The Business Times, 19 November 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http:/ business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 2001 BSC
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  • 66 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week Change STI 1,***** *69.40 SDfSCI FlTUKE_177JO ♦10.00 BT-SW HU8 Mi7 KLSEOOMP 83U1 +36J6 NIKKEI 18,649.09—****** HANG SENG —1L287,37_+***** SET INDEX 27iM +7.43 JAKABTA COMP.J78J7 *L» MANILA COUP -L***** *31» TAIPEI WPI —4,***** -****** SEOUL COMP—***** *14.13 SHENZHEN B ***** -aw AOST ALL ORD_ltt7i0 *3110
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  • 67 1 FOBEX BATES USS s$ USS (SS per USS) tMJ £(l'SS/SS per 2) L440 2J40 EU80(USS/SS/E). 0.882 L016 DM ill* L110 YEN 1211 KM M 1800 1071 HK8 7 m 42K BAffT 4144 84J4 RUPIAH IQJM 5,798 PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* U| KEALALCm* .6.40 HONG KONG ut JAKARTA .».oo TAIPEI _6.7#
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  • 848 1  -  Reviews underway raise concerns property supply may increase By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The Ministry of Law (MinLaw) and its statutory board Singapore Land Authority (SLA) are studying ways to boost returns from government buildings and put vacant state-owned land parcels
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  • 701 1  -  Jetro survey signals farther decline in investments ahead for Asean's top 5 economies From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE companies operating in the five largest Asean economies have become "increasingly negative" about the outlook in these markets, according to the latest survey of
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  • 532 1  -  They expect him to take over should BG Lee become prime minister Byi Angela Tan and Vince Chong [SINGAPOREI Newcomer to politics Tharman Shanmugaratnam is widely tipped to take on the finance portfolio once Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong steps down, finance sector
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    • 275 1 How APB makes sure it's Tiger time 'Kiasu risk' brewing everywhere llOllie and abroad Exclusive, Pg 4 RSivanithyPgS *v HK stocks: Why S'pore businessmen trail property market not -r v in the clear yet Taiwanese in China mp q2 T Audrey Tan Pgn makuE Top Stories Indonesia's eastern provinces woo
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    • 646 2  -  Taiwan businessman lists qualities and attitudes entrepreneurs need to succeed in mainland business Bk Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] A long-term and outwardlooking orientation, and a supportive family. These are the key qualities Singaporean entrepreneurs should have if the Republic wants to remain an economically-vibrant
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    • 851 2  -  Local districts empowered to draw up incentives From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta SINGAPORE businesses that have long dropped Indonesia's vast eastern provinces from their investment horizon might want to look again. After having been sidelined economically for three decades by Jakarta's political elite, the
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    • 283 2 #LA TROBE UNIVERSITY Wftfi UNIVERSITY OF Ausmuia nup SOUTH AUSTRALIA "One of Australia's Best Universities" fcg"" EnM«® U Vgl VVJ BEng (Hons) j„ Mechanical Information Technology (Computer Networks) Manufacturing Engineering Feb '02 .•£££2S2=,KSST" 41 jassssawa..--. Bachelor of Business (HRM) DllAlliAAA Singapore 20th Intake January 2002 D|l 15 months; 10 courses
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    • 15 2 China-Taiwan economic integration taking hold, Pg 16 Leapfrogging into China s sports industry, Pg 16
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1678 4  -  HTUWHUUM The company's success is the result of a plan mapped out a decade ago By Conrad Raj ASIA-PACIFIC Breweries' (APB) recent good fortune is a matter of design rather than accident. Thanks to calculated risks more than a decade
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    • 362 5 Rest of airline may be sold via public offering late next year Bloomberg The airline could be "majority Australianowned by next Christmas," Mr Godfrey said. Virgin, owned by UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, needs cash to expand its business as it tries
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  • SINGAPORE market
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      300 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 16 VALUE CLOSE ■TOMB 275.00 +87.00 ■TCJMH -*****.00 39.00 -*****00 +28.00 HOMw 460.44 j4.34 OCSC 30 455.20 4.52 381.52 -3.82 WfidinDiil _1JJ85 +1.31 S6 [pHI» F» 1177.42 -11.51 WTpJlMhip 362.10 -7.25 WOfcWPiw 175.33 -1.80 MWafabPW 177.90 -0.10 Stocks Vaham IPC020C 327,392.000 Datacraft 10c.... 93,591,000 SingTel 15c
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    • 278 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy THE past two months have seen Singapore Airlines Ltd (SLA) chalking up more attention than in the previous six months put together. This is understandable Sep 11 and Nov 12 have left an indelible mark on the
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    • 861 6  -  HUJLJLdLULLUHiUU STOCKS r. sivanithy IN a world fraught with all sorts of investment risk, it appears as if equities investors have reawakened one which has lain dormant for some time. No, it is not downside risk or the risk of losing money we are speaking of.
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    • 573 6 AFP [HONG KONG] With jitters over terror threats persisting, the yen fell but the Australian dollar ended high in a week that saw most Asian currencies remaining mostly unchanged. Japanese yen: The yen fell against the US dollar during
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  • 3318 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AM Mgl Alia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.744 0.782 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.162 1.198 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.897 0.943 Com Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.975 1.025 Global MNCFd 0.664 0 698 Global Technology Fd!" 0 546 0.574 Indonesia Equity Fdl** 0.570 0.599 Japan Eqty
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    • 166 6 Market notices ♦GES International Ltd will 90 ex-dividend (final dividend of 0.70 cent tax exempt) on Nov 29,2001. Last day fbr buying-in on a cum basis is Dec 4 and date payable Dec 14. ♦GES Intentional Ltd will hold Its AGM on Nov 22 at 3 pm, Level 4, The
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 523 7  -  BTIsUJIILUUJ It plans to exploit more synergies in its business, says S'pore chairman By Eugene Low SHELL Singapore expects business conditions to stay tough over the next few years and is looking to exploit more synergies in its range of businesses, says
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    • 299 7  -  By Siow Li Sen THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said last Friday there will be no changes to monetary policy, quashing wishful thinking on the part of some forex traders that there may soon be a policy shift to ease the local
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  • MAIL bag
    • 402 8  -  Mark Lee Kah Hui I REFER to the letter "Scrap valuation of real estate" by Kenneth Yeung (Mailbag, Nov 12). Mr Yeung says land is a costly factor of production and he blames the multiplier effects of land rentals for rising business
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    • 223 8  -  Kenneth Yeung I REFER to the report "Property recovery depends on economic recovery: Mah" by Kalpana Rashiwala (BT, Nov 10). The urgency for quick fixes as mooted is misplaced, for the industry has to account for its own behaviour when confronted with su-per-normal profits during
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    • 172 8  -  Lee Sun Pin I REFER to the letter "VQS aims to control vehicle growth, not for social equity" by Han Liang Yuan, senior manager of corporate communications, Land Transport Authority (Mailbag, Nov 8) and the report "COE system gets mixed review in IMF study" (BT, Nov
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    • 139 8  -  Leong Sze Hian I REFER to your article "What is the true worth of SPTs assets?" by Lee Han Shih (BT, Nov 10). From an investment planning perspective, the launch of property trusts in Singapore enables investors to further diversify their investment portfolio. However, as Mr
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  • FOCUS dot-com
    • 708 9 A new play showing in Silicon Valley may be a critical flop, but dotcom folk are flocking to it for a nostalgic look at their not-too-distant past Reuters ART Is Imitating life In California's Silicon Valley. A new {day showing in San Jose, Ctrl+Alt+Delete,
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 274 10 [KUALA LUMPUR] Ornamental fish breeder and exporter Xian Leng Holding's public share offer has been oversubscribed by 16.8 times, The Star reported yesterday. It will be the first aquaculture company on the KLSE when it is listed on the second board on Dec
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    • 467 10 NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR Indon budget, M'sia tax revenues hinge on oil averaging US$2O-22 a barrel Reuters AFP BOTH the Indonesian and Malaysian economies will be hit if current weak oil prices continue, officials said. In Indonesia's case, this is because its 2002 budget
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      • 83 10 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] The King of Malaysia returned nome yesterday arar recent heart surgery in >-<«■»- Singapore, officials sakl Klag SsktmrVltn AbdiflMa. Shah, 7S, flew by ipeci&l aircraft Into tbe Kuala *3 r T ntrmatlnnai nirpnrt nnrt w— it»li iwim back by Prime Minister Mahathir
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      • 74 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top cellular flrnC" Mazis Communications, on Friday launched new features aimed at Muslim users preparing for fasting month of Ramadan. Theee include a signal to fix the direction of Mecca so as to aid Muslims to I v perform their daily prayers
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      • 57 10 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesian police wid yeeterday they would summon A 1 Chaidar, a spokesman from radical Muslim group Darul Islam, after he alleged that its splinter groups were behind recent bomb>* attacks in Indonesia. No one was injured in the 7.1 unexplained bombings at
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      • 51 10 AFX-Asia [MANILA] Tbe US may heipease the Pfcilippinee' debt burden of more than UBW> billion. The mows Is part of a reward aid package for Philippine suppottin the US campaign againat terrorism, James KaOrSft aaaistant secretary of state tor Eaet Asian and ft3ss affairs, said.
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      • 58 10 AFP [TOKYO] Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin ZZS Shinawatra arrived in Japan yeaterday tor a foflßßfr official visit to hoU talks with government and— business leaders, an official said. Mr Thaksin wSIT meet Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Ko 12unCTS today tor discussions on antttarrorism efforts
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    • 172 10 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's entire stimulus package totalling RM7.3 billion(Ss3.s billion) will be spent by the end of the year, said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. He said the allocation would not be spilt over to next year as the
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    • 353 11 OTTAWA Dow Jones Newswires INDONESIA plans to meet with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors in January in a bid to ease debt payments, Bank of Indonesia governor Syahril Sabirin said on Saturday. An International Monetary Fund mission is currently in Indonesia, overhauling an
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    • 494 11 BANGKOK Q3 results show banks' debt bnrden still heavy; energy sector spells hope THAI third quarter earnings results show some of the country's biggest companies are feeling the pinch of the global economic downturn, but food exporters and property firms are proving resilient, analysts
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    • 771 11  -  J I I I I I pj 111 HK STOCKS Recent launches have gone well, but recession and China properties will hold demand back audrey tan Property tends to lag the overall economy in most cases, but in property-obsessed Hong Kong, there
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    • 520 12 GUANGZHOU But investors say more needs to be done to improve laws, free np trade AFP SOUTH China's booming Guangdong province is making plans to transform itself into a foreign investment-led hightech economy. But overseas business leaders warn this rosy future comes at
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    • ASIANotes
      • 82 13 AFP [DHAKA] Morshed Khan, a tycoon with busineas links with Japan, will be Bangladesh's new foreign minister, officials said on Saturday. A government notification was yet to be made, but Cabinet Secretary Akbar All Khan was quoted by a daily as saying Mr Khan has
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      • 66 13 AFP [BEIJING] China's investments hi fixed assetsincluding government spending on infrastructure— grew by 17.4 pa* cent in the first 10 months of this year from the same period last year, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. The investments amounted to 1.8 trillion yuan (Sl394billion)
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      • 81 13 Reuters [TAIPEI] Seven US manufacturers are planning to bid in a tender to build diesel-powered submarines for Taiwan, the China Times reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted anonymous US military officials as saying the seven US contractors, including Northrop Grumman Corp and General Dynamics,
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      • 73 13 AP [HONG KONG] Amid soaring unemployment and pay cuts in the city, a Hong Kong official said yesterday that the government may lower minimum monthly wages for foreign maids when it finishes a review. Secretary for Education and Manpower Fanny Law said on
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      • 80 13 AFP [YANGON] Myanmar's military government baa denied widespread speculation that it will withdraw the largest denominations of the local currency, the kyat, from circulation. Deputy chief of military intelligence Maj-Gen Kyaw Win said 1,000 and 500 kyat notes would remain in circulation as long as the
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    • 579 13 HONGKONG They outdo Indian stock market, but Pakistan's economy shakier than rival's Reuters PAKISTAN'S asset values have outperformed India's markets in the past two months, despite soaring political risks in the Muslim nation since the US launched military strikes against neighbouring Afghanistan. But the
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    • 154 13 mSHENZHEN Bait 4m t* into tate'iflfifnil frewiiAir tcffWßti Bloomberg GUANGXIA (Yinchvan) Industry Co sakl trading in it* shares could be suspended after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issues preliminary results of an investigation into alleged fraudulent accounts. The maker at traditional Chinese wine has been
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  • WORLD news
    • 171 14 AP [WHirilEß, California! Authorities said on Friday they had made the largest seizure of counterfeit computer software in US history, material worth an estimated US$lOO million. The haul included nearly 31,000 phony copies of Microsoft's Windows Millennium edition and the Windows 2000
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    • 408 14 LONDON They are looking for alternative to Middle East amid security concern Reuters MULTI-BILLION dollar oil and gas projects off Russia's Pacific island of Sakhalin could supply energy-hungry Asia in coming years, providing a welcome alternative to Middle Eastern imports, industry players say.
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    • 893 14 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices slumped to their lowest point for more than two years as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) threw down the gauntlet to independent producers over excessive global production, in a move which analysts predict will result
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    • 587 15  -  US, European bond yields attractive; Japanese and other investors seen bargain-hunting From Neil Behrmann in London US and European bond prices plunged last week on expectations of a speedy end to the Afghanistan campaign and hopes of. rapid economic recovery.
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 72 17 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday he would stop the annual pumping of US$2.5 billion of taxpayers' money into laying expressways as part of his administrative reform programme. "It has been a custom to spend 300 billion yen (554.5 billion) from
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      • 64 17 AP [PERTH] Three men were killed and another four missing yesterday following an explosion on a cargo ship moored off the northwest Australian port of Dampier, police said. A powerful blast ripped through the iron ore carrier Nigo Kim, Western Australia Police
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      • 63 17 Reuters AFP [LONDON] Britain's defence ministry said yesterday it could not confirm a newspaper report that British and US special forces had narrowed the hunt for Osama bin Laden to a 80 sq km area in south-east Afghanistan. The Sunday Times said troops
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      • 65 17 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Microsoft Corp, in an effort to end the US government's antitrust case against the No 1 software maker, offered to pay legal fees for states that are objecting to the settlement. In a court filing (Hi Friday, Microsoft said it would pay
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    • 474 17 OTTAWA 6-20 ministers also study ways to revive global economy AFP THE world's leading financial powers were to wind up their meeting in Ottawa yesterday, after agreeing on a comprehensive effort of International Monetary Fund (IMF) member nations to combat terrorist financing around the
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    • 673 18 NEW YORK Most economists think market's current optimism nqjnstified as next year's recovery won't be that powerful Reuters IF you have faith in the predictive power of financial markets, a US recovery is brewing with enough potency to push the Federal Reserve to
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    • 422 18 BOSTON Bloomberg FIDELITY Investments, the biggest US money manager, sold drug stocks in the third quarter and boosted stakes in Microsoft Corp, AT&T Corp and other technologyrelated companies. The Boston-based firm dumped 15.9 million shares of Eli Lilly Co, the maker of Prozac, worth
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  • INVESTING in china
    • 1137 16  -  Though Taiwanese capital has been pouring into the mainland since the 1980s, the current wave of investors are gunning for high-tech and real estate business, lob hui tot reports LOH HUI YIN Taiwanese busi nessman Jeffre Chao and his famil are very much a home
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    • 609 16  -  -By Loh Hui Yin HE may not be a keen sportsman but it has not deterred Singaporean Danny Toe's entrepreneurial acumen from seizing business opportunities in China's sports industry. Just last year, he sewed up a deal with Li Ning, China's 'prince of gymnastics' to
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    • 798 19  -  (■■■MihiSLnMfl Playing in a less glamorous but potentially lucrative market the Singaporean-founded startup is carving its own niche in the world, as tamo wumu fai finds out TANG WENG FAI Finding funding for a startup is tricky in the best of times. Try finding investors to put up
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    • 720 20  -  MICROSOFT'S XBOX That's a critical shortfall in a business where a console is only as good as the stuff yon can play on it By Tom Ham LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] It was bound to happen. With the success that Sony, Sega and Nintendo have
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    • 306 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] The back-to-back debut of new video game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo is expected to fuel strong sales of home entertainment goods as Jittery Americans opt to spend more time at home after the Sept 11 attacks on
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    • 740 21  -  MJUkSMJUUllMiaH INFOTECH The open sonrce approach is turning Into a commercial strategy of choice tang wengfai The writer is a BT correspondent THREE cheers for owners of intellectual property who've invested time and money into their products hoping to mint a profit from
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    • 344 21 Its i-motion' will deliver news items and music videos on NECsnew3G mobile handset Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc said it would start delivering video snippets over high-speed third-gen-eration (3G) cellphones and laid out plans to cooperate on 3G standards with Nokia of Finland.
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    • 166 21 AFP [BANGALORE] An Indian subsidiary of Singaporebased Sky Sat Holdings last Thursday launched a distance education learning network in India aiming to rope in nearly 40,000 students by next year. "To start with we have 100 centres with more than 15,000 students," said
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      • 74 21 LOCAL tertiary institution Temasek Polytechnic has signed two agreements with US-based EON Reality Inc, which provides interactive 3D software. In one agreement, Temasek Polytechnic has been appointed as the first Authorised Training Centre (ATC) in die Asia-Pacific region to use EON'S technology for training, marketing
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      • 50 21 UK-BASED Sophos Pic, which provides anti-virus protection to business users, has set up its regional office here, and has appointed Charles Cousins as managing director of Sophos Anti-Virus for the Asia region. Mr Cousins was previously regional director of the Asia-Pacific region at Psion.
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      • 25 21 BORLAND Software Corp has appointed Julian Quinn as regional vice-president of the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Quinn was previously a BEA Systems executive.
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      • 27 21 INTERMEC Technologies, which provides supply chain management technologies and wireless networking, has promoted Henri Juvanon to managing director for the Asia-Pacific region.
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      • 27 21 SINGAPORE Computer Systems Ltd (SCS) has appointed Robert Koh as executive vice-president (International). Mr Koh was previously managing director at ST-Straco Pte Ltd.
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      • 36 21 A SEMINAR entitled "Get REAL: Planning for a disaster recovery strategy" will be held on Friday at the Sybase seminar room. It is organised by Sybase (Singapore) Pte Ltd. For details, e-mail christim.koh@sybase.com.
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      • 47 21  -  Compiled by Leo Kee Chye A SEMINAR entitled 'Telecom Outlook 2002: Insight into the future" wUI be held on Dec 5 at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is organised by Frost Sullivan. For details, viait www.conferencesjrost. com/ tsa or e-mail yyUm^froeLcom.
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    • 484 22  -  Increasingly, the homegrown digital music provider is moving away from being a consumer destination to becoming a wholesaler, reports chew hutch CHEN HUIFEN DON'T be surprised to find Soundbuzz's logo staking a claim to the corner of more and more big-name websites or portals. That familiar tagline
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    • 522 22 Technology has finally caught itp with the fantasy worlds of Tolkien and J K Rowling LAT-WP [HOLLYWOOD] In this digital age, much is expected from fantasy film's special effects. Harry Potter author J K Rowling has repeatedly told the media that one of
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    • 326 23  -  They should provide value-added services to stay afloat says an IDC report By Leo Kee Chye WITH increasing competi.ion among ISPs in the AsiaPacific region driving down the cost erf Internet access, ISPs (Internet service providers) need to look beyond subscribers' fees
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    • 259 23 Bloomberg [REDWOOD CITY, California] Cisco Systems Inc, the largest maker of computer network equipment, increased its share of the high-speed router market by 5 points to 65 per cent last quarter, a research firm said on Thursday. It was the second consecutive quarterly
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    • 627 23  -  SAYIH Private exchange technology can be leveraged to boost efficiency and profitability, make companies more agOe, nimble, and more competitive Ramesh Ramchand The writer is marketing director, SAPMarkets Asia-Paciflc. GIVEN the current economic crunch, most Singapore firms are 9©eklng new ways to cut costs,
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    • 593 24  -  P I M I frd By Leo Kee Chye SOME local SMEs have found a cheap and effective alternative to flying overseas when it comes to conducting business with their foreign partners. Their solution: the video conferencing services offered on the Productivity
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      • 79 24 HANDS-FREE communications solutions provider GN Netcom has launched the GN9OIO-BT wireless headset, which makes use of Bluetooth wireless technology to work with fixed line phooes and mobile phones. The set comes with a baae station that connects to the phone and serves as a battery charger
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      • 86 24 SYMANTEC Corp last week announced the availability of pcAnywhere 10.5. The latest version of the remote access solution will include a new t assessment tool that allows users to diagnose their host configuration. IT administrators can also expect improved installation functionality as they no longer need to
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      • 101 24 FUJI Xerox recently launched three laser printers for the office: the DocuPrint N4525, Phaser MOO, and Work Centre 390 Laser (above). On the high-end is the N4525 which is capable of black-and-white printing at 45 pages per minute. It offers image quality at up to
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      • 89 24  -  Compiled by< Chen Huifen SPEECHWORKS International Inc has made available its Open Speech product suite in the Asia-Pacific. Optimised for the VoiceXML 2.0, which is an emerging standard for speech-activated services, it consists of a speech recognition engine available in "Australian English, Singapore English, Korean, Japanese, and
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    • 552 25 Firm had on veiled plan to restructure, as well as diversify and boost revenue Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street analysts on Friday expressed more confidence in Yahoo Inc's turnaround prospects a day after the Internet media giant outlined its plans to boost feebased
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    • 201 25 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Amazon.com marketing and merchandising chief David Risher will leave the Internet retailer in March, the first departure of a senior executive in more than a year, as the firm reorganises into five divisions. TTie company will merge its US and international operations and
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      • 735 26  -  Owning the technology translates into hefty margins and has taken the company into the profit zone, chen HUXFEM learns CHEN HUIFEN WHEN Malaysia-based travel website Asiatravelmart Sdn Bhd decided to venture beyond its B2C offerings, it looked across the Causeway. Already an established name in
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      • 430 26 Reuters [LONDON] WAP may have become a byword for everything that went wrong with the wireless Internet, but the new chief executive of the WAP Forum has no doubt it will one day gain a mass following. "We don't have SO or 100
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        • 56 26 SINGAPORE-BASED Megachem Pte Ltd, which PnvHes specialty chemicals, has launched its SAP Online Store throogt its website The SAP-based ste offers product specifications, Material Safety Dais Sheet, sample request and pricing information to Megachem's 828 customers. Currently, the online store is available to customers in Singapore
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        • 44 26 BANYAN Tree Hotels Retorts, which develop, and manages resorts, has unveiled its revamped website which is now available in French, German and Japanese. The sits also offers real-time reservations system provided by hospitality technology provider hoteIBANK. For details, visit www.banyantrmxom.
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        • 68 26 Avaya, McGraw Hill`s CRM course US-BASED Aviya Inc. which proTiflsscogpflrite 4. networking solutions and services, and McGraw-Hill "1 Ltfstfme Learning, which provides e-i earning; *olu? 10ns. has launched "Customer Relationship •Management"—a nine-series contact centre skills curriculum. Thecurrkuhan "provides contact centre agents with the skills they E»ed to have to establish
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        • 40 26 maaagsment systems In 2601 is US$39 million and is exffi* grow to over five years, who ignore this channel risk the relationship with their oniiae consumer*/'said Ittchard Bell, analyst at M€ridien feese**. Fbrdetaila, rtMgflml wuwjMrUtommkeem. W
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        • 39 26 installed home network bases in the OS, competed to 15 million fce Eufope and million in the Asia-Pacific, according to a repcp by Ovum, an analysis confuting company. The first home networtswtijtg saMdtapt Bar
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    • 626 27  -  Head of Japanese stevedoring lobby group drops opposition to PSA participation By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation may be operating a groundbreaking 24-hour container terminal in Japan by 2003 after the key opponent to the controversial Hibiki Project publicly threw his support
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    • 422 27  -  But cruise line warns of adverse travel climate Bb Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Lower interest expenses helped buoy Singapore-listed Star Cruises Group's 2001 third quarter net profit by 83 per cent over the previous year despite an 11 per cent drop in revenues.
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    • 279 27  -  World maritime body begins meeting today By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Assembly of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) begins its 22nd session in London today. The two-yearly assembly will elect a new council, approve a work programme and budget and adopt draft
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    • 705 28  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes THE appalling level of dry bulk carrier losses of a few years ago prompted international action that does appear to have some effect. Nevertheless, bulkers, and especially older bulkers, do still sink and crews are still being lost. So it is
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      • 279 38 Bernama [MELBOURNE] Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon has declined A 5500,000 (*****,000) bonus offer saying the current economic circumstances meant it was inappropriate to accept. Mr Dixon also described the worldwide aviation industry as being in "meltdown" mode. Australian Transport Minister John Anderson has
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      • 281 38 AP [ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Illinois] Cost-conscious United Airlines is deferring delivery of 43 jets from Boeing and Airbus for 2002 and 2003, saving about US$2.5 billion in aircraft purchasing costs. In a related move aimed at bolstering its cash reserves, the airline also
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      • 610 38 He says govt's bailout package will help; sees strength in orders from Asia Reuters [CHICAGO] Boeing Co chief executive Phil Condit, who last month highlighted a study predicting that half of all US airlines could go bankrupt after the Sept 11 attacks, believes
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