The Business Times, 2 November 1998

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    14 1 MITA (P) 1 l(V12/97 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2,1998
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    FINANCE
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    Lock icon The gloom lifts a little for firms in Q3: survey
    567 1  -  But companies still bearish, with most expecting pick-op only at end-2000 Reports by. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] While the numbers are still down, the performance of Singapore companies was slightly less bleak in the third quarter, suggesting that the economic downturn
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    Hopes of tax cuts rank high for hard-pressed firms
    380 1 [SINGAPORE] Cut government taxes, companies say when asked how the Singapore economy can be made more competitive. Almost 40 per cent of the 147 respondents to the BTCBRD survey suggested that the government cut taxes, while 32 per cent would like
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    Fall in natural gas demand threatens Indon recovery
    692 1  -  Recession-hit Japan, Korea renegotiating long-term contracts From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S efforts to export its way out of the worst economic crisis in three decades faces another hurdle as it renegotiates long-term natural gas contracts with its three biggest buyers. The
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    Obuchi stakes his future on 46t yen fiscal stimulus plan
    990 1  -  Economists think it is a gamble the Japanese premier will have to take From t Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi is staking his political career on a 46 trillion yen (***** billion) fiscal stimulus package that
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      172 1 DISEDB Ntw nit trarts mb Utlf tabtf GPFart The almost certain prospects of a Central Provident Fund rate cut has cast gloom over the first botch of "new and improved" CPF-approved unit trusts many of which are slated for launch over the next several months, Pf 17 UtipnMtayffti In an
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      147 1 Hie allure of China Ji K J V I j»ibfefe3?~ J AM> [SHANGHAI] i4 Chinese dancer performing a traditional dance during an international tourism fair in Shanghai over the weekend. The impact qf the Asian economic crisis will slow what has been thefast expansion of China's international tourism industry, which
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Plan to cut business costs will be debated in full: PM Goh
      618 2 Ultimate objective is to save jobs and attract more investments to Singapore, he says The Straits Times A FULL debate will be held later this month on the government's proposals to cut business costs and help Singapore beat
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      Singapore team in China to explore public housing
      251 2  -  TDB mission to use 'consortium' method to evaluate projects By\ Shiv Taneja IN response to expected housing reform? announced by the government, 12 companion led by the Singapore, Trade Development Board will be taking a "consortium" approach to explore and evaluate 10
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      Correction
      46 2 IN our report headlined "Competitiveness panel to unveil cost-cutting package on Nov 11" in the weekend edition of BT, we inadvertently used Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang's photograph instead of that of Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon M2 growth dips to 9.2% in Aug
      274 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Finance By i Clarissa Tan GROWTH of M 2, the most common measure of money supply, dipped to 9.2 per cent year-on-year in August, after an annualised rise of 9.5 per cent in July. According to monthly statistics from
      Source MAS  -  274 words
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      S$ may face upward pressure from cost cutting: economist
      442 2  -  By Audrey Tan THE government's package of cost-cutting measures to help business may put upward pressures on the Singapore dollar, and these pressures will have to be neutralised for the cuts to work, an eminent economist said on Friday. Eduard BomhofT,
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Free police escorts for Indon bank clients
      274 3 JAKARTA AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's police are offering free security escorts because of rising thefts from clients withdrawing cash from banks, a report said yesterday. On Saturday, the North Jakarta police arrested three men who had been caught trying to break open a Citibank
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      Lock icon Impact of capital controls better than expected: Dr M
      549 3 KUALA LUMPUR He says economy yet to recover and sees stocks rising but not to pre-crisis levels Reuters PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday that Malaysia's two-month-old capital controls had been more successful than expected but the economy had not
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      Lock icon Australia hopes minimal fallout from Anwar trial
      295 3 SYDNEY Unlikely that foreign observers will be allowed: Downer Reuters AFP [SYDNEY] Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday he hoped this week's trial of sacked Malaysian finance minister Anwar Ibrahim would have no ramifications for regional security. Mr Downer also said he
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      Lock icon M'sian union seeks 'incentive payment'
      205 3 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE 800,000-strong Congress of Unions of Employees In the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) yesterday resolved to appeal to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for an "incentive payment" instead of the one-month bonus which the government is unable to give because of the
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      Lock icon Tourist arrivals in Philippines dip
      328 3 MANILA Numbers fell L 3% in Jan-Ang new plan* to contain La Nina AFP TOURIST arrivals in the Philippines dropped 1.26 per cent in the first eight months of the year. An official statement quoted a report by the Philippine Convention and Visitors Corp which
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      'Sound fundamentals'revisited
      839 4  -  CRISIS WATCH By Vikram Khanna YOU often hear it said that despite all the problems that have engulfed East Asia over the last 15 months, the region's economic fundamentals have been, and remain, sound. This notion, which radiates a welcome feel-good glow amid all the doom and gloom,
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      Lock icon Fund managers turning back to Asia: Soc-Gen
      251 4 Reuters -frOKYO] Portfolio managers 3n Japan and elsewhere have pnade a timid return to Asian stock markets, a senior ana- lyst said. "We have seen roughly over the last two weeks a change in sentiments towards the Asian markets," Christian Gomez, chief operating
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      Lock icon Japan to propose global financial watchdog
      345 4 Proposal to 6-7 aims to stop speculators disrupting markets AFP [TOKYO] Japan will propose to the other Group of Seven (G-7) powers the creation of an International financial supervisory body to stop speculators disrupting markets, a report said yesterday. Japan's draft proposal says the
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      Lock icon More HK firms could face financial problems
      279 4 Banks curb lending after liquidity woes at Paliburg analysts Reuters [HONGKONG] More Hongkong companies could face financial difficulties as banks tighten lending policies, analysts said, after liquidity problems at Paliburg Holdings Ltd sent shudders through the market. They said banks are now more
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      US, UK step up investigation into copper debacle
      526 4  -  I«odaUrs accused of sitting on 1994 report urging probe From] Neil Behrmann in London US and British regulators are intensifying their investigations to find culprits linked to Yasuo Hamanaka who manipulated the copper market between 1991 and 1996, the two authorities said.
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Hongkong govt's budget deficit may hit HK$50b
      361 5  -  ItfeHKs42.6bat half tiwift aga ingt forecast of HKs2ob for the full year hYom Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THE Hongkong government's budget deficit could swell to as much as HK$5O billion (5510.5 billion) for the financial year ending March 1999, its worst in
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      Lock icon China to hold part of its reserves in euro, says Brittan
      300 5 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA plans to convert a "serious amount" of its US$l4l billion (***** billion) in foreign exchange reserves into the euro after the new currency makes its debut in 1999, European Commission vicepresident Leon Brittan said yesterday. China's
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      Lock icon Taiwan firms begin to feel pinch of regional crisis
      163 5 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN has begun to feel the effects of the regional economic crisis with a growing number of domestic companies closing down, a news report said yesterday. In September the number of companies that failed jumped 95.71 per cent year
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      Lock icon SM Lee urges Taiwan to maintain China contact
      217 5 TAIPEI Recent talks a breakthrough, he says on stopover Reuters SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has called on Taiwan to maintain contact with China, saying recent cross-strait talks had helped revitalise bilateral ties, local press said yesterday. Mr Lee, formerly the
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      Lock icon Gridlocked by smog
      78 5 [BEIJING] A policeman directing traffic in a busy, and heavily polluted, Beijing intersection on Friday, with the capital's eastern train station in the background. With Beijing's heavy reliance on coal for energy and heat, in addition to more and more cars and traffic jams, the country's capital
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      Lock icon Guangzhou fair nets record sales of US$11b
      160 5 BEIJING AFP AN export trade fair in China's southern city of Guang zhou netted turnover of US$ll billion (SslB billion) despite the Asian crisis to equal a record set in 1994, Xinhua news agency said. Despite the sterling performance, officials are only cautiously
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      Lock icon China's 8% growth target within reach: top planner
      388 6 BEIJING Optimism based on massive state investment binge to boost infrastructure Reuters CHINA'S top economic planner yesterday declared that the target of 8 per cent growth this year was within reach, basing his optimism on a massive state investment binge. Zeng Peiyan,
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      Lock icon Systemic bank crisis unlikely in China: OCBC
      542 6  -  Financial position stronger than in troubled neighbours Reports by Lu Ning [SINGAPORE) Despite its poor fundamentals, the Chinese banking sector is unlikely to experience a systemic crisis in the next couple of years. This is because China's overall financial position will remain significantly
      Source: OCBC Securities; Source: CEIC  -  542 words
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      Beijing losing patience with weak finance institutions
      191 6 [SINGAPORE] The recent move by the central bank to close the Guangzhou International Trust and Investment Co, China's second largest trust and investment company, is the latest indication of a policy change by the authorities towards financial institutions, says the OCBC Investment Research
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      Lock icon HK has no plans to ask China for crime boss
      175 6 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG'S government announced yesterday that it had no plans to ask China to turn over the territory's most-wanted crime boss and denied that its justice system has been undermined by reunification with China. Cheung -Tze-keung is on trial
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon India to kick off sale of state firms next month
      499 7 NEW DELHI Container Corp will be the first issne followed by oil, gas and telecom giants Reuters AFP THE Indian government on Saturday outlined plans to kick off its ambitious disinvestment programme by offering for sale a part of its
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      Lock icon Japan ready to study anti-missile defence
      239 7 TOKYO Obuchiopento project with US after N Korean incident AFP PRIME Minister Keizo Obuchi yesterday criticised North Korea's launch of a rocket that overflew Japan, voicing readiness to study a project with the United States to develop an anti-missile defence system. The rocket launch
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      Lock icon Pakistan to hold fresh polls in troubled Sindh
      283 7 KARACHI Ruling party to meet over violence-torn province, paper says AFP PAKISTAN has decided to hold fresh elections in the violence plagued province of Sindh, which was placed under federal rule after suspension of the regional assembly last week, a leading newspaper
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      Lock icon Bhutto fears revolution or army takeover
      161 7 KARACHI Reuters OPPOSITION leader Benazir Bhutto said she feared Prime Minister Nawaz Sharifs "Serbian" leadership could tip Pakistan towards an Islamic revolution or military takeover. "I have this genuine cause of concern that if Nawaz Sharif continues, we can have either a clerical revolution
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      Lock icon The great Jurassic race
      68 7 [SYDNEY] A pupil from Canberra's Garran Primary school racing with a dinosaur on a 15-metre track at the launch of the Terrorsaurus exhibition at the Australian Museum here on Friday. The hands-on exhibit will bring the Jurassic era to life with eight moving and roaring robotic
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      Lock icon Nepal to sell 10% stake in its biggest state bank
      144 7 KATHMANDU Reuters NEPAL will sell 10 per cent of its biggest state-owned commercial bank, the head of privatisation in the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Tanka Khanal told Reuters the government would distribute 10 per cent of the shares of the
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Media, business chiefs new UK power elite: survey
      299 8 LONDON AFP MEDIA and business chiefs are replacing Britain's traditional elite in exerting the most daily influence on the lives of Britons, according to a survey in yesterday's Observer newspaper. It named media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as
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      Lock icon Russian anti-crisis plan unlikely to please IMF
      629 8 MOSCOW Experts fear money printing as Moscow says some IMF terms unacceptable AFP RUSSIA'S government unveiled on Saturday the first measures of its anti-crisis programme calling for more state intervention and increased spending, though it is unlikely to satisfy the International Monetary Fund
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      Lock icon Russia needs a financial tsar: ex-minister
      410 8 MOSCOW Liberal says there should be breathing space from reforms Reuters A PROMINENT Russian liberal said yesterday that the depth of Russia's economic crisis had put its market reforms on hold for at least six years and said the country needed a "financial tsar"
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      Lock icon German govt sees public finances worsening: report
      464 9 FRANKFURT Govt borrowing expected to hit 61b marks next year, says internal memo Reuters GERMANY'S new centre-left coalition expects a significant worsening in the state of public finances and a rise in new public borrowing in 1999, says Der Spiegel magazine. Der Spiegel
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      Lock icon Iraq to stay firm on refusal to cooperate with UN inspectors
      262 9 BAGHDAD AFP IRAQ refuses to back down on its decision to halt cooperation with the UN Special Commission (Unscom) for disarmament, defying the Security Council, Vice-Presi-dent Taha Yassin Ramadan said yesterday. "There will be no cooperation, no inspections and
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Netanyahu booed at Rabin memorial
        71 9 AFP [JERUSALEM] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met with shouts of "murder" when he laid flowers yesterday at the grave of Yitzhak Rabin during a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the Labour leader's assassination, witnesses said. Two people among some 1,500 at the
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        Lock icon ANC rift over truth panel report
        90 9 AFP [JOHANNESBURG] Sharp contradictions undermined the ANC's response to truth panel findings that it violated human rights when fighting apartheid. President Nelson Mandela backed the report's findings yesterday, saying that nobody could deny that people died in African National Congress detention rampa despite waging
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        Lock icon Russian leader to name corrupt figures
        85 9 AFP [MOSCOW] The leader of Russia's opposition Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinsky is prepared to name Corrupt politicians, after causing a storm with earlier statements on the question, Interfax reported yesterday. Mr Yavlinsky said on Wednesday that several members of Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov's cabinet
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        Lock icon Most Arab states attend Baghdad fair
        64 9 Bloomberg [BAGHDAD] Iraq, for the first time since UN sanctions started eight years ago, managed to draw most Arab countries to its Baghdad trade fair with the promise of oil-for-food contracts and closer economic ties. Representatives from most Arab countries, with the exception ofKuwait,
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      Monicagate won't spark Dow crash: Lehman
      623 9  -  a SINGAPORE Main impact is to raise stock market volatility, says MD Walton Morais IT would be wrong to draw a historical lesson from the Watergate scandal and conclude that the US stock market is headed for a crash because of the impeachment process
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Big Blue's big push to sell mainframes
      590 10  -  New software pricing structure and a new baby mainframe ready to roll in Asia now By\ Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] International Business Machines Corp last week announced a slew of measures in an attempt to push sales of its S/390 mainframes in the Asia-Pacific
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      Lock icon HP's Ann Livermore is off and running
      695 10  -  New chief knows just what she wants from enterprise computing mega-group By\ Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] HewlettPackard Co vice-president Ann M. Livermore has set an uncompromising goal for the newly-formed mega-division she now runs: surpass the competition in every area that it operates in.
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      Net to power Citibank's expansion
      455 12  -  Service to reach oat to broader customer base without opening new branches Hy] Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE) Citibank Singapore is making the Internet a cornerstone of its business to help expand its customer base. Its Citidirect Internet Banking service will help the bank, which has only
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      Oracle surges in regional financial sector
      170 12 [SINGAPORE] The economic downturn may have hit the regional financial sector particularly hard but Oracle Systems has not suffered from that. In fact, revenue from sales to the financial services sector in the Asia-Pacific region has grown more than SO per cent in the
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    • IT TAKES
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        Hotel booking system from Abacus
        95 12 [SINGAPORE] Singapore-based Abacus International, the Asia-Pacific's leading provider of travel information and reservations, has introduced a hotel wholesale booking system called Abacus Hotel Smart. The system, said to be the first in the Global Distribution System industry, automates the entire booking process for travel agents.
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        S'pore Poly-Microsoft training plan
        72 12 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Polytechnic will become the first academic institution to implement authorised campus training programmes on Microsoft technology, following a signing of a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Singapore last week. The Authorised Academic Training Programme will be based on the Microsoft Certified Professional Programme now
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        Datacraft wins SIM contract
        104 12 [SINGAPORE] Systems integrator Datacraft Asia has won a contract to build a high-speed Campus Area Network for the Singapore Institute of Management's new campus. The U*****,000 project involves implementing and project-managing the network, which when completed will be capable of providing video conferencing for long-distance learning,
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        Enterprise reporting seminar
        77 12 [SINGAPORE] Great Plains Software will hold a seminar on Power Enterprise Reporting on Thursday. The seminar is targeted at managers and executives in finance, marketing and information systems management The seminar, conducted by accountant Ken Hersted, will cover topics like Creating Effective Consolidated Statements and Enterprise-wide Budgeting,
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        Supply chain seminars
        64 12  -  -Compiled by! Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Baan Education Asia-Pacific is organising a suite of three one-day seminars aimed at helping managers and other executives master supply chain concepts. The ftill-day seminars at Sun tec City will cover Supply Chain Concepts (Nov 9), Manufacturing Synchronisation (Nov 10) and Constraints
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      E-trade success hinges on systems with high availability
      589 13  -  SAY IT By Howie Lau The author is manager, e-business solutions, IBM Singapore UNLIKE conventional businesses that can shut down for one day a week, electronic business conducted over the Internet is a 24-hour seven-day undertaking. In a conventional business, a temporary
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      Lock icon Gateway mulls over Asian expansion
      227 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] US computer maker Gateway Inc is considering expanding its Asian operations with possible ventures in China, South Korea and other countries, Gateway South Asia managing director Robert Chu said on last Tuesday. The American personal computer direct-marketer also sees strong upside in
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      Lock icon Report forecasts PC downturn by year 2000
      616 13 It rails connter to analyses from other research firms Reuters [NEW YORK] The personal computer industry faces tough times ahead as revenue growth is expected to peak in 1999, then sharply decline in 2000, ending 17 years of industry growth, a top technology
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      Sharp launches ultra-light notebook and palmtop
      292 14  -  By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Japan's Sharp Corp last week launched two portable computers an ul-tra-light notebook that's slightly thicker than a writ-, ing pad, and a handheld colour palmtop that's Internetready and runs on Microsoft's Windows CE. Both devices will be available in Singapore
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      Home-grown Jornada first of new genre
      738 14  -  Latest Windows CE handheld device moves closer to notebook PC format By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Chalk up another world first for HewlettPackard Co's Singaporebased Asia-Pacific PC (APPC) division. This time its homegrown development team has come up with the first "PC companion" in a
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        AutoCad Mechanical 14.5 ready
        96 14 AUTODESK Inc is shipping AutoCad Mechanical Release 14£, the first upgrade of its 2D software for mechanical design and drafting. It comas with a streamlined mechanical interface that simplifies access to mechanical functions and symbols that are ftilly compliant with international drafting standards. It will work
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        Symantec's telecommuting solution now
        63 14 SYMANTEC Inc is ready with pcTelecommute, "the industry's first telecommuting productivity solution that gives users everything they need to work from home", the company said. The product offers integrated work logging, call management foxing, file transfer, file synchronisation and remote control. The $199 Windows-compatible software also
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        Solomon IV for Win 2.8
        76 14 SOLOMON Software has launched Solomon IV for Windows 2.8, a foll-fonction accounting system upgrade. The software is year 2000-compliant and comes with Seagate Crystal Reports 6.0, that allows reports to be distributed also on the Web; and an Embedded SQL database engine. The product comes
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        Sony's new 15-inch LCD soon
        81 14 SONY Marketing International is launching Ll5O, a new, 15-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor (above) for corporate users. The 5.3 kg unit is just 165 mm wide, offers a 140-degree viewing angle, and comes with an auto-adjust function to get optimum picture performance. Sony said
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        PalmPilot price cuts
        49 14 PALM Computing Inc, a 3Com company, said it has cut prices on two of its products. The Palm in connected organiser will now cost USs3oB(down from US$399), and the Palm Pilot Professional Edition connected organiser will retail at US$24B (down from US$2B9). For details, fax *****68.
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        IBM's IntelliStations ready
        71 14  -  -ompmit: Raju Chellam IBM has announced three series of Win NT workstations, running on Intel's4so MHz Pentium IlXeon processors, and targeted st graphics-In tensive spplications. The series range from the low-end E Pro models, the mid-range M Pro models, and the high-end Z Pro systems. Prices for
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      260 14 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] 3Com Corp, the No 2 comput-er-networking company, said it has begun selling new equipment that lets consumers send and receive Internet data over cable networks at high speeds. Previous cable modems, which 3Com and others sold to cable companies,
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      165 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 13 in ffl Quadruple? (8) (7) SATURDAY'S SOLUTION 29 Way of communicating a 8 Move backwards when about IclAlslTlslolFlrMslTloMFlnl pr° verb (8) to give up (6) Fl I iMlijll Duwr 9 Surpassing others in this EME^MpiRIEBBmiMLILisI 1 Negligent being without a ve- meditation (14) hide about start of
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      Conquering despair with vital energy
      611 16  -  MUSIC SSO concert audience treated to a rare feast that included Beethoven's heroic epic David Chow [SINGAPORE] The audience at last Friday's Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert was treated to a rare feast with a menu that featured a little known overture, an Asian premiere, and
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      875 16  -  ANDREW LIM Purists may sniff, but operas sung in English help promote mass appeal. amdbew uai finds admirable performances in Chandos' series of CDs WHENEVER "opera in English" is mentioned, the voices of two camps can usually heard one accepts it gratefully, the other gives it
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      847 16  -  OPERA Opera's modern premiere in Boston throws np a musical mystery torn* By\ Paul Griffiths NYT fBOSTONJ There is something a little worrying in the idea that operatic music by Mozart has been lying around in various European libraries without anyone taking the trouble to study it
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      Lock icon Outlook for new unit trusts dims as CPF cut looms
      675 17  -  Investors likely to go for cash or fixed-income instruments By I Shiv Taneja [SINGAPORE) The almost certain prospects of a Central Provident Fund rate cut has cast gloom over the first batch of "new and improved" CPF-approved unit trusts many
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      712 17  -  KAMEBT MATTERS Politics to complicating his battle to mend economy By Eddie Toh Malaysian Prirm Minister f Mahathir Mohamad faces a mammoth task. He has to ensure that the recent series of economic measures ranging from capital controls to the expansionary budget will put
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        401 18 Reuters [PALO ALTO, California] Shares of Internet service Infoseek Corp fell sharply on Friday as questions over the company's financial performance and its complicated venture with Walt Disney Co clouded its outlook. Infoseek was one of the biggest losers on Nasdaq,
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        596 18 One block eyed by foreign suitors either belonged to Marcos or to his associates, say analysts Reuters [MANILA] Foreign interest in PLDT, the Philippines' biggest telephone company and one of its largest corporations, has thrown a spotlight once again on the
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        295 18 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Global news and information company Reuters Group pic plans to invest about 20 million Malaysian ringgit (SsB.s million) in Malaysia and does not expect to make any staff cuts in the country, the company said on Saturday. Reuters plans to spend
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        270 18 Reuters [BATTLE CREEK, Michigan] Kellogg Co on Friday reported flat sales and a 32 per cent decline in third quarter earnings as the largest US cereal maker poured more money into marketing and product development. Kellogg said net earnings were U*****.9 million
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        524 18 Bnt it says loss of a dozen satellites will not much delay start of its global network Reuters [NEW YORK] Loral Space Communications said on Friday its third-quarter net loss jumped after the company absorbed its portion of the financial fallout from
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        Lock icon Turner's US$1b gift to UN unaffected by turmoil
        146 18 AFP [UNITED NATIONS] Stockmarket turmoil will not affect media magnate Ted Turner's commitment to provide US$l billion (Ssl.6 billion) to the United Nations, the president of his UN foundation said last Friday. Timothy Wirth, the president of the UN Foundation set up
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        49 18 [DUBAI] Abubaker Ashikh (right) on Saturday trying out the Arabic version of the Windows 98 operating system at the Gitex VBlTexhibition at Dubai's World Trade Centre Executives at Gitex said the Middle East computer market is growing twice asfast as the world average. REUTERS
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        342 18 AFP [AUCKLAND] A once-tena-cious trading company that took on Imperial Germany to become the commercial ruler of the South Pacific is retreating from the region as it struggles under the weight of huge debt. Burns Philp and Co, founded in 1883,
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        478 18 India's largest private alnminium producer aims to add value, raise volumes [BOMBAY) India's Hindalco Industries is looking to grow from higher volumes and a larger share of downstream products, its president said yesterday. "Continuous expansion of more and more value-added products so that we are able
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        193 18 AFP [THE HAGUE] The rate of growth experienced by food and consumer group Unilever in Asia has been halved, company chairman Morris Tabaksblat said in an interview published last Saturday. The Anglo-Dutch giant registered growth in Southeast Asia of around 8-12 per cent. "That has
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        402 19 Yasuda selling assets for 200b yen, using proceeds to write off bad loans: report Bloomberg [TOKYO] Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Japan's third-largest lender, and Fuji Bank, the sixth-largest, said they are considering joining forces with Yasuda Trust Banking Co in a trust-banking
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        Guardian Insurance selling via Net
        284 19  -  Its Web site offers travel, home and wedding policies By\ Soh Tiang Keng BRITISH insurer, Guardian Insurance, has ventured into electronic commerce in Singapore by selling insurance policies over the Internet. It is the first foreign insurer in Singapore to offer its products through this
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        177 19 [SINGAPORE] Captive insurer Resources Insurances Pte Ltd is closing its office here because it has lost its tax advantage following a change in Australian tax laws. The company, with a paidup capital of $29 million, is going into voluntary liquidation, said its
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        662 19 Reuters [NEW YORK] Not since the rough and tumble days of John D Rockefeller has the oil industry faced such a fundamental shake-up. Even before the end of October, global oil mergers have topped US$ll2 billion (*****.7 billion), smashing all previous
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        425 19  -  Rest of creditor chain needs to adjust: consultant By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] If banks shorten the time-frame for the recognition of NPLs (non-per-forming loans) without the proper infrastructure in place for the rest of the creditor chain to adjust, crisis-hit economies could be
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        547 20 SIMTflg Weeklyßoundup {SINGAPORE] Another nervous week is in store on foreign exchange markets after the US dollar's corrective tone proved fragile last week, following new concerns about Brazil. US$-yen retreated to test the 115 level while US$-mark remained toppish at 1.6600. Global economic data this
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        795 20 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDONJ Base metals kept sinking last week as the global economic slowdown continued to exact an exceptionally heavy toll. Three-month copper plunged to an almost 12-year low on the London Metal Exchange, while three-month lead fell
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        295 22 LONDON HOPES of a new interest rate cut this week by the Bank of England buoyed the London stock market last week. The FT-SEIOO Index ended the week on Friday at 5,438.4 points, up 221.3 points on the week, or 4.24 per cent higher.
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        394 22 NEW YORK Fond managers cheered by Brazil's deficit cutting plan; 6-7 lifeline for ailing economies AFP WALL Street rose 1.65 per cent last week as investors took heart from stronger than expected US economic growth and a Brazilian austerity package. The market's key index,
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        375 22 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE share prices are expected to be under pressure in the coming week on concern that more Japanese firms are seen to suffer profit declines in the six months to September, brokers said. "Amid concerns over September half earnings, investors are
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        357 22 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stocks are expected to extend their gains this week if interbank rates stay low, after hitting a sixmonth high and breaching the psychological 10,000-point level on Friday, dealers said. "So long as interest rates are turning lower, the
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        867 22 HSytoty *103.4 THE Australian share market rocketed ahead last week on intense rate cut speculation and the momentum would continue to inspire gains on the market, analysts s&id. The Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the All Ordinaries Index, ended the week 103.4 points or 4.1 per cent
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        WORLD STOCK MARKETS
        1806 22 Q Paris +12U7 PARIS stocks closed up 1.13 per cent on Friday, buoyed by a strong Wall Street, but trade was lacklustre as G-7 reforms aimed at shoring up the global financial system failed to excite the market. The CAC-40 Index closed at 3,522.93 points, up 39.5
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        440 23 AFP 11 Composite Index -14J9 MALAYSIAN stocks are likely to trade downwards in the coming days as investors turn cautious ahead of sacked deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's corruption trial this week. "Monday is the first day of the trial. Investors, primarily retail
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        SPP wrt: risks will increase with time
        179 24  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'LL continue our theme of looking at penny warrants, particularly those which are beginning to stir after months of dormancy. One example is SPP's 1999 warrant, which is now showing signs of being roused by the current rotational
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        226 24 HONGKONG STOCKS Cr Gr 1996 LMt V«4 WMk LMtOuott D* Otv VM NM M C«9 High Lw St no Company SO* C000) Hl» L— 6uyf S—«c Cw PX in* "400 250 5123 COi. (2000) HK 400 I 10 2.4 2.0 20.5 7744.7 5124 C«th*yPK20cHK_720 265.0 2.1 7.4 6.0
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        423 26 Source: JM Sassoon Stacks Volume Hotel Prop 97,110,000 Wing Tai 25c 76,419,000 IPC Corpn 5c 70,530,000 Kim Cnq 25c 60,301,000 Keppel Land50c 59,894,000 SemtoCorpi 25c 53,717,000 Heshe Hld«js25c 49,498,000 SM Summit 10c 47,005,000 Van der Horst 46,716,000 •TanChonglnt50c 45,345,000 HMfc» S OUB Foreign 122.644,834 City Dev 50c 122,016,589 OCBC Foreign
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        646 26  -  THE WEEK AHEAD Local banks, selected electronics counters and conglomerates with good positions and steady earnings flow among recommended buys By Ven Sreenivasan AFTER starting on a lacklustre note, the Singapore stockmarket took off with a bang and ended the
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        HOT STOCK
        75 26  -  by Shiv Taneja KIM ENG HOLDINGS closed one and a half cents higher on Friday at 72.5 cents on a volume ot 14.8 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 6.8 million shares. Although, the daily and weekly MACD charts are calling for more upside for
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      1087 21 BUSINESS N()tiC(' To iKlwrtisc cull toll-fiTi' IXOO-741 ISS3 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATORS SINTON SYSTEMS PTE LTD I Incorporaled in Singapore) Take noticc that Mick Aw Cheok dual and Christopher Brucc Johnson both of Moor* Stephens 11 Collycr Quay. #10-02 The Arcade, Singapore *****7 have been appointed joint and
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      28 23 Wru PmbiruTifinl" hill if,niY gjggjjjfp rr~ I«n^ j V?1 IM 3,-T.r; w»v.. I p£s' 1 g«-3883«£".. *£-Z" iV JBC!s Wednesdays Asian View by Yang Razali Kassim THEBUSINKsST'MKS ■MHH
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      315 24 TO ADVERTISE CALL TOLL-FREE 1800-741 1883 Notice is hereby given that, i sui suan boo of Blk 65, *03-307, Kallang Bahru, Singapore *****5, have applied for a First Class Public House Licence in respect of M/s Ji Ge Restaurant located at 226 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore *****2, and that this
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      536 24 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I DENG XIAO XIAN of Blk 1 Jalan Pasar Baru #11-47, Singapore *****1, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Eu Yan Sang (S) Pte Ltd located at 1 Maritime Square *01-16/17 World Trade Centre, Singapore *****3. and that this
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      661 24 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I KRISHNASAMY S/O MARUTHIAH of Blk 259, #08S5 Yishun St. 22 Singapore *****9, have applied for a 2nd Class Public House Licence in respect of iM/s Republic of Singapore Flying Club located at Blk 140-B East Camp Seletar Air Base Republic of Singapore Flying Club
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      109 25 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I LEO LA DE CEULAER of 81 Yishun Street 81, Tower 3 #11-04 Orchid Parte, Singapore *****5, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Indoguna (S) Pte Ltd located at 36 Senoko Drive, Singapore *****1, and that this application will
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      103 25 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I LEONG YEONG KONG of Blk 32 Lower Delta Road #06-573, Singapore *****2, have applied for a Beer House Ist Class Licence in respect of M/s Bao Zai located at 22Teck Lim Road #01-03, Singapore *****2, and that this application will be considered by the
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      106 25 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I ANG BOON PIN of Blk 47 Circuit Road *05-701, Singapore *****7, have applied for a Ist Class Public House Liquor Licence in respect of M/s Causeway Bay Entertainment Pte Ltd located at 80/82 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore *****1, and that this application will be
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      114 25 Tuesdays The Property Column by Lee Han Shih TheßusbvessTimes NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I EDWARD JOHN GRINSTED of 31 Fifth Avenue, Singapore *****4, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Asian Business Strategic Services Pte Ltd located at 7 Temasek Boulevard, Suntec Tower 1,
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      692 26 CHUAN HUP HOLDINGS LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company mil be held at 322 Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim, Singapore *****1 on Tuesday, 17 November 1998 at 2.15 p.m. to transact the following business: Of AS ORDINARY BUSINESS: 1.
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      795 26 Put The Straits Times Classified to work for you today. NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai the Fifteenth Annual General Meeting of DELIFRANCE ASIA LTD will be held at 391 A Orchard Road #18-00, Ngee Ann City Tower A, Singapore *****3 on Friday, 27th November 1998
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      336 26 THE COMPAMES ACT CHAPTBTftf SECTION aOfZXb) mmowwT m LTD (M MEMBERS'VOLUNTARY UQUDATION) At an Exlraordnery General Meeting of CaticSembawang Aircraft Development Pte Lid held at 59 Shipyard Road, Jurang, Singapore *****3 on ma 26* day of October 1906. to following apecM reeoiuttone were duty paaeed:RESOLVED. 1. That the company be
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      273 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WHILST the yen value has eased slightly, Biffex has again descend below 1,000 and the slight bubble which had been evident in the dry bulk market recently seems to have burst. Despite this, there have been a number of deals reported and it
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      MARITIME STOCKS
      301 27 Kt m. »h HI CWT Distribution 0.54 *0.005 820 ChuanHup 0.505 *0.02 8)0 Cosco invastmant 0.57 *0.045 212 FrMht Links 0.21 unch 6364 68 foldings 0.465 *0.04 1557 HaiSunHup 0.44 -0.005 4189 Hitachi Zoson 0.725 *0.055 2726 IMC HoMngs HK 5.60 Jay» Hoidings —0.575 *0.015 504 Jurong Shipyard
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      Lock icon KL unveils more steps to promote local ports
      650 27  -  In farthur move to boost P Klang as hnb port, govt calls for national cargo feeder company to be set np By Marcus Hand, Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] In an unrelenting drive to boost the competitiveness of its ports, the Malaysian government has
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      A distraction to get into arguments over terminal handling charges
      733 27  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THERE seems to have been some gradual movement towards consensus between the Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (Taca) lines and the European Commission's (EC) Competition Directorate over the past week or so. There could still be some
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      Lock icon Antwerp port seeks to lure chemicals investors
      367 27 Reuters [ANTWERP, Belgium] The Antwerp Port plans to bolster its position as the world's second largest chemicals industry cluster by attracting diversified Japanese and US chemicals companies, port authorities said. As the world's most diversified and most integrated chemicals production site, the port
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      Lock icon Hyundai to open bookings for North Korea cruise today
      261 27 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Group said yesterday it would start accepting applications today for its cruise ship tour to North Korea's Keumkang (Diamond) Mountains. "As the first voyage schedule is fixed, we plan to receive applications from tomorrow," said Park
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        UK grounding inquiry calls for action on night lookouts
        419 28 Reports by David Hughes THE UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) inquiry has recommended that the country's Maritime and Coastguard Agency should oppose one-man nighttime bridge watchkeeping at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The inquiry into the grounding and loss of
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        Passengers of sinking ferry may 'have to swim'
        198 28 SAFETY has improved on board Mediterranean ferries discovered earlier this year to have severe shortcomings, according to Dutch surveying company De Touw Expertise en Ingenieurs bureau, but it claims at least one ship has insufficient lifesaving equipment on board. Following up on
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        Kirkaldy abandons drydock plan
        175 28 UK-BASED water blasting and painting specialist J Kirkaldy Sons has abandoned plans to operate a floating drydock on the English south coast. Last year, Kirkaldy bought a second-hand dock from Sweden and positioned it at Portland harbour, a former naval base being developed as a commercial
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          Warning on polypropylene in bunkers
          99 28 NORWEGIAN Classification Society Det Norske Veritas' latest Casualty Information bulletin warns of the dangers of isotactic polypropylene in apparently "on-spec" bunkers. In the case highlighted, a bulk carrier had to debunker 1,500 tonnes of ISO2BO heavy fuel oil after continual clogging of the oil filters.
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          BV expands in Norway
          67 28 FRENCH classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has appointed Bjorn Markussen as its chief executive for Norway. BV recently doubled its network of surveyors in Norway as part of an aggressive move into the Norwegian market, which has traditionally been dominated by Det Norske Veritas. It has
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          ITOPF warns on bunker spills
          133 28 SPEAKING at a Swedish Club Oil Pollution Conference, managing director of The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Ltd (ITOPF) lan White warned that bunker spills from vessels other than tankers were becoming an increasing problem. This was due to the persistent nature of heavy fuel
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          CP ships reports profit rise
          107 28 Canadian Pacific's rapidly expanding shipping subsidiary CP Ships reported third-quarter operating income of Cs3B million (5539.7 million), up 9 per cent on the same period in 1997. CP says operational improvements continued and both Lykes and Contship made positive contributions. Ivaran. acquired in May, incurred
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          Japanese export orders
          84 28 JAPANESE shipyards received 13 export orders in September, totalling 490,000 gt. Vessels contracted included two multi-purpose vessels, one containership, two car carriers, one VLCC, one chemical tanker, one products tanker and two LPG carriers. The number of export vessels on order in Japanese yards has decreased, by
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      SHIPPING SCHEDULES INDEX
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      SHIPPING GUIDE
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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        CONVENTIONAL WHARVES
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1716 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/8tr Period From To Froa *C1 0«, 0161 31/1500 U 29/1500 n/1659 n/1900 nmoo nnui nmoo a 29/1700 30/0659 30/0900 2» 29/1700 30/0659 30/0900 J 30/0700 30/1159 30/1400 4 30/1200 30/1459 30/1700 te» J4* 12*
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        186 41 Nov 2 Luxembourg: All Saints Day Holiday. Mexico: All Souls Day (optional). Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nov 11 Belgium: Amistice Day. Canada: Remembrance Day. France: Amistice Day. United States: Veterans Day. Nov 12 Taiwan: Birthday of Dr Sun YatSen.NovlC Brunei: Meraj. Indonesia: Ascension of the Prophet. Nov
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        958 41 ™is 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 average sued stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bun ker Price Index change and
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        VERITAS BUNKER QUALITY REPORT
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        Lock icon BA, American to focus on developing oneworld alliance
        537 42 Their own proposed tie-up to be phased over next 4-5 years Reuters [LONDON] British Airways pic has raised the stakes with European regulators and US trade negotiators alike with the announcement that it would settle for a looser alliance with American Airlines
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        Lock icon Swissair takes 45% stake in Italy's charter airline Air Europe
        470 42 Probe into Flight 111 crash: inflight entertainment on 18 jets to be dropped Bloomberg [ZURICH] SAirGroup's Swissair, Europe's fifth largest airline, said it is taking a 45 per cent stake in charter airline Air Europe to strengthen its foothold in
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        Lock icon Sales of carmakers in India plunge
        294 42 AFP [NEW DELHI] The recession in India's auto sector claimed all but the largest carmaker in the six months to September, with US firm General Motors leading the losers' pack on a 64 per cent sales plunge, data showed. The Association of Indian Automobile
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        Lock icon Safety concerns over air traffic control trials ground Qantas flights to 4 Aussie cities
        263 42 Reuters [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd subsidiaries stopped flying from midnight (1300 GMT) on Saturday to four cities in the state of New South Wales owing to safety concerns during trial air traffic control changes. "We are
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        Lock icon EC takes 6 nations to court over US open skies deals
        327 42 AFP [BRUSSELS] The European Commission has begun court action against eight EU countries which have struck individual "open skies" agreements with the United States, a Commission spokesman said. Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden all face
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        Lock icon Taiwan govt to give up control of China Airlines
        329 42 Reuters [TAIPEI] A Taiwan govern-ment-directed foundation said it would give up control over China Airlines by selling over half of its stake in Taiwan's leading carrier. The China Aviation Development Foundation, which holds 71 per cent of China Airlines' equity, said
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
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      20 27 UK inquiry calls for action on night lookouts Maritime agency should oppose one-man night-time bridge watchkeeping at IMO Page 2
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      107 27 BA, American to focus on developing oneworld alliance Their own proposed transatlantic tie-up to be phased over the next 4-5 years. Back Page We can't deliver to Mars (yet), but our fast service covers the earth. I or the most efficient service, in Asia and around the world, go with
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      1396 30 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO M Kl >rn«IKRANEANCANADA WW LEH HTM AMR HAM 18V RJI VESSEL TOY "mT" Off SPE EOS H.C j MTB HAMJM SAVANNAH W0047 01 11 2211 23 11 21 11 2311 24 11 SHANGHAI SENATOR WMM7 3*lo 16.11 1611 2* 11 22 11 2* 11 HAMJM
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      1667 31 TO ISRAEL IN 13 DAYS IVERY THURSDAY I SINGAPORE'S GINIRAL AGENTS: 6 SHENTON WAY TEL* 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 JOHORE OFFICEIOSTAD MIWIW pn LIB ;im«wmc mus/wos mwmd dot id/oi «nsm COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD _CRNQMI7>7B9OOOOM *****50/SS T/SHPMTDtfT 420SS2S TE: 02-07-35 ***** FAX- 02-07-15M1 7ft w/wr m
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      1139 32 *****PAC1F1C INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 1 40 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. CRNO **********06 IIVISStI VOT Ml g ft STP mi tut sj£mHl M I OOCI ACCLAIM MS 1/11 J/ll 1 M/ll- I! if/H nTm *7TT KJNGA tuaiai i 4« s'/H -jm- u>n 1 T' S^n—T^--?^-KOtA Pf
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