The Business Times, 12 July 1999

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT 85e SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, JULY 12, 1999
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    81 1 FOREX KATES USS 81 US$ 1.7M I (L'SVSS per 1563 1CM EURO(US3/St PER E)1.02ft 1.7*4 Dtt 1.917 1887 ]W m.7 1.386* 'Ml I 3.800 0.447 BKS l.M U» BAHT 37.16 M* awM*.. mh—o.nr *S$ to 100 units SI to 100 BJiita FUME SATES SINGAPORE* JuM KUALA LUMPUR 7-25 JAKARTA
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    Lock icon Regional funds are targeting Jakarta property again
    791 1  -  S'pore, HE and US funds are scooting for opportunities in anticipation of a recovery From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta WITH business sentiment improving following last month's peaceful elections, Jakarta's moribund commercial property sector is once again attracting interest from regional property funds looking
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    Lock icon Shelling out for charity
    178 1 [SINGAPORE] Down went National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan's chequered flag and off went nearly 150 cars as they raced down Millenia Walk yesterday for a good cause. The race the Shell Discovery Rally was organised in support of the Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF) and to
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    Lock icon Thai central banker: growth to top 1%
    443 1  -  Recovery conditions are in place, he tells BT in an interview From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND will bounce back this year with economic growth of more than one per r cent, Bank of Thailand (BOT) f governor Chatu Mongol Sonakul said in
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    Lock icon Singapore stocks seen climbing at least 15% by year's end
    805 1  -  Pullback likely if interim earning disappoint analyst By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Despite the current setback, the Singapore stockmarket is expected to end the year at least 15 per higher, underpinned by improving economic and corporate fundamentals, according to analysts and
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      169 1 msiPE Hefty bill for KepLand? Keppel Land may have to spend up to $800 million to buy into Singapore's biggest housing project to be built along Keppel Harbour, Pg23 Bradfega stranglehold Asian DRAM chip makers breathed easier this weekend after US' Micron recalled defective chips, ending a four-month price skid,
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      40 1 4 O cents IC a share Sing Tel to give shareholders a special 120 dividend.Together with share buybacks, shareholders will get back $2.5b pg 23 A week to remember, Pg 32 Asian shares tipped to hit rough patch, Pg 24
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Underground walk to One Raffles Link sees strong interest
      357 2  -  40% of 70,000 sq ft retail mall committed, says HE Land By. Ang Wan May A NEW underground retail walk from City Hall MRT station to Suntec City scheduled to open next April has received strong interest from retailers and food
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      Lock icon MEC: reaping the benefits of working in harness
      982 2  -  By Carol Eng MEC International doesn't fit the stereotypical story of struggling family business made good. It was more a fortuitous meeting of partners who matched each other's objectives at the right time. MEC's business of assembling cable harnesses was, in fact,
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      Lock icon S'pore ties need to be managed with care: KL minister
      319 2 AFP (KUALA LUMPURJ New Ma laysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar, who leaves today for an official visit to Singapore, said "hiccups" were unavoidable between the two close neighbours but warned that they must be managed carefully to avoid any
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      Lock icon Oil pushes up wholesale prices
      289 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Prices By] Rahita Elias X X Wholesale prices, except for Singapore manufactured products, registered year-on-year growth ranging from 0.3 per cent to 1.1 per cent in May. Leading the way was the domestic sup- ply price index which climbed 1.1 per
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      Lock icon Goh Keng Swee 'architect' of S'pore's economic success
      425 2  -  New book examines roles played by old-ga&rd leaders By i Chuang Peck Ming THE two-key concept that came with the 1991 constitutional amendment giving an elected president, in addition to the government, a say in the use and thus better protection of
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      Lock icon NTUC Foodfare aims for $10m turnover by year-end
      474 2  -  By\ Soh Tiang Keng NTUC cooperative Foodfare, which runs food courts and other eating outlets, aims to increase its turnover fivefold to $10 million by the end of this year. It intends to meet this target through more business and opening of
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      Lock icon No-load funds key to growth
      240 2  -  MAILBAG Chwee Eng Hwee Singapore I REFER to George Lim's letter headlined "Allow no-load unit trusts here" (BT, June 24). It is indeed appropriate to focus on the high costs involved in investing in Singapore-regis-tered unit trusts as they impact directly on performance. A sales
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      Lock icon BritTel CEO sees fixed-line networks still thriving
      635 3  -  Internet pushing up bandwidth demand; fixed spectrum limits mobile network Byi Catherine Ong THE future is not wireless, declared Peter Bonfield, chief executive of British Telecommunications pic. "It will be both fixed and mobile," he said, pooh-poohing an increasingly popular view that fixed-line
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      Lock icon Geylang freehold site of 66,000 sq ft up for sale
      512 3  -  From initial $38m six months ago, owner now asking for $55m By* Carol Eng DEVELOPERS looking to build a landbank can turn to a freehold 66,000 sq ft site at Geylang which is quietly available for $55 million. The plot,
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon Market split on interest rates in Malaysia
      651 4 Depending on inflation, some see fall of another 75-100 basis points Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] After a sharp fall to just above the level of inflation, Malaysian interest rates would appear to have bottomed out, but some say there is room for further decline
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      Lock icon Brushing aside the hardship
      67 4 [JAKARTA] An Indonesian man yesterday making brooms from coconut tree branches in his house in East Jakarta. He sells the brooms for 0.33 US cents (0.6 Singapore cents) each at local markets around the capital. Indonesians are forced to take whatever jobs are available to make
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      Lock icon Deutsche Telekom to be offered Indosat stake
      426 4 French interested in Telkom, says Abeng on privatisation push [FRANKFURT] Indonesia said on Friday it will talk to Deutsche Telekom about taking a stake in telecoms group Indosat, and that France Telecom has shown interest in domestic telecoms firm Telkom. Promoting Indonesia's ongoing
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      Lock icon South Korean firms post sharp rise in profits this year
      325 4 They gain from low interest rates, cost cats; sales still weak AFP [SEOUL) South Korean firms cashed in on low interest rates and cost cuts to register a sharp rise in net profits this year but their sales remained weak,
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      Lock icon Asia recovering but central bankers still face gritty issues
      299 4 AFP [SHANGHAI] The worst of the Asian financial crisis which rocked global markets two years ago may be over, but the world's central bankers gathering here this week still have plenty to mull over. Exchange rates, international monetary cooperation, bank restructuring
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      Lock icon Ex-Bank Negara official lashes out at Miller
      401 4 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Former Bank Negara deputy governor Lin See Yan has lambasted Nobel Prize winner Prof Merton Miller for calling Malaysia's capital controls a failure and harmful to the country. Dr Lin said he was astonished that an academic of Prof Miller's
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      369 4 The Nikkei Weekly, of course. Published by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Nikkei), it is Japan's only Englishlanguage business newspaper covering the entire spectrum of the nation's One English-language business paper economy, including its financial, manufacturing and service sectors. The tells you more about corporate Japan Nikkei Weekly draws on the
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon DRAMs surge on Micron defective chip recall
      450 5  -  Prices could double; move ends 4-month price skid, lifts cloud over Asian makers From Macabe Keliher in Taipei ASIAN DRAM (dynamic random access memory) makers breathed easy again this weekend after a defective chip recall from US' Micron caused DRAM shortages and ended
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      Lock icon Chinese state firms to axe over 3m workers this year
      281 5 BEIJING Some 6-7 m laid off earlier have still not found jobs: minister Reuters CHINA'S ailing state firms will lay off more than three million workers this year, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Labour Minister Zhang Zuoji on Saturday
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      Lock icon Polls body is Indon corruption watchdog's next target
      359 5 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S independent corruption watchdog, which helped oust the country's attorney general, says it will now turn its sights to the election commission. "We have declared war on corruption," Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) chairman Teten Masduki told Reuters in interview. "Our
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      Lock icon Probe into death threat against Dr M
      348 5 KUALA LUMPUR Taped speech said to contain call for premier to be killed AFP THE Malaysian government is investigating a tape recording of an unidentified speech calling for the assassination of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, officials said yesterday. The deputy minister in the
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      Lock icon Japan's ideal 'jazzband society'
      1008 8  -  LETTER FROM TOKYO Will the latest grand design for economic, social, administrative reform remain a pipe dream? By Anthony Rowley JAPAN, suggested Minister for Economic Planning Taichi Sakaiya the other day, needs to become "less like a philharmonic orchestra and more like a jazz band". The
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      Lock icon China blasts Lee Teng-hui over 'state-to-state' remark
      262 8 BEIJING Reuters CHINA yesterday poured scorn on a recent statement by Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui that cross-strait ties were "state-to-state" relations. "Lee Teng-hui's remarks referring to state-to-state relations reveal the true political nature of his consistent efforts to split Chinese sovereign territory and
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      Lock icon Japan to give E Asia aid priority: report
      114 8 TOKYO AFP JAPAN plans to give priority to East Asian nations in extending foreign aid in the five years to March 2004, a report said yesterday. Revamping aid to East Asia is the pillar of the government's draft guidelines for extending official
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      Lock icon Indian polls to be held between Sept 4 and Oct 1
      313 8 NEWDELHI Elections will be staggered and will include state of Kashmir, says panel AFP INDIA'S autonomous poll panel yesterday announced that parliamentary elections would take place between Sept 4 and Oct 1. The election commission said the staggered polls
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      Lock icon Supporting their soldiers
      66 8 [NEW DELHI] Indian students running through a street during a rally on Saturday. Hundreds of students participated in the rally in support of the Indian soldiers fighting against Pakistani-backed armed intrusion into India's side of Kashmir, in the Kargil sector. India has launched a ground and air
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      Lock icon Foreign insurers eye Indian bonanza beyond barriers
      403 8 NEWDELHI Foreign investors see insurance as litmus test of reforms resolve Reuters FOREIGN insurers have waited patiently for the doors to India's state-controlled industry to open, but too long a delay could see their enthusiasm wither and damage investor perceptions of broader economic
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon The nemesis of Thai politicians
      1860 6  -  Centra] bank governor Chatu Mongol says a rule-based economy is vital because if you don't put in rules, you are going to get a bad svstem Reports by. Harish Mehta [BANGKOK) CHATU Mongol Sonakul's life has all the elements of a political thriller. He is
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      Lock icon Poor dancer but a first-rate scholar
      606 6 AS a schoolboy in Harrow, one of England's oldest private schools, in the *****, Chatu Mongol Sonakul wanted to be a teacher of ballroom dancing when he grew up. But he was not destined to be a Fred Astaire. What he lacked in footwork,
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      Lock icon Tying his own hands—for the nation's good
      1069 6 Tying his own hands —for the nation's good WHEN he was appointed governor of the Bank of Thailand (BOT) in May 1998, the first thing Chatu Mongol Sonakul did was to propose curbs on his own gubernatorial powers. This had become essential following the disastrous defence of the baht and
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      175 9 C Castle Group Business Information Specialists In Association With THFRTTCINFWTTMFm institute of defence MHBWfMBffW 1 IMLd |P AND STRATEGIC STUDIES I REFORMASI Indonesia's Election f Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore 14 July 1999^ AMIEN RAIS Chairman, National Mandate Party (PAN) Hi j^Klr Special Guest HUBERT NEISS Asia Pacific Director, IMF Other Confirmed
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      105 9 CONTENTS: Pg 10: Indonesia at the crossroads Waiting for a president Pg 11: Economy bottoming out: IMF Turnaround's a wait-and-see game Pg 12: Nothing will work if basics aren't fixed Suharto's political shadow Pg 13: Balancing act for the military CREDITS: Editor: Vikram Khanna Sub-editors: Magdalene Phang, TK Achuthan, Agnes
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  • INDONESIA'S BRAVE NEW ERA
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      Lock icon Indonesia's brave new era
      687 9  -  Indonesia is in the process of being remade, which spells both promise and peril. by Vikram Khanna SOME years ago, in the heyday of the Suharto era, the American academic Adam Schwartz perceptively described Indonesia as 'a nation in waiting.' That long wait may now be
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      Lock icon Indonesia at the crossroads
      1639 10  -  A look at possible scenarios that could unfold in the uncertain months ahead By, John Ingleson The writer, an Indonesian specialist, is professor of history and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia WITH
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      Lock icon Waiting for a president
      1559 10  -  The polls may have ended, bnt political jockeying has just began Byl Ed Masters The writer, a former US ambassador to Indonesia, now heads the US-Indonesia Society, a private non-profit organisation based in Washington, DC SOME opera fans joke that Wagner's music is better than it
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      Lock icon Economy bottoming out: IMF
      2160 11 THE Director of the IMF's Asia-Pacific Department, Hubert Neiss and Deputy Director Anoop Singh, talk to BT's Regional Economics Editor, VIKRAM KHANNA, about the Indonesian economy's improving fortunes and the challenges that lie ahead. QUESTION: How satisfied is the Fund with the programme in Indonesia and
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      Lock icon Turnaround's a wait-and-see game
      1378 11  -  Still too early to claim victory over forces that devastated economy By, James Castle The writer is chairman and chief executive of the Castle Group, a business consultancy based in Jakarta WITH the smooth implementation of Indonesia's first democratic election in nearly half a century, things
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      Lock icon Nothing will work if basics aren't fixed
      1218 12  -  Without steps to promote the rnle of law and stamp out corruption, the prospects for Indonesia are grim By\ Michael Backman Mr Backman is the author of' 'Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia He will be speaking at Borders
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      Lock icon Suharto still casts a political shadow
      1351 12  -  Habibie can claim many credits in his short stint bnt how he handles the case of the Suharto billions will be crucial By\ Shoeb Kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent WHEN B .J Habibie stands before the special session of the People's Consultative
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      Lock icon Balancing act for the military
      2633 13 AS political gridlock looks increasingly unavoidable, the role of the military is becoming more crucial. Yet, the TNI, or Indonesian National Army as the military is now known, is paradoxically under great pressure to end its presence in politics. How the TNI balances this dilemma
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      217 14 C Castle Group Business Information Specialists In Association With T TjT?I}TTC!TMI7CC r T ¥11/fl?C! INSTITUTE OF DEFENCE IHEdUMJNLSSIIMES iv and strategic studies ■nffIRBSHH I REFORMASI Indonesia's Election v fIHSSHSEIHEIEESHIiPTHh ■■■hhh Hotel, Singapore 14 July 1999 J r-iawsiiHßKP HT *mkR dr. amien rais Chairman, National Mandate Party (PAN) Special Guest Speaker:
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  • THE WORLD
    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Thatcher faults Foreign Office officials
        111 15 Reuters [LONDON] Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday accused top Foreign Office diplomats of plotting behind the back of successive governments to draw Britain closer to Europe. Mrs Thatcher, whose fall from power in 1990 was partly triggered by attacks on her deeply Euro-sceptic
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        Lock icon Bonn will stick to 30b mark spending cuts
        72 15 Reuters [BONN] Finance Minister Hans Eichel yesterday said the German government was determined to stick to a 30 billion mark (5526.6 billion) programme of spending cuts in next year's budget. "Of course, not everything in it has to be done precisely," he
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        Lock icon Barak meets Arafat
        67 15 Reuters [EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip] New Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met President Yasser Arafat at the first Israeli-Palestinian summit in seven months, aiming to lift Middle East peacemaking from a long spell of deadlock. Mr Barak and Mr Arafat grasped hands warmly, waved and smiled for
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        Lock icon Anti-Milosevic protests may snowball
        69 15 AFP [BERLIN] Serb opposition leader Zoran Djindjic fears growing protests against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could turn to civil unrest, he told Der Spiegel in an interview to run today. If such a conflict were to erupt, the opposition should "support the resistance and not be
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        Lock icon Hotmail made easier, faster
        61 15 Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp said it redesigned its free electronic-mail service Hotmail to be faster and easier to use. It is faster in part because high-resolution graphics have been eliminated, Microsoft said. Hotmail also has more space for reading and writing messages, and several services,
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      Lock icon Economists see more pricing power for US firms
      447 15 WASHINGTON 52% in survey expect their companies to keep raising prices till year-end Bloomberg, Reuters THE US economy has plenty of momentum as it heads into the second half of 1999 and robust consumer demand will likely give companies more power to
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      Lock icon GE still world's top business: magazine
      454 15 NEW YORK AFP GENERAL Electric (GE) is still the world's most powerful and competitive business, according to Forbes Global magazine, which put three banking companies and car maker DaimlerChrysler as runners-up. Forbes Global put GE at the top of its list of the world's
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      Lock icon Howard to express anger over US lamb tariffs
      346 15 SYDNEY PM will point ont damage to US trade reputation: minister AFP AUSTRALIA will use the White House decision to put tariffs on lamb imports to embarrass the US into greater support for trade liberalisation at talks scheduled for later this year,
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      Lock icon Hot rod, junior category
      68 15 [WASHINGTON) Seth Bowers (left) giving nephew Cameron Kaplan, 10, some last-minute advice as Kaplan prepared to race in the 1999 Greater Washington Soap Box Derby last Saturday in Washington, DC. The race, held on Capitol Hill, has been run in Washington for 58 years. The 62nd
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      Lock icon IMF sticks to gold sale plan as outcry in US Congress grows
      560 15 WASHINGTON Gold price hits 20-yr low after Bank of England's sale Reuters THE International Monetary Fund said on Friday it remains committed to selling gold as more US lawmakers joined the chorus denouncing the scheme, which would need
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Robin Hood merry? He was gay: scholar
      403 16 Gays hail 'outing' of England's folk hero but Robin Hood Society is outraged Reuters (LONDON] England's legendary outlaw Robin Hood was gay, preferring his "merrie men" to Maid Marian, a leading English literature professor said yesterday. The reassessment of one of Britain's greatest
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon MSC star BizTone puts its marketing hub on S'pore ONE
      711 17  -  And listing is on the cards, its CEO Darryl Carlton says By Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] Highly-touted Malaysian Internet start-up Biz Tone will market its radical new software service to businesses in Singapore and worldwide through the Singapore ONE high-speed network,
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      Lock icon Microsoft says it leads in messaging in Singapore
      368 17  -  Bat the claim is disputed by competitor Lotus "y Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Microsoft said it is the leader in the messaging category in Singapore, citing a newly-released study. The claim was immediately questioned by IBM company Lotus Development, its major competitor in
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      Lock icon Cheap Internet calls, with ads and news on your PC
      583 18  -  Ads will be "pushed" to targeted users, based on knowledge of the user By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A Singapore entrepreneur has come up with an innovative way to enable you to make cheap Internet calls while viewing advertisements and
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      Lock icon Citrix to aggressively push solutions for SMEs here
      289 18  -  By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] US-based Citrix Systems Inc plans to aggressively push its serverbased computing products to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the region. The Florida-based software company also plans to open its Singapore office in the next few months, its
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      Lock icon IBM to buy chips from Taiwan's Nan Ya
      221 18 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] International Business Machines Corp will begin buying computer memory chips from Taiwan's Nan Ya Technology Corp as early as September as the world's biggest computer maker withdraws from the chipmaking business, Nan Ya said. By the end of this year,
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      194 18 Bloomberg [REDWOOD SHORES, California] Oracle Corp president Ray Lane turned down both Compaq Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co, which approached him about their CEO openings, an Oracle spokeswoman has said. Mr Lane, the No. 2 executive at the world's largest database software maker,
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        Lock icon Compaq's $6m solution for NLB
        71 18 COMPAQ Computer Asia and Carl East Singapore Pte Ltd have tied up to supply a $6 million IMDS (information management and delivery system) for the National Library Board (NLB) to act as a backbone for its IT infrastructure and electronic information retrieval system. The deal
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        50 18 THE Singapore Business and Professional Women's Association will hold a Singapore Women in Technology group networking dinner on July 20 at the Westin Hotel. Ms Laurel Douglas, manager of Website development of Comane Ltd, will talk on "Building an Effective Website". For details, fax *****70.
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        57 18 SINGAPORE-BASED Internet Service Provider Pacific Internet will launch the Pacific Internet PriviCard for its subscribers in Singapore, Hongkong, the Philippines and Australia. Cardholders will get 24-hour technical support from helpdesks, special shopping and service offers, and a 10 per cent discount when they surf the Net from PacNet
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        81 18 E-COMMERCE and business-to-business e-solutions will be the focus of the three-day Biz 99 Corporate and Business Solutions exhibition and conference from July 22 at the World Trade Centre. It will be inaugurated by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Dr Tony Tan. The event is
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        66 18 SUN Microsystems Professional Services has appointed ECS Computers Asia as its Alliance Service Provider. The companies will jointly pursue business opportunities in professional services such as account and project management, pre-sales consulting and training. Sun said it has also appointed ECS Holdings Ltd as its regional authorised
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        49 18 A RADIO Frequency Computer Aided Design (RF CAD) Training Centre has been set up by Ansoft Corp at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic. It will provide training for local engineers in RF CAD and will use Ansoft's Serenade Design Environment for training. For details, fax *****82.
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        Lock icon Datatec to buy Technocraft
        68 18  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam SOUTH Africa-based networking firm Data tec Ltd said it plans to buy Singapore-based Technocraft Systems for $10.9 million, subject to certain performance guarantees. After the acquisition, it will rebrand Technocraft's business as RBR Networks Pte Ltd, which then becomes part of Datatec's
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      Lock icon Gemplus debuts Wallet for e-commerce transactions
      366 19  -  Program created in response to Asian banks' need for secure trading By. Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Gemplus Software, a division of smartcard maker Gemplus, has announced Gemplus Wallet, a PC-based software application that allows users to conduct secure e-commerce transactions. Developed in Gemplus' R&D centre
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      Lock icon How to plug those telco revenue leaks
      434 19  -  Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Asian telecoms companies lose up to 30 per cent of their revenues to fraud, both external and internal, weaknesses in internal control and poor systems, according to Andrew Woo, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). This compares to revenue leaks
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      507 19  -  By Bill Nuti The writer is the president of Cisco Systems Greater Asia HISTORICALLY the road to becoming the CEO (chief executive officer) has been through a company's finance or sales departments. Today, however, there is a different route opening up. The
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      431 19 Analysts believe the firm may struggle to compete in the e-basiness market Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Telstra Corp, Australia's dominant telecommunications company, has teamed up with four US companies, including the No. 1 computer maker International Business Machines Corp, to develop an Internetbased ordering
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      370 19 Washington Post [FORT DIX, New Jersey] Kujtim Latin, 17, a refugee from the war in Kosovo, spent a month in Macedonia in an overcrowded tent swimming in mud, with no way to contact anyone or learn news of home. He came to the
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      Lock icon Compaq launches Net-centric home PCs...
      325 21  -  New models targeted at Web-hungry and multimedia-sawy home nsers By. Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Compaq Computer Asia-Pacific last week introduced a new line of home PCs, notebook computers and monitors targeted at users who want simple Internet connectivity and high-end multimedia features. All the new models
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        75 21 CANON Marketing Services has introduced the LBP-3260 laser printer (right) targeted at office users. It prints 32 monochrome pages per minute at 600 by 600 dots per inch (dpi) resolution and can reach 2,400 by 600 dpi using AIR (Automatic Image Refinement) technology. The $4,899 product
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        Lock icon New Latitude notebooks from Dell
        59 21 DELL Computer has announced two new configurations under its Latitude CPi corporate notebook PCs. The CPi R4OOGT rims on Intel's Mobile Pentium ***** MHz processor with 64 MB RAM, 4.8 GB hard disk, 24-speed CD-ROM, 14-inch display and costs $4,871. The CPi A4OOXT with 13.3-inch
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        74 21 SYMANTEC Corp has launched Norton 2000 Corporate Edition 2.0 which addresses year 2000 (Y2K) issues on the desktop and notebook PCs. The new version comes with Fix Assistant to help automate repetitive and tedious remediation tasks and offers a Windows-based system date test that checks Y2K
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        Lock icon Domino Virtual Fax from Lotus
        88 21 LOTUS Development Corp said Notes users based in Singapore can use Domino Virtual Fax service from Interconnect Technology from September. This allows users to send messages to both local and overseas fox machines using Interconnects frame relay circuits by routing the Notes mail message to
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        73 21 FUJITSU'S subsidiary, Teamware, has released Office 5.3, a sophisticated set of tools designed for mobile and networked users, providing them a secure environment with advanced Internet and wireless integration for e-mail, e-document storage and retrieval, enterprise-wide discussion forums and information distribution, personal time management and shared
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        81 21  -  Compiled by! Raju Chellam GENESYS Telecommunications Labs has come out with the Genesys Internet Suite that lets businesses implement Web-based customer contact centres. The suite comes with new versions of Genesys E-Mail and Web Call Back and introduces Genesys Chat, Call Through and Web Collaboration. They
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      Lock icon ... and enters palmtop PC market with Aero
      377 21  - and enters palmtop PC market with Aero The device weighs 260 g and costs $699 till July 21 Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] Compaq will launch its Aero 2130 handheld PC this week, marking its entry into the palmtop PC market. The device weighs 260 g (with battery), has a matte silver
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      Lock icon S. Korean firm changes face of Web browser
      162 21 Reuters [SEOUL] No matter how state-of-the-art your computer is or how fast your modem, one thing remains standard the rectangular shape of your web browser. Or so you thought. A web browser software developed by five South Kore- an college students has
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        817 22  -  Recent tie-up with Miller Freeman unit is also consistent with its global goals, kemmeth jambs learns KENNETH JAMES Its nnaiiy oeginning to come together for home-grown CalendarONE.com. The icing on the cake came last week, in the form of a $2 million capital injection by
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        427 22  -  By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] SUPPORT from top management, the company's people skills and a willingness to reinvent the business these are some of the requirements for a successful electronic commerce strategy, said speakers at a seminar during the recent CommunicAsia 99 conference
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          127 22 NOT sure where to go for local businesses online? TradeUnk may have the answer. This Web site, which bills itself as "Singapore's premier business site", aims to help the average Singaporean businessman find what he needs on the Net. The site is divided into seven main areas
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          Lock icon New viruses may give away your secrets
          109 22 A NEW variant of the Melissa or Explore.zip viruses, that have been estimated to have caused billions of dollars in damage to US businesses alone, may be coming out soon. The new strain may be able to send all your document files to
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          Lock icon Free IBM PC? It's a hoax
          96 22 THERE is a new version of the classic chain-letter hoax floating around the Internet. This is only the latest (if that) in a wide variety of "Spam" mail (so called after Monty Python's "Spam" sketch) that clogs up mail servers across the world. Unfortunately
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          Lock icon Touch and feel for the Internet
          66 22 A NEW product from the Immersion Corporation may well revolutionise the way we surf and shop online. The FEELit Mouse claims to be able to replicate the experience of touching objects as your pointer moves over them. The company says that anything "displayed on
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          Lock icon The Art of War online
          109 22  -  Compiled by. Justyn Olby LONG cited as the ultimate in military strategy, Sun Tzu's classic writings can be read online. Many businessmen from all over the world have found inspiration in his strategies. Now the high-tech movers and shakers of today can access the book
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      Lock icon 30% stake in Keppel Harbour could cost KepLand up to $900m
      736 23  -  Company says its cashflow is good and it has enough fands for the purchase By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] It could cost loss-making Keppel Land up to a massive $900 million to buy into Singapore's biggest housing project. But
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      Lock icon Malaysia should not clobber SES plan
      717 23  -  MARKET MATTERS Stalemate may turn RMl5b worry into RM3Ob headache By Eddie Toh WILL Malaysia accept the new Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) plan to unlock the frozen Clob accounts? Last week, the SES submitted a proposal for the release of the Malaysian shares
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      Lock icon Telekom chief did not quit over Clob: Moggie
      201 23 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia chairman Ali Hassan's resignation was not connected with the firm's offer to buy frozen Malaysian shares once traded in Singapore, Energy, Communications and Multimedia Minister Leo Moggie said. He was quoted by Bernama news agency yesterday as
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      Lock icon SingTel plans $2.5b share buyback, special dividend
      348 23  -  By: Rahita Elias [SINGAPORE] As part of its move to optimise its capital structure, Singapore Telecom is returning about $2.5 billion to shareholders this financial year in the form of a share buyback and a special dividend. The special dividend of 12 cents
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        Lock icon Inflated Asian shares tipped to hit rough patch
        487 24 But despite high valuations, money keeps pouring into the share markets Reuters [HONGKONG] Market experts say Asian share prices are overinflated and headed for a correction but the region's retail investors do not appear to be listening. "There has got to be
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        Lock icon KL to implement institutional settlement service
        281 24 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia will implement the institutional settlement service (ISS) this week for the settlement of all on-market institutional trades. With the ISS, delivery-ver-sus-payment (DVP) will be achieved for all trades on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), the Securities Commission said in
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        Lock icon Indofood net soars to 825b rupiah
        272 24 First half profit up 16x; sales surge 40%; 4b packs of instant noodles sold AFP, AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Indonesia's largest noodle maker, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, yesterday announced a 1999 first half net profit of 825 billion rupiah (*****.6 million), up from 50.5 billion
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        Lock icon Active HK IPO market seen in H2
        498 24 Improved sentiment, stronger interest in China issnes cited Reuters [HONGKONG] Improved stock market sentiment and stronger investor interest in Chinese issues are expected to boost activity significantly in Hongkong's initial public offering (IPO) market in the second half of 1999. "Certainly, there is
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        Lock icon Sampoerna's Q2 cigarette sales surge 86%
        170 24 Reuters [JAKARTA] Leading Indonesian cigarette maker PT HM Sampoerna Tbk said on Saturday it had recorded an 86 per cent year-on-year jump in cigarette sales in the second quarter. Sampoerna said total sales of cigarettes surged to 1.55 trillion rupiah (*****.7 million) in the
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        Lock icon Aussie watchdog concerned over ASX bid for SFE
        434 25 Scene set for vigorous competition between bourses and merger may be anti-competitive Reuters [ADELAlDE] Australia's competition watchdog said yesterday it remained concerned that a proposed As26o million (*****.2 million) takeover bid for the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) by the Australian Stock Exchange
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        Lock icon DuPont details how it will shed 70% Conoco stake
        304 25 FT [HOUSTON] Conoco, the Houston-based integrated oil company, is finally moving towards full independence after DuPont announced the terms on which it will shed its remaining 70 per cent stake. The US$l2 billion (5520.4 billion) divestment announced on Friday completes a
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        80 25 [NEW YORK] New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso (left) with Telecom Eireann chairman Alfie Kane (right) and. Irish Minister of Public Enterprise Mary O 'Rourke during ceremonies at the NYSE last Thursday to mark the initial listing of the Irish telecom company in Ireland's largest
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        335 25 UK-US-German firm will have 2,700 lawyers in 30 offices Bloomberg [LONDON] Clifford Chance, the world's second-largest law firm, and New Yorkbased Rogers Wells said yesterday that their partners had agreed to combine in the first cross-border law firm merger. The two firms said their
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        Lock icon Cable firms CWC and NTL to merge this week: report
        194 25 Reuters [LONDON] Two of Britain's leading cable companies, Cable Wireless Communications pic (CWC) and NTL Inc plan to merge this week to form a new cable giant, the Observer newspaper said yesterday. The industry had widely expected CWC to merge
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        Lock icon Taiwan's top online broker sees trading boom
        468 25 Polaris' monthly volume has gone up 17-fold since Jan Reuters (TAIPEI) Taiwan's leading online stock brokerage said its monthly transaction volume has leapt 17-fold since January, topping a cool US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) in June, with no end to the growth in sight.
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        169 25 Acceptance of £7.2b joint offer expected today: sources Bloomberg [LONDON] BOC pic, the world's No 2 industrial gasmaker, is expected to approve a £7.2 billion (Ssl9 billion) joint takeover offer by France's Air Liquide SA and Air Products Chemicals Inc when its board meets today,
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        Lock icon Morgan Stanley aims to be a 'Top 5' broker in Aust
        405 26 Challenge to Merrill Lynch and J B Were in Asl.4t financial services market Bloomberg (SYDNEY) Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Australia Ltd, the Australian arm of the largest securities firm in the United States, says it will •challenge Merrill Lynch
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        Lock icon Alwaleed to meet Weill on succession issue
        437 26 Effort to resolve friction between Weill and Reed Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Nine months after a merger created Citigroup Inc. the largest US financial services company, its biggest shareholder. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, is to meet with its co-chairman Sanford Weill to discuss friction
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        Lock icon No need to raise US$19b bid for Paribas, says SocGen chief
        344 26 Paribas' board has rejected BNP's USsl9.6b bid Bloomberg [PARIS] Societe Generale's US$l9 billion (5532.3 billion) offer for Paribas doesn't need to be raised to fend off a rival bid by Banque Nationale de Paris, Paribas chairman Andre Levy-Lang said.
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        103 26 FT [FRANKFURT] Germany's largest public sector bank, Westdeutsche Landesbank, has been put on alert that it might be stripped of its top-notch credit rating as a result of a European Commission ruling against it. The warning from Fitch IBCA. the international rating
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        282 26 CEO: Two directors will probably be from Credit Agricole Bloomberg [PAßlS) Credit Lyonnais says it will probably appoint two directors from Credit Agricole. its largest shareholder, to sit on its board. Credit Agricole. Europe's eighth-largest bank, bought a 10 per cent stake in Credit Lyonnais
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        1873 26 PRIME LEMDDtQ RATES ranks ABN Amro Bank MV 5V« ABSA Bank Limited 6 to Agricultural bank Of China 6 ANZ Banking Group 6'i Allied Irish Bank PLC 5 American Express Bant 6 Arab Banking Corp 7to Arab Bank PIC 5Vi Asahi Bank Ltd 6 to Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd
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        565 27  -  Sllilhn Weeklyßoundup Hiroko Komiya MMS Singapore This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] In the United States, the focus is on June inflation data releases, as US assets, in particular the bond market, remain
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        Lock icon Gold prospects dim as it hits 20-year lows after British auction
        867 27 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Gold prices plummeted during a week dominated by the first in a series of planned auctions by the Bank of England, a sale which has alarmed the market and driven the price of bullion to
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      1870 27 SICOM FUTURES Jul 9 RUBBER (futures closing as «t 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 99 96.50 300 Sep 99 98.00 900 Oct 99 99.75 350 Nov 99 101.25 350 Dec 99 103.00 350 Jan/Mar 00 106.00 106.00 106.00 300
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        Lock icon Footsie gains but fails to hold on to its record
        284 28 LONDON AFP IT was a week of two halves for British shares, which marched up to an all-time closing record on Tuesday, only to march back down again and close out the week only modestly ahead. For once it was
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        883 28 n Sydney +12J AUSTRALIA'S stock market focus will shift back to the United States this week with only inflationary expectation data due locally, brokers said. "A range of US economic releases will provide a check on the US economy's vital signs," said Commonwealth Bank economist David Moore.
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        Lock icon US tech stocks poised to rise with earnings reports
        550 28 NEW YORK Companies are forecast to report the best quarterly profits since the third quarter of 1997 Bloomberg US computer and communications equipment stocks are likely to rise in coming weeks as analysts expect corporate earnings for companies such as Intel
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        1978 28 Q Paris +27J6 FRENCH shares ended on an upnote on Friday in a week which started with new lifehighs, as New York's gains took over from an early consolidation attempt and with another hostile takeover for investors to chew on. The CAC-40 ended up 0.36 per cent
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        Lock icon Nikkei may hold steady as sentiment stays firm
        365 28 TOKYO Baying by foreigners will cushion any correction: traders Reuters TOKYO'S benchmark Nikkei Average is expected to mark time around 18,000 points this week as the market pauses after reaching a 21-month high. But traders said market sentiment remained especially firm among
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        Lock icon Narrow range and limited losses seen for Hang Seng
        354 28 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are set to consolidate but their downside should be limited after significant selling pressure was digested in four straight market declines last week. The Hang Seng Index edged down 3.73 points or 0.03 per cent to finish
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        Lock icon Stocks seen rising on speculative play
        472 29 AFP H Composite Index +6.05 MALAYSIAN share prices are likely to rise further in the coming days after posting a modest gain of 0.7 per cent in the week to Friday, an analyst said. "Investors led by retail players will spur the stock market
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        9013 29 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products <999 Lilt Vol WMk Nat Cap Hlqh Low Company Sal* OOO High Low P/E Smll 440 255 Ajinomoto 382 2 33 396 380 24 2 154 8 144 46 Anqkasa 142 16 5354 144 121 209 4 404 220 Apollo Food Mlg 388 40 1628 404 332
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        Lock icon SembRes warrants are for the patient
        162 30  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy ONE warrant that hasn't been featured in this column for some time now is Sembawang Resources' 2002 instrument. The underlying shares have been bashed from a $2 high last week to $1.81 now, so perhaps a look at the
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        2755 30 BONDS, LOANS i WARRANTS 2 Last Vol Week Ljst Ouolt Avq High LOW Stno Company S«l. *or- COOP) High Low Buyer Sollor Price •04 3 S 3160 "Acer W*****1USS 82.5 -13.5 6262 97 57 82.5 83 80 4.5 t 3164 Acma W*****4 57 -18.5 6765 76 39 57 56 58
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        218 30 HONGKONG STOCKS C> Cr 5Z W Loot Vol Woo* LMt Ouott Mv OK VM Not M Cx> High Low stwo Company Soto rOOO) High Urn Buyor H Cw H Pit. 365 173 5123 COL (2000) HK 315 -15 22 320 315 315 8 3.7 2.5 10.7 ***** 5124
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      6304 31 Weok ended Jul 9 J Company slV »£"°S£r <fc 'j &J% MULTI-INDUSTRY '2! '7.5 m b JOOO Acme 50c 156 xd 18 6801 176 134 155 156 tO 3.3 12 12.8 2581 15J 84 25 c 1217 Alliance Tech 64 -17 1993 82 50
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      1090 31 c«—» ar -r°ai y cyy a? .af»a? MANUFACTURING 218 30 c 2049 AS Auto 10c 194 .4 ***** 202 159 190 194 10 M ft« c SI ,53 mr&l?L=:% 6 2S ,55 5 1 S 38 2 1 zl\ II ***** S!r$r£zrS 2I0' 170 5 4 si 4° 75.5
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        576 32 Source: JM Sassoon Sttfcs jig Hotunq Inv NTS 247.264,000 Asia Food*Prop 210,861,000 Golden Aqri USIOc 205,242,000 IPC Corpn 5c 195,749,000 Frt Links 20c 156,297,000 •TanChongint50c 139,626,000 Liang Huat 10c 114,868,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 110,250,000 Eagle Brand Hldgs HK75c 105,085,000 ICT HKIOc 105,002,000 St«da > •TanChonglnt50c 327,807,561 SPH 322,595,204 GES
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        Lock icon It was a week to remember – but few will
        672 32  - It was a week to remember but few will THE WEES AHEAD With more forced selling due early in the week most brokers see the market drifting sideways for a while By R Sivanithy IT was a week that, by right, should live long in the memory. After all, when
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        51 32  -  -By Wong Wei Kong ASIA Food Properties shares fell 7.5 cents to US$O.BB last Friday with 29.3 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 45.7 million units. The technical indicators such as the RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts still suggest a downtrend in the near
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      303 33 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ALL of the recent inspections and discussions have resulted in a spate of dry bulk sales covering all sectors, including *****s built handymaxes, all sold at very Arm levels to Greek buyers. Vessels sold for farther trading ■mff ntwnti* Harriet Maru: 174,947 tdw
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      359 33  -  It will call at 3 ports on Kyushu from Pusan with two sailings a week From P T Bangsberg in Manila MORE choices are now available for shippers moving goods between South Korea and Japan, as well as Singapore and elsewhere in Asia. Korea
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      223 33  -  By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Nippon Foundation, a Japanese charity, is to launch a piracy database and work with organisations on anti-piracy measures including a shipboard alarm system. A meeting last week was attended by 44 representatives of 37 Japanese shipping
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      128 33 Reuters [LONDON] A German-operated container ship was drifting on fire off the Egyptian coast yesterday after its 21-member crew abandoned it, Lloyd's shipping service said. The 30,000-tonne CMA Djakarta, en route from the Far East to North African ports, had reported by radio that fire had
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      138 33 AFP [MIAMI] Carnival Cruise Lines has announced plans to buy a new 84,000-tonne ship for US$375 million (*****.75 million) from Finland's Kvaerner Masa-Yards. The ship, to be named the Carnival Pride, will carry 2,112 passengers, but Carnival had not decided which routes the ship will run
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      405 33  -  Japanese port has reduced charges and built earthquake resistant berths Byl S Shivani [SINGAPORE] The Port of Kobe has unveiled state-of-the-art facilities and a revision of charges as part of a strategy to promote its enhanced facilities. The port has been rebuilt in stages after the
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      599 33  -  LXMER SCENE By David Hughes PRESS reports of last week's meeting of Asian shippers groups served to underline the confusion which still surrounds the liner industry. At one point a Lloyd's List report stresses the "united front" that shippers are presenting to
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        338 34  -  Passenger Shipping Association warns of fire hazards Reports by] David Hughes in London THE Prinsesse Ragnhild, a passenger ferry owned by Norway-based company Colour Line travelling from Kiel to Oslo with over 1,300 passengers and crew aboard, caught fire 17.6 km off the
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        252 34 THE second officer of a St Vincent and Grenadines-reg-istered fish factory ship, the Tammsaare, was reported to have died of a suspected heart attack when Spanish authorities boarded the vessel in mid-Atlantic on August 4. Spanish police and customs officers, supported by
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        189 34 LEADING UK ship conversion and repair group Cammell Laird has seen its profits more than double over the last year. Pre-tax profits rose to over US$l6 million (5527.2 million) from just over US$6.5 million the year before, due to an extensive acquisition and renovation programme
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          100 34 GLOBAL cargo crime costs the industry US$3O billion (Sssl billion) to US$5O billion every year, according to insurance giant the TT Club. Addressing the club's Insight into Loss Prevention conference, Mike Hawkins of the club's claims investigation branch said that cargo was most likely to
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          94 34 NORWEGIAN conglomerate Kvaerner will have to repay subsidies worth US$5l million (SSBS million) to U5562.75 million to the EU due to overproduction during 1998 at its Warnow shipyard in Rostock, Germany. The EU Commission made the announcement last Thursday but the exact sum to be
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          97 34 RICHARD du Moulin, chairman of Intertanko's North American Panel, is to attend the next meeting of the Senior Advisors Group of the US President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion on July 19 as the maritime industry representative. The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, established in
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          136 34 UK-BASED classification society Lloyd's Register (LR) has launched a service for independently assessing shipping companies' programmes for reducing the vulnerability of their operations to millennium bug equipment breakdown. The new service is aimed at shipowners and ship managers who wish to demonstrate that they have exercised
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          56 34 THREE of P&O's European-class freight ferries will be refitted at repair and conversion specialists A&P Falmouth. The deal was won by the UK yard in the face of stiff competition from other facilities in northern Europe and will provide a boost to business during
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      343 34 PACE Evergreen 6 •MIL 3 FoongSun 6 AASCO 12 ff <*» '3 Accord 8 Frt Links 14 Ahrenkiel 14 G Lmfc 4 Appenship 5 Gemartrans 6 Austral 6 Genshpg 14 Avant 14 Wory Nav 14 B'tang Mas 8 HaiSunHup 12 BSA 7 7 BTL 14 Hanjw 3
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      20327 41 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT t,A Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Destn Name Name Number Number »/07 20/08 MOL SAO PAULO CHALLENG 5803A 45 *****84 TO ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D Ivoire 2t/oi 22/08 csav csav Singapore Otis 45-*****55
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        477 47 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jarong Part Jag Man*. Asl751 0 J17/1B alongside 12.07/1500 Jetta 3 JS alongside 12.07/0600 Jing Yaoq 46 JH alongside 12.07/0800 Mando 05 J12 alongside 12.07/1200 White Koowa 8 J-4/5 alongside 12.07/1500 Ba Dinh 9901 J3 12.07/1500 13.07/1500 8t Mm Gt6 S7 Julyt3
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        1835 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/EUlj net Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Ac. if 625 12/2330 u n/HOO n/»M n/noo n/1500 n/i*59 n/noo 2A n/1700 12/0659 12/0*0 2* n/rroo i2/o*» 12/0*0 toUK MM IMM M MM MM Ml n/HOO MM n/»oc
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        187 47 Ml 4 France: National Day. Jul 15 Brunei: HM The Sultan's Birthday. Jul 21 Belgium: Independence Day. Ang 2 Ireland-Republic Of: August Holiday. Ang9 Singapore: National Day. South Africa: National Women's Day. Aug 12 Thailand: HM Queen's Birthday. Aa|ls Belgium: Assumption Day. Hong Kong: Sino-Japanese War Victory Day.
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        810 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma line 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 average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        515 47 Carbon 180 Mai 990.6 2.0 17.4 0.10 78 0.0S Ml Density Water Residue Ask AkimMun Sediment No above E25 0 1 i 0 0 0 rrr- 380 Ave 987.3 0.3 13.2 0.06 36 0.01 UTm 380 MM 992.8 0.8 192 0.14 183 0.04 K6/W3 v/v %u/u
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        395 48 Swiss carrier exercises veto power over Geneva-Barcelona route Bloomberg [GENEVA] Easy Jet Airline Co, a UK low-cost start-up airline, says Swissair AG, Europe's fifth largest carrier, is trying to prevent it from establishing a European hub in Geneva by invoking a rule giving the
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        64 48 [MONTREAL, Canada] A bright red bow marks delivery of the first completed ultra long-range Bombardier Global Express business jet. Bombardier Aerospace president and chief operating officer Michael Graff (left) and John Holding, executive vice-president of engineering (right), present the aircraft to Robert Pitts, group vice-president, Toyota
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        125 48 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines Inc, the fifth-largest US airline, reached a tentative accord with the Teamsters union for its first mechanics contract at its commuter affiliate, the National Mediation Board said. The new contract covers 300 mechanics and employees in related jobs at
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        323 48 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd plans to ask British aviation authorities in November for the right to two additional weekly flights between London and Shanghai, airline chairman Richard Branson said yesterday. Mr Branson said service on the route, begun in May, was proving
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        175 48 Bloomberg [MOSCOW] Boeing Co, the world's biggest aircraft maker, said about 350 Russian engineers and designers are working on joint projects with the company in Russia and that number is likely to grow. Moscow-based Ilyushin Design Bureau, which designs widebody
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        419 48 Italian carmaker, a national symbol, celebrates centenary Reuters [ROME] Fiat, the carmaker that made Italians mobile and became a national symbol, celebrated its centenary yesterday, confident it can rise to the challenges of the next 100 years, honorary chairman Gianni Agnelli said. In a wide-ranging
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        215 48 Reuters [HONGKONG] Chinese authorities would face major hurdles in merging flag carrier Air China with China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, the country's largest airline, analysts said. Specialist magazine Flight International reported last week that China may force the two airlines
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        239 48 Bloomberg [CALGARY. Alberta] Canadian Airlines Corp. the country's second largest carrier, said its proposal to divide domestic airline routes with its larger rival Air Canada would strengthen both carriers' earnings. Canadian chief executive Kevin Benson last week told shareholders that it is time the
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      17 33 Easy Jet accuses Swissair of blocking expansion Swiss carrier exercises veto power over GenevaBarcelona route. Back Page
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      740 38 nmmM_ PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD A I SSSSI fffa 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. 1 I Cft NO: **********06 I II WW vpT rn~ _m_ rat srp m iu« m ADC mni ooa acoaim 043 10/7 12 n \tn 24/7 1/1 i/« I I M m
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      736 45 shipping line ltd —72 Anson Road, Anson House #06-01 to 03, Spore *****1 CR HO. **********00 TEL: *****88 FAX: *****28 (OUTWARD) *****83-4 (INWARD) /*****10 (IMPORT STATUS) TLX: R*****0 BOOKINGS CALL DIRECT LIME: 535 6266 Celia/Jessica/Mei Chan/Jeslynn/Dora/l»y/Hanim 8 SLGS/WEEK EVERY 4 DAYS vessel VOY SfN JAK VIMEL VOY SIN IPLB BARBAROSSA
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      990 45 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO H6 I m I 1 suo liw fPG OM low nal im otf vav tgw iam hou HOtOH PTM /OtS? 07/07 U/07 17/07 W/M M/M H/00 04/04 04/04 11/04 14/04 10/04 23/01 V/ 99 mm MWUVA /MS? M/ 0» 04/00 11/fIL _LiZM.
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      592 46 ILT ]b i'fl WKKMBmEEESMImKm I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN I TIGER SEA 721N 12-13/07 18-2ZQ7 26-27/07 I TIGER BAY 722N 16-17/07 21 2S/07 30-31/07 I TIGER ISLAND 723N 20-21/07 26-30/07 03-04/08 I TIGER PEARL 724N 2* 25/07 29-02/08 07 08/08 I TIGER SEA 725N 26-27/07 01 05/08 10-11/08 I
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      992 46 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg REMOVAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform all our clients, agents associates that with effect from 12th July 1999, our new address contact no. will be as follows: FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS PTE LTD 51 PENJURU ROAD 3RD LEVEL, FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS
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      1289 46 OOCL (Singapore) Pte Ltd CFS Keppel Distrpk 6S CUm Si OCICCIr #42-00 *****13 Bfc 513 #01-128 vl <1***********00* W: 272 7827 tor tookmg Ttt *****83 Ft*: 438 2966 Fm: 272 7825 Zf lL*m Orient Overseas Container line (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd {Reg No: *****2-U) cat PETALIMG JAVA W: 03-756 7776 F«:
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