The Business Times, 16 May 2002

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 010/03/2002 S I N G A P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2002
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  • Article
    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    73 1 □an 137.31 (+5.07) BTDOBEZFUTTHES 1,***** (+17.00) PI BDQCIFCTT7IES U 217.40 (+1.70) STOCK 1UXKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSEOOMP 788.76 +114 NIKKEI 226 11,***** +286.78 HANG SENG _11,838.36 +148.05 SET INDEX 371.83 -616 JAKARTA COMP _538i® +016 MANILA COMP .1*7.66 +10.11 TAIPEI WPI 6,910.69 +164.77 SEOUL COMP 861(2 +2616 SHENZHEN
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    68 1 FOBBK BATES us$ ss US$(S$perUS$) 1.80? £(USS/S$ per 1.448 1616 EUBO(US$/S$/E). 0JW3 1.632 DMJ 1216 1127 YEN 128.0 70.90 RM 1800 1103 HKS 7.799 4117 BAHT 4180 2174 RUP1AH 9157 6,124 PIOKE BATES SINGAPORE* 515 KUALA LUMPUR s 40 HONG KONG 6.125 JAKARTA 89.00 TAIPEI 8.725 TOKYO i J75
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    Lock icon Brokers looking at trading platform to rival SGX
    860 1  -  ii exclusive UOB Kay Hian leads study of US model to beat SGrsfees By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] A group of brokers, fed up with rising fees at the Singapore Exchange (SGX), is mulling the feasibility of setting up a rival electronic
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    Lock icon StarHub, SCV to merge through share swap
    536 1  -  ST Telemedia will take 50.47% controlling stake; new entity aims for listing next year By Quak Hiang Whai [SINGAPORE] Star Hub and Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) have finally struck a deal to merge their businesses in a share swap that will give Singapore
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    Lock icon SC defends move to charge Soh with fraud
    449 1  -  It had dropped same charge against his alleged accomplice Frorri, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Securities Commission yesterday defended its decision to charge corporate maverick Soh Chee Wen with defrauding a brokerage when it had earlier dropped the charge against Tony
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    Lock icon Thais want S'pore to invest in canal project
    721 1  -  liexclusive Thai senate panel visited Singapore twice last year From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND is hoping to interest Singapore in investing in Bangkok's ambitious plan to build the 810 billion baht (Ss34 billion) Kra Canal, now renamed the Thai Canal. The
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    Lock icon GIC has about 10% of its funds in Japanese assets
    376 1 ItH use new MSCI Japan index fntnres to hedge its position Reuters [SINGAPORE] The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC), which manages the city state's reserves of more than US$lOO billion, has about 10 per cent of its money in
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      Lock icon US Senate deals blow to fast-track trade Bill
      571 2  -  Bush may veto Bill as amendment makes trade talks more difficult From Leon Hadar in Washington THE Bush administration suffered a major blow to its trade agenda after the Senate approved an amendment that would make it more difficult for the White
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      Lock icon Bush hails Mahathir as ally in war against terrorism
      437 2 Issues of hnnuui rights, democracy, treatment off Anwar not tfacnwei daring Oval Office meeting, says Dr M Reuters PRESIDENT George W Bush set aside US concerns about Malaysia's checkered human rights record on Tuesday as he warmly welcomed Prime Minister Mahathir
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      Lock icon Hsien Yang: SingTel fighting for shareholders' interests
      634 2  -  SINGTEL* IDA SUIT A duty to get best compensation for reduction in monopoly status Byi Conrad Raj (SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom is vigorously defending itself against a government claim for the return of $388 million, to safeguard the interests of its 1.5 million shareholders,
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      Lock icon Clarification
      92 2 IN the article "How managed accounts differ from unit trusts" (BT, Executive Money, May 15), it was reported that the fee for a US$l million account with Salomon Smith Barney slides to one per cent, and that for a US$2 million account to 0.75 per cent. SSB has clarified
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Chairman out to nurse Parkway back to health
      858 4  -  Group aims to beef up service, win more management contracts By Andrea Tan PARKWAY Holdings doesn't appear to be in the pink right now, but the man who has invested more than $325 million in the company is confident he can nurse
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      Lock icon Shareholders question OCBC on lower dividend
      433 4  -  Bank explains at AGM need to maintain capital ratios after Keppel Tat Lee cash offer By Siow Li Sen OCBC Bank shareholders zeroed in on the bank s dividend policy at yesterday's annual general meeting with the board. While shareholders clearly had their eye
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      Lock icon Comfort profit rises 15.4% to $68m on higher taxi rentals
      445 4  -  Vehicle servicing and diesel sales rake in $27 Jim By Christopher Tan TRANSPORT provider Comfort Group has again posted double-digit gains. The operator of Singapore's largest taxi fleet turned in net earnings of $68.02 million for the year ended March
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      Lock icon Why rivals hope CDL won't do office project
      739 4  -  kalpana rashiwala Major office landlords in the Central Business District are closely watching what City Developments decides to do with its recently-awarded "white" site in the New Downtown, since this may have significant implications for their balance sheets and bottom lines. The
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      Lock icon Digiland sets sales target of $3b by 2005
      649 5  -  It will boost its regional presence, focus on high-value IT products Bu David Boey DIGILAND International Ltd, a main board-listed distributor of information technology (IT) products, said yesterday that it plans to raise its sales to $3 billion by 2005 by building
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      Lock icon Chartered asks banks to relax default rules for unit's loans
      372 5  -  Mm is aimed at m«re flexibility, it says in SEC filing By Chua Hui Min CHIP maker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing is in talks with bankers to relax default rules on a subsidiary's loans of US$lB5 million, it said yesterday in
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      Lock icon UK, Europe investors cool to S'pore: Salomon
      339 5  -  Byi Aaron Low INVESTORS in Europe and the UK are concerned about the long-term effects of rising competition from Malaysia on Singapore, according to a report by Salomon Smith Barney. The report also points out that unit labour costs in Singapore are still
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      Lock icon Mediastream in $13.8m backdoor listing deal
      229 5  -  By Vince Chong MEDIASTREAM yesterday announced a $13.8 million acquisition of a container rental business in a share swap that will result in a backdoor listing for Allandes Corporation. The conditional deal, to be paid with 210 million new Mediastream shared, will give Allandes'
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      Lock icon Venture in talks to buy Agilent's printed circuit assembly plant
      409 5  -  A deal would boost capabilities in high-end, high-mix, low-volume PGAs By] David Boey VENTURE Manufacturing said yesterday it is discussing the purchase of a printed circuit assembly (PCA) plant from US-based Agilent Technologies but stressed that no agreement has been
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      Lock icon F&N's interim profit likely to be lower: analysis
      479 5 But property and brewery arms expected to perform well Reuters FRASER Neave Ltd, which sells CocaCola and Tiger Beer and owns shopping malls, will likely report good results from its property and brewery units but lower overall first-half profits this week, analysts
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      Lock icon PacNet back in the black with Q1 US$200,00 gain
      187 7  -  It sees faD-year profit of HS$L5m, verms 2001 lass ofUSSaim Byi Chua Hui Min NASDAQ-LISTED Pacific Internet bounced back into the blade with a net profit of US$2OO,OOO for the three months ended March after tumbling into the red with a
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      Lock icon Hyflux plans to place out 10m new shares
      196 7  -  They will be priced at 5% discount to yesterday's price; it will raise $12m By Vince Chong WATER treatment specialist Hyflux said yesterday it Will place out 10 million new shares at $1,235 apiece to BNP Paribas Peregrine, subject to relevant approvals.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Ayala applies for delisting
        82 7 AY ALA International Holdings has applied to the Singapore Exchange to delist its shares. This is because Routledge Investments Pte Ltd, which made a general oflSor fix* Ayalacm April 17, had by May 13 received acceptances representing9B.os per cent oT the lamed capital afttke oompany.lt hat
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        Lock icon Giant Wireless denies placement talk
        41 7 GIANT Wireless Technology yesterday denied market rumours that the company was negotiating to place otrtaone of its Bha-es, saying that M such rumours are untrue and that it does not has such intention at this moment"
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        Lock icon Chip Eng Seng arm in condo deal
        95 7 CHIP Eng Seng Corporation said that Chip Sag Leong Enterprise Pte Ltd (CELE), a wholly owned subsidiary, had signed a Joint venture agreement on Tuesday Willi NTUC Choice Homes Cooperative Lid tobillldarßftitienttal miwinmfaitiwf AngMnH'frt Earlier, CELE and NCH had tendered fix-aland parcel in
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        Lock icon Wes Poh calls for share suspension
        42 7 Dow Jones Newswires CONSTRUCTION company Wee Poh Holdings Ltd yesterday asked for an tamsdiate suspension in tradingofits shares pending the release of an announcement on "a breakthrough in negotiations" in Its ftind-raising efforts. Dow Jones Newswirts
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        Lock icon TT Int'l gets $8m financing facility
        79 7 TT International (TTI) said it has signed a |874 million financing facility with five international banks—AßN Amro Bank, Chlao Tang Bank, OCBC Bank, Bank of East Asia (Singapore), and HSBC. OCBC was the arranger ofthe facility. Hie proceeds will be used to refinance TTTs
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        Lock icon Party in talks for Mentor stake
        78 7 MENTOR Media said In a statement yesterday that a third party is in talks to take a stake in the firm, though nothing has been confirmed. This is in response to an increase in trading volume of Mentor Media shares yesterday Monthly updates on
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        Lock icon Bullish on Bharti Tele-Ventures
        134 7 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, India's biggest mobile phone operator, "is perhaps the cheapest growth stock in the world", said Dalip Pathak, managing director at the Singapore unit of private equity Arm Warburg Pincus Co. Warburg Pincus has invested USS29B million in Tele-Ventures, which also
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      Lock icon SIA filled more capacity on flights in April
      326 7 713% of carrier's total available space was utilised Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd filled more capacity on its flights in April, the fourth month of gains in almost a year, as more people travelled by air. Asia's third-largest carrier by sales said it
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      72 4 yv The Royal Bank of Scotland pic SINGAPORE BRANCH 'i wi THE KEY TO YOUR UK PROPERTY FINANCE For further Information, please contact directly: Joyce Tan Tel: (65) 6439 3721 or E-mail: joyce.tan9rhoB.com Amy Wee Tel: (65) 6439 3739 or E-mail: amy.weeGrbos.com Eileen Tan Tel: (65) 6439 3752 or E-mail:
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      74 5 Treats and rnenei.. |ifaternati<^ial I dlnne^now of the week... p and we'll treat you and a friend to a movie preview* of 'Chariotte Gray', with every 2 lunch or dinner buffet ordered on Saturday and Sunday. Preview will be held at Stiaw Preview Theatre on 21 May 2002 at 7pm
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      280 6 OTHEK SINGAPORE INDICES M% 15 VALUE CLOSE WOWI 19.00 -102.00 irC— -*****.00 -4.0Q W1M»H -*****.00 4-2.00 459.34 +1.84 MlpBwBid 158.79 +2.09 1557.83 4-7.30 MEtriBwPwp 435.93 +1.96 PCO 20c 46,770.000 Roiy InCUS 10c 25,611,000 KLW Htdgs 10c 21^231,000 QianHulOc 20.599.000 People's Food HGK 50c 20,236,000 UniFood HK25C 19,853,000 Frontline 5c 10,061,000
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      Lock icon Haw Par possible vehicle for UOB's non-core assets?
      314 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan IS the United Overseas Bank's Wee family planning to use Haw Par to absorb the bank's non-core assets? UOB has large stakes, ranging from 43 to 58 per cent, in four listed units Haw Ear Corp,
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      Lock icon Wall St decoupling raises questions
      756 6  -  r. sivanithy EVENTS during the past fortnight or so have raised some interesting issues the main one being whether the Singapore market has temporarily decoupled from Wall Street. If the answer is yes, the next question is: for how long? And more to the point,
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      Lock icon So why isn't the US$ a lot stronger?
      605 6  -  >|g comment CURRENCIES Tliis despite jump in US retail sales, impressive tech news, Wall St surge larry wee THERE were more reasons to favour the greenback after another raft of bullish news from the US overnight, and yet there was little rush
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2127 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS atiSelect Asia T* Balanced 12* QtiSelect Asia TUt Growth 1231 OtiSelect Asia Tit Enh GrVi 1.1V AM Amto tait Mgt (S'poreJ OWelect Oob.1 Grow#. 1« Star Europe Eqty!* a79V CJOSelect Globel Income 1.1* Star Europe Bd 0.972/ CW dotoal HeaUhcar* Futd 0.9V Star Europe M 0.88* GtiGfc
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      978 7 OOLMN AQRMtESOURCES LTD (tocnrporiaU in Maurtoua) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Ud «w-Coniww-) we be m AS OROMAffY BUSINESS 1 01 AOCOUn, 2001 tooMr M 2- To approve the Directors' Fees of 8904,562 tar the yHt ended 31 December 2001. (FY2000: SS60.000) b) Mr Tan SiauwLtang b) Mr. Hong Pian
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      147 7 MIME MATTER OF THE COMMMES ACT CAP SI AND M THE MATTER OF DOLMECHPTELTD (Incorporated In Singapore) (ki Hwtiii' toluntary Liquidation) negtarsJ Office: 35 Tannery Road *07-02/03 Tannery Block, Ruby ImfcstW Complex. Singapore *****0 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tot to Final Mooting of to Company dm at Registered Office on
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      331 7 In Ika MaNar of Tka Campaniaa Act. Cop. 30 And In*. Matter of M SOLD ft FKKNDS PTE LID STATUTORY DECLAMATION BY DWCTOtS OP COMMENT'S MAMJTY TO CONTINUE BUSINESS IYKASON OP ITS UAMUTICS Wa. NAUDE PATVKXIMNQ of 6 b» Walk S«mw> 4*Jto7, FIN. Na. P2OA4A43U. KEVIN KWAN ol 6 Kaw
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      1331 7 ASIA FOOD PROPERTIES LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN dm an Annual General Meetint of Asia Food A !*>!■■ nil I h,. I^.« M 4 R^Ct 2 Samford 5X»_ at 249 pm aa Friday, 31 MmyMU to transact the following
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Six Ken Air properties on the block
      419 9  -  Proceeds from the auction will go towards trimming the group's debts, reports ANDREA TAN ANDREA TAN AT least six properties linked to the now defunct Ken Air will be put on the block in the coming weeks, sources say. First up is the
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      Lock icon HK property market on recovery track
      884 9  -  By\ Pamela Tsui The writer is a research analyst at Chesterton Petty Ltd, Hong Kong THE residential property sector was the most active of Hong Kong's property markets last year. Residential properties in Hong Kong can be broadly divided into two categories: the luxury
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    481 9 OEVHOPBVOWNEB DKTWCT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNrtS NO. OF P«c£ refJUBf I J M.* fm 7' B («J*) LAUNCHED UNTTSSOLO (to*) A^reen Properties 3 C'wealthAva/SMjSpS 914-2,723 72 711 500 55^" 5 Wes,Coas,Creecen ">"*7 »> t» Z Ifraycott Sing Realty 10 Drayoott Drive 1.141-2.347 30 13 1300 FH
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      47 9 Collective Sale of CARLISLE LODGE Tenure: Freehold Land Area: 25,738 sqft J MP9B Zoning: Residential at GPR of 2.8 for more details and tender documents, please call e Marketing Agent at p Cred Ejtate ingapore) pte Ltd REa.esta-e 2 Rnky»on Greai, SerV,C Asa Insurance Building, Singapore *****7
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      86 9 .^^■l ~A~ I THE GLOBE £§gf|fe 100 Cecil Street MORTGAGEE SALE BY TENDER §5 Description A 15-storey office building with basement carpark. Building completed in 1992 Location Good frontages and prominently located at the junction of Cecil Street Boon Tat Street 1 Land Area 843.6 sqm or 9,060.5 sqft Lettable
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon March retail sales fall for 5th straight month
      375 10  -  By' Vince Chong SINGAPORE'S retail sales index stayed in negative territory year-on-year for a fifth straight month in March, when it fell 4.6 per cent. This followed a 6.4 per cent fell in January and a 3.9 per cent decline in February
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      Lock icon Hng Kiang debunks GLC board claim
      623 10  -  TEBTBEPAT MBMTT Less than 10% of board members come from civil service, armed forces By( Chuang Peck Ming CONTRARY to popular perception, the boards of directors of government-linked companies are not dominated by senior civil servants and former army generals. According to Second Finance
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      Lock icon Kerrisdale to sell for about $480 psf
      295 10  -  No decision yet on launch date for the 481-nnit condo By] Kalpana Rashiwala ALLGREEN Properties is looking to price its Kerrisdale condo at Beatty Road at an average price of about $480 per square foot, sources told BT. Allgreen and its marketing agent
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      Lock icon Six SilkAir victims' families lose appeal
      258 10 The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed with costs an appeal 6y families of six victims of the 1997 Silk Air crash who maintained that deliberate human input brought the plane down, killing all 104 crew and passengers. The plaintiffs alleged that the Boeing 737
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      Lock icon Some Pinetree members stop paying fees
      499 10  -  Htey hope move will discourage non-member hidden By\ Serena Ng A GROWING band of Pinetree Town A Country Club members have apparently stopped paying their monthly subscriptions in view of the club's impending sale and to make the asset less attractive to other private
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      Lock icon Booster shots for biomedical industry
      334 10 Health regnlator tiesup with Aussie counterpart; S'pore hosts global meet THE fledgling biomedical industry got an early boost yesterday the signing of a memorandum of intent of cooperation (MOI) as well as the hosting of a global regulatory conference here. Health Sciences Authority (HSA) Singapore's
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      Lock icon Mediaworks' prime-time ratings up
      263 10 SPH Media works' year-old channels U and i improved their prime-time viewer ratings by about 1.3 per cent and 0.25 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the last quarter of 2001. The figures, provided by the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA), were
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Important to reveal dividend franking credits
      216 11  -  Goh Teng Kiat Singapore I REFER to the letter "Declare dividend franking credits" by Chia Hui Ping (Mailbag, May 7). The writer has suggested that SGX consider requiring companies to declare their accumulated dividend franking credits. As a low-income shareholder, I am happy to
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      Lock icon Implicit tax on capital gains in SRS at 62
      235 11  -  Pearlyn Koh Siew Lin Singapore I REFER to Genevieve Cua's article "New tax regime may kill off SRS: adviser" (BT, May 8). Contrary to the analysis of Andersen private client services director Roy Varghese as quoted by Ms Cua, a check
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      Lock icon Firms face too much govt competition
      141 11  -  Lee Kwok Weng Singapore MP INDERJIT Singh has hit the nail on the head ("MPs label Budget 'watershed', 'fair', 'insignificant', 'incomplete' BT, May 14). The government has a hand in almost every sector of industry either directly through its regulators, civil servants and statutory
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      Lock icon The flip side of Cyprus' division
      512 11  -  Kufl Seydali Austria via Internet I READ Corinne Kerk's article "The Great Divide" (Weekend BT, May 11) with interest and feel that she seems to be repeating the Greek position, rather than presenting the problem fairly. The era 1963-1974 represents dominance to the Greek
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Going off track on fasttrack trade
      678 12  -  E7TI bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WILL President George WBush end up vetoing the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation altogether? Hie US Senate's approval of new trade negotiating authority (also known as the "fast track" sought by Mr
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      91 12 The troops are ready to fight Conditions have been publicly set for demobilisation that have not been met (President) Musharraf has overplayed his hand The Americans are preoccupied elsewhere. And key figures in the Indian government are spoiling for a fight' a South Asia commentator, on the
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      Lock icon Time for penny stock rules
      632 12 EDITORIAL SHOULD the Singapore Exchange (SGX) follow the lead of exchanges like Nasdaq and impose requirements that could mean delisting of companies that fail to satisfy certain minimum price and/or liquidity guidelines? It would certainly be controversial, especially since SGX is currently engaged in a
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      Lock icon Nest step: strengthen S'pore's private sector
      1082 12  -  Hie strong public sector must forge a partnership not compete with the private sector. This means correcting the skewed allocation of human capital and talent By Dinesh Senan The writer is a Singaporean who runs his own knowledge management firm. He contributed this article
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      895 12 NlMrlMla'klMl RUSSIA and the United States have finally recognised that the Cold War is over more than a decade after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. By agreeing to cut their nuclear arsenals by two-thirds, they have taken an important step in making the world a safer place.
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  • FOCUS myanmar
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      Lock icon Who's behind Suu Kyi's release?
      1433 13  -  A Malaysian diplomat a reformist general and the force of the Internet seem to have pushed Yangon to change savs TAMO wggw YANG RAZALI KASSIM The writer is BT's Regional Editor THERE is no denying it. The release of Aung San Suu Kyi from house
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      209 13 announcing a new powerhouse in the world of stock trading. KMSm DBS and TD Waterhouse bring you a more profitable way to trade. Pick from stocks in Singapore, the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen. iBrrETTEjrjTTjE*! y° ur m °use or make one telephone call and your trade's
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Rise and fall of Soh Chee Wen
      1054 14 His story, some say, is hardly different from that of many businessmen on a get-rich-quick plan, but his colourful persona certainly stands out [KUALA LUMPUR] SOH Chee Wen seemed a picture of calm as he made his way through the KL International Airport
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      Lock icon KL reveals target for finance system
      259 14 SINGAPORE Local institutions should hold at least 50% of market share: Zeti Dow Jones Newsswires MALAYSIA wants a financial system where domestic institutions hold at least 50 per cent market share, reports the Far Eastern Economic Review in its latest edition to be published
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      Lock icon Malaysia eases rules on unit trust ownership
      181 14 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA yesterday introduced a new policy allowing corporate groups and individuals to own stakes in more than one unit trust management firm. Previously, a group of companies could only own shares in one unit trust management firm. "The present flexibility
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        51 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malayan Banking had its ratings raised by one notch to 888 by Standard Poor's on the lender's improved financial profile since the 1997 Aaian financial crisis. Iterating is Standard ft Poor's second lowest investment grade. Maybank had previously been rated 888-.
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        78 14 Dow Jones Newswires [JAKARTA] Hie Inrtonestsn Bank Reetructuring Agency yesterday said bidders for the 61 per cent stakß in Bank Nia«a must submit their final bids by May 27. nun's chairman Sysftuddin Tmenggung said the agency will name the winner in June.
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        48 14 AFP [BEIJING] China's foreign direct investment hi the first four months of this year roee».l per osntfrom the same period last year to US$l4.l billion, th* tradendnistry said. In the same psriodfe. t rising 5.1 per cent from s year earlier, tteaid.—AFP
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        56 15 Xinhua (HONG KONG] Advertising vending in Hong Kong reached USl936million in the first quarter of this year, surging 8 per cent over the yearago period, according to a newly-released study conducted by Neilsen Media Research. The surge was mainly faeUed by focal property
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      259 15 HONGKONG Reuters CONGLOMERATE Swire Pacific's property unit said yesterday that brisk flat sales in recent months could point the way to firmer prices in Hong Kong Kong's residential sector. "The improved volumes in sales over the last few months are the first step to
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      259 16 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA'S factory production grew at its fastest pace in a year on rising exports and government spending on roads and other public works projects. Production in April rose 12.1 per cent from a year earlier to 256.9 billion yuan (Sss6
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      208 16 BEIJING Mat wwttagcwaittM taK pruiMtfataibtfMMri AFP CHINA mid 10 Bouth«ast Asian conn tries have agreed to coactai* an ootUns accord on the establishment of a huge free trade zone by the and of this year. Trade officials from the
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      224 16 SHANGHAI Firms pushed t§ lift shares in HK, Chinese bonnes Reuters CHINA plans to encourage domestic companies to list shares in hard currencies in Hong Kong won the domestic Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, state media said yesterday. The policy-making State Development and
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      474 17  -  Gains doe to cost-catting, boost from weaker yen Fromi Anthony Rowley m Tokyo A FURTHER batch of strong financial results from Japanese motor vehicle makers yesterday revealed the dramatic improvement that cost-cutting has achieved for their bottom line, as well as the significant boost
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      365 17 TURIN Bloomberg INVESTORS who could never afford to drive a Ferrari now can at least own a piece of the company. Fiat SpA plans to sell shares in Ferrari SpA, the maker of high-performance sports cars, in an initial public offering to reduce
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      238 17 TOKYO Unit will start ops on May 22, to target institution*! investors Reuters US insurance giant American International Group Inc (AIG) said yesterday it plans to enter the securities business in Japan, after a string of foreign brokerages have scaled back operations. AIG,
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      470 18 LATEST US INDICATORS It's the largest monthly increase in the headline CPI since May 2001 AFP, Reuters, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US consumer prices rose 0.5 per cent in April, making the rise over the past 12 months 1.6 per cent, the
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      398 18  -  UK-based businessmen faked documents to secure bank loans From Neil Behrman in London A US$6OO million metals fraud involving companies in the United States and London also had an Asian connection, including Singapore, in which some of the trades were apparently legitimate. US prosecutors
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      446 18 LONDON Top banks allegedly tried to restrict competition: report Reuters, Bloomberg THE US Justice Department is investigating top foreign exchange trading banks and online trading platforms they back for alleged efforts to restrict competition, the Wall Street Journal Europe said yesterday. Citing letters sent
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        113 18 Reuters [LONDON] Cable Wireless feced up to the reality of reduced valuations in talecoms yesterday by writiiK down £4 billion (Sslo billion) In assets and goodwffl/ while annual earnings were cut in halt as expected. It said it would cut capital expenditure in the
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        75 18 Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] New Zealand's central bank raiaed interest rates for the third time in two months to counter riaing prices, and said more increases are on the way. Reserve Bank afNew Zealand acting governor Rod Carr increased the official caah rale a quarter percentage
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        57 18 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Credit Suisse Group's Ql profit 74 pa-oent after it wrote down the value of stock holdings at its insurance unit and lost money in investment banking. Net income Ml to aetmiQion Swiss francs (***** million), from 1.4S billion francs, in the year-earlier
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      352 19 WASHINGTON Financial burden and paper work will discourage firms from offering such schemes, they say Reuters A PLAN to tax stock options and employee stock purchase plans drew protests from high-tech and business groups, who said it would discourage companies from granting
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      139 19 DALLAS Bloomberg TEXAS Instruments Inc, the largest maker of microprocessor chips in mobUe phones, said it win meet previously announced estimates for second-quarter profit and sales. The company will earn 5 US cents a share on sales of about US$2 biUion as makers of computers,
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      242 20 WASHINGTON A related unit did work for an audit client of KPMG Bloomberg KPMG LLP violated securities rules requiring it to be independent of companies it audits in a case involving Porta Systems Corp, a US appeals court ruled on Tuesday. In a 2-1
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      1267 21 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries (Incorporated in Singapore) f th inco Statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2001 Croup Bank 00, *000 2001 2000 Group *522 £222 Vooo $000 *000 JOOI JOOO Shareholders' Equity <000 S'ooo S'ooo $'000 Shara Capital Interest income U fl 2.000.000 2.000.000 Less
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      2395 22 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries Notes to the Financial Statements for the financial year ended .31 December 2001 aooo wo, k ,000 $000 S'ooo $'000 t'ooo These notes form an integral part of and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements Analysed by major sources: 1
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      1473 23 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries CURRENT TAX AND DEHSREDMX *001 aooo i».i Cimnl tax Profit attributable to stockholders of the Bank ($'ooo) 7*5,022 *****4 Group Weighted average number of ordinary shares in Issue ("ooo) aooi woo I For basic earnings per share >000 000 $'000 S'ooo Adjustment for assumed
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      1361 24 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries zrz Analysed by currency SPECIFIC PROVISION FOB LOAM LOSSES AND INTEREST-IN-SUSPENSE Croup Bank Movements in specific provision for loan losses and interest-m-suspense during the year are as follows ao l J* 00 *001 2000 2001 <000 >000 S'ooo $'000 TTIiT u^lo^ r edo ar
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      1480 25 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries j Other government Dealing Investment Associated ojv— *"$25 ""fSZ ""VllZ Stlbil<^ rie4 >"* Total c£-*w to* c rn» I ——mm ssc gjjL. January 525 =5 Foreign currency 3 *°*5® 44,652 957 J.n6 IJI7 *>3.793 44 Finance company Singapore ,00 translation adjustments 10 4S Keppel
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      1216 26 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries 3* ftaranV, PUNT ANO EQUIPMENT 2001 loao Malaysia Operation Property other total Property Other Total tßMertn °CBCs operations in Malaysia, a key market for the Croup $000 S'ooo $'000 000 $'000 $'000 International Banking Cost'or valuation cove rin B OCBCs operations outskle Singapore and
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      735 28 i ne business Times. Thursday, May 16, 2 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and Subsidiaries tntoMm CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS principal Wf values the u, V cy s he COm< dated sh statement, cash equivalents are liquid assets which are readily convertible into cash Grouo amount Assets liabilities S 000 J'ooo
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      1978 29 OCBC FINANCE LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) A Member of OCBC Croup BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2001 I implo** lemt entitlement imauamiHvemfm n. UNQUOTED INVESTMENT* M SUBSIDIARIES Note 2001 2000 Employee entitlements to annual leave and long service tmut are «caH»d $'000 000 A made <br the estimated liability
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      347 30 China plant to drop partnership with Flextronics Reuters [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp, looking to cut costs on its Xbox video game console, said it will shift output from Hungary to China and find a second plant in Asia, but not with its current manufacturing
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      403 30 But company says e-mail in question jnst one exec's "random thoughts' Reuters [WASHINGTON! A Microsoft executive urged the company to quietly retaliate against supporters of the rival Linux OS (operating system) "in an August 2000 memo that nine states still suing the
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      140 30 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer Inc introduced on Tuesday a new server that stacks up in racks that can be plugged into sophisticated, corporate data centres. Apple alms to sell the machines—called Xserve—to media clients for uses like video streaming as well as more traditional
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      332 33  -  By Leo Kee Chye THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has increased the budget for its Path (Pilot And Trial Hotspots) scheme to $78 million over the next two years. The earlier budget of $48 million was announced last November. Path funds
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      577 34 Resignations follow collapse of talks with Bertelsmann NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] The CEO of Napster, its founder and several of its top executives resigned on Tuesday, a move that may foreshadow the imminent bankruptcy of a service that became synonymous with the free
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      242 34 Bloomberg (PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Company said earnings for its fiscal 02 ended April 30 roee fivefold as sales slipped. HP said it doesn't see a "meaningful" improvement in until next year. Net income surged to USS2S2 million, or 13 US cents a
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      383 34 But investors doubt revamped version of Star Office will ha ve much impact Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Sun Microsystems Inc, struggling to recover from its worst sales slump, is unveiling a revamped version of a program for writing documents and doing other
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      560 35  -  ■^T^xclusivel China, India seen is big magnets for investments; S'pore in good position to benefit from this By\ Paul Chan THE tech bubble has burst, but not quite for Asia. On the contrary, tech-savvy Asian countries are wellplaced in a
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      519 36  -  Singapore can expect to cross that revenue figure by next year, says a US-based research house. T Bn zee chye has the details LEO KEE CHYE SINGAPORE will see the market for digital projectors cross US$lOO million in revenue next year, up 30 per
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      407 36  -  It will also spend $5m to consolidate itsAsia-Pac data centre operations here By i Chua Hui Min UK-BASED logistics firm Exel Pic will invest about $10 million in Singapore this year to set up a unit offering planning and consulting services. It
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        416 46 But jet sales lag as airlines have to be profitable before they boy aircraft AP [SEATTLE] Airline passenger traffic is expected to be back to normal levels by August, but airplane sales won't fully recover from the aftermath of the
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        260 46 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (HACTL), which handles most cargo at the territory's main airport, said it handled 20 per cent more tonnage in April, compared with the same month last year, as exports to the United
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