The Business Times, 4 February 2004

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MUA (P) 024/03/2003 internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2004
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  • 1000 1  -  Rising A$,NZ$,£ and hot property markets spur them to sell their investments By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] With the strong Australian dollar and a property boom Down Under, many Singaporeans have made handsome gains. While once they snapped up homes and investment properties in
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  • 80 1 Dsn 1,845.13 (-3.23) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,840.00 (-15.00) SIMSCI 225.28 (-1.17) SIMSCI FUTURES 224.90 (-1.80) Tuesday Change KLSE COMP closed NIKKEI 225 10,641.92 1:14.« 1 HANG SENG 13,090.111 +90.03 SF7T INDEX (599.75 *32.42 JAKARTA COMP __.730.31 -22.61 MANILA COMP 1.437 H7 -9.38 TAIPEI WP1 .6,252.23 -67.73 SEOUL COMP 839.87
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  • 75 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ l!S$ (SS per l'S$) 1.694 £(l'S$/S$per£).... 1 .833 IIM ElJRO(lJS$/S$/E). 1.256 2.127 YEN 105.4 62.2(1 KM 3.800 2.244 HKS 7.774 4.590 BAHT 39.13 23.10 RUP1AH 8,447 4,987 RENMINBI 8.299 4.900 INDIAN RUPEE 45.29 26.74 AS 1.308 0.772 NZ$ 1.474 0.871 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 545 MALAYSIA
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  • 542 1  -  EYE on the economy business sentiment Findings tally with results of BT-NUS poll showing bullish business sentiment By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Output may still be down in the first quarter, but that's only a seasonal dip. Encouraged by improving global economic conditions,
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  • 817 1  -  BT analysis Many firms embrace proposals, but less sure about implementing them, says Anna Too Anna Teo EMPLOYERS have been remarkably candid in their views on the latest pay reform proposals. Save for a couple of the biggest companies that voiced some vague, broad support,
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    • 259 1 Unlock the value in| your |overseas property Current, historicity Some lending rates are at 45-year lows and yet residential property values New Zealand, Canada and USA, have grown, in many cases, rapidy, in recent years. This has given rise to a prime opportunity for overseas Qui» nil property homeowmers to
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    • 386 2  -  BT exclusive Retired from A61, Yang Soo Suan teams up with RSP Architects By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] Award-winning veteran architect Yang Soo Suan has retired from Architects 61, which he co-founded, to fulfill a long-time ambition to tackle the China market with RSP Architects.
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    • 677 2  -  BT analysis If untackled, it'll give impetus to Thai project aimed at bypassing Malacca Straits, Ronnie Lim says Ronnie Lim SINGAPORE'S regional oil business is in danger of being literally hijacked by pirates. Two reports yesterday, one in local newspapers and the
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 182 2 WITH stocks having come a long way since this time last year, perhaps it's timely to ask a few questions if you're wondering what to buy even at current prices, what to buy more of, or what to sell. From www.thestreet.com, here's what senior editor
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 505 4  -  Two brokers agree with prosecutors that he was the 'mastermind' By Wong Wei Kong LINKS Island chairman Winstedt Chong yesterday vowed to fight to clear his name after two stock brokers charged with manipulating the share price of the dredging and reclamation
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    • 338 4 It will be purely an investor of budget airline Tiger AFP SINGAPORE Airlines vowed yesterday to remain a premium carrier despite a stake in the soon-to-be-launched budget airline Tiger Airways. SIA chairman Koh Boon Hwee said his company would not involve itself
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    • 468 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, the world's second-largest carrier by market value, is expected to post higher quarterly profit, lifted by a post-Sars rebound in passenger traffic. Profit at the flag carrier, set to enter the record books having launched the world's longest
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    • 343 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines has not seen any reduction in its ticket sales because of the spread of bird flu, said the carrier's marketing executive vice-president, Huang Cheng Eng, yesterday. Shares of the world's sec-ond-largest carrier by market value
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    • COMPANYBriefs
      • 112 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Telecom is expected to post an 80 per cent rise in third-quarter profit when it announces its results tomorrow, helped by growth in mobile users, improving Australian operations and gains from asset sales. Rising contributions from SingTel's regional associates, thanks to
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      • 92 4 NERA Telecoms' net profit for 2003 was down jfer* cent to $13 mUlioa, due mainlytb lower gross profits and margins from its contract manufacturing operations. There was also an absence of divestment gains in 2003 while in 2002, earnings were boosted by gains
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      • 58 4 SAM Goi's Tee YihJia Food Manufacturing will subscribe to 21.9 million new shares in Thai Village at 23 cents each, a discount of about 10 percent to the market price. The shares represent 15 per cent of Thji Village's existing capital and 13
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      • 39 4 ACE Dynamics said John Lee Sok Khian has resignctl as director and managing director effective from J Jan 31. Following the resignation, Lim How Boon, J senior managing director, has been redesignated as managing director.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 679 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Singapore Telecom Feb 3 dosing: $2.07 SINGTEL will release its Q3 FYO4 results tomorrow. We expect net profit before exceptional to surge 60 per cent year on year to $514.8 million due to strong growth in Optus and regional associates' income. Market consensus is
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    • 414 6 POINT LAST week, we warned of an imminent sharp correction in the Straits Times Index (STI). And, regrettably, the correction has begun. Whether it was the spread of the avian flu virus or expectations of US interest rate tightening and often these
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    • 927 6  -  A longer view CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar enjoyed some respite this past week vis-a-vis its non-Asian counterparts thanks to the US Federal Reserve and pre G-7 meeting jitters but the yen has remained stubbornly strong. In the background, interest rate considerations
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    • 586 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE local market caught a mild case of bird flu jitters yesterday that sent the Straits Times Index diving as much as 1.7 per cent in early trade. But players soon realised that the selling was overdone and this
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 115 6 MEDIASTREAM executive chairman George Thia, who holds a direct 0.52 per cent stake in his company, had his deemed stake cut to 36.78 per cent from 36.86 per cent yesterday after a sale of 600,000 shares at three cents apiece. The sale, done through
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      • 73 6 HEALTH Management International (HMI) executive director Lim Poon Thoo bought one million HMI shares, or 0.349 per cent of issued share capital, in the open market on Jan 16 at seven cents apiece for $70,000. Mr Lim, who took on his current post in September
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      • 76 6 BRILLIANT Manufacturing executive director Koh Swee Yong upped his stake to 11.89 per cent from 11.67 per cent through an open-market purchase of one million shares on Friday. Mr Koh had also bought 800,000 shares of the hard-disk drive component maker earlier in January.
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      • 92 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM BRITISH venture capital firm 3i Group pared its stake in foam-moulded products specialist Broadway Industrial Group to 11.25 per cent from 14.87 per cent over several sales in the last week of January. Under new disclosure requirements, 3i is
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    • Article, Illustration
      427 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 3 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -82.00 +71.00 BTCADI -*****.00 -161.00 BT lOntey MA -*****.00 -9.00 All-SG Equities 495.40 -1.16 SG Equities Beet 184.83 -3.69 SSEquHksFln 1551.62 -8.98 SG Equities Prop 463.03 -3.60 SHHSCI 225.28 -1.17 SflMMFiitairM 224.90 -1.80 Slocks Volunw Japan Asia 5c 77,147,000 SingTel 15c
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    • 390 7  -  Darsono joins as exec director; two directors quit By Kenneth Lim SESDAQ-LISTED ecoWise, which suffered a profit plunge in its last financial year, has roped in Indonesian businessman Irawan Darsono to help spearhead its drive for new business, especially in China. Mr Darsono,
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    • 486 7  -  HOCK lock siew kenneth lim HOW that its outstanding and expensive lawsuits are near closure, ei-Nets and its new chief Phua Teck Chew may finally have some breathing space to turn the company around. But while early signs suggest that Mr Phua
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    • 411 7  -  It signs pacts with China firm to market its products By Chen Huifen FOLLOWING its recent move into the China education business, IT solutions company ei-Nets Ltd plans to venture into the information security market as well. The Sesdaq-listed company yesterday signed two agreements with
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    • 293 7  -  By Joyce Koh KEEP the beer taps flowing. Thai Asia Pacific Brewery (TAPB), an associated company of mainboard-listed Asia Pacific Brewery Limited (APB), yesterday said it has completed a 2,900 million baht (*****.5 million) expansion of its Nonthaburi brewery, its second expansion in three years.
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  • EXECUTIVEmoney
    • 1258 8  -  GENEVIEVE CUA finds out how Shield plans work and how they differ from commercial or cash-funded medical insurance plans GENEVIEVE CUA NTUC Income last week announced enhancements to its medical insurance plan under the CPF umbrella. With the changes, IncomeShield appears to offer the best value by
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 394 9  -  About 100 highly skilled jobs will be created by April 2005 By Tang Weng Fai XILINX, the world's largest maker of programmable logic chips, is setting up its regional office here with test facilities for its chips to support more than US$6OO million
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    • 205 9 WITH interest in India's booming economy now on the rise, a special conference next week will cover Asean's economic relations with the resurgent south Asian nation. Organised by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), the AseanIndia Forum will focus on broad economic
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    • 506 9  -  CBRE expects prime office rents to rise 5-10% this year By Vince Chong SINGAPORE'S office market is getting less expensive by the year, with the latest CB Richard Ellis survey putting it as the 61st dearest location in the world, down from
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    • NEWSRoundup
      • 77 9 THE President has appointed Po'ad Bin Shaik Abu Bakar Mattar as a member of the Public Service Commission with effect from yesterday for a five-year term, the Prime Minister's Office announced. Mr Po'ad, a senior partner of Deloitte and Touche and a member of the
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      • 81 9 THE National University of Singapore and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) yesterday signed an agreement to establish a joint PhD programme in chemical engineering. A key research area will be biomedical sciences, and A*STAR will provide scholarships. The programme aims to attract talented
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      • 86 9 SOUTH KOREAN startup Ness Display Co yesterday opened a plant to produce cutting-edge organic light-emitting diode displays (oled) here. In the third round of funding, the Economic Development Board's investment arm and Japan's Softbank each invested US$l2.5 million in the plant, while Sweden's Investor
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 798 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION frank ching LAST month, in a small but significant move towards greater openness and transparency, China for the first time made available to the public a portion of materials from its diplomatic archives for the period between the founding of the
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    • 48 10 'We really don't have a culture of public service. We have a well-entrenched patron-client relationship that we have inherited from three centuries of Spanish colonisation.' Earl Parreno a political analyst in the Philippines, where power and influence often pass through certain families election after election.
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    • 600 10 EDITORIAL THE role of poison-pen letters in the financial industry is like premarital sex: everyone knows it happens, but not many people want to talk about it openly. Financial industry regulators, whose task is to assess and approve initial public offerings (IPOs), have been getting increasing
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    • 1242 10  -  While US companies are coming back to life, the news has not been so good for workers, especially in the manufacturing sector From Leon Hadar in Washington THAT the leading Democratic presidential candidates are bashing President George W Bush for his handling of the
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    • 463 10  -  COMMENTARY India's bond market, that is, considering New Delhi's clout By Andy Mukherjee Bloomberg INDIA'S national elections due some time in April are perhaps the only thing standing between the country's US$2l2 billion bond market and the cleaners. First, the US Federal Reserve gave a jolt
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 496 11 BRUSSELS Also banned are pet birds from other countries, including China and Japan AFP, AP, Reuters THE European Union yesterday extended a ban on imports of Thai poultry and pet birds from Asia for six months to Aug 15, amid an
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    • NOTEBook
      • 84 11 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Foot and mouth disease has broken out in a Malaysian state, infecting more than 4,000 cattle since mid-December and killing 27, a minister said yesterday. Officials have banned the sale or transport of cattle from central Pahang to other states and
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      • 54 11 AFP [MANILA] Higher revenues enabled the Philippines to keep its 2003 national budget deficit within target for the first time in five years, the Finance Department said yesterday, with the full-year figure at 199.9 billion pesos (Ss6 billion). The deficit was below the full-year ceiling
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      • 44 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia, a conservative Muslim country, is considering legalising transvestites to create "healthy entertainment" in the capital Kuala Lumpur, the official Bernama news agency reported yesterday. Kuala Lumpur city hall has agreed to the proposal in principle. —AFP
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    • 452 11 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA said it plans to sell a fifth of PT Bank Mandiri, the country's largest lender by assets, doubling its original target, in a public share sale valued at about 5.2 trillion rupiah (551.04 billion). The enlarged stake sale follows an
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    • 473 11 KUALA LUMPUR The 3 institutions will focus on core activities under biotechnology A MASTERPLAN for the proposed three institutions to spearhead the development of the Bio Valley project is expected to be ready by end-2005, the Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. Disclosing this,
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    • 517 12 NEW DELHI Country's destiny is to be among world's leading countries; finance minister INDIA'S government, hoping for reelection on the back of a strong economy, yesterday forecast GDP growth of 7.5 to 8 per cent for the current fiscal year, putting the
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    • 373 12 BEIJING CHINESE authorities have launched their biggest crackdown for a decade on a network of underground banks, closing down funds that handled hundreds of millions of renminbi in an attempt to combat laundering and inflows of "hot money", reported The Financial Times. The State
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  • Article, Illustration
    1100 12 Transaction date: Feb 3 PTTERBAME CROSS RATES AS C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Hi Bupiah Yen Won RM HZ$ Pafc Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NTS BaM Pound US$ Australia 1.019 6.345 0.609 5.944 34.630 64.585 0.806 8.931 2.905 1.127 43.801 42.968 1.295 5.279 0.954 25.429 29.917 0.417 0.765
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  • 1559 12 S1C0M FUTURES Feb 3 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mar 04 218.00 Apr 04 220.50 May 04 221.25 Jun04 222.00 Jul/Sep 04 ***** Oct/Dec 04 225.00 RSS3(U$ceats/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mir 04 126.50
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  • WORLD news
    • 426 13 LONDON Apple pipped once again into 2nd place; Mini zooms up to take 3rd spot Reuters GOOGLE, the top Internet search engine which is expected by bankers to list its shares this year, gained a fillip yesterday as it was named Global
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    • 267 13 LONDON Reuters MICROSOFT Corp appeared to have survived the worst the MyDoom worm could throw at it yesterday. Experts say the virus, a variant of the MyDoom.A virus that knocked out another company's website on Sunday, was programmed to fire continuous volleys of
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 84 13 Reuters [WASHINGTON] A suspicious white powder found in a US Senate office building on Monday tested positive for the deadly poison ricin, US Capitol police chief Terrence Gainer said. Several preliminary tests confirmed that the substance discovered in a mail handling room was ricin
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      • 128 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Planned job cuts in January were 26 per cent higher than in December due to increases in offshore outsourcing and to mergers and acquisitions that have made some positions redundant, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray Christmas Inc, said yesterday.
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      • 80 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] NEC Corp, Japan's largest maker of cellular phones, agreed to sell its plasma-display panel business and part of its chip operations in two separate transactions, accelerating a move to focus on its most profitable businesses. Pioneer Corp said it will buy the
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    • 792 14 WASHINGTON Critics say it doesn't go far enough to tackle severe spending problem AP BUDGET hawks from across the political spectrum attacked US President Bush's deficit reduction plan on Monday, saying it doesn't pack the punch needed to offset huge spending levels in defence
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    • 306 14 NEW YORK NYT CREDIT Suisse First Boston has agreed to pay fines of US$l7O,OOO and restitution of U*****,537 in connection with the way it handled the hectic first-day trading of a hot new offering in 1999, when the bull market was approaching its
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    • 537 15 COLUMBIA, South Carolina Momentum behind front-runner Kerry but polls give Edwards slim lead AFP, AP SOUTH Carolina was the focus of a seven-state election showdown yesterday, with pundits eyeing the possible emergence of a rival to Senator John Kerry's right to challenge for
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    • 254 15 NEW YORK Execution speed should, in some instances, take precedence Reuters THE US Securities and Exchange Commission's staff is recommending the agency modify the "best-price" rule, which requires that markets always get investors the best stock price even if it means going
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    • 688 13 To call 101 l free 1800 289 8822 Email: ■oticesOspfc.com.tji IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AMCOL PACIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE PTE LTD (In Creditors' Voluntary Winding-Up) SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED ON 27th DAY OF JANUARY 2004 At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company
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    • 535 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF IWZONE TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. (In Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of IWZONE TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD. duly convened and held at 3791 lalan Bukit Merah #08-12 E-Centre#Redhill, Singapore *****1,
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    • 760 13 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER SO) AND IN THE MATTER OF AUTO EXPERT PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 141 Market Street AEC Centre Ixvel 10 Singapore *****4 on 28th January 2004
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  • 4865 14 i Transaction date: Feb 3 HONG KONG Vol HK Exchanges Clearing 19,35 045 6025 HKS '000 HKR Inf1 3.15 0.10 4499 H K and China Gas 12.55 unch 9464 Aeon Credit 5.30 unch 0 Hong Kong Electric 31.30 unch 3652 Aeon Stores 6.15 0.15 60 Hongkong Chinese 1.06
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  • BT motoring
    • 238 16  -  It is expected to debut in S'pore later this year By Samuel Ee FOLLOWING in the tracks of the Corolla Altis, Borneo Motors Singapore will soon be importing another bestselling Toyota model from Thailand, the Camry. t The Camry has been the most
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    • 792 16  -  Will the Sunny overtake Toyota's best-selling Corolla in 2004? Samuel Ee takes a look Samuel Ee A RELATIVE cost and product advantage could see Singapore's best-selling car overtaken this year by a runner-up that has been quietly advancing, say some in the motor industry. The Toyota Corolla
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    • 93 16  -  By Samuel Ee THE west-bound carriageway of the Braddell-Bishan flyover was opened yesterday three months after the east-bound section allowed motorists to leapfrog peak-hour congestion. Three years after work on the $21.8 million flyover began, cars travelling from the Central Expressway now have smoother
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    • 623 17  -  Proximity to pirate hotspots in Indonesian waters likely reason for large number of attacks Reports by Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The latest statistics pointing to a dramatic rise in global and regional piracy have also shown Singapore-flagged vessels to suffer the second highest number
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    • 607 17 Demand outpaced growth in shipping capacity last year Bloomberg [OSLO] Oil tanker owners such as Frontline Ltd and General Maritime Corp can be expected to report higher fourth-quarter profits after freight rates soared because of rising oil demand, transit delays
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    • 306 17 SGX '000 Feb3 St Vol CH Offshore 0.34 -0.01 3304 ChuanHup 0.48 -0.01 1138 Cosco Investment .0.79 0.04 28S86 CWT Distribution 0.55 unch 11 EzraHldgs 1.02 -0.02 145 Freight Links ...0.13 unch 483 68 Holdings 0.70 0.01 30 Jaya Holdings 0.87 -0 01 1774 K1 Venture .0.22 unch
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    • 249 17 [SINGAPORE] Singapore has joined 98 other countries which have already acceded to an international convention aimed at ensuring appropriate action is taken against the perpetrators of crimes at sea. The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore said that Singapore acceded
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    • 169 17 Reuters [HONG KONG] China-back-ed container leasing firm and port operator Cosco Pacific said that it expected throughput at its container terminals to rise more than 17 per cent this year after it added capacity. China's surging economy has fuelled explosive growth in its
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    • 693 18  -  STRAIT TALK By David Hughes WITH 92 seafarers and passengers confirmed killed or missing and presumed dead after pirate attacks, last year was an awful one. Nearly three times as many people were killed by pirates in 2003 as in the previous year. In any context
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    • 200 18 PAGE Alianca 5 Austral AL 5 Avant 6 Bank Line 4 B'tang Mas 5 BSA 4 BSC 6 BTL 6 Cargoways 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 China Shpg 5 Confer 6 Crocodile Line ....4 CWT Globelink 4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 6 ECL 3 Eng
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    • 11730 23 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number <• 16/02 22/02 PACC Cont OSS KOLKATA 013N 45-*****655 TO ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvolre 17/02 23/02 PACC Cont THOR LONE 014 65-*****655
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 572 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL ANTREAS 01/04 J7/8 A/SIDE 04/02 150C BAYSWATER228 E4035 J3 A/SIDE 04/02 023C NICO 3 0302 J6 A/SIDE 04/02 063C NTHN DIGNITY 352-32 J18/19 A/SIDE 04/02 030C 5UMBER MAS 8 2180 J13 A/SIDE 04/02 100C BAYSWATER118 M4036 J3 04/02 0900
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      • 1525 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES I Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Wmbr ALAMJAYA 2 8881N 8881N 1 07/02/2004-05:00 07/02/2004-13Q0 ALICAWT1A 392 888 1 06/02/2004-07:00 07/02/2004-23:00 ANPA 4029 4029 1 04/02/2004-10:00 04/02/2004-16:00 P01 APL BELGIUM 121E 121E 1 0402/2004-16:00 05/02/2004-09:00 B05 API
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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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      • 807 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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      • 536 25 Carton J*" 22 tensity Water Residue AshAlumlnlum Sediment M/M K6/M«3 SV/V SM/M M/M mi mrtted ISO/Cimac Limits Spec £25 991 1.0 15.0 0.10 80 0.10 Spec C35 991 1.0 18.0 0.15 80 0.10 Northern Europe 180 Ave 980.4 0.1 11.7 0.04 20 0.02 180 Ma> 996.5
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 683 26 But number of mothballed planes also hit record levels NYT [NEW YORK] Though air traffic continues to rise, the number of commercial airliners in storage in December reached record levels, according to estimates by Speed News, the weekly aviation industry newsletter. A
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      • 465 26 They are against carrier's move to make retirees pay a greater share of medical benefits Reuters [CHICAGO] United Airlines flight attendants on Monday asked a bankruptcy court to investigate what they called the airline's "scheme to defraud thousands of retirees". United, a
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      • LOGBook
        • 80 26 Reuters [MADRID] Spanish airline Iberia said on Monday it was expanding its code sharing deal with British Airways to add flights to Dubai and three Canadian cities, and within South Africa, to its routes. In return, British Airways will market Iberia flights between Barcelona and
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        • 89 26 Reuters [LONDON] British airports operator BAA Pic on Monday posted a one per cent rise in operating profit for the nine months to Dec 31 and said airlines' confidence and a solid economy would underpin strong passenger growth. The owner of London's Heathrow airport, the
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        • 82 26 Reuters [VIENNA] Austrian Airlines said Credit Suisse First Boston had sold a stake of under 5 per cent in the Austrian carrier, disposing of the last of a 10 per cent holding it once had. Austrian did not disclose the price for the sale,
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      • 516 26 Reuters [BRUSSELS] European Union regulators yesterday ordered low-cost carrier Ryanair to repay some of the subsidies it received for flying to Belgium's Charleroi regional airport. The Irish airline could face a repayment obligation of up to 4 million euros (SsB.4 million) to Charleroi,
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      • 184 26 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Air Asia Co started commercial flights yesterday without incident or seat cancellations a day after the budget carrier's first demonstration flight for the media was aborted because of an indicator malfunction. "We received 40 to 50 calls from passengers but luckily there was
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      • 2047 26 CITY FlIGHT ETA FLIGHT ETD AlllaHl M7381 *40 LH9770 2255 t U *2 **> OF81 1840 $0229 2255 1755 $0436 2030 LH977I 1855 M> OHM BOO SM30 W55 taM S0403 0710 0(349 0010 Amsttrdam KL837 1535 KL838 2330 EM04 1350 EM05 0220 Auckland EK405 0105 EM04
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    • 129 17 ANNOUNCEMENT SOC SHIPMENTS TO AND FROM CALCUTTA Members of the Calcutta Feeder Operators (CALFO) Forum met recently in Singapore and reviewed the exorbitant cost structure of Calcutta Port Trust vessel operations. Despite some pilotage concessions (which will only assist vessels forced by draft restrictions to lighten their loads by performing
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    • 89 17 Ryanair loses dogfigit wfthrEU D4/wluoe v BACKPAtf United's flight attendants cry foul BACKPAGE <* If.— Chua Chor Teck Memorial Lecture 18th Annual Lecture "LNG Challenges and Prospects" by Tan Sri Dato' Mohd Hassan Marican President CEO, PETRONAS jon Wednesday, 4 February 2004 at 6.00 pm at MLTI of the Singapore
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    • 121 25 SHSEKHEBBKHHSES3HKSS^Si I2Oe g REGIONAL WEATHER |5f Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols Showers Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds Rain One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day -One full fleche represents 10 knots Hazy A -One solid triangle represents 50
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