The Business Times, 4 December 2003

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  • 12 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 85* j THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE I Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg
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  • 656 1  -  BT exclusive Besides maritime tie-ups, global air cargo deals are also on the cards By Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] China's largest shipping conglomerate, the Cosco group, is forging a long-term relationship with Temasek Holdings which will cover the maritime industry and a new
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  • 595 1  -  Reinstatement of salary seen among key objectives of Capt Syed's platform By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The buzz is already palpable in the race for the top job in the Singapore Airlines pilots' union. With the closing date for
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  • 76 1 Dsn 1,737.46 (+8.50) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,740.00 (+12.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 1.30) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2003 Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 795.57 2.23 nikkei m —mmM -mit HANG SEN(J __li36l 18 -5I.U5 mi wo mm »ii79 JAKAKTA (TOMP.-643.H6 1*114 MANILA <X)MP .1.357.76 +2093 TAIPEI WPI 5,***** -2648 SEOI U'OMP 8118.34 >41.56 SHENZHEN
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  • 522 1  -  BT exclusive He will now undertake job as turnkey contractor From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur CONTROVERSIAL tycoon Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary has had to amend a key term in one of his major government contracts as Malaysia's new Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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  • 84 1 FOREX RATES US$ S$ I SS (SS p«r I SS) 1.719 V(ISSSSperV) 1729 1972 EIROflSS SS/E) IHJ8 1U76 YEN 1(18.7 63.20 K.M 3X00 1210 HKS 7.762 4.515 BAHT 39.91 2311 K1P1AH 8.489 4.938 RENMINBI 8199 4.827 INDIAN RI'PEE 4562 26 53 AS 1364 0793 NZ$ 1543 0X98 PRIME RATES
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    • 398 2  -  Car buyers seen as much more price-sensitive because of tough economy this year By Samuel Ee [SINGAPORE] COE premiums fell sharply across the board yesterday as all five categories slumped amid what some traders called an unusually quiet market. Bids received for a
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    • 371 2  -  Former chief of Aussie energy group could take over as early as April By Tang Weng Fai (SINGAPORE] Singapore's biggest power generator by licensed capacity looks set to install a new chief next year in a renewal of leadership among gencos.
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 98 2 SUPPORT Cosco shares, support PSA Corp shares. Did we hear it right? That PSA has been listed? The call to support the shares came from Wei Jiafu, group president of Cosco. who was celebrating the official opening of the Cosco-PSA container terminal on Tuesday. Cosco is
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      • 114 2 A MAN has spared no expense to ensure he gets to see the 106 women taking part in this year's Miss World contest in China, paying US$28,000 for his ticket, officials said yesterday. The man. a Mr Chen and a local from Sanya city in
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    • 353 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Institute expects increase in new orders from domestic markets By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Singapore's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) expanded for a sixth straight month in November, signalling continued optimism over Singapore's economic recovery. The closely-watched index posted a reading
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    • 595 2 Two other foreign carriers are also possible partners [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International has held talks with Australia's Virgin Blue about setting up a budget airline, a Thai Air source said yesterday, joining other Southeast Asian carriers eyeing low-cost flights. The
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    • 1088 3 Oracle's army-like induction programme prepares new hires for the business and personal challenges ahead of them, Oracle's regional HR head Florence Chan tells Raju Chellam WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get going. That old adage works, at least at Oracle Corp, where being tough
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    • 335 3  -  People Developer standard lands companies for HR practices that lead to better business results By Raju Chellam THE "People Developer" is Singapore's quality standard on human resource (HR) development. A threeyear certification scheme, it recognises organisations that bring out the best in people for better business results.
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    • 474 3  -  By Raju Chellam ORACLE Corp will offer tailored solutions for companies in six key sectors in the Asia Pacific region over the next 12 months to help businesses boost their product and service efficiencies. The six sectors are financial services, public sector undertakings, government, telecoms
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 328 4  -  US$258m project set to be in the black this year By Daniel Buenas SEMBCORP Industries' (SCI) multi-million dollar industrial development project, Wuxi-Singapore Industrial Park (WSIP), has plans to list in two or three years' time, although it has not decided where. WSIP's listing aspirations
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    • 743 4  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy IT'S too early to say for sure, but it looks like the Singapore Exchange's new trading rules that took effect on Monday this week will have a profound and possibly unpopular but ultimately beneficial impact on the market. Profound
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    • 255 4  -  By Loh Hui Yin GOH Toh Sim, the most senior Singaporean at the Suzhou Industrial Park, is moving to a new job but will remain in China. He will become the chief executive officer in charge of China with business space solutions provider
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    • 512 6  -  61.2m placement IPO shares folly taken up at 23.5 cents each By Loh Hui Yin INVESTMENT firm 2G Capital could emerge as a strategic shareholder in another water and waste-water treatment company, Asia Environment Holdings, which launched its initial public offer yesterday.
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    • 359 6  -  By Joyce Koh THE legal woes continue for embattled Yongnam Holdings. As it announced yesterday its failed court bid to seek claims against a property company, the construction group also unveiled that some Malaysian trade creditors have commenced legal action against its
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    • 392 6  -  By Wong Wei Kong WBL Corp has reported a sharp jump in full-year earnings as revenues shot pass the $1 billion mark for the first time. Net profit surged to $51.9 million in the financial year to Sept 30, 2003,
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 217 7 Bloomberg BANYAN Tree Hotels Resorts, an operator of spa resorts in Asia, said it is temporarily halting new investments in Sri Lanka because of political uncertainties on the island. "We're taking a cautious approach given the political situation," said Kalai Natarajan, a Singapore-based spokeswoman
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      • 149 7 Reuters [BANGKOK] Shares in Thailand's largest brokerage, Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) PCL, shot up 152 per cent on its debut yesterday, boosted by a booming stock market which has generated a flood of business for traders. Kim Eng Securities, the Thai branch of
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      • 89 7 A UNIT of Stamford Land Corp, Stamford Property Services (SPS), has lost a court case against Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd in Australia. The court decided against SPS and HSH Hotels (Australia) Ltd, as trustee of the SHR Kent St Trust, and awarded Multiplex damages, interests
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    • 413 7  -  He was a compulsive optimist with a contagions passion, says Venture CEO By Kenneth Lim GOPALA Achuta Menon was a passionate entrepreneur who reputedly said the best way to die would be to die working. The non-executive chairman of Venture Corp and Magnecomp International
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    • 284 7 ALLAN Yap, who runs Charles Chan's Hong Konglisted Hanny Holdings and Singapore-listed PSC Corporation, has been named the new chairman of former government-linked trading company Intraco Limited. Marking an end of an era in the former government's trading unit, Mr Yap takes over
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    • 621 4 rm WBL CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) Unaudited Results For the Year Ended 30 September 2003 30 Sep 2003 30 Sep 2002 Change Turnover $1,302.1 mil $984.2 mil +32.3% Profit before taxation 113.5 mil 45.4 mil +149.9% Attributable net profit 51.9 mil $12.6 mil +310.6% Earnings per share (basic) 30.0
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    • 374 4 ASIAENV ASIA ENVIRONMENT HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated n the Republic of Singapore on 2 June 2000) wr *^sbbhh[^^h INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING Asia Environment Holdings Ltd ("ASIAENV") is the Singapore investment holding company with subsidiaries engaged in the provision of integrated water and wastewater treatment solutions in the People's Republic of China
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      567 8  -  Compiled by VEN SREENIVASAN BriHant Manufacturing Dw 3 dosing 725 cents WE expect bottomline growth to be driven by continued margin improvement on the back of increased production out of lower-cost facilities in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as more vertical integration of its manufacturing processes. While
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    • 274 8  -  HOT STOCK WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan ONE stock that s riding on the China growth story is tyre and wheel maker YHI International. It has risen strongly this year and hit a high of $1.32 last month. But it has retraced slightly since
      Source: Bloomberg  -  274 words
    • 490 8  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THIS time last week, it was Singapore Press Holdings which singlehandedly moved the Straits Times Index, a slightly odd occurrence given that this index-shifting role was normally fulfilled by the banks. In yesterday's relatively quiet session things took
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    • 621 8  -  BT comment CURRENCIES New downside lows signalled for the greenback larry wee THE US dollar again continued to attract only sellers yesterday, falling sharply against the yen and plunging to ftitth 2003 lows against some of its most favoured alternatives, which, in turn,
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    • TRADES TO WATCH
      • 122 8 MEDIASTREAM executive chairman George Thia, who holds a direct 0.52 per cent in the company, had his deemed 34.62 per cent stake reduced to 34.2 per cent after a sale of three million shares at 3.5 cents each on Monday. The sale was "initiated
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      • 72 8 TOH Soon Huat, chief executive of Novena Holdings, has sold his entire deemed and direct stake totalling 6.6 per cent in Sesdaq-listed metal recycler Green World Holdings this week, selling 3.9 million shares at 29 cents apiece, for a total of $1.15 million.
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      • 60 8 KINGBOARD Copper Foil Holdings executive chairman Cheong Kwok Wing saw his deemed stake in the mainboard-listed company grow to about 60.31 per cent from 60.17 per cent on Tuesday following the purchase of one million shares in the open market at 39 cents apiece. Kingboard
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      • 79 8  -  Compiled by KENNETH LIM UOB-KAY Hian Holdings chairman and managing director Wee Ee Chao saw his deemed stake reduced to 16.09 per cent from 16.22 per cent after the sale of a total of 921,000 shares of the brokerage firm on Monday and
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      144 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Dec 3 VALUE CLOSE BT06/0S 4.00 -80.00 BTCAM -*****.00 +74.00 BT 10-day MA ******.00 +1.00 Afl-SG Equities 469.86 +210 SG Equities Beet 174.18 -1.42 SG Equities Fin 1463.79 +10.65 SG Equities Prop 438.00 +11.32 MSa Singapore 213.53 +1.26 SMSCI Futures 213.20 +1.30 Chili (losing ftriav are iu
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    • 813 9  -  Shares are fully valued but good yields will keep investors happy, says WONG WEI KONG WONG WEI KONG IS Parkway Holdings still the premier healthcare play in Singapore? In terms of market value, Parkway's blue-chip status is safe. With a market capitalisation of
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 499 11  -  But saga pats practices in insurance industry under the spotlight By Joyce Koh By Joyce Koh THE threat of AlA's agents walking out on a seminar to mark the start of the insurance giant's new financial year fizzled out yesterday. Instead, a full
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    • 492 11  -  It aims to boost professionalism, raise standards and stem price wars By Joyce Koh SLIPPING standards of service, free-for-all entry and price wars are all woes plaguing managing agents of strata-title developments, and these have spurred the industry to take steps to stem the
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    • 201 11 LOCAL media training company Media Hive and the Singapore Film Commission (SFC) are offering $600,000 to boost the film industry here. In one of the two new initiatives announced at the Asia Media Festival (AMF) yesterday, selected firsttime film-makers will -not only get a
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 752 12  -  THE bottom line OPINION paul samuelson POOR President Bush. Just when worries about a too weak recovery begin to abate a bit enhanced terrorism in Iraq and around the world chips away at his popularity with voters. Politics aside, continued and accelerating terrorism is
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    • 87 12 'There is not a single large company in Russia that is not involved in politics.' -Boris G Fyodorov a former deputy prime minister and banker who is running for a seat from south-east Moscow representing a smaller party, Russia Forward. 'This country has been run by politicians
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    • 546 12 EDITORIAL Research has always been —and will always be a powerful tool in aiding the decision-making process. By making knowledge universally available to investors, good research improves the efficiency of capital allocation. In short, it is a critical tool in risk management Therefore, it is not
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    • 1246 12  -  Despite apprehensions being expressed by Alan Greenspan against the trend, President Bosh is giving more 'face time' to political adviser Karl Rove From Leon Hadar in Washington THERE are two very smart guys working in the Bush administration today. It is too bad that US
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    • 812 12  -  COMMENTARY Vietnam is an excellent test case of globalisation's pros and cons By William Pesek Jr Bloomberg [HO CHI MINH CITY] Needing a little late-day java jolt here in Vietnam, you spot the übiquitous circular, green-and-black logo. You step inside, saunter up to the counter
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 438 13  -  One-third of shares could go to the public to raise up to US$300m: report From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN budget airline Air Asia is set to launch an initial public offer next year and has stepped up its use of
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    • 343 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN billionaire Ananda Krishnan raised RM34O million (*****.8 million) selling a 20 per cent stake in his satellite company through private share placements to fund managers, bankers involved in the transaction said. The sale may lead to the end of
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    • 486 13  -  However, consumer default rates have fallen to 3.9% From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S consumer debt has risen by 19 per cent annually over the last four years, but the situation has not raised concerns of overheating in the economy
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    • NOTE Book
      • 59 13 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Crest Petroleum Bhd, a Malaysian company that installs offshore oil platforms and pipelines, expects to bid for contracts in Indonesia by partnering a local company as the country opens up to regional oil contractors. It is bidding for contracts worth more than
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      • 35 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, which recently raised 4.17 trillion rupiah (SSB42 million) in an IPO, probes a possible fraud of 294 billion rupiah involving an "unauthorised" loan. Bloomberg
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      • 51 13 Reuters [BANGKOK] Shares in Thailand's Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) PCL, soared 152 per cent on their debut yesterday, boosted by a booming market. The shares, sold at 14.30 baht in an IPO, closed at 36 baht, just below a high of 36.5
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      • 45 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's exports rose 4.4 per cent to 34.2 billion Malaysian ringgit (Ssls billion) in October from a year earlier, Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. Exports in September stood at a revised RM32.8 billion, she said. Reuters
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      • 47 13 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Dividends paid by Thai companies in the first nine months this year more than doubled as profit rose. Firms paid out 22.3 billion baht (Ss96o million), up from 8.42 billion baht a year earlier, the Stock Exchange of Thailand said.—Bloomberg
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    • 271 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg NEXNEWS Bhd chief executive officer Tong Kooi Ong said he is buying a stake in Sunrise Bhd, Malaysia's biggest developer of luxury high-rise apartments, a move that will help him benefit from rising demand for homes. "I will be joining
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    • 480 14  -  Increased lending reflects confidence in govt plan: bank From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta DESPITE continuing concerns over rampant corruption, the World Bank yesterday unveiled its new Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Indonesia that will see the multilateral institution significantly increasing its funding levels
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    • 170 14 [JAKARTA] Around 94,000 people lost their jobs in the first 10 months following decisions by many companies to shut down or downsize their businesses due to the lingering economic and political crisis, the Jakarta Post quoted a senior government official as saying. Director-general
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    • 248 14 TRADE ROW AP (SHANGHAI] China hopes to resolve tensions over its trade surplus with the United States through negotiations, not retaliation, an official report said yesterday. Long Yongtu, who headed China's side during its long effort to join the World Trade Organization, said
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  • WORLD news
    • 473 15 WASHINGTON Commerce Dept seeks 119% tax on imported concrete reinforcing steel Reuters Bloomberg EVEN as the world waits for President George Bush to announce the lifting of tariffs on steel, the administration is set to make US$l5O million in payments to
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    • 482 15 LATEST US DATA AP, Reuters. Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The productivity of US businesses rocketed at a 9.4 per cent annual rate, the fastest pace in 20 years, in the third quarter as output soared while hours workers put in on the job barely
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    • 263 15 TORONTO Reuters PRESS baron Conrad Black's Canadian holding company, Hollinger Inc, is facing a cash crunch that could force it to default on some of its debt and sell assets, it said in a filing with Canadian regulators. The Toronto-based firm,
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    • 287 15 SYDNEY Bloomberg, Reuters AUSTRALIA'S central bank increased its benchmark interest rate a quarter percentage point for the second time in five weeks as the government said the economy grew at the fastest pace in two years on surging consumer spending. The Reserve Bank
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 104 15 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said yesterday that its forecasts of accelerated euro zone growth were on track after official data confirmed an upturn in the third quarter that was the biggest for a year. EU statistics agency Eurostat said third quarter growth was
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      • 107 15 AFP, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US President W. George Bush is working overtime to swell his coffers for the 2004 presidential campaign, and his war chest is now almost a record US$llO million, even though election day is almost a year away. Mr Bush, hoping for a
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      • 131 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] Gold Bullion Securities Ltd, whose shares are backed by gold bars kept in a London vault of HSBC Bank USA Inc, said it will list its shares on the London Stock Exchange. The listing will enable investors to trade gold in the form of
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      • 126 15 Reuters [LONDON] GlaxoSmithKline Pic said yesterday it had 20 potential US$l billion-a-year blockbuster drugs in its pipeline to drive future sales growth and lift it out of a lean patch for research productivity. Europe's top drugmaker identified novel medicines for heart disease and cancer, an
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    • 479 17 LOS ANGELES Amy Pascal named for mega-hits such as Spider-Man Reuters AMY Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures, was named HoUywood's most powerful woman on Tuesday, thanks in part to the popularity of a male superhero and other box-office superhits. Ms Pascal, who
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    • 282 18  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury BLACKBERRY, a wireless service for corporate users, is now available to individuals and smaller businesses in Singapore. The new Blackßerry service will be provided by Star Hub and Blackßerry creator Research In Motion (RIM), and coincides with the introduction here
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    • 933 18  -  IT comment INFOTECH Indications are that the second billion subscribers will have needs quite different from those of the first billion tang weng fai BUILD it and they will come. The quote is from the movie The Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, about
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    • 295 18 Illegal copies of its next generation software go on sale AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Microsoft said yesterday it is working closely with the Malaysian government after pirated copies of its next generation computer operating system went on sale years before it is due for
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    • 272 18 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Advanced Micro Devices Inc's (AMD) newest microprocessor chip for server computers runs twice as many of the servers sold in the third quarter as a competing Intel Corp semiconductor, researcher IDC said. Computer makers shipped 10,746 servers with Opteron, the
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    • 150 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Internet sites operated by Walt Disney Co and anti-spam organisations including the Spamhaus Project are being targeted by a new strain of the "MiMail" computer worm, security-software makers said. The program, called MiMail.MM and discovered on Tuesday, tells recipients to
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    • 864 20  -  Gartner survey bullish on spending outlook in Asia-Pac, reports Amit Roy Choudhury Amit Roy Choudhury COMPANIES across the Asia-Pacific region will spend more on IT next year, with IT spending by companies in Singapore expected to rise by about 6 per
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    • 496 20  -  Expect robust growth for at least next two years: Semi president By Raju Chellam RIGHT on the heels of semiconductor makers announcing a bull run for chips next year, it is now the turn of semicon equipment makers to jump on
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    • 138 20 AFP [TAIPEI] The Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Paw, dubbed Taiwan's Silicon Valley, said yesterday it expAs record sales of more than NT$l trillion (5550.3 billion) nyct year as the global IT industry picks up steam. The park in northern Taiwan posted NTS7OO billion in
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    • 279 21 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 22 points to 4464, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 4 points to 6254, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 26 points to 4511 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 311 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER: Constant ia (built 1996) *****0 dwt delivery worldwide March
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    • 560 21  -  Economy of region will be affected if tanker disaster occurs: Fasa By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Warning of dire economic consequences for the entire Asean region should a pirate attack on a VLCC or chemical tanker end in catastrophe, the Federation of
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    • 138 21 Reuters [NEW YORK] A freighter spilled some 228,000 litres of heavy fuel oil in New York Harbour on Tuesday and some oil had reached the beach off Coney Island, the US Coast Guard said. The 200-metre bulk freighter Brussel, registered in Cyprus, reported that
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    • 354 21 Demand poshing freight rates to record high Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Precious Shipping, the second-best performer on the Thai stock exchange this year, may report its highest quarterly profit since 1999 for the three months ending Dec 31, after freight rates surged to a record. Thailand's
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    • 121 21 [NEW YORK] Star Cruises' US subsidiary Norwegian Cruise Line has advised the Republican political party against chartering its 2,240-passenger Norwegian Dawn liner as a floating hotel and entertainment centre for its upcoming national convention in New York. The party's plan to use the ship had been
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    • 424 21  -  They call for more practical phase-out of single-hull tankers By Beth Jinks (SINGAPORE] Asian shipowners have slammed the European Union (EU) decision to push ahead with a ban on single-hull tankers, and backed an alternative submission by four countries, including Singapore, that proposes a
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    • 220 21 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission said it will ask Latvia to ban single-hull oil tankers from its ports, in response to news that such a vessel will load a cargo of heavy fuel oil there and sail around the EU coast. The European
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    • BOEING 7E7
      • 997 22 Putting aside the current ethics controversy, the future of the US planemaker depends very much on it coming up with a successful new model to challenge Airbus NYT THE future of the Boeing Co, no matter its tumultuous present, rests in large part on
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      • 594 27 Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL BAYSWATER228 E3278 J3 A/SIDE 04/12 0230 CITRA LINE JBD01 J10 A/SIDE 04/12 0300 HARAPANMAK JBD01 J5 A/SIDE 04/12 0300 INDUSTRIAL C *****9 J7 A/SIDE 04/12 0100 MAS SUTRA MA048N J24 A/SIDE 04/12 0100 PULAU NANAS 10/03 J13 A/SIDE 04/12
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      • 159 27 DecS Thailand: King's Birthday. Dec 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. Dec 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dec 28 Singapore: Christmas Day. Philippines: Christmas Day. Malaysia: Christmas Day. Korea: Christmas Day. Hongkong: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Brazil: Christmas Day. Brunei: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day. France: Christmas Day. Germany: Christmas
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      • 794 27 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 averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 314 28 Bernama [NEW YORK] Malaysia Airlines (MAS), which has so far enjoyed a monopoly of non-stop flights between New York and Dubai, will soon face competition when the Dubai-based Emirates Airline launches its first direct flight on this route next April. "Competition
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      • 389 28 It revives plans for a possible share sale in Hong Kong Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Air China, the country's biggest international carrier, said it will make a profit in 2003, recovering from its 2 billion yuan (Ss4l4 million) first-half loss as air travel
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      • 150 28 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Aviation regulators petitioned US aircraft manufacturers and airlines to begin making quieter planes by 2006, but encouraged the industry to move more quickly on its own. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed an updated standard for all new jets and some propeller
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      • 326 28 AP [TORONTO] A group of Air Canada creditors is asking a Canadian bankruptcy court to consider a rival bid for the airline by Cerberus Capital Management, even though the airline has a deal with Trinity Time Investments. In a letter
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      • 215 28 AFP [ZURICH] The struggling airline Swiss said it would offer airplane fans a taste of flying with a new one-day, round-trip service to an unknown destination somewhere in Europe. These so-called "taster" tickets were a big success at collapsed carrier Swiss Air, which was
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        • 89 28 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air, Asia's fifth-largest carrier by sales, filled fewer seats with paying passengers in October than a year earlier, because it increased capacity in anticipation of more travel demand. The airline filled 70.3 per cent of its available seats with paying passengers in
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        • 81 28 AFP [MADRID] A court has ruled that the Spanish airport authority should pay a total 0f90,000 euros (S$180,000) to 188 passengers who suffered flight delays in 1998 and 1999, Spain's consumer watchdog OCU said. The consumer organisation took up the case in July last year on
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        • 80 28 Bloomberg [MEMPHIS, Tennessee] FedEx Corp, the world's largest overnight shipping company, raised its quarterly dividend 20 per cent, the first increase since the payout began in May 2002. The Memphis, Tennessee, company will pay 6 cents a share, up from the 5 cents that was paid
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      • 321 28 Foreigners, locals on Vietnam Airlines to pay same fare from Jan 1 Reuters (HANOIJ Flag-carrier Vietnam Airlines said yesterday it would repeal the two-tier price system for Vietnamese and foreigners from Jan 1 next year to boost tourism. "We will apply the same price for
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      • 511 28 Reopening of airspace will save time and money for airlines AFP [BOMBAY] India's airlines are expecting windfalls from the decision of its government and Pakistan to resume flights between the two countries after a twoyear hiatus, officials said Tuesday. International carrier
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      • 204 28 AP [BRUSSELS] The global package delivery service DHL said it had resumed flights to Baghdad last week, six days after one of its planes was hit by a missile on its approach to the airport. "From the advice we received, it is now a safe
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    • 17 21 I Air China expects return to profit backpage I MAS faces rivalry on Dubai-NY route backpage I
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    • 120 27 Issued by Meteorological Service Division,NEA LEGEND: r Thunderstorm Wind speed symbols Showers O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds R a j n One half fleche represents 5 knots Cloudy Day -One full fleche represents 10 knots >< Hazy A One solid triangle represents 50
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