The Business Times, 20 August 2001

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES WTA (P) 107^03/2001 -jr** %i h Internet: http business-times.asial.com.sg SINGAPOR/C MONDAY. AUGUST 20. 2001
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  • 66 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week CbaafB sn SIMSC! FUTURE—1 <*..20 1 $0 BtSM *1.17 +1M KLKCOMP mUI +7.71 mm 1L44&M —-289J2 HANG SENG 11, THAI -lLW SET INDEX +1M 1AKASTACGMP—4IU8 4M MANILA COMP _1*U7 +11M TAffHWPI 4,838.36—+161.45 SEOUL COMP ___J«t*Lw24.e5 SHENZHENB 269.92 3.4 i AEST ALL OBD—1275.40 4&M DOW
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  • 948 1  -  Window to make tr&nsferm&tien to next level is ealy sbent 10 years Reports by Chuang Peck Ming (SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Toag said last night that a bigger battle awaits Singapore beyond the current economic downturn, and unveiled a new economic strategy
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  • 624 1 Detail* of shares scheme to be unveiled only altar Q3 remits are eat [SINGAPORE] A novel "New Singapore" shares scheme is to be part of a new social compact that the government will forge with Singaporeans. No details of the
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  • 900 1  -  Few expect 50-point cut as Fed has signalled downshift in its easing at Jnne meeting From Catherine Ong in New York THE US Federal Reserve Board is widely expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points tomorrow,
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    • 103 1 UHUUB Top StoriM I Post-merger I manoeuvres: dos and donts. Office rents may Ml by up to 10%: consultants. Pg |^fl| US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill blasts IMF over forecast for US economy. P| 13 Management Development Institute of Singapore buys freehold property for $23m. Pg 7 yfj Cheaper made-m-China
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    • 167 1 100 Han Sliih BT Comment Can NUS j f Y/>/ Pj -b rr "> I Stocks: produce a PUIS It OTf clgcllf! I VnffeTeVt* 5 i Bill Gates? 1 We re the ones who understand our business. We (lout have to v M r> Sivanitny. Pa?;e b Bi/ITPa«'o4 I listen
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    • 43 1 •OOMric Strategy. PgS Mcpr MSt alttMl, Pg3 wrotmionjf Reinventing S'port I*, Hextßaoe^ I.iiilv J i .ifii \\.ii«li siiiv.ipiiK \g«*e Anil <it W {4 J4.~ Dillon liittni.ition.il flu- slni|i|iin; I I *t "> (L"( r > \tilli-ma DfS 1«> I Hi J 1 www t.ulur < k
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    • 624 2  -  1 1 1 I L ECONOMICS vikram khanna WITH talk of reinventing Singapore Inc in the air, it's worth considering some ideas that business people, academics and working economists both within and outside Singapore have expressed on the subject Many of these ideas are not particularly new
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    • 883 2  -  exclusive RCC seeks mere resources to buy up larger smnsefNPLs Frorni Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE Japanese government agency set up to help banks dispose of their mountain of bad debts is gearing up for a more aggressive assault on
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    • 14 2 National Day Rally; More reports, Page 3 Japaa ready for inflation target? ...,Pg 13
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  • NATIONAL DAY rally
    • 576 3  -  Broader focus for TDB; new innovation council; on domestic sector efficiency By I Chuang Peck Ming A BROADER focus for the Trade Development Board, formation of a national agency to push for innovation, and a greater emphasis on efficiency in the domestic
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    • 392 3  -  Reports by, Andrea Tan TWO men, both of Hokkien descent. Kwek Leng Beng heads the Hong Leong Group, while "popiah king" Sam Goi heads Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing (TYJ). Both were held up as examples of enterprising businessmen by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last night. Mr
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    • 309 3 SIM 001 MANY years back, his father supplied provisions to coffeeshops. Today, Sam Goi sells popiah skins and roti pratas to the world. Mr Goi, Singapore's undisputed popiah king, is the executive chairman of Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing (TYJ), one of the
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    • 307 3 EWBE LHVG BHVG HE may run one of Singapore's largest diversified groups, but Kwek Leng Beng knows precisely when to step back when running a world-class business empire. "Companies must realise that in going abroad, the senior executives in the country that you
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    • 478 3  -  Focus on long-term issues; current slump short-term problem By Chuang Peck Ming DON'T let the current economic downturn get you down there is a bigger battle ahead, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Singaporeans last night. "When the global economy recovers,
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      553 3 TOUGHER TIMES AHEM) "As in the Mount Everest climb, the going will be tougher from here." "We will need great mental strength to continue pushing ourselves to excel. If we do not do so, others now behind us will push us off the track." THE CHINA CHALLENGE "I
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 580 4 It also says some members of Air NZ board support its bid Reuters, AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways, scouting for regional ties to boost its shrinking profits, said yesterday it would rather turn its back on Air New Zealand than take a stake
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    • 385 4  -  The 'secret weapon' helps it to win first land reclamation job By] David Boey SEMBCORP Industries' "secret weapon" the Bulclaimer system has helped it to clinch its first land reclamation project worth $198 million earlier this year. SembCorp said its construction arm, SembCorp
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    • 386 4  -  Bat Sing Tel may not need till Hay 2002 u US State Dept has given go-ahead By Teh Hooi Ling WHILE Singapore's banks involved in current takeovers have only 60 days to close their offers, Singapore Telecommunications' bid for Australia's Cable Wireless
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    • 161 4 DIVERSIFIED electronics company. Acma Ltd has received approval from the High Court to issue new shares below their par value. Mainboard-listed Acma is the first such company in Singapore to issue new shares at a discount to the par value. Acma
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    • 1176 5  -  Merging companies in Singapore must bring the battlefield into focus By' Till Vestring, Mike Booker OVER the next few months, as a number of the recently announced mergers in Singapore close, the new management teams will need to make a staggering number of decisions: Should
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    • 521 4 ADVERTISEMENT lIBBHSiI "ft With greater investments, ■hhm BASF is committed to the future of Singapore. BASFs nspor* sirvicas hub at Suntec City, Singapore BASF is a transnatcnal chemical company fcncttone, the hub manages and prtMdas production of styrene monomer and thai has become an important investor in value-added services In
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    • 530 4 ajggl. IN THE MATTER OF THE II COMPAMEB ACT, CAP. 90 M THE MATTER OF REGION SHINE ENTERPfUSES PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) At mi Extraordinary General Meeting cf the above Company duly convened and held at 190 Middle Road #14-02. Fortune Centre, Singapore *****9 on Monday. 20lh August 2001«11
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    • 230 5 E-INFRASTRUCTURE ASIA 2001 The essential broadband conference 4th 7th September 2001 Grand Hyatt Hotel Singapore A 4-day definitive event that features innovative strategies for key infrastructure development, new applications for broadband technology and new technologies. Confirmed Government Representatives: National TelemmmimimfiniK Commission Philippines, Ministry Of Posts Telecommunications Indonesia. Participating companies: Starhub
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      1064 6 Source: Al NOL 58,688,000 PNEMIOc 46,256,000 Fu Yu Mte 10c 40,367,000 Eoonlnl20c 35,941,000 PacfeCanturylOc 32,466,000 OUB 30,427,000 SingTal15e— 29,271.000 JKYaming20c 26,852,000 TPVUSIc.— 25,240,000 Autron 24,700,000 Stock* OUB.. 267,084,630 UOB 222.197,150 0C8C 131.920.966 MacralllOc 125.865,436 Chart Semiconductor 26c 118.198,468 OeSGip- 89,619,530 OmihdlOc *****^80 JMH US25c 400 82,319,382 NOL *****.303 Stock* Canto
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    • 690 6  -  -id comment STOCKS r. sivanithy ONE of the stock market's more famous axioms is "don't fight the Fed". In its simplest form, it means "buy stocks when interest rates are cut and sell them when rates are raised". Put slightly
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    • 189 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy IN a market as unbelievably bearish as this, a column on warrants seems out of place after all, why bother featuring bullish instruments in such an environment when the chances of making money grow slimmer
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    • 241 6  -  HOT STOCK By Serena Ng THE stock of Neptune Orient Lines has slumped over the past week after the Singapore Exchange imposed a one-day suspension on it. The counter rose 2 cents last Friday to close at $1.03, on moderately active volume of 8.7
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    • 106 6 ♦SINGAPORE Telecommunication* Ltd will go ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 5.5 cents) on Sept 4,2001. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is Sept 7,2001. Date payable is on Sept 26, 2001. ♦KHONG Guan Flour Milling Ltd will go ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 4.00
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    • 559 6 AFP [HONG KONG] The dollar juggernaut hit the brakes last week to the benefit of Asian currencies as gloom over the US economic outlook deepened. With the euro picking up pace, the Japanese yen led the Asian march to reach a two-month high
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 400 7  -  ef ieteee bew, cempany cutbacks to Mum; Imt finds may mm in to buy By Vince Chong OFFICE rents in Singapore could fall by up to 10 per cent within the next year as the economic downturn looks increasingly likely to
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    • 245 7  -  on the economy job ad volume By] Rachel Ong DEMAND for manpower plummeted in July, going by the volume of job advertisements in the newspapers. Last month, the volume of recruitment adsriell 61 per cent from a year ago. The volume has been failing
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    • 370 7  -  Building will become new HQ, help cope with expansion plans By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) has bought a completed freehold commercial building on Changl Road for $23 million the first time the 45-year-old Institute has bought its own premises.
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    • 46 7 Jjk aagM SIAS DIALOGUE SESSION I.TO REVIEW WHETHER SGX SETTLEMENT WAS EQUITABLE? 2. TO CONSIDER RECOMMENDATIONS, IF ANY TO SGX. 3.T0 DISCUSS POSSIBLE AVENUES OF REDRESS. ON WEDNESDAY, 22ND AUGUST 2001 7.00PM ROYAL ROOM (15TH floor) HOTEL ROYAL 36 NEWTON ROAD SINGAPORE *****4 I *****683 1
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    • 922 8  -  Joseph Chong Singapore RECENTLY Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan made an enlightening speech on technopreneurihip. He remarked that the market Is as Important as technology Itself. As a person trained up to the poet-graduate level in engineering and business and having been an entrepreneur, my
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    • 247 8  -  Chew Keng Seng Singapore I REFER to the article "Some OUB shareholders selling in open market" by Angela Tan (BT, Aug lg). Ms Tan analysed the facts very objectively. However, part of her reasoning on UOB getting s waiver from the Singapore Exchange should it
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 762 10  -  fITiTTTTTTTJRTI KL STOCKS Thers ti roo« ter the KLSB Oo«po«tto Imtox to rtn farther, but watch Oct lor pttflUl* In the rertrnctqrlag at T-. eddie toh IS there more upside for the Malaysian stock market now that It has emerged as the best performing bourse
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    • 48 10  -  ■JBXEtSDBHSi From Eddie Toh in KmilaLunumr the ciipciop of horses will soon be heard in modern Putrajaya. police ratti?Katoato* closes on Sept 1& ty ends there. 'jf, also fit in nicely wttn Prime Minister VAIia^LM. mdJxaxnsF 4,, Mohamad's AMtnof tarring f p thejtentrig;
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    • 316 10 MANILA PHILIPPINE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday ordered a thorough investigation of a Manila hotel blaze that killed 72 people and said those responsible would be prosecuted. Investigators were rummaging through the gutted interior of the Manor Hotel in Manila's
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    • 418 10  -  ormEanna arroyo s efforts may not make a dent as downside risks to capital Inflows abound al labita The Philippines' economy is floundering and its near- to medium-term prospects don't seem too bright. Kidnappings, political wranglings and weakening macro-econom-ic fundamentals pose downside risks to capital inflows.
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    • 397 11 SINGAPORE ING Barings says disputes will arise with g—iUr nations TRADE disputes are likely to increase in the future as smaller Asian economies struggle to compete with cheaper goods made in China, ING Barings' Asia said in a report The investment bank's chief economist Tim
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    • 620 11  -  Hypermarket targets 29 stores by year-end on strength of healthy profits From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI hypermarket operator Big C Supercentre, once a huge loss-maker, is now one of the "best stories" in the moribund stock market, analysts said of the
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    • 269 11 SINGAPORE SPpore workers no longer in 'high risk'group with no commitment to their firm* AFP HONG Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia have the most disenchanted workforces in Asia, with the most loyal found in South Korea and Taiwan, a regional survey showed. The survey
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    • 428 11 CHA-AM, Thailand Reuters Thai Airways International said yesterday it could offer a foreign strategic partner more than a previously suggested 10 per cent stake when it partly privatises later this year. The government plans to reduce the state's stake in Thai Airways to
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    • LATE Briefs
      • 121 11 AP [JAKARTA) A high-level International Monetary Fund delegation arrived in Indonesia yesterday, saying it was optimistic that the AumTs US$5 billion lending programme could be reinstated soon. "IamhopsAilafter this visit we can sign a letter of intent," said Anoop Singh, IMF's Asia-Pacific deputy director. The
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      • 110 11 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippine government has received offers from foreign investment banks HSBC. Deutsche Bank and Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) to raise fresh loans amounting to US$4OO mfflkm officials said. Sources at the Department of Finance said HSBC offered to handle a "fully
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      • 98 11 AP [KUALA LUMPUR) A senior policy-making cAddi to Malaysia's United Malays National Organisation (Umno) party was stripped afa key poet by a disciplinary panel for breaking unspecified rules during recent tatornal elections. Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday. Azim Mohamad ZabMi,
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      • 102 11 Dow Jones [SHANGHAI] China's real estate investments increased 31.8 par csnt in the first seven smiths of the yeartoVSJ trillion yuan (SI85.7 billion), Securities Times reported in its weekend edition. The rate is 7.5 percentage potnts Caster than the growth rate registered durmg the same-«
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      • 183 11 Xinhua [NEW DELHI] India is unlikely to agree to a new round of i negotiations under the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) before its concerns on previous I trade apeemntsare sorted out, the Statesman reported here yesterday Although New Delhi had agreed to
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      • 124 11 Reuters [MEXICO CITY] Breaking an eight-year trade blockade, Imports ofThailand'® aromatic "tafl" rice are agtin being allowed into Mexico, a market that exporter* say has "huge potential". The rice, known as Horn Mali, will be distributed by three buyers in Mexico and is dated
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    • 306 12 AFP {TAIPEI] Taiwan's jobless rate already plagued by the global economic slump may hit a new high of 5 per cent in July as graduates began their search for jobs, a report said yesterday. The unemployment rate in June hit a new high
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    • 602 12 BOMBAY But there's m threat testability; nsUiaedfafidthu ■etleeitoiafljitiea Reuters INDIA must narrow its yawning fiscal deficit in the medium term but the flood of red ink poses no immediate threat to stability, central bank deputy governor Y V Reddy told Reuters. India's
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    • 256 12 SinGAPORE AIRLinES UfTHTgD (Incorporated in the RepuMc of Singapore) Singapore Airlines Limited rSIA") wishes to announce that the capital reduction exercise approved by SlA's shareholders during the extraordinary general meeting held on 14 July 2001 has on 17 August 2001 been confirmed by an order granted by the High Court
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    • 404 12 HHHH 29 August 2001 Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore There are many conferences on Corporate The registration fee for the contain* ie:Govemance but this is the one you should ACCA Monitors $$145/attend because we cover ALL the bases. Won —emboli SSI 80/The Association of Chartered Certified ACCA Members wM be
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    • 29 13 fftToTI lianhc Zaobaol 1/ JriMore I t commercial properties I rforeclosed I Iby banks I I go under the hammer at I I auctions I I I I I
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    • 153 13 The AiM-AEC partnership presents Professor Sonny Cotoma Asian Institute of Management to dtouss Corporate Governance to be held Iron* y-Q September, 2001 at Traders Hotel, Singapore. Content; Strategy Formulation Balanced Soorecard Rote of the Board as a Tranatormalional Agent Pertormanoe Management Ombudsman and EtNcs Unommutdrt fee CEOs, COOa. MOa and
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  • WORLD news
    • 346 13 Reuters [TOKYOJ Japanese Economics Minister Heizo Takenaka said yesterday targeting an inflation rate was one policy the central bank could take to stabilise prices, but added that politicians were not ready to truly embrace such a scheme. Debate over how the Bank of Japan (BOJ)
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    • 223 13 TOKYO AP BUSINEBS sentiment is deteriorating rapidly in Japan, with three out of four major corporations here saying the economy is slipping back into recession, according to a newspaper survey released Saturday. The Yomiuri Shimbun said that 76 out of 100 big companies it polled
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    • 429 13 WASHINGTON He sets its warning of US$ dive because of cnrrent account defidt reflects outdated thinking Bloomberg US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill took aim at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for forecasting the US may be facing a protracted economic slowdown and
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    • 161 13 ALGIERS AFP, Reuters THE price of a barrel of oil should remain stable at US$25 during September, Algerian Energy Minister Chaklb Khelil, whose country currently holds the routing Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) presidency, said Saturday. "We foresee stability in the
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    • 511 14 FRANKFURT Analysts point to slowing inflation and downturn in economic growth Bloomberg THE European Central Bank (ECB) will probably cut interest rates for the dozen nations sharing the euro before the end of the month because inflation is waning and economic growth
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    • 248 14 FRANKFURT Iforarvey likely to reiafarce fear of Q3 economic contraction Bloomberg GERMAN executives were more pessimistic in July, a survey 0f7,000 companies to be published this week will probably show, increasing expectations Europe's largest economy may contract this quarter, analysts
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    • 207 14 HAMBURG AFP THE head of Germany's engineering union is being investigated in connection with his alleged role in the takeover of German conglomerate Mannesmann by Britain's Vodafone, Der Spiegel magazine said on Saturday. Klaus Zwickel, head of labour union IG Metall, and Juergen
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    • 229 15 SEOUL Minister says govt won't gat involved in chipmaker'B woes Bloomberg THE fate of troubled Hynix Semiconductor Inc will be determined by creditor banks of the world's third-largest chipmaker, said Jin Nyum, Korea's finance and economy minister. "The government won't get involved
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    • 178 15 TOKYO AFP YASUDA Mutual Life Insurance Co will entrust Swiss financial group ÜBS AG with managing about half the assets it is investing in overseas stocks and bonds, a company spokesman said yesterday. The major Japanese insurer manages a total of
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    • 436 15 NEW YORK It dtes slowdown and company's unusually low staff turnover Reuters ACCENTURE Ltd, the world's largest consulting firm, has announced that it would cut an additional 1,500 jobs, or 2 per cent of its workforce, citing the economic slowdown and an unusually low
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    • 512 15 American* are gparning brand ■um fir fufcta at low prices it discount retailers Reuters (NEW YORK] With the economy and consumer confidence in the *imp« it It no longer necessary to parade around in designer brahds and pay top dollar like a
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    • 533 17 £ep«rtsf(USslsbpftcka#B exaggerated, says IMF; ne ifawiiriin date given Reuters [BUENOS AIRES] High hopes for an imminent multi-billion dollar aid announcement for Argentina were dashed last Friday when the International Monetary Fund said that while new fonds were being diacussed, it could not say
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    • 268 17 Average forecast now L 61% against the earlier 2.6% Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street investment houses have drastically cut their 2001 growth forecasts for Brazil as energy rationing, high interest rates and Argentina's financial crisis have taken a toll on economic growth in
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    • 411 18 He says there have been 43 rollover accidents after massive tyre recall 1 Bloomberg [MCALLEN, Texas] Bridgestone/Firestone Inc chief executive John Lampe has testified in a US$l billion tyre-failure trial that Ford Motor Co's Explorers were to blame for roUover accidents. "There have been
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 626 15 AFP [LONDON] World commodities failed to cash in last week from a softer dollar and hopes of an imminent US interest rate cut, as concerns over the bigger economic picture continued to dominate. Gold found some support from the dollar's fall against other major currencies, but the base
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    • 986 16  -  A Habitat for Humanity programme empowers women as they help the needy, writes Ul-HOOM CHEAH UI-HOOH A CLUSTER of women in dusty shorts and shirts, with bandanas around their heads, gather outside a half-built house. They roll up their sleeves and wipe off the
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    • 90 17 Economist Conferences 2001 a business graveyard 2002 a brighter future? Plan ahead. Plan now. You have planned for the downturn. Now is the time to plan for growth. You need forecasting, not fortune telling. 16th Annual Strategic Regional Forecast Budgeting for the upswing: Asia 2002-2004 September 6th 7th 2001 Grand
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    • 1708 20  -  Chastened by substantial losses, Creative Technology is refocusingand reorganising. Nothing less than a profound change of mindset will do, chairman Sim WongHoo (right) tells KBMEBTB JAMES KENNETH JAMES THESE days Sim Wong Hoo carries a rod which he uses to "whack" errant members of his management.
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  • BIZIT
    • 996 21  -  jMriiexclusive The Singapore Stock Exchange is now putting in place all the myriad components to enable Straight Through Processing in its aim to offer a T+l settlement cycle in future, as tamo wbmqfai finds out TANG WENG FAI THE Singapore stock market is now one
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    • 734 22  -  exclusive A Gartner study shows that they were down 22% in unit terms and 25% in value terms in Q2 this year compared to the same period last year, reports bajvgbbuam RAJU CHELLAM SINGAPORE recorded among the sharpest drops in computer server sales
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    • 692 22  -  The island's largest mobile-phone company will find it htfd to continue its rapidgrowth By Russell Flannery JACK Sun has propelled Taiwan Cellular to become the largest mobile-phone-service provider on the island. But the bigger his company becomes, the harder it is to manoeuvre. Mobile-phone penetration in Taiwan
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    • 270 22  -  By', Tang Weng Fai STRAIGHT Through Processing (STP) involves integration between three main areas of the trading and settlements cycle for securities. Front office: this covers the main trading systems, as well as portfolio management systems. It also includes pre-trade activities such as newsfeeds, and custom reports
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      • 1234 23  -  Ever considered using online directories to promote your website? Probably not Yet a survey shows that search engines create more awareness about websites than any other form of advertising, reports dated mox DAVID MOK The author ts CEO of Intern* consuUancyMyEwtzard.com. INTERNET search engines
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    • 805 24  -  I li comment INFOTECH Some 700 undergrads will bo groomed to become ftaturo leaders'. But is the effort worth the money? lee han shih The writer is a BT Senior Correspondent CAN the National University of Singapore (NUS) spot and groom leaders in the
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    • 304 24 LATWP [LOS ANGELES] An influential company advising large holders of Computer Associates International Inc stock on Friday changed a previous endorsement of CA management and now recommends its clients vote for an insurgent group seeking seats on CA's board. The change follows Ranger Governance Ltd's
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    • IT TAKES
      • 57 24 SINGAPORE-BASED Commerce Trust Ltd, which offers privacy assurances for business transactions, has tied up with Japan Information Processing Development Corp (JIPDEC) to recognise each other's privacy protection mark. Privacy protection marks, such as Privacy Trust from Commerce Trust and the JIPDEC Privacy Mark, protect data and
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      • 45 24 US-BASED Chordiant Software Inc, which provides CRM (customer relationship management) solutions, Mobile One (Asia) Pte Ltd has deployed Chordiant's Unifying CRM solution in its mark*»ting campaigns Chordiant's solution provides up-to-the-minute backend analysis, including response rates and fixed and variable campaign costs.
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      • 56 24 CITIBANK e-BusinesB has tied up with e-Business Exchange Pte Ltd for the delivery of its Citibank shilling service in Asia and Western Europe. The solution provides 828 electronic bill presentment and payment services over the Net, and will enable organisations to integrate their existing payment
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      • 31 24 HOMEGROWN SurfGoid.Cum Pte Ltd, which provides CRM solutions, has appointed XVizion China Ltd, a Hong Kong-based distribution and consultancy firm, to its solutions to the North Asian region.
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      • 39 24 US-BASED Borland Software Corp, which provides e-biz platform solutions, has appointed Sam Gbebranious as managing director for the Indian subcontinent. Mr Gbebranious was previously managing director of Novell Inc for the Asia-Pacific ngkm.
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      • 35 24 US-BASED Commerce One Inc, which provides e-marketplace solutions, has appointed Dan Currie as vice-president of business development for the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Currie was previously its vice-president of global sales support
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      • 26 24 r- AN IT networking party, eAngelzNite, will be held tomorrow at the Marina Mandarin Hotel It is organised by eAngefeoom. For details, visit wiamjeangtizxxmi.
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      • 29 24 A SEMINAR on "Wireless HorianT will be held on Thursday at Suntec City. It is organised by the Centre for Wireless Communications. For details, visit ufwwxwe.nus.edu.sg/cwcruws/seminars.
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      • 31 24 A FORUM, "Future of network performance", will be held on Friday at the Westin Hotel It is organised by Anixter and Avaya Communication. For details, e-mail gerrain.angQnnixterjcom.
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      • 66 24  -  ConpMl* Leo Kee Chye ABOUT 50 per cent of the online population in Singapore use instant messaging, compared to 66 per cent in Hong Kong, according to a study by Net Value. Its usage m ill Asia has jumped from 4.9 million in January to 7ji|nillion
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    • 567 24  -  Analysts fsar price war and slow GPBS rollout By Paul Chan ONE month ago. Finlandbased Nokia said its secondquarter revenues grew 5 per cent over Q2 2000 to 7.3 billion euros (SIU.6 billion), while net operating profit fell 16 per cent to 830 billion euros. At
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    • 184 24 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Nokia Oyj will buy all of the memory chips for its most advanced mobile phones from Samsung Electronics Co, a move that could reduce the reliance of Korea's largest company on a shrinking global computer market. The biggest maker of mobile phones
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    • 510 25  -  SAYIimW collaboration aid eommuiiitjr,ssseiitialaleaMtitsalao include lifetime relationship management, personalisation, one-to-one marketing and self-service george wong The writer is managing director, Broad Vision Amm ONE of the most important cognitive tasks facing companies today is establishing a proper balance between computer automation and manual involvement.
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    • KNOWLEDGE management
      • 1055 26  -  Instead of flying employees across the globe for meetings, companies can opt for real-time e-conferencing tools and save time and money. tu cbua finds out how they work VAL CHUA THE sales teams at 3Com Asia-Pacific don't meet as regularly as they used to.
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      • 237 26  -  Genpaaiesareiisißgtkefli to collaborate on everytking, from deadline-driven projects to mere creative assignments Val Chua THE market for collaboration software has two broad categories: asynchronous collaboration (such as discussion databases and bulletin boards), or synchronous collaboration (or real time ones, such as web conferencing tools). The
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 51 27 FUJITSU PC (Asia) Pte Ltd has unveiled its notebook PC. Called Lifeßook E-6656, it costs tMtt, weighs 2.99 kg, runs on a 1.13 GHz Pentium IH processor, and comes with 256 MB RAM. 30 GB hard disk and 14.1-inch TFT display. For details, fax *****88 or visit
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      • 31 27 CREATIVE Technology Ltd has unveiled its new CD-RW Blaster *****0 drive. It costs $229 and writes CD-Rs at 16-speed and CD-RWs at 10-speed. For details, visit asia.creative.com.
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      • 45 27 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore has unveiled its new Pavilion 8899 home PC. It cost $2,699, runs on a 1.3 GHz Intel Pentium IV processor, and comes with 128 MB RAM, 40 GB hard disk and 17-inch CRT monitor. For details, visit www.hp.com.sg.
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      • 50 27 DELL Computer has launched a new server— Power Edge 500SC—for small businesses. Prices start at $1,265. It runs on a 800 MHz Celeron processor, and comes with up to 2 GB RAM and up to 180 GB hard disk. For details, call 1800.*****74 or visit www.dell.com/ap.
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      • 102 27 CANON Marketing (Singapore) has unveiled four new scanners, including three flatbeds and one film. For details, fax *****17 or visit www.canon.com.sg-. ♦CanoScan N67OU: costs $199, offers 600 by 1,200 dpi (dots per inch) resolution and 48-bit input process for colour scan and comes with Z-lid
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      • 110 27 LEXMARK International Singapore has unveiled its XB3 and X 73 All-in-One Print Centres. They allow scanning, printing, copying and foxing (through PC). For details, fox *****20. x X 73: costs $439, prints with a 2,400 by I,2oodpi print resolution, scans at up to 600 by 1,200 dpi optical
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      • 52 27  -  Compiled by Leo Kee Chye ADOBE Singapore said it will allow a 60<iay truce to help users convert pirated copies to legal ones, with discounted p*ices for software packages. Users can fax *****23 to check on the legitimacy of their Adobe software and seek advice on software
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    • 396 27  -  By; James Rowley Bloomberg [WASffINGTON] Microsoft Corp has lost a bid to delay remedy hearings in its battle with US government antitrust enforcers while it asks the Supreme Court to review a ruling that the software giant illegally protected its Windows monopoly. Seven appeals court judges
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    • 436 27  -  By Reshma Kapadia Reuters [NEW YORK] The Industry Standard, which chronicled the rise—and fall—of the Internet frenzy and dotcom whirlwind, will suspend publication of its weekly magazine and lay off most of its 200 employees this week. The move to shutter what had become
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    • 464 27 Some overseas plants will also be dosed, according to Nihon Keizai Shimbon Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese giant chipmaker Fujitsu Ltd will slash its worldwide workforce by 15,000, or nearly 10 per cent and close some overseas plants in response to the
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    • 186 27 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] General Semiconductor Inc, a computer chip company based in New York, has bowed to the widespread industry slowdown and announced a restructuring programme that will reduce its workforce by 23 per cent this year. The Long Island, New York company, which
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    • 490 27  -  H2 earnings at risk as slowdown hits customers By Paul Horvitz Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp's chipmaking business, which has helped the company weather slowing economic growth this year, is now at the mercy of ailing networkequipment customers such as Cisco
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    • 218 27 AFP [TOKYO] Japan and South Korea have agreed to relax immigration rules for information technology (IT) engineers, a report said. The move is an effort to ease Japan's IT skills shortage and boost South Korea's drive to export computer specialists,
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    • NET impact
      • 554 28  -  idexclusive Singapore has at least a dozen portals which offer users a wide range of services and a wealth of information. There are, however, no e-transaction facilities, reports uo see cars LEO KEE CHYE DESPITE Singapore's small size, the Republic has more than a dozen portals dedicated
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      • 360 28  -  Meivu Rafi's 3D virtual models of the Boeing 747-400 can be simulated on Microsoft's flight Simulator 2000 By Chen Huifen HE is 16, has serious myopia and astigmatism, and is not old enough to drive cars. Yet, this Singaporean boy has realised his
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      • 319 28  -  Tkt software dashes a startup's costs from US$2OO,OOO to US$2,OOO, says the company By Leo Kee Chye BASED on a technology that powers Napster, homegrown startup Grid Node Pte Ltd wants to change the way businesses manage their supply chains. It will do that with Grid Talk,
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      • 271 28  -  By Chen Huifen NOW is the time for companies to go wireless to seize opportunities and multiply them, Yeo Cheow Twig, Minister for Communications and IT, said last week. Speaking at the launch of the SITF (Singapore IT Federation) Wireless Chapter, Mr Yeo said
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 181 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young IT IS probably fair to say of the week's market, "There is no market". With the seasonal holidays and the growing disparity between buyers and sellers price ideas, rumours chased often turn out to be false. teSrtratolg ♦Maersk Taikung: 70,424 tdw bit 4/90
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    • 672 29  -  Move to attract ships avoiding port doe to jump in insnrance premium By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Sri Lanka slashed its bunkering rates to Singapore levels on Friday in a desperate bid to attract ships avoiding the port because of a massive insurance premium hike. The
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    • 434 29  -  Interest expenses, forex lasses cut first half profit toUSslo.7m By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Despite enjoying a 7 per cent growth in turnover, Thai-listed feeder operator, Regional Container Lines (RCL) posted a 5.3 per cent drop in net earnings for the first half
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    • 135 29 [SINGAPORE] An Australian Navy ship rescued 20 people from a sinking ferry near the Solomon Islands on Friday. A Seahawk helicopter launched from the HMAS Melbourne was used to find the stricken vessel, the ABC reported, after crew aboard the stricken ferry sent out
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    • 744 29  -  LXMER SCENE By 1 David Hughes IT was quite an interesting week in the liner shipping business. The rumour machine was working well with London shipping daily Uoyd's List splashing rumours of a Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) takeover of PAO Nedlloyd
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 467 30  -  Association believes new EU rules will require member states to introduce limits of liability in their agreements with class societies Reports from. David Hughes in London THE International Association of Classification Societies (lACS) says recent deals between three erf its members and the Italian
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      • 322 30 NORWAY'S Bergesen group recorded first-half operating profits of US$l77 million this year, almost triple the previous year's figure of US$6O million. Operating profit for the second quarter was U5572.7 million. compared with U5537.7 million last year. The company sold the newly-delivered VLCC (very large
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      • 240 30 TANKER giant Frontline has announced that it is to install systems capable of reclaiming "100 per cent" of all volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from cargo tanks during laden voyages. The system developed with Norwegian firm Venturie has been piloted on the Front Granite and
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      • 173 39 ■git XT Untied Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday iipta Malaysia: National Day Philippines: National Heroes Day Vietnam: National Day Canada- Labour Day Vietnam: National Day Holiday United States: Labour Day Jafxin: Respect for the Aged Day Mexico: Independence Day Japan: Autumnal Equinox Day South Africa: Heritage Day Taiwan: Teacher"
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      • 744 39 THIS report. compiled by Coekatt Marine 00 Lid. shows prtn ranges tn US doOars instead of single prioaa tor a man HW|i itoislw adscript ion of the market Prfcaa shown are baaed on averagesised (tan. Market movements ar> indicated. The Coekatt Bunker Price late change and
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      • 459 40 Athens the worst affected by delays, fallowed fay Milan Malpensa Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European airline delays fell in the second quarter, though airport and air traffic control congestion meant the figures were still the second-worst ever during peacetime, the Association
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      • 36 40 AFP [MOSCOW] Russian modified cargo plane IL-76 MF with new PS-90 engines takes off to perform a demonstration flight at Moscow International Air Show in the city of Zhukovsky outside Moscow. —AFP
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      • 538 40 Safety rating cot; airlines can't services to US Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc, the third-largest airline in the US, said it has postponed plans to sell seats on Korean Air Co, its alliance partner, after the US Federal
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      • LOG Book
        • 98 40 Reuters (BANGKOK] Thai Airways International said it planned to increase Ma fares for all international routes by 4 per cent and for domestic flights by 8 per cent. President ■Malt Kuslasayanon told reporters the airline was sufferingannual losses of 1 .5 billion baht (SsSB£
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        • 76 40 AFX-Asia (KUALA LUMPUR) A new international cargo airport may be built at the Malaysia-Thailand border ofßuktt Kayu Hitam if the federal government approves the proposal, Kedah chief minister Syed Razak Syed Zain said. Quoted in the Malay dally Bmita Marian, the minister said the
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      • 266 40 Kecommendatioiis expected to be made within two weeks to govt committee AP [COLOMBO] International aviation experts have assessed the security at Sri Lanka's only international airport, more than three weeks after an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels destroyed a dozen military and
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      • 261 40 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's China Airlines said yesterday it had completed its first transhipment service to transfer goods from China to the United States. The carrier said in a statement that on Saturday it had joined with Taiwan shipping firm Yang Ming Marine Transport
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