The Business Times, 3 November 1999

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 046/12/98 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1999
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    61 1 sn 2067.22 (-15.82) BT-SEI 788J8 (-3.15) SMSCI FUTURES 287J0 (-1.40) STOCK BASKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 727.03 -4.45 NIKKEI *****.96 -4J6 HANG SENG 13J335.84 +13.73 SET INDEX ***** +10.86 JAKARTA COMP a94.41 -067 MANILA COMP Closed TAIPEI WPI 7,721.59 -93,30 SEOIXCOMP 590.18 +1363 CLSA CHINA B 763.82 AUST
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    87 1 FOREX KATES USI ss rss 1.667 £(l"SS/SS per 1647 174-5 EURO(l SS/SS per E) 1.054 1.757 DM 1.855 0.898 YEN 104.8 1.591 HM 3800 0.439 HKS 7 769 0115 BAHT 38.68 0.043 R1TIAH 6.740 0025 St to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5 80 KUALA LUMPUR 7 25 JAKARTA
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    Lock icon Stockbroker Vickers gives clients new deal
    481 1  -  l Hexclusive Company breaks fresh ground in industry by paying interest on clients' credit balances ry' Conrad Raj [SlNGAPOßE] Vickers Ballas Company has become the first stockbroking company to pay interest on money kept by clients with the firm as part of its preparations
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    Lock icon Release of Bank Bali report augurs well for reform
    653 1  -  Move set to pave way for resumption of critical aid flows From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S economic reform programme got back on track yesterday with the new government finally making public an independent audit on the Bank Bali scandal, paving
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    Lock icon Fund management assets up a robust 36% in first half
    485 1  -  MAS survey shows industry recovering from regional crisis By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Singapore's asset management industry is buzzing six months after the worst economic recession in decades put a damper on the fund management business last year. Indication
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        147 2 IF you care that every 3.6 seconds, someone dies of hunger in the world and that three-quarters of the deaths are children under five years old, go to one of the most innovative sites on the Internet. The Hunger Site (www.thehungersite.com) is an independent Web site endorsed
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        90 2 ANOTHER appeal for charity that has come to our attention is LinkAid2ooo, a 2,000 km bicycle ride from Bangkok to Singapore by lawyers from Linklaters, a major English law firm. A team of 10 riders nine men and "one lone lady" will pedal an average of 150 km
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        Lock icon Lousy firewalls, good defences
        103 2 IF only the National Computer Board's firewalls were as robust as its public relations machinery. A day after the government Web site (www.gov.sg) was hacked into, the NCB coyly said in a press release that it has been "compromised". It also explained that as a service
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        Lock icon Mouth-watering offers
        83 2 WITH growing competition among property agents marketing collective sale sites, a leading property consultancy has been trying to tempt developers with a mouth-watering "Menu of Collective Sales". The dishes include "Sea Lovers' Delight", for sites in the popular east coast area, and "Jumbo Portions with Class" for large,
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        Lock icon Ugly duckling
        81 2 WHEN Sim Wong Hoo compared Creative Technology, the Singapore technology firm he founded, with AOL, the giant US Internet service provider, he described his own company as the ugly duckling. Speaking at an e-business seminar, he noted how the market capitalisation of AOL is US$l34 billion (***** billion)
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      Lock icon Starting over again at 62
      788 2  -  Retired banker Richard Hale takes on the challenges of the printing industry at SNP Ny Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] PUTTING his feet up after an illustrious 37-year banking career may have been a well-earned pleasure for Richard Hale when he stepped down as chief of Hongkong
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      Lock icon DBS' consumer banking gets a boost
      396 2  -  PEOPLE Bank appoints Aussie Laurel Jackson to develop new marketing strategy By\ Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank is on a roll. After rejuvenating its senior management ranks, it is turning its attention to the cash cow of consumer banking and has hired Laurel
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon NOL shares down after limit reached
      167 4 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE) Shares of Neptune Orient Lines Ltd, Asia's largest shipping company, fell after it said the 49 per cent foreign shareholder limit has been reached. The shares fell as much as 3.8 per cent, or 9 cents, to close at $2.30, after the
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      Lock icon Intraco sells car rental division to Trac Leasing for $33m
      393 4  -  Sale will mean extraordinary loss of $2m for the GLC Christopher Tan A YEAR after leaving the motor distribution business that once contributed to more than half of its group earnings, listed governmentlinked Intraco is selling its car rental division.
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      Lock icon Wall Shing, Roly shares get Disney boost
      325 4  -  By\ Kalpana Rashiwala TRADING in the shares of toy-maker Wah Shing International and Roly International surged yesterday on optimism that their China businesses would receive a fillip from Walt Disney's plans to build a theme park in Hongkong. Wah Shing and Roly's share
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      Lock icon Parkway healthcare arm sees S'pore Q4 revenue up 8-10%
      275 4  -  Hospital occupancy up 6%, more foreign patients admitted Andrea Tan THE healthcare arm of Parkway Holdings expects fourth-quarter Singapore revenues to rise 8-10 per cent year-on-year on the back of higher patient count. Parkway Group Healthcare managing director Lim Cheok Peng
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      Lock icon BIL will have to prove that it's now a value-manager
      783 4  -  lock siew louis beckerling NEITHER a large share buyback programme, nor the announcement that it is assembling a hunting party to search for takeover prey in Asia has so far helped to lift the share price of Brierley Investments Ltd
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      Lock icon SFI offers 125m shares at 65-80 cents
      367 8  -  NEWIhCUfTTm Sembcorp unit's offer price to be fixed through book-building to/] Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SembCorp Industries, yesterday launched its initial public offer of 125 million vendor shares at an indicative price of 65-80 cents. Of
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      Lock icon SES listing nod for building contractor Chip Eng Seng
      510 8  -  IPO of over 100 m shares to be finalised this month By] Ling Su Ann CHIP Eng Seng Corporation Pte Ltd, one of Singapore's leading specialist building contractors with "design and build" capabilities, has received in-principle approval from the Stock Exchange
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      Lock icon BBR buys en bloc River Valley Road site for $24m
      260 8 BBR Holdings (S) yesterday said it is buying an en bloc site off River Valley Road for $23.8 million. The specialist engineering company said it intends to redevelop the 2,376.4 sq m freehold land at Shanghai Road. In a statement
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      Lock icon Creative to setup another US$50m venture fund
      501 9  -  This will foctis on broadband and personal digital entertainment By Toh Han Shih CREATIVE Technology is creating a new US$5O million (5583.3 million) venture fund to invest in companies dealing with broadband (high-speed multimedia) and "personal digital entertainment" (PDE), Creative founding chairman Sim
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      490 6 Stocks Volume Roly IntUSIOc 20.221,000 'Genting Int 20,026,000 Golden Agri USlOc 18,588,000 Asta Food&Prop US$ 15,198,000 WahShing HK50c 14,591,000 Medtecs US5c 8.825,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 8.590.000 CM Telecom HK75c 8,368,000 Wing Tai 25c 6,997,000 Hotung Inv NT5 5,214,000 Stocks DBS Grp 45.111,749 Chart Semiconductor 26c 43,650,850 OCBC 36.666.106 SIA 17,104.100
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      Lock icon Stocks pull back as HK, Tokyo take a pause
      550 6  -  I~H comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE exertions of the previous three sessions proved too much for the local stock market which yesterday pulled back in line with overseas majors. Traders were disappointed with the relatively slower pace and so occupied themselves
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      Lock icon Teledata wrt could qualify as a 'laggard' in a rally
      204 6  -  WARRANT WATCH liy R Sivanithy LIKE many other small-cap stocks, Teledata has yet to recover its past glory after hitting a high of 92 cents in July, the shares now sell for 53 cents, which represents a 42 per cent
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      Lock icon Wing Tai: Charts suggest more upside
      241 6  -  HOT STOCK Bif Teh Hooi Ling PROPERTY play Wing Tai Holdings has been moving up of late but is likely to remain a good bet for a while. Yesterday, the counter closed five cents up at $1.63. This means it has gained 27 cents,
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      Lock icon Diary of events
      107 6 Wednesday, Nov 3 Singapore ♦8am. Conference and exhibition on "Industrial space in the next millennium" ♦9am. Sun-Netscape Alliance presents executive briefing series. ♦10.30am. FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd annual general meeting ♦1.40pm Signing ceremony: Singapore Technologies Telemedia Partners with Sun/Netscape Alliance to deliver Internet portal solutions to companies
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      190 6 HHMKUHHlBflfll||^MHißl|l^fii|KHiilUlKU&fei^H^^^^^ I 7th Hong KonQT J ewelry Manufacturers' Exhibition November 19-22, 1999 j Just b6fjofl.e"Tßanfesgiu-ing Day" I Hong Kong Convention Exhibition Centre g 'wy custotytersS ]t i+k V° u want t0 take advantage SPcr'ifll \(W of special buying directly p-ZDk 'fom fine finished jewelry uSs^t©Co'/ iSfc L f?l /*y»* manufacturers,
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      26 7 I c—r'-vii"jy ~+-T'; *w* s siMHf »uhi v I Centennial Tower Mr Sunil Sreenivasan Mr Kwee Liong Seen Citigroup Millenia SINGAPORE PONTIAC MARINA PRIVATE LIMITED i
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      83 8 Asia Power Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 7 March 1997) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING r 80,000,000 Shares comprising: (a) 16,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.26 each (b) 64,000,000 Placement Shares, including up to 8,000,000 Reserved Shares, at 550.26 each Applications for shares under the public offer may be
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      80 9 SEMINAR WILL MAKE YOIJR AS EASY We believe that Oracle will compete very well in the high-end of the customer relationship managementicrmi market. Of the leading high-end players, Oracle has most comprehensive vi siono,c* M Giga Information Group, Oracle Emerges as Serious Threat in CRM", 23 June 1999 oracle For
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon SingTel putting $200m into new centre
      365 10  -  Kim Chnan complex will be its second telecoms facilities management centre By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecom is pumping in more than $200 million to build its second telecommunications facilities management centre in Kim Chuan. The Kim Chuan Telecommunications Complex, with a rentable area
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      Lock icon Goldhill Mansion, Derbyshire Court up for en bloc sale
      340 10  -  By, Andrea Tan TWO more sites have hit the en bloc sale market and while one is expected to fetch up to $93 million, the other will likely go for up to $18 million. The more valuable site is the 48,658
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      Lock icon M2 growth dips to 9% in September
      328 10  -  I =f money supply money supply By] Eugene Low THE growth of Singapore's broad money supply dipped slightly in September, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. After adjusting for the effects of last year's acquisition of POSBank by DBS
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      Lock icon Insurance accounts may become more transparent
      339 11  -  Soh Tiang Keng INSURANCE accounts will be more transparent and assets and liabilities will be based on market value rather than on book value if Singapore fully adopts the new international accounting standards for insurance likely to be enforced in four years. This was
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        Lock icon Glaxo to fund $3m research programme
        58 11 GLAXO Wellcome, the world's leading pharmaceutical company, yesterday said it would fund a $3 million programme to develop advanced IT applications in bioinformatics to fuel research in biological data mining and high throughput laboratory software systems. The three-year project will be done by the
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        Lock icon Asean law ministers meet this weekend
        55 11 ASEAN law ministers will meet this Friday and Saturday in Singapore, their fourth annual meeting, to get to know better the legal system of one another's country. They are also expected to discuss ways to lay a foundation for greater legal cooperation within Asean
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      Lock icon UOF shareholders, assert your rights
      210 11  -  MAILBAG Yee Soo Chai Singapore via Internet YOUR reader Narayana Narayana's comments on United Overseas Finance (UOF) are rather biased ("UOF offer: A 30 per cent premium over last traded price is fair", BT, Oct 25). No doubt it is about fundamentals but intrinsic value
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      Lock icon Enough of Clob offers
      93 11  -  Vincent Toh Singapore via Internet MALAYSIAN lawyer Tai Sim Yew was purportedly promoting good neighbourliness in trying to break the impasse over the frozen Clob shares. My gut feeling tells me that for someone who could not even provide simple straight answers to the media's queries,
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      Lock icon Citibank optimistic on QFBs sharing ATMs
      428 11  -  But Stanchart's more cautions, saying talks are very preliminary so far %i Carol Eng CITIBANK hopes to sew up "concrete" plans for a shared ATM network with other qualifying full banks (QFBs) within 60 days, but Standard Chartered yesterday sang a more cautious tune.
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      Lock icon Shell S'pore to raise output by 30%
      209 11 Reuters SHELL Singapore, the citystate's largest refiner, surprised the market yesterday by announcing a nearly 30 per cent rise in output for No vember which analysts and traders said ran against the grain of the market. The region, plagued by weak demand and
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      Lock icon Oz republic would fit better in the region
      727 12  -  nTT3 bottom line OPINION tye kim khiat The writer is BT's deputy foreign news editor FOR better or for worse, Australia's regional profile has never been higher. The Howard government's enunciation of a brave new foreign policy has in one fell swoop
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      103 12 'It's a dangerous mixture: a huge number of unemployed young people, a total destruction of the social fabric.' Klaus Rohland spokesman for the World Hank, on the task of rebuilding East Timor. 'Governments are large in size but low in efficiency, collecting taxes from the poor and
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      Lock icon Builders live in time warp
      564 12 EDITORIAL AMONG Singapore's various sectoral blueprints unveiled over the past year or two in support of its overall vision of a globally competitive knowledge economy, perhaps none involves as huge an overhaul as Construction 21. And the big plans to re-invent the industry are eveiy
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      Lock icon Successful businesses make change their ally
      979 12  -  An organisation driven by order loses innovation and harts its own prospects Ry\ Stanley Gryskiewicz Stanley Gryskiewicz, PhD, is vice-president for global initiatives and Senior Fellow, Creativity and Innovation at the Greensboro-based Center for Creative Leadership® and author of the just-released book 'Positive Turbulence:
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      Lock icon Americans fall into capital growth trap
      612 12  -  COMMENTARY Ihj\ Philip Bowring THE US Nasdaq index has hit another record. Alan Greenspan is in low-inflation, highproductivity heaven. The 70th anniversary of the 1929 crash has passed peacefully. And that Depres-sion-era relic, the Glass-Stea-gall Act, is finally dead, opening the way for ever
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      175 12 Mother tongue is best PARENTS must be reassessing their attitude to mothertongue teaching, now that a survey has shown a marked improvement in overall standards of teaching and learning since the switch to this. It was always obvious pupils would feel far more at ease, and
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Still unconvinced, TRI again
        70 13 INVESTORS are still not convinced that Tajudin Ramli's Technology Resources Industries will be able to force its bondholders to defer US$53l million (SsBB million) in payments on its euro bonds by up to four years. The counter shed 10 sen to 1.82 Malaysian ringgit yesterday. The
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        Lock icon M'sian Plantations'merger blues
        65 13 MALAYSIAN Plantations hit a low of 2.18 Malaysian ringgit before recovering to end at RM2.23, down 7 sen. Investors have been dumping the stock following the central bank's decision to terminate the forced mergers of banks. Malaysian Plantations' Multi-Purpose Bank was earlier slated to be the second
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        Lock icon UEM shares 'Clob-bered'
        63 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh UNITED Engineers Malaysia fell 25 sen to 5.95 Malaysian ringgit on continued scepticism over its ability to buy frozen shares previously traded on Singapore's over-the-counter market Clob International. Yesterday's closing is well below RM6.80 the price of the proposed issue of subordinated UEM
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      Lock icon Banks doubled loans in Jan-Sept period: minister
      179 13 KUALA LUMPUR He denies that they are still relnctant to lend AFP MALAYSIA'S commercial banks doubled their lending in the first nine months of this year to 58.1 billion Malaysian ringgit (5525.4 billion) compared to RM29.6 billion in the same period last year,
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      Lock icon Mahathir unperturbed by MSCI decision: report
      384 13 KUALA LUMPUR MSCI dismisses talk of ulterior motive in delaying KL's re-entry into indices PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he was not concerned about Morgan Stanley Capital International's decision to delay reinstating Malaysia into its indices, the New Straits Times reported yesterday. Neither was
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      Lock icon Berger to move HQ from S'pore to M'sia
      395 13 KUALA LUMPUR PAINT manufacturer Berger International Ltd (BIL) plans to shift its headquarters from Singapore to Malaysia within the next five years, The Star reported yesterday. Its chief executive officer Ngan Yow Chong said the Singapore-listed company would first set up its
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      Lock icon Cybermall sale: Mania's talking to 3rd party
      248 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] Mania Holdings yesterday issued a statement saying that it is negotiating "a deal with a third party" regarding its cybermall Orchard-road.com. It was responding to an announcement by Petra Holdings of Malaysia t.ia.t Petra had bought orchard-road.com for Ss2o million, and
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      Lock icon M'sia Airports to change main revenue source
      320 14 ■SEPANG It aims to cnt contribution from aeronautical activities to 40% Bernama MALAYSIA Airports Holdings Bhd, enroute to a main board listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, hopes to see its revenue from aeronautical activities reduced to 40 per cent in future
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      Lock icon RHB Cap coy on bank merger plans
      230 14 I Hi bank mergers KUALA LUMPUR Reuters, Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S RHB Capital said yesterday it was considering all of its options on the nation's bank merger programme and declined to say whether it was seeking to be an anchor bank. "In light of the
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      Lock icon AMMB and Utama in talks to merge banking businesses
      143 14 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR) AMMB Holdings Bhd, Malaysia's seventh-largest financial group, is in talks to combine its banking business with Utama Banking Group Bhd, the two groups said. An announcement on the merger plan will be made today, executives from both banks
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon US' Newbridge tipped to win bid for Siam City Bank
      435 16 BANGKOK It plans to work with Citigroup to manage the bank if it wins, says Thai paper Bloomberg US-BASED Newbridge Capital Ltd is the front runner to buy Thailand's state-owned Siam City Bank Pel as the US fund attempts to
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      Lock icon Tarrin vows full accountability on Krung Thai
      469 16 BANGKOK AFP THAI Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda has rejected claims of a cover-up after an official inquiry dismissed reports that a bank once run by his brother had piled up disastrous non-per-forming loans. In an interview published in the Bangkok Post yesterday, Mr
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      Lock icon Graft probe on Suharto-linked firms to reopen
      251 16 JAKARTA New A-G also looking into cases involving state agencies Reuters NEW Indonesian AttorneyGeneral Marzuki Darusman said he would reopen corruption cases involving state agencies and firms linked to former president Suharto's family, a newspaper reported yesterday. The probes include a lucrative clove
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      Lock icon Gus Dur gets going, his way
      913 16  -  l-ijcomment ASEAN President tackles Suharto, Bank Bali issues yang razali kassim ON Monday, President Abdurrahman Wahid said he would like to see former president Suharto put on trial. It's a populist statement. no doubt. If the new president was aiming at underscoring his own
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        Lock icon Ex-Suharto advisers spurn oiler
        70 16 AFX-Asia (JAKARTA) Senior economists and advisers of former president Suharto, Wijoyo Nitisastro and Ali Wardana, have rejected President Abdurrahman Wahid's offer for them to join the new economic council. "I and Ali Wardana do not want to sit on the economic council," Mr Nitisastro said after
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        Lock icon Confidence in Estrada govt slips
        61 16 AFP [MANILA] Business confidence in the government of President Joseph Estrada is fast slipping, a survey commissioned and published by the Business World daily said yesterday. The survey, conducted by New York-based Audits and Surveys Worldwide for the paper, showed the business confidence index drop
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        Lock icon Bullet-proof vest maker waits for polls
        62 16 Reuters [BANGKOK) A Thai bullet-proof vest maker expects to make a killing in sales as Thailand enters an election year. Srithanaporn Co, which produces the vests under licence from Du Pont, sold 400 vests in the run-up to the last election in November 1996
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        Lock icon Ratings upgrade for Philippines
        57 16 AFP [MANILA) Ratings agency Thomson Financial Bank Watch yesterday said it had upgraded its outlook for the Philippine economy to "stable" from "positive". It said "the revision is based on the resilience of the Philippine banking system and economy during the Asian financial crisis and a
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        86 16 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] KGI Securities One, Thailand's largest stock brokerage by market share, said it may swap shares or use the proceeds of a share sale to buy control of a Korean stock brokerage instead of using cash. KGl's shares tumbled 12 per cent
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      298 17 BEIJING Cabinet likely to review outline of anti-monopoly legislation soon Reuters CHINA'S Parliament has unveiled a list oflaws, including one on inheritance and another on bankruptcy, to be drafted or revised in the coming years, the official China Securities newspaper reported
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      195 17 HONGKONG Bloomberg SUN Microsystems said it teamed up with 11 Asian companies to establish a US$4B million (SsBo million) investment fund to promote the use of its Java software in the region. The world's No 4 maker of computer servers invested US$3 million
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      270 17 BEIJING AFP INCREASING stockpiles of completed new housing con tinue to drive down property prices in China, the state press reported yesterday. The growth rate of completed housing was 2.5 times greater than sales over the first nine months of 1999, Xinhua news agency said
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      100 17 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S richest man, Li Ka-shing. has bought a 17 per cent stake in African gold mining company duff Mining for an estimated US$5 million (SsB.3 million), reports said yesterday. Mr Li, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) and Hutchison Whampoa, bought the stake
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      587 18  -  Deal will deliver economic benefits of HKsl4Bb over next four decades: Tung hYom l Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong government yesterdayunveiled plans to invest HK522.45 billion (Ss4.B billion) in a joint venture with Walt Disney to develop a Disney theme park,
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      315 18  -  By Quak Hiang Whai THE government's multi-bil-lion-dollar deal with Walt Disney Co to build a Disneyland theme park received almost unanimous support from the local community although some pro-democracy politicians expressed reservations over the government's financial arrangements with the theme park operator. The
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      330 20 BANGALORE Legislation will set framework for e-commerce and governance AFP INDIA is to announce a comprehensive information technology policy, including cyber laws, next month, a senior official said yesterday. "The government will introduce legislation in order to provide a legal
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      244 20 NEW DELHI Bloomberg INDIA'S software exports rose 58 per cent in the six months ended September, boosted by increased demand for e-commerce solutions. Software exports rose to 80.6 billion rupees (Ss3 billion) during the period, from 50.9 billion rupees in the yearearlier period, the
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        67 20 AFP (NEW DELHI] A mob demanding food attacked a helicopter carrying federal ministers on an inspection of the cyclone-ravaged eastern Indian state of Orissa, newspapers reported yesterday. A group of journalists accompanying the ministers was also heckled and a photographer slapped. The mob anger stunned Defence
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        58 20 AFP (NEW DELHI] Foreign companies want to invest in India but are waiting for concrete government measures to improve the business climate, said Geneva-based World Economic Forum. "Dollars are available and India is getting the attention of a large number of foreign investors," WEF
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        58 20 AFX-ASIA [BOMBAY] British Gas pic and Enron Corp are likely to acquire stakes in Gas Authority of India Ltd via the acquisition of global depository receipts (GDRs), The Financial Express reported. It said both British Gas and Enron have made bids for the
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      500 23 SEOUL Top managers' resignations accepted; half of USssob in loans will be converted to shares in troubled group AFP CREDITORS of South Korea's crumbling Daewoo Group yesterday accepted the resignations of 12 top managers and decided to swap half their US$5O
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      361 23 SEOUL 2At won total loss at 19 banks against 881b won in Q2 Bloomberg KOREA'S commercial banks reported bigger losses across the board in the third quarter as they put aside more money to cover their exposure to the tottering Daewoo
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      123 23 SYDNEY AFP THE nine-member Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board met yesterday with analysts convinced that monetary policy will be tightened for the first time in five years to take some heat out of the buoyant economy. Strong signals have already come from RBA governor
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      277 23 SYDNEY Bloomberg Broken Hill Proprietary Co's shares fell for the fifth day in a row, amid concern over the proposed sale of half the steel businesses of Australia's largest resources company. Al3 per cent decline in the company's shares since Oct 15 has
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      212 23 TOKYO It pays 19b yen for stake in Japanese Net securities firm Bloomberg CITIGROUP Inc, the largest US financial services company, paid 19 billion yen (S$3Q3 million) for a 19 per cent stake in Japan's Nikko Beans Inc, which began offering securities trading, research,
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      459 26 WASHINGTON Q3 GDP np 4.8%; increase in inflation indices blamed on energy costs Bloomberg, Reuters THE US economy is on track for further growth and tame inflation, the Treasury said. "The economy continues to roll along with few clear signs of difficulty ahead
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      101 26 PEOPLE Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendy Deng arrived yesterday at the Flemington race track for the running of the Melbourne Cup, often described as "the race that stops a nation." More than 10 million Australians bet on the race each year.
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      298 26 TAIPEI Reuters A STRONG offshore tremor rattled Taiwan early yesterday, sending anxiety rippling through global technology markets despite causing virtually no damage or injury. Yet daybreak brought an unexpected surprise as Taiwan learnt that word of its major quake had rattled US technology stocks.
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      490 26  -  Planned act makes US-Taiwan military relationship formal From Leon Hadar in Washington PRESIDENT Clinton and his aides are trying to persuade congressional leaders that a proposed legislation aimed at strengthening ties between the United States and Taiwan could produce
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      410 26 LONDON Gartner says it's business as usual when it comes to electricity supplies Reuters THE lights will stay on as the year 2000 arrives, the firm which helped to alert the world to the dangers of the millennium computer bug predicted yesterday. In a
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        59 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] Prudential pic, Britain's largest insurer, said yesterday it will close 103 branches and cut 1,445j0bs as it reorganises its direct sales and Independent broker units to cut annual costs by £60 million (*****.6 million). The reorganisation will cost £90 million, the insurer said,
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        100 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] US regulators may mount a legal challenge to BP Amoco pic's proposed US$35 billion (5558.3 billion) buyout of Atlantic Richfield Co, a plan to create the largest US oil producer and refiner, people familiar with the government's review said yesterday.
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        76 26 Reuters [SINGAPORE] German business software giant, SAP AG, battered by a slump in its global profit and analysts' downgrades, said yesterday it is confident of a strong Asia-Pacific performance in 2000. "We will do better next year. I am not accepting 15 to 20 per cent
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        62 26 AFP [LONDON] Marks and Spencer, the one-time darling of the British high street, yesterday confirmed its fall from grace as the UK's favoured outfitter with figures showing a 43 per cent decline in half-time profit. The store has publicly noted its own marketing disaster
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        76 26 Bloomberg [METZINGEN, Germany] Hugo Boss AG, Germany's largest clothing maker by market value, said third-quarter profit rose 17 per cent after US sales of its main Hugo Boss label jumped. Net income in the three months ended Sept 30 rose to 62.6 million Deutschemarks
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      326 27 WASHINGTON US watchdog looking at advice from online brokers compared to traditional firms Reuters THE Securities and Exchange Commission will soon release a report about online trading and the suitability of investment advice that comes from Internet brokerages compared to advice from traditional
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      95 27 NEW YORK Bloomberg CHASE Manhattan Corp said trading revenue would be US$4O million (5566.4 million) lower in the fourth quarter because a senior trader, who has been fired, inflated the value of trades, sources familiar with the situation said. Christopher Goggins, who traded currency derivatives
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      2997 24  -  chandrashekhar gupta proposes a 'middle way' to achieve fairness and stability in the global marketplace, and to prevent another financial calamity CHANDRASHEKHAR GUPTA The writer, who has been in banking for more than 25 years, was EVP of a German bank in Singapore until last year. He
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      175 28  -  pnmi-.il Reports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market closed lower yesterday amid soft trading conditions and following Wall Street's overnight weakness. The Straits Times Index closed at 2,057.22, down 15.82 points or 0.76 per cent. The MSCI Singapore Free Index
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      149 28  -  MS& Taiwan fatures Cecilia Loh Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures continued its downward momentum yesterday, shedding five points on expectations of gloomy corporate earnings. The underlying benchmark Taiex took its biggest plunge in two weeks, paced by technology stocks. Volume increased substantially,
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      301 28 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg Reuters [NEW YORK] Crude oil was little changed in anticipation that a weekly inventory report may show a third straight increase in US inventories. The American Petroleum Institute was scheduled to release its inventory report after the
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      298 28 Reuters London THE euro briefly dipped to session lows against the dollar and weakened against other major currencies yesterday on reports later confirmed that French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn had resigned. The euro slipped as far as U551.0496 from an earlier U551.0556 high as French daily Le Monde
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      2875 29 HONGKONG AFP jßangSeng +13.73 HONGKONG share prices rose a mere 0.1 per cent yesterday in cautious trade, with the announcement that Walt Disney Co will build a theme park in the territory failing to excite, dealers said. "Trading is cautious after recent
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      1031 29 Reuters CI Shenzhen B Index -1.32 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares ended lower yesterday, extending days of weakness caused by steady declines in the A share market, analysts said. The B share index fell 1.32 points, or 1.7 per cent, to 75.88 on turnover of HK$l9 million compared with
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      379 29 AFP WP Index -9X3 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.2 per cent lower yesterday on a fall by US stocks overnight and disputes in the domestic corporate scene, dealers said. "Local investors were largely influenced by the falls on Wall Street," said Alex Yeh of President Securities. He said investors
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      2038 29 TOKYO AFP QNikkei 225 -4.96 SHARE prices in Tokyo fell a touch yesterday with investors reluctant to push buying ahead of a public holiday, brokers said. "As New York stocks turned down (on Monday), selling to lock in profits prevailed ahead of the holiday" today, said
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      404 30 AFP, AFX-Asia CI Composite Index -4.45 MALAYSIAN share prices closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday with sentiment still depressed by a delay in the market's reinstatement into Morgan Stanley Capital International indices, dealers said. An analyst with a local brokerage said Sunday's MSCI announcement
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      798 31 AFP SET Index +1086 THAI share prices jumped 2.8 per cent yesterday to break through the psychologically important 400-point mark in volatile trade, dealers said. Buying was led by strong interest in banks, particularly in Krung Thai Bank and Thai Farmers Bank, they said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand
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      717 31 AFP n Composite Index -0.67 INDONESIAN share prices barely moved yesterday, slipping marginally lower on a quiet trading day as investors awaited the outcome of talks between the government and the International Monetary Fund, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 0.67 point to 594.41. The rupiah
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      281 31 AFP □WeUinglon +351 NEW Zealand stocks rose 0.2 per cent yesterday on an uninspiring day's trade. "The market traded in a tight range," said Peter Stokes at brokers JB Were. On light volume worth NZ596.5 million, the NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 3.51 points at 2,099.92. —AFP •—I Ki
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      602 31 AFP Q All Ordinaries +IL3 AUSTRALIAN share prices gained 0.4 per cent yesterday with blue chips boosting the market ahead of an expected rise in interest rates. The All Ordinaries Index was up 11.3 points at 2,906.90. The All Industrials Index ended 25.9 points better at 5,081.80, while the
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      305 31 AFP P| Composite Index +13.63 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 13.63 points at 890.18. Volume was 393.2 million shares worth 4.7 trillion won. AFP •*>2 Ma Anam $*mi ***** ISO Brain Tacti 2290 140 Can»ral Bank 3030 -50 ChaMComm ***** -1000 DaaGuBank 4900 100 Oaasanq Corp
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      502 33 DIVERSIONS Medical advances, urban lifestyles raising pet lifespans by 2 or 3 times Reuters [WASHINGTON) Indoor city life, vaccination, leash laws and access to medical care developed for humans means dogs and especially cats are living two or three times longer. "Thirty years ago.
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      70 33 available for: private parties company dinner and dance conference seminar and meeting. HOTEL GRAND CENTRAL LIMITED 22 Orchard Road/Cavenagh Road. Singapore *****7 Tet 737 9944 Fax; 733 3175 I V- aC j -rile Place to he sun at. jig 5 1 EURO'S jE 9 ,0 II 9 Level I,Orchard Point
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      158 33 Lobby level Great mu.nc. Great entertainment. Bruvging you the very beat in b A > J Mandarin hits Ajjf QMi J our Fuzhou songbird SYMPHONY Our electrifying live band HB_ j from the Philippines 5.00pm -7.40pm B.oopm -12.30 am Perfomances on daily except Sunday Experience mr breathtaking Fashion Shew every
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      186 33 wssssss^m Enjoy some fabulous claypot dishes. Steaming hot and deliciously flavourful. The Hong Kong chefs of Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant have come up with eight of the innovative and tastiest daypots, a favourite of ancient and modern Chinese. There are Claypot Mixed Vegetable with Fish Meat 6i Oolong Tea ($l2),
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      135 33 Revolving floor A Festival ofWines the Cuisine af\&ietnjtah I I! owm^cr Reservations: *****58/88 Httntiarm Singapore J I SsfiSl 333 Orchard Road. Singapore *****7 4411 Fax: 732 2161 wifU Q*\g cowAflitngv\foiry ;»Pf >rl>\V^ fK.Tflw- (VI«S+-«T»v Or loc«d), 1"5.50*-+-»-At Garden Terroce Bar Grill, you can enfoy a breezy poolside meal with a
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      1037 33 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 9 Dissenter's abnormal fatigue 11 Cross-country runner (5) lions (5-4) on temple (8) 14 A fellow just after the occur- 26 Royal cure? (9,6) (7) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN BThe one having liquid refresh- ii i I lal Iflnl VuMrMAI 1 Supporter of mine (7) ment was the
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      1034 34  -  I=ll comment CURRENCIES But S$ unlikely to suffer much from news that USsl6b may return to Indonesia larry wee OUR fear last week that worries about US inflation could re-sur-face was effectively squashed when both the US third-quarter Employment Cost Index and Fed chairman Alan
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      721 34 IF you had missed out oil buying Singapore government securities (SGS) when yields perked up last month, it's not too late. That's because SGS yields for five- to 10year maturities could come down this month. Earlier concern that US interest rates would
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      325 34 Gear up for 9% p.a.* interest rates on Lf fl you Sm gap o reDo 11 arDe po s 1 1 1 j I a vtbntd deposit, will return your V I V 9 I jfc ion the prevailing e*change rate as oH9 August 999. for a "-month ten-re. wit*
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      302 35 SCS '000 v* CWT Distribution t.25 -0.05 16 Chuan Hup 1.80 unch 543 Cosco investment 1.T1 -0.02 18 Freiqnt Links 0.30 -0.01 240 CB Holdings 0.82 unch 4 Mi Sun Hup 0.66 -0.01 204 IMC HokJings-HK —5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.93 -0.02 67 Jurong Shipyard. 7.65 unch
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      584 35  -  S'pore carrier wants to reduce exposure to container shipping market By. Marcus Hand [SlNGAPOßE] Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is looking to expand its logistics business with an eye to reducing its vulnerability to the container shipping market. "Today basically we are too vulnerable because
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      91 35 Reuters [ADELAIDE] A badly decomposed body, possibly that of a Tanzanian stowaway, was found on Monday in an empty freight container in Australia, police said. A spokesman said the body was discovered by a shipping company employee in the southern city of Adelaide. The container,
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      600 35  -  STRAIT TALE By I Seafarer INTERNATIONAL shipping operates in a relatively free market. There are not many restrictions preventing ships trading to any country and competing for any cargo. Globalisation. the growth of open registers, mul-ti-national manning and consolidation within the container industry have
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        643 36 lis financial ills have sparked an airline takeover war in Canada Reuters [CALGARY] Canadian Airlines Corp, whose financial ills sparked Canada's airline takeover war, is critically low on cash. The airline warned of its dwindling cash level as it announced a 24
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        267 36 Bloomberg (TOKYO) All Nippon Airways (ANA), Asia's secondlargest airline, said first-half parent net earnings fell 59.1 per cent because it slashed fares and passengers chose to fly on economy class. Parent net income at Tokyo-based ANA slid to 4.1 billion yen (Ss6s million), or
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      297 36 PACE ESP Lines 13 ANl 3 Evergreen 6 Accord 8 to"**'" 8 Ahrenfciel 14 FrtL s M Appenship 5 6 Link AsiaOCL 13 Gemartrans 6 Austral 8 GenshM 13 Avant 14 GtoW 0 B'tanq Mas 8 Glory Nav M BSA 7 HaiSunHup 12 HI M u**, Heuna-A
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      20410 43 EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telepnon* ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number »cr, ,v To BURNIE (BUR) 2061 Australia To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D Ivoire tt /n jj/it Hyundai mm bunga teratai dua his
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        720 49 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Balacacstrai 44 JU JIM 02/11/1:45 01/TV6.00 Spc Virgo *****9 J12 02/11/7:40 02/11/17 00 Rgm Panel 3 51/99 J03 02/n/7:55 02/1V2300 SandKJewa 2 5 J02 02/11/8 20 02/11/23:59 Smarcenlral NOV 99 J17 02/11/9:10 03/11/6:00 Sunt* Jay*. JAN 99 J03 02/11/9 00 03/11/600 Bt
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        1924 49 RECEIVING Of EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklng/Balanct Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From ACHIEVER 699 J/600 II 01/1400 01/1*59 0VI900 U 01/1700 02/065? 02/0900 28 01/1700 02/0659 02/0900 J 02/0700 02/I159 02/1400 4 02/1200 02/1459 02/1700 1SNUU 421 1/M MM MM WW 2A
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        150 49 Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nor 5 Brunei: Meraj. Nov* Indonesia: Ascension Day of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Sweden: All Saints Day. Nov 7 Malaysia: Deepavali. Singapore: Deepavali. Russia: Day of Unity and Reconciliation. Nov 11 Belgium: Remembrance Day. Canada: Remembrance Day. France: Armistice Day. Nov 12 Taiwan:
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        793 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        521 49 Carbon 180 Max 991.1 12 17.8 0.09 60 0.09 Oct 21 Density Water htidw Ask Aluminium Sediment No above E2S 1 110 0 0 r 380 Aw 989 1 0.4 13.4 0.06 28 0.02 tin. 380 Mai 995.5 0.9 18.1 0.08 47 0.04 K/Wl in M/M
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        844 50 Single big piece of wreckage fonnd; officials yet to find evidence of foul play AFP [NEWPORT, Rhode Island]. Officials were homing in on a signal thought to be from one of Egypt Air Flight 990's "black boxes" after giving up
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        220 50 Oana-Xinhua [JINAN] With the JinanTai'an Expressway recently opened to traffic, the total length of China's expressways now exceeds 10,000 km, ranking fourth in the world. The Jinan-Tai'an expressway connects Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, with the city of Tai'an, where
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        562 50 But Taiwan says it will reject offer if it means giving up sixth-freedom rights Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines, seeking to end an aviation spat with Taiwan over a new air services agreement, said yesterday it was willing to temporarily restore direct
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          84 50 Reuters [LONDON] UK airports operator BAA pic posted flat first-half profits, warning that the outlook for duty free sales remained tough although the monthly trend since the abolition of EU duty-free had been improving. The company, whose £306 million (*****.38 million) first-half
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          101 50 Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc, the third-largest US carrier, said it submitted an application to the US Department of Transportation yesterday to become the fourth US carrier to fly directly to China. The two countries agreed in April to loosen restrictions on
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          77 50 Reuters [ALGIERS] Italy's national airline Alitalia resumed flights to Algeria yesterday after a break of more than three years because of violence in the North African country, the official Algerian news agency reported. "Alitalia will be the first airline from the European Union to resume
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        322 50 AFP [MANAMA] Dubai-owned Emirates airline is to start flights to Bahrain where the troubled rival carrier Gulf Air is based. Bahrain's transport minister announced. Sheikh Ali bin Khalifa alKhalifa made the announcement after a meeting on Sunday between Bahrain's emir. Sheikh Hamad bin Issa alKhalifa.
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      50 35 The daily freight market report has been dropped due to pressure on space US focuses search on black boxes of clowned Egypt Air Jet Back page M A uV iv H A at v i «r 1 W M P^ a f r one !o days or Even weiivetodeiiver. FBCEX
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      1260 36 I NORTH AMERICA I I EXPORT I I OTHER DESTINATIONS I 88X SUPER BHUTTLE EXPRESS PggCT TO LONG BEACH WEST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SERVICE) «ssa vot raw iwsn iowokach pauas hciisww otuco wo row mnaan vissa vot BH rtOMnml acamha smiioobco co—to pkaumal WBuvßffwul mnauT OOd JAPAN 3
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      704 36 L(ne services represented inslni Mombers <* \4^g Accredited Shipping Agents, Sfcore National Shipping Assoc Jfljk Members o< the Singapore Freight Forwarders Association ULY UNE MALE VlSSft VOY ETA lIS EIA r. KLAWG SfOti MAli Empress Lily V 0699 09/11 14/11 20/11 Princess Lily V 1099 25/11 27/11 07/12 Princess Lily
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      1054 37 TO EUROPE FROM EUROPE VBsn vot s« r» w im my sou m ta vcsa vot rtm aim ham o«v sou fit sm MX MIS 01IW 05/11 11/11 23/11 24/11 27/11 HYSBMAL 3201 M/ 10 H/10 19/1013/10 M/ll APIKAM. 012W 00/11 25/11 27/11 30/11 24/11 MONTE ROSA S3OC 14/10 14/10
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      1536 37 hanjin shipping iikP i 4 Its Wf«l» Mr. *****30 MAMJW SHOTMG (5) m ill) IOOMIC *****3S 737 SAUS *****74 731 DOOiUMT *****71 774 OfHUIKWS 7370?Sfr?SI HMD UNI 777/95S fu *****40 CI HO lIS34I3MMN TO NW USA A CANADA I U$A CANADA* ""I 5 I I nw 1 08, I rox
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      1502 38 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDf IIiKRANEANCIANADA ttwa vor aw ia htm anr ham tm fu vessel vqt sat git spe fos vlc mid hmumkeluw «7iw mi a.ii ji.li *11 im nii wsma N3sw "517 TiT"air"air"TfiT~Sl? PUOONG SENATOR MIIW (111 1111 1111 ail 7111 911 Mil CHOTANG CHANCE H34W 1111
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      906 38 ■IAA MAU-NELS S PORE M'SIA Cantor: Ml CONTR LINES, INC p. gudang:(o7) *****26 rJV/V*J CMNOi laoosrsooooc S®U: (084) *****9 MAMLA (832) *****24 PENANG: (04) *****36 BANGKOK; (882) *****57 SURABAYA: (31) *****11 P. KELANQ: (03) *****77 JKT: (21)*****45 KUQHNG (082) *****1-3 HO CHI MINH PORT KLANC MV "OPTIMA A"V.969 MV "MARE
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      659 38 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N.SHEVA/COLOMBO VttMl S POflf N SHEVA COLOMBO P KLANG TARPON SILVER V 100W M NOV 10 NOV 23 MOV 20 NOV CAPE CANAVERAL VII4W IS NOV 23 NOV JO NOV KOK TULSIDAS Vll7 22 NOV 3* NOV 07 DEC 12 KC TARPON SILVER V 107W 21
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      1626 39 VOV KHH HKG SIN PKG PQB DXB DMM BA BIK IRAN TEYFOURI PCL-5126 27/10 29/10 02/11 03/11 12/11 13/11 14/11 16/11 18/11 IRAN SHAHRYAR PCL-5127 03/11 05/11 09/11 10/11 19/11 20/11 21/11 22/11 24/11 IRAN BAABAEI PCL-5128 10/11 12/11 16/11 17/11 26/11 27/11 28/11 30/11 02/12 IRAN TAKHTI PCL-5129 17/11
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      925 39 W**ldy Dlrost Call* to K«ht (6 Np), Nogoya (7 Days) Tokyo (t Days) I COSMOSHIPMNGPTt ITD f° T' NS >[1 TiL- 226 1900 F»X:*****0« OUTWARD d/l] *****02 K»0«E OfFKi: m*MU Si, *i 11/11 SSmm, m m m WMfc ILL EAST COAST/ISRAH SiST K! !Rj j"! .vi. ,vn K IKS K!
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      1064 39 EUROPE EXPRESS SEKVK* EXPORT IMPORT vusa yor ,sm. um ktm an« ham ihv fuT visi 'vot ri —him m '%2,'Zrm g™ !i tFT j*wf- lill- if w IHf «t(gnM6 awoti to t rtott n mmu uimtM* »c*o* st rnaautc vu ha*7) Mrwar via rni L 2Z l w 1 TRANSPACIFIC
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      408 41 mm MYANMA pBHk FIVE STAR LINE vT (Myanmar National list) Loading for Yaogon (Rangooi) VOT SM m KM PGU KING TUNG 4W SU) ■ONGLA 2IW 12/11 MALATSU AGENTS: KXfSTIAD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL TU (03)*****00 PKL: TH (03) 37M101 rot m (04)2****** PGU; TH (07)*****21/4 BANK LINE (A service of Andrew
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      954 41 WALLENIUS WiLHELMSEN TO NORTH AND UTIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVK3* Egg VOT \*w I height I SIN lual ai 1 mia i SAV Ihi w MYf 1 hfw 1 moo TAMPERE AHO9 400 Tow 63M 11/11 09/12 WH 2T7TT M/TF WW 277Tj~ IfTTT OTTfIT <£751" TfXAS AHIO 400 Tom
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      64 43 FAR EAST EUROPE KYOWA LINE FULL CONTAINER Direct Breakbulk/Container/LCL EXPRESS SERVICE Turn To Pg 5 Manila/Guam/Saipan China Shipping (S) Agents: V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd Agencies Pte Ltd See Page 7 Daily Wallenius Asia Oceanic Wilhelmsen Container Line New Europe To Weekly Service to MIDDLE EAST/ Belawan/Sin/P. Klang I S.E. ASIA
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      56 45 Dial 740-6000 on demana (Retrieve more schedules!) s£} Press-1~ Select the port and key in 5 the four digit code —eg: To New York (NYC) 2275 Key in your fax number your phone number Another innovative service offered by The document Will be Shipping Timfs Ki# faxed to you* H""
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