The Business Times, 23 July 1999

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04H/ia^9H 85c S I N (i A P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asial.com. sg/ FRIDAY, JULY 23,1999
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    64 1 *n OTI mm WRM (-29.45) mm ***** (-5.06) SMSCI FUTURES 28U0 (-1.70) QIgJUETMOOOe STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP 829.77 -*88 NIKKEI 17,***** -627.18 HANG SENO *****.06 -60.60 SET INDEX ***** 964 JAKARTA COMP —***** +1.66 MANILA COMP __2.488.62 -30.83 TAIPEI WPI 7J678.67 -107.98 SEOUL COMP 976.66
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    80 1 FOREX BATES us$ ss US$ 1999 £(l'SS/S$ per 1.575 1675 EURO(US$/S$ per E) 1.048 1.780 OH 1.866 0.910 YEN 118.4 1.434 RM 1800 0.447 HKS 7.761 0119 BAHT 8732 0.046 RUPIAH 6,776 0.0» St to 100 uniu P1ME1ATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 4000 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 1100
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    Lock icon Dow slips as Greenspan hints that rates may go up
    545 1 lam LATESI June rate hike has not eliminated risk of inflation, he says Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US stocks faltered yesterday morning after Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan hinted in congressional testimony that interest rates could head higher. At noon EDT,
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    Lock icon Yen's climb to 118 unhinges Nikkei; recovery seen at risk
    694 1  -  Authorities urged to intervene to preserve Japan's competitiveness From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices plunged yesterday as investors grew alarmed at the turbulence of the yen-dollar rate since new monetary chiefs took over the controls in both Washington
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    Lock icon Region's stocks skid, STI down 29 pts
    301 1  -  S'pore market falls for fifth day in six sessions, led by SPH By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] A steep drop in Japanese equities and caution ahead of US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's congressional testimony on the US economy put nearly every regional stock
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    Lock icon Share buybacks: NUS don urges COE-type auction
    557 1  -  Something is wrong when yon gain without taking any risks, says Dr Mao By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Listed companies wanting to buy back their shares should use a competitive bidding system, similar to the current auctioning method for Certificates of Entitlements (COEs),
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    Lock icon Far East hikes Walshe condo prices to $1,650-$1,900 psf
    383 1  -  Price tags top Cnscaden Residence, sold ont at $1,500 psf By\ Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Reflecting the revived interest in upmarket apartments, Far East Organization (FEO) is stepping up its marketing of its Gardenville project on Walshe Road this weekend with an
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Treetops set to boost Orange Grove service apartment belt
      479 2  -  220-unit project sits on 183,000 sq ft in Orange Grove area ity i Corinne Kerk THE Orange Grove Road area is turning into a service apartment belt with the addition of the sprawling Treetops Executive Residences at the end of this
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      Lock icon Beach Corner may fetch up to $17m
      403 2  -  Hy Corinne Kerk BEACH Corner, a six-storey commercial building at Beach Road, is up for auction in two weeks' time, with market sources expecting a sale price of between $15 million and $17 million. Located across the road from Shaw Towers, the building
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      Lock icon Most retailers' takings up 25% during Great S'pore Sale
      268 2  -  They attribute success to sale coinciding with school holidays By. Rahita Elias SINGAPORE retailers enjoyed a boom during the month-long Great Singapore Sale (GSS), with two-thirds of them seeing sales rise by an average of 25 per cent year-on-year. The Singapore
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      Lock icon C&W in talks to sell 30% M1 stake to KT&T, SPH: sources
      396 2  -  Discussions still at early stage, price not fixed yet w Teh Hooi Ling CABLE Wireless pic (C&W), the United Kingdom's second largest phone company, is in talks to sell its 30 per cent stake in Singapore's second mobile
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      Lock icon Lloyd's syndicate Catlin to set up S'pore office
      275 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng CATLIN Underwriting Agencies (CUA), a Lloyd's underwriting syndicate, plans to set up a Singapore office soon to develop and write insurance business in the Asia-Pa-cific. CUA has obtained in-prin-ciple approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to open
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      Lock icon Another slide in F&B sales
      293 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By Marissa Tan FOOD and beverage outlets continued to see lower sales in April, with revenues collected by cessable F&B establishments falling 11.9 per cent year-on-year. This brings the revenues collected by the outlets so far this year to $448.3
      Source: STB  -  293 words
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      Lock icon S'pore may not write laws to cap Y2K bug liability
      428 2  -  By Raju Chellam (SINGAPORE) Singapore may not legislate to limit liability for disputes arising out of the year 2000 (Y2K) bug, unlike the United States and England, because such legislation may be counter-pro-ductive and would have a negative impact on
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      Lock icon Catch the bus and your favourite TV shows
      366 2  -  By' Tan May Ping THE Television Corporation of Singapore and Singapore Bus Service yesterday launched a public trial of TVMobile, or TV on-the-move, where bus commuters can catch the latest news or a favourite programme while commuting. Five SBS service No 7
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      Lock icon Option gains tax: go beyond deferral
      682 3  -  COMMENTARY A waiver for start-ups will provide additional Incentive to attract and retain quality workers By Kenneth James A SOCIETY where it's common to have workers owning equity in their companies, sharing the risks with employers and investors it must have been music to
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      Lock icon Firms do better with wider staff stock options: Dr Tan
      477 3  -  US poll shows their sales growing 51% faster than those with mgt-only options, he says By, Jennifer Lien COMPANIES which give stock options to a wider pool of staff tend to perform better than those which limit these options to
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      Lock icon Allen & Gledhill ranked with int'l big names in survey
      500 4  - Allen Gledhill ranked with int'l big names in survey It's only local firm to score in areas like corporate finance ity Catherine Ong SINGAPORE'S biggest law firm, Allen Gledhill, was the only local practice to be ranked among the international big names in a regional survey of corporate clients' satisfaction
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      Lock icon Think beyond Asean, firms urged
      860 4  -  ASEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING Consider the East Asian market too, says sec-gen By Yang Razali Kassim SPEAKING to a gathering of the Asean Business Forum yesterday, Asean secretarygeneral Rodolfo C Severino made a timely call for a more regional outlook for Asean business. Signs of economic
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      Lock icon Foreign currency IPOs: It's 'robbery'
      292 4  -  MAILBAO W Chen THE current system for foreign currency IPOs is a complete joke. In fact, it is robbery by the banks. Your Hock Lock Siew writer R Sivanithy's calculation of Ssl.6 million conversion fee for the banks ("Time to take a long hard look
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      Lock icon Keppel opens 1b peso office tower in Cebu
      336 4  -  Plan to partly inject stake into Keppel Philippines Properties By- Audrey Tan in Manila THE Keppel Group yesterday opened its one billion peso (5544.2 million) Keppel Center in Cebu, which it intends to partly inject into Keppel Philippines Properties Inc (KPPI)), a
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Opposition seeks probe on Anwar's Perwaja complaint
      473 5 KUALA LUMPUR Jailed ex-DPM wants investigations into steelmaker's RM2.9b losses Reuters AFP MALAYSIAN opposition leaders urged the police yesterday to investigate a complaint by jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim linking Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to a loss-making steel venture. The complaint said
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      Lock icon PLN unveils loss of up to US$18b: report
      118 5 ■JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN state electricity firm PT PLN said it has lost up to US$lB billion (5530.6 billion) from 54 projects through corruption, collusion and nepotism, The Indonesian Observer daily reported yesterday. Included in those 54 pro- jects were 26 projects involving
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      Lock icon KL-S'pore ties should be 'win-win'
      423 5 KUALA LUMPUR Syed H&mid urges moving out of the old mould Bernama RELATIONS between Malaysia and Singapore should be premised on a "win-win formula" endorsed by their citizens, said Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar. Both countries should move out of the old mould and
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      Lock icon Suharto graft probe put on hold till he recovers fully
      152 5 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN investigators said yesterday they would put on hold their graft investigation of former president Suharto until he is 100 per cent healthy. Mr Suharto was admitted to Jakarta's Pertamina hospital on Tuesday after suffering a mild stroke.
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      Lock icon Thai office market still facing glut
      209 5 BANGKOK Fonr more years for it to recover: real estate association AFP [BANGKOK] The market for office space in Thailand needs at least another four years to recover with three million square metres completed only last year, the Real Estate Association said yesterday. Association
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon Asia growth seen surging in '99,2000
      628 6  -  Bnt poor results in Japan, HE will drag down region's growth to 1.5%: poll From Neil Behrmann in London ECONOMISTS who were cautious about Asian recovery earlier in the year now expect a sharp increase in growth during 1999 and 2000. The average forecast
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      Lock icon Japanese outlook better but painful road ahead: poll
      364 6 Reuters [TOKYO] The prospects for Japan's economy have improved in recent months, but the road to a sustainable recovery appears long and painful, a Reuters survey of economists showed yesterday. On average, 30 economists forecast zero economic growth in Japan for the
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      Lock icon We'll issue new bonds if need arises, says KL
      155 6 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government will consider issuing new bonds in the Japanese and European markets if the need arises, Deputy Finance Minister Nazri Aziz said on yesterday. The national Bernama news agency quoted him as telling Parliament the government
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      Lock icon S Korean recovery impressive: OECD
      293 6 AFP [PARIS] In 20 months South Korea has recovered from near disaster with radical market reforms, but restructuring must be forced ahead to sustain growth, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) warned yesterday, upgrading forecast growth sharply. The OECD signalled surprise at the strength
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      Lock icon No plans to cut China rating: Moody's analyst
      192 6 Bridge News [NEW YORK] A top analyst at Moody's Investors Service yesterday said his agency has no plans to follow Standard Poor's (S&P's) decision to downgrade China. In an interview, Thomas Byrne, vice-president on Moody's sovereign rating desk, said the rating outlook
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      Lock icon Asian savers ploughing money into stocks
      755 6 Markets have become casinos for banks, investors NYT [SINGAPORE] In one of South-east Asia's perplexing riddles, investors keep ploughing money into the region's stock markets even as governments dither over the urgent financial and regulatory overhauls many of them promised in the wake of
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China markets hit as Beijing bans Falungong sect
      561 7 BEIJING In HE, Hang Seng drops 0.4% as investors view news with caution Reuters Bloomberg CHINA'S move to ban the Falungong sect yesterday sent shivers through the country's share markets, while it also dampened investor sentiment in Hongkong. Beijing accused Falungong adherents
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      Lock icon Clinton urges calm in China-Taiwan crisis
      439 7 TENSION Dt TAIWAN STRAIT No one should consider force, US president says Reuters FT AFP [WASHINGTON] US President Bill Clinton on Wednesday urged China and Taiwan to show restraint in their standoff over Taiwan's controversial new China policy. "No one should contemplate force here,"
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      Lock icon Take heart from HK experience, Taipei told
      304 7 SAN FRANCISCO AFP HONGKONG Chief Executive Tung Chee said on Wednesday he was concerned over any potential clash between Taiwan and mainland China. "Any conflict in the region would affect Hongkong and the whole world," he said in response to a question at
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      Lock icon Hongkong's June CPI down 4.1%; its biggest fall ever
      313 7 ■HONGKONG Bloomberg HONGKONG consumer prices posted their biggest ever fall last month as the cost of footwear, clothing and rent extended their falls. The composite consumer price index, the benchmark measure of inflation, sank 4.1 per cent in June from a
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      Lock icon Macquarie eyes China mortgage securitisation ops
      189 7 SYDNEY AFP MACQUARIE Bank, Australia's only listed investment bank, is exploring an initiative to become the first western bank to set up a mortgage securitisation business in China. The bank said yesterday it was one of a number of options it was working on
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      Lock icon New spending policies to push China economy
      369 7 SHANGHAI Govt said to be planning np to 100b yuan bond issue AFP CHINA is preparing to roll out "significant" new fiscal measures to boost the country's slowing, deflationary economy, Vice-Premier Li Lanqing was quoted as saying yesterday by all major dailies. He
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Japan's first-half trade surplus falls 7.9%
      483 9 TOKYO (Exports hit by weak lsian economies bat there're signs of regional recovery AFP JAPAN yesterday posted a lower trade surplus for the first half of this year as weak Asian economies hurt exports but latest figures showed the first signs of regional recovery.
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      Lock icon Aussie local phone call network open to competition
      374 9 i SYDNEY AFP TAKING another step forward in the deregulation of the country's telecommunication fndustry, Australian regulators yesterday opened the local telephone call network up to competition, v In a ruling which it said ■Would bring the price of local phone calls
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      Lock icon South Korean central bank joins IMF in sounding inflation alarm
      448 9 SEOUL Move signals turning point in low interest rate policy Reuters SOUTH Korea's central bank yesterday joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and researchers in sounding an alarm on inflation, signalling a turning point was near in the country's low
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      Lock icon Daewoo creditors acting to prevent its collapse
      323 9 SEOUL They will extend another 2.5t won in call loans by end July AFP CREDITORS of South Korea's Daewoo Group are moving fast to prevent the feared collapse of the embattled conglomerate, government and banking officials said yesterday. Yonhap News Agency said creditor
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      Lock icon Indian economy awaits clear signal from polls
      425 9 NEW DELHI It's turning around but missing ingredient is investment Reuters THE Indian economy is staging a turnaround on the back of consumption-led growth, but a broad-based recovery will hinge on the outcome of parliamentary elections in September-October, economists said yesterday. Macroeconomic indicators
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon EU regulators raid Coke's offices
      484 10 LONDON Probe into improper marketing activities in Austria, Denmark, Germany Reuters SOFT drinks giant Coca-Cola Co, still reeling from a contamination scare in Belgium and France, suffered a fresh blow in Europe yesterday when regulators raided Coke offices and seized internal documents. Investigating suspicions of
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      Lock icon Kennedys board navy ship to scatter ashes
      244 10 WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts Reuters AMERICA'S most famous political family boarded a US Navy destroyer yesterday morning to scatter the ashes at sea of John F Kennedy, Jr, his wife and her sister as the nation mourned the loss of a favourite son. The
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      Lock icon Apple unveils long-awaited iBook portable computer
      250 10 NEW YORK LATWP Bloomberg APPLE Computer Inc on Wednesday previewed its long-promised portable computer for the consumer and education market a colourful companion to the highly successful desktop iMac. The new portable, dubbed ißook and touted by interim chief executive Steve Jobs as "an
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      Lock icon Emerging markets may see exodus ahead of 2000
      464 10 LONDON Investors could exit in droves for fear of Y2K chaos: analysts Reuters INVESTORS could pull out of emerging markets in droves before the year-end for fear of millennium bug chaos, some analysts say. Just as emerging markets appear to be bouncing
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon New UK private finance body
        81 10 Reuters [LONDON] Britain yesterday announced a new joint venture body to manage projects with the private sector as part of a shake-up in the way government manages its £13 billion (5534.8 billion) annual procurement budget. The Treasury said the new body, Partnerships UK, would employ
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        Lock icon Govt plans to tackle 'rip-off Britain'
        71 10 Reuters [LONDON] Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers published plans yesterday to tackle "rip-off Britain", a populist policy which aims to cut retail prices, protect consumers and put rogue traders out of business. Dubbed a "shoppers charter" by the media, the draft laws aim
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        Lock icon WTO: Moore, Supachai officially named
        56 10 AFP [GENEVA] Mike Moore and Supachai Panitchpakdi were officially appointed yesterday to the post of director general of the World Trade Organisation. Under a hard-fought compromise, former New Zealand prime minister Moore will head the WTO until Sept 1,2002, when Thai Commerce Minister Supachai will
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        Lock icon Cars driving German exports
        53 10 AFP [WIESBADEN, Germany] Cars were the main motor behind export growth in Germany in the first four months of the current year, data published by the Federal Statistics Office yesterday showed. Germany exported motor vehicles worth 58.5 billion marks (5553.2 billion) in the period from January
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Lock icon Will Japan come clean on defence pact?
      830 12  -  THE BOTTOM LIME OPINION ByA\ Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE Asean Regional Forum, bringing together the 10 member states plus their "dialogue partners" (the US, China, Japan, Russia and the European Union) has an extraordinarily large and important agenda
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      131 12 Daewoo is like a time bomb. We just began removing the detonator.' Lee Hon J&i chairman of the Korean government's Financial Supervisory Commission, on why Daewoo creditors plan to extend payment on as much as 10 trillion won (S$ billion) of debt due this week. 'Foris reminds
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      Lock icon Being more than exam-smart
      629 12 EDITORIAL IF there is one area in which Singapore has begun, and not a day too soon, to shape up to be the knowledge economy it aspires to be, it is in education. From schools to universities, radical changes are sweeping through the system that will
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      Lock icon The power of ideas drives Silicon Valley
      1144 12  -  Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla knows that real wealth lies in the next good idea By] Roger Taylor FT "THE new economy is not about brawn, it's about the power of ideas," says Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists. The story
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      Lock icon A look at Khosla
      136 12 Age: 44. Education: Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon; MBA from Stanford. Career: Tried starting a business in India but found the environment too hostile. Went to California and founded first Daisy
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      911 12 How to wtn peace In Aceh ON MONDAY at around dawn, five riot troops were ambushed and shot dead by rebels in the village of Reng Krueng in the troubled Pidie regency, about 170 km east of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh. Another 20 soldiers
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon SingTech plans to spin off at least three units including CSM
      517 13 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Pte plans to list shares in at least three units, including Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, in the not-too-distant future, looking to raise the profile of the staid group. The company one of the biggest state-owned
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      Lock icon Contract manufacturers picked as top performers
      681 13  -  INTERIM EARNINGS REVIEW: ELECTRONICS Analysts polled say electronics firms' performance will be 'very sector-specific' By Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] While the interim results season will feature the usual gems among electronics companies, not all listed firms in the sector will see year-on-year improvements, analysts said.
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      Lock icon DBS-POSBank: a study in the challenges of integration
      656 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Siow Li Sen BUSINESS schools in Singapore will soon be able to rely less on foreign case studies and draw on corporate cases involving local companies. DBS Bank provides a perfect case study of mergers and acquisitions, and the
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      Lock icon NOL ups placement to US$500m
      616 13  -  Company scraps USS2OOmRNPS rights issue By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Faced with overwhelming response from institutional investors, NOL has increased its international share placement (ISP) issue to US$5OO million (SsB49 million) and scrapped its planned US$2OO million nonvoting redeemable non-con-vertible preference share (RNPS) rights issue. NOL
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    • COMPANIES
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        Lock icon LC Hotels deal: LCD fixes cash adjustment
        274 14  -  By < Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] LC Development (LCD) has fixed the cash adjustment for its deal to buy LC Hotels (LCH) at $492,000 a month for the four months ended April this year and $437,000 a month from May until the completion of
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        Lock icon Welcoming the future, remembering the past
        252 14  -  Ky\ Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Cathay Organisation Holdings (COH), which has achieved listing status through the reverse takeover of Ses-daq-listed IMM Multi-Enterprise, yesterday launched its new look and corporate identity. Marking the launch at Orchard Cineleisure was the rising of a giant balloon from the
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        Lock icon Australand makes A$31.45m
        286 14  -  CORPORATE RESULTS 7.53% rise in interim earnings for DBS Land unit despite turnover fall; profit margins seen rising By David Boey [SINGAPORE] DBS Land unit Australand yesterday posted a 7.53 per cent rise in interim earnings to A 531.45 million (5534.5 million) and expects to better its
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        Lock icon Central Properties' interim net rises to $23.2m
        306 14  -  Writebacks largely responsible for 17.5 x jump in earnings By I Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] Thanks largely to writebacks, main boardlisted Central Properties yesterday reported a 17.5 times jump in interim net earnings to $23.2 million. However, turnover at the Khoo Teck Puat investment
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        227 14  -  Byi Carol Eng (SINGAPORE] Closed-end fund General Securities Investments has returned to the black with a $2.9 million interim net profit, compared to over $23 million worth of losses previously. For the six months ended June, earnings per share worked out
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        330 14  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN tycoon Vincent Tan has sold more shares of his flagship Berjaya Group to a level below what he had pledged to hold when making a cash call last December. Berjaya said its chairman and
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        425 14  -  Tapering NPLs mark improvement, bank's chief exec says From, Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur UNITED Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd (UOBM) chief executive officer Francis Lee said the banking environment had stabilised in the first half of this year, and expects a more
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        269 14  -  Stakes in substantial holder Gl5 sold to investment funds By i Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] Engineering firm Lindeteves-Jacoberg (LJ) yesterday announced that nine of its managers have sold shares in Gl5 Investment Holdings a substantial shareholder of the company to a fund management group. The purchasers,
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        217 14 [SINGAPORE] Wooden pallet maker LHT Holdings yesterday said its initial public offer was 136 times subscribed. Applications for a total of 2.7 billion shares were received for the 20 million shares available to the public when the offer closed at noon yesterday.
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        183 14 [SINGAPORE] Raffles Holdings, the hotel arm of mainboard listed developer DBS Land, is venturing into the Indonesian resort island of Bali where it will build a 210-villa resort in partnership with an Indonesian firm. The DBS Land unit
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          56 14 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE) yesterday announced that The Capital Group Companies (TCGC) has acquired 1.8 million shares representing 0.07 per cent of its issued share capital at $2.06 per share. This raises TOGC's stake in STE to 181.4 million shares or 6.4 per
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          62 14 [SINGAPORE] Informatics Holdings (IH) yesterday announced that PT Informatics Rigtenders Indonesia (PTIR), a subsidiary company, has increased its paid-up capital from U*****,000 (Ssl.l million) to U*****,450 by an allotment of 1,845 shares of US$lO each fully paid. IH has a 60 per cent stake in
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          Lock icon Hwang-DBS Sec to buy stake in HDAM
          97 14 [KUALA LUMPUR] Hwang-DBS Securities will raise its stake in its 49-per cent asset management arm, Hwang-DBS Asset Management (HDAM). In a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange last night Hwang-DBS Securities said it has agreed to buy a 32-per cent stake in
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          Lock icon Pantai denies raising PhileoLand stake
          75 14 [KUALA LUMPUR] Pantai Holdings said it has not increased its stake in PhileoLand. However, Pantai, controlled by Mokhzani Mahathir, said it has entered into discussions with the existing shareholders of PhileoLand "with the view" to raising its stake in PhileoLand. Pantai issued the statement in
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          94 14 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) said yesterday that it was aiming to launch its new second board, the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), in October this year. The stock exchange published the listing rules for the GEM yesterday. GEM Listing Committee
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          68 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian financial services firm Rash id Hussain Bhd said yesterday that Khalid Ahmad quit as its director on Wednesday. The news followed Mr Khalid's resignation as executive chairman of Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) on Wednesday. Diversified MRCB has a 16 per
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          72 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian bourse said it will end the one-day delay for settling stock transactions when it implements a new system and assigns clearing functions to three foreign banks Citibank Bhd, Deutsche Bank Bhd and HSBC Bank Bhd—next week. The
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        433 15 It eyes acquisitions in transportation, e-commerce after flotation: chairman LAT—WP [LOS ANGELES] United Par eel Service (UPS) of America Inc, one of the nation's largest privately held companies, said on Wednesday it plans to sell 10 per cent of
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        79 15 [TOKYO] Miki Shimizu of NEC's optical storage division shows off its new optical video disc, MVDISC (Multimedia Video Disc) and its video recorder, GigaStation, yesterday. GigaStation has the advantages of quick access, quick editing and quick response over current video recorders and can store 1 hour,
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        432 15 Bloomberg [DULLES, Virginia] America Online Inc (AOL), the world's largest Internet service, said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as it signed up 755,000 new subscribers and advertising revenue surged. AOL earned US$l56 million (*****.9 million), or 13 US cents
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          86 15 Bloomberg [KANSAS CITY, Missouri] Sprint Corp, the No 3 US long-distance phone company, said second-quarter profit rose 6 per cent on strong demand for Internet and data services. Earnings rose to US$3B6 million (***** million), or 44 US cents a share, from
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          92 15 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKSE) said yesterday that it aims to launch its new second board, the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), in October this year. It published the listing rules for the GEM yesterday. GEM Listing Committee members will
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          66 15 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] National Australia Bank said third-quarter net income rose 12.6 per cent, in line with expectations, as it diversified its business, cut costs in the domestic market, and provided more home loans. The bank reported it made A 5697 million (*****.7 million) in the
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        293 15 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Amazon.com Inc, the Internet's largest retailer, said its second-quarter loss widened because of increased spending to promote and expand its Web site, while revenue more than doubled. Amazon.com also said it will split its stock 2-for-l. Its loss grew to US$l3B million
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        Lock icon Philips Q2 earnings drop 28% but it sees better H2
        259 15 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Philips Electronics NV said yesterday that its second-quarter net earnings fell by 28 per cent, but expectations of a favourable second half reinforced its target of double digit growth in the full year. Philips posted net income from
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        446 15 New range of phones helps it maintain edge over rivals Bloomberg [HELSINKI] Nokia Oyj, the world's largest cellular phone maker, said second-quarter profit rose 59 per cent as new phones helped it maintain an edge over rivals Motorola Inc and Ericsson AB. The Finnish company's
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        Lock icon Fidelity, Schwab, two others in electronic tie-up
        615 16 NET TRADING FRENZY Venture could be one of the most efficient computerised stock trading posts NYT [NEW YORK] Fidelity Investments and Charles Schwab Corp have been fierce competitors in virtually every business in which they operate mutual funds, stock brokerage, online trading. But
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        486 16 It's turned USs3om bet into investment worth USs7som Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Chase Manhattan's Susan Segal had been in her job a few months when she started investing the bank's money in a littleknown Internet firm. Two years later, the U5529.5 million (Ssso
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        411 16 Mitsubishi, Wit Capital form on-line investment bank Reuters Bloomberg [TOKYO] Jumping into what is fast becoming one of the most crowded markets in Japan, trading house Itochu Corp said yesterday it would team up with Microsoft Corp and others to launch stock broking services
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        327 16 AFP [PARISJ The takeover battle in France to create the biggest bank in the world by assets moved into a new stage yesterday when BNP bank forecast a big profits increase and said it was assured of support from five foreign investors
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        175 17  -  Heports MSG! Singapore Index Daphne Tay THE Singapore stock market suffered another bout of weakness yesterday in the absence of fresh leads and a lack of institutional interest. The Straits Times Index lost 29.45 points or 1.4 per cent to close at 2,067.89. The
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        132 17  -  MSCI Taiwan fatores Cecilia Loh THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures plunged 7.40 points after failing to maintain its upward momentum as cross-strait tensions continued. The Taiwan Weighted Price Index closed 107.98 points down led by the chiprelated sector as foreign investors posted
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        Lock icon Oil steady after Venezuelan reassurance on Opec curbs
        290 17 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices traded sideways yesterday after Venezuela's president said the Opec nation saw no need this year to ease supply limits. London September Brent futures traded four cents higher at U5518.63 a barrel by 1500 GMT having touched
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        325 17 AFP AFX-Asia London THE US dollar was sharply lower against the yen ahead of congressional testimony by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, undermined by opening losses on US stock markets, dealers said. They said the shaky Wall Street start triggered fresh outflows, with the dollar's fall through technical
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      1373 18 AFP n Hang Seng -50.60 HONGKONG share prices dropped 0.4 per cent yesterday in cautious and directionless trade due to the weaker Tokyo market, dealers said. "Sentiment has been mainly affected by weaker overseas markets, particularly in Tokyo," said Alex Tang, research head at brokerage Core-Pacific Yamaichi. The key
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      608 18 AFP Reuters Shanghai B Index -0.23 SHANGHAI'S B shares closed 0.5 per cent lower yesterday after initially rising, with investors taking profits after sharp gains in the previous two sessions, dealers said. "B shares surged upward to an intra-day high and then drifted lower amid profittaking," a Bank of
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      356 18 AFP QWP Index -107.98 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower in thin trading yesterday as investors took to the sidelines amid tensions with China, dealers said. "Investors stepped to the sidelines on concerns over uncertainties in relations across the Taiwan Strait," said Bentham Hung, manager of Fuh-Hwa
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      2329 18 LONDON Industrials M 21 Pound 34 Croup 7.96 -0.05 Abbey National 11.50 -0.07 A BFoods 4.00 -0.07 A B Ports. 3.03 -0.04 AstraZeneca. 22.75 0.01 Alliance Leicester 8.27 -0.13 Allied Domecq 5.73 -0.20 Allied Zurich 7.56 0.15 Anglo American Gold 43.70 unch ASDA Group 2.18 unch Bank
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      1661 18 AFP □Nikkei 225 -527.18 JAPANESE share prices slumped 2.9 per cent yesterday on fears that the rising yen will hurt major exporters and stifle nascent economic recovery, brokers said. "The heavy fall was triggered by selling from foreign investors concerned over the falling profitability of exporters amid a strong
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        430 19 AFP CI Composite Index -&88 MALAYSIAN share prices ended 0.8 per cent lower yesterday on forced selling activities and moves by some brokerages to lower trading limits, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 6.88 points to finish at 829.77.
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        8770 19 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products Lest Vol Day Net Cap MHO Low Company Sat* OOO High Low P/t 5 mil *40 255 Ajinomoto 368 -4 5 368 366 23.3 149.2 174 46 Angkasa 148 -6 597 158 140 218.2 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 376 -10 35 386 372 13.1 150.4 294
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        Lock icon Armstrong wrt: do modest nibbling
        207 20  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy MANY times in the past, we've seen the market suddenly latch onto something new and push it up to stratospheric levels IPOs (initial public offers) spring readUy to mind. The logic is that eventuaUy, the market wiU want the new
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        217 20 HOHttCOM STOCKS Cr Gr M w l*« VI Day Lact Ouot# M M YM M NO» H l— stw CMmr ut» rooo> wm» l— awyf tmm cw p/t }mi 365 T73 5123 CDC (2000) MK 315 IS 40 315 315 300 3(5 6 17 23 10 7 *****
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        2124 20 BONOS. LOANS S WARRANTS m 52-*k Last Vol Day Last Ouots A«« High Low Stno Company Sato **r- COOOl High Low Buyer Seller Price '04 3 s 3160 -Acer W*****1 48 5 -2 489 54.5 46 47 5 49 80 4.5 s 3164 Acma ******4 40 -2 319 43 39
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        287 20 AFP CI Wellington -9.07 NEW Zealand share prices fell 0.4 per cent yesterday after Telecom reversed early gains and Tokyo posted a steep decline on fears over the rising yen, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Index dipped 9.07 points to 2,195.33 on light turnover of NZ$63.B million. J* 12 «B
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        855 20 AFP P SET Index -9.64 THAI shares slipped 1.9 per cent yesterday as investors took profits in the banking sector following the release of first-half profit results, dealers said. Share prices closed lower on foreign selling and profittaking mainly in the financial sector after Wednesday's gains, dealers said. Selling
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        405 20 AFP Q Composite Index +1L55 SOUTH Korean share prices closed 1.2 per cent higher yesterday after late bargainhunting reversed early losses spurred by concerns over Daewoo Group's restructuring. Banks fell in early trade on the back of volatile money market rates and concern about Daewoo Group's restructuring plans, SK
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        653 20 AFP NAD Ordinaries -25J SHARES closed down yesterday ahead of the US Federal Reserve chairman's congressional testimony, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index ended 25.1 points lower at 3,086.3. The All Industrials Index closed down 34.1 points at 5,368.1 while the All Resources closed 21.9
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        705 20 AFP n Composite Index +L 55 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday amid a late rebound in selected blue chips and continued buying of pharmaceutical stocks, dealers said. They said the broad market was generally quiet during the day as investors remained cautious over the country's
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        317 20 AFP CI Manila -3(183 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 1.2 per cent yesterday with investors cautious over local and overseas developments. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 30.83 points to close at 2.488.62. Volume rose to 2.1 billion shares worth 2.5 billion pesos from 1.8 billion shares worth 2
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      Lock icon STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
      7269 21 S2-Wk Last Vol Day Last Ooote W» Dlv Vtd Nat Cap Avg High Low StNo Company M« fOOOt High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/C SmH Prtci MULTHNOUSTRY 182 17.Smb 1000 Acma 50c 129 -3 231 135 t27 127 129 10 3.3 3.9 10.6 213.4
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      1510 21 Transaction date: Jul 22 Or Or M wt 52-w* Loot Vol Day Loot Ouoto 0*v Otv Yld Hot C« An l— urn i* rooo) l— o»yr urn» cv w Prtpo MANUFACTURING 218 30 e 2049 AS Auto 10c 173 *3 4*6 173 166 168 173 10 N 0.6 197.5
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        371 22 Stocks Volume Golden Agri USIOc 21,342,000 Asia Foodi Prop 19,866,000 Hotung Inv MT5 16,716,000 IPC Corpn 5c 12,499,000 •Gentlng Int 12,406,000 tCT HKIOc 10,664,000 IKH.R 9,751,000 PohliantOc 9,498,000 Eagle Brand HWgs HK75c 9,209,000 l-One 5c 7,759,000 Stocks SPH 69,369,190 SIA Foreign 34,450,863 DBS Foreign 22,986,345 DBS Land 16,983,328 UOB Foreign
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        79 22  -  -By Ven Sreenivasan SPH has been under pressure during the last two days in the wake of rumours of the emergence of a new newspaper group. From a technical perspective, the stock has further downside. The RSI indicates that the counter is still overbought while the stochastic charts
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
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          Lock icon Y2K in the eyes of a genie
          126 22 WOULD it require a miracle to get Asia's computers to be year 2000 (Y2K) compliant? It seems so, according to a joke narrated by Singapore's attorney-general Chan Sek Keong at a seminar yesterday: An IT executive vacationing in Bintan finds a bottle on
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          257 22 THE local financial community has been preoccupied with speculation of what impact a new newspaper, being planned by SMRT and listed Swedish media group Modern Times Group, will have on established Singapore Press Holdings. Here is how one leading broking house sees it, according to a
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          120 22 WHEN a stock market drops as much as the one in Singapore has, people inevitably start to speak of "bargain-hunting", the idea being that one can start to buy good stocks on the cheap. One local brokerage, however, has a different term for it, one which
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        Lock icon Nikkei's 527-pt fall, trading curbs weigh on sentiment
        642 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY SPH shares hit again; forced selling/margin calls probably over for now, bnt no immediate major rebonnd expected By R Sivanithy A 527-POINT plunge in Tokyo's Nikkei Index, strict enforcement of trading curbs by local brokers, margin calls and a
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        819 24  -  Off the Cliff by Many don't really know how to deal with life, which makes it even harder to accept death. Perhaps, we should live life as fully as we can possibly manage by r~ Jaime Ee THERE is a certain sense of
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          56 24 WHAT'S in a suprise? Usually another one. That's what one diner found out at Gu, the newest noodle bar to join the trendy restaurant fray. Pointing to an item on the menu that said "Noodle Surprise", he asked the waitress, "Can I have the surprise?" To which
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          36 24 One journalist has taken to the idea of taking the herb gingko biloba to improve her memory. But she has a major pi oblem: she keeps forgetting to take it.
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          106 24 IF you think you can't learn anything from the movies think again. Here are some nome truths, as gleaned from Jhe big screen: ♦At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil. ♦Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications
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        626 24  -  CINEMA A Walk on the Moon's focus on life in a Jewish resort has a narrow appeal By\ Susan Tsang A WALK on the Moon styles itself as a romantic comedy, but forget about a cutesy Meg Ryan giggler written by Nora Ephron. The characters
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        528 24  -  TRENDS By' Tan Su Yen WE aren't quite a gracious society yet, a Gallup Poll commissioned by Metro Singapore has found. But we might just get there with the help of the much-maligned Metro sales girl. The survey which polled a
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        600 24  -  CINEMA It starts off promisingly but soon degenerates into a series of disconnected scenes By I Susan Tsang YOU land a million planes safely, then you have one little mid-air crash, and you never hear the end of it. Welcome to the stressful world
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        Lock icon S'pore craftsmen make headway
        631 25 THE "Made-in-Singapore" label unless it is sewn on an obscure corner of a piece of designer clothing —is something that Singaporeans look at with a mixture of fear and loathing. There are two reasons why Singaporeans don't like to buy things made in their own country:
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        443 25 DINAH Howe's creative spark was ignited in an unlikely way 17 years ago. She was pregnant with her first child, and hated the fact that with so few maternity boutiques around, all the women at her obstetrician's clinic looked alike in tentlike
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        536 25 PATRICK NG, a 46 year old ceramicist turned glass artist, seems to be one of the better established Singapore craftsmen, having been in the business for over 18 years. Less than a year ago, he even upgraded from his home-studio to a proper factory,
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        560 25 YOU might have seen the shop Pomp, in Tanglin Shopping Centre a treasure trove of what are supposed to be lamps, but to a layman looks like someone had massacred a group of kaleidoscopic-coloured birds en masse, or skinned animals and shoved lightbulbs inside them.
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        549 25 RICHARD Tsen started out as a self-taught fashion designer who got together with five other friends to open a menswear store, n.dro, at Raffles City shopping centre. But the enterprising 28 year old has since branched out into homeware that he designs himself and has
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        678 25 WITH candles becoming such a big fad in Singapore, more local candle-makers have come into the market with their own unique designs and scents that can be customised according to demand. Jaqueline Low is a ceramics-cum-candle artist who recently gave up her advertising
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        1078 26  -  partathinataii discovers some unusual exhibits in one of the three Volume Form sculpture trails PARVATHI NAYAR IT is a sculpture exhibition with a difference. It's big, not just in numbers over 250 sculptures by 150 sculptors from 20 Asia-Pacific countries but also
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        883 27  -  THEATRE Seagram, SET have set op Ah Kong's Birthday Pte Ltd to produce the show as a round-the-year dinner theatre event By Parvathi Nayar "MARTELL presents" will now precede all activities relating to the production ofA/i Kong's Birthday Party, the interactive dinner play by Singapore
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        593 29 CRAVINGS "LIFE is to short to eat bad food," Sydney restaurateur Christine Manfield declared. Ms Manfield was one of the guest chefs at last year's World Gourmet Summit. Starting Monday, 10 celebrity chefs from all over the world will once again descend on
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        700 29 Something new, something old —but both fine vintages WINE CONNOISSEUR By N KYong 1040 One of the great vintages of the forties, remembered for producing rounded, soft fat wines, beautifully balanced, in some cases (Figeac for one) better than the 1947. Chateau Poujeaux 1040 magnnm (direct from Chateau) Medium-dark brown-red,
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        707 31  -  Average prices across all major flat types up in Q2, property agency's survey shows, davxd boey reports DAVID BOEY RESALE valuations for all types of Housing Development Board (HDB) flats have turned around and clearer signs of the upward trend are expected as early
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        1001 31 HDB transactions from Jun 1 to Jun 25, 99. w POSTAL CONTRACT BUILT-IN/ PHCE PSf LOCATION DISTRICT DAT* (SOFT) <S$000| (S$] 4-Roorn (Type A) Bedok Reservoir Rd *****5 07-Jun-99 1109 270 243 Bedok Reservoir Rd *****8 08-Jun-99 1108 263 237 Bedok Reservoir Rd *****4 15-Jun-99 1119 235 210
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        481 31 BANKS/FINANCE COMPANIES YEAR 1 YEAH 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 YEAR 5 YEAR 6-10 YEAR 11-36 Citibank* (max of 30 yrs) -1 to 5 years loan duration 4.0000 4.7500 5.0000 5.2500 5 2500 -6 to 10 years loan duration 4.0000 4.7500 5.2500 5.5000 5.5000 6 0000 -11 to 30 years
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        619 32  -  But fund manager has underweight US for first time as PEs climb, Genevieve cua reports GENEVIEVE CUA IF you're mulling over whether to let go of a unit trust investing mainly in US stocks or global equities in favour of Asia's bull markets, the
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        397 32 UNIT TRUST/SECTOR (6 MONTHS 31DEC96-16JUL99) CHANGE BENCHMARK CHANGE Top 10 funds 1 Templeton IF Korean/Korea EQ 202.59 Korea SEComposrte 301 92 2 Five Arrows SEA Special/FAR East PAC EQ* 180.00 MSCI AC Far East exJap 78 70 3 Schroder Spore Trust/Spore EQ* 160.91 Spore Straits
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        1254 33  -  Statistics show that investments over the long term generate higher yields than a simple savings deposit reports gemevieve CUA GENEVIEVE CUA YOU'RE fairly new to investing, and the question of the best time to make your entry, whether it's a specific stock, unit trust or investment-linked
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        1009 34  -  THE FDVBR PODVT Amateur Investors are no match for foreign players and trained professionals In an Internationalised S'pore bourse By Peter Douglas The writer is the principal of GFIA Pte Ltd, an independent consultancy working with the financial services sector THE local
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        901 34 MID-cap stocks, defined as those with market capitalisation of $400 million to $1.5 billion, have performed in line with the Straits Times Index, but not as well as small cap and penny stocks which have enjoyed a stupendous surge, says a July 12 report by OCBC
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        700 35  -  Publisher: Prentice-Hall (Singapore) List price: $29 358 pages, soft cover Reviewed by* Genevieve Cua HOW do you go about ensuring you have enough to retire on? Or to finance your children's education? Or more immediately, to purchase some of the 4 Cs most notably, a condominium
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        160 35 Publisher: The Publishing Consultant List price: $12.90 217 pages, soft cover HERE'S yet another financial planning book, this time unabashedly targeted at the man-in-the-street. With its title, Got Money Cannot Die!, and cover blurbs like "1001 ways to save money" and
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        1525 35  -  By I Koh Seng Kee Fong Wai Mun YOU'RE keen to buy a property, but do you know the maximum loan that you can borrow? In this section, we show how you can do an affordability analysis, so you can determine the maximum
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        1722 35 O«00»rt Twunt 1-mth 3-ntth 5-mfr Pgwjt tmount 1-wtti 3-fflth frffltti DBS Bank HSBC A$ AS S10.000 A24.999 4 1900 4 2500 4 3200 25,000 74 999 3 7500 ***** 4 1250 A25.000 A49 999 4 2100 4 2700
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      1043 37 Achieving excellence is a most, not a choice, for businesses aiming to thrive in the new millennium PAUL Kearns, the former CEO of Xerox Corporation, once said: "Quality is like a race without a finishing line." The same can be said about achieving world-class excellence. It
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        776 38  -  STMicroelectronics works from the ground up to ensure policies are carried out f*y. Eugene Low The writer is a BTjournalist WHEN Italian company SGS Microelecttronica and Thomson Semiconducteurs of France merged in 1987, it was far from being a match made in heaven. Few expected the
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        916 40  -  World-class port bags S'pore Quality Award first local MNC to win the business excellence award By] Eugene Low The writer isaßT journalist IF any company has reason to look back contentedly on its own achievements, then PSA Corporation must surely be one of them. Here's
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        875 40 How will the award help Singapore organisations compete globally? The Singapore Quality Award (SQA) designed to help organisations improve their competitiveness covers a set of seven criteria which address all areas of business excellence. The SQA criteria are based on core values of world-class organisations such
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        817 41  -  From a cooperative set up to provide affordable insurance for union members, NTUC Income has grown to become one of Singapore's largest insurance groups By Soh Tiang Keng BRINGING out the best in people and productivity through efficient work methods is the touchstone of business
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        824 43  -  Transport company Tibs prides itself on innovation, and many of the workable ideas come from staff By i Christopher Tan The writer is a BT correspondent PUBLIC bus companies seldom advertise their services. There is always a ready pool of commuters. And in the Singapore context,
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        703 43 A look at core values and components that make ap SQA's framework for excellence THE Singapore Quality Award (SQA), introduced in 1994, provides organisations with a model of business excellence. As the premier award for business excellence in Singapore, the SQA criteria must be comparable to those
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      294 37 V tssmm&toJr ASSOCIATES iPHPVH|i f ri ACC c rBVnAV WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO OUR SUCCESSFUL TRAVEL FIRST LLAbb EVERYDAY We a RTF EL t° A on* AT*T U 3 s US yOU Can ex P ect to rst c^ss as we ever y necessary step to ensure service excellence and
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      31 37 INSIDE Pg 2 STMieroelectronics Pg 4: PSA Corp Questions on SQA Pg 5: NTUC Income Pg 7: Tibs Holdings The SQA model COORDINATOR Eugme Lou EDITOR: Elaine Koh SUB-EDITOR: Magtfakne Phong
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      172 38 It's just the right thing to do! As a one-stop IT service provider, Singapore Computer Systems' commitment is to understand your IT needs and meet your > expectations consistently. To do this well, we need to look within, fine*'v tune ourselves and our systems constantly. fThe ISO 9001 certification and
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      248 38 SembCorp Construction is proud to be a member of the Singapore Quality Class Expressways Commercial Complexes Industrial Manufacturing Our People Our Services I 1 jJj HMV. I At SemM'arj) Cons/ruction, our focus SembCorp Construction offers total is on close teamwork, quality service. one-stop construction service, and long-term relationships. Our starting
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      34 39 ——^i TANKSTORE LIMITED MipP g,|„ip rr v a 46- gp dflfcht.- yflp a "> l -**f#4^^ i* i op > /i 1/ r..:*£'/' v^ <fc> .1 < v :s s sp^-v 1 r« CELEBRATES THE ACHIEVEMENT OF
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      133 40 o«r expertise can be summed up in two words: Schneider Electric. Groupe Schneider control and automation summed up in one single is now called more efficient. logo and two words. Schneider Electric. They have also given Schneider Electric The circuit breaker, recognition to our global Logistics Asia Pte the contactor,
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      124 41 YOU ONIY BECOME THE WORLD'S MOST ADMIRED PACKAGE DELIVERY COMPANY BY PERFORMING ABOVE BAI 1% B% B* In a Fortune magazine survey of customers comprising W0 I# Wm I II W0 senior executives, outside directors and financial analysts, UPS was named the world leader in its field. It's an accolade
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      239 42 Among the many reasons we were conferred the Singapore Quality Class, one really stands out. r You. Because it was you, our customers, who've inspired us to reach greater heights. Your demands for customized solutions to satisfy JfF\ your complex needs, and your desire for the very highest quality, have
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      105 43 -~y -f% Bml :^;f v -Vqj: ;^A;r-; Hraßft£&. :V J VMMoHHi^IIi^HHBHBHHHIHBHH^BHfiHNr^^P^^^^^IsfIBIHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIHBHHHHHHHiiI^IHHI^HIHiHHHa^ Do you know... More than a billion people travel on Otis elevators and escalators a day? Otis equipment move the equivalent of the world's total population every five days? 12 of 20 of the world's tallest buildings are equipped
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      101 44 PSA Corporation is honoured SINGAPORE t 1 TT K T t0 WIN h metience the Singapore Quality Award 1999 Winner CITOS to streamline operations within the port. PORTNET for 24-hour real time linkage with customers. 350 pioneering applications developed in-house by our IT specialists. Plus the flexibility to integrate with
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      254 45 M11 a CWT Otatributton 1.37 -0.04 42 ChuanHup LM -0.03 976 Cosco lnv**tm«nt 1.27 -0.01 99 FrataM Unkl 0.36 -0.01 7304 OS HoMtng* 0.95 0.02 202 HatSunHup 0.60 KX01 341 IMC HoMktqi-HK 5.60 until 0 Jayi Malting! 0.93 -a02 313 Jurona SNpyard 7.70 until 110 MHnJcwp 5.75 -aos
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      431 45  -  Niche has strong growth potential with the economic recovery in region By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Locally-based shipbroker Scan-Trans Shipping is refocusing its energies on the niche project cargo market which it believes has strong growth potential as regional economies pick up. "Right now the oil
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      144 45 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd will pay fines of US$lB million (5530.6 million) and plead guilty to charges that it dumped oil in the ocean and lied to US Coast Guard investigators, Attorney General Janet Reno said. The fine is the largest ever
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      771 45  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar AFIRE on board the Antarctic research and supply vessel Aurora Australis in July last year was put out efficiently by the crew but an investigation has revealed several flaws with the way in which flexible
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      893 46 PXUCEUKE.COM US company which takes bids on plane tickets and hotel rooms sees sales rise 16-fold despite incurring Q2 loss Bloomberg [STAMFORD, Connecticut] US Internet retailer Priceline.com Inc, which lets consumers bid on-line for airline tickets and hotel rooms, said its loss widened in the second
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        804 59 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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        551 59 Carbon 180 Mai 990.6 0.1 15.7 0.10 78 OA Jul IS Density Water Residue Ask Aluminium Sediment No above E25 0 2 2 0 0 1 380 Ave 987.3 0.3 13.7 0.07 36 0.02 bin. 380 Mai 994.9 0.8 20.8 0.M 201 0.08 m/»*3 %*ft m/m
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        450 60 Industry resting on its laurels despite new risks in increasingly congested skies: MPs Reuters [LONDON] Britain's aviation industry hit political turbulence when MPs condemned airlines' attitude towards safety as "flawed and complacent", despite new risks in increasingly congested skies. A report from the
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        620 60 Earnings of United, US Airways, American affected by low-fare carriers Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Airlines, AMR Corp's American Airlines and US Airways Group Inc reported lower second-quarter earnings as travellers sought cheaper fares. Trans World Airlines Inc posted a wider-than-forecast loss after labour
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        230 60 AFP AFX-Asia [MANILA] The Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board has banned China Airlines from operating flights between Manila and Hongkong for 30 days, starting yesterday. An AFP report quoted civil aeronautics officials as saying that the ban was imposed after it was
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        302 60 Reuters [MONTREAL] The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) said it expects world airline passenger traffic growth to pick up through 2001 on the economic rebound in the Asia and Pacific region and "reasonably buoyant" markets in Europe and Latin America and the
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        252 60 AFXAsia [KUALA LUMPUR] Two airplanes of Malaysian Airline System Bhd failed to meet the minimum fuel requirement set by UK authorities at London's Heathrow Airport between Jan 17 and Jan 31 this year, New Straits Times reported. The newspaper quoted
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