The Business Times, 4 October 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internel. ht{p.//business-tirrres.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. 2000
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    62 1 FOSEX BATES ua ss U8S _4 1.74k £(US$/5$pcr£) 1466 1M7 «®0{US¥S*«)_.M77 LSM DH 2130 Urf vw tm a* M—i—. .im ti78 mo 7.7J6 uik *fc= 8,717 S,(W8 rtdaiMB swgaport >. (je KUALA LUMPUR 7Mi JAKARTA j 29JB ay—-nS' fiONOlOOllG ulU tUFB -__7;M, .SVDffEY «c^__8Jt TOKYO U» SEOUL Mt ZURICH**
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    Lock icon Private condo prices fall 2% in Q3: Jones Lang LaSalle
    696 1  -  First quarterly fall since market bottomed in 1998 December quarter By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Prices of private condominiums and apartments fell 2 per cent in the third quarter over the preceding three months, according to property consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle
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    Lock icon Lee Suet Fern quits Wong Partnership
    475 1  -  Top corporate lawyer's departure said to be acrimonious By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Taking legal circles by surprise, Lee Suet Fern, one of Singapore's leading corporate lawyers, has quit The Wong Partnership under acrimonious circumstances. Sources said the firm's managing partner and founder Wong Meng
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    Lock icon SSO to perform at KL's Petronas Towers hall
    358 1  -  Reports say Mahathir's deputy will call on PM Gob in Singapore this month From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN a further sign of warmer bilateral ties, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will perform for the first time at the purpose-built concert hall
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      195 1 DfSEDE Vjka AAamIAA op vIOnOS Japanese business confidence improves, says latest Tankan survey. Nmxt Page t- < > f Indonesia to increase oil share to contactors. Next Pmgm Two S'pore companies among 1$ handed speciai awards by Oracle for e-business solutions. Rg 10 t ■BCJQ Taiwan preBB%M mier Tang Ih|
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      60 1 Asean struggles to iron out Tommy Suhwio kinks in ||i ft", Jf?*** 4 Ps > l7 seek* V>| Peter Presidenvtal Husum on pitaon in-a or; selling points Pq 15 |t A The CEO Speaks, Pg 36 US interest rates V/iH the Federal Open Market Committee keep US interest rates steady?
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Once bitten, twice shy
        90 2 HERE'S a piece of market wisdom from the Sept 11 issue of the Dow Theory Forecast, a US newsletter: "Why do so many Internet businesses run into a cash crunch? Because few pure online commerce or content companies create anything with innate value. Internet content and
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        Lock icon Rubbing shoulders
        48 2 DO you know who is the hairdresser of choice? If you want to be with the movers and shakers, then go to Brown's at the Shangri-I,a Hotel. Among its clients are the Ngs (of Far East), Kuoks (of Shangri-La and Allgreen) and Kweks (of Hong Leong).
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        Lock icon Not optimistic
        52 2 LAST weekend, BT Online ran a poll on the end of the corporate reporting season. The question was: Most companies have reported improved earnings. Will this boost the stock market? The choices made were: Yes, the fundamentals will prevail 27% No, sentiment is still weak —68% I don't
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      Lock icon Big Japan firms optimistic on business outlook: Tankan
      721 2  -  Bat survey shows the gap in perception between small and' big firms is widening From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S leading companies, especially manufacturers, are taking an increasingly optimistic view of the outlook for business and for the Japanese economy, the latest
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      Lock icon Indons offer greater oil share to contractors
      500 2 Sharing formula being changed to encourage exploration Reuters (JAKARTA) Indonesia, desperate to replenish dwindling oil reserves and encourage exploration, said yesterday it would give contractors a greater share of the oil they pump out of the ground. It is the first time in
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      Lock icon Arroganee and coffee don't mix
      437 2  -  iOrtttMC Personal By Corinne Kerk Whsi Kee Luah, co-founder and director, Burfce's A#e»3o Claim to £amei Ms Luah got hooked on the coffee cul ture when she was a university student in Seattle the coffee-drinking capital of the United States. A year after graduating with
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      539 2 Implementing New Accounting Standards Singapore Statements of Accounting Standard (SAS) International Accounting Standards (lAS) Accounting for Employee Stock Options New Approach to Provisions, Proposed US FASB 123, APB 25 and SAS 17(rev)/ lAS 19 Dividends Interim Reporting Monday 16 October 2000, 9am spm SAS 3 l(new)/ lAS 37, SAS 10(rev)/
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Nasdaq landing drags down Singapore firms' shares
      515 4  -  Creative and Stats among Nasdaq-listed S'pore firms hit by overnight tumble Reports by David Boey THEY were the payload when the Nasdaq space shuttle hurtled through space, but Singapore firms listed there are now suffering re-entry burns as it comes back down to
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      Lock icon NEL mum on impact of Apple profit alert
      212 4 NATSTEEL Electronics shareholders will probably have to wait until Oct 18 the day Apple Computer is due to post its full-year 2000 results to find out how hard their company will be hit by the US giant's profit shortfall. Analysts who have
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      Lock icon AsiaOne reports full-year loss of $15 million
      562 4  -  SPH Internet subsidiary encouraged by revenue growth By Teh Hooi Ling SPH Asia One, the Internet subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings, reported a full-year loss of $15 million citing substantial investments in staff, branding and infrastructure. While the results its maiden set since
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      Lock icon Remits 3 months after the event just not good enough
      898 4  -  lock siew paul thompson IN everyday life we often console ourselves that "it's better late than never". But in business, such a notion is drowned out by the mantra of "the sooner the better' for instance launching a product before
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      Lock icon KepFels bags US$76m order, from Chiles again
      359 7  -  US firm ordered a similar jack-np rig in April; two other rigs delivered in 1999 By Conrad Raj THE Keppel Group has clinched a US$76-million order (*****.5 million) for an ul-tra-premium jack-up rig from Chiles Offshore of Houston, Texas. The order was won
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      Lock icon SIA load factor rises in Aug
      163 7 Reuters NATIONAL carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) yesterday said its overall load factor rose to 73.8 per cent in August from 72.3 per cent in the same period last year. The load factor is an indicator for usage of its passenger and cargo capacity. SIA
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      Lock icon VST Tech to sell 50-100m shares in IPO this month
      297 7  -  By David Boey DESPITE the continuing flight from electronics and technology counters triggered by profit warnings from Wall Street, VST Technology Holdings will go ahead with plans for an IPO in the middle of this month. The Bermuda-incorporat-ed distributor of
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      Lock icon DBS explains request to Manila central bank
      423 7  -  It wants to know legality of it buying the 40% of DBS Bank Philippines it does not own By Siow Li Sen DBS Group has asked the Philippines Central Bank to examine the legality of it buying the 40 per cent of DBS
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      Lock icon Merged Somerset, Ascott board under wraps
      488 7  -  By Andrea Tan SOMERSET Holdings and The Ascott's merger document is not giving a clue on the lineup for the board of directors for the new entity. While the names are expected to be out only after the EGM on Oct 23, it is
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      Lock icon Feng shui alive and well
      630 7 Though a high-tech outfit Chartered Semicon among those who steer clear of figure '4' Bloomberg SUPERSTITION still reigns in the corporate world, even for Asia's leading-edge technology companies like Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. Singapore-based Chartered, the No. 3 maker of chips to other companies' designs, refused
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      573 4 FtoCQ/VATERHOUsF(dOPERS U Managing credit risk is an important aspect of a bank's core business. The advent of credit derivatives has allowed banks to transfer credit risk from one party to another, thereby enhancing efficiency and flexibility in credit risk management. The increasing importance of Credit Derivatives has resulted in the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Bank, property stocks gain from shift out of tech sector
      522 6  -  l»ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy TECH stocks took a pounding yesterday as funds shifted their money out of the sector and into banks and property.. The switch was in line with the scenario on Wall Street on Monday, when Nasdaq plunged
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      Lock icon CSM covered wrt looks overpriced even at 4 cents
      200 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy A LOOK at the six-month chart for Chartered Semiconductor reveals a horrendous drop from around $16.50 in May. And in fact, if one were to go just a bit further back, one would find Chartered traded
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      Lock icon OUB set to test $9 soon?
      254 6  -  HOT STOCK By Serena Ng THE stock of Overseas Union Bank has performed strongly in the past two weeks while the wider market has taken a beating and it looks poised for further upside. The counter closed 5 per cent or 40 cents higher
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      122 6 ♦KIM Eng Holdings is going ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 2.00 cits and special dividend of 3.75 cents) on Oct 11. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is Oct 16. Date payable is Oct 30. ♦ERNEST Wong Yuen Weng has resigned as director of the
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      489 6 Stock* Volume Chart Semiconductor 26c 12,948,000 Omni Ind 10c 11,801,000 ST Assembly 25c 6.194,000 NatEJec 10c 6,111,000 Eastern Asia 4,272,000 DBS Land 3,766,000 SembCofp»25c 3,766,000 QES Intl Ltd 20c 3,288,000 NewWave 5c 3,257,000 STEngg 10c 3,168,000 Stock* Chart Semiconductor 26c 124,283,500 DBSQip 51.950,287 VentureMfg25c 48.882,100 Omni Ind 10c 31,741,730 UOB
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      47 6 This announcement appears as a matter of record only Brizay Holdings Ltd $$173,000,000 Secured Bond Issue Comprising: $$103,500,000 6.625 Per Cent Senior Bonds due 2005 5569,500,000 1.00 Per Cent Plus 6.25/6.75/7.25 Per Cent Junior Bonds due 2005 Arranger, Manager and Underwriter Overseas Union Bank Limited September 2000
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      100 6 Grow Your CPF With eiBht Impor'art All for un ts n eicjht must be mode on the. application ferns accompanying the prospectus In/estors mus* read the prospectus The value th« units and the income f r om them may fall as well as use 'US-- Larry Wee's currencies m"""" appears
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Unreasonable to ask government to step in
      336 8  -  HDB Commissions Vincent Tan Chee Kian I REFER to the many articles demanding that HDB step in and rein in the commission rates of housing agents and their practices. I simply cannot understand why so many people cannot accept that the government does
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      Lock icon Agents' fees: leave it to free market principle
      225 8  -  Ang Eng Hock I REFER to the letter "Need for fair market practices" (Mailbag, Oct 2) by Irene Chong and other relevant articles earlier. It seems that we are barking up the wrong tree in the case of asking HDB to cut
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      Lock icon First-time buyer's bad experience with agent
      272 8  -  Grace Tan I REFER to the letters "Moral obligation to ensure fair market practice" (Mailbag, Sept 26) and "Ban commission from the buyer" (Mailbag, Sept 26). I totally agree with the writers, Ng Cheng Teck and Kevin Mah respectively. I had the same bad
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      Lock icon HDB must give a simple and clear reply
      129 8  -  Randy Ong Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter "Criticism is misplaced" (Mailbag, Sept 29) by the Housing and Development Board in reply to Samuel Heng's letter. The criticism may be misplaced due to a "misplaced" letter or timing. However, the
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      Lock icon Agent's fee: HDB should state its position clearly
      359 8  -  Patrick Dan I REFER to the letters, "Agency fees not regulated: HDB" (Mailbag, Sept 23) by the Housing Development Board and "Use lEA members for HDB resale deals" (Mailbag, Sept 29) by the Institute of Estate Agents on the subject of agent
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      Lock icon Concern not addressed
      131 8  -  Samuel Heng I REFER to the letter by HDB "Criticism is misplaced, says HDB" (Mailbag, Sept 29). HDB pointed out that we "were under the mistaken impression that the HDB letter published on Sept 22 was also meant as a response to points raised by Mr Alex
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      Lock icon No cash option for NKF in WizOffice deal
      160 8  -  Raphael Tham Chief executive officer WizOffice.com Ltd WE refer to your article "Deal leaves Kidney Foundation holding 8.4 m WizOffice shares" (Sept 30, 2000). Earlier, in response to a query by Mr Lee Han Shih, WizOffice chairman Seah Chin Yew had stated
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      67 8 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btietterQ sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, 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 GDP growth seen at 8.3%: MAS poll
      409 9  -  I 4on the economy outlook By Anna Teo ECONOMISTS polled last month by the Monetary Authority of Singapore have painted a positive picture of the economic outlook, raising their forecasts for key indicators. But they also cited downside risks from hikes in oil
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      Lock icon NUS economists up GDP growth forecast to 9%
      456 9  -  Inflation expected at 1.3-1.5% this year; high oil price can't be sustained for long By Audrey Tan ECONOMISTS at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have forecast a 9 per cent economic growth for Singapore this year, saying that high oil prices
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      Lock icon MTI's advance Q3 GDP estimates out on Oct 10
      170 9 THE Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) will release the third-quarter advance GDP estimates on Oct 10. Compiled largely from two months' data and released 10 days after the end of each quarter, the advance estimates are meant to give an
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      Lock icon Financial professionals' salary up 16%
      498 9  -  Niche areas saw best increases in last six months: survey By Teh Hooi Ling PROFESSIONALS in Asia's financial sector enjoyed an average salary growth of 16 per cent in the last six months, according to the bi-annual salary survey conducted by Robert Walters, an international
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      Lock icon Oracle honours 2 S'pore firms for e-biz solutions
      296 10  -  They are among 18 worldwide to impress software giant with use of its technology From Jennifer Lien in San Francisco TWO Singapore companies were among 18 companies worldwide to be handed special awards by software giant Oracle Corp on Monday for developing
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      Lock icon S'pore to host UN conference in February
      512 10  -  It'll discuss reform of UN's peacekeeping activities From Catherine Ong in New York SINGAPORE will host a United Nations conference next February to discuss the reform of the UN peace-keeping operations, a subject of much debate within the international community. The conference, the
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      Lock icon Bedok Reservoir site among 3 up for tender
      437 10  -  Bids for private residential plots close on Nov 30 By Marissa Chew THE Housing and Development Board yesterday released the last three sites in its private residential programme this year with one at Bedok Reservoir seen as the most attractive. The other
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      Lock icon BBC opens bureau in S'pore to coordinate Asian services
      278 10  -  By Vivien Ng THE British Broadcasting Corporation yesterday opened a regional bureau in Singapore that will coordinate news from its 17 Asian offices for presentation on BBC-Television, World Service radio and the Internet. The bureau will also gather news and broadcast
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      775 9 LcgalStudio.com" L@C]<ll Documents,,, Check it out at: www.legalstudio.com I VEHICLES The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 302 393. \caj&\ Buy It Sdlt Ftod IL SPH ASIAONE LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) Proforma Results For The Period From 23 July 1999, the date of incorporation to 31 August 2000 The Directors hereby present
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Indonesia, neither failed nor functioning
      762 12  -  7m bottom line OPINION thomas friedman The writer is a New York Times columnist THERE is only one thing to say about Indonesia today: If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have come. Where to start? How about the finance ministry. President Abdurrahman Wahid,
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      108 12 Britain is perhaps the country in the world that's produced the greatest rhetoric about liberty, from people like Milton and John Locke and Shakespeare, without giving people the rights that the poets and playwrights have articulated so forcefully.' Geoffrey Robertson a human rights lawyer, as Britain's first
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      Lock icon Cartels won't save Boat Quay brokers
      656 12 EDITORIAL THERE is a species of stockbroker that many investors —and some other brokers too find obnoxious: the type who scorns small trades as being beneath them. These know-it-all types, who purport to understand all there is to know about the stock market, sneer
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      Lock icon why small firms should be exempt from annual audit
      966 12  -  The report is limited in its coverage and does not add value to conduct of business in Singapore By David Mason The writer was a partner in an international accounting firm in Singapore for 14 years. He is now a business
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      Lock icon In Jerusalem's blood feud, peace is impossible
      694 12  -  COMMENTARY By Howard Kleinberg The writer, a former editor of The Miami News, is a columnist for Cox Newspapers, (e-mail hkmiami(cuaol.com) Cox News THE hardliners have won. It was never going to be any other way, but some were naive to think it
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Market slump may hit IPO plans
      580 13 EPO WOES KLCI falls below 700-level for the first time in 12 months Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Time Engineering Bhd and United Engineers Malaysia Bhd, among Malaysia's biggest companies, may have to postpone yet again the sale of shares in their units as Kuala Lumpur's
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      Lock icon 9 out of 32 new listings under water
      729 13 KUALA LUMPUR THE severe market correction has taken a toll on the 32 companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange this year, causing the share prices of nine of them to dip below their initial public offer (IPO) prices, The Sun
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      Lock icon KL manufacturing investment on the rise
      330 13 KUALA LUMPUR It is set to be doable that of 1999, says Mida official Bloomberg MALAYSIA is on course to attract more than twice as much manufacturing investment this year as in 1999, said Yeow Teck Chai, a deputy director of the Malaysian Industrial
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      Lock icon Economists see rising inflation for KL next year
      555 13  -  Even so, the Malaysian government is unlikely to scrap the currency peg, they add From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN consumer prices are set to inch up next year, but the inflationary pressure will not force the government to abandon
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  • TEXMACO revamp
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      Lock icon Texmaco signs rescue deal
      660 14  -  Ibra gets management control over next 10 years in deal involving hybrid financial products Reports by Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) has completed a landmark corporate debt restructuring deal with one of the country's largest conglomerates, giving the powerful economic entity
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      Lock icon Getting ready for global economy
      1049 14 Having just completed a major corporate debt restructuring exercise, Indonesia's Texmaco group is well-placed to spearhead the country's industrial push. But it has regional ambitions too. The founder and chairman of the group speaks to The Business Times about his plans and his past political
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      347 14 ASEAN SUPREME FUND LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held on October 20, 2000 at 4.00 p.m. at the Garden Room, The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore, 7 Raffles Avenue, Singapore
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Tommy Suharto admits guilt, seeking presidential pardon
      619 15 JAKARTA Suharto doctors 'playing politics 9 says 6ns Dur Bloomberg AFP FORMER president Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, admitted guilt in an illegal land swap for which the Supreme Court sentenced him to 18 months in jail, and is now seeking
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      Lock icon Thai anti-graft panel to probe deputy PM
      137 15 ■BANGKOK AP THAILAND'S top anti-corruption body yesterday launched an investigation into the deputy prime minister's assets following allegations that he had kept secret his ownership of 10,000 stocks. The investigation by the National Commission of Counter Corruption will determine if the minister, Banyat
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      Lock icon HSBC set to close Bangkok Metro deal
      181 15 BANGKOK Bloomberg HSBC Holdings is expected to reach a final agreement to buy Bangkok Metropolitan Bank in mid-October, after almost five months of talks to buy Thailand's No 8 lender, a central banker said. In May, HSBC signed a preliminary agreement to buy
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  • ASEAN meeting
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      Lock icon Asean straggles to iron out kinks in Afta
      1220 17  -  Dispute over delay in liberalisation of automotive industry tests flexibility of free trade area Reports by Tang Razali Kassim in Ckiatigmai THE big debate over whether the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) is dead or alive will be settled this week in
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      Lock icon Linking Afta to Australia, NZ
      234 17 IF the present Asean free trade area is not working well enough, why not enlarge it? This may sound contradictory, but it is (Hi the cards. Meeting here this week, Asean economic ministers are looking at the possibility of linking Afta with the Common Economic
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      Lock icon e-Asean will take pride of place at Singapore summit
      648 17 A framework agreement has been reached for the leaders to sign in November ASEAN officials, worried by the slowdown of the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) project, are working hard to secure an "e- Asean" initiative as the new centrepiece of
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      816 19  -  Simply cobbling e-enabling solutions together is insufficient A holistic approach is needed By Raymond Teh The writer (raymond_teh@i2.com) is president, Asia Pacific, i 2 Technologies. Businesses today compete in two world the physical and the virtual. The latter, which exists on the Internet, has
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      605 20  -  HE group has to make concessions to preserve strategic alliance: reports From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RICHARD Li's Pacific Century Cyberworks is ready to give up its majority stake in its mobile phone business to Australia's Telstra Corp as part
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      503 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp (IBM), the world's largest computer maker, was scheduled to unveil yesterday a new mainframe computer, the first to be sold under a single brand name covering all its business computers. IBM said it was moving its
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      668 20 Battle over music copyrights in cyberspace continues as appeal judges seek more deliberations Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Controversial song-swap company Napster Inc on Monday seemed to strike an upbeat chord in federal appeals court as a three-judge panel decided to allow the popular service
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        129 20 AFP [NEW YORK] Business-to-business commerce over the Internet will surge to a value of US$6.3 trillion (5510.9 trillion) in 2005 in the United States from US$336 billion this year, market research group Jupiter Research said on Monday. It predicted that five of
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        117 20 AFX-Asia [LONDON] LM Ericsson Telefon has started planning for a fourth generation of mobile phone systems, Hakan Eriksson, head of research at Ericsson, was cited by the Financial Times as saying. He said 4G could bring connection speeds up to 50 times faster than third-generation
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        122 20 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch KPN Telecom yesterday said its KPN Mobile unit was still considering applying for a high-speed mobile licence in France, possibly through a web joint venture with Japan's NTT DoCoMo. However, the Dutch operator confirmed expectations it would not seek to obtain a
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        111 20 Bloomberg AP [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp is taking a US$l35 million (***** million) stake in Corel Corp, the Canadian firm that makes WordPerfect and other software for the competing Linux operating system. Corel shares rose as high as 7.11 in after-hours trading after closing at
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      296 20 SAN JOSE, California Bloomberg EBAY Inc. the largest Internet auction site, is teaming with the National Football League to sell autographed footballs, jerseys and other memorabilia as it seeks to increase visitors and revenue. EBay's NFL Auctions page will sell items certified
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      189 20 AP [TORONTO] Tennis champ sisters Venus and Serena Williams have signed a three-year marketing agreement with Canadian telecommunications company Nortel Networks. The Williams sisters, who won the doubles gold medal in the Olympics, will make personal appearances for the Internet and communications company that specialises
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      489 22 Net regulations limiting foreign investment deal blow to shares Reuters [HONGKONG] Shares of Internet content-related firms with designs on China slid yesterday as new regulations from Beijing added to growing investor apathy towards such stocks, analysts said. China-related Web portal tom.com
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      380 22 HONGKONG The 30% cut in offer price to USS9-11 follows global slide in technology stocks Bloomberg ASIA Global Crossing Ltd, which is building Asia's first network to provide Internet services, cut the size of its planned first-time share sale by more than 30 per
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      420 22 HONGKONG Bloomberg CREDIT Suisse First Boston Inc's Asian investment banking unit topped the merger and acquisition advisory tables in the region outside Japan for the first nine months of the year, according to Bloomberg data. CSFB worked on five announced transactions in the region
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      352 22 TAIPEI Reuters AFTER just four months in office, Taiwan Premier Tang Fei has resigned. Mr Tang said yesterday that President Chen Shui-bian had accepted his resignation on health grounds. Mr Tang tendered his resignation days after he said he would quit if the
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      494 22  -  It will use a mix of beanty contest and anction From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong gdvernment yesterday proposed a hybrid method, which combines the beauty contest and auction, for issuing the four third-gen-eration (3G) mobile phone licences incorporated with
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      26 22 the new landscape International Design Forum 4-6 Oct 2000 (10am 6pm) 7 Oct 2000 (10am spm) HOTLINE *****22 KrODAY<g>tt-M». Bllanhe Zaobao WcjnartT who faces rough ride
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      434 23 BOMBAY Plunge attributed to decline in technology and media stocks AFP MARKET capitalisation of the Indian stock markets plunged more than 30 per cent in the six months to September, largely due to a fall in computer, entertainment and media stocks. The
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      151 23 AFP (BOMBAY] India's largest private oil refiner Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) will sign a letter of credit worth US$55O million (***** million) to import oil, reports said. "The deal is Asia's largest and will be signed on Tuesday," The Financial Express said. A Reliance
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      384 23 NEW DELHI It spans cooperation in defence, trade and technology AP AFP RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee signed yesterday a new "strategic partnership" aimed at reviving relations that have wilted since the end of the Cold
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      405 23 KARACHI Reuters PAKISTANI military ruler General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday he would hold national elections in 2002, but gave no date for the vote. "We will hold provincial and national elections in 2002," Gen Musharraf told an award distribution ceremony of the AU Pakistan Newspapers
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      423 24 WASHINGTON The 0.1% drop in the Conference Board's Index is the third decline in the last four months Bloomberg THE index of leading US economic indicators fell in August, the third decline in the last four months, suggesting the
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      605 24 LONDON London bourse may do deals but it's not for sale: LSE chief Reuters SWEDISH stock exchange operator OM Gruppen and its bid target the London Stock Exchange yesterday traded fresh blows as the LSE taunted OM for failing to win
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      345 24 NEW YORK Reuters BILLIONAIRE investor Warren Buffett has stepped up to insure the world's largest ever lottery offering a top prize of US$l billion (551.74 billion) but experts say the chances of his company having to pay out are slim. Mr Buffett's National
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      369 24 SAN JOSE, California Asia-Pacific region boosts worldwide total to USslBb Reuters WORLDWIDE sales'of semiconductors grew 53 per cent to hit record levels in August, driven by strong Asia-Pacific region growth and booming demand for Internet and communications devices. Sales of semiconductors, the tiny
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      236 24 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S fair trade watchdog yesterday issued a warning to the local subsidiary of Apple Computer Inc after a probe into its alleged price-fixing of popular iMac and ißook personal computers. "As a result of our investigation, we issued a warning today
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        56 24 Bloomberg [STAMFORD, Connecticut] Xerox Corp will have a third-quarter loss of 15 cents to 20 cents a share because of lower-than-expected September sales and unfavourable exchange rates. The company was expected to earn 12 cents a share, the average estimate of analysts
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        50 24 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori yesterday named former premier Yasuhiro Nakasone as the country's top foreign policy adviser. A government spokesman said Mr Nakasone would work with former premier Ryutaro Hashimoto, who has been the top foreign policy adviser since August 1998. Reuters
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        60 24 Don Bradstreet to lay off staff Reuters [NEW YORK] Financial information publisher Dim Bradstreet Corp on Monday said it will take a US$lOO million pre-tax charge in the fourth quarter resulting from an undisclosed number of Layoffs. It said most of the charge stems from severance costs, although it did
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        57 24 Reuters [PARIS] French utilities, telecoms and media giant Vivendi reported a 67 per cent rise in first-half net profit on Monday as earnings surged at its communication unit and after an exceptional gain on asset sales. First-half net attributable profit came in at 1.42 billion
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      806 25  -  Letter from Prague Czech leader challenges idea that development is only about making the poor 'richer' materially, says AMTBONT ROWLEY AMTHONY ROWLEY PRESIDENTS and prime ministers of host countries usually deliver "worthy" and predictable speeches when welcoming delegates to an annual meeting of the International
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      729 26 The trouble is that while volatility is down, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite showed declines in Q3 and Q2 this year NYT [NEW YORK] MAYBE peace and quiet are not things to be cherished in the stock market. Stock market volatility, the subject
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      376 26  -  SINGAPORE Unctad official: Boom doe to govt policies, corporate action By Andrea Tan GLOBAL foreign direct investment or FDI is expected to hit a record this year, breaching US$l trillion (551.74 trillion), says a United Nations report released yesterday. This represents
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      463 26 CHICAGO Rival firms cash in on increasing demand for mints and candies AP AMERICAN teenagers aren't consuming as much gum these days. In fact, compared to big chomping years of the past, they're downright eschewing it. That's a problem for Wm Wrigley Jr
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      415 27 LONDON Cash pile to come from high crude prices, cost savings from consolidation The Daily Telegraph Reuters THE world's major oil companies could embark on a huge share buyback programme fuelled by income from the surging price of crude, the Guardian said yesterday.
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      585 27 ST PETERSBURG High oil prices make the region's huge reserves appealing despite the frigid conditions NYT THE far north of Russia is a huge inhospitable sheet of ice and snow. But to Russian and foreign energy companies hungry for new supplies, the
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      477 27 CHICAGO Move to help develop firm into broader food business FT IBP, one of the world's largest meat-packing businesses, is to become a private company again, through a US$3.B billion (556.6 billion) buyout organised by Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette (DLJ), the US investment bank.
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      336 27 NEW YORK Bloomberg FORMER Goldman Sachs Group Inc chairman Jon Corzine will spend US$5O million (SsB7 million) of his money to get elected to the US Senate and that should not bother New Jersey voters because it shows he is independent of
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      389 27 CALGARY, Canada Bloomberg GULF Canada Resources Ltd agreed to buy rival Crestar Energy Inc for C 52.3 billion (552.6 billion) in stock, cash and assumed debt to more than double its natural gas production in Canada. Gulf Canada said it will
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      306 28  -  SGX Derivatives TraAlngReport ST Index/MSCI S'pore Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore TECHNOLOGY stocks in the Singapore market got another bashing yesterday after another profit warning, this time by US giant Xerox. The warning sent the Nasdaq tumbling by more than 2.8 per cent overnight.
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      226 28  -  MS& Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market rebounded yesterday after the Finance Ministry announced the activation of the National Stabilisation Fund. The TWSE Index opened lower below the psychological and technically key support of 6,000. Sentiment in early trade
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      181 28 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] World oil prices held firm yesterday as dealers tried to gauge how tight US heating oil supplies might prove this winter. London Brent futures slipped two US cents to U5531.06 a barrel after jumping US$l.24 on Monday. US
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      319 28 Reuters London THE dollar hit six-week highs against the yen in the aftermath of Japan's key tankan business sentiment survey yesterday, but later backtracked amid selling from Japanese exporters. The dollar had firmed as far as 109 yen early in Europe as European traders focused on weakness among
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      2717 29 HONGKONG AFP PlHaiigSeßg +7(198 HONGKONG share prices rose 0.5 per cent yesterday led by financial stocks on rumours that HSBC Holdings might be in talks to acquire Merrill Lynch, dealers said. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 76.98 points to close
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      369 29 AFP Q*P Index +119J7 TAIWAN share prices rebounded 2 per cent yesterday largely due to strong government support following losses for five consecutive sessions, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 119.37 points to 6,143.44. Yesterday's turnover was NTJ87.91 billion against NT567.05 billion in the previous
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      1971 29 TOETO AFP gummas +ws SHARE prices in Tokyo crept up 0.1 per cent yesterday on late bargain-hunting by institutional investors, brokers said. Investors discounted Bank of Japan's quarterly tankan survey showing business confidence had improved, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index
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      421 30 AFP Q Composite Index +4-59 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.7 per cent higher yesterday on bargain-hunting in selected stocks and with firmer regional markets boosting sentiment, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 4.59 points at 708.54. The Second Board index
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      720 31 AFP P SET Index jj THAILAND'S stock market hit a two-year low yesterday, dropping 1.9 per cent due to heavy selling by foreign investors of major stocks, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index closed down 5.31 points at 271.38 points and the SET 50 index
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      292 31 AFP CI Composite Index -29.64 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 2 per cent lower yesterday with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index down 29.64 points to 1,395.52. Volume fell to 535.59 million shares worth 756.75 million pesos from Monday's 583 million shares worth 806.31 million pesos. —AFP N» *h C88BI
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      619 31 AFP Q Compositelndex -4JS3 INDONESIAN share prices closed down 1.1 per cent yesterday on profit-taking in blue chip stocks, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 4.53 points at 427.71 points on a volume of 472.2 million shares worth 300.6 billion rupiah. Declines led advances 99
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      271 31 AFP QIIZSE-M -183 NEW Zealand stocks were steady yesterday as dealers returned to index leader Telecom Corp which fell heavily on Monday. The NZSE-40 index fell 0.1 per cent or 2.83 points to 1,979.82 on turnover of NZ597.4 million with Telecom up 15 NZ cents to NZss.9s— AFP Oct!
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      554 31 AFP Q All Ordinaries +26J AUSTRALIAN share prices rose 0.8 per cent yesterday due to gains in the banking and resource sectors, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index gained 26.1 points to close at 3,274.3 while the SP/ASX 200 index was up 27.1 points at 3,327.7. Volume stood at
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      627 34  -  Members of the financial community got an eyeful of South-east Asian art at an event hosted by the MAS. UI-HOOM and PARVATHIMAYAR report CHEAH UI-HOON, PARVATHI NAYAR Bespoke suits and corporate portfolios may not always go hand in glove with oils and watercolours. However,
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      939 34  -  ArtSing&pore 2000 may have ended, but an exhibition of Ong Kim Seng's works is still on By Parvathi Nayar WATERCOLOUR maestro Ong Kim Seng's show Celebration of Excellence was the only solo by a Singaporean artist at Art Singapore 2000. The artfair ended yesterday,
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      1009 35  -  I-ii comment CURRENCIES A recent slide has only reinforced its support levels against reaionals larry wee Tl HE Danes said no to the V euro last week and oil prices look likely to steady this month but at still-high levels. So de- spite
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      902 35 Rising commodity prices, improving terms of trade are in its favour THE Australian dollar remains soft despite the Group of Seven's recent intervention to shore up the euro, undermining an oftencited correlation between the two currencies. But there are sound
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      485 35 ISDA SINGAPORE CONFERENCES The Regent Singapore, SINGAPORE The Reg^^S^SW^PORE The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the industry association for the world's leading participants in swaps and other privately negotiated derivatives transactions, will be holding conferences in Singapore on Monday, October 23, 2000 and Tuesday October 24, 2000. On Monday,
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      182 36 CEO SPEAKS. UOB PRIVILEGE BANKING LISTENS. t ■B ,1 T" vi lege At Privilege Banking, we translate every in deposits or unit trust investments. Admittedly, Privilege Banking 1 banking CEO's vision into results. Which is why we'll isn'tfor everyone. But for those of you who do qualify, we're confident m
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      296 37 Reuters THE dry cargo freight market started the week on a quiet note, with rates thought to be little changed from Friday, brokers said. The Baltic indices were mostly lower but this was attributed to the dull conditions rather than any fundamental change in rate levels. The Baltic
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      301 37 MI 'MO •ctl W CWT Distribution 0.60 -0.02 S ChuanHup 0J7 unch 500 Cosco investment 0.17 0.0! 10 Freight IMi 0.14 -0.01 85 G8 Holdings 0.56 -0.02 10 Hal Sun Hup 0.35 -0.01 40 IMC Hoidings-Htt 5.60 unch 0 Jays Holdings 0.16 -0.01 178 KeppeiCorp 3.60 0.06 522
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      573 37  -  Industry-wide consolidation likely as a result of accident: Payer By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] There is no viable alternative to the system of classification societies which is but one link in the maritime safety chain, says the former chairman of the embattled International
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      225 37 Construction ends debate on impact on environment of Halong Bay AFP [HANOI] Vietnam started work on its first-ever deep-sea port in Halong Bay, ending a drawn-out public debate on its environmental impact on the world famous heritage site, officials said. Local authorities launched
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      142 37 AFP [HONGKONG] Construction of a marine shipping route that will link Shenzhen in mainland China with Hongkong will begin by the end of this year, the Xinhua news agency said. Xinhua said the Tonggu Waterway will begin at the mouth of Shenzhen Bay
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      712 37  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer ONE word was heard repeatedly at last week's International Dry Bulk Review. "Consolidation" is the buzzword in the dry trades these days and the general view at the IBC Asia event held at the Regent Hotel was that
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      528 37  -  7,000 tonnes of oil spilled near Riau S'pore cleanup craft on standby By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] A Panama-registered tanker ran aground yesterday at dawn off Singapore waters, spilling at least 7,000 tonnes of crude oil and triggering off a full-scale emergency response from
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      392 37 PEOPLE Former regional manager of Lufthansa Technik AG, Christopher Dehlo has been appointed regional manager and representative (Asia Pacific) of Lufthansa Systems GmbH. Mr Dehio will be responsible for the provision of IT services for the travel and transportation industry. This includes the development of soft and hardware
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        1151 38 In a sea of giants, smaller carriers that can be more flexible and focused more than hold their own ITJ IN the wake of US ocean shipping reform, carriers have a new appreciation for maintaining diversity in the market. The winners are certainly what are
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      310 38 PACE ESP Lines 13 ft Actord 8 twgrew 6 Ahrenkiei 14 foongSun 5 Appenship 5 Frt Links 14 AsiaOCL 13 Assets 8 6 Link 4 Avant 14 Gemartrans 6 B'tanq Mas 8 Genshpg 13 BSA 7 Glory Mav 14 BTL M Hanqli 7 Bala)i Shpq 5 Hanjin
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      24168 44 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyaqe Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number 17/10 12/TI Norasia SAUDI JUBAIL H39* 65-*****33 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire w/x> n/n China Shpq saudi jubail H39* 65
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        686 51 Vessel Voy Mo Berth Arrival Departure Tonqfa 900 Iw 03/10/7:10 03/10/2200 Bt Sjflioni ***** JO! 03/10/8:05 03/10/2000 Winstar 2 33SOO J03 03/10/7:30 03/10/20:00 Hermes 30 J04 03/10/9:10 04/10/9:00 Jaya 189 2 J18 03/10/9:45 04/10/900 WmshuensNn 01 J06 03/10/10:15 04/10/23:00 Bay5«Jt»fT18 M0242 J02 03/10/8:20 03/10/16:00 Royal Frtigh 191 J02
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        1952 51 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACI RAFFLES 0421 V7*0 02/1400 02/1659 FM-00 2A 02/1700 03/0459 03/0900 21 02/1700 03/0659 03/0900 3 03/0700 03/1159 03/M00 4 03/1200 03/1459 03/T700 ACIStAGULL 0068 V3D0 W 02/1500 02/1659 Ft»-00
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        149 51 Oct 0 Hong Kong: Chung Yeung Festival. OoC 0 Canada: Thanksgiving Day. USA: Columbus Day. Oct 10 Japan: Health Sports Day. Taiwan: Double Tenth National Day. Oct 23 Thailand: King Chulalongkorn Day. Oct 20 Brunei Israk Mikraj. Indonesia: Ascension Day of Prophet Muhammad. Oct 20 Malaysia: Deepavali. Nor
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        793 51 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price range? in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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        429 51 Carbon 180 Mai 990.7 0.9 0.9 0.09 66 0.04 s«t 21 Density W(t«r ImMm Ask AkimlMum Silwmt No Move E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 %M/M 380 Ave 986.0 0.4 12-3 0.06 29 0.02 Cum 380 Max 993.1 0.8 M.7 0.09 60 0.05 Wtn v/v
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        630 52 Stakes in fight for order will be high for manufacturers Airbus, Boeing Reuters [LONDON] Air New Zealand unit Ansett Australia is working on ordering more than 50 airliners in a US$3 billion (555.22 billion) deal, fleetplanning manager James Rigney said. The
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        137 52 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian Airlines, one of the country's newest air companies, will begin serving two domestic routes on Nov 20, a report said yesterday. "The plan is almost certain," Indonesian Airlines president Rudy Setyopurnomo told the Bisnis Indonesia daily. The first two
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        292 52 Strong demand, rising jet-fnel prices behind move Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Delta Air Lines and other major US airlines are sticking with a businessfare increase of as much as US$3O (5552.2) each way for US flights, in a reaction to strong demand and rising jetfuel
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        773 52 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co awarded 2,000 senior executives shares valued at about US$l4O million (*****.6 million) last week under an incentive plan triggered by the company's surging stock price, Boeing officials said. The plan could net the managers stock valued at US$B5O million
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        267 52 Stansted security guards fail to detect weapons carried by inspectors: report AFP (LONDON] The British government is holding talks with the operators of Britain's fourth-busiest airport after reports that a gun and a fake bomb were carried undetected through security checks, The Sun
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          63 52 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines said it and Japan Airlines are introducing a Thursday freighter service between Singapore and Osaka Kansai Airport beginning Oct 19. "Both Singapore and Osaka are complementary gateways, with regular electronics and perishables movements between them," it said. The two airlines
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          75 52 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines Ltd unit Silk Air said it will start operating twice weekly flights to Siem Reap in northern Cambodia starting Nov 3,2000. Siem Reap, the gateway to the temples of Angkor including Angkor Wat, is the second Silk Air destination to
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          120 52 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's No 2 airline, said its catering unit LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG will buy the rest of Onex Food Services, Inc, of which it already owns 48 per cent. Terms were not given. The airline catering unit said in
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      1211 38 NORTH AMERICA I I EXPORT 1 I OTHER DESTINATIONS I SSX SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS- P—CT TO LOMQ BEACH~ WEST COAST Of CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SERVICE) vcssa vor puaT|niDsw umgkmm dmias mmston oouoo mwtom obocoott vissa vot BTI njunml acamtu sankmbbo caumo w cauma I omhavwtima I Mwan 00d JAPAN *****
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      639 38 Lines services represented by Members of the Registry of Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore Shipping Association g ULY UNE MALI I vessel Tvor Tii* \~m Tn* P. KLANG SPORE MALE Empress Lily VOBOO 15/10 16/10 23/10 Princess Lily VO7OO 26/10 27/10 03/11 Empress Lily VO9OO 13/11 14/11 21/11 ULY MARINE SERVICES
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      1308 39 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE Ivissa VOY SM HTM ANR HAM BRV SOU FIT L£H I [vtSSEL VOT RTM ANR HAM BRV SOU FIT UH SM "01 BIS 018W 06/10 22/10 24/10 27/10 21/10 RBE S62E 16/09 13/09 14/0911/09 05/10 API RANCE 028W 07/10 30/10 27/10 21/10 25/10 HY FEDERAL 3241
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      1734 40 SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDITERRANEANSANADA «SStL VOY SIM LtH HTM ANB HAM OHV FUt VESSfI VOT SW GIT SP* KB VIC MTU PUGWASH SENATOR 0013W 1411 7110 2? 10 24 10 25 10 20 10 2710 JAPAN SENATOR M3SW OS 10 22 10 2410 2010 2010 04 11 HANJIN
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      1097 40 m 11MAC-NELS S PfIRF M'slA Carrier: MN CONTR LINES, INC p. gudang: (07) *****26 l~J\y VZJ V* 1 W*****001 SIBU: (064) *****9 MANILA: (632) *****24 PENANG: (04) *****36 BANGKOK: (662) *****57 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 P- KELANG: (03) *****77 JKT: (21) *****45 KUCHMG (062) *****1-3 HAIPHONG HO CHI MINH MV "MEUNH"
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      767 40 EXPRESS CO NT A) HER FEEDER FOR N SHEVA ICFS MULUNO MUMBAVCOLOMOO ALSO ACCEPTING TO All NORTHERN ANO WESTERN 1.C.0. POINTS Venei S PORE N SHEVA COLOMBO PKLANC CAPE CREUS V.113W 08 OCT 17 OCT ?1 OCT 27 OCT CAPE CANAVERAL V I3OW IS OCT 24 OCT 21 OCT 03
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      1669 41 IVISStL VOY KHH HKG SIN PKI DXB BAB PMM BIK IRAN HORMOZGAN PCL-175 03/10 04/10 07/10 08/10 15/10 16/10 It/10 20/10 IRAN TEHRAN PCL-176 10/10 11/10 14/10 15/10 22/10 23/10 25/10 27/10 IRAN TABATABAEI PCL-177 17/10 18/10 21/10 22/10 31/10 01/11 03/11 05/11 IRAN KERMAN PCI-178 24/10 25/10 28/10 29/10
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      822 42 fU4K^/uirSCAi««l4^rFtNlAN^UMl>^olviCir EXPORT VESSEL/VOYAGE SGP JmT pMP _ZH ANW LHV ALSO ACCEPTING CARGO TO AND FRO*. FINLAND, DENMARK. SWEDEN, RUSSIA NORWAY ■MIPfTtRRANEAN/HACK StA/EUROP* SERVICES I EXPORT VESSU/VOYAGE I SGP 100 jvw p6 DU RDM NfV W ZH LiLMTYOOkiOIS* WlO 2alonl0 t 24/1Q 2M0'25,-l0Wl0'2»/)0>/l0 NUWAGOCWOOHO33W 17/lfl 30/10 ■i T j6uuoo6s-oi)w (*v mnji/iriin
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      468 42 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 3383? 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. CR NO **********0E 1 ||«ssa VOT WC Isw I m stp m out pSc m 3* ms KB Ml- W/10 S/11 IY/n M/il| I I |vcsa vor m An rot wig msm tn m
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      68 49 F—^ CHINA 2 SAILINGS WEEKLY Accepting LCL/FCL to all destinations in China EKSIN 8/10/00 -12/10/00 Nedfcyd Oceonw V.18E38 15/10/00- 19/10/00 Frankfurt Exprew V.I 7E39 REGULAR SINGAPORE/VIETNAM SERVICE vissas vot riA rn> mstmatxm THANH DA 1/7000 04/10 0«/10 VUNGTAU/NCMC THANGIONGI 6/2000 04/10 07/10 VUNGTAU/NCMC SONG HAD 2/2000 04/10 01/10 VUNGTAU/HCMC agents
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      582 49 ITSSHSI ENG 111 SHIPPING CO PTE ITDI I M: 5333MJ (10 Umi| hi: 533M3«/S33*fM I I T c» i smtoooooc I VESSEL VOT SIN FU SIN TO DESTIItATK* UnonStalS 10/D0 03/10 04/10 Duma UnwSiarW 14/00 04/10 05/10 Surtoyc UiwSibß 9/00 04/10 05/10 BUD'Duma OwDm/e 16/00 05/10 06/10 Duma/? Bam/Buator UmonS«*lB
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      623 50 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN I TIGER RHYTHM 839N 07WI0 12-15/10 20-21/10 I TIGER BRIDGE 840N 10-11/10 16-19/20 24-25/10 I TIGER METRO 841N 14-15/10 19-22/10 27-28/10 I TIGER STAR 842N 17 18/10 31-01/11 I TIGER RHYTHM 843N 20-21/10 26-29/10 03-04/11 I TIGER BRIDGE 844N 24-25/10 07-0811 I I" VESSEL
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      854 50 For booking t enquiry call *****80 vCV Waksita: http://www.MdxM \Jj/ 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 lasiKotkn: Reliable 27A5«p»2000 Keppei Distripark fjf Fixed Closiiia Blk 513, Kampong Bahm
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      143 51 J® FOR 7AM 4 OCT 2000 JBggg£ V /m pa "'i MOBE *TTBE aifciN LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm A Showers Rain Temperature C s-Y wind direction and speed in knots Weather w Cloudy Day C tT? M Sea Conditions Wind speed symbols I S) <1 2m
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