The Business Times, 26 January 2000

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA4P). 035/12/1999 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26. 2000
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    60 1 □sn 2,***** (-25.81) BT-SBI ***** (-7.77) □susa futuies ***** (-2.70) STOCK MARKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COMP ***** 144 NIKKEI l&ffl§£3 -1(1.18 HANG SENG 16,103.04 -64.51 SET INDEX 473H___-4.00 JAKARTA COMP _64M6 -&86 MANIIACOMP *****8 -818 TAIPEI WPI 0,***** -1470 SEOUL COMP ***** J666 CLSA CHINA B *****
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    74 1 P01EXEATES us$ s$ USS 1.684 £(US$/S$pcr£) 1.661 1781 Kl!RO(USS/S$/E) 1.007 (.697 DM 1.942 0.868 YEN 106.8 1592 KM 3.800 0.443 HK$ 7.780 0JI7 HAHT 3728 8 045 RUHIAH 7,320 0.023 Stto 100 units P1IME BATES SINOAPORE* 5.38 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONOKONO 8.50 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Takashimaya's record sales underscore retail recovery
    650 1  -  HiTexHusTvel Pick-up in tourist spending cited for $339 m turnover and 200% jump in profit By, Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Takashimaya, Singapore's biggest department store, chalked up further improvements in its profits and turnover last year, underlining the retail recovery story. Takashimaya Singapore managing director
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    Lock icon AsiaOne.com reinforces Internet presence
    764 1  -  Classified ads to be listed at no extra charge, user can also book ads online By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] SPH Asia One Pte Ltd. the Internet arm of Singapore Press Holdings, yesterday reinforced its presence on the Internet with the relaunch of its Asia One.com portal.
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    Lock icon BT on the Web at 3am
    102 1 THE relaunch of the Asia One portal will coincide with a major change to The Business Times Online edition. From today, BT Online will be available from 3am every morning, soon after the paper goes to print. Better yet, BT Online will have news
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    Lock icon An opportunity not to be missed
    148 1 DONT miss this opportunity to subscribe, for a special price of only $265, to a year's supply of The Business Times, Singapore's only business daily, and Forbes Global, the world's most respected business and finance magazine. This offer, which translates into savings of $273
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    Lock icon FOMC official sparks fear of large rate rise
    543 1 Recent hikes have not dented consumer demand, he says Reuters (ATLANTA] Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta president Jack Guynn said on Monday recent interest rate hikes had not dented US consumer demand, leading some in financial markets to fear a large rate
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    49 1 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan's scheduled appearance before the Senate Budget Committee yesterday was postponed after a snowstorm hit Washington and much of the east coast. Mr Greenspan was to testify on the economy and the federal Budget at 10am Washington time. Bloomberg
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    Lock icon If you want more than just a job...
    386 1  -  Front Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong ONE of the world's most famous clandestine operators the US Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising not so discreetly for candidates with a distinctly Asian hue. The CIA took out an advertisement in the Far East Economic
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      97 1 DflgPE BT Comment Hock Lock Siew: Sing Tel, C&W HKTs union of equals spells bad news. Pg 3 Top Stories Sing Tel, HKT merger to reap net gains: analysts. Pg 3 Sing Tel shares jump 7% on news of merger talks. Pg4 ST Engg net profit up 30% to $200.5
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      14 1 Takashimaya to woo overseas direct marketing firms, Next Page Spoilt for choice, Next Page
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      Lock icon New financial order waits for no one: John Olds
      505 2  -  The new game is not very conducive to old precepts, old entitlements Bj? Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank vice-chairman and chief executive John Olds said yesterday that no one is assured of a place in the new financial order, a
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        129 2 THE local offices of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter must be a very secretive place. Or at least that is the way it seemed when one of our staffers tried to contact the research department. First you get to a rather unhelpful receptionist who will put you on hold
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        Lock icon Dot-coms dash after PRs
        92 2 THERE was a time when public relations firms here had to fight tooth and nail for clients. These days it seems that an avalanche of dot-com companies are knocking on their doors, if the accounts of one PR firm is to be believed. And what's more,
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      Lock icon Enterprise, service, integrity not always natural allies
      390 2 JOHN Olds said that in the new financial order, one of the challenges is a continuous focus on personal integrity. We produce below the relevant part of his speech on this subject: "....If there's one thing I hope we've learned during the last
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      Lock icon Leong Horn Kee steps down as MD of OPH
      486 2  -  PEOPLE Ex-Citibanker Chua Ti&n Chn to take over; Leong to focus on Yeo Hi&p Seng By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Leong Horn Kee has stepped down as managing director of Orchard Parade Holdings (OPH) after seven years with the company to focus
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      Lock icon Takashimaya to woo overseas direct marketing firms
      296 2  -  Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Takashimaya will introduce major revamps to its business such as tying up with overseas direct marketing firms which have yet to enter the Singapore market. This is part of the Japanese retailer's strategy to offer more choices to its customers
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      30 2 Firms need to be in top 3 to survive in New Economy, Pg 12 Just be at Olio Dome Suntec City today to find out about our attractive subscription offer.
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      244 2 choice i at major local portals today www.asial.com.sg www.catcha.com.sg News from SPH publications, Reuters; breaking news News from Channel News Asia Free e-mail: check other accounts. 10MB mailbox and Web page space Search: Singapore Web sites 'Hi Classifieds: over 6 -7,000 listings from today's ST Classifieds Free e-mail: check other
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  • TELECOM liberalisation
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      Lock icon SingTel, HKT merger to reap net gains: analysts
      611 3  -  They cite synergies in international traffic business By Teh Hooi Ling IN an industry where size matters, the proposed marriage between Singapore Telecom and Cable Wireless HKT would result in net gains that's the general assessment of analysts and industry watchers. Michael
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      Lock icon A question of cultures in SingTel, C&W HKT's union
      635 3  -  ITO3!T lock siew lee han shih WOULD two former monopolies fare better in a free-for-all global telecoms market if they merge? If not, why would Singapore Telecom and Cable Wireless be discussing a merger? Although details of the proposed deal have
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      Lock icon SingTel shares rebound on news of merger talks
      651 4  -  Analysts rerate coriter to a 'hold' fntiQ a 'sell' By' Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Telecoms shafts rose as much as 7 per cenCjesterday on news that the company was in merger tallctavith Hongkong's Cable Wireless HKT Ltd (C&W HKT) to create a $100
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      Lock icon Proposed merger gets the thumbs-up in HK
      633 4  -  Prom i Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG reacted positively to the proposed merger between the telecoms giants Cable Wireless HKT and Singapore Telecommunications as they saw a more formidable regional telecoms player emerging from the marriage. The possible merger would help the
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      Lock icon S'pore telecoms industry now on equal footing with HK's
      581 4  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SINGAPORE'S full deregulation package for the telecommunications industry announced last Friday has leapfrogged it to almost on a par with its regional rival Hongkong, analysts say. Armed with their strong telecommunications infrastructure and the fast
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      Lock icon NTT seen as under threat: analysts
      478 4 Reuters [TOKYO] A MERGER between Singapore Telecom and Hongkong's Cable Wireless HKT could pose tough competition for Japan's NTT in Asia and at home, analysts said. Japan's former state monopoly Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) currently dwarfs other Asian carriers in size, and
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon ST Engg net profit up 30% to $200.5m, beating forecasts
      651 6  -  Firm giving shareholders special 70% gross dividend or 7 cents a share By, Jennifer Lien SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering yesterday beat analysts' forecasts by posting a 30 per cent jump in full-year net profit to $200.5 million. As a result, the
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      Lock icon KLW makes Barang Barang a subsidiary
      376 6  -  Jane Cheong DOOR MAKER KLW Hold ings yesterday said it has raised its stake in Barang Barang from 38.5 per cent to 55 per cent, making the latter a subsidiary. It did so by exercising an option granted by Sonny Boey, managing director of
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      Lock icon Horizon.com IPO 76.9 times subscribed
      177 6 LOCAL Internet company Horizon.com yesterday announced that it's initial public offer of 4.2 million new shares was 76.9 times subscribed. Of the public tranche, 42.5 per cent was allocated to those who applied for just one lot, or 1,000 shares. The company, which develops and
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      Lock icon ST Assembly IPO indicative price range to rise by 50%
      322 6  -  Shares now priced at $3-$3.33, offer size also larger at 170 m shares: Citicorp By. R Sivanithy CITICORP Investment Bank yesterday said it is jacking up the indicative price range for the ST Assembly Test Services initial public offer (IPO)
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      Lock icon Van der Horst seeks judicial management
      285 6 VAN der Horst (VDH) has applied to go under judicial management to facilitate discussions with a potential investor. The engineering and infrastructure firm said in a statement yesterday that the move to appoint KPMG's Michael Ng, Peter Chay and Bobby Chin as JMs was
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      Lock icon Sembawang Kimtrans to raise $ 14.5m from IPO
      359 6  - Sembawang Kimtrans to raise 14.5m from IPO NEW LISTINGS By 1 Ling Su Ann MAINBOARD aspirant Sembawang Kimtrans, a specialist in marine and mining logistics, yesterday said that it plans to raise $14.5 million from its initial public offer (IPO) to expand its operations across Asia. It is offering 35
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      Lock icon CyberWorks in joint venture with Nasdaq-listed CMGI
      293 10  -  They aim to create, operate Net-related businesses in Asia Pacific region vyi Eugene Low PACIFIC Century CyberWorks (PCCW), Asia's largest Internet company outside Japan, is forming a 50-50 joint venture with Nasdaq-listed CMGI Inc to create and operate Internet-related busi- nesses in the
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      Lock icon Links Island Marine gets in-principle nod for mainboard listing
      276 10 Land reclamation firm placed 25 in last year's E5O list LINKS Island Marine said yesterday that it has received inprinciple approval to list on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange. The company, which is involved in land reclamation, charter of vessels
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      Lock icon Newly listed Horizon.com ties up with Pacific Century Cyberworks unit
      371 10 HORIZON.COM, which makes its mainboard debut today, has tied up with Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) subsidiary Pacific Convergence Corp (PCC) to promote and distribute its products and services through PCC's broadband Internet infrastructure. Under the agreement, PCC will market Horizon's
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      Lock icon Jacks Int'l well poised for expansion: chairman
      573 10  -  lfy\ Marissa Chew MAINBOARD listed Jacks International is not well-follow-ed by investors, but its chairman Tan Kay Hock hopes that its initiatives to improve liquidity in its stock as well as its expansion plans will change that. Jacks International, which operates the Nature's
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      105 6 Formerly a military secret. Finally available to a select few. The innovative Panerai LUMINOR chronograph is entirely fashioned from TITANIUM AND A SPECIAL GRAOE OF NAVAL STEEL. FITTED WITH A NFW AND EXCLUSIVE DRACELET. IT BLENDS ITALIAN DESIGN AN D SWISS MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE- WATERRESISTANT TO A DEPTH OF 200 METERS
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Haw Par's in-the-money warrants worth a close look
      192 8  -  WARRANT WATCH lty\ R Sivanithy SOME months ago, we rated Haw Par's warrants as being among the best buys in the local market. It's been some time coming, but both shares and warrants moved up sharply yesterday, bucking the overall market's downward
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      Lock icon Market resilient, helped by SingTel's rebound
      532 8  -  l-l I comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THE local market yesterday proved surprisingly resilient to a sharp overnight dip on Wall Street, helped by a rebound in Singapore Telecom's shares which came amid speculation that if it merges with Cable Wireless HKT, its weighting in the
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      511 8 -J 9(bcks Volume 44.723,000 IfctectiUSIOc 38,531,000 Iw Ann 20c 25,931.000 mgtooard US10c 13,236,000 l#diaRing10c 11.154,000 □fcS Land 10,483.000 3j<;eEngg5c 9.534,000 HBtung Inv NT5 8,918,000 8,491,000 CfcewEuHock 20c 8,380,000 A. Stocks S ®gTel 15c 1131,886,232 QfcSGrp 78,414,517 >cCentury 69,551,470 48.165.742 #B 47,501.823 40.834,336 wacraft 10c 39,343,710 Cffia 1 Semiconductor 26c 31,666.016
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      Lock icon Kian Ann likely to ease in near term
      245 8  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong KIAN Ann Engineering shares rose again in heavy trading yesterday, following their 10 per cent surge last Friday. The stock closed up 5 cents or 8.1 per cent at 67 cents, a new 52-week high. Kian
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      145 8 Wednesday, Jam 26 Singapore ♦10.30 am. Press conference and official opening ceremony of PWDAMEC Facilities Pte Ltd 12pm. Launch of HewlettPackard mobile E-Services bazaar in Singapore ♦2pm. EDB industry briefing: electronics ♦6pm. Morley Fund Management Singapore launch of new premises United States Washington: 10am. Senate Banking Committee
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      93 8 r 0 I SEMBAWANG KIMTRANS SEMBAWANG KIMTRANS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 6 December 1994) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OF 89,600,000 ORDINARY SHARES COMPRISING 26,900,000 OFFER SHARES AND 62,700,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.20 FOR EACH SHARE Application for the Shares may be made on printed Application Forms referred
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      75 8 Short of cash to invest? Triple your cash with our Margin Financing l Call DBS investor Online at 323-3955 today. §8 DBS BANK Larry Wee's currencies column is on Page 30 The course of true love never did run smooth. With so many beauties on display in v The Straits
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      240 9 Citibank M3.n3.gcr Sclcction Program Investment managers vary greatly in their styles, the risks they take, the returns they generate and the type of securities they hold. Evaluating them takes time and expertise that even some astute investors lack. Recognizing this, we're pleased to introduce the Manager Selection Program a premiere
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      119 10 r •H* This announcement appears as a matter of record only f January 2000 Wm• 7 Horizon.com Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 18 September 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 14,000,000 NEW SHARES OF $0.05 EACH COMPRISING:(a) 4,200,000 OFFER SHARES AT $1.88 EACH BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER;
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      806 10 fT: m• Horizon.com Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 18 September 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 14,000,000 NEW SHARES OF $0.05 EACH COMPRISING:(a) 4,200,000 OFFER SHARES AT $1.88 EACH BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (b) 9,800,000 PLACEMENT SHARES BY WAY OF PLACEMENT, COMPRISING:(i) UP TO 1,400,000 RESERVED
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      395 11 JEWELLERY NIGHT SALE I I 26 th Jan to 3 rd Feb 2000 I I 10.30 am until 12 midnight I I A NEW SHOPPING EXPERIENCE FOR OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS I B We have just brpught in a huge quantity of internationally certified diamonds and designer B \diamond jewellery, all
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon S'pore chemical cluster output up 16.2% to $30b last year
      408 12  -  EDB expects strong growth to continue this year with $3b investments seen By Andrea Tan SINGAPORE'S chemical cluster output rose 16.2 per cent year-on-year to $30 billion in 1999 and the Economic Development Board (EDB) is upbeat that the growth
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      Lock icon Faster settlement easier process for CPF share scheme
      406 12 Central Provident Fund is streamlining the pcocess for transactions settlement, in line with the £psiding reduction of the settlement period for share tradFrom March, the trades settlement period will be shortened to three working days from the current five. -K From March
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      Lock icon Tourism industry aims for record 7.4m visitors
      446 12  -  Total arrivals np 11.5% last year, with Indonesian market posting a 30% jump By, Jeanette Pang SINGAPORE'S tourism industry is kicking off the new millennium on the right note with a ground-breaking record thanks largely to Singapore Tourism Board (STB)'s Millennia Mania promotion.
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      Lock icon Senior management changes at JTC
      321 12 JURONG Town Corporation (JTC) yesterday announced several senior management changes, and said its assistant chief executive officer Chong Siak Ching was now deputy chief executive officer. Ms Chong, who is credited with playing a key role in drawing up JTC's Industrial Land Plan for the
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      Lock icon Singapore not as ready as Taiwan, HK for new economy
      369 12  -  INSTITUTE OF POLICY STUDIES SBMOIAM Audrey Tan SINGAPORE trails behing Taiwan and Hongkong in terms of its readiness for the new economy, said Tan Kong Yam, head of the National University of Singapore's department of business policy and chief economist
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      Lock icon Firms need to be in top 3 to survive in new economy: BT editor
      455 12  -  Mega mergers threaten to sink the smaller boats By Francis Kan THE trend of mega mergers among industry giants will threaten to sink the smaller boats of the new economy, said BT Editor Patrick Daniel. "Previously
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      Lock icon S'pore firm in tie-up with US cleaning services group
      241 12 HOMEGROWN Angel Capital Group has forged a $10 million tie-up with Swisher International, a leading hygiene franchise company, to clean toilets and get rid of pests in the Asia-Pacific. The private equity and financial advisory firm and US-based Swisher yesterday formally
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      Lock icon S'pore could see 7-8% growth: SG
      343 12  -  l=tt=J on the economy outlook By. Anna Teo WITH strong boosts like the latest telecommunications deregulatory blitz, the Singapore economy could grow 7-8 per cent this year, "easily exceeding" its own forecast of 6.2 per cent, says an upbeat SG Securities. Another wave of
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      Lock icon Rights issue based on out-of-date share price
      318 13  -  MAILBOX Denis Distant Singapore SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) has relaxed the control over the issue of additional shares by listed companies by way of bonus, rights and splits. Some companies have taken advantage of this and issued shares without reference back to the shareholders
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      Lock icon SGX backs suggestion
      121 13  -  Raymond Chow Vice-President Head, Corporate Communications Singapore Exchange WE refer to the letter, "Declare dividends in dollar terms", by Goh Kok Siong on Jan 21. When a dividend is announced by a listed company, the par value of its shares is normally provided. Investors can then compute
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      Lock icon Unit trusts are not cheap bat they have their uses
      346 13  -  Siew Tong Chai Singapore I WOULD like to respond to Jai Tan's letter, "Best person to manage your money is yourself' (BT, Jan 22). He questioned the usefulness of the fund management industry in general, and the fund manager in
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      Lock icon KepLand and Wing Tai win en bloc plots
      466 13  -  KepLand pays $123 m for Viewpoint Condo; Grange Gdn goes to Wing Tai for $80m By Kalpana Rashiwala IN the latest collective sale deals, Keppel Land has bought Viewpoint Condominium for $123.3 million and Wing Tai has just been awarded Grange Garden
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      Lock icon Dunman Place's Phase 2 units to cost 44% more
      212 13 TECK Chiang Realty will be launching the second phase of its Dunman Place freehold condo this weekend at an average price of $838 per sq ft. This is about 44 per cent higher than the $580 psf the first phase fetched
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      63 13 "O; Ja Pt J»t »i s Just dick www.wizoffice.com /Jv Wi2office.com r Offlct (Mot) 1999 was a Year of Recovery in Asia. Unique corporate situations require unique financing solutions. From capital raising, to restructuring, to mergers and acquisitions. It's what you would expect from the bank named by IFR as
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Every man has his price in Internet boom
      780 14  -  1 bottom line OPINION michael lewis Michael Lewis, the author of 'Liar's Poker' and 'The New New Thing', is a columnist for Bloomberg News. His opinions are not necessarily those of Bloomberg News Bloomberg FEW of us are immune to the allure
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      115 14 'America, I don't believe, is developed enough and sophisticated enough to deal with the sensitivity of human beings/ -Mike Tyson boxer, now in London for a match. 'We have been blamed for drugs for so long now. We don't want to be blamed forever.' Colonel Kyaw Thien
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      Lock icon The other hedge fund worry
      574 14 EDITORIAL ASIA'S unhappy experience with US-based hedge funds has been that they are fully capable of causing the collapse of a vulnerable country's economy by instigating the relentless and merciless short-selling of its stock market and currency. But hedge funds may well turn out to
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      Lock icon Howard faces the devil in the details of new GST
      920 14  -  Govt, business and consumers are at war over rounding up of prices when the tax starts on July 1 By\ Manjit Bhatia The writer is lecturer in political economy at the University of Queensland in Australia AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      1034 14 llftldliffhft "THE US gives me a headache," an Egyptian economist friend remarked to me. "The US is a tremendous country you can say or do anything. I love the freedom of the press, and all the people who care about whales. You even impeach your president.
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Time Engg seeking to extend restraining order on creditors
      335 15 KUALA LUMPUR AFX Asia Bernama TIME Engineering Bhd said yesterday it applied for an extension to the restraining order against its creditors which expires on Jan 28, supported by an alternative restructuring plan which includes the listing of its unit TIME
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      Lock icon Malaysia's '99 manufacturing investments slip for 3rd year
      568 15  -  Total new investment applications fall 26%; foreign ones down 29% f-Yttw Diana Oon Abdullah in Kiutla Lumpur ECONOMIC problems in investing nations, such as Japan, resulted in a decline last year in Malaysia's manufacturing investments for a third consecutive year. Minister for
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      Lock icon Arab-M'sian set to be anchor bank
      397 15  -  Nod for it to start dne diligence on merger with Utama hYttnt. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Arab-Malaysian banking group, earlier sidelined by the Malaysian authorities, is set to emerge as an anchor bank in the consolidation of the banking sector. Arab-Malaysian last
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      Lock icon Show of strength
      58 15 [KUALA LUMPUR) Riot police flanked Anwar Ibrahim supporters holding posters and shouting "reformasiMalay for reform while police led the ousted deputy prime minister out from the courthouse after trial yesterday. Anwar, who has challenged Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's 18-year rule and is expected to launch more attacks
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        67 15 TIME Engineering continued to hog the limelight amid talks that its creditors have agreed to its restructuring plan to retire loans amounting to RM4.5 billion (Ss2 billion). The counter rose 38 sen to RM3.68. Its warrants were even more impressive, jumping by 53 sen to RM1.90
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        71 15 TIME Engineering's parent, Renong Bhd, can now breathe easier following the big jump in the share price of Time Engineering and its other quoted assets. Renong rose 19 sen to RM3.06 yesterday. The marked improvement in Renong's share price has also helped United Engineers Malaysia, which
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        55 15  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh ARAB-Malaysian Corp gained 49 sen to RM3.46 on expectations that a company in its stable, Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank, is set to clinch a slot in the consolidation of the Malaysian financial sector. All financial institutions have to sign tentative merger pacts by
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      220 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday the Cabinet has not discussed the review of the ringgit currency peg. "At the moment we aren't talking about it. even at the Cabinet level," the national Bernama news agency quoted
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      Lock icon Gus Dur set to replace heads of 8 state firms
      671 16  -  Shake-up expected to include four state banks, Garada and Pertamina From\ Sboeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a further indication that President Abdurrahman Wahid is moving swiftly to consolidate his control over Indonesia's beleaguered economy, the heads of eight large state-owned
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      85 16 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid has signed a decree retiring senior minister General Wiranto from the military in an attempt to cut off his power base, a senior military source told Reuters yesterday. The move would have no impact on his position as
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      479 16  -  Acquisition of the small brokerage is part of group's regional expansion By 1 Harish Mehta, Siow Li Sen UNITED Overseas Bank yesterday said it bought 100 per cent of Ocean Securities Co Ltd, a small Thai brokerage as part of its regional expansion. UOB joins
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      Lock icon Garuda back on growth path: CEO
      519 16 JAKARTA 1999 net profit was over 500b rnpiah doable initial target of 278b rnpiah Reuters INDONESIAN state airline Garuda, battered by the Asian meltdown and the fallout of violence sweeping the country, said yesterday it had stemmed the slide and sees a return to
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      Lock icon Fall in China's FDI in 1999 lower than expected
      444 17 BEIJING The USss.2b drop to USs4o.4b is less than the USslob fall predicted by Zhn Bloomberg, AFP CHINA'S foreign investment inflows fell less than government expectations last year, after a pick-up in investment in the final months of the year, official
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      286 17 NEW YORK Reuters CHINA could raise the corporate tax rate for foreign banks later in the year, a move that could hurt profits for some foreign banks, central bankers and government economists told the Wall Street Journal. The change is part of
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      87 17 [BEIJING] Young students about to graduatefrom college in China reading brochures from various employers yesterday at one of the country's largest jobfairs being held in Beijing. China is heading toward an unemployment crisis as the number of college graduates continue to exceed employment opportunities,
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      543 17 HONGKONG S'pore developers lagging far behind; HK seen getting greater edge to be region's technology hnb Reuters HONGKONG property companies are leading their Asian counterparts in Internet-related investment, Salomon Smith Barney's head of regional property research said yesterday. "Our analysis of
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      2526 18 Stronger leadership and better policymakers are needed to pull the country out of its rut says Bank Indonesia's senior deputy governor Anwar Nasution ANWAR Nasution, one of the most outspoken economists in Indonesia, has grown more acerbic despite having been picked by the country's Parliament as
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      Lock icon India may defer sale of some shares in top phone company
      494 20 NEW DELHI Bot planned listing of MTNL's shares on NYSE still on schedule Bloomberg, Reuters INDIA may delay the sale of a portion of its shares in Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, the country's biggest fixed-line phone company, which could
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      143 20 BOMBAY Reuters INDIA is expected to get about US$l.25 billion (Ss2.l billion) in venture capital investment this year with the largest portion going to technology firms, a fund adviser said yesterday. "The total committed capital for venture capital in India is about one-and-a-quarter
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      331 20 COLOMBO Reuters SRI Lanka is hoping to raise up to US$4OO million (Ss67o million) through a listing of shares of Sri Lanka Telecom, the island's main phone utility, as part of its privatisation plan, according to a senior government official. "We
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      80 20 [MADRAS] A worker cleaning a statue of Mahatma Gandhi here on Monday ahead of today's Republic Day celebrations. Meanwhile, a security blanket enveloped the country yesterday amid fears of terrorist strikes by separatist groups and Muslim militants. Apart from the capital New Delhi, where the annual
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      268 20 NEW DELHI AP THE Supreme Court has banned thousands of industries near the Indian capital from discharging untreated waste into the Yamuna River, newspaper reports said yesterday. "The river appears to have been ruined," said judges B N Kirpal and S Rajendra Babu
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      172 20 COLOMBO Reuters SRI Lanka has decided to secure a minimum loan of US$5OO million (SsB4l million) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its pending reform programme, the local Daily Mirror said yesterday. The newspaper quoted a top finance ministry official as
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        Lock icon India may cut crude oil tax to 15%
        98 20 AFX-Asia [BOMBAY] India's finance ministry is likely to cut import duty on crude oil to 15 per cent from 20 per cent in the federal Budget for the year to March 2001, the Business Standard said. The report quoted government officials as
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        97 20 AFP [DHAKA] US oil giant Mobil and the Bangladesh state-run Jamuna Oil Company are setting up two major lubricant oil and liquified petroleum gas plants here, The Financial Express daily reported yesterday. It said the deal was worth 1.2 billion taka (Ss4 million) and
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        89 20 NYT [WASHINGTON] The United States now believes a terrorist group supported by the Pakistani military was responsible for the hijacking of an Indian Airlines jet last month, a judgment that puts Pakistan at risk of being placed on Washington's list of nations that support terrorism, Clinton
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        72 20 AFX-Asia [BOMBAY] NUT Ltd is entering an alliance with Microsoft Corp to undertake strategic initiatives in software development, an NIIT spokesman said. Details of the alliance will be announced tomorrow, he said. Industry sources said NIIT is also in talks with six other international
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        Lock icon AT&T 4th-qtr profits down 42%
        55 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] Long distance telephone company AT&T Corp said yesterday that net income fell 42 per cent as acquisition costs and declining sales to consumers offset strength in wireless and cable television businesses. Its fourth-quarter earnings fell to US$l.l5 billion (Ssl.9 billion), or 36
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        71 21 Reuters [STAMFORD] COPIER maker Xerox Corp reported fourth-quarter earnings fell 52 per cent from a year earlier, roughly in line with reduced expectations, and said that improvement may not come until the second half of2ooo. Fourth-quarter net income was US$294 million (***** million), or 41
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        52 21 Bloomberg [CINCINNATI] Procter Gamble Co said that fiscal second-quarter profit rose 11 per cent on higher sales from new products and a recovery in Asia. Profit from operations rose to US$l.26 billion (Ss2.l billion) or 88 US cents a share, for the quarter ended Dec
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        83 21 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's core inflation rate remained steady at 2.2 per cent in December, the ninth month in a row it has been below the Bank of England's 2.5 per cent target, official data showed yesterday. But the rate had been expected
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        51 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Merrill Lynch Co's fourth- quarter profit more than doubled to a record as a boom in mergers and stock underwriting boosted investment banking and trading recovered from year-ago losses. Its net income rose to US$764 million (Ssl.3 billion) from US$359 million previously.
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        41 21 Bloomberg (IRVING, Texas] Exxon Mobil Corp said fourth-quarter earnings rose 34 per cent on higher oil and natural-gas prices. Profit from operations rose to US$2.7l billion (554.6 billion) or 77 US cents a share. Bloomberg
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        39 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Standard Poor's said it will add Harley-Davidson Inc and Biogen Inc to the S&P 500 Index trading ends on Friday. They will replace Foster Wheeler Corp and Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. —Bloomberg
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        69 21 AFP [MADRID] World tourism rose 3.2 per cent in 1999, boosted by sharp growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the World Tourism Organisation said yesterday. The 657 million tourists visiting foreign countries accounted for US$455 billion (***** billion) in revenues, up 3.2 per cent from
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      842 21  -  Prom Leon Hadar in Washington IN what is considered to be the first round in the 2000 US presidential race, voters in the small state of lowa taking part in the Democratic and Republican caucuses have provided the two frontrunners Democrat A 1 Gore
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      452 21 NEW YORK The all-time high 144.7 index reflects high stock market, low joblessness Bloomberg US consumers this month expressed their highest level of confidence in the economy since record-keeping began 32 years ago, Conference Board figures showed yesterday. The consumer confidence index climbed to 144.7
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      354 21  -  US rejects developing countries' call to delay lifting of trade constraints From 1 D Ravi Kanth in Geneva LED by Malaysia, several developing member nations of the World Trade Organization remained at odds on Monday with the US, the European Union, Japan, and
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      132 21 TOKYO Bloomberg [TOKYO] Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd, Japan's second largest bank by assets, said it will merge its nine insurance agents by the end of April, creating Japan's biggest insurance agency in terms of annual insurance premiums. DKB will combine its affiliated insurance agencies
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      334 21 mLONDON It thinks valuation floor is 75% below current levels Reuters INTERNET stock investors should recognise that "what looks like a bubble probably is", Merrill Lynch said in an in-depth report on the European and US sector, but it remained optimistic on the
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      393 21  -  ttyi Anna Teo THE year 2000 will be a vintage year for Asia as the recovery broadens, says SG Securities, highly bullish on the region. But some wildcards remain, and there could be a return of "hot money dilemmas" as the regional
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      771 22 NEW YORK Daw predicted to jump 13% to 13,000 and Nasdaq by 23% to 5,000 even as stocks suffer huge losses on Monday Bloomberg US stocks suffered their biggest losses in three weeks on Monday on concern that companies such as
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley fined US$495,000 by NASD for stock manipulation
      412 22 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE National Association of Securities Dealers reduced by half a US$l million (Ssl 7 million) fine that it had imposed on Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co for allegedly manipulating the price of some stocks in the Nasdaq 100 Index.
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      170 22 WASHINGTON Reuters THE World Bank said on Monday that one of its most senior experts involved in loans to the private sector would take charge of ties with Asia and the Pacific as the new vice-president for the region. A statement said Jemal-ud-din Kassum,
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      292 22 PHILADELPHIA Bloom berg US newspaper companies have failed to persuade a federal judge to block the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority from distributing a free newspaper on its trains and buses. US District Judge Robert F Kelly in Philadelphia refused on Monday to
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      362 22 TOKYO This is the sth straight gain after 15 months of decline WORLDWIDE sales of equipment used to make microchips more than doubled in November, the fifth straight gain after 15 months of decline, further evidence of a recovery in the global chip
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      373 22 TOKYO US firm makes its Ist offer, rival GM sweetens its proposal to Japanese carmaker Reuters COMPETITION to get Toyota Motor Corp, the world's third-largest automaker, to join rival Internet global parts supply networks heated up yesterday with Ford Motor Co
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      Lock icon Futures trade at discount to cash throughout
      292 23  -  SGX Derivatives Tmßhugßeports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended weaker yesterday, hit by the sharp overnight losses on Wall Street and the revival of US rate hike fears. Singapore Telecommunications bounced back with a 5.26 per cent
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      Lock icon Strong buying helps futures end near day's high
      289 23  -  MS& Taiwan futures Seow Hock Hin Refco Singapore MARKET players were apparently undaunted by the overnight sharp correction in the Dow and the Nasdaq. After opening lower yesterday, the market managed to recover steadily to close near the high of the day
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      140 23 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg INEW YORK] Crude oil yesterday fell for a second day as warmer weather forecast for early next week in the US is expected to reduce demand for heating fuels. Temperatures will be normal throughout the country next week except in
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      331 23 Reuters New York THE euro fell below one to one with the dollar yesterday, slipping through the historic level for the second time in seven weeks as hopes for a rebound in US stocks helped accelerate early morning selling. The euro dipped as low as U550.9988, according to
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      1957 23 SICOM FUTURES .to a: RUBBER (futures closing a at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT<S ccots/kq) Close Volume Open Month low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 00 114.75 ioo •<*00 119.00 118.50 ***** 700 1500 Apr 00 ***** 00 124.25 RSS3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume Open onth Low Sett (tonnes) Interest FA 00 67.00
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      2869 24 HONGKONG AFP Q Hang Seng -6451 HONGKONG share prices fell 0.4 per cent yesterday on a weaker US market but buoyed by merger talks between Cable and Wireless HKT and Singapore Telecommunications, dealers said. Ricky Tam, analyst at Delta Asia Securities, said that
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      364 24 AFP □wp Index -14.7 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday as investors locked in profit amid cautious sentiment ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index moved down 14.7 points to 9,372.37, following a 1.4 per cent rise
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      2032 24 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -16U8 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday as investors sold information and high-technology issues after their US counterparts fell, brokers said. The key Nikkei average of 225 selected issues fell 161.18 points to end at 18,895.53
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      1039 24 Reuters CI Shenzhen B Index -0.68 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares closed lower on expanded volume yesterday as domestic brokerages sold before the Lunar New Year, brokers said. The B share index lost 0.68 of a point, or 0.8 per cent, to 84.44 points as turnover rose to HK539.5
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      444 25 AFP AFX Asia CI Composite Index -2.44 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking but bargain-hunting in selected stocks lifted the market off its lows, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 2.44 points to finish at 952.06,
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      312 26 AFP fl Composite Index -35J55 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed down 35.55 points at 891.22. Volume was 240.9 million shares worth 2.7 trillion won. —AFP An«n S»mt 9900 -550 Br«nTtch._ "OS -65 C»ntr«l Bw* 2775 25 CMMCom* ***** 9000 DM Go Bf* 2885 -»5 Ojtiinq Corp
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      288 26 AFP Q Manila -&28 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday on concerns over higher US interest rates and domestic policies, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index declined 8.28 points to finish at 2,047.28. AFP Ja«2S Nm (000) MRC Allied.. 0.67 unch 0 Abie us
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      293 26 AFP CI Wellington -15.84 A DROP on Wall Street combined with a general lack of offshore interest in New Zealand stocks to undermine local shares yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 15.84 points or 0.8 per cent at 2,063.32 on light turnover worth NZ566.7 million. AFP Jmli Ui
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      610 26 AFP n All Ordinaries -18 AUSTRALIAN shares closed down 0.6 per cent yesterday thanks to losses across the market following falls on Wall Street, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 18 points to 3,078.60. The All Industrials Index closed down 26.6 points at 5,309.00 and the All Resources
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      792 26 AFP CISETIndex -4 THAI share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday, pulled down by weakness on Wall Street overnight and concerns over a widely-antic-ipated US interest rate hike next month, dealers said. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand Index shed four points to close at 473.22. Volume was
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      674 26 AFP n Composite Index -&86 INDONESIAN share prices closed marginally lower yesterday in line with regional market weakness and concerns over a possible US interest rate hike, dealers said. Dealers said investors were waiting for the results of the ongoing visits of President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri
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      873 28  -  Films nominated by the Directors' Guild included the traditional and the avant-garde, write robert w welkos and susan kzkg ROBERT W WELKOS,SUSAN KING LAT-WP PILMS that pushed the director's craft were nominated on Monday for outstanding directorial achievement by the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
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      717 30 THE Malaysian ringgit will remain pegged at 3.8 to the US dollar this year, although there has been a low-frequency buzz among market players that it could well be re-pegged or floated sometime this year. And, despite the upward revisions
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      135 31 Bridge News Reuters PANAMAX rates in the Atlantic continued to fall back particularly from the US Gulf, where weaker levels were seen in some key grain trades, brokers said. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell six points to 1,378, the Baltic Panamax Index dropped 19 points to 1,400,
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      467 31  -  Container terminal, opened only last March, set to handle 300,000 boxes this year By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The PSA-man-aged Aden Container Terminal (ACT) expects to almost quadruple throughput to 300,000 boxes this year, after handling a creditable 80,000 boxes last year. The container terminal
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      72 31 [MARSEILLES] The Global Mariner, which left London on July 1,1998, on a world tour with stops in 80ports, docks in the southern French port of Marseilles following a protest by members of the French communist union CGT. The union accuses the ship, belonging to the
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      291 31  -  By. Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp's Singapore Cruise Centre (SCC) international terminal handled over one million cruise passengers for the second year running in 1999. Despite crossing the million mark for the second time, the number of cruise passengers at PSA international passenger
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      734 31  -  STRAIT TALE By I Seafarer AT first sight, last year was a depressing one for those organisations committed to stamping out piracy. The International Chamber of Commerce's International Maritime Bureau (1MB) reports that reported attacks worldwide were up nearly 40 per cent last year
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        627 32 Asia's largest cruise ship operator hopes lower-cost tours will win over Japanese travellers Bloomberg [TOKYO] STAR Cruises, Asia's largest cruise ship operator, says it will try to outdo its competitors in Japan by offering lowercost cruises to lure more Japanese passengers. Hongkong-based Star, which will
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          103 32 NORWEGIAN shipping group Bergesen has bought four VLCCs being built by Hitachi whose contracts from Golden Ocean were cancelled as a result of Golden's money troubles. The price paid works out at U5565.7 million (Ssllo million) per ship, less than the current market rate. The first
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          110 32 THE administrator of the Marshall Islands shipping register has taken steps to attract new owners to the flag. International Registries, which formerly ran the Liberian registry, has decided that all ships registering in the islands by June 30 this year will do so free. The annual
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          73 32 VENEZUELA'S main port of La Guaira needs extensive repairs following devastating flooding which washed 500,000 cu m of mud into the harbour basin, demolished the offices of2oo customs officials and killed customs workers. Despite fears that the port could be shut entirely, most
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      19812 39 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vets** Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Oestn Name Name Number Number 02/02 28/02 COSCO SKY PIVER 0081W 65 *****00 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 02/02 28/02 csav csavsantos oms a-znsns 02/02 17/03
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        1978 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Period From To From aci maghoua o»b 28/2*00 »/8oo ?y»» hmoo IB ZVWJO 25/1659 25/1900 2A 25/17M 26/0659 26/0*00 21 25/1700 26/0659 26/0900 3 26/0700 26/1159 26/1400 4 26/1200 26/V459 26/1700 AYUBABU 23 27/2300
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        200 45 Jan 31 New Zealand: Market and Public Holiday. Auckland Anniversary Day. rebS New Zealand: Public Holiday. Waitangi Day. Germany: Epiphany Day. Sweden: Epiphany Day. Marl 6 Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. MarlS Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential Election. Apr 4 Hongkong:Ching
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        818 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        491 45 Crto, 180 Mil 990.5 0.8 19.0 0.08 78 0.06 rwn*rt* Hjiu tKklut Ash Aluminium Sediment 1o Above £25 0 0 20 J** 20 tef es ASK Aluminium o.3 M.I 0.05 36 0.02 380 Mai 992.5 17 17.7 0.09 72 0.05 u/tri m/m h/m rru mm Wo
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        461 46 Four-month dispute to end with services to start by Jan 31 in time for Chinese New Year on Feb 5 Reuters [MANlLA] The Philippines and Taiwan aim to resume direct air links by January 31 and end a bitter fourmonth feud in
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        447 46 [SINGAPORE] Hongkong authorities are investigating a mid-air close call between a Xiamen bound Silk Air jet and a Dragonair Airbus 330 which was descending towards Hongkong's international airport on Saturday. A Hongkong Civil Aviation Department official said that the two aircraft were on
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        333 46 [HONGKONG] Hongkong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (HACTL) said on Monday 1999 was a record year for air cargo, helped by a strong US economy, a rise in European shipments and Asian trade, and year 2000 (Y2K) related restocking. HACTL, which handles most
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        223 46 AP [LONDON] The first Libyan Arab Airlines plane to land in Britain since 1986 touched down on Monday evening at London's Heathrow Airport, signifying improving relations between Britain and Col Moammar Gaddafi's regime. Britain had accused the state-run airline of supporting terrorist
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        673 46 US govt also expresses concern overissue Reuters [SEATTLE] With rival Airbus Industrie breathing down its neck, aerospace giant Boeing Co has renewed caUs for ending government aid to the European consortium, and US trade officials are listening. Having lost its
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