The Business Times, 17 February 2000

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    21 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 035/12/1999 85* I N G A P O R E Ir ernet: http://business-times.asial.com.sa/ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2000
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    56 1 Om mi aa (+12.96) nir-m mm 7ML2O (-1.94) W% SIMSCX FUTURES UISMO (+3.60) STOCK MARKET INDICES Wednesday Change -JtSi83a5 HAV08EN0 17.943J9 +356.23 SETfilBEX 4&M, -8J4 JAKARTA COMP 8215® -1 &M MANILA OOMP _13MJ6 43.11 TAlfHWP! lMM.49_AlN.7i SEOUL COMP ***** 41 CLSA CHINA B 833.13 17J AOSTALLORD 3.14&3 44
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    74 1 POUZX BATES US$ S) US$ 1.791 £(USS/S$perl) IM 1713 EUBO(U8S/S$/E) 1171 IMS DM 1JW tffiS YEN 109.0 \m RM im ***** HKS 7.781 Ul» BABff S7CS 9.046 RUPIAH 7J76 003* •sxto IKuniti •SttOlKunta PKOBIilBS SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA M.M BANGKOK J.50 MANILA U M BONG KONG 8.50
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    Lock icon CCL to join US$500m bid for Astra stake: sources
    671 1  -  BTiamilMWJ Company said to be keen on one-fifth share; shortlist from Ibra expected around March 23 By\ Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] In its boldest move in recent memory, listed motor group Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL) is bidding for a substantial stake in
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    Lock icon 'New economy' giving the lie to 'old' Japan Inc
    789 1  -  GDP data not reflecting vitality in sectors like IT From J Anthony Rowley in Tokyo CORPORATE restructuring in Japan is moving into high gear, with regulatory changes being planned to give the process a boost and new business ventures now demonstrating
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    Lock icon Telecom giants deny rumours of link to HKT bid
    591 1  -  Denials cool euphoria over HK telecom stocks From rr_ Quak Hiang Whai tn Hongkong SEVERAL Asian telecom giants came forward yesterday to quash rumours that they were involved in bidding for Cable Wireless HKT, cooling the market euphoria that has built
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      91 1 DBBPg Top stortos Pidemco makes $50m jump into e-business. Next Pmgm Audemars Piguet: Standing the test of time Pmgm 3 Keppel Land surprises with $78.7 m profit. Pmgm 4 -i >-. ■■"&J'"~' j®*® Citibank rated best retail bank in S'pore. Pmgm 6 ;A* f ;«%fs*&£&■;*> .;"> Pay structure of top
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      96 1 Get the latest corporate results early From today. BT's online edition will carry the major mKKfP- w corporate results as soon as they are available, from MT&- ahout 6pm. Keppel Corp for example, will be releasing ZZ its 1999 results after the market closes at spm today So look us
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      5 1 atngTel treated even-handedfy: SFC, Pg€
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      Lock icon Pidemco makes $50m jump into e-business
      423 2  -  New company being formed will also invest in Internet companies Reports by\ ror\vn a tvxti Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Pidemco Land said yesterday it would commit $50 million initially to spearhead its move into e-business, becoming the latest property developer to announce its Internet strategy.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Hold on, my dog's on the other line
        98 2 PACIFIC Internet held a teleconference earlier this week to announce its financial results, and we're told by participants that the conference call proved to be an ear-opener in more ways than one. During the session, someone answered another phone call, treating the
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        Lock icon Why the region's a draw for banks
        83 2 Why the region 's a draw for banks HERE S an indirect reminder of why Singapore banks are looking to the region to boost their earnings as the local market matures and competition intensifies. Indonesian Bank Nisp, which recently posted its 1999 financial results, says it is projecting loans growth
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        Lock icon Love and marriage, IT-style
        77 2 WE received a wedding invitation from a woman who gushed: "I've met this great guy who's just like me! Cool, savvy, sleek, simple and just as easy-to-get-along with." We called up Judith, whose name was listed at the bottom of the card, who vehemently denied she
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      Lock icon Pidemco posts $61m profit
      232 2 [SINGAPORE] Pidemco Land returned to the black last year, posting after-tax profits of $61 million, compared to a huge $328.8 million loss in 1998. The government-linked company also booked an extraordinary gain of $49.5 million from its sale of investment properties, including Albert Complex and Peranakan
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      Lock icon Watch out for the revenge of the big guys
      617 2  -  comment TECHNOLOGY Established retailers will use their traditional strengths online to muscle out new dot-coms kenneth james ASIA'S perennial gamblers have an exciting new game technology stocks. Seems like the stakes are getting higher as Asia's tech stocks go up, up,
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      Lock icon Retired banker questions CyberWorks price rise
      470 2  -  He reckons share price is cnrrrently overvalued by aronnd six times By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The "equity spirals" behind the phenomenal rise in Pacific Century Cyberworks or PCCW share price is akin to a "Ponzi scheme" which will collapse when the last willing
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  • CORPORATE family
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      Lock icon Standing the test of time
      1072 3  -  For the Audemars, the only surviving founding family among the top Swiss watchmakers, that means defending 125 years of history and tradition. LARRY WEE reports LARRY WEE AT a time when mega-cross border mergers and acquisitions regularly make front-page news all over the world, only
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      187 3 The millennium. Highlights of the final quarter. ING Barings reports an exceptional final quarter of the millennium. Particular highlights: kM our involvement in the development of railway infrastructure in India and China in the 1880s, raising finance for governments and municipalities including a bond issue to assist reconstruction in Tokyo
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Keppel Land surprises with $78.7m profit
      822 4  -  Profits frail new lyntfh#, office rentals expected to underpin earnings By] Kalpana Rashiwala KEPPEL Land, the first listed property group to announce its full-year results, yesterday posted a higher-than-ex pected group net profit of $78.7 million against a $350.6 million loss in 1998 and
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      Lock icon KepLand to invest up to $100m on Net
      353 4 KEPPEL Land says it is prepared to invest 14) to $100 million initially in start-ups and established technology/Internet companies relevant to the property industry. The company's managing director Kevin Wong indicated this yesterday when announcing Keppel Land's tie-up with sister company Keppel
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      Lock icon SFT's 17% earnings rise beats forecast
      293 4  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI). which went public last November, has bettered its prospectus forecast with a net profit of $18.8 million on a turnover of $315.4 million for last year. Net earnings for the year ended December 1999 rose by
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      Lock icon KepMarine shares soar on Net rumours
      463 4  -  Talk of interest from Japan's Net giant lifts stock by 28.6% By Conrad Raj KEPPEL Marine Industries shot up by as much as 32 per cent yesterday on rumours that it would be transformed into an Internet company following its assets divestment Investors drove
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      Lock icon Dot-coms no match for M'sian warrants
      723 4  -  ITOK* lock siew r. sivanithy MUCH publicity has been given to the performance of Nasdaq and tech stocks in the past year or so. Mention the way markets have behaved and the focus will inevitably be on how such counters have doubled, tripled or
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      Lock icon Citibank rated best retail bank
      295 5  -  Among lnrtl hawk^ UOB is tops overall followed by OUB, DBS&ndOGBC By' Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Citibank is the most highly rated retail bank in Singapore, outscoring its local and foreign rivals on a range of criteria, according to a survey of professionals in Singapore's retail
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      Lock icon GK Goh online now covers 6 bourses
      512 5  -  There are tentative plans to include US, Aussie markets By\ Wong Wei Kong JOINING the battle for online broking dollars, GK Goh Holdings yesterday launched GohDirect, its online trading system that will allow investors in Singapore to trade on six regional stock exchanges.
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      Lock icon Pentex's Bt Merah factory site finds buyer at $26.8m
      332 5  -  Sale to group of contractors will help ease firm's borrowings Byi Andrea Tan A CONSORTIUM led by Chiu Teng Construction will buy loss-making Pentex-Schweiz-er Circuits' Bukit Merah factory for $26.8 million. The 120,000 sq ft site along Jalan Bukit Merah is
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      Lock icon Roly taps US$5.8m for associate iHomedecor.com
      195 5 HOME decor distributor Roly International said yesterday it has raised US$5.B million (559.9 million) for its associated company iHomedecor.com. UOB Venture Technology Investments Ltd and UOB Venture Investments n Ltd, Nippon Venture Capital Corporation and certain Asianbased strategic investors have injected US$2.B million cash
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      Lock icon Small jobs are a big deal for contract manufacturer CEI
      553 7  -  I'Uvi ISstinas Batam-based company aims to raise $7m-slom in mainboardlPOtobe launched next week From, Jennifer Lien inßatam TUCKED in a corner of the Batamindo Industrial Park here, not far from Nat Steel Electronics' (NEL) printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) plant,
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      Lock icon Reclamation firm raising $14m in IPO
      450 7  -  By Ven Sreenivasan LINKS Island Holdings, a reclamation and marine services provider, launched its initial public offer of 50 million ma in board-bound shares yesterday. The offer, representing 26.3 per cent of its enlarged share capital, comprises a public tranche of 15 million shares
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      Lock icon MycoBiotech to raise up to $15m in IPO by June
      424 7  -  It also to list a separate unit in North America later in the year By Carol Eng HOMEGROWN mushroom grower Mycoßiotech is targeting to list in Singapore by June, and also to list a separate unit in North America later
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      Lock icon GES soars 20% on talk of units Nasdaq listing
      273 7 DigUand rumour sends parent to intra-day high of $249 THE stock price of computer maker GES International leaped to a record high yesterday amid rumours that it was about to list one of its subsidiaries on New York's Nasdaq market The
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Parkway in tie-up
        94 7 PARKWAY wholly-owned subsidiaries Mount hospital Lid (MEHIO and (Hsnsagles International Pte Ud(GIPL) have signed a deal with Consultant Nsurospeciaiists Pta Ltd (CNS) to aet up a to Singapore to provide clinical, consultancy sndntsniifaiMiil ssi vices in relation to neurological dbjonlars and related services for neuroscience centres. MKHL«ndQlPLwait»>»«»4p»rc«ct«Dda6perc»Dt
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        77 7 EOTARY Engineering, one afthe significant plays in the stock market yesterday, has requested a suspension of its shares today. It also informed the Singapore Exchange btevenlng thatas part of its strategy, it is actively ■tploringoppoituiiUlestr new bininoasoa to increase tttrnover/profltabmty and value of its shares. The company is finalising
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        Lock icon Fu Yu buys plastic parts
        35 7 TO has acquired Fortune Mission Sdn to wholly-owned subsidiary, FuYu tovwtoeot Pte u± Fortune Mission has an authorised capital ofBMloo,ooowith a paid-up capital of RM2. The company assemble# plastic Darts.
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        Lock icon San Teh opens rep office in Xiamen
        24 7 SAN TEH Ltd has set up a representative office Ln Xiamen, China far trading and investment activities.
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        43 7 ynUKK Engineering has agreed to an extension of time for its purchase of sharas in Plan-B Bpeed.com Pte Ltd apdlAntrovision (S) Pta Ltd. The deadline for conditions to beaiet is now March 31.8trike had earlier said the deadline was Feb 19.
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        Lock icon Alliance in talks to sell resort stake
        58 7 ALLlANCBTechnology and Development said its •OMtaary, Port Canning Ootmtry dub Investment Ltd, has began tafts with North Shore Marina Pte Ltd, the owners ofPonggol Marina, for the sale of FCCC's 51 per centintereet in Übin lagoon Resort Pte Ltd to NSM. Negotiations are
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      Lock icon Analysts say KepCorp undervalued as profit likely to jump to $192m
      381 7 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Keppel Corp (KepCorp) Is expected to post a strong jump in earnings for 1999 but continues to trade at a steep 40 per cent discount to the total value of the sum of its parts. "The flavour
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      Lock icon Seksun spends $1.8m on stake in ShareInvestor.com
      424 7  -  By, Jeanette Pang SMITTEN by the Internet bug, metal stamping specialist Seksun Precision Engineering has invested $1.8 million in a financial portal which plans to list on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) within a year. The mainboard-listed company's maiden Internet venture will give it
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      70 4 THE KEY TO YOUR UK PROPERTY FINANCE w m m *£|jg| .Zr Highly competitive interest rate Fast and convenient service Flexible loan package Pre-purchase approval No pre-payment penalties For further Information, please contact either Eileen Tan or Amy Wee at Tel: (65) *****33 and Fax: (65) 225 8013. The Royal
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      8 4 Editorial: Malaysia's way is working but..., Pg 12
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Technology stocks prop up STI while banks slide
      580 6  -  =11 comment STOCKS r.sivanithy IT was slow in coming, but the rally, when it finally came yesterday, was a welcome relief from the weakness of the previous few sessions. It came thanks mainly to a resurgence in the tech play that has
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      464 6 Stocks Volume GES InB Lid 20c 23,936,000 KepMarinsl50c 21,154,000 JC-MPH™. 20,420.000 Strike Engg 5c 15,192,000 Vtekers Capital 25c 13,716.000 Aied Com 10c 13.579,000 NOL 13,281,000 Goldtron20c 12,813,000 PohLian 10c 12,126,000 SingTal15c 10.783.000 Stocks GES Intl Ltd 20c 64,503,710 PactflcCantuy 58.417,570 ST Aseembty 25c 49,792,864 DBS Grp. 44.801,629 KepMarins 150c 36,295,717
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      Lock icon Accumulating Boustead warrants should pay off
      165 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy THE last time we featured the Boustead Singapore warrant in this column was September last year, before the stock underwent a l-for-4 split. Its numbers have all had to be adjusted, so perhaps a review is in order. The
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    • JC-MPH resistance remains at $1.20
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      147 6 PROGEN HOLDINGS' 3-for-lO rights issue of 42,931,4865 hares of 10 cents each will be listed today. SINGAPORE Press Holdings said yesterday it had completed raising its stake in Singapore Cable Vision Ltd to 26.7 per cent SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering said substantial shareholder The Capital Group Companies Inc has
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      Lock icon US players behind US$ surge to above S$1.70
      512 6  -  -li comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar rose through 551.70 for the first time in two weeks yesterday, after successive waves of buying by US players. From the start of trading yesterday, trading rooms here reported strong buying by US investment
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      381 7 I EASYKNIT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited lability on 8 September 1994) NOTICE OF BOOKS CLOSURE DATE NOTICE TO MEMBERS THE PROPOSED RENOUNCEABLE RIGHTS ISSUE ("RIGHTS ISSUE") OF NOT LESS THAN 306,406,053 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF HK$O.lO EACH ("RIGHTS SHARES") IN THE CAPITAL OF EASYKNIT INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon IDA seeks views from public and industry
      369 8  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling THE Info-comm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is inviting industry and public views on two issues: financial disclosures required of telecoms companies and the developments of fixed-wire-less broadband networks and services. IDA issued the two consultation papers yesterday as
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      Lock icon Pay structure of top execs changing
      570 8  -  Hay polling CEOs of some 500 MNCs, local firms, big investors Byi Anna Teo IS the level of top management pay in Singapore "too high" relative to that of other employees? Are chief executives more at risk today of losing their jobs than three
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      Lock icon M1 to base CDMA bills on usage, drops subscriptions
      295 8 SINGAPORE'S second mobile phone operator Ml yesterday announced that it will scrap the monthly subscriptions of its CDMA customers. Instead, it will bill customers for the actual airtime used at the end of every month. Currently under its Chat 188 plan,
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      Lock icon E Asia units more flexible: paper
      281 8 the economy exchange rate policy SINCE the outbreak of the regional crisis, the exchange rates of the East Asian economies have been managed more flexibly, and have shifted towards the yen at the expense of the US dollar in their currency baskets. Most of
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      Lock icon Promote broadband: Cut costs for hobbyist Web sites
      263 8  -  m MAILISTTHM Wu Pei Tong Singapore via Internet IT is good that the government is looking into measures to promote the use of broadband Internet and to attract broadband content here. Perhaps, for a start, we should look into encouraging our broadband
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      Lock icon SingTel treated even-handedly: SFC
      165 8  -  David Stannard Executive director Corporate finance division Securities and Futures Commission, Hongkong WE refer to the article, "Sing Tel, HKT: A done deal that got done in?", in your newspaper of Feb 15. We are surprised that a reputable newspaper such as yours has printed an
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      Lock icon Dell opens US$5m Asia-Pacific Web farm
      369 8  -  Host for e-commerce Web sites offers 30% faster response time By Andrew Wee US-BASED Dell Computer Corp yesterday opened its Asia-Pacific Web farm which will serve regional markets and also announced alliances with Singapore Net firms. Dell's US$5 million (SsB.s million) Web farm will
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      Lock icon Outsourcing scheme cuts costs for SMEs
      271 8  -  By Francis Kan THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce Industry yesterday launched a programme to help small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, to keep costs down by outsourcing non-core business functions. "Through this special programme for SMEs, we want to assist our member companies
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      Lock icon Leading oil group in $105m S'pore project
      241 8 OILTANKING GmbH, the world's second biggest oil storage company, is investing $105 million to build storage tanks and jetties in Singapore to serve the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. The company, which is a division of the German Marquard Bahls AG group, said in a
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      Lock icon Microsoft launches Windows 2000
      591 10 Key allies Dell and Compaq, big customers give the new operating system the thumbs-up Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Software giant Microsoft Corp on Tuesday kicked off a gala launch event for Windows 2000, with two key allies, Dell Computer Corp and Compaq Computer Corp, and big customers
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      Lock icon Deutsche Telekom to buy Lagardere's Club Internet
      411 10 BONN Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Telekom AG, Germany's largest phone company, said it will buy Lagardere SCA's Club Internet for an estimated 2 billion euros (553.3 billion) in stock as it expands outside Germany. In exchange for the 99.9 per cent of Club Internet, Telekom
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      Lock icon Australia's Westpac in online mortgage tie-up with Fairfax
      309 10 SYDNEY Bloomberg WESTPAC Banking Corp, Australia's third-largest bank, said it formed an alliance with John Fairfax Holdings Ltd, the country's biggest newspaper publisher and online news provider, to sell loans online to home buyers. In the three-year, multimillion alliance, Westpac Banking's online
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    • Asia Online to keep acquiring despite high stock valuations
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      Lock icon Apple unveils souped up notebook in Japan
      335 10 MAKUHARI, Japan Reuters APPLE Computer announced the launch of a souped up i-Book notebook computer yesterday with double the memory and hard-drive size of the previous model. Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs told a trade show in Tokyo that the new i-Book
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    • E-commerce vital for developing nations: UN
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      Lock icon Brown pledges to boost Net use by end-2002
      356 10 LONDON Chancellor wants to giggty phone to set off surge In e-commerce FT PLANS to halve the cost of Internet use by the end 0f2002 were set to be announced last night by Gordon Brown, the chancellor. In an interview with the
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    • e Briefs
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        Lock icon CyberWorks invests in US firm
        87 10 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd has made a strategic investment in US-based Weave Innovations, the companies said. They did not mention price paid or the size of the stake acquired. Weave develops technology enabling users to view and share digital images and content via
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        Lock icon Telekom unit to sell infrastructure
        75 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia's wholly owned unit Telekom Multimedia is in talks to sell its Internet infrastructure, Bernama said yesterday. "There are many regional Internet service providers keen on the infrastructure," Telekom Multimedia's acting chief executive officer Majid Abdullah was quoted as saying. He
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        Lock icon US House passes US$6.9b tech bill
        68 10 AP [WASHINGTON] The US House of Representatives passed s US$6.9 billion (5111.7 billion) measure on Tuesday aimed at expanding the government's role in computer and scientific research and maintaining the nation's role as a technology leader. The bill, which passed by voice vote, would
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        Lock icon Revenues of US ISPs to rise 29%
        87 10 Bloomberg [FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts] America Online, MCI WorldCom's Uunet Technologies and other US Internet service providers' revenue will jump 29 pa* cent this year to almost US$23 billion (5539.1 billion), International Data Corp said. AOL, the world's largest ISP, serves about 40 per cent
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        Lock icon DoCoMo's i-mode users to soon top 5m
        82 10 Reuters [TOKYO] NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, expects to sign up Ave million i-mode Internet phone users by the end of March, becoming Japan's biggest Internet access platform, managing director Kei-ichi Enoki said yesterday. NTT DoCoMo currently has 4.1 million subscribers
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Honest' John's image left in tatters
      695 12  -  »i!!=l I bottom line OPINION manjit bhatia The writer is a lecturer in political economy at the University of Queensland in Australia WHEN Asia was going through its worst post-war economic crisis in 1997, many in Australia smugly berated East Asia for a want
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      117 12 'We are now in a period of emergency in which we lack everything—houses, food, health care.' Joae Alexandre Qnsmao East Timor's defacto leader, on what foreign aid officials there call "groundzero". 'If ever there were a case in which the integrity of the international justice system needed
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      Lock icon Malaysia's way is working but...
      661 12 EDITORIAL Stj vim\ 1 rLbJN months ago, the academic and investment communities were up in arms after the Malaysian government implemented its controversial capital controls. Instead of embracing the conventional wisdom that free market forces would provide the best cure for the country's economic ills,
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      Lock icon Race turns nasty as McCain closes the gap
      977 12  -  If McCain upsets Bush again in Sooth Carolina primaries, he conld go on to win the Republican nomination By Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent JOHN McCain's election campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, is attracting so many journalists these
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      Lock icon A remarkable spectacle in Thailand
      752 12  -  DOMMEMTART Asians don't need affluent Westerners trying to save them from globalisation By 1 Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT NYT TALK about globalisation. Michel Camdessus probably knew that his last speech as managing director of the International Monetary Fund
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  • REGIONAL news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Renong counters back in favour
        110 13 INVESTORS continued to snap up shares of two counters in the Renong stable. Time Engineering rose 22 sen to RM4.28, while Intria inched up 5 sen to RM1.43 on heavy volume. But the two companies' debt woes are far from over. Time Engineering has to
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        Lock icon Latexx rises on expected US contracts
        55 13 LATEXX Partners continued to rise on expectations of huge long-term contracts from a US company for the supply of its rubber products. The counter jumped RM1.60 to RMII.BO although the company has not confirmed the deal yet. Traders said the price hike is also
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        Lock icon Tech stocks maintain uptrend
        75 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh TECHNOLOGY-BASED stocks continued their winning streak yesterday. CSA Holdings jumped RM2.50 to RM2O, while Mesiniaga gained RM1.40 to RM16.00. The two stocks are easily the top performers of the Malaysian bourse this year. Investors were also encouraged by Multimedia Development Corporation executive
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      Lock icon DRB in final stage of rail track talks
      88 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN conglomerate Diversified Resources Bhd (DRB) said yesterday that it was in advanced negotiations with the government over a multi-billion-ringgit railway track project. DRB, in a statement to the KLSE, said it would make an announcement once the contract
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      607 13  -  KLlga.T™ Investors in search of secondary players offering indirect play on IT theme From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE "tech fever" which hit the KL stock market about two months ago is still raging. Rising prices and rich valuations have fuelled the
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      334 13 KUALA LUMPUR Boom in KL tech shares seen as sustainable for one or two years Bloomberg, Bernama PICA Corp shares rose much as 22 per cent after the Malaysian provider of financial services said it plans to buy 10 per cent of Kalan
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      268 14 JAKARTA Bloomberg, Reuters FOREIGN investment approvals in Indonesia fell 74 per cent month-on-month in January, Investment Minister Laksamana Sukardi told Parliament yesterday, as political and social instability kept investors away. Indonesia approved investments totalling US$95.B million (*****.3 million) last month, Mr Laksamana said.
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      503 14 JAKARTA Bid* below asking price; problem may hit country's tentative economic recovery Reuters INDONESIA has a problem with billions of dollars of bonds issued to rescue the banking sector from insolvency nobody wants them at the asking price, and the country's
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      432 14 MALAYAN Banking Bhd is unlikely to face problems of "indigestion" or a clash of corporate culture and management styles in any significant way that some of the other nine anchor banks may be confronted with, The Star reported, citing analysts. "It will still be the
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      542 14 iim bank mergers KUALA LUMPUR Anchor banks could be halved to just 5 in 3 years'time THE 10 banking groups approved by Bank Negara should brace themselves for a second round of consolidation three years down the road, a report in The
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      183 15 Bloomberg TAIWAN investors have set up about 40,000 factories in China, creating "several million" jobs, Taiwan Vice-President Lien Chan said. The vice-president has previously said Taiwan companies invested about US$l3 billion (5522.1 billion) in China in 1998 alone through some 2,100
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      699 15 MANILA Publication of BW Resources probe results landed bat index slides Bloomberg THE publication of the official report of an investigation into the Philippines' most serious stock scandal is being hailed as the dawn of a new era of candour, though
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        82 15 AFP [JAKARTA] Doctors for former Indonesian president Suharto have testified that the former autocrat was "physically and mentally unfit" to undergo an investigation into alleged corruption, reports said yesterday. A statement by the doctors was submitted by one of Mr Suharto's lawyers, Juan Felix Tampubokm, to
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        91 15 AP [LONDON] Britain has agreed that Thailand may seek the extradition of a financier accused of making millions of dollars in bad loans that contributed to his country's 1987 recession, lawyers told a court on Tuesday. Pin Chakkapak, 49, a former executive of Finance One, appeared
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        67 15 AP [JAKARTA] A day after he was removed as senior government minister, Gen Wiranto dropped into a popular Jakarta radio station and became their disc jockey for more than an hour, news reports said yesterday. The former military chief flirted on the phone
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        60 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Four Korean creditors sued PTBakrie Finance Corp for bankruptcy over its failure to pay US$23 million (5539.1 million) of debt. "We are very frustrated because Of Indonesia's legal system," said Tae Seon Paik, president director of AB Sinarmas Multiflnance, a unit of Asian
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        59 15 Reuters [BEUING] China has moved to tighten up control on selling of foreign exchange to importers, the Economic Daily reported yesterday. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange and the the General Administration of Customs had ordered a classification of importers' customs clearing documents to
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        54 15 AP [MANILA] President Joseph Estrada yesterday signed into law this year's Budget which he said would help the Philippine economy grow more than last year. The 629 billion peso (5526.4 billion) Budget will bring growth up to 4.5-5.5 per cent by the end of the
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      407 17 WASHINGTON Report sajs govt needs to continue structural reforms Reuters, AFP THE International Monetary Fund forecast strong growth and manageable inflation for boom economy Australia on Tuesday, and said the risks associated with a high current account deficit were manageable. The IMF
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      389 17 SYDNEY Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S central hank says two interest rate increases since last November haven't slowed the economy yet, suggesting the bank may raise borrowing costs again this year. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said in its quarterly economic outlook that it
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      202 17 NEW DELHI AFP INDIA'S Information Technology Minister Pramod Mahajan has expressed concern over a dizzy rise in stock markets ftielled by information technology shares. 1 do not want this (rise in share values) to crash and start from scratch," Mr Mahajan told a business
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      714 18  -  It warns Congress that delay may mean postponing it till mid-2001, after the elections From. Leon Hadar in Washington CLINTON administration officials are pressing for a Congressional vote on the deal that will allow China to join the World Trade Organization
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      343 18 Reuters [WASHINGTON] A prankster who usurped President Bill Clinton's name to urge more Internet pornography in an online presidential interview said on Tuesday it was an easy trick that highlighted flaws in new-media journalism. "It was completely unplanned. I was just
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      195 19 NEW YORK Bloomberg FOREIGN investors bought a record amount of US stocks last year to tap into economic growth, low inflation, a strong dollar and gains of computer-related shares, the Securities Industry Association (SIA) said. Overseas investors bought about U*****.9 billion (*****.8 billion)
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      478 19 mTOKYO Aim is to ensure stable global growth, so Opec likely to raise production Reuters SAUDI Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer, has signalled that oil prices should fall by at least 10 per cent, after more than doubling in the
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      266 19 WASHINGTON Reuters WHEN Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before a Congressional panel today on US interest rate policy, it could mark the end of a closely watched tradition spanning more than two decades. His required appearance before the House Banking
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        92 19 Bloomberg [LONDON] Glaxo Wellcome, which plans to unite with SmithKline Beecham to form the world's biggest drugmaker, said 1999 earnings rose 6 per cent on demand for new respiratory drugs such as Flixotide and Serevent. Net income totalled £1.95 billion (555.28 bWion), or 53.9 pence
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        61 19 Bloomberg [WAJjTHAM, Massachusetts} Lycos, one of the three largest Internet search directories, said its fiscal second-quarter loss widened on higher costs as revenue more than doubled. Its loss widened to US$3l million (5552.7 miUion), or 31 cents a share, in the quarter ended Jan
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        53 19 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Bank said fourth-quarter profit rose 72 per cent as trading income rebounded. Profit rose to 700 miUion euros <551.16 billion), or an indicated 12 euro per share, in the fourth quarter from 406 mOl ion, or 0.73 per share, a
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      238 19 NEW YORK Sources say the group could be split into three arms FT Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), the world's largest accountancy firm, is nearing a decision on a radical reorganisation that could see the group split into three. The three entities would broadly
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      440 19 SEOUL Court's decision will improve cashflow, send its shares np AFP KIA Motors Co, the harbinger of South Korea's economic crisis in 1997, graduated yesterday from nearly two years under court receivership, the company said. Kia Motors applauded the court's decision, which it said would improve
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      245 20  -  SOX Derivatives Tradlngßeports MSCa Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stockmarket closed higher in mixed trading yesterday, lifted by selective buying of tech stocks on rotational play. OveraU market sentiment was cautious as investors await Alan Greenspan's Humphrey-Hawkins report to
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      182 20  -  MSCI Taiwan tatores Matthew Den Bleyker Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index jumped up 106.75 or 1.1 per cent to 10,064.49. One of the main factors influencing the market was a government plan to liberalise fixed-line phone services on the
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      290 20 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] World oil prices held firm near nine-year highs yesterday on continuing signs of depleted stockpiles of crude and refined products in the United States. In the US market, March light, sweet crude futures stood 6 US cents firmer at U5530.12
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      316 20 Reuters THE US dollar remained in tight trading ranges yesterday as traders were reluctant to bet on the currency ahead of testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and of key German data due later this week. Analysts said currency dealers would scan Mr Greenspan's semi-annual Hum-phrey-Hawkins monetary
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      2756 21 HONGKONG Reuters QHMgSig ****** HONGKONG stocks ended higher yesterday with HSBC Holdings Pic leading banks upwards as investors followed their US counterparts by selling tech and telecom-re-lated shares in favour of market laggards. The benchmark Hang Seng Index, which slumped on Tuesday after
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      2033 21 TOKYO Reuters Ommag +23L36 TOKYO'S benchmark Nikkei Average closed firmer yesterday, with banks recovering after sharp falls the previous two days due to a proposal by the Tokyo municipal government to impose a new tax on big banks. Banks rebounded after major credit rating
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      992 21 Reuters DShanheaßlndei -2.45 SHENZHEN'S hard currency B shares closed solidly lower yesterday as renewed concerns over poor corporate earnings for 1999 overshadowed the impact of new official marketboosting measures. The B Share Index fell 2.45 points, or 2.67 per cent, to 89.30 as turnover dropped sharply to HK$Bl.2 million
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      365 21 AFP n VP Index +106,75 TAIWANESE share prices closed 1.1 per cent higher to reclaim 10,000 points yesterday following overnight gains on Wall Street and Vice-Presi-dent Lien Chan's vow to expand the stock market and its trading hours, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index jumped 106.75
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      323 22 AFP fl Composite Index »12S MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.3 per cent higher yesterday due to modest institutional support amid some retail profit taking, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 3.25 points at 998.77. Volume feU to 748.16 million shares worth
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      276 23 AFP CI Composite Index -02 THE Korea Composite Index closed down 0.2 point or 0.02 per cent to 879.50. Volume was 210.9 million shares worth 3.0 trillion won. —AFP WW Anam Saml 8750 -500 BraHTacH 1540 -60 Central to* 2940 100 CMIConn *****0 -5000 DaaGuBank 2700 0 DaatangCorp 3210
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      287 23 AFP □Compositelndex -43J1 PHILIPPINE share prices plunged 2.22 per cent to a 10week low yesterday. The PSE Composite Index fell 43.11 points to 1,894.95. Volume dropped to 6.59 billion shares valued at 1.7 billion pesos from 8.9 billion shares worth 2.6 billion pesos on Tuesday. —AFP Nw row) MAC
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      262 23 QHBB-10 *50.74 NEW Zealand's share market leapt 2.5 per cent yesterday as offshore Interest was awakened by Telecom Corp's results on Tuesday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 50.74 points at 2,087.11 with a turnover worth some NZ5183.9 million. —AFP n>» «a cw«> AOvantaqa H05 1ST 0.02 30 AlrN2A
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      573 23 AFP □AnONiMri- -U8 AUSTRALIAN share prices closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday despite a morning rally which pushed the All Ordinaries index to a record intra-day high, brokers said. The All Ordinaries slipped to close 9.8 points down at 3,148.3. National turnover totalled 1.12 billion shares worth A) 1.85
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      761 23 AFP QSETMg -BJ4 Thai stocks plunged to their lowest levels this year yesterday on a concerted sell-off in the communications and banking sectors, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index plunged 8.14 points or 1.9 per cent to close at 422.83. The select SET-50 was off
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      653 23 AFP Q Composite Index -1540 INDONESIAN share prices closed 2.4 per cent down yesterday amid rumours of possible retaliatory moves by supporters of former security minister General Wiranto, dealers said. Sentiment was also dampened by worries over a plan to raise excise taxes and the weakening rupiah, they said.
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        521 26  -  The motonngmdustry in Singapore takes a right turn into cyberspace. Already companies are registering dot-com services for buyers sellers and everyone in between. Even the Land Transport Authority is said to be expanding its existing Web site to offer an online
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        267 26 ST KINETICS, a new unit of listed ST Engineering, has set up an online auction site for the public to buy and sell used cars. The main difference of www.juzclickcar.com.sg is that buyers will get a one-year warranty for cars which are less than seven
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        446 26 Top executive says turnover this year is expected to reack 5m units, up 3% from 19M GERMAN automotive giant Volkswagen expects sales to hit six million units, or 23 per cent higher than 1999's figure, "within the next five
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        395 26  -  More plants possible if export programme takes off Reports by Christopher Tan VOLKSWAGEN, the world's fourth largest vehicle maker, is embarking on two new car projects in China that could boost group sales by one million units or 20 per cent. Board
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        219 26 VOLKSWAGEN subsidiary Audi Ag is spending 100 million marks (SsBs million) to improve high-speed stability of its IT sports car, according to a top VW executive. Board member Robert Buechelhofer said 250 cars a day were being retrofitted with additional features such as stabilisers
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      684 29  -  ITTITITJaITri commentary I They mast harness the benefits of the Internet and offer value-added services if they want to stay relevant ong choon fah The writer is executive director at DTZ Debenham Tie Leung THE valuer's role is commonly mistaken to be restricted
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      992 30  -  Pasir Ris Garden (below) and other collective sale sites may soon be slapped with higher development charges when rates are revised in two weeks, kalpana rashiwala finds out more about the oredicament facina owners and develoDers i KALPANA RASHIWALA Developers of several key collective sale
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      129 31 Bridge News Reuters THE freight market was generally quieter on Tuesday, although the all round strength of capesize chartering was maintained, especially in the Far East, brokers said on Tuesday. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and Baltic Panamax Index both rose 28 points to 1393 and 1,348 respectively,
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      327 31 AnHRMATO OF BRIKA SDHZMO [PARIS] France will ask its European Union partners to adopt new shipping safety regulation r in the wake of the sinking of the tanker Erika, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said on Tuesday. Among the recommended changes were laws to
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      255 31 Reuters [LONDON] Insurers should control the ship safety classification process in the light of weaknesses exposed by the Erika's loss, a senior tanker broker said. Insurance companies should hold the mandate over who inspected vessels' structural conditions and passed them as safe, Sultan Riaz
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      232 31  -  From i Alec Almazan in Manila [MANILA] One of the Philippines' largest passenger ferries, the 4,885 grt Superferry 3, caught fire on Tuesday while undergoing repairs at Keppel Cebu Shipyard, a member of Singapore's Keppel Group. The fire, which started at 11 am,
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        630 32  -  Port looking at IT solutions and customising the best to its requirements, taking into account the local situation m Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman chief executive officer of Port ofTavjung Pelepas Malaysian Business Times IN THE new millennium, industries are racing to upgrade and innovate and introduce
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        205 42 Feb 23 Brunei: National Day. Fafc2B Taiwan: Peace Day. Marl Korea: Independence Movement Day. Marlt Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia:Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. Brunei: Hari Raya Aidiladha. Mar 17 United States: St Patrick's Day Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland). Maris Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential Election.
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        794 42 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Banker Price Index change and the Individual
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        540 43 aviation dispute Proposals include revoking landing slots to UK planes, banning British Airways Concorde Reuters [WASHINGTON] US lawmakers threatened to deny landing slots to British planes and other sanctions in retaliation for Sailed talks last month on a new bilateral aviation agreement. Republicans and
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        225 43 Bloomberg [PARIS] Air France said it bought the remainder of Ireland's City Jet for an undisclosed sum, as it pushes to strengthen regional services feeding passengers into its hub at Paris's Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport. Europe's third-biggest carrier said it bought a stake in
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        451 43 Reuters [AUCKLAND] Air New Zealand, New Zealand's national carrier, reported yesterday a strong profit for the six months to December, but warned rising fuel costs may well hold back operating margins. The airline also said it was close to finalising
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        222 43 Move in response to rising prices for aviation fuel Reuters [BRISBANE] Qantas Airways, United Airlines, Thai Airways International and Air New Zealand introduced surcharges on some ex-Aus-tralia freight on Monday and Tuesday in response to rising prices for aviation ftiel. Qantas said the surcharge
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        110 43 [SINGAPORE] SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, won a maintenance contract with US air cargo carrier Polar Air Cargo Inc (Polar), a company statement said on Tuesday. SIAEC, which had applied for a Singapore stock exchange listing, did not announce
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        600 44  -  Asia's wine imports are set to grow at a steady rate of 10%-15°/o a year, reports AMK TOH ANN TOH [SINGAPORE] WINE demand in Asia is slowly bubbling back to pre-crisis levels, presenting opportunities for logistics companies serving this highly-specialised trade. According to JF
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        288 44  -  Poh TiongChoen Logistics wants to be cltse to customers, who are mainly from the chemicals sector By, Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] An 80-hectare logistics hub on Singapore's Jurong Island has received its first logistics operator, Poh Tiong Choon Logistics, which announced it will lease
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        139 44 [SINGAPORE] British Airways has launched a new £20 million (5155.2 million) e-commerce initiative using an integrated e-commerce platform designed by IBM. Phase one of the initiative features web infrastructure that can accommodate larger volumes of Internet visitors and online bookings, and adds real-time flight arrivals
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        287 44 Cnrrent average delivery time is fear days DHL survey [SINGAPORE] One in every five orders made online are delivered later than customers' expectations, a global e-com-merce survey by DHL has revealed. The average delivery time today is four days, but the
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      87 42 Hir fpi The advent of Information Technology and intermodal logistics solutions have dramatically changed the global logistics industry. In addition, Singapore is fast becoming the logistics hub of the region. To keep our readers updated, Shipping Times now features a full page on logistics on Thursday every fortnight with news
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