The Business Times, 2 July 2002

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MfTA (P) 010/03/2002 ft** 81N O R E I Internet http://business-times asial.coni.sg TUESDAY. JULY
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    71 1 □is UmM (-2.82) nfrnßanmiiß mm umm (-7 oo) nannmnEß 14 112* (-160) STOCK BASKET INDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP 7Zt«6_4.7l MKKEI m 1(1696.44 KM HANOSRNO ftMl SET INDEX dosed JAKARTA COMP _4KJ? -12.74 MANILA COMP .tlNJ7 +89.02 TAIPEI WPI 4J69.J2 -184J9 SEOUL COMP dosed SHENZHEN B M.H-, -279 AC8T
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    58 1 ran inn USt 81 OS$(S$perUS$) 1.7«6 «(C8MS$ per if I J» 17W EUBO(lJS|/SS/E). &M4 1766 DM— 1116 1156 YEN 11M 97.70 KM 18M 1151 HJC5 im -4.417 BAHT 4L47 „JM8 BUPIAH 8,710 On tmmum HnynK^f 111 JAKABTA 99.00 TAIPH I.82S TOKYO— 1171 SEOUL 9M F1ANKFHT Ji§ LONDON. 4.00 NEW
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    Lock icon Private home prices slip 1.6% in first half
    609 1  -  Bnt it's too early to say market has bottomed: analysts By Andrea Tan (SINGAPORE] While latest statistics released yesterday indicate a bottoming of the private home market prices fell a marginal 1.6 per cent in the first six months property analysts say
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    Lock icon Plaintiffs concede RTC didn't fix membership cap
    615 1  -  It's day one in conrt for class action suit against club By I Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Raffles Town Club did not say explicitly during a recruitment drive in 1996 that it planned to cap its membership at 5,000 to 7,000, the lawyer for
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    Lock icon IDA won't appeal ruling in $388m SingTel case
    660 1  -  It'll act to ensure this mistake does not happen again' By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singapore's telecoms regulator says it will not appeal the High Court ruling against its high-profile lawsuit to recover $388 million it mistakenly paid Singapore Telecom in 1997. The
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    Lock icon Singapore is Asia's top investor in biotech sector
    802 1  -  l Jlexclusive I By rot Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Spurred largely by government funds. Singapore is Asia's leading investor in the biotechnology sector, according to a report in the June issue of Asia Private Equity Review, a journal that covers the region's venture
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      214 1 DUDE BT Comment is it World Cup hangover this time? Pg 4 'I IS Hock Lock Wow Catching up or baling out? 9 f* <f' V". i Tof» stories Markets shrug off big surge in Japan business sentiment. fWtxt F«0« CapitaMall Trust offers higher yield. Pa a NOL-APL stlfl keen
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      Lock icon Markets shrug off big surge in Japan business sentiment
      694 2  -  Strong yen, plans to cat capital spending by companies cast doubts on recovery From! Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SENTIMENT improved sharply almost across the board within the Japanese corporate sector during the month of June compared with its level three months
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Pele ball for church auction
        135 2 SOCCER is almost a religion to some people and some fens consider Pele the greatest footballer of all, a footballing god. So it is no surprise that a church in Singapore is hoping that Pele and soccer would lead to some divine intervention in its
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        Lock icon Ebitda revised
        40 2 FOLLOWING the accounting mess at Enron, World Com and elsewhere, Ebitda, according to an email, has come to mean Earnings Before I Trick Dumb Auditors. Ebitda, of course, is short for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
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        100 2 THE art of telling the future is going modern, bowing to faith and technology at one go. Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin temple, where the faithful in their thousands go to make joss stick offerings and have their fortune told, has gone online. At http:/ www.ainbc.com/wongtaisin/default.asp you can find
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      Lock icon Changi Beach Club and Changi Sailing Club in talks to merge
      430 2  -  exclusive! Byi Grace Tan [SINGAPORE] Changi Beach Club and the nearby Changi Sailing Club are in talks to merge. The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) which owns the lease to both clubs and which has a majority on each club's
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      Lock icon S'pore, KL pledge to do best to resolve issues
      451 2  -  But foreign ministers of both continue to downplay chances of qmck success From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur FOREIGN Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday pledged to do their best to resolve outstanding bilateral problems in their two-day tali™ but both
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      358 2 KnjnMHH I A\ I Armttrong Industrial Corporation Umtod To Shareholders of the Company who: (I) do not registered address in Singapore, for the service of notices and documents for purposes of the Rights Issue (as definecTMow) as at 27 June 2002 (the "Books Cfoewre Date")-, and (li) Lim Associate (Pte)
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon CapitaMall Trust offers higher yield
      857 3  -  frhtof confident of oversubscription of the IPO By] Kalpana Rashiwala tftriiALAWu president and CEO Liew Mun Leong is taking a "personal bet". He is betting that the Capita Mall Trust, which is offering 213 million units at a bookbuilding price range of 94 to 96
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      Lock icon Catching up — or bailing out?
      505 3  - Catching up or bailing out? JT*T!T!f lock siew angela tan THE appointment of local CEOs to replace foreign talents at ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) and Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has puzzled industry observers not least because of the abrupt transitions. Speculation has sprouted, including a rumour that the government's investment
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      Lock icon Tjong Yik Min made YHS president/COO
      286 3  -  Philip Ng named MD/CEO among other top changes Byi Conrad Raj MAINBOARD-LISTED Yeo Hiap Seng yesterday announced several senior management changes, including the appointment of former internal security head Tjong Yik Min as president and chief operating officer in an apparent effort to return
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      Lock icon ECS Hldgs to take full control of China and Thai units
      416 5  -  Acquisitionswill cost $34m and raise Solectron's ECS stake to 24.6% By] David Boey ECS Holdings, the Asia-Pa-cific IT products distribution arm of Solectron Corporation, will spend $34 million to make its China and Thailand-based units wholly-owned subsidiaries. The acquisitions
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      Lock icon Only Citigroup fund exposed to US 'Toxic 4'
      473 5  -  By Siow Li Sen OF the 50 Singapore funds whose investment mandates may have included shares in America's "toxic four" World Com, Enron, Tyco, Xerox only one had exposure at May 31 this year. Citigroup's US Aggressive Growth had a 3.4 per
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      Lock icon Amtek plans to buy 55% stake in plastics parts maker
      189 5 METAL processing firm Amtek Engineering yesterday entered into an MOU with plastics manufacturer Lian Jun Industrial and its founders to acquire a 55 per cent stake in the company. Under the agreement, Amtek will subscribe for up to 1.78 million
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Keppel T&T names new exec director
        92 5 KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation has appointed independent director Robert Bong as executive director and managing director-designate in place of Ng Eng Ho whose resignation takes effect from Oct 1. Mr Ng is leaving to pursue his own interests but will remain on its board. Prior
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        Lock icon Ellipaiz invests further in unit
        58 5 ELLIPSE Ltd said yesterday it ban raised its shareholdings in its a wholly owned unit, Micro Fab Technology, from IS million to $25 million. The mainboard listed firm said the deal is not expected to have any material impact on its net tangible assets and
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        Lock icon Ipoo plan to buy Explomo scuttled
        46 5 IPCO International said yesterday that its proposal to buy a 60 per cent stake in Explomo Technical Services Pte Ltd has been terminated. The deal was scuttled because conditions in the sale and purchase agreement "have not been fully fulfilled".
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        Lock icon Presscrete clarifies loan repayments
        41 5 PRESSCRETE Holdings yesterday clarified that the group's bankers (excluding those of Ceramic Technologies) have "not demanded repayment" of its existing loans at short notice. It said it win "prompt disclosure" as and when there are further developments.
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        Lock icon Republic Hotels must name adviser
        73 5 THE Securities Industry Council (SIC) has ruled that Republic Hotels Resorts is required to appoint a co-independent financial adviser in addition to ANZ Singapore who will advise on Millennium Copthorne's acquisition offer. As such, the SIC has granted a time extension to Republic Hotels for
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        Lock icon Datacraft launches Indian subsidiary
        56 5 AFP [BANGALORE, India] Datacraft Asia, a network systems integrator, yesterday said it was launching a subsidiary in India. Training Partners will train Indian students and software professionals in networking and data communications, Ron Cattell, CEO of Datacraft Asia said The firm also opened its network services
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      273 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jul 1 VALUE CtOM w— -67.00 ♦20.00 WC— -*****.00 -00.00 WlMfiH -*****.00 -6.00 416.38 -1.40 nw*mmm»* 131^0 MWwHi 1342.86 -4.20 407.84 +1.41 —iWi 192.46 -0.48 IMKIIMaaa 192.80 -1.60 SfflSC —9.740 000 ECS 10c 9.004,000 BLMJUS20C 7.880.000 LAM 80c 6*860,000 NOL 5,489.000 Auecn 5.404,000 Ur#t*rlOc 5,242.000 P«optot Food
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      Lock icon IPOs may resurface as theme for trading play
      321 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy IN a market as starved of ideas as this, it is a safe bet that as soon as anyone comes up with a plausible-sounding play, it will be pounced on. So far this year, themes that
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      Lock icon Is it World Cup hangover this time?
      777 4  -  I -it comment STOCKS r. sivanithy WATCHING trading in the local stock market yesterday was like watching ice melt you just wished it would end. If there is going to be a sell-off, for example, then a short sharp one that could signify
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      Lock icon Uneasy calm, for US$ ahead of July 4
      561 4  -  11 comment CURRENCIES Some indication that short positions have been trimmed larry wee AFTER Friday's late sales of the yen by the US and European central banks at the request of Japan, the American dollar ended off its recent lows yesterday. But
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    1919 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Enernr index Fd O.KV Com Globe! Trwe! Index Fd 0 74V Com S'pore Bond Find/* 1.04V «HMn«MM|l|S>n| Star Europe Gqtyt* 0.71* CredK Africe»e Aaeet M»t S pore ltd Star Europe M 1.05V Indocam A«u vhionl** o JVO 936 Star Europe Sal OJBV Star Aalan Tiger
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Net JTC take-up improves in Q2
      340 6  -  There were fewer terminations of its industrial facilities By Vince Chong ADVANCE second-quarter estimates of JTC Corporation's industrial facilities show an improvement in net take-up over the previous period, buoyed by fewer terminations. Net allocation gross allocation net of terminations of ready-built space hit
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      Lock icon To be self-serving or not to be?
      652 6  -  11 comment PROPERTY Home-buyers might be forgiven for Ignoring recent comments that bousing prices have bottomed lee han shih ALL manner of remarks have been flying about in the property market recently. First, veteran developer Daniel Teo called on the government to ensure
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      Lock icon Over 40 units sold at FCC's Bishan Point condo
      403 6  -  By Vince Chong PROPERTY buyers like soccer fans may have had their sights firmly fixed on the East recently, but First Capital Corporation has quietly sold more than 40 homes at its Bishan Point condo since the soft launch two weekends
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Siemens Medical seeks research partners here
      414 7  -  It wants to work with local medical scientists to develop new applications By] Eugene Low HEALTHCARE equipment supplier Siemens Medical Solutions is keen to carry out more high-end, knowl-edge-intensive activities in Singapore and is looking to set up joint research projects with medical scientists
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      Lock icon French govt securities attracting foreign buyers
      399 7  -  By\ Siow Li Sen FRENCH government securities are increasingly being snapped up by foreigners, including Asian investors. Holdings by non-resi-dents of French government debt is now around 33 per cent from a low of about 12 per cent in 1996, said Sylvain de Forges,
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      Lock icon 42% of S'poreans polled want to be own boss: survey
      383 7  -  By] David Boey A LABOUR survey has found few Singaporeans willing to commit long-term even to a "very attractive Job offer", with many aspiring to be their own boas one day, said global recruitment agency Business Trends yesterday. Dhirendra Shantilal,
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      Lock icon Hiring of senior execs slows
      237 7  -  Con the econom^^ jobs By Eugene Low COMPANIES here eased up on their hiring of top-level executives in June, a survey by Syd-ney-based executive search firm EL Consult has found. The firm's EL executive demand index which tracks executive hiring in the pnginooring fl. nance,
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      Lock icon CPF minimum sum raised to $75,000
      175 7 THE CPF minimum sum for retirement has been raised to $75,000 from 170,000, the CPF Board said yesterday. The minimum sum aimed at providing a basic retirement income applies to members who reach 55 or after that date. The CPF yesterday reminded members they
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Reflections on the rag trade in Cambodia
      721 8  -  bottom line OPINION harish mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent. He is also BT's Indochina specialist TWO years ago, a BBC documentary alleged that a Phnom Penh garment supplier to US sportswear giant Nike employed two under-age girls as workers. Hie allegations
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      119 8 'We do not believe the American system is bad. But we do not believe that the American rules are the model for the entire world. Cultures that orient themselves more to the long term tick in a different way.' -Aston Hanger Porsche's spokesman, on why Porsche AG.
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      Lock icon Restoring market confidence
      591 8 EDITORIAL IF there is an overriding truth about stock markets, it is that confidence is everything. Without confidence, the market is nothing investors stop trading, liquidity tapers off and prices eventually collapse. This is what US investors are currently experiencing. Because of the numerous accounting scandals hitting
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      Lock icon 5 years on, good times yet to return to E Asia
      938 8  -  On the anniversary of the East Asian crisis, there is still lots to do in the area of reforms and in creating a stable investment climate in the region By Homi Kharas The writer is chitf economist for East
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      Lock icon Stock tips from the World Cup
      829 8  -  COMMENTARY By Matthew Lynn The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed art his own. Bloomberg SOME people, possibly including your wife (or at least my wife), think the World Cup is about a bunch of guys sitting around drinking beer
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Quality of mgt in doubt
      248 9  -  PSARBFOBM% Woon Wee Min, Singapore I REFER to your report "Shipping lines laud PSA's fee cuts, new mindset" (BT, June 29). 4 r'h v kgH would be recalled that in the not too distant past articles contributed by tttadec* had suggested that PSA Corporation ought
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      Lock icon PSA must also contain costs to stay competitive
      78 9  -  Paul Loh, Singapore REFER to the report "PSA ready to tabs profit htt to keep clients" (BT, June SB), It is definitely a good sign that PSA has finally woken up to the challenges of a competitive environment. Competition is here to
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      Lock icon Try local talent; hire foreigners with care
      250 9  -  Lee Kwok Weng, Singapore I REFER to the commentary by Lee Han Shih, "Ee Cheong may well thank DBS"(Hock Lock Siew, June 27). We tend to think that just because the professionals are from the US, EU or the like, they are foreign
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      Lock icon WorldCom's auditors were to blame
      166 9  -  Rahul Goswami, Singapore IN bemoaning the fallout from the collapse of WorldCom ("New breed of director to prevent fraud" by David Mason, BT, June 28), Mr Mason states that "the kneejerk reaction is to blame the external auditors those people who are, supposedly, very well
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      Lock icon Penalty for Nets usage unfair
      116 9  -  Leong Chee Tong, Singapore I REFER to your report "Basic banking accounts for lowerincome by next year" (BT, June 26). What about paying by Nets? It would be very unfair to penalise an account holder for using Nets more than six times. Because most of
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      106 9 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter&sph.com.sg or fax us at 6319-8277, or write to: The Business Times, SPHHQ, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 3, Singapore *****4. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify It came from you. Please use temperate language, and
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Tajudin, 3 others to step down from TRI board
      555 10 KUALA LUMPUR They will make way for officials from Telekom Malaysia, ending dispute Bloomberg Reuters TECHNOLOGY Resources Industries Bhd, Malaysia's No 2 mobile phone company, said four directors, including founder Tajudin Ramli are to quit, a move that may hasten a
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      Lock icon HK, S'pore stocks seen shining in H2
      584 10 HONGKONG Analysts site low valuations and economic recovery Reuters PAKISTANI, Indonesian and Thai stocks were Asia's winners in the first half of the year, but investors will be better off buying into laggards Hong Kong and Singapore in the second half, fund managers
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      Lock icon UOB, Gadek in insurance venture
      177 10 [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank Group, through its wholly-owned Malaysian subsidiary, has entered into a Joint venture with Gadek (Malaysia) Bhd for the life and general insurance businesses in Malaysia. UOB (Malaysia) will take a 49 per cent stake in the venture known as TowerEd Sdn
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Asian equity issue up 6.5% in H1
        132 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Equity issuance in Asia outside of Japan and Australia rote 6£per cent to US$l6.4 billion in the first half 0f2002 from US$l5.4 billion in the year-ago period, Thomson Financial said yesterday. South Korea led the league table for the second
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        Lock icon Offer to buy Unza shares at premium
        112 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Beijaya Group Bhd said it 2 received an offer from a private equity investor to buy its stake in a unit, Unaa Holdings Bhd, at a 41 perS cent premium to the market price. Navis Investment Partners (Asia) Ltd, a
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        Lock icon Manila raises US$675m loan
        32 10 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippine central hank said yesterday it had successfully raised US$675 million £S taxn a five-year syndicated loan facility, more than the US$5OO million originally proposed.—Jteufcrs
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        Lock icon H1 results by Aug 31: China bourses
        102 10 Xinhua Financial [BEIJING] The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges has required that listed companies releasCl! their 9008 first-half financial reports bsffare Aug 81. or* apply for a postponement and provide an for the delay, the Shenshen-baaed Securities Hants said. The newspaper said the
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      Lock icon Telstra buys out CyberWorks in HK mobile operator CSL
      410 11 SYDNEY USs47sm cashless deal may be a harbinger of more Asian deals CEO Dow Jones Newswires "AUSTRALIA'S largest telecommunications company, Telstra Corp Ltd, said yesterday it plans to accelerate its foray into Asia's mobile telephony market after buying out partner Pacific
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      Lock icon Philippines may ban issue of new credit cards as defaults soar
      393 11 MANILA Central bank move could weaken consumer spending Bloomberg THE Philippines' binge of credit-card buying sent loan defaults soaring in the first quarter, prompting the government to think about banning the issue of new plastic, said central bank deputy
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      Lock icon Empire-building in fast forward mode
      621 11  -  PROFILE: BART TANOESOEDIBJO Bimantara's boss has big plans, including listing its media arm and entering telecom joint-ventures From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta NOW that he is firmly installed as president-director of Indonesia's Blmantara Citra. 36-year-old Hary Tanoesoedibjo has set his sights on rapidly expanding his
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon Biggest challenge is to lead HK out of downturn: Tung
      459 12  -  JiugnrgssHEt* unite behind govt u Chief Exec is swam in for secend term From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong SWORN in for a second fiveyear term yesterday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa identified his biggest challenge as leading
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      Lock icon Taiwan's 4th attempt to sell Chunghwa stake fails
      249 12 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan failed to sell a 5.7 per cent stake in Chunghwa Telecom Co, its fourth flop in two years of trying to move the Island's largest phone company towards private ownership. No bidders appeared at yesterday's auction. The government put
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      253 12 TOKYO Bloomberg WORLDWIDE chip sales fell 10.5 per cent last month, the smallest decline in 12 months, signalling demand is recovering from the industry's worst year on record in 2001, an industry group said. Sales fell to US$ll.4 billion from US$l2.7
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      259 15 WASHINGTON Bloomberg XEROX Corp is still under investigation for inflating its revenue, and the Securities and Exchange Commission will hold company officials responsible for any wrongdoing, chairman Harvey Pitt said. The world's biggest copier maker, in a delayed annual report filed on Friday,
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      402 16 WASHINGTON AP Bloomberg WORLDCOM Inc, already facing charges over nearly US$4 billion in disguised expenses, told the US government yesterday it was investigating possible irregularities in its reserve accounts. The embattled telecommunications company submitted a sworn statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission,
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      264 16 LOS ANGELES Bloomberg NORTHROP Grumman Corp has agreed to buy TRW Inc for US$ll.B billion in stock and assumed debt to become one of the biggest builders of equipment for the US missile-defence programme. It raised the offer twice before clinching the deal
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        88 16 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Tyco International plans to proceed with a US$5 billion stock sale of its CIT Group, returning the finance company to the public after one year of ownership. In the fourth largest US IPO, Tyco is expected to price 200 million CIT
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        93 16 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Ericsson surged 14 per cent yesterday after one of its larger shareholders said the company should take part in a consolidation of the sector, either as buyer or target. Lars Otterbeck, chief executive of the Alecta pension ftind which owns 3.4 per cent
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        27 16 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Commerzbank acquired a 10 per cent stake in Ferrari from Mediobanca for an undisclosed sum, a bank spokesman said. Bloomberg
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        60 16 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Lehman Brothers Holdings and closely held Merwede Group of the Netherlands said they will jointly offer 884 million euros (Ssl .6 billion) for Dutch real estate investment company Uni-Invest Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners and Merwede will pay 12.75 euros for each Uni-Invest
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      331 17 MADRID Banks, including San Under, ABN Amro, HSBC have DSsB2b at stake Bloomberg EUROPEAN banks, including Santander Central Hispano SA and ABN Amro Holding NV, have US$B2 billion of loans and investments in Brazil. Europe's banks have twice as much at stake
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      120 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] British banking group Lloyds TSB Group Pic is considering running some of its operations from India, threatening 8,000 UK jobs, the Financial Mail on Sunday said, citing a banking nninn official. The UK's No 5 bank by assets is considering setting up
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      229 18 FROM lessons learned in managing knowledge at the United States space agency Nasa, to all you never knew about "second-generation knowledge management" the upcoming Knowledge Management Asia 2002 conference has lined up plenty of topics for discussion and debate. The chief knowledge architect
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      150 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed one point to 1,006, the Baltic Panama* Index (BPI) was unchanged at 1,020, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD fell 31 points to 7,535 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was up two points to 1,156. CIC Piraeus (built2ool) 76,296 dwt delivery
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      451 19  -  |Kf iexclusive Container lines toe need consolidation for better efficiency, market share: Jacobs Reports by Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) remains interested in merger and acquisition opportunities and supports greater consolidation of the container shipping industry, says chief executive and president Flemming
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      277 19  -  S'poreyard completes another $100 m conversion for US company Byi George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Keppel Shipyard has been chosen as the preferred yard in the region by the owner and operator of the world's largest fleet of floating production and storage facilities.
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      261 19 [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines chief executive and president Flemming Jacobs remains less-than-opti-mistic about any bottom line improvement this year as freight rates continue to languish below sustainability. "I have said that unless rates improve significantly, we are unlikely to return to profitability this
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      266 19  -  It will proceed with plan despite PSA's cheaper prices -By Beth Jinks {SINGAPORE] Cheaper prices and new flexibility at PSA Corporation make no difference to Evergreen Marine Corp's decision to move to Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), the Taiwan line says.
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        899 20 A historic USslsb loan guarantee programme, set up to help the industiy recover from the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, had only four applicants when its deadline expired on Friday Reuters [CHICAGO} -m ost major US airlines IM are steering clear of I H
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        802 26 THIS report compiled by Cockett Ma line Oil Ltd. show* price ranges in US dollar* instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are baaed on averagesiaed stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        706 27 But my significant boost to profits will take time to seep through Reuters (TAIPEI] Taiwan's EVA Airways and Hong Kong's Dragonair are set to benefit the most from a new air pact on one of Asia's most lucrative routes, but any significant
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        303 27 Charges may be raised by as mneh as 40%: report Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Melbourne airport, the gateway to Australia's second-biggest city, plans to raise its fees as government limits on increases in landing and cargo handling charges ended yesterday. "The price increases fulfill a catch-up
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        240 27 AFP [ABU DHABI] Gulf Air's new president expressed his confidence that a cost-cut-ting restructure plan introduced last month will pull the cash-strapped airline back into the black within three years. "As a large airline, Gulf Air has all the ingredients to rebuild
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        132 27 AFP [ZURICH] Officials at Zu-rich-Kloten airport in Switzerland are to test a software system that can help to identify people by their facial characteristics, as part of a potential new security system, police at the airport said. A police spokesman said that photographs
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        331 27  -  New $lm system will give discount AnrfiptiM By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Regional carrier Silk Air is aiming to raise Internet sales to 15 per cent of revenues in three years' time by leveraging on online-only discounts. Online bookings currently account for only
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        263 27 AFP [LUCERNE, Switzerland] Swiss, the new airline replacing Swissair which went out of business earlier this year, is expected to balance its books next year and move into profit in 2004, its chief executive said. Andre Dose said that during its first
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          81 27 Bloomberg ioE.uuL.j <\siana Airlines, aoutn Korea s t second largest carrier, has designated about 5 per cent of seats on US routes as women-only seats yesterday as part of its efforts to attract more female travellers. The seats will be martwd %adyAsiana. M and tbe carrier
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          82 27 Bloomberg IVANTAA, Finland] FtamairOy} > Fbibndf!i]n|M alriine, said it ordered Internet development —fk— from International Business Machines Corp (ODd) worth US$4OO million over the next 10 years. The order tnrjnrtes wireless check-in, e-ticketinf and v, < Internet and wiretess ticket sates, Finnair said in
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        220 27 AFP (ORLY AIRPORT, France] A work-to-rule by security staff at Paris's Orly airport demanding higher wages, better equipment and more personnel was set to harden and spread to other airports, union officials said. The go-slow delayed (lights by up to an hour-and-a-half on Sunday
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