The Business Times, 28 February 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 I Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ SINGAPORE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2000 OCA
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    77 1 FOBEX KATES uss st USS L7» £fUSS/S$ per 1*96 1728 EUROfUS$/S$/E) 0-888- 1.189 DM \m YEN 11«J 1J42 RM J.8W 0.4a0 HK$ 7.7W M2» BAHT t7M 9Mb RIIP1AH 7,446 .023 'St to 100 units •StloM units PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KTALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK ..ISO MANILA 11.00
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    64 1 STOCK HAIKET INDICES Y*sk Chuge STL 2440.40 -3896 SIMSO FUTURES ....280.30. 4.90 BTSfiL 781.lt -115 KLSE COMP....... 1,102.62. .-10.65 NIKKEI— 19,817.88l.....+28.85 HA.NO SENG 17.200.96....+601.82 SET INDEX 406.66. -1.61 JAKARTA COMP .568.56. 41.01 MANILA COMP CLOSED. TAIPHWPI .9,***** -728.56 SEOUL OOMP .***** -14J8 CLSA CHINA B 776.49 -48.53 AUST
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    Lock icon Firms get ready for next e-wave: m-commerce
    934 1  -  I^TTexclusTve Global m-commerce revenues will more than quadruple to USss6.4b by 2003 By Raju Chellam [SINGAPOREJ Even before "conventional" electronic commerce can rise to its full potential, the next wave of e-commerce will soon be here mobile commerce, or mcommerce. M-commerce is e-com-merce
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    Lock icon Giving up the reins to see a dream come true
    810 1  -  -i IQMindxom founders agreed to work under street-smart boss on business angels' advice By. Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] If you quit a well-paying job to become your own boss in a dot-com, would you then be willing to go back to
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    Lock icon HSBC: We acted properly in HKT dealings
    523 1  -  Bank says it hasn't heard from Sing Tel or legal advisors From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HSBC Holdings last night defended its dealings with Cable Wireless HKT and said it has not heard from Singapore Telecom or its legal advisors amid media
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    Lock icon CyberWorks makes offer to HKT's UK parent
    140 1  -  By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Pacific Century CyberWorks has made an offer to the board of Cable Wireless pic for its stake in its Hongkong phone subsidiary, it said in an announcement But signs are that the UK parent of Cable Wireless HKT has
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      90 1 inside BizlT There are more Internet start-ups from Singapore at this year's CeBIT fair in Germany than ever before. Pg 2 Server sales hit record in Asia-Pacific. Pg 6 Top stories Tech mania overcomes good sense on Footsie. Next Page MMI seeks more ventures after ecQuaria. Pg4 Middle East output
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      11 1 I-1 i comment Vikram Khanna on HK's cronyism.com fever Next Page
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      Lock icon Hongkong's cronyism.com fever
      787 2  -  I :j| comment ECONOMICS The hordes eager for a piece of Tomxom weren't betting on the Internet, but on LI Ka-shing's clout with China vikram khanna THE really telling thing about the IPO of the Internet portal-to-be, Tom.com, in Hongkong last week is not the chaos and
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      Lock icon Tech mania overcomes good sense on Footsie
      619 2  -  Old-timers may be damped from the main UK index as investors chase telecoms, Net stocks From Neil Behrmann in London INVESTORS on the London stock exchange have been dumping stocks of the so-called old economy in favour of tech stocks and this may
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      278 2 I _L Ihe Hut MBA OF HULL MBA (General) 28th Intake T^\ "Ranked Among Starting in Singapore April 2000 Session MBA (Investment Rnance). 10th Intake VJ^Jf"Jf Universities, 1999" Starting in Singapore March 2000 x UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" pill) mba Doctor of PWKwopliy Iw Buriwe—
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      Lock icon Search for IMF chief turns into a war of attrition
      1290 3  -  German arm-twisting has turned the process so ugly that the tradition of Europe alone choosing the IMF leader may have come to an end By] Blair Pethel,Elizabeth Price Bridge News [WASHINGTON] ONE hundred and seventeen days after Michel Camdessus announced
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      Lock icon THE THREE CONTENDERS
      51 3 Mr Sikahibanu Some Asian nations may back him for his calls for Asian Monetary Fund Hr Fliciwn Appears to be the logical choice for the post were he to hold a different passport FILS PHOTOS Mr Ktea-W«MR Appears to have backing only from Europe and China FILE
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon MMI seeks more ventures after ecQuaria
      1024 4  -  l-li exclusive Its 10 venture investments over last IV2 years leads to set np of $30m venture fund By, Jennifer Lien A DISK-DRIVE baseplate maker getting into the venture capital business sounds like yet another locally listed stock cashing in on the Internet craze?
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      Lock icon Parkway Laboratory Services gets SGX go-ahead for listing
      210 4  -  By Soh Tiang Keng PARKWAY Laboratory Services Pte Ltd (PLS), a subsidiary of Parkway Holdings, has received in-principle approval for listing of its shares on SGX-Sesdaq. Mainboard-listed Parkway Holdings (Parkway), the health-care group, has an indirect interest of 100 per cent in
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      Lock icon Central Package in new China foray
      1237 5  -  Group bays 62% of Bering maker of litho-boxes and paper pulp moulding By, Johnny Too CENTRAL Package Group, a homegrown regional packaging manufacturing group eyeing a Singapore main board listing, has strengthened its foothold in China with yet another acquisition. Shortly after acquiring a
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      Lock icon Tech rush unearths blue-chip nuggets
      201 5 Reuters THE rush to technology stocks has unearthed nuggets in its wake in traditional Singapore blue chips which might come back into play this week. Analysts said electronic stocks would continue to be the focus, but investors could do well to pick up some of
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      567 4 Lester C. Thurow, distinguished professor at tt>a Massachusetts Institute o* Technology, will address the critical issues of wealth creation in a knowledge-based economy. Drawing references from his recently published book, "Building Wealth", Professor Thurow will discuss the impact of breakthrough technologies and the emergence of new industries on the game
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      215 4 KYOSHA HOLDINGS (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 28 May 1999) Invitation in respect of 46,000,000 Ordinary Shares of HK$O.5O each comprising 30,000,000 New Shares and 16,000,000 Vendor Shares as follows:(1) 9,200,000 Offer Shares at 550.28 for each Offer Share by way of public offer; and (2) 36,800,000 Placement Shares
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      139 5 Solutions for Better Business coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is_ SUCCESS Henry Ford Winning the TOP IBM AS/400 BUSINESS PARTNER award for three consecutive years since 1997 is no mean feat. And we couldn't have done it without you. ism Singapore Pte. ud.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Worldwide wrt – decent numbers in price, gearing
      201 6  - Worldwide wrt decent numbers in price, gearing WABBAMT WATCH -By R Sivanithy PROPERTY stocks are almost completely out of favour at the moment in the local market, thanks to a view that they represent the boring, "old" economy. Oddly enough, things seem to be different in Malaysia, where the property
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      403 6 Source: JM Sassoon Stocks Volume IPCCorpn5c 176,501,000 Goldtron20c 141.283,000 Aztech 5c„ 107,213,000 MMI HWgslOc 80.123,000 NOL 86,437,000 Vtekers Capital 25c 60.030.000 QES Intl Ltd 20c 60,881,000 Ionics P$1.00 58,029,000 WngboardUSIOc 52,560,000 EasyKnit2kA 48,148,000 Stocks 8 PacificCentury 415,153,534 DBSGrp 346.001,357 QES Inti Ltd 20c 199,535.621 OCBC 150,386,416 SPH 134,549,134 SIA 128,880,638
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      Lock icon Tech stocks may not sustain rally if blue chips slide
      597 6  -  I:] comment STOCKS r.sivanithy A FEW weeks ago, we highlighted the decoupling of the US bond and stock markets in this column, pointing out that although 1999 was a fabulous year for equities, it was pretty dismal for bonds. The
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      Lock icon Parkway may continue its climb
      215 6  -  HOT STOCK -By Wong Wei Kong BUOYED by a major asset sale, shares of Parkway Holdings rose sharply last Friday to top the list of biggest gainers. Parkway shares closed up 24 cents or 5.4 per cent at $4.72. The stock opened at $4.52 and
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      106 6 ♦Magnecomp International has entered into a memorandum of understanding with SAE Magnetics(HK)—a fully owned subsidiary of Japan's TDK Corporation—to establish a joint venture in Hongkong. The objective of this venture, according to Magnecomp, is to develop value added suspension assemblies. ♦Nam Lee Pressed Metal Industries will hold its
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      Lock icon Yen seen under attack, Asian units not spared
      534 6 Market players expect Japan currency to head south by June THE Japanese yen should come under further attack this week. Other Asian currencies are likely to be caught in the crossfire. Market players surveyed by IDEAglobal.com now believe the yen should head
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      166 6 n CEI CONTRACT MANUFACTURING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 28 August 1999) Invitation in respect of 56,000,000 new ordinary shares of $0.05 each comprising:(1) 11,000,000 Offer Shares at $0.16 for each Offer Share by way of public offer; and (2) 45,000,000 Placement Shares by way of placement,
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Oil hikes won't affect CPI: BOA
      363 7  -  P41 4 on the economy inflation By Anna Teo THE recent sharp hikes in oil prices did not, and will not, have any major or permanent impact on inflation in Asia, according to Bank of America's economic research unit. In the February issue of
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      Lock icon New GE Life plan covers child-related illnesses
      277 7 THE first-ever Singapore insurance plan covering childrelated illnesses has been launched by Great Eastern Life. It is Meducare, an educational savings policy covering six child-related diseases, including leukaemia the No 1 cancer disease among children here. On top of the child disease protection,
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      Lock icon M-E output will squeeze margins in petrochem sector
      519 7  -  R^xclusive Higher demand from region's economic recovery may not offset strong supply By' Eugene Low WHILE Asia's economic recovery is boosting regional demand for petrochemicals, margins are likely to remain squeezed as significant manufacturing capacity comes onstream in the Middle East later
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      Lock icon The terms of Clob agreement are less than satisfactory
      459 7  -  MAILiSEmM Andrew Chia Lye Hock Singapore via Internet I REFER to your report of the agreement reached between Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) to end their impasse regarding Clob shares (BT, Feb 26). After months of
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      Lock icon NTUC chief urges use of unit trusts as a performance bonus
      464 7  -  NTUC also promoting use of unit trusts as an investment Ity 1 Soh Tiang Keng NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng yesterday called upon companies and unions to study the possibility of using unit trusts as an investment instrument and
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      30 7 Saudi Arabia to review oil output, Pg 16 ITODAY©&^J?fIL lianhe Zaohao SS!l9itt? jgjkffiß rf turn uta CREATIVE Who will be king of the bourse this year? SPH or Creative Technology?
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      107 7 You can e-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or mail your letter to The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. Please give your full name, address and telephone number. ima THE WORLD'S LEADING OFFSHORE COMPANY AND TAX PLANNINC SPECIALISTS Since 1975 our worldwide
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      93 7 Three-way 1 Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology. 20-25 March 2000 AU the details: www.hannovermesse.de Come to the HANNOVER FAIR and experience the true meaning of the word partnership. Six leading trade fairs with more than 7,500 exhibitors will showcase an unrivalled cross-section of industrial technology. Factory Automation CeMAT Materials
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      Lock icon Japanese carmakers may join US online network
      463 8 TOKYO Reaction to GM, Ford and Daimler combining buying efforts in single Internet portal AP Reuters JAPANESE car makers are considering joining three leading car markers who announced on Friday plans to combine their online buying efforts for suppliers in a single Internet
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      Lock icon BBC to privatise commercial, Web units
      373 8 LONDON Stakes will be sold in BBC Worldwide, beeb.com to plug a funding shortfall Reuters THE British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) plans to privatise its commercial arm BBC Worldwide and the beeb.com Internet service to help solve a cash shortage and raise money for programmes,
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      Lock icon Amazon.com building up regional distribution centres
      371 8 BOSTON Bloomberg AMAZON.COM Inc, the largest Internet retailer, is building regional distribution centres across the world as the company expands its Web-based sales to other countries, chief executive Jeff Bezos said. "We're investing heavily now in international expansion," said Mr Bezos, who spoke at
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      Lock icon IBM, AT&T team up on wireless data services for corporations
      279 8 NEW YORK AP IBM and AT&T have formed a new alliance to enable businesses to provide travelling employees with wireless access to corporate networks and databases with mobile phones and other handheld devices. The deal announced on Friday pairs services
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      69 8 Results of tender for taxable book-entry Government Bond 2000 due 1 Mar 2007 to be issued on 1 Mar 2000 Tenor approx. 7 years Amount Offered Allotted 551,800,000,000 1 |||i& lift Amount Applied 553,518,288,000 Interest/Coupon Rate 4.000% p.a. 1; Average Yield Price on Allotment 4.12% p.a. and 99.277% Cut-off Yield
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon What happens to investors who reject both Clob deals?
      652 12  -  Sources say they may have to claim their shares or proceeds from KL's finance ministry From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur HOLDERS of Malaysian shares formerly traded on Singapore's over-the-counter market Clob International who reject the two options under a deal
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      Lock icon DRB's news conference
      52 12 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters DIVERSIFIED Resources Bhd (DRB) and associate Hicom Holdings Bhd wUI hold a news conference today to announce the "latest development in the group". The Star newspaper said on Friday that the diverse activities of the DRB-Hicom group were to be merged into a single
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      Lock icon Malaysia moves to boost domestic bond market
      272 12 KUALA LUMPUR Panel proposes more govt bonds, lower rating requirements Reuters A MALAYSIAN government panel has proposed that companies with a lower investment grade than the current 888 threshold be allowed to issue bonds to help develop the country's fledgling bond market. The
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      Lock icon Gloom gives way to boom in Malaysia
      569 12 KUALA LUMPUR Stocks jump and spending rises again as GDP grows 5.4% after 1998 recession Reuters STOCKS are soaring, car and house sales are rebounding, company earnings are stronger. The feel-good factor is back in Malaysia. Thanks to a quick turnaround in the
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      319 12 KUALA LUMPUR Guidelines on merger of brokerages to be issued soon Bloomberg, Reuters MALAYSIA'S central bank has ordered the 10 large banks that will be leading mergers with smaller competitors to submit monthly reports on their progress. The banks also must not let the mergers
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      210 12 I 1 iiiimi mi a niiiMWifc iiiiHiii i JWrtii I lM K A g |s II j&hi .i'rt* ii -UttLi I Enjoy Dubai's many great attractions now for Just $929. It's the shopping event of the year. From 1 to 31 March 2000, the Dubai Shopping Festival will host the
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon World Bank sees weak fund flow into region
      406 13 MANILA Investors waiting for clear plans in the face of slow reforms, says Bank chief Bloomberg WORLD Bank president James Wolfensohn said the flow of foreign investment into the Philippines and other countries in the region is unlikely to pick up soon
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      Lock icon Businesses reap windfall from Skytrain
      505 13 I from bangkok harish mehta Hotels, stores on Bangkok transit's route find customers set down at their doorstep THE Skytrain is less than three months old, but it is already helping dozens of hotels and department stores in Bangkok derive unexpected financial benefits. These businesses
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      Lock icon Rupiah finds favour with major US, Europe banks
      414 13  -  Market has overreacted to Maluku trouble, says Deutsche Bank Froml Neil Behrmann in Lon don MAJOR European and US banks believe the Indonesian rupiah will recover and are mildly optimistic about most other Asian currencies. Deutsche Bank believes the market has overreacted
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Will Tom.com go the red chip way?
      770 14  -  I :'i comment HK STOCKS Euphoria over Li Ka-shlng's latest Internet vehicle has disturbing similarities with 1997 red chip frenzy quak hiang whai Hongkong tycoon LiKa-shingandthe Internet have had an extraordinary effect on the Hongkong market in the last six months. So when
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      Lock icon Indian Budget focus on lifting import curbs, IT
      600 14  -  The challenge is to ensure domestic manufacturing is not hit hard while opening np economy From 1 Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi WHEN Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents his third annual Budget to Parliament tomorrow, he will be called upon to
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      Lock icon India's Zee Telefilms to raise US$1.5b
      128 14 LONDON FT ZEE Telefilms, India's largest media and broadcasting group, is to raise US$l.5 billion (552.6 billion) in one of the biggest single capital raising exercises by an Indian company. Zee said it will raise the funds domestically, or internationally by issuing American Depository
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  • US stocks
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      Lock icon Yet another reason to raise rates
      829 15 But does Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's new theory square with the facts, asks LOUIS UCXOTELLE NYT Economic theory is wonderfully pliable. Just when the Federal Reserve seemed to be running out of reasons to slow the economy in anticipation of a rising inflation
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      Lock icon NYSE, NASD call for review of margin lending rules
      281 15 NEW YORK Reuters THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) have asked members to review their lending requirements in a sign of increasing concern that rising levels of margin debt could exacerbate a stock
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      Lock icon Dow's changing role on Wall St
      648 15 NEW YORK D JIA no longer seen as reliable indicator of overall market AP THE Dow Jones Industrial Average's plunge below 10,000 this past week was perhaps an inevitable result of an increasingly fragmented stock market. The 104-year-old average is no longer a reliable
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Saudi Arabia to review oil output to curb prices
      452 16 RIYADH Joint statement with US stresses market stability bnt falls short of pledge to boost production Bloomberg THE world's largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia, has agreed to review production levels, saying a greater balance between oil supply and demand would help
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      Lock icon BIS: Markets may be less confident of soft landing
      438 16 ZURICH They fear tight labour markets and higher oil prices Reuters TIGHT labour markets and higher oil prices appeared to have raised fears in financial markets over the prospects for a benign slowdown in the world's major economies, the Bank for
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      Lock icon Former Barings director still not allowed to run firm
      182 16 LONDON AP A FORMER director of Barings Bank, which collapsed after rogue trader Nick Leeson's massive losses on the Singapore stock exchange, lost his bid on Friday for requalification to run a limited company. Ron Baker was barred from being a
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      Lock icon Pru mulling £4b bid for Equitable: reports
      280 16 LONDON M Stanley to prepare offer; takeover will secure Prn as UK's largest insurer Bloomberg Reuters PRUDENTIAL pic, the UK's largest insurer, is considering a £4 billion (5510.9 billion) bid for Equitable Life Assurance Society, the world's oldest mutual insurer, British newspapers reported.
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      1841 16 if —i Wah Shing International Holdings Limited A 'J (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Wah Shing International Holdings Limited (the "Company") will be held at Lotus Room, Level 4, Tower Wing Block, Shangri-La Hotel,
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
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      Lock icon Oil holds firm to 9-year highs, palladium slips from summit
      610 17 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON) Oil remained close to the nine-year highs seen in recent weeks as dealers continued to assess likely decisions on output from the world's leading producers, while palladium toppled off its perch as prices were frozen in
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      266 18 HONGKONG HONGKONG stocks may be in for a wild ride in the coming week due to Wall Street's correction, a possible merger deal for Cable Wireless HKT, HSBC group results and the trading debut of red-hot Internet portal tom.com Ltd. A government
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      472 18 NEW YORK Nasdaq up 4% on the week to 4,590.50 poshing index up 12.8% for the year AFP THE Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq continued their separate ways during the week, with blue chips on the Dow dipping below the 10,000
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      453 18 TOKYO TOKYO stocks are expected to firm slightly this week, possibly regaining the psychologically key 20,000-point level with the help of new eq-uity-oriented investment trusts. Although the market is still likely to rely on New York for direction, traders said strong demand
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      293 18 LONDON AFP THE London stock exchange was flat on Friday at the end of a turbulent week as the prospect of higher interest rates on both sides of the Atlantic continued to dog appetite for shares, although the telecoms sector gained from merger
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      1768 18 HPmm *125*8 PARIS bourse closed higher for third straight day last Friday, bolstered by gains on new economy stocks and a firm start on US high-tech index Nasdaq. The CAC-40 Index ended up 125.92 points, or 2.1 per cent, over the week to end at 6,188.64 points
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      854 18 F1 Sydney *31 DOMESTIC data in the week ahead is likely to show improving external accounts and sustainable economic growth, boding well for the Australian share market, brokers said. "Solid (company) earnings and positive prospects for the domestic and global economies will provide firm underpinnings for the
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      456 19 AFP n Composite Index MALAYSIAN stocks are set to firm in the coming week thanks to local retail buying, analysts said on Friday. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended on Friday at 1,002.62, down 6.91 points on the day and
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      570 20  -  SGZ Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup Peter Luxton Standard Poor's MMS This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [LONDON] A big data week is seen for all the majors, although the driving force behind foreign exchange is likely
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      276 22 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 4 Fight to get into bad set of com--1 Slightly mistimed call to resume P uter programs (8) contest? (7,3) 5 Up to some stunt, I'll be bound 6 Care to develop piece of ground 5 (4) 7 Agree with artist's fancy (7) 9 Made notes about
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      279 23 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young AFTER the sale of the Toba a few weeks ago, the Izusan Mara (258,000/92) was reported sold to clients of the Namaris region US$35 million. This underlines the perceived market levels being in line with the Toba price. Byzantine Maritime of Greece has
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      478 23  -  Computer-based programme will identify ships in urgent need of inspection By Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The Port State Control Committee in the Asia Pacific region has decided at the end of its four-day meeting to develop a computer-based system to target ships for inspection.
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      294 23 Reuters [LONDON] Demand for modern tonnage in the Mediterranean 80,000 tonne tanker market is increasing as pressure continues to fix young ships, brokers said. Rates of worldscale 140-5 were reported for Aframax tankers in the sector, up around five worldscale points,
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      613 23  -  notsrufi By David Hughes AT one time it was fairly common for large shipping and transport companies to include shipyards within the group. That is quite uncommon these days. Danish shipping giant A P Moller does of course have the massive Odense yard.
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      237 23 Reuters [PANAMA CITY] The Panama Canal's revenues for January totalled US$4B.9 million (5583.13 million), down 2.6 per cent from the same period a year ago, the waterway's administrator's said. Cargo tonnage from the month's 1,048 ship transits slipped 2.0 per cent to 15.9 million
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      95 23 AFP (CAIRO] Suez Canal revenues rose last year to US$l.76 billion (552.99 billion), up US$6O million or 3.5 per cent from the previous year, the Suez Canal authority said in a recent statement. Canal revenues, a main source of foreign currency for Egypt, had been decreasing
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        655 24 Letters sent to shipping firms offering 'anti-piracy embarkation teams' of 4-8 Gurkhas to deter piracy ANGLO Marine Overseas Services Ltd has sent letters to international shipping companies offering "antipiracy embarkation teams" of four to eight Gurkhas. The letter, one of which was received by Australia's
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      312 24 PAGE ECl 4 Am 3 ECU Line 6 t Accord 8 ESP lines 13 AhrenkiH M 05 M Appenship 5 6 Asia OCL 13 un Austral 8 Frtlinks M Avant 14 B'tangMas 8 Cemartrans 6 KA G«mlw 13 Global 13 BTl M Glory Hav M RJUII Shoo
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      18522 31 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser VhuI Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vtinl Voyage T elephone SIN Dest'n Name Nan* Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Nam* Number Number MMMHHMHWHMMHMHMnaMMMaHNMmi ■BMNHHHMRanMHaHHMBMMMBMM 06/03 03/04 Del mas IKARUGA 023S 65-*****44 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'I voire m/03 <m/04 cosco ever
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        2022 37 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booklnq/EteUncc Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrlod From To From Ml HWSCUS 036* 21/12:00 2A 24/1700 27*45* 27**00 n 24/1700 27*45* rtmoo 3 27/0700 27/18* 27/MOO 4 27/1200 27/M5* 27/1700 MUMC *5S 29/2X30 2* 24/T7Q0 27**5* 27/HOO 21 24/1700 27/0*5*
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        205 37 M2B Taiwan: Peace Day. Karl Korea: Independence Movement Day. Mar It Indonesia: Hari Ray a HajiMalaysia: 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. Mar 20 Japan:
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        756 37 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 based on averagesized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the Individual
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        399 37 Crt* ISO Max 982J 04 16.9 0.08 88 045 r L Hat or ImMui i|k UwaMvn So8hMflt No J6ov* £25 10 8F 24 222! 1 380 A* WW 0J MJ 0.07 43 0-03 .?Z 380 Ma 998.9 04 WJ 0.14 270 0.08 gjW 9/9 M/M H/U
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        506 38 US business jet maker no plans to expand capacity or product range Reuters [SINGAPORE] US businessjet maker Gulfstream has adopted a strategy based on after-sales service to broaden its revenue and distinguish itself from its competitors, executive vice-president Gene Rainville said.
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        105 38 [SINGAPORE] United Airlines general manager Bill Byrne holds up a lucky scroll he receivedfrom a prancing 'lion' to mark the launch of the US carrier's resumption of a daily Singapore-Hongkong service. The service is a boon to business travellers as it features a 7.40
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        417 38 Reuters [ROME] Italy unveiled a "Plan B" for Milan's controversial Malpensa hub after complaints from other airlines, the European Union and environmentalists forced it to ground a transfer of flights from Linate airport. Transport Minister Pierluigi Bersani told reporters the new plan would take
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        241 38 Reuters [ZURICH] More than 20 luxury carriages of the famed Orient Express are up for sale in Switzerland because the historic train has become too expensive to operate, its owner said. Swiss travel operator Reisebuero Mittelthurgau AG said it was in
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        559 38 Boeing deliveries of big commercial jets slow down Reuters (SEATTLET] Two days of talks failed to produce a new contract between Boeing Co and its striking engineers union. As the walkout reached 17 days, slowing Boeing deliveries of big commercial jets and disrupting
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        181 38 NYT [DAYTON, OhioJ Investigators have finished gathering debris from the Feb 16 crash of an Emery Worldwide Airlines DC-8 freighter in California and will shift their work to Washington, DC, a spokesman said. Most of the wreckage will remain locked in a warehouse in
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      629 24 Lines services represented /jSM9KKV by Members of the Registry of Members of the VCTBBy Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore Logistics Association S'pore National Shipping Assoc. NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAICBUUC PROJECT CARGO T0... DJIMNEIt/FREIUNILE MV "ARKTIS GRACE' 7 V.OOOl ETA SIN 01/03/2000 BOOKINGS CALL MOMC4/JUUA TIL 323 4374 """"""coSSEty
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      1019 27 W.I.F. FEB 2000 ACCEPTING CM 1 TO DAKAK, LAOOS, TEMA I AMMAN VIA GENOA J I GtNCRAI A«NTS IN SINGAPORE: 80 ROBINSON RD TEL 226 1900 FAX: *****0* OUTWARD (l/l) 4205M2 ToHoSofFlo"^™™™ COSTAR SHIPPING Ml LTD *12-00 sales/kgs *****57/43 inward kpt (d/O) *****15 COSTAR AGENCIES (M) SDN BID CR NO:
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      204 39 Flocking to CeBIT ~~T~ H(, mk .^H iJ] r; 3 to triple HHEllyn't_ g a i expects the company's iL \l revenues to rise plo** 41 to$30million I I this year There are more Internet start-ups from Singapore at this year's CeBIT fair in Germany than ever before, as Andrew
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      669 40  -  l-ll exclusive S'pore companies are exhibiting in three halls and half are startups Reports from Andrew Wee in Hannover, Germany OF the 22 companies exhibiting under the Singapore Trade Development Board's (TDB) three national pavilions at CeBIT, half are startups and have been
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      Lock icon Trek's Thumb Drive debuts at CeBIT
      409 40 HOMEGROWN Trek 2000 International (S) Pte Ltd, which provides digital electronic solutions, has just unveiled what could be the world's smallest storage device. Called a Thumb Drive, it is designed and developed in Singapore, can store between 8-128 MB of data and will cost
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      497 40 It plans to list in Singapore or in the US this year HOMEGROWN Internet telephony provider InnoMedia Pte Ltd expects to gross $30 million in revenue this year, tripling last year's $9 million. It signed a $1 million deal late last year with
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      Lock icon Novell on aggressive growth path in Asean
      554 41  -  -II exclusive The software giant is targeting at least 50 per cent growth across the region Byi Raju Chellam NETWORK services supplier Novell Inc plans to go on overdrive in Asean this year with robust growth, more staff, more regional offices, a dedicated
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      650 41 NYT [NEW YORK] Imagine your car as a digital appliance, like a laptop computer or a cellular phone. Picture rolling through any toll plaza in North America without having to stop and picking up your e-mail as you pass. Warnings of traffic jams or
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      337 42  -  jeamette pang looks at what is offered at the Web site launched by CD Imaging JEANETTE PANG A Singaporebased photographic lab, CD Imaging Pte Ltd, has launched Asia's first one-stop online digital imaging service. The service, at www.fotohub.com, provides online image hosting services
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      350 42 Bloomberg [ROME] Olivetti SpA said on Saturday that it has no plans to restructure or merge its telecommunications units, scotching speculation that Italy's largest computer equipment maker would merge its Tecnost and Telecom Italia units. Analysts have speculated Olivetti will fully integrate
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        76 42 Internet World Alia S'pore INTERNET World Asia Singapore 2000 exposition will be held for three days from March 1, at Suntec City. The event now also includes two other major events— Scan-Tech Asia 2000, and Infosecurity Asia 2000—to be held concurrently. Billed as Asia's largest event for e-business and Internet
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        48 42 A TrLKKti-UAi exposition, uaiiuentres world Asia 2000, will be held from March 1 at Raffles City. It is organised by AIC Worldwide, sponsored by Singapore Telecom, Aspect Communications, Nortel Networks, Ericsson, and Eyretel, and supported by Singapore's Economic Development Board. For details, go to www.caUcentres-worldwide.com.
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        42 42 THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) will organise the first experimental event on broadband multimedia and online applications. Called eFestival Asia, it will be held for a week from March 1, at Suntec City. Admission is free.
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        87 42 MICROSOFT Singapore will officially launch Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional in Singapore on March 2. "The company and its partners have already invested over $3 million, most of it in training, partner product and services development, marketing and customer education," the company said.
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        58 42 SUN Microsystems' Sun Technology Days, a two-day event on the most current software concepts available to developers, will be held from March Bat the Pan Pacific j Hotel. It will provide developers with the technology, training and tools to develop applications for the Internet, intranet and the
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        Lock icon HP, SingPost tie up
        68 42  -  Raju Chellam HEWLETT Packard has appointed Singapore Poet as its logistics partner for the HP Planet Partners Recycling Program, to help users of HP LaserJet printers recycle print cartridges. Sing Post will provide island-wide collection services for the 100 cartridge drop-offbins in companies throughout Singapore, and
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      Lock icon How the Budget affects Net start-ups
      845 43  -  nuiMHH-y'if'-iiro The Internet Is changing the way business Is done and Investments made. Tag legislation must also change with it jean de souza The writer is Tax Partner with Ernst Young THIS year's Budget held little in the way of tax breaks for the
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      687 43 One seeks to secure computer communications, the other deals with how to crack them LAT-WP [HARTFORD, Connecticut] It's a little bit like comedian Steven Wright's joke about putting a humidifier and a dehumidifier in one room and letting them fight it out.
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      Lock icon Server sales hit record in Asia-Pacific
      448 44  -  -ii exclusive! Singapore saw USs262m worth of servers sold in 1999, up 23 per cent over the previous year, says IDC /ty] Raju Chellam THE Asia-Pa-cific market for computer servers produced record results in 1999 with the market surging past the US$4 billion (557.14
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      239 44 Washington Post [WASHINGTON] Yet another World Wide Web site was temporarily blocked in a "denial of service" attack, the FBI said last week. The site was the FBl's. Denial of service attacks flood the target computer with requests for information. The FBI incident
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      Lock icon Huge opportunities in B2B segment
      561 45  -  v mathivanan The writer is CEO, Singapore Network Services Pte Ltd THE Internet has created a borderless and virtual marketplace where organisations can now conduct online and real-time business. Inevitably, such B2C (business-to-con-sumer) or 828 (busi-ness-to-business) e-commerce has caused a paradigm shift in lifestyles and
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      625 45 At stake is the first bite at a mobile commerce market worth 23b euros by 2003 Reuters [HELSINKI] Companies pitching for a slice of the much-hyped mobile commerce pie were out in full force to bring the wonders of WAP one step
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      Lock icon Net changing the healthcare industry
      422 46  -  Consumers are becoming more informed about medicines and thus have higher expectations of the healthcare they receive By Toh Han Shlh THE Internet is changing the healthcare industry. Last year, over 17 million people in the US alone accessed health information on the Net. There
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      664 46 It will offer people a way to bid, via Internet, for the lowest prices in the neighbourhoods NYT JUST when petrol prices are making some drivers hot under the collar, along comes Priceline.com with a program that the company insists will enable
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      663 47 NYT [LAKELAND, Florida] James Arth was having a grand old time with his laptop computer. He was doing things with it that your child or grandchild might do to yours sometime only worse. He deleted the Windows' operating system folder. (He cut the operating
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      781 47  -  I si I exclusive Homegrown start-up offers e-ordering with connected POS terminals By* Jeanette Pang LEd by the aroma of the food and beverage (F&B) industry, a local technopreneur wants to transform the industry here into an efficient and cost-effective e-communi-ty with his 828 (business-to-business)
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      Lock icon Drama at HP's PC launch
      280 48  -  The 3.8 kg system took 19,000 R&D manhours to develop, HP says Byi Jane Cheong LAST week, US giant Hewlett-Packard Company invited the media to attend the wedding ceremony of a certain Mr Hugh and a Ms Pamela. Mr Hugh turned out to be Norleena
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        220 48 TOSHIBA Singapore has launched five new notebook computer models under its Satellite brand for business and professional users. The details: ♦Satellite 2180CDT costs $3300, runs on a Mobile AMD K6-2-P with 3DNow! technology at 475 MHz and comes with 64 MB RAM, 4.3 GB hard disk,
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        66 48 GATEWAY now offers its Solo 2150 laptop with Intel's Pentium IH 500 or600 MHz processors, at prices starting from $3,499. The 2150 will be available with Intel Celeron chips, including the 500 MHz processor, which runs at a 100 MHz front-side bus speed and uses less battery
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        93 48 SYMANTEC Corp is ready with Norton Ghost far Novell's NetWare 2.0. It is a server imaging copying and maintenance tool that minimises the time administrators spend setting-up, rolling out upgrading and restoring NetWare servers. Norton Ghost for NetWare enables administrators to set up a single NetWare
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        Lock icon Intel's new e-biz products
        90 48  -  OapMfef Raju Chellam products under its NetStructure family, targeted at companies getting into e-business. The products grantee faster online connections, security authentication and server response time. "The products are designed to be easily deployed and complement companies' existing network and server environment, and help improve server
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      Lock icon 3Com's Palm launches organiser with colour screen
      290 48 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California! 3Com Corp's Palm Inc unit, maker of the top-selling Palm electronic organisers, introduced its first model with a colour screen, betting that customers will pay more for the option. The Palm Die costs US$449 and rims on a rechargeable
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      400 49  -  24/7 Media Asia sees exponential growth while Goldman Sachs puts ad-spend at over USsl.4sb in 2001, reports Catherine ***** CATHERINE ONG ONLINE advertising revenue in Asia will grow exponentially and ad rates are expected to double in the next 12-18 months,
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      Lock icon Few cyber crooks get punished despite rise in hackings
      852 49 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Only a handful of computer attackers are actually caught and convicted as federal law enforcement of cyber-crime lags far behind the explosive growth of the Internet, Justice Department records show. In 1998, the private sector reported at least 3,700
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      249 47 I Close to 30% of IT profecfs are nev&wcessfuNy completed, I —wasting approximately US$75 billion annually, I 51 %of IT projects exceed budget by 189% and deliver only I 74 percent of expected functionality. I The greatest contributor to IT project failure is I poor project management.— I Gartner Institute
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      769 50  -  idexclusive Ebiz and Besonders are gearing up to offer ASP solutions for the financial sector in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region, reports TOH BAM SHXH TOH HAN SHIH SINGAPORE startups Ebiz Solutions and Besonders are offering ASP (Application Service Providers) solutions that allow companies in
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        94 50 SESAMI.COM Pte Ltd, which provides business-to-business e-commerce solutions, has tied up with BDP Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, the Asian arm of the logistics and supply chain management company, to offer integrated e-commerce solutions for supply chain management to Asian companies. "The integration of BDFs systems
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        86 50 SESDAQ-LISTED Panpac Media.com Ltd has tied up with Microsoft's MSN Singapore to deliver the latest financial, sports and entertainment news to MSN Singapore users, at www.msn.com.sg. Panpac's two primary portals AsiaStockWatch.com and Zing Asia.com will provide the news content on a daily basis. ZmgAsia.com, a regional
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        88 50 HEWLETT-PACKARD said Mediaßing Talk, the Internet voice communication software, will be available free to HP Pavilion home PC users throughout the Asia-Pacific region. New Pavilion customers will have Mediaßing Talk pre-installed, and existing customers will soon be able to download it from www.hppavilion.com/ap. The software
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        48 50 THE National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) has launched a technopreneurship Singapore portal at wwwJachsingapore.conLsg for the high-tech entrepreneurial community hare. The site lists more than 100 technopreneurs, venture capitalists and lawyers who have signed up for the directory and brokerage services, NSTB said.
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        83 50 YAHOO! Singapore e-mail users can now enjoy a new feature that will significantly cut the intrusion of unsolicited commercial e-mail (or spam) into users' mailboxes. Yahoo! has created a separate bulk mail folder into which unsolicited commercial mail will be delivered. Yahoo! said it is
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        82 50 LOOKING for a way to aggregate all the information you need in one location? You can now with My Yahoo!, at http://myyahoo.com.sg. It is a customisable Web-based service that lets users select information located on Yahoo! Singapore, at wwwjaft*o.a>mjg end other 1 Yahoo! sites, and aggregate
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        57 50  -  OoapOid by] Raju Chellam LAZARD Asia Fund and Viventures will invest US$3 million (S*s. l million) in Asset Line Holdings, the holding company of the Asset Line Exchange Web kite, a business-to-business e-commerce start-up. Asset Line.com. at wunoAs9etLine.com, is an online auction exchange for used construction
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