The Business Times, 20 November 2003

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    16 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE internet- I-ttp '/business-times.asial com.sg THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 2003
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    Lock icon FBI nabs dozens of forex players in massive raids
    477 1 Up to 47 arrested for alleged forex scams; JP Morgan Chase and ÜBS staff among those held AFP, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Criminal charges were filed against 47 traders after FBI agents swooped down on Wall Street in a crackdown on allegedly
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    Lock icon S'pore rates expected to stay low for a while
    799 1  -  BT exclusive Economists cite weak growth momentum, low inflation By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Bankers and economists believe Singapore interest rates are not poised to move up any time soon, contrary to reports that the global economic recovery is putting upward
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    Lock icon It's the board's quality that matters: Tharman
    938 1  -  DBS Bank wins the first Best Managed Board award By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] What really counts is not how many independent directors a company has but their quality and ability to question and advise management. Acting Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam told
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    71 1 □an 1,677.36 (-31.03) □ST INDEX FUTURES 1,670.00 (-26.00) SNDISCI FUTURES ***** (-3.20) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP ***** 1622 NIKKEI 225 9.614.611 -2X145 HANG SENG __11,872.99 -***** SET INDEX ***** -17.72 JAKARTA COMP 601.94 .1.85 MANILA 0OMP MI8.1I 9.73 TAIPEI WPI .5.865.51 71.96 SBWJLOOMP 771.70 2917 SHENZHEN B ___***** *3.46 AliSTALLORD
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    75 1 FOREX RATES uss s$ l'SS(S$perl S$) 1.713 £(rs$/s$ per 1.702 1916 mtOfl S&/SS/E). 1195 ±0*8 YEN 10W. I 63.10 KM 3.800 1218 HK$ 7.756 4 526 BAHT 39.91 2319 RI'PIAH M73 4345 RENMINBI 8.298 4.R43 INDIAN RUPEE 45.56 26.59 AS 1.384 0.808 NTS 1572 0917 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon China Centre in S'pore to boost business ties
      566 2  -  It will help Chinese companies setting up businesses in Singapore From Loh Hui Yin in Beijing PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has said that while the governments of China and Singapore enjoy close relations, interaction between the two countries' business communities must
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      Lock icon Bush's China curbs seen as poll strategy
      840 2  -  NEWS analysis US officials believe a minor trade spat with China will help score points with voters, says Leon Hadar in Washington Leon Hadar THE announcement by the Bush administration that it was considering a plan to limit Chinese textile imports indicates that
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      Lock icon AirAsia explores Seletar Airport option
      433 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Without concessionary rates, Changi Airport may out of reach for Air Asia, but the Malaysian budget carrier is now targeting the cheaper Seletar Airport. Chief executive Tony Fernandes said yesterday that Seletar would be the answer if it were upgraded to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Eastech QS profit dives 79%
        109 4 TATWAN-BAflSDIiWero Aslm Technology, which Mend and makes digital video and audio products. ymfcrday said net profit Bar the third quarter ended 4 September plugged"» per cert to <2.9 million as It gfippled with Vartous engineering issues relating to ltfaeodncts. The Singapore-listed group, which had Wgmariasaed
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        51 4 HONG KOWG-BASB)aurthie Memkli hmnlm yesterday reported an 1L9 per oentjump In net profit to HE>Z7.9 million far the ssi isidyufOi Wi* iTBifl aooa a turnover crHKMMxBKmot 0OTM million) Thta compares with a turnover offOLNB million mid profit of HKgM.9 million in the previous corresponding quarter, the Singapore listed unit
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        Lock icon TT International Q2 profit sarges
        60 4 MAIN BOAJtD4JSTKDTTllitarawMonal yesterday said net prtltt tor the second quarter ended Sept 30 surged 4&£ per cent to f&M mftfcm. notwithstanding a seasonally weaker quarter. The group's profit growth was achieved on the back of a turnover of 1170.9 million, an increese of 9U million
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      Lock icon JEL may likely witness a battle for control
      547 4  -  Beth Ishikawajima and Oei Hong Leong buy more shares in the company By Serena Ng A TUG-OF WAR for control appears to be shaping up at Jurong Engineering Ltd (JEL), after the group yesterday revealed its secondlargest shareholder, Ishika-wajima-Harima Heavy Industries, bought
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      Lock icon UE is now Yongnam's largest shareholder
      407 4  -  By Andrea Tan OCBC-LJNKED United Engineers has emerged as the largest shareholder of beleaguered construction group Yongnam Holdings, after taking a chunk of shares under a scheme of arrangement UE now holds a 13.65 per cent stake, or some 59 million shares, in loss-making
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      Lock icon Parkway to sell Lee Hing stake for HK$286m
      419 4  -  By Andrea Tan HEALTHCARE provider Parkway Holdings, which has been trying to get rid of its 37 per cent stake in Hong Kong-listed Lee Hing Developments for more than two years, has finally struck a deal to sell its shares back to
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      Lock icon CK Tang's H1 losses down 76%
      458 5  -  Improved results aided by new loan with lower rates, sale of KL space By Kalpana Rashiwala JUST three weeks after Tang Wee Sung proposed to privatise CK Tang, the listed retailer yesterday reported a significant fall in its first-half loss against the same period
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      Lock icon Metro too may go for delisting
      738 5  -  HOCK lock siew kalpana rashiwala IS another retail icon set to disappear from the Singapore bourse? Barely have we taken in the shocking announcements from two major retail players that they could be delisting or privatising soon when market talk has emerged that retail
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      Lock icon New service for heavy weight packages helps businesses take smarter route to market
      601 5 Advertising Feature DHL, the global market leader of international express and logistics, has launched Fast Forward. It is a revolutionary new service that brings greater efficiency and cost savings to Asia Pacific-based customers who ship heavy weight
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      Lock icon IPO aspirants unfazed by market retreat
      432 8  -  Bright Orient offers shares at 270 each; Excelpoint lodges prospectus By Taila Krishnakumar AS Jackspeed Corp made one of the worst debuts this year, two other IPO aspirants emerged yesterday, undeterred by the current market setback which saw shares retreating despite positive economic and
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      Lock icon HLA's Q3 profit soars 5-fold on one-time gain
      237 8  -  By Taila Krishnakumar BOOSTED mainly by an exceptional gain of $25.7 million, Hong Leong Asia's net profit for the third quarter ended September soared almost five-fold to $39.5 million from $8.2 million. The exceptional gain for HLA, a Singapore-based maker of diesel
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      Lock icon ComfortDelgro's Q3 profit dives 25%
      262 8  -  By Samuel Ee DESPITE a one-time investment gain of $13 million, ComfortDelgro yesterday posted a 25 per cent year-on-year fall in net profit to $47.4 million for the third quarter ended September, dragged down by higher costs incurred by its mass rapid transit line and
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      537 6  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN NQLNM n«Mcsu* THERE was news yesterday that the share overhang could be lower than expected, with CSFB owning only about 6.4 per cent of NOL. This might explain the rise in the share {Mice earlier in the trading day when the broad market was
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      Lock icon Robinson seen as a good buy at or below $7.50
      262 6  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan WHILE other retailers continue to complain about thinning margins and sluggish business, Robinson has done what it does best boost profit and margins. The mainboard-listed retailer yesterday surprised the market yet again with strong
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      Lock icon Buyer fatigue continues to sap life from stocks
      486 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy WHEN rises of one or two cents are enough to earn stocks a place in the top 20 gainers list, you know traders haven't had a good day at the office. Despite the release of benign US
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      Lock icon US$ hits fresh 2003 lows against S$, yen
      642 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES Poor foods flows, import curbs take their toll on greenback larry wee THE already weak US dollar was dealt another horrible blow yesterday, after overnight reports of new US restrictions on the imports of Chinese textiles were made worse
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        Lock icon UniSteei bosses sefl 6m shires
        132 6 HARD disk drive component supplier UniSteei Technology's executive chairman Bernard Toh and managing director George Poh sold a total of six million shares off-market at $1.30 per share on Tuesday, Nov 18. Mr Toh sold 5.2 million shares or a 2.15 per cent stake, and
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        Lock icon Sam Goi ups itihf in SmU System
        123 6 "POPIAH king" Sam Goi (right) bought 1.1 million shares in Serial System on Tuesday, Nov 18, at 27.5 cents per share in the open market, raising his direct holding to 10.31 per cent or 31.16 million shares from 9.94 per cent On Monday,
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        Lock icon Noveiia shareholder setts entire stake
        62 6 PHUA Siew Hua, also known as Chearn Siew Hua, who has been reducing her stake in furniture group Novena Holdings, yesterday sold her remaining 6.02 million shares in the open market for about 28.5 cents per share. These shares amounted to a 7.5 per cent
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        Lock icon MuttiChem director raises holdh&
        90 6  -  Compiled by SERENA NG ALEXANDER Eu Yee Kui, also known as Sandy Eu, is the latest director of MultiChem to have acquired shares in the precision drilling services provider and specialty chemicals distributor. Mr Eu, an independent director, yesterday bought 327,000 shares in the open market
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      130 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 19 VALUE CLOSE -856.00 -33.00 irCMI -*****.00 -209.00 BTINglM -*****.00 -86.00 mntiM li 453.28 -7.80 168.90 +0.17 MirpWllfti 1415.42 -27.89 SBEjrtHMftM 418.32 -9.18 Waihpym 205.18 -3.85 t—ICI 204.20 -3.20 dab Taring prices are m trading currencies, but absolute dMrvnce »in St CURRENCIES Where S$ stands Nov
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      Lock icon Venture—a cut above the rest
      1232 7  - Venture —a cut above the rest Its CEO is a strong believer in balanced growth, reports SERENA NG SERENA NG MARGINS are not everything, at least in the case of Singapore's largest listed electronics manufacturing service provider Venture Corp, which has not failed to produce record annual profits for the
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    4 7 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS MnttOJIS
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Indon property market coming out of doldrums
      622 10  -  Pent-up demand, excess liquidity caused by falling interest rates contributing to upswing From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta LED by a surge in condo developments in Jakarta, Indonesia's property market is reawakening from years of slumber since the 1997 financial crisis. Property sources say
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      Lock icon Ascott ups presence Down Under
      348 10  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala SERVICED apartment operator The Ascott is stepping up its presence in Australia in response to growing international business in this market. The Capita Land subsidiary is launching 565 new serviced apartments in six properties under its uppertier Somerset brand. They comprise two
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon COE premiums for small cars rally
      201 11  -  EYE on the economy coes By Samuel Ee COE premiums for small cars rebounded slightly after slipping in the last two rounds as price cuts lured buyers back into the showrooms. In yesterday's COE tender exercise, the premium for Category A, or cars below
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      Lock icon S'pore, KL discuss reclamation order
      163 11 SINGAPORE and Malaysia will hold talks centring on implementing the order handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on Oct 8 relating to the dispute over the republic's land reclamation of a site south of Pulau Tekong. The two delegations
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      Lock icon Digital films to widen economic scope
      596 11  -  S'pore plan to capitalise on digital entertainment will create more jobs, add to GDP By Raju Chellam COMING soon to a theatre near you: digital cinema. The promise: ultra-high resolution images, digital surround sound and superpixellated animation all from a dedicated computer server. That's
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      Lock icon Lower CPF contribution limit
      127 11 THOSE who make voluntary contributions to their Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts will see lower limits from Jan 1, 2004. With the changes in the long-term CPF contribution rate and lower salary ceiling effective in October, the new limit will be $23,760 (or 12 months x
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      Lock icon SingTel is still top local brand, valued at $2.6b
      349 11  -  Winning brands worth $8b, up from $7.7b last year By Chen Huifen SINGTEL remains the most valuable local brand with a valuation that is more than twice that of its closest competitor in the Singapore Brand Awards 2003. It topped the
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      620 11 CWT DISTRIBUTION LIMITED Announcement Third Quarter 2003 Results The Directors of CWT Distribution Limited wish to nuke the following announcements UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2003 GROUP Quarter ended 30 September 2003 2002* SS'OOO SS'OOO Chng Revenue 58,763 41.842 40.4 Cost of sales (51.974) (34,125) 52.3 Gross
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      301 11 High Commission of India presents Wazuun THE KASHMIRI CUISINE AT TIFFIN ROOM Kashmiri cuisine offers an extensive unique and sumptuous variety of both vegetarian and nonvegetarian delicacies. Experience the Kashmiri cuisine here in Singapore from 21 to 28 November 2003, as 'tLxaAMlk the High Commission of India brings you for
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Get ready for volatility in oil prices
      758 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION nell behrmann THE era of low oil prices is over. The Middle Eastern cauldron is seeing to that Uncertainty about long-term future supplies has built in a large risk premium into oil prices in a world in which China
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      50 12 'I like being the head of PDIP, but I am tired of looking out for these thugs.' Megawati Sukarnoputri Indonesia's president, lashing out at members of her own party in an apparent attempt to rein in corrupt cadres seen as a hindrance to her re-election in 2004.
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      Lock icon The paradoxical job flux
      652 12 EDITORIAL SUCH are the seeming paradoxes in macroeconomics: Just when the economy is finally showing signs of turning around, the jobless rate has shot up to an 18-year high of 5.9 per cent But there are ready explanations about what's going on, quite apart from the
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      Lock icon Falling US$ fuels Asian bond market urgency
      1156 12  -  Market players across the region now appear as keen as government officials are to get the market up and running From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FOR years, Asian policymakers have talked of developing a regional bond market but little emerged by way of
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      Lock icon Can't rush on poverty
      420 12 COMMENTARY Eradicating it will take longer than Thaksin thinks Editorial in the Bangkok Post PRIME Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's less-than-gra-cious reaction to critics of his poverty eradication plan showed once again his refusal to allow any participation in policymaking beyond his inner circle of advisers and ministers.
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      278 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 7 Water-supplies restricted must be used judiciously I I I I I L 8 Takes special order for meat (5) 11 Pretty rural cottage providing a home for a story-writer "llmb 12 City requiring a certain level of inflation (4) Times for levelling with head 15 Putting intelligence
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  • REGION world
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      Lock icon China hints it may hit back over US textile import curbs
      742 13 BEIJING It says US move lacks transparency and violates free trade principles Bloomberg CHINA plans to appeal against US curbs on textile imports at the World Trade Organization and scrapped a visit to Chicago to discuss soybean purchases, signaling
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon US housing starts up 2.9% in Oct
        119 13 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US housing starts unexpectedly rose In October to the highest in almost 18 years, supported by mortgage rates that have helped engender record sales, a government report showed. Builders began work (Hi 1.96 million homes at an annual rate last month,
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        Lock icon police detain suspect in BNI scandal
        77 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] A main suspect in a multimillion dollar export credit scandal affecting Indonesia's second-largest bank has been detained, police said yesterday. PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tt>k (BNI) has made provisions of 941 billion rupiah (SslBB million) to cover possible losses linked to the
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        Lock icon Thal Airways to raise 14b baht in IPO
        87 13 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International said yesterday it plans to raise 14.25 billion baht (Ss6ll million) this week from a long delayed public offer of 285 million new shares in a partial privatisation. The Finance Ministry will also sell 100 million shares
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        Lock icon Jakarta faces suits by mining firms
        85 13 Reuters [JAKARTA] Mining firms, mostly foreign, could have grounds for suits against the Indonesian government worth US$3l.5 billion for violation of contracts after ratification of a forestry law in 1999, a minister said yesterday. 'Total estimates of potential litigation by 22 mining companies is
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        Lock icon Japan to raise tariffs on US imports
        87 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan plans to place about US$99 million worth of tariffs on US imports, Japanese trade officials said, after the World Trade Organization last week found that US duties on Japanese steel imports were illegal. Japan will notify the WTO of its
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        Lock icon Blotech Arms raise US$11.9b globally
        76 13 Reuters [FRANKFURT] The global biotechnology industry raised more money by the end of September than in the whole 0f2002 but a revival in Europe, which remains weak, could be more than six months away, industry analysts said on Tuesday. Accounting firm Ernst Young said biotech
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      Lock icon US mutual fund reforms may lead to lower fees
      447 13 NEW YORK NYT THE coming battle over mutual fund regulation may well end up focusing not on trading abuses, which are now the subject of regulatory action, but on the fees and costs that funds charge investors. Much may hinge on
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      Lock icon GE to spin off insurance businesses
      340 13 NEW YORK 30% of Genworth Financial will be sold in IPO in 2004 NYT, Reuters, Bloomberg GENERAL Electric, struggling to climb back to dou-ble-digit earnings growth, announced a plan on Tuesday to spin off most of its life insurance and mortgage insurance business next
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      Lock icon Yuan not 'substantially undervalued': IMF
      190 13 WASHINGTON AFP THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that China's currency does not appear "substantiaUy undervalued" and that a currency change would probably have little impact on global trade imbalances. The comments by the IMF, in a report following annual consultations with China, flew
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      Lock icon Malaysia posts 5.1% GDP growth in Q3
      362 13  -  Full-year growth will be above 4.5%, says central bank From Diana Ooa Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by a better than expected 5.1 per cent in the third quarter, making it "very likely that overall growth for the
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      Lock icon S'pore firms have bigger IT budgets for security
      353 13  -  SINGAPORE By Amit Roy Choudhury A SURVEY shows Singapore companies on average spend 16 per cent of their total information technology (IT) budgets on information security. This figure is higher than the 11 per cent average for Asia-Pacific as a whole, according
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      495 15 TUSCON, Arizona With 'slack' in production, labour markets, low inflation, Fed can keep rate steady Reuters GOING a step further than some of his central bank colleagues, San Francisco Fed president Robert Parry said on Tuesday that he couldn't quibble with the market view
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      254 15 NEW YORK Firms responsible for their con tinned existence, he warns Reuters TIJE top US audit regulator on Tuesday said he had privately warned the Big Four accounting firms against thinking they are too big to fail, despite fears
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      878 16  -  Getting the board to work well with management is key factor to success, reports JOYCE KOH JOYCE KOH GOOD corporate governance can only come about if companies make it the centrepiece of their business philosophy. Take DBS Bank, winner of the inaugural Best Managed Board Award.
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      737 16  -  By BRAD ORGILL SINGAPORE'S Best Managed Board Awards could hardly have taken shape at a more opportune time. Around the world, the issue of how companies are managed has come under scrutiny in the wake of scandals like Enron. So what exactly is corporate governance
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      519 16  -  By KENNETH LIM LARGE companies may be able to offer directors better pay and prestige, but good leaders should not be driven by such rewards alone, say the two smaller companies that received special mention in this year's inaugural Best Managed Board Awards. Rather, the bosses
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      684 18  -  Planned portable push in the Asia Pac region helped by rising global demand By Raju Chellam US infotech giant Dell Computer Corp plans to push its notebook computers more aggressively in the Asia-Pacific region in the next few quarters. It will also offer more
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      748 18  -  IT comment INFOTECH Make your best guess armed with latest reports from IDC, Gartner and others kenneth james SO is it or is it not, happening? More than two years into one of the infocomm sector's worst-ever downturns, there are indications that things
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      260 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index fell 20V>ints to 4026, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 42 points to 5867, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 3 points to 3811 and the Baltic Handymax Index fell 190 points to *****. TDI&CHABTEB: Johnny K (built 1994) *****0 dwt delivery Baoshan 29/30 November
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      273 19 SGX '000 Wo»H SS W- Vol CH Offshore 0.35 -0-01 260 ChuanHup 049 -0.01 2077 Cosco Investment 0.56 -0.01 3198 CWTDiMibution.. 0.56 unch 0 EcaHldgs .0.99 unch 1057 FreirfitSiki .0.09 -0.01 303 GB Hokjings 0.69 unch 0 JayaHottngi 0.81 -aOI 2201 K< Venture 023 i«h 569 fappelCorp .5.45
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      693 19  -  India port may get 11b rupee investment for container terminals; port official By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Planned upgrading of India's privately-run Pipavav Port, in which PSA Corporation holds a stake, could involve 11 billion rupee (*****.6 million) worth of investment to transform the predominantly
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      77 19 [KARACHI, Pakistan] A small fishing boat (left) sailing near the half-submerged Greek registered oil tanker Tasman Spirit, which split in two after running aground on July 27 off Karachi port. Pakistani port authorities said they would soon put out a tender to remove
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      380 19  -  Total of 13.6m TEUs handled by PSA, Jurong in first 9 months By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore's ports enjoyed 7.3 per cent container throughput growth and 2 per cent total cargo growth in the first nine months of this year, figures released by
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      260 19 AP [BRUSSELS] The European Union agreed with the United States to tighten scans of US-bound containers at seaports to prevent weapons smuggling by terrorists. "This is an important step forward," said Frits Bolkestein, the EU customs commissioner, who signed
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        535 20 Higher shipping volumes, robust performance of Virgin Blue behind increase Reuters [MELBOURNE] Australian transport group Patrick Corp posted a near 50 per cent rise in annual profit yesterday due to a surge in shipping volumes through its ports and strong earnings from discount
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        423 20 Reuters [COPENHAGEN] Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller, rated as Denmark's richest and second most powerful man after the prime minister, retires next month, aged 90, after almost 30 years at the helm of the country's biggest private enterprise, shipping and oil group AP Moeller-Maersk.
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        450 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        531 26 It means HK'S Dragonair won't be able to start flights to Sydney soon Bloomberg [CANBERRA] Qantas Airways will have to postpone plans to carry passengers to Europe from Hong Kong, while Cathay Pacific Airways won't be able to fly between Sydney
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        160 26 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Nine airline associations blasted costs imposed on airlines by unregulated or poorly regulated monopoly service providers, such as airports or air traffic controllers. "Where those entities have been privatised, profit margins irrespective of market reality are virtually guaranteed, where they are
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        239 26 Bloomberg China Airlines, Taiwan's largest carrier, said it may join the Sky Team alliance, extending its passenger partnerships with Delta Air Lines and Alitalia, which are part of the sixmember airline group. Joining the group will allow China Airlines to share resources with partners and
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        182 26 Reuters [PRAGUE] Czech stateowned airline CSA, looking to increase its importance as a regional hub operator in the former east European communist bloc, said it will expand its list of destinations next year by five. The airline said in a statement it plans to add
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          98 26 Reuters [CHICAGO] Atlantic Coast Airlines said it had reached a tentative deal to acquire 25 Airbus narrow-body jets to support its plan to start a low-fare carrier. The deal calls for a binding memorandum of understanding to acquire 10 A3l9s and five A32os from
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          82 26 AFP [HANOI] Vietnam Airlines will begin flights to Frankfurt with a stop-over in Moscow in early January using its recently acquired Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, a company spokesman said yesterday. "If everything is fine, we will start a twice weekly service on Tuesdays and Fridays,"
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        57 26 AP [LE BOURGET, France] A woman demonstrating the US-built GE lon Track EntryScan3, a walk-through vapour and particle detection portal which uses the natural human convection to search for explosives. The demonstration took place on the opening day of the Milipol 2003 exhibition of internal state security,
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        157 26 Anex-Antara (JAKARTA] India has offered all airlines of Asean countries, including Indonesia, the facility of daily service to its metropolitan cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. According to the Indian Embassy in Jakarta in its press statement made available to
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        93 26 Bloomberg [DUBAI] Emirates, the largest Arab airline, will say next month whether RollsRoyce or Engine Alliance has won a US$l.5 billion contract to provide engines for its Airbus A3BO planes. The Dubai-based carrier will say at an air show in the sheikhdom from Dec 7
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        434 26 Carrier scheduled for operations in May: CEO Bloomberg (SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd's new discount unit, scheduled to start operations in May, will open for bookings in February, chief executive Geoff Dixon said. The board of Sydneybased Qantas, Australia's largest airline, is
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      38 19 Qantas discount ■"VPVVWM unit to start ■«ll K1 li*llr«B tirhri mlnir UWMJI 3HW9 in Feb RMMM tafia's big ■ullailA cities open up KnXmSa toAsean «l» Biles H||||jga| Back Page Patrick Corp's annual profit up nearly 50% Page 2
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