The Business Times, 12 February 2002

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Internet: http://business-times.asial com.sg/ SINGAPORE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2002 MITA (P) 107/03/2001
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  • 69 1 □an 1,14MB (+4.26) IT-SU mm (+0.85) ST INDEX FUTU1ES 1,***** (+12.00) W% SDBCX FURIES UaM0(+2.90) STOCK KABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP Closed. NIKKEI 228 fln—f BANG SENG —10,***** *313.75 SET INDEX 3-56.94 +3.3-5 JAKARTA COMP _4*s.$5 +1.87 MANILA COMP AjtiM +21.61 TAJPE1WP1 Closed SEOll COMP iCtosed SHENZHEN
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  • 68 1 FOUX BATES ust St U8$ (S$ per IJSS) 1.833 £(ISS/SS per 1.417 1597 EIHOfUSS/SS/E). 0.873 1.600 DM 1241 1.28 YEN 134.9 73.60 RM 3.800 1073 HKS 7.800 4154 BAHT 43.91 23.95 RCPIAfl ***** 5,577 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 515 MALA LUMPIR 6.40 HONG KONG 8.125 JAKARTA 3900 TAIPEI 6.725 TOKYO
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  • 809 1  -  Capita Land, Allgreen, CityDev best positioned if public housing is privatised: broker By. Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Any move by the government to allow private developers to build public flats for the Housing Development Board will favour the major developers with larger balance sheets
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  • 1160 1  -  By Serena Ng, David Boey [SINGAPORE] Singapore's investment advisory and public relations firms are crying foul over the tactics used by some online investor education portals, which have moved to combine stock information services for the public with
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  • 53 1 [SINGAPORE] It's goodbye to the Year of the Snake. And after a tough year, Singaporeans are looking forward to the Year of the Horse, seen by many as a business-friendly year in the Chinese calendar. S'pore stock market trots into Tear of the Horae, Pg
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  • 595 1  -  COMMENTARY By Christopher Tan THE romance of the motor trade, if ever there was one to begin with, must now be truly over with the planned delisting of Inchcape Motors. Parent company Inchcape pic of London has decided to buy up the one-third
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  • 950 1  -  By\ Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Jobs Task Force chairman Ng Eng Hen has some good news for out-of-work executives: they'll be the first to be reemployed when the economy bounces back and companies start hiring. "The graduates, professionals,
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 71 1 DKOPE Enron Saga Former Enron chief Kenneth Lay will refuse to testify. Pg 13 Top Stories Singapore plans to tighten screening of shipping. Pg 2 Temasek in early redemption of US$l b of bonds. Pg2 Hock Lock Stew. Ifs just Chapter 2 ir the tale of Internet stocks. Pg 3
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    • 33 1 Lee Han Shih: HDB resale market might soon not be the same, Next Pg No BT tomorrow There will be no publication of The Business Times tomorrow. Publication will resume on Feb 14.
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    • 28 1 HDB resale market might soon not be the same Lee Han Shih, Page 2 Quiet session as stocks trot into Year of the Horse R Sivanithy. Pg 4
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    • 11 1 Jobs for execs Pages 7-9 On the executive merry-go-round, Pg 7
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    • 418 2  -  Bondholders better off with redemption than conversion to Sing Tel shares By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Temasek Holdings yesterday said it was calling for an early redemption of US$l billion in zero per cent guaranteed bonds exchangeable for Singapore Telecommunications shares so that
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    • 510 2 Some US officials say arms smuggling is now among their worst fears IHT [SINGAPORE! Singapore is preparing legislation to regulate trade in strategic goods, such as weapons of mass destruction, and will soon start consultations with the shipping industry and other interested parties
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    • 692 2  -  I comment PROPERTY lee han shih THIS could be the year the Housing and Development Board kicks the bottom out of the resale market for property agents. For nearly 40 years since it was set up in 1960, HDB has been
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    • 565 2  -  By< Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Millionaire hotelier and property developer Teo Lay Swee died on Sunday, aged 75. Well known for his zest for life, the quintessential Teochew towkay almost always had a ready smile even when all appeared bleak. "Life's to be enjoyed," he
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  • COMPANIES singnews
    • 460 3  -  Second largest shareholder's move comes despite his undertaking Byi Serena Ng THE second largest shareholder of People's Food Holdings sold some of his shares in the past few weeks sparking fears that it would depress the company's share price once again.
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    • 596 3 Net profit of $105 m to $135 m seen with no provisions CAPITALAND Ltd will likely turn around this year with net profit expected at $105 million to $135 million primarily on the absence of the heavy provisions which prompted the losses
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 43 3 SNP Corporation's subsidiary SNP SPrint has acquired 500,000 shares or 100 per cent of digital printing firm eOS Resource Management for $1.08 million. SNP Corp says that the acquisition will have no material impact on its current-year results.
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      • 78 3 RIG builder Keppel Fels expects to win two repair orders soon from US-based customers. The contracts are likely to be valued at tens of millions of US dollars, probably in "low double digits," says KepFels general manager Michael Chia. Marine business including rig building
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      • 218 3 KIM Eng Securities has upgraded ST Engineering to a "trading buy" from a "sell" ahead of the coming Asian Aerospace exhibition, which it expects will generate positive sentiment for the stock. Kim Eng says in a research report that it has a
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    • 612 3  -  !!*?•!'A lock siew paul chan SOME Singapore Internet companies have been back in the headlines lately after a two-year hiatus. That break is a decade in Internet time, so a pulse-rate check is due: After the dotcom bust, have these
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    • 197 3 Bloomberg AIROCEAN Group Ltd, which sells air cargo space for 16 carriers including Deutsche Lufthansa, plans to increase the number of airlines it represents to improve profit growth in the next fiscal year. Air Ocean wants to convince carriers that outsourcing the sale of cargo
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    • 820 3 Seoul market ready for re-rating ERC measures will boost S'pore economy Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] ING Investment Management Asia Pacific (Singapore) Pte Ltd is most bullish about the prospects for the Asian equity markets of South Korea, Singapore and Thailand. South
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      324 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 11 VALUE CLOSE BTO&QS -195.00 -36.00 BTCAM_ -*****.00 476.00 BT 10-4*y MA -*****.00 -19.00 HMtEpiw 456.23 +1.21 SS D>il 153.53 >1.68 SG EqaMcs Fla 1537.13 +0.61 SCrptiiPnp 455.73 ->-2.32 MSa Snsapor* 217.86 +0.28 SMSCt Fatam 219.60 +2.90 Stocks Volume PacflcCenturylOc 7,612.000 Chart SemtCond 6,380,000 CfitnaAvOil 5c
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    • 247 4  - Elec Eltek's technical indicators show weakness HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of contract manufacturer Elec Eltek International has weakened significantly during the past month. However, it closed two cents higher at U552.94 in yesterday's holi-day-shortened trading session. Volume was extremely thin, with just 49,000 shares changing hands
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    • 743 4  -  comment STOCKS r. sivanithy BULLS hoping that local stocks would gallop into the Year of the Horse had to be satisfied with a trot yesterday as prices firmed marginally in half-day trade ahead of the two-day Chinese New Year break. With little in
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    • 562 4  -  CURRENCIES Euro holds its own as US nnit remains soggy versus non-Asian counterparts larry wee A QUIET ending to the weekend's G7 meeting found the US dollar mixed during an abbreviated Asian session yesterday, although the euro showed a bit more promise of
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  • 3076 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Prices as at 2pm AM Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty!* 0 754/ Star Europe Bd 0 954/ Star Europe Bal 0 848/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0774/ Star Asia Bond 1.237/ Star Asia Balanced 0 837/ Star Global Technology Fund 02BI Star Bhv Finance Japan
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  • MAIL bag
    • 283 5  -  Thomas C Dawson CHALMERS Johnson's name-calling ("Economic Fanaticism Bad for Seoul", Feb 5) does not mask his failure to grasp the significance of the reforms embraced and sustained by South Korea after the 1997 financial crisis. His reasoning seems to suggest that Korea
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    • 198 5  -  Vincent Hoong I REFER to your article "iLied database set to rival new credit bureau" by Siow Li Sen (BT, Feb 5). The report states that William Lai is working on a "pooled legal requisition website to help lower the cost of buying property". The
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    • 552 5  -  Alex Thian Singapore I REFER to your article "SM spells out changes needed to boost entrepreneurship" by Chuang Peck Ming (BT, Feb 6). It was fascinating to hear Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew talk about entrepreneurial culture, in particular his insights on the issue
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    • 296 5  -  Vasu Menon I REFER to the letter "Don't trust unit trusts too much" by James Lim (Mailbag, Feb 7). He raised concerns about investing CPF money in unit trusts and warned that investors may get "a rude shock on retirement". As a unit trust distributor
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    • 331 5  -  Jaspal Singh Singapore I REFER to the letter "Don't let up on property speculators" by Tan Wei Ping (Mailbag, Jan 22). I am sick and tired of reading letters of complaint from "genuine" buyers every time there is a slight pick-up in
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 736 6  - Jiang comes into his own reassuring all ggMEHpH Ksmsxnsa OPINION frank chlng The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator JIANG Zemin was widely regarded as a lightweight and a transitional figure when he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 1989, succeeding Zhao Ziyang, who was
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    • 135 6 'Our case has got to be unique in modern world history. To start off with such abundance and end up this poor that takes a very special talent' Daniel MW an Argentine high-school teacher, as he sat with friends at an outdoor cafe on Buenos Aires' Avenida
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    • 609 6 EDITORIAL MUCH has been made of the fact that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's fall from grace among Japanese voters has put his so-called reforms in peril. Yet Mr Koizumi's reforms were never really what was needed and dismay at his setbacks is clearly misplaced.
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    • 1103 6  -  That's a truism for a gardener. Economists, however, hope that corporate earnings will hold np and that it'll also ring trne for the US economy By] Edward Yardeni The writer is chief investment strategist at Deutsche Bank ONE of my favourite movies is
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    • 889 6  -  COMMENTARY That is what's holding India backnot a plethora of regulations By 1 Patrick Smith The writer is a former Bloomberg correspondent in Asia and the author of 'Japan: A Reinterpretation The opinions expressed are his own. Bloomberg [BOMBAY] In his busy office in the
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  • FOCUS jobs
    • 873 7  -  Temporary jobs offer plenty of opportunities for laid-off executives, and are likely to grow in importance even after the recession as the economy changes. CHUAKG pecs mxng finds out why CHUANG PECK MING ONE reason la id-off executives often cite these days about how hard it
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    • 297 7  -  4 the economy job ads By Adeline Chiah FIRST, the bad news: Total job advertisement volume was down 42 per cent in January, compared with the same month last year. Now, the good news: That is easily the smallest contraction so far.
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    • 601 7  -  Search firm's index up 22% in Jan from Q3 2001; senior jobs most wanted in health, manufacturing, bio-sciences By, Anna Teo EXECUTIVE hiring appears to be back up to pre-Sept 11 levels, going by the newspaper ad count. But compared with a year ago,
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    • 1644 8  -  by Chuang Peck Ming In true Keynesian form, the public sector has kept the job tap flowing in these recessionary times. But employment in the private sector has not exactly dried up either there are still pockets of jobs available, especially for the less choosy executive
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    • 1077 9  -  Outplacement services suss out new careers for retrenched staff but few local companies engage these 'corporate undertakers', ukka too reports ANNA TEO LITTLE wonder they have been called "corporate undertakers" theirs is one industry that thrives when the economy is in tatters and people
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    • in short
      • 167 9 ONE of the erstwhile two hot vacancies in the corporate sector has been filled. Australian lan Macdonald has come on board Hong Leong Singapore Finance as president, but the four-month search for Alex Au's successor at OCBC Bank continues. While executive search firm
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      • 108 9 MEANWHILE, the NUS Business School has set up a career services office to match employers with its graduates. The aim is two-fold, it says. It wants to help students develop their potential as global managers, business and industry leaders, via skills training and career
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      • 128 9 THE public accounting firms will be taking in few new graduates this year. "Given the recent economic climate and conservative outlook, our intake for 2002, which was completed in the last quarter of 2001, was at a substantially lower level than that of
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 664 10 KUALA LUMPUR Analysts feel Mr D&im's resignation speeded np business revamp Reuters THE restructuring of billions of dollars of bad loans and overhauls of Malaysia's biggest debtors have raised hopes the country is swallowing long-overdue medicine for corporate ills laid bare by Asia's financial crisis.
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    • 442 10 SANDAKAN, Malaysia Reuters BUSINESS has been slow for months for Khui Lin Lee, a tour guide who organises trips to the orang-out-an rehabilitation centre near Sandakan, Sabah. The three little islands off Sandakan bay where visitors can organise day trips
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    • NOTE Book
      • 103 10 Reuters [BANGKOK] A minor Thai opposition party will switch to the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, further boosting his huge majority and prompting a minor cabinet reshuffle, the English-language Nation newspaper reported yesterday. Dr Thaksin planned to make unspecified cabinet changes before the
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      • 87 10 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian prosecutors yesterday questioned Parliament Speaker Akbar Tandjung for the second time since declaring him a suspect in the apparent embezzlement of 40 billion rupiah (Ss7.l million) in state funds intended for the poor. Mr Akbar arrived at the attorney-general's nffiry accompanied by
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      • 81 10 AFX [HONG KONG] Galaxy Casino Co Ltd is planning to spend HKIIO billion (552.3 billion) building a new hotel and casino in Macau, reported the Hong Kong Economic Journal, citing K Wah International chairman Lui Che Woo. K Wah International is one of the investors
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      • 83 10 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines may quit the Cairns Group after failing to gain the 18-member association's support for its appeal against European Union tariffs on tuna exports, Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas said. The Cairns Group, an association of agricultural exporting nations, left the Philippines and
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      • 58 10 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's bankruptcy court postponed a ruling on Italian-Thai Development's 20 billion baht (SJB34 million) debt restructuring plan after the company's adviser asked for time to revise the plan. Yesterday's delay comes after the court delayed a Jan 24 ruling because creditors opposed
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      • 82 10 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Petrochemical Industry creditors refused a request by the nation's largest loan defaulter for an extra year in which to raise US$2OO million from asset sales, an official at the company's manager said. Two of the company's about 100 creditors, which earlier agreed
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    • 817 11 JAKARTA High brand awareness, mostly clean loans work in Indon bank's Savour Reuters WITH 800 branches, a million transactions a day through its automated teller machines and national brand recognition akin to Coca-Cola, suitors should be all over Indonesia's Bank Central Asia. But
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    • 107 11 AFX-Asia THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) has appointed Arthur Andersen as financial adviser on the proposed merger of five banks, the Jakarta Post reported citing Ibra spokesman Suryo SusUo. The banks slated for merger are Bank Bali, Bank Universal, Bank Patriot, Bank
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    • 99 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday told officials to go out and check reports they receive and not to be desk-bound. "I want bureaucrats not only to sit behind their desks," Ms Megawati told the opening of a meeting of the Ministry for Administrative
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    • 187 11 BANGKOK SET says including foreign shares will boost market cap AFX-Asia THAILAND'S Securities Exchange Commission has asked Morgan Stanley Capital International to include the Non-Voting Depository Receipts (NVDRs) held by foreign investors to its investment weighting system. "We raised the idea with MSCI representatives early
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    • 276 11 HONGKONG AFP HUNDREDS of thousands of people from Hong Kong are heading for the Chinese mainland for the Chinese New Year holidays, despite caUs for them to stay home to help revive the territory's sagging economy, immigration authorities said yesterday. Some
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    • 1101 12  -  The message Is clean military might alone cannot rtftllvw pea ce WRITER'S JOURNAL karim raslan THE Asian financial crisis and fears of contagion dominated the Davos meeting back in 1998. The year after, in 1999, the participants were dazzled by the Internet and the
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    • 275 12 AFP CHINA launched a new salvo yesterday against a European Union decision to suspend imports of some Chinese foodstuffs on health grounds, accusing Brussels of breaking World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. "The EU's decision to ban imports of the Chinese products is using
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    • 210 12 HONGKONG AFP HONG KONG supermarket chains are planning to import rice directly after 47-year-old restrictions on importers are lifted as expected next year, it was reported yesterday. Leading supermarkets including Wellcome, ParknShop and China Resources plan to enter the rice importing business after the liberalisation
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  • FOCUS enron
    • 483 13 Stilling could face peijury charges as investigators doubt his sworn testimony Reuters, AP [WASHINGTON] Former Enron Corp chairman and chief executive Kenneth Lay will refuse to testify today when he appears under subpoena before a Congressional committee probing the collapse of
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    • 139 13 AFP [NEW YORK] Former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling failed to convince even his own mother that he was out of the loop as he told Congress last week —on the company's accounting woes that led to its collapse, Newsweek reported on Sunday. "When
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    • 269 13 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] While the Bush administration was drafting its national energy policy, a leading lobbyist for Enron Corp was plotting strategy to turn the plan into a political weapon against Democrats, according to a newly obtained memo. Edward Gillespie, who parlayed his close ties
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  • WORLD news
    • 816 14 NEW YORK Role allowing them to wait 13 months to disclose sales to their company must go, say analysts NYT AMERICAN corporate executives have found a way, without breaking the law, to delay telling the public when they sell their own
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    • 419 14 NEW YORK Forex traders suspicious of John Rusnak even earlier Dow Jones, NYT ALL FIRST Financial Inc, the US subsidiary of Allied Irish Banks Pic (AIB), became concerned about problems in its currency trading business around the end of December, the Financial
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    • 284 14 ■BUENOS AIRES Pressure on peso seen when markets open after a week's suspension AFP THE Argentine government insisted on Sunday that it had sufficient reserves to support the peso when currency markets reopen with a full floatation of the peso after
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    • 329 14 SYDNEY Bloomberg IN less than a minute, a few missed keystrokes sliced US$3.9 million off the market value of News Corp after TD Waterhouse Group Inc bungled an order. The third-biggest discount brokerage sold 600,000 News Corp shares for as low as
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    • 383 14 AFP [LONDON] British Prime Minister Tony Blair was facing a new party funding scandal yesterday, after he was accused of intervening to help an Indian billionaire supporter buy a Romanian steel company. The Labour Party leader returned from a four-nation tour of western
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    • 235 14 SANTA CLARA AFP A SILICON Valley start-up yesterday claimed that it has invented a computer chip that enables digital cameras to produce images rivalling those made on 35-millimetre film. The company, Foveon, said it has accomplished that milestone by using
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 284 15 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose seven points to 922, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 13 points to 912, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell four points to 6,594 and the Baltic Capes ize Index (BCI) was up nine points to 1,121. ♦Prima n (built 1981)
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    • 263 15 win a m CWT Distribution 0.62 -OOI 82 ChoanHup_—041 «ncti 768 Coaco Inuostinonl —(X23 unch 481 rrotaM Links ___007 unct) 42 G0HoMbigs 0.53 unch 0 IMCIMMIngs IX S40 unch 0 Joya Holdings 0.19 uneh 63 Koppol Corp 426 O.K) 1814 Koppol Marino 021 unch 33S Mppol Tot* L09 uncfi
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    • 410 15  -  IMO meeting to review maritime security in the aftermath of Sept 11 attacks By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] International security experts will gather in London next week at the headquarters of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to discuss maritime security and counter-terrorism issues. A special
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    • 224 15  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) says Evergreen Marine Corp will maintain some 62 vessels currently registered under the Panamanian flag despite comments by Evergreen's chairman last week that the Taiwanese carrier would reflag most of its current
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    • Article, Illustration
      355 15 PEOPLE Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise (SALE) has appointed Graham Lacs as its first US-based representative. Based out of Washing DC, Mr Lees will hold the position of senior vice-president marketing SALE USA Corporation. He has 22 years experience in the commercial aerospace sector and joins SALE from Fairchild
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    • PORT Shots
      • 98 15 [SINGAPORE] Member lines of the Mediterranean Rate Agreement (MRA) have reduced the war risk surcharge for cargo to and from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria by US$lO per TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). The surcharge is now US$75 per box following a re view by the regional
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      • 109 15 [SINGAPORE] UK shipping and transport group Crescent pic has focused its operations on short sea tanker and freight ferry operations after exiting the short sea dry bulk sector. Crescent has sold nine vessels over the last year as part of long-term plans to "focus
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    • 93 15 [SINGAPORE] The largest cruise liner ever to sail the Pacific Rim arrived in Singapore yesterday to begin its maiden cruise. The 109,000 gross tonne, 2,6oopassenger capacity cruise super liner, P&O's Star Princess, sailed to PSA Corporation's Pasir Panjang Wharves direct from her Italian shipyard
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    • 184 15 AP [SAN FRANCISCO. California] A ship that sank nearly 50 years ago is to blame for a mystery oil spill that has killed more than 1,300 birds since November, Coast Guard officials said. The Guard matched oil samples taken
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    • EUROPEAN aviation
      • 966 16 Fast expanding budget earners are ousting struggling full-service airlines from intra-European routes Reuters [LONDON] THE future of full-service airlines in the European shorthaul market looks increasingly difficult as business and economy passengers alike move to cheaper seats, especially on rapidly expanding budget carriers. As
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      • 264 24 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System (MAS) said on Friday that it had revised the total consideration for its proposed sale of eight aircraft to RM3.87 billion (551.86 billion) from RM4.13 billion. The loss-making airline said the reduction in the price was
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