The Business Times, 12 April 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A (P)5%U*****9 85* SINGAPORE Internet: *ittp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12. 2000
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    67 1 wmm (■J 2J3L38 (+4.35) □bt-su 7NL73 (+2.37) PIsnoaPDTDIEB U rriAfi (+0.40) STOCK HAIKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSEOOMP «J7 -6J8 NIKKEI 2M22J2 MM RANG SEW 1*487 .00 -MJ8 SET INDEX 400.74 168 JAKARTA COUP —J6H74 +412 MANILA COMP _1,767.46 -SMI TAIPEI WH 10,008.66 -6MS JBOULOOW* 866.06 -1112 CLSA CHINA
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    73 1 ran kateb uss ss UBS 1.720 S0JSS/8Sper2) LHi 2.728 EUSOfUBS/SS/E) IM UK dm ran mm YEN 107.1 UN KM UN 0.463 HKJ 7.787 1221 BAHT 38.04 0.046 KUP1AH 7,822 0.023 •sst»muntu PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 5 JO KUALA LUMPUR 7.87 JAKARTA 39 00 BANGKOK 8.50 MANILA 1100 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPH
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    Lock icon 3 mobile phone giants seal crucial m-commerce pact
    515 1 Move to develop standard for secure mobile electronic deals will speed np m-commerce Reuters, AFX-Asia [LONDON] The world's top three mobile phone manufacturers Sweden's Ericsson, Motorola of the US and Finland's Nokia said yesterday that they would team up to develop an
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    Lock icon Maybank stuns with 15% interest on new Visa card
    326 1  -  Tisiiuiiumj Rivals, who charge 24% on rollover credit, scramble to protect turf By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Malayan Banking (Maybank) will be launching a new Visa credit card this Sunday that charges only 15 per cent interest a year on revolving
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    Lock icon NY exchange chief hints at SGX link
    585 1  -  S'pore can be an important platform for NYSE, he says By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) hinted strongly yesterday that an agreement could be reached in the next few months to link the US market
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      99 1 IH BU>E Top stortes The markets have become a passion for new SGX CEO Tom Woet Mmxt Pmgm QM9Bk. Kenny Yap: a man who breeds success. MmxtPmgm SGX wants to raise profile, promote regional branding. *94 HK's dotcom craze prompts Giant to seek S'pore listing. P§4 5 ANgreen plans $500
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      29 1 mad or crazy. Sim Puang Suang, executive vice-president. UOB <4 gig a JLe hertz! Want to own the most powerful PC in Singapore? Find out how on Pg 11
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      8 1 New BGX CEO has a passion, Next Page
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Good courtcraft
        232 2 TENNIS diplomacy was very much in the air even though Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong missed his long-awaited tennis match with Chinese leader Li Ruihuan last Sunday. The Singapore leader had arrived late in Beijing after his plane was diverted to Shanghai because of a sandstorm in the
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        Lock icon JLL moves into Web-mode
        84 2 PROPERTY consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) is staking its claim in the New Economy. Its former research and consultancy director (Singapore) Yu Lai Boon is now chief innovation strategist (Asia Pacific) tasked with transferring JLL's businesses to the Web. "It could be owning our own property
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        Lock icon Delayed action
        48 2 THINK Microsoft is super-efficient? Check out a recent announcement made at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters: "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks."
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        136 2 IN Singapore, it is retired army boss Ng Jui Ping who has gotten into the dotcom business—he is chairman of newly-listed Horizon.com. In America, the most famous public figure turned New Economy entrepreneur is arguably Lamar Alexander, two-time contender (against Bill Clinton in 1996 and A 1 Gore recently)
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        Lock icon Still a billionaire
        113 2 JULIAN Robertson may have flopped as the Tiger Fund's manager, but he obviously didn't fare too badly on the personal front. In his assessment of the Tiger Fund's failure, Alan Abelson of the magazine Barron's said Tiger failed not because Mr Robertson was too rigid in his
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      Lock icon The markets have become a passion for new SGX CEO Tom Kloet
      561 2  -  BTij'uiimiij He is excited by the pace of change and the breaking down of traditional barriers By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange's new boss is a trader at heart. "I believe that for many of us
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      Lock icon China, S'pore pledge to boost cooperation
      620 2  -  Joint statement marks 10th anniversary of diplomatic relations Prom* Quak Hiang Whai inXian MARKING the 10th anniversary of their diplomatic relations, Singapore and China yesterday pledged in a joint statement to further strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation. The statement was released as Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Kenny Yap – man who breeds success
      435 2  - Kenny Yap man who breeds success GettingPanonabAMte-sfcnd look at people tntbo news -By Corinne Kerk Who» Kenny Yap, managing director of Qian Hu Fish Farm Pte Ltd Age* 34 to Fmm Mr Yap helped pull his family-owned business back from the brink of failure and transformed it into a major
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      195 2 r rvi a mi« university training tomorrow s A professionals today. "FOR BUSINESS CAREER SUCCESS" Among the top ten business schools and research groups in UK Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Among only 19 universities in UK to achieve an "EXCELLENT" rating for the quality of its
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      139 3 A PATEK PHILIPPE GENEVE Begin your own tradition. Jj L vfc *-> tVS»gg. yv pWi MB *qu§| I 4k K MaA. <g ,i£ >3$ jA ||.^^^BMBW«W^-^ 1 |8E L;iII^^BHHHHHMhh^-. s% JP*^ -£> 41 <j» «y iSTIn 11 bMIM Hl't^^B^ >-#:<-^^' I^B «4i# jp^ Younever </mSmik actually own a Patek Philippe.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SGX wants to raise profile, promote regional branding
      308 4  -  Moves come amidst more competition, technological changes By Carol Eng COMPETITION is forcing the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to open up and take on a higher profile, said a top official from the exchange yesterday. "The exchange is being more open... we want
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      Lock icon HK's dotcom craze prompts Giant to seek S'pore listing
      311 4  -  It says environment here favours manufacturing firms Bi Carol Eng HONGKONG'S dotcom craze may have backfired on itself as a Hongkong-based firm Giant Wireless Technology yesterday said it chose to list in Singapore because of its more favourable environment for manufacturing
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      Lock icon RMG takes stake in healthcare portal
      147 4 Reuters SINGAPORE-BASED healthcare firm Raffles Medical Group Ltd yesterday said it would take a 20 per cent stake in a new healthcare portal to be launched in the third quarter of the year. Officials of Dr-World.com Pte Ltd and Raffles Medical told a briefing
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      Lock icon Small players get 33% of Airocean
      233 4 INVESTORS who applied for one to nine lots of Airocean Group's initial public offer will get 32.5 per cent of the public tranche, which was 15.6 times subscribed. The air cargo specialist received applications amounting to some 545.7 million shares for the 35 million
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      Lock icon Thai Village hoping to raise $3m to $4m from IPO for expansion in China
      363 4  -  By Jane Cheong LEADING sharksfin restaurant group Thai Village Holdings plans to raise between $3 million and $4 million from its initial public offering. The company, which is famous for its Thai-Teochew braised sharksfin soup and
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      Lock icon Stiver lining in Manila IPOs fleeing to Singapore exchange
      515 4  -  HocKimimaui al labita THE sudden surge in the number of Manila companies opting to list their shares in Singapore should alarm the Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE). By and large, this is unprecedented, not to mention embarrassing to Manila's investment underwriters. Two
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        Lock icon B2B access for ST Engg
        59 7 ST Engineering and Nasdaq listed Free Markets have signed an agreement in which Free Markets will provide ST Engg with access to its 828 e-Marketplace which the company will use to purchase custom-engineered products and services. Through Free Markets, ST Engg will create online markets
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        Lock icon YHS saves $3.76m from lower DP
        53 7 YEO Hiap Seng Ltd will enjoy savings of $3.76 million in differential premium for its Dunearn Road site. The company yesterday said the Land Office had on March 29 informed it that the differential premium had been lowered to $38.22 million from $41.96 million
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      Lock icon Stanchart launches custodian service
      163 7 STANDARD Chartered yesterday launched a custody and clearing platform, Network Custody Clearing System (NCS), in 15 countries across Asia. The system, costing more than $50 million to develop, is the "most advanced custody platform in Asia", said Stanchart. NCS provides clients with customised solutions using a
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      Lock icon Allgreen proposing $500m medium term note issue
      307 7  -  The programme will be arranged by HSBC and will raise financing for Allgreen's general working capital requirements By Marissa Chew ALLGREEN Properties yesterday said it was proposing a $500 million medium term note (MTN) programme with Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)
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      Lock icon Brierley denies selling Air New Zealand B shares to SIA
      443 7 SIA pays NZsl4om for of the New Zealand carrier Reuters [WELLINGTON! Brierley Investments has rejected market speculation that it has done a deal to sell its Air New Zealand B shares to Singapore Airlines, the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA)
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      280 4 i r SINGAPORE Wharton-SMU \A/V»art"nn &A MANAGEMENT V T llCtl lUll m university conf©r©nc© The Wharton School IMwwHy of Pennsylvania Internet/ Technology Companies from Valuation, Financing to IPO Welcome Address Principal Sponsor MR. UM SWEE SAY Warburg Dillon Read (Communications Information Technology and Trade Industry) Professor Tan Chin T»oog Sponsors
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Robert Fleming's PCRD warrant hit by poor timing
      188 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy LAST Saturday, we highlighted in this column the covered call issued by Robert Fleming on Pacific Century Regional Development (PCRD). We said the placement prices of $1,186 and 76.3 cents were way too exorbitant and that once
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      487 6 Volume LafcTech US4c 12.961.000 SingTel 15c 9.036.000 Strong Tech 10c 6.766,000 QES Inti Lid 20c 7.794,000 PacticCentury 7,046,000 MediaRing 10c 5,002,000 Vickers Capitol 25c 4,621,000 NOL 4,152,000 Fastech US10C 3,877,000 TanChongMSOc 3,261,000 9locfci > PaoficCentury 100,466^00 SingTel 15c 22,712,790 DBSGip 18,369,322 QES Inti Lid 20c 17,964,630 0C8C 17,123,826 ST Assembly
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      Lock icon Late reversal kelps shares pare Nasdaq-linked losses
      572 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy NASDAQ'S overnight slide led investors to dump both Old and New Economy stocks yesterday; though, perhaps unsurprisingly, prices of the latter fell more sharply. The damage, however, was not as widespread or as bad as might have been expected, thanks to
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      Lock icon SingTel: resistance at $2.60-$2.70?
      229 6  -  HOT STOCK -By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Singapore Telecommunication (Sing Tel) continued their rise yesterday, with the stock finishing among the session's most active stocks. Sing Tel shares closed up 11 cents or 4.5 per cent at its day high of $2.58, after opening at
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      121 6 ♦The board of directors of Nat Steel Electronics Ltd has announced the incorporation of two wholly-owned subsidiaries known as NEL (US) Holdings Inc and NEL Americas Inc in Delaware, United States of America. NEL Americas Inc is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEL (US) Holdings Inc which is wholly-owned
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      137 6 This announcement does not constitute an offer or invitation to any person to subscribe for or purchase any of the securities described herein, nor is it calculated to invite, nor does it permit the making of, offers for such securities. The issue was fully subscribed for on 29th March, 2000
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      150 7 Begin the journey to your favourite holiday destination here. CATS. The Straits Times Classified This announcement appears as a matter of record only April 2000 I AIROCEAN GROUP LIMITED I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 5 February 1988) I INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 78,000,000 NEW SHARES OF $0.05
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      810 7 1 l 11 I GROUP LIMITED AIROCEAN GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 5 February 1988) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 78,000,000 NEW SHARES OF $0.05 EACH COMPRISING:(1) 35,000,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0,135 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBUC OFFER; AND (2) 43,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES BY
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  • MAS md's speech
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      3367 8 Thefollowing are excerpts of a speech delivered by MAS managing director Koh Yong Guan at the Millennium Law Conference on Monday. FOR many years, banks, insurers and securities brokers have pursued and developed their expertise in their respective fields. In many markets, regulatory barriers protected
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Welcome to the DIY-way to check into a hotel
      576 9  -  By Tan Su Yen BUSINESS travellers will be able to "D-I-Y" do-it-your-self— all the way to their hotel rooms with the launch of a new fully automated self check-in system which marip its Asian debut at the Food Hotel Asia 2,000
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      Lock icon NUS economists cut growth forecast
      459 9  -  CTtfi] M j il Jslni] 1L*11 By Andrey Tan ECONOMISTS at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have cut their forecast for Singapore's economic growth this year, even as they say that they share the widely-held optimism about growth prospects this year. NUS' Econometric Studies
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      Lock icon Too early to cut back site sales: Mah
      345 9  -  Govt will deride on action only if housing sales slowdown continues in Q2 By Marissa Chew DESPITE slow sales in the residential property market in the first three months, it is too early to consider cutting back on the sale of sites
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      Lock icon EDB to bear 50% consultancy cost for e-businesses
      393 11  -  Singapore broadband mLrmUnclnre better than US': Organic chief By Jane Cheong IN a bid to encourage more Singapore companies to go the dotcom way, the Economic Development Board will foot half the costs of engaging e-business consultants under an enhanced Total Business
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      Lock icon Two US tech firms to help in S'pore broadband growth
      361 11  -  Tie companies will *44 tMf «n»wiitii to Singapore ONE By Teh Hooi Ling TO give Singapore's broadband multimedia development another push, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) yesterday roped in two US broadband content and technology companies to add
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      Lock icon From sticks-and-bricks to a clicks-and-bricks economy
      337 11  -  By Eugene Low THE current revolution in information technology and communications is leading to the convergence of the old and new economies, said Jock McKenzie, chairman, chief executive and chief operating officer of Caltex Corp. Speaking to members of the American Chamber of Commerce
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      Lock icon Bidding for this 1 GHz PC starts from $1
      165 11 BE the first to own the fastest and most powerful personal computer—the 1 GHz PC by Gateway in Singapore. You can if you are a member of Asia One. Together with Gateway, Auction Asia is offering Asia One members a chance
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      Lock icon HK disputes pilots' claims
      468 11  -  MAILMiEHM Grace Ng Public relations officer Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department I REFER to a report headlined "Cathay pilots may sue HK regulator over work rules" published in your newspaper on April 6 and would like to clarify some comments on the Flight Time Limitations (FTL)
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      Lock icon SM Lee calls for trade law harmonisation
      708 11  -  Promoting trade to maximise the region's growth potential By Conrad Raj EAST Asian countries need to harmonise their legal systems concerning cross-border trade to maximise the region's growth potential, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last night This could be done through entities
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      Lock icon Common currency unlikely in E Asia: SM
      307 11 EAST Asia is unlikely to follow in the footsteps of the European Union with a common currency because China and Japan will not be willing to give up dominance of their currencies, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last night. "First, you must
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      Lock icon Pioneer e-trading portal for IT products
      821 12  -  FAST DistiWeb.com aims to revolutionise the 828 e-commerce market for computers and peripherals, reports elbabeth su ELIZABETH SU DISTIWEB.COM, a trading portal created by Singapore-based Innoweb.com Pte Ltd, has signed on Nortel Networks as its pioneer vendor and D-Computer of Thailand as its distributor.
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      Lock icon IBM aims to grab Oracle market share with new software
      346 13 NEW YORK Mid-range database management software part of USslb effort Reuters INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp yesterday unveiled the latest version of its database management software, as part of a US$l billion (551.71 billion) push that takes aim at market leader,
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      Lock icon 'Free Ericsson WAP phones' e-mail a hoax
      422 13  -  Ericsson's IT, legal depts trying to trace chain-letter initiator From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong ERICSSON has dismissed as a hoax an e-mail that said the global telecoms supplier would give away WAP phones for free. WAP phones are among the hottest products for
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        Lock icon Legend in tie-up with Hollywood.com
        93 13 AFP [HONGKONG] China's computer giant Legend Holdings Ltd has entered into an agreement in principle to form a strategic partnership with Hollywood.com Inc, a US-baaed movie and entertainment Web site, both firms said yesterday. According to the agreement, Legend will have exclusive rights to distribute
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        Lock icon Virgin to give away 10,000 Web devices
        99 13 AFP [WASHINGTON] Virgin Entertainment Group said on Monday it is giving away 10,000 new Web appliances, which provide Internet access without a desktop computer, to US customers as part of an e-commerce initiative. The flat-screen appliances connect users immediately to the Virgin portal
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        Lock icon US mobile phone users up 16.8m in 1999
        77 13 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US wireless telephone companies such as AT&T Corp and SBC Communications Inc added 16.8 million customers last year, the biggest single-year gain, an industry group said. At the end of last year, 86.1 million customers subscribed to wireless services, a
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        Lock icon Zagat sues online service for copying
        99 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Zagat Survey LLC, publisher of more than 30 dining guides, says in a federal lawsuit that an online shopping service has illegally copied its 14,381 restaurant reviews and posted them on Sprint Corp's wireless Web. The suit against privately held E-Compare
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      Lock icon Wiring up high fashion
      52 13 [BEIJING] A model wearing a DigiLens Display unit during an Internet fashion show in Beijing yesterday. The show was part of an effort to "merge the unwired Internet into fashion and lifestyle, "and is part of the three-day China Internet World 2000 exhibition in the Chinese
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      Lock icon Sony to start wireless Internet service for corporate clients
      388 15 TOKYO A challenge to NTT which Dtw controls home, business network access Bloomberg SONY Corp, the world's second-larg-est maker of home electronic appliances, will in July begin offering broadband Internet services for corporate clients using a wireless network, challenging Nippon Telegraph
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      Lock icon Robust growth in Internet, mobile phone use in Japan
      387 15 TOKYO ltJ% of Japan's 45m households connected to the Net last ywur Reuters JAPAN is transforming itself into a New Economy, with the number of households connected to the Internet nearly doubling last year. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications said
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      Lock icon Sony's pre-buy preview
      67 15 [TOKYO] Japan's Sony Music Communications employee Rina Okano displays an automatic DVD preview machine "Visual Terminus" which can read the bar-code on the package of the DVD software to display a two-minute preview of the DVD movies at the company's head office in Tokyo yesterday. Sony Music
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      Lock icon PwC, Informatica in B2B services tie-up
      214 15 NEW YORK Reuters CONSULTING firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Web software company Informatica Corp on Monday said they had formed an alliance to help companies with their business-to-business Internet services. The alliance reflects the growing need of technology companies to join with consultants to put
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Why the IMF should be abolished
      645 16  -  OPINION steve hanke The writer is a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Rind (IMF) interferes too much in the domestic politics of the countries it seeks to assist Whafs more, the IMFs policies don't
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      193 16 'She would be a star of the quality that has not been seen since Bobby Kennedy was elected senator from the state of New York. -JdmHcCaia former US presidential candidate who campaigned twice this month on behalf of Hilary Clinton's opponent. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. 'Atrocious
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      Lock icon The challenges of e-banking
      628 16 EDITORIAL Entrenched players in the financial sector may not like it Consumers maybe waiy of it at first And it may be a regulator's nightmare. But it's a coming wave that can't be ignored: e-banking is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. It's time for
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      Lock icon In the virtual world, property becomes junk
      966 16  -  Tihaveandkildiß an economy in which change itself is the only constant makes less and less sense By Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin is the author of 'The Age of Access: the New Culture of Hypercapitalism Where All of Life Is a Paidfor Experience' (Tarcher/Putnam,
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      1058 16  -  WHAT THE OTHERS SAY By Matthew Lynn Bloomberg THE best book so far written about the New Economy tells the story of Augustus Melmotte, a European of dubious origins, who arrives in London, makes a fortune through floating high-technology companies
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      411 17  -  deal 9% fell in 3 days; investors blame slow pace of fighting competition From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE Telecommunication's tie-up with Time Engineering continued to cast a dark cloud over the prospects of Telekom Malaysia, the biggest firm in Malaysia. Investors
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      302 17 KUALA LUMPUR TIME Engineering Bhd, after teaming up with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel), has suddenly turned vibrant and wants to invest 400 million Malaysian ringgit (SslBl million) for last-mile connections to its customers, The Star reported yesterday. It has thus far
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      189 17 SINGAPORE Bernama MALAYSIA'S sovereign rating is likely to be nudged upwards within the next three to six months on the back of its improved fundamentals, said ABN Amro bank. "We are positive on Malaysia's sovereign risk outlook and expect a one-notch upgrade in
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        78 17 MAGNUM Corporation continued to ease yesterday, dropping three sen to RM2.84 on rumours that its parent, Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd, may not sell its 31 per cent stake in the gaming company. Last July, MPHB entered into a preliminary agreement to sell the substantial stake in Magnum to Bolton
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        60 17 INTRIA Bhd rose 13 sen to RM1.49 following Renong boss Halim Saad's promise to clear its financial woes in a few months. Mr Halim said Intria may not have to sell its construction arm, Costain. Ironically, Costain was the main source of its problem as
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        70 17  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh TIME Engineering eased five sen to RM5.60 in a bearish market yesterday. The share price is about 6.7 per cent below the cost of Singapore Telecommunications' purchase of a 14.48 per cent stake in Time. Although some analysts feel the purchase price
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      197 17 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Airline System Bhd (MAS) chairman Tajuddin Ramli said yesterday the carrier hopes to decide by the middle of May which of three global alliances it will join. "We are in the process of evaluation," he told reporters on
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      541 18 BANGKOK Legal action by Bank of Thailand deals another major blow to Democrat Party AFP A TOP banker and brother of Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda has been slapped with criminal charges in the latest scandal to shake Thai politics, police said yesterday. National Police
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      555 18 PARIS Pact witk Paris Chib could bMBt 7 I I investment Bloomberg INDONESIAN government officials will meet with the country's foreign creditors today to ease terms for repaying billions of dollars in debt, a crucial step towards putting Indonesia's economy back on
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      320 18  -  From Shada Islam in Brussels EUROPEAN Union governments on Monday night toughened sanctions against Myanmar which diplomats said would help efforts to convene an EU ministerial meeting with Asean nations. "The sanctions against Myanmar are being extended and
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      569 18 JAKARTA Reuters THE closure of a US-operated gold mine by a regional Indonesian court is a serious blow to the country's mining industry, and to its already battered image as a place to invest, mining sources and analysts said. The concern is
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      393 18 AFX-Asia Reuters [MANILA] San Miguel Corp plans to set up an agro-indus-trial ecological estate which will integrate its production facilities and marketing operations, chairman Eduardo Cojuangco said in a speech prior to the company's annual general meeting yesterday. The estate
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      145 18 JAKARTA Bloomberg PT Astra Sedaya Finance, a joint venture finance company run by PT Astra International and GE Capital, said it plans to raise as much as 500 billion rupiah (*****.5 million) by selling bonds in July. Nini Tjandrasa, Astra Sedaya
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        79 18 AFP [JAKARTA! Thousands ofteachers closed schools to at least five Indonesian cities to protest against a new government pay policy for senior ctvfl set tauU. press reports said here yesterday. A threeday strike was also planned to start tonorrov, despite an appeal ftum
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        62 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Indocemeat Ttmggal Prakarsa, Indonesia's No 2 cement company, said it may issue new shares in its USIBB3 million (BHj6 UDion) debt restructuring, paving the way for HeideQMKverZement AG of Germany to buy a stake. That restructuring— which will involve cash flrom Heidelberger, the world's
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        74 18 Reuters [BANGKOK] A survey ofThai consumer confldmne yesterday showed that Thais were slightly less txdUdi an the economy in March than in the two jsevkms mnnths, mainly because of rising oil prices and low term prodoos prices. The University of fibe Thai Qnmbsr of
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      518 19 HONGKONG Ways of making movies have to change amid ever-rising costs Reuters HONGKONG'S once-prolific movie industry, haunted by copyright piracy, loss of funding and deteriorating quality, is turning to international financiers to raise its profile and broaden market appeal. A
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      55 19 [SHANGHAI] A businessman talking on his mobile phone in front of a giant advertisement of a local poultry product company yesterday in Shanghai. China needs to further reform its financial system before allowing its currency, the yuan, to be fully convertible, the state-run newspaper Economic
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        90 19 AP [BEIJING] PetroChina Co will cut7,ooojobs this year to satisfy investors in its new multibillion-dollar foreign stock issue, a company official said yesterday. The mmpnny had cut <me million Jobs in preparation for the public offering that raised almost US$3.l billion (S$S.3 billion) last week
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        67 19 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's Yangtze Three Gorges Development Co will issue 3 billion yuan (Ss6l9 million) in 10-year corporate bonds to finance construction of its giant <fam project, an official with the lead underwriter said yesterday. The bonds, to be issued to domestic investors
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        61 19 Bloomberg (TAIPEI] The New Taiwan dollar fell from its strongest level in 29 months after the central bank denied reports suggesting it may let the currency rise. The NT$ last traded near 30.316 to a US$, down 0.05 per cent from Monday 0f30.302 and
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        63 19 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian yesterday called for clarification of the term "One China", as Beijing mounted pressure on Taipei to accept that the island was part of the mainland. Mr Chen said the term was open to interpretation, and he could not
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      145 19 HONGKONG Reuters, AFX-Asia SYSCAN Technology Holdings Ltd, a maker of integrated im-age-capture appliances, said yesterday it had priced its initial public offering of 152 million shares at HK11.33 each. Syscan is the first Silicon Valley-based company to receive approval
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      163 19 BEIJING Reuters CHINA'S state-owned industrial enterprises (SOEs) aim to make combined profits of 110 billion yuan (5522.7 billion) in 2000, the official Economic Daily reported yesterday. The target was made public by authorities at a national conference on the reform of domestic enterprises
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      341 19 TAIPEI FT TAIWANESE computer group Acer on Monday pledged support for the reunification of Taiwan and mainland China a day after Beijing warned Taiwanese companies they could be barred from business on the mainland if they "openly clamour" for independence. China's threat, conveyed through state-run
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      439 19 BEIJING It will allow them to gp public, issue bonds, and carry ont mergers and acquisitions Reuters CHINA plans to help smaller financial institutions by allowing them to list shares, issue bonds, acquire other companies or merge, the central bank was quoted
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      245 19 SHANGHAI Reuters TWO small capitalised Chinese Firms said yesterday they will issue domestic A shares later this month under new rules that allow state and listed companies to buy their shares. Jiangxi Ganyue Expressway Co, which will have a share capital
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      424 20 I NEW DELHI State radio says heavy troop movements seen en the herder with the western eeast state ef Gigarat Reuters PAKISTAN has moved a large number of troops and militants close to the international border running along India's western coast state of
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      107 20 BOMBAY AFX-Asia TRADING on the Bombay Stock Exchange began one hour late yesterday as employees went on a sudden strike to push demands for wage increases, a senior BSE official said. "Most of the employees of the information systems department, which manages brokers' trading
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      249 20 ■BOMBAY Bloomberg INFOSYS Technologies and Satyam Computer Services, two of India's biggest software firms, more than doubled fourth quarter profits buoyed by demand from new customers for e-commerce software. Infosys, the country's second largest publicly traded software developer by market
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      286 21 WASHINGTON Bloomberg JANUS Capital Corp became the largest shareholder at Time Warner Inc bumping Ted Turner from the top by acquiring almost US$2.B billion (Ss4.B billion) worth of stock in the media and entertainment company. The Denver-based mutual fund group reported the
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      481 21 LONDON The US bank will pay £2.6b in cash, USs3.6b in new Chase shares Reuters US BANK Chase Manhattan agreed yesterday to buy UKbased investment bank and fund manager Robert Fleming Holdings for £4.9 billion (5513.2 billion), well above the £2.5 billion
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      445 21 SCHAUMBURG, Illinois Results underpinned by strong sales of cell phones and computer chips Bloomberg MOTOROLA Inc, the world's No 2 wireless phone maker, said on Monday its first-quarter profits before one-time items more than doubled, topping Wall Street forecasts, amid strong sales of cell
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      112 21 [SYDNEY] Gallery visitor Kristen Morris yesterday looking at an aboriginal central desert "dot" painting in a Sydney gallery. The painting was done by an aboriginal man who was part of a group believed to have been the last of their kind to walk out of
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      392 21 TOKYO NYT PLANS to allow non-banks to enter the banking business here are faltering. Hideyuki Aizawa, an influential politician who heads the ruling party's Financial Issues Research Committee, is urging regulators to reconsider plans to issue banking licences to companies like Sony
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      493 21 It's hoping Bush will speak oat against govt's antitrust case NYT MICROSOFT Corp has quietly hired Ralph Reed, a senior consultant to Governor George W Bush's presidential campaign, to lobby Mr Bush in opposition to the government's antitrust case against the company.
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      499 22 NEW YORK But Dow Jones rises 0.7% on strength in bank, drag and consumer stocks NYT INVESTORS continued to sell shares of technology companies on Monday, sending the Nasdaq composite index plunging 258.25 points, or 5.8 per cent, to 4,188.20. It was the
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      347 22 BRUSSELS Bloomberg THE economy of the 11-na-tion eurozone expanded at the fastest pace in nearly two years in the fourth quarter, increasing the likelihood the European Central Bank will raise interest rates this week. Gross domestic product grew 0.9 per cent
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      373 22 Summers echoes Fed comments that US cnrrent account deficit is becoming too large Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US must, take steps to increase its savings, and Europe and Japan must boost growth, if the world's economies are to come into balance and the
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      338 22  -  From Neil Behrmann in London FUND managers surveyed by Merrill Lynch are fretting that global growth is peaking. Gallup's April survey on behalf of the investment bank show that the majority of more than 250 pension, insurance, mutual fund and other
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      299 22 NEW YORK AFP [NEW YORK] THE Washington Post daily was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, while The Wall Street Journal won two from New York's Columbia University. The Associated Press news agency won the coveted Pulitzer for investigative journalism
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      237 23  -  SOX Derivatives TnUUngßeports —ffltigapftPfl TnAwr Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market leapt to a higher close in the final minutes of trading yesterday, lifted by late bargainhunting in select blue chips. Electronics issues came under pressure throughout, tracking the huge
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      234 23  -  MSCI IWwan ftrtnrw Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index slid 59.43 points or 0.6 per cent to 10,068.05 on the heels of the huge decline in the Nasdaq Composite Index overnight. The plunge in the Nasdaq
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      216 23 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices took a step higher yesterday as a world energy watchdog warned that more supply would be needed later this year to meet growing demand. North Sea benchmark Brent crude for May advanced 56 cents to U5521.86
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      340 23 Reuters London THE yen fell to two-week lows against the US dollar and the euro yesterday as Japanese investors were expected to seek overseas homes for their money in the new financial year. With Japan likely to resist any sustained yen rise, analysts said Japanese investors would be
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      2760 24 HONGKONG AFP QHaogSeng -*****8 HONGKONG share prices fell 2.2 per cent yesterday on continued selloff of hi-tech and telecoms stocks following the overnight tumble of the Nasdaq Composite Index in the United States, dealers said. "The market has been dragged down by
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      1960 24 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -KM SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.5 per cent lower yesterday, hit by another slump in high-technology stocks on Wall Street, brokers said. The key Nikkei-225 index fell 96.54 points to end at 20,522.52 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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      923 24 Reuters ElSfcMriwßMg -LB3 CHINA'S B shares closed mixed yesterday as buying of market giant Zhejiang Southeast Electric Power Co pushed up the Shanghai B Share Index. In Shenzhen, B shares closed lower, pulled down by a fall on the domestic A share market and by the absence of long-awaited
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      339 24 AFP PWThfcx -5M3 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday on concerns of selling by gov-ernment-linked funds and overnight losses on Nasdaq, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 59.43 points to 10,068.05. "The bourse was pressured by concerns over selling by the government
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      403 25 AFP nOmpoate Index -5J6 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday due to a selldown of heavyweight communications giant Telekom Malaysia, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 5.98 points at 933.57. The Second Board Index rose 1.94 points
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      286 26 AFP n Composite Index -15J2 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 15.12 points at 855.05. Volume was 254 million shares worth 2.6 trillion won. —AFP km* *h A»—S-H ***** -MOO Brain Tec* —IMS -«0 Central Bank -2235 WKft ChellConwn -*****0 -5000 Daa Ou Bank 2110 *20 DaeiangCerp
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      279 26 AFP P Composite Index -39.21 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 2.2 per cent yesterday due to profit-taking. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 39.21 points to close at 1,757.45. Turnover rose to 3 billion shares worth 1.2 billion pesos from 1.5 billion shares worth 1.4 billion pesos on Monday.—AFP
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      270 26 AFP QNZSE-40 -IMS NEW Zealand stocks fell 0.9 per cent yesterday with the market dominated by Singapore Airlines' purchase of Air New Zealand Ltd shares but with most stocks weaker. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 19.05 points at 2,135.22 and turnover was NZ$249 million. AFP *Ff «a rwt»
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      528 26 AFP QAQOrtiuiriM -3L» AUSTRALIAN shares fell one per cent yesterday following another round of falls on Nasdaq on Monday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed down 31.9 points at 3,155.4 while the SP/ASX 200 dropped 28.4 points to 3,173.0. The All Industrials Index dipped 52.2 points to 5,596.4
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      764 26 AFP D SET lata jjj THAI share prices lost 0.6 per cent yesterday in lacklustre trade ahead of Thai New Year holidays later this week, dealers said. Bank and telecommunications stocks helped drag the index lower in line with the weakness in regional markets following Nasdaq's sharp fall overnight.
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      676 26 AFP P Composite lade +4U2 INDONESIAN share prices closed slightly higher yesterday as cigarette maker Gudang Garam recovered and helped spur late buying in other cigarette stocks and select blue chips, dealers said. A dealer with a Singaporebased brokerage said the market closed in positive territory on last minute
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      483 28 BOOKS Winners of annual Commonwealth Writers Prize to be named in New Delhi on Friday AFP [NEW DELHI] India hosts the Commonwealth Writers Prize award this week, the biggest literary event to be staged in the country with authors such as Salman
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      593 28  -  Synopses of Singapore International Film Festival movies being screened today uompiiea oy Aaron Lye The Apple (PQ) —Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran) Grand Prince, UA Beach Road, 7pm, 85 mins Tickets: Available The Apple a remarkable combination of drama and documentary re-enacted by the members of the family whose strange
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      1232 29 ne Business Times, Wednesday, Aprill 2,2000 cbtptic crossword fiHlif^iffTTZra^—■—^^——- 5.00 Click. Restless. World Sport (2nd tx). I" IrF FI F 530 Tube Top. 5.40 That's My Line. 040 Football: It's a Beauti- LJ— 8040 Kids Central: The Big e.OO Wheel of Fortune. 0.00 See Thursday's sched- ful Game (2nd tx).
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      882 30  -  CURRENCIES A look at major themes governing the Asian currency markets, including why local factors seem to dictate the region's currency weakness larry wee US stock market moves have continued to take centrestage, but this week we further explore the view that while regional currencies look like
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      752 30  -  Nikkei may hit 25,000 within a year as JGBs lose favour By Chua Soon Hook The writer is CEO Strategist at Asia Genesis Asset Management This article is not an invitation to invest BTand its contributors will not be held liable
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      280 31 Bridge News Reuters THE dry cargo freight market on Monday started the week quietly but the capes ize sector held very steady in all areas. Panamax rates appeared little changed in the Atlantic but were weaker in the Far East. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and Baltic Handy
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      506 31  -  Lack of expert advice to ship master identified as crucial factor contributing to sinking Reports by David Hughes in London THE operator of the ill-fated tanker Erika had not entered the ship into an advice scheme operated by the ship's classification society,
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      143 31 THE International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) will today discuss the implications of the Erika sinking at a foil sesson of its AGM being held in Monte Carlo. Asked by Shipping Times for his initial reaction to the Rina report into the incident, Intertanko
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      829 31  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer ONCE again the Erika saga has thrust itself into the front pages. This time the headlines are that the ship's master was, after all, responsible for the loss. Before slapping the handcuffs back on the luckless Captain Krun
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      261 31 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC) plans to expand its annual shipbuilding capacity to 3.5 million tonnes and increase its annual sales to 25 billion yuan (Sss.l billion) by 2005, the China Daily Business Weekly quoted CSSC president Chen Xiaojin as
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      107 31 AFP [BRUSSELS] The European Union and South Korea are close to an agreement to end their dispute over the low price of South Korean ships, a European Commission spokesman said. "There are agreed minutes which are in the course of being initialled,"
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        800 32 Major ports from Vancouver to Long Beach recorded increased container throughput last year ITF ALMOST all major ports on the North American west coast recorded increased container throughput last year. The geography of the North American west coast has decreed that its main ports are
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      19030 39 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartisar VhuI Voyaga Tatapftona ETA ETA Advartisar Vassal Voy aga Talaphona SIN Dast'n Nam* Nama Numbar Numbar SIN Dast'n Nam* Nama Numbar Numbar N/04 16/05 Evargraan E. GIFTED 0334-007W 6****** To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D 1 1 voir* 20/04 Kian Hung prosperity
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        1942 45 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Hoot top/Pol onto Kstis SMp Voy No Etfc/Btr Nrtod frw To Fw aw wm corx a/tJO u vbm vbm nmoo VBM IV»» n/1900 U n/m» 12/0654 12/0*00 2* 11/1700 12/0659 12/0*00 i a/woo a/w» a/Moo tflJMC OIK 12/2000 M tl/BM
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        194 45 Ayr 2B New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange Closes at Noon. Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Ayr 21 Denmark: Good Friday. France: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Thailand: Market Holiday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday.
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        785 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the mar kat Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        491 46 An alliance would likely cause Air NZ to lose its stake in Ansett Australia Reuters [WELLINGTON] Australia's Qantas Airways is pushing ahead with plans to link up with Air New Zealand despite shareholding and political minefields, and a rival bid from
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        281 46 AP [WASHINGTON] Airlines did not live up to their promise of improved service in 1999, with all measures except baggage handling worsening and passengers continuing to complain in record numbers, university researchers report in an annual study of airline quality. The industry in December
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        357 46 Carrier will be able to fly opto 70 planes, double the current namber Bloomberg [ARLINGTON, Virginia] US Airways Group Inc's pilots union has approved a plan that allows the sixth-largest US airline to fly as many as 70 regional
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