The Business Times, 10 September 1999

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  • 937 1  -  Growth of 0.2% following robust first quarter pots Japan on track for recovery ByAi Anthony Rowley, R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] News that Japan's economy grew by an unexpectedly robust 0.2 per cent in the second quarter sent Tokyo stock prices soaring by over
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  • 513 1  -  Pooling of regional mobile phone interests expected By< Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecommunications is expected to announce soon a deal with Deutsche Telekom AG to jointly operate their mobile phone business in Asia, informed sources said. Details of the deal are shrouded
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  • 517 1  -  From Eddie Toh m Kuala Lumpur THE International Monetary Fund has finally come around to accepting Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's way. The IMF critical of the premier's policy when he imposed exchange controls last September said the measures have
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  • 94 1  -  David Boey No, it's not. It's just a water spout swirling across the strait separating Jurong Island and the mainland yesterday. According to a Meteorological Service spokesman, a water spout is a rather uncommon weather phenomenon consisting of a vertical column of water that has been sucked
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    • 140 1 btstob w Executive Money looks at why Singapore investors are cool to these Investment vehicles, EM 12 |OOBiUt v Certificates of entitlement for cars fell across the board as the Hungry Ghost Month kept scone buyers away, while the Auto Asia debacle made otters cautious, Pg2 Briwtay's plans New Zealand's
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 501 2  -  Across-the-board falls; biggest decline in Mercedes-Benz and BMW category ity Christopher Tan CERTIFICATES of entitlement for cars fell across the board as the Hungry Ghost Month kept some buyers away, while the Auto Asia debacle made others cautious. Figures from
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    • 358 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Electronics By, Jennifer Lien NEW orders of electronic components by US manufacturers grew by a marginal 2.4 per cent in July following two strong months, latest figures from the US Commerce Department show. In June, new orders in seasonally-ad- justed year-on-year
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    • 265 2 FOREIGN fishermen, farmers and non-building industry folk will find it tougher trying to masquerade as construction workers, once the government tightens up entry levels for foreign construction workers. From next April, contractors who want to source foreign construction workers will have to ensure that all
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    • 359 2  -  GAD looking into whether more charges are called for By Christopher Tan MOTOR trader David Koh of Kia agent Auto Asia is claiming trial to all 31 criminal breach of trust charges levelled at him in court yesterday. "Yes, that is
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    • 233 2 ARTHUR Anderson, the receivers of troubled Kia agent Auto Asia, has struck a deal with the manufacturer to offer cars at below cost to stranded customers. The offer only* for buyers who have placed deposits with the company is for each Kia
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    • 412 2  -  Another naphtha cracker plant needed around 2005 Jennifer Lien SINGAPORE'S chemical industry will have enough feedstock up to about 2003, after which another petrochemical cracker plant will be needed. Economic Development Board chairman Philip Yeo said yesterday. "Hopefully, we should have
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    • 243 2 MASS rapid transit system operator SMRT Ltd posted a 36 per cent dive in net earnings to $87.6 million for the year ended March 31,1999. It said the decline in earnings was due mainly to the purchase of operating assets from the Land
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    • 931 3  -  AFBCMBHTDVCI Bilateral free trade arrangements are being hatched bnt trade may be eclipsed by politics ByY Yang Razali Kassim DESPITE various ministers making upbeat statements, Apec's (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) bid to energise its stalled market-opening drive is proving to be
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    • NEWS Roundup
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      • 31 3 "take health promotion at the workplace to a higher place", Prime Minifte? Goh Chok Ton* tald yesterday at the launch of the National Hifthy Liftrtyle Campaign.
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    • 274 3  -  At 262,000 sq ft, It ts largest piece of land ever pat np for collective sale By I Carol Eng THE largest piece of land ever to be put up for collective sale a 262,000 square feet plot fronting Lorong
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    • 343 3  -  ItWM&lSO& glitch-free day for the rest of Asia By\ Raju Chellam THE feared "four nines" bug 9.9.99—passed off as a nonevent, with none of the major public or private sector undertakings reporting any disruption to their systems yesterday. The "four nines" problem,
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 531 4 Swinging from glowing reports to doomsday scenarios hurts Asia, it says FT [LONDON] Credit rating agencies should devote more resources to the rating of emerging market countries if they are not to repeat the mistakes they made prior to the
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    • 191 4 Bloomberg [HONGKONGI Malaysia's sovereign 888- credit rating may be upgraded next month by Fitch IBCA, Inc, which placed the government on Rating Alert positive because of the country's rebound from the regional economic crisis. "Malaysia has managed bank and corporate debt restructuring much more
      Bloomberg  -  191 words
    • 294 4 Auditors not allowed to examine bank accounts: reports Bridge News, Reuters [JAKARTA] Bank Indonesia and the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) should have known about the transaction worth 546 billion rupiah (*****.4 million) between Bank Bali and PT Era Giat Prima,
      Bridge News,; Reuters  -  294 words
    • 50 4 [TOKYO] Money dealers taking a nap under the electric price board quoting 106.97 yen against the US dollar just before the afternoon session of the Tokyo foreign exchange yesterday. The US dollar tumbled against the Japanese yen, down from 111.20-24 yen. AFP
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    • 510 4 Bnt some of the boost due to govt's revising down past data Reuters [SINGAPORE] Financial analysts continue to revise their growth forecasts for Asia's regional economies upward, although some of the boost is due to arithmetic as governments revise down past data. The latest
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    • 188 4 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] The Bank of Thailand, the country's central bank, said it would expand its reports on money supply to provide a better picture of economic growth, inflation and investment by institutions. The bank will add the broader M 3 measure to its reports
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 343 6  -  Airline signs deal with Philippine tonrism department From, Al Labita in Manila SINGAPORE Airlines yesterday vowed to use its international marketing expertise to help promote the Philippines as a major Asian destination for foreign tourists and business travellers. The pledge, hailed
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    • 534 6  -  EAST TIMOR CRISIS Bargain hunters, Indon central bank step in to prop np both markets From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta ON a day of widely fluctuating prices, Indonesian stocks and the beleaguered rupiah staged a dramatic late afternoon rally yesterday to
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    • 293 6 SINGAPORE Reuters RUMOURS that Indonesian President BJ Habibie had fled the country were untrue and spread by people out to weaken him, a presidential spokeswoman said yesterday. "All sorts of rumours are being used to discredit the president, to weaken his position and
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    • 259 6 BANGKOK Reuters THAI Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda said yesterday that some signatories to the 1993 launch of the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) have started adopting nontariff barriers to protect their crisis-hit economies. Mr Tarrin told a business seminar that the Thai government
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    • 2694 7 I The Sime Darby Group I PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE 1999 I r Sime Darby Berhad I (Company No. *****-M) Unaudited results of the Group for the year ended 30th June 1999 After a weak first six months, the price of logs rose and
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 421 8 SHANGHAI lasted firms may trade too; foreign funded enterprises can issne A, B shares AFP, Reuters THE China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has lifted a two-year-old ban on stockmarket trading by state-owned enterprises, state-controlled firms and listed companies, the official Shanghai
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    • 135 8 SHANGHAI Bridge News CHINA'S Ministry of Finance has called on governments at all levels nationwide to ensure that its latest incomeboosting package is put in place before Sept 15, the official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. China plans to spend an extra 54
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    • 392 8 HONGKONG Index seen pushing up through 14,100 if there's no bad news Reuters HONGKONG stocks closed sharply higher yesterday, buoyed by a pact between Cable Wireless HKT (C&W HKT) with a top US group and by hopes of progress in China's World
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    • 274 8 HONGKONG •00 arrests, 2m CDs seized in two-month crackdown AFP HONGKONG yesterday hailed the success of a twomonth operation to crack down on intellectual property piracy, aaytag the^tOTUory counterfeit goods. "I am very haf>py to tell you that we have blinded the pirate in
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  • ASIA
    • 608 10 TOKYO A decisive victory would pave way for New Komeito to join rating coalition Reuters JAPAN'S Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi got a boost from bullish economic data yesterday but will be even keener to see numbers showing his standing with rank-and-file ruling party
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    • 203 10 WELLINGTON Reuters NEW ZEALAND should give the job of running its central bank to US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, a New Zealand politician said yesterday. "Greenspan is regarded as the world's best banker, but he's paid half as much as New Zealand's Reserve
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    • 284 10 SEOUL But the gap has been narrowing, says central bank official Reuters SOUTH Korea's potential gross domestic product (GDP) growth for 1999 still exceeds its real GDP growth, a central bank official said yesterday. "It is true that the gap between
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    • 802 10 o Shangri-La hotel LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) 1999 INTERIM RESULTSFINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT Six montha ended 30 June 1999 1998 Variance SS'OOO 88*000 Turnover 50,024 55,600 6.2 Operating profit 1,307 8,372 (83.7) Share of losses of associates (12,986) (4,839) (167.9) Net profit/(loss) before taxation and minority interests (11,599) 3,533 (428.3)
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    • 455 10 i' fiiA y*. MTMiTI"~ n*' fff 1 ,2^lh| l vig" With an unlimited ceiling. j The top of the world? That's just one point on the technological journey that Motorola it taking. Ifs a journey that wiH ultimately change the way the world works, plays and lives tomorrow. And throughout
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  • THE WORLD
    • 529 11 WASHINGTON Remarks come after the greenback has fallen by more than 7% against the yen since he took office FT LAWRENCE Summers, the US Treasury Secretary, made clear on Wednesday in his first big speech since taking office in July that he regarded
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    • 544 12 FRANKFURT On qtr-to-qtr basis, growth stagnated; economists expect better performance in second half AFP THE long-awaited sprint to recovery by the German economy faced a slight setback when gross domestic product (GDP) data for the second quarter published yesterday did not quite match expectations.
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    • 456 12 FRANKFURT Bloomberg, Reuters THE European Central Bank (ECB) held its benchmark interest rate at a record low of 2.5 per cent, spurring the economy and suggesting the bank sees little risk of accelerating Inflation. While the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve
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    • 384 12 LONDON Brent anrgea to ita highest level since February 1997 Reuters OIL'S relentless upward surge found fresh legs yesterday as producer supply curbs cut down pre-winter stocks of spare oil in the huge US market even faster than expected. World benchmark Brent crude in
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    • 404 12  -  From, Neil Behrmann in London HSBC Holdings has appointed four estate agents to market 12 offices in the City of London, the financial district About 1.1 million square feet of property, a sizeable proportion of property in the square mile, will be
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 815 13  -  THE BOTTOMLDfE OPINION By Michael Lewis Michael Lewis, author of "Liar's Poker" and "The New New Thing", a forthcoming book about Silicon Valley, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. His opinions don't necessarily represent those of Bloomberg News AT THE end of
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    • 93 13 'Because we bombed in Kosovo doesn't mean we should bomb Dili.' Samuel Berger President Clinton's national security adviser, on the US position on the Timor problem. 'Martial law was a very stupid choice it is unwise, it is beyond comprehension.' Amien Rais chairman of Indonesia's National Mandate
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    • 630 13 EDITORIAL THE cover of India Today's latest issue proclaims "Here we go again", referring to the ongoing elections which began this week. The sentiment is apt: this is India's 13th general election since independence 52 years ago, but the third since 1996. Understandably, the country's
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    • 1165 13  -  The triumph of commerdal civilisation is a defining feature of the past 1,000 years By) Martin Wolf FT WHICH is the country of the millennium? The answer is Britain. All that is needed to justify this apparently bold claim is to point to the ongoing commercial revolution that
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    • 1008 13 ALTHOUGH there is no reason to be surprised at the mounting international pressure which Jakarta's ineffectual handling of the East Timor crisis has brought on this country, many Indonesians nevertheless seem to be unprepared to cope with the emergence of one particular by-product of this development.
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  • FOCUS
    • 606 14  -  Reports praising the tie-up have chosen to ignore the huge pile of debt By David Pauly Bloomberg MUCH has been written in praise of Viacom Inc's proposed acquisition of CBS Corp. A perfect marriage, we've been told, combining Viacom, Sumner Redstone's "content" company of cableTV
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 430 15  -  CAPITAL GROUP SHARE DEALS Capital Group said to be long-term, research-driven investor By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The Capital Group may be in the news now for buying more Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) shares than it should, but the US fund management
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    • 480 15  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Fund managers BT spoke to yesterday said it is common practice to aggregate the shares held by the various funds they manage and report the number as their companies' total shareholdings in a particular company. t Asset management companies such as
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    • 750 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Ruth Wong MALAYSIA'S national electricity company Tenaga Nasional Bhd had expected its 1999 financial results to shine, partly due to demand growth but mainly to the ringgit's peg to the US dollar. Late last year
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    • 833 15  -  It reports NZsll4m profit, announces new bnyb&ck scheme By* Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] New Zealand's Brierley Investments, which reported a NZ$l billion (SsB9l million) turnaround yesterday, 4s planning a primary listing in Singapore following the move of its headquarters to the Republic. "The various moves
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    • SINGAPORE & MALAYSIAN COMPANIES
      • 442 16  -  MEW MOVES Df CARD BUSINESS It's reintroducing lost card limited liability benefit Reports by Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Competition for the credit card customer has just become more intense. Making waves is DBS Bank, which has set the industry abuzz with talk that it is
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      • 349 16 [SINGAPORE] Stockbroker GK Goh yesterday tied up with Standard Chartered Bank to offer customers an interest-bearing account with a credit line and a credit card thrown in, the first such alliance between brokers and banks here. More importantly, GK Goh director Goh Yew Lin
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      • 292 16  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Hllossat $lL3m; turnover ap 7%; latter half of year sees better By\ Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Plagued by deepening losses from its associated companies, ShangriLa Hotel plunged into the red for the half-year ended June 30 with a $11.3 million
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      • 417 16  -  Bat fundamentals seen raising prices over next 12 months By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The share prices of Overseas Union Bank (OUB) and Singapore Airlines (SLA) are not likely to see any significant price surges following the mergers of their local and foreign tranches.
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      • 124 16 As of yesterday, 198 SES-listed companies had released their financial results for the six months ended June 30.1999. They recorded a combined $3*393.1 m in group profits, up MJ% over the same period last year. The total included tin foreign companies listed here. If they ware excluded, total
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      • 185 16 [SINGAPORE] After an interim loss of $4.2 million last year, Super Coffeemix Manufacturing is back in the black for the first half this year with a group net profit of $2.89 million. This turnaround was achieved despite a 5 per cent dip in turnover
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 44 16 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Corp is transferring its 24.5 per cent stake of 103.6 million shares in Singapore Petroleum Company to Keppel Fels Energy Infrastructure—a merger of Keppel Pels and Keppel Integrated Engineering —for $127.2 million, or $1.20 a share.
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        • 34 16 [SINGAPORE] OCBC has been appointed independent financial adviser to the judicial managers of Electro Magnetics (1982) (EML) to advise on the takeover offer by GMG Global, the bank said yesterday.
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        • 58 16 [SINGAPORE] Prime Partners Asia Capital and Pheim Asset Management (Asia) have become the first boutique fUnd managers here to be granted Investment Adviaer (IA) status. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday it has approved their applications for IA licences. MAS also approved
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        • 63 16 Reuters [SINGAPORE] GKGoh has placed 22J million shares of electronics contract manufacturer Omni Industries at $1,828 each yesterday. The shares were from venture capitalist Crimson Asis Capital Ltd LP.Crimaon had a total of 52 million Omni shares to be placed out and GK Gob
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    • COMPANIES
      • 306 17  -  Hefty write-backs of provisions help group beat forecasts From\ Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S largest infrastructure group, United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd (UEM), posted a 58 per cent improvement in group net profit to a better-than-expected 254.5 million Malaysian ringgit (SSI 13
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      • 213 17  -  By. Eugene Low [SINGAPOREJ Small investors got 10.8 per cent of Mentor Media's 18 million public tranche shares in the company's initial public offer. The IPO, which closed at noon on Wednesday, was 116.9 times subscribed. Sesdaq-bound Mentor Media offered a total of 40
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      • 261 17  -  From, Ruth Wong m Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S national car distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON) swung to a net profit of 219.825 million Malaysian ringgit (5597.6 million) for the first half ended June 30 from a net loss of RM7.247 million in the
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      • 420 17  -  Plan to offer variants of Bionix to UK, Europe markets By] David Boey (SINGAPORE] Singapore Technologies Engineering has linked up with Britain's largest tank maker to jointly develop and market its Bionix armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) in a move said to pave the
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 552 18 Changes expected to mate criticism that component stocks do not reflect market Reuters [TOKYO] Speculation is mounting that Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index is set for an overhaul that may spark market volatility as fund managers dump stocks dropped from
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      • 370 18 FT Bloomberg (SAN FRANCISCO] Prices of computer memory chips are starting to rise after three years of steady fall, reviving optimism in the semiconductor industry. Standard Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) chips, which are used in all types of computer equipment, are selling
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      • 302 18  -  From. Al Labita in Manila GLOBE Telecom, the listed joint venture between Singapore Telecommunications and Ayala Corp, yesterday tied up with US media giant CNN to become the Philippines' first and only mobile news service provider. Under the agreement,
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      • 206 18 FT, Bloomberg [PARIS] Two of Europe's biggest banks, Dresdner Bank and Banque Nationale de Paris, are in talks about forging closer ties including the possibility of a full merger. Yesterday, the banks said they were proceeding with plans to extend their existing alliance
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 619 19 Co-fotmder says glitzy chain can flourish once it closes unprofitable outlets NYT [ORLANDO] Despite complaints about its food and difficulties attracting younger people and repeat customers, the glitzy Planet Hollywood restaurant chain can still flourish, by closing unprofitable outlets and by "going back
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      • 273 19 Reuttrs [WASHINGTON] Lawrence Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle Corp, may have seen only a US$l3 (Ss22) rise in his salary last financial year over 1996, but his bonus more than quintupled to U552,752 million, a Securities and Exchange
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      • 443 19 BOOST FOR MET PATMEMTS It allows US users to pay phone bills, send cheques to landlords via the Internet Reuters [NEW YORK] Internet media network Yahoo! Inc said on Wednesday it had begun letting its users pay bills and send cheques over the Internet
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      • 323 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] American Express Co, known for its green charge card, has introduced a blue credit card with an embedded computer chip in an attempt to attract younger consumers who are active users of the Internet The card's chip will be used by
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 477 20 US accounting board says method confnses investors, has been abused by some firms NYT [NEW YORK] Despite opposition from Wall Street investment bankers and numerous big companies, the Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposal yesterday that would ban an accounting method
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      • 303 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] The global payments industry, in which banks help handle the flood of money moving around the world to pay for purchases, is highly competitive and risks becoming a commodity business, a report said on Wednesday. An increasing number of payments
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      • 297 21  -  gTBrCT Reports Ulgffl Mwgapnwfl ftiMar Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended on a high note yesterday led by gains in safe-haven blue chips and boosted partly by the Nikkei ratty foUowing news that Japan's gross domestic product expanded 0.2
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      • 141 21  -  MSCI Taiwan futures Juliana Loo Na Na Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures surged one point, paced by Mosel Vitelic Inc which had announced higher profits and sales due to increased product prices. The Taiwan Weighted Price Index rose 51.72 points
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      • 276 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] Gold rose for a fourth day to its highest price in almost three weeks as support grew for a plan that could prevent the International Monetary Fund from releasing its reserves onto the open market. James Leach, chairman of
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      • 329 21 AFP, Reuters London THE yen's bull run was back at full speed yesterday as a surprise rise in Japanese growth data propelled the currency to eight-month highs against the US dollar and within reach of lifetime highs against the euro. Japan's gross domestic product for the April-June quarter
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      1348 22 AFP Filling Seng ****** HONGKONG shares powered ahead more than 3.7 per cent yesterday on optimism over China-US trade talks and strong futures buying, dealers said. The market was also boosted by news Cable and Wireless HKT was forming an alliance with US Internet equipment company Cisco Systems Inc
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      517 22 Reuters, AFP FlShaahMißlaig +113 SHENZHEN'S A and B shares closed sharply higher in active trade yesterday after the government announced measures to boost the stock markets, brokers said. The hard currency B Share Index surged 6.13 points, or 6.97 per cent, to 94.07 as turnover soared to HK5106.43 million
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    • 283 22 AFP Pwpmi <jua TAIWAN share prices rose 0.6 per cent yesterday to break through the 8,000-point barrier on strong buying of technology and financial stocks, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 51.72 points to 8,025.02. "Buying focused on technology shares as investors remained positive to
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    • 1562 22 AFP PIBkMMS *3118 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday as profit-taking wiped out most of the early gains sparked by a surprising second straight quarter of growth in Japan, brokers said Investors "reacted positively" to the robust gross domestic product data in early trading, said
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 7931 23 MMISfllULS 1999 Lilt Dey Net Cm MI0I Leer Cin—y Sale ■OOP WH<I Low P/K tH 440 295 Ajtoomoto 320 20.3 129.7 174 4« Angkasa 105 -1 M 107 105 154.8 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 320 -6 15 326 320 111 128.0 294 ns Barnya Lend 196 -1 130 200
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      • 380 23 AFP CI Composite Index jll MALAYSIAN share prices ended 0.5 per cent lower yesterday amid a lack of buying interest, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 3.91 points to finish at 751.15. The Second Board Index lost 0.61
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 180 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy ELECTRONICS firm Flextech's interim results were described as below expectations but it seems that most houses are standing by their belief that the second half will be much better than the first. As a result, brokerages like
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      • 210 24 honmono stocks Or Or U-M LMt V« Dr, Last Owl* Dk Dk W M M Cad MI0» L— *t»a Cawwawy rOOO> HN» La» fcryr *—> CV P/l W 365 173 5123 COL (2000) MK 285 ad 1 300 S 3.7 2-8 9.7 5*384 5124 Catfvry Pac 20c HK_720
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        679 24 AFP P| CaciDoate latex ♦17.40 INDONESIAN share prices closed 3.3 per cent higher yesterday amid bargain-hunting and optimism over the start of parliamentary hearings into the Bank Bali scandal, dealers said. A dealer with a regional bank said the market was extremely volatile with volumes four times higher than
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        796 24 AFP Q SET Index +152 THAI shares gained 2.3 per cent yesterday on a technical rebound, as concerns over the baht eased and buying in finance and banking stocks boosted sentiment, analysts said. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index rose 9.52 points to 431.08, off a low
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      • 301 24 AFP □ibniU -3U6 PHILIPPINE shares closed 1.5 per cent lower yesterday, weighed down by weakness In the peso, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 31.98 points to close at 2,133.60. Volume fell to 800 million shares worth 1.8 billion pesos from 1.3 billion shares worth 2.6
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      • 370 24 AFP Composite ladex+l3Jo SOUTH Korean shares gained 1.5 per cent yesterday, led by the Japanese yen's recovery against the US dollar, dealers said. Blue chips saw rotational buying, with interest shifting to Korea Telecom from Samsung Electronics. Prices were also boosted by talk that an upgrade for the country
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      • 595 24 AFP PAllOrfatrtoi *7.4 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up 0.2 per cent yesterday as the market continued its pattern of lacklustre trade, dealers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index closed up 7.4 points at 3,006.1. The All Resources Index closed up 16.8 points at 1,328.7 while the All
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      • 272 24 AFP QWdtingtoo +13J7 NEW Zealand stocks closed up 0.6 per cent yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 13.57 points to 2,127.18 on turnover of NZ574.6 million. Telecom gained 20 cents to NZ$B.4B, amid suggestions it may take a larger stake in Australian telecommunications company AAPT. —AFP Vn« 1 *f-
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    • 6774 25 Transaction date: Sep 9 i2 m Or Or M W1 Mtoh t«_ ta«« Ve» Day Last Quote Otv Mv VM Net Cap Art -55" >tMo Company >»H COOP) High Low Buyer SePer Cw P/t Price MUITHMUSTRV '82 17.5 m B 1000 Acme Mc 125
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    • 1343 25 Or Or M Wt 52W V LMtOwta Oh Ok TM M Cop A** w» l— two cmm u* roooi mh> m o»yr so6» cw w tSrfpnco MANUFACTURMO ?JS 52 i£* 9 'i s Si W5ed 2 m us *2 w ns ion oj 2iu tea 51 JS e 1°1L
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 285 26 «mi» SingTeittc 31,226,000 *Genting Int 29,914,000 Omni Ind 10c 28.544.000 Asia FoodUTop USS 19,046.000 Roty MUSIOc 17.407.000 Golden Agri USIOc 9,419,000 Eagle Brand Hldgs HK75c 9,135,000 HohmglnvNT5 7,318,000 UonAsiapac25c 7,202,000 STEngglOc 6.919.000 Stocks _L ijjjjwBc 99.392,958 DBS 86.860.667 Omni Ind 10c 52.160.070 SIA Foreign 39,060,363 SPH 33.069.533 U06 Foreign 24,362,911
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      • 645 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Strong interest in Sing Tel, SPH together with solid Japanese growth, rebonnd in HE stocks lift sentiment By R Sivanithy A SURPRISINGLY good set of Japanese economic numbers and a strong rebound by Hongkong stocks helped the Straits Times
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      • OH THE GRAPEVINE
        • 112 26 DBS Card Centre staff camped overnight at their office in Great Workl City to welcome 9.9.99—but found it all a little bit of an anti-climax when nothing exciting happened. Ronald Cheng, assistant general manager of DBS Card Centre who stayed until sam yesterday, said it was more of
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        • 79 26 9.9.99 may have been the cause of jitters in the computer world but far mobile phone service provider Ml, if s a day for celebration. To mark its achievement of 99.99 per cent coverage of Singapore, Ml yeetarday gave a voucher for a free Ericsson TlO handphone to
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        • 135 26 BUT mobile phone usage has its dangers. Ask Martin O'Connor. The taO, larger-than-life Irish man was talking on his fixed-line phone last weak when his mobile rang. Running out from the room hs was in to another part of the apartment where the mobile was, he
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        • 84 26 A ROBIN is a small bird. But its namesake, Sfaio»pnf>ni> tycoon Robin Lob, has blf dreams. In Queensland, a part of Australia where Mr Lob's corporate empire once satellite city to rival Brisbane. And it was to be named, you guessed it, Robina. But Mr Loh, who
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        • 84 26 THE amended Land Titles (Strata) Act— which allows a majority vote to carry a coUaittve property sale through was gazetted last Friday and copies are already A IliAl. 4„u OUt Of StOCK. A ilttl6 DITu tOiCl US tilftt OV6H the High Court library doesn't have a copy
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        61 26  -  •By Wong Wei Kong SINGAPORE Telecom shares rose 12 cents to $324 yesterday with 31.2 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 7.43 million units. While the RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts still show the stock on an uptrend, resistance may not be too far
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    • 51 19 1 This announcement appears as a matter of record only September 1999 i MlBia r MENTOR MEDIA LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 21 April 1993) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING 40,000,000 Shares at $0.25 each Manager, Underwriter and Placement Agent ©DBS BANK THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD I
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    • 1847 20 (—2. —~S plpl Union de C/C (A BANK INCORPORATED IN FRANCE) Consolidated Balance Sheet Consolidated Statement Of Income (In FRF million) (in FRF million) Asaets 31.12.1998 31.12.1997 1998 1997 Cash, central banks. Giro accounts 8,002 2.153 Interest income and equivalent 44,115 41,767 Government securities and on interbank transactions 15,001 14.081
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    • 225 20 "The MOFTEC is the primary approval and regulatory authority in the People's Republic of China ("PRC") for foreign investments into the PRC. The MOFTEC Reception Dinner is held in honour of a visiting delegation from the Shanghai MOFTEC. It will begin with a keynote address by Mr Wu Chenglin (ViceChairman,
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 1937 27  -  COVER STORY Coming to terms with genetically modified food They're bigger. They're stronger. But are transgenic foods necessarily better? The issue hit home recently with the news that the government had set up a committee earlier this year to look into the import of such products into the
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    • VIEWPOINT
      • 733 28  -  Off the Cliff Or Film censors have long been vilified for spoiling a director's artistic vision. Bnt let's face it, some of these so-called artistic visions can be pretty dodgy by Jaime Ee I MUST be getting old. I
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      • 171 28 Early bird catches the customer TALK about being ahead of your time. At a Tops supermarket, a stack of mooncakes carried labels stating a "packed" date of 4.9.99. Nothing unusual about that, except that the mooncakes were spotted on 3.9.99. Perhaps it thought this would give
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    • STYLE
      • 667 29  -  Kathlin Argiro's bridal gowns are so versatile that youll be wearing them even after your wedding day, says TAMSUYHM TAN SU YEN THE WEDDING gown of the new millennium is intelligent. Yes, intelligent in the same way that buildings and cars can be designed
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
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        439 30  -  Compiled by, Parvathi Nayar THEATRE Mime Mobile Mime Unlimited offers workshops, an installation on the history of mime, and live performances combining mime, poetry and live music. Sept 15-19, Singapore Art Museum, Glass Hall. Free. For more information, call Christina Sergeant at 224-0893. Forbiddan Broadway A revue-style spoof
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      • 584 30  -  CINEMA Brokedown Palace does well to keep as gnessing which of the two girls is more culpable, but fails to exploit this to any dramatic effect By] Parvathi Nayar Brokedown Palace is the latest in cautionary tales—like Bangkok Hilton about naive young things and drugs in South-east
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      • 457 30  -  CINEMA Despite its youthful cast, American Pie is engaging for older viewers as well By! Susan Tsang AMERICAN PIE follows the misadventures of four high school boys, all sexual no-hitters, who make a pact to lose their virginity before they graduate. There is
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    • GOLF
      • 722 32  -  ▼H* hkhemivasax finds out what SIA has in store for loyal First and Business Class passengers VEN SREENIVASAN IN AN EFFORT to build up loyalty in an increasingly competitive market, airlines have been busy devising exclusive privileges for their First Class and Business Class passengers.
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      • 94 32 September 1999 August 2000 calendar DATE COURSE TOURNAMENT 1909 Priority Golf Country Club Circuit. Pro-Am only Dec 7-10 Orchid Country Club S'pore Airlines. S pore Airlines Priority Golf Invitational 2000 Jan 26 J Laguna National Golf ISIA Priority Golf Country Club Circuit. Pro-Am only Mar 12
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    • EPICURE
      • 761 33  -  Those saddened by the departure of the Fauchon tearoom at Isetan Scotts will be glad to know that its replacement Sun Moulin Cafe, comes with all kinds of thoughtful little touches, tax su ye* checks out its evolving menu TAN SU YEN WHEN Fauchon at
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      • 762 33  -  SERVICES Take your pick from E-wineAsia's virtual cellar By' Tan Su Yen IT'S FOUR in the afternoon and you don't even have a hope of leaving the office before sunset. How are you ever going to pick out that special bottle for your best friend's party?
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      • 740 33  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR By\ N K Yong CHOOSING a'suitable wine to drink with Asian foods can be tricky because these foods contain much more sugar in their sauces than you would find in Western, particularly French, cuisine. Just think of sweet and sour fish or pork, roast
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      • 254 33 CRAVINGS THE MID-AUTUMN festival begins in earnest this weekend so it's time to bring out the kids' lanterns, paper ones and electronic creatures included. If Mum and Dad plan to take in the full moon while snacking on mooncakes, be prepared
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      • 83 33 LEST WE GET carried away with one cempedak mooncake too many, Chef Chan Kok of Hua Ting Chinese restaurant in Orchard Hotel sets the record straight The first mooncakes, Chef Chan says, were homemade confections assembled with everyday ingredients. Chinese farmers made them as thanksgiving for a
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      • 163 33 ALCOHOLIC soft drinks aren't just for teenagers. Grown ups who want the excitement of a teensy weensy bit of alcohol without reeling from its effects enjoy them too. Hooper's Hooch is a particular party favourite, especially good for pool parties, barbecues and after the wine runs
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      • 86 33  -  Compiled by Tan Su Yen IF YOU HAVE a cake craving when you are conveniently on Orchard Road, stop at the Marriott Cafe. The hotel's popular champagne mango cake makes a comeback. Juicy chunks of Philippine mango are embedded in mousse laced with champagne for a
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    • INSURANCE-WISE
      • 867 34  -  Policyholders can enhance their basic insurance plans with riders for far less than the cost of new policies, szow u sen has the details SIOW LI SEN WHEN people think of insurance, what comes to mind is usually the whole life or endowment policy,
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    • UNIT TRUSTS
      • 801 35  -  Equities in post-crisis Asia may be better bet despite restructuring risks, reports mbxx. meumr NEIL MELLOR The writer is investment strategist at Henderson Investors LESS than two years after the Asia-Pacific economies collapsed into seemingly irreparable chaos, the region's markets have managed to climb back to
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      • 667 35  -  LETTER FROM LONDON Only looming cloud is Wall St jitters over direction of US interest rates By I Shiv Taneja The writer is an editorial fund analyst with Standard Poor's Fund Services based in London. More information on Standard Poor's Micropal's star rankings
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      • 1834 35 4' Fund 1 m0i 3mOm 9aOha 1 ywv I yam lywn Mhnprt Huncti 3047-1900 11-06-1908 2*40-1909 31-09-1900 3M0-1909 0140-1904 Mr ooa 3i4o-io»o 3140-1000 mmw »»nw it4ntii H4H9qo y| m 0C8C 0941-1999 14.31 1 321 1 63-93 1 aimi AAocatton Europt fo* f P 1- AflN AMRO
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    • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
      • 1108 36  -  As the region's economies pick up, investors are seeing the benefits of a single currency take effect across Europe, writes jame coffey JANE COFFEY The writer is head of European equities at Morley Fund Management, a member of the CGU Group European equities have had
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      • 596 36 LETTERS Q: I BOUGHT an apartment in an 18-year-old condominium project in July 1999. Recently this project is being evaluated for en bloc sale. I had no prior knowledge of the en bloc sale possibility. How would the CPF and income tax authorities treat
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      • 1418 36 foport—ount 1-mft )-ma» Hwft D»po*« nourt 1-m» i-**\ km» DBS Bank HSBC M At S10.000 A24 969 4 2500 4 3100 4 0000 25.000 74.999 3.7500 3.8125 4 2500 A2S.000-A49.999 4 2700 4 3300 4 0200 75.000- 149.999 3.8750
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      • 487 37  -  But its fortunes tied to depressed industry, analysts tell aqdbet tak AUDREY TAN If ATEST IPO Arm Tiong Woon Corporation is a "soundly run" company offered at an attractive < price, but itB fortunes are tied to a depressed construction WKBKm industry, analysts say. Most are
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      • 338 37  -  By Marissa Chew WHILE the market is not exactly buzzing right now, Asian Micro's initial public offer is still expected to give stags a chance to make a quick buck. Recent Singldenominated IPOs like International Press Soft Com and Strike Engineering chalked up
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      • 361 37  -  By 1 Teh Hooi Ling OVERSEAS Union Bank has launched a mobile phone alert service as part of its $300-million technology plan. Called OUB Mobile Buzz, the service basically alerts a customer to the latest information on his or her
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    • EXECUTIVE MONEY
      • 1127 38  -  Fund managers are scratching their heads over the lukewarm reception to unit trusts by Singapore investors, womo wax komo looks at the issue WONG WEI KONG WHY is it that many Singaporeans just don't take to unit trusts? Or even when they do, they punt them
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      • 795 38  -  THBFDVBEPODrr Some economists believe Investors are taking a wait-and-see stance nntil the 72S issue Is resolved By Louis Beckerling The writer is an occasional contributor toBT AROUND the region, share price advances seem to have hit a wall some time towards the end of
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    • 323 28 CAST YOUR VOTE: Go to the BT Online website (business-times.asial.com.sg) and take part in the interactive poll based on this column. RESULTS OF LAST WEEK'S POLL: Do you want Singapore to require labelling of genetically modified food? Yes. I want to know what lam eating—92.B per cent. No. I never
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 142 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 26 How is made in very individual way (6,2,0) 8 Loving Bassanio, she got to BQLDTION pair off (6) Islolulnldltlhlelrliltlrlelaltl 1 Gruesome as taxi ploughs in- 13 Unpleasant job entails some eMwyuyoyEyeypMid to horse (7) pointed lying (3£5) 2 Strong countries' existing au- 16 No information supporting (SB
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 2901 31 TODAY'S TV <!imi!MA 540 Asian Market Report. American Pie Grossed out comedy of American kids' rites of 3.00 PM TV Innovations. News Night. passage. A bunch of schoolmates decide they must lose their Tlict oinrrinrf Wake, is based on 440 Kidz Blite: Here's Hum- a!oo te?dline News virginity before they
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 72 39 Bridge News, Reuter BROKERS are optimistic that Panamax rates will continue to rise in the Atlantic with several cargoes quoted and plenty more still to be fixed. There was some activity for handysizes in the US Gulf but the market appeared to be softening wtth afew easier rates
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    • 318 39  -  They will share vessels on three regional services to Latin America Byl Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] APL, the container shipping arm of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), and Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) are expanding their global strategic relationship to include Latin American trades. The
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    • 765 39  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar VESSELS proceeding to Western Australia's Port Hedland need to take extra care when dealing with the port's helicopter service for harbour pilot transfer. This follows an investigation report last month that actual communication procedures between ship and
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    • 161 39 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's Dalian Container Terminal (DCT) played host to Chinese President Jiang Zemin who visited the terminal recently. The terminal in China's northeast was praised by Mr Jiang for its contribution to the growth of container throughput in the of the year, an
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    • 1240 40 FUTURE OF AVIATION Defence establishments' need for performance, technology and materials had advanced commercial aircraft [SINGAPORE] WITH the beginning of the new millennium just around the corner and if one were to ask what was the ftiture of aviation, the answer would be to look
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      • 1507 53 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofclnt/Manct Rstls Ship toy No Etb/Btr Ptftod Frew Jo From ABU DMA* C0421 10/5-JO 00/8M 00/1*59 OVWM u ovitoc 99/0*59 9*99« a ovmx 09/0*59 ovwm i oworoo nnm mm 4 09/1200 09/1459 ot/rroo ALAMJATA 2 MOM VtM OVBM OI/BW 09/0900
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      • 198 53 Sap 15 Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. amp 1« Independence Day. Sap 23 Japan: Autummal Equinox Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Sap 24 South Africa: Heritage Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival Sap 28 Hong Kong: Day after Mid Au tumn
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      • 792 53 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. (bow* price ranges in US dollar* Instead of tingle price* for a more comprehensive description of the mar tot Prices shown are baaed on average sixed stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price index change and
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      • 338 54 It also intends to open new offices in San Francisco and Tokyo next year AFP [BANGKOK] Regional carrier Bangkok Airways said on Wednesday it planned to open up new international routes between Thailand and neighbouring countries. President and chief executive Prasert Prasarttong-O-soth said
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      • 171 54 Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France, Europe's No 3 carrier, said it will introduce electronic ticketing across 4ts entire network by 2001 to meet growing demand for paperless tickets. The airline already offers "e-tickets" which eliminate the need for passengers to present a paper ticket at
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      • 40 54 CHANGCHUN, China] TheHongqi CA7IBO sedan released by Changchun-based China's No 1 Automobile Manufacturing Enterprise undergoing a collision test in Changchun, northeast China's Jili Province, on Wednesday. Hongqi cars have been proven to meet high safety standards. XINHUA
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      • 340 54 FT [LONDON] Leading car manufacturers are considering a legal challenge to a European directive forcing them to take back and recycle ageing cars. Under the proposed law, new cars sold in the European Union from 2001 must be taken back free of charge by
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      • 305 54 AFP [MANILA] Asian operations of US-based Northwest Airlines will suffer a net loss of over US$lOO million (*****.3 million) this year due to the continuing effects of the Asian economic crisis, an airline official said here on Wednesday. However
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      • 576 54 AirCo may merge Air Canada with Canadian Airlines if the deal gets through Reuters [MONTREAL] Air Canada said on Wednesday it would take the "necessary time" to review an unsolicited takeover offer from conglomerate Onex Corp that, if successful, would result in
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    • 220 39 Future of aviation with military funds Defence technology will filter Into commercial aviation. Page 2 Kyowa Line Break-bulk/Container service to Philippines, Guam, Saipan and Micronesia Ports Appointment of New Agents Effective from the departure date, 6th September 1999, of M.V. Sea Treasure Voyage 61, V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd will be
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    • 19 39 Northwest Airlines sees loss in Asia Effects of regional crisis may take over USsloom out of its bottom-line. BaokPage
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