The Business Times, 26 May 2003

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  • 12 1 l«(fS-Q24/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg MONDAY, MAY 26, 2003
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  • 884 1  -  ~ii exclusive! Bat insurers say agents will still lose commissions despite MAS stance By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore has removed another explicit deterrent to the mis-sell-ing of insurance products. Agents or advisers who sell clients new policies within 12 months
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  • 345 1  -  l-ii exclusive Package offered is np to a month's pay for each year of service, np to 25 years By Tang Weng Fai [SINGAPORE] Amid corporatisation and increased competition, Singapore Power has extended its voluntary retirement scheme to its subsidiaries. The basic package is
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  • 65 1 Week Change ST1 1318.14 +13.23 KLSECOMP 650.8JS +14.62 NIKKEI 225 8184.76 +67 47 HANG SENG 9:103.73 +210.5-5 SET INDEX 395 52 +12.52 JAKARTA COMP .472.11 +4.17 MANILA COMP .*****4 -12.19 TAIPEI WPI *****2 +65.75 SEOILCOMP 611.51 +0.70 SHENZHEN B .218.48 +195 Al'ST ALLORI) 2967(10 +42.60 DOW JONES 8601.38 -77,59
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  • 75 1 FOREX RATES us* SS USS JSSperlSS) 1.723 £(l SS/SS per S) 1H3« 2.820 El R(t(l SS/SS/E) .1.171 2.019 YEN 117,1 68.10 RM 3.800 2.205 HKS 7.799 4.526 BAHT 4194 24.34 RI'PIAH 8.280 4.805 RENMINBI 8299 4.816 INDIAN Rl PEE 4891 27 22 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 525 KIALA UMPIR 6.40
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  • 811 1  -  But some surveys suggest recovery is not in sight From, Andrew Marks in New York MARKET bulls see a silver lining in lean inventories, higher productivity, tax cuts and low interest rates which they believe will kick-start business spending and underpin a
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  • 547 1  -  He favours early action to ward off threat of recession By Denesh Divyanathan {SINGAPORE] The government will act to stimulate the economy with measures that cut across the board rather than focussed on specific sectors hit by Sars if the threat of
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    • 640 2  -  Bank to be backed by public funds, countering PM's privatisation call From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO'S controversial governor Shintaro Ishihara has thrown down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi by announcing his intention to form a new bank next year
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    • 584 2  -  exclusive Creditors strike deal on issue of protection if second default occurs By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] A final deal for settling a staggering US$l4 billion debt is in sight as creditors of Asia Pulp Paper Co (APP) reached agreement on a
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 397 3  -  He would be np against deep pockets if he moves in on Haw Par, BIL By Denesh Divyanathan OEI Hong Leong may have punters hanging on his every move now that he has raised his stakes in four more listed companies this month,
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    • 599 3  -  neil behrmann NOW'S the time for Asian investors to be exceedingly wary of European stocks. The general argument among sanguine fund managers is that European stock markets follow Wall Street and will rise if the Dow appreciates. But if that happens, so will
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    • 435 3  -  Shoe maker is first Chinese firm to list on SGZ in IV2 years By: Loh Hui Yin LI Wei and his family spent this year's Chinese New Year holidays in Singapore, but the Chinese entrepreneur was no ordinary tour bist. Mr Li, managing director
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    • 282 3 Bloomberg NEPTUNE Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), Singapore's largest shipping line, may report a profit of US$4 million in the first quarter, bolstered by gains in its tanker unit and smaller losses for its container shipping business. This is the first time the company
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    • 1183 3 0 Hana Bank Head Office: Hana Bank Building 101-1 Euljiro 1-Ka, Chung-Gu, Seoul 100-191, Korea Http://www hanabank.com Singapore Branch: 8 Cross Street. #23-06 PWC Building Singapore *****4 Tel: (65) 6438 4100 Fax: (65) 6438 4200 Telex No: RS ***** HABS swift HNBNSGSG CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME December
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      328 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES May 23 VALUE CLOSE BTOMDS 171.00 -13.00 BTCMN -*****.00 +172.00 BT 10-<Uy MA -*****.00 +17.00 AM-SG Equities 359.27 +4.75 SG Eqnitins Elnct 127.50 +2.67 SG Equities Fin 1108.31 +11.90 SG Equities Prop 320J55 +8.27 MSCI Singapore 162.48 +1.70 SMSCI Fntnres +1.70 iiwhi Vtkmm UniFiber 10c 312,922,000 NewWave
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    • 292 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines last week unveiled a net profit growth of 69 per cent to $1,065 billion for the financial year ended March 2003. Excluding tax write-backs arising from a lower tax rate, net
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    • 757 4  -  I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT'S been a real roller-coast-er ride for local stock market traders from the obsession with the geopolitical risks of a USIraq war, to minute-by-min-ute tracking of US military manoeuvres in now-forgot-ten Iraqi cities; then to the worry about Sars' impact
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    • 746 4 AFP [HONG KONG] Some major Asian currencies weakened against the US dollar, with Japanese authorities repeating their warning of dollar-buying intervention. Japanese yen: The yen faced selling pressure against the US dollar during the week just ended as Japanese authorities repeated their warning of
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  • 3301 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Health Index Fd 0 79/ Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 416/ Uki I IU T I I Com Global Infotec Inde* Fd!** 0 .277/ T" i"""*"""* r!r Com Global Energy Index Fd 082V e£2£fcf 130V 0x11 TravSlndexFd 0628/ sS Europe J|™ Com Spore Bond
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 455 5  -  Survey complies with professional research standards, it says By Denesh Divyanathan MEDIA group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is standing by the stunning 800,000 readership figure of its free newspaper, Streats, saying the number was obtained from a survey that adhered to "professional research
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    • 298 5  -  =4 on the economy economic growth By\ Denesh Divyanathan ASIA holds the key to two of the biggest issues facing the world economy today fears over deflation and the weakening US dollar said Standard Chartered Bank in a recent report. While deflation is not
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    • 401 5  -  Cardmembers enjoy exclusivity and a host of special privileges, services By Slow Li Sen AN American Express platinum cardmember "very recently" splurged $350,000 in the Bulgari shop here, making it the single largest purchase so far recorded for cards issued in Singapore. Pressed for more
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    • 205 5 PROPERTY sales over the weekend went well despite the poor economic climate, signalling there is still demand for well-priced units in the market. Far East Organization said two of its developments offered for sale over the weekend 46-storey Icon in Tanjong Pagar and Gardenvista in
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    • 824 5 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The plummeting US dollar sent gold up to a three-month high last week, while oil prices also ended higher despite the removal of United Nations sanctions on Iraq, a move allowing the resumption of Iraqi crude exports.
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  • 1157 5 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: May 23 SnrOAPORE QOVERMMEltT SECURITIES OTPICATIVE PRICES AMP YIELDS Met ftrlc* TimC—- Matarttr C— YTM K <Hw TwCw— MfrttY C— T TII WU 0«T 7 YR 2.5 15-Jub-03 K*****0F 1.39* 0.49* 100.06 100.11 5 YR 2.625 01-0ct-07 R*****0H 124* 1.23* 105.85 105.9 5 YR 5.125 0VS«p-03
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    • 1337 6 \rW?*yF3B*E*%&-' China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Ltd China Aviation Oil A Decade of Challenges; A Bright Future China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Ltd ("CAO") today celebrates its Tenth Anniversary, marking a decade which witnessed two major transformations that have lifted the Group from losses and obscurity to fast growth and
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    • 804 7 CELEBRATES ITS IOTH ANNIVERSARY Management Principles Behind Past Growth The Road Ahead W* 1 In charting our growth, CAO is guided by our "1-2-3" Concept of Management and Five Investment Principles. Under the "1-2-3" concept, iH "One" refers to aiming for rapid, continuous and steady growth; "Two" means to leverage
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  • THE FTA FACTOR
    • 2038 8  - Mega payoffs and some pain Tlkram irhnt in considers the impact of the FTA on three aspects of the S'pore economy Vikram Khanna THE US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which was signed by US President George Bush and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in Washington on May 6, could have
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    • 1164 9  -  Few companies have got down to gleaning from the technical details how they can exploit the US trade pact reports Too Anna Teo Businessman Jeffrey Goh is in the panel fielding questions on investing in Batam but he has a flurry of queries himself for his Indonesian
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  • CHINA focus
    • 865 10  -  Vlnce Chong considers what foreign advertising agencies can do to succeed in the still-unsophisticated Chinese industry Vince Chong Advertising great William Bernbach once opined that his craft isn't about creating a product advantage but rather to convey an inherent advantage effectively. Could this contain the answer
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  • 1563 10 SICOM FUTURES May 2. RUBBER Futures (Ctosinq prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (towns) Interest Jun 03 179.25 Jul 03 ***** Aug 03 168.25 Sep 03 166.75 RSS 3 (US cMts/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Jun 03 103.00 103.00 103.00
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  • REGIONAL news
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      • 70 11 AFP [BANGKOK] Bangkok's governor has unveiled construction plans for an electric railway encircling the Thai capital in a bid to ease its infamous traffic congestion, a report said here yesterday. Governor Samak Sundaravej said construction on the proposed 82.5-kilometre system, to cost an estimated 41
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      • 73 11 AP [BANGALORE] After earning tax-free billions of dollars for years, Indian software companies plan to use some of their profits and programming muscle to help the country's poor and illiterate. A foundation set up by the National Association of Software Services Companies a grouping of
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      • 94 11 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expects overseas investors to boost purchases of Thai stocks this year on optimism that the nation's economic growth will accelerate. "Thailand will become one of the favourite countries for foreign investors to put their money in because they
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      • 65 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Some 200 crew on a Malaysian navy ship have been quarantined following the death of a crew member with suspected Sars symptoms two days ago, the health ministry said yesterday. Ten people have been hospitalised and the rest quarantined on board the KD
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      • 90 11 AP [MANILA] A passenger vessel carrying at least 228 people broke apart and sank after colliding with a larger ferry yesterday in stormy waters at the mouth of Manila Bay. The coastguard said at least 25 people were killed and 203 were rescued. Search
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    • 478 11 HONGKONG Reuters HONG Kong, its reputation badly tarnished by Sars, will launch a HK$l billion (*****.8 million) campaign to improve its image following the lifting of a travel warning on the city, a newspaper said yesterday. Hong Kong is also inviting a number of
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    • 732 11  -  I- Jri comment KL STOCKS Biotech hub plan, broader economic stimulus package will help economy stay on course eddie toh Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad did not waste much time in getting back to work, following a twomonth vacation. Last week, he launched two long-awaited
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    • 526 11 KUALA LUMPUR New leaders taking over ahead of Dr M's retirement AFP Bernama A NEW generation of politicians is beginning to take over Malaysia's ruling political parties ahead of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's retirement and impending general elections. The Malaysian Chinese Association
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    • 383 11 KUALA LUMPUR CEO planning visit of M'siancar makers to Mexico Reuters Bloomberg MALAYSIAN national car maker Proton is planning to use Mexico as a platform to tap the lucrative North American automobile market, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. Mexican ambassador to Malaysia Alfredo
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  • WORLD news
    • 470 12 TOKYO Bnt future is less certain as Resona asks for 2t yen public fund injection AFP. Reuters JAPAN'S mega-banks should avoid triggering a financial crisis when they reveal full year results today despite suffering huge losses, but analysts fear for the future unless
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    • 403 12 NEW YORK Top 3 execs' pay amounts to 71% of exchange's profit Bloomberg NEW York Stock Exchange co-presidents Robert Britz and Catherine Kinney earned about US$4 million each in 2002, according to people familiar with their compensation. The pair's compensation, along with the
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    • 196 12 TORONTO AFP Reuters CANADA'S largest city, Toronto, braced itself yesterday for a new outbreak of Sars, on news that an undiagnosed sufferer may have exposed hundreds to the illness that has already killed 24 people here. Officials were investigating 33 possible cases of Severe Acute
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 107 12 Reuters {JERUSALEM] Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won cabinet approval yesterday for a US-backed peace "road map" that includes a historic call to establish a Palestinian state by 2005, Israel Radio said. Overcoming opposition from far-right ministers and members of his own Likud party, Mr
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      • 102 12 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's third largest conglomerate the SK Group has missed a deadline to present a rescue plan for its troubled trading arm SK Global, reports said yesterday. The missing of the Saturday deadline was prompted by a dispute between creditors and the
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      • 68 12 Reuters [LONDON] US industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp (UTC) and British security services company Chubb Pic are nearing a takeover deal that could value Chubb at around £580 million (Ssl.6 billion), sources close to the situation said yesterday. The sources said an announcement could
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      • 104 12 Reuters [KITA KYUSHU, Japan] Japan may hike its consumption tax in four years to replenish its dwindling coffers, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said yesterday. Speaking at a public meeting in Kita Kyushu, Mr Shiokawa said Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's vow to keep the sales tax
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    • 365 12  -  From] Neil Behrmann in London A GROUP of British schoolgirls have embarrassed fund managers who are struggling in the gyrating stockmarket. A notional £100,000 (*****,355) investment by them soared by 141 per cent to £241,000 between October and April in the Student Portfolio
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    • 511 13 WASHINGTON But critics say it will result in more risk, unfair competition LATWP MERRILL Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wal-Mart, General Electric and other companies are gaining support in Congress for the right to set up a nationwide banking system that could compete with
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 248 13 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Only a fight very nearly 6lt is stupid to give credit to the g Uncle on manoeuvres found something etementary (7) 23 Wave. travel round scx^S 9 2 Quieter part of a car? (8) 3 Brave secretary in smart sur- 15 Gathering of birds only? (3-5) Across:
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  • BIZIT
    • 690 14  -  The need to manage ever-increasing volumes of data drives companies towards SAN and NAS solutions Reports by Amit Roy Choudhury SINGAPORE companies' use of storage devices attached directly to computers is dropping dramatically as they embrace network storage solutions in an effort to
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    • 147 14 DATACRAFT has teamed up with key solutions partners EMC and Cisco Systems to roll out a new assessment service aimed at helping companies decide if they're ready for what it calls a Storage-Ready Network. According to Datacraft, such a network would provide a single intelligent infrastructure offering
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    • 419 14  -  By' Tang Weng Fai DESPITE the still slow recovery in IT spending in the region, Hewlett-Packard has increased Asia-Pacific revenue while maintaining its focus on delivering the promised savings from the merger of HP with Compaq, the company's top regional executives said last
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    • 561 15  -  BnzzCity expects to turn profitable this year By Amit Roy Choudhury BUZZCITY, which was set up at the height of the dotcom boom in 1999, expects to turn profitable this year on the back of strong demand for the SMS services it offers. One of
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    • ITTAKES
      • 59 15 FUJI Xerox Singapore (FXS) will be organising a seminar entitled "Beyond The Delivery Chain An Integrated Logistics Solution". The theme of the seminar is "leveraging on technology for higher productivity efficiency". It will be held at FXS* Knowledge Management Centre at #18-01 Sun tec Tower Four on
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      • 38 15 SINGAPORE infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) is organising iX 2003, a top regional infocomm conference form Sept 30 to Oct 3,2003. It will have a new integrated exhibition at Singapore Expo. For more details, visit www.iX2oo3.com.
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      • 88 15 BENQhas launched the first of its design-inspired series of media disks, called BenQ DJ Station. BenQ DJ Station is a CD-Recorder Disk (CD-R) that is designed to look like a mini LP. The media disks have distinctive jet-black LP design, with striking tangy orange, gekko
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      • 106 15 PINNACLE Systems has announced the availability of Pinnacle Edition PRO version 5, the latest version of the company's mid-range video editing and DVD-authoring software for professional videographers, educators, and advanced video hobbyists. Pinnacle Edition PRO version 5 uses processing power from the PC's central and graphics
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      • 68 15  -  Compiled by. Amit Roy Choudhury A PC-TV made by Taiwan's MiTAC International Corporation is available in Singapore. The MiTAC PC-TV allows the recording of TV shows and watching of DVD movies. It also stores and plays digital music and can create DVDs and CDs. Priced at $2,799,
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    • 312 15  -  From J Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley STOP worrying about the economy, and just get out there and start some companies. This was the message from Sequoia Capital founder Donald Valentine to several hundred entrepreneurs in rapt attention at the
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    • 281 15  -  Leonard Lim NOKIA sees the Asia-Pacific region, and China in particular, as a key market for growth, says Tomi Paatsila, Nokia's Asia-Pacific director of the mobile phone business unit. Mobile Phones. And putting its money where its mouth is, the mobile communications giant
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 306 17 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE number of sales being reported this week does not fully illustrate the activity in the market. There are various other ships which are rumoured to be working firm and close to being sold, or maybe even being sold, but not yet being
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    • 274 17 SOX '000 **23 S$ Kal C*rr Attribution—0.58 unch 0 ChuanHup 0.39 0.01 T122 CHOffshora 0.20 0.01 500 Cosco Invastmant 0.26 -0.01 3947 Fr#toht Links 0.05 0.01 317 GBHoMnot 0.60 0.02 48 Jay* Holdings 0.34 unch 474 KappaiCorp 4.54 0.06 1464 K1 Vantura 0.18 0.01 2311 K appal Tai*
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    • 580 17 It reports hike in incidents in waters near Bintan and Anamhaa iglanHg in the past month [SINGAPORE] Ships passing by the Indonesian island of Bintan, just off Singapore, have been warned to be vigilant after a spike in piracy incidents in the area.
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 17 [HUBEI] The Zigui Port on the upper reach of the Three Gorges in central China's Hubei Province has been opened to traffic. The Chinese port is an important one on the Yangtze River linking the east and the west. AP
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    • 111 17 [SINGAPORE] The first berth at Vietnam's newest deepwater general port at Chan May is completed, and is expected to be operational by September. Located on the East Chan May peninsula near the central city of Danang, the port's annual capacity is projected
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    • 265 17  -  First new ocean cruise to fly the US flag in 50 years By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Star Cruises' Miami-based subsidiary Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) will launch services of its newbuild Pride of America in July 2004 the first new ocean cruise
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    • 351 17  -  They'll be ready by month'sendfornew container ships By: Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Four berths at Port Klang's Northport will reportedly have 15 m draughts by the end of the month, catching up to competing neighbour Westport. Long-awaited dredging at berths 11-14 and
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    • 969 18  -  LXMER SCENE By David Hughes CAUTIOUS optimism appears to be the best description of the big container lines that are making increasingly confident noises about freight rate increases. Indeed, the Far East Freight Conference (FEFC) lines have issued a reminder to shippers in North Europe
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    • 198 18 PAGE Avant 6 B'tang Mas 5 BSA 4 BSC 6 BTL 6 Cargoways 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Chahaya 6 China Shpg 5 Confer 6 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 EP Carriers 6 ECL 3 EIS 6 EngLee 6 ESP Lines 4 Far Shpg 5
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    • 12591 23 thebusinesstimes EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vns« Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser VmiH Voyage Telephone SIN Dnt'n Sdme Nam* Number Number SIN Dest'n None Name Number Number 05/06 n/06 BTL TIGER SPIRIT 06* 65******22 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvoire 07/* 12/M PACC Com breeze won 65******55 03/06 12/07
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      • 2037 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing On- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr aoi prima ocs cos i jjmammm **********00 *a mmsoK am am i *****00*0800 *****00*2200 oawour oms oms i *****00*21*0 26osooo*i3ao nx ALABMATA1 BUN BW 1 **********00 *****00*0700 ALTONA 0339 0338
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      • 133 25 May 26 U.K.: Spring Bank Hoi U.S.: Memorial Day May 29 Indonesia: Ascent ion Day France: Ascent ion Day Germany: Ascent ion Day May 31 Brunei: Armed Forces Day Jul C/ii/wrChildren's Day. inn 2 Italy: Anni of the Rep. NZ: Queen's Birthday. Jnn 4 Hongkong: Tuen Ng Festival.
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      • 793 25 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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      • 206 26 AP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's national carrier Garuda on Saturday said its flights would be unaffected if its technicians make good on threats to strike next week. More than 600 technicians at 25 domestic and five overseas airports are threatening to stop work from May
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      • 424 26 He calls for fewer hub airports to cope with industry downturn Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways Pic chairman Lord Marshall said the number of European international airlines and hub airports need to be reduced for the industry to cope with a decline
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      • 345 26 Deal will save airline up to 48% in wage bill for pilots, flight dispatchers AFP [TORONTO] Air Canada's regional airline Jazz announced on Saturday that it had reached agreements with two of its unions to cut labour costs by as much as
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      • 289 26 AP [MIAMI] Cargo carrier DHL Airways Inc said it has agreed to sell the company to an investor group led by its new chairman and chief executive, John Dasburg, for US$57 million, in a move to dispel concerns about who controls the company.
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      • 508 26 Move aimed at recovering 80% of traffic by Dec Reuters [HONG KONG] The Airport Authority of Hong Kong, which manages one of the world's busiest airports, said yesterday it would discount aircraft landing fees by up to 50 per cent over
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