The Business Times, 11 July 2000

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P)035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, JULY 11,2000
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  • 75 1 □sn ymn (+5.48) BMU 80M4 (-0.02) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,09&00 (-1.00) SDfSCI nJTUBES 278.70 (-2.40) STOCK HABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE OOMP ***** +17.12 NIKKEI 225 17,572.68 *174.44 HANG SENG 17,258.67 +408.71 SET INDEX 326.62 +3.76 JAKARTA COUP 598.47 +0J6 MANILA OOMP _1,S67J7 +«J7 TAIPEI WPI 8,164.67 1841
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  • 76 1 F6BEZ BATES US$ SI OSS 1.738 £(US»/SSper£) 1.518 2.638 EUBO(USS/SS/E) 0.952 1.664 DH- 2.054 0546 YEN 106.8 1J28* RM 3.800 0457 HKJ 7.796 0.223 BAHT; J982 0.044 RUPIAH 8.790 0.020 St to ICO units FIDO BATES SINGAPORE* 6.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 19.00 BANGKOK .9.60 MANILA 11 00 HONGKONG
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  • 661 1  -  Chief executive denies ramours that he'll qnit in three to six months By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] John Olds, DBS Bank's vicechairman and chief executive, has denied rumours that he is leaving DBS Bank in three to six months' time. In
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  • 678 1  -  Generally broad-based growth leads many economists to now expect over 8% fall-year growth By Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore's economy likely grew 7.7 per cent in the second quarter, and looks set to exceed the official full-year growth forecast of 5.5 to
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  • 300 1 The latest in a series of stories predicting my imminent departure from DBS and Singapore i appeared Saturday in The Straits Times. The story went so far as to attribute (part of) I; Friday's 3% drop in DBS' stock price to rfiy departure. White
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  • 626 1  -  3 'sold' assets back in books; RCCPS treated as debt By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] DBS Land yesterday announced several accounting changes that would push its interim bottomline into the red and reclassify billions of dollars on the balance sheets of other listed companies should
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    • 71 1 DKBPE Top Stories Car buyers enjoy deep price cuts. Next Page SGX tie-up with HK bourse unlikely to happen soon. Next Page DBS Horizon Investment Funds raises $840 m. Pg 4 Ezyhealth offers 50m shares at 40c each. Pg 4 JTC gives a boost to startups. Pg 9 Asia-Pac airfares
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    • 19 1 Dealers see better H2 for stocks, Pg 7 Ss, baht, peso hit new for the year p g6 lows
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 66 2 SOME things are just predestined. Take Look Boon Gee's surname; it just shouts out that it belongs to a man involved in the visual business. And he is. Mr Look is the principal architect of his own firm, LOOK Architects. Indeed, his designs have been eye-catching and
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      • 77 2 SO you hanker after your 15 minutes of fame? Maybe you'll think twice after hearing about the experience of Richard Hassell, a partner in WH Architects, which was recently in the news for winning the competition to design two stations in the Marina rail system. The day
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      • 108 2 THOSE who have watched the Hongkong property market long enough would have noticed that a group of agents stands out from the rest the men from Treasure Land Property Consultants. Founded in 1991, Treasure Land is one of the largest real estate consultancy firms in Hongkong. More notably,
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      • 173 2 Give it to me straight or can't you? INVESTMENT advisers have come under scrutiny recently. Letters to the press have questioned the roles of the different types of investment advisers while a BT column yesterday highlighted the fact that practically no analyst recommended a sell on Nasdaq when it was
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    • 654 2  -  Huge COE supply; dealers in race for volume before new bidding system By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] A MercedesBenz sedan from the authorised agent for less than $200,000 would have been unheard of just a year ago. But last week, Cycle Carriage knocked five figures
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    • 758 2  -  HIT exclusive Response from HK exchange cautions; market players see difficulties By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] After Australia and soon Taiwan, a crosstrading tie-up between the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Stock Exchange of Hongkong (SEHK) appears to be on the cards. But
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    • 25 2 LTA breaks Nat Steel's car scrapyard monopoly, Pg 9 Buy It. Sell It. Find It. A^<*sk Classified. CATS. I Call Today For Results Tomorrow. 1800-737-1166
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 543 4  -  Ull exclusive Horizon launched barely a year ago; makes np 12% of nnit trust industry's $7b Bi Siow Li Sen A UNIT trust investment drive directed at the mass market by DBS Bank has reaped a whopping $840 million, barely one year after
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    • 343 4 Chng Gim Huat said to be injecting Paya Übi Industrial Park into firm AFX-Asia CSC Holdings Ltd said it has failed to reach a joint venture agreement with Paya Übi Industrial Park Pte Ltd and has requested that the Singapore Exchange lift
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    • 374 4  -  By Andrea Tan INTERNET startup Ezyhealth Asia Pacific, which is heading for a mainboard listing, yesterday offered 50 million new shares at 40 cents each. Five per cent, or 2.5 million, of the shares are earmarked for the public while the bulk, 47.5
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    • 490 4  -  Ling Su Ann UNITED Overseas Bank Asset Management will launch Singapore's second healthcare fund tomorrow, amidst growing interest in the life sciences industry. The United Global Healthcare Fund will focus on four main areas: major pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, medical devices and biotech
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    • 570 4  -  ifrran lock siew paul thompson POR many Singaporean businesses, employees are seen as no more than a costly burden. It's easy to see why. Labour costs are after all a material expense and, for profits to be maximised, expenses need to be
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    • 246 5  -  It will pay $29m; part of plan to develop telehubs By\ Marissa Chew KEPPEL Land has secured a conditional option to purchase Uraco Building for $29 million as part of its plans to invest in and develop telehubs across Asia. KepLand said in
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    • 482 5  -  IPO consists of 9m public tranche shares; 77m placement shares By Andrew Wee INTERNET Technology Group Ltd yesterday launched its initial public offer of 86 million new shares at 65 cents apiece. The company, which is heading for the main board of
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    • 316 5  -  By David Boey SHARES of ma inboard listed Datacrafl Asia extended their losses yesterday despite a company announcement that it had acquired a new business arm in New Zealand in a US$4 million (556.9 million) deal Just two weeks ago, the network systems integrator's counter came
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 43 5 PETER Coulter Hopton has been appointed chief operating officer of Chuan Hup Holdings. Mr Hopton brings with him 25 years of expertise in transportation and logistics, gleaned from working in the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, an Australian conglomerate.
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      • 59 5 FRASER Neave yesterday announced that Daniel Cheong has been appointed corporate general manager for e-business as well as executive vice-president of Fannet Online, F&N's e-commerce arm. Mr Cheong's appointment was effective on July 1. Mr Cheong joins Lee Meng Tat, who was appointed vice-president of operations,
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      • 69 5 UOB Asset Management yesterday launched a US$55 million (Ss9s million) Asian collateralised bond obligation with an underlying portfolio of Asian bonds. The CBO issue, which was sold globally, comprises four different classes of financing AAA Notes, AA Notes, Mezzanine Securities and Preference Shares and have
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      • 76 5 HOTUNG Investment Holdings has received in-principle approval from the Singapore Exchange to issue 226.99 million new shares at U550.3295 each. These shares will be go to the 96 vendors from whom Hotung is acquiring shares in Futung Venture Capital Corp, Wantung Venture Capital
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      • 24 5 SEMBCORP Industries has sold its 40 per cent stake in Risis Pte Ltd to Silvaroyal Pte Ltd for $2,452 million.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 482 6 Slocks Vduw I PCX) 20c 116,000,000 MediaRing 10c 69,328,000 AddvafTech 2.Sc 54,947,000 Goodpacklc 36,814,000 Adroit 10c 31,742,000 AcNevaSc 21.522.000 PKTech5c 21,478,000 IPCC<xpn5c 17,374,000 CEI5c 16,001,000 UracoHWgslOc 14,654,000 Stocks f DBSGrp 84,531,791 IPC020C 68.228.170 MediaRing 10c 47.776.380 OCBC 44,031,500 SiA 43,415,398 OUB 33,131.828 Chart Semiconductor 26c 32,456,586 SPH 31.363.339 AddvafTech 2.5c
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    • 564 6  -  I-I I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy MOST stocks fared well in a lively session in the local market yesterday, in particular the smaller technology issues listed in the past few months. The Straits Times Index would have gone higher, if
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    • 193 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy A COVERED warrant listed here that hasn't been featured in this column before is Robert Fleming's call on Hongkong Land. For the sake of completeness, we are taking a look at it in today's column, although admittedly,
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    • 228 6  -  HOT STOCK Bu' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Ipco International rose yesterday on a surge in volume, with the stock finishing as the session's top active stock. Ipco shares closed up 6 cents or 5.2 per cent at $1.21 on a volume of 116 million
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    • 144 6 ♦SC Global Developments Ltd will undertake a sub-division of the ordinary shares of $1 each in the company's capital into two new ordinary shares of $0.50 each. The Transfer Books and Register of members of the company will be closed at 5 pm on Aug 3,2000. Trading of
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    • 364 6  -  I-I I comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Sing, baht and peso were yesterday forced to new lows for the year even as the Japanese yen and other major currencies rebounded against the US dollar in Asia. The US dollar
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    • 212 6 11 July 2000 EZYHEALTH ASIA PACIFIC LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 14 August 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 50,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.05 EACH BY WAY OF:(1) 2,500,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.40 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (2) 47,500,000 PLACEMENT SHARES
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  • SINGAPORE economy
    • 349 7  -  Crucial factors are US interest rates, Wall St volatility and local interim earnings reports By R Sivanithy AFTER a relatively poor first half, dealers expect the local market to register a slightly better third quarter before probably trending upward
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    • 524 7  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala THERE was none of the exuberant take-up as seen for The Teneriffe on Thursday at most other developments launched over the weekend. Despite the rosier economic outlook for the rest of the year, home buying sentiment remains cautious overall
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 408 8  -  Politicians elsewhere make up for their smaller pay packets with benefits in kind By Marissa Chew THE government yesterday rebutted criticisms made in recent letters to the press on the latest pay hikes for civil servants and ministers. In a letter sent to The
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    • 1383 8  -  MAILCBBI Ong Keng Yong Press Secretary to Prime Minister Prime Minister's Office I REFER to the letters relating to the issue of salary revisions for the civil service and political appointment holders. In "Good pay, yes, but not market pay", Dennis Chua Soon
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    • 112 8  -  A S Khaled Auckland, New Zealand via Internet I REFER to your article "SIAS wants more info from firms" (BT, July 7). I wish to propose that SIAS list the 10 best and 10 worst companies in the following categories: (a) Issue of timely
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    • 278 9  -  I 3 on the economy reserves By Anna Teo SINGAPORE'S foreign reserves rose about 1.8 per cent in June from May, to $134.4 billion, latest preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. That's equivalent to more than seven months
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    • 472 9  -  It is easing investment criteria and subletting restrictions for its industrial parks By Eugene Low TO encourage more incubators and startups to set up shop in its industrial parks, the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) is relaxing its subletting restrictions and investment criteria.
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    • 459 9  -  Much of the increase may be attributed to higher fuel costs By Bryan Lee HIGHER fuel costs have sent airfares in the Asia Pacific region surging in the AprilJune quarter, after staying flat for the previous two quarters, according to the latest
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    • 477 9  -  Bank survey finds only 4% willing to forgo branch banking Reports by Serena Ng ONLY 4 per cent of Singaporeans are committed enough to online banking to forgo their bank branches, compared to 19 per cent in the US, because many remain attached
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    • 551 9 Scheme aims to educate public on money management and asset allocation WANT some personalised financial advice but don't have the millions to hire a private banker and don't want to pay hefty fees to engage a financial planner? Standard Chartered Bank is willing to
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    • 186 9 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday named six vehicle scrapyard operators, breaking the monopoly of Nat Steel. From this Saturday, the following companies will start accepting vehicles for scrapping: Kim Hock Recycling, YLS Steel, Hup Lee Leong Hardware, Lim Asia Steel, King's Metal, and
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    • 719 9  -  Will euphoria last long enough to absorb the thousands of extra copies being rushed in? By Jaime Ee WITH copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire disappearing faster than the young wizard can say "Expellimus!", Singapore bookstores are
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  • FOCUS property
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  • eNews
    • 459 11 SAN JOSE, California Clients can get np to USSIOOm insurance coverage against hacker losses AP LLOYD'S of London will offer up to US$lOO million (Ssl73 million) in insurance coverage to clients of computer security management firm Counterpane Security Inc against hacker
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    • 306 11 HONGKONG Bloomberg ÜBS Warburg discovered some disturbing news after making its entire 12,000-strong workforce take a three-hour test about the Internet: many of them failed. Everyone at the investment banking arm of ÜBS AG from interns to Markus Granziol, the bank's chairman took the
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    • 232 11 MELBOURNE HKT, meanwhile, strikes tie-np with Chunghwa Telecom Bloomberg Reuters PACIFIC Century CyberWorks Ltd, Asia's No 2 Internet company, said it will spend AS32 million (Ss33 million) to take a 5 per cent stake in Australian Internet security provider Secure Net Ltd. Hongkong-based CyberWorks
      Bloomberg; Reuters  -  232 words
    • 279 11 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's information technology services market will grow by 45 per cent per year over the next four years to explode to US$25 billion (5543.4 billion) by 2004, a US-based business technology adviser said. In a survey released here,
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    • 219 11 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's high-speed Internet users surged 40 per cent in the first three weeks of June as more people signed up for links provided by Korea Telecom Corp, Hanaro Telecom and rival companies. The Ministry of Information and
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 735 12  -  SiTTl bottom line OPINION paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT NYT IT has always been hard to have a rational discussion about the stock market: Hope and fear, greed and envy get in the way. And it's
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    • 116 12 'We do our bad taste in good taste.' -BobWeinstem of Miramax Films, on the trend towards vulgar, borderline-tasteless comedy in movies. 'Well, being a prime minister can be a tough job, but I always think being a parent is probably tougher.' -Tony Blair British prime minister, on
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    • 554 12 EDITORIAL POR firms and investors battered by the recent meltdown of technology stocks, it's eerily like the aftermath of an earthquake. Even as the smoke settles over the rubble, people in the affected areas are wondering if there's worse to come. But step back from
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    • 1109 12  -  Large organisations creating e-business Web sites act as a stimulus for global growth By Gobee Ramanujalu Gobee Ramanujalu is deputy head of Singapore affairs, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants This is thefirst of a two-part article. The second part, on the conclusions that can
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    • 755 12 Fault lines In France EVERYTHING seems to be going France's way. The French have reason to feel pleased with themselves for their Euro 2000 triumph, having already walked off with the World Cup. And that is not all. The economy is booming. The United Nations has
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 668 13 KUALA LUMPUR Even though he believes it would be risky to do so BUSINESSMAN Soh Chee Wen, who is wanted by the Securities Commission, said he would return to Malaysia "as soon as possible to face whatever I have to face", the
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    • MARKET moves
      • 100 13 THE Malaysian market surged despite the release of the second weekly batch of Clob shares yesterday. Volume more than doubled to over 200 million shares worth RM616.2 million (*****.7 million) against last week's daily average of less than 100 million shares. The market barometer jumped 17.12 points
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      • 108 13 INVESTORS had Renong Bhd shares in their sights, pushing them up by 32 sen to RM2.12, when associate Time Engineering was suspended from trading yesterday, pending details of its tie-up with Khazanah Nasional. The share price of Time Engineering is also expected to rise today on the back
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      • 73 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh COUNTERS in the Lion group improved yesterday following the unveiling of its complex debt restructure plan last week. Lion Corporation rose 14 sen to RM2.53, Amsteel gained 4.5 sen to 58.5 sen, while Lion Land chalked up 13 sen to 94 sen. Posim inched
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    • 728 13  -  National investment company pays RM2.2b, deal yields RM562m in earnings for Time From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur TIME Engineering yesterday announced that it has sold 30 per cent of its telco subsidiary Time dot Com to national investment company Khazanah
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 380 14 HONGKONG Receding rate fears help Hang Seng rise 2.4% to highest level since March 31 Reuters Bloomberg HONGKONG property stocks soared yesterday following strong sales of private housing units over the weekend and receding fears of interest rate hikes. The Hang Seng
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    • 412 14 JAKARTA More than of creditors have approved the outline proposal Bloomberg CREDITORS of PT Bakrie and Brothers, one of Indonesia's biggest non-ethnic-Chi-nese business groups, are set to approve a plan to restructure US$l.O6 billion (Ssl.B billion) of debt before the end of
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    • 385 14 BEIJING A new study says it is mostly done by state companies FT ILLEGAL capital flight from China may be double the amount many economists have estimated. And state companies are the main perpetrators, according to a new study. It estimates
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    • 478 14 JAKARTA Bloomberg Reuters AFX-Asia INDONESIA'S attorney-gen-eral's office yesterday said it would detain central bank governor Sjahril Sabirin for an additional 40 days to complete an investigation into alleged corruption. Mr Sjahril was detained on June 21 in connection with
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    • NOTE Book
      • 69 14 Reuters [HONGKONG] Henderson Cyber Ltd's HK5937.5 million (*****.9 million) initial public offering was just fully subscribed, sources said yesterday. The IPO was priced over the weekend at HKsl .25, the lower end of its HK$l.2O-1.40 indicative range. Bankers close to the company said the institutional
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      • 50 14 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Indonesian Finance Minister Bambang Sudibyo said the government is preparing at least 66 decrees in its efforts to implement fiscal decentralisation. He said the government is planning to implement fiscal decentralisation as of January 2001, instead of May 2001 as planned earlier. AFX-Asia
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      • 110 14 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Former Bank Bali owner Rudy Ramli is willing to sign a settlement with the government provided an independent notary is brought into the negotiation process, The Observer reported. He was quoted as saying that in the absence of an independent notary his
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      • 61 14 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's industrial output grew in June at its fastest pace in more than three years, helped by surging demand at home and abroad. Production rose 12.2 per cent in June from a year earlier, the National Statistics Bureau said. In the
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      • 71 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] The Petroleum Authority of Thailand is in talks with Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional (Petronas) on a 10 billion baht (***** million) gas separation joint venture plant in Myanmar, Prasert Bunsumpan, president of PTT's gas unit, said yesterday. He said the plant would
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      • 66 14 Bloomberg [MANILA] Bank of the Philippine Islands, the country's biggest lender by market value, denied a newspaper report it plans to sell the thrift-banking licence it received when it acquired rival Far East Bank Trust Co. "We are not pursuing the sale of
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    • 142 14 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S central bank has dismissed five employees suspected of involvement in counterfeiting rupiah currency notes. Bank Indonesia yesterday said the five staff from its office in Bandung, West Java, were fired last week after the discovery of fake
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    • 436 15 TAIPEI Bat KMT spokesman says party has not sold shares since inangnration of President Chen Bloomberg AFX-Asia TAIWAN'S Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will take steps to "handle" recent stock selling by the former ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, amid fear the sales could
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    • 248 15 HONGKONG 800 member panel will pick six lawmakers in Sept Reuters HONGKONG'S wealthiest man Li Ka-shing anl his two sons were among those named to an 800-member committee that will pick six lawmakers in September's election and is widely expected to choose
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    • 458 15 Bloomberg [BOMBAY] India's Bombay Stock Exchange, which celebrated its 125 th anniversary on Sunday, has its sights set on getting large US companies such as International Business Machines Corp to trade in the country. Asia's oldest stock exchange plans to tie up with
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    • 966 15 POKKArp Pokka Corporation (Singapore) Limited NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of POKKA CORPORATION (SINGAPORE) LIMITED ("the Company") will be held at 39 Quality Road, Singapore *****0 on 27 July 2000 at 10.00 a.m. for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1. To receive and adopt the
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  • WORLD news
    • WORLD Watch
      • 135 16 Bloomberg [LONDON] Granada Media, producer of television shows such as Prime Suspect and Coronation Street, probably will be priced low enough in its initial share sale to raise its targeted £1.5 billion (553.9 billion), analysts said. Granada Group Pic last month said it
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      • 102 16 FT (LONDON] Shareholders of the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Borse are to be told that their merger will cost them 120 million euro (Ssl9B million) potentially 5 per cent of the value of the deal although they will not enjoy any savings until
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      • 119 16 Reuters [JERUSALEM] Israeli President Ezer Weizman was to resign yesterday, ending a career that spanned more than half a century beginning as a fighter pilot and ending under a cloud of controversy. Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former prime minister, is thought to
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      • 80 16 AFP [LONDON] British electronic share exchange Tradepoint Financial Networks and the SWX Swiss Exchange yesterday raised the stakes in the race to lead pan-European trading with plans to create a blue chip exchange named virt-x. Tradepoint expects the merger to be completed, subject to regulatory
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      • 117 16 AFP [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Telekom plans to buy Walt Disney Co's 25-per-cent stake in the German-language search engine Webseek.de, the Wall Street Journal Europe reported yesterday. Quoting sources close to the German telecommunications giant, the newspaper said that Deutsche Telekom and Disney could reach a deal
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    • 663 16 SAN JOSE, California Deal is largest technology acquisition ever, dwarfing Lucent's purchase of Ascend for USs2sb last year Bloomberg JDS Uniphase Corp. the No 1 maker of fi-bre-optic components, has agreed to buy SDL Inc for US$4l billion (5571.2 billion) in the largest
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    • 777 16 Sampras writes history with his racket a record 13th Slam LAT [WIMBLEDON, England] He was serving quickly and powerfully as it got darker and darker, trying to finish his match before some adults stepped in and told him to come back on Monday. It was just like kids on any
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    • 230 16 BASEL, Switzerland Bank for England governor Eddie George sees 'suggestions of deceleration' Reuters THE US economy is starting to show signs of slowing, Bank of England governor Eddie George said yesterday. Mr George said that in briefings at the Bank for International Settlements yesterday,
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    • 391 16 FRANKFURT Bloomberg DRESDNER Bank AG and Commerzbank AG said they are considering a plan to form a holding company and then create separate units to combine their retail banking, investment banking and fund-management businesses. Such a transaction would enable some of the banks' biggest
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    • 321 16 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori instructed his government to review a nearly billion dollar bailout of a department store chain as criticism about the original plan raged unabated, Kyodo news agency said yesterday. Financial authorities agreed last month
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    • 659 17 TOKYO Sales part of company's revival plan to cut component costs by 20% Bloomberg NISSAN Motor Co, Japan's third-big-gest carmaker said it is in talks to sell as many as 20 of its main industrial affiliates, a day
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    • 241 17 LONDON Reuters BRITISH pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting Group pic is in talks to take full control of its partowned interactive television service Open, said The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The British newspaper said the deal could value Open at more than
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    • 269 17 SEOUL Bloomberg THE Korean government, caught between its commitment to banking reform and union determination to protect jobs, threatened to punish bank workers if they walked off the job today in a strike that could cripple about three-quarters of the nation's 20 banks.
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    • 348 17 SAN FRANCISCO Soaring demand could drive spending to USsBob next year FT THE world semiconductor industry has embarked on an unprecedented US$6O billion (*****.8 billion) spending spree on plant and production equipment as chipmakers race to catch up with soaring demand and switch
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    • 336 18  -  SGX Derivatives Tradingßeports ST Index/MSCI Store Index Chan Yet San THE Singapore stock market ended mixed yesterday as the government's forecast of sec-ond-quarter GDP was higher than expected. The Straits Times Index gained 5.48 points or 0.3 per cent to close at 2,098.11 points.
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    • 284 18  -  MS& Taiwan Index Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market ended mixed yesterday, as investor sentiment remained bearish. The MSCI Taiwan Index gained just 0.24 point or 0.1 per cent to close at 362.78 points. The volume within the index was average, at 602.6 million
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    • 121 18 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices eased yesterday after comments over the weekend by Opec secretary general Rilwanu Lukman suggesting the cartel is warming to a Saudi plan for an increase in crude supplies. London Brent crude trad- Ed down 16 cents
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    • 322 18 Reuters London THE yen held most of its gains against the US dollar and the euro yesterday after comments by Bank of Japan governor Masaru Hayami suggested Japan's 17-month old policy of near-zero interest rates may soon end. Mr Hayami said conditions were right for the central bank
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2816 19 HOMGKONG AFP FlHtngSeag +408J1 SHARE prices in Hongkong closed 2.4 per cent higher yesterday after strong gains in property stocks, which were boosted by positive sales of units at several residential projects over the weekend, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index
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    • 2010 19 TOKYO AFP QNikfai22s +174.44 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed one per cent higher yesterday after a rally on the US Nasdaq Composite Index triggered buying in technology issues, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei-225 Index rose 174.44 points to close at 17,572.68.
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      962 19 Xinhua Reuters Q<3w>»wKapß Index -OJS CHINA'S hard currency B stocks closed mixed in light trade yesterday as investors showed interest in B share firms planning to offer domestic A shares. The Shanghai B Share Index inched up 0.5 per cent, or 0.25 of a point, to 55.11 on sharply
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    • 363 19 AFP □WP Index -18.41 TAIWAN share prices finished 0.2 per cent lower yesterday as investors were sidelined amid cautious economic sentiment, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 18.41 points to 8,154.67. The market opened flat and continued to lose momentum through the first two hours
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 418 20 AFP Q Composite Index +17 J2 MALAYSIAN shares closed sharply higher yesterday on institutional buying of blue chips, supported by firmer regional markets amid Wall Street's rise last Friday, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 17.12 points at 837.59.
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    • 2694 21 BONDS WARRANTS mw «t Wnrts [i0n lm! Val Orj Ulliiti Inai Cam Urn Mk Mk> N#Uo J Jait rooo, M# Lot h<" MM <*> s 1 57.5 16.5 Acma W*****4 »5 J0.5 66 20 19 19.5 20 20 41.0 1 300 MM W0 J2 3 zli s J« -0 5
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    • 304 21 AFP F1 Composite Index +9.73 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 9.73 points at 851.47. Volume stood at 527 million shares worth 4.1 trillion won.—AFP MM *h AnamSami 13*90 -200 Brain Tach 1035 T5 Cantral Bank 1215 65 ClwHComm *****0 4500 Daa Gu Bank 2460 60 DaaianqCorp
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    • 261 21 AFP n Composite Index +6J7 PHILIPPINE shares ended 0.4 per cent higher yesterday on a technical rebound, analysts said. The Composite Index rose 6.97 points to 1,557.57. Volume fell slightly to 1.3 billion shares worth 766.2 million pesos from 1.4 billion shares worth 882 million pesos on Friday.—AFP Jul
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    • 279 21 AFP QHBE-40 +45J0 NEW Zealand stocks closed up 2 per cent yesterday as Telecom and Fletcher Challenge Energy bounced back to levels not seen since early April, dealers said. The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 45.10 points at 2,113.01 on turnover of NZ5130.71 million. —AFP M» COOO) Advantaqa
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    • 561 21 AFP F1 AH Primaries *BJ AUSTRALIAN shares surged 0.6 per cent to a record high yesterday with the Australian Stock Exchange's key indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, up 18.9 points at 3,279.9 while the SP/ASX2OO climbed 18.5 points to 3,323.8. The All Industrials closed up 43.0 points to 5,756.1
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      768 21 AFP +3.75 THAI share prices rose 1.2 per cent yesterday as the banking sector rallied amid expectations earnings would improve, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index closed up 3.75 points to 326.62. Volume totalled 2 million lots worth 2.5 billion baht. However, investors remained cautious over
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      690 21 AFP Composite Index +&36 INDONESIAN share prices closed only slightly higher yesterday as investors remained sidelined due to concern over political developments and the weak rupiah, dealers said. Cigarette maker HM Sampoerna became the market focus after the company released stronger second quarter cigarette sales data, an analyst said.
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 268 25 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed two points to 1,601, the Baltic Panamax Index slipped four points to 1,587, the Baltic Handy Index gained one point to 1,106 and the Baltic Capesize Index fell five points to 2,119. TDIE-CBARTERi ♦Obelix—(built 1962) 194,000 dwt delivery Qingdao August 1/10
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    • 392 25  -  marine2l in talks with various shippers'bodies, including SNSC Rerxrrts bu Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] A locallyfounded online shipping portal, to be launched in October, is giving its customers stock options to encourage ownership of the site and to finetune its products and services.
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    • 54 25 [ROSTOCK] A tugboat pulls the cruise ship Millennium, built in France and running under Liberianflag, into the harbour of Rostock, northern Germany, after it had to abandon its maiden voyage from Oslo, Norway, to Helsinki, Finland, due to technical problems. The cruiser has I,B76passengers and 1,143
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    • PORT Shots
      • 112 25 [LONDON] The container terminal of Hakata in Fukuoka port is aiming to expand its capacity in order to double throughput to 1 million TEUs (20-ft equivalent units) within five years. Three new berths will be added at the Japanese port, which also plans
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      • 54 25 [LONDON] Search operations for the missing reefer vessel Linkuva, which reported that it had lost main engine power in hurricane Carlotta off the Mexican coast, have now been suspended. Lifeboats, apparently torn from their davits, have been found, but nothing further of the ship
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    • 307 25 [SINGAPORE] New Yorkbased online shipping exchange GoCargo.com is looking to establish a presence in Singapore to better serve customers here and in Asia, its founder and chief executive officer Eyal Goldwerger said yesterday. The Web-based marketplace, which started business last July, allows shippers
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    • 173 25 [LONDON] The Marshall.ls lands shipping register is to continue to offer cost-free reg istration to all vessels until the end of the year. Ships flagged on the islands by that time will be exempt from paying annual tonnage tax until January next year, based
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    • 285 25 Reuters [HONGKONG] Despite having the world's largest and most advanced air cargo facilities and one of the busiest container ports, Hongkong lags behind Singapore in providing sophisticated third party logistics (3PL) services, a study says. The study, "Economic Impacts of Logistics Centre Development
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 424 26  -  Some calls added to, others dropped from three of five loops From P T Bangsberg m Manila THE Grand Alliance of five shipping lines is revamping its Asia-Europe service beginning this month, adding some calls and dropping others. Five loops are operated by the group,
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      • PORT Shots
        • 81 26 SEVERAL liner conferences have announced Increases in their Bunker Adjustment Factors in the wake of rising fuel costs. The Europe Mediterranean Trade Agreement, Jeddah Services Group, Europe Middle East Rate Agreement, Asian Rate Agreement and the India Pakistan Bangladesh Ceylon Conference have all announced rises between US$25
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        • 119 26 EUROPE could once again have a shipbreaking facility if plans to redevelop the BM Titan shipyard in Antwerp, Belgium, go ahead. A consortium of Dutch firms is looking to turn the site into a high-tech ship recycling centre with the aid of EU funding. The
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        • 89 26 THE 106,116-dwt oil/bulk/ore carrier Cerda, which had been reported told for scrap earlier in the year, has been detained at the UK port of Milfbrd Haven with 26 hardware deficiencies and three ISM-related daflciendea. As well as "poor maintenance of the ship and its equipment", the
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        • 70 26 NORTH Korea topped the list erf registers of ships detained by porta in the Tokyo MOU on Port State Control in 1909. The flag saw 32 detentions, 39 per cent of its ships visiting MOU ports, followed by Cambodia with 36 per cent and Belize
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        • 94 26 THE Finnish government has decided to replace its existing shipping register fees system with a tonnage tax in a bid to stop the flagging out of ships currently registered in the Baltic state. However, details are still to be finalised and passenger ships including ferries will
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        • 42 26 US-BASED Renaissance Cruises has parted with its chairman, CEO and founder Ed Rudner, apparently due to his preference for direct bookings rather than travel agencies. The company's board has replaced him with co-chairmen Frank Del Rio and Richard Kirby.
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      • 172 37 MM France: Bastille Day. MIB Brunei: HM The Sultan's Birthday. Ah IT Thailand: Buddhist Lent Day. MM Japan: Marine Day. Singapore: National Day. A^U Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Aag 13 Germany: Assumption Day. Korea: Liberation Day. Indonesia: Independence Day. M|ir illipptnes: National Heroes Day. Untied Kingdom: Summer
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      • 763 37 THIS report. compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, (hows price range* In US dollar* instead of (Ingle price* for a more comprehensive description of the market Price* shown are baaed on average•tzed stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 412 38 But parent SAir Group will have balanced result: rhairm*H AFP [ZURICH] Swissair will be operating at a loss after the first six months of the year, SAir Group chairman Philippe Bruggisser announced in an interview with the Sunday paper Blick am Sonntag. "It
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      • 198 38 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's Mega-Float Consortium, which operates the world's largest man-made floating island, said it will study whether a floating facility could be built in Tokyo Bay to give the city its third major airport. The Mega-Float Consortium, which includes Japan's major shipbuilders,
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      • 197 38 Bloomberg [LONDON] BAA pic, the world's largest airport operator, said its UK passenger traffic last month rose 4.7 per cent from June 1999, helped by increases in low-fare flights within Europe and North Atlantic long-haul flights. The number of passengers moving through the company's
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      • 51 38 [T AO YUAN] Staff members of Taiwan's EVA Airways familiarise themselves with the second terminal of Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, which is scheduled to be inaugurated on July 28. The new terminal is designed to have a capacity of 14 million passengers a year.
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      • 389 38 AFP [CAIRO] A Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) Airbus 320 flew into Cairo airport in the early hours of Saturday morning, ending the airline's eightyear absence from Egypt caused by the international air embargo against Libya. The arrival of the plane,
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      • 331 38 AUSTRALIA'S PgOOOMT CABBTHBB Carrier will be profitable by then: Branson Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Virgin Blue, a new Australian cut-price airline, will sell shares when it becomes profitable in about three years, said its owner Richard Branson. Earlier yesterday, Impulse Airlines, another new discount
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      • 324 38 Lew-fere airline aim* to expand fleet, add new rentes Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Impulse Airlines said it will accept an investment of As2o million (5520.38 million) in convertible notes from an Australian institutional investor, as the closely held discount carrier prepares to fly new routes. No
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