The Business Times, 15 February 2000

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 2000
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  • 54 1 □m %»J«<+l.24) ■VBT-SKI U B8J8(+11.29) PISDBCIFtmJIES U 2MJO (+3.50) STOCK MAKET INDICES Monday Change KLSEOOMP ma -LB NIKKEI 1MH-M— RANG SENG 17,188* —If L* SET INDEX 447* -8* JAKARTA COUP I* MANILA OOMP _Lf7174 -*.47 TAIPH WPl W7I.«—-»7a SEOULCOBP MM7 4U» CLSA CHINA B AUSTAIA08D _J.UU -»LB lias
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  • 69 1 FOREX BATES USS 3S USt 1JB £(USS/SSperS)— 1J» tm En»(U8*/S*/E) 1*8 1172 DM U» YEN 1«J— IJtt* RM tm 9.446 HKS 7.781 UI8 BAHT *7 M 9.946 RUPIAH 7J»—W»* •stumuna PU1IB BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA Jf.60 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA 11 00 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI .7.84 SYDNEY
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  • 820 1  -  Sing Tel, CyberWorks keen to debnnk mmonrs they sought each other oat By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] A three-way merger between Singapore Telecom, Pacific Century Cyberworks and Cable Wireless HKT is not on the cards, informed sources said yesterday. Indeed, both Sing Tel and
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  • 717 1  -  PI >:»■ li lock siew quak hiang whai WHAT appeared at one stage to be a done deal—the proposed merger between Singapore Telecommunications and Cable Wireless HKT —now looks increasingly as if if 8 been done in. So for, Sing Tel has
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  • 63 1 Some of Malaysia's best-known bankers regain control of their banking empires Azman Hashim of Arab-Malaysian sits atop a banking entity that will have assets totalling RMso.l4bn Rashid Hussain of RHB Bank his anchor bank will have total assets of RM46.l3bn Quek Leng Chan of Hong Leong
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  • 629 1  -  bttr Bank Hong Leong Bank among the 4 new additions From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur RHB Bank and Hong Leong Bank controlled by associates of former Malaysian finance minister Anwar Ibrahim have been given a reprieve. They and two other groups
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    • 74 1 nnapg Top stories Investors hail suspension of Gen Wiranto. Next Pmgm Guidelines on public offers of securities through the Net Mmxt Pmge Keppei Tat Lee profit jumps five times to record $260 m. Pg SembCorp Marine offering one-tor-one bonus issue. Pg Vickers Balias profit surges to $64m. Ex-NZ journalist named
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    • 757 2  -  Peaceful resolution of standoff will ease fears over military backlash: analysts From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a dramatic midnight turnaround, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday suspended military strongman Gen Wiranto for his alleged role in the human rights abuses in East Timor last
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    • 190 2 Malaysian bank groups after their mergers ASSETS (RM billion) Maybtik 7&41 Mayban Finance 22.04 Pacific Bank 11.00 PhileoAJIied Bank 10.36 Aseambankers 3.94 Kewangan Bersatu 2.43 Sime Finance 1.53 Bumiputra-Commerce Bank 62.11 Commerce Int'l Merchant 3.49 Arab-Malaysian Bank 11.99 Arab-Malaysian Finance 15.52 Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank 14.05 Bank Utama 7.14
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 127 2 BARRON'S Alan Abelson, in his Jan 31 column, said he was extremely disappointed with President Bill Clinton's State of the Union address. It wasn't what he said; it was what he didn't say. "The very title of the address the State of the Union was
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      • 89 2 A CHINESE mainland woman had her dream of becoming Miss Hongkong dashed when she was detained by border guards for possessing bogus travel documents, reported AFP, quoting Chinese newspapers. The 25-year-old woman from Fuzhou, identified only by her surname Zheng, was arrested on Sunday for
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    • 468 2  -  Measures deal with regulatory issues, inclnding access to electronic prospectus By\ Soh Tiang Keng [SINGAPORE] The Finance Ministry, the Registrar of Companies and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have jointly issued guidelines on the public offer of shares, debentures and unit trusts
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    • 333 2  -  l-f exclusive PEOPLE By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Raffles Hotel's formex a ward-winning food and beverage direc tor Manvinder Purl is joining The Fuller ton Hotel as its chief operating officer. A US citizen, Mr Purl left Raffles Inter national in 1966 as
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  • TELECOM tussle
    • 623 4  -  'Talk of a merger with CyberWorks has driven takeover target's market capitalisation to USs4lb from USs2Bb, raising the cost of acquiring it Reports from) Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong SHARES of takeover target Cable Wireless HKT yesterday rose 21.9 per cent to HKJ26.40,
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    • 758 4 RICHARD Li, the 33-year-old billionaire entrepreneur behind Pacific Century CyberWorks, has a vision for Asia. A big part of his plans involves building an Internet empire that will span China to India, covering 110 million households, using the model he first developed when he
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    • 293 4  -  By\ Eugene Low [SINGAPORE) The proposed merger between Singapore Telecom and Cable Wireless HKT is a commercial venture not driven by any political agenda, said Lim Swee Say, Minister of State for Trade Industry, and Communications Information Technology. "This is a purely business decision,"
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 704 6  -  It proposes final, special dividends of 11%; plans to boost shareholder value Reports byi Siow Li Sen KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank (KTB) yesterday posted a record net profit of $260 million for the year ended 1999, up nearly fives
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    • 584 6 AIB to help KepTL Bank in consumer financial services, treasury and private banking KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank (KTB), fresh from integrating the Irish into its operations, is all geared up to increase its market share and will be launching several new products this
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    • 721 6  -  Earning up just 10%; flat results seen this year Imt outlook next year is positive By i Conrad Raj SEMBCORP Marine (previously Jurong Shipyard) is seducing investors with a one-for-one bonus issue and a 20 per cent jump in dividends despite results
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    • 629 7  -  Vickers Capital contributes $64m to revenue and $15.7 m to earnings By Ven Sreenivasan FINANCIAL group Vickers Ballas has bounced back strongly, thanks to writebacks, higher stockbroking income and contributions from its investment unit Vickers Capital. The group, which is due
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    • 328 7  -  MoreSewards.com to expand loyalty card plan in Asia w Toh Han Shih MAINBOARD-LISTED Kian Ann Engineering will acquire a minority stake in an Internet company, Moreßewards.com Holdings, Kian Ann group general manager Chew Thiam Keng told BT yesterday. Kian Ann
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    • 182 7  -  By. Andrea Tan UNITED Overseas Bank said yesterday it would set up an Asian real estate fund with a unit of General Electric Capital, the world's largest non-bank finance company. The joint venture with GE Capital Real Estate was "to acquire real
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 92 9 MAGNECOMP International has replied to the Singapore Exchange, saying that its directors are not aware of any material information or circumstances which could have led to the sharp increase in price and trading volume of the company's shares yesterday except for a certain
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      • 112 9 DATACRAFT Asia said its wholly-owned subsidiary Datacraft Co mm is Network Inc has been awarded a US$25 million (5542.3 million) contract from a leading telecom service provider in Korea. Under the contract, Datacraft Commis will design and implement a high-speed communications network that will enable
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      • 96 9 KUANTAN Flour Mills, which is listed cm the Kuala Lumpur exchange, has appointed former Malaysian deputy prime minister Ghafar Baba (right) as its new chairman. It has also appointed former Malayan Credit director David Chan Poh Leong, a Singaporean, to its board. KFM, which
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      • 101 9 FORM Holdings is winding up two of its overseas subsidiaries—Form Music Publication (HK) and Form Records (Taiwan). Presently the company is in negotiations with various parties for the appointment erf new distributors erf its products in Hongkong and Taiwan. The company is also
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      • 47 9 Corrections Clarifications WE reported on Feb 12 that Chan Shelt Tsong was appointed chief executive of Hwa Hong Corp. This is wrong. Mr Chan was actually appointed chief executive of Singapore Piling St Civil Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hwa Hong. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 372 9  -  $26m investment on Jnrong Island to meet need for more warehousing space iw Teh Hooi Ling POH Tiong Choon Logistics yesterday announced plans to develop a $26 million thirdparty chemical logistics complex on Jurong Island. The company said it had accepted an offer from the
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    • 176 9 KEPPEL FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel FELS Energy Infrastructure, has delivered a rig, ENSCO 101, to ENSCO Offshore International Company. Keppel FELS undertook the engineering and construction and provided the rig's marine equipment The total value of the rig is estimated to be around
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    • 156 9 ASIA-PACIFIC Breweries (Singapore) has invested $4 million to expand its brewery facilities. It recenUy installed three additional fermentation tanks at its state-of-the-art brewery in Tuas to brew Heineken beer. The expansion is to exploit the rapid growth of the Heineken brand in the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 204 8  -  WAKKAMT WATCH -By\ Ven Sreenivasan CM TELECOM, which is listed in both Singapore and Hongkong, was amongst the most active counters on the local bourse yesterday as it shot up 19.5 cents or 24 per cent to $1.02 on a
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    • 568 8  -  comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan TECHNOLOGY and telecommunications companies were the flavour of the day, fuelled by speculation of mergers, acquisitions and new business deals. Meanwhile, brokers said that there was indications that funds were starting to nibble their way
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    • 494 8 Slocki Volume Victors Capital 25c 74,381,000 Fastech USlOc 41,819,000 HotunglnvNT5 38,052,000 Eastgate 10c 22,777,000 KianAnn20c 21,628,000 Datapulse 5c 21,190,000 *TanChonglnt50c 16,437,000 KjngboardUSIOc 16,172,000 SingTel 15c 15,648,000 ChuanHup20c 14,569,000 Stock* Vickers Capital 25c .83,455^553 DBSQrp 83,059,132 SingTel 15c 42,424,772 Fastech US10C 38,599,855 TACBt*****„ 33,037,256 NatEJeclOc 26,055,570 *TanChonglnt50c *****,990 OCBC..... 20,905,151 (JOB
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    • 254 8  -  HOT STOCK -By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of CM Telecom, which have a dual listing in Singapore and Hongkong, rose sharply in heavy trading on the Singapore Exchange yesterday, with the stock ending among the session's top gainers and most active issues. CM Telecom
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    • 166 8 Mediaßing.com said Robert Chung has resigned as chief financial officer with effect from yesterday. His duties will be taken over by Pek Yew Chai, the company's chief operating officer. URACO Holdings said that as at the close of its rights issue on Feb 9, acceptances were received for
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    • 358 8  -  l-l I comment CURRENCIES larry wee US STOCK markets continued to dictate the direction of the US dollar in Asian trading, with their 2 per cent falls last Friday dragging the currency lower in Asia yesterday. After three futile attempts to break
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    • 374 9 FREEHOLD INVESTMENT I OFFICE-LIKE FTY AT UPP PAYA LEBAR I 30% Sales Total Strata Area 34,348 Sqft I 6 units on grd fir with full glass frontage, 12 units on upp firs I Unit size range from 1,119 sqft to 2,885 sqft I TOP obtained in October 1998 CSC obtained
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 422 10 ■B=*7=Ton the economy I trade outlook MOST signs point to continued, even stronger, trade recovery in Asia this year, but export prospects for 2001 are rather more doubtful, says Political Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc). In a recent report on the near-term trade outlook for
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    • 268 10 PXSOPLE CHEW Choon Seng, a Singapore Airlines veteran, has been appointed chairman of Singapore MRT effective today. He replaces Goh Kim Leong, permanent secretary for law, who is due to retire from the civil service next month. Mr Chew, who has been with SIA for
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    • 43 10 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife win leave for Brunei today on a two-day official visit. He wUI meet with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah and Brunei's foreign minister, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah.
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    • 392 10  -  Initiatives will make access more open, cut the cost of using broadband: Swee Say b$ Eugene Low THE government intends to introduce new initiatives later this year to promote the use of broadband Internet, said Lim Swee Say, Minister of State for
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    • 445 10  -  By, Jeanette Pang BUSINESS for life insurers in Singapore has rebounded handsomely, thanks largely to a dose of low bank interest rates in the local market. Sales of single premium policies more than trebled to $1.79 billion last year from $519 million in 1998, according to
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    • 268 10 First phase enables download of data, patent renewals WITH the launch of ePatents, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore's (Ipos) online system, on March 1, the public will be able to conduct patent transactions with Ipos through the Internet from the comfort of
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    • 176 10  -  MAIUSETH Anita Gupta Perth, Australia via Internet I HAVE read the letters on Clob from Andrew Tan ("Clob: Prepare to play hardball", BT, Feb 9) and Lim Chin Siew ("Don't fuel Clob misunderstanding", BT, Feb 10) with interest. Hmm, let's see now.
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    • 79 10  -  Ronald Chong Manager (Public Affairs) Central Provident Fund Board Singapore PLEASE refer to the letter, "CPF fund transfer not within control? Try simple solution" by See Leong Kit (BT, Feb 11). We would like to thank Mr See for his feedback and assure him
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    • 84 10  -  Peter Heng First Vice-President Public Relations Advertising Division United Overseas Bank Singapore WE refer to Wu Pei Tong's letter, "Why can't UOB accept advance instructions?" (BT, Feb 11). We thank Mr Wu for his feedback and would like to assure our customers that we are committed to
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    • 496 10  -  By 1 Teh Hooi Ling SINGTEL Mobile yesterday announced that from next month, it will cut 45 per cent off the monthly bills of customers who have been with it for three years or more, as it signed up its one
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  • FOCUS property
    • 415 11  -  Byi Andrea Tan FIVE en bloc sites have hit the market with asking prices totalling some $290 million. Two are in prime areas Cairnhill and Orchard; and the rest in Serangoon, Balestier and Loyang. The freehold Venus Mansion in
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    • 696 11  -  l-i comment PROPERTY Many share investors were caught wrongfooted last week when they fell for talk that the govt would lift property speculation curbs lee han shih THERE seem to be as many gullible investors in the property market as there are en bloc sales.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 681 12  - Will EU forget Asean as it woos Jakarta FfTTTqi bottom line OPINION shada islam The writer is a Brussels-based journalist who contributes to BT PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid's visit to Europe has put Indonesia firmly at the apex of the European Union's Asia strategy. Hie Indonesian president's tour of the continent
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    • 112 12 'It's like sleeping in a bad neighbourhood with the doors open.' -Sdv&tsSamp&th president of McAfee.com, the online site of anti-virus software maker Network Associates Inc. on the security of the Internet. 'In this day and age, you cannot kill hundreds of people, destroy a whole country and
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    • 613 12 EDITORIAL THAT pie in the face for the outgoing chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Michel Camdessus, may have been rude. But in a way, the incident is symbolic of the growing anger among developing nations against what they regard as the unfairness of the global economic
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    • 980 12 Will attempts to create an efficient market on the Web have any chance of success? The Economist THE Internet is often talked about as if it were a sort of electronic Utopia. So sooner or later, there was bound to be an Internet
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    • 850 12  -  COMMENTARY US productivity growth is simply more and more work beyond office honrs By Stephen Roach The writer is chief economist and director of global economics for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter NYT THE United States ended 1999 on a truly spectacular note two consecutive
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 481 13 Sum said to have been paid to dummy firm in 1997 to win phone switchboards order AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's national telephone company yesterday ordered a full investigation into allegations that it was paid 300 million yen (554.68 million) in kickbacks
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    • 179 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN tycoon Samsudin Abu Hassan has quit as executive deputy chairman of Kejora Harta Bhd and is likely to scrap his planned purchase of a controlling stake in the property developer. The move comes after Kejora, seeking to venture into new businesses
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    • MARKET moves
      • 83 13 DEBT-laden Intria Bhd shot up 36 sen on news that United Engineers Malaysia (UEM) had pipped two companies for Mekar Idaman's 45 per cent stake in the concessionaire of the Penang toU bridge. UEM, which used to control Mekar Idaman, beat two rivals with its
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      • 78 13 TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd led declines among the large stocks, as investors switched to Internet-related counters, on expectations that the boom in technology businesses will boost earnings. Bloomberg reported that Telekom, the country's biggest publicly traded firm, fell 10 sen, or 0.6 per cent, to 16.90 Malaysian
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      • 47 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh OSK gained six sen to 4.86 Malaysian ringgit in heavy trading on hopes that it will emerge as the country's top brokerage. The company is set to take over Johor-based Peninsula Securities and a few other broking firms.
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    • 418 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama THE Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is seeing a definite escalation of interest with some 300 companies having been granted MSC status and another 170 applications are in the pipeline. Of these 300 companies, 187 companies are fully operational with a total
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    • 411 13 KUALA LUMPUR Week of Jan 19-26 saw a net RM2b flowing into country Reuters FOREIGN investors pumped two billion Malaysian ringgit (SsB9o million) into Malaysian shares in the week of Jan 19-26 as part of a dramatic new year shift in their net
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    • 207 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFP JAPAN'S Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd is to build a plant in Malaysia this year to make cathode ray tubes for flat-screen televisions, reports said yesterday. The reports in several newspapers, quoting company officials in Tokyo, said
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  • SOUTH east asia
    • 546 14  -  Director-general says China could join world body this year By i Vikram Khanna THE World Trade Organization (WTO) does not want any taxes or tariffs on e-commerce transactions, WTO director-general Mike Moore said yesterday. Holding up a blank piece of paper, he said: "Here's
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    • 476 14  -  US, EU and the Cairns Group fail to reach consensus in Bangkok From Harish Mehta in Bangkok TALKS between the United States, the European Union and the Cairns Group were deadlocked yesterday over the contentious issue of trade in agriculture, raising fears that they would
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    • 439 14  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND was given an excellent report-card yesterday by former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger for restructuring its economy and steaming ahead to achieve growth rates that would reach the pre-cri-sis levels as soon as next year.
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    • 535 14  -  Wttok firm expected to begin work soon on Sih&noakville project From Harish Mehta in Bangkok MALAYSIA'S Ariston Sdn Bhd has revived its massive US$l.3 billion (512.2 billion) infrastructure project in Cambodia, the biggest foreign investment in the country. It is expected to begin work
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    • 515 15  -  Interested investors from Europe, Japan to talk to Estrada in HK: report From j Al Labita in Manila HONGKONG tycoon Li Kashing is among a group of foreign businessmen who are reported to be keen on acquiring the government-seques-tered 27 per
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    • 458 15 BANGKOK It posts bigger than forecast consolidated loss of 4.7b baht Bloomberg SIAM Cement Pel, Thailand's largest industrial group, fell to a bigger-than-expected loss in 1999 from a profit the previous year because of a decline in the value of the
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    • 356 15 BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN Shake-up at Brunei Investment Agency; chairman is replaced Reuters BRUNEI'S ruler Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has drafted his brother to oversee a just-ap-proved economic blueprint and ordered a shake-up at the state investment arm managing the sultanate's wealth. Government officials said yesterday
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    • 321 15 MANILA Bloomberg THE Philippine Stock Exchange handed a thick report on alleged insider trading at online gambling firm BW Resources Corp to the Securities Exchange Commission, setting the stage for what could be another clash between the country's top regulator and its
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  • EAST asia
    • 533 16  -  Sources say foreign firms will be allowed to land submarine fibre optic cables; analysts cautions From] Macabe Keliher in Taipei IN another step towards liberalising its rigid telecommunications market, Taiwan plans to announce in the next few days the terms and timetable for
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    • 644 16 HONGKONG Convincing funds of its merits won't be easy: analysts Bloomberg PETROCHINA CO, a unit of China's biggest oil company, faces a tough job convincing investors to buy US$7 billion (5511.9 billion) of its shares as it begins the country's most ambitious attempt yet to
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    • 227 16 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S cash-strapped brokerages have been given the green light to use stocks as collateral for bank loans, official media said yesterday. The People's Bank of China and the China Securities Regulatory Commission unveiled rules on using stocks as backing for
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    • 410 16 USHANGHAI WTO entry could let them set up own distribution network Reuters WHEN Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) imports french fries for its outlets in China, it takes three companies to get the food to the customer's plate. Tricon Global Restaurants, which owns the
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    • 975 16 4 m CrJ JI Tat Lee Bank Keppel Tat Lee Bank Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) The Board of Directors of Keppel Tat Lee Bank Limited is pleased to announce the following:1 AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1999 The Group The Bank 1999 1998 1999
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  • SOUTH asia
    • 86 17 [NEW DELHI] Indian schoolchildren dressed as tigers leading a procession towards the WorldWide Fund for Nature office in New Delhi yesterday, in an effort to raise awareness over the plight of the Indian tiger. India's tiger population is down drastically to
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    • 269 17 NEW DELHI Bloomberg INDIAN software developers are expected to boost sales by 60 per cent this year as demand for computer services increases and more companies start doing business on the Internet. Software companies' sales are expected to rise to US$B
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    • 571 17 BOMBAY Contracts may be traded in mid-March, and may see SGX listing director Bloomberg THE Bombay stock exchange, India's oldest, will give investors the opportunity to protect against or bet on price changes through stock index futures contracts as early as next month, and
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    • 462 17 BOMBAY Higher trading profits to offset lower fees, income Reuters INDIAN banks' bottom lines will receive a huge boost this year from profits realised through trading in the government bond market, which has been unusually high on volatility and
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    • 235 17 KARACHI Bloomberg PAKISTAN'S central bank said the nation's economy slowed in the six months ended Dec 31, while its trade deficit swelled and lending to industries was half the level of the year-earlier period. The State Bank of Pakistan in a report on the
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    • 243 17 BANGALORE Measures include improvement of distribution systems Reuters INDIA'S southern state of Kamataka has kicked off a slew of power sector reforms which will be aided by a massive investment of 100 billion rupees (553.9 billion) over the next five years.
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  • WORLD news
    • 409 19 LONDON IPO aimed for Jnne/July likely to be among biggest in Australia this year FT Reuters VODAFONE Airtouch Pic said yesterday it planned to float 20-25 per cent of its Australasian business around June or July, indicating that the stake could be
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    • 428 19 TOKYO '99 surplus affected by strong yen; first annual fall since '96 AFP JAPAN'S current account surplus dropped 22.7 per cent last year from 1998, squeezed by a strong yen, the finance ministry said yesterday. The surplus, which measures the flow of goods, services
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    • 308 19 WELLINGTON Reuters A COMBINATION of strong economic growth and weaker New Zealand dollar is prompting some analysts to forecast a more aggressive tightening by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) this year. "Capacity use is now close to the level reached
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    • 524 19  -  Gold price expected to stay in US$3lO to US$3l5 range From Brian Gomez in Sydney AME Mineral Economics has estimated that average cash operating costs for gold mines in the Western world had fallen by about US$5 to US$l9O an ounce, with
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    • 416 20 LONDON Buying frenzy in the sector lifts Nasdaq biotech index by about 150% this year FT BIOTECHNOLOGY shares in the US have confounded expectations and caught investors' imagination by becoming the latest stock to fuel the country's "new economy". A buying frenzy
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    • 281 20 TOKYO AFP JAPAN'S Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance Co Ltd said yesterday that it is pulling out of a planned three-way merger due to differences over the new insurance company's management direction. Japan's third largest nonlife insurer said in a statement it
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    • 75 20 [SEOUL] About 20,000 people taking part in a mass wedding ceremony at Seoul's Olympic Stadium on Sunday. The ceremony was arranged by Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which has held dozens of similar weddings before. Some 40,000 other married people also attended the event
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    • 355 20 PEOPLE OntearwwldxMi's mask Web site will aim sell concert tickets enUne Reuters [LONDON] British computer games Arm SCI Entertainment Pic said yesterday it bought a stake in UK Internet company Ontourworld.com Ltd, along with other investors including rock star Phil Collins. SCI
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    • 187 20 SEOUL Bloomberg SOUTH Korean brokerages saw their combined earnings fall by 36 per cent in the third quarter from the previous quarter as brokerage fees narrowed and sales of investment funds dropped due to Daewoo Group's debt crisis. Pre-tax profits
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    • 524 20 TOKYO Japan retailer's collapse shows 'convoy system' of doing business dying AFP THE weekend collapse of retailer Nagasakiya Co Ltd is another sign that Japan's traditional "convoy system" of doing business is breathing its last, analysts said yesterday. The retailer said on Sunday that
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    • 407 20 MELBOURNE Reuters STANDARD Poor's has given a stable outlook to the Australian and New Zealand life insurance sectors, despite unprecedented changes in the profile of the Australasian life market brought about by rapid industry consolidation. Releasing the Australian New Zealand Life Insurance Digest
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    • 772 21  -  They will invest in USs2oom scheme to promote Internet start-ups in 100 developing countries From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AN ambitious plan to close what they termed the "digital divide" between the developed and developing worlds was announced yesterday in Tokyo by World
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 83 21 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] DaimlerChrysler, the world's fifth largest carmaker, refused to comment on a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is seriously considering making a bid to buy debt-laden South Korea's Daewoo Motor Co. "It's all speculation and we don't comment on speculation," said
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      • 81 21 AFP [WASHINGTON] Donald Trump yesterday ended his brief flirtation with a Reform Party presidential bid, after most of the real estate mogul's closest allies bolted from the party. "I've made my decision. I'm not going 10 be running," Mr Trump told
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      • 93 21 Bloomberg [GOTHENBURG, Sweden] Volvo, the world's second largest maker of heavy trucks, said 1999 operating profit excluding items rose 26 per cent on strong European demand. Operating profit, excluding the car division, rose to 6.55 billion kronor (551.29 billion)in 1999 from 5.20 billion a
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      • 94 21 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] America Online said it plans to take about US$l9O billion (*****.1 billion) in charges to earnings over 25 years, squeezing net profit, to account for its acquisition of Time Warner. The proposed new company, AOL Time Warner, will take a
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    • 361 21  -  SINGAPORE By' Teh Hooi Ling PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said Singapore is seeking election to the United Nations Security Council later this year. Speaking at the Istana dinner held in honour of UN sec-retary-general Kofi Annan and his
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    • 374 21 LONDON FT.com aims to become top global business portal Reuters BRITISH media group Pearson stepped up the battle for online business information readers yesterday with the relaunch of its Financial Times Web site in a multi-million-dollar facelift. Facing growing competition from revamped rivals
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    • 457 21  -  By' Vikram Khanna THE United Nations will watch how Indonesia deals with those found responsible for the pre-independence carnage in East Timor before deciding whether to set up its own tribunal, UN secretarygeneral Kofi Annan said yesterday. Responding to a
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    • 595 21 LONDON FT WHY would investors pay irrational prices for shares? That they occasionally do so is hardly a matter for debate. In the UK, investors have recently paid premiums of thousands of per cent for shares in Internet incubator funds that have nothing
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 266 22  -  SGX Derivatives TrtUOngßeports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming NOTWITHSTANDING Wall Street's steep losses last Friday, the Singapore stock market ended slightly higher yesterday upheld by bargainhunting in selected blue chips. Snapping out of their losing streak, banks regained strength on expectations of favourable
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    • 191 22  -  MSCI Taiwan fatures Matthew Den Bleyker Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index declined 157.22 or 1.6 per cent yesterday to 9,971.45, led lower by financial shares after a local paper reported Taiwan's central bank plans to increase interest rates after
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    • 253 22 EMERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices, lifted by a growing supply shortage, cruised near nine-year peaks yesterday with the United States urging Opec to pump more petroleum. Benchmark Brent crude was trading 23 cents stronger at U5528.05, a mere 15 cents off a
      Reuters  -  253 words
    • 361 22 Bloomberg AFX-Asia, London THE major currencies were largely range-bound midday in a rudderless session, with most investors on the sidelines ahead of some key US and European data later in the week. Analysts said in the absence of any fresh leads, currency markets were likely to focus on
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      1261 22 WTBEBAMK CROSS RATES Feb 14 »S C$ Rmt Euro Ffr Dm HK$ Ind Bi Bupiah Yon Won Ml WZ$ PH t» Pt«o S$ Rand Sfr WTS BUt Pomi U5$ Australia 0.917 6.178 0.640 4.199 1.252 4.919 27.590 45.838 0.685 7.119 2.403 1.283 32.776 25.527 1.071 4.013 1.027 19.375 23.713 0.398
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    • 1962 22 SICOM FUTURES Febi4 RUBBER (futures closing as it 5.30fm) RSS1 CONTRACTS centsAg) Close VotwiM Opm Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Mar 00 125.00 300 300 Apr 00 129.00 100 400 May 00 131.50 100 400 Jon 00 134.00 100 400 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US tertsAg) Voiunw Open Month High
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2832 23 HONGKONG Reuters n Han* Seng -19L34 HONGKONG stocks ended down on yesterday after hitting a record high, with interest in a second bid for Cable Wireless HKT unable to offset tumbling bank, property and utility shares after interest rates rose. The Hang Seng
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    • 2047 23 TOKYO Bloomberg P Nikkei 225 -15m JAPANESE stocks fell, paced by lenders such as Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank on concern a possible tax increase may squeeze their earnings and after Nagasakiya Co filed for protection from creditors including Dai-ichi Kangyo. Nagasakiya, a mid-sized retailer, was
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    • Article, Illustration
      983 23 Reuters Shenzhen B Index +1M SHENZHEN stocks surged to a higher close yesterday after China announced steps to boost the market, including allowing brokerages to obtain loans from banks using securities as collateral. Shenzhen's hard currency B Share Index rose 7.69 points, or 8.70 per cent, to 96.07 points.
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    • 379 23 AFP □WPM« -157.22 TAIWAN share prices fell 1.6 per cent to breach the resis-tance-level of 10,000 yesterday due to sharp losses on Wall Street, dealers said. "Market sentiment became cautious on losses in the US market over the weekend," said James Su at MasterMind Financial Advisory. The TSE Weighted
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 8844 24 Transaction date: Feb 14 I INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 2000 Last Vol Day Nat Cap Mlffc Lm riwpmj Son •OOP HUH Lew P/t $W 402 310 A|inomoto 388 -14 6 402 388 24.6 157.3 130 91 Angkasa 125 7 237 125 115 184.3 444 290 Apollo Food Hlg 416 unch 8
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    • 435 24 AFP Q Composite Index -L 52 MALAYSIAN shares closed slightly lower yesterday on profit-taking alter recent sharp rises, dealers said. Sporadic bargain-hunting on expectations of further increases pared losses. The KLSE Composite Index ended down 1.52 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 998.29. The Second
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  • SGX clob & regional stocks
    • 2793 25 BONDS A WARRAHTS Feb 14 *1 Mi fnmj Uptrr L_, m an i iiium K* lmmt ttm lam mm mm Maa I Mi «ar CM*) M» Ua feyar W U« ~K>4 K>3 t 3160 *Acar ******1 US$... 43 irt 43 43 43 415 "q j 152 3 53 17 95
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    • 253 25 AFP n Composite Index -42.36 SOUTH Korean stocks fell 4.4 per cent yesterday. The Composite Index closed down 42.35 points at 910.87. Volume was 232.3 million shares worth 3.5 trillion won. AFP Ft* M Brotn Tocft WTO 30 Control 841* 2830 30 ChoMConwn *****0 3000 DmGoM 2580 -ISO DMUng
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    • 262 25 AFP n Composite Index -20.47 PHILIPPINE share prices fell one per cent, weighed down by Wall Street and bearishness due to domestic concerns, analysts said. The PSE Composite Index dropped 20.47 points to 1,976.74. Volume slipped to 4.5 billion shares valued at 2.067 billion pesos. —AFP MM Nu (000)
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    • 267 25 AFP Qnzse-40 -am NEW Zealand's share market sank 1.3 per cent yesterday following on from a dive on Wall Street on Friday. The NZSE-40 Index closed 26.81 points down at 2,014.38. Total turnover was a modest NZ593.6 million with NZ$5O.3 million traded in Telecom Corp. AFP mm ■> *t-
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    • 577 25 AFP DAPOrfatfie* -3LB AUSTRALIAN shares fell by one per cent yesterday as Friday's losses on Wall Street combined with further falls in News Corp to depress the bourse, brokers said here. The All Ordinaries Index finished the day down 31.8 points at 3,135.3. The All Resources Index dropped 28.1
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    • Article, Illustration
      746 25 Reuters □set Infer -as« THAI stocks yesterday ended at their lowest level in more than a month on losses due to profit-taking by retail investors in telecoms and bank shares. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand Composite Index retreated 8.56 points, or 1.88 per cent, to close at 447.56
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      643 25 Reuters -L3S FORMER military chief General Wiranto's suspension from cabinet boosted sentiment on the Jakarta market, but failed to push up the Composite Index due to selling pressure on Telkom. The Composite Index edged down 1.36 points or 0.21 per cent to 633.72 points on turnover of 998.54 billion
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  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 1336 28  -  Effective knowledge management makes all the difference in a modern organisation between producing a harmonious symphony or a jarring cacophony By Jeanette Pang [SINGAPORE] THE knowledge management song may be one of the top tunes of the day, but unfortunately, not many companies can sing along melodiously.
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    • 471 28  -  By\ Saw Ken Wye The writer is managing director of Microsoft Singapore WHAT exactly is knowledge management? Simply put, this complex sounding (technical? management?) term is best described as the ability to "manage knowledge" and to "manage with knowledge" to drive organisations into the
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    • 164 28 A SPECIAL FEATURE SHIPPING TIMES 29 FEBRUARY 2000 KEEP YOUR BUSINESS FLYING HIGH If you are in the air freight logistics and related businesses, 29 February 2000 could bring unprecedented opportunities. That's because Shipping Times will publish a special feature to highlight the latest developments and the future of the
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 542 29  -  p:ii exclusive Flemming Jacobs continues with task of building senior echelon By l George Joseph [SINGAPORE] A former journalist and press secretary to a New Zealand prime minister with over 20 years' experience in media relations has been appointed NOL Group's head of global
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    • 294 29 Reuters Bridge News, CAPESIZES ended the week with further gain, although some brokers were sceptical that present levels could be consolidated. Panamaxes in the Far East were in good demand with higher rates recorded for timecharter trips. However, the Atlantic sector remained weak for these sizes, especially in
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    • 298 29 MX 000 MM It W CWT Distribution 123 0.06 17 Chum Hup 0.46 -0.01 ***** Cosco Investment Lt3 0.09 547 FrtfgM Links 0.27 unch 172 G8 Holding* 0.83 0.01 2 K« Sun Hup 0.79 0.01 75 IMC HoWnos-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jeya Holdings 0.26 0.01 6296 KappelCorp 3.86
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    • 231 29 AFX-Asia [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) may halt its operations at Port of Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina if the Argentinian government does not grant the company's request for a 90 per cent reduction in lease payments, company chairman and
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    • 462 29  -  World's largest Aframa* tankor operator bought rival Bona for USs4som last year By Ann Toh (SINGAPORE) Bahamasbased Teekay Shipping is eyeing growth in other ship sizes and commodity types after expanding geographically through its Bona Shipholding acquisition. The Aframax tanker specialist bought rival
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 401 30  -  Naval Supply Depot to be developed with Snbic Bay Metropolitan Authority From Alec Almazan in Manila THE Subic Bay Freeport has entered into a 25-year concession agreement with International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) and Royal Port Services Inc for the management, operation
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      • 268 30 Larsen Toubro to start building Indian port Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Larsen Toubro Ltd, India's biggest construction company, expects to begin building a 10 million tonne port at Dhamra in the eastern state of Orissa by April, two years after it was supposed to begin. The agreement to develop the 12 billion
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      • 178 30 PAGE DSR-Senator 4 HIH 6 Delmas 4 anl 3 Djah Lloyd 8 9 Accord 8 3 Appenship 5 ECl Austral 8 ECUL 6 Balaii Shpq 5 EvW,rMfl 6 £.<- Gemartrans 6 CCNI Hartqli 7 CMA 8 Hanjin 3 Columbus 8 Heung-A 4 COSCO 5 Hyundai 7 cs
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
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      • 1955 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklnq/Balanc# Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Poflod From To From ACX DAHLIA OIM 15/*00 U 14/1500 IVMM 14/1*00 m/boo 14/1*5* M/HOO api diamond i7flioo i m/boo m/mm Wim m M/BOO M/MM M/HOO a MffiOO ivotw tvwoo a m/itoo lyom 8/0900
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      • 804 41 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. show* price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 711 42 ALASKA AIRUKES CRASH Maintenance workers in 1997 changed their mind after more tests Reuters [WASHINGTON] Safety investigators said the Alaska Airlines plane that crashed two weeks ago had been considered in 1997 for replacement of a key tail part
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      • 109 42 AP [BEIJING] China's aviation watchdog has ordered technical inspections of McDonnell Douglas planes in the wake of last month's Alaska Airlines crash, an official newspaper said. The Civil Aviation Administration of China ordered the checks on Saturday and gave airlines until midday today to
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      • 43 42 [CHICAGO] A worker dusts off the grill of a Bentley on display at the Chicago Auto Show. The Bentley has a sticker price starting at U*****,000 (*****,210). The auto show opened last Friday and ends on Sunday. REUTERS
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      • LOG Book
        • 65 42 AFP [HONGKONG] A Dragonair plane was nearly hit by a huge balloon en route from Beijing to Hongkong last week, a press report said yesterday. The pilot managed to divert the plane in the nick of time when he sighted the balloon believed
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        • 97 42 Reuters [CANBERRA] Qantas Airways Ltd yesterday won a All .25 billion (Ssl.3 billion) contract to provide all national and international travel services for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) over the next five years. "Qantas will now fully manage Defence's entire domestic and international travel needs
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        • 78 42 Reuters [SHANGHAI] An official of China Eastern Airlines denied yesterday a newspaper report that said the company is exploring possible mergers with four other Chinese carriers. The official Shanghai Daily quoted unidentified sources as saying China Eastern was considering mergers with China Northern Airlines, China
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      • 231 42 Reuters [MANAMA] Regional carrier Gulf Air said yesterday it expects to sign a US$l7O million (*****.3 million) loan with European credit agencies in April to finance the purchase of two new Airbus A330-200s. Walter Van-West, Gulf Air's vice-president for finance, strategy
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      • 379 42 Increase in jet fuel prices has led to higher costs Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International is likely to report that first-quarter profit tumbled by two-thirds as a surge in the price of jet fuel led to higher operating costs, analysts said.
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      • 198 42 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Sabena SA, Belgium's national airline, said it was profitable last year as it recovered from a first-half loss and overcame higher fuel prices. The company's earnings will be less than the 703 million Belgian francs (5529.08 million) reported in 1998, said a spokesman
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    • 524 29 KC Dat IwWww KC Dat has named James P Matisin (left) as vice-president of business development. Mr Matisin, who has two decades of work t experience in the relocation industry, was previously with Hongkong's Baltrans Group based in Singapore. Port of Tanjunq Pelepas (PTP) Former PTP executive director Mohd Sidik
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