The Business Times, 7 March 2002

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 010/03/2002 SINGAPORE Internet nttp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ THURSDAY. MARCH 7, 2002
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    76 1 Dsn UNA (-6.70) 1MB ***** (.2.58) ST INDEX FUTUKES 1*08 (+4.00) smnnmam 227.4# (-0.50) STOCK XAKKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE COMP WM +0M NIKKEI 226 __11,***** +HL08 HANG SEW —11.1WS.00 *17.18 SET INDEX 111.71 +7.16 JAKARTA COMP -***** +17.69 MANILA COUP .Mia« -9.7« TAIPEI WP1 *W7i7—♦!»« SEOt'L COMP
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    63 1 FOBEX RATES USt St I'SS (SSporUSS) L827 £(US$/SS per 1.421 1506 EiJRO(lJSS/S$/E). 0871 1.591 DM 1246 1229 YEN 131J 7120 RM I860 1060 HKS 7.799 4109 BAHT 2188 RIJP1AH tm 5,4» NUMERATES SINGAPORE* j KUALA LUMPUR 640 HONQ KONO 5126 JAKARTA. _»j, TAIPEI _<.725 TOKYO .L376 SBMI1. ik FRANKFURT
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  • Article
    Lock icon Tougher MAS rules for financial advisers
    949 1  -  Jail, fine for violators; MAS seeks feedback on draft rules By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Mis-selling investment products or giving improper advice could soon land financial advisers in jail or subject them to a fine, or both. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday issued
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    Lock icon Eastern Pub pioneers do-it-yourself acquisitions
    522 1  -  l i lexclusive It sees ad as 'less tedious' way to M&As By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Sesdaqlisted Eastern Publishing has taken an unusual route to suss out acquisitions by taking out a newspaper advertisement directly. The anonymous advertisement which would probably not please merchant bankers
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    Lock icon Dow up 103 pts at 11am EST
    107 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks were mixed in early trading yesterday although blue chips were stronger after new Commerce Department data showed a rise in US factory orders for January. Technology issues, however, fell after a spate of negative corporate news. Investors
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    Lock icon HK needs strong financial decisions
    909 1  -  COMMEMTARY To keep territory competitive, Mr Tung can't play Mr Nice Guy any more, says quak hiaxg whai QUAK HIANG WHAI NO Hong Kong Budget has moved the Hang Seng Index sharply in recent years even with showcase projects like Cyber-Port and Disneyland. And looking
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      101 1 INSIDE Top Stories Chevalier parent plans delisting of S'pore unit Pg 3 Haw Par open to UOB stake saie. Pg4 Venture staff run up $222 m unrealised gains. Pg 4 Protection plan for Jade buyers. Pg 7 EDB opens London office for biomedical investment fund. PO7 M'sian, Filipino global bonds
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      28 1 r> A IN BizlT TODAY Fi oin Bust (o Boom t i a a<: v e-commerce Kenneth James. PAGE 13 HP-Compaq merger u |)lans et boost HHKZiZSSHH 19
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      151 1 HK to cut civil service pay but no major new taxes, Pg 11 US factory orders up 1.6% in Jan, Pg 14 iJW LALC Heir to a proud watchmaking tradition LU.C Sport. Self-winding chronometer, double spring barrel LUC Twin'. steel (M. water ret sunt to 100 m m Wf Kk
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      Lock icon E-commerce thrived last year despite slump
      509 2  -  IDA estimates local firms' sales from 828 rose 22% and B2C jumped 110% By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] More companies did more business online last year with other companies and with consumers despite the slowing economy, according to a survey by the Infocomm Development Authority
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      Lock icon Sentiment improves, but firms still wary
      579 2  -  on the economy outlook Comp&nies will continue with pay cuts, freezes poll By, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Business sentiment seems to have bottomed out but companies still wary about the expected economic upturn this year will persist with pay freezes or cuts. A poll of
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Lyrical Budget speech
        122 2 IT is no secret that former Hong Kong financial secretary Donald Tsang, now Chief Secretary, loves to pepper his speeches with memorable anecdotes or lines from movies or poetry. Now his successor at the Finance bureau, Antony Leung, is keeping up with this tradition. In his maiden
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        Lock icon Draw for the adventurous
        132 2 CITIBANK, which pioneered the unsecured revolving overdraft with its Ready Credit scheme in Singapore, is at it again. This time the bank is offering a first-of-its-kind lucky draw called Citibank Ready Credit 10 Great Adventures Draw. Prizes for lucky Ready Credit customers include unique experiences such
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Chevalier parent plans delisting of S'pore unit
      348 3  -  45C cash offer is 18.4% higher than CSH's last-traded price of 38C By C Chua Hui Min HONG KONG conglomerate Chevalier International Holdings parent of main-board-listed Chevalier Singapore Holdings (CSH) said yesterday it will buy back all the shares in its liftsupplier subsidiary
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      Lock icon OCBC makes its biggest layoff
      591 3  -  Farther retrenchments after yesterday's 229 will occur in smaller groups Byi Siow Li Sen OCBC Bank, which retrenched 229 employees yesterday, said it would be the largest such exercise following the integration of acquired unit Keppel Tat Lee Bank. Further releases of redundant staff will
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      Lock icon Haw Par open to UOB slake sale
      494 4  -  But it will have to wait till all restructuring is over in 2-3 years, says president Hong Hai By] Ling Su Ann HAW Par Corp president Hong Hai yesterday did not rule out the possibility of the company selling its United Overseas Bank
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      Lock icon Ellipsiz posts $5m H1 loss on poor orders
      258 4  -  By\ Serena Ng ORDER cancellations and fewer new orders have caused niche semiconductor company Ellipsiz to post an interim net loss of $5.5 million, against a $3.5 million net profit a year ago. Revenue slumped 67 per cent in the six months
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      Lock icon Venture staff run up $222m unrealised gains
      233 4  -  By R Sivanithy IN just under six months, 480 employees of contract manufacturer Venture Manufacturing have run up potential gains of a staggering $222 million from their latest share options. In its results announcement last Friday, Venture said that since June 30,2001, it
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      Lock icon No move to take SBS private, says Delgro
      177 4 Reuters, Bloomberg SINGAPORE transport group Delgro Corporation Ltd yesterday denied market talk it would take its 75 per cent owned subsidiary SBS Transit Ltd private. "There are no plans" to take SBS private, said Choo Peng Yen, a spokesman for Delgro. "We're
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      Lock icon Kim Eng Ong Asia to buy HK units for HK$159m
      337 4  -  It will also make offer for Kim Eng HK By Chua Hui Min NEWLY-MERGED brokerage firm Kim Eng Ong Asia said yesterday it will pay HK$l59 million (Ss37 million) in cash for the securities and futures business of its partially-owned
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      Lock icon Chartered could come under selling pressure
      380 4  -  US firm deciding if it should divest its 16.4 m shares By\ Serena Ng CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing's stock could come under selling pressure soon if a minority stakeholder decides to unload part or all of its estimated 16.4 million shares in the company. But
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      Lock icon Time for small caps to think about marriage
      694 4  -  lock siew ven sreenivasan A COMBINATION of improving economic fundamentals, low interest rates and abundant liquidity is helping the stock market find its feet again. But the rising tide has not lifted all boats. While institutional money chases blue chips and other
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      Lock icon Seksun's China ops listing plans spark surge
      450 5  -  Under-valned counter becomes brokers' latest darling By Loh Hui Yin THE proposed listing of its China operations in 18-24 months was the only plausible reason why the share price of Seksun Corporation shot up yesterday, said one of its senior executives. Steven Chong,
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon MediaRing's board appointments
        62 5 MEDIARING has appointed Khaw Kheng Joo and Thomas Henrik Zilliacus to its board. Mr Khaw is a senior-vice president of Celestica, one of the world's biggest electronics contract manufacturers. He is also a director of Total Automation and Seneko Power. Mr Zilliacus is the founder and executive
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        Lock icon Digiland to debut on March 28
        44 5 GES International says shares of its Digiland International distribution unit will start trading on the Singapore Exchange on March 28. The firm, which is spinning off Digiland, has won approval from the High Court for the split. Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Huan Hsin, Circuitech form new firm
        85 5 AFX HUAN Hsin Holdings has agreed with other shareholders of Circuitech Holdings and Unimicron to consolidate their printed circuit board manufacturing operations into a new company. Huan Hsin and other Circuitech shareholders will exchange their existing loans and shares in Circuitech, totalling US$25 million,
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        Lock icon Ipoo's Thai venture awarded US$25m
        52 5 IPCO International said yesterday that Ipco-G&C Joint Venture (Thailand) (IGC) was awarded a final judgment of U5525.3 million on a claim against PTT Public Company on Feb 4. The judgment relates to disputes between IGC and PTT concerning a natural gas pipeline constructed by IGC
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      30 4 B I wffw -—J pou&l^ For further information, contact Huamao Agencies Sdn Bhd Tel: 6743 8883 Fa*: 6746 8570 Available at: jjw|y)> o*w»* SIMCHOUC MCHCCOITO. W29H iwected M«CHC» Mam outMs
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      390 4 i\of ices THULELAND SHIPPING PTE LTD (In AAemberf' Voluntary liquidation) NOTICE Of FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final Meeting of the obovenamed Company will be held oi 220 Orchard Rood #05-02 Midpoint Orchard Singapore *****2 on 8 April 2002 at 10 a.m. lor the following purposes. 1.
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      384 4 r ADVERTISEMENT FOR CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF MERC LA SOTTWAfIf ASIA PAOfIC PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CREDITORS of the abovenamed Company, which is being wound up voluntarily ara required on or
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      141 5 > Steal our cash and you* 11 be caught red-handed WmCL m# j/ 2 1 I i^S Most financial transactions are carried out electronically these davs. Hut there comes a point when large Mints of mone\ have to phvsicallv change hands. So how do vou make sure that should anvtluni!
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      302 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 6 VALUE CLOSE ITOMI 80.00 +&2.00 ■rCAW -*****.00 +110.00 -*****.00 +8.00 472.63 -0.52 Se&pmeeBect 172.71 +3.68 ItipBwHi 1549.83 -13.27 478.92 +1.70 WOfcpiww 227.20 -Q.85 SMSCfFatarM 227.40 -Q.50 Stocto VoImw IPC020C 29,867.000 North 22 USlc *****,000 UnJFood HK2Sc 19,617 000 Datacraft 10c 18,928 000 MFS Tech 10c
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      Lock icon First Engg moves into overbought territory
      274 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan AFTER a prolonged slide, the shares of plastic injection mould maker First Engineering have sprung to life in the past three months. The stock rose four cents yesterday to close at a record 56.5 cents, as a whopping
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      Lock icon Analysts in a world of semantics
      769 6  -  i I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy PITY, if you can, the finance journalist who is sometimes "forced" to come up with reasons to explain the market's movements when there may not be any worthy of mention, and at the same time is criticised for
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      Lock icon US$ still looks distinctly heavy short-term
      581 6  -  f I comment CURRENCIES It's perched perilously on key 131.60-80 yen support larry wee US-DOLLAR bears continued to have the edge in Asian trading yesterday, with more evidence that those who have under-estimated the strength of the Nikkei rebound are starting to lose their
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    3056 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ASM Amro Asset Mgt (S pore) Star Europe Eqty!* o.793/ Star Europe Bd 0 952/ Star Europe Bat 0.867/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0.82* Star A»a Bond 1 2*8/ Star Asia Balanced 0 88V Star Global Technology Fund 0.291/ Star Bhv Finance Japan Fund!" 0 76W AH
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon EDB opens London office for biomedical investment fund
      537 7  -  Scientist John Diekman to chair fund's management company Front Neil Behrmann in London THE Singapore Economic Development Board's Biomedical Sciences Investment Fund is establishing a London office to invest in European, Asian and other biomedical firms. The main focus of the US$6OO
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      Lock icon Protection plan for Jade buyers
      442 7  -  Free AIA package offered to condo buyers as incentive Byy Vince Chong BUYERS of Sim Lian's Jade condo will get a free twoyear "special condominium protection plan" with cover exceeding $600,000 an incentive analysts say may spur other developers to follow suit. The insurance package,
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      Lock icon 2 more reserve land parcels to be released
      442 7  -  By 1 Kalpana Rashiwala THE government said yesterday that it will release another two sites in the reserve list. These are an executive condominium (EC) parcel in Pasir Ris with a reserve price of $105 psf of potential gross floor area, and
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      Lock icon HDB's role under review
      131 7  -  Sum Foong Yee (Miss) Executive Public Relations Officer for Chief Corporate Development Officer Housing Development Board PLEASE refer to the letters on HDB's role in your Mailbag column on March 4, and the article "Why the govt should consider option of closing down HDB" by Lee
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      Lock icon US group confident of doing business in S'pore
      248 7  -  Byl Chuang Peck Ming A GROUP of visiting US business leaders yesterday reaffirmed corporate America's confidence in doing business in Singapore in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Representatives of the US-Asean Business CouncU also offered
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      71 7 s ne s e II U e st y ,e a< *ore function, Mi|l| »g'| you won't miss the chandeliers and fril| y *tuff. If you must have broadband in your room, you won't miss the TEA WLm live band in the lobby. Welcome to I I BAR M Hotel
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon How to manage property in a downturn
      158 8 THE International Development Research Council (IDRC) will be staging a corporate real estate event. The Singapore World Congress, on March 20-22 at The Fullerton. The spotlight will be on how firms can maximise the value of their corporate property assets in times of
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      Lock icon Economic health takes top priority
      525 8  -  vikce chomg looks at the factors that matter most to international property investors VINCE CHONG INTERNATIONAL property investors place top priority on a country's economic health, says a report by DTZ Debenham Tie Leung. This finding stemmed from a DTZ research poll last year of
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      Lock icon Pleasant and sinister visitors of the night
      623 8  -  lcfJ:ji]=UN:fcHoS Byl Thien THE "Midnight" tree does not exist, except perhaps in kids' minds, and some adults' nightmares. Recalling a story book she'd read, our daughter Min at age five had, for instance, pointed to a knobbly, gnarled tree in our neighbourhood which
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    Lock icon New homes for sale
    633 8 DEVELOPER/OWNER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNITS NO OF PRICE TENURE fTTTBTTiTl B launched units sold psf) Queens Allgreen Properties 3 C'wealth Ave/Stirling Fid 914-2,723 722 696 548 99-yr Blue Horizon FEO 5 West Coast Crescent 904-1,227 503 250 550 99-yr 38 Draycott Drive Sing Realty (S)
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      347 8 wm 53J Nanyang Business School Nanyang Technological University PflPf f NANYANG EXECUTIVE PROGRAMME 3 JL, Communication Management March2oo2 ''Communication is a central aspect of management; nc eec a t>ility to communicate effectively can M either make or break an individual's management lni < career/' Communication Management, 25 27 March 2002
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      331 8 mbflMifeianittttrt JNOTICE OF CREDITORS' MEETING IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES AO, CHARTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF (1) Ken-Air Insure Group Pte Ltd (2) Ken-Air Incentive ft Convention Planner* Pte Ud (3) Ken-Air Travel Management Systems Pte Lid (Receivers and Monomers appointed) (4) Ken-Air Entertainment Services Group Pie
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      323 9 jBKBBB&Sr ■Bppß^*^ 1 L 1 u ■Ip 11 'il'iinipjisi -.ip Why pay more when you can buy for less... on THAI's Business Class BANGKOK JAKARTA TAIPEI SEOUL HONG KONG 1 $688 $588 $1788 $1788 $1588 GUANGZHOU BEIJING SHANGHAI CHENGDU KUNMING I WSM W9SS $1988 $1188 $1488 I TOKYO OSAKA NAGOYA
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon The good old Old Economy to the rescue
      731 10  -  mum I bottom line OPINION robert samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group IF this recession has now ended as most economists, including Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, apparently think then there will be a supreme irony in its passing. What has
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      69 10 This is almost become a Japanese disease: slow strangulation of an affluent and egalitarian society.' Eigqke Sakakibara 'Mr Yen '.former Japanese vice-minister/or international finance. on his nation s economy. Now that the recovery has announced itself in such grand style, how long can rates stay at a
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      Lock icon Drawing on the S'porean diaspora
      546 10 EDITORIAL THE government's drive to forge stronger connections with Singaporeans living overseas —as well as with foreigners who have links with Singapore is a savvy step with potentially far-reaching benefits. The Singaporean diaspora is reckoned to be at least 100,000-strong, concentrated mainly in Australia, Hong
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      Lock icon The chips are down for Taiwan manufacturers
      963 10  -  Passions are running high as top chip producer TSMC advocates lifting the ban on building tabs in China By] Macabe Keliher The writer, based in Taipei, contributes regularly to BT THE government looks set to ease the ban on investment in semiconductor manufacturing
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      Lock icon Say 'no'to IMF
      548 10  -  COMMENT ART By: David DeRosa The writer, president of Deßosa Research Trading, is also an adjunct finance professor at Yale School of Management and author of In Defense of Free Capital Markets The opinions expressed are his own. Bloomberg GOOD ideas get killed in a heartbeat. Bad
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      496 10 AEM-EVERTECH HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of AEM-Evertech Holdings Ltd (the 'Shareholders") will be held at 52 Serangoon North Avenue *****3 on Friday, 22 March 2002 at 9.30 a.m. for
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      Lock icon FREIGHT MARKET
      295 11 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose three points to 1,038, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained one point to 1,014, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD firmed 41 points to 6,859 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was up five points to 1,338. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Fu May (built 2002)
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      Lock icon MARITIME STOCKS
      254 11 ■Ww BfWXiE MX ON CWT Distribution—0.62 149 Chuar Hup 0.43 0.01 1231 Cotco Investment ._0-24 unch 322 Freight Unkf 0.07 unch 13 G8tfaMbigs 0.63 007 K>7 IMC Holdings-HK —5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holdings 0-23 0.03 9659 KappelCorp 4J2 0.02 3075 Keppol Marin* 0.19 unch 747 KappelTel* 1.09 unch
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      Lock icon IMO moves closer to mandatory ballast water management
      699 11  -  Proposed convention being reviewed; likely to be adopted in 2003 By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Mandatory ballast water management planning is just around the corner and takes longer to implement than the industry realises, experts say. Topping the agenda this week at the
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      Lock icon Ukrainian aircraft carrier in China for refitting
      268 11 AFP [HONG KONG] A decommissioned Ukrainian aircraft carrier has finally arrived in a north-eastern Chinese shipyard for refitting as a floating casino and hotel. But the 306-metre Varyag still faces a lengthy wait at Dalian port as the shipbuilding firm commissioned to carry
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      Lock icon China pledges US$5m to clear Mekong rapids
      202 11  -  By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE) China has committed US$5 million to clear rapids and widen a shipping lane in the Mekong river to promote trade and tourism. The money will be used to demolish 12 sets of rapids on the river which will enable
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      Lock icon Keppel FELS clinches another contract and bonus for excellence
      520 11  -  USs6omrig conversion job completed ahead of schedule, on budget Byi George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Keppel FELS did such a good job recently with a complex conversion of a semi-submersible that it earned a cash bonus and another similar contract from the pleased
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      Lock icon The World shown to the world
      771 12  -  NEWBUXLDS By\ David Hughes Anew stage in the evolution of passenger shipping took place last month with the unveiling of the 43,500 gt "floating home", The World, at Norway's Fosen Mek Verksteder shipyard. The luxury home for the very rich contains 107 apartments available
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      Lock icon SHIPPING SCHEDULES INDEX
      139 12 PACE Apperohip 5 BSA 6 B'taog M«s 6 CMA CGM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 6 > Central Ex 6 CtaniShpg 5 Cougar 6 CVT Gloteiink 6 Wrw 4 Dongnama 3 ECL 3 Evergreen 4 FoongSun 5 Fufvsi 4 Fuji trans 4 Gemartrans 4 Hangli 6 Hyundai 4
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      Lock icon SHIPPING GUIDE
      13735 17 thebusinesstimes I nUHbUAY, MARCH 7, 2002 pQ py ETA ETA Advarttsar Vnm Voyaga THaphon. Sf p*st;n Nam* Nam* NumDar NumBar To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* O'lvotr* 14/03 14/04 Mm« HYUNDAI INOEPENDEN 304W 45-*****344 a/03 12/04 Kian Hung FREEDOM CONTAINER FR201S 45-*****133 a/03 24/04 China Shpg VILLE DE ORION
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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        Lock icon CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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        Lock icon CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1836 19 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Btltnct Rstls SWp Voy No Etb/Btr Nrlod From To From aci c«r» mm 4/120 os/isoo os/054 m*-oo ACJ EAGLE 020 7/2354 I 05/1500 04/054 mm-OO a ovtttxi oM«n Mm a 05/1700 04/0454 04/0400 04/0700 04/1154 04/1400 04/1200 04/1454 04/1700 7/5.-00
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        Lock icon GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        196 19 March IS Malaysia: Islamic New Year (Awal Muharram) Brunei: Islamic New Year (Awal Muharram) Indonesia: Islamic New Year (Awal Muharram) March 21 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day March 29 Singapore: Good Friday Australia: Good Friday Canada: Good Friday France: Good Friday Germany: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday Indonesia:
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        Lock icon COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        827 19 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        Lock icon VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
        473 19 Carton ft D»n>(ty Wataf kikAhmtovm Sadlwawt %NM tmm WWM in M/M %u/u mi —Mwt BO/Cmmc Limrts Spcc £25 991 1.0 15.0 010 80 OK) »«t 635 991 1.0 W.0 0.15 80 o'w Worth*™ Europe 180 Am 900.1 0.1 11.4 0.04 24 0.02 «#0 Mai 992.1 t2
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    • AIR & LAND transport
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        Lock icon Cathay Pacific's earnings dive 87% to HK$657m
        489 20 It lost HKs662m in H2 due to global recession, Sept 11 AP [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways said yesterday its profits plunged 87 per cent to HK$657 million (Ssls4 million) last year, when it was hurt by the Sept 11 attacks, the troubled
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        471 20 Airline re-focusing on regional routes: chairman Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Boeing Co may lose its only customer for a planned long-range version of the 777 jetliner as EVA Airways Corp, Taiwan's second-largest airline, prepares to cancel a US$3 billion order. EVA is "finalising
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        284 20 [SYDNEY] Virgin Blue, Richard Branson's Australian discount airline, is in talks with Air New Zealand about linking their route networks in Australia after the New Zealand carrier's former Australian unit collapsed. Brisbane-based Virgin Blue now holds about 15 per cent of the
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          94 20 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV said February passenger traffic fell 5 per cent as demand dropped and Europe's No 4 airline cut flights after the Sept 11 attacks. Tbe decline was less than January's 7 per cent faILKLM reduced seating capacity 9 per
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      653 21  -  Budget deficit to hit HKs6s.6b this fiscal year and HKs4s.2b next From* Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG Kong yesterday unveiled no major new taxes in its Budget for the coming fiscal year but said that it will ask
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      348 21 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Some RMIB billion (558.65 billion) worth of projects are due to land in the laps of Malaysian contractors, as the government steps up spending to boost its flagging economy, analysts said yesterday. Ineffectual implementation of projects, a mjgor stumbling block
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      338 21  -  From', Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur BONDHOLDERS have rejected Time Engineering's offer to restructure Its defaulted bonds in a development that could toad to a tussle tor the Malaysian telecom group's assets. Tims Engineering, which is part of the United Engineers Malays ia-Renong group, Mid yesterday
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      481 22  -  Exporters may be forced to keep funds at central bank to boost rnpiah: paper From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta SENIOR Bank Indonesia (BI) officials yesterday downplayed a report that banks would be required to place funds from export earnings at the central
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      384 22 JAKARTA AjnqrndectsUknaua'i Reuters AFX IN another sign of a rift In Indonesia's economic team, Ibra and State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi are disputing who should ultimately decide the winning bid fbr a majority stake in JJank Central Asia, the country* a
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      489 23 NEW YORK Bayer interest seen as indication of Asian economic recovery soon Reuters MALAYSIA and the Philippines got a big vote of confidence from Wall Street on Tuesday, as investors lapped up the two countries' new global bond issues. Asia's export-based
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        105 23 AFP [JAKARTA] An Indonesian Muslim cleric will today file a legal complaint against the Singapore government after it accused him of being a leader of an international terrorist group, his lawyer mm yesterday. Nasrun Kalianda, one of the lawyers acting for Muslim cleric
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        77 23 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tightened his grip on power yesterday by adding a 27-member opposition party to his ruling coalition. The opposition Chart Pattana Party (CPP) will Join the 327-seat government side of the 500-seat lower house. CPP leader Korn Dabbaransi
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        46 23 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] ABN Amro, Goldman Sachs and ING Barings were hired to sell as much as US$7OO million of shares in Maxis Communications, bankers said. The sale would be Malaysia's largest initial share offer and could happen as early as May.—Bloomberg
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        Lock icon TRI denies knowledge of Telekom bid
        75 23 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Technology Resources Industries said yesterday it is not aware of Telekom Malaysia Bhd's reported plan to acquire a strategic stake in the company at RM2.80 a share. TRI was responding to a query from the stock exchange on a
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        58 23 AFX [JAKARTA] Indonesia is considering offering permanent resident status to foreign investors and their executives to attract more overseas funds, Investment Coordination Board deputy chairman Risaldi Kasri said. In a Kompas daily report Mr Kasri said the PR status would be accorded only if
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        41 23 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Formosa Plastics Corp said profit in 2001 fell 48 per cent to NTJ6.7 billion (***** million), as slumping economies and competition hurt demand for its raw materials and margins at its oil refinery. —Bloomberg
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      526 23 PEOPLE'S CONGRESS Budget shortfall forecast to expand 19%; social security spending to surge 28% Reuters [BElJlNG] China set a record Budget deficit yesterday in pursuit of 7 per cent economic growth this year, proposing a sharp rise in social security spending to curb
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      625 24  -  Affected nations may retaliate; move seen as part of domestic politics From Leon Hadar in Washington RESPONDING to strong political pressure from the declining American steel industry and its supporters on Capitol Hill, US President George W Bush announced on
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      265 24 TOKYO Reuters, AFP. Bloomberg THE world's top steel producers condemned the US yesterday for slapping hefty tariffs on steel Imports, saying the move undermined the ideals of free trade preached by Washington. Steel producers from Tokyo to Canberra blasted the decision by US President George
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      502 24  -  Bourse rises while new data shows recession worse than feared From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices and Japan's economy continued to move in opposite directions yesterday as the Nikkei 225 stock average managed another modest rise, adding to dramatic gains which in
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      321 24 WASHINGTON Bloomberg, AP NEW orders placed with US manufacturers rose in January for a second straight month, government figures showed, a sign factories are emerging from a lv*-year slump. Orders increased 1.6 per cent during the month to U*****.8 billion, reflecting more demand for
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      464 27 ENRON SAGA Court ruling may prevent bank from collecting USs96sm in bond surety LAT-WP [NEW YORK] A federal judge said on Tuesday that there is evidence J P Morgan Chase Co extended a "disguised loan" to Enron Corp, which could
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      502 27  -  Giant's collapse sparks fears over safety of bonds Froml Neil Behrmann in London US and European bond yields of major corporations have surged following the collapse of Enron and other major companies. Fears that audited accounts of telecommunications and other companies are fudging
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      269 27 Reuters [HOUSTON] Former Enron Corp chief executive Jeff Skilling and the former corporate secretary of the fallen energy trader married this weekend, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Mr Skilling, who left Enron abruptly in August for what he says are personal reasons, married Rebecca
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      Lock icon B2B chalks up $112b in sales revenues
      602 28  -  Actual revenues for the first three quarters of last year higher than forecast; Q4 expected to perform just as robustly: IDA Reports by Tang Weng Fai AN updated survey by the Infocomm Development Auhority of Singapore (IDA) has found that e-commerce in Singapore
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      Lock icon B2C sales for last year estimated at $2.58b
      417 28 Finance, banking transactions accounted for 62% of sales: IDA BUSINESSES might have sold about $2.58 billion worth of goods and services to consumers last year, about 6 per cent less than what the IDA estimated in May last year. Its figure for
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      Lock icon Keeping close track of e-commerce
      761 28  -  Ml comment INFOTECH New survey confirms impressive growth. Question: Is everyone a winner? kenneth james THE quarterly survey of e-commerce in Singapore, results of which were released yesterday, scores on several fronts. Most notably, the survey by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) confirms
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      Lock icon ISS report gives needed boost to HP-Compaq merger plans
      506 29  -  But it also raps HP for making personal attacks on Walter Hewlett From« Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley A SMALL but influential shareholder advisory firm has given a much-needed boost to HewlettPackard and Compaq Computer's chances for a merger. The much-awaited
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      Lock icon Motorola wins US$253m Thai deal
      214 29 AP [NEW YORK] Motorola Inc said on Tuesday that it received a US$253 million contract for a cellphone network in Thailand. Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola's Global Telecom Solutions Sector will supply radio access equipment and related installation and integration services for the
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      Lock icon Intel moves into chips for fibre-optic gear
      304 29 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp has started designing and building customised chips for fibre-optic networks, taking the world's biggest maker of computer processors into a market now controlled by JDS Uniphase Corp. The company has created chips that filter and direct light
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      Lock icon Philips, STM and TSMC in chip development project
      262 29 Reuters [CROLLES. France] Philips Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and STMicroelectronics (STM) on Tuesday unveiled a joint project to speed the development of key chip computer technology. The three companies said they were working to define standards and enhance production of
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      Lock icon Dangerous Klez.E Internet worm making its rounds
      326 29 Virus unique in that it overwrites files Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Com puter security companies have warned that a dangerous new Internet worm that is spreading will try to delete and overwrite files on infected computers beginning yesterday. The worm, dubbed Klez.E, is programmed
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      Lock icon New phones, accessories from Sony Ericsson soon
      434 31  -  Joint venture aiming to lead mobile multimedia communications market in five years By Chen Huifen LONDON-BASED Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications International yesterday launched seven new handsets and accessories with multimedia functions and Bluetooth connectivity in Singapore. The joint venture between Sony and Ericsson
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      Lock icon Tripling of prepaid mobile phone customers in Asia
      232 31 [SINGAPORE] The number of prepaid mobile phone customers in Asia more than tripled in the past year to 106.2 million in Q4 2001, with prepaids making up 76.2 per cent of new cellular connections for the whole year, according to a survey
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      Lock icon China 2nd largest PC market by 2006
      128 31 AFX [BEIJING] China will overtake Japan to become the world's second largest market for personal computers (PCs) by 2006, the China Daily reported, citing projections from CCID Consulting, an IT consultancy under the Ministry of the Information Industry. CCID forecasts that the average
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