The Business Times, 5 April 1999

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/ia^B 85c SINGA PORE Internet http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, APRIL 5,1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
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    FINANCE
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    S'pore reviewing need for auditing of private firms
    804 1  -  Partial exemption being considered; RCB sees insufficient justification for drastic changes By. Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Singapore is reviewing the need for auditing of private companies the bread and butter of local accounting firms but is unlikely to do away with the requirement
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    Investors dumping hedge funds for futures funds
    648 1  -  Froml Neil Behrmann in London INSTITUTIONS and wealthy individuals are beginning to reallocate funds froln hedge fluids to futures fluids that invest in commodity and financial derivatives on regulated global exchanges, industry professionals say. Managed Account Reports (MAR), a trade magazine that monitors
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    Lock icon Mahathir in hospital with lung infection
    236 1 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was admitted to hospital on Friday with a i lung infection, an aide to the premier said yesterday. Dr Mahathir's doctors told him to get a complete rest at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in the
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    85% of new private homes launched in Q1 sold
    551 1  -  Projects relaunched with price cuts also doing well By Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] About 85 per cent of the new private residential properties launched in the first quarter of this year were sold as low prices and attractive interest rates made them
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    Good take-up
    278 1 New launches In 1st quarter PROJECT DEVELOPER TENURE TOTAL NUMBER J NUMBER PRICE (S) v 4 'iM? UNTO LAUNCHED j SOLD Landed Century Woods Habitat Properties 99 99 40 35 810.000 880,000 D'Manor Centrepobt Properties 99 174 174 130 Ave 880,000 EaatwoodVUIe KuokGroup 99 33 33 33 898,000
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      113 1 MawKißhig pn|i A Singapore Internet company, Mediaßing, has sealed a series of alliance with major global players, which could possibly boost its worldwide business, BeeetneesTT I*B TtoAassttdetl Air New Zealand may muscle its way into Singapore Airlines' bid to buy 50 per cent of Anaett although SIA yesterday said its
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      39 1 Beating the odds The Asian economic crisis turned 1998 into a severe test to stay in the black for Singapore's listed companies. Nat Steel Electronics kicks off a new weekly column that profiles those who overcame the odds. SMPgI7
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Hendra-like virus contained, says Cheow Tong
      294 2 The Straits Times THE Hendra-like virus has been contained here successfully, and the recent case of pork being smuggled into Singapore was an isolated one. Health and Environment Minister Yeo Cheow Tong assured the public yesterday. The situation here has stabilised, mainly because of
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      Itochu to focus more, on Asian business: official
      351 2  -  Region forms 50% of sales for firm which is moving crude oil trading centre here By) Eugene Low ITOCHU Petroleum, which is shifting its global crude oil trading centre here from Tokyo, will "concentrate more (of its business) in Asian countries", says
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      Lock icon M2 rises 28.4% in February
      270 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Finance By: Eugene Low BOLSTERED by a strong growth in savings deposits, broad money measure M 2 grew a healthy 28.4 per cent year-on-year in February to $162.15 billion, reflecting the incorporation of POSBank's data following its acquisition by DBS Bank
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Lock icon Committee to study varsity autonomy
        129 2 The Sunday Times A COMMITTEE will be set up to study how universities here can be given more room to manage their funds, and recruit and reward their staff, said Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan at a dinner held by the local alumni of Stanford
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        Lock icon Training plan for process workers
        109 2 The Sunday Times THE Process Industry Contractors' Association of Singapore has altered into a memorandum of understanding with the National Trades Union Congress under the Skills Redevelopment Programme to manage the training and retraining of workers in the process industry, Minister of State for Manpower
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Chuan re-elected as Democrat Party leader
      483 3  -  Analysts expect fresh elections in Q3 after economy shows signs of turnaround From. Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S ruling Democrat Party has re-elected Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai as the party leader, signalling its readiness to fight the next general election and to head a
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon 30 more die in Indon violence
        49 3 AFP [AMBON] Days of renewed Muslim-Christian violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands have left 30 people dead and scores injured, the state-run Antara news agency said yesterday. It quoted the head of the military command overseeing the South-east Maluku district, Lt-Col Ery Susanto. —AFP
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        Lock icon Estrada studying easy terms for PAL
        64 3 Reuters [MANILA] Philippine President Joseph Estrada said yesterday that his administration is studying ways to enable Philippine Airlines to pay its 236.5 million peso (5510.5 million) loan to the government on easier terms. "The bottomline is for PAL to continue flying. If PAL stops,
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        Lock icon N Korea sent 7 spy ships: Japan report
        74 3 Bridge News [TOKYO] Japanese defence officials believe North Korea dispatched seven spy ships into Japan's territorial waters last month as an act of provocation, a Tokyo Shimbun report said yesterday. Two North Korean spy ships were discovered off Japan's western coast on
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        Lock icon Philippine inflation seen at 8-9% for 1999
        56 3 AFP [MANILA] Inflation in the Philippines should average between 8 and 9 per cent for 1999, an official statement said. February's 9.9 per cent had raised "hopes that the surge in consumer prices has abated, hopefully for good", it said. Inflation fell from
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        Lock icon 430,000 M'sian pigs killed
        62 3 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia has destroyed over 430,000 pigs in its fight against a viral outbreak which has killed 85 people and hopes to finish the culling in two weeks, ..r officiaiB y ester day. The government has a total of 8a),°oo pigs in its sights
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      Lock icon Anwar aims to be next PM, says new party
      565 3  -  Some 7,ooojoin party launched yesterday by his wife Wan Azizah From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur FORMER No 2 Anwar Ibrahim, who may go to jail on corruption charges, has set his sights on becoming the next Prime Minister of Malaysia,
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      Lock icon Indonesians start registering to vote
      299 3 JAKARTA Country's 128 million eligible voters have one week to register AFP MILLIONS of Indonesians will flock to schools and local government offices today to register to vote in the June 7 general election, the first since the fall of president Suharto. Eligible voters who
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon Japan backs call for Asia-Latin America summit
      375 4 AFP [TOKYO] Japan has welcomed a Singapore proposal for an Asia-Latin America summit meeting to be held next year to jointly tackle the global financial crisis, a newspaper said yesterday. The proposal by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will call on some 30
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      Lock icon Dr M to table white paper on economic revival tomorrow
      262 4 AFP, Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is scheduled to present a white paper in Parliament on the economic situation with a central theme of revival, officials said here yesterday. "The white paper will be tabled on Tuesday
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      KL curbs not vindicated yet
      999 4  -  CRISIS WATCH Capital controls wore probably irrelevant to the economy's stabilisation By Vikram Khanna THERE has been some good news out of Malaysia lately, but whether this is a vindication of the capital controls imposed last September (as some officials and analysts are suggesting) is
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      Lock icon Taking to the streets
      77 4 [BANGKOK] Protesters from state enterprise worker associations marching to the Democracy Monument in Bangkok yesterday. Members of the group said they disagreed with the Thai government's plan to privatise state enterprises as part of a reform package encouraged by the International Monetary Fund. The group joined
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      Lock icon Hiring of executives in Asia on the rise: Korn/Ferry poll
      346 4 Increase in could be a sign of turnaround Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Demand for executives who earn more than US$l5O,OOO (*****.495) per year is rising in Asia, with an 8 per cent increase in the fourth quarter from the three-month period earlier,
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      Lock icon Tankan survey to pick up but analysts cautious
      562 4 It was at worst level for nearly 5 years in 3 months to Dec AFP [TOKYO] Japan's closelywatched tankan survey, due out today, will likely show business confidence in the world's second largest economy is recovering, but analysts warn against optimism. The
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      Lock icon Asian property market seen near bottom, rebound some way off
      597 4 AFP [HONGKONG] Asian property prices are expected to bottom out in 1999 as crisisscarred regional economies begin to heal, but a rebound in real-estate markets is still some way off, analysts say. As interest rates fall, stockmarket investors are already
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      93 4 CHRISTIE'S HONG KONG THE IMPERIAL SALE AND FINE CHINESE WORKS OF ART Auction: 26 April 1999 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Hong Kong Viewing: 6-7 April 1999 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Singapore 10:30 a.m. 8:00 p.m. fcjiteb i d It A magnificent Imperial famiUe-rcwe winecup Blue enamel Yongzheng four-character
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China listed firm to buy back shares from govt
      516 5 SHANGHAI Analysts find the move a policy signal for reduced government role in listed companies Reuters A CHINESE firm plans to buy back its own shares and ease itself from the state's grip, a move that analysts said could herald a
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      Lock icon Beijing to debate law protecting private property
      386 5 BEIJING Move sparred by legal amendment boosting non-state sector report Reuters CHINA'S Parliament will soon begin debating a law protecting private property, prompted by the passage last month of a constitutional amendment boosting the nonstate sector, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday.
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      Lock icon China seen posting Ql1 GDP growth of 8.5%
      331 5 BEIJING Reuters GOVERNMENT stimulus measures would maintain China's economic growth momentum and ensure first quarter expansion of 8.5 per cent from a year earlier as officially forecast, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. The newspaper quoted economists from the State Council
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      Lock icon Beijing spruces up for a party
      69 5 [BEIJING! A Chinese soldier hurling a shovel-full of dirt as he worked on a project yesterday to beautify Chang An Street, also known as the Avenue of Eternal Peace, Beijing's main thoroughfare. Hundreds of soldiers are engaged in tree-planting and landscaping projects aimed at
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      Lock icon HSBC to win HK govt adviser role
      174 5 HONGKONG Bridge News HSBC Holdings is likely to become financial adviser to the Hongkong government in its market reforms, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday, quoting sources. It said that while Merrill Lynch has been appointed to advise the Stock Exchange
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  • REGION/WORLD
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      Lock icon 6,000-7,000 realistic level for Dow, says ex-Fed governor
      450 6 FRANKFURT He also predicts medium-term and long-term interest rates will go np Reuters A FORMER Federal Reserve governor was quoted yesterday as predicting a fall in US share prices and saying a Dow Jones Average 0f6,000 to 7,000 points would be a
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      Lock icon Euro/US$ won't fall below 1.0: ECB chief economist
      314 6 FRANKFURT Blain reason for euro weakness is strength of US dollar, he says Bridge News EUROPEAN Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing said he sees no danger of the euro/US dollar exchange rate falling below 1.0 from the current 1.08. In an
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      Lock icon Nato pledges to intensify strikes on Yugoslavia
      817 6 THE KOSOVO CRISIS It also plans to send troops to Albania to help refugees Reuters, AFP [BELGRADE] Nato yesterday pledged to step up its missile strikes on Yugoslavia as part of an intensified drive to cripple Belgrade's military and end what Albania called
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      China media turns up the heat on Nato
      429 6  -  From 1 David Murphy in Beijing CHINA has cranked up its formidable propaganda machine to condemn the ongoing Nato air assault on Yugoslavia. The official press is strongly opposed to the bombing raids and has published long commentaries against the Western alliance.
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      Lock icon Costs rising, US spent US$500m in first 10 days
      367 6 WASHINGTON AFP US military action in Kosovo has already reached the US$5OO million (*****.7 million) price tag, and extended intervention could cost the United States billions more, according to US media reports. Just the first ten days of Nato's air campaign
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      Lock icon G77 meeting starts today in Uganda
      373 6 KAMPALA Talks to focus on development, economic growth AFP DELEGATES from the Group of 77 developing nations gather here today to discuss ways and means of promoting development and economic growth in their countries. But despite optimistic predictions of high attendance levels, only 122
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      Lock icon India funds pick buys in cement, engineering firms
      396 6 BOMBAY Reuters BAD times breed opportunities for canny operators, and India's fund managers say it is time to buy cement, heavy engineering and telecommunication equipment firms as the sectors all reel under an economic slowdown. "These have faced a long bear cycle
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Zhu's US trip a diplomatic test of a lifetime
      610 7 BEIJING He will be walking minefield of deteriorating China-US ties Reuters CHINESE Premier Zhu Rongji, renowned for his mastery of domestic policy and administrative prowess, is facing the diplomatic test of a lifetime with his visit to the United States this
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      Lock icon BA to offer holiday loans
      65 7 LONDON Reuters BRITISH Airways is to offer customers loans of between £500 and £15,000 (5|1,390-5541,6000) towards their holidays, the company said yesterday. BA said it was the first airline to offer such a service. Separately, The Sunday Times said the group was considering launching a
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      Lock icon Beijing funds used to get Clinton re-elected: report
      233 7 WASHINGTON Reuters CHINA'S head of military intelligence took funds from Beijing and secretly spent them to re-elect US President Bill Clinton, former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung told federal investigators, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. Quoting "sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements
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      2828 7 ©OCBC Finance 2Sl F L'T^, Llml, d A Member of OCBC Group BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 1998 N«es ,998 m? iwe m 7 S x 1 ASSETS LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY Current assets Current liabilities: Deposits and savings accounts 3 2.262.073.836 1117 806 805 Cash, deposits and balances
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      MediaRing seals pacts with major global firms
      600 8  -  Its Internet telephony software likely to boost its worldwide business By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A Singapore Internet company, MediaRing, has sealed a series of alliances with major global players, which could possibly boost its worldwide business. At the recent CeBIT '99
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      Lock icon Microsoft-3Com technology for network security
      386 8 Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp and 3Com Corp will unveil this week the first fruit of their alliance: a technology called "Typhoon" that speeds up security clearance for computer networks running on Windows. The world's biggest software maker and the No 2 computer-networking company said
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      German e-trade firms expanding in Singapore
      423 8  -  Brok&t and Netlife boosting staff numbers in regional HQ w Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Two rival German electronic commerce firms, Brokat Infosystems and Netlife, are expanding in Singapore, their Asia-Pacific headquarters. This was announced at the CeBIT '99 trade fair In Hannover, Germany, where
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      Oracle's engine chugging strongly again
      522 9  -  Its software is proving relevant in weaker as well as stronger economies, South Asia chief says Reports by] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The numbers are out and Oracle Corp's South Asia managing director Loke Soon Choo believes he has reason to be pretty pleased, all things
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      Look, ma, no operating system
      235 9 [SINGAPORE] As if Microsoft Corp didn't have enough nightmares with Linux, the popular and practically free operating system, along comes Raw Iron. Raw Iron, a light version of Oracle Corp's recently-intro-duced Oracle 8i database software, boasts one unique feature: it doesn't need a separate operating
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    • IT TAKES
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        Symantec's vaccine for Melissa...
        89 9 SYMANTEC Corp has announced a definition set to detect and repair variants of the Melissa and Papa viruses. Current users of Norton Anti Virus (NAV) can get the vaccine free through NAVs "Live Update" feature. Interested users can buy NAV 5.0 for $119 and access the
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        ... and one from Network Associates
        40 9 and one from Network Associates NETWORK Associates Inc said it has posted a Web site for the detection and cleaning for the Melissa virus at: www.nai.cocn. The company's Avert (Antivirus Emergency Response Team) said additional protection is available at www.avertlabs.com.
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        Movex seminar
        11 9 INTCNTIA will hold iU Move* n inar.Fordet 1 Ul..lta
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        Card Asia '99 date
        49 9 CARD Asia '99, Asia's premier event dedicated to card technology, will be held at Suntec City from April 27 to 29. It la organised by AIC Worldwide, endorsed by the National Science and Technology Board and supported by Telstra and Chipper. For details, fex *****54.
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        Communications software design course
        44 9 THE Centre for Wireless Communications will conduct a three-day course on Communications Software Design with Specification and Description Language from April 28 to 30. The course is targeted at systems and software engineers and project managers. For details, fax *****41.
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        Ngee Ann testbed for Prism
        66 9 US-BASED Harris Semiconductor has tied up with Ngee Ann Polytechnic to use the latter as a testbed for Harris' Prism wireless networking technology. Harris will provide the institute with chip sets, reference designs, evaluation boards, software and technical support for the test. Ngee Ann is
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        Ipacs,MK Group in tie-up
        41 9  -  "OmyiMtjr! Raju Chellam BPACS Computer Services, a Singapore Enterprise 50 company, and the MK Group, a unit of Computer Associates, have tied up to market IT solutions to logistics businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Taiwan and China.
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      Lock icon The wooing and winning of CSA
      855 11  -  The Singapore firm met all the criteria for a win-win acquisition, the chairman of CSA's new parent company tells hemmbth james KENNETH JAMES IT WAS a long romance, says Van B. Honeycutt. And Johnny Moo, sitting next to him, grins in agreement. It's an
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      Lock icon Acer mulls $41 million investment in Net firms
      173 11 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Acer Group, one of the world's top 10 makers of personal computers, said it plans to raise US$24 million ($41.5 million) to establish a foothold in Asia's Internet business. It is planning to form a holding company to invest in
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      Lock icon 85% of Chinese firms 'behind Y2k schedule'
      239 11 Reuters [BEIJING) More than 85 per cent of Chinese companies are lagging behind on a government campaign to make their computers millennium compliant, a survey published on Saturday showed. The State Council, or Cabinet, has ordered all companies and government institutions to finalise
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      Lock icon Using your phone as a remote control
      218 12 New York Times [NEW YORK] In an advance that will allow people to program their VCRs while also speeding down the freeway not that this is necessarily a good thing a German company has come up with a way to turn telephones into
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      Lock icon Electronic commerce at the tip of your fingers
      784 12  -  Conducting e-trade with handphones being made possible By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Handheld devices like handphones are being integrated with e-com-merce to enable you to do e-commerce on the move. This was showcased last month by several companies at the CeBIT '99
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      Lock icon Info-tech spending to rise to $3.4 trillion
      215 12 Bloomberg [SAN DIEGO, California] Spending on information technology will rise to about US$2 trillion (553.44 trillion) by 2003, almost double the annual US$l.2 trillion spent now, as companies spend more on consultants to set up and operate computer systems, according to market researcher
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      SAN set to take centre-stage soon
      509 13  -  New products in storage area networks debut for enterprise businesses By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] There's a new technology in town for large businesses that rely heavily on data-intensive applications that are fuelled by ecommerce, multimedia solutions, data warehousing and Internet-related applications. Called SAN, for
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      Lock icon Windows 98 upgrade by fourth quarter
      219 13 Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp said it will offer an update to its Windows 98 computer-operating system by the fourth quarter in a move that analysts said buys time for the No 1 software maker's Windows 2000 system. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said: "Windows
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      Lock icon Shooting with the Pros
      336 13  -  By, Justyn Olby [SINGAPORE] Digital cameras have come a long way from the early days of digital picture taking. However, the question still remains: "Are they as good as a 'real' camera?" This is always difficult to answer. The true professional cameras at the top end
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      Lock icon SAP gives backing to Linux computer OS
      189 13 Reuters [HANOVER, Germany] Leading German software group SAP AG has given its backing to the new Linux computer operating system, which is seen as a threat to Microsoft's Windows NT package. SAP demonstrated its R/3 enterprise resource planning software running on Linux at
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      Lock icon Psion targets business buyers
      182 14 Reuters [HANNOVER] British handheld computer company Psion Pic has announced that new products on sale before the end of this year will be aimed at business buyers. Geoff Kell, sales and marketing director at Psion subsidiary Psion Industrial Pic, said the group of products will not
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      New Zip and Clik! storage from Iomega
      404 14  -  Tiny 40 MB Clik! drives ideal for digital cameras and sub-notebooks By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based storage products maker lomega Corp has launched a range of new products, including a unique, tiny storage drive called Clik! that stores 40 MB in a disk
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      Silicon Graphics and Dell announce new Xeon servers
      329 14  -  Intel's new Pentium m Xeon for servers and workstations in Singapore By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Dell Computer Corp and Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) were among the first here to announce new servers based on Intel Corp's new Pentium 111 Xeon processors. The
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        Epson's new colour laser printer
        81 14 EPSON Corp has launched the Color Page EPL-CBOOO, a new high-speed colour laser printer. It delivers fUll-bleed, A3-wide colour printing at 600 dots per inch (dpi) resolution to business users. The $8300 printer does four colour pages per minute (ppm) or 16 black-and-white ppm, and
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        Canon's new digital copiers
        99 14 CANON Corp has introduced three new digital copiers that can copy, print, fax, scan, archive and work on the Internet. By keying an IP address, users can connect to a home-page and print from a remote location. The GP printers come with 2.1 GB hard disk
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        Gold Card from Psion Dacom
        69 14 PSION Dacom is ready with the GoM Card Net Global 56K +10/100 MB Cardßus, calling it the world's first PC card with modem and Fast Ethernet capability that is GSMand ISDN-ready. Based on 32-bit PCI architecture, the $549 card supports all common Ethernet standards and
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        Voodoo3 PC Accelerator boards
        64 14 INTRESOURCE Systems is ready with a new line of VoodooS PC Accelerator boards made by US-based 3dfic Interactive Inc. Three versions of the board will be launched in the middle of the month, targeted at hard-core gamers, hobbyists and graphics professionals. The Voodoo 3-2000 for PCI
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        Citrix server management products
        80 14 CITRIX Systems Asia-Pacific has introduced two new server-based computing products—Citrix Resource Management Services and Citrix Installation Management Services—for business-critical applications across the company. Used in conjunction with Citrix WlnFrame, MetaFrame and Win NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, the new products offer enhanced server application installation,
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        Reflection EnterView 2.0 from WRQ
        87 14  -  -Compiled by Raju Chellam WRQ Inc has announced Reflection Enter View 2.0, a server-based solution that lets companies share host information with business partners, employees and remote workers via the Web. It comes with built-in security for maximum data encryption, simplified management tools, scalability and
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      451 15 They are popular with businessmen who seek relief from stress in cartoons AFP [TOKYO] A novel breed of cafe is taking Japan by storm and luring the millions of businessmen who regularly commute to work with their noses buried in comics the size of telephone
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      866 16  -  Social, economic, business and technological trends all influence our choices, damiel akst discovers DANIEL AKST NYT WERE we filled with envy? Tinted by our obsession with money? Consumed with longing for a more natural life? Who knows why everyone seemed to like the colour green
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      702 16 EDUCATION Universities thinking more like AmygAti-frflpi than H&rvanLedn NYT [NEW YORK] With his silver hair, V-neck sweater over a crisp Oxford shirt, and genteel European accent and background as a conductor with orchestras from Israel to Boston, David Sonnenschein is no one's idea of a
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      466 16 FOOD AFP [PAßlS] The French, a people long committed to quality food and tradition, are increasingly going organic as fears over madcow disease, genetically-engineered produce and US-style fast-food raise new awareness about eating habits. Healthfood stores are popping up nationwide and most supermarkets now have
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      811 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 9 Jaded fellow seeing no advan- If If H" If tage either way (9) 3 In age maybe find some vice jii^—— HH—JiH .IH12 Over-subtle play upon words 15 A flier requires warmth in aHH lH 18 Found one area of Ireland de- 18 i I j
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      397 17  -  SIA dismisses report that it may lose Murdoch's Ansett stake to ANZ liy. Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Air New Zealand may muscle its way into Singapore Airlines' bid to buy 50 per cent of Ansett, although SIA yesterday said its deal to buy the
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      1174 17  -  BEAHNO THE ODDS Contract mannfactnrer amply plans and follows npe chief executive By. Annette Pau {SINGAPORE] There is no magic formula behind NatSteel Electronics' (NEL) rapid rise to stardom on the contract manufacturing scene. Chief executive Chester Lin sums it up simply enough: "Just two
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      685 17  -  MARKET MATTERS Megara hag to curb thair tmnliiiicy tn lanii tA Imrim— By Eddie Toh THE Malaysian central bank, under the stewardship of new governor Ali Abul Hassan Sulaiman, has promised tough action in steering the country's banking system. The Bank Negara chief last
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      672 17  -  By David Boey [SINGAPORE] By the time you read this, Colex Holdings Ltd's sunshine yellow and royal blue painted garbage trucks would already be hard at work clearing up industrial waste from sites all across the island. The specially modified trucks
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        1119 18  -  But some laggards may gain attention if market direction remains positive By\ Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Penny stocks, the playground of small-time punters, are out in the cold. But so long as the market's general direction remains upwards and the small-cap counters remain
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        417 18 Bangkok Bank of Commerce nnit will offer 269 m baht Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The investment unit of defunct Bangkok Bank of Commerce will bid 269 million baht (5512.3 million) for the 63.4 per cent of Thai Agri Food pic that it doesn't already
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        405 18 Battle brewing over pay TV firm Foxtel as it nears profit AFP [SYDNEY] A battle is brewing between Australia's largest telecoms company Telstra and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over pay TV company Foxtel. Foxtel is moving closer to profitability and Telstra sources have reportedly
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        84 18 [DO SON, Vietnam] Do Son Casino's female employees listening to speeches at Friday's ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a new hotel at the casino complex. The project is being developed by billionaire Stanley Ho in the coastal city of Do Son, some 100 km
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        Lock icon Accounting change may hit Sony
        182 18 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp may face a US$9OO million (551.55 billion) drop in its consolidated net profit in the next business year through March 2001 due to a change in US accounting procedures affecting movie advertising, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday.
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        464 19 It puts in place USssoom penalty if Arco drops ont of the US$2(LBb deal FT [LONDON] BP Amoco has put in place measures to deter any rival bid to its US$26.B billion (5546.2 billion) allstock acquisition of Atlantic Richfield
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        Lock icon Mannesmann to pay 2.25b marks for Otelo unit
        273 19 FT [FRANKFURT] Mannesmann, the German telecoms and engineering group, has strengthened its position in European telecoms by agreeing to pay 2.25 billion marks (Ss2.l billion) for the fixedline business of Otelo, a company jointly owned by the utilities Veba and RWE. The
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        Lock icon US Internet firms big gainers in Q1
        431 19 FT [NEW YORK] The first quarter of 1999 will probably be best remembered on Wall Street for the Dow Jones Industrial Average's assault on 10,000. By the end of March it had twice exceeded that mark, only to subside within hours of trading
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        Lock icon Two firms poised to bid for Telewest if AT&T sells stake
        443 19 Media One and Gable L Wireless likely bidders; analysts Bloomberg [LONDON] Telewest Communications pic, Britain's second biggest cable company by sales, could receive takeover bids from at least two companies if AT&T Corp 6pts to sell its 21 per
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        Lock icon IMF may change bond contracts to ease rescheduling
        435 20 Plan, part of global financial reform, may help prevent repeat of Asian crisis Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] The International Monetary Fund is considering recommending changes to the way most bond agreements are structured to help prevent a repeat of Asia's debt and currency crisis,
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        Lock icon Demand continues for Aussie corporate bonds
        657 20 Shrinking treasury sales force investors to seek other options Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australian corporate bonds look set to extend a five-month rally as shrinking treasury sales force investors to seek alternatives. Companies last month sold almost as much in bonds as the government plans to
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        Lock icon Royal & Sun Alliance still keen on Nordic acquisitions
        223 20 Royal Sun Alliance still keen on Nordic acquisitions Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Sun Alliance insurance Group pic (RSA* the No 4 UK insurer, still wants to buy Scandinavian competitors to build up market share, even though two forays last week came to nothing. A month after losing a bidding war for
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        483 20 Bank expects it to grow into It yen business in 3 years Bridge News [TOKYO] A new "private investment banking" division represents the future for Sumitomo Bank Ltd and should grow into a one trillion yen (5514.5 billion) business within three years, said division
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        167 20 Bridge News [HONGKONG] The South China Morning Post reported on Saturday that competition among banks for new mortgage business heated up on Friday when Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd released more than 800 units of a new housing development in a single day. Locally-based
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        550 21  -  SIMTflf Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya [SINGAPORE] The Bank of Japan's March Tankan survey, due today, should help the market come up with some kind of consensus on the Japanese economy and yen views. The Tankan is expected to reveal some mild improvement in corporate sentiment thanks
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        801 21 COMMODI'ry Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Crude oil prices resisted a wave of profit-tak-ing last week to retain the strength instilled since leading producer countries agreed to cut output in a concerted effort to increase prices. Brent North Sea
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        274 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stocks are expected to remain firm in a holiday-shortened week ahead on the back of foreign fund inflows, dealers said. "Immediately after the Easter holidays, funds are prepared to enter the Hongkong market," said Alex Tang, research director at Core Pacific-Yamaichi.
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        858 22 Q Sydney -23L2 THE Australian share market is expected to extend its current consolidation phase in the Easter-shortened week ahead, with domestic employment data likely to draw investors' attention, analysts said. The Australian Stock fixchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index closed the week on Thursday ahead of the
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        660 22 NEW YORK Investors are hopeful more mergers will boost online stocks Bloomberg THE Internet and a select group of big, fast-growing companies spurred US stocks higher in the first quarter, and there's no sign the leadership will change anytime soon. For the first
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        Lock icon Hopes of rate cut boost Footsie
        322 22 LONDON AFP THE London stock market rose on the coat tails of Wall Street and hopes of a reduction in British interest rates after the monthly monetary policy meeting of the Bank of England this week. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares rose
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        1660 22 QPiri. +U4J4 PARIS stocks closed up for Easter with the index above 4,200 for the first time since March 19. A thin market was lifted by an early Dow advance but with the market hesitant, investors were keen to stay covered ahead of a four-day holiday amid
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        421 22 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are expected to edge up in the coming week with a growing number of investors becoming optimistic about Japan's economy, brokers said. "There is a growing sense that the economy is bottoming out of its downtrend," said
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        Lock icon Follow-through buying seen lifting prices
        400 23 AFP fl Composite Index +39.91 FOLLOW-THROUGH buying is expected to buoy the Malaysian stock market this week after it surged 8 per cent in the week to Friday, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's weighted Composite Index surged 39.91 points over the holiday-shortened week
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        MHE warrant price not justified
        263 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy ASK most punters what MHE does and you'd probably draw a blank. Most people also neither know what its previous name was or whether it is listed on the main board or Sesdaq. Yet its warrants trade in massive amounts
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
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        537 26 Stacks VoIwm G£S Intl Ltd 20c 55,568,000 Wing Tai 25c 54,523,000 •TanChonglnt50c 39,267,000 Uraco Wt02 36,961,000 U1C 35,780,000 Uraco HWqslOc 34,907,000 DBS Land 31,678,000 EconWtOO 29,543,000 Jaya Wt99 28,648,000 MHE Hldgs Wt99 28,633,000 Starts DBS Foreign 90,297,569 City Dev 50c 89,164,518 SPH 86,114,728 DBS Land 80,096,942 Wing Tai 25c 77,238,597
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        627 26  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Investors may turn cautions following the 90% drop in total net profits of entire market By R Sivanithy IT'S been said before but we'll say it again the Singapore market never ceases to amaze. Just when you thought
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        75 26  -  By Ven Sreenivasan DESPITE massive write-offs and losses, Keppel Land looks to be on the rebound at the moment. The counter has steadily gained ground since early February. However, the fact that the RSI is showing the counter in overbought territory suggests a more rocky climb ahead. Unless
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      412 26 SIME SINGAPORE UIMTEO (Incorporated in Singapore) LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE The undermentioned share certificate has been reported lost, mislaid or destroyed:Certlficate No. In the name of No. of Starve *****5 Yeo Seow Eng Nellie 1,000 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a new share certificate will be issued and certificate will be
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      21 26 The Straits Times CLASSIFIED Where buyers and sellers meet Sell your old clothes. A** CATS. Buy It. Sell ft. Find It
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      260 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young IMPROVING values in the dry bulk market brought about by the lack of tonnage seriously available for sale has seen another Panamax bulker sold at a firm level. The Mariposa (68,000/87) has been reported sold at around US$B.7 million to Greek clients of
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      433 27  -  It will develop Poro Point port and Cagayan Freeport in northern Luzon into int'l container ports From Alec Almazan in Manila [MANILA] The Philippines has begun work on two major international port projects in the northern Luzon area. The government announced that
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      80 27 [SINGAPORE] Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has upgraded its Shikoku/ Taiwan Express (STX) Service with the deployment of an additional vessel on the service. With three ships on the service OOCL will now call twice weekly at Hiroshima and Matsuyama in Japan, and Keelung and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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      786 27  -  LINER SCENE By. David Hughes LAST week Mitsui OSK Lines (Europe) held a "media party" in London. A fair number of shipping journalists turned up, partly no doubt enticed by the wine tasting competition arranged during the evening, but
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      350 27 Rescuers find only empty life rafts at site where 2 ships from South and North Korea collided AFP [COLOMBO] Two merchant vessels that went to the site of a collision involving two ships from South and North Korea have spotted two empty life
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        413 28  -  Brazilian line says it has bank's support, reveals plans to buy container vessels Reports from David Hughes in London BRAZILIAN container shipping company Transroll Navega S/A and the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) have strongly refuted a press report that the
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        204 28 PANAMA CANAL charges will remain at current, recently revised, levels when Panama takes over the administration of the canal at noon, Dec 31 this year. Last week, Panama's Cabinet Council approved the first toll rates to be fixed by the new Panama Canal Authority (PCA).
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        104 28 THE United Kingdom-based London Club rejected enquiries by a large number of owners with poor records during the recent annual liability cover renewal season. In the latest edition of its in-house publication London Club News, the mutual insurer said that it "declined to quote on
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          87 28 SOME owners appear to be using specialist crews to ensure ships pass their ISM audits, according to the head of the United Kingdom's Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Maurice Storey. Speaking at the International Salvage Union's conference in London last week, he said the agency had
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          69 28 LATEST figures from the Japan Ship exporters Association show the country's yards have seen their export order-book shrink significantly since March last year. As of the end of February, the export backlog was 339 ships and 17.3 million gross tons (gt), down from 418 vessels and 18.1
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          74 28 Insurance mutual manager the Thomas Miller group has appointed Herry Lawford as chairman of Hongkong-based Thomas Miller (Asia Pacific) Ltd from tomorrow. He will have overall responsibility for the activities of the mutual clubs managed by Miller's in the Asia Pacific region, particularly the
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          Stolt-Nielsen makes Rotterdam base
          52 28 CHEMICAL and products tanker specialist Stolt-Nielsen is transferring its North European chartering, operations and accounting activities from London to Rotterdam. Following the company's recent decision to move its management of short-sea tankers from Norway to Rotterdam, Stolt Nielsen is making the principal Dutch port its European
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          Gulf Atlantic service upgraded
          105 28 TMM and Hapag Lloyd and Lykes Lines are boosting their transatlantic services to improve transit times and offer twice-weekly calls at some ports on its revamped Gulf Atlantic Sprint service. The lines claim transit times will be the fastest offered on the Europe-US Gulf/Mexico/US East Coast
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          83 28 TAIWAN-BASED carrier Evergreen has renewed its contract for terminal operations in the Port of Tacoma and at the same time committed itself to expand its operations iii the United States west coast. The company says expansion is needed due to increasing volumes of cargo moving through
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        211 41 Apr 2 Mexico: Good Friday (optional). Germany: Good Friday. Finland: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Australia: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Ireland Republic of: Good Friday. Netherlands: Good Friday (Banks only). New Zealand: Good Friday. Apr 3 Hong Kong: Easter Saturday.
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        771 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rtne Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        544 42 General economic slowdown, political uncertainty have hit consumer spending, say analysts AFP [BOMBAY] India's sluggish car market faces little prospect of a short-term turnaround, despite an ambitious sales target announced by the country's top carmaker, analysts say. "The situation is not rosy
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        195 42 AFP [GUANGZHOU, China] Two US firms have won a design contract for the main terminal of the new US$2.3 billion (553.95 billion) airport in the southern economic boom town of Guangzhou, state media reported. Parsons Corp and URS Greiner Corp will collaborate
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        Lock icon Probe into near crash at Chicago airport
        203 42 Reuters [CHICAGO] US aviation authorities are investigating an incident in which a passenger jet came within 30 metres of colliding with a cargo jet that apparently took a wrong turn on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. "It looks like what
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        Lock icon Iberia expected to lose 1b pesetas from strike
        257 42 Reuters [MADRID] Spain's national carrier Iberia expected to lose at least one billion pesetas (SSI 1.5 million) from an eightday pilots' strike which has wreaked havoc on Spanish airports, newspapers reported yesterday. Iberia, which faces two more days of strike action by
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        Lock icon Chevrolet unveils new Suburban
        58 42 [NEW YORK] Kurt Ritter, a marketing general manager in the Chevrolet division of General Motors, speaking at the unveiling of the new 2000 Chevrolet Suburban at the New York Auto Show. Chevrolet said the Suburban's design builds on that of the 1999 Silverado pickup truck. The
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        Lock icon France's Air Liberie upbeat about summer traffic
        295 42 Reuters [PARIS] The head of French carrier Air Liberte, a subsidiary of British Airways, said on Saturday that the airline industry could expect a good summer, with business looking good in Europe and the United States. "February was good, March was excellent. So
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        Lock icon Air India to sell 3 B7475, divert European flights
        340 42 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's ailing flagship Air India has decided to sell three of its planes and divert some of its European flights to the Middle East in a desperate gamble to raise revenue. An airline spokesman said the board decided
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        Lock icon Thai Airways prepares to join world cargo network
        183 42 Lufthansa, SIA, SAS to form world's first cargo alliance BernamaTNA [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International pic, (THAI), Thailand's national carrier, is preparing itself to join the world's first cargo alliance network expected to be formed soon. The preparation includes the upgrading and development
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      24 27 Transroll denies report it is in risk of bankruptcy Brazilian line says it has bank's support, reveals plans to buy container vessels. Page 2
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      247 27 India's car market unlikely to recover this year General economic slowdown, political uncertainty have hit consumer spending, say analysts. Page 16 "p|)lpns MARINE imjott~ t MH i,i <sr|l ,j mm w. > ~tM -<M g| ceanology 9 jMti wM >6j Special Feature Shipping Times •27 April 1999 1 1 I
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