The Business Times, 12 January 2001

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MiTApgjrts2^iS/?o^ Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2001 85C
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    74 1 sn M15j02 (-54.89) BT-SRI 802L35 (-20.43) ST INDEX FUTURES U09.00 (-57.00) SMSCI milkES 247.20 (-8.00) STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSECOMP 675.77 -4.02 NIKKEI 228 l*2#tQ7—-***** HANG SENG 15,590.77 —445.02 SET INDEX 296.06 +1.41 JAKARTA COMP 410.38 -7.14 MANILA COMP __1,61M9 -1826 TAIPEI WPI 5,***** SIM SEOULCOMP 681.79
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US$ SI l!S$ (S$ per USS) 1.734 £{US$/S$ per 1.490 1583 EURO(US$/S$/E) §941 1.631 DM 1079 L199 YEN 116.7 67.30 RM 1.800 1192 HKS 7.800 4499 BAHT 43.42 26.04 RUP1AH 9,585 5,529 PBZHE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK A50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50
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    Lock icon New type of unit trusts out to grab slice of market
    1046 1  -  Citibank is first off the mark with its back-end loaded funds By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] A new class of unit trusts—where investors pay no upfront sales charge bui face exit fees if they cash out early could take the
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    Lock icon First Net-based video phone is here
    599 1  -  rTlexclusive By Siew Yaw Hoong [SINGAPORE] The Singapore arm of Austra-lia-based Davnet Ltd will introduce here next week what it claims is the world's first video phone to work over the Internet. The gadget resembles a normal desk phone except for a four-inch colour
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    Lock icon Stronger profits, sales for S1000, SME 500 companies
    636 1  -  By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Singapore's 1,000 biggest corporations and top 500 small- and medi-um-sized enterprises (SME) made stronger profits on the back of higher sales last year, according to the latest ranking of these companies released yesterday. The Singapore 1000 and Singapore
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      95 1 INSIDE Top Stories Singapore and the US are hopeful they can cut a deal on free trade this year. Next Page Osprey offeror ups offer price by 11.25 cents. Pg 5 HKMA to unload HKsloob worth of equities. Pg 14 Prince Norodom Chakrapong launches new airline. Pg 14 Yahoo meets
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      7 1 US callfor clearer fee disclosure, Pg 20
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      Lock icon US envoy sees FTA with S'pore as a priority for Bush
      615 2  -  Fact-finding team gains 'deeper understanding' of Singapore By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore and the US are hopeful they can cut "a deal on free trade this year, after an American factfinding team wrapped up a visit here yesterday.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Many agree with SM on US effect
        64 2 BT ran an online poll this week on Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's view that Singapore's projected growth of 5-7 per cent this year may be out of reach if US consumer spending dips suddenly. Readers chose the following statements: ♦That is likely
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        Lock icon Collaring white-collar criminals
        92 2 THE fight against investment scams, pyramid-marketing, credit-card fraud and Internet-related crime will be coming under the spotlight. White-collar crime will be high on the agenda at the three-day International Economic Crime Conference 2001, organised by the Singapore Police Force. The event will be held at the Singapore
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      Lock icon Gus Dur to visit Singapore next week
      337 2 No details on whether he will meet PM Goh [SINGAPORE] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid will visit Singapore next week, Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. The Associated Press, which had an exclusive interview with Mr Goh, quoted him as saying he
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  • ANNUAL REPORT awards
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      Lock icon KepLand, Gul Tech win awards for annual reports
      1227 4  -  KepLand beats nearly 400 mainboard firms; SIA takes No 2 spot with ST Engg in 3rd place; HDB wins in statutory board category By Paul Thompson KEPPEL Land has clinched the Grand Award for ma in board-listed companies at the prestigious 27th
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      Lock icon Spotlight on corporate transparency here
      744 4  -  Awards schemes or competitions are one way to recognise companies that are more open By Paul Thompson ISSUES of transparency, disclosure and corporate governance have peppered the headlines of the business press of late. Transparency, using a definition borrowed from a dictionary, is about being
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Osprey offeror ups offer price by 11.25 cents
      412 5  -  It says revised offer accepted by Osprey's substantial shareholders By 1 Teh Hooi Ling NORWAY'S World Shipholding yesterday raised its extended offer for Osprey Maritime to $1,125 a share, driving Osprey's market price up 11 cents to $1.11. The Norwegian company offered
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      Lock icon Two top Nat Steel execs resign from NEL board
      211 5 TWO top executives from Nat Steel Ltd have resigned from the board of Nat Steel Electronics Ltd (NEL), the mainboard-listed electronics contract manufacturer which Nat Steel sold to US-based Solectron Corp late last year. The departure from NEL of Nat Steel
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Far East Int'l Bank in merger talks
      266 5 It keeps mom on whether DBS is a potential partner Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Far Eastern International Bank said yesterday that it was discussing a possible merger with interested foreign banks but declined to identify potential partners. "We have contacted many banks for
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      Lock icon UOBAM launches European tech fund
      436 7  -  Tech sector volatile but there are still good opportunities: fund managers By Ling Su Ann THE technology sector will continue to be volatile but there are still good investment opportunities, fund managers said at the launch of UOB Asset Management's (UOBAM) United Euro Tech Fund
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      Lock icon Small players, don't bet on M&As to make a killing
      694 7  -  mm lock siew wong wei kong ASK any broker what's going to drive the Singapore stock market this year and the answer is likely to be the same: mergers and acquisitions. But while the M&A story seems attractive in a
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon QAF in China joint venture
        114 9 QAF Ltd said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Singfood Investment Pte Ltd, has entered into a joint-venture agreement with East Rise Holdings Ltd to set up Fujian Dongjia Feeds Co in China. The incorporation of Fujian Dongjia was recently approved by China's Ministry of Foreign Trade Economic
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        Lock icon Rotary exits Arnica Industries
        56 9 ROTARY Engineering said its unit, Rotary Mechanical and Construction Co Pte Ltd, has disposed of its entire 51 per cent interest comprising 255,000 shares of $1 each in Arnica Industries Corp Pte Ltd to its joint-venture partners, Jung Sung Kyun and Tan Ghee Peng. The company
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        Lock icon Director quits FLEH subsidiaries
        41 9 FREIGHT Links Express Holdings said Wang Tek Lee has resigned as executive vice-president and director of Freight Links Express Pte Ltd and Freight Links Express Airfreight Pte Ltd, both wholly-owned subsidiaries of FLEH, with effect from today.
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        Lock icon EasyCall gets new board member
        46 9 EASYCALL International said John Tang, vice-president, GIC Special Investments Pte Ltd, has been appointed as a director of the company with effect from yesterday. Easy Call also announced that Joseph Yang of Hellman Friedman LLC has stepped down from the board.
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      Lock icon Innovalues heads for Sesdaq
      285 9  -  Approval granted, precision engineering firm to launch IPO soon By Rachel Ong INNOVALUES Precision Pte Ltd, a maker of customised, quality precision parts, has received in-principle approval for a Sesdaq listing, and a public offering is expected soon. Started in 1997 in Kallang Place by precision
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      Lock icon ei-Nets-linked software gets patent
      322 9  -  Homegrown I-Nets technology allows combination of varions media By, Johnny Yeo THE US Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to issue a patent for a Singapore compression and transmission software technology known as I-Nets, to which Sesdaq aspirant ei-Nets has exclusive global rights for two industries.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Yahoo, Motorola profit warnings hit market
      610 6  -  Icomment STOCKS r. sivanithy PROFIT warnings by Yahoo and Motorola brought sellers out in force yesterday and sent the Straits Times Index plunging 54.89 points to 1,915.02. The selling gained momentum late in the afternoon when the Hongkong market caved in 2.2 per cent
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      Lock icon US$ unable to break above S$1.7360-80 resistance level
      325 6  -  I I comment CURRENCIES larry wee MORE earnings worries Stateside and the Nikkei's fall to levels in October 1998 sent Asian bourses reeling yesterday despite a 3.4 per cent Nasdaq gain overnight, setting a dismal tone for Asian currencies. Yahoo's shares were
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      530 6 Stocks Volume PacificCenturylOc 17,523,000 PCI 25c 10,306,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 9,186,000 Omni Ind 10c 8,509,000 TPA10C 8,129,000 CapitaLand 8,034,000 OUB DB eCW*****3 6,758,000 DairyF 900 US5 56c 6,676,200 NOL 5,448,000 HK Land USlOc 4,960,000 Stocks DBS Grp 55,971,185 Chart Semiconductor 26c 47,265,480 SIA 37,347,800 Datacraft 10c 30,763,332 OCBC 30,355,264 UOB
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      Lock icon Datacraft's slide likely to continue
      218 6  -  HOTSTOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of network-systems integrator Datacraft Asia collapsed yesterday amid more dismal news about the US technology sector. Datacraft shares ended the day 59 US cents down at US$4.B6 a whisker above their intraday low of US$4.B4. Volume was relatively heavy,
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      Lock icon Super Coffeemix wrt: shares may slay above exercise price
      187 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy LATER this year, Super Coffeemix's warrant will expire. We notice that in the past, an interesting phenomenon develops when this happens, especially when the warrants are slightly out- or in-the-money. In Super Coffeemix's case, its warrant
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      115 6 OSPREY Maritime director Charles R Klotz has resigned with effect from Jan 10. ♦TASTYFOOD Holdings has announced that Teh Kee Jin had resigned as director/company secretary/financial controller of the company with effect from Dec 23. Effective from the same date, he has also resigned as director/company secretary of
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      55 7 Editoriak Takeovers and the market, Pg 12 This announcement appears as a matter of record only PACIFIC ANDES (HOLDINGS) LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with Limited Liability) PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF NEW MILLENNIUM GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED FROM PELICAN FOOD LIMITED Financial Adviser to the Independent Directors BIL Asia Singapore DEXIA BIL ASIA
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon US new orders dip 3% in November
      276 10  -  P4T44 on the economy electronics By) David Boey US electronics firms reported a 3 per cent year-on-year drop in the value of new orders in November 2000, down to US$l5.4 billion (5526.6 billion). But while new orders went into negative territory for the
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      Lock icon Productivity likely to have been strong in last 2 yrs: Fraser-AMMB
      551 10  -  This helped extend the business cycle without excessive inflation By- Anna Teo TOTAL factor productivity or loosely translated, efficiency gains, said to be the ultimate source of Singapore's long-term economic growth is likely to have picked up strongly in
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      Lock icon JTC Corp names Goh Song How CEO, president
      252 10  -  He's the man behind SembCorp's industrial parks By, Andrea Tan GOH Song How, the man behind SembCorp's industrial parks, will join JTC Corp as president and chief executive officer from Feb 2. Mr Goh, who is president of SembCorp Parks Holdings Ltd
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      Lock icon Asme launches Netrepreneur of the Year award
      249 10 AN award for New Economy entrepreneurs was launched yesterday but the winner will be chosen mostly on Old Economy criteria. One such criteria for the Netrepreneur of the Year award is profitability which the dotcom firms of the virtual economy sneered at until
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      Lock icon UK's 3i Group invests $5m in Singapore-based eInvestore
      457 10  -  Financial solutions provider to launch unit trust system By 1 Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE-based Internet financial solutions provider elnvestore soon to launch an innovative straightthrough electronic processing system for unit trust transactions has received a $5 million investment from British venture capital outfit
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      Lock icon Self-help drives MOM's career resource centre
      213 10 SELF-HELP. That is the key operating principle of CareerLink@mom, a onestop career resource centre that was officially opened by the Ministry of Manpower yesterday. "Future jobs will require higher and newer skills," Minister of State for Manpower Othman Haron Eusofe said. "Therefore workers must
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      Lock icon JLL sees upturn in home prices this year
      696 11  -  Consultants also call for review of 20% cash downpayment rule Reports by Vince Chong THE gloom that marked the property market at the start of 2001 will not persist for the rest of the year, said Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) national director
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      Lock icon Sports is alive, so is match-fixing
      314 11  -  Ml bag Narayana Narayana I REFER to your article "Brits ride in to sell idea of syndicated horse-racing" by Conrad Raj and "Football a fast-growing industry" by Errol George (BT, Jan 3). It is not often that sports occupies space in BT but, perhaps,
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      Lock icon Construction sector sees growth this year
      610 11 CONSTRUCTION/PROPERTY PROSPECTS The figures were -3.5% in 2000 and -11.7* in 1909 THE Building and Construction Authority (BCA) expects a 3-5 per cent rise in work completed this year, says chairman Chen Charng Ning. And that's a welcome contrast to negative showings of 3.5
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Respite for EU policymakers
      767 12  -  mum I bottom line OPINION shada islam The writer is BT's Brussels correspondent SIX months of acrimonious haggling over internal reform behind them, European Union leaders are looking forward to a period of calm reflection under Sweden's presidency of the 15-nation bloc which started on Jan
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      59 12 Thank God for those people in Paris, wherever that is. I'm not sure what they see in our latex, but it's putting money into my pockets.' -Antonio Souza Brazilian rubber tapper, producer of fabric soaked in latex culledfrom seringuera rubber which becomes crafted into US $1,500 women's
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      Lock icon Takeovers and the market
      645 12 EDITORIAL IT is said that an active takeover market is good for the economy because it provides a useful, self-regulating, monitoring mechanism by which corporate assets can be channelled to those who can use them most efficiently. The threat of a takeover is a valuable means
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      Lock icon US turning more unilateralist? Not likely
      951 12  -  World govts worried that Bnshies may abandon the multilateralist posture of the Clintonites By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent SOME pundits in Washington and around the world have expressed concern over the possibility that US foreign policy under President-elect Bush will
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      Lock icon More shocks in Bollywood script
      611 12 COMMENTARY AFP BOLLYWOOD'S crisis is deepening, much to the shame of a fraternity which is already in the throes of a virtual nightmare. The arrest of one of the biggest film financiers in Mumbai, Bharat Shah, the other day has stirred the script beyond the
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon UEM plans bond sale to refinance road unit's debt
      555 13 KUALA LUMPUR At RMl.B6b, it will be Malaysia's second-largest Islamic bond issne Bloomberg UNITED Engineers Malaysia Bhd, manager of the nation's longest highway, plans a 1.86 billion Malaysian ringgit (SsB4B million) bond sale to refinance its toll road unit's debt, creditors
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      Lock icon Mitrajaya chairman defends plan to buy S African firm
      320 13 KUALA LUMPUR He says he's not being bailed ont, unit will boost profit Bloomberg MITRAJAYA Holdings Bhd chairman Samsudin Abu Hassan said yesterday the Malaysian construction company's plan to buy the rest of its South African unit from him will boost
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      Lock icon Pacific Mas eyes insurance mergers
      128 13 KUALALUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN insurance company Pacific Mas Bhd said yesterday it plans to expand its insurance business through mergers with local general insurers. Pacific Mas, formerly known as Pacific Bank, said it has initiated "exploratory contacts" with several general insurers including Overseas Assurance Corp (Malaysia)
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      Lock icon M'sian promoters say Tyson fight on
      302 13 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The promoters of a planned Mike Tyson fight in Malaysia said yesterday the bout would go ahead even though Tyson's publicist is reportedly unaware of the event. "The fight is still on between Tyson and an unidentified contender," said Abdul Latif,
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      Lock icon Layoffs in M'sia likely from US slowdown
      369 13 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government is preparing for the likelihood of layoffs because US companies operating here face a slowing economy back home, a newspaper reported yesterday. Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn told the Malaysian Business Times newspaper that his ministry
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      Lock icon Gamuda looks to construction to drive profit
      299 13 KUALALUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN infrastructure group Gamuda Bhd expects a resurgent construction sector to help drive its earnings this year, its managing director said yesterday. "Construction will be one of the main revenue earners," Lin Yun Ling told reporters after a company extraordinary general
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      173 13 Investment, Asset Management Production The Group owns the land, the equipment and manages the plantations on behalf of its investor growers. The plantations are situated on a number of properties located near a state capital. Features of the Group are: Over 1,400 ha already planted and fully developed. Extensive range
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon HKMA to unload HK$100b worth of equities
      621 14  -  It plans to keep only HKssob of the Exchange Fund's HKslsob portfolio From Audrey Tan in Hongkong THE Hongkong government intends to unload almost HK$lOO billion (5522.2 billion) worth of Hongkong equities it bought in its 1998 market intervention, but it will do
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      Lock icon Estrada profited from BW deals: Espiritu
      366 14 MANILA AFX-Asia FORMER finance secretary Edgardo Espiritu testified before the Senate impeachment court yesterday that President Joseph Estrada profited from the price surge in BW Resources Corp, further alleging that the president owned the gaming company. The BW price manipulation case is one of
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      Lock icon Jakarta to make rupiah loan ban stick
      119 14 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA is working out details for stronger and clearer rules to enforce a ban on onshore banks lending to non-residents in a bid to curb speculation in the ailing rupiah, the central bank governor said. Banking sources have said the central
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      Lock icon Cambodian prince launches new airline
      562 14  -  P J lexclusive He pats in USs2m to start Royal Phnom Penh Airways From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok PRINCE Norodom Chakrapong, a son of Cambodia's King Sihanouk, has returned from exile to launch a new airline that recently began flying from Phnom Penh to Bangkok.
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      Lock icon Swiss offer to trace Suharto assets
      214 14 JAKARTA AFP JAKARTA will accept Switzerland's offer to investigate whether former president Suharto moved billions of dollars in funds through Swiss banks, Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab said yesterday. "I have met and spoken to Attorney General (Marzuki Darusman). He said we need to revive
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      Lock icon Cheung Kong denies rumours on HK Land
      197 14 HONGKONG Reuters CHEUNG Kong (Holdings) said yesterday rumours that it would lift its stake in Hongkong Land Holdings were totally unfounded. Both the Cheung Kong group and its chairman Li Ka-shing have no intention of lifting their stakes in the London and Singapore-listed
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      Lock icon Going, going, gone
      55 14 AP [HONGKONG] These combo photos show lunar eclipse observed in Hongkong in sequence early on Wednesday. Full moon, upper left, photographed at 2:45 AM local time (1:45 PM EST), began to be covered with shadow of the earth, and disappearing over the shadow, lower right, at 4:00
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      Lock icon Hing Kong shares surge 22% on takeover news
      505 14  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HING Kong Holdings, which is the target of a takeover bid by a Singapore-led consortium, saw its share price surge as much as 22 per cent yesterday after details of the general offer emerged. Shares of
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      Lock icon 2 China property firms to launch IPOs
      583 18 SHANGHAI Move suggests Beijing has filially lifted ban imposed in 1996 Reuters TWO property companies yesterday said they would be launching initial public offerings, suggesting that China has lifted a ban on new listings by property developers. The impending IPOs, which boosted property
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      Lock icon Another Taipei entity to handle bad loans
      144 18 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN announced yesterday the setting up of a preparatory office for a financial asset service company as part of efforts to deal with the island's mounting bad loan problems. The move came two weeks after the banking association set up a
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      Lock icon China adds Shenzhen feed firm to probe
      337 18 SHENZHEN China Venture asked to explain excessive price movement Bloomberg CHINA extended a stock trading probe to a Shenzhen feed company, moving to deflect criticism they have been too lax with a market in which more than two dozen companies, many of them
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      324 18 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S trade surplus dived to a four-year low last year as imports soared on higher oil prices and corporate purchases of foreign high-tech equipment, state media said yesterday. The 2000 trade surplus was US$24.l billion (5541.8 billion), down 17.5 per cent
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      476 15 TOKYO Loan from 5 banks to pay for 16% stake in AT&T Wireless Group Bloomberg NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's No 1 cellular phone company, is borrowing 1.2 trillion yen (5517.8 billion) from five Japanese banks to pay for a 16 per cent stake in AT&T
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      396 15 REDMOND, Washington CEO: firm in better shape than most Bloomberg MICROSOFT Corp, the world's No 1 software maker, will suffer less in an economic slowdown than other businesses, said chief executive Steve Ballmer. "Our highs aren't as high when the market is booming and
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      430 15 NYT Reuters [PALM BEACH, Florida] Three Internet companies are already competing for a chance to auction the voting machines that made Palm Beach County famous. All three, including Yahoo!, have contacted county commissioners and administrator Bob Weisman for the right to
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      610 16 SANTA CLARA Internet leader cites soft US economy, soft online ad market; Yahoo stock dives Bloomberg YAHOO! Inc, the leading Internet media site, on Wednesday reported fourthquarter earnings that met analyst forecasts, but warned that a softening US economy would
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      276 16 TOKYO Bloomberg SOFTBANK Corp shares fell to their lowest in almost two years after Yahoo! Inc, in which Japan's No 1 Internet investor holds a 21.3 per cent stake, said profit and sales this year will be lower than analyst forecasts. Of the hundreds of
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      419 16 CHICAGO Big drops in orders in its semiconductor and handset nnits Reuters MOTOROLA Inc, the first of the Big Three mobile phone makers to report on its fourth quarter, on Wednesday posted earnings in line with lowered expectations but reported big drops in
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      376 16 M HELSINKI Bloomberg NOKIA Oyj said it would increase market share last year. It did. Nokia also said global sales of mobile phones would top 400 million last year. They did. Still, investors dumped the stock on Wednesday, shaving US$l7 billion (5529.4
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      573 16  -  Dataquest sees sales dipping 6%, others put growth at 5-7% From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley AS storm clouds gather rapidly on the horizon, analysts have sharply cut their forecasts on the performance of the semiconductor industry this year. GartnerGroup Dataquest, which early
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      330 16 HSINCHU, Taiwan World demand waningfisconnts to stimulate demand Bloomberg UNITED Microelectronics Corp (UMC), Taiwan's No 2 chipmaker, and its competitors in the make-to-order semiconductor business are lowering prices as world chip demand wanes. "We are offering product discounts on a case-by-case basis," said Peter
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      361 19 NEW DELHI Health officials warn against misuse of drug as govt gives firms the go-ahead AFP INDIAN markets are getting ready for the launch of a local version of the world famous anti-impotence drug Viagra, but health officials have warned against its possible
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      321 19 AFP [KARACHI] Pakistan's military regime yesterday threatened to arrest former prime minister Benazir Bhutto if she returns from self-exile in London as planned. "Bhutto is a convict and the law will take its own course," military spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi told AFT. "There is no question
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      395 19 NEW DELHI Quite a few hackers can be traced to ISPs there: official Reuters INDIAN authorities and computer specialists have traced many cases of hacking of Indian Internet sites to Pakistan, the head of the country's federal police said on Wednesday. "Quite a few
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      360 19 BOMBAY Reuters TRADE on India's main diamond market was hit on Wednesday as members of industry associations went on a one-day strike to protest against the arrest of diamond trader and financier Bharat Shah. "The impact of the strike is visible at Opera House.
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      197 19 NEW DELHI Multinational firms are eagerly awaiting deregulation Reuters INDIAN Oil Minister Ram Naik said yesterday the government would deregulate the oil sector by March 2002 after a newspaper reported the schedule could be advanced to 2001. "We propose to dismantle the
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      304 20 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Federal Reserve Board handed JP Morgan Chase Co, Wells Fargo Co and other large banks a partial victory by giving them more flexibility to engage in merchant banking, the direct investments banks make in some computer companies and other
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      527 20  -  E Asia will also be reminded of economic reforms at Kobe meeting From Shada Islam in Brussels EUROPEAN Union ministers will urge greater East Asian monetary co-operation and offer to share the bloc's experience in forging closer currency ties in joint talks with
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      457 20 NEW YORK It's waiting for details of IPE-ICE merger talks before making move Reuters THE New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) is keen to mount a fresh takeover for London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) but only as long as it is
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      48 20 [PUERTO DE LA LIBERT AD, El Salvador] A SPRA Ypainter protesting against the dollarisation of the El Salvadoran economy. Battered by years of sluggish growth, runaway inflation and soaring unemployment, Latin American nations are increasingly turning to the US dollar as an anchor ofeconomic stability. AFP
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      334 20 WASHINGTON Recommendation in report by division of SEC Bloomberg THE US Securities and Exchange Commission should require the US$6.B3 trillion (Ssll.B trillion) mutual fund industry to tell shareholders more precisely and more often how much they pay in fees to mutual fund
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      224 20 AFP [WASHINGTON] Time Warner Inc's CNN News Group is to announce between 500 and 1,000 layoffs from its television and interactive operations, as part of an aggressive consolidation and reorganisation drive, The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. The announcement on the consolidation and reorganisation of
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      281 20 WASHINGTON Reuters PRICES of US imports fell modestly in December as a sharp fall in the cost of petroleum imports more than offset price increases elsewhere, the government said yesterday. Import prices fell 0.5 per cent after a 0.1 per cent gain in November,
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        71 20 Bloomberg [PARIS] Euronext NV, Europe's second-biggest stock exchange formed by the French, Dutch and Belgian exchanges, plans to sell shares in an initial public offering in May, chairman Jean-Francois Theodore said. Deutsche Boerse AG, the operator of Europe's third-biggest stock market, said in Frankfurt
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        62 20 AFP [LONDON] The Bank of England announced yesterday that it would hold its base interest rate unchanged at 6.0 per cent for the eleventh month in a row. The decision had been expected by a majority of analysts. The bank resisted calls by
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        39 20 AP [TOKYO] Bridgestone Corp president and chief executive Yoichiro Kaizaki will resign in a bid to retain investor confidence in the Japanese tyremaker following a massive recall at the company's US subsidiary. AP
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        55 20 AFP (WIESBADEN, Germany] The German economy, the biggest economy in the 12-country euro zone, grew by 3.1 per cent, the fastest rate since 1991, official figures showed. German gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a real, or price-adjusted, 3.1 per cent in 2000 from
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      257 20 TOKYO Bloomberg Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, told Asian customers of a planned 12 per cent cut in shipments next month, buyers said, the latest sign that Opec intends to slash sales next month to prop up prices.
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      1077 21 NEW YORK It advised on transactions worth USs9l2b, pushing Goldman Sachs to second place Bloomberg MORGAN Stanley Dean Witter Co displaced Goldman Sachs Group Inc as the top mergers adviser in 2000, boosted by America Online Inc's landmark US$lB7 billion (*****.2 billion)
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      411 21 TOKYO Vendors are cash-strapped Japan finance firms Bloomberg TOYOTA Motor Corp, the world's biggest carmaker by market value, plans to organise a sale of about 400 billion yen (Ss6 billion) of its shares owned by cash-strapped Japanese finance companies as early as next week,
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      528 22 FRANKFURT Chief economist adds US rate decisions have no direct impact on ECB policy Reuters EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) chief economist Otmar Issing said in remarks published on Wednesday that the United States was seeing a normal economic slowdown and that US rate decisions had
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      437 22 Price prf ia US$7l; SBkmTaDey is lb 2, Mbvnd fcy luhattu Bloomberg ISAN FRANCISCO) San Francisco offioe rents rose 7 per oentto US$76 (Ssl32) a square foot in the second half of 3000, making it the moat expensive market in North America, tapping
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      303 22 TOKYO But BOJ chief w&ras of risks Inked to US slowdown Reuters JAPAN'S fragile economy is continuing to recover gradually, although possible risks exist if a slowing US economy stalls Asian exports, Bank of Japan governor Masaru Hayami said in a report
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      155 22 WASHINGTON AFP PRESIDENT Bill Clinton has decided to ease controls on high-performance computer hardware exports because technological progress has made such restrictions largely ineffective, the White House said Wednesday. Currently, the United States aims to restrict acquisition of such technology by rivals or foes by
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      275 23  -  SGX Derivatives Tradingßeport ST Index/MSCI S'pore Index Lau Chee Keong THE Singapore stock market finished lower yesterday as heavily weighted bank shares skidded on worries of poor loans growth. Renewed worries on earnings for technology shares weighed on the market sentiment as well. The
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      236 23  -  MS& Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong TAIWAN stocks were broadly lower yesterday as profit-tak-ing erased gains in early trade after Nasdaq extended its rally on Wednesday. Technology shares led the market lower as earnings worries resurfaced after some chipmakers lowered prices as global
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      190 23 Reuters [LONDON] Palladium jumped to another record high yesterday and propelled platinum to a 13-year peak as Russian supplies remained out of sight, traders said. Palladium reached US$l,OB5 an ounce at the London morning fix, where leading dealers agree a benchmark price, up from
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      339 23 Reuters London THE yen lost more than 2.5 per cent of its value against the euro yesterday, weakening to its lowest since February 2000, as losses in Japanese stocks contrasted with a positive outlook for eu-ro-zone growth. Worries about the impact of a weak Japanese stock market on
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      2867 24 HONGKONG AFP kl Hang Seng -345.02 HONGKONG share prices fell 2.2 per cent yesterday with selling pressure emerging in late afternoon trade as investors assessed the sell-off in the Tokyo market, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 345.02 points to
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      2116 24 TOKYO AFP Qfflkkei22s -***** SHARE prices in Tokyo tumbled 1.7 per cent to their lowest close since October 1998 yesterday as gloom over the Japanese economy's outlook prompted firms to dump cross-shareholdings. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index fell 231.58 points to
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      1090 24 Reuters P Shenzhen B Index -0.02 CHINA'S B shares closed lower yesterday, consolidating heavy gains in the previous session, brokers said. The Shanghai B share index ended down 0.94 per cent at 88.57 after a rise of 3.55 per cent on Wednesday. Turnover fell to U5526.36 million from U5536.42
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      378 24 VP Index -6754 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower yesterday as investors locked in profits, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 67.54 points to 5,369.24, following a 1.1-per cent rise in the previous session. Advancers led decliners 269 to 255, with 73 issues
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      423 25 AFP AFX-Asia Q Composite Index -4.02 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.6 per cent lower in thin trading yesterday led by profit-taking on shares of top bank Maybank, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 4.02 points at 675.77. The Second Board
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      9043 25 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 2001 Last Vol Day Nat Cap High Low Company Sal* OOO Hiqh Low P/C $mll 310 300 Ajinomoto 310 10 3 310 308 17.0 125.6 40 31 Angkasa 36 3 21 36 35 53.1 316 286 Apollo Food Hlg 316 6 18 316 312 6.9 126.4 332
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      316 26 AFP FlComporite Index +OJB SOUTH Korean shares rose 0.2 per cent yesterday with the index up 0.98 points at 561.79. Volume was 514.8 million shares worth 2.7 trillion won. AFP Jill Hon Anam Stmi 3650 130 Brain T»ch 595 75 Central Bank 170 unch Cheil Comm ***** -700 Dm
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      290 26 AFP |3 Composite Index -1&26 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower yesterday with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index down 18.26 points to 1,515.89. Volume fell to 188.4 million shares worth 609.9 million pesos from 397 million shares worth 959 million pesos on Wednesday. —AFP Jin II
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      267 26 AFP PnZSE-40 »2JS NEW Zealand shares closed up 0.1 per cent yesterday in directionless trade, dealers said. The key NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 2.65 points to 1,908.25 on turnover of NZ$99 million. David Cleal of JB Were said the market had remained reasonably firm in the new year.—AFP Jwn
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      556 26 AFP PAD Ordinaries -12J0 AUSTRALIAN shares fell for the fourth consecutive session yesterday, dipping 0.4 per cent after blue chip stocks experienced mixed fortunes, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index lost 12.1 points to close at 3,172.4, while the SP/ASX 200 dropped 13.6 points to 3,225.6. Turnover was 504.16
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      739 26 AFP f% SET Index +L4l THAILAND'S stock market rose 0.5 per cent yesterday after early gains were erased by late profit-taking in line with falls in major regional markets, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index gained 1.41 points to close at 295.06 points, while the
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      730 26 AFP AFX-Asia n Composite Index -7J4 INDONESIAN share prices closed 1.7 per cent lower yesterday led by declines in blue chip stocks on fears of domestic political instability, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 7.14 points at 410.38. Volume was 320.10 million shares valued at
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      1200 28 The real driving force behind the runaway rise of the single European currency is the slowing US economy not the European Central Bank, say economists Bloomberg THE US economy has accomplished what the European Central Bank (ECB) and its president, Wim Duisenberg, could
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      1862 29  -  COVER STORY Corinne Kerk makes an interesting discovery as she talks to some experts about the demand and i supply conditions for retail 1 space in Singapore I Corinne Kerk SO, is there enough shopping space in Singapore? Or is there too little, or too much? Looking
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        718 30  -  l.lddthecutf How globalised we become depends on how mnch we are prepared to leave behind, including our identity jaime ee SO Singapore's the most globalised country in the world. And what better, globally-inspired word to describe this achievement than cool? Yes, such is the extent
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        1236 30  -  By Corinne Kerk THERE are shopping centres and there shopping centres. While some act as magnets for large crowds, others just don't seem to be able to stir up any excitement. Rather than putting it down simply to bad luck or poor timing, industry
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        923 31  - ORIENTAL GEM Tung Lok's latest pleaser Much of the opening kinks at Jade have been ironed out, says JAIME EE. So it's safe now to make that reservation and enjoy chef Sam Leong's take on modern Chinese cuisine, especially his tasting menus JAIME EE Hands up, who likes their Chinese
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        804 31  -  RESTAURANT The Lighthouse, third in the Les Amis stable, does not disappoint By Geoffrey Eu FOR some time now, the culinary cognoscenti have been licking their lips in anticipation of the arrival of The Lighthouse, an intimate new restaurant overlooking Singapore's waterfront and
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        738 31  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR By N K Yong WHILE this one wine doesn't fit into the context of this week's column, it is a wine that must be mentioned! Last night, I drank a 1978 Montrachet from Domaine Baron Thenard it was sublime. A rich golden
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        1250 32 By Geoffrey Eu THE cinematic fare served up in Singapore last year was above average at best, downright dreadful at worst. Were it not for a small percentage of high-quality entries, there would be a strong case for 2000 to go down as to borrow
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        892 33  -  Tales from Djakarta Caricatures of circumstances and their human beings By Pramoedya Ananta Toer Equinox Publishing, 266 pages Available at local bookshops Reviewed by Shoeb Kagda Despair. Anger. Poverty. Corruption at all levels of society. These are the themes that run through modern Indonesia as the
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        620 33  -  Breaking Compromises Opportunities for Action in Consumer Markets By The Boston Consulting Group/163 pages/U5520.90 Reiyirwed by Chuang Peck Ming A GLANCE at the contents of this book is enough to tell you that selling is not a straightforward commercial undertaking in the modern
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        1009 34  -  Forget about any miracle therapies. There are no shortcuts to weight control, as cheah ui-hoon finds out from the experts CHEAH UI-HOON NEVER mind the current ruckus over false claims made by slimming centres, promising weight loss with no more effort than it takes to
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        739 34 AS part of its Medical Action Plan for its members on Xenical, Roche organised a low-fat cooking contest and published seven top recipes into a booklet. It also invited hotels and those in the food and beverage industries to take part in a non-competitive event, after which a
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      791 35 Blair Witch 2. The sequel to last year's "love it or hate it" movie. Several college students decide to take a tour of the sites from the first film, but discover that not all is as it seems. Orchard, Causeway. Bogr* Girts. Childhood friends Jennifer and Ryan don't expect
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      114 35 Cathay Org Cathay 338-3400 Eastshore 346-1816 Orctad 235-8386 Picturehouse 338-3400 Yangtze 223-7529 EngWah Empress 777-5867 Jubliee 454- 164C Mandarin 292-9401 Marina 338-9719 Whitesands 585-/782 Qoklan ViNaga 1900-912-1234 332-6098 for group bookings wheelchair facilities Bishan Boon Lay Marina Tampines 8 fnngBahru Yishun Overseas Movts Clementi/CoVealth 777-0669 Golden/New Town
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        817 36  -  It was the best massage ever, sylvia taw recounts her experience in seeking the ultimate stroking sensation in Bah SYLVIA TAN IT was an afterhoon made for napping—cool, dark and drizzly. So what were we doing out in the wet, clutching the sidesof the hill slope as we
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        329 36 BAU The Source at Begawan Girl Estate, north of Übud. Tel: 62-36^*****8 The spa is located right in the heart of the forest. Offers holistic beauty and body treatments. Rates are US$5O for a massage and US$lOO for a Javanese Mandi Lulur which comprises massage, body mask, yoghurt
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        571 36 CURTAINS of another kind are found in Bangkok's massage parlours. Legitimate enough, the treatments take place not in the privacy of a room, but behind the rough white cotton curtains surrounding a bed, one of many packed into the room. So crowded is it
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        669 38  -  The Singapore operations of the US-based chemicals giant have grown into a hub for manufacturing and regional marketing activities, euobmb low reports EUGENE LOW IT started out as a small representative office but DuPont Singapore has since grown into a world-scale manufacturing operation employing
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        669 38  -  Bus operator SBS prepares to flag off an integrated, seamless public transport service with the launch of the North-East MRT Line. DAVID BOEY reports DAVID BOEY SOMETIME next year, Singapore Bus Services Ltd will reach an important milestone when it flags off commercial operations for
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        890 41  -  SERENA NG From outdoor advertising, Pico Art has moved on to become a major player on the global exhibitions stage, sekena no reports THE paint brushes used in the old days have been replaced by computers, but creativity will never be overtaken
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        2117 41  -  Companies are jumping on the online training bandwagon; the problem is, management may not have done its homework By Patrick Lambe The writer is the chief learning officer at Knowledge Platform, an e-learning solutions consultancy WE all know the routine. Sometime around May
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        919 42  -  DAvm mcgreoor considers the new demands and challenges put on directors in the New Economy DAVID MCGREGOR The writer is the commerce director, assurance advisory business services, Ernst Young Australia THE Internet and the New Economy are having a profound impact on business, generating new business
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        1421 43  -  As e-business gains ground, new threats emerge. How can companies minimise fraud and maximise transactions? johm bo cm looks at the issue JOHN HO CHI The writer is the Principal, Information Systems Assurance Advisory Services, Ernst Young LIKE it or not, every company is becoming a
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      43 30 CAST YOUR VOTE: Go to the BT Online website (business-times.asial.com.sg) and take part in the interactive poll based on this column. RESULTS OF THE LAST POLL: What kind of shopping do you like best? Good old-fashioned shopping 58%. Online shopping —13%. Window shopping—29%.
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      224 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 26 They flags (8,7) 7 It can go up and down in 21 On which to hurry down the DOWN ladies' fashions (7) mountain in winter (3-3) 1 Level with a swimming ro^ ncl the YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION ctmuo 17\ s,de > a momentary pain stroke (l) Across: 1
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      2336 35 TODAY'S TV 4 30 Singapore Update. MMMMMBMPBD WIHUHHG Central flfl *-45 The Asian Editorial. KBCO—fiWPBP TUiWlWlt Q.oo AM Kids Central: Sesa- 0.00 Asia Today. me Street. s*o Asian Market Report VQ who is rescued from life as 10.00 Teletubbies. 2 o*o Headlines. lVidlliVlliU. V 3 a circus freak in Victorian
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      26 37 The SMESOO supplement will be published on Jan 16 Coordinator David Boey Photographer Arthur Lee Editor Elaine Koh Artists Gareth Chung, Sub-editor GouwHuatMay Elenita Sarah Loyola
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      140 45 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed one point to 1,592, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) rose four points to 1,592, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD fell 29 points to 9,211 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down three points to 2,162. Atlantic panamax f freight rates
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      268 45 AMfe. t 4. >3UKK: MiU|} '< it* *«n s» *h w CWT Dtstribution.__0.54 -0.03 63 CIMOTHUP o.36 -am 333 Cosco Investment—0.16 uneh 65 foitaMUnfcs 0.10 -OOI 172 GBHoWtags L_0l44 unch 10 MC HaMlngs-HK __5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.15 unch 49 3.12 *0.04 1772 K*pp*i FEL5 1.07 -O.Q2
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      491 45  -  Morocco, Gibralter, Spain have denied refnge to tanker carrying cargo of unleaded gasoline By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The new millennium may well start off with a bang for the shipping world as the stricken product tanker Castor, laden with 29,500 tonnes of unleaded gasoline,
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      138 45 [LONDON] Taiwanese carrier and Evergreen subsidiary Uniglory has added the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas to the list of Middle East destinations which it serves directly with its services to and from Asia. In ftiture, five of the company's 1,164-TEU vessels will provide a
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      85 45 [ZEALAND, Denmark] Danish rescue vessels attempt to extinguish afire onboard the Cyprus-registered22,ooo-ton bulk carrier Arethusa. TheArethusa caught fire early on Wednesday in Danish waters between the island of Samsoe and Sjaellands Odde, the western tip of the island of Zealand. Seventeen crew members
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      268 45 Freight coordinator and customs broker will help expand UPS services Reuters [ATLANTA] United Parcel Service Inc, moving to bolster its expansion beyond package delivery, agreed on Wednesday to acquire Fritz Inc, a freight coordinator and customs broker, for about US$45O million
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      239 45 Genputjr tfce remaining contender for majority stake in merger of CHB Hessenatie and NoordNatie: reports ioirjvtt\r\jiu&j ra/v is reported to De in negotiations to take a stake in the merger of Belgian shipping conglomerate CMB's stevedoring unit Hessenatie and
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      300 46 PACE Ahrenkiel 12 Appenship S AsiaOCl tl Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 12 B'tang Mas 6 BSA 7 BTL 12 Balaji Shpg 5 Bangladesh 11 Batamindo 11 CCKI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 COCOS 5 CSAV 3 tt Central Ex 6 Chahaya 12 ChoYang 5 China Shpg
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      803 46  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar TUG charges that a vessel incurred after it was ordered out of its berth because its engine room caught fire were for the account of its owners and could not be allowed in general average, an
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      18185 52 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES Page 8 FYDflDT tArvm 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY 12,200" ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Ninw Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 19/01 03/03 COSCO EMPRESS SEA 0105W 65-*****00 21/01 27/02 Del mas DELMAS C ARTIER XJ9W 65-*****44 2V01 09/03 Setramar VILLE
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        652 57 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jmnaq Port Sal Perdanal 101 J14 11/01/7:10 13/01/10:00 *«istar 3 *****a J05 11/01/9:05 11/01/16:00 Putrimandah2 01-Jan J03 11/01/8:30 11/01/17:00 Winstar 2 005S01 J03 11/01/7:30 11/01/31:00 Sincerity TocllO J02 11/01/9:00 12/01/23:59 Bayswater118 M1018 J02 11/01/9:15 11/01/16:00 23 8 J02 tl/0V8:4O 11/01/17:30 Bt Sumber
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        1947 57 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From AC* GARNET IK 12/3:00 IB 10/1500 IO/)659 Od-00 2A 10/1700 n/0659 11/0900 2t 10/1700 11/0659 11/0900 i n/0700 n/n» ii/moo ACX VIOLET 0241 13/IS.-00 B 10/1500 n/1659 OcVOO a io/i7oo
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        199 57 Jan 15 Japan: Adult's Day. USA: Martin Luther King's Jr. Birthday. Jan 23 Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve. Jan 24 Brunei: Chinese New Year. China: New Year Holiday. Vietnam: Chinese New Year. Jan 24-2S Singapore: Chinese New Year. Malaysia: Chinese New Year. Vietnam: Chinese New Year Holiday. Jan
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        788 57 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        518 57 '80 Max 993.0 0.4 M.6 0.08 72 0.02 Densrty Water Btsldt Art Aluminium S«dh»ent No above E25 1 0 0 0 0 0 %M/M 380 Ave 987.6 0J 0.4 0.06 23 0 02 js rCcK 1 "i IS0A3 U Z 52 SS S» 55 5 —sr~is
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        293 58 Oana-Kyodo [SYDNEY] Major Australian and New Zealand airlines said they will print warnings on tickets about the risks of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) as evidence linking the condition known as "economy class syndrome" to long flights mounts. A Qantas spokeswoman
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        814 58 AMERICAN-TWA DEAL Fares may increase to compensate for costs of merging workforces New York Times News Service [NEW YORK] With America's two biggest airlines poised to get bigger, No 3 Delta is left mulling its options while consumer advocates worry about the mergers'
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        677 58 Non-exclusive pact set to begin in late Aug; both groups will continue to operate competitively and current service features will not change Reuters [NEW YORK] The US Postal Service, hoping to save US$l billion (551.73 billion) a year in mail transportation
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        356 58 AFP [WASHINGTON] Negotiators from the United States and the European Union meet here yesterday in a fresh bid to resolve a longstanding and increasingly bitter dispute over EU plans to finance a new Airbus jumbo jet. A US trade official, speaking on
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          116 58 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic, Europe's biggest airline, announced reductions in many of its feres followfefr changes to how the company pays travel agentß. 'Tfrom April 1, 2001, all flares sold in the UK except the -'u multi-carrier fores, will be adjusted by
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          106 58 AP {HANOI] one quarter or Vietnam Airlines' nights were cancelled or delayed last year because of bad weather, technical problems or a shortage of planes, a spokesman for the national carrier said. A total 0f1,478 flights were cancelled and 6,000 others were delayed out
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      44 45 Admiralty Casebook: When tag charges cannot be allowed In general average Pq2 9 FedEx, US Postal Service enter Into two agreements worthUSs7b Back Pa I J 9 i (^jVpjXp A Multi-User r Terminal /fft http://www.ptp.com.mv v» 00 General line: 607 504 22 2 2
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      1074 46 1 NORTH AMERICA I EXPORT 1 I OTHER DESTINATIONS I SSX SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS DIRECT TO LONG BEACH WEST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA vbsb vot etash ftpsw lomgkach dauas Houston oaaco www mm an wss& vot pf! ptjktcml acajwu I sanlomgo I to I n r*if —iavowu I f
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      90 46 A SANKYU (S) PTE LTD NK 11 CLEMENTI LOOP, SINGAPORE *****3 TEL: *****40 FAX: *****11 CFS: KEPPEL DISTRIPARK BLK 513 #01-128 SINGAPORE *****9 JAPAN PORTS Hong jjmlk AM Ghkm P9ff (EVERY THUR A SUN VtMgj VESSEL VOY ETD SIN ETA TYO ETA KOI ETA YOK ETA HGO ETA OSA HOUSTON
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      680 46 Lines services represented by «"»S| Members of it* Registry of Members of the 'Ratify Shipping Agents, Sin 9 a P°™ logistics Singapore Shipping Associahon Association NORTH WEST EXPRESS LINE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBULK PROJECT CARGO TO DAMPIER/FREMANTLE MV "TBN" ETA SIN 17/01/2001 BOOKINGS CALL MONKA/JUUA TEL 323 4374 CONTAINERS/ CONVENTIONAL CARGO
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      1652 47 fmi YAMTAI EVERY FRIDAY (T/T f MYS) jjgF YANTIAN EVERY TUESDAY I ft FRIDAY (T/T t 4 MYS) GENERAL AGENTS IN SINGAPORE: 80 ROBINSON RD TEL* 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 JOHORE OFFICE; COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD #12-00 SALES/BUGS *****57/43 INWARD DEPT (0/0) *****86 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN
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      458 47 VESSa VOY SIN PKG VOY SIN HKG KEL INC USN fUS VOY r aaumg m m mi uzoj 1- HYUNDAI SPRINTER OS3S 14/D1 21/01 CMUBOaeS M/01_ 24/01 30/01 27/01 jTWHffS jOjS 23/01 25/0) ItMTC HOHGKOH6 IQIS 14/01 14/0) 101R 17/01 21/0) 23/0) 30/01 24/01 24/01 BfVTf rRFfffTRSHH BBS HYUNDAI SPRKIB
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      443 49 I Loading for BLUE LADY RDM/ATW/BMNAJK DON FRANE BULIC RDM/ATW/BMNAJK Loads Singapore. E7W Malaysia. Indonesia I Loading for RAINIER DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT PAN QUEEN HDD/JDH/AQA/DMT/TRP GTS HORIZON DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT DOBTHE OLDEN DOR FF JDH/AOA/DMT/TRP PAN EXPRESS DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT AONEER SUN DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT 'Loads Singapore. E7W Malaysia. Indonesia I Loading for GRANT MARINER NOL/SAV/CAM/TMP 'Loads E7W.
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      1243 50 MEDITERRANEAN/BLACK SEA/EUROPE SERVICES EXPORT VBSa/VOYAGE ISO 100 VKH OB DKJ RDM BHV THP ZEE gUKo»oo77aax "14/01 26/012M)1 30/01 OMB 31/01 02/02 04/0?] 05/0? tnJRBANOO7MIOW 21/01 "(MB 09/02 11/02 12/0? DUNnYOO7WISW 2*ol 09/DZII/02 IVD2 15/02 14/02 Td/02 18/02 19/02 PUSfIOOW£OCBMO2W 04/02 lt/WWK 20/02 22/J2 21/02 23/02 2V02 M/ 02 UUKSUUOOiH)I3W 11/02
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      951 50 BANGKOK/MAP TA PMUT/UiM CHABANO JAKAWTA/PAWJAWQ YIiSIL YQT MA HI MTf LCH VESSEL VOT SW I JKT PJW WHAIHUM m 13/01 17/01 14/01 KTItHUM Ufil L2ZQJ LK32J XETHA IHUM" 370W 14/01 17.0) 11/01 rtNAN6GLO«r 044 14/01 17/01 KAIDO 004E IS/01 11/01 lt/01 OOCI A(QAI»i» 041S 15/01 H/Ol YANTRA SHUM 374* 14/01
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      61 50 OH LINER SHIPPING PTE LTD l»\ ANSON ROAD. #17-01 INTERNATIONAL PI.AZA. SINGAPORE 0207 \r TEL: *****33(20 UNES) TELEX: RS ***** LSSHIP RAX: *****13 BAJSTDAJ* A.BBA.S s4.&t-7 /^//^4HI BA.HRA.IN JEDDAH lIKAIT Mil CTASIN MIDDLE EAST TORTS Dnd 11/1/7IMI DUBAI, DAMMAM, IWAIT, BAHRAIN, DOIIA. Vffi 21/1/700 RIWI),I > SIiARJAII, ADU MIABI, MINA
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      640 50 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA I QB I /VlilTAtilCD CCDIA/^C rmL WWIWWPi iWiVIW! va wr pkc sn hb k sn Hi m API IVORT 33S 15/fll 14/11 75/01 lt/01 30/01 02/02 POTSDAM 12/01 23/01 02/02 #4/02 04/02 09/02 WTKHHK ~O*T If/01 30/01 11/02 13/02 14/02 PONDADBAH 3SS «/02 04/02 14/02
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      411 51 BSA a. MMfc MYANMA IBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myanmar National Line) Loading for Yangon VESSEL VOY SIN PKL PEN PGU MAWLAMYINE 94W 13/01 PAGAN 290W 15/01 MALAYSIA AGENTS: BOUSnAO SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL m 03-*****00 PKL TEL 03-*****101 PEN: TEL 04-*****02 PGU: TEL 07-*****21/4 BANK LINE (A service of Andrew Weir
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      1309 51 HMk HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. [VESSEL VOY j SIN I SOU LEH RTM AHT HAM WV~| [VESSEL I VOY 1 SOU I I ITM I ANT I HAM BRV IS« 1 API BUTE V.024W 12/01 BIT DOC I INS API PURL V.019E 27/12 20/12 26/12 23/12 14/01 APLCYPMNE V.022W
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      880 51 vOOv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYLIFT SERVICE" VESSEL VOT RAMP HEIGHT lUNI LK I MAO MIA SAV BAL OftF NYC NEW MM. TEXAS AH 102 400T«m 6.3 M IN PT 09/02 17/02 20/02 22/02 24/02 2S/02 27/02 03/03 06/03 TOM AHIO3 400 Tom 6.3 M
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      99 54 GffW* SINGAPORE PTE LTD N KYOWA LINE 15 McCallum Street #03-01/02 Natwest Centre Singapore *****5 Fax: (65) *****66 Email: generaleecusin eculine.net website: httpy/www ecuiine net Direct Breakbulk/Container/LCL INDONESIAN PORTS Service to E&njarrnasin/Janrtbi/Palembang/ Manila/Guam/Saipan Panjang/Pontianak/Perawan/Pekan Baru Agents: V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd Call: 220 3373 See Page 7 Daily STANDARD SHIPPING RCL's
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      1038 55 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 Anson Road, #06-01 to 03, Singapore *****1 MAIN UNI/OUTWARD; 532 3688 INWARD (DID): 437 2368 IMPORT STATUS (WD): 437 237S INVENTORY (DID): 437 2420 Wobsito kttp://www.samudora.«om CR NO. **********0H 6266 (Celio/Jessico/Mei Chon/Jeslynn/Doro/Yvonne/Hanim) EZBHHHH 7 SLGS/WEEKLY 3SLGS/WEEKLY VESStL I VOY I SIN j JAK [VESSEL VOY
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      45 55 REGULAR SINGAPORE VIETNAM SERVICE VESSELS VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION MEKONG 04 1/2001 IN PT 11/01 QUINHON/VUNGTAU KANGHUAT7 1/2001 15/01 11/01 VUNTAU TAICHINH 1 1/2001 17/01 19/01 VUNGTAU/HCMC AGENTS: IMKOV SHIPPING CO PTE LTD 39 OUXTON HILL SINGAPORE *****7 TEL: *****73 FAX: *****85 CB jj. iWgjMMj
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      819 55 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO fIB I MM 1 JKT 1 SW HW PPG CMI lOM HAI KYI 08F SAV HIW TAW HOU H9WM prm /9W 04/01 09/01 14/01 17/01 21/01 22/01 04/02 07/07 04/03 10/03 11/03 14/03 IS/03 23/03 27/03 HQKtt MIHBYA /MM 12/92 IS/92 17/82
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      639 55 hSfid ENG LEE SHIPPING CO PTE UD I k. M: *****22 (10 UMI| FU: *****38/*****6* I v CtMo: **********0 C I VESSEL VOY SIN HA SIN ETC DESTINATION Umon Sim 22 01-01 12/01 12/01 Suroboyo Unon Slor 32 15/00 13/01 13/01 Suraboyc Motto Polo 56 10/00 13/01 13/01 Jokorto Gondo
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      630 56 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN TIGER RHYTHM 867N U-14/01 19-22A)1 26-27/01 TIGER BRIDGE 868N 18-18/01 23-26/01 30-31/01 TIGER METRO 869N 20-21/01 26-29/01 02-03/02 TIGER STAR 870N 23-24/01 29-01/02 05-06/02 TIGER RHYTHM 871N 26-27/01 01-04/02 08-09/02 TIGER BRIDGE 872N 30-31/01 12-13/02 IVESSE^^^VO^^SIJ^^^CA^^SIJ^I TIGER OCEAN 463CN8 12-13/01 21-23/01 31-01/02 kTIGER CLIFF
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      1107 56 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS PTE LTD 51 Penjuru Rood, 3rd Level, Freight Links Express Logisficenfre, Singapore *****3 Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg WEBSITE: www.freighHinks.net AARHUS/ MV. MING WEST VAIO2W AUCKLAND MV. MOL SILVER FERN VOOOU HELSINKI ETA SIN: 14/01/2001 ETA SIN: 14/01/2001 PHNOMPENH MV. SIRI BHUM V929N KOBE MV. ASIAN
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      742 56 TO EUROPE CHINA N. EUROPE SERVICE VESSa VOY 1—53 HKG XGG TAO SHA TRADE SELENE 033E 13 JAN 17 JAN 21 JAN 23 JAN 25 JAN HAMJMStNCAKXE 6«E MJan &m!T 26 JAN STTO 01 FE6 HANJIN VANCOUVER 069E 27 JAN 31 JAN 04 FEB 06 FEB 06 FEB HANJIN SAVANNAH
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      133 57 Y t/^!^ < fc IQDE 11DE 12 JE jflftt-J LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm A Showers 0 Rain emperature Wjnd direction an< j S pe e( j j n knots Cloudy Day Wea,her Wind speed symbols Sea Conations O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light
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