The Business Times, 4 September 2000

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  • 665 1  -  exclusive Rockefeller fond gets USsloom backing from Science and Technology Board By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The fledgling venture capital industry in Singapore is set to receive a major stimulus. The wealthy Rockefeller family of New York, through one of its investment arms,
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  • 904 1  -  FYorrii Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S agonisingly slow economic recovery from the collapse of the bubble economy 10 years ago appears ready to enter a decisive phase with the launch of a major round of corporate debt forgiveness by Japanese
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  • 665 1  -  FTTexciusTve Soaring oil prices are squeezing margins, bat passing on costs is not always an option By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Petrochemical companies here are bracing themselves for an even tougher operating environment as high crude oil prices continue to bump up raw
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    • 109 1 BT Commwt The end of Chapter One Dotcom. NmMt Pmge M'sian banks: bliss or Irreconcilable 1 differences? Pg 11 Top StoriM Hong Leong prepared to give up control of City e-Soiutk>ns. Pg 3 ST Telemedia, Stanley Ho to bid for mobile licence. Pg 7 ;r. Beauty and the fish: CHan
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    • 1011 2  -  ECONOMICS The dotcoms will go Increasingly mainstream and the mainstream, more dotcom vikram khanna THE romantic era of the dotcoms could be passing, and in some ways, it's sad to see. It was a time of twenty-something CEOs, of product launches in discotheques and
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    • 1076 2 PEOPLE SHE is certain about what she wants and is not interested in being a peoplepleaser. She wants to educate her children her own way and will even move them abroad to do so. She brings home the bacon and her husband takes care
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    • 509 3  -  •ii exclusive Hong Leong willing to give np majority control to get the best candidate By Conrad Raj THE Hong Leong group does not mind giving up majority control of City e-Solutions to a strategic partner that can take it to a higher plane
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    • 462 3  -  By. Marissa Chew THE two men behind the Excalibur Group are riding to the rescue of Oakwell Engineering, injecting their two logistics and warehouse companies into the debt-laden company in exchange for new shares as part of a comprehensive restructuring plan. The
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    • 411 3  -  OBITUARY Pioneer businessman passes away at home with family by his side By\ Marissa Chew TANGS Department Store founder and business legend Tang Choon Keng, better known as CK Tang, died yesterday, aged 100. A short statement from his namesake company said:
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 811 4  -  Inter-Roller and Del Monte steal a march on big cap stocks Paul Thompson IN his opening address to the Asian Academic Accounting Association's Inaugural World Conference last Monday, Lim Hng Kiang, minister for health and second minister for finance, said that he was pleased
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    • 420 4 ended June 30, 2000 INTERIM COMPANY —EARNINGS (S$M) CHANGE —TURNOVER (S$M) CHANGE —EPS (CENTS) CHANGE DiVIDENO (CENTS) CHANGE 2000 1999 2000 1999 2000 1999 2000 1999 1 Excel Machine 334.000 904.000 -63.1 46.158 39.073 18.1 0.12 0.52 -76.9 0.00 0.00 0 2 City Pev 157.098 130.610 20.3 1197.259
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    • 517 7  -  Eight applications received; Macau plans to issue at most 3 licences From\ Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SINGAPORE'S telecoms groups continue to press for inroads into the Greater China region as a Singapore Technologies unit teamed last week with an influential
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    • 423 7 SINGAPORE banks should see modest growth in earnings in the second half, says a report from Goldman Sachs, citing an improvement in loan growth, steady margins, better fee income and a slowdown in operating costs. The report, dated Aug 28, says that local
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    • 285 7  -  It will manage a new 573-nnit deluxe service apartment venture From Harish Mehta in Bangkok MERITUS Hotels Resorts, the hotel management and marketing arm of Singapore listed Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd, has been appointed to manage a new 573-unit deluxe service apartment project in Bangkok
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    • 644 8  -  ■II exclusive Qian Hu aims to be first S'pore-listed ornamental fish farm By* Johnny Yeo FANCY paying a cool $50,000 for this ornamental beauty? Some won't bat an eyelid, and would gladly shell out the amount for the 60-cm-long Red Arowana, a member of the Dragon
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    • 164 8 Reuters PLASTICS parts manufacturer Li Xin Industries Ltd said yesterday that Flextronics International Ltd will pay cash for any rounded down share in the stock-to-stock merger agreed between the two firms. Li Xin said it has been informed by Flextronics that the latter
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    • 228 4 —r-?— i' v The 25th FAEA Annual Conference Monetary and Financial Management in Asia in the 21st Century Date: 7-8 September 2000, Orchard Hotel Singapore mk* "V H. Professor Robert Mundeil, 1999 Nobel Prize Winner For Economics The Economic Society of Singapore is pleased to announce that Professor Robert Mundeil,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 611 6  -  I:] comment STOCKS r.sivanithy IN THE last two columns, I spoke of the market labouring under the lack of decent new Investment themes or to be more accurate, excuses to ride the momentum while at the same time facing stern resistance from the
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    • 200 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy THERE are still many voices out there that believe short-selling is a market evil that shouldn't be condoned. In truth, the activity goes on all the time and is actually a healthy part of daily market
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    • 256 6  -  HOT STOCK -By Ven Sreenivasan CITY Developments' stock could be heading for a short-term consolidation after riding high for the last five weeks. This is despite the fact that the stock gained 20 cents to $8.75 last Friday. The technical charts show that the stock may
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    • 120 6 ♦THE payment date of ABN Amro r s interim dividend of EUR 0.40 per share of NLG 1.2S each, with scrip option, is Sept 8. ♦NERA Telecommunications has signed a contract for the supply of SDH Microwave Radio Network to a cellular operator in the Philippines. The total
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    • 511 6 THE Indonesian rupiah could firm this week as the country's new Cabinet gets the thumbs up from the IMF. The market's growing confidence in President Abdurrahman Wahid's new team could see the rupiah edging higher against the dollar. This is likely to
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      405 6 Source: Stocks Volume Brierley NZ10c 47,910.000 STEngg 10c 38,609,000 SingTel 15c 37,473,000 ITachOrp4c 37,161,000 Boardroom 5c 30,345,000 Med(-Rad5c 24,545.000 CytechHK5c 18,930,000 PNE Ind 10c 18,335,000 Uraco HldgslOc 17,404,000 MiyoaM 17,173,000 Stocks I DBSGrp *****9,381 SIA 148.283.766 OUB. 109,013,110 SingTel 15c 104,755.473 Datacraft 10c 95.099,699 Chart Semiconductor 26c... 91.804,626 STEngg 10c
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    • 103 8 Half-time score As at Friday, 133 SGX-ltsted companies had released their finahcial results for the half year ended June 30, 2000. Together they recorded $5,170.3 m in group earnings, a gain of 7.8% over 1999. The total included 15 foreign companies listed here. If they were excluded, total earnings would
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 832 9  -  After a slow start in the 80s, Hi-P is now all set for a listing next year Tay Hong Seng Ihj Tay Hong Seng HI-P Singapore managing director CT Yao likes to invite his visitors to view his plastic and metal moulding workshops housed in
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    • 301 9  -  -4 4 J on the economy By Marissa Chew FOOD and beverage revenue slipped 3.9 per cent in May, hit by shrinking sales at hotel-located and independent eating places. Statistics from the Singapore Tourism Board show that total food and beverage revenues came to
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  • MAIL bag
    • 634 10  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Remisiers want fixed fees for lower-value retail trades" (BT, Aug 26). Change is inevitable, and the negotiability of broking commissions has been on the anvil and looks like being hammered out and implemented from Oct
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    • 296 10  -  Ho Kai Weng Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter "Why broking fees lower in HK" (Mailbag, Aug 31) from Tan Keng Soon. I have not overlooked the settlement issues on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK). While Mr Tan
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    • 360 10  -  Dennis Ng Singapore, via Internet DO you have a savings account? "Of course," most people will say. They may even think you're asking a silly question: "Everyone has a savings account!" But do they? From what I know, most "savings" accounts work
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 463 11 KUALA LUMPUR Brokers fear there may not be enough business to go aronnd for them to survive Reuters MALAYSIA'S deregulation of stockbrokers' fees will squeeze their margins and possibly accomplish what the government has so far failed to do force mergers.
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    • 204 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S second biggest mobile phone operator, Maxis Communications Bhd, is finalising a US$7OO million (Ssl.2 billion) deal with Finland's Nokia to upgrade Maxis* services, a newspaper reported yesterday. "(Maxis) has agreed in principle to award a multi-billion-ringgit deal to Nokia
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    • 717 11  -  KL STOCKS It depends on how smoothly the nuptials have taken place eddie toh Malaysian bankers managed to beat the first merger deadline last week but investors greeted the news by selling down banking stocks. Hardest hit was AMMB Holdings, the parent of Arab-Malaysian
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    • 122 11 KUALA LUMPUR AFP LAWMAKER Jamaludin Mohamad Jarjis has been appointed as the new executive chairman of Malaysia's top power company, Tenaga Nasional Bhd. The Sunday Star newspaper said the lawmaker from the ruling United Malays National Organisation party took office from Sept 1, which
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    • 128 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) will today implement a stock short name (SSN) programme to provide quick reference for investors, the exchange said on Saturday. "The SSN is derived from an abbreviation of the registered name of a public-listed company.
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 568 12 JAKARTA Indon economics czar says details will be announced this week Reuters INDONESIA'S new chief economics minister Rizal Ramli said yesterday the revised deal with the IMF would involve deeper reforms of the embattled country's economy, not a rollback on pledges as some analysts
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    • 342 12 KUALA LUMPUR It ha* returned ti pre-crisis level* in several sectors MALAYSIA is set for a "dramatic take-off" among Southeast Asian countries after achieving full economic recovery, international economist Paul Krugman said. A New Sunday Times report quoted him saying Malaysia joined South Korea
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    • 221 12 MANILA AFP PHILIPPINE President Joseph Estrada will order a fresh investigation into the alleged back taxes and liabilities of his key ally, wealthy ethnic Chinese tycoon Lucio Tan, a senior palace source said Saturday. This investigation will be on
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    • 215 12 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama AMI Insurans Bhd, a whollyowned subsidiary of the New Straits Times Press (Malay- sia) Bhd, has entered into a settlement agreement with Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd and the latter's wholly-owned Kajang Utama Sdn Bhd (KUSB). A statement by the NSTP group
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    • 524 13 TAIPEI He says it will be hard to compete as a state firm Reuters THE new chairman of Taiwan's soon-to-be-privatised Chunghwa Telecom conceded that now may not be the best time to launch the island's biggest initial public offering, but said the
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    • 259 13 TAIPEI Average income of top 10% now 42 times that of lowest 10%, ap from 24 times in 1998 AFP THE income gap between Taiwan's rich and poor has widened drastically over the past two years, partly due to the robust growth of high-tech
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    • 469 13 WASHINGTON Reuters CHINA should take advantage of its steadily improving economy and move toward a more flexible exchange rate policy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday. The yuan, China's currency, is unofficially pegged at around 8.28 to the dollar with the
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    • 349 14 HONGKONG Move by McDonald's supplier in Southern China follows HE newspaper expose AFP A TOY maker in southern China which supplies promotional gifts to fast food chain McDonald's has begun to lay off underaged workers following an expose by a Hongkong newspaper, a local labour
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    • 43 14 AP [HONGKONG] Supporters of the Hong Kong Democratic party hold posters of party's leader Martin Lee and his election co-runners at a Hongkong downtown street during an election campaign yesterday, one week before Legislative elections on Sept 10.— AP
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    • 513 14 WASHINGTON Election-year politics will spice up already explosive topic of Sino-US ties AFP TOMORROW, US Senators will finally embark on a marathon debate on a historic trade pact with China, in which election-year politics will add extra spice to the always explosive
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    • 193 14 NEW DELHI Bloomberg DELHI, Gujarat and Maharashtra, both in the west, are among the most investorfriendly Indian states, according to a study commissioned by the Confederation of Indian Industry. The study by the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies for CII is based on physical,
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    • 74 15 Top stories Server market in Asia-Pac sees 27% growth in HI Pago 2 British startup bullish on Asia's cement outlook Pag© 7 Get set for battle in Chapter Two of the Net Page 8 Call for your e-mail Pagel2 Commentaries We need a new look at failure. Out of the
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  • BIZIT
    • 996 16  -  l-il exclusive The goal of the Ignite Asia Challenge competition is to help non-public Internet companies raise a first or second round of funding Reports by Andrew Wee DOTCOMS and startups in Singapore seeking venture capital funding can take part in a Internet
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    • 670 16  -  By* Toh Han Shih THE market for computer servers touched US$2.9 billion (Sss billion) during the first half of this year in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan, growing 27 per cent over first half of last year, according to preliminary
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    • 333 16 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Overseas use is transforming the Internet from a US-dominated medium to a true international communications backbone, a US group tracking the online world said last week. The United States Internet Council, an industry-fUnded public policy group, estimated that 304 million people worldwide used
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    • 486 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] The New York Board of Trade has no plans to abandon open-outcry trading, but it is close to forming Internet partnerships with business-to-business (B2B) platforms and is improving its trading technology, the head of the Nybot said last week. "You have
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    • 635 17  -  li comment INFOTECH Out of the rabble of dead dotcoms, some enormously successful tech firms can emerge like a phoenix rising from the virtual ashes toh han shih The writer is a BT journalist. IT'S finally happening. For some time now, some analysts
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    • 744 18  -  SAYIAJ Hare are some of the legal issues an e-merchant has to be aware of to do business on the Internet andrew cl ong The writer is head, Info-communications and Technology Business Group, Drew Napier SINGAPORE practices a territorial basis of taxation. For income to
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    • 299 18  -  Singapore's first concise guide to e-commerce law covers all the issues that e-biz will want to know By. Raju Chellam THIS is probably Singapore's first concise introduction to the legal aspects of e-commerce, and comes from legal firm Drew Napier, one of Singapore's oldest
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    • 164 18 AFP [WASHINGTON] Electronic commerce retail sales in the United States rose 5.3 per cent to U555.52 billion (559.5 billion) in the second quarter of the year, according to Commerce Department statistics. But the report released last week showed Internet sales still represent less than
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    • 786 18  -  By Anthony Effinger Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hours after Sun Microsystems reported record results for the June quarter, chief executive Scott McNealy got a call from one of his salesmen, who was pumped up about the stellar numbers. Mr McNealy's response: "Humble, buddy, humble." Humble? Scott
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    • ITTAKES
      • 68 19 MAINBOARD-LISTED iSoflel Ltd has won a $1.5 million order to license its Millenia PPMS solution to Nasdaq-listed, Taiwan-based Wherever.net, a VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service provider. PPMS is iSoftel's main voice switching and call management solution, and will be deployed in Wherever.net's global expansion into
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      • 50 19 COMPAQ Computer Asia and Onyx Software Asia have tied up to offer e-biz solutions to businesses in Singapore. The two companies will sell and deploy Onyx's customer-centric e-biz applications, with the Compaq Professional Services team providing integration and consulting services. For details, visit www.onyx.com and www.compaq.com
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      • 78 19 HEWLETT-PACKARD Far East has announced a suite of integrated e-services to help SMEs (small and medium enterprises) streamline their business functions. They include secure web-based communications, collaboration and printing e-services. "HP will deliver integrated e-services in the Asia-Pac next year through its online Business Customer Center,"
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      • 61 19 THE Singapore IT Federation (SITF) has tied up with William M Mercer and Asia Life Assurance to provide customised group insurance benefits to SITF members, including SMEs and dotcoms. Called the SITF Employee Benefits Program, the initiative now gives SMEs and dotcoms the same
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      • 39 19 SEATTLE-BASED WRQ Software Ine has appointed Aristide Caraccio (right) as its general manager for the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore. Mr Caraccio was previously responsible for founding WRQ's Southern Europe subsidiary in France in 1995.
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      • 35 19 NETTASKING.COM, that provides network management services, has appointed Neil Cryer as vice-president (operations) for the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore. Mr Cryer was previously chief engineer for the Asia-Pacific with British Telecom.
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      • 41 19 A NATIONAL symposium on "Mems: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems" will be held on Thursday at the National University of Singapore. It is organised by NUS, Microcosm Technologies, and Future Techno Designs Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****43, or e-mail martha@ftdpl.com.sg
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      • 74 19 A FOUR-DAY exposition on Asia's electronics manufacturing industry, called GlobalTronics 2000, will be held at the Singapore Expo Hall from Sept 12. "New features such as contract manufacturing, e-pavilion, and a factory automation pavilion will make this event better than ever," the organisers. Reed Exhibitions Pte
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      • 36 19 A FOUR-DAY "International Design Forum 2000— exhibition and conference" will be held from Oct 4 at Suntec City. It is organised by Singapore Trade Development Board. For details, go to www.idf.com.sg
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      • 48 19  -  by Raju Chellam A TWO-DAY seminar on "828 applications of e-business and e-business for theoil and gas industry" will be held from Oct 5 at the Mandarin HoteL It is organised by Conference Connection Administrators Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****17, or e-mail infb@cconruction.org
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    • 212 19 Bloomberg [HELSINKI] Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile telephones, introduced a mobile phone that offers an Internet-style chat service aimed at young people. The 3310 replaces the 3210, whose low price and design made it the Finnish company's highest-selling model for
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    • 359 19  -  IDA sees Singapore shaping up as one of the first ASP hubs in the Asia-Pacific region By] Daniel Buenas THE market for ASP (application service provider) solutions in the Asia-Pacific region will grow to US$l.l7 billion (SS2 billion) by 2004, from about
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    • 735 20  -  -ii exclusive It's expected to be the largest market for UMS, with 140,000 users this year, edging out HK, with 112,500 users By Andrew Wee SINGAPORE'S market for UMS (unified messaging services) will touch US$2B million (5548.2 million) by 2006, from just US$3.4
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    • 259 20  -  The site lets users specify and source products from 1,000 manufacturers By Marissa Chew BCI Asia Construction Information is set to join the slew of construction industry exchanges out there, but its CEO says it will stand out for its
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    • 239 20 NYT [DAYTON, Ohio] If you can't decide whether you want to watch television or work on your computer, Samsung offers a pair of thin-proflle monitors that lets you do both things at once. SyncMaster MP flat-panel monitors are liquid crystal
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    • 761 21  -  exclusive e-cementcom plans to transact at least £50m worth of transactions in Asia by next year By' Tang Weng Fai UK-BASED startup e-cement.com —at www.e-cement.com —aims to generate up to 40 per cent of its revenue from the Asia-Pacific region this year, following
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    • 1468 22  -  I -it exclusive David Michael, head of e-biz consulting at the Boston Consulting Group, talks to vmtAif khamma about the evolution of e-conunerce in Asia as we move to Chapter Two of the Internet, and the corporate battles to come.
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    • 383 22  -  A second product, ZipCD handle, is targeted at users who have different storage needs By Daniel Buenas US-BASED lomega Corp last week launched the new version of its automatic backup software, as well as a new storage product bundle for the Asia-Pacific region. The backup
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    • 528 22 Dotcom company one of many European startups seeking badly-needed funds Bloomberg [LONDON] Great Universal Stores pic, Britain's largest mail-order company, said it will buy Internet retailer Jungle.com for £37 million (Ss92 million) to gain a presence online and in the market for
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    • 486 23  -  In Hongkong, its the firm's first deal with an ASP; in Japan, it gets a foothold into a key market By' Toh Han Shih HOMEGROWN startup 3rd Frontier has won deals with startups linked to prominent figures such as Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho
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    • 218 23  -  Light Frame tech bridges the border between computer and TV applications By* Jane Cheong ELECTRONICS giant Philips Electronics Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd last week announced a new technology designed to deliver TV-quality videos and photographs to computer screens. Called Light Frame, it works by using
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    • 609 23 Almost five million Koreans are hooked on the 'iloveschool' portal Bloomberg [SEOUL] The latest craze to sweep Internet-mad South Korea offers irresistible bait: Plug in a few key details and turn back the clock as far as elementary school. Whether lovelorn or
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    • 281 24  -  Homegrown startup offers services from 11 vertical segments, from travel management to office supplies and electricals By Daniel Buenas HO M E GROWN startup AMclick Holdings Pte Ltd, which provides 828 exchange services and began operations only in February, said it hopes to
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    • 227 24 Bloomberg [BOSTON] Internet retailers are devoting lees marketing money to building brand Minis and are catting television advertising to focus on profitability, a survey by Boston Consulting Oroun ShoD.orc said. Online retailers cot spending on brand awarding budgets in the second quarter
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 70 25 MICROSOFT Singapore has launched Windows Me (Millennium Edition), an operating system (OS) targeted at home users. The OS comes with enhancements in the areas of PC health, digital media, entertainment options and home networking and offers a better online experience, Microsoft said. It
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      • 72 25 NASDAQ-LISTED Macromedia Inc has unveiled its Flash 5 software which will deliver "an intuitive, approachable authoring environment to enable designers and developers to create next-generation websites and applications", the company said. "The product features breakthrough integration with Macromedia FreeHand to optimise the design process, and is
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      • 74 25 MCAFEE, a Network Associates Inc company, has launched the McAfee Wireless family of products, claiming it is "the industry's first Internet virus security solution to protect e-businesses from Internet viruses and malicious code transferred via mobile devices". The solutions offer protection for devices running on Palm
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      • 71 25 SINGAPORE-BASED Edge Matrix, formerly called The Edge Consultants, has launched WAPman Color, claiming it is "the world's first colour WAP micro-browser for the PalmOS". It supports 256 colours on a colour-enabled Palm PDA, such as the Palm Hie, and on the PC with Win 95/96/
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      • 55 25 EDGEMATRIX last week unveiled Xgo, which allows companies, portals and carriers to customise content for wireless devices. "Xgo offers WAP users the ability to choose what is displayed to them from a ready-made menu of mobile content that can be accessed any time, anywhere," the company
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      • 80 25  -  Ooanyfled by Raju Chellam HOMEGROWN AutoHub2l Pte Ltd last week launched the company and its website, AutoHub2l.com, claiming "it is the first used-vehicle auction site in Singapore to enable live bidding on the Net". The company is a Joint venture between Cyber Generation Pte Ltd
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    • 297 25  -  Following the Singapore launch, the company plans to roll out the service to other countries in Asia this month Tang Weng Fai US-BASED courier services giant Federal Express (FedEx) has launched its Singa-pore-developed free parcel tracking service via WAP (wireless application protocol) enabled mobile
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    • 217 25 Broadcom said to be uring Intel technology for cable and high-speed networking products Bloomberg [WILMINGTON, Delaware] Intel Corp, the world's biggest computer chipmaker, has filed a lawsuit charging Broadcom Corp with infringing patents on cable and high-speed networking products. In the lawsuit, Intel accuses
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    • 356 25  -  Two laser printers, two printers and a dot-matrix model launched here By Daniel Buenas JAPANESE giant Epson last week launched Ave new printers two colour laser printers, two large-format Inkjet printers and a dot matrix printer. The laser and Inkjet printers are targeted at professional users
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    • DOT com
      • 766 26  -  earth9's voice portal, which will debut in the fourth quarter of this year, will let you send and receive e-mail using a normal phone, as amdbbwwbb finds out ANDREW WEE IMAGINE dialling a phone number which lets you check your schedule of things to do for
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      • Briefly.com
        • 62 26 MAINBOARD-LISTED International Factors Singapore Ltd has launched what it claims "is Singapore's first online factoring hub". Called IntFactor, the hub is targeted at SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and other companies, and offers funding of online transactions, an ©-marketplace, and an online enquiry for clients. IntFactor
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        • 74 26 NASDAQ-LISTED Support.com Inc said Star Hub Internet Pte Ltd has integrated Support corn's eSupport infrastructure software called CliQFix into its technical support system to provide personalised and automated self-help solutions to its customers. "Star Hub Internet will be the first ISP in the Asia-Pacific region to offer
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        • 54 26 HOMEGROWN Cyberflex Pte Ltd has launched a new Information service targeted at people seeking freelance, contract, or part-time work. The site—at wwwJlexincome.com —lets candidates post a summary profile of their expertise; employers can browse through their profiles and pay a fee to get the oantact Information
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        • 60 26 YOU can now post your legally-bought, used software packages for sale at this website. Launched by Software Exchange Singapore Pte Ltd, the site—at www.aofiwarmxchange.com.tg—lets users recycle their software. As a promotion, the company is offering a lucky draw to registrants between Aug 18 and Oct 18,
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        • 81 26 SINGAPORE-BASED DP Information Network Pte Ltd has introduced spply4me.com, a new e-applications portal that lets you apply for club memberships, affinity cards, wireless communication facilities and credit cards online. "On Sept SB, DP Info and Singapore's leading credit-card iasuers will launch a new webeite, at
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        • 62 26 PACIFIC Internet will join the GRIC Alliance Network, which includes more than 130 telcos and carriers. Using the Network, PacNet will initially offer the GRlCtraveler global remote access (roaming) service to its Singapore subscribers, and later to users across the Asia-Pacific region. California-baaed GRIC Communications
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        • 64 26 US-BASED Viewlocity, a provider of 828 integration and online trading community solutions, said it has acquired SCSI, a Singapore-based supply chain execution company. "For many industries, Asia is where the supply chain originates," Viewlocity chief executive officer Greg Cronin said. "The Asian supply chain currently has no
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        • 71 26  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam UB-BABED i-DNS.net International said it will provide multi-lingual enabling technology to Network Solutions Registry, a business of Network Solutions Inc, which is part of VeriSign Inc to enable domain names to be registered and used in nugo*" non-English languages. "In the ooming
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  • e-NEWS
    • 491 27 NEW YORK Earnings estimates of these firms cut as Web frenzy appears to have subsided Reuters SHARES of Internet consulting firms touched 52-week lows on Friday as Wall Street slammed the sector and cut earnings estimates. Companies such as Viant Inc and Scient Corp
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    • aBriefs
      • 96 27 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said on Friday it had restarted its review of the planned merger of Vivendi, Canal Plus and Seagram after the companies sent it extra information it had requested. The Commission said on Friday that it had until Oct 2 to rule
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      • 86 27 AFP [TOKYO] Five Japanese companies have agreed to integrate their cable television operations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said on Saturday. Fujitsu Ltd, Tokyo Electric Power Co and their three partners—Secom Co and Marubeni Corp and Tomen Corp—will set up a joint venture by the end
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      • 51 27 AP [CHARLOTTE, North Carolina] Author Tom Clancy has a new best seller—his video game company. Übi Soft Entertainment SA, based in Paris, says it will pay US$45 million (Ss77 million) for Red Storm Entertainment Inc, which produces action-adventure games based on the author's military thrillers.
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      • 53 27 NYT [NEW YORK] Two researchers have found that a widely heralded new wireless technology contains flaws that could permit an eavesdropper to listen in on a digital conversation or determine the user's identity. The researchers are from Lucent Technologies, one of nine corporations developing the technology,
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    • 448 27 SINGAPORE But domestic conditions like leadership problems will remain investor concerns AFP GLOBAL demand for information technology goods and services will increasingly underpin Asia's economic growth, a report by research house Salomon Smith Barney said. But for several countries in the region, leadership problems
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    • 380 27 Just a glance at Nissan Cefiro's power styling causes envy to other car owners. Imagine then, being in control of this beauty that's ripped through the rankings and remains unchallenged as Singapore's best-selling 2-litre car.* In a comprehensive all-round comparative performance test by Road Track magazine (May 2000), Cefiro beat
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  • SPORTS tennis
    • 517 28 LAT-WP Lost boy, wild card If Goran Ivanisevic is truly pondering retirement, as he seemed to indicate after his first-round loss to Dominik Hrbaty of Slovakia at the US Open, it's a sad time for men's tennis. The colourful Croatian has long been one of the
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    • 143 29 I fcßiSfi! >j| HhHi w^^BH W/Idr JbFl BbJ <"?>4Hf WI a Vfl I J&W f M MMW I e-business is changing the way you do business. y' Jui BL Fl Online shopping is exploding. In alone, online retail grew by 20G%. And this A figure expected to skyrocket even more.
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  • WORLD news
    • 632 30 Brokers gain in all market situations NEW YORK They are taking business from banks in a freer regulatory landscape NYT BROKERS, according to a Wall Street truism, prosper when the market goes up and when it goes down. But this year, the market has gone nowhere no major average has
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    • 193 30 ANGERS. France AFP ELEVEN workers for a small costume Jewellery business near this western town have been paid to do nothing since the company was bought by an American group in February, they complained to AFP. The Cleopatra company was taken over
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    • 409 30 SEOUL BudgMtuw will appease investors, bolster confidence Bloomberg HYUNDAI Securities Co's board will decide today whether it will approve the resignation of chairman Lee Ik Chi, a move that would appease investors and bolster confidence in Korea's largest industrial group. Analysts said
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    • 419 31 WASHINGTON Dispute could spark damaging confrontation between world's leading trade powers Reuters THE US will press ahead with its plans for overhauling a multi-billion-dollar programme of tax breaks for exporters despite objections from the European Union, and warned Brussels that the trans-Atlantic
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    • 442 31 WASHINGTON Officials of 2 companies to meet regulators this week to argue case Reuters EUROPEAN regulators have reached a preliminary conclusion that America Online Inc's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Inc would create a dominant company that could hurt competition, according to a
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    • 259 31 TOKYO Bloomberg SOGO Co, a failed Japanese department store operator, yesterday drew crowds of people who waited as long as three hours to shop on the opening day of a two-week closing sale at its main Tokyo store. Sogo said it expected the sale
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    • 571 32 f LONDON Group in talks with French banks to help raise more than £900 m: paper Reuters THE battle to control the London Stock Exchange (LSE) widened over the weekend as the Euronext group of bourses was reported to
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    • 292 32 CERNOBBIO, Italy Bloomberg DAYS after raising interest rates for the fifth time this year, European Central Bank officials signaled they might need to boost them again, saying inflation was unlikely to slow anytime soon. ECB president Wim Duisenberg and Ernst Welteke,
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    • 346 32 WASHINGTON Talks to aim at bringing prices down to US$25 a barrel Reuters, AFP PRESIDENT Bill Clinton will meet Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah in New York to discuss, among other issues, ways to bring down global oil prices, a US official said
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    • 223 32 ■LONDON Bloomberg ABBEY National pic, the UK's fourth-largest bank by assets, is set to buy Scottish Provident Institution for £2 billion (Sss billion) as it tries to grab a larger slice of the insurance market, Sunday Business reported, without citing its sources. Edinburgh-based
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
    • 545 33 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices remained high, as a vague pledge from the world's leading oil producer, Saudi Arabia, to ensure a "suitable increase" in output weakened prices only slightly and stocks continued to hover around a 24-year
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    • 252 34 HONGKONG HONGKONG'S key benchmark index may touch 17,700 this week, boosted by higher capital inflows, before falling back to stabilise around 17,500, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index gained 96.87 points, or 0.6 per cent, last week to close at 17,333.61 on Friday,
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    • 506 34 NEWYORK AFP THE summer rally turned out to be a celebration on Wall Street as traders closed out the summer with a strong weekly gain in anticipation of a "soft landing" for the US economy. The Dow Jones Industrials closed the week ahead
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    • 403 34 LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended a hol-iday-shortened week strongly higher as the technology sector rebounded, and observers speculated that the FTSE index could make a dash for the 7,000-point level over the coming sessions. The FTSE 100 ended last week at 6,795.0
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    • 331 34 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to struggle to regain 17,000 points this week as the expiry of futures and options contracts will sideline investors, brokers said. "We cannot be too optimistic about the index as investors will be reluctant to
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    • 854 34 QSyduey jgj CONTINUED profit growth, a weak Australian dollar and uncertainty surrounding interest rate rises will refocus market attention towards domestic issues in the week ahead, brokers said. The Reserve Bank of Australia will hold a monetary policy meeting tomorrow, which is overshadowing other often conflicting economic indicators
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    • 1555 34 QPiris +<UBJ>6 THE CAC-40 blue-chip index surged nearly 3 per cent to close at a record while heavyweight France Telecom spearheaded a broader rally in the telecoms sector. The CAC-40 ended up 188.24 points or 2.84 per cent at 6,813.66 points for its 11th record close of
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    • 416 35 AFP H Composite Index -3124 MALAYSIAN share prices are likely to fall this week due to continued selling by foreign investors of bank stocks, dealers said. "I think there will be some more selling. The big sellers are foreign investors on bank stocks
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  • EXEC lifestyle
    • 419 38 Head of Kultura TV channel Anatoly Iksanov will replace Yladimir Vasilyev at world-famous theatre AFP RUSSIA'S world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, struggling to maintain its prestige, got a new director last Saturday after a dramatic week in which the previous incumbent had been sacked "Soviet-style" by presidential decree.
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    • 382 38 Reuters [VENICE] Hollywood fielded its heavy artillery at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday as two of its top stars, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, appeared for the European premiere of the thriller What Lies Beneath. The film was shown to a packed
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    • 1059 40 3G auctions —Asian frenzy unlikely Most countries in region expect to award spectrum through 'beauty parades' often with a financial element Reuters [HONGKONG] WHERE Europe's third-generation wireless spectrum auctions reached dizzyingly expensive heights, parcel-ing-out 3G airwaves in Asia is likely to be a relatively low-rent affair. Most Asian countries are
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    • 81 40 By year-end, the territory may cbooee a "reverie auction'', similar to a beauty contest but with pledgee for capital investment end sMTtoe levels. I Of tiie six incumbent carriers, five want the lioences awarded on merit, while HstehiscmWhampoa has said It fevours an auction. Hutchison and PndOc Century CybarWorks
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    • 61 40 Given away. Japan handed out spectrum licences hi lone to the three incumbents. They are NTT DoCoMb; "asT, which will be the new name tbr the wirelees business to be created in October through the merger of DDI Corp, KDD Corp and EDO Corp; and J- Japan wffl have
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    • 58 40 Beauty contest, with bidding element. Three licences to be awarded by year-end. Bidding will be limited to L 3 trillion won (552.02 billion), with a floor of one trillion wan. Bidden are expected to be led by SK Itelacom, Korea Tfitocom. and unlisted LG Telecom. Korea will have
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    • 50 40 Undecided, but it couid chooee beauty contest with a financial component to award between four and six licences by the year-end. Both Sing Tel and Star Hub have said they are inter- ;v" "V iIPjS, *-,c esteo. Singapore will have L 9 million wireless users at theyearend, IDC says.
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    • 31 40 Reuters Undetermined. Awards likely in early 2001. Incumbents include Chunghwa Telecom; Taiwan Cellular Corp; and KG Telecom. Taiwan will have about 11 million cell users by the year-end. IDC estimates.—Reuters
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    • 314 41 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFTER all the activity in recent weeks we finally have a bit of a lull, no doubt partly due to the holiday season, but also reflecting the lack of modern tankers available for sale. Aframax tanker Skau fast (87,000/80) is reported sold around
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    • 807 41  -  Shipowners' compromise vote on singje-hnll tankers will hit S'pore fleet From David Hughes m London The Global shipowners' organisation, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), has branded proposals submitted by Belgium, France and Germany to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) aimed at accelerating
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    • 75 41 [FOLKESTONE, England] A lorry driver last week soaking up the sun on a section of the M2O in Kent as French fishermen went on strike in Calais, which resulted in large queues of trucks on the motorways leading to the Channel ports.
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    • 180 41 Reuters [HONGKONG] Shanghai-based China Shipping Development Co Ltd said last Wednesday its first half net profit rose 51 per cent from a year ago due to cost controls, reduced fleet capacity and more efficient fuel usage, which offset higher fuel prices.
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    • 395 41  -  Move improves shippers'access to preferential policies By] P T Bangsberg THE Qianwan harbour area in China's north-eastern port of Qingdao will become part of the city's free-trade zone this year, offering shippers and traders improved access to the preferential policies in place. Nearly
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      • 292 42  -  Polish register's associate status was ended after the Leader L Reports by] David Hughes in London THE Polish Register of Shipping (PRS) has won the right to appeal against the decision of the International Association of Classification Societies (lACS) to terminate its
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      • 267 42 BRITISH-based shipbuilder and repairer Cammell Laird has sealed a US$7.7-million (Ssl3-million) deal that will see it take a 49 per cent stake in a joint-venture holdings company with United States yard Cascade General of Portland, Oregon. The deal will allow the new
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      • 153 42 MUTUAL P&I insurer the Standard Club has seen a reduction in total net claims over the past policy year, despite continuing increases in tonnage on its books. The drop in net claims from US$B4.l million (Ssl43 million) to US$77.B million allowed a 5.5
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        • 141 42 J APAN-based liner operator K-Llne is introducing so-called "one-click" freight payment and the issue of bills of lading through its website. Customers will be able to settle payment and receive printable lading documents thanks to the new service, which will initially cover container exports and extend
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        • 92 42 CHINA Shipping Development has posted a 51 per cent rise in first half net profits to US$l3.6 million (Ss23 million) despite soaring bunker costs and a 5.6 per cent drop in turnover to U*****.4 million. Chairman Li Kelin said: "The company increased its net profits
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        • 135 42 UNITED States-based container operator Lykes Lines is upgrading its North Atlantic Sprint services from Oct 21. It is increasing the number of its weekly, fixed-day transatlantic sailings by 16 to 38, operating mid-week and weekend sailings in Ave separate loops. The North Atlantic Sprint, in two loops,
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        • 78 42 TWO ships owned by Hong Kong-based Lihai International Shipping have been detained in the South African port of Durban after inspectors found serious structural defects. The 24,549 dwt Liberian-flagged Sea Light, built in 1972 and its 25,537 dwt sister Sea Bells, a year younger, are
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        • 68 42 NORWEGIAN chemical-tanker specialist Odfjell has completed its buy-out of Ceres Hellenic-owned rival, Seachem. As a result of the US$ll4-million stock deal, which has taken three months to pass through the system, 18.4 per cent of 90-ship Odfjell Seachem is owned by Chemlog Ape, managed by Ceres
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      • 207 55 USA: Labour Day. Bay 12 Korea: Harvest Festival Day. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival. Say 13 Hong Kong: The day following Mid-Autumn Festival. Sap LB Japan: Respect for the Aged. Sap 23 Japan: Autumnal Equinox Day. Oct 1 China. National Day. Oat 2 Hong Kong: The day following National Day.
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      • 796 55 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars inalaad at single pricea for a more comprehensive description of the mar hat Prices shown are baaed on averapesixed stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index chanpe and the
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      • 259 56 Bloomberg [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways Co, Japan's biggest domestic airline, said on Thursday it aims to shift short and medium-haul overseas routes to a new low-cost subsidiary from January in a move to cut costs on unprofitable international routes. ANA applied
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      • 615 56 Strong economy lifts passenger volume by 12.7%, offsetting steep oil prices, inefficiency Reuters [SHANGHAI] A stronger economy helped China's airlines log solid traffic growth in the first half of the year, but soaring fuel costs and industry inefficiency pressured
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      • 336 56 But increase allowed might be lower than requested: analysts Reuters [SINGAPORE] Malaysian Airline System Berhad is likely to get government approval to raise domestic air fares, but by less than it had requested, analysts said last week. The Malaysian flag
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      • 405 56 AFP [PARIS] The Paris Airports Authority (ADP) warned on Saturday against jumping to conclusions over the causes of July's fatal Concorde crash, after a report revealed that a routine runway check was skipped hours before the disaster. "It's a bit simplistic
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      • 299 56 Bloomberg [BRISBANE] Virgin Blue said full fares on its flights will be less than half the price charged by Australia's dominant airlines, as the low-fare carrier started flights between Melbourne and Brisbane last Thursday. Brisbane-based Virgin Blue, owned by entrepreneur
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      • 198 56 Deal with Inmarsat will allow live news and sports feeds Daily Telegraph [LONDON] The BBC and Trans World International are to supply live television news and sport to airline passengers around the world through a deal with satellite communications group
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      • 73 56 [KORN WE STHEIM, Germany] A worker controlling the loading of Porsche sportscars into a freight car at the shipping station in Kornwestheim near Stuttgart, Germany, in this undated handout picture. Since Sept 1, the German manufacturer's sportscars destined for North America or Japan are transported in special carriages
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