The Business Times, 4 February 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 85* SINGAPORE intornoi: httv,.//business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2002
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    68 1 9RXX HABKET INDICES Week Change STI 1,781.42 +50.59 SIMSC1 FUItRE_J24.00 +5.00 BT-SR1 7*816 _27.4? KLSECOMP 71Mt_2624 NIKKEI 9.791.43 -***** HANG SENO _10,«9t» -8L71 SET INDEX 386.65 -214 JAKARTA C0MP_4H1S >182 MANILA USUI >49.16 TAIPEI WPI 5J6798 -9171 SEOUL COMP —***** -8126 SHENZHEN B ***** +612 ACST ALL ORD-M86O0
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    64 1 FOBEX KATES US| USS (SSperl'SS) 1.8J7 £(US$/S$pcr£)_ 1.409 2168 EURO{USS/SS/E). 0.858 1JS76 Ml 1279 L241 YEN 1333 7190 RM 3.800 2.069 HKS 7.799 4146 BAHT 44.04 23.97 RIT1AH ***** 5,624 FUME KATES SINGAPORE* 515 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONG KONG 5.125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6.725 TOKYO 1.375 SEOUL 9.55 FRANKFURT
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    Lock icon Pinetree members act to buy club's operations
    636 1  -  wsmsm Bnt pro-tern committee faces keen competition from abont 10 other parties By I Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Pinetree Town and Country Club could be flattened if one of the developers among 10 or so interested parties succeeds in buying the club's prime freehold
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    Lock icon Popiah King foiled in bid for China's top soft drink
    829 1  -  Loss of $700 m Jianlibao deal disappoints Sam Goi i* Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Popiah King Sam Goi's foiled $700 million bid to take over China's most popular soft drink brand Jianlibao proved to have more twists and turns than
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    Lock icon Be more aggressive, China official advises S'pore companies
    396 1  -  By Leo Kee Chye [SINGAPORE] Singapore companies and investors are less aggressive, compared to their Hong Kong and Taiwan counterparts, when it comes to doing business in China. This has led to Singapore dropping to sixth place in China-based investments last year.
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    Lock icon HK's high raw water price includes infrastructure costs
    1009 1  -  Johor has not borne any such costs for S'pore supply: MFA From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG Kong pays a high price of HK114.02 (553.30) per 1,000 gallons of raw water from Guangdong because mainland authorities have invested billions since the
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      56 1 nwnw Top Stories Global investors seek to throw out STTelemedia bid. Pg 2 Niche property player Koh Bros goes downmarket PgS r sources -«r <f Japan's weak-yen strategy looks set to backfire. Pg 10 Enron saga Enron panel finds Inflated profits, failure of controls. Pg 13 .11 V THE LADYHILL
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      32 1 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE A timely idea that needs care Jikram Khanna. Pg 2 When sceptics join the bulls i R. Si vaiiithy Pg 4 Unfinished business of M'sia Inc Eddie Tofi Pg 8
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      42 1 -j, China offers huge opportunities for S'pore firms a Pa 14 Lee Han Shih: Why innovation could be China's key challenge Pti 1: China accounts for half of all Asia-Pacific PCs shipped *Pg 16 Abdul CHuuii confident of amicable settlement, Pg 2
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      Lock icon Unempbynwnt insurance: a timely idea that needs care
      810 2  -  ■HUMLiiiillidllJ ECONOMICS Singapore can learn from global experience to build a 'state-of-the-arf safety net vikram khanna IT'S been reported that, in the course of its deliberations in the Economic Review Committee, the government is considering the introduction of unemployment insurance or some
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      Lock icon Global investors seek to throw out ST Telemedia bid
      474 2 They also want Chapter 11 dropped in favour of other rescue options [NEW YORK] Investors have issued a class-action lawsuit against Global Crossing the high-speed telecommunications company being wooed by Singapore's ST Telemedia and Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa alleging that actions
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      Lock icon Johor Mentri Besar confident of amicable settlement
      266 2 Bernama JOHOR Mentri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman has expressed confidence that the water issue between Malaysia and Singapore can be settled amicably. "We have never said that we do not want to supply water... I believe that based on the spirit of neighbourliness
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      Lock icon M'sia cabinet okays election law changes: report
      185 2 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] THE Malaysian cabinet has approved extensive changes to the election laws in preparation for a national election which some political analysts expect could be called as early as next year, a newspaper reported yesterday. Rais Yatim, a minister in the
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      241 2 School of Business fit Management I JL j|L PhD in Business Management I Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) I MBA in General Management I I MBA in Strategic Marketing I £*9l I MBA in Financial Management 4 464|y Entrepreneurship MBA f Mil International MBA University of Master of Science (Marketing)
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      274 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES CUBE VW +yWOM> 334XX) -09.00 ■TCWI -*****.00 -138.00 -*****.00 +34.00 —Mfct 465.77 -1.88 SQCPHMBKI 159.91 -9.02 1 HlpMwHi 1569.67 +10.50 ntmmnnw 479.91 -7.01 MCifcp>W 223.77 -0.72 —QM—1 224.00 unch Beyonics 10c 136,144,000 SMngMedia US2.5C 99,509,000 PC Cofpn 5c 95,348,000 PC020C *****,000 Roly IntUSlOc 85,893.000 Frontline 5c 78,854,000
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      Lock icon Cries of foul play in Friday's trading of Creative shares unwarranted
      260 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy CREATIVE Technology's performances in recent times have certainly stirred emotions among stock market punters. On the one hand, the stock has tripled since last September and its jaw-dropping advances between Monday and Thursday
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      Lock icon When sceptics join the bulls...
      787 4  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy EVER since the US officially declared late last November that it had been in a recession since March 2001, the bulls were quick to call a buy on stocks. This was based on an analysis of all the post-war recessions, most of
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      Lock icon Yen falls to new 3½ -yr low; other units stable
      699 4 AFP [HONG KONG] The yen feU to its lowest against the US doUar for nearly three-and-a-half years, but other regional currencies remained relatively stable amid speculation Washington is sticking to its strong dollar policy. Japanese yen: The yen dipped below
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      123 4 ♦CHEW Eu Hock will hold their AGM at 58 KaUang Pudding Road, Conference Room, 9th Floor, CEH Industrial BufldJng on Feb 6 at 3pm. ♦THAI Village Holdings will trade ex-dividend affinal dividend of $0,003 per share of $0.05 each less 24.5 per cent on Feb 21. Books will
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2544 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS 11' I OtiBond S'pore A/S 1J/ CitiBond S'pore B/S Ijt231 C*i Money Sing Dollar dam 1.036* C5 pM) Oti Parv-Europe Equity fund 103* Star Etxope Eqtyl* 0.77* deselect Ada T* Balanced 127/ StarEurepeid 0.95* ObSalact Ma T* Growth 12V Star Etxope Bal 0J5* OHSHact Ma Ti* Enh
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Property firm Koh Bros goes from niche to mass market
      680 5  -  BTia'jJiiumj It's scooting for suburban sites, eyes reserve list's 2.7-haplotin Jurong West By Vince Chong MAINBOARD-LISTED Koh Brothers is planning to change its property focus to target the mass market, underlined by its current search for suburban land near to
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      Lock icon Custom steelmaker HG Metal eyes Sesdaq listing
      351 5  -  By Adeline Chia HG Metal Manufacturing Ltd plans to raise funds from a Sesdaq listing to enlarge its manufacturing capabilities and move into pipeline manufacturing, chief executive officer Wee Piew said in an interview with BT. Details of the float, scheduled for this
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      Lock icon Bharti raises 8.33b rupees from IPO
      142 5 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Bharti TeleVentures Ltd, which has about 1.2 million fixed-line and cellular phone subscribers in India, has raised 8.33 billion rupees (Ss29l million) from its initial public offering of 185.3 million shares. Demand for Tele-Ven-tures' issue, which opened on Jan 28 and
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      Lock icon Singapore needs diverse sources of growth: DPM
      449 6  -  Tony Tan agrees with NUTs reading but finds its growth forecast too rosy By Chua Hui Min WHILE the recent shortterm forecast by the Nanyang Technological University's economists might be too rosy, their prognosis that Singapore needs new sources of growth in the
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      Lock icon Citigroup's Asian private banking soars
      388 6  -  By Angela Tan US financial powerhouse Citigroup's Asian private bank achieved record performance in 2001, generating a stellar 35 per cent year-on-year surge in net income at a time when rival banks were suffering declines of 20-60 per cent. In an interview with BT, Deepak
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      Lock icon Need to help Indonesia: US official
      658 6  -  Security conference sees need to engage South-east Asia By Loh Hui Yin in Munich STAY engaged with the millions of moderate and tolerant Muslims in South east Asia if the world is to win the war against global terrorism. And, in particular, Indonesia which
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      Lock icon December bank lending up 3.3%
      268 6  -  By Chua Hui Min LOANS to non-bank customers dipped slightly in December last year to $162.9 billion after rising to a year-high of $163.4 billion in November, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. A rise In loans to private individuals, the
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      158 6 Especially for the Aucpiboua Year of the Hone, Wab Lok Cantonese Restaurant presents a medley of Prosperity Yu £hr«g and Lunar New Year Cakes 'Nian Gao* Prices for Lunar New Year Cakes Yu Sheas begin from $9.80 and $30.00 respectively Takeaway options available. Please call 311 8188/9, fix: 311 8170
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      43 6 CHICKEN RICE IN THE GLITZ! Chatterbox rhtrlyn Rice's always the talk of town Come, savour Singapore's favourite dish and other delights anytime Enquiries: *****91 in hmi m MutAuvt m Awyw, -JT| xmm^m 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7. Tel: 737 4411 Fax 831 6290
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      Lock icon Make annual reports legible
      256 7  -  Denis Distant Singapore IN recent times, the annual reports of Singapore Ex-change-listed companies have got thicker, more colourful and are filled with pictures of directors, staff, products etc, which is fine. But there is a disturbing tendency to use smaller and smaller sized fonts until it
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      Lock icon Auditors'integrity now clouded
      662 7  -  Lee Geok Ser Singapore I REFER to the very incisive article "When guardian falters" in your editorial and opinion page (BT, Jan 31). Yes, the key issue lies less with simplifying or tweaking the reporting for the investing public with limited understanding of accounting than in ensuring
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      Lock icon Realism awaits property market
      117 7  -  Barrie J Harrop Australia, via Internet I REFER to your article "Private home prices fell 11.7% last year; outlook views mixed" by Kalpana Rashiwala (BT, Jan 26). One could reply at length to the why's and wherefore's of the future market for apartments, certainly this year.
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      Lock icon Negative equity or default better?
      83 7  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to the letter "Negative equity problem must be addressed now" by Ang Hao Yao (Mailbag, Jan 21). If the borrower reduces negative equity either by topping up the loan over a period or by increasing the instalments, one would
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon UOB now biggest foreign bank in Malaysia
      465 8 KUALA LUMPUR Formal merger with OUB gives it 37-branch network across Causeway UNITED Overseas Bank (M) Bhd and Overseas Union Bank (M) Bhd have formally merged to form the largest foreign bank in Malaysia in terms of branch network, The Star reported on
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      Lock icon Unfinished business of M'sia Inc
      691 8  -  A I 11^ KL STOCKS The exit of handplcked tycoons is not the end of the restructure g+'wy eddie toh More bumiputra tycoons handpicked to spearhead Malaysia's privatisation drive in the past two decades are set to head for the exit as the restructuring of
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      Lock icon Food shortage warning sparks panic buying in flood-hit Jakarta
      223 8 AFP [JAKARTA] A food shortage warning sparked panic buying in flooded Jakarta although waters were receding yesterday, officials and witnesses said as the death toll here reached 10. "In terms of surface, the floods are now covering be- tween 15 and
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      Lock icon Hong Kong won't extend freeze on govt flat sales
      462 9 HONGKONG Official rejects developers' request to extend 9-month freeze but says only 9,000 flats will be sold a year Reuters. AFP HONG KONG'S director of housing Tony Miller said the government will not extend a ninemonth freeze on the sale of
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      Lock icon Slim chances for HK firms' earnings growth
      526 9 HONGKONG Legend among first bine chips to report 43 results today Reuters HONG Kong companies will be lucky, on average, to post any growth in earnings in the upcoming 2001 reporting season, with 2002 likely to see only modest increases in corporate profits,
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      Lock icon Chickens killed after bird flu outbreak in HK
      108 9 AFP [HONG KONGJ Health officials In Hong Kong have begun a mass slaughter of more than 100,000 chickens in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu, a strain of which killed six people in 1997. The alarm was raised after
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      359 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF FESCH PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At the Extraordinary General Mooting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and hold at 133 Now Bridge Road *25-08 Chinatown Point Singapore *****3
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      532 8 In The Muttei of The Companies Act Cop. 50 And In Tlte Matter af MEDCHANNEI FTC LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP At on Extraordinary General Meeting of the Memben of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held on 01 February 2002 at 650 Towraend Street Suite
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      484 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SANOFI WINTHROP PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At »n Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of Sanofi Winthrop Pte Ltd (the 'Company') duly convened and held on Tuesday, 29 (anuary 2002 at 11.45 a.m., the
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      451 8 -5*64 ohmi JQ iA,v^b u y|l 'yt'fa|omnwg)r ySf,i t^ ty '^e53 SCHCXX <* a PROGRAMME PRESENTS AN ecutive p"% programme Inpayucture Mk s Mirlrrt Frnnnmy M 23 28 March 2002 Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore a six-day programme designed to help senior otTlclels In the public and private sectors who are
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      25 8 RhWI Lianhe Zaobao I I New wafer fab I lln Singapore I gives I I a iui for I I its money I I I
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      Lock icon Japan's weak-yen strategy looks set to backfire
      792 10  -  Analysts see vicious circle leading to farther foreigner asset sell-off From Anthony Rowley m Tokyo JAPAN'S policy of allowing the yen to weaken against the dollar and other major currencies as part of its de-flation-fighting strategy could be about to produce a dangerous
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      Lock icon Shanghai parks for Taiwan investors
      258 10 BEIJING AFP CHINESE coastal city Shanghai has begun buUding one of two industrial parks designed to attract Taiwanese computer chip makers and other high-tech manufacturers to do business in the city, state media reported yesterday. The city recently broke ground at a six square kilometre
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      Lock icon Commodities rise on US recovery hopes
      885 10 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Signs of a recovery in the US economy gave some commodity markets a lift last week, though the upside remained capped in many instances by stillweak physical demand. Oil prices moved sideways as US reserves remained abundant, while some base
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    391 10 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Feb 1 8ZMOAPOU OOTBRVKBMT SUUUUTIIBIVDZOATITB P&ICBS AWD TXBLM ,B »ai»ii>tfm»wi ii pii ■■■nil y 4 2« L«W «*rtt |JO* OJKft N0J3 «U3 m Sin MHM WfTWOC 2J9ft ZJBft St* 3250 BW lWPlwf I2t% SJffft MM N0J» III U| MHI MM t*9ft tSift 10US' M8 rw im%
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      222 10 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 27 vessel at parties (10) 28 He comes back, carrying bfl per person (4) glass, the French, by right, smooth on the way up (4) 29 Eight nervy characters out make for one in a row (10) 26 Announced rain-check? (4) for a great deal (10) 10 Half
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      Lock icon Economists outside US less sure of US rebound
      512 11 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM They highlight shortcomings while US counterparts focus on strengths NYT FOREIGN economists and executives are much less optimistic than their American counterparts about what is ahead for the US economy. That divide showed up starkly and repeatedly in conversations
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      Lock icon WorldCom chief's debt piles up
      312 11 NEW YORK NYT BERNARD J Ebbers, the man who built World Com into a giant company, now owes at least US$92 million more than his stock in the company is worth. But there seems to be no immediate danger that his stock will come onto
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      Lock icon Farm sector key to success of WTO round: Supachai
      338 13 NEW YORK AFP THE success of a new round of multilateral trade talks hinges largely on the willingness of rich countries to consider opening their markets to farm products and textiles from the developing world, the next head of the WTO
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      Lock icon Enron panel finds inflated profits, failure of controls
      533 13 ENRON rETTEJ NEW YORK It also slams accountants at Andersen and the company's lawyers ATT, LAT-WP A REPORT from a special committee of Enron Corp's board concluded on Saturday that executives intentionally manipulated the company's profits, inflating them by almost US$l billion
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      Lock icon China offers huge opportunities for S'pore firms
      594 14  -  BWaVfallim'JJ Zhou Hongli, China's chief of economic and connnercial affairs in Singapore, tells leo kee chte how firms here can benefit from China's IT modernisation efforts and the 2008 Olympics LEO KEE CHYE CHINA offers Singapore companies huge business opportunities to help Chinese
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        Lock icon FailSafe's second data megacentre
        60 15 FAILSAFE Corp Singapore, which provides data hosting services, has opened its second megacentre. "The 382,000 sq ft facility marks FailSafe as the largest VDC (virtual data centre) facilities and services provider in Singapore," the company said. FailSafe now has a total 0f425,000 sq ft of data
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        43 15 THE four polytechnics—Singapore, Temasek, Ngee Ann, and Nanyang—have set up their first online career fair to help graduating students and alumni in their job search. The fair runs from Feb 1 to March 15. For details, visit www.singaportfottfair.com.
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        53 15 THE National Library Board—together with the Infbcomm Development Authority of Singapore— now offers its library members access to the National IT Literacy e-Learnlng Programme via Library Hub at www.eiibraryhub.com. The programme is available at select NLB training centres in English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil, and costs
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        Lock icon E-flyers at Jurong Point
        67 15 CELPH Singapore—www.celph.com—said it will start a marketing service using Interactive SMS technology with Jurong Point Shopping Centre in Singapore over the weekend. The home-grown service —CELPH Alert—is' the first of its kind in Asia, and empowers any shopper at Jurong Point to selectively receive e-fiyers and
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        Lock icon Network Appliance solution for MoE
        57 15 NASDAQ-LISTED Network Appliance Inc (NAI) said the MoE (Ministry of Education) will use NAl's solution to ease congestion on MoE's Internet access and bandwidth. The solution caters for a Content Deli very Network to be built to enable better content management for Singapore schools. The
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        Lock icon Unisphere Networks wins i-STT deal
        48 15 US-BASED Unisphere Networks Inc, which provides IP infrastructure products, said i-STT Pte Ltd— www.i-STT.com—will deploy Unisphere's ERX Edge Routers to expand i-STTs network infrastructure across Asia. i-STT, a data hosting arm of ST Telemedia, offers managed hosting services and integrated Internet infrastructure solutions.
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        Lock icon FinLION tie-up with PSB Corp
        64 15 FINLION, part of TTS Asia Learning Solutions Pte Ltd, has tied up with PSB Corp to jointly offer financial training solutions in Singapore and the region. TTS Asia www.ttsasia.com—offers instructional design capabilities and e-learning platforms. FinLION is a financial learning solutions provider for investment hanking
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        Lock icon SAN education from Brocade
        53 15 NASDAQ-LISTED Brocade Communications Systems Inc said it will train professionals in SAN (storage area networks) in Singapore and the region. It will hold SAN.Ed entry level workshops. Brocade Networking Storage Education Services for the region, and offer its SAN Certification Programme across the Asia-Pacific region. For
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        Lock icon New Sun storage ventre in S'pore
        61 15  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam SUN Microsystems has opened three new Sun Storage Centres—ln Singapore, the US and the UK—to help its corporate customers develop and Implement complete storage solutions. Each centre houses a variety of servers, storage devices, StorEdge systems, and Sun partner products.
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      202 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] Motorola Inc, Nokia Oyj and other shareholders in Symbian Ltd are investing a further £20.75 mUlion in the venture to help it develop software for wireless devices. The two largest cellular phone makers wiU each own 21 per cent of the
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      763 15  -  INFOTECH To become an innovator, the first thing that needs to change Is the C™nn«»» mentality lee han shih The writer isaßT Senior Correspondent. CHINA has proven that it can be the cheapest and biggest subcontractor in the world. But the crucial question is: can it innovate?
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      Lock icon Legend looks to be going the way IBM has gone
      1775 16  -  Services may be the answer as it faces a margin squeeze, says RUSSEUi FLAMMERY RUSSELL FLANNERY AT first glance, China's Legend Holdings should be the envy of the global computer industry. It holds 30 per cent of a domestic PC
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      Lock icon China accounts for half of Asia-Pac PCs shipped
      432 16  -  Leading regional vendor last year was China's Legend Bu Raju Chellam DESPITE the general gloom in most of Asia, Greater China zoomed ahead with a strong 27 per cent annual growth in PC shipments. It now accounts for almost half of all
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      Lock icon NUS joins 10 top Chinese varsities to boost workforce
      256 16  -  IDA, NUS school also working with 4 Chinese institutions By Raju Chellam THE NUS (National University of Singapore) has tied up with 10 top universities in China to enhance the competitiveness of Singapore's infocomm workforce and forge closer academic relations. The
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      Lock icon STATS offers China chip testing and packaging
      321 16 Move will help it Up expected surge in chip production Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] ST Assembly Test Services Ltd (STATS), Asia's second-largest chip tester, said it plans to offer both semiconductor testing and packaging services in China as more chipmakers set up shop there. STATS,
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      Lock icon China's 2001 online stock trades leap to 358b yuan
      148 16 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Online stock trading turnover in China nearly doubled to 357.8 billion yuan (Ss79 million) last year, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said. It accounted for 4.38 per cent of total market turnover of 8.17 trillion yuan last year, which
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      388 17 It is building industrial parks to attract Taiwan's chip-makers, high-tech industries AFP [BEIJING] SHANGHAI has begun building one of two industrial parks designed to attract Taiwanese computer chip makers and other hightech manufacturers to do business in the city, state media reported. The city
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      Lock icon HP board mulled exiting printer, PC businesses
      313 17 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Company's board of directors considered exiting the PC and printer businesses before finally deciding to buy Compaq Computer, the company said in a regulatory document. The board explored six alternatives starting in 1999 before settling on the proposed
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      Lock icon China's SMIC to make memory chips for Fujitsu
      192 17 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Fujitsu Ltd, Japan's top business-comput-er maker, has picked China's SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp) to make memory chips for use in mobile phones and portable electronic items. SMIC will make 0.18 micron and 0.22 micron chips at its Shanghai factory,
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      Lock icon EU to drop Intel probe, says allegations unfounded
      231 17 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said it is set to drop its antitrust investigation into Intel Corp, the No 1 computer-chipmaker, after failing to find evidence the company was abusing its dominant position. The commission's "preliminary assessment is expected to find that
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        65 17 US-BASED Handspring has unveiled its Treo (right), which combines the functions of a mobile phone and a Palm handheld in one. It also offers Web browsing andtextnKSBaging.lt retails at $968, weighs 147 grams, runs on a 33 MHz Motorola Dragonball processor, and comes with 16 MB
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        Lock icon New workstations from HP
        82 17 HEWLETT-PACKARD has introduced three new workstations. The xllOO costs $2,300, runs on an Intel 1.7 GHz Pentium 4, and comes with 20 GB hard disk, 128 MB RAM and a 48-speed CD-ROM. The X2lOO costs $3,000, offers the same configuration as the xllOO, but runs on
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        Lock icon Toshiba's new Satellite Pro ready
        91 17 TOSHIBA Singapore has introduced two Satellite Pro 6000 series notebook PCs targeted at business users. One model costs $3,789, weighs 2.6 kg, runs on Intel's P-m 1 GHz processor-M, and comes with 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard disk, 14.1-inch TFT XGA (1,024 by 768
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        91 17 APPLE Computer has unveiled threw mryV>ly myiwr its Mac G4 desktop series. The Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 costs $5,788 and comes with 512 MB RAM, 80 GB hard disk and a Super Drive combination of CD-RW/DVD-R optical drive. The 933 MHz PowerPC G4 costs
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        41 17 US-BASED Advanced Micro Devices lws launched its AMD Athlon 4 processor 1500+ far uae in notebook PCs. The processor costs US$525 each in 1,000 unit quantities, features QuantiSpeed architecture and AMD Power Now technology. For details, fax *****11.
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        74 17  -  Compiled fay Leo Kee Chye US-BASED Adobe Systems has bninrharj versions of its publishing software: The Adobe Live Motion 2.0 offers interactive content and animation for the Web and coats $389 during the promotion period. The Adobe After Effects 5.5 offers motion graphics and visual effects
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        481 18  -  ■Tfqmiiuwj The device is reportedly the industry's first and can be used for a broad range of mobile location services for consumer and industry apps By Leo Kee Chye A HOMEGROWN startup has unveiled a cost-effec-tive miniature server that it claims will revolutionise locationbased
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        Lock icon VoIP makes compelling business sense now
        695 18  -  With data applications growing faster than voice, tt makes sense to have the data network manage voice, data and video eugene chng The writer is vice-president, business development and marcoms, Inno Media Pte Ltd. SINCE its humble beginnings as a low-cost communications provider, VoIP
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      Lock icon Aceh unrest a major factor behind piracy in region
      578 19 Worldwide piracy attacks last year was 335, down 29% from previous year AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The ongoing separatist violence in Indonesia's Aceh province is a leading contributor to piracy in South-east Asia, an international watchdog said yesterday. The Piracy Reporting Centre
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      278 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young VESSELS reported sold were "vintage" rather than modern tonnage, with 2 Pan am axes, built 1978/79 and one Aframax built 1979. Not surprisingly the prices reflected the age of the ships. Vessels sold for further trading nutfiiimtfc ♦Yick Kam: 69,421 tdw bit 88
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      Lock icon Volumes at PSA's Aden terminal jump 52%
      379 19  -  PSA's int'l ventures have grown 32.8% to 3.6 m TEUs Bi Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's container terminal in Yemen chalked up an impressive 52 per increase in throughput volumes last year to 377,400 TEUs (twen-ty-foot equivalent units). The good performance comes just
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      244 19 AP [LONG BEACH, California] US authorities detained 16 Chinese nationals after being tipped that they were hiding in a cargo container aboard a China Overseas Shipping Co vessel that arrived in port on Saturday. The men or boys appeared to have made a
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      170 19 Dow Jones [HANOI] Vietnamese officials have rescued all 19 crew members aboard a Singaporean-registered cargo ship that sank off Vietnam's coast, an official said. The 19 Indonesian crew members were rescued from the suiking Uni Raya Glory by two Vietnamese rescue ships, said Vu
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      Lock icon K Line picks Singapore, CP stays upbeat
      772 20  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THERE have been a good few stories recently about the pressure rival container ports in the region are putting on Singapore. So it was nice to see a report emphasising its pivotal role in the global container trades.
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        Lock icon Thomas Cook sees global travel rebound by year-end
        495 30 The German firm's CEO expects cost cutting to help stabilise profits Reuters [NEW YORK] Europe's second largest travel firm, Thomas Cook AG, on Saturday forecast a rebound in global travel by the end of this year and said it sees its own
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        576 30 Worst is over, says CEO, with China market doing well and business traffic to US recovering Reuters [NEW YORK] German flagship airline Deutsche Lufthansa remains confident it will break even for full-year 2001, but 2002 forecasts remain clouded by economic weakness and
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        180 30 [MOSCOW] The European Union's plan to shut its skies to noisy aircraft will deal a heavy blow to Russian air carriers, which widely use such planes on both regular and charter routes to Europe, officials said. The EU's decision bars flights by Soviet-built Tu--1345, 11-625,
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          Lock icon China Eastern to start India service
          99 30 AFP [BEIJING] A Chinese airline has announced it is to open the first direct air link between China and India, state media said. Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines is to operate a twice-weekly flight to New Delhi commencing at the end of March, the airline's
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          Lock icon AHA eyeing Chinese alliances
          56 30 AFX [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways (ANA) is seeking business alliances with Chinese airline operators in order to establish a strong foothold in the rapidly growing Chinese aviation market, the Japan Industrial Journal reported, without citing any sources. The firm is likely to start negotiations with several
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          Lock icon Olympic Air sale delay only a glitch
          123 30 Reuters [ATHENS] A last-minute delay in the sale of Greece's ailing Olympic Airways has arisen over the financial assurances the Greek government was demanding, a source with the bidder said. "We have asked for a 15-day extension," said the source at Australia-based Integrated
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        Lock icon US air cargo volume in December down 16.4%
        303 30 Drop suggests many businesses are still struggling Dow Jones Newswires [ATLANTA] Air-cargo volume fell 16.4 per cent in December, a steeper slide than the previous month's decline, the latest indication that many businesses still are struggling despite recent signs of an uptick
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        Lock icon China Eastern to buy up to 50 Airbus planes
        249 30 AP [BEIJING] China Eastern Airlines (CEA), one of China's largest commercial carriers, will buy between 30 and 50 Airbus jetliners over the next three years, the official China Daily reported. The purchase is part of the airline's expansion plan that also
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      18 19 Liner Scene: K Line picks S'pore, CP stays upbeat Pg 2 Thomas Cook sees global travel rebound BackPg
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