The Business Times, 12 August 2003

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  • 18 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES UITA (P\ 024/03/2003 j irt c, nf !-.itp://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2003 85C
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  • 678 1  -  Stndy finds excess capacity most ran on for another conple of years for deflation to set in Byi Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The chances of Singapore becoming mired in deflation are fairly low, even though the economy has underperformed for 10 quarters since 2001,
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  • 423 1  -  MAS official reports surprising strength in financial sector By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Finning interest rates here won't derail bank lending, which has been trending upwards, a Monetary Authority of Singapore official said yesterday. According to Khor Hoe Ee, MAS assistant managing
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  • 764 1  -  It says members entitled to damages for breach of contract By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Raffles Town Club (RTC) could be in danger of folding after the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that its 4,895 founding members were
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  • 79 1 FOREX RATES US* SS I SS (SS per I SS| I 756 i(VSS/SSp«rX|_1601 2.810 EI*RO(l'SS/S$/E). 1.128 1980 YEN 11*6 6760 KM 3800 2165 HKS 7.799 4.443 BAHT 4185 23.84 KIP1AH KM5 4.862 RENMINBI 8.299 4727 INDIAN WWm- 4595 2617 AS 1.528 0.870 NZt I 708 0 973 PRIME RATES
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    • 595 2  -  S'pore economy shrank 42% in Q2, but is expected to bounce back By. Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] After the sharpest slowdown on record, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) expects the economy to improve "quite significantly" in the second half. "We had a
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 109 2 THE US-appointed director of TV and radio in Iraq walked out on his job last week, claiming it had become impossible to work because of a lack of money and resources. Ahmed al-Rikabi, who was head-hunted by the Americans, announced the overthrow of the Iraqi regime from
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      • 126 2 THE Straits Times Weekly, which has kept overseas Singaporeans abreast of happenings back home for almost 16 years, will stop publishing from Sept 1. The edition, a tabloid version of The Straits Times, had a weekly circulation of some 3,500 copies and was popular in Australia,
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    • 475 2  -  They point to operational and political hnrdles Jfcotni Eddie Teh kilfwa—p3—A.+- J _jr mm u. UNLIKE the doom^nierg^ makes sense for the two neighbours' leading seaports to join forces, but there are many operational and even political hurdles, bankers and
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    • 448 2  -  Japanese group seen split on whether to boy 27% stake in Ngee Ann City By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] In a move that suggests a spUt within Takashimaya group on whether to buy a 27 per cent stake in Ngee Ann City from Metro
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 659 3  -  Developer beats expectations with 13.9% rise in first-half profit to $ll&3m By\ Kalpana Rashiwala CAPITALAND president and CEO Liew Mun Leong yesterday gave some solid numbers to illustrate the pay-offs from the group's overseas expansion. He revealed that 36 per cent
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 126 3 Bloomberg VENTURE Corp, the bluest electronics maker on the Singapore Exchange, intends to issue 1.71 million new shares to bay the one-third of Univac Precision Engineering that it doesn't already own. Venture, which makes products for customers such as Agilent Technologies Inc, has obtained
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      • 95 3 MAINBOARD-LISTED value chain management services provider Teckwah Industrial Corp yesterday posted a 33 per cent drop in net profit for the six months ended June to $1.7 million, while revenue fell 11.5 per cent to $45.1 million. It said Its first-half performance was affected by the
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      • 65 3 DATACRAFT Asia said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Datacraft (Singapore) Pte Ltd, agreed with three Individuals to sell its interest in EMS —a company that sells and installs cabling related products in Singapore. The buyers will pay the sum of $700,000 and an amount equivalent to
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      • 121 3 NEW kid on the block Singpu posted an Interim net profit of $8.6 million, or 87 per cent over the previous corresponding period, on the back of a 78 per cent revenue growth to $62.9 million. Singpu, which started trading on the main board
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      • 71 3 ARA Asset Management, the manager of Cheung Kong's property trust Fortune Reit, said yesterday that all 199.4 million placement units of the Reit have been validly subscribed for. It said allocations under the Reit's placement tranche include allocations of around 87 .3 million units
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    • 241 3  -  WBL to boy the &9m shares for $8.75 m and cancel them By Ven Sreenivasan THE OCBC group is divesting a 2.27 per cent stake in WBL Corporation for $8.75 million to meet banking regulatory requirements. As part of its move to divest non-core
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    • 513 4  -  All core businesses do well, bringing earnings to $50.6 m before exception&ls By Wong Wei Kong CONGLOMERATE SembCorp Industries yesterday reported a 7.5 per cent rise in earnings before exceptional for the second quarter ended June, roughly in line
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    • 159 4 COMFORTDELGRO will spend $23 million on a new taxi booking system to be developed by ST Electronics subsidiary CET Technologies. The system will use GPRS or General Packet Radio Service technology and a seven-inch touch screen to provide cab drivers with digitised maps
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    • 429 5  -  Talk is that Deutsche could not agree with Sing Tel and Ayala on price for 24L8% stake Froml Al Labita in Manila THE sale of a German telco's entire stake in SingTel's listed Philippine unit failed to go through amid market talk of disagreement
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    • 590 5  -  lock siew wong wei kong THE concept of CRM or customer relationship management has been around for some years now, but when it starts cropping up at results briefings, you know that extracting more earnings from existing customers is becoming as crucial to
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    • 336 5  -  By] Kenneth Lim MAINBOARD aspirant JEL Corporation began as a photographic products distributor in Singapore but cofounder and chief executive Eric Tan soon wanted more. "It's the theory of being a fish in the ocean versus being a fish in a fish
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    • 371 5  -  Byy Vince Chong MAYFRAN International said yesterday it has removed executive director Irawan Darsono with immediate effect. The move was announced in a one-line statement with no reasons given. The Indonesian businessman last hit the news in 1999 when a share deal he struck
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      317 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 11 VALUE CLOSE ITOME -156.00 -54.00 TOW -*****.00 +88.00 WllHayH -*****.00 -16.00 /yHQEydHw 420.74 +3.69 IQEjdbwBwst 151.07 +2.22 SQEjdb-Fta 1305.44 +16.44 SQIhMMPW 391.40 +5.05 IBOtfcHinri 191.27 +2.16 WSCIfMhw 191.20 +3.60 Stocks Votom Hongguo US1.5C 53.060,000 Singpu25c 38.705.000 Chart SemiCond 26c 29,963.000 Ezra 20c 29,770.000 Full Apex
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    • 240 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of China Aviation Oil has recovered sharply from recent lows. It closed 3.5 cents up at a record 58.5 cents yesterday. It also enjoys strong liquidity, with some 7.4 million units changing hands yesterday. One
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    • 762 6  -  1=1 i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy ALL stocks and markets are inherently cyclical, depending, of course, on factors such as timing and the length of the cycles in question. For example, there are consumer cyclicals and industrial cyclicals, which may not move in the same direction
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    • 572 6  -  I-i i comment CURRENCIES I Euro worst-hit, Aussie boosted by hawkiak remarks from Reserve Bank of Australia larry wee THE Japanese yen sparkled in Asian trading yesterday, hitting three-week highs versus the US dollar and euro. Despite some market buzz that the Bank of Japan
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 422 7  -  By Vince Chong OWNERS of Le Chateau condo stand to reap a collective sale premium of over 50 per cent the sort of level en bloc sales fetched in the boom days if the tender sale of the estate's
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    • 523 7  -  Whafs missing is a true understanding of the board's role Byi Angela Tan ACROSS the world, including in Singapore, there has been a push to improve corporate governance to avoid another Enron debacle. But most of the reforms so far have failed
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    • 144 7 UNITY NTUC Healthcare pharmacies has extended its Special Pricing Programme to the Singapore Heart Foundation, bringing the number of beneficiaries to about 10,000 members. Since Aug 1, the 2,000plus new members have been able to buy 19 drugs, aimed at controlling blood pressure, at
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    • 375 7  -  Variable bonuses seen at 1.4 months' salary: Watson Wyatt survey By i Chuang Peck Ming THE size of pay increases is expected to ease from the first half s 3.3 per cent to 2.8 per cent on average for the rest of the
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  • FOCUS property
    • 756 8  -  If s looking for buyers for hospitality business, investment properties, writes ANDREA TAN ANDREA TAN AS Keppel Land nurses ambitions to be a regional property player, there are plans to sell its loss-making hospitality business worth an estimated $500 million. "The hospitality business
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    • 556 8 PRIME FREEHOLD RESIDENTIAL SITE AT EWE BOON ROAD US// Site Area: 19,510 sq ft "Residential"© 2.1,24-storey J* *Z| Near reputable schools: .11l SCGS, ACS, SJI, RGS //•&^7/^" 5 minutes' drive from Orchard Road/ City Centre For Sale by Tender Closing: 20 August 2003, Wednesday, 4pm lEg Debenham J W I
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 519 9 NEW DELHI It may not have evidence that will stand np to scrutiny of Securities Appellate Tribunal Bloomberg INDIA'S market regulator, which has accused former Alliance Capital Management Holding LP fund manager Samir Arora of insider trading, may not have enough
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    • 365 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN life insurers have proposed a revision of investment rules to allow increased holdings of bonds to dilute the effect of a volatile stock market on their portfolios, an industry body said yesterday. The Life Insurance Association of
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    • 263 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange reprimanded the former management of Technology Resources Industries Bhd (TRI), now called Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd, for failing to make certain disclosures, including veto powers over any mergers. The breaches were committed between 1999 and early 2002
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 827 10  - Fed should say it straight or not say it bottom line OPINION caroline baum Bloomberg UNITED States Federal Reserve officials gather today, as they do eight times a year, no doubt with a certain degree of performance anxiety. Not about the economy, which outside of the labour market seems to
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    • 60 10 The Indonesian political elite and the Indonesian public now feel that organisations that flirt with violence are no longer acceptable.' -SUMf JOBM director of the International Crisis Group, a Geneva-based group that focuses on crisis prevention and an expert on Indonesia's radical Islamic groups, after the poor
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    • 650 10 EDITORIAL A RETUNING usually does not imply any major effort But to retune the Central Provident Fund system is actually one of the most important challenges facing the government In his National Day address, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong singled out the retuning of the
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    • 1229 10  -  Anti-immigration sentiment is growing in the wake of the US economic slowdown, rising unemployment and outsourcing From Leon Hadar in Washington ONE of the major complaints against the US free trade agreement with Singapore that was raised by lawmakers in the US House
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    • 145 10 Base In welfare hints at recovery Hong Kong's Sars-hit economy has shown another sign of improvement, with the growth in the number of people receiving social security payments easing significantly last month. South China Morning Post The bomb wtigbed over 10kg Entering the sixth day of the
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 421 11 JAKARTA BLAST Hotel association sees occupancy rate at maximum of 40% this year and next Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Hotel occupancy rates in Jakarta fell to 35 per cent from 50 per cent after a bomb explosion at the JW Marriott hotel last
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    • NOTE Book
      • 62 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System, the country's national carrier, said its loss in the first quarter ended June 30 widened to RMI6S million (5576.2 million) from RMBI million in the year-ago period. Sales fell to RMI.7 billion from RM2.2 billion inthesameperiodayearago.itsaidinastatement.lt made a loss
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      • 78 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Public Bank Bhd, Malaysia's fourth-largest lender, said second quarter profit rose 19 per cent as its Islamic banking business expanded and it made more money from conventional lending. Net income in the three months to June 30 rose to RM3215
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    • 477 11 BEIJING Exports in first seven months np 33.4% at USs22Bb Reuters CHINA'S industries produced 16.5 per cent more output in July than a year earlier, pumping out cars, phones and power at rates that suggested a strong start for the world's sixth-biggest economy
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    • 369 12 SHANGHAI Govt to tighten rein on investment in steel, aluminium and anto sectors Bloomberg AFP CHINA'S central bank plans to sell a combined 50 billion yuan (5510.6 billion) of treasury bills to state lenders today, the biggest one-day sale, to
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    • 551 12  -  LETTER FROM SHANGHAI More businessmen and professionals are heading to booming China to seek their fortune or further their careers, says Loh Bui Tin Loh Hui Yin WHERE would you Find the biggest National Day gathering of Singaporeans outside of Singapore? In Shanghai,
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    • 182 12 HONGKONG AFP A GROUP of Chinese banking officials and financial experts will visit Hong Kong later this month to discuss plans to set up offshore yuan businesses here, it was reported yesterday. The group, led by Li Yang, director of the Chinese Academy
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  • WORLD news
    • 548 13 LOS ANGELES Case suggests firm's oversight and control of its execs were inadequate Bloomberg DANIEL Gordon, former chief energy trader for Merrill Lynch Co, is being investigated for embezzling US$43 million from the world's largest securities firm in 2000 by disguising the theft
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 123 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Massachusetts securities regulators are expected to file civil charges against Morgan Stanley, claiming that a contest encouraging brokers to sell in-house mutual funds violated antifraud provisions, The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. Last fall, some branches of Morgan Stanley held a contest
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      • 68 13 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Motor Co said first-half profit rose 11 per cent as it sold more Grandeur XG sedans, Santa Fe sport-utility and other pricier vehicles in overseas markets. The carmaker's net income rose to 968.5 billion won (Ssl.s billion) from 893.4 billion won
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      • 73 13 Bloomberg ISjsattusj KeaiNetworKs inc, wnicn sens subscriptions to view video or listen to audio over the Internet, and Sprint Corp's PCS wireless unit will offer a service for listening to news and sports on mobile phones. The service costs U554.95 a month and will
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    • 594 15 CHICAGO Economists raise forecast for growth in this quarter to 3.7% Bloomberg THE US economy will gain strength in the second half and keep accelerating into 2004 when it will expand by the most in four years, a private survey of economists
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    • 230 15 LONDON Meanwhile, inventories in Jane were down 5% Bloomberg THE International Energy Agency, an adviser to 26 oilconsuming nations, raised its estimate for growth in world oil demand this year by almost 10 per cent, reflecting a faster-than-expected increase in China. Consumption in
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    • 323 17 NEW YORK Amalgamated Bank sues over fees hotel operator charges Reuters NYT NO 1 hotel operator Marriott International faces another lawsuit over the fees it charges to manage properties, this time by Amalgamated Bank, a Marriott shareholder, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The bank
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    • 301 17 NEW YORK NYT Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, won an order for computers, software and related services from toymaker Lego A/S, which will replace its Hewlett-Packard Co machines. In place of the 230 HP server computers that form
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    • 4098 14 Notices lufenjor Mentor Media Ltd Mr m.^7%11 CI (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Mentor Media Ltd (the "Company") will be heW at 1 Bukit Batok Street 22 Singapore *****2 on Thursday, 28 August 2003
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    • 162 14 ORIENTAL PETROLEUM PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Final General Meeting of the abovenamed Company will be held at 220 Orchard Road #05-01 Midpoint Orchard Singapore *****2 on 12 September 2003 at 10.00 am. for the following purposes:I.To receive the
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 220 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD almost sick getting ture Insignificance (9) 23 Dance where you'll end up 28 Animal mounted here, say, in the East End (3,4) 14 Ambling through with smart Masseuse, 9 Eternity, 11 DOWN outside drive (9) Roughly, 13 Observant, 15 1 It raises awareness, in a Bare 7 Its
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  • FOCUS enterprise
    • 796 18  -  But Darren Soo has met with cautious response from some practitioners here, reports Kenneth Llm Kenneth Lim WHEN Darren Soo decided to introduce a US knowledge management (KM) certification system in Singapore this month, he wanted to help develop the local pool of
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    • 417 18  -  It will provide free initial consulting advice to SMEs in need of financial restructuring and working capital By Daniel Buenas VENTURE capital firm SME Techventure has launched a subsidiary company to provide financial and funding consulting advice to SMEs and to help
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 238 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 25 points to 2287, the Baltic Capes ize Index rose 30 points to 3180, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 47 points to 2161 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 22 points to *****. Anangel Eternity IVS relet (built 1999) *****6 dwt delivery
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    • 238 19 SGX '000 <■»« SS W- ¥«l CWTOMrftulian OlSS undi 9 ChuwHup 043 -OOO 806 CHOflshor* 031 undi 2077 ruiuiliwilllwW nut OjOI 2827 FnidiiUii OJJ7 nil 70 GSHattngi 0.78 0.01 91 iM Holdings 0.45 OM 2442 KcpntCorp 5J5 0-20 1738 KlVanture A22 a01 2087 KappelTcte J)J7 undi 0 UbroyKWne
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    • 653 19  -  Hour-long attack in Malacca Straits; vessel doe to arrive inS'pore By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The captain of a Taiwanese vessel was injured after pirates opened fire with automatic rifles in the Malacca Straits off the war-torn Indonesian province of Aceh
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    • 133 19 [SINGAPORE] Keppel Sing marine has built and delivered on time one of the world's biggest tractor tugs. Pisces 53 is the third in a fleet of three tugs built by the Keppel Corp unit for Maju Maritime. All three tugs are deployed on charter
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    • 86 19 {SINGAPORE] Thai-listed Regional Container Lines (RCL) has added Ningbo to its Singapore-Qingtao (RSQ) service "to cater for the growing need of exporters" in the city just south of Shanghai. RCL said the new call offered a five-day transit between Ningbo and Singapore, and that
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    • 317 19 [SINGAPORE] It's like a modern day bounty US$4O million of luxury cars on the ocean floor in the English Channel Bounty-hunters ranging from car enthusiasts and used car salesmen to junkyard dealers have been eyeing the 2,871 brand new BMWs, Volvos and Saabs, worth about US$4O
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    • 199 19 Higher freight rates boost net to 281.7 million baht Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's largest shipping company, Precious Shipping, said its second-quarter profit almost quadrupled from the same period of last year due to higher freight rates. Precious Shipping reported a net profit of 281.7
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    • TRICOLOR salvage
      • 950 20 Salvage firm has to cut sunken car carrier into 9 sections and retrieve its entire cargo in a busy sea lane AP [ROTTERDAM] SMIT Salvage has been besieged with calls ever since a Norwegian-regis-tered ship with thousands of luxury cars on board sank late last year
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    • 106 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 5T Kapal Kris 4 Kyowa 5 KMTC
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    • 8234 24 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT fciAT VR I ETA ETA Advartisar Vtsstl Voyaqf Taiaphona ETA ETA Advartisar Vassal Voyaga Taiaphona SIM Dast'n Hmm Nema Number Numbar SJN Dast'n Nam* Nam Numbar Numbar 06/09 16/09 UASC AL ABDALI CM* 65-*****410 Til ABIDJAN (ARJ) 2003 Cotl D'lvoirt 07/09 14/09 COSCO PU HE 217W
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 772 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL OCEAN PRIDE 20/03 J12 A/SIDE 12/08 0600 PETROSR V007 J10 A/SIDE 12/08 1800 PHU YEN 1 04 J14 A/SIDE 12/08 0800 SUNTAIJAYA6 04/03J J3 A/SIDE 12/08 0630 BATAMMURNI JB801A J6 12/08 1000 12/08 2300 BAYSWATER228 E3182 J3 12/08 1730
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      • 1885 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Mi Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr A P MOELLER 0307 0307 1 13/*****3-0400 13/*****3-0900 K12 ACXIBBHCUS OPS OPS 1 *****003-0700 12/*****3-1800 TD7 ACX MAGNOLIA 067N 067N 1 1208/2003-1500 *****003-0200 T04 ALAMJAYA2 88S7 8857 1 1306/2003-1900 *****003-0500
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      • 814 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine 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 average sized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 140 25 An* 12 Thailand: Queen's Birthday. Aug IB France: Assumption Day. Italy: Assumption Day. S Korea: Liberation Day. Aug 17 Indonesia: Indepen Day. Anf 24 VKingdom: Summer Holiday. Aof 31 Malaysia: National Day. Philippines: Nat Heroes Day. Sep 1 Canada: Labour Day. U.S.: Labour Day. Sep 2 Vietnam: National
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 207 26 Reuters [HONG KONG] Chinese airlines will lose eight billion yuan (551.68 billion) in 2003 because of the steep drop in passenger demand triggered by the Sars outbreak, according to global airlines body, lata. "Domestic airlines will lose around eight billion yuan. But
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      • 362 26 Xinhua [WELLINGTON] The flight attendants from Air New Zealand and Qantas of Australia have been learning new self-defence moves to cope with the increased terrorism threats and control unruly passengers. The Sunday Star-Times reported that the two airlines' international flight
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      • 379 26 It says Aussie competition regulator may cut its price-fixing pact with Qantas AFP [SYDNEY] British Airways has warned it may pull out of the so-called kangaroo route linking Australia and Europe if Australia's competition regulator refuses to continue its price-fixing agreement with
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      • 262 26 Reuters [LONDON] A wildcat strike at London's Heathrow airport robbed BAA pic of its busiest month ever, slowing July passenger growth at the country's biggest airport owner to 2.2 per cent at its seven British airports. "In the absence of strike action,
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      • 361 26 Purchase may cost state carriers more than 300b rupees AFP [MADRAS, India] India's Civil Aviation Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Saturday that state-run Indian Airlines and Air India were planning to buy 78 aircraft worth more than 300 billion rupees
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      • 402 26 Flight attendants find shorter rest on long flights tough going AFP [HONG KONG] Cathay Pa cific flight attendants yesterday demanded the Hong Kong-based airline returns its number of flights to preSars levels in a bid to get more rest on long-haul services.
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      • 249 26 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Sydney, the country's largest city with more than 4 million people, does not need a second major airport. "There's a very strong probability in my opinion that Sydney will never need a second airport," Mr
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