The Business Times, 24 April 2000

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    12 1 MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY. APRIL 24. 2000
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    67 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week Change STI .2,080.27 -109.49 SIMSCI FUTURES ...J81.HL. -7.80 BTSRL 787.31 -17.21 KLSE COMR 898.98 -32.23 NIKKEL 18.252.68 -2182.00 HANG SENG ...*****.14 -775.62 SET INDEX. 395.06. -19.39 JAKARTA COMP 526.40 -30.39 MANILA COMP 1664.00 -48.54 TAIPEI WP1 9.120.48. ..+253.68 SEOUL COMP. 767.16. -33.73 CLSA CHINA
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    79 1 FOREX RATES 1®I ss USS L_i I 696 £(USS/SS pert): 1.580 2.679 ElTRO(l®$/SS/E) 9.938 1.591 DM 2.085 0.813 YEN 104.7 1.619 RM 3.800 0.446 HKS 7.788 0.218 BAHT 37.93 0.046 RUP1AH 7,941 0.021 •St to 100 units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KTALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 19.00 BANGKOK 950 MANILA
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    Lock icon Easing of height controls opens sale to foreigners
    809 1  -  lilexclusive Sites with old height restriction of fonr storeys could fetch np to 15% more By) Marina Chew [SINGAPORE] The relaxation in height controls for private housing will open up for sale to foreigners low-rise developments which were previously available only to
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    Lock icon Lots more money seen flowing into Philippines with new bank law
    582 1  -  Foreign hanks can own 100% of local banks; DBS, UOB among those considered keen Fronii Al Labita in Manila FOREIGN banks are expected to pump more investments into the Philippines after the country's legislators passed a bill earlier this
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      98 1 INSIDE BizlT Lotus blooms again. BizlT Pg 2 Meet India's B2C czar. BizlT Pg 11 May the iForce be with you. BizlT Pg 16 BT Comment HK fundamentals still sound despite tech shakeout. Pg 17 Top stories HK's fever for dotcom shares goes cold. Pg 13 TV production company The
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      240 1 J _L, AL Elusive Reports, Pg 9 DELAYED GOING AHEAD R^ I 6 i '6|2 Pr °i ect Grange Residences, a 160-umt development on .jgT Itfij Cif Pro i ect Costa del Sol. a 906-unit !S >S '|S the former Marco Pol hotel Slte at Tan 9 lin Rd rTlj
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      169 1 hands up if you'd like to save money on i overseas property financing Jr it's never been easier to secure financing or re-financing for residential property in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S.A. Our new loan packages, incorporating low low interest rates, will beat the competition hands
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      Lock icon Masterstroke of a market maestro
      970 2 PEOPLE Werner Seifert of the Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt has taken a medium-sized stock exchange to the brink of European dominance FT WE R NE R Seifert is not the mildest of personalities, nor the easiest of negotiating partners. Staff at the Frankfurt stock exchange,
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      Lock icon Rock-bottom prices seen hindering dotcoms' recovery
      553 2 'Penny stock' status expected to keep mutual fnnds away LAT-WP THE US stock market's brutal sell-off in the last month has saddled battered dotcom companies with an ironic new problem: On top of their many other worries, the fact that their stocks have sunk
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      Lock icon Gold fails to shine, but some bulls still hopeful of rally
      465 2  -  Metal langnishes despite stock market volatility Froml Neil Behrmann in London GOLD failed to perform in a pre-Easter week of stock market turmoil, but some bulls believe that it will rally in coming months. "The safe haven status has
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      46 2 B V LG A R I The Quadrato watch Singapore, Hilton Hotel 73 7 165 2 Takashimaya Department Store 73 5 6689 Cortina Watch Centre, Millenia Walk 339 172 8 Dickson Watch Jewellery, The Promenade 732 8900 Centrepoint 734 5 822 Suntec City Mall 336 4871
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      14 2 Windfall for LSE execs, Pg 21 HK dotcom share fever goes cold, Pg 13
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      Lock icon New Bank Negara chief's dilemma
      651 3 Zeti Akhtar Aziz, who assumes office on May 1, gets to grapple with either raising interest rates or freeing the exchange rate peg to cap rising inflation Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] MALAYSIA'S new central bank governor will face the twin challenges of warding off inflationary pressures
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      Lock icon Zeti Akhtar Aziz
      146 3 Aug 26,1947 —Bom to former Universtti Malaya vice-chancellor Royal Professor Ungku Aziz 1970—Graduates from Universiti of Malaya with an honours degree In Bachelor of Economics 1978 —Receives Masters and PhD from University of Pennsylvania, US, in monetary economics 1979-1984 —Works as a research economist at the South-east
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      Lock icon Wide support for new central bank chief
      397 3 [KUALA LUMPUR] Top Malaysian finance ministry officials, analysts and bankers have hailed the appointment of Zeti Akhtar Aziz as head of Malaysia's central bank, describing her as an appropriate choice. The economic adviser to the finance ministry, Mustapa Mohamed, said Dr Zeti, given
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Young TV production company finds The Right Angle
      512 4  -  l»>l exclusive Company seeks venture capital and eyes a listing in two years By Andrea Tan IN three years, The Right Angle Group, a television production company headed by former Television Corporation of Singapore presenter Viswa Sadasivan, has spread its wings in
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      Lock icon Marco Polo defers launch of Grange Residences to 2001
      652 9  -  Ui^xclusive Weak sentiment, plans to leverage on completion of Ardmore Park cited By\ Kalpana Rashiwala BLAMING weak market sentiment, Marco Polo Developments said it has decided to delay the launch of its posh Grange Residences condominium project to April or May
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      Lock icon Costa del Sol launching finally taking off
      430 9  -  i-ii exclusive Reports by Andrea Tan AFTER several delays, Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing's 99-year leasehold Costa del Sol condominium, his second project in Singapore, will be launched in the middle of next month. "We have not fixed the price yet but market indications
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      Lock icon Li Ka-shing on the prowl for landbank
      367 9 LI Ka-shing's Property Enterprises Development says it is on the prowl to boost its landbank and will launch a condominium on its recently purchased Cairnhill Court property in the middle of next year. "We're on the lookout for more landbank," PED general manager
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      165 4 Incorporating: New Production Technology Show Exhibition of equipment, machinery, chemicals and services for puip paper production |m Paper Products Fair Exhibition of the complete range of paper and board products Tissue Asia Exhibition of machinery and technology for tissue producers and converters Transport Logistics Asia Exhibition of equipment and sen/ices
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      426 4 DOVER RISE LTD (Incorporated with limited liability in Singapore) NOTICE OF FULL REDEMPTION (1) Full Redemption of 5515,800,000.00 6.0625 Per Cent Secured Bonds Due 12 August 2000 of Dover Rise Ltd (the '2000 Bonds') (2) Full Redemption of 554,000,000.00 6.0625 Per Cent Secured Bonds Due 12 August 2000 of Dover
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      390 8 •fmrt Source: JM S Stock* Volutin ST Engg 10c 57.309,000 OngAaia 10c 47,918,000 ParkwayLab 5c 46,016,000 SingTel 15c 42,591,000 AirOcean5c 40,674,000 GES Inti Lid 20c 35,641,000 Mediating 10c 35,447,000 NOL 33,061.000 Vfckers Capital 25c 32,919,000 Jurong Tech 10c 27,430,000 Stocka PacificCentury 218,366,905 Chart SemiCooductof 26c 206,370,760 DBSGrp 181,891,482 UOB 167,468.385
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      Lock icon When looking at the index doesn't give a true picture
      592 8  -  8 CO r. sivanithy WHENEVER anyone wants to know how the stock market is doing, the inevitable first point of reference is the benchmark index. In Singapore, it's the Straits Times Index (STI) that people would look at while in
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      Lock icon Expiring Liang Huat wrt worth keeping an eye on
      201 8  -  wuuuurr watch By] R Sivanithy EXPIRY warrants have always been interesting creatures those who've watched what happens to these warrants in the past would know they typically exhibit great volatility as time runs out. This is all the more so if
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      Lock icon PCRD shares may have bottomed
      240 8  -  HOT STOCK Byi Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) fell again last Thursday, with the stock finishing among the session's biggest losers and most active issues. PCRD shares fell 20 cents or 1.4 per cent to $14. The stock opened at
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      143 8 ijfroposad private placement of 15 tfOllffin fteW ofdhniry shares of US$O.lO each in the capital ofßoty International Holdings at 550.2552 per placement share. The Singapore Exchange has approved in-principle the company's application for the p• listing. ♦QAF Ltd will be trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 1.60
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      Lock icon Rupiah seen mired at lows despite fresh loans prospect
      544 8 THE Indonesian rupiah could well stay mired at six-month lows in coming sessions. Jakarta markets are unlikely to find much inspiration from the prospect of fresh loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Traders polled by IDEAglobal.com expect the embattled rupiah
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      186 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF LEE HONG TAT PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act. Cap. 50. that the Final Meeting of the Members of the
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      Lock icon March CPI up 1.2% year-on-year
      298 10  -  otHneeconomy prices By] Marissa Chew THE Consumer Price Index continued to rise in March on the back of higher transport and communications costs. Compared to the same month a year ago, the CPI rose 1.2 per cent, figures from the Department of Statistics show. Month-on-month,
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  298 words
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      Lock icon S'pore fashion set for catwalk on world stage
      769 10  -  Loc&l designs featured in Asian Designers show attract international, regional trade buyers By( Charmine Tan BRIGHT colours, fluid styles, bare backs and plunging necklines as well as beautiful people bronzed to perfection. All these were offerings of this year's Asian Designers/Label Show
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      Lock icon Creating a truly unique city
      1563 11 S'pore needs to explore new ways to encourage developments that are distinctive and aesthetic, yet practical and buildable THE following is thefull text ofNational Development Minister Mah Bow Tan's speech at the Singapore Institute of Architects'annual dinner on Saturday. Last year, URA published a book
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      Lock icon MCI mulls over Orange bid
      457 12 NEW YORK Salomon advising on possible bid, which could top USs4ob: source Reuters MCI World Com Inc, the No 2 US long-distance telephone company, is mulling a potential bid for British wireless carrier Orange pic that could top US$4O billion (Ss6B billion) and has reportedly
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      Lock icon IAsiaWorks plans to raise US$230m from Nasdaq listing
      272 12 WASHINGTON Reuters lASIAWORKS Inc, a Califor-nia-based provider of high-speed Internet access and hosting services to businesses in the Asia-Pacific region, has filed to go public. lAsiaWorks, located in San Mateo, is looking to raise US$23O million (Ss39o million) from an initial public
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific wanning up to mobile Net use
      498 12 SINGAPORE Faster transmission, improved content and e-commerce acceptance vital AFP MOBILE phone Internet access is slowly gaining ground through trials across the Asia-Pacific region, but the success of the medium will depend on faster transmission, improved content and wider acceptance of electronic commerce,
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      Lock icon Chinese legislators argue over rules for 2nd board
      226 13 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S legislators are arguing over rules to govern a planned second board market and disagreeing over the definition of a high-tech company, state media reported yesterday. "There have been tense arguments concerning the rules needed to meet the special demands
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      Lock icon Lawmaker wants US to keep Web tax-free
      155 13 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Clinton administration should "protect and promote" the Internet economy by keeping the Web free of taxation and government regulation. It should also issue more visas for foreign scientists and engineers, a leading Republican lawmaker said. For their part, Republicans in
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      Lock icon Sina.com sees cooling of Internet business boom in China
      332 13 BEIJING It says Nasdaq slide sparking investors' review ef tech stocks AFP CHINESE Internet firm Sina.com predicted a dampening of the nation's Internet business boom by the Nasdaq tumble which dulled the sheen of its own listing, state media reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon Young entrepreneurs are shaking up Japan Inc
      586 13 TOKYO New breed of risk-takers is shunning Jobs in big firms and starting dotcoms NYT STARTING this week, music fans across Japan will be stepping up to a gadget that resembles a souped up, stand-alone automated teller, plugging in a blank minidisk, dropping
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      Lock icon HK dotcom share fever goes cold
      841 13 Investors who hoped the dotcom craze would make them rich have seen their stocks slide in value after the global tech stocks slump AFP HONGKONG investors' fever for dotcom and technology stocks which just two months ago had police battling to control a crowd
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      425 13 De Montfort ■JUUISgSLiH UNIVERSITY training tomorrow's professionals today. U I* i J l Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) 4 l Among only 19 universities in UK to achieve an "EXCELLENT" rating I for the quality of its teaching by the Higher Education Funding Council of I England
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Merging broking firms to sharpen edge
      492 15 KUALA LUMPUR Consolidation of industry from 63 brokers to just 15 will boost chances in global competition Reuters The Star MALAYSIA'S plans to merge its 63 stockbrokers into 15 firms as part of steps to consolidate its financial sector will help the industry compete
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      Lock icon Ultra-conservative bankers seen hurting M'sia recovery
      581 15 KUALA LUMPUR Fear of being saddled with NPLs again cited as reason AFP THE "ultra-conservative" lending policies adopted by Malaysian banks to prevent bad loans may derail an economic recovery just as it gathers steam, economists and businessmen warn. Ramon Navaratnam, a former treasury
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      Lock icon Bakun dam tunnels to be ready by Jan 2001, ahead of time
      288 15 KUALA LUMPUR AFP WORK on Malaysia's controversial Bakun dam project's river diversion tunnels in eastern Sarawak state is expected to be completed in January 2001, a report said yesterday. The New Sunday Times newspaper said the South Korean
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      439 16 JAKARTA He pledges support for govt and insists that reform pace most be kept np AP THE acting head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived yesterday pledging support for Indonesia's five-month-old government but warning it must maintain the pace of economic reform.
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      Lock icon Indonesia listing Suharto's assets prior to seizure
      284 16 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN authorities are to seize the assets of ailing former president Suharto, accused of corruptly amassing-a US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) fortune, a senior official said yesterday. The Attorney-General's office spokesman Yushar Yahya told Reuters that investigators were listing Mr Suharto's assets,
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      Lock icon Tarrin hopes to settle row with BOT next month
      470 16 BANGKOK He seeks to repair ties with BOTs Ch&tumongkol AFP THAI Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda will try to thrash out a solution to a growing row with the central bank at a seminar next month, reports said yesterday. Mr Tarrin was
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      Lock icon Gus Dur urges supporters to stay calm as criticism mounts
      274 16 JAKARTA AP PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday called on his supporters to stay calm in the face of mounting criticism against his five-month-old government, a news report said. The official Antara news agency said Mr Abdurrahman popularly known as Gus Dur
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      Lock icon Indocement gets support for debt revamp
      122 16 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN cement maker PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa has gained support from foreign creditors to restructure its huge debts and expects to conclude a deal by September. Indocement said on Saturday that in cooperation with financial adviser Credit Suisse First Boston and a
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      Lock icon HK economy sound despite tech shakeout
      750 17  -  I comment HK STOCKS The dotcom Jitters simply mean a reality check on valuations quak hiang whai PUNTERS are now turning to puns. Along with the bloodbath in Internet and high-tech stocks, we are now hearing apt descriptions of how the dotcom euphoria have
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      Lock icon Intel CPU shortage to hurt Taiwan firms
      441 19 TAIPEI Revenue loss could hit 20%, especially among smaller firms; AMD could benefit AFP TAIWAN'S computer and motherboard makers are expected to suffer up to a 20 per cent fall in revenues because of Intel's microprocessor shortage in the coming months, analysts say.
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      Lock icon China's Big 4 banks want to offer shares to raise capital
      310 19 SHANGHAI But the central bank has no plans for them to do sojnst yet Reuters CHINA'S four major state-owned banks are eyeing share offerings as a means of raising capital and boosting competitiveness ahead of China's entry into the
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      Lock icon Pakistan to halve Internet rates
      143 19 ISLAMABAD Reuters PAKISTAN said on Saturday that it will cut Internet access charges by half to encourage its use by the people and to develop its software industry. Minister for Science and Technology Atta-ur-Rehman told a news conference that state-owned Pakistan Telecommunications Co Ltd (PTCL)
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      59 19 [ATHENS) A Greek Amnesty International activist holding a placard condemning China's human rights abuses during a demonstration at the foot of the Acropolis on Saturday as Chinese President Jiang Zemin toured the ancient monuments Greece is the fourth leg ofMr Jiang'sfive-nation tour which has taken him to Israel,
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      Lock icon Indian govt defers equity sale decision
      150 19 NEWDELHI Reuters INDIA'S cabinet committee on disinvestment on Saturday deferred a decision on the sale of government equity in a clutch of state-run firms till the "modalities" for such disinvestment are discussed in detail, a minister said. The committee was to consider selling a
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      Lock icon Software firms star in Indian results
      424 19 BOMBAY Average net profit of 10 software firms in list of top 24 companies surged 80%, with sales np 47% Reuters A JUMP in profits and sales of key software firms has kicked off India's annual results reporting season, in a trend analysts say
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      580 20  -  It says Washington erred in slapping unilateral sanctions worth USssoom Frvm] D Ravi Kanth in Geneva WASHINGTON is wrong in slapping unilateral trade retaliatory sanctions worth US$5OO million (*****.5 million) against European Union exports without prior approval from the World Trade
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      483 20 TOKYO Bet EPA chief rejects ponring money into bonne AFP JAPAN'S government may launch a pump-priming extra budget this year if the economy shows signs of sagging again, the nation's economic planning chief said yesterday. "I do not rule out the possibility
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      193 20 mSEOUL Reuters SOUTH Korea's Finance Minister Lee Hun Jai yesterday cautiously raised the possibility of Deutsche Bank taking over Seoulbank after the operations of the troubled Korean bank are normalised. "Although it may be too early (to say), you cannot rule out the
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      215 20 LONDON Reuters THE pound sterling is between 15 and 20 per cent overvalued and will fall sharply, forcing the Bank of England to hike interest rates, according to BOE Monetary Policy Committee member Willem Buiter. In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times
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      243 20 LONDON AP RETAIL giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc, new owner of Britain's supermarket chain Asda Group pic, will establish the first superstore under its own name in Britain in July, and has plans for another 10, Asda announced yesterday. The announcement is
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      536 21 NEW YORK The two auction houses have been accused of a commission-fixing conspiracy since 1992 Bloomberg AFP A FEDERAL judge has ruled here that customers of Sotheby's and Christie's can join together and bring a class-action civil lawsuit against the auction houses over
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      553 21 LONDON Payout hinges on London exchange's merger with German bourse Bloomberg SENIOR London Stock Exchange managers will receive an £8 million (5521.4 million) windfall if Europe's largest stock exchange merges with Deutsche Boerse, Sunday Business newspaper reported without citing sources. The payout results from
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      560 22 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON) Commodity prices tended to reflect wild swings on the US equities market that plunged to record lows before rebounding at the start of a hoi id ay shortened week here. Base metals began their recovery in line with the resurgence
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      645 23 NEW YORK Some funds are taking advantage of the sector's recent pnllback Bloomberg BEING bullish on technology helped Drew Cupps' Strong Enterprise Fund soar to the top one per cent of 10,609 funds Morningstar Inc tracked last year. Before the year ended, though, Mr
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      866 23 P Sydney -545 THE Australian share market should rally when trading resumes on Wednesday provided Wall Street steadies, analysts said. Hartley Poynton institutional adviser Paul Lucas said on Thursday that investors should reduce risky positions in stocks. The Australian stock market suffered its biggest one day fall
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      327 23 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE shares are likely to firm in the week ahead after volatility on Wall Street and the Nikkei index's revamp dealt a severe blow last week, brokers said. Tokyo shares will "edge up slightly as the start of the new index is
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      275 23 LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended a shortened trading week cautiously higher as it followed US markets up after their record falls the previous Friday. Meanwhile, the London Stock Exchange confirmed that it is in talks on a possible merger with Deutsche Boerse, the company that rims
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      192 23 HONGKONG AFP TRADING in Hongkong stocks is expected to be muted in the holi-day-shortened week ahead with the balance of risks weighing on the downside, dealers said. Patrick Yiu, research director at Kingsway SW securities, said "the market's downside potential
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      1489 23 HP*™ ♦H&SO THE French bourse ended higher on Thursday as a slew of corporate news including disclosure of Dresdner Bank's 3.6 per cent stake in Credit Lyonnais lifted the market ahead of the Easter holiday weekend. The CAC-40 Index ended up 68.05 points or 1.1 per cent
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      451 25 AFP Composite Index -32^3 MALAYSIAN share prices will continue to be dictated by Wall Street's movements in the coming days after a volatile week in which the key index tumbled 3.5 per cent, analysts said on Friday. A research manager with a local brokerage
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      587 26 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup [TOKYO] Although fears of a sustained weakness in stock markets have been reduced, the foreign exchange market will not be able to remain indifferent to daily equity performances. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and the European Central
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      294 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THERE is still a shortage of quality second hand tonnage available inthe market. Freight rates for both wet and dry remain firm and buying interest on all fronts remains strong. Vessels sold for farther trading BULKGAMUBI& Kaien: 180,000 dwt bit 86 Hitachi sold
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      491 29  -  Proposal put forward to end widespread practice of oil-dumping By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] France is studying the introduction of "black boxes" on board commercial vessels to stop them emptying their bilges on the high seas, Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot said. According to AFP
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      77 29 [Y OKOHAMA] Members of the environmental group Greenpeace hanging a banner on containers on the freighter Wanhe, which they allege is carrying toxic waste from US military facilities in Japan at Yokohama Port, south of Tokyo. The 65,140-ton vessel returned to the Japanese port last
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      745 29  -  DOCKYARD Ry\ David Hughes SOME weeks ago this column drew attention to a disturbing case in which a classification society surveyor had apparently turned a blind eye to obvious, and obviously dangerous, deficiencies in an elderly bulker. It is good to be able to say that the
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      Lock icon Cosco joins bolero.net
      365 29 [SINGAPORE] China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company is the latest in the shipping industry to sign up for bolero.net, the cross-industry community that is moving world trade online. China's Cosco Group owns and operates 500 ships of about 17 million deadweight tons. The group has over 110 containerships
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      398 29 Reuters [HALDLA, India] Port authorities in Calcutta have finalised plans to slice a channel through an uninhabited island 11 km long to increase water flow to the riverine port. "This is the largest dredging operation ever conceived in India. We
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        753 30  -  By\ Selva Kumar VOYAGE charterers intending to use the Sugar Charter-party form are advised to use the 1999 and not the 1969 form, if they want a generalexception clause to come to their aid to extend laytime. While it is accepted
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        175 43 Afr 24 Denmark: Easter Monday. France: Easter Monday. Germany: Easter Monday. United States: Easter Monday. Hong Kong: Easter Monday. Mayl France: Labour Day. Germany: Labour Day. United Kingdom: May Bank Holiday. Hong Kong: Labour Day. Malaysia: Labour Day. Philippines: Labour Day. Singapore: Labour Day. Taiwan: Labour Day. MayS
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        774 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of s ingle prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        390 43 Carta* ISO Mai 991.2 0.6 15.4 0.09 90 0.05 Apr 20 OmhRt Mk NsMm Ask Alialala* SiOwit No atow £25 2 0 1 0 3 0 r 380 A «c 9*6.9 02 13.4 0.07 30 0.03 tna 380 Max 991.4 0.9 17.9 0.09 72 0.06 t/WI
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        390 44 Cutbacks, shake-up of work practices have affected standard of aircraft maintenance; onion AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas rejected union claims yesterday that cutbacks may have been to blame for a Rome airport accident which was the latest in a string of near-disasters
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        146 44 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] China's civil aviation sector is to complete the introduction of the Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP), a widely-used system initiated by the International Air Transport Association (lata), in October. Industry insiders said this is one of China's major endeavours to
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          56 44 Bernama [KULIM] The RM23O million (SHO2.SB million) project to expand the Sultan Abdul Halim Airport in Kepala Batas, near Alor Setar, will start soon. Men tri Besar Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain said the project would start once the plan drawn by the
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          82 44 Reuters [LONDON] British Airways is considering launching its own credit card as part of a drive to cut the £1.2 billion (553.25 billion) costs it incurs annually from selling flight tickets, the Daily Telegraph reported. Credit card transactions currently cost BA £200 million a
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        298 44 American side disappointed by lack of flexibility in HE proposals AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong and the United States ended three days of bilateral aviation talks with the American side "disappointed" by the lack of flexibility in proposals put forward. The talks were aimed
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        656 44 Bloomberg [PARIS] In a bizarre chapter In the long-running fight against using the new Milan airport hub, Lufthansa sent two jetliners carrying hundreds of passengers to the old airport in defiance of an Italian government order, but the two planes
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      198 29 Admiralty Casebook, Page 2 ASIA WESTBOUND RATE AGREEMENT(AWRA) EASTBOUND MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT(EMA) INCREASE IN BUNKER ADJUSTMENT FACTOR(BAF) Arising from the regular review, Member Lines of the Asia Westbound Rate Agreement (AWRA) and Eastbound Management Agreement(EMA) wish to announce that the existing BAF of USD 45.00 per TEU will be increased to
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      23 44 Call your travel agent for more information. Fly Cathay Pacific. The Heart of Asia. t9 Cathay Pacific Heartbeat: Term fc t onditiom appt.
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      87 45 1 LOTUS blooms HSiH again IBM's major software subsidiary, Lotus Development, y wants to now go after a whole new arena called mjr 'knowledge management distributed learning software' W and lead in that segment Lotus'new president €j A 1 Zollar talks to toh bam sbib about the I ir| company's
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      54 45 Top stories Meet India's B2C tsar, Ajit Balakrishnan MM Page 11 Accept tech as part of business, says Charles Wang Pagel3 Jornada Pocket PC: next level in handheld computing 1 I Page 15 KmSA be reckoned with Page 16 ASPs: More hype than hope? Page 3 Capturing value in the
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      735 46  -  sH exclusive There's brisk demand for the US company's software in Singapore because the government is keyed up on KBE and the market has caught up with it By' Toh Han Shih LOTUS Development, a software subsidiary of IBM Corp, will help Singapore become a knowl-edge-based
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      Lock icon Geek chic: technology that you can wear
      572 46  -  By Booth Moore LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] Remember when a technologically advanced fashion accessory meant a Casio calculator wristwatch? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Charmed Technology of Los Angeles plans to produce wireless wearables that bring special-ef-fects gadgets from films like The Matrix
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      462 46  -  i exclusive Cyber Generation wants to be'eyeball aggregator' with more than lm users By Andrew Wee CYBER Generation Pte Ltd (CG), which holds stakes in several profitable dot-com companies, expects them to gross $35 million in revenue this year. A wholly-owned subsidiary of
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      589 46  -  t'it exclusive By Elizabeth Su CANADA-BASED Newbridge Networks expects to grow its broadband wireless business in Asia 100 per cent for its next quarter beginning in May, due primarily to the liberalisation of the telecom sector in the region. "We have either closed or are
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      763 47  -  Interval Research Corp, set up by Paul Allen 8 years ago, fails to deliver on its ideals By, John Markoff NYT [PALO ALTO, California] An ambitious Silicon Valley effort to create computer industry breakthroughs ended in failure last Friday when the Web site of the
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      771 47  -  we see TT The market Is worth Just USs3oom globally today, but its potentlalls promising raju chellam The writer is BizIT editor THERE'S a niche segment slowly opening up out there in cyberspace. It's a tiny window of opportunity right now, but promises some potential
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      1111 48  -  Mll Mill Ut/ Traditional access and portal businesses can create value in Asia in the near term; new access technologies and innovative enabling services will win in the long run john livingstone, chris beshouri THERE is now an increasing urgency among companies across all
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      588 48 America Online, Microsoft backing competing shortcuts to simplify online travel Washington Post WASHINGTON For a preview of the next war over Internet browsers, consider a littleknown navigation tool called keywords. Rivals America Online Inc and Microsoft Corp are backing competing shortcuts to
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      615 48  -  It may be facing challenges from all sides but it has posted remarkable growth figures By] Lawrence Fisher AP [PALO ALTO, California] Ask Steven Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, about Sun Microsystems and he sees red. It is not just that Mr Ballmer views
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        72 50 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore said it is implementing an eCRM (electronic customer relationship management) system at Sing Tel Mobile. HP Consulting will deploy the $1.5 million system, based on the Xchange Dialogue marketing automation software from US-based Xchange Inc. HP will also provide the project management, systems
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        76 50 GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology said key local and foreign companies will collaborate with it to develop competencies in HDS (high density substrates) design and fabrication. HDS is an important enabling technology for advanced semiconductor device packaging and high-density electronics assemblies. To push R&D in
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        26 50 SALESLOGIX. a company providing eCRM software, opened its Singapore office last week. It is headed by Joseph Tang, sales director for SalesLogix Asia-Pacific.
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        52 50 HEWLETT-PACKARD has launched its Expanded HP Planet Partners Recycling Program" here, the first country where HP offers recycling on all HP printer cartridges (inkjet and laser toner). Customers can put their used cartridges in drop-off bins at all 62 Sing Post main branches for recycling. For details,
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        35 50 A FORUM on "Legal issues among startups" will be held on Thursday at the Merchant Court Hotel. It is organised by landl Asia (Singapore) and Wired Island. For details, e-mail laychintan@iandiasia.com.
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        65 50 PROFESSIONAL Development Associates Pte Ltd will organise the following two-day seminars to be held at the Grand Hyatt. They are: ♦On "Successful e-business implementation' from May 22, presented by Bennet Lientz; ♦On "Network security and firewalls' from May 25, presented by David M. Peterson; ♦On "Management
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        72 50  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam IBM and WizOffice.com Pte Ltd have tied up to deliver a one-stop suite of e-business solutions to SMEs (small and medium enterprises) across the Asia-Pacific region. Both companies said they will develop standardised e-business platforms using IBM hardware, software and services in
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      622 50  -  SAYli* Brokers have a great opportunity to increase their customer base and profits by differentiating their service tobias pelzer The writer is managing director, Netlife Singapore E -COMMERCE has already rewritten the rules of how people do business, and the volume of transactions
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      253 50 Xinhua [BEIJING] Web surfers can now watch the entire heart bypass surgery operation performed at the Fuwai Hospital attached to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China's top cardiovascular surgery hospital. This will be the first live online telecast of heart bypass surgery in China. Lin
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      183 50 TEN start-ups will present business proposals to venture capitalists to seek funding at "The Network Event" on April 28. organised by the National Science Technology Board (NSTB). Among them are companies which have received NSTB funds through its $50 million co-investment fund called Venture Investment Scheme
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      734 52  -  I exclusive Traditional exchanges need to embrace technology and change their trading model to survive, as toh bam snm finds out TOH HAN SHIH STOCK exchanges, both big and small, risk becoming irrelevant if they don't embrace technology and new business models. The threat comes
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      164 52  -  w Tay Shi'an HOMEGROWN SiS Technologies last week launched its first 828 (business-to-business) Web site last week. The site at www.sis.com.sg targets the company's resellers and provides product pricing and information, and a shoppingcart feature which allows companies to place orders online. "The Singapore site
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      270 52 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand will take a major step to boost Internet business and facilitate e-commerce with the introduction of key legislation at the end of the year, the head of the government's technology agency said last week. Pairash Thajchayapong, executive director of the National
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      Lock icon AceFusion's ace plans in e-logistics
      600 53  -  RTexclusive It is banking on its portal to boost sales from last year's $800,000 to $18m by next year By Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN logistics software provider Ace Fusion.com Pte Ltd is banking on its elogistics portal to bring in half its expected $18 million in
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      414 53 US Air Force team finds instructions from the Internet NYT SATELLITE signals critical to military operations can be jammed using cheap equipment from home improvement stores and electronics fairs, a US Air Force team has found. Instructions on how to build the jammers were
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      499 54  -  l-Hexclusive Among S'pore firms, 62% had annual e-commerce budgets of less than US$5O,OOO, reports TOH HAN SHm TOH HAN SHIH E -commerce in Asia is not as mature as in the US, and is hampered by several factors, including lack of internal expertise and budget
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      165 54 AMIDST bright lights, music and stylish dancers, Philips last week launched its new MP3 player, the Philips Rush!, which will debut commercially early next month. "It costs $399, measures 7cm by 7cm, weighs 50g and connects to PCs via the parallel port," said
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      401 54 Company may also unveil USs3J>b stock bnyback plan Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp will disclose tomorrow the results of a vote that could repeal changes to its pension plan, changes that have sparked plans for a protest at the annual
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      1137 55  -  Ef^xcTusive Ajit Balakrishnan, creator of India's largest B2C portal, talks to Vikram Khanna about India's handicaps and strengths in the Net economy Vikram Khanna ERSON- m ALLY, I was al- ways more H comfort- able about getting all the information I needed online rather than calling
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      Lock icon Cradles for China's high-tech firms
      162 55 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] Business incubators have become a cradle of China's high-technology enterprises specialising in micro-electronics, computers, information, telecommunications, bio-engineering and new materials. Business incubators help early-stage companies, especially those involved in hightech areas, to cut production costs and shorten the time needed to transform research
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      Lock icon Evidence on link between cell phone and cancer unclear
      667 55  -  Bot research shows clear link between use of phones and car accidents Bob Cooke LAT-WP [LOS ANGELESJ Despite widespread fears about cell phone radiation causing various forms of cancer, there is no convincing scientific evidence to support the idea. But there's
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      Lock icon Cisco's gizmo for wireless access
      177 56  -  By. Koh Huiting US NETWORKING giant Cisco Systems Inc last week launched a wireless LAN (local area network) solution targeted at SMEs (small and medium enterprises) and large companies. The Cisco Aironet 340 Series, available now, is priced from US$l,5OO for an access point and
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      612 56  -  Travel agents need to extend personalised services to customers in the Net era By Val Chua The writer is with asiaone.com, SPH's English-language portal. THE familiar travel agent need not pushed out of business by online travel sites. That's mainly because most people still
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      1726 57  -  I-it exclusive In e-biz, there're no technical issues, only business issues, Charles Wang tells cathebimb omo at CA World in New Orleans CATHERINE ONG CHARLES Wang has mellowed. At this year's CAWorld show, an annual tech fest which has become a conspicuous celebration of
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      587 58 A BT Advertising Special Music portal signs on 60,000 members in four months HAVE you wanted to dedicate a song to someone on the Internet? Did you wish you could send dedicated messages without queueing up to be selected by the deejay
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      Lock icon WizOffice.com partners with IBM to address SME market
      475 58 Strategy includes innovative e-business solutions on Linux platform WIZOFFICE.COM, a 828 e-commerce company which provides businesses with a complete suite of Internet-based products, services and solutions, will be partnering IBM in an aggressive strategy to reach out to SMEs in the region.
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      711 58 Contributed by Mary Wong, Associate, Morrison Foerster LLP YOU'RE a born-on-the-web startup. New, fresh, perhaps even confused by the feverish pace of the Internet world. You build your business model with the Internet as the key infrastructure to support most of your business processes, except
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      Lock icon Jornada Pocket PC: next level in handheld computing
      935 59  -  A pocket wonder that makes Microsoft's snazzy new operating system look really good, HP's latest offering takes the challenge to long-time champion Palm Inc By Kenneth James "In this corner... the world champion, hand-held computing division (drum-roll, voice rising to a crescendo)
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      Lock icon S'pore-made Net print from HP ready
      475 59  -  From* Joe Lourdesamy The writer is with asiaone.com, SPH's English-language portal. in San Francisco US giant Hewlett-Packard Company last week launched the HP Jet Direct 4000 print appliance, claiming it was the first network appliance of its kind. Made in Singapore, it aims to
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      498 59 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US computer companies are putting on hold a lobbying campaign to overhaul US export-control laws, a move intended to convince Congress to at least take modest steps this year to help them avoid losing overseas sales. Unisys Corp, Intel Corp.
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        85 59 CANON Marketing Services has launched what it claims is the world's smallest 3.3 megapixel digital camera. Called Power Shot S2O, it weighs 70 gms, works with PCs and Macs, and comes with a 16 MB compact flash card that can store up to 176 images. It is
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        108 59 DELL Computer Corp has launched a Special Edition Dell Dimension desktop featuring the 1 GHz Pentium 111 processor from Intel. This PC will be based on the Dimension XPS B series. A typical configuration with 256 KB L 2 cache,l2B MB RAM, 30 GB hard disk, 12-speed
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        80 59 lOMEGA Corp has announced its new SCSI-to-USB (Universal Serial Bus) adapter for its Jaz 1 GB and 2 GB drives. It costs $135 and is compatible with USB-enabled PC or Macs. lomega also announced plans to develop a Fire Wire adapter for the Jaz drive this
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        72 59 NETWORK Associates' McAfee business unit said it is shipping the industry's first comprehensive anti-virus solution for managing virus security policy and protection over the Internet. The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Anti-Virus Informant products, which are part of the McAfee Active Virus Defence (AVD) suite, lets users safeguard
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        89 59  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam TELEPIX Imaging Inc, an Internet imaging and e-commerce solutions provider, has tied up with Info Magic Systems Pte Ltd to introduce online photo network services in Asia. Info Magic will deploy the entire Telepix photo e-commerce solution, making it the first in South-east
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        695 60  -  Sun's new initiative provides a package of products and services to e-enable businesses, reports amdrew wee ANDREW WEE US giant Sun Microsystems Inc launched its most ambitious Internet initiative here last week. Called iForce, it provides a package of products and services to e-enable businesses.
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        257 60  -  By, Aaron Lye ASIAN 828 e-commerce services provider Commerce Exchange Pte Ltd (Comex), last week tied up with logistics supplier Trans-Link Express Pte Ltd, to provide e-fulfill-ment services. The deal will offer customers a package of logistic solutions and supply chain management for transactions conducted
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          51 60 LOCAL food community Web site Makansutra.com has tied up with Sing Tel Mobile to launch Mobile MakanSutra in Sing Tel e-ideas on WAP (wireless application protocol) It covers 100 top eating places here which have been rated, and will be marketed with Sing Tel Mobile's
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          46 60 AMERICAN International Assurance's (ALA) agents can now get policy details via WAP-enabled mobile phones. Singapore's largest life insurer said it is the first insurance company in Asia to deploy WAP technology. Currently, agents can check on policies, pending policies and funds prices.
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          78 60 NASDAQ-LISTED i 2 Technologies and local 828 technology holding firm Planet One have set up a joint venture to launch Asia's first e-market for the timber industry and offer SCM (supply chain management) consultancy across Asia. Planet One will set up two business divisions for each
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          60 60 US-BASED Net Screen Technologies has announced what it claims is the industry's first gigabit security system for Internet data centres. The NetScreenl-1000 Gigabit Security System is designed for high-bandwidth, high-capacity environments such as e-business sites, Web hosting facilities, and ISP and ASP data centres. A fully
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          96 60 HEWLETT-PACKARD Company and Nokia have announced a joint WAP solution, called WAPserv, as a bundle with hardware, software, consulting, training and integration services. The integrated solutions are: Developer pack, costs US$2O,OOO (5J33.900) and comes with HP Net Server LPr, five Nokia WAP server licences,
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          53 60 PROGRESS Software Carp said its AppsAlive! preview Web site is the first to showcase live ASP (application service provider) solutions from multiple software i itadflttkUK new initiative from Progress' Aspen 2000 ProgramgiwulSVs (independent software vendors) a jdnffetart la getting their ASP applications online at no charge. For
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          77 60  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam SYMANTEC Corp has warned that the Chernobyl CIH virus is set to hit unprotected PCs this Wednesday. Discovered in 1996, the Taiwan-originated virus was written by Chen Ing-hau, who stuck his initials into the virus signature. It was the first virus
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