The Business Times, 2 February 2004

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 024/03/2003 !nte.'rn-i .com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2004 850
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  • 999 1  -  BT exclusive Heavier and more onerous workload cited by professionals By Joyce Koh [SINGAPORE] Going for an initial public offering can be a costly affair for companies, and it's getting even more expensive. A hot stock market combined with more stringent requirements by
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  • 59 1 Week Change STI 1848.36 41.20 KLSECOMP 818.94 -5.72 NIKKEI225 *****.61 -285.40 HANG SENG *****.37 -461.21 SKTINDEX (598.90 -55.54 JAKARTA COMP ...752.93 -32.95 MANILA COMP ...1508.30 -51.72 TAIPEIWPI 6375.38 SEOUL COMP 848.50 -12.87 SHENZHEN B 290.23. Al ST ALL OKI) 328:1.60 62.60 DOW JONES *****.07 -80.22 NASDAQ 2066.15 -57.72 S&P500
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  • 77 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ US$ (SS per l!S$) 1.700 S(l.'SS/SS per V) 1.815 3.084 Kl KO(l SS/SS/E). 1.240 4108 YEN 1055 62 30 RM 3.800 tm HKS 7.773 4.574 BAHT 3945 2:1.09 Rl'PIAH 8,457 4,976 RENMINBI 8.299 4.88:1 INDIAN RUPEE 45.30 26.85 AS 1.313 0.773 ICS 1.499 0.882 PRIME
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  • 653 1  -  BT exclusive Engineering, environmental svcs set to grow 5-10% over next 10 yrs By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Singapore is aiming to be the "Houston of the East" by becoming a hub for engineering and environmental services (EES), with this sector set to grow
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  • 664 1  -  GDP numbers depress stocks but profit reports seen boosting momentum From Andrew Marks in New York ANALYSTS expect investors will refocus on profits after a week of economic worries. Fourth quarter earnings reporting season may be winding down, but Wall
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    • 120 1 ■■MMINSIDE CORPORATE NEWS ml S Hong Kong trying to grab more fund management business, Pg 3 January market capitalisation surges to 3-year high, Pgs 4 5 AHg ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE The year of the Howard Dean bubble? Pg 14 8 MANUFACTURE DE HAUTE HORLOGERIE Ford Coppola, V Director
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    • 609 2  -  Favourable trends suggest growth this time could become self-sustaining From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A SLEW of positive indicators a drop in unemployment to the lowest level in two years, signs that banks lire getting on top of their iad debt problem and an
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    • 201 2  -  By Chen Huifen fSINGAPORE] A sudden downpour last evening did not dampen the spirits of those at the Chinese New Year garden party at the Istana, where Prime Minister Goh phok Tong met grassroots leaders and mingled with the crowds. About 4,000 invited guests turned up yesterday
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    • 594 2  -  Any move to switch reserves from US$ will be far-reaching From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FOREIGN exchange and commodity iparkets have been "set alight" as one London dealer put it last week by news that Japan may consider switching part of its massive reserves
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    • 517 2  -  Former HK finance chief was rumoured to be joining US financial institution in S'pore By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Former Hong Kong financial secretary Antony Leung is enjoying life in Hong Kong. And no, he is not about' to move to Singapore. Speculation
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 827 3  -  Proposal to exempt offshore funds from profits tax is an attempt to challenge S'pore's increasingly popular position From Jeff Wagner in Hong Kong HONG Kong's proposal to exempt offshore funds from profits tax signals a fresh push by the former British colony
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    • 486 4  -  Total share value comes to $313b, despite fewer trading days By Chen Huifen AS predicted by market watchers in late-Decem-ber, 2003, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is going to party this year. And it seems to have started, with a surge in share values
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    • 1070 4  -  Opinions range from STI hitting peak of 2,500 to index diving below 1,760 by year-end By Kenneth Lim TWO weeks into the Chinese new year, and analysts are already starting to disagree on how soon the market will peak and what will happen next.
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    • 737 4  -  HOCK lock siew serena ng JUDGING from the red-hot response to United Test and Assembly Center's (Utac) initial public offering, the stock market is eager to welcome a rival to Temasek-linked ST Assembly Test Services (Stats). But while the prognosis for
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    • 235 4 NUMBER CLOSM GROSS MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST OF DAYS Of PRICES* REDEMPTION DATE RATE PAYMBfT ACCRUED (EXCLU0M8 YIELD ISM CODE (%M) DATES INTEREST ACCRUED WTEREIT) (%p.») 01.02.2004 N*****0H 1999 31/2 3000.00 1/2 1/8 183 99.99 5.25 SG********** 15.05.2004
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 848 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy ONE of the more enduring trading maxims on Wall Street is: "As January goes, so goes the rest of the year". January's performance is a good predictor of how the rest of the year will pan out. And
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    • 563 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Expectations of a US rate increase kept Asian currencies in check over the past week, while the peso was knocked to an all-time low after more rumblings in the Philippines army and the Thai market came under pressure from the
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    • 101 6 Events investors can watch out for Seavlew Hotel's dividend payment, Feb 5 Ezra Hldgs' dividend payment, Feb 11 SQX's dividend payment, Feb 16 AP Breweries' dividend payment, Feb 17 Cerebos' dividend payment, Feb 18 FAN's dividend payment, Feb 19 Thai Village's dividend payment, Mar 5 Food Junction's dividend
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    • 262 6 Payment Ex Books Pay (cti) date dose date Abeerdeen lOp F UK2.0 10-Dec 15-Dec 25-Feb AP Breweries F 14N 03-Feb 06-Feb 17-Feb Cerebos Pac 20c a 10TE 29-Jan 04-Feb 18-Feb Cerebos Pac 20c b 6Tt 29-Jan 04-Feb 18-Feb Ezra Hldgs 20c b 0.8TE 27-Jan 30-Jan 11-Feb FSN F
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    • 1004 7  -  BT portfolio STOCKS tah hooi ling ExCEPT for one, all our portfolios did better than the Straits Times Index last week. The best performing portfolio was the one-month top winners portfolio. It jumped 8.4 per cent week-on- week. The top gainer is EnerSave, which
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    • 1229 7  -  INSIDE MARKETS Sentiment may turn bearish if fear of the disease escalates in regional markets, says ROBERT HALILI ROBERT HALILI THE director and substantial shareholder sentiment was neutral last week with buyers and sellers recording the same number of transactions.
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    • 330 7  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE marine industry has been riding on a wave of strong demand for offshore services and higher freight rates for about a year. The strong recovery of the Sector has seen marinerelated stocks rise to their highest levels
      Source: Bloomberg  -  330 words
  • 1576 6 Number FORECAST Target Number FORECAST Target Number FORECAST Target The stock recommendation is the average of all the recom- company c rtl t ot .ff 5 pl of W R Price RECOMfclEN°* Jf 5 K mendations submitted by analysts following the stock. There TteWeefc/LastWeefc Estimates IS} ttwww) COMPANY
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  • WAGE reform
    • 622 8  -  Industry has sophisticated pay system but flexi-wage has yet to reach the desired level, says working group Reports by Chuang Peck Ming A TOUCHY issue that's likely to emerge from the Tripartite Taskforce on Wage Restructuring report is the treatment of the year-end
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    • 494 8 This adds flexibility for firms to make timely adjustments when needed THE chemicals sector is one sector that can largely do without the monthly variable pay component a concept pushed by the Tripartite Taskforce on Wage Restructuring to make Singapore's wage system more
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    • 605 8 THE land transport sector may be early with its flexiwage model, but it has been fully vindicated by the Tripartite Taskforce on Wage Structuring. Basic wages in the sector already form 72.5 to 79 per cent of total pay. And the
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 614 9 KUALA LUMPUR Government will issue guide on how to calculate duties to end uncertainty THE Malaysian government and car companies have agreed to let market forces dictate the prices of cars following the confusion over new tax and excise
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    • 370 9 HANOI Reuters AFP Bloomberg TWO sisters in Vietnam have died after contracting bird flu and they may have caught the virus from their brother, who had also died, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. If confirmed, the deaths •could be the first recorded
      Reuters; AFP; Bloomberg  -  370 words
    • 289 9 BANGKOK Reuters THAILAND will spend 240 billion baht (5510.4 billion) to expand the subway system in its traffic-jammed capital by 110 km, a stateowned railway firm said yesterday. Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) governor Prapat Chongsanguan said the government would foot the
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    • 638 9  -  BT comment KL STOCKS Other factors seen giving bourse a fillip eddie toh THE Malaysian stock market has also caught the bird flu. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index, which earlier touched a 42-month high of 827.87 points, closed lower at 818.94 last week
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    • Money laundering behind Indon rally?
    • 432 9  -  From Al Labita in Manila WHEN Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong suggested in 1998 a mechanism to link East Asia and Latin America, little did he know that five years later, that idea would blossom into a force to reckon with.
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  • FOCUS bond funding
    • 993 10  -  It could work as an insurance against another Asian crisis, says Ramkishen S Rajan Ramkishen S Rajan WHILE the regional economies are taking noteworthy steps to strengthen and upgrade their respective financial systems, the contagious nature of the 1997-98 crisis has convinced many
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    • 826 10 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices fell heavily last week as supply worries abated despite news of another fall in US inventories. Gold prices sank to a two-month low point as the dollar battled back, sending precious metals into
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  • 1116 10 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Jan 30 SDCOAPOEE 00YEBMME1T SECURITIES niDlCATIVE PRICES AMP YIELDS lis— Coipn Matrtty Uttrt YltM h«— Cwpw Matwtty Utwt Yi«M M*****0H 3.5 01 FEB 2004 B100/A 100.05 0/0 H*****0S 1.5 01 APR 2008 BU 98.55/A 98.65 1.864/1.838 N*****1T 3.375 15 MAY 2004 BD 100.71/A 100.76 0.854/0.679 NX*****H
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  • FOCUS globalisation
    • 1091 11  -  Peter Wilson reviews Economic Globalization and Asia, which looks at the different strands of the globalisation debate within an Asian context Peter Wilson THIS book is a mixture of selfcontained but interrelated essays (some co-authored) on finance, trade and taxation, about economic globalisation with special reference
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  • 1583 11 SICOM FUTURES Jan 30 RUB8ER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) ClOM Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 04 214.75 Mar 04 219.50 Apr 04 222.00 May 04 222.75 Jun 04 223.50 J«fi/Sep 04 224.75 RSS 3 (US cMtsAg) Volume Optfl Month High Low Sett (tonnes)
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  • REGION world
    • 473 12 BEIJING Group is seeking to increase its presence in M&As in China CITIGROUP, the world's largest financial services firm, is in talks to become a member of the Tianjin Equity Exchange in a sign that informal exchanges are playing a more significant
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    • 282 12 TAIPEI Firms can list on Taipei bourse but they must use funds locally AP THE government plans to make it easier for Taiwanese companies with large investments in China to list their shares on the Taipei stock market, part of
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    • 441 12 BEIJING Branch president is replaced; general manager is detained THE president and general manager of the Shanghai branch of Xinhua have been replaced and are under investigation for alleged financial crimes, the South China Morning Post reported. Authorities detained the general
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    • 296 12 HONG KONG XINHUA Financial Network, a subsidiary of China's state-owned Xinhua News Agency, said on Friday it was seeking a public share sale as early as next January in one of the first overseas IPOs by a mainland media company, the Financial Times reported.
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    • Article, Illustration
      239 12 LATWP [MELBOURNE] He was supposed to be vulnerable without a true coach to help him through the mental and physical campaign of a Grand Slam fortnight. Then there was the psychic baggage of his December Davis Cup collapse against Australia losing a two-set lead on the centre
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    • 386 12 HONG KONG BLOCKBUSTER, the world's largest video rental chain, is shutting up shop in Hong Kong and scrapping plans to expand into mainland China, where piracy is undermining foreign investment in media and entertainment, the Financial Times reported. "Because of piracy issues, cost
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  • WORLD news
    • 602 13 WASHINGTON He will instead press Congress to permanently extend most of his tax cuts NYT US President George W Bush will propose a US$2.3 trillion budget today that backs away from some of the major spending and tax initiatives
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    • 395 13 LONDON Variant is timed to kick off attack on Microsoft tomorrow Reuters THE MyDoom Internet worm claimed its first scalp yesterday, paralysing the website of American software firm SCO Group with a massive data blitz. MyDoom knocked the Utah-based company's site, http://www.sco.com, out
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    • 760 13 NEW YORK NYT THE accusation that the Bush administration stifled internal debate on its taxcut proposals was not the only surprise in The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind's new book about the stormy tenure of Paul H O'Neill, the former US Treasury Secretary. Buried
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    • 814 13 NYT EVERY Friday night at 6:30 pm, John T Carr, an administrative assistant at Columbia University, arrives at the Wendy's restaurant at 45th Street and Lexington Avenue in Midtown Manhattan not for a burger, but for a board game. For the last two years, Mr
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    • 421 13 PARIS AFP US fears of another Al-Qae-da attack using aircraft forced three major airlines to cancel several US-bound flights from Europe yesterday and today. Air France, British Airways (BA) and Continental scrapped a total of six services to Washington, Miami and New York
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 105 13 Reuters [LONDON] The chief executive of Britain's Vodafone is believed to have told financial advisers to draft documents to try to persuade investors that a bid for AT&T Wireless is a good idea, The Observer reported yesterday. AT&T Wireless, which has a market capitalisation
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      • 100 13 Reuters [MENA, Saudi Arabia] At least 244 Muslim pilgrims were crushed to death and the same number injured in a human tide during a devil-stoning ritual at the climax of the annual ha) pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia yesterday. "There were 244 pilgrims who died
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      • 77 13 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's trade surplus widened to the highest level in over five years at U552.95 billion in January, bolstered by robust exports, the commerce ministry said yesterday. It was the tenth straight monthly trade surplus from a US$l72 million deficit a
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      • 105 13 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Democratic front-runner John Kerry holds wide leads in Missouri and Arizona and a narrow lead in Oklahoma and has moved into a virtual tie in South Carolina two days before key presidential contests in those states, according to a Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll released yesterday.
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      • 72 13 AP [SAN DIEGO] Gateway Inc said on Friday it would buy privately held eMachines Inc in a deal valued at US$2B5 million. The combined company would create the third-largest PC company in the US market—still far behind Dell Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co— and give
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    • 470 14 WASHINGTON Proposal is part of broader package of mutual fond industry reforms LAT-WP SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff will recommend that the agency bar mutual fund companies from paying higher commissions to brokers who direct clients towards their products,
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    • 580 14  -  They aim to take similar approaches to fight cross-border crimes From Neil Behrmann in London AMERICAN and European regulators look set to work closer than ever before to stamp out financial corruption and fraud across the financial markets. Their regulations will
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    • 582 14 NEW YORK NYT DOES the quality of a company's earnings bear any relation to the performance of its stock? The answer, of course, is usually a resounding yes. But after last year's stock market action in which shares of many companies with low-quality earnings
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    • 793 14 NEW YORK His campaign has been hobbled by haughty blind sight NYT DISMAL results have lifted the fog of hype. The visionary founder who until a few weeks ago was heralded as a revolutionary genius who would forever change the way business is done
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • BIZIT
    • 589 15 Real aim is to create e-mail relays that can be re-sold to the spam industry: experts AFP [PARIS] The devastating Mydoom computer worm marks a new stage in the criminal use of computer viruses, and especially offers the spam mail
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    • 217 15 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Symantec Corp, the world's largest maker of software that guards against computer viruses, said it may get more sales from Asia than from Europe as countries such as China and Malaysia crack down on software piracy. Symantec is
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    • 179 15 AP [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina] David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users ever since. He programmed one of the most well-known key combinations around: Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It forces obstinate computers to restart when they no
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    • 878 16  -  BT exclusive It plans to become the Yahoo! of the mobile world and may go for listing, reports Amit Roy Choudhury Amit Roy Choudhury Flush from success in the hugely competitive China market, Singapore mobile phone content provider Buzz City has
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    • 211 16 AP AFP [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp said on Friday it was working to ward off an Internet virus that is set to attack the software company's website tomorrow. "We're definitely doing everything we can to make sure that our customers who need to get to
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    • 821 16  -  IT comment INFOTECH Problems began after its CEO's controversial letter of Sept 9, 2003 raju chellam FROM out of nowhere, a little-known Utah-based company is now on the radar screen of almost all corporations and many consumers worldwide, suddenly catapulted to prime time because of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      796 16  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury Ngee Ann programme for SCDF NGEE ANN Polytechnic students have developed a virtual reality programme to help train Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF) trainee officers. The self-paced virtual reality software will allow trainee officers to learn proper fire safety checking and enforcement procedures by
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 280 17 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young EVEN with the Chinese New Year break, there has been no let up in the ferocious activity in the dry bulk market. Panamax bulkers continue to be the leaders with a number of deals from 1982 built up to newbuilding re-sale. BULK CARRIERS!
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    • 292 17 SGX '000 mo s$ vol CH Offshore .0.35 -0.01 3561 ChuanHup 0.49 -0.01 746 Cosco Investment 0.75 0.01 ***** CWT Distribution 0.55 unch 8 Ezra Hldgs 1.04 0.02 322 Freight Links 0.13 0.01 912 GB Holdings 0.69 unch 0 Java Holdings 0.87 0.01 6552 K1 Venture 0.22 unch
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    • 523 17  -  Proposed transhipment hub to be situated at Vallarpadam Island By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation is among 7 terminal operators shortlisted from 14 bidding to run a container transhipment facility at India's Cochin Port. The seven move into the final round for
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    • 220 17 Reuters [CHICAGO] Barge traffic on the Illinois River, a major grain artery to export terminals at the US Gulf, has slowed considerably due to ice and tow restrictions that have been put in place. This has resulted in basis values for corn and
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    • 148 17 Anderimer Shipping News [LONDON] A Wijsmuller Salvage team, working with Chilean-based CPT, has refloated the capesize bulk carrier Yiosonas. The vessel had loaded 132,000 tonnes of iron ore for a voyage to the Far East. The grounding occurred as Yiosonas prepared to enter La Libertat Terminal
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    • 123 17 [PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND] S) Picture shows tug boats towing the oil tanker Exxon Valdez offßligh Reef in Prince William Sound to a harbour near Naked Island for repair and salvage efforts, two weeks after the tanker ran aground on 24 March, 1989, andspilled 11
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    • 327 17 But 63 drums of wood preservative lost from Andinet Still miming Anderimer Shipping News [LONDON] Netherlandsbased Multraship Salvage says it has successfully recovered three containers loaded with toxic cargo lost overboard in the North Sea from the Ethiopian vessel Andinet. But 63 single
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    • 799 18  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes EARLY last year there was cautious optimism on the part of the liner companies tempered by concern over the effect of Sars. A year on and the situation is somewhat similar. Last year's optimism proved well founded and the liner companies
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    • 193 18 PAGE Hangli 4 Pancon Shpg 6 Alianca 5 Hamburg-Sud 5 Pelni 2/6 Austral AL 5 Heung-A 3 PDZ Lines 6 Avant 6 Horizon Shp 5 PNSC 6 Bank Line 4 HubLine 6 Pan Ocean 5 B'tangMas 5 HUAL 6 •phoenix 4 BSA 4 lmkov 4 TS Lines
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    • 11832 23 THEBU SINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone eta ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone S,N Dest'n N m Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 404 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL CHINA STAR 014W J18/19 A/SIDE 01/02 1200 KALTIM EXP 2414E J15 A/SIDE 01/02 0600 LABROY 159 EBLS02 J2 A/SIDE 01/02 1600 OCEAN ANGEL 2 J22/23 A/SIDE 01/02 1200 OCEAN EMP 01/2004 J14/15 A/SIDE 01/02 2330 UTAMAPERMAI7 UP0404 J5 A/SIDE
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      • 1532 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACX DAHLIA 072S 072S
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      • 149 25 Feb 5 Thailand: Makha Bucha Day. Feb 6 NZ: Waitangi Day. Feb 11 Japan: Nat Foundation Day. Feb 16 US: Washington Day. Thailand: Makha Bucha Day. US: Washington's Birthday. Feb 22 Brunei: Islamic New Year. Indonesia: Islamic New Year. Malaysia: Islamic New Year. Feb 23 Brunei: National Day.
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      • 802 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine 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 individual
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      • 628 25 Carbon 180 Mai 991.2 0.4 1S.9 0.06 65 0.04 Jan 22 Density Water Residue AshAluminium Sediment No above E25 1 0 1 0 0 0 rrr; 380 Ave 986.9 0.3 11.9 0.04 22 0.02 Exxon 380 Max 1001.6 0.8 17.0 0.07 62 0.05 K6/W3 %V/V HN/m
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      • 688 26 Airline is likely to be asked to repay 3-5.5m euros made in a deal to set up ops at Charleroi AFP [BRUSSELS] The European Commission is to deliver a ruling on Ryanair tomorrow tipped to go against the low-cost carrier, amid
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      • 48 26 [ADELAIDE] Residents welcome the first passenger train from Adelaide to Darwin at Two Wells, 45 kilometres north of Adelaide, southern Australia, yesterday. Australia's new north-south passenger railway service with two locomotives and 43 carriages makes it the longest passenger train in Australian history. AP
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      • 248 26 Reuters [HANOI] American Airlines, the world's largest carrier, is opening its first office in Vietnam and expanding code-share flights to five US cities to capitalise on a boom in business and tourism between the two former foes. The unit of AMR Corp has
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      • 151 26 Bloomberg [MUNICH] Delta Air Lines, the third-largest US airline, said it will invest more than US$3OO million to upgrade its terminal at John F Kennedy International Airport as it adds flights from the New York airport. Delta will add eight new destinations from the
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      • 213 26 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Cork International Airport has seized a plane owned by Swiss International Air Lines after the company that leased the jet, the Irish airline Jetmagic, went bankrupt. An Embraer 145 owned by the Swiss national airline is being held at Cork
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        • 92 26 AP [LONDON] A German man was ordered held without bail on Saturday after he was arrested for joking with security staff at Manchester Airport that he was carrying bombs and knives in his luggage. Axel Wilhelm, 45, was charged with communicating false information
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        • 78 26 Bloomberg Airbus SAS, the world's biggest builder of commercial aircraft, won an order for a 294-seat A *****0 aircraft from Air Tahiti Nui, the national carrier of French Polynesia that is expanding its fleet. The A 340-300, worth as much as US$l3B million according
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      • 291 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] Ryanair Holdings Pic, Europe's biggest low-cost carrier, may face a class action lawsuit in the UK after a disabled man won a legal case against the airline over a fee he had to pay for using a wheelchair
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