The Business Times, 24 April 2001

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SIN GAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2001 85C
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    48 1 sn MBUO (+28.71) bt-su <7X5t (+14.09) ST INDEX FUTURES U7OOO (+19.00) SUSCI FUTUKES 210J0 (+2.30) STOCK MABKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSECOMP NIKKEI HANG SENG SET INDEX JAKARTA COMP CLSA CHINA B MANILA TAIPEI. SEOUL COMP AUST ALLOW) 1.4-Spm EST Change DOW —-61.78 DOW __.-51.78 DOW -61.78
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    79 1 FOREX SATES us$ s$ US$ (S$ per USS) 1.814 £(US$/SSper£) L440 2.612 EURO(L'S$/SS/E) 0.902 1.636 DM 2.168 L196 YEN 1213 67.40 RM 3-800 1096 HKS 7.799 4L301 BAHT 46.66 26.18 RUPIAH 118,60 6,634 *S$ to 100 units FUME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA
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    Lock icon Raffles beats 3 rivals to clinch Swissotel chain for Sfr410m
    739 1  -  Deal will give it global exposure and more than double room inventory By Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Raffles Holdings Ltd has beaten three other suitors to the 23-hotel Swissotel chain in a 410 million Swiss franc (***** million) deal that will
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    Lock icon Sinar Mas looking to sell Golden Agri unit for US$300m: sources
    579 1  -  Froml Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S second largest giant conglomerate, the Sinar Mas Group, is looking to sell one of the most profitable companies in its corporate empire Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Corp (Smart) for an estimated
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    Lock icon Indonesia faces bankruptcy as IMF delays review
    533 1  -  Fnnd wants budget revisions approved by Parliament first From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta CASH-STRAPPED Indonesia yesterday faced the prospect of bankruptcy as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delayed a vital review of its aid package to the country until Parliament approved major budget
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    Lock icon Nursalim sticks to his guns on S'pore assets
    668 1  -  -jdexclusive He says in memo to listed nnits here he won't give them op By] Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] Sjamsul Nursalim, who is under arrest in Indonesia on corruption charges, has sent an internal memo to his Singapore companies assuring them he
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      125 1 maPB Top Stories Nera telecom's Q1 profit up 67% to $3.8 m. Pg 3 city3k launches Internet-based debt exchange. Pg 4 Americas free trade zone to be created by 2005. Pg 21 Exxon Mobil, Conoco report robust Q1 earnings. 3M Q1 profit up 24%. Pg 19 ■111 8 ****** r*****4"
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      65 1 4 I don't know why he should jjtil come, because he is on holiday... Sn? '< I J l,s t fought with him. That's jdr f why he came (to Parliament) If to listen to my voice, j j »Report. Case U Bush expected to defer r Koizumi set to
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      21 1 RHL should tell investors more, Next Page Insurers, fond managers wooed, Next Page Capttsljmd oloso to $83m hotel deal, Pg 3
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      7 1 Editorial: Indonesia and the IMF, Pg 12
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon RHL should tell investors why its latest buy is a good deal
      741 2  -  l-i1 comment PROPERTY lee han shih ANOTHER day, another government-linked company (GLC) buys a major asset overseas. Problem is, investors always seem to have trouble telling whether the purchase is a good deal. Yesterday, it was the turn
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      Lock icon Insurers, fund managers singled out for RHL bonds
      731 2  -  |:li exclusive NTUC Income among those targeted for np to $lb in bonds for Raffles City securitisation By. Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Major insurance companies such as NTUC Income and fund managers like Schroder Worldwide Property Fund have been approached to buy
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Market-moving GLCs
        79 2 IS it becoming a trend for Singapore government-linked companies to boost other countries' stock markets? First, DBS single-handedly lifted the entire Hongkong banking sector by its proposed purchase of Dao Heng Bank. And yesterday, the Swiss market got a boost when news came out that Raffles Holdings is
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        Lock icon Windfalls come with taxes
        101 2 THE name Jeff Chou may not be familiar to local readers, but he is the epitome of the dotcom crash. The former Cisco Systems engineer exercised his share options and reaped US$6.5 million. Unfortunately, this windfall came with a tax bill of US$2.5 million which he
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        Lock icon Party's almost over
        56 2 FROM Barton Biggs, the sceptical chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, on US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan's latest present to the stock market, the 50-point rate cut. "I do want to throw 'cold water' on the rally. But this is a move to sell into and
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Nera's first qtr profit jumps 67% to $3.8m
      362 3  -  Systems integrator's turnover almost donbles to $<&2m By\ Serena Ng SYSTEMS integrator Nera Telecom said yesterday first quarter profit jumped 67 per cent to $3.81 million on substantially higher earnings from its three main business segments. Group turnover for the three months
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      Lock icon Is OCBC waiting for Godot before asset sales?
      634 3  -  lock siew angela tan HAREHOLDERS of OCBC had a rude shock on April 9 when the bank revealed it had not any of its non-core property assets of poor property and equity market conditions. OCBC said its plan to divest these assets
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      Lock icon CapitaLand close to selling stakes in 3 hotels: sources
      395 3  -  UOL believed to be bqyer of rtiton in the hetoli By Kalpana Rashiwala CAPITALAND is close to inking a deal to sell off its stakes in three loss-making hotels totalling just over 1,000 rooms in Yangon, Hanoi and Suzhou worth about
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      Lock icon city3k launches Internet-based debt exchange
      695 4  -  Platform for buying, selling debt in reinsurance industry By Angela Tan BAD debt, a taboo among most businessmen, is being transformed into a potential money spinner by city3k, which has launched an Inter-net-based debt exchange for the reinsurance industry. Englishman Alex Letts, 41, the brains
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      Lock icon Hal Sun Hup issues profit warning on weak A$, NZ$
      297 4  -  By i Conrad Raj THE Hai Sun Hup group, operator of Australia's biggest chain of luxury hotels, has fallen victim to the weak Australian and New Zealand dollars and is the latest company to issue a profit warning. It has
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      Lock icon DBS' top executives buy $2m in bank's shares
      271 4  -  Analysts cautious about reading too moch into purchases By. Liew Hanqing TOP executives of DBS Group bought a total of $2.02 million of DBS shares in the market last Thursday, perhaps to send a message to punters who recently battered the stock
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      Lock icon SFI ups Q1 earnings by 18% to $6.6m
      133 4 SINGAPORE Food Industries yesterday reported an 18 per cent growth in profit for the first quarter to $6.6 million against last year's $5.6 million. This was achieved on the back of a marginal increase of 4 per cent in turnover to $91
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon 3 Auric Pacific directors to step down
        83 4 THREE directors of the Auric Pacific Group—Tony Tan Choon Keat, Wee Sin Tho, and Tan Kai Seng—will be stepping down from their posts following their unsuccessful re-election at the company's annual general meeting yesterday. Mr Tan Kai Seng will also cease to be
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        Lock icon SGX nod for Asti rights
        79 4 ASTI Holdings said yesterday it has received in-principle approval from the Singapore Exchange for the listing of new securities in conjunction with its proposed rights issue and warrants issue. The Sesdaq-listed firm is also proposing to increase its authorised share capital to $50 million from
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        Lock icon PCL offer yet to hit enhanced price
        87 4 HO VERT Investments, a member of the Kuok group, said its takeover bid for Pacific Carriers Ltd has become unconditional. As of yesterday, the level of acceptances received for the basic offer of $1.25 a share hit 53.17 per cent. Another 7.1 per
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      Lock icon S&P: Indonesian banks unprepared for slowdown
      564 6  -  But the ratings agency says Asian contagion is unlikely By Angela Tan INDONESIAN banks are the least prepared in the region to survive another economic storm given the US and Japanese malaise, but an Asian contagion is unlikely, ratings agency Standard Poor's (S&P) said
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      Lock icon Chartered on lookout for acquisitions: CEO
      334 6 The purchases will expand its customers and technology Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, the third biggest maker of custom chips, is looking for acquisitions to expand its customers and technology, chief executive Barry Waite said. Acquiring newer technology will help Chartered take on more
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      Lock icon Ultro exec director faces more force-selling
      217 6 MORE force-selling has reduced further Ultro Technologies executive director Sim Mong Huat's stake in the company. In filings to the Singapore Exchange yesterday, Ultro said Hong Leong Finance Nominees force-sold a total 438,000 Ultro shares held by Mr Sim last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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      Lock icon SGX derivatives to go on Bloomberg terminals
      272 6 SINGAPORE Exchange Derivatives Trading (SGX-DT), the futures trading arm of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), and financial information provider Bloomberg LP yesterday announced that derivatives contracts on the SGX electronics trading system (SGX ETS) will be made accessible via Bloomberg terminals. With this electronic
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      Lock icon Eastech expects to maintain growth
      322 6  -  By Trina Foo EASTERN Asia Technology Limited (Eastech), a Taiwanbased company involved in audio and visual products, expects to maintain growth this year, despite the lacklustre global economy. Chairman J Tim Liou said yesterday the company is confident of maintaining its gross profit margin, which
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market rallies on the back of blue chips, tech stocks
      604 8  -  I-Id comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan SELECTIVE blue-chip bargain-hunting and short-covering helped Singapore stocks reverse early losses and start the week on a positive note. After falling to 1,649.27 points in early trading, the Straits Times Index clawed its way back
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      Lock icon Ipco wrt: a top gainer but...
      168 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE suspension of Sinar Mas-controlled Asia Food Properties and Golden Agri stirred considerable interest in other In-donesian-linked counters yesterday. One of these was infrastructurebased Ipco International, whose stock rose 3.5 cents, or 12.5 per cent, to 31.5 cents. Meanwhile,
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      Lock icon Limited upside for ST Assembly
      229 8  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan SHARES of ST Assembly Test Services, which have been sliding steadily since the start of last year, slipped a cent to $1.74 yesterday after rising during the three previous sessions. This local price is still a shade below the counter's
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      331 8 Stock* Volume GES Irrtl Ltd 20c 21,687,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 19,822,000 PCI 25c 12,337,000 Omni Ind 10c 11,504,000 Poh Lian 10c 10,351,000 AddvalTech 2.5c 10,007,000 Golden Agri USIOc 8,545,000 Hyflux5c 8,096,000 ST Assembly 25c 8,081,000 Asia Food&Prop 7,744,000 Sioda Chart Semiconductor 26c 97,240,010 DBSGrp 62,556,384 Datacraft 10c 32,025,557 Omni Ind
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      Lock icon A$ takes hammering over rejection of Shell bid
      529 8  -  I :i i comment CURRENCIES Euro, yen skid after early strength; tumbling rapiah leads regional units larry wee NEWS yesterday that Canberra had rejected a Aslo billion (559.3 billion) Royal Dutch Shell bid for Australian energy firm Woodside forced the Australian dollar
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2673 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss)'Apr24 Ab«rdiwi Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNCFd 0.775 0.815 Global Technology Fd!** 0.733 0.770 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.797 0.837 American Opport Fd 0.869 0.914 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.087 1.142 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.227 1.289 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.094
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Tong Tien See exec pleads not guilty to graft charges
      425 9  -  Liquidator of building firm also claiming $110 m from founding family in civil suit By Conrad Raj A FORMER deputy managing director of Housing Board contractor Tong Tien See Construction (TTSC) yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of receiving kickbacks
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      Lock icon More income doesn't lead to more spending
      447 9  -  Spending rose only 2% as income rose 5.4%: ACNielsen By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPOREANS are not spending more despite making more money, according to studies by ACNielsen on retail trends and consumer shopping behaviour. This spells trouble for retailers, according to the market
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      Lock icon March consumer prices up 1.8%
      264 9  -  =tt=l on the economy consumer prices By Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE'S consumer prices rose by 1.8 per cent in March from 1.3 per cent in February mainly due to higher housing costs. Prices were up in all categories except the transport segment which remained unchanged.
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      Lock icon Sistic now corporatised
      263 9  -  By\ Elaine Phua TICKETING service provider Sistic was corporatised yesterday. Formerly the ticketing arm of the Singapore Indoor Stadium, it will operate as a separate entity, known as Sistic.com. Announcing this move yesterday was Ng Ser Miang, Singapore Sports Council chairman. He will serve on the company's
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      Lock icon BNP joins online bond trading network venture
      490 10  -  French group teams np with Citigroup, Deutsche, HSBC in BondslnAsia By Serena Ng FRENCH banking group BNP Paribas has joined online bond-trading network BondslnAsia, whose founding shareholders include Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and HSBC. BNP has invested an undisclosed sum for an equal stake
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      Lock icon ID.Safe gets licence from IDA
      370 10  -  It's Ist local digital certificate authority licensed by IDA By 1 Tang Weng Fai ID.Safe Pte Ltd yesterday became the first local digital certificate authority to be licensed by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). Digital certificates are issued by commercial certificate authorities (CA) to facilitate
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      Lock icon JTC scales back re-leasing of land
      219 10 JTC Corporation has scaled back its release of land for industrialists, setting aside 35 to 40 hectares for application this financial year, compared to 40 to 50 hectares last year. A press statement from JTC yesterday said that the land is for its open
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      Lock icon Case joins global consumer nutrition group IACFO
      132 10 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has joined the International Association of Consumer Food Organisation (lACFO). lACFO is a coalition of consumer groups that tackles issues relating to nutrition. The group helps consumers decipher information from manufacturers that may be misleading, and explores
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      Lock icon Focus on consumer wrongs too, Case
      367 10  -  MAILISTsTfI Henry Lint Li Shun Singapore, via Internet WITH the voice of the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case) getting louder these days, it seems to me that Case sees its role towards the consumer as merely advocating their rights in every situation. There is
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      Lock icon Shocker from Malaysian tax department
      228 10  -  Liew Sin Hun Singapore IT was really a big shock to me when I received a Notice of Assessment from the Inland Revenue Authorities of Malaysia, notifying that the income tax rate for non-resi-dents is a flat 30 per cent rate, instead of the sliding
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      Lock icon Set up board to vet all signs and stall names
      179 10  -  Chua Hong Wee Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Decide who English campaign is aimed at" by Jaime Ee (BT, April 13). I suggest the government set up a board to vet all signs and stall names. Some
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      Lock icon Asean needs to reshape itself to stay relevant
      361 10  -  Anita Gupta Perth, via Internet I READ with considerable interest Eddie Toh's article, "Is the Asean story still a good one?" (BT, April 16). I believe that until Asean radically re-shapes itself, it will continue to lose credibility and relevance, and will
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      Lock icon Single stock futures — outright contracts
      165 10  - Single stock futures outright contracts Frankie Lim Choo Beng Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "SGX plans Q3 launch of futures based on individual blue chips" by Ven Sreenivasan (BT, April 18). I read with interest on the above plans by the Singapore Exchange, but am a bit
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      Lock icon Don't thank me for my call; answer the phone!
      133 10  -  Yeo Siow Kuang (Steve) Singapore THE self-answering telephone service system is now commonly used especially in government departments, banks, credit card houses and some large organisations. It is intended to increase productivity, but my experience shows this has not been the
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      Lock icon Good to see foreign banks join the fray
      110 10  -  Ho Tong Fatt Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Foreign banks take fight to local banks" by Siow Li Sen (BT, April 20). It is good to see foreign banks coming in to increase the level of competition in the
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Slow sales over the weekend
      563 11  -  Little action at Jervois Regency and No 1 Holt Road, reports vuiuisuiunHi VINCE CHONG SALES of new projects were lethargic at the weekend, as illustrated by the lack of action at Jervois Regency and No 1 Holt Road. Just three units were taken up in
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      Lock icon Jervois Rd bungalow plots relaunched
      352 11  -  Road-widening completed; tender doses Kay 23 for 11 plots starting from 15,069 sq ft By Vince Chong ELEVEN bungalow plots at 200-208 Jervois Road have been relaunched for sale by tender. Owned by Duchess (Nasjjjm) Development, comprising a group of private Singaporean investors, and marketed
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon The use of race to expand US trade ties
      798 12  -  E7TT3 bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent PRESIDENT George W Bush and 33 other Western Hemisphere leaders, meeting in Quebec, Canada, over the weekend, and facing strong opposition from anti-globalisation forces in their countries, have made
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      Lock icon IN OTHER WORDS
      74 12 'What we're experiencing now is not so much a recession as a change in economic lifestyle. We're moving from an economy supercharged by capital investment, a booming stock market and rising consumer debt, to an economy that has none of those. And we're a long way from
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      Lock icon Indonesia and the IMF
      636 12 EDITORIAL IN a rare display of apparent fiscal resolve, Indonesia has agreed to try to contain its budget deficit to 3.7 per cent of GDP this year, down from an earlier estimate of 5 per cent plus. This may open the way for the long-delayed disbursement
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      Lock icon Why Apec is now more important than ever
      1002 12  -  Apec offers the US a vital, non-military anchor in km enabling it to play a constructive, ongoing role with the other members By William Bodde, Jr The writer, a retired US ambassador, was the first executive director of Apec THE recent mid-air
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      Lock icon Hearts and heads in globalisation
      769 12  -  COMMENTARY Anti-globalisation activists hurt the very people and canses they claim to champion By\ Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University THERE is an old European saying: Anyone who is not a socialist before he is 30 has no heart;
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon M'sian govt to borrow RM8.2b to fund devt projects
      547 13  -  BTH MALAYSIA PLAN This includes RM926m for B&kun project; BMftflm for transport sector From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government intends to borrow RM8.23 billion (5514.9 billion) over the next five years in order to fund its development
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      Lock icon KL hopes to boost productivity to cut reliance on input-driven growth
      502 13  -  Private investment has yet to return to pre-crisis levels From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA hopes to boost productivity under the Eighth Malaysia Plan (BMP) to reduce the economy's reliance on input-driven growth. This will prove to
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      Lock icon Johor to have better water management
      389 13  -  It's aiming to be 2nd most efficient water distributor in M'sia From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur JOHOR, which supplies the bulk of Singapore's water needs, will put in place one of the most modern water management and distribution systems in Malaysia in the
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      Lock icon Rashid Hussain gets okay for merger talks
      465 13  -  RHB and ÜB6 say discussions will begin immediately on an 'exclusive basis in good faith' From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN tycoon Rashid Hussain has secured the blessing of the government to start merger talks with Utama Banking Group while Finance Minister
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      Lock icon KL to repeal Clob provisions?
      289 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government is proposing to remove measures that helped end trading in Malaysian stocks on Singapore's over-the-counter market two-and-a-half years ago, the Malaysia Business Times reported yesterday. The amendments to the Companies Act, which had their first reading two weeks ago in
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Estrada likely to be arrested today
      488 14  -  His lawyers scramble to urge conrt to delay order by 10 days Fromi Al Labita in Manila OUSTED Philippine president Joseph Estrada is likely to be arrested and detained today for the non-bailable crime of economic plunder. The impending arrest loomed yesterday after defence
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      Lock icon Philippine credit rating under strain, says Moody's
      413 14 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippines risks having its credit rating cut as economic growth slows and political uncertainty keeps foreign investors away, Moody's Investors Service said in an annual report on the country. The rating agency said Moody's Bal foreign currency rating is under
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      Lock icon Exxon ready for long wait to open Aceh fields
      179 14 ■JAKARTA Reuters EXXON Mobil Indonesia yesterday said it was prepared to wait indefinitely for security conditions to improve before reopening three gasfields in the Indonesian province of Aceh. The company temporarily shut down its fields in early March, blaming the cumulative
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      Lock icon Daim, on leave, shows up in Parliament
      462 14  -  From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur AS the rumour mill continues to churn, there were no giveaways yesterday from either the prime minister or Daim Zainuddin himself on whether he would remain as Malaysia's finance minister. Mr Daim yesterday made a surprise appearance
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      Lock icon No re-raling seen for Vietnam
      514 14  -  Moody's junk bond rating stays as pace of reforms slows From'. Harish Mehta in Bangkok VIETNAM'S sovereign rating is expected to remain at junk bond status for the medium term because the Hanoi government has failed to maintain the pace of policy liberalisation and at
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    • NOTE Book
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        55 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian police yesterday said that 40,000 police would be deployed to guard the capital when Parliament meets next week to decide whether to issue a second censure against President Abdurrahman Wahid. MPs are to meet on April 30 to debate Mr Abdurrahman's rejection
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        59 14 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra questioned whether it was appropriate for developing countries to follow bank capital adequacy standards set by the Bank for International Settlements. Mr Thaksin, in a speech to a UN-sponsored conference, blamed adoption of BIS standards and bank
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        69 14 AFP [YANGON] The brother of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will next week begin his second legal bid to evict} the Nobel peace laureate from her lakeside home. US-based businessman Aung San Oo's first attempt to claim half-ownership of the house, where Aung
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      516 17  -  China's top oil firm reports 55.2b ynan earnings for last year,ajnmpoflos% From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong PETROCHINA Company, the mainland's largest oil company, yesterday unveiled net profit of 55.23 billion yuan (Ssl2 billion) for last year, more than matching HSBC Holdings's performance and
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      509 17 AFP [HONGKONG] Fairy King Prawn, one of the world's top milers, has been barred from entering Japan in a move that could spark a trade row between Hongkong and Japan. The Japan Racing Association (JRA) has informed the Hong Kong Jockey Club that
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      466 17 TAIPEI Unemployment rate climbs to record 4J% from Feb's 3-7% Bloomberg TAIWAN'S industrial production and export orders fell, and unemployment climbed to a record, signs the economy's slump is worsening. Production fell 4.4 per cent from a year earlier after February's 9.1 per
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        64 17 Reuters [BEIJING] China's central bank has pledged to keep interest rates stable and the yuan exchange rate "basically stable", the Financial News reported yesterday. "We should maintain steady growth in money supply, while keeping deposit and lending rates stable and the renminbi exchange
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        89 17 Reuters [NEW DELHI] The developers of a 1,000 megawatt coal-fired power project in Mangalore in southern India have decided to halve the project capacity, partly to "avoid another Dabhol-like situation", the Business Standard reported yesterday. Dabhol Power Co, majority owned by US energy giant Enron
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        41 17 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yasuo Fukuda yesterday said Tokyo hoped former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui would focus on his heart treatment during his stay in Japan and go home with "a good feeling".
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      219 17 BEIJING Companies with over 3 years of losses at risk: report AFP CHINA'S two stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen will today officially start delisting firms which have rim up losses for more than three years, state media announced
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      279 17 NEW DELHI Reuters A FIERCE dispute in India over the government's decision to allow fixed-line telephone service providers to begin offering mobile service, which cellular phone service companies say could destroy them, may be moving toward resolution. Industry officials said the two sides
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      364 18 AMSTERDAM Bloombergs Reuters KPNQWEST NV, Europe's No 2 Internet access provider to businesses, yesterday said its first-quarter loss widened as the company invested in a fibre-optic network for faster online connections. The loss widened to 46.4 million euros (5575.6 million), or
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      358 18 SANTA CLARA, California Bloomberg INTEL Corp yesterday introduced faster versions of its Pentium 4, ahead of schedule, as the No 1 chipmaker tries to boost use of the processor in business computers. The new chip runs at 1.7 gigahertz, and personal computer makers including
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      412 18 SEOUL Its decision to focus on costlier Rambus DRAM chips pays off Bloomberg SAMSUNG Electronics Co reported higher-than-expected earnings for the first quarter as the world's largest memory chipmaker delivered more chips suitable for the latest Intel processor than rivals. Net
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      467 18  -  The group, led by Independent's O'Reilly, comprises Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincos From Neil Behrman in London A VENTURE capital consortium comprising George Soros, Anthony O'Reilly, Goldman Sachs, Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus are investigating the feasibility of bidding for
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        126 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US Better Business Bureau and two European business groups said yesterday they were developing a set of standards for websites to ease consumer concerns about doing business over the Internet. The three groups said they would merge their codes of conduct to
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        64 18 AFP [HONGKONG] Access to the website of the Belgian consulate in Hongkong was yesterday being directed to a pornographic site after it was hacked into over the weekend. Users trying to access www.oansubA.org have been routed automatically to the pornographic site. A police spokesman
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        55 18 Reuters [SYDNEY] Telecom New Zealand is mulling a All billion-plus (Ss93l million) float of its Internet and directories business to reduce debt, the Australian Financial Review said yesterday. It said in an unsourced report Telecom NZ also aimed to unlock value from its
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        64 18 Reuters {TOKYO] Japan's biggest computer maker Fujitsu Ltd yesterday said it has agreed with Minolta Co Ltd, a manufacturer of printers and cameras, to join up in the laser printer business. Last month, Minolta cut its earnings estimates for the latest business year that ended
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        77 18 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] NEC Corp said the company will restructure 10 units out of its current 16 units involved in software development from Oct 1,2001. Thecompany said it will integrate four regional software companies in the Tokyo region into one Arm, creating NEC Soft Corp. One
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      346 18 NEW YORK Reuters TERRA Lycos SA said Web surfers looking for information while on their mobile phones will find humans rather than automation on the other end beginning yesterday with the Internet media company's new subscrip-tions-based wireless service. The new service, called
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      624 18 NEW YORK Formed after Q1 loss, itH monitor management's restructuring actions Reuters, Bloomberg THE board of mobile phone giant Ericsson has formed a crisis committee to monitor the restructuring actions of its management, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition yesterday. Citing
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      586 19 US CORPORATE RESULTS High oil and n&tnral gas prices, improved oil refining margins cited for strong performance Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Two major US oil companies yesterday reported robust first-quarter earnings buoyed by high oil and natural gas prices and improved oil refining
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        57 19 Reuters [PURCHASE, New York] Soft drink giant PepsiCo Inc yesterday said its profits jumped 18 per cent, led by strong sales of new drinks at its Pepsi-Cola North America division. It earned US$49B million (*****.4 million), or 34 cents per share, up from US$422 million, or
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        56 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] American Express Co said quarterly profits fell 18 per cent because of tJond losses and slack spending by corporate customers. It earned US$53B million (*****.4 million) in the first quarter, or 40 cents a share, compared with US$656 million, or 48 cents
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        57 19 Bloomberg [PAWTUCKET, Rhode Is- land] Hasbro Inc, the world's second largest toymaker, had a first quarter loss as demand for Pokemon trading cards fell. The loss from operations of US$24 million (5543.2 million), or 14 cents a share, compared with net income of US$l5.l million, or
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        73 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] SBC Communications Inc, the dominant local telephone company in the south-west-ern and mid-western US, said its first quarter profits fell 10.5 per cent and warned its results for the fullyear would fall below Wall Street forecasts. Excluding one-time items, SBC's net income
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        81 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Mutual fund manager T Rowe Price Group reported a 34 per cent drop in first quarter profits. It posted net income of U5549.3 million (5588.7 million), or 38 cents per share, down from profit of US$75 million in the year-ago quarter.
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        77 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Praxair Inc, the world's third largest industrial gas company, said first quarter net income rose, slightly beating analysts estimates despite high energy costs and slowing economic growth. The company, ranked third in size behind Frances' Air Liquide SA and Britain's BOC Group,
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      322 19 NEW YORK This represents a worrying turn in the US credit cycle, analysts say FT CREDIT problems in the US are spreading from bigger banks to smaller lenders in a sign of growing economic weakness on main street, say US regulators and
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      252 19 FT [LONDON] Investment bankers at Merrill Lynch are bracing themselves for job cuts this week as a drop in mergers and acquisitions activity and equity underwriting begins to bite. Bankers expect that between 5 and 10 per cent of staff at Merrill's investment banking
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      357 19 Bloomberg, Reuters [ST PAUL, Minnesota] Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Co (3M), a maker of 50,000 products ranging from Post-It Notes to computer circuits, will fire 5,000 workers, or 7 per cent of its staff, to reduce costs as US growth slows. About half
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      595 19  -  Mm may draw flak from conservative Republicans and Pentagon officials Froml Leon Hadar in Washington POLITICAL and military analysts in Washington are predicting that President George Bush will announce this week his decision to defer selling to Taiwan state-of-the-art Arleigh Burke-class destroyers
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      836 20  -  Supporters working to connter fears economy will slide back into recession Fromi Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AS maverick politician Junichiro Koizumi moved towards what appeared to be certain victory in the contest to replace Yoshiro Mori as prime minister of Japan and as
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      349 20 LONDON The deal for 154 hotels will take Hilton's portfolio to aronnd 390 Reuters IN a deal aimed to almost double its European hotel operations, British leisure group Hilton pic has agreed to buy Sweden's Scandic Hotels AB for £612 million (Ssl.6
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      212 20 NEW YORK Reuters BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett plans to invest over US$lO billion (SslB.oB billion) in utility companies through Berkshire Hathaway if a law enacted to curb abuses in the gas and electric industry is repealed, and market conditions remain desirable, the Wall
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      556 20 CANBERRA A$ dips as govt move is deemed unfriendly to foreign investment AP, Bloomberg BOWING to political pressure, the Australian government yesterday rejected oil giant Shell's Aslo billion (559.3 billion) hostile takeover of Australia's largest oil and natural gas producer, saying it was against
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      548 21 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS Leaders say freeing trade is crucial to regional prosperity and the environment FT [QUEBEC CITY] American leaders on Sunday agreed to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005, and pledged to strengthen democracy and
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      384 21 LONDON Market contagion conld sweep across Latin America Reuters THE dollar stands to lose more than the euro if Argentina's woes worsen as history suggests that the risk of contagion across Latin America will get more airplay than Argentina's close ties with Europe.
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      263 21 AFP [QUEBEC CITY] Defining poverty as the biggest challenge facing the Americas, World Bank chief James Wolfensohn on Sunday pledged up to US$l6 billion (Ss29 billion) over three years to tackle the problem. Addressing the 34 leaders assembled here on the final day
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      277 22 SOX Derivatives Trading Report ST Indeac/BISGI SPpore Index THE Singapore stock market extended its gains yesterday, led by technology and financial shares on an improved outlook as well as last week's cut in US interest rates. The Straits Times Index gained 28.71 points or
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      239 22 MS& Taiwan Index THE Taiwan stock market traded in a range as worries over first-quarter earnings and a slowing domestic economy outweighed a central bank rate cut The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index was down by 0.58 points, or 0.23 per cent, to close at 250.64
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      229 22 Reuters THE yen rose more than half a per cent against the US dollar and the euro yesterday following news that Japanese reformer Junichiro Koizumi held a big lead in the race for the LDP leadership. The euro was the worst performer, falling one per cent from 2-1/2
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      2417 23 mwoKomi AFP □Hang Sag -13U3 HONGKONG share prices slipped one per cent on profittaking yesterday following losses on Wall Street at the end of last week, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 136.63 points to close at 13,311.50 on turnover
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      1938 23 TOKYO AFP Qmmmubb *un TOKYO share prices fell 0.4 per cent yesterday as investors became cautious ahead of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei Average closed down 50.07 points at 13,715.60. But the Topix
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      981 23 AFP nSheriwißMg *7j47 CHINA'S Shenzhen B Share Index gained 7.47 points, or 2 per cent, to 380.46 yesterday. Shanghai B shares fell 1.4 per cent with profit-taking extending a consolidation after recent sharp gains, dealers said. The Shanghai Stock Exchange's B Share Index shed 2.62 points to 183.82 on
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      380 23 AFP l"lWPfafc» *LO7 TAIWAN share prices closed marginally higher yesterday in lacklustre trade due to cautious sentiment, analysts said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index edged up 1.07 points to 5,597.72, on turnover of NT557.50 billion. "Investors were reluctant to trade after Wall Street's upward streak came to
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      346 24 AFP QOmpoatebfax ■130 MALAYSIAN shares closed down 0.4 per cent yesterday in lacklustre trade amid an absence of fresh leads and light profit-taking, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 2.30 points to finish the day at 573.37.
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      24 24 JIANGSU ZHEJIANG SHANGHAI Analysts picked YE SHANGHAI to be an excellent stock providing consistent return on investment to business executives dining at YE SHANGHAI.
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      311 25 AFP Composite Index +4J6 KOREAN stocks rose 0.8 per cent. The index closed up 4.65 points at 560.94. Volume was 416.6 million shares at 1.8 trillion won.— AFP »a Anam Semi 4810 75 Brain Tech 630 -15 Central Bank 170 unch CheilComm ***** 700 Da* Cu Bank 1415 unch
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      285 25 AFP RCompttrite Index +8.62 lawmm m PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.6 per cent yesterday on selective buying interest, dealers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index added 8.62 points to close at 1,437.16. Volume hit 309.75 million shares worth 259.82 million pesos. —AFP Apr 23 Peso COOP) Abacus Construction
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      269 25 AFP □«SE-40 -27J6 NEW Zealand stocks closed down 1.3 per cent yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 27.05 points to 2,093.34 on an estimated turnover of NZ$64 million. Philip Hardie Boys of ABN Amro Craigs said leaders fell as profit-takers moved in on last week's gains. —AFP *f« ctm
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      550 25 AFP □inOrttotriM -120 THE Australian stock market closed slightly lower yesterday with gains in the industrial sector offset by declines in resources where Woodside Petroleum registered a sharp fall, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 2.2 points lower at *****.5, while the ASX-200 Index was down 2.9 points
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      745 25 AFP Q SET Index 104 THAI stocks fell 0.7 per cent yesterday on continued selling in bank shares, which offset sustained gains in energy stocks, amid poor sentiment after a decline on US markets on Friday, dealers said. The SET Composite Index fell 2.04 points to close at 290.54
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      744 25 AFP Q Composite Index +3JSS INDONESIAN share prices closed one per cent higher yesterday on technical gains with prices supported by news of the government's decision to cap the budget deficit at around 3.7 per cent. Dealers said the rise was led by gains in large caps such as
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      1214 28  -  [PALM BEACH, Florida] Byi Amy Martinez NYT YOU want job security? Have a kid. Gil Rivera was just 19 years old and stacking metal at a distribution company when he heard those words. Only two weeks on the job his first real one since earning his
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