The Business Times, 10 March 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 850 SINGAPORE Inte.'PPt: hrtp.//business-times.asial .com.sg/ FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2000
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    68 1 m 2,***** (+9.71) man 738.72 (+4.89) ansa FUTURES 270.40 (+0.80) STOCK HASEET INDICES TTmrsday Change KLSEOOXP ***** -8JJ NIKKEI 19,***** -184.47 HANO SENG 17,637.93 414.40 SET INm ***** +7J7 JAKARTA COhP __585.18 +15.13 MANILA 00MP —1,***** -12*4 TAIPEI WPI 9j87.27 +li7.78 SEOUL COMP ***** 41.36 CL8A CHINA B
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    75 1 foux kites US$ 3$ m 1.711 £(USt/S$perS) 1.682 1797 EUBOfUS$/SS/E) I JO 1.648 DM 2.031 1.842 YEN 106.7 1.604 RM 1800 0.460 HKS 7.784 0520 BAHT 17 J4 0.046 RUFIAH 7J00 OjW* 'Sttommuls PKmB BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA S»M BANGKOK 9.60 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Rising flow of money into technology funds
    826 1  -  BTrJMIIUWJ IPO fever helps tech-theme funds soak up over $lJb since last Sept By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Retail investors are flocking to technology funds in droves. In the sev-en-month period since last September, The Business Times estimates that over $1.1 billion has flowed
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    Lock icon Oil prices gain footing after 10% slump
    574 1 Opec reportedly ready to raise output next month Reuters [LONDON! Oil's roller-coast-er rally showed fresh resilience yesterday, clawing back some big losses despite signals that Opec is readying an output hike to avoid hurting the world economy. Benchmark Brent crude stood 2 per
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    Lock icon The new age of dressing down
    579 1  -  Thank Internet st&rt-nps for a sartorial revolution at work By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] In this age of the New Economy, clothes do not always make a man. Or at least it's not that wearing a suit to work puts you somewhere up there.
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      116 1 mgnw Exec Lifestyle riwtii l- MMu Welcome to Olympic City. EL 1 •5 > Cool duo: MercedesBenz E2OO remains the most refined and classy in Its segment. Audi A 6 I.BQT has one of the most stunning bodies around. EL 3 Top stories Singapore Post, British Post Office and TNT
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      100 1 MEGA MER6ERS —Done Deal —i Deutsche Bank CEO Rolf Breuer makes sales pitch of his career, Pg 3 Onso Deutsche Bank IZI HSBC tipped as Commerzbank bidder, Pg 3 Deutsche Telekom bids USsloob for Qwest and US West, Pg 19 Keeping 000 l in tech frenzy, EM 10 BT Comment:
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Igniting a post-PC future
        126 2 A GROUP of senior software executives have hitched their future to a world where Internet-connected wireless devices, not personal computers (PCs), will dominate. What's notable is that these professionals are former employees of Microsoft Corp, whose phenomenal success has been closely tied to the growth of
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        Lock icon Stiff competition
        114 2 THIS headline pretty much writes itself, in our opinion. But just for the record, we got wind yesterday that Pfizer, the US drug firm famous for Viagra is facing...er... stiff competition in South America. Specifically, they've got a domestic competitor called Eroxim in Columbia. And most of you
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        Lock icon Chinese escargot, anyone?
        105 2 EVERYONE knows the French are famous for their escargot, but did you know that the Chinese also have their own escargot? Contrary to popular belief, abalone is not shellfish. It is actually a species of marine snail that possesses only one shell, as opposed to clams and
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      Lock icon CyberWorks, Taiwan Cellular in alliance talks
      705 2  -  The deal could involve share swaps or joint share sales Prom Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong Fresh from clinching an agreement to buy Hongkong's Cable Wireless HKT, techno wunderkind Richard Li is setting his sights on Taiwan's No 2 Internet-ready cellular phone company. Mr Li's
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      Lock icon S'pore Post in global venture to deliver business mail
      453 2  -  Its partners are the British Post Office and TNT Post Gronp of Netherlands By 1 Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore Post, the British Post Office and TNT Post Group of Netherlands have formed a global joint venture to deliver crossborder business
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      Lock icon Selldown of Manila stocks eases
      446 2  -  BOURSE BATTLE Phisix index down 0.8%; Estrada accepts resignation of SEC chief Promt Al Labita in Manila SELLING pressures on the battered Philippine stock market eased yesterday, with investors adopting a wait-and-see attitude over how a controversial insider trading scandal will pan out. The key
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  • BANK mergers
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      Lock icon Deutsche buys Dresdner, becoming world's biggest bank
      886 3 All-stock transaction values Dresdner at 30 billion euros Bloomberg, AP, Reuters [FßANKFUßT] Deutsche Bank has agreed to buy Dresdner Bank for about 30 billion euros (Ssso billion) in stock, creating the world's largest bank. Germany's largest and third-largest banks said they will save
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      Lock icon City bankers fear massive job losses
      439 3  -  Equity divisions will be hit most, with Dresdner suffering more: analysts From, Nell Behrmann in London CITY of London investment bankers fear massive job losses in the wake of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank's US$l.2 trillion (Ss2.l trillion) merger. The sackings will be part
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      Lock icon HSBC tipped as Commerzbank bidder
      323 3 Reuters, AFP [LONDON] Global banking group HSBC and Commerzbank were the focus of fresh takeover speculation yesterday in the wake of the merger between German banking giants Deutsche Bank and Dresdner. HSBC and Commerzbank, Germany's fourth largest bank, both declined comment on a report in
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      Lock icon Top sales pitch from Deutsche Bank chief
      475 3 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Bank AG chief executive Rolf Ernst Breuer knows how to sell. Since taking over Germany's biggest bank in 1997, the former equity salesman persuaded investors to support a USS9 billion (5515.4 billion) takeover of Bankers Trust Corp and adopt his
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      Lock icon All eyes on banks' moves in S'pore
      241 3  -  By Soh Tiang Keng SINGAPORE'S financial community will be closely watching moves made by Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank here in the next few months following the planned merger of the parent companies of the two giant German banks. Contacted by BT yesterday,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Enquiries on Clob schemes flowing in for Effective
      726 4  -  3 centres run by PwC in S'pore, JB and KL set np to answer queries on share migration By Ven Sreenivasan EFFECTIVE Capital Sdn Bhd has been getting a steady stream of calls and enquiries from holders of Malaysian Clob shares seeking
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      Lock icon Creative charges up; Sim now worths $1.4b
      661 4  -  Investors also chase ST Assembly, Pacific Century shares By I Siow Li Sen CREATIVE Technology shares yesterday continued their sizzling charge into unchartered territory to close at $52.80, up $1.50, raising company chairman Sim Wong Hoo's stake to $1.4 billion. Mr Sim, 44
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      Lock icon Wireless e-trading at OngCo
      239 4 ONG Co (OngCo) yesterday launched a mobile e-trading platform on wireless application protocol (WAP) called ißoam. The retail stockbroking house said it would co-market the service, the first transactional service of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region, with Sing Tel Mobile. "IRoam allows investors to trade
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      Lock icon Short-selling: level playing field for retail investors
      717 4  -  lock siew| r sivanithy IF there's one useful thing the recent plunges in local stock prices have done, it is to focus attention on the issue of shortselling. Every day one hears stories from dealers of concerted pressure exerted on blue chips by
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      Lock icon Keppel, SIA buying back shares
      200 5 SINGAPORE Airlines has spent more than $300 million to buy back more than 20 million of its own shares while Keppel Corporation has so far bought 10 million of its own shares for $37 million. Should the two companies execute their share buyback mandates in
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      Lock icon Parkway, SembLog in Net-based venture
      251 5 PARKWAY Holdings and SembCorp Logistics (SembLog) have teamed up to offer integrated logistics services to the healthcare industry, using the Internet as a buying platform. The tie-up was sealed yesterday when SembLog, Parkway Group Healthcare and OneMedHub.com signed an agreement to form medElog Pte Ltd.
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      Lock icon Interim profits up at Pentex, Datapulse and Asia Power
      378 5  -  Pentex says second half won't be as strong Datapulse, Asia Power positive Byi Carol Eng PENTEX-Schweizer Circuits, Datapulse Technology and Asia Power Corp yesterday announced higher interim net profits. For the half-year ended December, printed circuit board maker Pentex's net profit
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      Lock icon SingBus seeks approval for share buyback
      340 5  -  It wants foreign cap removed and individual limit raised to 10% By< Christopher Tan CASH-RICH Singapore Bus Services Ltd, whose shares have seen a good run-up in the past fortnight or so, yesterday proposed a share buyback scheme and sought to lift its foreign
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      Lock icon Switch between CPF, cash trades not allowed once T+3 starts
      375 5 COME March 15 when the shorter settlement period of T+3 takes effect, there will be no room for amendments to CPF trades after the trade date. 'Trades executed on CPF basis cannot be amended to cash basis, or vice versa,
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      Lock icon Brierley expects to start trading on S'pore bourse by end-March
      568 8  -  It'll also be setting up new division to invest in Internet businesses in Asia Pacific By. Marissa Chew BRIERLEY Investments Ltd (BIL), which has applied to be listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), expects to start trading in the local
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      Lock icon Inchcape Motors aims to sell more than 10,000 vehicles
      737 8 AFX-Asia INCHCAPE Motors Ltd aims to sell more than 10,000 vehicles this year in Singapore, which if achieved, should help the company sustain profitability at the 1999 level, Inchcape Motors managing director Eddie Ng said in an interview with AFX-Asia. Inchcape
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        Lock icon Lafe Tech gets nod far SGX listing
        66 8 THE Singapore Exchange has given Lafe Technology, a regional maker of computer magnetic heads, in-principle approval to list on the main board. Lafe is wholly owned by Hongkong-listed The Grande Holdings and the spin-off is subject to the approval of Grande's independent shareholders.
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        Lock icon NEL In B2B joint venture
        77 8 NATSTEEL Electronics has formed a joint venture subsidiary in Singapore named NP Online Pte Ltd, which will trade and distribute IT accessories and components/sub-systems via 828 e-commerce. NP Online has an initial paid-up capital of $1,604,000 comprising 1,600,000 ordinary shares of $1 each and 400,000
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Momentum could be swinging back to S'pore
      560 6  -  I-id comment STOCKS r.sivanithy AFTER the battering in previous sessions, signs emerged yesterday that the momentum may finally be swinging back to the local market following the falls in Hongkong and Malaysia. Creative Technology continued with its marvellous run, and there's a big
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      Lock icon RF OCBC wrt offers modest premium, excellent gearing
      204 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'RE beginning to see some interest come back into the local market. In particular, there were signs yesterday that banks are starting to climb off their floors. Of course, this may not be sustained, especially if Wall
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      Lock icon Near-term recovery to $1.50 for PCI?
      258 6  -  HOT STOCK By" Wong Wei Kong SHARES of electronics contract manufacturer PCI Ltd shone in active trading yesterday. PCI shares closed up 13 cents or 9.9 per cent at 51.45. The stock opened at its day low of $1.33 and traded to a day
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      Lock icon Break of key support may see US$ heading lower
      562 6  -  l-l I comment CURRENCIES larry wee JUDGING by both technical and flow considerations yesterday, the US dollar may well be headed lower against major regional currencies in the coming sessions, with the Singapore dollar, Indonesian rupiah and Thai baht leading the
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      500 6 Stocks Volume MediaRing 10c 24,405.000 IPC Corpn 5c 21,111,000 Uraco HldgslOc 15,749,000 Goldtron 20c 13,799,000 Vickere Capital 25c 13,201,000 Kyosha HK50c 9,305,000 MMI HldgslOc 9,151,000 DBS Land 8,659,000 NOL 8,616,000 CEI5C 7,863.000 Stocks PacificCentury 128,463,396 OCBC 58,457,515 SIA 54,799,534 DBSGrp 50,160,921 SPH 42,009,482 ST Assembly 25c 37,244,600 UOB 28,189,859 MediaRing
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon A bold pitch – and homegrown ECnet lands deal with HP
      745 9  - A bold pitch and homegrown ECnet lands deal with HP Partnership involves marketing and co-development agreement Reports from. Jennifer Lien in San Francisco A BOLD pitch to HewlettPackard chief executive Carly Fiorina during her December visit to Singapore has landed a homegrown e-com-merce company a marketing and co-development deal with
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      Lock icon Wholesale prices jump 9.8% in Jan
      268 9  -  I=ll=l on the economy prices By Marissa Chew ESCALATING oil prices continued to push up wholesale prices in January, figures from the Department of Statistics show. The domestic supply price index rose 9.8 per cent year-on-year in January to 96.1 points. The mineral fuels
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      Lock icon California to open trade office in Singapore
      333 9 CALIFORNIA, the biggest state in America, will open an office in Singapore next month to develop trade and investment initiatives in South-east Asia, its governor Gray Davis said on Wednesday night. The office to be called the California Office of Trade and Investment
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      Lock icon Annual telecom licensing fees likely to be cut: Cheow Tong
      481 10  -  BUDGETrra^g Reports byl Audrey Tan ANNUAL licensing fees for telecommunication operators are likely to be cut, to ensure that Singapore is competitive and attractive relative to other Asian telecom hubs, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong said
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      Lock icon Govt gives $50m boost for the arts
      1198 10  -  Funds to help S'pore become a true 'Renaissance City 9 By, Jaime Ee FIFTY million dollars. Spread over five years, in addition to the normal funding allocated to the arts in Singapore. In a significant show of commitment to developing the nation's "software",
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      Lock icon COE prices rebound to 6-month highs
      470 10  -  Cat A premiums np $6,000 to $44,472 as bookings shoot np By l Christopher Tan MAINSTREAM COE prices yesterday rebounded sharply to six-month highs. Attracted by a correction last month, car bookings shot up, as evidenced by an overflowing number of bids. According to
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      Lock icon Best for S'pore, KL to settle bilateral issues fast: Jaya
      622 10 SINGAPORE wants to settle the outstanding bilateral issues with Malaysia as soon as possible, Minister for Foreign Affairs S Jayakumar said in Parliament yesterday. Singapore's "approach and expectation" is still that officials from both sides should try to narrow the
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      Lock icon Asset securitisation is a divestment exercise: DBS Land
      460 10  -  Jeanne Wong Senior Manager Corporate Communications DBS Land I REFER to Lee Han Shih's column "Asset securitisation not as attractive to some" (BT, March 7) on asset securitisation and wish to make the following clarifications. First and foremost, the securitisation of the
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  • eNews
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      Lock icon Rival banks join forces in Net-based EX options trading
      454 11 LONDON Citibank, Deutsche Bank, ÜBS eyes USsst currency options market THREE of the world's biggest banks said on Wednesday they plan to launch the first Internet-based broking system for foreign exchange options. Traditional rivals Citibank and Deutsche Bank are joining forces
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      Lock icon Hongkong.com rises 259% on trading debut
      571 11  -  The counter rises as high as HKS9JO in intraday trade From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong THE rousing debut of Hongkong.com, whose shares rose almost five times its offer price on its trading debut, suggest that it doesn't matter whether Asian companies list on Nasdaq
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        Lock icon JP Morgan launches e-finance unit
        97 11 Reuters [LONDON] US investment bank JP Morgan yesterday launched a new e-finance merchant banking unit and said it would commit up to US$l billion (551.72 billion) to electronic business initiatives this year. JP Morgan said in a statement received in London that the new unit,
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        Lock icon Brit Telecom to set up mobile Net unit
        85 11 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Telecommunications pic, the UK's largest phone company, said yesterday that it would set up a new global mobile Internet unit in a partnership bringing together more than 30 service and content providers. BT's shares rose as much as 229
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        Lock icon Lycos in US$50m Asian expansion
        102 11 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Lycos •Asia, one of the top four Web sites in the world, plans to invest US$5O million (SsB6 million) for its expansion programme in Asia, said its chief executive officer, Mary Ong (right), yesterday. Speaking at a press conference after the launch
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        Lock icon IBM teams up with i2 and Ariba
        178 11 Reuters [NEW YORK] International Business Machines Corp has joined with electronic commerce software makers i 2 Inc and Ariba Inc in a broad alliance aimed at accelerating online business-to-business commerce, the companies said on Wednesday. The alliance creates a leader in the high-growth
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      Lock icon On-line habit kills PC game fanatic
      226 11 SEOUL AFP A SOUTH Korean computer game fanatic has died of a heart attack brought on by stress caused by his on-line habit, police said yesterday. Kim Kwang Su, 37, a computer game shop owner in the southeastern port of Pusan, was found dead
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      Lock icon ICG, Hutchison to buy HK toymaker for US$205m
      459 11 HONGKONG They will use it as a vehicle to invest in Asian on-line firms Bloomberg INTERNET Capital Group (ICG), one of the biggest electronic commerce investors, and Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd agreed to buy a Hongkong toymaker and use it to
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      Lock icon May the iForce be with you
      66 11 [SAN FRANCISCO] Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc, announcing Sun's iForce initiative here on Wednesday. The new US$3OO million (Sssl3 million) initiative gives any business, from start ups to large enterprise customers, all the tools needed to facilitate their entry to
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      Lock icon Sony to tie up with Toyota, Tokyu in Internet venture
      362 11 mTOKYO Bloomberg, Reuters Sony Corp will join Toyota Motor Corp and cable company Tokyu Corp to develop a high-speed data network, the missing piece in Sony's plan to link its Play Station 2 videogame console to the Internet. Their venture,
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Thailand in danger of missing IT bus
      793 12  -  iiTTq bottom line OPINION harish mehta The writer is BT's Bangkok correspondent THAILAND seems to have forgotten to plug into the global New Economy. AD of its success stories remain in the traditional industries. The country does not boast even a single major
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      130 12 'He wants to contain the stock market but can't admit he's scared of a bubble.' -Bob B&rbera an economist, on US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan s argument for the need to raise interest rates. 'Japanese banks are now appreciating the fact that in today's world, anything
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      Lock icon Is Singapore e-ready?
      612 12 EDITORIAL RIDING the Internetdriven, knowledge economy bandwagon now rolling at full force may soon become de rigueuriov everyone. But a pertinent question has been raised in public debate in Singapore: is the country e-ready? The MPs who variously asked in Parliament this week if Singapore has the
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      Lock icon Why recovering tigers need a Japanese engine
      830 12  -  The Asia-Pacific is not economically integrated because Japan is reluctant to assume a regional role befitting its size By, Jean-Pierre Lenhmann The writer is professor of international political economy at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and founding director of
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      Lock icon Vested interests fight to keep status quo at IMF
      960 12  -  COMMENTARY By Caroline Baum Bloomberg WITH the release of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission's report on reforming the global lending agencies, the vested interests and defenders of the status quo are marshalling their forces. The Democratic leadership in Congress wasted
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon KL gaming stocks fall on govt curbs report
      414 14 KUALA LUMPUR Itm&ycntthe number of draw days to one or two per week in efforts to restrict gambling Bloomberg MAGNUM Corp and other Malaysian betting stocks tumbled after a newspaper reported that the government may limit the number of lottery draws it
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      Lock icon Razaleigh's strong hint of interest in top Umno post dents market
      466 14  -  WHAT'S SFTAND? From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian stock market yesterday eased slightly on former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh's strongest hint so far that he would vie for one of the top posts in the dominant political
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon No contest?
        101 14 COUNTERS controlled by the sons of Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad surged yesterday despite news that Tengku Razaleigh might contest one of the top two posts in the United Malays National Organisation. Konsortium Logistik, controlled by eldest son Mirzan Mahathir, rose 90 sen to RM6.00. Tongkah Holdings,
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        66 14 NEWSPAPER groups close to Umno also saw healthy gains ahead of the party's elections. The New Straits Times Press and Utusan Malaysia inched up 50 sen each to RM15.90 and RM6.05 respectively. The newspapers have been vocal in supporting the Umno Supreme Council's decision that there shouldn't be
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        Lock icon Glittering Gemtech
        98 14  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh PUNTERS continued to snap up Gemtech Resources following news that banker Tong Kooi Ong of PhileoAllied Bhd will make a mandatory general offer for the company through Net Edge. The counter hit the 30 per cent lim-it-up again yesterday, dosing at RM9.60, up RM2.20.
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      525 15  -  MOUs signed for more cooperation between their central banks, national carriers From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, on a two-day visit here, yesterday announced a series of initiatives aimed at boosting his country's economic and political ties
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      138 15 JAKARTA AFXAsia THE board of directors and commissioners of 36 banks in Indonesia are alleged to have been involved in criminal banking-related activities, including misusing Bank Indonesia liquidity support, Media Indonesia said, citing sources at the central bank. The report said Bank
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      494 15 KUALA LUMPUR Move to set aside injunction in twist to dispute dividing Sultan of Brunei's family Reuters LAWYERS for the New York Palace Hotel and the Bel Air hotel in Los Angeles have filed suits against Brunei in the latest twist to a multi-billion-dollar
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      496 16 HONGKONG Chairmen of 3 Asian firms have inquired about listing, says listing chairman Reuters HONGKONG'S bubbling Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) is fielding a run of technology listing inquiries from across Asia following the stunning trading debut last week of tom.com Ltd, a top GEM
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      280 16 BEIJING FT THE Bank of Communications (BoCom) plans to become the first Chinese state bank to recapitalise by issuing long-term bonds. The proposed recapitalisation is a crucial preparation for a stock market listing by China's fifth largest state bank. BoCom aims
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      515 16  -  He hopes Senate approval by May will sway House From 3 Leon Hadar in Washington US PRESIDENT BiU Clinton has sent his long-expected China-trade legislation to Congress, marking the start of a heated public debate on America's trade policies and its relationship
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      77 16 Reuters [LONDON] Hongkong's Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp (KCRC) is looking to sell US$l billion (511.72 billion) in 10-year global bonds as early as this week to finance expansion, banking sources said yesterday. KCRC has appointed HSBC and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter to coordinate the debt
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      74 16 AFX Asia [HONGKONG] High-technology stock trading boards are likely to be launched at the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges on June 1, the China Daily reported yesterday, citing sources close to securities regulators. More than 70 hi-tech companies have already been granted approval
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      64 16 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said yesterday it had appointed Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp, a unit of HSBC Holdings pic, as the settlement institution for the US dollar clearing/ system in Hongkong. The US dollar clearing system is to ensure the
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      412 18 TOKYO FT ITO Yokado, Japan's biggest and most profitable retailer, is expected to lodge a formal application to enter the banking sector, according to government officials. It would mark the first attempt by a non-banking company to run a bank in Japan
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      220 18 SYDNEY Improvement dne to strong Aussie economic growth Bloomberg VILLAGE Roadshow, Australia's biggest radio and cinema company, said first-half earnings rose 12.2 per cent as strong economic growth boosted advertising and ticket sales. Earnings in the six months to December rose to A 540.6 million
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      631 18 H I =1:1 from cairo mark huband Egypt hopes to recover lost ground in the global media industry FT STRIPPED to the minimum that a conservative society will allow, the images of pouting film starlets on painted billboards towering over Cairo's streets are the remnants of
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      524 19 DENVER Awest, US West could cost it US$lOO billion, says Wall Street Journal Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Telekom has made separate offers to buy Qwest Communications International and US West that could top US$lOO billion (Ssl7l billion), the Wall Street Journal Europe reported yesterday, citing people
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      526 19 SYDNEY AFP, Reuters DISGRACED tycoon Alan Bond won his freedom from a Perth jail yesterday after an extension of his original sentence for Australia's biggest fraud was overturned on a legal technicality. He walked with his wife, Diana Bliss,
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        83 19 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan's Liberal Democratic Party yesterday approved draft legislation allowing the country's securities exchanges to become publicly traded corporations. Globally exchanges, traditionally owned by members, are becoming for-profit companies to improve decision-making, raise money and to face competition from each other and
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        89 19 Bloomberg (LONDON] EM.TV Merchandising AG, the German television distributor that's acquiring the producer of the The Muppets will buy more than 50 per cent of Formula One Holdings for between US$l.5 billion (552.5 billion) and US$l.B billion, a person familiar with the German company's
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        52 19 Reuters [LONDON] British property firm Canary Wharf Group yesterday reported it turned half-year profits from losses and said it would maintain its current pace of development. Pre-tax profits were £36.4 million (Sslo2 million) in the six months to Dec 31,1999, compared with losses of £36.5 million
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        76 19 Reuters [PARIS] French luxury goods group LVMH yesterday said millennium buying of champagnes helped fuel a 31 per cent rise in 1999 operating profit, and forecast 20 per cent growth for 2000 after a strong start to the year. Operating profit climbed to 1.5 billion
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      291 19 ZURICH Private-banking earnings more than triple Bloomberg ÜBS AG, Europe's secondlargest bank, said fourthquarter profit more than doubled as earnings from private banking more than tripled. Net income rose to 1.1 billion Swiss francs (551.13 billion) from 430 million francs
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      280 19 WASHINGTON Labour markets tight; inflation shows little sign of rising Bloomberg THE US economy's record expansion showed no signs of slowing during the first two months of the year and, while the pressure for higher wages increased, inflation failed to accelerate, the Federal
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      433 19 TOKYO Bloomberg CONFIDENCE at large Japanese companies rose to its highest in three years as cost-cut-ting swelled profits while investment fell by the smallest margin in two years. The Ministry of Finance's index of business sentiment for large companies rose to 4.9 in
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      476 20 LONDON Nine high-flying tech stocks oust 'old economy'losers inFTSEIOO Reuters, AP THE biggest ever shake-up in the FTSE 100 index was announced on Wednesday as nine high-flying technology and related stocks ousted "old economy" losers including brewers, utilities and building material firms. The big
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      412 20 CHICAGO Bloomberg LYNETTE Schroeder, manager of the US$97 million (*****.5 million) Driehaus European Opportunity Fund, prefers running with the bulls to watching them get slaughtered for sport. Ms Schroeder'Bl4-month-old fUnd caught surging investor appetite for both Europe and telecommunications companies, returning
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      183 22  -  SGI Derivatives Tradln^Reports MSCI Singapore Index Edward Cheung Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stockmarket finished slightly higher on gains in technology stocks and banks. The market was relatively quiet yesterday as investors remained sidelined on lingering uncertainty over US interest rates. The Straits
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      177 22  -  MSCI Taiwan futures MSd Taiwan fatures Seow Hock Hin Refco Singapore TAIWAN stocks rose sharply yesterday, boosted by Wall Street's overnight rebound and heavy buying by statebacked funds. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 197.78 to finish at 9,587.27. The Securities
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      301 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [DUBAI] Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah said yesterday the kingdom would invite foreign firms for talks after the Muslim pilgrimage in March on energy investment proposals worth more than US$lOO billion (Ssl7l billion). The crown prince told the official Saudi Press Agency
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      326 22 Reuters London THE yen was bolstered near its peaks early yesterday by repatriation flows but was seen unable to stretch its gains due to market wariness after Bank of Japan (BOJ) yen-selling a day earlier. Analysts said the reappearance of funds being repatriated to Japan ahead of the
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      1966 22 SICOM FUTURES Mar 9 RUBBER (futures closing «s it 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 00 117.50 May 00 119.50 Jun 00 122.50 117.00 122.50 650 600 Jul/Sep 00 126.00 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kg) Volume Opm Month High Low Sett
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      2869 24 HONGKONG AFP riHang Sou -314.40 HONGKONG share prices dived 1.8 per cent yesterday despite a stronger US market, as profit-taking set in despite a solid bull run, dealers said. "There was selling pressure after the index reached the 18,000-point level as investors feared the market
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      1036 24 Reuters Qj Shenzhen B Index -OJS SHENZHEN'S B shares closed lower yesterday as investors complained the government was neglecting the hard currency market while offering repeated steps to boost the domestic A share market. The B Share Index edged down 0.55 of a point, or 0.65 per cent, to
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      347 24 AFP QWP Index *197.78 TAIWAN share prices closed 2.1 per cent higher yesterday due to perceptions that tensions with China were easing, dealers said. "Market sentiment improved after Jiang Zemin's remarks yesterday that there was no feeling of a war across the strait and that he hoped to visit
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      2016 24 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -104.47 SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 0.5 per cent yesterday as investors took profits on a morning rally in technology and telecommunications issues, brokers said. The key Nikkei-225 average closed the day down 104.47 points at 19,662.33, reversing
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      441 25 AFX-Asia, AFP QOompuite Index -BJ3 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.9 per cent lower yesterday as the market consolidated in sparse trade amid caution among investors, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 8.13 points at 922.59. Volume was 423.97 million shares worth
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      773 26 AFP SET Index *7J7 THAI share prices rose 2 per cent yesterday as investors looked for short-term bargains in undervalued sectors, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index was up 7.67 points to close at 393.23, while the benchmark SET 50 Index added 0.60 points to
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      283 26 AFP Q Composite Index -12JJ4 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 12.84 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 1,626.95. Volume rose to 13 billion shares worth 2.6 billion pesos compared to 9.96 billion shares worth 2.17 billion pesos traded on Wednesday. ■E* NO C006) MRC AMed 0.62
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      696 26 AFP Composite Indn »&13 INDONESIAN share prices closed 2.6 per cent higher yesterday on a rebound in blue chips following gains elsewhere in the region, dealers said. The Jakarta Stde&T Exchange Composite Index closed up 15.13 point* at 585.18 on a volume of" 401.0 million shares valued af 1.2
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      273 26 AFP QNZSE-40 +AJUS THE NZSE-40 Capital Index gained 4.05 or 0.2 per cent to 2,025.30 on volume of NZ5134.2 million, with much of that concentrated in Telecom, which accounted for NZ$B6.7 million. Telecom yesterday closed four NZ cents down at NZ$B.9O. —AFP mrt M$ COM) Advantage MOS 4.86 0.01
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      593 26 AFP nAUOrfcuuiei -2L> AUSTRALIAN shares slipped 0.7 per cent yesterday as losses in heavyweight stocks Telstra Corp and News Corp wiped out gains elsewhere, brokers said. The benchmark All Ordinaries Index finished 21.9 points down at 3,196.6. The All Industrials fell 56.8 points to 5,705.8 points while the All
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      298 26 AFP Q Composite Index -3L35 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 31.35 points or 3.4 per cent at 884.59. Volume was 368 million shares worth 4.4 trillion won.—AFP Mart mm AnomSootf ***** -MM arm Ttcfi 1850 ISO Ctntrd Bank 2705 -45 CIWHComm *****0 ***** Dm Cu Bank
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      840 28 Tommy Hilfiger's shareholders, customers subsidising extravagant pay of its principal designer Bloomberg [SANTA ROSA, California] HAVE you ever wondered why it costs as much as it does to buy Tommy Hilfiger's creations? Well, at least a partial answer is that both he and his company's CEO
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      58 28 «^^^^B^^M^KB3BaS|^iPß|^sH^^&SCT^r^lf'|y *'*■*ffi? s ftjg^-* t <" i* I c k »T^®? l^" Jjii- A-- J '»^Sf%^^j^^ r V--y.a3faSre.j." s \*v -."»v <'• x, :> «*?f* Congratulations to the three winners of the 1999 Singapore Business Awards. J J Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong will present the awards tonight
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      1900 29  -  COVER STORY Sydney is now 99 per cent ready for the Games in October. More than that it has been reborn in a way that is dazzling even the locals, reports jaimbbe JAIME EE The Olympics may only be the greatest sporting event on earth, but
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        206 30 The strangest oar in town WANT to take part in a raffle? Check out this one that's been circulating among e-mail users: "Win a 2000 Volkswagon Beatle. Take a chance —$20 a ticket! Help send a youth soccer team to participate in tournaments in Holland and
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        546 30  -  Brandon Teena was a girl who pretended to be a boy and got away with it, as does Hilary Swank with her stunning Oscar-nominated performance in Boys Don't Cry By Parvathi Nayar THE RAVE reviews for her gender-bending performance have eclipsed commentary on the movie
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        543 30  -  CINEMA The film version of Susanna K&ysen's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital seriously lacks bite By\ Parvathi Nayar LITERARY movies are all the rage these days. High time, mutter novelists who like the idea of their books being optioned for steadily larger sums of money. Even
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        527 30  - Scream —it can be fun, sometimes CINEMA Byi Aaron Lye FIRST of all, I don't like horror flicks. It's a personal thing. Whenever I find myself in the unenviable position of having to turn down a friend's offer, I have a stock answer "I'm not shelling out 5/6/8 (delete accordingly)
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      803 33 American Beauty. A screwy look at American suburban life with dysfunctional families and sexual obsessions. This film garnered the bulk of the Oscar nominations (eight) this year. Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening and Thora Birch star. R(A). Orchard, Suntec, Lido, Balestier, Yangtze, Oriental, Beach Road, Bugis, Marina, Plaza, Grand. Angela's
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        952 34  -  Leonard Lauder talks to tan so tot about making the rules, and breaking them TAN SU YEN AT THE official opening of the Creme de La Mer counter at C K Tang, Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder Companies Inc, sought out a manager from
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        877 34  -  PRODUCTS Bloom and H2O are all set to give the more established cosmetics houses a run for their money By' Tan Su Yen THE BEAUTY industry may be dominated by the Big Boys with huge marketing budgets, but there's still room for success stories What
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        725 34  -  RESTAURANT Only USD A prime beef makes it to the tables of Just Steak, which also serves up some pretty neat desserts By. Rahita Elias JUST Steak is a bit of a misnomer for the newest steak house in Singapore The restaurant, which opened
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        1089 35 Funds are becoming more upbeat about the region given its growth and manufacturing capabilities ASIAN emerging stock markets had a generally positive 1999 following unprecedented volatility in 1997 and 1998. Volatility, however, remains high, caused in part by the lack of liquidity in many markets,
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        3197 35 Next publication date: March 10,2000 Fund 1 mtti 3 mths 6 mtha 1 year 3 years 5 years Mteropd launch 31-01-2000 30-11-1989 31-00-1909 26-02-1999 28-02-1997 2*02-1996 star data 29-02-2000 2»02-2000 2»02-2000 2942-2000 2*02-2000 2842-2000 ranking Ranking m at Fab 29, 2000 Asset Alloc Sjnynofi m Keppel
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        633 35  -  By Ling Su Ann EVER wish you could keep track of your unit trust portfolio without having to make an appointment to see your banker or waiting for your quarterly statements to arrive? Well, now you can. With OUB Optimix, you can get
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        713 36  -  The addition of three new investment-linked insurance products to its current six brings it closer to being a leading insurer in its field, geml'vieve cua reports GENEVIEVE CUA JOHN Hancock Life Assurance Company has launched three new investment-linked insurance funds, as part of a strategy
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        1110 36  -  Despite higher rates and slower growth seen, market retreats present buying opportunities By. Kevin Grice The writer is senior economist, Global Economics Unit, at American Express Bank Ltd, London OVER the last three to four weeks, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has made it very
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        1306 36 ()(fcn>(l hy rat ions hanks (as at Mar />'. 20(H)) Dapotrt amount 1-mtfi 3-mth i-mth Depoett amount 1-mttt 3-m*i 6-mth A$ S10.000 A24.999 4 9400 ***** 5 3200 25,000 74,999 4 4375 4 6250 ***** A25.000 A49.999 4 9600 ***** 5 3400 75,000 149,999 4 5000 4
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        738 37  -  I :j| comment YOUR MONEY The tech stock frenzy has made unit trusts attractive but It could also hurt the Industry, says GENEVIEVE CUA genevieve cua THE feeding frenzy in technology funds now being played out in the market could be the greatest thing
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        1188 37  -  Capital Group purchases of $7.34 m shares in 4 firms provide support By Robert Halili The writer is director of Asian Ownership Research at Primark THE Singapore sentiment rose by 20 points to close at +34.4 points in the past week. That was the
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        849 37 stock if»m Singapore Food Industries SINGAPORE Food Industries (SFI), a food manufacturer and distributor, has clinched some sexy new contracts. IDEAglobal.com sees its stock heading higher in coming months. For several years now, SFI a unit of govern-ment-linked SembCorp Industries has been the
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        106 37 BANKSFINANCE COMPANIES BELOW $3000 $3000-4999 $5000-9999 $*****-***** $***** 4 UP ABN-AMRO Bank (Millennium Account) 1.3750 1.3750 1.3750 1.8000 2.2500 DBS (Auto-Save) 1.0000 1.2500 1.2500 1-2500 1.5000 Finance {Savers Plus) 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 1.5000 Singapore Finance (Savers Plus) 1.1250 1.1250 1.1250 1.2500 1.2500 HSBC (PowerVantage) 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
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        234 37 BANK&P NANCE COMPANIES AMOUNT 1 MONTH 3 MONTHS 6 MONTHS 9 MONTHS 12 MONTHS ABN-AMRO Bank *****-***** 1.2500 1.6300 2.0000 2.1250 2 3800 *****-***** 1.6200 1.8700 2.2500 2.4300 2.5600 Citibank Up to ***** 1.6875 1.8125 2.0625 2.1250 2.4375 5&)01-*****0 1.8000 2.1300 2.3300 2.5000 2.8125 DBS 1000-***** 1.0000 1.2500 1.7500
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        1427 38  -  To many investors, the risk of staying out of technology funds seems to be greater than diving in, considering the recent huge returns. GENEVIEVE CUA takes a closer look GENEVIEVE CUA YOU'RE probably familiar with the herd syndrome when it comes to buying stocks. It's
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      293 39 Bridge News, Reuters FIRM conditions were seen throughout most of the dry cargo freight market on Wednesday, brokers said. The capeeize sector was described as generally very solid, and though Panama* rates made relatively little headway in the US Gulf, there were some striking gains for owners east of
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      400 39  -  It will spend 245b pesos to develop seven major gateway ports From, Alec Almazan in Manila THE Philippines will be investing 24.5 billion pesos (551.02 billion) over a fiveyear period to build new ports and upgrade existing ones. The Philippine Ports Authority,
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      251 39  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Asian coast guard officials meeting in Singapore have decided to establish contact points among themselves in efforts to combat piracy in the region. Referred to as the provisional List of Operational Contact Points for Anti-Pira-cy and Armed Robbery
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      823 39  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar THE use of alien screws without any locking arrangement is becoming an increasingly common cause of engine room fires due to failures in low pressure fuel system pipelines of medium speed diesel engines. According to Canberra's
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      265 39 AFP [DUBAI] Dubai Port Authority (DPA) warned that the advent of e-commerce and the increasing size of vessels spells a major shake-up for the shipping industry. "Ports which are not prepared to handle larger volumes of cargo at much faster turn-around times are
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      433 39 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co said its ferry operations withstood the loss of duty free concessions last year to deliver 1999 results broadly in line with a year earlier. P&O, the world's fourth largest shipping group,
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        672 40 At one month and counting, Boeing engineers and technical workers show surprising resolve AP [SEATTLE] Nobody thought it would last this long. After all, what do engineers know about going on strike? Quite a bit, actually. Ever since engineers and technical workers at The Boeing
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        208 53 MarlA Indonesia: Hari Ray a Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya Haji. Brunei: Hari Raya Aidiladha. ■fern United States: St Patrick's Day Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland). Maris Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential Election. Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Apr 3 Taiwan: Women Children's Day. Apr
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        795 53 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price range* in US dollars instead at single prices for a more comprehensive description at the market Prices shown are baaed on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        457 54 Profit soared to NZs24.Bm for six months to Dec 31, exceeding analysts' forecasts Reuters [AUCKLAND] A steady rise in the number of passengers and flights propelled a 22 per cent increase in first-half profit for New Zealand's Auckland International Airport (ALA), the
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        413 54 Strategy makes it less vulnerable to increases in fuel costs FT [LONDON] SAirGroup, the parent company of Swissair, Switzerland's national airline, revealed evidence that its recent diversification into in-flight catering and dutyfree shopping was paying off. It reported a 24 per cent drop in 1999 net
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        315 54 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The United States' national passenger railway Amtrak, spent US$9 million (5515.4 million) in capital-improvement funds, too early and also used some of the money for fitness-cen-tre passes, movies and a trophy, the General Accounting Office said. The US$9 million went
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        289 54 It is also close to deciding where the plane will be built Reuters [PARIS] The partners in European aircraft consortium Airbus Industrie will convene to assess demand for their planned superjumbo A3XX airplane in late April, Aerospatiale Matra board member Jean-Francois Bigay
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          89 54 AFP [MOSCOW] At least five people died yesterday when a YAK-40 plane flying from Moscow to Kiev crashed while taking off from Moscow's Cheremetievo-1 airport, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. The Interfax agency, citing transport police, gave the toll as four dead, while the
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          95 54 AFP [TOKYO} A Japan Air System Co Ltd jet carrying 159 passengers and crew overshot a snow-covered landing strip in northern Japan yesterday but there were no injuries, officials said. The McDonnell Douglas 81 plane stopped some 100 metres outside the edge of the landing
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          78 54 Bloomberg [LONDON] BAA pic, the world's largest airport operator, said February passenger traffic at its UK airports rose 8.1 per cent from a year ago, helped by an extra day in last month's calendar. The number of passengers moving through the company's seven UK
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      100 39 Lengthy Boeing strike starts to bite Page 2 Auckland airport posts 22% rise in first-half profit enck p ag e CAMBODIA SHIP REGISTRY "More than 1000 vessels registered totalling about 3 million GRT since its inception" v. jjjj ■IBm—j^crKSife^BoWiF^^^* We provide offer: most competitive fees no restriction on nationality of
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      51 50 SHIPPING* WAREHOUSING lot oni: Singapore I > ailing Daih Man lo Sal (BATAMINDO I/HI) .Accepting KlXonvenbonal/Projea/HeaftT Lift Cargo Reefer Container Bkrtoa: Singapore Loading Man. Wed &Fn (BATAMINDO 0) Accepting K1 A'cwrvendonaWroject Heavy Ltft Cago Uk 227 0322 fmx: 222 9330 BatoMiado Shipping t War>haaria| hi Ltd »IhjH Ml Ci a>lm
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      693 51 ENG LEI SHIPPING CO PTE UDI XbrrmcS. Uk SMM7S it Umi r U sdmm/uhho I OIIKISIMMMIK I VESSU VOT SIN ETA SIN [TD DESTNUTON DwOoyc 4/00 14/03 15/03 Duma Unon Sto 22 2/00 14/03 14/03 I tajU/Jorti/Nwtog Gando I 3/00 IS/03 16/03 ttn Sao load 3/00 16/03 17/03 Omb/P Oam/Paoewj
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      615 52 I VESSEL VOY SIN MAA SIN TIGER BRIDGE 780N 10-11/03 1& 19/03 2*25/03 TIGER METRO 781N 14 15/03 20 23/03 28-29/03 TIGER ARROW 782N 17-18/03 23-2603 31-01/04 TIGER RHYTHM 783N 21 22/03 27 30/03 04 OMJ4 TIGER BRIDGE 784N 24 25/03 30-02/04 07 0804 TIGER METRO 785N 28 29/03 03-06/04
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      921 52 FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: Flesin@singnet.com.sg DIRECT CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO •SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO SANTOS «PIREAUS •RIO DE JANEIRO VALPARAISO -NEW DELHI (Patparganj) •DUBUN 'ALEXANDRIA 'BANGALORE •LA HAVANA (HAVANA) IZMIR COCHIN •SANTO DOMINGO ISTANBUL BUENOS AIRES FOR BOOKING: *****51/3/6/60/61/62/67/68/69/79 PROJECT SHIPMENT HEAVYLIFT CARGO Bobby Lee *****71 bobby@flesin.com.sg
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      1278 52 For booking I enquiry caH *****80 |Oy Q Website: http://www.ood.cowi Vji/ NORTH MURK* USA sg? LG4 m Mai Uric hou I myc itou ia seT" im(M(U«ni«SII IS/03 31/03 OS/04 04/04 04/04 OS/04 mWMAWIW IS/02 IVO2 17/02 18/02 2V02 12/03 OOQ BtrUJN ***** 22/03 07/04 12AM 13AM 13AM 12AM ?99 M
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      69 52 CONVENTIONAL-SERVICE VESSEL ETA ETD DESTINATION CHAHAYA VICTORY 08/03 09/03 PONTIANAK JUBILANT 09/03 12/03 YANGON/CALCUTTA CHAHAYA STAR 10/03 14/03 VISAK/CALCUTTA REGULAR DIRECT CONTAINER A BREAKBULK SERVICE TO PORT LOUIS DURBAN EXPORT VOY SIN PTL DSN ALS EXPRESS 02WB 22/03 02/04 07/04 ALS ENDEAVOUR 03WB 27/04 08/05 13/05 ACCBTING TO JOHANNESBURG AGENTS:
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      123 53 Jo)fe JJ 12JELN* #2lfaw J LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore Thunderstorm jL Showers j. Rain Temperature "Cpf Wind direction and speed in knots IT Weather U Cloudy Day Sea Conditions Wind speed symbols Slight < i 2m O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds
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