The Business Times, 13 November 2003

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    14 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85$ THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE iutp://business-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2003
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  • Article
    Lock icon Govt open to ending rivalry in media industry
    723 1  -  Boon Yang: local market too small for more than one significant player By Kenneth Lim [SINGAPORE] Just weeks after the government said it was rethinking the issue of competition in the rail transport network, it indicated yesterday that it was prepared to
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    Lock icon Catering to the trendy, well-heeled – and the gay
    472 1  - Catering to the trendy, well-heeled and the gay BT exclusive High tea party at Lincoln Modern targeted at gay and lesbian singles and couples a first By Andrea Tan, Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Simon Cheong's Lincoln Modern project has broken new ground for the first time in Singapore, and probably Asia,
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    77 1 sn 1,717.36 (+18.41) ST INDEX FUIURES 1,720.00 (+30.00) mm sunset fuiures U 211.70 (+4.60) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 790,11 -4.97 NIKKEI 225 _I0.226.22 *19.18 HAM] SENG .._l li»71.4W 4214 SET INDEX ***** '5.94 JAKARTA COMP..6I9 87 *2.15 MANILA COMP Mil -20.28 TAIPEI WPI 5.982.75 »JB SEOILCOMP 796.31 *8.54 SHENZHEN B
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    84 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ ISS (S$ per I'SS) 1.733 K|l SS/SS pert) 1.873 2.899 K1R0(ISS/SS'K| 1.157 iW« YEN 1118.7 6270 RM 3.MU0 2.IW H K$ 7.7K4 4.4*0 BAHT 39 95 05 RI'PIAH H.482 4.S95 RENMINBI 8.299 4 789 INDIAN R1 PEE_ 45.33 2*16 AS 1.399 0807 NZ$ 159# 0521
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    Lock icon Dairy Farm set to buy Shop N Save chain: sources
    514 1  -  Deal expected to doable its chain of supermarkets in Singapore By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Dairy Farm International, which operates the Cold Storage and Giant outlets, is close to sewing up a deal to buy the rival Shop N Save chain,
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      7 1 Price-catting worsened small media market, Pg 2
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      83 1 VtiM Idth Anniversary to smile for [SINGAPORE] Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan joins members of the Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (Redas) at its 44th anniversary celebrations at the Ritz Carlton last night. From left: Redas president Kwee Liong Keng, Lee Soon Teck, Minister Mah, Lee Chin
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      Lock icon Electronics slump erodes US MNC earnings in S'pore
      569 2  -  But European firms with investments in chemicals put up better showing By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] American and Japanese multinational corporations have suffered a big fall in earnings in Singapore, due largely to the global electronics slump. But European MNCs, which invested
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      Lock icon New high-end KL condos draw buyers
      529 2  -  Units costing up to RM2.5m galling well among M'sians From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur A NUMBER of new highend residential developments around the Kuala Lumpur City Centre are drawing well-heeled Malaysians, who have snapped up units costing RMI.S million to RM2.5 million
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      Lock icon Want a job? Got a PhD? Sorry – don't like your face
      546 2 Want a job? Got a PhD? Sorry don't like your face [BANGKOK] Are you cross-eyed, have a crooked nose or ear lobes shaped like spoons? If so, then you will have a hard time getting a job at Charoen Pokphand Group (CP). This is because the giant agro-in-dustrial conglomerate employs
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      Lock icon Small media market worsened by price-cutting
      622 2  -  Next move unclear, but purchase of rival seen as one possibility By Wong Wei Kong, Kenneth Lim [SINGAPORE] Now that the ball seems to be in its court, what would investors like Singapore Press Holdings to do with its loss-making television operation? The answer,
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      Lock icon High hopes
      113 2 Mjr 21,1999: SMRT eyes free publication for commuters. Jmm 5,2000: Then-Mita minister Lee Yock Suan announces go-ahead for SPH to operate up to two free-to-air TV channels and MediaCorp to operate newspaper. MediaCorp unveils Today, a free commuter tabloid targeting $75m revenue in 5 years Jmm 6c SPH
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      Lock icon Reality bites
      120 2 March 26,2001: SPH says profit for 6 mths ended Feb 28,2001, fell 8.5% to $204 m because of start-up costs. May 6c Media Works' Chinese-language Channel U is launched. May 20: Media Works launches TV Works, which is later renamed Channel i. Jmm 29c Project Eyeball shuts down
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      Lock icon Feeling the pain
      210 2  -  Compiled by Kenneth Lim Nev 12c Then-SPH exec chairman Lim Kim San says competition is hurting SPH and MediaCorp, and he is open to giving up broadcast if MediaCorp gives up print. "I'm open to any sensible suggestion We are bleeding. Both Streats and Today are bleeding.
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  • CORPORATE focus
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      Lock icon Robert Kuok revamps Asian businesses
      667 3  -  KUOK S STAKES M'sian Sugar King has been busy sorting out his shareholdings From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN billionaire Robert Kuok Hock Nien has been busy revamping his Asian group, but it is still unclear why the "Sugar King" is rearranging his far-flung
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon NOL rallies, but it's cold comfort for CSFB
      464 4  -  Underwriter stack with big chunk of placement shares it bought at $2.32 By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) clawed back some ground yesterday, which must be of some consolation to Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) as it emerges
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      Lock icon MISC Q2 pre-tax earnings jump 64% boosted by AET
      296 4  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA International Shipping Corporation (MISC) has seen a rise in its earnings following the maiden consolidation of its expensive purchase of American Eagle Tankers (AET) from Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines this year. The national liner
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      Lock icon TLCs should be mindful of reaction to major cash calls
      671 4  -  HOCK lock siew teh hooi ling ON TUESDAY, the share price of Neptune Orient Lines slumped 36 cents, or 14.8 per cent, as investors raced for the exit after the company's $535 million share placement. Since NOL was the second
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      Lock icon Parkway doubles net profit in Q3
      313 5 It saw more patients who flocked back in post-Sars period Bloomberg PARKWAY Holdings, South-east Asia's largest hospital operator by market value, said third-quarter profit more than doubled as people sought medical treatment they had delayed during the Sars outbreak earlier this year. Profit for
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      Lock icon Haw Par Q3 net rises 27%
      199 5 Group revenue swells 11%, investment income up 34% Reuters HEALTHCARE and leisure group Haw Par Corp yesterday posted a 27.4 per cent rise in third-quarter net profits due partly to higher dividend income, and said full year profits would be up. The firm, which
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      Lock icon Dayen reports hefty rise in turnover, profit
      211 5  -  It has strong $166m order book to be realised over 4 yrs By Chen Huifen BUOYED by a 90 per cent surge in full-year turnover to $43.9 million, waste and water treatment company Dayen Environmental yesterday posted a more than five-fold jump in
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Elec & Eltek posts 132% rise in Q1 earnings
        99 5 Elec Eltek posts 132% rise in Q1 earnings Reuters SINGAPORE printed circuit board maker Elec Eltek International said yesterday its fiscal first-quarter net profit rose 132 per cent, on stronger demand from the United States and Europe. Elec Eltek said net profit was $9.8 million for the three months to
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        Lock icon Boustead H1 profit up 65% as turnover climbs 56%
        82 5 MAI NBOARD-LISTED Boustead Singapore, an engineering services and information technology group, said net profit jumped 65 per cent to $6.3 million for the first six months ended Sept 30, fuelled by strong expansion of core businesses. The group said turnover grew
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        Lock icon IPCs HK unit ThinSoft posts Q3 loss; turnover up
        106 5 THIN SO FT (Holdings) Inc, a Hong Kong-listed unit of Singapore-listed IPC Corporation, has registered a loss of almost HK$l.34 million (*****,800) for the third quarter ended Sept 30. This is despite group turnover surging significantly by 2.5 times to HK$7.O5
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        Lock icon ST Engg completes Sichuan Telechoice purchase
        80 5 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering (ST Engg) has completed the acquisition of Sichuan Telechoice following the receipt of regulatory approvals. The acquisition was made through Agilis Communication Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited, the electronic arm of ST Engg. Sichuan Telechoice has been
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        Lock icon Singpa Chem reports 40% jump in Q3 earnings
        95 5 MAINBOARD-LISTED Singpu Chemicals Ltd, the second largest producer of aniline in China and one of the top five chlor-alkali producers in the Jiangsu province, yesterday reported a 40 per cent jump in net profit to $880,000 for the third quarter ended Sept
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        Lock icon Ossia 9-month profit soars on lower costs
        63 5 MAI NBOARD-LISTED Ossia International Limited said net profit improved 132 per cent to $5.5 million for the nine months ended Sept 30 from $2.4 million in the previous corresponding period. Lower administrative expenses, distribution cost and financing expense helped contribute to the profit
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        Lock icon Amtek in 3-party deal for IGB's backdoor KL listing
        176 5 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Property developer IGB Corporation Bhd has sealed a tripartite agreement to dispose of Mid Valley Megamall to Kris Components Bhd for RM1.03 billion (*****.6 million) for a backdoor listing by the middle 0f2004, IGB's managing director Robert Tan
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      Lock icon SingTel makes a cool $10m on disposal of Globe shares
      374 8  -  Selling 3.75m shares in its Philippines subsidiary, it pares its stake to 40% By Tang Weng Fai UARELY a month after spending $339 million to boost its Share of Philippines subsidiary Globe Telecom to 42.7 per .pent, Singapore Telecom has
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      Lock icon Sats appoints new CEO
      143 8 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats), which moves 80 per cent of cargo at the city's main airport, said it appointed Ng Chin Hwee as its new chief executive officer to take over from January 2004. Mr Ng, a senior vice-president of Singapore Airlines in charge
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      Lock icon Esmart acquires video systems firm in China
      287 8  -  By Chen Huifen SESDAQ-LISTED Esmart Holdings is making a strategic acquisition in China to gain a foothold in the Chinese video surveillance market. A designer and supplier of intermediate products for the electronics industry, Esmart said yesterday it has entered into a deal
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon BROKERS' TAKE
      613 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN First tiigkiecißig Nov 12 ctaSe 833 cants FIRST Engineering reported a stupendous set of results which saw net income rise a whopping 77.7 per cent to Ss9.B million in IHO4. The main growth drivers came from the HDD and printers segments and these two
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      Lock icon AV Jennings' strategy change paying off
      291 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan AUSTRALIAN residential property developer A V Jennings' shift away from building contracts to higher value-added property development and land sales is paying off. The Sydney-listed and Clob-quoted company yesterday announced a 91 per cent jump in net profit
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      Lock icon Choppy session leaves short sellers bruised
      575 6  -  BT comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE market yesterday went through one of its most choppy and volatile sessions, leaving in its wake many badly bruised short sellers. Kicking off from a high of 1,713 points early in the morning, short selling sent the benchmark
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      Lock icon Euro, Swissie jump as optimism falters
      604 6 Reuters [LONDON] The euro jumped over one per cent against the yen and hit a one-week high against the dollar yesterday as a lack of major US data 90 far this week encouraged investors to take profits on global recovery bets. Growing trade tensions
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
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        Lock icon 2G raises stake in ACCS
        118 6 PRIVATE investment group 2G Capital continued to up its stake in mainboard-listed Accord Customer Care Solutions yesterday, buying 200,000 shares on the open market at 64 cents apiece. Filings yesterday show Gay Chee Cheong's deemed stake rose to 6.19 per cent from 6.16 and his
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        Lock icon Share transfers at Technics
        203 6  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM NOTICES of changes on Tuesday show Technics Group executive director Chang Yeh Hong transferred 1.3 million shares on May 6 this year to nominee's account HL Bank Nominees (S) Pte Ltd, reducing his direct stake to 2.78 per cent from 3.87 per
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      406 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 12 VALUE CLOSE ■TWOS -677.00 +420.00 ■TOW -*****.00 +130.00 BT 10-dqy IHA -*****.00 -68.00 IIMtEpWil 464.62 +4.45 SCI>JIm flirt 171.48 +2.86 <6C<riUMFh 1458.01 +17.44 WfgiMu PI ip 437.46 -0.08 ■KattHiH'i 211. IS +2-58 Stock* Volume Chart SemiCond 26c 63,102,000 NOL 47,714,000 HorizonEduc 5c 38,432,000 ST Assembly
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  • BLUE chips
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      Lock icon DBS on fresh acquisition trail
      886 7 After reporting record quarterly earnings, it's ready to go on the hunt again but it will not rush into over-valued acquisitions [SINGAPORE] SOUTH-EAST Asia's largest bank, DBS Group Holdings Ltd, is ready to hit the acquisition trail again after record quarterly earnings, having kept its
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon SingTel wins some exemptions from IDA
      357 9  -  It doesn't have to seek approval for pricing changes to int'l services by Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE Telecom won a partial victory from the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore yesterday in its first bid for exemption from dominant licensee obligations in the international
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      Lock icon Three win travel industry honours
      130 9 THREE meetings industry figures from Singapore have been commended for their contribution to the Asian travel and tourism industry in 2003. The three Lim Neo Chian (Singapore Tourism Board deputy chairman and chief executive), Robert Guy (managing director of Pacific World) and James Papineau (director
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      Lock icon STB reviews suggestions on lifting tourism industry
      307 9  -  It may set up marketing councils in Indian, China By Chen Huifen THE Singapore Tourism Board is considering setting up marketing advisory councils in India and China to study the needs of consumers there. This is in response to one of the many
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      Lock icon Govt willing to take stake in BFC project
      617 11  -  But private sector must be driving force of devt: Mah Bow Tan By Andrea Tan SINGAPORE needs the Business and Financial Centre (BFC) site and the government is willing to take a stake in the mega project through Temaseklinked companies, Minister for
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      Lock icon SM Lee leaves hospital
      66 11 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew was discharged from the Singapore General Hospital yesterday after "an uneventful" recovery from a prostate operation, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement. Mr Lee, 80, was admitted for the Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate operation last Thursday. It is
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      Lock icon 87% of suggestions to cut waste accepted
      155 11 GOVERNMENT agencies have accepted 87 per cent or 700 out ofBos processed of the ideas put forward by the public on how to cut waste in the public service sector. Since launching the Cut Waste Panel on Sept 4, more than 1,200 suggestions
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      Lock icon CapitaLand to manage HarbourFront Mall
      607 11  -  BT exclusive It will receive fees for project/retail management services By Kalpana Rashiwala PROPERTY giant CapitaLand is taking over the project and retail development management of the one million sq ft Harbour Front Mall from Mapletree Investments, a unit of Temasek Holdings, sources told BT.
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon KepLand bags Keng Lee site for $88m
      438 10  -  Freehold land is next to a site on which KepLand plans to develop a condo By Kalpana Rashiwala KEPPEL Land has bagged a 75,950 square foot freehold site fronting Keng Lee and Suffolk roads. It is right next to a site KepLand already
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      Lock icon Fall in negative equity cases fails to cheer HK
      584 10 Analysts don't see a solid turnaround despite the mild pick-up in prices AP [HONG KONG] The number of Hong Kong people paying off mortgages costing more than the market value of their homes has fallen off its recent record, but that
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      Lock icon Taiwan firm buys 10 houses in HK for HK$360m
      114 10 [HONG KONG] Large-scale foreign investment in Hong Kong's residential market has shown signs of a revival after a Taiwan company bought 10 luxury homes in Stanley for HK$36O million (5580.4 million), the South China Morning Post said. Donald Fan Tung, a
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon A chance for Bush to show his mettle
      779 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION robert samuelson THE Bush administration constantly reminds Americans that the economic recovery is gathering strength. Well, now the White House has a chance to prove that it believes what it says. The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on
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      58 12 'The idea of some American security advisers that perhaps we should shut the whole of central London for three days, ignoring the economic consequences of that I don't think that's got a chance at all.' -Ken Livingstone London's mayor, on a shutdown of the British city during
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      Lock icon Manila muddles along
      584 12 EDITORIAL IS a military coup or a "people's power" revolt to overthrow the Arroyo administration in the offing in Manila? Whatever happens next, the solution to the ills that dog the Philippines these days unfettered corruption and unprincipled politicians lies not in more upheaval. Another unconstitutional revolt,
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      Lock icon A rude a wakening for Junichiro Koizumi
      1392 12  -  Sunday's general election result showed that he is something of a fallen idol with the public and he never was a hero within his own party From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S Lower House elections on Sunday produced what some see as the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Investment in M'sian mfg sector grows in Q3
      372 13  -  Applications worth RM22.3b received in first nine months, more than all of'02 From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur FOREIGNERS are continuing to show an interest in investing in Malaysia's manufacturing industry, with third-quarter investment data showing an increase in both applications
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      Lock icon AirAsia seeks more partners in the region
      309 13 BANGKOK Reuters MALAYSIAN no-frills carrier Air Asia said yesterday it is still looking for new partners despite setting up a budget airline joint venture with Thailand's largest telecoms group, Shin Corp. Chief executive Tony Fernandes said Air Asia was seeking business opportunities with
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Telekom M'sia to delay RM1.5b bound
        83 13 Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd will delay by another two weeks the launch of its RMI.S billion (Ss6B4 million) bonds, the first tranche of a larger planned issue, sources close to the deal said yesterday. The sources did not give any reasons, but
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        Lock icon Chinese corn sale to M'sia cancelled
        103 13 Reuters [SINGAPORE] A contract to ship one pa namax-sized Chinese corn cargo to Malaysia has been cancelled after the seller found it difficult to source the material from the Asian supplier, traders said yesterday. The contract was for November shipment. "The seller had real
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        Lock icon FDI in China plummets 34% in Oct
        73 13 Reuters [BEIJING] Actual foreign direct investment in China plunged more than a third in October from a year earlier though pledges for future investment remained strong, data showed yesterday. China drew U553.36 billion in actual investment in October, down 84 per cent from
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        Lock icon China to keep interest rates stable
        116 13 Reuters [BEIJING] China will keep interest rates stable, a senior central bank official was quoted yesterday as saying, despite concerns of possible economic overheating. "Both deposit and lending rates should be kept basically stable," the China Securities Journal quoted Xie Ping, head of the
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      165 14 Reuters [BEIJING] China Is to allow its newly rich to own their own aircraft, state media and officials said yesterday. "As people's incomes rise, private pilots' licences will be as popular as driving licences in China," Zhang Rongwei, an official
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      218 15 NEW YORK Bloomberg TOYOTA Motor Corp passed rival Ford Motor Co as the world's second-largest automaker during the first half of Toyota's latest fiscal year. The Japanese carmaker's global sales exceeded Ford's by 43,000 vehicles. Toyota sold 3.17 million vehicles during
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      325 16 FRANKFURT Analysts say move to dean up balance sheet makes it attractive target Reuters. Bloomberg COMMERZBANK AG will tap investors for over 750 million euros (Ssl.s billion) and write down investments by 2.3 billion euros, moves banking experts said may make it an
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      410 16 SAN JOSE, California Reuters, Bloomberg CISCO Systems shareholders on Tuesday rejected a proposal by a group of religious investors to require the company to disclose the disparity between its highest and lowest-paid employees around the world. While receiving only 9 per cent
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        104 16 Reuters [LONDON] Canary Wharf founder Paulßetehnuum and Canadian grocyßraacanyestei day stepped up their campaigns to buy the British property firm as a rival £1.5 billion (554.3 billion) offer was rebooted. Mr Reichmann said he would temporarily stand aside as chairman of Canary Wharf! Yesterday the company
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        90 16 [NEW YORK] Fannie Mae, the biggest US mortgage finance provider, wants to tap the large pool of private wealth in Asia, in an effort to meet rising demand for low-cost housing at home, the Financial Times said. Linda Knight, senior vice-president and treasurer,
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      356 18 NEWYORK Seed says 5 firms under probe must pay beck investors NEW York Stock Exchange interim chairman John Reed has proposed that the specialist floor-trading Arms who have been accused of violating trading rules compensate investors through a "superfund". In an interview with the
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      309 18 LONDON They are adopting absolute retain strategies in the face of stock market slump Reuters PENSION funds, endowments and corporations are pumping increasing amounts of money into hedge funds and allocations are expected to continue growing over the next two years, says a report
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      516 20  -  IT comment INFOTECH The 1Gbps network may not be the fastest but it's what it can do that counts tang weng fai SINGAPORE'S fastest computer network for connecting research institutes here was launched early this month at a low-key event at the Institute of
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      289 20 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sony Corp, the world's second-biggest consumer electronics maker, will begin selling three new versions of its Vaio computers by next month in Japan to help win market share and raise profits. One of the new computers will go on
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      492 22  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury FUJITSU has lined up some good-looking models for mobile warriors this winter. Yesterday it previewed its Winter 2003 collection in this tropical city, launching the Lifeßook ***** ultraportable notebook PC and the LOOX 610 high-end personal digital assistant (PDA). Waiting in
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      243 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index fell 31 points to 4,243, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 53 points to 6,376, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 26 points to 3,878 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 116 points to 2,2309. Heythrop (built 1996) 1(5729dwt delivery March in d/c 11/13 months
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      626 23  -  But fending method agreeable to users and Straits states remains elusive By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] While Singapore supports the concept of international cooperation in maintaining the Malacca and Singapore Straits, the creation of a funding mechanism still faces numerous obstacles. The ongoing issue of
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      57 23 SURABAYA, East Java] Smoke billowsfivmmv Karunia Laut-1 after it was blasted by an Indonesiap Navy patrol boat off Surabaya, East Java, on Tuesday. The trawler was destroyed after the Thai crewmenon board were arrested for poachingfish in the waters north qffßawean island in eastern Indonesia. lUegalfishing costs
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      259 23 [SINGAPORE] Against the alarming backdrop of increasing and more violent pirate attacks in regional waters, Singapore has called for continuing "strong action" by littoral states along with international cooperation in fighting the scourge. Addressing the opening of the marine defence exhibition, Imdex Asia, on
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      72 23 [ISTANBUL] Georgia-flagged freighter Svatcry Panteleymon is split into two after it ran aground off the coast ofAnadotufeneri, Turkey. The 171-metre freighter drifted in bad weather in Istanbul's Bosporus before running aground near the Black Sea late on Monday. The 25 personnel on board were rescued before the freighter
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      539 23 AFP SNDON] The devastation Bed by the sinking of the £er Prestige off Spain a r ago has sparked a ma-re-think on compensation for oil spill victims, and the money available has increased more than five times. The leaking erf more than
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      679 24  -  NEWBUILDS By David Hughes Building slots for large vessels for delivery before 2006 are becoming almost as rare as hen's teeth. At the same time, demand for large container ships and LNG (liquefied natural gas) carriers appears to show little sign of abating.
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        771 29 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 baaed on averagesized stem Market movements are indi ca ted The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        612 30  -  Asian low-cost airlines can replicate Europe's success, says industry cooperative Reports by Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Low cost airlines in Asia could easily replicate the enormous success of Europe's Ryan Air and easy Jet, the US' Southwest Airlines, according to the head of Sita SC,
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        159 30 [SINGAPORE] Using your own handphone to send and receive SMS while flying is less than a year away, according to air telecommunications leader Sita SC. While airlines have snapped up existing technology that allows air passengers to make and now receive—calls
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        278 30 Reuters [LONDON] British airline pilots said that issuing identity cards to some 180,000 workers at the country's airports was a better security measure than using armed sky marshals. The cards could be the first step towards a national identity card being
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        650 30 Strong baht and passenger demand seen lifting its earnings to highest in 43 years Reuters [BANGKOK] National carrier Thai Airways International is expected to report record profits for the year ended Sept 30 due to a strong baht and passengers returning in
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        57 30 [NADI, Fiji] Passengers are seen through the windows of an Air Pacific Boeing 747-400 series aircraftfeaturing a mural of idyllic Castaway Island in the Mamanuca group, at Fiji's International Airport in Nadl Since the Bali bombings on Oct 12,2002, tourism has overtaken sugar cane as the South Pacific
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