The Business Times, 17 April 2003

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    18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A (P) 024/03/2003 I Internal: hap://business-times.asial .com.sg SIN GAPORE THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2003 85e
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    Lock icon Travel industry acts to ease cash flow crisis
    570 1  -  plFexclusSve] N&t&s' 25 proposals to STB includes deferment of bank loan repayments By) Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] The lack of cash flow is strangling Singapore's travel industry as the Sars outbreak brings it to its knees. To help ease the critical situation,
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    Lock icon Petronas boss in the running for top Iraq oil job: reports
    578 1 Major conp for Malaysia if he is appointed [KUALA LUMPUR] The chief of Malaysia's state oil company may be in the running to manage Iraq's oil industry in the post-Saddam era. Petronas president and chief executive officer Tan Sri
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    71 1 STI 1,292.35 (+0.52) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,290.00 (-1.00) SIMSCI FUTURES ***** (-0.10) Wednesday Change KLSETOMP _6.13.77 *160 NIKKEI 225 7.***** *4066 HANG SENG 8.675.14 *43 04 SFTT INDEX ***** +118 JAKARTA CMP -442.72 +4.99 MANILA CO.MP 1.***** *5.85 TAIPEI WPI 4.609.32 +121 73 SEOILCOMP 621.14 1635 SHENZHEN B 226
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    74 1 FOREX RATES US$ ISS (SS per ISS) 1.779 £(VS$/SS per 1.573 1797 El"RO(lS$/SS/E) 1.084 1.928 YEN 1201 67 60 R.X SHOO 2136 HKS 7.799 UK BAHT 4286 24 10 Rl'PlAH 8.831 4565 RENMINBI 8299 4666 INDIAN RITEE._ 47.35 2662 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 515 Kl'ALA Ll"MPl*R 640 HONG KONG 5
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    Lock icon Aviation sector braces for freight surcharges
    723 1  -  Many Sars-hit carriers have slashed flights, greatly reducing cargo capacity By\ Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Sars-hit aviation sector is bracing few freight surcharges as sweeping flight cuts lead to a massive reduction in cargo capacity throughout Asia. And major carriers that have pared their
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      124 1 SARS REPORTS San relief package to home in on industries hardest hit, Pg 2 Bering's figures may be much higher, Pg 3 Editorial: Inoculating the economy, Pg 10 Star to re-deploy 2 ships to Australia next week, Shipping Times, Pg 1 crowns i, if|j Master Compressor Memovox J Imbued with
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        58 2 WHAT'S the difference between a raisin, a sultana and a currant? According to a reader of the Guardian newspaper "This question brings to mind a popular misconception that the name sultana originally meant the wife of a sultan. This is not strictly true. A sultana is not just
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        Lock icon Sars fails to stop the egg-citement
        69 2 GRITTY Hongkongers are determined to return to a normal life despite the Sars outbreak. Paving the way for this are some developers, who are pressing ahead with property launches this Easter weekend, a traditionally-busy period for home sales, says Smith Barney. Usually ingenious with
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      Lock icon Subsidy for public hospital patients who have to go pte
      591 2  -  SABSOUTBREAK Govt working oat details of plan; five more Sars cases reported By Andrea Tan, Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] Patients who have to move from public hospitals to private ones under a Ministry of Health plan will still receive government subsidy.
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      Lock icon Infineon to unite Asia-Pac operations in new S'pore HQ
      393 2  -  It will double volume of logic chip testing from S'pore By' Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE] German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies yesterday said it will site its new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore to consolidate all its corporate, sales, research, intellectual property and
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      Lock icon Sars relief package to home in on industries hardest hit
      588 2  -  'Quick focus' aid to be annonnced today; companies urged to plan for continuity By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] A "quick-fo-cus" package is on its way to help the economy cope with Sars and the measures will be aimed at those industries
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      Lock icon Citibank-BT effort to help support Sars Courage Fund
      270 2  -  Gall centre set np for donations will be manned by bank staff volunteers By Daniel Baenas [SINGAPORE] Citibank and BT have teamed up to form a "Citibank-The Business Times Sars Fund" to help needy families of Sars patients. Proceeds from the collaboration
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • INBrief
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        Lock icon HK schools reopening from next week
        65 3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong will reopen schools In stages starting next week after a three-week closure aimed at halting the spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). The city will also start taking the body temperatures of outgoing air passengers, and will
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        Lock icon Scientists confirm virus identity
        58 3 AP [LONDON] Scientists have confirmed the identity of the virus which causes Sars, the World Health Organization said yesterday. In experiments conducted at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, scientists infected monkeys with the corona virus suspected of causing Sars and found that the animals developed the
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        Lock icon Univ of HK completes virus sequence
        81 3 Xinhua [HONG KONG] The University of Hohg Kong said yesterday that it has completed the genetic sequencing of corona virus that may have a role in causing Sars. Lennon Tsang, spokesman for the faculty of medicine said his university is the world's third institution
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        Lock icon China moves against price volatility
        112 3 Xinhua [BEIJING] The Chinese government is taking measures to minimise price fluctuations of certain goods in some regions that have been brought about by the spread of Sars. According to a circular issued by the State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC), price changes of medicine,
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        Lock icon Australia restriction for hospitals
        39 3 Reuters [CANBERRA] Australia yesterday banned people returning from Sars-hit areas from going to hospitals for ten days—unless they need essential treatment. Health authorities said most cases of transmission of Sars have taken place in hospitals.—Reuters
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        Lock icon US health staff seek protection
        73 3 Reuters [CHICAGO] US health-care workers, edgy over the contagious Sars, are pushing its regulators to require isolation rooms and otter safeguards to give hospital employees better protection from exposure to infected patients. Health workers want the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to enact a
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      Lock icon Beijing's figures may be much higher
      673 3 City could have as many as 200 probable cases, warns WHO AP, AFP, Reuters, Bernama Bloomberg, [BEIJING] The Chinese capital may have five times as many Sars cases than it has reported, WHO warned yesterday showing the extent of China's underreporting. Even more worrying
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      Lock icon Sars data grips markets as investors track spread of disease
      421 3 Reuters [HONG KONG] Asia has a macabre new economic indicator rattling its markets: the Sars death toll. Brokers, dealers and economists are scouring daily infection numbers, death and recovery rates to assess the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars),
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      297 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 16 VALUE CLOSE gTOBOS 10.00 +21.00 IT CAW -*****.00 +62.00 »rm«m +i.oo 1 MkSC rinnii I 348.33 +0.10 S6E»*k«B«ct 119.53 +1.58 MEmMMWH 1097.07 +0.78 MC«rfH«Prap 302.62 +0.83 HCITIWin 158.62 +0.07 SMSCIFatarw 158.50 -0.10 Modes Vofcana •StarCrutses 10c 42,356X00 Chart SemCond 26c 34,955,000 SembCorplnd25c 16.241,000 Accord Customer
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      Lock icon Informatics seen retaining growth potential despite earnings caution
      259 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of education group Informatics has shed 20 per cent since the firm revealed on April 11 that secondhalf and full-year profit will come in below earlier expectations. Yesterday the counter closed unchanged at 83.5
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      Lock icon Suspiciously bullish or latently bearish?
      817 4  -  l-l I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IN its Emerging Markets Strategy bulletin dated April 15, Canadian outfit BCA Research said its recent in-house analyst meetings have been "suspiciously bullish". "Many of our research staff are still scared, but if you put it to a vote,
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      Lock icon Greenback loses more ground to high yielders
      609 4  -  Cross-trading the favourite currency game as concerns over Q2 rise -if? comment CURRENCIES larry wee CURRENCY traders, choosing to focus on high yielders and weak US macrostats released overnight, all but ignored the good first-quarter US corporate numbers which seemed to sustain Wall
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    2757 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Ufrrstyle Index Fd 084V Com Global Health Index Fd 0.797/ Com Global Telecom Index fd 0403/ A8N Anre Aoet Mgt (5 pen) Com Global mfotec Index Fd!" 0.26» Star Europe Ecrty!* 1 0.587/ Com Global Energy Index Fd 0809* Star Europe Bd 1.206/ Com Travel
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon 2G lifts ACCS slake to above 5%
      218 5  -  By\ Michelle Quah INVESTMENT firm 2G Capital has raised its stake in recently-listed Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) to just above 5 per cent 2G—which is run by former JIT Holdings bosses Tommie Goh and Gay Chee Chong bought 783,000 ACCS shares in
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      Lock icon More remisiers leave the trade
      535 5  -  Those remaining are joggling more roles to lessen the market's impact By David Boey THE bear market has depressed the community of dealers and remisiers registered with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) to levels last seen in 1999. Battered by falling commissions, lacklustre trading volumes and
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      Lock icon Give remuneration policy a fair hearing
      564 5  -  HOCKlWHfflffl Wong Wei Kong IT'S annual report season again and you can almost hear the knives being sharpened when it comes to the disclosure of directors and executives' remuneration. But while companies could disclose more, investors also need to respond more rationally and less
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      Lock icon $35m Q1 net profit seen for MobileOne
      423 6  -  Some analysts expect average revenue per user to show dip Byi Angela Tan MOBILEONE Ltd, Singapore's second largest handphone operator after Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, is expected to unveil net profits of about $35 million for the first quarter this year in its maiden
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu Q1 profit jumps 65%
      290 6 DBS Thai Danu Bank, a subsidiary of DBS Group Holdings, has posted a 65 per cent jump in net earnings for the first quarter ended March 31. Net profit rose to 98.3 million baht (554.08 million) for the three months, from 59.7 million
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      Lock icon A-Reit's $14.3m profit beats forecast
      254 6  -  Byi Andrea Tan ASCEND AS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) has posted a net profit of $14.3 million 5.8 per cent higher than its forecast of $13.5 million for its first financial period Nov 19,2002, to March 31,2003. A-Reit is (me of only two main
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      Lock icon Elec & Eltek seen as potential takeover play
      503 7  - Elec Eltek seen as potential takeover play ING calling a buy on the stock with a 12-month target of US$2.l3 By< Angela Tan WHILE the Sars virus may be keeping many people away from China, investors should not shy away from Elec Eltek International Co Ltd, one of China's largest
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      Lock icon Horizon seals 15-year outsourcing deal
      189 7  -  By Daniel Buenos MAINBOARD-LISTED Horizon Education Technologies has sealed a 15-year outsourcing contract to provide laboratory infrastructure and consumables to Institut Putra, a Malaysian institute that specialises in teacher certification. Institut Putra (IP) is a subsidiary of the Kumpulan Langkawi Resorts Group. Under the contract,
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon SembCorp Industries to delay AGM
        104 7 CONGLOMERATE SembCorp Industries is seeking to adjourn its annual general meeting and extraordinary general meeting to May 36. Both meetings were originally scheduled for April 23. The change in date, which is subject to shareholders' approval, is to give the company enough time to send
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        Lock icon FJB's Man U rights reduced
        102 7 PJ BENJAMIN Holdings' rights to distribute Manchester United merchandise in the region have been reduced. The original agreement between FJB and Manchester United Pic gave FJB the exclusive rights to operate cafes and retail outlets, and distribute its merchandise in Singapore, Malaysia. Brunei, Indonesia and
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        Lock icon May 2 hearing for Excel bank petition
        62 7 EXCEL Machine Tools, which is facing a joint petition from its major creditors for judicial management said the petition will be heard before the High Court on May 2, following several earlier postponements. Excel's creditors filed the petition in November last year in
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        Lock icon Yuanta's stake in Kim Eng now 21%
        65 7 TAIWANESE group Yuanta Core Pacific continued to beef up its stake in brokerage Kim Eng Ong Asia Holdings yesterday, buying another 50,000 shares from the open market to bring its stake to 21.04 per cent Yuanta has been buying Kim Eng shares steadily
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon JTResi founder finds niche in Indon market
      1036 8  -  It might have seemed that Jerry Tan struck out on his own at a bad time, but not so. He tells Kalpana Rashiwala how his boutique agency has found business venturing into Indonesia Kalpana Rashiwala WHEN Jerry Tan quit his job as residential
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      1494 8 mg? f > +?*r <£*Zw SEKSUN CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-Second Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Boardroom, Seksun Corporation Limited. 511/513 Yishun Industrial Park A Singapore *****6 on Friday, 2 May 2003
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      830 8 IN THE MATTE* Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER Of CIEE TRAVEL PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General MeeHng of the Mtmbtn of CIEE TRAVEL PTE LTD duly convened and held on the 11 lh day ol April 3003, ike fallowing resolutions
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon New Act to oversee payment systems?
      398 9  -  This may let non-banks issue certain stored-valoe cards By Wong Wei Kong NON-BANKS may soon be able to issue certain stored-value cards under a proposed Payment Systems Oversight Act that will enable the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to tighten its supervision of key
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      Lock icon Citigroup allays fears of deflationary spiral
      307 9 3 on the economy outlook THE Singapore economy may be close to "nogrowth", but it is not on the verge of sinking into a Japan-style deflationary spiral, says Citigroup. In a report this week, Sim Moh Siong its Singa-pore-based economist who three weeks ago
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      Lock icon Golden eggs at a property launch? Only in Hong Kong
      438 9  -  Vince Chong FEW major developers in Singapore would think this is a golden period to sell new homes, given fears over Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome), but it certainly isn't stopping their Hong Kong counterparts from tempting buyers with incentives
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      Lock icon Congress group lobbies for US-S'pore FTA
      360 9  -  By' Yang Razali Kassim A GROUP of 36 members of the United States House of Representatives has initiated support for the US-Singa-pore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA). The move comes ahead of an important vote later this year on Washington's free trade agreements with Singapore
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      Lock icon Two hotels bag top honours in local employers' awards
      241 9  -  By Kenneth Lim TWO hotels emerged as Singapore's best employers yesterday and affirmed their commitment to their workers amid gloomy times. The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, which ranked second among Asian employers, took top spot, while the Four Seasons Hotel Singapore, eighth
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Iraq needs new currency, debt relief
      683 10  -  OPINION mv.\4 I bottom line david derosa Bloomberg THE only people who attach any value to Iraqi dinar banknotes are trying to sell them on eßay to souvenir hunters. One such party says these bank notes will be valuable one day because "this will
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      99 10 'You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale. a council member of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, on the looting of the museums of Baghdad by local mobs after thefall of the city
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      Lock icon Inoculating the economy
      554 10 EDITORIAL IF the government was saving its financial bullets when it unveiled the Budget earlier this year, then it must be getting closer to firing them now. Already, the government will announce help today for specific industries hit by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak, mainly
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      Lock icon Hew vistas beckon with India-S'pore pact
      1139 10  -  Proposals have potential to expand economic space significantly for both nations if the pact is negotiated well By Rahul Sen DURING the recent visit of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to India, a declaration of intent to conclude a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA)
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      188 10 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAT. 50 AND IN THE MATTER Of KEUETT HOLDINGS (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN punuort to Section 308(1) of the Composes Act Cap. 50, lhat a Final Mtehng of fa abonw—d Company writ b« held at t
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      173 11 CUSTOMER FIRST. A simple philosophy thafs made Toyota Singapore's No. 1 automobile brand. Each time a customer stakes his claim to a new Toyota, he evokes much more than implicit trust in this global legend's engineering. He also evinces a desire to be a cherished member of Singapore's No.l automobile
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Son of MBf group's Loy dies in car accident
      434 12  -  Listed MB! Capital ran by eldest son not affected From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TRAGEDY has struck the Loy family of Malaysia's MBf group again. Loy Teik Hok son of the late Loy Hean Heong was killed yesterday morning when
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      Lock icon Truckers' strike hits Indian ports
      131 12 Reuters [NEW DELHI] Many Indian ports were paralysed yesterday and food prices nationwide started soaring as a truckers strike dragged into its third day. India's biggest car maker, Maruti Udyog Ltd said it might temporarily shut down production as the stoppage had hit component supplies.
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        Lock icon CIMB announces special dividend
        56 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's top Investment bank, CIMB Bhd, said yesterday It was rewarding shareholders with a special dividend of RMIBI million (5584.7 million). "The special dividend would reduce CIMB group's shareholders' ftinds from RM1.43 billion to RM1.30 billion and thereby improve the CIMB group's prospective
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        Lock icon Indonesia eyes Vietnam rice deals
        42 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia said yesterday a planned rice countertrade arrangement with Vietnam was estimated to be about one trillion rupiah (Ss2ol million). Indonesia would provide technical assistance for a fertiliser plant to Vietnam in exchange for rice.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Taiwan cuts proposed bed-loan tend
        63 12 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan cut a proposed bad-loan cleanup ftind by about a third to almost NTIBOO billion (5130.6 billion), Finance Minister Lin Chuan said. It's the second reduction this year. The ministry has been pushing to top up an NT$l4O billion financial restructuring ftind set
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        Lock icon Malaysia's March Inflation up 0.7%
        51 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian consumer prices rose in March at their slowest pace in at least eight years, as cheaper clothing and fUrniture offset higher medical costs. The consumer price index roee 0.7 per cent last month from a year earlier, the Department of Statistics
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        Lock icon Verdict in Anwar's appeal tomoŕow
        62 12 AP (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's second highest court will announce a verdict tomorrow in Jailed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against his conviction and nine-year prison sentence for sodomy, Anwar's lawyer said. Anwar is appealing against High Court Judge Arifln Jaka's decision nearly three
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      Lock icon Indonesia plans 1t rupiah tax break for businesses: report
      326 13 JAKARTA Stimulus package to help firms cope with rising production costs expected soon AFP, Bloomberg THE Indonesian government is planning tax breaks worth one trillion rupiah (Ss2ol million) to help ailing local businesses cope with rising production costs, a report said
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      Lock icon China's top science park to set up credit club for firms
      210 13 Xinhua [BElJlNG] The administration of China's biggest science park plans to set up a credit club for firms with the best credit records next month in a bid to make it easier for them to obtain loans. Ren Yanqi,
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      Lock icon Ibra extends deadline for Bank Danamon bids
      422 13 JAKARTA Bidders need more time to complete due Reuters, Bloomberg THE Indonesia Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday the deadline to submit final bids for a 51 per cent stake in Bank Danamon has been extend ed to April 28 from April 21
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      Lock icon Vietnam unveils new rules to stir up bourse
      292 14 HANOI Size of trading lots to be cat; nod for foreigners to invest via domestic firms Reuters VIETNAM will start trading smaller blocks of stocks and bonds and permit foreigners to invest through local brokerage firms as the communist country struggles to
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      153 14 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China's publicly-traded companies raised 3.43 billion yuan (***** million) from share sales last month, a drop of 80 per cent from a year ago, the securities regulator said. Sichuan Road Bridge Co, Wuhu Port Storage Transportation Co and five other companies raised
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      188 14 SHANGHAI Xinhua THE Shanghai Futures Exchange (SFE) will work with the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd HKEx) to establish a crude oil derivatives market in the two cities, according to Frederick Grede, chief operating officer of the HKEx. The two exchanges will set
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        58 14 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Formosa plastics group plans to build a naphtha cracker with an annual capacity of (me million tonnes in its south-central Mailiao petrochemical complex, The Commercial Times said yesterday. It quoted unidentified company sources as saying the planned NTSSO billion (552.6 billion) cracker
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        50 14 Reuters [BEIJING] Standard Poor's raised its outlook cm China's long-term foreign debt yesterday, citing progress in shifting to a market economy. The move boosted China's 888-rated long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to 'positive' from 'stable', SAP said in a report from Hong Kong. Reuters
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        49 14 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Silicon Integrated Systems Corp, the world's third-largest designer of PC chipsets, said it signed a contract with Intel Corp to make products that work with the latter's newest processors. No details were disclosed in Silicon Integrated's statement to the Taiwan hoarse.—Bloomberg
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        88 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Merrill Lynch said first-quarter earnings rose 5.9 per cent as costs fell faster than revenue. Net income grew to US$6B5 million, or 72 US cents a share, from US$647 million a year ago, while revenue fell 5 per cent to US$4.9 billion.
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        63 15 AFP [WASHINGTON] High-ranking diplomats from the US, China and North Korea are due to meet next week in Beijing for talks on a simmering nuclear crisis, a senior US official and diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The meeting is the first direct
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        96 15 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's ruling coalition parties will ask the government to freeze its planned share sale in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan Tobacco and West Japan Railway, as part of a plan to boost stock prices. A senior policymaker from the dominant Liberal Democratic
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        61 15 Bloomberg [CANBERRA] Rodney Adler and Ray Williams, former directors ofHIH Insurance Ltd, should face charges over the A 55.3 billion (555.7 billion) collapse of the insurer, a government report recommended. The report referred a total of 56 charges to prosecutors. Sydney-based HIH, which had two
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        71 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday that retiring New York Federal Reserve President William McDonough had been chosen to chair the accounting board charged with policing auditors of public companies. Mr McDonough, who turns 69 next week, will still
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        55 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The Nasdaq Stock Market named Robert Greifeld, the 45-year-old executive vice-president of SunGard Data Systems, as CEO to replace Hard wick Simmons. Nasdaq also said it has selected H Furlong Baldwin, 71, as chairman. The appointments are effective May 12, a week
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      409 15 WASHINGTON Bat sharp 4.6% rise in energy costs posh CPI up 0.3% Reuters, Bloomberg A SHARP rise in energy costs pushed US consumer prices up in March but there was little sign of inflation pressures elsewhere in the economy, the government said yesterday.
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      579 15 WASHINGTON It threatens to cut off key oil pipeline running into Syria NYT, AFP, AP THE US administration is applying new pressure on Iran and Syria countries which it said were sympathetic to Saddam Hussein's regime including threatening to cut off an important oil
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      146 15 NEW YORK Reuters PFIZER Inc said yesterday it has completed its US$57 billion acquisition of rival Pharmacia Corp, creating the world's leading pharmaceuticals powerhouse, larger than its closest rival Britain's GlaxoSmithKline pic. Based on yesterday's closing share prices, the combined company boasted a market capitalisation of
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      374 15 TOKYO Reuters ANY countries counting on a post-Iraq revival in the US economy to help them out of their own slowdowns are probably in for disappointment, according to Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Mr Stiglitz, a professor at New York's Columbia University, sees
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      342 17 Invented said to have engaged in nnlawfnl allocations of IPO shares Bloomberg, AFP [NEW YORK] Invemed Associates LLC, an investment bank run by New York Stock Exchange director Kenneth Langone, was charged by the National Association of Securities Deal- ers (NASD) with inflating
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      537 18  -  l-lri exclusive The Rhom IP Group now offers a suite of products and services covering the entire spectrum of intellectual property requirements, as Amit Ray Choudtaury finds out Amit Roy Choudhury Singapore-based Rhom Intellectual Property Group has launched a worldwide patent search service
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      772 18  -  11 i comment INFOTECH raju chellam IF YOU thought mainland China would always be a hardware hard sell and could never be a software supremo, think again. The giant is waking up to the huge opportunities and the fat margins that software presents. And
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      51 18 IN Monday's report "Overseas wins for NCS and CrimsonLogic", we said National Computer Systems had clinched a HKSIO million deal in Hong Kong to be the systems integrator for the electronic submission and processing of cargo manifests. The contract is actually worth HK$5O million. We are sorry for the
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      748 19  -  Move by Virgo, Leo to Sydney, Perth welcomed by Aussie tourism authorities By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Star Cruises said yesterday it is moving two of its biggest cruise ships taken out from its Asian hub ports at Singapore and Hong Kong
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      391 19 Coast Guard will also detain Iraqi crew on any merchant vessel Reuters [LONDON] The US Coast Guard on Monday barred all Iraqi-owned ships from its waters, also banning any merchant vessel employing senior Iraqi crew regardless of whether the craft was Iraqi-controlled. "Vessels
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      186 19 [SINGAPORE] Jurong Shipyard has completed the conversion of an ultra large crude carrier (above) into a FPSO (floating, production, storage and offloading) to be deployed by Shell in the oilfields off Brazil. The conversion job is the seventh the SembCorp marine subsidiary has undertaken
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      286 19  -  Plan includes protecting wetland, beach areas By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Sydney Ports Corporation's Port Botany expansion project is seeking the green light, after releasing a plan for public viewing that involves protecting wetland and beach areas. The plan will be submitted for official
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      248 19 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] World-Wide Shipping Group Ltd WWSG) has established its first mainland office in Shanghai as part of its strategy to expand its business in China. Founded by Pao Yue-kong, the WWSG was once the world's largest shipping company. Its current chairman and president, Helmut
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        710 26 ASIAN AVIATION CRISIS Passenger nnmbers now down 50-60%; flights cnt by 37% as outbreak widens AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's airport, a gleaming architectural wonder that stands as a towering symbol to the good times, has the deathly hush of a hospital
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        383 26 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China National Aviation Co, which controls Hong Kong Dragon Airlines and Air Macau, said first-half earnings will be "significantly affected" because of a deadly virus epidemic that is curbed travel. Fewer people are traveling within and to Asia because
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        298 26 Reuters [FRANKFURT] The world's biggest airline network Star Alliance, anchored by Germany's Lufthansa and United Airlines, is interested in having US Airways as a future partner, a spokesman said on Tuesday. Alliances help airlines as they extend networks through connections and
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          108 26 Xinhua [MANILA] Passenger loads on flights of the Philippine Airlines (PAL), the biggest carrier in the country, have plunged due to fears of contracting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). The passenger load factor for PAL's international operations fell 30 per cent from a year earlier
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          95 26 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam's second airline Pacific Airlines said yesterday it has suspended its Hanoi to Danang service until May 15 following a 30 per cent fall in the numbers of bookings due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak. Pacific Airlines started the service in
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          112 26 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways, Australia's largest airline, is being asked by unions representing its maintenance and engineering staff to cancel plans for job cuts, an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union official said. Union officials had a two-hour long meeting with Qantas executives about the
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        386 26 Beijing may permit them to offer 40% discounts, charge higher airfares Reuters [SHANGHAI] China said yesterday it will give airlines greater leeway in setting ticket prices under a proposed plan to further a government overhaul of the still state-controlled sector. If
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        150 26 AP [NEW DELHI] In what could result in a major reversal of its policy of privatising unprofitable state-owned companies, the Indian government was considering whether to cut two national airlines from the list of 35 companies being offered for sale. The Civil Aviation Ministry has
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