The Business Times, 4 January 2000

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 850 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg/ TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2000
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    52 1 Dsn 2£0LM(+103.36) fl bt-sm U (+45.77) SDISCI FUTTJIES 34U0 (+5.80) STOCK MABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP 833.89 +11.56 NIKKEI dosed HANG SENG 17*9.63__+407J3 SET INDEX Closed JAKARTA COMP Closed MANILA COMP —2,141.77 -L20 TAIPEI WP1 dosed aXHMOMP__doBed ctSWmNA B dosed AUST ALL ORD dosed Una EST Chanie DOW
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    76 1 FOREX RATES USt S3 US$ 1.660 £(USS/SSperS) 1.621 1690 EUROfUSS/SS/E) 1.014 1.683 DM 1.929 0.860 YEN 101.7 1.632 RM 3.800 0.497 HKS 7.776 0.219 BAHT 96.90 0.046 RUP1AH 7.066 0.024 •SS to 100 units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7*5 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.25
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    Lock icon Punters, syndicates ram up STI 100 points
    679 1  -  Analysts and strategists scramble to position their portfolios ahead of expected return of institutional money Ven Sreenivasan, Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Singapore stockmarket got off to a spectacular start yesterday, and roared to an all-time high as punters and stockists piled into
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    Lock icon Electronics shares on fire as Datacraft skyrockets 41%
    380 1  -  New Tear optimism lifts electronics index to all-time high By Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Systems integrator Datacraft Asia led electronics stocks to a booming start yesterday, rising a stunning 41 per cent, or US$3.4O, to US$ll.7O. A bubbly New Year optimism lifted the
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    Lock icon Former EDB director is new i-One MD
    625 1  -  PEOPLE Lim Chin Tong to spearhead group's business directions By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] i-One.Net, the printing company that aims to be a big local Internet player, has hired a former Economic Development Board officer, Lim Chin Tong, as its group managing director to
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      153 1 DBBPE BT Comment Singapore developers should venture into virtual property, says Lee Han Shih. Pg 9 Top stories Broking fees for big clients fall to 0.3%. Pg 4 Three sites up for en bloc sale expected to fetch $170 m. Pg 8 Goldman Sach's banker is king of dealmakers in
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      Lock icon S'pore GDP to grow 6% this year and next: MAS poll
      809 2  -  Bat economists warn that a US slowdown will change this rosy outlook By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Economists are upbeat about Singapore's economic outlook in the next two years, according to a survey by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Happy Y2K, but don't hold us to it
        137 2 THIS being that time of the year, paid subscribers to Star Hub Internet's access service recently found themselves to be recipients of millennium and pew year e-mail greetings from the company's general manager Tan Tong Hai. Ahd not a few subscribers have
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        Lock icon The sperm's in the mail
        105 2 A THOUSAND Scottish volunteers will send samples of their sperm by post in little sterile, shock-proof and leak-proof vials to scientists to look into the quality of Scottish sperm. According to news agency reports, by sending their sperm through the post, the volunteers will not
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        Lock icon Goh, Vickers — Go!
        56 2 Goh, Vickers Go! FOLLOWING their recently announced merger, stockbroking houses Vickers Ballas and GK Goh will be renamed Goh, Vickers. Some stockbrokers have suggested that the merged entity should use the rallying cry "Goh, Vickers Go! Goh, Vickers Go!" to cheer staff on in the new century in the face
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        Lock icon Visa among region's best
        82 2 VISA International has been included in the Far Eastern Economic Review's list of leading companies in Asia for 1999. The listing, known as Review 200, is conducted annually and asks subscribers to rank both local and multinational companies from the perspective of corporate leadership. The criteria
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        Lock icon No go for racist auction
        92 2 ACCORDING to a wire news report, an auction seeking US$l million (Ssl .67 million) for a Web address containing a racial slur against black people was stopped by Internet auctioneer eßay earlier last month. The power of the Internet has allowed individuals all over the
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      Lock icon No sign of Y2K bug as Hang Seng, Bombay index soar to record high
      370 2 Smooth crossover spurs buying and buoys sentiment AP, Reuters HONGKONG stocks soared more than 2 per cent yesterday to close at a record high for the second consecutive session, and no Y2K problem hit on the
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  • REGIONAL markets
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      Lock icon KL stocks jump 3% on first trading day of the year
      726 3  -  Gains set to continue until mid-week before profit-taking ahead of Friday's Hari Raya holiday From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur BULLS charged at the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday, sending the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index nearly 3 per
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      Lock icon Lingering Y2K fears bug Philippine stocks
      270 3  -  From Al Labita in Manila LINGERING concerns over Y2K computer glitches and mild profit-taking dampened Philippine share trading yesterday, with the bellwether Phisix Index moving sideways to 2,141.77, down a mere 1.2 points. Analysts said both foreign and local funds remained cautious in their
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Broking fees for big clients fall to 0.3%
      562 4  -  Brokers now offer folly negotiable commissions for trades above $150,000 Ny Wong Wei Kong SINGAPORE Exchange stockbrokers have lowered broking fees for big clients to an average of 0.3 per cent. The lowest fee was 0.25 per cent yesterday, the first day
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      Lock icon New key appointments at listed companies, Temasek Holdings
      323 4  -  By Soh Tiang Keng THE new year is seeing a string of new key appointments at listed Singapore companies with businesses ranging from tyres and book distribution to machine tools. Chua Kim yeow, chairman of the Singapore Exchange, has besn. appointed non-executive
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      Lock icon Millennium wish: fairer allotment of IPOs
      716 4  -  conrad raj POR a long time I thought one of the main aims of an initial public offering was to place shares as widely as possible in the hands of members of the public. My thoughts seem to have been sadly misplaced. The current
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      Lock icon Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks (Dec 31, 1999)
      339 7 VOCATIVE NUMB MCOEPnCES COUPON NTEREST OF DAYS OF (EXCUJOMG GROSS MATURITY year raised rate amount PAYMENT accrued accrued redemption (%PA> P* DATES WTHEST WTB€ST» YfLD(\PA) 01/02/2000 N*****0N 1995 4 700.00 1/2 1/8 152 100.30 064 01/03/2000 Low 1 1960 61/4 88 53
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      Lock icon TLB Land plans to sell assets worth $110m to KepLand
      635 7  -  It'll then bny Ayala group's property stakes in bid to be regional player 4 Marissa Chew TLB Land is selling more assets to Keppel Land than previously disclosed and it plans to draw on the proceeds to buy assets from
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Excel unit buys used tool trader
        58 7 EXCEL Precision, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excel Machine Tools, is paying $510,000 for a 51 per cent stake in NGK Machine Tools, a local trader in used machine tools. Excel said the purchase will help to build up its core business and offer Excel
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        Lock icon Keppel Oil raises stake in SPC
        45 7 KEPPEL Oil and Gas Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Fels Energy Infrastructure, has raised is stake in Singapore Petroleum Company to 34.13 per cent with the purchase of another 3,949,600 shares yesterday. It now owns 144,337,543 SPC shares.
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        Lock icon Sembawang Kimtrans sets nod for IPO
        39 7 SEMBAWANG Kimtrans, a subsidiary of SembCorp Logistics, has received in-principle approval from the stock exchange for an initial public offering 0f89,600,000 ordinary shares of $0.10 each on the mainboard of the stock exchange.
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        Lock icon Company secretaries quit
        46 7 FORM Holdings* company secretaries, Yvonne Choo and Linda Law, have quit and a new company secretary, Tan Mui Keow, has been appointed with effect from Jan 1. Heshe Holdings' company secretary, Margaret Tay, has also resigned but the other secretary, Lynn Wan, remains.
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      Lock icon SIA denies renewed interest in Ansett or Air NZ
      459 7  -  Focus is on Branson's plans to enter Anssie market By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE Airlines yesterday denied Australian newspaper reports that it had rekindled its interest in An sett Australia and would also be buying a stake in Air New Zealand. "Concerning
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      137 4 This announcement does not constitute an offer or invitation to any person to subscribe for or purchase any of the securities described herein, nor is it calculated to invite, nor does it permit the making of, offers for such securities. The issue was fully subscribed for on 23rd December, 1999
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon STI roars past 2,000-level in new millennium take-off
      575 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market roared to a spectacular close on its first trading day of the new millennium as investors cheered the seamless Y2K crossover and looked forward to another year of strong economic recovery around the region. The
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      Lock icon Teledata wrt: upside seen despite average numbers
      180 6  -  WARRAKT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock and warrant of Teledata have been rising sharply in recent weeks in tandem with other electronics and telecommunications sector stocks. The underlying stock gained 12.5 cents or 19 per cent to 78 cents on 6.1 million
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      Lock icon SIA soars to $20 in flying start
      244 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong THE shares of Singapore Airlines (SIA) closed at a new high yesterday, finishing among the market's biggest gainers on the first trading day of the year. SIA shares rose $1.10 or 5.8 per cent to close at
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      Lock icon Diary of events Tuesday, Jan 4
      103 6 Singapore ♦1.30pm. Press conference on Trade2l by Trade Development Board's chief executive officer, Barry Desker United State* Washington: 10am. Commerce Department reports construction spending for November American Petroleuiy Institute issues its weekly report on US petroleum stocks, production, imports and refinery utilisation New York:
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      Lock icon Asian currencies off to good start, but players cautious
      342 6  -  CURRENCIES larry wee THE first day of trading for the year 2000 proved mostly unfavourable for the US dollar in Asian currency markets yesterday, but players cautioned that this could well be neutralised by an equally robust start later in the
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      481 6 Stocks VoJunr Benefun HKIOc 57,791.000 Kingboard USlOc 46,008,000 CityDev GS CW*****3 38,391,000 Hotung Inv NT5 37,960,000 Asia Dekor HK15c 31,042,000 'Genttng Int 30,212,000 ICT HKIOc 29,300.000 Liang Huat 10c 28.997.000 MediaRing 10c 24,027,000 MIT 10c 22,491,000 Stocks MediaRing 10c 46,185,240 Chart Semiconductor 26c 36,482,020 GES Intl Lid 20c 36,124,680 SIA
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      114 6 RISE TO THE OCCASION WITH A NEW NAME As from I January 2000, Tiong Bahru Plaza Office Tower has been renamed CENTRAL PLAZA to better reflect its central locatiort and to distinguish it from the shopping centre which will continue to be called TIONG BAHRU PLAZA. CENTRAL PLAZA 'is strategically
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      409 7 Wharton iv singap re KA MANAGEMENT Wharton School UNIVERSITY University of Pennsylvania WHARTON-SMU CONFERENCE ON "ROLE OF STOCK OPTIONS IN STAFF COMPENSATION PACKAGES" Date: 14 January 2000 Venue: Tower Ballroom Shangri-La Hotel Registration Fee: Ss3so (includes seminar participation, conference materials, lunch tea breaks) The one-day conference will feature two distinguished
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Three sites up for en bloc sale seen fetching $170m
      418 8  -  collective pgraq Tenders for all three plots will close at the end of this month Reports by Andrea Tan THE collective sales fever is still raging, with three sites that are expected to fetch a total of $170 million hitting
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      Lock icon Industrial property prices seen rising 5-10%
      265 8 Demand expected to rise on the back of economic recovery CHEERED by the economic recovery and strong growth in the manufacturing sector, prices of industrial properties are expected to pick up by 5 to 10 per cent this year, says property consultants Colliers Jardine.
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      Lock icon Q1 recovery seen for domestic credit
      301 8  -  Andrea Tan DOMESTIC credit, the laggard of the financial services sector, is expected to recover to positive growth by the first quarter of this year, according to the latest DBS Bank Investment Quarterly. This recovery will be spurred by higher loan demand for housing
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      Lock icon CPF and Clob are different issues
      261 8  -  Elaine Swinn-Tan (Mrs) Assistant director Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary Ministry of Manpower IN his letter "Better for govts to resolve Clob issue" (BT, Dec 30, 1999), Mr Lim Chin Siew stated that "there is no legal basis for the CPF to sequester the
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      Lock icon It's business as usual, no Y2K snags so far
      355 8  -  Smooth transition for key sectors, govt depts bnt systems closely monitored By Eugene Low IT was business as usual on the first working day of the new millennium, with Singapore's economy making it through the day without any Y2K-related snags yesterday.
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      Lock icon We'll watch the market: MAS
      335 8 Reuters THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) regularly reviews its position on freeing trade of the Singapore dollar, but it will not release a "raft" of liberalisation measures immediately, a senior central bank official said yesterday. 'Two months ago we made some farther liberalisations. We
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      Lock icon No intention to imply CPF may keep M'sians' savings
      216 8  -  Lim Chin Siew Singapore I REFER to my letter "Better for govts to resolve Clob issue" (BT, Dec 30) which might, on cursory reading, have created an erroneous impression that the Central Provident Fund intends or plans "to sequester the savings
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      Lock icon Clob can only be solved at govt level
      148 8  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the letter "Wake up, Clob shareholders" from Steve S K Yeo (BT, Dec 30) and would remind him that it is likely the 70 per cent of the much abused Clob shareowners who have not bothered
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Why virtually no virtual properties in S'pore?
      685 9  -  PROPERTY It's striking that S'pore developers, unlike those in HK, are not venturing into virtual properties lee han shih WHILE Singapore developers are putting their money into en bloc properties, it looks like their counterparts in Hongkong are staking out the newest sector
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Investors face Indian wall of bureaucrats
      842 10  -  KnSliijXniSl OPINION rajendra bajpai The writer is a New Delhi-based journalist who contributes to BT IN 1991, India began to open up its economy to the world with a great flourish and this was immediately and warmly welcomed by the world community of investors.
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      88 10 'We don't have any problems with computers or the water level at Lake Toba The smelter is running smoothly.' spokesman for FT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium on the crossover to the year 2000 There is only one way out for us in the short term, medium or even
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      Lock icon The lesson of the Bug
      541 10 EDITORIAL AS widely expected, the world's computers handled the rollover to Year 2000 with hardly a hiccup. Still, no less than Microsoft's BUI Gates cautions that the Bug doesn't stop here; so the uncertainty continues. But if there's one thing the saga of the Millennium
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      Lock icon Tech stocks keep aloft on their own hot air
      1015 10  -  Philosopher warns of danger of a mindless global automaton created by electronic markets and the Net By Denise Caruso NYT AFTER a year of big gambles, the biggest of all may be the wager that our exalted Internet, held together with
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      888 10 TOE's learning curve IN A welcome anti-climax to two years of dire warnings, the new millennium arrived over the weekend without a computer-driven meltdown of the globe's electronic infrastructure. So far, even the countries that did not spend vast sums to prepare for a Y2K-bug disaster
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  • REGIONAL news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Amcorp revising repayment plan
        77 11 ARAB-Malaysian Corporation may rise further as it is working on revising its repayment scheme with its creditors. The counter rose 36 sen yesterday to 2.53 Malaysian ringgit following news that its scheme may be substantially modified. Amcorp is still negotiating with its creditors but said the
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        Lock icon Aokam soars RM3.40
        112 11 AOKAM Perdana continued its winning streak following a breather last week when it was made a designated counter, that is, buyers would have to pay cash upfront when they purchase the stock. The counter gained 3.40 Malaysian ringgit to RM13.60 but on thin volume yesterday. The counter
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        Lock icon Market dampener
        65 11  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh TENAGA Nasional shed 5 sen to 9.75 Malaysian ringgit while the entire market started the new millennium with a bang. Although Malaysia has had a smooth Y2K rollover, a trader said some investors preferred to adopt a wait-and-see attitude on certain counters like Tenaga.
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      Lock icon Ibra files bankruptcy suit against Tirtamas unit
      199 11 JAKARTA THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) has filed a bankruptcy suit against Tirtamas Group trading firm PT Tirtamas Comexindo after it allegedly failed to repay some 38.2 billion rupiah (SsB.9 million) owed to the agency. The money was owed to Bank Tamara,
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      Lock icon Indon central bank rejects audit as IMF says it'll need govt funds
      479 11 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S central bank will need additional government funds to remain solvent, the International Monetary Fund said, further swelling the the country's public debt. The corrective action needed "would include some recapitalisation of Bank Indonesia and this
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      Lock icon Maybank seeks approval to buy PhileoAllied
      461 11  -  KLl.U.l'li.l JJ.f J.--I Parties plan to sign MOU; news sends PhileoAllied flying by 32 sen l-Yon Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MAYBANK, the largest bank in Malaysia, has jumpstarted the banking consolidation process, saying it is eyeing PhileoAllied Bank. Maybank said yesterday it has
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      Lock icon Umno leaders back Abdullah as Dr M's successor
      504 11 KUALA LUMPUR Annual general assembly to vote on leaders on May 11 AFP Bloomberg LEADERS of Malaysia's ruling party yesterday gave their backing to Deputy Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as successor to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and fixed party elections for May
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      Lock icon PNB holds RM45b worth of stocks
      133 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S state fund manager Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) has more than 45 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ss2o billion) worth of equity investments in public-ly-listed companies, its chairman was quoted as saying yesterday. Bernama news agency quoted Ahmad Sarji Abdul Hamid as saying
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      Lock icon Malaysian developers upbeat on future
      478 11  -  Recent correction seen as necessary, oversnpply transient f-Yottt Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THOUGH scarred by the recent economic downturn, Malaysia's property sector is poised to emerge stronger in the new millennium, say major industry players here. Echoing the sentiments of many, Country Heights
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      Lock icon China's WTO reforms will boost commodities trade
      535 12  -  New efficiencies seen increasing imports of key raw materials snch as coal, iron ore From David Murphy in lieijiiiy WITH European negotiators scheduled to arrive in Beijing in the middle of this month for renewed talks on China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession,
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      Lock icon Chinese economy seen to growing 7.8% this year
      277 12 BEIJING Slowing trend of past seven years will be reversed: official Reuters CHINA'S economy is expected to grow 7.8 per cent this year compared with 7.1 per cent in 1999, a senior government economist said yesterday. "The growth of the national economy
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      Lock icon Timeless Software to spend HK$178.4m on properly
      277 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg TIMELESS Software Ltd, which took advantage of investor interest in Internetrelated firms by selling shares for the first time two months ago, announced its first major investment: real estate. Timeless said it will spend HK5178.4 million (5538.2 million), or 40 per
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      Lock icon Indian Airlines hijack hits tourism in Nepal
      423 12 KATHMANDU Plunge in nnmber of Indian visitors; major hotels flooded with cancellations AP FROM shopping trips to honeymoons, Nepal attracts thousands of Indian tourists every year. But since the eight-day Indian Airlines hijack drama began after its plane taking off from Kathmandu last
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      Lock icon Big jump seen in Hongkong IPOs this year
      303 12 HONGKONG Reuters PROFESSIONAL services firm Arthur Andersen Co yesterday said it expected to see more than 60 companies listed in the territory in 2000, with funds to be raised exceeding HK$lOO billion (5521.44 billion). Kennedy Liu, an Arthur Andersen partner, said he
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      Lock icon Where's the winning ticket?
      73 12 [BEIJING] A pair of twins yesterday picking up obsolete tickets left behind by fortune seekers at a millennium lottery in Beijing. Tens of thousands of Chinese bought the two yuan (40 Singapore cent) tickets hoping to win top prizes, including a family saloon car and 500,000
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      Lock icon Taiwan party's talk of quitting business seen as election ploy
      383 12 TAIPEI Vice-President Lien trying to improve his prospects, say critics AP THE Taiwan ruling Nationalist Party's surprise announcement that it wants to quit its vast business empire was greeted with scepticism yesterday. Critics denounced it as a ploy to bolster
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      Lock icon HK probes mobile operators' usage fee increases
      225 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg THE Hongkong government said it is investigating decisions by all six mobile phone operators in Hongkong to raise monthly usage charges by HK$lO to HKJ2O on Jan 2. It's the first increase in usage fees since the introduction of "mobile number
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      Lock icon Top India housing finance firm unveils millennium dividend
      227 12 BOMBAY AFP INDIA'S largest housing finance company yesterday announced a one-off millennium dividend of 100 per cent for its shareholders. The Housing Development and Finance Corp Ltd (HDFC) announced the dividend after a meeting of its board of directors. "This is a
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      358 11 KPMGSeminafSeries US-GAAP Accounting of German Companies Impact of new German legislation (Kapitalaufnahmeerleichterungsgesetz) Monday, 17 January 2000,1:00pm to s:oopm, German Centre, Conference Rooms A growing number of German companies are presenting their accounts according to US-GAAP. This is mainly due to the internationalisation of capital markets, requirements of rating companies and
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon S Korea to revamp economy to encompass Net, IT
      420 13 SEOUL More power for education, finance ministers; It won set aside to help create computer-oriented venture firms AP, Bloomberg PRESIDENT Kim Dae Jung said yesterday that South Korea's economy will undergo drastic changes this year to accommodate Internet- and information-based technology.
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      Lock icon Totalfina in about-face, agrees to help fund oil clean-up
      446 13 PARIS FT TOTALFTNA, the Franco-Bel-gian oil group, has bowed to public pressure and agreed to fund part of the huge cleaning-up operation provoked by the sinking off Brittany of the tanker Erika, which was carrying a cargo of the company's heavy
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      Lock icon Korea Aerospace seeks to sell 30% for 200b won
      237 13 SEOUL Bloomberg KOREA Aerospace Industries Co is seeking to sell a 30 per cent stake to foreign investors for 200 billion won (*****.2 million) and use proceeds to build new factories and invest in new technology. Kim Nam Young, a spokesman
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      229 13 LONDON Bloomberg UNITED Technologies Corp called a report that RollsRoyce Pic is studying plans to buy its Pratt Whitney unit "preposterous", while Rolls declined to comment on a possible merger of two of the world's biggest jet-engine makers. Sunday Business, citing a Rolls adviser,
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      351 13 TOKYO Move will help cnt costs as they try to recover irom slump Bloomberg MITSUBISHI Corp, Mitsui Co and Sumitomo Corp, three of Japan's largest trading companies, will combine part of their communications systems and other administrative operations to cut costs as
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      62 13 [SYDNEY] Climbers marching along an approach to Sydney's Harbour Bridge yesterday to take part in the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb. Members qf the public pay between US$6l (SSIQ2) and US$BB, depending on the time ofday, to climb up Sydney'sfamous bridge. Prior to October 1998 when the Bridge Climb
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      308 13 ■LONDON FT LLOYDS TSB is to launch a pan-European Internet bank as part of moves to shed its domestic UK bank image. The bank will start online operations in Spain by the summer, before launching in Italy later in the year. It
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      619 14 NEW YORK Economists say the expected slowdown won't come as there was no inventory bnild-np in Q4 Reuters STOCKPILING that was supposed to boost already strong growth at the end of 1999 and depress it at the start of
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      767 14 LONDON FT CAST your mind back towards the start of the *****. What were the investment themes that were expected to dominate the coming decade? The end of the Cold War was an obvious example. The victory of liberal capitalism round the world
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      467 14 WASHINGTON Mannfactnrers also paying higher prices for crnde oil, copper Bloomberg US manufacturing expanded in December for an 11th straight month, a survey of business executives showed. An index of prices paid by factories rose. The National Association of Purchasing Management's (NAPM)
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      429 14 LONDON Survey ranks 1999 mergers and the people behind them Bloomberg SIMON Dingemans, an investment banker with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is Europe's top dealmaker of 1999 after working on £127 hillion (*****.6 billion) worth of transactions, the Sunday Business newspaper
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      457 14 TORONTO FT PETER de Jager is unemployed. As one of the leading figures who raised awareness of the Y2K computer problem, he said his work is done. But, like many other Y2K experts, he noted that there could still
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      426 14 TOKYO AFP TWELVE Japanese brokerage houses performed final checks yesterday after fixing millennium bug glitches, just a day before the Tokyo Stock Exchange opens for 2000. The online transaction system's developer, Nomura Research Institute, said the computer test was repeated after the
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      292 15  -  SGX Derivatives TmtUngReport MS& Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended the first trading day of the year yesterday with a loud bang as bulls rampaged the bourse, thrusting the benchmark Straits Times Index to a new high.
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      249 15 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] European oil products markets moved sideways yesterday to slightly firmer in the first trading of the new year without the guidance of futures markets in London and New York that remained closed until today. Traders said prices for
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      190 15 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian palm oil prices yesterday fell more than one per cent on concern that demand in India, the world's biggest edible oil importer, will decline after the country raised import taxes on all refined edible oils. Palm oil
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      320 15 Reuters New York THE European single currency clung to its lows against the dollar in early US trade yesterday after a brief overnight rally fizzled, and traders expected Wall Street gains to keep the euro under pressure. But the US currency drifted down against the Japanese yen to
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      2789 16 HONGKONG Reuters O HangSmg +407.53 HONGKONG stocks closed at a record high yesterday as investors sidelined by year-2000 fears piled back in with a vengeance. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 407.53 points or 2.4 per cent at 17,369.63. Turnover
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      421 17 AFP, AFX-Asia n Composite Index +2L56 MALAYSIAN share prices soared 2.7 per cent yesterday on active buying following a smooth transition into the new millennium, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index finished at 833.89 points, up 21.56 points from Thursday's close. The
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      291 18 AFP CI Manila -L 2 THE Philippine bourse made a sluggish start to the year yesterday, ending slightly lower amid profit-taking and thin volumes, even as brokers said investors took heart in millennium bug-free trading. The Composite Index edged down 1.2 points to close at 2,141.77. —AFP Jmi H*
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      962 20 hbb The Business Times, Tuesday, January4,2ooC CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PMTV,n n ov a ti o ns. "engineered 4*45 LinlVSTsurer 1L !Z 5.00 Kidz Blitz Sesame 6.00 S WedSiedules. u 8 M M -i* > m. 0 q»™L nection between the 4,46 Drama Khas Ramadan. MM WM q_qq KidzßMtz: In Mml 2
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      325 21 Bridge News, Reuters TANKERSc Persian Gulf very large crude carrier rates showed a little improvement last Thursday as the impending New Year's holiday failed to slow the tanker market. North Sea and Mediterranean Aframax loaders were relatively busy and West African million-barrel activity slowed. STASCO took the Berge
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      278 21 iu *ti u m CWT Distribution L33 a03 66 Chuon Hup 045 0.02 ***** Cosco invactmant 1.18 0.02 102 rrrtjmunk, oji aa 952 G8 Holdings 0.92 unch 0 H-?SHup 0.M 0.01 1194 IMC HoMngs-HK —S AO unch 0 JayaHoMngs L24 0.01 368 Jurooa Shipyard 8J5 unch 33 KappaiCorp
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      471 21  -  Commercial fleet shrinking; bareboat charter scheme alleged to have been mismanaged From Alec Almazan in Manila THE Philippines' maritime agency may face an investigation over its record in developing the country's overseas fleet and the alleged collusion between agency officials and shipowners in the creation
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      43 21 ES 1 ***** The Maltese-registered Tango D is anchored at Dunkirk harbour, northern France. The ship which gmemlmrtition tW mem^rs ofthe ecologist group Robin Hood to remain at quay as a result of its bad AP
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      306 21  -  Business as usual also at PSA Corp during crossover By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The Port of Singapore crossed over to the new millennium with no hitches, and has encountered no Y2K incidents to date. The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of
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        70 21 (KIEV] A cargo vessel sailing between the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev and the Georgian port of Poti sank on Sunday in the Black Sea in a violent storm, Ukrainian merchant marine said. A Russian rescue ship managed to pick up ll crew members from
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        89 21 [LONDON] Poor specification cargoes of aggressive phosphoric acid are causing expensive damage to stainless steel cargo tanks, according to P&I mutual and hull insurer the Swedish Club. The three most recent incidents reported to the club involve claims totalling over US$4 million (5J6.6 million). Owners should
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        46 21 [LONDON] The UK port of Harwich has become the first in Europe to be certified under classification society Det Norske Veritas' new rules for pilot organisations. The new certification for pilots arose from the 1906 grounding of the Sea Empress.
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      180 21 Bernama [BUTTERWORTH] The Butterworth Port will be used to import livestock for distribution in Peninsula Malaysia's north and east coast, said Deputy Agriculture Minister Shariff Omar. This would shorten the time taken to bring the livestock to their destinations, rather
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        604 22 As theft rises, insurers advice transport operators to ensure adequate cover against loss Transport operators are being urged to ensure that they are adequately covered against the loss of high-value cargo as there has been an increase in the theft of computers and other
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        235 22 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Port Klang has joined the ranks of the 15 best ports in the world following its success in handling 2,526,868 TEUs (twentyfoot equivalent units) of container cargo as at yesterday. Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said the
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        79 22 Reuters [HANOI] Vietnam's Saigon port handled 8.3 million tonnes of cargo last year, up 6.4 per cent from the target set for 1999, official media reported yesterday. The Hanoi Moi (New Hanoi) daily did not give statistics for 1998 but said Saigon port's 1999 revenue
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      203 22 PAGE DSIl-Scnator 4 ACL 6 4 ANL 3 0)*k Lloyd 8 Accord 8 I>00 9 Mmi 3 Appenship 5 ECL 4 Austral 8 ECU Lint 6 BalaiiS** 5 tmvHK 6 K1 FoongSun 8 B'tang Mas 8 GLl1 •CO. T Um Hangli 7 CMA 8 Hanjin 3 COSCO
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        1971 33 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklnq/BilifKO Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Porlod From To From ACX HIBISCUS 033* 4/T 00 02/BM 02/1659 fa»-00 2A 02/1700 33/0659 01/09M 20 02/1700 03/0*59 03/0*00 1 03/0700 01/189 OVMM 4 03/1200 03/1459 03/1700 MI JAOt 975 V23 X W
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        148 33 Jan 4 New Zealand: Market and Public Hoi, Auckland Anniversary Day. Jan 24 New Zealand: Market and Public Holiday, Wellington Anniversary Day. Jan 31 New Zealand: Market and Public Holiday, Auckland Anniversary Day. Jan 5 Sweden: Financial Market Close. Feb 0 New Zealand: Public Holiday, Waitangi Day. Germany:
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        814 33 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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        518 33 Carton '80 Mo 992.1 2J 19.0 0.08 68 0.09 DkN Density Water HsMw Ash Ahinrtnktm Sedhnent Nd abOM E25 5 1 25 0 0 0 T-rr- 380 Am 985.2 0.4 13.3 0.06 32 0.02 380 Mai 992.5 0.9 17.5 0.07 72 0.04 IMn u/u Ml ww
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        465 34 Higher crude oil prices have raised jet fuel costs for many carriers Financial Times [NEW YORK] The increased cost of crude oil has prompted US air carriers to introduce fuel surcharges on cargo rates from February. It is not clear whether
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        129 34 Reuters [HONGKONG] China Southern Airlines said yesterday its 65.2 per cent parent Southern Airlines (Group) is injecting assets into China Southern for 73.26 million yuan (5514.65 million) cash. It said in a published statement the assets comprised buildings, machinery, ground services vehicles and
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        431 34 Reuters [DETROIT] General Motors Corp, faulted for bland styling and a sluggish response to new trends, will unveil three vehicles this month it hopes will silence critics and bring customers back to showrooms. GM is set to introduce the Pontiac Aztek,
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        306 34 Demand for tickets to tourist destinations especially weak AFP [SHANGHAI] Fears the Y2K computer bug might cause air disasters cut New Year holiday travel to and from southern Guangzhou's airport by nearly 35 per cent, the official Guangzhou Daily reported
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