The Business Times, 9 December 1999

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Mi™jm06i12/98 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1999
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    59 1 Dsn 236L33 (+51.46) BT-SBI 887.42 (+15.75) flsmsanmjiEs U mso (+7.90) STOCK HABKET INDICES iV Wednesday Change 725J8 4*8 NIKKEI 18,***** 1K.7« HANG SENG *****18 -8171 SET INDEX ***** -Ml JAKARTA OOfMP _I»J8 -M7 COMP 1511-10 41J2 fAIPEl WP1 7311-K 1803 gBOCLCOMP *812 -11.60 CtSA CHINA B 740.60 *17
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    78 1 FOBEX KATES uss s$ IBS 1679 £(U8$/S$ per 1.629 2.734 ETRO<USS/SS/E) 1.028 1.726 DM 1903 t.882 YEN 102.8 1633* RM 1800 0.442 HKS 7.776 0516 BAHT J8.a9 0.044 RUPIAH 7,222 0.023 'Stto MO units PUKE KATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPITI 7 .25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK 10 00 MANILA 11.00
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  • Article
    Lock icon StarHub to share usage revenue with ISPs
    724 1  -  I :j i exclusive It'll give a cnt of phone charges to ISPs; move likely to further stir telecom industry By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Star Hub, Singapore's newest telecoms operator, will share usage revenue with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) which direct Internet
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    Lock icon Clob shares: B Melewar holds back closed-end fund
    570 1  -  Instead, company fine-tunes its other proposals From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur NEGRI Sembilan prince Tunku Abdullah has shelved his proposal to exchange frozen Malaysian shares formerly traded on Singapore's over-the-counter market Clob In- ternational for units in a closed-end fund and
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    Lock icon STI hits another high at 2,351, but broader market trails
    688 1  -  Rally being powered by a few bine-chip bank and tech stocks Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE! The benchmark Straits Times Index continued to hit new highs yesterday, but the Singapore market's current rally has been powered by a small group of blue-chip
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      87 1 nrsmE Top stories OECD paints reassuring picture of Japanese economy. Next Pago Nat Steel Electronics and Taiwan's Accton Technology in tie-up. Pg 4 Kim Eng returns to the black with $47.2 m first-half profit. Pg 5 PacNet counts the cost of meeting the competition. PgB Nokia is Europe's top company
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      37 1 EXECUTIVE SUITE U\UDSCAPE What's in? What's out? Page 28 PaoNet counts the cost of meeting the competition, Pg 8 MOIO H I N G L .Hi The man n*- %^VS- V Vn A 1 cars P.iqt? 31
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      Lock icon OECD paints reassuring picture of Japanese economy
      703 2  -  It forecasts growth of 1.4% this year and next, Q3 contraction notwithstanding hYont. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo FEARS that Japan's economic recovery may have been derailed by a contraction in third-quarter growth were squelched yesterday by a report from the Organisation for Economic
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon From en bloc to precinct sale
        70 2 THERE are so many en bloc sales going on in Balestier, many of them slow-moving, that a property consultant mused that perhaps the owners of the various properties in the area should consider teaming up for a precinct sale. "That will change the entire
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        Lock icon Wives without legal standing
        92 2 IT seems not all wives are equal in Singapore. At an Arthur Andersen seminar on succession planning, one participant said Singapore Immigration, after much toing and froing, finally recognised the common-law wife of an expatriate and gave her dependent status otherwise the company would have lost
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        Lock icon No China bull?
        223 2 CHINA'S entry into the World Trade Organization may have caught the fancy of most observers, but not economist Marc Faber, sometimes known as "Dr Doom" for his bearishness. An old China hand who resides in Hongkong, this savvy market spectator thinks that contrary to conventional wisdom, China's
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        Lock icon Quite a mouthful
        91 2 AN increasingly competitive world is creating more mergers and alliances between companies. But as someone pointed out, corporate names have consequently become so complicated that one can hardly recall them. For example, following British Incepta's acquisition of public relations firm i.Mage, the latter now goes by Citigate
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        Lock icon What's your title?
        100 2 THE business cards of new telecoms-ISP provider Star Hub show the name, department and contact numbers of its employees, but not the title of the person. We do know that the top gun at Star Hub is Terry Clontz and the general manager of Star Hub Internet
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      Lock icon Beware overseas tax traps, investors told
      612 2  -  US inheritance tax at np to 55% also applies to foreigners By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] With e-trade in international stocks gaining ground here, few investors are aware that it could be a potential tax trap, a succession planning seminar was told yesterday. Say
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  • FOCUS KL bank mergers
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      Lock icon A hitch in M'sian bank merger plan?
      681 3 RHB Bank, MRCB spat highlights pitfalls as financial bodies scramble to send plans to central bank Reuters A PUBLIC quarrel has broken out between Malaysia's third largest bank and a politically powerful shareholder over a merger plan, raising new questions about the nation's
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      Lock icon Multi-Purpose Bank submits new 'anchor bank' plan
      497 3 Bank Madura chief 'can't recall' getting Perwira Affin's proposal Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Multi-Purpose Bank Bhd has submitted a new plan to become an "anchor bank" in Malaysia's crowded financial services industry. With Multi-Purpose's plan, Malaysia's 68 financial institutions will be grouped under nine
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon NEL's tie-up with Accton may lift sales by US$1b
      531 4  -  IN THEirffyngffTTTji^M Deal gives it design capability and access to customers in networking market Jennifer Lien NATSTEEL Electronics (NEL) will tie up with Tai-wan-listed electronics manufacturer Accton Technology Corp in a deal which could bring in a "conservative" US$l billion (Ssl.7
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      Lock icon Troubling local parallels with the Wall Street scene
      739 4  -  locksiew r sivanithy ONE of the most glaring things about the current stockmarket rally is that it comes at a time when Wall Street isn't providing much by way of leadership, at least not as far as the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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      Lock icon Chartered, Ericsson in chipmaking deal
      367 4  -  They'll co-develop technologies to produce chips for Ericsson from 2001 By. Jennifer Lion CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing and Sweden's Ericsson AB have agreed to co-develop two chipmaking technologies which will make Chartered a high-volume producer of Ericsson's chips. Volume production for chips using the radio-fre-quency (RF)
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      Lock icon Property stocks will pick up with more launches: analysts
      579 4  -  By Carol Eng PROPERTY stock prices have recently lagged the general market, but analysts say the sector has upside potential next year as more property launches take place and the economic recovery filters into people's pockets. In the market rally in
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      Lock icon D1 offers businesses novel ISP service
      370 5  -  VISP allows a firm to provide or resell Net services without owning network infrastructure w Teh Hooi Ling WHILE Star Hub Internet, Sing Net and Pacific Internet are fighting tooth and nail over the retail market, new kid Data One yesterday came up with
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      Lock icon Kim Eng makes a strong return to profit
      398 5  -  Broking house posts $47-2mgainiiiHl compared to $7.46 m loss last year By, Andrea Tan BROKING house Kim Eng Holdings yesterday returned strongly to the black with net profit of $47.2 million for the six months ended September, fuelled by robust stock market
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      278 5 g 7? at j Introducing the most comprehensive website on Greater China's financial markets. uninD.ctiinaiiieb.com r m mtwi ri.M Now China presents its next resource is destined to become a virtual financial *wn»Kiim breakthrough China Web corn-a new community Recent political and commercial developments English and Chinese language website dedicated
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      473 6 Stocks Volume Mrnoc 47,596,000 ChuanHup20c 23.434,000 China Toll 20c 21,269,000 OUB CL eCW*****5 20,222,000 Ho Bee 5c 19,388,000 Chip EngSeng 5c 14,053,000 MediaRtnglOc 13,915,000 OCBC DB eCW*****7 13,778,000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 12,975,000 OCBC 11.372,000 Stocks OCBC 166,066,966 DBS Grp 80.044,109 OUB 61,836,000 MIT10C 36,658,585 SIA 33,478,800 SingTel 15c 30,081,036 SPH
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      Lock icon Tech, bank stocks boost STI to another all-time high
      571 6  -  I=ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THE local fnarket yesterday continued to be obsessed with blue chips, and bank and technolo-gy-related themes that drove the Straits Times Index up 51.46 points or 2.2 per cent to a new all-time high 0f2,351.33. The rest
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      Lock icon CityDev covered warrants not so attractive
      177 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WITH all the attention focused on technology stocks and banks, property counters have been largely ignored. The sector is still labouring under concerns relating to oversupply, stalling prices, illiquidity and perhaps too many en bloc sales. Despite this, however,
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      Lock icon OCBC shares jump $1.10 to $14.90
      267 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong AFTER the explosive surge by DBS Group shares, it was the turn of OCBC Bank shares to take the spotlight yesterday with heavy buying pushing the stock to end at a new high. OCBC shares closed up $1.10
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      Lock icon Diary of events
      131 6 Thursday, Deo 9 ♦10.15 am. Singapore MMA and Acrylic Group Complex opening ceremony by Lee Yock Suan, Minister for Information the Arts and Minister for the Environment. Venue: Spore MMA Acrylic Group Complex #01-06, Jurong Island ♦spm. Fraser Neave Group of Companies to release their fullyear results.
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      Lock icon Euro slips while greenback remains more subdued
      357 6  -  I :j comment CURRENCIES larry wee AFTER dipping to US$l.O2 in New York trading, the euro recovered somewhat in Asian trading yesterday, and the South Korean won once again led gains for Asian currencies. Against the local unit, the euro retreated from key
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      366 6 INTERNATIONAL FACTORS (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated with limited liability in the Republic of Singapore) 5570,000,000 Floating Rate Notes Due 2002 Pursuant to CONDITION 11 of the Notes, notice is hereby given that, in respect of the Interest Period from December 9, 1999 and ending on (but excluding) March 9, 2000. (a)
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      222 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF JANCOM PRIVATE LIMITED (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that the Final Meeting of Members of the Company will be
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      223 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF GUINAUIT INTERNATIONAL (S) PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act, Cap. 50. a Final General Meeting of the above named Company will
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu denies making bid for Siam City Bank
      436 7 Philippine central banker clarifies that DBS Group still working on BPI deal Bloomberg Reuters DBS Group Holdings' Thailand unit denied a newspaper report that it was bidding to buy government-owned Siam City Bank pel. DBS Thai Danu Bank pel, in
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      Lock icon HSBC Trustee's new system can manage funds' back offices
      326 7  -  By, Jeanette Pang HSBC Trustee yesterday unveiled a solution for fund managers to outsource their front office systems and back office operations. Designed by DST International (DSTi) for the Asia market, the outsourcing solution, called FOC@S, enables fund managers to focus
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon UOB group ups stake in UOL to 44.26%
        49 7 THE United Overseas Bank group, through Tye Hua Nominees, has bought 500,000 shares in United Overseas Land at an average of $1,448 apiece. The acquisition on Monday brings the group's interest in UOL to 44.26 per cent, or 261.53 million shares.
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        Lock icon Pac Can gets nod to reduce capital
        49 7 PACIFIC Can Investment Holdings said its shareholders have approved its scheme to reduce the company's shares from 50 cents par value to 10 cents. The capital reduction is subject to confirmation by the High Court. Pac Can is currently under judicial management.
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        Lock icon MHE's Japan unit under liquidation
        65 7 NICKY Tan, judicial manager to MHE Holdings, said its Japan-incorporated associated company, Hisec Company Ltd, was placed under Uquidation on Aug 11,1999. The company owns 30 per cent of Hisec's issued and paid-up capital of 15 minion yen (*****,500). The Uquidation of Hisec is not
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        Lock icon Excel bags new orders worth $7.6m
        98 7 MAI NBOARD-listed Excel Machine Tools yesterday announced that it has been awarded two orders valued at $7.6 mUlion for various types of machine tools. One of the orders was to supply $5.5 minion of Computer-Numericany Controlled machine tools and robotics to a Thai University
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      Lock icon ST Engineering row with Europe party settled
      80 7 AFX-Asia SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering Ltd said a dispute with a European party which had threatened to make a $275 million claim against it has been amicably resolved. ST Engineering, which had not made any provision for the potential claim, said it would not
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      Lock icon IDT profit soars 42%, turnover hits record $101m
      426 7  -  It cites strong demand in all major geographical markets i¥ Ling Su Ann MARKET darling IDT Holdings yesterday reported a healthy 42 per cent rise in net profit to $22.5 million on an 18 per cent rise in revenue, beating the consensus
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon S'pore, Japan to work towards launching new WTO talks
      492 8  -  PH Goh, Obuchi also agree to look into drawing np bilateral free trade pact From. Eugene Low in Tokyo FOLLOWING the collapse of the latest round of trade talks in Seattle, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Japanese counterpart, Keizo
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      Lock icon PacNet counts the cost of meeting the competition
      420 8  -  p:ll exclusive Its plan will also depend on Sing Net's reaction, says CEO Teh Hooi Ling NASDAQ-listed Pacific Internet expects its response to Star Hub Internet's free surfing plan to cost as much as what Sing Net's toll-free deal did, which is
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      Lock icon MND perm sec and lawyer to join MAS board
      301 8 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday announced the appointment of civil servant Lam Chuan Leong and lawyer Philip N Pillai to its board of directors for two years, effective from Jan 1. It also announced the reappointments of Deputy Prime
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      Lock icon Crude oil drives prices up 8% in Oct
      252 8  -  ornn^econom^| prices By. Audrey Tan WHOLESALE prices rose yet again in October, driven up by the rise in global oil prices. Latest figures from the Department of Statistics (DOS) show that the domestic supply price index rose 8 per cent from a
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      Lock icon Soon, the Net's biggest users won't be human
      628 9  -  I-li comment TECHNOLOGY Communication between machines will be the rage kenneth james AT 6 o'clock on a Saturday morning a businessman calls a taxi service's booking line, and a cheery voice answers. The conversation goes like this: "I'd like a cab to
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      Lock icon Cleaning industry gets plan to boost professionalism
      368 9 HOW do you gauge if your office cleaners are doing a good job? Commercial building owners can now refer to a "technical reference" to assess the services they are buying, thanks to a Ministry of Manpower-driven plan to professionalise the cleaning industry. Manpower
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      Lock icon Japanese group pumps $8m into Net startup
      375 9  -  i'-ii exclusive Venture fond takes 7.6% stake, valning WizOffice.com atslosm fty- Andrew Wee A JAPANESE venture capital group has pumped $8 million into Singapore-based WizOffice.com Pte Ltd for a 7.6 per cent stake, valuing the four-month-old dot-com company at $105 million. Hikari Tsushin
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      144 8 Travel hasn't lost its magic Master Geographic dl\/ With its sC®~7\ ingenious fa system for displaying a. multiple time zones, the Master Geographic is in a world ot its own. Just select a city, and the time on the subdial adjusts immediately The complicated automatic movement, created entirely by our
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Opportunists make farce of Thai politics
      812 10  -  mm bottom line OPINION harish mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THAILAND'S opposition parties are again ganging up against the eight-party coalition government of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai. Next week, they will table a no-confidence motion in Parliament. It is a sad comment
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      97 10 'You cannot have labour rights if you do not even have a job.' designated next head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on disputes over labour standards and the environment. This is a carnival against capitalism.' Leone Rdnbold a representative of Direct Action Network, the coalition that
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      Lock icon When mill the BOJ crack?
      654 10 EDITORIAL ITS a known fact that central bankers will have a busy time this year-end —they must ensure that Y2Kinspired hiccups do not mess up their local payment systems. But currency markets seem determined to give a couple of the world's most powerful central banks
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      Lock icon US agenda not captive to moneyed interests
      854 10  -  False stereotypes that popularise idea that the political system is corrupt are unhealthy By Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group THE most revealing thing about political scientist Jeffrey Berry's recent book (The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups) is that
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      Lock icon Change comes from, using, not killing, free trade
      784 10  -  COMMENTARY Activists who make a difference work with multinationals and consumers By Thomas Friedman NYT NOW that the Seattle World Trade Organization (WTO) summit is over, we can ask: Was it a turning point, or just an exclamation point? That depends entirely
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Fitch IBCA upgrades M'sian rating
      436 12  -  It cites impressive recovery and restructuring efforts for 888 foreign currency rating; others seen following snit From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur FOLLOWING Malaysia's economic resurgence, ratings agency Fitch IBCA has upgraded the country's long-term foreign currency rating to 888, bringing it on par
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      Lock icon Delay in formation of Negri Sembilan govt
      268 12 KUALA LUMPUR AFP THE formation of a new government in one Malaysian state has been delayed amid speculation of opposition to it from the local sultan, reports said yesterday. The official Bernama news agency said several members of the state assembly in Negri
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      Lock icon Forex reserves down 0.9% in 2 weeks
      134 12 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S foreign exchange reserves fell 0.9 per cent to U5530.15 billion (5550.7 billion) on Nov 30 from two weeks earlier, the central bank said. The reserves fell US$26 million in the two weeks after Nov 15, said Bank Negara Malaysia.
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      Lock icon OSK buys 2nd brokerage for RM72.5m
      341 12  -  Company aims to be biggest st ockbr oking house in M'sia fiYom Ruth Wong in Kuala Lumpur IN its bid to become Malaysia's biggest stockbroker, OSK Holdings Bhd yesterday bagged yet another brokerage by agreeing to buy the entire stockbroking business of Ipoh-based Premier
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      Lock icon Time Telekom to hold out for better bids
      457 12  -  The unit of debt-ridden Time Engg will continue negotiations with keen parties, confirms three offers received From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur TIME Telekom, the main subsidiary of debt-ridden Time Engineering, will continue to negotiate with potential suitors until it is
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      Lock icon Tan Chong gets KLSE nod to list two firms
      78 12 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd yesterday said that Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange has given in-principie approval for listing of APM Automotive Holding Bhd and Warisan TC Holdings Bhd on the main board of the bourse. In October,
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Plantation stocks up on Indon news
        98 12 SHARES of Malaysian plantations stocks rose yesterday on news that European buyers were boycotting Indonesian crude palm oil because an earlier Indonesian shipment of some 85,000 tonnes was found to be contaminated. Market watchers said Malaysian palm oil exporters could benefit from this development
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        Lock icon Merger scenario boosts Maybank
        72 12 SHARES of Maybank rose after the central bank governor said two days ago that Bank Negara had received merger proposals from some six different groups, and that he expected more to come before the end-January deadline. More banking groups will be good news for Maybank because
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        Lock icon RHB Capital down on MRCB's protest
        149 12  -  Compiled by Ruth Wong FINANCIAL group RHB Capital's shares fell yesterday after Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd (MRCB) said it would file a protest over RHB Bank's merger plan Two days ago, Bernama quoted MRCB chairman Abdul Rahman Maidin as saying that it would oppose
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      1259 12 NOTICE OF MEETING OF BONDHOLDERS GOLDTRON LIMITED Trust Deed dated 7 April 1995 ("Trust Deed") Between the Company and HSBC Trustee (Singapore) Limited ("the Trustee") constituting 5548,420,000 6.75 per cent. Convertible Bonds Due 2000 ("the Bonds") NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a meeting of Bondholders under the provisions of the
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Kwik vows to reveal more banking scams
      504 14 JAKARTA He asks MPs for support, says revelations may hit powerful people Reuters, Bloomberg INDONESIA'S chief economics minister, Kwik Kian Gie, vowed yesterday to reveal more banking scandals in the government's drive to battle corruption. Mr Kwik asked for support from members of
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      Lock icon Philippine market hinges on reform
      574 14 MANILA Recovery could take place in Ql, Q2 if bills pass, says Deutsche Bank Reuters INVESTORS hoping for a turnaround in the moribund Manila share market may have to wait until next year, a foreign fund investor says. Philippine stocks, the worst performers among Asia's
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      Lock icon Cambodia seeks to sell up to 70% of phone network
      289 14 TELECOMSIII.MmiLmi.I.W Reuters [PHNOM PENH] Cambodia wants to sell up to 70 per cent of its telephone system to the private sector and will invest the revenue in infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. "We have a policy of
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      119 14 JAKARTA AFP THE Indonesian government is committed to divesting its majority stakes in the telecommunications sector as early as next year, State Enterprises and Investment Minister Laksamana Sukardi said yesterday. Mr Laksamana told a business seminar here that the sector must boost its
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        91 14 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's bad loans fieU for the fifth month in October, dropping to 43.8 per cent of all credits, from a revised 44.7 per cent in September, as banks and borrowers restructured more debt, the Bank of Thailand said. It said
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        79 14 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd yesterday said its wholly owned subsidiary has increased its stake in Digital Phone Company Ltd of Thailand to 48.99 per cent from 46.99 per cent "The additional stake comprising 0f21,607,821 shares of 10 baht each was acquired
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        69 14 Bloomberg I JAKARTA] PT London Sumatra, an Indonesian plantations company, may have understated charges, inclusion of which would have almost doubled the nine-month loss it reported, independent accountants said. The company's practices do not conform with generally accepted accounting principles, and "raise substantial doubt about
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        46 14 Reuters {JAKARTA] Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday announced plans to visit two of the most troubled regions. He would visit the strife-torn Moluccas this weekend and travel to the far-eastern province of Irian Jaya to see in the new millennium. —Reuters
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      441 16  -  Company says success of telecoms and multimedia arm i-Cable has helped it diversify From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong PETER Woo's Wheelock and Company yesterday unveiled a 31 per cent jump in interim earnings and continued to defend the market potential
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      313 16 HONGKONG Bloomberg, AFX-Asia MOST of the individual investors that bought the Hongkong government's indexlinked Tracker Fund (TraHK) last month were first-time buyers of funds, the Hong Kong Investments Funds Association said. The fund was created from a small percentage of the
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      224 16 HONGKONG Bloomberg US telephone company AT&T Corp is in talks to sell its dialup Internet access service in Hongkong, as part of a strategy to focus on trans-border services for multinational companies. The company said it's reorganising its units
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      246 16 BEIJING AFP CHINA has raised its tax rebate quota for exporters to accelerate exports, state media said yesterday. The State Administration of Taxation has raised the quota by 6.6 billion yuan (Ssl.3 million) over the previous quota of 57 billion yuan, according to
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        49 16 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Income Partners Asset Management Ltd, a Hongkong-based fixed income fund management company, is setting up Asia's first Internet business for trading and researching the region's bonds. The new company, called asiabondportal.com, went online last Thursday and will open next month. Bloomberg
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        59 16 AFP [MACAU] A worker erecting scaffolding as construction work on Chinese figures is carried out at Lake Nam Van here on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming handover ceremonies. The handover of Macau to China will take place cm Dec 20, ending more than
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        65 16 Bloomberg {HONGKONG] CCT Telecom Holdings Ltd said yesterday that it's seeking US$5,OOO (558,400) per subscriber from China Unicom, China's No 2 telephone company, as compensation for early termination of its mobile phone ventures in China. China United Telecommunications Corp, known as China Unicom, is seeking
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        82 16 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Motorola Inc, the world's No 2 cellular phone maker, said yesterday that it had won six contracts valued at a total of US$22B million (Ss3B3 million) to upgrade oellular networks in China, providing capacity for another &3S million subscribers by July 2000. The
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      673 17 MADRAS Focus oo tittle-known firms such as Surra Optima, Affcek and Ctast Reuters FUND managers are digging deeper into the Bombay share market in their search for high-tech gold, having already mined some of its richest seams. The funds' new targets are smaller, lit-tle-known
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      259 17 NEW DELHI Reuters A GROWING number of Indian companies, seeking to raise their global profile, are moving to United States for a stock listing, a senior official of the New York Stock Exchange said on Tuesday. "Companies list overseas because that
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      204 17 POWER KUALA LUMPUR Move comes after recent changes to Pakistan's leadership AFP MALAYSIA'S power giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd will have to renegotiate its power plant deal with Pakistan following changes to that country's leadership, a report said yesterday. A team has been sent to
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      182 17 ■KATHMANDU Reuters BRITAIN'S Independent Power Corp has withdrawn an offer to buy small Nepalese state-owned hydroelectric generator Butwtd Power Co, alleging problems in the bidding process, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday. "We cannot continue with a process where Nepal ignores its
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      522 18 HELSINKI Mobile phone maker overtakes BP Amoco as its shares soar &5%, boosting market cap to 203b euros Reuters THE world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, on Tuesday added over 8 per cent to a remarkable 1999 bull run and overtook BP
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      381 18  -  m SINGAPORE By 1 Teh Hooi Ling THE joint venture to be formed by Telstra and KPN, or Royal Dutch Telecom, in global mobile satellite businesses will be cash positive from Day One, said Telstra Global Satellite general manager Michael Smith.
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      371 18 NEW YORK FT NEAR real-time information on the performance and risk profile of hedge funds will be available to investors when a new service, supported by Standard Poor's and Ernst Young, launches this week. Plus Funds.com represents the latest attempt by
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      337 18 FRAMINGHAM, Mass Reuters PERSONAL computer unit shipments are expected to grow by 17 per cent worldwide in the current quarter compared with a year ago, down from the 20 per cent previously forecast by leading market research firm International Data Corp (IDC). IDC
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      543 18 LONDON They say introducing new systems will lead to other problems Reuters SOME cures for the millennium computer bug might do more harm than good. With just about every big company in the world spending millions of dollars on new equipment to thwart
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        74 19 Reuters [STOCKHOLM! Swedish telecoms group Ericsson yesterday announced a strategic partnership with US software giant Microsoft to help people stay in touch via the Internet and mobile phones while on the move. Following a trade suspension in Ericsson shares, the Swedish company announced it was
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        74 19 Bloomberg [MUNICH] Corning Inc agreed to buy the fibre-optic cable making activities of Siemens AG, including two joint ventures, for US$l.4 billion (552.3 billion), as the German engineering group focuses on more profitable units. Corning will take over 50 per cent of the Siecor Corp
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        104 19 Reuters [LONDON] British brewing and leisure group Bass pic reported a 4.8 per cent rise in annual profits yesterday as the company said trading had started strongly in its new financial year. Bass, which owns Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn hotels and around 3,000 UK
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        74 19 Reuters [MOSCOW] Presidents Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, defying widespread scepticism, yesterday signed a treaty committing the two ex-Soviet republics to merging into a confederal state. But despite the signing, postponed from last month when Mr Yeltsin fell ill, there were
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      342 19 LONDON Reckitt Benckiser says fall-year profit won't meet analysts' expectations Reuters RECENTLY merged Anglo-Dutch consumer products group Reckitt Benckiser Pic shocked investors with a profit warning yesterday, wiping almost 10 per cent off its share price. The bad news was delivered one week after
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      453 19 SYDNEY He warns that it's too narrowly based and speculative to sustain momentum AFP THE US stock market is so narrowly based and speculative that it is poised for a fall, Australian Stock Exchange chairman Maurice Newman warned yesterday. Mr Newman
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      260 19 NEW YORK Reuters FEDERAL Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Robert Parry joined a growing chorus of central bankers on Tuesday who see scant signs that the tremendous momentum of the US economy is waning. Mr Parry also observed that some
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      200 20  -  SGX Derivatives TraMn&Reports MSGK Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market rose from strength to strength yesterday, propelled by feverish interest in current hot favourites, namely finance and technology issues. The Straits Times Index achieved a new year-record, ending at 2,351.33, up
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      129 20  -  MSGE Taiwan fixtures Juliana Loo Na Na Refco Singapore THE SGX MSCI Taiwan Stock Index futures yesterday fell 2.4 points, led by banks on disappointing profits. In the earlier session, the market was pushed by Credit Lyonnais Rouse's stop order together with buying strength
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      346 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices fell away from recent highs yesterday as a big build-up in US oil stockpiles soothed fears of a supply shock this winter. Benchmark Brent was down 85 US cents at U5524.55 a barrel
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      312 20 Reuters New York STRONGER THAN-EXPEC-TED German economic data briefly lifted Europe's single currency yesterday .and helped keep the currency comfortably above last week's lifetime low under parity with the dollar. For the third day in a row, Europe's largest economy reported data strong enough to suggest Germany's recovery
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      2823 21 HOMGKONG Reuters El Hang Seng -83.71 HONGKONG stocks closed lower yesterday in active trade, split between profittaking in market leaders and a late rally in selected property counters and other laggard blue chips, brokers said. "This is just a bit of necessary
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      2020 21 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -112.7* SHARE prices in Tokyo fell one per cent yesterday as brokers and institutions took profits from recent gains on information technology issues, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei 225 Index fell 192.76 points to end at 18,401.20. The broader
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      970 21 Reuters U Shenzhen B Index -2^7 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares closed down sharply on expanded turnover yesterday as investors slashed their positions ahead of the year-end. The B share index fell 2.67 points, or 3.29 per cent, to 78.51 as turnover rose to HK$26 million from Tuesday's HK$l7.l
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      348 21 AFP QWP Index -1103 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday on mixed sentiment and Y2K concerns as the year comes to an end, dealers said. "Buying seems to slow down because the Y2K problem is still a major concern to investors," said Tsewang Nyima, institutional department
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      415 22 AFP. AFX-Asia Q Composite Index -0.58 MALAYSIAN share prices closed barely changed yesterday amid persistent political concerns and profit-taking ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 0.58 of a point to finish
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      300 23 AFP n Composite Index -IL6 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday lost 11.6 points to 988.32. Volume totalled 275 million shares worth 4.4 trillion won. OKI Anam SaflW ***** -700 Brain Tach 1750 -105 Cantral Bank 2340 -70 CrwMComm *****0 2500 Ow Cu Bank 3320 110 Daatang Corp
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      277 23 AFP CI Manila -3L52 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday as foreign investors continued to shun the market, analysts said. The Composite Index fell 31.52 points to close at 1,911.10. Volume was 17.91 billion shares worth 2.5 billion pesos. —AFP Naa *f- nm MRCAIHad 0.71 0.01
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      275 23 AFP QWeUmgton -14J3 NEW Zealand stocks were down 0.7 per cent yesterday on light turnover of NZ595.9 million. Financial services company Tower was the leading local light which saw the NZSE-40 Capital Index close down 14.93 points at 2,111.61. —AFP Nil «n COM) AdvantHOS 3.35 -0.15 113 Air NZ
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      584 23 AFP HmOrttMriM AUSTRALIAN shares staged a recovery to finish a barely noticeable 0.1 per cent rise after earlier sliding on the back of a fall in New York stocks overnight, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index ended up 2.9 points at 3,108.80. The All Industrials closed 16.5 points firmer
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      779 23 AFP CI SET Index -<U1 THAI shares closed almost unchanged yesterday, shedding 0.1 per cent with overall sentiment negative amid concerns over debt restructuring and the Y2K bug, dealers said. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand Index shed 0.61 of a point to close the day at 413.27. Volumes
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      685 23 AFP n Composite Index -OJ7 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.1 per cent lower yesterday on lack of fresh incentives, dealers said. One dealer said offshore and local investors stayed away in the absence of developments to perk up the bourse. A dealer with Dinamika Usahajaya said "the market was
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      718 26  -  Shangri-La Residences impresses cobenme kttrk with its hotel-style services and spacious apartments, but interested parties have to be prepared for a one-year waiting list CORINNE KERK THE fact about homes, no matter how beautifully they are done up, is that someone has to clean them.
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      326 26 View Finder Project: Shangri-La Residences Dovoiopor: Shangri-La Hotel Ltd Location: Ladyhill/Orange Grove Rds No of units: 55 Unit sizos: 1,459 to 3,579 sq ft Rontal: $6,500 to $15,000 monthly 1100% Consensus By Tender at River Valley Road nr n Site area: 15,355 sq ft I Plot Ratio: 2:8 \l\ Jg
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      888 27  -  Improved business sentiment should boost absorption rate to one million sq ft this year, says Christopher fossick CHRISTOPHER FOSSICK The writer is executive director of commercial agency at CB Richard Ellis THE outlook for office space at the start of the year seemed particularly
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      537 27  -  Rise in consumer spending, tourist arrivals seen to encourage retailers to expand in prime shopping centres %< Joyce Khor The writer is director of research at CB Richard Ellis THE retail industry showed a marked improvement in the second half of 1999, spurred by an
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    1326 28  -  Landlords face challenge to revamp buildings with new office hubs emerging, corporate demand for bigger floor plates and more people working from home. AMDRSATAM finds OUt ANDREA TAN A QUIET revolution is going on in the office space market. Several new trends have surfaced: the Marina Centre
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      475 30  -  Motor traders' gronp offers car buyers some pointers in the wake of the Anto Asia fiasco All report® by Christopher Tan PERSUADED by the authorities to act on the Auto Asia fiasco, the Motor Traders Association (MTA) has come up with what's believed to be
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      297 30 BMW distributor Performance Motors will offer two renowned customisation programmes to its buyers one to raise luxury levels and the other to heighten performance. The first is by BMW Individual, an eight-year-old division of BMW Ag that specialises in catering to the whims of Beemer
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        113 30 CYCLE Carriage and DaimlerChrysler are close to an agreement on the latter's foray Into the Mercedes-Benz wholesale business here. BT understands the two are ready to make a formal announcement as early as next week. The new arrangement is unlikely to be immediately positive for
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        93 30 THE Singapore Motor Show 2000 promises to be bigger and better, on account of a market piok-up in the next few years. According to organiser Motor Traders Association, Nissan which was absent last year—has confirmed participation, ft is also working to persuade DaimlerChryster to
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        72 30 CASTROL has struck a "nutfor" partnership agreement with the BMW Group, the lubricants maker says. The agreement includes working together in areas of RAD. Castrol will also partner BMW in its Formula One foray next year. Its lubricants will be used and its brandname will
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        96 30  -  OinMiiHr Christopher Tan BIDDING of car registration plates in the SDA series has begun. Owners have until this Saturday to bid for their favourite numbers from 1 to 9996, with minimum bid at $1,000. Bids must be made on prescribed forms at
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      196 31 PLANS are afoot to set up a group office here that brings together Ford, Jaguar and Volvo, according to an official source. The representative office will be up by the first quarter of next year, and will coordinate administrative and logistical efforts of Ford
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      301 33 Bridge News, Reuters THE capes ize sector of the dry cargo freight market remained steady but quiet, and trans-Atlantic grain rates for panamaxes and handysizes were a little steadier than last week, brokers said. Panamax owners in the Far East were reluctant to fix back to the weaker
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      450 33  -  Sal—law Smith Barney expects every company it covers to seea recovery in earnings By< Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The container liner industry is set to rebound in 2000 and 2001, following a period of dismal performance in the mid to late *****. Saloman Smith Barney
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      261 33 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Marine shipping company Chuan Hup Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it bought three vessels for $5.8 million in cash, boosting its fleet to 146 ships to cater to growing regional demand for shipping. "With these purchases we are
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      351 33 AFP [VILNIUS] A hose being used to pump oil into a tanker at a terminal broke in high winds late on Monday, spewing tonnes of oil into the Baltic Sea, the Lithuanian Civil Security Department announced on Tuesday. More than three tonnes had been
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      340 33  -  Company notes a need for greater choice of cruise holidays in region Byl Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] With the Royal Caribbean International's return to Singapore shores last week, the company says that it is looking "very closely" at Asia and basing a ship
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        621 34 European Shippers' Council has protested against the Taca announcement to increase rates from Jan 1 ITJ THE Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement's (Taca) Business Plan 2000 signalling higher rates, has met with strong opposition from shippers. The European Shippers' Council (ESC), in the name of its members, has
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        564 45 Data received showed 'a high level of T2K readiness in all regions': lata Reuters [GENEVA] Airports and air traffic control systems worldwide have reported that their Y2K programmes are complete and they are ready for the millennium rollover, the International
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        381 45 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Sydney Airports Corp, which operates Australia's busiest airport, said it plans to increase airline charges to boost returns ahead of an expected initial public offer. The federal governmentowned body, which runs Sydney's international airport and other smaller airports at Bankstown, Hoxton Park and
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        353 45 Air Canada may buy oat AMR's interests in Canadian Airiimm Reuters [MONTREAL] AMR Corp, parent of American Airlines, said on Tuesday it expects to reach an agreement with Air Canada on buying out AMR's financial interests in Canadian Airlines. Air Canada, Canada's largest airline,
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        213 45 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Northwest and Alitalia on Tuesday announced the launch of daily non-stop US-Italy flights, due to start in April next year. The statement comes days after US regulators granted anti-trust immunity to Italy's Alitalia, allowing it to join the alliance of
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        223 45 Reuters [ANCHORAGE] The head of Reeve Aleutian Airways says the introduction of US noise abatement rules for commercial jets may trigger a retaliatory response by Russia. "There are rumblings that if Aeroflot is not allowed to fly into cities other than Anchorage
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        504 46  -  exclusive By 2010, industry may contribute 3.5% to GDP, and create l,ooojobsayear By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Putting brains above brawn, information above assets, today's logistics companies play a different ballgame than that of their early predecessors who simply moved goods around. This ballgame
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        367 46  -  Products are targeted at business-to-business sector By\ Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] Federal Express (FedEx) has launched a range of four e-commerce solutions targeted at the busi-ness-to-business sector. "Business-to-business e-commerce will be the sweet spot of e-commerce," said Rajesh Subramaniam, FedEx vice-president, marketing, communications, e-com-merce and customer
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        278 46  -  By. Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The supply chain movement in Singapore will gain pace next year as local thinktank Gintic is establishing a Singapore chapter of the US Supply Chain Council. Little known in this part of the world, the
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        693 46 H =9 logistics THE Internet is having a broad impact on business transactions and the logistics supporting those transactions worldwide. Industry specific portals, such as e-Steel and eGreenbiz.com, are being introduced to support vertical businesses, providing val-ue-added matching services between buyers and sellers,
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