The Business Times, 18 April 2000

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA^P>-03sn2T^ea 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http: business-times.asial com.sg/ TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2000
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    66 1 sn 1999.39 (-190.37) BT-SRI 745J6 (-58.86) SIMSCI FDTTOES 269J0 (-19.80) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP 874.97 -5614 NIKKEI 19,008.64 -1,426.04 HANG SENG 14,***** 1,380.39 SET INDEX ***** -21.57 JAKARTA COMP ***** -27.63 MANILA COMP 1,***** -75.00 TAIPEI WPl 8593.68 +126.88 SEOULCOMP 707.72 93.17 CliSA CHINA B
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    83 1 FOSEX BATES us# ss US$ 1.704 £(IJS$/S« per 1.589 1709 EUROtUSS/SS/E) 0.962 1.640 DM 2.033 0.838 YEN 103.4 1.649 RM 1800 0.449 HKS 7.788 0519 BAHT J7 89 0.045 RUP1AH 7,670 0.022 •St to iCO units PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5«0 Kl'ALA U'MPl'R 7 67 JAKARTA .3900 BANGKOK 3M MANILA
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    Lock icon $26.3b wiped off SGX stock values
    1009 1  -  Market cap whipped down to Nov 1999 levels; STI back to Jan 3's 1,999.39 Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore bourse yesterday received one of its worst-ever thrashings which wiped out $26.3 billion from stock values in a single session, bringing the market capitalisation back
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    Lock icon Jittery Tokyo politicians want funds to boost market
    864 1  -  But call faces strong opposition from financial analysts From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE politicians showed signs of panicking yesterday after the Tokyo stock market plunged by nearly 7 per cent, urging the government to mobilise one trillion yen (5516.5 billion) of
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    Lock icon Han Cheng Fong leaves DBS Land after 11 years
    689 1  -  DBS Land and Pidemco to hold joint review of operations By 1 Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] After spending 11 years building up DBS Land, deputy chairman and group chief executive officer Han Cheng Fong steps down today. Replacing him in the CEO
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    Lock icon Nasdaq, Dow rally in morning
    139 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] American blue chips and tech stocks rallied in late morning trading yesterday amid a volatile mix of margin selling, bargain-hunt-ing and upbeat earnings reports. Clawing out from one of their worst weeks ever, the markets, which tumbled on Friday on fears of
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      63 1 INSIDE Top stories SIA gets nod to buy 25% of Air New Zealand. Mmxt Pmgm Singaporeans to get more shares in GLCs. Hmxt Pmg* Chartered Semicon postpones secondary offering. *4 Ikea-UOB credit scheme charges 9% pa interest. Pg 10 German, British stock exchanges likely to jtfjfcrge. Pg 18 t BT
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      30 1 INSIDE Hock Lock Siew: Tech stocks rout: it's the same old story, after all, Pg6 Editorial: Crunch time for the Fed, Pg 14 2 pages of market reports, Pg 6,7
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      46 1 How low can the STI go? The Straits Times Index ended at 1,999.39 yesterday its first close below 2,000 points since Oct 27. Will it fall further or will it bounce back up? Tell us what you think in our online poll at http:/ business-times, asial.com.sg
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Nasdaq ennui
        56 2 OF the 80 Internet companies that listed on US stock exchanges like the Nasdaq this year, nearly half are trading below their issue prices and 90 per cent are trading below their first day close, reported Businessweek magazine in its latest issue. With the recent fall on Nasdaq,
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        Lock icon Shining the light
        102 2 IN the midst of the market tumble, John Schofield, a technical chartist, maps out the road ahead. Hongkong-based Mr Schofield, who is with Prudential-Bache Securities, said yesterday via e-mail that unless you think there is another major bear market coming (unlikely so soon after the last one),
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        Lock icon Dinner doldrums
        83 2 A BT journalist saw another dimension to yesterday's global stock market crash. He was supposed to have dinner with a friend from overseas, but she called in the afternoon to cancel the dinner, apparently in a state of panic. "All my stocks have crashed," she sighed, "and so
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        Lock icon G2G e-commerce
        48 2 WE have heard of 828 (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) e-commerce, but what about G2G? According to an ex-IDA (Infocomm Development Authority) staffer, it's a commonly used term within the organisation and refers to government-to-government agreements such as high-speed data network linkages between Singapore and other countries.
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        Lock icon E-surveys? Not yet
        47 2 WE received copies of the "Journalist Satisfaction Survey" from Microsoft Singapore yesterday via the post. Given Microsoft's current plans to provide high-tech wireless network connectivity at its Redmond, Washington, campus, one wonders why the company chose to send out paper surveys through snail mail.
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        Lock icon Memo to S'pore Tech
        129 2 IF the Singapore Technologies group wants to be taken seriously as a private company, as opposed to an appendage of the government, it has to change its way of writing press releases. Take this statement issued yesterday: "Singapore Computer Systems Limited (SCS) announces that Brig General
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      Lock icon SIA gets NZ govt nod to buy 25% of Air NZ
      524 2  -  SIA now has &3% stake; remaining 16.7% expected to come from Brierley By< Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] After weeks of speculation, Singapore Airlines has finally been given official approval by the New Zealand government to buy 25 per cent of
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      Lock icon Singaporeans to get more shares in GLCs
      788 2  -  Govt considering ways to divest its stakes for public distribution: PM Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Singapore government is thinking of ways to further divest its holdings in govern-ment-linked companies, including putting them under unit trusts for distribution to the public,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Chartered postpones secondary offering
      355 4  -  k fiVi >7:T»T fall-out Analysts say current market conditions can't sustain prospective PE By, Jennifer Lien CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's third largest foundry, has postponed its planned secondary offering due to the current weak stockmarket conditions. The stock yesterday fell $1.80 on the Singapore bourse
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      Lock icon Lab firm's IPO 5.2x subscribed
      195 4 PARKWAY Laboratory Services' initial public offer has notched up a subscription rate of 5.2 times. "We are very encouraged by the public response to our IPO despite the current weak market conditions," Tony Tan, Parkway Lab chairman said yesterday. The subscription rate was better than
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      Lock icon SIA postpones launch of Sats', SIAEC's IPO roadshow
      185 4 It will decide tomorrow whether to branch this month Reuters NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) has delayed launching its roadshow for the initial public offerings of two of its subsidiaries due to the plunge in global stock markets, investment banking sources said
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      Lock icon Ong Asia flounders on trading debut
      369 4  -  Shares fall from the start to close 3 cents below offer price Byi Andrea Tan ONG Asia Ltd floundered on its trading debut yesterday, closing three cents below its initial offer price of 39 cents as the broader market took a severe beating. The
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      Lock icon Yellow Pages to buy stake in Thai firm
      265 9 SINGAPORE Telecom's subsidiary Sing Tel Yellow Pages (SYP) is expanding its regional network with plans to take a 25 per cent stake in Thailand's Teleinfo Media Company Ltd. SYP yesterday said it has extended a six-month convertible loan of 480 million baht
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      Lock icon Keppel Insurance introduces fund that taps M&A trend
      297 9  -  It will in vest in firms with potential for restructuring, M£As By < Carol Eng KEPPEL Insurance yesterday soft launched a new fund to capitalise on the global trend of mergers and acquisitions. Called the Global Mergers and Acquisitions Fund (Global M&A
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      Lock icon Food Empire goes ahead with IPO of 86m shares at 13¢ each
      436 9  -  Public offered 17.2 m shares; placement tranche has been oversubscribed By, Joyce Koh AMIDST uncertainty in the stock market, Food Empire Holdings Ltd yesterday launched its initial public offer of 86 million new shares at 13 cents each
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      Lock icon Econ, BBR not much affected by debtor's woes
      305 9 ECON International and BBR Holdings, trade creditors of Tong Tien See Construction (TTSC), yesterday said they would not be materially affected by the latter's recent filing for judicial management. They said they had low priority in terms of recovering the sums owed
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon S'pore Power plans US$300m bond
        109 9 Reuters [LONDON] Singapore Power intends to launch a debut US$3OO million (Sssll million) five-year bond today despite increased nervousness in equity and credit markets that has sent borrowing costs higher, bankers said yesterday. "The books are growing nicely so the deal may take shape tomorrow,"
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        Lock icon DBS Bank transfers ICS stake
        43 9 DBS Bank has transferred its 48 per cent stake in Insurance Corporation of Singapore (ICS) to parent DBS Group Holdings (DBSH). DBSH wholly owns ICS now. The transaction has no material financial impact on DBS Bank or DBSH.
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        Lock icon Berger shareholder to provide loan
        75 9 BLRGER International, which had a $15.5 million net loss last year, said yesterday that its majority shareholder Ariza Holdings has agreed to provide a $10 million bridging loan to help ease the paint company's cash flow as it attempts to wipe its slate clean. Hie
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  • MARKET jitters
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      Lock icon Tech stocks rout: it's the same old story, after all
      555 6  -  locksiew r sivanithy IT was supposed to be different this time. At least that's what the experts wanted us to believe that unlike previous speculative bubbles (whether it involved real estate, Dutch tulips or Cabbage Patch dolls), this time was
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      Lock icon Creative leads the pack as S'pore tech stocks plunge
      420 6  -  SINGAPORE Dotcom counters fall an average 15%, bnt falls mild compared with those in region By, Jennifer Lien IT was D-day for dotcom plays here yesterday as Nasdaq's biggest-ever single-day plunge last Friday caused investors to dump New Economy stocks. Dotcom
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      Lock icon KL market slumps 6%, with tech stocks leading the way
      610 6  -  KUALA LUMPUR By. Eddie Toh THE deadweight of technology stocks, though only a handful, was apparent yesterday when the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index plummeted 56.24 points or a hefty 6 per cent to 874.97 points in the wake
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      Lock icon SPH, Big Four local banks take a hit too
      487 6  -  SINGAPORE Analysts say banks' slide makes them attractive investments again Ry\ Siow Li Sen THE shares of Singapore Press Holdings and the Big Four banks were not spared yesterday's stockmarket bloodletting despite being firmly anchored in fundamentals. "Everything comes back to
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      Lock icon European markets pare losses on early Wall Street rebound
      661 7  -  LONDON Worst falls in first half-hour, with London, Frankfort, Paris tumbling By Neil Behrmann LONDON and European markets pared early losses on the back of an early bounce on Wall Street as investors took heart from the twin recoveries on the
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      Lock icon HK bourse down 8.5%, its second biggest fall ever
      851 7  -  HONGKONG Investors dump both Old and New Economy stocks; market at lowest level since Nov Meera Tharmaratnam THE Hongkong market yesterday collapsed to its lowest level since November, as investors woke up to the unpalatable truth that Internet stocks may be
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      Lock icon WHAT THEY SAY
      157 7 Vis we lookforward, we are still very comfortable with the mainline technology companies, those primary companies with fabulous product development, revenues and earnings.' Goldman Sachs investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen speaking on CNBC after Friday's sell-off 'The darkest hours are just before the dawn, but we're quite
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      Lock icon Taiwan stocks buck regional trend with 1.4% rebound
      388 7  -  TAIPEI By. Macabe Keliher WHILE regional markets tumbled, the main Taiwan bourse rebounded 1.4 per cent as investors moved in strongly on good buying opportunities after heavy losses on Saturday. Also boosting sentiment was a report which said stateowned funds may support
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      Lock icon Net stocks lead as Indon market tumbles
      434 7  -  JAKARTA Limited number of Internet counters prevents a bigger fall By\ Shoeb Kagda INTERNET stocks led the way yesterday as the Jakarta stock market headed southwards with investors selling across the board after the Dow-Nasdaq debacle last Friday. But even as the half
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      Lock icon S&P 500 will end year 15% above Friday's close: Cohen
      216 7 NEW YORK Bloomberg THE Standard Poor's 500 Index is likely to finish the year about 15 per cent above Friday's close, Goldman, Sachs Co investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen said yesterday. Ms Cohen reiterated her forecast for the S&P 500
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      Lock icon Globe Telecom among biggest losers in Philippines
      392 7  -  MANILA By Al Labita TECH stocks including Singapore Telecom's listed Manila unit was among yesterday's biggest losers as panic seized the market following Friday's bloodbath on Wall Street. Globe Telecom, SingTel's joint venture with listed conglomerate Ayala Corp, dived 10.17 per cent to
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      47 6 IN DESPAIR jHn^^ REUTERS jg .Stoc/r brokers and retail investors in Asian markets t yesterday can only match helplessly as prices dive *f At across the board in the region !jeI in response to Wall Streets HHMjr H plunge last week. ■LII1 J.t i If m^TjWWgitu AF
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      476 8 Stock* Volume OngAsia 10c 27,830,000 Media Ring 10c 17,037,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 14,370,000 NOL 13,907,000 STEngg 10c 12,660,000 AirOcean 5c 12,638,000 SingTel 15c 12,436,000 Vckers Capital 25c 11,661.000 Jurong Tech 10c 11,636,000 IPCCorpn5c 10,004,000 Stocks PadficCentury 81.924,810 DBSGip 68,811,958 UOB 67,368,682 Chart Semiconductor 26c 56,509,390 Datacraft 10c 45,331,073 OCBC
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      Lock icon STI plunges 8.7% in market's worst performance this year
      563 8  -  I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE New Economy has promised a lot over the past few months but when it came to the crunch, it just couldn't deliver. Although this was perhaps not totally unexpected, what was disconcerting was that its
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      Lock icon Stay away from Guthrie warrants – for now
      205 8  - Stay away from Guthrie warrants for now WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy ONE of the few stocks to escape yesterday's whitewash was Guthrie, which rose 2.5 cents to 37.5 cents. What's interesting is that the Guthrie warrant actually fell. Let's take look at the numbers. The warrant, which has a
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      Lock icon Poh Lian bucks trend; signals mixed
      257 8  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong ON a day when most shares fell as the market plunged, shares of Poh Lian Holdings finished as the top gainer and among the handful of stocks that closed higher. Poh Lian shares rose 4.5 cents or 8.1
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      147 8 ♦NEW Toyo International Holdings will be holding an EGM on May 9 at Albizia 1, Jurong Country Club, 9 Science Centre Road. FASTECH Synergy will be holding its AGM on May 9 at 10.30 am, at Pinetree Town Country Club, 30 Stevens Rd. PAN United will be holding
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      Lock icon Yen big winner on US stock market rout, G-7 silence
      342 8  -  TTT comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Japanese yen was the clearest winner in Asian currency trading yesterday, in an otherwise mixed session for the greenback after major US stock market indices suffered their biggest-ever falls last Friday. Lifted also by
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      323 8 |y ma N n G age°ment Wharton-SMU I WhaftOll university conference University of Pennsylvania Internet Technology Companies from Valuation, Financing to IPO I Welcome Address Main Sponsors MR. UM SWEE say State (Communications Information Technology and Trade Industry) 4i»Warburg Dillon Read Professor Tan Chin Tiong Q p ANK Provost, Singapore
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      86 9 Speaker: Mr K. Chettiar 9. ft J B.A (Bus), LL.B (Hon) London, LL.M (S'pore) Thursday, 20 April 2000 at 7.00 pm SIC Seminar Room DIPIDMAmWW BACHELOR of LAW The Diploma in Law is the equivalent of the first year of the LLB (Hons) external programme. The Bachelor of Laws is
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      118 9 Group =Bmffßmss Business Information Specialists every second'cVunts Indonesian Debt Restructuring and asset sales Grand Hyattjakaita, 19 April 2000 Dr. Emil Salim Chairman, National Economic Council (DEN) IBRA Team Senior Restructuring Asset Sales Experts John Dodsworth IMF Country Representative Charlie Taylor McKinsey Company Partner Morgan McGrath Regional Managing Director, Southeast Asia
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Ikea-UOB credit scheme charges 9% pa interest
      694 10  -  •ti exclusive Charge compares with Courts' 10% for fnrni tore hire-purchase By] Kalpana Rashiwala SWEDISH furniture retail giant Ikea has teamed up with United Overseas Bank to offer a credit scheme to customers charging 9 per cent annual interest. This is expected to
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      Lock icon Public trustees to get greater powers: Jaya
      394 10  -  More instruments to invest in; estates above $50,000 okay By I Conrad Raj SINGAPORE is amending its laws to increase the powers of its public trustees to enable them to invest in a greater number of instruments than are at present permitted and
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      Lock icon MobileOne in $20m portal tie-up
      391 10  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling MOBILEONE (Ml) and Finland's Sonera Zed will invest up to $20 million over the next two years to jointly develop a range of services both informational and transactional for Mi world, Mi's mobile portal. They will also contribute some 20 staff
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      Lock icon SingTel shareholders are indirectly compensated
      379 10  -  Danielle Yew (Ms) Director (Investment) Ministry of Finance WE refer to Mr Wong Kam Wah's letter entitled "Double compensation, can?" (BT, April 15). The compensation paid to SingTel is for potential loss of revenues due to a change in the regulatory environment, introduced by the
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      Lock icon It's time to restore slashed policyholders' bonus, GE
      335 10  -  MAiLirm Chua Boon Hou A MONTH ago, Great Eastern Holdings released its results and they were indeed fantastic. Insurance premiums collected totalled $2.6 billion and, as a result, pre-tax earnings rose a hefty 65 per cent to $143.4 million. With the good
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      Lock icon Headway made in cash deposit
      303 10  -  Denis Distant I REFER to the letter "Night vault for cash deposit half century ago" from Narayana Narayana (BT, April 14) and would like to refresh his memory on the matter. I am certain Hongkongßank which he mentioned used the same type of night wallet
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      Lock icon IDA seeks views on telecoms issues
      336 10 MORE than two weeks after the telecommunications market in Singapore was thrown open, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is seeking views from the industry and the public on two issues the appropriate regulatory regime in a fully competitive market and interconnection policy.
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      Lock icon What will drive Asian growth
      288 10  -  oi^n^economy outlook By Anna Teo CONSUMPTION will likely be less of a growth driver in Asia this year. Instead, the region's economic growth will likely depend increasingly on investment, exposing its recovery to risks associated with higher interest rates, says Salomon Smith Barney. In its
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      Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
      69 10 THE average age of the OUB board after the retirement of three of its directors this year is 65 years, and not 73 years as incorrectly reported in BT's April 15 article, "Local banks to retire directors aged 70+". The average age at the OUB board compares
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Tardiness in Cathay Building case
      539 11  -  i= i comment PROPERTY Owner has lost time and money waiting for decision lee han shih TALK about taking your time. More than two years after news that the 59-year-old Cathay Building is to be redeveloped, the Preservation of Monuments Board (PMB) has finally decided
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      Lock icon JTC: 40-50 ha of industrial land available for lease this year
      347 12  -  This compares with 31 hectares in 1999; today, 11 sites totalling 11 hectares will be released By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Some 40 to 50 hectares of industrial land will be available for lease this year compared to 31 hectares
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      Lock icon Buyers offered 610 units in three industrial projects
      373 12 Areas range in size from 1,200 sq ft to 4,672 sq ft [SINGAPORE] Those looking for industrial space will be cheered by the pickings available. Some 610 units in three developments will be launched over the next couple of weeks. Some 124
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      Lock icon India tech stocks worth buying: analysts
      385 13 BOMBAY Reuters MANY investors around the world may have lost their appetite for infotech stocks but fund managers say some Indian firms are ripe to buy as share price falls and earnings potential have brought value into sharp focus. "Software stocks are down substantially
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      Lock icon T-Online debuts well above IPO price
      489 13 FRANKFURT Retail, Telekom employees tranche and institutional tranche 20 times oversubscribed Reuters EUROPE'S largest Internet service provider T-Online debuted on the stock market yesterday well above its issue price in a US$3 billion (Sss.l billion) flotation overshadowed by a global rout in technology shares.
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      Lock icon Yes TV shelves £800m flotation plan until market stabilises
      450 13 LONDON It aborts yesterday's debnt following Friday's crash FT Bloomberg YES Television, the provider of video-on-demand services, has put on hold plans for its £800 million (552.16 billion) flotation. The company, which was supposed to make its market debut yesterday, reconsidered
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      Lock icon Hitachi aims to boost Net sales five-fold
      374 13 TOKYO AFP Bloomberg HITACHI Ltd, Japan's biggest electronics maker, is setting up a new Internet unit with the aim of increasing Web-based sales by five times to 900 billion yen (5514.8 billion) in three years. The Tokyo-based company said it expects to post
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      Lock icon Export curbs pose little risk to PlayStation2 video game: Sony
      267 13 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN electronics giant Sony Corp played down yesterday the risk to its business from export restrictions imposed on its flagship Play Station video game due to concerns it could be used for military purposes. The company could not
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      755 14  -  CTTT^ bottom line OPINION james wolfensohn The writer is president of the World Bank RECENTLY, a good deal of coverage has been focused on the Meltzer Commission Report on the International Financial Institutions, and what it might mean for the World Bank. Let
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      109 14 'It was a victory party in the streets to celebrate the messages protesters are giving to the World Bank and IMF: Enough is enough.' -GregO'Loaghliii a spokesman for the non-governmental organisation Mobilization for Global Justice, on the mood ofprotesters against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank
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      630 14 EDITORIAL IF US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is taken at his word, then US interest rates will still have to rise despite last Friday's dramatic declines on the US stock markets. But the Fed chairman must now decide on one big question: whether the
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      1229 14  -  It could temper red-hot consumer spending and relieve some of the need to raise interest rates By. John Berry The Washington Post IF IT doesn't go too deep, the big stockmarket correction of last week could turn out to be a
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      941 14 After the plunge INVESTORS lost more than US$2 trillion (553.4 trillion) in a week. Besides the horrific blow to personal wealth, there is the added threat to the health of the US' overall economy. How important an event Friday's plunge proves to be depends on how
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      325 15 KUALA LUMPUR Analysts SCO NTT buying 10-15% stake, thereby boosting Telekom's viability Reuters JAPANESE telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) has completed its due diligence study of Malaysia's largest telco, Telekom Malaysia Bhd, the Star newspaper said yesterday. Analysts say a proposed
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      421 15  -  Broker M&kindo offers online trading to catch the tide From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S capital markets, battered and bruised over the past four months, will turn the corner after June on the back of rising international confidence, according to a founder-member of
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      249 15  -  From i Audrey Tan in Hanoi VIETNAM is committed to maintaining a businessfriendly environment and remains supportive of the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park. This assurance was given by Vietnam's Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. The
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        114 15 BOLTON Properties fell 40 sen to 2.34 Malaysian ringgit following its failed attempt to buy a 30.3 per cent stake in Magnum Corporation from Multi-Purpose Holdings Berhad last week. In another strange twist yesterday, MPHB said Bolton and its major shareholder, Lim Yaii Hai, still treat the lapsed
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        79 15 GEMTECH Resources yesterday fell RMI.BO to RM8.30, bringing its total decline to about 30 per cent in less than a week. This followed a low general offer price of RM4 to shareholders by Tong Kooi Ong. Mr Tong, who has emerged with a 45 per cent stake
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        81 15  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh BERJAYA Sports Toto fell 30 sen to RM7.95 in tandem with the global stock market selloff yesterday. Analysts continued to recommend the stock on the back of its strong earnings from its numbers forecasting business. An additional boost may come
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      279 16 HONGKONG Fall lags growth rate which may be in doable-digits Bloomberg HONGKONG'S unemployment rate in the first quarter fell as the city's return to economic growth gradually filters through to the labour market. Unemployment in the three months to March dropped to a seasonally
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      476 16 HONGKONG US' Cogentrix Energy polls oat of USsl.3b project earlier this year Bloomberg CLP Holdings Ltd, Hongkong's biggest power producer, said it will link up with India's Tata Group to develop a US$l.3 billion (552.2 billion) coal-fired project in southern India. Tata,
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      249 16 JAKARTA Ex-president named a suspect in corruption scandal AP INDONESIAN prosecutors may freeze the assets of former president Suharto as investigators continue their inquiry into a massive corruption scandal, a senior official said yesterday. Chairul Imam, who heads the corruption probe, said bank
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      270 16 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S Business Focus Group said yesterday that there was a delay in signing a 30 billion Malaysian ringgit (5513.5 billion) deal to construct a 3,640-km railway line on Borneo island due to disagreement over terms. Business Focus and another
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      139 16 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAI Farmers Bahk pic, Thailand's third-largest bank, said it would reduce its staff by 17 per cent in May, comprising 2,000 jobs, through lump-sum cash payments that would cost about two billion baht (Ss9o million). The early retirement plan, which
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      369 17 NEW YORK Bank of America also beats forecasts, making 17% higher profit of USs2^4b Bloomberg Reuters CITIGROUP Inc's first-quar-ter earnings rose 49 per cent, as the biggest US financial services company benefited from the record economic expansion. Profit from operations at the parent
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      445 17 \i\ lal world bank meetings WASHINGTON Reuters AP RULES that make it harder for individual creditors to block debt rescheduling deals won favour with ministers in Washington last weekend and delegates said they hoped emerging markets would adopt the changes. Communiques
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      273 17 WASHINGTON Reuters POLICE detained scores of anti-globalisation demonstrators yesterday and hurled tear gas and sprayed pepper to crush protests aimed at disrupting the final day of talks between world financial leaders here. Several thousand protesters gathered from dawn near the International Monetary
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      201 17 NEW YORK Company gained from brokerage fees, global merger boom Reuters MERRILL Lynch and Co Inc, the No 1 US brokerage, yesterday reported a 70 per cent jump in First-quarter profits to a record, driven by a surge in brokerage commissions and gains in
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        84 17 Reuters IUbAKBUKN, Michigan) Ford Motor Co, the world's No 2 automaker, yesterday posted 5 per cent higher first-quarter earnings of US$2.OB billion (553.56 billion) as profits from the robust North American market offset continuing losses from overseas operations. Ford's earnings per fully diluted share were
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        66 17 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO] Charles Schwab Corp's first-quarter profit almost doubled as clients added US$44 billion (5575.2 billion) in assets and opened a record 494,000 accounts amid a surge in trading. Schwab earned US$2B4 million, or 33 cents a share, up from US$l43 million, or 17
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        90 17 Reuters [MILAN] Veteran financier Enrico Cuccia was reported to be in a stable condition yesterday after his admission to hospital triggered speculation over the future of Mediobanca, Italy's most influential investment bank. Mr Cuccia, 92, who has reigned over Mediobanca and masterminded major deals
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      411 18 LONDON But opposition mounts over what's seen as takeover of LSE by Deutsche Borse FT THE London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Borse are close to agreeing on a merger that would see London become home to a new market for Europe's blue-chip stocks,
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      407 18 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE electronics giant Toshiba Corp announced yesterday that Taizo Nishimuro was being replaced as president after four years at the helm. Mr Nishimuro, 64, said he was becoming chairman of the company after overseeing a restructuring drive to reposition Toshiba as a major
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      355 18 LONDON It topples Merrill from top spot with assets of USslo7b Bloomberg BARCLAYS Global Investors bypassed Merrill Lynch Co as Europe's biggest pensions manager last year, as investors replaced actively managed funds with those that mimic indexes, consultancy William M Mercer reported. Barclays Global,
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      505 19 Global tech stocks sell-off and Murdoch's illness result in 14% share price foil Reuters [ADELAIDEJRupert Murdoch's News Corp lost almost Asll billion (5511.2 billion) in value yesterday, hit by a global sell-off of tech stocks and news that Mr Murdoch himself was being
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      253 21  -  SOX Derivatives TraAla&Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay ALL hell broke loose on the Singapore bourse yesterday following Wall Street's crippling losses on Friday. The Straits Times Index, after opening 99 points lower at 2,090, continued to slide, eventually breaching the critical 2,000-level
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      310 21  -  MS& Taiwan fatures Seow Hock Hin THE Taiwan market posted a decent rebound yesterday after reacting quite negatively to the sell-off in US shares on Saturday, when the index feU 507 points or 5.42 per cent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index
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      148 21 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Jittery oil markets took another dip yesterday with dealers betting on lower prices amid signs of sweUing supply from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) producer cartel. North Sea benchmark Brent crude futures for June delivery fell below US$22
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      340 21 Reuters London THE yen rallied 2 per cent against the US dollar and the euro early yesterday as a global stock market rout sparked a stampede into safe havens and was expected to encourage Japanese investors to keep their money at home. Yen gains were all the larger
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      977 22  -  Consultants let companies decide for themselves what they want to achieve and set up a formal process to get there, writes SUSAN TSANG SUSAN TSANG WHAT is the secret to success in doing business? If you listen to CM Tay, director of ISO consultancy
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      846 24  -  Chevron's integrated compliance management system requires staff to be multi-faceted, writes SUSANTSANO SUSAN TSANG CHEVRON Chemical (Far East) Pte Ltd's commitment to quality, safety and the environment can be gauged by the fact that the chemical manufacturer brought on board quality assurance and compliance specialist Peter
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      827 24  -  Toyochem Ink uses only organic compounds though they may be more costly. Its policy is to compete on quality, not price By Susan Tsang TOYOCHEM Ink is a company that occupies a strange place in society that of being always in sight but
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      959 26  -  ISO-certified process means less headaches for Home Success in dealing with clients and suppliers, its MO tells CABOLEMG CAROL ENG FOR home interior design and renovation firm Home Success, getting the ISO 9001 certification was about setting up an efficient business system which
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      827 26  -  Things happened fast at Concrete Innovators after Hanson took it over, says SUSAN TSANCI SUSAN TSANG ASK Sunny Loh how long it took his company to achieve ISO 9002 certification, and the managing director of Concrete Innovators acts coy. "If I tell you, you'll
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      536 28 Chevron's additive operations in Singapore attains ISO 9002^1 Chevron Chemical (Far East) Re Ltd in Singapore is honoured to be jS§^jjfj( t ~<&*f Y j^£~~ conferred the ISO 9002 certification for the manufacture, supply and r > jl marketing of lubricating oil and fuel additives. The award covers J§S J*.
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      2876 29 HONGKONG AFP DEmgSMg -U80.39 HONGKONG share prices tumbled 8.55 per cent in panic selling yesterday triggered by the plunge on Wall Street last week, dealers said. "There is panic selling in the market," said Marco Mak, analyst at Tai Fook Securities, adding
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      979 29 Reuters P Shenzhen B Index -2J3 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed lower yesterday as investors took heed of sell-offs on regional markets triggered by last week's falls on Wall Street. The Shenzhen and Shanghai B share markets had shed as much as 5 per cent by the early
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      367 29 AFP Index +12&88 TAIWAN stocks closed 1.4 per cent higher yesterday on bargain hunting following a 5.4 per cent fall on Saturday in reaction to Wall Street's plunge last week, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index gained 126.88 points to 8,993.68, on turnover of NT5164.99 billion.
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      2060 29 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 22S -1,42HH SHARE prices in Tokyo slumped 7.0 per cent yesterday in reaction to carnage on Wall Street at the end of last week, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index yesterday plunged 1,426.04 points to end at 19,008.64. "The
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      390 30 AFP CI Composite Index -5&24 MALAYSIAN share prices ended 6 per cent lower yesterday dragged down by Wall Street's steep decline last week and ensuing falls across the region, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index plunged 56.24 points to close at 874.97, but
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      790 31 AFP n SET Index -2L57 THAI share prices plummeted 5.2 per cent yesterday with selling across the board triggered by sharp falls in the US and regional markets, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index closed down 21.57 points, or 5.20 per cent, at 392.88, while the
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      284 31 AFP n Composite Index -75.00 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 75.00 points to close at 1,637.54. Yesterday's close was the lowest since March 16, when the index finished at 1,629.97. Volume hit 3.63 billion shares worth 1.44 billion pesos. —AFP Hm CWW MRC Allied 0.52 -0.02 370
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      668 31 AFP P Composite Index -27,53 INDONESIAN share prices plunged 4.9 per cent yesterday in line with the falls on other regional markets following Wall Street's slump, dealers said. "The regional falls caused panic sales in the domestic market. The falls were across the board," an analyst with Pentasena Securities
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      276 31 AFP □IOSE-40 ->7-18 NEW Zealand stocks plunged 4.7 per cent yesterday, in reaction to the rout on Wall Street on Friday. The NZSE--40 fell 97.18 to 1,973.78 on turnover of NZ597.2 million. Brokers said that there may be worse to come, depending on how Wall Street did yesterday. —AFP
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      562 31 AFP QAllONmariM -1710 AUSTRALIAN shares slumped 5.7 per cent yesterday. The benchmark All Ordinaries dived 176.0 points to 2,920.0, led by Rupert Murdoch's global media giant News Corp Ltd. The SP/ASX 200 fell 168.0 points, or 5.4 per cent, to 2,943.9 points. The All Industrials fell 342.2 to 5,137.7
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      296 31 AFP n Composite Index -93J7 THE Composite Index yesterday closed down 93.17 points at 707.72. Volume was 285 million shares worth 2.9 trillion won. —AFP tmv jn« A nam Semi V4900 -2600 Brain Tecfi mS T95 Central Bank 2125 -235 CheUComfli mooo -***** Dm Gu Bank 2210 -240 DaetanqCorp
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      280 37 Bridge News Reuters THE Atlantic capesize sector weakened once again, which was reflected by the panelists of the Baltic Capes ize Index who marked it down a further 16 points to 2,326. Conditions in the panamax sector though were generally firmer. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell three
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      469 37  -  ITsian port gets into foil gear as it secures first main line operator By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Officially opened just over a month ago, the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) has secured ts first main line operator despite the view of
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      85 37 [SINGAPORE] The Oscilla, the second in a series of three VLCCs (very large crude carriers) being added to Shell's fleet of 46 managed ships, was christened at the Sembawang Shipyard. The 300,000 tonne double-hulled crude carrier is capable of loading in excess of the industry standard cargo
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      337 37 Port responsible for company's loss of 1.3b pesos last year Bloomberg [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc, the largest port operator in the Philippines, said it has formaUy puHed out of the Argentine project responsible for its first loss in eight years. ICTSI, as
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      233 37 [SINGAPORE] Malaysianowned Star Cruises has been voted the best cruise operator in Asia-Pacific for the fourth time running. With the youngest and most modern cruise fleet in the world, it was recently in the limelight when it made an unexpected takeover of European
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      183 37 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] The chairman of Swedish international shipping operator Stena Line AB was quoted by a Swedish business daily as saying he was ready to sell the lossmaking ferry group. "I could imagine selling Stena Line," chairman Dan Sten Olsson told Dagens
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        1008 38 1999 net profit rose 4.5% to $750.3 m despite a difficult year, but Ql2OOO has already seen double-digit growth THE PSA Group made good progress in 1999 with an 18 per cent increase in net profit before tax to $1.1 billion, compared with $934 million
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        192 49 Apr 20 New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange Closes at Noon. Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Apr 21 Denmark: Good Friday. France: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Thailand: Market Holiday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday.
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        771 49 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price rupee in US dollars Lnstewd of tingle prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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        416 49 Carta* «0 Max 9912 0.5 8.6 0.10 90 0.06 Apr 13 OmnRt M« RmMm Ask UwMm Sedtawrt No ataw £25 3 0 5 0 2 0 %M/tt 380 AM 986.9 02 0.7 0.07 36 0.03 to* 380 MM 991.4 0.9 17.9 0.09 72 0.06 MAW »T/»
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        293 50 Long-delayed runway set to be completed by May 2002, in time for soccer's World Cup AP [TOKYO] Construction began on a new runway at Tokyo's main international airport at Narita that has been held up for more than three decades by farmers who refuse
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        556 50 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Faster than a speeding bullet train, and able to match fares on many routes, Japanese airlines are luring away passengers from the country's high-speed rail network. For West Japan Railways, the competitive threat is especially fierce because the company is
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        238 50 AFXAsia [SHANGHAI] The Civil Aviation Administration of China's (CAAC) ticket revenuesharing policy requires domestic airlines to hand over to the CAAC 80 per cent of their ticket sales revenue from 108 key routes, CAAC finance department directorgeneral Hai Liancheng said. The remaining
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        332 50 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] Hainan Airlines Co Ltd expects the domestic air ticket revenuesharing policy implemented by the Civil Aviation Administration of China from April 1 to have a large negative impact on its business, a company spokesman said. The spokesman said the policy, which requires
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