The Business Times, 15 April 2003

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    17 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE J -rit >ir -*r .com.sg TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2003
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    Lock icon Analysts warn of 2-month window for Asian airlines
    1021 1  -  Dire consequences for battered airlines if S&rs is not contained soon By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The prospects for the Asian airline industry are dire if the killer Sars epidemic is not quickly brought under control within the next two months. This seems
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    Lock icon Sars struck
    149 1 AP Photo Cut capacity by 42%; losing US$3m a day; looking at grounding entire passenger fleet if things get worse. Cut capacity by 20%; put off plans to acquire new planes; released cabin crew trainees; looking at staff layoffs. Cancelled 68 flights weekly up to end-June to Sars-affected
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    Lock icon KL tells state firms to get its approval before job cuts
    314 1  -  Layoffs due to Sars, Iraq war could hit many: Abdullah From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur STATE-OWNED Malaysian companies must seek government permission before cutting jobs as a means of dealing with the effects of the Sars outbreak
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    Lock icon Top 4 UOB directors pulled in $12.7m last year, up 9.5%
    646 1  -  Byi Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank gave its four executive directors a pay rise of 9.5 per cent to $12.7 million for 2002 the year that Singapore's most profitable bank reported a net profit increase of 15.1
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    Lock icon MARKETS
    71 1 STI 1,282.87 (-18.15) 8T INDEX FUTURES 1,284.00 (-14.00) BHMBCI FUTURES 187.90 (-1.50) Monday Change KLSECOMP 624.21 -5.48 NIKKEI 225 7.752.10 .-64,39 HANG SENG 8.533.55 112.10 SET INDEX closed JAKARTA COMP ***** 4 60 MANILA COMP .1.***** +11.10 TAIPEI WPI 4,***** 70.59 SEOL'L COMP 594.40 +1143 SHENZHEN B 224.57 +7.33
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US$ 8$ ISS (SS per l'SS| 1.781 £(1'SS/S$ per S) 1.576 2.807 El'RO(rs$/S$/E). 1.074 1.913 YEN 120.6 67 80 RM 3.800 2.134 HKS 7.799 4.380 BAHT 42.94 24.11 RITIAH 8,860 4.976 RENMINBI 8299 4.661 INDIAN Rl'PEE 47 33 2658 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 KUALA LUMPUR 6.4(1 HONGKONG
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      Lock icon Bank didn't break China's laws, S'pore court rules
      551 2  -  Case is first in S'pore to cite China's forex laws in defence Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] In one of the first, if not the first, court cases in Singapore involving illegality under China's foreign exchange control laws, the High Court has ruled
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon The next big thing
        64 2 AMID all the debate about ageing populations and health care, here's something to think about: more money is being spent on breast implants and Viagra than Alzheimer's research. This means according to some wit that by 2020, there should be a large, elderly population with perky
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        Lock icon A patent plot for profits
        186 2 AS we start a new tax year, here's a reminder of how a past government raised money. The government of James I sometimes granted "patents" to individuals to provide services it could not afford. These individuals paid a fee to the government, then recovered this
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        Lock icon Not like Swensen's 'Earthquake'
        24 2 SPOTTED at Serangoon Gardens' Killiney Kopitiam: An ice-cream concoction called "Bali bomb blast". Sounds like the essence of bad taste.
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        Lock icon Warning for the war rally
        117 2 HERE'S what veteran stock trader Robert Prechter has to say in his Mar 20 Elliott Wave Theorist newsletter about Wall Street's war rally. "The technical aspects of the rally are exceedingly weak. Put-call ratios are low. breadth is narrow, news has given people an excuse
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      Lock icon UCL: Press reports of breaches 'premature'
      611 2  -  BIOETHICS SCAMDAL 3 UK institutions to hold joint inquiry into the allegations Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE) The University College of London (UCL) has cast a sceptical eye on allegations that Professor Simon Shorvon breached ethical guidelines in a Singapore research project, saying that press
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      Lock icon 14-day home quarantine for recovered Sars patients
      527 2  -  SABS OUTBREAK MOH adopts WHO's cautions approach to prevent relapse By, Andrea Tan and Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] From today, recovered Sars patients will have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days after their discharge from Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). The Ministry of
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      176 2 Courage Fund If you want to help Sars victims, their families and health-care workers taking care of them, donate to the Courage Fund. Launched on Friday, the fund is named in honour of healthcare workers here, especially those who have suffered or fallen in the battle against Sars. HOW TO
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon 0.1% commission for OCBC's investment account
      805 3  -  Sate for online trades for those with Giro link and trade more than 10 times a month By Genevieve Cua IN a bid to revive flagging retail interest in the stock market, OCBC Securities yesterday launched a new investment account with commission of just
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      Lock icon SGX signs up first off-site futures trader
      254 3  -  Japan's Ok&toShoji Go takes np remote non-clearing membership Byi Angela Tan THE Singapore Exchange (SGX), which has been trying to encourage greater overseas participation in its derivatives products for more than two years, has secured Japan's Okato Shoji Co as its first SGX
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      Lock icon Auston Int'l offers 12m shares at 28C each
      274 3  -  By) Kenneth Lim AUSTON International Group yesterday joined the fray of education providers trying to make the grade on the local bourse with its initial public offer of 12 million shares at 28 cents apiece. The Panpac Media Group subsidiary in its
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      Lock icon Strike buys majority stake in Mid-Con
      272 3  -  By. Andrea Tan IN a share swap deal. Strike Engineering will take a 54.35 per cent stake in Ipco's subsidiary Mid-Conti-nent Equipment Group while Ipco will end up with a 16 per cent stake in Strike. Strike Engineering said it will pay $14.4 million
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon SingTel shares make headway
        89 5 WHILE the overall market was battered, Singapore Telecom shares continued to put up a good show yesterday. With 13.6 million shares changing hands, the telco's stock closed another three cents higher at 551.45, even as the wider Straits Times Index lost 1.4 per cent or 18.15
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        Lock icon Digiland wins new distributorship
        62 5 EMERSON Network Power, a subsidiary of US-based Emerson Electric Company, yesterday appointed mainboard-listed Digiland International as the main distributor for its Uninterruptible Power System products for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. The value of the distributorship rights is US$4.B million. Digiland said it
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        Lock icon BIL's bid for Thistle gets nod
        61 5 BIL International's shareholders have approved the local investment firm's bid to buy the 54 per cent of the UK's Thistle Hotels group that it does not already own. BIL has offered to buy the stock for 115 pence (553.23) a share—an offer Thistle is
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        Lock icon Sats' March handling volume drops
        63 5 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats) handled fewer passengers and cargo in March because of the Iraq war and Sars. The unit of Singapore Airlines handled 1.89 million passengers last month, a 9.8 per cent decline from the year before. It handled 126,520 tonnes of
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        Lock icon UOB charge on 17% of Freight links
        77 5 FREIGHT Links Express Holdings said its creditor United Overseas Bank has a charge on 91.5 million of its shares, representing about 17 per cent of the firm's existing issued and paid-up share capital The announcement was made to clarify the bank's position in
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        Lock icon Singamas sells shares for US$l7m
        40 5 Bloomberg SINGAMAS Container Holdings, which is listed in Singapore and Hong Kong, raised US$l7 million selling new shares at HKS2.IS each to Asian and European investors, a banker said. Its shares were suspended yesterday afternoon—Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Telstra, PCCW help with Reach loans
        92 5 Bloomberg PHONE companies Telstra Corp and PCCW helped their unit Reach Ltd repay a fifth of a US$l.5 billion loan with an advance for using the latter's undersea cable network, meeting demands from creditors concerned it may not meet debt obligations. Australia's Telstra and
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      Lock icon Wing Tai sells condo block for $54.4m
      523 5  -  It will lease back Tessarina units from IP Property Fond for 3 years By. Kalpana Rashiwala WING Tai Holdings said yesterday it has sold a block of 58 freehold apartments at The Tessarina condo in Bukit Timah to IP Property Fund Asia for
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      Lock icon Cutting research teams will backfire
      690 5  -  WVW4 lock siew wong wei kong STOCKBROKING houses and banks are cutting their research teams to shave costs, but they could be shooting themselves in the foot. The past few weeks have produced more casualties on the research front. At DBS Vickers Securities, three senior
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      326 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 14 VALUE CLOSE BTOMDS 7.00 +51.00 BTCMM -*****.00 >120.00 BTMMtay MA +1.QQ AS-SGEqmMM 345.78 -3.78 SG Equities Ehct 117.44 -0.91 SG EqwtmFte 1093.19 -18.21 SG EqaitiM Prop ***** -3.95 MSCHtegporo 157.37 -2.16 SMISa Faturvs 157.90 -1.50 Stocks Volume Mediastream 5c 18,857,000 Chart SemlCond 26c 15.888,000 •StafCnjises
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      Lock icon DBS close to becoming value play despite current woes?
      250 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT Ven Sreenivasan THE Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) has severely hit market sentiment, sending key blue chips reeling. Some have fallen below both their fair values and net book values for the first time in two years. DBS
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      Lock icon Sars sends stocks to 2-weeks laws
      649 4  -  l i comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE local market started the week on a lacklustre note yesterday as investors contemplated the regional economic impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). With analysts beginning to come up with calculations on the potentially devastating fallout from
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      Lock icon US$, Wall Street falter despite strong numbers
      582 4  -  -I i comment CURRENCIES C$ emerges as new favourite; yen hurt by Nikkei's 20-year low larry wee THE Canadian dollar emerged as the week's top gainer, the Nikkei's 20-year low yesterday hit the Japanese yen, and the US dollar didn't exactly shine despite
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    3083 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Lifestyle Index Fd 0826* Com Global Health Index Fd 0 781/ Com Global Telecom Index Fd._ 0.393/ St* Europe Eorv 058/ Com Global Infotec Index Fd!" 0262/ VS5 Com Global Energy Index Fd 0796/ Star SgS 1*1 0*07/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0614/ Com S
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      71 5 ~~w m wm WW fS I jgQnO ond Qll« f Wellness International Salutes The Red Cross Recognise the efforts of your secretaries and personal assistants during Secretaries' Week. And contribute towards the Red Cross humanitarian work in Iraq. SINGAPORE Visit www.wellness-i.com for unique gift ideas. I THE I UNPANIC KS
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon March NODX seen up 11.3% as Sars, war impact sets in
      556 6  -  Economists do not expect Ql's 17.6% growth to be repeated in Q2 3on the economy exports Byi Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S exports in March escaped the full force of the Sars attack and Gulf War 11, but their growth
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      Lock icon Feb retail sales seen growing 6% on car purchases
      372 6 Reuters AIDED by car purchases, retail sales in Singapore probably grew 6 per cent during the 12 months to February, but analysts warn that the worse is to come as the full effect of the Sars virus hit the economy. The
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      Lock icon The big business of international lifesaving
      654 6  -  Int'l SOS services span emergency evacuation to travel advice, says Michelle Quali Michelle Quah IMAGINE. You break your leg on an ice-covered mountain. Or you suffer a heart attack on a remote island? Or you need an urgent operation but you're in a hill
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      Lock icon ING cuts S'pore GDP forecast to 2% for this year
      507 6  -  Sars a more serious threat to region's economies than Iraq war, it says By Anna Teo IF tourism receipts fall by half because of the Sars scare and there's a 100 per cent knock-on effect on consumer spending, Singapore's 2003
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    • NEWSRoundup
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        Lock icon Top achievers sought for award
        64 6 SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Chartered Management Institute are looking for "outstanding candidates" for the International Management Action Award for 2003. This is the fourth year of the awards, and nominations close on May 30. Hie awards recognise individuals who have "demonstrated exceptional ability in
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        Lock icon New resale agreement for HDB flats
        71 6 The Housing and Development Board (HDB) has reiterated that from today, buyers and sellers of resale flats have to use an Option to Purchase instead of the existing Sale and Purchase Agreement as the form of contract for resale transactions. HDB said those who
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        Lock icon HDB cuts interest rate to 3.5%
        64 6 HDB said its market interest rate will be lowered to 3.5 per cent from 3.75 per cent from May 1. HDB's market interest rate is pegged to the rate that DBS Bank charges mortgagers on loans taken from the former Credit POSB. DBS Bank
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  • Focus property
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      Lock icon Biting the Sars bullet – the reality for retailers
      643 7  - Biting the Sars bullet the reality for retailers i l comment PROPERTY With drastically lower tourist arrivals, many retailers here may not weather the crisis lee han shih BY the time the Sars dust settles, two out of every 10 shops in Singapore could have closed their doors. A month
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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        Lock icon Riyadh bars visitors from 5 nations
        69 8 AFP [RIYADH] Saudi Arabia has barred entry to nationals of five Asian countries as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of Sars, the health ministry said yesterday. "Based on instructions from higher authorities, the health ministry asks authorities at the kingdom's international airports
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        Lock icon Two more probable cases in M`sia
        48 8 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia identified two more "probable" Sars cases, bringing the total number since the outbreak to four. It also identified eight more people who are suspected of having Sars, Ismail Merican, deputy director-general of the health ministry, told reporters. —Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Howard's remarks `insensitive'
        136 8 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian Prime Minister John Howard faced an opposition attack yesterday for saying the deadly Asian pneumonia virus could be a "boon" for domestic tourism as Australians opted to spend their holidays at home. Mr Howard said fewer people were travelling overseas due to fears about
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        Lock icon HK teloo offers Sars data service
        61 8 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong mobile phone company Sunday Communications is launching a service that lets customers know which nearby buildings have housed Sars virus carriers. "With the dial of a few digits, subscribers can quickly get the peace of mind they need to
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      Lock icon S'poreans in China watch health but are staying put
      742 8  -  They a void crowded areas, use tele-conferencing By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] The Xintiandi entertainment strip in Shanghai is still the happening place in the city, but Singaporeans who live there are giving it and other crowded places a wide berth
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      Lock icon Test for virus hits market as researchers race to find vaccine
      671 8 Vaccine against Sars may be foond within weeks; 7 more deaths in HK AFP Reuters AP Bloomberg [ROME/BERLIN] In a major breakthrough, a twohour test to help detect the Sars virus is now commercially available, while a vaccine against
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      Lock icon Sars virus appears to have mutated: HK expert
      262 8 AP [HONG KONG] The virus believed to be causing the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has mutated, an expert fears. Biochemist Stephen Tsui of the Chinese University of Hong Kong said he observed that patients at the Prince of Wales Hospital, which was
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  • REBUILDING IRAQ
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      Lock icon Focus turns to reconstructing Iraqi economy
      650 9 Optimists hope to make it a showpiece of First World economic policy LATWP NYT [WASHINGTON] The transformation of Iraq's economy has already begun. In the Gulf port of Umm Qasr, local dockworkers are now paid in US dollars instead of "Saddam" dinars. And it
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      Lock icon End-game for Saddam Hussein in Tikrit
      492 9 But Marines still fear militia's hit-and-ran attacks AFP Reuters AP [TIKRIT, Iraq] It looks pretty much like end-game for Saddam Hussein, as US Marines yesterday swooped on the Iraqi president's hometown of Tikrit and seized control of the town centre. There, the much-hyped last
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      Lock icon US, UK have 'no plans to invade Syria'
      383 9 Britain concerned Syria is developing lethal weapons AP Bloomberg AFP [DAMASCUS, Syria] Washington and London have no plans to invade Syria, top British officials said yesterday, adding however, that Damascus has "important questions" to answer about its own weapons programmes. "There is
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        Lock icon Japan eyes key roi© in poot-war Iraq
        68 9 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan will play a "signincanr roie in paying for efforts to rebuild Infrastructure in Iraq, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hitoahl Tanaka, but he did not specify how much Japan will contribute. Media reports have singled out the energy industry
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        Lock icon Oil slips on talk of Iraqi exports
        97 9 AP Reuters [SINGAPORE] Oil prices started the week one per cent lower yesterday, weighing up the prospect of a return of Iraqi crude exports to the world market US light crude fell 37 US cents to U5527.77 a barrel while Brent crude fell
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        Lock icon KL hopes to keep Baghdad trade ties
        78 9 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian companies will not bid for development contracts in post-war Iraq, said International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz. "We don't want to think about it as it has been reported that the con tracts to develop Iraq will go
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        Lock icon Chalabi for Indian-style democracy
        81 9 AFP Reuters [NEW DELHI] Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi has called for Indian-style democracy as a model for government in post-war Iraq. "Democracy in India is a marvel of civilisation. We hope in some respects to have a political system similar to India," he said.
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  • EDITORIAL & opininon
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      Lock icon Er, so what happened to the WMD?
      781 10  -  OPINION HiTrl bottom line john gee MILLIONS of Iraqis are celebrating the end of Saddam Hussein's regime: whatever they think of the United States and Britain, they are glad to see its collapse. The cost remains to be counted, though. At the height
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      60 10 The epidemic has been put under control.' Zhang Wenkang China's health minister, speaking in early April about Sars in China. 'Much progress has been made in combating the disease so far, with the epidemic brought under control in some areas, but the overall situation remains grave.' -Wen
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      Lock icon Why equities still don't appeal
      609 10 EDITORIAL JUST before the United States launched its war on Iraq, analysts were busy drawing up what became commonly known as "war scenarios". These scenarios attempted to portray various outcomes of the US-led campaign, and their possible impact on financial markets in particular, the equity
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      Lock icon The daunting challenge of structural unemployment
      1631 10  -  There are lessons Singapore most draw from the European experience of the 1970s in terms of 'aspiration' wage versus 'affordable' wage By\ Hoon Hian Teck ALTHOUGH Singapore's unemployment rate hit 6.5 per cent in 1986 during the country's worst recession since independence, the following
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      Lock icon Panel seeks to strike delicate balance
      500 10  -  MAILrET?! Richard Magnus Chairman Human Stem Cell Research Subcommittee Bioethics Advisory Committee I REFER to the commentary "Is Singapore's zeal sending wrong signal?" (BT, April 8). The commentary stated that "Singapore doesn't exactly have a climate and culture of high respect for the sanctity
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Iraq war delaying theme park talks: Renong
      402 11 KUALA LUMPUR Discussions to resume shortly; letter of intent expires in Jnne Bloomberg Reuters RENONG Bhd said talks with Vivendi Universal SA on developing South-east Asia's first Universal Studios theme park are taking longer than expected because of the Iraq war. "Discussions have
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        Lock icon Bashir charged with treason
        53 11 Bloomberg IJAKARTAJ Indonesia yesterday filed charges against Muslim cleric and terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir, alleging treason and violating immigration rules, said Antasari Azhar, spokesman from the Attorney General's Office. The trial is expected to begin as early as the end of this month, Bashir's lawyer
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        Lock icon Anwar starts jail term for sodomy
        82 11 Bernoma [KUALA LUMPUR] Anwar Ibrahim, who completed serving six years' jail sentence for corruption yesterday, started his nine-year jail term for sodomising Azizan Abu Bakar, the former driver of his family, in 1993. Anwar's lawyer S N Nair said it was regrettable the Court
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        Lock icon China's economy grows 9.9% in Q1
        72 11 AFP [BEIJING] China's economy grew 9.9 per cent from a year ago in the first quarter, the country's highest growth rate in six years, state press reported yesterday. China's industrial output rose 17.2 per cent for the same period, the Economic Observer said, citing
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        Lock icon Indian truckers on indefinite strike
        67 11 AFP [NEW DELHI] Hundreds of thousands of trucks carrying essential goods across India went off the roads early yesterday in response to a nationwide call for an indefinite strike over price hikes and taxes, reports said. The strike was called by the All India Motor
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      Lock icon Sars may hit Indonesia's growth: IMF
      120 11 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's economic growth this year may fall short of the International Monetary Fund's 3.5 per cent forecast because of the spread of the deadly Sars virus and weakening consumer confidence, the fund's country director said. The virus outbreak's "implications for the economy
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      Lock icon Bank Mandiri offers US$300m bonds
      435 11  -  Issue will test investors' appetite for corporate paper From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S Bank Mandi ri yesterday announced a US$3OO million offering of senior unsecured fixed rate bonds in a move that will test the rising investor appetite for Indonesian corporate paper. According to
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      Lock icon Chinese businessmen rely on favours to survive
      527 12 BEIJING Bering still has no laws to protect private property Bloomberg TWO years ago, Yang Rong was Forbes magazine's third richest man in China. The founder of China's first company to list in New York, he had an estimated US$B4O million fortune. Now,
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      Lock icon Foreign direct investment into China up 57%
      251 12 Bloomberg [BElJlNG] Foreign direct investment into China surged in the first quarter as multinational corporations such as Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Carrefour set up ventures in the world's most populous country. Foreign direct investment rose 57 per cent from a year earlier
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        56 13 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] AOL Time Warner Inc, the world's largest media company, has been sued by The University of California and Amalgamated Bank for insider trading. Some of its top managers made about US$9B6 million using "tricks, contrivances and bogus transactions", said the lawsuit, filed
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        73 13 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] John Fairfax Holdings Ltd will pay NZ$l.l9 billion (551.16 billion) for Independent Newspapers Ltd's New Zealand publishing arm in a move that will boost sales about 40 per cent and overcome a government ban on expanding in Australia. The publisher of the Sydney
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        48 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Consulting firm Accenture Ltd yesterday said quarterly earnings rose sharply from a year earlier, when it recorded large investment losses. Net income for the fiscal second quarter ended Feb 28 rose to US$llB.7 mUlion from US$lO.6 million a year earlier.—Reuters
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        81 13 Bloomberg [CLINTON, Mississippi] US long-distance telephone company World Com Inc said it has reached an accord with creditors to help emerge from the country's biggest bankruptcy. The company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in July with US$3O billion of debt, has outlined a reorganisation proposal with
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        83 13 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] HSBC Holdings pic and GE Capital Corp have agreed to buy As2.B billion (Ss3 billion) of loans in Australia and New Zealand from AMP Ltd. HSBC said it will pay NZ$27 million (5526.2 million) for AMFs New Zealand mortgage loan portfolio, which
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      537 13 NEW YORK They benefit from increased consumer borrowing, decline in loan losses Bloomberg Reuters CITIGROUP Inc and Bank of America Corp (BOA), the two biggest US banks by market value, reported higher first-quarter earnings as lending increased and loan losses declined. Citigroup's profits rose
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      339 13 LATEST US INDICATORS AP [WASHINGTON] Stockpiles of unsold goods at US businesses rose in February as sales tumbled amid pre-Iraq war jitters. The Commerce Department said yesterday that business inventories went up by 0.6 per cent in February, compared with a 0.3 per
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      401 14 PfttrrimmH wnrin Iraq, Sars seen adding up to lacklustre quarter Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Electronics manufacturers, already reeling from low margins and fierce competition, are expected to post weak March-quarter results In the coming days and could offer disappointing outlooks clouded by uncertainty,
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      1413 16  -  Emotional engagement is key to retaining customers, says Ashok Gop&l Ashok Gopal A RECENT Conference Board survey shows that the single biggest concern for CEOs globally today is retaining their existing customer base. Not surprising in a world where the CEO of one of the United
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      564 16 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER Of AIRVAC SERVICES (S) PTE LTD (Rogitfrotion No. *****337&£) (PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATORS APPOINTED) NOTICE Of MEETING Of CREDITORS PURSUANT TO SECTION 296 Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN ihoi pursuont to Sec*on 296 of
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      337 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 90 BUHLER PRIVATE LIMITED MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company deemed to be held at 10 Collyer Quay #19-08 Ocean Building, Singapore *****5 on 10 April 2003. the following resolutions were duly passed: 1. SPECIAL RESOLUTION WINDING-UP
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      262 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 18 points to 2069, the Baltic Capes ize Index rose 7 points to 2718, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 37 points to 2072 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 75 points to *****. TIXE-CHARTERi Cape Century AEP relet (built 2001) *****3 dwt
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      266 17 MX tOO A/rU tt *f- VH CWT Distribution 0.50 -0.02 4 Chum Hup 039 0.01 1162 CH Offshora 0.19 unch 232 Cosco invostmont —031 unch 114 Frataht Llnkt 0.03 unch 55 68 Holdings 0.56 unch 0 J aya Holdings 032 -0.01 2511 KoppolCorp 432 -0.04 2550 K1 Vtntur*
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      242 17 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co, the world's sec-ond-largest shipbuilder, expects to win more than US$3 billion worth of orders this year, helped by growing demand for safer oil tankers. Earlier this year, Daewoo Shipbuilding targeted shipbuilding and other orders to reach US$2.B3
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      Lock icon Pool of doctors willing to board ships for Sars checks
      776 17  -  They support expanding list to answer more calls Reports by Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] A small pool of doctors has committed its services to Singapore's shipping community for onboard severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) screening of passengers and crew, and they
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      256 17 [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has agreed to work with the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) to provide a list of doctors able to conduct onboard Sars-related health screenings, following meetings with the representative group last week. An MPA spokeswoman
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      716 17  -  SnperSt&r Virgo, Leo cruises in region called off doe to S&rs outbreak By Donald Urquhart (SINGAPORE] Malaysianowned Star Cruises has cancelled all itineraries of two of its largest cruise ships operating in the region—each capable of carrying nearly 2,000 passengers due to the ongoing Sars outbreak.
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        987 18 French yard, Europe's biggest, has no new orders since 2001 and no more cruise ships after spring 2004 Reuters [SAINT NAZAIRE, France] PATRICK Boissier gazes at the world's most spectacular ocean liner, half-built in his shipyard, and feels his chest swell with
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        144 23 Apr 15 Thailand: Thai New Year Apr 17 Philippines: Maundy Thursday Apr 18 Australia: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday Indonesia: Good Friday Brazil: Good Friday U.K.: Good Friday Philippines: Good Friday Singapore: Good Friday Apr 19 Hong Kong: Day Following G Fri Australia: Easter Saturday Apr 20
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        771 23 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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        554 24 Govt selling assets to trim budget deficit, improve firms' efficiency Reuters [TAIPEI] A state-controlled foundation that owns 71 per cent of China Airlines Ltd said yesterday it planned to sell half its holdings by the end of this year, ceding control of
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        516 24 Tliis is the first time a major airline group is seeking to jointly buy aircraft Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Scandinavian Airlines System, Austrian Airlines Group and Air Canada, all members of the Star Alliance, plan to order as many as
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        342 24 Bloomberg [FORT WORTH, Texas] American Airlines, the world's biggest carrier, may be prompted to seek bankruptcy protection as a group of pilots who want to delay a union vote on US$66O million in job, pay and benefit cuts. The pilots were
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        296 24 Swiss carrier also denies approaching British Airways AP [ZURICH, Switzerland] Loss-making Swiss International Air Lines, which has been trimming its fleet and cutting back on aircraft orders, has been discussing with Lufthansa a possible takeover by the German carrier, a Swiss newspaper reported. Both airlines
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        312 24 Reuters [MANAMA] Troubled regional carrier Gulf Air plans to double its fleet to 60 aircraft by 2009 but will not consider buying new planes before 2005. Gulf Air president James Hogan said he expected the airline's bookings to pick up
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        100 24 Reuters [ROME] A one-day strike by airline workers and air traffic controllers paralysed Italian airports yesterday, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. Workers at Italian flag carrier Alitalia staged an eight-hour walkout to protest against the company's planned cost-cutting measures. Alitalia cancelled 320 flights,
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