The Business Times, 7 June 1999

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    12 1 TheBusinessTimes MITA (P) 046^12/98 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://Dusiness-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1999
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon Lippo to sell 12 firms, take in partners
    873 1  -  Family ready to relinquish its hold on the group, says James Riady From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S sixth largest conglomerate, the Lippo Group, wants to offload more than 12 non-core companies and sell significant minority stakes in some of its
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    It's still uphill for Indon economy
    899 1  -  COMMENTARY VICTIM IHIMKI mm up the scenarios after the polls VIKRAM KHANNA DURING the run-up to today's landmark election in Indonesia, there was a common expectation that once the polls were over, a major uncertainty would be lifted and, finally, the country's economic problems
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    Thames Water set to clinch US$1.2b Johor contract
    349 1  -  From Neil Behrmann in London THAMES Water, the UK water company, is expected to sign a US$l.2 billion (Ss2.l billion) contract to supply water to more than three million people in Malaysia. Thames will operate and manage the entire water supply system
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    Thailand faces deflation, top economists warn
    895 1  -  Reco very could be delayed if 0.5% fell in May CPI continues From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok SOME top Thai economists, including a former Thai finance minister, are warning that Thailand is staring at deflation after recent signs of contraction in the consumer price
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      138 1 BMlkm MbkadUSSpeg Hongkong should have bitten the bullet and lifted its currency peg once and for all, but it may be too late now, Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last night, Pg4 Haag Scot The reftisal of Cathay Padfic Airways' pilots to take a pay cut sitting down
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      7 1 Why Indoo—la's Islamic community's rumbling, Pg 5
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Using slack times to prepare for the coining boom
      1386 2  -  Allied Tech has spent $8m in 15 months to buy plants, upgrade manufacturing and information systems By Teh Hooi Ling HE is not sure that the economy is out of the woods yet. Even when regional economies are rebounding, he fears
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      Secrets of a successful merger
      419 2  -  Enough attention to people issnes is the key: survey By Wong Wei Kong WHY do some mergers work out better than others? It could be because some companies pay more attention to people issues while others don't. That's the conclusion of a recent survey by
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      Rockwell aims to triple S-EA sales
      280 2  -  By. Eugene Low WITH signs of a recovery among the Asian economies, US-based Rockwell Automation is laying down aggressive expansion plans for its regional operations. The company expects sales from South-east Asia to at least triple within the next five years. Last year, revenue
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      10 IT firms win govt bulk tender worth up to $70m
      194 2 THE National Computer Board said on Friday 10 IT companies had been awarded contracts worth $50 million to $70 million for the latest government bulk tender. The successful vendors were CSA Automated Pte Ltd, Dell Computer, Engineering Computer Services
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      Lock icon A 'counter-cyclical' success story
      973 3  -  Contract garment manufacturers are bncking the trend of the economic slowdown By. Anna Teo AS it turned out, electronics contract manufacturers like Nat Steel Electronics, Venture Manufacturing, JIT Holdings and Gul Technologies did pretty well last year despite difficult economic conditions. What's not so well known
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      Lock icon US electronics orders up just 1.6% in April
      288 3  -  EYE on the economy Electronics /ft/ Jennifer Lien US new orders of electronic components flattened in April, rising just 1.6 per cent year-on-year against March's revised 15.3 per cent. Still, the measure remained positive for the eighth consecutive month, indicating continued stability
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  • ASIA OH THE MEND
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      Lock icon HK should have delinked US$ peg: SM
      633 4  -  It may be too late now, he says; peg doesn't allow quick adjustments From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG should have bitten the bullet and lifted its currency peg once and for all, but it may be too late now, Senior Minister
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      Lock icon Japan's economic downturn has ended, says EPA
      266 4 Modest growth expected for January-March Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's flagging economy posted modest growth in the first three months of the year, Economic Planning Agency chief Taichi Sakaiya said yesterday. "I have the feeling Janu-ary-March was better than forecast," Mr Sakaiya said on public
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      Lock icon Indon polls: investors seen on sidelines
      472 4 AFP [SINGAPORE] Investors in Asian currencies and stock markets are expected to stay largely on the sidelines this week due to Indonesia's historic polls, expectations of more fiscal stimulus measures by Japan and jitters over possible US interest rate rises. Asian currencies traded rangebound
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      Lock icon Economy seen as recovered if 1% growth achieved: Daim
      372 4 Bernama [KOTA BAHARU] The Malaysian economy can be considered to have fully recovered if the government's one per cent growth target for this year is achieved, First Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin said yesterday. He said there were increasing signs that
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      Lock icon Sipping the local, cheaper brew
      58 4 [HO CHI MINH CITY] A beer and soft-drink vendor stands beside boxes of different kinds of beer looking for customers in a Ho Chi Minh City street on Friday. International brewers are crying into their beer as Vietnam's tipplers switch from premium foreign brands to
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      Lock icon It's again party time in Seoul but worries linger
      478 4 Concerns chaebol will fend off reforms amid recovery signs Reuters [SEOUL] If the current mood of South Korea could be captured in a single image, it might be: a bottle of champagne, chilled and ready to be popped open. With a
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      141 4 Even the price loolcs del icious. "Traditionally delicious "leochew favourites, now deliaously rich in value for money. per person The best place in town for tradition "leochew food also serves up unbeatable value for money in so many different ways. Tor example, the new Set Menu (minimum 2 people) for
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      7 4 Cathay pay row reflects HK malaise, Pg2s
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  • FOCUS: INDONESIAN ELECTION
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      Lock icon Why Islamic community's rumbling
      2596 5  -  PDI Struggle's overwhelmingly Christian list of candidates is political gamble that could backfire From Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor in Jakarta INITIAL fuss over the tardiness on the part of the National Elections Committee (PPI) in coming out with a firm
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      Lock icon Habibie urges nation to vote for democracy
      358 5 Confident that largely peaceful GE campaign bodes well for Indonesia Reuters [JAKARTA] President BJ Habibie urged Indonesians yesterday to use their votes in today's historic general election to restore democracy and confidence in the nation. Dr Habibie said Indonesia had defied predictions that
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      Lock icon Indonesians face political unknown as they cast vote
      469 5 Reuters [JAKARTA) Indonesians leap into the political unknown today, voting in a general election that can turn the country into the world's third largest democracy. Many predict Indonesia's 130 million voters will choose change and cast out the last vestiges of the
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon India's political uncertainty seen keeping investors at bay
      607 6 BOMBAY FDI may see a drop this year also because of the slow pace of economic reforms: analysts AFP INDIA'S political uncertainty and slow pace of reforms will scare foreign investors away during the current fiscal year to March 2000, analysts said.
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      Lock icon Business sentiment in India up in last six months: survey
      426 6 NEW DELHI Improvement in production, orders, sales, capacity utilisation seen Reuters OVERALL business confidence in India has risen in the last six months after sliding to a two-year low, a survey of the Confederation of Indian Industry said yesterday. The
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      Lock icon Weak euro hits China's exports to EU, says report
      306 6 SHANGHAI Bridge News A WEAKENING euro had put heavy pressure on China's exports to the European Union, Sun Zhengyu, Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation said recently, according to a report in this week's official China Daily Business Weekly. Trade
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      Lock icon Water supply to S'pore is KL matter: Johor MB
      332 6 ■JOHORBARU Bernama THE supply of water from Johor to Singapore is a Federal government matter, said Johor Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman. "I have no comment on this," he told reporters here yesterday after being asked to comment on a newspaper
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      Lock icon S Korea aims to cut jobless rate to 6% by year-end
      282 6 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea has advanced its target in the fight against unemployment, promising to lower its jobless rate to 6 per cent by the end of the year instead of next year. The revised target, taken at a
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      Lock icon Keeping his head under water
      103 6 [MELB° U RNE] Penny Trotter (left) and Jean-Paul Swallow (right) help position Daniel Taylor of Melbourne whose head is underwater in a tank on m P ?T :ip n l" artwork titled "Aquarium "by Israeli-horn Yael Davids, was to spend seven minutes immersed in distilled
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      Lock icon Indonesia to announce new car policies soon
      384 6 mJAKARTA It may cut import tariffs on assembled cars, says minister Reuters INDONESIA may announce new policies on the automotive industry as early as this month including plans to cut import tariffs on assembled cars, Trade and Industry Minister Rahardi Ramelan said. "We
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Congress wins election in Goa
        81 6 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's main opposition Congress party headed by Italian-born Sonia Gandhi yesterday achieved a morale-boosting victory in a keenly watched state election, officials said. Congress bagged 21 of the 40 seats to retain control of the legislative assembly in the tiny western state
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        Lock icon Anwar sodomy trial starts today
        75 6 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Jailed Malaysian former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim goes to court today to stand trial on a sodomy charge. Anwar was convicted of four corruption counts in April and sentenced to six years in prison. In addition to the sodomy count to be
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        Lock icon Estrada in Seoul on state visit
        83 6 AFP [SEOUL] Philippines President Joseph Estrada arrived here yesterday for a four-day state visit aimed at boosting regional security and trade ties. The Philippine leader is to hold a summit with President Kim Dae Jung today before meeting the heads of South Korea's four
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        Lock icon McDonald's Indonesia closes 28 outlets
        89 6 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] McDonald Corp unit McDonald's Indonesia has closed 28 of its 98 outlets since last year, Bisnis Indonesia reported yesterday. The closures were based on the unprofltability of the franchises following the economic crisis in the country, the report quoted McDonald's Indonesia president Bambang
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        Lock icon Australia sets up boatpeople task force
        105 6 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia yesterday ruled out using the military to halt the tide of boatpeople flooding the country but set up a task force following the latest seizure of a boat carrying 108 Chinese. A rusty Taiwanese trawler (above), the Ji Chong Lee, was
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Solid case for Fed to hike June rates: analysts
      560 7 NEW YORK Persistently high consumer spending, rising inflation, global recovery cited Reuters THE Federal Reserve has a solid case to raise US interest rates later this month: persistently high consumer spending, rising inflation and a global economic recovery, Wall Street analysts
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      G-8 may approve temporary capital controls
      363 7 TOKYO It may also agree on stricter disclosure roles for hedge fands THE Group of Eight will give their approval to temporary controls over short-term capital flows at their upcoming summit in Germany, a report here yesterday said. The G-8 will agree on the
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      Lock icon Gulf states also ban food products from Belgium
      249 7 DUBAI AFP THE Gulf states have joined a growing number of countries in banning imports of a list of Belgian food products for fear of dioxin contamination, officials announced yesterday. Bahraini Commerce Minister Ali Saleh al-Saleh said the ban covers Belgian poultry
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      Lock icon Euro seen falling to new lows against US$
      508 7 NEWYORK European recovery not expected soon; no lift seen from N&to peace talks AFP, Reuters THE euro will probably fall to new lows against the dollar this week as traders remain unconvinced that Europe's economy will recover soon and that European officials
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon More shopping online in HK than in S'pore
      736 8  -  This could be because people in Hongkong have used the Net for a longer period, says study By 1 Toh Han Shih {SINGAPORE] Time-con-scious Hongkongers have taken to cybershopping more readily than Singaporeans who still prefer to touch and feel the goods
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      14,000 Microsoft workers testing Windows 2000
      490 8  -  The software giant is always the first to use the products it is developing From Andrew Wee in Redmond, Washington "WE EAT our own dog food," Microsoft Corp's Mike Huber proclaimed with a smile. But don't get the wrong idea. The general manager for
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    • IT TAKES
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        Multilingual domain names
        81 9 A SINGAPORE team has invented a new Internet technology that can potentially help millions of people using various languages to access the World Wide Web and communicate with each other online more easily. Known as the Internationalised Domain Name System, the technology can support multilingual Internet domain
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        XML seminar
        65 9 XML, the "Extensible Mark-up Language", is a next-generation Internet language that will give more capabilities to electronic commerce. The XML seminar will explain XML in detail. The seminar will be held on June 17 at the Temasek IT Applied Science School, Temasek Polytechnic. It is organised by the
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        Altera's donation to NTU
        46 9 ALTERA Corporation, a US maker of programmable logic devices and computer aided engineering logic development tools, is donating nearly $1 million worth of development tools to Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Achieva Components, a Singapore firm, will be Altera's distributor in this region.
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        Face recognition technology
        56 9 VISIONICS Corporation will unveil a face recognition technology at Scan-Tech Asia '99. Visionic's face recognition technology, Facelt, is a software engine that automatically detects, locates and identifies human faces from live video and static images. The Scan-Tech exhibition will run from June 23 to 25 at the
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        OTC wins more allies
        85 9 THE Online Technology Consortium (OTC) has announced four new alliances and two community services with certain companies. These services are provided on Community Connection, a network of virtual communities hosted by OTC. The two new services are Simon Sez, an electronic commerce brand by Net Perceptions,
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        CommunicAsia99
        42 9 COMMUNICASIA99, an IT and communications event, will be held from June 22 to 25 at Singapore Expo. To be featured at CommunicAsia99 are MobileCommAsia99, NetworkAsia99 and Internetßusiness99, which is new. For more information, call Jean Khoo at *****19 or visit www.communicasia.com.
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        Compaq system for library
        44 9  -  Compiled by' Toh Han Shih COMPAQ Computer Asia and CARL East have teamed up to supply a $6 million Information Management and Delivery System to the National Library Board. The contract covers hardware from Compaq and application software from CARL.
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      HP to invest $65m to push new sales model in Asia
      595 9  -  US IT giant expects 10-20% sales growth in Asia over the next 12 months By\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US giant Hew-lett-Packard Company will invest US$3B million (Ss6s million) over the next 12 months in Asia to push its new
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      Asian crisis not stopping BMC from expanding
      324 10  -  It plans to increase staff strength to 400 by end of year By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] BMC Software is expanding in Asia despite the financial crisis, with plans to raise its headcount to 400 by the end of this year, a big
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      IBM, IHPC set up Knowledge Discovery Centre
      290 10  -  Venture will market and manage commercial data-mining projects By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] International Business Machines Corp and the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) joined hands last week to set up Knowledge Discovery Centre (KDC) which will market and manage commercial data-mining and
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      SAP's new strategy for Net business
      364 11  -  New portals to simplify bnsiness-to-bnsiness e-commerce will debut later this year Ry\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] German software giant SAP AG last week unveiled its Internet business strategy under its new mySAP.com umbrella that it said would simplify and accelerate business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce over the
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      Pegasystems setting up office in S'pore
      289 11  -  By' Tan May Ping [SINGAPORE] Pegasystems Inc, which specialises in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, will be setting up office in Singapore within the next few months. The operation here will help Pegasystems develop a stronger presence in Asia, the company's vice-president and managing
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      Lock icon PCs in China getting cheaper amid price war
      164 11 Xinhua [BEIJING] The Chinese people will soon find that personal computers are cheaper, thanks to a price war between Chinese manufacturers that has gone on for several months. The price of the latest model of computer with the Pentium 111 processor has
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Sharp unveils new notebook
        81 11 SHARP-ROXY Sales Singapore has announced the PC-A250 notebook computer (right) with a new low-reflective black TFT active matrix display "that lessens screen reflection in bright outdoor settings and gives crystal-clear images and text". It is 21mm thick, weighs 1.38 kg, runs on a 300 MHz Intel
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        Free trial of Ilog OPL Studio Pro
        78 11 ILOG Singapore is offering free downloads of the trial version of Ilog OPL Studio Pro from its Website at www.ilog.com/oploffer. It offers a complete design environment that lets users write optimisation models for scheduling, sequencing and logistics. It also lets users generate automatic
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        Imation's new tape cartridge
        45 11 IMATION Singapore has come out with its Black Watch 9840 half-inch tape cartridge for use in Storage Technology Corp's 9840 drives. Each $240 cartridge provides 20 GB native storage and up to 80 GB with data compression. For details, call 1800.*****55.
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        JBuilder 3 from Inprise
        74 11 INPRISE Singapore (previously Borland) has announced JBuilder 3, a development toolkit to simplify the development of Java applets, applications, servlets, Javaßeans, Enterprise Javaßeans and distributed Corba applications. It is initially available on Windows, and will later debut on Solaris and Linux. It is available in three
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        New BeOS for multimedia
        75 11 STANDARD Western Singapore has released a new multimedia based operating system from US-based Be Inc. Called BeOS, it is targeted at digital content creators who want to manipulate high bandwidth digital media in real time on PCs. It works seamlessly with the Internet, lets users create
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        Two notebooks from Gateway
        83 11 GATEWAY 2000 has introduced two new notebook computers under its Solo line for home and office users. The top-end Solo 9150 runs on Pentium II processors, comes with a 15-inch display, 8 MB video RAM and is targeted as a desktop replacement, with prices starting at
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        Dell's new management software
        83 11  -  Compiled by! Raju Chellam DELL Computer has announced a new browser-based management software for businesses to better manage Dell systems and track total ownership costs. Dell Open Manage IT Assistant lets network administrators monitor the health of IT assets, configure and remotely manage Dell systems on
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      Taking the plunge in e-business
      961 13  -  Presentations by IBM's e-business customers in New York showed that no two experiences are the same, KEmreiH james reports. KENNETH JAMES NEW York entrepreneur Bonnie Ott took 28 years to build a business out of putting corporate logos on a mind-boggling array of promotional knick-knacks;
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      Big Blue covers the bases in e-biz
      390 13 MENTION electronic commerce and the name Amazon.com crops up with numbing Inevitability. No question, this online vendor of books and an increasing variety of other products is the glamorous face of electronic commerce. It's also no coincidence that Amazon.com is a "business to
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      Look out, CD players, the Nomads are here
      401 14  -  Creative believes its product has an edge over its competitors By, Justyn Olby [SINGAPORE] Last week Creative fired the first salvo in its bid to become a leader in the personal digital entertainment market of the future by launching its own portable
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      Lock icon InfoGear unveils new Web phone for e-trade
      487 14 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Info Gear Technology Corp last week unveiled a new Web phone, the latest in an expected wave of devices aimed at linking users to the Internet without having to use a personal computer. Analysts have been forecasting strong growth in
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      265 8 A two day, practical workshop on Bth-9th July 1999 NUSS Orchard Guild House, Singapore How to implement effective E-Commerce Torhnin.mc Conducted by: I WS I I I I I(J II frj Mr. Scott A. Helmers, Mr. Michael P. Novitsky, Professional Consulting CPlMPresident of E-Commerce- Tapping The Power Of ,a ce
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      567 15  -  From the early days of Apple's VisiCalc to today's übiquitous Microsoft suites, KENMETH JAMES proves that software rules KENNETH JAMES AS technology changed through the ages, so did the tools with which people do business. And nowhere in history have business tools evolved as
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      1222 16 A SPECIAL BT ADVERTISING FEATURE OFFICE 2000 is on the cutting edge of a new and exciting development in the business world Knowledge Management. KM is the latest management discipline that allows a company to treat its intellectual capital as a managed asset. The
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      1133 17  -  The Net is changing everything. Does that mean the office suite as we know it is destined to go the way of the T-Rex, KENNETH JAMES wonders KENNETH JAMES TAKE a bunch of business software programs, each one a me-ga-sized application in its own right. Put them together
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      1057 18  -  We no longer write, we word-process, and what a process that's been. BEMMETH JAMES reminisces KENNETH JAMES WE were a motley group back in the early 1980s, a merry mix of academics, office workers, government types and a couple of precocious teenagers, all hardcore enthusiasts united
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      1252 18 A SPECIAL BT ADVERTISING FEATURE MICROSOFT Office has established a position as the most efficient suite of applications for document creation, communication, and business information analysis. For many functions, business has evolved from using paper to using the Web. Microsoft Office 2000 similarly extends the desktop to
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      Business @ the speed of Bill Gates
      1035 19  - Business the speed of Bill Gates Information determines corporate success, RAJU CHELLAM learns from Microsoft chiefs new book RAJU CHELLAM Title: Business The Speed Of Thought: Using A Digital Nervous System Author: Bill Gates, with Collins Hemingway Publisher: Warner Books Inc Pages: 470 Price: Ss4o y 'l have a simple
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      313 19 TO make digital information flow an intrinsic part of your company, here are 12 key steps or commandments from present-day Moses, Bill Gates: ♦Insist that communication flow through the organisation over e-mail so that you can act on news with re-flex-like speed; ♦Study sales data online to
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      1382 21  -  ANDREW WEE anxiously awaits the day when productivity suites can raise work efficiency without resorting to help manuals or technical support ANDREW WEE IN the distant future when humans communicate telepathically, the office of tomorrow will contain a room with old computers and
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      1140 21 A SPECIAL BT ADVERTISING FEATURE MICROSOFT Office 2000 aims to be the application suite of the future as this latest version of Office is hitting the shelves around the world. In a question and answer session Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft Office vice-president, and the man ultimately
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      113 15 Microsoft' St Wlu W A* Mr ••ri. i. Imagine being able to upload your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations onto your intranet or LAN server with a Br" single click, and then sharing them with your co-workers. The new Microsoft Office 2000 lets you do that. And more.
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      113 17 t Microsoft' £1 w^n JjLifcv v jIfSFB Jfetx JK|l You've got the data. But It's worth nothing without management. Microsoft Office 2000 gives you richer data handling tools to organize information into business-specific databases. It also gives you new web collaboration features that let you share your charts, tables and
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      545 24  -  STORE ARTS FESTIVAL A rare chance to see a ballet that served an ideological function, writes chua soo powo CHUA SOO PONG THE Red Detachment Of Women is synonymous with dance of the Cultural Revolution (1966-75) of China. During that decade, it was performed by professional and amateur
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      491 24  -  MUSIC By\ David Chow THE third of June was the night for Star Wars. However, even George Lucas did not manage to eclipse another celestial celebrity at the grandest gala concert of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's 20th anniversary year, with tickets to see acclaimed violinist
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      505 24  -  Comprehension Is sacrificed in this one-man play By: Parvathi Nayar PLASTIC WOMAN, a bilingual one-man play by Maya theatre company from Thailand, which played for two nights last week at Jubilee Hall, was about an artificially created, synthetic woman who walked the streets stark naked. Obviously the
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      543 24  -  By\ Parvathi Nayar IT sounded like an interesting combination, mime and symphonic music. American mime artists T Daniel and Laurie Willets, the team behind T Daniel Productions, have gained recognition for their collaborative work with around 10 different symphony orchestras, where they use
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      383 25  -  Altum's expertise will enhance group's connector-making business, it says By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Ultro Technologies has defended its purchase of precision machining firm Altum Precision, following a thumbs-down from some analysts. In a letter to BT, the company said it decided to buy
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      109 25 [SINGAPORE] Pacific Internet and Standard Chartered have launched the Pacific Internet Visa card. Exclusive to PI subscribers, the card comes with privileges like 100 free surfing hours if they use the card to charge their bills to the Internet service provider and online discounts at selected
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      323 25  -  Blue-chip insurer lost $591 m on sale of investments in'9B By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The volatile financial markets last year made 1998 a very busy one for Great Eastern Life Assurance's investment staff. The blue-chip life and general insurer said
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      721 25  -  Magnecomp leads the way with 18% gain over the week By\ Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Punters in search of penny-stock laggards latched on to US-dollar listed counter Magnecomp last week, driving the price up by 17 US cents (550.29), or 18 per
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      701 25  -  HAXOSENOZVSIOBT Wages and asset prlcos must £all If HK Is to stay compotltlvo By Quak Hiang Whai THE refusal of Cathay Pacific Airways' pilots to take a pay cut sitting down may be symptomatic of a deeper malaise in Hongkong. If China's Special Administrative
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        424 26 China crude oil, petrol trader's float will be HE'S largest so far this year Reuters [HONGKONG] Chinese crude oil and petrol trader Sinopec Kantons Holdings Ltd is set to make Hongkong's largest initial public offering so far this year in what will
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        316 26 Move follows US Enmb&nk'sbidto seize 4 planes AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) chairman and chief executive Lucio Tan has threatened to scuttle a revival plan for the carrier amid moves by the US Export Import Bank (Eximbank) to seize four aircraft.
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        490 26  -  Foreign partner will be chosen within 3 months, he says Awn! Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta LIPPO Group deputy chairman James Riady has confirmed he is in talks to sell a significant stake in his profitable life insurance business. In an exclusive interview with BT,
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        344 27 For IBM, deal is another in a string of mnltibillion-dollar product-supply deals Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] International Business Machines Corp and Acer Group Inc, Taiwan's largest personal computer maker, are expected to announce today a pact to sell products to each other worth about
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        391 27 Future of their insurance joint venture at stake FT [TOKYO] GE Capital's ambitious push into Japan suffered a setback on Friday as Toho Mutual, its partner in an insurance joint venture, had its operations frozen by Japanese regulators. The Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) said
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        349 27 Strategy aims to strengthen C&W identity worldwide SCMP [LONDON] Cable Wireless (C&W) is to rebrand Hongkong Telecom in a move aimed at strengthening C&W's international Identity. C&W has a 54 per cent stake in Hongkong Telecom. The strategy, which has echoes of HSBC's US$5O
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        Lock icon Allied Signal, Honeywell said to discuss merger
        398 28 Deal would create avionics giant with USs24b revenue NYT [NEW YORK] Allied Signal, the diversified manufacturer, and Honeywell, the maker of electronic controls, are in merger discussions, people close to the companies said on Friday. A combination of the two, which could be
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        366 28 Procter Gamble set to announce restructuring Company plans to close plants, cnt thousands of jobs, mostly abroad Reuters [NEW YORK) Consumer products giant Procter Gamble Co is expected to report a major restructuring, cutting thousands of jobs, closing plants and taking a multimillion-dollar charge, when it meets with analysts on
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          113 28 Bloomberg [MILPITAS, California] Quantum Corp shares fell as much as 13 per cent last Friday after the No 2 computer disk-drive maker said fiscal first-quarter earnings will be less than half what analysts forecast because of industrywide price cuts. Profit for the quarter ending
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          66 28 AFX-Asia 15m?5 s Wireless Optus is negotiating a deal with US cable company giant AHome which would position it to challenge Telstra Corp as the country's leading broadband operator, the Weekend Australian said. The deal with AHome, partly-owned by Microsoft Corp. includes negotiations
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          93 28 Reuters [MUNICH] France Telecom SA wants to acquire a 17.2 per cent stake in Germany's third-largest mobile phone operator E-Plus, Focus weekly magazine said yesterday Focus said in a summary of an article in today's edition that according to analysts Telecom would be paying at
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          62 28 Reuters [LONDON] US industrial and security group Tyco International Ltd is preparing a £3.6 billion (Sslo billion) takeover bid for security firm Williams pic, the Sunday Telegraph reported. Williams was not available for comment on the article, the latest in a string of
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        464 29 USs9b takeover of Bankers Trust produces giant with USsBl7b in assets LAT-WP, FT [BALTIMORE] Germany's giant Deutsche Bank became the world's largest banking company on Friday, completing its US$9 billion (5515.5 billion) acquisition of Bankers Trust Corp six months after the deal was announced.
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        342 29 Reuters [LONDON] Lloyd's of London insurance market vehicle CLM Insurance Fund reported a 40 per cent fall in 1998 profit to £10.8 million (5529.8 million) on Friday as it felt the force of soft insurance rates from previous years. The group, which
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        510 29 Parent renames business Deutsche Asset Management Reuters [LONDON] The once eminent British merchant banking name of Morgan Grenfell finally bit the dust on Friday when Deutsche Bank, which bought Grenfell in 1989, renamed its global asset management business. The business, including the part formerly
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        569 31 gT Tnr Weeklyßoundup [SINGAPORE] US dollar sentiment for the week should have been largely set by last Friday's US employment report. That said, tempered inflation fears and stabilising US asset markets would allow the greenback to benefit from its relative growth and yield
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        847 31 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Cocoa was full of beans on international markets last week, prices jumping in spectacular style as sales slowed in the number one producer region of western Africa. On London's futures market, a tonne
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        296 32 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG share prices are expected to consolidate in the week ahead as the market keeps a close watch on US developments to gauge the possibility of a US interest rate increase, dealers said. "It all depends on US economic
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        608 32 Some money managers argne a boost in rates has already been priced into stocks and bonds NEWYORK Bloomberg ENOUGH with the inflation hysteria. Rate increase or not, the stock market is poised for further gains this year. At least that's the view
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        873 32 »40.7 DEVELOPMENTS in the United States will set the trend for the Australian market in the week ahead with domestic data playing second fiddle, brokers said. "Markets will continue to monitor comments by Fed officials, listening particularly closely to (Fed chairman Alan) Greenspan's talk on Thursday," said
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        415 32 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are expected to post limited gains in the coming week on hopes that the government will launch new stimulus measures to boost the ailing economy, brokers said on Friday. "The Tokyo market is likely to
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        303 32 LONDON AFP LONDON stocks profited last week from a string of positive company news and from an upbeat economic outlook against a backdrop of benevolent monetary policy. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares closed on Friday at 6,361.5 points, up 135.3 points, or
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        1771 32 Qp»ri» -2121 FRENCH shares closed down on Friday but off earlier lows and fractionally ahead on the week, after an edgy day with the market glued to US jobs data. The CAC-40 Index ended off 0.24 per cent at 4,344.25 points, a drop of 29.21 points on
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        493 33 AFP CI Composite Index -9.23 MALAYSIAN stock prices are expected to remain in a consolidation mode in the coming days after falling 1.2 per cent over the week to Friday, analysts said. One analyst with a local brokerage predicted the key stock index would
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        170 34  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy THEMES come and go in the market for some time now, electronics or a ".com" theme has driven many penny stocks up to new heights. The making of rubber keypads, however, hasn't been a business which has
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        537 36 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Votam IK Corpn 5c 176,928,000 Frt Links 20c 137,637,000 6ES l nt I Ltd 20c 104.234.000 Li Xin 10c 92,621.000 Hotung Inv NTS 91.917,000 Asia FoodiProp 91,071,000 ST Capital 25c 82,962,000 tCT HKtOc 81,898,000 Goldtron 20c 80,988,000 SM Summit 10c 80,058.000 Stocks KepTatLee Bank 180,464,435 GES
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        638 36  -  THE WEEK ATfBATI Investors expected to go for stocks with real value as stories fuelling second-liners fizzle ont By R Sivanithy INVESTORS spent much of last week worrying about a possible US interest rate hike, but Friday's US job report which showed
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        55 36  -  By Wong Wei Kong GES International shares rose 9 cents to $1.67 last Friday with 11.2 million shares traded, lower than its 10-day traded average of 28.7 million shares. The stock is toppish, as indicated by the RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts, and a consolidation is on the
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      686 52 CATHAY PILOTS' PAT ROW Other HE firms looking at airline as benchmark for their own wage policy: analysts Reuters [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways and senior pilots who have disrupted hundreds of flights by calling in sick for 10 days will
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      74 52 [HAVANA] An airplane taking off from Havana's Jose Marti international airport behind the gleaming, new Terminal 3 inaugurated last year to handle the growing influx of tourists to the Caribbean island. Once isolatedfrom the world, and with a deficient airport structure, Cuba now hosts 60foreign airlines
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      679 52 China's vehicle sales slowing along with economy Bloomberg [SHENYANG, China] General Motors Corp. hoping to secure a slice of what may someday be the world's largest car market, plans to sell sport utility vehicles in China at a
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      Lock icon PAL workers to keep jobs while airline restructures
      467 52 Reuters [MANILA] Employees of debt-ridden Philippine Airlines Inc (PAL) will keep their jobs as the carrier undergoes reforms outlined in its survival programme, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief said. At the same time, PAL president Avelino Zapanta said the fresh
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      Lock icon Delta speeds up medical equipment
      106 52 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc, the No 3 US airline, said it will install heart-resusci-tating devices called defibrillators and emergency medical kits on its 584 planes six months ahead of schedule to improve in-flight safety. The company said in January 1998 that it would
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      Lock icon Northwest Airlines flight attendants vote to strike
      229 52 Reuters [CHICAGO] Northwest Airlines Corp flight attendants have voted overwhelmingly to strike, their union said, setting the stage for the second work stoppage in a year at the country's fourth-larg-est airline. Of the 8,735 ballots cast, only 49 opposed a strike, according to
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