The Business Times, 3 August 1999

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 04ti/t2/98 85c S I N G A P O R E Internet: httpv/business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1999
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    81 1 FOBEX BATES uss ss 081 1.679 £(US$/S$ per 1620 1750 EL'RO(US$/SS per E) 1.068 1793 DM 1.831 6.917 YEN 114.0 1.473 RM 3.800 0.442 HKi 7.763 (1216 BAHT 3734 0.045 RUPIAH 6360 0.024 'Stto too units FUME SATES SINGAPORE* 5 JO KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10.00 MANILA
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    Lock icon SES-Simex merger: new exchange looking for top execs
    572 1  -  New organisation, legal structure has been approved by pro-tem committee By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The search is on for top executives and board members of the new integrated exchange which will combine Singapore's equities and futures exchanges in November. Work
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    Lock icon July property sales slow to 'decent' 800-plus units
    526 1  -  Easing expected as pent-op demand being satisfied gradually By. Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Major property developers sold over 800 new private homes in July, a take-up that analysts say reflects a slowdown but is still "pretty decent". The weaker sales in July compiled
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    Lock icon Bintang Melewar improves on its proposed Clob offer
    1158 1  -  Four-option package caters to diverse needs of investors From, Ruth Wong m Kuala Lumpur BINTANG Melewar Sdn Bhd, the private firm of Negeri Sembilan prince Tunku Abdullah, has sweetened its proposed offer to holders of frozen Malaysian shares previously traded on Clob
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      188 1 LATEST Onr iv 114 at 12J0pm US stocks rose after a report on manufacturing suggested the economy isn't growing fast enough to force interest rates higher. The National Association of Purchasing Management's factory index fell to 53.4 last month from 57 in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 114.61
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
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      Lock icon Surge in H1 visitor arrivals, so STB will revise 1999 forecast
      372 2  -  Over 6.35 m expected this year; hotel occupancy up 4.5% to 77% in first half Rahita Elias THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is set to revise upwards its forecast for visitor arrivals this year, given the stronger-than-expected surge so
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      Lock icon BG Lee may give update on Clob issue
      164 2 Deputy PM likely to brief Parliament on solutions considered DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is likely to give an update on the Clob issue in Parliament tomorrow, and elaborate on the possible solutions being considered. MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Leong
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      Lock icon SPH gives S'pore a Buzz with new retail kiosks
      383 2  -  Plans for 50 units; 10 have opened offering popular lifestyle products Tan May Ping SINGAPORE Press Holdings plans to have 50 retail kiosks, called Buzz, at busy commuting points across the island within the next two years to "bring what commuters
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      Lock icon M1 up 18.9% to $29.6b in June
      306 2  -  BYE ON THE ECONOMY Finance By Eugene Low NARROW money Ml registered its second consecutive month of double-dig-it growth in June, increasing 18.9 per cent year-on-year to $29.6 billion. Broad money measures M 2 and M 3 also rose. M 2 grew 30.4
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      Lock icon Singapore economy to grow 4-5% in 1999: US embassy
      288 2 THE Singapore economy is likely to gain momentum in the second half of the year, and should be able to grow 4 to 5 per cent this year, says the US embassy. Singapore's nascent and tentative recovery in the first quarter
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      Lock icon Case not targeting S888.com franchisees
      434 2  -  MAILBAG Assoc Prof Toh See Kiat President Consumers Association of Singapore THANK you for your series on SBBB.com which has exposed the company's unacceptable practices and prevented more members of the public from losing their savings in a doubtful investment. The Consumers Association of Singapore
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      Lock icon i-One.Net info available in prospectus
      199 2  -  KK Fong Chief executive i-One.Net International Ltd I REFER to the letter, "Investors need more relevant info on i-One.Net", by H H Lee (BT, July 30). We thank the reader for the feedback given. As we have stated in our listing prospectus (page 108), we
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      Lock icon Make public offers when govt divests
      388 2  -  Shi Guo Ji Singapore via Internet SHOULD not there have been public offers in respect of the POSBank and Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Limited (SMRT) divestments by Temasek Holdings? I would like some discussion on them as I believe they are of public interest.
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      Lock icon Don't take foreign investors for granted
      84 2  -  Jack Chan Australia via Internet ON July 7, you published a letter I wrote ("Holders of Foreign shares deserve better deal"). How right I was. I see that UOB Foreign and OCBC Foreign have tumbled in the last few weeks and their capitalisations slashed.
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      Lock icon Probe magic black-box devices
      269 2  -  Lee Eng Lock Singapore via Internet THE mailbox in the July 31 edition of BT was full of observations by member;, of the public on the marketing and business tactics of the Internet player sBBB.com. It is laudable that BT sees fit to focus so much
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      Lock icon Haw Par Healthcare should return spare cash to holders
      419 2  -  Yeo Seng Chong Singapore via Internet I REFER to your report, "Haw Par roars in with five-fold profit jump" (BT, July 31). My congratulations to Dr Hong Hai, president and CEO, for the group's impressive results. I also note that the
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      Lock icon Ford Credit sets up S'pore office to tap Asian markets
      463 3  -  US giant keen to explore joint ventures with banks, other companies Byy Catherine Ong FORD Credit, the financial arm of one of the world's largest automotive groups, is setting up an office in Singapore to tap opportunities in the consumer
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      Lock icon Accountants vital to decision-making: poll
      225 3 TWO-THIRDS of company directors surveyed said that it was vital that their accountants contribute to strategic decision-making and more than half wanted accountants to be involved in setting corporate strategies. Yet, only 36 per cent felt that the current system for training accountants in the
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      Lock icon Canada firm to auction industrial equipment
      240 3 IF your idea of an auction is men in posh suits placing objects d'art (or property) under the hammer, think again. Come November, buyers will be able to bid for heavy industrial equipment at Ritchie Bros' first auction here. The Canada-based company, a nutfor
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      Lock icon SilkAir crash victims' families seek pilot info
      271 3 THE families of Silk Air MIIBS Association are urging the relevant authorities to release information relating to allegations made by foreign media that pilot suicide was the cause of the crash. A spokesman for the society, Aaron Ng, said yesterday: "On this aspect,
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      Lock icon Shop any time, night or day, at orchard-road.com
      370 3  -  Home-grown firm ties up with DHL in online sales venture By- Raju Chellam SINGAPORE'S prime shopping district has just gone online. The new Web site, appropriately called orchard-road.com was launched officially yesterday and is open for business 24 hours a day around
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  • FOCUS: PROPERTY
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      Lock icon The calm before the storm
      643 4  -  THE PROPERTY COLUMN Cooperating for the moment, developers will soon be battling for market share Lee Han Shih IT is interesting how property consultants tend to talk about strong demand pushing up housing prices. None of them, it seems, has mentioned prices could also come
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      Lock icon Korea land sales to foreigners in 2nd qtr treble
      236 4 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Foreign firms and individuals bought 17.4 million square metres of land in Korea in the second quarter, almost three times the area purchased in the first quarter, the Ministry of Construction and Transportation said. The land sales were valued
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      Lock icon Frenzy to transform New Jersey
      841 4 Developers are busy building as surging Manhattan economy fuels demand for cheaper office, residential space NYT [JERSEY CITY, New Jersey] Of all the real estate debacles and broken dreams of the recession a decade ago, few were more spectacular than the collapse of Port Liberte.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Non-bumi interests won't be diluted: Bank Negara
      629 5  -  Mergers will create 4 bumi-controlled, 2 non-bumi banking institutions From Ruth Wong in Kuala Lum//ur MALAYSIA'S central bank yesterday rebuffed market criticisms that the megamerger plan for the financial sector would result in the dilution of non-bumiputra interests in the banking sector and
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      Lock icon HK transfers banking licence to new Indon bank
      198 5 HONGKONG AFP THE Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said yesterday that it had transferred the restricted banking licence of PT Bank Pembangunan Indonesia to PT Bank Mandiri, a new super-bank. Last week, Mandiri was formed out of the merger of four failed
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      Lock icon Krung Thai to get 108b baht govt help for loan defaults
      175 5 ■BANGKOK Bloomberg STATE-CONTROLLED Krung Thai Bank Pel will receive 108 billion baht (554.9 billion) from the government so it can cover loan defaults without making shareholders pay, a Thai Finance Ministry official said yesterday. The investment will be made
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        Lock icon KL cuts minimum wage for card holders
        65 5 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's central Bank Negara yesterday announced a cut in the minimum salary requirement for credit card holders to 18,000 Malaysian ringgit (S$8,000) per year against RM24.000 from July 28, Bernama news agency said. It quoted the central bank as saying
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        Lock icon Indonesian consumer prices down 1.05%
        71 5 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's consumer prices fell for a fifth month in July, as a stronger domestic currency made imports cheaper. The consumer price index fell 1.05 per cent from June, the Bureau of Statistics said. In June, prices fell 0.34 per cent from May. Compared
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        Lock icon 7,000 troops to hunt down Aceh rebels
        89 5 AFP [JAKARTA] A total 0f7,000 troops will launch an operation to hunt down separatist rebels in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, the chief of the Aceh police said yesterday. "The (rebel) group will be terminated soon through the Sadar Rencong Operation II which will
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      Lock icon Indon commission delays election result again
      358 5 JAKARTA It holds back nod to allow parties more time for talks Reuters INDONESIA'S election commission postponed a meeting yesterday on whether to approve the much-delayed results of the June 7 parliamentary poll, in a bid to give political parties more time for talks.
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
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      Lock icon Thailand delays stimulus deal
      156 6 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand said yesterday it would delay for one week cabinet approval of a multi-billion baht investment stimulus package. Finance ministry spokesman Satit Limpongpan told reporters the package, likely to be worth up to US$2 billion (553.4 billion), would be reviewed by the cabinet on
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      Lock icon Capital controls won't be lifted just yet: Dr M
      460 6 Reuters, AFP [TOKYO] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that Malaysia will keep its ringgit currency pegged at its current rate of 3.80 to the US dollar, and will not lift capital controls just yet, the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon Tokyo determined to stop 'premature' yen rise
      641 6 Officials call rapid rise of yen in early stages of recovery undesirable AFP, Bloomberg [TOKYO] As the dollar slipped to a five-month low against the yen in Tokyo yesterday on selling from Japanese exporters and institutional investors, a senior official vowed to stem
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      Lock icon M'sian trade surplus narrows to RM5.4b in June
      497 6  -  Strong growth in imports due to low base last year, say economists From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur PRELIMINARY June trade figures released by Malaysia yesterday point to continued economic recovery, although the strong year-on-year growth in imports might have been
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      Lock icon Signs of East Asian recovery, but risk of complacency: World Bank
      371 6 AFP [MANILA] Early signs of economic recovery across East Asia after record lending by the World Bank to the region in the fiscal year to June 1999 are encouraging, according to a World Bank official. However, he cautioned against
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      Lock icon Timely pause for thought on Asia
      731 6 Western strategists wary of a return to volatility FT [LONDON] After six months of atypicaUy smooth upward progress, Asian stock markets have resumed their traditional volatility. Bourses tumbled in July on worries about political tensions, a possible Chinese devaluation and the state of the
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      Lock icon Thai firms' 4% funding growth can be met
      387 6 Target can be met with sale of new bonds and stocks Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai companies, faced with a bank credit crunch because of record defaults, will still be able to obtain sufficient funds this year by selling bonds and shares, the central
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
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      Lock icon China IPO reform seen boosting shares
      458 7 BEIJING Analysts say fresh funds will enter and bring prices closer to market reality Reuters [BEIJING] China's reform of large stock initial public offerings will help boost share prices eventually by attracting fresh funds and making the pricing of public offers closer to market
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      Lock icon Zhu gets Jiang's support to continue reforms
      446 7 BEIJING Most senior cadres have given PM their backing report CHINA'S Premier Zhu Rongji's political fortunes have improved with President Jiang Zemin giving him clear-cut support, a newspaper reported yesterday. The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the majority of senior cadres
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      Lock icon Taiwan bourse slides further on investor jitters
      474 7  -  hYom Macabe Keliher in Taipei THE Taiwan stock market continued its three-week skid yesterday, falling a further 1.8 per cent on thin trade, on investor jitters over a Taiwan shipping vessel which had been seized by Chinese authorities within Taiwan waters. The freighter
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Korean exports post biggest rise in 17 months
      609 8 SEOUL Stronger yen, Asian economic recovery helped boost demand in July Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's exports posted their biggest rise in 17 months in July, as a stronger yen and an economic recovery in Asia helped Korean companies competing with Japan. Exports rose
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      Lock icon When inflation hits bottom, Indians go shopping
      94 8 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] An Indian couple shopping for fabric... India's annualised inflation rate last month slowed to a record low of 1.62 per cent, as bumper harvests triggered price falls for some agricultural products. Last month's inflation rates dipped below the previous record
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      Lock icon Foreign creditors to have hand in Daewoo revamp
      417 8 DAEWOO DEBACLE But govt won't guarantee chaebol's foreign debts Reuters, Bloomberg, [SEOUL] Foreign creditors will be allowed to participate in the restructuring of the debt-ridden Daewoo Group in consultation with local creditors, the Financial Supervisory Commission said yesterday. But Lee Yong Keun,
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      Lock icon Hanvit sells US$1b of foreign shares at 25% discount
      399 8 SEOUL Sale revived after govt balked at steep discount on Friday Bloomberg HANVIT Bank, the nation's No 2 commercial lender, yesterday sold US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) of foreign shares at a discount of 25 per cent to Friday's closing price to
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      Lock icon Japan's biggest voice forex brokers to merge
      189 8 TOKYO Bloomberg A RAPID power shift to electronic brokers from human brokers in the currency market has ended nearly 20 years of competition between Japan's top voice brokers. With electronic broking now handling more than 85 per cent of currency transactions since starting
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  • REGION/WORLD
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      Lock icon US factory index drops first time since April
      523 9 WASHINGTON Consumer spending also slowed in Q2 to 4% rate of increase after 6.7% in Q1 Bloomberg US manufacturing slowed in July as production and new orders declined, a National Association of Purchasing Management s-.rvey of executives showed yesterday. NAPM's factory index
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      Lock icon More than 200 feared dead in Indian train crash
      385 9 GAISAL, India Reuters TWO crowded trains hurtled head-on into each other in eastern India a few hours before dawn yesterday, killing at least 198 people and injuring 350. Officials said they expected the death toll to rise sharply as more bodies
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      Lock icon EC probes complaints against Korean pharmaceutical barriers
      218 9 BRUSSELS Reuters THE European Commission has opened a probe into allegations that South Korea unfairly restricts imports of European pharmaceuticals. The probe could lead to the 15-member European Union filing a challenge against Korea in the World Trade Organisation, the global trade watchdog.
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      Lock icon What's the beef about British meat?
      67 9 [LONDON] European visitors to the UK on Sunday being greeted by British supermarket chain Asda with British beef sandwiches as part of a general campaign to promote beef following the BSE scandal that brought a worldwide ban on British meat. Passengers alighting from Eurostar
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      Lock icon Heytesbury puts 10 top London theatres up for sale
      254 9 SYDNEY Reuters AUSTRALIA'S richest woman said yesterday that she had put 10 landmark London theatres up for sale, but denied British newspaper reports that she was planning to concentrate her energies on a political career. Janet Holmes a Court, widow of
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      Lock icon Paris Club to revamp Russia debt
      427 9 PARIS USsBb debt due by end of 2000 will be repaid in 15-20 years THE Paris Club of country creditors said on Sunday it had struck a deal with Russia to reschedule about US$B billion (5513.4 billion) of Sovietera debts falling due by the
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      Lock icon UK manufacturing sector on road to recovery: survey
      479 9 LONDON Results reinforce expectations next rate move will be np Reuters BRITAIN'S manufacturing sector is well on the road to recovery according to a survey published yesterday, reinforcing expectations the next move in interest rates will be up. The Chartered Institute of
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      Lock icon 99% of US banks Y2K ready: regulators
      287 9 WASHINGTON Reuters US bank, thrift and credit union regulators said yesterday that 99 per cent of all fed-erally-insured financial institutions are now Y2K ready. Just one per cent of institutions did not meet a June 30 deadline for ridding their critical computer systems
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
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      Lock icon Tax cuts: GOP's dangerous obsession
      851 10  -  THE BOTTOM UNE OPINION By Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group UNITED States President Bill Clinton will be right to veto the massive tax cuts embraced by the Republican Congress. The wonder is that the Republicans are so wedded to a programme that is dubious
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      99 10 'It's going to be harder making money in Asia going forward than in the last nine months. A lot of rubbish companies have gone up as well as good ones. There is going to be a lot of separating wheat from Chaff -Richard Cardiff Asia product manager.
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      Lock icon Hurdles to bank restructuring
      652 10 EDITORIAL AS Asian economies move from the acute phase of crisis management to the nitty-gritty of bank and corporate restructuring, they are not finding the going easy. Examples of the hurdles being faced are evident throughout the region. In Thailand, for instance, it has recently emerged
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      Lock icon Asia's volatile markets challenge fund managers
      1203 10  -  Stock pickers fare best, having beaten the regional index in Asia before, during and after the crisis By\ Philip Segal IHT in Hongkong YOU would think that with some stock markets in Asia up by more than 100 per cent in the past year,
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      966 10 India-Asean potential INDIA has completed its fourth annual dialogue with Asean, the South-east Asian grouping, and found much in common with it. In his second exchange with Asean. after a stormy start in Manila last year, Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh appears to have consolidated his
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
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      Lock icon Roberts' Runaway box office success
      468 11 Pretty Woman star's reunion with Richard Gere in new film is top US summer hit, raking in USs34.sm in 3 days Reuters (LOS ANGELES) Julia Roberts scored her second hit movie of the summer as the romantic comedy Runaway Bride opened in the top slot
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      1057 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Guy's terror of the IK IK H 9 In short, aver nobody would there |H[ IB 10 Point taken and even ob- —W—W |M| IH lH 11 Anger at peers'agitation after m m m n[ m 12 Looking embarrassed about article one's collected (6) hang a so- HB
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  • ROAD TO ISO REWARDS
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      Lock icon Help at hand to meet the ISO standards
      942 12  -  Here's a firm that specialises in preparing companies to acquire the standard, writes carol emo CAROL ERG COMPANIES often hear of ISO standards and the benefits they offer, such as promoting cost efficiency and unlocking doors to new markets or clients. The
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      1108 14  -  The ISO experience offers further insight into repositioning the company and Sitra Holdings is one snch beneficiary By I Carol Eng THE road to getting ISO certification basically marks a process of improving work processes, with spin-off benefits in the future.
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      Lock icon Stamp of quality a must for success
      1013 14  -  Byi Carol Eng ISO certification seems like a basic prerequisite these days. Since the government introduced ISO 9000 to Singapore more than a decade ago, the standard has become so prominent that it has come to mean a stamp of consistent quality. Companies
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      Lock icon Natsteel Electronics profit soars 63%
      702 15  -  $43m interim gain beats forecasts; NEL hints of at least one big acquisition in the works By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE) Investors' favourite Nat Steel Electronics Ltd (NEL) yesterday delivered a better-than-expected 63 per cent jump in interim net profit to $43 million, and hint- Ed
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      Lock icon Del Monte ends flat in debut trading
      349 15  -  Analysts cite huge float, bad timing, US$ denomination By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE) Confounding bullish expectations of a 10 per cent upside from the initial public offer price, shares of processed food group Del Monte Pacific made a disappointing debut yesterday on the
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      Lock icon Banks should not leave analysts groping in the dark
      643 15  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Siow Li Sen According to some of the analysts who attended last Thursday's analysts' briefing by DBS Bank, vice-chairman and chief executive officer John Olds was greeted by a round of applause at the end of it. That
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      Lock icon UOB, OCBC to announce interim results on Friday, OUB on Aug 13
      205 15 [SINGAPORE] Banking analysts and reporters will have their hands full this Friday, as two of the Big Four banks United Overseas Bank and OCBC Bank have chosen to announce their half-time results on that day. In the previous
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      119 15 As of yesterday, 18 locally-listed companies had released their results for the six months ended June 30, 1999. They recorded a combined $1,099.0m in group profits, up 17SJ% over the same period last year The breakdown is as follows: No with profits ;1> Mo with to—» p B
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        Lock icon Form seeks shareholder nod for issue of 300m shares
        214 16 [SINGAPORE] Financiallytroubled Form Holdings is seeking shareholder approval at the end of the month for its plans to raise additional capital to enable it to continue as a going concern. Form shareholders will decide on Aug 26 whether to approve the
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        Lock icon Strike Engg's IPO subscribed 160.5 times
        366 16  -  Response compares favourably to the 6.7 times for Del Monte Pacific's IPO By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] Strike Engineering's public offer of 12.75 million shares at 19 cents each has been subscribed 160.5 times. The home-grown mechanical and electrical engineering company said last night
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        Lock icon Freight Links asked to explain H2 losses
        283 16 Directors had said they expected prospects to improve [SINGAPORE] Freight Links Express Holdings has been asked by the Stock Exchange of Singapore to explain why it posted a loss of $6.8 million in the second half of its financial year after saying that
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        Lock icon MBf Hldgs sells 13.2m MBf Capital shares
        130 16 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] MBf Holdings Bhd said it has sold 13.2 million MBf Capital Bhd shares on the open market from July 5-20 for about 21.2 million Malaysian ringgit (559.4 million). The sale has reduced MBf Holdings' stake in MBf Capital to 15.2
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        281 16 New SembCorp Ind shares to start trading on Aug 23 (SINGAPORE] Sembawang Resources Ltd (SRL) said yesterday it has picked next Thursday (Aug 12) as the last trading day for its shares and warrants. The mainboard-listed counter added that new SembCorp Industries
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        Lock icon Civil suit vs M'sian Plantations dismissed
        169 16 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Plantations Bhd said the High Court has discharged a civil suit brought against the company and Multi-Purpose Bank Bhd by former Malaysian Plantations director Ahmad Fuad Mohd Ali. Malaysian Plantations said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
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          40 16 [SINGAPORE] United Industrial Corporation announced that Perry L Pe, a director, had resigned with effect from yesterday.lt also announced the appointment of Gabriel C Singson as a member of the company's audit committee on the same date.
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          115 16 [SINGAPORE] Van der Horst has completed the final review of its cash flow for the next five years with its financial advisers. This will assist in finalising some details on the restructuring of its term loans. The company and its lenders are in continuing discussions
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          85 16 [SINGAPORE] Pacific Can Investment Holdings yesterday announced the appointment on July 27 of Muhammad Fauzi Ismail, deputy chief executive officer of Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad, as the managing director of its subsidiary Qarira Packaging (M). He takes over from Muhamad Roslan Baba who stepped
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          47 16 [SINGAPORE] Transmarco chairman Jonathan Bradford Sampoerna, at his request, has been relieved of his executive duties with effect from Sunday. He is now redesignated as non-executive chairman. His previous executive duties have been taken over by the managing director. Albert Balthasar Kloti.
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          41 16 [SINGAPORE] Vinod Kumar Gupta has resigned as both Magnecomp International executive director and Magnecomp Group chief financial officer, effective last Saturday. Mr Gupta also resigned as a member of the audit committee on the same day.
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        Lock icon HSBC surprises with higher profit lower bad debt charges
        544 17 Pre-tax earnings up 10% analysts had forecast 7% fall Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] Global banking group HSBC Holdings Pic has surprised and delighted investors, reporting lower firsthalf bad-debt charges and higher pre-tax profits when all had braced for another hit from the
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        Lock icon Golden Harvest shares up 19% as trading resumes
        403 17 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Golden Harvest Entertainment (Holdings), a leading international distributor of Chinese martial arts movies, rose 19 per cent to 68 HK cents as it resumed trade yesterday following a 10.5-month suspension. Controlling shareholders Raymond Chow and Village Roadshow, an Australian entertainment
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        Lock icon Demand for China firm's IPO lifts hopes of more to come
        315 17 FT [HONGKONG] Heavy public demand for shares in Great Wall Technology, a Chinese computer products maker, has raised hopes for the resumption this autumn of China's privatisation programme, which ran aground last year. A HKSI.I2 billion (*****.3 million) offering
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        488 17 Chip giant has option to increase its holdings to 13.2% Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Tricom Holdings Ltd rose as much as 38 per cent after Intel Corp agreed to swap its shares in a high-speed Internet venture with Richard Li's Pacific Century Group for
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        Lock icon New system passes tests, says HKFE
        319 17 But analysts say trading spikes not adequately accounted for Bridge News [HONGKONG] The results of tests conducted by the Hong Kong Futures Exchange on Saturday on a new electronic trading system which will replace the open-outcry system were satisfactory, an HKFE spokesman said yesterday.
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        Lock icon Nomura Sec penalised for 1995 price manipulation
        551 18 It cannot trade on its own account, take part in govt bond auctions from Aug 6-12 Reuters [TOKYO] Brokerage Nomura Securities Co Ltd was penalised by Japanese financial regulators yesterday for manipulating stock prices in 1995. The watchdog Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) said
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        403 18 Talks will help end battle over future of French oil industry Bloomberg [LONDON] Total Fina SA chairman Thierry Desmarest said he would consider allowing top managers or board members to begin merger talks with rival Elf Aquitaine SA,
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        Lock icon Nissan to sell stakes in 9 mobile phone firms
        286 18 Move seen sparking future shake-ups in cell phone industry Reuters, Bloomberg [TOKYO] Nissan Motor Co will sell its stakes in nine cell phone firms in a move expected to spark further shakeups in Japan's mobile phone industry. The sales will help
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        Lock icon Filtronic to buy Fujitsu semicon plant in UK
        236 18 Reuters [LONDON] British telecommunications equipment group Filtronic pic said yesterday it was buying Fujitsu Ltd's closed semiconductor plant in Britain, if the government chips in. No sum was disclosed. Fujitsu posted a 56.5 billion yen (SsB26 million) special loss in the year
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          Lock icon C&W HKT to invest in Taiwan services
          55 18 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Cable Wireless HKT will spend about NT$6OO million (5531.2 million) to increase its data services business in Taiwan as it targets Internet users with a new Chinese-language local web portal. C&W HKT has spent about HK$4OO million (5586.5 million) in Taiwan
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          51 18 AFP [BERLIN] Deutsche Bank, the biggest private bank in Germany, is holding talks over the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's cable television networks in several regional states in Germany, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported yesterday. A Deutsche Bank spokesman declined to comment on the report.
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          54 18 NYT [NEW YORK] After raising its unsolicited offer, Amsted Industries, which makes products for the rail, truck and auto components industries, said on Sunday that it would acquire the Varlen Corp for US$74O million (SJI.2 billion) in cash. Varlen makes products and components for
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          53 18 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Telstra Corp, Australia's No 1 telecommunications firm, will pay about ASSO million (5554.4 million) for a 15 per cent stake in computer software firm Solution 6 Holdings Ltd, with an option to move to 25 per cent by the end of
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        Lock icon Pearson's first half net falls 39%
        580 19 It lost money on purchase of textbook business; profit expected in H2 Bloomberg [LONDON) Pearson Pic, the world's largest educational publisher, and parent of The Financial Times, said firsthalf net income fell 39 per cent, less than expected, as it increased the size of
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        610 19 Reuters, NYT [NEW YORK] The percentage of computer users having a favourable image of software giant Microsoft Corp appears to have slipped over the past two years. In a nationwide telephone survey recently, a New York Times/CBS poil found 60 per cent of
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        Lock icon H-P sees its future as an e-commerce revolutionary
        591 19 Company intent on becoming Internet services giant NYT [PALO ALTO, California] In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol. And no one may be more aware of that right now
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        Lock icon Xerox using used copiers to woo small businesses
        281 19 NYT [NEW YORK] Xerox Corp is not satisfied with just being the world's biggest seller of new copiers. Now it is using warehouse sales and Internet auctions to attack the US$l billion-plus market for used copiers, as well. More is at stake
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        459 19 Computer industry said to be at crossroads because of Net possibilities NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Sun Microsystems has disclosed the first details of a new microprocessor design the company hopes could become a standard for computing in the post-personal computer (PC)
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        Lock icon Banks worried by Asian trend to go domestic on loans
        585 20 Many firms prefer to issue bonds or to tap domestic local currency market Reuters [HONGKONG] News that Thailand's largest conglomerate, Siam Cement pic, intends to focus its future fund raising efforts on its domestic local currency market is part of
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        477 20 BNP, SocGen chairmen forecast final round verdict FT, Reuters [PARIS] The battle to create France's largest listed bank has entered its final week after six months of skirmishing, with each side claiming victory is within its reach by this Friday's deadline. In the past
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        Lock icon National Mutual to spend A$60m on marketing
        405 20 Reuters [MELBOURNE] National Mutual Holdings Ltd said it would double its marketing spending to As6o million (Ss66 million) over three years in a bid to revamp itself into a Asia-Pacific financial services leader and boost product sales. From Aug 8 the company, 51
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        483 20 Tax benefits for local investors; shares expected by end-Sept Reuters [WELLINGTON] Australian banking group Westpac Banking Corp launched a plan yesterday to tap into the New Zealand investment market through an offer of about NZ$BOO million (SS7I6 million) in a new class of shares.
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        Lock icon Fidelity National to buy No 2 US property title insurer
        400 20 It will pay USsl.2b in cash and stock for Chicago Title Bloomberg [CHICAGO] Fidelity National Financial Inc has agreed to buy Chicago Title Corp for US$l.2 billion (Ss2 billion) in cash and stock, creating the largest US insurer of property
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        218 21  -  g Tnr Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market began the week on an uncertain and cautious note yesterday as investors grappled with the possibility of another Fed rate hike, joined by another three-digit fall on Wall Street last
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        Lock icon Futures fall amid rising China-Taiwan tensions
        139 21  -  MSCI Taiwan Mores Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures yesterday slipped 3.5 points amid rising cross-strait political and military tensions. The Taiwan bourse plunged 130.81 points to 7,195.94 in the light of foreign institutional selling in electronics stocks on
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        Lock icon Crude steady near 20-month high as cuts seen eroding glut
        266 21 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [LONDON] Crude oil was little changed yesterday, near a 20-month high, on traders' expectations that exporters' output cuts will gradually reduce the oil glut. Oil prices rallied 80 per cent this year after the Organisation of Petroleum
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        307 21 Reuters London THE battered dollar won a reprieve across the board in European trading on Monday, although it did fall to new five-month lows against the yen earlier before managing to retrace its losses. The euro's upward momentum appeared to be waning somewhat afler reaching 2-1/2 highs above
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      1383 22 AFP QHmgSeog ****** HONGKONG share prices rose 1.9 per cent yesterday on follow-up buying in anticipation of better bank interim reports, dealers said. "Sentiment is definitely better in anticipation" of better interim reports from HSBC Holdings pic and its subsidiaries, as well as on hopes for China's entry to
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      608 22 Reuters Q Shenzhen B Index +OJM SHENZHEN'S B shares ended slightly higher yesterday in trade dulled by the absence of market-moving news and continued wariness during the interim reporting season, analysts said. The B share index rose 0.94 point, or 0.97 per cent, to 98.53 on turnover of HK$64
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      326 22 AFP QWP Index -13M1 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.8 per cent lower yesterday in thin trading as investors stayed away because of tensions with China, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 130.81 points to 7,195.94 on turnover of NT553.81 billion, the lowest level in five
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      2278 22 LONDON Industrials *30 Pound 3i Gf oup 7.81 0.20 Abbey National 10.67 -0.02 A 8 Foods 4.12 0.04 A 8 Ports 2.99 unch AstraZeneca 22.96 0.30 Alliance Leicester 8.26 0.22 Allied Oonwcq 5.55 -0.07 Allied Zurich 7.53 0.33 Anglo American Gold 43.70 unch ASOA Group 2.20 -0.01
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      1658 22 AFP P Nikkei 225 -36J6 SHARE prices in Tokyo lost 0.2 per cent yesterday on concerns the yen's appreciation would hurt domestic industries, brokers said. The key Nikkei average of 225 selected issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 36.16 points to finish at 17.825.70. The dollar's fall to
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        406 23 AFP, AFX-Asia Composite Index -33.75 MALAYSIAN share prices plunged 4.4 per cent yesterday as both foreign fluids and retail investors continued to cash out, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index (KLCI) fell through its 750-point psychological barrier to finish at 734.94, down
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        8707 23 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 1999 Last Vol Day M«t Cap Hlj> U» Cimpany SiH 'OOP Htgli Lam W $■»> 440 255 Ajinomoto 320 -20 II 340 310 20.3 129.T 174 46 Angkasa 96 -14 373 110 95 141.6 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 296 -24 16 312 296 10.3 118.4 294
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        2081 24 BONOS, LOANS i WARRANTS 52-*k Last Vat Day Lilt Ouata Avg High Low Stno Company Sal* ♦or* COOO) Miqh Law Buyar Sallar Prlca '04 3 s 3160 "AcarW0l0731 USS 45.5 "2 5 162 50 4*5 45 45 5 80 4.5 s 3164 Acma ******4 41.5 -1 229 43.5 41 41
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        169 24  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy WITH the Malaysian market dropping the way it has over the past week, a few interesting plays have surfaced. One is on stockbroking the increasing volume seen in recent months must surely benefit the brokers first before any
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        285 24 AFP □Wellington -32.49 NEW Zealand share prices slumped 1.5 per cent yesterday in response to a fall on Wall Street on inflation jitters. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 32.49 points at 2,163.29 on very light turnover of NZ$52.B million. 1 v- mm *3vantag« HOS 2 60 unch 186
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        867 24 AFP D SET fata -12 THAI shares fell 0.9 per cent yesterday as investors took profits amid concerns over possible US interest rate hikes and the Thai government's planned economic stimulus package, dealers said. The market lost ground in thin range-bound trade with no domestic leads to spur investor
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        418 24 AFP D Composite Index 4M SOUTH Korean share prices fell one per cent yesterday amid a foreign sell-off and profit-taking by investment trust fluids, dealers said. SK Securities analyst Park Yong Sun said the market gave a muted response to South Korea's July trade data, which showed a yearly
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        644 24 AFP P All Ordinaries -Hi AUSTRALIAN share prices fell 0.7 per cent to a four-week low yesterday amid continuing fears of a rise in US interest rates, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index slipped 19.9 points to 3,000.00, its lowest finish since June 30. The All Industrials Index fell
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        732 24 AFP D Composite Index -L 36 INDONESIAN share prices closed slightly lower in volatile trade yesterday after the General Election Commission failed to ratify the results of the June 7 polls, dealers said. A dealer at a local brokerage said "the market was doing well until the news about
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        330 24 AFP Manila PHILIPPINE share prices ended 0.6 per cent higher yesterday as investors bought into bargain-priced stocks, but the uptrend was tempered by fears of a rate hike in the United States, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 13.32 points to close at 2,356.13. Volume amounted
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        422 26 Stocks Volume Del Monte USIc 47,661.000 Lian Benq 5c 15,790,000 Asia FoodSProp 14,277,000 Poh Lian 10c 14,064,000 Golden Agri USIOc 12,768,000 Ossia Intl 10c 11,492,000 'Genting Int 9,474,000 KepTatLee Bk OBSCWOO 8,403,000 leong Hin 20c 8.372,000 Hotung Inv NT5 7,238,000 Stocks DBS Foreign 30,758,635 Del Monte USIc 29,749,975 Nat Elec
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        Lock icon Worries over Wall Street outweigh earnings optimism
        629 26  -  STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY Most sectors close either weaker or mixed; food company Del Monte makes poor debut By R Sivanithy WORRIES about Wall Street's present condition got the better of stocks here yesterday, pushing prices broadly lower and outweighing any positive sentiment over
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          74 26 THAILAND is the regional headquarters of a French-listed hotel group. Guess what? We tried to place an international call to the mobile phone of the managing director there, and it turned out that he was using a Singapore-registered handphone. "Better global network and connection," explained the
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          131 26 TAN Chong International may not be reporting as rosy a set of interim results as widely expected. According to a source, motor earnings could well be lower than that posted in the first half of last year on the back of escalating COE (certificate
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          71 26 GIVEN the flak generated over the franchising scheme of SBBB.com, a new e-commerce start-up has deemed it necessary to emphasise that it will not make money by selling its scheme to franchisees. "There is no catch, no gimmicks, no franchise fees," said Rudy Kadjairi, chief executive of
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          176 26 ON the 26th of last month, FCC Equities Pte Ltd (formerly Mimax Ribbons Pte Ltd), a wholly-owned subsidiary of listed First Capital Corporation, purchased 6.25 million shares or 1.38 per cent of Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL). That led to eight other separate filings of the transaction
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        68 26  -  -By Wong Wei Kong OSSIA International shares closed up 3.5 cents at $0 95 yesterday on a volume of 11 5 million shares, compared with its 10-day traded average of 4 67 million units. The daily RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts still emit buy signals, although the weekly
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      299 27 Bridge News Reuters WITH Panamax rates firmer in the east, and still rising in the Atlantic, brokers were in a buoyant mood as the week drew to a close. Futures had another quiet day with little fresh news from the physical market, Clarkson Securities Ltd said in its
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      403 27  -  Navigation endangered by rise in passenger craft traffic: M'sian marine official By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] A top Malaysian Marine Department has called for more attention to be focused on the danger to navigation in the Straits of Malacca caused by small craft
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      377 27 Bloomberg [MEJILLONES, Chile] France's Groupe GTM, Mersey Docks Harbour Co and Chilean companies bid to turn a barren stretch of coastline in Chile's Atacama Desert into a US$lOO million (Ssl6B million) copper shipping port. GTM, Mersey and Puerto Ventanas SA of
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      113 27 [SINGAPORE] Jurong Shipyard has built and delivered its most advanced chemical vessel. The USs27million (5f45.36 million) job was from privately owned Swedish shipping company RederiAß Veritas Tankers. The 11,500 deadweight Ice Class chemical tanker, Astoria, is designed to carry oil products and chemicals, and has a
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      339 27 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Shipping Development Co, one of China's biggest shipping firms, said its decision to focus on oil transportation will pay off with an earnings boost this year. Revenue from oil transportation now accounting for more than half
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      1114 28 RUSSIAN SHIPPING Recent Munich symposium introduced the Tacis project promoting modernisation of Russian inland waterways International Transport Journal AT the "Transport 99" trade fair in Munich at the beginning of June, Hertzog Partner Management Consultants, Potsdam, organised a symposium on river shipping in Russia. The consultancy
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      183 28 PACE Djak Lloyd 6 ACL 6 Dongnama 3 AMI 3 ECU line 6 Accord 8 Appenship 5 tyef rw 6 Austral 8 Foon Sufl 8 Balati Shpq 5 GLlnk Gemartrans 6 ruigw. -cm > cw Mm Hyundai 7 COSCO 5 ICFS 3 CSAV 3 Interasia 7 Central
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        199 39 Ao| 9 Singapore: National Day. South Africa: National Women's Day. Ao| 12 Thailand: HM Queen's Birthday. Ao|lß Belgium: Assumption Day. Hong Kong: Sino-Japanese War Victory Day. Luxembourg: Assumption Day. An* 17 Indonesia: National Day. Aug 29 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 30 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. An|3l
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        765 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        525 39 Carta® 180 Mai 990.4 S.I 17.5 0.10 78 0ft •W2f Density *at»r Baudot Ask Aluminium Sediment No above £25 0 2 2 0 0 1 380 Ave 986.1 0.4 14.2 0.07 38 0.02 Ciixt 380 Mai 1005.0 2.5 20.8 0.M 235 0.08 WAM %W »MA« mt
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        637 40 Move will lead to more passengers for Philippine Airlines, says Manila official AFP, Bridge News [MANILA] The termination by the Philippines of air agreements with Taiwan was approved by President Joseph Estrada's office, officials said. Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary for Legal
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          101 40 Bloomberg [MUNICH] DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG, the aerospace unit of DaimlerChrysler AG, confirmed it is in talks with Alenia Difesa, the defence unit of Italian industrial group Finmeccanica, about a possible link up. "We're in talks with Alenia, but I can't say any more than that," said
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          73 40 Reuters [HONGKONG] Taiwan's leading carrier China Airlines Ltd said yesterday it had leased two new cargo freighters from Atlas Air. A Hongkong-based spokesman for China Airlines said it had leased two 747-400 freighters from Atlas, but gave no further details. China Airlines said in June
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          103 40 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said it carried 4.307 million passengers in the five months to May, giving a load factor of 68.0 per cent, up from 65.9 per cent a year earlier. In the latest edition of its CX World newsletter, the airline
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          86 40 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd said it, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd and ShinMaywa Industries Ltd will jointly develop cockpits for passenger aircraft. This will be the first time cockpits for passenger aircraft will be developed by domestic companies since 1973, the company The Ministry
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          84 40 AFP [PARIS] International passenger traffic at the French capital's two main airports leaped 10.7 per cent in the first six months of the year, compared to the first half of 1998, Aeroports de Paris said. Domestic traffic out of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly
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        490 40 AFP [SYDNEY] Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd chief Mike Quinn denied yesterday that his company was in dii*e straits after reports said the car giant's Japanese president had warned of its imminent closure. Government and union officials also rallied round the Adelaide-based manufacturer, saying
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        51 40 [ST PETERSBURG] A woman breaking a bottle of champagne during the presentation ceremony for the new generation of the Sokol train in Tikhvin, 200 km from St Petersburg. Sokol was constructed for the highspeed railway St Petersburg-Moscow and will go at a speed of2Bo km per hour.
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        460 40 Recovery not expected until at least early next year Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's domestic vehicle sales took another ugly tumble in July, sliding 14 per cent from a year earlier in their 28th consecutive monthly decline and the biggest percentage drop so far this
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      18 27 Russian shipping Many rivers of potential Recent Munich symposium Introduced project to modernise Russian inland waterways. Page 2
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      330 27 tople Crate MKbybprt Ocnai IMpptof CmiwKhU hat bsytd The Chartered Institute of Shipbrokers, a new report detailing the outlook for Singapore branch, has elected the the global cruise Industry tHI 2010. The following officials for 1999/2000: report covers the cruise ship fleet. r cruise ship operators, patterns of vessel tnairman.
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      138 27 Estrada backed cancellation of air pact with Taipei Move will lead to more passengers for Philippine Airlines, says Manila official. Back Page TERMINAL MULTIPURPOSE MERAK MAS A Public Licence Granted Ist May 1999 HSHII t 1 IBS M-^SnKh-^Ur PORT BENEFITS Value to Shippers Consignees (who are located around Banten area):
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      684 28 L<"es services representee *—i^ (flOlj) Registry* flflPt Accre3rted Shipping Agents UUV Association Singapore Shipping Association ULY LINE MALE IVfSSEI VOY HA ra ITA P. KLAHG SPORE MALI Empress Lily V 0499 17/08 18/08 28/08 Princess Uly V 0899 04/09 05/09 13/09 Empress Lily V 0599 21/09 22/09 30/09 ULY MARINE
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      1259 31 W—kly Srilii to M— Modildih, 1 Djibouti (Via MmQ I I SINGAPORE'S GENERAL AGENTS: 80 ROBINSON RD TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****08 OUTWARD (B/L) *****02 JOHORE OFFICE; COSTAR SNIPPING PTE LTD 112-00 saus/ikgs *****57/60 inward dept (D/oj *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (Aft) SDN BHD CR NO: **********0 iN SINGAPORE *****8 CONVENTIONAL
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