The Business Times, 6 September 1999

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  • 11 1 MITA (P) 04(V12^98 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://buTmess-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1999
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  • 12 1 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES 1 > I f M Chugs weeSdS&jS
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  • 19 1 PROPERTY FOCUS J2 SINGAPORE 4 ASIA ON THE MEND.....5 REGION 10 Tr/LIFESTUE.„ 11 BUSINESS IT. 13-18 STOCKS— .....I4-2B
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  • 1036 1  -  More active price management role in npgraderandHDß resale segments By\ Lee Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The government has rewritten some of the rules in the housing market, if comments by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan qyer the weekend are anything to go
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  • 732 1  -  Mid-year review allows re-evaluation of pace of land sales By David Boey, Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] There's more to be read from the government's decision to resume land sales than just the amount of land to be released for sale. The exercise, announced
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  • 785 1  -  From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S complex keiretsu system of corporate cross relationships is under threat Aside from further consolidation of Japan's troubled banking industry, the recently announced alliance among three of the country's major banks could be the start of a shake-up
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    • 72 1 DISIPE OCBC track OCBC Bank says the divestment of non-core assets is still very much on the agenda, Pg 19 another business, Pf 4 4 of 13 sites for sale next year are from '98 plan, Pg 2 En bloc sales won't suffer, Pg 2 CORPORATE RESULTS Half-time score ScSRHBHP
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  • GOVERNMENT LAMP SALES
    • 338 2  -  But govt estimates on the number of housing units to be built on these sites rise by 7-23% By. David Boey FOURjaUh* 13 land paroeU earmanffid for release uijdef were originally from the 1998 schedule. But town planners'
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    • 294 2  -  Less downside for firms with good mix of central and suburban projects By Marissa Chew THE government's land sales plan for next year will not be positive for property stocks, but the extent of the damage will be as mixed as the individual
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    • 305 2  -  By. David Boey THE Housing and Development Board's (HDB) decision to apply more stringent standards for second mortgage loans will see flat owners who move laterally or downgrade pay about $138 more each month for every $100,000 borrowed from the board. Apart from
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    • 343 2  -  Sites on offer are freehold and in prime areas consultants By. Marissa Chew, David Boey COLLECTIVE sales in prime areas are likely to be insulated from any significant property price decline which may result from the government land sales next year. All nine
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  • SINGAPORE AT HOME & ABROAD
    • 360 4  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY Money supply By I Soh Tiang Keng MONEY supply based on its narrow indicator Ml, or cash in circulation and current accounts continued its double-digit expansion in July this year, rising 19.4 per cent to $30 billion from June. But
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    • 746 4  -  Company rides on the rising collector v&lne of bank notes from all over the globe Byi Clarissa Tan TO Andy Lim, the love of money is not the root of all evil, but just another business. While the super-rich have money flowing out of
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    • 497 4  -  MATT.PAH Soh Sun Oh Public affairs manager Stock Exchange of Singapore Ltd WE refer to the article "Backdoor listings: a privilege for those with the money" written by your senior correspondent Lee Han Shih. (BT, Sept 2,1999). The article asserted that it is far
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  • ASIA ON THE MEND
    • 540 5  -  Market anduly negative, says analyst, so dollar will be supported in coming weeks From Neil Behrmann in London WHILE the US dollar staged a recovery last Friday in response to a rebound in the US bond and stock markets,
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 5 [MANILA] An enterprising man peddling samurai swords, hunting knives, and shovels dangling on a bamboo pole along a busy street of Manila yesterday. Many Filipinos have resorted to odd jobs to escape unemployment and continuing economic difficulties in the Philippines. REUTERS
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    • 313 5 Analysts forecast a year-end target of 866 for KL index Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Renewed talk of elections is expected to underpin Malaysian shares this week and counter lingering sales by foreign firms, which began withdrawing funds last week after capital controls
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    • 153 5 AFP [SINGAPORE] The World Economic Forum's (WEF) eighth East Asia Economic Summit, to be held in Singapore next month, will focus on the massive task of restoring economic growth in the region, the organisation said in a statement received Saturday. Three prime
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    • 144 5 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's securities regulators have demanded foreign equity funds report their derivative trading based on Taiwan stocks in an attempt to monitor foreign fund flows, local newspapers said yesterday. Under the new rule required by the Securities and Futures Commission,
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    • 437 5 Tokyo ready to pat aside fiscal reform to stimulate recovery, he adds AFP. Reuters [TOKYO] A rapid surge in the Japanese yen against the dollar will delay economic recovery in Japan and the rest of Asia, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi warned in
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    • 265 5 AFP [TOKYO] Profits by Japanese listed companies are likely to rise for the first time in three years, according to a survey published on Saturday. The combined pre-tax profits of 1,788 listed firms were likely to total 9.8
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  • FOCUS
    • 2479 6 Every economic crisis-hit country has the right to choose its own path to recovery. The bold measures which KL took last year have borne fruit We reproduce below extracts of the keynote speech last week in Kuala Lumpur by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 794 7  -  REGIONAL BAMS WOES If govt passes Bank Bali test, operating risks for Indonesia will come down From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta DESPITE the dark clouds over Indonesia's banking sector caused by the Bank Bali scandal, a silver lining is emerging as
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    • 317 7 SYDNEY AFP, Reuters [SYDNEY] An independent East Timor would receive an immediate injection of aid to help its shattered economy, the World Bank said yesterday. But the bank warned in a statement here that peace must be restored to the territory before
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    • 353 7 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAI Farmers Bank will shutter its insolvent Phatra Finance unit, helped by 4.5 billion baht (Ssl96 million) of capital of government subsidies, central bank governor Chatu Mongkol Sonakul said. Thailand's third largest bank, which bought Phatra
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  • CHINA-HONGKONG-TAIWAN
    • 602 8 SHANGHAI But investment-led stimulus plan could worsen deflation, say economists Reuters CHINA has bought itself some time to hold off a currency devaluation with a new economic stimulus plan, but economists feel the real test will come next year. Beijing said last week
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    • 225 8 BEIJING Massive project located in capital's embassy district AFP BEIJING is planning to invest up to 30 billion yuan (Ss6.l billion) in a massive financial and commercial centre near the capital's embassy district in the east of the city, an
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    • 45 8 [BEIJING] A Chinese security officer last week standing guard near an advertisement featuring underwear in a Beijing mall Worried about rising crime and public disorder, Chinese shopping centres, hotels and posh residential compounds have fuelled a booming business in private security agencies. REUTERS
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    • 151 8 BEIJING Reuters CHINESE garment exports saw a record decline in the first half of this year, tumbling a year-on-year 25 per cent, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. Industry officials attributed the decline mainly to steep falls in demand from Hongkong and
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    • 271 8 CANBERRA AFP AUSTRALIA will warn China's President Jiang Zemin during talks here this week that it strongly opposes the use of force against Taiwan, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday. Mr Downer also made clear Canberra would see any military
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  • ASIA
    • 407 9 KOREAN CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING They'll buy some bond holdings to raise their liquidity and stabilise interest rates Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korean banks will join government efforts to bail out cash-strapped investment trust companies by buying some of their bond holdings. The banks agreed
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    • 247 9 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korean prosecutors will summon a key member of the founding family of the giant Hyundai Group this week to question him about alleged stock price rigging, news reports said yesterday. Chung Mong-Hun, Hyundai Electronics chairman, will be summoned around Sept 9,
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    • 262 9 SEOUL Reuters HEADS of 10 major South Korean banks and the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) will meet today to discuss financial support for embattled Daewoo Group affiliates, a state-run news agency said yesterday. Yonhap News quoted a senior commission official as saying the
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    • 407 9 NEW DELHI Stable govt after elections, economic rebonnd will connt Reuters FOREIGN institutional investors say they expect India's fledgling economic recovery to turn into a full-blown boom in the coming months with elections starting yesterday widely expected to bring a majority government to power.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 539 10 WASHINGTON Rate hike remains likely with labour pool tight, productivity down AFP DESPITE Friday's euphoria on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve still has plenty of reasons to tighten credit, analysts warned. US stock and bond prices soared Friday as investor
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    • 462 10 NEW HAVEN, Connecticut Computer, diamonds, cash, fake passports found in hotel room Bloomberg MARTIN Frankel, the US money manager wanted in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars, was captured in Hamburg, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said. Mr Frankel, 44,
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    • 375 10 GENEVA AFP US workers remain the most productive in the world, but their counterparts In Europe and Asia are catching up, said an International Labour Organisation report to be released today. "The productivity race is like a never-ending marathon in which
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  • EXECUTIVE LIFESTYLE
    • 494 11 Titanic star falls for Indian guru in art movie Holy Smoke Reuters [VENICE] After the mammoth success of Titanic, British actress Kate Winslet could have done any big Hollywood film she wanted. Instead, she chose two low-budget art movies, the latest of
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1065 11 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD when the sun is on 15 Reasons to empty coffee pot? 19 Ramblers use part of meadow 28 And makes a mistake about commissions (7) nmre 13 A hairnet the fellows love, SATURDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN Oddly (5) |.I— I c I lf~lnlc»<~lulnlcl Tlal 1 Lost dynasty is second
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  • BUSINESS IT
    • 718 12  -  NSTB adviser Isaac Stein says S'pore ideal to test oat new business ideas By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Internet presents a fabulous opportunity for Singapore because it is small, wired up with broadband access, has a highly educated workforce and can
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    • 564 12  -  US IT company is also aggressively hiring new staff in Singapore and Asean t*y Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Unisys is involved in major national projects and aggressively hiring people in Singapore and Asean, Unisys Asia South president Luis Dominguez told BusinesslT
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    • BUSINESS IT
      • 335 13  -  Move will increase the revenues of both companies 'substantially' By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] IT giants IBM and Cisco Systems have formed an alliance which, according to a senior Cisco executive, will increase the revenues of both companies "substantially to billions of dollars
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      • IT TAKES
        • 45 13 NOVELL will launch Novell Directory Services 8.0 at its Asean Solution Tour at the Sheraton Towers Hotel on Friday. The show will feature solutions from Novell's various partners including Compaq, Sun Microsystems and Lexmark. Admission is free. For details, fox: 390.6514.
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        • 51 13 A CONFERENCE, "Winning with Internet Business Marketing Strategies", will be held at the Grand Hyatt m Hotel "flflUVi to be covered include revamping ineffective Web sites, capitalising on e-commerce schemes and integrating on-line marketing with overall marketing plans. The conference costs $488 per participant For details, fox:
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        • 46 13 DELOITTE Consulting has appointed Gerhard Venter as its managing director for East Asia and Africa. As a member ofDeloitte Consulting's global management committee, Singapore-based Mr Vorster sits on the Dekritte Touche (South Africa) board and the .SPg Asia-Pacific Africa management committee.
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        • 85 13  -  Compiled by Andrew Wee CYBERWAY has become the first Internet service provider (ISP) to offer an e-mail portal solution licensed from That Web Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Axtech Systems Ltd. Embedded in CyberWay's homepage at www.cyberway.com.sg, the service allows users to accese
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      • 563 15  -  Commerce Dot Com has clinched deal tobnildthe infrastructure By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The Malaysian government recently awarded a RM2SO million (Sllll million) contract to a consortium to create an electronic commerce system over the next eight years, Malaysian entrepreneur George Gan
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      • 640 15  -  By Tang Hang Kwang The writer is manager, Storage Systems Division, IBM Asean/South Asia DATA loss through system failure, user error, theft or natural disaster cao cripple a comM|*nij. one ana- lyst, loses 2-3 t per sales within eight days of a computer
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      • 229 15 [SINGAPORE] George Gan, who heads the electronic procurement project for the Malaysian government, has been a technopreneur. He was hired in July as president of Commerce Dot Com, a company given the task to set up the electronic commerce system to enable the Malaysian government to
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      • 560 16 Wit Capital has proved it can drum up customers, but it is not a sore bet Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Mark Loehr is opening the mail at Wit Capital Group Inc, a three-year-old Internet investment bank. It is the old-fashioned, paper kind. Twenty-two bins
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      • 171 16  -  By] Raju Chellam (SINGAPORE] Canon Marketing Services has introduced the BJC-5100 Bubble Jet printer targeted at office users seeking faster print speeds. The product prints 33 per cent faster than its predecessor, the BJC-5000, Canon said. The product comes with two print-heads for bi-direc-tional- printing, offers
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      • 389 17  -  Users can access a variety of communications and other devices via USB port Wong Mei-Hwen [SINGAPORE] Xircom AsiaPacific, a provider of mobile networking solutions, last week launched its Port Station system, which is targeted at mobile computer users in the small and home office
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      • ON THE SHELF
        • 72 17 HOMEGROWN Catfish Solutions has launched I-Proxy Pro, a solution that allows multiple networked PCs to connect to the Internet using a single ISP (Internet Service Provider) account. It supports analog, ISDN, XDSL and leased line connections. It maximises the bandwidth available and provides total control of
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        • 81 17 COMPEX Systems Pte Ltd has announced MX22I6S, a dual-speed Fast Ethernet auto-sensing 10/100 Mbps hub that supports LAN connections up to 100 m under a switching port The device can be expanded to support 48 ports in an Ethernet or Fast Ethernet network without the
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        • 71 17 IBM Corp said its new low-price server for small businesses running cm Windows NT and Linux operating systems is now available here. The Netfinity 3500 MlO comes with up to two 800 MHz Intel processors and IGB of memory, with prices starting at $3,793. All
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        • 61 17 MALAYSIA-BASED e-Business Sdn Bhd has launched an Internet-based billing and payment system that also offers workflow, messaging and catalogue management services. Based on technology from IBM, the solution brings together two transacting parties and the bank to complete the e-transaction cycle. It is a
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        • 79 17 INTEL Corp has announced the latest version of its Pentium ID Xeon processors for servers and workstations. The three new 550 MHz processors incorporate 512 KB, 1 MB and 2 MB of Level 2 cache to support four-way and higher server and workstation configurations. In
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        • 64 17  -  Compiled by! Raju Chellam MAINBOARD-LISTED GES International has launched its new top-end Datamini Entares server series, running on Intel's Pentium 111 Xeon 550 MHz processors. Four models in the series EP, ED n, ED Pro and EXN come with the Novell Yes and Microsoft Windows Hardware
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      • 219 17 Bloomberg (HOUSTON] Compaq Com puter Corp, the No. 3 comput er maker, said its computers running high-powered Alpha processors will not run future versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows NT software. It said it will focus instead on the Unix operating system software for the
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    • dot com
      • 808 18  -  Women have gotten on the Internet more than men and they are younger, toh ham snm finds out TOH HAN SHIH IN SINGAPORE, women will be a growing force on the Net, Technowledge Asia managing director Rameshwari Ramachandra told BusinesslT. "The early adopters of the
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      • Briefly.com
        • 66 18 SINGAPORE Telecom has an extremely useful website for those looking for phone numbers or Yellow Pages help. There are two sites in one: The Singapore Phone Book and The Singapore Yellow Pages. Both are offered free of charge (although you have to register
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        • 61 18 LAST week saw Microsoft's Internet mail service Hotmail go down to fix a security hole that allowed hackers to read your mall. However, there are other free online e-mail providers. Have a look at www.goplay.oom, or www.yahoo.com. Even CNN is getting in on the act, so if
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        • 73 18 THIS is a vary usefUl site for all thoee worried about bugs and security holes in the software that they are using. Incorporating a mailing list, it aims to keep its subscribers updated on the problems and solutions tMt have been found. There are also some downloads
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        • 62 18 SECURITY for transactions online is of paramount importance today. With that in minA any business serious sbout making the most of e-commerce should take a look at e-Audit Online or similar companies. They offers wide range of services to help companies set up secure websites allowing
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        • 51 18 BIZTRAVEL.COM is aimed at the bosineaaperson on the move. If you travel on business anywhere in the world they have services to help make your journey easier. These include a trip planner and handy tips like solutions to die traveller's curse of jetiag. Start your journey here: www
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        • 56 18  -  Compiled by Justyn Olby NOW you can use your PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) to share photos ofyour family, friends, pets or hoiiday, with your business contacts, colleagues or friends. available free from Club Photo, works with 3 Palm Ille and above as well ss both PCs
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      • 586 18  -  By_ Raju Chellam HE IS as unique as they come these days. His mother is a Jew, his father is Muslim, and his company is named after a Zorastrian holy book. He was born in Iran, came to the US as a refugee, lived
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 638 19  -  It's benchmarking itself against no less than Citibank and HSBC in the region By\ Siow Li Sen (SINGAPORE] OCBC Bank said the divestment of noncore assets, a key pillar in its three-year growth strategy, is still very
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    • 740 19  -  MARKBT MATTERS EL shonldease capital controls and treat Clob Investors fairly By Eddie Toh Malaysia has successfully avoided the spectre of another "Black September". After the highly eventful month of September in the last two years, it's a non-event this time
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    • 351 19  - Lim Tan makes share trading just a phone call away Voice-activated system targets less Net-savvy investors By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Finally a share trading system for the man in the street who is not Internet savvy, possibly has never used a computer and is most comfortable using a
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    • COMPANIES
      • Article, Illustration
        515 20 Last week's interim corporate results at a glance The 1999 half-time reporting season is now into its eighth week. We reproduce below all the 24 interim corporate results that were released last week. They were from companies with Dec 31 as their financial year-end. Group results for the six months
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      • 416 20 GEM bourse fits big boys' plans to diversify, reap gains of young start-ups Reuters [HONGKONG] The soon-to-be-launched Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), or Hongkong's second board, is expected to help boost big blue-chip companies' interest in investing in the region's
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      • 620 20 Year-old brokerage unit HSIC generating 15% of revenue today AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd sees its brokerage business contributing 30 to 40 per cent of its revenue in about three years, vice-president Jefferson Huang said. The
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      • 125 20 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's stockmarket watchdog, the Securities Commission, on Saturday publicly reprimanded Pilecon Engineering Bhd and fined it 100,000 Malaysian ringgit (5J44.390) for breaching disclosure rules. The SC took offence with Pilecon for not immediately informing the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange of a shareholders' decision
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      • 611 21 Q3 profits down, foreign sales weak, Q4 figures seen hit by recall in Europe NYT [ATLANTA] Embattled CocaCola's summer of discontent will extend at least through Christmas as the world's largest soft-drink company deals with weak foreign sales, low-er-than-expected third-quar-ter profits and fourth-quarter
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      • 408 21 Fall control gives access to Veritas share* it can use to fond investment, acquisition Reuters [SCOTTS VALLEY, California] Seagate Technology, the world's No 1 maker of computer disk drives, will restructure control of its software unit, gaining assets to invest in its
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        • 52 21 AFP [TOKYO] US financial giant GE Capital Corp is considering expanding its business further in Japan through tie-ups and acquisitions. GE Capital is "in discussion with a number of Japanese companies in terms of working closer with them'*, executive vice-president Michael Neal told Jiji
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        • 80 21 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Royal KPN's mobile phone business, the Netherlands' market leader, may be worth as much as 10 billion euros (SslB billion) in a share sale, analysts say. The sale of a minority stake would give the former Dutch monopoly a war chest
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        • 60 21 Bloomberg [LONDON] Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it may sell a stake in its movie-theatre unit. It might also sell the entire business, sources said. Virgin has been approached by entertainment companies and private equity firms, said Will Whitehorn, a Virgin spokesman. The business could
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        • 80 21 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] TD Waterhouse Group and Discover Brokerage Direct stock trading Web sites crashed for more than 90 minutes after an Automatic Data Processing (ADP) computer failed, spokespeople for the Internet brokerages said. Customers of Discover, a unit of Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter
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      • 401 21 Jobs slashed costs; cnt workforce; trimmed product line Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] For two years, Apple Computer Inc's advertising has urged people to "Think Different". Investors who listened are reaping the payoff. Apple's shares recently rose to 731/2, topping their 1991 high of 72 3/4.
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      • 501 22 LSE probe into possible insider trading after surge in L&G share price FT, Bloomberg [LONDON] National Westminster Bank (Nat West) was hoping to put the final touches over the weekend to a £10.7 billion (5528.9 billion) agreed takeover of Legal General (L&G),
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      • 209 22 CEO Brener urges greater 'cooperation' among retail banks Bloomberg [CERNOBBIO, Italy] Deutsche Bank AG, the world's largest bank, is talking to rivals including Dresdner Bank AG and Hypovereinsbank AG about linking up in businesses such as retail banking, the company's chief executive
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      • 555 22 FT [LONDON] Most people thought they would never be able to do it, but they have. After a decade and a half of lying, cheating and squabbling, members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) seem to have got their
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      • 208 22 Reuters [TORONTO) Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp is poised to hit the Street at the end of the month in an initial public offering (IPO) that could be the largest ever made in Canada. Toronto-based Manulife, one of Canada's biggest insurance companies, said last
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      • 446 22 Sale of low-growth joint venture could fetch up to USs4b Bloomberg [HOUSTON] BP Amoco and Shell Oil said they're talking with potential buyers about selling their Altura Energy joint venture, the largest oil and natural-gas producer in the US Permian Basin. "There
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        1730 22 PRIME UDfDDIQ RATES SAfi&S ABM Amro Bank NV JVi ABSA Bank Limited ftu Agricultural bank Of China 6 ANZ Banking Group 6* Allied Irish Bank PIC 5 American Express Bank 6 Aral Banking Carp 7* Arab Bank PIC 5V* AsaN Bank Ltd ft* Ban Mn Lm Bank BM ftvt Banca
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    • COMMODITIES & FUTURES
      • 578 23  -  simtin Weeklyßoundup Daniel Katzive MMS London This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product [LONDON] Japan's Ministry of Finance (MOF) warnings on the yen's strength seemed to reach a higher pitch last week. One school of thought
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      • 852 23 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON] Crude prices jumped back above US$2l a barrel to the highest level since October 1997 after Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela pledged to maintain production cutbacks until March 2000. Brent North Sea crude on the International
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    • 1624 23 SICOM FUTURES Sep 3 IW8CI (Mam ctMhif as at SJOpn) tSS 1 nob/ty dan Vofaw OpM *»a IN* I— Sott (two) IK»mt Oct 99 9175 9125 9425 400 1400 Nov 99 96.50 96.50 96.75 50 350 OK 99 99.75 200 Jon/M* 00 ***** 300 Apr/Am 00 107.75 M/Up
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    • MARKET REVIEWS
      • 275 24 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S stock market is expected to tread cautiously this week on persistent worries of a third successive US interest rate increase, dealers said. "The outlook is for the market to continue to consolidate due to worries over US interest
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      • 899 24 JJSydney jjj UNCERTAINTY over domestic and US interest rate settings has been inducing volatility on the Australian market, but there is scope for relief this week, brokers said. "There could be relief in the short-term due to the relative absence of US economic data in the coming
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      • 703 24 NEW YORK Signs of increased labour costs and falling productivity also among concerns NYT, AFP WITH summer unofficially over come tomorrow, many investors may be hoping that the return to work will also mean a return to the bull market in stocks.
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      • 1510 24 QPtfis +29.66 FRENCH stocks rose, led by Cap Gemini, on speculation it could merge with another computer company. Chipmaker STMicroelectronics advanced after a report showed stronger semiconductor sales in July. Stocks extended gains after a US report eased concern that inflation will prompt the Federal Reserve to
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      • 438 24 TOKYO They cite unwinding of crossholdings and yen's possible gains AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo will battle selling pressure from the mid-term unwinding of crossholdings and the yen's possible gains against the US dollar this week, brokers said on Friday. But investors, braced
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      • 314 24 LONDON Bloomberg UK stocks will probably rise in coming days, with British Telecommunications and Lloyds TSB Group leading phone and bank stocks higher, as concern eases that the Bank of England will raise interest rates in coming months. A report on Friday
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK MARKET
      • 410 25 AFP n Composite Index -19.47 SENTIMENT on the Malaysian stock market is likely to remain cautious in the coming days after the headline index plunged 2.5 per cent in a holidayshortened week to Friday, dealers said. An institutional dealer with a local brokerage said
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      • 8411 25 MOUSTVIALS Cnhmt prWicts 1999 Last Vol Week Net Cep HlfE Law C—Ipany Sill *000 HtfH Law >/l $W> 440 255 Ajlnomoto 320 5 320 320 20.3 129.7 174 46 Angkase 106 264 112 103 156.3 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 320 2 39 328 318 11.1 128.0 294 115 Bar)ayaLand
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      • 2750 26 Week ended Sep 3 •OHM, LOANS I WARRANTS an S2-Wk Last Vol KM Last OuoU A«q High Low Stno Company Sal* »or- COOO) High La* Buyof SaMaf Prlc# 104 3 1 3160 "Acor ******1USS 8 864 56 47 47 47.5 80 4.5 S 3164 Acma ******4 35.5 -5.5 535 41
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      • 167 26  - George Kent wrt only time on its side WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy GEORGE Kent, one of the more familiar names to punters who used to thrive on Malaysian shares traded on Clob International, is yet another company whose warrants have had a new breath of life injected into them
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        445 28 Source: JM Sassoon Stacks V«<wm •Ontin*) Int 120,421.000 Asia Foo<tt Prop US$ 84.902.000 International Press Softcon 71,186,000 Hotunq Inv NTS 68,846,000 GoMcfl Agri USIOc 52,125,000 Roiy IntUSIOc 43,604,000 IPC Corpn 5c 42,728,000 Eagle Brand HMqs HK75c 37,862,000 SingTH t5c 29,101,000 Dragonland 10c 28,993,000 Stacks DBS 185,125.593 0C8C Foreign HO,704,143 PacfficCentury
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      • 631 28  -  THE WEEK AHEAD A close look at numbers shows the market should be able to command a higher price-earnings valuation than before By R Sivanithy A FEW weeks ago, this column focused on the dreaded return of Dowwatching to the local market. For
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        78 28  -  By' Wong Wei Kong CYCLE Carriage shares fell $1.65 to $7.45 last Friday with 8.88 million shares traded, compared with its 10-day traded average of 381,300. While the stock may have reached oversold fevets, the RSI, Stochastics and MACD charts suggest that it is still likely to tall
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 231 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ALTHOUGH there is still a holiday feeling to the market some interesting sales have been concluded and buyers continue to inspect. The major interest continues to revolve around the dry bulk market with interest for Panamax and handymax bulkers. However folio wing the
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    • 209 29 «fJ M <h W ssag"-—,-g jffl ,2 C«com*wtm«nt_l2S -O.Oi 43 rntaMUriu 0J4 -0.0) TS92 MMNl 0.93 -0.01 IS HtfSwtHl* 0.69 -OOt 444 IMC IllHi |l IW —5.60 uacfc 0 J«|» IHMlip 0.97 -0.03 1U JujoBj Shipyard _7.4S 020 31 *w* pSBm —1.34 -aoi 19« Kapp* Marin* _2.0« -OCT
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    • 443 29  -  Move to ensure compensation for oil spills: MP A director-general By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] East Asian governments were urged to become parties to civil liability conventions and funds that ensure compensation for oil spills. The director-general of the Maritime and Port
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    • 290 29 They may reimpose surcharge if berthing delays continue [SINGAPORE] A group of seven container feeder lines serving the Indian port of Madras to and from Singapore, Malaysia and Colombo are withdrawing a US$lOO (Ssl69) per TEU congestion surcharge from today. The surcharge was introduced on
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    • 140 29 Reuters [CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh] Bangladesh yesterday deployed troops at its main Chittagong port after an appeal from port users to help maintain normal operations, port officials said. "Some 200 army personnel have taken position at all the strategic points of the port," Shahadat Hossain, a
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    • 679 29  -  LINER SCENE By] David Hughes WE are now well and truly In the era of international port operators. A number of highly efficient companies, notably including Singapore's own PSA Corp, run ports worldwide. The news earlier this year that PSA is investing in
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    • SHIPPING NEWS
      • PORT Shots
        • 92 30 TRADE imbalances between westbound and eastbound jinrtces from Europe to Canada have caused P&O Nedlloyd to impose an empty imbalance surcharge of US$25O (*****) per container on its Qanadian Express service. High demand cm westbound routes is not being matched on the return journey and
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        • 66 30 THE authorities in the UAE last week called off the search for the five missing crew members of the 6,174 dwt Belize-flagged tanker, Ines, which caught fire and sank after an explosion off the port of FuJairah three weeks ago. The Fujairah port authorities believe
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        • 94 30 TROUBLED Korean shipbuilder Halla Heavy Industries may be about to be taken over by Hyundai, although the company insists it has no interest in buying Halla outright and will only assume the management of the firm. Halla, which is US$54l million in debt is
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        • 124 30 THE Turkish-registered bulk carrier, Meliksah, which was abandoned by its crew when it started taking on water off the coast of Kirinda, Sri Lanka, has broken in two during an allegedly unauthorised attempt by salvors to tow it to shore. The 17,677 dwt
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        • 126 30 THREE new model contracts for wreck removal have been agreed to between the International Salvage Union and the International Group of P&I Clubs, in discussion with the ICS and BIMCO's documentary committee. ISU special adviser Mike Lacey, who described the new standard contracts as "beneficial
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      • 389 30  -  Sharp divide in performance between parts it is to keep and those to sell By David Hughes in London ANGLO-NORWEGIAN conglomerate Kvaerner announced its second quarter results last week. As a whole, the group made a pre-tax profit of US$5.9 million (Sslo million), but there
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      • 135 30 THE 4,200 teu Panamanianregistered container ship Ever Decent, built in 1997 and owned by the Taiwan-based shipping group Evergreen, was taken to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge after the fire on board was extinguished. The box ship was involved in a collision in the English
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      • 162 30 HALF year results for European conglomerate CMB, owner of dry bulk shippers Bocimar and tanker operation Euronav, have shown almost a 50 percent drop in profits compared with the same period last year. The group posted a US$73 million (5112.33 million) profit up to
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      • 55 30 TRADE imbalances between westbound and eastbound services from Europe to Canada have caused P&O Nedlloyd to impose an empty imbalance surcharge of US$25O (*****) per container on its Canadian Express. High demand on westbound routes is not being matched on the return journey and it has to
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    • 278 30 PACE CIS 13 AM. 3 U AASCO 12 ESP Lines 13 Accord 8 *> AhrenkM H Foo "«S«" 8 AoDMshto 5 frota 0 AsmOCL 13 WLrti Austral 8 G flrMt M Gemartrans 6 B'tang Mis 8 GwBhw U ujj j Olory "a* 14 BTl H D.iai shno
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      • 188 43 Sap 8 Canada: Labour Day. Luxembourg: City Kemesse. United States: Labour Day. a«u Japan: Respect of the Aged Day. flap]* Independence Day. htV Japan: Autummal Equinox Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. South Africa: Heritage Day. South Korea: Harvest Moon Festival Eve. Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival Sap as
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      • 767 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. (bow* price ranges in US dollar* instead of tingle prices tor a more comprehensive description at the market Prtcee shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Banker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 427 43 Carton NO Ma 9916 OJ KJ 0.0* 63 OJS Saf 2 DwisJtT Matar MIn Art Mil iifciU do rtovt £25 0 0 0 t r rzr 3K mo a; 107 0.02 t». 300 MM Mi 2.5 W U 71 0.06 ■y> »M/M »M/M mm mm* McaboM635
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    • AIR & LAND TRANSPORT NEWS
      • 622 44 Accident-prone Taiwan carrier needs shakenp and potential returns await reformers Reuters [TAIPEI] Wanted: Top airline management team with ability to shake up accident-prone Asian carrier. The risks are high, but so are the potential returns. That's the advertisement many analysts say they would put
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      • 222 44 Reuters [LONDON] British Midland is in talks on joining a global airline alliance rather than being up for sale, a source close to the European shorthaul carrier said. The airline, the second biggest user of slots at London's Heathrow airport, has
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      • 400 44 Phnom Penh seen to ink pact on development of nbrndwifHi airport Reuters [PHNOM PENH] A project is almost under way to transform an abandoned Cambodian airport, built with slave labour and Chinese aid under the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime, into an Asian
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      • 321 44 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The European Commission is not currently investigating Boeing Co's decision to name General Electric (GE) as its exclusive supplier of engines to power longer-range versions of its 777 jet, a Commission spokesman said. "We have no case," he said when
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      • LOG Book
        • 112 44 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Tbe Pudong International Airport in Shanghai made a last test run before its scheduled opening on Sept 16, the Wenhui Daily said yesterday. About 3,000 volunteer passengers, mostly students from local colleges, boarded 20 flights, which landed and took off between 11am and
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        • 90 44 Bloomberg [GLASGOW} UK package tour operator Airtours pic said its staff were among eight people who died when an Edinburgh Air Charter Ltd light aircraft carrying eleven 1 peopk; crashed in Scotland on Friday/Two Edinburgh Air Oiarter pilots, two Airtours International flight deck crew and
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        • 142 44 AFX-Asia [MANILA] Federal Express Corp (FedEx) signed an agreement to extend by five years to 2007 its lease at the free port of Subic Bay, a government statement said. FedEx Asia Pacific president Michael Ducker and Felicito Payumo, the head of the agency operating
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    • 21 29 Kvaerner makes $10m profit Sharp divide in performance between parts it is to keep and those it will sell. Page 2
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    • 117 29 Kyowa Line Break-bulk/Container service to Philippines and Micronesia Ports Appointment of New Agents Effective from the departure date, 6th September 1999, of M.V. Sea Treasure Voyage 61, V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd will be appointed as our general agents for Singapore and East Malaysia. We would like to express our sincere
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    • 99 29 CAL's hope lies in fresh management Taiwan carrier needs shakeup and potential returns await reformers. Back Page We can't deliver to Mars (yet), but our fast service covers the earth. I or the most efficient service, in Asia and dround the world. go with MOI.. We offer Ulster transit times..greater
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