The Business Times, 20 March 2000

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (p) 035/12/1999 est S INGAPORE Internet* http://business-times.asial com.sg/ MONDAY. MARCH 20, 2000
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    59 1 STOCK ■AlKETHDICES \feek Cbup ST1 2,094.47 -l.?7 SrMSCl FUTURES _27L18 +t80 BTSHI 7M.72 +11.42 KLSECOMP 934.78. -illl NIKKEI —19.***** -184.06 HANG SENG 17,8«J9_~.-74ag7 SET INDEX. .399.74. ,-tiB JAKARTA COMP .590.85. -613 MANILA COIIP_—W4&28 +84.86 TAIPEI WPI —8,783.27 -***** SEOUL OOMP 856.57 +35.79 CLSA CHINA B 766l«__„...-7.I7 AUST ALLORD—.3.203.40.—+3.90
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    76 1 FOREX RATES US* ss USS 1.714 Sfl)SStf$per£) 1JM IMS EIT»(US«/S$/E) 9.969 1660 DM till 9-849 TBI 196 J 1.618 RM UN 0461 HKS 7.701 0320 BAHT t7J8 0.046 RUHAH 7,441 OStt *8S to 100 units RUB BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KALA LUMPUR 7.«7 JAKARTA J9.«0 BANGKOK 950 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon S Korea, S'pore to lead in Net share trading
    719 1  -  idexclusive 41% of trades will be done online here by 2004, S'pore No 2 in Asia: stndy By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] South Korea and Singapore will lead the Asia-Pacific region in online share trading in the next four years, according to
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    Lock icon 'New economy' spawns new billionaires
    1927 1 [LONDON] American economic power is starkly evident in the ranks of the world's billionaires compiled by the Sunday Times of London. No fewer than 27 of the world's 50 richest people are American, led by Bill Gates, of Microsoft, with a staggering £53 billion (Ssl43
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    Lock icon Taiwan slashes daily downward limit on stocks
    749 1  -  taiwanh rTamrn From] Macabe Keliher in Taipei IN a pre-emptive move to stem a stock market free-fall following the election of a pro-independence candidate as president, Taiwan's finance ministry said late last night it was slashing the stock market's daily downward limit to
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    Lock icon A royal dot-com millionaire
    131 1 AFP [LONDON] Queen Elizabeth is set to join Britain's growing band of dot-com millionaires only four months after investing £100,000 (*****,000) in an Internet company, the Sunday Telegraph said. It estimated that her shares in getmapping.com might be worth £1.2 million when the company, which is
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      14 1 Hie world's richest 50 Next Page Protesters blame defeat on Lee Teng-hui, Pg u
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      Lock icon Fraud buster that the Sultan of Brunei turned to
      678 2  -  I :ii exclusive Control Risks Gronp called in to track Prince Jefri's massive spending By Conrad Raj WHEN the Sultan of Brunei wanted to find out where and how his brother Prince Jefri had aUegedly squandered over US$l6 billion (5527.4 bUlion)
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      Lock icon SingTel group wins fixed-line licence in Taiwan
      524 2  -  Consortium in which it has 18% stake is one of the 3 new telecoms licensees By* Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] A consortium in which Singapore Telecom has an 18 per cent stake has emerged as one of the three winners of Taiwan's fixed-line
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Ornamental-fish farm Qian Hu sets its sights on listing
      866 4  -  The man who transformed his family's failing business into a major ornamental-fish breeder and exporter, is taking steps to list the company, Qian Hu Fish Farm, in Singapore, reports JOHNNY YEO JOHNNY YEO KENNY Yap, the awardwinning managing director who pulled
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      Lock icon Last week's results at a glance
      640 4 Full year results (Dec year-end) announced in the period Mar 13 Mar 17, 2000 COMPANY FULL YEAR EARNINGS CHNG 1ST HALF EARNINGS CHNG 2ND HALF EARNINGS CHNG TURNOVER CHNG FULL YEAR EPS CHNG FULL YEAR DIVIDENDS CHNG 1999 1998 1999 1998 1999 1998 1999
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      110 4 As of Sunday, 95 SGX-listed companies had released their financial results for the full year ended Dec 31, 1999. They recorded a combined $6,552.59 million in group earnings, compared to a gain of $1,246.76m in 1998. The total included 14 foreign companies listed here. If they were excluded,
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      Lock icon Dragon Land deeper in the red with $7.6m loss
      459 7  -  Loss exceeds turnover of $6.4 m; company does not expect to be profitable this year W Teh Hooi Ling PROPERTY developer Dragon Land sank deeper into the red with a loss of $7.6 million last year, compared with a $5.6 million
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T hires key men to boost telecoms, logistics biz
      276 7 Company wants to tap opportunities in e-commerce economy KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation has made several key appointments in a bid to accelerate its growth in the InternetWireless telecoms and logistics industries. The company said it has appointed Raymond Quek its chief
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      Lock icon Batam dispute involved sub-contract workers, says Labroy
      330 7 Reuters WORKERS at Labroy Marine Ltd's subsidiary in Batam who seized control of the shipyard for several hours on Saturday have agreed not to stage further protests, police on the Indonesian island said yesterday. "Today is quiet and calm. The workers met (to
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Isn't it good to know the bad old syndicate days are ewer?
      591 6  -  I =i comment STOCKS r.sivanithy GOOD to know that things are different this time round! Because of the new economy and the Internet, one can easily dismiss this week's US interest rate meeting as being a non-event. One
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      Lock icon May 2001 UOL warrant – dull but worth a shot
      187 6  - May 2001 UOL warrant dull but worth a shot WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy United Overseas Land (UOL) isn't viewed as a particularly exciting property company and this is reflected in the trading of its shares and warrants. Both are fairly illiquid and viewed as unexciting by a market where
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      Lock icon DBS looks set to recover further
      245 6  -  HOT STOCK Byy Wong Wei Kong DBS Group Holdings shares rose smartly last Friday, with the stock finishing as the session's second biggest gainer. DBS shares closed up $1.20 or 6 per cent at $21.20. The stock opened at $20.70 and hit a day-high
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      127 6 MULTI-CHEM Ltd has appointed Ho Boon Chuan Wilson as chief financial officer. Mr Ho was manager, capital markets (equity), at DBS Bank from May 1994 to December 1999. Recently, he was the bank's manager, capital markets (advisory). ♦GOLDTRON has appointed Low Seow Chye director and chairman of its
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      Lock icon Yen may be driven up, but other Asian units may slide
      518 6 THE Japanese yen should strengthen in the coming week but pressing worries closer to home could hurt other Asian currencies. The Japanese taxman is coming and businesses are bringing their money back home. That has driven the yen up
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      419 6 'Mar 8 Source: JM Sasoon 8»ocfc» Volume CEI5c 78,069,000 NOL 42,432,000 STEngg 10c 40,481,000 IPC Corpn 5c 39.576,000 Gotdtron 20c 38,928,000 SingTel 15c 32,341,000 Ionics P$1.00 30.467,000 Uraco HkJgslOc 29,290,000 MediaRing 10c 28,211,000 Fastech US10c 27,979,000 Stocks PacificCentury 364,133,097 SIA 184,001,136 DBSGrp 163,606,660 VentursMfg2Sc 134,901,052 Chart Semiconductor 26c 125,344,567 SPH
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      320 6 The Advisor And Members Of The Serangoon Grassroots Organisations &onai*afu/ate^ (Pk MR TOMMIE GOH THIAM POH Patron of Serangoon Constituency Citizens' W Consultative Committee ON BEING AWARDED THE businessman of the year Mrs Llm Hwee Hua, MP for Marine Parade GRC Mr Tan Boon Seng Charlie, PBM Serangoon Citizens' Consultative
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Losses at Seiyu and Daimaru shrink further
      809 8  -  s¥3 exclusive iSogo's performance ilso improves; Seiyn's sales rise :17%,Daimani's8% By\ Kalpana Rashiwala [JAPANESE department stores Seiyu and Daimaru 'trimmed losses further last year and expect to be in the black this year, providing yet more evidence of the ongoing recovery in the
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      Lock icon Tong Eng to launch two freehold landed projects within weeks
      326 8  -  40 terrace houses off Yio Chu Kang Road, 10 units in Sigjap By, Andrea Tan TONG Eng Brothers will launch two freehold landed property developments within a few weeks of each other, with prices starting from $1.45 million. About 40
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      Lock icon Govt should review CPF board conduct over bank charges
      380 8  -  Bin Hee Heng Singapore I AM glad that readers Pang T L, Tony Lee and Marie Lam put agent banks under scrutiny in their letters "Do Agent banks offer value-added service" (BT, March 17), "With automation, CPF agent banks can cut
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      Lock icon Short-selling offers choice when stock prices fall
      135 8  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the letter "Short-selling not for the faint-hearted" from Narayana Narayana (BT, March 17) and wonder if he would also suggest there be no stock market in Singapore since it is the institutions and the big investors who
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      Lock icon PM Goh: Govt to increase number of CDCs, mayors
      441 8  -  Community Devt *****018' roles to be expanded By Teh Hooi Ling THE government will appoint more mayors as it plans to devolve more government functions to the Community Development Councils (CDCs), Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. "The plan, in
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      Lock icon US Jan electronics orders fall 11.3%
      272 8  -  I 3on the economy electronics By. Jennifer Lien NEW orders for electronic components in the US moderated in January, falling 11.3 per cent year on year, against December's revised 31.5 per cent growth. December's preliminary figure had been 29.5 per cent. US new orders
      Source: US Commerce Dept  -  272 words
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      Lock icon Net frenzy turns S Korean business culture on its head
      753 9 SEOUL Conglomerates are scrambling to halt the exodus of talent to start-ups LATWP A FEVERISH dot-com boom is luring investors and workers to Internet start-up companies in South Korea and shaking up the nation's stodgy business culture. The Internet venture
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      Lock icon Bertelsmann to use AOL sale proceeds for expansion
      272 9 HAMBURG AFP GERMAN media giant Bertelsmann will use 75 billion deutschemarks (5563.6 billion) it made from selling its stakes in AOL Europe and AOL Australia to America Online (AOL) to finance its expansion plans. In an interview published in the Welt am
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      Lock icon Ellison is the new leader and the market knows it
      655 9 PEOPLE Reuters [PALO ALTO, California] The stock market is at last seeing Oracle Corp like the company's brash chairman and founder Larry Ellison sees it as a basic need for anybody doing business on the Internet, just like Microsoft was
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      Lock icon A1 Fayed wins rights to dodialfayed.com
      276 9 GENEVA Reuters MOHAMED A 1 Fayed, whose son Dodi died in a 1997 Paris car crash with Britain's Princess Diana, won control of the Internet domain name "dodialfayed.com" last Friday. The United Nations trademark body ruled that Robert Boyd of Dayton, Ohio, who registered
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      Lock icon World Online launch falls flat after big build-up
      318 9 AMSTERDAM It ends slightly above offer price as tech stocks get thrashed FT THE share offer of World Online heralded as Europe's big-gest-ever Internet offer disappointed thousands of investors on Friday, ending a week of buffeting for the hightechnology sector. The offering
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      Lock icon Restoring unrecorded e-mails a costly affair: White House
      380 9 WASHINGTON Missing mail on fond-raising, other issues unintentional AP BLAMING "entirely unintentional" computer breakdowns, the White House acknowledged that thousands of incoming e-mails on campaign fund-raising and other matters could not be searched in response to Congressional subpoenas. Reconstructing the incoming e-mails
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      Lock icon M'sian firms catching up in Internet race
      668 10  -  lrf comment KL STOCKS But they should remember to deliver real earnings eddie toh MORE and more Malaysian companies are jumping on the Internet bandwagon, after a slow start in the global race. In the past few weeks, several big Malaysian companies have
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      Lock icon Political jitters expected to cloud KL market
      501 10 KUALA LUMPUR Investors keeping eye on Umno leadership polls Reuters POLITICAL jitters look sure to keep investors in Malaysia's stock market, one of Asia's strongest performers this year, on the sidelines in coming days. Leadership polls in Malaysia's biggest political party and tension
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      Lock icon M'sian stock investors – bitten, but still not shy
      332 10 M'sian stock investors bitten, but still not shy KUALA LUMPUR Bernama LOCAL investors have not learnt their lesson from the economic crisis, especially when dabbling in the stock market, said Abdul Azim Za bidi, president of the Federation of Malaysian Unit Trust Managers (FMUTM). "A lot of our investors have
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      Lock icon MSCI to add red chips to China Free Index
      541 11 HONGKONG The change will increase China's weighting in Asia ex-Japan to 9.6% Bloomberg MORGAN Stanley Capital International (MSCI) said it would add Hongkong-listed companies from mainland China to its China Free Index, increasing China's weighting in the widely-watched index and likely
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      Lock icon Investment gain is only US$73.8m: CyberWorks
      394 11  -  It clarifies report that it would book unrealised g&iaof USslb From] Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong PACIFIC Century CyberWorks yesterday disclosed that its annual financial results, due to be released today, will include an investment gain of US$73.B million (*****.5 million) a fraction of the
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      Lock icon ICBC in 100b yuan debt-equity swap deal
      160 11 BEIJING Reuters CHINA Huarong Asset Management Corp has agreed to conduct 100 billion yuan (5&20.6 billion) in debt-for-eq-uity swaps for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the Financial News reported yesterday. ICBC, China's largest state-owned bank, transferred the 100 billion yuan
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      Lock icon World Bank to keep up its strong lending to China
      344 11 BEIJING FT THE World Bank plans to maintain strong lending to China over the next three years despite the cessation of soft loan finance for the country from June 1999. Jemal-ud-din Kassum, the World Bank's vice-president for east Asia and
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      Lock icon Protesters blame defeat on Lee Teng Hui
      505 11 TAIWAN ELECTION Crowds run riot outside KMT headquarters AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's once all-powerful Kuomintang is on the verge of collapse and its leader Lee Teng Hui is to fall on his sword after a bitter election defeat and the formation of a breakaway
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      Lock icon China may have new mutual fund law next year
      278 11 SHANGHAI Reuters TOP lawmakers are expected tq vote 011 China's first law on investment funds in December which could be implemented by early 2001, the official China Daily Business Weekly reported yesterday. The law, under draft since 1996, has been dogged
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      Lock icon India, US to sip three pacts during Clinton's visit
      335 13 NEW DELHI Reuters INDIA and the United States will sign three agreements signalling closer relations during President Bill Clinton's visit this week, the United News of India (UNI) said on the weekend. UNI quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying there
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka central bank won't bail out banks
      148 13 COLOMBO Reuters SRI Lanka's central bank is not liable to bail out ailing commercial banks, the independent Sunday Times newspaper quoted Governor AS Jayawardena as saying. "We are there to protect the banking system...we advise...we give penalties...if they (banks) are short of
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      Lock icon India's Net boom spurs telecoms sector
      375 13 NEW DELHI USsloob may be invested in a national telecoms network in next 10 years AFP INDIA'S Internet explosion is fuelling a massive restructuring of the national telecoms network that is expected to attract USIIOO billion (S|l7l billion) of investment over the next 10
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      Lock icon Karnataka to raise 3b rupees via IT bonds
      100 13 BANGALORE Reuters THE southern Indian state of Kamataka will soon raise three billion rupees (S)118 million) through information technology (IT) bonds which will be used to boost technology infrastructure, its chief minister said over the weekend. "We will raise three billion rupees
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  • US markets
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      Lock icon Sell-off of tech stocks not over: analysts
      435 14 They say that large numbers of stocks are still inflated by any valuation standard Reuters THERE are almost as many "expert opinions" about technology stocks as there are hightech companies to invest in, but after last week's steep correction almost all the experts
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      Lock icon Analysts expect Fed to raise rates by 25bps this week
      326 14 LATWP, AFP [WASHINGTON] For a change, it was the stock market, not the bond market, that had the wild gyrations last week. Now investors and analysts are assuming the Federal Reserve will raise its target for overnight interest rates by
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      Lock icon Dow's big gain on Thursday is good news for investors
      656 14 History promises farther gains bat tech analysts disagree NYT [NEW YORK] If history is any guide, Thursday's powerful 499point gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average augurs good news for investors for the next few months. Of course, past performance
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon New capital rules proposed for US merchant banking
      453 15 I WASHINGTON Banks will have to 1 set aside capital reserves equal to -50% of their equity investments Bloomberg THE Federal Reserve dealt a Mow to banks hoping to expand in merchant banking by requiring them to set aside eizable capital reserves
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      Lock icon Mannesmann and Siemens to unveil new joint venture
      299 15 LONDON They are expected to pool anto electrical Systems businesses FT .MANNESMANN and SieSens, the German industrial groups, are poised to announce they are pooling their "automotive electrical systems businesses into a joint venture, strengthening the prospects for the planned spin-off of
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      Lock icon Options make Qwest chief US$64m richer
      251 15 WASHINGTON Bloomberg QWEST Communications International Inc chairman Joseph Nacchio made U5564.4 million (*****.4 million) by exercising options last year, on top of his US$4.9 million in salary, bonus and other pay, according to a regulatory filing. Mr Nacchio, who is also chief executive, was
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      453 15 FRANKFURT The firms have been discussing a sale through third parties Reuters FORD Motor Co is interested in taking over German luxury car maker BMW AG, although talks to that end have not taken place at the management board level, Welt am
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      556 16 BRUSSELS Europe's second biggest exchange with USs2.2t capitalisation expected to kick off by year-end Bloomberg THE French, Dutch and Belgian stock exchanges, facing stiffening competition from global online trading networks, could announce as early as today that they intend to merge. The
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      398 16 NEW YORK Sale keeps city in ranks of those with 2 competing dailies NYT ON Friday, Hearst Corp sold the San Francisco Examiner, the newspaper that set William Randolph Hearst on his swashbuckling publishing career, to the owner of a local newspaper.
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      177 16 OAK BROOK, Illinois Bloomberg McDONALD'S Corp, the world's largest restaurant company, may change its advertising slogan next month to "We Like to See You Smile", replacing "Did Somebody Say McDonald's?" Franchisees expect the fast-food company to announce the new theme at its
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      567 17 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON! International oil prices slipped lower over the week as expectations mounted for an increase in production following the Opec meeting in Vienna on March 27. Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, respectively the largest and third largest producers
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      279 18 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are expected to drop today after the pro-independence DPP party won weekend presidential elections in Taiwan but would likely bounce back quickly due to strong fundamentals. "It will press down the stock market, but I don't expect the impact
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      374 18 NEW YORK Investors attracted by old-fashioned stability of'old economy 9 counters AFP BLUE chip stocks gained 6.71 per cent for the week to 10,595.23 points as the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest weekly gain in 15 years. The rise in the
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      851 18 £5 Sydney +190 THE Australian share market is expected to see some volatility this week on the back of Wall Street and Nasdaq market movements, after touching near-record levels Friday, brokers said. Whether the new-found interest in "old world" stocks such as manufacturing and resources businesses will last
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      307 18 TOKYO AFP TOKYO stocks are expected to make further gains In the coming week amid escalating hopes for an economic recovery led by corporate and consumer spending, analysts say. The government said Friday the economy was showing signs of a self-sustained recovery
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      450 19 AFP Q Composite Index -1131 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to rise from current levels on fresh buying support on technology related stocks, dealers said. "Investors may show interest in high-tech stocks again. Hopefully we will see a repeat of a recent rally," an analyst
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      589 20 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup [TOKYO] The primary focus on the week's agenda is the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting, scheduled tomorrow, while stock and Bank of Japan watching will continue to be an operative focus for daily trading. The Fed is widely expected
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      587 24 An unprecedented show of skin is predicted at the Oscars AP THE world is watching. What do you wear? If you're a Hollywood star on Oscar night this year, it's something that sets you apart from everyone else in the sartorial extravaganza. That usually means a
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      532 24 BOYS DOITT CRT But Boys Don't Cry doesn't depict Falls City, say its folks AP [FALLS CITY, Nebraska] Almost everyone in this farm town knows too well the story of Teena Brandon, a woman who posed as a man, dated a woman and
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      135 25 Books and info on the go II I' Sk^H ,sh& I I PS/ B r—■ (S? Kißßßf' |dn S'pore startup Oneknowledge.com wants to work with local manufacturers to produce e-book readers for Asia, while MPH Ltd will launch its Internet book retail Web site next month. Toh Hah Shih has
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      54 25 Top stories Bullish expansion plans from Sharelnvestor.com Page 7 The 'Next gen' Net is here and offers great opportunities PageS E-biz portal for USsl.6t chemical industry Pag#l2 BT review Forget the I lie, Palm Vxis the workhorse you need Page 8 Commentary Will IDA make up its mind and stick
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      649 26  -  Oneknowledge.com aims to work with local manufacturers to produce e-books for Asia By- Toh Han Shih HOMEGROWN On e k no w ledge.com is offering companies knowledge in a new electronic paradigm. It is called "informa-tion-on-demand", and is similar to video-on-demand
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      608 26  -  I-11 exclusive Local bookstore will soon open a virtual store, offering tomes at a discount to its physical outlets in S'pore, M'sia By' Toh Han Shih MAINBOARB-listed MPH Ltd will soon let people buy books via their handphones. It will also open physical
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      622 27  -  FjlKI we see IT lee han shih The writer is BT's Senior Correspondent Hello, Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), Can we have your view on broadband cost and telecoms licencing fee in Singapore, one that does not change every few weeks?
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      584 27  -  But analysts are cautions and cite the poor market show of its predecessors By] Emma Moody Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Caldera Systems Inc, seeking US$69 million (*****.3 million) in an initial public offering this week, will become the fourth
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      519 28  -  -if exclusive! Singapore firm offers paperless search for paper in Asia, the world's fastest-growing market too ham shib has the details TOH HAN SHIH WHILE some people say e-commerce will encourage paperless trading, the paper trade is getting onto e-commerce. A Singapore company epapertrade.com
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        55 28 v■ V*-■. 'v-«|4^^L''*£**' HOMEGROWN Web-hosting firm, WebviaionsPte Ltd, said AataSmart.com will co-locate its mission-criticajj ,Web asrvara at Web visions' Internet data centre. .v' AsiaSmartcom oAera Asia s first online magazine subscription service Webvlsions will help ABiaSmart.com oo4ocate its Internet servers and applications, and offer enhanced security,
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        72 28 MRP OnLlne, an enterprise application available ;v;. currently on ISDN (Integrated Subscriber Digital p'*'. Network) will now be available on the Singapore ONE network MRP comes from US-based Symix Systems Inc. an ERP (enterprlpfesource planning) applications provider and Singapore's first ASP (Application Service Provider). Symix
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        88 28 ORIGIN, Baan Company and Microsoft Corp have sat op a new regional CRM (cuafeomer relationship f management) competency centre of excellence in Singapore. This is to enable medium to large enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region—from the high-tech and electronics, consumer packaged goods, banking and finance, and
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        38 28 A SEMINAR titled "Profiting from knowledge—the new role of intranets in banks and financial companies" will belieldonMar22attl|»'estinSiamford,andoriMiiifld by Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company. For i:details, fex *****78. or go to wwwJacttixi.com/event3/prQflt.
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        57 28 A TWO-DAY seminar and woriuhdp en "Risk Assessment" using the Xploße software program developed by Wolfgang Haerdle, will be held from Mar 23 attheShangrila hotel. It is organised by the Centre tor Business R&D at tbe National University of Singapore, the Singapore Management University, Farrell Asset
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        53 28 COMPUTER Aeeociatte International (CA)has warned computer users ofa new "WtnB2/Shoerec' vinß that has been posted to several news groups under names such as un.exe, ftmny.ere, avanti.exe and punchjoce. Infected files increase by about 9 kb. CA is offering free downloads of anti-virus software far personal
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        65 28  -  fiim i■ 11 igr Raju Chellam BUSINESS information provider Dun Bradstreet, and management consultant Deioitte Consulting said they have combined their expertise in people, piooees, technology and data to offer a methodology and sat of tffVfciW iffflf hlß'f Hutu Rationalisation Service to consolidate, clean and
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      669 29  -  By Frances Katz NYT [NEW YORK] The Internet: It's not just for desktops anymore. "Anywhere, anyplace, anyhow" was the slogan of nearly every speaker and analyst to take the stage at the annual Jupiter Consumer Online Forum downtown at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers
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      432 29  -  Here are tips on what more can be done to deter intrnslon C Balasubramanian The writer is assistant manager (systems management group), Institute of Systems Science, NUS THE success of an e-business now seems to lie in the hands of intruders. To prevent any intrusion,
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      436 30  -  It will use voice, image, data and video with high-speed Net access By- Elizabeth Su THE second wave of ebusiness, which is soon approaching, requires innovative responses that involve a convergence of media and a shift of focus. This wave will be strongly 828
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      217 30  -  By Jane Cheong ABOUT 30 projects have been initiated in Singapore, India and Thailand just six months after the US$2 billion (553.42 billion) global tie-up between IBM Corp andtisco Systems Inc. "The partnership, which saw Cisco's acquisition of IBM's networking patents—and IBM's
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      403 30  -  By Jonathan Cox Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Federal Communications Commission took its first step to improve the efficiency of the US radio spectrum, beginning an inquiry of radios controlled by computer software. The agency will ask wireless service providers such as Vodafone Airtouch pic and equipment
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      644 31  -  i. exclusive It has 25,000 users, 80% from Singapore, and the rest from the US and rest of Asia Byj Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN Sharelnvestor.com Pte Ltd plans to expand regionally this year and gross about $1 million in revenue by this year-end. It plans to
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      443 32  - Just a phone —to access the Net Bit die main drawback of iPhone is its small, black-and-white liquid crystal screen By, James Cummings NYT [DAYTON, Ohio] Not everyone who wants to use the Internet wants to own a computer, but just about everybody wants to own a phone. Info Gear
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      1560 32  -  -don't be dazzled by the colour hype around Palm's Hie. The Vx is the workhorse you need, says ma sir saw KOH SU HAW The writer is with asiaone.com, SPH's English-language portal PALM INC launched two handheld computers In Singapore last
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      574 33  -  ii exclusive The Internet today is less than 3% complete, IBM's director of Internet technology and strategy tells EUZ&BEIHSD ELIZABETH SU THE next generation Internet is here and offers great opportunities for businesses and users, and will provide video and other high-speed applications over a secure,
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      249 33 Bloomberg [PHOENIX] LSI Logic Corp, the No. 1 maker of custom semiconductors, is telling buyers of communications products it will be able to put more functions on computer chips by the end of next year. LSI said a new process, called "Gflx", will boost
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      489 33 Companies reluctant to move away from traditional modes of doing business AFP [SINGAPORE] Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region are a long way off from using the Internet to conduct business even though they are keen to boost information technology systems, aviation
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      313 34  -  With this users will be able to run applications without the hassle of installing, configuring and maintaining the software infrastructure By Seah Siew Hua US-BASED Solomon Software Inc has tied up with Citrix Systems and SWsoft Singapore to offer ASP (Application Service Provider) solutions
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      556 34  -  By l David Grimes NYT MY favourite kind of newspaper headline is the one that asks a question to which anybody in his or her right mind already knows the answer. "Can New York save itself?" (Of course not.) "Are our kids exposed to too much
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        90 34 HEWLETT-PACKARD has Introduced the DeskJet 1220 C professional series colour InkJet printer targeted at business and home-office users with either PCs or Macs. "This is the first wide-format product to incorporate HP*t Photoßet3 colour layering technology," HP said. 'This uses up to 29 drops of ink
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        89 34 SILICON Graphics Inc has launched what It claims is the industry's first high-resolutkn digital fiat-panel monitor, the Silicon Graphics ***** W. It offers l ,000 by 1,024 pixel resolution at 17.3-inch diagonal display, equal to a 19-inch CRT display. The 3.6 kg monitor provides active matrix
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        80 34 QUANTUM Asia-Pacific has announced the Fireball let IS (low-cost technology)—which it claims is the industry's first and quietest 15 GB per platter hard disk drive—targeted at consumer and commercial users. This optimised (4,400 RPM, 12ms seek) hard drive offers improved reliability and acoustics, leading capacity per disk,
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        85 34 PRIVATELY-HELD Adaytum Software has announced Adaytum e.Planning, that combines top-down planning and modelling with bottom-up budget collection, sales forecasting and workflow management based on a single common data repository. It also announced Adaytum e. Planning Reporter, that provides management reporting and analysis to Web-based users ofe.Planning. Both
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        81 34  -  Compiled bj Raju Chellam CS Lucas Associates Pte Ltd has announced its high-end corporate treasury system. Alpha Station, to help large companies manage their financial risk exposure and minimise the funding/hedging cost of corporate treasury activity. It helps companies track their operational and treasury cash-flow
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      Lock icon Jump Start investing in S'pore Net firms
      384 35  -  The Chinadotcom unit's GM says it aims to incubate 10 dot-coms here by the year-end By' Toh Han Shih JUMP Start IncQbator, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Chinadotcom, is investing in and incubating Internet companies in Singapore and the region, its general manager David
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      294 35 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] EMC Corp chief executive Michael Ruettgers was paid US$2.2 million (553.7 million) plus options valued at as much as US$2B million last year, as the No 1 maker of computer data-storage systems for corporate networks saw its shares climb 157 per
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      137 35 Reuters [NEW YORK] Sure Trade, the online brokerage of discounter Quick Reilly, will on Wednesday become the latest brokerage to provide wireless stock trading. Sure Trade customers will be able to trade stocks and get financial information through cellular phones, pagers and hand-held
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      243 35  -  The DMR can read/write on most formats of CDs, DYDs and has an in-bnilt hard drive By* Aaron Lye HOMEGROWN Optics Storage Pte Ltd last week launched its DMR (Digital Multimedia Recorder), claimed to be the world's first one-box flexible recording and
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        726 36  -  New portal for the USsl.6t chemical industry offers a suite of e-commerce solutions, writes raju RAJU GHELLAM E -commerce solutions provider Sesami.com Pte Ltd last week launched ChemX, Asia's first 828 (business-to-busi-ness) e-commerce portal for the chemical industry. It also launched Sesami Auction
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          64 36 SUNDOWNERS.COM (S) Pie Ltd has launched Singapore's first home entertainment portal. at www.simdowners.com. It's the brainchild of David Chin and Jason Choo, and offers an events diary, classified ads, a personal recommendation column, a listing of Singapore's restaurants, and news and views about the local entertainment scene.
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          43 36 HOMEGROWN startup Mobile Net Technologies claims it is the first company to oflhr automated alerts via SMS jfjfcortlMsiiiiifß »sl i Ice). The latest financial news and available on mobile phones In Chinese, Korean/Japanese and Tamil. For a demo, 90 to
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          Lock icon HAA secures $34m in VC funds
          96 36 HEALTHANSWERS Asia (HAA), the Asian arm of US-based Health Answers Inc. said it has secured over $34millk» to venture capittO—includingftindsfrom OCBC, Wearnesand Walden -in its first tranche We can become the dominant healthcare portal in the Asia-Pacific region," HAA vice-president J S Cbong said.
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          Lock icon CalendarONE, Asiacontent.com tie up
          50 36 CALENDARONE.com has tied up with Asiacontent.com Media to co-brand Web pages 00 its sites. From Its Web servers in Singapore, CalendarONE.com will provide CNIT (hosted by Asiacontent.com) to Asia with information on events to Singapore, Hongkong, Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the Asia Pacific region
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          Lock icon Californians are big e-spendrs
          72 36 CALIFORNIANS spend more on Internet purchases than consumers to any other US state; last year, they spent almost US$6 billion (5f10.3 billion), says International Data Corp (IDC). Texans are second, spendtog about US$3.2 billion to online purchases last year. New York state was third at US$B.l
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          Lock icon Big money for sports goods online
          70 36 CONSUMERS may spend US$3 billion (815.2 billion) on sporting goods, apparel, footwear, and event tickets online by 2003, says new research by Jupiter Communications. 'Tears of cannibalisation within the Internet sports category are unfounded due to the near -tram and fixture realities of fee
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          Lock icon go-events.com goes to America
          65 36  -  OoaapOedbgr Raju Chellam ASIA'S search engine for business happenings, at wwD&HvtntsAom, is Introducing the service to the US market with the launch of americas.go-events.com. go-events.com says it is the first to deliver an event-related information and transactions service aimed at event attendees The site is updated
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      187 26 Your financial and business system lies at the heart of your organisation and for it to function at its optimum, it must be able to communicate and integrate seamlessly with your other business applications. Sun Systems from Systems Union comes with an Integration Services Layer which provides a suite of
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      270 37 Contributed by Simpson THERE was an interesting development in the tanker sector where Frontline, following if 8 recent takeover of ICB, were reported to have made a major purchase of senior notes in the original bond issue of Golden Ocean Press releases advise that the Company has acquired
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      454 37  -  Holland group has no plans for Singapore operations now but not ruling it out Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Holland-based Wijsmuller Group, a major player in the international towage market, is looking towards Asia, but not the Singapore towage market, for the expansion of
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      609 37  -  LDVER SCENE By] David Hughes ROUGHLY half of all insurance claims to UK P&I Club involving containerships, in terms of both number and value, relate to cargo damage. Physical and wet damage, and containers lost overboard account for half erf
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      197 37 AP [WASHINGTON] Sailors who want to update their nautical charts can now do it via the Internet. The US National Ocean Service said recently that mariners can arrange to get weekly updates delivered by e-mail. The service is a joint effort between the Ocean
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        115 37 [LONDON] The head of the International Maritime Organisation William O'Neil has warned individual countries not to take unilateral action when dealing with shipping, "but rather to bring their issues to the IMO and allow it to be handled through" the established international framework for
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        110 37 [LONDON] The annual loss forecast for Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Mffl) has been more than doubled to US$l.26 billion (5*2.2 billion) fhan its original estimate of US$O.54 billion. The company blames the drop on lower sales than expected and a one-off shift
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        48 37 [LONDON] The CEO of Hutchison Ports UK has been elected chairman of the UK Major Ports Group (UKMPG). Chris Gray succeeds Trevor Furlong in the role. The UKMPG represents 43 of the country's main ports, which between them handle two thirds of its cargo.
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        55 37  -  By] David Hughes [LONDON] The new chairman of the Baltic Exchange has been officially named as Simpson, Spence and Young chief and current Exchange vice-chairman Peter Kitching. David McNally has been chosen as vice-chairman. Mr Kitching will take over the role after the retirement of current
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        373 38  -  Overall operating profit rises 14% to just over USslb Reports by David Hughes m London PRE-TAX profits for UKbased shipping group P&O rose a massive 42 per cent last year to US$B9O million (551.52 billion) while its overall operating profit rose 14 per
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        222 38 THE International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is to take a look at the environmental effects and issues surrounding ship scrapping. A group headed by Bangladesh is to be set up under the auspices of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee to look at current
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        190 38 THE independent tanker owners' organisation Intertanko has won the final round of its long court battle against the imposition of tanker restrictions different from federal law by Washington state in the US Supreme Court. The court ruled that (he state's regulations on crew manning
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          109 38 THE state government of British Columbia is to sell off its three PacifiCat fast ferries at a third their original book value along with the company that built them. The demise of the PacifiCat project has come about as the ships' owner, BC Ferries, undergoes financial restructuring. The
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          61 38 THE Finnish transport ministry has put forward a proposal to pump US$l6 million (5527.4 million) into supporting the country's shipping Industry. Finland's national flag has come under great criticism from carriers in recent months, with several big names flagging their fleets out to other Scandinavian countries
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          103 38 THE management of the port erf Barcelona is to assist the Chinese port of Nlngbo to create a logistics zone aimtiar to the one set up by the Spanish port over recent years. A 60-strong trade delegation from Spain, including Barcelona port's president Joaquim Tosas,
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          69 38 THE 30-ship Tanker Pacific Is leaving independent tanker owners' association Intertanko from the end of the month. The Singapore-based firm Is thought to have made the decision to quit the organisation for financial reasons. Tanker Pacific managing director Hugh Hung sat on Intertanko's governing council. Intertanko
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          73 38 FRANCO Pecorini is to sue rival Vincenzo Onorato for US$lO million in claims for libel, unfair competition, and voluntary damage. Mr Pecorini, managing director of Italian state firm Tlrrenia, and Mr Onorato, owner of rival Moby Lines, have been at loggerheads for some time. The court case
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      280 52 FAA's move comes in the wake of Flight 261's fatal crash in Jan: report Reuters [SEATTLE] The Federal Aviation Administration will scrutinise all operations of Alaska Airlines next month in the wake of the fatal crash of Flight 261 on Jan 31, the
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      379 52 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Twelve European airlines said they had asked the European Commission to stop Italy forcing them to move flights from Milan's Linate airport to the new Malpensa hub. The move was the latest in a long-running dispute between the Italian government, which
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        57 52 Reuters [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways pnwnpr traffic was up 5J2 per cent to 903,706 in January over the same period in 1999, while cargo traffic rose 11.26 per cent in January year-on-year. Cargo and mail loads in January were up 63 per cent,
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        54 52 AFP [DOHA] Qatar Airways is to start flights to Bangkok and Manila from April 13, raising the number of destinations it serves to 23, fee carrier announced It will fly three times a week to Thailand and twice weekly to the Philippines, using an Airbus
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        54 52 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong recently signed air services agreements with Denmark and Sweden to strengthen economic links, a government spokesman said. Economic services secretary Stephen Ip signed the two air services agreements here with Jens Peder Jensen and Ingolf Kiesow, the respective consuls-general of
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        62 52 AFP [CAPE TOWN] South Africa and Hongkong formalised their airline links on Saturday when senior government officials signed a bilateral agreement Hongkong's first in an African country. Transport Minister Dullah Omar and visiting Hong Kong secretary for economic services Stephen Ip signed the agreement,
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        50 52 Bernama [AMSTERDAM] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and its code-sharing partner KLM, the Royal Dutch carrier, hope to increase flights to Malaysia from the present 10 flights a week to 21 within the next three years, said Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir.
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