The Business Times, 10 October 2000

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: hup://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2000
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  • 75 1 FOBEX BATES uss s$ USS 1.760 £(US$/8$per£) 1.448 2.533 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0M9 1.520 DM 1281 1587 YEN 109.1 62.30 RM 3500 1172 HKS 7.797 4.466 BAHT 4163 2430 RUPIAH 8310 5,036 Avert# at 10 teaks. "Float Central Bank discount ratw P1IHE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK
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  • 1194 1  -  miaiMiiunfj Their biggest revenue source set to plnnge when fees are freed up in a year or two By Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore lawyers face a "blood bath" when their single biggest source of revenue conveyancing is liberalised next year or the year
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  • 521 1  -  Selldowu overdone as fundamentals are good, say analysts By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The local stock market suffered its biggest single-session fall in years yesterday as investors panicked over a possible tech stock meltdown on Wall Street. After struggling to stay above the critical
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  • 558 1  -  But transport fare hikes unavoidable if prices stay high By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The Singapore economy will do well for the rest of this year and in 2001 despite high oil prices, Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo said in Parliament
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    • 108 1 INSIDE Top Stories Chiyoda Life files for protection. Its 2.94t yen debt makes it biggest ever Japanese corporate bankruptcy. Pg 26 Indonesia names new army, navy chiefs. Mmxt Page Ibra on course to raise 18.9t rupiah this year, says vice-chair-man. Pg 20 IPO Watch: Frontline Technologies to offer 150 m
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    • 8 1 Market updates For today's market updates, go to
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    • 201 1 Q3 QDP •sthnatM The Ministry of Trad© and Industry win release the third-quarter 2000 advance QDP eeMmateefib morning. Fun dtMte w« be avalabie, from atevt Bam, at httpaffbumki— «—Mritf .#—.e|| More reports, Pg 9 S2b Sing Tel, Star Hub payout justified Maersk's shift does not reflect badly on PSA: Cheow
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    • 369 2 It will help package news, information for businesswomen, highlight success stories [SINGAPORE] The Business Times will soon feature more articles on women in business, in partnership with a new Internet website tailored exclusively for Asian women. The New Asia Woman, com site, launched yesterday
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    • 513 2 He emphasises need to increase professionalism of military Reuters [JAKARTA) Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday dumped his army and navy chiefs in a widely expected move as he tries to bring his unruly military to heel. Mr Abdurrahman replaced Army
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    • ON THE grapewine
      • 88 2 SHOULD bank branches be renamed outlets? This turned out to be an issue of sorts at the reopening of OCBC's Specialists' Centre branch yesterday. Officials did not seem to take too kindly at first to journalists' repeated references to the branch as an outlet. But after a
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      • 108 2 NEVER underestimate the power of a misdirected question. At a recent conference, a member of the audience asked one of the presenters whether luck had anything to do with the success of e-commerce venture capitalism. The presenter misinterpreted the question as "What does love have to do
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      • 70 2 WE all know one of the most coveted awards for any firm is that given by the Geneva-based International Standards Organisation or ISO. But what international standards does a karaoke lounge have to comply with? Club Tycoon, a KTV lounge at the Novotel Apollo Singapore, says it has
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    • 453 2  -  Agreement could be concluded within a yean Japan minister By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE! The Free Trade Agreement being considered" between Japan and Singapore will be a "New Age" one that is "without precedent" and could be concluded within a year,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 474 4  -  It points out that IRAS has niled that compensation does not attract tax !ty Teh Hooi Ling IN a surprise development, Singapore Telecom yesterday disagreed with the position of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) that it cannot keep the full $1.5
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    • 419 4  -  Holding company of Royal Sporting House takes Showpla's place By Andrea Tan ROYAL Clicks, the holding company of Royal Sporting House, is expected to list on the main board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on Thursday after a reverse takeover of Showpla Asia.
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    • 462 4  -  By Serena Ng SHARES of City e-Solutions (Citye) the former CDL Hotels International were consolidated yesterday and performed dismally in the weak market. The shares closed at HK50.045 last Friday, and yesterday were consolidated from 20 to one as part of the company's complex
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    • 539 4  -  HocKfmicjfdui conrad raj THERE was a time when face meant everything be it a person or a company. But sadly, this doesn't appear to be the case these days. Otherwise, how can you explain the failure of Bintan Lagoon Resort
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    • 309 7 But holders of such accounts will not get any interest Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank, Singapore's secondlargest lender by assets, is promising account holders who trade at least $1 million of currencies through the bank they'll never lose money. The bank is
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    • 499 7  -  By\ Serena Ng ABN Amro bank announced yesterday it will soon have its first off-site automated teller machine at Centrepoint Shopping Centre. And OCBC officially reopened its renovated branch in the Specialists' Centre complete with coffee joint, in a
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    • 542 7  -  BTiamiu.uj 38m shares for S'pore offering price likely to be $0.40 each: source Andrew Wee FRONTLINE Technologies Corp Ltd is expected to offer 150.6 million new shares for its initial public offer to be launched on Thursday. According to a copy of Frontline's
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    • 375 8 USss7o4m China toll road agreement lapses despite several extensions to deadline THE hopes that Ho Wah Genting International had placed on a long-delayed billion-dollar China deal have come to nought. The company yesterday said the US$7O4 million (Ssl.2 billion) deal to buy the
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    • 209 8 HONG Leong Asia (HLA) has acquired medium-sized ready-mixed concrete supplier Optimix for $3 million. The acquisition was done through its subsidiary Island Concrete. The combined market share of Island Concrete, the existing HLA ready-mixed concrete company, and Optimix will be around 12 per cent
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 41 8 SEMBCORP Industries said wholly-owned Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation has disposed of its entire 40 per cent shareholding of 4.8 million shares in Far East Biscuit Factory (Hongkong) to Khong Guan Biscuit Factory (S) for $5.8 million.
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      • 78 8 AFX-Asia [MANILA] The central bank policy-making Monetary Board has approved a plan by Singapore's DBS Bank to increase its stake in unit DBS Bank Philippines Inc to 100 per cent from 60 per cent, central bank deputy governor Alberto Reyes said. He added that the central
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      • 37 8 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] OSK Holdings Bhd has completed a deal to wholly acquire Penang-based Ke-Zan Securities Sdn Bhd from Singapore's Kim Eng Securities, The Edge weekly reported, without citing sources. —AFX-Asia
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      • 34 8 ECON International said its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Econ Piling Pte Ltd and Econ Resources Pte Ltd have changed their names to Econ Corporation Ltd and Econ Corporation International Ltd respectively.
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      • 74 8 Corrections Clarifications Our report on Saturday "Staking out a place in cyberspace quoted Peter 800, the former chairman and MD of MHE Holdings (now known as Cybermast), as saying that he had sold 19.61 per cent of his interest in the company "to Mr David Lim, chairman of Freight Links
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    • 325 8 It eyes stake in compact disc maker, bigger share of joint venture INDUSTRIAL gas and equipment supplier Ace Dynamics has secured options to buy shares in two companies and has agreed to buy a piece of property near the proposed Serangoon MRT station. Under
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 489 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Straits Times Index crashed through key support at 1,900 points yesterday as investors dumped technology counters and blue chips. Traders said sentiment was dampened by fears of a Wall Street tech stock meltdown. Jitters had
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    • 162 6  -  WARRANT WATCH Ven Sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market's benchmark index tumbled almost four per cent yesterday, chalking up one of its worst single-session falls in years. Under such circumstances, one would expect most warrants to fall. After all, warrants are bull market instruments. Still,
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    • 240 6  -  HOT STOCK By Serena Ng THE stock of Singapore Telecommunications has been fluctuating within a narrow range in recent trading sessions and looks likely to consolidate at current levels. The counter yesterday closed 7 cents lower at 52.62 on a volume of 2.28
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    • 133 6 JURONG Engineering's Indonesian associate, PT Cilegon Fabricators has increased its paid-up capital by US$l million (Ssl.7 million) to US$B.35 million. PT Cilegon's main activities are the fabrication of steel structures, pressure vessels and container cranes. Despite the increase, Jurong Engineering's stake in PT Cilegon remains unchanged at 39.8
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    • 323 6  -  JUyLaaaJbyUMMil CURRENCIES larry wee ASIAN currencies were put on the defensive yesterday by bad news from the US and Japan, although thin trading due to holidays may have limited their slide. But the holidays in Japan and the US did not prevent the
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    • 480 6 Stock* Volume Sea town 5c 121,676,000 NatElec 10c 7,871.000 Eastern Asia 5,941,000 PacificCenturylOc 5,381,000 SMRT10C 4,955,000 SPH 4,860,000 NOL 4,327,000 STEngg 10c 4,195,000 ChewEuHock 20c 3,857,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 3,260,000 Stocks SPH 117,510,190 Chart Semiconductor 26c 28,874,840 NatElec 10c 27,827,320 VentureMfg25c 25,980,770 Datacrafl 10c 23,458,579 DBSQrp 21,296,121 City Dev 50c
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 605 9  -  PARLIAMENT Cheow Tong calls it 'a small price to pay' to sharpen Singapore's competitiveness Reports by Anna Teo AGAINST a barrage of criticism, Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said the $2 billion payout to Singapore Telecommunications and Star Hub was "a small
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    • IN Brief
      • 57 9 PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a bill to introduce compulsory education in Singapore. This stipulates a minimum period of education for all Singaporean children up to primary six, "even though 10 years of general education would be ideal", Education Minister Teo Chee Hean said. Certain groups, such
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      • 94 9 STRATEGIES and measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises, set out in the SME2I blueprint, will be rolled out in the next two years. These measures would address the needs of SMEs at the enterprise, industry and broad-based levels, said Trade Industry Senior Parliamentary
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      • 71 9 THE Housing and Development Board has no plans to revise the income ceiling for HDB flat applicants, Minister of State (National Development) John Chen (right) said yesterday. The current income ceilings are adequate to cater to the housing needs of most Singaporean families,
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      • 53 9 THE question-and-answer session that kicks off each Parliament sitting has been extended by a half hour to 2pm. MPs have complained that the hour-long session is too short, said the Leader of the House, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng, in proposing the change, to be effective
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    • 527 9 PSA is committed to providing value-added, cost-competitive services THE decision of Maersk Sealand, the world's largest container line, to relocate its hub to Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) does not reflect a lack of competitiveness on the part of
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    • 239 9  -  liy Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE'S foreign reserves surged 1.9 per cent month on month to a record $136 billion in September, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. Compared with a year earlier, official foreign reserves were up a substantial 4.9 per
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    • 463 9  -  By Serena Ng CITIBANK yesterday launched a financial education programme for local university students who are taught by volunteers from various divisions of the bank. The programme, called "Foundations in Finance", is part of Citibank's community projects. Started in association with the Singapore
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    • 568 9  -  This should yield at least 100,000 new professional jobs By Vivien Ng THE Economic Development Board (EDB) hopes to attract 500 regional and international headquarters to Singapore over the next 10 years, leading to at least 100,000 professional jobs
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    • 452 12  -  50pm peso expansion catering to foreign investors who want to set np plants at Carmelray Industrial Park From Al Labita in Manila SINGAPORE'S Jurong Town Corp (JTC) is expanding its Silicon Valley-type industrial venture in the Philippines to take advantage of the strong
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    • 364 12  -  The Republic is the only nominee in the Asian group From Catherine Ong in New York SINGAPORE'S election as a non-permanent member of the United Nation's Security Council will be voted in the UN General Assembly today but as the only
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    • 378 12  -  MAiurm Yeong Wai Cheong I REFER to the article "T+3 blamed for low SGX trading volume" (BT, Oct 6). Your article quoted an unnamed dealer from a local brokerage firm suggesting that "no client (had) ever complained about high brokerage charges in the past".
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    • 210 12  -  Alvin Ng I REFER to the letter "All existing MRT stations to get lifts" by Han Liang Yan of the Land Transport Authority (Mailbag, Oct 2). While I can understand that an individual transport company should make its own decision in granting concessions,
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    • 471 12  -  Michael See I REFER to the commentary "Sold on the soft sell" (BT, Oct 6) by Siow Li Sen. I tend to agree on the soft sell approach. Who would welcome the traditional high-pressure selling salesman these days? What will lead to a win-win
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    • 131 12  -  Saiful MK I REFER to the article "Sold on soft sell" by Siow Li Sen (BT, Oct 6). I really wish to meet the person she wrote about, Jeffrey Yuen from Maybank, who wins a person's trust and confidence and looks at
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    • 281 12  -  Tham Chee Chung I REFER to the letter "Time to scrap odd-lot market" by Tan Keng Soon (Mailbag, Oct 7) and would like to add my observations. The current lack of liquidity in the odd-lot market largely arises from the legacy of the board-lot
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    • 84 12  - Temasek a lion share company? Lim Song Hai I REFER to the article "KepLand and the dominant industry theory" (BT, Sept 26). It was well thought out and written. But is there ever going to be any opposition to the eventuality that the key industry will in turn be controlled
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  • FOCUS property
    • 941 13  -  PROPERTY Does It make sense for the flnn to be taken over and loaded with more debts? lee han shih THE takeover of DBS Land by Pidemco Land, its promoters have proclaimed, will create the biggest property player in South-east Asia.
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    • 1504 14 Decent income, goodwill are among gains for brokers in competitive market NYT THE big deals, the ones that account for hundreds of thousands of square feet of office space at a time, are the ones that attract the most attention in the
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    • 418 13 I (3 JSB&tej fl No. 12 Ang Mo Kio 65 Ang Mo Kio 3 Singapore *****0 WeS* 1 -"Ufc*-' Description The property is a six-storey light industrial building situated in Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 3 Legal Description Lots All 713 and All 713(a) Tenure 30 years lease commencing from
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 670 16  -  EESBSSm OPINION sree kumar The writer is a development economist and partner in a consultingfirm Telecommunications workers in India staged protests over restructuring that turned the Department of Telecoms Services into a government-owned company last month. This was a signal to the politicians
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    • 142 16 The longer I'm alive, the less conviction I have that anyone can predict currencies with accuracy. I'm surprised at the strength of the dollar and the weakness of the euro. It's a rotational pattern.' Michael Stolper investment adviser, on hedging currencies. 'Malaysia resents being regarded as a
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    • 662 16 EDITORIAL AS compromises go, the protocol cobbled together to cope with countries seeking delays in tariffcut requirements of the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) has considerable merit Asean had to find a way to settle exemptions from Afta without ripping up the whole fabric of
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    • 1311 16  -  M&rkets worldwide are too competitive, so it is much harder to pass higher oil prices through By Ed Yardeni The writer is chief investment strategist, Deutsche Bank Securities THE fast drop in the Dow Jones Industrials Average in September suggests that some
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    • 780 16  -  COMMENTARY By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT NYT HOLD your horsemen! Last week, the market guru James Cramer, once famed for his boundless optimism about tech stocks, declared himself, yes, disillusioned with the sector. He detailed
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 364 17  -  Purchases reflect family's belief that company is undervalued, say analysts From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN an unusual development, Lim Goh Tong's family has bought shares of its Resorts World, the operator of the sole casino in Malaysia, a move which reflects
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    • 513 17 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SPURRED by a strong manufacturing sector, Malaysian industrial output soared 18.7 per cent in August from a year earlier, underpinning forecasts of robust gross domestic product growth in 2000. But economists warned that growth in electronics exports, the mainstay of manufacturing
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    • 157 17 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Sime Darby Bhd is planning a group-wide reorganisation of its operations which could involve the disposal of non-care businesses, The Edge weekly reported, citing unnamed sources. There are ongoing discussions at top management levels in the company and
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    • 224 17 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg UNITED Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM) shares plunged to a 14-month low on concern its vice-chairman, Halim Saad, won't honour an option due in February to buy back more than US$6OO million (Ssl billion) in Renong Bhd stock
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    • 349 17 KUALALUMPUR Telekom Malaysia unit sees losses narrowing to RM3OOm in '00, aims to be profitable in '02 AP THE mobile telephone unit of Malaysia's top telecommunications company, Telekom Malaysia, is looking to turn a profit and list on the Kuala
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  • e-NEWS
    • 621 19 PALO ALTO, California No matter how mnch growth it reports, investors will worry about its ontlook Reuters YAHOO Inc may be the best of the bunch in the Internet media business, but people are not sure what that counts for anymore. As
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    • 444 19 NYT [NEW YORK] Many an Internet retailer has assumed that one of the quickest paths to profitability is to sell expensive goods: the higher the price, the higher the profit margin. Such simple math lured a swarm of so-called luxury goods retailers onto the Web
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    • 243 19 LONDON The Sunday Telegraph BRITISH police have condemned the launch of a company that allows burglars to negotiate with their victims to return property in exchange for a "reward". The company is aimed at the international antiques, paintings and jewellery market, and works from
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 307 20 JAKARTA AG office says it bans Tommy from leaving country after graft conviction AP BUREAUCRATIC procedure could keep the convicted son of ex-dictator Suharto out of prison for at least another month even though the president has
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    • 518 20  -  SINGAPORE It has raked in 12t rnpiah, expects 5-6t rupiah from sale of major groups' assets By Vikram Khanna THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) will meet its revenue target of 18.9 trillion rupiah (553.7 billion) (net of costs)
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    • 126 20 Ibra manages assets and claims with a face value of about US$62 billion, equivalent to more than 25 per cent of Indonesia's GDP. Of these: about US$3l billion are financial assets —essentially bank loans given to some 150,000 debtors. The top 2,000 debtors account for
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    • 410 20 Reuters AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Indonesia's chief economics minister Rizal Ramli yesterday said ties with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had improved in recent days because the IMF had softened its stance on a controversial debt restructuring deal. But Mr Ramli accused the Fund,
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    • 417 22 MANILA Provincial governor says he gave president 130 m pesos from tax proceeds AP A PROVINCIAL governor claimed yesterday he collected payoffs from illegal gambling operations for President Joseph Estrada and gave him 130 million pesos (554.9 million) from the province's tax proceeds.
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    • 363 22  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CHINA Mobile (HK) has secured the largest yuan-de-nominated loan ever to finance partly its takeover of seven mobile phone networks from its mainland parent announced last week. In a statement yesterday, Bank of China Hongkong-Ma-cau Regional Office said
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    • 333 22  -  SINGAPORE By Suresh Menon THE technology fever sweeping southern India has prompted the northern state of Haryana to reconfigure its engine of economic growth. A rich agrarian economy till recently, it now intends to become the information technology hub
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    • 592 22  -  Offer closes Thursday; together with global placement firm should raise USs3£b From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong LESS than a week after shares of the Mass Transit Railway were oversubscribed 30 times, China Petroleum Chemical Corp or Sinopec yesterday launched its initial
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    • 331 22 TAIPEI Bat bourse remains weak, benchmark TAIEX closes 2.25% down at 6,209.42 Reuters Bloomberg TAIWAN'S new Cabinet announced moves to shore up the ailing stock market and banking sector yesterday, but share prices tumbled all the same. Vice-Premier Lai In-jaw said Taiwan had
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    • 375 24 LONDON Reuters BRITISH drugs group SmithKline Beecham pic said yesterday that it was buying Block Drug Co, maker of Sensodyne toothpaste, for US$l.24 billion (552.17 billion) to boost its presence in oral healthcare and over-the-counter medicines. SmithKline said it would pay US$53 per
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    • 572 24 LONDON Fears that wider conflict may disrupt output in region cause rise of up to 3% Bloomberg CRUDE oil rose as much as 3 per cent as escalating tension between Israelis and Palestinians fuelled concern of a wider Middle East conflict that would
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    • 672 24 m NEW DELHI AP FEDERAL police filed corruption charges yesterday against three brothers from the Hinduja family, one of Britain's richest, in a case related to a 1986 kickback scandal in the purchase of Bofors artillery guns from Sweden. The Central Bureau
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    • 693 24 NEW YORK New loans to such firms down 25% in Ist 9 months this year, says SAP nnit NYT AS the stock market gyrates and rumours are heard about Wall Street firms incurring losses on high-yield bonds, investment worries are spreading to new markets.
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    • 1199 25 While some analysis find slower sales growth ominous, others expect growing worldwide sales to take up slack for the industry NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] THE US personal computer industry, whose double-digit growth helped propel technology stocks for years, finally faces stiff competition from PCs
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    • 309 25 SAN JOSE Demand expected to be powered by Net and cell phone users Bloomberg SEMICONDUCTOR sales could jump 37 per cent this year, more than previously expected, with slower growth the next two years followed by a "moderate" decline in 2003, Dataquest Inc
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    • 502 26 TOKYO 2.94t yen debt makes it biggest ever Japanese corporate bankruptcy Reuters IN the biggest failure of a Japanese life insurer to date, Japan's Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co has filed for court protection from creditors under new fast-track laws for financial firms.
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    • 275 27  -  SGX Derivatives TtaUUnglteport ST S'pore Index Lau Chee Keong THE Straits Times Index ended sharply lower yesterday following the sell-off in the Nasdaq and Dow Jones overnight. The lower-than-expected US unemployment rate of 3.9 per cent in September, lowest in 30 years, sent the
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    • 234 27  -  MS& Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong TAIWAN stocks tumbled yesterday following sharp falls on both the Nasdaq and Dow Jones on Friday. The MSCI Taiwan index was a touch lower on Saturday at 285.99, a loss of 0.73 of a point or 0.25 per cent. The
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    • 318 27 Reuters London THE euro was caged in tight ranges above Friday's postintervention lows against the dollar and the yen yesterday, supported by wariness of further joint central bank action and news of Japan's biggest corporate failure. Market holidays in both Japan and the US meant the foreign exchanges
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    • 2828 30 HONGKONG AFP PHangSeng -49L18 HONGKONG share prices dropped 3 per cent yesterday on profit-taking following recent gains and after falls on Wall Street at the end of last week, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 491.18 points to close
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    • 364 30 AFP QWP Index -***** TAIWAN shares closed 2.2 per cent lower yesterday on selling of technology stocks, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 142.61 points to 6,209.42 on turnover of NT559.48 billion. Decliners led risers 456 to 107, with 57 issues unchanged. "Investors continue to
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    • 432 31 AFP CI Composite Index -456 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday due to a lack of fresh leads and losses on Wall Street at the end of last week, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down
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      759 32 Bloomberg PSETlndn -&39 THAILAND'S benchmark stock index notched its biggest percentage drop in two weeks yesterday, led by Loxley after the telecommunications systems distributor said it will sell shares to shareholders. The SET index dropped 6.39 points, or 2.4 per cent, to 261.29, the lowest since Oct 6, 1998.
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    • 261 32 AFP Q Composite Index -2349 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 1.7 per cent yesterday with the index down 23.99 points to 1,365.01. Turnover fell to 319 million shares but value rose to 605 million pesos compared to 568.66 million shares worth 501.42 million pesos on Friday.— AFP <*1 9 Hi*
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      635 32 AFP CI Composite Index -6164 JAKARTA share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday because of foreign program selling amid concerns about the government's commitment to the country's economic reform programme, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 6.64 points at 415.36 with volume of 345.66
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    • 253 32 AFP QIOSE-W J -2.62 NEW Zealand shares closed down 0.2 per cent yesterday, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 2.62 points to 1,925.94 on market turnover of NZ578.04 million. David Fergusson of Greenslades said selling pressure on market heavyweight Telecom Corp had eased. AFP Oct 9 ws now
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    • 554 32 AFP Q All Ordinaries -18.6 AUSTRALIAN shares fell 0.6 per cent yesterday as investors continued to cast an anxious eye towards US markets, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index closed 18.6 points lower at 3,226.2, while the SP/ASX 200 fell 19.2 points to 3,274.3. Turnover was 348.3 million shares
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    • 311 32 AFP Q Composite Index -19-67 SOUTH Korea's index fell 3.2 per cent or 19.67 points yesterday to 589.18. Volume was 339.9 million shares worth 1.77 trillion won. —AFP Oct» Vw <f Anam Stmt 6840 -160 Brain Tech 740 -5 Central Ban* 360 -5 Cftetl Comnt ***** -2500 Oa* Go
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    • 1351 35  -  The blooming of dormant potential in life sciences research has come from strides in IT, reports tan su yen TAN SU YEN TALK about a knowledge-based economy and immediately the myriad possibilities thrown up by the confluence of electronics, IT and information communications come
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    • 133 37 Reuters THE The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed one point to 1,720, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) slipped four points to 1,600, the Baltic Handy Index (BHI) was unchanged at 1,153, the Baltic Handymax Index rose 19 points to 10,129 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD dipped one
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    • 1001 37  -  Intercargo chairman is bent on bridging divide between East and West By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A leading Asian shipowner has called for a strong leadership role by Asian shipping interests whose voice has been virtually non-existent on the international scene, until
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    • 187 37 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Shipyard has secured a $30 million contract from Jordanian shipping company Blue Ice Shipping Corp to convert a container vessel into a livestock carrier, it said yesterday. Conversion works on the 24,515-dwt container vessel Maysora will be
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    • 221 37 [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) won the Best Bunkering Policy award at the Lloyd's List Maritime Asia awards held recently for its various bunkering initiatives, which gained Singapore the title of the world's busiest bunkering port, with sales of 18.89
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      • 679 38  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes MARINE surveyors have come under the spotlight recently. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is introducing a licensing scheme for bunker surveyors while the rigour of classification society surveys, especially of older tonnage, is coming under increased
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      • 498 38 MBT Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik has told Malaysian shipowners that government incentives alone will not guarantee their success and urged them to venture out and form strategic alliances. He said the attractive income tax exemption blanket for Malaysian shipping companies is
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      • 133 49 Out 10 Japan: Health Sports Day. Taiwan: Double Tenth National Day. Oct 23 Thailand: King Chulalongkorn Day. Oot 28 Brunei: Israk Mikraj. Indonesia: Ascension Day of Prophet Muhammad. Out 2fl Malaysia: Deepavali. Not 1 Philippines: All Saint's Day. Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nov 4 Sweden: All Saint's
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      • 407 50 South Korea's new USs7b int'l airport busy preparing for opening early next year Oana-Yonhap [SEOUL] With six months to go, the official countdown has started for the inauguration of Inchon International Airport as a major North-east Asian air traffic hub. The
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      • 254 50 Bloomberg [FORT WORTH, Texas] American Airlines' pilots union appealed a judge's ruling that passengers can sue the group for disrupting their travel during a 1999 work stoppage that forced the carrier to cancel about 6,600 flights. The Allied Pilots Association asked
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      • 330 50 AFP [BAGHDAD] An aircraft from Istanbul carrying doctors among a Turkish delegation landed at the Iraqi capital yesterday in the latest initiative against a decadeold UN air embargo. The Arkas air flight was to be followed by a second Turkish aircraft today,
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      • 49 50 AP [VANCOUVER, British Columbia] Allan Booth surfs the Internet with a wireless connection before his Delta Air Lines flight to New Zealand at Vancouver International Airport. Hoping to soothe delayed passengers, several airlines want to install the service, already offered by Delta in Vancouver.— AP
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      • 371 50 Low-fare carrier to decide on starting Brisbane-Melbourne flights today Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Impulse Airlines, an Australian low-fare carrier, said it could decide on flights between Brisbane and Melbourne at a board meeting today, a move that will heat up domestic competition. The service would be
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        • 121 50 AFX-Asia (JAKARTA] Garuda Indonesia will reopen flights linking Jakarta and Seoul on Oct 29, Garuda commercial director Bachrul Hakim said. "Compared to the other international routes, the flights to Seoul are the most feasible to reopen," Mr Bachrul was quoted as saying by Bisnis Indonesia.
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        • 105 50 Reuters {LONDON] British rail network operator Railtrack pic said yesterday it boosted its investment in the first half by 36 per cent to £1.2 billion (Ss3 billion), but passenger train delays in the half were up 10 per cent "We are delivering record levels of
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