The Business Times, 19 November 1999

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    11 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1999
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    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    64 1 □m 2203J1 (-25.20) rirau M 83L11 (-11.83) VIBDB9GIFimnES U 3Q4J00 (+0.90) 8T0CX HABKETIKDICES SflL Thursday Change KLSE COMP ItLtt +133 £"IKKE! 18.***** +i5759 lttXGSENG 14.7il.74 +17i6 SET INDEX 410.90 MiM JAKARTA COMP __636.6* -4M .MANILA COMP 1.958.85 +9.11 TAIPEI VVP1 7.7IK.06 +7ti8 SEOl'L COMP 970.19 +155 CLSA CHINA
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    80 1 F01EX BATES us$ s$ rss 1.668 S{1 SS/SS prr 1.627 1713 EIROOSS/SS/E)1.042 1.7^7 DM 1.877 U.888 YEN 10S.5 1.580* RM 4.808 0.449 HKS 7.774 0.215 BAHT 4Hi8 0.044 R1PIAH 7.00a 0.024* 'St to 100 units PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5. SO KUALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40 00 BANGKOK 10 00
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    Lock icon Akbar Khan confirms new Clob deal
    795 1  -  New offer will give little comfort to holders of warrants expiring mid-2000 From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur BUSINESSMAN Akbar Khan yesterday confirmed that Clob shareholders who do not want to exchange their shares for units in his company's proposed closed-end fund could opt
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    Lock icon Post-Recovery: Not business as usual
    1054 1  -  COMMENTARY Sustaining Singapore's growth may require some major changes in the manufacturing and financial sectors, says Vlkram Vikram Khanna READING between the numbers of the latest quarterly economic survey, there's lots of good news and some sobering news. The good news is that the recovery
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    Lock icon MTI to meet oil majors over diesel market dispute
    580 1  -  ■■■■SiMMMjLad Operators selling dieselontheside said to be the issue By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] The Ministry of Trade Industry (MTI) is scheduled to meet oil majors today in a closed-door meeting on the "liberalisation" of the diesel market which has resulted in
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  • ECONOMIC survey
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      Lock icon GDP could grow by up to 6.5% next year: MTI
      713 2  -  Economy grew by 6.7% in 3rd qtr, set to expand by aronnd 5% this year By Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S economy is well on track to a sustained recovery, with the possibility of next year's growth accelerating to 4.5 per cent
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      Lock icon Electronics will still grow next year
      517 2  -  Sector grew 26.3% in 03, bringing manufacturing growth to 16.7% By. Jennifer Lien THE electronics industry's growth momentum will continue through next year despite ongoing restructuring in the industry, officials said. Boosted by strong growth in telecoms products, semiconductors, personal computers and office automation,
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        74 2 MIKO Matsumura, techno-evangelist for the Java computer programming language, related how he lives the Java lifestyle during his presentation at the e-Universe computer conference here on Tuesday. Like Sun's claim that with Java programs, you "write once and run anywhere", Mr Matsumura says he has only
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        Lock icon Much more than sex
        177 2 THE drug Viagra has become the butt of many jokes for those who are still willing but have become less able. But Pfizer, its makers, recently sent us a health warning which may be of interest to some of our readers. At a recent scientific session
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        Lock icon Fascinating numbers
        62 2 HERE'S an interesting bit of date trivia which one of our staffers received in his e-mail as "fact of the day": Wednesday, 17/11/1999, and Friday, 19/11/1999, are the last two days comprised entirely of odd digits in our lifetime. After that, the next "odd" day won't be until
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        Lock icon IPO mystery
        71 2 A JOURNALIST who was at the automated teller machine the other day had this scary story to tell. An ah soh (a matronly kind of person) came up to her and asked for help to apply for an IPO. The presumably illiterate woman could not even name the
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      Lock icon Q3 financial services growth slows to 4.3%
      470 3  -  Performance polled down by big loan shrinkage, weaker stock market Bu Siow Li Sen GROWTH in the financial services sector skidded to 4.3 per cent in the third quarter after a blistering pace of 13 per cent in the second quarter, dragged down
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      Lock icon Jobless rate rises to seasonally-adjusted 4%
      421 3  -  Increase partly caused by disk drive retrenchments By, Jennifer Lien UNEMPLOYMENT rose in the third quarter, from an average of 3.6 per cent in the last two quarters to 4 per cent in September in seasonallyadjusted terms. But this was lower than last September's
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      Lock icon Construction only sector to shrink in Q3
      355 3  -  By Marissa Chew THE construction industry stood out in the third quarter economic survey as the only sector that contracted, and things don't look good for the future as the value of contracts awarded also shrank. Figures released yesterday by the Ministry of
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  • SURVEY Snippets
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      Lock icon Inflation likely to rise next year
      69 3 INFLATION is likely to pick up next year, with the economic rebound and higher oil prices. The government estimates the Consumer Price Index will rise 0.5 per cent this year, and one to 2 per cent next year. In the third quarter, inflation was
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      Lock icon Impact of US stock dive on S'pore
      100 3 A 20 per cent drop in the US stock market will result in Singapore losing 2.8 per cent of growth. MTI chief economist Tan Kong Yam said. The immediate effect of a 20 per cent dive in the Dow Jones index will be
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      Lock icon Manufacturing commitments total $2.6b
      62 3 MANUFACTURING investment commitments totalled $2.6 billion in the third quarter, with 86 per cent coming from the electronics and chemicals clusters. The US accounted for $1.9 billion of these commitments. Japanese investors put in $146 million, European companies $64 million, and local companies $471 million. Services
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      Lock icon Productivity growth down to 6.8%
      78 3 PRODUCTIVITY growth in the third quarter eased to 6.8 per cent from 9.1 per cent in Q2. Excluding the construction sector, which saw productivity falling, productivity rose 7.5 per cent. Manufacturing posted the highest gain of 19 per cent, followed by wholesale and retail trade,
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      Lock icon Unit labour cost index falls 11%
      119 3 THE unit labour cost (ULC) index for the overall economy fell 11 per cent in the third quarter, against al4 per cent decline in the second quarter. The unit business cost (ÜBC) for the manufacturing sector fell 12 per cent in the quarter, against
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      Lock icon BOP shows small $6m deficit
      87 3 SINGAPORE recorded a small deficit of $6 million in its balance of payments in the third quarter, compared with a surplus of $4.8 billion in the second quarter. This was due to a smaller surplus in the current account as imports grew faster than exports,
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      Lock icon Capital spending up 1.7%
      63 3  -  Compiled by, Audrey Tan,Jennifer lien THE contraction in capital spending, which started in the second quarter 1996, was reversed last quarter with a 1.7 per cent rise. This was due mostly to an increase in private sector investment in machinery and equipment and transport equipment. But
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Regal's hotels: Hong Leong to pay US$85m less
      700 4  -  Its UK hotel arm will payUSs64omto acquire 28 US hotels, manage another 19 By Conrad Raj DUE diligence appears to have paid off for the Hong Leong group for it has now clinched the deal to buy over completely the Hongkongcontrolled Regal
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      Lock icon Don't rule out better times for NSTP
      858 4  -  UQCKIEHBSn ruth wong INVESTMENT analysts have been less than impressed with the recently released financial results of Malaysia's biggest publishing group, The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd (NSTP). Although NSTP swung to a net profit of 64.2 million Malaysian ringgit (5528.3 million)
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      Lock icon Scotts aims to be leading service apartment player
      616 7  -  DBS Land arm to grow portfolio 4 times to 8,000 nnits Ity Carol Eng SCOTTS Holdings, the service apartment arm of DBS Land, wants to become a leading international player in five years and aims to grow its portfolio four times to
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      Lock icon L&M price soars on Indon Cybercity news
      364 7 It also signs deal which gives it the right to bny into ISP Starkomindo Data L&M Group Investments surged by as much as 17 per cent yesterday as investors pounced on news that the company will be involved in Indonesia's multimedia city project.
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      Lock icon Goodwood Park back on profit path
      206 7 GOODWOOD Park bounced back into the black for the year ended Sept 30, posting earnings of $38.07 million on a turnover of $203 million. thanks largely to a jump in investment income. It also made an extraordinary gain of $58.8 million from the sale
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      Lock icon MIT expected to launch mainboard IPO next week
      373 7  -  Marissa Chew MANUFACTURING Integration Technology (MIT), an alumnus of the Enterprise 50 list, will be investing $50 million over the next five years to develop new equipment to cater to the miniaturisation trend in the electronics industry. The investment will come from
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      Lock icon Comfort on the road to full-year record earnings
      617 8  -  Taxi operator posts 30% rise in interim gain to $24.6 m By Christopher Tan TAXI operator Comfort Group is likely to achieve record earnings this year, and is confident of double-digit growth for "the next few years", according to group managing director
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      Lock icon DBS Land ties up with 1-Net to develop e-business hub
      331 8 Bloomberg DBS Land, Singapore's sec-ond-biggest publicly traded property company, said it's tying up with 1-Net Singapore Pte, a Singapore Telecommunications unit, to develop a hub for Internet-related companies. DBS Land will invest about SslB million in the 215,000-square-foot project at
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      Lock icon PacNet's new e-business unit to list within 2 years
      261 8 Up to USss4m will be spent on Pacfnsion.com INTERNET service provider (ISP) Pacific Internet (PacNet) announced yesterday that it has formed a new ebusiness division with the aim of listing it on Nasdaq within 12 to 24 months. It has formed
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      Lock icon Strike acquires strategic stakes in 2 firms
      386 8  -  Hy Andrew Wee SESDAQ-LISTED Strike Engineering, which specialises in mechanical and electrical (M&E) engineering, announced strategic alliances with an e-commerce company and a cabling infrastructure specialist yesterday. Strike acquired a 50 per cent stake in Plan-B Speed.com Pte Ltd, a whollyowned subsidiary of
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      Lock icon Nobel sees 20% of revenue from e-trade
      236 8 SESDAQ-LISTED Nobel Design Holdings expects 15-20 per cent of group revenue in 2000, which is projected to grow by up to 35 per cent, to come from subsidiary home2be.com. Singapore's first e-com-merce furniture portal home2be.com was launched yesterday with a network of more
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Any takeover offer, Hwa Hong?
        81 8 HWA Hong Corp said it recently applied to the Stock Exchange of Singapore for a one-into-four stock split but has not received any in-principle approval from the SES. And in response to an SES query on the substantial rise in its share price and turnover
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        Lock icon Shangri-La restructuring over
        29 8 SHANGRI-LA Asia now owns slightly over 55 per cent of in Shangri-La Malaysia. This is the final step in its corporate restructuring exercise announced in June.
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        Lock icon Keppel Corp unwinding continues
        85 8 KEPPEL Corp continues its unwinding of cross-holdings within the group with the purchase of Keppel Land stakes held by Keppel FELS Energy Infrastructure and Keppel Marine Industries respectively at $3.07 per share. Keppel Corp will buy 28.2 million or 4 per cent of Keppel Land shares
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Strong Q3 data shrugged off, but brokers stay upbeat
      553 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan MARKET players all but ignored the strong third-quar-ter economic growth figures yesterday, sending Singapore stocks lower for the second consecutive day as they locked in profits from the previous two weeks' gains. But brokers said the selling was
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      Lock icon Tibs wrt: Not bad numbers for short-term trading
      201 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan TIBS Holdings has had a rough four weeks following the aborted plans for the merger with Singapore MRT. Shortsellers forced the price down sharply over the two days following the announcement that the marriage had been called
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      Lock icon Pacific Century in unfamiliar territory
      250 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong PACIFIC Century Regional Developments (PCRD) captured the spotlight yesterday, with its shares closing at a 52week high. PCRD shares rose 80 cents or 7.8 per cent to $11.10, also its highest level for the day, after opening at its
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      Lock icon Diary of events Friday, Nov 19
      114 6 ♦SIA millennium celebration ♦9.15 am. Nanyang Optical launches franchise operations ♦930 am. Conference of the Aeean Federation of Organisations, organised by Institute of Engineers Singapore ♦11am. Press conference on Elyhealth. .com ♦lpm. Press invite/discussion with JP Morgan's chief economist Win Brown on US economic
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      Lock icon Greenback sees mixed trading in Asian session
      449 6  -  HTPTEmTMTSJTT* CURRENCIES S'pore dollar doses barely changed against US$, with little impact from latest economic growth figures larry wee THE US dollar ended mixed in Asian trading yesterday after US stocks saw an overnight correction amid higher bond yields. Players said that Asian
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      406 6 Stocks Volume Asia FoodAProp US$ 31,471.000 LAM 50c 30,315,000 FHTKR 29,824,000 K)ne5c 21,670,000 GoMenAgriUSIOc 19,607.000 FoimHMgs5c 15,849,000 PCI 25c 13.977,000 ChuanHup 9,262,000 CM Telecom HK75c 8,848,000 •Gentfng Int 8.767,000 Stocks VentureMfg25c 56,733,525 DBS&p 50,222,810 SIA 47.561.646 Nat Bee 10c 43,999.551 OCBC 40,906,011 LAM 50c 33,437,245 SPH 32,544,010 DOB 23,141,017 WDne5c
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      168 7 f *1 This announcement appears as a matter of record only November 1999 mediaring.com Mediaßing.com Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability on 15 July 1993) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 150,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF SSO.IO EACH COMPRISING: (1) 34,600,000 OFFER SHARES, COMPRISING: (I) 30,000,000 OFFER SHARES
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Cuscaden Tower is Simon Cheong's for $86m
      592 9  -  Land cost is $883 psf of potential built-up area including an estimated $9m development charge By Kalpana Rashiwala, Andrea Tan DEALMAKER Simon Cheong is understood to have bagged the freehold Cuscaden Tower plot next to the posh Four Seasons Park condominium for $86
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      Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
      56 9 IN yesterday's story headlined "Finance industry unions to launch skills re-training programme", we wrongly quoted National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general Heng Chee How as saying: "You form networks to grow, why now unions?". The correct quote should read: "You form networks to grow, why not unions?"
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      Lock icon Last 48 Century Woods terraces up for sale
      229 9 HABITAT Properties will be releasing the last 48 terrace houses at its 99-year leasehold Century Woods project for sale this weekend. The units will be priced at an average of $350 per sq ft of built-up area. Built-up areas for both intermediate
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      Lock icon Indicators, polls show economic outlook still rosy
      405 10  -  Composite Leading Index np 4-8% in fifth consecutive quarterly rise Wong Wei Kong FORWARD-LOOKING indicators such as the Composite Leading Index (CLI) and business expectations surveys suggest that prospects for the economy remain sanguine, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said yesterday
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      Lock icon MTI warns of effects of an overly strong yen
      344 10  -  ny< Audrey Tan A MODERATE rise in the yen is good for Singapore only if it does not choke off Japanese economic growth, says a paper by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). Warning of severe ramifications should the yen
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      Lock icon Review en-bloc rules to keep social cohesion
      516 10  -  MAW-Wlfl Henry Lim Singapore via Internet I FIND it rather ironic that, on the one hand, the government places great importance on social integration and cohesiveness through its many campaigns and policies the Prime Minister also reinforced his National Day message with the
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      Lock icon S&P starting ratings for S'pore syndicated loans
      351 11  -  Bank loan rating service will allow bank loans to be a tradeable asset class By\ Siow Li Sen STANDARD Poor's is starting a bank loan rating (BLR) service for the Singapore syndicated loan market, confident that the market will recover next year as
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      Lock icon Print media ad evaluation made easier with software tool
      305 11  -  By Jeanette Pang MEDIA specialist Optimum Media Direction (OMD) has launched in Singapore a research software tool that evaluates the effectiveness of print media advertisements. Called Optimum Impression, the analysis programme has made its debut in Hongkong and plans are afoot
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      Lock icon Further year-end margin squeeze seen for S'pore refiners
      446 11  -  Crude oil prices set to soar past US$26 a barrel: economist By Eugene Low THE profit margins of refiners in Singapore are likely to be further squeezed towards the end of the year as crude oil prices are expected to hit a
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      Lock icon Charity touches hearts of financial market experts
      482 11  -  By Larry Wee FADILLAH never imagined having anything to do with financial market professionals. In fact, she thought she would never have a chance to study again after she left school four years ago at the age of 14. With Dad's death several
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      Lock icon Electric City braves tough scene; plans expansion
      564 11  -  By. Andrea Tan WITH five international players in the electrical goods retail scene, Electric City expects a tough ride ahead. But it is moving ahead with the opening of its flagship store at Tiong Bahru Plaza today, and more outlets are in the
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      2354 10 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 SPP LIMITED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF WARRANTS 1999 OF SPP LIMITED (the -Company*) THIS NOTICE IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION. IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT AS TO THE ACTION YOU SHOULD TAKE, YOU SHOULD CONSULT
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      148 10 E-mail: bt letter{a)sph.com. sg You can email us at btletterQsph.com.sg, fax to us at *****71, or mail your letter to The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore*****s. Please give your full name, address and telephone number. I^r 7fr |1 A|*A A Game with France Target identified. 30 metres
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      457 11 FHTK HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) FHTK HOLDINGS LTD (THE "COMPANY") THE RENOUNCEABLE RIGHTS ISSUE ("RIGHTS ISSUE") OF 219,291,414 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.20 EACH ("RIGHTS SHARES") IN THE CAPITAL OF FHTK HOLDINGS LTD ("COMPANY") AT AN ISSUE PRICE OF $0.20 FOR EACH RIGHTS SHARE ON THE
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Net set to take over business of learning
      763 12  -  IWIWIIIITit! OPINION thomas friedman The writer is a New York Times columnist NYT THE two most telling stories about the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall actually ran in the business sections of The New York Times and The
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      106 12 'I'm naturally paranoid. I come from Russian-Jewish stock so I have a complete sense of persecution at all times.' Gavin Rossdale singer/guitarist of the British rock band Bush, on why he likes bleak songs. 'We are sending a strong message that enough is enough.' •I— Pakistan s
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      Lock icon Another hung polls in New Zealand
      618 12 EDITORIAL NOT for the first time since proportional representation was introduced, New Zealand goes to the polls on Nov 27 with no hope of a clear victor. The next government will again be dependent on minor parties on the fringes of the political spectrum.
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      Lock icon Silent rule on who heads IMF ripe for challenge
      1203 12  -  Why shouldn't a non-European, say Japan's Mr Yen, head world's leading monetary body? By, Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent JAPAN'S Eisuke Sakakibara would make an excellent new managing director of the International Monetary Fund but could it happen
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      Lock icon WHAT THE OTHERS SAY
      951 12 pffllttMllllT THERE'S been a profound change in American life, one that's occurred so rapidly that political leaders have scarcely noticed. Half of all US households now invest in the stock market. Per capita income has risen dramatically over the last decade and unemployment is at a
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon UDA debuts with small premium
        106 13 DESPITE being the most active stock on the Kuala Lumpur mainboard yesterday, new listing UDA Holdings closed just 2 sen above its listing price to RM1.52. Formerly the Urban Redevelopment Authority, UDA Holdings saw 16.49 million shares traded, equal to more than 9 per cent
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        Lock icon Chip maker continues to shine
        122 13 UNISEM, one of two major listed semiconductor makers on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, continued to post gains yesterday. The stock picked up another 50 sen to close at RM18.90, with about 611,000 shares traded. Brokers and analysts are of the opinion that Unisem continues
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        125 13  -  Compiled by! Diana Oon Abdullah POLITICALLY-RELATED stocks Renong, Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB), and United Engineers (M) (UEM) were once again the focus of punters on the stock exchange yesterday, as nomination day and polling day draw closer. Renong was most active, chalking up a volume
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      114 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFX-Asia PENGURUSAN Danaharta Nasional Bhd said it will hold its first sale of foreclosed property assets by way of open tender starting today. In a statement, the agency said it plans to dispose foreclosed property assets on a quarterly basis thereafter. The
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      648 13 KUALA LUMPUR Stock market investors sidelined till clearer post-polls scenario MALAYSIA'S ruling coalition has some impressive economic data to back its drive for another landslide election victory but stock market investors are still largely sidelined awaiting the result, analysts say. The data
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      453 13  -  Move worrying as coming mergers may result in more layoffs hYom Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur FORESHADOWING more such action as a result of coming bank mergers, the National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) the umbrella organisation for the country's bank unions
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      459 14 KUALA LUMPUR New arrangement will save taxpayers as much an Mffttm a initially in borrowing costs Bloomberg, AFX-Asia MALAYSIA'S government took advantage of its credit rating upgrade last week to refinance an outstanding US$l.35 billion (552.3 billion) loan, allowing a saving
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        62 14 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] Magnum Corp Bhd said it has disposed of unit Magnum Suria Signs in the Philippines to Philma Industrial Pte Ltd for about 240,484 Malaysian ringgit (*****,476) cash. Magnum said in a statement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange the disposal is part
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        76 14 AFP, Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, the wife of jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, said both she and her husband would seek to run in general election this month. She said on Wednesday she would stand in the parliamentary constituency of
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        56 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian plywood exporters will benefit from China's entry into the World Trade Organization, Merrill Lynch said yesterday. "Malaysian plywood exporters are clearly beneficiaries of this development in our view," it said, adding Jaya Tiasa Holdings, Lingui Developments and Subur Tiasa Holdings
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        44 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Computer Systems Advisers (M) Bhd (CSA Malaysia), which posted a group pre-tax profit of 4.6 million Malaysian ringgit (Ss2 million) in the third quarter ended Sept 30, expects the next quarter to remain profitable. Bernama
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        38 14 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The government has decided to initiate preliminary investigation into imports of gypsum board from Thailand. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry said there were sufficient evidence of dumping. Bernama
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      312 14 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama A TOTAL of 5,130 properties worth 831.1 million Malaysian ringgit (*****.5 million) have been sold since the second national home ownership campaign (HOC II) was launched on Oct 29. Housing Developers Association of Malaysia (HDAM) executive director Ng Kuai Heng said
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      243 14 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama MALAYSIA'S big foreign reserves are not strangling businesses by starving them of investments funds, an official said, in response to an editorial in the Far Eastern Economic Review. Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia deputy directorgeneral Zainal Aznam Yusof said:
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      497 16 JAKARTA Surprise move could see Tantular family lose majority stake Bloomberg HONGKONG-BASED Citic Ka Wah Bank Ltd is in talks to buy a 25 per cent stake in PT Bank Century Intervest Corp, Pak Sriyono, the Indonesian bank's corporate
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      501 16 BANGKOK It's seen holding out for better terms on eve of agreement FT, AFP CREDITORS of the heavilyindebted Thailand Petrochemical Industries received a blow on the eve of a restructuring agreement when it appeared the company may be seeking improved terms. Prachai Leophairatana, who
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      193 16 BANGKOK Reuters THE Bank of Thailand said yesterday it had its reasons for not releasing the findings of supervisory checks on state-owned Krung Thai Bank and other financial institutions. Any premature statements about investigations might jeopardise moves to take legal action
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      494 16 JAKARTA NYT IN October last year, deep in the midst of Indonesia's financial breakdown, the French food retailer Carrefour set up one of its sprawling hypermarkets on the edge of Jakarta. If opening a fancy modern grocery in a shrinking Third World economy seemed risky
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        52 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian state oil giant Pertamina said yesterday its audited net profit rose to 1.06 trillion rupiah (***** billion) in 1906/99 from 2964 billion rupiah in 1997/96. "Pertamina's net profit in 1966/90 is 1.06 trillion rupiah," Pertamina president director Martkmo Hadianto said
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        69 16 Bloomberg [CANBERRA] East Timor's reconstruction efforts to rebuild its war-ravaged community could cost as much as USs9oomillion (S66o2miHkm), according to a World Bank estimate. "The immediate economic priorities include restarting the flow ofgoods and services, establishing a payments system, choosing a currency, setting up a
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        82 16 AFP [MANILA] The concentration of corporate ownership in many Asian countries contributed to the Asian economic crisis that broke out in 1997, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday, citing a study of five affected countries. The ADB study of Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines
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        34 16 AFP [BANGKOK] A new disagreement niggled at volatile Thai-Myanmar relations Thursday after a dispute flared over profits and capacity on the Bangkok-Yangon shuttle route flown by both countries' airlines. —AFP
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        73 16 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday stood by his plan to let the reetive province of Aceh vote on its future, despite opposition in Parliament and fears his proposal could tear the nation apart "I myself think that there must be
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        61 16 Reuters [BANGKOK] The popularity of Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's two-year-old government has slipped over the last six months, a leading polling organisation said yesterday. Suan Dusit University, which conducts regular polls of Thai opinion, said the government's marks out of 10 had feUen to
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      650 17 NEW YORK Any stock with 'China' in its name suddenly seems to have willing buyers NYT IN the days since China and the United States signed a deal that may lead to Chinese admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO), most of the
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      67 17 [BEIJING] A Chinese security guard standing in front ofan advertisement for the movie Notting Hill, featuring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, at a Beijing cinema. China will import 40foreign films a year, double the current number and 50 by the third year according
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      Lock icon Sino Land in talks with Net, telecom firms
      372 17 HONGKONG Developer looking at setting np tech-friendly 'intelligent buildings' Bloomberg SINO Land Co, one of Hongkong's biggest real estate developers, said it's in talks with Internet and telecommunications companies on a project for which an announcement is expected "soon". Sino Land chairman
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      287 17 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG'S economy should post healthy third quarter growth next week but the spectre of high real interest rates rising even further has cast a shadow over a fledgling recovery. Renewed growth is still primarily externally driven, with a firm rebound in
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      228 17 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN has targeted 6.1 per cent economic growth for 2000 amid brisk exports and expanded domestic demand, officials from the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said yesterday. Stronger consumer demand and rises in government and private investments triggered by reconstruction
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      259 17 HONGKONG Bloomberg HONGKONG'S benchmark Hang Seng Index will drop three constituents that fell victim to the Asian economic crisis and replace them with companies involved in the fastest-growing areas of the economy. SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd will join after its stock soared in this
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      488 17 BEIJING Regulator says plans for opening more cities to foreign insurers not ready Bloomberg CHINA'S top insurance regulator said plans to open four more cities to foreign insurers have not been completed, and that plans for a broader opening of the market under World Trade
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      Lock icon Indian hotels on road to recovery
      526 18 NEW DELHI Occupancy levels have risen to nearly 70%, peak period reservations are finally looking np Reuters INDIA'S hotel industry is showing signs of recovery after a three-year slowdown caused by an economic downturn and political instability, industry officials said. Hotels say occupancy levels
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      369 18 ISLAMABAD FT Reuters PAKISTAN'S military government has arrested 21 people, including two former Cabinet ministers and a retired air marshall who once ran the national airline, in a crackdown on those it alleges benefited from the corruption of previous regimes. The National Accountability
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      165 18 BOMBAY AFP GOLD demand in India, the world's largest market for the metal, was up 38 per cent in the three months to September from the same period last year, a trade association said yesterday. The London-based World Gold Council said domestic
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        67 18 AFX-Asia [BOMBAY] The government has allowed Indian financial institutions to invest in American Depository Receipts and Global Depository Receipts of local companies, The Economic Times said. Unit Trust of India and Life Insurance Corp have been permitted to invest in Gas Authority of India Ltd's
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        60 18 Reuters [DHAKA] Bangladeshi businessmen, parents and schools, and Unicef appealed yesterday to politicians to stop using general strikes as a weapon in political feuds. "The country will run into doomsday if politicians do not stop playing their suicidal game," said Abdul Awal Mintoo, president of
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        54 18 Reuters [NEW DELHI] India will make judicious use of tariffs to protect the domestic industry, Industry and Commerce Minister Murasoli Maran told a conference of economic editors yesterday, when asked about the fate of domestic industries once markets are fully opened in line with
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        78 18 Reuters [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's Central Bank said it expects gross domestic product to grow around 4.5 to 5 per cent next year, slightly higher than an estimated 4 per cent in 1999. "Sri Lanka is likely to have a growth of around 4.5-5
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      589 19  -  The listing of Reits could end the real estate bear market, boost the economy Fron Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices rose to a new two-year high yesterday, buoyed by Japanese press reports that the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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      569 19  -  Agriculture, implementation matters are still stumbling blocks From D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE World Trade Organization has admitted in its latest Working Paper (WP) that final agreement had yet to be reached for any of the issues on the table
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      372 19 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] US businesses and government agencies are spending about US$lOO billion (Ssl67 billion) to keep the Year 2000 glitch from crashing their computers, making a simple two-digit programming "bug" the most expensive peacetime catastrophe in modern history. But the vast
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      455 19 WASHINGTON Shortfall is third largest ever; imports at record high Bloomberg THE US trade deficit in goods and services widened in September to its third largest ever as imports set a record and exports declined, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The shortfall widened
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        96 19 AFP [ROTTERDAM] Dutch transportation group Nedlloyd yesterday reported that net losses had tripled in the first nine months of 1999, but in the third quarter it reported a flat net profit. For the first nine months of 1999, Nedlloyd reported a net loss before exceptional items
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        81 19 Reuters [FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank yesterday left all of its key interest rates unchanged at its regular bi weekly council conference as expected in the wake of its rate rise at the previous Nov 4 meeting. The ECB said its 17-member governing council decided
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        Lock icon Lufthansa 9-month profit down 36.8%
        81 19 Bridge News [FRANKFURT] German airline Lufthansa yesterday posted an operating profit of 1.03 billion marks (*****.3 million) for the nine months of 1999, down 36.8 per cent on the same period a year before. Revenues rose 4.6 per cent on the year. Profit from ordinary
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        97 19 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan Telecom Co yesterday reported a surge in parent profits in the six months from April, aided by cost-cutting measures and strong growth in its Internet-related business. Its parent current profit which is pre-tax and includes extraordinary items jumped to 13.29 billion
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      795 21  -  Many feel change of government will have little effect, for good or bad h^rom David McLoughlin in A nek land NEW Zealanders will vote for a new government on Nov 27 after a two-month general election campaign that has failed to inspire voters who
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      400 21 PALO ALTO, California Bloomberg HEWLETT-PACKARD Co, the world's No 2 computer maker, said fiscal fourthquarter profit was little changed. Revenue rose 10 per cent, beating some analyst forecasts, on rising printer sales. Net income for the company's computer and printer businesses in the quarter
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      296 21 LAS VEGAS AFP THE chairman of Sun Microsystems on Wednesday wagered that software giant Microsoft would be split into several companies as a result of a government anti-trust lawsuit. "If I was a betting person, I would say they're (the government) going to
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      310 21 WASHINGTON LAT-WP MCI World Com Inc and Sprint Corp on Wednesday filed papers with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asking for the right to blend into a single company in a US$l29 billion (*****.7 billion) all-stock deal that would, if approved, stand as
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      582 21 TOKYO Issuers with strong credit ratings also keener to tap market Reuters DISGRUNTLED by Japan's rock-bottom interest rates, many institutional investors are rolling into the market for higher-yielding samurai bonds, or paper issued in Japan by foreign borrowers, underwriters and fund
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      347 21 ■TOKYO Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Itochu cite strong yen, weak demand Bloomberg JAPAN'S three biggest general trading companies, behemoths that act as middlemen for everything from food to industrial factories, all posted worse earnings in the first half, with the strong yen and
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      1510 20 GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES (Incorporated In Singapore) PROFIT AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT QJ UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1999 1. Unaudited Profit and Losa Accounts The Croup The Company 1999 1998 Change 1999 1998 Change SS'OOO SS'OOO SS'OOO SSOOO Turnover 203.067 199.061 +2.0 64.020
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      264 22  -  rMwiiii Reports MS& Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market paused for another breather yesterday following the recent run-up and release of third-quarter gross domestic product growth figures which were at the lower end of expectations. Blue chips and selected
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      126 22  -  MSd Taiwan fatures Juliana Loo Na Na Refco Singapore THE Simex MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures contract yesterday rose 2.2 points, led by electronics shares. The Taiex rose 72.28 points as China's entry into the World Trade Organization boosted sales in the mainland for plastics
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      261 22 ENERGY REPORT AFP [LONDON] Oil prices are close to the highest levels since the 1991 Gulf War and are set to rise even higher during the winter as producer nations consider extending the output squeeze which has sent prices soaring
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      296 22 Reuters London THE euro turned lower against the dollar yesterday, unable to sustain early optimism on the back of an improvement in the Ifo institute's German business climate survey. A rise in Ifo's October west German business climate index pushed the euro up towards Wednesday's oneweek peak in
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      2696 23 HONGKONG Reuters Q Hang Seng +17.26 HONGKONG stocks ended slightly higher yesterday after a choppy day marked by range-trading ahead of a possible rise in a retail benchmark interest rate. The Hang Seng Index closed up 17.26 points or 0.12 per cent at
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      988 23 Reuters +L3S SHENZHEN'S A and B shares closed higher yesterday as investors focused on the long-term benefits of China's entry into the World Trade Organization, brokers said. Shenzhen's hard currency B share index rose 1.35 points, or 1.56 per cent, to 87.60 as turnover rose slightly to HK562.92 million
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      356 23 AFP rl VP Index ****** TAIWAN share prices rose for the fourth straight day yesterday, gaining 0.9 per cent on strong buying in technology stocks amid bullish sentiment, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index moved up 72.28 points to 7,718.06, compared to a 0.5 per cent
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      1861 23 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 ♦2B7J> TOKYO share prices jumped 1.4 per cent yesterday as investors sought out property, high-tech and telecommunications issues on brighter prospects for Japan's economy, brokers said. The headline index at one point hit a 26-month high before retreating at the
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      462 25 AFP, AFX-Asia Q Composite Index +X 33 MALAYSIAN share prices ended 0.5 per cent higher yesterday due to buying interest in blue-chip stocks, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 3.33 points to finish at 723.06 while the Second
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      769 26 AFP Fl SET Index -KUBS THAI share prices struggled to gain ground yesterday, closing 0.2 per cent higher in thin but volatile trade, dealers said. Investors were deterred by renewed concerns about non-performing bank loans and reports of snags in Thai Petrochemical Industry's debt restructuring plans, they said. The
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      276 26 AFP H Manila +9JI PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.5 per cent yesterday as investors snapped up bargain-priced stocks, analysts said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 9.11 points to 1,958.85. Volume was 16.79 billion shares worth 3.23 billion pesos. —AFP Nto (000) MRCAMad 0.83 0.05 3420 Abacus Construction
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      698 26 AFP P Composite lain -131 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.8 per cent lower yesterday amid sell-offs in some blue-chip stocks that dealers blamed on nervousness over Indonesia's internal problems. "I think follow-through selling in the large stocks was a reflection that foreign investors are concerned about domestic problems, particularly
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      285 26 AFP □Wellington -US NEW Zealand stocks closed barely changed yesterday as a rally in the Fletcher Challenge Ltd camp was offset by a weaker Telecom in patchy trade. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 1.25 points at 2,059.81 on turnover worth NZ$9l million. —AFP Inl ftt rwo) Advantage HOS
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      583 26 AFP HAnOnhmriM AUSTRALIAN share prices yesterday emerged from early Wall Street-inspired nervousness to fmish the day 0.6 per cent stronger, boosted by buoyant blue chips, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index ended 19.6 points higher at 3,055.60. The All Industrials rose 15.7 points to 5,275.30 and the All Resources
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      303 26 AFP Q Composite Index +Z55 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 2.55 points at 970.19 yesterday after a sharp fall the previous day.—AFP •Mjt *h An*m Somi >4950 400 tkjkl T#ch .2850 -150 Central Bank 3170 170 ChoHComm *****0 -6000 OMGuBW* 4430 20 DMung Corp 4100 90
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      1077 28  -  The most enterprising business idea will fail if a company lacks cash flow, which is why cash flow management is so crucial, says siowuseii SIOW LI SEN EVERY businessman knows that what often breaks a company is lack of cash flow and it
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      117 29 What is it about bars that attracts professionals? Not just as places in which to hang out and relax after a hard day's work, mind you, but as business ventures. paktathi natar meets the new of bar-owners on el 2 ik,.-.-^^fk- 7 1 pMkdl ffif•:".. ~jm3 IV,i'j 1 JlfflllM^MM PHOTOS
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      24 29 Travel Brown's Hotel: pedigree without the pretentiousness EL 3 Epicure Blond at The Fig Leaf: Chef Emmanuel Stroobant's sunny approach to fusion EL 6
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        751 30  -  OFFrrnTTTT.i Are yon happier today than yon were, say, 10 years ago? If not, do yon know why yonr level of personal happiness has declined? Here's one theory. And a solution jaime ee WHAT'S happy? It's that time of year when I think
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        782 30 COVER STORY Terence Tan has no regrets about giving up a law career to ran Hn'a Bar IT WOULD be hard to find a more succinct philosophy about the buiness of bars, "if you build it they will come," laughs Terence Tan, managing partner of
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          62 30 THE CURRENT en bloc fever may be promising people instant millionaire status, but it's also given way to rather tacky advertising stunts. Spotted at one apartment block in the River Valley area was this huge banner with the words: "Congratulations on your successful collective sale." Discretion
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          87 30 YOU'VE heard about the British Tourist Authority's all-out bid to attract well-heeled homosexuals to visit Britain and spend much-needed tourist dollars there. On its website, you'll see this sale pitch: "Britain, you don't know the half of it. We speak your language. Everywhere you wander, you will find
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        712 31  -  f or a top-notch hotel, Brown's remains refreshingly unpretentious, says cordvivekerk CORINNE KERK IT seems appropriate that Brown's Hotel. London's oldest operating five-star hotel, should be located in the upmarket and elegant Mayfair district. The 162-year-old establishment, started by James Brown, former valet of
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        561 32  -  CINEMA The world's favourite secret agent makes his 19th appearance, along with more gadgets, gons and girls, in The World Is Not Enough liy. Parvathi Nayar TWO zeros that almost hold their own with the upcoming three-zero mania? No prizes for guessing that these ciphers come
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        671 34  -  RESTAURANT Cafe Brie offers coffee house fare that's a cot above the average By Rahita Elias FOR THOSE working and living in the Kim Seng/Havelock area, the Grand Copthorne Waterfront is a welcome addition to the neighbourhood, if only because it offers a new dining venue. While only
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        262 36  -  1999 JAGUAR GOLF MARATHON By Ven Sreenivasan THE English poet William Wordsworth once described golf as a day spent in strenuous idleness. Well, if that is true, then about 120 golfers will be spending more than just a day in extremely strenuous idleness at the 1999 Jaguar Golf
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      738 37 The All New Adventures Of Laurel And Hardy: For The Love Of Mommy Modern-day revival of the comic duo, starring Bronson Pinchot, Gailard Sartain and F Murray Abraham who have adventures with an Egyptian corpse. Lido. All The Way. How far would you go to oblige your friends? R(A)
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      116 37 Cathay Org Cathay 338-3400 Eastshore 346-1816 Orchard 235-8386 Picturehouse 338-3400 Yangtze 223-7529 Eng Wah Empress 777-5867 Jubliee 454- 164u Mandarin 292-9401 Marina 338-9719 Whitesands 585-1782 uoioen V *****6 1900-912-1234 332-6098 for group bookings A wheelchair facilities Bishan Boon Lay Marina TampinesB Tiongßahru Yishun Overseas Movie Ciementi/Co'wealth 777-0669
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        847 38  -  YOUR MONEY Restructuring may have crippling effects but Japan is savings-rich and poised for asset reflation anthony rowley Earlier this month, Japan's Nikkei-225 stock average struggled back above 18.000 and briefly touched a two-year high, but it is showing such reluctance to venture higher
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        636 38  -  JMSIBEGEima By Robert Halili The writer is director of Asian Ownership Research atPrimark HEAVY selling by directors, coupled with a sharp drop in buying caused the Singapore sentiment index to drop in line with Hongkong, where the index shed 84 points to -66.3
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        168 38 Directors and substantial shareholders were active on the selling side, with sharp gains in all four sell factors, ranging from 143% to 988% from their 12-week averages. The largest rise was in the value of disposals with Ssl77m worth of shares sold, up sharply from
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        843 39  -  Fundamentals are all-important again in the new year, stock pickers tell WOMO WB KOWO WONG WEI KONG BUY quality stocks and be prepared to hold—that's the way to make money in the stock market going into the new century. If there is anything that stands out
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        304 39  -  Keen demand, strong historical returns drive second relaunch in a year By' Wong Wei Kong THE lure of high historical returns from technology funds is proving irresistible. Close on the heels of the successful launch of a new technology fund by Aberdeen Asset Management,
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        858 39  -  STI stOl kas item ftr upside bat gains will be muted with stock picking skills crucial By Genevieve Cua THERE'S still upside to the benchmark Straits Times Index next year, say fund managers of top-performing Singapore unit trusts, but the rise is likely to
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        582 39  -  By Patrick Corfe FUNDS can be run in different ways. Most equity fund managers have a style and stick to it. This is both to ensure consistency and to differentiate it from the approaches of other funds. One of the most
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        363 40  -  Aberdeen's Indonesia country fond takes iow risk' approach to high-risk market By Genevieve Cua IF you can stomach a ride on the wild side, you may want to consider a single country fund investing in Indonesia. The returns may make the volatility worthwhile.
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        523 40  -  US fund manager sees MAS, GIC, insurers as potential clients for its fixed income management services. woMOWBXBOiva reports WONG WEI KONG SINGAPORE is set to become the Templeton group's hub for the management of global fixed income securities, as the US fund manager
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        1704 41 COVER STORY ITS the time of year when the twinkling lights down Orchard Road beckon with shopping cheer. But while you may still be mulling over your gift list, credit card companies are pulling out all stops to get you to ring up charges on your cards. Given
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        1253 41 0>po<B nount um um M* Oepo«lt amount 1-nHh 3«*> tnnti DBS Bank HKMHHMHi HSBC A$ a| S10.000 A24.999 4 4400 4 8100 5 0100 25.000 74.999 3 9375 4.3125 4.7500 A25.000 M9.999 4 4600 4.8300 5 0300 75.000 149,999
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      321 30 51 SINGAPORE DANCE THEATRE e Presents One of the greatest Romantic Classical ballets ever choreographed 9*, 10 &11 December 1999, Kallang Theatre, B.oopm Production Choreography: Jean Paul Comelin after Jules Perrot Jean Coralli Music: Adolphe Adam M Music Director Conductor: Lim Yau NUSS Singapore Opera Orchestra *9 Dec Gala Performance
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      164 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 5 Order as servant (»rnes j 27 Saw it was thawing? (7) 28 Hands off this clock (7) build (35) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION DOWN 13 Airline to secure piece of lug- |m|>j|alflflelcltleloßll Islpl 1 One's hunted for place to ex- **f ge tMnMaUuMxMOIBdIBr cavate(6) 15 ay> Bills blushing for
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      110 31 A good reclining chair should provide the comfort and relaxation you deserve. >mtk That's where we think the f Stressless' recliner is perfect for you. The relationship between The seat and back automatically move to provide seat, backrest and headrest is so support according to your own body weight well
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      238 31 A pair return tickets I I London and 3-nights I I stay (twin sharing) at the I prestigious Brown's I I Hotel could be yours! 1 I (sponsored by Raffles International W? ,9 I Hotels Resorts and Singapore nflV t] H Airlines) H H I Send your entry to: PI
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      230 32 Where to wine, dine and entertm^ v i and tartes of Smgyore. Feast on die exciting spread of A local dishes we have for you such aa Nan Lemak, w u Tauhu Goreng, Tandoori Fish etc. ,Jf Do expect a danfc in oar daatv awm. Price HCject to 10% service
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      110 32 SES»RBi •MMiUkiA lA. avaiiaoie tot private parties I* company tinner and (fence conference seminar and meeting. If HOTEL QRAND COfTRAL LMVTED V 22 Orchard Road/Tawanagh Road. I Singapore *****7 II Tat 737 9044 Fajc 733 3175 aBSHBBBDm S H ITU? zH B m > H Roast Rack h 5 o|
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      75 32 from to lam daily I Buffet Buffet High Tea I Lunch Dinner sat,sun&. Mon to Fri Nightly Public Holiday 11.30 am 2.00pm 6.30pm 10.00pm 12.00pm 5.00pm Adult: LLBO-- Adult $14.80- Adult $1040Child: B.oo— Child: $10.80- Child: 7.00Hotel A t. JrrcH** I Introducing an txdting naw experience in dining! PEARL RIVER
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      156 32 This festive season we're transforming our lush courtyard into your exclusive party. Enjoy... I s An International dinner buffet. Champagne cocktails on arrival or free flow of soft drinks all night. A complimentary one night stay at the hotel for the oi] janiser. Special memories captured by our photographer. 3400+++
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      125 32 ML mi Coffeehouse floor I local dish at only 12.00 nett. CALLING ALL ■Hnior 22 Nov 1999 831-6291 Manckirvt Sugaparr —i I B® 333 Orchard Road. Singapore 2 )M67 Rutfgf Pinner: 2SVU im. TrodHionnl Boost Turkey iinwd wHh Madeira and Cranberry and OiwtnU Half shelled O/ilm on Ice Sushi and
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      142 33 p Busy Executive Lunch: Jazz Sunday Branch: -*ijKte» Chicken Schnitzel. Pork Knuckles. Nuremberg Sausages. Hungarian Goulash. Apple Strudel and mare. Gallic Bratwurst. free-flow beer and even more. Singapore's days of belt-tightening are over. ©I I With prices like $14.50+++ for weekday lunch and $38+++ ■fty or Sunda y brunch (including
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      311 35 /I NEW FROM SINGAPORE'S V V BEST-SELLING BRAND ?>t •"•-?^S3 ttttntrr /r :'l^,^'^. *> <»• ■80% i APiwfl -4 AT/iK®/ i WARD'S auto world, The new Nissan Cefiro. As uncompromising as its predecessor, it sets ever higher standards for the next generation to better. At its mailable U.S. NAMED the
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      2288 37 TODAY'S TV MOOHMBMDBD THjWDTO I E Day Ayr ATI nf dating thp olrtpr man's 4.00 Here's Humphrey: Dec- 640 Asian Market Report. IVL6II 01 "eriman s aoo Headline News. i daughter (Meg Ryan) adds Walter Melon. 6.03 In Conversation. aCtlOn to the fire. Peter Hyams 5.00 Sesame Street. 0-30 Asian
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      274 38 I Shenton Greater Europe Fund I -Wm ■1 f JH I Set your sights on the changing landscape of |t I There is now a growing equity culture in I The European stock market, now second I I only to the US, offers some of the highest I I I
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      115 40 We'd to salute your extraordinary drive the chance to BMW 323 Ci Coupe. In when your application for a Standard Chartered Credit Card is approved, plus additional chances with every Ssso you charge to your card. What's more, there of guaranteed gifts Today, you may only dream away, but tomorrow,
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      100 42 /^> Credit card issuers want you to charge on. and j m a bounty of rewards awaits big spenders. LING SU ANN reports on the great giveaway on "*"tiinihn ygjMitwir.?* wysm WMn To many Singaporeans, Catherine Lims somewhat flamboyant style is immediately familiar. Overseas, however, it may be only her
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      300 43 Bridge News, Reuters THERE continues to be talk of lower Atlantic rates for Panamaxes, but there is the continued suspicion that charterers are sitting on cargoes in an effort to push rates lower. There is also still talk of more business being conducted under the counter. Rates remained
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      303 43 SCS '000 ■w* HI CWT Distribution 1.45 0.06 443 Chuan Hup 221 0.18 9262 Cosco Investment 120 -0.01 230 Freight Links 0J3 -0.01 956 G6 Holdings 0.95 -0.01 5 Hal Sun Hup 0.70 -0.02 763 IMC HoKfmgs-HK —5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 1.04 0.01 243 Jurong Shipyard 8.70
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      462 43  -  It will help develop integrated logistics solution for petrochemical firm's operations By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Petrochemicals manufacturer The Polyolefin Company (TPC) and PSA Corp will jointly develop a prototype integrated logistics solution that automates and shortens the supply chain management processes of petrochemical
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      120 43 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corp has been named Asia's best container terminal operator at an Asian maritime awards ceremony held in Hongkong on Wednesday. The world's top container terminal operator bagged another award when its flagship project in China, the Dalian Container Terminal, won the Best
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      685 43  -  ADMIRALTY CASEROOK By\ Selva Kumar WHETHER a particular court had jurisdiction to hear a cargo claim would depend on where the carrier breached its duty to exercise due diligence at the port of loading, port of discharge or on the
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      189 43 Bloomberg [MIAMI] Carnival Corp, the world's largest cruise-line operator, said it ordered two US$4OO million (***** million) cruise ships from Italy's Fincantieri Cantieri Navali SpA for its Holland America Line to be delivered in 2002 and 2003. Carnival said each of the 1,800-passenger vessels
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      196 43 [SINGAPORE) The clamour for effective and concerted action on the part of Asian governments to curb piracy in the region has produced results with the Indian Navy's capture of a hijacked ship and 15 alleged pirates. Indian naval officers are questioning the 15
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      221 43 Testing of equipment continues at Tiaqjin in the north-east Bridge News [BEIJING] Recent Y2K compliance work at key Chinese ocean ports in Shanghai and Ningbo has made port authorities there "sufficiently satisfied" that they will get through the New Year without problems, although
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        805 44 Pirated Japanese ship and its crew taken by Indian Navy to Mumbai where the crew are being questioned [SINGAPORE! THE hijacked Japa-nese-owned Alondra Rainbow was captured after a high seas chase and what is believed to be the first time recently that naval firepower was used
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      299 44 PACE ESP lines 13 MIL 3 Evergreen 6 Accord 8 tongSun Ahrenkid M M Links 14 Appenship 5 6 L Asm OCL 13 6 Austral 8 Censlipg 13 Avant 14 Global 13 B'tang Mas 8 CloryNw M BSA 7 HaiSunHup 12 BTL H Hangli 7 Bala)i Shpg
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      21113 51 thebusinesstimes THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT Vessel Voyage Telephone I ETA ETA Adver1.sef Vessel Vo.Me Twenfton-. I ETA 7r* HZZI sm nilfn N?™ u°I!2! T «"P»on* I ETA ETA Adverts Vessel voyage Telephone SIN Destn Name Name Numt>er Number I SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number T lain liU/iBM wu» I
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      179 43 I I- W H M|m i i >• m Special Feature November 30,1999 z The tide has turned. The shipping industry has picked up dramatically in the past year. It's all systems go! Around the world, aging fleets have to be repaired, converted or r replaced and local shipyards can
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      1171 44 NORTH AMERICA I EXPORT I I OTHER DESTINATIONS I gSX-am'W SHUTTLE EXPBgSg-arocr TO LONG MACH ~1 rnl W«»TCO»«TOf CIHTWALAMgtt6»»<«Irt«I»T«BBI»ICtI 1 «ssa vot paan bum i—mh muas how okmo www ■bkooit rasa vo i pr.aunm| aouwu saw lowmo cowno pt emeu wwuvßmni SjjS aw ooa lamn mm I m/ii I m/ii
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      1299 46 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDITERRANEAN/CANADA VtKtL g LEH HTM AMR HAM ||BV IfU I VESSEL IvOY |SM GIT SPE |KB VIC MTH~ HAMJM POfITIANO 0035W 11.11 Ul2 (4 12 Kl2 07 12 Ml 2 Ml 2 MIZAIOOUN KM 1111 Hl2 Hl2 It 12 12 12 1112 TRADE MAPLE 002CW
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      857 46 jUflMAfi-NkLs s'PdltlE M'Sia sasssT' I BANGKOK: (062) *****57 SURABAYA: (31)*****11 I P. KELANG. (03)*****7/ JKT; (21)690*346 KUCHXG (082)*****1-3 /BARCELONA MV "CHOYANG CHANCE" VOY WM9SO ETA SIN: 25-11-99 Also accepting to Alicante, Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia. Pis Contact us at Tel: 220 2022 I Cally/Cyndi/Xiuhua I AStkkN CJAR Liner, LTD. »HarkowDwe#o7-M Ijfc
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      609 46 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N.SHEVA/COLOMBO VttMl S POflf N SHEVA COLOMBO P KLANG TULSIOAS V.117 24 NOV II DEC H DEC 13 DEC JJ*" VWW NOV 17 DEC 14 DEC 1* OK CAPE CANAVERAL V.IISW M DEC 14 DEC M DEC H DEC TULSIOAS VllB 13 DEC M DEC 21
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      1801 47 VESSEL VOY KHH HKG SIN PKQ PQB PXB DMM 8A BtK IRAN BAABAEI PCL-5128 10/11 12/11 16/11 17/11 28/11 27/11 28/11 30/11 02/12 IRAN TAKHTI PCL-5129 17/11 19/11 23/11 24/11 03/12 04/12 05/12 07/12 09/12 IRAN TABATABAEI PCL-130 24/11 26/11 30/11 01/12 10/12 11/12 12/12 14/12 16/12 IRAN SATTARI PCL-131
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      1000 47 Direct Calls to Mm (6 Nyi) f Nagoya (7 Days) Tokyo (t Days) I SINGAPORE'S GINERAL AGENTS: 80 ROtINSON RD TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****06 OUTWARD (l/l) *****02 JOHORE OFFICE: COSTAi SHIPPING PTI LTD *12-00 SAIES/IKGS *****57/60 INWARD DEPT ID/0) *****85 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BHD CR NO: **********00 SINOAPOREO6B69B
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      1317 48 EUROPBUII/SCMIDIHAVUWIHUUID/RUSSIA SGP ROM ANW HBG THP ZEE LHV I LHV THP ROM ANW HBG PKL SGP E DAINTY RW-013 20/11 09/12 14/12 18/12 12/12 13/12 14/12 I E ROUND RE-039 2«/10 2S/10 30/10 10/11 E DYNAMIC RW-007 2MI 16/12 21/12 17/12 19/12 20/12 21/12 IE RENOWN RE-036 04/11 06/11 05/11
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      654 48 f PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I ssssl ffc 140 Cecil Street, #03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I^———————^——__ CR NO: **********0E I I W J". wt I \h\\ #7TT 5/ W\\ S i;;ii if;i! m rx" I fa I I I"S"1 yorisi'loM m HOP n m pn^w^iwa^o^l asaaa. -sffe ?/.v
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      416 48 I IJ JIJIMII.iI J J 50 mOt BLANGAH ROM) 462-62 OMICBfTRE STORE *****6 TEL *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR NO. **********0W VESsa WY. ra ETD DEsmxnoN NABUNNA 41« 2S/11# ZMI« MUNTOK UMMU 14«2Vt1«2M1» PONTUNM muucm cm tanxm mvm pkl mumi MMUKMM 43A9 KVI2AI HI 298 MLBMAN&ML
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      461 49 aM MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE W (Myonmor National Lin*) v Loading for YangoN (Rangoon) VISSII VOY SIN PKL KM PGU MONGU 28W 21/11 MAWLAMYINE S7W 10/12 MALAYSIA AGENTS: lOUSTUO SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL TEL (03)*****00 PKU TEL (03)*****01 PEN: 111 (04)*****02 PGU: Til (07) *****21/4 BANK LINE (A service of
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      1257 49 HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO., LTD. Ivtssa VOY SI I SOU I UH I RIM ANT I HAM IKVI fa [VESSE VOT I SOU I LBI IW I ANT I KMi IMV I m I SRI I TYNI S3IW If/I I 10/12 11/12 05/12 07/12 HYHKHNESS 3201 27/10 03/11 30/10 02/11
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      1182 49 WALIENIUS WIIHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVTUFT SERVICE' I VtUll VOT I lUf HDGKI SIN lUU «l «U |MV U OKI KTC WW |MM Tins ahio 400T««j 6.3 M 26/n 25/12 03/01 06/01 os/oi IoToT TTToT "HToT TtToT Ivor TOM AHII 400 Tom 6.3* 12/12 09/01 17/01
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      799 50 BANOKOK/MAP TA PMUT/LAEM CHABANQ JAKARTA/PAN J A NO VESSEL VOY SIN BKK MTP LCH VESSEL VOY SIN JKT [~~PJN MATHUBHUM 441N 20/11 24/11 23/11 BANI BHUM ***** In Pt 21/11 XETHABHUM" 31 ON 21/11 24/11 25/11 BUNGA MAS TIGA *****9 20/11 24/11 ACX SWAN 398E 22/11 26/11 26/11 SHAHE* 012
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      346 50 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA ""1 FULL CONTAINER SERVICE va wic sw w w sit m ux m APIEMBAU) ITS 23/11 03/11M/1J 07/17 It/11 USUGAI m JO/I I 00/1J 11/ l? 14/IJ 17/11 T rOOWMSM* "MT 07/12 17/11 H/l? ?1/1T M/ 1? T apinort m u/it n/n »/ii a/ii »/u
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      47 51 FAR EAST EUROPE FAR EAST MED irw Manila/Guam/Saipan FAST USA Agents: V-Grow Shipping Pte Ltd FULL CONTAINER See Page 7 Da,l y EXPRESS SERVICE Wallenius Turn To Pg 5 Wilhelmsen New Europe To CES MIDDLE EAST/ China Shipping (S) SE AS,A Service Agencies Pte Ltd 7 (Barwil)
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      52 53 Vafil STEaj[| Dial 740-6000 on demand —(Retrieve more schedules!) Press "1" C _JFV Select the port and key in 5 the four digit code —eg. To New York (NYC) 2275 STjg) Key in your fax number J your phone number Another innovative service offered by c The document Will be
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      183 54 B H COCOS TRADED (FOMST PIOWKTS SERVICE) (Siwi («l Sminr KurChmbnits Island Krvmaiitk- Old* Island) EUKOf t SIRYKI "Ak» call other west Amlralii ports subject l» indureiwul TAW SKN KKU TMA VESSEL VOT. SIN ai FNU. COS OCEAN QUEEN 30/11 02/12 04/12 TMOt KIRSTEN 4SSB 01/12 06/12 14/12 24/12 IQMMWG
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      706 55 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 Ihm load, #06-01 to 03, Sin«aport 07ff 11 MAM UNt/OUTWAID: 532 VM INWARD (DID): 437 23M IMPOST STATUS (WO): 437 2371 INVENTORY (WO): 437 2420 http://www.samu<i«ra.«Mii CI NO. **********0 D 6266 (Celig/Jessko/Mei Chon/Jestynn/Doro/Honim) MEMBMEM 8 SIGS/WEEKLY 3 SIGS/WEEKLY I VOT 1 SI I JAR IvfSSfl
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      708 55 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO IWCI* I *T I 1 -MglfOG CM» tow HAI NYL Off SAV NEW TAM HOU u'.W s'!! -gyP n/n nm /01 W/M /< /fll "C* HOIfiM yO3 W/03 10/03 13/03 17/03 H/03 24/03 01/07 U/M w/w I 21/02 I 74/07 73/03 74/03
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      347 55 I 1111 Kp BSnnufliyTcmSrSfrlußijlgiiPiSM BREAKBULK CONVENTIONAL SERVICE DIRECT SERVICE FROM S'PORE TO KARACHI [rasa voTAg n* swcatok mnuoi ismm*p iwwii n/11/w 02/12/99 mm H/IVW IH/01/MM SEA-PAC MANAGEMENT PTE. LTD. 3 Maritime Square *12-03 Cobb Car Tawar* Singapore *****4 VbU TaUphone: 270 0977 Vjl Focsimil#: 275 230t or 275 2309 Ww
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      570 56 IVESSEL^^VOY^^siJ^^IUAJ^^SI^^I TIGER BAY 750S 19-19/11 24 27/11 01 02/12 I TIGER ISLAND 751N 22 2111 27 3&11 05 0&12 I TIGER RHYTHM 749N 25-25/11 30-0112 07-06/12 I TIGER BRIDGE 752N 27 28/11 0106/12 10 11/12 I TIGER METRO 753N OH)2/12 0&09/12 14 15/12 I TIGER ISLAND 755N 05-06/12 10-1312 1&12/12
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  • SHIPS IN PORT
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      2008 57 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship V«y No Etb/Btr Period From To Frm AC MIC VIB 700 IlfMC 2A ir/ITOO N/0659 N/0900 it 17/1700 N/0659 N/0900 n/otoo N/n59 n/moo n/uoo n/m*9 n/itoo AIAUATA2 S623H 20/0 00 2A 17/1700 N/0659 N/0900 a 17/itoo «/o*»
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      100 57 Nov 23 Japan: Labour Thankgiving Day. Nor 28 United States: Thankgiving Day. Dee 8 Italy: Immaculate Conception. Dee 9 Brunei: First Day of Fasting. Dee 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dm 25 Italy: Christmas Day. Brunei: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Belgium: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day. Denmark: Christmas
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      776 57 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      483 57 Cfftea no Mm 991.2 1.2 17.8 0.11 79 0.09 Mot tl OmitT Mw BhMm At* UmMm Si—iI No *ow 125 1 1 11 1 0 0 380 A»c 984.3 0J 33.5 0.07 24 0.02 f.-Z 380 Ma 993.4 0.7 18.1 0.12 54 0.04 Wir» rm mm*
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      468 58 Bloomberg [ADELAIDE, Australia] Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia's biggest airline, said profit in the fiscal year-to-date is ahead of the same period last year, boosted by an increase in passenger numbers. "Passenger numbers on our domestic operations have increased in line with increases in market
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      631 58 EGYPTAIR CRASH More details revealed supporting theory that pilot, co-pilot fought over control of plane Reuters, Bridge News [SEATTLE] Boeing chief executive Phil Condit has expressed concern about making any firm conclusions at this stage over the Egypt Air crash. He told CNN that
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      473 58 Expansion of one of the world's fastest growing airports dne to be completed early next year Reuters [DUBAI] Dubai is forging ahead with a US$54O million (*****.4 million) airport expansion project to cope with the flood of visitors expected to throng the
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      84 58 [DUBAI, U AE] Abdulaziz Al-Mayouf (right), sales manager of the National Air Service (NAS) of Saudi Arabia, and Hamad Al Wazzan look at a brochure for the Raytheon Hawker 800XP business jet at the Dubai air show. NAS signed a US$l7O million
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      201 58 Reuters (LONDON! Britain announced that controversial plans to sell off air traffic control services would be included in a wider Transport Bill to be put forward in the coming parliamentary session. The government included the sale of a 51 per cent stake
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      311 58 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] More than 30 per cent of airline flights within Europe in the third quarter were seriously delayed, according to the Association of European Airlines (AEA). The association, which represents 27 carriers, said 30.5 per cent of all intra-Euro pean flights
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