The Business Times, 30 August 2004

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 023/03/2004 ii.t°rne H .ip://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2004
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  • 859 1  -  Move could unleash pent-up demand for larger flats, say consultants By Daniel Buenas, Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] In a move which property consultants say could unleash pent-up demand for larger public housing flats, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday that
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  • 50 1 THEY thronged the halls, an unrelenting flow of human traffic, and for once the attraction wasn't a Taiwanese boy band. The objects of their desire were a cornucopia of high-tech goodies at Comex 2004, touted as Singapore's biggest-euer consumer IT and digital show. Photo: ARTHUR LEE
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  • 640 1  -  Ex-ministry official expected to set new direction for bank From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE appointment of the exsenior official of the Japanese Finance Ministry, Haruhiko Kuroda, as president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is expected to be formally announced tomorrow,
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  • 61 1 Week Change ST1 1915.90 +20.97 KLSECOMP 821.49 +13.02 NIKKEI 225 *****.59 +320.45 HANG SENG *****.42 +441.52 SET INDEX 620.12 +21.57 JAKARTA COMP ...746.76 -3.71 MANILA COMP ..1582.04 -0.80 TAIPEI TAIEX —5797.71 +174.85 SEOUL COMP 810.30 +22.66 SHENZHEN B _...il6.47 +2.07 Al'STALLORD .3568.70 +60.90 DOW JONES *****.01 +84.87 NASDAQ 1862.09
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  • 74 1 FOREX RATES US* SS L'SS (S$ per USS) 1.712 £(US$/S$ per £)1.799 3.079 EURO(L'SS/S$/E). 1.209 2.070 YEN 109.5 MOO KM 3.800 2.220 HKS 7.800 4.557 BAHT 41.61 24.31 RITIAH 9,299 5,433 RENMINBI 8.277 4.836 INDIAN RI'PEE..... 46.33 27.07 A$ 1.416 0.827 NZS 1.522 0.889 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE 5.25 MALAYSIA
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    • 423 2  -  Besides raising birth rates, we most integrate foreigners in society Reports by Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] The population issue is not just about making more babies, but also rolling out the welcome mat to foreigners and immigrants. And that's why Home Affairs Minister
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    • 191 2 [SINGAPORE] The government will be proroguing Parliament in December to help "set a new direction", but Prime Minister Lefe Hsien Loong yesterday said this does not signal a call for early elections. "Proroguing Parliament isjust a ?rrr i after walkabout iitfteon
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    • 1001 2 But energy markets face many constraints and threats that will keep prices high and more volatile AP [WASHINGTON] A LITTLE more than a week ago many energy traders and analysts spoke of US$5O-a-barrel oil as almost a sure thing. Now that
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  • SINGAPOREcompanies
    • 504 3  -  It's among the first private firms to make public offers under amended Companies Act By Daniel Buenas NEWSPRINT and publication paper supplier Pan Asia Paper plans to raise US$5OO million through a multi-currency debt issuance programme that will be launched by year-end,
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    • 709 3  -  HOCK lock siew Kenneth lim MEDIA Asia Entertainment Group's initial public offering has been delayed over the past bribery conviction of a major shareholder. This serves as the latest reminder of our regulators' important scrutineer role in the new disclosure-based regime. Investors, it seems,
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    • 382 6  -  It sets Sept 15 date, says it's busy with reverse takeover and restructuring All reports by Andrea Tan WEE Poh Holdings, a debtladen construction company, said it plans to delay releasing its full-year results as it is "tied up" with the proposed
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    • 189 6  -  By Vincent Wee Old injuries resulted in contrasting fortunes for the women's and men's winners of the Osim Singapore Triathlon at the East Coast Parkway yesterday. Just ten months after giving birth and barely four months after breaking her collar bone, Australian 25-year-old
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    • 372 6 Provision for bad debt, goodwill at unit affect results BATHROOM specialist Sim Siang Choon slipped into the red for the year ended June as it provided for bad debts and goodwill in its new subsidiary. Sim Siang Choon suffered a net loss of
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    • 263 6 Revenue from secretarial services slips on competition BOARDROOM Ltd, a provider of corporate secretarial and share registration services, turned in a 5.9 per cent rise in net profit to $5.1 million for the year ended June. Revenue dipped marginally by 0.6 per cent to
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    • 283 6 MICRO-MECHANICS, which designs and makes consumables for the semiconductor industry, said net profit rose 63.6 per cent due to increased demand for its products. Net profit for the year ended June 30 rose to a record $4.7 million, from $2.9 million previously. Revenue rose
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  • SINGAPOREmarkets
    • 672 4  -  BT comment STOCKS teh hooi ling HAVE stock prices turned the corner? The receding of oil prices last week from their record highs has brought back some action into the local market. Second-liners staged a remarkable recovery. From its 57-week low of 83.72
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    • 858 4 'TUIi SL. i ofa Payment Ex looks Pay <ttL ftit A AEM-Evertech 5c 0-13 15-Sep 20-Sep 30-Sep Pan-United 10c S 4.5TE 23-Aug 26-Aug 07-Sep AEM-Evertech 5c w 0375 15-S«p 20-Sep 30-Sep Parkway Hldgs 25c I 1.50 19-Aug 24 Aug 02 Sep Airocean 5c b 0.30 10-Aug 13-Aug 01
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    • 650 4 Yen rises as trade surplus beats forecasts but slips back in later trading AFP [HONG KONG] The yen led a regionwide fall of Asian currencies against the US dollar as Japan's trade data showed a higher-than-expected surplus for July. Japanese yon: The yen
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    • 1438 4 The stock recommendation is the average of all the recom- Number forecast Median Number forecast Medbn Ml mnrrn'-Tfirtrry... K 0, f S -JQ U h >m u tted b y an^'. yStS fo,,owin g the Stock. There RECOMMENDATION of B»S RE Target RECOMMENDATION of EPS Pf Wee •*—*<-*
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    • 1095 5  -  BTportfolio STOCKS teh hooi ling STOCK prices perked up last week after oil prices receded from their record-high levels. The portfolio made up of the lowest forward price-earnings stocks came back strongly, gaining a solid 5.6 per cent. So did the lowest price-to-book
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    • 1189 5  -  Inside MARKETS Rising purchases in CIH and Citiraya should be noted as bullish signs, says Robert Halili Robert Halili THE director and substantial shareholder sentiment in August is very positive with net buy totals of 52 shareholders, 44 firms, 114 transactions, and $43.2
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    • 292 5  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Yen Sreenivasan THE stock of liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor maker TPV Technology has bounced back nicely from its recent lows at under $1.00. The stock has had a volatile two months, falling from as high as
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  • SINGAPORE! mWJ
    • 204 7 THE Manpower Ministry is revisiting the minimum age of maids in anticipation of a large inflow of maids with the lowered maid levy. Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen, speaking at a community event yesterday, hinted that the present minimum age of 18 will fall
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    • 519 7  -  MAIL bag Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to "Is thermal fogging to kill mosquitoes safe for humans?" by Jaime Ee (Saturday Soapbox, Aug 21). Where I live, there is a regular weekly fogging exercise. I have never been certain whether it is to
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    • 250 7  -  Lindsay Mann Chief executive officer First State Investments (Singapore) I REFER to your article of Aug 27, headlined "Give small investors a break". I want to challenge three of the assumptions in that article. The first assumption is that fund management firms are reluctant to close
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    • 431 7  -  Ex-SIA VP Gerry Oh to be senior VP for global sales marketing from Oct By Vince Chong KWEK Leng Beng's Londonlisted Millennium Copthorne Hotels has started strengthening its focus on Asia, with the appointment of its ficst management staff to
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    • 556 9  -  Oil prices, higher interest rates and erratic rainfall have led to inflation From Aloy Sen in New Delhi SURGING prices pose huge economic and political challenges to India's months-old government with fears of higher interest rates slowing investment, crimping growth, and sparking political
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    • 223 9 BANGKOK THE Thai government will proceed with plans to promote top state hospitals and spas in the south as a pilot project to become a regional healthcare centre, the Bangkok Post said yesterday. Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said on Saturday that
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    • 655 9  -  LETTER from manila Inflation, interest rate rise and fears of lay-offs add to Manila's fiscal crisis al labita FILIPINOS face tough times ahead as the unabated steep rise in the price of imported crude oil has put pressure on inflation and lending rates amid fears
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    • 554 9 BOMBAY Industry offers 400 schemes to suit investors' needs Reuters FOR investors rattled by India's roller coaster stock market down 12 per cent this year after gaining 73 per cent in 2003 Navin Shah has a simple answer. "Invest in mutual funds,"
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    • 272 9 HONG KONG CHINA risks losing jobs as it seeks to raise productivity in an attempt to sustain rapid economic growth, the South China Morning Post reported a Chinawatcher as saying on FYiday. "Among the major economic problems confronting China, unemployment is
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  • REGIONALnews
    • 748 8 KUALA LUMPUR Property developer Azaham making joint bid with Nizam Razak WHO would have thought that a strategic stake in diversified conglomerate DRB-Hicom Bhd would attract aggressive bids from well and lesser-known personalities? And the plot is about to thicken, with the
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    • 275 8 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters STATE-OWNED Telekom Malaysia Bhd will launch its broadband television on Wednesday, competing with two others in a growing payTV market, a business weekly said. Existing subscribers to Telekom's Streamyx broadband in the capital and surrounding areas will be hooked up
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    • 690 8  -  BT comment KL STOCKS High oil prices underline need for caution though stocks rose last week on the back of robust GDP data eddie toh THE Malaysian stock market finally woke up from its long slumber last week following the release of sizzling
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    • 310 8 Singapore's Elite Corporations j^| o,A.E'OR.£ 1000 Ranking Awards SING AIPORE SME DOO Recognizing Singapore's Largest Corporations Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) based on annual audited financials CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF AUDITED FINANCIALS FOR RANKING Ranking Period: 1 June 2003 to 31 May 2004 Closing Date: 30 September 2004 Tb qualify
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  • REGIONworld
    • 542 10 NEW YORK Most affected are banks, insurers with big holdings of mortgage-backed securities Reuters US banks and insurance companies with big holdings of mortgage-backed securities are fretting over a new accounting rule that could take a bite out of earnings as soon
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    • 211 10 HONG KONG Reuters TOUGH non-immigrant visa rules introduced in the US in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks have cost US businesses over US$3O billion in lost sales to China, according to local media. The South China Morning Post, citing
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 90 10 AFP [TOKYO] US investment fund Lone Star will invest about 1.3 trillion yen (5520.3 billion) in Japan over the next three years to buy profitable firms as the economy was recovering, business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. Lone Star will target
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      • 92 10 Reuters [MUNICH] An experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis, viewed as pivotal to the newly-merged company's future, showed good results in the largest clinical study of the product to date. Acomplia, or rimonabant, is tipped by analysts as a future multibillion-dollaf'-a-year seller, since it can help
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      • 92 10 AP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's exports to China increased 33 per cent to US$l7.7 billion in the first five months of this year, the state-funded Straits Business Monthly reported yesterday. Meanwhile, imports from China surged to US$6.l billion in the January-May period, up 53 per cent
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      • 96 10 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea, struggling with persistently sluggish domestic demand and depressed investment, plans to introduce tax deductions to help the economy stay on a recovery path, the ruling Uri Party said yesterday. Chun Jung-bae, a ruling party lawmaker, told a news conference
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      • 78 10 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange said a seat sold for US$l.l5 million, down US$lOO,OOO from the last sale on Aug 17. Seat prices are based on how much owners expect to earn on the exchange, either by trading themselves or leasing the seat
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      • 63 10 AP [NEW DELHI] India yesterday test-launched a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, a defence ministry spokesman said. The Agni II missile lifted off from India's missile testing range on Wheeler Island off the coast of eastern Orissa state, he said. This was the third
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    • 315 10 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S former president who is also an influential Muslim leader has endorsed the front-runner in a Sept 20 run-off to decide who will be the next president, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported yesterday. Former president Abdurrahman Wahid said his decision to
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    • 277 10 LONDON NO fewer than 22 Merrill bosses are to give evidence in the in the high-profile sex discrimination case brought by former banker Stephanie Villalba, which resumes tomorrow after a two-month break, the Observer reported yesterday. Ms Villalba, who headed the
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    • 524 10 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA is keen to boost natural gas consumption to reduce a worrying reliance on dirty coal and costly crude oil, but will need to entice participation from the likes of Royal Dutch/Shell to help defray massive costs. Throw in murky regulations, an
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  • WORLDnews
    • 374 11 PARIS Bloomberg LAZARD chairman Michel David-Weill will oppose an initial public offering of the world's biggest closely held investment bank unless Bruce Wasserstein, who runs the firm, buys his stake, people familiar with the matter said. Mr David-Weill, who can veto a sale
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    • 634 11 LONDON They fill only 114 of 1,400 boardroom seats in British bine-chip firms THE Texas-born publishing executive, Marjorie Scardino, reclaimed her crown as Britain's best-paid female boss last year, although women made little further headway in breaking into the male-dominated world
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    • 559 11 NEW YORK Investment banking may do better than fixed income Reuters WALL Street bonuses are on the rise once again, but how large of an increase employees receive will depend on what side of the bank they work for. Bonuses, which make
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    • 321 11 LONDON WHILE employees across the United Kingdom have seen the value of their pensions dwindle and many employers have shut their final salary schemes, the holders of the 10 largest pension pots in the FTSE 100 are sitting on
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    • 540 11 WASHINGTON AFP IS the US economy in a transitory "soft patch" or sliding toward a downturn? The most recent economic data, showing 2.8 per cent annual growth in the second quarter, left economists debating whether the world's largest economy is simply taking
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    • 1271 12 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended:Aug 27 PRIME LElTDPfQ RATES BANKS HL Bank 6 ABN Amro Bank NV 5.25 H $BC 5.5 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 HSBC Private Bank Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 (Suisse) SA 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 Nan Comm Bank 5.5 American Express Bank 5 HypoVereinsbank 5.25 Arab
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    • 1071 12 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP [LONDON] World oil prices plummeted in trading last week from record high points close to US$5O on eased concern over supply, especially in Iraq where crude exports returned to normal levels. Precious metals fell from four-month high
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    • 1674 12 SICOM FUTURES Aua27 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS1 <s cents/kg) Close VoiwM Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 04 213.00 Oct 04 212.25 Ho* 04 212.25 Dec 04 212.25 Jan/Mar 05 2H.25 Apr/Jun 05 213.50 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Volume Opm Month High Low Sett (tomes) Interest
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    • 535 14 CANBERRA No guarantee that Costello will stay on if conservatives win again on Oct 9 Reuters AUSTRALIANS will go to the polls on Oct 9 to decide who should be prime minister, but financial markets will be keeping a closer eye on who will
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  • FOCUSchina
    • 1934 13 Official emphasis on urban development in China and neglect of the countryside is a potential time bomb for social instability [XUPU, China] PASS through Xupu and you'll see an endless expanse of rolling hills, green from the summer rains. Farmers are hunched over in the
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • BizU
    • 675 15  -  BT comment TECHNOLOGY kenneth james Anyone who thought that Microsoft was neglecting home users to run after the big bucks of big business should have been at Comex 2004. This year's edition of the popular consumer IT and digital show, which ended its hugely
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      685 15 Major BPO conference THE Global Process Outsourcing Conference will take place from Sept 29 to Sept 30 at the GrandHyatt. It will touch on the current business process outsourcing (BPO) in Singapore and the rest of Asia-Pacific. Key speakers include Girijia Pande, regional director for Asia-Pacific for Tata
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    • 1012 15  -  Expect to continue testing new upgrade 2 months after it has been shipping Gartner By Amit Roy Choudhury WHILE analysts and users of Microsoft Windows have generally welcomed the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), some security experts are advising companies
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    • 320 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Hew-lett-Packard on Friday unveiled a range of products including its version of the iPod digital music player that raises the stakes in a war between PC and electronics makers for a spot in increasingly digitised liv- ing
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    • 296 15 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp, whose software runs almost 95 per cent of personal computers, delayed the next version of its Windows PC operating system until late 2006, two years after it first promised the program. Microsoft will finish the upgrade, called Longhorn, by
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    • 248 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp's upcoming rhid-quarter report will be closely watched for signs of weak back-to-school computer sales, though recent market share gains in memory chips could help offset any softness in computer microprocessor demand. The world's largest chip maker, which is
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    • 635 16  -  BT exclusive These are set to boom once 3G takes off in some Asian countries including S'pore later this year, Raju Chellam finds out Raju Chellam THERE seems no end to the mobile momentum worldwide. And in the Asia-Pacif-ic region, the momentum may have just
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    • 286 16 LAST year, Singapore saw overall mobile revenues of US$l.O6 billion, up just 4 per cent over 2002. Revenues from mobile data apps formed about 15.4 per cent of wireless revenues last year, which means there is still a lot of room for growth. "The development
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    • 578 16  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury MASSIVE. Comex 2004, the consumer IT and digital exhibition touted as the biggest such show ever held in Singapore, appeared to have lived up to its billing when the event ended yesterday after four days of unrelenting human traffic of browsers
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 242 17 TANKERS: Prices continue to move upwards, especially for modern tonnage, and a couple of Aframax tankers which are reported sold illustrate the point. The Nissos Christiana, built 19%, is said to have been sold to clients of Centrofin at something region US$4l.7 million, concluded a couple of weeks
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    • 478 17 Volumes hit 14m tonnes in first half; profit up 25% in Q2 Bernama [PASIR GUDANG] Johor Port Bhd (JPB) continued to show steady growth for its half-year performance, recording an overall 11 per cent increase in cargo handling or 13.9 million
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    • 153 17 Bloomberg [TAURANGA, New Zealand'] Port of Tauranga, New Zealand's biggest export port, increased its full-year profit 8 per cent as it shifted more containers and coed. Net income rose to NZ533.7 million (5537.7 million) in the year ended June 30, from NZ$3l.2 million a year earlier. Sales
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    • 424 17 It plans to open a US$250m container terminal by 2009 Reuters [LIMA, Peru] Peru aims to unveil a US$25O million container terminal by 2009 to revamp its ageing, congested ports and become a major trade hub in the Pacific, the National
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    • 391 17  -  Interim result boosted by higher freight rates By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The world's largest shipping group, AP Moller-Maersk, has benefited from the container industry's rising volumes and higher freight rates which more than doubled the net profits from its container division as it reported a 6.8 per
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    • 230 17 Xinhua [LOS ANGELES] China's largest container vessel, Cosco Long Beach, has arrived at the Port of Long Beach, the biggest on the western US coast, after a 17day maiden trans-Pacific voyage starting from Xiamen city, south-eastern China. At a ceremony marking the maiden call
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    • 819 18  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes INTERNATIONAL container shipping carrier CP Ship's misfortunes turned out to be somewhat worse than expected with its restated financial results, trimming some US$4l million off profits. The line now looks like being in for a tough time having to
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      • 1474 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un Berth Vessel Out In 8th 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 »eg berthing Nmbr ACX MAGNOUA 081S Q81S
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      • 139 25 Anff 30 UK: Summer Bank Hoi. Aug 31 Malaysia: Nat Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 6 Canada: Labour Day. Sep 12 Brunei: Ascen of the Prophet. Indonesia: Ascen of the Prophet. Sep 27 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 28 SKorea: Harvest Day. Sep 29 HK: Mid-Autumn Festl. SKorea:
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      • 768 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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      • 614 25 Carbon 180 Max 989.9 0.3 13.5 0.05 54 0.05 Aug 26 Density Water Residue AshAlumlnlum Sediment No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 rTT 380 Ave 984.1 0.2 13.1 0.04 26 0.02 txxoM 380 Max 990.9 17 17.2 0.07 56 0.06 K6/W3 %v/v %»/>
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      • 700 26 US$7b order for long-range planes from SIA gives Boeing a big boost AFP [SINGAPORE] The rivalry over Asian skies between US giant Boeing Co and European rival Airbus is heating up as premium airlines boost their long-range fleets and prepare for the arrival of
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      • 185 26 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International, the country's biggest carrier, will take delivery of two medium-size aircraft from Airbus SAS within four years, as the Thai airliner expands its fleet and flies to more cities. Thai Airways's order of an A 340-500 aircraft and
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      • 478 26 Its operating margin of 4.9% beat China Air's 3.6% Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Shares of EVA Airways Corp rose to an eight-week high last Friday after Taiwan's second-larg-est carrier posted a bigger second-quarter profit and operating margin than larger Taiwan rival
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      • 153 26 Xinhua [BEIJING] After 14 months of renovation, Beijing's Capital International Airport (BCIA) will reopen on Sept 20 after being closed for five years. The new terminal will be jointly operated by BCIA and China Southern Airlines (CSA) according to their cooperative agreement signed last
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      • 198 26 AFP [PARIS] The Sky Team global aviation alliance said last Saturday it had signed in China a protocol agreement with China Southern Airlines in the first step towards the airline entering the alliance. The accord "shows that China Southern intends to undertake
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      • 486 26 Scanners with chemical sensors being considered AFP [DOMODEDOVO, Russia] The presence of explosives on both airliners that went down in Russia last week underscored with horrifying impact weak links in civil aviation security that authorities here vowed to strengthen fast. But it also
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      • 244 26 Reuters [LONDON] The chief executive of British Airways, Rod Eddington, said last Saturday he would carry out an investigation into the staff shortages that caused flight cancellations last week. "After this weekend, I will review what happened. It will be a very thorough
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    • 111 25 Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: K Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols Showers Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds R a j n One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day *One full fleche represents 10 knots x Hazy A *One solid triangle represents 50 knots
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