The Business Times, 7 January 1999

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  • 27 1 SINGAPORE 2,3 ASIAN SLUMP. ...4 S-E ASIA. .5 CHINA/HK/TAIWAN A ASIA 7 WORLD 49 EDITORIAL 10 TV a LIFESTYLE 12 COMPANIES 13-lfi FINANCE 10 STOCKS 18-22
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  • 494 1  -  Agreement for stake in Shinawatra unit AIS to be signed tomorrow Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] In another step towards becoming a regional telecoms player, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd said yesterday it will buy up to 20 per cent of Thailand's
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  • 632 1  -  He's said to have set np secret mission to study situation From Loh Hui Tin in Hongkong HONGKONG'S floundering economy is getting the personal attention of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who has ordered action to return the Special Administrative Region to an even keel. The
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  • 472 1  -  Home owners take developer to court over alleged shortfall By i Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] A dispute between a developer and some home buyers on what constitutes built-in area is set to go to court next week with the outcome likely to set
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  • 622 1  -  fty R Sivanithy [SINGAPOREJ After a slow start to the New Year. Asian stock markets exploded to life yesterday as foreign funds poured in after Wall Street's confidence-boosting Tuesday rally. Lower interest rates and a stable Tokyo were central themes in several
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  • 50 1 Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street stocks soared yesterday, putting the Dow Jones Industrial Average in record terrain for the first time since November. At noon EST, the Dow was up 148.30 points to 9,459.49, which surpassed its Nov 23 record close of 9,374.27. Reuters
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    • 114 1 ——ammmmmammm—mmm—mmmm inaum The new merged ÜBS decided to adopt the Swiss Rank Corporation's management structure which emphasises global reporting lines because it wanted to compete effectively with Wall Street investment banks, said a senior ÜBS executive in Singapore, Pg2 ria nun |pU I women _~i i mi i- fl rlz-rqppgia
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 738 2 Adoption of global reporting lines helps it to take on US investment banks Reports to/Catherine Ong THE new merged ÜBS decided to adopt the Swiss Bank Corporation's management structure which emphasises global reporting lines because it wanted to compete effectively
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    • 280 2 ÜBS Brinson Asset Management has made Singapore the regional hub for its asset management business, and last month shifted US$l65 million (*****.6 million) more from Zurich to be managed here, said the firm's executive director Roger Tallboys. The division has combined the asset management
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    • 367 2  -  EYE ON TOE ECONOMY Commerce By\ Mariana Chew REVENUE of food and beverage (F&B) outlets continued sliding in October, falling 15.8 per cent year-on-year to $122.6 million, the latest figures from the Singapore Tourism Board show. This brings the sales turnover of cessa- ble
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    • 353 2  -  By i Carol Eng ECONOMISTS say that a recent Dai-Ichi Kangyo report which projected that the current recession could lead to a net job loss of 200,000 to 350,000 is way too bearish. Net employment refers to the number of jobs created
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    • 579 2  -  Staff on shore leave conld spend up to $4m in next few days By: David Boey AMERICAN military forces using port and airbase facilities provided by Singapore injected tens of millions of dollars into the economy last year. Millions more went to
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    • 549 3  -  But Nissan makes biggest gains in sales to rank as second most popular car Byi Conrad Raj JAPANESE cars claimed the top four spots in car sales in Singapore last year with Honda, powered by a 30 per cent increase in
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    • 582 3  -  Indon natural gas supply deal still being finalised By Ronnie Lim THE government tender for the $3 billion Tuas Power (TP) is now expected to close only around mid to late February, a month after the Indonesian natural gas supply deal is due to
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    • 513 3  -  By I Slow Li Sen THEY came by bus, by MRT, by car and by air all senior overseas managers were flown back to hear and be energised by the message from their new boss at OCBC Bank. Some 3,000 OCBC staff took
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    • 350 3  -  By Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] The just-ap-proved British Petroleum acquisition of US oil company Amoco Corp is not expected to have an impact on BP Singapore's oil refining operations, as well as Amoco's stake in a Ssl.l billion aromatics plant here, as these
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 544 4  -  Economic nnmbers in budget seen as being more 'doable' Frotn i Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta ENCOURAGED by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) cautious endorsement of Indonesia's budget, investors yesterday drove the benchmark Jakarta Stock Index strongly higher. The IMF said in
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    • 406 4  -  From. Al Labita in Manila A CONFLUENCE of positive news yesterday pushed Philippine stocks upwards for the third straight day, firming up the economy's expected rebound this year. The bellwether PSE Composite Index jumped 3.6 per cent to a seven-month high
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    • 288 4 State-ran firms to be asked to cat foreign currency borrowings AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's government moved yesterday to rein in the strengthening won amid mounting concerns that a robust currency would hurt the competitive edge of the country's exports. The finance and economy ministry
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    • 547 4 Low export growth, weak home demand, ailing state firms will hurt economy Reuters (BEIJING] China painted a gloomy picture yesterday of its economic prospects this year and said it would boost the domestic economy through government spending. "The internal and external
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    • 383 4 TAIPEI It also plans cuts in tariffs, taxes to boost economy AFP TAIWANESE authorities took another shot yesterday at propping up the sagging economy with a new NT$6O billion (Ss3.l billion) stimulus package aimed at helping small companies. Taiwan's central bank and
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    • 138 4 Reuters [TOKYO] A Japanese thinktank has forecast that the country's economy could contract by one per cent and many thousands lose their jobs if low stock prices and a strong yen continue for a year. Japan Research Institute based its forecast on three assumptions that
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    • 253 4 Bridge News [HONGKONG] Hongkong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said yesterday the territory will spend US$3O billion (5550.3 billion) on infrastructure development over the next five years to help maintain its competitive edge and ensure economic growth. The US$3O billion will be spent on
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 566 5 ANWAR'S TRIAL Transcripts of tapes don't match, casting doobt on veracity, he tells court Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The High Court here yesterday dismissed the application of former prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's defence counsel to adduce evidence from five tapes purportedly of
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    • 448 5 KUALA LUMPUR A-G urged to quit after he confirmed police responsible Reuters MALAYSIA'S sacked finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, opposition leaders and rights activists denounced the government yesterday for delays in an inquiry into injuries he suffered in police custody three
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    • 422 5 BANGKOK Move to attract bidders after failure of huge auction in '98 AFP THAILAND said yesterday it may try to lure bids in a new multi-billion dollar auction of seized loans by limiting the size of lots following the failure
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    • NOTEBook
      • 80 5 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's net foreign exchange reserves stood at U554,055 billion (Ss6.B billion) at the end of 1996, a drastic drop from U5514,429 billion a year earlier, the central Bank Indonesia said yesterday. The bank, in a statement, attributed the decrease to foreign debt
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      • 116 5 AFP [MANILA] President Joseph Estrada has definitely ruled out the Philippines hosting the world trade exhibition, Expo 2002, his spokesman said yesterday. The Philippines won the right to host the 2002 exhibition last June when Fidel Ramos was still president. Manila beat the rival bid
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      • 69 5 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government will abolish credit ceilings on trade financing in a bid to boost non-oil exports, Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) chairman Aburizal Bakrie said yesterday. Bisnis Indonesia quoted Mr Bakrie as saying that the plan has been confirmed
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    • 228 5 SURABAYA Reuters THOUSANDS of factory workers rallied in Indonesia's second largest city of Surabaya yesterday to demand higher wages, throwing firecrackers at passing cars, said witnesses. The workers said their salaries should be raised and they should be given a bigger bonus for the Hari
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    • 239 5 KUALA LUMPUR Bridge News MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is likely to name his new deputy soon after facing pressure from many quarters to do so to ensure there is political stability in the country, according to Chinese-language newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh
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    • 233 5 MANILA AFP THE Philippines has Hied a registration statement to float US$75O million (Ssl.2 billion) worth of Yankee bonds, a finance department statement said here yesterday. The bond float will be in two tranches with JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Warburg
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  • CHINA-HOHGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 293 6 HONGKONG Reuters UNITED States Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan will attend a meeting of central bankers in Hongkong early next week, US and Hongkong officials said yesterday. Hongkong leader Tung Chee-hwa said he would discuss a range of issues with the US
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    • 132 6 BEIJING Reuters CHINA has set up a 6,000strong anti-smuggling police force as part of a life-and-death battle against rampant smuggling, state media said yesterday. Another 4,000 officers would join the force by the end of June, the China Daily said. "The fight against
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    • 472 6 BEIJING It also lowers import duty on textiles, toys, forestry to try level oat tax system Reuters CHINA yesterday announced it has started to phase out preferential tax treatment to dozens of major economic enclaves for foreign-funded enterprises. Beijing also lowered
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    • 51 6 [HARBIN, China] Chinese artists chiselling snow to build a statue featuring People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiersfighting last summer'sfloods in Harbin, capital ofHeilongjiang province, yesterday. Snow sculptures depicting PLA soldiers fighting the worst floods in decades are displayed prominently at the annual ice festival in Harbin.
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    • 700 6  -  CHUT A WATCH Bering wont rash to pot Its eggs In the new currency basket By Lu Ning LONG before the euro made its trading debut early this week, the official Chinese press was flUed with comments and analyses on the new single European currency
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    • 211 6 MACAU Reuters THE Bank of China Group (BOC) said yesterday that recent years of economic contraction and a wave of criminal violence will overshadow Macau's economy in 1999, when the Portuguese-run territory is to be handed back to China. The bank predicted in
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    • 292 6 HONGKONG Airport Authority, HK Telecom, AT? axe more than 1,000 AFP HONGKONG, already battling record-high unemployment, faces another round of mass job sackings as it sinks deeper into recession, companies and reports said yesterday. More than 1,000 workers will join the territory's re-cord-high
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    • 291 6 BEIJING They'll be told which oftheUSs4bdebt Beijing will hononr Bloomberg CREDITORS of the financial arm of Guangdong International Trust Investment Corp (Gitic) will meet liquidators and government officials on Sunday to find out how and when as much as US$4 billion (556.7 billion)
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    • SINOBriefs
      • 75 6 AFP [HONGKONG] Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji is due to visit the United States in April to promote bilateral trade 1 and investment, a newspaper said yesterday. During his visit, Mr Zhu is also expected to seek possible technology transfers to China, Ming Poo
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      • 86 6 AFP [BEIJING] China is to funnel 55 billion yuan (SflLl billion) into domestic railway construction this year, reports said yesterday. The ftinds will be used to set up 1,320 km of new railway lines, 970 km of double tracks and 730 km of
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      • 110 6 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's central bonk said it will raise the interest rate it pays banks cm certain kinds of reserves, to lower banks' costs and encourage them to cut their lending rates. When banks take deposits from customers, theyplaceacertainportion—the "reserve ratio"—with the central bank.
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      • 63 6 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's crisis-battered exports and imports are expected to have fallen sharply in December, but a Reuters poll showed that it will still have managed a trade surplus. Six local economists polled forecast Taiwan would post a December trade surplus of US$697 million
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      • 86 6 AFP [HONGKONG] Hongkong health authorities were monitoring a deadly flu virus sweeping northern China amid fears it could hit the territory next month, a health department spokesman said yesterday. In north eastern China's Harbin city, over 70 per cent of the population has
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  • ASIA
    • 377 7 SEOUL LG to raise US$4J2b through sale of assets, stakes in streamlining effort Bloomberg LG Group yesterday agreed to let Hyundai Group run a merged computer chip business, a capitulation that may end months of wrangling about which side will
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    • 300 7 Constitutional referendum set for Nov as planned AFP [SYDNEY] The Australian government yesterday rejected calls to speed up constitutional reform and made it clear it would not bow to Labor demands to install a president in time to open Sydney's Olympic
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    • 164 7 SEOUL Reuters CREDITORS of Hanbo Steel Co of South Korea said yesterday 10 companies had been contacted to tap their interest in taking over the troubled company. Letters were sent by Hanbo sales organiser Bankers Trust to companies which had either received an information memorandum on
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    • 150 7 NEW DELHI Bernama BIWATER Harthasuma Consortium, a contracting wing of Malaysia's ARA Corporation, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation to develop a 4.5 billion rupee (*****.5 million) water treatment project in Kalamassery. Kalamassery is
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    • 256 7 SYDNEY Bloomberg AUSTRALIAN retail sales rose to a record in November, the second in a row, as consumers remained confident Asia's deep recession and slower global growth won't crimp the domestic economy. Retail sales rose 0.3 per cent in November to A 111.79
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    • 471 7 BOMBAY •4% of global phone service monopoly holder to be floated Bloomberg WITH a potential market of 925 million people and a monopoly on India's international phone service, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is sitting pretty. That's why India will have little trouble finding
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    • 351 7 TOKYO He will propose creation of a managed float in European talks Bloomberg AFP JAPANESE Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi left for Europe yesterday, carrying a message that top industrial nations should work for currency stability. Japanese officials are worried that the Jan 1 introduction
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    • 37 7 [TOKYO] Members of the Edo (Tokyo) Firemanship Commemoration Association, wearing 19th Century firefighting uniforms, performing on bamboo 'ladders'during the New Year review here yesterday. Some 3,2oofir&ghters took part in the annual event AFP
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    • 276 7 TOKYO AFP TWO major Japanese banks, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd. and Tokai Bank Ltd. will ask the government for larger handouts of public money to prop up their capital, a report said yesterday. Under major new bank reforms, Tokyo has
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    • 78 7 MM Founded 1905 MM fff? National University of Singapore I PUBLIC LECTURE H PROFESSOR JOSEPH S NYE B MM Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor "THE RISE Of CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY" ~T Friday, 8 January 1999 ujjH m ff\ Tim 6:00 pm [Ij|B M Vmnm Lecture Theatre
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  • THE WORLD
    • 399 8  -  House split on how long process should take as impeachment trial opens today From, Leon Waidar in Washington FOR the second time in American history, a US President will have to put his political and personal fate in the hands of
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    • 56 8 [HAMBURG] Goldsmith Annette Kutz showing off silver rings which she has trimmed with cress and moss in her shop in Hamburg on Tuesday. Two drops of water are enough for the seedling on each ring worth 250 German marks (*****) to grow but the owner has
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    • 185 8 SANJOSE AFP THE world semiconductor industry struggled in 1998, with seven of its top 11 companies reporting a roughly 14 per cent fall in revenue, the research agency Dataquest reported on Tuesday. "Semiconductor vendors around the world are glad to see the back of 1998,
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    • 245 8 BONN Reuters FINANCE Minister Oskar Lafontaine yesterday stood by his forecast that the German economy would grow by 2 per cent this year despite mounting evidence of a slowdown. Mr Lafontaine shrugged off a batch of leading indicators which showed the economy
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    • 422 8 They are taking advantage of investor demand to lock in cheap fnnding LONDON Bloomberg IN the euro's first few days of trading, companies and countries are putting more than 33 billion euros (Ss6s billion) of bonds denominated in Europe's
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    • 323 8 WASHINGTON AFP UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has obtained convincing evidence that UN weapons inspectors helped the United States collect intelligence to be used in efforts to undermine Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, The Washington Post said yesterday. The report, citing unidentified "confidants"
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    • 608 8 LONDON European unit expected to become world's 2nd reserve currency: strategists Reuters THE dollar will remain the world's reserve currency for the foreseeable future but the newly-launched euro appears likely to be a strong challenger down the road, according to a Reuters survey
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    • 275 8 BRUSSELS Bloomberg EUROPEAN Commission President Jacques Santer vowed yesterday to stay in office for the last year of his term, brushing aside calls to resign over allegations of mismanagement of the European Union's US$lOO billion (*****.6 billion) budget. Mr Santer said
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    • 363 8 LONDON Percy didn't do enough to monitor operations Imro Bloomberg BRITAIN'S investment fund regulator reprimanded Keith Percy, former chief executive of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, for his role in the country's biggest pension fUnd scandal more than two years ago. Peter Young,
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    • 608 9 NEW YORK Wall St performance not seen as main reason for or threat to US economy's strength NYT ECONOMISTS are giving short shrift to the niggling concern that the soaring US stock market might be a speculative bubble that could burst, damaging
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    • 436 9 MOSCOW Bloomberg RUSSIA'S economy could contract or stagnate for another three to five years as long as the nation's banks aren't able to lend to industry, a central banker said. Even as the central bank tries to implement a plan to allow banks
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    • 346 9 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S Prince Edward is to marry his long-time girlfriend Sophie Rhys-Jones who confessed yesterday to being stunned when Queen Elizabeth's last bachelor son finally proposed to her. Posing hand-in-hand for photographers, the couple said they plan a low-key family wedding and
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    • 360 9 THE MICROSOFT CASE Its actions work to shield dominance, says MIT witness Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Microsoft Corp illegally protects its alleged monopoly on computer operating systems and has tried to extend its dominance into the market for software that allows computer users to browse on the
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    • 386 9 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters AN Israeli computer firm is making a publicity splash by exposing a security flaw called the "Russian New Year Exploitation" that it says exposes millions of Web surfers to document theft or manipulation. The company, Finjan Inc.
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    • 398 9 WASHINGTON Estimated amount is biggest ever in US history Bloomberg US President Bill Clinton said yesterday that the fiscal 1999 budget surplus will be larger than expected and will be at least US$76 billion (5J127.4 billion), the largest dollar surplus in US
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 861 10  -  THB BOTTOM LIMB OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent I DECIDED to call my analyst friend Cy Meal at Plunder Securities in Tokyo the other day to ask him about Japan's economic prospects in 1999. "The whole
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    • 92 10 'A nation whose savings ratio is negative is consuming a lot Such an economy is bound to slow once stock prices fail.' -EbnlttSakikftwt Japan's Deputy Finance Minister for International Affairs, on the United States economy. There is a sense now that if this (Wall Street) is a
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    • 662 10 EDITORIAL RARELY can a New Year have begun with such a yawning gap between official and private expectations of a country's economic performance as in the case of Japan in 1999. The government says the economy will return to growth, at least in the fiscal
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    • 876 10  -  Impeachment of Clinton is the latest sign Washington has lost tonch and lost the public's respect By. Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group THIRTY years ago, I came to Washington as a reporter of 23. Since then, I have never witnessed such a
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    • 1004 10 Ol'ilinippsli^Dlntaaa FOR the last 50 years, British foreign policy has been based on two illusions. The first was that Britain could exercise immense influence in Europe by remaining outside it. The second was that Britain's interest was always best served by tagging along behind the United
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 782 11 FILM 'Private Confessions' is a film with an extraordinary pedigree NYT IN Private Confessions, an unfaithful wife hesitates beside the telephone, wondering whether to call her lover. Were it not for this scene's period clothing and antique instrument, there would be little about the moment to anchor it
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    • 1055 12  -  Rapper Lauryn Hill leads the pack with 10 Dominations while Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain and Madonna follow closely, says STEVE DOLLAR NYT WOMEN rule the 1999 Grammy Award nominations. Or, to put it in less politically correct terms: Grammy's gone girl crazy! And, surprise, the one it's
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    • 259 12 HEALTH UK scientists' find could lead to new gft ne therapies Reuters [LONDON] British scientists said yesterday they had discovered how cancer cells can be instructed to die, opening the way for new anti-cancer therapies. The scientists, whose findings were reported in Journal of the
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    • 357 12 PURSUITS [SINGAPORE] Have a coffee on the house at Coffee Bean Tea Leaf cafes tomorrow, and enjoy it with a free copy of The Business Times. To tie in with tomorrow's launch of the paper's new Friday edition of Executive Lifestyle
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 594 13  -  But value stays flat at $99b; downward pressure on interest rates likely to sustain sentiment »y Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] A muchneeded fillip during the final quarter boosted total trading volume on the Stock Exchange of Singapore by some 65 per
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    • 615 13  -  Takeover talk also drives up Inchcape Marketing By. Ang Wan May, Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Takeover speculation fired the imagination of punters yesterday with counters like C K Tang, DBS Land and City Developments; surging ahead in heavy trading. Even though the companies concerned
      Source: Bloomberg  -  615 words
    • 731 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Quak Hiang Whai debate over interestderegulation in is not a new one. But it's one issue ■Hi worth debating overhand over again. Until Hongkong consumers get what they deserve, that is. To begin with, are Hongkong consumers better off with
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    • 432 13  -  Industry invited to give feedback en guidelines by Jan 31 By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore has set oat draft guidelines for asset sacuritisation in Singapore ityyiting feedback from ttetafMptry. The MA&'-said it recogpotential benefits of assetsecuritisation and
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    • 143 13 [SINGAPORE] Pacific Can Investment Holdings said yesterday that the Securities Industry Council has waived a requirement by its major shareholder, KZ Investments and its concert parties, to make a mandatory takeover offer for the remaining shares in the issued and paidup share capital of
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    • COMPANIES
      • 526 14 Nine-month losses within expectations, 70% of loans may be in trouble: analysts Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Bank Negara Indonesia, the country's largest publicly traded bank, posted a nine-month loss of 2.7 trillion rupiah (***** million), hammered by a surge in provisions for
        Bloomberg  -  526 words
      • 504 14 New proposal comes after abortive govt-bond plan Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Renong Bhd, Malaysia's biggest industrial group, may have its cash-rich toll road unit sell a record 8.5 billion Malaysian ringgit (553.7 billion) in bonds to help keep the parent company
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      • 104 14  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Denis Distant I refer to the Hock Lock Siew column by Conrad Raj headlined "Why no update on EML, Vikay rescue plans?" (BT, Jan 5) and wonder why we have to rely on BT to remind the judicial managers that
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      • 279 14 AFP [BANGKOK] The value of Thai shares traded in 1998 plunged 74.4 billion baht (553.4 billion) to some 855.17 billion, even though the trading volume doubled, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) said yesterday. The SET said in a statement that
        AFP  -  279 words
      • 419 14 New listings seen raising HK$l2-slsb; 2nd board to start functioning in Oct AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] The main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) is expected to see 35-40 new company listings during 1999, raising a total of HK$l2-$l5 billion (552.6-$3.2 billion),
        AFX-Asia  -  419 words
      • 197 14 [SINGAPORE] Mainboard listed Fu Yu Manufacturing yesterday denied that it has lost its case against computer monitor maker Sonica Industries, adding that it is "dissatisfied" with a recent High Court order requiring it to provide Sonica with an $8.2 million bankers'
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      • 465 14 Bank Negara said to be giving it another chance Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR) MBf Capital Bhd has been given breathing space to find funds to recapitalise its troubled finance company, banking sources said yesterday. The sources close to the government
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      • 441 14 1(L5% returns in 1998 from share gains, dividends Bernoma [KUALA LUMPUR] Shipbuilder PSC Industries Bhd (PSCI) has emerged as the Malaysian winner of the 1998 Shareholder Scoreboard for the period ended September 1998. It was reported in the Asian Wall Street Journal that PSCI had
        Bernoma  -  441 words
      • 200 14 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] The Hong Kong Securities Clearing Co said it is studying the feasibility of US dollar settlements in its settlement system. Chief executive Stewart Shing said the move would be undertaken to cope with the launch of the Growth Enterprise Market by the Stock
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      • COMPANYBriefs
        • 45 14 [SINGAPORE] Dragon Land Ltd yesterday said that Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Changzhou Fushl Real Property Development Co Ltd, has sold six units of its completed development, the Fort Canning Condominium, to its employees. The company did not elaborate.
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        • 42 14 [SINGAPORE] Vickers Dallas Holdings yesterday corrected an earlier announcement, saying that Lee Kheng Nam was appointed an executive director and not a non-executive director. The company added that Mr Lee has been made president of the Vertex group.
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        • 62 14 (SINGAPORE] Flextech Holdings said Arrow Asia Ventures Ltd (AAV) has disposed 0f770,000 shares in the company, or 0.72 per cent of its issued share capital* (Or 84 cents per share, excluding brokerage, GST, stamp duties and clearing fee. This reduces AAV's holdings in Flextech to
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 387 15 Morgan Stanley analyst upgrades recommendation, sets target of US$B3 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Merrill Lynch Co shares jumped 6.8 per cent after Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co analyst Henry McVey raised his recommendation on the biggest US brokerage. Mr McVey boosted his Merrill recommendation to
        Bloomberg  -  387 words
      • 504 15 Forming Apollo to attack sub-US$lOO ifiarket part of bid to revive sales Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co, the No 1 maker of computer printers, formed a new subsidiary called Apollo to attack the fast-growing market for inexpensive colour inkjet printers. The move
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      • 193 15 Bridge News [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp has unveiled three 450 MHz versions of its Pentium II Xeon processor a high-end processor designed for server and workstation support to a handful of journalists here on Tuesday. The announcement came as Apple interim-CEO Steve Jobs was
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      • 206 15 Bloomberg [MONTREAL] Quebecor Inc, the world's second-largest printer, said on Tuesday it has almost completed its Cs9B3 million (Ssl.l billion) acquisition of Sun Media Corp, publisher of Canada's second-largest newspaper chain. Quebecor said it acquired 44.5 million Sun Media shares, or 99.5 per cent
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      • 351 15 Price lower, 5 colour choices; redesigned 63 line shipped NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Unveiling a colourful array of sleek machines that more closely resemble a pack of Life Savers mints than a new computer line, Apple Computer's interim chief executive, Steven Jobs, on Tuesday introduced
        NYT; AFP  -  351 words
      • 460 15 Debnt trading tomorrow; shares set at NT$375 in offer AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] Quanta Computer Inc is expected to see consistent daily-limit gains to top NT$5OO soon after its listing tomorrow, supported by its positive earnings prospects and growing client list, analysts said. The
        AFX-Asia  -  460 words
      • 392 15 Competitor Bell Atlantic nnlikely to increase its bid Bloomberg [LONDON] Vodafone Group pic, the UK's largest mobile phone company, offered to buy Air Touch Communications Inc for about US$54 billion (5590.5 billion), or US$9O a share, in stock, a person familiar with
        Bloomberg  -  392 words
      • 207 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] African Resources Inc, a gold and diamond mining company, said it is preparing to sue Chase Manhattan Corp for driving down the company's stock in what it says were unauthorised trades of its shares. African Resources said Chase, which was holding
        Bloomberg  -  207 words
      • 202 15 Bloomberg [IRVINE, California] Platinum Software Corp cut about 15 per cent of its workforce as it completed its US$l54 million (Ss2sB million) acquisition of competitor Data Works Corp, expanding as a supplier of management software to mid-size companies. Under the terms of the acquisition, each
        Bloomberg  -  202 words
    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 464 16  -  Plans to lannch mortgage guarantees in Ql; HKssb-7b debt papers to be issued bYotti Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong Mortgage Corporation (HKMC) plans to buy between HK$lO billion and HK$l2 billion (552.2-2.6 billion) worth of mortgages this
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      • 234 16 Bridge News [AMSTERDAM] The ING Group has to accept the decrease in emerging markets' business at ING Barings and expects to announce the restructuring of its investment banking arm after mid-Feb-ruary, group chairman Godfried van der Lugt said in a newsletter to stafF.
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      • 508 16 USs7oob assets changed hands in last two years Bloomberg [BOSTON] The pace of fund management transactions is expected to accelerate in 1999, after a two-year period when more than US$7OO billion (Ssl.l trillion) in assets changed owners, analysts said. "I think it's
        Bloomberg  -  508 words
      • 374 16 Bloomberg [HAMILTON, Bermuda] ACE Ltd, a business insurer in Hamilton, Bermuda, is a few days away from agreeing to pay more than US$3 billion (Sss billion) for Cigna Corp's property and casualty insurance units, people familiar with the matter said. The agreement
        Bloomberg  -  374 words
      • 277 16  -  !ty\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Axa Life Insurance has cut its interest rate on loans by 1.25 percentage points to help ease the cost of borrowing for its policyholders in the midst of the economic slowdown. The rate has been reduced
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      • 434 16 Building society members to vote on conversion in April Reuters [LONDON] Bradford Bingley, Britain's second largest building society, was confronted on Tuesday with a challenge to convert to a bank but it vowed to fight against demutualisation. The mutual lender said a resolution for conversion
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      • 154 16 Bridge News [NEW YORK) Flagstar Bancorp, the parent of Flagstar Bank FSB, said fourth-quar-ter residential mortgage lending reached a record US$5.7 billion (559.6 billion), more than doubling the US$2.6 billion posted in the year-ago period. The Michigan-based thrift said lending for all of 1998
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      • 435 16 Two vice-chairmen leave, top exec posts reshuffled Reuters [NEW YORK] Mellon Bank Corp's new chairman Martin McGuinn acted swiftly to make his mark on the Pitts-burgh-based bank, reshuffling top executives and thinning the rank of vicechairman there. Just after taking the helm of Mellon
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      • 156 16 Bridge News [CHICAGO] Dow Jones Indexes and AIG International Inc announced an agreement on Tuesday to jointly market a commodity index calculated by AIG International. The index, to be called the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index, will provide institutional investors with a diversified benchmark
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      • 65 16 [JAKARTA J An Indonesian woman sweeping grains of rice that leakedfrom rice bags at the rice market in Jakarta yesterday. Agricultural experts believe the government's plan to increase the price of unhusked rice by up to 50 per cent will fail
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      • 188 17  -  SIMEX Reports MS& Singapore Index Bob Butcher, Jardine Fleming INTEREST rates are down and the MSCI Singapore Index and the accompanying futures contract love it. The three-month interbank rate hit a 3V* year low boosting the values of companies with outstanding debt obligations. M&A
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      • 175 17  -  MSd Taiwan fatores Cecilia boh, Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures rallied up 5.90 points, after erasing early losses. The Taiex index shot up 47.48 points on government and foreign fund buying. Electronics sector accounted for the rally as bargain-hunt-ers felt that
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      • 341 17 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg (NEW YORKI Crude oil rose more than 3 per cent after a report that US inventories •posted thoir biggest drop in 18 years. Inventories fell a greater-than-expected 14.9 million barrels last week to 318.53 million barrels,
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      • 327 17 Bloomberg New York THE US dollar rose against the yen for the first time in seven sessions on speculation Japan will sell the currency to avoid hurting exports, the brightest spot in the country's otherwise shrinking economy. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka, and Haruhiko Kuroda, director-general of the
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        1011 17 CTERBAXK CROSS RATES 7— Jan A$ c$ E ro Ffr hk$ T wm M m>*», Hso s$ s/r wis nm n- uss cSS* 1062 0M> S S5 3 690 Uffl MMS2J !'25 7 2? ***** ***** 1044 1551 0.855 20.038 22.690 0.377 0.623 CNM 0J94 0182 owl 0 6U o»
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      • 1773 17 SICOM FUTURES j an 6 RU88CR (futurw doting m it 5.30pm) RSS 1 CONTRACT($ cMtsAg) Clot* VoiwM 0p*n Motrttl H«9«» t®w Sott (towws) brtorwt 99 107.75 1175 Mar 99 109.25 109.25 110.25 WO 1375 99 114.00 1*3.50 112.25 150 600 •toy 99 115.50 115.00 114.75 150 600 *•99 117.00 116.50
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      1284 18 AFP QHangSeog +342.74 HONGKONG share prices surged 3.5 per cent yesterday to reclaim the psychological 10,000-point level, fuelled by speculation over interest rate cuts and a rally on Wall Street. "The sentiment has been boosted by anticipation of further local interest rate cut as well as by gains on
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    • Article, Illustration
      514 18 AFP Q Shenzhen B Index -MU4 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares ended stronger yesterday, staging a modest technical rebound after two consecutive days of falls, an analysts said. The B Share Index edged up 0.14 point, or 0.27 per cent, to 52.55 on turnover of HKS3.2 million, compared with
      AFP; Source: Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia) Ltd  -  514 words
    • 343 18 AFP QVP latex >47.48 TAIWAN share prices posted their first gain in eight sessions yesterday, rising 0.7 per cent on government support and overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. "Sharp gains on the US's Nasdaq index gave the semiconductor sector a boost, while the government tried hard to
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    • 1993 18 LONDON Mistrials Jmi tact 31 Group 599.000 19.000 AB Ports 293.000 4.500 AMey National 1354.000 90.000 AMed Domocq 574.000 19.000 AMed Zurich 99.850 3.600 Amec 179.000 0.500 Aid* Group 160.250 2.250 BAT M 505.500 3 500 BG Pie 390.000 18.000 ■ICC 68.500 -3.000 BOCGroup 864.000 14.500 BR
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    • 1565 18 AFP P Nikkei 225 +235.72 JAPANESE share prices ended 1.8 per cent higher yesterday, as the dollar's rebound against the yen triggered buying in exporter blue-chips, brokers said. "Foreign investors' profit-taking related to the yen's appreciation ran out of steam, as the yen's upturn took a breather," said a
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 260 19 AFP Q Composite lain +18*51 MALAYSIAN share prices surged 3.3 per cent yesterday largely on institutional support in line with rises in regional markets, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index rose 18.59 points to end at 586.48 points. One local institutional dealer said local
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      • 8149 19 MM I MALI CHMW niKti 1999 Last Vol Day MM Cap Hmi L— Cl«pM| 8H -000 W» lw W f* Apnomoto 200 84 113.5 61 74 Angkasa 80.5 3 122 81 T« 1W.7 283 255 Apo4o Food Hlg 283 M 113.2 193 178 BerlayeLand 191 4 114 193 MS 3.8
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 192 20  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy IN a recent poll of nine broking firms to see what their top stock picks for 1999 are the results will be published in tomorrow's BT one name appears fairly regularly, Lindeteves-Jacoberg. Since the company also has warrants in issue, a
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      • 227 20 HONGKONG STOCKS IWnWV 9 wwW# Ct Gt 1999 Lot V<* On LMt Ouot# D»* Dtv rM Ntt M Cat High t— Stn» Com—ny SO* rOOO) Hl» L— Buyer S—f Or W >W <00 250 5123 COL (2000) HK 400 180 400 8 Z4 2 20.5 7744.7 5124 Cathay
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      • 1979 20 •ONOS, LOANS 1WAMANTS wt La»t v«4 Day Last Quota A»g Mtqn Ln Company Sn« »Of- (OOO) High low Buyer SaNar Met 20.5 3 3160 "Acar ******1USS 14.5 -0.5 257 15.5 14 14.5 IS 95 4.5 3164 Acma ******4 21.5 unch 2006 23 20 21.5 22.5 17 3161 AIITach ******7 28.5
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      • 254 20 AFP J[[j Wellington jjg NEW Zealand shares advanced 0.8 per cent yesterday, spurred on by stronger overseas markets The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 16.51 to 2,131.77. Total turnover value was a high NZ$ll5 million. Locally, Telecom ordinaries rose three cents to NZsB.so— AFP Mm* H *f- r—
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      • Article, Illustration
        759 20 AFP Fl SET Index +24.06 THAI stocks leapt through the psychological 400-point barrier yesterday, gaining 6.4 per cent with few negative factors to curb buoyant New Year sentiment, analysts said. They said shares were sharply higher in heavy trade amid foreign buying in largecaps, especially in communications, energy and
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      • 410 20 Composite Index +13JA SOUTH Korean share prices rose 2.3 per cent yesterday, extending recent gains and propelling the index above the psychological 600-level on sustained buying interest from foreigner investors. The index added 13.81 points to close at 612.36. Volume was 259.6 million shares worth 2.6 trillion won. Gains
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      • 599 20 AFP +37j8 SHARES jumped 1.3 per cent yesterday amid brisk and confident trading on the back of strong gains by US and Asian markets, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index firmed 37.8 points to 2,853.4 while the All Industrials rose 74.1 to 5,158.6 and the All Resources was up
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      • Article, Illustration
        661 20 AFP Composite Index +1&38 INDONESIAN share prices closed 4.5 per cent higher yesterday, led by large caps including Telkom, on renewed interest from foreign investors, dealers said. "Reports about the 30 per cent tariff increase proposal was very positive for Telkom. And I think the gain in Telkom has
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      • 298 20 AFP n Manila +72i) PHILIPPINE share prices rose 3.6 per cent yesterday, building on the momentum of the previous day's rally, analysts said. The PSE Composite Index rose 72.9 points to close at 2,079.75 points. Volume rose to 808.56 million shares worth 2.88 billion pesos from 612.86 million shares
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    • 6886 21 Transaction date: Jan C Gr Gr Mm 1999 Last Vtf Day Last Quote Otv 0«v YM Nat Cap Avg L— Mm ClMpMy Sato COOO) High Lao Buy*r Seller C'vr P/E $mii Price MUTHNOUSTRY 142 17.5 mt 1000 AcmaSOc 82 »6 2485 82 78.5 81.5
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    • 1372 21 Cr Cr M Wt 1999 Last Vtf Day Last Ouot< Mv Of* Yld Nat Cap Av« W» Ha WW Cumtmt Mt PDOO> H» Laar Mhr Car Wl W Mm MANUFACTURING 243 30 a 2049 'ASAutolOc 105 »4 U07 105 102 104 105 15 N 7 1.4 9.9 119.9 91
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 389 22 Stocks Volume CK Tang 20c 24,646.000 SemtoCorpI 25c 19.638.000 t ResrceslOc 17,020,000 DBS Land 16,355.000 InchMarfct 50c 15.144,000 Hotel Prop 14,042,000 Wing Tai 25c 13,877,000 SingTel 15c 13,445.000 •TanChonglntSOc 13,008.000 Keppel LandWOO 12,846.000 Stocks I MS Land 42,748,914 SemtoCorpI 25c 39,334,830 E ResrceslOc 33,201.068 SingTel 15c 32.631,259 DBS Foreign 30,976,342
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      • 692 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Takeover talk boosts C E Tang, OUB and OCBC as turnover more than doubles to $657.7 m By R Sivanithy THE 1998 Christmas holiday lull, which extended into the first two working days of 1999, ended abruptly yesterday
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      • Article, Illustration
        78 22  -  i ii. ii n -By Shiv Taneja CK Tang rose another five cents yesterday to 42 cents on a volume of 24.6 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 1.6 million shares. This brought its gain over the past two days to 17 cents. The rise
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      • ON THE GRAPEVINE
        • 49 22 HERE'S a new twist to the five Cs that Singaporeans reportedly yearned for and lost due to the continuing economic crisis: credit card withdrawn, cut pay, cycle to work, "chap chye" (mixed vegetables) for lunch, and court summons (due to missed instalments on housing loan).
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        • 78 22 MALAYSIA'S Second Finance Minister Mustapa Mohamed has emerged as another possible candidate in the race to be deputy prime minister following the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim. The front-runners for the hot seat are Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah,
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        • 148 22 WHY did Lim Ho Kee have his showdown with the SBC top honchos at Zurich airport? This intriguing question was raised by some of our readers in the wake of our report that Mr Lim has resigned from ÜBS. It was at this acrimonious meeting, dubbed by ÜBS
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        • 96 22 TIBS Taxis has clarified that its taxi meter problem meters of3oo taxis stopped working during the new year—is not Y2K related. It is rather a program that ensures that taxi meters would stop working after a period of time. This feature is used in some countries (Tibs
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        • 89 22 ONE of the most acute examples of global overcapacity could be found in Hongkong's mobile phone market. Talk is that a study by management consultants McKinsey found that the addition of just one more mobile phone operator (to the current four or five) could result in
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    • 3138 22 I BUSINESS Xotiers To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TS UNIVERSAL LIFESTYLE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Extract of the Minutes of the Extraoniinary General Meeting signed by the Representative of Tuan Sing Holdings Limited
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 320 23 Bridge News Reuters RATES climbed for Panamaxes able to make early dates in the US Gulf, although this was the only bright spot in an otherwise very weak market. Capes ize rates have also slipped in the Pacific and South Africa, brokers said. TANKERS: The very large crude
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    • 282 23 so m Jmt tt HI CWTM*trttutton..0.S4S *0.035 12S ChwnHup O.MS *0.045 446 Cotto Invwtmmt 0.515 *0.03 21 FraM* Links 0.19 *0.01 2556 68 Holdingi 0.43 *0.03 no Hal Sun Hup 0.465 *0.03 500 Hitachi 2oian 0.7* IMC Molding* HK 5.60 JayaHoldlnqs 0.54 *0.03 109 Juroog Shipyard 7.10 *0.10
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    • 460 23  -  Nippon Foundation working on alternative to Straits of Malacca By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Nippon Foundation, a Japanese charity heavily involved in maritime safety, is developing a Northern Sea Route (NSR) to Europe as an alternative to the Straits of Malacca should piracy
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    • 657 23  -  SHIPSHAPE By\ Marcus Hand POR Billy Lee, stepping down as president of Sembawang Marine Logistics (SML) is like passing the baton in a relay race. In a pre-retirement interview with Shipping Times, Mr Lee, looking relaxed and happy, quipped
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    • 356 23  -  TSA has raised rates for cargo from Indian ports to US by 40% From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi INDIAN exporters may ship their cargo for the United States from ports near India such as Singapore because of a steep
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    • 240 23 Lloyd's List [LONDON] A plan to force all newly-ordered cruise ships to incorporate a helicopter deck has been abandoned by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Now the IMO faces the dilemma of how to erase the provision, due to come into
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    • 887 24 SPOTLIGHT OH US CAR INDUSTRY The merged German-US maker of high-profit trucks, minivans and luxury cars is favoured by investment analysts Bloomberg [DETROIT] FOR Daimler-Benz chairman Jurgen Schrempp and Chrysler Corp head Robert Eaton, the 1998 North American International Auto Show started a merger. They return
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    • 235 24 PAGE Dongnama 3 ACL 6 6 ANL 3 ECL 5 9 Accord 8 Evergreen 6 Appenship 5 tongSun 8 Austral 8 'J'* Balaji Shpg 4 Ceniartrans 8 BSA 7 H« Sun Hup 8 B'tang Mas 8 CCNI 7 Hanjin 3 CMA 8 Heung-A 4 COSCO 5 Hyundai
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    • 16613 31 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartisar VbiH Voyaga Tttaprtona ETA ETA Advartlsar Vassal Voyaga Talaphona SIN Dast'n Nam* Nama Number Numbar SIN Dastn Nama Nam* Number Number v t -4. < v v ainiAUtAmil^M9 To BUENOS AIRES (BUE) 2060 Argentina To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D Ivoire w<n M/K
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      • 1815 35 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofclng/Bolonco Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ported From To From *c«oiy out ot/noo u ot/noo otflts* 04/B00 Ot/BM M/MM HM 24 04/1700 07/0*51 07/0*00 21 Ot/TTOO 07/0*59 07/0900 I 07/0700 07/IB* 07/MOO 4 07/1200 07/MM 07/1700 An J«vM«ni 04* 0*/0400
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      • 223 35 Jan IB Japan: Adults Day. Jan 18 Brunei: Anniversary of Revelations of Koran. United States: MArtin Luther King Jnr Day. Jan 10 Brunei: Hari Raya Puasa. Indonesia: Hari Raya Puasa. Malaysia: Hari Raya Puasa. Singapore: Hari Raya Puasa. Jan 20 Brunei: Hari Raya Puasa Indonesia: Hari Raya Puasa.
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      • 837 35 THIS report, compiled by Cocke tt 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
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      • 433 35 Cirtwi 180 Max 991.0 3.9 1S.4 0.15 78 0.07 0* 31 tensity Water MlMim Art Aluminium Sediment No abow £25 0 13 10 0 %mM 380 Am 988.6 0J 14.4 0.07 27 0.02 bun. 380 Mu 994.2 U 19.6 0.12 47 0.06 «WV3 ¥/y M/M H/M
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    • AIR&LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 425 36 Union plans protest actions against airline's decision to scrap pay rises AFP [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific flight attendants have threatened to stop smiling in protest against the airline's decision to scrap their pay rises, a flight attendants source said yesterday. The no smiles
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