The Business Times, 21 January 1999

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  • 11 1 —1^—J MITA (P) 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1999
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  • 62 1 □sn U54&27 (+1.17) BT-SRI 833.35 (-3.08) SOKSCI FUTURES 23L01 (+0.10) 0 MARKET MOOD; Mixed STOCK MARKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSECOMP Closed NIKKEI 14,028.06 +257.61 HANG SENG 10,314.91 +24.8 SET INDEX ,194.85 +8.40 JAKARTA COMP __CkMcd MANILA COMP 2,146.39 +4255 TAIPEI WP! .6,310.71 -32.65 MMMP -613.43 -4.69 OSA CHINA
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  • 86 1 FOBEX BATES rs$ si I'SS 1.680 £(US$/S$ per 1.654 2.779 Kl J RO {TJSS/SS per E) 1.157 1.943 DM 1.691 0.994 YEN 113.4 1.481* RM 3.795 0.443 l(K$ 7.748 0.217 BAHT 3654 0.046 RUP1AH 8,500 0.020 Sfto 100 units PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.91 KlfALA LITMPIIR 11.50 JAKARTA 28.00 BANGKOK
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  • 785 1 Fed chief sees no sign of economy slowing, bnt fears investors being lulled into trap Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday suggested that US stock prices may be too high, even though the US economy is rolling along with few signs of
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  • 86 1 AFP [NEW YORK) After some initial hesitation, US stocks yesterday brushed aside Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's caution on stock prices to trade in plus territory by late morning. At 12 noon EST, the Dow Industrials was up 70.55 points at 9,425.77 after
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  • 599 1  -  With poor Q4 figures, total trade shrank 7.5% in 1998 By, Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore's total trade shrank 7.5 per cent last year in the worst annual showing since 1975, and is likely to contract another 5 to 7 per cent
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  • 359 1  -  By. Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The government will stick to its plan of not releasing land for private property development this year. National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday, citing "no sense of urgency" to make a change now. The situation,
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  • 927 1  -  Vision is to be vibrant hub of knowledge-intensive activities By Ronnie Lim [SINGAPORE] Singapore has unveiled an ambitious new economic blueprint aimed at becoming a vibrant and robust knowledge-based economy in the 21st century. Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan announced the vision
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    • 145 1 props Chow mi this The stock prices of some food and beverage (F&B) companies have run ahead of fundamentals, analysts warned yesterday, Pg 13 W Bill CKntea Day US President Bill Clinton was able to seize the attention of lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and to go on the
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    • 6 1 It's Bill Clinton Day, Pg 13
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    • 24 1 Electronics stocks up despite TDB data, Pg 13 50 firms keen to pay 20% CPF, Pg 3 New Chinese option for students, Pg 3
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    • 292 1 US housing starts strongest in 11 years, Pg 8 AIR CARGO SUPPLEMENT A special 4-page supplement on the challenges and prospects for the air cargo industry. Free with today's Shipping Times Asia's Recovery When Does It Start? February 5,1999 Westin Stamford Hotel, Stamford Ballroom, Level 4 The faster-than expected recovery
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    • 18 1 Retraining seen as key, Pg 2 Investment target trimmed to $7.5b, Pg 2 Challenges busing Singapore, Pg 4
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 545 2  -  INDUSTRY 21 Corporate chiefs give thumbs-up to plan to invigorate S'pore society, industry By, Jennifer Lien THE adequacy of labour, utility prices, how to teach our kids to be more creative, even the quality of our cultural scene these were on the minds of
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    • 423 2  -  Byy Carol Eng SINGAPORE should spend $2 billion annually on training and retraining schemes within the next five years, if it is to transform the workforce's skills for the future, said labour chief Lim Boon Heng yesterday. Mr Lim, who is
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    • 694 2  -  Best to be prepared for uncertainties, says Yock Suan By. Ronnie Lim SINGAPORE has set itself "a more cautious" manufacturing investment target of $7.5 billion for this year marginally down from 1998's $7.8 billion number Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan said yesterday, explaining
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    • 573 2  -  Bright spots mean growth could exceed -1 to 1% this year By Vikram Khanna SINGAPORE'S economic growth in 1999 could well exceed the government's projection of minus one per cent to one per cent as a recovery gets underway in the second half of the year. Institute
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    • 584 2  -  Republic drops to 30th place from 11th a year ago: survey By 1 Teh Hooi Ling THE cost of living in Singapore is now below that of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) worldwide cost of living
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    • 450 2  -  High-end drive output will be moved to Chai Chee plant By Jennifer Lien DISK drive maker Western Digital (WD), which on Tuesday posted a smaller-than-ex-pected December-quarter loss, said it will axe some 450 jobs in Singapore and close its Tuas
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  • YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT
    • IN Brief
      • 111 3 A TOTAL 0f4.995 civil servants, 31 political appointees and 19 statutory/judicial appointment holders received performance bonuses last year for work done in 1997. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a written reply. The maximum performance bonus payable for the top grades is
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      • 107 3 SIX people have been detained under the Internal Security Act over the past two years for espionage activities, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said in a written reply. In 1997, a Singapore woman and a male permanent resident were detained. The
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      • 86 3 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has no blanket policy to ban or attract hedge funds, and any that wish to operate in Singapore are subject to the same regulations as other fUnds and fund management firms, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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      • 112 3 THE Road Traffic Act has been amended to deal with motorists who cause death or serious injury as a result of dangerous or reckless driving, foreigners who flout local traffic laws, road bullies and handphone driving offenders. Motorists who cause death or injury due to
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      • 71 3 THERE will be no hike in tuition fees for undergraduate, polytechnic and Institute of Technical Education courses for the academic years 1999 and 2000, Education Minister Teo Chee Hean said yesterday. But fees for post-graduate university programmes will be raised moderately during the period. Laboratory-based and
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      • 70 3 IN all, six bills were tabled yesterday, and another six were passed. The latter includes the Building and Construction Authority Bill, which provides the framework for the formation of a new statutory board, the Building and Construction Authority. It will be formed on April
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    • 559 3 Otherwise, S'pore will assume it no i longer wishes to pnrsne claim: Jaya MALAYSIA has to date not submitted its legal arguments on the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) issue, and if it does not do so within a month,
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    • 301 3  -  Rewarding good performance won't hurt cost-cnt drive, says Boon Tang Ite/x>rteby. Anna Teo WHILE the 10-point cut in the employers' Central Provident Fund contribution rate taking effect this month is welcome relief to most companies, some 50 firms have asked about maintaining a
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    • 389 3  -  i¥ Eugene Low WITH effect from this year, there will be changes in the way Chinese is taught in schools. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced in Parliament yesterday. A new alternative Chinese Language (CL) "B" syllabus will be introduced
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  • FOCUS
    • 2662 4  -  The Republic may have to face a less favourable external regional environment, competition and address the contingency of slower growth By Lee Tsao Yuan The author is Director of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). This article is adapted from a speech she delivered yesterday at
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    • 168 4 Showcase your services to the region's work boat industry jjMiiHMn jKihl WVitJiUiKMbWvV V■■ H n^gAK e L SHIPPING TIMES <r yDespite the economic slowdown, the Asian Marine Market seems the halls quayside of WTC, the event showcases a fleet of new craft berthed alongside for the entire duration. Shipping Times
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 572 5 Central bank orders tighter controls on capital flight, outlines steps to save state banks AFP [BEIJING] China must protect its foreign exchange reserves and prevent massive capital flight to survive a rocky year, central bank governor Dai Xianglong warned. At a meeting
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    • 537 5 Thais react sharply to IMF report admitting errors in initial responses AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said yesterday the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had taken a "narrow view" of the 1997 financial crisis and risked making the same mistakes in
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    • 520 5  -  Enormous downside risk on US dollar, says Barclays exec From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A SENIOR executive of a leading British bank yesterday warned of an impending crisis of liquidity in global foreign exchange markets which he suggested could lead to an unexpected
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    • 182 5 Reuters [BANGKOK] The Bank of Thailand yesterday reaffirmed its belief that market forces and economic fundamentals should dictate the value of the baht. Its governor Chatu Mongol Sonakul said the central bank had not intervened in the foreign exchange market to
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    • 726 5  -  CHZMA WATCH China should bo able to weather the Brazil crisis unless the US catches Latin American flu Lu Ning WHAT effect, if any. will the recent devaluation of the Brazilian real have on the Chinese renminbi? Even before financial market analysts could
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    • 287 5 AFP [TOKYOI Japan's top bank reform commission yesterday said it wants the bad loan problem threatening so many of the country's top banks to be solved by March this year. "We cannot procrastinate coming to grips with the bad debt
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    • 334 5 AFP [BANGKOK] Asia is on the road to economic recovery but is still vulnerable to shocks like Brazil's currency crisis or social unrest. World Bank vice-president JeanMichel Severino said yesterday. "I believe the situation has turned much more favourably than it used to
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  • REGION
    • 632 6  -  COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISERS' MEETING Foreign corporate chiefs say S'pore's lower costs hard to compete with; Tung rules oat tax cuts From. Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong THE question of how Hongkong should tackle competition from Singapore featured in a day-long discussion between
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    • 236 6 HONGKONG AFP NOTORIOUS Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot committed suicide last April when he found out that former comrades planned to hand him over to the United States, according to a leading Asian magazine. The Far Eastern Economic Review said Pol Pot
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    • 747 6  -  Govt preparing statement on why Aw was not tried From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong TWO senior executives and a former employee of the Hong Kong Standard newspaper who were involved in a circulation scam were yesterday sentenced to
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    • 419 6  -  But total for year, at 9.6 m, is down 8% due to weak first half From < Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong tourism industry ended last year on a high note, recording in December the highest monthly total since May 1997. The Hongkong
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    • 334 6 JAKARTA AFP AT least 11 people were killed and more than 100 injured as clashes between Christians and Muslims rocked the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon for a second day yesterday, reports and officials said. "So far 11 people
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    • 224 6 HONGKONG Bat HE govt says it's in talks with entertainment firm Bloomberg WALT Disney Co, the world's No 2 entertainment company, dismissed a report that it will build its second Asian theme park in Hongkong. "As far as we're concerned, the story and
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    • 246 6 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA has set rules for the appointment of senior executives of securities firms, requiring top managers to have at least three years of experience in the industry, the Shanghai Securities News said yesterday. The rules, issued by market watchdog China
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    • 269 6 KUALA LUMPUR Don't pass the back to attorney-general: opposition leader AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad must stand by his pledge to track down those who beat up ousted deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim while in police custody, an
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    • 209 7 TOKYO AFP A FORMER president and two executives of Japan's Nomura Securities Co Ltd were found guilty yesterday over a payoff scandal that rocked the financial industry. The Tokyo District Court also ordered Japan's largest brokerage to pay a 100 million yen (551.47 million)
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    • 269 7 SEOUL Exchange checking if brokerage traded in own shares to profit from sale to Soros Reuters THE Korea Stock Exchange yesterday began investigating suspected insider trading within Seoul Securities which recently accepted an investment by international financier George Soros, an exchange official said. The
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    • 235 7 BOMBAY Militant Hindus out to disrupt entire Pakistan tour AFP CRICKET fans in Bombay are facing the agony of a cable television blackout of the upcoming Test series with Pakistan, as part of a campaign by militant Hindus to disrupt the tour. The
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    • 307 7 SYDNEY Leading index shows strong pick-up amid forecast of slowdown AFP THE Australian economy appears set to sustain strong growth in 1999 despite predictions of an imminent slowdown, a leading economic survey showed yesterday. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity
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    • 186 7 SEOUL Reuters The number of unemployed South Koreans reached a record 1.67 million at end-1998. with the jobless rate between 7.8 and 7.9 per cent, Labour Minister Lee Ki Ho said yesterday. The number of unemployed rose by 100,000 to 110,000 in December alone,
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  • THE WORLD
    • 690 8  -  STATE OF TOE UNION aiwppcc His lawyer launches aggressive defence in impeachment trial while Clinton scores on trade in Congress bYom Leon Hadar in Washington UNITED States President Bill Clinton was able to seize the attention of lawmakers on Capitol
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    • 467 8 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US President Bill Clinton called for a new round of worldwide trade negotiations, saying "we must tear down barriers, open markets and expand" exports, according to a prepared text of his remarks. Mr Clinton, delivering his annual address to
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    • 282 8 WASHINGTON Reuters US construction starts on new homes and apartments soared in December to cap the strongest year for new-home building in more than a decade, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Total starts jumped 3.5 per cent in December to a seasonally
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    • 448 8 BONN Finance minister says it's designed to create jobs AFP GERMANY'S new centre-left government presented a 1999 budget yesterday that it said was dogged by financial problems left by the previous conservative administration but which still had special provisions to fight stubborn unemployment.
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    • 491 8 WASHINGTON Govt must now move to raise revenue, cut spending Bloomberg BRAZIL made the right move in raising interest rates because it will show investors the government isn't treating the country's currency "with benign neglect", the International Monetary Fund's policy
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 839 9  -  THE BOTTOMLDVE OPINION By Robert Samuelson t/ IF nothing else, Brazil has shattered the soothing notion that the world economy is slowly but surely on the mend The surprise devaluation of Brazil's currency last week suggests that the recent months of economic calm may
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    • 86 9 Our partners are not on the same national or Euro-national wavelength that we are. They accommodate themselves perfectly to American domination. Were the only ones it pains.' Alain Peyrefitte information minister under Charles de Gaulle, and a reference point in French discussions about national independence and European
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    • 632 9 EDITORIAL AN international consensus is building, slowly but surely, on the need to take the setting of key currency exchange rates out of the hands of the market and put them into a managed framework There is broad agreement in Europe and Asia on the
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    • 1058 9  -  Leaders nnable to tackle rising fiscal deficit and fall in forex reserves By\ Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT SIX weeks from the presentation of the budget, a blanket of hopelessness has descended
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    • 150 9  -  MAILBOX email: btletterdaasial.com.sg Ghwee Eng Hwee Singapore via Internet I AGREE with Tom Plate's balanced view in "Blame game only adds to East-West tension" (BT, Jan 14). In the mid-'Bos and early'9os, the world was still enamoured with the Japanese economic model. When superficial
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    • 887 9 Remember Vietnam's lesson AS activity accelerates over no-fly zones and in sa-bre-rattling from Baghdad towards Kuwait, as missiles fly here and there, we are going to reach a day when a US or British plane will be shot down over Iraq. And with that comes the
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 1003 10  -  New York house will spend USs2sm on Web site where the public can bid on art, antiques, jewellery and collectibles, says tekry prxstin TERRY PRISTIN NYT IF the hottest auction market in the country now is in cyberspace, why shouldn't Sotheby's get in on the
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    • 614 10 CULTURE No need to re-invent European Everyman -there has been one for 70 years LAT-WP [PARIS] As signs bloom of a new pan-European mentality, the search is on for that elusive Everyman who can represent the cherished values that all peoples on the Old Continent share.
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    • 294 10 HEALTH Reuters [CHICAGO] A new fat-block-ing drug helps people lose weight and stops them from gaining it back, a study published on Tuesday said. The drug, orlistat, combined with dieting "significantly promotes weight loss, lessens weight regain and improves some obesity-related disease risk
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    • 610 11 TRENDS More in UK tying knot overseas, but tour agents admit paperwork's risky Reuters [LONDON) When rock legend Mick Jagger and Texan supermodel Jerry Hall married among the palm trees of Bali eight years ago. they highlighted a growing trend, in Britain at least, for couples to
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 975 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 7 Permission to proceed with eviction (9) j i I I i B| nclude nobleman (5) iHf Hi Mil 10 It's not safe to work on garden 11 Table made from deciduous tree? (4-4) 12 Inclined to have catalogued 14 Scold beater for moving flHjHflT 16 Hand over
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  • MOTORING
    • BUMPER to BUMPER
      • 83 12 IN a recent European New Car Assessment Programme (Encap), the BMW 5-series, Saab 9-5, Toyota Camry and Opel Omega each clinched the maximum four stars among mid-sized cars. The Audi A 6, Volvo S7oand Mercedes-Benz E-class had three stars. Recognised as one of the more
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      • 72 12 RENAULT distributor Exklusiv Auto has joined the Singapore Motor Traders Association. Affiliated Car Cars, which holds the newly-landed Volkswagen franchise, remains a non-member, however. Intra-Motors, which recently relinquished the Rover distributorship, is likely to discontinue its membership. While two out of five mainstream marques
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      • 63 12 GERMAN luxury maker BMW has decided to go ahead with a high-powered two-seater project based on its ZO7 classic (shown here). Likely to be called ZB, the car will be powered by its new M 5 engine. With 400 horses strapped to its chassis, it is
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      • 100 12  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan RONALD Seet, managing director of BMW distributor Performance Motors, has come out in chorus with several leading motor traders in forecasting the future of the local industry. In a recent interview with BMW Magazine, the usually publicity-shy Mr Seet said
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    • 439 12 Electric power used only in acceleration; petrol still primary power source [SINGAPORE] Singapore will have its first dual-power or hybrid car sooner than expected in the form of the Honda SEEC (super energy-effi-cient car). The one-litre two-seater is expected to arrive by
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    • 1231 12 Average Open Market Value of cars registered in Dec 98 MOOEUMADE CC AVE 0MV($) MOOEUMADE CC AVE OMV(S) **»A41.6A 1.596 24.669 HYUNDAI F/L ELAN A 1,500 14.935 24 A. 2593 ***** HYUNDAI F/L BAN M 1509 13.647 BWZE280XLAUTD 2.799 *****4 HYUNDAI EF SONATA A 1,997 17,936 BMW
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    • 431 12  -  Strong performance by MPVs lifts sales of lifestyle vehicles by 6.5% to 2,087 units Byy Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] MINIVANS, people movers or multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs). Whatever you call them, a lot more of these "lifestyle" choices were sold last year, the economic crisis notwithstanding.
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    • 316 12  -  Taxi order terminals are accepting 50 cents, instead of $1 All reports by Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] A "vending" machine for taxis. Who would've thought such an idea would work. But it has. Comfort, which set up its first TOTs (taxi order terminals) in April 1997, now
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    • 310 12 (SINGAPORE] Perhaps inspired by Luc Besson's Taxi, where a Peugeot 406 cab took centrestage. transport group Comfort will be bringing in a batch of the French cars for its fleet soon. Sources say the first shipment of about 20 cars should arrive
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 692 13  -  P/E ratios of up to 50 cited; F&B shares not necessarily defensive stocks By' Ven Sreenivasan, Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The stock prices of some food and beverage (F&B) companies have run ahead of fundamentals, analysts warned yesterday. "The divergence between corporate
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    • 308 13 [SINGAPORE] Selected electronics stocks gained new ground for the most part of yesterday, buoyed by a record close in technology stocks on Nasdaq and good corporate results in the US. Even dismal trade figures released yesterday by the Trade Development Board failed to
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    • 679 13  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Neil Behrmann IT'S better than the lottery and there's more to come. Almost 50 Internet companies and businesses planning to sell their services and goods on the global highway intend listing their shares on Nasdaq (National Association of Securities
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    • 258 13 [SINGAPORE] For two of the most highly-priced local stocks in town, Singapore Press Holdings and Creative Technology are remarkably still pulling in the buyers. Yesterday, the SPH stock closed up 30 cents at $20 on a volume of 971,000 shares while the
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    • 587 13  -  By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] DBS Land's move to buy a controlling stake in Scotts Holdings will boost its service apartment arm and add a prime property to its portfolio, but the impact on overall earnings will be slight because
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    • COMPANIES
      • 476 14 Guthrie sues Indah Puri partner Ang Sons It seeks indemnity against share of compensation; Ang Sons conntersues [SINGAPORE] Listed Guthrie GTS has taken one of its partners in a troubled Indonesian resort project to court, seeking indemnity against its share of compensation to a group of resort apartment buyers. The
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      • 668 14  - STI set to rise another 15-20% this year, says Ong Co chief By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore stockmarket is poised to rise by another 15 to 20 per cent this year, according to a leading figure in the industry. Ong Tjin An, executive chairman and chief executive of Ong
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      • 533 14  -  MEW LISTINGS li„. Annette Pau [SINGAPOREJ Homegrown electronics firm GES International yesterday launched the year's first mainboard share sale of 100 million new shares at 25 cents each to raise $23.5 million. The initial public offering (IPO) represents 20 percent of
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      • 600 14  -  With few players in high-end ceramic ware market, firm sees room for growth Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Twenty-five years ago, a small ceramics factory was started in Shiwan, a town near Guangzhou which is known as the ceramics capital of South China, to provide
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      • 539 14  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Lucas Low Singapore via Internet I REFER to my letter "SES should educate investing public on takeover matters" (BT. Jan 14) and the new voluntary delisting rules issued by the SES. Merrill Lynch, on behalf of CSC, con tinues to
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      • 331 14 Priced at 65.26 cents, they may be exercised at $2.1015 [SINGAPORE] MerriH Lynch yesterday said that it will issue a further 15 million call warrants on the local banking sector at an issue price of 65.26 cents. This is the second phase
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 593 15 Paul Anderson has started on a global tonr of the group's operations AFX-Asia [SYDNEY] New Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd (BHP) chief executive Paul Anderson is unlikely to take any immediate drastic action in restructuring the company once he finishes a
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      • 214 15  -  From Al Labita in Manila A LISTED unit of Indonesia's Salim Group yesterday sold shares to a state-owned Philippine pension fund to broaden their long-term investment partnership. In a statement to the Philippines Stock Exchange, Metro Pacific Corp (MPC) said the deal
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      • 286 15 World's No 1 cement maker pays USs2om for 23% of Huaxin Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Holderbank Financiere Glarus AG. the world's No 1 cement maker, agreed to buy 23.4 per cent of China's Huaxin Cement Co for about US$2O million (Ss34 million) as the Swiss
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      • 433 15 Shares down 64% since its statement a week ago Bloomberg [HONGKONG] A board member of Hongkong's Guangnan Holdings Ltd, a food distributor. sold all his shares in the firm the day before the company told its creditors that it was having
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      • 146 15 AFP [TAIPEI] The semiconductor unit of Taiwanese computer giant Acer Inc is targeting a 1999 net profit of NT$l billion (Sss2 million) to end two years of losses, company chairman Stan Shih said yesterday. Acer Semiconductor Manufacturing Inc (Asmi) would
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      • 149 15 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China is easing regulations that capped the price of initial public stock offerings, allowing companies involved in businesses similar to those of other publicly traded firms whose shares are rising to price their stock at a higher multiple or their future earnings
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      • 309 15 Bridge News [TOKYO] Daiei Inc founder and chairman Isao Nakauchi will relinquish day-to-day control of the struggling supermarket chain, giving his job as president to vice-presi-dent Tadasu Toba, the company said yesterday, according to the Kyodo news service. Company officials said the
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      • 151 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, the world's largest telecommunications company, may buy a stake in Dacom Corp, South Korea's second-largest telephone company, NTT president Jun ichiro Miyazu said. Dacom said last month it was in talks to raise as much
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      • 166 15 AFX-Asia [BERLIN] Siemens AG said yesterday its Transportation Systems Group has established a joint venture in China for locomotives and drive components. The new company, Siemens Traction Equipment Ltd Zhuzhou (Stez), in which Siemens has a 51 per cent stake, will
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      • 178 15 AFP ITOKYO] Shares in Japan's troubled Mitsui Trust and Banking Co surged yesterday after the bank said it was in merger talks with a rival trust bank. Mitsui Trust's stock was up 16 yen. or 15.4 per cent, at 120
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 564 16 Software maker beats forecasts 5 quarters in a row; Y2E fears cause spike in sales Bloomberg [REDMOND. Washington] Microsoft Corp. the world's largest software maker, said on Tuesday fiscal secondquarter profit soared 75 per cent, beating estimates, on strong
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      • 410 16 Higher spending on vending machines, coolers leads to loss Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, the world's largest soft-drink bottler, said its loss widened in the fourth quarter. mostly because it increased spending on vending machines and coolers to spur sales. The loss of US$34 million
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      • 334 16 Bloomberg [ARMONK. New York| IBM Corp, the world's largest computer maker, will report higher fourth-quarter earnings today, driven by resurgent computer sales and new services contracts. The company is forecast to earn U552.45 a share, the average estimate of analysts surveyed
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      • 474 16 Yahoo, IBM and Time Warner chiefs led gainers in 1998, says newsletter Bloomberg (NEW YORKI The chief executives of Yahoo Inc. International Business Machines Corp and Time Warner Inc topped a list of the CEOs whose stock options gained the
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      • 305 16 Paper: They may also have to sell refineries to get merger approved Reuters [NEW YORK] Exxon Corp and Mobil Corp may be forced to sell or sever contracts with more than 1.000 petrol stations and sell one or more refineries as
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      • 279 16 Bloomberg [MILAN] Olivetti SpA. Italy's No 2 phone company, and Mannesmann AG raised their offer for Cellular Communications International to US$l.B billion (Ss3 billion), after CCI investors rejected a previous US$l.5 billion bid. Olivetti and Mannesmann. Germany's No 2 phone
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      • 201 16 Bloomberg [ZURICH] DaimlerChrysler AG, Europe's largest industrial company, said it agreed to buy the 50 per cent it doesn't already own in Adtranz, the world's biggest railcar maker, from ABB Asea Brown Boveri for US$472 million (***** million). The acquisition fits with the German-US company's
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 193 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] New York Life Insurance Co has decided not to become a publicly traded company, bucking a trend among "mutual", policy hold-er-owned insurance companies, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday. New York Life was expected to announce later yesterday
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      • 168 17 Bloomberg [CARACAS] Banco Union SACA, Venezuela's fourth largest bank, said its second-half net income tumbled 58 per cent as provisions for bad loans almost tripled. Net income fell to 5.38 billion bolivars (5515.8 million) from 12.8 billion bolivars in the year-ago period. The
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      • 260 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Michael O'Higgins, a money manager and author of books on investing, says he can beat the Dow Jones Industrial Average by investing in bonds. Mr O'Higgins tells how in his new book. Beating the Dow With Bonds.
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      • 505 17 Bloomberg (NEW YORK| Five months after Russia's debt default spurred a rush to the safest securities, investors are still shying away from one of the most arcane corners of the commercial mortgage-backed securities market. Interest-only securities, which funnel the interest payments from a pool of
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      • 362 17 Lending hits records as mortgage rates plunge to 30-year lows Bloomberg [MCLEAN, Virginia) Freddie Mac, the second-largest mortgage financier in the US, said fourth-quarter earnings rose 21.5 per cent, as mortgage lending hit records last year and the company bought a record
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      • 245 17 Top five companies captured 41% of C5326.6b total in '98 Bloomberg [TORONTO] Canada's mutual fund industry ended the year managing C 5326.6 billion (*****.1 billion), a 15.4 per cent increase from a year earlier, according to the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.
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      • 544 17 Both major Japanese banks to cooperate on pension funds AFP [TOKYO] Two major Japanese banks said yesterday they had agreed a comprehensive tie-up as the troubled industry came under heavy pressure to clean up its act and empty out its huge bad loans.
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      • 196 18  -  SXMSDUieports MSCX Singapore Index Bob Butcher, Jardine Fleming THE release of downbeat fundamental data must have been priced into market expectations because it did little to stop the recent rally from grinding ever higher. Non-oil exports for December fell more than the previous month
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      • 200 18  -  MSCI Taiwan fatures Juliana Loo,Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures plummeted amid concerns that imports and exports were slumping as a result of the Asian currency crisis. The stock index fell 32.65 points following news of defaults in the industrial
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      • 352 18 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Crude oil fell on expectations that abundant US heating oil inventories will limit refiners' demand for crude to process. An industry report after trading yesterday was expected to show that frigid weather last week in
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      • 324 18 Reuters Bloomberg London FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in his testimony to the Congress hailed the "sparkling" performance of the US economy but warned that still-fragile financial markets and a drop in exports posed risks to the eight-year old expansion. Foreign exchange traders, apparently betting that his bullishness
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      • 1975 18 SICOM rUTURES j„„20 RUBBER (futures closing a at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Feb 99 120.00 150 Mar 99 123.50 ***** 123.00 100 1250 Apr 99 127.00 125.25 125.00 700 650 May 99 127.50 625 Jun 99 129.50 275 Jul/Sep 99 132.50
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      1315 19 AFP Hang Seng +24L8 STOCKS ended 0.2 per cent higher yesterday in listless trading as investors adopted a cautious stance, dealers said. They said investors were taking a wait-and-see stance on Brazil's economic crisis and the impact on local banks of the financial troubles of Chinese trust and investment
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      576 19 Reuters Shenzhen B Index -0.79 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B Share Index ended at a historic closing low of 48.75 yesterday as fears of sliding 1998 company earnings battered investor confidence, analysts said. The B Share Index closed down 0.79 of a point, or 1.60 per cent, after touching an
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    • 351 19 AFP QWP Index -32.65 TAIWAN share prices fell for a third straight day. slipping 0.5 per cent yesterday as investors took to the sidelines amid uncertainties over the market's outlook, analysts said. The TSE Weighted Price Index fell 32.65 points 6,310.71, following a 0.5 per cent decline in the
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    • 2428 19 LONDON Industrials •M«20 Pence 31 Croup 629.000 14.000 A 8 Ports 268.000 -6.000 Abbey National 1310.000 13 380 Allied Domecq 472.000 -14.000 Allied Zurich 926.000 >5.600 Amec 168.000 -2.000 Asda Group 150.400 -0.600 BAT Ind 635.000 -21.000 BGPIc 397.600 -1.400 BICC 66.000 1.600 BOC Croup 822.000 -21.000
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    • 1587 19 AFP, Reuters P Nikkei 225 ♦257.61 SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 1.9 per cent yesterday on expectations the government planned massive spending to help the ailing real estate sector, brokers said. They attributed strong buying to a British newspaper report that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party was considering spending
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    • WARRANTS, OPTIONS & REGIONAL MARKETS
      • 195 20  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy SOON-TO-EXPIRE warrants have always proven interesting, mainly because many enjoy heightened activity as their expiry dates draw nearer. Time decay sets in and conversion premiums swing into discounts as those players reluctant to convert tend to sell out
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      • 228 20 HONGKONG STOCKS Cr Gr 52-Wk Last Vat Day Last Ouola Div CMv VW Nat M Cap High Low St no Company Sala COOP) High Low Buyer SeMer C'vr H P/E $mil 5123 CDL (2000) HK 400 8 24 2 20.5 7744.7 5124 CathayPac20c HK_.720 265 2.1 7.4 6
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      • 2148 20 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS m 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Quota Avq High Low Stno Company Sala *or- <0001 High Low Buyar Seller Price 20.5 3 3160 "Acer W*****1 USS 14 0 5 103 14 5 13 5 13 5 14 35 4.5 3164 Acma W*****4 22 »0 5 787 23.5
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      • 265 20 AFP fl Wellington +24-92 SHARES rose 1.1 percent yesterday on heavy volume, continuing a rally that saw the market barometer hit an eight-month high the previous day. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 24.92 points at 2.219.62. Turnover was worth NZ5159.8 million. AFP MS 1000) ANZ Banking 12 50
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        755 20 AFP P SET Index +8.40 THAI stocks climbed 2.2 per cent yesterday on improved sentiment overseas and speculative buying in bank stocks, analysts said. The SET Composite Index rose 8.4 points to close at 394.85 points "The market has been boosted by regional markets, lower deposit rates, and a
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      • 461 20 AFP O Composite Index -4.69 SOUTH Korean shares inched down yesterday with early gains offset by profittaking, dealers said. The Korea Stock Exchange Index closed down 4.69 points at 613.43, off a low of 611.74. The benchmark corporate bond yield was flat at 8 per cent. Trade was volatile,
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      • 596 20 AFP Q All Ordinaries +16.9 SHARE prices closed up 0.6 per cent yesterday, rebounding from initial losses as the market tracked Wall Street's performance, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 16.9 points at 2.872.7. The All Industrials Index closed up 33.7 points at 5.179.0. The All Resources
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      • 324 20 AFP Manila +4255 wmmM PHILIPPINE share prices closed 2 per cent higher yesterday as investors cheered the central bank's decision to lower key interest rates. The Composite Index rose 42.55 points to close at 2,146.39. Turnover fell to 661.7 million shares worth 2.07 billion pesos from 986 million shares
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    • 7233 21 2 Vol Day Lait Ouota Olv Dlv VM Net Cap Avg High Law StNo Company Sala COOO) High Low Buyar Sailer C'vr P/E Smii Price MULTI-INDUSTRY 142 17.5 ml IOOO AcmaSOc 81 I 439 83.5 79 5 79.5 81 27.5 I 17 5.7 134
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    • 1430 21 Cr Gr M Wt 52-Wk Last Vol Day Last Ouot« Div Dl« YM Nat Cap Avg High Low StNo Company Sato COOO) Hlqh Low Buyar Salter Cvr P/E $mll Price MANUFACTURING 243 30 e 2049 AS Auto 10c 113 *1 1118 117 1KJ 112 113 15 N 7 13
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE
      • 411 22 Stocks Volume SembCorpI 25c 26,016.000 ST Engg 10c 16.502.000 SingTel 15c 13.342,000 Poll Lian 10c 9,618,000 MCI Land 9,153,000 UICW99 9,081,000 MMI Hldgs 10c 8,862,000 Flextech Wt02 8,518,000 KepTatlee Bank 7,536,000 Circuits Plus Hldgs 6,945,000 Stocks OCBC Foreign 70,234,195 SemtoCorpI 25c 63,327,659 UOB Foreign 58,432,461 DBS Foreign 58,174,514 SingTel 15c
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      • 676 22  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY STI ends up just 1.17 points after a bright start; worry also about state of overseas markets R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] After a bright start, local stocks yesterday gave up all their gains to close largely weaker on news
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      • OM THE GRAPEVINE
        • 106 22 OUR spies have seen Tommi Goh, founder of listed JIT Holdings, loitering around Ridley Park, a prime residential enclave in the Tanglin area. It seems Mr Goh has recently bought over a piece of bungalow land across the Tanglin Park condominium and he is rumoured to have
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        • 88 22 THE ongoing court case where City Development Ltd is being sued over a supposed shortfall in the "built-in" area of a bungalow may be interesting to developers and the general public, but it sure wasn't the case for the court attendant. The attendant was frequently
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        • 67 22 WOULD you like to start your day with a cartoon on your computer monkor poking fun at business issues such as venture capital, entrepreneur ship, employer-employee relations, the stock market, and so on? There's a new service now available, from 3i Group pic, a European venture capital company.
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        • 95 22 THE market has been speculating about the fate of "Anwar's boys" in corporate Malaysia since the sacking of the former deputy prime minister in September last year. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi his political ally who alleged widespread cronyism, corruption and nepotism in a bid to discredit Prime
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        • 62 22 THE signature of the former governor of the Malaysian central bank an ally of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim will continue to appear on some new notes in the country. The signature of new Bank Negara chief Ali Abul Hassan Sulaiman will only be
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      • Article, Illustration
        50 22  -  -By Wong Wei Kong SEMBCORP Industries rose $0.07 to $2.41 yesterday on a volume of 26 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 12.2 million shares. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics are sending out overbought signals, as are the daily and weekly MACD charts.
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    • 271 14 Goods Services Tax Workshops For those requiring hands-on practical experience to understand GST, we are conducting GST workshops on the dates shown below. The workshop is particularly relevant for those responsible for preparing or reviewing GST returns in any industry The course will provide a sound basis for handling the
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    • 208 15 21 January 1999 EES GES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 10 July 1986) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 100,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF 550.20 EACH COMPRISING: I. 25,000,000 OFFER SHARES AT 550.25 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND 11. 75,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT
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    • 1627 16 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 THE CENTRAL DEPOSITORY (PTE) LIMITED THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE CENTRAL DEPOSITORY (PTE) LIMITED TO ACT AS DEPOSITORY FOR WARRANTS ARE HEREBY AMENDED AS FOLLOWS. THE AMENDMENTS SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM 21 JANUARY 1999. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
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    • 398 22 To advertise call toll-tree 1800-741 1883 llv I ivtlM Fax No: 741 1298 INVITATION TO BID Date 21st January 1999 Bid No: IFB-MAA/PPSS01/99 MALE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FUEL STORAGE EXPANSION AND UPGRADING PROJECT The Government of the Republic of Maldives represented by the Maldives Airports Authority wishes to invite sealed bids
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 329 23 Bridge News, Reuters RATES are being talked higher for US Gulf Panamax tonnage for loading now through to early February, but so far there has been little reported fixed. Brokers said around U5513.75 has been talked for a US Gulf/Japan cargo in the paper trades for January. From
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    • 274 23 CWT Distribution 0.65 -0.015 123" Chuan Hup 0.979 -0.019 73 Co*ce invastmant 0.93 unch 10 FrataM Links 0J99 *0.009 3993 G8 HoMngs 0.435 unch 7 Hal Sun Hup 0.50 unch 390 HtUchl Zoaan 0.79 IMCIHMnqt HK 5.60 Java Holdlnqs —0.525 -0.035 90 JuronqSNpyard _7JO *0.09 14 KappaiCorp 4.64
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    • 267 23 Union members were encouraged not to work on New Year's Eve: Aussie stevedore firm Bridge News [SYDNEY] Australian waterfront company Patrick Stevedores plans to launch a Federal Court action against the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), claiming it encouraged members to defy an
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    • 345 23 Boom in Asian imports boosted throughput handled last year Bloomberg [LONG BEACH, California] The Port of Long Beach, California, the No 1 US harbour, broke the US record for shipping volume last year, powered by a year-long boom in Asian
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    • 615 23  -  MiUPSHAPE By Felix Chan HAVING spent the last 28 years researching the international shipping markets, Jarle Hammer thought he'd seen it all, that is till the Asian crisis broke and sent shockwaves beyond the region. "We can all agree that last
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    • 465 23  -  Prom Rajendra Bajpal in New Delhi A PROPOSAL to corporatise India's Jawaharlal Nehru port (JNP) and Ennore port will free them from seeking approval of the statutory authority for tariff revisions, officials said. This will benefit the
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    • 263 23  -  By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Foreign tanker owners involved in Brazil's coastal trade are being hit by huge fines and denial of access to berths by the Brazilian authorities, Bimco warned this week. According to Bimco, or the Baltic and International
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    • 1137 24 SHIPPING CONTAINERS Rotterdam serves a balancing function for empty containers due to skewed trade between the Far East and Europe Port of Rotterdam EMPTY containers cost money and transporting them costs even more. Since the recent imbalance of trade between the Far East and Europe, playing
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      • 1457 34 RECEIVING OF EXPORT Fa CONTAINERS AND La CARGO BooMm/Mmc* Ritts SMp Voy Mo Etfc/Btr Nrlod Frw To Frow MIHHI2 136AM 23/1300 M 20/1500 20/89* 20/1*00 20/1500 20/165* 20/1*00 a 20/1700 2V065* 2V090C 29 20/1700 21/0*5* 21/0*00 1 21/070# WW 2VH00 4 2V1200 2VM5* 21/1700 faarM MS 2V0300 M
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      • 214 34 Ml Thailand.: Makha Bucha Day. Mlt China: Chinese New Year Eve. Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve. United States: Washington's Birthday Holiday. MM Brunei.: Chinese New Year. China: Chinese New Year. Portugal: Carnival. Singapore: Chinese New Year. South Korea: Chinese New Year. Taiwan: Chinese New Year. Fmbl7 China: Chinese
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      • 754 34 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Lid. shows price ranees In US dollars instead of single prices for a mors comprehensive description of the market Prices shown an baaed on averagesized stem. Market movementa are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 380 35 Asia-Pacific still a major growth area despite recession: lata official Reuters [NEW DELHI] Air traffic growth in Asia may not be severely affected by the region's economic crisis, a senior official of the International Air Transport Association (lata) said. "Whichever way you
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      • 416 35 Reuters [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said on Tuesday it was encouraged by the positive response from cabin crew to the company's proposal to resolve a pay dispute. The Hongkong flag carrier said in a statement it had received 2,236 responses out of
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      • 387 35 AFP [DETROIT, Michigan] General Motors (GM) will replace its ageing Opel plant in Russelsheim, Germany with a new facility in the same locale, Automotive News reports. The Detroit-based weekly quoted Rick Wagoner, GM president for North American Operations,
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      • 530 35  -  Fall doe to economic crisis, fiasco at newly opened Chek Lap Kok airport From. Loh Hui Yin in Hongkong HONGKONG'S major air cargo operator saw its throughput fall by 6 per cent to 1.59 million tonnes last year, because of
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      • LOG Book
        • 64 35 Xinhua [HAIKOUJ Hainan's Mellan International Airport will open soon after being given the green light by aviation experts. The airport covers an area of 569 hectares and has a 3,600 metre runway. Construction on this key project began three years ago and it cost
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        • 92 35 AFX-Asia (TAIPEI] China Airlines (CAL) subsidiary Mandarin Airlines is expected to complete a merger with Formosa Airlines by Aug 1, the China Times Express evening newspaper reported. Following the mergßr, Mandarin Airlines will be the surviving company and will fly the domestic
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        • 46 35 Reuters [NICOSIA] Passengers travelling on Cyprus Airways rose by 7.7 per cent in 1998 over the previous year, the national carrier announced. In total, the airline and its charter subsidiary Eurocypria carried 1,719.000 passengers last year over 1,596.000 in 1997.—Reuters
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      • 678 36  -  By] Marcus Hand ■C ESPITE the refion'B economic H H crisis, and a year that most would admit was "challenging", air cargo and express operators remain bullish about the outlook both for this year and in the long term. Most carriers remain satisfied with their
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      • 681 37  -  This will be in sharp contrast to the present trend of less traffic growth By Felix Chan BY the year 2017 aircraft manufacturer Boeing has forecast that annual growth in cargo capacity will fail to meet overall traffic growth, in sharp contrast to the
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      • 461 37  -  The firm is betting on faster services and innovative products By. Michael Drake The writer is managing director, TNT Express Worldwide (Singapore) THE recent global launch of TNT Express Worldwide's new corporate identity in September last year marks an important new era for TNT
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      • 760 39 Customers can now 'pull' whatever they need ont of the system WHEN one thinks of logistics in Asia, the traditional model of logistics, that is transportation plus inventory management, may still come to mind. However, soon this notion could be a thing of the
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    • 25 23 Shipping containers Profiting from right logistics Rotterdam serves balancing function for empty boxes due to skewed trade between the Far East and Europe. Pmgß 2
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