The Business Times, 17 February 2003

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 iruernet: http://business-times.asial com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 2003 85C
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    Lock icon S'pore pulls ahead in mobile phone game
    803 1  -  GPRS roaming exchange will let operators ronte calls through S'pore exclusive By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Singapore will host Asia's first and the world's second GPRS roaming exchange for mobile phone operators by June this year. This will enable mobile network operators in Asia
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    Lock icon Top Chinese bank going on offensive in S'pore and region
    845 1  -  S'pore upgraded to look after region; other plans include buying Indon bank l-ii exclusive By] Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] China's biggest lender, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), plans to step out in a big way here and the
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    Lock icon Time to move on from dispute with M'sia: PM Goh
    721 1  -  Engaging in verbal acrobatics will get Singapore nowhere By. Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that this year holds great uncertainty for Singaporeans and it is time to move on from the dispute with Malaysia as
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    62 1 Week Change ST1 *****8 -11.93 KLSECOMP ***** -410 NIKKEI 225 *****2_+***** HANG SENG 9201.76 +50.81 SET INDEX 368.71 -1014 JAKARTA COMP _***** *4.89 MANILA COMP .*****3 -8.10 TAIPEI WP1 *****9 -***** SEOUL COMP ***** 214 SHENZHEN B ***** Al'ST ALL ORD J***** -81.70 DOW JONES 7908.80 +4457 NASDAQ 1310.17
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US* SS USS (SS per t"SS) 1.754 £(ISS/SS p<T 1.620 1842 El'RO(T'S$/SS/E). 1.084 1.901 YEN 1204 68.70 RM 3.800 2.167 HKS 7.799 4.447 BAHT 43.04 2454 RUPIAH 8525 5.089 RENMINBI 8.299 4732 INDIAN RITEE 47.86 27i9 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5-25 KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONG KONG 5.000
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      118 1 BT Comment: Coming to grips with foreign competition, Pg 12 YIKRAMKHANNA HxT!T!^^ COMES TO GRIPS WITH UjlJ j B PHENOMENON^^HBuliij|ffl|n Next Page Why robotics should be S'pore's next frontier RAJU CHELLAM. Pane 18 Prepaid market in Asia-Pac enjoying explosive growth, Pg 17 111 8 *****1"*****4 Great Eastern most. With Whole
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      133 1 Full-time score As of yesterday, 32 SGX-listed companies had released their financial results for the full year ended Dec 31,2002. They recorded a combined S$1 l 7t1.1m in group profits, up 227.0% over the same period last year. The breakdown is as follows No with profit* i 27 No with
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      Lock icon Clarke Quay may get up to $100m revamp
      645 2  -  C&pitaLaud expected to doable asset's yield to 6-7% By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Capita Land may pump $50 mUlion to $100 million to revamp the 10-year-old Clarke Quay mall, a laggard in the group's investment property portfolio. The injection is expected to double
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      Lock icon The anti-war phenomenon
      698 2  -  hi i comment ECONOMICS The political costs of a US-led war against Iraq have just gone up vikram khanna AS I watched the TV footage of some of the protests against a US war on Iraq this past weekend, I thought: I have never seen so many
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      Lock icon A multi-cultural lens improves visibility for businesses
      766 2  -  fill exclusive By* Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] How to negotiate with Ukrainians. Or sell helicopters to Israelis; go into joint ventures with big business groups in Turkey; indeed, how to do business in Mexico and emerge intact, and successful. Ikuko Atsumi, a pioneer in
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      319 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 14 VALUE CLOSE BTOMDS 56.00 +133.00 IT CADI +4.00 BT HA -*****.00 -6.00 mm LyUm 340.65 -0.04 SGCqrfbw Pact 110.42 +0.32 SQtyMmFm 1091.04 -H5.55 SGEjrfM-Pwy 306.25 -5.36 MSCUhlffpiw 155.90 *0.73 SMSCIFatam 156.00 +0-60 Stocks Volume L&MlC 73,761,000 SembCorp Ind 25c 39.608,000 Chart SemiCond 26c 36.138.000 SingTel
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      Lock icon M'sian investors pin hope on extended warrant lives
      301 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy HOPE is a very powerful emotion in the stock market and should never be underestimated. It was hope that underpinned the buying of Internet stocks with no fundamentals in the late 1990s and it is hope
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      Lock icon Is hope enough reason to buy?
      797 4  -  11 comment STOCKS r. sivanithy Throughout the past 18 months, there have been periodic urgings by several commentators and pundits to buy stocks. After markets collapsed following 9/11, for example, the rationale for buying was that the US economy would bounce back faster than
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      Lock icon Yen bounces back on strong Q4 GDP data
      692 4 AFP [HONG KONG] Most major Asian currencies strengthened against the US dollar amid continuing concerns over conflict with Iraq, while the yen also received a boost from better-than-ex-pected GDP figures for the last quarter of 2002. The most notable exception amid stronger
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    3066 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CmnMIMIM Com Global Finance Index Fd 0.681/ Com Global lifestyle Index Fd 0 776/ £"JVT*; Tr nw/ Com Global Health Index Fd. 0.738/ Com Global THecom Index Fd 0 4/ Com Global mfotet Index Fd!" 0254/ I- 2iS£ C«" Global Energy Index Fd 0 77» two Com
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      113 4 Market Notices ♦QIAN Hu Corporation will go ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 0.60 cent and special dividend of 0.60 cent) on March 26. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is March 31 and date payable April 10. ♦SEMBCORP Marine will go ex-dividend (final dividend of one cent
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Analysts split on Huan Hsin move to raise funds
      347 5  -  China expansion plan pits growth prospects against fears of price erosion By Angela Tan CONTRACT manufacturer Huan Hsin Holdings Ltd's plans to raise up to $31.18 million to expand its China notebook production has produced a mixed bag of analysts' reaction,
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      Lock icon NH Ceramics buys renovation firm in bid to diversify
      377 5 It pays $130,290 for home specialist Living Elements SESDAQ-LISTED NH Ceramics Limited, whose core business is ceramic and marble tiles and other building products, has acquired a design and renovation firm as part of its plans to diversify into related services.
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Kim Eng Ong Asia sells stake in firm
        125 5 STOCKBROKER Kim Eng Ong Asia has decided to part ways with ATR-Kim Eng Capital Partners on Valentine's Day. Kim Eng said on Friday it would sell its 43.03 per cent stake in the Philippine firm for $15.2 million in cash and promissory
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        Lock icon Presscrete disposes of subsidiary
        70 5 HERE perhaps is a company that Presscrete Holdings will now hear little from. The directors of Presscrete said yesterday Adventure Training Systems (Asia-Pacific) Pte Ltd, which is 85 per cent owned by the company, has completed the disposal of its 51 per cent interest in a
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        63 5 IN our Wednesday report on the resignation of Inno-Pacific Holdings' executive director and chief operating officer Phang lan Cher Shen, we said Mr Phang was a nominee appointed to Inno-Pac's board by a disgruntled shareholder in 2001. Mr Phang has pointed out that he was elected to the board
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      Lock icon Hot Thai market getting hotter
      658 5  -  harish mehta THAI companies gave a resounding vote of confidence to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) last year, when a slew of initial public offerings gilded what was until then a lacklustre bourse. This year, too, the companies are lining up to list. What
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  • CORPORATE earnings
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      Lock icon Bank shareholders eye higher dividends
      1592 6  -  These could come from unlocking tax credits and divestment of non-core assets By I Siow Li Sen THE 2002 financial results season for the three local banks which begins this Friday would be pretty much a non-event but for one hot issue. And that's the
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      Lock icon Goldtron posts half-time profit of $764,000
      227 6 DEBT-RIDDEN investment holding company Goldtron Ltd, which has managed to defer its $40.3 million bank loans to a later date last December, reported a net profit of $764,000 for the six months ended Dec 31, 2002 against a net loss of $18.4 million a
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      Lock icon What's ahead
      104 6 When results are due Chip Eng Seng Fob 17 CSE Systems and Engineering Ftb II Jurong Technologies Ind Fab IS DBS Group Fata 21 SGX Fab 21 Great Eastern Fab 24 Cycle Carriage Fab 25 Del Monte Pacific Fab 28 Hotel Plaza Fab 29 MCL Land Fab 25
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      Lock icon S'pore's prospects still good: report
      330 7  -  =1 on the economy GDP By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE'S growth prospects this year remain relatively good and the prevailing pessimism is overdone, said Mizuho Research Institute's Wong Keng Siong. His 2003 growth forecast of 5.1 per cent, while downgraded from a previous 6 per
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      110 7 AFTER an extensive $30 million facelift, the World Trade Centre will open its doors with a new look and a new name today. Now called HarbourFront Centre, its opening marks the completion of the first phase of the redevelopment covering 90 per cent of the retail space.
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      Lock icon Serangoon site marketed even in HK
      478 7  -  HK developers get invitation to bid for LTA's 2.5 ha plot By Andrea Tan EVEN the big boys of property in Hong Kong, it seems, have gotten word of the Land Transport Authority's (LTA) state land sale in Serangoon Central. BT understands that developers
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      Lock icon The toughest customers of all
      416 7  -  Byi Anna Teo "GERMAN." Ikuko Atsumi replies without hesitation, even before the question is completed, when asked which nationals are the toughest to deal with in business. Specifically, "male, high-ranking German executives", she adds. Why? "Reason number one Germans believe they are perfect," the crossculture
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      Lock icon Esplanade, healthcare costs unrelated issues
      358 7  -  MAiLrsry Ho Ai Phang Deputy director (corporate communications) For Permanent Secretary (Information, Communications and the Arts) IN "Speaking his mind" (BT, Raffles Conversation, Feb 8), Tan Soo Khoon said that he was "a bit upset we were raising hospital charges and collecting $12 million a
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      Lock icon Fresh funds on stand-by for KL
      600 8  -  l ll comment KL STOCKS Calpers might return, Valuecap bargain-hunting to continue, interest rates could be cut eddie toh MALAYSIAN equity prices have been consolidating amidst the growing threat of a second Gulf War in 12 years. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index
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      Lock icon Megawati submits 3 names to replace central banker
      375 9 JAKARTA All candidates said to be supporters of IMF-led reforms Reuters INDONESIAN president Megawati Sukarnoputri has given Parliament a choice of three experienced central bankers all seen as having views generally supporting IMF-led reforms to replace Sjahril Sabirin, a senior bank official
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      Lock icon China seen resisting calls to revalue the yuan
      333 9 BEIJING Reuters FIVE years ago, China faced widespread pressure not to devalue its yuan currency during the Asian economic crisis. Although such a move would have helped Chinese exports compete against dirt-cheap goods from other Asian countries, Beijing kept the yuan pegged
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      Lock icon 13 firms changed in Hang Seng revamp
      181 9 Reuters [HONG KONG] HONG Kong's smallest mobile phone firm, Sunday Communications, will leave Hong Kong's Hang Seng Composite Index in a rejig next month, replaced by the mainland's biggest fixed-line company China Telecom. A total of 13 constituent firms will be kicked off
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      Lock icon 4% Indon Q4 growth seen
      92 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's economy probably expanded in the fourth quarter as Muslim holy days and other festivals spurred spending on food and gifts. Rising prices for palm oil, natural gas and other exports also may have helped gross domestic product rise an estimated 4 per
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    • ASIANotes
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        Lock icon China trains 14 astronauts
        73 9 Reuters [BEIJING] China has been training 14 fighter pilots to be astronauts and this autumn will become the world's third nation to blast people into space, state media reported yesterday. The pilots, training in a northern Beijing suburb, are all under 30 years old, around 1.7
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        Lock icon Manila loans far returning maids
        69 9 AP [HONG KONG] The Philippine government will offer loans to Filipino migrants who want to return home and start businesses because of a proposed tax on foreign maids working in Hong Kong, a Filipino union spokeswoman said yesterday. Philippine Foreign Secretary Bias Ople met union
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        Lock icon Pakistan raises petrol price by 7.6%
        72 9 Bloomberg [KARACHI] Pakistan raised prices of retail petrol and diesel by as much as 7.6 per cent to reflect an increase in global crude prices. The Oil Companies Advisory Committee, a group set up in July 2001 to set oil prices every two weeks,
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        Lock icon Shanghai predicts 9-10% growth
        56 9 AFP [SHANGHAI] Shanghai Mayor Chen Liangyu yesterday forecast economic growth of 9.0 to 10 per cent this year for the city. Speaking at the opening of the city's 12th People's Congress of the Communist Party, Mr Chen said Shanghai's per capita GDP would pass the US$5,OOO
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      Lock icon Oil hits two-year highs on war fears; gold plunges
      794 10 COMMODITY Weeklyßxmndup AFP (LONDON] Oil prices rode up to their highest level in more than two years last week as a key report by chief UN weapons inspectors did little to lift the war clouds hanging over Baghdad. World commodity markets
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      Lock icon US plans to set final tests for Saddam
      654 11 WASHINGTON It will also present UN resolution this week threatening Iraq with 'serions consequences' SEEKING better proof that Iraq continues to defy UN weapons inspectors, the US administration plans a set of final specific tests over the next two weeks of Saddam
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      Lock icon Osama vows more attacks on US: report
      186 11 DUBAI Reuters A SAUDI-OWNED newspaper published yesterday excerpts of what it said was a new audio recording by Osama bin Laden, in which he vowed to wage more attacks against American targets throughout the world. In the recording, which was obtained by the
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      Lock icon IMF chief sees no world recession from Iraq war
      246 11 FRANKFURT Reuters INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund believes that the world economy will not fall into recession as a result of a war in Iraq, head of the fund Horst Koehler said. He told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in an interview that world
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      Lock icon Yawning gap over agriculture at WTO talks
      585 13  -  But talks still on track for completion by 2005, say ministers From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THREE days of talks among ministers from 22 countries ended yesterday in Tokyo with what Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi admitted are "enormous differences" among nations on
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      Lock icon Deloitte names US unit's Parrett as global CEO
      303 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Deloitte Touche Tohmat su, the world's second largest accounting firm, has nominated William Parrett, from its US unit, as its global chief executive officer. Mr Parrett managing partner of Deloitte Touche LLP, the company's US unit, and Deloitte's Americas
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      Lock icon Citigroup bonuses down by 50%
      455 14 NEW YORK Large portion of investment bankers' bonuses paid in stock Bloomberg, Reuters CITIGROUP Inc cut investment bankers' annual bonuses for last year by as much as 50 per cent, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the hardest hit by the decision were
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  • CHINA focus
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      Lock icon China still a threat to Asean: JP Morgan
      831 12  -  But arising China also provides positive economic spinoffs for Asia By Chuang Peck Ming THE debate on the impact of a rising China on Asian economies has continued and the latest to join in is JP Morgan Chase. The US investment bank
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      Lock icon Coming to grips with foreign competition
      636 12 Chinese state banks wont be pushovers, says Loh Hoi Tin WE have all heard how lumbering the four Chinese state banks are. And how their non-performing loans nobody has an accurate figure on them are a potential ticking time-bomb. Latest figures say the non
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    Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMENDATIONS
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      305 14 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD i(lonee 4 Impressive dogs are in fashAUKUbO /gv 1 Taking a chance, hide in the 5 He'll cheat the German out of apparatus (7) a nS e (5) 5 Row following last month s 6 over news of drverfailure (7) sion (9) 9 Bar even reformedcharac- 7 t
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      780 15  -  |:ll exclusive! Gartner data shows that three of four new mobile phone connections are prepaid. But there's a revenue downside, Tang Weng Pal learns Tang Weng Fai FUTURE mobile subscriber growth in the Asia-Pacific will be increasingly fuelled by the prepaid cellular phone
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        Lock icon 800,000 cash-cards to expire by June
        67 15 NETS says as many as 800,000 cash-cards are due to expire by June 1, and is encouraging cash-card users to check their card's expiry date. "More than 137,000 cash-card users have checked their card's expiry dates since Nov 1 via three methods at the
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        Lock icon Informatics tie-up with Oracle
        41 15 INFORMATICS Holdings Philippines said it had tied up with Oracle Philippines to become its workforce development programme partner. "As a WDP partner, Informatics will deliver Oracle training as part of its certificate and non-degree programmes," Informatics said.
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        42 15 NOVELL Corp has appointed Andy C L Woo as managing director of Novell Asean. Dr Woo will be based in Malaysia, but has responsibility for Singapore as well. He was previously managing director for Novell Asean North.
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        28 15 STARHUB has appointed Kaizad Heerjee as vice-president of corporate business. Dr Heerjee was previously the assistant chief executive of Infoeomm Development Authority of Singapore.
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        68 15 Ml customers as well as others can now enjoy free wireless broadband Internet access until March 31 from select locations while Ml trials SunSurf. its wireless broadband service. It offers connect speeds of up to 512 kbps and users can log on to the Internet
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        61 15 MASTERCARD said it issued double the number of smart cards in the Asia-Pacific last year over 2001. "From 3.8 million smart cards in the region in 2001. the number grew to more than 8 million by end-2002." MasterCard said. "The Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing
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        53 15 PHILIPS said its PIC (Philips Innovation Campus) in Singapore won five awards in DVDs, LCD TVs and others for developing cutting edge products at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. "Overall, we won 19 awards, the most for any brand represented at CES
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        39 15  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury A TWO-DAY workshop and conference titled "Blue Sheep Gaming" will be held from March 6 at the Grand Plaza Park Royal hotel. It is organised by Asia Events. For details, fax *****808.
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      Lock icon Asia's 1st Microsoftpowered handphone to be launched soon
      216 15 AFP [MANILA] Top Philippine mobile phone operator Smart Communications has unveiled plans to launch Asia's first Microsoft-pow-ered cellular phone, aiming to capitalise on its mass text-messaging subscriber base. With 90 per cent of Inter-net-linked personal computers driven by Microsoft's Windows software, Smart
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      Lock icon Why robotics should be S'pore's next frontier
      774 16  -  INFOTECH Singapore can Jump ahead in designing robots for the world market. What's needed now is the hunger and the killer Instinct to succeed raju chellam IN September last year, Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Alpha Centre Robotics Lab showcased its robot at the Asia-Pacific
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      629 16  -  It will also be the main business centre looking after the Asia-Pacific By< Amit Roy Choudhury i tu Singapore Asia-racuu: Development Centre, opened last week by Indian software company i-flex solutions, will act as its biggest contingency backup centre, chairman and
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      Lock icon AMD launches new processor
      278 16  -  By, Amit Roy Choudhury AMD last week launched the AMD Athlon XP processor 3000+ in Singapore to coincide with the worldwide launch. The processor features increased cache memory for enhanced performance and, according to the company, it outperforms competing desktop PC processors by up to 17
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      486 16  -  By Elgin Toh LOCAL software company E-Book Systems aims to double its revenue by the end of the current fiscal year and become profitable for the first time by December 2003, E-Book CEO Richard Wan told BizlT last week. The firm intends
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        85 16 CREATIVE Technology is shipping what it claims is "the only THX certified consumer sound card capable of six-channel DVD-audio quality 24-bit recording at 96 kHz". Called the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX, it includes the Audigy 2 External Module which connects to three analogue
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        79 16 HEWLETT-PACKARD has introduced two new DVD writers that it says are capable of writing an entire DVD, up to 4.7 GB of storage capacity, in as little as 15 minutes using a write-speed of up to 4x. Both drives support direct-to-DVD recording from a digital camcorder.
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        64 16 BENQ has launched its fastest CD-rewriter so far. The CRW 5224P offers 52x write speed, 24x re-write speed, and 52x read speed. "It enables users to burn an 80-minute media in less than three minutes under optimal conditions, while maintaining performance and excellent quality using Seamless Link
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        68 16 OLYMPUS Singapore has launched its new Mju 300 Digital camera. The $699 device comes with a chip that delivers 3.2 megapixel resolution, 3x optical zoom, 1.5-inch 134,000 pixel LCD monitor, and a 16 MB xD picture card for storage. It offers "a range of automatic functions,
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        75 16 IBM Singapore has announced a new ThinkPad R4O notebook series running on Intel's Celeron and Pentium processors. They offer wireless features and three variations of IBM's red-button Track Point cursor-control. Some models offer wireless access based on the 802.11b Cisco Aironet. Prices start at $1,899
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        69 16  -  Compiled by] Raju Chellam MOTOROLA has launched its new GPRS-enabled mobile phone, the C 350, the first of eight new models the company plans to launch this year. The phone is set up for access to the company's MyMobileSoft website which lets users personalise their phone
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      745 17 Sony's console leaps ahead on wider choice of hit games NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Xbox, the video game console that Microsoft introduced nearly 14 months ago, is technologically sophisticated and, by many accounts, the best way to play games against competitors over the Internet.
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      175 17 Bloomberg [SAN JOSE, California] Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, filed a lawsuit that claims unnamed users accessed its computer servers and "harvested" a list of Hotmail e-mail addresses to send spam. Microsoft alleges unidentified users trespassed into Microsoft's servers in Mountain
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      305 17 Fortune 1000 companies to get it this week Reuters [LOS ANGELES] The US movie and music industries last Thursday said they had published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and planned to distribute it to Fortune 1000 companies.
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      214 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ALTHOUGH purchasing interest continues and there seem to be many inspections under way, only limited sales are coming to light. BULK CARRIERSi Hyundai Giant: 259,296 tdw bit 2/85 Hyundai HI reported sold region U5514,500,000 to clients of Neu Schiffs. Guardian Angel: 28,457 tdw
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      232 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Insurers covering commercial ships against liability claims had their outlook changed to negative by Standard Poor's on concern that the industry will lose money for a fourth year. The lowering of the sector's outlook may lead to downgrades for insurers in
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      400 19 That's suggestion of govt-appointed science experts AFP [MADRID] Experts appointed by the Spanish government on Friday said that remaining fuel oil in the sunken tanker Prestige should be pumped out if possible, Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared on Friday. "The
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      510 19  -  3.65 m cgt of newbuilds comprise over 50% of all tanker orders for whole year By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Fears of an early phase-out of singlehulled tankers and low newbuilding prices resulted in a surge of tanker orders during the
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      813 19  -  Despite the downturn, shipbuilding is still going strong says the organiser of Asian Shipping/Work Boat World Asia. Boh Job Ting finds out what the future holds for hot areas such as container shipping and patrol boats Koh Joh Ting [SINGAPORE] Bigger and better that's how the Work Boat
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        620 20  -  XJMER SCENE I -By David Hughes TRADES within Asia now account for over a quarter of world containerised shipping. That fact has big implications for this region. UK-based consultant Drewry puts intra-Asian container annual throughput at about 18 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent
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        588 27 Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/CONVENTIONAL CONTAINER TERMINAL HMS PREMIUM 02/2003 J24 A/SIDE 17/02 1500 MEG AH SATU 006 J24/25 A/SIDE 17/02 1800 WORLDSTAR 9 J7 A/SIDE 17/02 1800 AULIA SERAYA 04/03 J8 17/02 0930 17/02 2100 BAYSWATER228 M3036 J3 17/02 0815 17/02 1645 BT FA
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        2017 27 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACHIEVER 680 680 1 1702/2003 100<]I *****003 ***** K1S ACX MAGNOUA 060S 060S J_ 1802/*****800 *****003 1800 ACX RAFFLES 074N 074N 1_ 1&OM003 2300 *****003-0900 TQ2 AEGEAN EXP 30N 30N
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        131 27 Feb 22 Philippines: EDSA Revolutior Day. Mar 24 Brunei: National Day Marl Korea: Independence Day Mar 3 Australia: Labour Day Bulgaria: National Day Luxemburg: Carnival Mar 4 Malaysia: Awal Muharram Indonesia: Moslem New Year Day Portugal: Cam i val Mar 5 Brunei: Hijriah Mar 8 Belarus: Women's Day
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        770 27 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 average sized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        Lock icon MasKargo eyes 50,000 tonnes sea-air transhipment
        432 28 It'll explore markets like India, My&nmar, China, Thailand and Dubai Bernama [SEPANG] MasKargo, Malaysia Airlines' air cargo division, is targetting to hit 50,000 tonnes of sea-air transhipment by the end of this year, said its senior general manager JJ Ong. To achieve this target,
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        356 28 Law extended as part of U*****.4b spending bill passed Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] American Airlines, United Airlines and rivals must fly passengers of defunct carriers for a US$25 charge each way until Feb 19 of next year under a spending bill approved by Congress.
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        Lock icon 2 Saudi pilots barred from flying in US
        163 28 AFP [WASHINGTON] The US government has quietly barred two Saudi Arabian Airlines pilots from flying in the United States on the grounds that they "pose a security threat", The Wall Street Journal reported. The report said the case was the first test
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        282 28 AFP [BEIJING] China's national carrier. Air China, has suspended flights to Kuwait, citing concerns over mounting tension in the Gulf region, airline employees and state media said yesterday. "We are no longer selling tickets for flights from Beijing to Kuwait," said
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        Lock icon New Delhi, Bombay airports to be upgraded
        217 28 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India will push ahead with plans to build a new international airport terminal in New Delhi and a new domestic terminal in Bombay to raise their facilities to world standards, an official said. The state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI)
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        454 28 Net income of As343m expected, up from Asls3m a year ago Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia's largest airline, will probably report that its first-half profit doubled to a record because it attracted more US passengers after the bankruptcy of UAL Corp's
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        130 28 Oana-Xinhua [CHONGQING] Construction has been completed on the main buildings of the Wuqiao Airport, the first airport at Three Gorges, the site of a massive on-going hydroelectric project. The airport, which includes a passenger terminal, telecommunications facilities and navigation and other related facilities, is expected to
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      61 19 Great [MSjppM potential pwwilwM seen in |g|jjM|||||a intra-Asian I box trades UNEB SCENE, PAGE 2 HAM 401 CINftAPORF i ship and boat builders engine/propulsion system manufacturers tVI/Wni JI,IWH Vl%t j COUNTLESS MARINE EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE SUPPLIERS A 18-20,2003 BUT WITH SO MUCH TO SEE, ONE VISIT SURELY WONT BE ENOUGH.
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