The Business Times, 20 March 2003

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    15 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: i-ttp://business-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2003
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    Lock icon Quick markets rebound unlikely even if war is swift: analysts
    1182 1  -  Oil prices may not fall much; doubts over US economic and stock market recovery By. Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] A US-led coalition could invade Iraq as soon as today, but in assessing the economic impact, it may be wrong to draw
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    Lock icon Asia may be post-war winner, says Dr Doom
    690 1  -  Money may head for Asia as US wrestles with war cost By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Equity markets may be bullish on a short war in Iraq, but the biggest challenges will come after the war is over, contrarian fund manager Marc
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    Lock icon S'pore appeal court rejects call to wash its hands of APP case
    806 1  -  Ruling on whether to appoint judicial manager reserved By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Chief Justice Yong Pung How yesterday rejected the argument that Singapore courts should wash its hands of the US$l4 billion Asia Pulp Paper Ltd (APP) default
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    75 1 ST! (+10.89) ST INDEX FUTURES M 52.00 (+12.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 188.20 (+2.50) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 627.94 -0.86 NIKKEI 225 &***** *96.58 HANG SENG „__9.*****_.+ I17.08 SET INDEX 961.13 -1.72 JAKARTA COMP .-385.48 *0.85 MANILA COMP .1.***** +14.87 TAIPEI WP1 4.***** 24 65 SECKX COMP ***** +4.47 SHENZHEN B *****
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    77 1 FOREX RATES US$ M rs$ (S$ per rs$) 1.768 £(l'SS/SS pw 1.364 1765 EI"RO(l'SS/SS/E) 1062 W1 YEN 118.8 6710 RM 1800 1149 HK$ 7799 4.411 BAHT 43 00 2412 RITIAH 9.075 5,133 RENMINBI 8199 4 694 INDIAN RITEE 47 69 2657 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* Kl ALA LlKPlll 6 40
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      9 1 JM tocAPPa death knell or fair move? Pg 9
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      138 1 State of US economy remains prime concern 'Pg 2 Iraq crisis sparks Asean's worst split in years Pg 4 Repairing the collateral damage to EU Pg 12 London banks' emergency back up too close to home Pg 14 Shipping may come to standstill in Gulf Shipping Times. Pg 1 It
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      Lock icon Next big uncertainty: effect of war on US economy
      844 2  -  Post-war rebonnd not a foregone conclusion: analysts From Andrew Marks in New York THE imminent war with Iraq may be grabbing the lion's share of investor attention, but as the opening of trading on Tuesday showed, the fragile state of the
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      Lock icon OCBC springs special cash dividend surprise
      432 2  -  Move signals bank's commitment to improve capital structure and ROE: analysts By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE) OCBC Bank yesterday gave weary shareholders a pleasant surprise it proposed a special net cash dividend of 49.75 cents per share (or 63.78 cents gross), demonstrating at the
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      Lock icon S'pore is still centre for high-end disk drives
      591 2  -  Engineering talent sets it apart from placf# likp China, say HDD makers By Amit Roy Choodhury lsiiNUAfUKe,| Singapore still enjoys a significant edge over China in high-end manufacturing of hard disk drives (HDD) and other storage solutions and is well located as
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  • FOCUS iraq
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      Lock icon Iraq crisis causes Asean's worst split in years
      701 4  -  ASEAN Annnai ministerial retreat ends a day early inconclusively amid clash between pro-war and anti-war camps yang razali kassim THE Great Split at the United Nations has spilled over into South-east Asia. Unity among the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)
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      Lock icon Singapore Airlines expected to cut flights
      430 4  -  By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines is expected to cut back on its flights to various regions, as Asia's most profitable airline atflusts to the pressure of an imminent war in Iraq and the effects on travel of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars)
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      Lock icon First major objective is Basra
      697 4 City's fall will undermine Iraqi resistance elsewhere: officials NYT, Reuters [WASHINGTON] With Iraq staying defiant, units of a US-led invasion force moved into position yesterday for a war to oust President Saddam Hussein that could be less than a day away. In his speech to
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      Lock icon It'll be another Vietnam for US, warns Iraqi envoy
      493 4  -  Extremists will use war as excuse to attack US and UK interests, he says From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo DRAWING parallels with the disastrous US military involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and *****, the Iraqi charge d'affaires in Japan yesterday
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      Lock icon War likely to delay Indon privatisations
      501 4  -  From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S privatisation programme, a cornerstone of the country's efforts to revive its economy and plug the government's budget deficit, could become a casualty of the impending war in the Middle East. A government spokesman said yesterday that Jakarta would
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      103 4 ANNOUNCES A WHOLE NEW CHANGE EFFECTIVE 30 MARCH 2003 DEPARTURE FROM SINGAPORE TO (destination I FLIGHT I DAYS OF IDEPARTUREI ARRIVAL NUMBER DEPARTURE LOCAL TIME LOCAL TIME CHENNAI AI4OI DAILY 1955 2115 HYDERABAD *AI 6478 MON/WED/FRI/SUN 2115 2320 A 1473 THU/SAT 1440 1640 MUMBAI At 401 MON/WED/FRI/SAT 1955 0005 NEXT
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Transport giants get green light to merge
      533 5  -  COMFORT-DELGRO MERGER But shareholders still uneasy about share swap ratio, pension deficits Reports by Christopher Tan DESPITE some concerns, Comfort and DelGro shareholders yesterday voted for a merger of the two companies, paving the way for the creation of possibly the world's largest
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      Lock icon Question mark over licence to run north-east MRT
      184 5 IT is still unclear whether transport firm SBS Transit has been issued an operating licence for the north-east MRT line, although it is nearly four years after it clinched the operator contract. Yesterday, Kua Hong Pak, chief executive of DelGro SBS* parent
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      Lock icon UOB-Kay Hian profit slips 26% to $12m
      437 7  -  Higher expenses and forex losses in H2 cited By Wong Wei Kong SINGAPORE'S largest brokerage house, UOB-Kay Hian Holdings, saw a 26 per cent drop in profit to $11.9 million in 2002, dragged down by losses in the second half. UOB-Kay Hian said
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      Lock icon Xpress back in the black with return to printing
      293 7  -  It swings to $0.28 in profit after quitting Net kiosk business By Wong Wei Kong XPRESS Holdings has returned to the black the first major positive result of its effort to refocus on financial printing after its disastrous flirtation with the
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      Lock icon Ensuring the success of Beits
      813 7  -  HOCK I l.f J 11,-1 WUI kalpana rashiwala IN a report in BT this week, DBS's managing director of debt capital markets Stephen Finch was quoted as saying that investors are getting comfortable with real estate investment trusts as a product. And in five years,
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      Lock icon People's Food profit up 34% to 823m yuan
      330 7  -  By Loh Hui Yin PEOPLE'S Food, which has been out of favour with investors, yesterday posted a 34 per cent increase in fullyear net profits to 823 million yuan (Ssl7s million) from 615 million yuan previously. The China-based company's management emphasised that
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon 4 investors buy 35% of Ocean Sky
        73 7 GARMENTS manufacturer Ocean Sky, whose initial public offering of 92 million new shares closes at noon today, said it has sold more than 35 per cent of its IPO shares to four investors. The shareholders, which bought a total of 32.8 million placement
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        Lock icon SembCorp unit wins $13.4m job
        64 7 SEMBCORP Industries' construction arm, SembCorp Engineers and Constructors, has won a $13.4 million deal to build a 172,000 sq ft semiconductor plant in Suzhou Industrial Park, in China, for Carsem-Suzhou Ltd. Construction begins next month and work is expected to be finished by December. SembCorp
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        Lock icon Teckwah net profit falls 28%
        101 7 SESDAQ-LISTED Teckwah Industrial yesterday maintained its final dividend rate and proposed a special dividend despite posting a 28 per cent fall in net profit for the year 2002 to $6.3 million. The print and packaging company, which is also a value chain services provider, proposed
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        Lock icon aspnetcentre to pay 242% dividend
        68 7 IT solutions company aspnetcentre announced a dividend payout 0f242 per cent per share, despite posting losses of $3 million for the year to December. This compares with profits of $4.5 million a year ago. Loss per share was 1.21 cents, compared with profit per share
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      623 5 The Group Doing Business with the World Bank: Reaching Out to the World FM^B t Shangri-La Hotel Singapore /fy Y 21 March 2003 8.30 am 5.00pm HF W I In todays volatile economic landscape, Singapore companies need to glpbalise and regionalise in order to remain competitive. However, many companies may
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      318 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 19 VALUE CLOSE BTOB/QS -80.00 +138.00 ITCOM -*****.00 +€9.00 WIMyW -*****.00 -8.00 jyHCrmMli 345.33 +2.40 SG EjdMwEhct 120.55 +1.35 S6£«rfbwFk 1074.18 +5.58 312.21 -1.43 ggfrppOT 157.57 +1.10 SHOFBtTM 159.20 +2.50 Stocks Volume Chart SemiCond 26c 38,665,000 Accord Customer 2.5c 19,729,000 SingTel 15c 17,038,000 Datacraft 10c 16.588.000
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      Lock icon FJ Benjamin warrants may prove rewarding
      282 6  -  BOT STOCK/ WARRANT By R Sivanithy ACCORDING to conventional wisdom, the worst is over for the local stock market for the time being and if the war in Iraq proves short-lived, prices can embark on a sustained uptrend. Although we're sceptical that this happy
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      Lock icon Is fear of being left out the only worry?
      828 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy YOU can sense the growing fear in the stock market at the moment. No, we're not talking about the fear of a drawn-out war in the Middle East or concern that the conflict may not go the way
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      Lock icon Sideways day ahead of possible Iraq war today
      583 6  -  CURRENCIES Dow may provide some directional clnes for sessions ahead larry wee ASIAN currency trading yesterday focused on finalising positions ahead of a possible US-led invasion of Iraq any time from today. In one small sign that not all are convinced the
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Govt to keep water tariffs affordable: Swee Say
      517 9  -  YESTERDAY DC PARLIAMENT Costs won't come down, but water conservation will help keep prices low By David Boey WATER costs are unlikely to come down in future, but the government has pledged to keep water tariffs affordable, Environment Minister Lim Swee Say
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      Lock icon Quality still top priority for universities
      342 9  -  Intake to be cnt if standards fall, says NgEng Hen By Chuang Peck Ming QUALITY still comes first and intakes will be cut back if standards at local universities drop, Minister of State for Education Ng Eng- Hen told Parliament yesterday. Addressing the concerns
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      Lock icon COE prices close to record lows
      284 9  -  By Christopher Tan PAST freak results aside, COE prices yesterday settled close to their lowest levels in recent years. The tender which ended yesterday saw weak bidding, with four out of five available categories being undersubscribed up till 3pm. Car premiums continued their southerly
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      Lock icon Judicial manager for APP a death knell or fair move?
      730 9  -  By Catherine Ong LAWYERS in the Asia Pulp Paper Ltd (APP) case yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to balance a "doomsday scenario" in the appointment of a Singapore judicial manager to the insolvent company against a need for fairness
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      Lock icon Toshiba moves colour TV unit here
      270 9  -  It'll beef np R&D team to develop TVs for global market By Elgin Toh JAPANESE electronics giant Toshiba announced yesterday that it was moving to Singapore its development work and design engineering of colour television sets (TVs) for the global market. To consolidate its
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Syed Alwi boarding house for sale
      345 10  -  Price tag for 4-storey freehold property near Little India said to be $10-llm By Andrea Tan YET another boarding house has hit the market. A four-storey building with 32 boarding rooms, in Syed Alwi Road, has been put up for tender. Price indications for
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      Lock icon CityDev's 2002 profit expected to quadruple
      501 10 Analysts cite higher home sales, lower provisions for $161 m forecast Reuters CITY Developments (CityDev), South-east Asia's second biggest property and hotel group, is likely to report 2002 profits almost quadrupled, due to a rise in home sales and a drop in provisions for
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        Lock icon Commerce Asset makes Q4 profit
        91 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd, Malaysia's second-biggest bank, said it posted a profit in the fourth quarter 0f2002, reversing a year-earlier loss, as it reduced bad-loan provisions ami earned more interest income. Net income was RM172.1 million (SsBo million), or 6.8 sen a share,
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        Lock icon India limits TV news channel funding
        104 11 AFP [NEW DELHI] The Indian Cabinet has set a limit of 26 per cent foreign investment in TV news channels uplinking directly from the country for news coverage. The decision was announced following a proposal by Hong Kong-based Star TV to uplink directly from
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        Lock icon Manila budget deficit on track
        97 11 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines confirmed yesterday that its budget deficit reached 31.53 billion pesos (Ssl billion) in the first two months of the year—on track to meet a projected first-quarter shortfall of 55 billion pesos. The government also confirmed that its budget deficit was at
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        Lock icon Long war will hit Taiwan GDP growth
        104 11 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's economics minister said yesterday that the 2003 economic growth forecast for the export-oriented island could be cut to 2 per cent from 3.6 per cent if a US-led war against Iraq lasted for six to 12 weeks. Minister Lin Yi-fti
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      Lock icon Jakarta vows reform of banks, judiciary
      229 11 B JAKARTA AP INDONESIA has promised the International Monetary Fund that it will undertake reforms including selling off state-owned banks and overhauling its judiciary that should allow it to get a new US$45O million loan. The reforms promised in a letter made public are
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      Lock icon Fund managers bearish on Asia
      416 11 HONGKONG Soaring oil prices cloud outlook for next 12 months, survey shows Reuters FUND managers who invest in the Asia-Pacific region ex-Japan have become increasingly pessimistic about Asia's economic outlook over the next 12 months because of soaring oil prices, a Merrill Lynch survey showed.
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      Lock icon China opens its markets further to foreigners
      326 13 SHANGHAI Foreign investors can now use yuan to bay shares, bonds and mntual fonds Bloomberg CHINA expanded access for foreign institutional investors to stocks, bonds and mutual funds as Asia's second largest capital market prepares to open its yuandenominated securities for the first
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      Lock icon Virus from same family that causes mumps identified
      284 13 PMHUmUHIA SCARE Bloomberg, AFP [HONG KONG] A new strain of pneumonia blamed for at least nine deaths and for infecting more than 200 people worldwide is caused by a virus from the same family that produces mumps, the Chinese University of Hong
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      Lock icon TSMC plans to cut spending to lift profit
      368 13 TAIPEI Ikhnui chipmaker tins to increase return an equity to 20% from 7.5% last year Bloomberg TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest supplier of made-to-order chips, said it will limit spending on expansion to lift profitability. The company is aiming
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Repairing the collateral damage to EU
      664 12  -  OPINION iif.uw.'jinra shada islam CALL it collateral damage. US President George W Bush's drive to disarm Iraq by force has dealt a deadly blow to European Union unity, with the 15 governments now in open disarray over America's impending war against Baghdad and relations
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      113 12 'We can't forget that war is inherently violent, that people are going to die. As hard as we try, as hard as we try to limit civilian casualties and so-called collateral damage it will occur.' Richard Myers chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on war
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      Lock icon Reviewing quarterly reporting
      530 12 EDITORIAL DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's remarks about reviewing corporate quarterly reporting requirements must have come as a surprise to many, especially those with the impression that the authorities are practised in the art of hearing —but not listening. Replying to MP Sin Boon Ann during
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      Lock icon Decline of the West
      883 12  -  A troth that is escaping Bush and his Republican supporters is that plutocratic democracy is the enemy of economic progress not its friend By Paul A Samuelson A CENTURY ago, an obscure German philosopher wrote a short-time best-seller under the title, Decline of the West. His
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      Lock icon STI funds are open-ended only in name
      622 12  -  MAiLirm Tok Choon Boon Singapore AS a private retail investor, I am pleased to see various unit trusts and other wealth-enhancement products offered by the financial sector here. However, I have yet to come across an open-ended Singapore index fund that adheres strictly
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      Lock icon MPs, ask searching questions
      384 12  -  Tan Kok Tim Singapore DURING the Budget debates, an NMP asked whether we should make do without the Prime Minister or rotate the position. Another MP asked when we would have women in the Cabinet. Do all these questions have any relevance to the Budget? I
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      2158 13 THE THAI PRIME FUND LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Fifteenth Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Meeting Room. Sth Floor, Mitsui Building. 2-1-1 Muromachi Nihonbashi. Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0022. Japan on Thursday.
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Banks' back-ups too near London: experts
      482 14 LONDON Contingency plans in event of terror attack not radical enough, they say Reuters BANKS in the City of London, Europe's financial hub, say they have made contingency plans to keep them in business if there were a terror strike on the capital, but
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      Lock icon EU summit starts today, clouded by Iraq
      285 14  -  From I Shada Islam in Brussels EUROPEAN Union leaders will meet for the bloc's economic summit today and tomorrow despite public squabbles over Iraq and in a bid to give Europe's ailing economies a muchneeded boost. "We are faced with an exceptionally difficult
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      Lock icon No pay, bonus for Capital One CEO
      334 14 NEWYORK Reuters, Bloomberg RICHARD Fairbank, chief executive of credit card firm Capital One Financial Corp, took no salary or bonus at all for 2002, and did not cash in any of his massive stock options, according to a regulatory filing. Still he is
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      Lock icon Shares of US tobacco firms dive on news of US$289b claim
      294 16 Justice Dept set to seek Hamagftg in trial next year Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Tobacco stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after it emerged that the US government will argue in a trial next year that big cigarette makers should forfeit US$2B9
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      313 14 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 The costs of accommodation H HF HE 7 The French queen goes ir^^ap^r^t^ums 1 (5) back (9) 3 The quintessential show 8 An artist tends to be ruder business entertainer? (8) when disturbed (5) 4 If you're on it, you may get off ty (8) 5
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      775 17  -  INFOTECH It Is already in use in research institutes and military facilities in the developed world, including here in Singapore. Soon, we will all be able to nse it raju chellam IMAGINE this: You're in Tokyo at a sales conference. During your
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      312 17 Reuters [NEW ORLEANS] An X-ray of a yellow pepper, a man falling down over and over again, and a dog eating a roast chicken might not qualify as Hollywood movies, but one production company is hoping these films, made for mobile devices, will
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      435 17 They are obsessed with computers and 14-34 years of age, says Sophos chief Reuters [SINGAPORE] Male. Obsessed with computers. Lacking a girlfriend. Aged 14 to 34. Capable of sowing chaos worldwide. That is the profile of the average computer-virus writer, an anti-virus expert
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      673 18  -  The deal could create USs2oom in revenue over 5 years and create 500 jobs, reports tamo wemgfai TANG WENG FAI Giving a muchneeded vote of confidence to the infocomm ind us t r y here, computer systems major Sun Microsystems and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
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      250 18 AFP [SINGAPORE] Global sales of liquid crystal display (LCD) computer monitors will top US$2O billion in 2003, surpassing traditional tube models for the first time, a technology research firm said yesterday. International Data Corp (IDC) said the emergence of
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      462 18  -  It sees increased wireless traffic, repeat orders By Amit Roy Choudhury F5 Networks, a Nasdaqlisted leading provider of applications traffic management solutions, has doubled its customer base in the Asia-Pacific region to 300 in the past nine months, and has been achieving average
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      109 18 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] Shanghai plans to use computer-style technologies to manage all of its waterworks by 2007, a local official said on Tuesday at a water conference here. Zhang Jiayi, director of the Shanghai Waterworks Bureau, said substantial progress had been made in this regard. With
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      436 18 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Orders for semiconductor production and testing equipment from North American manufacturers inched up in February, but have been essentially flat for six months as the chip industry struggles to recover from its worst ever downturn, a trade group said on
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      693 19  -  Insurers may cancel coverage if Iraq invasion begins By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Insurance brokers expect commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf to come to a standstill today as the world's leading underwriters may cancel coverage on ships and airplanes if war breaks
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      286 19  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Hanjin Shipping's operating profit collapsed 95 per cent in 2002 to 11.7 billion won (*****.7 million), from 253.7 billion won in 2001, the Korean containerline has revealed. The operational result came from revenues that were down 1.9 per
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      298 19  -  Ronnie Zape insists he did not know crew of French trawler was in trouble From, Alec Almazan in Manila THE 39-year-old Filipino watch officer who was sentenced to five years by a Norwegian court last Thursday said he would appeal the decision. Ronnie Zape was
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      157 19 Figure is up 12% on the same month a year earlier Reuters [WELLINGTON] New Zealand's largest port operator Ports of Auckland Ltd said on Tuesday that its container volumes for February were up 12 per cent on the same month a year
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      238 19 Reuters [HONG KONG] China's southern boom town of Shenzhen is seeking to submit a new container terminal project, with investment for phase one estimated at seven billion yuan (Ssl.s billion), to Beijing for approvals. Expediting the development of container terminals in Dachan
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      712 20  -  MEWBUILDS By David Hughes LAST year world output grew by 1.3 per cent but global exports decreased by 1.5 per cent and world seaborne trade declined by one per cent. Those figures come from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's
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        795 27 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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        628 28 Some also warn staff of possible emergency wage and benefits cnts NYT [NEW YORK] The airline industry, already crippled by a weak economy, scrambled on Tuesday to prepare for the effect of a war with Iraq by suspending and
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        538 28 War in Iraq likely to worsen already falling ticket sales Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Airlines, the biggest carrier ever to file for bankruptcy protection, said it may be forced to shut down unless it can cut labour costs by
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          108 28 AFP [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong government has given permission for eight international airlines operating in the territory to levy a fuel surcharge on passengers after sharp rises in oil prices ahead of a war in Iraq. The surcharge varied between the
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          57 28 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has established four "safe" Crisis Flight Routings for Asia, Middle East and Europe ahead of the possible war on Iraq, Malaysia Airlines said yesterday. The company confirmed that its operations to the Middle East and
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          41 28 Xinhua [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International (THAI) will suspend flights to Kuwait and Bahrain starting today. It also adjusted its flight schedules to other Middle East countries in fear of possible US-led military action against Iraq.—Xinhua
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        162 28 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] DHL Airways Inc, an air cargo company partially owned by Germany's Deutsche Post AG, named Burger King Corp's John Dasburg chairman and chief executive. Mr Dasburg, 60, was president and chief executive of St Paul, Minnesotabased Northwest Airlines Corp, the fourth-largest
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        456 28  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Cautious travellers are diverting or deferring flights to avoid Hong Kong, Vietnam and parts of China linked to the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), according to dominant ticketing and reservation group Abacus International. Chief executive and
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        137 28 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines will start weekly cargo services between Singapore and Adelaide to cater to South Australia's fresh produce exporters and its growing manufacturing industry. The airline will use a Boeing 747-400 for the service that will start on April 1,
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