The Business Times, 2 October 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA 85c SING. A P O R E MONDAY. OCTOBER 2, 2000
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    64 1 STOCK MJJLKET INDICES Week Chaage ST1 1,997.63—+64.94 SI1ISCI FUTURES ...156.60. +8.39 BMW 783.92. +S4i7 KLSE COUP. 713,51 -26.06 NIKKEL 16,*****_ -79.99 HANG SENG. 15.648.98_.+1.036.10 SET INDEX ***** +3.15 JAKARTA COUP *****. +14.42 MANILA COMP 1,434.49.-.-+1M8 TAIPEI WFI 6,186.14 -426.95 SEOUL COME. 613.22 +59.97 CLSA CHINA B 1.***** +38.41
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    76 1 FOBEX BATES us$ St USS 1.741 £(US$/S$pcr£) 1.40 1548 EUBO(USS/SS/E) 0.880 1.533 D* 1« 1171 YEN 107.7 II JO JUI 1800 1I« HKS 7.707 4478 BAffT 4121 2414 RUPUH 8,785 1046 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5J0 KUALA LUMPUR 767 JAKARTA J».M BANGKOK 9 50 MANILA 1100 HONGKONG 8 50 Taipei
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    Lock icon SGX market cap falls 6.6% in Sept as $23b is erased
    658 1  -  Value at $319b is lowest since Nov '99; tech stock woes, rising oil prices, regional jitters cited By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Tech stock woes, rising oil prices and regional jitters took their toll on the Singapore bourse last
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    Lock icon Trading volume hits 20-month low, 41% down from Aug
    547 1  -  By Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] Trading volume on the Singapore bourse fell to a 20-month low in September as investors stayed on the sidelines amid turmoil in the currency market, rising oil prices and corporate profit warnings issued in the US.
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    Lock icon IMF policy shift may revive AMF idea
    743 1 Kohler to back regional monetary cooperation during Japan visit, say sources FYom Anthony Rowley in Tokyo UNDER its recently-appointed managing director Horst Kohler, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is sharply reversing its attitude towards the idea of regional monetary cooperation, and this is
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      103 1 Drama Biz IT Warburg Pincus VC plans for Asia. BtdT Bet next on the RosettaNet standard. BUTT Pq 4 Fibre-optics has spawned new billionaires. BUTT 10 i rtn E-biz is not easy yet, new surveys say. WUYPH4 Top Stories Corporate Transparency Index: Stratech heads final week's ranking. P§& Asia-Silicon Valley
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      4 1 Detailed ranking, Pg 8
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      147 1 IKr ■■■v V K iLsjfi? r j*mm 1 P a JHL 16-day odyssey over B Reports, Pgs 24 25 A Singular Sensation Call it what you will, but we can't think of a better way to describe the feelings they'll evoke in you. An exguisite range of home accents crafted
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      Lock icon Pan-Asian networking group launched
      1053 2  -  nTiexclusjve ASCV aims to bridge vast intellectual resources between Silicon Valley, Asia By Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley SINGAPORE businesses hoping to start a presence in Silicon Valley will soon be able to tap not just a network of Singaporeans here, but a pan-Asian networking coalition
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      Lock icon Lifestyle industries get help from TDB
      778 2  -  From e-learning to reflexology, the board helps businesses reach international markets Reports by Tan Su Yen FROM juice bars to nursing homes, fish ball manufacturing to distance learning, these are interesting times for the lifestyle industries in Singapore. And for the Trade Development Board
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      Lock icon Sakae Sushi: where F&B, tech meet
      571 2 [SINGAPORE] There's a sus/H-making robot in the kitchen, an interactive panel for ordering sashimi at a click, an intercom for diners to relay orders directly to the cook and best of all a simple two-tier price structure at $1.90 for a regular portion and
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  • SINGAPORE economy
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      Lock icon Electronics new orders slow over oil crisis
      469 3  -  The slowdown in Sept PMI reflects 'lots of cautiousness and uncertainty' By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] New order intakes in the electronics sector grew at a slower pace last month because of uncertainties over oil prices, resulting in a lower purchasing managers' index (PMI)
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SGX index of retailers, trading firms hovering near two-year low
      596 4  -  Commerce Index worst performer; other ailing indices are construction, services By David Boey THE SGX Commerce Index has surrendered all its gains made in the past two years, in a telling sign that stocks of listed retailers and trading companies
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      Lock icon Lower brokerage rates may not improve liquidity
      572 4  -  Some fear fall in volume as brokers torn cautions on large client orders By Ven Sreenivasan THE drop in brokerage rates that kicks in today may not boost liquidity on the local bourse unless it is accompanied by a significant pick-up in market
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      Lock icon novaSPRINT banks on e-biz products
      694 4  -  -ti exclusive By Tang Weng Fai E-BUSINESS and services company, novaSPRINT is betting big on its faith in its e-business products as it prepares to test uncertain waters in the stock market amid the current weak market sentiment. Founded in 1995, the company is organised
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      Lock icon Stratech heads final week's ranking
      1015 5  -  Chartered Semiconductor Mannfactnring retains overall first position By Paul Thompson IN notching up a commendable 61 points, Stratech Systems outscored many much larger rivals to stand proud at the top of the Corporate Transparency Index (CTI) score chart for this week (see opposite). With this
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      Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
      65 5 IN Friday's article "Stratech posts $1.89 m Hi loss", we reported that Stratech Systems would hand over the open bidding system for vehicle Certificates of Entitlement to the Land Transport Authority on Friday Stratech has clarified that the handover is for the LTA to begin user acceptance
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      Lock icon Makeover for former Emporium's Hougang property
      1096 7  -  Guthrie, Apic venture putting in $7m to $8m to refurbish premises By Kalpana Rashiwala LISTED Guthrie GTS and Lend Lease Asia's Asia Pacific Investment Company (Apic) fund are pumping in $7 million to $8 million to refurbish the biggest of the former Emporium Holdings'
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      Lock icon Merrill Lynch voted best stockbroker in S'pore
      298 7  -  It's also No 1 in the Asia-Pac: financial magazine survey By Ling Su Ann MERRILL Lynch has been voted the best stockbroker in Singapore, a survey by financial magazine. The Asset, shows. It also pipped other leading brokerages to emerge tops in Asia-Pacific
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      383 4 Arthur Andersen solutions EQUITY-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS SUPPLEMENTARY RETIREMENT SCHEME SEMINAR What are the current trends on using equity-based plans as incentive compensation? lint <tiU i M _t A iii How will this affect you -as an employer and/or an employee? MPvww What are the tax, legal and accounting implications? Form
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      6 5 Corporal* Transparency Index Full ranking tomorrow
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      388 6 *S*27 Source: M S Vohana GoUjn Agri USlOc 50,683,000 »JQT«t15c 41.119,000 ST*-— 34.510,000 r aatoinAaia 25,865.000 Nat Bac 10c MMOOOO AaiaDeteof HK15c J^sosiooo WfeolBca5c 19.930.000 ST Engg 10c 19.658.000 Chart SartOonductor 28c 19.112.000 &nnijndlOe 18.108,000 DBSGfp 285,039,265 Chart Semiconductor 26c 215.013.835 SPH 184.739.434 163.541.506 Nat Bsc 10c 112,875,661 SIA 108.531.117
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      Lock icon DB CityDev covered warrant should be avoided
      192 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'LL continue to focus on the property segment by examining the Deutsche Bank covered call on City Developments today. For those who've kept an eye on the counter and the underlying shares, they'd have noticed that the warrant
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      Lock icon Brace for market fallout from Wall St's Friday slide
      585 6  -  '-li comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THERE was a school of thought last week that felt the worst was over for global equities. Oil prices started heading lower, the euro stabilised (never mind the Danish snub) and US interest rates didn't look
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      Lock icon Signals for NEL remain bearish
      227 6  -  HOT STOCK By Serena Ng ELECTRONICS shares took a beating on Friday and dragged the sectoral index down sharply in an overall positive market. Nat Steel Electronics (NEL) was one of the worst hit. It tumbled 48 cents or nearly 10 per cent to finish
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      129 6 ♦Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel) announced that Singapore Telecom International Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sing Tel, has acquired its wholly-owned subsidiary Pastel Ltd. Pastel is a company incorporated in Mauritius with an authorised capital of US$l,OOO,OOO and an issued paid-up capital of US$2. The principal activity
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      Lock icon Peso, baht may take a hit; rupiah may be range-bound
      542 6 THE Philippine peso and the Thai baht should take a licking this week, beset by troubles at home. But the Indonesian rupiah and the Sing dollar should keep their heads above water. The peso should remain pressured by the war
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      Lock icon All existing MRT stations to get lifts
      628 10  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) Manager, Media Relations Land Transport Authority Singapore I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column by Mr Lee Han Shih (BT, Sept 22), which was reprinted in Streats (Sept 28). as well as the letters from Mr Lim Tiong
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      Lock icon Agents' hefty fees not justified
      233 10  -  Sim Shui Poh I REFER to the letters "HDB's role is to regulate, not be a middleman" and "Cutting agent's fees could hurt service level" (Mailbag, Sept 28). I am disturbed by Vincent Tan's point which dilutes the issue. The entire world is laughing not
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      Lock icon Need for fair market practice
      182 10  -  Irene Chong I REFER to the letters "HDB's role is to regulate, not be a middleman" (Mailbag, Sept 28) and "Cutting agent's fees could hurt service level" (Mailbag, Sept 28). Both writers have failed to grasp the issue. The issue is simple and clear: whether
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      Lock icon HDB has a lot of authority
      104 10  -  K Ravindran I REFER to the letter "HDB's role is to regulate, not be a middleman" (Mailbag, Sept 28). I do not agree. With about 70 per cent of the homes constructed and controlled by the government, with the latest added authority to take
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      Lock icon Agents shouldn't use HDB name
      64 10  -  Mohamed Ali Jinnah I REFER to the letter "Cutting agent's fees could hurt service level" (Mailbag, Sept 28). The writer missed the point in the Mailbag letters we want the HDB to eliminate the practice of agents of resale units using HDB's name to get
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        Lock icon C&W Optus Australia exec joins SingTel
        59 10 SINGTEL has appointed William Hope as executive vice-president (network) with effect from today. Mr Hope, who was previously chief technical officer of Cable Wireless Optus in Australia, will drive the strategic and operational network technologies and network engineering activities of SingTel's fixed line, mobile
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        Lock icon Barry Desker joins defence institute
        88 10 BARRY Desker, chief executive officer of the Trade Development Board, will leave TDB on Dec 31 to assume the full-time post of director of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (EDSS). A Ministry of Trade and Industry press release said Mr Desker had assumed
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        Lock icon Glaxo MD is S'pore Poly chairman
        41 10 THE Singapore Polytechnic has appointed Tan Kay Yong chairman of its board of governors. Mr Tan, who is also managing director of Glaxo Wellcome Manufacturing, took over from Lim Yong Wah with effect from yesterday.
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      67 10 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btfetterQ sph.com.sg or fax us at 73X271, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify It came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon In the Frontline of innovation
      903 11  -  The firm which has moulded itself into a one-stop provider of end-to-end e-business solutions has a novel way to retain staff By David Boey COME Oct 12, Frontline Technologies Corp Ltd will be the latest company from the E-50 alumni to go public. The e-ser-vices
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      Lock icon Bank loans grow 2.9% in Aug
      385 11  -  r=M 3 on the economy bank loans By Siow Li Sen BANK loans continued to pick up in August, up 2.9 per cent against 2.3 per cent in the previous month, with all sectors except commerce in positive territory. According to figures released by
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      Lock icon LVMH unit to double turnover within 5 years
      506 11  -  Watch, jewellery nnit sees a third of its business coming from Asia-Pac region By Vivien Ng LUXURY goods conglomerate Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton wants to double the turnover of its watch and jewellery unit within five years, with more than a third
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      185 11 Enterprise 50 is an annual ranking of the top 50privately-held Singapore companies and is organised by The Business Times and Andersen Consulting with the support of the Economic Development Board. Frontline Technologies was ranked 46th last year. Maurice Lacroix. Tomorrow's Classics. iDk Masterpiece Moon Phase m Masterpiece Moon Phase: Automatic
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      Lock icon Foreigners can oil KL's rapid growth
      740 12  -  I l< comment KL STOCKS The ride will be smoother if BTsla allows wider Infusion of foreign expertise and capital eddie toh MALAYSIA has always laid down the red carpet for foreign tourists but the country has sometimes emitted mixed signals to investors from
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      Lock icon Muted reaction to Indon hike
      476 12 OIL CRISIS Fnel prices rise 12% but little sign of mass hoarding or public fury AP [JAKARTA] Fuel prices in Indonesia rose 12 per cent yesterday, but there was little immediate sign of mass hoarding or public outrage leading to violence. Five busloads of protesters,
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      Lock icon Pertamina-Shell deal
      121 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil and gas company, will sign a processing agreement with Royal Dutch Shell Group today aimed at preventing shortages in Indonesia's domestic fuel market. Under the deal, Shell will process 50,000 barrels of crude oil a day in its Singapore refineries for Pertamina,
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      Lock icon India revamps Cabinet
      444 12 NEW DELHI Move comes even as two ministers quit to protest oil hike AFP Reuters INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee reshuffled his cabinet on Saturday even as two ministers submitted their resignations in protest against a price hike in petroleum products. Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee and
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      Lock icon KL inflation to stay tame despite fuel hike: economists
      469 12 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S move to raise petroleum prices for the first time in nearly two decades was long overdue but is unlikely to spur a rise in inflation, economists said yesterday. Opposition politicians doubted the government's ability to rein in
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      Lock icon MTR share issue raises HK$1.2b for HK govt
      474 13 HONGKONG Public applicants to be allocated 60% of share sale and will pay discounted price ofHK$&BB apiece Bloomberg THE Hongkong government raised about HK$l.l6 billion (*****.9 million) from the initial sale of stock in its subway operator, MTR Corp, as it chose
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      Lock icon Perc: Infrastructure quality shows Asia wealth divide
      424 13 SINGAPORE Countries with poor infrastructure may deter foreign investors, says survey AFP ASIAN countries with poor infrastructure are in danger of lagging further behind their wealthier neighbours as foreign investors may be scared away, a regional consultancy says. The Political and Economic Risk
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      Lock icon Ex-editor of NST plans to take over Bernama: report
      301 13 KUALA LUMPUR Kadir's deal said to include govt-run radio, TV stations AFP A FORMER Malaysian editor is planning a takeover of the national news agency Bernama along with governmentrun radio and TV stations, a business magazine reported yesterday. The Edge magazine
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      Lock icon India's telecoms dept now US$15b firm
      495 15 NEW DELHI New status expected to cat red tape, improve fond-raising capabilities Reuters INDIA yesterday turned its sprawling telecoms bureaucracy into a governmentowned company with nearly US$l5 billion (Ss26 billion) in assets, marking a significant milestone in a nine-year-old economic reform programme. Bharat Sanchar
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      Lock icon South Taiwan jobless rate puts Chen in a spot
      485 15  -  President feels the heat as he has to ™*fc? good on election campaign promises to torn around sonth's economy From Macabe Keliher in Taipei HIGH unemployment in southern Taiwan is quickly turning into a political hot potato for the president who,
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      Lock icon New Economy bosses top India's richest list
      260 15 BOMBAY AFP OWNERS of computer, media and telecoms companies have pushed out owners of "traditional" companies to make it to the list of India's top 10 billionaires. The Business Standard newspaper's list of the 10 richest Indians, released on Friday, was led by
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      Lock icon Burning rage
      47 15 Congress party workers burning an effigy of Indian Petroleum Minister Ram Naik during a demonstration in protes* tte hike in prices ofcooking gas and kerosene. The government raised the cost of petroleum products last week by 18.6 per cent to offset rising global prices. AFP
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      Lock icon US-EU deal cools trade war threat over tax breaks
      589 16 BRUSSELS It doesn't resolve the dispute but delays EU action till after US polls Reuters THE United States and the European Union reached an agreement on Saturday that lifts the immediate threat of a trade war over a multibillion dollar US
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      Lock icon Time, EMI plan Virgin sale for merger approval?
      372 16 FRANKFURT EC had tentatively blocked their merger as there'll be less music distributors NYT IN an llth-hour attempt to rescue their US$2O billion (5534.8 billion) joint venture from rejection by European regulators, Time Warner and EMI Group have offered to sell EMl's
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      Lock icon Saddam: mixture of fear and opulence
      876 16 Scientist who defected details the palace life, nuclear programme of the Iraqi dictator in a book to be published this week The Sunday Telegraph SADDAM Hussein routinely ordered the torture of scientists who failed to deliver, forced women to sleep with him and personally
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      Lock icon Sony may move some production to Europe: chief
      375 17 TOKYO Shift in strategy as euro weakness erodes profits in European market FT SONY is planning to shift production of hightechnology consumer electronics products from Japan to Europe to offset the recent sharp decline of the euro against the yen. The initiative,
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      Lock icon Smith & Nephew plans Zimmer bid?
      208 17 Smith Nephew plans Zimmer bid? LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S Smith Nephew pic is preparing a £2.5 billion (556.37 billion) bid for Zimmer, the hip and knee replacements unit of US drugs group Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, the Sunday Times paper said. Bristol-Myers, the No 3 drug company in the United States, said
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      Lock icon Porn film makers could cash in on PlayStation 2
      495 17 ■LONDON The Independent SEX film makers could reap massive profits from new technology that allows viewers to "take part" in explicit scenes. Pornographers are targeting Sony's new games console Play Station 2 by producing interactive DVD movies. The games console is
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      Lock icon Hunting down breast cancer
      40 17 [MEXICO CITY] The Diana the Huntress Monument on Mexico City's Reforma Avenue all lit up on Friday. The monument was dedicated to women as part of an international campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer. REUTERS
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      Lock icon Hanbo sale hits snag as buyer misses deadline
      298 17 SEOUL AFP A MULTIMILLION-dollar deal to sell South Korea's bankrupt Hanbo Iron and Steel Co faced collapse yesterday as a potential US buyer refused to pay up by the Sept 30 deadline. Creditor banks told Yonhap news agency that they would extend
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      Lock icon Goldman tops Q3 global merger list
      715 18 NEW YORK Quarter's USs7l9.2b puts total global mergers in first nine months at USs2.6t, compared to last year's USs2.st Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc ranked first in advising on thirdquarter global mergers, almost doubling the total by No 2 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co
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        Lock icon LVMH to renew bid for Sotheby's: paper
        90 18 Reuters [LONDON] French luxury goods group Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) is set to make a renewed bid for 225-year-old British auction house Sotheby's, the Observer newspaper reported yesterday. The paper reported LVMH sources as saying chairman Bernard Arnault had renewed his interest,
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        Lock icon Lloyds cleared of fraud charges
        100 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] Lloyds TSB Group pic, the UK's fourth-largest bank, has been cleared in the High Court of fraud against a couple who alleged the bank mishandled their finances and caused the failure of the company they ran. Eddy Weatherill and Brenda Weatherill, of Huntingdon,
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        Lock icon TI to supply chips to China
        85 18 Bloomberg [DALLAS] Texas Instruments Inc, the largest maker of semiconductors for mobile phones, agreed to provide its chips and software to four Chinese cell-phone makers in an effort to increase its presence in China, the world's No 2 cellular market. Texas Instruments, whose chips
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      Lock icon This week's US data likely to point to sluggish growth
      429 18 WASHINGTON Investors expect Fed meeting to leave rates at Bloomberg US economic numbers set for release this week will probably do little to sway investor sentiment that the inflationfighting Federal Reserve is through raising interest rates. Analysts expect the re-
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      Lock icon Duo who designed BA's controversial tailfin quit
      272 18 LONDON The Independent THE design duo responsible for the con troversial British Airways multi-col-oured tailflns and the demotion of St Michael as a brand are leaving the business they created. Frances Newell and John Sorrell waved goodbye to Interbrand Newell Sorrell on Friday.
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      298 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said oil Friday it has raised circuit breaker levels for the fourth quarter, effectively increasing the number of points the Dow Jones Industrial average must drop before trading is halted market-wide. Circuit breaker levels
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      559 19 COMMODity Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices slipped back below US$3O a barrel in London last week on fresh Saudi production pledges and the US government's decision the previous Friday to pump oil from its strategic petroleum reserve. OOLDs
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      267 20 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S benchmark index could briefly rally to 16,200 this week led by gains in the property sector before falling back to trade around 15,400, dealers said. The key Hang. Seng Index gained 1,036.10 points, or 7.1 per
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      838 20 E|sy<h«y *nat MONETARY policy deliberations at the central bank, as well as the release of new economic data, will dominate trade on the Australian bourse this week, analysts said. "Financial markets come back to earth with a thud in the coming week. With the Olympics over, attention shifts
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      467 20 NEW YORK Apple's profit warning sparks tech sector plnnge, along with broader market AFP US MARKETS ended the summer in the red, with the Nasdaq posting its worst September in 20 years and the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 5 per cent
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      1874 20 □Puis ♦&06 PARIS shares fmished lower after an early rally collapsed under the weight of heavy selling in telecoms equipment maker Alcatel and another earnings fright on Wall Street. The CAC-40 Index closed at 6266.63 points, down 44.4 or 0.70 per cent, and up a mere 8.05
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      404 20 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to rise this week on upbeat findings in the Bank of Japan's latest tankan survey of business confidence, brokers said. "Investors are going to be bullish next week as they expect an improvement in
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      323 20 LONDON AFP LONDON stocks ended the week higher on Friday after finishing in the red for three consecutive weeks, owing to an improvement in growth prospects after central bank intervention last Friday to stabilise the single European currency. The FTSE 100
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      412 21 AFP Q Composite Index -2&06 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to fall further this week and are expected to be vulnerable to movements in major regional markets in the absence of local trading leads, dealers said. "The bourse is expected to remain quiet. I think
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      556 22 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßxmndup A VERY busy week ahead looms in terms of data releases and events. Monetary policy will be a common theme with a large number of central banks due to conduct board meetings. There are also some key data releases on
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  • SYDNEY 2000
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      Lock icon Gold for Thai boxer Wijan
      496 24 Reuters [SYDNEY] Thailand's Wijan Ponlid outslugged Kazakhstan's world flyweight boxing champion to claim his country's second ever Olympic gold on the final day of the Sydney Games yesterday. Ponlid beat Bulat Jumadilov 19-12 in the 51 kg final and then, draped in his national flag,
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      744 24 'River of Lightning' engulfs Sydney as curtain conies down on Olympics AP PROM the fields of play to Sydney's spectacular harbour, Australia and the world's athletes yesterday bid goodbye to two weeks of sporting triumphs and doping embarrassments a memorable Summer Olympics eager to claim
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      Lock icon US finishes top but goes home disappointed
      349 24 Reuters [SYDNEY] The United States finished the Sydney Olympics in their usual dominant position at the top of the medals table but their prestige was dented on the final day in the boxing and basketball. The medals table at the end of 17
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      Lock icon Big boost for Aussie economy: EIU
      513 24  -  From Neil Behrmann in London THE Sydney Olympics will give the Australian economy a substantial short and medi-um-term boost, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The Olympics alone will add around one percentage point to GDP growth in the third quarter, raising real
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      434 24 From Marion Jones's awesome track shows to "Eric the Eel" Moussambani's amazingly slow swim in the pool, Sydney Olympics had some great moments for a fortnight. While some 10,000 athletes came and gave their very best, some more than others gave the Games the defining moments. Here are some
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      246 24 Men Donovan Bailey: the Olympic champion from Canada crashed out in the 100 m heats following a bout of fever. Alexander Popov: "It's not the end of the world, is it?" The Russian swimming legend, after losing his 100 m title. Hicham El Guerrouj: "I've been dreaming of gold
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      91 25 Crying Champion Andreea Raducan: little girl lost, robbed of a gold by a cold Water Warriors Pieter van den Hoogenband: Pieter the Great... Lan Thorpe: the teenage talisman Alexander Popov: once a legend, always a legend Amazing Amazons (above) Marion Jones: a beautiful body,
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  • ArtSingapore 2000
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      1441 26  -  Banks in Singapore are taking their corporate citizenry seriously, and they have their collection of local artworks to show for their cause. PASV&Tm nayar talk to executives of both local and foreign banks here PARVATHI NAYAR A RE BANKS comfortable with walls that talk? Well,
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      19 26 ArtSingapore2oo0 at the Mita Building is on until tomorrow; The Business Times is the official newspaper for the event.
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      275 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS ton! (4,2,4,3,2) 4 Fasteners go behind a wall 5 Wnte trite quotation about US hanging (8) notary chiefs (8) 8 Betray a woman? Yes, indeed! 6 Resentful when offered a carte) riage (5) 9 Tender-hearted Heather is pro- 7 Descend at speed, even though vokmg (8) exhausted
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  • CORPORATE lifestyle
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      784 28 Airport gyms are proving to be a major stress reliever for travellers NYT LUCKY Gold, who makes 30 or more business trips a year, says that being able to work out using a treadmill and free weights while on the road is crucial
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      303 28 Performance. Not Promise&W Are you looking for a way to guarantee fast, reliable communication between distributed DCCC applications over the Internet? Look no further than Progress* SonicMQ™. This fast, if fully JMS-compJiant, Internet messaging server includes everything you need to enable SOFTWARE event-based communication between business-critical applications whether you use
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      177 29 I i. i Ji* Imhv v BB|%i- k A->ffc. y^T \---f >grcti j >- jfl Hlfiri f v r v* ik. 1 i v 1 II S1EW YAW HOONG Mr- '%1-1 .■> *m!&P|. mSmKP- You can't reach new heights in today's eßusiness world unless you get all your ducks in
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      74 29 Top stories eGain to invest USS3Om in Asia-Pac Page 5 I t PI^Hl L 9Pf HH If. J Strands of wealth: fibre-optics spawns new billionaires Page 10 Europe: restrained by regulations Page 11 E-biz not easy yet Page 14 Commentaries Next bet's on RosettaNet It can standardise supply chain processes,
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  • BizIT
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      Lock icon Warburg's focus is to build sustainable companies
      796 30  -  l-it exclusive The private equity fund, which has about US$lO billion under management, has an exposure of about US$BO million in Singapore alone By Tang Weng Fai LAST weekend, USbased investment giant, Warburg, Pincus Co, closed the world's biggest international private equity fund
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      Lock icon Intel sees Pentium 4 launch by year-end
      201 30 Reuters [NEW YORK] Chipmaker Intel Corp said on Friday it plans to ship its longawaited Pentium 4 processors by the end of the year, following a report that some of its clients are frustrated by delays. "The target that we've given is the
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      Lock icon Plans for low-cost Timna chip to run PCs scrapped
      393 30 Reuters [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp, the world's largest semiconductor maker, on Friday said it was scrapping plans for its Timna microprocessor that would run personal computers costing less than USI6OO (551,045) because of further design delays and an absence of
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      Lock icon Is turnaround over at Apple?
      836 30  -  Analysts are vague because of the lack of information from Apple By Andrea Orr Reuters [PALO ALTO, California] Is the comeback over? Apple Computer Inc's warning that upcoming earnings would fall short of forecasts set off fear among investors who responded with deep concerns that
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      Lock icon Next bet's on RosettaNet
      634 32  -  11 i comment INFOTECH It can standardise supply chain processes, reduce development costs, cut cycle time for the supply chain and boost processing efficiency andrew wee The writer is a BT journalist THERE'S a new tongue in town. It's called RosettaNet, and it could help boost
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      Lock icon We need a good computer desk
      497 32  -  By John Moran LAT-WP SET aside your high-tech interests for a moment to consider a somewhat more low-tech subject: furniture. Unfortunately, the development of furniture aimed at people who spend a lot of time in front of their personal computers seems stuck in the
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      Lock icon US to market lucrative Indian Internet show
      684 32  -  It will be a partner conntry in India Internet World, the largest such show in Asia and fifth largest in the world By Neelesh Misra AP [NEW DELHI] The United States government will market Asia's largest dotcom festival that ended in the Indian
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    • ITTAKES
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        Lock icon ID.Safe goes regional with tieups
        60 33 ID.Safe, a certification authority jointly set up by Cisco Computer Security and Singapore Post, has tied up with two certification authorities Malaysia's DigiCert, and Hongkong Post CA to promote a cross-border certification system for e-commerce activities in the region. They plan to set certification policies
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        Lock icon YCH, Telecom Equipment team up
        53 33 HOMEGROWN YCH Group, a supply chain solutions and logistics management company, has signed a five-year deal Math Telecom Equipment Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Sing Tel. YCH will manage the distribution of consumer goods to all Sing Tel Teleshops, agents, and consumers who order goods
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        Lock icon Boost for IT project management
        53 33 THE Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) have teamed up to boost certification of IT project management SCS will offer the PMl's Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam as part of the overall certification process used by SCS. For details, visit
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        Lock icon Mercatela opens S'pore office
        38 33 HONGKONG-BASED Mercatela, which provides Internet professional services, has opened an office here. The company's services include business, strategy and tech consulting, website and platform development, and VC funding and incubation. For details, visit www.mercatela.com
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        Lock icon Thyron's new Asia-Pac head
        33 33 UK-BASED Thyron, a company that provides secure mobile payment solutions, has appointed Alex Tan as the vice-president of its Asia-Pac operations. Mr Tan was previously managing director of ActivCard.
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        33 33 SEAGATE Technology has appointed James Chirico as senior vice-president and general manager for its Asia-Pacific manufacturing operations. Mr Chirico was previously senior vice-president of worldwide recording head operations at Seagate.
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        44 33 HEWLETT-PACKARD has appointed Phua Han Tian as vice-president of it's BPD (Business Printing Division). Mr Phua was previously general manager of HP's BPD, a Singapore-based charter responsible for the worldwide product line of HP's mobile, wide-format and business inkjet printers.
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        38 33 A FREE seminar on "Four steps to better customer care" will be held tomorrow at the Marriott Hotel. It is organised by Business Objects, IBM and Siebel Systems. For details fax *****92, or e-mail cust_care@asl-iec.com
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        Lock icon Softworld accounting conference
        45 33 A TWO-DAY conference-cum-exhibition called "Softworld accounting and finance, human resource and payroll" will be held from Wednesday at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. It is organised by Imark Communications and endorsed by four other associations. For details, fax *****07, or e-mail stephanie@imark-com.com.sg
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        Lock icon Conference on broadband
        74 33  -  Compiled by Daniel Buenas A FOUR-DAY conference titled "Broadband year 2000" will be held from Oct 30. The first two days (tutorials) will be held at the Marina Mandarin Hotel; the next two days at the Raffles City Convention Centre. Lim Swee Say, Minister of State for
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      Lock icon KPN and NTT to launch European mobile portal
      440 33  -  By Caroline Jacobs Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch group KPN Telecom's mobile unit KPN Mobile and its Japanese cellphone partner NTT DoCoMo said on Friday they planned to form an Internet portal joint venture, offering Internet services on mobile phones across Europe. The agreement
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      Lock icon eGain to invest US$30m in Asia-Pac
      388 33  -  The eCRM market in the Asia-Pac region will be worth about USslb in the next five years By Val Chua CALIFORNIA-BASED eGain Communications Corp, which offers eCRM (electronic customer relationship management) technology, plans to invest up to US$3O million (5552.2 million) in the Asia-Pacific
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      Lock icon Can Linux live up to its hype?
      856 36  -  m&xi it It was not designed from the ground up to support many key characteristics of a modern OS danny ong The writer is product manager, desktop operating systems, Microsoft Singapore LINUX is getting a lot of attention lately. Many people want it
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      Lock icon Business tips on Asia from Bizibody.com
      358 36  -  By Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN Bizibody.com Pte Ltd last week launched its online experts forum to provide information about doing business in Asia. The website at www.bizibody.com is claimed to be the first Asian business experts network. It targets US and Europe-based SMEs (small and
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      Lock icon M2b.com to raise US$25m in two years
      377 37  -  The firm's short-term plans are to launch more channels and online shopping malls By Vivien Ng HOMEGROWN broadband content provider M2b.com Pte Ltd at www.m2bworld.com intends to list on Nasdaq in two years to push its global expansion. The firm expects to raise
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      702 37 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] One-fifth of Indian software engineers at Hughes Software Systems resigned last year. Many went to the US, giving up stock options that had risen almost 100 times since 1998. The talent exodus is a problem for many Indian companies as demand
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      Lock icon Strands of wealth
      594 38  -  Fibre-optics technology has spawned new billionaires in the US, according to Forbes magazine. On its list of 400 richest Americans, 21 people in the sector accounted for US$BB.B billion By G Panicker IT'S no secret that technology has spawned a new generation of the super rich. But
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        88 38 CANON Marketing Services Pte Ltd has unveiled its new Multipass C7O "all-in-one" bubblejet printer. It offers full colour capability in faxing, scanning, copying and printing, and comes with a 14.4 kbps modem. The $999 printer offers 360 x 360 dots per inch (dpi) copying resolution; a monochrome
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        Lock icon Systems for small firms from Gateway
        175 38 GATEWAY Inc has launched four new offerings targeted at smaller businesses. The new systems run on Intel's Pentium 111 or Celeron processors, and can be packaged and integrated with a range of peripherals, networking equipment and software. For details, fax *****94 or go to
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        Lock icon Epson scanner for the pro
        64 38 EPSON Singapore has launched the Expression 1640 XL scanner, targeted at the professional graphic arts market. The scanner offers a 1,600 x 3,200 dpi optical resolution, 42-bit colour depth and works with PCs and Macs. The $4,395 machine handles up to A 3+ size originals,
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        Lock icon New lines of Latitude
        97 38  -  Compiled by Daniel Buenas DELL Asia-Pacific has announced two new notebooks models to refresh its Latitude line of notebooks. Both products run on Intel's P-IH processors and include built-in antennas for wireless LAN connections. For details, visit www.delLcom/ap. C 600: Costs $5,788 and runs on a
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      Lock icon NTT to slash 6,500 jobs through early retirement
      423 38  -  By Mitsuo Suzuki Reuters [TOKYO] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, the world's biggest telecoms group, said last Friday it would slash 6,500 jobs through early retirement packages to offset losses from cuts in "last mile" rates agreed with Washington. NTT, one of
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      Lock icon Light fantastic on the Web
      726 38  -  UK scientists can now predict the appearance of aurora borealis; will alert the pnblic By Mark Rowe Independent Newspapers [LONDON] Scientists believe they have developed technology to predict when the much-talked-about but littleseen aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, will be visible over Britain. The Magnetospheric
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      Lock icon Restrained by regulations
      742 39 Europe is being held back by regulations and controls. While they protect the wealth holders of the old technologies, they also create barriers to implementation and success of new technologies EUROPE'S regulatory environment and other structural barriers to growth appear to limit its ability to be a
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      Lock icon Infineon tests new mobile phone chip
      235 39 M Gold chip can receive signals in UMTS and GSM Bloomberg [MUNICH] Infineon Technologies AG, Germany's biggest semiconductor maker, said last week it had started testing its "M-Gold" chip, a component of new mobile phones capable of receiving multimedia programming. The company began developing
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      Lock icon British Telecom under fire; rivals complain to Oftel
      476 40 Telcos say BT is rolling out broadband without giving competitors fair access to its exchanges Daily Telegraph [LONDON] A GROUP of telecommunications companies has lodged a formal complaint with Oftel, the industry watchdog, accusing British Telecom (BT) of discriminatory behaviour,by rolling out
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      293 40 AFP [TOKYOj Japan's new telecoms giant KDDI Corp, which made a quiet debut Sunday, will introduce the world's fastest data communications service to compete with its rival NTT DoCoMo Inc, a report said. KDDI, which was formed through a merger between DDI Corp,
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      365 41 Reuters [NEW DELHIFrhe expansion of third generation (3G) wireless technologies in Europe and the US spells a huge business opportunity for India's information technology (IT) services industry, an industry expert said on Thursday. Sharad Sharma, technical manager at Bell Laboratories of Lucent
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      231 41 Report cites NTT as'very interested' in joint venture Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Pacific Century CyberWorks has a backup plan should its US$3 billion (Sss.l billion) partnership with Telstra collapse as the Australian company revises their agreement terms, the company said. CyberWorks, Asia's No 2
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          64 42 LOCAL financial portal AsiaStockWatch.com will launch a paid subscription service with new features, including webcasting, WAP services, and advanced charting tools for sophisticated investors. Subscription will be offered at an introductory rate of $15 per month or $150 per year for those who sign up between
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          54 42 LYCOS Asia, a Lycos-SingTel joint venture, has unveiled its online shopping service on its Singapore site, at www.lycosasia.com.sg. Called Lycos Asia Shop, it offers 11 categories of merchandise, plus a section on Asian-focused wares. More e-tail sites are planned for Malaysia, Hongkong and Taiwan in
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          68 42 YAHOO! Singapore has introduced a local version of Yahoo! GeoCities service, which lets users create their own Web sites and online communities. Users who register for the free service will get 15 MB of space to build their Web pages. They will also have access to
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          58 42 WEB-ECONOMY.COM Pte Ltd, which provides e-solutions, has launched SingaporeDesigner.Com (SDC), a portal targeted at the design industry. The portal, supported by the Singapore Trade Development Board, Designers Association Singapore, and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, will offer online content, showcase company portfolios, and serve
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          70 42 Net Megastore Pte Ltd, an e-commerce solutions provider, has announced its new platform that combines an intelligent back-end data mining system with a customer interface created by Bluewave. The platform has been implemented in the company's virtual store, Discvault.com, an online music retailer. The company says
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      132 43  -  Contributed by Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THERE has been further action in the dry bulk sector with a couple of Panamax bulkers sold and the sale on the capesize Cape Asia Anally being concluded. Demolition prices have continued to remain firm for the limited number of vessels
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      466 43  -  M'si&nport expanding facilities, investing in IT, upgrading workforce By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Penang Port, which has managed to return to profitability, is now gearing up to meet intense competition from regional ports. Its executive chairman Ahmad Ibnihajar said in the port's 1999 annual report
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      336 43 AFP [ATHENS] A Greek vessel ran aground and sank late on Saturday off the Greek coast making it the second shipping accident in a week in the region. The country's maritime authorities immediately banned 65 ferries from operating after reviewing safety measures.
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      102 43 [SINGAPORE] Pirates have struck in Indonesian waters again, this time holding the crew captive for over a day and siphoning out 2,200 metric tons of fuel from a Malay-sian-owned tanker. The pirates attacked the MT Petchem early last Monday near Indonesia's remote Natuna Island
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      760 43  -  LINER SCEME By David Hughes THINGS are changing very rapidly in the container shipping e-commerce scene. That was abundantly clear from last week's Lloyd's List Container Shipping II executive Summit. It was the third conference on the same general topic to be held here this
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      157 43 Reuters [MANILA] Operations resumed at the Manila International Container Terminal after striking workers cleared barricades preventing entry to the port. National Labour Relations Commission chief Roy Seneres said the government asked the 90 striking workers of the International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) to
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        376 44  -  Italian classification society under probe over sinking of tanker Erika From David Hughes in London FRENCH classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has formally stated its desire to take over Italian rival Registro Italiano Navale (Rina) following talks between the two. BV marine division
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        220 44 UK-BASED shipping giant P&O has recorded an 11.9 per cent rise in first-half pre-tax profits to U*****.7 million (Ss4B9 million) despite soaring fuel costs and the loss of duty-free in its P&O Stena joint ferry venture. Operating profit for its non-discontinued operations rose 17 per
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          51 44 A JOINT venture between Chinese group Xixiakou and South Korea-based Daeya Shipping has started operating a passenger-cargo service between the Chinese port of Longyangang and Pingze in S Korea. The 95-mile route, operated by Rongcheng Dalong Shipping, is the shortest currently available between the two
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          65 44 MALAYSIAN transport minister Ling Liong Sik has been chosen to give the opening address at the fifth Terminal Operations Conference and Exhibition for Asia, to be held in Hongkong's Convention and Exhibition Centre in February. Dr Ling will address regional expansion of port, shipping
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          131 44 SWEDISH product and chemical tanker operator Brostrom and German-based Rigel Schiffahrts have signed an alliance deal that will see Rigel's 17,000 dwt vessel fleet come under Brostrom's management after the six ships have completed their present commitments. "This alliance is a viable example of the
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          65 44 FORMER Australian Maritime Safety Authority IMO relations manager lan Williams has won the 1999 International Maritime Prize. Mr Williams received the award, given annually by the International Maritime Organisation, from secretary general Bill O'Neil, in recognition of his "long service to the cause of maritime safety".
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          67 44 JEAN Labescat has been elected president of the International Salvage Union. The managing director of French-based salvor Les Abeilles International succeeds Smit's Hans Walenkamp in the role. His first task will be to press the IMO to include "responder immunity" in its draft Bunker Liability and
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          95 44 JOHN Fredriksen's Frontline has cleared the final hurdle in its bid to take over struggling VLCC and dry bulk operator Golden Ocean as the company's creditors and the bankruptcy court of Wilmington, Delaware have approved Frontline's restructuring plan for Golden. Frontline will take over the firm today
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        635 58 It is focusing on short-term solutions that can cope with increasingly heavy passenger traffic AP [WASHINGTON] After a summer of frustrating delays, US aviation officials reassured members of Congress they are working to alleviate the congestion at the busiest airports. While
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        499 58 PARIS CAS SHOW Reuters [PARIS] With pressure mounting on car makers to slash costs against a backdrop of fierce competition, high oil prices and patchy global demand, consolidation among auto parts suppliers took centre stage at the Paris Car Show on Friday.
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        229 58 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has voted down a proposed merger between China Southern Airlines and Air China, Su Liang, secretary of China Southern Airlines' board of directors, said. Mr Su said that China Southern Airlines and Air China
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        410 58 Doubts over US Airways purchase as carrier counts cost of disruptions AP [NEW YORK] United Airlines warned that costly new contracts with its pilots, coupled with severe disruptions to its service since July, would cause it to report a loss
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      356 48 |^5t I VESSEL VOTAGI SfiP CRM OUR JRA ARII DRM RAM KM HIV ■UN FtUOßfl *****03* OVIO- 12/10 13/10 14^0 r*Hf 0113* 0/10 17/10- If/10- 7110 ■UN ACCORD OUM3I* 09/10 IVIO 1100 If/10 2VIO I UNASSURE OI4S-ol4* 10/10 If/10- 2VIO 2VIO sONGHE 0154* IVIO- H/10- 21/10 3/11- uNASPK OtHOtt* 14/10
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      298 48 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL LINES (PTE LTD I 140 Ceo l Street, *03-00 PtLßuikfing, Singapore *****0. CR NO **********0E 1 I (wga VOT poi wtfi mi I 4»1 30/1 I 1/1 U/l> H/l« lr 11/H M/u n/U tt/f M/)| |/i| 11/111 4/11 I I I ik. b lalii i§ i jjNNjiibiiM
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      417 48 56 TRW BLARGAH ROM) #62-62 OTPORT CENTRE STORE MO TEL *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR MO. **********0W wsa wr HA ETD OBMIQDI HMunrA mnm unwm mim mlmi ■A6URJ 14/7WI P/IIM 6******6 PORTIARAK For aatf bookinf] pltM coatact SEASPACE SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD 133 New Bridge Road
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      498 49 BSfl n. M MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE (Myaamr National Line) Loading for Yangon VESSEL VOY SIN PU PEN PGU MONG LA J$W 518 DAWEI MW 07/10 MALAYSIA AGENTS: OOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES (UL Til 03-*****00 PKL HI 03-*****101 PBfc HI 04-*****02 TOO; Til 07-*****31/4 m| BANK LINE (A serviti of
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      1486 49 HMNEHYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. [VBSa VOY mT*| SOU I IB* IWW NIT HAW BIV IVESSa I VOT I SOU I IB* I RTM I ANT I HAM IMK T SBI AH RAM 020W 05/10 23/10 21/10 25/10 26/10 LA LOK 536f 15/09 16/09 10/99 12/09 04/10 NOLMIS 01IW 06/10
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      735 49 wfrv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE" [VESSEL VQY g HEIGHT SIH |IK *AO MIA SAV lAL QRF NTC NEW MOi TAIKO AHO2O* 400 To« 6.3 M 10/10 09/11 17/11 20/11 22/11 24/11 2S/11 27/11 01/12 WTT" TOURCOING AHO2I 400 Tom 6.3 M 26/10 26/11
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      792 50 BANGKOK/MAP TA PHUT/UUM CHARAMO JAKARTA/*AMJAMQ -HSStt *01 m m I MT> Ikm ivKSti I voy I sw it rm JAfliiM i;;n ta/io 07/iq mo hp m ovio ~&/in UM 04/10 M/ 10 04/10 mi IHUM LUS ASM M/ 10 MATHU IHUM" 41S* 04/10 07/10 AKA BHUM 112 M.-' 10 04/10
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      326 50 TASMAN ORIENT NEW ZEALAND FXJI NOUMEA BREAKBULK CONTAINERS M DAYS FREQUENCY EJUS 52 5L_ JHIL ta smto nou sw w mt m rot mi re TASAUM auSADtt J400C7 73/W 74/W 71/09 29/09 03/10 07/10 19/10 71/10 75/10 74/10 71/10 79/10 30/10 01/11 TASMAMCOMUNDS *****8 02/10 o*/10 07/10 (Mi 12/10 H/10
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      88 53 SINGAPORE PTE LTD W 15 McCailum Street «OVOIA>2 Nafvest Centre Sin«*>ofe *****5 Fat (65| *****66 Email ff rxralWtcugn eculine net Website hop7/ww»eculine net W n E*» Econ LINE r n c»jr EAST MALAYSIA 2 x Fixed Day Sailings per Week between Kuching/Kota Kinabalu/Muara/Sibu S pore Bangkok, Laem Chabang Tawau/Bintulu/Labuan/Sandakan See
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      47 54 pSl> LUES 1111 I I I Hi MOt[ I NFW M ¥0T jmM| I 1 SW ruil r»p on Otl hou QQQ mm |MI I 01/10 IDI 01/11 05/11 11/11 11/11 13/11 I* 7 mi "/10| 'V'O »»/10 20/10 11/10 »S/101 »y/lo|B| 13/11 37/11 04/11 03/11 OS/11
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      51 54 A Meß u kJT BUhUM MITROPORT SHIPPING SDN. BHD. iilClll JINOrOR MERCHANT W, Mm Imhm 4JOOC fwt Stlagar Dnl Etaa, Mmk MARINE CO., LTD. UfraggßgH F«: *03-J*s«»2 (yonoT fAIWIDE SNIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD tAKU fat 721-M72 (S Ums) Fu: 72A-ISI4 CY: CWOTAM6 PKL POIT ILAW6 USW: ULSAH hIS: PIISAM KWY:
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      51 54 SHIPPING* WAREHOUSING In—: Singapore Daily Man to Sat (BATAMIMX) l/III) Aooepung K1 XVwrventxrol/Propxx'VkaY} Lift Reefer Container twloa: Singapore Uading Morv Wed Fri < BATAMINDO 0) Aocepmg FCL/Convertional/Proiea Heavy Lift C*p> T«t 227 0322 Fax: 222 9330 »im Sfcippta® t IM««fa| Pi. Ltd 7* tmmd 1-4—g Pf f lM> li m-Slft
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      990 55 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 latM ImA #04-0! to 03, *****1 MAM UM/OUTWttfc 532 3MI WW AID (M): 437 2340 IMPORT STATUS (DM* 437 2371 WYWTORT (Moh 437 242* Wabsito http://www.swWwi.cee Ct MO. **********01 6266 (Cdio/Jestko/Mai Chon/Jeslynn/Doro/Yvonnc/Honim) nSEMEBEMEM bsigs/wkkiy [msSEEEBI SSIGS/WUUY I w I JA« Ivesse vot m ■agoo mipat)
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      63 55 -A ESP LINES HEW WEEKLY LCI SERVKE TO LAGOS VISSU SAJUNG EVHY TMMSOAT tOUXWG tVBT WID AT UPftt HSTWMI COWVEMTKHOL/MEAKIULK SERVICE EUSIN 10A0WCFM *v IM is/l 0/7000 HO CHI MHNI. VUNGIAU MV "TIN' 17/10/7000 DUBAI DAMNAM MSO IQIfIMC FtQM fptl KIUiG WOiGKOMC UK UHAKIA r,,-.., [11£ vroti til nwai fajl
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      831 55 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO ,r, M :v 1 1 1 1w 1 I IT /'*l i¥ IW Lm! It ij/ I I |HI 1 I Lml II I Vl/I 4 I 10/ 12 I 10/121 14/12 I iSS»!MLx4ii4 It/10 73/10 70/ IB 70/10 07/11 w/ll 14/11
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      86 55 la PI Natobhayu Perusaboon Pelayaran ttLAWAM-ftlN-P.KLAMO WEEKLY fWVKI |%Qr iBAWM SM6APOB POITBAM6 EB EIP Ett fID ftt ETP Ik KNdMibfrts UO7M 05/10 M/ 10 01/10 M« UmJm| Express 0077N 01/10 01/10 10/10 M> (MKkw| Umss KXO7IS 12/10 IVIO IS/10 M. (radmat tipess UO7W -15/10 l</10 17/10 RE6ULAR SWSAPORE VgmAM SERVICE
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      711 55 NBB eng lee shipping co pte ltd I \iC»A Ms MMIM (1* Umil hi: SUMM/S)UtM I ah. ismiiniic I rasa vot mm sunt kstmukm Go* I 9/00 07/10 03/10 Man UwStal? ld/DO 02/10 OS/10 U*4Jo«o 17/00 07/10 07/10 Om/Pmmb OwDwc 14/W 03/10 04/10 OM^/MM/Wmi lAm Ski 18 10/00 03/10 04/10
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      665 56 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN TIGER STAR 838N 03-04/10 09-12/10 17-18/10 TIGER RHYTHM 839N 07-08/10 12-15/10 20-21/10 TIGER BRIDGE 840N 10-11/10 16-19/20 24-25/10 TIGER METRO 841N 14-15/10 19-22/10 27 28/10 TIGER STAR 842N 17 23-26/10 31-01/11 TIGER RHYTHM 843N 20-21/10 26-29/10 03-04/11 I VESSEL VOY SIN CAL SIN TIGER
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      1208 56 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS PTE LTD 51 Penjuru Road, 3rd Level, Freight Links Express Logisricentre, Singapore *****3 Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg WEBSITE: www.freighHinks.net DIRECT CONSOL TO CEBU MV PACIFIC EAGUE V 129 ETA SIN 04/10/00 IZMIR MV JAPAN SENATOR V0935W ETA SIN 05/10/00 FOR BOOKING; *****35/5539/5541/5553/3494 PROJECT SHIPMENT HEAVY
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      740 56 fof booking t enquiry caR *****50 /TV Wtksitr kttp://www.—d.c— yy nSssS^ OOCL guarantees weekly LCL service to USA! We can now accept LCL cargo to: Los Angeles Chicago New York Dallas Atlanta Transit time: Co-loaders are welcome i 1 cfs Location: <Gt Reliable Keppd Distripark Fixed Closina NEW Y0RI( *****
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      89 56 REGULAR SERVICE TO INDONESIA ETA ETD DESTINATION CHAHAYA STAB dVIO 0610 PORT KLANG/PASIR GUOAN&JAKARTA TBN 04/10 07/10 PALEMBANG/PONTIANAMMEDAN PANGKAI BALAM (EAST TIMOR) CHAHAYA VICTORY 05/10 08/10 BANGKOK/PONTIANAK REGULAR SERVICE EX YANGON JUBILANT IN PT 08/10 VISAK/CALCUTTA/ YANGOW REGULAR DIRECT CONTAINER A BREAK BULK SERVICE TO PORT LOUIS A DURBAN EXPORT
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      118 57 LEGEND: Issued by lleieorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm A Showers Rain Temperature Wind direction and speed in knots Day Wea,her U Wind speed symbols Sea Conations O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds j J —-One hall fleche represents 5 knots 1 Moderate, 1 2m
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