The Business Times, 4 October 1999

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  • 846 1  -  phn exclusive Entire loan can be switched to another bank even If quantum tops 80% of home's current value By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] In what is an important ruling for the home financing market, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has
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  • 511 1  -  From, Eddie Toh vW Kuala Lumpur IN a surprise development, Ma In ys la may .allow more than six banks to exist in the new banking landscape, according to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. "Well, that's an almost arbitrary figure that we've
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    • 772 2  -  FOMC MBBTMO ON DITEREST HATES TOMOBKOW Mo rate hike seen just yet, bnt likely at Nov 16 meeting From. Andrew Marks in New York MOST analysts doubt the US Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates tomorrow, but fear an increase by year's end. Wall Street
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    • 359 2 It also plans to beef up management of core units Reuters [LONDON] Britain's National Westminster Bank Pic is looking at selling non-core assets in a bid to stave off Bank of Scotland's hostile £21 billion (5158.8 billion) takeover bid, newspapers reported yesterday.
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    • 377 2 History unlikely to repeat itself, October to be good month, Pg 6 I I J *****11 11 /n£eres£e^^7ease_Fax^ UitSj!lHSl2S2 9888 I iffik UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE TJ "Ranked Among the Top 25 Business Schools in USA" American MBA sth Intake Starting 8 October '99 HI Completion in 18 months; 13 modules
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  • CHINA 50th anniversary
    • 1105 3  -  Its leaders are adept at playing a dual strategy, urging foreign firms to invest there even as they voice anachronistic rhetoric From Peter Seidlitz, David Murphy in Beijing THE Party boss donned his grey Mao jacket to give an assessment of the state of socialism
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 954 4  -  At June year-end, 30 companies profitable, 12 made losses; top 10 earners account for 75% of $376.4 m total profits, reports vnr srhbmivasan VEN SREENIVASAN [SINGAPORE] Technology and marine companies featured prominently among the top 10 earners, a survey of earnings for the
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    • 790 4  -  nonperformance was mixed, with 8 out of 20 ending last week as losers By Wong Wei Kong (SINGAPORE] Foreign currency stocks had a fairly good week, outperforming the benchmark index while matching the performance of smaller stocks. The BT portfolio of nonSingapore dollar stocks
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    • 587 5  -  Sesdaq aspirant plans to go public this month to raise fonds, profile By, Andrea Tan HOMEGROWN healthcare provider HMI Holdings Ltd, which will list on Sesdaq soon, is hoping to carve a niche as a regional hospital management and consultancy group. "Our vision is
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 78 5 ECON International said the deal to place out 88.76 <~M million new shares to Asian Energy Ltd (AEL)hasnot taken place and it regards the placement agreements as terminated. Econ said it was informed by ASL that it was unable to obtain funding for its acquisition
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      • 73 5 US fund management company The Capital Group has upped its stake in Singapore Press Holdings, buying a total 0f48,000 shares in the open market It paid between 838JM and 827.38, excluding fees and duties, for each share. The shares were held by Standard Chartered
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 201 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy LAST week, we raised the question of whether Malaysian companies might have been better off if they were to lower the exercise price instead of extending the life span of their warrants. Minho's warrant, which will now
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      301 6 Source: JM Sassoon Slecfce Volume 'GenNnglnt 84.436,000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 52.784,000 Golden Agri US10C 38,782.000 8IA... 34.084.000 SingTel 15c 30,232,000 PCCapn5c 30,188,000 TenChongMSOc... 28,*****0 Wem«tioneJPreeaSoflcom5c 27,828,000 Feelech US10C 23,780,000 TlontfWoon 10c 23,620.000 8toel» SIA 647,186,561 DBSQrp 131,243.154 SingTel 15c 82,308.708 NalBee 10c 67,380,983 DBS Lend 58.*****6 OC8C Faeign 58,118,867 UOB
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    • 607 6  -  l-iti comment STOCKS r.sivanithy IT is October again and markets look nervous. Every year since the crashes of 1929 and 1987 this happens because by some inexplicable coincidence, both collapses in the past happened in October. Perfectly rational people start
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    • 264 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines has been rising strongly since the merger of its Foreign and Local tranches early last month. It was in the limelight again last week in the wake of reports of further unwinding of the crossholdings of shares
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    • 596 6 AFP [HONGKONG] The yen fell following concern in the industrialised countries over its rapid rise but most other currencies in the Asia-Pacific region held up. Yen: The yen fell against the dollar as the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations expressed
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 1113 7  -  SINGAPORE 1000 The financial information provider will make Singapore the Asian hub for some of its Internet services By• Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] REUTERS, the leading provider of financial information, has set its sights on becoming a major Internet player by offering services for the
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    • 770 8  -  WHAT CAM 00 WRONO ON JAM 1,2000 By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] IMAGINE what it would be like if the global telecommunications network were to fail. Other than the obvious fact that your phones won't work, a host of other activities will also grind to a
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    • 579 8  -  Marbella Conrt and Holland View could fetch a total of $300 m By] Kalpana Rashiwala COLLECTIVE sales are fast becoming a common event with two District 10 freehold properties said to be worth a combined $300 million slated for
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    • 428 8  -  Each owner of 56-unit development conld pocket $I.Bm By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE owners of the 56-unit Grange Mansion have teamed up to sell their homes and their 54,798 sq ft District 9 freehold site will be added soon to the growing pool
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    • 260 8  -  M*¥T-f»A Koh Kee Heng Singapore via Internet I REFER to your Hock Lock Slew column, "SingTel's cash cow could turn into a free service" (BT, Sept 30). Although I agree with your writer that international phone charges will be going down, I do
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    • 162 8  -  S S Chow Singapore via Internet I REFER to Malik Tahir's letter ("Rest assured KL will catch up with S'pore", BT, Sept 23). "Selling our souls to the West" is a figment of his imagination. Our souls have been working cohesively non stop for the past
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    • 304 8  -  the economy OUtlOOk By Marissa Chew BETTER external conditions as well as the effective cost-cutting measures directed by the government will boost manufacturing output and exports, helping fuel Singapore's economic growth by 6 per cent, said DBS Bank. In its latest quarterly
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    • 270 8 UNITY NTUC Healthcare Cooperative has returned to the black with group surplus of $449,000 ended March lSwaganretthe previous deficittfJKl million. Its chairman, Chua Cher Choon, said that Unity the pharmacy and healthcare group which runs 23 retail outlets has achieved a turnaround despite
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 730 9  -  comment KL STOCKS More time, flexibility needed; a few more banks should be allowed eddie toh THE Malaysian central bank has cleared the first hurdle in forcing the country's 58 financial institutions to sign in-principle merger pacts. The 21 banks, 25 finance companies and
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    • 220 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters A complete revamp of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) listing requirements is under way to enhance corporate governance among the 742 listed companies on the exchange, exchange president Salleh Majid said last Saturday. The move would further strengthen investor protection, Bernama
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    • 199 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN opposition leader Lim Kit Siang said yesterday that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was likely to call a general election next month. Mr Lim, head of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), said he believed Par--liam en t would be dissolved
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  • SOUTH-EAST asia
    • 454 10  -  But doubts remain whether hell be brought to trial By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Former Indonesian president Suharto will be named as a defendant in corruption charges before the end of this month, a senior government official said. Romli Atmasasmita, di-rector-general
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    • 732 10  -  HI ill i iT*j iH ECONOMICS Tlutfi bow mncliß>«t Aito coald end np losing in total, gDta^jbywemrcal«nl«Honß vikram khanna HOW much will East Asia end up losing because of the economic crisis? If you must put a number on it we could be talking a cool one
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    • 432 10 JAKARTA MPS, meanwhile, is scheduled to elect a speaker Reuters AFP INDONESIA'S political parties yesterday embarked on an intense round of horsetrading that will decide the outcome of beleaguered President B J Habibie's bid to cling to power. Indonesia's supreme legislative assembly,
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    • 283 10 JAKARTA AFP IN THE aftermath of the explosive politically-linked Bank Bali scandal, investors have been spooked off Indonesia's banking stocks despite falling interest rates, analysts said. Most analysts said that in the short- and medium-term, it may be risky for investors to spread their
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    • 72 10 The law firms of Arthur Loke Partners, Bernard Rada Partners and Tommy Lee Partners have merged on 1 st October 1999 to form Arthur Loke Bernard Rada 8c lee Lawyers Intellectual Property Agents The firm will have these practice areas: High Technology Start-up Advice Corporate and Finance Litigation Intellectual Property
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  • EAST asia
    • 491 11 BEIJING Bering's office space gjnt leaves 30% of the total 2.7 m sq m in the city vacant AFP BEHIND the tinted glass facade of Beijing's Oriental Plaza development is a potent mixture of Hongkong capitalist audacity, bumbling bureaucracy and a spiralling property bubble.
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    • 376 11 HONGKONG Economic contraction, Inflation are risks in short term: analyst Reuters CHINA'S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would risk economic contraction and inflation in the short term, and pose problems for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), a leading China expert in Hongkong
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    • 375 11 TAIPEI AFP IT may cost up to a NT$l trillion (5153.3 billion) for Taiwan to recover from the devastating earthquake which killed more than 2,200 people, officials said yesterday. "The damages and losses inflicted by the temblor were no less than those
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    • 281 11 HONGKONG Reuters CHINA'S oil exploration and production firm CNOOC Ltd looks set to pump up international interest with its initial public offering in October. CNOOC will be the first Chinese oil share available to the market and overseas investors are expected to
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  • IA/logismat '99
    • 776 12  -  The IA process is becoming an inevitable part of the Singapore manufacturing scene and fie rewards justify it By\ Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] ASK any manufacturing company whether they have implemented any form of industrial automation, and you will get an affirmative answer almost all the
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    • 955 13  -  Globalisation, the Internet and an emphasis on supply chain management are the three new key factors Byl Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] IN today's competitive global environment, logistics plays an important role not merely in bringing raw materials to the production floor and finished
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    • 403 14 A WHOLE slew of new products from a variety of manufacturers will be launched at lA/Logismat '99, one of Asia's top industrial automation (IA) and logistics exhibitions. Items on display include products for manufacturing and enterprise automation, robotics, supply chain management, materials handling
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    • 616 14  -  A good example is the automated system for honeycomb repair co-developed by Gintic and PWCOS Reports by 1 Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] THE Republic installed its very first robot, one used for spray painting, almost 20 years ago in 1960. Since then, robots have become an
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    • 506 15 [SINGAPORE] THE exhibitions management services industry in Singapore is a vibrant one. Over the years, Singapore's growing reputation as an ideal venue for staging international trade events in Asia has attracted about 100 exhibitions and over 200,000 participants from all parts of the
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    • 343 15 IN a global economy that is increasingly information intensive, an advanced information infrastructure is the key to economic growth and value creation. The world economy is increasingly dependent upon the strategic capture, transmission and consumption of information. Companies are using information technology to
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    • 286 14 Higher Quality and Efficiency with the Software System LAGOS for the Warehouse and Material Flow Optimization Logistics management centre with logistics controlling Dynamic storage location management Fully automated high bay warehouse control Order orientated material flow control Fork lift control system with radio frequency Picking, packing and shipping control Online
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  • SOUTH asia
    • 482 16 BOMBAY Re-rated for research potential after deals by Ranbaxy and others Reuters HOMEGROWN pharmaceutical firms have stolen a march over multinational peers on Indian bourses in recent days after being re-rated for research potential following the big-money deals clinched by firms
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    • 589 16 =i ■«d from Colombo ben davies Recent terrorist attacks a reminder of the high costs of a civil war with no end In sight IN the western harbour district of Colombo, a pair of rusted cannon point out incongruously over the Indian Ocean. The cannon were
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  • WORLD news
    • 698 17 OBITUARY NYT AKIO Morita, the co-founder of the Sony Corp who personified Japan's rise from postwar rubble to industrial riches and became the unofficial ambassador of its business community to the world, died here yesterday. He was 78. He had been in failing health since a
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 74 17 Reuters [CHICAGO] Federal Reswore Board governor Laurence Meyer said on Friday the Fed must be an anchor for the global economy by promoting non-inflationary, sustainable growth in the United States. "The beet thing we can do for the world economy Is to be a
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      • 68 17 Reuters [TOKYO] Four days after Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident, Japanese police said yesterday that they will soon launch a ftill-ecale investigation into the cause of the disaster. Questions are now focused on whether the incident was a result ofaimple human error, as has been suggested
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      • 83 17 AFP [WABHlNGTONlAconiputffl-bug believed to be retattd totheyearaooo problem diarupted computer networks at the US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation on Friday, the Washington Post reported. The fiscal year2ooobegan in the US on Oct L The Education Department reported a ftdlure of
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      • 83 17 Bloomberg rwn^GTON,D MTV and Paramount Pictures Corp, has tifiea«ro By twoholdersof five-year-old stock warrants vrtsy say* the company's ftdlure to provide notice of the warrants' July expiration coet holders at toast US$7.B million (5112.4 million). Paramount stockholders received more Aan six million warrants when New York-based
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      • 76 17 Reuters [NEW YORKJ ATAT Corp, the No 1 US long-distance teleph<me company, said 08a Friday it win eliminate some i clerical, technical and administrative jobe in the next 00 days aa part ofits two-year, USI2 billion (818.4 billion) coet-cuttingplan. An ATAT spokesman
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      • 74 17 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's top 100 Intarastmillionalree have amassed a fortune worth £4 billion (SHI2 billion), mostly in the last four years, according to a survey published yestecday. The Sunday Times newspaper said Britain's top cyber tycoons were richer than their rivala in continental Surope,
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    • 493 18 WASHINGTON Fond charged with understating lending capacity 9 poor preparation for Y2K FT AN independent US investigation has delivered a scathing report on the International Monetary Fund for understating its lending capacity and being poorly prepared for the millennium date change. The
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    • 320 18 CHICAGO Fed looking at risk profile, risk controls and strategy Bloomberg ABOUT 30 US banks a third of them subsidiaries of foreign companies are so large and so critical to the international financial system that the Federal Reserve must step up its supervision
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    • 323 18 NEW YORK IHT AMERICAN and British investors are primarily concerned with retirement, while savers in several other countries focus on weathering a crisis such as a bout of unemployment, according to a survey of more than 10,000 consumers in 10 countries.
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
    • 598 19 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON! Gold Anally rediscovered its lost lustre in spectacular style as a central bankers' pact to curb sales and leasing sparked a once-in-a-generation buying frenzy that drove prices up some 20 per cent in less than three days. The
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  • MARKET reviews
    • 258 20 LONDON AFP THE banking sector protected the London market from the negative effect of Wall Street last week, taking shares slightly higher as bid speculation continued to whirl around National Westminster bank. faie FT-SEIOO Index of leading shares rose by 33.1 points, or 0.56
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    • 715 20 NEW YORK Strong earnings expected in the 3rd qjtr also add credence to the theory Bloomberg OCTOBER has the reputation for being the spookiest month in the stock market. This year, though, September was so bad that investors say October looks like a good
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    • 361 20 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE stocks are likely to hold ground this week on the back of ex* pected improvement in corporate sentiment in a Bank of Japan (BOJ) poll to be released today, traders said. But market participants are also guarded ahead of the US
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    • 286 20 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S stock market is likely to remain volatile as investors fret over a likely US interest-rate increase and the government's latest policy report, dealers said on Thursday. "Next week will be a critical one, because of the US Federal Reserve meeting
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    • 1483 20 P| Puis *17 FRENCH shares ended down but off session lows on Friday as strong US and European data rekindled fears further rate hikes might be on the cards on both sides of the Atlantic. The CAC-40 blue chip Index closed down 0.89 per cent at 4,550.57
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    • 835 20 HSydney *its THE possibility of a hike in domestic interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia could weigh on the Australian sharemarket this week, analysts said. "The distant din has become more audible. There is much to recommend a rate hike following Tuesday's Reserve Bank Board
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    • 362 21 AFP QfampoatflMc -1415 MALAYSIA'S stock market is expected to be listless in the coming week as it tracks movements in the New York and Tokyo markets, dealers said. An institutional dealer with a local brokerage said concerns over the performance of WaU Street
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    • 456 22 Slim Weeklyßoundup [SINGAPORE] The first week of the new quarter and the Japanese fiscal half-year is fuU of data and events. In this eventful week, we are likely to see interest rate differentials and global capital flows moving against the US dollar, particularly in favour
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    • 6137 23 KADI BOARD Week ended: Oct 1 Of Or M Wt 32-Wk Loot Vol Woo* H«t 0y«« jS £5 wm> l— wn Ctm,nc, w» rooo) hhh l— m** c-w p/| 182 17.5 m b 1000 Acma50c K>9ed -7 1053 115 106 109 no 10 3J 4.6 8.9 180.3 109 84 25
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  • EXEC lifestyle
    • 519 24 FILM Zealots to dig Californi&n dunes for the set of silent movie epic Hie Ten Commandments LAT-WP [GUADALUPE, California] For 75 years, the majestic dunes that tower over this humble coastal village have held one of Hollywood's oldest and strangest secrets. Cecil B DeMille,
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    • 399 24 Where to wine, dine and entertain...*^ sns Enjoy lamb in eight different ways as prepared by the master chefs of the Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant for the month of October. Try Grilled Lamb Ftllet in "Mongolian Style"; Minced Lamb Broth with Pumpkin; Marinated Sliced Lamb with Minced Garlic; Hot and
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    • 1125 24 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Fellow and I can coexist har- f 1 P f j f 5 j f j f 4 Exhausted, lifeless and de--10 Broken romance in Italy (7) 11 Place notice about vehicle by 13 Some of the rafters rotted sub- aH L|^ sequentiy 14 Continue to give
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  • BIZIT
    • 708 25  -  :j i exclusive A move to set up operations in the US is in line witii the software lab's expanded role as market catalyst for its products and technologies By) Kenneth James [SINGAPORE] The search is on for Silicon Valley veterans who can work with Singapore's
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    • 475 26  -  KRDL's e-commerce offshoot also plans to list in two years By' Toh Han Shih A SINGAPORE electronic commerce firm, ecQuaria, is already profitable less than one year after it was founded. The firm, which was spun off ftom Kent Ridge Digital Labs
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    • 375 28  -  This will lead to true competition among cable modem vendors, says SCV By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) has adopted an open standard for cable modems, which enables it to offer a price competitive cable modem service and roll
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    • 284 28  -  Byi Andrew Wee [SINGAPORE] CeBIT 2000, dubbed the world's largest IT and telecoms trade fair, will see more participation by Singapore-based companies this year. The six-day exposition will be held in Hannover, Germany from Feb 24 and have more than 40
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    • IT TAKES
    • 695 29  -  f.Vlwe see IT kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor COME mid-November Oracle Corp will hold its biggest annual event, Oracle Open World *99, in Los Angeles. From November 14-18, the flagship showcase for Oracle solutions will also show off the software
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    • 155 30 Reuters [TOKYO] Sony Corp. in a move to avoid a repeat of its Betamax debacle, has said it will license six Japanese electronics manufacturers to make and market its nifty Memory Stick, and gadgets using the memory device. The Memory
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    • 781 30  -  How does one manage the vast amounts of data that will clog lip yonr system a few years down the road? Some experts tell yon how By Jennifer Lien IN FOUR years' time, your company's data storage needs will jump eight-fold. And if you
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    • 682 31  -  I exclusive By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] A sustained focus on its bread-and-butter business lower-end static semiconductor products—is the direction for ON Semiconductor, the newly spun off unit of Motorola Inc. "We will focus on growing our new products, our projection by 2004 is
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    • 605 31 They do it for thrills, despite having a long-term strategy NYT [NEW YORK] Shortly before 9am on Sept 17, an alarm sounded on Derek O'Banion's personal computer the signal that Vitria Technology, an Internet business software developer, had begun its first day of trading
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    • 467 32  -  Iz'ti exclusive E-insurance could boost agent productivity by 15 per cent By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Prudential, one of the four biggest insurance companies in Singapore, has made electronic signatures for its life insurance service commercially available in Singapore. The move was made in August,
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    • 543 32  -  edmund ang t ALL centres are one of the biggest M growth sectors in business today, 1 with the Internet adding an entirely new dimension to customer service. The new technologies have H m limitations, however. Call centres are I not as intelligent
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    • 553 33 But the magic now is supplied by computers NYT A NEW form of advertising is f rewriting an old saying to de- clare: Now you don't see it, now you do. The magic now, though, is f supplied by computers, in the
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    • 321 33  -  Fonr new models debut with new technology and flexibility By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Epson Singapore has announced four new models under its Perfection brand of scanners, claiming they "redefine the standards of flatbed scanning technology with the highest scanning resolution, fast processing speed, and ease
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 91 35 SYMANTEC Corp has unveiled Norton System Works 2000, the latest edition of its utility suite to protect against viruses, solve PC problems, guard against crashes, optimise system performance and enable emergency system recovery. Two editions of the software are available: the $159 Standard Edition, that includes
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      • 66 35 ADOBE Systems Inc has announced Adobe InDesign, a new page-layout application for graphics designers, production artists, and pre-press professionals. It comes with numerous features, including multiline text composer, optical margin alignment kerning, 5-4000 per cent zooming, and others. It works with other Adobe products and costs $1,689
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      • 49 35 HOMEGROWN smartßridges Pte Ltd has introduced smartNlC, a new, robust network adapter for notebook computer users to connect to their corporate networks over Ethernet The $118 device lets users connect via the USB (Universal Serial Bus) port to lOßaseT Ethernet networks. For details, fax *****82.
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      • 53 35 RECKON Singapore, the developer of Quicken financial management software, is ready with Quickßooks Pro 6.0 accounting software for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The PC-based software amies with multi-user facility, quicker database sorting, easier tax computation, and multi-tasking ftinctionality. It costs $600; upgraders pay $200. For
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      • 77 35 HEWLETT-PACKARD Far East has announced two new CD-RW (rewriteable) drives with IDE and USB interfaces. The drives come with a bunch of bundled software and utilties for creating data cm* music CDs, Web presentations, publishing videos and pictures, data recovery, and others. The CD-Writer92ool is an
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      • 74 35 PACKARD BELL, the consumer division of Packard Bell NEC, has announced two new desktop PCs to offer users "an amazing Internet experience". The systems run on either Intel's Celeron or Pentium HI processors and come with bundled software targeted at home and small office users.
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      • 79 35  -  Raju Chellam ADVANCED Micro Devices has Introduced new speed grades for its two families of processors for mobile computers. The Mobile AMD-K6-ID-P processor is now available in speeds 0f400,433, and4so MHz; and the Mobile AMD-KB-2-P at 433,450 and 475 MHz. AMD said these processors come
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    • 293 35 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Intel Corp said it has discovered a bug in two versions of its Pentium in Xeon processors for the server and workstation market, a bug that will delay the shipment of servers based on the chip. Intel
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    • 304 35  -  Siemens is tying op with lens use the l&tter's online learning system By' Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Companies can train people electronically over SingaporeONE, the national high-speed network, thanks to a newly-formed Sin- gapore firm, Icus, and a premier French business school, Insead. If
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    • DOT com
      • 807 36  -  Homegrown firm rolling out Internet payment services throughout the Asia-Pacific, reports tob ham sam TOH HAN SHIH A YOUNG Singapore firm, Cybersource, is rolling out Internet payment services throughout the Asia-Pacific using Singapore as the hub. When cyber-merchants throughout the Asia-Pacific collect payments for their sales
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        • 72 36 HOMEGROWN IntelllLifelncPte Ltd has launched BuyltTogether, an Internet shopping service that aggregates individual orders to negotiate with local physical and online merchants for bulk discounts The Web site at www-BuyltTogether.coiiLsg offers 10 product categories. Buyers can either collect the products themselves or have them delivered. The
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        • 45 36 CATCHA.COM, an Internet portal and search engine, has partnered go-events.com to provide an online listing of Asian business events. The collaboration will enable 290 event organisers to display event listings which can be customised to each local marhetftor details, visit www.catcha.com.
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        • 50 36 WEB application company Magfleid Web Deafen last week launched BubMegum Entertainment Online, an online magasine covering the local retail and lifestyle scene. Ihe Web site contains music, movie and book reviews as well as a product and service search engine. For details, visit www.bubbiegum rom eg
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        • 72 36 A TRUST FUND which wUI be used to develop in countries was set up last month The Trust Fund partnership between fee International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and World Internet Secure Key (WISeKeySA), is expected to raise US$l7 million (8*4.6 million) annually tor theneart flirse years. The
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        • 46 36 CHINA Southern Airlines, the largest airline in The People's Republic of China, has announced the debut of itsnewEngUafaWebsiteatwww.caalr.com/eiLln u addition to ffight information, schedules and feres, the site win also offer online enrolment into the airlines' fta|U6ut flyer pA'\jgi Milium.
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        • 63 36  -  Andrew Wee IN A survey ofl,ooo people, representative of SineqNßrt popMhtfinri rnrnmisslorMtfl by rfrtimnm Mfrlis rrtrrrtinn rsowtljp, it flound that 42 psrosnt of the interviewees, srbo wert s>sd tut ween IS and S4,ussd the Internet And the most popular Web sites were entertainment sits*. Typical Internet
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    • 31 25 KRDL's e-commerce offshoot plans listing P§2 Data storage: How to avoid overload Pgo file: ON, spurv-off unit of Motorola Pg7 I' I I j II rj GREAT PLAINS v T> CP
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 188 37 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE improvement in dry bulk prices was maintained with the reported sale of the handymax European Trader (43,000/94) at around US$l5.B million. This makes the reported sale of the Arctic Navigator (41,000/96) at US$l4.6 million seem an attractive level for the buyers, but
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    • 496 37  -  Shippers, carriers can now truly form partnerships US shippers' gronp By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] The deregulation of ocean shipping in the US on May 1 this year has benefited shippers, and these advantages are set to grow over the next two to
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    • 676 37  -  LIEER SCENE By) David Hughes OONTAINERISATION has achieved many things. Apart from bringing unit transport costs down dramatically, it has drastically cut pilferage of cargoes. It might have been thought that it would also have virtually ended the practice of stowing away on
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 361 38  -  Bering tells IMO it has taken action against pirates Reports by David Hughes in Ixmdon A DETAILED rebuttal of allegations of being soft on piracy by China's delegate to the International Maritime Organisation, Guo Xin, was described as "selective" by an International Maritime
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      • 169 38 CHAIRMAN of Pegasus Shipping Nicos Peraticos has apologised for a bunker fuel spill from the tanker Command off the Californian coast last year which landed costs of US$9.4 million (Ssl6 million) in a US court last week. The ship's master pleaded guilty
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      • 194 38 DRY bulk carrier owners association Intercargo published its Bulk Carrier Casualty report 1999 last week. Chairman Frederick Chavalit Tsao said in his foreword: "The most significant trend over the last 10 years has been the reduction in losses to capesize and panamax bulk carriers. "Losses
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      • PORT Shots
        • 104 38 THE new operator of the Liberian Registry LISCR has finished recruiting staff in its key areas as 24 employees of outgoing operator IRI accepted contracts with the new company, including IRl's Hongkong-based manager for Far Eastern operations William Wu. Staffing in its newer network of offices
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        • 122 38 A THIRD meeting of the chairmen of the principal shipowners' organisations in London issued a statement saying it was "felt important to stress that there is currently no talk about any merger". The meeting was attended by Rolf Westfal-Larsen (chairman of ICS and president of
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        • 181 38 THE International Transport Workers' Federation (TTF) hekl another "week of action" in European ports against open registry vessels as part of its long standing anti-flag of convenience (FOC) campaign, and its "inspectors" claimed a small number of successes. It claimed the action was aimed
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        • 126 38 THE International Transport Intermediaries Club (TTIC) has warned ship agents that they could incur substantial costs and heavy fines if they accept instructions from bogus principals operating from a specific telex number in Piraeus, Greece. The mutual insurer says a number of members have received
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    • 296 38 PACE EngLee 0 •AMI 3 ESPUnes O Accord 8 Ew rM 6 Ahreflfc* M 8 Appensl* 5 FroU U AsiaOCl 13 FrtLin,ls M Austral 8 Avant M GLink 4 B'tang Mas 8 G rtriM 6 jjA 7 Genshpg 13 BTL M Clorv,tov M HaiSunHuo 12 RaUii 5
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    • 19471 45 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Aa.ert.wr Vessel Voyege Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser VesseI VoyW SIN Dastn Nam* Nam Number Number SIN Destn Name Nam. Numoer 22/10 I8/T1 COSCO EMPRESS PHOENIX 0002E 45-*****0 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'I voire To BUENAVENTURA (BUN) 2059 Colombia B/8 n/n MOL MERIDIAN CHALLENGE
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      • 468 51 WW Voy Ho Nrttt Arrival Ptp«rtiirt JN| Nrt y 156 Nt/N J02 03/10/7:30 04/10/6.40 *II ***** J01 03/10/7:45 04/10/20:00 J"*** 2A JM 03/10/10:35 06/10/740 «Putara In ***** JOI 04/10/8:00 04/10/1640 Bt Suf Saktl ****** J01 04/10/8:00 04/10/18:00 Ctltlc Dotph Dec-99 J03 04/10/8:00 04/10/23:00 Pol PrimroM Jan-99 J14 04/10/8:00
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      • 1994 51 RECEIYIW6 OF EXPOiT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Booking/Manet Rsth Ship VoyMo Etb/Btr Ported Frow To Frow ACHICVf R **7 V2140 24 02/1700 avow* OVMOO 2> 02/1700 03/0*5* 03/0*00 acx jak r« win) m wm oi/o*s* www 20 02/1700 01/0*5* 01/0*00 j ovoroo ovist OVMOO 4 03/1200 03/MM
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      • 190 51 Oat 10 Taiwan: Double Tenth National Day. Out 11 Canada: Thanksgiving Day. Japan: Sports Day Holiday. United States: Columbus Day. Oat 12 Mexico: Columbus Day (optional). Spain: National Day. Out 18 Hong Kong: Chung Yeung Festival. Out 23 Thailand- Chulalongkorn Day. Out 25 Ireland-Republic OF: October Holiday. New
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      • 766 51 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead at tingle price* for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 513 52 Boeing will buy from British Airways 34 used passenger 757s that it will refurbish as freighters Bloomberg [REDWOOD CITY, California] DHL International will become the first buyer of Boeing's converted 757 passenger airliner, taking at least 34 planes in what will
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      • 424 52 Reuters IGENEVA] Swissair said it could not rule out membership in one of the global airline alliances at some point in the future, but said the current alliance scene was too unstable to join. "One can never say never," Swissair chief executive Jeffrey
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      • 302 52 Reuters [WASHINGTON] British Airways chief executive Robert Ayling painted a bleak picture of prospects for "open skies" aviation trade negotiations between the United States and Britain. Speaking in Washington recently, where his airline's application for antitrust immunity with American Airlines
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    • 94 37 DHL to be first buyer of Boeing's converted 7575, Back page We can't deliver to Mars (yet), but our fast service coyers the earth. C') I or the most efficient service, in \sia and around the world. go with 101 .We offer Lister transit times, greater Irequency and wider port
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