The Business Times, 6 February 2003

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    15 1 MfTA (P) 010/03/2002 85c THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE nt. http//business-times.asiai com.sg THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 2003
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    Lock icon Owners give nod for sale of Bugis Junction
    489 1  -  |:iri exclusive Sources say JLL is marketing agent for complex estimated to be worth $900 m Bu Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] All four stakeholders of Bugis Junction have given the go-ahead for the sale of the retail, office and hotel complex, which is
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    Lock icon Blimey, London's getting its own Restricted Zone now
    589 1  -  Retailers are predictably upset, bat mayor hopes levy will relieve congestion From Neil Behrmann in London A SINGAPORE motorist will feel right at home in London come Feb 17. The British capital is applying measures to break the gridlock on its streets,
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    72 1 Dsn 1,291.89 (4.70) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,292.00 (-2.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 157.90 (-0.20) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 668.18 +341 NIKKEI 225 8.549.85 *6495 ■AMI SENG A180.47 7124 SET INDEX SUi -0.09 JAKARTA COMP 392.31 1.83 MANILA COMP .1,***** 12.41 TAIPEI WP1 rinsed SEOILCOMP 600.68 -3.10 SHENZHEN B .Hosed AI'ST ALL OKI)
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US$ 3$ I'SS (SS per I SS) 1.738 £(ISS/SS per S) 1.651 1870 El'RO(l'S$/8S/E) 1.091 1896 YEN 119,1 68.H0 KM 3.8U0 2.186 HKS 7.799 4487 BAHT 42 70 24.56 Rl'PlAH 8.869 5.102 RENMINBI 8.302 4 776 INDIAN RI'PEE— 47.74 27.46 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 515 Kl ALA 1.I
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    Lock icon SBS exec director quits after days in role
    359 1  -  His jobs likely to be taken over by SBS, DelGro officers By\ Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] SBS Transit executive director Phua Tin How has submitted his resignation, just days after being given a new role. Mr Phua relinquished his roles as group president
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    Lock icon Sharelnvestor curbs stock forum postings
    552 1  -  Legal issues drive it to put restrictions on non-paying users By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Internet technology company ShareInvestor has moved to prevent non-paying users of its website from posting in its individual company discussion forums because of legal issues. Sharelnvestor which has about 44,000 non-paying
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      77 1 POWELL'S EVIDENCE NEXT PAGE Executive Woman As a woman, you work and play hard whether in the corporate world or at home. Recognising this, BT launches Executive Woman, a new page catering to women's interests, lifestyle issues, health and just plain fun. Check out the debut edition TOMORROW, where we
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      203 1 The Raffles Conversation ff is back Jlitgaporeans I grumble... that the Government is interfering in too many things and wants to be I involved in every aspect of our lives which is true. But oa the other hand L_— Former Speaker TAN SOO KHOON speaks his mind on the burning
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      Lock icon Powell's evidence spurs markets
      687 2 Traders seem to believe his address removes considerable market uncertainty Reuters Bloomberg AFP [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks rose yesterday morning as US Secretary of State Colin Powell offered evidence that the US said convincingly shows Baghdad is hiding banned weapons, developing nuclear weapons capability and
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      Lock icon No election before quitting, says Dr M
      183 2 Reuters [MALAYSIA] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday shot down speculation that he would call a general election before he steps down in October after 22 years in power. Dr Mahathir, who tearfully tried to quit last June before being persuaded to hang
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      Lock icon Indon centre solves problems for businesses
      438 2  -  It aims to make country attractive for foreign firms Froml Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta STUNG into action by the erosion of its industrial base as foreign manufacturers continue to pull out of the country, Indonesia has established a Business Solution Centre to help businesses
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      Lock icon Over 400 China, India high-tech firms in S'pore
      587 2  -  They seek capital, clients, business partners, links to global markets By j Andrey Tan [SINGAPORE) Over 400 Chinese and Indian hightech firms and start-ups have set up in Singapore to seek capital, clients and business partners, as they look to internationalise their
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      84 3 HIGH POINTS OF WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC Les Arts Florissants is one of the world's Explorations: Pre-performance top early music ensembles. Their talk by William Christie performances on 18 Feb features extracts Concert Hall Main Foyer, 19 Feb, 6.30pm from Purcell's The Fairy Queen and (Free admission) Rameau's Les Indes Galantes
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Queen's and King's Flats close to being sold for about $80m
      409 3  -  t~-ii exclusive UOL, in possible joint venture with Low Keng Hn&t, said to be likely buyer By 1 Kalpana Rashiwala THE first major collective sale of the year is close to being inked a deal for the sale of
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      Lock icon Econ Healthcare's looking in the pink
      671 3  -  HOCK I I l angela tan GIVEN the dismal state of the economy, any company which has reported strong double-digit growth and is poised to generate similar growth rates over the next few years, should excite investors. Strangely, this does not seem to be
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      Lock icon KepLand, CapitaLand rise ahead of ERC report
      440 3  -  Developers seen gaining if group tax relief is instituted Byi Andrea Tan EARNINGS expectations and the release of a high-lev-el Economic Review Committee (ERC) report today propelled the share prices of Keppel Land and CapitaLand yesterday. KepLand rose as much as eight cents
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Cycle & Carriage ups Astra stake
        85 5 Cycle Carriage ups Astra stake JARDINE Strategic, the dominant shareholder of Singapore's Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL), has announced that CCL had raised its stake in Astra International, confirming a BT report published yesterday. Jardine said CCL now owns 34.31 per cent of the Indonesian motor-based group, from 31.14 per cent
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        Lock icon Ssangyong on Afro-Asia offer
        79 5 SSANGYONG Cement has advised that shareholders read carefully Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation's announcement—on behalf of Afro-Asia International Enterprises—last week that the offeror's cash offer of $1.05 per share had become unconditional. In a Jan 29 statement, OCBC said that the offeror had control of 39.5 million shares
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        Lock icon Seatown under interim JM
        75 5 TROUBLED infrastructure construction company, Seatown Corporation, has been placed under Interim judicial management, pending the outcome of its judicial management petition filed with the High Court of Singapore. The court hearing will be on Feb 26. Nicky Tan has been appointed as interim JM. The loss-making
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        Lock icon MultiVision bags HK$4m contract
        79 5 MULTTVISION Intelligent Surveillance Limited said it has secured a contract from Macau's Elixir Group for a pilot project to provide digital video surveillance solutions as part of the security requirements for an extension of a casino in Macau. The contract value to Elixir is HKs4.*43 million
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        Lock icon ASA chairman resigns
        32 5 ADVANCED Systems Automation Ltd said Lim Kee Ming has resigned as chairman and director of the company. The appointment of a new chairman will be announced in due course.
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        Lock icon SIA to lease 2 aircraft to Air Pacific
        59 5 SINGAPORE Airlines it has entered into an agreement to lease two 8747-400 aircraft to Air Pacific Limited. The lease period is for five years, with the option to extend each lease for another one or two years. The aircraft will be delivered
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        Lock icon Oculus gets EDB grant
        63 5 OCULUS Limited said the group has received a grant under the Economic Development Board's Innovation Development Scheme to support the group's project to develop a new generation of disposable colour lenses. This project is expected to result in the introduction of a stronger line of disposable
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      Lock icon Top level changes at Hua Kok
      310 5  -  Management revamp comes amid firm's battle against slump in construction industry By] Michelle Quah HUA Kok International, a victim of the construction industry slump, has announced top management changes, a year after some major board appointments. The mainboard-listed construction group said its executive deputy
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      Lock icon Xpress wins High Court nod for capital reduction
      359 5  -  Exercise will write off accumulated losses of $57.5 m By] Michelle Qoah FINANCIAL report printer Xpress Holdings formerly known as i-One.Net International yesterday received approval from the High Court for a capital reduction exercise, which will help the group write off its
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      Lock icon NOL shares gain six cents following talk of debt deal
      256 5 Reuters SHIPPING group Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), which is looking to raise funds to cut its US$2.5 billion debt mountain, saw its shares rise yesterday amid talk the company is planning a debt deal. "NOL rose on a report
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      Lock icon SingTel sells broadcast assets to Foxtel
      227 5 Reuters [SYDNEY] Singapore Telecommunications Ltd yesterday said it planned to cut costs .and free up capital by selling some Australian broadcast assets to pay-tele-vision group Foxtel. SingTel's Australian unit Optus said it would sell some assets in its National Digital Media Centre in Sydney
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      302 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 5 VALUE CLOSE 295.CX) 112.00 ITCAW -*****.00 -1.00 -*****.00 -29.00 jMHQE»rib— 344.86 40.39 SCElriMnEhd 112.11 -2.07 SCEjdHwFlu 1098.36 -14.37 307.58 +1.85 WflStewon 157.85 -0.43 SMSar*wrm 157.90 -0.20 Stocks Vokmw MuttiVts HK7c 13,317,000 LiMlC 13.157,000 DMXTech US5c 11,274.000 SingTel 15c 10,264XXX) Chart SemiCond 26c 9,898,000 SemdCorpInd 25c..................
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      Lock icon Semblog shares perk up, but wiĺ rally hold?
      287 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRAMT By 1 Ven Sreenivagan SHARES in SembCorp Logistics have perked up after the company unveiled a 30 per cent jump in net operating profit to $78.5 million. The growth was led by a surge in pre-tax earnings for its
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      Lock icon Advantages of being under-owned
      765 4  -  ■1 i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy BEING off the radar screens of foreign funds and being heavily un-der-owned by the big boys have their advantages. Despite war fears, tension over North Korea's nukes and overnight wobbles on Wall Street, the Straits Times Index lost just 4.7
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      Lock icon Gold, euro and Swiss franc soar over US$ woes
      631 4  -  -iri comment CURRENCIES North Korea, al-Qaeda and Wall Street add to Iraq war worries Wry wee GOLD, the Swiss franc, and the euro exploded to new highs yet again yesterday, as fresh worries piled up against the US dollar ahead of
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon New launches off to a slow start
      486 6  -  War and the holidays are a damper on activity, finds Andrea Tan Andrea Tan IT'S a sluggish start to the Year of the Goat. New home sales are slow and property launches even slower as war drums beat, consultants say. "Most developers are
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      Lock icon California US$1m home sales hit new high
      605 6 Bloomberg MILLION-DOLLAR home sales in California rose 45.5 per cent to a record in 2002, as appreciation drove the value of more houses above that threshold, according to a report by Data Quick Information Systems. A total of 13,828 homes sold for US$l
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      Lock icon Ponggol Marina put up for sale by bank
      811 6  -  By Vince Chong BELEAGUERED Ponggol Marina was put 'up for tender yesterday by Taiwan's First Commercial Bank (FCB), but market watchers expect offers to fall far below its $50 million development cost. CB Richard Ellis is handling the tender, which closes on
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Singapore tech park in Bangalore 'a great success'
      550 7  -  Indian DPM wants replication of experiment in other Indian states By Amit Roy Choudhury INDIAN Deputy Prime Minister Lai Krishna Advani yesterday described Singapore's International Technology Park in Bangalore as "a great success" and said work on the second phase was proceeding
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      Lock icon December prices pulled up by oil
      210 7  -  =W 3 on the economy prices By\ Elgin Toh P PRICES rose slightly last December, due mainly to high oil prices, according to the Department of Statistics. The Singapore Manufactured Products Price Index (MPPI) and the Domestic Supply Price Index (DSPI) for December indicated
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      Lock icon Allen & Gledhill in Asian top firm race
      304 7 Allen Gledhill in Asian top firm race ALLEN Gledhill has won International Financial Law Review's award for the top Singapore law firm for the fourth time in a row, and is now in the running against 12 others to be its 2002 Asian law firm of the year. Three Singapore-linked
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      Lock icon Citibank uses rewards to lure debit card clients
      453 7  -  It is using these cards to build up product range By Slow Li Sen CITIBANK is aggressively marketing its latest product the debit card to more affluent customers to sell core products like its unsecured ready credit and deposit/chequing account. This is
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      Lock icon S'pore firm buys stake in Indon tobacco plant
      197 7 SINGAPOREAN businessman Tony Chew LeongChee's Asia Resource Corporation (ARC) has announced that it is investing in a $30 million tobacco processing plant in Indonesia. ARC has teamed up with Standard Commercial Group and an Indonesian partner to take a 30 per cent
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  • EDITORIAL& opinion
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      Lock icon Get Japan moving by opening it up
      655 8  -  ■uTTqI I bottom line OPINION eisuke sakakibara IHT THE world economy is undergoing a transformation that occurs only once every century or two. Japan and other mature industrialised countries must adapt Building on revolutionary technological innovation, the globalisation that started in the 1990s
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      90 8 'We were putting in 14 hours a day for a fistful of flies. We'd see our old customers walk by with supermarket shopping bags.' Sihrana Moscatelli a former grocery owner in Italy, on the impact of supermarkets on small businesses. 'We're taking the last step into the
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      Lock icon The price of sovereignty
      983 8 EDITORIAL IT took incessant misrepresentations by Malaysian leaders, along with careless talk of war, before the Singapore government decided to reveal all including confidential documents on the water dispute between the two countries. The reactions from across the Causeway since then have been instructive. Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Where borrowers get paid to borrow money
      934 8  -  That's what Japanese banks are resorting to these days, in an environment of razor-thin yields and stubborn deflation By Ken Belson NYT [TOKYO] People often think of zero interest the way physicists do the speed of light, as an absolute limit. After all,
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      Lock icon Award-winning loss-makers
      194 8  -  MAILIiETI Leong Sze Hian Singapore I UNDERSTAND that equity funds that lost money for their investors have picked up prizes at some annual investment fund awards because they happened to be the best in their category. Should a fund manager be given an award for having lost the
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      Lock icon Electrified fencing for ships a workable deterrent to piracy
      143 8  -  Capt Ngoh B P Singapore I REFER to "Shipowners can take steps against pirate attacks" (Shipping Times, Feb 5). So far, of all the suggestions to counter high-seas piracy, the proposal in your article about using non-le-thal electrified fencing around a
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Expect terrorist attacks: Philippine army chief
      429 9 MANILA Foreign embassies, US firms could be targeted if war breaks out in Iraq AFP AMERICAN troops, foreign embassies and US businesses in the Philippines have been warned to expect terrorist attacks if war breaks out in Iraq, the country's armed forces chief said
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      Lock icon Manila rushes to buy rice
      127 9 MANILA Reuters THE Philippines said yesterday that it will seek tenders to buy 400,000 tonnes of rice this month to head off a possible spike in rice prices brought on by the El Nino weather pattern and a looming war in the Middle East. Officials
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        Lock icon Pernas sells KL building stake
        79 9 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian hotel and property group Pernas International Holdings Bhd (PIHB), which owes RM2.5 billion (Ssl.l billion) in debt, yesterday said it had sold its stake in a landmark building for RMI3I million. PIHB, taken over last month by a company linked to
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        Lock icon Thailand to reopen Cambodia border
        56 9 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand said it will reopen checkpoints along its 800 km frontier with Cambodia today, a week after closing them following anti-Thai riots in Phnom Penh. "We can open the border tomorrow now Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has agreed to ease border restrictions," Deputy
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        Lock icon 34 DRB-Hicom buses seized
        81 9 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Shares of DRB-Hicom Bhd fell as much as one per cent after it said some officials claiming to be representatives of two finance companies repossessed 34 of its buses without prior notice. DRB-Hicom and its bus unit have filed an injunction in the
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        Lock icon Thailand to raise property prices
        88 9 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand plans next year to raise benchmark property prices by at least 10 per cent amid a housing boom in an economy that may have grown at its fastest pace in six years. The move may allow banks to set aside less money
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      Lock icon Bangladesh to set up emergency fuel reserve
      253 9 DHAKA Authorities said to be in talks with S'pore, HE on this AFP BANGLADESH, which is heavily dependent on oil imports, is arranging an emergency reserve in case of war in Iraq, Finance Minister Saifur Rahman said. It is reportedly negotiating with Singapore
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      Lock icon Dr M warns of consequences of attacking Iraq
      268 9 PUTRAJAYA. Malaysia Reuters ANY US-led attack on Iraq risks fanning Muslim feelings of persecution and creating a new generation of would-be al-Qaeda members, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned in an interview yesterday. Dr Mahathir, viewed as one of the few strong
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      Lock icon YTL cleared of Wessex bribery charge
      371 9  -  London police say £lm payment wasn't an offence FYotn Eddie Toh in KutiUi Lumpur MALAYSIAN utilities ty coon Francis Yeoh's YTL Power has been vindicated over an alleged bribery in the purchase of Wessex Water in Britain last May. According to reports, London police
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      Lock icon M'sia Dec exports up 8.6%, slowest in 6 mths
      379 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN exports rose at the slowest pace in six months in December, pulled down by a decline in shipments of electronics. Exports rose 8.6 per cent to RM28.5 billion (Ssl3 billion) from RM26.3 billion a year earlier, the
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      Lock icon Politics pulling plug on Philippine electricity plan
      717 10 POWER WOES Spectre of outages looms as Congress short-circuits privatisation bid Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines has a problem with power for its people. Filipinos pay some of the highest electricity rates in Asia, shortages are looming barely a decade after blackouts paralysed the
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      Lock icon Siemens rejects First Philippine claim
      134 10 MANILA Bloomberg SIEMENS AG, Germany's biggest electronics and engineering company, will seek U5594.2 million of construction fees that customer First Philippine Holdings Corp withheld for late completion of the Santa Rita power plant. Siemens also rejected a claim by First, the Philippines largest publicly traded
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      Lock icon Tenaga to use pre-paid system to curb power theft
      151 10 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S power firm Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) plans to sell electricity using a pre-paid system to cut operating costs, a report said yesterday. The system, to start in April, will help curb power theft costing Tenaga RM4OO million
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      Lock icon Jakarta hopes Danamon sale will raise US$400m
      298 10 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S government hopes to raise nearly US$4OO million from the sale of a 51 per cent stake in the country's fifth-largest bank, Bank Danamon. I Nyoman Sender, deputy chairman of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra), said Jakarta hoped to get
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      Lock icon Philippines to revive sale of Eastern Telecom
      199 10 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippine government will revive plans to sell its 40 per cent stake in Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc to raise funds this year to plug the budget deficit, Finance Undersecretary Eric Recto said. The government in 1998 failed to sell the
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      Lock icon Developers dismiss Shanghai bubble fears
      590 11 Top govt officials warn property market is at risk of overheating AFP [SHANGHAI] Developers remain buoyant about property construction in Shanghai despite a warning from top government officials that the market is at risk of overheating. In China's largest city, the property bust of the
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      Lock icon HK property sales down 29% in Jan to HK$15b
      140 11 HONGKONG Number of nnits sold saw 21% decline to 7,293 Bloomberg HONG Kong property sales, mainly of apartments, fell 29 per cent in January from a year earlier to HK$l4.6 billion (553.3 billion), the government Land Registrysaid in a statement issued
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      Lock icon HK plans exhibition centre on Shenzhen border: report
      377 11 ■HONGKONG AFP HONG KONG is considering building an exhibition complex on its border with mainland China to allow Chinese businessmen to meet with foreign investors, a newspaper report here said yesterday. The Hong Kong Trade Development Council has been asked to conduct
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      Lock icon Satyam falls on stock boosting allegation
      222 11 MUMBAI Bloomberg SHARES of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India's fourth-biggest software services company, fell after Gujarat Samachar newspaper reported that tax officials were investigating allegations that the company's founders traded the stock among themselves to boost its price between 1999 and 2001. Chief financial
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      479 12  -  Its Q2 profit hits record high of USs99lm on cost savings as sales dip From, Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley CISCO Systems has posted higher-than-expected earnings for the second quarter ended Jan 25, but chief executive John Chambers sees "downside" in
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      135 12 Reuters [MELBOURNE] Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is to become a father for the sixth time, Fortune magazine reported. Mr Murdoch, the 71-year-old chairman and CEO of News Corporation, told Fortune that he and third wife Wendi Deng, 35, are expecting their second child
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      380 12 NEW YORK Greenspan to give his testimony to Congress on Feb 11 Reuters Bloomberg THE mammoth US services sector, which accounts for the bulk of the overall economy, expanded for the 12th straight month in January, a report said yesterday. In a
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      728 12 NEW YORK NYT TED Turner, the "mouth from the South," has left the building. Now, executives and employees at AOL Time Warner, the company from which Mr Turner resigned as vice-chairman last Wednesday, wonder what he will say next. The mercurial Mr
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      332 12 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] More than two-thirds of the Senate has signed a letter to President George W Bush urging him to ignore a World Trade Organization ruling against a US law that allows companies to collect duties won in unfair trade cases. Failing to comply
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        68 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Telecom Holdings, a unit oj British mobile phone giant Vodafone, yesterday said it was in talks with US Investment fund Ripplewood and others on selling its fixed-line unit. Analysts said the deal represented a good opportunity for Vodafone to quit Japan's
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        73 12 Bloomberg [BERLIN] German unemployment rose to a 4 V 4 -year high in January, increasing the risk that Europe's largest economy will slide into its second recession in two years. The number of people out of work increased a seasonally adjusted 62,000 from December to
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        75 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp yesterday booked a strong quarterly profit thanks to cost cuts, a resurgent euro and a big sales expansion globally, putting it on track to post record earnings for the full year. Group net profit for the third quarter
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        70 12 Bloomberg [TOKYO] State-owned Development Bank of Japan will assume the risk of default on some loans made by Mizuho Holdings, in its first attempt to help private lenders bolster their balance sheets. Mizuho will be able reduce risk-weighted assets by 100 billion yen
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        68 12 NYT [FRANKFURT] Reaping the benefits of a deep cost-cutting regime at its troubled Chrysler division, DaimlerChrysler said on Tuesday that it swung from a net loss to a profit in the fourth quarter and for all of 2002. For all 0f2002, the company reported net
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        50 12 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Commerzbank expects to return to profit this year as it cuts more jobs. The bank had its first annual loss in 2002 after setting aside 1.32 billion euros (Ss2 5 billion) for bad loans. The bank lost 296 million euros last year. Bloomberg
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      392 13 WASHINGTON SEC also invites comments on new self-regnlatory agency for industry LAT-WP THE Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday proposed rules that would require mutual funds to have written policies to ensure that the funds comply with federal securities laws. The SEC also voted
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      367 13 NEW YORK NYT THE Bush administration has reversed course and decided not to penalise individual investors who borrow money to buy dividend-paying stock. The reversal came on Monday in the administration's latest description of its plan to end the double taxation of corporate dividends. Just
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      602 15 LONDON Bat those who can take long-term view should not ditch stocksz study Reuters STOCK market investors may have to wait 15 years for share prices to recover to their 1999 heights, according to a study on stock market returns
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      869 16  -  I Hi exclusive That's dependent on good execution in China, India, says SAP's new regional chief By' Tang Weng Fai SAP AG may have had flat global growth last year. But Asia is a totally different story for the Germany-based
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      364 16 Reuters [SEATTLE] It only took 10 minutes for the SQL Slammer worm to race across the globe and wreak havoc on the Internet two weeks ago, making it the fastestspreading computer infection ever seen, researchers said on Tuesday. The worm, which nearly cut
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      726 16  -  I :j t comment TECHNOLOGY The tech-driven business cycle triggered a major downturn, trat Michael M&ndel argues that we're really better off kenneth james AS fears of war and terrorism cloud the horizon, and a return to strong economic growth seems to
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      535 16  -  Replacement buying to bring growth in 2003 after 2 years of decline: Gartner By Amit Roy Choudbury AFTER shrinking 11 per cent in 2001 and 0.3 per cent in 2002, the Singapore personal computer market should return to positive growth this year, according to
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      263 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 12 points to 1542, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 9 points to 2016, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 45 points to 1558 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 10 points to 9460. TIME-CHARTER: Aquagem (built 1997) *****2 dwt 14.5 on 60 ndas
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      270 17 sex 'ooo Ft»5 SS V« CWT Distribution 0.70 unci) 0 Chum Hup 0.44 unch 776 Cosco Investment 0.(9 unch 70 Freight Links 0.04 0.01 30 CB Holdings 0.59 unch 2 Jaya Holdings 0.27 0.01 1857 Keppel Corp .3.62 -0.02 3778 K1 Venture 0.15 unch 152 Keppel Tele 0.87
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      Lock icon EC softens stance on black listing substandard ships
      626 17  -  It drops 8 from its list of 66 vessels banned from European waters By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Retracting eight vessels from its 66 vessel blacklist and moderating its fiery post Prestige rhetoric, the European Commission (EC) now appears to be softening its
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      190 17 AP [DARWIN] Two Indonesian fishing boats, whose crews have been accused of illegally catching sharks and cutting off their fins, have been detained by authorities off Australia's north-east coast, fisheries officials said on Tuesday. One boat found with 30 shark fins and seven crew
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      55 17 [NAZAIRE] A 45-metre long, 12-metre high bridge weighing 630 tonnes is set on the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner, at the Chantiers de L 'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire. Queen Mary 2 will be the largest ocean liner ever constructed and is to be delivered to its
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      316 17  -  Anssie port cargo handler has no plans for farther acquisitions By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Australia's dominant port cargo handler, Patrick Corporation, enjoyed a better than expected first quarter in its three key business areas. The upbeat announcement, made by chairman Peter Scanlon at
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      271 17  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Major container shipping lines carrying the majority of cargo on the Asia-Europe trades have reacted to the latest rise in oil prices by announcing bunker surcharge hikes. The Far Eastern Freight Conference (FEFC), an industry grouping of major
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      552 18  -  NEWBUILDS I -By] David Hughes THIS week's new orders list features container ships of what nowadays would be considered modest dimensions. A fortnight ago however, I listed five 8,100 TEU (twenty foot equivalent units) ships ordered by Seaspan and China Shipping Group.
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        134 25 Feb 6 New Zealand: Waitangi Day Feb 11 Japan: Nat Foundation Day. Feb 12 Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Brunei: Hari Raya Haji. Feb 13 Malaysia: Hari Raya Hzgi. Feb 22 Philippines: EDS A Revolutior Day. Mat 24 Brunei: National Day
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        758 25 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 indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        432 26 Bat Gulf war may np losses by hiking oU prices, cntting travel, says report Bloomberg [SYDNEY] AMR Corp's American Airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and other members of the International Air Transport Association may have a combined loss of as much
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        208 26 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] jetßlue Airways, a low-fare carrier and one of the few profitable US airlines, is adding five daily flights to California from New York and Washington, DC. Flights between Long Beach, California, and New York's John F Kennedy International
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        414 26 Expansion continues despite economic downturn, security threats Reuters [GENEVA] Investment in airport development around the world is rising steadily despite global economic problems and security threats, the international airports body ACI said. In its annual Airport Economics Survey, the grouping said the trend was underlined by
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        417 26 Bloomberg [DUBLIN] Ryanair Holdings posted a 50 per cent increase in fiscal third-quar-ter profit after expanding its network and almost doubling passenger numbers. Net income for the three months ended Dec 31 rose to 43.2 million euros (5581.3 million), or
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        534 26 It plans to seek World Bank's help if Manila does not resolve dispute Reuters [FRANKFURT] German airport operator Fraport said on Tuesday it would seek World Bank arbitration in its dispute with the Philippines over a terminal in Manila unless the government offered a solution
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        80 26 AP [NEW YORK] American Airlines pleaded with employees on Tuesday to accept steep cuts in wages, benefits and work rules that would save US$l.B billion annually, stressing that the company's livelihood was at stake. "Our financial results make it abundantly clear that American's
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        191 26 AFP Q»nta» resumes aervioes to Denp&sar [SINGAPORE] Qantas has resumed services to Denpasar from Singapore as part of the airline's ongoing review of international capacity requirements. Regional general manager, South-east Asia, of Qantas and British Airways, Stephen Thompson said the schedule adjustments reflected changes in customer demand. Denpasar
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      30 17 Airlines could post losses of up to USslob BACKPAGE Airports see growing investment BACK RAGE npK Thinking about penetration, exposure, results? if it's about Singapore's maritime community, think Shipping Times
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