The Business Times, 22 March 1999

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 85e SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1999
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  • 684 1  -  Sharp rise from 38% in 1997; consultants say trend conld continue this year By] Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] Housing and Development Board (HDB) upgraders are almost singlehandedly propping up the private residential market, buying close to two-thirds of private homes sold last year.
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  • 690 1  -  Liquidators named for two firms that own exec city club Byi Corinne Kerk [SlNGAPOßE] Provisional liquidators have been appointed for two companies which own and operate the Sir Stamford Raffles Club at Suntec City, throwing the future of the executive club into doubt.
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  • 897 1  -  Switch from docile stance comes amid widespread layoffs From Anthony Rowley in Tbkyo AS companies such as Sony Corp begin shedding thousands of workers under corporate restructurings amid a prolonged economic slump, Japan's normally docile labour unions have warned of militant action if
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    • 135 1 STptraua COM first Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday assured Singaporeans that the Government always looks after them first, but urged them to be realistic and accept that foreign talent was needed to help the country compete, P|2 Laid tf ring narkot The recent surge in Tokyo's stock market may
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    • 158 1 12 Hillview blocks under HDB en bloc scheme, Pg 2 A World's Leading Fair for Industry, m V Automation, Innovation ih^hhh thinking and globally geared n Ck More than 7 s exh b tors fr° m a" WI I II I I I I over the world provide the comprehensive
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 522 2 But foreign talent sought to boost the economy and createjobs The Straits Times PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday assured Singaporeans that the government will always look after them first, but urged them to be realistic and accept that foreign
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    • 263 2 The Straits Times PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday threw up an idea to strengthen bonding among students some of Singapore's best schools may want to bring back pre-uni-versity classes so that friendships made in secondary school can be continued
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    • 275 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong left last night for a week-long official visit to France, Italy and the Vatican. In France, his first stop, he will call on President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and sign a framework bilateral
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    • 331 2  -  By i Corinne Kerk TWELVE blocks of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats in the Hillview Estate have been earmarked for redevelopment under the government's Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers), Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng said yesterday.
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    • 262 2 It will help moderate prices when market picks up, he says The Straits Times NTUC Choice Homes was set up as a cooperative to see if it could play a role in moderating prices of private apartments, labour chief Lim
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    • 283 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Electronics By, Jennifer Lien US manufacturers ordered 21.6 per cent more electronic components in January in year-on-year terms, compared with December's 15 per cent. The December figure was itself stronger than November's 8.1 per cent. The latest figure, issued by the
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    • 560 2  -  This is despite 7% fall in non-oil exports in February Byi Audrey Tan DESPITE a 7 per cent decline in Singapore's non-oil domestic exports in February, some analysts are saying a recovery may take place within the next two months. They point to
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 113 2 PIDEMCO Land's The Clearwater condominium at Bedok Reservoir is now over 85 per cent sold. This works outtoBome3s7 units, or at least 24 units more than a week ago. Average selling prices at the 420-unit, 99-year leasehold project were raised from $460 per sq ft
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      • 62 2 G KANDASAMY (right), a founding member of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), has passed away. Mr Kandasamy served in the labour movement for more than 50 years before his retirement in 1997. A member of the NTUC Central Committee from 1961 to 1991, he was
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      • 64 2 DRIVING into the city may be free for motorists on Saturdays, according to guidelines issued by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) over the weekend. Citing very low traffic volume in the Restricted Zone, LTA said that it was reviewing Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) charges in
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  • REGION
    • 460 3 JAKARTA 25,000 seek higher severance pay of 10 times their monthly salary AFP THOUSANDS of laid-off employees of 38 Indonesian banks shut down by the government have threatened streets protests if demands for higher severance pay are not met, reports said yesterday. "If
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    • 433 3 JAKARTA At least 89 people killed in indigenous attacks on Madurese in past six days AFP THOUSANDS of refugees yesterday poured out of rural areas of Indonesian Borneo, fleeing days of ethnic violence which have left more than 80 dead, residents and the military said. Makeshift
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    • 193 3 KUALA LUMPUR AFP, Reuters TOUGH action will be taken against any group attempting to oust the government through street demonstrations, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi warned yesterday. The warning by Mr Abdullah, who is also home affairs minister in charge of
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    • 442 6 WASHINGTON That's the price of doing business there, says US govt poll Bloomberg CHINA routinely "coerces" foreign firms to share technology as the price of doing business in the country, a practice that could improve its military capability over time, according to
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    • 225 6 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN will soon ease restrictions on foreign ownership of local stocks and fulfil its pledges to allow free flows of foreign capital in 2000, several local newspapers reported yesterday. The reports quoted central bank deputy governor Shea Jia-dong as saying the
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    • 535 6 HONGKONG Govt tries to use private enterprise to force change within the state sector Reuters CHINA'S recent official endorsement of private enterprise is profoundly important, setting the stage for deregulation, structural change and fresh foreign interest in its potentially huge market, analysts said.
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    • 453 6 Dissident magazine lambasting entry has support of officials FT (BEIJING] Opposition towards China's proposed entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is building in Beijing's ministries and government think-tanks just days after Prime Minster Zhu Rongji said the country would make
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    • 363 6 HONGKONG Reuters A HONGKONG court starts hearing a landmark immigration case today that could open the floodgates to tens of thousands of mainland Chinese seeking the right to live in this former British territory. The test case by 18 mainland Chinese, who arrived on
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    • 198 6 SEOUL AFP JAPANESE Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has urged young generations of both South Korea and Japan to bring into reality the "dream" of creating a free trade zone in Asia rivalling the European Union. "I hope that you use imagination
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 931 4  -  CRISIS WATCH Economic outlook appears brighter than at any time since 1996 By Vikram Khanna CATCHING many seasoned investors off-guard, Japan has suddenly become the land of the rising stock market. So far this year, Tokyo has been far and away the best performing major
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    • 339 4 AFP [SYDNEY] Japan's Minister for International Trade and Industry yesterday said his country was now out of financial crisis. Kaoru Yosano, who is visiting Australia, said there were now clear signs his country was emerging from the worst of its economic crisis. "The
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    • 506 4 Bid to create T-bond market, but bankers see no quick birth Reuters [JAKARTA] Late next month, the Indonesian government plans to issue more than US$3O billion (5551.7 billion) worth of bonds and in the process conceive what it hopes will
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    • 372 4 Without tax cuts, Thailand could link deeper into recession Reuters [BANGKOK] A Thai stimulus package of tax cuts and increased government spending currently in the works looks to be a do-or-die proposition for the nation's comatose economy, experts say. The
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    • 336 4 AFP [HANOI] South-east Asian finance ministers have thrown their collective weight behind Japan's efforts to internationalise the yen, and urged Tokyo to speed up aid outlays to the region's ravaged economies. "We support Japan's effort to internationalise the yen," said a
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  • THE WORLD
    • 476 7 SAO PAULO It has now more than made np to investors based in US$ for plnnge in real Bloomberg BRAZIL just passed a milestone on the road to recovery: for the first time since the nation devalued its currency in January, the Bovespa stock
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    • 185 7 STOCKHOLM Reuters THE ACI Financial Markets Association a global umbrella group for currency traders said over the weekend that it would suggest a halt to global foreign exchange settlements at the start of the millennium to avoid potential computer disruption. ACI president Heering Ligthart
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    • 61 7 -fUj German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder tries out IBMs wearable PC earphones and mini-monitor during his tour at the technology and computer trade fair CeBIT 99 in Hannover yesterday. The CeBIT fair, with 28 halls spread over *****0 so m of space, is the world s biggest
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    • 413 7 WASHINGTON Capital gains tax revenue np as Dow surges with economy Bloomberg THE US government budget deficit unexpectedly widened in February even as the shortfall for the fiscal year to date narrowed and analysts forecast the first back-to-back yearly
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    • 272 7 MOSCOW Reuters PRIME Minister Yevgeny Primakov heads for Washington this week for talks with US leaders and international creditors which are expected to either make or break his government's efforts to rescue Russia's economy. He'll all his fabled diplomatic skills to persuade the
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 647 10  -  Venture could add significantly to parent SingTel's revenues, CEO K. G. Lee says By\ Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Local IT services major National Computer Systems (NCS) plans to take the plunge into electronic commerce, a bold move that it believes will bring big
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    • 448 10  -  IDC survey says S'pore market shrank 12% and Malaysia almost 52% By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE) Shipments of computer servers in key countries in the Asia-Pacific were down by U*****.20 million (SsB44 million) in 1998 over the previous year, according to the results of
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    • 550 10  -  Straight Through Processing or STP is the new buzzword By] Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Far from seeing the Internet as a threat, Reuters is finding that the World-Wide Web is a technically efficient and cost-effi-cient platform for the distribution of its real-time financial and information
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    • 307 10 Reuters [HANOVER, Germany] Personal computers aren't about to disappear, but their status as man's main link to cyberspace is going to come to an end soon, judging from the buzz at Germany's massive CeBIT trade fair last week. "Right now people are tethered to
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    • 395 11  -  US-based CompTia looking at S'pore to expand regional presence m Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The US-based Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTia), which has over 7,500 members, including leading hardware and software companies, is planning to add Singapore to its list of global centres to offer
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    • 309 11 [SINGAPORE] Asia's economic turmoil notwithstanding, business software provider Scala expects "very high growth coming out of the region", says chief operating officer Clement Cohen. Revenue, in US-dollar terms, from the Asia-Pacific should account for 16 per cent of Scala's total turnover this year,
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    • IT TAKES
      • 68 11 3M LIBRARY Systems has installed its new patron checkout systems at the Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Polytechnic and NgeeAnn Polytechnic. The new models are 3M's Self Check Model 4210 and 6210. A dozen units have been installed in the three educational institutions, 3M said.
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      • 42 11 NATIONAL Computer Systems (NCS) has set up a Web site that charts the progress of Singapore's Antarctica 2000 expedition. The official Web site is at www.antarctica2ooo.com.sg and is hosted, designed and maintained by NCS, the company said. $1
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      • 59 11 PLATINUM Technology Singapore and Arthur Andersen have formed a strategic business alliance to offer a complete suite of information security solutions to large enterprises. The partnership will provide a one-stop shop offering Platinum software and Arthur Andersen's Computer Risk Management consulting services to help businesses protect
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      • 71 11 FEDERAL Express Corp and Intershop Communications have announced an alliance in the Asia-Pacific that they said would let customers expedite the order/delivery process, eliminate middlemen, and significantly reduce overhead costs. Intershop's eCommerce software will be integrated with Fed Ex's three Internet-based interfaces that will help customers calculate
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      • 46 11 ERP SCM symposium '99 A TWO-DAY symposium on ERP (Electronic Resource Planning) and SCM (Supply Chain Management) will be held on Wednesday and Thursday at Suntec City. It is organised by Asia Computer Weekly magazine and will include a conference and exhibition. For details, fax 296-7832.
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      • 60 11  -  -Compiled by] Raju Chellam US-BASED Pervasive Software Inc, which specialises in Web and distributed-application development, has opened a subsidiary in Singapore. Pervasive Software SE Asia Pte Ltd will serve as the hub for its sales, marketing, support and business development and cover 10 countries in the
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    • 399 11  -  Smaller companies in region to provide good opportunities By. Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Nasdaq-listed D A Consulting Group (DACG), a global end-user support and education services company, expects revenue from the Asia-Pacific to account for 15-20 per cent of its worldwide sales by the
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    • 130 11 [SINGAPORE] Software giant Microsoft Corp, Internet Service Provider Sing Net and US networking company 3Com Corp have joined hands to offer a networking solution tailored for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The bundle is for up to 200 users and consists of 3Com's
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    • 464 12  -  The reason: it has advanced technology and multilingual workers By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore has the trappings to become an international hub for call centres but the idea has not quite taken off yet, according to industry executives. "Singapore is an excellent
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    • 332 12 Washington Post [NEW YORK] Propelled by an explosion in electronic and Internet commerce,- American package delivery services are reaping a financial bonanza in the new world of just-in-time shipping, in which companies sell things before they build them, relying on instant communication, rapid shipment and
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    • 614 12  -  By Seamus Phan The author is area partner, McGallen Bolden Group, an international management and technology consultingfirm MANY small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore are still surviving on a single dial-up Internet account of the likes of abc@isp.com.sg where everyone in a
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    • 1245 13  -  This is despite the Asian contagion. High level of IT literacy and strong govt initiatives seen as key factors, rajuchellam rcnorts AST year, a little- Board (NSTB). a total of £4 hiliinn has rmonft RAJU CHELLAM LAST year, a littleknown German company called Netlife was
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    • 394 13 Despite snags, growth already seen as impressive Reuters [TOKYO] Stock trading has never been easier for the individual Flip on your computer, go to your online broker's homepage and, a few clicks later, trade with the big boys anywhere
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    • 585 15  -  The Jornada 420's colour screen is star feature as HP goes head to head with market leader 3Com By\ Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Hardly a week after 3Com Corp upped the ante with the launch here of its Palm lIIx and Palm V models, Hewlett-Packard
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    • 267 15  -  Kodak to incorporate feature into fdtnre digital cameras By. Arthur Lee [SINGAPORE] US photography giant Eastman Kodak Company is working with software and hardware manufacturers to incorporate a modem into Kodak's future digital cameras, to let photographers download their images directly to
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    • 460 16  -  Two Porteges, four Satellites and three Tecras in lineup Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Computer Systems Department of Toshiba Singapore has launched nine new notebook computers targeted at all levels of users, ranging in price from $2,900 to $7,200. The line-up includes two models under its
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    • 447 16 New York Times [SAN FRANCISCO] When Adobe Systems Inc's shares hit a four-year low last year, Quark Inc floated an informal, and unwelcome, offer to buy the company. Last Tuesday, Adobe will return the favour with the introduction of a new program long
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 99 16 IBM has unveiled three versions of its voice recognition software, Via Voice—for home, office, and executive use. The software comes with a microphone and a speaker, works with a soundcard in PCs, and is available in English and Chinese. IBM said the software accepts
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      • 59 16 PLATINUM Technology Asia-Pacific has unveiled an enhanced version of its TransCentury Office 2.0, which lets companies do a complete inventory of all enterprise PC applications, assess exposure, fix year 2000 (Y2K) errors on BIOS, spreadsheets, databases and application development tools. It costs $104 per PC for
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      • 64 16 SAP South Asia-Pacific has introduced SAP Retail Store and SAP Online Store that provides retailors with an optimal tool for management, e-commerce applications, inventory control, reduced administration time and expenses, business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-solutions, and central consolidation of information. It works with SAP's R/3 retailing
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      • 86 16 HAGEMEYER Singapore has introduced the Olympus Camedia C-1400XL digital SLR camera (above) with a range of features for the professional and hobbyist. Retailing at 11,688, the device is the only SLR digital camera in the market in that price range, the company said. Images are recorded on
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      • 70 16 MERANT pic, formed when Micro Focus and Intersolv merged, has launched PVCS Version Manager 6.5 for enterprise-level software development. The new tool comes with a new, intuitive GUI (graphical user interface), lets development teams work in parallel, and is priced at US$649. Merant said it is
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      • 64 16 SMC Networks has introduced EZ Hub 10/100, a dual-speed hub that offers 2410/100 megabits per second (mbps) dedicated bandwidth ports. Compared to traditional dual speed hubs which force users to share available bandwidth channels of 10 or 100 MBps, this $1,700 device provides dedicated 10
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      • 77 16  -  -Compiled by! Raju Chellam EXABYTE Corp has announced Mammoth-LT tape drive for SMEs (small and medium enterprises). The drive offers 28 GB capacity and 240 megabyte-per-minute throughput. It can back up 14.4 GB in an hour, making it the fastest drive in its class, Exabyte said.
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 560 17  -  Mozart's CosiFan TkiMs lightheadedness lost in Graz Opera's production, says p y van P Y VAN GRAZ Opera's production of Cosi Fan Tutte last Thursday transformed Mozart's famous comic opera into a depressing, angst-ridden and tortured affair. Directed by Lutz Graf, it appeared to centre
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    • 702 18 OSCARS Stars will parade in US$BO,OOO designer gowns and jewels worth millions Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Hollywood is set for its annual orgy of Oscar night excess: the US$BO,OOO (S$138,000) gowns and US$5OO,OOO bracelets have been borrowed, hair dressers are on "red
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    • 284 18 Reuters [TOKYO] AS Hollywood prepares to launch into its annual orgy of self-congratulation, the Academy Awards, Japan's once-acclaimed movie industry is wondering where all its own glory has gone. Japan's major studios have been steadily losing ground and market share to Hollywood blockbusters, said Yoji
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 561 19  -  Company reported to be gnnning for stock market listing by end of this year By> Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Mobile One (Ml), which is eyeing a stockmarket listing this year, will pump $150 million into its network expansion in the next 12
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    • COMPANIES
      • 564 20 The three unnamed advisers stand to earn up to HKslb In commissions and fees Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Call it Hongkong's HK$23 billion (Sss.l billion) secret. For eight months, the government has been quietly mulling just how to sell what is now the biggest-ever portfolio of
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      • 510 20 AFP [SYDNEY] After a lifetime of shunning publicity, media magnate Rupert Murdoch's "forgotten" first daughter says she is tired of being ignored and wants a non-execu-tive board role in her father's News Corp. However, Prudence MacLeod suggested Mr Murdoch, 67, is unlikely to retire for
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      • 64 20 Company results for the year ended Dec 31, 98 Excludes Fatmac which changed its financial year-end from May 31 to Dec 31 and hence released results onfy for seven months ended Dec 31. 1996. Excludes Keppel Hitachi Zosen which also changed its financial year-end from Mar 31 to
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      • 197 20 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's largest chipmaker Samsung Electronics, under fierce grilling from activist shareholders, revealed on Saturday that parent Samsung Group faced further losses from the sale of its troubled automotive unit. A group called The People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) told
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      • 395 20  -  Philippine carrier says move will help rehabilitation plan From, Al Labita in Manila EUROPEAN creditors are returning the two Airbus 330-300 aircraft they got back from cash-strapped Philippines Airlines (PAL) to push the carrier's rehabilitation. In a statement yesterday, PAL said the planes are
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      • 705 20  -  Manila hamburger chain aims for 20% overseas turnover From. Al Labita i in Manila i LISTED fast-food chain Jollibee has done what analysts thought was unthinkable: beating American multinationals at their own game. Manila's largest fast-food chain has shifted its "hamburger war"
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      • 1314 21  -  Despite provisions, blue chips are likely to mark time nnless earnings improve By] Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] The knives have been out in the reporting season just ending and the question for investors now is whether managers have cut back deep enough
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      • 555 21 Conflicting forecasts and price M show investor jitters over technology earnings Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co, the No 1 US securities firm by capital, told investors that International Business Machines Corp's (IBM) stock could disappoint them. Merrill Lynch Co, the biggest
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      • 256 21 Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The stock of iVillage Inc. the Web site devoted to women's issues, more than tripled in price after its Friday initial public offer after briefly trading at over five times its offer price. Shares jumped to as high as 100, traded
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 635 22 Big 4 banks said to be desperate to bay Bankers Trust Funds Management AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's major financial houses are scrambling to position themselves to bid for an asset that one of Europe's biggest banks has decided is a liability, analysts say. Deutsche
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      • 474 22 Reports say it's left with scraps after China state bank (Sets plum assets of ailing bank Reuters [BEIJING] A deal to carve up an ailing Chinese bank has handed the spoils to state-run China Development Bank (CDB), state media reported on Friday. The other party
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      • 429 22 Reuters [NEW YORK] Dubai Islamic Bank has sued Citibank for allegedly transferring more than US$l5l million (Ss26o million) from a DIB account to a mysterious West African tycoon who, the United Arab Emirates bank says, practises black magic. The suit, which was filed
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      • Article, Illustration
        1648 22 PRIME LEMPWQ RATES MN« AM Aaro Bank NV 5V« ABSA Bank Limited 6W AgricaftvalfcaNkOfCMM _6 ANZ Banking Group IVi AMod Irish Bank PLC 5 American Express Bank AraP Banking Corp 7V4 AraP Bank PLC 5 <4 AsaN Bank Ltd m Ban Hin Let Bank Bbd iv, Banca Co—iireiala (talana 7w
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 572 23  -  Slhirift Weeklyßoundup Will Rugg MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] Outsized gains in Japanese stocks in the past week put the forex markets' focus squarely on the Nikkei-225 Average in the penultimate
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      • 884 23 COMMODmi Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON) World oil prices kept rising last week in anticipation of an Opec campaign to slash production. Brent, the reference North Sea oil. managed to touch the US$l4 level during the week, while in New
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    • 1730 23 8100MPBT0M8 Mar 19 IUMCR (Mwtt ctotfaq at 5J0pa) BS 1CONTRACT(S cwtiAg) CtOM VotoM Op* 1 515 Sttt (tawwi) l«t«rtrt ***** BO •toyw ***** 775 106.50 250 •W&W 99 ***** 600 <WDtc» 112.00 525 Jan/Mar 00 115.50 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US ctats/kQ) VolMM Omu Mowttl Uw Stt (t-BM) ItfMt
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      • 300 24 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are poised to move higher this week after the Hang Seng Index broke through key resistance of 11,000 points on Friday, but some brokers warned the recent gains might not be deep enough to be sustained.
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      • 868 24 Q Sydney *232 THE Australian sharemarket will turn its attention overseas this week, with little domestic data expected, brokers say. "Another quiet week on the domestic front means the local markets will look for offshore leads next week," said David Thurtell, Commonwealth Bank economist. He said the
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      • 588 24 NEW YORK Dow ends week with just 27-pt gain after Friday's ront of IBM shares polls it down AFP THE Dow Jones Industrial Average beat 10,000 points three times last week but lost steam to finish on Friday 94.07 lower at
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      • 1635 24 D Paris +44^2 PARIS stocks Anally closed above hefty resistance at 4,200, bolstered by the Dow's surge above 10,000. The CAC--40 Index closed at 4,219.65 points, up 67.28 on Friday for a rise of 44.62 last week. QStorirlmlwi -QJ6 Swedish share prices climbed steadily on Friday and
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      • 423 24 TOKYO Analysts see volatile market ahead of the fiscal year-end Reuters TOKYO'S benchmark Nikkei Index is likely to move higher this week, building on its recent strong gains on hopes of a turnaround in the Japanese economy and buying by foreign funds. But
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      • 333 24 LONDON Bloomberg BRITISH stocks may advance in coming days, led by Inchcape and other companies whose earnings depend most on economic growth, on optimism over recovery in Asia and the UK. "If the economy does strengthen in UK
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 445 25 AFP C 3 Composite Index -14^8 MALAYSIAN shares are expected to be dull this week on a lack of new leads, dealers said. "Trading is expected to remain lacklustre as more weak corporate earning results are expected to be announced," an institutional dealer said.
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      • 6209 25 M8USTK1ALS Coommtf presets L«t Vel Week Net Ce High Low Company Salt OOP High Low P/l m 310 270 Ajinomoto 272 ,.7r^ 2 n sssi,- 2 30 7 iU 23 5 II »g 244 T74 C Storo Bhd 175 -13 306 ,oo ,74 *09 5 H20 970 C»rtsb*r, OT« 227
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      • 2545 26 H tM LMt Vj. KM Last Ouot* Avg C»iw»my 5«t« »ar- COOP) Hlg Low Buyer SaNar Pf+c« J® 3 3,40 A *Car ******1 US$ 13.5 unch 139 13.5 12.5 12.5 13.5 4.5 3144 Acma ******4 16.5 unch 863 17.5 16.5 16 5 17 17 3161 AIITach ******7 28.5 25 5
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      • 267 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy CONTINUING our recent theme of looking at the covered warrant segment, today's focus is Deutsche Bank's call on the Local tranches of DBS, OCBC, UOB and OUB. It has pretty decent numbers, yet like many in the segment it seems
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      • 215 26 HON8KOM STOCKS M V- LmtOmt* Mr Mv YM IM M Ca« HUh L— stn. Cmmmy Uf fOOO) Ht» I— «—r Cw P/l t** 217.5 173 5123 COt (2000) HK 217 5 Cd *73 20 2173 217.5 220 230 8 2.4 XT TU 4211.2 5124 C4t>uy Ptc 20c HK—720
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    • 6384 27 2 L*»t Val «M Lest Quote Otv Dlv YM Net Cm Ave Lew StNo Company COOP) HI* Low Buyer Seller Cwr P/E J m i, Price MMIMNMSTVY 142 17.5 mt 1000 Acme 50c 70 -2.5 1275 73 69.5 70 72 27.5 1 19.6 4.9
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      • 506 28 SOda vtt— Utc Wt99 50,922.000 UK 44,397,000 Van der Horst 33,482,000 DBS Land 29,679,000 Hotung Im NT5 26,991,000 6CS Ml Ltd 20c 24,542.000 *TanChoogM50c 24,072,000 Slnqld 15c 23,174,000 S Finance Wt99 22,623,000 STEngglOc 19,153.000 Stwfa SPH 124,667,784 DBS Foreign 110,843,205 OCBC Foreign 101,3)9,777 UOB Foreign 72,332,756 City Oe* 50c 72,170,774
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      • 630 28  -  THE wnmc AHEAD Dentsche's ingenious covered warrant on OCBC (L) should boost Local tranches By R Sivanithy RELATIVE underperformance is one of those fancy terms the fund management industry has coined over the years to explain why it does certain
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        79 28  -  Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Land fell six cents to $3.68 on a relatively low volume of 589,000 shares on Friday. This is despite the fact that its parent, UIC, has been in the news following its failure to attain a profit target set in the conditional sale of a
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 292 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE optimistic air in the dry cargo sector still prevails and it is so refreshing to see a little more of a positive tone, rather than tales of "death doom and gloom". The Biffex is knocking on the door of 1000, showing an
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    • 294 29 w St W CWT Distribution 0.53 unch 0 Chuen Hup 0.61 0.01 78 Cosco Investment—0.48 unch 0 Freight IMS .0.17 unch 423 08 HoMngs 038 0.01 13 Hal Sun Hup 0.47 0.01 83 IMC HoMngc-HK 5.60 unch 0 J*V» Holdings 0.S7 0.01 34 Jurenq Shipyard 6.60 -0.05 432
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    • 431 29  -  Conferences Anera, TWRA to close shop on April 30 with US deregulation of ocean shipping By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Two rate-set-ting cartels of shipping lines on the trades between Asia and the US will close shop at the end of April, as
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    • 887 29  -  LIKER SCENE By David Hughes THERE was some more food for thought last week for anybody who still believes liner shipping rates are too high. The Anglo-Dutch carrier P&O Nedlloyd presented its preliminary annual accounts. In today's world it was
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    • 178 29 AFP [EDINBURGH] A fire on board a freighter carrying 1,750 tonnes of chemicals off the north-western coast of Scotland has been put out, the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency said on Saturday. "The fire is out. We will wait to hear what
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    • 331 29 Reuters [ROTTERDAM] Anglo-Dutch shipping venture P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Ltd said it saw a bright 1999 after an upturn late last year and the first signs of a recovery in hard-hit Asia. "There is considerable upside potential. We will be playing an active role in
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    • SHIPPING NEWS
      • 386 30  -  Donaldson report was prompted by Sea Empress pollution disaster in '96 Reports from David Hughes in London THE UK government has accepted 23 of the 26 recommendations made by Lord Donaldson in his official report, "Salvage and Intervention and their Command and
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      • 169 30 THE Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) and the International Shipping Federation (ISF) have commissioned the Institute for Employment Research at the UK's University of Warwick to undertake a new study on the supply of, and the demand for, merchant seafarers. The study
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      • 128 30 THE International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) secre-tary-general, William O'Neil, giving the annual Lloyd's Register lecture to UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, claimed there was a need for vessel traffic control (VTC) in congested waterways. Mr O'Neil asked: "Are our safety systems keeping pace with (technical)
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      • PORT Shots
        • 124 30 THE Panama Canal Commission (PCC) plans to increase the number of checks on vessels under its recently modified inspection programme. Under the new programme, two vessels are currently chosen daily for inspection from among the ships waiting their turn to transit in the anchorages on
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        • 83 30 THE UK's Chamber of Shipping said that the British shipping industry was disappointed by the recent government budget announcement which did not include a tonnage tax. But the chamber's president, David Cobb, welcomed Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's appointment of former Nat West Bank chairman Lord
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        • 93 30 The International Underwriting Association of London (lUA) and Lloyd's Underwriters' Association (LUA) have set up a joint working party to promote Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) within the marine market. The aims are to promote ADR initially in the marine market, and later market-wide, as a
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        • 96 30 The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has arrested three men alleged to be owners or part owners of a Belize-flag cargoship. The Royal One was detained, for the sixth time in 18 months, following an incident in which the ship lost 100 tonnes of
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        • 51 30 LLOYD'S Register (LR) has issued its Provisional Rules for Passenger and Crew Accommodation Comfort. The rules set noise and vibration criteria for assessing passenger and crew comfort, and are primarily intended for passenger ships, high speed craft and yachts but any ship can be assessed for
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        • 50 30 FAST-expanding UK-based listed shiprepair group Cammell Laird has won its first significant cruiseship refit and upgrade contract, said to be worth several million pounds. Airtours subsidiary Sun Cruises' 38,000 gt Sunbird is expected to dry-dock in Cammell Laird's Birkenhead Yard at the end of March.
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    • 20205 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT eia tiA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Vovege TetepAone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number ■■■■■■■riHHHHiHaBHaaMBaHnan Bm JI/03 13/04 OOCL BUNGA TERATAJ 3 135 (5-*****13 TO ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire ovm 12/04 nyk Bun astro
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      • 602 43 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jra|M Bt Hindi Jay *****9 J01 alongside 21.03/0100 Bt Putri Ban *****9 J01 alongside 21.03/0100 Cj Niaga 3-3 PV236 J16 alongside 22.03/0500 Haniinpenang 9909 J14 alongside 23.03/2300 Him 1 ***** J13 alongside 24.03/0700 Hati UC87 J23 alongside 22.03/1200 *«ti*a J R 02/99
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      • 1832 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklnq/B«Unct Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From *C« JJdf 465 22/1200 U 21/1500 21/1659 21/1900 ka Win 0218 2VMM U 2VB00 2VK59 2V1900 18 21/1500 21/1659 21/1900 2A 21/1700 22/0659 22/0900 28 21/1700 22/0659 22/0900 3 22/0700
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      • 215 43 Mar 22 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Mar 25 Greece: Independence Day. Mar 28 Brunei: Hari Raya Haji. Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. Mar 29 Taiwan: Youth Day. Apr 1 Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Mexico: Maundy Thursday (optional). Apr 2 Mexico: Good Friday
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      • 762 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 424 43 Carbon 100 Mai 998.1 0.8 18.6 0.09 59 0j07 •torn Density Water RiiIDm Ash Aluminium Sediment No above E25 2 0 19 0 0 0 rr»r 3«o Ave 985.9 0.3 13.4 0.06 33 0.02 COM 380 MM 994.9 0.7 18.9 0.09 85 0.08 M/W3 HM/N %M/N
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 544 44  -  Anssie carrier bringing its product range in line with partner BA By Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Qantas is stepping up efforts to entice premium passengers following a multi-million dollar product upgrade to bring its offering in line with alliance partner British Airways (BA).
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      • 267 44 Reuters [LONDON] The International Air Transport Association (lata), the airlines' industry body, is not going to publish the findings of a survey into millennium (Y2K) bug compliance at the world's major airports, its director-general Pierre Jeanniot said. Geneva-based lata represents 260 airlines
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      • 577 44 US safety officials to consider plane's safety in hearing on airline crash Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Transportation safety officials this week could recommend sweeping changes to the Boeing Co 737, the most widely used jetliner, when they consider the cause of a crash near
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      • 217 44 AFP [WASHINGTON] America West Airlines and its flight attendants reached a tentative contract agreement on Saturday, averting a strike which could have left thousands of passengers stranded. America West, the ninth largest US carrier, and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) agreed on a
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      • 393 44 Many obstacles to plans to change from a partnership: Spanish partner Bloomberg [PARISJ Europe's Airbus Industrie planemaking group probably will not become a single company in 2000, said the president of the Spanish company that controls Construcciones Aeronauticas SA, one of
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      • 223 44 Reuters (HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd pilots have launched a legal challenge against the airline alleging "continual erosion" of their contracts, Hongkong newspapers said yesterday. A writ had been filed in the High Court on behalf of two thirds of the Hongkong Aircrew Officers' Association's 1,040
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      • 29 44 [GENE VA] An MD-80jet of Spanish airline Iberia rests on its nose after an emergency landing on a layer of foam at Geneva REUTERS
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    • 21 29 UK government accepts report on salvage at sea Donaldson report was prompted by Sea Empress pollution disaster in '96. Page 2
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    • 166 29 Qantas steps up efforts to woo business travellers Aussie carrier bringing its product range in line with partner/owner BA. BackPage SPECIAL FEATURE AIR Ot RAIL* SHIPPING TIMES •14 APRIL 1999 KEEP YOUR BUSINESS □N THE In conjunction with Inter Airport Asia and Exporail Asia 99, Shipping Times, the exhibitions' official
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