The Business Times, 1 January 1999

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04W12/98 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1999
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  • 54 1 sn 1492.73 (-1.97) BT-SRI 587.44 (-3.36) sasa FUTURES ***** (-1.38) STOCK MABKET INDICES TTiureday Change KLSE COMP NIKKEI Closed HANG SENO 10.04&&8 7186 SET INDEX Closed JAKARTA COMP MANILA COMP Closed TAIPEI WPI M 18.43 -43.60 SEOUL COMP Owed CLSA CHINA B Umv AUSTALLORD 1813.4 +29 J 12
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  • 75 1 FOBEX RATES uss s$ US» 1.660 £(US$/SS per 1.666 1764 DM 1.680 0.988 YEN 114.6 1.449* RM 3.800 0.437 HKS 7.747 0114 BAHT 96.67 0.045 RUPIAH 8,000 0.021 •St torn units PBIHE KATES SINGAPORE* 5.96 KIALA Ll'MPlR 1150 JAKARTA .28.08 BANGKOK 14.71 MANILA .22.90 HONGKONG 10.25 TAIPEI A80 SYDNEY
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  • 518 1  -  Stay united and we'll ride oat the worst of the crisis, he says By, Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore economy grew 1.3 per cent in 1998, but the prospects for the new year are very uncertain, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said in
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  • 747 1  -  Bat $199.9b capitalisation still well below 1997's By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Powered by an unexpected rally in the last quarter, the market value of Singapore listed companies staged a solid recovery in the second half of 1998, but the
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  • 1195 1 1999 seen favouring prudent firms with cash to expand Bloomberg [HONGKONG] True to the stars, the Year of the Tiger brought turbulence. Some investors made huge gains, others huge losses. The Year of the Rabbit, investors and Chinese astrologers agree, should bring moderation
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  • 62 1 [SINGAPORE] Floating, bobbing and dancing, these balloons at the Marina Mandarin hotel saw off the old year and ushered in the new. To the generations of Singaporeans accustomed to years of uninterrupted prosperity, 1998 brought a jolt of reality and roused many to the extra effort
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  • REGION
    • 241 2 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIAN said its economy shrank 13.68 per cent in 1998. beating its own forecast, while consumer prices rose 77.63 per cent to their highest in more than three decades. The government had forecast a 15 per cent contraction in the economy this
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    • 173 2 KUALA LUMPUR AFP THE Malaysian central bank has capped nominal interest rates on credit card purchases at 1.5 per cent a month or 18 per cent yearly, reports said yesterday. Late payment charges should not be more than one per cent of the
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    • 225 2 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN'S cabinet yesterday gave final approval to a series of stimulus measures aimed at boosting the long-de-pressed property market. "The moves not only aim to boost the construction industry. but also to bolster the overall economy." government spokesman Chen Chienjen quoted
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    • 534 2 SEOUL It beats HSBC in bidding; pact signed for sale at current market prices Bloomberg A US group led by Newbridge Capital Ltd will buy a 51 per cent stake in Korea First Bank at current market prices,
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    • 475 2 WASHINGTON Power utility first to benefit from bank's vote of confidence Bloomberg THE World Bank may guarantee bond sales next year by state-owned South Korean companies, including Korea Electric Power Corp, in what would be a vote of confidence that
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    • 75 2 [MANILA] A returning Filipino worker counting his US dollars after buying some imported goods at the Manila airport duty free shop. Hundreds of overseas Philippine workers, coming mostly from the Middle East, Japan, Hongkong and Taiwan, are returning home to spend the holiday season with their families.
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    • 285 2 TOKYO NYT ASIAN and Middle Eastern crime syndicates used underground banks to send at least 32 billion yen (*****.6 million) out of Japan in 1998, according to a National Police Agency report. It has uncovered 14 such illegal transactions, but they suspect far
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    • 382 2 ANWAR'S TRIAL Doctor's testimony vindicates me and applicant: ex-DPM AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Lawyers of sacked Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim filed an affidavit yesterday to support his adopted brother's application for a revision of a six-month jail conviction. In the affidavit.
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    • 387 2 TOKYO Bid to deal with investment boom collapse under probe AFP JAPAN'S failed Nippon Credit Bank transferred a third of its bad loans to 76 dummy companies it set up since 1992 in an effort to deal with the collapse of
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    • 225 2 Change a bid to get economy growing again, says PM Bloomberg JAPANESE Prime Minister Keiso Obuchi said the government will cut personal income taxes in June, rather than at year-end as previously planned, in a bid to get the world's second-largest
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    • ASIABriefs
      • 73 2 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] AlOO billion yuan (5519.9 billion) closed-end fund in China was about 50 times oversubscribed when it when on sale on Wednesday, the South China Morning Post reported, citing unnamed analysts. The fund—called the Puhui Fund was managed by Peng Hua Fund Management, which
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      • 68 2 Reuters [HANOI] Vietnam's economic growth slowed to 5.8 per cent in 1998 from a revised figure of 8.2 per cent the previous year, a government report said yesterday. The General Statistics Office, in its annual year-end report, said the figure was lower than for recent
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      • 70 2 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's military said the province of Aceh was back to normal yesterday and cast doubt on reports that eight soldiers had been tortured and killed there. "The situation has returned to normal," military spokesman Col Panggih said. Military officials had said that eight people
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      • 64 2 Reuters [HANOI] A court in southern Vietnam has jailed the former head of Peregrine Capital Vietnam for five years on charges related to smuggling motorbikes, a prosecuting official said yesterday. Nguyen Trung True, an overseas Vietnamese with Australian citizenship, had been under investigation for tax evasion
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  • THE WORLD
    • 1017 3  -  WASHINGTON Mood in Washington anti-climactic on eve of Clinton's trial as momentum for censure builds up By. Leon Hadar SOME pundits are already describing it as The Trial Of The Century (move aside O J Simpson...). In about two weeks, and for
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    • 440 3 COUNTDOWN TO EURO Its forex market's open, but little action is expected AFP [BOMBAY] India will earn a slice of financial history today, when it becomes the first market in the world to launch trading in the new European single currency the
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    • 237 3 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico Reuters A NEW Mexico research firm said on Wednesday it has come up with a prototype miniature power pack for cell phones that runs on alcohol including hard liquor. Manhattan Scientifics Inc said it has come
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    • 331 3 WASHINGTON Most see only minor problems but 50% plan to avoid flying Reuters NEARLY half of Americans surveyed in a new poll said they would avoid travelling by plane on or around Jan 1, 2000, when experts fear air traffic control could
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    • 219 3 BONN Reuters BUNDESBANK president Hans Tietmeyer has said that he saw no pressing need for the European Central Bank to adjust interest rates following the launch of the euro. Mr Tietmeyer said on Wednesday that neither he nor ECB
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    • 479 3 WASHINGTON Nuclear weapons design part of secrets acquired NYT A SELECT House committee, in a classified report unusual for its bipartisanship, has found that over the last 20 years China has obtained, sometimes through theft, some of the most sensitive American military technology, including
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    • 363 3 MICROSOFT'S ANTITRUST TRIAL Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Intuit Inc chief executive William Harris Jr said Microsoft Corp could end up controlling the fast-growing Internet if the federal judge overseeing the company's antitrust trial doesn't move quickly to curb the software giant's power. In his written
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    • 6 3 Transforming Europe's capital markets, Pg 4
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    • 71 3 National University of Singapore PUBLIC LECTURE l| PROFESSOR JOSEPH S NYE B Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor MM s I HE RISE OF CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY" Pjg T ~1 Date Friday, 8 January 1999 a Sar- Time 6:00 pm LLfjj s Venue Lecture Theatre 11 HM
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 841 4  -  OPINION the BOTTOMLXNE By David Mason The writer was a partner in an international accounting firm in Singapore for 14 years. He is now a business consultant in the United Kingdom. He contributed this article to BT A BIG-SCREEN television set costs nearly
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    • 103 4 If the central government sets a target, then local governments try their best to fulfill it, sometimes using false figures, or spending that brings no real improvement in the economy.' -Mao Yushi an economist with the Unirule Institute of Economics, a private research group in Beijing, on
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    • 654 4 EDITORIAL Statesmanship is a quality that seems to be in short supply these days in the world of international monetary affairs. So when Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa attempted to fill that gap last week by proposing a series of monetary reforms, his was
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    • 1218 4  -  US and European businesses position themselves for new market in common currency zone By. Alan Cowell NYT IT has all the trappings of a gold rush: the lure of riches, the frisson of risk, the headlong dash to stake the claims. The euro, Europe's
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    • 909 4 US-EU drama over bananas THE "banana wars" are an irresistible temptation to jokesters, but the principle at stake is not so risible. The United States has threatened to impose a 100 per cent import duty on certain Italian cheeses, cashmere sweaters and 14 other products from
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 690 5  -  Remakes are not always a good idea though Hollywood may think otherwise, says ELEANOR RENGEL ELEANOR RINGEL NYT BILLY Wilder said it as well as anyone could. He likened movie remakes to "running into a girlfriend you slept with 30 years ago". Yet Hollywood keeps (re)making
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 402 6 Proposals for tariff cuts submitted; rival City Telecom offers promotional rates AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd proposes to cut tariffs as it braces for competition with the expiry of its monopoly over international calls on New Year's Day, company officials
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    • 205 6 [SINGAPORE] Oakwell Engineering has struck a new deal with Engineering Power Systems (EPS) of Canada, under which its direct stake in an Indian power company would be held via preference shares instead of ordinary shares. The Singapore company yesterday said it would
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    • 169 6 [SINGAPORE] Overseas Union Enterprise yesterday said it had reached a settlement with Pernas Hotel Chain (Penang) Sdn Bhd on an earlier dispute between subsidiary Singapore Mandarin International Hotels and Pernas OUE (Penang) Sdn Bhd. OUE has an indirect 30 per cent interest in
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    • 265 6 Tuntex group to use funds from sale to repay debts of units BridgeNews [TAIPEI] KG Telecommunications Corp Ltd, one of Taiwan's private mobile phone operators, will acquire from Tuntex Group a 59 per cent stake in Tuntex Telecommunications Co Ltd another private
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    • 700 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Louis Beckerling KEPPEL Marine Industries (KMI) may present a patient investor with a reasonably risk-free return over the remaining 12 months or so that it is likely to survive as a separately-listed entity. The counter rose from a low of
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    • 382 6 FT [TOKYO] Nissho Iwai, the troubled Japanese trading house, yesterday secured a 600 billion yen (SsB.6 billion) line of credit from Japanese banks and revealed a programme. The group has been struggling with poor profitability at its core operations, as well
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    • 415 6 Company has no problem servicing loans totalling $34.6 m: chairman Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] GRP Ltd, a Singapore-based maker of marine equipment, is in talks with DBS Bank to restructure debt and has not defaulted on loans, said its chairman Han Hai
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    • 102 6 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore food and beverage company ABR Holdings Ltd said yesterday that proceeds from a rights issue next month would be used largely to reduce its bank borrowings. The company said in a rights issue prospectus that about $10 million would be used
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    • 188 6 FT (HOUSTON] Conoco became the latest casualty of depressed oil prices yesterday as the US oil company said it would take an after-tax charge of US$5O million (SsB3 million), or 8 US cents per share, against fourth-quarter earnings to cut costs and
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    • 3403 7 CURR PREV COMPANY MKT CAP NO OF CLOSING PRICE PE RANK RANK <S$M) SHARES 31/12/98 30/06/98 CHANGE RATIO (MILLIONS) Situ 2 SingTel *****.8 ***** 2.52 2.40 5.0 20.3 fjy 3 SIA *****.4 962 7.15 6.50 10.0 8.8 111 4 DBS *****.0 523 8.00
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    • COMPANIES/FINANCE
      • 589 8 There're still too many financial obligations it most first meet: source BridgeNews [CHICAGO] The 16 founding partners of Long Term Capital Management will not pocket year-end incentive fees of approximately US$5O million (5582.9 million) from the fund, according to a source close
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      • 363 8 USs6l.7b merger creates biggest US petroleum retailer Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] British Petroleum Co, the world's thirdlargest oil company, received US approval to acquire Amoco Corp for US$6l.7 billion (U*****.3 billion) a combination that creates the biggest US petroleum retailer. The US Federal Trade Commission
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      • 402 8 NYT [ATLANTA] Pfizer, the company that invented Viagra, is the company of the year, Forbes reports in its 51st annual report on American industry. "Pfizer has developed the most talked-about drug of the decade," says the magazine, adding that many
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      • 226 8 It buys 500,000 shares from venture fond for USs4.9sm Bloomberg [IRVINE, California] US Bancorp, the 14th biggest US bank holding company, said it will increase its stake in New Century Financial Corp to 18.8 per cent after buying 500,000 common shares from
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      • 235 8 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] AT&T Corp's US$54 billion (5589.5 billion) acquisition of TeleCommunications Inc won approval from US anti-trust enforcers on Wednesday after the companies agreed to sell TCl's stake in Sprint PCS. a wireless telephone joint venture. To
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 303 9 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Wheat futures feU more than 2 per cent on Wednesday, the biggest drop in three weeks, amid expectations that US exports plummeted last week on weak global demand. The US Department of Agriculture will probably report that wheat exports fell by two-thirds
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      • 168 9  -  grwirr Report MSGI Taiwan (Moras Charlie Kuo, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract continued to fall despite a NT$l5O billion (557.71 billion) plan by Taiwan government to boost the real estate market. The futures opened slightly higher and hovered between
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      • 323 9 ENERGY REPORT Reuters Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Brent crude futures in Asia were steady in very thin trading ahead of the New Year holidays yesterday. At 0745 GMT, February Brent on Simex was offered at U5510.55 per barrel, looking for a bid. In London on Wednesday,
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      • 316 9 Reuters Singapore THE US dollar dropped yesterday to its lowest level against the yen since early October as stops were triggered around the 114.50 level, dealers said. They said the doUar held around 114.60 for much of the Asian session and that the price action came as European
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      • Article, Illustration
        1266 9 ntTEEBAHE CROSS RATES 55 2 gCU Ffr Dm HK$ Yen Wo» m W***i Pm> S5 Hand Sfr NTS Batt Eo-d USS Australia 0.950 6.178 0.525 3.456 1.031 4.753 26.080 49.094 0.703 7.3W 2232 1163 ***** 24.020 1.018 3 596 0 848 19 766 22 502 ova ft tu ST SS
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      • 1864 9 SICOM FUTUKBS Dec 31 RUMCR (Mares clostoq «t 5 J0*n) RSS t cMts/kg) do» VotaM Optn M* Uw S«tt (tout) lattfist KM. 00 150 99 105.00 1175 **99 107.50 1275 Apr/Jw 99 < 112.00 2250 116.50 300 Oct/OK 99 120.00 75 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US canbAg) VotaM Open HjjljJ Low
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 1880 10 BONDS, LOANS ft WJUtftANTS m LMt Vo4 Day Last OuoU Avg High Low Stiw Company Sat* ♦Of COOO) High Law Buyar Sollar Prlca 20 5 3 3160 A Acar ******1 US$ 12.5 unch 87 12.5 12 11.5 12.5 95 4.5 3164 Acma ******4 15.5 -0.5 118 15.5 15.5 15 16
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      • 204 10  -  WARRANT WATCH -By] R Sivanithy IT'S a pity that the Malaysian market is effectively closed to the outside world, since there are some pretty decent bargains to be had. Of course, the risks of corporate failures are much higher now than say, a year ago,
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      • 221 10 NOMKOMO STOCKS Or Or 1998 I-"* Vol Day Last Ouot* Otv Mv YM Nat M Cao High L— CemMny Safr COOQ) Htqh Law Buyar Sa8ac Cw P/t $ma 400 250 5123 CDL(2000)HK 400 8 2.4 2 20.5 7744.7 5124 Cathay Pac 20c HK_720 265 2.1 7v4 6 *****.4
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      • Article, Illustration
        1522 10 Reuters Q Hang Seng -7186 STOCKS finished lower yesterday in the last trading session of the year with most investors on the sidelines ahead of the New Year holiday, brokers said. The Hang Seng Index slipped 72.86 points, or 0.72 per cent, to end at 10,048.58. Over the year
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      • 414 10 AFP QWP Index -4160 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent down yesterday on a lack of investor confidence despite government measures to bolster the property market, analysts said. "Turnover remained very low as confidence had collapsed," said Andy Wei, research manager of Master Link Securities. Investors were also
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      • 600 10 AFP NAD Primaries +212 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up 1.1 per cent yesterday as institutional buying helped spur a late rally in half-day trading, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed the last day of trade in 1998 up 29.2 points at 2,813.4. The All Industrials index closed up 49.0
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      • 256 10 AFP gwdjjgggi 4MI SHARES closed down 1.9 per cent yesterday but brokers said the movement was exaggerated by year-end trading. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 40.26 points at 2.064.97 in a half-day session ahead of the holiday weekend. Turnover was worth a healthy NZ575.4 million.—AFP 0« 31 na
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    • 5299 11 Transaction date Dec 31 S,N. Company "i <£ V S JE 4 MULTMNOUSTRY «.5 3 "ilw SSSffeszzz S* 05 102 725 705 2 s II s 275 1 7i» 7? 1277 HKIOO 3 5 2 8 3.5 Vl 3^1 225 102 mt 1053 185
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    • 1029 11 z: nSi, ■w'-u. y «g y MANUFACTURING 243 30 2049 'AS Auto 10c 86 -3 556 89 85 5 86 86 5 ISM 7 t» at 82 45 2051 ASJ Hldgs20c 58.5 »6 3 58 5 58 5 55 5 58 2 5 10 2 no ifi St tl
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 369 12 CnZBMSZB^HBSl Stedu Votame Brilliant 8c 3,742.000 KepTatLee Bk DBS WOO 2.838,000 ST Capital 25c 2,293,000 ThakralNJc 2,270,000 Kepp«l Land50c 2,218,000 DBS land 2,182,000 KcpTatlM Bank WOO 2,in,000 Van der Hoot 2,099,000 Keppel LandWOO 2,0%,000 MMI Hkkjs 10c 1,907,000 Stocto SPH 12,226,100 DBS Foreign 5,493,305 DBS Land 5,302,777 Keppel Land50c 3,987,918
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      • 617 12  -  Expected posh of STI above 1,400 level fails to materialise; Sesdaq index rises on retail positioning STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] The expected push for the Straits Times Index through win-dow-dressing or otherwise failed to materialise yesterday as activity
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 87 12 HERE'S the latest on Pacific Internet's US IPO which has been held over to early January. Talk now is that lead underwriter Lehman Brothers has raised the final amount on offer from 2.5 million to three million shares. But they must have sniffed pretty good demand out
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        • 156 12 NEXT Monday, we'll see the birth of the euro, billed by some as the biggest financial market event this side of the millennium. Here's one inside view of what'll be happening behind the scenes over those crucial hours. While most of us will be enjoying the
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        • 78 12 HERE S another warning about what they can achieve with DNA testing these days. A 39-year-old guy was arrested in Florida recently after spitting in the street. But here's the twist. He did it from his motorcycle, and that's not against the law thereabouts. Instead, the Reuters report
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        • 123 12 SINGAPORE CEOs might want to give this a small think. As part of a write-up on the 100 best companies to work form the US, Fortune magazine's latest issue lists some unusual perks that these favourites practise. BE ft K, for example, allows the use of
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      • Article, Illustration
        84 12  -  -by Wong Wei Kong. THAKRAL Corporation shares closed up $0.04 at SO 845 yesterday on a volume ot 2.27 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average ot 664,000 shares. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics, as well as the MACD charts, suggest that the stock may
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      • 1104 12 TORONTO ncm g *b Alcan Aluminium 41.750 -0.150 BCE »r>e 57.900 -0.200 Barrlck CoW Corp 29.600 -0.650 Bk of Montreal 61.550 -0.700 Bk of Nov* Scotia 33.750 -0.250 Bompar dter inc 21.450 -0.550 Can impaoai Bk 37.450 -0.250 Canadian Occidental 15 J50 -0.550 Canadian Pec Ord 28.700
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 318 13 BridgeNews Reuters THE holiday lull in trading continued to take its toll on rates with some owners with spot tonnage conceding very easy rates. Activity in the east is almost at a standstill. In line with the physical market, futures trading was extremely slow. Volume totalled just 16
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    • 285 13 SCS '000 a im C*fT Distribution 0.50 *0.01 40 Own Hup 0.54 *0.01 70 Cmco Investment 0.53 *0.03 22 FrelgM Links 0.17 unch 1630 M Holding* 0.39 *0.02 27 Hal Sun Hup 0.425 *0.005 156 HttacNZoMn 0.735 *0.005 95 •MC Holdings HK 5.60 JayaHoMtags 0.515 -0.005 12 Shipyard
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    • 400 13 Major yards did not receive any ship orders daring October-December Bloomberg [TOKYO] Asia's economic slowdown, which has cut demand for goods, has also resulted in a lower demand for the vessels that carry them. Japan's shipbuilders are the ones hit most as
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 13 [LONDON] A model enthusiast looking at an exact scale replica of the Titanic at the International Model Show at Olympia. The model of the Titanic took over 600 man hours to construct with 32people involved. It will be auctioned at Christies on April 15, the anniversary of the
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    • 711 13  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar AN English Commercial Court has ruled that extension of time by a court to allow a party to commence arbitration after the expiry of the given contractual time will now be more of an exception rather
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    • 597 13  -  Liberia acts to maintain confidence in world's second largest ship register From David Hughes inlAmdon JUST days after issuing a decidedly cautious statement on the future of the Liberian register, Jeremy Smith, general secretary of the Liberian Shipowners' Council (LSC), has resigned
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    • 969 14 TJS AIRLINE INDUSTRY They claim deregulation has been a boon for large airlines, which use predatory pricing to drive them out Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] SINCE former US president Jimmy Carter announced drastic deregulation of the airline industry in 1978, ticket prices have fallen by 40 per cent,
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    • 17166 21 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser vessel Voyage Telephone I ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel voyage Telephone SIN Dest n Name Name Number Number I SIN Oesfn Name Name Number Number 08/01 08/02 CCNI P&ONLL SAO PAULO 500 VE 65-*****77 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvolre I os/oi 00/02 mol
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      • 746 27 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure J—I Part AdNguna J1 I298J JOS JlomjiMj* 03.13/1200 Wnw« 24 J09 alongside 3112/1800 Andh WMT4 *****6 J07 alongside 0113/2300 ATOM* Satya PV232 JIT alongside 01.13/0500 Prades/i 80 J08 alongside 01.13/0800 Bt C Son* *****8 J01 alongside 31.12/1400 M C* IndriJ *****8 J01
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      • 1129 27 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO I Booking/Bounce Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From A" LHy 012A 3*016 03 /IS00 U 31/T500 31/1500 U 31/1700 21 31/1700 3 01/0700 4 01/1200 Umwif «34M WOO i 02~ /I300 U 31/1500 31/1500 IA 3V1700 2*
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      • 252 27 Jul Australia: New Year's Day. Austria: New Year's Day. Belgium: New Year's Day. Brunei: New Year's Day. Canada: New Year's Day. China: New Year's Day. Denmark: New Year's Day. Finland: New Year's Day. France: New Year's Day. Germany: New Year's Day. Greece: New Year's Day. Hong Kong: New
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      • 815 27 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 512 27 Carbon 180 Mai 991.0 3.9 15.4 0.15 78 0.0T Dot 24 Density Water Residue Ash Aluminium Sediment No above E25 0 1110 0 380 Ave 988.1 0.3 M.4 0.07 29 0.02 Exxon 380 Mai 994.2 1.0 19.6 0.11 61 0.06 KWW3 tt M/M m/m mi mtiwe
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      • 551 28 Tear ends on an npbeat note as US aircraft maker exceeds own forecast Reuters [SEATTLE] A troubled year for Boeing ended on an upbeat note on Wednesday as the company's commercial airplane group announced the delivery of a record 550 planes for the
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        42 28 [NYKOPING, Sweden] Airport rescue workers try to dig out the wheels of a Russian Aeroflot cargo aircraft Iljusjin 76from the mud at Skavsta airport in Nykoping, 100 km south of Stockholm. The aircraft slipped over the runway during landing. AFP
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      • 462 28 It plans methanol-based system in prototype Jeep Commander Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] DaimlerChrysler AG, the world's No 5 automaker, seeks to start production of cars and light trucks powered by fuel-cell technology in five years to boost fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. The
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      • 223 28 Reuters [DETROIT] DaimlerChrysler said on Wednesday it plans to recall nearly 1 million LHS, Concorde, Intrepid and Vision sedans due to fuel leak problems that could cause a fire. Affected vehicles are 1993-97 model year cars with 3.5 litre engines. Also included are 1993
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      • 510 28 AFP [NEW DELHI) India will scout for a strategic partner for Air India to pull out the state-run flagship carrier from the red, Civil Aviation Minister Ananth Kumar said. Mr Kumar told the Press Trust of India (PTI) that plans to seek an
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      • 232 28 Reuters [SAO PAULO] Brazil on Wednesday scrapped its last regulations over passenger airline fares, one year after a major deregulatory step brought competitive prices to the sector. The Civil Aviation Department (DAC) said airlines will no longer have to ask for any authorisation on any
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        • 86 28 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways, Europe's largest carrier, said passengers travelling on any of its flights from European countries can pay either in euros or in a local currency from today onwards. BA said 45 per cent of its passengers travel to and from continental
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        • 91 28 Reuters [LONDON] British Aerospace said it had won a £100 million (***** million) contact to supply 80 replacement fuselages for the Royal Air Force's Hawk aircraft. BAe will act as prime contractor and be responsible for the design, development and manufacture of the new fuselages.
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        • 56 28 Reuters (SHENZHEN] China's southern city of Shenzhen h»« finished construction of a new US$ll4 million (SslBB.l million) terminal for its Huangtian International Airport, the official Xinhua news agency said. The 72,000 square metre terminal features China's longest moving walkway and its parking apron can accommodate
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