The Business Times, 16 February 1999

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04tV12/98 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    50 1 Dsn 13L15 (+6.30) BT-SRI 547.47 (+0.38) SEMSd FUTURES I*oo (-1.00) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP dosed NIKKEI 14,064.72 +81M HANOSENG 9,***** 2303 SET INDEX JAKARTA COMP MANILA COMP 14HOJSO 9.48 TAIPEI WP! dosed SEOUL COMP dosed CLSA CHINA B dosed AUSTALLORD 2377& 11.7 12aooa EST Change DOW
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    FINANCE
    85 1 FOBEX BATES uss ss USJ 1.690 £(i'SS/SS per 1.632 1768 El RO(US$/S$ per K) 1.188 1.907 DM 1.734 8575 YEN 1141 1.480* RM 1800 0.445 HKS 7.766 0118 BAHT 36.76 0.046 RUP1AH ***** 0.020 St to 100 unit* PBIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.825 KUALA LUMPUR 11.50 JAKARTA 58.00 BANGKOK 14.75
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    Lock icon Year of the Tiger closes with 7% gain for ST Index
    494 1  -  Analysts expect more uncertainty and volatility in Tear of the Rabbit By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] It wasn't exactly a roar, but after receiving a mauling for much of the year, the Singapore stockmarket ended the Year of the Tiger
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    Profit of DBS Land unit Australand jumps 62%
    493 1  -  By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Australand Holdings, DBS Land's listed Aussie subsidiary, raked in an impressive profit of AssB million (5563.2 million) last year about the same amount the entire DBS Land group is expected to report for 1998. Australand said in a
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    Deal-maker Simon Cheong sells 40% of Ladyhill to FCC
    654 1  -  No premium to be paid but FCC will manage devt for free By: Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Property market players who thought Simon Cheong unable to resist making a deal on his newlyacquired Ladyhill Hotel have been proven right the 42-year-old
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      141 1 PfSTOE Hack Ltck Siew Buying back Clob shares at a steep discount will cause long-term damage and loss of goodwill, Pg9 Rebound The Singapore economy will see the bottom of the trough this year, and rebound to grow 4.2% in 2000, says an Australianbased forecasting firm, BIS Shrapnel, Pg2 WTO
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      18 1 Company news Today's Companies Section of The Business Times is included in the main paper. See Pages 9-16
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      S'pore seen rebounding to 4.2% growth in 2000
      435 2  -  But not before economy shrinks 1.8% this yean BIS Shrapnel By< Audrey Tan THE Singapore economy will see the bottom of the trough this year, and rebound to grow 4.2 per cent in 2000. says an Australian-based forecasting firm, BIS Shrapnel. But
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      Lock icon Lower Japanese manufacturing investments in S'pore likely in '99
      539 2  -  It'll be hard to maintain 1998's $1.8b: envoy K>f Wong Wei Kong JAPANESE manufacturing investments in Singapore this year are likely to be lower than the $1.8 billion invested last year, the Japanese ambassador to Singapore Hiroshi Hashimoto said yesterday. "It
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      Simex completes Y2K testing on systems
      155 2 THE Singapore International Monetary Exchange has completed the testing of its computer systems in readiness for the Y2K or Millennium Bug. The Millennium Bug is a major problem arising from the inability of many computers to recognise the year 2000 as a valid date.
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      Lock icon We want to keep good ties with S'pore: Indon minister
      164 2 AFP (JAKARTA) A senior minister said yesterday that Indonesia intends "to maintain good ties" with Singapore after President B J Habibie's accusation that the island state implemented ethnic discrimination in its military recruitment. "The ties between Indonesia and Singapore are
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      Lock icon Starwood launches US$42m hotel loyalty scheme in Asia
      301 2  -  Hotel chain's offer covers 550 sites in 60 coon tries By, Marissa Chew STARWOOD Hotels Resorts Worldwide Inc has launched the Asia-Pacific rollout of its new frequent guest programme which will be the company's "single most important marketing initiative", said its Asia-Pa-cific
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      52 2 I 1 7 J There is no smoke without fire. With so many lucrative business opportunities and services sizzling in The Straits Times Classified daily, it's no wonder our readers are always hungry for more. Advertise in the Business Services/ Products section (Classifications 201 to 266). Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166.
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      9 2 Cnpital Thursdays China Watch by Lu Ning TheßusinessTimes INOAPORK
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon Japan's current account surplus up 39%
      626 3 Import-stifling recession blamed for 1998 figure soaring to a record 15.9t yen AFP [TOKYO] Japan announced yesterday its current account surplus with the rest of world soared a stunning 38.7 per cent in 1998 to a record 15.86 trillion yen (*****.7 billion). Analysts blamed
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      Lock icon More in HK face the sack alter Chinese New Year
      538 3 Retailers most likely to hand oat retrenchment slips Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Thousands of Hongkong people will return from the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar to find their employers have closed shop and their jobs are gone, economists and businessmen
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      Lock icon Japanese bankruptcies down 33% in January
      205 3 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's corporate bankruptcies in January dropped 33.2 per cent from a year earlier to 1,003 cases, a private research agency said yesterday. It followed a 26.6 per cent fall in bankruptcies in December last year. Liabilities left by collapsed firms, however, rose
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      Lock icon Malaysia's inflation rises 0.9% in Jan as food prices surge
      284 3 Fastest increase in 11 months because of festive consumption Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's inflation in January posted its fastest increase in 11 months as food prices surged, the state news agency Bernama reported, citing the department of statistics. Inflation accelerated
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      Lock icon Teng-hui gives restructuring top priority for 1999
      485 3 Fundamentals sound despite corporate failures, he says Reuters [TAIPEI] President Lee Tenghui said yesterday that restructuring Taiwan's economy would be the government's top priority in the Year of the Rabbit. Mr Lee devoted most of his annual Chinese New Year's eve address to
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      Lock icon Funding woes for most Taiwan manufacturers
      204 3 Reuters [TAIPEI] The majority of Taiwan manufacturers still face funding problems, despite a string of interest rate cuts, a local survey showed yesterday. The Commercial Times newspaper quoted a survey conducted by the economics ministry as saying 57 per cent of the 1,600 respondents
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Habibie blames economic crisis as root of conflict
      456 4 JAKARTA It then grew into a problem between religions communities, he says AFP. Reuters INDONESIAN President B J Habibie yesterday singled out the continuing economic crisis as the root of the recent series of religious and ethnic conflicts in the country. "We
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      Lock icon Indonesia moves to open up oil refinery sector
      285 4 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA is preparing a law to be discussed in Parliament soon to liberalise the oil refinery sector and open up the retail market for oil products, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. This is the most extensive effort to liberalise the
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      Lock icon HK judge orders 18 mainland Chinese to be freed
      340 4 HONGKONG AFP. Reuters A HONGKONG court yesterday ordered 18 mainlanders detained for overstaying in the territory to be freed pending the outcome of their court case claiming right of abode here. Judge Wally Yeung ordered the immigration department to release the
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      Lock icon China to make determined bid this year for WTO entry
      691 4 B KIJIN G Zhn's visit to US, Taiwan's move, expected economic woes among factors FT CHINA has galvanised its trade officials to draw up proposals for what is intended to be its most credible offer yet for entry into the
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      Lock icon China hopes to draw funds to interior
      149 4 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA will try to attract more foreign investment to its interior regions this year by offering preferential policies, the official China Daily said yesterday. The government would open up a number of projects and priority industries in central and western China
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      Lock icon New faces for the New Year?
      80 4 [PHNOM PENH] A little girl in her party dress looking a little overwhelmed at the sight of colourful masks and dancing dragons outside the Cambodian Royal Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday to mark the start of Chinese New Year festivities in Cambodia. Up to
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      Lock icon Rais sees tie-up with Megawati in polls
      394 4 HONGKONG He predicts alliance will secure majority of popular vote AFP INDONESIAN presidential hopeful Amien Rais yesterday forecast the landmark June elections would produce a coalition between his National Mandate Party and Megawati Sukarnoputri's fledgling party. "We must create a clean and grand
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      New bid to impeach 2 key Thai ministers
      369 4  -  They're alleged to be involved in irregular wood, telecom deals From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S opposition New Aspiration Party (NAP) said it will launch a new bid this week to impeach and remove from office two key government ministers for alleged
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      Lock icon Dr M warns Chinese of racial hatred
      251 4 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has told the country's large ethnic Chinese minority that government opponents are trying to sow racial hatred and hinder development. In a statement issued late on Sunday ahead of Chinese New Year celebrations this week,
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Detonation of a global crisis
      4436 5  -  How a Western fascination with Asian emerging markets and Thai battles with foreign speculators triggered off the financial turmoil with a 'blood baht' ////N Nicholas D Kristof Edward Wyatt NYT [NEW YORK] Mary jo Paoni stood contentedly in her front yard, as firmly planted in
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon New IMF deal with Brazil likely in 2 weeks: Fischer
      571 6 JERUSALEM Pact will pave way for USs9.3b to be released to Brazil by end-March Bloomberg THE International Monetary Fund expects to reach a new agreement with Brazil within two weeks to restore investor confidence and get its economy growing again,
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      Lock icon Mexico, IMF in talks for US$8b credit line: report
      221 6 MEXICO CITY AFP THE Mexican government is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a line of credit of up to US$B billion (5513.5 billion), a leading daily here reported Sunday. An IMF source in Washington told La Jornada that
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      Lock icon UK economy likely to be in mild recession this year
      345 6 LONDON Think tank puts 1999 growth at 0.4% due to falling demand Reuters THE British economy is likely to be already in a recession, albeit a very mild one, due to tumbling demand both at home and abroad, a leading
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      Lock icon Revealing his heart on Valentine's Day
      49 6 [LOS ANGELES] A basketball fan showing his Valentine's Day message during the Feb 14 game between the Indiana Pacers and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles. Despite the owners-players lockout which shortened this season's schedule to 50games, attendance has been good. AFP
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      Lock icon European central bank's worried over euro
      320 6 FRANKFURT IHT [FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank (ECB) is expressing concern that major European governments are undermining confidence in the euro by suggesting they could loosen the budget constraints of European Monetary Union while continuing to turn their backs on labour market reform. If
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      Lock icon Starr urged to drop plans to indict Clinton
      409 6 WASHINGTON It's time to move on, say Republican and Democratic senators FT SENIOR Republican and Democratic senators joined forces on Sunday to urge Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, to drop any plans for a criminal prosecution of President Bill Clinton. Mr Starr
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      Lock icon Japan chip-making equipment orders down 40%
      197 6 TOKYO Bloomberg WORLDWIDE orders for mi-crochip-making equipment produced in Japan slumped 40 per cent in December, reflecting a collapse in demand from US and Japanese chipmakers committed to reining in their capital spending, industry figures showed. Worldwide orders for Japanese chipmaking equipment plummeted to
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Fall fashions flood NY runways
      468 7 FASHION US shows start early to gain edge over EU rivals Reuters [NEW YORK] The gala week of fashion shows in New York sashayed into full swing on Sunday, as leading designers and new faces from the United States, England and France revealed their looks
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      Lock icon Succeeding Murdoch
      1032 8  -  Rupert Murdoch's children are in the spotlight as speculation mounts over who will head his media empire when he retires. MAPTr MCINERNEY reports MARIE MCINERNEY Reuters THE next move up the ladder for Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan, the heir-apparent to the family's global media empire, will see him
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      Lock icon Woods tans Brown in dogfight at Buick
      404 8 GOLF Reuters [LA JOLLA, California] Tiger Woods made it back to the winner's circle with a finishing flourish on Sunday as he eagled the 18th hole to beat battling Billy Ray Brown by two shots at the Buick Invitational. Woods and Brown duelled
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      Lock icon Sorenstam's mistake, Nilsmark's gain
      786 8 GOLF Sweden's Nilsmark gets first win on LPGA tour by stroke of luck LAT-WP [GLENDALE, California] Just when it appeared Catrin Nilsmark had run out of miracles, just when it appeared the Swedish golfer would not get her first victory on the LPGA Tour, Annika Sorenstam.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      PacNet may be eyeing rest of HK's third largest ISP
      514 9 HE Supernet has drawn other snitors snch as Deutsche Telekom: report [SINGAPORE] Fresh from its successful debut on Nasdaq, Singapore's Pacific Internet may be taking over the rest of Hong Kong Supernet, the third largest Internet service provider in Hongkong.
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      Top ex-civil servant quits FLEH to join HK unit
      238 9  -  By. David Boey [SINGAPORE] Transportation and storage company Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) said Lee Ying Cheun has resigned as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee. A company statement said that following Mr Lee's departure from FLEH, which
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      Clob 'discount offer': KL should consider long-term damage
      891 9  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Ven Sreenivasan SO, after more than seven months of silence, the Malaysian authorities now appear to be releasing trial balloons to see how much pain the 172,000-odd holders of Malaysian Clob shares can bear. In the past few weeks,
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      Lock icon Commerce Asset: Analysis see net loss at RM120-600m
      353 9 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPURJ Commerce Asset Holdings Bhd is expected to report shortly a 1998 net loss of 120-600 million Malaysian ringgit (Sss3-$266 million) after a profit of RM180.72 million in 1997 due largely to heavy provisioning for bad loans, analysts said. The
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      Lock icon Thai Airways flies back into profit on back of stronger baht
      351 9 Reuters [BANGKOK] A stronger Thai baht, aircraft sales, and cheaper jet fuel helped national carrier Thai Airways International pic post a modest net profit for its first financial quarter ending Dec 31, 1998. Thai Airways told the Stock Exchange
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Nasdaq revives proposal to test trading halts
        348 10 Regulators see it as way to deal with large daily price swings in stocks NYT [NEW YORK] With continued volatility in Internet stocks, Nasdaq regulators are now moving to temporarily halt trading of the most wildly unstable shares. Frank Zarb, chairman of Nasdaq's
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        Lock icon Siam Cement plans 30b baht bond sale: report
        97 10 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Siam Cement pic, Thailand's largest industrial conglomerate, plans to raise as much as 30 billion baht (551.38 billion) by selling five-year bonds in Thailand by the end of March. Siam Cement president Chumpol NaLamlieng told the Asian Wall Street Journal
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        Lock icon Canary Wharf may float Docklands project
        556 10 IPO funds may finance two-thirds of £4b London devt FT (LONDON) Shareholders of Canary Wharf Group, owner of the 34.8-hectare estate in London's Docklands, are discussing an initial public offering early this year to finance completion of the final two-thirds of a project that
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        Lock icon BHP mulling sale of Aussie oil assets
        368 10 Reuters [MELBOURNE] The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd is reviewing its Australian oil assets for a potential sale, BHP Petroleum adviser CIBC World Markets said yesterday. "We are working with BHP, looking at their portfolio helping them to assess their portfolio," a CIBC
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        Lock icon Volvo may bid for US truck maker Navistar
        311 10 FT [CHICAGO] Volvo, the Swedish automotive group, is considering a takeover of Navistar. the US truck and engine manufacturer, in a move that could more than double Volvo's share of the North American truck market. Senior executives of Volvo which earlier this
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        Lock icon Japan telco DDI raises earnings forecast
        363 10 Profit seen at 13.5b yen; boost from lower NTT charges Bloomberg [TOKYO] DDI Corp, Japan's third largest telecommunications company, yesterday boosted its earnings forecast for the year through March because of a reduction in fees it pays to lease lines from Nippon Telegraph Telephone
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        Lock icon BT, Telstra, NSW govt settle dispute
        182 10 AFX Asia ISYDNKYI British Telecom munications pic, the New South Wales government and Telstra Corp. have settled a dispute over an alleged breach of agreement in which claims and counterclaims totalled more than As6so million (Ss7ll million), officials said. No terms were disclosed. In
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        Lock icon Microsoft downplays report on Java clone briefing
        394 10 US giant discussed program with developers: PC Week NYT [NEW YORK] The Microsoft Corp is playing down a report in yesterday's PC Week, a trade magazine, that the software giant has been briefing software developers on a new programming language that would be
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        Lock icon Fraser upgrades Omni to buy
        133 10 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Fraser-AMMB Research has upgraded Singapore electronics contract manufacturer Omni Industries to a buy from a sell. "Given the improved optimism for the group's operations and the low valuation, we have upgraded our sell recommendation to a buy," Fraser said in a research note.
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        Informatics buys stake in UK institutes
        184 10 [SINGAPORE] Informatics Holdings' wholly owned subsidiary, NCC Education Services Ltd, has acquired a 30 per cent stake in the Institute of Information Technology Training (IITT) and the lITT Foundation (Foundation) for £800,000 (552.2 million). It signed a deal with major shareholder Nicholas John Mitchell
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          KepTatLee Finance merger takes effect
          69 10 [SINGAPORE] The merger of Keppel Finance and Tat Lee Finance into Keppel Tat Lee Finance became effective last Saturday. Keppel Tat Lee Finance said 283.2 million KTF shares and 51.4 million KTF warrants have been issued to the shareholders and warrant holders of the merging
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          KepFin, Tat Lee Fin off CPF list
          80 10 [SINGAPORE] The Central Provident Fund Board has deleted Keppel Finance and Tat Lee Finance from the list of trustee shares following their merger into KeppelTatLee Finance. As KeppelTatLee Finance does not meet the trustee share criteria, it is a non-trustee stock.. With these
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          Prudential unit cuts Keppel stake
          66 10 [SINGAPORE] Prudential Portfolio Managers (S) is no longer a substantial shareholder of Keppel Corporation. Between Dec 21 last year and Jan 12 this year, it conducted a series of sales and purchases of Keppel shares with the net result that it had sold off over
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          Lock icon Block deals of 3.7m ST Engg shares done
          68 10 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Engineering and infrastructure-based ST Engineering Ltd saw several block deals totalling 3.7 million shares traded yesterday. About 3.2 million shares were sealed at $1,415 each. 400,000 units at $1,407 and the rest at $1,413. dealers said. The identities of the
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
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        Lock icon HSBC pre-tax profit forecast at US$5.7b to US$6.7b
        627 11 Analysts expect up to USs3b provisions mainly in HE, Asia with UK charges up AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] HSBC Holdings is expected to report on Monday a 1998 pre-tax profit of US$5.7 billion to US$6.7 billion (559.6 billion to 5511.3 billion) and to make
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        Lock icon Merrill's technology analyst to join Tiger fund
        251 11 Kurlak's forecast sent Intel soaring bat his later cantion backfired: observers NYT [NEW YORK) Thomas Kurlak. a Merrill Lynch analyst whose bullish forecasts helped promote the Intel Corp's stock price into the stratosphere but who changed his mind too soon, has resigned to
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        Lock icon Sanwa, JCB in tie-up with Mondex
        426 11 Reuters, FT [TOKYO) Japan's Sanwa Bank and an affiliated credit card issuer JCB Co have obtained the rights to operate the Mondex electronic money system in Japan through an equity stake in Mondex International, the MasterCard In-ternational-controlled electronic commerce business. The investment by Sanwa
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        Lock icon Westpac's outgoing chief plays down talk of merger
        411 11 He assures investors chief financial officer has no plans to leave AFP [SYDNEY] Outgoing Westpac Banking Corp managing director Bob Joss on Sunday downplayed speculation the bank was contemplating a merger with National Australia Bank Ltd, the country's most profitable. "We have
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        Lock icon S&P sees profit squeeze for NZ insurers
        419 11 Reuters [AUCKLAND] New Zealand's general insurance industry suffered a profit squeeze in 1998, and 1999 is likely to hold more challenges for the sector's earnings, a Standard Poor's insurance specialist said yesterday. Michael Vine, S&P's Mel-bourne-based director of insurance ratings, said the New
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        Lock icon Online trading accounts in Japan rise 10% in Jan
        521 11 Number tops 37,000 as competition for clients hots up Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's online trading accounts rose 9.8 per cent in January from December as brokerage companies continued efforts to capture as many accounts as possible ahead of full liberalisation in trading
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        Futures end slightly lower
        206 12  -  Hina Reports MSd Singapore Index Jardine Fleming THE Singapore MSCI February futures contract ended the day yesterday slightly lower ahead of the New Year holidays. With the market open for only a half day yesterday, and with many institutional players prefering to remain sidelined ahead of
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        Lock icon World grain production up in 1998 but still below projected needs: FAO
        288 12 AFP [ROME] World grain production rose slightly in 1998 against predictions and was expected to reach a total of 1.8 billion tonnes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday. Despite the rise, it will still fall
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        Lock icon KL asks Inro to stop operations
        267 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has urged the International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) to halt all its operations, Bernama said. Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said on Saturday that Inro should cease operations now that Thailand and Malaysia, the world's biggest and third biggest
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        Lock icon CURRENCY REPORT
        353 12 Bloomberg London THK US dollar fell against the yen on concern the Bank of Japan's unexpected cut in overnight lending interest rates won't be enough to drive down bond yields and weaken the yen. "The rate cut will change nothing in Japan." said Conrad Mattern at DG Bank
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        1333 12 MTERBAIIKCKOSS RATES E! Rmb Ewo ffr Dm HKS Ind Bs Rup.ah Yen Wwi RM WZS Pafc Bs Peso S$ Band Sfr WT$ BaM Pound US$ UStr 41 4 0967 'J 78 4 3 768 1,23 5.022 27.488 55.566 0.740 7.618 2.462 1.185 33.165 25.042 1.095 3.940 0 917 20 930
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        1922 12 SICOM FUTURES RUBBER (futursj clowtq as «t 5.30pm) RSS t CONTRACTUS cwts/kq) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Iter 99 109.25 200 500 Apr 99 110.25 850 May 99 112.75 925 Jun 99 114.75 300 Jul/Sep 99 118.25 825 Oct/Dec 99 121.75 150 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US
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      WORLD STOCK MARKETS
      2330 13 LONDON Industrials Fa* 12 Pmct 31 Cf oup 607.400 11.000 AB Ports 279.000 4.000 Abbey National 1247 560 50 390 Allied Oomfcq 454 400 4.000 Allied Zurich 895.000 42 600 Amtc 166 400 1 400 Asm Croup 156.000 urxrh BAT ind 573.000 15.000 BC Pic 354 000
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      1612 13 AFP 13 Nikkei 225 +81.03 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday, as investors welcomed the government's bank restructuring moves, brokers said. The gains were led by bank shares, which were bought from the outset on the Financial Reconstruction Commission's preliminary decision on Friday to dole
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      1347 13 AFP D HangSeng -23.03 HONGKONG share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower in a truncated session yesterday amid worries over tighter money markets, dealers said. "Investors were worried over the higher interbank rate," said Ben Kwong at Dharmala Securities, adding: "Sentiment was also dampened by a weaker Wall Street."
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
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        1893 14 BONOS, LOANS WARRANTS wt 52-Wk Last Vol Day Lift Ouote Avg High Low Stno Company Sal* ♦or- COOO) High Low Buyer Seller Price 18 3 3160 "Acer W*****1IISS 12 5 13 35 4.5 3164 Acma W*****4 16.5 uoch 94 16.5 16 16.5 17 15 3161 AIITech W*****7 28.5 39 18.5
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        KepTatLee 2002 wrt looks promising
        174 14  -  WARRANT WATCH -By Ven Sreenivasan THERE are four warrants on Keppel Tat I-ee Bank shares, one of which is a covered warrant issued by DBS Bank. Three of these expire between June and August next year, while the longerdated instrument has its expiry date in
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        258 14 AFP CI Wellington -2L82 NEW Zealand sharemarket fell one per cent in light trade yesterday under the influence of a slide inspired by technology stocks on Wall Street at the week-end. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 21.82 points at 2,147.18 on moderate total turnover valued at NZ$63.B million.
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        331 14 AFP n Manila -9.48 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.5 per cent lower in light trading yesterday as most Asian markets headed for New Year holidays. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index shed 9.48 points to 1,910.30. Turnover rose to 624 million shares but value fell to 740 million pesos compared
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        602 14 AFP CI All Ordinaries -11.7 AUSTRALIAN shares eased 0.4 per cent yesterday amid quiet trading. The All Ordinaries Index slipped 11.7 points to 2,877.8. The All Industrials tumbled 28.0 points to 5198.9, but the All Resources index rose 3.5 to 972.3 points. National turnover totalled 326.1 million shares worth
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        345 16 Stocks Volume Heshe Hldgs25c 6,334.000 ST EngglOc 4,973,000 SingTel 15c 3,279,000 SembCorpI 25c 2,981,000 DBS Land 2.500,000 Heshe Wt99 2,296,000 Progen IOC 1,933,000 OCBC Foreign 1.865,000 Spindex Ind 10c 1,698,000 CK Tang Wt99 1,324,000 Stocks OCBC Foreign 19,926,116 SPH 11,496,779 City Oe* 50c 7.522.249 SingTel 15c 7,519,850 DBS Foreign 7,422,438
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        568 16  -  STOCKMARKET COMMENTARY Conglomerates and bank stocks gain in quiet trading traders don't expect much activity when market opens on Thursday Ven Sreenivasan THE Singapore stockmarket ended higher in quiet trading yesterday as most institutional investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of
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          54 16 WE are told that with the recession and people losing their jobs, the Chinese New Year greeting for the Year of the Rabbit is no longer Gong Xi Fa Chai but Gong Xi Sur Vive. We, nevertheless, wish our readers a Happy and Prosperous New
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          91 16 HERE'S a public service message which comes just in time for the a rig pow season. Check their contents when you get em, because our friends at Cisco have apparently just discovered a bunch of fake $50 notes floating around in the market. All the fake
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          151 16 BY now everybody's heard about the Year 2000 or Y2K problem, but a lot of us are still not quite sure what it's all about. The following memo, circulating on the Net, is obviously apocryphal but it nicely captures the bemusement of corporate non-digiterati. It's supposedly
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          135 16 WHILE on the subject, here's something a little more serious. A lack of both funds and expertise could spell trouble for government agencies, a top Thai official warned last week. What is particularly worrisome, according to Boonmark Sirinaovakul, chairman of a parliamentary sub-committee on information
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        57 16  -  By Wong Wei Kong Heshe Holdings shares closed up $0,015 yesterday at $0,095 on a volume of 6.33 million shares, compared to its 10-day traded average of 887,100 units. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics suggest that an uptrend may be forming, and this is supported by
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      249 9 1998 NVESTMENT FUND AWARDS Organised by The Business Times, Standard Chartered Bank and Guests at the Awards Dinner on 24 February' 1999 can bid for a Reuters, the Investment Fund Awards is an annual event honouring variety of items in the charity auction: a playing slot at the Alfred the
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      29 13 Stock prices given here are Friday's closing prices HOCK LOCK SIEW I Takes you behind the news TheßusinessTimes siNUArour ThkßusinkssTimks Businessit Asia-Pac server ssaF™" Singapore aims to Mondays TheßusinessTimes
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      312 17 Bridge News, Reuter DETAILS are starting to surface of several Panamaxes fixed for period timecharter. Trading yesterday was expected to be minimal with holidays starting in the East and the grain exchanges here closed for the Presidents Day holiday. TANKERS: Brokers' main focus was on the larger ships,
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      277 17 sIS '000 8 CWT Distribution 0.53 Chuan Hup 0.60 *0.005 138 Cosco Investment 0.48 *0.01 6 Freight Urdu 0.155 -0.01 673 CB Holding j 0.345 Hal Sun Hup 0.455 -0.01 39 IMC Holdings HK 5.6 Jaya Holdings 0.525 unch 52 Jurong Shipyard 6.70 unch 297 KeppelCorp 3.86 -0.24
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      414 17  -  Proposal, to be filed with European regulators this week, may replace current agreement By\ Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] A proposal to form a new co-operative agreement among 19 shipping lines operating in the North Atlantic trades will be filed with European regulators
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      229 17 [SINGAPORE] A P Moeller, the world's largest privately owned shipowner, is buying South Africa-based Safmarine's container shipping arm for US$24O million (*****.7 million). The sale sees the break-up of Safmarine's shipping business, with a question still hanging over the future of the
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      619 17  -  Delayed nod comes after national carrier SCI gets bigger 20% stake From. Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi THE Indian government, which had held back approval of a 20-year charter for an overseas liquid natural gas (LNG) shipping venture pending larger stakes in it for
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      195 17 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co, one of Japan's largest shipbuilders, said it may cut the pay of its workers by 10 per cent in the year through March 2000 in a bid to trim costs amid weak demand. The firm
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        1855 29 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From «<i vioki on* it/Noo u is/1500 iv»» is/woo is/1500 is/*59 15/1900 Al«n|jy*2 8J87N I7/1SOO 1* 15/1500 15/1659 B/1900 II 15/1500 15/1659 15/1900 2A 15/1700 16/0659 16/0900 2t 15/1700 16/0659 16/0900
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        222 29 Feb 16 Brunei: Chinese New Year. China: Chinese New Year. Portugal: Cam ival. Singapore: Chinese New Year. South Korea: Chinese New Year. Taiwan: Chinese New Year. Feb 17 China: Chinese New Year. Singapore: Chinese New Year. South Korea: Chinese New Year. Taiwan: Chinese New Year. Feb 18 Taiwan:
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        776 29 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        424 30  -  It joins American, BA, Canadian Airlines, Cathay and Qantas in group From Surinder Singh in Sydney SPANISH carrier Iberia is the latest airline to join the oneworld alliance. Members of the alliance American Airlines, British Airways, Canadian Airlines, Cathay Pacific and Qantas made the
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        219 30 Bloomberg (MELBOURNE] Ansett Holdings, Australia's secondranking airline, and Air New Zealand. New Zealand's largest airline, will join the Star Alliance network, the world's biggest airline federation, in late March. Ansett's Star Alliance membership "will give us competitive access to volumes
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          62 30 AFP [TOKYO] Japan Airlines said last Friday it would start a code-sharing alliance with Hongkong's Cathay Pacific Airways on routes connecting Hongkong to Osaka and Nagoya. The code-sharing would start between Hongkong and Osaka in late March and between Hongkong and Nagoya in April, the
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          109 30 Bridge News [TOKYO] Nippon Express Co plans to introduce more refrigerated and vibration-proof containers, in a bid to boost its domestic air cargo operations, a company official said. By the end of June, the company will double the number of vibration-proof containers to 100
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          92 30 Reuters [FRANKFURT] German state railway operator Deutsche Bahn plans to cut 60,000 Jobs by 2003, a German magazine reported last Friday. An internal Deutsche Bahn report showed that the national railway operator planned to cut its number of workers to around 193,000 by 2003
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        73 30 [TEMPE, Arizona] Rich Dolan of Phoenix, who has been an America West Airlines flight attendant for two years, joins approximately 150 other attendants for a rally at the union's strike headquarters over the weekend. The Association of Flight Attendants, the union representing America West flight attendants, said
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        601 30 It's more npbeat after pilots start returning to work following court order NYT [WASHINGTON) American Airlines, literally grounded for the past eight days after its pilots reported sick en masse, is hopeful of resuming full scheduled services from today. "We will be almost there
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        200 30 AFP [MANILA] Debt-ridden Philippine Airlines (PAL) will not receive any financial assistance from Japan's so-called Miyazawa fund despite earlier proposals, Finance Secretary Edgardo Espiritu said. Mr Espiritu said they had dropped plans to tap the Miyazawa fund to help rehabilitate the Philippine carrier
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      19 17 Iberia becomes member of oneworld alliance It joins AA, BA, Canadian Airlines, Cathay and Qantas in group. Back Page
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      535 17 Ansett, Air NZ to join Star Alliance in late March They are latest members of group which will compete with oneworld. Back Page Charles Chan has been appointed DHL Worldwide Express' country manager for Singapore, responsible for management and operations. He brings with him over 17 years' experience in the
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