The Business Times, 26 January 2001

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    11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA^O2B/1 2/2000 SINGA PORE FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2001
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    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    55 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KI-SECOMP dosed NIKKEI 225 13,803.38 90JO HANG SENG dosed SET INDEX 339.68 +14.09 JAKARTA COMP .417.13 +0.16 MANILA COMP 1.693.18 +27.71 TAtrei WPI dosed SEOUL COMP dosed (ISA CHINA B dosed AUST ALL ORD ,__3,268J0 +2110 11am EST Change DOW 10,681.12 +34.15 NASDAQ
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    80 1 FOREX RATES irss s$ L'SS (SS per US$) 1.739 £(l!S$/S$ per E) 1.468 2.553 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0.942 1.639 DM 2.075 1.193 YEN 1175 67.40 RM 3.800 2.185 HKS 7.800 4.486 BAHT 4111 24.78 RUl'lAH 9,377 5,391 Note: Jan 23 figures PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANtfkOK -.9.50
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    Lock icon Greenspan: tax cuts could do good if economy worsens
    743 1 It's better to lower budget surpluses by tax cuts than by spending increases, he says Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday lent clout to President George W Bush's plan for major tax cuts, saying that if the US
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    Lock icon US fund managers prefer Europe to Asia
    1045 1  -  Europe offers upside potential with few of Asia's economic, political risks From Catherine Ong in New York WITH Nasdaq still 43 per cent below last year's peak despite a recent rally and US equities no longer promising the euphoric gains of recent years,
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    Lock icon London bourse picks first woman chief exec
    659 1 Clara Furse said to be not afraid to step on toes in her career Reuters [LONDON] The London Stock Exchange (LSE) confirmed on Wednesday that it has appointed its first woman chief executive, banker Clara Furse, and reshuffled its board to beef it
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      87 1 INSIDE BwrflfSTSW|TBM^||?3^B Top Stories Big insurer firm Mitsui Mutual Life seeks capital injection. Next Page Indonesia's Bakrie, Garuda in landmark debt restructuring deals. Next Page 'It's taken mb* m me a long time to get to the final of a Grand Jennifer Capriati, BB» wVL who upset defending champion Lindsay
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      8 1 Enough fear to sustain a rally? Pg 3
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      11 1 Profile: New chief of LSE has solid futures credentials, Pg 12
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      Lock icon Indonesia's Bakrie, Garuda in landmark debt restructuring deals
      728 2  -  Bakrie creditors get 95% of firm; revamp of 80% of Garuda's USsl.6b loans From! Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIAN bumiputra business conglomerate Bakrie and Brothers and state-owned airline Garuda have reached landmark debt restructuring deals but analysts say many more such deals
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      Lock icon Mitsui Mutual move signals new financial stress in Japan
      708 2  -  'Japan Premium'jumps to 8-10% from zero at the start of this year; Nikkei falls for third straight day From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo IN what appears to be the first obvious sign of fresh stress in Japan's financial system, big insurer
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      57 2 'v< v.-- The Management and Staff of SINGA INN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT wishes all a Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year. "Fa Cai Yw Sheng" for Wealth 9k Prosperity is available until 7 February 2001. JKINGA seafood restaurant m SS n < Singa Inn Seafood Restaurant 920 East Coast Parkway, S'pore
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon S'pore stock brokerages lament rapid pace of liberalisation
      712 3  -  Some fighting back with new services; selling local expertise, focnsing on retail segment and institutions Byi Angela Tan SOME Singapore stock brokerages, reeling from the sharp decline in earnings since commissions were freed up, say Singapore's financial liberalisation has been too fast,
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      Lock icon SingTel to spend $30m to upgrade network facilities
      369 3  -  By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Telecom is spending around $30 million to upgrade the network infrastructure in about 300 buildings in the Central Business District, Orchard Road and the Science Technology parks. The buildings will be equipped with alternate fibre-optic routes and lead-in
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      Lock icon Has there been enough fear to sustain a rally?
      964 3  -  s[•Mil locksiew andrew marks THUS far the New Year has been good to investors, especially those holding last year's beaten-down technology companies that dominate the Nasdaq. But with the economic picture still cloudy and corporate profit growth over the next few
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      240 3 GIRARD-PERREGAUX CELEBRATES THE 70™ ANNIVERSARY OF THE SCUDERIA FERRARI Constant GIRARD, the founder of GIRARD-PERREGAUX, which celebrated its 70th made a name for himself in the watch world as a anniversary in 1999, the technical innovator. He demonstrated this yet Manufactory's watch makers, again in 1880 when he made a
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Inflation up just 1.3% last year
      279 4  -  ■won the economy cpi By 1 Ven Sreenivasan DESPITE a surge in oil prices in the fourth quarter, overall inflation remained fairly subdued last year. According to the latest figures from the Department of Statistics, Singapore's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose just 1.3 per
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      Lock icon Are banks'financial sales staff qualified?
      291 4  -  MAILISETfI John Tay, Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Skills will keep finance sector ahead: Tharman" by Siow Li Sen (BT, Jan 19). Allow me to give some feedback. Recently, I wrote to eCitizen on the quality of people in a bank who
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      Lock icon Suntec denizens, STB team up to promote area
      357 4  -  HTa exclusive They will invest in advertising and promotions to pnll in global gatherings By. Marissa Chew THE Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SICEC), the Espla-nade-Theatres on the Bay and seven hotels in the area have joined forces with the Singapore
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      Lock icon Hoteliers expect higher rates as occupancy rises
      685 4  -  MJXclusiv^ Bat tightening room snpply could hurt long-term prospects By] Marissa Chew WITH visitor arrivals forecast to grow 6-8 per cent this year and the supply of hotel rooms rising only marginally, operators are looking forward to better rates and yields. But with
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  • e-NEWS
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      Lock icon Euro telcos' debt refinancing face hostile conditions
      592 5 LONDON Analysts fear firms are trapped in virions circle Reuters HOSTILE conditions in international financial markets are hampering efforts by Europe's telecoms companies to tackle a debt mountain running into the hundreds of billions of euros. Despite recent signs that sentiment may be
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      Lock icon PlayStation snag, strong yen pull down Sony profit by 11%
      366 5 TOKYO Reuters SONY Corporation yesterday said profits sagged in the last three months of 2000, hit by production delays on its flagship game console and a strong yen. Operating profit at the Japanese electronics giant fell 11 per cent to
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      Lock icon ETrade to switch listing to NYSE
      227 5 NEW YORK FT ETRADE, the online broker and financial services company, is to switch its listing from the Nasdaq stock market to the New York Stock Exchange in one of the highestprofile defections from Nasdaq in recent years. The defection highlights the intense competition
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      Lock icon Microsoft pays Sun US$20m to settle Java lawsuit
      386 5 SAN FRANCISO Companies end licensing contract NYT PUTTING one legal hurdle behind it, Microsoft has agreed to pay US$2O million (5534.8 million) to Sun Microsystems to settle a four-year-old lawsuit over Microsoft's use of the Java programming language, the companies said Tuesday.
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      Lock icon Technician error jams Microsoft website
      130 5 AP [SEATTLE] A Microsoft technician's error jammed company computer systems responsible for directing on-line traffic, resulting in hours of problems for people trying to access some of the software giant's websites. Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday evening it had fixed the problem, which began late
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      Lock icon Seeing-eye mouse for the blind
      49 5 [JERUSALEM] Israeli scientist Roman Gouzman displaying in Jerusalem the computer mouse he helped invent to help the blind "see" computer graphics, text and games. The mouse and operating system has been developed by Israeli firm VirTouch Ltd, which claims it is a world first.
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      Lock icon Lucent announces broad restructuring
      555 5 MURRAY HILL, NJ 10,000 jobs to be cat, mostly through lay-offs NYT STRUGGLING to regain its former glory, Lucent Technologies announced a broad revamping on Wednesday that includes eliminating 10,000 jobs about 9.4 per cent of its workers. The plan, which includes a restructuring charge of
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      Lock icon Cisco Systems to invest US$200m in Softbank
      368 5 TOKYO AFP, Bloomberg US computer giant Cisco Systems Inc is investing US$2OO million (Ss34B million) in Japan's Softbank Corp as part of an alliance aimed at developing Internet infrastructure throughout Asia. Cisco said it would acquire a 1.65 per cent stake in Japan's
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      116 5 ancient cities Airlines Sri Lanka s legendary past can now be reached via the future. Our new Airbus A 330 and A 340 aircraft fly from Singapore to Colombo six times a week. Stroll around the fabled cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. Then climb Sigiriya. the renowned ancient rock fortress
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Clinton, Nixon: the intriguing parallels
      792 6  -  PITT3 bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent HISTORIANS have compared the scan-dal-ridden administration of Democratic ex-president Bill Clinton (Monicagate) to that of Republican ex-White House occupant Richard Nixon (Watergate). Both were accused of lying to the American people, and faced
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      66 6 'Food biotech is dead. The potential now is an infinitesimal fraction of what most observers had hoped it would be.' -Henry Miller a fellow at the Hoover Institution, on genetically modified food products. 'When you put together arrogance and incompetence, you've got an unbeatable combination. You can
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      Lock icon The Nukaga affair bodes ill
      620 6 EDITORIAL ANOTHER of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's appointees has been forced to resign, following allegations that he received bribes. While this may seem yet another event in an unending parade of corruption among Japanese politicians, this episode needs to be taken seriously. It will,
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      Lock icon Sputtering US engine of growth in the spotlight
      1192 6  -  Sustaining global growth and damage control will be the focus at this year's top-level World Economic Forum talks in Davos By < Caroline Baum Bloomberg MAYBE a year is too long between annual meetings. This time last year, politicians, business executives, academics
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      Lock icon History may repeat itself in Jakarta
      619 6 COMMENTARY Gns Dur's squabble with Parliament is costing the nation dearly, says The Jakarta Post AFP [JAKARTA] For those with a feeling for humour, there may be something comical in the confrontation currently taking place between President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) and the House
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      Lock icon Cabinet wranglings dampen Manila market
      407 7  -  Defence secretary quits; peso tumbles, stocks turn lethargic Frorrid Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE markets turned from euphoric to lethargic yesterday as the new government of president Gloria Arroyo struck trouble. After surging 17.56 per cent to 1,708.06 points on Monday on Ms Arroyo's ascent
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      Lock icon Arroyo upset with SM's words
      349 7  -  She takes exception to his suggestion that her rise to power did not boost democracy From Al Labita in Manila NEW Philippine President Gloria Arroyo took exception yesterday to Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's suggestion her rise to power was no boost for democracy.
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      Lock icon Anwar prosecutor appointed senior judge
      208 7 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia appointed the chief prosecutor of jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim as a judge in the country's highest court on Tuesday. Mohtar Abdullah, who retired at the end of last year after seven years as Attorney-Gen-eral, will be, at 56, the
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      Lock icon Dr M shrugs off Goh's comments on Malays
      347 7 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday shrugged off comments by Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that the city state's ethnic Malays fared better than their counterparts in Malaysia. "Those are his comparisons. That's his business, I don't care,
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      Lock icon PAS can join coalition: Mahathir
      344 7 KUALA LUMPUR He will not stand in its way, bnt the other BN partners will also be given their say AP, Reuters PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that he would not stand in the way of his most formidable rival, an Islamic fundamentalist party,
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        Lock icon Anwar's request rejected
        31 7 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Saying that the operation can be performed in Malaysia, the government has rejected imprisoned politician Anwar Ibrahim's request to undergo back surgery in Germany. —AP
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        Lock icon Freeze Tommy's accounts: BI to banks
        48 7 Xinhua [JAKARTA] BANK Indonesia (BI) has issued a letter ordering all banks operating in the country to freeze accounts of the youngest son of the former President Suharto, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, a senior official at the central bank said here. —Xinhua
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        Lock icon Gus Dur likely to be cleared
        39 7 Reuters [JAKARTA] An Indonesian parliamentary inquiry is likely to clear President Abdurrahman Wahid of criminal wrongdoing over two financial scandals, staving off the threat of impeachment, key inquiry members said on Wednesday. Reuters
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        Lock icon Criminals install skimmers on ATMs
        59 7 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Criminals have installed "skimmers" on top of ATM card slots to record data for fake ATM cards, Malaysian newspapers reported on Wednesday. The skimmers recorded data encoded on the magnetic strip when cards were inserted. Police said they had arrested four people
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        Lock icon Mandiri to repay US$560m debt
        65 7 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's largest bank, state-owned PT Bank Mandiri, plans to repay US$56O million (***** million) in foreign debt maturing this year, a spokesman from the state-owned bank said on Wednesday. "Our total foreign loans, as of end of September 2000, stood at 16.7 trillion
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        Lock icon Indonesia to impose luxury tax
        72 7 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's finance ministry said yesterday it would impose luxury taxes ranging from 10 to 75 per cent on 41 groups of products, extending the tax net in a bid to boost revenue. Indonesia is stepping up efforts to increase tax revenues to help
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      Lock icon Thai debts can be cut: Thaksin
      483 8 BANGKOK Money market instruments can be used to boost credit rating?, assets Reuters INCOMING Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Wednesday Thailand could ease its debt burden and raise funds for development by using new financial instruments in the capital and money markets. Mr
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      Lock icon Chuan govt ministers deny holding posts in companies
      386 8  -  Constitution Court hears case filed by two senators From'. Harish Mehta in Bangkok TEN ministers of the Chuan Leekpai government yesterday vigorously denied charges that they held corporate posts in breach of a law that bars ministers from commercial roles. A 13-judge
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      Lock icon Thai stock index surges to 7-month high
      290 9 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAILAND'S key stock index soared to a seven-month high, led by Thai Military Bank pel after Prime Minis-ter-elect Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed that his government would buy lenders' bad loans. "Confidence is growing with Thaksin and that encourages people to put money
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      Lock icon India's UTI and Global Trust set to merge
      469 9 NEW DELHI Together, they will become country's largest private bank Reuters Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India's UTI Bank said on Wednesday it would merge with Global Trust Bank to create the country's largest private bank in the state-dominated sector. The merged organisation, called
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      Lock icon 13% of staff at India's largest bank offer to quit
      187 9 BOMBAY Bloomberg THIRTEEN per cent of the employees at State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, have offered to quit in return for compensation under an early retirement plan aimed at trimming staff, a bank union said. About
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      Lock icon Parties, protests greet Snake Year
      593 9 Asians celebrate the Lanar New Tear across the region in a variety of ways AFP PARADES, parties and protests heralded the arrival of the Lunar New Year on Wednesday as Asia slid into the Year of the Snake. Lions and dragons danced in streets lined
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      175 7 wmmtm jol-2# MS-*- i 8&L t m THERE'LL BE JUST ONE BIG WINNER AT THIS YEAR'S INVESTMENT FUND AWARDS The Investment Fund Awards, organised by The under the hammer to raise funds for a good cause. Standard Chartered Bank, Reuters and The The organisers hope to top the $90,000 raised
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      141 8 projecteyeball. HALT! THE WOMEN ARE COMING! Women are everywhere in the once all-male realm of computer gaming. They are both, um, manning the keyboards and showing the boys how ifs done, and doing a Lara Croft and becoming lead characters in games themselves* Steven Ng musters up his courage and
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  • KOREAN economy
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      Lock icon Seoul struggles with chaebol reform (with some success)
      1199 11  -  Is the South Korean economy moving towards a second crisis? While Koreans are gloomy about their prospects, the IMF appears to be more optimistic, vbram khamma has the details VIKRAM KHANNA ATER sizzling along at 10.7 per cent in 1999, South Korea's
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      Lock icon The Kumho Group story
      842 11 CHAEBOL SURGERY TO GET a sense of the pain that some of Korea's chaebol have been through since the Asian economic crisis erupted, a good case in point is the Kumho Group—the 11th largest conglomerate in the country. Before the crisis erupted in 1997, Kumho controlled
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      Lock icon Hyundai leads the way into a virgin economy
      1127 11 THE NORTH KOREAN DIMENSION South Korea's largest chaebol has been exploring business in North Korea since the late 1980s ONE of the tantalising features of South Korea's economy is the possibility that it might, in the not too distant future, have a
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Bush eyes JP Morgan exec for key post at Treasury
      327 12 WASHINGTON Reuters JOHN Lipsky, chief economist at JP Morgan Chase Co, is under consideration for the No 3 position at the US Treasury in the Bush administration, Republican sources said on Wednesday. Mr Lipsky would bring much-needed Wall Street experience
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley's president COO quits
      453 12 NEW YORK John Mack loses post-merger power struggle against chairman, CEO for control FT JOHN Mack, the president and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, resigned on Wednesday after losing a power struggle for control of the leading global investment bank. The securities
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      Lock icon New chief of LSE has solid futures credentials
      567 12 PROFILE Observers say her strong knowledge of derivatives could herald tie-np with Liffe AFP CLARA Furse is a high-flying investment banker who becomes the first woman to head the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in its 200-year history. A multilingual mother of three,
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      Lock icon Cargill to pay record £150,000 fine to IPE
      221 12 LONDON Bloomberg CARGILL Investor Services Ltd, a brokerage, will pay a record fine to the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) after one of its traders was found to have repeatedly submitted suspicious orders for natural gas futures, the IPE said on Wednesday. Cargill
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      Lock icon Capital flows to emerging markets to rise slightly this year: report
      772 13 LONDON Figures based on soft landing in the US, hard landing conld derail flows to emerging markets Reuters CAPITAL flows to emerging economies will rise only slightly this year as investors remain cautious due to a slowing US economy
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      Lock icon SEC nod for plan to ease corporate bond trading
      376 13 NEW YORK Reuters THE Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a system that will for the first time collect and distribute information on corporate bond market trading, according to The Wall Street Journal. The system should make prices in the US$3.4
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      Lock icon Bumpy ride but no recession for US: bankers
      438 13 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM US experiencing needed slowdown from 'unsustainable growth' Bloomberg [DAVOS, Switzerland] A full-blown recession isn't on the cards for the United States even though the world's growth engine faces a bumpy ride in the next few months, investment bankers and
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      Lock icon Capriati beats Davenport, meeting Hingis in final
      450 13 AUSTRALIA!! OPEN AP FORGET the troubled past. For Jennifer Capriati it's all about the future, which now includes her first Grand Slam final. Capriati notched one of the sweetest victories of her tumultuous career yesterday, upsetting defending champion Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 6-4 in
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      Lock icon Tycoon denies pulling strings for UK passport
      236 13 NEWDELHI Reuters BUSINESS tycoon Srichand Hinduja, at the centre of a political controversy that cost one of Britain's top ministers his job, denied yesterday that he had sought political favours for citizenship. "I have not asked anybody to give any favour to me,
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      Lock icon More bank mergers but no increase in efficiency: BIS
      368 13 LONDON AFP, Bloomberg BANK mergers are increasing in industrialised countries, though there is "weak" evidence of efficiency gains, says Roger Ferguson, vicechairman at the US Federal Reserve. Mr Ferguson, who chaired a committee of banking regulators at the Bank for International
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      Lock icon Intel to cut chip prices
      165 13 NEW YORK Reuters Intel Corp, the world's biggest maker of microprocessors, is preparing to cut prices on some chips by more than 40 per cent, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The move is aimed at spurring demand in the weak personal computer market, the
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    • US Results
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        Lock icon Compaq gain up 83% on server sales
        64 13 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Compaq Computer Corp, the world's largest personal-computer maker, said fourth-quarter profit rose 83 per cent as sales of powerful servers helped make up for slower PC purchases by consumers and small businesses. Profit from operations rose to US$5l5 million (*****.6 million),
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        Lock icon Gains soar at 3 US oil companies
        121 13 NYT [NEW YORK] Three of the large US oil companies said that their fourth-quarter earnings soared. Exxon Mobil's net income more than doubled to US$5.2 billion (Ss9 billion), or US$l.49 a share, from US$2.3 billion, or $0.65 a share, in the fourth quarter
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        Lock icon Dow Jones'profit slips on poorer ads
        63 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Dow Jones Co, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, reported a slide in fourth quarter profits, dragged down by weaker advertising demand. The New York-based company's fourth quarter profit totalled U5573.4 million (*****.6 million), or 83 cents a share, compared with
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        Lock icon McDonald's net earnings down 7%
        77 13 AFP [OAK BROOK, Illinois] US restaurant chain McDonald's announced a 7 per cent decline in fourth-quarter net earnings and warned that the next three months would be difficult because of "mad cow" fears in Europe. Net earnings in the final three months of2ooo came to
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        Lock icon Du Pont posts 15% fall in Q4 earnings
        72 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] DuPont Co said its fourth-quarter earnings fell 15 per cent because of surging energy costs and slowing sales, a combination which is battering the industry. Fourth-quarter earnings before special items dropped to US$494 million (SsBs9 million), or 47 cents
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        Lock icon Pfizer's fourth-quarter profit rises 20%
        90 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Pfizer Inc reported a 20 per cent gain in fourth-quarter operating earnings, meeting Wall Street expectations, helped by sales of its blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug, Lipitor, and arthritis treatment Celebrex. The company, also known for its anti-impotence pill Viagra, reported earnings of US$l.76
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  • FINANCE & commodities
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      350 14 Bloomberg [LONDON] A coffee growers' meeting in London has said a plan to withhold exports from world markets had yet to produce satisfactory results, adding that more drastic steps are needed to prop up prices. Latin American countries Mexico and Colombia at the meeting
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      302 14 Reuters [LONDON] Gold was looking vulnerable in early European trade yesterday in the absence of most Asian markets overnight, drifting lower amid reduced physical demand and a stronger US dollar, traders said. Palladium was only slightly softer, showing a muted reaction to news that
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      162 14 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] OU prices slipped yesterday, as signs of rising US stocks continued to allay fears of a winter supply crunch there. March Brent crude oU futures were 11 US cents lower at U5526.15 a barrel by 1341 GMT. Crude
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      340 14 Reuters London THE euro fell to one-month lows against the US dollar and three-week lows against the yen yesterday as the market reconsidered its assumption that euro zone growth would outpace that of the US. The single currency suffered its biggest losses against the yen, falling more than
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      1216 14 WTERBAMK CROSS RATES C{ M tw fir f hptah Yen Wow m W2S Bs Pwo S$ Bawl Sfr NTS Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.836 4.615 0.590 1869 1.154 4.336 25.766 52.134 0.652 7.083 2.113 1.242 32.846 27.770 0.967 4.364 0.904 18.096 23.967 0.379 0.556 Canada 1.196 5.520 0.706 4.629 1.380
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      1793 14 SICOMFDTPEES Jan 22 RUBBER (futures closing as it 5.30p<n) RSS1 cents/kg) Close Volume Opm Month Hfrft Low Sttt (tonnes) Interest Feb 01 106.00 Mar 01 107.25 1950 Apr 01 110.50 400 May 01 113.00 400 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume Open Month High Lew Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 01
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      736 15 AFP SET Index +IM9 iUwiIWP THAI stocks jumped 4.3 per cent yesterday led by heavy speculative buying in banking and finance stocks. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index soared 14.09 points to close at 339.68 points and the SET 50 index added 1.16 points to 24.51. Advances
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      290 15 AFP n Composite Index +27.75 mmm PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.7 per cent higher yesterday with the Composite Index up 27.75 points at 1,693.18 points. Volume was 4.94 billion shares worth 826.54 million pesos. Advancers led decliners 84 to 27, with 29 stocks unchanged. —AFP J—25 Ptsa COOP) Abacus
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      743 15 AFP n Composite Index +OJ6 INDONESIAN share prices closed marginally higher yesterday with many investors staying out of the market during Lunar New Year festivities, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 0.16 points at 417.13. Volume totalled 396.0 million shares worth 163.23 billion rupiah. Advancing
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      274 15 AFP □MBE-40 -&88 NEW Zealand stocks fell 0.3 per cent yesterday following a fall in the local dollar to its lowest point this year, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 6.88 points to close at 1,977.36 points on turnover of NZ$ll7 million. AFP Jmif MS OOP) Advantage
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      544 15 AFP All Ordinaries +23J0 STRONG demand for banking and News Corp stocks pushed the Australian stock market 0.7 per cent higher yesterday. The All Ordinaries index rose 23.1 points to 3,268.2 points, while the SP/ASX 200 index gained 24.2 points to 3,321.4 points. National turnover was 583.27 million shares
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      2077 15 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -9020 SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 0.6 per cent yesterday in edgy trade efore the latest pronouncement by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on the state of the US economy. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index declined 90.20
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      83 15 The Seoul market was closed yesterday ond QIU Go* ■r prtHMCIU C*ft n rccogrn KAm hrfu S**SacMy.mai ■H I mtont )o> $45 »T 2 ■1 rMd. Mrvrtof SaMrMWE >■■■» LIMH nr F«m» |TK U V«1 khom roa w >ou*v vo«MMilr \JWNWM nw «r H it it right with The Straits
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      641 16  -  CINEMA Viewers will go away emotionally connected to Tom Hank's character, exhausted yet enthralled by his battle for survival Byl Geoffrey Eu I N the magnificent and terrifying opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks spends an excruciating 20 minutes dodging enemy bullets as
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      587 16  -  CINEMA 'What Women Want' hums merrily along on autopilot to an end that surprises nobody By i Geoffrey Eu WHEN it comes to relationships, we all know what men really want (Here's a hint: it's a three-letter word that starts with's', ends in
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    829 17 The Accidental Spy. Orphaned salesman Jackie Chan goes to Korea and Turkey on a treasure hunt, and finds himself targeted by spies and mercenaries. Lots of the usual Chan ingredients, like humour and nifty action sequences, but don't expect pretty shots of the locations. Beach Rd, Lido, Balestier, Century,
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      2285 17 TODAY'S TV rantntl 5.30 Asian Market Report. RPPOMMEHDED VIEWING r 100 Headlines. 9.00 AM Kids Central: Sesa- 6.02 Correspondent's Noteme Street. book. Mi rfVl tm Q "PC* Reagan play army officers 10.00 Steven Spielberg Pres- '.-r--- Asian Market Report. IMltillllllCll C asQifrnpfl to wineout John ents Pinky The Brain. 7.00
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      1382 18  -  Mai Chen is a model success story of an immigrant Asian woman who j has made it good I in New Zealand. I coiumiEKERK meets 1 the prominent lawyer cum lecturer to find out how she jflH got to where she is today CORINNE KERK
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      813 19  -  The two-person operation offers satisfying food and service, says corimmeebbb CORINNE KERK WE tried three times before we finally got ourselves a table at Buko Nero. But having heard that this intimate little restaurant offers excellent food and great service, we convinced ourselves that the three attempts
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      925 19  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR By: N K Yong DROUHIN is one of the most illustrious, most highly-re-spected and most widelyknown names in Burgundy. Robert Drouhin, the present president and owner of Joseph Drouhin, and his family, sons Philippe, Frederic, and daughter Veronique, are one of
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      245 19 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD olution BH~"~BbI M Hi 10 Frenchwoman made to take _—Hi—JHft.— for 22 Those for propositions 23 Irresponsible conduct of a id fli^^HH —bH Hi 25 To mark fish can be amusing (8) cans i (8) 21 A church attendant who is 26 Inferior containers (6) 8 Lessened catastrophically,
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      203 21 Reuters The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) dropped nine points to 1,543, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained four points to 1,647, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell 42 points to 8,912 and the Baltic Capesize Index was down 27 to 1,991. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Cosmic Fortune (built 1998) 74,043 dwt
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      96 21 mm* jmts mm *b w Praclous Shipping TL25 0.25 441 RCL PuMcCo ***** 0.75 1291 U»wm Una 1.30 until 0 JmZS Nsa W Aboitil Equity 1.60 0.06 41 IntarM Cont U4 0.10 6763 KappaiPMilp 0.60 unch 0 K#p Philip Prop 1.04 unch 0 Naqros Nav 0.16 unch 0
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      489 21 The shipbuilder aims for 200 billion won net profit this year, buoyed by strong global orders Reuters [SEOUL] The shipbuilding unit of South Korea's troubled Daewoo Group said this week it expects a net profit and more profitable orders in 2001
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      700 21  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar A RECENT report into a collision between a tug and a container vessel in the port of Brisbane has revealed that tug masters may be inadvertently over-controlling the "Uni-Lever" controls for sideways movement. The event that prompted
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      64 21 [LE CROISIC, France] Rescue workers trying to pierce through the hull ofa 30-metre freight ship that overturned on Wednesday near the Breton port of Le Croisic, on the north-west French coast A rescue helicopter winched a sailor to safety from, the lies de Ponant, reports AFP. Rescuers
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      373 21  -  Operations continue to transfer its cargo of 29,500t of gasoline By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The ultimate fate of stricken tanker, MT Castor, remains uncertain as salvage operations continue to transfer its cargo of 29,500 tonnes of unleaded gasoline. The stricken vessel, which was first denied
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        739 22 US government study says travellers pay more on routes where a big airline has no low-fare competitor Reuters Millions of travellers pay huge premiums to fly routes where big carriers have little or no low-cost competition, according to US government studies that also found
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      291 22 PAGE Ahrenkiel 12 Appenship S AsiaOCL 11 Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 12 B'tanq Mas 6 ISA 7 ITL 12 BalajiShpg S Bangladesh 11 Batamindo 11 CCNI 7 CMACCM 3 COSCO 3 COCOS S CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Chaluya 12 ChoYanq 5 China Shpg 5 Confer
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      15807 28 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES p 8 EXPORT FRIDAY, JANUARY 26,2001 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 02/02 04/03 MOL PSO NED PARANA 6702A 65-*****86 03/02 11/03 Del mas DELMAS BLOSSEVILLE HOW 65-*****44 05/02 16/03 Setramar VILLE DE VENUS
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        1914 33 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND La CARGO Boottm/lWmri tstts Ship Voy Mo Ett/ltr NrtoO Fr— To Frew Al SA9AHU CMC 27/233I U 2VBOO 25*469 25*900 25*500 25/19oo 2A 25/1700 24/0459 24/99M a arm mm u/me 1 24/POO 24/1159 24*400 4 24/1200 24/MM 24*700 *n PHIUPP ***** 28/20:00
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        513 33 Carbon 180 Mm 993.0 0.4 M.6 0.07 65 0.02 JaaW OwHltr Water Residue Ask AtaMwa Sediment NoaboveE2S 1 0 0 0 0 0 T %M/M 380 Ave 966.5 0J 13.3 0.06 23 0.02 (ma 380 Max 993.0 0.7 16.1 0.08 39 0.04 «*Ari »M/M %M/M mt
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        161 33 Singapore: Chinese New Year. Malaysia: Chinese New Year. Vietnam: Chinese New Year Holiday. JkiMM Hong Kong: Chinese New Year. South Korea: Sollal. Taiwan: Chinese New Year. Vietnam: Chinese New Year Holiday. JuM Australia: Australia Day. Jan 24-28 China: Chinese New Year. Fab B Mexico: Anniversary of the Constitution.
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        778 33 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        583 34 Commercial aircraft sales outnumber those of military planes, it says Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Military and civil aircraft manufacturing, combined with revenue from related services and financing, contributes US$2OO billion (***** billion) a year to the world economy, a US forecasting company said. The market
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        336 34 A new health study faults temperature control and air flow AP [SEATTLE] After five years in service, Boeing Co's 777 jetliner is coming under scrutiny after reports of motion sickness by some pilots during certain manoeuvres, and wooziness by passengers and crew
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        499 34 Bloomberg, AFP [WATKINS, Colorado] Atlas Air founder and chief executive Michael A Chowdry and a Wall Street Journal editor died when a private plane crashed near Denver on Wednesday morning, the air-cargo company said. Mr Chowdry, chairman of international air cargo company
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        320 34 Reuters [LONDON] Nissan Motor Co is set to announce plans to build its new Micra model at its Sunderland plant in northeast England, foregoing a move to France despite cur-rency-related worries, British media reported yesterday. The Financial Times, in an unsourced
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        282 34 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines have filed objections in US Bankruptcy Court to American Airlines' purchase of Trans World Airlines, saying they may want to bid for assets of the eighth largest US air carrier. The objections by Continental and Northwest, which
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      59 21 Aircraft industry worth US$2OO billion a year, Pg 14 Stock markets In Singapore, Malaysia, HKand Taiwan were closed yesterday 0 M T \"J r D P*'' frfVr flH| a M IJUI, ii L? 1.4 fci i fi/Jk Mn. v A Multi-User W t I vinHBI Terminal Catering to all users.
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      684 22 Lines services represented by Members of ihe Registry of AccrK^c Shipping Agents, Ng*«» "y Singapore Shipping Association Members of the Singapore Logistics Association NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBULK PROJECT CARGO TO DAMPIER/FREHUNTU MV "TBH" ETA SIN 06/02/2001 BOOKINGS CALL MONKA/JUUA TEL 323 4374 COTOUNERS/ COHVIIITIOIIAL CARGO K*T KUNC/SMCAfOKf/lAUKU
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      610 26 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA H PULL COtroyNEWSEFMCE va _voy m m re m srp m m mre mm ms n/qi »/»i 05/02 11/07 «/w it/02 rOMM&MX Ms" IS/07 06/07 li/OJ 11/0? 70/07 73/07 miwm MS 12/DZ IS/17 19/07 IS/07 17/0? 07/03 mam oos io/mto/w 07/03 m/«j ot/o3 w/oj FEEPER
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      408 27 i BSA A. mm MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE W (Myonmor Notional Line) Loading lor Yangon VESSEL VOT SIN PU m Nil MAWLAMYINE 94W SU> PAGAN 290W SID MALAYSIA AGENTS: BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGCNCKS MIL TU 03-*****00 PKL TEL 03-*****101 PEN: TEL 04-*****02 PGII: TEL 07-*****21/4 BANK LINE (A s«rvkt »l
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      1280 27 HMN^ HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. I VESSa VOY W SOU IB! RIM ANT HAM MV [VESSa I VOT I SOU lUN I RIB I ANT I HAB IBHI 81 I API PEARL 020W 29/01 21/02 14/02 IS/02 17/02 HY FEDERAL 3281 10/01 03/01 04/01 06/01 18/01 HY COMMODORE 330W
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      819 27 vOOv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND UUIN AMERICA *CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE" |VtSSE VOY RAMP WIGHT SM UC MAO MU SAV BAL ORF NYC NEW MOB TOM AH JO3 4001 ms 6.3* 1076T" OMfT ***** M7OT 10/03 1276TT376T 15/03 WoT 21/03 TARONGA AHIO4 4001 mm 6.3* 12/02 10/03 11/03 21/03
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      100 30 New Advertisers/Services/Agencies SINGAPORE PTE LTD W 15 McCallum Street #03-01 A) 2 Natwest Centre Singapore ***** *> Fax: (65) 2201)66 Email: general#ecusin eculine net Website httpy/www.eculine net INDONESIAN PORTS Banjarmasin/Jambi/Palembang/ Panjang/Pontfanak/Perawan/Pekan Baru Call: 220 3373 STANDARD SHIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD Offers Weekly FCL/LCL Services To EAST MALAYSIA PORTS DETAILS Pg
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      1071 31 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 Amm Road, #06*01 to 03, Singapore *****1 MAIN UNE/OUTWARD: 532 36M INWARD (DID): 437 23M IMPORT STATUS (DID): 437 7378 INVENTORY (DIDh 437 2430 Wobsito http://www.tomudora.iom CI HO. **********0N BOOKINGS UNE: 535 6266 (Celia/Jessica/Mei Chan/Jestynn/Poro/Yvonn«/Hanim) [QBflDßßßfli 7 SLGS/WEEKLY [QBSBiBi 3SIGS/WEEKLY IVESStI VOT SIN JAR VESSEL
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      764 31 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO WG SIM JKT SUP KM fOC IUMI KM I HAI I NTI QtF I SAY 1 N|W Ijj I HQyl HOKH DYKE/0040 04/01 10/01 13/01 IS/01 20/01 >4/01 104/0? 07/01 04/03 10/01 111/01 14/03 111/03 23/03 127/03 HOWM —HVA /0040 00/02 14/02
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      620 31 ENG LEE SHIPPING CO PTE UDI InKA W: *****22 (10 Um*) Fax: *****31/53J6960 I 15t2ffOO<NK I VESSEL VOY SIN ETA SIN ETD DESTINATION UraonSlar 47 01/01 26/01 26/01 Belowon Union Star 12 01/01 26/01 26/01 Semorang Dm Dim 02/01 26/01 27/01 Dumai/P Bau/Buoton Union Star 20 02/01 26/01 27/01 Jambi
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      633 32 wmmMmWmIBEBM VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN I TIGER BRIDGE 868N 24-25/01 30-05/02 10-11/02 I TIGER METRO 869N 31-01/02 0&09/02 13-14/02 I TIGER STAR 870N 04-05/02 10-13/02 18-19/02 I TIGER RHYTHM 871N 07-08/02 13-16/02 21-22/02 I TIGER BRIDGE 872N 10-11/02 16-19/02 24-25/02 I TIGER METRO 873N 13-14/02 19-22/02 26-27/02 I IVESSE^^^VO^^SI^^^CA^^SI^^I
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      1034 32 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS PTE LTD 51 Penjuru Road, 3rd Level, V Freight Links Express Logisticentre, Singapore *****3 Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesirvQsingnet.com.sg WEBSITE: www.frejghriinks.net FOR BOOKING: *****35/5539/*****5553/3494 Imwww Um H*****, K/P» iS^y WTiOW^L WAREHOUSING LOGISTIC SERVICES ENQUIRY CONTACT: CLEMENT CHUA 9688 5404, VINCENT SEE 9678 5760, SUNNY YEOW *****323
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      745 32 TO IUWOW CHINA N. EUROPE SERVICE VESSEL VOY HKG XGG UO SHA HANJIN VANCOUVER SS9E 57jAN THAN STFEB 06FEB OTFEB HARIN SAVANNAH 03 FE6 07FE6 11 FEB T3 FEB 15FE6 HANJIN NEWYQEK 109E 10 FEB 14 FEB 18 FEB 20 FEB 22 FEB TRADE TESIA 001E 17 FEB 21 FEB
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      126 33 LEGEND: issued by Meteorological Service Singapore Thunderstorm A Showers Rain Temperature wind direction and speed in knots Cloudy Day Weather Hazy Sea Conditions Wind speed symbols i 1 gjj_w| K om O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds J -j—-One half fleche represents 5 knots
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      112 34 NOTICE CHENNAI PORT CONGESTION SURCHARGE In view of a continuing delays in Chennai Port, the following Container Feeder Operators serving the Chennai trade herewith announce the introduction of a US$lOO/ TEU Congestion Surcharge on all laden container movements from Chennai/Colombo vv, Chennai/Malaysia vv and Chennai/Singapore vv. This surcharge will take
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