The Business Times, 15 May 2003

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    10 1 fpwwi*««n(w 85c THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2003
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    Lock icon OCBC to pay 25% of staff bonus in shares
    562 1  -  It aims to have over 30% of employees as shareholders within 3 years By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank yesterday said it has decided to pay 25 per cent of its employees' performance bonus in shares, in an ambitious
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    72 1 sti 1,311.00 (-12.16) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,310.00 (-9.00) SIMSCI FUTURES ISO.SO (-1.20) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP Closed NIKKEI 225 Hi44.91 +54.65 HANG SEW 9,103.69... -15.35 SET INDEX 385.22 1.57 JAKARTA COMP ...467 94 -5.57 MANILA COMP .1.***** +2.99 TAIPEI WP1 4,341 10 +6.51 SEOILCOMP ***** -410 SHENZHEN B ...***** +186
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    75 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ I'SS (SS per I'SS) 1.732 £(I SS/SS per 1.612 2.791 El'RO(l SS/SS/E). 1.153 1.997 YEN 116.6 67,10 RM 3.800 2.194 HKS 7.799 UN BAHT 42^2..._ 2438 RITIAH &446 1877 RENMINBI 8.299 4 792 INDIAN Rl PEE 47.14 27.22 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* Ui K1ALA LTMPVR 64U
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    Lock icon The messy business of shareholder democracy
    719 1  -  HOOK LOOK asm Byi Catherine Ong heke were moments at lhjbu I 1 Bank's nearly three-hour shareI holders' meeting yesterday when I the body temperature of several diJL rectors must have soared past 38 degrees Celsius. For sure, they weren't down with Sars, as
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    Lock icon Datacraft CEO to step down amid huge losses
    649 1  -  Byi Amit Roy Choudhury [SINGAPORE] Datacraft Asia's long-time chief executive officer Ron Cattell is stepping down. The Datacraft veteran is resigning amid huge losses by the group and an ongoing probe into the company by the Commercial Affairs Department. Although chairman Patrick
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon You are what you seat
        82 2 THERE are probably more seat types on SlA's planes than at its headquarters. According to sources, SIA offices use only three types of chairs: for typists and clerical staff, officers, and managers. No one is allowed to have a different kind. The chairman's, however, seems
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        Lock icon Big government pays
        113 2 WHAT do the US and Singapore economies have in common? Well, according to finance magazine Barron's, the US state and local government sector accounts for 12 per cent of America's GDP and 15 per cent of total employment. This is a bigger contribution than even the technology
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      Lock icon Singapore-owned logistics base taking shape in Batam
      561 2  -  SembLog unit teams np with Indon firm to serve offshore oil industry there Byl Yang Razali Kassim [BATAM, Indonesia] The sea off Kabil, a district on this island just 20 km southeast of Singapore, is fast being reclaimed. An industrial estate is slowly
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      Lock icon Indonesian leaders endorse free trade zone in Batam
      176 2 Xinhua (JAKARTA) The speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives and the minister of justice and human rights have endorsed the implementation of the proposed free trade zone (FTZ) in the industrialised island of Batam, a businessman has said. "House Speaker Akbar
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      Lock icon OCBC disappoints with 26% fall in Q1 profit
      559 2  -  Bearish sentiment, lower earnings from associates cited By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] OCBC posted disappointing first-quarter net profit of $159 million, a 26 per cent fall that even its chief executive David Conner admitted was clearly not good. Analysts polled by Reuters
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      Lock icon Japan adopts cautious stock market package
      719 2  -  Analysts sceptical move will have major impact From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet opted for caution last night when it approved measures to curb heavy selling of stocks by banks and pension funds but stopped short of instructing the
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    Lock icon Warren`s world
    3662 3  -  UP CLOSE WITH THE WIZARD OF OMAHA Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is the most successful investor in history. He is worth US$35 billion. Yet he lives frugally and insists his children won't inherit a bean. In a rare interview at his headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, he
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      334 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES May 14 VALUE CLOSE BTO&OS 391.00 -252.00 IT CADI -*****.00 -107.00 BT 10-4ay MA *****.00 +40.00 AM-SG EqwtMS 354.00 -2.71 SO Equities Ehct 124.63 +0.68 SG Equities Fm 1111.18 -11.79 SG Equities Prop 311.72 2.21 KSCI Singapore 161.27 -141 SMSa Futures 160.60 -1.20 llirtw W— BIL Intl
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      Lock icon JP Morgan's wrt a good bet on Cathay Pacific recovery
      297 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By\ R Sivanithy ONE truism about stock markets is that investors are always on the lookout for a good recovery story. When economic growth hits rock bottom and when the outlook is at its bleakest, anyone who
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      Lock icon On Wall Street, the bull is back
      780 4  -  =11 comment STOCKS r. sivanithy S OU can't keep a good man M down." Or so they say. And the stock market equivalent H of this hearty observation must be: "You can't keep a good fund manager from being bullish." Though we're not
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      Lock icon What if Wall Street suffers a relapse?
      615 4  -  I-j I comment CURRENCIES Watch 920 near-term support level of SAP 500 Index for clnes larry wee US DOLLAR bears took a breather yesterday, avoiding recent lows despite a small overnight setback on Wall Street and that horrible bombing incident in Saudi Arabia.
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    52 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS IfGENO:AI price* are indicative awapt for*; Ei KH99H toin fcuadfr 0i»» lifted. I H»io»»4y fog—rf; S Lower Kate Low to Medkjm Ruk. 6 Medium to Migh Rsfc. Higher Bate •open ended. tatou utetwiion o< unity Aflar luhdiniiicn oI unrt&. 9 after ttott H*t N-A Won Piling Pay
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Quek Leng Chan closing in on 30% GO mark at BIL
      484 5  -  He raises interest to after Oei Hong Leong's stake hits 8.14% By- Michelle Quah LENDING weight to market talk that BIL International looks set to be the subject of a takeover battle, Malaysian industry veteran Quek Leng Chan has
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      Lock icon SGX's Q3 earnings down 25%
      187 5  -  By Andrea Tan HURT by the sharp slide in securities trading, Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday reported a 25 per cent drop in third-quarter net profit to $13.1 milion. But net profit for the first nine months is still up 12.6 per cent to $44 million,
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Transpac to raise directors' fees
        47 5 SHAREHOLDERS OF Transpac Industrial Holdings Limited have approved resolutions put moved forward by the board including the decision to raise the fees of its directors. The loss-making company had asked shareholders to approve the increase of directors' fees from $59,665 to $100,658.
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        Lock icon Public holds one-third of HPL shares
        80 5 ONG Beng Seng's Hotel Properties Limited said about 33.36 per cent of the shares in the hotel and property group were held in public hands as at April 9,2003. The company said it is therefore in compliance with Rule 723 of the listing manual.
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        Lock icon Hotel Plaza unit to pay RM30m
        142 5 HOTEL Plaza's wholly-owned Malaysian subsidiary Premium Properties Sdn Bhd has been ordered in an arbitration held at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre to pay some RM3O million (5513.7 million), its share of a final award to another Malaysia company, Dermajaya Properties Sdn Bhd. Dermajaya
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        Lock icon Semitech to set up HP support centre
        109 5 SEMITECH Electronics Ltd has been appointed by Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Sales) Pte Ltd this month to Bet up a HP mobility solution centre in Singapore on a non-exclusive basis to sell HP's range of products. HP also appointed the company as an authorised business
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      Lock icon Hartford IPO 68.2 times subscribed
      301 5  -  By] Kenneth Lim RAFFLES LaSalle founder and chief executive officer has emerged as one of the largest subscribers of distance learning provider Hartford Holdings' initial public offering (IPO). Chew Hua Seng now holds a 3.3 per cent stake in the company. Hartford's IPO of 10
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      Lock icon Isetan`s Q1 net plunges 65% due to poor sentiment, Sars outbreak
      274 5  -  By Vince Chong CITING continuing weak consumer sentiment and the Sars outbreak, retailer Isetan (Singapore) yesterday posted a 65 per cent plunge in net proFits to $110,000 for the first quarter ended March 31. Turnover fell 6.8 per cent
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      Lock icon HLF Q1 profits slip 4% to $19.1m
      243 5  -  By Wong Wei Kong HONG Leong Finance (HLF), reporting a 4 per cent slip in first-quarter earnings yesterday, said it was making good progress diversifying into new businesses. Net profit for the quarter fell to $19.1 million from $19.9 million a year ago.
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      Lock icon Forced sales cut Heshe chiefs stake to 15.9%
      295 5  -  By\ Kenneth Lim A SERIES of forced sales since July last year punctuated by an off-market purchase through a married deal in October has slashed the stake of Heshe's executive chairman Chia Shi Teck in the company by more than a quarter
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      Lock icon SIA announces further round of flight cuts
      359 5 This brings total capacity reduction to 31.5% of services Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd filled the smallest amount of its combined passenger and cargo space since at least 1990, after Sars caused a slump in demand for air travel. Asia's most profitable airline announced
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      Lock icon Parkway profit jumps 14% to $7.9m in Q1
      310 5  -  But Q2 looks iffy as foreigners stay away By Andrea Tan PERHAPS as an indication of things to come, Parkway Holdings handed out digital thermometers as door gifts at its first quarterly results briefing yesterday. While the healthcare group recorded a 14
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon S'pore March retail sales fell 10.3%: poll
      396 6 P=tf =4 on the economy retail sales Singapore's retail sales probably shrank 10.3 per cent in March from the same month in 2002. its biggest annual fall in over four years, as shoppers stayed home and tourists shunned the island due to Sars,
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      Lock icon PowerSeraya's $200m fuel project
      496 6  -  It will convert 750 MW of generating capacity to burn new emulsion fuel By' Tang Weng Fai POWERSERAYA Ltd, Sin gapore's second largest power generator (genco), is spending $200 million to convert 750 megawatts (MW) of its generating capacity to bum a new fuel to increase
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      Lock icon Analysts stay subdued on April export figures
      531 6  -  By Chuang Peck Ming ANALYSTS remain less than upbeat about Singapore's exports in April, even though they were proved wrong in February and March. They reckon on average that the country's key nonoil domestic exports (NODX) last month grew 7.5 per cent over
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      Lock icon Hal Soon to close local bunkering operations
      419 6 No 3 banker trader says profit margins just not good enough Reuters POOR profit margins in the world's largest ship refuelling port have forced Singapore's No 3 supplier of bunker fuel, Hai Soon Diesel Trading Ptd Ltd, to close its local bunker operation,
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      Lock icon Sankyu opens $30m distribution centre at Tuas
      243 6  -  2nd facility here to meet greater logistic demands of its MNC clients By< Daniel Buenas THE Singapore subsidiary of Japanese logistics giant Sankyu yesterday opened its second warehousing and distribution centre at Tuas. The $30 million facility is a Very Narrow Aisle racking
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      Lock icon APP to meet creditors on May 21
      242 6 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Asia Pulp Paper Co will meet creditors on May 21 to discuss their proposal for protection from a second debt default, an Indonesian state agency said in a statement. The company is negotiating a debt recast with lenders who are owed
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon No halt to launches seen
      381 7  -  Analysts tell Vlnce Chong sales will continue if prices stay the same Vince Chong PEOPLE are still expected to turn up at showflats this weekend despite news of a possible fresh Sars cluster. And consultants and analysts polled by BT believe relaunches and sales of
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      Lock icon Lament of the lawn lover
      585 7  -  GARDENER'S IHTfI By Thien GARDENERS here have literally been under a cloud lately. Just ask Wifey, who has been moaning about having to replace the same bald patches on the lawn, not once, not twice, but three times already over the last rainy month. This
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    1086 7 Transaction date: May 14 arrERBAME CROSS RATES A$ C$ Euro H8S lad fa tap!* Ton Won w «n Nth Nw SS tmt Sir MTS M* Nwd US$ Australia 0X96 5263 0.560 5.040 30.4(3 54X79 0.753 7.756 2.456 1126 ***** 33.708 ll» 4JK 0.849 22.431 ***** 0.401 0X46 Canada L«6
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    1581 7 SICOM FUTURES MayU RUBBER Future* (Closing pricts) RSS 1 (Scents/kg) CtOM VotWM Open Month High Low s Sett (tomes) Interest Jun 03 1 170.75 Juf 03 162.75 Aug 03 ***** Sep 03 161.00 RSS 3 (US ccats/kq) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Intwrwst Jun 03 9&00 w!6o
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Demise of the dollar rise of the euro ?
      836 8  - Demise of the dollar rise of the euro OPINION HiTM bottom line anthony rowley THE US may have achieved victory in Iraq against the regime of Saddam Hussein but at what a heavy price that victory has been bought by a president who pays far more heed to military than
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      59 8 'I am not in panic mode yet —but I am considering bartending.' a 30-year old graduate student, who's about to get his MRA from Columbia University in New York. For the second year in a row, new MHAs who have spent as much as USSt22.OOO to gain
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      Lock icon Grappling with a weaker US$
      560 8 EDITORIAL AS IF the impact of Sars on Singapore's growth prospects were not damaging enough, the US dollar's sharp fall to multiyear lows versus currencies such as the euro now creates more cause for concern. The knee-jerk reaction in some circles has been to lobby
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      Lock icon Beating back the bad old bear of deflation
      897 8  -  Washington is queasy about the notion that maybe even lower interest rates and, temporarily, even bigger budget deficits are necessary By\ Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group WELL, the United States economy faces a new danger: deflation. So says the FOMC,
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      Lock icon S'pore should reduce its energy usage
      189 8  -  Leong Sze Hian I UNDERSTAND that according to the World Bank's Little Green Data Book 2003, Singapore has the secondhighest usage of energy per person after the United States. Singapore uses the equivalent of the emission of about 13 tonnes of carbon dioxide per
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      Lock icon Flaw in SGX's 10% public float rule?
      138 8  -  Denis Distant Singapore LAST month, trading in three counters Goodwood Park Hotel, Hotel Malaysia, and Central Properties was suspended by SGX, with last trades at $38, $20 and $19.60 respectively, after the exchange had given the companies due notice to comply with Rule
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      Lock icon Let staff decide if they want to invest in firm
      234 8  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to the report, "Sing Tel in radical revamp of share option plan" (BT, May 9). SingTel's decision to do away with its employee stock option scheme will be welcomed by small shareholders who have pointed
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      2804 9 ®HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (formerly known as Hong Leong Singapore Finance Limited) and its subsidiaries incorporated in the Republic of Singapore BALANCE SHEETS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2002 REPORT OF THE AUDITORS TO THE MEMBERS OF HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED {FORMERLY KNOWN AS HONG LEONG SINGAPORE FINANCE LIMITED) Group Company
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      2907 10 ©HONG LEONG FINANCE LIMITED (formerly known as Hong; Leong Singapore Finance Limited) and its subsidiaries incorporated in the Republic of Singapore Share Capital 10. Property. Plant and Equipment (Continued) 17. Investments Company Material properties held were as Mows Group and Company 2002 No ol shares Carrytn. Amount 2002 aiOl ftSK
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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      Lock icon Sars fears could cause 5m tourism job losses: ILO
      441 11 Predicted losses would bring to 11.5 m the no. of jobs cnt since Sept 11 AP [GENEVA] A drop in international travel caused by Sars fears, combined with continuing economic gloom, could lead to 5 million job losses in the global
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      Lock icon Wider outbreak feared in Taiwan; stable picture in China
      410 11 Island quarantines 110 medical workers in bid to contain first outbreak in the sonth Reuters [TAIPEI] While the situation in China seems to have stabilised, the Sars crisis in Taiwan took a turn for the worse yesterday as six new deaths
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      Lock icon Latest suspects derail Singapore's all-clear plans
      420 11 AP (SINGAPORE) Singapore may be forced to delay plans to call its Sars outbreak under control if a new possible outbreak at the country's mental health facility is confirmed, a top health ministry official said yesterday. The ministry said yesterday that 27 patients and
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        Lock icon 09% tall in HK passenger numbers
        68 11 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Airport Authority said yesterday the Sars outbreak caused a fall of 68.9 per cent in passenger numbers and 33.6 per cent in passenger flights in April versus a year ago, and the short-term outlook was negative. The total number
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        Lock icon NZ health declaration on arrival
        59 11 AP [WELLINGTON! Visitors to New Zealand will now be asked to declare their travel history and health details upon arrival, to prevent any possible Sars cases from entering the country, officials said yesterday. They will be required to fill out a declaration and indicate whether
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        Lock icon Japan firm to sell Sars detection kits
        81 11 AFP [TOKYO] A research unit of Japanese distilled spirit manufacturer Takara Holdings will sell newly-developed medical kits to detect the Sars virus in China and Japan. Takara Bio Inc will sell the medical kits in packs of 24 for 96,000 yen (*****0) from
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      1357 11 HI hong leong finance limited (formerly known as Hong Leong Singapore Finance Limited) and its subsidiaries incorporated in the Republic of Singapore 25. Changes in Accounting Policies 28. Risks associated with financial assets and kafctfbes (Continued) 28. Risks associated with financial assets and KaMMtes (Continued) For the year ended 31
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon China says its economy grew 8.9% in April
      458 12 BEIJING Factories, construction steam ahead despite plunge in retail sales AFP Bloomberg Reuters CHINA said yesterday that its economy grew 8.9 per cent in April from a year earlier, as factories and construction steamed ahead despite a sharp slowdown in retail sales
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      Lock icon HK restaurants losing over HK$300m a week
      383 12 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's restaurant industry is losing more than HK$3OO million (5566.6 million) a week as more consumers eat at home, afraid of catching the deadly Sars virus, a survey showed yesterday. The study by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University showed
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      Lock icon Bank Danamon sale to be wrapped up by mid-June
      399 12  -  Delay by Ibra doe to change in its leadership Promi Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta ASIA Financial Indonesia (AFI), the Temasek-led consortium which recently clinched a 51 per cent stake in Bank Danamon, will have to wait until mid-June before getting the
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      Lock icon Pahang defends gaming centre
      257 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFP A MALAYSIAN state yesterday defended the central government's move to allow a second gaming centre in its area amid protests from the opposition Islamic party. The new gaming centre at Bukit Tinggi Resort, owned by the Berjaya Group, in central Pahang state will
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      Lock icon Thai Petrochem gets demand to pay debt
      348 12 BANGKOK IPC wants repayment of USs3l9m AFP THE World Bank's investment arm has demanded repayment of US$3l9 million in overdue loans it made to Thai Petrochemical Industry Pic (TPI), Thailand's largest debtor, the International Finance Corporation said yesterday. "We made a demand on
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        Lock icon Hong Kong's opposition loses vote
        74 12 AP [HONG KONG] Pro-democracy lawmakers said yesterday that Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa should step down for mismanaging Hong Kong's economy and the Sars crisis, but were soundly defeated on a motion calling for his resignation. Mr Tung is highly unpopular, but independent lawmaker Albert Chan's
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        Lock icon Thai lottery to stop tax-evasion
        86 12 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand, keen to cut its fiscal deficit by raising more taxes, kicked off a prize draw yesterday using shop receipts as lottery tickets in the hope that the public will demand taxable receipts from retailers. Concerned that thousands of shopkeepers are falsifying their
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        Lock icon HK Ex`s Jan-March '03 profit dives
        85 12 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, operator of the city's stock and futures exchanges, said profit fell by a quarter in the first three months of this year. The company, which has been traded on its own exchange since June 2000,
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        Lock icon tom.com` Q1 loss narrows
        97 12 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong media conglomerate tom.com, backed by tycoon Li Ka-shing, said yesterday that its net loss narrowed in the first quarter, but forecast turbulence ahead due to the Sars outbreak. Tom.com, which has expanded from its Internet roots to include publishing and outdoor
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        Lock icon Internet banking in China soars
        59 12 Bloomberg [tifciJiNuj industrial commercial BanK 01 unina, the nation's biggest bank, said the volume of Internet transactions reached a record level in April as more customers resorted to online services because of concern about Sars. The volume of transactions jumped almost fivefold year-on-year to 1.3
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        Lock icon Garuda halves profit expectation
        78 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Garuda Indonesia halved its target for operating profit this year because Sars has hurt demand, and said it may have trouble making debt payments. "This will pose great difficulties for us to pay our debt, worth US$lOO million this year," Garuda's finance director,
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      854 12 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING INDUSTRIAL GROUP lIMITCDI NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of BROADWAY INDUSTRIAL GROUP LIMITED ("the Company") will be held at 65 Chulia Street, 50th Floor (West Lobby), Committee Room, OCBC Centre, Singapore *****3 on Friday, 30 May 2003 at 4 00 p.m.
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Japan's MOF denies weak yen policy
      441 13 TOKYO Says it only wants to prevent excessive moves Reuters JAPAN'S Ministry of Finance denied yesterday it was seeking a weaker yen, saying it only wanted to prevent excessive currency market moves and that its policy was in line with that of the United
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      Lock icon UBS e-mail may be 'smoking gun' in gender bias case: Judge
      482 13 NEW YORK Worker claims retaliation after her bias complaint Bloomberg ÜBS Warburg LLC set out to fire a saleswoman after she complained of mistreatment by her male boss, the woman claims in a bias lawsuit, and she has uncovered
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      Lock icon Sony pushes ahead with handheld PlayStation
      241 13 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Sony Corp, the dominant force in the US$3O billion video game market, went on the offensive against its rivals on Tuesday with a new handheld Play Station gam ing device and an exclusive online deal with the industry's top game publisher.
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      Lock icon Regulators begin global probe on possible copper fix
      347 13 LONDON Raids carried out on offices in Europe, US, Canada Bloomberg BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Pic, two of the world's three biggest mining companies, said regulators began a global probe of possible price-fixing in the US$24 billion copper market. US-based FreeportMcMoßan
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      439 14 LATEST US INDICATORS Record 2.7% slnmp in April import prices may fan deflation concerns AP Reuters US shoppers turned cautious in April and sent sales at the nation's retailers down by 0.1 per cent, fresh evidence that the end of the
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        59 14 Reuters [WASHINGTON] US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said in a CNBC interview on Tuesday that "decimalization" the shift made in 2001 to trade US stocks in decimals instead of fractions—needs to be reexamined. Decimalization has cut into Wall Street's profits and
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        43 14 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hynix Semiconductor, the world's third-largest maker of computer memory chips, reported a first-quarter net loss of 1.05 trillion won (551.52 billion). The company had a profit of 35 billion won a year ago. Bloomberg
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        72 14 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan s Casio Computer said yesterday it returned to the black for the year ended March 2003 on cost cutting and brisk sales of electronic gadgets, and expects to rake in an even bigger profit in the current fiscal year. Group net
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        69 14 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's current account surplus shrank in March as exports fell and imports rose, the Ministry of Finance said. The surplus shrank to 1.21 trillion yen (SslB billion) from 1.24 trillion yen in February. From a year ago, the current account surplus shrank to
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      318 14 LONDON AFP Reuters OIL prices headed upwards again yesterday after terrorist bombings in leading world exporter Saudi Arabia, as dealers also braced for production cuts by Opec. Benchmark London Brent blend for June delivery was up 37 US cents to
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      366 14 Bloomberg INEW YORK] Qwest Communications International Inc founder Philip Anschutz agreed to pay US$4.4 million to settle charges by New York attorney-general Eliot Spitzer that he improperly profited from initial public offerings. Anschutz, who has a personal wealth of almost US$5 billion according to
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      239 14 ZURICH AFP THE risk of a stock market crash on either side of the Atlantic has increased substantially over the past six months, according to a survey of top international economists released by the reinsurance company Swiss Re yesterday. The estimated probability
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      356 15 NEW YORK Industry wants 2 or 3 advisory groups for issues Reuters GRAPPLING with a new oversight board's landmark decision to take over the task of setting auditing rules, the four largest accounting firms are seeking representation on a panel that wUI
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      775 16  -  Its 'Adaptive Enterprise' strategy aims to help companies manage change by creating a tighter link between business and IT, reports Chell&m Raju Chellam US GIANT HewlettPackard Co, going gungho on outsourcing, claims it has signed more than 200 managed services contracts in the last 12
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      283 16 LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] New software from Apple Computer Inc that lets Mac users buy songs from an online music store can also be used to share songs via the Internet, raising concerns among record labels and music publishers about a new avenue for piracy. Apple's
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      73 16 IN our report, "PC sales here set to perk up in Q3" (BizlT, May 12, pg 22), we reported that Singapore should see overall PC sales of about 134,000 units in Q3 this year, up a robust 9.3 per cent over Q3 last year. The correct figure should be
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      412 16  -  It is seen to jnmp to 27.9% of total cellular services revenue by 2007 Byl Amit Roy Choudhury siNUAi'UKfc, s moDue aata revenue is expected to jump to 27.9 per cent of total cellular services revenue by 2007, from 10.5 per cent
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      669 16  -  liicomment INFOTECH Today's content providers have wonderful resources. TOe challenges add magic kenneth james WHEN Singapore began to batten down the hatches in response to the Sars threat, one of the measures taken was the closure of all schools from March 27. It was a prudent move
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      166 16 AP [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp said a company news release that it was developing a portable toilet with Internet access, called an "iLoo", was a hoax perpetrated by its British division. The April 30 release, issued by the company's MSN Internet division
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      268 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 21 points to 2248, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 31 points to 2937, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 18 points to 2298 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 102 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER: China Steel Responsibility (built 2003) *****5 dwt delivery Rotterdam
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      272 17 MX '000 MitM S$ Vol CWT Distribution—0.60 unch 0 Chuan Hup 0J8 -0.01 190 CH Offshore 0.19 0.01 137 Cotco Investment ...0.23 unch 1561 Freight LMs 0.04 -0.01 371 C8 HoW'nqs 0.57 unch 6 Jaya Holdings 0.34 -0.01 253 KeppelCorp 4.50 -0.02 1717 K1 Venture 0.18 unch 212
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      396 17  -  Breakthrough in relations between ITF, maritime employers Fromi Alec Almazan in Manila [SINGAPORE] An international bargaining forum has been put in place to negotiate the wages of seamen on open register ships. The creation of this uniquely wide negotiating body which for the first
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      352 17  -  Third-tier IMO proposal to be adopted without geographical limits By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Additional compensation for victims of tanker oil spills is set to be made available when the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adds a third tier to the International Oil Pollution Compensation
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      208 17 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] The Port Authority of Shanghai has reported that the biggest port on the Chinese mainland handled a record 912,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in April, up 35 per cent year on year. A spokesperson for the port authority said the growth was achieved
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      172 17 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's Regional Container Lines (RCL) said yesterday it would buy two new vessels from Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd for US$6O million to expand business in North Asia, India and Australia. Regional Container Lines said in a statement to the
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      298 17 US$2OO million worth of exports delayed so far Reuters [PUSAN, South Korea) South Korean truckers threatened yesterday to paralyse cargo flows at the country's biggest port as their strike entered a sixth day, but officials said help from the army was keeping the port
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      138 17 Bloomberg Reuters [SEOUL] Picture shows a police patrol ship spreading an emulsifier on the sea covered with fuel oil near the port of Pusan, about 450 km south-east of Seoul. A South Korean oil tanker slammed into a moored ship in Busan yesterday, spilling
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      240 17 Strong demand for container leasing expected to continue this year Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cosco Pacific, the world's fifth-largest container-leasing company, plans to spend about US$2OO million this year to buy as many as 130,000 standardsize container boxes, financial controller Francis Li said yesterday.
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      673 18  -  MIiWBUILDS -By David Hughes IN a clear sign that pressure on operators of single-hull tankers is increasing, major Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has ordered double-hull VLCC (very large crude carrier) newbuildings from three Japanese yards as part of strategy
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        795 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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        656 24 59m euro charge for retiring Concordes takes toll on performance Bloomberg [PAßlS] Air France SA, Europe's second-biggest airline, had a 98 million-euro (Ssl9s million) fiscal fourthquarter net loss after pilots strikes, the Iraq war and the spread of a deadly pneumonia
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        63 24 [MONTREAL] Workers assemble RJ regional jets at the Bombardier Aerospace plant in Montreal. US Airways signed deals with two jet-plane manufacturers to buy at least 170 and possibly as many as 550 regional jets from Canada-based Bombardier Aerospace and Brazil-based Embraer. The deals include
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        299 24 AFP [FRANKFURT] Lufthansa warned yesterday it expected to fly into a full-year operating loss as the global economic downturn, Sars and the situation in the Middle East placed the airline industry in front of its "greatest economic crisis ever". The airline said in
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        185 24 AFP [HARARE] Zimbabwe's national airline has just two or three days worth of fuel supply, the result of a critical shortage of liquid fuels that has hit the country, a newspaper reported. Quoting airline spokesman David Mwenga, the private Daily News said Air Zimbabwe
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        265 24 Cash reserves have dwindled since S&rs outbreak: report Reuters [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways may issue debt or seek a capital injection to pay for new planes if its cash reserves, which have been eroding since the outbreak of the Sars virus, continue to
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        357 24 New destinations include Atlanta and San Diego; a third addition is likely Bloomberg [NEW YORK] jetßlue Airways Corp, the three-year-old discount airline that is one of the few profitable US carriers, may increase its route expansion plan for this year
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