The Business Times, 30 November 1999

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES mita (P)jHergm-^ 85C i SINGAPORE Internet: http:/Vbusiness-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999
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    61 1 □six (-13.39) n*™ mm Mll4 (-6.83) nsmsci FUTURES mm mm (-0.50) STOCK KAUET INDICES Monday Change KLSEOOMP Closed NIKKEI I83M17 -#4.23 HANG SENG l§,ttl.ll—+186J8 SET INDEX ***** +856 JAKARTA COMP __Ht82 -1164 MANILA COMP 1J***** +1887 TJura WPI 7«jo_+aa4« SEOUL COMP 364.26 +11.10 CLSA CHINA B 771.74 -1J7
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    72 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ US$ 1.677 £(US$/S$per£) 1.604 1690 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1.913 1.696 DM 1.932 0.868 YEN 103.1 1.626 RM 3.800 0.441 HKS 7.771 0.216 BAHT ***** 0.043 RUP1AH 7,336 0.023 •SttoWOunH* FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.25 TAIPEI Ml SYDNEY
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    Lock icon Analysts ponder M'sian post-election scenarios
    775 1  -  k£Tm laiesi NF wins two-thirds majority but loses two states in Malay heartland From Ruth Wong, Eddie Toh, Meera Tharmaratnam in Kuala Lumpur in Hongkong FUND managers and market analysts last night looked beyond the National Front's two-thirds victory in the general election to post-election
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    Lock icon Bangkok on track to clear its gridlocked streets
    728 1  -  Three systems expected to bring relief to traffic congestion in the capital From Harish Mehta in Bangkok AT long last, Bangkok may be on the road to untying the notorious traffic gridlock on its streets. Some immediate relief will come as early
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    Lock icon BOJ acts alone to beat down rising yen
    809 1  -  Currency hits 104 but rallies to 102.45 by Tokyo's close Prom. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo LEFT hanging by inaction from other major central banks, the Bank of Japan intervened single-handedly on foreign exchange markets yesterday to sell down the surging yen to
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      125 1 INSIDE Top Stories Richard Branson's plans to give Austaafia a new cut-price airtine were welcomed yesterday. Qantas shares slumped 14.7%. Shiooina Tiniii 1" US major stock indexes poised to record annual returns of more than 10% each Pg 20 Marco Polo to push forward launching of The Grange Residences. Pg
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      8 1 More upside tests expected for yen, Pg 6
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      Lock icon PAS takes 2nd state as Islamic influence grows
      539 2  -  Analysts see Terenggann'sf&ll hurting DrM in next year's party elections From. Eddie Toh, Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur ANOTHER Malaysian state has fallen to the Islamicbased opposition party in the 10th general election amid widening fault lines in the Malay heartland in
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Raha on the move—again
        95 2 ARUP Raha does not believe in staying more than three years with any organisation. The chief economist/co-head of economic and market analysis for Asia at Citibank/ Salomon Smith Barney is on the move again after two years with the group. He has just jumped ship to
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        Lock icon Merrill knocks out JF
        63 2 MERRILL Lynch has dethroned Jardine Fleming for the top spot in Asiamoney's brokers' poll rankings this year. The US brokerage received more first, second and third-placed votes than its rivals, making it the best research firm in 11 markets across the region. CLSA Global Emerging Markets
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        Lock icon What's in a name?
        89 2 SEEMS the people promoting Singapore's new integrated stock and financial derivatives exchange which debuts on Dec 1 are in a bit of a fix. The abbreviation for the new exchange, the Singapore Exchange Ltd, is SGX but the people at Simex are reluctant to use it.
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        Lock icon Ayala joins JP Morgan council
        98 2 JP MORGAN has appointed Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, president and chief executive of Ayala Corp, to its International Council whose members include Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Mr Zobel is the third Asian to join the council after Mr Lee and Yotaro Kobayashi, chief
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        Lock icon From jeans to suits
        51 2 WITH tee-shirts and jeans fast becoming standard attire for dot-com workers these days, a big info tech company has bucked the trend by organising an "e-glam" event, with laptop computers going to the best-dressed. For the guys, it's time to dig out that double-breasted suit, we
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Low buy-in volume of MediaRing shares puzzles brokers
      246 4  -  By\ R Sivanithy BROKERS were puzzled by the relatively low volume of Mediaßing shares that were bought-in by the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Those who had short-sold the Internet company's shares on its debut on Nov 19 would have had to
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      Lock icon Marco Polo advances launch of Grange Residences
      495 4  -  I-ii exclusive Super-luxury condo to l»e marketed In Kay next year instead ef2ool By] Kalpana Rashiwala MARCO Polo Developments plans to launch The Grange Residences in May next year and not in 2001 as it had indi cated earlier, its managing di rector,
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      Lock icon Simon Cheong ropes in FCC for Cuscaden Tower project
      441 4  -  Partners plan to develop property into alnznrycondo By' Teh Hooi Ling DEALMAKER Simon Cheong has roped in First Capital Corporation (FCC) as his 40 per cent partner in the development of the freehold Cuscaden Tower plot next to the posh Four
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      Lock icon SingTel closes with just 4-cent loss, after sliding on news of lower profit
      322 4 SHARES of Singapore's largest listed company Singapore Telecom fell as much as 10 cents yesterday morning following news of a mid-year profit which is at the lower end of analysts' forecast. However, the counter recovered in the
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      Lock icon New listings on the SES: Too many, too soon?
      694 4  -  ■f^Niock^; r sivanithy SHOULD the regulators be concerned over the speed with which new share listings have been coming to market? Last week we saw the debuts of Chip Eng Seng and China Toll and the introduction of GMG Global, which
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      Lock icon Brierley extends Air NZ buy-up deadline to end-March 2000
      554 5 This marks second revision of deadline; previous cutoff date was December Reuters [WELLINGTON] Brierley Investments yesterday extended the deadline of its possible buy-up of Air New Zealand shares until March 31, 2000. A formal notice that BIL planned to increase its
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      Lock icon UOB completes Radanasin purchase
      552 5 It signs pact with BOT, becomes 4th foreign owner of Thai bank Bloomberg [BANGKOK] United Overseas Bank Ltd (UOB), Singapore's third-largest bank, signed an agreement with the Bank of Thailand completing its acquisition of Radanasin Bank, becoming the fourth foreign owner of a Thai bank. The
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      Lock icon L&M up 9 cts on Indon Net venture
      213 5 Reuters SHARES of construction-based L&M Group Investments Ltd hit a year high yesterday on the firm's Internet investment in Indonesia. Bucking a weaker trend for the market, L&M rose briefly to a year high of $1.34, before ending at $1.33, up nine
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Tibs sells unit to Sime for $3.1m
        46 7 TIBS Holdings has sold its wholly-owned subsidiary, PB Packaging Systems Singapore to Sime Singapore. Sime, through Sime Rengo Packaging Singapore, paid $3.1 million tor the 600,002 ordinary $1 shares in PB Singapore, which makes and trades in packaging products.
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        Lock icon S'pore Food ups stake in Shanghai firm
        85 7 SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI) has acquired an additional 36 per cent of Shanghai ST Food Industries Co, an equity Joint venture company in Shanghai, for US$l.44 million (552.4 million). The additional stake was acquired from the other existing shareholders of Shanghai ST Food,
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        Lock icon Keppel Corp raises Keppel Land stake
        71 7 AFX-Asia KEPPEL Corp said it has completed the unwinding of cross-shareholdings between members of the Keppel group. Keppel Corp has purchased 28.22 million shares or 4 per cent of Keppel Land from Keppel Fels Energy and Infrastructure, and 9.83 million shares or 1.4 per
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        Lock icon GE Holdings shares start trading
        70 7 SHARES of Great Eastern Holdings (GE Holdings) wore listed and traded on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. GE Holdings is a new financial holding company formed as a result of a restructuring in which Great Eastern Life (GE Life) becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of
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        Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
        49 7 IN our Nov 27 report on JIT Holdings' interim results, the correct revenue growth figure should be 62 per cent, not 161 per cent, while the rise in net profit should be 12.6 per cent, not 2.6 per cent. We are sorry for the editing errors.
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      Lock icon DBS to sell building for $180m
      411 7  -  Asset securitisation of DBSTampines Centre a first for the bank By i Carol Eng DBS Bank has for the first time turned to securitising property assets as part of its plan to focus on core banking and financial services. It is hiving off DBS
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      Lock icon PCI plans to place 17m shares at $1.10 each
      179 7 PCI Ltd, a unit of the Chuan Hup group, has proposed a private placement of 17 million new shares at $1.10 each. The price is a 9 per cent discount to PCl's last traded price of $1.21. The stock was suspended
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      Lock icon Keppel Corp, Keppel Land fall after levy news
      429 7 $Llb charge on high side hot still within estimates: analysts AFX-Asia SHARES of Keppel Corp and Keppel Land ended the day down after the government imposed a higher-than-expec-ted levy of $1.1 billion for the redevelopment of Keppel Corp's shipyard land into a
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      Lock icon Jurong Engineering seals $40m contracts
      171 7 JURONG Engineering Ltd has clinched contracts for projects in Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore worth a total of $40 million. In Singapore, the group secured three jobs. The first is the mechanical package for the air separation plant on Pulau Sakra awarded by Air Liquide Engineering
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      121 4 even at a conference, you're an inndividual. It doesn't matter how many delegates there are, we regard each as having separate, unique needs. It might be secretarial services from the Business Centre. It might be to send a fax or email. Or arrange a game of golf. It might be
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      182 5 Qantss shares plunge, Shipping Times, Pg 12 I 'I I Jk Y M W wV- V*r'~' J^l r jfl —A HK r *>mB jz*."*-j- j| v .^tejg«g| liiiiMk i I'l 1 J 1 Jfl •'■>*&*& dfl jfl The key to a BMW 5 Series is just the beginning of a
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Labroy wrt could appeal to contrarians
      196 6  -  WABXAMT WATCH By\ R Sivanfthy LIQUIDITY and momentum are probably two of the most important influences of stock prices in the local market. The moment both taper off, it doesn't matter how good the company's prospects are, investors will shun its shares or warrants.
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      Lock icon Prices slip on institutional weakness, forced selling
      572 6  -  I :j comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THE lack of institutional support for the local market was made patently obvious yesterday when prices slipped throughout the session in relatively thin volume. The retail sector, meanwhile, had its own set of problems to deal with, not
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      Lock icon Charts show SingTel fairly valued
      251 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong THE Singapore Telecom stock fell by more than 3 per cent yesterday, weighed by news of the company's first-ever profit decline since it was listed in 1993. It closed four cents lower at $3.14, after opening at $3.18 and
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      389 6 9>ocfca Voluw Mediating 10c 32,429,000 Ami Food&Prop US$ 29,938.000 LAM 50c 23,472,000 CNnaToN20c 21,506.000 PCI 25c 15,991,000 TanCtonglntSOc 10.710.000 0C8C 06eCW*****8 9,076,000 *G«nting Int 8,036,000 Gofcton Agri US10c 7,506,000 VandarHorst 6.493.000 8>octa MedtaRIng 10c 54,861,920 0C8C *****,000 SfA 32,182,307 LAM 50c 30,374,670 OeSQrp 27,766.056 UOB 23,372,300 TanChonglntSOc 19,880,850 PCI 25c
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      Lock icon Diary of events Tuesday, Nov 30
      179 6 ♦9am. sth annual convention of safety Improvement teams by Minister of State for Manpower Othman Haron Eusofe. Venue: Phoenix Ballroom n, Hotel New Otani ♦9.30 am. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong win call on King Abdullah n of Jordon. Venue: ShangriLa Hotel, Valley Wing,
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      Lock icon More upside tests expected for Japanese currency
      508 6  -  Bank of Japan estimated to have bought USs2b to USs3b against the yen In its intervention yesterday p:i|comment CURRENCIES larry wee NEW highs for the Japanese yen in New York trading last Friday saw the Bank of Japan intervening in force yesterday to
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      420 6 BUKIT SEMBAWANG ESTATES LIMITED ANNOUNCEMENT Unaudited Results for Half-year ended 30 September 1999 The Group The Company $'000 $'000 30.09.1999 30.09.1996 Change 30.09.1999 30.09.1996 Change 1. Result (a) Turnover 24.523 4.119 495.4 992 773 28.3 (b) Other income including Interest Income 191 (75.9) (a) Operating profit before depreciation and amortisation
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Department store sales up 10% in first 8 months
      242 8  -  By. Andrea Tan THE department store retail scene in Singapore is turning around after two tough years with sales picking up due to improving economic sentiments, the Department of Statistics said yesterday. After recording two straight years of decline, sales in
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      Lock icon Promenade to recreate bustle of the old S'pore River
      418 8  -  Private operators urged to make use of 8,000 sqm of newly available space By* Carol Eng GOING beyond Boat Quay and Clarke Quay to set up even more alfresco joints and simple retail ventures by the Singapore River that is what
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      Lock icon Reward staff for their sacrifices, companies urged
      304 8  -  ST Engg chief says move will gain trust of workers, unions By\ Eugene Low COMPANIES which are doing well should reward and share the success with their workers, Singapore Technologies Engineering president Boon Swan Foo said last week. "Employers must give due recognition
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      Lock icon Freehold St Michael's Court in en bloc sale
      201 8 EN BLOCEEIESa A FREEHOLD collective sale site just off Upper Serangoon Road has been put up for sale by tender through sole marketing agent Jones Lang La Salle (JLL). St Michael's Court, located along St Michael's Road, occupies around 32,594 sq ft
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      Lock icon Clob: Disturbing comment from a M'sian minister
      333 8  -  MAILISETT Ren S Lang Illinois, USA via Internet I REFER to your report "Clob: Daim brushes off view that KL breaches WTO rules" (BT, Nov 25). I am greatly disturbed by the comment made by the Malaysian minister. It did not sound like
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      Lock icon Repeal withholding taxes
      70 8  -  N Grandhi Sydney, Australia via Internet WITH reference to the many reforms announced by the government of Singapore, on the Singapore dollar, on listing of foreign shares on SES in Singapore dollars, and on insurance, may I request the government to consider repealing withholding taxes to make
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      Lock icon Owners can form notional company for en bloc sales
      472 8  -  Tan Boon Tiong Singapore via Internet YOUR readers' letters ("Review en bloc rules to keep social cohesion", Nov 19 and "En bloc sales: let market forces reign", Nov 25) noted that there is some amount of inequity in an en bloc
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      Lock icon NEL: revealing too much, too soon?
      196 8  -  Tan Kiat Hin, Lewis Singapore MANY investors must have been confused over the recent swing of prices in Nat Steel Electronics (NEL). The stock price was on a downward spiral from September onwards due to the Taiwan earthquake, Apple component shortages and inability to
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      Lock icon Visitor arrivals soar 21.1% in Oct
      295 9  -  =Vd 3 on the economy visitor arrivals' By. Andrea Tan SINGAPORE'S tourism sector hit a record high in October, with visitor arrivals jumping 21.1 per cent year-on-year boosted mainly by arrivals from Asia. The number of visitors in October touched 603,769, the strongest growth
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      Lock icon NCB chief quits to join venture fund industry
      225 9  -  By. Raju Chellam MICHAEL Yap, chief executive of the National Computer Board (NCB), has quit to take up "new challenges in venture funding and managing Internet start-ups". Today is his last working day at NCB. BT, quoting sources, reported on Saturday that
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      Lock icon Zhu supports listing of Chinese firms on SES, hails strong ties with S'pore
      566 9 He begins 3-day visit with call to explore new areas of cooperation The Straits Times VISITING Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji is supportive of Singapore's call for Chinese companies to consider listing on the Stock Exchange of Singapore.
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      212 8 To Germany and Baoh. H jM K I^l p| V 14 classic performances weekly, via Dubai. From Ist November, Emirates will fly non-stop daily to Frankfurt and six times a week to Munich*. On board you'll experience up to 18 channels of personal video entertainment, gourmet cuisine and fine wines
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Lend Lease wins $8.7m project
      170 10 [SINGAPORE] Local developer Sing Holdings has appointed Lend Lease Projects to design and build its new $8.7 million light industrial development. Located within an established light industrial area bounded by MacPherson Road, Aljunied Road and Jalan Kolam Ayer, the 10-sto- rey, fully air-conditioned development will
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      Lock icon UK property boom continues unabated
      533 10  -  Led by a bullish stock market residential property prices are soaring From Neil Behrmann in Ixmdon THE British residential property boom continues unabated and London prices, in particular, are surging. Latest returns from the Land Registry show that prices in the 12 months to September
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      438 10 CB Richard Ellis Investment Dl 5 RESIDENTIAL SITE FOR SALE BY TENDER PROPERTY Viewpoint environment close Condominium to cbd orchard LOCATION view Near 51 Meyer Road LAND AREA facilities and good 7.495.7 sqm "J"?'*' N p'V° KatongPark Investment PLANNING 224-8181 PARAMETERS HPPPW Up to s t- .t-|. l' > n
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      177 10 OnryNpvly Collective Sale of Bukit limah Mansion Prime Freehold Residential Site so— ZD I r Buklt Tlmoh Read Prime Freehold Site area: 1,940.6 sqm Residential Site (20,888 sq ft) 100% Consensus Plot ratio: 2.1, 20 storeys For Sale By Tender Closing: Friday, 17 December 1999,3 pm PRIME INDUSTRIAL FACTORY FOR
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      211 10 Prime Freehold Sites For Sale Truly outstanding opportunities to acquire sites of distinction. Among the best Collective Sales in their category. ißßrMMmffm AT OXLEY ROAD £rP"\\\ Existing development (24 units) Land area 20,680 sq ft Pk 4 2 *> up to 10 storeys Central location in District 9 U 11
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon GM food: Asian nations should tread warily
      693 12  -  bottom line OPINION harish mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THIS week will see the European and Japanese do battle with the Americans over genetically modified (GM) foods at the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Seattle. Asian countries should join
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      155 12 'What many voters will do is hold their nose and vote for the Barisan Nasional once more. It's not a popular government But people aren't prepared to vote against it' -WUHjunCaM a lecturer at Griffith University in Australia and an expert on Malaysian politics, on yesterday's general
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      Lock icon Asean's clear stand on Aceh
      625 12 EDITORIAL INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid has received clear and timely support from his closest neighbours in his efforts to keep the sprawling archipelago intact The leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) issued a statement on Sunday supporting its largest member as it
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      Lock icon How firms can ensure share options add value
      1180 12  -  Make them explicit part of compensation package to motivate workers and create long-term wealth By] Mak Yuen Teen, Ho Yew Kee,Ruth Tan Mak Yuen Teen is an associate professor and deputy head, Ho Yew Kee is an assistant professor, and Ruth Tan
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      944 12 Showdown In Seattle TWO big challenges confront the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle. One is to overcome deep divisions over the global trade agenda. The other is to respond effectively to public scepticism that liberalisation and indeed the trade system are
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Rising yen could hurt Proton's profit: analysts
      763 13 KUALA LUMPUR Ten appreciation seen raising carmaker's costs by 20% PERUSAHAAN Otomobil Nasional Malaysia Bhd (Proton)'s earnings in its current financial year ended March 31, 2000, may be affected by the rising yen against the Malaysian ringgit, The Star reported yesterday, quoting analysts.
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      Lock icon Lucio Tan group wants to take over National Steel
      255 13 MANILA Paper: Others in grtnp include key shareholders of Cathay Pacific Steel AFX-Asia A GROUP of Filipino-Chinese businessmen led by Lucio Tan has joined forces to bolster its bid to take over Ma-laysian-owned National Steel Corp (NSC) before creditors auction off
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    • Article
      Lock icon Aberdeen resumes M'sian fund sales
      304 13 SINGAPORE Seme companies becoming more attractive, it says Bloomberg ABERDEEN Asset Management Asia Ltd yesterday resumed selling units in its Malaysian stocks fund, following regulatory changes making it easier to invest in the Southeast Asian nation. Aberdeen, an arm of Lon-don-traded Aberdeen Asset Management Pic,
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      Lock icon KL Industries sees turnaround by March
      505 14 PETALING JAYA Better prospects once creditors and Danaharta accept revamp plan: chief KUALA Lumpur Industries Holdings Bhd (KLIH) expects to turn around by the financial year ending March 31, 2000, once its corporate restructuring scheme is accepted by the various parties, the Sun reported
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      Lock icon Palmco has diversification to thank for good result
      334 14 ■PENANG It helps firm to post higher turnover, profit: chief PALMCO Holdings Bhd has attributed its ability to ride out the regional economic crisis to its diversified business base, The Star reported yesterday. The Penang-based group is principally involved in oil palm-based
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      Lock icon Diversified Resources HI profit jumps 54% to KM142m
      248 14 KUALA LUMPUR DIVERSIFIED Resources Bhd reported a pre-tax operating profit of 141.89 million Malaysian ringgit (5562.4 million) for the half year ended Sept 30, 1999 following strong performance in the automotive and automotive-related business, especially in the second quarter, the New Straits
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      Lock icon Gadek Capital returns to the black with RM2.2m profit
      156 14 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama GADEK Capital Bhd recorded a group pre-tax profit of 2.2 million Malaysian ringgit (*****,640) for the six months ended Sept 30, 1999, a big improvement over the RM18.5 million loss which was recorded for the corresponding period in
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      53 14 n* The grass is always greener on the other side. With so many choice properties for sale in The Straits Times Classified daily, it's no wonder our readers are tempted to seek greener pastures. Advertise in the Properties section (Classifications 402 to 568). Call C.A.T.S. at 1800-737-1166. Buy h. Sdllt.
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      417 15 JAKARTA Govt says it should have disclosed loan to textile producer Texmaco to Ibra bat did not Bloomberg PT Bank Negara Indonesia, the country's second largest listed bank, has rejected allegations that it tried to hide a loan it made to
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      348 15 MANILA Suspension may be tied to Estrada's gag order: paper Bloomberg THE Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission halted its investigation into why BW Resources Corp's share price has surged more than 1,600 per cent during the year, newspapers said. Local newspapers reported yesterday
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      158 15 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S Soeryadjaya family, founders of carmaker PT Astra International, will not be allowed to buy shares of the company held by the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, an Ibra official said. The bank rescue agency holds 40 per cent of the carmaker's
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      41 15 [JAKARTA] Protesters from Aceh draping a large banner reading "There is only one word: Referendum "on the dome of the parliament building during a rally in Jakarta yesterday to demand a referendum on self-determination for their home region. AFP
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      651 15 JAKARTA SAP rates Asia Pnlp Paper, Indonesia CCC+ but company may be moved toaß Bloomberg ASIA Pulp Paper Co, the biggest paper maker in Asia outside Japan, may be the first company in the region to receive a
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      403 16 TURANGI, Indonesia They blame track drivers or officials who replaced erode oil with diesel Reuters BUSINESS is bad for Indonesia's palm plantations but this time corruption, not market forces, is taking the blame for a painful fall in prices. Prices for
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      169 16 TOKYO Reuters THE number of Japanese firms investing in Indonesia has jumped since last month's presidential elections, Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp said yesterday. Some 10 companies have applied to join MM2IOO, an industrial park near Jakarta developed by Marubeni, since Abdurrahman
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      226 16 HANOI Reuters A VIETNAMESE government body wants to cap the prices of motorbikes sold by foreign joint ventures in the country, claiming current levels are exorbitant, official media reported yesterday. The Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) newspaper quoted Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, head of the
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      234 16 JAKARTA 9-month results dented by basic lending businesses Bloomberg PT Bank Negara Indonesia, the country's largest publicly traded state bank, and PT Bank Universal, an arm of PT Astra International, said 9month losses widened, hurt by the banks' basic lending businesses. BNI said
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        88 16 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Hie cabinet win be asked to approve the initial public offering plan of the electricity Generating Authority of Thailand's (EGAT) Ratchaburi Power Plant today, the Nation quoted a source from Government House essaying. This will mark ths single largest privatisation programme
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        85 16 Reuters [BANGKOK] Radanaein Bank aaldyeetsrday it would sell about 46 billion baht(Bsl.9bffllon)of weak assets and non-perfbrmlng loans to its wholly owned asset monapmwrt unit ftadnaain Mid In a atahwnwit to tlw> gftyfc yrrh«ngp nif' Thailand that If —at managamant unit would pay
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        69 16 Reuters [MANILA] Philippine glass maker Alliance Global said yesterday that its board had approved the setting up of a subsidiary to consolidate the company's interests and assets in the tood and beverage business. In a statement to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the company said the new
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        69 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Semen Greeik, Indonesia's largset cement maker, said its nine-month profit Ml 28 p«r cent as interest expenses surged faster than sales Wet profit for the company, which is 22 per cant owned by Mexico's largest cement company Cemss SA. Ml to 104
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        59 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indoneelan cigarette maker PTHaniaya Mandala Sampoerna said yesterday it planned to iaeus a one trillion rapiah (SOU million) bond in Itotortiery."PT HM Sampoerna plans to issue a one trillion ruptah bond in early 2000 > Sampoerna said in a statement, adding It
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        53 16 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Thailand's monetary policy is unlikely to change over the long term as the economy conttnuee its recovery, the Bank ofThailandeakl in a policy paper. "H economic growth picks up significantly, it ia not expected that monetary conditions will be changed substantially," BOT said In
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      442 17 SHANGHAI Plan by China's biggest listed property developer a prelude to snch sales by other state-owned firms Bloomberg, Reuters IN a prelude to state share sale, Shanghai Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone Development Co Ltd, China's biggest listed property developer, said it plans to
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      216 17 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN'S leading and third biggest securities firms announced a merger yesterday, a move analysts said would create a formidable securities company here. The merger of Yuanta Securities and Core Pacific Securities will produce a new company with a net worth of NT$3B
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      311 17 HONGKONG Asia Information, Taxing Info Tech to sell total of 220 m new shares Bloomberg TWO more companies with links to information technology and the Internet plan to list shares on Hongkong's new Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) in first-time stock sales
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      Lock icon Report of Hutchison stake buy speculative: NTT DoCoMo
      348 17 TOKYO Bloomberg NTT Mobile Communications Network described as "speculation" a report it will buy a stake in Hutchison Whampoa's mobile telecommunications business. Oriental Daily News and other local press reported, citing unnamed people, that the company, also known as NTT DoCoMo, will
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      231 17 HONGKONG DAB wins 83 of 176 seats contested in grassroots elections AFP A PRO-BEIJING party has registered big gains in Hongkong's first grassroots elections since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB),
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      322 17 HONGKONG Expectations of higher mobile phone, Net ue prompt analysts to forecast better earnings Bloomberg HONGKONG'S key benchmark index rose to its highest close in 25 months, led by China Telecom (Hong Kong) Ltd as expectations of higher mobile telephone and
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      371 18 BOMBAY Move, which will take effect in Feb, alms to attract more investors Bloomberg, Reuters INFOSYS Technologies Ltd, India's biggest software company by market capitalisation, said it will go for a two-for-one share split to attract more investors. Infosys' board yesterday announced that it will
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      449 18 NEW DELHI Leftwing parties walk oat, workers say law will result in big lay-offs AFP INDIAN leftwing parties staged a walkout on the first day of the new session of Parliament yesterday to protest against legislation opening the insurance sector to private domestic and
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      200 18 NEW DELHI Reuters INDIA will miss the Jan 1,2000 deadline set for opening up its domestic longdistance telecom services to competition, a senior government official said yesterday. "There will be some delay. As soon as we get the inputs from TRAI (Telecom Regulatory
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      Lock icon RBS makes £26.5b bid for NatWest
      551 19  -  Baaed on latest share prices, Bank of Scotland's offer remains better deal From Neil Behrmann in London ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) has unveiled a bid of £26.5 billion (5571.2 billion) for National Westminster Bank to counter a higher offer from Bank of Scotland
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      430 19 Bloomberg MANNESMANN AG said it expects earnings from telecommunications to grow more than 30 per cent annually until 2003 as Germany's largest mobile phone company fights Vodafone Air Touch pic's US$l46 billion (*****.8 billion) hostile bid. Mannesmann, whose supervisory
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      71 19 [ROTORUA, New Zealand] The expanding air cavity in an incubated egg of a highly endangered North Island brown kiwi being mapped yesterday by Department of Conservation biologist Carole Harvey for 'Operation Nest Egg' at Rainbow Springs in Rotorua. Kiwis (Apteryx austral is), unique to New Zealand, are
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      463 19 TOKYO AFP, Bloomberg JAPANESE electronics giants NEC Corp and Hitachi Ltd signed an agreement yesterday to form a memory microchip joint venture next month, the companies said. The new memory chip development and sales company, NEC-Hitachi Memory Inc, would be
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      403 19 WASHINGTON NYT A NEW wireless technology is about to join the contest to provide high speed Internet connections to homes and businesses. Cisco Systems, a leading Internet technology company, plans to brief analysts and reporters tomorrow about a new approach to wireless
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      222 19 FRANKFURT Bloomberg HOECHST AG and Rhone-Poulenc SA moved a step closer to their goal of forming the world's largest drugmaker after 96 per cent of Hoechst investors turned in their shares for those of the French company. A year after the partners announced
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      404 19 kYifr] meeting SEATTLE No substantive discussion expected at four-day meet AFP A HUGE global conference to set the stage for far-reaching multilateral trade talks opens here today under a cloud of discord and in the face of blunt warnings that the undertaking
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      870 20 It could fuel consumer spending and came the Fed to raise rates, they s&y NYT [NEW YORK] With about a month left in the millennium, the three major US stock indexes are poised to record annual returns of more than 10 per
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      433 20 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE prosecutors yesterday arrested two executives suspected of failing to declare millions of dollars in taxable income from shady "Princeton" bonds, a company spokesman said. The arrests by the Tokyo District Prosecutors Office were in relation to a bond scandal that
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      236 20 TOKYO French insurer will invest up to 200b yen in Japanese firm Reuters, Bloomberg FRENCH insurer AXA yesterday announced that it would take control of unlisted medium-sized Japanese insurer Nippon Dantai Life Insurance Co by setting up the nation's first insurance holding
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      403 20 TOKYO Cost cats, cell phone boom, accounting rhangAg mU help Bloomberg CORPORATE Japan is on the rebound. After three years erf low or no profit growth, companies in the world's secondlargest economy chalked up better-than-expected earnings in the first half of the year courtesy
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      362 20 LONDON Firm postponing paMicatien of study suggesting that 83% have not delivered shareholder value FT THE accountancy and consultancy Arm KPMG, increasingly involved in advising on mergers, this weekend sought to withdraw a study which concluded that 83 per cent of cross-border mergers
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      450 20 SYDNEY UK's Hanson to boy Pioneer for As4b; plans listing on ASX Bloomberg HANSON pic, the UK's No 2 building materials producer, said it has agreed to buy Pioneer International Ltd, the world's third-largest concrete maker, for As 4 billion (554.3 billion) to strengthen its
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      314 21  -  mwiii Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed lower yesterday on lack of institutional support and for want of fresh leads. Hit by losses in index heavyweights Singapore Press Holdings and Singapore Telecommunications, the benchmark Straits Times Index closed
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      246 21  -  MBCI Triwan hiuim Matthew DenBleyker Rrfco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures yesterday jumped 8.9 points, or 2.58 per cent, to 354.40 as the cash market rebounded from last Friday's plunge. Taiwanese stocks posted a decent rebound after Finance Minister Paul Chiu
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      132 21 ENHROY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil fell 2 per cent yesterday on signs that Iraq, producer of 3 per cent of the world's oU, will soon return to the export market after refusing a twoweek extension of its previous United Nations-con-trolled programme.
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      358 21 Reuters THE yen was on the advance against the US dollar and the euro yesterday despite the risk of Bank of Japan intervention. Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa confirmed earlier that the BOJ had intervened during Asian trading, buying dollars for yen for the first time in two
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      2750 22 HOMGKONG Reutars Q Hang Seng HONGKONG stocks closed higher yesterday, propelled by another runaway performance from index heavyweight China Telecom (Hongkong) Ltd. The Hang Seng Index ended up 186.58 points, or 1.22 per cent, at 15,461.11. Turnover was HK$9.B billion, up from
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      868 22 Reuters DamtaißMß 424 SHENZHEN'S B shares closed lower yesterday, with investors worried about poor corporate earnings prospects turning increasingly reluctant to build positions towards the end of the year. The B share index fell 0.24 point, or 0.29 per cent, to 82.08 on turnover of HK$l4 million, compared with
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      336 22 AFP PWP Index *228.46 TAIWAN share prices jumped 3 per cent yesterday, recovering losses made in the previous session caused by reports of a Chinese military build up against Taiwan, dealers said. "Market confidence has been restored after reports of possible attack from Beijing were proven to be just
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      1957 22 TOKYO AFP Qnua 4*23 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking as well as concerns over the yen's strength, despite dollar-buying intervention by the Bank of Japan, brokers said. The Nikkei-225 index finished down 64.23 points at 18,850.27. But the
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      295 23 AFP yi Composite Into +1&1 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 15.1 points at 964.26. Volume was 274.1 million shares worth 3.7 trillion won. H»M »h Anern Semi ***** 1800 Br«n Teth 2180 160 Central Sank 2480 -50 ChellComm KMOOO 6000 OeeGuSank 3780 unch Deetang Corp 3520
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      274 23 AFP HMwfl* ♦1137 PHILIPPINE share prices rose one per cent yesterday, boosted by technical trade, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index closed 19.87 points higher at 1,979.42. Volume totalled 18.6 billion shares worth 3.55 billion pesos. AFP N— (tm MRCAWad 0.76 0.01 230 Abacus Construction 2.93 -0.03
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      279 23 AFP QWeffingtan -OJ3 NEW Zealand stocks made marginal losses yesterday in a market becalmed by the election outcome which came in close to expectations, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended down 0.93 point at 2,136.39 on average turnover of NZ597.5 million. AFP *h rw» Advantaga MOS 2JO 0)5
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      562 23 AFP -4J5 AUSTRALIAN shares eased 0.1 per cent yesterday in reaction to a lower finish on Wall Street amid renewed inflationary fears there, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 4.5 points to 3,055.50. The All Industrials fell 4.1 points to 5,295.10 and the All Resources dropped 6.5 points
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      747 23 AFP HSBTMae +BJ6 THAI share prices closed up 2.2 per cent yesterday, led by bargain-hunting in banking, communications and transport stocks, dealers said. But volumes overall were relatively thin amid modest foreign investor interest ahead of the year-end, with many also sidelined ahead of central bank economic indicators due
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      647 23 AFP QflMnpgnteiiiei -I£&4 INDONESIAN shares slumped 2.3 per cent yesterday amid concerns over the government's poor handling of problems in the troubled provinces of Aceh and Maluku and a weak rupiah, dealers said. A dealer at Pan in Securities said share prices took their lead from the rupiah's downtrend.
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      798 26  -  Latest winner of the Australian Open is also youngest in its 95-year history. The Victorian teenager, Aaron Baddeley, is not only talented and highly ambitious but has his head firmly on his shoulders too, as johm brock finds out JOHN BROCK Reuters HIS father
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      283 26 TRENDS Reuters CHRISTMAS shopping is in full swing around the United States, but a poll released yesterday shows that a staggering 91 per cent of Americans feel the holidays are too commercialised. Each year, people complain that they spend too much money, get further into
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      1222 27  -  Old idea holds key to success in the knowledge economy: treat people as your most vital asset m Megumu Nakazawa KNOWLEDGE management is not a fad. It has its roots in ancient history- While the term may be relatively recent, knowledge management has been practised
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      1100 27 We continne this week Patrick Lambe's A-Z of Knewledge Management A Survival Guide C is also for Culture. Company culture attracts the attention of knowledge managers because it determines the quality of communication between workers, as well as the quality of knowledge
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      292 29 Bridge News, Reuters THE US Thanksgiving holiday had a predictable dampening effect on dry cargo freight market chartering activity on Friday, brokers said. Biffex closed 10 to 19 points firmer than Thursday's finish after trading 38 lots. TDEE-CHABTERi TBN-73,000 dwt delivery US Gulf Dec 15/25 trip Singapore-Japan range
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      537 29 Y2K &EADDHSSS Contingency plans in place should millennium bug strike: marine dept AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong's port, one of the world's busiest, will remain open to welcome the new millennium in a show of confidence in its Y2K readiness not shared
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      222 29 Reuters [CAPE TOWN] Vessel and container handling delays spurred by fears over Y2K bug glitches are still hobbling operations at South Africa's Durban port, a senior shipping official. "There are still some delays being experienced, but we're not yet in a crisis situation,"
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      260 29 Reuters [COPENHAGEN! Danish shipping companies are upbeat on next year's prospects following the World TYade Organisation's (WTO) fresh forecast of 6-7 per cent growth in global trade in 2000 after 4 per cent growth this year, top executives said. Container lines in particular
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        858 30 Attempt to recover bodies from China ferry disaster continues, as two more bodies from Norway wreck are found [SINGAPORE] THE world witnessed two tragic ferry mishaps on either side of the globe with the loss of at least 300 lives last weekend. Just as a
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      10901 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vnu* Voyaqe Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage TtHphonc SIN Desfn Nam* Nam* Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number aMMMMMNMMM>NM8BMMaMMMMMM9IEaMMMNNMHMMMMHMMMH l*/8 11/01 Kien Hung INTELUCENCE CONTA IC905S *5-*****33 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvotr* To BURNIE (BUR) 2061 Australia B/B 31/01
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        215 39 Dae 8 Italy: Immaculate Conception. Ditl Brunei: First Day of Fasting. Dm 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dw 2B Italy: Christmas Day. Brunei: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Belgium: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day. Denmark: Christmas Day. France: Christmas Day. Germany: Christmas Day. Hong Kong: Christmas Day. Indonesia: Christmas
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        767 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        849 40 Richard Branson expresses interest in buying News Corp's 50% stake in Ansett Holdings AFP {SYDNEY] The Australian government yesterday welcomed plans by billionaire Richard Branson to give the country a new cut-price airline, as the stockmarket registered its approval by dumping
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        338 40 Bernama [TOKYO] The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA), now headquartered in Manila, will move its head office to Kuala Lumpur. AAPA director-general Richard Stirland made the announcement at the 43rd Assembly of Presidents (AP) of the grouping. The AP
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        721 40 Reuters [LONDON] Aviation analysts' estimate that the world's airlines plan to operate only 25 to 35 per cent of their usual schedules on New Year's Eve because of weak bookings. "I don't know of any airline that is
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        247 40 Passenger service charges are net taxes: High Court Reuters [LONDON] Airlines braced themselves for a payback to travel agents of up to £60 million (*****.4 million) after Britain's High Court ruled that passenger service charges could not be described as taxes. In a
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          57 40 Reuters Airport said The airport said In a statement yesterday MASkargo would use Boeing747-20G aircraft on turnaround flights leaving Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, with flights returning from Macau on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Hie first of the new all-cargo flints flew
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          102 40 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] China Eastern Airlines Co Ltd said it has not been informed by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) about the suspension of any of It# domestic slots. An official from the CAAC's price department earlier said Chins Eastern Airlines, China Southern
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          79 40 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic will attempt to cut costs by a farther £500 million (USII-S billion) In a plan which could result in the loee of more than 6,000 jobs, British newspapers reported yesterday. Union leaders met senior managers yesterday to
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        703 42  -  After years of expansion, Singapore ship repair capacity is expected to contract as a result of competing land use. By June Lim June Urn is a freelance writer. The intense competition for land in spaceconstricted Singapore is putting even greater pressure on the local shipbuilding industry. Speaking
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        58 42 structure," MM a wwwny I pokes! nan. By splittinf the work between ti* two yards nt iMVttNUhig of iproVMiLftt Francis Bay, the nolmiui said it was ■iinm i M, n TWiiii 1a- IM ,i n pCNWKW ror rTyMrTullffl TP IrilV-II IKB dqlow too onmpfli it wHt
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        853 43  -  China's up and coming yards are offering attractive price rates and posing a very big challenge to Singapore's ship repair industry. By June Lim At the height of the mid-'Bos recession the worst in the Singapore marine industry it was suggested that the Republic required no more
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          40 43 gineerlng foUowod pected to lop off mSuorn Se^sanTSbUh'tof achieve its projected forecasts of S|Bo mSttott in prt#. lis tikis year. pwp—i Ail the tmnmo* function* of Jttrorig and Sembawang shipyards, such as human resources, uritt be inieipnmL
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        1036 44  -  Faced with numerous challenges, the Singapore shipbuilding industry has added a focus on niche markets to its repair mainstay. By June Lim Singapore yards are homing in on market niches to hold off competition from lower cost centres. The ship repair yards are eyeing ship
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        1296 45  -  This year, offshore work new buildings, conversions, upgrading and repair of vessels have formed the backbone of big shipyards By' Tan Kim Pong Tan Kim Pong is head of the Shipbuilding Offshore Engineering Department at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Keppel PELS, the largest offshore rig builder and
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      360 29 Hl'TUU VTS2000 Symposium The and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the International Association of Marine Aids to r V 8bB Navigation and Logistics I Authorities (IALA) will be organising the 9th VTS 2000 Symposium services 2000. The programme those operation, systems For more information, contact the symposium manager, Ms
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