The Business Times, 19 February 2004

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    16 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE I Internet: nttp://business-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004
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    Lock icon Dividend-friendly companies on the rise
    891 1  -  Tax changes, good earnings, excess cash cited for increasing payouts By Kenneth Lim [SINGAPORE] Robinson Co's stunning $2.18 cash payout per share caps the recent trend of rising dividends among listed companies. While the size of Robinson's dividend is not representative of the broader picture,
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    76 1 Dsn 1,888.51 (AM) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,885.00 (-8.00) SIMSCI 230.31 (+3.59) SIMSCI FUTURES 230.00 (-0.30) Wednesday Change KLSE COMP .857.15 +11,15 NIKKEI 225 10,676.81 -24.32 HANG SENG 13,928,18 +112.94 SET INDEX 742.33 -6.50 JAKARTA COMP +8.91 MANILA COMP 1,472.12 +7.24 TAIPEI WPI 6,605.89 +5,18 SEOUL COMP 877.10 -7.70 SHENZHEN
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    71 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ US$ (SSperUSS) 1.672 £(US$/S$ per 1.911 3.195 EURO(lJS$/S$/E). 1.289 2.155 YEN 105.B 63.10 RM 3.800 2.272 HKS 7.770 4.IUG BAHT 39.01 23.33 Rl'PIAH 8,400 5,02:1 RENMINBI 8.299 4.963 INDIAN RUPEE._ 45.26 27.07 A$ 1.252 0.749 NZ$ 1.412 0.844 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA 6.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon Talks with MNC set ablaze demand for GeneMedix
    604 1  -  By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The Singapore market's only pure biotechnology stock, GeneMedix pic, yesterday gave an inkling of the huge potential new developments that the pharmaceutical industry could bring when its shares shot up two-thirds in a single day on hopes of
    Source: Bloomberg  -  604 words
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    Lock icon UOB in talks to buy Thai bank stake worth US$600m
    352 1  -  But it's not expected to overpay for ABN Amro's interest in Bank of Asia By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank (UOB) is in talks to buy an 81 per cent stake in Thailand's Bank of Asia. The stake,
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      138 1 ■■a-urniM Japan posts Share strong Q4 buyback GDP «Pg2 a r What's driving f or huge Robinson demand for yen? TenHoolUig Pg 6 Pg 4 11 V 1 1 Ma——. HI lg4 m \Qw/1 9 m UW SM Reverso Platinum Number Two Th e solid platinum case swivels reveal the
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        96 2 SOME analysts attending tomorrow's United Overseas Bank results briefing will be disappointed. It seems they thought they would finally get to meet bank chairman Wee Cho Yaw, who always presents UOB's year-end results. But while Mr Wee, who is also the chief executive, will be announcing the results,
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        66 2 WE'VE just received a press release from the British Council with a pack of Smarties chocolate sweets attached. The release announces a record increase in the number of foreign students studying in the UK. Enrolment of Singapore students was up 4 per cent in the 2002-03 season to
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      Lock icon Development charges for commercial land expected to fall
      1050 2  -  Analysts divided over direction of DC for non-landed residential use By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Development charges (DC), payable for enhancing a site's use, are likely to fall further come March 1, at least for commercial and industrial land, say property consultants polled
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      Lock icon Japan's 1.7% growth in Q4 strongest in 13 years
      526 2  -  Some see recovery, others bemoan export dependence From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S economy grew a robust 1.7 per cent in the final quarter of last year well ahead of official and private forecasts, and the strongest growth rate since the
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      343 2 Budget 2004 Date What Tuesday, 9 March 2004 2003 saw various events that impacted Singapore's economic 9.00 am to I.oopm growth. Among them were the outbreak of SARS and the US-led war on Iraq. To some extent, the worst appears to be Venue over an d there are now some
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Temasek may be eyeing Malaysia's Alliance Bank
      481 4  -  It'll get Bank Negara nod to start talks soon: source From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur Temasek Holdings, Singapore's investment holding company, is believed to have its eye on Alliance Bank, the second-smallest of 10 anchor banks in Malaysia. According to one source,
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      Lock icon Overseas plans set to hog DBS, UOB results briefings
      544 4  -  By Siow Li Sen WHEN DBS Group Holdings and United Overseas Bank report fourth quarter 2003 earnings tomorrow, net interest margins, loans growth and overseas strategies are likely to be the highlights. UOB chairman Wee Cho Yaw will be grilled about
      Source: DBS OCAC Berek UOB  -  544 words
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      Lock icon Share buyback not good for Robinson
      678 4  -  HOCK lock siew teh hooi ling FINALLY, Robinson Co has taken the step to distribute its huge cash hoard back to shareholders. On Tuesday, the company announced that it would pay an interim dividend of 18 cents per share and a special dividend of
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  • FOCUS yen
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      Lock icon What's driving huge yen demand
      1417 6  -  The S$ will strengthen further if currencies like the yen and euro lead the way higher, says Larry Wee Larry Wee THE yen has emerged as a favourite among currency forecasters this year, despite the fact that at first glance it's not that obvious why
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      Lock icon Taking rising yen in stride
      546 6  -  Companies unfazed but Japanese cars, electronic goods may cost more By Daniel Buenas MOST companies here are unlikely to be hurt by the rising yen, but Japanese imports such as cars and electronic goods may cost consumers more. The yen has risen almost 20 per
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      592 8  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN Robinson Co Fab 18 ciaaing: $8.50 THE 3 per cent rise in net profit to $13.7 million was about 8 per cent below our expectations. Hie main culprit was unpredictable investment income, which contracted 20 per cent due to a higher forex loss and
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      Lock icon Earnings surprise, more upside seen for NOL
      270 8  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan NEPTUNE Orient Lines (NOL) has had a rough time lately amid concern that it may do an "ST Assembly". The counter fell sharply on rumours quickly denied that NOL was likely to embark on another round of
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      Lock icon Bulls, bears in a tie as STI fails to hold 1,900
      528 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy DEPENDING on who you speak to, the stock market is either poised for a sharp fall or headed for new highs. This may sound self-evident. After all, markets obviously fall or rise at any
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      Lock icon US$ hits fresh lows despite good news
      578 8  -  BT comment CURRENCIES Pound sterling makes biggest gain, up 0.6% at US$1.9128 larry wee THE US dollar continued to tumble to painful fresh lows despite good news Stateside overnight, although losses versus Asian counterparts remained modest. But demonstrating just how badly it continues
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon Interra shareholder In married deal
        94 8 A KEY shareholder of Interra Resources, Canyon Gate Investments, on Feb 17 saw its deemed interest in the oil and gas company reduce by 16 million shares following a married deal at an average price of 22.7 cents per share. The sale reduced Canyon Gate's
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        Lock icon Schroder trims Seksun shareholding
        58 8 FUND manager Schroder Investment Management on Feb 16 had its deemed shareholding in electronics group Seksun Corporation reduced to 10.13 per cent from 10.38 per cent, following a sale of 424,000 shares by its Singapore unit. Shares of Seksun, which makes high precision metal components, yesterday
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        Lock icon Broadway chairman's stake cut further
        90 8 WONG Sheung Sze, the executive chairman of Broadway Industrial Group, on Feb 16 had his direct stake in the company cut further to 0.76 per cent, or 1.02 million shares, from 1.13 per cent previously. This followed a sale of 500,000 shares under charge by
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        Lock icon Fund boosts stake in Total Auto
        79 8 FUND manager Chartered Asset Management's deemed shareholding in Total Automation rose to 7.49 per cent from 7.22 per cent following an open market purchase of 435,000 shares on Feb 16. Total Automation yesterday announced that it had on Feb 16 entered into an MOU
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        Lock icon Citibank pares more FHTK holdings
        54 8  -  Compiled by: SERENA NG CITIBANK'S Singapore branch on Feb 16 reduced its shareholding in FHTK Holdings further to 5.52 per cent from 5.68 per cent when it sold around two million shares in the open market. Shares of the fruit and vegetable distributor yesterday ended
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      408 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 18 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 98.00 +15.00 BTCADI -*****.00 -51.00 BT 10-day m -*****.00 +9.00 Afl-SGEqufflee 511.18 +0.63 SG Eipritt—D«ct 185.48 +0.50 SC Equfflw Ffa 1579.24 -6.10 SG Equities Prop 471.65 -1.66 SmSCI 230.31 +3.59 SiMSCI Futures 230.00 -0.30 Stocks Voknw Matex5c 180,411,000 Bio-Treat HK40c 78,304,000
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  • BLUE chips
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      Lock icon SembCorp may regain its shine
      792 9  -  But it's still too early to put money on that, says WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG FOR much of the past year, SembCorp Industries (SCI) found itself relegated to the sidelines as rival Keppel Corp (KepCorp) powered ahead as the most favoured stock in
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      143 9 This announcement appears as a matter of record only February 2004 UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 27 December 2002) Invitation in respect of 73,500,000 ordinary shares of Sso.oB each comprising 38,000,000 New Shares and 35,500,000 Vendor Shares as follows:(1) 8,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.28
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Metro invests in China property via HK firm
      438 10  -  BT exclusive It will subscribe for US$40m of preferred debt in new Shui On unit By Loh Hui Yin METRO Holdings is deepening its exposure to the property investment market in China. But instead of investing directly, the Singaporelisted retailer is doing
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      Lock icon TGA, Huan Hsin post robust earnings
      486 10  -  By Serena Ng, Teh Shi Ning ROBUST demand in the plastic moulding sector helped Tech Group Asia (TGA) to post sequentially higher second quarter earnings and also enabled Taiwanese firm Huan Hsin Holdings to post record net profit and sales for the full year
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon C&C Bintang profit dives
        49 10 CYCLE Carriage Bintang yesterday posted a 58 per cent slide in full-year profit to RM24.3 million (5510.7 million). This was due primarily to the transfer of the Mercedes-Benz wholesale business to Daimler-Chrysler from Jan 1,2003. The company is a unit of Singapore-listed Jardine Cycle Carriage.
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        Lock icon SingTel partners Greek telco
        107 10 SINGAPORE Telecommunications has formed an alliance with a unit of dominant Greek telecoms operator OTE involving the exchange of premium quality international voice traffic and cooperation in other international services like hubbing traffic exchanges. Sing Tel will use OTEGlobe to transfer Singapore calls to parties in
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        Lock icon Unified IPO 22.1 times subscribed
        32 10 UNIFIED Communications' IPO was 22.1 times subscribed based on the total number of applications for offer and placement shares. Its total invitation size was 73.5 million shares.
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        Lock icon TT Int'l Q3 profit up 6.5%
        80 10 TT International's net profit for the third quarter ended December rose 6.5 per cent to $5.1 million as sales of consumer electronics products remained strong. Sales in seafood trading and processing as well as warehouse and logistics services, however, declined. Turnover for Q3 increased
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        Lock icon Noble '03 profit more than doubles
        74 10 Reuters NOBLE Group Ltd, Asia's largest diversified commodity trading firm, said yesterday it had more than doubled net profit in 2003 on strong demand v from China and planned a share subdivision. Net profit rose 103 per cent to U5561.25 million, sharply beating analysts'
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        Lock icon Kim Eng subscribes for PSE shares
        59 10 KIM Eng Holdings fully-owned units KE Strategic and Kim Eng Investment have each subscribed for 695,130 new Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) shares at 119.50 pesos per share. The total consideration for the 1.39 million PSE shares, equivalent to 9.1 per cent of PSE's enlarged
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        Lock icon KLW issues profit warning
        45 10 KLW Holdings' directors reckon the company's full-year 2003 results would be worse than that of its first half and FY2002, and therefore expect a loss. The group expects to release its full-year results ended Dec 31,2003 by the end of February.
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      Lock icon UOL earnings fall 51% to $ 78.8m
      440 11  - UOL earnings fall 51% to 78.8m Decline magnified by $83m exceptional gain in previous year By Kalpana Rashiwala UNITED Overseas Land (UOL), the property arm of Wee Cho Yaw's United Overseas Bank, yesterday reported a 51 per cent drop in full-year group net profit to $78.8 million in the absence
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      Lock icon A-Reit to sell new units at $1.16
      273 11  -  By Andrea Tan ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust's manager and the placement agents for its latest fund-raising exercise have gone on a roadshow in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, London, Paris and Edinburgh all in a week. A-Reit, the only industrial Reit in Singapore,
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      Lock icon Earnings of MMI, Brilliant up on high demand
      262 11  -  By Kenneth Lim HIGH demand has helped drive up the earnings of hard disk drive (HDD) component makers MMI Holdings and Brilliant Manufacturing. MMI, which also does contract manufacturing for non-HDD components, said yesterday its net profit more than tripled to $9.5
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      817 10 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 50) AND IN THE MATTER OF SINHAN PROPERTIES HOLDINGS PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Extract of the minutes at the Extraordinary General Meeting of members of Sinhan Properties Holdings Pte Ltd convened and held at Equity Plaza 20 Cecil Street #12-02/03
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      1321 11 2003 results announcement L I Year ended 31 December 2003 m Vlfj I 'JjgjJ group "Today's Answer To Tomorrow's Growth" (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) We arc pleased to present to you below the audited consolidated results of the Group for the year 2003. Our turnover for the year
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon A time to celebrate
      397 12  -  Bovis Lend Lease marks its 30th year in S'pore, expects higher earnings By Andrea Tan BOVIS Lend Lease, the construction arm of Australia's biggest real estate group, will celebrate 30 years in Singapore and Asia tonight with a cocktail function. And more importantly, it expects earnings
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      489 12  -  GARDENER'S log By Thien D-DAY for gardeners is that dreaded day when your neighbour moves out and the demolition team moves in. That's when your home if you haven't bothered to grow a green screen becomes glaringly exposed, as neighbouring trees and shrubs are mercilessly bulldozed. Well
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Developers' wait may be over
      410 13  -  60 of 204 units at De Royale sold since soft launch over the weekend By Vince Chong THE wait for developers to launch projects may soon be over if "encouraging" sales of about 60 units at the 204unit De Royale since its soft launch at
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      Lock icon Goods vehicle COEs up; others fall
      294 13  -  EYE on the economy By Samuel Ee ii\ T T HAT goes down must come up" may be a 1/1/ corruption of the universal axiom, but f that's how some commercial vehicle traders felt yesterday when the COE premium for Category C finally rose
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      Lock icon Steven Chong heads law firm Rajah & Tann
      305 13  - Steven Chong heads law firm Rajah Tann Top maritime lawyer takes over from VK Rajah By Vince Chong SENIOR counsel Steven Chong has been appointed managing partner of law firm Rajah Tann, following his friend and peer VK Rajah's move to the courts as a judicial commissioner at the start
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      Lock icon National Library's CEO moving to Media Development Authority
      279 13 THE National Library Board's chief executive Christopher Chia will take over as chief executive officer of the Media Development Authority (MDA) from June 1 this year. He replaces Lim Hock Chuan, who will move to the Ministry of Home Affairs as deputy
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      Lock icon All insurers under Idro's jurisdiction
      203 13  -  MAIL bag John Lim CEO, Reputation Management Associates On behalf of the Insurance Disputes Resolution Organisation I REFER to the report, "Got a problem with your bank? Don't fret" (BT, Feb 7) and wish to make the following clarifications with regard to Idro. Idro, which
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Join hands with Opec for stable prices
      811 14  -  THE bottom line OPINION robert samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group WE ought to reconsider Opec (the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). For years, we've imagined it as a monstrous conspiracy designed to gouge oilconsuming countries and to deprive Americans of cheap
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      55 14 'There is, frankly, no enthusiasm right now for sending in military or police forces to put down the violence that we are seeing.' Colin Powell the US secretary of state, acknowledging that the Bush administration, already stretched thin in the Middle East and elsewhere, has no appetite
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      Lock icon Bring back the M'sia Cup of old
      621 14 EDITORIAL IT would be a pity if talks next week over Singapore's proposed re-entry into the Malaysia Cup soccer competition become bogged down over whether it is the national team or clubs from the domestic league that represent the Republic. It is clear
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      Lock icon The hard case for soft business skills
      1202 14  -  With globalised competition, it is leaders' emotional intelligence, not technical expertise or superior intellect, that matters most for success By B H Tan IN organisations around the world, a historic shift is taking place in the nature of leadership. The traditional command-and-control style
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      Lock icon Fukui the best? Not yet
      663 14  -  COMMENTARY The BOJ governor hasn't quite proven himself yet By William Peselc Bloomberg "THE toast of Tokyo financial circles." That's how one international business magazine last month described Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui. This week, another magazine named 68-year-old Fukui the world's best central
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon M'sian minister charged in graft case resigns
      431 15 KUALA LUMPUR Abdullah says he is committed to rooting out corruption AP A MALAYSIAN minister has resigned after being charged with an illegal share deal, falling victim to a major anti-corruption drive launched by new Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Kasitah Gaddam, the
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon SAP upgrades China's credit rating
        130 15 Reuters [BEIJING] Ratings agency Standard Poor's gave a stamp of approval yesterday to recent reforms in China by raising the country's credit rating and reaffirming its positive outlook, but it said the banking system was a risk. The one-notch upgrade boosted China's long-term foreign currency
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        106 15 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia yesterday said it was planning to overhaul its interest rate structure to spur investment lending and further reduce borrowing costs that are among the highest in Asia. Under the proposal, the central bank might slash its key overnight rate, which is already
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        69 15 [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government has decided to abolish toll charges for the Johor Baru-Senai stretch effective March 1, said Works Minister S Samy Vellu, the Star reports. At present, users pay RM2 in toll charge. The 27km highway was opened in 1988. The government would
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        87 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] China is expected to allow its social security fund to invest about two billion yuan (Ss4o2 million) in stocks listed in Hong Kong in the second half 0f2004, the Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po reported yesterday. A report to allow the
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        70 15 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Tata Motors, India's biggest maker of trucks and buses, was to sign an agreement yesterday to buy South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co for US$lO2 million, in its first overseas acquisition, as it expands sales. Tata Motors will buy all of
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        132 15 Reuters [LONDON] British bank Lloyds TSB Group said on Tuesday it would hire 150 workers in India for its general insurance business as it tests the benefits of cheaper labour. The bank will move 107 UK jobs to India from Bournemouth, England, and
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        61 15 Reuters [HONG KONG] China's biggest PC maker Legend Group yesterday said net profit rose slightly in its fiscal third quarter and unveiled a restructuring to help jumpstart flagging growth. Legend posted a net profit of HK$325 million (Ss7o million) for its fiscal third quarter
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      316 15 JAKARTA Divestment could raise US$194m for state, analysts say Reuters INDONESIA kicked off a sale of minority stakes in four banks yesterday that could raise about US$l94 million for the state, brokers said. The state-run Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra), which met investors
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      696 15 KUALA LUMPUR IT must have given Md Nor Yusof tremendous satisfaction to deliver Malaysia Airlines' third quarter results on Tuesday. The company's managing director has managed to lead the carrier on to the growth path again after six consecutive years of losses. However,
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      529 16 DETRIOT Observers don't see another big wireless merger just yet Reuters, Bloomberg THE US$4l billion deal between Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc may have taken a player out of the US wireless market, but it will do little to ease
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      366 16 PROFILE: Cingular CEO Stanley Sigman Reuters STANLEY Sigman, the CEO of Cingular Wireless who masterminded the US$4l billion bid for AT&T Wireless Services, has been in the telephone business all his life. He started out stocking shelves for Southwestern Bell Telephone in his hometown of Hereford, Texas,
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      467 16 BANGKOK Its president denies it's still getting govt subsidies AFP THAILAND'S skies are becoming increasingly crowded, and a dogfight is brewing between the kingdom's flagship carrier and upstart budget airlines eyeing a share of the lucrative aviation sector. Thai Airways this month announced
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      361 17 LATEST US INDICATORS It is at lowest level since Aug, a sign housing boom may be losing steam Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US housing starts fell more sharply than expected in January to the lowest level since August in a sign that the
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        75 17 NYT [BRUSSELS] European antitrust regulators have rebuffed an offer by the Microsoft Corp to include rivals' audio and video playing software in the form of CD-ROMs in the boxes of new personal computers. The proposal indicates that the company is actively pursuing a resolution of the
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        63 17 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Germany's Commerzbank yesterday said it was open to foreign or domestic mergers after disappointing investors again with a shock fourth-quarter loss. Chief executive Klaus-Peter Mueller said that the bank was not currently in merger talks, after announcing a fourth-quarter loss of 88 million euros
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        71 17 AP [NEW YORK] Five New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) specialist firms have tentatively agreed to pay US$24O million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to avoid civil charges for allegedly mishandling trades and skimming profits, according to people close to
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      340 17 SYDNEY AFP, FT AUSTRALIAN telco Telstra Corp yesterday denied reports that it had planned an election-year takeover bid for newspaper group Fairfax. The Bulletin news magazine reported that chief executive Ziggy Switkowski proposed a A 53.5 billion (554.7 billion) takeover on Feb
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      451 17 LONDON Its 2003 profit rises 22% to US$1.54b on falling bad debts Reuters, Bloomberg ASIAN-FOCUSED bank Standard Chartered pic reported annual profit at the top of forecasts yesterday and said business in its biggest market of Hong Kong would continue to revive this year.
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      375 19 It will now follow lead of rival AMD; move a setback for Intel NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp has long dominated the computer microprocessor market it created in 1971 but it did an abrupt about-face on Tuesday. The world's largest chipmaker
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      726 20  -  The company's first priority will be to offer VoIP services between Singapore and Hong Kong, CEO Tan Tong Hai tells Raju Chellam Raiu Chellam N. ASDAQ-LISTED Pacific Internet, which recently celebrated its eighth straight quarter in the black, will offer managed
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      226 20  -  By Raju Chellam PACIFIC Internet said Ko Kheng Hwa retired as the company's director and chairman as of yesterday and is succeeded by Low Sin Leng. Mr Ko was on the board that guided PacNet through its listing on Nasdaq in 1999 and had served as PacNet's
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      271 20  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury HOMEGROWN I'M Technologies, a developer of smart card operating systems and two-time Enterpriseso.startup award winner, has inked an agreement with Sun Microsystems to make it the region's first Java Card licensee. Under the agreement with Sun, the US
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      383 21 Swedish authorities detain Polish freighter captain after the incident AP [STOCKHOLM, Sweden] The captain of a Polish freighter is suspected of recklessness at sea in a collision with a passenger ferry off southwestern Sweden, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. All 91 passengers and 37
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      160 21 Reuters [BEIJING] Shipping container maker China International Marine Containers (CIMC) has won US$l.5 billion in financing that will help it expand an already dominant global footprint, the Financial News said. CIMC, the world's top largest maker of shipping containers with a 40 per
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      395 21 Trade disrupted since Nov 03 when activists contaminated animal feed AP [MELBOURNE, Australia] Thousands of sheep have been loaded onto a ship bound for the Middle East amid tight security, officials said on Tuesday, marking the first live sheep export since
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      Lock icon Keppel Fels to build another rig for Ensco
      273 21  -  Deal in 'cash and kind' said to be worth US$105m By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Keppel Fels has entered into a "cash and kind" contract, said to be worth about US$lO5 million, to build a high performance rig for a unit of US-based
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      296 21 SGX '000 N>1» SS W- Vol CH Offshore .0.37 0.02 3420 Chuan Hup .0.51 unch 1871 Cosco Investment 087 -0.03 8237 CWT Distribution 0 57 0 03 42 Ezra Hldgs 1.24 unch 1550 Freight Links .0.13 unch 2386 GB Holdings 0.72 0.01 96 Java Holdings 0.86 0.01 2710
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      295 21 Maritime sector remains wide open to terror attacks, warn analysts Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Union (EU) needs new measures to make sure its ports are protected from attacks by guerrilla groups, the European Commission (EC) said on Tuesday as it proposed tighter
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      Lock icon Tanker trailing oil slick banned from Sydney port
      286 21 Ship carrying crude oil has 15cm crack in hull AP [SYDNEY] An oil tanker with a crack in its hull was floating off Australia's east coast since Tuesday after being banned from entering Sydney Harbour because the vessel was spotted trailing an
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      Lock icon China's shipbuilding continues to grow while Brazil's stages revival
      920 22  -  NEWBUILDS By David Hughes THERE is no doubt that the tight newbuilding market means that not only are prices edging up but early slots for large vessels are difficult to come by. This situation has of course happened periodically before and
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        812 27 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 average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        Lock icon US moves to boost aircraft fuel tank safety
        523 28 Move may cost industry at least US$530m over several years: FAA Reuters [WASHINGTON] US regulators said on Tuesday that they plan to order modifications on 3,800 commercial jets to reduce chances of a fuel tank explosion like the one that destroyed TWA
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        Lock icon Japan Airlines names new president
        470 28 It also unveils plans for a corporate name change AFP [TOKYO] Asia's top carrier Japan Airlines System yesterday named a new president to take over in June when the integration of its domestic partner Japan Air Systems (JAS) under one brand is completed. Toshiyuki Shinmachi,
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        Lock icon SriLankan Air to fly to Hyderabad
        148 28 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] SriLankan Airlines will fly to Hyderabad, its ninth destination in India, on Sunday in a bid to promote the country and India as twin destination holiday centres to Malaysian travellers. Country manager Malaysia Prasanna Subasinghe said that the airline will offer
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          70 28 Reuters [MADRID] Nearly 10 million people used Spain's airports in January, some 7.6 per cent more than a year previously, the airports' authority, AENA, said. The number of passengers on international flights climbed by more than 10 per cent to 5.3 million, while the number
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          83 28 AFP ItjEiiJiNLrj tnina s Hainan Airlines has signed an agreement with Hungarian Airlines to jointly operate an air route between Beijing and Budapest, state media said yesterday. Under the agreement, Hainan Airlines, in which financier George Soros holds a 14.8 per cent stake, will launch
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        Lock icon New Cambodian airline to fly to S'pore next week
        256 28  -  Other destinations are KL and Guangzhou By Ven Sreentvasan [SINGAPORE] Cambodia's new carrier, First Cambodia Airlines, will take to the skies next week and Singapore will be one of its first three new destinations. The company, owned by two Cambodian business
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        Lock icon Air France to cut costs by 1b euros a year
        285 28 Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France, Europe's second-biggest carrier, plans to reduce costs by 1 billion euros (552.14 billion) a year from 2007 as it reorganises its European flight strategy and trims other spending. "Air France's goal is to reduce costs by
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        Lock icon EU draft rules on flight crew's hours
        178 28 AP [BRUSSELS, Belgium] European-wide rules on working times and other standards for flight crews moved a step closer to reality when the European Union's executive formally adopted them. The draft regulation would replace a hodgepodge of national rules in the EU's existing 15
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