The Business Times, 20 March 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2001 s est
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    79 1 SH 1,***** (-49.95) nir-su mm hzm (<21.68) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,727.00 (-44.00) SDDKXnmiBES 218J0 (-6.50) STOCMAKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COUP ***** *71 NIKKEI 226 12.190J7 4101 HANG SENG 13,467.69 4416 SET INDEX 29IJ9 1.79 JAKARTA OOMP 967.14 -IU8 MANILA COMP —1,507.62 +#.20 TAIPH WP! 6,781*3 +41.11 SEOUL
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    78 1 FOBEX BATES USt£$p«rUSS)i__- 1.77! £(USS/8$ per S) 1.427 1S27 El'RO(US$/SS/E) 9M li8S DM 1186 1.224 YEN 1214 09.70 RM 1800 2.146 HKS 7.799 4 404 BAHT 4398 24i9 RUP1AH 19,4m 1872 •St to 100 units PUKE RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK .9 JO MANILA 11
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    Lock icon BOJ opts to force new money into stagnant economy
    1338 1  -  Move marks radical monetary policy change to arrest deflationary spiral From> Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE Bank of Japan yesterday announced a radical change in its approach to monetary policy it will force a powerful jet of new money into the
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    Lock icon Asian markets nurse losses ahead of Fed meeting
    567 1 Ten hits 22-month low, bnt Nikkei escapes with mild 0.3% slide [SINGAPORE] Most major Asian bourses lost ground yesterday, while the yen dragged down other regional currencies on its march south despite caution ahead of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate meeting
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    Lock icon Dow higher in early trade
    70 1 AP [NEW YORK] The US stock market got a reprieve yesterday morning, recovering from a bloody debacle last week as investors held out hope for an aggressive interest rate cut today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 35.68 at 9,859.09 in the first hour
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    Lock icon Optus holders could end up with 17% of SingTel: reports
    746 1  -  Cash, share offer seen in line with govt move to cat stake By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Cable Wireless Optus shareholders will end up with a 17 per cent stake of Singapore Telecom as part of its Asl7 billion (Ssls
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      78 1 DfSPB Top Stories ST Kinetics gunning for Italy arms deal. Pgs Omni's profit up 60% to $47m. Pg 6 Foreign banks in talks to join Nets. Pg 9 More consolidation seen among general insurers in Singapore: S&P. pq 10 ADB slashes growth forecast for 5 Asian economies. Pg 14 EU
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      30 1 SinrfFel likely to walk away if price too high, Pg 5 Call 388 3838 to subscribe The Straits Times Lianhe Zaooac The Business Times Berita Harian Project Eyeball Tamil Murasu
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      Lock icon IPO aspirants switching to more accommodating financial advisers
      688 2  -  l-ii exclusive Choppy market, so more leeway sought in terms of IPO pricing and timing tty David Boey [SINGAPORE] Market volatility appears to have spread to the initial public offering market, with some stockmarket aspirants ditching their lead managers for finance advisers
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      Lock icon SembLog sells marine services business to PSA Marine
      511 2  -  Deal struck for $207.5 m cash; only Dilmnn group left to sell, worth about $20m Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] SembCorp Logistics (SembLog) has sold most of its marine services business to PSA Marine for $207.5 million cash as part of a previously
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      Lock icon Asia exec hirings up 30% on demand for the tech-savvy
      483 2  -  They are wanted in sectors across the board: survey Ryi Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Demand for technology-sawy executives drove a 30 per cent jump in se-nior-level hirings in Asia-Pa-cific last year, according to Korn/Ferry International's latest index of international executive demand.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        83 2 ACCORDING to one dealer, the stock market may be on the slide but he is still getting plenty of calls. Some of his retail clients are net buyers, with institutions the net sellers. So the outlook cannot be all that bad. "One sold his DBS when
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        Lock icon Blame the Americans
        61 2 LAST week, The Business Times ran an online poll after regional bourses started sliding. The poll sought opinions on whether Asian markets are headed for a major meltdown. This is how readers voted: Yes, they're being dragged down by Wall Street 56% No, prospects in Asia are
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  • MARKET chill
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      Lock icon Fed rate cut: question's how big?
      910 4 Analysts are split down the middle on the likely size of the Fed rate reduction as they weigh conflicting signs about the economy Reuters IT is a given the US Federal Reserve will drop interest rates at a meeting today but a toss-up whether
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      Lock icon Half-point rate cut may cause sharp equity falls
      181 4 AFX [WASHINGTON] Former Federal Reserve board governor Wayne Angell said there could be a further sharp decline in US equity markets if the Federal Open Market Committee only cuts its key Federal funds target rate by 50 basis points at its formal
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      Lock icon HK market expects rate cut of at least half point
      612 4  -  Rate-sensitive plays seen outperforming the market From Audrey Tan in Hongkong ALREADY soft from a poor economic outlook and the contagion effect of Wall Street, Hongkong stocks could take a further tumble tomorrow if the US Federal Reserve fails to
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      Lock icon KL shares languish despite govt bid to spur economy
      429 4  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian stock market continued to head south despite efforts by the government to spur the economy and wipe the slate clean on non-performing loans in the country. The unremitting pressure on the market the
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      Lock icon Japan's woes hit Asian economies
      539 4 Reuters [TOKYO] An alarming downturn in Japan is a fresh hammer blow for exportdependent Asian economies already in pain because of a severe slowdown in the US and their own failure to overhaul inefficient, debt-ridden companies. As well as reducing demand for Asia's exports, economists
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      378 4 INSEAD Singapore mM I Fontrinebleru INSEAD, the reputed international business school and ranked by Business Week as the best outside the US, has a fully functional campus with accommodation facilities in Singapore conducting MBA and Executive Education programmes. For more than 15 years, INSEAD has organised various programmes in Singapore,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon ST Kinetics eyeing Italy arms deal
      469 5  -  It nnveils world's first 155 mm self-propelled howitzer From] David Boey in Abu Dhabi SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering unit ST Kinetics yesterday unveiled the world's first 155 mm air-trans-portable, self-propelled howitzer, and said it plans to customise the weapon to compete in an Italian Army
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      Lock icon Huan Hsin earnings jump 52% to $22.1m
      264 5  -  By Rachel Ong MAINBOARD-LISTED Huan Hsin yesterday reported that its net profit for 2000 had risen 52 per cent to $22.1 million," in line with analysts' forecast of $22.8 million. Higher turnover in all core segments provided the impetus. A favourable foreign exchange
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      Lock icon SingTel likely to walk away if Optus price isn't right
      988 5  -  i!*T3!llock siew teh hooi ling THE first rule in negotiation is to be prepared to walk away. Unconfirmed reports from Sydney suggest that that's the approach Singapore Telecom is taking in its bid to buy over Australia's second largest telecoms
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      Lock icon Omni posts 60% rise in profits to $47.3m
      516 6  -  Earnings beat forecasts as contract manufacturing revenue jumps 116% By Andrew Wee OMNI Industries Ltd yesterday surpassed analysts' expectations by posting a 60 per cent rise in net profit to $47.3 million for the year ended December, thanks to the sparkling performance
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      Lock icon M&S stores are Robinson's most profitable ops
      769 6  -  Bat picture may change soon with store at Raffles City By\ Kalpana Rashiwala ROBINSON'S Marks and Spencer (M&S) stores in Singapore have returned to their position as the group's most profitable operations although analysts say the picture may change in the near future
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      Lock icon PacNet to focus on full Net services to businesses
      392 6  -  New CEO sets fresh coarse for Pacfasion.com anit, adding e-services Hyi Andrew Wee PACIFIC Internet will focus on providing a comprehensive suite of Internet services to businesses, its new chief executive officer told BT yesterday. Since becoming president and CEO at
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      Lock icon PanPac finds prospective buyer
      273 7  -  By Ven Sreenivasan PANPAC Media may have found a buyer for its financial portal AsiaStockWatch.com. "The company has entered into an agreement with the prospective investor granting it an exclusive option to consider the viability of the investment for a period of two weeks," PanPac said.
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      Lock icon HPL back in the black with $43.1m profit
      244 7  -  By. Andrea Tan HOTEL Properties Ltd bounced back into the black with a $43.1 million net profit last year after a $57.2 million loss in 1999 thanks to the sale of land rights in its London Canary Riverside development. For the year
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon SIAS online trading fair
        42 7 THE Securities Investors Association Singapore (SLAS) is organising the SIAS Online Trading and Investment Fair 2001. The event will run from Mar 31 to Apr 1 at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre gallery. Admission is free.
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        Lock icon Hong Lai Huat profit falls 57%
        42 7 HONG Lai Huat Group reported a 57 per cent drop in net profit to $2.38 million for 2000. Turnover was $58.1 million, down 20.4 per cent. The lower turnover was attributed to lower construction division activities.
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        Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
        51 7 WBL Corporation has clarified that the proforma group for the purpose of listing its subsidiary M-Flex Singapore Pte Ltd (MFS) consists of MFS and its subsidiaries but does not include Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc and its subsidiaries as reported in BT on Saturday. We are sorry for the
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      Lock icon Tiny Hyflux pips mighty UOB
      1016 7  -  New counter tops transparency index in results released last week By Paul Thompson The writer also lectures on accounting at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur THE latest batch of results proves that relatively small, newly listed companies can excel on the Corporate
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      320 8 Stocks Vohmw Frontline 5c 23,835,000 SingTel 15c 16,816,000 People s Food HGK 50c 15,677,000 PCL50C 8.854,000 OUB 8,739,000 PacificCentutylOc 7,715,000 Integra 5c 7,628,000 Lankom US2C 7,296,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 6,948,000 DBSGrp 6,565,000 Stock* DBS Grp.. 107,521.540 OUB 59,031,050 SPH 56,363,522 OCBC 48,397,120 DOB 42,796,584 SingTel 15c 40,453,598 S4A 22,313,015
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      Lock icon Stocks hit as rising oil prices add to Japan and US woes
      614 8  -  l I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan SINGAPORE stocks tumbled to another twoyear low yesterday as jitters about Japan's financial woes and higher oil prices combined with fears about the direction of the US economy. The intensity of the
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      Lock icon F&N's fall a buying opportunity?
      242 8  -  HOT STOCK Ven Sreenivasan AFTER a recovery that started in March last year, the stock of drinks maker Fraser Neave (F&N) is showing signs of intense weakness. It has fallen almost 17 per cent in the past six weeks and tumbled another 30 cents or
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      Lock icon First Engg wrt: tread with caution
      184 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By- Ven Sreenivasan AS mentioned many times in this column, warrants are bull market instruments. So it was a surprise to see a warrant heading the percentage gainers' list yesterday. First Engineering's warrant, which expires in October this year, rose one cent
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      Lock icon US$ loses steam after new highs against Asian units
      410 8  -  -I I comment CURRENCIES larry wee WITH two of three major American stock indices sinking to their lowest levels in more than two years last Friday, the greenback first made impressive gains yesterday but faltered by the close suggesting possibly more
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2742 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss): Mar 20 Ahardean Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.736 0.774 Global Technology Fd!** 0.625 0.657 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.745 0.783 American Opport Fd 0.811 0.852 ContEuro EqtyFd!** 1.043 1.096 JapanEqtyFd!** 1.107 1.163 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.076 1.109
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon CashBack service will result in cost savings for local banks
      445 9  -  Bnt it will not replace bank branches or ATMs By Ling Su Ann THE newly-introduced CashBack service offered at selected retail stores will result in cost savings for local banks, but will not replace branches or ATMs (automated teller machines).
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      Lock icon Foreign banks in talks to join Nets
      319 9 They eye network's 17,000 terminals in 10,000 outlets Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Citigroup Inc. Standard Chartered pic and two other foreign banks may get access to Nets, the network set up in 1985 by Singapore lenders that lets retailers debit a customer's bank account at
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      Lock icon M'sia good place for S'pore firms: SCI
      283 9  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA is the investment destination of choice for Singapore companies, said the visiting president of the Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI), Robin Lau, yesterday. Besides the lower cost of doing business in the country, social and
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      Lock icon Average monthly pay up 9% in Q4
      315 9 I=M=J on the economy wages AVERAGE monthly earnings rose to $3,585 in the fourth quarter of last year in real terms, up 9 per cent from a year ago, official figures show. For the fUll year, monthly earnings across the board averaged $3,030.
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      Lock icon S&P sees more consolidation among general insurers
      524 10  -  Tie-nps likely to be foreign insurers taking strategic stakes in local firms By. Angela Tan POST-Asian crisis recovery for Singapore insurance companies has been difficult, with rating agency Standard Poor's (S&P) seeing room for consolidation among more than half of the general insurers
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      Lock icon PM Goh greeted with full ceremonial welcome
      173 10  -  Fromi Chuang Peck Ming in Warsaw PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong arrived in Poland's capital yesterday morning and was given a full ceremonial welcome by his Polish counterpart, Jerzy Buzek. The 15-minute ceremony took place at the Prime Minister's Chancery. After the orchestra
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      Lock icon Fun, vibrant entertainment centre on the cards: STB
      300 10  -  Plans also include building a new service culture By- Andrea Tan AN urban entertainment centre to showcase Singapore as a fun-filled and vibrant destination is one of the key recommendations made by the Tourism 21 Status Review committees. Other recommendations to help
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      Lock icon Bermuda-incorporated firms: clarify investors'status at meetings
      279 10  -  MAiLiirrrn Denis Distant Singapore, via Internet MOST shareholders who attended the Special General Meeting of Wah Shing International Holdings on March 17 were shocked to be told at the registration desk that they could not vote or ask questions at the meeting because they
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      Lock icon OUB move a boon for IPO investors
      533 10  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore via Internet I REFER to your article "OUB imposes floor limit caveat on IPO subscription rates" (BT, March 15). Your article carries the interesting explanation that "Overseas Union Bank has taken the unusual step in a bid to shield investors
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Units are moving for CityDev, Allgreen, Centrepoint
      185 11 CITY Developments sold 45 units at its freehold Goldenhill Park condominium at the weekend, while Allgreen Properties sold 15 at its 99-year-leasehold Binjai Crest cluster housing project. The purchases bring overall sales at CityDev's Lorong Chuan project to 125 units and those at
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      Lock icon Aberration—or foreboding?
      732 11  - Aberration —or foreboding? Marina South is in dangor of succumbing to the Tuas effect' I I comment PROPERTY lee han shih THE Urban Redevelopment Authority's tender for two prime pieces of land in the reclaimed Marina South closed last week in the midst of what many have called the biggest
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      Lock icon NTUC's Raffles Quay project is on
      280 11  -  It launches design contest after earlier delay By Trina Foo PLANS for the new NTUC building at Raffles Quay have been dusted off again after hitches in the project caused a delay of several years. The building was slated to be ready this year,
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Crisis politics keeps shaky rupiah on edge
      807 12  -  OPINION iTTTqi bottom line suresh kumar The writer is emerging markets analyst with Standard and Poors MMS International IT was Black Monday for the Indonesian rupiah last week. It suffered its biggest oneday loss against the US dollar in 35 months. The fall,
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      98 12 'Individual investors got hooked on equities. It went too far, and they came to think that equities were riskless.' Robert Glauber chief executive of the National Association of Securities Brokers and a Treasury Department undersecretary in the first Bush administration, on the state of US stockholders. 'I'm
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      Lock icon Between Gus Dur and a hard place
      627 12 EDITORIAL PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid seems to be in danger of losing his grip on the presidency. He is facing open opposition even from his vice-president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, once thought to be a loyal ally. The big question is whether, and how, the Indonesian
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      Lock icon The economics of a corrupt democracy
      1234 12  -  The Tehelka exposure has simply pnt beyond doubt what people in India already knew abont political corruption By\ Prem Shankar Jha The writer, based in New Delhi and former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT TEHELKA.COM'S clandestinely videotaped exposure of
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      Lock icon A racket that's doing children in
      682 12  -  COMMENTARY With 'friends' like these in the establishment, pity America's kids By' Thomas Szasz The writer, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at SUNY in Syracuse, New York, is the author of the forthcoming book, 'Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America' LATWP FIFTY years ago
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Thai, Indonesian central banks tighten forex grip
      644 13 SINGAPORE Bat analysts say their new forex roles can do little to bring about respite for ailing baht, rnpiah Reuters CENTRAL banks in Indonesia and Thailand may huff-and-puff and impose hefty fines on banks for breaching their newly-imposed forex rules, but analysts reckon
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      Lock icon Tenaga to buy back US$479m of bonds
      327 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg TENAGA Nasional Bhd will buy back more of its bonds than it expected, Lehman Brothers Inc, which helped arrange the purchase, said, after the company offered bondholders more than the securities' market value. It offered to buy back US$9OO million
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      Lock icon APP officials keep mum about details of exchange hearing
      296 13 JAKARTA Jakarta bourse says outcome will be made public THREE officials of beleaguered Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) units declined to answer reporters' questions after a scheduled hearing with the Jakarta Stock Exchange yesterday. "The outcome of the hearing will be
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      Lock icon Gus Dur deadline for Marzuki
      400 13 JAKARTA AG has to arrest 3 'YlPs' by end March or face the sack AP THE future of Indonesia's at-torney-general was in doubt yesterday after President Abdurrahman Wahid threatened to dismiss him unless "three important people" were arrested by the end of the month. In
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      Lock icon Indonesia to hike interest rates this week
      202 13 Central bank still supporting ailing rnpiah in the market Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank said yesterday that it would raise interest rates this week due to concern about inflation and added it had continued to intervene in the currency market to sup- port
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      Lock icon MPs request early debate of 2nd censure against Gus Dur
      461 13 JAKARTA The move could accelerate impeachment proceedings AFP NINE Indonesian political parties yesterday asked Parliament to call a plenary session within a fortnight to discuss a second censure motion against President Abdurrahman Wahid, a senior MP said. Reform faction leader
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      Lock icon Seagate to invest 5.5b baht in Thai projects
      177 14 BANGKOK Bloomberg SEAGATE Technology Inc, the world's biggest disk drive maker, said it plans to invest as much as 5.5 billion baht (Ss22l million) in three projects in Thailand to help pare property costs, wages and taxes. The company will expand or
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      Lock icon ADB slashes growth forecast for 5 Asian economies
      541 14 Malaysia, Indonesia, S Korea, Thailand and Philippines hit by global slowdown AFP [MANILA] The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday drastically cut its economic growth forecast for 2001 of five Asian economies due to the USled global slowdown and weak electronics demand. The
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      Lock icon US$150m fund set up for Thai recovery
      462 14  -  US firm and 2 Japanese banks target mid-sized companies From Harish Mehta in Bangkok A MAJOR US investor and two Japanese banks yesterday set up a Thailand Corporate Recovery Fund worth US$l5O million (***** million), aimed at reviving the fortunes of troubled mediumsized
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      Lock icon HK jobless up for first time in 17 months
      518 14  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong AMID the uncertain economic outlook, Hongkong's jobless rate reversed its one-and-a-half years' downtrend, rising in the three months to February to 4.5 per cent, from 4.3 per cent in the preceding three months to January.
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      Lock icon India's political crisis may hit reforms, investment: analysts
      432 15 BOMBAY Congress party urges go vt to resign; Budget session paralysed AFP, AFX-Asia INDIA'S ongoing political crisis, coupled with payments concerns on the stock exchanges, could slow down the pace of economic reforms and dampen foreign investor sentiment, analysts said yesterday. India's
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      Lock icon Citic Pacific gains up 16% at HK$3.4b, beating expectations
      382 15  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CITIC Pacific Ltd, a Hongkong conglomerate backed by state-controlled China International Trust and Investment Corp (Citic), yesterday reported a 16 per cent jump in net profit to HK53.43 billion (*****.6 million) for the year ended
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      274 15 TAIPEI Reuters A POWER blackout forced an emergency shutdown of a nuclear power station in southern Taiwan on Sunday, the worst such incident in 22 years, but there was no risk of radiation leaks, officials said yesterday. State-run Taiwan Power Co, which oversees
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        90 16 Reuters [NEW YORK] Lucent Technologies Inc was set to announce yesterday a three-year, US$5 billion (SsB.9 billion) contract to outfit Verizon Wireless with kit designed significantly to increase the capacity of the largest wireless provider in the US, the Wall Street Journal reported
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      537 16 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN'S Nintendo Co Ltd is set to ignite the biggest battle yet in the video game market with its long-awaited launch tomorrow of Game Boy Advance, successor to the world's top-selling Game Boy hand-held machine. On the surface, the new
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      409 17 LONDON The bank hopes to sell more cards by linking op with the US giant Reuters BRITISH bank Abbey National yesterday sold its credit card business to the European arm of US card giant MBNA for £289 million (Ss72B million) under a
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      300 17 TOKYO Bloomberg SUMITOMO Bank and Sakura Bank said they will evenly split the top 50 executive positions after they combine to form the world's second largest lender next month. Sakura chairman Masahiro Takasaki and Sumitomo chairman Toshio Morikawa
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      241 18 TOKYO AFP ELECTRONICS giant Toshiba Corp said yesterday that it was shifting its entire Japanese production of standard television sets to northern China in an attempt to survive intensifying competition. The Japanese company plans to transfer the production to a
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      473 18 SEOUL Ailing carmaker imposes news blackont on takeover talks with General Motors AFP BANKRUPT South Korean carmaker Daewoo Motor Co said yesterday it will slash 6,500 overseas staff and imposed a news blackout on takeover talks with General Motors. The latest layoffs will
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      405 18 AFP [SEOUL] Fugitive Daewoo Group founder Kim Woo Choong is preparing his memoirs in Europe and contemplating suicide to take responsibility for his failed business, his lawyer said. Kim, 65, is worried that he may have a second attack of stomach
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      553 19 MELBOURNE Shares in the new company, BHP Billiton, will be traded in London and Sydney Bloomberg BHP Ltd, Australia's biggest resources company, has agreed to acquire Billiton pic of the UK, creating the world's biggest mining company by market
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      230 19 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN'S biggest carmaker, Toyota Motor Corp, said yesterday it is in talks with US auto giant Ford Motor Co and other makers to cooperate in areas possibly including financial services and low emission cars. "We are discussing with a
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      49 18 I y^' r Singapore BifciNESfjAwArfbs M flu lL M UliL v W |ik Congratulations to the winners of the Singapore Business Awards 2000. r^^^s^wdi Minister for Communications and IT Yeo Cheow Tong will present the awards tonight at the Ballroom of The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Sinqapore 3 r ■JDWgL— TIIKBI^\KSSTIM|.N
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      257 21  -  S6Z Derivatives Trading Report ST Index/MSCI SPpore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE Singapore stock market continued to mirror downturns in the US stock markets, where both Dow Jones and Nasdaq remained in bearish mood. At the close, the benchmark Straits Times
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      228 21 MSCI Taiwan Index THE Taiwan stock market tumbled yesterday as electronics and financial bourses lost steam ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy-set-ting meeting. At the close, the MSCI Taiwan stock index was 5.85 points, or 2.23 per cent, lower at 256.38 points. The market stayed
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      218 21 Reuters London THE yen bounced off 22month lows against the US dollar yesterday after Japanese officials raised doubts about their perceived tolerance of a weaker yen, just hours after monetary easing by Japan's central bank. The confusion over policy triggered waves of profit-tak-ing which sent the dollar sliding
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      2906 22 HONGKONG AFP ClHaiigSeng -6135 HONGKONG share prices fell 0.5 per cent yesterday in cautious trade following a decline on Wall Street on Friday, dealers said. The local bourse was expected to remain weak in the near future regardless of whether US
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      2136 22 TOKYO AFP n Nikkei 225 -42,01 TOKYO stock prices closed mixed yesterday as investors retreated to the sidelines ahead of a decision by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) on whether to return to zero interest rates, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225
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      1050 22 AFP PI Shenzhen Binder +25.73 SHANGHAI B-shares climbed 3.9 per cent yesterday as strong buying demand from local investors overpowered profit-taking pressure, dealers said. The Shanghai Stock Exchange's B Share Index added 5.16 points at 137.43 on turnover of 1.69 billion yuan. The A Share Index rose 16.02 points,
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      387 22 AFP OVP Index -142.04 TAIWAN share prices closed 2.4 per cent lower yesterday on concerns over Wall Street's fall on Friday, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 142.04 points to 5,641.89, while turnover shrank to NT575.97 billion from the previous trading session's NT5146.69 billion. "Sentiment
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      410 23 AFP C 3 Composite Index -&75 MALAYSIAN shares closed one per cent lower yesterday as the bourse came under seUing pressure amid last Friday's Wall Street declines, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index feU 6.75 points to finish at 665.26.
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      318 24 AFP n Composite Index -434 SOUTH Korean shares fell 0.8 per cent or 4.34 points to close at 534.33 yesterday. Volume was 251.7 million shares worth 1.2 trillion won. AFP Marl* to* Ana m Semi 4000 20 Brjln T»cfl 580 -20 Central Bank 170 0 ChetlComm <***** 0 Dm
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      763 24 AFP O SET Index -L 7 THAI share prices fell 0.6 per cent yesterday in rangebound trade, with investors sidelined ahead of the FOMC meeting in the United States, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index slipped 1.7 points to 291.30 while the SET 50 Index
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      758 24 AFP P Composite Index -1138 INDONESIAN share prices plunged 3.5 per cent to close at a 28-month low yesterday, due to a lack of fresh leads and uncertainty ahead of the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 13.38
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      551 24 AFP HAD Ordinaries -35.6 A RUSH for BHP shares after it announced plans to merge with Britain's Billiton failed to prevent Australian shares sliding 1.1 per cent yesterday. The All Ordinaries Index fell 35.6 points to 3,161.5 and the SP/ASX2OO fell 36.4 points to 3,216.0. The All Industrials Index
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      282 24 Reuters PI Composite Index +920 MANILA stocks closed slightly higher yesterday as local investors engaged in shortterm buying. Last-minute buying saw the 33-share Composite Index climb 9.20 points to close at 1,507.52 points. Turnover slid to 290.80 million pesos from Friday's 309.43 million. Reuters (OOP) Abacus Construction 0.56 unch
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      263 24 AFP PIBSE-40 -3L38 THE New Zealand sharemarket closed 1.5 per cent lower yesterday. The benchmark NZSE-40 closed down 31.38 points, at 2,067.68, as the New Zealand dollar see-sawed between 41.5 and 42 US cents. Market turnover was NZ$lB4 million. —AFP ■Mr* IBS (000) A3vantage HOS 1.02 -0.06 228 Air
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      779 26 For four years, figure skating has been dominated by the veterans Reuters [VANCOUVER] IT HAS been four years since a diminutive 14-year-old named Tara Lipinski took the world championships by storm, becoming the youngest women's winner in figure skating history. Less than 12
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      356 27 Where to wine, dine and entertains For lunch, you can enjoy our ever popular Japanese culinary flavour while for dinner, you can tuck in to a sumptuous selection of Japanese. Asian and Western dishes, from sashimi to shark's fin soup to drunken chicken to even roast beef sirloin. I Lunch:
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      1138 28  -  yvette flanigak and REBECCA chew explain why it is so important for professions in the healthcare industry, which deals with sensitive personal information and physical safety, to be registered YVETTE FLANIGAN,REBECCA CHEW The writers are from Rajah Tann, Andersen Legal. Ms Flanigan is from the firm's Technology Practice
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      11 29 SPECIAL INTERESTS The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 52 86. Buyh.sdih.Find h.
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      222 29 SPECIAL FEATURE 27 MARCH 2001 f I •V--Make waves in a knowledge-based a 0 Singapore's position as a major maritime hub f i has never been more important, especially now that the Trade Development Board t| to step up efforts towards efficient trade system. infrastructure, as business environment. Training, education
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      1006 30  -  The merits aside, a scholarship is not a straight ticket to success and isn't for the laid-back types, says JANICE LEE JANICE LEE Scholarship applications have just closed. And after the flurry of forms and testimonials, students have barely time to breathe
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      709 30  -  DOSt 14: It from Massachusetts By Koh Hui Ting I REMEMBER the day I went back to school to collect my A level results. It was the most exciting and harrowing day of my life. As I walked into the school hall
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