The Business Times, 7 September 1999

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04^12/98 85c SINGAPORE V y \biternet: httpTYbifsrnt^s-times.asial.com.sg/ v y TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,1999
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    Lock icon S'pore bourse cautious as Indon markets slide
    1041 1  -  East Timor nnrest takes its toll, with rapi&h down 3%, Jakarta stocks 4% From Shoeb Kagda, Ven Sreenivasan in Singapore THE escalating violence in East Timor following its overwhelming vote for independence from Indonesia drove the rupiah and the stock market down sharply
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    Lock icon Soeryadjaya awarded oyer $8m in case against Kotjo
    635 1  -  Bnt winner did not come out smelling like roses By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Indonesian businessman Edwin Soeryadjaya has won his court case against fellow countryman Johannes Kotjo, and been awarded more than $8 million in total claims. In a 43-page judgement, High
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    Lock icon Barclays Capital goes for local talent – James Loh
    568 1  - Barclays Capital goes for local talent James Loh Appointment marks S'pore's bigger role in regional network By Wong Wei Kong (SINGAPORE] OCBC has Hongkonger Alex Au and DBS Bank has American John Olds. But for Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of UK banking group Barclays pic, the choice is
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      184 1 nrsmE YHS hack in the Mack Analysts covering Yeo Hiap Seng will be scrambling to revise their projections as the company has reversed into the black with a 12.2 m interim profit, Pg 17 V*. OCL atiO dAng News of Cyde ft Carriage the can-making business failed to halt the
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      61 1 Dow rally fails to boost US$ against yen, Pg 6 Editorial: East Timor needs a UN force —now, Pg 13 Market reports, Pg 22-26 New Beta Titanium Collection Ns^J^ .'JH N* i 4 ,9 I i V j c v -v- -w^hSSB Af«fc/: «OS7 40% fipPr* 70»^m>,<«,« ,*vwftw* 700% hypo-allergenie
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      11 1 GOVT LAND SALES Will small developers be left out? Pg 4
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      Lock icon A walk down memory lane for MPs
      771 2  -  New and veteran politicians, including SM Lee, speak on PM Goh's motion before moving to new chambers By, Audrey Tan JUST before MPs made their symbolic five-minute stroll from the old Parliament House to the new chambers of Parliament yesterday, they took a
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      Lock icon SilkAir crash: govt awaiting police findings
      322 2  -  'No necessity' to set up another inquiry, says Cheow Tong By Eugene Low THE government is awaiting the findings of police investigations into the Silk Air MI 185 crash, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong told Parliament yesterday. He also said
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      Lock icon A Kra canal would divert ships
      275 2  -  But these will mainly be vessels in transit, says Cheow Tong By] Eugene Low THE proposal to cut a canal across the southern Kra Isthmus in Thailand, if taken up, will "undoubtedly" divert some shipping away from the Malacca and Singapore Straits, Minister for
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    • HOUSE Briefs
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        Lock icon Over 450,000 work permit holders
        44 2 THERE are currently more than 450,000 work permit holders in Singapore, of which more than 100,000 are foreign domestic workers, said Minister for Manpower Lee Boon Yang. There are also around 80,000 foreigners employed on employment passes, he added.
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        Lock icon $1.7m disbursed under brand scheme
        76 2 SINCE the implementation of its Brand Development Assistance Scheme (Brandas) in 1990, the Trade Development Board (TDB) has given out grants totalling 11.7 million to companies as part of the scheme, said Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lim Swee Say. He added that
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        Lock icon Higher speed limits on some highways
        79 2 THE speed limit of the East Coast Parkway from Benjamin Sheara Bridge to Changi Airport, and the KranJi Expressway will be raised from 80 km per hour to 90 km per hour next month, said Ho Peng Kee, Minister of State for Law and
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        Lock icon Budget deficits possible to NII
        73 2 THE government can run budget deficits up to the magnitude of its net investment income (Nil), which is regarded as part of current reserves, without drawing on past reserves, said Richard Hu, Minister for Finance. But the government does not have to fall back on
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Govt to set aside Tuas View site for LNG terminal
      592 3  -  'Strategic consideration' to use LNG for some power stations: Swee Say By\ David Boey IN a landmark move that will reduce Singapore's vulnerability to disruptions to the supply of fuel for its power stations, the government will set aside a
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Lock icon Revamp at trademarks registry
        53 3 THE Registry of Trade Marks and Patents will be revamped and renamed the Intellectual Property Office J of Singapore (IPOS). In addition to registering trademarks and granting patents, the IPOS will run a series of new legislation, including the Geographical Indications Act and the Layout-Designs of
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        Lock icon SM LEE to attend PepsiCo conference
        25 3 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew will attend the PepsiCo Top To Top Conference in Montreux, Switzerland, from Sept 8-12.
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        Lock icon Schering-Plough opens new S'pore office
        64 3 SCHERING-PLOUGH Research Institute, the pharmaceutical researcn and development arm of US-based Schering-Plough Corporation, yesterday formally opened a new clinical research office in Science Park n. The Singapore office will serve as the regional centre for coordinating the institute'B clinical programme* for npwphflrmarsmtlraU tr> A«ri« «rf»hvHng
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        Lock icon Two BritTel executives join StarHub
        49 3 TWO British Telecom senior executives have joined Star Hub. Peter Kaliaropoulos, seconded from British Telecom, took over from Graham Moore as senior vice-president for commercial and service. John Poeton, recently retired from the UK telco, becomes Star Hub's senior vice-president for international and wholesale.
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      Lock icon KRDL, cancer centre tie up to develop 3-D liver images for surgery
      309 3  -  By. Raju Chellam IN what could be the first project of its kind, two local institutes have tied up to develop software that enables a human liver to be reconstructed, viewed and manipulated for three-dimensional (3-D) viewing. It
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      Lock icon Domestic supply prices up 2.8%
      339 3  -  EYE OM THE ECONOMY Prices By, Jennifer Lien WHOLESALE prices continued their upward trend in July, with the domestic supply price index rising 2.8 per cent year-on-year, up from 83.2 to 85.5. This is the fourth consecutive rise in the index, and the strongest in
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon Will small developers be left out?
      650 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Large supply of npgrader condo land suggests thin margins for lower-end condo developers By Lee Han Shih THERE must be something about Mah Bow Tan. Having presided over the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) system which rakes in billions of dollars annually
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      291 4 Freehold Residential Site Near Novena MRT Station i Site area 17,278 sq ft "g// °PP° site St. Michael's A School, near Revenue 1 I House, United Square i\r^\V?*" Novena Square I 1 Plot ratio 2.8, 30-storey Public Trustee's Sale by Tender Tender Closing: Wednesday, 13 October 1999,3.00pm 3 PRIME INDUSTRIAL!
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Rajah & Tann set to be second biggest law firm
      511 5  - Rajah Tann set to be second biggest law firm It will have at least 120 lawyers after merger with Yeo Wee Kiong and some other planned moves Byi Conrad Raj RAJAH Tann, which made its mark as the Singapore legal advisers to the liquidators of failed investment bank Barings, is
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      Lock icon Mitsui Marine offers instant insurance quotations on Net
      254 5 MITSUI Marine and Fire Insurance (Asia) and its agent, NationweU Insurance Agency, have launched an "instant insurance quotation" Web service. This instant quotation service over the Internet the first of its kind in Singapore gives a clear display of price and service
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      Lock icon Check hedge fund loans
      280 5  -  MAILBAG AS Khaled Brunei HEDGE funds have been accused of having triggered the Asian economic collapse of 1997. These same funds are said to be responsible for the sudden and severe collapse of sterling a few years back. Owners and beneficiaries of these funds are generally
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      Lock icon Studio Cinemas space taken up by Cathay, pub-owner Peter Wong
      343 5  -  By, Jennifer Lien THE space vacated by Studio Cinemas, which went into receivership last month, appears to have attracted keen interest, despite the substantial sizes of the two locations. While listed Cathay Organisation Holdings yesterday confirmed it would take up
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      241 5 r Busy Jazz Schnitzel. Port Knuckles. Nuremberg Smiigei, Hunpruo Goulash, Apple Struck) and mart OmMc Bratwunt. free-flow beer Singapore's days of belt-tightening are over. fWith prices like $14.50+++ for weekday lunch and $38+++ for Sunday brunch (including free flow beer and live jazz music), our panEuropean cuisine will certainly whet
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  • ASIA ON THE MEMO
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      Lock icon J P Morgan putting more money into KL equities
      321 6  -  Wong Wei Kong {SINGAPORE] US fund manager J P Morgan Investment Management is putting more pioney in Malaysia with the Country now slated for re-in-clusion in the widely tracked Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices, chief investment strategist Chris Durbin said
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      Lock icon Japan's Q2 growth will be flat: trade minister
      528 6 Govt likely to cut new spending in supplementary budget Reuters [TOKYO] Trade Minister Kaoru Yosano said yesterday the Japanese economy did not suffer a relapse after surprisingly strong growth in the second quarter, hinting that the government will offer less new spending
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      Lock icon FDI in Japan seen buoying yen
      632 6 Deregulation expected to continue to draw foreign firms Reuters [TOKYO] Foreign direct investment (FDD in Japan will keep growing at a healthy rate in the coming months, keeping the yen on a firm footing as foreign firms look to buy into the Japanese restructuring
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      Lock icon Dow rally fails to boost greenback against yen
      445 6  -  US$ could test lows approaching 100 yen, predicts SG By! Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Despite an impressive 235-point jump for the Dow last Friday, the US dollar continued to be bogged down in Asian trading yesterday, and continues to look most vulnerable against
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      Lock icon Sept 30 deadline for bank merger stays: Bank Negara
      237 6 Bridge News [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central bank said yesterday that the Sept 30 deadline for preliminary agreements on the country's forced merger of its domestic banking institutions still stands, denying a news report which said the deadline has been brought forward
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      Lock icon M'sia's July industrial output seen rising
      226 6 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's industrial output probably expanded in July monthon-month as factories produced more on expectations Asia's recovery from recession will fuel growing demand for computers and clothes. A rise in July would be the first gain in three months. The Statistics Department
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      Lock icon Busy IMF schedule delays Thai letter of intent
      213 6 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Deputy Finance Minister Pisit Leeahtam said yesterday the busy work schedule of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) board had delayed announcement of its review of the Thai economy for a week until Sept 14. Mr Pisit told reporters the
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      692 6 B The HourGlass Limited (Incorporated tn the Republic of Sirtgooore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 20th Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Mandarin Singapore, Room 831, Bth floor. South Wing, 333 Orchard Road, Singapore *****7, on Wednesday, 29 September 1999
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Jakarta rapped, UN urged to intervene in E Timor
      558 7 SINGAPORE Donor countries moiling aid suspension, says World Bank Bridge News, Reuters INTERNATIONAL pressure mounted yesterday for UN intervention in East Timor, and Jakarta faced a chorus of criticism for letting violence in the territory spin out of control. Separately, the
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      Lock icon Thai Farmers delays 24b baht stock sale to settle Phatra woes
      343 7 REGIONAL BAJfK WOES Bloomberg, Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Farmers Bank postponed a 24 billion baht (Ssl billion) share sale, it had scheduled to start this week, to settle problems with its insolvent Phatra Finance unit. The country's third-larg-est bapk last
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      Lock icon House okays setting up of panel for Bank Bali probe
      166 7 ■JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S Parliament yesterday approved the setting up of a special parliamentary committee with sweeping powers to investigate a scandal surrounding Pt Bank Ball The committee will have the power to question anybody, including President BJ Habibie, in its
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      Lock icon Krung Thai NPLs as high as 72%
      220 7 BANGKOK Bank transparency lacking, says senator monitoring reforms Bloomberg KRUNG Thai Bank's non-per-forming loans were as high as 72 per cent of total loans in June and the bank needs 10 billion baht (*****.8 million) more to raise loan loss provision to meet
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      Lock icon Petronas may build US$3.5b PNG pipeline
      293 7  -  It's also been invited to build a separate 350 km pipeline to Port Moresby Frrrm Brian Gomez in Sydney MALAYSIA'S Petronas Bhd has been invited to build, operate and own the Papua New Guinea (PNG) pipeline section of the US$3.5 billion (555.9 billion) PNG
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China to spend 54b yuan on wage hikes, benefits
      547 8 BEIJING New policy is Bering's latest attempt to boost economic growth Bloomberg AFP CHINA said it would spend 54 billion yuan (Ssll billion) to boost the incomes of 84 million of the country's poorest people through increases in wages, pensions and
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      Lock icon Taiwan to push for China's WTO entry at Apec
      258 8 TAIPEI Bloomberg TAIWAN said it will urge support for China's entry to the World Trade Organisation at a summit of leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific economies in New Zealand. "Taiwan and China are both important Apec members and it is in the
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    • SINO Briefs
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        Lock icon Taiwan bourse to be fully open in 2001
        68 8 Bridge News [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Central Bank of China (CBC) will fully open the stock market to foreign investment starting in 2001, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported yesterday, citing a recent CBC report to the nation's top economic planning body. Authorities currently
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        Lock icon Audi to produce A6 in China
        81 8 Bridge News [FRANKFURT] Germany's VW Audi unit announced yesterday the local production of its first premium Audi model in China for the Chinese market, in a move making it the first automaker to produce premium models for the home market and marking "a new
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        Lock icon 25% in Taiwan poll favour independence
        68 8 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] A record 25 per cent of respondents said they favoured independence from China, a poll conducted by the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) at the end of August showed. The number of respondents who said they wanted independence now or in the future,
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      Lock icon China banks keen to shift forex units to HK: poll
      184 8 HONGKONG Reuters THREE of China's four main state-owned commercial banks are interested in moving their foreign exchange dealing rooms from headquarters to Hongkong, a Bei-jing-backed Hongkong newspaper said yesterday. The Wen Wei Po daily quoted unidentified sources saying three of
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      Lock icon China's insurance sector to grow at 12% a year
      374 9 BEIJING Chinese market one of the fastest growing in the world Reuters CHINA'S insurance industry is set to expand at 12 per cent a year over the next five years, doubling premium volume, Yuan Li, policy research division director at the
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      Lock icon Taiwan CPI sees biggest rise in two years
      282 9 TAIPEI Jump unexpected but is still in line with govt forecast Bloomberg TAIWAN'S consumer prices posted their biggest monthly increase in two years in August, as faster economic growth helped fuel a rise in the cost of food and medicine. The seasonally
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      Lock icon Thefts cost retailers in China 25b yuan a year
      181 9 SHANGHAI AFP EMPLOYEES and customers stole 25 billion yuan (515.1 billion) in merchandise from China's beleaguered retailers last year, the official Baokan Wenzhai reported yesterday. The report described the problem as having reached "shocking" levels. Huarun Wanfang, a retailer based in
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      Lock icon Shell, Mobil, Enron lead bids for China LNG project
      193 9 MELBOURNE Bloomberg ROYAL Dutch/SheU Group, Mobil and Enron appear to be front runners in a bid to help build a US$6OO miUion (SSI billion) liquefied natural gas project in China, Australia's leading gas marketing body sa'id. Arthur Dixon, the president of
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Korean banks to run key Daewoo units
      563 10 KOREAN CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING Move to prevent debt-laden chaebol's troubles from spreading to recovering economy Reuters KOREAN creditor banks, including Hanvit Bank, the country's second largest commercial lender, decided yesterday to directly run three of the 12 Daewoo Group units put under a debt
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      Lock icon Seoul grilling chairmen of three Hyundai units
      358 10 SEOUL Group co-chairman may also be called for questioning Reuters SOUTH Korean prosecutors were questioning the head of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co yesterday in connection with an investigation into alleged stock price manipulation, prosecution officials said. Two other top Hyundai Group executives Hyundai
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      Lock icon Chaebol reform on track: minister
      359 10 SEOUL Manufacturers say economy will keep growing despite Daewoo crisis Bernama Reuters, SOUTH Korea's finance minister said yesterday the top Ave business groups were expected to reduce their debt-to-equity ratio to less than 200 per cent by the year-end, with the exception of the Daewoo
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      Lock icon Foreign investment by S Korean firms up 47%
      235 10 SEOUL Bloomberg (SEOUL) South Korea's direct foreign investment rose 47 per cent in July year on year as Hyundai Electronics Industries and other big companies stepped up investment in their overseas operations. The combined direct investment by Korean companies totalled US$45O million
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      Lock icon Investors, borrowers prefer S&P: poll
      339 10 SYDNEY It comes oat way ahead of arch rival Moody's in Australasian survey Reuters A SURVEY on the performance of global credit rating agencies operating in Australasian markets has found Standard Poor's ranked a clear favourite ahead of its arch competitor, Moody's Investors Service. Conducted
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      1119 10 HIAP SENG ENGINEERING LTD. (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 1999 Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 6 Benoi Place. Singapore *****7. on Wednesday. 22 September 1999 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business: ORDINARY BUSINESS 1. To receive
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon German July industry orders up a healthy 1.2%
      423 11 FRANKFURT Figure above expectations, confirms economy is on path to recovery Reuters GERMAN industry orders rose at a healthy rate in July, beating market expectations and offering the first hard evidence that recovery in Europe's largest economy is underway. The German finance
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      Lock icon Euro seen rising to US$1.10 in medium term
      473 11 HAMBURG ECB may up interest rates by 50bps in Ql, says banker Bridge News, Reuters THE euro is likely to rise to around US$l.lO in the medium term, said Deutsche Bank executive board member Josef Ackermann in an interview with German newspaper
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      Lock icon UK won't lose out on euro benefits: Cook
      391 11 TOKYO Reuters BRITISH Foreign Secretary Robin Cook yesterday extolled the euro's early successes and said the Blair government would not let Britain "lose out by staying out" if the trend persisted. "Today I assure you that if the euro proves a stable,
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      Lock icon More losses seen for Germany's SPD
      334 11 BERLIN Reuters GERMAN Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) were licking their wounds yesterday from two state election defeats and bracing for further setbacks in four more ballots over the next month. Chancellor Schroeder conferred with SPD leaders in Berlin to discuss Sunday's debacles
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      Lock icon Online shoppers getting a poor deal
      425 12 LONDON Consumer group tells OECD to ignore delay tactics and approve e-commerce guidelines soon Reuters INTERNET shoppers are getting a poor deal from retailers and regulators and need to be protected by international guidelines for online commerce as soon as possible, a major consumers
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      Lock icon Russia helping in corruption probe: Putin
      500 12 MOSCOW But he s&ys the gums involved are much lev than reported NYT PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin said in a television interview aired on Sunday evening that Russian law enforcement authorities were cooperating in an investigation of a suspected money laundering scheme involving Russian
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      Lock icon 9-9-99 won't cause problems: experts
      377 12 PARIS AFP FEARS of computer chaos arising from the "all-the-nines" date of Sept 9, 1999 the ninth day of the ninth month are misplaced, experts say. In the shadow of the millennium bug, the glitch that computers with two-digit year-counters may encounter on Jan 1,2000,
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      817 13  -  THE BOTTOM LDIB OPINION By Stephen Vines The writer was the founding editor of Hongkong's Eastern Express. His latest book 'The Years of Living Dangerously— Asia from Financial Crisis to the New Millennium'— will be published by Orion in November. This article originally
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      118 13 The marketplace is saturated. It's a relatively small country. Once your core gets bored, it's like a souffle —the whole thing collapses.' -MikeSoot&r editor of the US edition of Maxim, on why British publishers of the so-called laddie magazine are facing declining sales. 'You got me.' Martin
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      623 13 East Timor needs a UN force —now EDITORIAL THE people of East Timor have voted overwhelmingly for independence from Indonesia And President BJ Habibie has done the right thing by calling on the Indonesian people to respect the results of the United Nations-supervised referendum But it seems there are some
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      1195 13  -  The claims of pressure groups hostile to globalisation most be challenged By\ Martin Wolf FT IN 1997, according to the World Bank, the 10 economies with the highest incomes per head were, in order: Singapore, the US, Switzerland, Hongkong, Norway, Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Austria and Canada. Two
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      1056 13 Kcyttnktn global olialb SO I was having lunch the other day with a group of Taiwanese news editors, and I asked them if I could take notes on my computer. As I opened up my laptop, I joked that I hoped they didn't mind that I
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      518 15 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL Aadience squirm in seats over explicit scenes depicting sado-masochism Reuters [VENICE] The original book was banned in South Korea and the author thrown in jail. Now the film adaptation is causing a stir at the Venice film festival. Jang Sun Woo's provocative
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      512 17  -  Company chalks up $2-2 m profit compared with $37m loss previously By Carol Eng (SINGAPORE] Analysts covering Yeo Hiap Seng (YHS) will be scrambling to revise their projections as the firm has reversed into the black with a $2.2 million interim profit This
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      278 17  -  OPH's 50% owned Hill Grove offers $90m bond issue By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Orchard Parade Holdings is raising funds again. Yesterday, lead manager Citicorp Investment Bank (Singapore) announced the launch of a $45 million secured bond issue by OPH Property (OPHP), a
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      659 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Conrad Raj INFRASTRUCTURE contractor Ipco International, now under the control of Indonesian stockbroker Purwadi, announced about a fortnight ago that it was planning a restructuring and an injection of assets into the company to help get it
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      519 17  -  GOVT LAND SALES Govt land sales news already factored into share prices, say analysts By] David Boey [SINGAPORE] Property stocks held their ground in the face of a potential selldown arising from the government land sales (GLS) programme unveiled last Saturday by Mah Bow
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      427 17 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Real estate developers First Capital Corp (FCC) and Wing Tai Holdings are widely expected to show losses when they announce fiscal 1999 earnings due to insufficient provisioning, analysts said yesterday. Barra Global Estimates has consensus net loss forecasts
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        424 18  -  MERC DISTRIBUTORSHIPS UNDER SIEGE Stock closes 6% down to $7; opinion divided on whether fall will continue By l Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] News of blue chip group Cycle Carriage entering a third business can-making failed to halt the slide in its share
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        354 18 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Jardine International Motor Holdings Ltd (JIMH) posted its biggest oneday fall in six months after it said it's in talks with DaimlerChrysler AG about sharing its exclusive Hongkong distribution rights for Merce-des-Benz cars, which generate as much as 45 per cent of its
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        307 18  -  By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Former stockbroker and investment banker George Thia's investment vehicle, Irisca Investments, will make an unconditional general offer for Form Holdings at Ave cents a share. This follows shareholder and stock exchange approval for the issue of 300
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        130 18 As of yesterday, 114 SES-listed companies had released their financial results for the six months ended June 30,1999. They recorded a combined $3,274.5m In group profits, Hp 70.8% over the same period last year. The total included niM foreign companies listed here. If they were excluded, total profits
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        Lock icon UK motoring business drives up Jacks H1 net
        296 18  -  By] Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Jacks International's UK motoring business continued to drive the company's earnings, helping to push interim sales and net profit up 15 per cent and 54 per cent respectively. The company chalked up $998,000 in profit for the halfyear
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        Lock icon San Teh doubles H1 net to $6.6m
        374 18  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Sale of keypad business seen hitting next year's results By i Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] San Teh, which is selling its core business of keypad manufacturing, saw its interim net profit this year more than double to $6.6 million. For the half-year
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        Lock icon Zagro's interim net up 10% on cost controls
        184 18 [SINGAPORE] Stringent cost control measures and better operating results in some subsidiaries have led to 10 per cent rise in group net profit of Zagro Asia to $914,000 for the half-year ended June 30 this year. This higher profit was achieved despite
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        365 18  -  Foods managers worry aboot potential breach of proposed ceiliog By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines directors wiU have the discretion to allow a shareholder or a related group of shareholders to hold more than 5 per cent of the
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        124 18 [SINGAPORE] DMG Partners Securities yesterday offered its voice-activated trading systems, along with Lim Tan Securities. The Stock Exchange of Singapore said the two firms are the first to acquire the system, developed jointly by its wholly-owned subsidiary Macro Vision and SpeechWorks International
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        Lock icon BOT delays naming Radanasin Bank bid winner
        286 18 BID FOR THAI BAKES UOB said to be front-runner, ahead of Citigroup Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The Thai central bank has delayed the announcement of the winning bidder for insolvent Radanasin Bank Pic tipped by local media to be Singapore's United Overseas Bank Ltd. It
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        148 18 [SINGAPORE] Inno-Pacific Holdings Ltd (IPH) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to buy Golden Harvest, an Aussie property investment company, for $36.9 million from Impress Eight (M) Sdn Bhd and Chew Swee Ann. The MOU is not legally binding and the terms are still
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          48 18 [SINGAPORE] MMI Holdings said it has appointed Alex Chan as chairman of its audit committee. Mr Chan is currently a non-executive director of MMI and an existing member of the audit committee. At the same time, Mark Geh has resigned as non-executive director.
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          112 18 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] LindetevesJaacoberg has reported net profit of $12.39 million for the six months aided June 30, against 110.24 million previously on a 15 per cent higher turnover of $75.88 million. Earnings per share rose from 6.5 cents to 7.4 cents. Interim dividend was unchanged
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          64 18 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Hour Glass Ltd said it will seek its shareholders' mandate at the Sept 29 AGM to buy back the company's shares. It did not say how many shares it intends to buy back. The company said it will also seek a mandate to
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          56 18 [SINGAPORE] Shangri-La Asia and its concert parties now own more than 86 per cent of Shangri-La Singapore following the launch of its offer for the Singapore malnboard company on Aug 17. The offer, on the basis of 2.026 new shares in Shangri-La Asia for every Shangri-La
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          63 19 AFP [TOKYO] Four Japanese chipmakers are to team up with a US firm to develop new microcontrollers for next generation portable information appliances with easy Internet access, a daily newspaper said yesterday. The four Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Hitachi Ltd, NEC Corp, and
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          54 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Vodafone Airtouch Pic, the world's largest wireless company, said a link with Bell Atlantic Corp is among the options it's considering as the world's largest mobile operator looks to develop its US operations. The two agreed to split their existing wireless
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          Lock icon Seven Network's H2 profit plunges 68%
          59 19 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Seven Network Ltd, Australia's No 2 commercial television broadcaster, said second-half earnings plunged 68 per cent because of high programming and restructuring costs. It earned A 55.2 million (555.6 million) before one-time items in the six months ended June 26. That took
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          51 19 Reuters [PARIS] France says now that French bank Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) is merging with Paribas, it would be acceptable for the new bank to form European alliances. "Now that the market's period is over... European alliances are welcome," Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on
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        267 19 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp said yesterday it plans to set up more production bases in Eastern Europe as it expects the region's economic importance to grow in the coming years. A company spokesman confirmed comments by president Nobuyuki Idei
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        417 19 Reuters [MELBOURNE] The Australian government promised retail investors sizeable sweeteners yesterday to buy into the second-tranche privatisation of Telstra Corp Ltd, the nation's largest share offer. Retail investors will receive a discount of at least 40 Australian cents per share on the
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        319 19 Company expects to get final proposals from interested parties by Sept 30 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's food giant PT Indofood Sukses Makmur said yesterday it expected to sell four units of its Bogasari mills by Nov 30. It has already announced plans to split
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        376 19  -  Move comes as Coca Cola Amatil lifts lock-up period From Al Labita in Manila FOOD and beverage giant San Miguel Corp (SMC) yesterday said it was pushing the sale this month of its 21.5 per cent stake in Australian bottler Coca
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        Lock icon First Pac's net dives as disposal gains fall
        648 19 Gains offset by a USss2.9m charge for revamp costs Reuters, Bloomberg [HONGKONG] First Pacific Co Ltd's net profit fell 74 per cent in the first half from a year ago due to lower onetime gains on asset disposals in its restructuring programme.
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        234 19 Reuters [PARIS] Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Sunday he would ask France's Competition Council to examine the planned merger between retailers Carrefour and Pro modes. Mr Strauss-Kahn said he was concerned that the resulting company would have too much control
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        Lock icon Merrill set to capitalise on new Aussie tax rules
        340 20 FT [SYDNEY] Merrill Lynch, the US broker and investment bank, is poised to become the first foreign group to take advantage of changes to Australia's foreign investment tax rules. The changes, which favour US funds managers over other foreign counterparts, were
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        625 20 Pullout from Seoulßank talks has hurt HSBC chances to gain from region's recovery: analysts Bloomberg [HONGKONG] HSBC Holdings Pic, which last week walked away from talks to buy South Korea's SeoulBank, dented its chances to complete an acquisition to profit from
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        304 20 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Barclays Capital plans to shift its swap book out of Tokyo to Singapore with the appointment of a new Asia-Pacific vice chairman, senior company officials said yesterday, "At this moment in time the interest rate swap book is
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        Lock icon Dai-Ichi Kangyo, Fuji, IBJ to cut 10,000 staff
        327 20 Merging banks will also trim 250 branches to cut costs Bloomberg [TOKYO) The three large Japanese banks that have agreed to merge to form a global giant will enlarge the cost-cut-ting plans they announced last month. During the next five years, the
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        342 20 Deal may result in savings of at least £130 m by end-2002 Reuters [LONDON] National Westminster Bank pic yesterday unveiled a £10.75 billion (5529.2 billion) agreed bid for British life insurer and fund manager Legal General pic, creating a new British financial giant. Nat
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        239 20 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Salomon Smith Barney Australia, a unit of Citigroup Inc, said it bought the retail brokerage business of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. Melbourne-based ANZ, Australia's No 4 lender, will transfer its entire retail unit which has 115 employees to Salomon's by
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        234 21  -  STMEX Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended the day with modest gains yesterday. The market rose initially, inspired by the stunning 235point rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average last Friday following the release of lower-than-expected August non-farm
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        158 21  -  MSCI Taiwan tatores Charlie Kuo Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures saw a technical rebound yesterday as bargain-hunting at the support level of 355 points triggered speculative buying by retail investors. In the cash market, com-puter-related shares led the Taiwan Weighted Price Index
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        243 21 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices were given a lift yesterday by an assurance from a senior Opec official that exporters will not ease output restrictions when the cartel meets in two weeks' time. Benchmark Brent crude in London traded
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        302 21 Reuters London THE US dollar made little headway against the euro or yen yesterday as the subdued market looked ahead to the key economic data due out later in the week. The dollar's early gains, helped by political concerns in Germany, and its pullbacks, were short-lived as a
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      1373 22 AFP Q Hang Seng *206.85 HONGKONG share prices rose 1.6 per cent yesterday as positive US economic data released on Friday eased fears that the US Federal Reserve would announce another interest rate increase, dealers said. "The market rose quite substantially in response to the strong gain on Wall
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      524 22 dropped 10.96 points to 611.64. —AFP, AFX-Asia Q Shanghai B Index -0.30 SHANGHAI'S B shares closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday in response to price declines on the parallel market of locally traded A shares and continued uncertainty about Taiwan, analysts said. The Shanghai Stock Exchange's B Share Index,
      dropped 10.96 points to 611.64. —AFP, AFX-Asia; Source: Credit Lyonnsis Securities(Asia) Ltd  -  524 words
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      326 22 AFP □WPlndei +«5J7 TAIWAN stocks closed 0.8 per cent higher yesterday on strong buying in the technology sector, dealers said. "Buying interest mainly shifted to blue-chip shares in makers of notebook computers and motherboards on expectations of improved sales this month," said James Su of Master Link Securities. However,
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      2174 22 LONDON Mistrials Sa# 3 NM 3i Group 8.29 0.11 A&Pey National 10.44 0.31 A B Foods 4.31 0.06 A B Port! 3.39 0.04 AstraZeneca 24.82 0.63 Alliance L«c*st*f 8.53 0.07 Allied Domecq 5.84 0.09 Allied Zurich 8.01 0.35 Anglo American Gold 43.70 unch ASOA Group 2.19 -0.01
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      1621 22 AFP n Nikkei 225 *mg TOKYO share prices rose 0.7 per cent yesterday, following a weekend rally on Wall Street, as investors snapped up export-led and hightech issues despite the yen's rise against the US dollar, brokers said. "Gains in New York, particularly a powerfill rise in the Nasdaq
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        408 23 AFP Q Composite Index +7.46 MALAYSIAN share prices ended one per cent higher yesterday due to local buying support amid anticipated strong corporate results, dealers said. "A measure of local buying kept the main index up but volumes were thin and the rises not very
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        180 24  -  Global Tech wrt may see profit-taking By Ven Sreenivasan THE warrant of Hongkong dollar-de-nominated handphone accessory maker, Global Tech Holdings, was the biggest percentage gainer on the bourse yesterday, leaping 35 HK cents or 25 per cent to HKSI.77 on a volume of 557,000 units. The underlying stock,
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        679 24 AFP |3 Composite Index -24.77 INDONESIAN share prices closed 4.4 per cent lower yesterday in an across-the-board sell-off amid concerns about violence in East Timor following the vote for its independence, dealers said. "The broad market was very weak today. People were selling and tried to get out of
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        874 24 AFP □SCT Index -7.04 THAI share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday on a lack of fresh leads, with investors concerned about the health of the banking and financial sector, dealers said. They said investors were also worried about the shortterm direction of the market, which failed to
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        321 24 AFP Q Manila *13.38 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday on the back of a lower than expected inflation result for August. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 13.38 points to close at 2,168.47. Turnover reached 598 million shares worth 2.2 billion pesos from Friday's
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        410 24 AFP n Composite Index +32.60 SOUTH Korean share prices rose 3.6 per cent yesterday buoyed by last week's sharp gains on Wall Street as well as news that 10 Daewoo units will be placed under bank receivership, dealers said. The rise, led by Posco and semiconductor-makers, was also spurred
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        653 24 AFP F1 AD Ordinaries *27.7 AUSTRALIAN share prices closed up 0.9 per cent yesterday thanks to strong gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index closed up 27.7 points at 2,990.1. The All Industrials Index surged 51.5 points to 5,151.7 while the All
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        286 24 AFP W Wellington *1L56 NEW Zealand stocks rose 0.5 per cent yesterday but brokers said the gains were disappointing considering Friday's rally on Wall Street. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 11.56 points at 2,150.32 on light volume of NZ$35.B million. —AFP «a»» 1 *f- r— AOvantaq* MOS 2.60
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        600 26  -  Early rally inspired by Wall Street gains fizzled ont ahead of yesterday's US market closure STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY By Ven Sreenivasan WHAT started out like a Wall Streetinspired rally for Singapore stocks yesterday fizzled out by mid-day because of weak
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          112 26 MAYBE parking charges should be included as an economic Indicator. One of the few good things which the economic crisis threw up was cheapo parking. It looks like at least one shopping centre, Ngee Ann City, has hiked its rates, perhaps with an eye on the
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          57 26 THE advertisement for the Citibank Cathay Pacific visa card proudly aays: "Newcardmemberscannowbuyan economy air ticket on Cathay Pacific— and get another free. "Good deal it eeema, until you get to the prtcee. At $1,108 to Taipei and $1,918 to New York, tor example, that's nearly double what
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          135 26 CONSUMER banks the world over are constantly peddling their products, all at which are usually cleverly packaged to entice customers. But just bow good are these "goodiee" with which we're constantly bombarded with? Pretty bad, at least as ferae the UK is concerned. Which? magazine in its September
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        74 26  -  Wong Wei Kong DBS Land shares closed down 2 cents at yesterday with 3.73 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 6.51 million units. The RSI, Stoctestics and MACD charts suggest that the stock may be in lor a spell of weakness. One good sign
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      276 17 Goods Services Tax I Workshops I PricewaterhouseCoopers is conducting another series of GST workshops in September, October and November. The workshops are particularly relevant for those responsible for preparing or approving GST returns in any industry. The course will provide a sound basis for handling the day-to-day GST transactions in
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      316 27 Bridge News, Reuters A FEW handysize vessels were reported fixing from the US Gulf in late trade but with a holiday in the US yesterday, activity was at a virtual standstill. TANKEB& Persian Gulf very large crude carriers (VLCCs) continued to see rates climb as a shortage of
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      489 27  -  UK's Hanson Pacific inks 10-year tenancy pact, will invest RMS-10m in jetty By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), Malaysia's new container port venture in Johor, has signed up its first customer, Hanson Pacific, and is attracting interest from
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      95 27 Ba^ glade J 1 Srru e billowing from an Indonesian-flagged ship Karya Sentosa aground near Bangladesh's pon over the weekend Port officials said pirates allegedly set the ship on fire after looting goods. The shin in 7,000 tonnes nee from India last year, but had since been
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      372 27  -  Move to force govt to proceed with privatisation plan for North Harbour From, Alec Almazan in Manila PORT workers at the Philippine's largest port the state-owned North Harbour at the Port of Manila are threatening to strike unless the government pushes through with its plan
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      178 27 [SINGAPORE] Classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) has formed a South East Asia technical committee (SEATC), to cater to the growing maritime industry in the region. With the formation of the committee, LR hopes Southeast Asia's voice can be heard when the latest edition of
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      168 27 [SINGAPORE] Kawasaki Risen Kaisha, better known as KLine, has restarted a dormant weekly service between Japan and the Singapore Straits. Officials from the Japanese shipping line say an increase in trading volumes between Japan and South-east Asia prompted the reactivation of the service. A
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      1001 28  -  PREVENTING STRIKES ON AIRCRAFT Conservationists find raptors are more palatable than using fireworks and firearms to keep wildlife off runways By' Tom Cahill Bloomberg (NEW YORK] AFTER using cannon, fireworks and shotguns to keep gulls and other birds away from aircraft, officials at John F. Kennedy
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      19041 35 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Heme Name NumOer Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 25/09 8/B COSCO *ESCR BRIDGE J930* 65-224B00 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* 0'I voir* turn 20/a choYang mj Valencia oom *****2212 NAM
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        193 39 Sep IB Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. Sap It Independence Day. Sep 23 Japan: Autummal Equinox Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Bep 24 South Africa: Heritage Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival Sep 28 Hong Kong: Day after Mid-Au-tumn Festival. South
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        779 39 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. show* price ranges In US dollar* Instead at single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prion shown ire biMd on Avengesized stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price index chance and the Individual
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        277 40 Bloomberg [DETROIT] General Motors (GM) and DaimlerChrysler offered the United Auto Workers (UAW) unprecedented lifetime employment guarantees as the companies vie to be the leader in industrycontract talks, union officials said. GM, the world's largest carmaker, also offered to hire "significant" numbers
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        389 40 Greater capacity at Paris air hub, cost-catting help boost performance Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France, Europe's No 3 airline, posted firstquarter profit of 144 million euros (*****.8 million), up from 8.2 million euros in the year-earlier, strike-afflicted quarter, as it filled a greater
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        260 40 AFP [TOKYO] Tokyo's airport authority applied for government approval recently for construction of a tentative runway at Narita airport to help handle traffic for the football World Cup finals in 2002, officials said. Toru Nakamura, president of New Tokyo International Airport Authority operating
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        218 40 Move to get European Commission's clearance: report Reuters [LONDON] Holidays group Alrtours is ready to sell some assets in an attempt to persuade a reluctant European Commission to clear its hostile bid for a UK rival, the Dally Telegraph newspaper reported
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        140 40 [KATHMANDU, Nepal] Wreckage of a Necon Air turbo-prop airliner lying near some trees near Kathmandu on Sunday. AUlspeople aboard the airliner were killed when it hit a telecommunications tower and crashed on a hillside near Kathmandu, Nepalese rescue coordination officials said They said the cockpit voice
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        351 40 It's willing to take 10% stake in USsl3b bullet train project Reuters [TAIPEI] The Euro-Train consortium said recently it is willing to take a 10 per cent stake in Taiwan's US$l3 billion (5521.9 billion) bullet train, keen to help clear financial logjams and ensure
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        73 40 [TOKYO] Honda employee Yuko Aoyama showing off their new hybrid vehicle Insight at the company's headquarters in Tokyo yesterday. The aluminium-bodied Insight, equipped with the new ultra-low fuel consumption one-litre gasoline/electric hybrid engine, achieves the world's lowest fuel consumption 0f35 km per litre. Honda will put
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        224 40 Reuters [HONGKONG] A pilot whose Jetliner made a rough landing In a 1994 storm, Injuring eight people, is suing Hongkong Dragon Airlines (Dragonair) and Airbus Industrie, claiming negligence on their part. In an endorsement of claim lodged in Hongkong's High Court last week, Dragonair captain
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      14 27 Falcons save metal cousins Conservationists find raptors effective in keeping wildlife off runways.P»ge 2
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      463 27 MM seminar Global cargo transportation company, Emery Worldwide, The Maritime and ■■■hh Wf has named Teo Ser Luck Port Authority of 5? mm director of logistics and Singapore (MPA) 3£ ocean services for the is homing a half-day W^ Asia-Pacific. seminar on port SB Mr Teo will oversee all I
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      170 27 Air France Q1 profit soars to 144 m euros Greater capacity at Paris air hub, cost-cutting help boost performance. Back Page travels fast l\ Sl\( iAIM )KI when you v\ani to reach out to a select target audience in ihc transport and logistics industry onl\ one daih oilers \oii the
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