The Business Times, 10 February 2000

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MfTA (P) 035/12/1999 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 2000
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    61 1 sn (-18.48) BT-SBI 8M.47(-10.08) SIMSCI FOTUKES 2HJO (-€.20) STOCK MAKKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 99L85 +12.80 NIKKEI 20,007.77 +13&89 HANG SENG 16,819.46 +***** SET INDEX 456.02 9.92 JAKARTA COMP ***** +2.5-5 MANILA COMP „i047i7 +1183 TAIPEI WPI 10.008.88.._+152 49 SEW 1. COMP 961.22 -11.91 CLSA CHINA B
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    86 1 FOREX RATES uss s$ US$ 1692 £(1JS$/SSpcr£) 1.613 2.728 ElRO(ljS$/SS/E) 0 992 1.679 DM 1.970 0.858 YEN 108.8 1.555* RM 9.800 0.445 HKS 7.780 0.217 BAHT 37.57 0.045 RITP1AH 7,345 0.023' 'St to 100 units "St to 100 units PUME KATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 Kl'ALA LL MPl'K 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00
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    Lock icon Two govt sites could yield over $1b if sold
    566 1  -  i:iiexclusive Ministries of education and home affairs moving ont of Tanglin; sites slated for residential use Hyt Carol Eng, Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Two massive sites at the prime Tanglin area currently occupied by government ministries have been slated for residential use,
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    Lock icon Hacker attacks cripple more Web sites
    505 1 Buyxom, eßay, Amazon.com, CNN were among those hit Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Hackers pulled off a series of brazen attacks on major Web sites on Tuesday, leading to shutdowns at Buy.com Inc and eßay Inc after a similar assault hit Yahoo! Inc the day before.
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    Lock icon TCS chief executive Lee Cheok Yew quits
    337 1  -  PEOPLE Revamp of parent MediaCorp sees high-level casualty; group looking for successor By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Government-owned Media Corporation of Singapore, which is undergoing restructuring to stay vibrant in the fast-changing broadcasting industry, has suffered a high-level casualty: Lee Cheok Yew, the
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      91 1 PfSPE Motoring Auto ads zoom up 12.5% to $36m. Pg 26 Car Cars tees off golf pro plan. Pg 26 BT Comment Death of newspapers? Not quite, not yet. Next Page NEL's e-commerce foray helps reduce other risks. Pg 3 Top stories UOB promotes several senior execs in unprecedented move.
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      86 1 Ex PacNet chief now heads Aussie paging firm Easy Call v t Creative s Sim Wong Hoo now f hall a liillionaiie. isfvr* !<l SF s Inter,! hot slock Mesim.iga Softbank sets up 150h yen Internet fund. neuters unveils £500 million Net strategy. S'pore Web sites safe but not hacker-proof:
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      Lock icon NEL pays US$200m for NEC unit's Oregon plant
      570 2  -  Deal will give it strong presence in communications equipment market By, Jennifer Lien [SINGAPORE] Nat Steel Electronics (NEL) will pay US$2OO million (*****.2 million) to buy a US manufacturing plant from an NEC Corp subsidiary, a move that will help it achieve
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      Lock icon Ex-PacNet chief now heads Aussie paging firm EasyCall
      665 2  -  PEOPLE Company is migrating core business to Internet, seeking S'pore listing soon By l Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Chan Wing Leong, Pacific Internet's former executive chairman, hra resurfaced as executive chairman of listed Australian paging company Easy Call Asia Ltd, which is planning
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      Lock icon UOB promotes several senior execs
      337 2  -  I si I exclusive Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] In an unprecedented move. United Overseas Bank has promoted three of its senior management to senior executive vice-presidents (SEVP). It has also promoted two senior vice-presidents to the post of executive vice-president (EVP). While Gn Hiang Meng, Samuel
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      Lock icon Death of newspapers? Not quite, not yet
      658 2  -  I=l i comment TECHNOLOGY But what happens in this Industry is likely to foreshadow developments in other industries kenneth james READERS of the Singapore Press Holdings' newspapers literally saw red on Tuesday. Setting aside debate on the merits of this unusual marketing gambit,
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        Lock icon Banking on art
        178 2 SOME banks in Singapore are now explicitly targeting art lovers. ÜBS, for instance, recently started offering "art banking" services to its Singapore clients. According to its brochure entitled Art Banking: Another Financial Planning and Wealth Management Service, ÜBS has "highly qualified specialists" who offer a one-stop shop
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        28 2 PSST! Colliers Jardine's director Lim Gnee Kiang has quit the firm last week. Sources say he may be looking to set up his own consultancy.
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        151 2 Flying Low Slow TRY to beat this for a publicity stunt. Iron Annie, a 1939 JU-52 aircraft, is making a 40,000 km world tour at a laid-back speed of 180 kph (modern planes do about 1,000 kph), piloted by a crew of 10 volunteer pilots who also lovingly maintain three
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Tech fever sends electronics stocks skywards
      252 3 ELECTRONICS stocks charged skywards yesterday on frenzied buying, tracking a surge by technology issues on Wall Street on Tuesday which boosted the tech-heavy Nasdaq index to another record high. The Singapore stock market's top gainers list was dominated by stocks like Creative Technology, Venture
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      Lock icon Creative continues to soar on re-ratings
      479 3  -  $39 close highest since Feb '97; gains seen from Net investment strategy Ven Sreenivasan CREATIVE Technology shares continued to surge yesterday as analysts re-rated the company based on gains they expect it to make from future listings of its Internet startups. The stock of
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      Lock icon E-commerce timely as NEL embarks on other ventures
      696 3  -  ![s33locksiew lee han shih NATSTEEL Electronics (NEL) has taken the biggest gamble in its corporate history. Jittery shareholders watch out it may have to take even bigger gambles in the next few months. Yesterday NEL. the fifth largest electronics subcontractor in the
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T gain soars 73% to record $22.4m
      554 4  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Associate Ml boosts profit; group nnveils $100 m e-commerce, Internet strategy By* Teh Hooi Ling KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation (KT&T) yesterday reported a better-than-expected 73 per cent surge in net earnings to a record $22.4 million for the year ended Dec
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      Lock icon PCI interim net profit doubles to $7.1m
      356 4  -  By' Wong Wei Kong ELECTRONICS contract manufacturer PCI Ltd, which recently started implementing a three-year growth plan, reported yesterday a 102 per cent increase in earnings for the six months to December 1999. PCI said net profit for the period hit $7.1 million
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      Lock icon GK Goh's interim profit up 26 times to $26.4m ahead of merger vote
      514 4  -  Shareholders meet in April on tie-np with Vickers Balks Wong Wei Kong REPORTING its results for the last time before shareholders vote on a proposal to merge with fellow broking firm Vickers Ballas, GK Goh Holdings said
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      Lock icon ST Engg completes CIS buy
      171 4 DEFENCE group Singapore Technologies Engineering has made a host of changes at the group level. For starters, it has finalised the $268 million acquisition of sister company Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS). CIS, a weapons and munitions maker, will merge with ST Auto to form
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      Lock icon Thakral soars 31% on China venture with PacNet
      232 4  -  Counter is biggest percentage gainer, closing at 46.5 cents Ihfi Audrey Tan SHARES in Thakral Corporation made the biggest gains in percentage terms in the stock market yesterday, on news that it had signed a deal with Pacific Internet to offer services
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      Lock icon PacNet sees exponential growth in its e-business
      382 4  -  Toh Han Shih PACIFIC Internet's revenues from electronic commerce will outstrip its traditional Internet access revenues in two years, Pacific Internet eßusiness general manager Larry Ang said yesterday. "The daughter is always prettier than the mother," he said, referring to Pacfusion.com, PacNet's newly
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      Lock icon Unisteel Tech to launch public offer next week
      220 5 UNISTEEL Technology, which has received in-principle approval for a mainboard listing, said yesterday that it would launch its initial public offer (IPO) next week. The company, a leading manufacturer of high-end precision fasteners for the hard disk drive (HDD) industry, hopes to
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      Lock icon Prima in revamp to spearhead growth
      310 5  -  It renames two units in food services, manufacturing arm, restructures operations By] Francis Kan MAINBOARD-listed Prima group has renamed two of the companies in its food services and manufacturing arm to better reflect their businesses. The change, which has been effective since Feb 1,
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      Lock icon Shangri-La Asia seized opportunities in crisis
      323 5  -  From I Surinder Singh in Sydney THE financial crisis in Asia may have turned some companies upside down but at Shangri-La Asia, it was a chance to do some housekeeping and to shore up its holdings. The company, owned by Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok's
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      89 3 Premium Automobiles Branch Showroom 61 Übi Avenue 2. #01-11 Au I Singa p or e *****8 Tel 84 1 11 83 Fax 841 3181 Parts Service 27 Leng Kee Road. Singapore 1 *****. Tel: 473 11 83 Fa*: 473 11 31 According to Auto magazine, "with ijJgC' all its features,
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      473 4 Workshops on Goods Services Tax GST a simple tax? More than 5 years after the introduction of GST, there is still a degree of uncertainty amongst businesses about the application of GST. In its basic form, GST is a simple tax. Yet, it must deal with a wide spectrum of
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      184 5 HI V i J "V- '*<" -f-\ -s J~ 7 411 R V Efl ftfl This is what golf is all about. for for dough. the arc ways to hole a but the outlets across the putters l m Hiro Matsumoto, we know putters at Pan-West. L As Singapore's premier
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      504 6 Slocta Volume Benefun HK10c 33,486,000 Vickers Caprtal 25c 22,971,000 GK Goh WtOO 20,635.000 ChuanHup 20c 18,959,000 IPC Corpn 5c 17,204,000 MediaRing 10c 17,129,000 PCI 25c 17,096,000 Eastgate 10c 13.793,000 Goldtron 20c 13,378,000 PohLian 10c 13,196,000 Stocks DBSGrp 74^976,539 SIA 51,900,792 UOB 44,304,948 OCBC 42,047,414 PacificCentury 34,686,219 OUB 32,953,650 MediaRing 10c
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      Lock icon MTD Cap wrt: odd feature but decent numbers
      191 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By: R Sivanithy WE'VE highlighted the extension of life spans of Malaysian warrants in this column several times in the past, but we've not seen one where the extension is six months, with an option to extend another five years
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      Lock icon Tech play still the theme while bank stocks see selling
      600 6  -  I=ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy IT was another "tech" day for the local market yesterday although there was no technical rebound index-wise, it was technology stocks that enjoyed the best part of what turned out to be a weak day for
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      Lock icon PCI shares may test $1.67 again
      230 6  -  HOT STOCK Ity Wong Wei Kong SHARES of electronics contract manufacturer PCI Ltd rose sharply in heavy trade yesterday, with the stock finishing as one of the session's most active issues and biggest gainers. PCI shares closed at 51.64, up 13 cents or 8.6
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      181 6 ♦Shangri-La Hotel yesterday gave recent valuations of its properties. DTZ Debenham Tie Leung (SEA) valued Shangri-La Hotel at $610 million, Shangri-La Apartments at Anderson Road at $187 million, Shangri-La Residences at Lady Hill Road at $171 million and Rasa Sentosa Resort at $89.6 million. ♦Jaya Holdings said trading
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      Lock icon Greenback retreats despite another Nasdaq record
      342 6  -  I:l I comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar gave up some of its recent strength in Asian trading yesterday, despite another record day for technology stocks in the US asset markets overnight. Yet another new high of 4,427.50 for the Nasdaq Composite Index
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      136 6 This announcement does not constitute an offer or invitation to any person to subscribe for or purchase any of the securities described herein, nor is it calculated to invite, nor does it permit the making of, offers for such securities. The issue was fully subscribed for on 28th January, 2000
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Import prices rise 9.8% in December
      271 7  -  I A w 4 =1 on the economy prices By. Audrey Tan IMPORTED inflation looks set to rise, as import prices surged 9.8 per cent in December due to higher oil prices. Latest figures from the Department of Statistics (DOS) show that the doubling
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      Lock icon Cheng Wai Keung joins Apec council as S'pore rep
      243 7 CHENG Wai Keung, chairman and managing director of Wing Tai Holdings, has been made Singapore's representative to the Apec Business Advisory Council. Mr Cheng, who was appointed by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, replaces outgoing representative Lim Ho Kee, director of
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      Lock icon Car COE prices fall across the board by up to 11%
      512 7  -  Motor traders expected softening as window period for bidding was shorter By Christopher Tan CAR buyers who gave the Chinese New Year crush a miss were rewarded yesterday with a hongbao COE prices fell by 6-11 per cent in
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      Lock icon Swedish tax refund firm targets Asia-Pacific
      468 7  -  By 1 Eugene Low GLOBAL Refund, which provides tax refunds in cash to travellers worldwide, plans to expand its business in the Asia Pacific over the next one to two years, using Singapore as its regional base. Asad Jumabhoy, Global Refund's regional director for
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      Lock icon S'pore Web sites safe but not hacker-proof: e-commerce firms
      441 7  -  Over-protection will hamper business, they say By Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE e-commerce players have put up adequate defences against hackers but acknowledge that that they cannot totally prevent attacks on their Web sites. Moreover, they cannot afford to be too defensive
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      Lock icon European buyers plan retirement village for Loyang Lodge site
      245 7 $15m price; planned use a first for a collective sale site A GROUP of European investors specialising in retirement villages has bought Loyang Lodge for $15 million with the aim of developing the site into a retirement village. This will be
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      Lock icon Don't fuel Clob misunderstanding
      333 7  -  MAILTET7I Lim Chin Siew Singapore via Internet THE letter by Andrew Tan (BT, Feb 9) was indeed a fine piece of English eloquence. However, sad to say, it was in rather poor taste. By allowing incendiary remarks to be published, I am concerned that the commercial
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      Lock icon Value firms in GPE deal on same basis
      268 7  -  Y C Bay Singapore I REFER to your article "GPE to buy parent's GP Batteries, Clipsal stakes" (BT, Feb 2). According to the article GPE is to pay a substantial premium to the parent for the shares of GP Batteries and Clipsal
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      Lock icon Still burying their heads in the sand
      723 8  -  mii\4 I bottom line OPINION paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT and the author, most recently, of' The Return of Depression Economics' NYT WHEN Japan's Kansai International Airport was being planned, there was considerable uncertainty over how much
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      141 8 'We have in this great country a superb economy, but you have this extreme risk of dramatically insufficient domestic savings translating into a current account deficit of very great size.' Michel Camdessus outgoing head of the International Monetary Fund, on US share prices and low US savings
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      617 8 EDITORIAL Tnii sianaon between Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid and his Coordinating Minister for Security and Political Affairs, General Wiranto, reflects a lack of coherence and authority in the new government which could cost Indonesia dear. It all started when Gen Wiranto was implicated by a govern-ment-backed
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      Lock icon A chance to get over the Seattle debacle
      1121 8  -  That's what Unctad offers both developed and developing countries at its 10th meeting in Bangkok next week By] Harish Mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THE Tenth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad X) meeting next week in Bangkok
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      Lock icon Re-branding with a vengeance
      729 8  -  COMMENTARY She's no longer the first lady or Hillary Rodham Clinton. She's jnst HILLARY! By) Maureen Dowd NYT [WASHINGTON] I just love the perky campaign slogan. "HILLARY!" It evokes all those shiny divas who need only one name Cher and Madonna and Charo and Ann-Margret. It
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon M'sian economy set to grow faster than forecast 5%
      569 9 KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Finance Minister cites exports and pick-up in domestic demand Reuters MALAYSIA'S economy is expected to expand by more than the official 5 per cent forecast in 2000, driven by exports and a pick-up in domestic demand. Deputy Finance
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      Lock icon MAS, Northwest move towards alliance
      433 9 KUALA LUMPUR US carrier appoints MAS local gronndha lulling aiffinf Reuters MALAYSIAN Airline System Bhd (MAS) and Northwest Airlines Corp moved closer to a full partnership yesterday when the US airline appointed the Malaysian carrier as its local ground-handling agent. The move fuelled speculation that
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      Lock icon TRI close to reaching deal with bondholders
      74 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S Technology Resources Industries Bhd (TRI) is close to reaching an agreement with bondholders after it defaulted on bond payments of US$53l million (*****.3 million) last year. Asked if TRI was close to a deal with bondholders, group executive vice-president
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Yen weakness boosts EON
        76 9 NATIONAL car distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional made it to the top gainers list yesterday as a weaker yen heralded relief from import price pressures on the national car. The automobile dealers association's projections last week of better sales this year, based on the wealth effect from
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        Lock icon Net talk stirs interest in Ancom
        71 9 MARKET talk that chemical products company Ancom would be going into a business-to-business Internet venture boosted the counter yesterday. The stock was up RMI.IB, to RM4.22, with more than 15 million shares traded. The rumours are unsubstantiated, but it seems to be good enough
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        Lock icon Lityan down on placement news
        104 9  -  Compiled bj Diana Oon Abdullah STOCKS of computer equipment sales and servicing company Lityan Holdings took a breather yesterday, ending lower unlike other IT-related companies on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Lityan closed 10 sen lower to RM6.90, following news that it will place out
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      Lock icon Industrial output grows by slower 16%
      364 9 Reuters MALAYSIA yesterday reported a modest cooling of its torrid industrial output in December, but analysts said the slowdown was a seasonal blip and the economy was still recovering strongly. The industrial production index rose by 16.2 per cent in December year-on-year, well below
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      Lock icon SFC reprimands CIMB's HK unit for flouting rules
      399 9  -  From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong THE Hongkong unit of Malaysia's CIMB Securities may have flouted securities laws here time and again but all it got was a rap on the knuckles yesterday following months of investigations. CIMB Securities (Hongkong) Ltd was publicly
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      Lock icon KL market surges towards 1,000-pt level
      352 9  -  KLSE's rise diverts money and attention from Singapore stocks ffy R Sivanithy (SINGAPORE) The Malaysian stock market index's inexorable rise to the 1,000 mark continued in full swing yesterday, diverting money and attention away from the local market and sending the Straits Times Index
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon San Miguel eyes 4 foreign firms; may buy local firm by March
      306 10 MANILA Bloomberg SAN Miguel Corp said it is seeking to buy stakes in up to four foreign companies and hopes to complete the purchase of a Philippine firm by March, putting to work a cash hoard that stands
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      Lock icon Foreign buyers seek Indon assets after Astra shakeup
      600 10  -  Ibra's move assures investors reformist forces are gaining the npper hand From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta FOREIGN investors, buoyed by the signal from President Abdurrahman Wahid's government in the Astra International saga that it means business, yesterday made the first moves
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      Lock icon Thai Petro revokes US$3.5b debt plan
      437 10 BANGKOK Bloomberg THAI Petrochemical Industry pel (TPI), one of Thailand's biggest debtors, yesterday reignited a dispute with creditors by vetoing an already agreed upon plan to restructure its US$3.5 billion (555.9 billion) debt. The company's announcement came three weeks after TPl's creditors submitted a
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      Lock icon BNI shifts 9.7t rupiah Texmaco debts to Ibra
      240 10 JAKARTA Bloomberg PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI), the largest publicly traded state bank, has transferred 9.7 trillion rupiah (552.2 billion) in debts owed by the Texmaco Group, Indonesia's largest textile firm, to the bank rescue agency. The loans should have been transferred
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon BI was at fault: former ministers
        111 10 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Former finance ministers Mar'ie Muhammad and Fuad Bawazier said Bank Indonesia was responsible for the administration of trillions of rupiah in liquidity credit channelled to the banking system during the financial crisis of 1997/1998. "Bank Indonesia was responsible for the extension of
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        Lock icon HSBC to win bid for Thai bank: report
        72 10 AFX-Asia [BANGKOK] The Bank of Thailand will select HSBC Holdings PLC as the winning bidder for Bangkok Metropolitan Bank, the Krungthep Turakij reported, citing a source close to the negotiations. The report said an announcement is expected by Feb 24. "But in
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        Lock icon Thailand's Robinson to file debt plan
        87 10 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Robinson Department Store Pel, one of Thailand's largest retailers, said it would jointly file a debt restructuring proposal with creditors to the Bankruptcy Court within 60 days. Robinson, delinquent on 17 billion baht (*****.7 million) of debt made the comment a day
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        Lock icon Indon AG explains probe delay
        79 10 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman said that the probe into the PT Bank Bali scandal has been slow because of the constraints inherent in the legal process and not because of any pressure or "intervention" from certain parties. "Yes it is slow. It is not
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      674 10 Keppel Telecommunications I Transportation Ltd I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) H 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1999 I The Directors of Keppel Telecommunications Transportation Ltd advise the following unaudited results of the H Company and of the Group for the year ended 31 December
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon China Telecom widens lead over other telcos
      698 12  -  Investors favour it over HKT, Sing Tel because of better growth prospects From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong CHINA Telecom, the Hong-kong-based unit of China's largest cellular operator, rose again yesterday, reinforcing the view that investors' appetite for telecoms stocks had shifted dramatically in
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      Lock icon Cyberbase share sale to raise HK$379m
      258 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg NEW World Cyberbase Ltd, the information technology arm of real estate developer New World Development Co, said yesterday that it plans to raise HK5378.75 million (5582.3 million) through the sale of 150 million new shares to fund acquisitions. Cyberbase will sell the
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      Lock icon It's how you read the smoke signals
      58 12 [BEIJING] A man on Tuesday buying a pack of cigarettes from a neighbourhood cigarette vendor in Beijing selling both Chinese and bogus 'imported' brands. Vice-Premier Wu Banguo has hailed the Chinese tobacco industry as 1999's top revenue-spinner, while health officials announced a record
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      Lock icon HK bourse staff member accidentally stops trade
      243 12 I HONGKONG Bloomberg. AFP' THE Stock Exchange of Hongkong is reviewing its operating procedures after a staff member accidentally shut down the exchange's trading system on Tuesday. A dip in Hongkong Island's power supply triggered the exchange's reserve power system, the exchange said.
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      Lock icon Hutchison seen keeping Vodafone stake
      593 12 HONGKONG Hongkong firm in no hurry to sell as it conld get more valne ont of deal: analyst Reuters, Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd may not have planned on owning just a small, passive stake in a pan-European mobile telecoms venture, but it is expected to
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      Lock icon Sega unit to buy into HK box maker in online gaining tie-up
      395 12 ■HONGKONG Sega.com will take 33% of Cheong Ming in share swop Bloomberg SEGA.COM, a unit of Japanese game maker Sega Enterprises Ltd, said it will buy a third of Hongkong packaging box maker Cheong Ming Holdings Ltd in
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    • SINO Briefs
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        Lock icon e-Kong shares soar on UK acquisition
        71 12 Reuters [HONGKONG] Shares in Internet portal developer e-Kong Group Ltd soared yesterday to close at HK$3.6O, boosted by news it paid HK549.88 million (Sslo.B million) for a 4 per cent stake in a UK-based interactive TV provider Elmsdale Media Ltd. The stock, which hit
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        54 12 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China Everbright Technology Ltd, a computer peripherals manufacturer controlled by China's cabinet, said it may raise HKIII2 million (5524.3 million) by issuing 74 million shares at HK$l.5l each. Company secretary Matthew Cheng declined to say whether the capital raised would be used
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        84 12 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korea Electric Power Corp, South Korea's power plant monopoly, said it will bid with ABB Ltd for the construction of a USS3 billion (Sss.l billion) atomic-powered plant in China. Kepco formed a group with ABB to participate in the bid, which will
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        71 12 AFP [TAIPEI] A top executive of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) has put the total worth of party assets at up to NT$2OO billion (Ssl 1 billion). Liu Tai-ying, who heads the KMT business management committee, told the China Times the party had set up
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        74 13 AFP [LAHORE] Ishaq Dar, finance minister under deposed Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. "He has now been formally arrested and charged with corruption and money laundering by the National Accountability Bureau," said a military official yesterday. Some 16
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        59 13 AFP [NEW DELHI] Indian artists and intellectuals holding up banners condemning the government's cultural policy towards Deepa Mehta's film Water during a demonstration on Tuesday. The protesters criticised the government's handling of the film shoot in Varanasi, which was halted as it allegedly shocked Hindu
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        96 13 Bloomberg [«irtLinnoi Maars aonware international Ltd, an Indian business management software maker, expects revenue to jump 60 per cent in 2000, as it adds more clients and gets ready to sell its products in Europe. The company expects its sales to rise to
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        66 13 AFP [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka yesterday braced for more bomb attacks on public transport after a string of explosions over the past week claimed four lives and left more than 120 injured. In the latest attack Tuesday night, three people were killed and 42
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        86 13 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] AWB Ltd, Australia's monopoly wheat exporter, said Pakistan could face a food shortage if its government continues with a plan to reduce wheat imports by 20 per cent from their original projections. It said Pakistan's plan to reduce wheat imports was based on
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      165 13 NEW DELHI Top fixed-line phone company applies for Internet gateway Bloomberg MAHANAGAR Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) shares surged a maximum permissible 8 per cent to 324.6 rupees yesterday on hopes that India's biggest fixed-line phone service provider will earn more from its Internet access
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      520 13 ÜBOMBAY roor infrastructure, govt interference are blocking way, say industry players AFP INDIA'S ambitions to become an information technology superpower could come unstuck before the twin challenges of poor infrastructure and government interference, industry insiders say. "India has a third rate telecommunications system which
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      305 13 NEW DELHI AFP INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday urged India, Russia and China to form a trade grouping with his country to stay afloat in world business. "In order to stay strongly in the world market, we have to develop the
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      491 16  -  Nikkei closes above 20,000; brokerage firms lead gainers as recession fears fade hYom I Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE stock prices reached their highest level in 2 1 years yesterday as the Nikkei 225 stock average closed above the psychologically important
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      79 16 [KOMAE, Japan] Rice wine maker Sakurako Tsuchiya, 30, holding a bottle of her prize-winning wine, which also bears her name, at her family rice wine brewery in Komae, near Tokyo. She is one of only a handful of female rice-wine makers in a business that traditionally was
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      365 16 SYDNEY Bloomberg NEWS Corp shares rose more than 3 per cent to a record on expectations that its combination of content and distribution assets are undervalued. The world's fourth-largest media company's ordinary shares rose as much as 80 Australian cents
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      428 16 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE firms must avoid relying solely on an improving economy and instead implement far-reaching reforms if they want better credit ratings, Standard and Poor's said yesterday. A decade has passed since Japan's speculative boom of the late 1980s spectacularly
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      369 16 SEOUL Govt molls tax perks to boost investment in bond market Bloomberg KOREA'S government plans to boost its capital markets further and strengthen monitoring of conglomerates in a further round of reforms as it rebuilds the financial system after the 1997 crisis.
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      249 16 SYDNEY AFP AMERICAN George Trumbull, the former chief executive ofbanking and insurance giant AMP Ltd, has settled a bitter dismissal dispute for A 513.2 million (5514.2 million) one of the largest payouts of its type in Australian corporate history. The settlement comes as
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      351 16 TOKYO Fund to invest 100 m yen each in some 1,500 startups AFP, Reuters JAPANESE Internet investor Softbank Corp said yesterday it was setting up a venture fund totalling 150 billion yen (552.26 billion) to invest in domestic Net start-up companies.
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      260 18 MUNICH Bloomberg SIEMENS AG's market value surpassed US$lOO billion (Ssl7o billion) for the first time, making it one of the top three companies in the benchmark DAX index and showcasing the force that technology companies have become in Germany. Siemens rose 4.9 per cent,
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      470 18 SCHAUMBURG, Illinois It expects to spend about USs2.6b this year to develop its facilities Bloomberg FRED Tucker, who is the new president of Motorola Inc's semiconductor unit, said that the company plans to make acquisitions and form partnerships to spur advances in
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      468 18 SAN FRANCISCO Reuters CISCO Systems Inc on Tuesday handily beat analyst forecasts, reporting that fiscal second-quarter profit rose 49 per cent as the world's biggest maker of gear that powers the Internet sold more equipment to telecommunications companies. The company also
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      427 18 NKWYORK Dow Jones up also as labour data suggests another interest rate rise unlikely NYT, AFX THE Nasdaq closed above 4,400 for the first time and the Dow ended up yesterday after a government report indicated that the economy could continue to
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      425 18 NEW YORK It aims to take up to USsl.2b in equity over next 3 years Bloomberg ANDERSEN Consulting is setting up regional centres that will help develop and invest in Internet startups, intending to trade its expertise and financing for equity stakes. The
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      431 18 WASHINGTON Lawmakers working towards more temporary visas AP HIGH-TECH companies, desperate for workers amid a booming US economy, want to hire more foreigners and are pushing Congress to expand an immigration programme that will let them do just that. Congress temporarily expanded
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      498 19 PEOPLE Low US savings rate also poses risk to otherwise rosy global economy Reuters [WASHINGTON] "Overvalued" US share prices and low US savings rates are two risks to an otherwise rosy world economic picture, the outgoing head of the International Monetary Fund said
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        64 19 Bloomberg [HERZOGENAURACH, Germany] Puma, Germany's No 2 sporting-goods maker, indicated it returned to a preliminary profit in the fourth quarter on rising demand for its sportswear in the US and Europe. Puma's implied net income was 200,000 euros (*****,400), or one cent per share, in the
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        88 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Toyota Motor Corp posted a 28 per cent rise in group profit in the first half based on its first interim earnings filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The No 4 automaker in the US on Sept 29 listed American depositary
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        67 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Sky Broadcasting Group fell to a fiscal second-quarter loss after spending more to win new digital subscribers. The company will also invest £250 million (Ss6Bo million) to develop its Internet businesses. BSkyß lost £36.5 million, or 2.1 pence a share, in the three
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        82 19 AP tDE,rt v rji\ i win, wregunj in me saiu u siui expects earnings per share to grow 20 per cent, but warned its results may fall short of expectations for fiscal 2000. The athletic shoe maker said it has fared well despite a
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        54 19 NYT [WILMINGTON, Delaware] In the first contest after his bruising defeat in New Hampshire a week ago, George Bush handily won the Republican primary in Delaware on Tuesday. Mr Bush had 51 per cent of the vote, John McCain 25 per cent and Steve Forbes
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      477 19 LONDON Latest tally shows it has support of fands holding 26% stake Reuters ROYAL Bank of Scotland cemented a strong lead over Bank of Scotland in the takeover battle for National Westminster Bank pic yesterday, claiming further institutional support for
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      500 19 TOKYO Move expected, small start-ups preparing to bite into lucrative market Reuters JAPANESE telecoms giant NTT said yesterday it plans to cut its charges for unlimited Internet access by half as early as May, bowing to criticism both at home and abroad
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      333 19 TOKYO Bloomberg AGENTS from Japan's Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) unexpectedly arrived at Merrill Lynch Co's Tokyo offices this week to carry out an audit into the biggest US brokerage's risk controls, an FSA official said yesterday. About 40 agents from the securities watchdog have been in
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      438 19 LONDON Reuters NEWS and information company Reuters Group Pic has announced a £500 million (Ssl.4 billion) plan to move its core business to the Internet, a board shake-up and a 9 per cent rise in 1999 pre-tax profit to £632 million. But
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      245 20  -  Singapore Indax SGX Derivatives Tradtagßeports Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stock market ended lower yesterday with banking issues easing further as ambivalence towards the upcoming announcements of corporate results kept a lid on their prices. Technology counters continued to shine on the back of
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      193 20  -  MSCI Taiwan fatores Lee Shu Weng Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Weighted Price Index hit its highest level in 29 months, to close above 10,000 points on the first trading day of the Year of the Dragon. The index gained 152 points to close at
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      239 20 EMERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Buoyant oil prices marked time yesterday after US data showed inventories in the world's biggest energy consumer near their lowest in more than a decade. Benchmark Brent was at U5526.38 a barrel at 1330 GMT, one cent
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      336 20 Reuters London THE euro wiggled its way back up within one cent of parity against the US dollar yesterday as weaker-than-ex-pected German output data did little to dent optimism over the euro zone's econom ic pick-up. German output rose 0.7 per cent in December from the previous month,
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      2798 21 HONGKONG AFP Hi Hang Seng +590.73 HONGKONG share prices surged 3.6 per cent yesterday on follow-up buying, mainly in technology stocks, spurred by overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. "The market's sharp rise is due to the stronger Wall Street" which was
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      364 21 TAIPEI AFP fIWP Index ****** TAIWAN shares broke through the 10,000-point level yesterday to a 29-month high in the first trading session after the Chinese New Year holidays, amid bullish sentiment spurred by overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 152.49 points
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      2005 21 TOKYO AFP El Nikkei 225 +13&89 TOKYO share prices rose 0.7 per cent yesterday to close above 20,000 points for the first time in two-and-a-half years. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 Index rose 138.89, points to end at 20,007.77, backed by a record close on the technology-laden
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      438 22 AFP n Composite Index +12L80 MALAYSIAN shares closed 1.3 per cent higher yesterday on follow-through buying, with sentiment buoyed by Wall Street's gains, dealers said. A senior analyst at a local brokerage said the market underwent rotational play with investors switching to
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      807 23 AFP, AFX-Asia CI SET Index -9.92 THAI shares fell 2 per cent yesterday, as investors continued to check out of the market after the Chinese New Year break. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index shed 9.92 points to 456.02, while the select SET 50 was down 0.78 of a
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      299 23 AFP Q Composite Index +12JJ3 PHILIPPINE shares closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday in reaction to the upturn on overseas markets, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 12.83 points to 2,047.27. Volume rose to 4.1 billion shares worth 3.3 billion pesos. —AFP 000) MRC Allied 0
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      725 23 AFP rl Composite Index *155 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday on late buying in select stocks, led by Telkom ahead of the company's results due out tomorrow, dealers said. An institutional dealer at Vickers Ballas Tamara said the late rebound was mostly driven by buying
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      285 23 AFP QNZSE-40 +16.01 NEW Zealand's share market yesterday snapped out of its recent lethargy with improved volumes even though gains on its index left it within the recent depressed range. The NZSE-40 Index rose 16.01 points or 0.8 per cent to 2,038.24 on turnover worth NZ$93 million. AFP F«*9
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      599 23 AFP F1 All Ordinaries ♦10.0 AUSTRALIAN shares rose 0 3 per cent yesterday on strc.ig performances by the media sector and banks, brokers said. The Australian Stock Exchange's key All Ordinaries Index was 10.0 points higher at 3,134.0. Turnover totalled 901.9 million shares worth Asl.6 billion. The All Industrials
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      313 23 AFP Q Composite Index +14-83 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index yesterday closed up 14.83 points at 976.05. Volume was 238 million shares worth 3.8 trillion won. AFP Hon AnamSaml 9600 -160 Br«>n T«th 1735 .55 Central Bank 3255 35 Ch*U Comm ****** ***** Ow Cu B*nk 3040 -40
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      593 26  -  Bulk of expenditure goes to print media; Toyota and Mercedes-Benz remain industry's biggest spenders By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] THE motor industry revved up advertising expenditure last year, and print was the preferred medium as always. Based on a tally in A
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      301 26  - Car Cars tees off golf pro plan All reports by Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Moving from the highway to the fairway, Volkswagen importer and distributor Car Cars recently started an innovative golf sponsorship programme. The company has signed up 20 out of 56 golf professionals operating in Singapore to be brand
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      384 26 FORMER BMW chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder is joining rival Volkswagen in July. Mr Pischetsrieder, 51, will be VW board member in charge of "quality assurance" a newly created position and chairman of the Seat board. Spain's Seat is part of the VW
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      285 26 IN what has come as a bolt from the blue, Volvo distributor SM Motors has appointed as its chief executive officer the former president of Volvo Car's regional headquarters in Singapore, Andre Roy. BT understands that even SM Motors staff had no inkling
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        77 26 COMFORT Automotive Services' "$1 oil change" promotion is pulling in the crowd. According to general manager Simon Soh, the promotion drew 2,500 customers in January (up from average monthly of 1,700). Encouraged by the response, Comfort is extending the programme to this month. Mr
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        85 26 SINGAPORE motors port fans should have an additional reason to be happy. This year's Formula One programme has its finale in Sepang, Malaysia on Oct 22. The season starts next month on March 12 in Melbourne. After touring a dozen or so
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        90 26 THE new Mini will make its debut at the Birmingham International Motor Show in October before sales commence in spring 2001. Birmingham has been chosen as the city is both the birthplace and production home of the brand. BMW built a £700 million
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        117 26 rvJKU Motor co is executing a massive rationalisation plan that involves factory closures in Europe as well as an overhaul of supplier and distribution activities. Ford of Europe chief Nick Scheele was quoted by Financial Times last week as saying Britain had become a
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        56 26 GENERAL Motors No 2 Richard Wagoner Jr has been elected chief executive officer. Mr Wagoner, 46, takes over from John Smith, 61, from June. Mr Smith, at the helm since 1992, will continue as chairman. Mr Wagoner will continue to report to Mr
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        89 26 THE Korean car market is expected to grow by some 60,000 units to 1.56 million vehicles this year, according to BMW Korea president Karsten Engel. Mr Engel was in Singapore two weeks ago for BMW's annual Asia conference. He said registrations rose 63 per cent
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        88 26  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan VOLKSWAGEN, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars' temporary owner (BMW takes over from 2003) has stripped eight European Rolls-Royce/Bentley dealerships of their franchises and awarded most of them to VW dealers, according to a recent report in Automotive News. An industry observer close
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        241 28 P-mhm DEVELOPER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNITS NO. OF PRICE TENURE (sq ft) LAUNCHED UNITS SOLD* (Spsf) River Place FEO 3 Havelock Rd 678-3,229 509 348 950 99-yr Tanglin View FEO 3 Alexandra Rd 872-2,282 256 161 830 99-yr Ava,on PidemcoLand 9 Anderson Rd 958-4,241 82
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        742 29  -  Al5O million baht facelift is also being planned for the money-spinning city hotel. fTAßisn mehta reports on the expansion plans of the Rajadamri Hotel group HARISH MEHTA THERE is never a dull moment at the upper crusty Regent Bangkok. With the recent
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        612 29 Companies that have restructured operations seen offering value to investors Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai property developers, battered by the country's financial crisis and over-supply, look set to report more bad results for 1999, but losses should be smaller than in the past and
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      295 31 Bridge News, Reuters DESPITE stronger panamax grain inquiry from the Continent to the Middle and Far East, conditions for panamaxes and handysizes loading in the US Gulf in February remained difficult, brokers said. Lack of demand persisted in both of these areas and there was still little sign
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      566 31  -  Group is gearing op to provide third party services in chemical logistics By Ann Toh [SINGAPOREJ Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group (STNG), the world's largest operator of chemical tankers, plans to expand its terminals business in Asia with two projects in the pipeline. "One
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      685 31  -  HEWBUHiDS By. David Hughes THERE are not quite as many new contracts to report this week but nevertheless it is clear that owners still believe now is the time to order bulk carriers. Once again, too, the picture is of orders going, almost exclusively,
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      290 31 April-October profits soar for UK shiprepair yard [LONDON] UK-based shiprepair firm Cammell Laird has signed a 'single-table" partnership deal with two of the country's unions. The Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) and the General, Municipal and Boilermakers' Union (GMB), one of the
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        196 43 Marie Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. MarlS Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential Election. Apr 4 Hongkong: Ching Ming Festival. Apr 20 New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange Closes at Noon. Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Apr 21 Denmark: Good Friday. France: Good Friday.
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        804 43 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rlne Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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        476 44 Thai airline will have to share its code-sharing fees with S'pore carrier Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International said it may quit the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline grouping, because the addition of Singapore Airlines (SIA) will reduce its income.
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        87 44 [WASHINGTON] The flight data recorderfrom Alaska Airlines Flight 261 sits on a table in front of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Jim Hall (centre), and NTSB officials Vern Ellingstad (left) and Bernard Loeb (right) at the NTSB headquarters. Mr Hall is updating the
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        506 44 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, the maker of Subaru cars and trucks, hopes new models sporting more powerful engines will mean higher sales in the North American market, which buys about 90 per cent of the cars it sells abroad.
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        186 44 [ST PAUL, Minnesota) Northwest Airlines Corp, the fourth-largest US carrier, said it will expand service by 25 per cent in Memphis, Tennessee, ramping up the carrier's ability to compete in the southern US. Northwest plans about 90 more flights into or out of Memphis-Shelby County
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        270 44 US planemaker aims to simplify purchasing, cut factory space Bloomberg ISEATTLE] Boeing Co, the world's biggest planemaker, said it will consolidate com-mercial-jet programmes into one group in an effort to cut costs. The group replaces separate organisations that had managed twin-aisle and
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        449 44 Reuters [DUBAI] Dubai governmentowned Emirates airline is considering replacing its Boeing 777-200 planes with a new version expected to be launched by the US planemaker soon, the airline chairman said. "The new stage, which we have not announced yet and which is
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