The Business Times, 1 October 1999

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  • 16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MfTA fP) 046/12/98 85* SINGAPORE ?rnet: http; business-times.asial com.sg/ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1999
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  • 49 1 E3 MU3 (+4.36) wmvrsai U HUM (+6.60) nsnmmm iimj9(-ojo) STOCK MA1IET INDICES KL8EC0HP NIKKEI I7j*.#__4mi8 HANG SENG 1S.7S3J4 -MM SET INDEX 38MI -IM MKAKTA COUP —W7J4 ,+JU? MANILA COMP—MMM +14.7# TAIPfllim 7MM9 .-tiff SEOUL OOMP 8*11 -9L7 CLSACHINAB Mill -Iff AU8TALL0RD 2J8L1 -ML7 NanEST Ctaut w*r ____-^35rtja£J3E
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  • 649 1  -  660 senior staff stand to gain $31m from stock options exercisable today By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Some 650 senior employees of Overseas Union Bank (OUB) are smiling all the way to their bank today they have collectively become $31.1 million richer. This
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  • 581 1  -  Billion-dollar chib lost two members in September to 43 By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] The market value of Singapore-listed companies fell 2.8 per cent in September from August, the third consecutive monthly decline. The contraction was also sharper than
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  • 1584 1  -  By! Paul Krugman Paul Krugman is a professor of economics at MIT and the author, most recently, of 'The Return of Depression Economics' I DIDN'T want to go to Malaysia. The Malaysian government would surely expect me to deliver a stronger endorsement of
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    • 78 1 OVSIDE TOP STORIES Rubber prices could coHapse, cartel disbands 9*2 Corporate earnings: the top performers PW4 S*pore Q3 growth to rival 02*8 6.7% *9 10 ita SBBB.com taking Its 0* commerce model olcouiKArA uiSvwn®rB *9 11 Foreign investors staying dear of KL stock market. 9919 <■? %t UMMKNTJUVY Millennium predictions
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    • 683 2 Demise of Inro could lead to collapse in global rubber prices Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPURJ The International Natural Rubber Organization, a group set up 20 years ago to support rubber prices, said it will disband after Thailand, the world's biggest producer, confirmed
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    • 696 2  -  p -i I exclusive Its icon is the self-assured, cosmopolitan, urbane Agent 007 By> Tan Su Yen ARMANI, be warned. As the smiles return to the faces of his high net worth Asian clients, Mark Dunhill, the director and general manager of Alfred Dunhill
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 855 4  -  pi :i I exclusive They account for 55% of total profits; 221 firms' combined gain 84.9% higher Ven Sreenivasan THE five local banks and another five property groups chalked up the best performance and accounted for over half of
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    • 795 4  -  lil'Wlocksiew r sivanithy HEXT Tuesday, the US Federal Open Market Committee meets to decide the fate of US short-term interest rates. It would be fair to say that this is one of the most widely awaited meetings of the central bank this
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 49 5 FIRST Capital Corp, through FCC Equities Pte Ltd. has increased its stake in Hotel Properties Ltd (HPL) by 1.15 per cent to 14.6 per cent. FCC bought 5.23 million HPL shares on Tuesday at $1.41 each. It now owns 66.2 million HPL shares.
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      • 75 5 FROM today, DBS Group will incorporate JIT Holdings in place of Ingram Micro in its computation of the DBS 50 stock index. DBS said the revision is to take into consideration the delisting of Ingram Micro (formerly Electronic Resources). Separately, Ingram Micro Asia,
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      • 108 5 KIAN Ho Bearings' net profit in the half year to June jumped five times to $1.04 million, due partly to tax concessions enjoyed by its Malaysian subsidiary. Group turnover increased 36 per cent to $34 million, which included $3.1 million of sales of
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      • 114 5 HOTEL Grand Central has swung into a net loss of $4.55 million in the half year to June from a net profit of $769,000 perviously, due mainly to a foreign exchange loss of $4.56 million resulting from the appreciation of the Australian dollar against
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      • 45 5 Bridge News UNITED Overseas Bank said in a statement yesterday that it has successfully co-ordinated a transferable term loan facility worth US$l7O million (Ss2B9 million) to KorAm Bank, which is a joint venture between Bank of America and several Korean corporations.—Bridge
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    • 521 5  -  40m shares to be offered to public; DBS offering np to 90% share financing By\ Eugene Low MAINBOARD aspirant Eastgate Technology is offering the public 40 million of its 100 million initial public offer shares at 50 cents each. The
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    • 237 5 ANA Hotels Singapore saw its post-tax profit for the half-year to June 30 plunge 81 per cent to $44,000 as turnover shrank. Turnover fell by 16 per cent from $13.7 million to $11.5 million amidst the regional economic crisis. While the regional economies are
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    • 282 5 RESTAURANT and pub chain operator ABR Holdings has reported a 27 per cent drop in net earnings to $491,000 for the six months ended June 1999. This works out to earnings per share of 0.26 of a cent, down from 0.58-cent in
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    • 96 4 Corporate earnings review, Pg 9 EASTGATE TECHNOLOGY LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 16 December 1989) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OF 40,000,000 OFFER SHARES AND 60,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.50 EACH Applications for the Shares may be made on printed Application Forms referred to in the Prospectus dated 29
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 197 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy IN previous columns, we've highlighted the life span extensions of warrants in Malaysia. In most cases, the extension is five years from this year. The rest are extensions from next year, 2001 and 2002. The main
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    • 433 6 9*octo Volume ChuanHup 18,182,000 'Gentinglnt 12,866,000 TiongWoon 10c 6,212.000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 5,150,000 SingTel 15c 5,027,000 "TanChongtntSOc 4,848,000 Golden Agri US10c 4,235,000 International Press Softcom 5c 4,022,000 DBS Land 3,912,000 Mentor Media 3,896,000 Stocfca SIA 45,980,542 ChuanHup 27,595,860 DBSGrp SingTel 15c 15,406.684 SPH 13,873,648 Nat EJac 10c 13,767,150 KeppelCoip 13,647,380
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    • 577 6  -  I-li comment STOCKS r. sivanlthy THERE was little change yesterday to the state of the local equity market with stocks drifting for most of the day on low volume. Chuan Hup's announcement of a stock split did give traders something
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    • 258 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong CHUAN Hup Holdings shares jumped 17 cents or 13 per cent to close at $1.52 yesterday, after the marine group announced that the Stock Exchange of Singapore has approved its proposed l-into-5 share split. The stock was the
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    • 92 6 Friday, Oct 1 ♦12pm. Singapore Computer Society holds media luncheon atTDB ♦2pm. Inauguration of Young Research Engineer Award 2000, NUS ♦2.30pm. Consultations between Asean Economic Ministers and Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry ♦4pm. 4th Informal Consultations between Asean Economic Ministers and ministers from the CER (Australia,
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    • 459 6  -  comment CURRENCIES More downside seen for US$, yen looking robust again, Dow jitters worrisome even if Fed hike unlikely larry wee CURRENCY markets seem once again to be jittery about holding on to the US dollar. And unlike Wednesday, the US dollar
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 676 7  -  Bat it still has problems, with an NTA per share of minus 1.22 cents By' Teh Hooi Ling (SINGAPORE] Debt-ridden IPC Corp is showing some signs of recovery, but its troubles are far from over. For the six months ended June 30,1999,
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    • 311 7 Goldtron, L&M also provide updates on their revamp PROPERTY group Lim Kah Ngam (LKN) said yesterday that the first draft of its debt restructuring will be given to creditor banks shortly, while two other troubled companies, Goldtron Ltd and L&M, also issued
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    • 180 7 PACIFIC Century Regional Developments (PCRD) yesterday reported a significant turnaround at half-time with a $1.1 million profit, from $11 million of losses a year ago. Group turnover increased by 10.5 per cent to $114 million. The main board company, whose subsidiary is behind the
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • ON THE grapevine
      • 139 10 THE foreign media in Hongkong is well-known to be a robust one, watching every power play and political struggle in the region closely. On Nov 10, they will be watching a power play of another sort their own coup at the Foreign Correspondents' Club. A
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      • 59 10 IT seems the talents ofOCBC Bank's YY Chin are manifold. The bank's head of consumer financial services picked up Hakka and French while in Tahiti. He also speaks Tamil, which he picked up during his cricketing and hockey days with the Dravidians and the Hindu Youths.
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      • 41 10 HAS anyone seen the new logo of the soon-to-be-spun-off Agilent Technologies, the medical and instrumentation arm of Hewlett-Packard Co? Does it not look vaguely like the logo of government-owned Singapore Technologies, right down to the font used?
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      • 77 10 A BT reader has pointed out that the four closed-end funds—Harimau, UIS, OUS and GlS—are listed as stocks and will fall under the new SO per cent rule if one uses CPF funds in buying them. He wonders if the bureaucrats know that these four are also
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      • 61 10 SECOND Chance recently said that one of the reasons for its bonus issue was that it wanted to upgrade to the mainboard, and hence its paid-up capital had to be raised to $15 million. But with recent changes to the listing rules, that is no longer a
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      • 55 10 THE organiser of CeBIT, the world's largest technology fair in Hannover, Germany, doesn't keep soft copies of photographs of their executives on file. Instead, they will mail the photographs to you for scanning if you are interested. We're a little surprised that Europe lags behind Asia in the
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    • 110 10  -  MAIT-Mli N Ramakrishnan Indonesia via Internet WITH reference to your Hock Lock Siew column "NOL and disclosure standards" (BT, Sept 25), I would like to inform your readers of the following. While the author explained about "channel stuffing" which I think is not relevant to
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    • 353 10  -  YK Lim Singapore via Internet I REFER to the letter by Malik Tahir "Rest assured KL will catch up with Singapore" (BT, Sept 23), and the earlier exchange of letters on this subject. As a Singaporean, I am proud that over the last 34 years,
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    • 511 10  -  exclusive Manufacturing expansion cited; poll puts fall-year GDP growth at &3% By, Audrey Tan ECONOMIC growth in the quarter ended yesterday is likely to have rivalled the sec-ond-quarter's 6.7 per cent rise, thanks to the strong manufacturing expansion. A poll of seven economists
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    • 109 10 [SINGAPORE] Ever wondered what it feels like to stand on the bow qf the Titanic or play tennis with cartoon stars? Here's your <*^toexperiencethatandmoreatSingaporeCableVision'sWOWWeekendCarnivalthisweekencLTheevent,tobeheldatthe Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, marks the completion ofSCVs $500 million broadband network three months ahead of schedule This
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    • 270 10 IN its largest overseas investment so far, Singapore Power (SP), through its overseas investment unit, has signed an agreement to acquire a 51 per cent stake in three Asia Pulp Paper (APP) power plants in China for US$197 million. The co-generation
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    • 566 10  -  But electronics shortage could hit new orders later By t Anna Teo THE latest purchasing managers' index (PMI) continues to yield healthy readings for the electronics and overall manufacturing sector, but a worldwide shortage of key electronics components could hit new orders down the road.
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    • 211 10 SINGAPORE Telecom and Sing Net did not violate any regulations on predatory pricing and cross-subsidisa-tion, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore said yesterday. TAS issued a statement to clarify its position on the matter foUowing the comments made by SembCorp Industries' outgoing
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    • 302 11  -  ontn^economy By\ Marissa Chew VISITOR arrivals continue to recover, rising 10.5 per cent year-on-year in August to reach 629,910. This brings arrivals for the first eight months of this year to 4.59 million, or close to 10 per cent more than in the same
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    • 262 11 KORAM Bank, a joint venture between Bank of America and a number of Korean companies, has wu»Hp its debut in Singapore's Asian dollar market, tapping US$lOO million (Ssl7l million) through a transferable term loan facility. Twenty-one lender banks seven of them Singaporebased are participating
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    • NEWS Roundup
      • 50 11 THE Singapore Zoological Ganlene said it received its ISO 8002laamagnment system csrtlflcatfcm in A«nst. maldng it the to be certified. The car UflcaUoo implementation and was awarded by Uoyirs Register Quality Assurance Singapore. The certification covers both the Singapore Zoo and the Night Safari.
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      • 89 11 FROM today, the Housing Development Board will advertise the details offlats available for selection and the procedures related to booking of fiats ante me Registration for Flat System (RFS) on the lltit day of the quarter, instead afon the first day. The ad
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      • 46 11 THE Economic Development Board and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) are organising a fbrum next wesk to highlight careetouMatunttlßa in Job eseksrs and stndsnts. Ths two-day forum is the first industry-wide initiative aimed at raising the creatingawarensee of the industry.
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    • 561 11  -  f ig exclusive Belle Vne condo's collective sale could fetch $300 m, tender likely out this month By Kalpana Rashiwala THE largest collective sale site in the Orchard Road area may be coming on the market soon. BT understands that the
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    • 514 11  -  Firm charged uder Companies Act, liable to mazimam fine of $5,000 By! Toh Han Shih SBBB.com will globalise its controversial electronic commerce business model, despite being charged in court yesterday, founding chairman David Chang told BT yesterday. The company will contest the charge,
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    • 408 11  -  By* Andrea Tan OIL giant Shell Singapore hit put its freehold sports club property along Paya Lebar Road up for sale for the third time in four years. Market watchers expect the sale to fetch more than
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 742 12  - Clone research dangerous to wish it away bottom line OPINION Raju Chellam The writer is BT's BizlT Editor EARLIER this month, away from the media glare, a small team of scientists in the US began work to create the world's first batch of cloned human embryos, while an earlier team
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    • 102 12 The pace of reforms has slowed considerably. It boils down to a lack of political courage.' -CkmuiVadkn professor ofeconomics at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, on the prospects of reform in India after the elections. 'It is almost the same as pushing them in
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    • 628 12 EDITORIAL LIES, damned lies, and statistics. It's no surprise that the old line about dubious numbers has been heard rather more often of late as economists try and figure out a country's economic data But the problem doesn't always lie in the statistics. The same holds
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    • 892 12  -  DonaldTfeangisa Hobbesian pessimist who'd like to see more international intervention to prevent widespread financial chaos By' Tom Plate The writer is a Los Angeles Times columnist ON the surface, it's hard to understand why Donald Tsang, Hongkong's respected financial secretary, is not smiling. The regional
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    • 993 12 Celebrity Is no protection ALTON Fitzgerald White, one of the stars of the Broadway musical Ragtime, let it be known this week that he plans to sue the city for false arrest. And on Tuesday he made an appearance at a parochial school in Harlem to
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 173 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin said yesterday the fall in stock prices on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was due to Wall Street weakness and not concern over domestic politics. The national Bernama news agency quoted Mr
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    • 493 13 EUR WOES Lingering concerns over its political scene is one reason, sajr analysts Reuters [KUAL h iUMipffKForeign investors havefled Malaysia's stock market since an exit tax on capital ended early this month and are content to stand clear for now, analysts say. Lingering
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    • 189 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S broadest measure of money supply fell in August for the first time in five months, tracking a decline in the stock market. M 3, the most closely watched money supply measure, fell 0.3 per cent in August from a month earlier,
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    • 220 13 NEW YORK Bloomberg, AFX-Asia MALAYSIA warned yesterday of another currency crisis in South-east Asia if speculative attacks on currencies continue. "Quite recently some currencies have come under attack again, and if that kind of attack is mounted on the scale of 1997-98, then
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    • 397 13  -  Anti-corrnption chief tells of agency's frustrations From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian Anti-Corrup-tion Agency (ACA) has been a "toothless tiger" in its probe into troubled Perwaja Steel a political hot potato in Malaysia. "As you know, one of the sources
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    • 448 13  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur RASHID Hussain Berhad and its holding company, RHB Capital Berhad, have showed improvement in their fullyear results. They reported smaller net losses 0f598.2 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss26B million) and RM254.2 million respectively, compared to RM935.8 million and
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    • MARKET moves
      • 142 13 STOCKS of infrastructure conglomerate Renong and several related companies were sold down yesterday following the previous day's announcements of losses for the full year ended June 1999. Renong's loan stocks and shares accounted for 18 per cent of yesterday's total volume of 176.9 million units traded.
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      • 46 13 TOPPING the losers' list yesterday was Johor-based construction group Mancon Berhad, which shed 35 sen, or 36 per cent, to close at 61 sen yesterday, on a volume of 5.1 million shares. Brokers could not explain the sudden selling pressure on the counter.
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      • 104 13  -  Compiled by Diana Oon Abdullah AFTER seeing some gains, banking stocks once again saw their prices slide just as news of the first-stage completion of banking mergers was reported yesterday. KLSE heavyweight Maybank spent most of the day 10 sen up, but closed unchanged at RMII.BO, with
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    • 800 14 KL BANK MERGERS But real hard work, such as valuing financial institutions and streamlining operations, still lies ahead: analysts AFP, Bridge News [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian banks and finance companies met yesterday's deadline to reach agreement on a drastic programme of forced mergers, but
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    • 270 14 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S newly merged Bumiputra-Commerce Bank Bhd, the county's second largest lender, saw growth in its lending business of 4 per cent so far this year and expects further expansion as the economy recovers. "It's accelerating, and we'd like to see it
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    • 74 14 Reuters "BANK Negara Malaysia had on July 29,1969 announced a bank merger and consolidation programme, which required all the domestic banking ttHlnHwn tn tlgn MpmnnmAinu nf TTnri^raftmHIng (MOUs) with the anchor franking institutions by Sept 80,1909. "In this regard. All Abul Hassan Sulaiman, governor at
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    • 518 14 KUALA LUMPUR Redemption due in Oct and Nov; firm yet to announce how it will meet obligations AFX-Asia TECHNOLOGY Resources Industries Bhd's US$375 million (*****.4 million) two-tranche 1994 convertible bond issue, which carries a special redemption option due in October and November, is causing some
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    • MALAYSIA Briefs
      • 41 14 Dow Jones [WASHINGTON] Malaysia's Second Finance Minister likely will revise up an economic-growth projection of one per cent for 1999 when it issues the budget for2ooo next month. But he did not give a figure.—Dow Jorm
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      • 59 14 AFX-Asia (lU2ALA LUMPUR] The securities Commission saia it win now allow companies the flexibility to change profit guarantees it among others, the application is made aftar the financial year has ended. Changes to profit guarantee obligations for the first year after listing on
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      • 42 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR) Berjaya Group Bhd reported a pre-tax loee of Malaysian ringgit 21.353 million (Stfcflmillion) for the first quarter ended July 31.1998, on a turnover billion. The loss was mainly due to the exceptional loasofßM9*.6 million.—Bernama
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      • 59 14 AFX-Asia (KUALA LUMPUR] Abrar Corp Bhd's executive chairman and managing director Wan Muhamad Hasni Wan Bulalman said he will resign from the company as soon as he feels that the company has been strengthened after its proposed restructuring scheme. The MahgnOan < Business Times quoted
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    • 204 14 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA is considering changing the law to bar lawyers from politics, a minister said yesterday. The government had received "numerous complaints" asking whether lawyers were abiding by their profession when they were also members of parliament or state assembly members,
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  • SOUTH-EAST asia
    • 408 15  -  Purchase of JIM pesos of Smart shares from NTT and First Pacific will be through share swap From Al Labita in Manila MANILA and New York-listed telecoms giant Philippines Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) is acquiring a cellular provider through a share swap. In a statement
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    • NOTE Book
      • 36 15 AFP (JAKARTA] Indonesian police said yesterday they detained Ave of the 10 suspects named in the Bank Bali scandal that has rocked the bank restructuring programme and threatened foreign aid.—AFP
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      • 30 15 Bloomberg {BANGKOK] Thailand's central bank will meet today to approve Singapore-based United Overseas Bank Ltd's acquisition of Radauasin Bank Pel, the country's smallest commercial lender.—Bloomberg
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      • 39 15 Land Houses'share sale to GIC AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] Land and Houses Pic said it has completed the sale of 34.28 million shares at 14 baht per share to Government of Singapore Investment Corporation on Sept 28, raising 1.32 billion baht.—AFX-Asia
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      • 34 15 AFP {BANGKOK] HSBC Holdings pic is among five bidders in the running to buy a majority stake in Thailand's Bangkok Metropolitan Bank (BMB), The Nation said yesterday.—AFP
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      • 24 15 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri said President BJ Habibie should not seek another term, Antara news agency reported.—AFX-Atia
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      • 34 15 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's State Enterprises Minister Tanri Abeng yesterday said the government was prepared to sell a stake in debt-riddled PT Garuda Indonesia to foreigners to raise fluids.—AFP
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    • 455 15  -  IMTO TBE FUTURE By\ Shoeb Kagda [JAKARTA] THE economic crisis of the past two years has significantly altered the country's political and economic make-up as social unrest has spread across the length of this vast archipelago and millions of its
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    • 541 15  -  But investors still worry abont financial sector woes From! Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S manufacturing, exports and consumption soared in August, with all three indicators recording their highest monthly growth this year. Analysts hailed the figures as a sign that the economy was powering out
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    • 399 15 AFX-Asia, Reuters [BERLIN] President BJ Habibie Mid in an interview to be published in Germany that his predecessor Suharto would be indicted for allegedly extorting public funds. He told the German weekly Rhetnischer Merkur to be published today that "from the reports I
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  • ASEAN meeting
    • 815 16  -  Asean ministers hope that a regionwide virtual community will galvanise the distracted grouping reports TAMO »*cg»— YANG RAZALI KASSIM [SINGAPORE] THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations is to have a new frontier: eAsean, a dimension in cyberspace. This fresh and innovative idea is an
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    • 916 16 BT s regional analysis editor Yang lUamll K»rim caught up with Asean deputy secretary-general Suthad Setboonkarng to discuss some key issues. Qs What progress has been made in this week's talks to free up investment? A: The Asean Investment Area (AIA) Council looked
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    • 408 16 NOTICES i To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 j Sime Singapore Limited 1 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING invited to attend the Annual Genwal Meeting of the Company to be wura ra^ en!nCe Sme Dart>l Cwtn B96 Du "O 8 t>4-o<. Singapore *****2 on Fnday, 29
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    • 563 16 ABL popular holdings limited (Incorporated in fhe Republic of Singapore) 500W E r!i t E I E d T?'Y EN hat on Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 10.30 am on the same day and at the some place) for the Wlow.ng Purposes X SPECIAL RESOLUTION
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    • 156 16 Land Transport Authority (Preview 4 5 Oct, Auction 7 Oct) Lost and Found Items, Vehicles, etc Customs and Excise (Preview 7 Oct, Auction 8 Oct) Jewellery, Vehicles, etc TEK Printing Company Pte Ltd (Preview Auction 8 Oct) Business Forms Printing Machines Ministry of Defence and Police Force (Preview 12-13 Oct,
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  • EAST asia
    • 383 17 HONGKONG Galled The Tracker Fond', it will track the benchmark Hang Seng Index Bloomberg HONGKONG has hired nine banks to sell US$l billion to USss2 billion of shares in an index-tracking fund created from its US$26 billion (5544.5 billion) stock
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    • 423 17  -  Announcement highlights growing threat to HKTs position From] Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong CLP Telecom, a subsidiary of power company CLP Holdings, says it will join a growing line of competitors waiting to take a chunk of the international call market when telecommunications
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    • SINO Briefs
      • 47 17 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's largest life insurer Prudential Corp Pic said yesterday it was buying 57.8 per cent of Taiwan's Chinfon Life Insurance Company for NT$l.l billion (5558.9 million). Chinfon, has received approval to apply for a licence in the potentially lucrative Chinese market.
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      • 65 17 Bridge News [HONGKONG] Hongkong-listed Gitic Enterprises Limited posted a January-June interim loss of HK515.63 million (553.4 million), compared to a profit of HR57.34 million previously, the company announced in a statement yesterday. The red chip firm's loss per share came in at 3.2 HK
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      • 77 17 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] China approved 9,368 foreign-ftmded enterprises in the country during the first seven months, with combined investments worth U5522.2 billion (5537.8 billion) and paid-in overseas capital of US$2l.4 billion, the official Xinhua news agency reported. According to government statistics, the number of approved enterprises
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      • 70 17 Procter Gamble to up China business AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Procter Gamble Co plans to increase its business in China to 10 per cent from 3 per cent of its global business over the next 10 years, company chairman Durk Jager said. China has wide prospects and market potential and a lot
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    • 490 17 SHANGHAI Reuters THE Shanghai Futures Exchange aims to become a major regional commodities trading centre by developing new products and raising the profile of its existing futures trading, exchange chief Zhou Xiaohong said yesterday. She told Reuters that as the premier futures
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    • 339 19 MORTGAGE WARS More customers switching loans and making bank portfolios unstable Bridge News [HONGKONG] The Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) acting chief executive David Carse yesterday called for banks to rein in marketing efforts in the mortgage sector. The competition, he said, had caused
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    • 755 19  -  j exclusive Local firms have invested over $200 m in Chinese market By 1 Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Singapore companies, which have pumped in more than $200 million into China's telecoms market, have joined a foreign investors' group
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    • 391 19 AFP [BEIJING] China vowed on the eve of the 50th anniversary of communist rule to crack down on all forms of dissent and push ahead with reform, as police clamped a ring of steel on the heart of Beijing ahead of
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    • 127 19 ANNOUNCEMENT In April 1999, a joint venture company Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets Company Ltd, was successfully formed between Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd and Sumitomo Bank Limited. We are pleased to announce that with effect from Ist October 1999, the following companies will change their names:Daiwa Singapore Limited to Daiwa
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  • SOUTH asia
    • 374 20 BOMBAY Tttal US$L4b in bids a record in India; 130 rupee offer values firm at lOJib rupees FT INVESTOR enthusiasm for India's booming software sector was amply demonstrated on Wednesday when Hughes Software Systems said its initial public offer of 3.9 million
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    • 301 20 BOMBAY Recommendations aim to lift companies' reporting standards Bloomberg THE Securities Exchange Board of India, the country's stockmarket regulator, will unveil a discussion paper on guidelines for companies that will make them offer more information about themselves to investors. A group of experts, headed
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    • 342 20 NEW DELH AFP POLITICAL instability and economic sanctions have made US companies shy away from investing in India, an official of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (lACC) said on Wednesday. A survey for the period between January and May 1999
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    • 66 20 [KALIGANJ, West Bengal] Village children watching a man paint the party symbol ofthe Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPIM) on the mud walls ofa hut in Kaliganj village. West Bengal, as a part of CPIM 's pre-election campaign. West Bengal, including Calcutta, goes to polls on Oct
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    • 283 20 NEWDELHI Manufacturing demand rises on Canning recovery Bloomberg INDIA'S economy expanded 5.5 per cent in the April-June quarter from the same period a year ago, aided by increased industrial output. Growth during the quarter, the first in India's fiscal year, slowed
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    • 895 20 Jk IDCO ip C 0 International Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at 24 Pandan Road, Singapore *****5 on 25 October 1999 at 9.30 a.m or immediately after the
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  • WORLD news
    • 303 21 TOKYO Bloomberg NIPPON Telegraph Telephone Corp, the world's largest phone company, said profit from its local phone service fell 82.4 per cent last year as traffic was eaten by cellular phone operators. NTT, the former government monopoly for domestic phone services, said
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    • 582 21 TOKYO Global asset allocation survey shows concerns that stocks may be overvalued Reuters JAPANESE financial firms see a shift of funds out of stocks and into cash in October amid growing worries that stocks may be overvalued and about currency volatility, a Reuters survey
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    • 976 21  -  IMF/WORLD BANK MEETINGS Market sees softer monetary stance bnt MOF sceptical From, Anthony Rowley in Washington BANK of Japan governor Masaru Hayami's pledge during the G-7 finance ministers meeting in Washington on Sept 26 that the Japanese central bank would be flexible in its approach
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    • 467 21 NEW YORK Reuters TOYOTA Motor Corp drove on to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wednesday with the hype of a hot rod but the doubtful power of an old subcompact, sputtering despite early gains in the overall market. Japan's
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    • 328 21 WASHINGTON NYT PRESIDENT Clinton on Wednesday announced a major expansion of American efforts to forgive the debt of the world's poorest nations, saying those countries would not have to pay back any of the billions of dollars they borrowed from American
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    • 462 22 WASHINGTON Trade deficit swelled and businesses added less to inventories, says Commerce Department Reuters THE US economy grew at the slowest pace in four years during the second quarter as the trade deficit swelled and businesses added less to inventories, the
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    • 195 22 TOKYO Reuters AN accident at a Japanese nuclear fuel facility yesterday exposed three workers to radiation and prompted authorities to evacuate the vicinity, raising fresh concerns about the nation's nuclear safety. Government officials said there may have been a "criticality incident" at a
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    • 586 22  -  SINGAPORE Selected Thai and Indonesian stocks favoured Uy\ Larry Wee [SINGAPORE! The best returns from global emerging markets will be found in Asia over the coming months, but attention may well shift to Latin America some time next year if Brazil finally devalues
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    • 299 22 BT PEOPLE Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Guenter Grass, Germany's greatest living writer, won the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy said yesterday. The academy said in its citation that it had awarded the prize to Grass, "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten
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    • 405 22  -  From Leon Hadar in Washington US officials and lawmakers are concerned over the failure of Washington to advance its free-trade agenda and warn that lack of public support could make it difficult for the Clinton Administration to launch a new round of negotiations to
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    • 684 23 DVTERMET REVOLUTION Its I2m customers can shop for more than 500,000 products on zShops Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Amazon.com Inc, the biggest Internet retailer, said it will rent space to other merchants and create an online shopping mall with over 500,000 products. From yesterday, a
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    • 314 23 HARTFORD, Connecticut Reuters AMID a swirl of rumours that long-distance and cable giant AT&T Corp was planning a major Internet deal, a top official denied much of the speculation in an interview on Wednesday. Leo Hindery, head of AT&T's cable and Internet
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    • GLOBAL Briefs
      • 54 23 Reuters g (BKUSSELB] Belgian telecoms operator Belgacom fr expects to poet record profits and turnover for 1999, chairman John Gooeens said yesterday. "It still looks like we're going to have another record year, despite H heavy competition." He expected mobile unit Proximus to reach two
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      • 68 23 Reuters ft OLQNDON] Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries Pic r 0CI) is poised toiell its acrylics business for around £530 million (Sfl.s billion), the Financial Times reported ytftarday.lt said the deal could be set for signing yeeterdaj. ICI had agreed to sell the business
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      • 44 23 Bloomberg [PARSIPPANY, New Jersey) Nabisco Holdings Corp, the maker of Oreo cookies, agreed to buy struggling Favorite Brand* International Inc for US$475 million (SsBl 1.6 mfflkm) in cash, which would make it the leading US producer of non-chocolate candy.—Bloomberg
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      • 65 23 AFP (SYDNEY) Shares in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp hit their lowest level in eight months yesterday as fears over a •ofter-than-expected US advertising market drove some analysts to ft downgrade their earnings forecasts. News Corpus shares on the Australian Stock Exchange lost 32
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      • 37 23 Bridge News (OKLAHOMA CITY] Legal experts said they see J indications that federal approval of Exxon Corp's US$76 trillion (*****.4 billion) merger with Mobil Corp could be delayed weH into the fourth quarter.—Bridge News
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    • 159 23 WASHINGTON Reuters THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) loosened its requirements on the information foreign companies must disclose when they file to sell stocks and bonds in the United States. Coming closer to standards that were endorsed by a global association of securities regulators
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    • 268 23 WASHINGTON Well continue to acquire companies, says its GEO Reuters LEADING Internet portal Yahoo Inc is unlikely to accept a takeover offer any time soon, but will continue to partner with other major businesses, chief executive officer Timothy Koogle said on Wednesday.
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    • 1144 23 Ballroom, Hilton Singapore Sunday, Oct. 3, 1999 Viewing time 10.30am-12 noon Auction time From 12.15pm Eastern Carpets brings you its newest collection of village, tribal and city rugs all the way from Central Asia. Every item handpicked by Edmund and Shukor, and yours for a very special price. What s
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 221 24  -  SIMK Jt Reports MS& Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday albeit on low volume as players stayed neutral ahead of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting scheduled for next Tuesday. The Straits Times Index closed at the
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    • 158 24  -  MSCTTaiwan tatnres Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures slipped 2 points on the back of Nasdaq's loss yesterday. The underlying Taiwan Weighted Price Index took a dip of 16.66 points to 7,596.79, erasing early huge losses on optimism that government
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    • 351 24 EMERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Crude oil took a breather from its upward march yesterday, easing from the 33-month peaks hit the previous day when US industry and government figures showed production cuts biting into oil inventories. Global benchmark Brent blend for November delivery
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    • 323 24 AFP, Reuters Tiftmiirn THE euro took a breather late in Europe yesterday after extending recent gains against the US dollar to four-week highs amid expectations of higher European interest rates and worries over US asset markets. The euro drew support in from Swiss franc gains, which in turn
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2583 25 HONGKONG Reuters, AFP PHaagScng jjjJj HONGKONG shares fell 0.8 per cent in pre-holiday trading yesterday following overnight declines on Wall Street and on worries of a likely increase in US interest rates. "There is no buying interest because of the long weekend,
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    • 549 25 TAIPEI AFP Qwpmb -ILM TAIWAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday on strong selling of financial stocks amid concerns over mounting bad debt after last week's devastating earthquake, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 16.66 points to 7,506.79 on
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      922 25 Reuters, AFP Bskrt«Biifci *0124 SHENZHEN'S B shares ended up slightly yesterday due to domestic institutional support on the eve of a long holiday for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The B Index rose 0.24 point to 87.23 on turnover of HK$22 million
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    • 2042 25 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 «mm TOKYO share prices rose 1.9 per cent yesterday as investors bought high tech and other export-linked issues as the yen stabilised against the US dollar, brokers said. "The yen's slight rebound in mid-af-ternoon had no major impact on the
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 390 26 AFP f CI Composite Index -&06 S MALAYSIAN share prices i closed 1.2 per cent lower s yesterday in lacklustre trade amid a lack of fresh leads and concern over Wall Street's performance, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index feU 8.06 points
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    • 7918 26 NNHTMALS Last Pf,-Bll V- Day Net Cag Lew Cimpiai lafc "OOP High Lew M $«wl 440 255 AjinomotO 310 19.7 125.6 174 44 Angkasa 91 -2 77 94 91 134.2 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 312 -12 9 316 312 10.9 1243 294 115 BerjayaLend 169 -1 306 173 162
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  • REGIONAL stocks
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      850 27 AFP □set Max -L5B THAI share prices closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday, with the market failing to sustain early gains amid a lack of leads to support fresh buying, dealers said. There was a small afternoon rebound after monthly economic data from the central Bank of Thailand boosted
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    • 281 27 AFP PMul> *14.71 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 14.79 points to 2,096.20 yesterday. Volume fell to 4 billion shares worth 4.1 billion pesos from 6.5 billion shares worth 3 billion pesos on Wednesday. *mn *m mm Abacus Construction 1.90 -0.12 3 Abort lz Equity US unch 35S5
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    • Article, Illustration
      707 27 AFP QCfßtaMgi +2L47 INDONESIAN share prices surged 4.1 per cent yesterday as political tensions eased on expectations for a smooth start to the new session of Parliament, dealers said. A dealer at a local brokerage said strong buying particularly in the afternoon reflected growing optimism the first session of
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    • 270 27 AFP Q Composite Index -317 THE Korea Stock Exchange Index closed down 32.7 points at 836.18 yesterday. Volume was 228.7 million shares worth 3.4 trillion won. —AFP U#M *h AnemSeml ***** 400 Brain Tech 1875 -65 Central Bank 2920 no ChMComm 7*900 1600 Dm Gu Bank 4300 -140 OaesangCarp
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    • 560 27 AFP DmOrtorwi -117 AUSTRALIAN share prices closed 0.6 per cent weaker yesterday, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's key barometer, the All Ordinaries Index, fell 16.7 points to 2,881.1. Turnover totalled 478.9 million shares worth Asl.l billion. The All Industrials Index closed down 35.8 points at 4,928.4, while the
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    • 276 27 AFP +7.47 NEW Zealand shares showed some positive signs yesterday to close. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended at its high, up 7.47 points or 0.4 per cent, at 2,023.18. Volumes were moderate at NZ$BB.4 million. Nigel Scott at ABN Amro said order flows were genuine rather than reflecting end
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    • 333 28 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CHAPTER 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF PUBLIC SECURITIES UMfTED (MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINOING UP) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 47 Hi* Street #0501, Chinese Chamber of Commerce ft Industry Building. Singepore *****5, on 23
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    • 494 28 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 METHODS A SERVICES PTE LTD (In Liquidation) At a general meeting of METHODS SERVICES PTE LTD duly convened and held on the Ist day of October, 1999 the following special resolution was passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to section
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    • 528 28 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT CARSO AND M THE MATTER OF TORAWTTAN INVESTMENT (PTE) LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary Ganaral Mining of Rie abovenamed Company duly convanad and held at 2 Havalock Road. #06-06 Apollo Centre. Singapore *****3 *r 30 September 1909, the Morning Speak,
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  • GOLF ryder cup
    • 676 30 US players say Europeans are sore losers, embarrassed at being thrashed Reuters [PINE MOUNTAIN, Georgia] US Ryder Cup players defended their team on Wednesday in the wake of a barrage of criticism of the Americans from European team members, and said Europe sounded
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
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      1781 31  -  What are some of the hot jobs on the market now that the economy is recovering? Which sectors are recruiting and what are employer and employee attitudes like now compared with pre-crisis dmi > flwniwwwii r the an^e^ COVER STORY CORINNE KERK IT'S PROBABLY no surprise, but
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    • 973 31  -  Collector Denis Low find* great joy in little bottles By] Parvathi Nayar SNUFF BOTTLES present a strange anomaly. They are exquisite, dainty, fragile, like something designed for a lady's purse. Yet they were used by among the most powerful and influential
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    • VIEWPOINT
      • 731 32  -  cuff Is marriage about exclusive sex or love between two people? Stanley Kubrick mistakenly thinks it's the former in his misguided movie Eyes Wide Shut jaime ee TWO weeks ago, I did something I haven't had reason to do for a long
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      • STRAWS In The Wind
        • 47 32 SPOTTED: A sign on a window in an office building that said, "Mosquitoes! Don't open window!" The passer-by who saw it wondered if it meant that if the mosquitoes should not open the window, would other insects or passing lizards be allowed to?
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        • 77 32 LOOKS like over-enthusiasm is causing a few hiccups over at cable TV station, ESPN. Last Sunday night, football fans were regularly reminded of a live telecast of a match between Chelsea and Manchester United "tonight". Which was rather surprising since Man U had already played
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        • 64 32 SPEAKING of over-enthusiasm, has anyone noticed that one stretch of Tanglin Road is already dolled up with "Season's Greetings" Christmas decorations on some of its street lamps? With September just barely over, is it really time to think of Santa Claus? Or are the wheels being set
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    • MOTORING
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        1401 33  -  Most of the SUVs in Singapore end up conquering curbs and little else. Yet city folks are drawn to the active, rugged image they project Christopher tax checks out three newcomers in the 4x4 stable CHRISTOPHER TAN IF FOUR-BY-FOUR sounds to you like a fancy haircut or one
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    • GOLF
      • 631 33  -  By' Yeo Guan Kai Yeo Guan Kai is the chairman Of the Singapore Golf Circuit He is also the country manager for Tricast Pte Ltd. GOLF, or any competitive sport, is no longer just for pleasure. It is big business for
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
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        371 34  -  Compiled by Parvathi Nayar MUKIO Side By Side This tribute to songwriter Stephen Sondheim features the best songs from his musicals, including all-time favourites like Send in the Clowns and Broadway Baby Oct 5 6, Hall, Raffles Hotel, 1 Beach Road; Tickets at $25/30/35 from Sistic (348-5555). Chymes'
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      • 571 34  -  CINEMA John Mcfiernan's remake of The Thomas Grown Affair serves np romance as its main course, with the heist caper presented very mnch as a side dish By\ Parvathi Nayar THE BIG stories from Shakespeare to Jane Austen are now being interpreted in Hollywood by
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      • 540 34  -  CINEMA Teaching Mrs Tingle is mere scary for its absence or misuse of talent than for the nasty events that nnfold By Parvathi Nayar KEVIN Williamson is undoubtedly a clever writer, responsible for a genuinely creative film genre: the ironic send-up of the horror film that
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    • EPICURE
      • 746 36  -  That's the feeling one gets at the Compass Rose with its spectacular view, warm service and delightful new menu, rahitabuas ends her meal on a definite high RAHITA ELIAS IT USED to be that the only reason for dining at the Compass Rose was to enjoy its enviable
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      • 155 36 CRAVINGS THREE Thai chefs from Phuket's Thavorn Palm Beach Resort are visiting at Copthorne Orchid Singapore and what a feast they have cooked up. Savour Thai restaurant staples like Red Curry with Roast Duck and Pandan Chicken in all their authentic glory. The Red Curry,
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      • 122 36  -  Compiled by Tan Su Yen THE 'Taste of Mexico" promotion last weds at Restaurant, Four Seasons Singapore, showed off an abundance of chillis in an assortment of shapes and colours. One offering on the appetiser bullet that impressed with its presence was a huge chilli stuffed with
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      • 778 36  -  WINE CONNOISSEUR By N K Yong AUSTRIAN wines were once considered the poor cousins of German wines. Few paid much attention to them. Then In 1985 they received the worst possible publicity, when it was revealed that some Austrian wines (a small proportion as it turned
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    • PEOPLE
      • 1308 37  -  The Settha Palace in Vientiane was in such bad shape that it took three weeks to dry out the waterlogged basement Today, thanks to Singapore-based businessman Billy Theodas, it has become a luxury hotel maaam mhhta finds out more about the man
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      • 392 37  -  Tbe Preach are flocking back to Laos to set op resUnrants and seek oat other business opportunities By Harish Mehta A 26-YEAR-OLD Frenchman has opened a wine shop in Vientiane with a stock of 70,000 bottles, believed to be the largest stock of French wine in the
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE
      • 1309 38 A look at how to cut your tax expenses before the next assessment comes around THERE are two things which individuals can't avoid in life: death and taxes. While you cannot avoid paying taxes to the government, you can certainly minimise your tax bill
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      • 302 38 8ANKS/RNANCE COMPANIES BELOW $3000 W000 «8W $5000-9999 flfffflt 1WW *****0 4 UP DBS (Auto-Save) 1.0000 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.5000 Hong teong Finance (Savers Plus) 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 Singapore Finance (Savers Plus) 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 1.2500 HSBC (PowerVantage) 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000 ***** 2.0000 Keppel Tatlee Bank (MoneyMax) 1.1250
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    • UNIT TRUSTS
      • 1300 39  -  The spate of unit trust launches six so far this week and more in the pipeline sends a strong, unmistakable message: Fund managers want you, or rather, your cash. So if you're looking for that extra something to diversify your portfolio, you're spoilt for choice, says oemevievecda.
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      • 531 39  -  J WMo basics By\ Patrick Corfe A UNIT trust is a type of "pooled" investment vehicle. What this means is that an investor in effect puts in or "pools" his money with other investors'; the collective amount is then invested to buy a range
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      • 410 39 UMT TOUST/SECTOR (8 MONTHS: 26FEBM-24SEPW) CHANGE BENCHMARK CHANGE Top 10 funds 1 OCBC Savers Korea/Korea EQ 95.12 Korea SE Composite 81.81 2 U08 United Japan 6th iJapan EQ 88.13 Nikkei 225 Stock Average 33.13 3 Five Arrows SEA Special Sits/ Far East Pac Ex Jap
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      • 731 40  -  -i i comment THE FINER POINT negative sentiment to weighing down on stocks although ftind managers gay the prftgmgl«*'r impi*— louis berkerling YOU could fly a planeload of analysts and commentators through the yawning gap that had opened this week between positive fundamentals
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      • 682 40  -  Healthy track record stands Yongnam in good stead, analysts tell amdrba tan ANDREA TAN Despite a slump in the construction industry, Yongnam Holdings Ltd's initial public offering has found favour with analysts who are calling a subscribe or stag on the share. The construction and
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      • 497 40  -  Fond manager sees short-term volatility for equities By' Wong Wei Kong THE remaining months of this year are likely to be unfriendly to equity markets, said Charles Brand, director of international equities at Morley Fund Management. "We are troubled by the very strong tide
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      • 999 41 The unrelenting gains of the Japanese unit may actually prove more beneficial than detrimental to South-east Asia especially in the longer term THE markets are getting uneasy about the relentless rise in the yen, or rather the precipitous fall in the US dollar.
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      • 870 41 FOR Singapore corporations, the direct and indirect effects of a stronger yen versus the Sing dollar are largely positive. Higher purchasing power due to a stronger yen should translate to higher demand for Singapore exports of goods and services to Japan. In addition, higher Japanese FDI
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    • 50 31 Motoring Sport-utility vehicles: rugged, fun-loving and adventurous. A look at three new offerings in this segment on EL 3 Cinema The Thomas Crown Affair: an intelligent no-brainer. EL 4 Ifc 'f_i i* k jyf People Billy Theodas: turning a rundown colonial property in Laos into a luxury hotel EL 7
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 159 43 Bridge News, Reuters SOME stiff rate increases for Atlantic capers were seen for business to China and for trans-Atlantic coal, brokers said. Panamax rates were still drifting from the US Gulf due to lack of orders, but levels in the Far East for these vessels remained firmer, they
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    • 375 43  -  It will manage and operate USs23Bm Sines terminal for 30 years By< Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp has obtained the Portuguese government's final go-ahead to develop, manage and operate its second greenfleld container terminal project, the Sines Container Terminal, at a total
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    • 250 43 Reuters [RIGA] Latvian Shipping, the world's 19th largest ship operator in tonnage terms, has embarked upon a much needed renewal of its ageing fleet by placing an order for six new tankers, the company's president said. Andris Klavlnsh said in an interview that the firm
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    • 297 43  -  By] Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The Thai tanker Siam Xanxai found in Southern China after it was hijacked off Malaysia in June is to be returned to its owners by the Chinese authorities. The Chinese authorities have agreed to return the ship to
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    • 620 43  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar Tl HE English Admiralty Court pas recently held that food, drink, stationery and other consumables supplied for the use or consumption by passengers on a vessel are goods or materials supplied for a vessel's
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    • FOCUS fuel bill
      • 752 44  -  Shipping sector is better able to absorb spiralling fuel prices as the regional economic recovery filters through By] Raj Rajendren Reuters [SINGAPOREI Shipowners, hit by spiralling fuel prices, are counting on improving freight rates for a smoother ride, Singapore-based industry sources and analysts have said.
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    • 19756 51 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advartisw Vassal Voyaga Talaphona ETA ETA Advartisw VtssK Voy *9* Talaeftona SIN Dast'n Nam* Nama Numbw Numbw SIN Dnt'n Nun* Nam* Number Number 19/10 20/n NYK IRIS 005N 65 *****23 (ABJ) 2003 Cot# D'lvoire t a RIJFMOC Aiorc /ft! ir\ ?OAn k rnantln i
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      • 1870 57 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND La CARGO Boofclng/Manco Rstli Ship Voy Mo Etfc/Btr Nrtod Frow To Fro* ACI OAKY 029* 1/7*0 W/HM J*"* JMWO u arm wo*s» 30/0*0 a a/1700 30/0*51 30/090C 1 10/0700 30/181 30/1400 4 wboo mm 30/1700 AJ121 a SN 30/23:51 2JW> ?jgW a
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      • 190 57 Oat 1 China: National Day. Hong Kong: National Day. Oct 2 China: National Day Holiday. Hong Kong: National Day. OotlO Taiwan: Double Tenth National Day. Oat 11 Canada: Thanksgiving Day. Japan: Sports Day Holiday. United States: Columbus Day. Ootia Mexico: Columbus Day (optional). Spain: National Day. Oat 18
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      • 763 57 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 651 58 They are still straggling to re-capture market share as Asia's economy rebounds after two years Reuters [SINGAPORE] Asian airlines will bear the brunt of higher ftiel costs for the short term and not pass it on as higher airfares despite better load demand,
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      • 166 58 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Passenger traffic at the major European airlines rose a collective 5.6 per cent in August on a year ago, though the increase was well below growth for the first seven months, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) said. The most obvious slowdown was
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      • 524 58 Ectrada stands firm on demand that Taipei carriers meet flight condition* AFP [MANILA] The Philippines and Taiwan on Wednesday braced for a cut-off of air traffic between them as Philippine President Joseph Estrada stood firm on a demand for Taipei carriers
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      • 46 58 [CHONBURI, Thailand] A Thai Airways 747-400 sports a new paint job at an airport in Chonburi as pari of the country's 'Amazing Thailand' tourism promotion. The design depicts the Supphannahong royal barge which was used to transport Thai monarchs in ancient times. REUTERS
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      • 263 58 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's largest aircraft manufacturer is in talks with European consortium Airbus Industrie to set up a joint venture to design and build 20-tonne cargo planes, officials said. "We will be supplying the freight carrier to all parts
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      • 352 58 Reuters [WASHINGTON] Doubts surround air travel safety in about 30 countries in the absence of Year 2000 readiness information, and the United States should consider steps to press the issue, a senior US official said yesterday. Significant uncertainties still exist regarding foreign
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      • 87 58 AFP [WASHINGTON] The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned personal video screens on all US-registered MD-11 airplanes, after reviewing the crash of a Swissair jet in 1996 off the eastern coast of Canada. Known as the In-Flight Entertainment Network System/IFENS, the video screens have
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