Delhi and Mumbai to non-state companies as the government tries to upgrade facilities and boost air traffic. The government will now hear proposals from candidates for the adviser's position
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