The Business Times, 11 January 2000

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    24 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MrpAff?) 035/12/T909 86*1 S I N G A P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 com sg/ TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2000
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    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    61 1 SB 2.433J8 (+27.64) BT-»1 M7jo7 (+10.46) HsnsanrniEs 33LM (+3.90) STOCK MAMET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP Closed NIKKEI Closed HANG SENG 15£4R!6 +***** SET INDEX ***** +6.16 JAKARTA COMP _CJo9ed MANILA COMP _2,1412ft +47.96 TAIPEI WP1 9,***** +287.13 SEOUL COMP ***** +3R59 CLSA CHINA B 533.86 -6.14 AUST
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    77 1 FOBEX BATES uss ss US$ 1.659 £(US$/SSper£) 1.636 1714 EURO(USS/SS/E) 1.627 1.703 DM I JOS 0.871 YEN 1045 1.582 RM 1800 0.437 HKS 7.778 0513 BAHT 37.13 0.045 RUPIAH 7.156 0.023 'St to 100 units PlIMEEATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.25
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    Lock icon America Online buys Time Warner
    1191 1 All-stock deal values Time Warner at USsl66b; new media giant expects USs4ob revenue in first year Reuters, AP, Bloom berg [NEW YORK] In one of the most breathtaking deals yet, America Online Inc, the No 1 Internet services provider, is buying Time Warner Inc, the
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    Lock icon Rudy Ramli wants his Bank Bali back
    621 1  -  [:j| exclusive He says he has lined np foreign investors with 800b rupiah From', Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AFTER a nightmare year in 1999, Rudy Ramli, whose family once controlled the beleaguered Bank Bali, is on a quest to wrest back the bank
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    Lock icon Venture soars 15% on acquisition rumours
    392 1  -  Purchases said to catapult it into the Top 10 league of global contract manufacturers By. Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Venture Manufacturing yesterday soared a dizzying 15.2 per cent, or $3.20, on strong rumours that the company may be announcing one or two major acquisitions soon.
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    Lock icon Entertainment Net stocks fuel morning Wall St rally
    148 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] Internet and entertainment stocks led a Wall Street rally in late morning trading yesterday as the America Online and Time Warner merger news pulled up all things technology-related. "All the stuff that was getting trashed for the last week
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    Lock icon Clob case to go before WTO if no bilateral deal: PM Goh
    336 1 He hopes to meet Mahathir in Feb to resolve matter Reuters [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that Singapore would take to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a dispute with Malaysia over suspended shares if no
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    Lock icon Net stock craze a concern, says PM
    400 1 Euphoria over such IPOs conld have side effects, he warns Reuters [SINGAPORE] Heavy buying of Internet-related stocks is a cause for concern, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. In an interview with Reuters Television, Mr Goh said the focus on Internet
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      Lock icon StarHub to offer IDD services to 230 countries
      369 2  -  Links just a shade below SingTel's 241; StarHnb signs agreement with China Telecom By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Star Hub, signalling yet again its intention to be a formidable competitor, said it aims to offer International Direct Dial (IDD) services to more
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      Lock icon Separate courts set up to deal with commercial cases
      788 2  -  9 courts are headed by Senior District Judge Magnus By( Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Republic has established a separate group of courts to deal with the increasing number and more complex nature of criminal and civil matters with a commercial background.
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      Lock icon Deadline for Effective Capital's offer extended to Feb 22
      153 2 [SINGAPORE) The closing date for the Clob proposal by Malaysian businessman Akbar Khan's Effective Capital has been extended from Jan 31 to Feb 22. In a statement released last night, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) said the Central Depository (CDP) had received
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      Lock icon Fed may raise rates by 50bp next month: economist
      522 2  -  He sees another 25 basis point hike some time after Feb /V Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The US Federal Reserve can be expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points when it meets on Feb 1-2, a well-known economist said
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      Lock icon BIS sees likely hike in interest rates
      392 2  -  Central bank policies must take account of accelerating growth By. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Suggesting that interest rates are likely to rise, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) general manager Andrew Crockett said yesterday that central banks' monetary policies will have to be framed in
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon A nice malady
        119 2 VERY few people will admit to liking anything that sounds even vaguely like an infectious virus, but "affluenza" could be a distinct exception. A Financial Times report yesterday revealed that leading US investment bank Merrill Lynch is actually hiring psychiatrists to counsel the children of technopreneurs and
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        Lock icon Hello Kitty
        113 2 THOSE who are wondering about those queues at Mac Donald's for the popular Hello Kitty toys that come with the fast-food at $4.50 each may want to take a look at the Yahoo! Singapore Web site for an explanation. Thirty-nine items were listed for sale to the highest
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Datacraft buys 60% stake in HK's I Square
      366 3  -  It plans to spend USs6om more in acquisitions By Soh Tiang Keng MAINBOARD-LISTED Datacraft Asia has acquired a 60 per cent stake in Hongkongbased I Square Solutions for US$5.25 million (S$8.71 million), signalling its entry into e-commerce consulting and esystems integration. And
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      Lock icon PacNet buys large stake in Thai ISP
      319 3 Group plans more acquisitions in Asia-Pacific region this year PACIFIC Internet, a Singapore Internet service provider (ISP) listed on Nasdaq, has acquired a major stake in Thai ISP World Net Services for an undisclosed sum. PacNet chief executive officer Nicholas Lee told BT
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      Lock icon OCBC Bank, SCS form $7m e-commerce joint venture
      422 3  -  DOING IT THEIR WAY Official laonch next month; company plans to become the region's largest e-commerce hnb By, Andrew Wee OCBC Bank and Singapore Computer Systems (SCS) have formed an e-commerce joint venture for online trading of goods and services. TXI23, the
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      Lock icon Catcha portal offers financial information
      254 3 SINGAPORE-based Catcha. com, an Asian Web site and search engine, launched its financial information services portal yesterday and plans to offer online share trading in the future, according to its chief executive officer. The new Catcha Finance portal offers a database of company information, financial
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Sunright unit plans new plant in US
        75 5 SUNRIGHT Limited subsidiary KES yesterday announced plans to open a new plant in Austin, Texas. The plant will provide back-end manufacturing services such as burn-in, lead inspection, tape and reel, for Motorola's semiconductor products sector. The plant has an initial workforce of 50,
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        Lock icon SsangYong ups investment in e-Invest
        65 5 SSANGYONG Cement said yesterday that it has increased its investment in fully-owned Hongkong subsidiary e-Invest to US$5 million, from an initial US$2 million. e-Invest has also upped its authorised share capital from US$lOO to US$5O million, and it will use the funds from SsangYong to
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        Lock icon Eastern Publishing acquires unit
        41 5 EASTERN Publishing Limited said that it has acquired a wholly-owned subsidiary. Eastern Trade Media (ETM), for the publication Qf magazines and periodicals. ETM has an authorised share capital of $100,000 and issued and paid-up capital of $2.
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      Lock icon Stats IPO: apply for as many shares as you want
      436 5  -  Unlike 5,000-share ceiling in Chartered offer, there is no cap bnt investors are limited to one application per broker By Jennifer Lien SINGAPORE retail investors will be able to call their brokers to indicate their interest in ST Assembly Test
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      Lock icon Nod for Multi-Chem to list on Sesdaq
      216 5 It's raising $19m, half of which will be used for expansion MULTI-CHEM, which provides precision drilling services to printed circuit board makers, has received in-prin-ciple approval for a Sesdaq listing. The company expects to raise some $19 million from its initial public offer,
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      Lock icon KepLand buys into Thai properly firm
      227 5 KEPPEL Land is taking a 45 per cent stake in Thailand's Five Stars Property Public Company for about 297 million baht (5513.2 million), or three baht per share. When the transaction subject to the approval of Five Stars Property shareholders is completed, Keppel Land
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      Lock icon Craft Print's IPO shares at 22 cents
      420 5 It's offering 5m shares to the general public, 15m to institutional investors CRAFT Print International yesterday launched 25 million new shares at 22 cents apiece for a second board listing here to raise net proceeds of $4.5 million. The printing specialist is offering
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      Lock icon What's DBS planning for DBS Philippines?
      446 5  -  locksiew al labita DBS Bank's recent purchase of a stake in listed Bank of the Philippines Islands may not be a good idea. It already runs a banking subsidiary in Manila, DBS Bank Philippines, and should have built up the bank rather than buy
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      Lock icon Seksun in joint-venture to produce medical devices
      231 5 METAL stamping specialist Seksun Precision Engineering is forming a joint venture with Biosensors International to make and assemble highend precision medical devices. To be called Seksun Biosensors International, the new company will be owned 49 per cent by Seksun and the rest by
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Quality tech stocks lift STI, but broad market weakens
      549 4  -  I^ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy Technology continued to be the name of the game yesterday, as gains in Venture Manufacturing, Creative Technology and Datacraft Asia helped send the Straits Times Index up 27.64 points to 2,433.68. Despite the index's reading, however, there
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      Lock icon Asian currencies firm on recovery of US stocks
      359 4  -  I -I i comment CURRENCIES larry wee A STRONG rebound in the US stock market last Friday boosted the fortunes of Asian stocks and currencies yesterday. Relief that strong employment numbers in the United States last Friday did not stoke interest rate
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      Lock icon Southern Bank wrt: more than decent numbers
      183 4  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy WE'LL continue our look at long-dated Malaysian warrants that offer value for money. Like yesterday's feature of the Insas Bhd warrant, the Southern Bank warrant has also been given a longer lifespan. Expiry is now in June 2006. The
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      487 4 Stocks Volume OUB OB eCW*****3 22 347.000 Benefun HK10c 22,080.000 Kingboard US 10c 14.397.000 MediaRinglOc 13,650,000 ICTHK10C 12,780,000 PCI 25c 12,075,000 CityDev GS CW*****3 10.423.000 OUB CLeCW*****5 10,047,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 10.021.000 NOL 9,240,000 Stocks PacificCentury 72 455.852 SIA 49.040,468 DBSGrp 38.493,284 UOB 34,297,201 OCBC 32,797,836 SPH 27,219.426 OUB
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      Lock icon NOL at the start of an uptrend?
      274 4  -  HOT STOCK Wong Wei Kong SHARES of national liner Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) rose in heavy trading yesterday, one of the few non-technology issues on the most active list. The stock closed up 13 cents or 5.9 per cent at $2.33, its intraday
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      Lock icon Diary of events Tuesday, Jan 11
      137 4 ♦9am. EDB Society Partners hold conference to discuss national plans to meet challenges of new millennium. ♦9.15 am. Basell Eastern (Pte) Ltd news conference with groundbreaking ceremony by BG George Yeo, Minister for Trade and industry ♦10am. Alliance Capital Management launches it third CPF-ap-proved
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      90 4 CRAFT PRINT CRAFT PRINT INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 4 September 1975) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 25,000,000 Ordinary Shares Issue Price: $0.22 each Placement and Offer Share OPENING: 10 January 2000,9.00 am CLOSING 18 January 2000,12.00n00n Applications for shares under the public offer may be made by
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      245 5 9 Self-Assessment and Field Audit Seminar 2.00 pm 5.00 pm, Friday 21 January 2000, Sheraton Towers Singapore Increasingly, more jurisdictions are moving towards a corporate tax selfassessment regime, including Singapore and Malaysia. Self-assessment places considerable onus on corporate taxpayers to ensure that the necessary documents are in order and accessible
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Gold, forex help boost Dec foreign reserves by 2.4%
      260 6  -  Ryi Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S foreign reserves rose 2.4 per cent month-on-month in December, to $128.5 billion, as its stock of gold and foreign exchange rose, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. The MAS data show that Singapore's
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      Lock icon PWD Corp to lease 9,000 sq m at Novena Square
      385 6  -  It will take np 20% of all the office space at the complex By] Marissa Chew PWD Corporation will be leasing about 9,000 sq m of space at Novena Square complex, making it the largest lessee of the project so
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      Lock icon ANZ moves private banking operation from HK to S'pore
      434 6  -  Republic is the bank's Asian hnb for investment banking, project finance and capital markets By' Wong Wei Kong AUSTRALIA New Zealand Banking (ANZ) Group has decided to close its private banking operation in Hongkong and to centralise the business in Singapore.
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      Lock icon PM Goh says his tenure will depend on next poll
      348 6 Premier says his vote for his own successor would go to BG Lee Reuters SINGAPORE Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that the timing of his departure from office depends on his performance in the next general election due
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      Lock icon M1 to offer WAP service at end-Jan or early Feb
      316 6  -  Rival Sing Tel Mobile soft-launches this service today to 400 corporate clients By Catherine Ong SINGAPORE'S first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) mobile phones are due to be commercially available by the end of this month or early February. Mobile One
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      Lock icon PSB to use $20m fund to double industrial productivity in 5 years
      353 6  -  Productivity board has already targeted logistics industry By, Jeanette Pang DOUBLE the productivity of industries, in Singapore over the next five years. This is what the Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) is shooting for with its $20 million
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      Lock icon Time to invest in equities offering good yields
      273 7  -  MAILBOX Ang Hao Yao Singapore I FIND that lately, equity investors seem to have forgotten that companies which they hold shares in should be creating good shareholder value which is the fundamental basis of investing. If one purchases an asset, say a
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      Lock icon Stop en bloc sale owners from baying time to cut tax liability
      308 7  -  Steven Loh Singapore THERE are property owners who plan to lodge an objection of an impending en bloc sale to the Strata Title Board (STB) without merits. While they are willing sellers, their aim is to push their
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      151 7 Tan ties The Ist Word In Phone Trading: BJU Mml j— Vojce Activated mm m! H Lim Tan Securities is amongst the first in Asia to provide investors with the power of Voice Activated Stock Trading VAST J| This new channel complements our current internet share trading wr system /eq.coin.sg)
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Don't fight against online shopping
      686 8  -  1-11 comment PROPERTY Singapore malls and retailers need to think about incorporating the Internet into their operations lee han shih WANT to know how shopping centres and retailers will cope when online shopping becomes popular? Then take a look at a positive and a negative
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      Lock icon Paterson Tower up for tender, no reserve price set
      269 8 COLLECTIVEETnESI IN a new twist to collective sales, the owners of Paterson Tower have put up their property for tender without officially setting a reserve price. Instead, marketing agents Colliers Jardine and Knight Frank will sell the site based on an
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      Lock icon HK Disneyland seen facing delay
      282 8 AFP [HONGKONG] The territory's planned Disneyland may face delays as government officials have been unable to carry out a proper environmental survey due to a row with a shipyard on the site, a press report said yesterday. Land reclamation work at the site at Penny's
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      Lock icon Barbados — a prime choice for the super-rich
      799 9 Barbados a prime choice for the super-rich Huge popularity of properties in this haven for the elite has driven prices sky-high Financial Times A LAPTOP sits open on the pool bar in Barry Rubery's Barbados home. It is the little link that allows him and most of his neighbours the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Have clearer rules on Indon asset sales
      706 10  -  bottom line OPINION shoeb kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent EXACTLY what level of information is required from a publicly-listed company that is the subject of investor interest? The answer depends very much on which side one speaks to. But that's one
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      Lock icon IN OTHER WORDS
      125 10 'We live in an age when one person sitting at one computer can come up with an idea, travel through cyberspace and take humanity to new heights. Yet someone can sit at the same computer, hack into a computer system and potentially paralyse a company, a city
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      Lock icon Stocks versus bonds
      656 10 EDITORIAL P OR most of 1999, it would be fair to say that a significant decoupling took place on Wall Street instead of the US bond market driving stocks as is usually the case, the two markets went their separate ways. In fact, US equities had one
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      Lock icon Going solo pays off for foreign firms in China
      951 10  -  Some got burned by joint ventures that got snarled in red tape, others just want to move faster By\ Peter Harmsen Bloomberg [BEIJING] TS Wong, the Malaysian chief executive of MyWeb Inc.com, always knew his push into China would be a
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      884 10 Isolationist threat THE US has embarked on its interminable presidential election campaign. Several of the leading candidates are openly campaigning for a new US isolationism. This is a dangerous trend. President Clinton and his anointed successor are right to oppose it actively. The right wing of
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon 10 banking groups likely after revamp in Malaysia: report
      560 11 KUALA LUMPUR Newspaper reports good progress towards meeting Jan 31 deadline AFP TEN banking groups are expected to emerge under Malaysia's financial sector consolidation after its initial forced merger plan flopped, a report said yesterday. The New Straits Times newspaper citing
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      Lock icon 2020 vision still on target: Mahathir
      247 11 TOKYO AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in a newspaper column published yesterday that his country, having overcome financial turmoil, will fully develop itself by 2020. Malaysia has entered the year 2000, "determined to achieve its objective of becoming a fully developed country
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      Lock icon Lacklustre Misc likely to be buoyed up by fleet size
      500 11 KUALA LUMPUR Improving economic climate in Asia seen producing synergies MALAYSIAN International Shipping Corp (Misc) may have attracted little buying interest despite the perk-up in the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) last year, but analysts believe that its fleet size
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Thai stocks seen rising on back of improved earnings
      367 12  -  DBS-Thai Dana Sec forecasts 19% earnings growth From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI stocks are expected to get a badly needed boost from news of improved 1999 earnings for Thai companies as well as positive earnings forecast this year, analysts said.
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      Lock icon Thai govt adopts higher growth target of 4.4% for 2000
      211 12 BANGKOK AFP THAILAND announced yesterday it has adopted an expanded growth target of 4.4 per cent this year amid indications that 1999 economic growth will top earlier expectations. Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda said the government had adopted the National Economic
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      Lock icon Central bank broke loan rules: report
      673 12 Indonesia row JAKARTA Audit finds USsllb worth of emergency liquidity for debt-ridden banks involved AFP INDONESIA'S central bank may have violated procedures relating to US$ll billion (SslB billion) worth of emergency liquidity for debt ridden banks during the Asian financial crisis, a leaked audit
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      Lock icon Indon central bank denies it's technically bankrupt
      443 12 SINGAPORE It says audit report has not considered funds extended to troubled banks Reuters INDONESIA'S central bank yesterday denied it was technically bankrupt, defended its policy on helping troubled banks and said it was ready to be investigated. "We are not technically bankrupt,"
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      Lock icon Thai stockbroking goes online
      113 12 [BANGKOK] Thai investor Kidakan Suwanathama yesterday viewing stock prices through a terminal as he communicates with his broker on the phone in his office in Bangkok. Phillip Securities (Thailand), a unit of Singapore-based Phillip Securities, was set to be the first in Thailand to launch a
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      Lock icon Philippine stocks up on Cabinet revamp, Wall Street gains
      280 12 MANILA AP PHILIPPINE stocks rose sharply yesterday, boosted by Wall Street's gains and President Joseph Estrada's announcement Saturday of a Cabinet revamp and a suspension of plans to amend the Constitution, traders said. The peso also strengthened. Dissatisfaction with the Cabinet's
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      Lock icon Danamon to merge with 8 banks by May
      223 12 JAKARTA Bloomberg PT Bank Danamon, Indonesia's second largest publicly traded bank, will merge with eight banks taken over by the government by the end of May, Indonesia bank rescue agency said. Most of the eight bank's 25,700 workers will be fired, said
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        Lock icon Metrobank may buy stake in Solidbank
        59 12 AP [MANILA] The Philippines' Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co said yesterday it is in talks with Bank of Nova Scotia to acquire the Canadian bank's 40 per cent stake in Solidbank Corp. Metrobank said its talks with Scotiabank are aimed at "trying to work
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        Lock icon Thai Petrochem to sign debt deal
        72 12 Reuters (BANGKOK] Thai Petrochemcal Industry pic will sign a US$3.4 billion (555.6 billion) debt restructuring deal with 148 creditors by a Jan 17 deadline set by the creditors, Prachai Leophairatana, its chief executive officer, said. "We are discussing the details of the deal and
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        Lock icon San Miguel saves with restructure
        76 12 AFP [MANILA] San Miguel Corp of the Philippines said yesterday it will save more than half a billion pesos (Ss2o million) a year from relocating its international brewing operations regional office from Hongkong and other restructuring efforts. Transferring the regional office to Manila in January
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        Lock icon Thai central bank's deputy governor
        77 12 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Pakorn Malakul Na Ayudhya, the former secretary general of Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission, will be nominated as the central bank's new deputy governor after spending four years at the regulator. Mr Pakorn, 57, will become the third deputy governor, taking charge of
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon HK on guard to thwart attack on US$ peg after stock slump
      582 14 HONGKONG Speculation is spreading that hedge funds are planning a return Bloomberg THE Hang Seng Index's 9 per cent slump last week has put the Hongkong government on guard against a repeat of 1998's attack on its currency,
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      275 14 BEIJING Reuters A DEVALUATION of China's currency is unlikely to spur the economy and the chance of such a move is diminishing, Shawn Xu, head of research at the China International Capital Corp said yesterday. "A devaluation of the renminbi can neither boost
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      395 14  -  Telecom counters also surge after last week's plunge From Meera Tharamratnam in Hongkong HONGKONG stocks rallied yesterday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index rising almost 3 per cent, as investors bought up the territory's leading Internet and tele-coms-related shares. It was the
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        62 14 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China National Petroleum Corp, the country's largest oil company, renamed itself PetroChlna Co after reorganising its businesses and paring management before its US$7 billion (5511.6 billion) initial share sale, expected as soon as February. The Hong Kong Economic Times said the company was
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        73 14 FT [BEIJING] China announced at the weekend plans to shut down thousands of small steel plants as part of a series of measures this year to reduce overcapacity. State media said more than 2,500 steel smelters and mills with annual capacities below 100,000
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        48 14 AFP [SHANGHAI] E-commerce turnover in China leapt 400 per cent last year from some US$B million (5513.2 million) to more than US$4O million, the official Wenhui Daily reported Monday. Some 150,000 categories of goods are now available on-line in the country. —AFP
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      424 15 NKWYORK Group's endorsement of the open-source software will push it into the mainstream NYT IBM, the standard-bearer of mainstream corporate computing, is placing a big bet on Linux, a symbol of software's counterculture, as the operating system of the future for the
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      722 15 ?RvS^naiysis AOL bid for Time Warner fuels talk of more snch deals Reuters LONDON AOL's move to draw Time Warner's news and entertainment into its Web engines yesterday fuelled talk of more Internet-media deals and underlined that despite Internet hype, content is king.
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      317 15 LONDON AFP THE battle for control of the German conglomerate Mannesmann turned sour yesterday, when Vodafone AirTouch, the hostile predator, issued a statement accusing the German board of "misleading" shareholders. The statement came amid reports that Mannesmann is trying to convince its backers that the
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      228 15 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth has jumped on the bandwagon of investors hoping to make money in the Internet boom, buying a £100,000 (*****,000) stake in a new "dot com" company, the top-selling Sun tabloid said yesterday. The report said the monarch, one of
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      117 15 BRUSSELS Bloomberg THE prospects for faster economic growth in the 11-na-tion euro region have improved, while inflation is likely to remain "broadly stable", European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing said. "The overall economic prospects for the euro zone this year and next
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      291 15 DETROIT Option to purchase valued at up to USs73sm: analysts Bloom berg GENERAL Motors Corp, the world's largest automaker, was expected to announce yesterday that it is buying from Investor AB the half of Sweden's Saab Automobile AB it doesn't
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      483 16  -  Capital flows are more likely to be dominated by foreign direct investment, equity flows and transfer of technology, it says From Neil Behrmann in London PACIFIC Rim nations will repeat and surpass their super-growth in the years to 1997, predicts Lombard Street
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      421 16 SEOUL Move aimed at stemming financial instability Bloomberg SOUTH Korea unveiled plans to advance 2 trillion won (552.9 billion) to its top two fund management companies about a month before investors will be allowed to redeem 95 per cent of
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      269 16 SEOUL Bloomberg KOREA Telecom Corp, Korea's largest telephone company, will join forces with International Business Machines Corp (IBM) to build Asia's largest Internet data centre. The Korean company said it will invest about 500 billion won (S|73o million) to equip an 81,000
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      287 16 SYDNEY Aussie firm signs agreement; price tag is above As3oom Bloomberg TELSTRA Corp, Australia's biggest telephone company, plans to buy OzEmail Ltd from MCI Worldcom Inc for more than AS3OO million (***** million) to double its Internet subscriber base. The Melbourne-based
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      250 17  -  SGX Derivatives Tradlng/teporfe MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday, boosted by Wall Street's strong performance last Friday. Gains were, however, pared towards the close as caution and profit-taking set in. The Straits Times Index closed at
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      165 17  -  MSCI Taiwan fatures Lee Shu Weng Rtfco Singapore SIMEX MSCI Taiwan Index futures yesterday rallied 13.8 points or 3.45 per cent to 414.2 and the underlying cash index gained 12.54 points or 3.14 per cent to 411.74. Technology stocks rallied, supported by Nasdaq's
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      246 17 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices staged a modest comeback yesterday as recent losses tempted buyers back into a market that has shed 7 per cent so far this year. February Brent crude was trading 26 US cents firmer at U5523.36
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      343 17 Reuters London THE dollar rallied to oneweek highs against European currencies yesterday amid expectations US stocks would remain buoyant after wiping out the losses seen in the first three days of trading this year. However, the dollar retreated against the yen as speculation the 4.5 per cent rally
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      2767 18 HONGKONG AFP Hang Seng +***** HONGKONG share prices rebounded strongly yesterday from last week's weakness, rising 2.9 per cent on the back of Wall Street's gains on Friday, dealers said. "The gains followed the record closing on Wall Street last week,"
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      983 18 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -O) SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares erased morning gains to end slightly lower yesterday, dented by profit-taking and expectations of poor 1999 corporate results. The B share index fell 0.3 of a point, or 0.33 per cent, to 90.49 on turnover of HK$65.94 million
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      340 18 AFP QWP Index +2S7J3 TAIWANESE share prices jumped 2.9 per cent to a 20month high yesterday on strong buying of technology stocks triggered by sharp gains on Wall Street, dealers said. "Market sentiment is bullish on anticipation that US markets are done with corrections for now," said James Su,
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      315 19 AFP TlComnorite Index +3&50 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed up 38.59 points at 987.24. Volume was 238.5 million shares worth 3.8 trillion won. AFP Jan 10 *00 *h Anam Swni 9850 unch Br am T«cti__ 2200 »5 Central Bank 3865 500 CheUComm ***** unch Dae Go
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      796 19 AFP n SET Index +6J6 THAI shares closed up 1.4 per cent but off their highs yesterday as investors targeted banking and communications issues, dealers said. Sharp gains in those sectors were buoyed by the rise on Wall Street and Nasdaq last week before afternoon profit-taking set in, they
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      269 19 AFP Q Wellington +2&08 THE New Zealand share market closed yesterday 1.3 per cent higher on moderate turnover, driven by buying in selected large-cap stocks, dealers said. The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index finished 28.08 points higher at 2,173.04. JMW MJ *h (008) Advantage HOS 3 JO 0.26 122 Air
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      600 19 AFP Q All Ordinaries +58.6 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up 1.9 per cent yesterday thanks to Friday's show of strength on Wall Street as the market rebounded following recent falls, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 58.6 points at 3,103.10. The All Resources Index gained 18 points to
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      251 19 AFP PI Manila +47.96 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 2.3 per cent yesterday, boosted by President Joseph Estrada's Cabinet revamp and decision to drop a controversial constitutional amendment plan. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 47.96 to 2,142.25. AFP j»nlO Peso (000) MRC Allied 0.68 unch 0 Abacus Construction
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      278 22 HOW Singapore is gearing up as a knowledge-based economy (KBE) is the focus of two big conferences this week. The Economic Development Board's millennium conference today will provide an update of the various "21" national blueprints (to date, there are some 20
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      277 23 Bridge News, Reuter PANAMAX freight levels continued to appreciate world-wide while conditions for capesizes remained steady in relatively thin trading, brokers said. Little was heard of fresh handy size fixtures and despite.the Continent remaining weak, brokers expected firmer rates to arise for business from South America. The Baltic
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      491 23  -  Shipowners, terminal operators cooperating fully with govt to stamp ont illicit trade From David Taylor in Hongkong HONGKONG shipowners and terminal operators have expressed concern over human smuggling and their inability to check the contents of sealed containers. Both the Hongkong Shipowners Association (HKSOA)
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      435 23  -  By* Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has started an inaugural container service between Korea, North China and the Straits to tap the expanding market. The new service started last Saturday with the call of the 1,300-TEU (20-ft
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      162 23 AP [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Group said it paid North Korea US$6 million (559.9 million) in compensation for a ship collision in which 37 North Korean sailors went missing. A ce-ment-laden North Korean vessel with 39 crewmen aboard collided with a Hyundai container
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        793 35 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        170 36 Bloomberg [CHRISTCHURCH] Air New Zealand, the country's largest airline, is to raise domestic fares by 4.5 per cent as of Jan 17, while its fares to Australia, Fiji, Tahiti and New Caledonia will climb 5 per cent, the Press newspaper
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        388 36 More people travelling as Asian economies recover Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways, Hongkong's only long-haul airline, said it filled more seats in November compared with the same month the previous year as recovering Asian economies prompted more people to travel. Cathay said its
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        490 36 Reuters (DETROIT] General Motors Corp on Sunday gave birth to a baby Hummer, one of 13 mostly high-tech concept vehicles unveiled by Detroit's traditional Big Three automakers at the Detroit auto show, where talk swirled of another acquisition in the consolidating industry.
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        450 36 AFP [OSLO] Human error caused the Norwegian train crash which killed 19 people last week, a transport ministry spokesman said. "We have established that the driver of the train coming from Hamar to Rena went through a red light," announced Sigurd Sandvin, director of
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      1011 27 20 PEC 99 IVEKY MONDAY 1 TO IONMCACfI -It MYS I TO OAKUW 21 MYS J I GtNERAI AGfNTS IN SINGAPORE: 80 ROtIMSON RD TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****0« OUTWARD (l/L) COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD 112-00 SAI.ES/lIGS *****57/43 INWARD MFT (C/O) *****15 COSTAK AGENCIES (M) SDN BID Q NO: 117S7MOOOOH
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