The Business Times, 5 August 2003

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MfTA (P) 024/03/2003 I Irit? net: '♦p.//business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE TUESDAY, AUGUST 5 2003 85C
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    Lock icon Handphone war could hurt all three telcos
    1192 1  -  Customers stand to gain from cheaper services as rivals step np battle By* Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] When elephants fight, only the grass gets trampled. But in their battle for hand-phone customers, Singapore's three telcos Singapore Telecommunications, Star Hub and Mobile One could also
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    Lock icon HK's new finance chief to review policy on deficit
    670 1 This mar ks shift in policy from that of his predecessor Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's new Financial Secretary Henry Tang said yesterday he will review the government's target for eradicating its large budget deficit, meeting public calls for help in
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    Lock icon Strong show by CPF-included funds in Q2 but upside limited: S&P
    542 1  -  By\ Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Over 96 per cent of all unit trusts and in-surance-linked funds delivered a positive return in the second quarter, thanks to a sharp rebound in equity markets. But over the next 12 months, the upside
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    75 1 Sfi 1,537.28 (-19.80) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,546.00 (-8.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 189.60 (-0.40) Monday Change KUBOMT ***** 411 NIKKEI 225 9.452.79 -158.88 HANG SENG 10.183.14 «4« SET INDEX 494 .84 *3;HI JAKARTA COMP JM194 4 76 MANILA OOMP 1.***** 37.11 TAIPEI WPI 5,177.19 1332 SEOUL OOMP 718.54 -8.72 SHENZHEN B
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      Lock icon Jakarta seeks S'pore hand in Sumatra growth
      567 2  -  BG Yeo to lead business delegation to Sumatra this month By i Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] First it was Batam, then Bintan. Now Indonesia wants Singapore to play a major role in the development of Sumatra, the country's second-big-gest island. "It's still early,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon HL Asia's China unit gets $52m dividends
      352 3  -  HLA to get $13.7 m share in out-of-court settlement By Daniel Buenas SINGAPORE-LISTED Hong Leong Asia (HLA) said yesterday a legal battle involving a Chinese subsidiary has been settled out of court. The settlement relates to $52 million of unpaid dividends, of which
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Stats names chief financial officer
        52 3 ST ASSEMBLY Test Services Ltd (Stats) yesterday appointed Dov Oshri as its new chief financial officer. The position was formerly held by Tan Lay Koon, who was promoted to chief executive in June 2002. Mr Oshri had previously been vice-president of finance and operations for
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        Lock icon SIA Engg in London venture
        55 3 SLA Engineering will form a venture to provide maintenance services at Indonesian airports. Indonesian ground handling services provider PT Jasa Angkasa Semesta will control 51 per cent with SIA Engineering controlling the rest. The venture will initially operate at 10 major airports in Indonesia, including
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        Lock icon Links bolders get S Kimtrans shares
        98 3 LINKS Island Holdings Ltd (Links) yesterday handed 39.9 million shares of Sembawang Kimtrans to its shareholders. The shares amounted to 13 per cent of Sembawang Kimtrans' issued capital. Under the capital-reduction and distribution exercise, Links shareholders received $35 in cash and 180 Sembawang Kimtrans
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        Lock icon Omni Mold interim dives 60%
        94 3 OMNI Mold which specialises in the design and production of high tonnage, high precision plastics injection moulds—announced a 65.5 per cent drop in net profits to $683,000 from $1.99 million for its half-year ended June 30. Turnover increased 14.5 per cent to $15.3 million. Earnings
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        Lock icon Swing Media placing out 35m shares
        38 3 SESDAQ-LISTED Swing Media Technology Group said yesterday it was placing out 35 million new shares at 25 cents apiece to raise about $8.35 million net for expansion, loan repayments and working capital.
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        Lock icon GIC sells 20m KFC(M) shares
        99 3 THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) yesterday sold 20 million shares in Cast-food group KFC Holdings (Malaysia) to two senior KFC Holding executives in off-market trades worth RM74 million (Ss34 million), according to a report by Bloomberg. KFC group executive chairman Izhar Sulaiman and
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        Lock icon Eagle Brand names MD mad CEO
        53 3 EAGLE Brand Holdings has appointed Zhong Yingzhou managing director and chief executive officer. Mr Zhong will replace Johnny Lee, who has resigned as director and CEO. Mr Zhong was previously general manager of the Export Division of Guangdong Xin Zhong Yuan Ceramics Co, China's
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      Lock icon New CEO sets prudent path for Flextech
      409 3  -  Restructuring plan should put it back on the right track By Kenneth Lim FLEXTECH Holdings* just completed year-long restructuring has reinforced a fundamental business principle that its new boss believes in. "We've learned a hard lesson. Our resources are finite. We have to
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      Lock icon CityDev, CapitaLand tie up to develop Parkview enbloc site
      442 3  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala IN the tirst-ever jomt project development between City Developments and Capita Land, the latter will take a half-stake in the Parkview Condo site in West Coast Park that CityDev bagged last month through a collective sale. The two
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      Lock icon Great Eastern's Q2 up 41%
      439 4  -  But insurer has lost ground in the annnal pramining business, says CEO Byy Wong Wei Kong INSURANCE group Great Eastern Holdings (GEH) yesterday reported strong growth in second-quarter earnings, but said it faced challenges in driving premium sales and retaining market share in Singapore. Net
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      Lock icon Jurong Tech interim net gain jumps 82% to $11.2m
      364 4  -  Component maker rides on strong hard disk drive market By Kenneth Lim THE strong hard disk drive (HDD) market expected for this year proved to be true for Jurong Technologies, at least for the first half year. The mainboard-listed electronics components
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      Lock icon Keppel's results belie its strength
      774 4  -  lock siew ven sreenivasan OK, so Keppel's second quarter results were disappointing. The conglomerate reported a 2.5 per cent slide in earnings to $97.8 million for the three months to end-June. However, its first half earnings were up 5.7 per cent to $192.7 million. The
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      Lock icon Medtecs posts 95% jump in H1 net profit
      235 4  -  By] Daniel Buenas THE Sars outbreak proved to be a shot in the arm for Medtecs International Corporation in its first half year. The Sesdaq-listed company whose principal activity is the manufacture of medical consumables yesterday posted a 95 per cent increase
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      805 4 I FORTUNE JfS/r ■»««»RR£|T IFortune Real Estate Investment TVust (a unit trust constituted on 4 July 2003 under the laws of the Republic of Singapore) OFFER FOR SUBSCRIPTION (THE "OFFERING") BY ARA ASSET MANAGEMENT (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (TOE "MANAGER") IN RESPECT OF 143/*****8 UNITS WF IN FORTUNE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST
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      386 4 EXCEL PARTNERS PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) i NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 76(10)(h) OF THE co-pan.es »ct, chapter,. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 76(10)(h) of the Companies Act. Chapter 50 (the "Act") that at an extraordinary general meeting (the -Nat Steel EGM") of NatStee! Ltd
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      272 4 NATSTEEL LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 76(1 OKh) OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 76<10)(h) of the Companies Act, Chapter 50 (the "Art") that at an extraordinary general meeting (the "Nat Steel EGM") of Nat Steel Ltd
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      318 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Ai« 4 VALUE CLOSE ITOM» -285.00 +31.00 IT CADI -*****.00 -156.00 IT 10-day IM -*****.00 -28.00 <MHCE»aw 418.05 -4.39 9ar**huO*i 153.50 +0.27 SSEjdUwfh 1289.45 -32.91 SQUdbwhtp 390.97 -1.87 189.88 -2.27 smsar*mm 189.60 -0.40 tfclw Vol— Sunningdale 15c 94,827,000 IPC0 20C 53.947,000 Full Apex HK20C 34,414,000 Brilliant 8c
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      Lock icon ACCS' managed expansion likely to keep it in the spotlight
      265 6  -  HOT STOCB/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan DESPITE Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) having posted strong results, its stock has slipped to a twoweek low. It ended yesterday's session two cents down at 53 cents. But it continues to enjoy strong
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      Lock icon Importance of investment horizon
      727 6  -  ■1 i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IF the economy really is improving in line with the US, and if the outlook for stocks really is as good as many observers believe, then what are we to make of the market's inability to advance during the past
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      Lock icon Greenback hit by Friday's US numbers
      585 6  -  ■^Tlcomment CURRENCIES S&P 500 equity index's five-month uptrend may be in danger of faltering larry wee THE greenback and Wall Street were both looking a little worse for wear yesterday, after a roller-coaster week of conflicting data from the United States. Weak consumer confidence
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    3263 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Citiiond Spore Class* 099V AM Amre Aaet Mgt (Spore) Com Global finance Indent? 0 8461 Star Europe Eqty!** 0.643/ Com Global Uteale lnde« Fd 0873/ SB jot* Hi 1147/ Com Global Health index Fd 0.831/ Sa Eveope U 0 941 Com Global Telecom Inden Fd 0 4361
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon HK property market revives in July as Sars abates
      218 8 Reuters [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong property market perked up in July from a Sars affected June, with the number of deals and value of deals up sharply, official data showed yesterday. The number of Hong Kong property deals rose 27.4
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      Lock icon Proper procedures can smoothen en bloc sales
      663 8  -  Doing an en bloc deal is tough, but it needn't be unpleasant, says Vlnce Chong Vince Chong A SUCCESSFUL en bloc sale generally brings cheer to everyone involved. But one that gets bogged down can be painful. A collective sale starts with residents
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      Lock icon Thai property firms seen posting strong Q2 results
      416 8 Reuters [BANGKOK! The few Thai property firms which survived the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis are set to post strong quarterly results in the next two weeks as they reap the benefits of rockbottom interest rates and unleashed pent-up demand. Market leader Land
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      235 8 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 5# AND IN THE MATTER OF PACIFIC ALLTRADE PTE LTD (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai pursuant lo Section 308 of die Companies Act. Chapter 50. the Kinal Meeting of the Members and the Creditors
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon 700 jobs available in precision engineering
      391 9  -  About 100 of these vacancies need to be filled immediately By Tang Weng Fai DESPITE the gloom on the jobs front, there are unlikely pockets of growth in the local manufacturing industry- One of them is precision engineering, where some 700 jobs are going
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      Lock icon PMI slays above 50 points for 2nd straight month
      525 9  -  on the economy purchasing managers index By Andrea Tan THE latest purchasing managers index (PMI) further lends credence to the view that Singapore's manufacturing economy is slowly on the mend. For the second consecutive month, the PMI stayed in the expansionary
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      Lock icon Guide for firms' ops review proposed
      404 9  -  CCDG suggests presenting operating, financial review in separate section By Wong Wei Kong THE Council on Corporate Disclosure and Governance (CCDG) has proposed guidelines for listed companies when compiling the operating and financial review (OFR) in their annual reports. It has also proposed that
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      Lock icon MediaCorp posts $134.4m net profit after SCV sale
      204 9 BROADCASTER MediaCorp turned in net earnings of $134.4 million for the year ended March 31, helped by a $126.6 million gain from selling part of its stake in the former Singapore Cable Vision. Revenues rose marginally to $375 million, from $373.7 million
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon The folly of US pressure on China
      901 10  -  Hi!!4 1 bottom line OPINION William pesek jr Bloomberg TIMES were when corporate America loved to hate the Japanese. Tensions hit a fever pitch in the 1980s when Japan's boom seemed destined to bankrupt US automakers and suck up every skyscraper, Warhol painting,
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      Lock icon Brokers too must adapt
      637 10 EDITORIAL THE Singapore stockmarket has been one of the top performing bourses in the region during the last three months, rising by as much as 25 per cent from its April lows. What does this augur for the long suffering broking industry? Despite the recent volatility
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      Lock icon Terror futures mart sabotaged by bad PR
      1099 10  -  It's sad that the plan to make use of the uncannily accurate predictive powers of the market was not given a chance By\ Hal R Varian NYT [WASHINGTON] The Pentagon-sponsored futures market in terrorism indicators was announced and squashed in all of two
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      Lock icon Be level-headed about China
      410 10  -  MAHmm Gerard Pennefather Singapore I REFER to the report "Temasek firms keen to put more into China" (BT. Aug 1). I was somewhat taken back by the context and content of the report. The "irrational exuberance" over China plays displayed by Temasek and Temasek-linked companies (TLCs)
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      Lock icon Gaining from scrip dividends
      113 10  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the letter "Scrip dividends end up as odd lots" (Mailbag, Aug 1) and am perplexed by the writer's concern about scrip dividends creating odd lots. For many years I have opted for scrip dividends offered by companies listed on bourses
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      100 10 Fax your letters to 6319-*****r email them to btletterQsph. com.sg or write to: The Business Times, SPH HQ, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 3, Singapore *****4. We need your full name, address and telephone number for verification. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind libel laws. We reserve
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Hyundai chairman Chung leaps to his death
      593 11 SEOUL His death comes as govt deepens probe into illegal channelling of funds Bloomberg CHUNG Mong Hun, the Hyundai Group chairman charged with illegally funnelling money to North Korea, leaped to his death from his 12th-floor office here, police said yesterday. His death
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      Lock icon Indon economy likely to improve in H2
      238 11 JAKARTA Country on track to achieve 4% growth for 2003: govt Reuters INDONESIA expects a brighter economic picture in the second half of the year, with inflation and the budget deficit seen better than targeted, although the debt effects of the Asian financial
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        Lock icon Bank Danamon sees 30% profit rise
        77 11 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Danamon expects profit to rise 30 per cent this year as it aims to increase loans by up to 40 per cent, an official said in Jakarta. "The profit will rise as we plan to increase lending by 35 to
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        Lock icon Gus Dur hospitalised
        65 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid has been hospitalised since last week, his doctor said yesterday, refusing to disclose details of his condition. Mr Abdurrahman, who is clinically blind and has suffered two strokes, was admitted to the state-run Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital on Thursday night, said
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        Lock icon Knok is new Shangri-La chairman
        57 11 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Luxury-hotel chain operator Shangri-La Asia Ltd appointed Edward Kuok as chairman following the resignation of Ye Longfei. Mr Kuok was chairman of Kerry Properties Ltd, where he was replaced by Ang Keng Lam as head of the luxury-home developer. Wong Siu Kong succeeded
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        Lock icon Mesdaq not a short cut: regulator
        72 11 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's securities regulator said yesterday that a listing on the Mesdaq market for high tech companies was not a "short cut" to the main board or the second board. "The Mesdaq market is not a third board or a short cut
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      Lock icon Economy grew about 4.5% in Q2: Dr M
      100 11 Bloomberg (KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia's economy expanded about 4.5 per cent in the second quarter from a year ago. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said, after June exports had their fastest gain in four months. Growth is "expected to be about 4.5 per cent",
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      Lock icon Asian bond market to get boost this year
      503 13  -  Thai govt to issue baht bonds, ADB to release Asian currency series From. Anthony Rowley in Manila IN a series of initiatives planned for this year in connection with the development of an Asian bond market, the Thai government is expected to
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Visa-free visit for Japanese tourists
        54 13 Reuters [BEIJING] China, trying to help its tourism industry recover from the impact ofSars, will allow Japanese tourists to visit without visas, officials said yesterday. A China National Tourism Administration official said the decision will be formally announced during Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing's visit to
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        Lock icon Ex-Bangladesh PM on graft charges
        67 13 AFP [DHAKA] Bangladesh's main opposition leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed has been formally charged in a graft case in connection with the purchase of a naval frigate from South Korea's Daewoo Corporation. The Bureau of Anti-Corruption filed the charges against Sheikh Hasina,
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        Lock icon China's joint-venture petrol stations
        61 13 AFP [BEIJING] China is expected to approve within a month a plan to set up 500 joint-venture petrol stations proposed by PetroChina and Britain's BP in Guangdong province. A plan for 500 gas stations proposed by Sinopec and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Jiangsu is also
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      Lock icon Philippine stocks down sharply as coup fears linger
      367 13 MANILA AP AFP PHILIPPINE shares closed sharply lower yesterday on concern that efforts by disgruntled elements of the military to overthrow the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will persist, traders said. The 30-company Philippine Stock Exchange Index ended down 37.11 points,
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      Lock icon Wrong to force revaluation of yuan, says Mr Yen
      303 13 KUALA LUMPUR Snch moves will cause instability, threaten growth AFP CHINA should not be forced to revalue its yuan or loosen its dollar peg because it would cause economic instability and threaten regional growth, a former Japanese vice finance minister warned
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      Lock icon HSBC's profit in H1 up 26% to US$6.88b
      397 14 HONGKONG Maiden contributions from Household Intl help it beat expectations by a big margin AFP Reuters GLOBAL banking giant HSBC Holdings said yesterday that first-half earnings rose 26 per cent from a year earlier, beating expectations by a wide margin on the
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      Lock icon Taiwan seeking finance monitoring agreement with China: paper
      158 14 AFP [TAIPEI) Taiwan is seeking to negotiate with China an agreement on supervising financial activities across the Taiwan Strait against a backdrop of ever-increasing economic ties between the two political rivals, it was reported yesterday. The finance ministry hopes to talk with
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      Lock icon Asia's corporate disclosure lags behind US, Europe: JP Morgan
      263 14 Reuters [HONG KONG] Asia's companies lag behind their overseas counterparts when it comes to reporting timely financial results, and that gap needs to be addressed, according to a report by investment bank JP Morgan. On average, 172 of Asia's largest and
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      1229 11 SWING MEDIA TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with Limited Liability) j iifc* NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 3 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of SWING MEDIA TECHNOLOGY GROUP I J LIMITED (the "Company") will be held at Suite 832, Bth Floor, South Tower, Meritus Mandarin.
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      2177 12 THAKRAL CORPORATION LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with Limited Liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tenth Annual General Meeting of Thakral Corporation Ltd (the "Company") will be held at Ballroom 11. Level 2 Grand Plaza Parkroyal, 10 Coleman Street. Singapore *****9 on
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      1756 12 ADVANCED SYSTEMS AUTOMATION LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 54, Serangoon North Avenue 4, Singapore *****4 on Thursday, 28 August 2003 at 10.30 a.m. for the following
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      554 13 C«0 toll-free 1800 289 8822 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TORICA SINGAPORE PTE LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION Notice is hereby given that at an Extraordinary General Meeting of Members of the abovenamed company held on 30 July
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      1017 13 Singapore Shipping Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) To: All Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of Singapore Shipping Corporation Limited (the "Company") will be held at 200 Cantonment Road, #09-01 Southpoint, Singapore *****3 on Thursday, 21 August 2003 at 2.30 p.m. to
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      1056 13 I f STAMFORD LAND CORPORATION LTD To: All Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twenty-fifth Annual General Meeting of Stamford Land Corporation Ltd (the "Company") will be held at 200 Cantonment Road, #09-01 Southpoint, Singapore *****3 on Friday, 22 August 2003 at 2.30 p.m. to transact the following business:
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      Lock icon Chip sales in Asia-Pac grew 5.9% in Q2
      499 15  -  This makes it the region with the highest growth in the quarter By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] In another indication that the region's high-tech market is on the road to recovery, the AsiaPacific region (ex-Japan) saw the highest growth in semiconductor sales among
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      323 15 NEW YORK Consolidation of variable interest entities leads to lowering of earlier estimate Reuters CITIGROUP Inc. the world's largest financial services company, yesterday said a new accounting rule for variable interest entities (VIEs) will add about US$5 billion to its assets
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      300 15 NEW YORK Bloomberg GENERAL Electric Co agreed to sell its bond-insurance unit for US$l.9 billion to a group led by mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc as part of a strategy to exit slower growing businesses, people familiar with the
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      348 15 WASHINGTON Increase is another sign manufacturing is finally picking np AP ORDERS to United States factories rose 1.7 per cent in June, the biggest gain in three months, a fresh sign that the battered manufacturing sector in the US is turning a corner.
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        104 15 Reuters [PHILADEPHIA] World Com Inc's initial review has found no evidence that the bankrupt telephone company improperly routed telephone calls. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The company was scheduled to file a report yesterday afternoon with the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District
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        104 15 Bloomberg l i\Jiwuj l oKyu Kelt inc, a Japanese real estate investment trust owned by two Tokyu group companies, plans to raise as much as 49 billion yen (Ss7l9 million) in an initial public offering. Tokyu Land Corp and Tokyu Corp's investment
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        Lock icon Britons trust the Beeb over Blair: poll
        109 15 AP [LONDON] More Britons trust the British Broadcasting Company than trust Prime Minister Tony Blair, a poll published yesterday found. The survey by polling firm Mori for the Financial Times suggested that the heated political battle between the broadcaster and the government over
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        Lock icon Adviser raps Opec on holding quotas
        101 15 Bloomberg IrAKibj rne international Energy Agency, an adviser to 25 leading oil-consuming nations, said world markets need more oil and criticised Opec's decision last week to maintain output quotas. Crude oil in London has risen by a quarter since the end of April to
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      Lock icon Debt-fuelled US consumer spending set to fizzle out
      496 16 NEW YORK Interest rates rising from record lows could strangle spree, slow growth Bloomberg US companies have kept consumer spending rising a record 13th straight year by taking the old "buy now, pay later" formula to new extremes. As interest rates start
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      74 16 Bloomberg ♦Furniture maker Ethan Allen Interiors offers five-year loans for living room furniture. ♦Electronics retailer Best Buy Co advertises 24 months of no-interest financing on computers. ♦Dealers of General Motors and Ford Motor have stretched the repayment terms on car loans up to 9even years; three to five
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      507 16 NEW YORK Report recommends they be treated as settlement companies, not jnst banks Bloomberg THE European Union has moved closer to regulating so-called custodian banks including JP Morgan Chase Co, Citigroup's Citibank NA unit and BNP Paribas SA in a bid to
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      522 16 LATWP [WASHINGTON] US Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy. Richard Armitage, have signalled to the White House that they intend to step down even if President Bush is re-elect-ed, setting the stage for a substantial reshaping of the
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      491 17 NEW YORK Report confirms conntry-clnb cronyism bop down efforts to rein in CEO power Reuters LIKE the school-yard nerd, the corporate director who asks management the tough questions often gets a cold shoulder from the "in" crowd or shunned by the ruling clique, says
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      226 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 10 Partner in group, regrouping 11 T Blair's constituents are 12 Bum rap means hard 13 Desert storm with England's leader replaced by Iraq's. 15 He made light of his inspira- ~~LJ 21 Girl's bloomer produces ac- 1111 i I 11 cident (8) 23 din 3 wfii° m
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      Lock icon Springing back from adversity
      1137 18  -  Rhonda Willson tells Tay Shi'an how she turned around the firm her late husband left her Tay Shi'an Before June 1999, Rhonda Willson would tell you mat-ter-of-factly that she knew nothing about designing and manufacturing springs, and that she had no experience in running a business.
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      Lock icon Foodbex wins stake in US$187m deal with US military
      280 18  -  By Leonard Lim FOODBEX Global, a broadline distributor for the hospitality industry, recently clinched a 30 per cent stake in a US$lB7 million fiveyear contract. The job is to supply and distribute food and subsistence to American military ships visiting Singapore
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      260 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index fell 5 points to 2176, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 23 points to 2948, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 36 points to 2047 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 15 points to *****. HH&CHARTQt! China Steel Integrity Korea Line relet (built 2002) *****5
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      275 19 SGX '000 Aag4 S$ Vol CWT Distribution 0.56 -0.01 120 ChuanHup 0.44 0.01 3701 CHOfWwre 0.33 0.03 ***** Casco Investment .0.36 -0.01 3242 Freight Links .0.07 -0.01 350 GBHoid.ngs.-_ 0.76 unch 9 Jays Holdings 0 43 -0.02 2569 KeppetCorp SJ2S 0.10 722 K1 Venture ...0.21 unch 2607 KeppelTele
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      Lock icon Studies undertaken to probe supply chain security
      562 19  -  US still considers 'bomb in the box' a serious threat By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A "bomb in the box" is still considered one of the most serious threats to US security, according to a port and cargo security expert with Penn-sylvania-based Unisys Corporation.
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      206 19 Cocoo Pacific sells terminal stake [SINGAPORE] Hong Kong-listed terminal operator and container leasing group Cosco Pacific has sold its 10 per cent stake in the River Trade Terminal (RTT) at Tuen Mun for a reported HK$lOO million. Buyers and majority shareholders Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) and Sun Hung
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      Lock icon Two piracy attempts in Malacca Straits
      263 19  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Four armed pirates opened fire on a bulk carrier in the Malacca Straits last week, in one of two incidents that mark the end of a relatively quiet period in the often crime-plagued waterway. Evasive manoeuvres taken by the master
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      Lock icon First section of sunken Tricolor lifted
      367 19 AP [BRUSSELS, Belgium] Salvage teams worked through Sunday to raise the first section of the Norwegianregistered vessel Tricolor from the bottom of the North Sea, where it sank eight months ago with thousands of luxury cars on board. Two floating cranes lifted the 3,000-ton
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      Lock icon Sinspec and CMC team up
      87 19 [SINGAPORE] Singapore based technical service provider Sinspec Marine Services has tied up with Ber-muda-based CMC International to offer global equipment inspections and fleet management services. As a result of the strategic alliance. CMC will manage operations in Europe, Africa and the Americas while Sinspec will
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      111 19 [SINGAPORE] Rough seas with waves of up to 3 metres can be expected in the northern sector of the Malacca Straits and parts of the South China Sea off the east coast of Malaysia for the next few days. The Malaysian Meteorological Services has warned mariners that
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        886 20 Passengers may have to wait more than an hour before entering the screening process at some US airports AP [WASHINGTON] PASSENGER traffic at the airports is rising a bit, because of the season and the end of major combat in Iraq, but the
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      108 20 PAGE BSA 4 B'tang Mas 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 5 China Shpg 5 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 ECL 3 Far Shpg 5 Foong Sun 5 Gemartrans 4 Hamburg Sud 5 Hangli 4 Heung-A 3 IRISL 5 Kapal Kris 4 Kyowa 5 KMTC
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        816 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 averagesued stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        Lock icon Airline bookings double, boosted by discounts
        622 26  -  Passenger confidence has recovered with demand for intraAsia travel surging Abacus By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Air travel bookings in Asia have doubled since May and even grew over bookings a year ago, boosted by widespread discounting following the containment of Sars, according to Asia's
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        324 26 AP [CANBERRA] Air New Zealand will make major changes to allow it to meet tough competition in its main market from three new entrants Virgin Blue, Emirates and Royal Brunei airlines. "I would suggest that unless we make some significant changes to
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        371 26 Sars, war in Iraq take heavy toil on airline Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Airlines System, Asia's biggest airline, has reported a quarterly net loss, battered by weak passenger demand on international flights due to Sars and the war in Iraq. JAL's international
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        Lock icon KLM ready to sever ties with Northwest if needed
        202 26 Reuters (AMSTERDAM] If necessary KLM is prepared to jettison its long-running transatlantic alliance with Northwest Airlines when it decides later this year whether to join the global oneworld or rival Sky Team grouping of airlines, a spokesman for the Dutch carrier
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        338 26 Carrier should examine all possible scenarios to secure its fntnre, says govt AFP [ZURICH] The Swiss government has asked troubled airline Swiss to examine closer cooperation with another airline, including a merger, to secure its future, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
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        177 26 AP [JERUSALEM] Israel is to ban foreign airliners without bulletproof cockpit doors from flying over the country or landing at its airports effective Oct 31, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation said. The Israeli move follows a similar decision made by US
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      11 19 AIRLINE BOOKINGS DOUBLE Air NZ gears up to meet new competition
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