The Business Times, 7 July 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 [internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE FRIDAY, JULY 7, 2000 85*
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    74 1 sn 2jmiS (-15.58) U 90CJ0 (+1.11) ST IXDEX nmJBES 207L00 (-8.00) SOISCIFUTURES ***** (-1.20) STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP ***** -1012 NIKKEI 225 17,***** -***** HANG SENG 16,***** +15J2 SET INDEX 318.42 -4.43 JAKARTA COMP 611.43 +0.96 MANILA OOMP _1*4141 +2.49 TAIPEI WP1 &***** -***** SEOUL
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    81 1 FOKEX BATES US* S) USS 1.738 £(USS/SS per lilO 1621 Et'RO(USS/SS/E) 0.969 1.664 DM 2.041 0.861 YEN 1065 1.624 RM 3.800 0.467 HKS 7.7* 0123 BAHT 3959 0.044 EUPIAH M16 0.019 'St to MO units 'St to lOC units FUME KATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK
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    Lock icon SMRT will be much more than just trains
    1061 1  -  i i ■exclusive New activities range from newspapers to snpermartsto telecommunications Revorts bv< Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] From newspapers to superraarts to telecommunications. That's just some of the new activities soon-to-be-listed train company SMRT has embarked on to boost future growth In an
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    Lock icon Seems like old times at The Teneriffe
    392 1  -  Sell-out dne to scarcity of landed homes experts Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Han Chee Juan, the low-profile owner of the Leisure Park in Kallang, has scored a winner with The Teneriffe, a cluster housing project off Sixth Avenue all 148 units were sold
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    Lock icon Historical price-earnings ratio merely eight times
    201 1 [SINGAPORE] According to market sources as well as a preliminary prospectus, the listed entity will be a new holding company called SMRT Corp. Under it will be wholly-owned units SMRT, SMRT Engineering, SMRT Investments (for local investments) and SMRT International (for overseas investments). Under
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    Lock icon New framework to consolidate securities, futures markets
    553 1  -  Just a single licence to provide a range of financial services By Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday proposed a new licensing framework to consolidate the securities and futures markets and make it easier for financial institutions to
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      143 1 mane Exec Lifestyle Shopping goes subterranean. EL 1 Exec Money The New 1 Age insur- fcR I ance agent. em 12 Lririßß Top stories Govt may raise penalty on unfair telecom practices. Next Page SIAS wants more info from firms. Pg3 BT Comment No good reason why lonics suspension was
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      10 1 S*pore govt places out $15b to private fund managers, Pg4
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Out to tame the wild
        98 2 WE hear that DBS Bank has hired a sidekick for Chuck Newton, its head of media relations. Jonathan Woodier, a former senior editor at CNBC Asia, came on board this Monday and is tasked with handling the "unruly foreign media", as one foreign correspondent put
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        Lock icon This is my pantry
        80 2 IN this age of the New Economy, Grapevine was surprised to hear about some antiquated practices at a major listed GLC. Seems the directors have their own pantry and toilet, which are out of bounds to other executives. One former executive, who is now with another
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        Lock icon Too much to handle
        67 2 NEW issues have been piling on the Singapore Exchange at such a rate that it looks like the printers can't cope. At the IPO launch of main board-bound North 22 Technology Services Group Ltd on Wednesday, guests were given photocopies of its prospectus because the printers
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        Lock icon The downside of job enlargement
        171 2 THE quality of stockmarket research has come under a bit of scrutiny in the US recently, especially in the pages of Barron's, the weekly financial newspaper. Most of the views have been critical but in the June 12 issue, an analyst with 30 years' experience
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      Lock icon Govt may raise penally on unfair telecom practices
      454 2  -  IDA says penalty most be commensurate with kind of damage done Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE) The government is looking into amending the $1 million penalty cap for telecommunications companies that engage in anticompetitive practices. "Yes, we are looking at how and what
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      Lock icon S'pore's R&D way to biotech growth
      594 2  -  I-l i comment TECHNOLOGY Its hub strategy makes eminent sense raju chellam NOW that the dotcom euphoria is giving way to the biotech boom, both companies and countries are clamouring to catch the new wave before it ebbs. But unlike the dotcom sector, where
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      Lock icon Easy for him to hold court
      832 2  -  PEOPLE Courts'new MD has achieved much at a relatively yomg age Byi Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] One of the first things Terry O'Connor did when he assumed the managing director position at Courts Singapore was to make everyone call everyone else by their first names.
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  • CORPORATE transparency
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      Lock icon SIAS wants more info from firms
      858 3  -  Investors' body to encourage transparency, give awards to the best among listed firms By Serena Ng COMPANIES listed in Singapore may soon come under pressure to reveal more information on their investments and operations, as how transparent they are will be scrutinised closely. The
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon S'pore govt places out $15b to private fund managers
      650 4  -  Part of $35b seed money to encourage players to grow operations in S'pore By] Ling Su Ann THE Singapore government has placed out to private fund managers almost $15 billion of the $35 billion it had earmarked some two years ago
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      Lock icon No good reason why Ionics suspension was done so late
      663 4  -  lock siew ven sreenivasan THERE must be something very special about 9.23 am. That is the moment when the shares of Philippine electronics contract manufacturer lonics EMS Inc were suspended on Wednesday. Then again, 3.40pm must also be an auspicious
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      Lock icon PSA Corp gets top credit ratings from S&P and Moody's
      623 8  -  It sh&resS&P AAA rating with S'pore Power; Moody's A&l rating with Sing Tech By Conrad Raj PSA Corporation, which operates the world's busiest port, has been given top marks for its creditworthiness by international ratings agencies Standard Poor's and Moody's
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      Lock icon Teckwah unit in $25m software deal with IBM arm
      371 8  -  Byl David Boey SESDAQ-LISTED Teckwah Industrial Corp said yesterday it would make $25 million worth of software over the next three years for US-based computer giant IBM in a deal that should have "some positive impact" on its bottom line in
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      Lock icon SPH to raise ad rates by 6-20% for 3 papers from October
      678 8  -  First rate hike in five years to offset costlier newsprint, reflect higher circulation; group to invest $250 m in additional printing plants By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) is raising its newspaper advertising rates by 6
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      Lock icon HP, i2 win ST Engg deal for e-procurement system
      263 8  -  By I Serena Ng HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) Singapore and i 2 Technologies have won a multi-million dollar contract to plan and implement a Web-based procurement and supply chain management system for Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engg). An ST Engg spokesperson declined to
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      Lock icon Horizon.Com takes stake in SMP.com
      250 8 HORIZON.COM has taken a 40 per cent stake in a mobile commerce (m-commerce) solutions provider for the insurance industry. Horizon.Com yesterday said in a statement that the "entire deal" with SMP.Com, which has a product that provides tools, services and applications to insurance professionals, totals
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      Lock icon Uphill struggle for foreign banks in Singapore
      852 11 Expansion hindered mainly by lack of agreement on shared ATM networks Bloomberg WHEN Singapore awarded a select group of foreign banks expanded banking licences, the move was heralded as the start of a new era of competition in the city's long-protected banking market.
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      Lock icon SMRT's net profit up 22% at $115.4m
      339 11  -  Rise in turnover, interest, investment income cited By Christopher Tan HIGHER ridership on the back of a recovering economy raised rail operator SMRT's turnover by 4.3 per cent to $368 million. Net profit after tax came to $115.4 million, up 21.9 per cent.
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      Lock icon Virgin plans direct flights to Singapore
      155 11 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Virgin Atlantic Airways, 49 per cent owned by Singapore Airlines, will start flying to Singapore direct from London in six to nine months' time, to tap the growing market for air travel between the UK and Asia. Virgin Group chairman Richard
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon CDP starts e-mail service
        99 11 THE Central Depository Pte Ltd (CDP) of the Singapore Exchange is launching an e-mail service to offer direct securities account holders faster access to information on shareholdings. About 1.08 miUion share investors wUI benefit from the service, which win facilitate requests for shareholding statements, current month
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        Lock icon Want Want to buy Shanghai Cheerful
        73 11 WANT Want Holdings has entered into an agreement to buy a 95.2 per cent equity interest in Shanghai CheerfUl Foods for US$l.6 million (Ss2.B million). Shanghai Cheerful's principal activities are manufacturing and retailing bread, cakes and other confectionery. Want Want said the transaction is
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        Lock icon Asia Dekor puts off share placement
        81 11 ASIA Dekor Holdings has postponed its proposed share placement, despite having obtained in-principle approval from the Singapore Exchange. The company said it has decided to defer its placement exercise in view of the trading volatility of its shares prior to the suspension of trading
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        Lock icon CityDev's i-Home goes on sale
        59 11 CITY Developments will launch its first i-Home development in Singapore today. It will offer 50 units in the first phase of The Equatorial, which is designed as an intelligent, interactive and Internet-ready complex, at $1,300 pef. The condominium is located at Stevens Road in prime
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      Lock icon Reports of merger with DBS Land premature: Pidemco
      285 11 AFP REPORTS of a merger of two government-linked property companies in Singapore to create one of the region's biggest developers was dismissed as speculation by one of the companies yesterday. Pidemco Land assistant vice-president for corporate communications Jenny Lam said any speculation
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      121 4 This announcement appears as a matter of record only July 2000 Ah i. A K S H I/N I N G SHINING CORPORATION LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 12 August 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 28,200,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.15 EACH COMPRISING 20,000,000 NEW SHARES AND 8,200,000
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      782 4 /ji\ I A K S H II N G SHINING CORPORATION LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 12 August 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 28,200,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.15 EACH COMPRISING 20,000,000 NEW SHARES AND 8,200,000 VENDOR SHARES AS FOLLOWS:(I) 8,200,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.21 FOR EACH OFFER
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      468 6 Slocks Volume SngaTrust25c 36,475,000 PKTech5c 17,187,000 Ionics PS100 13,785,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 13,572,000 Achieve 5c 9,789,000 WahShing HK50c 9,755,000 Trek 5c 9,261,000 FHTKHWge20c 8,998,000 CO 5c 8,751,000 Liang Huat Wl 8,063,000 Stock! Chart Semiconductof 26c 60,298,812 SngaTrust25c 49,696,860 SIA 40,336,361 DBS&p 35,787,446 PacificCentufy 34,835,800 SPH 13,903,629 PKTach 5c 13,440,670 City Dev
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      Lock icon Nasdaq's slide puts brakes on local tech-stock rally
      542 6  -  l I comment STOCKS r.sivanithy AFTER three fairly encouraging days, prices in the local stock market yesterday slipped back in tandem with a weak Wednesday outing for US equities. Given that it was a decline in tech stocks that drove Wall Street
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      Lock icon CL covered call on DBS: September expiry a snag
      209 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy THERE are several covered warrants out there that have pretty good numbers supporting them, and should therefore be put on the "watch out" list of any value investor. Unfortunately, there is no free lunch in the
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      Lock icon DBS Land trying to break out of $2.40
      240 6  -  HOT STOCK By- Ven Sreenivasan DBS Land made a rare appearance on the top gainers list yesterday as it climbed eight cents or 3.5 per cent to $2.38. The rise came on the back of relatively strong volume of 4.46 million shares,
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      167 6 ♦GUUTechnologies S'pore announced it is proposing a bonus issue of 53.5 million new shares of 20 cents each. It is also proposing a rights issue of 66.9 million warrants to subscribe for 66.9 million new shares of 20 cents each, in conjunction with a proposed issue of fixed
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      Lock icon Yen testing key supports against US$, euro
      306 6  -  l I comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE besieged rupiah enjoyed a respite in Asian trading yesterday, but players reported plenty of US dollar buyers around the day's low of 9,200 rupiah and below. Meanwhile, the Japanese yen tested key supports of 107.10-40 per
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      375 7 ',-4/80^ THE LQUATORI AL i-HOME OF THE FUTURE |J The Equatorial integrates the best that modern technology has to offer with an elegant and -*SP^% architecturally Inspired home. Each of the 95 exclusive apartments is intelligent, interactive and |/K' ttlH Internet-ready. Our built-in Local Area Network (LAN) Infrastructure, for instance,
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      334 8 TH^mone^R^^^^^^^2^^singapore SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT OFFERING OF TAXABLE BOOK-ENTRY BONDS TO THE PUBLIC AMOUNT OFFERED SGD 400 MILLION I I ISSUE CODE N2OOIOOH (Reopened) I I ISSUE DATE 17 JULY 2000 I I MATURITY DATE 15 APRIL 2002 I I INTEREST RATE 2.875% I I PRICE TO BE DETERMINED AT THE AUCTION-
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      13 8 PSA tarns in 13% rise in HI container throughput, Shipping Times, Pg 1
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      1309 10 SMS Securities Investors Association (Singapore) I I SECURITIES INVESTORS ASSOCIATION (S PORE) I I CELEBRATES ITS IST ANNIVERSARY WITH ITS 51,000 MEMBERS I Ate&&ag.e& I Hon'Ble Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman, MAS President/CEO Of SIAS, CEO Of SGX, H H BG (NS) Lee Hsien Loong David Gerald Jeyasegaram Thomas A I
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      8 11 Virgin starts India flight, Shipping Times, Pg 16
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      328 11 The GK Goh Group Experience within the financial industry is not essential if the candidate has is a leadina sufficient experience working in dynamic industries. The following positions are currently available: financial services Asia providing high (A) R6S6cirCh AnalyStS.(Ref:REo7oo) quality investment We seek candidates for senior positions In Singapore to
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Shell to run Singapore refinery at 47.5% capacity
      158 13 Bloomberg ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group, Singapore's second largest refiner, will run its 59,000 tonne-a-day facility on the island of Bukom at 47.5 per cent capacity this month, little changed from June, an official said. Shell's Pulau Bukom refinery, the company's largest, will produce
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      Lock icon 6.7-7% growth in Q2 GDP estimates: DBS
      342 13  -  KiHon the economy outlook By Audrey Tan THE advance GDP (gross domestic product) estimates due out on Monday will likely show that sturdy external demand and the sustained strength in domestic consumption have powered economic growth in the second quarter, DBS Bank says.
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      Lock icon Forecasts of private housing prices revised downwards
      567 13  -  Consultants cite slowdown in take-up rates in past six months By Marissa Chew WITH activity in the private housing market slow in the past half year, initial predictions that prices could rise by 10 to 15 per cent this year have been revised
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      Lock icon Camden eyes day surgery centre
      719 13  -  exclusive Medical centre 40% leased, targets 60% occupancy by Dec By Kalpana Rashiwala CAMDEN Medical Centre is just about 10 to 15 per cent occupied now, but it is looking into setting up a day surgery centre, among other things, which should help boost occupancy
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      Lock icon Isetan to share local franchise for popular Mango
      384 13  -  sT^xclusive JSGillofSSHto open np to 6 stores in S'pore, HE By Kalpana Rashiwala ISETAN now has to share its Singapore franchise for the top-selling Mango brand with a company controlled by Royal Sporting House founder JS GUI. Mr Gill, through Gagan Holdings,
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      Lock icon Six firms shortlisted for stage 2 of SMU design contest
      235 13 SIX firms were shortlisted yesterday to advance to the second stage of the Singapore Management University's architectural design competition for its city campus in Bras Basah. A whopping 172 design submissions from 35 countries were submitted, the largest number ever
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      Lock icon Citibank sees home loans rise 3.7 times in 4 months
      487 14  -  RT exclusive Buyers are drawn to new plan's rates as low as 1.2% in first year, says bank VP By Siow Li Sen CITIBANK'S innovative mortgage scheme has been drawing borrowers attracted by interest rates as low as 1.2 per
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      Lock icon More firms expect to hire new staff: poll
      450 14  -  Ad, telecoms, IT and services firms are the most bullish By Eugene Low SINGAPORE'S employment situation looks set to remain healthy this quarter, with 58.5 per cent of the employers surveyed by human resource consultancy Morgan Banks expecting to hire new staff
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      Lock icon IDA sets aside $2m to train specialists
      194 14 THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has set aside $2 million to train 1,000 infocomm specialists in critical skill areas through its Critical Infocomm Technology Resource Programme (CITREP), a co-funding programme with employers. This is to meet the shortfall in infocomm manpower
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Is this a good way to pick a unit trust?
      199 15  -  Leong Sze Hian AFTER reading about Asia's first Internet bank in The Business Times, I visited www.finatiq.com and went through the following sequence: Site Map. Saving Planner. Your total monthly income is (entered 3000). Your total monthly expense are (entered
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      Lock icon Minority holders' message getting through
      126 15  -  Denis Distant I REFER to the letter "Be fair to minority shareholders" from Frank Newman (Mailbag, July 6) who has raised an issue I have written about in your Mailbag page. I did so at the time the Golden Agri-Resources and Colex IPOs came out,
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      Lock icon NatSteel involved in entire value chain
      323 15  -  Leong Wai Leong Executive Vice-President (Corporate Development) Nat Steel Ltd I REFER to David Barnett's letter "Intense pressure seen for Nat Steel" (BT, July 1) on competition from Singaporebased construction portals. We would like to first clarify that the reference to NatSteel as "middleman"
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      67 15 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in
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      2063 15 EAGLE BRAND HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Eagle Brand Holdings Limited ("the Company") will be held at 6th Floor, Foshan Shiwan Eagle Brand Ceramics Ltd., Shiwan Laichanggang, Foshan, Guangdong, The People's Republic
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon S'pore must opt for US rules, if EU wavers
      768 16  -  I bottom line OPINION David mason The writer was a partner in an international accounting firm in Singapore for 14 years. He is now a business consultant in the United Kingdom. He contributed this article to BT GLOBAL stock trading is
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      106 16 'I don't want to be global. I just want to go where the money is, where there is a rule of law, and where you can do business.' JimCorvey former president and chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments, on his strategy. 'A lot of men are suspicious
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      Lock icon Don't pick on weak genes
      580 16 EDITORIAL TOO much has been said about the marvels of genomics; how the completion of the human gene map could change human evolution and produce windfall profits for companies that use the information efficiently, and not enough about its downside. Discrimination on the basis of
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      Lock icon Corporate America calls shots in foreign policy
      873 16  -  A decade after the end of the Cold War, Americans now have the Corporate Peace By Jim Mann LAT-WP DON'T look now, but over the past six weeks, Americans have quietly entered a new era for US foreign policy. A decade after the
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      Lock icon Internet world: Old Economy in a new guise
      943 16  -  COMMENTARY By Jeff Madrick The writer is the editor of Challenge Magazine NYT IN THE relentless search to find something unprecedented in the New Economy, many business gurus, and even some well-trained economists, now say that the theoretical principles underlying it are
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Lion group shares actively traded
        131 17 STOCKS of listed companies within the Lion Group stable were active yesterday after a one-and-a-half-day trading suspension during which the group announced a massive debt restructuring exercise to trim its RMIO billion (554.56 billion) total debt. Lion Group chairman William Cheng announced that companies in
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        Lock icon Dataprep down on debt restructuring
        78 17 IT solutions provider Dataprep Holdings Bhd was down 13 sen at RM2.82 yesterday. The company last week announced that it had sought the help of the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee (CDRC) to arbitrate with all parties involved in its proposed restructuring scheme announced on Jan
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        Lock icon Electronics, IT counters down
        66 17  -  Compiled by] Diana Oon Abdullah STOCKS of electronics-related counters were among yesterday's losers, with MPI topping the list with a RM1.50 decline to RM37. Unisem was close behind, ending RM1.25 lower at RM25.50. MPI parent Hong Leong Industries was down 20 sen to RMII.IO. AIC fell
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      Lock icon Jasa Kita group eyeing troubled Sin Heng Chan
      254 17 KUALA LUMPUR FCW expected to make general offer through share swap LOW-PROFILE businessman Robert Tan Hua Choon of the Jasa Kita group is eyeing finan-cially-troubled Sin Heng Chan (Malaya) Bhd (SHC), and is likely to use FCW Holdings Bhd to take over
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      Lock icon Time dotCom gets listing nod – with conditions
      568 17  - Time dotCom gets listing nod with conditions It most get a partner or 3rd party with tech know-how to add valne From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE Securities Commission has given the go-ahead for Time Engineering to list its telecommunications subsidiary Time dot Com, but subject to Time
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      385 17 KATI, Malaysia Police arrest 15 members of Muslim martial arts group Reuters HEAVILY armed gunmen who raided two army weapons depots before killing {wo hostages surrendered yesterday, Malaysian Defence Minister Najib Razak said. The gunmen, believed to be members of a shadowy
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      186 18 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S bankruptcy court said yesterday that the government had appointed nine more "ad hoc" judges to hear bankruptcy cases as part of efforts to resolve the country's private sector debt mess. In its last letter of intent to the International Monetary
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      546 18  -  It could slide farther next week as Gas Dnr appears in parliament: analysts From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S beleaguered currency may soon test the 10,000 mark against the US dollar after Wednesday's dramatic collapse, given the ongoing political uncertainty and a rising demand
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      292 18 BANGKOK Global chip makers unsure about labour pool, infrastructure Reuters THAI officials said yesterday the country was having a hard time finding a pioneer investor for its planned first ever US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) government-sponsored wafer fabrication plant. Although several global chip
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        68 18 Bernama-Antara [SEOUL] The Indonesian government will in 2001 scrap a regulation that requires citizens going overseas to pay travel tax, visiting Tourism and Arts Minister Djaelani Hidayat said here yesterday. Indonesians intending to go abroad by air must now pay a "fiscal" fee
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        41 18 AP [JAKARTA] About 50 student protesters threw stones at Indonesia's attorney-general's office yesterday demanding ex-president Suharto be tried for corruption. Chanting "Prosecute Suharto!", they smashed several windows of the office. No one was hurt —AP
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        81 18 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai telecoms tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra (right) and his Thai Rak Thai party are slightly more trusted to run the economy than the government of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai in Bangkok, a poll showed yesterday. The poll, of more than 1,000 residents of the Thai
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        83 18 Reuters [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday it had reached an agreement with creditors of Bakrie Brothers to restructure U*****.3 million (*****.6 million) in debts in four stages. "The first stage is principal of U5537.6 million and 39.9 billion rupiah for 10
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        56 18 Reuters JAKARTA] Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina called yesterday for the government to revoke special incentives, including favourable tax treatment, given to Exxon Mobil Corp for operating the Natuna gas field. The incentives also allow Exxon to retain 40 per cent of proceeds rather than
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        51 18 Reuters [BANGKOK] The Thai Ministry of Finance yesterday released its economic outlook for 2000, with a projection that Thai gross domestic product (GDP) this year would grow 4.5 per cent. The study, by ministry adviser Charnchai Musiknisakorn, forecast inflation would be 1.7 per cent.
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      820 22  -  Downgrading by MSCI sees foreign investors cutting back their plays From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND was the worst performer among Asian markets in the first half of the year, plunging more than 33 per cent after foreign investors sharply reduced their plays following the
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      298 22 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippines Bank of Commerce won the right to buy and rehabilitate Urban Bank Inc, the largest lender to have been seized by authorities since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. The Philippine central bank's monetary board picked the mediumsized Bank
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      589 26 HONGKONG Tung's remarks have jnst short-term impact on stock prices and property sales Reuters DESPITE a Hongkong government decision to scrap a goal of providing 85,000 new homes a year, the residential market should stay sluggish this year, weighed down by oversupply and
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      195 26 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong will open a Snoopy theme park next month the first of its kind in Asia, a spokeswoman said yesterday. The park, dedicated to the black and white dog from the Peanuts cartoon strip, will take up a 3,600
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      313 26 Wish to bny homes within two years; half to have main residences there AFP [HONGKONG] Hundreds of thousands of people in Hongkong are planning to buy homes across the border in mainland China to escape the territory's cramped apartments and sky-high property prices.
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      454 19 LONDON Float would allow Global One to circumvent French share option rules FT AFP FRANCE Telecom is considering a flotation of Global One, its international corporate business, despite a near collapse earlier this year when Sprint and Deutsche Telekom pulled out as
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      347 19 THE HAGUE Moves may bring total price of licences down from 10b euro Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, Hongkong's largest conglomerate, and NTL Inc, the UK's largest cable TV company, withdrew from the Netherlands' auction for new wireless licences, leaving six bidders for
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      212 19 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters HARRY Potter is set to arrive in 250,000 US homes tomorrow morning in a feat of hightech wizardry by Federal Express and Amazon.com that will mark the biggest single order in the history of e-com-merce. Harry Potter and the Goblet
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      254 19 HONGKONG Bloomberg CABLE Wireless HKT Ltd and Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd fell for the sixth day yesterday, extending declines of more than 20 per cent this year, amid concern that a planned merger would not boost earnings anytime soon. CyberWorks fell 3.5 per cent to
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      528 20 NEW YORK Only 7 firms with dotcom suffix complete IPOs in Q2, the lowest level since Q4 '98 Bloomberg THE number of US companies going public with the once red-hot "dotcom" moniker fell to its lowest level last quarter since the fourth quarter
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      456 20 REDWOOD CITY, California Bloomberg Reuters ORACLE Corp shares fell 10 per cent on Wednesday amid growing concern that last Friday's abrupt resignation of president and chief operating officer Ray Lane leaves the leading maker of database software with a void in its
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      110 20 AFP [WASHINGTON] Released exclusively on the Net, Argentine director Eugenio Zanetti's film, Quantum Project recouped its production costs in only one hour, Solo Cine.com announced. One hour after its premiere in early May on the site SightSound.com, more than one million
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      44 25 The enigmatic President Uahid has demonstrated an uncanny ability tu outmanoeuvre his opponents. HHHfIHHHHUI while simultaneously guiding Indonesia towards political reform and economic recovery. Discover the secrets of his success in a thorough analysis of Indonesia and its economy. This Kridav in /Tie Economist.
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      236 27 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Senate Banking Committee is expected to pass legislation nexf week to modify how often the Federal Reserve chairman testifies before Congress about monetary policy. The committee is scheduled to vote on the Federal Reserve Reporting Act of2ooo at
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      404 27  -  Report for 12 month period till March 2000 being used as a political football From Neil Behrmann in London FOREIGN investment in the UK jumped 23 per cent to £252.4 billion (*****.5 billion) in the 12 months ended March 2000, despite the
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      410 27 ZURICH Hosting 2006 World Cop conld mean more infrastructure investments Bloomberg GERMANY has won a surprise bid to host the 2006 soccer World Cup and the victory may give a boost to Europe's biggest economy, analysts said, as companies invest in infrastructure and thousands
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      1183 28  -  Threat of external pressure at G-8 summit likely to prompt central bank to act at its July 17 policy board meeting; rate rise could be higher than expected From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo PECULATION is M mounting that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will
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      268 28 TOKYO IkeMnaitMtiii whole mr crisis (sr the MOtry, MJS MMMdat AFP JAPAN'S government debt, already the highest in the industrialised world, actually stands at a whopping 270-330 per cent of groes domestic product (GDP), a high-profile economist said yesterday. "Japan today makes the Italy
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      370 28 TOKYO US pressure to cut access rates; govt official denies report Reuters JAPAN will propose cutting connection rates charged by telecoms giant NTT by 41.1 per cent by the end of 2002 to try to resolve a dispute with Washington ahead
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      307 30 WASHINGTON AP NEW orders to American factories shot up 4.1 per cent in May, the largest increase since the end of 1992. A big jump in demand for electronics and other electrical equipment led the way. The Commerce Department reported yesterday
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        82 30 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Americans' view of the country's •canomy fell to an eight-month low at the end of June even as their assessment of their own financial situation grew stronger, according to a poll released on Wednesday. Seventy per cent of the respondents rated the US
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        86 30 Daily Telegraph THE merger of pharmaceutical giants Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham will cost £112 million (*****.4 million), it has emerged. This jackpot will be shared among the advisers to the two companies, led by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Accounting giant PriceWaterhouse
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        83 30 Reuters [TOKYO] Fresh government data yesterday confirmed that Japan's consumer spending remains depressed by sluggish incomes and a weak job market. Some economists suggested that a sharp rise in bankruptcies of small businesses amid structural changes in Japanese industry may also be hindering a
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        95 30 Reuters {TOKYO] More than 10,600 people in Japan were yesterday suffering from food poisoning caused by the nation's largest dairy products maker, Snow Brand Milk Products. Most of those afflicted live in the Osaka metropolitan area, in western Japan, and became ill with
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        55 30 AFP [TOKYO] The chairman of Japan's Toyo Trust and Banking Co Ltd died yesterday, just hours after his company announced it would join Sanwa Bank and Tokai Bank in a US$7BO billion (551.35 trillion) merger. Nobuyoshi Takeuchi, 63, died of heart failure at a hospital at
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        101 30 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's economy will grow by far more than the one per cent targeted by the government for the financial year ending March 2001, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday. In an interview with the Japan Broadcasting Corp, he said the economy was
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      382 30 PARIS Move comes amid talk of possible takeover by rival Societe Generate FT CREDIT Lyonnais is considering asking core sharehold ers to agree to an extension to the period during which they cannot freely dispose of their shares, in an effort to shore
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      697 30  -  They believe that their conutiy Is now under attack by American consumerism leon hadar IT was not the kind of scene that one would have expected to witness in Athens, just a few days following the announcement by the European Union (EU) that Greece would
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      290 31  -  SGX Derivatives Tfradlngßeports ST Index/MSClS'pore Index Yvonne Tan SEMICONDUCTOR stock weakness which sent US equities tumbling also rippled into Singapore yesterday. The Straits Times Index closed down 15.58 points or 0.75 per cent at 2,064.75. Within the index, 26 counters fell, 18 rose
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      251 31  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market fell yesterday following the 3.2 per cent slump in the Nasdaq overnight. The MSCI Taiwan Index shed 5.95 points or 1.59 per cent to end at 368.90 points. The volume within the index was
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      184 31 ENERGY REPORT Reuters {LONDON] Oil prices stemmed a two-day slide yesterday as traders awaited confirmation that Saudi Arabia wUI make good its promise to raise exports despite opposition from some fellow Opec producers. London Brent blend futures rose 47 US cents a barrel to U5529.90 by
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      335 31 Reuters London THE euro held firm against other major currencies after the European Central Bank kept rates steady yesterday as the decision was widely expected and did not dent optimism about the single currency. The euro stayed within reach of one-week peaks against the US dollar and multi-week
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      2866 32 HONGKONG AFP PlHangSeog +1&32 HONGKONG shares closed 0.1 per cent higher yesterday despite late profit-taking on the market's recent gains mainly spurred by Hutchison Whampoa, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained 15.32 points to close at 16,489.59 on turnover of
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      1993 32 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 0.9 per cent yesterday as investors dumped technology issues following a setback on Wall Street the previous day, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index fell 153.58 points to close at 17,282.37. "Share prices here simply
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      958 32 Reuters Binder -2J> CHINESE shares ended lower yesterday as a slew of new issues sucked interest away from established stocks and investors grew wary due to the interim results season. The Shanghai hard currency B Share Index extended earlier losses to end down 2.11 per cent, or 1.17 points,
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      389 32 AFP QWPlndex -***** TAIWAN shares closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking and after overnight losses on Wall Street, dealers said. The Weighted Price Index fell 132.35 points to 8,289.39, following a 4.6 per cent surge in the previous session. Four government-linked funds were buying to cushion the
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      430 33 AFP Q Composite Index -3.01 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking following two days of gains, dealers said. The Composite Index ended down 3.01 points at 815.68, off a low 0f808.58. The Second Board Index slipped 0.92
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      309 34 AFP Q Composite Index +7.23 SOUTH Korea's Composite Index rose 0.9 per cent, or 7.23 points, to 837.63. Volume came to 692.1 million shares worth 4.8 trillion won. —AFP JHI KM Antm S*mi ***** 250 Brain T*ch 920 15 Control Bank 1130 5 Choil Comm *****0 -4500 DM Cu
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      288 34 AFP n Composite Index +2.49 PHILIPPINE shares rose 0.2 per cent yesterday with most investors sidelined in dull trade. The Composite Index rose 2.49 points to 1,542.41. Turnover fell-to 1.28 billion shares worth 687 million pesos, from 1.55 billion shares worth 588 million pesos on Wednesday.—AFP (000) MRC Allied
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      273 34 AFP QNZSE-40 -7.89 NEW Zealand share prices closed down 0.4 per cent yesterday after heavy selling of market heavyweight Telecom by foreign investors, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index finished 7.98 points lower at 2,040.63 on high turnover of NZ$24O million. —AFP Mt (000) Advantage HDS 2.78 -0.07 36
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      547 34 AFP n All Ordinaries 9,50 AUSTRALIAN stocks finished 0.3 per cent down yesterday after overnight weakness on Wall Street pushed key blue chips lower, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 9.5 points to 3,262.0 while the SP/ASX 200 index dipped 17.9 points to 3,306.90. Turnover was 793 million
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      780 34 AFP P| SET Index 4.43 THAI shares dropped 1.4 per cent yesterday in thin and rangebound trade following losses on Wall Street and amid continuing domestic political instability, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index closed down 4.43 points at 318.42, while the SET 50 was down
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      695 34 AFP Q Composite Index +OJ6 INDONESIAN shares closed 0.2 per cent higher yesterday with profit-taking trimming gains, dealers said. The Composite Index was up 0.96 point at 513.43, off a high of 516.63. Brokers said there was selected buying by foreign investors. A dealer with Ramayana Artha Perkasa said
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      1620 37  -  COVER STORY City Link Mall offers a new concept that has been well-received by retailers. ta* su ten finds out what makes the mall different and how it was marketed TAN SU YEN IT'S 8.30 on a Wednesday morning and the crowd that heaves itself out of
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        751 38  -  [•lad the cuff Whether endangered or in danger of over-population, it's time people start thinking abont the animals that die to feed them jaime ee THEY'RE majestic creatures. They look good on the Discovery Channel. They're not the beasts they're made out to
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          87 38 FANCY name, but what does it actually mean? At the new CitiLink Mall, there is a counter marked with the word "concierge". Does that mean that the staff will help you carry your shopping bags, call you a cab, confirm your flight reservations
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          50 38 DYING to go on holiday but no one to go with? Then check out this travel advertisement which is offering a Batam Special "2D Tour with Lobster". Maybe you could call them up and ask if you can go on a four-day tour with a catfish or something.
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          54 38 WAS it meant to be tongue-in-cheek or did they really mean it? A job advertisement for a motoring writer, however, sounded pretty serious about its requirements. "Must be willing to take out exotic, supercharged cars for test drives and return them in reasonable good condition (preferably
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        271 38 PART of the challenge of developing and managing CityLink Mall was in selecting the right tenant mix, says developer Hongkong Land. Says Robert Garman, executive director, Hongkong Land (Singapore) Ptd Ltd, "We didn't want to replicate what was in other shoping malls, we were trying
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        1038 39  -  At the wheel of BMWs latest cabriolet CHRBTOPumt tam discovers why fresh air and high technology are such great liberators CHRISTOPHER TAN YOU can probably analogise the evolution of the convertible car with the development of another soft-top product: the brassiere. Think of the early cabriolets with their
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        751 39  -  Bl Tan Su Yen OUR love affair with aromas apparently knows no bounds. Essential oils now give out their soothing, healing benefits from vaporisers, candles, skin-care products and most recently a sleep-inducing array of bath milks, body lotions and scented pillows. Now
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        721 40  -  CINEMA What makes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon stand ont is the strong character development and the mature themes By\ Susan Tsang UKUuuttiNV nger, rnaaen wagon feels like a throwback to the gongfti movies of the 70s, when the actors were not gongfU practitioners and the
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        589 40  -  CINEMA Where The Money Is shows the strong chemistry between the ageing Newman and the seductive Fiorentino By Susan Tsang Where The Money Is is a cute, modest caper movie, which relies on subtlety rather than fireworks. It starts off dizzily enough, with Carol
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        790 41 Big Momma's Honse. Cop Martin Lawrence disguises himself as an to catch a crook in this black version of Mrs s* .ami* »■«mm t m £&!f?S&2Z Tampines, Grand, Plaza, Beach Road, Bugis, Princess. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Director Ang Lee's swordplay tale about a pair of middle-aged martial arts
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        1225 42  -  jaime ee chills out in Mallorca, an island off the east coast of Spain, after getting her feet well-shod JAIME EE IT'S a question of shoes, really. Or rather, shoes versus the sun and sea a decision that the Asian visitor to Mallorca will have to
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        215 42 MALLORCA is about an hour and a half by plane from Barcelona. There are no direct flights to Barcelona from Singapore but the beet connection would be either via London or Parte. A good itinerary to have is to spend a few days in Barcelona and sample the
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        670 42  -  In keeping with its mantra, it now offers better variety sourced from around the world fh Corinne Kerk EXIT Ethan Allen, enter Barang Barang. And boy, are the crowds coming. Judging from the enthusiastic response to the new Barang Barang which recently took over
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        601 43  -  But the ambience at MelNik's is lacking, jazme be finds out JAIME EE THE pork knuckle at MelNik's German Bistro should come with a health warning: "Do not eat without a qualified cardiologist by your side". An entire knuckle ($2B), from a pig that obviously loathed exercise,
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        696 43  -  GADGETS Bat results-wise, it re&Uy depends on practice and how well yon execute the recipes By* Jaime Ee IF you've ever lusted after a breadmaking machine but not enough to fork out over $400 for a sleek Japanese model, then let yourself be seduced by
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  • EXECUTIVE money
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      1671 48  -  INSURANCE may be a mature industry but don't make the mistake of dismissing it as a sunset trade. And don't ever pigeonhole your agent as someone who just sells life and endowment plans. More agents are gearing up to reposition themselves as your trusted financial
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        857 44  -  Image and retail market share are top priority for UK fund management group Schroders as it pushes off a global rebranding campaign. CEO David Salisbury tells GENEVIEVE CUA now it intends to reposition itself GENEVIEVE CUA YOU'VE probably heard of UK-based Schroder Investment Management. As of
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        790 44 Bloomberg colnmnist Chet Carrier takes stock of mutual funds at half-time Bloomberg [NEW YORK] To the casual eye, the first half of 2000 in mutual funds hasn't amounted to much. Stock funds have been stinky since spring arrived, and bond funds haven't made anybody rich
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        346 44  -  MAILISETM Ghwee Eng Hwee CHUA Boon Lee's article "Feeder funds no longer relevant" (BT, June 30) calls into question the cost-efficiency of feeder funds. The Monetary Authority of Singapore's reason for the feeder fund structure is that foreign funds are not
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        293 44 ASIA and Europe are set to yield the best returns on investment in the short to medium term, says Schroders pic CEO David Salisbury. And, between the two, he is "slightly more positive" about Europe than Asia, as the latter had a strong run last
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        365 44 UMT TRUST/SECTOR (6 MONTHS: 31DECM-30JUNOO) CHANGE BENCHMARK CHANGE Top 10 funds 1 Henderson Global Tech/ Tech Global* 29.94 Wind Index 11.13 2 ACMIF Int Health Care/ Healthcare Global* 21.52 MSC1Q/AC 18.82 3 Schroder Globel Smaler Col Smaller Cos GtobaT 16.24 MSCI World 8.65 4 Five Arrows
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        723 45  -  Be wary of rushing out to buy shares on a call thaf s gone from sell to buy. Chances are, you're too late, a survey shows. By SERENA NG SERENA NG IT might not always be a good idea to run out and buy chunks of
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        1302 45  -  When the next big thing flops, investors inevitably rush into the next best thing. Today's lesson is: Spread your bets and hope for the best By 1 Tom Petruno LATWP [LOS ANGELES] To make money on Wall Street in the first half
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        1133 46  -  Charles Brady, chairman of Amvescap, speaks to vikram khamma about new trends driving the fund management business and why the US markets will remain resilient VIKRAM KHANNA Mr Brady would know. He is chairman of Amvescap, one of the world's largest independent fluid management companies. It manages a
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        941 46 IN the world of asset management, we are accustomed to thinking of the big players as having been around forever or at least long before our time: JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, the house of Nomura, Schroders, these are names from history. But Charles Brady has
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        693 47  -  I -1 i comment YOUR MONEY The Issue of covered warrants is not unlike an IPO, yet Information that is released with the offer is sorely Inadequate r.sivanithy WHEN evaluating a company with a view to either buying or selling its shares, it's interesting to see
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        1179 47  -  M >? »13 markets Disposals in Fastech, D&t&craft; buying seen in Mnlti-Chem, Clips&l By] Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Scorelab Asia (www.asiascores.com), a Primark company THE Singapore Insider Sentiment fell by nearly 13 points to a bearish score of
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        827 47 STOCK Asti Asti's acquisition of a majority stake in Reel Services will make it the largest tape and reel subcontractor in the world. IDEAglobal.com thinks that should boost the stock's ratings. Asti, a subsidiary of semiconductor manufacturer Flextech, is one of the leading semiconductor
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      285 49 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) slipped three points to 1,607, the Baltic Panamax Index was unchanged at 1,594, the Baltic Handy Index shed one point to 1,594 and the Baltic Capesize Index fell eight points to 2,125. At 1220 GMT, Biffex was 10 points firmer on the
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      281 49 JMI »al CWT Distribution 042 002 Chum Hup 0.40 -0.01 3430 Cosco Invastmant 0-21 -0.01 196 Fr»(gm LMs 0.23 -0.01 74 SB Holdings 0.62 unctl 0 Hal Sun Hup 0.30 -0.01 342 IMC Holdkigs-HK 5.60 unctl 0 192 0<2 744 Kappal FCLS 1.04 -0.04 230 Kapppl Marina L45
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      453 49 Growth at its 10 overseas ports np more than 70 per cent [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp yesterday said it sustained strong growth in container traffic through the first half of the year. Container traffic handled at its Singapore terminals grew 12.8 per
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      782 49  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Byi Selva Kumar Tl HE Federal Court in Sydney has ruled that a case involving a collision between a vessel and a barge in Guinea in North Africa is best heard in that country's courts and Australia
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      268 49 China, Netherlands intend to cooperate more closely with each other AFP [THE HAGUE] China and the Netherlands on Tuesday vowed to step up cooperation in the fight against trafficking in human beings after the grisly discovery of the bodies of 58 illegal
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      56 49 [MIDDLETOWN] A tugboat sits alongside oil barge PNN46O in Narragansett Bay just off the shore of Middletown, Rhode Island. The oil barge spilled more than 2,ooogallons of its cargo into an ecologically sensitive area of Narragansett Bay on Wednesday, raising concerns about damage to shore birds,
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      230 49 Reuters [PHNOM PENH] The volume of trade passing through Cambodia's main port of Sihanoukville grew by 72.3 per cent in the first half of 2000 compared with the same period last year, a port official said. An estimated 855,302 tonnes of imports and
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      184 49 [SINGAPORE] has signed an agreement with Sun Microsystems to develop a product that will allow Sun customers to connect directly to the Bolero system. In a statement, bolero.net said i-Planet, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, will deliver a Java plug-in allowing Sun customers to
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      163 49 Bernama (KUALA LUMPUR] Port Klang is close to achieving its aim to rank among the top 10 ports in the world when it surpasses the 100,000 mark of transhipment TEUs (twentyfoot equivalent units) last month. Speaking to reporters after chairing the ministry's post cabinet
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        479 50 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, Japan's second biggest builder of ships and heavy machinery, said it would offer older workers improved severance pay to help the company reduce its workforce and sharpen its competitiveness. "We are going to offer more money
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          77 50 Reuters [LONDON] UK port operator Mersey Docks and Harbour Co said on Wednesday that it had paid 20 million Irish punts (5528.6 million) for Ireland's logistics and port services firm Imari Ltd, strengthening its position as an Irish Sea terminal operator. The acquisition was being
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          112 50 [LONDON] Associated British Ports (ABP) has placed its subsidiary ferry and towage business Red Funnel Group on the market to further concentrate on its core port and terminal businesses. Red Funnel runs ferry services between Southampton and the Isle of Wight, and despite strong competition
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          100 50 [LONDON] Three VLCCs taken on bareboat charter by oil major Shell are reported to be suffering from problems with their engine bedplates. Cracks are reported to be developing in the plating at the base of the engine which are slowly being enlarged by the weight
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          47 50 [LONDON] Norwegian tanker operator Mosvold has continued the reversal of its original strategy to pull out of tanker shipping by placing another one-plus-one-option VLCC order at Samsung Heavy Industries. The ship, valued at U5572.5 million (*****.4 million), is due for delivery in two years.
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          97 50 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] China s leading coastal port Shanghai handled an all-time high of 100.18 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year. Hie figure represented an increase of 11.9 per cent over the same period last year, according to statistics released by
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          89 50 AFP [VILNIUS] The Danish-Israeli consortium B B Bredo has been named the winner of a tender to privatise a 75 per cent stake in the Lithuanian Shipping Company (Lisco), the Baltic News Service reported. The sale price of the stake with a
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      20067 57 THEBUSINESSTIMES thebusinesstimes EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Destn Name Name Number Number W/07 13/08 CSAV NORSULIPANEMA 024S 65-*****55 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) Z003 Cote D Ivoire «/07 u/oe Norsui norsul ipanema 024s 65-*****33 14/07
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        768 63 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure f«H u™»y *00? IS 06/07/1:40 06/07/23:59 Wii Saraya 21/00 J02 06/07/8:15 06/07/22:00 "arto** 22 PrwW6 J17 06/07/T130 06/07/1730 *°V* Fr*8» 129 J02 06/07/10:00 06/07/17:30 Pwwafcrest 16 J07 06/07/10:35 06/07/2330 2 WSOO J03 06/07/10:15 07/07/6:30 E Un* 1 416 J02 06/07/9:50 07/07/9:00 S4»tl
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        1937 63 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCI CARCO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Period From To From *»U OHAM :«3» 9/2 00 II OS/HM 05/ltM Hn OO U 0VT70C 04/0*59 04/WOO 2* OVTTOO 06/0*59 36/0900 06/0700 04/1159 04/1400 4 04/1200 06/1459 04/1700 AUMJATA 2 MM T/MO OVHOO
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        184 63 MM France: Bastille Day. JallS Brunei: HM The Sultan's Birthday. Jul 17 Thailand: Buddhist Lent Day. Jal2o Japan: Marine Day. Ao(9 Singapore: National Day. Aaf 12 Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Aug IB Germany: Assumption Day. Korea: Liberation Day. Anf 17 Indonesia: Independence Day. Aof 27 Philippines: National
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        753 63 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        453 63 Carta* 180 Mu 990.5 0.7 18.9 0.09 78 0.05 Jim 29 Dmltf Water InMw Ask AlumiMun Sediment No above E2S 0 0 2 0 0 0 380 Ave 985.5 03 12.7 0.06 51 0.02 Uxm 380 Max 993.4 0.5 183 0.09 99 0.05 K/Mn %M/M %«/M
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        580 64 UK's second biggest carrier filling nnus A slots of national carrier Air India Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Virgin Atlantic Airways, the UK's second-biggest carrier began flights to India yesterday, stepping up competition with its bigger rival, British Airways pic. Virgin
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        604 64 Reuters [SEATTLE] Airbus Industrie said on Wednesday that it booked 49 firm orders for new passenger jets in June, boosting its total for the first half of 2000 to 239, below rival Boeing Co's unofficial count of 295.
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        176 64 ADUJIIE LOAD FACTOR Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd, Asia's most profitable carrier, said its overall business picked up in May from a year earlier, helped by increased passenger loads. The airline's overall load factor, a gauge of the airline's capacity usage, rose 1.3 percentage points to
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        352 64 Reuters [LONDON] Two days of traffic chaos at London's Heathrow airport and a strike by French controllers caused a 1.4 per cent drop in British Airways' June traffic, Europe's largest airline said. But BA said it was cautiously optimistic for the
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        58 64 AP [ZURICH] Philippe Bruggisser, president of the SAirGroup (right), will replace Jeffrey Katz (far right), who handed in his resignation as chief executive officer of Swissair on Wednesday. According to a Swissair statement, Mr Katz is leaving the company after three and a half years to join
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        1854 64 cnr fiigkt eta fucnt ct> cas tons $0004 1020 MM MK30 WM **8229 2230 Hwl VW0741 1310 VNS0742 0905 IH6381 1850 LM6380 2230 SOVHT75 1830 SOVHT76 1035 SO230 MM $0229 2230 VW0740 VOO kmttrim KL0843 0435 KL0838 22S5 N*tyal T6407 B40 T04M 1640 <u2rs "881 l\%
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      87 50 SANKYU (S) PTE LTD 11 CLEMENTI LOOP, SINGAPORE *****3 TEL: *****40 FAX: *****11 CFS: KEPPEL DISTRIPARK BLK 513 #01-128 SINGAPORE *****9 JAPAN P 0 78 Hong Kong ft All China Po*l» IEVIHY YtfttL reSIL VOY ITP SIM ETA TYO ETA K0» ETAYOK ETANGO ETAOSA HOUSTON ****** 09 JUL 17 JUL
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      672 50 Lines services represented by r RV»a"l Mam^efS of Members of the fclfapjj Accredited Shipping Agents, S,n 9 Q P or e Logics Singapore Shipping Associotion Association NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBUIX PROJECT CARGO T0... DAMPIER/FREMANTLE MV "TBN" ETA SIN 26/07/2000 BOOKINGS CALL MONKA/JUUA TEL 323 4374 CONTAINERS/ convemtkjnai
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      1166 51 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE vssa vor ainiwiuiWMimißi Ivtssa vor Im> w mi BV sou fit uh sw HYEMPOOt 329W 10/07 21/07 29/07 02/00 24/07 API AGAR 0201 20/06 19/0* 22/06 15/06 09/07 HT ADMIRAL 327W 13/07 05/08 02/0B 03/0B 31/07 API (OUT! 0201 10/06 20/06 23/06 24/06 12/07 NOl CORAL
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      1863 51 ©HANJIN SHIPPING iIIFI -s*l *****30 HANJIN SHIPPING (S) PTi LTD h* fctMpt torn IOOUMG *****3S 737 SAi.CS *****74 731 DOCUMHI *****71 774 OPBUIWfi *****50 751 MAiNLME *****55 FAX 53*1145 CI NO 11 *****000ttM TO NW USA CANADA I USA f ftHiWL* VSL/VOT U« SM LM HAU./VOT SU TM DO POX
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      1642 52 SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDITERRANEAN^:ANAPA ««a WW St LEW HW IW WW UK (U vts»a TOY ft GIT Sft TO VIC MTW HANJM XEB.UM2 0075W 0717 30 07 3107 27 07 MO7 77 (7 JAPAN SENATOR OU4W HO7 23 07 25 07 27 07 20 07 OB 00 PUGWASH
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      971 52 m, Ai MAC-lIELs S'PfIRF M'Sl* Carrier: MM CONTR UNES, HK P. QUDAMQ: (<O7) *****26 |-J\y \2J MMiatraOM SBU: (064)*****9 MAMLA: (632) *****24 PENANQ: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (862) *****67 SURABAYA: (31)*****11 P- KELAHQ: (03) *****77 JKT (21) *****46 KUCHXQ (062) *****1-3 BARCELONA MV "VILLI DE CAPELLA" V.MW 331 ETA SIN: 10-7-2000
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      690 52 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N.SHEVA (CFS MUUJND. MUMBAICOLOMBO ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALL NORTHERN ANO WESTERN LCD. POINTS VMMI S PORE N SHEVA COLOMBO PKLANG TULSIOAS V 127 09 JUL 11 JUL 22 JUL 21 JUL CAPE CREUS VIO9W It JUL 25 JUL 2* JUL B4 AUG CAPE CANAVERAL VI2IIN 23
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      1580 53 |VtSSiL VOY HKO KHH SIN PKL PXR 6A DAM UK We lead the way with new and bigger fully cellular 3300-teus container vessels to the Persian Gulf. Maiden vovaae. mv Iran Hormozgan PC LI 63 eta Singapore 21/7/2000, Pt Klang 22/7/2000 AGENT 9i SINGAPORE AGENT IN MALAYSIA AGENT H HOONESIA
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      1099 53 nw sirvici 1 a OT MRKTIO COLOMBO I M S BATS I iWTWIIiBMT J I GENERAL AGENTS IN SINGAFOR!: 80 ROiINSON RD TIL: 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 JOHOtI OFFICEI COSTAKIMK PTI LTD #12-00 SALES/IKGS 420SSS7/43 INWARD OETT <D/ 0) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BMD Q WO:
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      763 53 export I import I ;jj| pwuaosbi j oiiw 100/oo is/oo 27/00 20/001 20/00 30/00 31/00 litjoawit 0201 120/07 122/07 124/07 127/07! u/5 TRANSMOHC SERVICE EXPOTT I IMPOKT msa vot sm i lso om *am* uwots nnui msa Tw lm qm F~m wmtLi miwtr urn JIM 0,7w 'v* 1 m slf
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      515 54 ISC^NOtMAW^nNtAND/RUSSU^EIi^KZ^I |S6f I ROM HBG T» IZH r ANW IHV I WOT 17/07 21/07 31/07 OiyCM 02, 06 I 22/07 I 10/01 12/08 14/011 IS/W I I It/M ttOO TO AND FROM:- FINLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN, RUSSIA MAN/BLACK SEA/EUtOfC SERVICES SGf [GO VKM 06 DU ROM RHV TW ZH ]W "31
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      384 54 jnnwinfc *MiMwwaiS<osrssSnu»coN!»siS Brxkhtt B VESSEL VOYAGE SGf CMI OUR MA ABU DMN BAH KMNXV lUM ARDENT M2O-02IW 10/07 15/07 20/07 20/07 22/07 ■UN fBFKT *****303W 11/07 15/07 21/07 21/07 24/07 24/07 /HUANG HE OIS4W 14/07 25/07 21/07- uMANPU *****21W 17/07 21/07 26/07 27/07 28/07 lUN MIHOT 0134-007W 11/D7 22/07 21/07
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      797 54 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD SBSI lib 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. CR NO: IOQOO67POOOE I IlvttM VQT rnQ Isml «t yrp «i out m An^^jj^W^MS^H gsaasy sr 1 y y >U»GATt»AUi3 277 13/7 14/7 2S/7 30/7 7// I IrvK«r~ VOT HrTsTTS m*x vtssu vor an aw
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      374 54 "UJ 50 TELOK BLANGAH ROAD M 2-02 CtTVORT CENTR£ STORE *****1 TEL: *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** Cfl NO. **********0W vtssa m ra no oeshmton ummu mm ninam tunom mummm OMOUKMM 2MOOO M7/ZM M7/ZOH PC BALAM NABUKM 2MM 12*7,M08 U07.2008 PC BALAM KAON K720Q0 13*7/2000 13****** PONTIANAK
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      379 55 i BSA ik. MM* MYANMA wBBk FIVE STAR UNE (Myaurar National Um) Loading for Yaogoa VESSEL VOY SIN PRL KM PGU MAWUJITM WW SU> SAGAM6 40W DIPT MALAYSIA AGENTS: OOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES *UL m (03)2417)00 P«L TH (03)*****01 Kit m (04) *****0} POh TH (07) *****21/4 ig| BANK LINE (A
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      1283 55 HMM^ HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. I Vtssa VOY SOU I II I RIB I ANT I NAB IMV [WSSB IWW I SOU I 181 RIB I ANT I H6B IMV ISM INANE 542W 06/07 24/07 20/07 20/07 27/07 HYAfiBBAL SMC 05/06 06/00 07/00 00/06 24/06 M(» 534W 07/07 21/07
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      676 55 vOtw WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND UTM AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SIRVKE* ivtssa vor w hbght sw ik mo hua sav iai otr wyc |nw aoi TAMPA AHOI4 4001 ms 6.3* 11/07 00/01 17/01 20/08 22/08 24/08 25/08 27/05 31/01 OS/OO TAUMT AHOIS 4001 m 6.3* 26/07 25/08 02/00 05/00
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      1758 56 MWMWItf TA HHIT/UH CHABAMO JSSSa VOY m IMM MT? LtH VPSfI I VOT I ill JKT 1 PJN Maum m Jtaz ml uzbz_ M —55 &*—m w iml. KL }j® —M !MZ LIZ3Z H/o? on ihum 1435 n/07 it o; mm* U5« UZBZ m. \m i4az_ MW biT -tffi— lap
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      45 59 v s iNA YANGON See Page 5 Daily See Page 14 COSTAR SHIPPING PTE LTD EAGLE CORPN. (PTE) LTD JAPAN PORTS!) Singapore Pte Ltd TURN TO PAGE 7 Providing You With More Than 90 Direct Ports of Call NAIGAI TRANS UNI (S) PTLIID. Page 6
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      77 60 FROM S t C<w G o" P o,u r A, t" 0n i MO Po "J u tT 3 WEEKLY LASH LINER SERVICE TO: Karachi Jamnaqar Bombay, (otnin Madras Visakhapatnam u a i nli u Calcutta to Spare Port rfelang. Belawan. Padang Polembong, eW L ,leo s Mobile Houilon. Jambi
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      44 60 #1 (iuavab MSUMsim METROPORT SHIPPING SDN. RND. SINOKOR MERCHANT 79 !00 °""-t ■*pii. I MARINE CO., LTD. fctw-stsim/zm/tzii Bmmmß USBi^—im evbabt FARWIDE SNIPPING AGENCIES PTE ITD tArV fct 221-M22 (S Ums) hi: 226-ISH CT: CHOYAMG ML: fOtT KLANG USH: ULSAN PUS: PUSAN KWT: HWAHGYAMG
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      45 60 SHIPPING •WAREHOUSING lltn: Singapore Loading Daily Man to Sn (BATAMEMDOI/UT) Accepting KT X onventxmaVPtrnea/HcavA Lift Cajo Reefer Container Hataa: Singapore Loadng Man. Wed APn (BATAMINDO IT) Accepting Heavy Lift Cmfo Tat 227 0322 Fu: 222 9330 I hit SUppfaf A Wwtwln M i|i m-siTim ww
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      991 61 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 JbuM iNd, *04-01 t* 03, Shqppw* 07*911 MAIN UK/OUTWARD: 532 Ml MWARD (WOh 437 23M MPOtT SUTUS (WOh 437 2371 INVENTORT (MO): 437 2420 fhMtm C« NO. **********0N 6266 (Celio/Je»sico/Me< Chon/Jeslynn/Poro/Yvonn«/Honim) 8 SLGS/WEEKLY 3 SIGS/WEtKLY IVKSnl VKSn I vot I sm jg [vessel vot 1
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      796 61 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO WtQ I an I |KT I W I tw I POP 0— I K>W I WAI i im I Of 1 SAV I WfW I TAM WOU **<* PBK /03S* jO3/07_ 09/07 12/07 IS/07 20/07 23/07 o*/00 09/00 00/09 09/09 10/09 13/09
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      654 61 ENG LEE SHIPPING CO PTE m I I W: SSSM7S I* IW) ho SUMM/UMHI I T ttte mmmm I VESSH VOT SMI ETA SIM ETC DCSTIMAJIOM DwOno 17/00 0//07 09/07 I fauU-Jn* Gondol 4/00 07/0/ 10/07 Hurt SmCeMid 7/00 10/07 11/07 Ouma/P Im/Plmmh UngUJoyn 8/00 11/07 11/07 Duma Wa* Union
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      603 62 I "vessel voy TIGER STAR 814N 07-08/07 13-16/07 21 22/07 I TIGER RHYTHM 815N 11-12/07 17-20/07 25-2607 I TIGER BRIDGE 816N 14 15/07 20-23/07 28-2&07 I TIGER METRO 817N 18-19/07 24 27/07 02 0106 I TIGER STAR 818N 21 22/07 27 30/07 04 05AB I TIGER RHYTHM 819N 25-26/07 3103W8
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      1103 62 JV FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: Flesin9singnet.com.sg DIRECT CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO CEBU ON Vessel: PACIFIC EAGLE V 123 ETA SIN 12/07/2000 FOR BOOKING: PROJECT SHIPMENT HEAVYUFT CARGO Lawrence Lim *****78 lawrence@flesin.com.sg WAREHOUSING LOGISTIC SERVICES ENQUIRY CONTACT: CLEMENT CHUA 9688 5404, VINCENT SEE 9678 5760, SUNNY YEOW *****323
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      90 62 REGULAR SERVICE TO INDONESIA ETA ETD DESTINATION CHAHAYA STAR IN FT I(KJ7 PORT KLANG9ASIR GUOANG JAKARTA CHAHAYA VICTORY 1007 1107 JAKARTA TBN 1207 1407 PALE MBANGPONTIANAKME DAN PANGKAI BALAM (EASTTMOR) REGULAR SERVICE EX YANGQN" JUBILANT IN PT 12/07 VI SAX/CALCUTTA REGULAR DIRECT CONTAINER A BREAKBULK SERVICE TO PORT LOUIS DURBAN
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      122 63 *-:jr *1 "V 120E JST+.-'i LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm A Showers Ra>n Temperature vVind direction and speed in knots Cloudy Day Wea,her Hazy Wind speed symbols Sea Conditions O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds I Slight, < 1.2 m J
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