The Business Times, 18 July 2000

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035£#^$5T 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2000
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  • 73 1 sn 2JO7X (+28.05) BT-SRI Oil* (+11.19) ST DIDEZ FUTURES 2,***** (+16.00) smsci futubes ***** (+3.20) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE OOMP 846.33 991 NIKKEI 225 i7,286.83_+143.93 HAM) SENO 17,834.78 +248.62 SET INDEX 315.68 -4.87 JAKARTA COMP 606.80 +2.69 MANILA OOMP -739 TAIPEI WPI 8585.52 +67.39 SEOUL COMP
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  • 77 1 FOIEZ BATES US! SI USS 1.748 £(USS/S$per£) 1.496 2.616 EURO(liS$/SS/E) 0.937 1 .638 DM 2.087 0.838 YEN 1082 1.615* RM 3.800 0 460 HKJ 7.797 0524 BAHT 4026 0.043 RUPIAH 9.935 0.018 'Stto lOOuntti PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA II00 HONGKONG 8.50
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  • 702 1  -  Placement tranche, also at 61 cents, six times subscribed By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] SMRT Corp, Singapore's mass rapid transit operator, has set aside 222 million shares at 61 cents apiece for retail investors or 45 per cent of its initial public
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  • 900 1  -  It cites collapse of giant Sogo as reason for continuing caution on monetary policy From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan's Policy Board decided yesterday to leave the central bank's 17-month-old zero interest rate policy in place for the
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  • 569 1  -  50-50 venture with ANZ will tap consumers in regional markets; Boom.com already a partner By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank will soon be investing another US$5O million (5587.5 million) in a new regional Internet bank a move that analysts see as an
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    • 99 1 MBDE Top stories Brierley Investments Ltd raises stake in F&N to 6.9%, seller's identity a mystery. Pg4 US Reed Group to be listed on Sesdaq at end-July. Pg 7 W Eu Yan Sang launches 71.5 m IPO shares at 35 cents each. Pg 8 Sing Tel starts on USs2b undersea
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    • 8 1 Sogo may sell its HK store, Pg 3
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 62 2 IT'S not every day that securities analysts get a show of appreciation for what they do. Property analysts who recommended a buy on DBS Land after the announcement of the merger with Pidemco Land have received personal thank-you notes not from the company's PR but from
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      • 97 2 INVESTORS should not be alarmed by Malayan United Industries' declaration that a major shareholder Singapore's Central Depository (Pte) Ltd has disposed of 316.9 million shares, or 16.3 per cent of the company. The change was merely to reflect the transfer of the Clob shares from
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      • 62 2 DON't you hate it when you call a company and a recording tells you to dial the extension of the person if you know it, but offers no further information? So one of our journalists was pleasantly surprised when a call to First-e, an Internet bank, got a
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      • 129 2 DISAGREEING with financial research analysts can be hazardous to your financial health. According to AWSJ.com, New York-based investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) last week filed a suit seeking US$l million (551.74 million) in damages against a New Jersey man and 10
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      • 120 2 MEANWHILE, CNNfn reports that a Wall Street analyst who made an unpopular forecast for the semiconductor sector recently has had his life threatened as a result. Two weeks ago, Salomon Smith Barney downgraded its rating on the semiconductor sector to neutral from outperform and
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    • 922 2  -  Committed staff can get time-off, bnt most firms prefer to keep things flexible Ny Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] There are helping hands and caring hearts aplenty in companies throughout Singapore but few organisations have formal policies for paid time-off for community work along
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    • 450 2 Milan Madrid bourses also likely to join iX next year AFP, Reuters [LONDON] The London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Boerse AG said they will work with Nasdaq to explore a full merger of the three exchanges as they released draft details of
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  • SOGO saga
    • 483 3 Sale of HKs4b property would help repay its debt and help kick-start HK property market Bloomberg Hongkong a sogo spokesman said yesterday that the company is looking for a partner to share ownership of the 450,000 square foot building now occupied by its store
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 452 4  -  Hy Siow Li Sen BRIERLEY Investments Ltd (BIL) yesterday bought 11.7 million Fraser Neave shares, raising its stake in the food and beverage group to 6.9 per cent from 2.8 per cent. Although there is market talk that the
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    • 655 4  -  Bat they will pursue different strategies, say OCBC officials; analysts bullish By Serena Ng THE new regional Internet bank to be formed by OCBC Bank and the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) may end up with some overlaps with OCBC's existing
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    • 427 4 Analysts remain cautions on its merger with Pidemco DBS Land shares rose nine cents to $2.51 yesterday, after the crucial revalued net asset value (RNAV) figures for its merger with Pidemco Land were revealed. Analysts said DBS Land was expected to trade at a
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    • 655 4  - Internet Technology Group a long-haul counter hock rrrmam andrew wee INVESTORS considering buying shares of Internet Technology Group (ITG) when they start trading on the main board of the Singapore Exchange tomorrow, should note that ITG is not a "pure play" Internet company. It is instead an Internet holding and
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    • 364 7  -  Parkway's new HD, Lim Check Peng, Onemedhub chairman Michael Lim to be directors By Andrea Tan HEALTH information provider Reed Group Holdings Ltd, to be floated on Sesdaq at the end of the month, will be the first
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    • 212 7 Proposed name change to reflect transformation into an Internet business AS P ART of City Developments' plan to transform its hospitality arm into an Internet investment company, CDL Hotels International will be renamed "City e-Solutions". The new name reflects CityDev's new business strategy to
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    • 174 7 NASDAQ-LISTED Pacific Internet or PacNet yesterday announced partnerships with two Singapore-based real estate portals, MyPropertyHub and Propertylifestyle.com. Under the agreements signed, MyPropertyHub and Propertylifestyle.com will make available their content and val-ue-added services on co-branded websites located within PacNet's e-commerce portal
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    • 477 8  -  The IPO comprises only new shares; 7.2 m of which is set aside for the public Kenneth Lee TRADITIONAL Chinese herbalist Eu Yan Sang International Ltd yesterday launched its initial public offer (IPO) of 71.5 million new shares at 35 cents
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    • 217 8 AUSSINO.COM yesterday made corporate history of sorts when it announced a stock split just four months after its listing in March, paving the way for a cash call despite having raised $20 million from its flotation. The company said the Singapore Exchange has approved the split
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 174 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan CREDIT Lyonnais' covered warrant on Singapore Airlines was the second biggest percentage gainer yesterday. It jumped 4.5 cents or 17.3 per cent to 30.5 cents. The underlying SIA share finished 30 cents higher at $18.70 on
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    • 481 6 Stocks Volume Hint 15c 53,205,000 North 22 US1C 25,099,000 Goodpacklc 24,351.000 AirOcean 5c 21,003,000 CEI5c 15,051,000 F&N 14,388,000 IPC020c 12,145,000 Brieriey NZ10c 12,002,000 Strike p ngg 5c 11,705,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 11.368,000 Stocks FAN 90,601,050 Chart Semiconductor 26c 47.679.222 DBS Grp 31.827,728 UOB 27,611,820 SIA 22,045,300 TTInt 15c 19,176,980 NatElec 10c
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    • 530 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE benchmark Straits Times Index closed higher yesterday but on very thin trading as sentiment remained cautious. Interest was focused on speculative secondliners, some of which came under forced-selling pressure in the final few minutes of trading. Traders said funds were
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    • 242 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan FRASER Neave yesterday surged to its highest in seven months, on speculation it is being taken over by New Zealand group Brierley Investments. F&N gained 40 cents or 6.5 per cent to close at $6.55 on 14.4 million shares.
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    • 129 6 ♦BBR Holdings announced that at a court hearing, the judge had ordered Chileon Pte Ltd, a 70 per cent-owned subsidiary of the company, to acquire the properties known as 22,26,28,30,32,34 and 36 Shanghai Road, Lot 257N of Town Subdivision 24 and Lot 958 L of Town Subdivision 24
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    • 337 6  -  CURRENCIES larry wee THE Bank of Japan's decision to leave interest rates alone despite recent hints to the contrary boosted the US dollar again yesterday, sending several regional currencies to fresh new lows for this year. The US dollar hit intra-day highs
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 565 9  -  Some projects had decent sales over weekend, others hit by weak sentiment Reports by Kalpana Rashiwala WITH the "hungry ghosts" month just two weeks away, home buyers seem to be getting busier. However, sales take-up over the weekend continues to be patchy.
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    • 131 9 CLASSIFIED advertisers of Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao will now enjoy greater value as Zaobao Classified makes its debut in cyberspace today. As with the online version of The Straits Times Classified (cats.asiaone.com.sg), cats.zaobao.com will host for free the print versions of Zaobao Classifled's run-on
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    • 296 9  -  fty Anna Teo THE full-quarter details of Singapore's second quarter economic growth to be released on Aug 10 could well see a downward revision from the early estimate of 7.7 per cent, say J P Morgan's economists. Its Singapore economists say the stronger-than-ex-pected 7.7
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    • 512 9 Pricing lower than Tanglin View and other nearby 99-year condos ALLGREEN Properties sold "more than 30" units at the Queens condo at a preview for "VIPs" yesterday. The 99year leasehold condo is priced at $754 per square foot on average after a
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    • 404 10  -  Supply contracts awarded for cable that'll be over 6 times 'fatter' than APCN2 Reports by Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecom is embarking on a US$2 billion ($3.5 billion) undersea cable project and has awarded the supply contracts to Tyco Submarine Systems and KDD
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    • 314 10 SINGNET has struck an alliance with Genuity formerly the Internet arm of US telecoms company GTE to allow it to plug into the latter's global infrastructure. "With this alliance, Sing Net has instantly become a global player," said Kathryn Riley, Genuity's director, international channel
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    • 203 10 TODA Y, the free newspaper put together by SMRT, DelGro, MediaCorp and Sing Tel, will hit the streets in November. Train operator SMRT Corp revealed this at its initial public offering press conference yesterday. The newspaper will capitalise on the transport-based partners'
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    • 355 10  -  Y Woozeer Singapore via Internet IT is a pleasure to see award-win-ning UOB Asset Management (UOBAM) invite public investment in its Global Healthcare Fund. Set against the serious commitment of Singapore to the development of life sciences and the successful mapping
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    • 85 10 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in
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  • MAIL bag
    • 469 11  -  Chan Wing Kee Singapore Via Internet ONE plus one equals 11? Is this the case for the merger between Pidemco and DBS Land? If so, we have not been told how the extra nine is created. Perhaps the managers of both companies hold
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    • 182 11  -  Joseph Chong Head, First Independent Via Internet DANIEL Ling Daw Ching has raised some very current and pertinent issues in his letter ("Are bank financial planners qualified?", Mailbag, July 14). Thankfully, the Monetary Authority of Singapore will be promulgating minimum qualifications and codes to
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    • 348 11  -  Denis Distant Singapore via Internet I REFER to Stewart Aldcroft's letter ("Patience needed for unit trusts". Mailbag, July 15) and suggest he has missed one reason why few stockmarket-sawy Singaporeans have actually bought unit trusts. The reason is to avoid the hassles in
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    • 290 11  -  Felicia Leung Senior Manager PR Communications Prudential Assurance Co Singapore I REFER to the article "Insurance companies face shake-up in their sales force" (BT, July 14) and would like to highlight several erroneous impressions. The article claimed that on the issue of becoming
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    • 249 11  -  Ong Yang Peng Singapore (Via Internet) IN this day and age, the debate on whether bond breakers are "morally" right or wrong is not doing Singapore any good. Yes, ideally they should come back to work. But I see that any opportunity they
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    • 132 11  -  Foo Kim Leng (Ms) Senior Corporate Communications Manager Singapore Telecom WE refer to Alison Cousland's letter ("Why so tardy on IDD promotion, SingTel?" on July 17). Sing Tel uses a variety of channels to inform our customers of major IDD promotions. Information on the
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  • FOCUS property
    • 496 12 Country Heights aims to make it a model for future highland development Bernama [KUCHINGI j BORNEO Highlands Resort, a golf and jungle resort some 1,000 metres above sea level on the Penrissen Range in Sarawak, has received good response for its bungalow lots.
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  • e-NEWS
    • 549 13 TOKYO Hongkong report poshes price of Japanese Internet investor np by 11% Bloomberg, Reuters SHARES in battered Japanese Internet investor Hikari Tsushin shot up yesterday on a Hongkong newspaper report that it's in talks to sell a controlling stake to Pacific
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    • 334 13 SANTA CLARA, California Bloomberg GLOBAL Crossing Ltd ended talks to sell its Global Center web-hosting unit to Exodus Communications for US$6.6 billion (5511.5 billion) in stock because the price was too low, people familiar with the discussions said. Shares of Exodus, the largest company
      Bloomberg  -  334 words
    • eBriefs
      • 60 13 Reuters [TOKYOJ Units of Japanese telecoms powerhouse NTT Corp and US-based Oracle Corp yesterday agreed to an e-commerce alliance. NTT Data Corp and Oracle Corp Japan will form a business-to-business (B2B) venture, they said. The two companies aim to create new e-commerce markets in
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      • 73 13 Reuters [SAN CARLOS, California] Cisco Systems, the world's larger maker of Internet equipment, made a US$lOO million (Ssl74 million) investment in Liberate Technologies Inc and will get a 3.88 per cent stake in the interactive television software maker, Liberate said yesterday. With the investment, Cisco
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      • 63 13 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Cable Wireless Optus Ltd said customers connecting to the Internet through phone lines rose 32 per cent since March, making Australia's No 2 phone company the fastest-growing online access provider. Optus, 53 per cent owned by UK-based Cable Wireless, had 200,000 "dial-up"
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      • 99 13 Bloomberg [HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England] Free serve shares rose as much as 8 per cent in morning trading yesterday after a report that Dixons, the parent of the UK's largest Internet service provider, is again in talks to sell it to T-Online International. "We are
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      • 66 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Crayfish Co, a provider of e-mail services to small and medium-sized businesses in Japan, said that more than twice as many subscribers cancelled their subscriptions in June than in May. The company, which began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange s Mothers in March,
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    • 321 13 NewsML the new Internet language for world news mGENEVA Industry agrees on multimedia news production standard Reuters THE world's news industry looks set to start using a new online computer language after it said yesterday it had agreed on a standard for formatting electronic content. The standard, called NewsML, is
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    • 62 13 [BRUSSELS] French musician Jean-Michel Jarre and members of Irish pop group The Corrs (from second left to right) Andrea, Sharon and Caroline posing together after attending a news conference of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) here on Thursday. The music industry, declaring war on
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    • 502 13 LONDON It aims to offer its own interactive TV services Bloomberg BRITISH Sky Broadcasting Group, Europe's No 2 paytelevision company, agreed to pay two partners as much as £525 million (551.37 billion) in stock to gain control of the "Open" interactive
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    • 198 13 mLONDON Daily Telegraph VODAFONE Air Touch has gained control of Spanish telecoms company Airtel, with an all-share deal worth about £7 billion (5518.3 billion). Airtel shareholders exchanged a 43.2 per cent stake in the company for between 2.4 billion and 3.2 billion Vodafone
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 827 14  -  THEHHH F^rOiOTiiMlTiTJ OPINION mohan kuppusamy The writer is BT's editorial page editor DONT expect the United States to abandon the dream of a missile defence shield just because the Usloo million (Ssl74 million) experiment went awry. An interceptor Raytheon rocket, fired
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    • 116 14 'Your council tax benefit has been stopped because there has been a change in your circumstances. The change is because you are dead.' Lambeth Council in London in a letter to William Reynolds, a cancer victim who had died in April. He was also told he could
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    • 619 14 EDITORIAL THE collapse of Sogo, a department store chain with a history dating back more than a century, says as much about the changes taking place in Japan's banking system as it does about the state of the distribution trade in Japan. What is lauded by some
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    • 1008 14 Puzzle is not that there is equity-risk premium, bat that it is so much bigger than it should be RONALD Reagan regarded economists as people who see something work in practice and wonder if it would work in theory. Economic thinking about
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    • 767 14  -  COMMENTARY By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT NYT FOR those of us who remember the great wave of foreign investment in the United States between 1986 and 1990, it's starting to feel like deja vu all
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  • REGIONAL news
    • MARKET moves
      • 211 15 STOCKS of plantation and property group 101 Corp were active gainers yesterday, as buyers continued to pick up the stock as a proxy play for its property subsidiary 101 Properties. 101 Corp was higher by 6 sen to RM3.16 after trading to a day-high of
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      • 146 15 BANKING stock AMMB Holdings was yesterday's top gainer, picking up 60 sen to RM13.60, making up ground it lost last week as it was dogged by rumours that its proposed merger with the Utama Banking group had fallen through. Both banks are said to be waiting
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      • 153 15  -  Compiled by Diana Oon Abdullah STOCKS of Idris Hydraulics were active yesterday, as the market continued to react positively to news that the company would be undergoing a change in management and be taken over by businessman Annuar Senawi. Last week it was announced that Idris is
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    • 340 15  -  Its unit Prolink will not get stake in a development there Prom Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur RENONG Bhd has suffered another setback in its development plan for Nusajaya the massive township project next to the Second Link connecting Malaysia and Singapore. The
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    • 167 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN Airline System Bhd (MAS) is in talks with Qantas Airways Ltd over the sale of a stake to the Australian national carrier, a Malaysian newspaper said yesterday. Quoting unnamed industry sources, the Malaysian Business Times said that the
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    • 503 15  -  It cites wrong procedure, undervalued price as main reasons From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur PROPERTY group Avenue Assets yesterday furnished a four-point objection to the merger between Phileo Allied Bhd and Maybank Bhd, citing wrong procedure and an undervalued price as
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    • 136 15 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S Securities Commission yesterday said it had started work to develop the infrastructure to implement online stock trading and an electronic reporting system. It said the physical structure of the reporting system was still being developed and a pilot implementation
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    • 559 17 MANILA Report filed accusing them of manipulating shares of gaming firm BW Resources Bloomberg iHt fnnippine securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked prosecutors to file charges against Dante Tan and 38 others in connection with manipulating shares of BW Resources, a small
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    • 167 17 JAKARTA AFX-Asia, Reuters THE Indonesian government has decided to recapitalise PT Bank Bali after the bank's former owner and president Rudy Ramli agreed to meet all conditions set by the government, Coordinating Minister for Economy, Finance and Industry Kwik Kian Gie said yesterday. Mr
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    • 103 17 JAKARTA Reuters THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday it expected to finalise a US$5OO minion (SsB74 mUlion) deal with a Malaysian consortium to develop staUed toll road projects in Jakarta. "We expect final negotiations to take place in Malaysia later this month,"
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    • 497 18  -  Lagging effect of economic growth on employment, structural unemployment are reasons cited by economists From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong hunukunu s jobless situation barely improved in the second quarter despite the strengthening economy. Latest government figures show that the unemployment rate for
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    • 404 18 TAIPEI It hopes the extra income this year will be lent to companies Bloomberg TAIWAN'S central bank raised the rate of interest it pays on bank reserves, hoping the NT$4.B billion (Ss27o million) in additional bank income this year will be lent
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    • 632 18 SHANGHAI A few strong sectors, improving economy, alleviate situation Reuters CHINA'S listed firms are heading for a grim milestone as more and more forecast interim losses, but analysts said yesterday a few strong sectors and an improving economy were taking the
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    • 323 24  -  SG J Derivatives TrtUUngßeports ST Index/MSCI STpore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market yesterday ended two days of losses with its biggest gain in two weeks. The Straits Times Index gained 1.35 per cent to 2,107.94 points with 24
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    • 184 24 EVEROY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices retreated yesterday after Opec president Ali Rodriguez put the cartel on stand-by to lift supplies by half a miUion barrels per day (bpd). International benchmark Brent crude for September delivery was off 59 US cents at U5528.64 per
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    • 333 24 London Reuters THE yen fell to six-week lows against the US dollar and softened against the euro in early trade yesterday in a delayed reaction to the Bank of Japan's decision to leave its 17-month-old zero interest rate policy unchanged. The latest bout of weakness came as New
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    • 2867 25 BOKGKONG AFP Q Hang Seng +248.62 HONGKONG shares closed 1.4 per cent higher yesterday, on follow-through buying following the release of benign US economic data on Friday which signalled a more positive environment for interest rates, dealers said. They said buying focused on
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    • 1966 25 TOKYO AFP O Nikkei 225 +143J3 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.8 per cent higher yesterday on expectations the Bank of Japan would retain its zerorate monetary policy, brokers said. The Nikkei-225 Index gained 143.93 points to 17,286.83, as central bank policymakers continued
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      1022 25 Reuters HShenzhenßlndex +&58 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed higher yesterday, fuelled by firmer A shares. However, more company forecasts of interim losses deblunted market sentiment. The Shanghai B Share Index extended morning gains to end up 1.68 per cent, or 0.96 of a point, at 58.31 points with
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    • 367 25 AFP QWP Index +67.39 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.8 per cent higher yesterday on strong buying of financial stocks after the central bank raised the interest rate for deposit reserves placed by local commercial banks, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 67.39 points to 8,585.52.
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    • 439 26 AFP Q Composite Index -9.91 MALAYSIAN shares ended 1.2 per cent lower yesterday amid forced seUing and in the absence of fresh leads, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index finished at 846.33 points, down 9.91 points from Friday's close.
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    • 278 27 AFP □MEE-40 -ass NEW Zealand stocks ended down 0.3 per cent yesterday with falls in key blue chips like Telekom and Carter Holt Harvey, dealers said. The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 3.85 points at 2,115.93 on a turnover of NZ579.6 million. (OOP) Advantage HQS 2.75 -0.01 80
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    • 558 27 AFP El AD Ordinaries *140 AUSTRALIAN shares rose 0.3 per cent yesterday as a strong performance by key blue chip stocks led by News Corp countered an otherwise lacklustre session, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 9.40 points to 3,273.0, just shy of the July 12 record close
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    • 275 27 AFP Q Composite Index -7.29 PHILIPPINE shares fell 0.5 per cent amid fears that the higher-than-expected government budget deficit could prod interest rates up. The Composite Index fell 7.29 points to 1,546.60. Volume rose to 1.22 billion shares but value fell to 609 million pesos. —AFP ■M IT fOOO)
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    • 268 33 Reuters THE Baltic indices were mostly firmer although the actual amount of chartering was relatively quiet, brokers said. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose seven points to 1,616, the Baltic Pan am ax Index gained 12 points to 1,613 and the Baltic Capesize Index firmed eight points to
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    • 496 33  -  World tanker body looking to IMO for more comprehensive code of practice By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A global tanker association is calling for international guidelines on the protection of masters and crew against unjustified detentions and prosecution following concerns over what it
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    • 90 33 [BREST] The Sedov, a Russian ship at the centre of a diplomatic row, set sail on Sunday in the French city ofßrest, on its first trip since it was seized by bailiffs seeking assets to pay off Russian state debts. The four masted Sedov,
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    • 96 33 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch shipping group Koninklijke Nedlloyd NV said it had finalised the sale of its heavy transport arm Mammoet Groep to unlisted Dutch sector peer Van Seumeren Holland BV. Italy's Decafin SpA has also handed over its 33 per cent stake in Mammoet to
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    • 424 33 Group plans to redevelop site into large container port Telegraph Syndication [LONDON] P&O is to buy and redevelop the 303 hectare Shellhaven oil refinery site at Stanford le Hope, on the Essex bank of the River Thames, which is worth
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    • 194 33 [SINGAPORE] Main board listed Samudera Shipping Line announced that it has clinched a $11 million contract for the transportation of liquid petrochemical products. Samudera's subsidiary, Foremost Maritime, was awarded the three-year contract to distribute caustic soda in the region by Asahimas Chemical, a
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    • 264 33 Reuters [RENNES, France] Ships finished pumping out thousands of tonnes of fuel oil on Sunday from the front half of a sunken tanker that caused an environmental disaster along France's Atlantic coast last winter. Organisers of the costly clean-up operation told reporters that
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    • EUROPEAN ports
      • 762 34 Container port industry booms as volumes soar from rising trade and tendency to containerise bulk goods Journal of Commerce [LONDON] IT'S boom time in Western Europe's container port industry, as box handlers both north and south enjoy soaring trade volumes and a growing tendency by
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      • 735 46 Taiwanese carrier hopes for headstart should Taipei, Bering allow direct air links Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Airlines, Taiwan's state-owned airline, said it is in talks to buy a stake in a Shanghai-based cargo airline, giving it a head start should Taipei
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      • 434 46 China's biggest carrier likely to expand fleet, launch new routes Reuters [HONGKONG] China Southern Airlines said it was likely to increase its fleet and introduce new routes to satisfy an expected jump in cargo demand when China entered the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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      • 433 46 Strike will paralyse Canada's domestic and foreign services Reuters [MONTREAL] The possibility of a strike grounding Air Canada loomed larger as the airline's 2,200 pilots rejected its offer of binding arbitration in their stalled contract talks on wages, pensions and working conditions.
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      • 131 46 Reuters [LONDON] The European Commission is debating controversial proposals that would allow a limited auction of airline take-off and landing slots, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The FT said the plan, which would end a practice whereby airlines exchanged redundant slots with each other
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