The Business Times, 27 December 2002

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    15 1 MITA (P) OKVO3/2002 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2002
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    Lock icon StarHub rolls out fixed-line cable phones
    871 1  -  Its Digital Voice service aims to lore broadband and IDD users from Sing Tel By( Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Star Hub yesterday launched one of the world's first telephone-over-cable network systems with a tariff plan that aims to woo broadband and IDD users from incumbent
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    72 1 □sn U3L45 (-5.74) OTntDEXFUTOIES U34&00 (-5.00) saaa fotubes IC3JO (-1.30) STOCK KASKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP 648.07 +«31 NIKKEI 225 8,700.10 >198.96 HANG SENG Closed SET INDEX 355J6 +1.96 JAKARTA COMP .Closed MANILA COMP .1,015 53 +€.49 TAIPEI WPI 4,567.87 +8234 SEOUL COMP 671.89 -5S3 SHENZHEN B
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    62 1 FOBEX KATES uss ss USS (S$ per LS$) 1.758 £(l'SS/5$ per 1.597 1775 EURO(l'SS/S$/E). 1.036 1.800 YEN 120.1 09.10 RM 3.800 1187 HKS 7.799 4.488 BAHT 4304 24.76 Rl'PlAH 8J95 5,119 PimE BATES SINGAPORE* M5 KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 HONGKONG 5000 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6.500 TOKYO 1.375 SEOUL 9M LONDON
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    Lock icon S'pore output data revives fears of double-dip recession
    564 1  -  Industrial output slips 0.5% bat some analysts hopeful Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore is once again facing the prospect of a technical recession after industrial output unexpectedly dipped 0.5 per cent last month from October no thanks to a sudden plunge
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    Lock icon S'pore mediation for Manila airport row
    902 1  -  Move could boost S'pore's drive to be a regional centre for arbitration Prom Al Labita in Manila A BATTLE for control over the Philippines' third international airport terminal will shift to Singapore as the government of President Gloria Arroyo defends allegations that it is
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    Lock icon Hotel rates slashed by up to 20%
    799 1  -  Some cnts disguised as freebies, hotels torn more to meetings market By] Kalpana Rashiwala {SINGAPORE] Hotel occupancy and room rates have taken a hit this year amid intense competition and a fall in the corporate and leisure business. Some big upmarket hotels are
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      95 1 maiDE Executive Ufttlyto A look back at how cinema and the performing arts fared in 2002. Pg 16-20 Top Stories POSBank stuns rivals with under-2% rate for HDB fiats. Next Page San ion sticks to its plan, rejects 98's revised offer. Pg 3 R Sivanithy: No gifts on Boxing Day
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      14 1 Is St&rHnb's Digital Voice viable?Pg 3 2.1% rise in world fleet hit productivity: Unctad
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      97 1 TtoBUSWESSTIMBS 1 1 weekendWhat better way to usher in a brand new 2003 than with the drink of the season-champagne. Whafskt Style tells you everything you need to know about the bubbly. Elsewhere, we have an exclusive interview the darling of fashionistes in Japan, the US and UK. Is 24-hours
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      Lock icon POSBank stuns rivals with under-2% rate for HDB flats
      710 2  -  OGBC Bank says such an aggressive offer would be difficult to match By* Angela Tan [SINGAPOREJ The battle lines are drawn in the public housing home loans market, with POSBank announcing yesterday it had fixed the first-year rate for its HDB
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      Lock icon ABN-Amro in US$1.3b IT deal with EDS
      314 2  -  This is in line with deals by other banks to cut costs By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Banking giant ABN-Amro has signed an IT outsourcing deal with US-based EDS under which the latter will provide technology services and develop applications for the bank's wholesale
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      164 2 restaurant 360 Dreams Fantasies A New Year Party 2003 31 st Dec 2002 (s9B+++) Pre-Dinner Lounge: You are invited into our private lounge for some champagne oysters Dreams Fantasies Dinner Cajun spiced Tuna, Eggplant and Tomato relish, Pommery mustard dressing Pan seared Goose Liver, Western Australian Yabbie tail, Confit field
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Sanion sticks to its plan, rejects 98's revised offer
      454 3  -  Talk of Oei making higher bid through some China parties gains momentum By] David Boey OEI Hong Leong, through his investment vehicle Sanion Enterprises, yesterday reiterated his plan to reject rival tycoon Ong Beng Seng's revised offer of $2.06 for each
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      Lock icon NatSteel says why it can't quantify tariff expiry impact
      316 3  -  By] David Boey THE impact on Nat Steel from the impending lifting of an anti-dumping order hinges on many changing factors, the steel foundry told the Singapore Exchange yesterday. Nat Steel was responding to an SGX request for reasons why it
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      Lock icon Is StarHub's Digital Voice viable?
      628 3  -  lock siew catherine ong A mid-year merger with cable TV operator Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) has allowed Star Hub Pte Ltd to make a virtue out of necessity. The merger has turned Star Hub from a one-trick pony which derived most of its revenue from
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      Lock icon Eastgate China unit to make CDs for Microsoft
      427 3  -  It will be one of just two firms licensed to do so in China Byi Serena Ng COMPACT disc stamper and replicator Eastgate Technology, which has been producing optical discs for Microsoft at its Singapore and Taiwan facilities, yesterday said its China
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      Lock icon SSC makes its way to logistics business
      161 3 SINGAPORE Shipping Corporation (SSC) yesterday announced transactions which paved its way into the logistics and supply chain management business from its largely shipping operations currently. Mainboard-listed SSC will be raising its 47 per cent stake in Cougar Holdings to 65 per cent, making
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      Lock icon Hyflux bags $28m PUB project
      147 3 OLIVIA Lum's Hyflux Ltd has won a contract to design and build a high-grade water reclamation plant in Seletar for Singapore's Public Utilities Board (PUB). The contract, through wholly owned subsidiary Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd, is worth about $27.8 million, said Hyflux. The plant will
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      Lock icon Ban Joo may start its own chain of retail stores
      677 5  -  It hopes to acquire a regional clothing chain in the next two years By Vince Chong WORLD-leading textile wholesaler and exporter Ban Joo Company may open its own chain of stores. "We plan to acquire a regional clothing chain," managing
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      Lock icon Econ Int'l H1 loss swells to $32m with more provisions
      360 5  -  Poor results from Taiwan, M'sia, Sri T»anka add to woes By Andrea Tan CHRISTMAS was far from merry for construction firm Econ International. The group, which posted its interim results to endSeptember on Christmas Eve, reported a higher net loss
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Wee Cho Taw beefs up Haw Par stake
        66 5 BANKING tycoon Wee Cho Yaw continues to beef up his control at Haw Par Corporation. Wee Investments, the family's private vehicle, said it bought another 286,000 shares at about $3.41 apiece in the listed diversified group, boosting its stake to 15.28 per
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        Lock icon Ynantaups Kim EngOng Asia stake
        54 5 TAIWANESE financial group Yuanta Core Pacific Securities has further strengthened its grip on Singapore broking firm Kim Eng Ong Asia. In an announcement, Yuanta said it bought on the open market another 5.538 million shares in Kim Eng, lifting its stake to 18.9286 per cent
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        Lock icon Baker Tech owns wilt's stock directly
        52 5 BAKER Technology Limited said its wholly owned subsidiary, York Transport Equipment (Asia) Pte Ltd, has transferred to the company its 3.1 million shares in York Transport Equipment Pty Ltd (YTEPL) for $313,000. This and a $3 million share subscription make YTEPL a directly wholly
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        Lock icon Ascott completes acquisition
        25 5 THE Ascott Group said it has completed the acquisition of the entire capital of Crown Dilmun (Grand Plaza) Limited on Dec 24.
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      344 3 Q: Is it true that Private Banking as information becomes globally available. At some institutions, Private Banking still banker t mutual funds. The Private Bankers at The Citigroup Private Bank act as global trusted advisors to Asia's wealthiest families. What we do today looks more individuals. SK| Q: How do
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      325 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 26 VALUE CLOSE BTO&OS -315.00 ±38 00 BTOUN -*****.00 >18.00 BT 10-4ay MA -*****.00 -32.00 345.79 -0.97 SG Equities Elect 120.18 +0.16 SG Equities Fw 1179.66 -7.64 SG EquMwPrep 311.14 -»0.76 MSCHimipin 163.05 -0.66 SMSCI Futures 163.10 -1.30 Stocks Volume NewWave W*****1 20,020.000 MultiVisHK7c 11.463.000 L&M
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      Lock icon New Wave Tech: Looks hot but the numbers aren't that great
      300 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By] R Sivanithy IF a prerequisite for a stock to be labelled "hot" is active trading, then New Wave Technologies (NWT) warrants would surely qualify. Thanks to married deals totaUing 20 million units, NWT's warrants topped
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      Lock icon No gifts on Boxing Day this year
      776 4  -  I li comment STOCKS r. sivanithy BOXING Day, or the day after Christmas, was so named because it was traditionally the day on which Christmas boxes were given to service workers and gifts of money were given in boxes to servants. Tradition notwithstanding,
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      Lock icon Iraq fears push US$ to 3-year low against euro
      712 4 The greenback hit a 4-year low against the Swiss franc in Asian trade Reuters [TOKYO] The dollar slipped to threeyear lows against the euro and a fouryear low against the Swiss franc in holiday-thinned Asian trade yesterday as worries over a
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    3073 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Finance InSexFd 0.733/ AM Amro Asset Mgt (S'porc) Com Global Ufestvle Index Fd 0824/ Star Europe Eqty!" 0 592/ Com Global Health Index Fd 0.77/ Star Europe Bd i i2V Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0.418/ Star Europe Bal "~0836/ Com Global mfotec Index Fd!**
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      93 5 The new X-iype 2.0 L V 6 ABS with electronic brake-force distribution. I maple 8 #T iw Malayan Motors 45 Leng Kee Road, Singapore *****3 Tel: 6378 2662 6378 2626 6378 2627 Opening Hours: Monday to Friday Bam 7pm Saturday Bam 6pm Sunday Public Holidays 10am 6pm Associate: PT GRANDAUTO
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      1874 6 mica, rnuay. uecemper 8822 Email recn.itg S pb com. s Commonwealth Bank 2 ?r 2^^ Al^,,a COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA AND CONTROLLED ENTITLES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2002 r All amounts are expressed in Australian currency STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE D.«eio« For the year ended 30 June 2002
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      341 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF WORLD DUTY FREE INFLIGHT IS) PTE LTD (In Member*' Voluntary Liquidation I At an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Members of WORLD DUTY FREE INFLIGHT (S) PTI LTD duly convened and held al 230 Tanjong Pagar Road.
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      217 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SINGAPORE WONDERLAND AMUSEMENT (PTE.) LTD (In Members Voluntary Winding Up) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act Cap. 50. that the Final Meeting of Members of the above-named Company will
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      552 6 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 90 AND IN THE MATTER Of TRUSTMAROUE ASIA PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) fINAI MEETING NOTICE is hereby given pursuont to Secfton 308 of the Companies Act. Cap SO that a Final General Meeting of the Members of the obovenomed Company
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      288 6 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 [(Section 290<2Kb)) AND IN THE MATTER Of THREE GRACES INVESTMENT (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary liquidation) NOTICE Of RESOLUTIONS At on Extraordinary Generol Meeting of the Compony held at 10th floor 101 Sung-Jen toad Taipei Taiwan on the 20fh day
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      948 6 J IN THE MATTER Of THf COMPANIES AO. CAP. 50 [(Section 2«X2Mb|l AND I IN THE MATTE* Of LAUREI PROPERTIES PTE ITO I (In Mcfflben Voluntary liquidahon) NOTICE Of RESOLUTIONS I I Al an f .troordmory Generol Meeting of the Compony held al 16 Raffles Quay, *16-02 Hangleongßuilding. Sesgoporeo4Bs*l on
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      1269 6 IN TH( MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 50, 1994 ED) AND IN THE MATTER Of BOC FUTURES (S) PTE LTD I (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE Of RESOLUTION e At an f xtraordinarv General MeWing of Ihe J member of the abovenamed Company duly n convened and held at
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Listed firms can now apply for Lefs, Letas aid
      424 7  -  Smaller firms may still need help to secure loans, says BG Yeo By\ Eugene Low THE government is extending the Local Enterprise Finance Scheme (Lefs) and the Local Enterprise Technical Assistance Scheme (Letas) to publicly listed companies, Minister for Trade and
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      Lock icon FairPrice to absorb GST hike in Jan
      194 7 NTUC Fair Price will absorb the one per cent GST hike on all items for the whole of next month. The supermarket chain estimates that for January alone, it will absorb about $1.5 million. It added that the prices of the 400 essential
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      Lock icon S'pore rebuts Pedra Branca accusations
      460 7  -  By Chuang Peck Ming CONTRARY to Malaysia's claim, Singapore has not done any recent construction work on Pedra Branca, although routine maintenance of the facilities there has been carried out. This point about the rocky islet off Johor, claimed by Malaysia, was made by a
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      Lock icon Risk Profiler is not a financial planning tool
      266 7  -  MAiurm David Tan General Manager of finatiQ Bank of Singapore I REFER to "Improve retirement planning processes" by Leong Sze Hian (Mailbag, Dec 18), which made reference to a Retirement Planning Calculator on the website, www.finatiq.com. The online calculators provided on the
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      Lock icon Penny stock bid increments too big
      203 7  -  Ang Hao Yao Singapore THERE are currently over 100 counters listed on our stock exchange which are trading at prices below 10 cents. Under the current practice, these counters are required to be quoted at increments of half a cent. This is too large
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      226 7 OFFER FOR NATSTEEL A Notice To Ail Nat Steel Shareholders From 98 Holdings IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS 98 Holdings' Final Offer Price is $2.06 per share. The Closing Date is Friday 3rd January, 2003, at 3.30pm. SIC has stated that Sanion cannot, except with SlC's consent, make an offer for Nat Steel
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      Lock icon Don't fret over deflation; the system adjusts
      610 8  -  mum bottom line OPINION david pauly DEFLATION a state of continually falling prices with no sign of a turn is economists' latest worry. There may be some logic in this. For much of the 1990s, economists as well as many investors worried about
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      80 8 The French are not invincible. They lost in Indochina. We can at least make sure there are families mourning in France as well as in Ivory Coast.' Giiliaimn Soro Ivory Coast rebel leader, as France becomes more deeply enmeshed in the country's internal conflict 'Whatever the government
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      Lock icon Jakarta needs to do more now
      606 8 EDITORIAL SINCE the Bali bomb blasts, Indonesia's leaders have cracked down on Islamic militancy, showing the world that if they put their minds to the task, they can get things done. Indonesia must display more of tough determination both in dealing with militants and
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      Lock icon Gold's enduring value makes it endearing
      1112 8  -  Its recent surge captures its age-old draw as a safe refuge, as do bitter lessons of bubbles that promise instant riches From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo GOLD was one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to the infant Jesus at his
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      Lock icon It's a ruthless United States of Ambition
      787 8  -  COMMENTARY US politics, journalism have become brutally competitive, with the consequences random and merciless By] Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON is nothing if not an arena of ambition. This has always been so, but never more than now. We have
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      Lock icon Share bonanza for EON investors
      336 9 KUALA LUMPUR ItH distribute lip to RMlb of EON Capital shares under a revamp Bloomberg EDARAN Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON) said it will give as much as RMI billion (*****.3 million) of its stake in a banking unit to shareholders in a second distribution under
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      Lock icon China sees '03 jobless rate rising to 4.5%
      289 9 AFP [BEIJING] China's unemployment rate is set to rise to 4.5 per cent from 4 per cent in the coming year as employees from state-owned firms continue to be laid off, official media said yesterday. Labour and Social Security Minister Zhang Zuoyi
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      Lock icon China vacationers boost Thai tourism
      325 9 BANGKOK But many complain about unscrupulous tour iperators AP THE growing stream of Chinese vacationers would seem to be good news for Thailand's tourism business. Perhaps not. The competition among tour operators to provide cheap holidays to bargainhunting Chinese has become so fierce that. Thai
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        Lock icon Thai growth revised up to 5%
        88 9 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's finance ministry yesterday raised its economic growth forecast for 2002 to 5.0 per cent, from 4.8 per cent predicted earlier and against 1.9 per cent growth last year. The ministry's higher forecast for this year was in line with recent projections
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        Lock icon Taipei insurers to invest more abroad
        92 9 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's Parliament yesterday gave initial approval to a proposal which raises the amount domestic insurers may invest overseas to 35 per cent of total assets from 20 per cent. The move was aimed to help local insurers boost returns after many reported
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        Lock icon UMC on track to meet Q4 forecast
        96 9 Bloomberg [HSINCHU, Taiwan] United Microelectronics Corp, the world's second largest supplier of made-to-order chips, said it's meeting expectations the company set for the fourth quarter. "We had some rush orders in November," said Liu Chitung, director of investor relations. The company's November sales
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        Lock icon Bourses to trade India govt securities
        78 9 Reuters [BOMBAY] India's central Reserve Bank of India said yesterday it plans to allow retail trading in government securities on the stock exchanges to widen the market. "The proposal is about permitting retail trading in government securities in a manner similar to that in
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      Lock icon HK developers' shares seen rebounding in '03
      682 10 HONGKONG Housing demand, profits are expected to recover, investors say Bloomberg CHEUNG Kong (Holdings) Ltd, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd and other developers' stocks, headed for their worst annual performance since the 1997 Asian economic crisis, will rebound next year, investors say. The
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      Lock icon China set to post record budget deficit for 2002
      280 10 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA took in 42.3 billion yuan (SsB.B billion) less revenue than it spent in the first 11 months of the year, as the country heads for a record budget deficit for 2002. Government revenue rose one-eighth to 1.65 trillion
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      Lock icon Ransom may have been motive: Polaris CEO
      605 11 NEW DELHI Aran Jain suspects arrest by Indon police in Jakarta was premeditated AFP ONE of two executives from a mayor Indian IT firm who were arrested and later freed by Indonesian police said on Wednesday that a ransom bid could have been
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      Lock icon It's coming up roses
      34 11 Atal B hari Vajpayee (right) receiving a bouquet from Indian President Abdul Kalamon his 78th birthday. Mr Vajpayee had much to celebrate following the Bharatiya Janata Party's recent victory AFP
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      Lock icon Foreign demand seen for India bonds
      482 11 MUMBAI 20-yr bond sale by Power Finance 'sets a benchmark' Bloomberg INDIA'S first 20-year corporate bond, sold this week by Power Finance Corp, may help open the nation's US$l6O billion debt market to more overseas investors, local fund managers said. Power Finance, a state-run
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      81 9 rCOLLECTIVE SALE SITE Thomson M3nsion^ I •No. 374 Thomson Road %5S Size Area: ~17,445 sq ft Sjsr I •Freehold whitleyrd 43 Plot Ratio 2.8; Up to 36 storeys A BAL£ST,ER Existing 18 apartment units Ideal for boutique development along prime Thomson Road location d n n 2 y at 4pm
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    1072 10 Transaction date: Dec 26 DTERBAMK CROSS RATES C$ Hint Euro HKS tod fciptafc Yen Hon H M2S Pa is Peso S$ Itmt SIf UTS Mrt Pood OTS 0873 4682 0545 4400 ***** 50.181 0.6/8 6.769 2.144 1.087 32.9)3 29.914 0.980 4.997 0.791 19.672 24.278 0J53 0.564 Canada 1.145 5.361
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    1539 10 S1C0M FUTURES pec26 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSSUScentsAgj Close Votome Opto MowW> Hfrh Sttt (towwts) Interest J" 03 M8.50 Fe603 M8.75 >**03 149.00 Apr/Jan 03 ***** RSS3(UScentsAq) volume Opm M"** Low Sttt (tonnes) Interest J" 03 8400 8100 8400 MOO 2050 03 85.25 84.25 85.25 500 3350 Mar 03
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon CDMA launch sparks telecom war in India
      568 12 NEW DELHI Mobile telcos with GSM services move court as Infocomm offers cheaper calls Bloomberg RELIANCE Infocomm, the phone services arm of India's largest non-state company, switches on its new network today as existing mobile phone operators, threatened by the entrant, seek to
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      Lock icon GE Capital bids for Softbank unit
      192 12 Reuters [TOKYO] GE Capital Corp, the financing arm of General Electric Co, has launched a bid to buy a nearly 50 per cent stake in Japan's Aozora Bank from leading shareholder Softbank Corp, a newspaper said yesterday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said the firm
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      Lock icon Koizumi says strong yen has hurt Japan's economy
      621 12 TOKYO Reuters, Bloomberg PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi said yesterday that the country's economy had been hurt by the strength of the yen. "It is a fact that a strong yen has damaged the Japanese economy, in a sense," Mr Koizumi said in
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      Lock icon Merrill injects capital into Japan's UFJ
      341 12 TOKYO AFP, Bloomberg JAPANS troubled UFJ Bank Ltd will receive more than 100 billion yen (Ssl.4 billion) in capital from US brokerage giant Merrill Lynch Co to speed up bad loan disposals, the bank said yesterday. It also plans to shift workers, close branches
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      Lock icon Shinhan picked for Chohung Bank sale
      313 12 SEOUL AFP A GOVERNMENT panel yesterday named a French-backed consortium as preferred bidder to buy state-run Chohung Bank. If the deal goes through, it will create South Korea's second largest lender. Shinhan Financial Group is backed by BNP Paribas SA of France, and was
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      522 12 TO advertise call toil-fret 1800 289 8822 Email recraitosph.coai.sc IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF EVERGREEN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened on the
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      616 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CHAPTER 50 Section 290(2)(b) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS GCI INVESTMENT PTE. LTD. (In MmilmiV Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of GCI INVESTMENT PTE. LTD. held ot 123 Genting Lane, #07-01 Yenorn Industrial Building, Singopore *****4 on the 20tfi day of December 2002.
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      570 12 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CHAPTER 50 Section 290(2)(b) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS COUYER QUAY PROPERTIES LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary liquidation) At on Eitroordinory General Meeting of COLLYER QUAY PROPERTIES LIMITED held al 21 CoMyer Quay #1401 HSBC Building Singapore *****0 on the 23rd day of December 2002. the
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      611 12 IN THt MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 ((Section 290(2Hb|] AND IN THE MATTER Of DEUTSCHE INVESTMENTS SINGAPORE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary liquidation) NOTICE Of RESOLUTIONS At on Exlroordmory General Meeting of ifie Compony held at 20 RaMe* Ploce, 977-01 Ocean Towart, Singapore 04*620, on Ihe 1 *th day
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      449 13 LATEST US INDICATORS Bnt fall of €0,000 may be due to seasonal factor adjustment difficulties AP [WASHINGTON] New claims for unemployment benefits plunged last week by the largest amount in more than a year, offering a dose of encouraging news for a
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      356 13 NEW YORK Sale to investment group aimed at helping to cut debt NYT EM.TV and Merchandising, a German media company, has agreed in principle to sell a minority stake in the Jim Henson Co to an investment group led by Dean Valentine,
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      479 14 REDMOND, Washington Decision a setback for DoCoMo which owns 16% of AT&T Wireless Bloomberg AT&T Wireless Services Inc will delay and scale back the introduction of its high-speed mobilephone service, the latest setback for Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc, which owns 16 per cent of the
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      350 14 WASHINGTON It cites needs for war on terrorism, economic slowdown Reuters THE US Treasury on Tuesday asked Congress raise the government's borrowing limit for the second time in six months, saying the war against terrorism and the economic slowdown threaten a breach
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      285 14 AFP [WASHINGTON] Somebody in the state of West Virginia has won the largest single Powerball lottery jackpot in US history, with U*****.9 million, CNN said early yesterday quoting a Powerball spokesman hours after the Christmas Day draw. The spokesman gave no details of the winner
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      306 14 WASHINGTON Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp set aside US$5OO million more in company stock for its US retirement plan. This raises the total to US$2 billion as the computer maker addresses how to meet future pension liabilities. Armonk, New Yorkbased IBM
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      183 14 NEW YORK Reuters THE firewalls between banks' lending operations and their trading desks may have broken down, some insurers and fund management companies complain, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. At issue are complaints by some of the biggest US insurance and fund
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      563 15  -  Entrepreneurs are net danntedby naysayers, donbts, or the'economy' By Samuel Fromartz Reuters [WASHINGTON] With the quiet holiday week upon us, this is a good opportunity to think about the year ahead. So here are a few tips about business, culled from
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      320 15 BOSTON net inflows of USss.4b end five months of outflows Bloomberg INVESTORS channelled a net US$5.4 billion into US stock mutual funds in November, ending five straight months of outflows, says a Boston-based research firm. The gain came as the Standard Poor's
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      402 16  -  Parvathi Nayar looks back at cinema and performing arts in 2002 Parvathi Nayar IT'S been a great year for the movies in Singapore. Consider the year's gross box-office takings of over $102 million (at Dec 11), which indicate a rise of some 7.6 per cent from 2001. Or
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      1627 17  -  FILMS By Parvathi Nayar LOOK back at movies in 2002, and the strongest comeback kid is: the movies. "Singaporeans are coming back to the cinemas," says UlP's managing director Nicholas Yong. Speculatively speaking, this could be due to the more stay-at-home attitude after 9/11 and the search
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      887 19  -  DANCE By. Aaron Lye IT'S been quite a mixed bag of highs and lows this year for the local dance community. Performances and projects have been trickling along steadily, and 2002 also saw Singapore play host to the Asia-Europe Dance Forum, thanks to the Goethe-Institut
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      1027 20  -  THEATRE By Parvathi Nayar DESPITE theatre's somewhat precarious stage setting against a backdrop of uncertain economic conditions, 2002 saw an estimated 2,200 theatre performances 1,600 were ticketed attended by 550,000. In FY2002, under the Annual and two-year Major Grants, eight theatre companies were supported to
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      523 20  -  MUSIC By] Kanna Chandran ANYONE having a moan about how Singapore is a boring place, would have had to hold his or her tongue this year. At least those complaining about the lack of musical events. We've had an unrelenting onslaught of musical activity with an eclectic collection
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
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      138 23 AFP [ROTTERDAM] Dutch salvage company Smit has started pumping 2,000 tonnes of fuelfrom a ship that sank last weekend in the English Channel with its cargo of thousands of luxury cars. "We are drilling holes in the hull of the ship and attaching pumps to them
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      584 23  -  Cargo handled at China ports totalled 2.4b tons last year By] P T Bangsberg CHINA has opened its first deepwater port built on an island, with capacity for ships up to 300,000 tons deadweight. The port is located on Majishan island,
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      581 23  -  Increase comes despite decline in world seaborne trade for first time in 15 years By. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The global merchant fleet expanded 2.1 per cent to 825 million deadweight tons (dwt) at the end of 2001, contrasting with the 1
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      842 24  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Electrical knowledge of ship's engineers less than adequate, says Aussie safety bureau By Selva Kumar CANBERRA'S marine safety investigation unit has called on vessel owners and operators to ensure full compliance with international safety regulations to prevent lifeboat accidents
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        1051 32 US airline industry expected to have record total loss of USs9.sb this year Bloomberg [CHICAGO] US airlines, led by UAL Corp's United Airlines, are spending their way to a record annual loss. Their recovery plan: adopt the lower costs helping European
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        237 32 AP [BElJlNG] China has called for renewed efforts to establish direct commercial flights with its longtime rival Taiwan in the coming year. "For the sake of convenience of personnel exchanges between the two sides, we believe direct flights should be
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        395 32 But strike continued, shotting key central Siberian airports AFP [MOSCOW] Russia's air traffic controllers reached a tentative pay agreement with the government on Wednesday aimed at ending a four-day hunger strike that disrupted flights across the country as well as links between Europe and
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        133 32 Reuters [TOKYO] All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's second-larg-est airline, said yesterday it plans to raise its fares for domestic flights by an average 5 per cent to brace for a planned government increase in landing fees. The rise in landing fees is set
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      428 27 UK CONTINENT SERVICE Loacftng lor KOVDOR RDM/ATW/BMN/UK/NAN SET" 7 RDM/ATW/BMN/UK/NAN Loads Saigapore. Malayaa. Indoneaa middle-east service Loading for LINDOS 061/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT STAR 2000 JDH/AQA EXPLORER S D6I/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT WHITE GUARDIAN DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT PACIFIC SUN II DBl/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT •Load# Singapore. EJW Mateyva. Indonesa USA SERVICE Loadng for PONTOPORUS VCW/LAX/MZL BLUE PRINCESS CAM^FK/SAV/NOL GANT VISION CAM/NFK/SAV/NOL
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      310 28 W Vur <la Ym* ~i nl. "~ii|... Polrooi Senator 945E" 31/12 09/01 15/01 16/01 Patmos Senator 945E" 31/12 18/01 OMIT 28/01 30/01 01/02 Potmos Senator 945E" 31/12 20/01 OI7OT 'BNS.no 947E 07/01 18/01 OMIT 28/01 30/01 01/0? IBN Sino 947E 1)770T 23/01 29/01 30/01 BN frw 947E -Q770T"i57m~ cuTcvT I
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      166 28 ETASPORI LOADING FOR 27-29 DEC (HITTAGONG, CALCUnA 07-09 JAN COLOMBO, MUMBAI 08-10 JAN BANDAR AIMS, DUBAI iurvicm to Cttunkm, AM tndww Nrti mtd P. OuM ~~li ESP LINES ttW WHKIT LQ SttVIQ TO lAGOS «t SAJIMG EVHTT TMMSOAT U>AHWCtYBTWH>ATKgfBMSTt»AWL cowvptnomi/wmnum s«vki EWSi UMDMCFOt m "TIN" 30/12/2002 OUIAJ OtMtUM MMLOMWtHMIIWrBUK HMt
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