The Business Times, 7 October 2002

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  • 19 1 MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES RINGA P O R E Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.^g MONDAY, OCTOBER 07, 2002
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  • 67 1 9T0GE KABKET INDICES He* Chuge STI tuna **> SIHSCI FITURE._169.60 -1J0 KLSE OOMP 644.09 -117 NIKKEI 9027.44 -***** HANG SENG *****7 -***** SET INDEX 340.92 +120 JAKARTA COMP_4fl8.43 -454 MANILA 1101.64 -1818 TAIPH WPl 4067.79 -141.01 SEOUL COUP ***** -1180 SHENZHEN B 231.61 uu-fa AL'ST ALL ORD_2944.40 -2110
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  • 65 1 FOtEZ KATES us$ ss US$ (SS per CSS) 1.78S 2(US$/S$ per 1.67© 1806 EUR0(US$/5$/E). 0J88 1786 YEN 1218 68.70 RM 1800 1127 KK$ 7,809 4166 BAHT 4167 2419 Rl'PIAH 9,910 5,044 PUXEIATBS SINGAPORE* 616 KLALA LUMFl'R 6.40 HONG KONO U26 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI™ IJB5 TOKYO IJ75 SECKX _fu FRANKFURT
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  • 850 1  -  ■naujiiuwj Share of options in package cat by np to 5 times in past 2 years; survey By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPOREJ Stock options are out and cash is in for the Asian executive. While corporate America is grappling with the
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  • 526 1  -  Moves to empower SMEs among proposals to ERC By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Lay off the bottom 10 per cent performers within the civil service. Stop matching civil service salaries to private sector. Stop appointing senior government officials to GLCs. Set up an agency to directly
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  • 617 1  -  From Jennifer Lion in Silicon Valley FOUR months after submitting their recommendations to the ERC, a group of overseas Singaporeans has formed an official global network of overseas Singaporeans and "friends of Singapore" which will, among other things, continue the dialogue between
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  • 485 1  -  .MI. Kin J Mineral water firm ZhejiangKinpeato inject assets soon Rl Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] A Chinese company is planning to do a back-door listing here through a Singapore-listed company, in what could be the first such exercise by a Chinese firm
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    • 104 1 ntsPE BizlT IBM centre here handling over US$2b in global procurement business. BizIT Pg 1 Paul Chan: How venture capital woes affect us ail. BbstT Pg 3 The strategic will survive. BizlT Pg 8 Mock Lock Slow Lae Han Shih: Bosses should buy stakes in a big way or not
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    • 768 2  -  ECONOMICS TOe chances of > doable-dip recession in the PS have Increased sharply, even to Just two weeks ago vikram khanna AS if the news on the economic front wasn't gloomy enough already (a possible double-dip recession in the US, corporate scandals and
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    • 768 2  -  No respite in sigjit as Q3 results start pouring in this week, say analysts From Andrew Marks in New York A HUGE tumble on Friday sent the US stock market's major indices to a sixth consecutive week of losses. And
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    • 349 2 AFP, Reuters [SANAA] Just a week before the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on the American warship USS Cole, a boat packed with explosives rammed and badly crippled a French supertanker off Yemen yesterday, the French embassy said. Twelve of the 25
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    • 78 2 OUR report on Saturday "SIC: Prior undertakings okay when taking company private" said a majority shareholder can secure undertakings in its listed subsidiary representing over 90 per cent of the company's shareholding before launching its offer to the public, as long as the terms offered to all non-majority shareholders
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    • 129 2 ■HMH property consultants flB HHH W t ~^a J^^Bfl^lirections our new office Making a decision on real estate is a major consideration for many. That's why, it's best to work with professionals who are both marketsawy and have your best interest at heart. We at CKS work by this concept
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    • 116 3 The Winning Touch... I Ernst Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Singapore 2002 I I Master Entrepreneur Of The Year I I Aw y H *Q fl H S. H H ■j I i I f* h E Thfi Y63T I Mr. Henn Tan Ernst Young would like to thank our
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      250 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES "W1VW Oct 4 VALUE CLOSE WIW> -429.00 »aocoo WCWH -*****.00 +91.00 WH4tM> -*****.00 -43.00 358.45 +3.39 nimmmB* 104.1a +0.63 WMtoHi 1212.92 +23.59 «ifMihini» 333.74 +2.11 109.04 +2.13 Smah*mm 169.60 +2.20 CO** 2-5c I02.56a.000 DWlft 10d 71Ji56 r 000 Urtm UM 10c 53,530,000 43,133,000 «LW U820C 41,370,000 SfcgfcjUc
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    • 277 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRAMT By Ven Sreenivasan THERE is increasing concern that some Singapore-listed companies could feel the impact of the simmering labour dispute which has paralysed US West Coast ports. One such company is Eastern Asia Technology (Eastech). Here's why: More
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    • 769 4  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy AFTER Friday's sell-off in US stocks, it's interesting to note that Wall Street indices are now at their lowest in about five years. Recall that six years ago, US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan made his now legendary remark about the market
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    • 670 4 Ansae slightly higher in flat trade, overshadowed by US-Iraq tensions AFP [HONG KONG] The yen fell against I the dollar on fears that the Japanese economy might be in for a hard landing while the Australian currency ended marginally higher in flat
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    • 81 4 G&W Group (Holdings) Ltd will go ex-dividend (Interim dividend of 0.30 cent) on 0ct*****2. Last day forbuying-inona cam basis is on Oct *****2. Date payable is on Oct 3J, 2002. PEOPLE'S Food Holdings Ltd will hold its Special General Meeting on Oct 18 2002, at 9.00 an, The
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  • 1951 4 UNIT TWISTS FUNDS comGiobeiiieefthina»xFd 07m ComGtabeiTrtetnmlrxjeiFd 0.34V Com Global Infotec Index Ml** 0.22V MM tare Aaaat Mot 0>e*4 Global &wr«r Index Fd 0805/ Star Europe Gqtyf** 057V ComGlotorfTnwSlndejiFd 0642/ Star Europe Bo 1095/ Com Spor* Bond Fund/" 1 063/ Star Europe Bat 0J0V Star Man Tiger Eqty 0634/ <Mk Afrtiata
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 557 5  -  Loss narrowed to $20.6 m for year ended June 30 from $43&2 m in FYOI By Ven Sreenivasan HERE'S a bit of good news for those wondering where the economy is headed: the performance of companies reporting results for the year ended June 30
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    • 328 5  -  This follows SGX qnery about its financial position By Wong Wei Kong CONSTRUCTION firm Wee Poh Holdings yesterday told the Singapore Exchange (SGX) it is able to continue as a going concern and that its shares should remain traded on the exchange. The
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    • 669 5  - Bosses should buy stakes in a big way or not at all lee han shih FROM DBS Group to ST Assembly Test Services (Stats), government-linked company bosses have been buying shares in their own firms as a gesture of support. They should read a parable in the Bible called "The
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    • 543 5 IN THE MATTES OF THE COMPANIES ACT CAT. 5* AND IN THE MATTES OF ASIA MECHANICAL ENTERPRISE (PTE) LTD Miwfcm'Vilmimj UgpMeSea> Al an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held a 313 Outran) Road, #15-08, Tan Boon Lia Building Singapore *****4 oo Tuesday the
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    • 160 5 COKOUCTEOIT: ANDERS RAMSELL 1 Business Result Sweden A.B lltk November 2002 Holiday ha Pat View Siafaptrt 9n Spa *Ss49o Mtt COURSE CONTENT K*y Customer* Management -An Overview Who Is A Key Customer Customer Platform New Sales A Repetitive Business Transforming A Salesman To A Customer Manager Understanding Key easterners Baying
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    • 574 5 9 ,mp( f tant top* d«cu»on both in the US and by the Financial Action Task abou{ <* 'dirty money- to finance terrorist amines. The definition of money laundenng has been enlarged to extend beyond proceeds of daw trafficking, to those of other serious crimes and now even covers terrorist
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 554 6  -  But inflow of USs3ob still far short of USsloob non-life capacity wiped out by Sept 11 attacks By Genevieve Cua THE global reinsurance cycle has started to turn, and fresh capital has flowed in to the tune of US$3O billion, said Thomas Hess,
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    • 322 6  -  By Serena Ng EXECUTIVE hiring in Singapore grew by 35 per cent in September from the same month a year ago, and was also 15 per cent higher than in August this year, a survey by executive search firm EL Consult
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    • 278 6  -  By Genevieve Cua WEALTH management firm dollarDEX Investments says the solvency ratios of general insurance firms here are healthy, and in fact have not deteriorated despite tough market conditions. In a report, it said general insurers were "twice as solvent" as they needed to
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    • 343 6  -  It will also provide consultancy for a new spa in Japan By< Arthur Poon HOMEGROWN St Gregory Spa, a subsidiary of Hotel Plaza, will be expanding to China by working with Chi-na-based Shineland Real Estate Development and Management. The
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  • MAIL bag
    • 578 7  -  Janine Stein Singapore I READ with interest your report entitled "HSBC Singapore looks to a fabulous year" on Sept 24. The report quoted HSBC group chairman John Bond as saying he sees "a fabulous opportunity" in Singapore, which he describes as one of
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    • 162 7  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore ALTHOUGH I am not a car driver, I hope Denis Distant ("Allow 3-year licences for older drivers", Mailbag, Oct 3) will not take offence if I comment that his suggestion that "those already 65, who have passed the medical test before
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    • 164 7  -  Chia Hui Ping Singapore IN June 2001, Prima Ceylon, a 40 per cent associated company of Prima, paid US$65 million to extend the lease of the only flour mill in Sri Lanka for 55 years. The flour mill used to process wheat grain
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 492 8  -  PMGefc teaiirees delegates, including ether Asian Prom Eddie Toh in Kvaia Laempur THE World Economic Forum kicked off yesterday in the Malaysian capital for the first time, amidst growing concern about globalisation. the spectre of a war. global deflation and
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    • 395 8  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Thaksin Shinawatra government's new economic tsar, Prommin Lertsuridej, has unveiled his broad vision, saying Thailand must link its economic strategy with its foreign policy to ensure economic recovery is sustainable. In his first comments since being
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    • 527 8  -  MANILA Remittances from workers in M-E, oil supply may be hit From Al Labita in Manila THE Middle East hosts 1.3 million Filipino workers and should the US attack Iraq, the Philippines will find itself a major casualty. Overseas workers pump close
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    • 478 8  -  LETTERIJ Some analysts say he is better off as PLDT shares are worth much less than his offer al labita IT didn't come as a surprise that taipan John Gokongwei's bid to take over two so-called "crown jewels" in Philippine business collapsed it was
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  • REGIONAL news
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      • 126 9 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's non-performing (NPLs) are at a manageable level, thanka to a promising economic atmosphere, said Southern Bank Bhd's chief executive officer Tan Teong Hean. "NPL is a function of business cycle. Generally, If the cycle of the economy is not strong, there is
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      • 109 9 AFP j [LOS ANGELES] Hong Kong action film hero Jackie Chan took his place among Tinseltown's most legendary celebrities on Friday when he received a prized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Chan, 48, who is Asia's top box-office attraction in the
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      • 64 9 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines is likely to have saved as much as 26 billion pesos (SsB77 million) in interest costs in the first nine months of the year, based on preliminary data. National Treasurer Sergio Edeza said yesterday. He told reporters a drop in
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      • 86 9 Bernama [KOTA BARU] Malaysia has no intention of reviewing the pegging of the ringgil to the US dollar as it bring benefits to the country, Parliamentary Secretary of the Finance Ministry Hashim Ismail said. "The pegging of the ringgit brings greater benefits to
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    • 290 9 HONGKONG Bloomberg PRICE WATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP (PwC), the world's biggest accounting firm, has agreed to sell its corporate and fraud investigation business in Asia to the unit's management. Steve Vickers, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Investigations Asia Ltd, will head the new company, which will
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    • 579 9 HONGKONG Analysts cautions as flagging global economy, Iraq war fears, oil price rise pnt off investors Reuters ASIAN equity markets may have seen the worst for 2002, but hopes of a traditional fourth-quarter rally and a follow-through into the New Year risk being
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    • 357 9 Reuters, Bloomberg [SEOUL] China has placed Yang Bin, the controversial governor of North Korea's fledgling economic zone, under house arrest after releasing him from detention on Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported yesterday. The agency also quoted Chinese sources as saying that
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    • 225 9 NEW DELHI Bloomberg INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said the government will "actively pursue" the sale of state-owned assets and called for changes in labour laws to improve productivity in companies. India needs money from asset sales to trim its
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  • CHINA focus
    • 812 10  -  Lack of unity and critical mass bug the Kunshan cluster project Reports by Lob Bui Tin Loh Hui Yin LACK of integration, unity and critical mass are the reasons behind the lukewarm response to the Singapore furniture industry park in Kunshan, seven years after it
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    • 991 10  -  Morgan Stanley stake in HTL suggests latter is going places says Tan Broeulwaa>nF7 Ven Sreenivasan HERE'S a tricky question: which company Is the top performing stock on the Singapore bourse this year? One: ft lent a btae chip. The answer a company that has benefited
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    • 420 10 SHEER survival. That's what drives Taiwanese businessmen to be much more aggressive than their Singapore counterparts who enjoy a "warm climate at home". "The Taiwanese have no 'backyard* to support them. That's why they are so much more competitive. When they go to China, they
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    • 703 10 \SBSa i LIAN BENG GROUP LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING LTdUm be the Fourth Annual General Meeting of LIAN BENG GROUP Si <5 ?h P ayfair Road Level 4 Lian Beng Building, Singapore *****0 on Wednesday, the 23rd day of October, 2002 at
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  • WORLD news
    • 369 11 BOSTON LAT-WP SOMETIMES the US economy is booming. Other times, it is contracting. At the moment, it is "ooching". This trenchant economic evaluation was offered on Friday by President George W Bush. Speaking at a fundraiser for Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney, Mr
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    • 402 11 NEW YORK Investment bankers targeted in latest cuts, sources say Bloomberg JP MORGAN Chase Co, the second-biggest US bank, will fire about a fifth of its 20,000 investment bankers this month after trading revenue plummeted and loan losses surged, people familiar with the
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    • 310 11  -  Volatility is raising risks and losses for investment banks Frort Neil Behrman in London WORRIES about losses in the derivatives market and extensive volatility have precipitated fears about the financial health of European banks. In response to a Financial Times article about market rumours
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    • 602 13  -  Narrow actions could worsen recession, force Nikkei even lower From Anthony Rowley in Tolcuo AMID intense international expectation of official action, the Japanese government may offer as early as next week an outline of the steps it plans to take to accelerate the disposal
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    • 324 15 LONDON Infighting delays formation of US accounting oversight board Reuters. Bloomberg HARVEY Pitt, the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, will come under pressure to give concessions when he meets European politicians and officials in Brussels on Wednesday, the Financial Times
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    • 263 15 He fledges to avoid the appearance of impropriety Reuters [WASHINGTON] Two lawmakers queried the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Harvey Pitt, on Friday about a recent meeting he held with officials from investment bank Goldman Sachs, reportedly including Goldman chairman Henry
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  • 691 12 COMMODitx Weeklyßoundup Renters [NEW YORK] Crude oil futures sagged on Friday as reports from US refineries in the Gulf Coast reinforced earlier assessments that Hurricane Lili did minimal damage to operations there last week. In other commodity trading, cocoa prices set
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  • FOCUS photonics
    • 856 16  -  struments challenges today include finding the right talent with the right know-how and retaining thpm rppnrtc Pnpn. Eugene Low ET up over 30 years M ago in 1971, Leica Inf struments (Singapore) or LIS is a living example of how the precision optics A w segment
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    • 704 16  -  By Eugene Low FOR Thales Electro-Optics, upgrading its manufacturing capabilities and moving up the value chain is not a matter of choice, but one of survival. The fact that the company has been in Singapore for 27 years attests to its success in advancing
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    • 372 16  -  By Eugene Low ALTHOUGH photonics has been identified as a new area of growth for the manufacturing sector, many companies here are still not aware of the business opportunities in this fast-developing field. This is something the Photonics Association (Singapore) hopes to change,
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    • 736 17  -  bitaiuj.wi.isj Singapore Trading Centre chief Dan Rooker sees an increasingly strategic role for the unit He shares his plans with mamiri'ii jambs KENNETH JAMES GROWING from strength to strength behind the scenes, an unheralded Singa-pore-based unit of IBM Corp has
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    • 602 18  -  The Republic's high level of local and international connectivity offers a strong foundation for companies here to adopt Web services, reports baiughbuam RAJU CHELLAM THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) wants to boost the development and deployment of Web services here
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    • 239 18 Tlireat likely to be around for months AFP [SYDNEY] Millions of computers worldwide were infected last week by a fast-replicating virus called Bugbear. Security experts warned on Friday the threat was still accelerating. Bugbear, known as a mass-mailing worm because it spreads itself through
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    • 342 18  -  By Kenneth James A ROSTER of blue-chip suppliers provides IBM with key components such as microprocessors, memory chips and ASIC (application specific integrated circuits). The list includes electronics giants like Intel Corp, Solectron Corp and LG Electronics; and ODMs (original design manufacturers) like
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    • 205 18 Reuters [SEATTLE] A Russian hacker, lured to the US by the FBI under the ruse of a job interview in a case that prompted a sharp rebuke from Moscow, was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for computer crime. The
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    • 120 18 Reuters v— [WASHINGTON] Hackers in Russia were behind obscenities scrawled on a US State Department website, a senior State Department official said last week. The obscenities appeared on Wednesday on www.usinfo.state.gou. which is designed to provide information to computer users outside the
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    • 500 18  -  $35m deal with NasionCom should give Horizon a revenue of at least $3m a year till 2011 Bu Serena Ng MAINBOARD-LISTED Horizon Education and Technologies Ltd says the worst is over for its business and expects to significantly increase its operating profit
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    • 767 19  -  ■yLJkMjJUiuk«ujLi INFOTECH TtiroimK>athl«tory,th6»plrlt<iflaiK>T»tlonam«dtoyCftllld»ha«b»eufaDd»iii«nt*ltothetr*"«« trtT paul chan The writer is a BT Senior Correspondent AT the recent Tech Venture Asia 2002 forum, the underlying message that came through was that the VC industry is in a state of suspended animation. In fact, it risks
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    • 123 19 AFP [ROME] Computer geeks and casual Internet surfers alike will soon have their own patron saint, thanks to an Italian website hosting a competition for a holy protector. Visitors to www.santibeati.it are being asked to click their baUots for a patron
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    • IT TAKES
      • 67 19 SINGTEL has awarded Siemens Information and Communication Networks a $2 million contract to supply, install and maintain additional ERX1400edge routers from Juniper Networks Inc. "The routers will be deployed in SingTel's Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS) network," Siemens said. "This will help SingTel increase Its
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      • 72 19 NASDAQ-LISTED RSA Security Inc said Singapore's Cape (Clearing A Payment Services Pte Ltd) will use security components for Caps* Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) utility from RSA Security. "We have equipped the CLS utility with RSA SecurlD software," the company said. "This is our two-factor authentication solution
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      • 40 19 THE National Infocomm Competency Centre (NICC) has accredited three certification programmes from infocomm trainers: PSB Crap's PSB Certified Trainer (advanced level), Cambridge International Examinations' Cambrid»e-SMG Training Award, and CompTIA's Certified Technical Trainer*. For details, visit wwwjikc.org.sg. "vv-
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      • 80 19 PRICELINE will now be featured an MSN's local travel channel at www.nun.com.sg/trxwel. Travellers can book their trips at the website. "Priceline offers travellers opportunities to buy the excess capacity of airlines and hotels—the thousands of seats and rooms that go unsold every day—delivering savings of20-30per
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      • 102 19 SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS) has tied up with Israel's SimiGon Ltd to provide Interactive desktop simulation training packages for the global market. SCS will use SimiGon's advanced AirBook technologies and apps to develop courseware with hi-fi 3D simulation. "For a gmnp nf nyrs may be able
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      • 43 19 US-BASED Agere Systems has appointed Thomas Linton as chief procurement officer to develop and implement the company's global procurement strategy and management system. Mr Linton, based in Singapore, was previously founding member, vice-president and general manager at E2Gpen.
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      • 42 19 IOMEGA Corp has appointed Wong Chuan Yong as manager for its Network Attached Storage (NAS) products for the Asia-Pacific region, based in Singapore. Mr Wong was previously Iomega's regional business development manager for Greater China and Australia/New Zealand.
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      • 32 19  -  OsapOtdby Raju Chellam A SEMINAR oil "Content management" will be held on Friday at the Marina Mandarin Hotel. It to organised by Software AG Singapore. For details, e-mail E<X)@softwareagcom.
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    • 1217 20  -  Palm's split into two companies leaves the hardware division battling to stay relevant Todd Bradley has a plan, reports B scboemberger CHANA R SCHOENBERGER YOU'D have to be nuts to want R Todd Bradley's job. He runs Palm's handheld division, now in the
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      236 20  -  By\ Raju Chellam MICROSOFT Asia's general manager (network service providers), Saw Ken Wye, has been elected chairman for the next two years of the Singapore IT Federation (SITF). Mr Saw took over from Willie Cheng, country managing director of Accenture Pte Ltd. The new lineup of members
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    • 343 20 NYT [ATLANTA] Morris Brown College captured US national attention early last year when it announced it would distribute laptop PCs to all 2,750 students and provide them wireless Internet access from anywhere on campus. The school was praised as the first
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    • 801 21  -  Its FAS solution will combine its network-attached storage with storage area networks in one Dlatform Fron< Jennifer Lien in New York Nasdaq-listed Network Appliance Inc, known more for its expertise in NAS (net-work-attached storage) appliances, is boldly going where it's never gone before into the
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    • 325 21  -  By Leo Kee Chye HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore has unveiled new products The details: 450 Ci mobile: This Deskjet printer costs $460, weighs 15 kit offers up to 4,800 by 1,200 dpi (dots per inch) print resolution! prints 9ppm (pages per minute) in black and Bppm in colour and
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    • 180 21 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp, which is looking for sources of growth besides PCs i( said its processor is being used in Sony Corp's new handheld product, a first for a device of its kind. The NX series Clie, which Sony announced last week,
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    • 302 21  -  By Leo Kee Chye TAIWAN-BASED BenQ Corp formerly Acer Communications Multimedia—last week introduced a slew erf" products, including an LCD monitor, two digital projectors, two digital cameras, a DVD re-writer, and four wireless LAN devices. The details: ♦/FP7BI: This 17-inch LCD monitor costs
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    • 689 22  -  EMC scrip hits 6-year low after warning on Q3 sales growth By Ron Day Bloomberg [HOPKINTON, Massachusetts] Shares of computer-data storage companies tumbled last week after EMC Corp, the world's biggest maker of such systems, said Q3 sales rose less than forecast as
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    • 355 22 The bills follow proposals to pro tect copyright owners LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Two bills introduced last week in the House sought to redefine consumer rights in the digital era, a departure in a congressional session during which more attention has been paid
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    • 266 22 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Verizon Communications faced tough questions from a federal judge last Friday as the telecom giant sought to resist being drafted as the recording industry's copyright policeman. Claiming that the privacy of its users and the viability of the Internet itself were
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    • 247 22 Indian firm will do embedded software work Reuters [BANGALORE] Wipro, India's third-largest software services exporter, has signed an agreement with computer tape and disk storage maker Storage Technology Corp to develop software related to a key product. StorageTek said that it had reached a deal
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    • 223 22 The firm has more than 120 employees in the coontry Bloomberg (AUCKLAND] Oracle Corp, the world's third-biggest software maker, may set up an R&D centre in New Zealand as its seeks new products after six quarters of falling sales, CEO Larry
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    • 1841 23  -  The technology company Infosys is a model of transparency not just for the rest of corporate India but for companies everywhere. By Justin Doebele CHIEF executives are being asked to clean up their acts including the reining-in c pay packages and vouching for
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    • 790 24  -  Asian businesses must learn how to evolve, especially In today's tough k c yee THERE seems to be a dilemma brewing in the business world in Asia. In the fragmented, multi-cultural, interdisciplinary Asian society, businesses are using Darwin's theory of natural selection survival of the Attest
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    • 275 24  -  By Leo Kee Chye YAHOO South-east Asia has tied up with Zuji, a Singa-pore-based travel portal, to tap the online travel market in the South-east Asian region. The deal leverages on Yahoo's brandname and audience reach, and Ziyi's online travel product offerings. Visitors
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      • 62 24 OLYMPUS Singapore has introduced a new digital still camera under its Camedia brand. The C-730 Ultra Zoom costs $999, weighs 310 grams, offers 3.2 megapixel resolution, lOx optical and 3x digital zoom, and comes with two in-built slots— xD-Picture and Smart Media. The camera offers 1.5
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      • 57 24 CANON Marketing Singapore has launched a new document scanner for business users. Called DR-2OOOC, it weighs 2.5 kg, scans 20 ppm (pages per minute) at 600 dpi scan resolution, and comes With a sft-shppt nanor feeder for continuous scanning. It is priced at $1,588 till Dec
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      • 42 24 COMPUTER Associates has debuted BrightStor Portal, a storage management solution. It costs U5535,000 and lets "users access their diverse storage resources, storage management apps and critical information about their distributed storage operations," CA said. For details, fax *****822.
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      • 98 24  -  Compiled by Leo Kee Chye SIEMENS AG has unveiled three new DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecoms) sets under its Gigaset brand. They work at a range of 50 metres indoors and 300 metres outdoors. The details: 200. Costs $138, weighs I 160 grams, and offers 200
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    • 58 17 TOP STORIES IDA to push Web services in Sin|af>ore next Horizon bullish about e-learning prospects in the region NetApp to focus on storage area networks W P«5 WW A dear conscience makes the SOfteSt pillOW model of pg7 transparency COMMENTARIES PMI Chans How venture capital woes affect us all Pg3
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    • 277 25  -  Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE dry bulk sector has remained active. Yossds sold for farther trading BULK CUUUUBBSi Fortune Light: 86,914 tdw bit 87 Sanoyas reported sold region U558,500,000 to Greek buyers, although same is presently being denied. Dooyang Hope: 69,734 tdw bit 3/88 Imabari reported sold
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    • 607 25  -  US PORT STRIFE Pressure mounts for White Honse to intervene in waterfront dispute By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] US West Coast ports remained closed over the weekend after marathon negotiations failed between shipping lines and dock worker unions and as pressure mounts for
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    • 390 25 Possible shortages if dockworkers don't return to work this week Bloomberg [ADELAIDE] About A 52.5 billion (552.4 billion) of Australian meat and wine exports are under threat as the US West Coast port shutdown restricts access to Australia's second-biggest trading partner. California wine drinkers
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    • 219 25 Worldwide throughput in Sept up 30% [SINGAPORE] Despite a softening of growth, PSA Corporation enjoyed a 6 per cent container throughput volume increase in Singapore and 30 per cent worldwide last month compared with last year. Its combined Singapore and international acquisitions included Belgium's Hesse
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    • 166 25 AFP [TOKYO] A chemical tanker collided with a container ship and sank off Japan on Saturday, prompting coast guards to check for a toxic chemical leakage. A coast guard spokesman said that the four crew members of the sunken Japanese tanker suffered broken bones and
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    • 873 26  -  DOCKYARD David Hughes Tl RANSPARENCY is one of the buzz words of the post Erika frenzy over the safety of shipping in general and tankers in particular. The European Union (EU) is demanding transparency in that it wants publication of survey information, both classification
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      • 420 36 Figures look good this year compared to last year's after Sept 11 attacks NYT [ATLANTA] Airlines are reporting big increases in passenger traffic in year-over-year comparisons for September. The reason, of course, is that almost any traffic numbers would look good in comparison
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      • 223 36 Plan suspended for 18 months ending in May this year Bloomberg [NEW YORK] FedEx Corp has no plans to reinstate a profit-sharing plan for workers that the largest overnight-delivery company ended last year as shipment growth slowed with the US economy. FedEx probably
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      • 402 36 Fare cnts will help it chalk up pretax profit of 40m euros Bloomberg [DUBLIN] Aer Lingus, Ireland's state-owned airline, will cut business class fares within Europe by up to 60 per cent as it strives to win back customers, compete with domestic rival Ryanair Holdings
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        • 87 36 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines, the third-biggest US airline, is to begin charging passengers in economy class for alcoholic drinks on international flights, in an attempt to cut costs. Beer, wine and spirits will cost US$4 each on flights between the US and Europe, India,
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        • 79 36 Reuters [ARLINGTON] US Airways Group, the No 6 US airline which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year, said its passenger load factor rose in September from last year's traffic that was hurt by the Sept 11 attacks. The Virginia-based carrier's load
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      • 176 36 AFP [PARIS] Seven unions representing workers at Air France have voiced their opposition to government plans to further privatise the carrier, calling the move "economically questionable" and unlikely to benefit employees. The seven were also against the government's overall privatisation programme, which targets state
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      • 647 36 Net earnings seen to be pared by USslsBm FILE PHOTO Reuters [CHICAGO] The Boeing Co, the world's largest commercial jet maker, said on Friday the shrinking value of jets it finances in the wake of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks will cut
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