The Business Times, 19 February 1999

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    19 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES mitao^ST' 85c S I N (J A P R K Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1999
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    MARKET SUMMARY
    62 1 sn U35.01 (-26.14) BT-SRI ***** (-13.25) SDISCI FDTDBES 193.40 (-5.60) CMASKETMOOD: Down STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP .566.29 -450 NIKKEI 14.146 79 -11.88 HANG SENG Closed SET INDEX -336.47 -156 JAKARTA COMP 403.41 +5.43 MANILA COMP __1.927.45 +&88 TAIPEI WP! dosed SEOUL COMP 536.41 15.36 CLSA
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    FINANCE
    85 1 FOBEX RATES US* s$ USS 1.698 £(US$/S$ per 1.638 2.780 EURO(US$/S$ per E) 1.127 1.912 DM 1.736 0.978 YEN 118.7 1 430 RM 3.795 0.447 HKS 7.748 0.219 BAHT 36.98 0.046 Rl'PlAH a800 0.019* St to 100 units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.825 KUALA LUMPUR 11.50 JAKARTA .28.00 BANGKOK 1475
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    M'sia excludes property from exit tax regime
    934 1  -  Measure removes double tax on gains from property sales by foreigners From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian government yesterday exempted investments in property from its new exit tax regime in what it described as "a further easing of the exchange
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    STI skids 2%, regional markets weak
    220 1 [SINGAPORE] The Year of the Rabbit got off to a poor start yesterday with the Singapore index sliding 2 per cent and most other regional stock markets weak in thin trading. The Straits Times Index fell steadily throughout the day to finish 26.14 points
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    Lock icon Ch NewsAsia loses some anchors
    406 1  -  But March 1 debut for 18-hour channel still set to go ahead By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] With just a week to its debut, Channel News Asia the Television Corporation of Singapore's answer to the likes of CNN and CNBC could be facing its first teething
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    NCB chief exec Stephen Yeo said to be headed for ST Computer
    444 1  -  By, Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] National Computer Board chief executive Stephen Yeo is leaving for the private sector "soon", say industry sources, who also cite publicly-listed ST Computer Systems Services as his likely destination. Speculation about Mr Yeo's impending
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    Lock icon Contract ends, so 200 lose jobs at ST Computer
    857 1  -  By David Boey (SINGAPORE] Just a day after the Chinese New Year break, about 200 technical assistants (TAs) at ST Computer found themselves out of work yesterday morning after their contracts with the company expired. Mainboard-listed ST Computer said the TAs
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      148 1 nnapE Balls still charging The spillover of the minibull rally into the new year helped boost stockmarket volume by 44% to 7.46b units in January, while value of transactions rose 32% to $11.65b, Pffll Not 80 good A BT poll of six forecasters yesterday showed estimates for Singapore's January non-oil
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      35 1 Stocks: Picking out value stocks in Malaysia, EM 11 Property: Looking to the east for the yields, EM 12 SES investors extend Q4 rally into Jan, Pg 11 Weaker yen testing 120 level, Pg 3
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      407 1 PMG eminar eries Budget 1999 Tax Updates Tuesday, 9 March 1999, 9.00 am to I.oopm, Orchard Hotel, Singapore, Ballrooms I and II On 26 February 1999, Dr Richard Hu, the Minister for Finance, will deliver his 1999 Budget Statement to the Parliament. In the midst of the current economic crisis,
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Non-oil exports expected to rise up to 8.5% in Jan
      508 2  -  Bnt analysts say market shares in major OECD countries shrinking By. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S non-oil exports may have grown by as much as 8.5 per cent year-on-year in January, but analysts say the underlying trend for its exports is one
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      Banks to retain no-interest rule for current accounts
      394 2 THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has decided to retain a 23-year-old rule forbidding member banks from paying interest on current accounts. This means that companies here will now have to resign themselves to earning zero returns on their current accounts.
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      S'pore can be nerve centre of global business
      184 2 IN growing an external wing, Singapore companies will gain not only from creating business abroad, but also from redistributing their activities globally, said Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang yesterday. Speaking at Mandarin Hotel Singapore where Chinabased Singapore expatriates had returned to celebrate
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      Lock icon Jan outgoing call volume up 5.6%
      259 2  -  E7E ON THE ECONOMY Commerce By, Eugene Low THE duration of outgoing international calls edged up 5.6 per cent year-on-year in January, latest figures from Singapore Telecom show. In January, a total of 64.1 million min utes of international calls were made from Singapore,
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      BP Amoco's revised layoff plans won't affect BP S'pore staff
      328 2  -  By Ronnie Lim THE latest announcement of a deeper-than-expected cut of 10,000 jobs worldwide by new-ly-merged oil giant BP Amoco will not affect BP Singapore's 450 staffers, sources here maintained. BP Singapore, which will assume the BP Amoco name by
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      S'pore ministers bound for Yangon to boost ties
      211 2 THREE Singapore ministers will fly to Yangon next week for a three-day meeting with their counterparts in Myanmar to further bilateral economic cooperation, and to sign an avoidance of doubletaxation agreement. Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan will lead the Singapore
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
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      Lock icon Bangkok Bank and Bank of Asia cut prime rates
      196 3 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Bank of Asia Pel, a Thai unit of Dutch Bank ABN Amro, said it will cut its prime lending rate to 10 per cent from 10 75 per cent, matching the five-year low rate also offered by Thai Farmers
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      Lock icon Foreigners may buy Thai assets using govt, corporate bonds
      329 3 Bernama AFP [BANGKOK] Foreign investors are now allowed to purchase Thai assets using either government or corporate bonds, the Financial Sector Restructuring Authority (FRA) said here yesterday. FRA chairman Amaret Sila-on said that FRA would allow foreign investors to participate in
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      Lock icon New Thai GDP data sparks criticism of IMF
      530 3 1997 contraction was -1.3%; monetary discipline may have deepened crisis Reuters [BANGKOKJ New data showing Thailand's recession has been worse than previously admitted has renewed criticism of the tough economic policies of the Thai government and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Economists said
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      Lock icon ADB looks into guaranteeing members' sovereign bonds
      295 3 New president says he supports principle of 'people's economy' AFP [JAKARTA] The Asian Development Bank is studying the possibility of guaranteeing sovereign debt issued by member countries, according to an ADB official. "Some sort of sovereign bond issue guaranteed by international financial institutions,
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      Lock icon Cho Hung Bank nationalised with 2.2t won infusion
      309 3 AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's government yesterday nationalised a commercial bank with an infusion of 2.15 trillion won (Ss3.l billion) in a reward for its acquisition of an ailing institution. Cho Hung Bank's capital adequacy ratio will rise to 12 per cent from
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      Lock icon Traders see weaker yen testing 120 level
      401 3  -  S$ hits four-month low in subdued Asian session /iff Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] Traders in Singapore returned from a two-day Chinese New Year break to find Asian currencies lower across the board, depressed by a Japanese yen which is trading at its lowest point
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      Lock icon BOJ set to inject liquidity into markets: Sakakibara
      279 3 FT [TOKYO] The Bank of Japan's readiness to take radical measures to boost the economy is now "much, much stronger than the market currently realises", Eisuke Sakakibara, Vice-Minis-ter of Finance for International Affairs, said on Wednesday. In particular, the bank now has
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  • REGION
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      Lock icon Indonesian Lower House passes new anti-monopoly bill
      632 4 JAKARTA Firms with same shareholders can't control one market segment; exemptions for state firms AFX-Asia INDONESIA'S Lower House of Parliament yesterday passed an anti-monopoly bill that seeks to promote healthy competition between businesses, setting out a definition of unfair trade practices. The House
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      Lock icon Amien urges Habibie to announce he will not run
      365 4 AFP [JAKARTA] The debate on Indonesia's presidential election, scheduled for November at the earliest, began in earnest this week with a call for President BJ Habibie to announce in advance that he would not run. Half a dozen presidential candidates have
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      Lock icon Habibie orders probe into tapping of his phone call
      374 4 JAKARTA Magazine publishes conversation on Suharto probe Reuters INDONESIAN President B J Habibie ordered the military yesterday to investigate the alleged tapping of a phone conversation with one of his senior ministers. The Panji weekly published details of what was purported
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      Lock icon Anwar in pain, so court puts off trial to today
      287 4 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The High Court here has postponed the corruption trial of former deputy prime minister and finance minister Anwar Ibrahim to today. Justice S Augustine Paul made the decision yesterday after Anwar's leading counsel Raja Aziz
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      Lock icon Mahathir in Sabah on nationwide tour
      276 4 KOTA KINABALU Elections to state assembly expected by mid-March Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday launched a nationwide political tour with a visit to an East Malaysian state due to hold elections seen as a referendum on the federal government. Dr Mahathir arrived
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      Lock icon M'sian ministry boycotts 3 foreign publications
      161 4 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S education ministry has stopped subscribing to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek and International Herald Tribune, citing criticism of the government, it was reported yesterday. Deputy Education Minister Fong Chan Onn accused the three foreign publications of biased reporting on
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      Lock icon They shopped till they dropped
      51 4 [SEOUL] A family of South Korean shoppers taking a break as behind them, hordes of bargain-hunters rummaged among goods on sale in central Seoul yesterday. Stores throughout the nation are holding sales to dispose of merchandise unsold before the all important Chinese New Year holiday.
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      Lock icon Workers gear up for 6th day of protests in E Java
      209 4 SURABAYA AFP MORE than 10,000 workers gathered outside a large electronics and plastics factory in Surabaya, East Java, yesterday as their campaign for better working conditions entered its sixth day. The protesters packed the road in front of the
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      Lock icon Indonesia to have single cigarette tax from April
      201 4 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA'S government will introduce a single tax rate for all cigarettes sold in the country, scrapping tax incentives for labour-intensive, hand-rolled clove cigarettes, said customs director Permana Agung. The government typically turns to the cigarette industry when it needs to
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      Lock icon Kit Siang to sue paper for defamation
      252 4 KUALA LUMPUR Umno-owned paper alleged he's not patriotic, he says Reuters MALAYSIA'S opposition leader Lim Kit Siang said yesterday he will sue a newspaper controlled by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's party for defamation. Mr Lim, secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party, said he
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      Lock icon Japan revises Dec's leading diffusion index down to 60%
      493 5 TOKYO Gauge lower than initial 75% hot is still above boom-bust line for second month Bloomberg JAPAN'S leading diffusion index, a key gauge of future economic conditions, was revised down to 60 per cent for December. It still topped the 50
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      Lock icon Japan to use BOJ loans to help ailing banks
      309 5 TOKYO Move will avoid excess pressure on govt bond market AFP JAPANESE authorities will use Bank of Japan loans to pay for most of their capital injections into ailing commercial banks, reports said here yesterday. The Financial Reconstruction Commission aimed to
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      Lock icon BOJ's zero interest policy backfires
      504 5 TOKYO Liquidity dries up but traders see capital flowing back into long-term bonds Reuters A GREEN light from the Bank of Japan for a key money rate to fall to near zero in line with a credit easing has backfired so far, drying up liquidity
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      Lock icon Aussie minister Peter Reith revives leadership quest
      479 5 CANBERRA Analysts see him positioning himself only for longer term Reuters AUSTRALIAN Employment Minister Peter Reith is evidently still pursuing his ambition to succeed Prime Minister John Howard, a goal that seemed unachievable after he suffered a serious setback last year. Political analysts
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      Lock icon Indian PM's visit to Pakistan won't boost trade: analysts
      246 5 KARACHI Reuters A BREAKTHROUGH in trade links between arch rivals India and Pakistan is not expected soon despite attempts to improve political ties, said analysts and trade specialists yesterday. They said the visit by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vaypayee to
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      Lock icon Down-at-heel inventor
      69 5 [NEW DELHI] Indian scientist Debajyoti Bandopadhyay, 33, who claims to have perfected a fuel-saving device in his native West Bengal, yesterday shining shoes at a central Delhi corner. The scientist, whose invention supposedly can save up to 40 per cent of cooking gas, says he is forced to
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      Lock icon India Budget needs spruce-up to woo foreign investors: analysts
      528 5 BOMBAY Main obstacle is incoherent govt policy, they say AFP INDIA'S national Budget due later this month needs to sweep away old policy cobwebs and provide a coherent strategy to boost dwindling foreign direct investment, analysts say. "India's record in attracting
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      Lock icon India export target a pipe dream: minister
      178 5 NEWDELHI AFP INDIA will be lucky to achieve a quarter of its targeted export growth rate of 20 per cent in the current fiscal year ending March 31, Commerce Minister Ramakrishna Hegde was quoted yesterday as saying. While exports began to register positive
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      Lock icon US gives nod for World Bank loan to India
      398 5 WASHINGTON AFP SOFTENING the blow of sanctions on India, the United States has quietly given the nod to a multi-million-dol-lar World Bank loan following progress on nuclear nonproliferation. officials said on Wednesday. The US$2lO million (***** million) loan. expectecT to have
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Lafontaine cranks up pressure on ECB to cut rates
      371 6 BRUSSELS Bloomberg Reuters INTEREST rate reductions by the European Central Bank would be "entirely logical", German Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine said yesterday, increasing the pressure on the ECB ahead of its council meeting. "Based on the economic fundamentals, it is entirely
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      Lock icon A lesson in survival
      29 6 [JERUSALEM] Israeli school children wearing gas masks during a chemical warfare drill yesterday. Most of the schools in Israel took part in the drills. AFP
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      Lock icon US Jan wholesale prices jump by an unexpected 0.5%
      463 6 WASHINGTON PPI inflated by rising food and energy costs, but core rate falls 0.1% Reuters SOARING food and energy prices pushed up US wholesale prices at their fastest rate in more than two years, the government said yesterday, but inflation in
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      Lock icon Microsoft challenges Apple's allegation
      384 6 THE MICROSOFT CASE Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A Microsoft Corp executive disputed allegations that it tried to persuade Apple Computer Inc to drop a multimedia technology that competed with Microsoft's Net Show. Eric Engstrom said in written testimony filed at Microsoft's antitrust trial that the allegations by Apple
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      Lock icon EU to end electricity monopolies today
      281 6 BRUSSELS AFP EUROPEAN Union states formally open their electricity markets to competition today, even if the pace of liberalisation may differ widely among the 15 members. The Feb 19 deadline was agreed by EU members for writing into national laws a Brussels directive on
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      Lock icon Global financial system looks less weak: Bundesbank
      310 6 FRANKFURT Reuters THE German central bank said yesterday the international financial system seemed better able to weather global storms now than last year when shock waves from Asian and Russian crises rattled markets worldwide. The Bundesbank said in its February monthly report that
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      Lock icon Triads shift base for credit card fraud from Hongkong to Malaysia
      476 6 LONDON Over half of cases in UK believed to involve triads Bernama THE triads are now using Malaysia as their main operational base for worldwide credit card frauds worth millions of pounds, according to the office of the National
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      Lock icon Krugman retracts insider trading claim on Soros
      337 6 NEW YORK Net article alleged Soros profited from naming of Brazil's central bank chief Reuters A LEADING economist on Wednesday retracted a contention he had made in an Internet article that fund guru George Soros probably traded and profited on inside information that
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      Lock icon German metal strike averted with last minute deal
      314 6 BONN Reuters GERMANY'S huge metal and engineering industry pulled back from the brink of a damaging strike yesterday as trade unionists hailed a pay deal reached with employers in regional arbitration talks. The accord was reached in overnight talks in the southern
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      Lock icon US against currency linking: Summers
      489 7 WASHINGTON Idea attractive bnt fatal flaw is in what it would force countries to do, he says AFP Bloomberg UNITED States officials oppose the idea of linking or more closely coordinating movements in the dollar, euro and yen, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said
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      Lock icon Greenpeace dumps GM soya at Blair's door
      177 7 LONDON Reuters SEVEN environmental protesters were arrested yesterday after dumping four tonnes of genetically modified (GM) US soya beans outside British Prime Minister Tony Blair's official residence. "This is one of the few households in the UK where the occupier seems to want
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      177 7 Life is a journey filled with decisions to be made. But while decision-making is an art that can never truly be learned, the best ones are often made when all the facts are known. And the E-Class does come with some impressive facts. Such as the fact that our trademark
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon No economy is an island unto itself
      4453 8 The growing interdependence of the world economy means the crisis which started as a run on the Thai baht in July 1997 soon spread to other countries NYT INEW YORK] IN Red Square, just across from the mausoleum where Lenin lies in state,
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      Lock icon World pays for ignoring Moscow's addiction to debt
      2139 9 Falling oil and gas prices tore the crumbling Russian economy apart but nobody took notice NYT [NEW YORK] IN the Indonesian town of Mojokerto, high finance began to close in on Salamet. a rickshaw driver. Mr Salamet cannot read, so he had
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      US now admits it pushed Asia too fast
      844 10  -  THE BOTTOM LDVE OPINION By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent I WAS left speechless by an article that appeared a few days ago in The New York Times. In it former senior officials in the Clinton administration indulged in
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      IN OTHER WORDS
      80 10 Derivatives are like power tools. If you know how to use them, they're great. But if you don't know how to use them, you'll drill a hole in your head.' Brian Uppey managing director of an investment company in Hongkong, on the causes of the Asian economic
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      Local banks have little to fear
      635 10 EDITORIAL JUDGING from some local bankers' comments on plans by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to liberalise the banking sector over the next few years, the reception has been one of resigned acceptance, at best This is a pity. Because Singapore's five local
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      Lock icon Can personal spending keep driving US growth?
      997 10  -  To coax Americans to spend more and more, the stock market most keep rising, but this can't last By\ Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group THE American economy continues to zip along, defying so far predictions that it would slow down or crash.
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      WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      1071 10 Trauma of Clinton trial THE trial is over. .Regardless of where one stood on the issue of removing the president, a collective sigh of relief went up from the American people when the gavel went down for the last time. The nation must now move on.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon SES investors extend Q4 rally into Jan
      588 11  -  Jan volume up 44% but off November's highs; activity expected to taper off By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The local stock market continued riding high last month on the li-quidity-driven rally which began in the third quarter of last year. Figures obtained from the
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      Bangkok laws may foil SIA plan to buy into Thai Airways
      393 11 [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines' plan to buy into Thai Airways International could fly into some legislation turbulence. Thai Transport and Communications Minister Suthep Thaugsuban was quoted by Reuters yesterday as saying that the Thai government's hands may be tied because
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley raises SIA's forecast earnings
      397 11  -  It cites better passenger load factor, tighter capacity control By* Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] US financial group Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has raised its earnings estimate for Singapore Airlines, where it sees stronger-than-expected passenger load factor and tighter control at expanding seat capacity. Morgan Stanley
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      Lock icon High marks for SCI in investor relations management
      579 11  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW David Boey IT looks like SembCorp Industries has cleared its first major investor relations hurdle. On Feb 2, SCl's managers dropped a bombshell when they announced that a major company shakeup was underway. The restructuring will see SCI write
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      Form plans to revamp businesses and debts
      209 11  -  By Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] Form Holdings is seeking professional help to revamp its businesses and debts after plunging into the red in its last interim period. The music and video production company yesterday said it has appointed accounting firm Price Waterhouse to advise
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    • REGIONAL COMPANIES
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        AAPT wins broadband licences on A$66m bid
        483 12  -  Sing Tel unit's bid said to be much higher than what US rivals expected From Russell Baker in Sydney SINGAPORE Telecom's 20.2 per cent owned associate AAPT has paid As 66 million (Ss7l million) for 15-year licences for the 28-31 GHz broadband network
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        Lock icon ASX wins support to widen All Ordinaries
        236 12 Reuters [MELBOURNE] The Australian Stock Exchange has won broad support for a plan to expand the All Ordinaries Index into a two-tiered benchmark of big and smaller companies, ASX managing director Richard Humphry said yesterday. But he said there was still some debate
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        Lock icon Honda profit jumps 16% on strong US sales
        301 12 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Honda Motor Co, Japan's third-largest automaker, said group income rose 15.9 per cent to a third straight record in the Oct-Dec quarter as sales of more profitable cars in the US compensated for a decline in revenue. The maker of
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        Lock icon Carrefour to open more stores in Asia
        381 12 Reuters [PARIS] French retailer Carrefour, which reported a 1998 profit figure in line with expectations yesterday, is maintaining its strategy of foreign expansion despite the recent crisis in emerging markets. Carrefour, which has operations in Singapore, opened 20 shops in Asia last year
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        Lock icon News Corp tightens belt with 3% cost reduction
        323 12 Bat job cats not expected from cost trimming efforts Bloomberg [NEW YORK] News Corp said it ordered a 3 per cent cut in operating costs across the board late last month as the world's fifth-largest media company aims to tighten its budget
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        Lock icon Qantas posts best-ever interim profit jump
        590 12 Overall, Aussie and NZ airlines weather regional crisis better than Asian ones AFP Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Australian and New Zealand airlines have managed to escape the crippling effect of the Asian financial crisis on other regional airlines and have reported hefty increases in first-half profits.
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        Lock icon Making small talk
        44 12 NTT DoCoMo's Sumie Honda showing off the firm's smallest mobile phone model K0207 at the company headquarters here yesterday. The 120 mm high and 69gram mobile phone was launched in December and is on the market for 29,400 yen (SS42O). REUTERS
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      • COMPANY Briefs
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          Li & Fung launches offer for IMS
          113 12 Li Fung launches offer for IMS [SINGAPORE] Li Fung Distribution (Singapore) Ltd (LFDS) will make a conditional voluntary cash offer for all shares in Inchcape Marketing Services Ltd (IMS) that it does not already own at 85 cents apiece. The offer price will be revised to $1.10 cash upon the
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          CSC ups CSA holding to 34.5%
          39 12 [SINGAPORE] CSC Computer Sciences International has bought another 53,000 CSA Holdings shares (0.04 per cent) at $1.02 each, raising its holding to 44.15 million shares, or 34.5 per cent of the takeover target.
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          Lock icon Long Chan to represent BIL at Thistle
          83 12 Reuters [WELLINGTON] Brierley Investments (BIL) said yesterday that Quek Leng Chan and Rupert Morley had been appointed to the board of Thistle Hotels, in which BIL holds a 46 per cent stake. The appointments, to represent BlL's interest, replace Rodney Price and Paul
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          Lock icon Renong unit sells land for RM64m
          89 12 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Renong said its unit Prolink Development Sdn Bhd has sold 120 ha of land to Farlim Group for 64.42 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss29 million). The sale raises Renong's net tangible assets to 94 sen per share from 93 sen. Farlim will
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          Lock icon EON sees 10% sales rise in 1999: report
          71 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian car distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional expects sales to rise by about 10 per cent in 1999 over 1998, The Star newspaper said yesterday. The daily quoted managing director Adzmi Abdul Wahab as saying EON expects to sell about
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          Lock icon MBf Holdings asks for trade suspension
          88 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] MBf Holdings asked the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange to halt trading in its shares on Friday pending an announcement. MBf Holdings, with businesses in property development and financial services, didn't say when it will make the announcement. With each request, a
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          Lock icon Malaysia Airlines MD retires early
          98 12 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) said yesterday that its managing director Wan Malek Ibrahim has opted for early retirement. MAS said in a statement that Wan Malek was on leave from Feb 15 to May 15 this year, but he will continue
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        Lock icon Lippo Bank owners pumping in 1t rupiah
        291 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Lippo Group said yesterday that the existing shareholders of Lippo Bank have come up with around one trillion rupiah (Ssl92 million) to meet their share of the costs of recapitalisation. "Yes, the money, around one trillion rupiah, is already in
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    • INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
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        Lock icon Intel unveils Pentium III, plans US$300m ad blitz
        486 13 But analysts say it's only slightly better than current Intel offerings LAT-WP [SAN JOSE, California] With a splashy day-long sneak preview, Intel Corp on Wednesday unveiled a souped-up microchip, part of the company's bid to recapture market share it has steadily been
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        317 13 Bloomberg [SAN JOSE, California] Komag Inc, the No 1 maker of disks used in computer disk drives, said it intends to buy Western Digital Corp's disk production business for about US$BO million (*****.8 million) in stock, as each company concentrates on its key
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        408 13 Reuters [PITTSBURGH] HJ Heinz Co, whose products range from ketchup to baked beans and dog food, will close or sell as many as 20 factories and slash up to 10 per cent of its workforce, mostly in Europe, in a second
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          Lock icon Zeneca shareholders back Astra deal
          48 13 Reuters [LONDON] Shareholders in Britain's Zeneca Group gave a ringing endorsement yesterday to its plan to merge with fellow drug-maker Astra of Sweden. AstraZeneca will be the third largest prescription drugs group in the world and second biggest in Europe by sales. Reuters
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          71 13 NYT [NEW YORK) In perhaps the most significant endorsement yet of the little operating system that could. IBM was to announce Wednesday that from next month it will ship its Netfinity network server computers with the free operating system Linux pre-installed alongside Microsoft's Windows
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          Lock icon Glaxo hints at 25% profit rise
          45 13 Bloomberg [LONDON] Glaxo Wellcome, the world's second-biggest drugmaker, indicated second-half profit rose 25 per cent, more than expected. Glaxo, the world's biggest maker of asthma, Aids and migraine drugs, indicated second-half profit rose to £1.01 billion (Ss2.B billion). Bloomberg
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          49 13 Bloomberg [MUNICH] BMW's new chief executive Joachim Milberg said Germany's third-largest carmaker wants to remain independent and dismissed recent takeover speculation as "without foundation". Mr Milberg also said BMW had "to see visible results by spring" at its loss-making Rover unit in the UK. Bloomberg
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        267 13 Bloomberg Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Gucci Group NV, one of Italy's biggest fashion houses, took action to limit the influence of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA after the world's No 1 lux-ury-goods maker amassed a 34 per cent stake without making a full takeover offer.
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        354 14 Reuters [LONDON] Liffe (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange), the London derivatives market, swung further ahead of rival exchanges in the battle for euro interest rate business on Wednesday with what it called a successful one-day switch into new contracts. Holders of
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        550 14 It'll review industry, determine pace, sequence of reforms in sub-sectors MBT [KUALA LUMPUR] Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) is formulating a masterplan for the banking sector in the next 20 years. According to a BNM paper presented to representatives of Asia-Pacific savings banks in
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        Lock icon European insurer Aegon to buy Transamerica for US$10.8b
        601 14 Deal creates 3rd biggest US insurer, will give Aegon farther reach in US Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Aegon NV, Europe's second-biggest insurer by market value, said it will buy Transamerica Corp of the US for US$lO.B billion (SslB billion) in stock and cash, making
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        52 14 [MANILA] Filipino-Chinese dancers on Tuesday welcoming the Chinese New Year by performing a lion dance at the Philippine Stock Exchange trading floor here Traders said they hoped the performance will bring good luck to the market. The Composite Index closed up 8.88 points at
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        200 14 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US banking regulators issued new guidelines to banks to better educate customers about the Year 2000 computer problem in order to forestall "unwarranted public alarm". The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council urged banks to provide "clear and accurate" information to
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        439 14 US business said to be under scrutiny; UK economists quit AFXAsia Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) has launched an inspection of Nomura Securities Co. "It is true we are inspecting (Nomura)," an official at the commission said. "We would
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          98 14 AFP (TOKYO) The Artemis holding company owned by French financier Francois Pinault has failed to strike a buyout deal with the owner of Japan's collapsed Nissan Mutual Life Insurance Co, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said yesterday. Artemis is believed to have proposed a
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          Lock icon Aon offers 1,300 staff early retirement
          83 14 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Aon Corp, the world's second-largest insurance broker, has offered early retirement to 1,300 US employees and plans to cut 200 of its UK staff, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The Chicago company expects the cuts to contribute to a first-quarter pre-tax charge
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          Lock icon Royal Bank of Canada lets media in
          82 14 Bloomberg [TORONTO] Royal Bank of Canada will become the second of the nation's six largest banks to shun selective disclosure when it allows the media on its quarterly conference call with securities analysts next week. Toronto-Dominion Bank last month said it would allow
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          95 14 Bloom berg [ROSLYN,-New York] Roslyn Bancorp Inc fired 161 employees of TR Financial Corp on Wednesday as it closed its purchase of the parent of Roosevelt Savings Bank for US$623 million (551.06 billion) in stock. The job cuts, which affect about 40 per
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        593 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] US banks are expanding private client units that sell products and services to the rich, as the numbers of wealthy Americans multiply and banks refine their understanding of this market, analysts say. Most banks offer special banking services
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        Feb contract down amid thin trading
        137 15  -  SIMKX Report MSCI Singapore Index Jardine Fleming THE Singapore MSCI futures yesterday began the Year of the Rabbit with the February futures contract losing ground on relatively thin volume. With many fund managers still on holiday until the end of the week, and with
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        Lock icon Gold demand up but won't boost prices
        418 15 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Increased demand for gold in the last three months of 1998 won't be enough to pull gold prices out of their slump, Asian traders said yesterday. Demand for gold rose by 6 per cent in the last three months of 1998
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        221 15 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [NEW YORK] Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange clung to small gains in early trade yesterday after a wobbly opening as the market sorted out conflicting weekly industry and government inventory data, traders said.
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        354 15 Reuters Bloomberg London THE yen lost more ground in Europe yesterday in a market increasingly reluctant to hold yen against the backdrop of the Japanese authorities' tolerance of a weaker currency. The dollar climbed to a fresh two-month high against the beleaguered yen, up around 4.8 per cent
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        1349 15 NTERBANK CROSS RATES heb 18 AS C$ Rmb Euro Ffr Dm HK$ Ind Rs RupUh Yen Won BM MZ$ P»H h Ptto S$ Band Sfr NT$ BMt Pound js$ Australia 0.952 6.178 0.566 3.712 1.106 4.937 27.048 56.078 0.756 7.532 2.418 1.*****.736 24.630 1.082 3 925 0 904 20 590
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        1867 15 SICOM FUTURES Feb 18 RU88£R i futures cicsrnq ts «t 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwts/kq) Close Volum« Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mv 99 109.75 500 Apr 99 110.75 850 May 99 113.25 925 Jun 99 115.25 300 Jul/Sep 99 118.75 825 Oct/Dec 99 121.00 121.00 122.25 75 225
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      2372 16 LONDON Industrials FrtH Pence *1 31 Group 579.500 -17.500 A B Ports 261.000 -5.000 At)city National 1336.000 22.000 Allied Domecq 465 000 2 000 Allied Zurich 904 500 12.000 Amec 188.000 unch Aid* Croup 153.500 -1.000 BATInd 580 OOO -12 500 BG Pic 355.500 -1.750 BICC 79.000
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      1583 16 AFP Nikkei 225 -ILBB SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.1 per cent lower yesterday, dragged down by a fall on Wall Street and profit-taking from earlier gains, brokers said. The Nikkei Stock Average of 225 leading issues declined 11.88 points to end at 14.146.79. Trading was subdued, with 342
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        8324 17 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products '999 Last Vol Day Net Cap l»» Company Sal* OOO High Low P/C {mil 310 280 A|inomoto 280 154 1135 83 62 Angkasa 74 jq9.1 283 244 Apollo Food Hlg 255 8.9 102.0 204 152 Beriaya Land 165 -4 34 166 161 3.3 1143.9 600 450 C&CBintanq
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        409 17 AFP Q Composite Index -450 MALAYSIAN share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday in thin trade as investors remained sidelined after the Chinese New Year holidays, dealers said. "Generally investors are still sidelined, away on holiday," an institutional dealer at a local brokerage
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        Ipco wrt: better value in its shares
        196 18  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy LATELY there seems to be a slight shift away from 1999 warrants into those expiring in the year 2002. One warrant that's benefited slightly from this buying of time is Ipco's instrument, so perhaps a look at the
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        CLOB INTERNATIONAL
        224 18 HONGKONG STOCKS Of Or 52-Wk Last Vol Day Lait Ouot# Otv Dtv yw N*t M Cap M*)* Low Stno Company Sn (OOP) High Law Buyar SaHar H Cvt S p/t mM 5123 CW. (2000) HK 400 I 8 2 20 5 ***** 5124 Cathay Pac20cHK__720 265 2.1 7.4
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        2061 18 BONOS, LOANS WARRANTS m 52-W* Lilt Vol Oav Last Quota Avg Mign Low Stno Company Solo ♦or- (OOO) High Loo Buyer Sailor Prtco '8 3 3160 "Acer W*****1USS 12 unch 2 12 12 10 12.5 35 4.5 3164 AcmaW*****4 16 -0.5 228 16 15.5 15.5 16 17 3161 AIITcch ******7
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        259 18 AFP CI Wellington -5j82 STOCKS ended down 0.3 per cent yesterday as caution prevailed in the broad market. "It is generally a relatively cautious market but Telecom basically is where the movement is," said a dealer. The NZSE-40 Index was down 5.82 points to 2,177.43 on turnover of NZ$lOl
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        737 18 AFP n SET Index -L 56 THAI share prices fell 0.5 per cent yesterday in thin trade with many investors sidelined after the Chinese New Year holiday, dealers said. But the index closed off earlier lows on late bargainhunting in banks and finance stocks following recent losses. The Stock
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        431 18 AFP n Composite Index -1&36 SOUTH Korean shares closed 2.8 per cent lower yesterday, weighed down by massive institutional selling amid concerns over the yen's weakness against the US dollar, dealers said. "Institutional selling was the main factor for yesterday's sharp fall," with the yen's drop depressing sentiment, said
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        597 18 AFP PI All Ordinaries +0.30 AUSTRALIAN shares closed up marginally yesterday as the market largely ignored overseas cues and a strong profit result from Qantas, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 0.3 point to 2,882.5. Volume was 454.47 million shares worth A 51.12 billion. The All Industrials Index
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        688 18 AFP IHI Composite Index +5.43 INDONESIAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent higher yesterday on a technical rebound in select large caps led by Telkom, dealers said. Bakrie Securities dealer Denny Riyadi said the market had built up momentum for a technical rebound after earlier falls although liquidity was
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        325 18 AFP Manila +&88 PHILIPPINE shares rose 0.5 per cent yesterday as investors positioned themselves for the resumption of trading overseas following the Chinese New Year holidays. The Composite Index rose 8.88 points to close at 1,927.45 points. Turnover fell to 556 million shares worth 925 million pesos from 611.80
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      STOCK EXCHANGE OF SINGAPORE: MAIN BOARD
      6801 19 Transaction date: Feb 18 I Gr Of H Wt i t*** v#l D«V Last Quote Olv Olv Vld Net Cap Avg High Law StNo Company Sata COOP) High Low Buyer Sailor M> C'yr p/t $mll Prka MULTI-INDUSTRY 142 17.5 m t 1000 Acma 50c
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      1345 19 52-Wk Last Vol Diy LMt Quote D4v My vm m«* r» c i vfl High Low St No Company Sal* COOP) High Low Buyar SaNar H C'vt p/t $mil Prica MANUFACTURING 231 30 a 2049 AS Auto tOc 90.5 -3 118 93 90 90.5 92 15 N 7 17
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        387 20 Stocks Volume SembCorpI 25c 3,912,000 DBS Land 3,148.000 SingTel 15c 2,927.000 STEngglOc 2.300.000 Keppel Corp 1.591.000 Heshe Hldqs25c 1,573.000 CK Tang Wt99 1,528,000 DairyF US5c 1.434,000 LKN Wt99 1,429,000 Keppel Land50c 1,396,000 Stacks OCBC Foreign 13.303.824 DBS Foreign 11,391,392 SPM 9,525.607 UOfl Foreign 9,052,450 OUB Foreign 7,918,990 SJA Foreign 7,756,106
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        STI Ms 26 points in directionless trading
        627 20  -  STOCK WAR inri" COMMENTARY Rabbit Tear lacks bounce amid unsteady Wall St overnight, Hongkong holiday closure Hy R Sivanithy AN unsteady Wail Street and the closure of Hongkong for the Chinese New Year holiday meant a feeble first day trading for the new
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          Sweet deals?
          94 20 THEY call them "Yankees" in New York, "Samurais" in Tokyo, so what should we call them in Singapore? No, we're not talking about the people, but the bonds issued by foreigners in these respective countries. After two Sing dollar bond issues recently by top borrowers International Finance Corporation
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          Dell outguns top guns
          164 20 AMERICA'S most admired companies share a lot of characteristics, and the performance of their stocks is perhaps one of the most exciting aspects revealed by Fortune magazine's annual survey of 10,000 executives, directors and securities analysts. The compounded annual rate of increase in the stock prices
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          Testing the market
          220 20 A NUMBER of primary school teachers were disappointed yesterday when they rang a help-line number (1800-443-7872) that was supposed to provide advice and support for their schools' Internet computers. What they got was a recorded message telling them that the number was no longer in use. Also,
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        HOT STOCK
        65 20  -  By Wong Wei Kong Keppel Corp shares closed down eight cents yesterday at $3.94 on a volume of 1.59 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 2.04 million units. The daily and weekly RSI and Stochastics suggest that the stock is in a consolidation phase after
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      45 20 Corrigendum Ke: Liquor Licence Notice in Business Times on 2nd Feb W Woon C'hee Cafe The applicant's name applied for should be Tan Piah Huat ind not as published. Buy It. Sell It. Find It Classified. f!a [CATS. J IHM-737-H66 Call Today For Results Tomorrow.
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
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      Lock icon Groomed for success
      1391 21  -  The right suit, the confident walk, the firm handshake are they really important when the economy is down and business skills are what's needed to get the job done? pm&im mayab talks to company managers and image consultants COVER STORY PARVATHI NAYAR CORPORATE grooming window dressing or
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          The vinification of man
          47 22 WOMEN'S Quote of the Day: "Men are like fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something with which you'd like to have dinner with."
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          From wine to vinegar
          50 22 MEN'S Counter-Quote of the Day: "Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind, and then turn voluptuous, seductive, elegant and full-bodied with age. But when overaged, they go all sour and vinegary and give you a terrible headache."
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          Sign up, but not too early
          61 22 A KINDERGARTEN sent out letters inviting parents to register their children for classes. The letter said even babies or new borns were eligible for registration. But for kiasu parents, there was one caveat: the babies had to be born first and have a birth
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          Talking point
          26 22 HOW DOES a woman define the word "argument"? Well, it's a discussion that occurs when she's right, but he just hasn't realised it yet.
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        Caught in a parent trap
        603 22  -  CINEMA Carl Franklin's One True Thing has all the right elements but still leaves one dissatisfied By. Parvathi Nayar IT'S GOT a great cast, and they act well; the movie comes in high on the emotional barometer, recording thechanging temperatures of a mother-daughter relationship; and
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        Two contenders for the same position
        584 22  -  CINEMA Get set for the battle of the divas in Stepmom By: Parvathi Nayar SUSAN Sarandon gets the to-die-for role of dying of cancer, and to compensate, also gets the "harder to like" character; Julia Roberts gets the less dramatic screen option of staying
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        Lock icon Cute as a button
        490 22  -  TRENDS The featherweight My Phone, with its Tamagotchi-like appeal, is bound to be a hit tty- Andrew Wee IT MAY look like a toy, but the My Phone lays claim to being the world's smallest telephone. Manufactured by YTC Telecom of Korea, it consists of a
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        Uplifting piece of celluloid
        652 22  -  CINEMA Two great leads help The Theory Of Flight soar above the crowd By I Susan Tsang YOU'D THINK that a disability is a tacky topic on which to build a comedy. With The Theory Of Flight, however, the filmmakers have crafted a sweet, gentle little
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        WHAT'S ON
        456 24  -  Compiled by Parvathi Nayar MUSIC Familiar Favourites Popular Romantic era compositions such as Rossini's William Tell Overture (popularised by the Lone Ranger theme), Bizet's Carmen Suite No 2 and Brahms' Hungarian Dances are featured. Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam takes centre-stage in Mendelssohn's Piano Concert No 1 in G
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        733 24  -  NUTRITION It's not as impossible as it sounds, according to weight loss guru Deanna Jepson Tan Su Yen DEANNA Jepson has the dream diet for high flying businessmen. Eat whatever takes your fancy, entertain on the job. travel and dine in different time
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        1267 27  -  Were Ramesses, Halshepsut and their company of Ancient Egyptians unhealthily obsessed with the hereafter? JOHM obe examines the evidence and provides some insights and answers JOHN GEE John Gee has had a life-long interest in Ancient Egypt and is a member of the Egypt Exploration Society.
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        Art that challenges the accepted order of things
        891 27  -  EXHIBITION Heri Dono's images are not visually pretty, bat they do get the viewer thinking about social and political issues By Parvathi Nayar WHATEVER you think, do not tell Heri Dono his paintings must have been inspired by Picasso, a very sore
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      CINEMA
      913 25 The Corrupter. Cops and robbers flick that pairs up Chow Yun-Fat with Mark Wahlberg and lots of edge-of-the-seat action. Chow is a cop who has sold out, then has to contend with an upstart-turned-protege in the shape of Wahlberg. Set in New York's Chinatown, the movie examines issues of
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      ENQUIRIES AND BOOKINGS
      118 25 Cathay Org Cathay 338-3400 Eastshore 346-1816 Orchard 235-8386 Picturehouse 338-3400 Yangtze 223-7529 Eng Wah Empress 777-5867 Jubliee 454-1640 Mandarin 292-9401 Marina 338-9719 Whitesands 585-1782 Qoiden Village 1900-912-1234 332-6098 for group bookings S wheelchair facilities Bishan Boon Lay Marina Tampines 8 Tiong Bahru Yishun Overseas Movie Clementi/Co'wealth 777-0669
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        741 26  -  Going to Mama Africa feels like going on a safari it looks so much like the real thing, says jaime ee JAIME EE IF I EVER go on an African safari, I would expect to be killed by one of two things food poisoning or an enraged elephant.
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        Going to Hongkong? Here's some lard you'll love
        189 26 CRAVINGS SOME credit card companies are apparently surprising their customers with free tickets to Hongkong as a reward for unclaimed bonus points. If you're one of the lucky few travelling to that paradise of wonderful Cantonese food, check out the cholesterol-laden, peasant
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        Porridge please
        106 26 THE FEASTING is over, time for some lighter fare. Goodwood Park Hotel, always a supper favourite with the post-theatre crowd, is offering a Taiwan porridge special starting on March 3. Two people eating at the Coffee Lounge can have four side dishes and unlimited servings of porridge for
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        Lo hei with a view
        149 26 YU SHENG is traditionally eaten on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year or what the Chinese call "Everybody's Birthday". So it's not too late at all to toss to a better year. We recommend the delicate flavours of Chef Chan Chen Hei'sjytt sheng
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        Half-price tea buffet
        91 26  -  Compiled by Tan Su Yen THE ORIENTAL Singapore celebrates its 12th anniversary this year and Cafe Des Artistes, the hotel's all-day dining restaurant, is offering its high tea buffet at just $12 per person on weekdays, but only until the end of March. The high tea spread,
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        High tea in a very high place
        440 26  -  RESTAURANTS It's a feast for the eyes at Top of the M By] Rahita Elias IF YOU are interested in Singapore real estate, or are on a first date and worried about having nothing to say between courses, or just a great chicken
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        719 26  -  CHOCOLATE Yon haven't tasted cream fillings until you've tried those by Pralines Leonidas By Tan Su Yen SOME people pay $8 for two to three little morsels and savour them slowly as they shop along Orchard Road. Others, like one corporate client, buy 65kg
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      247 22 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Richard is shaky (5) 4 There and back, or circuitous Force very English virile 11 About to free king, using dag- HI U 12 Loud sound of bass real ag13 Wearing boots, pressing hard IV H_ fl TH into turf (4) 16 Betrothal gets broadcast on i
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      180 24 J|jg fS Celebrate the last century with De Grand 4 CHINESE NEW YEAR SPECIAL From 16 Feb 99 28 Feb 99 SET LUNCH $9.80 NETT (11AM 3PM) ,<£ SET DINNER $10 80 NETT (SPM 10PM) Thai style claypot red curry chicken with pineapple 7 Spanish pork ribs with garlic sauce
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      82 24 Start the year right with the traditional tossing of "Lo Hei" of the customary "Yu Sheng". The two types of "Yu Sheng" include: small large Ilcan Parang Yu Sheng $36 548 Salmon Yu Sheng $39.80 $68.80 Available from 6 Feb 2 Mar. For reservations, please call 432 5543/46. Pruts subject
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      2251 25 TODAY'S TV Ann v\,\, di:„. If j a.30 The Great Indian Yatra. Rlircrlars woman S baseball league {"J* Blitz. Sesame 7.00 Nerukkadiyin SuvaduIL L that sprang up when the 5 .00 Ned's Newt. KhMESmI and baseball men were away during 3.30 The Wubbuious World of Benta^** 1 News Hudson Hawk,
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      239 29 f|{JtJ BmtBIMHx liiiii min !> n m mi hH in s -x I*" j .Y'^^^^i &^vi'' J 5 Htc v- fSy \*J J bL' rts?^ >: ?>.;-•-■> V I V r v 4 IH Bigger value. Better service. Brighter smiles. Nobody covers it all as nicely as Ml. Vou get
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      156 34  -  By Teh Hooi Ling HOW many times have you tried to work out which package, between Sing Tel Mobile and Mobile One, offers the best value but given up half way in exasperation? Those who have tried would know what a monumental task it is to compare
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        1151 28  -  TBH hooi uno clues you in on whether Sing Tel or Ml offers more value to the subscribers in terms of rates, talk-time and frills TEH HOOI LING Continued from cover pg Our conclusion: If you want a GSM phone and tend to use
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        1562 28  -  By. Barry Lea The writer is deputy country head Singapore, Lloyds Bank. "I don't invest in stock markets I consider them to be too risky." Does this sound familiar? Often many an investor balks at share market volatility and thus misses the potential to
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        Lock icon Indon bargains beckoning
        974 30  -  Declining interest rates and a fairly stable rupiah promise improved earnings, while companies and investors are now better prepared to weather political and social volatility, reports shoeb kagda from Jakarta SHOEB KAGDA EVEN as the dark clouds of political uncertainty gather over the Jakarta stock market ahead
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        INTEREST RATES FOR SAVINGS AND SAVINGS-CUM-CURRENT ACCOUNTS
        94 30 BANKS/FINANCE COMPANIES BELOW $3000 $3000-4999 $5000-9999 $*****-***** $***** UP DBS (Auto-Save) 1.0000 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.5000 Hong Leong Finance (Savers Plus) 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 Singapore Finance (Savers Plus) 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 HSBC(Cheque-Up) 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.7500 2.1250 Keppel TatLee
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        INTEREST RATES FOR S$ FIXED DEPOSITS...
        194 30 BANKS/FINANCE COMPANIES AMOUNT 1 MONTH 3 MONTHS 6 MONTHS 9 MONTHS 12 MONTHS Citibank Up to ***** 1.6875 1.8125 2.0625 2.1250 2.4375 *****-*****0 2.0000 2.1875 2.4375 2.4375 3.0000 DBS 1000-***** 1.0000 1.2500 1.7500 1.7500 2.0000 *****-*****0 1.0000 1.5000 1.8750 2.0000 2.1250 Hong Leong Finance
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        531 30  -  Private banker aims for fond to regain peak after withdrawing in '97 By I Genevieve Cua WITH Asian markets currently undergoing a correction, after the liquidity driven rally in the last quarter of 1998, it's tempting to think stocks are once again ripe
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        906 30  -  There's still money to be made, for those ready to take a risk By John Calverley The writer is chief economist and strategist at American Express Bank IN December 1996 the head of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, commented that
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        1329 30 Deposit »wount 1-mth 3-mth 6-mth Deposit amount 1-mth 3-mth 6-mth DBS Bank HSBC A$ S***** A24 999 4 0600 4 1000 4 1400 25 000 74 999 3 6875 3fifl75 A25 000 A49 999 4 0900 4 1000
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          329 31 Those polled for their views on the Singapore stock market outlook for next week were Datwa. Kra ser Securities. GK Goh. ING Barings. Kay Hlan. Kim Eng. Merrill Lynch and Ong Co Jurong Shipyard ♦(Buy) Fraser-AMMB Research, Feb 11, $6.70 As expected, Jurong's net profit for FY9B
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          554 31 Eddie Lee Regional economist Vickers B&llas Recessions are not such a bad thing. "It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent
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        841 31  -  Yes, if stock market sentiment improves, analysts say By. Annette Pau A DECENT buy with stagging potential if stock market sentiment picks up. That's one industry watcher's view of Chosen Holdings' initial public offer, and it just about sums up the market view. Most
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        1116 31  -  Sectors which get analysts' nod are consumer goods, conglomerates and utilities while investors are advised to steer clear of property, telecoms or basic materials stocks, LOtnsBGCEESLiNO learns LOUIS BECKERLING THE easing of capital controls across the Causeway has triggered a renewed hunt for value
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        547 31  -  By. Louis Beckerling RETAIL punters missed out on the spectacular stagging profits up for grabs when local Internet service provider Pacific Internet made its debut on Nasdaq earlier this month. Far luckier were the unidentified local high net worth clients and
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        729 32  -  More upmarket developments such as Pebble Bay, Waterside and The Sovereign are favoured over other non-prime district projects for their capital values and rents, corimne kerk discovers CORINNE KERK Rents in the prime districts are still the best in Singapore, but investors
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        540 32  -  They're from two new projects by Knok group and Centrepoint By. Ang Wan May TWO major cluster housing projects are expected to hit the market soon Centrepoint Properties' D'Manor in Tanah Merah and the Kuok group's Horizon Gardens project in Ang Mo Kio.
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        1150 32 Property transactions for districts 15 and 16 (sectors 42 to 45 and 46 to 48) lodged between Jan 16 and Feb 20 1999. Tau E w oTnfcfcT NAWt TYPE DATE LAUD AREA* (SOFT) rsstxxn <S$) District 15 Non-Umttd Amber Lodge Apt 1/4/99 FH 1743 768 440 Amber Point
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        HOUSING LOAN RATES
        296 32 BANKS/FINANCE COMPANIES YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 YEAR 5 YEAR MO YEAR 11-36 Citibank* (max of 30 years) -1 to 5 years loan duration 5.5000 5.5000 5.5000 5.5000 5.5000 -6 to 10 years loan duration 5.7500 5.7500 5.7500 5.7500 5.7500 5.7500 -11 to 30
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        732 33  -  THE FDVER PODVT Training courses and guidelines aside, these pioneers need to prove their worth to the public, which in turn should do its homework By Genevieve Cua IT was only last year that the Monetary Authority of Singapore breathed new life into the fund
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        100 33 IT has been six weeks since we launched Executive Money comprising seven pages of news, views and features on matters that concern you and your finances. We'd like to hear from you on what you think about the new section, and the topics you
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        726 33  -  Investment tips from St&nch&rt's Priority Banking Centre /fc/i Genevieve Cua WHAT would you do if you won $1 million tax-free? Travel round the world a few times over, buy the dream flat you've always wanted, or a snazzy sports car. Indonesian Chinese businesswoman Madam Kimiawati
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      134 34 Investment Picking out value stocks in M'sia EMU b Call our Direct Banking Executives Now on 1800 800 3863 jgg Am erican to en^°Y discounts in the form of bonus units of up to 2.0%* Express VaM frf l2 Feb Bflllk Mb "l***" °P ht pIK accompanying the Prospectus Investors
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      307 35 Bridge News Reuters THE Atlantic was again the more "exciting" market for Panamaxes, and although few fixtures have been reported. Brokers said there is a firmer undercurrent to the market. Despite the holidays in the Far East, brokers said there has been a little more activity for Panamaxes
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      274 35 SO '900 n>» a m CWT Distribution 0.525 -O.OOS 7 Chuan Hup 0.62 *0.01 305 Coko Investment 0.48 Fretaht Links 0.16 -0.005 415 GflHoMinqi 0.345 Hal Sun Hup 0.46 *0.02 28 IMC Holdings—HK 5.60 Jaya Holdings 0.555 0.005 28 Jurong Shipyard 6.60 -0.20 221 KeppelCorp 3.94 -0.08 1591
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      751 35  -  S'pore authority rejects ITF claims it has failed to fulfill duties as flag-state By Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has rejected as unfounded and without basis a claim by an international transport worker's union that the
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      814 35  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar A BREACH of the most fundamental requirement of good watchkeeping led to a collision in broad daylight which resulted in the sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast of Queensland, Australia, last year. Both vessels one
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      462 35 Reuters [SEOULJ Weakness in the global economy and recent strength of the local currency will slow business for South Korea's shipyards this year, analysts said yesterday. South Korea's commerce ministry has estimated new orders could fall 15 per cent to 8.5
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      180 35  -  From Al Labita in Manila [MANILA] The Philippines' buoyant exports boosted the cargo throughput handled by a local unit of global shipping giant P&O Australia Ltd from October to December last year, the company said. In a report to the Philippines Stock Exchange, listed Asian Terminal
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      928 36 MEW YORK SHIPPING New York and New Jersey port officials are trying to prevent Sea-Land and Maersk from moving to Baltimore NYT [NEW YORK] Executives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are scrambling to prevent two shipping lines that transport billions
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      333 36 PAGE FoongSun 8 ANL 3 Frot '3 Accord 8 9 M Links M Ahrenkiel 14 Link 4 Appenship 5 Gemartrans 8 Austral 8 Genshpg 14 Avant 14 Glory Na* 14 B'tang Mas 8 HaiSunHup 8 8SA 7 Hanqli 7 BTl 14 3 Balaji Shpq 4 Heung-A 4
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      20199 43 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 27/02 09/04 Clan S A TBN/EARTH BANK V W04SB 65 *****3* To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoirc 03/03 N/03 csav csavhonckonc
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        411 49 Vessel Voy No Berth »rrtvat Departure Jaraaf Part C Success 18/02 JOT alongside 18.02/1600 ClM Reefer 2 *****9 J02 alongside 18 02/1300 Fortune Eip 01-99 J04 alongside 20.02/0800 Hyderabad 183-HW J08 ilonqs.de 18.02/2100 Mint Express 0299 J06 alongside 20.02/0700 C Progress 19/02 JOT 19.02/0900 19.02/1500 Soon KS5/99 J02
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        CONTAINER SCHEDULES
        1858 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From *c« Contr AE804N 21/1400 U M/1500 M/1459 M/1900 ii M/1500 M/1459 */mo U 14/1700 N/0451 19/0900 21 18/1700 19/0*59 N/0100 I 19/0700 19/1159 19/1400 4 19/1200 19/1459 19/1700 MMaif* •mr
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        GLOBAL HOLIDAYS
        213 49 Marl Sputh Korea: Independence Movement Day. Mar 8 China: Women's Day half day. Mar 17 Ireland Republic of: St Patrick's Day. United Kingdom: St Patrick's Day. Mar 22 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Mar 25 Greece: Independence Day. Mar 28 Brunei: Hari Raya Haji. Indonesia: Hari Raya HajiMalaysia: Hari
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        COCKETT BUNKER MARKET REPORT
        767 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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        510 49 Cirt)ofl WO Mai 994.8 1.0 18.8 0.09 127 0.05 F t 4 PwWt Water gMjtw As* Aluminium Sedi—nt No above E25 2 0 16 0 2 0 380 Ave 966.7 0J M.7 0.06 30 0.02 tino 380 MM 994.9 0.8 19.8 0.09 65 0.07 «wi %v/v
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        344 50 NYT [FORT WORTH] American Airlines, for the first time since pilots began a sickout on Feb 6, reported Tuesday that it was flying a "virtually normal" schedule of flights. The airline and the pilots union continued negotiations over the issue that began the
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        523 50 No demand for 600-seat aircraft due to overcapacity, slow growth in Asia Bloomberg [PAßlS] Airbus Industrie said it is delaying once again introduction of a super jumbo jet because slow growth in Asia and overcapacity elsewhere mean there would not be a
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        Plan to build military transport plane
        406 50 [PARIS] Airbus Industrie, the world's second biggest aircraft maker, said it sent seven European nations a proposal to build a large military transport plane for them in an effort to enter a potentially lucrative new market. Airbus now builds only civilian aircraft. The new
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        PAL seeks creditor backing for revised plan
        420 50  -  By. Felix Chan [SINGAPORE] Financiallystrapped Philippine Airlines (PAL) will meet creditors over the next two weeks as it seeks to garner support for a revised rehabilitation plan ahead of its submission to Philippine regulators. A meeting in Washington with US and European creditors
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        Lock icon Mobile phones may have caused Thai Airways crash: report
        224 50 AFP [BANGKOK] Passengers calling friends from a Thai Airways jet as it circled a stormswept runway in southern Thailand last year may have caused the aircraft to crash, a report said yesterday. Investigators of the crash of flight TG26I have begun
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        Lock icon Light plane reported missing over Malaysia
        187 50 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] A light plane flying from southern Thailand to Singapore with two people on board has been reported missing over Malaysia and is thought to have crashed. Kok Soo Chon, head of Malaysia's civil aviation department, was quoted as saying the single-engine
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        AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
        1867 50 *5? man eta fucht ere lh786 kso lhm73 2355 Ad»Uld* AN8230 1920 NZ4586 1650 $026 2355 IH6381 1920 S***** 1650 LH787 2359 S0230 1920 N***** 2359 A«*t«4am S0327 0800 KL844 0105 ****** 2359 6*973 1005 N***** 2320 F«kuofca $0989 J715 S0990 0130 KL837 1535 S0328 2320
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        32 50 }!l^°^^) S^ aat Z rs,M J i i'l gat heinleriorofagian,USAFC 5Ga ax y transporter plane at the Australian Me,boUrne °<* r P™«> °nd the size vary from AFP
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        Lock icon Delta buys Atlanta airline for US$700m
        293 50 Reuters [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines said it would buy Atlantic Southeast Airlines for about US$7OO million (Ssl.lB billion), solidifying its domi nance in the south-east and gaining full control of one of the more profitable regional carriers. Delta, the nation's No 3 airline,
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      26 35 New York port fights to keep 2 carriers New York, New Jersey port officials are trying to prevent Sea-Land, Maersk from moving to Baltimore. Page 2
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      242 35 Airbus postpones launch of super jumbo to 2005 No demand for 600-seat aircraft due to overcapacity, slow growth in Asia. Back Page W Mi" u operate, build or supply to: 7/ T»9S Fenles vv T* Patrol Boirts UKaie Boats w,ot B fishing Boats you cant Offshore Service Vessels afford to
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      1728 39 Jiaipaha VOOI3W (ETA SIN 3 fab 99), Com* USA Eait-Caast All-WaUr nrvict will call it Jj>Ho!!Llw!i_!j|»tMj of Mflitrt. I 6 SHINTON WAY TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (l/l) I^™^^™l £un NC PTE LTD #17-08 DBS BID 6 SALES/IKGS *****57/60 INWARD OEPT (0/0) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD PtPT
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      721 39 'tr -in EASTERN OUt UNER, LTD. |f. K. Eg (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD 1 SPECIALIZE IN RQRQ HEAVY UfT UPTO 450 TONS I ECL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD LOAD NG FOR INCHON/ OSAKA CHITTAGONG/CALCUTTA/CHENNAI/MUMBAI MV "OCEAN BRAVE" V.13 MV "BRISA AZUL" V.IS ETA SIN 20/02/99 ETA NCHON 28/02/99 ETA SIN 22/02/99 ETACTG
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      610 40 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. 1 Cf) NO **********06 I I [ypffl W n\ irn FBI STD mil tut m w. I lUNGA TtRATAJ 1 075 19/1 V? ?/l TTTi J77T I j »»aa jjn I* l ll yOT _M"
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      609 40 NANTAI LINE FULLY CONTAINERISED SERVICE TO MAURITIUS SOUTH AFRICA vessel vot ~sijT pui m m or w GOiDCH MAGON V.OIOS 03/03 12/03 14/03 19/03 20/03 NANU) QUEEN V.033S 13/03 22/03 24/03 29/03 30/03 "p2/04 NAKTAI MAGON YOI2S 23/03 "02/QT 06/04 09/04 10/04 lUWTAIVEWUS VO33S 03/04 12/04 16/04 19/04 20/04 GOLDEN
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      468 41 BSA x mm MYANMA \pßßk FIVE STAR LINE (Myonmar National Line) Loading for Yangon (Rangoon) VESSEI vor SIN PKI PIN PGU HP*-AM 256W $10 MONG-IA 2IW $10 MALAYSIA AGENTS: BOUSTEAD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL TU (03)*****00 PKL HI (03)376*101 PEN: Til (04) *****02 PGU: Til (07) *****21/4 BANK LINE (A strvict
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      1352 41 HMNEHYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. I rasa voriSM sou luh I rtm ant ham I brv Ife [vpse vorl sou tai ktw I awt I haw I wrv 1 fblsml MOSEI 52SW 20/02 12/03 13/03 07/03 09/03 NOICYPRMI 0091 29/01 03/02 30/01 03/01 20/02 NOIAGAn 011W 22/02 10/03 11/03 13/03
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      1107 41 ■> > rKywcgw" ipeaokzed outocamen *-> ©§©33 Wilhelmsen Lines 10 NORTH AND LATIN AMERKA "«ORO HEAVYUFT StRVKIVESSEL VOY RAMP HEIGHT SIN LAX C*l NUA SAV lAL ORF NYC j NEW M 0« HIAS F9OS 400 km 6.3* 23/02 25/03 Op 06/04 08/04 10/04 TT7O4 12/04 17/04 IS/04 TOIA F906 4001
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      2273 42 BANGKOK/MAP TA PHUT/LAEM CHABANOI JAKARTA/PAN JANQ VESSEL VOY SIN BKK MTP LCH VESSEL VOY iIN JKT [~PJN MATHU BHUM 403N 20/02 24/02 23/02 ANRO JAYAKARTA' 075 20/02 23/02 I YANTRA BHUM" 280S 21/02 24/02 OMIT AKA BHUM 333S 20/02 24/02 CHANA BHUM" 58N 22/02 26/02 ACX JADE* 42S 22/02 2S/02
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      36 42 LNS EXPRESS (S) PTE LTD Blk 217 Henderson Road, #01-04 Henderson Industrial Park, Singapore *****5. CR NO: **********0/H Air-Sea International Freight Forwarders MjJARA I Also accepting Heavy Lift Project Cargo Tel: 65-276 7996 Fax: 65-276 3740
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      49 43 ■■Til Dial 740-6000 on demand —(Retrieve more schedules!) Press "1" ct JET\ Select the port and key in s the four digit code —eg: To New York (NYC) 227S Key in your fax number I your phone number Another innovative service offered by The document Will be SHIPPING TIMES
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      52 45 L STEfTfc Dial 740-6000 on demand] —(Retrieve more schedules!) Press "1" I CX Select the port and key in 1 the four digit code eg: To New York (NYC) 2275 Key in your fax number I your phone number Another innovative service offered by The document Will be Shipping Times
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      143 46 r mmmmmm free Rpddpr Enquiry Sprvicp cut out and Fax to: 65-*****29 111 VJ PJ HIII v Need HELP or INFORMATION on the following? (please tick relevant boxes) Q SHIPPING SERVICES Port of Origin: Cargo Type: _Cargo Ready by: Port of Destination: Cargo Volume: Special Requirements: I ADVERTISER:PRODUCTS/SERVICES Saw an
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      1011 47 —imSAMUDERA shipping line ltd ■MM 72 Anson Road, Anson House #06-01 to 03, Spore *****1 CR NO. **********0 D TEL: *****88 FAX: *****29 (OUTWARD) *****83-4 (INWARD) /*****10 (IMPORT STATUS) TLX: R*****0 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LIME: 535 6266 Cella/Jessica/Mei Chan/Jeslynn/Oora/Hanim EQIdiSKZSSESSIB 7 slgs/week qqqSESH 2 slg/week [VESSEL VOY SIN JAK [VESSEL
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      1338 47 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO 1 WQ 1 jIN I *T 1 W I WW 1 W)G I CM! OOM I HAL I NTL I 0t» I SAV I NEW TAM HOU HOfCHMAKf /04S0 H/02__21/Q? 23/01 27/01 23/0? 27/02 06/03 12/03 10/04 13/04 14/04 17/04 21/04 26/04
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      732 47 fffA Singapore Soviet Shipping (PL CIMIOOSOUOOOON k\\l Multiline Shipping PL (WHo*r 0«mmI S«buifcory) Ho **********0 C VESSEL VOY SIN BOM PNG PKL PERAK 125N 20/02 01/03 12/03 KOTA RUKUN RKNO29 28/02 08/03 19/03 KOTARATU RTUO37 07/03 15/03 25/03 [VESSEL VOY SIN CALCUTTA SIM MREGINA RGAOB3 20-21/02 25/02 08/03 HARIBHUM 09SV
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      603 48 I" VESSEL VOY TIGER SEA 68SN 19-20/02 06 06,03 I TIGER BAY 686N 22 22/02 01 04/03 08 09/03 I TIGER ISLAND 687N 26-27/02 04 07/03 12-13/03 I TIGER PEARL 688N OHJ2/O3 0&11/03 15-1&03 I TIGER SEA 689N 0506/03 11-14/03 19-20/03 I TIGER BAY 690N 08 09/03 15-18/03 22-23/03 I
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      1093 48 A FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****66 (60 Lines) Fax: *****33 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.s9 EASTERN EUROPE SCANDINAVIA ITALY/MEDITERRANEAN GREECE/EGYPT UNITED KINGDOM Rotterdam Gothenburg Genoa Piraeus Southampton Hamburg Arhus Valencia Alexandria London Le Havre Copenhagen Barcelona Malta Felixstowe >. Oslo La Soezia Antwer P Hel senl(i CANADA AUSTRALIA INDIA MIDDLE EAST JAPAN MAURITIUS
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      27 48 CONVENTIONAL-SERVICE VESSEL ETA ETD DESTINATION CHAHAYA VICTORY 22/02 23AJ2 JAKARTA SURABAYA SOUTHERN QUEEN 24U2 2&D2 BANGKOK SEA SHINE 26/02 28/02 PANGKAL BALAM CHAHAYA STAR 28/02 02/03 PALEMBANG/PONTIANAK
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      1045 48 OOCL (Singapore) Pte Lid CF^KeppeTpistrpj^ 79 Anson Road #21-04 (S) *****6 Nk 513 #01-128 C~J CR N0 **********0H fat 272 7827 F Vs_ Tot *****13 Fu 221 3942 272 782S JHk Onent Oversees Container line (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Rag Na *****2-u) ra f PETAUNG JAYA Tot 03-756 7776 Fox: 03-754
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      210 48 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE SIN PASIR QUDANG SIN DAILY SAILINGS [VESSEL 1 VOY ETA PC DAY VOY ETA SH DAY !SSg—jggj- (T>w rn* jfsl. PROGRESS 994 IS 20/02/99 (SAT) 994 IN 21/02/99 (SUN) PROGRESS 9942S 21/02/99 (SUN) 9942H 22/02/99 (MOW) MP 52 0014S 22/Q2/99 (MOW) 001W (THE) PROGRESS 9943S 23/02/99 fTUE)
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