The Business Times, 10 May 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2000
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    67 1 sn 2,009.48 (+10.10) BT-SRI 77&27 (+5.03) fIffIISCIFDTURES USES) (+3.00) STOCK MABKET INDICES Tuesday Change KL8E COMP ***** -1.76 NIKKEI 17,***** -***** BANG SENG 14,***** -124.10 SET INDEX 867.77 -8.40 JAKARTA COUP ***** -2.66 MANILA COMP *****3 +4.82 TAIPEI WPI 8,635.84 +19.66 SEOUL COMP 760.8& 9.39 OSA CHINA B
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    77 1 FOBEX KATES uss ss OSS 1.726 £(US$/S$ per 1-632 2.644 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0.896 1.649 DM 2.179 #792 YEN 10&8 1J86 RM 3.800 0.464 HKS 7.790 0222 BART 38.48 0.046 RUPIAH 8,086 0.021 'St to 100 unit> PBUE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon S'pore firm InnoMedia in tie-up with Japan's Sega
    629 1  -  Two ventures will boost local firm's cntting-edge Net telephony technology By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Home-grown InnoMedia led by former Creative Technology cofounder Ng Kai Wa took a giant step into the major leagues yesterday when it tied up with Sega Enterprises, Japan's
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    Lock icon Rishi Bhat, the next Bill Gates?
    811 1 PEOPLE Reuters [CHICAGO] Rishi Bhat has the makings of a future Bill Gates. Rishi, 15, started writing computer programs at the tender age ofsix,actedina Hollywood movie at 10 and recently sold his software company for some US$l million (SSI.7 million) in cash and stock.
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    Lock icon MAS to consider further opening if bank fees excessive
    723 1  -  By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will consider opening up the banking sector further if banks are inefficient or charge excessive fees. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is also MAS chairman, said this in
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      100 1 msuiE Political donations Bill tabled in Parliament yesterday to prevent foreign donations to political parties and associations. Pg 8 The law on political donations in US and Britain. Pg 8 Parliament Bill amended on multi-level marketing to plug legal loophole Pg 8 Industrial, office buildings: 30% retention policy to go.
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      16 1 More Parliament reports, Pgs 8& 9 No time for Time says Telekom boss REPORT Pg 15
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      Lock icon Nanz Chong: Fast, & open to change
      530 2  - Nanz Chong: Fast, open to change Getting Personal By Corinne Kerk Whos Nanz Chong-Komo, managing director, 0ne.99 Shop Age: 31 Claim to fames A former model, Kowloon-born Ms Chong took one-price discount shopping to Orchard Road in 1997, and turned it into a trendy affair. Instead of knick-knacks made in
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        129 2 SEEMS Hiroshi Matsuda, the chief investment officer of Hikari Tsushin Capital, got trapped into an interview by the press because his assistants misunderstood him. According to our source, Mr Matsuda, who was here for a conference on Internet and technology investing, had asked for a "press-free room" but
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        73 2 A PEEP into the 1999 annual reports of HSBC Holdings and Standard Chartered reveals that their remuneration committees consist entirely of independent non-executive directors. Standard Chartered goes one step further, with its remuneration committee also acting as the nomination committee which vets senior appointments. Now, we wonder whether
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        66 2 HOW do you know your watch or clock is accurate? Or if a second is exactly a second or a metre, exactly that. All this is about metrology, or the science of measurements, and it touches our lives in many ways. Want to know more? Go
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      Lock icon Record 18,470 bids, but overall COE prices stay soft
      520 2  -  Figure 70% higher than 1-year average, nearly double 3-year average Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] A record 18,470 bids were received in the latest government tender for certificates of entitlement or permits to own vehicles. The staggering figure is 70 per cent higher
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      Lock icon DBS ups key interbank rate to 18-month high
      386 2 Quarter-point move reflects weakness of Sing dollar against greenback Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S benchmark lending rate yesterday rose to its highest level in 18 months, reflecting weakness in the Singapore dollar against the US dollar. The key three-month interbank lending rate rose a quarter
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      Lock icon Ellison unveils US$199 Internet device
      471 2 Bare-bones machine aimed at education, consumer markets AP UNBOWED by the failure of a bare-bones computer five years ago, Oracle Corp chairman Larry Ellison has unveiled a US$l99 (*****) Internet machine targeted at the education and consumer markets. Unlike a personal computer, the device lacks
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon 3 panels to review S'pore corporate framework
      681 4  -  Private sector-led groups will cover laws, disclosure, accounting and corp governance ffi Eugene Low THE government has formed three private sector-led committees to comprehensively review corporate regulation and governance in Singapore, said Second Minister for Finance Lim Hng Kiang. The three panels cover:
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      Lock icon Fare hike could add $5m to Comfort Group's revenue
      428 4  -  Hy Christopher Tan THE agreement between Comfort Group and its drivers to raise fares suggests it would add about $5 million to the listed taxi operator's revenue in the next fiscal year. This compares with a turnover of $172 million and
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      Lock icon MSCI plays down 'reweighting S'pore' talk
      315 4  -  Rumours that some banks' weightings may be revised down ih Ven Sreenivasan MORGAN Stanley Capital In ternational yesterday played down market speculation that it was reweighting Singapore ahead of its quarterly structural changes to its closely tracked MSCI index on May 18. "We can't
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      Lock icon Vista Healthcare to beat $50m revenue forecast
      458 4  -  Ny Andrea Tan WHILE other listed healthcare firms made news recently. Vista Healthcare Asia, a subsidiary of listed DBS Land, has been quietly expanding across the region, and is expected to beat its revenue forecast of $50 million this year. "We're on track
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      Lock icon SingTel's deja vu with Time
      812 4  -  HOCK ven sreenivasan COMING barely two months after being edged out of the Cable Wireless HKT deal by Richard Li's last-minute counter-offer, the 11th hour bid for Time dot Com by Sapura Holdings must have seemed like deja vu for Singapore Telecommunications. In fact, the
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      Lock icon CyberW orks, SingTel in talks over HKT cooperation: report
      367 5 Paper says CyberWorks may also invite Sing Tel to take part in its joint venture with Telstra Reuters [HONGKONG] Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd is in talks with Singapore Telecom on the possibility of cooperation over Cable Wireless HKT after CyberWorks takes
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      Lock icon AsiaOne starts one-stop platform to match job seekers and employers
      273 5  -  It will add pre-interview analysis and screening in phase 2 By, Jane Cheong ASIAN news portal Asia One has added yet another service Asia One Careers to its bagful of content-rich lifestyle offerings such as auctions and shopping. Asia One
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      Lock icon Analysts see S$1.1b-S$1.28b profit for SIA
      649 5 AFX-Asia SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd is expected to report on May 19 a year to March net profit of 551.14 billion to 551.28 billion, up from 551.04 billion a year earlier on the back of an improved market and gains from the sale of its
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      7 4 SICC concerned about wage pressures, Page 10
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      Lock icon Covered wrt on Chartered Semicon looks overpriced
      186 6  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy RUMOURS that Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing could be included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International Singapore Free Index yesterday sent the counter rallying. MSCI's next review is scheduled for later this month, and it's quite possible that it might pan
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      491 6 Stocks Volume Hot Kew 5c 28,714,000 ParkwayLab 5c 20,790,000 Med»-Rad 5c 20.202.000 Nucleus Elec 5c 18,647,000 GRP 20c 16,707,000 ChewEuHock 20c 13,405,000 LianBeng5c 13,302,000 Jurong Tech 10c 11,545,000 Chip EngSeng 5c 10,866,000 Boustead 25c 10,768.000 Stocks DBS Grp 27,437 061 Chart Semiconductor 26c 26,347,170 OUB 22,103,566 SPH 21,614,284 UOB 21,532,900
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      Lock icon House traders, punters lead play on second-liners
      529 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy Encouraged by an afternoon rebound in the index, house traders and retail punters feverishly trawled the second line yesterday, generating high unit volume and racking up some big percentage price movements. As for blue chips, it was mainly due to rises
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      Lock icon DBS: next hurdle at $22.50-$22.80
      246 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong DBS Bank shares finished as the session's second biggest gainer after fairly active dealings in a generally quiet market. DBS shares closed up 30 cents or 1.4 per cent at $21.90, the day-high. The stock had opened at $21.40
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      151 6 ♦TELEDATA will be trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 0.50 cents) on June 2. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on June 7. Date payable is June 20. ♦KEPPEL Corporation will hold their AGM on June 2 at 10.30 am, at the Conference Room
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Pyramid-selling loophole to be plugged
      439 8  -  PARLIAMENT Definition to be widened; maximum fine $200,000 Audrey Tan A BILL to plug a legal loophole which has allowed companies like SBBB.com to get away with pyramid selling was read a second time in Parliament yesterday. In introducing the amendments, Minister of State for
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      Lock icon HDB bond issues have no bearing on mortgage loan rates
      438 8  -  Source of fnnds for mortgage loans still from the govt: Dr Ha fiy Siow Li Sen THERE will be no change to the HDB concessionary mortgage rate as the source of funds for the mortgage loans will continue to be
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      Lock icon Bill to prevent foreign donations tabled
      685 8  -  Political candidates, associations must report large donations; donors have to do same Hy Audrey Tan A BILL was tabled in Parliament yesterday to prevent foreign donations to political parties and associations, and to require political candidates and associations to report large donations. The Political
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      Lock icon Presidential candidates in US tied to the strings of Big Money
      965 8  -  Focus on political donations laws in US and UK Campaign system is skewed in favour of rich, powerful tYoni Leon Hadar in Washington ELECTION campaign finance that is, the laws governing the way money is raised and spent in
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      Lock icon New strict rules to govern political donations in UK
      734 8  -  Plans for a powerful independent commission to oversee conduct of elections and referendnms hYrtn Neil Behrmann in London BRITAIN'S Political Parties Election Referendum Bill, which will become law later this year, will set vigorous new standards on political donations. The bill,
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      Lock icon Industrial, office buildings: 30% retention policy to go
      493 9  -  Developers stand to gain as smaller units fetch better prices than large blocks By Marissa Chew THE government said yesterday that it would withdraw its policy requiring developers of commercial and industrial buildings to retain 30 per cent of the building space.
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      Lock icon Dotcom adspend rises to $11.9m
      301 9  -  By Eugene Low ADVERTISING expenditure by Singapore Internetrelated companies in the first quarter reached $11.9 million, from a mere $1,865 in the same period in 1999. According to ACNielsen's quarterly report on ad expenditure, the biggest spender in this category since the start of last
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      Lock icon Record 14 buildings win awards
      307 9  -  Contractor Woh Hop gets accolade for three of its projects Ity Joyce Koh ONE is known for its lush landscape while the other turns heads with its understated elegance yesterday both won accolades for their overall quality. Shangri-La Apartments and the URA Centre received the
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      Lock icon National Library goes fully electronic
      277 10  -  liy. Andrew Wee THE National Library Board (NLB) and e-station, a commercial online educational and entertainment centre, have launched what is believed to be Asia's first fully electronic library. Called e-library, the initiative is the first collaboration between the NLB and a commercial organisation and
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      Lock icon NSTB doubles Business Angel Fund to $20m
      304 10  -  This will promote investment by business angels in startups; Swee Say By Andrea Tan THE Business Angel Fund of the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) has been raised to $20 million from $10 million, Lim Swee Say, Minister of State for Trade
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      Lock icon Pan-Asia quest for Net entrepreneurs
      235 10 THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is collaborating with the Quintus Group and major international companies to launch a pan-Asian Internet business plan competition in Singapore and Hongkong. The partnering companies in this competition include Bain Company and Cable Wireless HKT. The competition, named
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      Lock icon S'pore gets Asean's first Cisco Academy Training Centre
      338 10  -  Funding for e-learning system to come from IDA, Cisco lUj Jane Cheong TO help meet the projected high demand for infocommunications manpower over the next few years, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Cisco Systems have collaborated to
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      Lock icon S'pore, Mexico aim for FTA by Nov
      363 10  -  It will coincide with Mexican president's visit for Apec meet Ry Eugene Low SINGAPORE and Mexico aim to complete their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations before November this year, said George Yeo, Minister for Trade and Industry. "We hope to complete negotiations preferably
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      Lock icon SICC: govt move fuels wage pressure
      365 10 Bat Hng Kiang says public sector wages follow private sector trends THERE is a perception among members of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) that the pressure for wage increases here is partly being caused by announcements regarding the public sector's salary levels,
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      1645 10 ■CGI CEI Contract Manufacturing Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ist Annual General Meeting of CEI CONTRACT MANUFACTURING LIMITED ("the Company") will he held at Westin Stamford Westin Plaza, Clark Room (Level 4), 2 Stamford Road, Singapore *****2
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      Lock icon Pre-signed car transfer form: the rationale
      314 11  -  Ong-Ang Ai Boon (Mrs) Director The Association of Banks in Singapore WE refer to Desmond Lim's letter (BT April 28, 2000) and would like to explain why there is a need to have a pre-signed transfer form. The requirement of a pre-signed transfer form
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      Lock icon Impose $2 fee only on 2nd, subsequent accounts, DBS
      168 11  -  Lai Voon Min Singapore I REFER to the letter "$2 fee: charge only new accounts" (BT, May 9) by Wong Kam Wah. I totally agree with his sentiments, especially with regard to the unfortunate situation that DBS Bank is facing: attempting
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      Lock icon Can private clubs charge high penalty interest rates?
      252 11  -  Michael Lie Kian Hwie Singapore I JOINED the Raffles Town Club (RTC) two-and-a-half years ago. They promised that the club would be ready at the end of 1998. However, as construction had barely started in August 1998, I suspended my monthly payments
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      Lock icon E-banking: need to address new risk
      480 11  -  Chan Wing Kee Singapore WHY is there only a lukewarm response to e-banking in Singapore? A short documentary on this subject shown by CNBC last week concludes that this is due to mental resistance of the people and that there should be a change
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      Lock icon Legionnaire's Disease: a wake-up call
      299 11  -  See Leong Kit Singapore THE Legionnaire's Disease (LD) outbreak at a Melbourne tourist attraction had 66 confirmed cases and two deaths, with Prime Minister John Howard a possible victim. It is a timely wake-up call for our own public health officials to treat LD seriously.
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      287 11 You cart e-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or mail your letter to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. Please give your full name, address and telephone number. APOLOGY TO MPH LIMITED AND ITS DIRECTORS On 4th May 2000, the Business Times published
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      Lock icon DoCoMo to buy 15% of Holland's KPN Mobile
      591 12 TOKYO Move sets stage for joint bid for UK mobile phone firm Orange: analysts Reuters NTT DoCoMo said yesterday it would take a 15 per cent stake in Dutch carrier KPN Mobile for 5 billion euros (557.7 billion), giving Japan's top mobile
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      Lock icon Hikari Tsushin Cap to grow existing investments
      460 12  -  Kenneth Lee HIKARI Tsushin Capital, the wholly-owned venture capital arm of troubled Japanese Internet player Hikari Tsushin Inc, will focus more on monitoring and developing its current venture businesses instead of investing in new ones this year. This was disclosed by cofounder and
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      Lock icon AT&T Wireless shares fall below IPO price
      310 12 NEW YORK Price down after warning'oo gain will be less than expected Bloomberg AT&T Wireless Group shares fell below their sale price for the first time on Monday since the AT&T Corp unit's US$lO.6 billion (5518.3 billion) initial public offering on April 27.
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      Lock icon Manila releases 'Love Bug' virus suspect
      424 12 MANILA Bloomberg, Reuters A 27-year-old Filipino detained as a suspect in the "Love Bug" virus investigation was released by state prosecutors pending the completion of an investigation by the National Bureau of Investigation. Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuno said the bureau will have until
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      Lock icon US sets up investigation centre to fight online fraud
      333 12 WASHINGTON Reuters THE US launched a new online fraud investigation centre on Monday to tackle the fast-growing problem of Internet fraud, a new area of crime affecting hundreds of people each day in America. Announcing the new Internet Fraud Complaint Center,
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      Lock icon Halifax sees 3-year payback for Net bank
      398 12 LONDON Intelligent Finance takes aim at major UK banks' customers Reuters HALIFAX, Britain's largest home loans group, said yesterday its Internet bank Intelligent Finance (IF) aimed to have 500,000 customers in its first year and be profitable within three years. Halifax, one of
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      Lock icon Excite At Home CEO now chairman
      359 12 REDWOOD CITY, California Bloomberg EXCITE At HomeCorp said on Monday chief executive George Bell replaced Thomas Jermoluk as chairman after shares of the high-speed Internet access provider dropped 78 per cent in the past year. Mr Jermoluk, 43, handed the chairmanship to Mr Bell,
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        Lock icon Japan PC sales hit record 9.9m
        64 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Sales of personal computers in Japan jumped 32 per cent to a record 9.94 million units last business year, reflecting Japan's growing appetite to surf the Net, industry data showed yesterday. The Japan Electronic Industry Development Association (Jeida) said sales for 2000/01
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        Lock icon UK e-commerce may hit £20b by 2005
        80 12 Reuters [LONDON] Electronic shopping is still a minority pursuit, but by 2005 UK consumers will spend £20 billion (SSS3 billion) online, Internet analysts Fletcher Research predicted on Monday. Fletcher forecast dramatic changes in the UK retail landscape in the next Ave years that
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        Lock icon Compaq's wireless Web home product
        56 12 Reuters [NEW YORK] Compaq Computer Corp, the world's No 1 maker of personal computers, said on Monday it launched a wireless home Internet product at a starting price of US$99. The company said the Symphony-HRF cordless product from Proxim Inc allowed wireless access to the
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        Lock icon 3Com to buy back US$1b of stock
        58 12 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] 3Com Corp will buy back as much as US$l billion of its shares, which have tumbled 58 per cent since touching a record on March 1. On July 27, it will spin off its 94 per cent stake in
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      Lock icon Vivid Tech sees 40% of revenue from Japan
      981 13  -  Consumers may be able to surf the Net with DVD players soon By Andrew Wee HO M E GROWN mobile computing specialist Vivid Technology could gross 40 per cent of its expected $20 million revenue from Japan this year, its chief executive
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Use force to deal with Filipino rebels
      735 14  -  thejbHß BpT«mTil[TiTß OPINION al labita EVEN before the tourists were kidnapped last month from a Malaysian diving resort by Philippine extremists, President Joseph Estrada had unequivocally declared a full-scale war against the communist and Moro insurgents. Now with the hostage crisis upon him,
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      67 14 'We were suspicious because we know that not that many people love us.' -GregZerzan of the US House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on the iMve Hug computer virus. i am tired of being in the shadow of men. If they can do it, so can we.' Sherpa
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      Lock icon The next rate hike
      714 14 EDITORIAL TO many watchers of the US Federal Reserve and the stockmarkets, a 50 basis point hike in the Fed funds rate next Tuesday is already a done deal. But a close examination of the data, and the way markets have behaved lately, would suggest that
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      Lock icon When past successes remain just that
      963 14  -  The top 3 investors of modern Wall St have been humbled by the New Economy Ity Michael Lewis The writer, the author of Liar's Poker and The New New Thing, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. Bloomberg [NEW YORK] You could make a slim
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      Lock icon What's going on with US labour unions?
      753 14 WHAT THE OTHERS SAT NYT IN March the Teamsters started lobbying the Clinton White House to award one of the Teamsters' largest employers, UPS, a much sought after new air route for landing cargo planes in China. At the same time, the Teamsters
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Telekom may divert traffic to StarHub
      401 15  -  Chairman says it's not interested in making a bid for Time Engineering From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TELEKOM Malaysia will not bid for rival Time Engineering but it may divert traffic to another player in Singapore if Singapore Telecommunication succeeds in tying up
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      Lock icon Corrections & clarifications
      88 15 Corrections clarifications IN our April 29 report headlined "Tussle for Time: Shareholders' interest comes first", we relied on a newswire report which quoted Time Engineering lawyer Susamma Thomas as saying that four creditors had objected to an extension of a restraining order. The counsel has clarified that there were four
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      306 15 KUALA LUMPUR Heed last general election's wake-up call, he urges party AFP MALAYSIA'S ruling party will suffer the fate of Taiwan's Kuomintang or India's Congress unless it heeds the "wake-up call" given by last November's general election, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday.
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        90 15 THE share price of Time Engineering rose sharply in early trading following its rejection of Sapura's offer to buy a 40 per cent stake in Time dot Com. The counter touched RM4.92 before closing at RM4.74, up two sen. Analysts said the performance of
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        57 15 YTL Corporation rose 25 sen to RM6.55 following news of its multimillion venture into cyberspace. It has set aside RM3OO million (Ssl36 million) to invest in local and foreign e-commerce firms. But the upside for the share price could be limited in the short term
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        84 15  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh INVESTORS were not too excited about Mycom Bhd's plans to reduce its debts through a capital reduction exercise, a rights issue with detachable warrants, and the acquisition and disposal of companies. The counter shed five sen to 52 sen yesterday following
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      164 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd on Tuesday denied newspaper reports that it was in talks to buy Technology Resources Bhd's Celcom Sdn Bhd, Malaysia's largest mobile phone operator. "We wish to inform the (stock) exchange that Telekom Malaysia is currently not involved in
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      417 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SHAREHOLDERS of Malaysia's Faber Group Bhd yesterday approved a debt restructuring and capital reduction scheme set to begin by September, the company said. The hotel, property development and healthcare group will begin selling assets expected to be its hotels in the third
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      239 15 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S industrial output expanded for a 14th month in March, helped by increased production at electronic manufacturers as demand rose. Output rose 17.9 per cent in March from a year ago, slower than a 23 per cent gain in February, the Department
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      426 15 KUALA LUMPUR RMlb investment to produce first M'sian-designed car justified by savings PERUSAHAAN Nasional Otomobil Bhd (Proton) will more than justify its nearly RMI billion (***** million) investment to produce the country's first locally designed car with a foreign exchange outflow saving of RM4OO million
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      647 18 KUALA LUMPUR Investors seen to have priced in the reinstatement, some may take profit Reuters MALAYSIA'S much-touted re-inclusion in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices at the end of this month may prove a damp squib that has no impact at best and
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      428 18  -  Fond completes final review of USsl7b bailout programme From Harish Mehta tn lUingkok THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday showered Thailand with praise for bringing about rapid economic recovery, as it completed its final review of the country's US$l7.2 billion (5529.7 billion) borrowing
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        69 18 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK) Bank of Thailand governor Chatumongkol Sonakul will present data on the Thai stock market at the upcoming annual meeting of Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) in an effort to maintain a weighting on the Thai stock market, the Nation reported. His
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        68 18 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] The government has set up an investigating team to look into allegations of widespread corruption in the courts, according to a draft copy of the latest review of Indonesia's letter of intent to the International Monetary Fund. "The chairman of the Joint
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        76 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Japan's Marubeni Corp and Indonesia's debt restructuring agency will take control of PT Chandra Asri Petrochemical Center, the country's largest ethylene producer, if a new debt restructuring plan is approved. A planned debt-for-equity swap, which will forgive the firm's more than US$l billion (Ssl.7
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        59 18 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, the world's biggest instant noodle maker, said profit rose 41 per cent in the first three months of the year, helped by lower costs. Profit rose to 217.6 billion rupiah (SJ46 million), compared with 154.2
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      521 19 HONGKONG US-backed Lark seeks legal advice over assets to be included in listing Reuters CHINA Unicom Ltd's multi-billion-dollar overseas listing, expected to be one of the hottest in Asia this year, is facing a potential delay because of opposition from a US-backed telecom services
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        64 19 Reuters [BOMBAY] Nearly 600,000 employees of Indian banks will go on strike tomorrow in protest against the government's plans to privatise state-run banks. "The strike has been called to protest against the proposed privatisation and the likely job cuts in nationalised banks," Tarakeshwar Chakraborty,
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        98 19 AP [SYDNEY] Peter Strickland walks along Sydney's Bondi Beach yesterday while construction is under way for the 10,000 seat temporary stadium, guarded by police, to be used for beach volleyball during the Sydney Olympic Games later this year. Mr Strickland, a life-long resident
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        70 19 AFP [BEIJING] A Beijing-backed company which bought looted Chinese relics in Hongkong last week has paid for the items. The Poly Art Museum of the China Poly Group said on Monday it had so far remitted US$2.l million (553.6 million) to Christie's and U*****,000 to
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        55 19 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China unveiled yesterday rules governing online stock trading, ordering all brokerages to seek approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Market watchdog CSRC will evaluate each application to determine if the brokerage was suited for online stock trading, and announce a
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        69 19 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] The Shanghai municipal government is transferring control of its trust and investment arm to a new firm, moving to comply with new government guidelines on investment trust operations. The city government will invest 5 billion yuan (Ssl billion) setting up
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        52 19 AFP [HONGKONG] Hong Kong Construction (Holdings) Ltd (HKC) said it has been awarded the contract to build the national grand theatre in Beijing, the firm said yesterday. The main contract for constructing the theatre has an estimated value of over 3 billion yuan (*****.2
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        43 19 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Thirty small and medium-sized brokerages have formed an Internet alliance called Cyberbrokers Ltd, Cyberbrokers' chairwoman Chen Po Sum said. She said Cyberbrokers expects 100 brokerages to join the alliance in the next two years. AFX-Asia
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      241 19 NEW DELHI AFP SOFTWARE multimedia giant Pentamedia Ltd launched, on Monday, India's First Internet television venture, numtv.com, which targets the Indian diaspora overseas. "We have completed a six-month test run. We provided our PC television service free to some 40,000 people in the
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      451 19 HONGKONG Investment fond seeks to dissolve cross-shareholding structure that keeps Keswick family in control Bloomberg TWO decades after Jardine Group fended off a takeover bid by billionaire Li Ka-shing, its own shareholders are rebelling against the British family that controlled the Hongkong conglomerate for most
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      776 20 AUSTRALIAN I iTTT mi CANBERRA Govt spending more on rural services, defence; cutting income taxes to win favour of voters Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S Budget surplus will shrink by two-thirds in the fiscal year starting July 1 as the government spends
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      574 20  -  SINGAPORE He cites changes in laws, transparent process as positives By Vikram Khanna SOUTH Korea offers the best opportunities in Asia for investors on the lookout for distressed assets in the region, according to the president of the Korea Asset Management
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      429 20 LONDON Bloomberg PHOENIX Consortium, a group of UK investors, agreed to buy Rover Cars from Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) for a nominal £10, averting the German automaker's threat to shut down the unprofitable UK business. Phoenix will control development, production and distribution
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      544 20  -  Air express firm to invest $58m in new SEA hub at Changi fty] Lee Han Shih, Tay Shi'an PRIVATELY held DHL Worldwide, the world's biggest international air express company, is going for a listing in Europe in the first half of
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      241 20 SAN FRANCISCO AP MICROSOFT won a victory in its battle with Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language as a federal judge dismissed Sun's claim that Microsoft had broken copyright laws. Sun had sued Microsoft for designing a Windows-only version of Sun's
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      336 20  -  Move comes after boardroom disagreement From David Hughes in /jondon THE chief executive officer of Anglo-Dutch container shipping giant P&O Nedlloyd Container Line (PONL), Tim Harris, is leaving the company following a boardroom disagreement. A brief statement said Mr Harris, who was also a board member
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        51 20 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will dissolve the powerful Lower House on June 2 and call a general election on June 25, Kyodo news agency quoted senior officials of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as saying yesterday. Campaigning would start on June
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        78 20 AFP [PARIS] Eurotunnel's chief executive Patrick Ponsolle has been placed under judicial investigation for misuse of corporate funds and supply of false financial information, the weekly newspaper Le Canard Enchaine said yesterday. His two predecessors and three current directors of the company, which manages the
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        72 20 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea will inject about five trillion won (Ss7.B billion) into two investments trusts to prop up a sector whose poor health has spawned fears of another financial crisis. Daehan Investment Trust and Korea Investment Trust, Korea's two biggest fund managers, would
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        61 20 AFP [LONDON] BP Amoco posted record first-quarter profits of US$2.7l billion (554.7 billion) compared with US$76l million a year before, reflecting stronger oil and gas prices, the firm said yesterday. The profits represent an increase 0f256 per cent from a year ago and of
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      595 21 TOKYO But consumption remains weak given unemployment situation Reuters JAPAN'S government said yesterday the economy may have eked out a sliver of growth in the just-ended fiscal year. However, fresh signs of weakness in personal consumption kept the champagne firmly on ice. Finance
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      416 21 MELBOURNE Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S banks reported bumper first-half earnings, confirming National Australia Bank Ltd and Commonwealth Bank of Australia as the dual flagships of Australia's booming financial industry. Combined first half income at the nation's five biggest banks including Commonwealth's results, which
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      526 21 WASHINGTON Reuters, AFX-Asia FORMER presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan pressed Congress on Monday to grant permanent trading privileges to China as President Bill Clinton predicted that tensions between China and Taiwan would escalate "exponentially"
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      147 21 ■TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S Mitsubishi Motors Corp confirmed yesterday it was in talks to bring Hyundai Motor Co of South Korea into its compact "world car" project with DaimlerChrysler AG. "We have explained our compact car technology to Hyundai, and it is true that we have talked
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      644 21 mjamm 9 IMARC D IMARC Executive Summit 2000: Nanyang Business School Research cemre W) St rat egi sing and Implementing E-Commerce Nanyang Technological University Keynote Speakers: Agenda Professor Neo Boon Siong, Nanyang Business School, NTU The first half-day is targeted at the CEO.The rest of the programme is targeted at
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      264 22  -  SGZ Derivatives Tradlng/teporfe MSCT Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended firmer yesterday boosted by late gains in the banking sector. Hogging the top actives were smaU-cap issues, punters' all-time favourites. Chartered Semiconductor gained 6.14 per cent on
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      286 22  -  MSCX Taiwan fetnres Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market ended higher yesterday despite the faU on Nasdaq overnight. The Taiex gained 19.66 points or 0.23 per cent to close at 8,635.84. Turnover remained below average, at NT588.94 billion
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      172 22 ENERGY REPORT AFP [LONDON] Oil prices shed some of the gains of recent sessions yesterday after the end of a six-day strike in Norway but the market remained anxious about future supply levels, dealers said. In London, the price of Brent for June delivery
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      335 22 Reuters London THE euro backtracked against other major currencies yesterday, as a senior Bundesbank official's downbeat comments added to bearish sentiment about the single currency's prospects. Bundesbank council member Klaus-Dieter Kuehbacher spurred a flurry of euro selling yesterday by saying he saw few signs of sustainable euro strength
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      1240 22 INTERBANK CROSS RATES May 9 A$ C$ Bwb Euro Ffr Dm HK$ Kid t» INplak Yen Won m MZ$ Pifc ts Pwo S$ tawd Str NT$ tofct torn* Ut$ Australia 0.868 4.827 0.648 4.249 1.267 4.530 25.391 47.014 0.633 6.451 2.210 1210 30.*****404 1.003 4.069 1001 17X52 22.402 0X80 0X82
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      1875 22 SICOM FUTURES May 9 RUBBER (futures closing as it 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cents/taj) Close Votume OpM Moate Htyt Low Sttt (tonwos) Interest Jon 00 120.25 300 M 00 122.25 300 Aug 00 124.25 300 Sep 00 126.25 300 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/ty) VototM Open Mowtt Low Sttt (towns) Interest
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      2899 23 HONGKONG AFP CI Hang Seng -124J0 HONGKONG shares dropped 0.8 per cent yesterday on continuing fears of interest rate hikes, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index lost 124.10 points to close at 14,776.90 on a turnover of HK56.57 billion. "Again, the fear
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      2064 23 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -355.42 SHARE prices in Tokyo slumped 2 per cent yesterday to their lowest point in over six months following a 3.9 per cent tumble by Wall Street's tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index on the
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      1014 23 Reuters Q Shenzhen B Index -L9O CHINA'S hard currency B shares extended their losses in the afternoon yesterday to close down more than 2 per cent, pulled down by further declines on the domestic A share market. Initial public offerings by seven local companies scheduled this week kept A
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      353 23 AFP QWP Index -*-19.66 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.23 per cent higher in thin trading yesterday with investors sidelined amid concerns over relations with China and a possible rate hike in the United States, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index closed 19.66 points higher at 8,635.84.
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      436 24 AFP n Composite Index -L 76 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday on fears of instability on Wall Street but recovered from earlier lows following light buying, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 1.76 points at 927.70,
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      310 25 AFP C 3 Composite Index -9.39 THE Korea Stock Exchange Index closed down 9.39 points at 760.85 yesterday. Volume was 1.8 million shares worth 1.7 trillion won. AFP M.,9 mm *fAnjm Stmi ***** -750 Brain Tech "25 -5 Central Bank 1675 '*> Chert Conwi 132SC0 2500 DmGu Bank 2015
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      292 25 AFP Q Composite Index +4^32 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 0.3 per cent or 4.82 points to 1,523.43 but gains were tempered by concerns over a possible US interest rate increase. Turnover fell to 2.6 billion shares worth 818 million pesos. —AFP t»«Y? Peso 000> MRC Allied
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      276 25 AFP QNZSE-40 -24.40 THE NZSE-40 Capital Index closed 1.2 per cent or 24.40 points down at 2,040.82 yesterday, on moderate turnover of NZ$B9 million. New Internet listing Eventures closed at 66 NZ cents, six NZ cents higher than its issue price of 60 NZ cents. Ney9 MS (000) Advantage
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      573 25 AFP kl All Ordinaries -20.5 AUSTRALIAN shares closed 0.7 per cent down yesterday following mixed signals from Wall Street and ahead of the federal budget, dealers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed down 20.5 points at 3,054.6, while the newly-intro-duced SP/ASX 200 was 20.1 points lower at 3,086.1. Volume
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      796 25 AFP CI SET Index -8.40 THAI stocks fell 2.3 per cent in thin and range-bound trade yesterday amid a lack of fresh leads, as caution continued over next week's FOMC meeting. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index dropped 8.40 points to finish at 357.77, and the select SET
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      704 25 AFP Q Composite Index -2.66 THE Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed 0.5 per cent or 2.66 points lower at 547.67, off the day's low of 537.89. Dealers said the rebound from the lows appeared to indicate government intervention to avert sharp losses on the index ahead of the
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      1369 27 The Business Times, Wednesday, May 10,2000 TvF>T7Trs cbyptic crossword r t .-i 5.30 Tube Top. 2.00 Response TV. Financial Data. I p I j 6.00 Wheel of Fortune. 3.30 TV Innovations. W*~W 9.00 AM Kids Central: The e.30 The Pyramid Game. 5.00 Cinderella. Spartacity J— r Big Comf y Couc
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      1026 28  -  CURRENCIES AUS dollar move through 110 yen will hurt regional currencies larry wee THE fear of higher US interest rates continues to dominate currency markets and, overall, this continues to have the effect of pushing the greenback higher, while making the regional picture a little
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      901 28  -  Similar yield spike ai> d sell-off less likely this time By Hsin-li Chia The author is Asian markets strategist, JP Morgan. The article is not an invitation to invest. BTand its contributors will not be held liable in any way.
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      163 28 SLj SH Bp»^^i; tJ I^uS 3r yK WATCH OUT, WORLD. A/o iv Singapore businesses can use Global One, voted the best global telecommunications carrier. Global One salutes deregulation in Singapore. As one of Asia's original "Four Tigers," Singapore has long been a formidable economic power. And now, with the deregulation
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      282 29 Bridge News, Reuters THE dry cargo freight market got off to its customary slow start to the week on Monday, with owners awaiting a revival of chartering demand from the Far East following lengthy holidays in the region. An increase in inquiry was noted for capes izes generally,
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      297 29 urn* U >« CWT Distribution 0.88 O.OI 69 Chuan Hup 0.39 unch 860 Cocco Investment 0.22 0.02 1086 Fright LMu 0.27 0.01 180 C8 Holdings 0.65 unch 1 Hal Sun Hup 0.34 unci) 96 IMC HoMngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.20 0.01 437 KeppeiCorp 3.90 a 04
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      1099 29  -  Those with proper identification should be allowed to land and be repatriated: shipping community By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Members of the local shipping community have called on Singapore authorities to be more flexible in their approach to dealing with stowaways and to allow the landing
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      208 29 AP [LOS ANGELES] The first mate and chief cook on a ship found off the coast of Long Beach, California, last October with 54 Chinese nationals aboard were convicted of immigrant smuggling. The federal court jury took less than a day to
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      370 29 It may merge new subsidiary with Mitsui Engineering Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd (KHI), Japan's No 2 maker of ships and heavy machinery, said it is considering spinning off its shipbuilding division as a subsidiary to lower costs amid competition from South Korean
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      990 29  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer IN many ways Singapore already is an important maritime centre with a big national-flag fleet, major port, massive concentration of shiprepair capacity, acres of chandlery stores, port agents by the hundred, surveyors by the thousand. And
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        905 30  -  This is part two of our feature on freight rates in the evolution and mechanics of the conference system of pricing By Albert Pierce The writer is the executive director of the Transpacific Stabilisation Agreement The third part of this feature will be published tomorrow.
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      299 30 PAGE ECU Line 6 AN1 3 ESP Lines 13 Accord 8 Ahrenkiel \A 8 Appenship 5 Frt M AsiaOCL 13 CLink 4 Austral 8 Gemartrans 6 Avant M Genshpg t3 B'tang Mas 8 Global bSA 7 dory Nav M STL 14 HaiSunHup t3 Baiaji Shpo 5 Haogli
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      19922 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 21/05 14/06 MOL P 0 NED DURBAN 9713A 65 *****86 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 23/05 18/06 csav ikaruga *****55
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        707 43 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Sandtdtwa2 18 09/05/8:15 W/05/800 Batultcm 82 J11 09/05/8:30 10/05/21:00 Spc Capricof *****8 J12 09/05/8:55 09/05/19:00 C Success 09-MAY J09 09/05/9:05 09/05/16:00 Marcopoto 48 PRW047 J16 09/0V8:45 10/05/9:00 Slnctrtty T0C090 J02 09/05/9:25 11/05/23:59 Sin You ***** J17 09/05/9:20 10/05/0:14 T<*a 155 09/00 J03
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        1926 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Porlod From To From AM IMUM 394S 10/15 00 IA 09/1900 09/1*99 0*^*00 09/1900 OVHM 09/1900 2A 09/1700 10/0*59 10/0900 *n rdance am ii/Soo u wrnoo »fl*oo II 09/1500 09/1*59 09/1900 2A 09/1700 10/0*59
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        177 43 May 11 Hong Kong: Buddha's Birthday. May IB Thailand: Royal Ploughing Ceremony. May 17 Thailand: Visakha Bycha Day. May 18 Malaysia: Vesak Day. Singapore: Vesak Day. May 19 Denmark: Great Prayer Day. May 20 United Kingdom: Spring Bank Holiday. May 31 Brunei: Royal Brunei Armed Forces Anniversary. Apr
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        801 43 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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        572 43 Carbon 180 Mai 989.9 0.6 15.4 0.09 89 0.05 um a Qan.ifw Nattr Rtsldut Ash AtaintlntofR SfdhMnt No above E2S 0 0 1 £22! '7, 380 Ave 986.3 0.2 12.7 0.07 38 0.02 tlI 380 Mai 991.4 0.9 17.8 0.08 71 0.06 WM in m/m m/m
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        487 44 Civil aviation safety body to begin routine audit of carrier's engineering and maintenance [SINGAPORE] Australia's Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson is to meet Qantas Airways chief executive James Strong to discuss safety issues. A parliamentary committee is also considering opening an
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        49 44 [CHICAGO] Passengers arriving at the international terminal of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport are blurred by a one-second exposure, as they walk from passport control booths to claim their luggage. About 4.2 million passengers pass through the terminal every year, six million if pre-cleared charters are included. REUTERS
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        345 44 Technology makes it easier for customers to cash in on a free ticket Reuters [CHlCAGO] United Airlines, the world's largest airline, said that customers used a record 3.4 million frequent flyer awards in 1999, as technology and new ways to get miles have helped
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        207 44 AFP [DUSSELDORF, Germany], The German charter airline, LTU International Airways, said that it had decided to place orders for up to 25 new Airbus aircraft. LTU said in a statement that it had initially signed a contract to purchase six A 320class aircraft
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        115 44 Bernama [MELBOURNE] Qantas Airline will spend at least As2o million (5520.11 million) on recruiting new engineering and maintenance staff in Australia in a move to repair its tarnished image. The airline has experienced several mishaps, including one in Hongkong over the weekend
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        275 44 Deal may be reached in matter of weeks: paper Reuters [PARIS] British Airways could decide in the coming weeks to quit its oneworld alliance with American Airlines and join up with a rival grouping that includes Air France and Delta, French daily
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        514 44 AFX-Asia [MANILA] Philippine Airlines president Avelino Zapanta said a filing made on Monday of a notice to strike by the "alleged" new president of one 5,200-member PAL workers' union has not affected the airline's operations. "It's nothing. We are not affected by
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      1210 30 I NORTH AMERICA I 1 EXPORT I I OTHER DESTINATIONS SSX SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS DIRECT TO LONG BEACH WEST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SERVICE) Visa VOT rSjfri twsw iongkaoi bauas Houston oocago wwrowt mbkoqty vissa vot \m ptowtcml acuutu ww iomgo co-no pt CAtoaA ou»AVBmi»A sauna era OOQUUFOIMU 4SES2O
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      721 30 Lines services represented by Members erf (He Registry of Members of tbe Accredited Shipping Agents. Singapore Logistics Ngft* jy Singapore Shipping Association Association LILY UNE MALE I VESSEL VOY ETA TEU Tlw P. KLAMC SPORE MALE Princess Lily VO3OO 14/05 16/05 24/05 Empress Lily VO5OO 02/06 03/06 11/06 Princess Lily
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      1214 31 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE vtssa voy aim>i»ii<iißVM«mia llvtssti voy I rtm anr ham wtv sou fir uh mm THAMES 561W 11/05 03/06 31/05 01/06 29/05 TTO 5361 16/04 18/04 21/04 22/04 10/05 MOSEI 533W 12/05 28/05 30/05 2/06 3/06 API ALMANDtNE 3141 23/04 19/04 21/04 11/04 11/05 HY EMPEROR 328W
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      1820 31 ©CwiHmu Sarnu HANJIN SHIPPING m,¥-1 t fctwlplMf -Sdr *****30 HANJIN SHIPPING (5) PTE ITD hup llwn Imp com lOOUNG *****35 737 SAIfS *****74 731 DOCUMfNT *****71 774 OfCKATMMS *****50 751 MAIN UNE *****55 FAX 53*1145 040 **********0 M TO NW USA CANADA USA CANADA* Ft* VSI/VOY IAM 5M UM HAUI/VOT
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      1437 32 DSR-SENATOR LINES I TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEUII'ERRANEAN/CANADA VESSfI VOY SIN LfH RTM AMR HAM |»«V FU «SS£L vot SIN JHI *5 HMUM OSAKA MMW "io«6 THT "ii* 30 05 J1« OIK 02 00 PALERMO SENATOR O»MW 15 05 01 00 UOO 05 00 07 00 14 00 iSi 12 06
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      1010 32 a« Mflfc-MfeLS S'Pflßfe M'Slfl I r Carrier: MN COMTR UNES, INC P. GUDANG: (07) *****26 111 I [\~/\~-»""I OR NO; iaoOS7SOOOOC SOU: (064) *****9 MANILA: (632) *****24 X PENANG: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (662) *****57 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 jI E P. KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****45 KUCHING (082)*****1-3 HO CHI
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      784 32 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N SHf¥A (CFS MUIUNO MU*BAl«)L0*80 ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALL NORTHERN AND WESTERN I C O POINTS VetM l S PORE N SHEVA COLOMBO P KLAN6 CAPE CREUS VIO6W 14 MAY ?3 MAY 27 MAY 02 JUN CAPE CANAVERAL V 123W 21 MAY 30 MAY 03 JUN
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      1708 33 Ivtsstl VOY HK6 kHH SJKi I HCL bXI I U SAM UK IRAN HESABI PCL 154 12/05 14/05 19/05 20/05 28/05 29/05 31/05 02/06 IRAN SHAHRYAR PCL-155 19/05 21/05 26/05 27/05 04/06 05/06 07/06 09/06 IRAN BAABAEI PCL 156 26/05 28/05 02/06 03/06 11/06 12/06 14/06 16/06 IRAN SCESTAN PCL-157
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      1364 33 NEW SERVICE J .Or DIRECT TO COLOMBO I IN 5 DAYS I IYIIY WIPNESDAV J I GENERAL AGENTS IN SINGAPORE: 80 ROBINSON RD TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (l/L)~^^2osBo^^OHO«rOfFK^™™^^™^^^™ COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #12-00 SALES/BXGS 420SSS7/43 INWARD DEPT (O/O) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BND (R NO: *****89Q000M SINGAPORE
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      1290 33 I EUROPt EXPRESS SERVICE EXPORT IMPORT ffiSfl. vor Ift lIH RIB .Am HAM IHY .FU VESSEL VOT ITM HAM FU UH M HJ OSAKA 053 V* 10/05 27. 05 79/05 30.05 31 05 01/06 02 06 HJ ROM! 009f 20 04 24 04 26 04 27 04 '14 05 PUNJAISEN
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      1057 34 lutowuK/scAwpwawiA/waAWP/iiusMAaatvicw EXPORT vKsa/voMGf SGP MM MG T TUP T nfluiw LHV E. DtAMONORWW W H7S" 03/04 0L 7 06 04/04 07/04 07/04 E DELUXE RW 01S 21/05 07/04 09 04 11/04 +12 04 13/04 13/0* t DWKBMIO a/OS 14/06 14/04 j 11/061 lf/0* 20/06] 20/06 use ACCEPTING CARGO TO AND
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      849 34 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street. #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I CR NO **********06 I Ilvtssa VOT FBI STP M W 111 W«t WG SIM 1 hot* suiwna tw*os; u/s 23/s »/s 2/6 i/t 9/6 I hiw<jA ttiATAj 3 w u/i ~n/i M'/S l/A m \iik-~m- I
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      388 34 SO TEL OK BLAMGAH ROAD 102-02 CfTIPORT CENTRE SPORE *****0 TEL: *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR NO. **********0W «ssa vov ra etd obthoton HABUKWA 19/2000 *****000 13/05/2000 MUNTOK INABUKWA *****0 16/05/2000 17/05.7000 PKL BAUM ILMAMUI 04/2000 17/05/2000 18U***** PONTIANAK For enquiries and bookings please contact SEASPACE
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      420 35 BSA |T|| Mgft MYANMA I FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Lim) W Loading for Yangon I I vessel voy sin prl pen pgu I HPA-AN J67W SU) I SAGAING 66W SU) I Jj MALAYSIA AGENTS: OOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL ra (03)*****00 Ml; TEL (03)*****01 I u KM: HI (04)*****02 PGU:
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      998 35 MMhW 1 HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. VWR VOY ISM I SOU I Lfil I RTM I ANT I HAM I BRV Ivcsa VOY I 50U 184 I RTM i 6WT 1 H6M I BRV I I SiiT U/OS "29/ M 03/06 17/05 oTToi" APLAUMNDM 3141 17/04 22/04 19/04 20/04
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      653 35 vOOv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA 'CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE* fvissil VOY RAMP HEIGHT SIN |LK MAO MIA SAV lAL I OIF I HYC IKW MOB TOURCOtNG "AHOiyiOOTww OI n7oT 10/07 18/07 21/07 23/07 25/07 26/07 28/07 01/08 M/ 08 TAIKO AHOII 4001ns 6.3 M 24/ OS 25/06
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      379 36 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA I FULL COWTAIWER SERVICE va wr nic sin" hb stp mb WIWOtT 1«S OMT W/Oi 15/05 71/W O/W 7*/0* tfianuii) zk~ is/m i*/os »/«a/« »/«s n/o* KASUGAI lIS OWT Z3/H W/06 04/Dt Ot/D* W/a* raWWKMM MS W/OSiO/OS W/M 11/06 13/06 FEEDER SERVICE TO INDONESIA VU
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      578 36 VESSELS VOY SW PKL JED MLA LEH RTM HAM ZEE _ggl VILLE D'AQUARIUS U37W 15/06 16*06 24/06 29/05 03/06 OS/06 06/06 07/06 O»Q6 VHXE O'ANTARES L37W 22/06 23*06 01/06 05/06 11/06 12/06 13*06 14*06 16*06 VILLE be Vtft66 §37W 30/06 ~06*06 12/06~ 16*06 19*06 20/06 21*06 SAUDI JEDOAH N37W 05/06
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      59 39 DIRECT CALLING SIN/HUANGPU. If A kIpAII XIAMEN, SHEKOU ¥11 I 111 |l| HUANGPU, XIAMEN. I\§ I 1 SHEKOU/SIN See Page 5 Daily See Page 14 COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD EAGLE CORPN. (PTE) LTD EASTRANS LINES (S) PTE LTD Singapore Pte Ltd BOMBAY/ Providing You With More NEW DELHI Than 90
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      44 40 WETROPORT SHIPPING SDN. BHD. I SINOKOR MERCHANT w >««r ***** Porl ata T« I MARINE CO., LTD. FARWIDE SNIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD EXPORT Tel: 221-U22 (S Ums) to: 224-1514 M&9IHHnK3MBDMIE3HKI£fIKSSHZZBK2BI PKL: POET KUNG SIN: SINGAPORE HUG: HOHG KONG DSN: UISAN PUS: PUSAN KWT: KWANGYANG
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      57 40 SHIPPING •WAREHOUSING lot am: Sing4»«v I blading I>ail\ Miwi u> Sal i BATAMINDO l/11l Accepting KIX t wnvrtotnal/PivijtxVHeav> lift C arjM Reefer Gnlainef Bint an: Sint jjxwv I juJiny Man. Wed &Hn < BATAMIMJOII i AcoqUf Heavy Ijft C Tel: 227 0322 Fox: 222 9330 Batomindo Shipping 1 Warehousing Pte
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      983 41 SAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 Anson Ro#d, *06-01 to 03, Singapore *****1 MAIN LINE/OUTWARD: S3? JAM INWARD (Woh 437 2360 IMPORT STATUS W OM3/ 2371 (MDh 43 2420 WcbsiU http://www.»mniMl«r«.(oni CR NO. **********0H BOOKINGS UNE: 535 6266 (Celia/Jessica/Mei Chan/Jeslynn/Poro/Hanim) 8 SLGS/WEEKLY 3 SLGS/WKKLY VKSa VOY SW iAK I VESSEL VOY
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      646 41 ENG LEE SHIPPING CO PTC LTD W>ra U *****75 Uwil Ni: SUNM/S)»1M I (i iiimiiioic VKSII VOY SMftt SMETD DtSTMATON OwOcmj 4/00 09/05 11/05 Duno Dm Sto 37 4/00 11/05 17/05 ttanc SmCeMid 5/00 11/05 17/05 Otw»/? IM/NMM| Own Sw 17 4/00 11/05 17/05 Swtap UnwiStoM 5/00 17/05 14/05 Manic
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      617 42 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN TIGER STAR 798N 12 13/05 18-21/05 26-27/05 TIGER RHYTHM 799N 16-17/05 22 2&05 30-31/05 TIGER BRIDGE 800N 19-2W05 252&05 02 03/06 TIGER METRO 801N 23-24/05 29-01/06 06-07A6 TIGER STAR 802N 26-27/05 01 04/06 09-10/06 TIGER RHYTHM 803N 30-31/05 05-08/06 13-14/06 SIN I XPRES SPORE
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