The Business Times, 20 July 1998

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 110/12/97 C SINGAPORE Internet: http://www.asial.com.sg/biztimes MONDAY, JULY 20, 1998
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  • 57 1 STOCK MAEKET DTOICBS Wfeek Change STU 1,096.10. +4.75 BT-SRI 480.01 +25 J KLSE COMP 445.31 _+16.69 NIKKEI 16,570.78 ...+488.72 HANG SENG 8,628.98 ...+423.16 SET INDEX...... 295.28 +21.02 JAKARTA COllP. 486.23 ,__+22.65 MANILA COMR.—1,787.26. -14.95 TAIPEI WPI. AflSMO.....+156.64 SEOUL OOMP .330.35 —+25J8 CLSA CHINA B 713.86 -46.01 AlvST ALL
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  • 78 1 FOBEX BATES USI SI USI 1.690 (USt/SI per 1.640 1772 DM 1.788 ..0.945 YEN 13I.I 1.21C Ml— 4.090 0.418 HKI 7.748 0118 BAHT .40.53 0.042 RLPIAH ***** ..0.013* *S$ to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 7 88 KUALA LUMPUR 1150 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK J475 MANILA. .2190 HONGKONG 1025 TAIPEI
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  • 744 1  -  Several companies studying this as an alternative way to raise funds By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The first ever issue of asset-backed securities by a Singapore company to raise money is on the way, if discussions now in progress produce a deal.
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  • 584 1  -  PCS' two complexes in S'pore may have to cut output if tough conditions continue By\ Ronnie Lim ASIAN petrochemicals demand and prices have fallen by a third in the last 12 months and regional producers, including Singapore's two complexes, are hit,
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  • 449 1  -  By\ Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] A newly-re-structured Indian Business Group, established under the auspices of the Singapore Trade Development Board, left for a visit to India yesterday aimed at establishing contacts with the new Indian government. The group is led by
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  • 669 1 Forecasts of contraction range from 0.5-1.5%, bnt Q3 rebound expected Reuters [NEW YORK] The US economy may have shrunk for the first time in seven years during the second quarter, with some Wall Street economists forecasting a contraction of up to 1.5
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    • 152 1 nfsmE 3(Ws plan fa* STpore mannfactoring facility 3Com Corp plans to produce its entire range of high-volume networking products at its new manufacturing facility. Its senior vice-president for enterprise systems, Ronald Sege, said additional manufacturing facilities were warranted to fill the boom in networking demand worldwide, BufakeatlT P*lo New tefeoms
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    • 52 1 Perils of the 'property economy* 'One of the many lessons of Asia's crisis is that any economy with a towering property sector where prices are permitted to rocket for years on end is asking for trouble, no matter how healthy the rest of that economy may be.* See Crisis Watch,
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    • 56 1 PDBSSHDBHHDODDDB y*. WJi I Serving the Latest Culinary Style New Asia Cuisine, m an Exotic Blend of Eastern Western Cooking A k M j, Serving Authentic jM Hunan Sichuan Specialities. One of Singapore's Restaurants L 1 g am m f y *■> S*w»AffAS 11 Cann »ng Walk, Singapore *****1. Tel:
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 603 2  -  But Sing Tel rivals expect improvements this year, with Ml likely to post profit By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] The three new mobile phone and paging companies which started commercial operations in April last year chalked up combined losses
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    • 224 2 The Straits Times ELECTRONIC road-pricing is starting a month early on the Central Expressway, not to generate extra income for the government, but to ensure a smooth extension of the system in September, Parliamentary Secretary (Communications) Yaacob Ibrahim said yesterday. It starts
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    • 323 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Retail By, Jenny Lam THE latest official retail sales report has confirmed retailers' fears that business is slowing further the retail sales index continued to fall in May, by 8.5 per cent in volume terms from the same month last year.
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    • NEWSRoundup
      • 94 2 THE first weekend sales of the relaunch of Mimosa Terrace has met with a poorer-than-expected response, with less than a handful of the landed units sold, according to a spokesman of the developer Sembawang Estates. The main board-listed company had relaunched the first phase of
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      • 85 2 GLAXO Wellcome Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of the world's largest pharmaceutical company Glaxo Wellcome pic, has set up its operational headquarters in Singapore. It was recently awarded the Operational Headquarters status certificate by Economic Development Board chairman Philip Yeo. Glaxo's OHQ here will provide
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 648 3  -  LETTER FROM BANGKOK Pauline Kanchanalah laces PS charges, but Thais gaa har a* a h<*rolnft By Harish Mehta MANY Thais think that what is happening to Thai businesswoman and Washington lobbyist, Pauline Kanchanalak, is very unfair. They feel that their government has not
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    • 163 3 MANILA Reuters FOREIGN and Filipino businessmen have pulled out US$3 billion (Sss.l billion) in deposits from the Philippines since last year, partly because of an upsurge in kidnapping and other crimes, the government said yesterday. Presidential Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora called the amount "staggering"
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    • 522 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bot papers' owners say resignations not dne to politics Reuters MALAYSIAN opposition leaders warned of a government crackdown on press freedom yester&ty dffer the resignation of a second top newspaper editor within a week. As the group editor of newspaper Berita
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    • 437 3 ■YANGON Opposition leader renews call for talk* with military junta AFP OPPOSITION leader Aung San Suu Kyi hinted that Myanmar's parliament may be convened in defiance of the junta, in comments released yesterday as the country marked the anniversary of the
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 563 4  -  Others expected to follow suit after Gho Hung Bank chiefs resignation Frorn, Jennifer Veale in Seoul THE head of one of South Korea's seven ailing commercial banks under growing pressure to step down has resigned and the others are
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    • 460 4 World's 2nd largest economy unable to poll region ont of the doldrums Reuters [HONGKONG] Political and economic upheavals in Japan threaten the worst of all worlds for the rest of Asia, analysts said on Saturday. For months, Japan has been described
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    • 496 4 Reuters [TOKYO] Two of the three candidates to become Japan's prime minister said yesterday they would seek to get the recession-bound economy growing at a strong 3 per cent rate if elected. Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi said he thought it was unavoidable
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    • 386 4 AFP [BEIJING] The weakening of the Japanese yen could threaten China's attempts to keep its economic growth on track in the second half of the year, but state media yesterday reaffirmed a pledge not to devalue its currency. "The deteriorating situation will make it
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    • 714 4  -  CRISIS WATCH Asia needs to reassess the sector's role By Vikram Khanna ONE of my favourite quotes on the Asian economic crisis comes from Robert Zielinski, head of Asian banking research at Jardine Fleming Securities. "The real threat to South-east Asia was not communism,"
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    • 467 4 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF CHINATOWN ALLEY DEPARTMENTAL STORE PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of CHINATOWN ALLEY DEPARTMENTAL STORE PTE LTD. duly convened and held on 17th July 1998 the following was duly
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 601 5  -  Taiwan's seven largest DRAM producers stand to lose NTs26b, industry sources say From, Laurence Eyton in Taipei IF confirmation that the industry was in dire straits was needed, Taiwan's dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip makers got it last Friday when Acer Semiconductor
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    • 356 5 BEIJING Authorities prepare for floods in middle reaches of Yangtze Reuters CHINA has evacuated 132,000 people stranded by swollen waters near the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River and warned local authorities to prepare for heavy flooding, officials and state media said
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    • 469 5 TAIPEI Island on alert following Friday's killer quake as officials warn of aftershocks AFP TWO earthquakes rattled Taiwan yesterday, as the island remained on tenterhooks after a bigger quake on Friday killed five people and officials warned further aftershocks were likely. The central weather bureau
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    • 337 5 TAIPEI Reuters THERE will be plenty of talk but no surprises are expected when Taiwan's leaders meet this week to discuss the island's policies towards archfoe China. The National Unification Council is scheduled to hold an annual meeting on Wednesday on
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    • 343 5 BEIJING AFP OUTSPOKEN Chinese dissident Mao Guoliang has been detained by police in a widening crackdown on a new prodemocracy opposition party in eastern China, dissident sources said on Saturday. Mr Mao, a teacher in Anji city, Zhejiang province, was picked up
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  • ASIA
    • 290 6 SEOUL Hyundai braces for new strike amid police crackdown Reuters [SEOUL] South Korean police arrested a militant union leader yesterday in a crackdown on protests against layoffs as Hyundai Motor Co workers braced for a new strike, reports said. Ko Yong Ju, secretarygeneral of the
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    • 342 6 NEW DELHI New Delhi wants UN Security Council seat, nncle&r status AFP INDIA is willing to sign a nuclear global test ban treaty if it is granted the status of a nuclear weapons state and a permanent seat in the
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    • 277 6 KARACHI AFP PAKISTANI business leaders and politicians yesterday denounced a government move to raise petrol prices to offset the impact of nuclear sanctions. They warned that it will send inflation spiralling and invite public wrath. The oil price hike will increase costs rendering
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    • 251 6 PORT MORESBY Officials say 600 bodies have been recovered so far AFP THE death toll from Papua New Guinea's tidal wave disaster could be anything between 1,000 and 2,000 people, officials said yesterday as bodies were retrieved from the sea. Disaster control officials
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  • THE WORLD
    • 258 7 LONDON Bloomberg UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said he will unveil a government policy document today to boost public transportation and seek to limit the private use of automobiles, particularly in cities. Mr Prescott said his "radical" new policy
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    • 403 7 PARIS Central banks seen content to let market forces keep inflation in check Bloomberg MORE evidence of moderate growth and low inflation in countries joining a European common currency will allow the Bundesbank and the French central bank to leave interest rates
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    • 359 7 JOHANNESBURG Reuters A CRITICAL report of South Africa's ability to deliver prosperity to millions of poor blacks will dog its financial markets today, as the country enters the 10th week of a bruising currency crisis. Influential rating agency Moody's Investor
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    • 323 7 WASHINGTON PC maker had opted for Microsoft over other sofware firms Reuters [WASHINGTON] Pressure tactics by Microsoft Corp often led computer maker Acer America Corp to use the software giant's products instead of its competitors', according to a former Acer product manager. Ricardo Correa
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    • 322 7 GENEVA She also faces similar charges of alleged money laundering Reuters [GENEVA] A Geneva judge has formally indicted former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's husband for alleged money laundering and is planning to issue similar charges against her, Swiss judicial officials said yesterday. The Swiss
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    • 61 9 f United Technologies is a $25 billion corporation that provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to customers in the aerospace, building and automotive industries worldwide. United Technologies' best-known products include Pratt Whitney aircraft engines, Otis elevators and escalators, Carrier heating and air conditioning systems, Hamilton Standard
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  • BUSINESSIT
    • 588 10  -  Initial investment of $119m to expand to cover most 3Com products By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Networking giant 3Com Corp plans to produce its entire range of highvolume networking products at its US$7O million ($ll9 million) new manufacturing facility that just went onstream early
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    • 280 10 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Microsoft, the largest maker of personal-com-puter software, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co, Japan's largest telecommunications company, agreed to develop software to enable commerce on the Internet. Under the agreement, Tokyo-based NTT will build on Microsoft's electronic-com- merce software to develop
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    • 349 10  -  The regional office will also have space for training Adobe's distributors, sellers By\ Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Desktop publishing software company Adobe Systems has opened a new office in Singapore which, among other things, will provide more support for its customers in
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    • ITTAKES
      • 102 11 [SINGAPORE] A host of organisations can now put their electronic calendars under one common Web site at www.CalendarONE.com. This electronic service, CalendarONE, offers a one-stop Web site where people can search for events of their interest. Organisations that put up their electronic diary there have the option of
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      • 73 11 [SINGAPORE] SAP, through its training arm Sapient College, is partnering Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to run a high technology skills upgrading programme worth $2.5 million. This initiative by SAP is aimed primarily at enhancing the skills of workers and will involve SAP R/3 software being installed, taught
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      • 51 11 [SINGAPORE] Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) says its new textual search tool, Flexible and Swift Tabulation Tool (Fastab), may be used in the next population census by the Department of Statistics. KRDL showcased this new search solution at an "IT Market Day" event in Singapore
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      • 32 11 [SINGAPORE] Aztech Systems has appointed Micro Village Sdn Bhd as its distributor for modems in Malaysia. Micro Village will recruit new resellers and has signed up 20 resellers.
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      • 93 11 [SINGAPORE] The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the Semiconductor Group of Siemens AG signed on July 16 a research collaboration agreement to jointly develop Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) technology on flexible substrates for commercial applications. OLED-based displays have low power consumption and
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      • 62 11 [SINGAPORE] IBM and NEC have agreed to establish a digital watermarking standard to electronically protect the copyright of digital contents such as Digital Video Discs (DVDs). The two firms plan to integrate their electronic watermark technology for motion pictures and present their single
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      • 55 11 [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Datacraft Asia, a communications and network systems integrator, has won a US$BOO,OOO (Ssl.3 billion) contract from Seed Net, an Internet Service Provider in Taiwan. Under the contract, Datacraft will build a high speed backbone network for Seed Net. The value of the contract is
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      • 38 11  -  -Compiled by 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Xylan Corporation, a provider of switching systems, will announce on July 24 the appointment of UIC Network Distribution as its authorised distributor in South-east Asia.
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    • 421 11  -  By) Kenneth Goh [SINGAPORE] Novell's chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has industry players and analysts sitting up and taking notice again of the company's direction and initiatives, according to Nick Jackson, director, Business Development for Novell Asia-Pacific. "Analysts have turned
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    • 667 11  -  Companies doing it using different paths By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Pacific Internet and Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) are taking different paths in going regional. Sing Tel plans to offer a regional network dedicated to corporate customers, its business communications managing director Victor
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    • 479 11 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian software companies that can provide more services to companies that just piecemeal programming will grow faster, analysts said. Software companies have done well and most of them have been stellar stocks. Infosys Technologies Ltd has gained
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    • 691 13  -  Regional chief Paul Chan banking on strong financials and quick absorption of Digital talent, reports humhhpi'h JAMES KENNETH JAMES [SINGAPORE] THE Compaq colossus wasn't immune to Asia's economic flu after all, but it's anything but bedridden. Compaq Computer Corp revealed last week that unit
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    • 679 13  -  By Saw Ken Wye The author is managing director of Microsoft Singapore WITHIN a decade, the majority of Singaporeans and others around the world will be living a Web lifestyle. It will be a reflex to turn to the Web for news, education, entertainment and communication,
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    • 467 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Testing began last Monday of Wall Street's computer readiness for the year 2000, to murmurs of unease. An executive for a leading securities trade group said some were concerned over the decision to exclude trading volume. "There is concern about
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    • 526 13 WITH the acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp, some hard decisions had to be made. One is now clear: Digital is dead. Or will be, soon. In an interview with BusinesslT, Compaq vice-presi-dent and Asia-Pacific managing director Paul Chan stated firmly: "We will be
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    • ONTHESHELF
      • 66 14 CANON Inc has launched its new Photoßealism inkjet printer, which also prints on metallic and transparent stickers and offers raised (3D) printing effects. Called the BJC-2555P, the $269 product comes with Image Optimizer software and Super Fun Pack 2 for specialised sticker printing. Canon says it also
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      • 99 14 DELL Computer Corp has announced price cuts of up to 11.4 per cent on select models of its OptiPlex corporate desktop computers. The discounts are on the GXI- and Gl Pentium 11-based systems, both introduced just a few months ago. The OptiPlex Gxl 6400
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      • 71 14 GATEWAY Inc has also announced price cuts of 10 per cent on its E-Series desktop computers running on Pentium II processors. The E-4200 350 running 350 MHz with 64 MB RAM and 6.4 GB hard drive will now cost $2,880. The E-3100 333 running
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      • 45 14 SYMANTEC Inc has launched Norton Protected Desktop Solution that detects and kills computer viruses, optimises desktop performance, repairs software errors, fixes hard disk problems, and offers a common look and feel for desktops throughout the organisation. For details, fax *****43.
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      • 64 14 CREATIVE Technology said its PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 drive is now available for the mass consumer market "at a new low price of U*****.99". The system offers simultaneous viewing of video on a PC and TV with composite or S-Video outputs, supports all CD-ROM formats, including previously unsupported
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      • 89 14 LOTUS Development Corp has introduced the Smart Suite Millennium Edition, with integrated speech recognition, collaborative Internet functionality and file compatibility. It features enhanced versions of the 1-2-3 spreadsheet, WordPro word processor, Freelance Graphics presentation manager, Approach database, Organizer scheduler, Screen Cam multimedia tool, Lotus Mail e-mail,
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      • 50 14  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam DELL Computer Corp says it will ship Microsoft's latest Windows 98 operating system on its desktop and notebook PCs for home and small business customers in the Asia-Pacific, with a planned rollout over the next few weeks on its corporate products.
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    • 567 14  -  Tie-up with Cisco, Oracle and EMC to cover solutions and services also By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard Company last week announced it will offer what it says is the industry's first comprehensive set of high availability (HA) solutions and services in collaboration with three
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    • 210 14 [SINGAPORE] BusinesslT spoke with some of the other mjOor vendors to check their offerings in the HA arena: ♦International Business Machines Corp: It invented HA with its mainframe technology's 99.999 per cent uptime. Big Blue's HA Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) runs on RS/6000 Unix servers
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    • 245 14 Reuters [LONDON] British supermarket chain Waitrose and computer systems manufacturer ICL Ltd has unveiled the world's first workplace shopping scheme. The free service, Waitrosezwork, would allow workers to order normally-priced groceries from their desktop computer, which would then be delivered to the office for
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 667 16  -  Visitors leave Althorp with money to burn, says krupp CHARLA KRUPP NYT WHAT A time to be in London. It was the high season of sales! And a chance to be among the first to make the pilgrimage to Althorp, the 3,434-ha ancestral home
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    • 538 16 MOVIES Studios examining formula of spending more to earn more Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Hollywood is learning a lesson in summer school: success can't always be bought, even by a giant rampaging lizard or a Texas-sized asteroid. Sony Corp and Walt Disney Co each spent almost
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  • Companies & Markets
    • 470 17  -  Chain, already in the black at store level, is set to boost group earnings soon By Jenny Lam [SINGAPORE] Riding high from selling coffee, Bonvests Holdings plans to invest about $15 million to expand its Starbucks Coffee chain to 40 outlets from
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    • 914 17  -  HAMO SEVO DfSIOHT Airport debacle heralds a prolonged slump, with one chartist predicting HE will be the last to recover In the region By Quak Hiang Whai WHAT a turn of events. Hongkong's new airport which was just about the only bright spark left which could
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 238 18 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Daimler-Benz AG expected its merger with Chrysler Corp to close sooner than previously expected, with strong backing from both companies' shareholders, German newspapers said on Saturday. The combined group, Daimler-Chrysler AG, hoped to become a registered company in November, several weeks earlier
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      • 360 18 Electronics parts maker among [{rowing list of firms hit by Asian crisis Bloomberg [HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania] AMP Inc, the world's biggest maker of electronic connectors, plans to close three US plants and cut 3,500 jobs, or 7.5 per cent
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      • 388 19 A few thousand lots forecast for debut tomorrow, but rapid growth expected Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's first futures exchange, the Taiwan International Mercantile Exchange Corp, is expected to begin with only moderate trading at its debut tomorrow, but officials forecast rapid growth. "We expect
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      • 263 19  -  By I Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Manulife Reinsurance plans to close its Asia-Pacific regional branch office in Singapore in the next few months. Its managing director, Paul Smith, told BT that during this period before closure, Manulife Reinsurance will be "working closely
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        • 139 19 Bloomberg [PFAEFFIKON, Switzerland] Swiss brokerage OZ Holding AG said it cut its stake in OM Gruppen AB, a Swedish provider of derivatives trading and clearing services, to 4.18 per cent from 5.4 per cent in April. OZ r p < uce< i* B investment
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        • 68 19 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Aluminum Co of America, the world's largest aluminum producer, filed to sell as much as US$l.O5 billion (Ssl.B billion) of debt securities, common or preferred shares, or trust preferred securities. Alcoa plans to use the money being raised for general purposes such
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      • 486 19 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] FPB Bank Holdings Co shares jump 28 per cent after a newspaper report that two US commercial banks might buy in. Kwong On Bank Ltd shares gain 8 per cent amid speculation that China-con-trolled Ka Wah Bank Ltd may
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      • 335 19 Fond will be used to provide for bad loans, says bank Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Lippo Bank, the second largest bank in Indonesia that isn't controlled by the government, said it will use a 450 billion rupiah (Sss7 million) foreign exchange windfall to provision against
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      • 247 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Rory Macnamara, a senior director for corporate finance at Deutsche Bank AG in London, intends to announce his resignation today, said a person familiar with Deutsche Bank. Mr Macnamara, 43, is the former deputy chairman of investment banking and
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      • 467 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The fate of the US bond market this week lies with two men: Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and whomever Japan's ruling party names as prime minister. Mr Greenspan could move the market tomorrow with his semiannual testimony to
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      • 523 20  -  SIWBX Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] The forex market is expected to swing into full action tomorrow as the Tokyo market is closed today and US Federal Reserve chairman Alan
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      • 786 20 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] The base metals market received a longawaited boost last week from hopes that the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto would lead to structural economic reforms in Japan. Investors hope that the person who succeeds Mr Hashimoto will
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      • 273 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stocks are expected to take a breather in the week ahead if there is no positive external news to boost market sentiment, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index added 5.1 per cent over the week to Friday. "The market
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      • 845 22 d Sydney *<t8 AUSTRALIAN stocks rode a wave of positive sentiment over the week but analysts said their short-term future remained uncertain especially while Japan negotiated a period of political change. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index jumped 66.8 points, or 2.4 per
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      • 623 22 NEW YORK Dow hits new record on strong quarterly earnings reports Bloomberg AFP BLUE chip stocks on Wall Street had their best week since late June, with investor appetite for high-tech shares and publication of solid quarterly results fuelling the rise. The
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      • 386 22 LONDON AFP THE London Stock Exchange followed Wall Street sharply higher last week, testing a string of record highs, despite conflicting signals on the state of the British economy. The FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares rose by 244.3 points, or 4.1 per cent, to
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      • 1824 22 fl Paris +132J3 FRENCH stocks rose on Friday, with the benchmark index reaching a record, led by Axa SA after the insurer said it will buy new shares in its US securities unit, increasing its holding. The benchmark CAC 40 Index climbed 30.35 points, or 0.7 per
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      • 386 22 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are likely to stay firm in the coming week as market participants pin hopes on a new premier to be elected on July 24, brokers said last Friday. "The market chose hope rather than concern" following the
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      • 456 23 AFP Q Composite Index +16.69 TRADING in the Malaysian bourse is likely to remain weak in the coming days, despite a 3.9 per cent surge in share prices in the week to Friday, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted Composite
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      • 155 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy CONTINUING our recent theme of focusing on mainly in-the-money warrants, today's feature is Lindeteves-Jacoberg's warrant, which has some interesting features. Time is not a problem since expiry is in August 2002. L-J's warrant is just in-the-money its shares
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      392 26 Source: Source: JM Sassoon awfa Votaao •MBf Capital 37.575.000 •M Resources 29.470.000 SingTel 15c 25.906,000 DBS Land 23.299.000 U»C 21.704,000 TAC Bt10 200 21,599,000 D6S Foreign 18,978,000 •Pub Bk Foreign 16,846,000 U06 Foreign 16,041.000 •RHB Up »t99 15,223.000 Stocks DBS Foreign 176,963,616 SPM 152,035.085 UOB Foreign 86.238,486 OCBC Foreign 82,169,054
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      70 26  -  by Shiv Taneja Malayan Banking dosed six cents higher on Friday at $1.55 on a volume of 2.17 mithan stares, compared with its 10day traded average of 882,700 stuns. Investors expecting more upside may be disappointed as the My and weekly RSI and Stochastics are headed into neutral
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    • 624 26  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Their return to local bine chips in response to a spate of encouraging regional news is slowly luring smaller players into the broader market By R Sivanithy CONVENTIONAL wisdom says volume always precedes price in a stock market. And that the
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  • Shipping Times
    • 276 27 ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young A VERY unusual week, which saw little serious business reported. However, a significant market sale which has been reported is the geared Panamax bulker Ektor (63,000/81). She is said to have obtained US$6.9 million to clients of Emirates Trading, on the face of
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    • 272 27 *h HI CWTDijtrtbutiorrZraS *0.06 iF Chuan Hup 0J8 unch 34 Cosco Invastmant 0.49 aKBss-jn® T 0.40 *0.015 57 Hitachi Zosao 6.55 *0.02 33 IMCMMhtga ..HK 5.6 Jaya HoMtogs 0.405 *0.005 17 Jurong Shipyard _f.95 -0.10 117 KappaiCorp 2.75 *0.05 1624 Kappal FELS 444 *0.06 302 Kappal Marina 1.11
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    • 463 27  -  Joint effort, necessary to fight int'l problem: S'pore shippers' group By: Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE) The Singapore National Shippers' Council (SNSC) is calling on shippers organisations across the region to join together to fight freight rate increases and surcharges imposed by shipping lines
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    • 303 27  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi SEVERAL companies worldwide have shown interest in twin proposals by Cochin Port Trust (CoPT) in south India to develop container facilities on a large scale. Singapore's PSA Corporation Ltd, International Seaports, a P&O Ports subsidiary
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    • 801 27  -  DOCK7ARD By David Hughes ANYBODY involved in shiprepair, marine surveying or ship operation could do worse than get hold of a copy of the latest issue of The Salvage Association's annual report on its activities. "Worldwide Operations 1997-98" gives a good
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    • 452 27 US-fnnded project will boost trade, says govt Reuters [DHAKA] Bangladesh will press on with its plan to let a US company to build the country's first international container terminal despite opposition from trade unions, Deputy Minister for Shipping Saber Hossain Chowdhury said.
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    • 390 27  -  From David Hughes in London FOR the seventh year in succession the declining number of Salvage Association (SA) surveyors worldwide carried out fewer damage surveys in 1997. Retiring SA chairman Trevor Hart said that the 60 per cent drop in the number
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    • 870 28  -  MARITIME STANDARDS Shipping firms must move from inspection and compliance culture to encouraging responsible management By Ham G Payer The writer is a member of the executive board of Germanischer Lloyd THE process of eliminating or reducing sub-standard shipping is a long-term and complex
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    • 17290 36 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ITA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyege Telephone SN Dest'n sj-« Nam* Number Number SIN Destn Name Number Number •MMHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHMMnHNMnNMMMMMIMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIMMMMMMMMMI a To BRISBANE (BNE) 2058 Queensland, Australia To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 mi 00CL bunga terasek n ts-uiuu Ivory Coast, Cote
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      • 513 43 V°V No Bfth Arrival Dtptrtur* J05 alongside 19.07/2300 8atulicin <"5 JK> alongsid« 20.07/1800 Brighton V9813 J07 alongside 19.07/1800 W 8 rt,A -Wy» JOI alongside 19.07/1515 G t ,M W90 J12 alongside 20.07/0100 G El|XKS 702/98 J12 alongside 2107/0100 Kandyroselan 01/98 JOB alongside 21.07/0700 N fieW *092 JM alongside
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      • 1689 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Bounce Rstts Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Ported From To From Acj MMSCIB 014* 21/0700 M 19/1500 19A659 19/1900 19/1500 19/*59 19/1900 2» 19/1700 20/0659 20/0900 21 It/1700 20/0*51 20/0900 I 20/0700 20/1159 20/1400 4 20/1200 20/M59 20/1700 "WiS 19/1500 19/1659
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      • 180 43 Jul 20. Japan: Marine Day. Jul 21. Belgium: Independence Day. AogL Switzerland: National Day. Ang 3 Ireland Republic Of: August Holiday. AnglO. Singapore: National Day Holiday. South Africa: National Women's Holiday. Anf 12. Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Ang 15. Austria: Assumption Day. Belgium: Assumption Day. France: Assumption
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      • 981 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single price* for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average-sixed stem Market movements are Indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 578 44 Embargo lifted, recovery plan going ahead on schedule, says HACTL -Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong's main air cargo operator, HACTL, lifted its embargo on most imports and exports yesterday and resumed operations at half speed after 13 days of chaos at the city's
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      • 249 44 AFP [HONGKONG] The Hongkong government was urged to introduce more competition into the cargo handling business following the breakdown of the territory's main cargo handler at the new airport. Computer system problems since the new airport opened on July 6
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      • 164 44 AFP [BEIJING] China is to open up its air cargo market by allowing domestic airlines to rim separate cargo routes, official media reported yesterday. China's airlines would soon be able to apply for licences to operate transregional air cargo routes, the China Daily
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      • 235 44 Reuters [RONKONKOMA, New York] Families of victims of TWA Flight 800 marked the second anniversary of the disaster last Friday by announcing the creation of a fund to help those who lost loved ones when the plane exploded over the Atlantic. The fund
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      • 209 44 Reuters [MINNEAPOLIS] Northwest Airlines said it has lost in the neighbourhood of US$B5O,OOO (Ssl.4 million) in cargo revenues during the first few days of Hongkong's air cargo crisis. Northwest is one of the 27 airlines being handled by HACTL, the major Hongkong air freight
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      • 267 44  -  But exports from Asia to Europe are booming By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Growth rates for intra-Asian shipments have plummeted in the first six months of the year for express delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS). Intra-Asian volumes grew by just 1.7 per cent
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      • 74 44 [LUOPING] An all-electric train travelling along the Nanning-Kunming Railroad passes through a side of the mountain facing the town of Luoping in China's south-western Yunnan province. The recently completed railroad, which goes through some of the most mountainous terrain in China, was built at a cost of
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      • 75 44 AFX-Asia [CANBERRA] International airline passengers arriving and departing Australia in February fell 3.2 per cent year-on-year due to the Asian economic crisis, according to the latest transport department figures. In February, 570,234 people flew into Australia, down 25,500, while 515,646 departed, down almost 11,000. Qantas
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      • LOGBook
        • 122 44 AFP [PARIS] Renault said it increased the number of cars and commercial vehicles sold in the first half of this year by 16.8 per cent from the figure for the same period of last year. The company increased its shares of a growing European market
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        • 81 44 AFP [TEGUCIGALPA] The head of Japan's International Cooperation Agency promised to free up a US$2l million (5535.5 million) donation to improve this capital's dilapidated international airport. "I feel that there really is a need to make certain improvements to the airport," said Kimio Fitfita, who
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    • 17 27 Maritime safety culture must be set up Shipping firms must move towards encouraging responsible management. Page 2
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