The Business Times, 3 May 2001

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2001 850
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  • Article
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    76 1 sn 1,737J1 (+14.94) «3J» (+2.47) ST DTOEX FUTURES 1,732 (+27.00) SBSOIPUTTOES ***** (+6.00) STOCK MA1XET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 611.42 +26.92 NIKKEI 225 14,425.46 +491.14 HANG SENG *****24 ***** SET INDEX ***** -1.11 JAKARTA COMP ***** +0.49 MANILA COMP _MS&88 +57.04 TAIPEI WPI M0424 -77.49 SEOUL COMP
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    76 1 FOREX BATES US* SI USS (SS per USS) 1-819 £(US$/S$ per 1.432 2.604 EUROfUSiSS/E) 0589 1.617 DM 1199 1109 YEN 1215 67.00 RM 1.800 1090 HKS 7.799 4J89 BAHT 4§.48 26.01 RUPIAH ***** 6,093 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50
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    Lock icon KL scraps 10% exit levy on stock profit
    763 1  -  Measure also seen as relieving pressure onringgitpeg From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government has finally dismantled the last barrier to the repatriation of stock market funds in a bid to woo foreign portfolio investments and help shore up one
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    Lock icon US army blows its top over berets
    184 1 600,000 berets made in China to be recalled, disposed of AFP [WASHINGTON] The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it would recall and dispose of more than 600,000 army berets because they were made in China. "The army chief of staff has determined that
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    Lock icon US economy poised on a knife's edge, says IMF
    920 1  -  Consumer spending a major factor that will make or break a recovery Fromi Vikram Khanna in Washington BACK in January, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan suggested in testimony to the US Congress that US economic growth was running at probably close to
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    Lock icon DBS Bank is next stop for Edmund Koh
    382 1  -  P-liexclusive He's expected to be senior figure in consumer banking By Serena Ng laiiNom'UK&j nldmund Koh, the high-profile banking executive, has landed a job with DBS two months after his previous job hit a dead end when OCBC scrapped its standalone Internet
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      52 1 DfBIPE EXECUTIVE SUITE will keep the property consultancy lean, hungry and profitable. Sack Page Top stories S'pore, Indon navies step up patrols of piracy hot spots. Shipping Times Pgl Debt issues by 4 S'pore firms among Asia's best. Next Page BT Comment Recognising potential value of ST Kinetics. Pg4 8!
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      16 1 US market may be overvalued, but it's still the best place for an investor, Pg 18
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      57 1 OUE's Hainan Still a strong hotel scores in case for spy plane crisis leadership.com Page 3 Page 15 i i *T*7 I jjw y. IB i* JMF /> x rfjfr« < AHbaMK i The movement in 02-36, 65/737 64 51. Dickson shops: The Centrepoint, Suntec City Cortina Lucky Sincere Watch
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      Lock icon Debt issues by 4 S'pore firms among Asia's best
      468 2  -  i exclusive There could be a net inflow of foreign fonds into region this year, adds survey By\ Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Global institutional investors have ranked debt issues by four Singapore companies among the best in Asia. In a survey published
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      Lock icon Gus Dur adopts more conciliatory tone towards legislators
      600 2  -  Financial markets lukewarm, with JSI foiling after his speech Frotn Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid stood his ground in a nationally televised speech yesterday, I)ut contrary to expectations, did not attack the House of Representatives (DPR) for censuring him
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        112 2 ADVERTISERS have come up with what they think is a smart idea to stop consumers throwing junk mail in the bin. It's a personal touch to make prospective customers think a friend is recommending the product. In its latest drive to recruit subscribers, Trend tetter has sent
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        Lock icon Desperately seeking sellers
        72 2 JP Morgan has come up with a quirky term to describe Singapore Inc's recent overseas forays. Its April markets outlook newsletter says Singapore suffers from an abundance of "distressed buyers" cash-rich firms that are desperate to make foreign acquisitions, even at rich premiums. The share price of
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        Lock icon Pessimistic about Koizumi
        56 2 LAST weekend, BT ran an online poll after Junichiro Koizumi was elected prime minister of Japan. The poll said: The change in Japan's leadership will help turn the economy around. The readers' response was: Yes, the new PM will bring new ideas 38% No, previous leaders have
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        Lock icon Red faces at Batey?
        114 2 ADVERTISING agency Red Square has stolen a march on long-established Batey Ads famous for its Singapore Girl ads for Singapore Airlines by beating the latter's associate to a DBS Cards deal. Red Square, founded by former banker Chan Siew Ling and designer Jose Martinez just two
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      478 2 KPMGSeminarSeries Banking Laws, Regulations Taxation Seminar Thursday Friday, 17 18 May 2001, Orchard Hotel Singapore What Compliance with banking laws and regulations should be a priority for all bank CEOs. With recent changes to various regulations, banks should ensure that their personnel understand the implications arising from these changes. It
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Recent penny stock rally sparked by Fed rate cut
      693 3  -  Small caps surge about 50% over past two weeks, led by lonics, GES, PCI By Ven Sreenivasan PENNY stocks and secondliners have been running up on strong volumes since the middle of last week in what is described by some market
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      Lock icon OUE's Hainan hotel scores in spy plane crisis
      569 3  -  US delegation and world media heap praises on Hainan Mandarin Hotel By Loh Hui Yin WHILE the jury is still out on whether the US or China came out ahead in the Hainan spy plane incident, there was at least one clear
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      Lock icon Tianjin shares surge on talk of arbitrage
      275 3 Reuters THE Singapore-listed shares of China's Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceutical Group surged yesterday on talk of arbitrage opportunities as the firm plans to issue 40 million Chinese domestic A shares. Tianjin rose as much as 48 per cent before settling at 57 US cents
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      Lock icon Army gets its first ATTCs from ST Engg
      654 4  -  The all-new, Singapore-designed vehicle is said to be unmatched by others in its class Reports by] David Boey THE Singapore Army received its first armoured supply vehicles billed as the world's most advanced all-terrain load carriers from Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engg)
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      Lock icon A hunt is on to track down its name
      212 4 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering was so focused on meeting its customer's operational requirements that it apparently forgot to find a name for its All-Terrain Tracked Carrier or ATTC. So with the first ATTCs delivered to the Singapore Army yesterday, the Ministry of
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      Lock icon Recognising potential value of ST Kinetics
      695 4  -  lock siew david boey HOW does one value the earnings potential of Singapore Technologies Engineering's land systems arm, ST Kinetics (STK), when the company's most interesting (read: lucrative) contracts have been kept under wraps for so long? Behind the Metes Going by development histories
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon More K K Fong shares sold
        83 7 I-ONE.NET controlling shareholder K K Fong's stake in the company has been further reduced by forced-selling. DBS Bank said it force-sold 8 million of Mr Fong's I-One shares from April 24-26 at 9-9.5 cents each. The sale reduced his stake in the company to
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        Lock icon Super Coffeemix setting up joint venture
        72 7 SUPER Coffeemix Manufacturing said yesterday it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with K&J Holdings and GDA Marketing UK to form a joint marketing company for Super Coffeemix's products in the UK and Europe. The joint venture will be set up within three
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        Lock icon SembCorp Marine sells stake in unit
        34 7 SEMBCORP Marine has sold its entire interest of 1.04 million ordinary shares in wholly-owned subsidiary Sembawang Jurong Corrosion Control to an associate company, Jurong Clavon, for $1.35 million.
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        Lock icon Oakwell in talks with investors
        35 7 Reuters OAKWELL Engineering said yesterday it is in preliminary discussions with potential investors. Shares of the engineering design, fabrication and repair firm closed two cents higher at 16 cents yesterday.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Amara complex valued at $290m
        40 7 AMARA Holdings said its main hotel and retail complex, the Amara Hotel Shopping Centre in Tanjong Pagar Road, has been valued at $290 million. The valuation was carried out by Knight Frank on March 23.
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      Lock icon HPL to wind up Elegant Hotels
      215 7 HOTEL Properties Limited (HPL) yesterday said it will wind up Elegant Hotels Pte Ltd (EH) as plans for the subsidiary have been scrapped. EH 70 per cent owned by HPL entered into an agreement to lease a property in Sydney last November with the
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      Lock icon Kembangan 99-yr condo priced at $640 psf
      355 7  -  Sources say it's close to the 189-nnit Bonvests project's breakeven cost By Kalpana Rashiwala HENRY Ngo's listed Bonvests Holdings has priced The Trumps, a 99-year leasehold condominium next to Kembangan MRT Station, at an average $640 psf. Sources told BT the $640 psf
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      Lock icon GRP plans to offer stock options to all staff
      363 7  -  If approved, new scheme will result in tax perks for staff By Liew Hanqing MAINBOARD-LISTED GRP Ltd is seeking shareholders' approval to extend its employee option scheme to all its staff a move that will yield tax benefits for employees. Under
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      Lock icon CapitaLand defends execs' pay, board's fees
      410 7  -  By Andrea Tan CAPITALAND deputy chairman Hsuan Owyang yesterday defended its president and chief executive Liew Mun Leong's pay and the massive jump in directors' fees paid out last year. At its maiden annual general meeting, some 100 shareholders turned up to decide on
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      330 6 Stocks Volume WahShing R 2.5c 27,539,000 GES Irrtl Ltd 20c 25,149,000 PacificCentufylOc 24,103,000 MediaRing 10c 19,584,000 PCI 25c 19,289,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 17,881,000 SingTel 15c 17,351,000 TianjinZhong 16,612,000 Frontline 5c 15,636,000 MMI Hldgs 10c 15,033,000 Stocks Chart Semiconductor 26c 80,311.000 VentureMfg25c 77,007,700 DBSGrp 58,188,300 Datacraft 10c 52,045,613 UOB 38,821,700 OCBC 31,888,170
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      Lock icon STI under late pressure, but manages to rise 15 points
      604 6  -  I-I I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy WALL Street's continued rise seems to have restored confidence in equities region-wide and to have given fund managers the reason they were looking for to buy Singapore stocks. With the Hong Kong market shooting
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      Lock icon Plains wrt: worth considering
      155 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy It's heartening to see that the market has recently made a decent attempt at relating undervalued counters. For instance, this column featured the brand-new Strike Engineering warrant last week and pointed out that at 8.5 cents, it offered excellent value. Yesterday,
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      Lock icon Lafe Tech set to dear 22-cent hurdle?
      236 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan SMALL-CAP counters on the Singapore bourse have enjoyed a strong rally in recent weeks. One of them is the stock of data storage components maker Lafe Technology, which closed half a cent higher at 21.5 cents yesterday, when
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      Lock icon Firm stock prices lift yen
      467 6 AFP [TOKYO] The yen rose against the dollar in thin Tokyo trade yesterday, underpinned by firm stock prices and continued expectations that Japan's new leadership would reform the economy, dealers said. The Japanese currency traded in Tokyo at 121.86-89 to the dollar at spm, up
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2859 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss):May 3 Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.787 0.828 Global Technology Fd!** 0.699 0.735 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.811 0.853 American Opport Fd 0.883 0.928 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.115 1.171 Japan EqtyFd!** 1.243 1.306 Asian Fixed Income Fd
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      32 6 l|| EXECUTIVE SUITE S Get up-to-date on the property market, and look out for our new weekly legal matters column, interior decor, architecture and gardening stones. In The Business Times every Thursday.
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Money supply picks up in March
      296 8  -  on the economy money supply By Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S money supply picked up in March, after seven months of year-on-year declines in the broadest aggregate of M 3, latest figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore show. The broad aggregates of M 2 and
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      Lock icon Electronics 'tigers' to be hit most: ADB
      596 8  -  Singapore exports growth seen at 5% this year, lowest among Asian tigers By Chuang Peck Ming ASIAN economies that rely on electronics exports will be hit hardest in the current economic slowdown, says the Asian Development Bank (ADB). And one of them, Singapore,
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      Lock icon More power users can pick retailers soon
      416 8 TO further liberalise Singapore's energy market and to allow more consumers to buy electricity at competitive prices, more businesses and industries will be able to choose their electricity retailers from the end of this year. These include high tension and extra high tension
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      Lock icon Chinese Swimming Club may impose building levy on members
      362 8  -  Levy of op to $1,000 among fund-raising measures for redeveloping the clnb Reports by Trina Foo THE Singapore Chinese Swimming Club (CSC) may impose a building levy of up to $1,000 on its members to help raise money for an ambitious
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      Lock icon New president wins by just 4% margin
      145 8 NEW president Edwin Lee was chosen by the club's members in a closely fought election on April 29. He beat rival candidate Sam Goi Seng Hui by just 39 votes, or 4 per cent of the 839 votes cast. At a marathon 86th
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      Lock icon Johnson Controls garners OHQ status
      179 8 It will move the headquarters of its automotive, controls groups to Singapore THE Economic Development Board has conferred operational headquarters (OHQ) status on US-based Johnson Controls, the world's No 2 maker of vehicle seats and interiors. "OHQ status is awarded to a select group of
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      Lock icon Mah didn't state projections release date
      137 9  -  7i rj I bag Soo Siew Keong, Keong, Press Secretary to Minister, Ministry of National Development I REFER to your report, "Govt's residential projections out soon: Mah" (BT, May 2). The report gave the misleading impression that the government will announce its medium to
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      Lock icon Centrepoint's edge
      84 9  -  Han Cheng Fong Deputy chairman/CEO Centrepoint Properties Ltd I REFER to your article, "Centrepoint to review business to boost ROE" (BT, May 1). In the article, it was highlighted that I made this statement: "The edge of Centrepoint, which if I'm not too modest to say, is we've
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      Lock icon Evidence suggests MTR more efficient
      278 9  -  William Chu, Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the letter "MRT, HK's MTR not directly comparable: SMRT" by Goh Chee Kong, director, corporate communications, Singapore MRT Ltd (Mailbag, April 28). Mr Goh used the difference in population between HK and Singapore to justify why HK's
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      Lock icon Call to ease 20% downpayment rule
      336 9  -  Tan Suan Mong, Singapore I REFER to the letter "Two ways to boost local spending" by Zheng Baoguang (Mailbag, April 20). The letter has merit. As a young professional, I have been monitoring the residential property market closely for many months now, and I
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      Lock icon S'pore won't be 'back door to Afta'
      587 9 Govt letter to Malaysian paper rebuts blistering editorial attacking Singapore's FTAs IT IS "simply not true" that Singapore could become the "back door" for foreign goods to sneak into the Asean free-trade area (Afta), the Singapore government has said once again. In a
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Poverty is the problem, not inequality
      816 10  -  bottom line OPINION robert samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group AT last count I was trailing way behind Bill Gates in life's wealth derby. His pay cheque is bigger, he owns more stock and he lives in a bigger house. None of this bothers
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      89 10 'Shiokawa who? We thought it was a mistake.' -KimihikoTomita a foreign exchange dealer, on hearing of the appointment of 79-year-old Masajuro Shiokawa as Japan's new finance minister. The failure to predict major slowdowns or contractions in activity has been a notable feature of forecasts of the US
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      Lock icon Give futures a chance
      637 10 EDITORIAL IT is strange that so many equity market professionals seem so unenthusiastic about the impending launch of sin-gle-stock futures contracts on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). In contrast to futures contracts on equity Indices, the new contracts will be on selected counters, presumably blue chips. The
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      Lock icon The higher they fly, the harder they fall
      1319 10  -  Once the toast of the town, Richard Li is now the Iratt of jokes, with his CyberWorks struggling to get ont of the doldrums By] Loh Hui Yin The writer is a BT senior correspondent CHAMPAGNE flowed freely the night Richard Li's
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      Lock icon The US just might dodge the ballet
      757 10  -  COMMENTARY And let-bygones-be-bygones will then triumph over crime-and-pnnishment By\ Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University THINGS are getting worse more slowly let's celebrate! That seemed to be the mood in the markets on Tuesday, after the National
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Ringgit loophole in Labuan for wealthy Malaysians
      664 11  -  exclusive Re-pegging fears fuel demand for investment-linked insurance products Froml Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur WITH speculation of a re-peg-ging of the ringgit's exchange rate gaining momentum, more wealthy Malaysians have found a way to take their money out of the country
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      Lock icon KL March trade surplus down by 40%
      415 11 KUALALUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S trade surplus narrowed 40 per cent in March from a year ago, the biggest drop in almost a year, as electronics makers shipped fewer goods to US customers. The surplus shrank to RM4.2 billion (Ss2 billion) from RM7 billion a
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    • MALAYSIA Briefs
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        Lock icon SC okays new YHS deal
        70 11 THE Securities Commission has approved Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Bhd's revised proposal to buy the manufacturing assets of its Singapore parent at a lower price due to the drop in its share price. YHS Malaysia will acquire the YHS Singapore's assets for RM74 million (5533.9
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        Lock icon KLSE extends MTC's listing status
        90 11 THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has extended the listing status of Malaysian Tobacco Company until the end of the month following its new deal to acquire satellite company from tycoon Ananda Krishnan in a reverse takeover last month. The listing status would have lapsed yesterday
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        Lock icon M'sian Pacific's Q3 profit down 55%
        68 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Pacific Industries Bhd said profit in the third quarter tumbled 55 per cent as demand for semiconductor goods shrank. Profit fell to RM35.4 million ringgit (5516.9 million), or 17.7 sen a share, in the three months ended March 31, from
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        Lock icon Ringgit peg stays, says govt
        67 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia reiterated yesterday that the ringgit peg of 3.8 units to a US dollar would remain and said the government was keeping an eye on regional currencies to ensurethe country's export competitiveness. Entrepreneur Development Minister Nazri Aziz, speaking on behalf of the
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        Lock icon Anwar aide gets 18-month sentence
        55 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A former close aide to jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison for giving false evidence for the defence during Anwar's 1999 corruption trial. Azmin Ali was convicted by a sessions court of committing the offence in
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      Lock icon Aeroflot becomes 5th foreign carrier to end flights to Malaysia
      349 11 KUALALUMPUR AFP RUSSIA'S Aeroflot has become the fifth foreign carrier to halt services to Malaysia's main international airport since it opened in June 1998. Aeroflot's twice-weekly services to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) stopped at the end of March, the
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      Lock icon Telekom slashes leased line charges by up to 50%
      478 11  -  Analysts see move as bid to maintain market share From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur TELEKOM Malaysia yesterday slashed charges for its digital leased line services, in a move analysts said was aimed at maintaining its leading market share as
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      Lock icon M'sia to barter RM11b of palm oil
      313 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA will barter RMII billion (555.3 billion) of palm oil to China and India in return for construction of railway tracks in an effort to cut its stockpile of the commodity and boost prices. Malaysia will award RM6.B billion of
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Manila's share benchmark up 4.1% in turnaround
      616 13  -  Govt's quelling of Estrada backers cited as key reason Prom Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE financial markets rejoiced yesterday over the government's quashing of an attempt by backers of jailed president Joseph Estrada to wrest power and allegedly set up a junta. The
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      Lock icon Banks to lobby HK govt on MTR shares
      362 13 HONGKONG Reuters INVESTMENT banks are expected to push the Hong Kong government to favour institutional investors over local retail buyers in its estimated US$2 billion second tranche share issue for subway operator MTR Corp, market sources said. The investment bankers will meet
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      Lock icon Thai Airways appoints new chairman in revamp move
      302 13 BANGKOK New chief vows to cnt costs, perks as part of profit drive Bloomberg THAI Airways International's board appointed a legal and political academic its new chairman as part of an attempt by the government to revamp Asia's sixth-largest carrier and return
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      Lock icon Indon trade surplus widens, inflation stays high
      171 13 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S trade surplus rose in March to its biggest in six months, boosted by exports of oil and gas, while inflation held steady in April near its highest in almost two years. The trade surplus widened to US$2.lB billion from February's
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      Lock icon Indonesian ex-official held over state secrets
      164 13 JAKARTA AP INDONESIAN police have arrested a former government official for allegedly selling state secrets to foreign countries, a spokesman said yesterday. Soeripto was sacked in March as secretary-general of the forestry ministry after media reports said President Abdurrahman Wahid had accused him of
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      Lock icon Indonesian oil subsidy poised to drain more from Budget
      722 13 JAKARTA Any Increase will upset foreign lenders and derail plan, agreed with IMF, to eradicate subsidies by 2003 Reuters TOO scared to raise fUel prices for the poor and trapped by the crumbling rupiah, Indonesia will have little choice but to
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      Lock icon Indon debt workout unit close to IMF target
      308 13 JAKARTA Reuters AN Indonesian debt workout unit yesterday said it had facilitated a cumulative US$ll.B billion in corporate debt restructuring by the end of April, in line with a US$l2 billion target agreed with the IMF. But the Jakarta Initiative Task Force
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      403 14  -  ASEAN ECONOMIC MINISTERS RETREAT Six established members to help 4 new entrants boost economies; officials Prom Harish Mehta in Siem Reap ASEAN is forging a comprehensive trade and investment strategy aimed at collectively countering the threat from China, while the grouping's six
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      255 14 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN and Malaysia are expected to announce details of a bilateral currency swap agreement next week, part of a planned Asia-wide currency safety net, Japanese Finance Ministry officials said yesterday. Agreement between the two countries would be a big
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      711 15  -  I comment TECHNOLOGY Dotcoms are spiralling earthwards like pricked balloons. Is the Mew Economy Jnst so much hot air? kenneth james WHEN consultant and author Noel Tichy gave a seminar here recently on leadership and corporate transformation, he cited a Texas-based firm called Trilogy
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      267 15 CUPERTINO, California AP APPLE Computer Inc unveiled a new ißook laptop on Tuesday in a move it hopes will boost its fading share of the education market. "Some people have wondered if our commitment to education was as strong as it once was. I can
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      435 15 LONDON Sale of Japan Telecom, Airtel stakes helps British Telecom slash debt Reuters, Bloomberg BRITISH Telecom wiped £4.4 billion (5511.5 billion) off its crushing debt load yesterday by selling stakes in Japan and Spain to rival Vodafone, which announced a record-breaking £3 billion share sale
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        85 15 Reuters [ASHBURN, Virginia] Internet access provider PSINet Inc, which has warned it may go out of business or reorganise in bankruptcy, on Tuesday said it would default on U5536.7 million in interest, equipment and note payments. "The actions announced today will help preserve cash while
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        83 15 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Royal KPN NV, the largest Dutch phone company, expects first-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation fell "slightly" because of price cuts and marketing costs. The company, in a preliminary earnings report, said sales rose about 20 per cent, boosted by
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        73 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Motorola Inc, the largest maker of set-top digital TV devices, said on Tuesday it struck a five-year licensing pact giving it access to technology that allows users to automatically record shows on their hard disks. The technology, which Motorola is licensing from
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        69 15 Reuters [HOUSTON] Compaq Computer and Starbucks Coffee announced a joint project to provide high-speed wireless Internet access at Starbucks stores. Beginning this summer, some Starbucks customers will be able to surf the Net on their handheld or laptop computers while sipping coffee. And
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      277 15 NEW YORK These aim to make it easier for small and mid-sized firms to manage networks Reuters INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp (IBM) on Tuesday unveiled new computers aimed at making it easier for small and mid-sized businesses to manage their networks.
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      464 15 HONGKONG His stake in the Internet travel auctioneer is now worth U*****.6m Bloomberg HONG Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, called "superman" in the Chineselanguage press for his investing prowess, has tripled the value of his investment in Priceline.com Inc in just 11 weeks. The
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      731 16 Job market saturated as India's IT professionals are being laid off, both at home and abroad AFP [BANGALORE] A month ago a multinational technology firm advertised 20 positions in India's IT capital of Bangalore and to its surprise found 6,000 software
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      352 16 HOUSTON Dabhol plant's row with govt over payment nnresolved Reuters ENRON Corp has no immediate plans to sell its stake in the troubled US$2.9 billion Dabhol power project in western India, the energy giant's chairman said on Tuesday. "We're not
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      184 16 TAIPEI Bloomberg UNITED Microelectronics Corp (UMC) said it would move up the chip chain to begin manufacturing processors, the "brains" of computers, in an effort to offset falling prices of less sophisticated integrated circuits. "Processors would be the highest profit margin for us," said
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      512 17 NEW YORK Many are difficult to interpret, don't nse generally accepted principles and risk misleading investors AFX-Asia PROMINENT US corporate economists and the Securities and Exchange Commission are calling for stricter standards for corporate earnings news releases, which are often deemed increasingly
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      320 17 Govt officials deny being informed of such a move Reuters [TOKYO] Speculation that Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Masaru Hayami plans to quit was put on ice yesterday, after government officials denied being informed of such a move and the finance minister said
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      416 17 TOKYO Govt white paper urging companies to restructure will be released la ter this month Reuters JAPAN will shortly acknowledge that it has lost its economic primacy in Asia and that China in particular is a growing competitive threat, the Yomiuri Shimbun
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      392 18 LONDON Last month's decline first since 1999; ECB seen as unlikely to lower rates Bloomberg, Reuters MANUFACTURING shrank in the euro zone's three largest economies last month for the first time since 1999. Both domestic and foreign demand weakened as slackening US growth is
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      518 18 WASHINGTON Deal hinges on pact on spending levels for federal agencies NYT US House and Senate Republicans reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday to cut taxes by US$l.35 trillion over the next 11 years. The accord falls some US$25O billion short of President George
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      225 18 Reuters, AP [WASHINGTON] US factory orders rose 1.8 per cent in March, driven by a massive gain in defence-related orders for shipbuilding and tanks, the government said yesterday in a report that showed weakness elsewhere in the factory sector. Factory
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      361 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] HSBC Holdings pic, Europe's biggest bank by market value, is seeking investor approval to issue new shares worth as much as £17 billion (5544.4 billion), which may be used to finance acquisitions. The second-largest bank after Citigroup Inc will ask for approval-to
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        77 18 Reuters [LONDON] Japanese investment bank Nomura has been named preferred bidder in the Meridien luxury hotel auction after submitting a bid of £1.85 billion (Ss4.B billion), sources close to the talks said yesterday. The bid by Nomura financier Guy Hands and head of its private
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        87 18 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Frank Cicutto, chief executive of National Australia Bank Ltd, cannot be sued for inducing a breach of contract as part of software developer John Maconochie's Assl billion (5546.9 billion) lawsuit against the nation's biggest bank, a judge ruled. Maconochie, through Market Holdings
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        85 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] Shareholders of snack and soft drink giant PepsiCo and cereal maker Quaker Oats approved PepsiCo's plan to buy Quaker on Tuesday, paving the way for Pepsi to add Quaker's coveted Gatorade sports drink to its noncarbonated drinks lineup. The merger will create a global
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        72 18 AP [DETROIT] Eager to unload its Hughes Electronics subsidiary, General Motors Corp's board of directors voted to authorise stepped-up talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. News Corp wants Hughes' DirecTV satellite business because it would fill a major gap in the coverage area
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        62 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] British American Tobacco, the second largest tobacco company, said it may open a factory in China, which has 300 million smokers, after declining US sales led to a 23 per cent drop in first-quarter profit. Net income before one-time items
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        66 18 Bloomberg [BONN] Deutsche Post said 2000 earnings rose 48 per cent as Europe's largest mail carrier accelerated integration of companies outside its traditional letter-carrying business. Net income rose to 1.53 billion euros (552.5 billion), or 1.36 euros a year, from 1.03 billion euros, or
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      886 20 WASHINGTON Posh to junk Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; vow to cat reliance on nuclear forces LAT—WP, AP US PRESIDENT George W Bush proposed on Tuesday that the United States plunge into the new world of missile defence, abandoning both the treaty on which the
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      445 20 AFP (WASHINGTON] The Pentagon is developing a variety of sea, air and landbased systems to create a layered defence against ballistic missiles that is capable of protecting the 50 US states as well as US forces overseas. Best known and most controversial is the National
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      436 20 SAN FRANCISCO LAT-WP, AP CHINESE and US hackers escalated their cyber war on Tuesday, in a rising battle of online mischief triggered by the recent collision between a Chinese military jet and a US surveillance plane. Scores of websites were defaced on Monday
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      585 20  -  Super 301 report also names several other countries From Leon Hadar in Washington THE Bush administration has warned Japan's new re-form-oriented government that it could face trade sanctions unless Tokyo removes existing barriers to American products. The threat was made as part
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      258 22  -  SGZ Derivatives Trading Report ST Indav/MSCI S*pore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE Singapore stock market climbed to a seven-week high yesterday, helped by Nasdaq's 2.5 per cent overnight gain. At the close, the benchmark Straits Times Index was 14.94 points
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      237 22  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd TAIWAN stocks edged down yesterday, led by Via Technologies Inc falling on sluggish semiconductor demand. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index lost 1.39 points, or 0.57 per cent, to close at 241.05 points. Turnover for
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      215 22 Reuters London THE euro fell to two-week lows against the yen and lost half a per cent against the dollar yesterday after data signalled a contraction in the euro-zone manufacturing sector. The Reuters Purchasing Managers' Index dipped below the critical 50 level in April for the first time
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      2777 23 HONG KONG AFP H Hang Seng *428.20 HONG KONG share prices rose 3.2 per cent in post-holi-day trade yesterday following recent gains on Wall Street, dealers said. There was notable buying interest in hi-tech and telecom stocks after Nasdaq's rise in
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      2106 23 TOKYO Reuters QffikkaKS 482 TOKYO stocks ended mixed yesterday with investors locking in profits ahead of a four-day holiday following hefty rises in the previous session. But sentiment remained strong amid hopes that Japan's new prime minister will enact reforms and a growing view
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      384 23 AFP jjjjWP Index -77.43 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower yesterday as late selling wiped out earlier gains, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 77.43 points to 5,304.24, on a turnover of NT574.67 billion. Decliners overwhelmed gainers 494 to 59, while 36 issues
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      394 24 AFP H Composite Index *2112 MALAYSIAN shares soared 4.6 per cent yesterday following the government's decision to abolish the 10 per cent exit tax on portfolio profits, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 26.92 points at 611.42.
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      307 25 Reuters POMnDogitelDdei +&34 SEOUL'S Composite Index ended up 1.10 per cent, or 6.34 points, at 583.70 yesterday. Volume jumped to 593.3 million shares —Reuters M»1 Won A nam Saml 4705 -95 Brain T»ch 600 0 C antral Bank 170 0 Chail Comm ***** 4000 Dm Cu Bank 1430 -10
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      285 25 AFP Composite Index *57.04 PHILIPPINE shares surged 4.1 per cent yesterday following President Gloria Arroyo's decisive action against rioting. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 57.04 points to 1,435.88. The turnover rose to 433 million shares worth 765 million pesos. —AFP May! Pesa root) Abacus Construction 0.64 0.04
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      276 25 AFP □NISE-40 -172 NEW Zealand stocks closed down 0.1 per cent yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 2.72 points at 2,106.35 on a light turnover of NZ$74 million. The focus was on Air New Zealand in the wake of an upheaval in the domestic and Australian aviation markets.
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      557 25 Reuters, AFP PAD Ordinaries *190 THE Australian All Ordinaries Index ended 0.08 per cent, or 2.9 points, up yesterday at 3,271.5. The SP/ASX 200 Index rose 1.9 points to 3,330.6. The All Industrials Index closed 1.2 points higher at 5,584.7 but the All Resources Index added 7.4 points to
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      738 25 Reuters □set Index -U1 PROFIT-TAKING by retail investors wiped out early gains on the Thai stock exchange yesterday after a brighter open cheered by gains on US markets. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index ended down 0.37 per cent, or 1.11 points, at 299.52 after hitting an intraday high
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      725 25 AFP QCompotitehdtx ♦0.48 INDONESIAN share prices closed slightly firmer yesterday, but off their highs, after a televised speech by President Abdurrahman Wahid failed to ease political uncertainty, dealers said. The Composite Index closed up 0.49 point, or 0.14 per cent, at 362.72 on a volume of 539.3 million shares
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      751 28  -  A US group of successful women, many of whom are tapped for high-level jobs in the Bush administration, are challenging feminist views with a laissez-faire brand of conservatism. RICHARD MORDf and CLAUDIA DHAMD find out more RICHARD MORIN,CLAUDIA DEANE [WASHINGTON] A LOOSE association of successful, politically
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      1454 29  -  Looking for a residential property? ***** CHOON FAH offers some tips for those looking for their dream home ONG CHOON FAH The writer is executive director of DTZ Debenham Tie Leung BUYING a private residential property is probably one of the most important
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      520 31 DEVELOPER/OWNER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNITS NO. OF PRICE TENURE (sq ft) LAUNCHED UNITS SOLD psf) Abode at Devonshire TTHDevt 9 Devonshire Rd 1,012-2,756 26 4 1,288 FH No 1 Holt Rd RiyanPteLfd 10 HottRd 1,561-3,197 40 na 1,100 FH Holt Residences Centrepoint Prop 10 Holt
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      61 29 PRIME FREEHOLD CONDOMINIUM SITE OFF NEWTON RD FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY Land Area 75,950 sqft Plot Ratio 2.8 Height 36 storeys Distance to MRT 10 mins walk to Novena MKT INVESTMENT SALES HMIHjH Knight *<9 Dfflßfl Frank iMI David Ng *****16 Dr Amy Khor *****18 Dennis Yeo *****88 WooAi
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      62 29 For Sale By Private Treaty FREEHOLD INDUSTRIAL SITE AT TAGORE LANE Location Strategically situated at the junction of Tagore Drive and Tagore Lane, off Upper Thomson Road. Near to Tagore Industrial Building and The NTUC distribution Centre. Land Area 5,156.8 sq m (approximately 55,508 sq ft) Zoning Light Industry with
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      59 29 INVESTMENT^^^^^MipgBpMM FOR SALE BY TENDER 11 freehold bungalow plots at 200 208 Jervois Rd Jervois Tanglin GCB area Elevated with commanding views of surrounding greenery Plots starting from 15,069 sft to 22,604 sft Either single multiple plots or enbloc Tender Closing: 4pm Wed 23 May 2001 For further information, please
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      44 29 —FORSALE Single-sty factory cum 4-sty office Factory Ceiling Height :11m •Land Approx. 47,278 sq ft •Built-in Approx. 49,364 sq ft •JTC Lease Bal 37 years 5 minutes to CBD For Enquiries, contact Joint Marketing Agents Knight V+ lEEPebenhamg Frank H S 228 6894 KSEEZIM
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      160 31 ROYAL HIBISCUS HOTEL For Sale by Tender (Liquidators' Sale) Address 44 Lorong 6 Geylang Description An 8-storey 56-room hotel Land Area 346.1 sqm or 3,725 sqft appro*. Gross Floor Area 1,139.53 sqm or 12,266 sqft approx. Tenure Freehold Zoning Residential/Institutional with plot ratio of 2.8 (1998 Masterplan) Carparking 5 lots
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      193 31 Prestigious Office Outside CBD for Lease Novena Square '9,616 sf Shell House 9,774 sf I«* The Gateway 12,000 sf Prime Strata-Offtce For Sale Suntec Tower One 3,500 3,900 7,400 sf Suntec Tower Two 2,350 sf Sole Agent: HHHNBn 531 ***** 531 8666 PRIME INDUSTRIAL BUILDING IN SENOKO Description A 10
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      422 33  -  Joint patrols by two countries may start within months By) Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Singapore and Indonesia Navies have intensified patrols in territorial and international waters in response to piracy movement fears. The Shipping Times understands the armed forces have
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      119 33 [LONDON] French classification society Bureau Veritas saw its net profits jump by 47.5 per cent to US$47 million (5584.6 million) last year on the back of a 17.7 per cent rise in turnover to U*****.3 million. The company's marine business accounted for US$l23 million
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      72 33 [CALCUTTA] A Panamanian cargo ship that was hijacked last week berths at a jetty in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta. Police said the Jubilee, with 23 people aboard and carrying 4,4B2tonnes of logs from Yangon to Calcutta, was hijacked by more than
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      662 33  -  Optional extensions for certain ships also included in legislation From. David Hughes in London THE International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set the seal on a firm agreement on the accelerated phase out of single hull tankers. The new form
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      437 33  -  First of two coastal chemical product tankers with innovative design to be delivered by December By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] International tanker shipping company, Concordia Maritime, fresh from taking.delivery of the first of two new revolutionary VLCC tankers from Hyundai Heavy Industries,
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      15360 40 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES Pages EXPORT THURSDAY, MAY 3, 200 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 15/05 19/06 Delmas VILLE DE TANYA T43W 65-*****44 16/05 01/07 COSCO EMPRESS DRAGON 0109W 65-*****00 22/05 26/06 Delmas VILL DE TAURUS A43W
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        1933 43 RECEIYWC OF EXPOtT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCI CAItOO |M(im<|gwi RsttS Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Nrtod Frew To Fr— ACHIEVER 401 3/20*0 OVB0 01/1659 MO 2A 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 K 0VT700 02/0*59 02/0900 02/0700 02/1159 02/Vt00 4 01/11(0 02/1459 02/1700 ACXSEAGUU 0140 4/10*0 01/1500 OVB0 MO I* 01/1700 02/990
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        172 43 May 3 Japan: Constitution Day MayS Japan: Children Day Thailand: Coronation Day Netherlands Liberation South Korea: Children Day May® Thailand: Chakri Day May 7 Malaysia: Vesak Day Singapore: Vesak Day Thailand: Vesak Day Indonesia: Vesak Day Hay 8 France: Victoria Day Kay 11 Denmark: General Prayer Day May
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        781 43 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 baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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        515 43 CartM 180 Mu 991.0 0.5 13.3 0.07 26 0.03 Apr 26 Density Water RmMm Ask Ahwlwlw iidnit No abow E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 %H H 380 A«c 964.0 0J 12.5 0.07 24 0.02 Ezna 380 Mu 990.7 11 15 J 0.11 67 0.03
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        606 44 Air NZ unit has As6oom cash to spend on regaining market share Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Air New Zealand Ltd's Ansett unit said it may compete with Qantas Airways Ltd to buy unprofitable Impulse Airlines, one of two discount carriers that sparked a price
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        320 44 Number of int'l passengers continues to rise Bloomberg [TOKYO] Fewer Japanese travelled on domestic flights in February while the number of passengers on scheduled international air routes rose for the 27th straight month, according to government data. Monthly domestic passenger numbers showed their first on-year
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        376 44 Its transportation, permitting process most improve: Condi t AP [SEATTLE] Seattle needs to be friendlier to business, Boeing Co chairman Phil Condit said in some of his harshest criticism of the city since announcing Boeing's decision to move its corporate headquarters. Speaking
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        167 44 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co, the biggest planemaker, won an order from International Lease Finance Corp for five 747-400 freighter airplanes valued at US$l billion (Ssl.B billion). The Los Angeles-based leasing company, a unit of American International Group Inc, will get the first plane
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        41 44 [MONTREAL] Bombardier celebrated its 10th anniversary of the CRJ airliner with the unveiling of the 500 th CRJ aircraft in Montreal. The aircraft is to be delivered to Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) in Sterling, Virginia. REUTERS
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        148 44 board," the spokesperson said. AFX Asia [BANGKOK] Hundreds of aviation industry employees rallied outside Thai Airways International's Bangkok headquarters to protest against the company's new board of directors, an airline spokesman said. Deputy Transportation and Communication Minister Pracha Maleenond, who chaired a meeting of the
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      593 34 OLPENPORFF INnOT R A N S HEAVY-LIFT SPECIALIST TO US I GULF Turn To Ctey to JPN, TWN, HKG. PHI iAccepfrng KU >o Combod»/(^/S«^^ OUWOUMD Nor! jplwaipouf «n| pko|k>u|iw«.|»«p| ic.|icw»|o>a| ttolyokl twc smz| woolukb" taVOM. 0141 MM _MflS ONE ISO. 15jQ5 HPS WWan ««_OUB m. oy*. w-os ius 110s ujs
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      188 34 nes s fv ces represented by (o Members of the Registry of Members of the fclSjSil/ Accredited Shipping Agents, Sin 9 a P° re Lo 9 is,ics Singapore Shipping Association Association .9 g ULY UNI MAIS I vessel Tvoy Tlw ["eta eta P. RUNG SPORE MALI Princess Lily VO4Ol 16/05
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      1228 35 SAX SERVKE (DIRECT) VESSEL VOY SIN ETA LAX OAK DAL HOU CHI COL MEM All NYC API SARDONYX 026E 17/01 01/02 OS/02 05/02 OS/02 OS/02 05/02 05/02 06/02 06/02 API TURQUOISE 040E 24/01 00/02 12/02 12/02 12/02 12/02 12/02 12/02 13/02 13/02 API JADE 026 E. 01/02 15/02 19/02 19/02
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      2040 35 TO AMN T/TllO MVS 1 JEDiAH T/T: 12 MVS I W MAM I T/T 115 MVS I GENERAL AGENTS IN SMGAPORE: SO ROMNSON KO #12-00 SAIiS/RXGS TEL *****57/43 FAX: *****21/71 mm PASIR GUDANG TEL 07-*****66 FAX: 07-*****70 rACTiI SHIPPINfi PTE ITU SINGAPORE *****0 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 *****25/75 PORT KIANG 03-*****633
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      889 36 I~IV/Y~ J cwmonswenewee 3WJ:(O6«)Siei7» MAffILA: (632) *****24 W PB4ANQ: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (062) *****87 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 P. KELANCfc (03} MBJB3I JKEgI) *****46 KUOBM6 (082) *****1-3 SHANGHAI I MV "AL MARIYAH" V.016 ETA SIN 09/05/2001 (Abo accepting to MULIAN, FAISALABAD, SIAIXOT, RAWALPINDI, PESHAWAR, ISLAMA6AD) BOOKINGS PLS CALL 220 2022 (40
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      502 36 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR INDIAN PORTS FOR N.SHEVA (CFS MULUNO, MUMSAI) COCHIN COLOMBO ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALL NORTHERN AND WESTERN 1.C.0. POINTS Vessel VOY S PORE N SHEVA COCHIN COLOMBO PIC LANG FRONTIER 109W 06 MAY 15 MAY 1S MAY 21 MAY 2S MAY PU GLORY 109W 13 MAY 22
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      345 37 GOOD FRIDAY RDM/ATW/BMN/UK I OCEAN RANGER RDM/ATW/BMNAJK I Loads Singapore, E7W. Malaysia. Indonesia _J I m Loading tot PAULX JDfVAQA/DMT SOOTHER STAR 1 JDH/AQA RAINIER DBI/ABIVDOH/BRN/DMM/KWT PIONEER SUN DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT EFFYN JDH/AQA/DMT SEA RENOWN HOO/JDH/AQA toads Singapore, E7W. Malaysia Indonesia I Loading for 1 NATS EMPEROR CAM/NFK/SAV/NOL I HANJIN TAMPA VCW/LAX/MZL
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      832 38 VBsa VOT SI IB I Iff LO» VBSa VOT SM IT fl naotaihum os/os m/os I oi/os habihum 430s os/ds M/os IHUM" 3»sw 04/05 W/OS 10/05 M*; 014 04/D3 MS 10/05 moo Oltt 07/0S 11/05 I 11/0S !i3 M/ 05 12/05 UNI (HUM ?08N 01/05 12/05 SfiZ !M5 12ZSJ IE
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      119 43 iooe"""""""""* lasT^^^SKrJ legend Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm q ain Temperature Wind direction and speed in knots Weather Cloudy Day t><) Hazy Sea Conditions Wind speed symbols I Slight. 12m O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds -l—-One half fleche represents 5 knots
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