The Business Times, 1 September 1999

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  • 634 1  -  Levy for industrial land cut by 19%, fees stay for commercial and hotel land By( Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] The government has raised the development charge for residential land by an average of 16.4 per cent, while cutting or maintaining those for other land
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  • 592 1  -  General offer for TLB shares at the same price of $2.02 per share By < Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Ayala Corporation, one of the largest and most profitable companies in the Philippines, is taking over listed TLB Land as a shell company
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  • 652 1 TWIII A GLOBAL talent capital A culture that embraces learning as a way of Ufa That's the heady vision spelt oat in the latest national blueprint to chart Singapore's path to the 21st century. This thus, ifs shout tiTnosrtifr the fUll potential of people both to own
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  • 280 1  -  STI dawn 34 points, its largest one-day M since Ang 13 By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Asian stock markets got the Wall Street chills yesterday following Monday's dive in US stocks and bonds brought on by a stronger-than-expected housing report that reinforced the growing fear
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  • MANPOWER 21
    • 677 2  -  Life-long learning framework aims to keep workers empUtfWmMh ReportSm Audrey Tan THE government will set up a $200 million fund for workforce development in Singapore so as to put in place a comprehensive framework for life-long learning, Deputy Prime Minister Lee
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    • 422 2 Summary of the Manpower 21 report To develop manpower as Singapore's competitive edge in the new global economy, and to ensure workers remain employable life-long, Singapore as a talent capital, where people are its key competitive advantage. Strategics and proposals integrated manpower planning -for a better fit
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    • 419 2 Aim is to draw global manpower firms, R&D institutions SINGAPORE will cultivate a dynamic manpower industry to meet the needs of employers and individuals as part of the Manpower 21 plan. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will work with the Economic Development Board to
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    • 555 2 'The worst of the economic storm is behind us, and our economy is picking up again. But the restructuring of our economy has not slowed down. Companies are still restructuring their operations and retrenching workers, especially in the disk drive and PC industries. In the last few
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    • 972 2 The following are extracts ofDPM Lee Hsien Loong's speech yesterday at the launch of Manpower 21 THE recent economic crisis brought pome forcefully the importance of training our workers. Last year, retrenchments reached a record high of 29,000. Half were from the manufacturing sector. Many
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 375 4  -  Net firm, with HQ in (Singapore, has attracted $&2m in venture capital By] Raju Chellam FOUR youths in their early I* 20s have teamed up, attracted >' venture capital funding to the I tune of $2.2 million, and set up Catcha.com, an Asian
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    • 336 4  -  Transmission rate for Net access jumps 50% to 14.4 kbps By i Catherine Ong MOBILEONE (Ml) has launched Singapore's first public high speed mobile data service which will allow users to access the Internet from their handphones at a much faster speed than is
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    • 295 4  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Finance By\ Soh Tiang Keng r I TOTAL bank loans extended to nonI bank customers slipped by 2.6 per cent X in July on a year-on-year basis, according to latest statistics from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The fall was
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    • 772 4  -  Need to turn strengths, repute into business opportunities From Teh Hooi Ling m Puzhou SINGAPORE must manage its reputation and strengths carefully in China and And ways to turn these attributes into business and other opportunities, Trade and Industry Minister George
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    • 276 4 THE CPF interest rate and the Housing Board (HDB) mortgage rate for the fourth quarter remain unchanged at XS per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively, reflecting the low interest rate environAccording to the Central Provident Fund Board yesterday, its 2.8
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    • 1086 4  -  MATI.WIT N Narayana Singapore via Internet AT a time when the work! is debating the issue of euthanasia, it appears strange that your Hock Lack Siew column ("Expiring warrants deserve a new lease of life", BT, Aug 20) should be making an
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 446 6  -  Weakness blamed mainly on worries over Greenspan's talk of'overvalued' US stocks By\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The US dollar was finally hammered below its 110-yen support level yesterday* afternoon, on the back of fears that US stocks could come under further selling pressure. After
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    • 333 6 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese financial institutions plan to shift funds away from US stocks and boost their weighting in Japanese and other Asian equities this month amid expectations of further US dollar weakness, a Reuters survey shows. The monthly Global Asset Allocation survey
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    • 468 6 But industrial output expected to recover in coming months Reuters [TOKYO] Japan appeared headed yesterday for a "jobless recovery", with the outlook for industrial production strong but unemployment stuck at a record high. Financial markets reacted little to the output data, but the unemployment data
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    • 282 6 [BANGKOK] Krung Thai Bank (KTB), currently at the centre of an investigation into questionable lending practices, yesterday posted a massive net loss of 23.2 billion baht (Ssl billion) for the first half of this year. The state-run bank's audited result for the
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    • 545 6 Tliey do not see new money moving in any time soon Bloomberg, Bridge News (SINGAPORE] Some of the US$5 billion (SsB.4 billion) to US$7 billion in foreign funds trapped in Malaysian stocks and bonds will likely flee as the country's 12-month ban
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    • 561 6  -  From) Harish Mehta in Bangkok Thai Farmers Bank's stunning announcement on Monday that it would no longer provide financial support to its one-time crown jewel, finance firm Phatra Thanakit, yesterday sent Thai stocks into decline for a second day. It also
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  • REGION
    • 559 10 Parliament may soon be dissolved, even as early as tomorrow Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia celebrated its 42nd birthday yesterday amid growing speculation that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad would soon dissolve Parliament the talk is this could happen as early as tomorrow—and
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    • 175 10 BANGKOK AFP TWO Thai banks and a French Institution have been charged with conspiracy to defraud a high-profile finance company which collapsed amid the regional economic crisis, officials at the Attorney General's office said yesterday. Nakomthon Bank, Siam City Bank and French-based
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    • 783 10  -  inuTmv Ail independent E Timor poses ft string of Questions for the region By Yang Razali Kassim THE voting that we have just seen in East Timor is a classic case of an unexpected reversal of history. A referendum was unthinkable just
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    • 431 10 Bill MAimAt. Firm ran by SAytfTmnt* recehttiUSs7om from Bank Bali Reuters [JAKARTA] An official from Indonesia'B ruling Golkar party has been formally charged in connection with a bank scandal that has rattled markets and sent tremors through the country's political landscape, his lawyer
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    • 243 10 BANGKOK Economic stability in Ist half will boost recovery: Jones Lang Reuters THAILAND'S property market is beginning to recover on signs of economic stabilisation during the first half of 1999, property agent and management group Jones Lang LaSalle said yesterday. With economic growth in sight,
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    • 357 10 BEIJING Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's new tax on interest from bank deposits will be a flat 20 per cent and won't be adjusted according to income, said a parliament spokeswoman. This means the tax will not be progressive, even after
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    • 333 10 DILI, East Timor Pro-Jakarta groups warn of violence; 3 UN staff killed Reuters THE huge turnout for East Timor's independence ballot despite threats of violence suggests the territory has chosen independence after centuries of foreign rule, human rights officials said yesterday. Pro-Indonesia groups
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    • 703 11 KOREAN CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING Govt to hire foreign chief executive or financial institution to ran it in interim Bloomberg [SEOUL] HSBC Holdings pic abandoned its US$9OO million (551.52 billion) bid for SeoulBank, one of South Korea's largest lenders, setting back efforts to reform the nation's
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    • 208 11 SEOUL Move follows collapse of talks with Luxembourg firm Bloomberg DAEWOO Group may auction off Seoul Hilton Hotel to other international buyers after attempts to sell the unit to General Mediterranean Holding SA collapsed. The Luxembourg-based investment company, which signed a non- binding agreement
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    • 213 11 SEOUL Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said yesterday four banks including Singapore's OUB and a merchant bank had violated the country's lending regulations as of the end of June by concentrating their credit on certain borrowers. A statement from
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    • 302 11 SEOUL Move paves way for Panacom of US to take over insurer Bloomberg A SEOUL court yesterday blocked a government plan to nationalise ailing Korea Life Insurance Co, a move that may clear the way for Panacom Co to take over the nation's third-largest
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    • 381 11 TOKYO Govt plans to give that amount each to 100 programmers Reuters JAPAN'S trade ministry is looking to give up to 100 million yen (Ssl.s million) each to 100 software geniuses over the next five years in hopes that they can emulate
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    • 313 11 TAIPEI AFP THE ruling Kuomintang plans to team up with international business groups to invest NTS2OO billion (5110.6 billion) into ambitious energy ventures in western Australia, reports said yesterday. The investment projects will include liquefied natural gas processing facilities and transportation equipment, as
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    • 430 11 SYDNEY 84% of firms to be folly prepared by this month AFP AUSTRALIA'S public and private sectors have spent Asl2 billion (5112.8 billion) on Y2K planning, making it one of the most prepared countries in the world, a new survey showed yesterday.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 348 12 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Federal Reserve reported a "slight' increase in the number of US banks tightening business loan standards and loan terms in the last three months. "Banks became somewhat more cautious lenders over the past quarter", although there aren't signs
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    • 37 12 [LONDON] Photographs, flowers and other gifts hanging on the gates of London's Kensington Palace, theformer home of the late yesterday. Hundreds marked the second anniversary of Princess Diana's death by placing the tributes AFP
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    • 198 12 ■LONDON Reuters BRITISH consumers borrowed a L?*ty £1.34 billion in July, the Bank cf England said yesterday, suggesting that spending on the high street is set to gather pace in the coming months. There were also signs of a flourishing housing market. The bank said
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    • 840 12  -  The market rales despite warnings of a big stock correction LETTER F&OM WASHINGTON By Leon Hadar FOR the past few years I've been working out several times a week in a local athletic club where together with other Washingtonians, I
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    • 510 12  -  Stocks slide 1.5% amid fears British rates will soon follow upward US trend From Nell Behrmann in London THE London stock market is nervously awaiting developments on Wall Street and forecasters fear that British interest rates will soon be following the upward
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    • 248 12 BRASILIA Bloomberg THE Brazilian government plans to limit spending in its 2000 budget, rather than increasing taxes, to trim its US$6l billion (Sslo4 billion) budget deficit. The government will hold spending "relatively steady" next year while projected inflation of 6 per cent for the
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    • 527 12 NEW YORK But that probably reflects Dow fall, rate hike: analysts Bloomberg CONSUMER confidence in the US economy dipped in August even as Americans expressed more optimism about the outlook for the economy in the next half year, Conference Board figures showed. The
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 855 13  -  aSmm inra OPINION By Prem Shankar Jha The writer,farmer editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE July figures are in and they show that the Indian economic recovery is growing from its first sickly shoots into a robust young sapling. The
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    • 104 13 "Whatever the outcome of the ballot, today the eagle of liberty has spread its proud wings over the people of East Timor and nothing, by the grace of God, can ever take them away. 4 United Nations special envoy, on the East Timor vote. 'It's not a
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    • 1033 13  -  It would be best way to stop the yen from rising and would suit both America and Japan, says analyst By< Caroline Baum Bloomberg JAPANESE officials have adopted a decidedly American approach to the rapidly strengthening yen: If it's good for
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    • 761 13  -  Laws against ose of fire to dear land are on the books, but remain unenforced By\ Simon Tay The writer is chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He contributed this personal comment to The International Herald Tribune FOR the third year
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    • 1017 13 HttrltaWiMMijHi INDONESIAN President BJ Habibie's staunch supporters may take International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank pressure for a speedy and satisfactory resolution of the Bank Bali scandal as a game of power politics, capitalising on the case to damage Dr Habibie's chances in the November
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 717 14  -  Watch out America Satay and nasi lemak have arrived, says RICHARD CHAMO RICHARD CHANG Reuters IN the beginning there were Chinese takeouts. Then came sushi bars. In the 1970s Hunan and Sichuan cuisine sprouted and Thai flew high. Now, starting in New York, it's...
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    • 482 15 US OPEN Swiss top seed bonnces back after two unsuccessful Grand Slam appearances Reuters [NEW YORK] Top seed Martina Hingis returned to the Grand Slam stage under cover of darkness on Monday and survived a firstround wake-up call in the first night match of the 1999
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    • 824 14 r UNITED S»g ENGINEERS M LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT RESULTS The unaudited results of the Group and of the Company for the financial half-year ended 30 June 1999 are as follows: GROUP COMPANY 1999 1998 Increase/ 1999 1998 Increase/ SOOO $000 (Decrease) SOOO $000 (Decreese) Turnover
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    • 119 14 LYRI'^^^ATRE pnwiti Q/tftcwawt'b muQ* Q&/ Concert in IpnylitA WIpWJ A Conductor: S&int (§/au 3 3& 4 September 1999 Victoria Theatre Ong Wei Klat as Papageno yfNMHp. JT 4« David Quah as Tamtno Yo© Ee-Ping as Pamina Belinda Lie W as Queen of the Night /WW )&M William Llm as Sarastro
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • FOCUS: MONEY MATTERS
    • 899 16  -  Bank of Japan action, or inaction, will be crucial beyond that level By Larry Wee AFTER a week in which currency markets were held back by intervention fears, the coming sessions will be tricky in the light of some upcoming data releases. Overall,
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    • 589 16 Forces boosting bonds seen outweighing those which threaten to drag them lower DESPITE the spectre of higher US interest rates, September might not be the right time to reduce holdings of Singapore dollar bonds. Forces boosting Sing dollar bonds might well outweigh
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 568 17  -  Net profit op 20%; turnover fall* 13% to $972 m compared with rival's $760 m By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] For the first time in recent memory, City Developments Ltd, the biggest listed property firm in Singapore, almost declared
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    • 250 17 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary called Asia One Internet Pte Ltd to handle the local media giant's multimedia division, in particular its Internet ventures. SPH said in a statement yesterday that the corporatisation of Asia One "will allow for more
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    • 674 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai ONCE again, Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings) and Hutchison Whampoa have proved why they remain the darlings of fund managers and brokers in town. In an environment of reduced con- sumer spending, slow recovering Asian economies
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    • 551 17  -  Second consecutive monthly drop comes after July's 4J% By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE! The market value of Singapore listed companies fell in August from July, the second consecutive monthly decline. But unlike the steep 4.1 per cent drop in July when local
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    • COMPANIES
      • 492 19  -  Chairman cautiously optimistic of HE breakeven; group retires S'pore loans By Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] Raffles Medical Group (RMG) yesterday reported a 7.3 per cent rise in net profit to $1.9 million for the first half of the year. The Sesdaq-lised healthcare provider
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      • 323 19 [SINGAPORE] Information technology company CSA Holdings yesterday reported a hefty jump in net earnings to $7.6 million from $402,000, thanks mainly to lower interest charges and depreciation. About half of the latest profits for the six months ended June 30 came from a 45
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      • 233 19 [SINGAPORE] Irttrafx£*esterday posted a net profit of $5.7 million for the half-year ended June, reversing its loss of $11.5 million in the same period last year. The previous interim's losses had included an exceptional loss of $14 million when it
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      • AT A GLANCE
        • 117 19 [SINGAPORE] Packaging group Broadway fndmrtr** l Group has turned around, booking a net profit of 9348,000 for the half-year to June 30, compared to a lots of $6J million in the same period last year. Broadway ako booked an extraordinary loss of $158,000 for the
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        • 154 19 [SINGAPORE] Acitek Engineering reported a fall-year profit of $7.6 million, down 38 per cent from the previous year's profit of $12.3 million. Amtak also asl 2 million provision for its investment in, and "douhtfUl advances" to, an associate which makes wwwflcri devices, eroding its
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        • 126 19 [SINGAPORE] Hotel Negara narrowed its interim loas from $791,000 to $180,000 despite declining turnover. Sales were down a fifth from $6.8 million to $4.6 milltnn as room rates in the hotel industry remained weak. The hotel said that its losses were mitigated by a
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      • 341 20  -  Company directors say yes, based on restructuring plans By l Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] The auditors of beleaguered Goldtron Ltd said yesterday that they were unsure if the electronics firm can continue as a going concern but its directors think otherwise.
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      • 288 20  -  By] David Roey [SINGAPORE] China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, better known as Cosco, yesterday unveiled a reshuffle of its group shareholdings that should allow its Singapore unit a tighter hold of its main-board-listed arm, Cosco Investment (Singapore). Market watchers said the announcement by China's biggest shipping
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      • 418 20  -  18m of 40m shares reserved for public; PE ratio of 13 By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-bound Mentor Media yesterday launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 40 million shares at 25 cents each. The offer comprises 35 million new shares and five
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      • 691 20  -  INSIDE VIEW Purchases at only $L6m last week, 96% below average By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] There was a sharp drop in insider buying last week, driving the Primark Director Sentiment Index, which tracks trading by directors and substantial shareholders, down into negative
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      • 289 20  -  Offer will be launched in about two weeks By i Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] Sesdaq-bound contract manufacturer Asian Micro will raise about $15 million from its initial public offer which will be launched in about two weeks. The company intends to use the bulk
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      • 305 20  -  Exceptional gains, associates pnllnp interim earnings From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong STATE-CONTROLLED conglomerate China Everbright Ltd has returned to the black at half-time and pledged to focus its business on the financial services sector. The red chip company, which was once a
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 126 20 AFX-Asia SINGAPORE] Van der Horst hascat jts debts to $144.6 i million from $153 million after paying around $8.4 million in August. Of its remaining debts, the company said its creditors have agreed in principle to restructuringsll9 million. It is aiming for a final agreement
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        • 110 20 [SINGAPORE] Property and construction group Ltffl Kah Ngam (LKN) said that as part of lis proposed .restructuring scheme, some of its liabilities are to be f converted into redeemable convertible bonds (RCBs), at a conversion price based on a discount to the prevailing
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        • 72 20 [SINGAPORE] IPC Corp said yesterday it had received court approval for its scheme of arrangement between the company and its unsecured and preferential creditors. IPC said the court ordered the scheme to take effect from last Friday, thereby allowing the company to continue as a
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        • 51 20 In our report" Allgreen's interim net surges 71 per eent", published yesterday we said Ailgreen's net tangible asset backing per thai* fel Ito 1.23 cents from 7.45 cents. Thief is, of coune, erroneous. The figures should have rsad $1.23 and $7.45 respectively. We are sorry for the
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 413 21 Move comes a day after it said it will bay rival Promodes; HI profit down 16% Bloomberg [SAO PAULO] Carrefour SA, France's top food retailer which is poised to become the world's second largest retailer after Wal-Mart of the US, has struck another deal,
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      • 429 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] The formation of a French retailing powerhouse with an estimated $56.46 billion in annual sales is unlikely to shake a rapidly consolidating US supermarket industry, analysts said on Monday. Carrefour Supermarche SA's 15.9 billion euro (Ss2B billion) friendly bid
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      • 405 21 Approval from cartel authorities expected next month Reuters [FRANKFURT] Italy's Prada took another step in expanding its fashion empire on Monday by announcing the planned takeover of German designer Jil Sander AG. The two companies said in separate statements that Prada is
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      • 333 21 LATWP, Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Pumped by stirring multimedia presentations of Arco's sweeping history and an appearance by colourful former chairman Robert O Anderson, shareholders of Atlantic Richfield Co on Monday overwhelmingly approved the merger of the Los Angeles-based oil company into
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      • 540 22 US firm to acquire German software maker, shift office suite to the Net NYT, Bloomberg {NEW YORK] Sun Microsystems Inc is planning an ambitious campaign to move everyday software applications away from the personal computer desktop and onto the World Wide
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      • 61 22 IDC is now Gable Wireless IDC [TOKYO] Simon Cunningham, president of International Digital Communications (IDC), gesturing as he introduces the new company name and logo during a press coherence at a hotel in Tokyo yesterday. IDC will change its brand name to "Cabie& W ire less IDC Inc"from today, two
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      • 371 22 Security hole allows access to accounts without password LAT-WP [NEW YORK] Microsoft Corp had to shut down the Hotmail service few several hours on Monday to fix a major computer security hole. Malicious hackers created World Wide Web sites that allowed
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      • 304 22 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt told New York Stock Exchange officials that their plan to convert to a public corporation doesn't provide enough independence to the Big Board's self-policing unit "I have a lot of reservations about
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 463 23 DBS'recent USs7sombond to be added to Asia Bond Index today Bloomberg [HONGKONG] The Chase Asia Bond Index (Cabi) will begin including Singapore bonds today when the recent US$75O million (Ssl.3 billion) Development Bank of Singapore bond is added to lift the number of countries
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      • 533 23 Bloomberg [BERLIN] Deutsche Bank AG, the world's biggest bank, said it will cooperate with Nokia Oyj, the No 1 cellular phone maker, to provide banking services via mobile phones as it exploits technological advances to win customers. The Frankfurt-based bank plans to give clients
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      • 260 23 More are disposing of unprofitable lines to cot risk Reuters [NEW YORK] The US finance industry posted solid earnings and strong asset quality measures in the first half of 1999 as competitive pressures prompted the elimination of unprofitable business lines, according to
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      • 202 24  -  «i Reports IffffT Tn^ar Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming IT was another unpleasant day for the Singapore stock market yesterday. The market was depressed by a further three-digit fall overnight on Wall Street, heightening investors' concerns over the increased volatUity in those markets. The Straits
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      • 143 24  -  MSCI Taiwan tatm-as Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract yesterday rose for the second consecutive day on rosy economic growth outlook, which minimised the severity of cross-strait tension. The benchmark TWSE index soared 86.37 points to 8,157.73 points.
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      • 281 24 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil's seven-month rally touched a new peak yesterday after a trio of leading exporters said they would retain tight export curbs during the northern hemisphere winter. Benchmark Brent crude in London reached USS2L3O a barrel, the highest
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      • 308 24 Reuters, AFP liAfUlfUl THE yen set seven-month highs beyond the psychological 110 threshold against the dollar and scaled all-time peaks against the euro yesterday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) remained absent from the foreign exchanges. The lack of either verbal or actual intervention by the BOJ coupled
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      1282 25 AFP pHtagSeng -M6Jt HONGKONG share prices fell 1.5 per cent yesterday on prof-it-taking after overnight falls on Wall Street, dealers said. "Judging from the thin turnover, investors were not keen on getting into the market," said Sean Li, associate director at Amsteel. "There is no further good news and
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      521 25 Reuters nShenzhen Binder -dSt SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares edged down in lacklustre trade yesterday despite news that China will tax bank interest income in a bid to stimulate domestic consumption. The B share index edged down 0.56 point, or 0.62 per cent, to 89.41, partly because of weak
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    • 304 25 —AFP PffPMtt +8137 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.1 per cent higher yesterday, with buyers targeting technology and traditional manufacturing sectors, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 86.37 points to 8,157.73 on turnover of NT1151.65 billion. "The technology sector is enjoying its peak season. There are
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    • 1519 25 AFP Q Nikkei 225 jM SHARE prices in Tokyo dropped 2.7 per cent yesterday with investors disappointed by poor industrial output figures, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 index lost 482.41 points to finish at 17,436.56. Trading was heavy, with volume estimated at 633 million shares, compared with 455.4
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 179 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy ONE reason why investors might not want to invest in Malaysia is the market's reputation for volatility and speculation. So for the more risk-averse looking to put some money into Malaysia, today's feature is a semi blue chip
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      • 244 26 AFP THE New Zealand share market slipped slightly yesterday but held up generally well in the face of offshore weakness, brokers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 2.69 points or 0.1 per cent at 2,152.62 on trade worth NZ$5B.4 million. «3* 1 rmm 44v«nt»»» MOS 2.45 <UM 44
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        825 26 AFP Q SET Index -421 THAI share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower yesterday on foreign selling, mostly in finance stocks. Dealers said market sentiment was undermined by the decision of Thai Farmers Bank pic to cut off financial support for subsidiary Phatra Finance. Weaker regional markets and losses
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      • 387 26 AFP POMnpontßlafai -4J| SHARE prices on the Korea Stock Exchange yesterday edged down 0.5 per cent after a rebound in semiconductors and export-oriented stocks helped offset earlier losses, dealers said. The Composite Index closed down 4.69 points at 937.88, off a low of 922.34. Volume was 262.4 million shares
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      • 569 26 AFP Q&nOrimarie* -4U AUSTRALIAN share prices fell 1.4 per cent yesterday, with potential interest rate rises in the United States still having a cautionary impact, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 41.1 points lower at 2,951.90. The All Industrials Index fell 76.7 points to 5,115.70 and the All
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        608 26 AFP Q OmpodteLitajtOl INDONESIAN share prices made marginal gains yesterday on a technical rebound led by pharmaceuticals and selected nugor stocks, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 0.38 point at 567.03. An institutional dealer at a regional brokerage said: "I think some investors have started
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      • 271 26 AFP n Manila -27.42 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower yesterday due to fears of a rise in interest rates and the inflation rate and the instability of the local currency, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 27.42 points to 2,173.82. Volume totalled 1.22
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 245 28 I WW— •Oontinglnt 19.382,000 MtfiwtiOMi Press Soft com I3.66S.000 Asia Foodtfrop US5 12,384,000 Noting Inv NTS 9,902,000 Amtofc Engg 20c 9,899,000 (WYWUSIOC 8,323,000 GoWtn Agri US 10c 8,152,000 IfCCorpnSc 7,849,000 Eagio Brand HMqs NK75c 7,421,000 MS D6 OC*****25 6.196.000 Sttta J 0C8C Foreign 24,851.052 DBS 23,578,224 City On 50c 20,725,860
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      • 622 28  -  STOCK MARKET OOMMHMTART Drift seen for next few weeks, but support may come from fond managers as summer holidays end By R Sivanithy A NERVOUS US market, vulnerable to the slightest sign of Inflation and already In high-powered Fed-watch-ing mode, on
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        42 28  -  By Wong Wei Kong AMTEK Engineering shares dived 23 cents to $1.30 yesterday with 9.9 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 486,100 shares. The RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts suggest further weakness. By Wong Wei Kong
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 167 28 THE sudden departure of the once influential Zhu Xlaohua from China Everbright Group has raised much market speculation about his well-being. At a press conference by the red-chip company in Hongkong yesterday, when senior officials were asked by BT to give an update on the status
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        • 86 28 GOLDMAN Sachs has picked five stocks in Asia for the Y2K risk-averse Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, HSBC Holdings, Kor Ant Bank, and TBMC. In a rocent feport, it also said 73 out of 96 com pan! ef surveyed were in advanced stages of 7' preparation and were qualified by
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        • 67 28 IN yesterday's Grapevine column, we said there were claims that the US Ffcderal Reserve is too ffct, since it employs 23,000 people in 12 banks around the US. This, however, pales In comparison to the situation in Russia. According to Moecowbased brokerage Regent European Securities, the Central Bank
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    • 5 19 Strait Talk TheßuknessTimes Shipping Times
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    • 84 22 Miais r MENTOR MEDIA LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 21 April 1993) r v rr ,s T INmAL PUBLIC OFFERING Comprising 40,000,000 Shares at $0.25 each Applications for the Shares may be made on printed Application Forms referred to in the Prospectus dated 30 August 1999. Applications
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    • 1866 28 Short of cash to invest 7 r 323-3955 >I<l XISBANK NOTICES Notice to Submit I Proofs of Debt I In the matter of STS SHIPPING PTE LTD I (In member's voluntary liquidation) X and |Rj In the matter of the Companies Act (Cap SO) |g NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
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    • 125 28 Notice of Resolution I to Wind Up I In the matter of SINTONG TRANSPORT (PTE.) LTD. If (In members' voluntary liquidation) 8 and -If In the matter of the Companies Act (Cap 50) H At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above |jj Company, duly convened, and held on 31
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 163 29 Bridge News, Renter IN the US Gulf, Changbai was rumored to have fixed the 1991-built 73,50& deadweight-tonne Szare Szeregi for business to the Philippines. The charterer had been quoting 55,000 tonnes 5 per cent of soybean meal for Sept 15-25 loading from the Gulf. The Szare Szeregi is
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    • 194 29 CWT gtctrttwtton U3 -O.O' M SM lMrtMnt_.ua -aOI 539 flMfMLI— 045 -002 DM MiS***. o.« u«c* -2 KM Sun Hup 0.75 0.01 578 IMC HoMn«s-H« —MO «nc* 0 ■mil Win <-01 -0.03 44 aisciis 5JS Mm* 'tLi 1-34 «7 2.07 -0.03 80 -0.03 72 N04 2.18 "0.03 3475
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    • 500 29  -  Foreign principals forced to look to other countries for crew needs official From, Alec Almazan in Manila THE growing number of claims for moral damages by Filipino seafarers against foreign shipowners could harm the crewing industry, Pandiman Philippines general manger Captain Andrew J
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    • 87 29 [SINGAPORE] Smtt International Singapore has completed removing oil from the partly submerged bulk carrier, MV Cordiality, qffthe north coast qf Sri Lanka. Work on MV Cordiality began this August and was completed within four days. Oil was pumped out from the wreck
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    • 136 29 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Cosco Investments Singapore has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cosco (HK) Shipping Co Ltd, which has agreed to support Cosco Investments Singapore's bulk shipping business, Cosco Group Beijing said yesterday. Two vessels which have been ordered by Cosco (HK)
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    • 214 29  -  The three-day event will cover all issues surrounding oil spills By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The International Oil Pollution Conference Exhibition (lOPCE) '99 opens in Singapore today with top industry experts discussing a total approach to oil pollution, prevention, planning and response. The
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    • 710 29  -  STRAIT TALK By\ Seafarer THE sight of Star Cruises twin megaships the SuperStar Leo and Virgo steaming gracefully side-by-side up the Straits of Malacca at the weekend sent a clear sign to any line hoping for a major slice of the Asian
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    • 1047 30 SPOTUGHT ON CARGO Antwerp meeting of insurers, shippers and security providers discusses how to prevent damage to cargo and theft ITJ A container load of food in jars recently travelling to Australia was delayed by a dock strike which added another 28 days to the
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    • 19641 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA *4wttw Vassal Voyage Talapnona ETA ETA Advartlsar Vnul Voyaga TMdtow M»(D«rtjll Nam* Nam* um6,f Numbar Q/W 03/B Norasla NORASIA SCARLET 993**I <******33 TO ABU DHABI (AUH) 2004 U. A. Emirates Ttt call an iri i ?<vu p.r„ S£ S2T SET 5» C^r (CLL) pS5
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      • 1393 43 RECEIVING Of EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Book Idq/Bi tenet Rstts Sltfp Voylk) Etb/Btr Pwtod Frew To From AcmaaucM it-ft Vfcoo a wrroo jvo*» jvwoo a jwttoo jv»m jvow J jvotoo jvtb» jvmoc 4 JVBOO JVMW JVTTOO AUNJA YA 1 KM VOW a JOATOO JVOW» MM a
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      • 194 43 Bap 1 Mexico: State of the Nation (optional). flap* Canada: Labour Day. Luxembourg: City Kemesse. United States: Labour Day. Sap IB Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. Independence Day. Bap 23 Japan: Autummal Equinox Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Bap 24 South Africa: Heritage Day. South
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      • 659 43 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows pries ranges in US dollars instead aT slngts pricss for s mors comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are based oo ivtrapsized stem Market movements ars lndl cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 658 44 It retains the right to shift work to outside producers and lay off workers Reuters [NEW YORK] Boeing Co's tentative contract deal with its biggest union will help the aerospace giant slim down and fend off challenges from hard-charging European rival
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      • 416 44 Bloomberg [LONDON] European airlines are intensifying efforts to woo British Midland Airways Ltd, the UK's third biggest airline, which is expected to pick a partner as early as this week. Deutsche Lufthansa, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch
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      • 323 44 LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] American Airlines steadfastly plans to integrate Reno Air into its system despite an ongoing dispute with its pilots' union over the merger that led to a pilots' slckout against American and 6,600 cancelled flights in February. Both sides
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      • 247 44 But Korean carrier says its cargo agent made the mistake Bloomberg [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines said it was fined US$6O,OOO (SS101.400) by the US Federal Aviation Administration after South Korea's No 2 airline was found to have carried flammable material without authorisation to Los Angeles
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      • 187 44 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Passenger traffic at the ma)or European airlines rose a collective 7.7 per cent in July on a year ago, the Association of European Airlines said on Monday. Growth was led by an increase of 10.8 per cent on North Atlantic
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        • 101 44 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc. the third largest US carrier, received tentative approval from the US U government to make additional flights between New York and France. Delta will ofltor daily non-stop service between New York and Lyon starting the middle of next
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        • 76 44 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] China Airlines Co Ltd has been ordered by the Taiwan authorities to cut the number of flights it operates so as to allow more time for crew training foil owing the crash of an Aug 22 CAL flight in Hongkoi*. thn Tfmrft
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        • 114 44 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Schiphol Group, owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, said on Monday it expected ftill»ye*r ISBBresults excluding reorganisation costs to be around <he same level as that posted in 1998. "One must taks account of the negative effects of the sbntttlonof tax-free sales within the
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    • 24 29 Boeing pact with anions shrewd move, say analysts It retains the right to shift work to outside producers and lay off workers. Page 16
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