The Business Times, 13 April 2000

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 com.sg/ THURSDAY. APRIL 13, 2000
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    Lock icon Richard Li pulls off mega deal with Telstra
    745 1  -  Analysts see Australian carrier buying CAWs Mobile One stake From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong RICHARD Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks pulled off another coup yesterday by entering into an alliance with Australia's largest telephone carrier Telstra Corp a deal that is expected to
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    Lock icon Bookings for commercial vehicles top 1,000 in 3 days
    758 1  -  iiexclusive Bumper sales follow plunge in COE, price cuts by motor firms Byi Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Top motor firms have garnered more than 1,000 bookings for commercial vehicles since the latest COE results were released on Monday, according to traders. Tan
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    Lock icon OCBC to pump $1b into e-commerce initiatives
    553 1  -  Its standalone e-bank to go for eventual listing By I Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank will expend $1 billion in the next three years to build itself up as the region's top e-com merce financial player, a move that will also see
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      82 1 iwnPß Motoring The real info highway. Flower power. Pg 26 Top stories SGX may go public hereby year-end. Mmxt Page Hong Leong allowed to issue corporate purchasing cards. Pg4 DBS to sell POSBank building to NTUC. Pg 6 The new way to hedge S$ interest rate risk. Pg 7 Networked
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      33 1 BUILDING UP 1 A J Edmund Cheng, deputy chairman of 1 Wing Tai. tells why in an exclusive V interview with Executive Suite Pg 30 B V LG A R I ipii) r,
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      7 1 Is marketplace ready for e-banking?, Pg 4
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        Lock icon Killing the competition
        57 2 OCBC Bank's e-commerce strategy presentation yesterday was studded with military jargon. And the reason is, its new head of e-Ventures, David Tan, used to be a director of counter intelligence and counter terrorist operations in the Home Affairs Ministry. He talked menacingly about "taking no prisoners" when
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        Lock icon Streaking into the S'pore River next?
        77 2 WE have it on good authority that OCBC boss Alex Au did not style his crewcut after David Beckham or Richard Li. It seems Mr Au decided he needed to show that he is not a stufly banker and the inspiration to do something
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        Lock icon Take a day off — nah, make it 10 years
        93 2 Take a day off nah, make it 10 years IN yesterday's Grapevine column, we featured the not-so-sorry saga of failed Tiger Fund manager Julian Robertson, who, after paying off his debts, still has US$l.5 billion. He's vowed never to manage anyone else's money again. "I woke up this morning and
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        Lock icon The wages of sin
        147 2 SEX sells, but by how much? A new book, aptly titled Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age, by Frederick Lane HI, tackles the thorny topic of the role played by sex in shaping the development of the Internet from payment systems to
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      Lock icon SGX may go public here by year-end
      582 2  -  It will become only the second bourse in the world to be listed, after ASX By] Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] If all goes well, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) will list itself on its own exchange before the end of the year with a
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      Lock icon Dotcoms creating their own buzz
      657 2  -  -li comment TECHNOLOGY Tecfanoprenenrs are having a ball networking kenneth james IF Chairman Mao were alive, I suspect he would have approved. Two evenings ago, about 350 people squeezed into a night spot in downtown China Square. This particular watering hole has photographs of the
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      Lock icon Shaanxi offers tech park site to S'pore
      375 2  -  Businessmen cautious about joining another industrial park development Prom Quak Hiang Whai inXian THE Singapore business community has been offered a site to build yet another industrial park, this time by the Xian Hitech Development Zone (HTDZ) in Shaanxi province. At a briefing
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      423 2 Goods and Services Tak|GSls:Sii and your business Workings of tfie GST system and its implications on businesses in the industiles: Manufacturing/Trading/Service Co Logistics/Freight forwarding/Warehousing Communications /Media/eßusinesses. GST has been implemented since 1 April 1994. Are you filing the GST return correctly? Do you need a. refresher on the GST rules?
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Hong Leong allowed to issue corporate purchasing cards
      476 4  -  exclusive MAS decision may be part of plan to differentiate big and small players Byi Conrad Raj IN what is a first for a finance company, Hong Leong Finance has been allowed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to offer corporate financial
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T, NZ's BayCorp in credit, business info venture
      303 4 He-op plans to take stakes in key local content providers in the Asia-Pacific KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation and New Zealand's BayCorp Holdings said yesterday they had formed a 50-50 joint venture to provide online credit and business information in the Asia-Pacific. The
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      Lock icon Digiland.com to list here, not Nasdaq
      278 4  -  By, Jennifer Lien GES International will list its distribution arm Digiland.com in Singapore, not on Nasdaq as most market watchers had believed. The IPO, announced yesterday by GES, should see 30 per cent of Digiland being floated in the next six months. There are
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      Lock icon Keppel TatLee plans an e-banking department
      364 4  -  By' Tay Shi'an KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank is expected to set up a separate profit centre to carry out electronic banking soon. It will not be a standalone e-bank. The centre will be a department of the bank itself, supported by the Keppel Tat
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      Lock icon S'pore Power launches note issue
      234 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Power (SP) launched the first part of a $1.5 billion multi-currency Medium-Term Note (MTN) programme yesterday with a roadshow for its triple-A rated US$3OO million (Sssl3 million) bond issue. "SP will raise financing as and when the need arises," the company said. The
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      Lock icon Is the marketplace ready for e-banking?
      703 4  -  I 1 lock siew siow li sen AS the pace of the financial sector liberalisation picks up in Singapore, and consumers get excited about the increasingly wider choice of products available to them, one might wonder why the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is
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      Lock icon DBS to sell POSBank building to NTUC
      272 5  -  -II exclusive The $56m boy us seen giving NTUC redevelopment potential By\ Kalpana Rashiwala DBS Group has inked a deal to sell the POSBank building at Bras Basah Road for )55.5 million, to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Confirming an earlier BT
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      Lock icon JP Morgan moves Sydney forex business to S'pore
      250 5 Bloomberg {SYDNEY] JP Morgan Australia Ltd, the local arm of the fifth-biggest US bank, said it has closed its foreign exchange operations in Sydney and is moving its Australian dollar business to Singapore. The move conies just six months after JP Morgan
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      Lock icon Datacraft wins US$7m Chunghwa Telecom deal
      134 5 DATACRAFT Asia yesterday said it had won US$7 million (Ssl2 million) worth of contracts to build an Island-wide network for Taiwan's stateowned Chunghwa Telecom. Datacraft Taiwan, a unit of Datacraft Asia* is designated a "prime contractor" in the design and implementation of the island-wide
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      Lock icon DBS shareholders okay stake sale to Pidemco
      135 5 DBS Group shareholders yesterday approved the company's sale of a 24.9 per cent stake in property group DBS Land to Pidemco Land. A DBS Group spokeswoman said the sale was likely to he completed in a week or so. Under the deal announced
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      Lock icon Nucleus likely to price IPO at about 43 cents a share
      294 5  -  aims to raise $4.6 m for working capital By\ Carol Eng SESDAQ-BOUND Nucleus Electronics is likely to offer its shares at around 43 cents apiece and at a historical price-earnings ratio of about 10.5 times, compared to the 18
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      Lock icon OIS: The new way to hedge S$ interest rate risk
      550 7  -  Lannck «f wo-night index swap marked by Ss3om deal between tw» banks By\ Larry Wee A NEW Singapore dollar derivative instrument which allows market participants another avenue for hedging their local interest rate risk has been launched with a Ss3o
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      Lock icon Food Empire wants to spread its wings
      435 7  -  It will nae IPO prteeeds to develop new products and seek out new markets Byi Audrey Tan MAINBOARD aspirant Food Empire Holdings (FEH) plans to use the proceeds from its initial public offer to expand its operations by developing more products and seeking
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Blue chips stage rebound despite Nasdaq slide
      575 6  -  hi i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy FOR a second consecutive session, the local market surprised its doubters on the upside yesterday. It shrugged off yet another alarming overnight wobble on Wall Street to close slightly higher. Yet despite a rise of 4.01-point in
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      Lock icon Teledata wrt – modest entry into telecoms sector
      178 6  - Teledata wrt modest entry into telecoms sector WABBAMT WATCH By R Sivanithy AFTER a brief quietening down period, telecoms stocks have come to the forefront again, with deals announced by Singapore Telecom and Time Engineering on the one hand and Pacific Century CyberWorks and Telstra on the other focussing attention
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      Lock icon Fastech: resistance at 72 US cents
      259 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of chip assembler Fastech Synergy extended their gains yesterday, with the stock finishing as the session's third most active issue. Fastech shares closed up 4.5 US cents or 7.03 per cent at 68.5 US cents. The stock
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      140 6 THE directors of NM Holdings have announced that on March 28,2000, the management board of Binh Duong Industrial Paries, Vietnam, gave approval for the company to increase its 70 per cent holding to 100 per cent holding in the paid-up legal capital in Ngai Mee Packaging Industries Co
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      Lock icon Yen soars as BOJ hints of higher interest rates
      348 6  -  I-id comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Japanese yen jumped sharply in early European trading hours yesterday after Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Masuru Hayami hinted at a possible change in its policy of keeping Japanese interest rates at close to zero
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      458 6 PmW&HOU&QOPERS 0 PricewaterhouseCoopers r r Financial Workshops About the workshop Tty* *W*W»op alms to (teKver product knowledge. In Thlt workshop will focus on the risks involved in the use ad#tttsl :Ift tit* more established products, we will also of treasury products and the controls that can be i mplemented derivatives.
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      8 6 flexible financing JS -:t 323-3955 88 DBS BANK
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      820 7 GROUP UMfTED AIROCEAN GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated in the Repubfic of Singapore on 5 February 1968) INVITATION IN RESPECT OP 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 PUBLIC OFFER; AND (2) 43,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES BY WAY OF PLACEMENT, COMPRtSING:(A)
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon BG Lee: Income gaps will widen in knowledge era
      489 8  -  Attempts to pot lid on earnings will jnst drive talented people away, he says By Eugene Low AS Singapore moves towards a knowledge economy, income disparity will widen as a growing premium is placed on skills and talent, Deputy Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Networked era needs agile law agencies: Jaya
      432 8  -  Changing nature of transactions, new cross-border crimes pose fhallgngAg By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE'S legal system and law enforcement agencies will have to meet the challenges in a highly networked world posed by the changing nature of transactions and the perpetration of cross-border crimes,
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      Lock icon M-commerce standard seen as a boon
      408 8  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling MOBILE phone operators here yesterday welcomed the move by the world's three largest handphone makers Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia to jointly develop an open and common industry framework for secure mobile electronic transactions. Sing Tel Mobile, Mobile One and Star
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      Lock icon Visitors to Asia-Pac region set for 8.8% growth this year
      368 8 TRAVELLERS coming into the Asia-Pacific region are likely to see their number grow by about 8.8 per cent this year, with the growth hitting double-digits for countries like Cambodia, Malaysia and Hongkong. "1999 was a year of incredible events and
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      Lock icon Two prime sites valued at $220m up for tender
      256 8 TWO prime sites at River Valley and Draycott Drive are up for sale for a total of about $220 million. The 999-year leasehold site at River Valley involves 41 owners who are putting up their properties for collective sale. It consists
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      Lock icon DBS forecasts 9% NODX growth
      387 8  -  l=V4=< on the economy forecasts By, Anna Teo BOLSTERED by strong electronics demand, Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) would have grown about 9 per cent in March, DBS Bank has forecast. This would bring to about 12 per cent the first-quarter NODX average growth. In
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      Lock icon MOVIE BITES
      616 8  -  CompMtoyi Aaron Lye Syrtopses of Singapore International Film Festival movies being screened today The Cup (PG) —Khyentee Norbu (Bhuten/AuetroMe) Grand Prince, United Artists Beach Road, 7pm, 93 mins Ticket* Sold out The Cup refers to the 1996 Football Worid Cup, andtiie dory (Inspired by reel events) Isaoemedy about
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      84 8 DIPLOMA in LAW BACHELOR of LAW The Diploma in Law is the equivalent of the first year of the Commencement: 29 April 2000 LL.B (Hons) external programme. (Weekend ctweee Set afternoon Jk*i mornina) The Bachelor of Laws is a 3-year direct honours degree programme. A 2-year graduate entry route is
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      Lock icon New domain name category for individuals
      513 9  -  IDA &1m reveals multi-million dollar initiatives te bridge the'digital divide' By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPOREANS can now dotcom themselves and create their personal space on the Internet with e-mail addresses and Web sites that reflect their personal identity. This is made possible by the
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      Lock icon Pleasant surprise from Maybank
      188 9  -  George Cheng IT IS not often that we And a seldom publicised bank such as Malayan Banking (Maybank) making moves that shake up the banking fraternity. As such, I was pleasantly surprised when it was reported that Maybank would be setting its credit card rollover balance
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      Lock icon New ways to govern S'pore needed
      360 9  -  MAILIiEHI Jai Tan IT is my belief that the old ways of governing Singapore are no longer applicable. The "creative destruction" process engendered by the IT revolution is going to create and destroy jobs and companies. One job it is going to destroy is
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      116 9 City Estates International LONDON HONG KONG SINGAPORE DUBUN Arc you looking to sell your property in London? We offer a complete service under one roof including established links with international investors: Sales Acquisitions Valuations Resales Up-to-date maifcet appraisal As part of the City Lets International Group we also offer a
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      Lock icon A player that may be courting trouble
      343 10  -  """"■a™"' l Microsoft's latest Windows ME, that can play and record music, shows braren disregard far recent rwHngsgilnstlinn louise kehoe FT IS Microsoft thumbing its nose at Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson? The federal judge hearing the Microsoft antitrust case might be inclined to
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      Lock icon Global software battle brewing
      444 10 MONTREAL Uantetkaaatt* challenge Microsoft's dtmii&Bcec experts Reuters IN an unlikely outcome to a David and Goliath technology battle, a free computer operating system called Linux has the power to shake up Microsoft's global dominance, software experts at a Montreal trade show predicted on Tuesday. Technology gurus
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      Lock icon Opening Windows
      81 10 [BEIJING] Chinese cyclists yesterday passing a bus advertisement for Microsoft Windows 2000 in Beijing. The software's launch in China was delayed for a month due to uncertainty over rules announced last October that required software makers and other high-tech firms to register software used to transmit sensitive data
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      Lock icon Upcoming Microsoft browser doesn't support all standards
      339 10 ■SEATTLE Web Standards Project faults Explorer version AP THE latest version of Microsoft Corp's Web browser, due this year, does not adequately support the software standards on which the World Wide Web was built, the head of a non-profit Web developer group said
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      Lock icon Meat and poultry giants to set up Internet exchange
      258 10 DAKOTA DUNES South Dakota Reuters SIX of the world's leading meat and poultry processors put their faith in the Internet on Tuesday, agreeing to create an online business-to-business marketplace for meat and poultry products, service and information. IBP Inc, Cargill Inc,
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      Lock icon Shell, BP lead plan for purchasing exchange
      323 11 LONDON Tftrchangn will allow partners to save 5-30% of annual procurement bill FT A GROUP of 14 energy and petrochemical companies yesterday announced plans to create a global purchasing exchange with predicted annual sales of more than US$l25 billion (Ss2ls billion). The partners,
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      Lock icon And now, there's S-commerce
      473 11 LAS VEGAS Reuters "LIVE, from outer space, ifs Saturday Night!" In a project that gives new meaning to filming "on location", Spacehab Inc, which develops commercial services including habitable modules for spacecraft, launched a subsidiary, Space Media Inc on Tuesday to beam news, entertainment or advertising
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      Lock icon IBM launches big-capacity notebook drives
      259 11 NEW YORK At 32 GB, each hard drive holds five times as much data as the average notebook drive Reuters INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp yesterday unveiled the world's highest capacity notebook computer hard drives, which are tailored to store video and other multimedia files. The
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon It's quite clear where the Fed is heading
      651 12  -  F7TTI bottom line OPINION lee boon keng Dr Lee Boon Keng is with DBS Market Research IN his speech at the White House Conference on the New Economy, US Federal Reserve nhftirwifin Alan Greenspan reiterated that performance in the stock market is
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      157 12 The power of money is the power to give it away.' NR Narayaiut Martfcy chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd, whose company is worth about US$l5 billion (5525.8 billion). 'Chief executives must have the courage to blow up the organisation, to make it work in the e-business era'
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      Lock icon IMF must work with Indonesia
      617 12 EDITORIAL IT is good to note that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now "greatly reassured" of Indonesia's economic restructuring programme. The IMF deputy director for Asia, Anwop Singh, says he is cheered by recent acts of the government of President Abdurrahman Wahid to accelerate
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      Lock icon Young Net pioneers are the true forces of change
      1359 12  -  Today's protesters are a regressive force, out to extinguish progress from globalisation By] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent "WOW, man, this is so groovy, so *****," was the way the 50-something journalist next to me reacted to the
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      Lock icon Little things make a difference? Don't count on it
      724 12  -  COMMENTARY Besides, they are usually not what yon were watching By Paul Krugman NYT MORE than 20 years ago, I fell In love, as young social scientists will, with non-linearity and in particular with the idea that large effects could have
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon M'sian banks' outlook downgraded
      416 13 KUALA LUMPUR SAP move reflects the uncertainty caused by bank merger programme Bloomberg STANDARD Poor's has downgraded its outlook on Malayan Banking Bhd, RHB Bank Bhd and Arab-Malay-sian Merchant Bank Bhd (AMMB) to reflect "uncertainty" spawned by the government's bank merger programme. S&P said it revised
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon SingTel's small paper loss
        92 13 SINGAPORE Telecom is now sitting on a paper loss of 70 million Malaysian ringgit (5531.6 million) from its expected investments in Time Engineering. The Malaysian counter shed 25 sen to RM5.35 in tandem with the overall market weakness yesterday. Sing Tel has agreed to buy 106.2
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        Lock icon Return of the titans
        69 13 RENEWED interest in two major heavyweights— Telekom Malaysia and Tenaga Nasional—helped to shore up the sluggish market yesterday. While losers outnumbered gainers, the market barometer rose 7.03 points to 940.60, thanks partly to Telekom's rise of 50 sen to RM13.70 and Tenaga's increase of 20 sen
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        Lock icon Bell tolls for Tong
        120 13  -  Compiled by! Eddie Toh LITTLE-KNOWN Bell Order hit limit up again to end at RM9.40 following the entry of Tong Kooi Ong as a major shareholder. Current shareholders Land General boss Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah and Foong Yeap—have renounced their entitlements in a proposed rights issue.
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      171 14 BANGKOK AP A SERIES of embarrassments for Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's government widened yesterday in die aftermath of a Cabinet reshuffle that revived images of corruption associated with a key coalition partner. Pongpol Adireksarn, removed by his own Chart Thai party
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      426 15 HONGKONG Another Taiwan firm will take 8%; Anssie seller to bepaidHKs263m Bloomberg TAIWAN'S Acer Group will buy a 22 per cent stake in the Hongkong film distributor Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings) Ltd, underscoring the computer manufacturer's growing interest in delivering
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        56 15 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand recorded its second highest trade surplus ever In March as exports of electronics and automobiles roae, the Commerce Ministry said. The merchandise trade surplus rose 133 pa- cent from a year earlier to US$l2 toSUon (SS2 billion) as exports roae 234
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        58 15 Bloomberg {BANGKOK] Italian-Thai Development, Thailand's biggest contractor, said its joint venture with Taiwan's Evergreen Construction Corp won an order worth NTIIS biflioii (*****mffiioe) for a high-speed rail project in Taiwan, ft wffl design and build viaducts and bridge structures for the high-speed rail project
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      280 16 BOMBAY Move sparked by onion employees' 'illegal strike' Bloomberg THE Bombay Stock Exchange, India's biggest exchange, is calling in the police to ensure uninterrupted trading after it said on Tuesday that workers had "sabotaged" trading by going on an "illegal strike". Trading
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      393 16 LONDON FT UK ministers have taken the unprecedented step of asking Premier Oil to withdraw from its 27 per cent interest in Myanmar's Yetagun gas project in an attempt to increase pressure on Yangon's military government. "The continuing presence of reputable companies
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      317 17 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE European Central Bank must take care that in its drive to fight inflation it doesn't raise interest rates too fast, choking off the economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund said. "While the ECB needs to maintain a strong ant
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        86 17 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Subdued gains in petroleum prices kept US import prices in check in March, pushing import prices up a modest 0.3 per cent, the smallest increase in five months, the government said yesterday. It said export prices roee a stronger 0.4 per cent
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        54 17 Reuters [NEW YORK) US investment bank J P Morgan yesterda: said its first-quarter profits rose Marly 5 per cent to a record US$62B million (551.07 billion). It said profit roee to US$62B million, or U553.37 a share from US$BOO million, or US$3.Ol, in
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        53 17 Reuters [NEW YORK) Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc yesterday reported it earned a better-than-expected first-quarter profit Time Warner, which is being taken over by America Online, said it earned 5 cents a share, compared with flat earnings in the year-earlier period, as its cable TV and
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      412 17 economic report WASHINGTON More Fed rate hikes needed, but macroeconomic imbalances could magnify a downturn Reuters ABSENT any big stock declines, the US economy is expected to grow by 4.4 per cent this year and then slow to 3 per cent in
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      404 17 TOKYO Bloomberg THE International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast for Japan, saying the government may have to pump more money into the economy this year to spur a "halting" recovery. The world's second biggest economy will grow 0.9 per cent
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      496 17 WASHINGTON Fund praises loose fiscal policies it once slammed Reuters ASIA'S currencies, battered in the crisis of 1997-99, have room to rise and governments should keep fiscal policy loose until growth is firmly entrenched, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. The IMFs
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      497 19 TOKYO Its survey shows improvement in economy; Nikkei hits 3-year high Bloomberg THE Bank of Japan upgraded its assessment of the world's second biggest economy, saying it sees a "distinct" improvement, and signalled that it may raise interest rates this year.
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      348 19 CINCINNATI Court reverses ruling to allow cereal maker's case Bloomberg TONY the Tiger is entitled to his day in court, a panel of federal appeals court judges has ruled. Kellogg Co, which makes seven of the world's 10 top cereal brands,
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      457 19 CHICAGO Stock down 17% as it said cellphone nnit profit had fan*" NYT SHARES of Motorola Inc plummeted 17 per cent on Tuesday over concerns that the company's growth could be slowed by weaker-than-expected profits in its cellular telephone division. After
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      264 19 ROTTERDAM Bloomberg UNILEVER, the world's sec-ond-biggest foodmaker, has agreed to buy Slim Fast Foods Co of the US for US$2.3 billion (513.96 billion), adding the top producer of weight-loss products to its growing nutrition business. Slim Fast controls 45 per cent of the
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      269 20  -  SOX Derivatives Ttadlng/teporte HMa Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed slightly higher yesterday on modest buying in select blue chips. Among the gainers was ST Engineering, rising 6.03 per cent on expectations of robust first quarter
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      240 20  -  MSCI Taiwan fatores Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index broke the 10,000-point barrier, tumbling 156.66 points or 1.56 per cent to 9,911.39 points as the Nasdaq plunge continued overnight. Leading the way were electronics stocks. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co,
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      181 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] World oil prices headed higher yesterday, stemming recent losses and shrugging off an increase in fuel stockpiles in the United States. North Sea benchmark Brent Blend futures for May delivery were 63 US cents up by 1300 GMT yesterday at U5522.30
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      336 20 Reuters THE yen soared yesterday as optimism on Japan's economic recovery gained credence after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) upgraded its growth assessment and suggested it might scrap its zero interest rate policy soon. Yen bulls, who recently had been sidelined amid wariness of any yen-related statement from
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      2758 21 HONGKONG AFP AFX-Asia PlHaagSeng *8143 SHARE prices closed 0.5 per cent higher led by banks and utilities as investors focused on companies with solid earnings prospects, dealers said. Sentiment was also boosted by news of a deal for Australia's Telstra Corp to
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      2003 21 TOKYO AFP Qttkiia +3HI» SHARE prices in Tokyo jumped 1.5 per cent to a 40-month closing high yesterday, after the Bank of Japan gave an upbeat assessment of the languishing economy, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Average rose 310.69 points to end at 20,833.21,
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      900 21 Reuters □Shemheaßlafai -0.43 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed lower yesterday due to a sell-off on the domestic A share market triggered by jitters over a quick expansion of that market, brokers said. Shenzhen's hard currency B Share Index fell 0.47 per cent or 0.43 point to 90.43 points
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      319 21 AFP QWPhte -15Mt TAIWAN share prices fell 1.6 per cent yesterday to below the 10,000 support level following overnight losses on the Nasdaq, dealers said. "Sharp losses on the Nasdaq triggered heavy selling in the technology issues," said Bentham Hung, research department manager of FuhHwa Securities Investment and Trust.
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      308 22 AFX-Asia ncmymtthi* *7j03 SHARE prices closed higher in thin trade led by a recovery in Telekom Malaysia and selective interest in other leading stocks, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed up 7.03 points, or 0.75 per cent, at 940.60, the
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      281 23 AFP Q Composite Index -1188 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 0.7 per cent in light trade yesterday as investors took profits ahead of the long Easter holidays. The Composite Index shed 12.88 points to close at 1,744.57. Turnover fell to 2.1 billion shares worth 972.6 million pesos.—AFP Ha* *h mm
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      257 23 AFP □IgSE-40 -1120 NEW Zealand's sharemarket fell 0.8 per cent yesterday led by market bellwether Telecom. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 16.20 points at 2,119.02. Turnover yesterday totalled some NZ594.4 million. »b «s *t- nm Advantage HQS 4.67 -0.18 50 Air NZ A 2.12 0.06 326 AirNZB 2
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      541 23 AFP fIMMMji -an AUSTRALIAN shares fell another 0.7 per cent yesterday as investors followed the lead of Wall Street and backed away from increasingly unfashionable media and technology stocks, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 22 points to 3,133.4. The SP/ASX2OO Index fell 24.3 points to 3,148.7 and
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      301 26  -  All reports by Christopher Tan GERMAN carmaker Audi, a subsidiary of Volkswagen, expects sales in the Asia-Pacific to more than double in three years' time. According to Markus Schrick, executive director in charge of the region, the tar- get is for deliveries
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        88 26 IF you own a wireless application protocol mobile phone (one that has Internet access) and subscribe to SingTel's e-ideas service, booking a Comfort taxi will be a cinch. For the general user, simply select the e-Comfort Taxi Booking sub-menu on the phone screen, «nri pick any
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        Lock icon Nissan's Cefiro tops 2-litre car sales
        50 26 NISSAN's Ceflro has emerged as the top-selling two-litre passenger car in Singapore. In the first quarter, 462 units were registered, against 199 at the same time last year. Mercedes' E2OO was second at 436 units (219 previously), followed by BMW 5201 with 231 (54).
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        65 26 VOLVO will continue to produce S4O and V4O vehicles at its Mitsubishi joint venture factory in Holland till 2004. A senior Volvo exec told BT the venture had provisions for change of ownership, like the current DaimlerChryster buy-in of Mitsubishi Motor. After 2004, the
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        72 26 TAXI operator Comfort has set aside $1 million to put its 11,000 drivers on improvement courses over the next five to six years. The amount is cm top of subsidies from the Skills Development Fund and the Ministry of Manpower. Drivers 40 and below will
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        73 26 FROM June, BMW will be offering all-wheel-drive in its 3-series cars and adaptive cruise-control on its 7-eeries. Its all-wheel-drive system is electronic, nnHkp the traditional mechanical systems tow in use. The adaptive cruise-control, which keeps the vehicle at a safe distance from the one in front,
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        78 26 TRUST Beemer to do this. The luxury performance maker has taken a multi-terrain X 5 (above), fitted a 700-horsepower six-litre Via under its bonnet, lowered its chassis by 3cm and screwed on 20-inch wheels. The result is a monster called X 5 Le Mans, capable of a
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        61 26 A NEW Land Rover FreeLander (/above) will be sold here later this year, and it should find new buyers. The new car, a has something local buyers love: automatic transmission. The 4x4 will also have Steptronic, a gadget widely available in BMW cars that allows autos
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        68 26 COMPONENTS maker Delphi Automotive Systems has teamed up with Ericsson Mobile Communications to bring Internet access and ptng-and-play nnwminriicwHnna anlirtiflnf fn thp wßhtdo m«rb^, Market studies by the duo show 50 per cent of all new cars made in North America, Western Europe and
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        81 26 THE Land Transport Authority has installed advance warning lights—twin flashing amber lights on a pole— on Rochor Road before the Beach Road junction. Used in countries like Australia and the US, these lights are installed 100 m or so fhxn a junction and will start
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        73 26 TRAIN operator SMRT has launched a limited series of stored value cards based on the Star Wars theme. Each set, at $30, has Ave double-sided prints from movie posters and scenes from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return oftheJedi. Each card has a
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        81 26  -  Christopher Tan THE Automobile Association of Singapore (AAS) has scheduled its ninth Heritage Drive for May 21. Participants will embark on an adventure tour of historical sights in Singapore, with attractive prises on offer too. Funds raised will go to the Movement for the
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      1097 28  -  Gaums wbkk finds the simply-furnished and functional home of Greeting Cuts' owners an unexpected contrast to their floral business CORINNE KERK YOU may have seen the bright and colourful floral designs from florist, Greeting Cuts, but is the home of its owners as cheerful? Well, yes, but in
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      1597 29  -  The industry most harness the opportunities offered by technology and reinvent Itself with now —y *hy ihtab AMY KHOR DrAmy Khor is director (research) at Knight Frank THE rapidly evolving new business environment created by the current technological revolution is forcing tangible asset-intensive businesses from the
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      Lock icon Stocking up land bank no longer pays
      1386 30  -  Wing Tai's deputy chairman Edmund Cheng tells kalpanarashiwala what a more viable strategy would be instead for developers today. He also reflects on the New Economy and how Wing Tai will be a part of it KALPANA RASHIWALA GOING against what would seem
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      377 30  -  By] Kalpana Rashiwala WHEN Pidemco Land launches The Loft condominium in Nassim Hill, it will be the first of the developer's new generation of smart and wireless luxury residences. The 77-unit condo, with a 99-year leasehold tenure, boasts probably Singapore's most prestigious address at
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      412 31  -  Samsung, European partners win Asia's biggest offshore project By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Rising oil and gas prices are creating a flurry of demand for offshore production facilities including FSO (floating storage off-loading) and FPSO (floating production storage offloading) facilities, as petroleum
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      Lock icon Shipping alliances in trans-Atlantic pact
      399 31  -  APL, Mitsui will for first time deploy vessels on the Atlantic By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The world's second and third largest shipping groups, the New World Alliance and Maersk-Seal-and, are to co-operate in the trans-Atlantic trade with the signing of a landmark pact. The agreement
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        341 32  -  Ship standards body warns of tougher enforcement of roles By Juliette Jowit FT in London A MEMBER of a top-level international working group on shipping standards has warned that the industry is at a "defining moment" of tougher regulation. The warning comes as
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        310 32  -  From Alec Almazan in Manila THE Council of the International Shipping Federation meeting here yesterday expressed concern about the reported difficulties of the Philippines government in achieving a place on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) "white list". The council was also concerned about the
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          102 32 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's second largest shipping firm Yang Ming Marine said on Tuesday its net profit in 1999 reached NT11.68 billion (5595.3 million). The company's 1999 sales totalled NT545.17 billion, Yang Ming said in a statement. It gave no comparative figures for 1998. It
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          53 32 THE shipbuilding arm of Daewoo Heavy Industries is to be renamed the Daewoo Shipbuilding Company from May 1 this year after Heavy Industries is broken into three firms. The shipbuilder reported reduced income last year, but has an 81-ship backlog of orders and says it is confident
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          74 32 JAPAN-based NYK Line and International Product Tankers (IPC) are to market each other's services under a cooperation agreement signed last week. IPC will market NYK's product tankers in the European and Atlantic waters to customers in the US and Europe, while NYK will do likewise
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          87 32 THE Salvage Association (SA) has said it is still waiting to see any proof of the impact the ISM code has had on world casualty statistics. The comment follows the claims by mutual P&I insurer the Swedish Club that ISM-complaint ships had significantly reduced claims when
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          75 32 THE New Zealand Importers Institute and the country's Retail Trade Association are accusing members of the US/ Australia liner conference of price fixing following the announcement of a US$35O per TEU and US$575 per TEU southbound rate rise. The two groups allege that member lines of
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          108 32 Reuters [LONDON] The world's marine insurers collectively lost US$3 billion in 1999, Norway's Central Union of Marine Underwriters (Cefor) said in a statement. Cefor's calculation uses the collective experience of marine insurers in Norway—one of the world's major marine insurance markets—and extrapolates the results
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      175 32 PACE Deimas 4 ACL 6 OjakLloyd 8 ANL 3 Oongnama 3 Accord 8 Eastrans 6 Appenship 5 ECl 4 Austral 8 ECU Line 6 BalajiShpg 5 Evergreen 6 BSA r FoongSun 8 B'tang Mas 8 G Link 4 CCNI 7 Gemartrans 6 CMA 8 Hangh 7 COSCO
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        724 42 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Antuco I *JM 12/04/2:35 18/04/23:59 81 Vennustar ***** J01 12/04/8:45 12/04/16:00 Bt R8 2692 820 J01 12/04/8:20 12/04/17 00 Sri Baru I Apr-OI J02 12/04/6:20 12/04/23:00 Bt Riko 4 ***** J01 12/04/8:30 12/04/23:59 Spc Capricor *****7 J12 12/04/7:50 12/04/20.30 GoMentrader 01/00 J07
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        1971 42 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From T» From ASU DMAS I C073E 13/17:00 U 12/1500 12/1659 12/1900 12/1500 12/1659 12/1900 2A 12/1700 13/0*59 13/0900 2t 12/1700 U/0659 13/0900 I 13/0700 U/1159 13/1400 ASIA OPAL ***** 15/15 00 U
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        195 42 Apr 20 New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange Closes at Noon. Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Apr 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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        795 42 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 market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        Lock icon Third Aussie domestic carrier to start flying in June
        390 43 Impulse Airlines will offer fares on Sydney-Melbourne route at half the current prices Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Impulse Airlines is set to become Australia's third domestic carrier after the privately owned airline said it will start services in June, bringing competition to Qantas
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        505 43 Reuters [LONDON] British rail infrastructure company Railtrack pic is responsible for nearly half of passenger train delays and its regulator should step up scrutiny, the state watchdog said yesterday. The National Audit Office found that the Office of the Rail Regulator had
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        Lock icon DHL opens new service centre in Kuantan
        178 43 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Air express operator DHL Worldwide Express, bullish on Kuantan's prospect as Malaysia's key growth area especially in the small and medium sized industry sector, has opened a new service centre facility at the Gebeng Commercial Centre there. The centre will
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        427 43 Carrier begins US-Singapore flights today [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines subsidiary, Singapore Airport Terminal Services Group (Sats), yesterday signed a long-term groundhandling contract with USbased air cargo giant Evergreen International Airlines (EIA). The Oregon-based EIA is Sats' 48th customer and its cargo unit will today
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        Lock icon FAA orders checks of bolts in Boeing 737
        261 43 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] The US Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to inspect bolts in the tail section of Boeing Co's 737 jetliners after loose nuts were discovered on at least 10 of the planes. An FAA directive said nuts in a mechanism of
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        Lock icon S'pore startup aims to expand into 10 Asian cities
        479 44  -  Logipolis.com is off to a good start with the signing up of seven Singapore-based haulage companies at its launch last month, reports AMN TOH ANN TOH [SINGAPORE] A newly-launched logistics portal set up by a Singapore startup, Logipolis.com, hopes to establish
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          Lock icon GAC Cargo Systems clinches 3M deal
          94 44 [SINGAPORE] GAC Cargo Systems has secured a long-term contract to provide third party logistics services to the 3M company in the Philippines. The scope of services under this contract, which was secured through GAC's associate company Metro Combined Logistics (Phils) Inc. include: receiving, inspection,
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          87 44 [SINGAPORE] International forwarder Schenker reported a drop in operating profit by some 26 per cent to US$93 million (Ssls9 million) for 1999 over the previous year. The company attributed the drop to high amortisation and interest payments resulting from the purchase of the remaining shares in
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          Lock icon TNT'S profit up 12.6% last year
          115 44 [SINGAPORE] The TNT Post Group announces better results for 1999. TPG, the parent company of express and logistics company TNT and the Dutch Postal System, says net income rose 12.6 per cent to US$4O7 million (*****.9 million) last year. TNT sales in Europe, its
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          110 44 [SINGAPORE] Federal Express Corporation (FedEx), announced yesterday that Peter Mok has been appointed as managing director of electronic commerce, strategy and development, Asia Pacific. Previously in charge of electronic commerce and customer service for the North and South Pacific regions, Mr Mok's new role includes
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        539 44 www.apl.com ranked one of the best 828 Web sites on the Internet [OAKLAND, California] APL, a provider of global container transportation and logistics services, has received its millionth online transaction. APL customer PWH Originals of the Netherlands achieved this landmark transaction by accessing
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        213 44 [SINGAPORE] French company Global Freight Market has launched a new version of its Web site that offers global and real-time freight Internet market for intermodal transport. The Global Freight Market site (www.freightmarket.com) is a response to the increasing globalisation of the distribution
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