The Business Times, 2 August 1999

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04^12/98 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://bu" Es-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1999
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    56 1 STOCK MAMETDTOICES Wee* Change STL 2,145.77 +156 62 SIMSCI FUTURES... J98.10. +25.50 BTSRI .804.11 +56.91 KLSE COUP. 7W.a_._-W.66 NIKKEI —17,861.86... +K7.42 HANG SENG l*,186i86...+».16 SET INDEX. 456.81 -18.92 JAKARTA COUP. 597.87 -27.96 MANILA COMP_.....2Jtt81..„.-W4.75 TAIPEI WPl 7S26.75._-W7.77 SEOUL COMP.. 9W.72 +64.76 CLSA CHINA B 938^8...-2.06 AUST ALL ORD
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    74 1 FMBZ KATES us$ ss US$ 1.687 £(US4/S$ per 1.919 1731 EURO(US$/S$ per E) 1.079 1AM DM 1.828 9*2 YEN 115.3 1.483* RM 1890 0.444 HKS 7.792 0117 BAHT 17.10 0.045 RUPIAH 9316 0.026 •SttolOOunUs P1IME1ATES SINGAPORE* 6.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKAMA 40.Q0 BANGKOK 10 00 MANILA 1100 HONGKONG TAIPEI
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    Lock icon 80% of firms expect economy to improve in H2: new survey
    556 1  -  BT-Nomura Business Barometer poll finds listed firms the most npbe&t Reports by, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Highly upbeat about the economy in the second half of the year and positive on the business climate that's the strong consensus that emerged
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    Lock icon Property prices seen rising in next 6 mths
    325 1 [SINGAPORE! Property prices will pick up in the coming months, say respondents to the Business Times-Nomu-ra Business Barometer survey. But they are divided over whether that's good or bad for Singapore in the long term. Just over 53 per cent of the
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    Lock icon Jardine Fleming top gun to boost corporate finance work in S'pore
    922 1  -  Group making a comeback after 15-year absence From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong INVESTMENT bank Jardine Fleming, which recently got the authorities' nod to resume corporate finance work for Singapore companies, is looking to expand this business in the
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    Lock icon CONTENTS
    34 1 SINGAPORE X 4 FOCUS 5 S-E ASIA 6 REGION 7, 8 WORLD 9 LIFESTYLE 10 TV 11 BUSINESS IT 12-18 COMPANIES 19, 20, 21 FINANCE 22 COMMODITIES 23 MARKET REVIEWS 24 STOCKS 25-28
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    Lock icon Foreign investment in Japan up 7-fold
    818 1  -  HI data show Tokyo serious about opening np markets: officials From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FOREIGN investment in Japan's manufacturing and service industries soared to over one trillion yen (5514.6 billion) during the first half of 1999 more than seven times its level last
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    Lock icon Franchisees liable if S888.com's guilty: Case
    493 1  -  But not all may be prosecuted, qualifies consumer group chief By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] All franchisees of SBBB.com, a self-styled electronic commerce firm, are liable to be prosecuted if the company is found guilty of pyramid selling, Consumers Association of Singapore president Toh
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      128 1 inside KL's financial sector revamp The six core financial groups that Malaysia wants to create through a merger programme of its domestic financial sector will likely secure Bank Negara backing to fund the exercise. Meanwhile, First Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin hinted that several top bank executives may be replaced to
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      40 1 Why Motorola wants more women In its top management Women have more say in what to buy, says Arthur Chen, its Asean vice-president regional director. To understand consumers means you have to have a different viewpoint.' Full reports: Pg 4
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      40 1 tSBBB biz model is workable but execution Is key 6 Continue to ask the tough questions... I don't think you can be tested enough in this Internet era. It's the Wild West, guys. 9 author John Nesheim Full report: BizlT,
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Fuji is first Japan bank here to receive operational HQ status
      554 2  -  Office to serve as "product centre' for project finance, derivatives ii !t i Clarissa Tan FUJI Bank has been awarded the Operational Headquarters (OHQ) status by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a development which will result in substantially
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      Lock icon S'pore banks to keep ratings: Moody's
      394 2 Strength will be maintained amid liberalisation AFP SINGAPORE'S banking system will maintain its financial and credit strength ratings as it faces up to the liberalisation of the industry, ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said. But c rucial to maintaining strength is continued demand from
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      Lock icon OCBC offers FDs for one week and under
      114 2 OCBC Bank has started offering short-term fixed deposits in line with the relaxation in the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) guidelines. For fixed deposits of one week, the minimum amount is $250,000. Friday's indicative rate was 1.9375 per cent. For fixed
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      Lock icon Slower 2.5% fall in bank loans
      294 2  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Finance By] Rahita Elias TOTAL loans extended to non-bank customers continued to contract in June, but at a slower rate. They declined by 2.5 per cent that month, compared with the 3.1 per cent fall recorded in May. This contraction
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      Lock icon BT team wins $12,000 cash prize for charity
      162 2 A TEAM of four from The Business Times three journalists and a secretary put their Sunday break to good use yesterday, winning for charity a $12,000 prize at the Sing Tel Card-nival Treasure Hunt along Orchard Road. The event, organised by Singapore
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      Lock icon Motorola's back in the running
      1223 4  -  SINGAPORE 1000 The pioneer of mobile communications may have stumbled for a couple of years but it's now reasserting itself in the market Reports by' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Motorola may be the pioneer of mobile communications but, by its own admission, it had lost
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      Lock icon Gender parity in the works
      415 4 Company aims to have half of top management made up of women in 5-7 years MOTOROLA is accelerating the promotion of women managers with a goal of having half of its top management made up of women within five to seven years' time. "The future
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      Lock icon Options tax: Exempt high-tech firms
      374 4  -  —»TT.nan Steve Ting Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter "Why stock option gains must be taxed: MOF" by Fong Yong Kian (BT, July 27), a response to Kenneth James' commentary titled "Option gains tax: go beyond deferral" (BT, July 23). While I agree
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      347 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL "Ranked Among UK's First Division Universities, 1999" 26th'^3^6 Hull MBA The First MBA in Singapore to introduce innovative nfTl g modules such as: System Thinking (1989), TQM (1991) and 0 WC' CO Entrepreneurship (1992)# 18 months only; 100% in OriCntfltlOn f u ."Too 1 Singapore •Over
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  • FOCUS ON KL BANK MERGERS
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      Lock icon Bank Negara may guarantee bonds from six anchor banks
      480 5  -  Non-anchor banks' shareholders may have to surrender equity for cash From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur THE six core financial groups that Malaysia wants to create through an aggressive merger programme of its domestic financial sector will likely secure Bank Negara's
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      Lock icon Some bank CEOs may be replaced, hints Daim
      182 5 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] First Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has hinted that several top bank executives may be replaced to ensure that more loans are approved, the New Sunday Times said. The newspaper quoted Mr Daim as saying late on Saturday that one
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      Lock icon Why the hurry in merging Malaysian banks
      648 5  -  CRISIS WATCH Possible capital flight after Sept 1, heavier discounts on MPLs may be behind sense of urgency By Vikram Khanna THE surprise announcement last Thursday by Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara, that it wants to see merger plans by the end of
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Thai rulings in 2 copyright cases upset US publishers
      443 6  -  Court imposes small fine on one shop, dismisses charges against another From Harish Mehta in Bangkok IN two landmark cases testing Thailand's compliance with world trade rules, a Thai court has found a copy shop guilty of infringing copyright owned by
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      Lock icon Thailand to unveil investment stimulus plan
      428 6 BANGKOK Package, likely to be worth np to USs2b, to inclnde tariff cuts, corporate tax delays Reuters THE Thai government plans to unveil an investment stimulus package this week designed to bolster the country's recovery from recession. The package likely to be worth up
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      Lock icon Institutions in Asia in flux amid recovery
      662 6 SINGAPORE N'sia hurt by curbs; Thailand gains from reform, Perc finds AFP MALAYSIA'S competitive edge over its neighbours may suffer due to poor perceptions of its national institutions while those in Thailand have improved significantly as the region emerges from its economic crisis,
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        Lock icon Habibie, main political parties in talks
        72 6 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President B J Habibie will hold talks with leaders of the main political parties, including presidential hopeful Megawati Sukarnoputri, for talks on the country's future, reports said yesterday "This is a meeting ahead of the general convention of the MPR (the
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        Lock icon 15 more bodies found in Acheh province
        71 6 Reuters [BANDA ACEH] Police in violence torn Aceh province have found 15 more bodies dumped in ravines near the site of a recent massacre, bringing the death toll to 71, police sources and residents said yesterday. The bodies were found on Saturday in
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        Lock icon No order to stop AG probe: Wiranto
        69 6 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian armed forces chief General Wiranto dismissed allegations that he had ordered military investigators to halt their probe into suspended attorney general Andi Ghalib, reports said Saturday. "There was no direct order from the military's top brass to Military Police's headquarters
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        Lock icon KL freezes approval for luxury hotels
        84 6 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government has decided to freeze approvals for the construction of luxury hotels in the capital and other major towns in a bid to ease an oversupply, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir
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      1116 6 INFORMATICS HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting of INFORMATICS HOLDINGS LTD will be held at The Atrium, 6 International Business Park, Singapore *****8 on Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 10.00 a.m. to transact
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon More reshuffles seen at China firms
      440 7 HONGKONG China Everbright shake-up reflects govt's determination to stamp out malpractice: reports AFP THE management reshuffle at China's flagship investment group. China Everbright, could be the first of many attempts by the Chinese government to root out financial malpractice in some firms, local papers
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      Lock icon China turns up heat on forex black market
      263 7 It arrested 260 illegal traders in past months: report Reuters [BEIJING] China has stepped up a crackdown on illegal trade of foreign exchange and arrested 260 black market traders in the past three months, the official China Daily reported on Saturday. Authorities
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      Lock icon Japan to send top team to Asia
      372 7 TOKYO Bat not all aid welcomed; no takers for yen guarantees AFP JAPAN will send a team of its top business leaders to Asia late this month to advise on ways to push ahead with economic recovery, but not all the help Tokyo
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  • THE REGION
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      Lock icon Daewoo crisis sets back restructuring of Korean banks
      463 8 H&nvit Bank postpones raising USslb via depositary receipts in New York AFP [SEOUL] South Korea's efforts to restructure its banks could suffer a major setback due to the cash crisis at the giant Daewoo Group, financial sources say. Anxieties over Daewoo and
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      Lock icon Daewoo Motor unveils revamp plan
      187 8 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea's troubled Daewoo Motor Co yesterday unveiled a new programme to streamline its sprawling automobile business at home and abroad. The programme called for the flagship of the crippled Daewoo Group to sack 21 per cent of its managers and executives in
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      Lock icon Sydney Town Council faces fight over Chinatown
      373 8  -  Developers, owners team np; they want height limits lifted From Surinder Singh in Sydney SYDNEY property developers have joined forces against the Sydney Town Council to try to lift a ban on high-rise buildings in the city's Chinatown district. They have teamed up
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      Lock icon Burning issue for firefighters
      67 8 [SYDNEY] Two of some I,soofirefighters yesterday hanging their jackets and helmets on the gates of the New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney in their first industrial action in 15 years. Half of the state's 3,ooopermanentfirefighters attended the rally, marching through the streets of Sydney to
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        Lock icon Packer'on borrowed time'
        76 8 AFP [SYDNEY] Australia's richest man Kerry Packer has left hospital after surgery to clear major arteries to his heart but associates said he was living on borrowed time, reports said yesterday. The billionaire businessman and media magnate has a history of heart-related medical problems. He entered Sydney's
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        Lock icon Plan to waive bank debt approved
        94 8 Nikkei [TOKYO] The Financial Reconstruction Commission approved a plan to allow the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and Nippon Credit Bank to waive a total of about 7 billion yen (*****.5 million) owed by the collapsed Tomakomai Tohbu Development Inc, a semi-public joint
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        Lock icon South Koreans can visit North again
        78 8 Reuters [SEOUL] South and North Korea have agreed to resume tourism trips by South Koreans to the communist North on August 5, Seoul state radio reported yesterday. The two countries, technically still at war, agreed to resume the trips under improved safety arrangements, the
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      Lock icon Japanese firms' foreign investment returns fall
      188 8 TOKYO Nikkei JAPANESE companies and banks posted a profit rate of 4.59 per cent on their direct investments abroad as at end--1998. down 1.89 percentage points from a year earlier, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun reported yesterday, citing the Bank of Japan. The decline
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      27 8 V i' €i (I ,A V u i vw i H.. H A.' />* V. '«*s4* <£> <3> V THERE IS A WAY TD SEE THE FUTURE MDRE CLEARLY
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      322 8 THE ASIA BUSINESS FORECAST 1999 [Brought to you by Strategic Intelligeoce. 1 The best connected intellectual force in Asian business. J 26 August Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore Examine the future with the most They include: influential economic, political and iflh Profa Paul Krugman business minds in Asia. Ford International Professor of
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon US regulators warn investors of day-trading risks
      542 9 NEW YORK Critics say this won't dampen traders' enthusiasm Reuters US regulators are warning people who want to try their hand at trading stocks all day of the drawbacks and are cracking down on day-trad-ing firms that promise riches, but are silent on
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      Lock icon 'Adverse' shocks could threaten euro zone: IMF
      284 9 WASHINGTON Unemployment, veering towards recession cited Bloomberg THE European Union's transition into a common currency zone could be derailed if severe enough economic troubles emerge in any of the countries, according to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) study. The IMF report said the
      Bloomberg  -  284 words
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      Lock icon Microsoft, Compaq admit software security flaws
      194 9 NEW YORK NYT Microsoft and Compaq Computer on Friday confirmed the existence of several significant software security flaws that could enable intruders to gain access to the computers of millions of customers and to damage their data via e-mail or through commands sent from
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      Lock icon British beef export ban lifted
      110 9 LONDON Bloomberg BRITISH farmers were free to resume beef exports from yesterday, ending a three-year ban that the European Union imposed because of "mad cow" disease in British cattle. The ban cost the UK billions of pounds and sparked a major review of food safety.
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Enticing glimpse of distinctive style
      486 10  -  Ballet Argentino makes its debut here with dances drawn from Latin American and balletic sources, chua soo pong reviews CHUA SOO PONG ITH Julio Boccaas its Ballet made Singapore Harbour Pavilion last Friday with an evening of dances drawn from Latin American and balletic sources.
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      Lock icon Net lists big movie mistakes
      313 10 CINEMA Movie buffs are reporting the howlers they spot on the big screen Reuters [LONDON] African warriors wear wristwatches in Zulu and Wallace's executioner in Braveheart sports shoes with red rubber soles. The nightmare of Hollywood continuity editors has come true hundreds of movie pedants
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      Lock icon Cornwall's eclipse: blind spot ahead
      553 11 TRAVEL British town in the dark about how many tourists will hit it on August 11 AFP ILONDONJ At 11.11 am on August 11. a corner of Britain will plunge into darkness, the birds will wonder what time of day it is and millions of
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      2402 10 ECON ECON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 2 Ang Mo Kio Street 64. Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park 3. Singapore *****4 on Wednesday. 25 August 1999
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  • BUSINESS IT
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      Lock icon Help for high-tech start-ups from one of their own
      534 12  -  Programme from local firm Plan-B goes beyond incubation stage By] Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] AS private sector groups gear up to help high-tech start-ups, local firm Plan-B Technologies is pointing the way with its own wide-ranging programme. Going beyond seed funding and
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      Lock icon Sakura Bank ties up with computer makers
      143 12 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's Sakura Bank Ltd has agreed with several top computer makers to equip their products with software for its new on-line bank. Sakura, one of Japan's leading banks, announced last week it would set up the country's first purely online bank
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      Lock icon S888 biz model is workable but execution is key, author says
      586 12  -  Put all e-commerce firms tinder marfttifirinir frtfrfts. IT J Q 7 Nesheim suggests By) Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The business model touted by local e-com-merce start up SBBB.com is workable and in fact very promising but the organisation must prove
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      Lock icon Singapore to be Broadcom's Asian operations centre
      317 13  -  R&D centre here will have 60 research and design engineers by 2005 By< Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] US-based Broadcom Corp, a developer of ICs (integrated circuits) for broadband communications, last week opened their Asian headquarters, including an IC design centre here. The company's 1,950
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      Lock icon Internet Web office supplier to go regional
      418 13  -  British firm 3i invests $2.9 million in a minority stake in web Office By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A local start-up that sells office supplies over the Internet, web Office, will bring its fastgrowing Internet business to the region, web Office founder and
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    • IT TAKES
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        46 13 ECS Computers (Asia) Training Division will be conducting a class on "Unix Bourned Shell Programming for System Administrators" from Aug 11 to 13. The course is designed to enhance the system administrator's productivity to automate system administration. For details, call *****41 or e-mail training@ecssin.com.sg.
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        Lock icon Beyond ERP '99
        72 13 BEYOND ERP '99, a two-day business and IT executive symposium, will highlight the relevance and importance of industry buzzwords, namely Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management. Some 1,000 people are expected to attend this event. It will be held on Aug 26
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        59 13 MERCURY Interactive, a provider of enterprise application testing solutions, is offering free educational seminars in Singapore and Malaysia to help organisations deploy mission-critical e-business applications. Seminar attendees will learn about methods to test e-business applications from a user's perspective. To receive a schedule and information on the
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        44 13 IDG World Expo (Asia) will organise iCe Internet Commerce for the Enterprise a conference dedicated to business-to-business Internet commerce. iCe will be held on Sept 21 and 22 at the Singapore Expo. For details, contact Rosalynn Chua at *****11 or e-mail rosalynn@idgexpo.com.sg.
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        35 13 HEWLETT-PACKARD with partners like Oracle and Informix are organising a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Executive Seminar on Aug 17 at Sheraton Towers Hotel. Admission is free. For details, call Jenny Ong at *****22.
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        68 13  -  Compiled by Toh Han Shih LUCENT Technologies recently appointed Kenneth Kan as managing director, South-east Asia, InterNetworking Systems Unit. Based in Singapore, Mr Kan is responsible for data networking efforts addressing service provider and enterprise markets in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei and Indonesia. Prior to his
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      178 13 Bloomberg [TOKYO] The Bank of Japan will take appropriate steps to counter a computer bug problem linked to the year 2000 and prepare 40 trillion yen (SssB4 billion) in cash to help bank liquidity before the year end. "Regarding the liquidity issue linked to
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      377 13 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] A wave of "FreePC" offers led to a sharp rise in computer sales at stores in June, just when a seasonal lull might have been expected to hit, according to a report released last week by research firm PC
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      1521 14  -  It will transform the way companies do their business and consumers do their buying, business futurist Jim Taylor tells vikram khanna VIKRAM KHANNA BY THE end of next year, business futurist Jim Taylor reckons that electronic commerce will cross the US$1 trillion (S$1.7 trillion) mark by transaction
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      991 14 PEOPLE ask about Internet companies, why are they worth so much, says Jim Taylor. And the answer is, because the best of them deliver a lot of people. Mr Taylor, who was once managing director of public relations giant Hill and Knowlton, is a specialist
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      557 15  -  The platform will account for more than half of all Unix servers worldwide By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] A dominant variant of Unix is emerging for the first time, promising to make high-end computing cheaper, Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) Asia president James
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      592 15  -  By Nor Badron The author is director, Spark Tech Communications, a technology communications consultancy TODAY, the Internet is a sexy new channel, a better method of information dissemination and a more efficient customer communication device. Despite initial scepticism, smart enterprises are now allowing
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      117 15 AFXAsia [SAN FRANCISCO] Dell Computer Corp has launched a branded Internet access service and said it will provide buyers of its consumer personal computers with a free year of Internet access. Dell and Snap.Com, a joint venture Internet portal owned by General Electric Corp unit
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      192 15 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's First International Computer Inc said last week it plans to forge a strategic alliance with several local partners to jointly develop the next-generation personal computers. "The new alliance will target developing new products and creating new market," a company spokeswoman told
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      141 16 Bloomberg [EGHAM, England] Global information technology spending will rise 50 per cent to US$3.3 trillion (555.6 trillion) in the next three years with most investment on creating online businesses, GartnerGroup Inc said in a report. About 50 per cent of technology spending in 2002
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      1029 16  -  Plan-B is the first out with a wide-ranging programme. Hopefully other upcoming industry initiatives will maintain the momentum, says bemmetb jambs KENNETH JAMES PLAN-B Technologies chairman Lim Soon Hock self-deprecat-ingly calls it "national service". But there's more than a hint of excitement in the industry
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      523 17  -  'At least 500,000 Smart City smart cards' in region in three years Tv Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Fujitsu, one of the world's largest IT vendors, is pushing its Smart City smart card solutions in the Asia-Pacific. In Thailand, the Japanese giant's smart card
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        75 17 SYMANTEC Corp has launched Norton Ghost 5.1 Personal Edition (right) for home and small office use. The PC cloning utility comes with a powerful disk drive cloning and imaging software, and a file compression system. It automates the duplication process, and even copies in-use system files
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        67 17 NOVELL Inc is shipping Border Manager Enterprise Edition 3.5, an Internet security management suite, that includes firewall, VPN (virtual private networking), strong authentication and caching services all integrated with NDS (Novell Directory Services). New features include authentication for the use of smart cards and tokens to manage secure
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        96 17 FUJITSU PC Asia has announced two new notebooks Lifeßook C-4120 and C-6310 (right). Both models come with 4.3 GB hard disk, 56k modem and Fujitsu's Quick Touch Panel with programmable buttons that let users listen to music CDs (even in suspend mode with lid closed) or launch
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        86 17 DELL Computer said it has added the new 600 MHz Intel Pentium 111 processor to its Dimension line of desktop PCs for home and small business use. The Dimension XPS T series is Dell's most powerful line of desktops so far, the company said. Prices start
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        76 17 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore is offering a 16 MB San Disk Compact Flash removable storage card and three software products as a promotional offer this month with the Jornada 420 palmtop. The bundle is worth US$l6O. The software includes HP Voice Contacts, a speech-recognition application, Sierra Imaging's Image
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        83 17  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam IBM has introduced new ThinkPad 600E and 390E notebook computers for business usees. The 600E runs on a 400 MHz Pentium II processor, comes with 13.3-inch TFT display, 10 GB hard disk, CD-ROM or DVD ROM, modular UltraSlimßay, and is priced
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      581 17 LAT-WP (NEW YORKJ As the battle for mind share inside the computer intensifies, highriding IBM Corp is considering a plan to offer an "IBM Technology Inside" logo to companies that use its internal components to stamp alongside their own brands. While the
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        811 18  -  IDC sees S'pore grow 140% a year to USsl77m by 2003, reports raju Hi™-* RAJU CHELLAM [SINGAPORE] With the continuing boom in the Internet and rising interest in ecommerce, the market for ecommerce applications is growing at a more rapid clip than the Internet
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        Lock icon Move over Naomi, here comes Webbie
        486 18 ZfaToh Han Shlh OOK out Naomi Campbell, here comes Webbie. Webbie, unlike H mere human supermodels, really is perfect. That's because she's computer-generated. The world's leading modelling agency, Elite Models, which has produced supermodels like Naomi Campbell, is now producing virtual supermodels from computers.
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          56 18 THIS website offers online certification for companies and government departments to be able to ensure that the other party is who they claim to be. Accurate identification for both sides of any e-commerce deal is essential in cyberspace and this company might just have the answer.
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          Lock icon E-commerce services online
          50 18 E.COM Services' website offers their own brand of e-business tools and applications. They say that they "specialise in e-commerce applications like online ticketing, online billing and provide credit card clearing house services for our back-end payment processing services called Secure". e.Com Services Pte Ltd is at www.ecom.com.sg.
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          Lock icon Looking for some help?
          95 18 THIS site offers advice for small businesses. There are a number of areas to choose from, ranging from the "Small Business Success Mall" (a dedicated online bookshop) to a free "Small Business Marketing Letter". There is even a poll to take part in to make sure
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          102 18 ASK Jeeves! is a new type of search engine. Previously you had to just throw a bunch of words together and try to understand the various protocols that different search engines use. Then you get to click "Search" only to find that either nothing came up
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          86 18 HAD a bad experience in a shop, restaurant or other retail outlet? Do you own or run one of the above? If so then Oripenet.com should have a place in your bookmarks. It is offered as a place for people to tell others about the bad
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          105 18  -  Compiled by Justyn Olby IF YOU are tired of the same old tunes that your mobile phone plays or if you just want a ringing tone that is somewhat more original than all the others around you, then Jonny's mobile phone tune time is a good place to
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      298 13 Y2K's coming. Don't just sit there. ww n -UL -T-, "be the °f the world if you lose your data. And that could come with the new millennium, or computer crashes, Qr accidental deletion, or even a virus. In short, if you haven't backed up your computer data, you could
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      317 16 AUSTRALIA m sth Intake: Oct '99 Specialisation M fft •Marketing H Project Management WlffipfK General Management Information Systems Doctor of Business Administvation Human Resource Management USQ students enjoy excellent graduate placement (ratio 5 out of 5) as reflected in the 'Good Universities Guide to Australian Universities' USQ is accorded 5-Star
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      266 16 staged a startling turn-around in the first half of 1999. But how determined are policy-makers and corporations to take advantage of the window of relief that has been created? Unless serious and determined structural reforms are undertaken, a reversal of any of these factors could put the recovery in jeopardy.
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      315 19 The 1999 half-time reporting season is now into its third week. We reproduce below all the 17 interim corporate results that were released in the past two weeks. They were from companies with Dec 31 as their financial year-end. Group earnings for the six
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      120 19 xf i I n Bill As of yesterday, 17 locally-listed companies had released their results for the six months ended June 30, 1999. They recorded a combined $1,055.4m in group profits, up 183.9% over the same period last year. The breakdown is as follows: No with profits ;17
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      Lock icon Roly's full-year loss doubles to US$34.6m
      539 19  -  USsl7.7m provisions made; turnover down 7%; computer disruption also cited By Rahita Elias INVESTMENT holding company Roly International Holdings' losses doubled to U5534.6 million (5558.3 million) in the year to April 30. In a statement issued on Saturday, the group said that about US$l7.7
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      447 19  -  Renovations unlikely to canse drastic fall in occupancy rate By\ Rahita Elias OVERSEAS Union Enterprise's (OUE) Mandarin Singapore hotel will undergo a massive facelift next year which could cost some $50 million. An industry source told BT the hotel is planning a major refurbishment
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        430 20 HSBC seen faring better because of its proportionally lower HE exposures Reuters [LONDON] Banks HSBC Holdings Pic and Standard Chartered Pic are expected to report lower first half profit results this week as their extensive Asian holdings continue to generate bad debt
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        683 20  -  HAIVG SENG Of SIGHT Singaporeans much more upbeat »h«w Hongkongers By Quak Hiang Whai AN Eastern European who had worked the last three years in Hongkong and just started a new job in Singapore called back to say he was impressed by the optimism
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        666 20  -  Penny stocks rise 4.5% compared with STl's 7.8% surge By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] Smaller capitalised stocks lagged behind the rest of the market for once last week as the speculative activity in penny stocks simmered down. The BT portfolio of smallcap
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        163 20 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian electricity utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd will go ahead with plans to build the country's largest power plant, The Edge business weekly said. In its August 2 issue, it quoted Tenaga executive chairman Ahmad Tajuddin Ali as saying the decision was
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          133 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd (UEM) is to sell to Coastal Road Construction (CRC) of the Philippines its entire equity interest 0f283,744 shares in UEM-MARA Philippines Corporation (UMPC) for 960 million pesos (5541.6 million). UEM cited operational difficulties and inability to obtain
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          Lock icon Taiping Consolidated's loss at RM55.6m
          98 20 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Taiping Consolidated Bhd's group pre-tax loss inflated by staggering 653.48 per cent to 56.637 million Malaysian ringgit (5524.7 million) in the financial year ended April 30,1999 from RM7.384 million a year earlier. The company attributed the decline mainly to the exceptional items
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          79 20 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Anglo American Pic, the world's biggest mining company, is to buy almost a quarter of Australia's Anaconda Nickel Ltd, whose new mine projects have the capacity to make it the world's biggest nickel producer. Anglo will have a 23 per cent interest
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        456 21 FRANCE'S HOSTILE TAKEOVERS Market hostility to takeover offer for Total may force it to discuss a merger Bloomberg [PARIS] Elf Aquitaine chairman Philippe Jaffre is likely to begin talks with rival Total Fina about a merger within the next few weeks,
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        222 21 But SocGen chief says BNP has no chance of control AFP [PARIS] BNP chairman Michel Pebereau is "almost sure" his bank will win control of Societe Generale (SocGen) in a protracted and bitter French takeover battle. "We have wide support among Societe Generale shareholders and
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        357 22 Group plans to triple revenue from asset mgt, broking, private banking by 2004 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Goldman Sachs Group Inc. the No 3 US securities firm, is combining asset management, brokerage and private banking into one division as part of a plan to
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        Lock icon Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks (July 31,1999)
        366 22 INDICATIVE NUMBER MIOOLE PRICES MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON INTEREST OF OAYS Of (EXCIUOING GROSS RATE AMOUNT PAYMENT ACCRUE) ACCRUED REDEMPTION (%PA) (SM) DATES NTEREST INTEREST) YBD(\PA) 01/09/1999 N*****1T 1997 2 3/4 1130 1/9 1/3 152 100.1 158 01/09/1999 N*****0T 1992 4 7/8 700
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        380 22 CEO-to-be signals Australian giant out of acquisition mode Reuters [SYDNEY) Australian insurance and funds management giant AMP said yesterday that it had no plans to increase its 57.5 per cent stake in general insurer GIO Australia. AMP's incoming chief executive Paul
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        339 22 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] China Life Insurance Company Ltd, China's largest life insurer, has formed an alliance with Australia's Colonial Ltd to sell insurance in Shanghai. China Life will contribute 51 per cent of the joint venture's 200 million yuan (5540.5 million) in capital.
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        200 22 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia and Thailand will convene a ministerial meeting in September to consider a rubber supply rationalisation scheme to check flagging prices, Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said yesterday. "We will coordinate on things such as how long we
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        1877 22 mume uaromo bates BANKS ABN Amro Bank HV 5V 4 ABSA Bank Limited 6Vi Agricultural bank Of China i ANZ Banking Group 6W Allied Irish Bank PLC 5 American Express Bank Arab Banking Corp 7'« Arab Bank PLC 5'/t Asahi Bank Ltd (V* Ban Hin Lee Bank Bhd 6^ Banca
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        558 23  -  SIMTIX Weekly Roundup Hiroko Komiya MMS International This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [SINGAPORE] Nervous days for US asset markets are set to continue as the markets need to absorb more US economic data this
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        Lock icon Crude prices hit 20-month high on continued decline in US stocks
        857 23 COMMODITY Weeklyßcrundup AFP (LONDON) The continued decline of US oil stocks kept the flame alive on the oil market last week, sending crude prices up to a 20-month high. On London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), crude rose by more
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      1832 23 S1C0M FUTURES .M3C RUBBER (futures closing as at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwtsAq) CIom Volume Open Mowth Law Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 99 8*50 Sep 99 9175 91.75 91.75 100 1200 Oct 99 94.00 300 Nov 99 95.50 300 Ok 99 97.25 300 J*i/Mar 00 100.25 300 RSS 3
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        448 24 NEW YORK Stocks may fall as investors are less willing to pay high P/E multiples as interest rates rise Bloomberg CHARLES Crane says the next few weeks in the US stock market will be like the five-hour drives he takes to Maine. To measure his
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        304 24 LONDON AFP THE British share market heads into the thick of results season with the outlook clouded by Wall Street, which unsettled most European bourses last week. London shares succumbed to another US-inspired rout last week, shedding almost 3 per cent on Thursday
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        886 24 P Sydney jjjjj AUSTRALIAN financial markets will nervously eye developments in the US this week with little domestic data of interest, brokers said. "A fairly uninspiring week is in prospect," said Colonial State Bank senior economist Craig James. "The only economic data of note is retail trade
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        2003 24 Q Paris -58J39 PARIS shares closed at their highs on Friday supported by friendly US markets and a late buying wave on options expiry day, recouping some of Thursday's losses. The CAC-40 index ended up 1.76 per cent at 4,382.06, dropping 58.39 points in the week. PI
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        420 24 TOKYO But any farther strengthening of yen will limit gains Reuters TOKYO'S benchmark Nikkei--225 average is likely to move higher this week, boosted by a positive outlook for the economy after recent industrial output figures were stronger than expected, market analysts said. But gains
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        321 24 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG blue chips could push higher this week if Hang Seng Index heavyweight HSBC Holdings reports better-than-expected earnings today, but jitters over US interest rates are likely to dampen sentiment. "All eyes will be on Hongkong Bank's and Hang Seng
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        480 25 AFP n Composite Index -39.66 TRADING on the Malaysian bourse is expected to remain volatile in the coming days after the headline index plummeted 4.9 per cent last week, analysts said. "There are going to be similar trends next week. With lower trading limits
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        8914 25 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products <999 Last Vol Week N«t Cap Hlqh Low Company Sato OOO Hlqti Low P/C $*M 440 170 Ajinomoto 340 -24 7 350 322 18.8 137.8 174 35 Anqkasa 110 -29 3709 135 104 2.5 162.2 404 123 Apollo Food Hlg 320 48 135 350 318 11.1 128
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        2787 26 Week ended: Jul 30 BONOS, LOANS WARRANTS 92-Wk Last Vol *eek Last Ouote a"q High Law Stno Company Salt ♦or- COOO) High Low Buyer Sailor Prlco 104 3 3160 'Acer W*****1USS 48 *3 2081 52 38.5 47.5 48.5 80 4.5 3164 Acma W*****4 42.5 *4.5 2007 44 36 42 42.5
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        197 26  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy ON the face of it, covered warrants should behave like company-issued warrants since both have exercise prices, time to expiry, premiums and gearings. But there are important differences. In a covered warrant's case, the issuer "covers" or guarantees issue of
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      6342 27 i": A H,*r\.. iZfiSL Y s ss MULTI-INDUSTRY 17.5 mb 1000 Acma 50c 136 »9 1136 137 122 135 136 10 3.3 3.7 111 225 131 84 25 c 1217 Alliance Tech 49 ♦2 193 49 42.5 48 49 40 4 47 1,4 8
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        495 28 Source: JM Sassoon StOCkl VolNffM LHT Hldgs 10c 124,639,000 Asia FoodS Prop 113,353,000 Hotung Inv MT5 101,596,000 Golden Agri USIOc 85.761,000 ICT HKIOc 82,926.000 •Gentinglnt 81,606,000 Amara Hldgs Ltd 60,321,000 IPC Corpn 5c 57.163.000 *TanChonglnt50c 51.348,000 WOt 49,057,000 Stocks DBS Foreign 264,974,088 SPH 214,380,003 OCBC Foreign 180,221,776 DBS Land 148,753,933
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        671 28  -  THti u/L'L'K awbaii It's likely that support from funds, good corporate results may outweigh the impact of Dow's losses By R Sivanithy THERE'S a struggle going on in the market at the moment, one that's tossing prices this way and that while
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        51 28  -  -By Wong Wei Kong DATAPULSE Technology shares rose 10 cents to $1.13 last Friday with 14.4 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 4.5 million shares. The RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts are mixed, suggesting that the stock may be meeting resistance in the short
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      934 21 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, GOH AH LENG of 33 Hume Ave *04-07, Singapore 598"'34, have applied for a First Class Beer House Licence in respect of M/s May Li Restaurant located at 220 Upper Thomson Road, Singapore *****2, and that this application will be considered by the Liquors
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      511 22 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY Floating Rat* Notes Dim April 28. 2005 Common Coda No.: *****67 ISIN No.: U*****97 RX36 CUSIP No.: *****7 RX3 In accordance with the terms of the documents governing the above-refer-enced Notes, nonce is hereby given
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      444 28 I NOTICED To advertise call toll-tree 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, REKHA KAUR of *04-06,68 Wilkie Road Singapore *****0, have applied for a First Class Public House Licence in respect of M/s Moghul Mahal Restaurant located at Blk 3D, River Valley Rd #01-09,
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      580 28 DBS investor Online. You've read about it, now hear us on Newsßadio 938, Mon Fri, from 8 22a.m. 831 )HSBANK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, CHANG LEE CHOO of Blk 92, Pipit Road, #12-99 Singapore *****2, have applied for a Public House, First Class Licence in respect of M/s
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      471 28 IN THi MATTER OF THI COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER SO AND IN THI MATTER OF AE ENGINE FARTS ASM PACIFIC (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD UN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Extroct of tho Minut#» of on Extroordinory Gonoral Mooting ugnod by tho Ropratonfofivo of FodoroLMogw World Trod# Flo ltd raxing to AE Engmo Forts
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      263 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THERE has been a flurry of interest in capesize and it is reported that the 92 built Aberous (149,000) has been sold to clients of Ispat at around US$l9.7 million and the 89 built United Respect (149,000) at around US$l6.5 miUion to clients
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      286 29 MM a m CWT Ototributtan Ml unch 91 Chuan Hup 131 -0.02 807 Cosco Invastmant 126 -0.04 99 Freight U«*» 0.37 -OOI 5960 C8tfaidlngi 0.97 unch 81 Hal Sur Hop 0.82 -0.02 420 IMC Hoidlngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jayl Holdings 1.08 0.01 333 Juronq Shipyard —8.20 0.20 401
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      445 29  -  Depth of clearance may be reduced, EL martime official tells seminar in S'pore By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The movement of the wreck of the sunken cruise ship Royal Pacific to leave only 16.1 metres of clearance demonstrates why the Malaysian authorities
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      192 29 AFP [MANILA] Three people were killed and 131 were missing after a Philippine passenger boat caught fire off the central island of Cebu, the coastguard said yesterday. Rosario 11, with 200 people on board including its crew and three children, sent out a distress
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      736 29  -  DOCKYARD By\ David Hughes THE latest half-yearly report from Arabian Ship Repair Yard (ASRY) will not make comfortable reading for Singapore's shiprepairers. ASRY, one of Singapore's main competitors in the shiprepair market, has reported a 29 per cent rise in the average value
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      108 29 [SINGAPORE] Afire tugboat spraying water at cruise ship SuperStar Leo in a mock distress exercise. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) conducted the annual exercise on Friday to test its Passenger Vessel Mishap Contingency Plan Five hundred "passengers were used for the first
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      112 29 [HONGKONG] Two container terminals planned for Lantau Island will now be sited at the mouth of the Pearl River estuary. Hongkong Port and Maritime Board secretary Richard Yuen said this is to improve the handling of growing amounts of river cargo entering Hongkong.
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      314 29 Reuters [MIAMI] Carnival Cruise Lines raised to 108 from 62 a census of sex-assault charges aboard its ships, saying that the new count included 22 charges of rape made by passengers or crew. The world's biggest cruise line said in a news release
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      1136 30 MAIiAYSXAH PORTS It is no secret new Johor port will attempt to take business from Singapore FROM Tanjung Pelepas, the US$57B million (***** million) Malaysian container port which will be ready for operations next year, a steady procession of container ships heading to and from the
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      320 30 PACE ESP Lines 12 AMI 3 EyerQreefi 6 AASCO 12 foong Sun 8 Accord 8 Fr( *i 13 Ahrenkiel 14 M Links 14 Appenstap 5 C Link 4 Austral 8 Gemartrans 6 Avant 14 Genshpg 13 B'tanq Mas 8 Glory Nav 14 BSA 7 HaiSunHup 12 BTL
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      21186 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartlsar Vassal Vovaga Talapnona ETA ETA Advartlsar Vnul Yoyaga TMpMnt ■■■■■■■■■HMSMHBMMHHwSHMMHMBBaSiSBMManiSSlMI MHMSaMMlSSSLwMHMSSHHMMaMHBSS&MMj&SSlM 12/06 27/01 NVK NORSUL ICARAI OMN 65-2*0123 I'm r'?i A l <AB^? 03 723F COt# 0 «)£5 To BUENOS AIRES (BUE) 2060 Argentina .0/06 1/01 MOL CARINA CHALLENGER M03A ARENAS CHALL
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        462 43 Vess<l Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Mircopolo 22 PrwMS JK 01/08/400 02/08/6 00 *«*»<»< 399 J02 01/08 A415 01/08/2200 Bt Pino Nur K»99 J01 01/08/1215 01/08/18:00 s n 3 J05 01/08/12:40 02/08/1100 Dongn*m* «w 904N J07 01/08/15:30 02/08/12:00 tacopoto 42 02/99J J17 01/08/21:00 02/08/10:00 ■oody Act 2 J05
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        1737 43 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AMD LCL CARGO Book Ing/Balance Rstls Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From Actm 02/1900 U OVHOO 01/1659 OVHOO toJ mi «wm 5 ovtsoo Wmm ovhoo OVHOO 01/1659 01/1*00 U 0VT700 02/0659 02/0*00 21 0V1700 02/0*59 02/0*00 J** "i« 04/2000 U OVHOO 0VI65f
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        189 43 An| 2 Ireland-Republic Of: August Holiday. Aaiff 9 Singapore: National Day. South Africa: National Women's Day. Aug 12 Thailand: HM Queen's Birthday. An«ls Belgium: Assumption Day. Hong Kong: Sino-Japanese War Victory Day. Luxembourg: Assumption Day. Anf 17 Indonesia: National Day. Aag29 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 30 United
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        780 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rlne Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description at the mar hat Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index
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        454 43 Cjrt0 WO N«i 990.4 a.l 17.5 0.10 78 0/T M n D—Ity Water IwMw Art UmUm Sedtwent No above £25 0 2 2 0 0 1 %H/M 380 Ave 986.1 0.4 H2 0.01 38 0.02 Exm 380 Mm 1005.0 2.5 20.8 0.M 235 0 08 WW!
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        575 44 Report also recommends lifting restrictions on foreign ownership in US domestic airlines Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US should do more to expand smaller airlines' access to large hub airports and eliminate restrictions on foreign ownership and investment in US domestic airlines to
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        480 44 Operational merger will create Europe's biggest passenger airline Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] The boards of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV and Alitalia SpA, Italy's flagship carrier, sealed an operational merger, giving a boost to their attempts to gain dominance in Europe's airline market. The
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        337 44 Reuters [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines Inc, fresh off failed negotiations on pilot pay rates for new Boeing Co 777 jets, has asked its pilots' union to start talks on pay rates for new 767-400 jets, a union spokesman said. The
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        416 44 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US government rejected an application by British Airways pic and American Airlines for antitrust immunity amid a lack of progress in reaching a new aviation pact with Britain. The United States had conditioned antitrust immunity on achieving greater access
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        271 44 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines has cancelled air agreements with Taiwan because China Airlines (CAL) and Eva Air abused their rights to the disadvantage of local carriers, press reports said yesterday. The decision to terminate the air accord was relayed by the Manila Economic
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        389 44 Bloomberg [DETROIT] US car and truck sales are extending the march towards a record year, with July's annual selling rate forecast to exceed 16 million for the sixth straight month as carmakers add discounts to spur model year-end sales. Analysts are paying more
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      21 29 Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas takes shape It is no secret new Johor port will attempt to take business from Singapore. Pag© 2
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