The Business Times, 29 March 1999

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  • 11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1999.
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  • 472 1  -  Govt's promotion of financial services industry paying off: PwC survey By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The Republic has become increasingly more important as an offshore centre for private bankers, according to a recent survey on European private banking done by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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  • 467 1  -  Success rate rises to one in three against one in five last year By] Marissa Chew A TOTAL of 89 properties were sold by auction in the first quarter of this year, up from 21 in the same
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  • 555 1  -  From, Andrew Marks in New York EARNINGS worries and the Kosovo conflict mean shortterm selling pressure, but the US' Dow Jones Industrial Average could still hit the 10,000 mark by the end of next month. Investors have shifted to a
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  • 894 1  -  Scrapping of 'excess' industrial capacity the most sensitive issue From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SERIOUS discord is emerging over critical policy issues even as Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's special council tasked with the job of plotting new industrial strategies for Japan prepares for its
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    • 141 1 DttBPE (Ms watch There's going to be a great Indonesian asset sale down the road, Pf3 Frmtfnl time at Ceßit Several Singapore firms at Ceßit *99, which ended recently, said the giant trade fair wait beyond expectations for them, M»e«lTP*« MfewtpntßpißFeb Despite the Chinese New Year holidays, Singapore's manufacturing output
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    • 9 1 US computer, Internet stocks likely to gain, Pg 14
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 507 2  -  Performance driven by 28% rise in production by chemicals cluster By Marissa Chew DESPITE the Chinese New Year holidays, Singapore's manufacturing output rose 2.8 per cent year-on-year in February, driven by a 28.3 per cent surge in production in the chemicals cluster. February's
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    • 334 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Electronics By, Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S share of the US electronics market fell to 9.9 per cent by the end of last year, from 12.8 per cent before the financial crisis, data in a Trade Development Board (TDB) publication shows.
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    • 262 2 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be visiting Myanmar and Thailand from tomorrow until Friday, his first official visit to both countries. He will be accompanied by Mrs Lee and Members of Parliament Lily Neo and Ong Kian Min.
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    • 363 2 The Straits Times [AUCKLAND] Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has predicted an important role for Singapore to play in the world in the next 25 years disseminate technology and knowledge and re-direct finance into growth areas. This would be the
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  • ASIA'S ECONOMIC SLUMP
    • 888 3  -  Annual report not expected to spring any surprises in '99 economic forecast From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur BANK Negara's yearly data on the economy and monetary policy direction is usually keenly followed by the market, but when it releases its annual
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    • 271 3 Bloomberg [TOKYO] The Japanese economy will probably recover in the second half of the year ending March 2000 as companies reduce excess personnel, and banks keep cleaning up bad loans, Japan's chief economic planner said. "If the current yen-dollar rate is maintained,
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    • 928 3  -  CRISIS WATCH Govt not inclined to manage assets of that will come under its wing By Vikram Khanna RECENT developments in Indonesia's banking sector have more implications than meet the eye. Look at what has happened: two weeks ago, the government announced that it
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  • REGION
    • 660 4 WASHINGTON Both countries aiming for agreement before Zhu Rongji's US visit: negotiators Bloomberg, AFP THE Clinton administration is close to backing China's entry into the World Trade Organisation after the Asian nation promised to open its markets to everything
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    • 345 4 BEIJING Reuters CHINA will open its insurance market further as part of its bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Business Weekly said yesterday. The newspaper quoted Ma Yongwei, chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), as saying more licences would
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    • 301 4 ■YANGON AFP THE Myanmar junta yesterday offered its condolences to democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi whose husband died in Britain before she could see him one last time. The case has thrust the junta's human rights record back into the
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    • 507 4  -  State Department backs him bat Trade Representative's Office supports rival From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi's bid for the top World Trade Organisation job is poised on a knife's edge as the US is
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    • 631 4  -  Foreign ministers likely to discuss Asian crisis, euro's performance and WTO-related issues From Ronnie Lim in Berlin THE foreign ministers of 15 European Union countries are meeting their Asian counterparts here today in the Asia-Europe (Asem) forum in the clearest sign
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    • 383 4 KUALA LUMPUR Additional animals to come from central Negeri Sembilan Reuters MALAYSIA said yesterday it would have to destroy more than a million pigs, three times the number previously planned, to control the outbreak of a pig-borne
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  • REGION/WORLD
    • 498 5 FRANKFURT Comment fuels talk the bank may cot rates to boost business confidence Bloomberg GROWTH in the 11 euro economies is "weakening significantly", European Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing said, adding to speculation the bank may lower borrowing costs to revive flagging business
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    • 295 5 TOKYO AFP. Reuters DEFENCE agency chief Hosei Norota said yesterday Japan should revise laws for a smooth engagement of troops in the event of a direct military attack. It is "desirable we not only conduct the research, but also prepare the legal
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 139 5 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Texas Republican Governor George W Bush would defeat Vice-President A 1 Gore if presidential elections were held now, according to a new Time magazine poll. Elizabeth Dole, anther potential Republican presidential candidate, would tie with Mr Gore if the two
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      • 82 5 Reuters [MOSCOW] International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Michel Camdessus began talks with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov yesterday with Moscow hoping a deal for new credits could be wrapped up soon. Russia hopes to negotiate a new loan of almost US$5 billion
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      • 75 5 AFP [VIENNA] Chinese President Jiang Zemin reiterated yesterday his defence erfßeijing's human rights record, an issue which continued to dog him on the final leg of a three-nation European tour. A small group of demonstrators chanted "Free Tibet" as the 72-year-old leader arrived for talks
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      • 90 5 AFP [AYODHYA, India] Seven Indian policemen were injured, two seriously, yesterday while trying to deftise a powerful time bomb in this Hindu holy city, officials said. The bomb, weighing 8 kg, went off at a police station soon after it was recovered from a
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    • 506 5 Unidentified gunmen exchange fire with Moscow police Reuters NATO said yesterday it will press ahead with bombing raids against Yugoslavia despite losing a US Stealth warplane in the first major setback of its ferocious five-day onslaught. The F-117 Nighthawk plane crashed
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    • 207 5 NEW DELHI AFP THOUSANDS of supporters of the opposition Congress Party took to the streets yesterday to protest against rising crime in the Indian capital. About 4,000 demonstrators marched to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's office, shouting anti-government slogans and burning an effigy of
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    • 270 5 LONDON Reuters CHIEF executives looking to cash in should head for the US while accountants are much better off staying in Britain, according to a global salary survey published by the magazine Management Today. The average American CEO earns almost twice as much
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 525 6  -  Dataquest survey says 1998 market revenue shrank USs926m over 1997 By Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Asia-Pa-cific market for computer printers may grow by about 15 per cent in unit terms this year over last, fuelled mainly by huge demand from China, India
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    • 183 6 [SINGAPORE] US software firm People Soft last year generated 80 per cent more revenue in US dollar terms from Asia-Pacific markets, excluding Japan, despite the Asian crisis. This was higher than the 61 per cent growth in global revenue to US$l.3 billion (552.23 billion) last
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    • 467 6  -  It can help yon by giving yon the low-down on that company By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] On the anonymous Internet, when you are doing electronic commerce with some company in a foreign country you know little about,
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    • 558 6  -  A lot of interest shown in their products, say executives From' Toh Han Shih in Hannover, Germany SEVERAL Singapore firms at CeBIT '99, which ran here from March 18 to 24, said the giant trade fair went beyond expectations for them. "CeBIT achieved my
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    • IT TAKES
      • 64 6 A TWO-DAY conference on e-supply-chain for the manufacturing and logistics sectors will be held on April 6 and 7. It is organised by the National Computer Board, with support from the Trade Development Board and the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board. It will highlight key developments in supply
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      • 53 6 VOICE Asia '99, Asia's premier event for computer telephony, call centres and Internet-based telephony, will be held from April 13 to 15. The event is organised by Advanstar Communications, with support from the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore, Dialogic Corp, Siemens and Alcatel. For details, e-mail Linda
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      • 57 6 NANYANG Polytechnic will launch a new three-year diploma course from July in business informatics. It will combine IT and business skills with a strong focus on e-commerce. It will also cover Internet technology, networking, database management, application development, systems security, e-payment, EDI, business accounting, marketing, banking,
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      • 76 6 GRAND Hyatt Singapore has launched CyberHotel Network which combines the Internet and data broadcasting to offer guests access to information via TV sets in their rooms. For $20 per day, guests can access the Internet and e-mail as many times as they wish, while simultaneously
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      • 67 6 ONE of Indonesia's largest banks, Bank Internasional Indonesia (BO), will be the first bank there to launch Internet banking services, with a US$l million (Ssl.7 million) system from Hewlett-Packard Co. The service will initially have 3,000 users and is expected to grow rapidly as 811
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      • 58 6 ADVANCED Micro Devices has appointed Kelvin Ong as director, distribution operations, for Asia-Pacific. ♦Cisco Systems Inc has appointed Fredy Cheung as director of channels in Greater Asia. ♦Compaq Computer Asia-Pacific has appointed Kairad Heerjee as network and systems integration services director for Asia. ♦Candle Corp has appointed
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      • 42 6 ORACLE Singapore has appointed National Computer Systems (NCS) as an Oracle Applications reseller for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Oracle Applications is an Internet-enabled suite of over 45 software modules that cover the entire business process.
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      • 41 6  -  -Compiled by Raju Chellam SOFTWARE AG will launch its Bolero software, as a solution for e-business, at a seminar on April 22. The seminar is targeted at CEOs, CIOs, CFOs and IT professionals. For details, fax *****06.
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    • 453 8  -  It wants to provide building blocks for trusted and manageable connectivity over the Net By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Intel the networking giant? Don't snigger, Intel Corp is dead serious, and the premier chip company underlined its ambitions last week when it unveiled a battery
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    • 300 8  -  Goal to bnild world's fastest servers, says R&D chief By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] US-based Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI), one of the leading suppliers of visual and supercomputing systems, will develop a computer server that is based on Intel architecture and which supports Linux
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    • 469 8 The technology is backed by about 500 companies Bloomberg [STOCKHOLMI Soon, vacationers won't have to worry about buying stamps and finding mailboxes to send postcards. With a new radio chip technology called Bluetooth, they will be able to send a picture from
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    • 191 8 [SINGAPORE] Networking firm 3Com Corp last week unveiled its new external message modem with enhanced voice and message management features that lets users operate it as a speakerphone as well as receive voice and fax messages. The new US Robotics V.90 56K message modem can
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    • 210 8  -  By] Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Compaq Computer Corp's two new ProLiant server models called Thunder and Lightning which are due out later this year, will feature its newlydeveloped eight-way server architecture. The eight-way Profusion symmetric multi-processor architecture was co-devel-oped with giant chip-maker Intel, said Compaq
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 76 8 SYMANTEC Corp has come out with Norton Clean Sweep 4.5, a hard disk utility for removing unwanted files, programs, applications and Internet clutter. "This is the mo6t complete uninstall product available," Symantec said. The $79 product comes with "Norton Safe" to provide protection against accidental
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      • 106 8 HOME-GROWN Online Technology has launched on.eCart, a Java applet that records all the information throughout an e-commerce session. Current e-commerce software keeps track of user visits by issuing an ID and keeping track of the user via the ID. However, once the hardware capacity is
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      • 114 8 APPLE Computer South Asia is now offering its Power Book G3 notebooks at reduced prices, making them "one of the industry's lowest-priced portables with a 14.1-inch screen". They come with 20-speed CD-ROM, 56 kpbs modem and 4 MB video RAM. The 233 MHz version with 32
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      • 82 8 MACROMEDIA Inc has introduced Fireworks 2, a major upgrade to its Web graphics production tool. Targeted at the graphics production needs of Web designers, it integrates HTML editors and bridges the gap between graphics and code. It is available as a standalone application or integrated with
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      • 79 8  -  -Compiled by! Raju Chellam PACKARD Bell has launched its new Easy Note notebook computer (right) for home and small office users. The $3,399 Easy Note EZ2612 is 3.8 cm thick, weighs 2.86 kg, runsona 266 MHz Intel Pentium 11, and comes with 32 MB RAM,
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    • 203 6 Reliability around the world. H FAST RELIABLE CONVENIENCE H Thanks to our computer Western Union has been in Today with 50,000 agent SE network that links all our the business of transferring locations spanning over mM offices worldwide, your money around the globe for 160 countries worldwide, money transfer will
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    • 171 7 Great Plains, we took our name from the land and our philosophy from the view. Because there, on the horizon, we see opportunity. That spirit of possibility is part of our world. And how we develop midmarket financial solutions for growing companies worldwide. Our affordable software solution is fully integrated
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    • 720 8 Noble group limited (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) Announcement of 1998 Results Year ended 31 December 1998 Noble Group Limited Worldwide providers of the raw materials necessary for economic growth The Board of Directors of Noble Group Limited present to you below the results of the Company for 1998.
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 388 9  -  Mattel wants its doll to stay an icon into next century, says uz letdbn LIZ LEYDEN WP GIRLS Inc, a New Yorkbased feminist organisation, took one of its gen-der-conscious- ness programmes out of the classroom and onto the road last August for
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 226 10  -  By Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Bulk liquid carrier and chemical storage company Dovechem Terminals Holdings has reported a 26 per cent fall in group earnings to $2.77 million for the six months ended Dec 31, from $3.73 million in the previous corresponding period. It
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    • 1119 10  -  CORPORATE EARMINGS REVIEW Bat improvement seen only from 2nd hftH; price erosion remains a concern By- Annette Pau [SINGAPORE] Listed electronics companies are generally expected to have a better year in 1999, although price erosions remain a key concern for most of them. Industry
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    • 1307 10  - Non-Sing stocks lag despite currency gains US$ set for farther gains, but selective stock-picking needed to beat ST Index By'. Louis Beckerling [SINGAPORE] Currency gains delivered by an appreciating US dollar have helped to narrow but failed to bridge the gap between benchmark blue-chip stocks and foreign-currency counters listed on
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    • 799 10  -  HAXO SBtfO DTfOOHT Cheung Kong chief gives no cine on his plans for war chest By Quak Hiang Whai AMID all the economic gloom, the government has supplied much of the good feel in the past month with untested initiatives such as the
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    • REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
      • 691 11 It will now offer USs24.7b cash instead of a share swap to bay out TIM Reuters [MILAN] Telecom Italia has bowed to shareholders by recasting its defence against predator Olivetti, dropping a plan to buy out mobile unit TIM with shares and offering U5524.7 billion
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      • 612 11 Japanese car maker's 2t yen debt also worrying Reuters [TOKYO] Feeling the pinch from increasingly severe global competition, France's Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co have created the world's fourth-largest carmaker, but analysts say the hard part is just beginning.
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      • COMPANY Briefs
        • 65 11 Reuters [HAMBURG} Hie Mercedes-Benz brand of German-US car maker DaimierChrysler raised its pre-tax profit by 590 million marks (***** million) to about 3.9 billion marks In 1998, according to German dally Welt am Sonntag. The report said the Chrysler brands also posted record results
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        • 63 11 Reuters [BANGKOK} Japanese car maker Mazda Motor Corp has injected 1.9 billion baht (5587.4 million) into local unit Sukosol Mazda Co, raising its ownership to 93 per cent from 20 per cent, The Nation reported on Saturday. It has renamed the local arm Mazda
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        • 62 11 Reuters [LONDON] Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is In advanced talks with US Huntsman Corp to sell about £2 billion (555.62 billion) of its assets to the US chemical group, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. Quoting people close to both companies, it said
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        • 79 11 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Viacom, the world's fourth-largest media company, gave its top three executives stock options together valued at about US$lO4 million (SslBo million), rewarding them for generating some of the industry's strongest profit and stock growth rates. Sumner Redstone, Viacom's 75-year-old chairman,
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        • 65 11 Bloomberg [PARAMUS, New Jersey] Toys 'R* Us, the world's largest toy retailer, said Bruce Krysiak resigned as president and chief operating officer, less than a month after the company reported its fifth quarterly earnings drop in a row. Mr Krysiak, 48, who was also
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      • 224 11 Reuters [LONDON] Lucent Technologies, the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker, may land a contract worth up to US$l billion (551.73 billion) from AT&T Corp as the long-distance company expands its wireless phone network, an analyst said. Lucent is expected to beat rivals Northern
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      • 123 11 Reuters [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler's light truck tie-up with Nissan Motor Co is not likely to continue after Renault and Nissan signed an alliance on Saturday, a DaimlerChrysler spokesman said. "It is unlikely that our tie-up to jointly develop and produce light trucks with
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      • 47 11 [TOKYO) Dressed in Edo Period (1600-1867) costume, two men carried a young girl by "kago (or palanquin) in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo yesterday. Takashimaya and Mitsukoshi department stores produced the "kago" between them to attract customers to their Nihonbashi branches. AFP
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      • 169 11 AFP [LONDON] British pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome has been in talks with US drugs group Bristol Myers Squibb that could lead to the world's biggest merger, The Sunday Times reported. The London weekly said that bankers representing both companies have discussed an
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      • 388 11 Any offer to one shareholder most be extended to all Reuters [LONDON] A race between Britain's Cable Wireless (C&W) and Japan's NTT to win control of Japanese international carrier IDC is set to heat up this week, though a deal
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      • 273 11 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's 130-year-old investment trust industry could embark on a multi-million-pound marketing campaign to win five million new investors after years of decline, conference delegates heard on Friday. The Association of Investment Trust Companies (AITC) was hosting its first ever directors' conference
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      • 216 11 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Wharf Holdings Ltd hopes its new Internet service will be different from more than 100 others in Hongkong when it offers a fast connection through its cable television network by the end of the year. Wharf Holdings which is involved in property,
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 427 12 Credit Agricole could also be a partner, particularly in the field of technical cooperation Reuters [FRANKFURT] Germany's Commerzbank could be a possible partner for French stateowned Credit Lyonnais, the French bank's president said. Credit Lyonnais (CL) is scheduled to be privatised this year
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      • 348 12 Suits seek to annul approval for BNP's acquisition of both banks Reuters [PARIS] French banks Paribas and Societe Generate, hoping for a friendly merger, have filed a legal challenge to a hostile bid by rival Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) for a three-way tie-up,
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      • 238 12 Bloomberg [BOSTON] New US mutual funds are being created at the slowest rate since 1991 a sign that the industry may be reaching a saturation point. An estimated 63 new funds have opened so far this year, down from 349 in
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      • SMALL Change
        • 79 12 Bloomberg [LONDON] Prudential pic, the UK's largest insurer, said it will start a free Internet access service so that users can use its financial services online. Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, will provide contents such as news and business information. The service,
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        • 77 12 Reuters [NEW YORK] Petros Sabatacakis, a top insurance and banking executive, on Friday was named senior risk manager for all of Citigroup Inc's business, an increasingly key post following last year's emerging market turmoil and losses on Wall Street. Mr Sabatacakis comes to Citigroup from
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        • 72 12 Bridge News [TOKYO] Mitsui Marine Fire Insurance Co will in April become the first Japanese insurance company to deal in financial derivatives, company sources said. The products, introduced last December, allow insurance companies to enter the derivatives business. They include the swapping of floating
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      • 409 12 Reuters (MILAN] BancaCommerciale Italiana (BCI) held back from the arms of Milanese suitor UniCredito Italiano on Saturday, weighing its options on a bid from the Italian bank as Italy remained gripped by merger mania. The board of the country's third largest bank
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      • Article, Illustration
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    • COMMODITIES FUTURES
      • 561 13 SIMTflf Weeklyßoundup [SINGAPORE] The US dollar is likely to maintain its favourable tone into tomorrow's US Federal Open Market Committee meeting, although the market expects Fed policymakers to retain a neutral bias on the interest rate front. Recent Fed-speak has followed the "balanced risks"
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      • 827 13 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON! Nato-Russian tensions over the launching of war against Yugoslavia last week sent palladium prices soaring, while gold prices normally a safe haven in times of conflict fell below US$2BO on fear of central bank selling.
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    • 1841 13 SICOM FUTUHBS Mar 26 RtMNR (futures closing «it S .30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwtsAg) CtOM Vohmv Opofl Month Hjqjt Low Sett (towns) Inttmt Apr 99 102.00 150 Nay 99 102.75 775 Jun 99 105.00 250 Jul/Sop 99 108.75 108.75 107.75 150 750 Oct/Doc 99 m.50 525 Jafl/IHr 00 115.00
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 887 14 El Sydney +12J THE Australian stock market has its sights set on a meeting this week of the US Federal Reserve's policy-making committee after posting a modest rise in the week to Friday, brokers said. "We expect the Fed to leave US monetary policy on hold," said
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      • 294 14 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG stocks look set for a volatile week ahead of the expiry of the March futures contract and on uncertainty over Wall Street's direction, dealers said on Friday. The blue chip Hang Seng Index ended down 2.7 per cent
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      • 527 14 NEWYORK Analysts believe their earnings will outperform those of other companies Bloomberg COMPUTER stocks rebounded late last week amid expectations that their earnings will outperform those of other companies. More gains may lie ahead, at least for some. Advances in computerrelated
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      • 402 14 LONDON AFP A DOWNTURN on Wall Street early in the week led the London market lower, although share prices picked up just before the weekend as dealers brushed off the Nato bombardment of Yugoslavia. In the absence of much market moving news,
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      • 363 14 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are expected to hold firm in the coming week after corporate investors finished taking profits before the current financial year, brokers said. Corporate selling slowed down on Friday, effectively the last session of the
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      • 1762 14 Q Paris -103 X PARIS stocks swerved into loss again, ending 0.5 per cent down on Friday as escalating opposition to Nato air strikes in Yugoslavia and another pullback on the Dow unnerved investors. The CAC-40, which gained nearly 2 per cent on Thursday, closed 21.30 points
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 470 15 AFP n Composite Index -13.75 MALAYSIAN shares are expected to trade listlessly in the holiday-shortened week ahead as investors await fresh incentives, dealers said on Friday. "The stock market is expected to remain lacklustre," an institutional dealer with a local brokerage said, adding that
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      • 8915 15 INDUSTRIALS Cetmrawr products 1999 Last Vol Week N.t Cap High Low Company Sal* 000 High Law P/E Smll 310 255 Ajinomoto _26S -7 7 265 255 14.6 107 4 83 46 Angkasa 49 -10 66 58 46 72.3 283 220 Apollo Food Mtg 220 7.7 88.0 204 115 Beriaye Land
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      • 259 16  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy IN Saturday's column, we presented a simplified version of the Black-Scholes pricing model that sophisticated players here use when pricing covered warrants. The impact of the first three variables on the warrant's price has been discussed, so today we'll look
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      • 658 18  -  'I'M u WEES AHEAD Rising wave of optimism and a grim determination to ignore negative overseas developments suggest that it's not impossible By R Sivanithy FOR a couple of weeks now, the world has waited with bated breath for the Dow
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        50 18  -  -By Ven Sreenivasan WING Tai Holdings has seen an increase in the turnover of its shares. Having clearly established a strong support at the $1.00 level, the counter is inching its way northwards. The $1.20 barrier has been broken through, and its next target is the $1.40 level.
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    • 288 19 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE main action has again been in the dry bulk market where a number of significant deals have been concluded. The "bubble" in the market has had the effect of making sellers reconsider their disposal and there is an increasing lack of tonnage
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    • 358 19 European Commission concerned Seoul may be giving illegal subsidies to its yards AFP [SEOUL] A senior official of the European Commission (EC) warned of a looming trade row with South Korea over its suspected subsidies to shipyards here, a Europeem source
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    • 141 19 Reuters [OSLO] Norway's Wilhelmsen Lines said it was creating a joint operating firm with Sweden's Wallenius Lines to run what it said was the world's biggest fleet of car transport ships and ro-ro vessels. The new company, to be owned 50-50 by the two firms,
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    • 599 19  -  DOCKYARD By\ Felix Chan DESPITE the well-publicised accounts of the precarious financial health of some Asian yards, particularly in Japan and Korea, a recent report from London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants paints a rosy, albeit cautious, picture of the region's shipbuilding
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    • 393 19 Efforts to promote use of local ports paying off, says ministry official Bernama [BUTTERWORTH] All major Malaysian ports have reported increases in their container throughput and transhipment in the past two months. Transport ministry parliamentary secretary Chor Chee Heung told reporters here that Port
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    • 225 19 Reuters [HONGKONG] Cosco Pacific, announcing a rise in 1998 profits, said container leasing rates would remain under pressure this year, but the company would see growth in throughput in Chinese ports. "We estimate it will be much the same as in 1996 at
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    • 1036 20 LEBANON'S MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES Strikes, scandals, political interference and millions of dollars in losses have almost grounded the airline Reuters [BEIRUT] Decades of political machinations have clipped the wings of Middle East Airlines (MEA), Lebanon's oncethriving flag carrier, and turned it into a liability
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      • 759 33 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 495 34 Sale to Pratt 6 Whitney may fetch airline more than US$7OO million Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc, the third-largest US airline, said it will contract with a United Technologies Corp unit to sell 119 Boeing 727s and as
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      • 440 34 Reuters [MADRID] Seven Spanish companies have presented bids to become major shareholders in flagship airline Iberia, state holding company Sepi said. It said the offer for a total of 30 per cent valued at a minimum of 174 billion pesetas (552.2
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      • 362 34 AFP [SHANGHAI] Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co Ltd will begin manufacturing a third-generation model of its immensely popular Santana car series before the end of this year, company officials said. The more advanced edition, to be based on Volkswagen AG's Passat B5 sedan, aims
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      • 293 34 European ministers trying to avoid US trade row Reuters [BRUSSELS] European Union transport ministers may decide today to postpone a proposed ban on old aircraft upgraded with noise mufflers, to head off a fresh transatlantic trade dispute, EU officials said.
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      • 213 34 Reuters [WELLINGTON] The Star alliance expanded to eight airlines yesterday, with the formal entry of Air New Zealand and Ansett Australia. The two new members linked through the 50 per cent ownership of Ansett by Air NZ join United Airlines, Lufthansa, Air Canada,
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      • 219 34 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's airlines, battered by a withering price war and Asian crisis-re-lated passenger declines, racked up more than 3 billion yuan (*****.4 million) in losses last year, a top airline official revealed in a report. Hainan Airlines chairman Chen Feng,
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    • 21 19 Lebanon's Middle East Airlines flies the flag at high cost Strikes, scandals, political interference have almost grounded the airline. Page 2
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    • 167 19 Delta to sell 119 8727s in biggest sale of used jets Sale to Pratt Whitney may fetch airline more than US$7OO million. Back Page SPECIAL FEATURE AIR RA I L SHIPPING TIMES •14 APRIL 1999 KEEP Y OUR^BU»NKS, HPal] In conjunction with Inter Airport Asia and Exporaii Asia 99, Shipping
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