The Business Times, 14 February 2000

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    16 1 The Business Times MfTA (P) 035/12/1999 85c S INGAPORE Internet: hup://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2000
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    54 1 grociiiiET indices Vkek Change STl 1234.92. -2399 SIMSC1 FUTURES.... 290.70. -1140 BTSEL 806.79 -4t51 KLSE COMP... 999.81 +42.15 NIKKEI 19,710.02 -63.11 HANG SENG 17,380.38.+1,412.18 SET INDEX 456.12 -14.22 JAKARTA OOMP.. 635.06 +0.00 MANILA COMP 1,***** -11.66 TAIPEI WP1 10J28l67._.+272.28 SEOUL COMP .963.22. +3.00 CLSA CHINA B .CLOSED AL'ST
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    72 1 POMSIIATEB US$ SI US$ 1.694 £(US$/S$ per 1.606 2.724 EUSO(USl/S$/B) 0J6? 1.171 D* 1J83 MM YEN 1091 LK1* RM UN 0.446 HKS 7.781 IJ18 BAHT 17.47 0.045 BUP1AH 7,310 0.023 •St to MO units FUME K4HS SINGAPORE* 6J0 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9M MANILA. IIjN HONGKONG 8J0
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    Lock icon SingTel-HKT deal deadlocked over Temasek's voting rights
    581 1  -  l Bid to cap voting rights at 29.9% even if Temasek's stake is above 40% From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong MERGER negotiations between Cable Wireless HKT and Singapore Telecoms have been deadlocked by an attempt by the Hongkong telecom giant to cap
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    Lock icon Three-way merger for HKT, SingTel and CyberWorks?
    459 1 CyberWorks approaches HKT with cash and shares merger deal, but no offer made yet Bloomberg Reuters [HONGKONG] Officials from Cable Wireless HKT, Singapore Telecom and Pacific Century CyberWorks held separate talks over the weekend that may lead to a three-way merger of two
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    Lock icon MAS acts to protect users of financial Web sites
    417 1  -  [-Iriexclusive It wants to ensure that consumers are not shortchanged; more measures are in the offing By] Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] Both cheered and alarmed by the growth of "independent" financial Web sites, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is taking
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      132 1 DHBPB Top stories Lippo secures extra USsloom commitment from Taiwan's China Development Investment Bank. Nmxt Paga Dow Jones off to worst start in 8 decades. Pg 12 BIzlT Roomz E-Publishers: homegrown hotel portal with global aims. BlxlTPgß Charles M. Schulz, creator of cxxnic strip Peanuts, dies at 77. <J—fc Pg
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      18 1 The China factor in the HKT bids, Pg 4 The father and son, and Hongkong Telecom, Pg 4
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      Lock icon Lippo steps up drive for Indon Internet empire
      843 2  -  It forms alliance with Hutchison, gets USsloom extra fnnds from CD IB From! Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S Lippo group is forging ahead after having formed a strategic alliance with Hongkong's Hutchison Whampoa group for its push to create the largest Internet
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      Lock icon Softbank, IFC to tie up in Internet startup venture
      260 2 Softbank Emerging Markets will receive USs2oom in fonds Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Softbank Corp and the private lending arm of the World Bank said they will join in a venture that will nurture Internet businesses in about 100 developing countries. Softbank Emerging Markets
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      152 2 THE Business Times (BT), Forbes Global and Visa joint subscription offer launched on Jan 21 has so far met with good response from the public. With another two weeks to go before the offer ends on Feb 29,1,019 subscribers have already signed up for
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Inflow of funds into region fuels KL bourse
      782 3  -  Outflow from S'pore only one factor; local market also saw 7.9% rise in funds inflow in Jan By" Ven Sreenivasan MALAYSIA'S stock market has been on the ascent since the beginning of the year, but the huge inflow of foreign funds is
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      Lock icon S'pore and KL parties plan new Clob offer
      455 3  -  Postmicro, EL listed firm fiw»ii«ing tie-np over new proposal By Eugene Low It looks like a new proposal to unlock the frozen Clob shares is emerging from a Malaysian listed company and Postmicro Sdn Bhd. Postmicro said in a statement that it
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  • TELECOM tussle
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      Lock icon The China factor in the HKT bids
      892 4  -  CyberWorks may be attracted to HKT by prospects that the telephone company will be allowed access into the mainland market From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong IF the views of Hongkong's Chinese language papers are anything to go by, the question of Cable Wireless
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      Lock icon The father and son, and Hongkong Telecom
      787 4  -  :i j comment HK STOCKS ItHl hft iiii-Hng Mchurd Lip trna to his illmtrloiig Min ffpatoh HKT frflm right nndflT Sterol's ***** quak hiang whai Hongkong stockmarket watchers know that just about everything that Li Ka-shing and his son Richard touched in the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      425 6 Feb 9 Source: JM Sasoon Stocfca VohMTW ChuanHup20c 142,306,000 Vickera Capital 25c 92,509,000 MMI Hldgs 10c 71.582,000 PO 25c 60,097,000 SingTel 15c 57,390,000 Hotung Inv NT5 55,816,000 NOL 52,465,000 CKyOevGSCW*****3 50,590,000 WngboardUSlOc 49,006,000 GES Irtl Ltd 20c 46,993,000 Stocks J DBSGrp 612,298,375 PadficCentury 219,276,763 NatEtoclOc 179,354,064 SIA 167,338,796 SingTel 15c
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      Lock icon Amid e-uphoria, will earnings come back into play?
      620 6  -  I-ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy LAST week, we said the local market's direction would be set mainly by Wall Street and Malaysia. Both don't necessarily operate in the same direction as far as stocks here are concerned a rise in the US should
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      Lock icon LarutCon warrant's new life makes it worth considering
      189 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy DESPITE the big run-up in Malaysia, there are still lots of cheap, long-date warrants to look at. Today's feature is Larut Consolidated's warrant, which has just been given approval to extend its expiry date to January 2005.
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      Lock icon Teledata: technical picture still positive
      254 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of telecommunications firm Teledata Singapore enjoyed a good run last Friday, with the stock closing among the session's most heavily traded shares. Teledata shares rose 4 cents or 5.1 per cent to close at 82 cents. The stock
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      Lock icon Rupiah set to lead Asian currencies' rise this week
      526 6 ASIAN currencies look set to climb this week, led by the Indonesian rupiah, as fears of a military coup fade. The rupiah could turn out to be the week's best performer if President Abdurrahman Wahid and his political enemy General Wiranto
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Shell latest to enter petrol stations' loyalty card battle
      506 8  -  Caltex, Mobil, Esso have their versions; BP has AA card, More Rewards By* Jeanette Pang THE battle for customers is hotting up among oil companies here as they dangle plastic to draw motorists to their petrol stations. Shell is the latest
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      Lock icon PM Goh plays host at Chinese New Year party
      65 8 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong with guests at this year's Chinese New Year garden party held at the Istana yesterday. Mr Goh and Cabinet ministers hosted the party, which was attended by some 6,oooguests including advisers to grassroots organisations, community leaders,
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      Lock icon Speed up opening of banking sector
      452 8  -  IgAlf-WMr K S Lau Singapore via Internet I WOULD like to urge the government to speed up the opening of the hanking sector to fUll foreign competition, just like it did for the telecoms sector. Without full foreign and new local competition, local banks
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      Lock icon Foreign reserves up 1% in January
      289 8  -  I 3on the economy reserves By. Eugene Low BOOSTED by a rise in the stock of gold and foreign exchange, Singapore's official foreign reserves grew one per cent month-on-month in January to $129.8 billion, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show.
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      Lock icon Businesses are loving this Valentine's Day
      421 8  -  By, Jane Cheong FLORISTS, hotels and restaurants are seeing a rise in sales this Valentine's Day over previous years. The increase is due in part to the fact that Valentine's Day falls on a Monday this year, giving couples a ftill weekend to work
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      Lock icon M'sian banks headed for strong earnings growth: analysts
      650 9 KUALA LUMPUR They cite improved asset quality and writing back of huge loan provisions Reuters MALAYSIAN banks, riding an economic recovery and a stockmarket rally, are set to post strong earnings growth this year, thanks to improved asset quality and writing back
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      Lock icon Call to look into telecom graft report
      91 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S Anti-Corrup-tion Agency should investigate a report that Japan's Mitsui and Co paid about 300 million yen (554.6 million) in kickbacks to Telekom Malaysia, rights group Aliran urged yesterday. Last Friday's Asahi Shimbun said the sum was paid through a
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      Lock icon UEM wins bid to take 45% stake in Intria
      418 9 KUALA LUMPUR It is confident of turning around the construction group Reuters MALAYSIAN building giant United Engineers (M) Bhd (UEM) said it has beaten two rival firms in a tender to acquire 45 per cent of construction group Intria Bhd, The
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      Lock icon Abdurrahman backs down from test of wills with Wiranto
      513 9 JAKARTA He will keep Cabinet job until special probe is completed Reuters INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid apparently climbed down in a two week battle of wills with former military chief General Wiranto yesterday, allowing him to keep his Cabinet job at
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      Lock icon IMF policies benefited Asia: Camdessus
      671 10  -  Otherwise, he says, we wouldn't be seeing regional recovery now Reports by. Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday defended measures it took to stabilise the global financial system, with managing director Michel Camdessus maintaining that its prescription for Asia's crisis-hit economies
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      Lock icon Unhappy activist hurls pie at IMF boss
      261 10 LANDING a pie on the face of Michel Camdessus yesterday was an American activist's way of telling the International Monetary Fund boss: "I'M Fed up." Robert Ruel Naiman, a 35-year-old activist from Washington DC, threw the pie at the IMF managing director minutes
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      Lock icon Philippine bourse fails to meet probe deadline
      273 10 MANILA Reuters THE Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has not met a deadline to finish a controversial price manipulation probe as officials said there were disagreements on how they would present the report to a wider Senate inquiry. "There is no final report yet.
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      Lock icon Asian property rewards outweigh risk: JLL
      516 10 BANGKOK It sees high potential growth in S'pore, Seoul, HE, Sydney and Melbourne Reuters ASIAN property markets have bottomed out and several offer potentially high rewards to investors, the regional head of property consultants Jones Lang LaSalle said last Saturday. "Asia will again be
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      Lock icon China fears unpegged yuan may become too strong
      568 10 HONGKONG Bloomberg CHINA put off scrapping its currency's peg to the US dollar for two years, worried the yuan would plunge. Now a likely strengthening of the yuan may be the obstacle. Seven banks surveyed by Bloomberg News all said the yuan
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      Lock icon Thai bourse aims to attract new investors
      138 10 BANGKOK Reuters THE Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has announced plans to improve its efficiency and attract new investors. Exchange president Vicharat Vichit-Vadakan said the bourse wanted to list nine new firms this year with a combined registered capital of 40 billion baht
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Japan's entrepreneurs ride the high-tech wave
      572 11 TOKYO Venture capitalists, investment funds scout around for start-up companies AFP THE Internet revolution is creating a new class of entrepreneur in Japan, often one who has quit his safe job with a major company to head into the great unknown of cyberspace. The
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      Lock icon Fischer in charge while IMF picks permanent chief
      386 11 AFP [WASHINGTON] International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus steps down from his post today after 13 years on the job, leaving his deputy, Stanley Fischer, temporarily in charge as the Fund looks for a permanent head. Mr Camdessus, 66 and mid-way
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      Lock icon Soaring Indian markets led by tech share gains
      538 11 BOMBAY BSE index breaks psychological 6,000 mark last week AFP RECORD rises on the Indian stock markets have been fuelled by an apparently insatiable hunger for information technology shares that have recorded staggering gains in recent months. The benchmark 30-share sensitive index
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      Lock icon India's Sebi takes steps to stem market volatility
      256 11 BOMBAY Reuters THE Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said it has asked the country's leading stock exchanges to implement new steps to safeguard the stock markets after the recent increase in volatility. India's market regulator said in a statement late
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      Lock icon Japan insurers rethink merger, plan bigger tie-up
      167 11 TOKYO AFP THREE Japanese insurance firms may scrap plans to merge next year, dropping the smallest partner from the alliance to form a bigger entity, an official and a report said yesterday. The three firms Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance Co Ltd, Nippon
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      Lock icon Japan's Nagasakiya declares bankruptcy
      208 11 TOKYO AFP JAPANESE supermarket operator Nagasakiya Co Ltd said yesterday that it and three group companies have gone under with combined debts of 432.4 billion yen (556.7 billion). The group's core firm, mid-ranked supermarket store operator Nagasakiya, failed with liabilities of 303.9 billion yen, a record
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      Lock icon Dow has fallen 9% this year, worst decline in 80 years
      721 12 NEW YORK But the Nasdaq has risen 8% as investors' technology fever continues Bloomberg THE Dow Jones Industrial Average is off to its worst start in eight decades. The Dow has tumbled 9.3 per cent this year, its biggest
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      Lock icon SEC chairman warns against buying stocks on credit
      526 12 LOS ANGELES Bloomberg SECURITIES and Exchange Commissionl (SEC) chairman Arthur Levitt advised investors to be wary of buying stock on credit and to be sceptical of initial public offerings and Wall Street analysts' recommendations. "Debt in general is an unheralded albatross that
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      Lock icon Wall St balloon beginning to deflate
      654 12 The biggest worry Is that the downtrend may accelerate FT IT was another wild week on Wall Street, for the usual reasons. But that's not how it seemed at first. Issues that investors had wrestled with for weeks had virtually disappeared overnight. Gone was
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      Lock icon Despite soaring PE ratios, Yahoo seen as safe Net stock
      617 12 NEW YORK IHT IN the four year since Yahoo Inc went public, this Internet high flyer has appreciated a staggering 33,000 per cent in valuation, leaving a trail of gloating overnight vincentmillionaires in its path. Among them is Softbank Corp,
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      Lock icon VW, BMW in alliance talks, says report
      233 12 LONDON Bloomberg VOLKSWAGEN AG (VW) and its German rival Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) are discussing an alliance that could include each taking stakes in the other, London's Sunday Times newspaper reported. VW, Europe's largest carmaker, declined to comment on the report, which
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      Lock icon Big pay jumps for fat cats on Wall Street
      290 12 NEW YORK NYT RUNNING an investment bank may not be the most lucrative job around anymore, but, judging by the compensation numbers from two of the biggest firms on Wall Street, the pay is still very good. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
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  • COMMODIETIES & futures
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      Lock icon Oil, gold prices continue to rise
      704 13 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil and gold continued to surge on the international markets last week amid dwindling supplies and soaring demand. GOLD: Gold prices soared on announcements from several important producers that they planned to cut back on sales previously conducted under so-called
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  • MARKET OUTLOOK
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      Lock icon Dow in correction mode as Nasdaq continues climb
      480 15 NEW YORK Market awaits Greenspan's speech to Congress, January economic data AFP THE Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street's principal indicator, last Friday fell by 4.91 per cent for the week, ending at 10,425.21 points, and undergoing what market analysts call a
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      Lock icon Merger saga set to lift HK stocks
      324 15 HONGKONG CAW HKT, PCCW shares seen rebounding when market opens today Reuters THE Cable Wireless HKT merger saga should fuel momentum in the Hongkong stock market this week, analysts said, but Friday's fall in New York could limit gains. "A lot of people
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      Lock icon Nikkei rally likely to recede on corporate selling, profit-taking
      361 15 TOKYO Reuters TOKYO stocks are expected to tread slightly softer ground this week on corporate selling of cross-held shares and profit-taking after the benchmark Nikkei's foray above the 20,000 barrier last week. The sharp fall in US high-tech shares on Friday
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      Lock icon Footsie unchanged on week despite rate rise
      267 15 LONDON AFP THE London market was flat last week, even after the fourth interest rate rise here in six months, as company announcements dominated trade. The FTSE-100 Index of leading shares rose by just 8.3 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 6,1933 points.
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      Lock icon ASIAN MARKET Roundup
      879 15 Sydney +510 CENTRAL bank reports in Australia and the United States will set the tone of financial markets here this week, brokers say. The Reserve Bank of Australia's bulletin for February, for release on Wednesday, will contain its quarterly review of economic conditions and a brief outline
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      1818 15 Q Paris +1L2S PARIS shares closed higher last Friday when a last-min-ute scramble for a handfUl of blue chips hauled the market back from an afternoon slide into negative territory. The benchmark CAC-40 Index closed up 79.49 points, or 1.28 per cent, at 6,287.01 points, up 0.2
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      8950 16 INDUSTRIALS CoAtunwf product] 2000 Last V« Week Nat Cap Mtqh Law Company Sale 'OOO High Law P/t SmN 402 310 Ajinomoto 402 50 40 402 356 25.5 162.9 130 91 Angkasa 118 13 913 130 103 174.0 444 290 Apollo Food Hlg 416 16 161 444 402 9.9 166.4 2975
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      Lock icon Market heading for consolidation
      420 16 AFP QOompoote Index +4215 MALAYSIA'S stock market is heading for a consolidation from last week's closing levels but with local interest in technology-related stocks likely to continue, dealers said. "With minimum downside, the bourse is expected to witness some consolidation," said an institutional dealer with a
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      Lock icon Deluge of data releases for the week
      596 17 SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup [SINGAPORE] The week ahead sees data and events that relate to monetary policy as a threading theme among the foreign exchange majors. Focus for the yen will be to see if it can retain its overall weaker track. On
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      516 21  -  Single-hull tankers te be banned, more frequent inspections of old vessels From David Hughes in London THE French government has introduced a new charter that tightens tanker shipping safety standards, in the wake of die Erika sinking. The set of rules agreed upon
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      795 21  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes THE oil spill caused by the ill-fated tanker Erika which has affected a long stretch of French coastline may prompt changes to the shipping industry as far-reaching as those that followed the Exxon Valdez incident. Classification societies, at
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        95 21 [SINGAPORE] Star Cruises announced the successful completion of the tender offer by Its subsidiary, Arrasas Ltd, to acquire all outstanding American depository shares (AOS) of NCL Holding. A company statement over the weekend said that about 5.7 million ADS or 73 per cent
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        108 21 [MADRAS] The Higi Court in Madras, India, has ordered the auction of the former runaway ship Kobe Queen I after the ship's owners could not be traced and no one came to claim the vessel. The ship's cargo is to be included in
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        1107 22  -  In the post-crisis era, international banks, undergoing serious risk analysis, are not keen to bankroll Asian shipowners Ry] Ian Staples The writer is the editor of Lloyd's Shipping Economist The Port of Singapore After any storm, there is a time to survey the wreckage and
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        798 35 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price range* in US dollars instead of single pricea for a more comprehensive deacription at the market Prices shown are baaed on average sized stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        487 36 Negotiators said to be under pressure to restore non-stop service Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US and UK negotiators trying to resolve aviation disagreements are considering a plan to add a US flight to London's Gatwick Airport in return for a US route for
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        190 36 AFP [SEATTLE] The union leading a strike by engineers against Boeing is claiming the labour action is already affecting the aviation giant's ability to deliver aircraft. Officials with the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (Speea) said on Friday that the strike was
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        326 36 AFP [MANILA] The Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines (AAPA) will move its regional headquarters from here to Kuala Lumpur by April, its director general said on Thursday. "Yes that's true," AAPA director general Richard Stirland told AFP by telephone when asked to
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      65 37 .JP She's set aside her disappointment over being pipped to the plum CEO post by outsider Q ar /y Nq w A nn works closely her her The boss her No future have U A BT Page 1 i r cohesion I H i *gm& f i v r y
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      53 37 Top stories Reuters to invest £20m in Asia-Pac Net ops, says MD Jan Coos Geesink Page 3 New e-security solution debuts this week Page 9 Storage giant EMC spreads out Page 7 Online showcase for Asia's wannabe stars Page 10 BT Comment As we see IT: Face up to online
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      Lock icon HP aims to lead in Asian mobile e-services
      615 38  -  I exclusive Enterprise chief Ann Livermore says HP has at least USslsom to invest this year in promising e-services companies worldwide tieportshy Kenneth James TWO things struck Ann Livermore, president of Hew-lett-Packard's Enterprise Computing Solutions Organisation, during her recent visit to Asia.
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      Lock icon Going great guns under Carly
      789 38 Yes, C&rly's a great boss, says Ann Livermore of the outsider who pipped her to HP's top job. And the respect is mutual ANN Livermore won't easily forget that meeting in midJuly last year with HewlettPackard Co chairman and outgoing chief executive Lewis Piatt. Just
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      Lock icon Computer Sciences wins US$18m US govt contract
      231 38 It will replace voice communications between aircraft and controllers Reuters [WASHINGTON] Computer Sciences Corp has been awarded an US$lB million (5530.5 million) US government contract to implement the first phase of a system aimed at replacing routine voice communications between aircraft and ground
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        Lock icon Philbin to head IDC Net products
        88 38 DENNIS Philbin, managing director of International Data Corp (IDC) Asia-Pacific and Japan, has been promoted to senior vice-president, Internet products and partnerships, for IDC worldwide from April. He will be responsible for developing and delivering IT market research offerings via the Net. "Mr Philbin
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        Lock icon Sagent in Singapore
        63 38 US-BASED Sagent Technology Inc, which provides real-time e-business intelligence solutions, said it is expanding its global distribution channel through a tie-up with eGlobal Technology Services, and will set up eight direct operations in Asia—in Singapore, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. The joint venture
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        Lock icon Cisoo's strong Asian Q2
        61 38 CISCO Systems Inc said its bookings in the Asia-Pacific region were almost double for its second quarter ended Jan 29 compared to a year ago, representing the sixth quarter of double-digit sequential growth. The region also increased its share of Cisco's worldwide revenue from 8 to
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        Lock icon 3Com networking from Ingram Micro
        55 38 3COM Corp has appointed Ingram Micro Asia Ltd to distribute its networking products specially targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. The products include interface cards, switches, hubs and remote access products. Ingram Micro already distributes 3Com USR modems, Megahertz PC card modems
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        Lock icon HP, Kodak venture
        86 38  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam EASTMAN Kodak and Hewlett-Packard have formed a global joint venture to offer retail customers digital-imaging solutions for both traditional photographic film and digital files. The new company will combine HP's expertise in thermal Inkjet technology and digital imaging with Kodak's leadership in traditional
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      Lock icon Reuters to invest £20m in Asia-Pac Net ops
      747 39  -  How will Reuters' £500 million Internet investment plan affect its regional network? bajpcp""-*— finds out from its Singapore MP RAJU CHELLAM INFORMATION giant Reuters will invest £20 million ($54 million) in the Asia-Pacific region this year to upgrade its client base and
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      143 39 THE Internet World Asia Industry Awards will be given out on March 2 in a ceremony here that is expected to attract about 400 people from all over Asia. About 60 Asian finalists will compete for 12 awards in different categories. Singapore and Hongkong
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      Lock icon Face up to online guerillas
      608 40  -  ilVi we see IT Sensationalising the issue Isnt the way, but neither is Ignoring or underplaying it kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor THE recent spate of hack attacks on major Web sites has raised some very uncomfortable questions. These questions must be
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      528 40  -  Demand for WAP-enabled devices will drive application development in Singapore, Taiwan, India, Hongkong and China By J Jeanette Pang ASIA will overtake the US and Europe to become the leading developer of wireless and high-end broadband applications in the next 18-24 months.
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      228 40 Reuters [CHICAGO] One of the suspected leaders of an international ring of software pirates operating on the Internet has been arrested and charged with conspiring to violate the copyrights on thousands of computer programmes, federal officials said. Robin Rothberg, 32, who was arrested on
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      410 40 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Sun Microsystems, one of the largest makers of computers that run Web sites, said 40 per cent of the people requesting free copies of its new Solaris computer operating system are new users. Sun is taking orders
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      Lock icon A homegrown hotel portal with global aims
      608 42  -  m exclusive The Web site of Roomz E-Publishers, which plans to seek a Nasdaq listing in 18 months, already has 139,000 listings for 83,000 hotels worldwide By Kalpana Rashiwala Homegrown Roomz E-Publish-ers, which has set up an online directory of 80,000 hotels worldwide,
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      Lock icon PCs vulnerable to breaches, say experts
      967 42 And e-mail programs are the software most vulnerable to intrusion, they say NYT UNLESS a home PC is placed in an isolation tank, computer security experts say, it is vulnerable to a panoply of potential intrusions. For that reason, it can be an extremely
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      Lock icon Storage giant EMC spreads out
      538 43  -  The US company sees fastest growth coming from Asia-Pacific, helped by demand for Net-related applications W Toh Han Shih US COMPUTER storage giant EMC is ramping up its presence in Asia, EMC Asia-Pacific vice-president James Sullivan told BizlT. "EMC will expand every office we have
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      462 43 Picosats last week proved capability to receive and transmit signals from Earth Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Two miniature satellites, not much bigger than cellular phones and using the same wireless technologies, have paved the way for the future of communications, scientists said on Friday.
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      Lock icon Thai chess enthusiast beats Deep Blue Jr
      168 43 AP [BANGKOK] A mechanical engineer and avid chess player who beat an IBM computer at the game thinks his opponent didn't put up a very good fight. Prayoon Ekaworawong, 36, humbled the chess machine named Deep Blue Junior in 13 minutes on the
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      Lock icon Speech—interface of the future
      589 44  - Speech —interface of the future SAY IH Practically any device that hnmans Interact with Is a candidate for speech technology louis woo The writer is president, Lernout Hauspie Asia-Pacific SPEECH technology will rapidly become the interface of choice for the new information appliances, because these new devices are fueling a
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      Lock icon Hacker denounces Web attackers
      816 44 LAT-WP LAST week's attacks on a number of popular Web sites have prompted hand-wring-ing by security experts, law enforcement and millions of Internet users. But nobody claims to be more dismayed by the attacks than the hacker who likely enabled them, a 20-year-old German computer expert
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      Lock icon Hackers in black, white and grey
      233 44 NYT THESE days, the terms "white hats", "black hats" and even "gray hats" are used to label hackers. Each hews to a unique, if occasionally inscrutable, set of limits. White-hat hackers grew out of the concept of tiger teams. Since the *****, many government
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      535 45  -  Transparity CEO Ngair Teow Hin tells Andrew wee what is so different about Secure Age ANDREW WEE OME-GROWN 1 I startup Transpari- ty Ltd will launch I I what it claims is ;-M-JL the world's first end-to-end Internet and intrajnet security solution later this
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        55 45 US-BASED Visio Corp has introduced the Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition, a complete solution for network, software and database design, development and documentation. It includes over 18,000 manufacturer-specific Visio Network Equipment shapes, including 4,000 new shapes from over 370 network manufacturers. It costs 12,015; upgraders pay
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        Lock icon New Kayaks from HP
        46 45 HEWLETT-PACKARD Is ready with its Kayak XM6OO and XUBOO PC workstation product families with prices starting from 92,499. The new dual-processing-capable systems are targeted at corporate users, technical specialists, design engineers, and multimedia professionals. For details, fax *****97, or go to: www.buy.hp.com.sg.
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        Lock icon New Brio.Enterprise available now
        59 45 BRIO Technology has introduced Brio.Enterprlse 6.0.5, its enterprise business intelligence product suite that supports eight languages and integrates with Brio's enterprise information portal to provide self-service access to corporate information. Previously available in English, it now supports Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish.
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        Lock icon NEC offers lightest, brightest projector
        55 45 NEC Singapore has launched its lightest and brightest DIP (digital light processing) projector, the MultiSync LTB4. It weighs 2.5 kg, offers 700 lumens' brightness at up to 1,024 by 768 pixel resolution, works with PCs and Macs, and comes with built-in stereo speakers. It costs
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        73 45 ADOBE Systems' Acrobat Business Tools software, designed to improve the productivity of Adobe PDF users, is now available. It simplifies document review and approval, Improves communication and the transition of paper-based processes to more efficient e-workflows. It is a part of Adobe ePaper Solutions,
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        Lock icon New e-commerce software from Informix
        67 45  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam INFORMIX Corp has launched an enhanced end-to-end e-commerce software solution, called i.Sell v 2.0, for conducting business on the Net. It lets users manage one-to-one Web marketing and promotions, online transaction processing and customer data analysis. Its features are designed to
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        Lock icon Online showcase for Asia's wannabe stars
        759 46  -  i 'WCluSiVf; Homegrown Zonevale.com will launch Asia's first virtual marketplace this week, reports Andrew Wee Andrew Wee HERE'S your chance to take an online shot at stardom. A new Net service lets would-be actors, singers and musicians post their profiles online for entertainment firms
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          Lock icon Trade event hub from DCS
          93 46 ASIA'S trade event hub will go online tomorrow, at www.tradeevem.com. Set up by home-grown DCS On-Line Information Technology (S) Pte Ltd, it aims to provide a single contact point and exhibition management hub on the Internet for trade event organisers, exhibitors, trade investors, associations, government
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          Lock icon Millennium guide for jobseekers
          48 46 SINGAPORE Press Holdings and the Ministry of Education have launched a special millennium edition of the Singapore Career Guide2ooo. It has information on 161 jobs in 26 industries, costs $11 a copy and can be ordered online from http://shopMsial.am/canerguide, Delivery is free within Singapore.
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          Lock icon Vote for Asia's best bar
          37 46 THE "2000 Premier Awards for Excellence" operated by Asia Travel Tips.com is now open for voting. You can vote for the hotels, restaurants and bars of your choice in Asia at www.asiatraveltips.com/2OOOPremio-Awards.
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          Lock icon PacNet, Asiacontent tie up
          41 46 PACIFIC Internet's e-business portal Pacfusion.com, will now carry entertainment content from Asiacontent.com's online brands, MTV Asia.com (www.mtvasia.com) and Asia ElOnline (www.asia.eonline.com). Available first in English, the Chinese-language version will roll out lata- on Pacfusion's Chinese-language portal site.
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          Lock icon eSoft expands Asian ops
          54 46 NASDAQ-LISTED eSoft Inc, which develops and sells the Team Linux software suite, has opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, headed by Ronald Lee. It has also appointed ACA Pacific Technology Pte Ltd to distribute eSoft's Linux based line of Internet appliances in Singapore, Hongkong, China, Malaysia,
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          Lock icon Xudio.com for Asian music
          70 46 IMP3.COM, previously a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Catcha.com Group, has been spun off as an independent entity. The company is now called Xudio.com and it will offer Asian music in all digital formats via the Internet, free, including music by popular and new artistes. chose to
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          Lock icon MediaRing in China chat
          50 46 MAINBOARD-LISTED Mediaßing.com has tied up with Shenzen Tencent Computer Systran Company, a China-based firm which offers Internet chat services, to offer a comprehensive software combining Mediaßing Talk and VoizMail services. The software lets users send instant messages to their friends, using voicemail, and text chat services.
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          Lock icon CBN not part of SCCCI
          49 46  -  Raju Challam IN our report "First Chinese Net magazine" (BtzlT, Jan 31), we said that Chinese Business Network (CBN) is a subsidiary of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry (SCCCI). The SCCCI has clarified that CBN is currently not a subsidiary of SCCCL
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