The Business Times, 1 December 2003

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 024/03/2003 I ir.terr-pt hitp://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2003
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  • 1067 1  -  It announces impending changes to labour laws, rescinds approval for 2 foreigners on pilots' caretaker union committee By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] To stem a fresh outbreak of acrimony between Singapore Airlines (SIA) management and its pilots, the government yesterday announced
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  • 698 1  -  BT exclusive But Schroder Capital may buy more shares still, says chairman By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] It may seem like a tall order but Anil Thadani has every intention of exiting listed healthcare concern Parkway Holdings at a profit. "I
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  • 65 1 Week Change STI 1714.00 +56.75 KLSECOMP ***** -5.19 NIKKEI 225 *****.57 >247 74 HANG SENG *****.47 +477.67 SET INDEX ***** +32 60 JAKARTA COMP (Tosfd MANILA COMP _1313.87 2043 TAIPEI WPI 5771.77 58.29 SEOULCOMP ***** +25.40 SHENZHEN B 266,18 *2.96 Al'ST ALLORD _3l95.70 +20 40 DOW JONES *****6 153
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  • 79 1 FOREX RATES US* SS rs$ (S$ per rs$) 1.724 £(IJS$/S$ per S| 1.717 I960 R.'RO(l'S$/S$/E). 1193 1057 YEN 1(19 3 ***** KM 3.NUU L2tM HK$ 7.787 4504 BAHT 3991 2115 Rl PI AH 8.5W5 4*32 RENMINBI *299 4.813 INDIAN Rl PEE4592 266:1 A$ 13X2 0.801 NZ$ 1564 051(7 PRIME
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  • 583 1  -  A majority of analysts expect at least modest gains From Andrew Marks in New York WITH just one month to go in what has already been a very strong year with all three of the major US indices registering gains
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    • 450 2  -  The bank's failure sure to hit Japan's stock market hard From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo NEWS of Japan's latest financial failure Ashikaga Bank, which Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced at the weekend will be temporarily nationalised is likely to hit financial markets quite
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    • 572 2 Improving Labour Relations in Singapore Airlines (SIA) 1. The Cabinet has discussed the state of industrial relations in Singapore and in particular the impact of recent developments in the Air Line Pilots Association Singapore (Alpa-S) union on the aviation industry and other unions. 2.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 213 4 FREDDY Soon Hock Choong, a veteran civil servant who was deputy CEO of Spring Singapore, has joined Olivia Lum's Hyflux Limited. In a statement over the weekend, Hyflux said Mr Soon joins the listed water treatment specialist with effect from today as senior vice-president for
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    • 316 4  -  Average daily volume on SGX falls 52% in Nov while value dips only 26% By Kenneth Lim TRADING activity on the stock market dried up in November, with the drought scorching penny stocks the most. Preliminary numbers compiled by BT show that
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    • 510 4  -  HOCK lock siew wong wei kong SHOULD more be done to ensure that investors are promptly informed of stock trades by directors and substantial shareholders? This is a question that arose from an observation last week that some trades by or linked to directors and key
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    • 1131 10  -  INSIDE MARKETS Positive sentiment led to buyers outnumbering sellers in every trading category in the last four weeks, says ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI THE 4.6 per cent market drop in the third week of November led to more purchases than sales by directors and substantial
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 259 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan Despite when ,emt give fizzles of stocks enjoying the same kind of attention. But the big question is what happens when the New Year rolls in? Most analysts and brokers are sticking to their previously bullish guns, with ST
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    • 811 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies were mostly little changed against the US dollar in a week that saw the yen and Australian dollar slip slightly against the greenback. Japanese yen: The yen moved narrowly against the US dollar, fetching 109.33-35 to the
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    • 284 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan AFTER a month-long hiatus, the oil and gas stocks are back in play. Last week, Federal International, Tiong Woon, Rotary Engineering and Hiap Seng enjoyed the limelight amid speculation that they would benefit from
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    • 869 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling LL our portfolios, except the lowest price-to-book portfolio, beat the Straits Times Index last week.As at end of Friday, the STI gained a strong 3.4 per cent, compared with a week before. However, four of our portfolios surged
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    • 99 7 Events investors can watch out for lUaltli Mgt's Rights Issue, ox-data, Dec 2 Inchem's dividend payment, Dec 1 MTQ Corps dividend payment, Dec 3 CH Offshore'* dividend payment, Dec 8 Cheung Woh's dividend payment, Dec 8 First Engg 1 dividend payment, Dec 8 FJ Benjamin's dividend payment, Dec
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  • 151 6 Compiled by Thomson Financial I/B/E/S OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 28 VALUE CLOSE BT06/0S 192.00 +141.00 BTCAM -*****.00 +290.00 BT 10-d*y HA -*****.00 -19.00 AA-SG Equities 464.32 +6.71 SG Equities Elect 170.86 +3.34 SG Equities Fh 1445.06 +16.23 SG Equities Prop 432.21 +9.06 MSCI Singapore 210.00 +2.39 SiMSCI Futures
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 288 11 EYE on the economy Recovery will be modest and prices and rentals will remain soft for 2-3 years, it says AFP SINGAPORE'S property sector is likely to remain soft in the next two to three years despite an economic rebound as a supply glut
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    • 300 11 Seletar upgrade possible only if such commitment is in MALAYSIAN budget carrier Air Asia will need to show a commitment towards Singapore before the government agrees to upgrade the Seletar airport for the carrier to operate out of it, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong
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    • 191 11 SINGAPORE and India completed the sixth round of negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) in Singapore last week. The Singapore side was led by Heng Swee Keat, Permanent Secretary for Trade and Industry, and the Indian delegation by Dipak Chatterjee, Secretary
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  • 759 11 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Nov 28 gPfQAPORE GOVERHMEHT SECURITIES DfDICATOVE PRICES AMP YIELDS lis— C—»— ttotwtt? Utwt Y1H Its- C—»— Mfrltv Utwt YtoM_ N*****0H 3.5 01 FEB 2004 B100.44/A 100.49 0.874/0.5B2 NX*****H 5.625 01 JUL 2008 B 112.5/A 112.6 2.707/2.685 N*****1T 3.375 15 MAY 2004 B 101.15/A 101.2 0.842/0.734 NX*****S
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  • 823 11 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices skidded lower last week as traders locked in profits amid growing expectations that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) cartel will hold back from cutting output again when it meets in Vienna
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 230 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD The an odd 23 Dispute on the two gin cocktails! (7) 30 Cambridge student working 31 on cleaner, achieving object Aero.,: i Crimson lake 9 for examDle retumina (6) in war-time (9) Were, 10 Competition, 11 Idol, tor example, returning (oj 1g Make sma ter 14 Ennoble, 16
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 343 12 BEIJING It also pledges to hike grain output to maintain health of the economy CHINA, keen to tame unemployment and ensure social stability, pledged on Saturday to expand domestic demand and boost grain production to keep the economy humming. The Communist Party's Central Committee and
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    • 642 12  -  BT comment MALAYSIA Investors are not yet clear if it's a value proposition diana oon abdullah IS THE injection of Berjaya Times Square, the massive 7.5 million sq ft retail, leisure and commercial development, into listed gambling company Matrix International Holdings, a value proposition for investors
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  • 1632 12 SICOM FUTURES Nov 28 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (Scents/kg) Close Volume Open Month Hkjh Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 03 207.50 Jan 04 205.75 Feb 04 205.75 Mar 04 207.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Dec 03 iwlo mlo n9lio 1700
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  • REGION world
    • 608 13  -  Leaders to be persuaded on need to adopt more regional outlook From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN will make a strong attempt later this month to convince Asean that it needs to become an "integrated" economic area. This will be a key theme during
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    • 521 13 LONDON Manchester United, Leeds both face possible takeovers TAKEOVER speculation swirling around two British soccer clubs mounted on Friday. While investors brace for a possible takeover battle for Manchester United, a rescue for the cash-strapped Leeds United has brightened. Manchester United's
      REUTERS; Source: Bloomberg  -  521 words
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  • WORLD news
    • 513 14 NEW YORK But average consumer seen spending US$671 this season against US$648 last year NYT, Bloomberg HOLIDAY shoppers, intent on bargains, descended on America's malls on Friday, but spent only slightly more than they did last year, according to reports from retailers
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    • 260 14 LONDON Pay-out exceeded pre-tax profits at Telegraph by 37% CONRAD Black received more than £54 million (Ssl6o million) in dividends last year from the Telegraph group in spite of mounting shareholder protests over payments at Hollinger International, the group chaired by the Canadian media
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  • 6 14 Week ended: Nov 28
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  • BizIT
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      • 36 15 MONTE Jade Singapore is organising a talk, "Behind the Success Story of Suntec City: History, Feng Shui and more ..at the Fountain of Wealth, Suntec City on Dec 9,6.30pm-8.30pm. For details, visit www.monteJade-singapore.org.
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      • 133 15 NETWORK Associates has announced its 2004 product line of McAfee consumer security and privacy solutions in Singapore. They are: Internet Security Suite 6.0 (MIS), $103; Virus Scan 8.0, $62; Spam Killer 5.0, $52; Personal Firewall Plus 5.0, $36; and Quick Clean 4.0, $36. For details, visit
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      • 51 15 SUN Microsystems Inc has set up the Sun-GIS Centre of Excellence in Digital Biology in Singapore. The institute will carry out research in computational biology on Sun's Solaris platform. The GIS team will also develop new techniques and tools to aid researchers in their current
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      • 78 15 TOSHIBA has introduced the Portege AlOO, a new ultraportable notebook computer. The $3,499 system features a pearl-white clear coat design, a 12.1-inch TFT display and integrated CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. It runs on Intel's Centrino at 1.4 GHz, offers integrated wireless capability, and battery life of up to
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      • 100 15  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury REFERRING to the commentary Certification is the key to BPO success (BizlT Nov 17), Carnegie Mellon University has clarified that the eSourcing Capability Model (eSCM) is being developed by the IT Services Qualification Center (ITsqc) of the Institute for Software Research International in Carnegie
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    • 196 15 AP [HANOI] Computer shipments are set to explode in developing nations, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, over the next five years and those countries need to be ready to embrace that boom, an Intel executive said on Friday. Emerging markets will account
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    • 730 15  - Vanco wants to win Asia from S'pore BT exclusive Demand for telecom data services in Asia-Pacific will be worth US$180b this year and Vanco wants to leverage on that Raju Chellam learns Raju Chellam VANCO Pic, which provides global network services to large companies, is expanding its operations across the
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    • 381 15  -  By Raju Chellam DESPITE all the talk about VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) becoming the preferred mode of telecommunications, at least one research house thinks it is just hype. The shift to VoIP from the current cir-cuit-switched networks will take 17 years, according
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 303 17 Contributed by Simpson, Spence Young PRICES remain very firm in the dry bulk sector. httt.it CMUUEMt Bulk Asia: 170,578 tdw bit 1/01 Sasebo. Bulk Europe: 169,270 tdw bit 6/01 Sasebo reported sold region U5552,000,000 each to German KG Buyers combined with 7 years timecharter back in the low
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    • 287 17 SGX '000 Mov28 St W- Vol CH Offshore .037 0.02 2220 ChuanHup 048 0.02 3885 Coko Investment 040 0.03 7355 CWT Distribution 0.55 -0.01 79 Ezra Hid® .0.96 0.06 1916 Freight unks _j0.10 0.01 1951 G8 Holdings 0 66 0 02 6 Java Holdings. 0.81 003 4921 Kf
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    • 559 17  -  Need for change within UN agency: newly elected chief By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Greece's Efthimios Mitropoulos has called for change at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) after being elected to head the organisation. He replaces Canada's William O'Neil who retires at the end of
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    • 207 17 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India is planning a US$25 billion project to build and upgrade ports and wants European companies to invest in them. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said. "This project should present attractive opportunities for European business," Mr Vajpayee told a meeting of
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    • 49 17 [HONGKONG] Greenpeace activists set out in a small boat as their comrade on a life raft displays a banner near the baket of a dredger to voice their opposition to a reclamation project in Hong Kong's harbour. They contend it will pollute the harbour. AP
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    • 264 17 CRUISE SHIP BLAST AFP [MIAMI] The families of Filipino sailors killed in a boiler explosion on the cruise ship Norway are suing the ship's owner for charitable donations collected for the victims but not given to them. Norwegian Cruise Line, a subsidiary of
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    • 51 17 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co said it had secured a US$l9O million order from Exxon Mobil Canada Properties for an offshore gas production plant. The order is part of a US$3l3 million project, for which Daewoo formed a consortium with Italy's Saipem
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    • 764 18  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes WALKING into the Shipßepair and Conversion exhibition at Olympia last week I was greeted by an old friend who was just leaving saying: "If it gets any smaller they'll be able to hold the show in a telephone booth
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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      • 160 25 Dec S Thailand: King's Birthday. Dec 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. Dec 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dec 25 Singapore: Christmas Day. Philippines: Christmas Day. Malaysia: Christmas Day. Korea: Christmas Day. Hongkong: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Brazil: Christmas Day. Brunei: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day. France: Christmas Day. Germany:
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      • 167 25 THIS report, compiled by Coekett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Coekett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 326 26 Aviation links could be restored by March after yr-end discussions: paper AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan and South Korea are scheduled to resume talks on the reopening of direct flights between the two countries, it was reported yesterday. "A consensus has been tentatively
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      • 240 26 The largest airline grouping hopes to cut costs with the joint purchase Bloomberg [MUNICH] The Star Alliance of airlines, led by Deutsche Lufthansa, is "very" close to buying as many as 100 regional planes as members combine purchasing to lower costs,
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      • 143 26 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines, South Korea's second-largest carrier, will fly five weekly flights between Incheon and Vietnam's capital Hanoi starting this month, as more people start travelling between the two cities. The carrier will add two more flights to the three weekly services it
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      • 225 26 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's airport authority has been ordered to introduce closed-circuit television cameras to bolster security around parked aircraft and conduct strict pre-flight checks, according to reports yesterday. The report follows the discovery of snapped steering cables in a number of planes
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      • 138 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways (BA), Europe's biggest airline, said it does not plan to take over Swiss International Air Lines, the national carrier that is cutting a third of its workforce. Swiss International chief executive officer Andre Dose said he was "personally convinced"
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      • 398 26 Its 40% growth forecast also helps boost counter which is up 80% this year AFP [PAßlS] The French stock market is banking on a boom in shares issued by the European Aeronautics Defence and Space Company (EADS), as the group has managed to
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      • 53 26 [VIENNA] Former Formula One World Champion Niki Lauda posing in front of an Airbus A32oat Vienna's airport. Mr Lauda took over more than 51 percent of the Austrian subsidiary of insolvent German airline Aero Lloyd and launched his new airline "flyniki" on Friday with a flight
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      • 161 26 Reuters [COPENHAGEN] Denmark's shipping and oil group AP Moeller-Maersk said it would allocate 400 million crowns (Ssl 10.52 million) to its loss-making airline Maersk Air. The capital injection is aimed at helping Maersk Air, a competitor to the Nordic region's leading airline SAS, back to
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