The Business Times, 13 December 1999

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  • 17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MIT A (P) 046/12/98 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg/ MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1999
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  • 54 1 STOCK MAMET INDICES Week Change ST1 2,395.44...+ 187.63 S1MSCIFITURES .326.40....+18.20 BT-SR1. 902.26...+58.91 KLSECOMP 743.60 18.97 NIKKEI 18,271.85._...-96.29 HANG SENG. 16,380.21..+539.80 SET INDEX. 419.77 +5.35 JAKARTA COMP. 633.84 +20.35 MANILA COMP. 1.939.81 +2.91 TAIPEI WPL 7,733.77 -230.72 SEOUL COMP.. 1.018.17...+51.58 CLSA CHINA B. 741.48... -33.06 AUST ALL ORD .3,120.30...+33.50
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  • 82 1 BATES uss ss USS 1678 £(l!S$/S$ per 1.624 2.726 El RO(US$/SS/E) I 020 1.711 DM 1518 0.875 YEN 1025 1.638* KM 3.800 0.442 HKS 7.775 0J16 BAHT 38.56 0044 Rl'PlAH 7227 0 023 SS to 100 units PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 M ALA LUMPUR 7.25 JAKARTA 40.00 BANGKOK a
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  • 671 1  -  Brtsymiuflj It will continue to lose market share of electronics exports By Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Global demand for electronic goods may be buoyant, but growth in Singapore's electronics industry next year will still lag that of the region, say economists. The past year
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  • 597 1  -  Sing Net service to counter Star Hub has Web-based e-mail By < Carol Eng [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom announced yesterday that aU its 1.82 million fixedline subscribers will be offered free Internet access through Sing Net, its Internet Service Provider (ISP) subsidiary. What's more, its
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  • 1156 1 The Fed is flooding the US economy with money. Why? Reuters [NEW YORK] The US stock market just keeps on climbing and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is making a massive amount of money available for the economy. Is it irrational exuberance or Y2K
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    • 104 1 INSIDE Top stories US online auctioneer's stock soars US$232 on debut. Next Page Market correction in Q3 puts brakes on fund raising. Pg 4 H B fl Patricia Fiske: from receptionist to partner in ad firm in seven years. Pg 7 The look of the next millennium. Pg 24 i-.±V
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    • 466 2 Near six-fold jump in Free Markets comes one day after VA Linux stock sets IPO record NYT, Reuters [NEW YORK) Another day, another Internet takeoff. The stock of FreeMarkets, an online auctioneer for industrial products, jumped US$232, or 483 per cent, on
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    • 381 2 Still it doesn't expect to cut spending to attract customers to its Web sites Bloomberg, Reuters [NEW YORK) Walt Disney Co's Go.com, the company that combines Infoseek Corp with Disney's other Internet assets, lost US$l.O6 billion (551.77 billion) in fiscal 1999, according to
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    • 537 3 Heady pace of group's growth has some worried about its effective working AFP [HELSINKI] The contours of a new European Union with as many as 28 member-states took shape at the EU summit here last week, raising questions as to whether the 15-na-tion
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    • 516 3 Though silent on euro's recent plunge, summit tightens deficit-limiting steps for euro-zone governments Bloomberg [HELSINKI] THE European Union hailed the 11-nation euro as an engine of economic growth, while steering clear of any comments on the currency's recent plunge. An EU summit, which ended here
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 569 4  -  Rights issues, share placements in second half 70% lower than first half figure Ihj Wong Wei Kong THE sharp stock market correction in the third quarter appears to have discouraged fund raising by listed companies, with the value of rights issues
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    • 476 4  -  But Star Hub's entry will erode its market share and tariffs Byi Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Telecom's operating performance hasn't hit bottom yet but its Thai associate company, Advanced Info Service (AIS), will be a bright spot deserving a valuation premium, said US brokerage
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    • 567 4  -  STOCK I7M rem By< Andrea Tan WHILE Kingboard Copper Foil's aggressive plans to raise its production capacity is a plus factor, the group's over-reliance on its parent company was cause for concern, analysts said. They are calling a "stag" for the Hongkong-based
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    • 556 5  -  14-hr days lead to rising staff turnover in corporate finance departments Ky\ Siow Li Sen THE rush to launch initial public offerings while the stock market is hot is taking its toll on banks' staff. Turnover in the corporate finance departments
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    • 362 5  -  Choice based on its low risk and discount to break-up value By Carol Eng FRASER Neave, which will hold a briefing today on its restructuring plans, is the top pick of Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) as a retail recovery play. The selection
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    • 596 5  -  130% average premium for 20 tech IPOs this year By Jennifer Lien ELECTRONICS and technology IPOs had a stellar year in 1999. riding on the back of a hot stock market, strong global demand and an economic recovery. Judging from last
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    • 118 4 This announcement appears as a matter of record only m L&M GROUP INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) THE PROPOSED WHITEWASH RESOLUTION for the waiver by the shareholders of L&M Group Investments Limited (the "Company") of their right to receive a mandatory take-over offer from Jing Chui Limited
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      418 6 'Dec 9 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume MIT 10c 165,637,000 Asia Food&Prop US$ 72,187,000 RafflesH85c.. 67,752,000 ChuanHup 20c 65,641,000 TPVUS1C 57.102.000 China Toll 20c 55,504,000 CM Telecom HK75c 49,580,000 Ho Bee 5c 49,105,000 Golden Agri US10c 48,885,000 MediaRinglOc 45,178,000 Stocks OCBC 425,535,491 DBS Grp 327,779,911 NatEleclOc 189.129,154 SIA 187,572,429 SPH
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    • 587 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy THE new age of investing, it seems, has taken yet another twist. These days, the use of "reasonable" price earnings ratios as benchmarks for valuation is being glibly forfeited in favour of momentum trading (cleverly disguised as
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    • 173 6  -  WARRANT WATCH Hy R Sivanithy THE Malaysian market is finally starting to stir after the recent general election. One suspects that as the political landscape becomes clearer with the passing days, the stock market will gradually play catch-up with the rest of the
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    • 253 6  -  HOT STOCK w Wong Wei Kong RIDING on a wave of buying in technology stocks, shares of fledgling Internet player Panpac Media rose 5 per cent on heavy volumes last Friday. The stock closed up 7 cents at' 51.48 with 10.3 million shares
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    • 82 6 Singapore ♦Bam. First Franco-Singa-pore Biomedical Engineering symposium on biomedical imaging and biomaterials ♦lpm. Seminar on Indonesia: The current state of affairs and the future 2.30pm. F&N results briefing and presentation of future direction of group; followed by press conference at spm ♦2.45pm. Launch of
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    • 492 6 Japanese unit likely to remain trapped between 101.80 and 103.40 vsUS$ A STEADY yen should help Asian currencies hold ground this week while Korea will try to tame its currency and Singapore may follow suit. Just when the yen is getting ready
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 459 7  -  PEOPLE Patricia Fiske of Worldwide Partners went from receptionist to partner in jnst seven years By Andrea Tan BEING nosy helps in your career path. Just ask Patricia Fiske. Her penchant for "wanting to know everything about everyone" has leapfrogged her career from
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    • 304 7  -  260,190 sq ft Tat Lee Court site has land tenure of 999 years By* Carol Eng A MASSIVE plot in the West Coast area which can yield 300 three-bedroom apartments is on the market for $138 million. The 260,190 square
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    • 221 7  -  //>/( Carol Eng VISITOR arrivals to Singapore rose 17 per cent last month compared with a year ago, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced over the weekend. But it said it expects a slight dip in arrivals this month due to the crossover to the
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    • 475 8  -  Swissße sees 7% annual growth in next 5 years for 11 non-life markets ihj\ Soh Tiang Keng BATTERED though it was by the regional economic crisis, Asia's insurance industry is now poised to re-emerge as one of the world's fastestgrowing
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    • 516 8 SEASONAL cheer specialists Riche Monde put together a spirited team "Texas scramble" performance at Laguna National last Friday to take the first leg in the 1999/2000 season of the Ericsson Corporate Golf League presented by The Business Times. A total
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    • 193 8  -  MAiLirm Patrick Tan Kim Hai Singapore via Internet I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column "Troubling local parallels with the Wall Street scene" (BT, Dec 9) by R Sivanithy. I don't see what's so troubling in a market situation where prices of stocks
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 724 9  -  KL STOCKS Mahathir will have to regain the hearts and minds at the majority inlay mmmnni+y eddie toh WILL the Malaysian market react positively to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's new Cabinet line-up? Although he introduced nine new ministers to rejuvenate the Cabinet, many
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    • 442 9 KUALA LUMPUR Robber body to also discuss future cooperation Reuters THE world's producers and consumers of rubber meet this week to decide the fate of the International Natural Rubber Organisation's (Inro) 140,000 tonnes of buffer stock following the body's dissolution. Inro's governing
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    • 311 9 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has publicly reprimanded and fined four companies for breaching the Main Board and Second Board listing requirements. The Second Board companies are Concrete Engineering Products and Pembinaan YCS, while the two
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    • 412 10 KUALA LUMPUR Director sees no change in direction with GIC as substantial shareholder MBT SUNWAY City Bhd (Suncity) expects its four residential property development projects to generate 300 million Malaysian ringgit (Ssl33 million) in sales in 2000, says director Chew Chee Kin. He
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    • 146 10 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama STRIVING towards zero inflation is one of the priorities of the new Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. The other is working towards stabilising the prices of essential goods for the benefit of both consumers and traders. "I'll take into
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    • 292 10 KUALA LUMPUR MBT AFTER initial concerns, Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) has said that it will lend its support to Rashid Hussain Bhd's proposal for RHB Bank Bhd to be accorded anchor bank status, provided MRCB's interest is protected and its investment value
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    • 980 10 <•> CENTREPOINT PROPERTIES LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) RESULTS FQft THE YEAR ENPED IQ SEPTEMBER 1999 Financial Statement And Dividend Announcement The Directors wish to announce the unaudited results for the year ended 30 September 1 999Group C#«p«ny 30 Sep 99 30 Sep 9a Change 30 S«P 99
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  • SOUTH east asia
    • 666 11 BANGKOK But Y2K safe havens Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore benefit while analysts say fears are overblown AFP FEARS about potential millennium bug chaos have exacerbated the annual end-of-year slump on many Asian stock markets, but festive cheer has arrived early for a few
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    • 269 11 MANILA Reuters A STRONG earthquake shook the main Philippine island of Luzon, including the capital Manila, yesterday, and officials reported three deaths and 24 injured but only minor damage. The tremor, which struck at 2:o3am (1803 GMT Saturday), had a magnitude of 6.8
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    • 244 11 BANGKOK AFP A Thai finance executive on the run since last year has been arrested by police in the United Kingdom, Thai Attor-ney-General Suchart Traiprasit said yesterday. Pin Chakrapak, former president of Finance One and wanted in connection with the company's spectacular mid-1997 collapse,
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  • EAST asia
    • 452 13 ADELAIDE It beats two US firms to win contract to distribute power in South Australia Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, the Hongkong-based conglomerate controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, has won a contract to distribute electricity in the Australian state of South Australia, beating two
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    • 374 13 BEIJING It will choose from among 12 domestic, foreign bids in Jan Reuters CHINA Unicom, the country's second telecommunications service provider, is set to complete a nationwide CDMA cellular network by the middle of next year, the China Daily Business Weekly said
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    • 301 13 BEIJING AFP SOME 12 million jobs will be created with China's expected accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which will also boost economic growth by up to 3 per cent, state press reported yesterday. Job growth, however, is
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    • 302 13 NEW YORK Exchanges to make joint announcement in NT today Bloomberg THE Nasdaq stock market and Hongkong's stock exchange plan to announce stocks they will list on both markets. Nasdaq, the world's sec-ond-largest stock market by capitalisation, and the Hongkong market agreed last December to
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  • SOUTH asia
    • 93 14 NEW DELHI Reuters INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has launched a billion rupee (Ss39 million) national venture capital fund for the information technology industry. "Our government has de- cided to create conditions that will enable more and more successful IT (information technology) enterprises to
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    • 663 14 NEW DELHI Its skilled manpower can rival Silicon Valley, say Indian entrepreneurs AFP INDIA nurses the ambition of becoming the information technology (IT) superpower of the next century on the strength of its skilled manpower which can rival the US'
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    • 247 14 NEW DELHI French oil firm can provide technical assistance, says exec Reuters FRENCH oil group TotalFina is keen to take part in India's Bombay High oilfield operations and other deepwater explorations, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said yesterday. "Total is willing
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  • WORLD news
    • 479 15  -  Hnge payouts come courtesy of surge in the stock market and mega takeover deals hYom Neil Behrmann in Ijondon HUGE bonuses will be paid to City of London staffers, thanks to a surge in the stock market and mega "deals. Kimbel
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    • 241 15 TOKYO Reuters MAJOR Japanese insurance company Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co has agreed to a comprehensive tie-up with second-tier Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co, a national daily reported yesterday. Under the agreement, the two will cooperate in areas including marketing, asset management and product
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    • 139 15 m WASHINGTON AFP UNITED States authorities have expanded their review of research facilities, defence plants and other sensitive sites, hoping to ferret out spies who may have passed classified military secrets to China, The Washington Post reported yesterday. The Post said
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    • 454 15 SEOUL Creditors say an auction will be fairer; GM and Ford are interested Reuters WITH two US auto giants interested in South Korea's Daewoo Motor, local creditors of the ailing automaker are likely to put it on the international auction
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    • 211 16 RENNES, France Vessel carrying 20,000 tonnes of fael oil breaks into two Reuters FRENCH tugboats rushed into stormy seas yesterday to try to limit pollution after a fuel oil tanker broke in two off the western coast. British and French coastguards said helicopters plucked all
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    • 368 16 TELECOM 1., THE HAGUE Blade jointly with Bell South, purchase valued at 9.1b euros Bloomberg ROYAL KPN, the biggest Dutch phone company, said over the weekend it's buying 77.5 per cent of Germany's third largest mobile service provider for 9.1 billion
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    • 282 16 OSLO Reuters THE Norwegian head of Nordic telecoms group Telia-Te-lenor yesterday rejected Swedish pressure for him to resign amid a cross-border crisis that might threaten to topple Norway's government. "I'm prepared to keep going," chief executive Tormod Hermansen told the daily Aftenposten. Swedish
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    • 213 16 TOKYO But Western methods sometimes clash with traditions AFP ONE side-effect of Japan's begrudging economic openingup has been the arrival of a small army of foreign management consultants armed with the latest thinking in Western corporate philosophy. Hiring outside consultants to advise executives on
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    • 473 17 Tesco mulls bid for Marks Spencer, says report LONDON It says bid could be made at 380 pence per share, valuing M&S at near £llb Reuters BRITISH supermarkets group Tesco pic is considering making an offer for fellow retailer Marks Spencer and has recruited investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston
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    • 2150 17 $g JjM FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 1999 attributable net profit before extraqrpinaries Group Financial Statement And Dividend Announcement ao sept w 30 s«pt m $000 S'OOO The Directors wish to announce the unaudited results for the year
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
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    • 595 18 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup [LONDON] Crude oil prices fell last week as the market braced for a resumption of exports from Iraq, which was thought likely to win a fresh extension to its oil-for-food deal brokered with the United Nations. Meanwhile,
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  • MARKET OUTLOOK
    • 296 19 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks are expected to trade in a narrow range this week as market activity and foreign fund inflows thin out ahead of Christmas. But analysts were split over whether the benchmark Hang Seng Index would make brief forays into record
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    • 580 19 NEW YORK Frenzied ad spending by online retailers cited for these firms' optimistic profit forecasts for 2000 Bloomberg SHARES of traditional media companies got a shot of dotcom fever last week. The New York Times Co, Tribune Co, Dow Jones Co and other newspaper
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    • 335 19 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to rise in the coming week as investors expect an improvement in the Bank of Japan's tankan survey of business confidence, analysts said. In the week just ended, the Nikkei 225 Index on the Tokyo
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    • 394 19 LONDON AFP THE London market took a breather last week, slipping back a little after the previous week's records, with telecoms stocks still performing strongly and the media sector starting its own boom. The FT-SE 100 Index finished at 6,739.5 on Friday, down
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    • 873 19 F1 Sydney +33^ RECENT strength in the Australian share market is expected to continue this week, putting a new record on the benchmark All Ordinaries Index well within reach, brokers said. "The current strength of the economy and the firm outlook for next year underpins the prospects
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    • 1771 19 fl Paris +13L05 FRENCH stocks ended down on Friday as losses on France Telecom after its unsuccessful bid for German wireless carrier E-Plus, outweighed the positive impact from a strong Wall Street start. The CAC-40 Index ended down 67.52 points or 1.2 per cent at 5,481.10 points.
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 8942 20 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 1999 Last Vot Week Net Cap Miqn Low Company «a>0 'OOO Hiqn Low P/C $mM 440 255 A|ioomotO 300 1 300 300 19.0 121.6 174 46 Angkasa 88 3 142 90.5 86 129.8 404 220 Apollo Food Hlg 320 unch 13 322 300 7.6 128.0 294 115
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    • 425 20 AFP Q Composite Index +UUT7 m MALAYSIA'S stock market is expected to remain steady in the-coming days with an upward bias after rising 2.6 per cent last week, analysts said. "With the naming of the new Cabinet, political risk has been reduced and this
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    • 742 24  -  The big money will be in designer body parts, predicts johmtieriiet JOHN TIERNEY NYT NEW YORK'S avant-garde has already tackled the first great question of the 21st century: what to wear? Fashion designers have issued long-range forecasts for the next millennium that are even more
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    • 164 25 rri p £*v Tiii) Rowe's Cambridge Incubator of I I AT" J Boston typifies the "hyper" approach, I g\ I I— 111 and a Singapore start-up looks set to jj|M -M- V/A benefit St John's Innovation Centre in Pw jftfl the "other" Cambridge in the UK and "I j Trinity
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    • 756 26 His unconventional approach draws on his phenomenal success in previous ventures. Some of that might rub off on his Singapore start-up HE zipped into Singapore last week and helped secure funding for a start-up he's just co-founded with a local buddy. That's par for
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    • 717 26  -  Two university-based innovation centres in Cambridge and Dublin are giving their ivory towers a silicon sheen f¥ Kenneth James LIKE a seagull versus a Boeing 747. That's the self-deprecating simile that Walter Herriot, MD of St John's Innovation Centre, situated at St John's
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    • 404 26  -  By, Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN Finesse Alliance International, a financial software solutions provider, has diversified into the non-financial market with an offering that helps companies carry out e-commerce. The new product, Connect, was unveiled at the Comdex/Fall '99 exhibition in Las Vegas last month and provides
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    • IT TAKES
      • 58 26 THE Ministry of Education (MOE) has selected Symantec's Norton Antivirus solution for public schools in Singapore. All government and government-aided primary and secondary schools plus junior colleges with a total of about 55,000 servers and workstations will use NAV Solution Suite over a two-year period
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      • 51 26 COLD Storage supermarkets have adopted a point-of-sale (POS) solution combining NCR's DynaKey POS operator display and Bi-Optic Scanner/Scale retail technology. The solution was designed to increase customer throughput and enable operators to learn and perform scanning and keyboard functions, and process EFTPOS transactions faster than
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      • 37 26 BAAN has launched a host of e-commerce software in Singapore: Baan Enterprise Solutions suite for business-to-business e-commerce; Baan.agility, a Web-enabled set of customer services; and Baan E-Procurement solution, an intranet-based software for online purchasing.
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      • 37 26 PARAGON Software has tied up with DKweb Asia to distribute Paragon's FoneSync software in Singapore. FoneSync allows users to drag and drop names and phone numbers from PCs to mobile phones.
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      • 38 26 FINESSE Alliance will hold a seminar on 'WAP-the-talk' on Dec 16 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) makes it possible to access the Internet on wireless devices like handphones. For details, fex *****60.
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      • 51 26 ACNIELSEN has appointed Lennart Bengtsson to head its operations in Singapore and Malaysia. Mr Bengtsson is currently managing director for ACNielsen in Malaysia. His expanded role takes on the job previously held by Hoe Chin Fee, who has been promoted to run the new Internet measurement service, ACNielsen
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      • 80 26 HEWLETT Packard (HP) has appointed John Fogarasi as its South Asia marketing director for products, solutions, services and channel marketing programmes in its enterprise computing solutions organisation. Mr Fogarasi will be based in Singapore. Previously, he was HP director of alliances in the Asia-Pacific.
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      • 41 26  -  Compiled by Toh Han Shih CISCO Systems Inc has appointed Rod Lee its finance director for the Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. Previously, he was sales operations controller in Europe, where he specialised in &ganisational budgeting and financial forecasting.
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    • 622 27  -  raju chellam The writer is Biz IT Editor BY now, the reincarnated avatar of Cyberway, Star Hub Internet, would have close to 50,000 Singapore subscribers as part of its free surfing scheme. The attraction of getting to surf for free was
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    • 344 27  -  Company plans to link software development teams across three continents By. Elizabeth Su GERMANY-BASED eßusiness software developer Netlife will invest $35 million over the next two years in Singapore to accelerate the transfer of technology from its German HQ to its Singapore technology hub.
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    • 751 29  -  koh kwei foong The writer is regional e-services manager, enterprise computing, Hewlett-Packard South Asia THE Internet has allowed airlines and hotels to accept bookings and reservations directly, bypassing the travel agent and letting airlines and hotels offer more competitive rates to the consumer.
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    • 483 29 NYT [WASHINGTON] President Bill Clinton, executives of technology companies and representatives of minorities and civil-rights groups announced a series of partnerships and initiatives last week to help bridge the "digital divide" between technology haves and have-nots, so that access to computers and the
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    • 266 29 Bloomberg [SAN JOSE, California] Real Networks Inc, the No. 1 maker of software for playing video and audio online, reached an agreement to deliver computer-generated animation over the Internet with technology from Web Glide Inc. Web Glide, a closely-held Israel-based ani-mation-technology developer, is joining with
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    • 2019 30  -  Vinton Cert the Father of the Internet developed the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol with Robert Kahn in the 1970s while the two were working for the US Department of Defence's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Now senior vice-president of
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    • 439 31  -  Cisco initially targeting enterprises, but is also in discussions with service providers By. Andrew Wee CISCO Systems Inc has unveiled a standards-based architecture that consolidates voice, video and data networks into an Internet Protocol-based environment. "Cisco AWID is the next step to
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    • 280 31 Cox News Service [WASHINGTON] A year ago at this time, journalists were struggling with their own Y2K problem: how to tell people about the computer software bug without sounding overly alarmist or complacent. Write too many stories about Y2K stockpiling and we might start a
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    • 300 31  -  By Elizabeth Su HOME-GROWN online auction service provider InterAuct! Pte Ltd has launched an auction solution package for businesses for a fraction of the cost companies would have to pay to develop their own auction software. InterAuct! said its package is priced at $5,000 per month
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    • 742 31  -  BT New technology developed by US start-up Web Choice By' Toh Han Shih US START-UP WebChoice.com has come up with technology that links the Web with TV, radio, video and almost any device that can emit a specific audio signal. Web Choice.com
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    • 101 31 Reuters [WASHINGTON] As many as 93 per cent of US manufacturers are confident that the Year 2000 computer glitch will have almost no impact on their companies, according to a poll released on Friday by the National Association of Manufacturers. Only 4 per cent
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 56 31 SYMANTEC Corp has released Norton Antivirus for Firewalls 1.5, which provides automatic virus scanning and cleaning for IBM and CVP-compliant firewalls before they enter the corporate network. It supports Windows NT/2000, scans and removes viruses from HTTP, FTP and SMTP network traffic, and costs $480 for
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      • 55 31 PSION Pic has launched the Psion 56k Travel Modem with GSM. which connects wirelessly to the Psion Revo, Series 5, Series smx and netßook handheld computers. The product Incorporates a 56k modem, connects to GSM phones at 9,600 bps, Is compatible with GSM roaming, and costs
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      • 105 31 DELL Computer Corp has launched three new computer systems: The Precision Workstation 220 Is targeted at CAD, computer animation and financial analysis users, supports single or dual Intel P-111 processors, comes with 72 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, and Is priced from $3,730. The Dimension XPS B
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      • 54 31 LIGHTSPEED Technologies and Sing Tel have tied up to offer picoNet, an ADSL gateway that allows multiple users to access the Internet using Singtel's Magix ADSL connection. PicoNet offers access controls, content filters and firewall security, and costs $3,490 with monthly subscription fees starting at $100.
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      • 56 31 FUJITSU Computers (Singapore) has announced two new storage devices, the DynaMO 1300FE and DynaMO 640FE external magneto-optical drives. Also known as Fire wire, they allow 63 devices to be connected to one bus and are targeted at Win 96, Apple iMac/DV/G3/G4 users. The DynaMO 640FE costs
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      • 59 31 RATIONAL software has launched new products that let customers develop software for the Internet. The company's Suite 1.5 and Clear Case 4.0 products are based on Unified Change Management (UCM). a workflow process that combines products to automate the management of activities and software components. The
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      • 60 31  -  by Andrew Wee MACROMEDIA has launched two new Web development products targeted at Web developers, schools and enterprises. Dreamweaver 3 provides roundtrip HTML and XML capabilities and a quick-tag editor, and costs $580. Fireworks 3 is a Web graphics application and provides live preview and optimisation
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      • 722 32  -  Corporate control over e-mail could be necessary for the company's future, as Andrew Wee finds out By. Andrew Wee Managing email content is not something many companies think about, but it should be a corporate concern, says Alan Schaverien, Asia-Pacific managing director for UK-based Content Technologies. "E-mail
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      • 292 32  -  Home-grown start-up wants new and established labels to offer their wares online Toh Han Shih RIDING the MP3 revolution, two technopreneurs launched a music portal Soundbuzz.com last week. It aims to get on its Web site the music of unsigned artists in Singapore and Asia
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      • Briefly.com
        • 80 32 LYCOS Asia, a US$5O-million joint venture between Lycos Inc and Sing Tel, has launched its first site at www.lycosasia.com.sg. Tripod Asia, a home-page building tool and service, will be introduced soon and will offer: auctions from Singapore-based Similan.com; Asia-Pacific e-calendar from CalendarONE.com; links to travel, food
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        • 87 32 PITCHED battles both physical and diplomatic around the World Trade Organisation negotiations in Seattle have catapulted the 135-member body off the business pages of newspapers into global public consciousness. Britain now intends to use its Commonwealth links to forge cross-continental alliances and bridge the communication
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        • 123 32 ALERTS have been issued for a number of viruses spread through e-mail and the Net, among them: ♦W9s.Babylonia: disguised as a Y2K bug fix for the Mire Internet chatting program, this worm can alter its instructions by downloading plug-ins from Web sites. ♦W97/Pri.Q viruses: a variant of
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        • 38 32 ASIA Travel Tips.com, a travel Web site, has published the winners of the 1999 Premier Awards for Excellence at toww.askitraveltips.com. The awards cover hotels and bars in Asia, including Singapore, Bangkok, Hanoi and Hongkong.
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        • 42 32 ONECOMMERCE Network, at www.onecommerce.net has launched free e-Shops which provide merchants with their own domain name and URL address free. The company levies a commission from each transaction and 700 companies have signed up for the service since July.
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        • 81 32  -  Andrew Wee NORTEL Networks has announced Open IP Rnvimnment, a "new world" routing and Internet Protocol (IP) software, that will Internet-enable devices such as servers, set-top boxes and PCs. The company says the software will help shift the industry from complex old-world router hardware to low-cost
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    • 281 33 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THERE are rumours that the five slandia tankers have been disposed of by Merita Bank, although as yet this remains unconfirmed. Speculation is that the buyers could be clients of Dynacom in Greece at a level of around US$2l million en bloc. The
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    • 315 33 SES '000 NtW S» W CWT Distribution 125 0.01 14 Chuan Hup 0.44 unch 9427 Cosco Investment 1.19 -0.01 75 Freight Unki 0 JO unch 235 G6 Holdings 0.90 0.02 15 mi Sun Hup 0.73 0.01 238 IMC HoMngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holding* 1.20 unch 275 Jurong
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    • 617 33  -  Maersk Sea Land to be nearly twice as big as Taiwan's Evergreen, with total operating fleet of 544,558 TEU slots By. Marcus Hand [SINGAPORE] A new mega-container line, Maersk Sea Land. almost twice the size of its closest competitor, was born
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    • 757 33  -  LINER SCENE By] David Hughes WITH the year 2000 rapidly approaching, multimodal transport firmly established as the way to move goods and electronic commerce becoming more common by the day even the term "bill of lading fraud" seems an anachronism. In fact it seems that
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    • 298 33  -  From David Taylor in Hongkong THE opening up of China's shipping market, following World Trade Organisation membership, will provide Hongkong companies with more access opportunities to enter the mainland's shipping market, said a senior China official at the Seatrade Hong
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    • 94 33 [VANCOUVER] A deal that was struck this summer between the Vancouver Port Authority and the China Ocean Shipping group (Cosco) is about to be examined by a special parliamentary committee of the Canadian government responsible for looking into organised crime. A former head of
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    • PORT Shots
      • 111 33 David Taylor [HONGKONG] The world's superports should bear a larger share of Port State Control (PSC) expenses, according to one speaker at the Seapol conference held recently in Hongkong. The South-East Asian Programme in Ocean Law (Seapol) is a network of over 400 professionals
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      • 85 33 David Hughes [LONDON] Car carrier operator Ugland International is to buy back its shares and delist itself following a long-term slump in its share prices. The car carrier market has been struggling recently and the company says that it believes the prospects for recovery next
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 438 34  -  Regional distinctions mean less and less with globalisation, says shipper Reports by David Hughes in London WORLD-WIDE Shipping chairman Helmut Sohmen has said he believes that Asian shippers should not see themselves as different from the rest of the world. "I don't
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      • 194 34 AN anti-smuggling task force in the Philippines has seized five ships attempting to smuggle rice and sugar worth US$2.5 million (554.2 million) at the port of Ozamiz, Mindanao. The Jasmin, Joan, Neptune, Alvarez and Sta Fe contained 68,000 bags of rice and 14,000 bags
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      • 173 34 THE 30,000 dwt Liberian tanker Louise was forced to make a run for the open waters of the Atlantic after it was fired upon by pirates 29 km off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. The 1988-built ship suffered extensive damage to its accommodation
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      • PORT Shots
        • 130 34 PROPOSED changes to the structure of the Baltic Exchange which would have seen the company become a mutual society have been shelved. It seems the restructuring would have been too costly due to the demands of some shareholders. Baltic chairman Hugh McCoy said: "Despite
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        • 152 34 THE UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency has published the results of a study into the wakes of high-speed vessels which shows no evidence of "unusual or dangerous waves". The study arose out of safety fears following reported incidents of people on nearby beaches being swamped
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        • 141 34 THE Suez Canal is to be deepened to allow larger tankers access to stave off competition from overland oil pipelines which could hurt the canal operator's earnings. The canal will be able to take ships with a draft of up to 62 ft by the
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        • 83 34 AN explosion on board the 1971-built Malta-flagged chemical tanker Athos off the south coast of Greece has killed two men. The blast occurred while the 32,737 dwt ship was at anchor in Kalamata roads. It happened in either the pump room or slop tanks
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        • 56 34 THE Asia-East Australia services operated by Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping are to be combined. The companies hope the joint service will improve schedule reliability and direct coverage and show their commitment to the Australian trade, though they admit to a 20 per cent reduction
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    • 20602 41 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Destn Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 22/12 to/01 NVK IKARUGA 022S 65 *****23 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire 22/12 No ul ikaruga 022s 21/12 31/01 Setramar
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      • 504 47 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Balulion 63 J12 12/12/3:35 13/12/16 00 Bt S MakasM ***** JOl 12/12/9:30 I2/12/201X) XuaU SM4 9908 J03 12/12/8:00 12/12/22:00 BtRikoN ***** J01 12/12/9:20 12/12/20:00 gt ikntfci *****9 JOl 12/12/10:20 12/12/23:00 It Mekar *****9 JOl 12/12/10:40 12/12/23:00 at Suruti 4 OEC 12 JOl
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      • 2004 47 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofclnq/BtUnco Rstb Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrlod From T> From AC1 HIBISCUS 0321 14/14:00 24 11/1700 UAM5) 12/WW n l/noo 12/MH 12/0*00 3 12/0700 12/IB) 12/1400 4 12/1200 12/KM 12/1700 ACIJAM MS U/TFjO 2A MM OWN MM 29 11/1700 12/0*5)
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      • 215 47 Dm 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Dm as Italy: Christmas Day. Brunei: Christmas Day. Australia: Christmas Day. Belgium: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day. Denmark: Christmas Day. France: Christmas Day. Germany: Christmas Day. Hong Kong: Christmas Day. Indonesia: Christmas Day. Dm M Australia: Boxing Day. Canada: Boxing Day. Denmark: Boxing
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      • 800 47 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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      • 558 48 Bat BA says seating problem caused by Branson's own travel agent AFP [NEW DELHI] Virgin Atlantic Airways owner Richard Branson accused British Airways of "churlish behaviour" over the weekend after he said his bitter rival denied him a seat on its flight from
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      • 316 48 Reuters [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Ltd and General Electric unit, GE Capital Aviation Training (Gecat), are increasing training facilities to meet surging need for pilots. "There is going to be a world shortage of pilots," Dragonair flight
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      • 145 48 Bloomberg [TEL AVIV) El A 1 Israel Airlines Ltd, the government-owned carrier, said it delayed signing an agreement to buy US$4OO million (Ss67l million) worth of Boeing 777 aircraft because the final form of the contract hasn't been settled. El A 1
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      • 185 48 AFP [NEW DELHI) India will offer 30-year leases on six leading airports to private companies, according to a top official. N K Singh, secretary in the prime minister's office, was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying airports in New
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