The Business Times, 25 October 2002

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  • 16 1 MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SI NGAPORE I Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2002
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  • 73 1 m UGfJO (-6.43) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,***** (-6.00) SDB9CIFDTTJIES 180J0 (-2.20) STOCK MAMET INDICES Thursday Change KLSECOMP 655.80 +3.03 NIKKEI 225 8.***** -***** HANG SENG 9.787.49 -17.16 SET INDEX ***** +0.38 JAKARTA COMP _353.18 -1.66 MAVILACOMP .1,***** +14 73 TAIPEI WPI 4574.80 -1508 SEOUL COMP 654.98 -145 SHENZHEN
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  • 65 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ t'S$ (SS per US$) J.779 £(l'S$/SS per 1547 1752 El'RO(US$/S$/E). 0.975 1.73a YEN 124.5 70.0 RM 3.800 2.136 HKS 7.799 4.184 BAHT 43.52 24.46 Rl'PlAH 9,216 5,181 PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5i5 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONG KONG 5.125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6.625 TOKYO 1.375 SEOUL »M
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  • 499 1  -  By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Up till the rejection by SembCorp Marine's minorities of the plan to take the company private, the market had assumed it would be a done deal. So who and why did he or they short-sell the company's shares last
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  • 917 1  -  Latest foray is 16.7% in Tang Lok, malting him 3tiri largest shareholder By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Asset trader par excellence Oei Hong Leong is back with a vengeance doing what he does best. In just two weeks, the former head of United
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  • 913 1  -  COMMENTARY It may be time to reyiew govt system of awarding jobs to the lowest bidder, says Wong Wei Brag Wong Wei Kong IN calling for a move away from the tender system, the construction working group of the Economic Review Committee's sub-committee on
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  • 577 1  -  By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Is Singapore Airlines chairman Koh Boon Hwee the latest investor to have the Midas touch? His recent investments seem to point that way. Just like his earlier move into Innovalues Precision, Mr Koh's acquisition of a $5.3 million stake
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    • 82 1 mgPE Apec Summit US seeks tough international standards in trade and transportation. Next Page Top Stories China's richest tycoons have become more edgy. Next Page SMRT H1 profit up 41%. Pg 3 S&P cuts HK's local currency credit rating. Pg 11 Retailers getting hit as US malls lose their shine.
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    • 656 2  -  FORBES GLOBAL LIST OF CHUM'S RICHEST Citic Pacific's Larry Rong heads list with wealth putatUSsBsom By Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Being listed among their nation's richest may have been an honour for the mainland's new breed of entrepreneurs, but China's capitalists have become more
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    • 414 2  -  Koiznmi hints at snap poll to endorse banking reforms From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE battle over Japan's banking reforms continued yesterday as opposition parties submitted a censure motion in Parliament against Financial Services Minister Heizo Takenaka who is at the centre of an
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    • 509 2  -  APEC SUMMIT Proposal sparks concern over tight deadlines From« Jennifer Lien in Los Cabos, Mexico THE United States wants the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (Apec) economies to meet tough international standards in trade and transportation, in many cases significantly earlier than other international
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    • 58 2 ON Monday we carried a news agency report saying that Japan would conduct anti-terrorism drills with India and Singapore. The Singapore Police have pointed out that although the Japanese Coast Guard ship Yashima will be in Singapore from Nov 15 to 17, there are no plans for the Japanese
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    • 12 2 Apec at* to grow 3% but trouble spots lie ahead, Pg 12
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 445 3  -  Earnings would have fallen if not for $14m tax credit By Angela Tan SMRT Corp's net profit for the six months ended Sept 30 rose 41 per cent to $41.3 million. Its earnings would have been down slightly if not for a
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    • 158 3  -  By David Boey SEMBCORP Industries said yesterday it has raised its stake in its listed shipyard unit SembCorp Marine, after buying 10 million shares in the open market at 87.4 cents apiece. The acquisition lifts SembCorp's stake in SCM from 62.86 per cent
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    • 767 3  -  »oc«l—I kalpana rashiwala THE coming float of the Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) will probably be fully subscribed, but support may be stronger from local retail and institutional investors than foreign ones. The short but positive trading history of the first REIT here, the
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    • 477 5  -  9-month volume of the Simsci contract is higher than last year's total By Siow Li Sen MOST stock market punters have had little to smile about in the past three years, but the story is quite different for those trading the stock index
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 44 5 ASIAN Micro says legal proceedings have been brought against its subsidiary A-P Precision Plastic by Hsu Tien Fou and Hsu Wei Hua, who are seeking relief under section 216 of the Companies Act. Asian Micro will defend the suit.
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      • 63 5 PIPE maker Vicplas International said yesterday its net loss for the year ended July narrowed to $2 million from $2.4 million previously, despite a 12 per cent drop in turnover to $14.6 million. The loss per share shrank to 1.22 cents from 1.69 cents,
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      • 27 5 SINGAPORE Exchange will launch a US dollar-denominated Middle East crude oil futures contract on its electronic trading system on Nov 12.
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      • 49 5 RETAILER FJ Benjamin Holdings, via a wholly-owned subsidiary, has a memorandum of understanding with an Indonesian firm to form a joint venture to distribute its brands there. The group will own 75 per cent of the JV, while Gilang Agung Persada will own the rest.
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      • 58 5 WPG International's net profit for the nine months ended September fell 19 per cent to U*****,000 while turnover rose 0.5 per cent to U*****.5 million. Earnings per share fell to 0.46 US cents from 0.71 US cents, while net tangible asset per share stood at
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    • 216 5 Turnover, np 3%, underpinned by network growth EDUCATION services specialist Informatics Holdings yesterday reported a 21 per cent rise in net earnings to $11.6 million for the halfyear ended Sept 30. The listed group's results were achieved on the back of a 3
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    • 237 5  -  By George Joseph A SINGAPORE Airlines flight to Los Angeles was grounded yesterday after a bomb scare, causing a minor easing of Asian currency markets. Police received an anonymous call at 9.50 am as Flight SQI2 was preparing to leave Changi
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    • 435 5  -  Group posts 20% rise in 03 net profit; nine-month earnings fall &8% By, Andrea Tan KEPPEL Land, which turned in a 20 per cent rise in third-quarter net profit to $17.3 million, may see its full year forecast trimmed by analysts due
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    • 297 5  -  Former i-OneJlet saddled with $57.5 m deficit By Andrea Tan XPRESS Holdings may finally escape the shadow of its failed Internet kiosks if a proposed capital reduction exercise takes off. The former Internet play i-One. Net proposes to reduce the par value
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • Article, Illustration
      292 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 24 VALUE CLOSE BTOe/OS 492.00 +30.00 VTCMN -*****.00 +18.00 ■T 10-4«y MA -*****.00 +49.00 AA-SG EfW»i 382.02 -0.85 SG MnBid 122.86 +1.08 SGEqaMMFh 1299.42 -6.19 MrjpMnhap 351.14 -2.40 MSdStamNTi 181.10 -0.64 SMSCtFataras 180.10 -2.20 tlitta V+mm Crtiraya 2.5c... 32.721.000 PaciflcCeoturylOc 20.627.000 BIL Inu US20c 16.484.000 Daroo5c
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    • 260 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARBAMT By R Sivanithy THOSE who watch daily trading activity closely will know that save for a handfUl of stocks, any play on a small cap tends to be short-lived. This happens because there are almost no retail investors
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    • 781 4  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy ON a day when The Business Times reported that 80 per cent of the Singapore market trades for less than $1 a share, it was penny stocks that dominated yesterday, as blue chips faltered. Given overseas uncertainties and the strengthening US Treasury
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    • 568 4  -  ■KImhhUIUHIL CURRENCIES Ten also in limbo amid confusing signals from Japan larry wee A SOMBRE Beige Book report on the state of the US economy did the greenback no favours in overnight trading, as more confusing signals from Japan also kept that
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 598 6  -  BTt-yu\ium Strong response to co-funding scheme for start-nps; $13m paid out to 50 firms By. Audrey Tan THERE is "no shortage of entrepreneurs" in Singapore, going by the response to the Economic Development Board's Startup Enterprise Development Scheme (Seeds), says a senior EDB executive.
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    • 494 6  -  By Serena Ng ALMOST a third of owners of small and medium enterprises have nightmares about retaining control of their businesses while financing growth, a recent survey on family businesses has found. Another 47 per cent of local business owners are
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    • 469 6  -  But Malays not as upbeat about future as other groups Yang Razali Kassim A NEW survey unveiled yesterday suggests that Singapore's model of building a nation out of the four major communities is bearing fruit. All of the groups feel proud to be Singaporeans and
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    • 288 6 TEMASEK Holdings continues to strengthen its management, announcing yesterday that veteran central banker Yeo Lian Sim will come on board to take charge of capital resources. Temasek, which has hired several top managers since it appointed Ho Ching executive director and unveiled a new corporate
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    • 417 6  -  PROPERTY The Marbella, Glen trees, Whitewater among upcoming launches By Andrea Tan After a few quiet weeks, developers are cranking up their launch machine again. This weekend, OUB Centre will release 80 units at The Marbella in Mount Sinai at an average price of
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    • 199 6 JTC Corp is offering industrial land on Temporary Occupation Licence (TOL) for up to three years, with an option for renewal. The revised scheme allows for tenure periods between one and three years. Previously. TOL land was tendered out on a one-year
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    • 613 6 l^J^jLand I Keppel Land Limited J (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2002 The Directors advise the following unaudited results of the Group and the Company for the nine months ended 30 September 2002: GROUP COMPANY 30.9.2002 30.9.2001 30.9.2002 30.9.2001
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  • ERC report
    • 689 7  -  CONSTRUCTION Contractors should tie up to form large outfits for slice of overseas pie Reports by Vince Chong THE public and private sectors have been urged to form five to eight large construction joint ventures in the short term to take advantage of lucrative markets
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    • 250 7 LOCAL contractors have voiced support for the construction working group's recommendations, though some are worried that its proposals will prove easier said than done. Chip Eng Seng executive director Yeo Seng TTiong said: "The strength of public Firms lies in
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    • 453 7  -  ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES By. David Boey RECOMMENDATIONS made by the Subcommittee on Domestic Enterprises yesterday contained one potential hot potato: a call for the government to review the foreign domestic worker levy. The subcommittee said such a review could help local workers in the domestic
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 814 8  -  ■25$Bj3^Q OPINION prem shankar jha The writer, based in New Delhi andformer editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's trenchant reaffirmation of his government's commitment to continuing economic liberalisation at the recent full meeting of
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    • 38 8 This is close to what we call a cyber-terrorist attack, but a failed cyber-terrorist attack.' Frack CaldweU an Internet security specialist for consulting firm Gartner Inc. on hackers' attempt to wreck the Internet on Monday.
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    • 500 8 EDITORIAL IT TOOK Indonesia one week after the deadly midnight bomb blasts in Bali on Oct 12, which claimed nearly 200 lives, to end its prevarication on terrorism. It was an unnecessary and painful lesson in indecision. Even before Bali, there was a spate of
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    • 1160 8  -  It's high time local companies show the effects of their economic actions on the environment, to justify their 'licences to operate' By Paul Thompson The writer is assistant professor of accounting and finance, and the director of MBA programmes at the Nottingham University Business School,
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    • 814 8  -  COMMENTARY The Qneen should confer knighthoods on other central bankers as well By David Hale The writer is global economist with Zurich Financial Services Group THE decision of Queen Elizabeth to confer a knighthood on Alan Greenspan raises profound questions for the
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  • MAIL bag
    • 357 9  -  Soh Suwe Singapore UNITED Overseas Bank and Overseas Union Trust have jointly announced a proposed scheme of arrangement to take the latter private at a price of $4.60 per share. According to a letter to shareholders, OUT is taking part in this scheme
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    • 329 9  -  Han Liang Yuan Senior Manager, Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I WOULD like to thank Mr Gerald Ang Joo Huat and Mr Allan Wong Weng Kham for their letters (Mailbag, Oct 18) on how we could improve traffic flow along the Central Expressway (CTE). We
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    • 289 9  -  Chew Keng Seng Singapore I REFER to "Outcome shows SIAS does not speak for all minorities" (Hock Lock Siew, Oct 22). I perceive the column to be unfair to the Securities Investors Association Singapore (SIAS) and its president for various
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 556 10  -  Law minister says it conld pass an act diluting agreements with Singapore From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN A radical move, Malaysia is now mulling over the possibility of enacting laws to safeguard its own water needs and possibly supersede the
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    • 78 10 [HONG KONG] A model showing an Imperial Famille Rose Prunus'dish at a Christie's auction preview in Hong Kong yesterday. The dish, from the Yongzheng reign (1723-1735), is one of the most important ceramics to appear at an auction and is expected to fetch USs3Bsmillion when it goes under
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    • 501 10 JAKARTA SSB is working for a company seeking to bny its rival Bloomberg PT TELEKOMUNIKASI (Telkom) president J Kristiono says he wants to know what his financial adviser, Salomon Smith Barney Inc, will be doing in its work for a company that is
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    • NOTE Book
      • 75 10 Reuters [BANGKOK] Popular South-east Asian tourist destination Thailand yesterday brushed off a warning by Denmark that it was a potential target of terror attacks following the deadly Oct 12 bomb blasts on the Indonesian island of Bali. Denmark, the current president of the EU, said
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      • 94 10 Reuters [BEIJING] The Chinese Communist Party's organisation department chief and propaganda head have been replaced in the latest senior personnel changes ahead of a party congress next month, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Zeng Qinghong, head of the organisation department and protege of Chinese President
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      • 76 10 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's biggest manufacturing group issued a stern warning yesterday that Taiwanese businesses on the mainland would gradually lose their competitive edge if the existing ban on direct transport links with China continued. Wang Yung-ching, chief of the Formosa Plastics Group, told
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      • 66 10 Reuters [SINGAPORE] The Philippines' ballooning budget deficit is putting its vital foreign currency debt rating at growing risk, two international rating agencies said here yesterday. Analysts at Standard Poor's and Fitch Ratings told Reuters that worse-than-expected budget deficit data released on Wednesday was prompting them to
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    • 440 11 HONG KONG It cites Budget shortfall caused by economic slump, fall in property prices Bloomberg HONG KONG had its credit outlook cut to negative by Standard Poor's, which cited the city's rising Budget shortfall caused by an economic slump and falling property prices.
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    • 188 11 NEW DELHI Bloomberg INDIA filed criminal charges against 13 companies in connection with an insider trading scandal on the Mumbai Stock Exchange, the Ministry of Finance said. The Mumbai Stock Exchange Sensitive Index dropped 15 per cent in March last year when the
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  • REGION world
    • 419 12  -  APEC SUMMIT Outlook report cites volatile forex rates, corporate scandals, terrorism risk From Jennifer Lien in Los Cabos, Mexico DESPITE a positive economic forecast for Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperation (Apec) economies in the next year, potential trouble spots lie ahead, says
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    • 491 12  -  China will replace the US as the biggest recipient this year, says Unctad report From Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE United Nations chief trade and investment agency yesterday predicted that China would replace the United States as the largest recipient of global
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    • 489 12  -  From Neil Behrmann in London THE yen will be the weakest major currency in the coming 12 months, according to most London foreign exchange traders and strategists who were polled. A poll of 10 banks and currency hedge funds
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    • 367 12 HONGKONG Reuters TELEPHONE giant China Telecom, which hopes to raise up to US$3.6B billion in the world's third largest initial public offering this year, said yesterday it would consider buying five provincial networks from its state-run parent six months after its IPO.
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  • WORLD news
    • 371 13 NEW YORK Bloomberg PORN star Kathryn Gannon was sentenced to three months in prison on Wednesday for conspiring to trade stocks on inside information provided by her former boyifriend, ex-Keefe Bruyette Woods Inc chief executive officer James McDermott. Gannon, 33, was charged
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    • 707 13 ZURICH These include sale of key unit, layoffs; threat of asbestos claims still looms Reuters. Bloomberg ABB, retreating from an attempt to rival General Electric Co by buying more than 200 companies, yesterday said it will chop more costs, sacrifice a
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    • 156 13 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt has asked WUliam Webster, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, to consider heading the new accounting oversight board, people familiar with the matter said. Mr Webster,
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    • 483 13 CHICAGO Slow economy, worries of terrorist raids darken ontlook for big shopping centres Reuters THE mall, a symbol of American suburban life, is losing its appeal as time-pressed consumers opt for stand-alone stores or smaller strip centres for one-stop-shopping. That is
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    • 481 14 US ECONOMY Nationwide report finds weak retail sales, drop in manufacturing LAT-WP [WASHINGTONI US economic activity "remained sluggish" in September and early October, with weak retail sales, some declines in manufacturing activity and strength only in home building and sales, the Federal Reserve said
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    • 422 14 Bloomberg. Reuters [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the trend of rising US worker productivity may be here to stay. Productivity the measure of how much is produced by one person in an hour was 4.8 per cent higher in the second quarter
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    • 473 18 NEW YORK Deeper problems at Internet unit cuts revenue by 1% LAT-WP ACKNOWLEDGING deeper problems at America Online than previously reported, AOL Time Warner Inc said on Wednesday it would restate eight quarters of financial results and reduce its revenues by
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    • 326 18 Probe ctQldurivd settlement «f antitrust case LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] The Justice Department is investigating allegations that Microsoft Corp continues to hide details about its flagship Windows operating system from competitors, a tactic that could unravel a proposed settlement to the 4-year-old antitrust case against the
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    • 500 19  - Diva delights audience —as usual But some dissatisfying moments mar the troupe's performance, says ghua soo pomg CHUA SOO PONG MUI Suet See, the famous diva of Cantonese opera in Hong Kong, who first visited Singapore in 1974, was back in Singapore with her new co-star Lee Lung and the
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    • 330 19  -  Sangeetha Madhavan CROSSING cultures is what Johnny Clegg attempted in his concert on Tuesday at the Esplanade Concert Hall. The audience took a while, but it soon responded heartily, bopping to his Zulu rhythms. Clegg is no ordinary white man posing as a bridge between cultures while
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    • 308 19  -  By Sandhya Shyam THE Alter Zone series at the Esplanade was programmed to feature artists that challenge the status quo of music and art. With this in mind, Mark Chan's ambitiously titled Beneath the Skin of Things proved unremarkable at best. Chan has
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    • 837 20  -  It's a stylish, sensuously filmed thriller; what's lacking is the element of surprise for Hannibal Lecter fans By Parvathi Nayar THE film opens with just the sort of macabre sonata Lecter fans expect: a flautist cooked and served as an amuse bouche by
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    • 780 21  -  Geoffrey En checks out the French Film Festival GEOFFREY EU LOCAL cinema audiences will soon have a chance to reacquaint themselves with the exquisite French A-list actress Virginie Ledoyen, who sank without a trace opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the sun-sea-and-lots-of-sand stinker The Beach, but who is set
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    • 566 21  -  Parvathi Nayar IT'S been a little over two weeks since the unlikely-sounding hit drama about a funeral parlour business premiered in Singapore and Six Feet Under seems poised to be a kooky but welcome addition to home entertainment. Why is a story about a death and
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    • 768 22  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR By N K Yong AMIDST the hype (focusing all too often on their astronomical prices) about the "cult" wines of California, it is easy to forget that long before they came on the scene there were the tried and tested "old-timers"
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    • 1790 23 COVER STORY IT wasn't so many years ago that the Asian section in a bookstore was filled mainly with Western-published travel guides, serious literary fiction or the occasional cookbook. These days, you're likely to be assailed with coffeetable books extolling the virtues of Asian architecture, showcasing beautiful
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    • 380 23 Title: Dirt Music Author: Tim Winton Publisher: Picador 2001 466 pages, $29.96 Reviewed fo/S&ndhyaShyam READ the blurb at the back of a copy of Dirt Music and you would be excused for thinking it was a "made-for-TV" drama starring an angst-ridden woman in her forties. However,
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    • 268 25 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose seven points to 1,376, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) was unchanged at 1,301, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed 38 points to 9,502 and the Baltic Capes ize Index (BCI) was up 15 points to 1,768. iuus-CHASUSi Andros Warrior (built 1986)
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    • 655 25  -  It is also trying to speed up transhipments with PSA By Beth Jinks [SlNGAPOßE] Jurong Port will push ahead immediately with the third phase of its container terminal expansion after passing the monthly throughput hurdle of 20,000 TEUs in September. Singapore's
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    • 314 25  -  By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] With deliveries of its newbuilding programme of six high-speed ferries worth $25 million nearly complete, WaveMas-ter-Berlian Ferries Pte Ltd is looking at expanding its routes beyond the Riau islands of Bin tan and Batam. The new ferry brand is a
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    • 336 25 Net income rose to USsl7sm as cruise operator trimmed costs Bloomberg [LONDON] P&O Princess Cruises third quarter profit rose 7.3 per cent after the No 3 cruise company accelerated cost cuts following the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Net income rose to U*****.9
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    • 356 25 US PORT STRIFE Port operators give evidence of deliberate slowdown by West Coast dockers AFP [SAN FRANCISCO] US shipping lines handed evidence to the Justice Department accusing West Coast dockers of deliberately slowing operations in 29 ports crippled by a labour row. Shipping chiefs
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    • 346 25 Bat rates won't fall as trade volume is still rising, says MD Bernama [KUCHING] Asia's shipping business environment has become very competitive and is continuing to suffer from over-capacity, says Kuching-based EOX Group Bhd managing director Richard Wee. With new shipbuilding deliveries on the
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    • 962 26  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Though ship which was to assist stricken vessel was further away than thought it did not mean contract was impossible to perform -Bl Selva Kumar AN error in the reported distance between two vessels has led to an
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    • 208 26  -  By Alec Almazan [MANILA] Older, less efficient cargo vessels may soon be charged a higher cargo handling at the Port of Manila's international South Harbour terminal. Asian Terminals Inc (ATI), manager and operator of the South Harbour terminal, said that it
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      • 1489 33 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Bert Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmto I ABU DHABI C213W Q13W 1 26/*****2 1800 27/1(y2002-0600 ACX LILAC 04SS 045S 1 27/10/2002 1500 28/10/2002-0300 I ACX MARGUERI 01 ON 010N 1 26/10/2002 15:00 27/10/2002-0300 API DALLAM 004
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      • 143 33 Oct 28 New Zealand: Labour Day. Norl France: All Saints' Day. Philippines: All Saints' Day. Nov 2 Sweden: All Saints' Day. Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Malaysia: Deepavali. Singapore: Deepavali. Nov 6 Brunei: First Day of Fasting. Nov 11 Italy: Remembrance Day. France: Remembrance Day. Belgium: Remembrance Day.
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      • 817 33 THIS report compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 599 34 It wants them to boost air and port security and migration controls Reuters [LOS CABOS, Mexico] The US government told major trading partners across the Pacific Rim yesterday they need to move quickly in imposing strict migration, airport and port controls as
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      • 160 34 Reuters [NICOSIA] A joint venture of a unit of Singapore's Changi Airport, is among three international consortia expected to bid for a contract to invest in and manage Cyprus's two airports. The project, one of the most ambitious privatisation initiatives undertaken by
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      • 390 34 The airline, however, forecast full-year net loss Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines fiscal sec-ond-quarter profit more than tripled, helped by farecalculating software and cutbacks on seating. Europe's No 4 airline forecast a full-year net loss. Net income in the
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        • 83 34 Bloomberg [BRISBANE] Virgin Blue Airlines said it wiU offer daily flights between Perth and Brisbane from December as the Australian discoipit airline tries to increase its market share. The Brisbane-based airline said it will also add a Perth-Melbourne service next month and an additional
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        • 104 34 AFP [SYDNEY] Preliminary investigations into an airplane crash that kiUed a New Zealand famUy of four and a US honeymooner last month pointed to engine trouble in the Pipe Cherokee aircraft, officials said yesterday. The Australian Transport Safety Board said investigators still did not
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      • 522 34 It also submits updated business plan for federal loan guarantee AP [CHICAGO] United Airlines, battling to avoid bankruptcy, announced plans on Wednesday to stop flying to four cities in Europe and South America and strengthened its application to the US
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