The Business Times, 4 November 2002

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    15 1 MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: h-;p://business-times.asia1 .com.sg MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 200;
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  • Article
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    68 1 STOCK HA1KET INDICES Week Change ST1 1427.60 -44.53 SIMSCI FUTURE—175.30 -750 KLSECOMP 657.38 +1.70 NIKKEI 8685.72 -40.57 HANG SENG 9407.68 -314.86 SET INDEX 357.68 +9.22 JAKARTA COMP—37L14 +17.49 MANILA *****3 +16.44 TAIPEI WPI *****5 -«351 SEOUL COUP ***** -8i3 SHENZHEN B ***** -6JJ0 AUST ALL ORD_2966.79 -0.70 DOW
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    66 1 FOKEX BATES US$ 5$ ISS (SS per L'S$) 1.768 £|I!S$/S$ per X) 1.566 2.76a ElIRO(l$$/S$/E). 0.991 1.751 YEN 122.7 69.40 RM 3.800 2.150 HKS 7.799 4 413 BAHT 43J» 24.49 RLP1AH 9,228 5,220 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONGKONG 5126 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 662S TOKYO 1375 SEOUL
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  • Article
    Lock icon American IT services cost S'pore US$1b a year
    841 1  -  ■Tiq'miunu Overall services deficit contrasts with surplus in goods trade By I Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore has traditionally been a net exporter of goods to the United States but in services, the flow is reversed. And a key reason for this:
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    Lock icon US economists betting on Fed rate cut
    579 1 Spate of bad news has them rooting for np to Vfe-poiat slice Reuters [WASHINGTON] A run of bad economic news last week has US economists all but certain Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve will lower borrowing costs on Wednesday to rescue a
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    Lock icon Asset deflation? Korea faces opposite threat
    887 1  -  Analysts fighting to get central bank to raise rates From Anthony Rowley in Seoul AT a time when some economists are speculating that other leading economies could be poised to follow Japan into deflation. South Korean analysts are worrying that their country might be
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      93 1 prams BT Comment R Sivanithy: Case of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Pg 4 Top Stories Battle for NatSteel: Protagonists aren't sweating it. Next Page M Asean summit looks to free trade with China, Japan and US. Mfjrt Page Should PineTree Club members pay about $10,000 to sign up with the club's
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      8 1 BBH A case for ■fflafljW Indian ■gjMIH investments
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      Lock icon Main players aren't sweating it
      538 2  -  BATTLE FOR MTSRB. The businessman, the steel miller, and the banker are all taking their rest breaks By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] It's been a white-knuckle affair for shareholders, but to the protagonists in the battle for Nat Steel, it's just part and parcel of everyday
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      Lock icon A new economic gameplan unfolds for Asean
      903 2  -  It most seize opportunities thrown np at summit By Yang Razali Kassim in Phnom Penh THE gameplan for the eighth Asean summit here beginning today is decidedly economic. A string of important economic pacts with the region's key players from North-east Asia has
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      Lock icon Canberra sees FTA with S'pore as a financial boon
      408 2 It's worth hundreds of millions a year, says trade minister AP [SYDNEY] A free-trade agreement with Singapore would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Australia each year, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said yesterday. Australia and Singapore finalised a deal
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Bank of New York plans to expand presence in S'pore
      596 3  -  gmiuiimuj It aims to increase head-court here by 40% as it seeks to grow its business in S-E Asia: president By Siow Li Sen AMID stories of international fund managers and global banks giving Southeast Asia a miss as economies
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      Lock icon What's in a name? Plenty, in the case of DBS
      766 3  -  hockIFW^SM lee han shih WHAT quandary does DBS chairman S Dhanabalan face that's similar to one which confronted Romeo, the hero of Romeo Juliet? It has to do with names. In the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo bemoans the fact that fate
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      Lock icon Wee Ee Cheong resigns from UOB audit panel
      244 3 UNITED Overseas Bank Limited said that its deputy chairman and president Wee Ee Cheong has resigned from its audit committee with effect from Nov 1,2002. In a separate statement, UOB's insurance arm United Overseas Insurance Ltd said that Hwang Soo Jin, the
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Teledata details right lssoe usage
        108 3 TELECOM systems specialist Teledata (Singapore) said it has used $7.1 million of the total net proceeds from its rights issue involving 320 million new shares to repay holders the $30 million principal amount of unsecured bonds. So Car. a repayment of $28 million has been
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        Lock icon Mentor to hold meeting on takeover
        72 3 SOFTWARE packaging house Mentor Media said it would hold a court meeting with its shareholders to consider the proposed scheme of arrangement related to its takeover by New York-listed Banta Corp. Mentor said the court meeting has been scheduled for Nov 23, at 10am
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        Lock icon Sinwa KS seeks 8GX listing
        85 3 KS TECH'S newly incorporated associate Sinwa KS Pte Ltd will be seeking a listing in Singapore following the merger of KS Tech's subsidiary KS Seafirst Marine Services Pte Ltd with Sinwa Ship Supply Pte Ltd. KS Tech will have 31.36 per cent stake in Sinwa
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        Lock icon Prosscreto.no pressors from banks
        44 3 BELEAGUERED construction firm Presscrete Holdings Ltd said its bankers (excluding those of Ceramic Technologies Pte Ltd) have not demanded repayment of existing loans at short notice. It said it would make prompt disclosure as and when there are further developments.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      297 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 1 VALUE CLOSE ■TOM* -121.00 -182.00 IT CAM -*****.00 -158.00 ■TKMUylM *****.00 -12.00 M-SG E*hMM 373.82 -8.66 SG Ekct 115.94 -3.11 SC Eplii Fh 1273.34 _42.21 SG Prop 346.96 -3.71 IWa>Plww 176.72 4.90 SMSCIFMmw 175.30 -6.50 Dtiraya2.Sc 78.819.000 Bl mtl US20C 62.151,000 Chart SemCond 26c 41.509.000
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      Lock icon Leong Hin's red-hot showing not in line with fundamentals
      322 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By] R Sivanithy IF a stock manages to either rise or close unchanged when the Straits Times Index collapses 35 points as it did last Friday, then it'd be fair to speculate that the stock in question has
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      Lock icon Case of a self-fulfilling prophecy
      794 4  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy AFTER three weekly rises that followed six consecutive weekly falls, the Straits Times Index last week dropped 3 per cent, raising the uncomfortable possibility that the downtrend may be resuming. For sure, the ferocity of the selling last Friday in the banks,
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      Lock icon Little movement among major regional units
      639 4 Series of weak US economic figures keeps the greenback down AFP [HONG KONG] There was little movement among major regional currencies last week as weak US economic data kept the value of the greenback down. Japanese yen: The yen rose against the US dollar,
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      133 4 ♦HOTEL Grand Central Ltd will hold its EGM on Nov 7 at 11.30 am, The Grand Room, Hotel Grand CentraL ♦TAI Sin Electric Cables Manufacturer Ltd will hold its AGM on Nov 12 at 10.00 am, 24 Gul Crescent ♦BOARDROOM Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 1.70
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2982 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS 5 Bamq/ Select Eqty Dividend Ptfl 0.81/ S B Sel Gib Business Ldrs PtfKSGO) 0 81/ 5 8 Sel Gib Business ldrs PtfMUSD) 082/ A8N Awro «M M«l (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!** 0 597/ fin >li* M Mat Star Europe Bd 107& Com Global Finance Index Fd
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  • CORPORATE profile
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      Lock icon The dilemma Pinetree members face
      962 5  -  Should members pay about $10,000 to sign-up with the club's new proprietor Peter Kwee or should they just walk away? By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] YOU paid $30,000 for your club membership. Then suddenly, the proprietor goes bust but not before pledging the club's property as
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    Lock icon FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    1081 5 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Nov 1 BDrOiTOEB OOTBRIfMEMT SBCURITCBSIMPICATITB PKICB8 UP HELPS Mm pto JtmCmfm C*. TTM M Off» TwCui **m*1 OH TIM mm* 5YR 4.125 0t-Fa0-03 N *****0 T 111% 0.909% 100.75 100.10 5YI C000 0HlaH)7 N700W0C 194% 192% 100.50 M M 7Y* L2SQ OHoHQ ******0$ 109% 0.945* 100.40
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    Lock icon Oil falls as Iraq war speculation eases
    856 5 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices wallowed at the lowest level for almost three months last week as interest among speculators in betting on a US-led war on Iraq subsided. Among other commodities, gold and silver prices shot higher as concern that the
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon FTAs give S'pore an edge, says SM Lee
      395 6  -  They 'give as additional room for oar economic activities' By Eugene Low THE free trade agreements Singapore has inked with various countries give it an advantage in overcoming the present economic difficulties, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday. Speaking at a
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      Lock icon Excess COEs spread over future quotas
      238 6  -  MAI LI .Tin Alice Tan Deputy Manager. Media Relations Land Transport Authority I REFER to the column "Mystery of the disappearing COEs" (BT, Oct 30). We would like to clarify that all Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) from de-registered vehicles are added back into the
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      Lock icon Open policies on talent, education will help S'pore
      455 6  -  They will improve S'pore's cutting edge: fond manager Byy Vince Chong SINGAPORE will continue to do well because of its open human resource and educational policies, despite being part of an out offavour market for foreign investments at the moment. This is
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      Lock icon More weakness expected in executive hiring
      366 6  -  By Eugene Low EXECUTIVE recruitment fell in October and weaker hiring is expected over the next few months, according to human resource solutions provider EL Consult Singapore. EL's executive demand index, which it compiles monthly, was down 18 per cent month-on-month to 94 in
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    1366 6 SICOM FUTURES Novi RMHCI Mam (CM* prices) roi($c«MD Close VotMM OpM owt> I— Sett (toni) Merest Bk02 146.00 J" 83 148.75 F*M M8.75 •hr 03 148.75 ISS 3 (US certs/kg) Vofmo Om H* Low Sett (tain) Merest MJ5 T700 8175 3175 Fe»«3 83.75 4025 83.75 40§ TSI20(UScantsA«) volmm Owen
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  • ESPLANADE festival
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      Lock icon The sound of silence
      677 7  -  While Faust the silent movie was original in its visuals, the new musical score which accompanied the screening falls short of creativity, pakyathi kayak elaborates PARVATHI NAYAR THE man who sold his soul to the devil: the very description carries such dramatic potential and indeed, his
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      527 7  -  By Geoffrey Eu THERE'S only one Jessye Norman and she proved it to a capacity Concert Hall crowd by giving a performance befitting the occasion at The Esplanade's Opening Festival last Friday evening. In a recital of works by Schubert, Strauss, Poulenc and Manuel de Falla, she gave
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon New standards for Islamic banking to end 'debt slavery"
      346 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters EIGHT Muslim countries launched a global agency yesterday to set standards for an Islamic financial system that will end "debt slavery", according to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Islamic banking prohibits usury or interest. It also outlaws investments
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      Lock icon More mergers possible: Dr M
      321 8 KL BAMS MERGERS Consolidation needed for banks to survive farther liberalisation Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the government may consider another round of bank mergers so the sector can compete with foreign rivals, the Bernama news agency reported on Saturday. Malaysia
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      Lock icon CAHB to ensure banking unit retains anchor status
      367 8 KUALA LUMPUR COMMERCE Asset-Holding Bhd (CAHB) will work to ensure that its commercial banking unit remains an anchor bank should there be more bank consolidations in the future. The Star reported on Saturday. CAHB executive director Rozali Mohamed Ali said there was
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      Lock icon China allows sale of state-held shares to foreigners
      364 8 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA said yesterday it will allow foreign companies to buy stakes in listed companies now held by the government, reversing a 1995 ban to seek overseas capital to restructure ailing state enterprises. The official Xinhua news agency said China's securities
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      Lock icon China Telecom could cut IPO size by half: sources
      522 9 HONG KONG This may help reduce carrier's valuation and make it more attractive Reuters CHINA Telecom, which delayed its US$3.6B-billion initial public offering (IPO) due to weak investor demand, may cut the size of the deal by as much as 50
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      Lock icon 3 foreign insurers get nod to operate in China
      282 9 BEIJING AFP THREE foreign insurance companies won government approval to operate in China, bringing to 34 the number of foreign insurers operating in China, state media reported on Saturday. The licenses awarded to Britain's Standard Life Insurance Company, USbased Liberal Mutual
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon 1,000 flock to Cathay Pacific job fair
        106 9 AFP (HONG KONG] Some I,ooojob seekers attended a recruitment event held by Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific yesterday as the territory continued a bid to lift itself from its economic slump. The airline is seeking to hire 800 flight attendants. Cathay has said
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        Lock icon Aviation venture to start by year end
        74 9 AFP [BEIJING] A much-anticipated joint venture between China and Brazil to produce regional jets for Chinese and overseas markets will start operations by the end of the year, state media said yesterday. The venture between China Aviation Industry Corp II and Brazil's Embraer
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        Lock icon National day for overseas Indians
        82 9 AFP [NEW DELHI] India will celebrate a 'national day for overseas Indians' on Jan 9 next year and also award 10 achievers among the Indian diaspora, an official said on Friday. "It will be a festival of India, to celebrate the Indian diasporsa," said LM
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        Lock icon Pakistan parliament to convene soon
        86 9 AFP [ISLAMABAD] Pakistan's first parliament in three years is finally set to convene this week, with seats almost equally divided between opposition and pro-government parties. President Pervez Musharraf has set Friday as the long awaited date for the inauguration of the national assembly, four weeks
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        Lock icon Indonesian earthquake kills 2
        69 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] A powerful earthquake that struck near Indonesia's Sumatra island killed at least two people, injured scores and left more than 5,000 people on a nearby island homeless, officials said yesterday. Houses and other buildings on Simeulue island part of Aceh province at the western
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        Lock icon India bars bank from operating
        102 9 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] India has barred Nedungadi Bank Ltd, a non-state commercial bank, from doing business until Feb 1 next year "in the interest of depositors and the banking system", a press release from the country's central bank said. The "order of moratorium" began from the
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      Lock icon China's listed companies seen posting higher '02 earnings
      326 9 SHANGHAI Bloomberg CHINA'S publicly traded companies are set to report higher earnings this year than last, boosted by its rap id economic growth, analysts said. The 1,214 companies whose stocks trade in Shanghai and Shenzhen posted average earnings per share of 0.1342
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      Lock icon Business chiefs unfazed by new China leaders
      541 9 COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS They remain confident upcoming changes will not alter conditions Reuters [SHANGHAI) Global corporate leaders gathered in Shanghai yesterday said they were confident a new generation of Chinese lead ers set to assume power this month would honour pledges to prise
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      Lock icon India bars Nedungadi Bank from doing business till Feb
      300 9 MUMBAI Bloomberg INDIA has barred Nedungadi Bank, a non-state commercial bank, from doing business until Feb 1 next year "in the interest of depositors and the banking system", the country's central bank said. The "order of moratorium" began from the close
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      Lock icon Can this white knight save himself?
      721 9  -  LETTER FROM BANGKOK Kb Harish Mehta A TV commercial is bringing hope to thousands of Thai people and companies that are saddled with bad debts. It shows a knight in shining armour, astride a white horse, lance tilted dangerously, riding towards the audience. The
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      Lock icon KLSE downside limited, say market players
      565 8 KUALA LUMPUR With the key risks discounted, bourse is primed to soar on any good news Reuters RETURNING investor confidence and more realistic earnings expectations will encourage a better 2003 performance from Malaysia's stock market, which is down 10 per cent this year, fund
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  • CHINA focus
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      Lock icon The niche road to China
      1026 10  -  And own the rights to intellectual property, early bird Raffles LaSalle tells Lob Bnl Yin Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE education providers, which have a headstart in China, will face stiff competition from their Western rivals in a few years. This warning came from Chew Hua
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      Lock icon China to setup trade promotion office in Singapore
      286 10  -  It will be OCPTTi first office in Srath-eutAsia By Loh Hui Yin THE already dose economic relations between Singapore and China will be reinforced when China establishes a trade promotion office here. The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT),
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      Lock icon A case for Indian investments
      896 10  -  It's time S'porean investors redirect their focus on the South Asian state, says Lob Bui Tin Loh Hui Yin TWO recent announcements by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) provide an insight into the government's thinking on investments in two big emerging markets in
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Microsoft may face legal battle in Europe
      565 11 BRUSSELS EC deciding whether to impose its own set of sanctions against the software maker Reuters AFTER a court victory for Microsoft in the United States, the battle now shifts to Europe where Competition Commissioner Mario Monti may soon impose his own set
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      Lock icon New York wins US vote to host 2012 Summer Olympics
      304 11 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado AP NEW York City turned on its star power, flexed its financial muscle and touted its status as the "world's second home" to beat San Francisco on Saturday and become the US Candidate for the 2012 Summer
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      Lock icon Police raid govt-funded agency
      181 11 TOKYO Executive arrested for allegedly rigging public works tender AP POLICE yesterday raided the offices of a government funded road-management corporation in western Japan a day after arresting its chairman on allegations of rigging bids for public works, a television network reported. Public broadcaster NHK television
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      Lock icon More clouds in Citigroup's WorldCom dealings
      698 11 NEW YORK New findings show previously unknown close ties on a deal NYT THERE is no doubt that Bernard J Ebbers, the founder and former chairman of WorldCom, was a top client for Citigroup and that his care and feeding were Job No 1
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      Lock icon Iraq is prepared for war, says Saddam
      474 11 COUNTDOWN TO WAR He warns US and UK that a war will not be a 'cakewalk' AFP, Reuters [CAIRO! President Saddam Hussein said yesterday that Iraq was ready to face up to any US military campaign, warning US and British soldiers that it
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      Lock icon UK denies talk that it can't afford to send troops
      193 11 LONDON Bloomberg THE UK government denied a newspaper report that Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has decided the UK doesn't have enough money to send soldiers to war against Iraq. "This is an irresponsible and misguided brief that is
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Q3 semiconductor sales up 21%
        76 11 Bloomberg (SAN JOSE, California] Semiconductor sales rose 21 per cent in the third quarter as companies sold more chips for products such as wireless phones and digital cameras, an industry group said. Semiconductor sales rose to U5536.9 billion from US$3O.6 billion a year earlier, said
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        Lock icon Big revenue shortfall seen for Japan
        88 11 Reuters (NEW YORK] Japan's tax revenues for the fiscal year to March 2003 will likely fall short of estimates for the general account budget by over 2 trillion yen (5528.8 billion), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its online Saturday edition. The steep revenue
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        Lock icon Deutsche in talks to sell investments
        78 11 Reuters [LONDON] Deutsche Bank is in talks with Dutch finance house NEB to sell its private equity investments for about US$5 billion, The Business newspaper reported yesterday, without citing its source. The newspaper said such a deal would result in Deutsche Bank effectively exiting
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        Lock icon C&W set to cut back Global business
        61 11 Reuters [LONDON] British telecoms group Cable Wireless pic is set to cut back its loss-making Global data and internet services business, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. The company, which has scheduled a review of Global later this month, is expected to slash the
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        Lock icon Royal & Sun may sell Aussie units
        80 11 Royal Sun may sell Aussie units Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Sun Alliance Insurance Group pic may say on Thursday that it plans to raise as much as £700 million (Ssl.9 billion) by selling Australian businesses, the Sunday Times reported, without citing anyone. The move would replace a planned sale of £750
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        Lock icon Swiss banks seen cutting 20.000 jobs
        81 11 Reuters w [ZURICH] Swiss banks will cut up to 20,000 jobs in the next three to four years as they refocus on core business and higher value added services, a top Swiss industry observer told a Swiss newspaper yesterday. "There will be a strong
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        Lock icon US firm's chopper fired on in Yemen
        104 11 AFP [SANAA] Gunmen in Yemen opened fire yesterday at a helicopter belonging to US oil independent Hunt Oil Co shortly after its takeoff from Sanaa airport, injuring one American, Yemeni aviation and security officials said. The helicopter, which was hit by one bullet,
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      582 12 WOES AT THE SEC Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] President George W Bush is poised to oust Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt after a probe of William Webster's selection to run a new accounting board is done, a senior administration official
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      341 12 CHICAGO Reuters TREASURY Secretary Paul O'Neill is unaware of any probe by federal regulators into accounting at Lucent Technologies Inc at a time when he was on the audit committee of the telecoms equipment maker, a spokeswoman for Mr O'Neill
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      519 12 NEW YORK Bat group in the dark as to which firms will benefit Reuters INDEPENDENT research firms stand to reap a combined windfall of up to US$l billion from a broad regulatory settlement to cure stock research abuses. The problem is, nobody knows
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      377 13 TOKYO Reports say it may pare salaries by 10%, lay off 8,000 AFP JAPAN'S Mizuho Financial Group is considering cutting wages by 10 per cent and slashing 8,000 jobs under an expanded restructuring plan to cope with its bad loan problem,
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      540 14 AFTER THE AMTITRDST DECISION It can now leverage its OS dominance to move into other markets analysts Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The US federal court decision on Friday endorsing a settlement that closes the US government's landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp will
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      333 14 AP [WASHINGTON] The land mark decision in the Microsoft antitrust trial was supposed to remain secret until after Financial markets closed, but the US court quietly published the documents on its website nearly 90 minutes before the closing bell. That discovery by
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      193 14 Reuters (SEATTLE! Microsoft Corp will add a video-editing feature to its Windows XP operating system with a new program that automates and simplifies home movie making, the world's largest software maker said on Friday. Movie Maker 2, whose beta, or test version, was available
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      222 14 Reuters INEW YORK) Spanish Internet media company Terra Lycos SA said last Thursday it will bring together several instant messaging services it offers globally by year-end into a new service built on IBM Corp's technology. Terra Lycos said the first version of the new
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      219 14 Bloomberg (TOKYO] Sony Corp's Internet unit is in talks with rival subsidiaries of Fujitsu Ltd and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp to start a joint Internet Protocol telephone service to win subscribers. Sony Communication Network Corp said it is discussing the
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        48 14 SINGAPORE-BASED i-Sprint Innovations Pte T4d, which provides enterprise application security solutions, said it has tied up with Acer Africa Pty Ltd and Intersoft KK. Acer Africa will market i-Sprint's solutions in the South African markets, and Intersoft in Japan. For details, visit www.i-sprint.oom.
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      645 15  -  The technology provides two key advantages of offline verification and Information segregation olivier chavrier The writer is director (ID A Security), Gemplus International SA THE widespread use of information systems and Internet technology is revolutionising the way that governments and businesses
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      309 15  -  By Tang Weng Fai TWO US-based IT giants, Dell Computer Corp and EMC Corp, deepened their year-old global tie-up by announcing that Dell will manufacture EMC's new low-end storage products at Dell's plant in Malaysia. EMC's recently launched CX2OO SAN (storage area network)
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      452 17  -  Only M'si&n officers to screen boxes: KL minister By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Unlike Singapore, Malaysia will not allow US Customs officers to be posted at its ports, despite announcing recently both Klang and Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) would join the Container Security Initiative
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      540 17 It hopes to allay fears of terrorist infiltration in the shipping industry Reuters [LONDON] The US-run Liberian ship registry said it is to bolster maritime security by using electronic fingerprinting to identify sea mariners the first flag-state in the world to do
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      468 17 It also issues order to shift ammunition between Golf ports Reuters [LONDON] The US Navy is seeking more merchant ships to carry a large quantity of ammunition and additional pieces of armour to the Gulf for arrival in November and December,
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      775 18  -  DOCuyARD -By David Hughes WITH the possibility of conflict involving Iraq apparently looming ever greater, the Middle East Gulf is the focus of a lot of attention. London shipbroker E A Gibson recently suggested that increased crude oil production in
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        452 26 It remains in the red despite cost-cuts, including layoffs, furloughs AP [ARLINGTON, Virginia] Bankrupt US Airways lost US$335 million in the third quarter of 2002 despite severe cost cuts that have included thousands of layoffs, the company said on Friday. The loss of
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        269 26 Bernama [PUTRAJAYA] Air Asia, which offers no-frills flights, will be given more domestic and international routes to fly, Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said. He said this was to ensure that Air Asia and Malaysia Airlines (MAS) would continue to operate and to
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        388 26 US pl&nemaker still profitable though sales have plunged Reuters [MOSCOW] US plane maker Boeing Co is still profitable despite slumping airliner sales and is set to benefit from sharp cost-cutting when demand picks up, its chief financial officer said. "We have a
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          64 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] UAL Corp's United Airlines and BMI British Midland Airways won approval from the UK's Office of Fair Trading for an aUiance to cooperate on trans-Atlantic routes. "An airline aUiance between British Midland and United Airlines wUI provide benefits to consumers that outweigh
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        394 26  -  Efficient, cost-effective global solutions needed: lata chief By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Badly conceived security measures are seriously hurting airlines. This is the message from the head of the international trade association of the world's airlines. Speaking at the Aviation Security Conference in Rome, Giovanni Bisignani,
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