The Business Times, 2 October 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2001 fcc
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  • 74 1 sn U3129 (+12.76) BT-SRI 578.00 (+6.45) ST INDEX FUTURES (+l-5.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 16L30 (+2.20) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSECOMP 613.95 -1.39 NIKKEI 225 9,***** +197.60 HANG SENG dosed SET INDEX 273.09 -3J5 JAKARTA CO.MP 388.68 -3.80 MANILA COMP 1,125.06 -1J7 TAIPEI WTI dosed SEOl'L COMP dosed SHENZHEN
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  • 83 1 FOREX RATES US* SI USS (SS per ISS) 1.766 £(USS/SS per 1.473 1602 El'ROfl'SS/SS/E) 0.910 1.607 DM 2.150 1.217 YEN 119.7 67.80 RM 3.800 1151 HKS 7.799 4.415 BAHT 44.51 25.20 RLPIAH 9.865 5.585 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.475 KIAIJV IJMPt'R 7 67 JAKARTA J9.4MI BANGKOK 95* MANILA (Ml HONOKONO
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  • 862 1  -  Prices of HDB resale flats slip 1.9%; analysts expect further falls Uy\ Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Private home prices fell 2.3 per cent in Q3 over the preceding quarter. At the same time, prices for Housing Development Board (HDB) resale flats whose owners are
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  • 579 1  -  Tycoon now Brierley chairman; his FCC buys 7m HPL shares, raising stake to 21% By. Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Two corporate moves by Malaysian tycoon Quek Leng Chan have touched off fresh speculation of a looming takeover battle for Singapore businessman Ong Beng
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  • 198 1 AP Bloomberg [NEW YORK) Stocks fell yesterday morning after purchasing managers said manufacturing activity slowed further in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. After rallying last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 67.11 points at 8,780.45 by noon.
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    • 74 1 Lee Han Shih Home owners need help Page 13 Property slide a blessing Mailbag, Pg 11 DfSTOE Top stories Fall in Tankan sur- vey worse than expectHW ed. ■HHI Pg 2 CAD seizes Inno-Pac's Links Island shares. Pg 7 R Sivanithy: It's time to scrap buying-in. Pg 9 Tuas Power
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    • 188 1 B Fallout from Terrorist Attack US-led military strikes loom as Taliban steps up defiance, Pg 4 Rumsfeld warns of second wave of terrorist attacks, Pg 4 Commentary: Who's winning tug of war in US?Pg5 Frail former king is Afghanistan's hopefor unity, PG 5 UK freezes US$90m of Taliban money, Pg
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    • 777 2  -  Dive to minus 33 is one of the steepest ever; ministers urge BO J to be radical Prom, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A DRAMATIC plunge in Japanese business confidence revealed yesterday by a Bank of Japan quarterly survey has alarmed government ministers. who have demanded
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    • 475 2  -  Company restructures to boost shareholder value Ry I Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] MPH share holders will receive free shares in its listed Australian property subsidiary AVJennings as part of a restructuring exercise to increase shareholder value. Every MPH shareholder will get 0.8 of
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    • 50 2 IN last Saturday's story "More Singapore companies plunge into the red", we erred in describing the Ascott Group as a subsidiary of Raffles Holdings. The proceeds from the Ascott Group's divestment of Orchard Point mall were therefore not part of Raffles Holdings' earnings. We are sorrv for the error.
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 65 2 APPARENTLY, factoring is something of a stigma for a small or medium enterprise. So DBS' enterprise banking division has renamed the service Accounts Receivable Purchase (ARP) and, for good measure, divided it into three categories accounts receivable, credit risk insurance, and collection. And it seems
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      • 75 2 HERE'S one unique marketing line taken by a credit card issuer. According to one of our readers, she got a phone call pointing out that a certain Janet Chua had left the company and was no longer holding the company's credit card. The caller then asked
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      • 88 2 PRUDENTIAL-BACHE Securities, a unit of the Prudential Insurance Co of America, continues its fine example in doing its bit for the local community. This Saturday, company employees will spend a day with the old folks at Bukit Ho Swee housing estate. They will provide lunch and hand
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  • FALLOUT from terrorist attack
    • 852 4 Bosh said to have approved covert plan to strengthen Northern Alliance and stir np resistance among Pashtnn tribes Reuters, AFP. AP [ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON] The likelihood of US-led military strikes on Afghanistan appeared to grow yesterday after the ruling Taliban stepped up their
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    • LATE Briefs
      • 70 4 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The Bush administration said yesterday it is weighing a limited reopening &f Ronald Reagan National Airport, which has been closed since Sept 11 because of its proximity to the White House and other key US government buildings. Asked if officials were considering a
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      • 88 4 AFP [ISTANBUL] Police in yesterday took into questioning a brother of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US, Turkish Interior Minister Rustu Kazim Yucelen said. "Osama bin Laden's brother, Abdullah bin Laden, was taken in
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      • 83 4 Bloomberg [FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts] US businesses scaled back planned budget hikes for computer-related spending in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, according to a poll of 196 executives released yesterday. Executives said they expect to raise IT spending by an average of 3.7
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      • 106 4 [SINGAPORE] Malay Muslim Singaporeans must not allow external events such as last month's terrorist attacks in the US to damage inter-ethnic relations here, the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) said in a statement yesterday. It added that it is the responsibility of the Malay Muslim community,
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      • 34 4 AFP [UNITED NATIONS] The new United Nations General Assembly began a debate yesterday on the threat of international terrorism. The debate is expected to last the whole week. —AFP
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      • 76 4 AP [SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina] Several people suspected of having links to global terrorism were arrested over the past few days, including two who were found with box cutters near Sarajevo's airport, Bosnian authorities said yesterday. The arrests were made by Bosnian police and by SFOR, the
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      • 59 4 Reuters [TEHRAN] Iran's Defence Minister said yesterday its forces would confront any US aircraft that used its airspace during possible strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan. Though Iran, branded a sponsor of terrorism by Washington, has condemned last month's attacks on the US, it has ruled
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      • 60 4 AP [LONDON] Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services group that lost 700 employees in the Sept 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, said yesterday that business was up. "The overwhelming majority of our customers have made an immediate statement of support by increasing their trading
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    • 765 4 AP, LATWP [WASHINGTON] Enemies of the United States can be expected to help terrorist groups obtain chemical, biological and possibly even nuclear weapons technology, the US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned, even as fears of a second wave of attacks surfaced.
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    • 571 4  -  It will also review reinsurance arrangements for adequate cover By I Siow Li Sen THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is monitoring the impact of last month's terrorist attacks in the US on local insurance companies. It will also carry out a critical review of
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    • 425 4 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US accounting rule makers will not let companies record losses from the Sept 11 terrorist attack as an "extraordinary" event, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times reported. A task force for the Financial Accounting Standards Board concluded assault-related
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    • 1024 5  -  Concern is rising that unless Bush retaliates soon, Americans' sense of patriotism could turn into anger, reports LEON wan*n from Washington LEON HADAR HAVE a message for our military: Be I ready!" These were some of the fighting words that US
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    • 365 5 AFP [ROME] He is just two weeks short of his 87th birthday. He has not ruled for 28 years. But the world is beating a path to his door in an attempt to usher in a unified Afghanistan. But who is Mohammed
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    • 752 6 London also promises sweeping new laws to crack down on money laundering Reuters, NYT. AP, Bloomberg [BRIGHTON, England) Britain stole a lead in the global crackdown on "terrorist funds" yesterday, saying it has frozen almost US$9O million that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban had deposited in
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    • 340 6 Bernama, AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian exporters should now factor in a delay of one week for export of their products to the United States, International Trade and Industry Minister, Rafidah Aziz said. Ms Rafidah said her ministry' had noted this holdup in
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    • 908 6 Analysts certain Osama and associates took advantage of this web of hidden deals Bloomberg (SINGAPORE) Once a month, a maid named Dammika hands a shopkeeper in Singapore's Little India about US$ll5 (Ss2oo), most of her monthly salary. The next morning,
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    • 346 6  -  Froml Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE Indonesian rupiah yesterday inched nervously towards the 10.000 mark against the US dollar as uncertainty continued to grip the country ahead of any American military strike against Afghanistan. The rupiah headed southward despite pleas and assurances from President
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 327 7  -  Govt awaits rescue package decisions from various parties /<'/ Donald Urquhart BELEAGUERED Air New Zealand remains suspended on the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZSE) pending an announcement of its bail-out plan after the company sought the suspension following a week of market uncertainty.
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    • 235 7 It shares are up 5% on hopes that Air NZ will get govt aid Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, Asia's third-biggest carrier by sales, filled fewer seats and less cargo space in August than a year ago as the economy slowed. The airline filled
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 56 7 DBS Vickers Securities, the stockbroking arm of DBS Group Holdings, yesterday said most of its remisiers have signed and accepted the new agency agreement resulting from the merger of DBS Securities and Vickers Ballas Holdings. The terms of the agreement are largely in line
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      • 56 7 ASIA Dekor Holdings' substantial shareholder Hi-Power Management is transfering 20 million Asia Dekor shares to various senior management staff in Asia Dekor at nominal prices as part of an incentive scheme to boost their performance. Yesterday, Hi-Power transferred 11.96 million shares to 33 senior management
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      • 36 7 BBR Holdings has asked for a suspension in the trading of its shares until a court hearing on Oct 5 to decide if the company should be placed under judicial management.
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      • 76 7 FHTK Holdings yesterday announced the completion of its debt restructuring exercise. It issued 573.1 million shares to creditor banks on the basis of 10 for every $3.20 of debt owed by Fook Huat Tong Kee Pte Ltd and Fook Yong Pte Ltd. The total debt converted
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      • 23 7 IPCO International yesterday said Mohd Desa Pachi has resigned as chairman and director of the company with effect from yesterday.
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      • 59 7 TIMES Publishing has agreed to sell its 50 per cent holding in Hong Kong company Times-Ringier to Ringier AG for HK$lOO million (5522.6 million). The disposal will result in a gain of about $6.3 million for the financial year ended Sept 30. This
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    • 650 7  -  Company bought $6m in Links shares in April-Aog last year under old investment committee lift 1 Teh Hooi Ling INNO-PACIFIC Holdings yesterday said its $6 million investment holdings in Links Island Holdings shares have recently been seized by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) during its
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    • 505 9  -  Move paves way for Asia hub linking European, American time zones: officials By, Angela Tan THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) yesterday announced firmer plans to explore cross-border access initiatives that could lead to a pan-Asian marketplace linking the
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    • 198 9 FUTURES trading volume soared to a record 3.4 million contracts last month on increased volatility following the terrorist attacks in the US. The previous record of 3.3 million contracts was achieved in June 1999, the Singapore Exchange said yesterday. And on Sept 12,
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    • 805 9  -  IS[«W M lock siew r sivanithy EVERY now and again, we hear complaints about the Singapore Exchange's daily buying-in exercise. in which outstanding short positions are forcibly covered by the exchange. Most of these complaints focus on SGX's alleged heavy-handedness and lack of transparency when
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    • 196 9 FURNITURE retailer Courts will invest 51.5 million to $2 million in a new store at Suntec City next month. The 39.000 sq ft outlet will be the chain's third biggest after its 60.000 sq ft flagship store at
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 620 8  -  comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THANKS to gains in SPH, SIA and DBS. the Straits Times Index yesterday managed a 12.76-point rise to 1,332.29 in cautious and quiet trading. But the broad market finished with 92 rises versus 185 falls
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    • 335 8 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 11.375,000 Hotel Prop 7,071,000 KlVentures 10c 5.605,000 PacificCenturylOc 5.487.000 DBSGrp 4,912,000 CaprtaLand 4.816,000 UniFood HK25c 4.783,000 ECS 10c 4,742.000 Asia Food&Prop 4,534,000 SembMar 10c 4,060,000 Stocks DBSGrp 48,942,509 UOB 28,173.990 SIA50C 23,646,000 SingTel 15c 20,904.030 OCBC 16,906.001 SPH 8,705,416 Hotel Prop 8,130,910 Chart Semiconductor 26c 8,016,840
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    • 172 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By: R Sivanithy THE plight of Strike Engineering's warrants and shares illustrates two of the bigger market-wide problems lack of liquidity in many small caps and collapsed prices through an absence of serious retail participation. Worse, even though the warrant now costs
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    • 224 8  -  HOT STOCK By' Teh Hooi Ling THAI cellular phone firm Total Access Company had surged more than 50 per cent in the last two weeks, rocketing to US$l.5O from a low of 93.5 US cents. But the momentum seems to be running out of steam. The
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    • 533 8  -  I=ll comment CURRENCIES Safe-refuge Swiss franc positions also trimmed ahead of Fed meeting today larry wee THE US dollar's better tone was carried over from late last week following more impressive gains on Wall Street on Friday, in anticipation of another
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  • 3633 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Abwdnn Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.661 0.695 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.105 1.139 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.819 0 860 ContEuroEqty Fd!** 0.835 0.878 Global MNCFd 0.573 0.603 Global Technology Fd!** 0.391 0.412 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.603 0 634 Japan EqtyFd!** 0.974
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 567 10  -  The $500 m project will boost company's investment valne from $2b to $2.5b Chuang Peck Ming AFTER a four-year delay, Tuas Power one of Singapore's three state-owned electricity generating companies is moving ahead with plans for two more combined
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    • 515 10  -  And sites on reserve list not likely to draw interest By" Vince Chong CONSULTANTS expect cautious bidding for four government land sale sites whose tenders are due to close tomorrow, given the uncertain economic climate. "Opportunistic" bids that work in price discounts
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    • 419 10  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling THE Economic Development Board (EDB) yesterday announced details of a $50 million scheme to provide seed money for start-up companies. Called the Startup Enterprise Development Scheme (Seeds), it was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan last
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    • 253 10 SYDNEY Brenner, co-chair-man of Singapore's biomedical sciences International Advisory Council (lAC), has been appointed chairman of the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB)'s Science and Engineering Re search Council (SERC). Formed in February this year as part of NSTB's reorganisation, SERC's role is to
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    • 241 10  -  Parvathi Nayar AUCTION houses Sotheby's and Christie's seemed immune to the economic gloom when they netted combined sales of $12.1 million over the weekend at the Autumn Auctions. The figure topped the Spring Auction's combined sales of $9.3 million earlier this year.
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    • 534 10  -  14 T tl on the economy tourism Vince Chong VISITOR arrivals to Singapore from the Americas the US, Canada and South America tumbled by 22.2 per cent in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Sept 11. The Singapore Tourism
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    • 466 11  -  Electronics PMI in ninth consecutive dip; low new orders for most sectors By Eugene Low MANUFACTURERS here are feeling the after-shocks of last month's terrorist attacks in the US. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) slipped 2.2 points to 45.6 in September, as most
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    • 417 11  -  By Tang Weng Fai HITACHI Ltd denied reports yesterday that it intended to close its DRAM chip production lines in Singapore after April 2003. Wire reports which traced their source to the Sankei Shimbun in Japan said that "Hitachi plans to stop
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    • 131 11  -  George Tjia Singapore I REFER to your article "Property market gloomier now than during Gulf War" by Vince Chong (BT, Sept 27). God forbid real estate agents make more money than engineers or scientists. But for the past decade, it has been
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 882 12  -  bottom line OPINION david mason The writer was a partner in an international accounting firm in Singapore for 14 years. He is now a business consultant in the United Kingdom. He contributed this article to BT. THE US-led coalition has launched an international
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    • 65 12 'Actually, a far bigger, if less spectacular, act of terrorism took place here in Japan. The resulting crisis has lasted a decade and has accumulated economic and social costs bordering on the immeasurable and a death toll running more than 30,000 suicides a year.' Richard Werner assistant
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    • 600 12 EDITORIAL SEPTEMBER 11,2001 was a turning point of historic proportions. The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have forced everyone, everywhere to confront the scourge of wanton terrorism and how it should be fought. Even for the business community, the attacks are a stark reminder
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    • 1091 12  -  The 'harmonisation of standards' that the EU advocates should not be allowed to proceed at the WTO Ministerial in Nov By Razeen Sally The writer is a senior lecturer in international political economy at the London School of Economics and Visiting
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    • 944 12  -  COMMENTARY Hi) i Chalmers Johnson The writer is the author of Revolutionary Change' and Blow back: The Costs ano Consequences of American Empire' LATWP ONE of the objectives of terrorism is to provoke the ruling elites of a target regime into disastrous overreaction. When it works,
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  • FOCUS property
    • 670 13  -  I=ll comment PROPERTY Give bank loans priority over CPF; and speed up downgraders' switch to HDB lee han shih SHOULD the government help out the middle class who have bought private homes and are now having trouble servicing their mortgages? This is not a mere hypothetical question.
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 497 14  -  Hove likely to exclude Renong from any redevelopment of railway operator's landbank From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government has rejected Renong Bhd's plan to privatise Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) the operator of the national railways in a move that is likely
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    • 128 14 JAKARTA AFX THE Supreme Court in Jakarta has upheld Tommy Suharto's appeal to cancel a previous ruling that he serve an 18-month jail term over corruption charges, Metro TV reported. Tommy's lawyer Elza Syarif was quoted as saying that the upholding of the
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    • 409 14  -  Ousted president changes mind on boycotting the trial From Al Labita /w Manila JAILED former president Joseph Estrada yesterday accused an anti-graft court of "judicial terrorism" for forcing him to attend Day One of his economic plunder trial the country's first such proceeding.
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    • NOTE Book
      • 65 14 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand yesterday rolled out a nationwide healthcare scheme under which uninsured poor people will pay just 30 baht (Ssl .20) for a visit to the doctor. Despite fears that the launch would be plagued by the same teething problems that have beset trials held
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      • 60 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Securities Commission said yesterday it has appointed Zarinah Anwar as its new deputy chief executive, effective from Dec 1. The market regulator said Ms Zarinah. currently deputy chairman of Shell Malaysia, will oversee the SC's market supervision, enforcement and corporate
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      • 81 14 AFX [JAKARTA] A group of investors has filed a petition to the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) giving the latter two days to revoke its decision cancelling the transactions of PT Hanajaya Mandala Sampoerna shares on the Immediate board on Sept 24. Lawyer Faisal Tajuddin told
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      • 75 14 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's imports fell for a second month, dropping 25 per cent in August from a year earlier in a sign that the country's decline in exports may also be sustained. Economists are watching the data from the Bureau of Statistics, as imports
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      • 68 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Bhd, the nation's biggest private broadcaster, has won shareholder approval to sell its 70 per cent stake in a property trust company for RM46.6 million (5521.7 million) to pare debt. It will record a one-time gain
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      • 61 14 AP [BOSTON] Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war that shattered Vietnam and severely divided the United States, has died. He was 78. Mr Thieu collapsed at his home in Foxboro, Massachusetts, on Thursday and died on Saturday
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      • 74 14 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Coca-Cola Co and San Miguel Corp purchase of the Philippines' second-largest soft-drink maker, Cosmos Bottling Corp. has run into an unexpected foe: legislator and multimillionaire Augusto Syjuco. Mr Syjuco wants the sale of some assets blocked because he says he wasn't fully
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    • 402 16 HONG KONG Newly-merged entity displaces Hang Seng as No 2 bank in HE Bloomberg THE Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd (BOCHK). founded yesterday, displaced Hang Seng Bank Ltd as the city's second-biggest bank by assets, setting the stage for a showdown
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    • 208 16 BANGKOK Reuters THE International Monetary Fund yesterday called for Thailand to cut interest rates to speed up the resolution of bad debts and help stimulate the economy as export industries suffer from the global economic slowdown. Lorenzo Giorgianni, the IMF's resident
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  • FINANCE
    • 276 14  -  ST Indeg/MSCI STpore Index CK Lau Refco (Singapore) BIG capitalised stocks led a 0.97 per cent rise in the Straits Times Index yesterday. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed at 1.332.29 points a gain of 12.76 points as 16 index counters rose and 25 moved down,
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    • 282 14 Bloomberg [LONDON) Gold's prospects for further gains following the US terrorist attacks have been enhanced as previously bearish commentators turn upbeat on the metal. Gold may rise 15 per cent to US$34O an ounce, its highest since October 1999, in three months' time, said
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    • 223 14 Reuters London THE yen came under pressure against the greenback and the euro yesterday as the forex market's focus shifted to grim Japanese economic fundamentals and away from uncertainties surrounding the US economy. But the euro was trying to creep higher against the US dollar as the market
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    • 371 17 FRANKFURT Markets give tepid stamp of approval to news, adds report Reuters. Dow Jones Newswires GERMAN technology group Siemens AG is in talks with Motorola about a joint venture in wireless infrastructure or mobile handsets. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Both
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    • 291 17 STOCKHOLM Reuters THE mobile phone joint venture between Sweden's Ericsson and Japan's Sony started as planned yesterday with the brand name "Sony Ericsson", which the company hopes will be the world's leading cellphone brand in five years. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications is made up of
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    • 400 17 LOS ANGELES It was first month since Dec 1975 in which there were no new issues LAT-WP INITIAL public offerings, already slowed by the tech washout and the economic slowdown, came to a halt in September the first month since December 1975
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    • 423 17 WASHINGTON Disposable income rises; construction spending declines AP CONSUMER spending rose modestly in August as tax-re-bate checks put more money in shoppers' pockets. For the second month in a row, spending increased by 0.2 per cent, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Disposable incomes
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    • 287 17 Reuters [HELSINKI] Nokia said yesterday it was in talks to cut 260 jobs from its main Finnish mobile phone plant as the world's largest handset maker joins rivals in seeking ways to cut costs in the weak mobile phone industry. "In today's
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    • 257 17 NEW YORK AP MANUFACTURING activity contracted for the 14th consecutive month in September, according to a survey released yesterday in one of the first gauges of the health of the US economy since the terrorist attacks. The National Association of Purchasing Management,
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    • 483 18 Analysts say lower demand after Sept 11, product overlap will prompt more reductions Bloomberg (PALO ALTO. California] Hewlett-Packard Co's purchase of Compaq Computer Corp may result in as many as 30,000 job cuts, twice as many as expected, because of sagging demand and
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    • 180 18 SOUTHFIELD, Michigan Bloomberg FEDERAL-MOGUL Corp. the largest maker of engine bearings and seals, said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to separate its asbes-tos-related liabilities from the rest of its business. The parts maker also said it won a US$675 million loan from a
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    • 528 18 TOKYO Service, which lets users talk via video and surf Net faster, sees muted start Bloomberg Reuters, CARRYING the hopes of an industry, Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc yesterday launched a new generation of cellphones that allow users to talk face-to-face via video and surf
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    • 252 18 PARIS Bloomberg VIVENDI Universal is delaying its first 619 million euro (SS99O million) payment to acquire a licence for faster wireless telephone service, calling the price too high, the company's SFR cellular unit said in a statement. The first installment on the
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    • 280 18 ■TOKYO Loss for Japan's biggest broker is for stock held in affiliates Reuters JAPAN'S biggest brokerage house. Nomura Holdings Inc. said yesterday it would post an appraisal loss of 54 billion yen (*****.7 million) at the end of September for stock held
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    • 601 19 LONDON Few signs of profit warnings, job cnts abating; funds starting to worry FT SO once again it may come down to the ordinary American investor and the previously irrepressible American consumer to save the financial markets. The second week of equity trading since
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    • 478 19 Earnings jump to £14.9 m as ticket sales rise 26% Bloomberg MANCHESTER United pic said full-year profit rose 25 per cent after the richest soccer club expanded its stadium, boosting income from ticket sales. Net income for the year ended July
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    • 250 19 SYDNEY Bloomberg HSBC Holdings pic has agreed to buy the building society unit of NRMA Insurance Group, the nation's biggest car and home insurer, for Asl3B million (*****.4 million) to expand its mortgage business in the country. Europe's biggest bank by market
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    • 1593 20  -  You'd be surprised at how receptive people can be when you drop the analyses and charts and just illustrate your point with a good story. Stephen Denning explains how it works to Aim a teo ANNA TEO IN early 1996, Stephen Denning's life at the
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    • 741 20 ICUPSAL Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited iJi'lh™d (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE AND SCRIP DIVIDEND SCHEME Notice of Books Closure Notice is hereby given that the Transfer Books and the Register of Members of Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited (the "Company") will be closed on 18 October
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    • 94 20 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ME VITAMIN PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed company held on 25 September 2001 it was
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    • 413 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] THE phrase "women in power" has new meaning now. given the changes in the utility industry. The standard-issue utility executive has invariably been male: He had an engineering background, all the better to deal with the capital-in-tensive business of power
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 144 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell 17 points to 952. the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost 11 points to 937, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) dropped 54 points to 7,334 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down 34 points to 1,102. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Gladiator (built 1983) 150.661
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    • 289 23 S6X '000 Oct! SS Vol CWT Distribution 0.50 unch 14 Chuan Hup 0.29 0.01 484 Cosco Investment 0.16 -0.01 186 Freight Links 0.05 -0.01 100 CB Holdings 0.40 unch 0 IMC Holdings-HK „.._5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.15 unch 370 Keppel Corp 2.87 0.01 1132 Keppel FELS 1.53
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    • 188 23 Bloomberg [KARACHI) Shipping lines is charging a "war risk premium" effective from yesterday on cargo originating from and headed for Pakistan, the Dawn reported, citing unnamed officials. The India, Pakistan. Ban gladesh, Ceylon Conference (IPBCC) shipping lines will charge a premium of US$lB5 per
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    • 609 23  -  Flag sponsoring terrorism under country's president: joint report By\ Donald Urquhart (SINGAPORE] Liberian flagged vessels should be denied access to ports of United Nations members, according to a new report detailing the West African country's ongoing support of the civil war in Sierra
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    • 319 23 (SINGAPORE) The port and shipping industry has been urged to pursue new strategies and develop new capabilities to improve its competitive edge in the light of the current global economic downturn. This will require the collective efforts of the government
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    • RENAISSANCE cruises
      • 766 24 Renaissance Cruises filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, the industry's first casualty after Sept 11's terrorist attacks on the US. Other smaller cruise lines could be at risk as well NYT [NEW YORK] THE shutdown of Renaissance Cruises last week, the
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    • 155 24 PAGE Appenship 5 Assets S BSA 7 B'tanq Mas 6 CMACCM 3 COSCO 3 C oiumbus 6 Central E» 6 China Shpg 5 Cougar 6 CWT Glot>eitnfc 6 Detmas 4 Djak Lloyd 6 Dongnama 3 ECl 4 ECU Line S/6/7 Evergreen 6 Foong Sun 5 Fuhai 6
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      • 794 31 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure *nv« 1655 *J!6 01/10/5 55 01/10/19 00 C Success OHkt JW 01/10/7:40 01/10/16:00 Bayswaterl18 *1236 J02 01/10/6:55 01/10/16:00 ORion 01-Jan J06 01/10/8:45 01/10/17:00 Satya 1 03 Jan J03 01/10/9:10 01/10/17 30 Winstar 1 129S01 J03 01/10/8:35 01/10/22 00 KmtransWOI 72/01 J15 01/10/9
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      • 1997 31 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS ANO LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACI MAGNOLIA 042A 2/1:00 JomoO 30/1659 30/1900 30/1700 01/0659 01/0900 a 30/1700 01/0659 01/0900 oi/oroo 01/1159 oi/Moo 4 01/1200 01/1459 01/1700 ACI RAFFLES 0551 2/23:00 ,1 »/ftO0 30/1659 30/1900 J*
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      • 185 31 October 1 China: labour Day Hongkong: National Day Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival October 3 Germany: Day of German Unity South Korea: National Founda tion DayOctober 8 Canada: Thanksgiving Day United States: Columbus DayOctober 10 Japan: Health and Sports Day Taiwan: National Day October 12 Argentina: Columbus Day Mexico: Columbus
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      • 813 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in L'S dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices show n are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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      • 485 32 Struggling airline may need as mnch as 3 billion francs in backing from Swiss businesses and govt AP (ZURICH! Troubled airline Swissair said yesterday it cannot guarantee flights for the rest of the week. Callers to the Swissair booking line were told the
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      • 270 32 Reuters [BRUSSELS) Sabena pilots went on strike for the fourth day in a row yesterday. forcing the ailing Belgian airline to cancel nearly a third of its morning flights, a Sabena spokesman said. Their strike, which began on Friday in protest against a
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      • 543 32 AP [WASHINGTON] President Bush would like to see Reagan National Airport reopened but under much more stringent security measures, a top administration official said. The remarks by Andrew Card. White House chief of staff, were a clear indication that the administration
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      • 376 32 Recruitment stepped up to fight new breed of hijackers AFP {ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey] The US air marshal force is set to undertake a new phase in its existence in policing the skies, some .'lO years since its initial launch and
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      • 188 32  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in h'tuilu Lumpur MALAYSIA'S bid to sell off a stake in airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAB) might be delayed or even called off, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Analysts
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      • 233 32 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European airlines' international cargo traffic fell by 10.2 per cent in August and passenger traffic was down 0.8 per cent in what the Association of European Airlines described as "the last normal' month" before the events of Sept 11. Even before terrorist
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        • 95 32 AFX [MANILA] Philippine Airlines Inc will pay an additional US$33 million in insurance premium every year to cover for the cut in war-risk insurance coverage by global insurers following the Sept 11 attacks on the US, company president Avelino Zapanta said. Quoted in Business
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        • 64 32 Reuters [KUWAIT] Kuwait Airways Corp (KAC) imposed a surcharge of US$5 per flight coupon from yesterday to cover a rise in insurance premiums following the deadly attacks on the US. "Kuwaiti Civil Aviation authorities accepted the US$5 surcharge per flight coupon. The step was taken
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        • 56 32 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd said 2.819 million passengers moved through the airports operated and managed by the company in July, up 2.4 per cent from a year earlier. However, cargo movement declined 17.3 per cent to 54.147 million kg from 65.488 million
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    • 443 23 Renaissance Cruises floundering even before terrorist attacks Page 2 Ailing Swissair cannot guarantee flights this week Back Pg A V\fAFiD$ "*"HE MALAYSIAN Port of Tanjung Pelepas has won an award of distinction in the public sector category Real £state for its ■HH, and deSi9n l&|» V, Neptune Orient Lines' subsidiaries
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    • 143 23 NOTICE TO TRADE SINGAPORE, PORT KLANG AND COLOMBO TO PAKISTAN WAR RISK SURCHARGE Further to our Notice to Trade dated 24 September 2001, insurance companies and underwriters have now imposed increased premium on all vessels calling Pakistan. The following feeder operators have no alternative but to implement a War Risk
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