The Business Times, 10 April 2001

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MiTAjfn inTffvvpnni SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ •TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2001 850
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    80 1 sn I£MJS (-75.23) BT-SKI 640.68 (-31.09) ST INDEX FUTTISES 1493.00 (-76.00) SIMSGI FUTURES 200.70 (-11.10) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP 153.34 -24.10 NIKKEI 225 12,841.76 -***** HANG SENG *****.10 -184.51 SET INDEX ***** -3.77 JAKARTA COMP ***** -2.06 MANILA COMP .dosed TAIPEI WPI 5,401.85 -113.30 SEOUL
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    79 1 FOREX SATES us$ s$ US$ (SS |MT USS) 1.813 £(USS/S$ per 1.442 2.615 EURO(USS/SS/E)0.902 1.636 DM 2.168 1.196 YEN 124.8 68.80 RM 3.800 2.096 HKS 7.799 4.301 BAHT 45.68 25.19 RUP1AH 10,848 5,983 *SS to too units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPIK 7.67 JAKARTA 39.(10 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA
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    Lock icon DBS to buy major stake in HK's Dao Heng Bank?
    972 1  -  Shares plunge $1-30 on talk that HKs4ob deal over-values HE group From Quak Hiang Whai, Siow Li Sen DBS Bank appears headed for another major transaction in Hongkong. This time, there is intense speculation it win buy into listed Dao
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    Lock icon This time, it's margin calls on blue chips
    534 1  -  sm 'It's painfnl to see investors having to sell even bine chips' By) Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Stock brokers are busy these days, but for the wrong reason. They have been on the phone with their clients, chasing them to top up
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    Lock icon CPF single-premium insurance sales hit $2.2b in 3 months
    982 1  -  Concern that agents may neglect clients' protection needs By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Insurance is king or so it would seem. Sales of single-premium investment products paid for from Central Provident Fund savings have hit a thumping $2.2 billion in just the
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    Lock icon STI dives 4.5% as DBS, OCBC get a hammering
    783 1  -  75-point fall biggest in a year; analysts say institutions de-rating market By Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] A rout on index heavyweights DBS and OCBC Bank yesterday dealt a bone-crushing blow to the ST Index, which dived 4.5 per cent to close
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      72 1 INSIDE Top Stories Investors fear possible Jakarta-IMF standoff. Pg 14 HK to go ahead with full interest rate deregulation as planned. Pg 15 BT Comment Sing Tel faces tough time raising funds. Pg* Land sales: MND must go back to basics. Pg 11 US Masters Tiger Woods: To win four
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      20 1 ___Prp r Tokyo, KL stocks tumble 1 Next Page Asia not at risk from weaker yen: IMF Page 4 r
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      22 1 If you look around the region, everybody is performing very badly, all because Mr Dow and Mr Jones are not cooperating V
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  • SHAKY equities
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      Lock icon Mahathir blames Wall Street for weak Malaysian bourse
      390 2 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday blamed Wall Street for last week's plunge of almost 11 per cent on the Malaysian stock market, saying "Mr Dow and Mr Jones are not cooperating". The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index dropped almost 4
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      Lock icon Hayami's warning hits Tokyo stocks, yen
      552 2  -  BOJ governor says economy likely to stagnate for some time despite measures From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices and the yen stumbled back into bear territory yesterday following a warning from Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Masaru Hayami that Japan's economy is
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      Lock icon KL index plunges 4% as foreign funds pull out
      516 2  -  Index doses at lowest in just over two years From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur FOREIGN investors continued to bail out of Malaysian blue chips despite reassurances over the weekend that the government would not change the ringgit peg anytime
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  • WOBBLY currencies
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      Lock icon Asia not at risk from weaker yen: IMF
      577 4 Fund's official says many Asian nations have floating currency systems which act as defence against rapid currency fluctuations Reuters [TOKYO] A DAY after Asian finance ministers voiced concern over the yen's fall, a senior International Monetary Fund official for Asia said yesterday
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      Lock icon Thaksin rejects monetary controls
      374 4 Reuters, AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday quashed speculation that Thailand was planning to impose monetary controls to stem losses of the baht as the Thai currency fell to fresh three-year lows. Asked whether the Thai government would introduce any monetary measures to curb
      Reuters,; AFX-Asia; AFP  -  374 words
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      Lock icon Malaysian central bank defends peg to US$
      207 4 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian central bank has come out in defence of the fixed exchange rate between the ringgit and the US dollar in the wake of a 6 per cent drop in the country's international reserves in March. In a statement
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      Lock icon US$3b Thai-Japan swap pact likely
      392 4 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Japan and Thailand will probably agree on an arrangement to lend each other as much as US$3 billion (555.5 billion) to prop up their currencies in case of a crisis, a Thai official said. "As of now, there is a 90 per cent
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      214 4 Coald the greenback be a bit humbled this week?Pg 6 Recognize and express your gratitude in grand style, with a tasteful gift from The Copthorne Harbour View Hotel.Your secretary is sure to get the message. Our "Dine Around" Passes are sure the best way to embark your secretary on a
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      28 4 I Lianhe Zaobao I Foreign investors I I selling shares I I TNB and I I Mayßank, I I all key components I I of KLCI I I
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Weak market sentiment trips OCBC
      937 5  -  Bank forced to abort selling non-core properties in one go By! Siow Li Sen, Kalpana Rashiwala OCBC Bank yesterday said it had not been able to sell its non-core property assets in view of the dull property scene and the hard-hit equity market. It also
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      Lock icon Raffles Hldgs confirms talks to buy Swissotel
      200 5  -  By Marissa Chew RAFFLES Holdings yesterday confirmed that it was in talks to buy the 23-hotel Swissotel chain, but said the chain is not the only one it is negotiating with. "Raffles Holdings is in negotiations with Swissotel Hotels Resorts. However, it is
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      Lock icon SGX futures trading hit by 3rd ditch
      243 5  -  By Liew Hanqing SGX was struck by a third system malfunction in its index futures trading yesterday, following two similar glitches last month. The exchange's electronic trading system (ETS) broke down at about 8.45 am, but was rectified at about 11 am. An
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      Lock icon Analysts dismiss SingTel's M1 talk
      523 5  -  It's just to inflate the market. Besides, IDA won't allow it By Teh Hooi Ling ANALYSTS doubt the seriousness of Singapore Telecom's pronouncement that it is interested in buying No 2 mobile operator Mobile One (Ml). And what's more, they don't think it would get
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      Lock icon SingTel faces tough time in raising funds
      825 5  -  HocKimimaw wong wei kong NOW that Singapore Telecom is buying Cable Wireless Optus and embarking on the acquisition trail, it will have to grapple with an issue it never really faced in the pre-Optus, cash-rich days how to tap the market for funds.
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      Lock icon Lien Ying Chow to retire as OUE chairman/MD
      259 8 OVERSEAS Union Enterprise (OUE) said yesterday that Lien Ying Chow, who controls Overseas Union Bank (OUB), will retire as chairman and managing director of OUE at its AGM on April 27. OUB chairman Lee Hee Seng will succeed Mr Lien as OUE
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      Lock icon ST Engg unveils raft of good news
      458 8  -  It includes strong Q1 earnings and healthy order book By David Boey SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering yesterday unveiled positive developments on the earnings front after a selldown of blue chips on the Singapore Exchange saw its stock fall 10 cents to a sixmonth low
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      Lock icon APP reveals US$3.9b obligations on top of loans
      488 8 It upsets creditors with request for another USs2oom advance Reuters DEBT-LADEN Asia Pulp Paper told disgruntled creditors yesterday it had obligations of US$3.9 billion (Ss7 billion) on top of its direct borrowings and then tested their patience by asking for another US$2OO
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      10 5 Sunday Holdings pulls out of 3G licence tender, Pg 9
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      520 5 FtoCWVERHOUstiQoPERS i United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) have become increasingly relevant to companies around the world. More companies are now adopting US GAAP to position themselves for entrance into the US securities markets, to comply with US GAAP reporting to their parent companies which prepare financial statements
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Blue chips hardest hit on fresh fears of US recession
      638 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market was the biggest percentage loser in the region yesterday, plunging 5.5 per cent on fresh fears of a US-led recession. The latest jitters were sparked by a selldown on Wall Street on Friday
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      Lock icon Grand Central wrt gearing is high
      164 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE warrant of Hotel Grand Central was among the top percentage gainers yesterday, edging up half a cent or 16.7 per cent to 3.5 cents. Meanwhile, the underlying stock closed unchanged at 30.5 cents as 70,000 units changed hands.
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      Lock icon Datacraft likely to remain volatile
      221 6  -  HOTSTOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of systems integrator Datacraft Asia has taken a beating recently, despite the company announcing it will meet its annual earnings growth target. Yesterday, the counter tumbled 30 US cents to a 20-month low of US$3.B4. A total of 6.5
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      Lock icon Could the greenback be a bit humbled this week?
      533 6  -  CURRENCIES Intervention fears limiting substantial US$ gains against baht, won and S$ larry wee THE US dollar was looking far less dominating in Asian currency markets yesterday, thanks to weaker US employment numbers on Friday and the spectre of more poor
      Source: Reuters  -  533 words
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      326 6 f| n n L« 9iocKs volume PacificCenturylOc 19,180,000 SingTel 15c 15,845,000 OCBC 7,912,000 DBSGrp 6,942,000 Datacraft 10c 6,534,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 5,953,000 STEngglOc 5,183,000 Strike 5c 4,807,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 4,683,000 PQ 25c 4,539,000 Slocks DBSGrp 107,908,904 OCBC 86,008,324 Datacraft 10c 45,476,945 S1A.._ 44,392,450 SPH 37,480,645 SingTel 15c 29,799,317
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2629 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (SS)yipr 10 Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.729 0.766 Global Technology Fd!** 0.575 0.605 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.744 0.782 American Opport Fd 0.810 0.851 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.035 1.088 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.205 1.267 Asian Fixed Income
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Sunday Holdings pulls out of 3G licence tender
      519 9  -  3 local firms vie for 4 licences; IDA to announce tomorrow if auction is needed By 1 Teh Hooi Ling SUNDAY Holdings the only foreign company pre-quali-fied to bid has pulled out of the tender for a third-genera-tion (3G) licence in Singapore,
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      Lock icon S'pore economy to expand 3%: IFR
      325 9  -  By Eugene Low HELD back by the global economic slowdown, the Singapore economy is expected to expand just 3 per cent this year, according to International Financing Review (IFR), a part of Thomson Financial. Compared with other private sector economists, IFR's forecast is one
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      Lock icon Agencies to help public zip through the red tape
      225 9 IN a bid to cut red tape, the government has set up nine lead agencies to help channel public feedback on issues related to the maintenance of public areas. As part of the government's new Zero-In-Process (Zip), officers at the lead
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      Lock icon Closed-door mediation to resolve lawsuits
      582 9  -  RAFFLES TOWN CLUB SAGA Out-of-court deal seen to serve interests of all parties best By Conrad Raj TWO former judges and an auditor are helping the lawyers of the shareholders of Raffles Town Club and its parent Europa Holdings reach a settlement amicable or otherwise.
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      Lock icon LTA to hand over Dhoby Ghaut MRT dev't soon
      323 10  -  PROPERTY FOCUS The $268 m complex integrated with Dhoby Ghant exchange is dne to be ready next April By Marissa Chew,Christopher Tan THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) will soon hand over the massive commercial complex above Dhoby Ghaut MRT station to
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      Lock icon Hor Kew, Hong Lai Huat buy two industrial sites for $19.3m
      238 10 TWO freehold industrial sites worth a combined $19.3 million have been sold, one to listed Hor Kew Corporation and the other to Hong Lai Huat group. Hor Kew's purchase is a $10.3 million site at Kallang Pudding Road, in
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      Lock icon More units sold as developers cut prices
      434 10  -  Better sales at MCL Land, NTUC Choice Homes projects By Vince Chong AS with most purchasing decisions in Singapore, price perks lead the marketing way in increasing sales, especially when the economy is looking down. MCL Land's 112-unit 99year Sims Residences posted its
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      Lock icon Local SME entrepreneurs say they take risks: study
      373 10  -  They also feel they're adaptable and achievement oriented By Adeline Chuah MORE than half of local SME entrepreneurs see themselves as risk-takers and a sizeable number like to think they are entrepreneurial, thus debunking the popular belief that they are a risk-averse
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      Lock icon JTC Corp launches new consultancy unit
      327 10 JTC Corp yesterday launched the third subsidiary to be formed from its corporatisation initiative. Called JTC Consultants or JTCC, it marries JTC's technical services group (TSG) and the consultancy arm of JTC International (JTCi). Its launch follows those of Jurong Port and Ascendas earlier
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Sisterly competition
        90 10 EXXON and Mobil may have standardised their fuel brands and types here since the merger of the two American oil giants. But when it comes to other retail goods, they appear to have different marketing strategies. It certainly is the case for the goods in their service station
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        Lock icon Honestly, life is great
        50 10 WITH a new logo and corporate identity, the folks at Great Eastern Life Assurance are so bubbly that their e-mail address even ends with @lifeisgreat.com.sg. Well, okay, slight exaggeration, as "Life is great" is also the insurance group's new slogan. But we do appreciate the effervescence.
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        89 10 KEEP your receipts and invoices from KK Hospital. A patient had this recent experience. She was sent a stern reminder by the maternity hospital to pay her overdue bills. When she called to clarify, the billing person went on the attack, suggesting that the hospital's final bills
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      Lock icon Govt should just proceed with land sales
      235 10  -  Tee Giam Eng, Michael Singapore via Internet I REFER to your article "Fewer residential land sales?" by Kalpana Rashiwala (BT, April 5). I think this article is another bid to boost the property market as well as to support the developers in terms
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      Lock icon The real reason why Baffles Town Club is not crowded
      275 10  -  maili .Trm James Wong JS Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter "Large RTC membership a boon" by T H Khong (Mailbag, April 5). I disagree profoundly with his views. Firstly, he mentioned that Raffles Town Club has a
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon London property firms are reaching for the skies
      478 11 Mayor supports Manhattan-style skyscrapers Reuters [LONDON] Skyscrapers crowd Canary Wharf in the east, while planners pencil in tall buildings for Paddington to the west. London's property developers are getting a taste for the high life. Leading architects such as Norman Foster and
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      Lock icon Land sales: MND must go back to basics
      672 11  -  PROPERTY It has to decide between steady supply and steady prices lee han shih OFFICIALS of the Ministry of National Development face a stark choice when they sit down for their annual review of the long-running land sales programme. Unlike the practice
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Bush yet to come in from the cold (war)
      798 12  -  OPINION THEJHHHI leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent REPUBLICAN commentators and politicians criticised the Clinton administration's foreign policy during last year's presidential campaign, describing it as too "idealistic" and "amateurish" and promising that under George W Bush, the US
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      70 12 They are people wriggling around inside a broken box, like a washing machine with middle-aged men swirling around.' -MakikoTan&ka a Japanese parliamentarian, on the eventual successor to Prime Minister YoshiroMori. 'If you wonder whether the bubble burst, this says it better than I could. There's no one
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      Lock icon Currency swaps need more work
      622 12 EDITORIAL A SEAN'S finance ministers are clearly doing their best to come up with region-wide financial support schemes to cushion the 10-nation grouping from another bout of instability. But it must be asked: Is their best good enough? Judging from the proceedings of the Asean
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      Lock icon Pressing need to raise organisational agility
      1166 12  -  The ability to make things happen quickly is becoming increasingly important for the public sector in Singapore By Nigel Knight, Yeo Jen Nam Nigel Knight is the leader of Pricewa terho useCoopers'public sector consulting practice in Asia, and Yeo Jeu Nam is the head
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      Lock icon Indon banks still in fragile state
      704 12 COMMENTARY And that's because political and economic conditions remain so uncertain Editorial in The Jakarta Post TWO years after the restructuring of the domestic banking industry that cost about 653 trillion rupiah (Sslo9 billion), most analysts, including government economists, remain greatly concerned about the
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon MAS still keen on foreign alliance
      384 13 KUALA LUMPUR Govt considering de-linking domestic, international ops AFP LOSS-MAKING Malaysia Airlines is still keen on a strategic foreign alliance but must first settle its internal problems, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Dr Mahathir said the government was still studying the possibility of
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      Lock icon MFA: Presence at Keadilan's briefing was routine duty
      195 13 SINGAPORE SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday responded to the reactions of several Malaysian leaders to a Singapore diplomat's attendance at a recent briefing by the opposition party, Parti Keadilan Nasional. In a written reply to press queries, an MFA spokesman said
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      Lock icon Umno recruits movie star into Puteri wing
      259 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad's struggling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) party recruited a glamorous movie star yesterday in a bid to entice young Malaysian women into its ranks. Statuesque Erra Fazira towered above the paparazzi around her at a news
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      Lock icon Malaysia rejects S&P rating outlook
      567 13  -  NEAC questions rating agency's credibility; says its statements are not substantiated by data From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S National Economic Action Council (NEAC) yesterday rejected international rating agency Standard and Poor's assessment of the country's economy which led to an S&P downgrade
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Investors fear possible Jakarta-IMF standoff
      546 14  -  Any dispute on changing central bank law conld further depress rnpiah From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S insistence on pushing ahead with highly controversial amendments to the central bank law despite strong opposition from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is worrying investors who fear another
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      Lock icon Golkar says it will support Megawati if she takes over
      483 14 JAKARTA Bat party chairman does not openly call for Gas Dnr to step down Reuters INDONESIA'S second-largest party in Parliament said yesterday it would support Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri if she were to take over from the embattled incumbent and serve
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      Lock icon Five Filipinos held in HK over stock fraud
      163 14 HONGKONG AFP FIVE Filipinos are under investigation over the alleged laundering of millions of dollars from a "boiler room" fraud targeting stock investors, Hongkong police said yesterday. The four men and a woman, aged between 22 and 48, were arrested on Saturday
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Thaksin orders search for separatists
        72 14 AP [BANGKOK] Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has ordered a hunt for remnants of Muslim separatist groups suspected of bombings in southern Thailand that killed one child and injured more than 40 people, an official said yesterday. Mr Thaksin, who flew on Sunday to the scene
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        Lock icon Jakarta blast suspects face death
        92 14 AFP [JAKARTA] Five Indonesians went on trial yesterday for last year's bombing of the Jakarta stock exchange and could face the death penalty if found guilty of the blast in which 10 people were killed. Tengku Ismuhadi Djafar and Nuryadin, were charged for "receiving and
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        Lock icon Thousands flee from 2 Indon hotspots
        98 14 AP [JAKARTA] Thousands of people fled two Indonesian troublespots yesterday as religious and ethnic fighting left dozens dead, police said. In Central Kalimantan province, more than 2,000 Madurese migrants waited for a ship to arrive to evacuate them from Pangkalan Bun town, where indigenous
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        91 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Exxon Mobil Corp said it's unable to investigate fire damage to a gas field in Indonesia's Aceh province because of the danger of attack by rebel separatists. On Saturday, a fire was discovered at one of its gas fields at about 1
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      301 14 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN companies must shape up on corporate governance issues or face losing out to overseas rivals for investors' money, a leading advocate of better business practice said yesterday. "The rest of the world is going full steam ahead. We
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      370 15 Reuters [HONGKONG] Top mainland wireless carrier China Mobile (Hong Kong) reported yesterday a year 2000 profit of 18.03 billion yuan (553.79 billion), slightly topping forecasts, as subscriber growth surged and the carrier added seven provincial networks from its parent towards year-end. The
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      247 15 SHANGHAI AFP A CHINA central bank survey shows savings have slumped as Chinese families have injected a greater chunk of their household income in stocks, the Labour Daily reported yesterday. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) survey of households in 50 Chinese
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      292 15 BOMBAY Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Pic, Europe's biggest bank, plans to double its workforce in India to over 6,000 staff as it expands a data processing centre and its retail banking network in the world's second most populous country. The bank, which last year
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      654 15  -  HKMA also rejects calls to regolate new charges, fees banks are introducing Frorri Audrey Tan in Hongkong THE Hongkong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said yesterday that it will go ahead with full interest rate deregulation in July as planned, but added that it will not
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      537 18 PROFIT WARMINGS Sales seen falling to USsBb;Ql EPS last year was 20 US cents on sales ofUSsB^b AFX [SAN FRANCISCO] Motorola Inc will after the market closes today report a firstquarter loss of 7 US cents a share, falling
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      454 18 SANTACLARA Advertisers like ailing dotcoms slash spending Bloomberg YAHOO! Inc, owner of the most-used website for searching the Internet, is expected to report a first-quarter loss tomorrow because sales of advertising declined. The company said last month that it probably would
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      400 18  -  Nasdaq-listed parent Tata! Inc starts efloring new paid premium service, Market Tracker By Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Yahoo! Singapore has no plans to launch paid services for its finance website, despite its parent, Nasdaq-listed Yahoo! Inc, announcing such a service last week. Last week,
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      551 18 NEW YORK The industry has been hard hit by the bursting of the Internet bubble, and first quarter earnings are expected to reflect this trend Reuters EXPECT more doom and gloom as companies in the online advertising sector report their first-quarter earnings
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      282 18 NEW YORK It attributes upbeat outlook to strong electronics growth Reuters US Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc forecast a firstquarter loss narrower than Wall Street estimates yesterday citing strong growth in electronics. The outlook is a rare upbeat forecast for investors worried about corporate earnings
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        70 18 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Softbank Finance Corp and US investment bank Lehman Brothers yesterday pulled the plug on online bond trading venture E-Bond Securities Co after only two months in business, citing lack of participation. The 750 million yen (Ssll million) venture, trumpeted as a new era
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        86 18 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] San Francisco-based Walden International last week joined the growing ranks of venture firms with a US$l billion (551.82 billion) fUnd that it plans to invest heavily in technology overseas, an option many venture firms are taking due to the downtrodden domestic tech
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        59 18 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Vodafone Pacific, a unit of the world's biggest cellphone company Vodafone Group pic, is considering selling shares and listing on the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian Financial Review reported yesterday. The company is considering a share sale after it pulled out of bidding
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      547 19  -  Agriculture minister apologises to the Chinese community From Neil Behrmann in London THE British government has distanced itself from an unnamed agricultural official who claimed that illegally imported meat for use in UK Chinese restaurants had caused the foot-and-mouth crisis. About
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      374 19 M BEIJING US decision to reject pact attracts global chorus of criticism Reuters EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment officials said yesterday they had won China's support for a treaty aimed at combating global warming after a US decision to reject the pact. The EU officials
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      428 19 TOKYO But Japan's MoF has yet to decide if it will sell stock this year Bloomberg CREDIT Suisse First Boston, ÜBS Warburg LLC and other investment banks arrived for a US$6 billion (5510.86 billion) party before the host sent out invitations. Credit Suisse,
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      544 20 US-CHINA TENSIONS Washington signals growing impatience; UN Sec-Gen offers to mediate AP, Reuters, AFX-Asia PRESIDENT George W Bush said yesterday that "diplomacy takes time," but cautioned China that relations with the United States will suffer unless the 24 crew members of
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      257 20 NEW YORK Reuters DALLAS Federal Reserve President Robert McTeer said yesterday that US economic growth in the first quarter of 2001 was probably very close to one per cent but that it could have dipped into negative territory and he could neither rule in
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      656 20 iUlll »M>l vWi UVAttCQ glVUllll wUUvI refused; pilot then forced EP-3 down at Hainan: SCMP AFP [HONGKONG] A Chinese fighter pilot requested permission to shoot down the EP-3 US spy plane last week after seeing it collide with his
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      554 20 WASHINGTON Congress will rhallpngo trig proposed allocations Bloomberg PRESIDENT George W Bush provided line-by-line specifics of his US$l.95 trillion (553.5 trillion) Budget yesterday along with a musical warning to members of Congress who are challenging his proposed allocations: "You can't always get what you want." A
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      613 21 DUSSELDORF, Germany £5b deal will make it world's No 2 energy provider; it also plans to shed non-energy units AFP GERMAN power giant E.ON said yesterday that it was offering to buy the second-biggest British utility Powergen for £5.1 billion (5513.2 billion) in
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      380 21 LONDON FT GENERAL Motors, the world's largest carmaker, is damping expectations of an imminent return to profit in Europe amid signs of a continued slowdown in new car sales. Mike Burns, president of GM Europe, indicated that total industry sales in the
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      189 21 NEW YORK Reuters SEVENTY per cent of the nearly US$l6O million (*****.6 million) in sales booked by the Korean unit of Lernout Hauspie Speech Products NV between September 1999 and June 2000 were fictitious, the Wall Street Journal reported in its
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      265 23  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Report ST lndev/MS& STpore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE Singapore stock market took its biggest tumble in a year, weighed down by increasingly bearish sentiment. The benchmark Straits Times Index knocked off 75.23 points or 4.50 per cent
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      229 23 MSdTttwan Index THE Taiwan stock market dropped on persistent concern first-quarter earnings will disappoint, as a sluggish US economy hurt demand for local exports. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index lost 6.17 points, or 2.50 per cent to finish at 240.83 points. Turnover for the Taiwan
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      230 23 IffttHlMl Reuters THE yen fell over one per cent against the US dollar and came within sight of 17month lows against the euro yesterday, as Japanese price data reignited gloom over the economy and prompted losses in Japanese stocks. The yen broke its four-day winning streak against the
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      2834 24 HONGKONG AFP QHangSeag -***** HONGKONG shares fell 1.5 per cent yesterday following the declines on Wall Street, with sentiment undercut by concerns about the US economy after a sharp fall in March employment data, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost
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      2053 24 TOKYO AFP QffikU22s -542.00 SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 4 per cent yesterday following a tumble on Wall Street and disappointment over last week's emergency economic package, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei Average lost 542 points to close at 12,841.76.
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      1081 24 I*l Shanhenß Index +1L35 CHINA'S Shenzhen B Share Index was up 11.35 points, or 3.38 per cent, to 344.47 yesterday as turnover dropped 23 per cent to a thin HK$l.65 billion. The Shanghai B shares edged up 1.8 per cent yesterday to a new record high with gains almost
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      379 24 AFP □WP Intel -***** TAIWAN share prices closed 2.1 per cent lower yesterday on selling sparked by Wall Street's losses over the weekend, analysts said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 113.30 points to 5,401.85, on turnover of NT554.68 billion. "Investors became wary following Wall Street's fall
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      420 25 AFP fJftrapoatelhdßi -2410 MALAYSIAN shares closed 4.2 per cent lower yesterday following Wall Street's fall, continued speculation about a ringgit revaluation and economic concerns. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 24.10 points at 553.34. The Second Board Index
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      315 26 AFP CI Composite Index -8.76 KOREAN stocks fell 1.7 per cent. The index closed down 8.76 points at 497.46 on turnover of 279 million shares at 915 billion won. AFP *F» Won *h A nam Semi 4005 -245 Brain Tech 520 -20 Central Bank 170 unch Cheil Comm *****
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      747 26 AFP C 3 SET Index -177 THAI stocks fell 1.3 per cent yesterday, led by a weak banking sector amid poor sentiment caused by losses on Wall Street and the baht's continued slide, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index fell 3.77 points to 278.25 points
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      259 26 AFP HmSE-40 *2.75 NEW Zealand shares ended marginally higher yesterday after a portfolio buyer helped boost the market, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Index added 2.75 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,050.57 on an estimated turnover of NZ5192.4 million. A#r» «S (*000) Advantage HDS 0.70 -0.02 246 AirNZA 1.01
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      544 26 AFP CI AP Ordinaries -17.00 AUSTRALIAN shares closed 0.5 per cent lower yesterday with the banking and resources sectors leading the way down, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index lost 17 points to 3,158.5 points while the SP/ASX2OO ended 17.5 points lower at 3,158.7. The All Industrials Index fell
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      743 26 AFP P Composite Index -101 INDONESIAN shares feU 0.6 per cent in thin trade yesterday, with most investors sidelined ahead of a visit by an IMF review team this week, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.06 points at 362.28 on turnover of 521 million
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      1118 28  -  The battle of the sexes in prime time and real life continues to rage By Diane Holloway NYT IT was billed as "the battle of the sexes" in 1973 when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets with 50 million people watching.
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      83 29 Adventure 01 30 April 2001 Send your taste buds on a gastronomic escapade, as the annual Gourmet Wine Adventure returns once again to Mandarin Singapore. Savour exotic Australian cuisine, fine wines from the land down under. It's true-blue Australian haute you just cant miss! Reservations: 831 6288 M i H
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      1354 30  -  Human susceptibility to disease makes therapeutics indispensable, but it is their inherent profitability that makes them such attractive business propositions. v virrru flamigam and A J ramachakdrax examine how attractive Singapore is as a production base for the pharmaceutical industry YVETTE FLANIGAN, A J RAMACHANDRAN FROM a business
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      892 31  -  New Economy thinkers extol the extraordinary power of story-telling to transform individuals and organisations, and two of them will be in Singapore to give first-hand accounts of their stories, amma teo reports ANNA TEO THE age-old art of story-telling is enjoying a grand
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      325 31  -  It will hold six exhibitions, including KM Asia 2001, in the next 12 months By Anna Teo THE organiser of the world's biggest knowledge management event KM Europe has not only brought the show to Asia, it has set up office in Singapore.
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      48 31 Some speakers at KM Asia 2001 Laurence Prusak, IBM Institute a Ikujiro Nonaka, Haas Sch of Business, UC Berkeley Stephen Denning, World Bank Ron Young, Knowledge Associates Int'l Chris Coiiison Geoff Parcell, BP Dominic KeNelter, PricewaterhouseCoopers Patrick Lambe, Knowledge Platform Maria Colyar, Blake Dawson Waldron
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      997 32  -  Constraints of scholarship bonds could prompt you to go for self-financed education, says Adeline chuah ADELINE CHUAH AS the world's leading technological and financial hub, the US is at the forefront of education. A US$7 billion (5512.7 billion) industry, education in the US is an
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      160 32  -  Tay Chee Sen Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter "Is Loughborough well-known?" by Audrey Ong (Campus Life, April 3). There are two points in considering universities as I can deduce from her letter. "Well-known" and "better" seem to be the two
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        94 32 THE National University of Singapore is offering its first integrated multi-faculty graduate programme the Master of Science (Environmental Management) in the academic year beginning in July 2001. Candidates have to take seven core modules: business and the environment, environmental science, environmental law, environmental technology, economics of
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        42 32  -  Compiled by Eugene Low FINLAND'S Helsinki School of Business Administration and Economics held its first convocation ceremony in Singapore on Sunday. Some 30 graduands were conferred awards, including those who completed the Executive Master of Business Administration programme.
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      526 32  -  Amy Lee Amy Lee is a first-year student at the University of Newcastle, Australia. IT'S effortless to stand on the other shore and criticise another country's education system, but as someone who has had the choice to be immersed in the Australian system,
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      551 32  -  postfgTffl from California By Stephanie Chui Stephanie Chui is a first-year student majoring in music at Stanford University IT HAS been six months since I boarded that plane the plane that would take me to Stanford, to college and a whole
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      46 32 What is Campus Life It's about university education, both here and overseas. While written mainly by undergraduates, our main aim for starting this section is to cater to the growing number of our readers who have college-going children. In short, it's for undergrads and their parents.
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      234 33 Reuters [LONDON] The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose three points to 1,427, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 10 points to 1,539, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHD fell 34 points to 9,275 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was up two points to 1,711. TIMB-CHABTEH: ♦Bulk Atalanta (built
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      296 33 SOT *000 8 W CWT Distribution 0.50 unch 4 Chuan Hup 0 JO -0.01 704 Cosco Investment 0.16 unch 0 freight Links 0.08 -0.01 40 GB Holdings 0.40 unch 0 IMC HokMngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.14 -0.01 546 KeppelCorp 3.04 -0.06 341 KeppelFELS 0.86 -0.01 50
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      333 33  -  It plans to spend USslsom this year to add the equivalent 0f90,000 TEUs From P T Bangsberg in Manila COSCO Pacific Ltd, the Hongkong unit of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, said profit for the year through last Dec 31 grew 6.3
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      331 33  -  Brought here by Semco Salvage after collision with tanker By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] An Indonesian government-operated dredger is being repaired in Singapore after it was involved in a collision with a Singapore-flagged tanker off Pasir Gudang last week. The 3,699 gross ton (gt) 1974-built
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      225 33  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] All remaining oil was removed from the Marshall Islands' registered tanker Baltic Carrier and transferred onto Finnish tanker Terui over the weekend. The ship-to-ship lightering of the rest of Baltic Carrier's 33,000 tonne cargo was completed with no further
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        719 34 Officials say the vessels clean their tanks and flush waste oil out into the water off the Omani coast Reuters THIN films of oil lap the white crystal sands of a Gulf beach near the Omani capital of Muscat, where a dozen birds lie
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      178 34 PACE Appenship 5 Assets 5 Austral 6 Balaji Shpg 5 BSA 7 B'tang Mas 6 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 6 CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Cho Yang 5 China Shpg 5 Cougar 7 ft CWT Gtobelmk 7 Delmas 4 Djak Lloyd 6 Dongnama 3
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      19442 40 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES Pages EXPORT TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 200 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvoire 17/04 22/05 Del mas SAUDI JEDDAH N42W 65-*****44 18/04 26/05 COSCO HUMEN BRIDGE 0015W (5-*****00 24/04 29/05 Detmas SAUDI JUBAIL H42W 65-*****44
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        1956 43 RECEIVING Of EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Mane* tstts SMp Vay No Ett/itr Nrio4 From To From MX DAHUA 033* B/23M N OO/BOO NMN MO 2A 08/1700 09/0659 rnno 2* 06/1700 09/0659 09/0900 1 09/0700 09/1159 09/1400 4 OVBOO OVMW 09/1700 ACIRAFTIES 049A WMO 06/1500 06/1659 Aaq-00
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        186 43 Apr 13 United Kingdom: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Australia: Good Friday. Hongkong: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Canada: Good Friday. Denmark: Good Friday. Finland: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Ireland: Good Friday. Thailand: Songkran Festival Day. Apr It United Kingdom:
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        785 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges 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. Hie Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        471 43 Cartoon ISO Max 991.0 2J 13.1 0.28 194 0.06 Apr 5 Density Water Residue Ask Abwlnlw Mhmrt No above E25 0 1 0 1 1 0 380 Ave 984.7 0J 12.7 0.07 21 0.02 tzna 380 Max 990.7 11 14.3 0.11 64 0.03 tt/nt %W %M/M
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        122 44 AFP [AMSTERDAM] Thousands of passengers were evacuated from Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport on Sunday after a blaze from a fast-food outlet spread through parts of the facility. An airport spokesman said there were no serious casualties. "Only one person experienced some discomfort because
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        361 44 It refutes IT report about fresh snpeijnmbo negotiations Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Air Lines Co Ltd (JAL) said yesterday it was not in negotiations with European aircraft maker Airbus Industrie to buy the latter's A3BO superjumbo. The denial came after the Financial Times
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        536 44 Mitsubishi will doable production of fuselages for Canada's Bombardier; Kawasaki to help develop jet for Brazil's Embraer Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's two biggest aircraft makers said they plan to increase involvement in regional jet production as they expand their aerospace divisions. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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        282 44 The airline pnts ten extra flights to Bangkok, Langkawi and Fnknoka Reuters [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and the Hong Kong Airport Authority yesterday said they were preparing for a possible record number of travellers over Easter. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd
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          120 44 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co said it won an order valued at about US$3O million (5154.3 million) to convert three MD-11 passenger planes to freighters for FedEx Corp. The order raises the number of MD-11 freighter conversions Boeing will do for FedEx to 41. Eleven
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          85 44 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Sabre Holdings Corp and Galileo International said they each bought a unit of Travel Industries Automated Systems Pty Ltd, an airline-owned distributor of travel services in Australia and New Zealand. The terms weren't disclosed. Sabre and Galileo said the purchases will let
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          60 44 AFX-Asia [ZURICH] Hongkong-based Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd is suspending its direct Zurich-Hongkong flights because they are not turning a profit, an airline spokeswoman said. "The suspension is temporary and service will be resumed at the start 0f2002 at the latest," she said. Cathay Pacific has been
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        287 44 OANA-PNA [MANILA] Indonesia-based Bouraq has resumed its regular flights between Davao City and Manado, Indonesia. An official notice stated that the aircraft would be having two flights weekly, but this time using smaller HS 748 planes. The airline previously used Boeing 737 to service this
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      280 33 PEOPLE k,%fe Greece's classification society has appointed Konstantlnos Chlou as managing director. The Hellenic Register of Shipping replaced long-standing head Dfbnisios Melissinos, who resigned recently for personal reasons. Mr Chiou's initial task will be to explore ways to upgrade the society's client services and will be expected to create an
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      706 34 NORTH AMERICA GULF/INDIA SUB-CONTINENT m—mmmmmmm—m—m■■MManaßaa—i_______„ SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS (SSX)IQULF KARACHI EXPRESS (GKX) rasa vor lob sm rnunG vnsa voir u dmn bnd 00a CALIFORNIA S2WI2 28/03 15/04 17/04 P* 0 NIDUOYD BANDAR ANAS 171 11/04 12/04 14/04 IS/04 OOCLNfWYORK 12W13 04/04 22/04 24/04 PIO NEDUOYD MALACCA 101 04/04 OS/04 07/04
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      751 34 nes services represented by <c Members of the Registry of Members of the flj Accredited Shipping Agents, Jgaajk Sin 9 Q P° re Logistics Singapore Shipping Association Association g ULY UNE MALE VISSIL I VOT IHA Tn* rm P. KLANG SPORE MALI Princess Lily VO3Ol 08/04 09/04 16/04 Empress Lily
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      1216 35 SAX SIRVKE (DIRECT) Vtssa VOY SIN ETA LAX OAK DAI HOU CHI COl MEM ATI MYC An SARDONYX 026E 17/01 01/02 05/02 05/02 05/02 05/02 05/02 05/02 06/02 06/02 APtTURQOOtti 0401 24/01 OS/02 12/02 12/02 12/02 ~12/02 ~T2/02~ 12/02 13/02 13/02 APIJADI 026E 01/02 15/02 19/02 19/02 19/02 19/02 19/02
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      1713 35 TO ttH f/T 110 BATS 1 HMM T/T sl2 MYS I AQABA T/T: 15MYS J AGam WITOWKOjN ID SMJB/WWS TH: *****57/43 FAX:2MH2I/71 MALAYSIA OFFICE: PASIR GUDAHG TH:O7-*****66 FAX: 07-*****70 COSTM SNIPPING NE LTD SSSSMfI* i2H2i 2M5325/75 PORT KLANG 03-*****633 03-*****668 CR NO: **********0 M TH: 2261*00 (MAM) *WA*D (D/ 0)
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      384 35 VBSa VPSa VOY SW JKT SUB KMTC HONGKONG IOSS OR/D 4 IQAM 105N 11/04 17/ M 24/04 20/ M M* !2s! KMTC KEELUN6 IOSS IS/04 17/04 10SN 11/04 22/04 24/04 01/05 27/04 27/04 WW SMI NT WffIMHA Wl IK* 105S 14/04 25/04 OS/OS 29/04 ZIMBUJI Itf H/M T TW" HHtSINGAPORF
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      1365 36 SENATOR LINES TO EUROPE TO MHXH£ EAST/IRAN/RED SEA vtssa vot sw ta mi «w haw wv m Ivissb I vot Is»IpiI dm I m HKWGSBUTOt 0019W 09.04 02.05 27.04 2104 02.05 03.05 30.04 AMI MUM 00I4W 14 04 21.04 24.04 2104 2904 HANJM SMGATORI 0054W 13.04 05.05 04.05 03.05 04.05
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      525 36 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR INDIAN PORTS FOR N.SHEVA (CFS MULUND. MUMBAI) COCHIN COLOMBO ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALL NORTHERN AND WESTERN 1.C.0. POINTS Vessel VOY SPORE N.SHEVA COCHIN COLOMBO P.KLANG FRONTIER 108W 15 APR 24 APR 27 APR 30 APR 04 MAY PU GLORY 108W 22 APR 01 MAY 04 MAY
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      1656 37 VESSEL VOY KHH HKG SIN PKL PXB »AB DMM BNC IRAN TEHRAN PCL-202 10/04 11/04 14/04 15/04 22/04 23/04 25/04 27/04 IRAN TABATABAEI PCL-203 17/04 18/04 21/04 22/04 01/05 02/05 04/05 06/05 IRAN KERMAN PCL-204 24/04 25/04 28/04 29/04 08/05 09/05 11/05 13/05 IRAN ISFAHAN PCL-205 01/05 02/05 05/05 06/05
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      472 37 I Loading for 1 TAHARA RDM/ATW/BMN/UK I GOOD FRIDAY RDM/ATW/BMN/UK I Loads Singapore. E7W. Malnyaia. Indonesia Loading for SAFEER JDH/AQA/DMT EVDOXIA HDCVJDH/AQA YA LATIF DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT PAUL X JDH/AQA/DMT SOOTHER STAR 1 JDH/AQA RAINIER DBVABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT •Loads Singapore, EVW. Malaysia, Indonesia I Loading (or 1 NATS EMPEROR CAM/NFK/SAV/NOL I HANJM TAMPA VCW/LAX/MZL
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