The Business Times, 21 June 1999

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    19 1 ffHE BUSINESSTlMES MiTAjPjtii^wae^ 85c S I N G A P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1999
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    76 1 FOBEX KATES us$ s$ USJ 1.7*7 f(US*S$perf) —1.592 2.718 PER E)1.«N 1.768 DM 1.8M 0.899 YEN 119J 1.431* KM UK 0.449 HKS 7.718 0.220 BAHT 9187 0.046 KUP1AH 7,240. 0.084* SI to 100 units ROB Bins SINGAPORE* ,M8 HIALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40 00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon $3.4b and counting: S'pore firms go big on fund-raising
    900 1  -  Amount raised so far by listed companies is 79% more than last year Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Listed Singapore companies are raising funds aggressively again garnering a total of $3.4 billion from equity and bond issues so far this year, or
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    Lock icon Dr M may call early polls with brighter economic, political picture
    554 1  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad may call an earlier-than-expected election due to the economic turnaround and his stronger grip on the dominant political party United Malays National Organisation (Umno). "It makes it easier
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    Lock icon Automated share trading is one handphone call away
    528 1  -  Fr&ser Securities to launch mobile e-trading this month By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Some eight months after Singapore stockbrokers introduced Internet share trading, a brokerage is taking the convenience further by offering fully automated trading through handphones. Fraser Securities will have a
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    Lock icon S'pore govt installs new $40m financial system
    560 1  -  System will manage govt's operating and development expenditure budget /ty] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Singapore government has put into place a new financial system that all government ministries and organs of state will use for budgeting, purchas ing and other financial functions. The
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      145 1 dbbpe CHais Watch A Japanese recovery could have some unpleasant side-effects for Asia, Pg3 Bfg S—g Tmright Are lower interest rates enough to jumpstart the recovery of the Hongkong economy? More importantly, how much reduction can we expect under a firming US environment? P|l9 Surge in MT*er ales Sales of
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      9 1 Listed firms' divestments set to be gradual, Pg 19
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      15 1 BT editorial was unwise and rash: PM Goh, Pg 4 More Umno reports, Pg 4
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      37 1 Will Megawati The Indonesian presidency may elude her. But the legitimacy she has won from the people will somehow have to be accommodated in the new political landscape, says Yang Razali Kassim. Pj 6 J v r
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon From rojak stall to petrochem specialist
      1010 2  -  True grit and persistence turn Hai Leek into multi-million dollar business By. David Boey THIS is a story about a onetime rojak and fresh fruit hawker's assistant who struck gold in the corporate world. He's Cheng Buck Poh, chairman of corrosion protection and scaffolding
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      Lock icon April retail sales up 2.5%
      307 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Retail By. Audrey Tan CONSUMER confidence continued to pick up in April, as the volume of retail sales rose 2.5 per cent from a year ago, figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics (DOS) show. While April's rise was considerably
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      Lock icon S'porean set to revolutionise computing
      490 2 Semiconductor lasers may make silicon chips obsolete AFP [CHICAGOJ Ground-break-ing research by a Singaporean laser guru here may soon lead to commercial applications of integrated optic circuits that could revolutionise telecommunications and computing worldwide. A team led by Northwestern University associate professor Ho Seng Tiong
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon A double-edged sword for Asia
      813 3  -  CRISIS WATCH A Japanese recovery could have some unpleasant side effects for the region Hi! Vikram Khanna ONE of the frequent assertions early on during the Asian crisis was that one reason why Asian economies did not bounce back as fast as Mexico after its
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      Lock icon Taiwan GNP growth forecast lowered to 4.74%
      182 3 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's gross national product (GNP) is forecast to grow 4.74 per cent this year, lower than the previously projected 5.25 per cent, despite an upturn in the export sector, newspaper reports said yesterday. The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD)
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      Lock icon China emerges a stronger regional force
      371 3 The economic crisis has weakened Asia, making Beijing a key factor in many issues AFP [SINGAPORE] China has emerged as a stronger military and economic power after the East Asian financial crisis forced its neighbours to slash defence spending, according to a regional consultancy.
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      Lock icon China plans to issue special bonds this year
      506 3 Bonds worth less than 100b yuan will fund infrastructure Reuters, Bloomberg (BEIJING) China is likely to issue special bonds worth less than 100 billion yuan (5520.5 billion) in the second half of this year as part of efforts to revive flagging economic
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      254 3 SONY. A Jk Imf: The world's only floppy disk digital camera now comes with a 1.3 mega pixel CCD and 16x zoom. Digital Take brilliant high-resolution digital photographs of objects as near as 4mm or M a as far as the eye can see, bringing the action right up close
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indonesian parties agree to maintain IMF reform plans
      552 4  -  Fischer's talks with leaders reveal no big disagreements, say sources /Vow I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AFTER holding marathon one-to-one discussion sessions with Indonesia's five largest political parties over the weekend, the International Monetary Fund has ensured that its economic reform programme
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      Lock icon Growing opposition to a woman as president
      444 4 .JAKARTA AFX-Asia, AFP OPPOSITION to Indonesia's foremost opposition leader, Megawati Sukarnoputri, becoming president because she is a woman is growing. Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid said the National Awakening Party (PKB) cannot guarantee full support for Ms Megawati in her bid for presidency. Ms
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      Lock icon BT editorial was unwise and rash, says PM Goh
      165 4  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR S'poreans should not join in pre-election debate on Malaysia's future Ong Keng Yong /Yess Secretary to the lYime Minister (Sent at 9J36pni, Saturday, June 19) I REFER to your editorial of June 18,1999 entitled "Waiting for Mahathir's
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      Lock icon Daim warns banks over slow disbursements of devt funds
      494 4  -  UMNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S First Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin yesterday warned that the government would withdraw allocations provided under several development funds disbursed through banks because it is not satisfied with their pace of disbursement
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      Lock icon Malaysian opposition joins hands for elections
      217 4 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S four main opposition parties have agreed to join forces against Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's coalition in a general election expected soon, politicians said yesterday. The four parties plan to put up a single candidate in each of the 192 parliamentary
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      Lock icon Anwar behind issues raised at Umno meet, admits ex-youth leader
      241 4 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama FORMER Umno Youth head Ahmad Zahid Hamidi admitted yesterday that he was told by Anwar Ibrahim to raise the issues on nepotism and cronyism during the Umno general assembly last year. He also admitted that the former
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      Lock icon KL may make A-G Bar Council president
      151 4 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama LAWS will be amended to allow the attorney-general to be made the Malaysian Bar Council president if the council continues to make unfounded statements against the government and allowed itself to be made use of by foreigners. Deputy Minister in
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      6 4 Presidency slipping /rom Megawati, Pg 6
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon Fake goods sales at critical levels in China
      295 5  -  From David Murphy in Heijiny SALES of counterfeit goods in China have reached critical levels, a report by a group of leading multinationals says. The trade in fake goods cost leading brand names billions of dollars in revenue each year and accounted
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    • SINO Briefs
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        Lock icon Chinese foreign-related tax revenue up
        54 5 Bridge News [SHANGHAI] China's improved tax collection procedures for foreign individuals, wholly-owned foreign enterprises and enterprises with foreign investment have helped the government boost its foreign-related tax revenue 47.2 per cent in the first quarter, against the year-earlier period, the official China Daily's Business Weekly
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        Lock icon China bank loan for Three Gorges dam
        52 5 Reuters [SHANGHAI] The China Construction Bank plans to lend four billion yuan (SsB2o billion) for the second phase construction of the Three Gorges dam, the China Daily's Business Weekly reported yesterday. The newspaper did not say what the terms of the loan would
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        Lock icon Taiwanese, Chinese get life for spying
        74 5 AFP [BEIJING] A Chinese court has sentenced a Taiwanese national and a mainland official to life in prison for gathering intelligence and revealing state secrets. Xiong Tian-jun was convicted of spying from 1990 to March 1997 by the Hainan Intermediate People's Court in southern
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      Lock icon China tries to find way out of banks' bad debts
      691 5  -  Debt management firm Cinda trying to retrieve 300b ynan ofNPLsat China Construction Bank f-Yom David Murphy in Beijing IN the shiny glass and steel headquarters of the China Construction Bank (CCB) on Beijing's Financial Street, Fang Xinghai sits and contemplates
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      Lock icon Taiwan export orders continue brisk recovery
      445 5  -  May figure almost as much as April's 16-month high f-Yom Macabe Keliher irt Taipei TAIWAN'S export orders in May grew by over 5 per cent from a year earlier to about US$lO.5 billion (SslB billion), joining other strong economic indicators in what government officials
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Presidency slipping from Megawati
      2790 6  -  The PDI-P leader is now widely being considered a liability as potential president. Try Sutrisno and Gus Dur stand to benefit from the fall-ou Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor. He filed this from Jakarta. Monday. June 21. That's supposed to be
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Asia's info-com market set for growth explosion
      742 8  -  Analysts: Utilities like NTT and C&W will need to compete and cooperate with others in region From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE process of turning East Asian nations into fullywired "information societies" is likely to accelerate rapidly in the wake of developments over
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      Lock icon Indian troops build up on Punjab border
      451 8 THEYKALAN, India Doubts over whether general election will be held on time Reuters, AFP INDIA'S army is in a state of alert with an estimated 30,000 soldiers from infantry, artillery and armoured battalions taking up positions on the border with Pakistan. A senior
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      Lock icon Japanese press calls for prompt action to regulate hedge funds
      350 8 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE newspapers utged the world's economic powers yesterday to be prompt in working out measures to regulate short-term capital flows to prevent more financial crises in emerging economies. The leaders of the world's seven industrial powers, meeting in
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      Lock icon Australia sells itself to US, Japan as financial hub
      645 8 SYDNEY Bat high corporate tax rate remains a stumbling block AFP HONGKONG and Singapore are recognised financial hubs and Sydney has made it clear it wants to join them. In an effort to attract more multinationals. Prime Minister John Howard heads
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      Lock icon Coalition hopeful it has won over key senators to Telstra sale
      338 8 SYDNEY Reuters THE Australian government is hopeful of having legislation for the sale of a further 16.6 per cent in Telstra Corp approved after offering sweeteners to two key senators. Environment Minister Robert Hill said yesterday the coalition government
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      Lock icon 1998 'worst year for Lankan economy'
      228 8 COLOMBO AFP SRI Lanka's central bank in its latest report described 1998 as the worst year for Sri Lanka's economy since the *****, but analysts say the figures for the first four months of this year point to an even worse period. Sri Lanka's
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Dutch police bust credit card fraud syndicate
      210 10 ROTTERDAM Card details passed on to contacts in Asia, where false cards were produced AFP DUTCH police have rounded up a global credit card fraud syndicate operating out of the Netherlands, a RotterdamRijnmond (south) police spokesman said here at the weekend. "The majority
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      Lock icon Challenges remain for global economy
      595 10 G8 SUMMIT 6-8 nations seek more balanced growth in world economy AFP [COLOGNE! The leaders of the world's most powerful countries noted yesterday that the outlook for the global economy had improved, but a number of serious challenges remained. In the final communique of the
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      Lock icon Gates leads with US$90b as the rich get richer: Forbes
      356 10 NEW YORK AFP THE rich are getting richer, but Microsoft chief Bill Gates is still the richest person in the world with a fortune valued at US$9O billion (Ssls3 billion), according to the US magazine Forbes Global. But the combined
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      Lock icon US high tech firms run out of visas for workers
      286 10 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US high technology employers are fuming that they must wait until October to hire any more skilled foreign workers because the nation has reached its cap on temporary work visas for fiscal 1999. With US unemployment at a
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific server sales up a record 26% in first quarter
      439 11  -  Singapore grows 9% with server sales topping US$5O million By\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Sales of computer servers in key countries in the Asia-Pacific region surged a record 26 per cent in revenue terms during the quarter ended March 1999 compared
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      Lock icon Siemens, Fujitsu to merge European computer units
      336 11 New York Times [FRANKFURT, Germany] Hoping to close the gap with bigger American computer rivals, Siemens of Germany and Fujitsu of Japan said last week they that would combine their European computer businesses. The new entity, with total annual revenue of more than
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      Lock icon E-commerce on mobile phones, a world first from S'pore company
      539 11  -  VirtnaShop Mobile developed for e-transactions on mobile devices B* Justyn Olby [SINGAPORE] Home-grown The Edge Consultants has launched a unique solution called VirtuaShop Mobile, claiming it to be the first of its kind in the world that offers e-commerce solutions
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      Lock icon 3Com, Aether to form wireless data access firm
      459 12 Additional investors expected to join new company Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO) 3Com Corp, a leading maker of com-puter-networking equipment, and Aether Technologies will form a new company to tap the nascent market for accessing e-mail, the Internet and corporate-network information through wireless technology,
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      Lock icon Strong growth tipped for Asia-Pacific telecom market
      783 12  -  llany countries in this region still have low-level telecom infrastructure: IDC Bif Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE) Telecommunications in the Asia-Pacific, including Singapore and countries badly hit by the Asian crisis, will enjoy strong growth for the next few years, according to a study
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      Lock icon Y2K plans drafted for Japan power firms
      200 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's electric power companies have drafted contingency plans to prepare for any disruptions that may occur due to the millennium computer bug, the head of the Federation of Electric Power Companies said last week. "Operations (to cope with a possible disruption)
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    • IT TAKES
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        70 12 ABOUT 100 chief executives from Internet service providers, telcos and IT companies converged in Singapore last week to map out Asia-wide strategies to promote the use of multimedia. The Asian Multimedia Forum (AMD convened its 7th plenary meeting here. The event was organised by Singapore Technologies
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        Lock icon Oracle's ERP business growing
        57 12 ORACLE Singapore has reported that its licence revenue growth for ERP (electronic resource planning) applications grew more than 80 per cent for its year-ended May 31. Its overall growth for the year was up 40 per cent over 1998. This includes sales from database and tools,
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        Lock icon Polycom expands office in S'pore
        56 12 POLYCOM, a company offering multimedia communications solutions, will expand its new Asia-Pacific office in Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its video, audio and Web conferencing business throughout the region. With the opening of the new office, Polycom has added three workers to
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        Lock icon Cisco invests in India
        61 12 CISCO Systems Inc recently announced it will expand in India, with the first phase involving investments of over US$2O million (***** million). Cisco will expand its Indian headcount by over 3V4 times in the next 18 months, open a global engineering development centre, increase R&D and
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        Lock icon Sonic Systems appoints new distributor
        32 12 SONIC Systems has appointed Pacific Technology as the authorised distributor for Sonic's Sonic WALL, a family of Internet security appliances that protect the corporate network from intruders.
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        33 12 NOVELL has announced it is naming qualified software and hardware products from outside developers as "Directory-enabled", meaning they are compatible with the newest version of Novell Directory Services, NDS 8.
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        Lock icon SAS Institute's data warehouse info
        48 12  -  Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih SAS Institute recently announced the availability of MetaSpace Explorer Version 1.2, a Java applet that allows users to browse information contained in a data warehouse. Written in Java, the applet provides remote access to an organisation's information.
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      Lock icon Control the key to Y2K snags on the PC
      610 13  -  SAT IT! By Christopher Crane The author is general manager (Asia-Pacific), WRQ Software Pte Ltd THE phrase, "Year 2000 (Y2K) problem", has moved from buzzword to boredom; familiarity is beginning to breed contempt. There are even Web sites devoted to Y2K
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      Lock icon Slew of communication products at CommunicAsia
      322 13  -  Mega-event to see 23,000 visitors, and 900 exhibiting companies from 40 countries By Raju Chellam (SINGAPORE) It will be Singapore's biggest infotech and telco exposition yet and promises to dazzle with a slew of communications and IT products from 900 exhibiting companies from over
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      Lock icon New Packard Bell PC goes for chic look
      206 13 Reuters [SACRAMENTO, California] Packard Bell NEC Inc has jumped on to the sleek and chic bandwagon, replacing the standard beige box PC with a slender new two-toned computer designed to appeal to the aestictic sensibilities of consumers the way Apple Computer did
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      Lock icon Hotmail whizz kid works on new Net passion
      115 13 AFP (HONG KONG] Sabeer Bha tia, the Indian who created email message service Hotmail and then sold it to US software giant Microsoft Corp for US$4OO million (Ss69o million), is working on his next Internet fortune. Mr Bhatia is to launch Arzoo!
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      Lock icon It's a great little music machine
      798 14  -  The Nomad comes in handy and is just right for the music lover on the move By, Justyn Olby [SINGAPORE] The recently launched Nomad from Creative Technology has an MP3 player, voice recorder and FM radio slotted neatly into its slim, sexy package. One
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      Lock icon Microsoft begins Platinum pitch six months before release
      713 14 The software giant is trying to catch np with Lotus Notes Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp has begun pitching its upgraded corpo-rate-messaging software six months ahead of its release in a bid to wrest control of the "groupware" market from International Business
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Lock icon Gateway Profile ready
        68 15 GATEWAY Inc has come out with its all-in-one desktop personal computer called Profile. It rims on an AMD K6-2 processor at 400 MHz with 64 MB RAM, 24-speed CD-ROM, 4.3 GB hard disk. 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller, and a 15-inch active matrix LCD display. The $3,470 system
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        Lock icon More powerful Power Macs now
        59 15 APPLE Computer said it has cranked up the speed on its Power Mac G3 computers with processors running at 450 MHz, 400 MHz and 350 MHz. In addition, the systems now comes with Mac OS 8.6, the latest version of the Mac operating system. Pricing
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        Lock icon Microsoft's upgrade for BackOffice
        66 15 MICROSOFT Corp has unveiled BackOffice Small Business Server 4.5, the latest version of its server suite for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The new release offers a comprehensive set of tools for controlling setup, network management and Internet connectivity. It costs U551,499 (552,600) for the server
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        Lock icon Canon's new colour laser printer
        86 15 CANON Marketing Services has introduced the Canon C LBP 460 PS laser printer (right) for high-speed colour printing. It can print on both sides of an A 4 or legal sized paper. It comes with an optional duplex unij that offers dual-side printing at one
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        Lock icon Digital video camera from ACS
        87 15 ACS Innovations has unveiled what it calls "the world's fastest USB (Universal Serial Bus) enabled digital video camera" for both PCs and Apple's iMac. Called Compro PS39U, it offers video speeds of up to 60 frames per second in a 176 by 144 pixel screen
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        Lock icon CD duplicator from ACS
        84 15  -  Compiled by! Raju Chellam ACS Innovations has launched the Compro CD Master Express Bx, a high-speed compact disk duplicator targeted at companies, software houses and service bureaus. It supports most CD formats such as CD-audio, video CD, CD-ROM, photo CD, CD extra, and mixed mode CDs.
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      Lock icon IBM set to unveil program to run Linux applications
      255 15 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp, the No. 1 computer maker, will unveil software to let programs designed for Linux run on other operating systems, increasing its support for the rival to Microsoft Corp's Windows. The IBM software is
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      Lock icon New pen-based input device from S'pore company
      371 15  -  DnoPen and e-Pad are among most advanced e-pens; designed and developed here By\ Raju Cheliam [SINGAPORE] Home-grown MG Logic, a developer of pen input technologies for computers, last week launched the e-Pad and Duo Pen calling them "one of the world's most advanced
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      Lock icon Microsoft's Y2K solutions
      178 15  -  Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] With the year 2000 fast approaching. Microsoft Corp has made available several resources to assist users in dealing with the "Millennium bug". According to Jason Matusow, US-based enterprise program manager at Microsoft, 95 per cent of Microsoft's products are Y2K-compliant or can be upgraded
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      Lock icon Out of disk space? Clik! here for storage
      456 16  -  Diminutive but powerful drive by lomega targeted at PC users ll ih Andrew Wee (SINGAPORE] First came the Zip, followed by the Jaz. And now the Clik! leads the third wave in lomega Corporations" drive (if you'll pardon the pun) to dominate
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      Lock icon Iomega plans to cut 450 jobs
      133 16 Bloomberg [ROY, Utah] lomega Corp, maker of the* Zip storage drive for personal computers, said it will cut 450 jobs as it closes two California plants and warned of a second- quarter loss. The company, which previously said it will close plants in San
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      Lock icon Industry execs not ready to bury two-way TV
      437 16 TV programmers ready to embrace technology New York Times [CHICAGO] Two-way television, thought to have been killed off by the Internet, is rising from the dead here at the annual convention of the cable television industry. Top industry executives are now saying
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      664 17  -  SINGAPORE ARTS FESTIVAL The play touches on real contemporary issues in the US but needs to be told with much more impact By. Parvathi Nayar ILLEGAL immigrants present a thorny dilemma, especially in the United States, which has to deal with more than its fair
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      623 18  -  S PORE ARTS FESTIVAL Australian Ballet, S'pore Dance Theatre present Australian and US works By Chua Soo Pong THE Australian Ballet and Singapore Dance Theatre joined hands for the first time at this year's Arts Festival in presenting a triple bill featuring the
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      571 18 WORLDCUP Warne shines after Pakistan posts lowest total in final [LONDON) Australia lifted the World Cup at Lord's yesterday when they crushed Pa kistan by eight wickets in the final after another inspirational performance by leg spinner Shane Warne. Warne captured four for
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      773 18  -  Veteran golfer is sole contender in US Open entering the final round with an under par score, says clstom brown CLIFTON BROWN NYT AFTER another torture test at the US Open. Payne Stewart was alone at the top on Saturday and alone under par. Setting up
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      636 19  -  Assets worth $3-6b expected to be shed; GLCs seen leading restructuring By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Singapore companies are refocusing on their core businesses but most market watchers are not expecting a big wave of asset sales to hit the market any time
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      886 19  -  Price falls last week for half the Bine Chip portfolio counters By\ Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Hectic activity on the fringes of the market last week may have masked the review under way of the unrealistic prices to which
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      783 19  -  HANG SENG INSIGHT Lower rates alone may not be enough to jumpstart economy Quak Hiang Whai WHAT is the crudest way of finding out if a banking system is flush with too much liquidity? Well, when you turn up for
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        569 20 Company expected to gain ground in China's huge insurance market Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong cy-ber-tycoon Richard Li's Pacific Century Insurance Ltd, 55.1 per cent-owned by Singa-pore-listed Pacific Century Regional Developments Ltd, has stolen the limelight in the local initial public offering market with plans for
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        262 20 It reflects positive impact of the bank's 20b baht equity issue, says SAP AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Standard Poor's has revised the ratings outlook for Bank of Ayudhya to stable from negative and affirmed the bank's B+ long-term and C short-term conterparty ratings. The
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        Lock icon Lufthansa-SIA in race for S African carrier stake
        226 20 Bridge News [JOHANNESBURG] Today is the deadline for final bids by potential foreign equity partners to take a 20 per cent stake in South Africa's national carrier. South African Airways (SAA), The Sunday Times reported. Singapore Airlines is bidding for a joint
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        625 20 Analysts say baying bonds will allow creditor banks to swap out ofNPLs Bridge News [SINGAPORE] The 8.41 bil lion Malaysian ringgit (Ss3.B billion) bond issue by Malaysian conglomerate Renong's toll-road operator unit will be fully subscribed because the issue has a relatively
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        449 20 Bernama (KUALA LUMPUR] TSH Resources Bhd. a resourcebased company, expects to post better earnings for the financial year ending Dec 31, 1999, said group managing director Kelvin Tan over the weekend. He said this is because the group's plantation area would
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          84 20 [SINGAPORE] DBS Land will extend the books closure date for its renounceable rights issue from July 2 to 8, after talks between DBS Bank and the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The transfer books and the register of members of the firm will now be
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          67 20 [SINGAPORE] Liang Huat Aluminium says it is not aware of material development or circumstances which could give rise to the increase in share price and volume of its shares recently. Last week, Liang Huat shares rose by about 45 per cent. It was
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          52 20 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian construction group United Engineers (M) Bhd plans to sell its 70 per cent owned unit Remedi Pharmaceuticals (M) Sdn Bhd to a new company which will be listed. UEM told the stock exchange Remedi would not be listed
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          33 20 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] TA Enterprise Bhd's rights issue of 572.585 million new shares with corresponding warrants has been oversubscribed by 13 per cent, Arab Malaysian Merchant Bank said. —AFX-Asia
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        468 26 Officials from both exchanges will meet in New York next month AFXAsia [TOKYO] The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is considering a tie-up with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and officials from the two bourses are scheduled to meet in New York next
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        241 26 Reuters [TEL AVIV] Texas Instruments will buy Israel's Libit Signal Processing for US$329 million (*****.3 million), Discount Investment Corp, a shareholder in Libit, said yesterday. In a statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Discount said Texas Instruments would pay US$3l5 million to
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        303 26 Resources group doubly hit by fail in ontpnt and prices Reuters [MELBOURNE] The Broken Hill Pty Co Ltd confirmed on Friday the dismal outlook for the group's full-year profit, reporting slides in its production of iron ore, coal, steel and oil over the
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        389 26 It will spend USsB3.sm to develop network to link up with households Reuters [TOKYOJ In a bold move to shrink the gap between telecom services and consumer goods, Sony Corp said last Friday it would build its own telecommunications infrastructure offering network
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        203 26 Reuters [NEW YORK] Sanwa Bank Ltd has forged plans to acquire a leading equity interest in Dai-ichi Securities Co, effectively putting the midsize securities firm under its group umbrella, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) has reported. Nikkei's Saturday edition, citing sources familiar with the
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        458 27 Analysts say it could slow company's revenue growth in second half of year NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Shares of the Intel Corp dropped by more than 5 per cent on Friday after the company informed personal computer manufacturers that its
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        308 27 Reuters [PARIS] US retail giant WalMart's bid for Britain's ASDA is just the beginning of strategic manoeuvrings in the European distribution sector which are likely to include a link between Wal-Mart and a French company, the head of French supermarket chain Leclerc said.
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        515 27 Chips seen fuelling earnings; stock doing better than cell-phone rivals' Bloomberg (SCHAUMBURG. Illinois) Motorola Inc stock is outperforming its two big cellulartelephone rivals, Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB. Yet investors and analysts say Motorola's semiconductor business deserves the credit. Shares of the world's
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        Lock icon C&W to buy back its 50% stake in One2One for £3.8b
        264 27 FT [LONDON) Cable Wireless, the UK telecoms group, on Friday bought back for £3.8 billion (5510.3 billion) its 50 per cent stake in one2one, the mobile phone operator currently up for sale. The move comes a month after Cable
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        411 27 But it is likely to find a partner and not a parent, they say Reuters [CHICAGO] Kmart Corp, the No 3 US retailer, may be on the shopping list of major grocery chains, but industry analysts said on Friday the discounter
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        422 28  -  Dealers see demand surging from Q3 on fears of supply woes due to Y2K bug From Neil Behrmann in London ASIAN businesses are being advised to raise their inventories of metals, agricultural products and paper. Even though billions of dollars have been spent to
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        Lock icon Citibank sizing up Thai banks but in no rush to buy
        494 28 Many prospects but also much to be resolved, says officer Reuters [BANGKOK] Citibank in Thailand is weighing the prospects of buying into Thai banks up for sale but is in no rush to do so. Country corporate officer Henry
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        181 28 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Two top executives at Commerzbank AG are being investigated for allegedly helping customers illegally evade taxes, bank spokesman Peter Pietsch said on Saturday. Commenting on a report in Der Spiegel magazine, Mr Pietsch confirmed that Frankfurt prosecutors are investigating supervisory board head
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        226 28 Bloomberg [LISBON) Banco Comercial Portugues, Portugal's second biggest bank, said it will bid for insurer Companhia de Seguros Mundial Confianca after a rival US$l billion (SSI.7 billion) investment plan by Banco Santander Central Hispano of Spain was blocked by the government. "The
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        331 28 Average return on assets also at record 1.32% in first qtr Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US commercial banks earned a record US$lB billion (5530.7 billion) in the first quarter, 13 per cent more than in the same period a year earlier, the Federal Deposit
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        1893 28 PRIME LENDING RATES BANKS ABN Amro Bank NV 5y« ABSA Bank limit Ml 6"j Agricultural bank Of China 6 ANZ Banking Group 6 Allied Irish Bank PIC 5 American Express Bar* 6 Arab Banking Corp 7* Arab Bank PLC 5 Vt Asahi Bank Ltd 6 Vi Ban Hin Lee Bank
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        551 29  -  SIMTIX Weeklyßoundup Michael P Wallace MMS International London This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [LONDON] The week ahead has already been launched in earnest, with the G-8 heads of state summit underway, heralded by frenzied
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        843 29 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP (LONDON) Oil stole the headlines in global commodities markets last week, surging to 18 month high values amid growing hopes of strong future demand and continued self-imposed constraints on supply from world producer nations. Brent crude
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      1842 29 S1C0M FUTURES Jun is RUBBER (futures dosing is «t 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTUS ctntsAg) Clow Volume Open Month High Low Sott (tonnes) Interest Jul 99 103.75 300 100 Aug 99 KM.75 300 Sep 99 107.75 300 800 Oct/Doc 99 112.25 150 1050 Jen/M* 00 117.00 300 Apr/Jun 00 120.50
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        513 30 NEW YORK Fed chiefs commments leave firms free to focus on earnings Bloomberg ALAN Greenspan ended the suspense on interest rates. Now investors can turn their attention to corporate earnings, and the outlook bodes well for further gains in stocks.
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        458 30 LONDON Bloomberg THE UK's benchmark FT-SE 100 index may rise to a record in coming days, led by construction and manufacturing companies amid optimism economic growth is picking up. Banks could gain on hopes for more pan-European mergers in the industry.
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        859 30 PI Sydney +34.8 PROSPECTS are bright for the Australian share market in the week ahead following strong signs from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that interest rates are on hold, analysts said. US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan hinted last week that the central bank would
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        404 30 HONGKONG Cheung Kong's bid seen to boost property stocks Reuters HONGKONG'S Hang Seng Index may challenge 1999's high of 13,719.08 this week on Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd's bold HK53.24 billion (*****.8 million) bid for a prime development site and anticipation of a theme
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        321 30 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are likely to rise further in the coming week as investors are more confident of an economic recovery, analysts said. Market sentiment has changed since the announcement of a stunning a 1.9 per cent surge in
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        1965 30 □Paris +153.73 FRENCH shares pushed to another all-time closing high on Friday, ignoring a hesitant tone on early Wall Street as Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's measured tones on monetary tightening freed bulls' hopes of a catchup in Europe. The CAC-40 ended at 4,539.56, rising 153.73 or
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        5249 31 INDUSTRIALS 1999 Consumer products Low Company Lo g 3 n? 2 I 140S 3 8 228 293 220 Apollo Food Hlq 282 2 27 290 pan a a *9 &&®s£==& 50 255 156 C Store BM 7.J228 5 2040 239 Q S2"! W '2 8=BSbbb=38 fi .B a S:S £g
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        450 31 AFP Composite Index +13-87 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to trade with a downward bias in the week ahead after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad kept investors guessing about the timing of an expected early election. "We will see profit-taking in the early part of
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        182 32 WARRANT WATCH AFTKR weekfc of neglect, analysis appear to be rediscovering the property sector both Goldman Sachs and Warburg Dillon Read over the weekend were quoted in BT as saying they see 20 per cent upside for either property prices or stock prices over the
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      6959 33 Wcc^nded^JunlBj 6' 6r M Wt 92-Wk Last Vol Week Last Quott Div Olv VM Nat Cap AM High Law StNo Company Sale COOP) High Law Buyar Salter H C vf P/t $mtl Price MULTI-INOUSTRY 163 17.5 mb 1000 AcmaSOc 155 cd *12 ***** 163
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        555 34 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume IPC Corpn 5c 439.450.000 Eagle Brand Hldgs H*75c 290.237,000 ICT HKlOc 248.538.000 Asia FoodS Prop 230.482,000 DragonLand K)c 225,621,000 Frt Links 20e 224,386,000 Hotung In v NT5 220,689,000 Liang Huat 10c 209,482,000 lian Beng 5c 184,521,000 GoMtron20c 178,916,000 Stacks *TanChonglnt50c 192,159,516 DBS Foreign 183,869,687 Asia
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        555 34  -  THE WEEK A ITT! AII Hard to stop the fever when fundamentals are out and the mantra is: They're cheap, they're moving and that's all that matters By R Sivanithy IT used to be that investing in stocks was based
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        50 34  -  -By Wong Wei Kong LIANG Huat Aluminium shares rose 6 cents to $0.52 last Friday with 69.5 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 23.4 million units. The RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts indicate that the stock," already at a new 52-week high, is overbought.
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      2607 21 ©DBS BANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1998 CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1998 OWMNK MS CHOW dbs
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      2654 24 DBS BANK 32.3 ACQUISITION OF SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES 34.2 Net hool, .nl.-. i. n u ir\ 1 1 i ,000 rvoc B j i ii December, at cost less accumulated depreciation, and movements during the year of DBS Group's fixed 32.3.1 On 11 March 1998, DBS Bank increased its equity interest
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      109 26 The fit survive... but only the best get chosen. 1999 Enterprise 50 nominations are now open Companies can nominate themselves by completing the official nomination form. Companies must be home-grown, privately-owned and incorporated under Singapore's Companies Act (1994 Revised Edition) with four years of audited statements. Nomination forms are available
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      106 28 I NOTICE SI Philippine National Bank USD 100 mio Negotiable United States Dollar Floating Rate Certificates of Deposit due in September 1999 In accordance with the provisions of the Certificates of Deposit, notice is hereby given that for the interest period from 21 Jun 99 (inclusive) to 20 Sep 99
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      273 35 THE positive tones to the market have been continuing with further sales being concluded in both the wet and dry sectors. Vessels sold for farther trading BULK CARRIERS: Lake Avery: 71,411 tdw bit 77 Mitsubishi reported sold region U551,700,000 to Greek buyers. ♦Lionsgate Bulker: 69,091 tdw bit 96
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      292 35 *5 '000 w CWT Distribution 160 0.03 7C Chuan Hup 1.22 -0.01 117: Cosco Investment 1.28 O.TI 2881 Freight Links 0.40 unch 3082< GB Holdings 1.03 unci) 41 Hal Sun Hup OM 0.02 226; IMC Holdlngs-HK —5.60 unch Jaya Holdings 1-IS 0.01 232 Jurona Shipyard 8.05 -0.15 131
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      481 35  -  Threat seen coming from Asians, East Europeans willing to take lower wages From, Alec Almazan in Manila OVER the past two years, about 50 Philippine crewing agencies lost some 6,300 manning slots to Asian and East European competitors. These figures are contained
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      395 35 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Bridgestone Corp, Japan's largest tyre maker, said it will lease two South Korean ships to carry its tyres to North America in an attempt to bypass higher fees by Japanese shipping lines. The company will next month ship a third of
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      295 35  -  By: Marcus Hand {SINGAPORE] The Port of New York and New Jersey saw an 8.2 per cent jump in container throughput last year, including strong growth in volumes to and from South-east Asia. In 1998 the port saw its container volumes surge
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      569 35  -  DOCKYARD By: David Hughes FOR many in the shipping industry the term "general cargo ship" evokes memories of the days before containerisation. General cargo ships no longer carry the wide variety of commodities they once did, nor except very rarely, any longer
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      309 35  -  Cost and time of moving cargo may be cnt by 30% over existing Baltic route From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delh i THREE shipping lines one each from Russia, Iran and India are planning to reopen a centuries old "spice route" to
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      883 36 MZ SHIPPING Ports of Auckland, operator of NZ's largest port, faces uphill battle against new competition from Ports of Tauranga Bloomberg {WELLINGTON] PORTS of Auckland Ltd. operator of New Zealand's largest and busiest port, is facing competition on its home turf for the first time
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      345 36 PAGE FoonqSun 8 ANl 3 FroU 12 Accord 8 FrtUnks 14 Ahrenkiel 14 G L'nk 4 Appenship 5 Gemartrans 6 AASCO 12 Genshpg M Austral 8 Glory Nav 14 Avant 14 Goodrich Mtm 5 B tang Mas 8 H«SunH«p 12 BSA 7 Haogli 7 BTL 14 Hanjin
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      21468 43 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Oestn Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To BUENOS AIRES (BUE) 2060 Argentina To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D Ivoire x/ot 2 */07 csav ise ms ts imm 01/07
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        534 49 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Juronq Part Akra Sounion E297 J7/8 alongside 21.06/1400 I I 4 jn alongside 21/ 06/0700 Ivory Bay 20 J5 alongs.de 21.06/1700 Marcopok) 22 PKW140 J17 alongside 21.06/0600 5 Superstars V084 J17/18 alongside 21.06/1800 Shan Fyryu 10/99 J3 alongside 21.06/2100 Tiga Roda V.295
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        1816 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. HfeKin 026* 22/0700 U 20/1500 20/1659 20/1900 20/1500 20/1659 20/1900 a 20/1T00 21/0659 21/0900 21 20/1700 21/0659 21/0900 J 21/0700 21/1159 21/1400 4 21/1200 21/1459 21/1700 Ac« J*» 595
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        184 49 Jon 25 Finland: Midsummer Eve Holiday. Jan 28 Indonesia: Mouloud Prophet's Birthday. Brunei: Maulud. Finland: Midsummer Day Holiday. Jon 30 Brunei: Half Year Bank Closing. Jul 1 Canada: Canada Day. Jul 14 France: National Day. Jul 15 Brunei: HM The Sultan's Birthday. Jul 21 Belgium: Independence Day. An|2
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        789 49 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 mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        567 49 Carbon 180 Mai 990.6 1.0 18.7 0.10 73 0.06 )un <7 Density Water Residue Ash Aluminium Sdgwwt No above E25 0 0 9 0 0 0 380 Ave 986 4 0.3 13.0 0.06 37 0.02 dm 380 Mai 992.8 0.9 19.2 0.09 90 0.06 gg s,/v
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        507 50 It plans to expand global flights to half its total operations from current 36% Reuters [TOKYO] Japan s All Nippon Airways Co Ltd (ANA) intends to focus increasingly on international flights in the long term despite 13 years of losses in that sector.
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        269 50 It hopes to seal deal in 30 to 45 days, says AEI president Reuters [GREENWICH, Connecticut] Air Express International Corp is negotiating to buy a consolidator freight company in Asia and could seal a deal in 30 to 45 days, AEl's
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        144 50 Oana-Kyodo [TOKYO] A strike at Japan Air System (JAS) ended yesterday after the management agreed to review a plan to contract out some services to Harlequin Air, a subsidiary airline. The flight crew union decided to call off a planned walkout for yesterday and
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        171 50 AFP [HONGKONG] An air traffic controller has been suspended after he gave the wrong instructions to a plane which forced the aircraft to slam on its brakes and abort takeoff at Hongkong's new Chek Lap Kok airport. The plane damaged five of its tyres but
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        93 50 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Department of Transportation has moved to double the airline liability limit on lost, damaged and delayed baggage to U552,500 (554,267) per bag. The action taken on Thursday pre-empted an airline industry promise to seek a higher liability limit
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        406 50 Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France SA and Delta Air Lines Inc refused to confirm a report that Europe's third-largest airline has picked Delta, No 3 in the US, over Continental Air Lines Inc as its exclusive North American alliance partner. Air France
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        130 50 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's largest air carrier China Airlines (CAL) is to buy 13 new Boeing freighters in a US$2 billion (553.4 billion) deal, it was reported on Saturday. The contract for the *****00 cargo aircraft would be signed once the deal was approved
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        444 50 Reuters [LE BOURGET, France] French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin called on Saturday for the Airbus jet consortium to transform the marketing partnership into a normal company and said France would back its A3XX large jet project. "Airbus must further strengthen its industrial efficiency,"
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      18 35 Ports of Tauranga takes on Auckland port Ports of Auckland faces uphill battle against new competition Page 2
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      265 35 ANA to boost international flights It plans to expand global flights to half its total operations Back Page FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE (FEFC) RATE RESTORATIONS I refer to the announcement on 26 May 1999 advising that FEFC Principals had re-affirmed their full commitment to the Asia Westbound Rate Agreement Westbound
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