The Business Times, 23 September 2002

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  • 17 1 MITA (P) 01CV03/2002 est THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPOR E Internet: h -Kp.//business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 2002
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  • 67 1 STOCK HAKKET INDICES Week CbaafB STI 1421.09 -1M7 ansa FUTUKE-***** ♦t.ii KLSEOOMP 672J4 -15.66 NIKKEI 9481.86 +239.16 HANG SENG *****2 -322.76 SET INDEX ***** -6.0 JAKARTA COMP_4<J8J0 -12*) MANILA 1142.87 -12.82 TAIPEI WPI *****6 -150J2 SEOCLOOMP 704.12 -1406 SHENZHEN B 23 Lit -3.18 Al'ST ALL ORD_J***** -62i(0 DOW
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  • 65 1 FOREX 1ATE8 ust s$ USS (SS per USS) 1.759 £(US«/S$ per 1JM 174# EDRO<USS*S/E). 0.980 1.733 YEN 121.6 68.8 RM 1800 1148 HKI 7.800 4409 BAHT 4192 2416 RCPIAH 8,9% 6,086 ran urn SINGAPORE* __J2fc KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONGKONG tug JAKARTA noo TAIPH 6.626 TOKYO 1175 8HM7I- fffjfj FRANKFURT
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  • 658 1  -  |-idexclusive Caveats show it garnered 23% of new home loans so far this year By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Months of price cutting and aggressive advertising have paid off for OCBC Bank in the new home loan business. According to caveats lodged
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  • 895 1  -  Fourth weekly loss fuelled by disappointing economic data, corporate warnings, war fears From Andrew Marks in New York LAST Friday's modest recovery offered Wall Street a glimmer of hope, but it wasn't enough to rescue blue chips from
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  • 464 1  -  BOE chief hints rates will be cut if stocks fall further Froml Neil Behrman in London EUROPEAN stock markets have entered a new phase of the bear market and last week Germany and Paris declined below their nadirs seen in late July. In
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  • 475 1  -  11 exclusive They beat global high-performing firms in this area By t Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] A study that found Singapore workers to be among the world's least committed employees also found local firms scoring highly for staff training and development outshining
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    • 106 1 JUHBIDE Top Stories Disk drive industry looks for ways to get out of the slump. Nmxi Pmgm Chartered going all out to boost competitiveness. Pg 4 S'pore firm signs two joint ventures deals in India. P9B HDB unit hopes to replicate S'pore public housing success in China. PglB ?v\ T
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    • 15 1 Germans vote m cliffhanger poll, Pg 15 Mftrketi mm posing threat to recovery, Pg 17
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    • 80 1 BizlT Asiaa datatrafflc set. to jump 35-foW in four years PAGE 1 1 RAjU CHEOAM: Is tse storage sectollnmme from the recession? "page 3 is to rals afi forms of Blectumic payments page s IP (0m \jjsh£y' Vw J 11 ll">l> I'livrt iltli'l I' MIS i 1)1 onoyr .l|)ll Mllljll'
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    • 765 2  -  comment ECONOMICS EU wont pnrsne new bilateral deals antll completion of the WTO multilateral ronnd vikram khanna TALKING to European Union officials in their plate-glass offices here in Brussels, you begin to understand just why the EU remains, for now, reluctant to pursue a
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    • 1007 2  -  More cooperation among firms may be one solution, company chiefs say From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley IT'S been a dismal few years for the disk drive industry, suffering from an extended downcycle, falling prices, consolidation of major
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    • 10 2 BUaot turning its back on Asean, say officials, Pg 13
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  • FOCUS options
    • 1644 3  -  One solution is to redesign option schemes so that they don't lead to highly disproportionate additional income, argues Sebastian Chong Sebastian Chong RECENTLY there has been much news and views about the expensing of employee stock options. Some extremists even call for the banning of
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 588 4  -  Key aims are to regain profitability, return money to shareholders: CEO Front Jennifer Lien in Sil icon Valley CHARTERED Semiconductor is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to boost its short-term health and long-term competitiveness, chief executive Chia Song Hwee said here.
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    • 956 4  -  lock siew paul thompson The writer is Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance at Nottingham University Business School, Kuala Lumpur CORPORATE governance has recently emerged as an issue of worldwide importance. So much so that the president of the World Bank has suggested that "the
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    • 214 4  -  By Arthur Poon MAINBOARD-LISTED Federal International, an oil and gas flowline products distributor, has set up a trading arm in Shanghai. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Federal Hardware Engineering, has incorporated Federal International Shanghai to undertake the trading and procuring of specialised valves and
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    • 1949 5 ÜBS Warburg ÜBS AG, SINGAPORE BRANCH acting through Its business group ÜBS Warburg ("ÜBS Warburg") <(«£ Jardine Strategic JARDINE STRATEGIC HOLDINGS LIMITED ("JSH" of the "Offeror") (Incorporated to Bermuda/ VOLUNTARY PRE-CONDITIONAL CASH PARTIAL OFFER for CYCLE CARRIAGE CYCLE CARRIAGE LIMITED ("C&C" or the "Company") (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore)
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      307 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Sep 20 VALUE CLOSE WQttm -404.00 -37.00 WCm -*****.00 -113.00 jftHqrl -*****.00 *41.00 374.10 -4.88 WMiiMiinwt 105.53 -2.87 1270.66 -17.15 MipWwftwp 347.39 -10.13 MSathnipnf 176.22 -2.68 Villain CitJraya2.5c 190.423,000 Chart Semiconductor R 77,201,000 Links Island 10c 73,023.000 NewWave 5c 70,380,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 66,002.000 SingTel 15c 46.833.000
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    • 275 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan PROPERTY stocks have had a volatile run in recent weeks amid a cross-flow of news regarding the fundamentals of the underlying property market. While the recent pick-up in residential property sales (or should it be
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    • 777 6  -  comment STOCKS r. sivanithy FOR much of the *****, global markets were obsessed with whether inflation was a problem in the US economy. The obsession staked in January 1994 when Fed chief Alan Greenspan raised interest rates unexpectedly and it would be fair to say
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    • 679 6 Japanese unit hit by fading hopes for new government economic AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies came under pressure last week against the US dollar with many of them hurt by the prospects of war in Iraq, while the yen was hit by fading
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  • 3607 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AMI Amro Asset Mgt (S'porc) Star Europe Eoty!" 0S6V Star Europe Bd 1.08V Star Europe Bal 0.801/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0.67V Star Asia Bond 1.303/ Star Asia Balanced 0834/ Star Global Technology Fund!" 0.143/ Star Bbv Finance Japan Find!•• 0 68V Multi Strategy Fd 1/ Star
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    • 142 6 Market Notices ♦ALEXANDRA Holdings Ltd will hold its EGM on Sept 27 at 11.00am, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 8 Cross Street, #17-00, PWC Building. ♦GES International Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 0.70 cent tax j&fempt) on Nov 25. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on Nov 28. Date
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 408 8  -  Investment in an IT services venture and a biotech firm in Kerala come to 160 m rupees By l Conrad Raj A LITTLE-KNOWN Singaporebased entrepreneur of Indian descent is investing 160 million rupees (about Ss6 million) in two ventures in the
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    • 302 8  -  Former OUB building valued at As4sm-Assom By Vince Chong UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is selling its prime Australian commercial property at 53 Martin Place, Sydney, which used to house Overseas Union Bank's (OUB) Australian operations before the two banks merged. The 15-level
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    • 345 8 ELIGIBLE elderly Singaporeans who require home visits by doctors or nurses can soon tap a government subsidy that will fund 25 per cent to 75 per cent of the cost of these home medical and home nursing services. The government
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    • Cut in consensus forecasts for this year and next
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  • MAIL bag
    • 529 10  -  Kelvin Lee Senior Vice-President Group Corporate Relations SembCorp Industries WE refer to the Hock Lock Siew article "SFI sale not sure win for SCI owners" (BT, Sep 20,2002). The article suggests that SembCorp Industries has not served the interests of its shareholders having
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    • 228 10  -  Low Tuck-Weng Singapore LEE Han Shih's article on the Esplanade ("The Esplanade: Will it do the job?", BT, Aug 27) made some important points about arts for the ordinary Singaporean. Sadly, I find the Esplanade off to a bad start in that respect. I'm not sure
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    • 206 10  -  Denis Distant Singapore AFTER a prolonged period of suspension, Links Island Holdings resumed trading on the Singapore Exchange on Aug 21 after an exchange of shares with Sembawang Kimtrans (SKL), which looked like an attempt to restore confidence in Links. The exchange
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 879 11  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL Escalating costs, globalisation and democracy are the real karim raslan HAVING been in Singapore to launch my new book, I've been on the receiving end of the media's scrutiny. It's been a fascinating experience, and three issues have predominated: bilateral
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    • 508 11  -  It has a long way to go to match S'pore as regional hub From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA will have a long way to go to match Singapore as the regional base for multinational corporations and air express companies
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    • 393 11 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S Budget, touted as marking a fundamental change in economic management, has received mixed reactions. Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange executive chairman Mohd Azlan Hashim said the Budget, presented on Friday by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was positive for the corporate sector. "The
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    • 514 11 HONGKONG Reuters RISK-AVERSE Asian equity investors should buy regional stocks which offer steady dividend yields as a hedge against volatility in global financial markets, a senior fund manager said on Friday. "If you are very conservative, you should look at some companies
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    • 691 12 OSAKA, Japan 'Asian premium' likely to come up for discussion at Int'l Energy Forum Reuters. Bloomberg SOUTH-EAST Asian nations including the region's biggest exporters Indonesia and Malaysia may join Japan's plan to build up an Asian stockpile of oil for use
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    • 672 12  -  i* comment HK STOCKS Undeterred, nine bourses prepare to woo China firms In Shenzhen felr next month audrey tan IN the midst of its race against other exchanges including Singapore's—for a bigger slice of the mainland listing market, the Hong Kong's stock exchange
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    • 451 12 BOMBAY Reuters INDIA'S government asked the state-run Unit Trust of India (UTI), the country's biggest mutual fund manager, to refrain from making distress sales of large holdings to meet redemptions, undertaking to meet any resulting shortfall. The government's assurance comes three weeks
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    • 524 13  -  New EU strategy towards region likely by year-end Prom Shada Islam in Brussels EUROPE'S deepening political and economic ties with China, South Korea and Japan within the Asia Europe Meeting (Asem) framework does not signal a lack of interest in Asean,
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    • 1503 13 WING TAI HOLDINGS LIMITED I (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) I UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED ao jump ortg I The Directors of Wing Tai Holdings Limited are pleased to announce the unaudited consokdated results tor the year ended 30 June 2002 GROUP COMPANY I 31 Dec 2001
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  • WORLD news
    • 961 14  -  A survey of student compnting behaviour provides does to how tomorrow's workplace may look friwn today's From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley MY first computer, purchased during my freshman year at university, was a snazzy little Macintosh LC. It came in a small package—a little
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    • 544 14 He says reforms needed to restore buth in analysts' integrity WASHINGTON Bloomberg Reuters, AFP SIGNALLING a shift in the policy of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC chairman Harvey Pitt said on Friday that shareholders should have the right to vote on whether companies
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    • 173 14 AFP [WASHINGTON] A US television channel said last Friday that Osama bin Laden has undergone a kidney transplant in Pakistan and is trying to make a base in Yemen, where his family comes from. Osama's whereabouts has been the topic of intense speculation
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    • 601 15 BERLIN Schroeder's coalition of SDP and Greens narrowly ahead in exit polls Reuters, Bloomberg [BEßLlN] German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition of Social Democrats and Greens was narrowly ahead of a possible conser-vative-liberal alliance after polls closed in yesterday's general election, exit polls showed. A
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    • 392 15 Its bill to approve research funds seen as a challenge to the federal govt LAT-WP [SACRAMENTO, California] In a symbolic challenge to Bush administration efforts to restrict stem-cell research. Governor Gray Davis was to sign later yesterday legislation aimed at positioning California
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    • 461 15 JOB CUTS 3,000 employees could be axed in the next two weeks Reuters [BOSTON] Employees at No 1 US mutual fund firm Fidelity Investments are bracing for big layoffs that could reduce the firm's workforce by as much as 10 per cent in
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    • 189 15 LONDON Bloomberg DRESDNER Bank AG, Germany's thirdbiggest lender, is firing about 570 employees in its securities unit in London and New York amid a slump in equity sales and merger fees, people familiar with the situation said. Almost 300 positions are being eliminated in the
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    • 294 15 LONDON Reuters UK INVESTMENT manager Schroders is teaming up with ratings agency and research firm Standard Poor's to launch a fund of fund product to be marketed to financial institutions globally. The initiative is part of an ongoing programme aimed at refocusing
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    • 883 16 COMMODity Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON] Oil prices remained well bid last week owing to the spectre of a war in Iraq and an Opec agreement to extend output curbs for the rest of the year. Other commodities benefited from a shift out of
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    • 853 17  -  Govt moves, on top of BOJ plans to boy stocks from banks, will come in Oct Frorn, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AMID increasing fear and confusion in Japan about the dangers of a financial system crisis erupting, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday his
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    • 467 17 FRANKFURT Policy-makers say plunging stocks rattling consumers Reuters SENIOR Japanese and British policymakers on Friday blamed ailing stock markets for endangering economic recovery. The comments from the Japanese government and Bank of England governor Edward George followed a similar warning from the European Central
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    • 322 17 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US said on Friday that it had joined 16 other countries in support of a voluntary system aimed at reducing the unauthorised use of geographic names for wines and spirits. The issue is of particular importance to the European Union, where
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    • 367 19 OSAKA Reuters MAJOR oil-importing nations cannot avoid growing reliance on the volatile Middle East for fuel supplies, increasing their vulnerability to an oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said last Saturday. "Security of supply has moved to the top of the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
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  • CHINA focus
    • 971 18  -  HDB unit hopes to replicate its S'pore public housing success in Chinese townships' residential projects By] Loh Hui Yin THE developer who successfully housed generations of Singaporeans in public flats wants to replicate its success in the world's most populous country. The Housing and Development Board,
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    • 477 18  -  -By Loh Hui Yin A C Goh likes to relate the anecdote about Singaporeans who, on arrival in China, rush to confirm their return passage. And if possible, they want to leave for Singapore one day earlier than scheduled "we are spoilt", he said.
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    • 738 18  -  By. Loh Hui Yin OREGON Scientific, a low-profile manufacturer of lifestyle products, is coming "home" after making inroads in the West. Owned by Hong Kong businessman Raymond Chan, who has two companies listed on the Singapore Exchange, Oregon Scientific made its mark in the West first
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    • 1326 20  -  Co-founder Tam Siu Chung talks to Eugene Low about the challenges and prospects facing the high-tech start-uD VMCPI TP.UT 1 1 1 J O Eugene Low DENSELIGHT Semiconductors may have been founded on the ground-breaking research of four former professors from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
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    • 671 20  -  Expertise developed here ensures Singapore remains competitive By Eugene Low FROM its humble beginnings in 1970 making LEDs (light-emitting diodes), Agilent Technologies Singapore has since built up its photonics activities here to include research and development as well as manufacturing. The company has worldwide
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  • BIZIT
    • 788 21  -  I i exclusive That's a huge business opportunity for Asia's submarine cable operators and service providers, C2C's CEO Tsunekazu Matsudaira tells TAMO WBNO FAX TANG WENG FAI IN THE next four years, Internet traffic within Asia is set to
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    • 366 21  -  By' Tang Weng Fai MARKET analysts have mixed opinions about the viability of the wholesale bandwidth market in the Asia-Pacific region. That's because of the uncertainty following the glut of bandwidth worldwide and how that will affect this region. Analysts polled by BT said that only about
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    • 736 22  -  The company expects full-year revenues to be about USsl2b or just about half last year's level of USs2lb. Lucent had peak sales of USs2B.9b in fiscal 2000 By Paul Chan WHEN Lucent Technologies was created in February 19%, the company explained that its name
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    • 274 22 Bloomberg [AUSTIN, Texas] Deli Computer said 3Com Corp won't allow Dell to sell its comput-er-network switches because Dell has begun marketing its own brand of network gear. Dell's Powerconnect switches have competed with 3Com's products for the past year, Dell spokeswoman
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    • 198 22 Bloomberg {CUPERTINO, California] Billionaire software executive Lawrence Ellison, whose Oracle Corp has had six straight quarters of falling sales, quit as an Apple Computer Inc director after five years. "He just didn't have time to come to the board meetings," Apple CEO Steven Jobs
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    • 153 22 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Toshiba Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have decided not to extend a planned semiconductor alliance into a fuU merger of their chip operations, company sources were quoted as saying. The computer and electronics giants announced in June that they would form a
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    • IT TAKES
      • 57 22 LEGAL firm Rajah Tann said it "has nmA» a historical first" by Web-enabling its litigation support process using Ringtail Casebook. The solution is from Ringtail Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer Asia-Pacific (locally represented by CCH Asia). It offers database capabilities, imagp and document handling, scalable architecture, and
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      • 83 22 US-BASED Computer Associates International Inc (CA) said the ITE (Institute of Technical Education) will use CA's solution to centralise the management of ITE's critical computing infrastructure. "ITE will use CA's Unicenter Network and Systems Management to centrally monitor its network infrastructure and servers, including Windows
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      • 67 22 SINGAPORE-BASED Crimson Logic has tied up with Ceylinco Consolidated, one of the biggest Sri Lankan conglomerates, to introduce e-trade facilitation services into Sri Lanka. "These services, from our flagship solution, Trade Palette, is customised for SMEs," Crimson Logic said. "Specifically targeted at traders and freight forwarders,
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      • 55 22 US-BASED Network Associates Inc (NAI) has appointed SCS Networks Pte Ltd as the authorised training centre for NAI's Sniffer University in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. SCS Networks, the networking subsidiary of Singapore Computer Systems, will offer two courses from the Sniffer University Certified
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      • 47 22 THE three-day "TechVenture Asia 2002" exposition titled "Capitalising on intellectual property— building business advantage through the innovative use of IP" will be held from Wednesday at the Raffles City Convention Centre. It is organised by TIF Ventures Pte Ltd. For details, visit www.techventure-asia.com.
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      • 36 22 A SEMINAR cm "Web usability: maximise your company returns with usability" will be held on Wednesday at the Singapore Poly Graduates Guild. It is organised by Microteams.com Pte Ltd. For details, e-mail bqmkg@spgg.org.sg.
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      • 37 22  -  Raju Chellam A FORUM on "Leveraging compliance to accelerate business performance" will be held on Wednesday at the Fullerton Hotel. It is jointly organised by Intelligroup, i-STT, SAP and Sun Microsystems. For details, e-mail rsvp@i-STT.com.
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    • 927 23  - Is the storage sector immune from recession I li comment INFOTECH Even If corporate IT bndgats shrink, there will be contlnned investment In storage, mon? iw whan terrorism both real and virtual threaten to wipe out store gy vnnltg Raju Chellam The writer is BizlT Editor. THE recession seems to
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    • 378 23 It promises to deliver a 'virtu&lisation engine' by the end of the year Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Sun Microsystems Inc said it would create in a few years a network environment that will be as straightforward to handle as a single machine, a strategy
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    • 189 23  -  By Arthur Poon BROADBAND infrastructure provider l-Net Singapore Pte Ltd has tied up with US-based TruSecure Corp to help l-Net's customers secure their IT infrastructure and protect their data against hacking, malicious attacks, viruses, privacy risks and insider threats. Under the deal, TruSecure will
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    • 1199 24  -  Chinese high-tech professionals such as Hua Zheng are returning home from Silicon Valley. They might eventually help create a competitor to the US. PAMELA YATSKO has the details PAMELA YATSKO Copyright 2002 Forbes Global Inc AFTER only ll years in the US, the China-born Jason Li seemed
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    • 636 25  -  By focusing on strategic profit improvement (SPI), executives at Asia's tech flrns can serve customers efficiently as well as achieve profit and revenue growth chue yuin cheong The writer is technology partner with PwC Consulting in Singapore. DOING business in the future will be very
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    • 306 25 Web Logic to be bundled with UXlli server Reuters [NEW YORK] HewlettPackard Co said it would bundle BEA Systems Inc's flagship software product Web Logic on its best-known line of high-end computers, stepping up their alliance to do battle against a common foe, IBM.
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    • 133 25 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] A leading US charity founded by Silicon Valley pioneers, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, said its stock-based endowment had fallen 60 per cent in two years, and it would slash staff and grants. The endowment of the charity, named for
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    • 214 25 Reuters [TOKYO] Fuji Photo Film Co, Japan's largest maker of photographic film, said it plans to invest about 15 billion yen (Ss2l6 million) to boost production of a special film used in LCDs (liquid crystal displays). Fuji Film, a major manufacturer of digital
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    • 167 25 Bloomberg [BONN] Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest phone company, exercised its call option to buy the shares in Dutch wireless unit Ben Nederland BV it doesn't own from Belgacom SA, TDC A/S, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Deutsche Telekom's wireless unit,
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    • 489 26 USslb sale bid comes amid efforts to cot its debt Bloomberg [DENVER] Qwest Communications International Inc, seeking to reduce U5526.3 billion in debt, may sell its mobile telephone business to Verizon Wireless Inc for as much as US$l billion, people familiar with
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    • 530 26 One-year renewal marks a middle grtund AP [NEW YORK] The Internet s key oversight body, Icann, won another year of life as the US Commerce Department renewed the group's authority despite reservations about its progress. It is the third extension since the
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    • 705 26  -  New software advancements will let computers share data seamlessly By Ted Bridis AP [WASHINGTON] New advancements in software will soon let computers such as those in cars, offices and telephones share information seamlessly, allowing people to make dinner reservations, see a
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 67 27 PACIFIC Internet has tied up with US-based Sonic Wall Ine to offer managed firewall services for local SMEs. The service will monitor and maintain the client's network security system 24 hours a day, Pacnet said. For a firm with 10-50 users, the price will be $800
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      • 52 27 SONY Singapore has launched a new digital camera. Called Cyber-shot DBC-F717, it costs J $1,799, weighs 696 I grams, offers 5 I megapixel resolution, 5x optical zoom and lOx digital zoom It comes with 1.8 inch LCD display and a 32 MB Sony Memory Stick. For
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      • 38 27 SINGAPORE-based Mabrusin Trading PteLtdhas unveiled PPBO6, a multifunctional printer made in Germany. It costs $4,388, weighs 20 kg and offers 360 by 360 dpi print resolution at TOO characters per second. For details, fax *****243.
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      • 44 27 TORONTO-based Hummingbird Inc has launched what it claims is the world's first integrated EIMS (enterprise information management system). Called Hummingbird Enterprise, it includes portal, document management, records management, Web publishing, workflow, collaboration, business intelligence, and metadata solutions. For details, fax *****801.
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      • 93 27 SHARP-ROXY Sales Singapore has launched two photocopiers which it claims are the world's first to have a data security feature. "The feature overwrites data on the photocopier's hard disk to prevent unauthorised access," Sharp said. The details: AR-M350: Costs $16,550, runs on a 64-bit RISC 200
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      • 49 27 US-based Crystal Decisions has released its Crystal Reports Version 9, a reporting software solution. It allows firms to "access data from any data source and create reports for delivery", the company «ald. The standard edition costs US$l95; the professional edition, US$495. For details, fax *****786.
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      • 55 27  -  Coanfledbsr Leo Kee Chye SONY Ericsson Mobile Communications has unveiled a new GSM handphone. Called T6OO, it costs 9368 (2-year plan), weighs 63 grams, supports GSM 900, 1800 and 1900 networks, and offers up to 3 hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby
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    • 192 27 Xinhua [BEIJING] China's top computer vendor Legend and Japanese photographic equipment giant Kodak have joined hands to sell digital products in China. Digital imaging centres that utilise products and technologies from Legend and Kodak will be set up in 50
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    • 647 27  -  10% of mobile PCs shipped this year will have WLAN connections. This will rise to 31% in 2004. BajU CBEUAM reports RAJU CHELLAM THE global market for wireless loi cal area networks (WLANs) is 1 set to grow at a huge 73 per cent
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    • 267 27  -  By Leo Kee Chye TOSHIBA Singapore has unveiled its new Pocket PC-based handheld targeted at corporate PDA (personal digital assistant) users who need to be connected to the company network as well as surf the web wirelessly. Called Toshiba Pocket PC e740, the $1,288
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    • 2012 28  -  x CI^ edit com P an y now a ms to ru e forms of electronic payments, even handling commercial purchases of up to USslom. But first its computers need an overhaul, damidu lyons reports DANIEL LYONS Copyright 2002 Forbes Global Inc SWIPE
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    • 176 21 4, s W I y call center Hr her Networks 1 I and < jB W Nortel for *< w like skill-based routing, match customers to representatives 24/7 via fax, voice mail, Web or, of course, the phone. And Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) allows Patricia to see customer profiles via
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    • 46 21 TOP STORIES Lucent lapses into critical condition Pg2 China's brain circulation P|4 Toshiba's new Pocket PC handheld here Pf7 Visa muscling its way into 828 arena P*B COMMENTARIES BjfnChirtlainr Is the storage sector immune from recession? P*3 Chne Yuln Cheong How SPI can boost bottomlines P|B
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    • 285 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE dry bulk sector has remained active. Vessels said for farther trading bulk aim—Hi Antaios: 60,969 tdw bit 86 Alianza reported sold region U556,000,000 to undisclosed buyers. Pacprincess: 37,049 tdw bit 86 Hyundai crs 5/33 ts reported sold region U556,000,000 nett to Greek
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    • 240 29 S«pw *fCWT Distribution 0.74 unch 0 Chuan Hup 0.46 unch 7M Casco Invastmant 0.18 unch 404 fraight Links 0.04 unch 0 G8 Holdings 0.61 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.24 -0.01 890 KappaiCorp 4.40 -0.10 H57 Kappal Marin* 0.15 -0.01 220 KaopatTata 0.94 -0.01 23 Labroy Marina 0.24 -0.01
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    • 597 29 World's no 1 cruise gronp reports USssoo.Bm in quarterly earnings Reuters [MlAMl] The world's number one cruise group Carnival Corp, has exceeded forecasts and reported slightly higher quarterly profits on better-than-expected prices for sea-going holidays. The Miami owner of Carnival Cruise, Holland America and
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    • 176 29 [SINGAPORE] Firefighters and salvors from the Perdana Sakti battled for almost three days to safely extinguish a blaze in the engine room and fuel tanks of the Vietnamese-flagged container ship Phu Xuan (above), stricken in the Malacca Straits. The fire broke out 10 days ago. forcing the
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    • 243 29  -  Those guilty will be penalised or slapped with criminal charges From Alec Almazan in Manila THE Philippines is imposing harsher penalties on seafarers presenting bogus training certificates for the licensure examinations. The Professional Regulations Commission, the state agency administering the licensure examinations for
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    • 352 29 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Shippers and marine operators said goods were moving smoothly on West Coast docks, a day after port employers had threatened to shut down the bustling Los Angeles and Long Beach ports to counter a perceived union work slowdown. The
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    • 376 29 American ambassador's remark that Chittagong is a costly port seen as interfering in country's domestic policy AFP [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] The US is trying to interfere in Bangladesh's internal affairs, a powerful dock workers' union group has said, following the American ambawador's criticism
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    • 641 30  -  DOCKYARD -By. David Hughes POR the past three decades a slim hardbound text book has sat on my shelf. There have been but a few occasions over that long period when I have had to consult "Merchant Ship Stability" (metric edition) by H J
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      • 745 39 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 averagesized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 589 40 It applies for rights to fly to Seoul, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok, Sydney Reuters [HONG KONG] An airline war is heating up in Hong Kong as its two main carriers, Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair, look to expand into each other's
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      • 339 40 AFP [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan's national carrier is to buy or lease eight new Boeing 777s over the next eight years as part of a major fleet modernisation, a spokesman said. State-owned Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will acquire three 777s next year, two
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      • 214 40 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Boeing Co may deliver as few as 258 airplanes in 2004 as airline-in-dustry losses for this year and next worsen, Merrill Lynch Co analyst Byron Callan said. Mr Callan also cut his estimates on the number of deliveries that the
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      • 398 40 It's the only major European carrier to raise capacity Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France will boost available seating on flights during its winter season by 7.5 per cent from a year earlier, making it the only major European carrier so far
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      • 373 40 Creditors say the request is v&gne, will expose them to financial risk Reuters [NEW YORK] A group of banks, aircraft leasing firms and trustees have voiced a resounding objection to US Airways Group's request that a bankruptcy court let it reject leases on
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      • 154 40 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Virgin Blue Airlines, Australia's discount airline, plans to modify its flights schedule to shorten lines at its Sydney terminal. Brisbane-based Virgin Blue, which has more than doubled its domestic market share to 18 per cent in the past year, is trying
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        • 65 40 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co's senior debt rating was cut to junk by Moody's Investors Service, citing concern that the airline's ability to generate flow will remain weak. The US credit rating company lowered its rating erf All Nippon Airway by one notch
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        • 72 40 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China Postal Airlines Co, which is 49 per cent owned by China Southern Airlines Co, said it ordered four Boeing Co 737 freighters, part of a plan to expand its cargo business. The first aircraft will be delivered in December and
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        • 94 40 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Boeing Co beat Raytheon Co for a six-year, U*****.3 million contract to provide a satellite communications system linking ground, airborne and space assets, the Air Force said. The so-called Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals will tie into B-2 and B-52 bombers
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        • 64 40 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Virgin Express Holdings, the low-Care airline owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, abandoned its plan to set up a base at Cologne-Bonn Airport because of increased competition. The Brussels-based carrier had planned to begin operations in Germany in December. The airline will now concentrate
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