The Business Times, 13 March 2000

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: nttD://business-times.asial .com.sq/ MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2000
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    60 1 grodingrnaacBB Week Change ST1.. .2,096.24.—*20 < 9 SIMSC1 FUTURES 272.50. .4.90 BTSB 747*. .4.43 KLSEOOMP Maw..—-0.22 NIKKEI 19,750.40 .-177.14 BANG SENG 17,881.86...+546.82 SET INDEX. 402.40 +1917 JAKARTA COMP. 696.18 +47.63 MANILA OOMP. t,«21.« -75.15 TAIPHWP1 9,429.68 -8817 SEOUL COUP 891.36. 4.47 CLSA CHINA B 70.15 -19.25 AUSTALLOBD 3,1«J0
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    77 1 I Mil Ml 111 ust ss USS 1.706 £(US$/S$per£) IJ8S lfl» BURO(USt/S$/E) 0J67 1.660 DM tflO (L848 YEN 10M U» RM 1800 0449 HKS 7.784 Ml» BAHT tUa 9.04* RUPIAH 7,388 MB* 'St to 100 unUt PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK ISO MANILA 11.00
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    Lock icon S'pore set to be 1st with secure e-commerce
    770 1  -  HlTexciusive Banks here poised to adopt Identrns' technology that offers safe on-line transactions By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Singapore may be the first in South-east Asia to have banks offer a secure e-commerce trading environment. The initiative comes from USbased Identrus LLC, a
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    Lock icon Buffett pays price for shunning tech stocks
    873 1 Berkshire's 1999 profits down 45%, its shares fell 20% Bloomberg LATWP CNN [OMAHA, Nebraska] Warren Buffett, the world's best known stock picker who has ignored the technology boom in favour of "old economy stocks", suffered the worst performance of his career last year
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    Lock icon Women beat men in share market
    573 1  -  l-liexclusive Stndy shows their portfolios earned 1.4 percentage points more a year From] Neil Behrmann in London THERE can be little doubting it any longer women are better stockmarket investors than men. The University of California studied the results of 35.000 stockbroker clients in
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      133 1 DWIPB BT Comment No place for cronyism in IMF. Next Page Absence of new HK taxes leaves public suspicious. Pg 12 Top storle* Patrick Tan leads totally local team at helm of DBSAM. Next Page Kay Hian latest to offer free 10-day credit. Pg 4 8 IK II A Member
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      Lock icon No place for cronyism in IMF
      968 2  -  I li comment ECONOMICS In choosing Its leadership, It should be a matter of may the best person win, no matter where he, or she, comes from vikram khanna FORMER Japanese vice-minister for finance Eisuke Sakakibara has no illusions about his chances of becom
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      Lock icon Patrick Tan leads totally local team at helm of DBS Asset Mgt
      707 2  -  I-II exclusive Yeong Phick Foi and Joseph Tern will join the firm as executive directors By Wong Wei Kong [SlNGAPOßE] In a departure from the practice at many other parts of the DBS Group, DBS Asset Management (DBSAM)
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  • JAPAN economy
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      Lock icon Positive flip side seen to Japanese economy
      989 3  -  Officials are issuing upbeat forecasts to help keep confidence up Fromj Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE official data due today is expected to show that real GDP shrank by around one per cent in the final quarter of 1999, following a similar fall
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      430 4 Seminar on Debt Capital Markets Introduction to Risks and Controls for Issuing, Underwriting and Investing in Debt Capital Markets About The Seminar As financial institutions and corporates become increasingly involved in debt capital market activities, there is a need for greater awareness of the risks that can arise from involvement
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Kay Hian latest to offer free 10-day credit
      545 4  -  Bid to retain active clients with the start of T+3 settlement Ryi Catherine Ong WITH contra trading under threat from a shorter settlement period, more and more stockbrokers are offering free credit to retain clients who trade actively. Kay Hian Holdings has
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      Lock icon Aztech launches share option carrot
      243 4  -  Staff of subsidiary That web. Com get similar scheme By: Marissa Chew STAFF at Aztech Systems and its subsidiary Thatweb.Com will get a chance to own shares in their companies under a new employee share option scheme. Under the scheme, called ESOS 2000, all permanent
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      Lock icon Oh, to get back my Clob shares
      82 4 RAFFLES Place was abuzz dver the weekend —a rare sight for the financial district as Clob investors rushed to file their acceptance of a proposal by Effective Capital with their brokers by March 22. At DBS Securities and Vickers Ballas, there were lines
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      Lock icon OngCo keeps open its options on mergers, alliances
      441 4 Also, any such move would be made only after the firm had gone public: exec director Bloomberg ONG Co, a Singapore brokerage, said it will not rule out a merger or alliance, although it would need to sell shares to raise funds
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      Lock icon More companies tapping local capital market for funds
      871 7  -  Recent issues include Hana Bank's USs2som debt issue and Sale's 7-year fixed-rate bond By Ling Su Ann THANKS to the carrots which the government has dangled to promote the capital market, more companies both local and regional are tapping funds in Singapore.
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      Lock icon DBS Land unit slapped with A$11.5m damages bill
      330 7 Walker allegedly failed to secure rezoning of land AUSTRALIA'S Walker Corporation, which DBS Land took over recently in a A 5245 million deal (***** million), has just given its new parent its first piece of bad news. DBS Land subsidiary Australand, which
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      Lock icon MPH to open huge bookstore in M'sia
      221 7  -  Marissa Chew FRESH from its announcement that it wants to become Asia's Amazon.com, MPH yesterday said it will open Malaysia's largest bookstore later this month. The new bookstore will open on March 29 at Klang Valley's Mid Valley Megamall. The 36,000 sq ft
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      450 6 Mar 8 Source: JM S on Stock* Volume CEISc 147,171,000 IPC Corpn 5c 98,776.000 MediaRing 10c 91,081,000 Kyosha HK50C 78,282,000 Ionics P$1.00 76,871,000 Uraco HWgslOc 71,376,000 GokJtron 20c 66,068,000 Vckere Capital 25c 55,813,000 Frt Links 20c 47,969,000 QES Intl Ltd 20c 47,583,000 Stocks PacrficCentury 706,014,859 DBSGrp 274,616,364 SPH 220,053,554 ST
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      Lock icon Trading will quieten farther with T+3 round the corner
      595 6  -  |:j Jcomment STOCKS r. sivanithy TOWARDS the end of last week, two opposing forces were at work in the local stock market a push on technology stocks, tempered by the pull on the overall market exerted by concerns over the new
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      Lock icon One last rally for Credit Lyonnais' SingTel warrant?
      185 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By 1 R Sivanithy WE'll continue our look at covered warrants today, with the spotlight falling on an instrument that probably has the best numbers in the entire market going for it. By now, this shouldn't come as much of
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      Lock icon Datapulse recovers from correction
      266 6  -  HOT STOCK -By' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Datapulse Technology rose last Friday in active dealings, with the stock finishing as one of the session's most heavily traded issues. Datapulse shares closed up 5 cents or 6.7 per cent at 80 cents. The stock opened at
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      144 6 VARIOUS mutual fluids, unit trusts and discretionary accounts which INVESCO Asia Limited manages have bought from the open market 12,532,000 shares representing a 5.03 per cent stake in JIT Holdings. The new substantial shareholder, AMVESCAP pic, did not give details of the price at which the shares were
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      Lock icon Stronger yen expected to pull up Asian currencies
      564 6 ASIAN units will be dragged up by a rising yen in the coming week. The Korean won is likely to suffer, as foreign interest in Seoul stocks wanes. It is a racing certainty that Japan is back in recession. So what are
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Experts say deregulation will lead to 'unbundling' of SingTel's local loop
      611 8  -  This will allow new telecoms entrants to gain direct access to customers Byi Catherine Ong THE impending liberalisation in the telecoms industry will lead to the "unbundling" of Singapore Telecom's local loop, thereby allowing new entrants to gain direct
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      Lock icon Allgreen's Horizon Gardens sold out
      340 8  -  It could rake in about $172.7 m in sales from project By Marissa Chew ALLGREEN Properties has notched up yet another hit cluster housing project the 157 homes at its Horizon Gardens development were sold out by yesterday morning after its launch on Saturday. Marketing
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      Lock icon CPI of top 20% of households up 2.5% in H2 '99
      382 8  -  M ii I un the economy inflation By Marissa Chew AFTER enjoying 18 months of cheaper goods, the top 20 per cent of households finally experienced a hike in their Consumer Price Index in the second half of last
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      Lock icon Fernhill Grove first en bloc sale offer since govt upped DC rates
      250 8 THE owners of Fernhill Grove, which occupies a 86,348 sq ft site off Stevens Road, are putting their homes up for sale by tender. Under the 1998 Master Plan, the'site has a plot ratio of 1.4 and height
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      Lock icon New partnerships, launches and angels
      693 8  -  STORE TECBVENTDBBS 2000 From« Jennifer Lien in San Francisco X3-ht3TS.COM Ltd has teamed up with a Singapore Power subsidiary to develop a new, interactive mechanical and electrical portal in Singapore. The agreement with SP E-Services pairs up ei-Nets' I-nets technology with Singapore Power's reach in
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      Lock icon Siemens semicon arm to be valued at 22b euros
      369 9 FRANKFURT Infineon, one of Europe's biggest IPO of a tech group, makes debut today FT INFINEON, the semiconductor arm of Siemens, will be valued at nearly 22 billion euros (5536.3 billion) when it starts trading in Frankfurt and New York today,
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      Lock icon Up to 250,000 retail investors apply for Lastminute.com IPO
      336 9 LONDON Bloomberg LASTMINUTE.COM Ltd, which sells travel, entertainment and gifts online at short notice, said between 200,000 and 250,000 individual investors applied to buy shares in its initial public offering. The company lifted the price range used to gauge investor interest
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        Lock icon Virgin in new on-line wine venture
        81 9 Reuters [LONDON] British entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to take prestige wines to the masses with a new £10 million on-line joint venture, Virglnwines.com. Mr Branson's Virgin Group said it would set the business up in two months and give on-line tipplers and would-be wine
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        Lock icon UK firm offers free Net for life for £50
        99 9 Reuters [LONDON] A British Internet service provider (ISP) said yesterday it would offer on-line access for free forever for a one-off charge of £50 (Ssl3s) "A one-off £50 charge will provide users with a lifetime registration, which, unlike recently announced offers
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        Lock icon Cybercrime meet for G8, high-tech firms
        61 9 AFP [TOKYO] The Group of Eight (G8) major nations and the high-technology industry will meet in Paris in May to discuss hacking and other cyber crimes, a report said yesterday. Participants in the first such public-private joint meeting will be government officials and representatives
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        Lock icon Hongkong.com buys 30% of WAP firm
        68 9 Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong.com Corp, which made a sizzling local trading debut last week, said yesterday it had bought a 30 per cent stake in a Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) services provider (WAP) to deliver Internet content to mobile phone users. "This is an important
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      Lock icon India's old business giants scramble to push e-commerce
      526 9 MCALCUTTA Reuters A WELTER of India's traditional business giants are scrambling to seize business opportunities on the Internet, but analysts said the old guard faces an uphill task in the shifting sands of technology. The Internet has lured loss-making steel plants, state-run
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      Lock icon News Corp plans big investments in India
      389 9 BANGALORE Chairman says firm looking to invest in television services, hi-tech companies Reuters MEDIA group News Corp Ltd plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years in India in television services as well as technology firms, chairman Rupert Murdoch
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      Lock icon Asian execs quit corporate ladder for Internet startups
      742 9 HONGKONG Perception that leap into high-tech unknown may be worth it is spreading across region FT JOHNNY Chan was earning well over US$l million (Ssl.7 million) a year as an investment banker at Bear Stearns in Hongkong when he quit last year
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Proton, Mitsubishi plan MPVs, utility cars
      240 10 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S national car manufacturer Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) will produce multi-pur-pose vehicles (MPV) and recreational vehicles with Mitsubishi Motors by 2001. Proton said the new models would be a six-seater 1.1-li-tre MPV and a 1.1-litre recreational vehicle. The car maker
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      Lock icon M'sia to restructure power generation industry
      522 10 LUMUT Consumers will be able to buy directly from any of 15 independent producers on 'electricity exchange' MALAYSIA'S power generation industry will be restructured by the year-end to enable users to buy electricity direct from any of the 15 licensed independent power producers (IPP),
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      Lock icon Mahathir has commanding lead in re-election bid
      407 10 KUALA LUMPUR He is close to required nominations to ran for top Umno post Reuters PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad built a commanding lead yesterday in his bid to retain leadership of Malaysia's ruling party while his only possible challenger languishes far behind. The
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    • MALAYSIA Briefs
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        Lock icon Mahathir in Johor
        80 10 [JOHOR BARU] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will make a one-day official visit to Johor today, New Sunday Times reported. He will open the RM2.B billion (5f1.25 billion) Port ofTanjung Pelepas in Gelang Patah. Phase one of the project, with two berths totalling 2.16 km in length, started
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        Lock icon Branded goods now duty-free
        111 10 [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government has abolished import duty on branded goods priced at RM2OO (SS9O) and above to draw more foreign tourists into the country, New Sunday Times reported. Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir said the decision was made during the
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        Lock icon Ban GM food from US, says minister
        102 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian government minister said genetically modified (GM) food exports from the US should be banned, saying he believed such products caused defects in humans who ate them. Lim Keng Yaik, the minister for primary industries, plans to attack GM
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Philippine peso may yet rise above controversy on the stock exchange
      411 11 Bloomberg [MANILA] In many countries a stock exchange trading without its compliance department would send investors for the exit, decimating stock and currency markets. For the Philippines, in this situation since Wednesday, it's more a question of when overseas
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      Lock icon Thai economy faces watershed debt ruling
      657 11 BANGKOK Court to rale Wednesday on creditors' suit against country's biggest defaulter TPI Reuters THAILAND faces an economic watershed on Wednesday when a court rules on the case of the country's biggest debt defaulter, Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI). If the Central Bankruptcy Court decides
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon SUNeVision HK debut to take cue from Tokyo tech stocks
      430 12 play HONGKONG Recent pnllback for Softbank, Hikari Tsushin could temper big price jump Reuters THE debut of SUNeVision Holdings Ltd shares on the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) on Friday could be cooled by a recent pullback in Tokyo and Hongkong
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      Lock icon HK to relax GEM market rules, speed up review
      184 12 HONGKONG Reuters THE Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) said on Saturday they would relax some requirements and run a review of the new Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) regulations as soon as possible. The
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      Lock icon Absence of new HK taxes leaves public suspicious
      675 12  -  I-H comment HK STOCKS And Richard LI gets more media coverage quak hiang whai After months of exhortations about the need for new tax initiatives amid dwindling public reserves, Hongkong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang surprised everyone when he unveiled a Budget which
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      Lock icon NPC urges less red tape, says report
      238 12 BEIJING AFP Reuters DELEGATES to China's annual parliament meeting have called for red tape to be slashed to ease the country's bid for entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), state media reported yesterday. Many National People's Congress (NPC) delegates "have touched on
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      536 12 WHERE IS SINGAPORE HEADING THE ANSWERS ARE HERE The Economics Executive Programme and the Econometric Studies Unit, of the Founded i%5 Department of Economics THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of SINGAPORE jointly present a one-day workshop on Singapore in the New Millennium: Problems, Prospects and Challenges Viewpoints from Economists 11 April 2000,
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon National Australia Bank stays mum on AMP bid
      446 13 MELBOURNE Australia's largest bank to bid As2sb for the country's biggest life insurer, says UK's Sunday Telegraph Bloomberg NATIONAL Australia Bank (NAB), Australia's largest bank, declined to comment on a report that it is preparing to make a formal takeover bid for
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      Lock icon NZ govt mulls over stockmarket merger
      382 13 WELLINGTON Amalgamation with Australia fair issne to raise, says Clark AFP TALK of merging New Zealand's ailing stock market with the healthier one in Australia has sparked debate among investors on the fu,ture of the share market here. The decline of the NZSE-40 Capital
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      Lock icon Telstra defends job cuts, to step up cost savings
      314 13 SYDNEY TELSTRA Corp Ltd defended planned major job cuts yesterday, saying the reductions were an extension of cost control programmes already in place at Australia's dominant telecommunications carrier. "The cost regime in Telstra has been in place for the better part
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      Lock icon Reborn LTCB keen to buy failed retail bank
      336 13 TOKYO AFP LONG-TERM Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) Ltd, which is being revived under new foreign ownership, wants to buy failed Tokyo Sowa Bank to enhance retail business, its president said yesterday. The buyout would enable LTCB to "enter retail business at
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      Lock icon Tokyo governor pushes for a casino in the city
      414 13 TOKYO But idea is likely to face resistance from central government FT TOKYO could become Asia's Monte Carlo if Shintaro Ishihara, governor of the Japanese capital, has his way. Mr Ishihara, whose controversial but populist proposals have gained him a wide
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      Lock icon Bank tax plan brings to mind Hitler's tactics: Sakakibara
      391 13 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN'S former top financial diplomat yesterday attacked a plan by maverick Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara to slap a tax on big banks, saying it was a populist move which brought Hitler's political tactics to mind Eisuke Sakakibara said on
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      Lock icon General Motors and Fiat poised to unveil share swap: report
      420 14 MILAN Tie-up seen involving engines, components and online retailing network Bloomberg GENERAL Motors Corp and Fiat SpA are poised to announce a share swap as early as today, an Italian newspaper reported, in a move that investors said would help
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      Lock icon Japanese investors growing tired of euro, say analysts
      533 14 analysis TOKYO AFP MAJOR Japanese investors are growing tired of the euro as the 14-month-old currency shows few signs of overcoming its teething troubles, analysts say. After initially welcoming the single currency's advent with massive investment in euro holdings, big Japanese funds
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      Lock icon Compaq chief gets US$7m pay in '99
      288 14 WASHINGTON Reuters COMPAQ Computer Corp paid its president and chief executive officer Michael Capellas almost US$7 million (Ssl2 million) in 1999, including a US$l million bonus as he helped build investor confidence in the company. Mr Capellas received U554.97 million in restricted stock
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      Lock icon ECB likely to leave rates unchanged
      358 14 PARIS The bank will wait for more inflation data, say economists Bloomberg THE European Central Bank will probably leave interest rates unchanged on Thursday, waiting for more evidence inflation is speeding up before increasing borrowing costs, analysts said. Just one out of the 13
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      Lock icon Technology triumphs in a tale of two markets
      749 14 NEW YORK Momentum investing and reallocation of funds is fuelling the rapid rise, say analysts FT IT seems you just can't keep a good Nasdaq down. Wall Street has been grappling with a split market for some time: technology stocks go up
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      581 16 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Volatile oil prices remained strong as dealers continued to bet for and against a sizeable increase in output after the Opec meeting in two weeks' time. A flurry of conflicting messages emanated from producer nations, with
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      261 17 HONGKONG AFP The HONGKONG stock market is set for consolidation in the week ahead after recent sharp gains, although it will remain dependent on the direction of the US market, dealers said. "The market will find strong resistance at the 18,000-point level
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      523 17 NEW YORK More 'traditional' coulters losing oat to'new economy' stocks AFP THE index of the screenbased Nasdaq market continued its apparently unstoppable rise, ending the week 2.72 per cent higher even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell back 4.23 per cent. Not
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      388 17 TOKYO AFP TOKYO share prices will sway next week between a continuing correction in high-priced technology issues and buying on hopes for Japan's economic recovery, brokers say. Investors are braced for another choppy week after market-leading electronics giant Sony Corp and Internet investor
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      343 17 LONDON AFP THE London stock market rose on resurgent high-tech and telecoms sectors that gained from record highs on the tech-heavy Nasdaq market in the United States last week. A string of technology stocks displaced traditional blue chips from the FTSE 100
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      453 18 AFP PCompoatelndex -0.22 MALAYSIAN stocks are set for a less volatile week after last week's ups and downs but no obvious trend is in sight, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange composite index closed Friday at 948.09, up 25.5 points for the day
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      615 19  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup Dan Katzive Standard Poor's MMS This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [LONDON] The week ahead kicks off with Japan's longawaited Q4 GDP release today. While this event risk is extinguished
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      569 22 The British film-maker of American Beauty takes home top honour at Directors Guild of America AP AMERICAN beauty director Sam Mendes won the top honour from the Directors Guild of America, solidifying his chances to take home an Oscar for the dark satire of
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      40 23 Top stories How EDB helps start-ups to blossom Page 12 Seagate remains committed to S'pore Page 7 Quantum pushes into consumer electronics Page 4 Commentary Claim your fame in cyberspace. In today's media-driven world, it means big bucks Page 3
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      693 24  -  Big companies like IBM and Ross Video will run trials of Singapore start-up WiredHub.com's e-commerce system By Toh Han Shih A SINGAPORE start-up aims to provide busi-ness-to-business (B2B) e-commerce to broadcasting players worldwide. The firm, Wired Hub.com, has major broadcasting firms in the US
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      769 24  -  While benefits are many, theatre operators are dannted by the cost of projection systems By Bob Tourtellotte Reuters [LAS VEGAS] With all the talk of new digital technology in entertainment DVD, HDTV, the Net movie fans might think digital movies will be
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      536 25  -  liW we see IT A scenario similar to Net shopping will probably arise in cyber-stardom toh han shih The writer isaßT journalist THE Internet will change the nature of fame. In today's media-driven world, fame translates to big bucks. As such, the Net will have
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        79 25 IBM has been selected by Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) to develop its e-commerce applications for its five strategic business units: Sasco, STA Engineering, STA Systems, STA Engines and STA Supplies. The $1.8 million deal includes hardware, software and services to be undertaken by IBM
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        71 25 AMO's new Internet-based trading platform, ECpart, which AMO calls "the dynamic digital marketplace for high-tech manufacturers", went live last month and now provides over US$26 million (5544.5 million) worth of components ready for immediate sales and delivery. ECpart provides global inventory management, component trading and logistics,
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        38 25 NOVELL Inc will hold its eOpportunity tour on Wednesday at the West in Stamford, where it will showcase the latest technologies from Novell, IBM and Lucent Technologies. For details, fax *****35, or go to www.pointpub.com/eODDortunitv.
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        40 25 ADOBE Systems will hold a seminar on March 20 and 21 on Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) technology, and on print and Web publishing, at $10 per session per person. For details, fax *****55.
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        52 25 SINGAPORE Linux Conference and LinuxWorld 2000 exposition will be held at Suntec City for four days from March 22. It is organised by IDG World Expo and the Linux Users Group Singapore, and sponsored by SGI, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, and Donovan Systems. For details, go
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        78 25 THE fifth IT Best Practices Seminar 2000 on "Business leadership in the Internet and knowledge-based economy" will be held on March 22 at the Marriott Hotel. It is organised by IT Management Association and the Institute of Systems Science, sponsored by Andersen Consulting, Compaq, Dell, HP,
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        Lock icon Cards Asia kicks off on April 5
        76 25 ASIA'S largest event dedicated to card technology, Cards Asia 2000, will be held at Suntec City for three days from April 5. It will be held in conjunction with Information Security Asia 2000 and Mobile Commerce World Asia 2000. It is organised by
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        65 25 SUN Microsystems has added seven new LIUPTLocaI Industry Upgrading Programme) partners from the logistics and multimedia sectors. They are: InterAuct, Softel, Silicon Illusion, Hello Technology, DollarDEX, Ace Fusion.com and Connect!. "Sun now has 20 local partners who are focused on the Internet, e-commerce, banking and finance,
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        37 25 HEWLETT-PACKARD has appointed See Chin Teik as its first operations manager of consumer computing and appliances for the Asia-Pacific region. Mr See's responsibilities include PCs, palmtops, optical rewritable drives, wireless Internet services and calculators.
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        29 25 SANTA Clara, California-based Ramp Networks, that provides Internet access solutions, has opened its Asia-Pacific HQ in Singapore, headed by Danny Tan, director for the region.
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        54 25  -  Compiled bj Raju Chellam GEMPLUS reported record revenue for its year-ended Dec 31,1999, with gross revenue at US$Bl7 million (Ssl.4 billion), up 31 per cent over 1998. In the Asia-Pacific, Gemplus sales were up 49 per cent over the previous year. Net income reached US$35 million,
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      632 25  -  Bill Husted NYT [ATLANTA] When is the best time to buy a computer? It's when you need one. Of all the questions I get by phone and e-mail, that's the most common. And there are dozens of cliched and unsatisfying answers to the
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      782 26  -  M'-ii exclusive The market is growing at over 100% a year, compared to just 15% for the computer segment Bu' Val Chua STORAGE giant Quantum Corp plans to move beyond its traditional business to capture a slice of the growing consumer electronics market. These
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      509 26 He also says closing the digital divide between the rich and the poor is important Reuters [SAN JOSE, California] Weeks after computer hackers were blamed for halting service on Web sites like Yahoo! and Amazon.com, US President Bill Clinton on
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      704 28  -  SAYIU It calls for learning and Innovation to be Integrated with business objectives and expected outcome oliver tian The writer is director of education services, Hewlett-Packard Asia-Pacific WITH today's rapid pace of change and obsolescence, organisations are faced with two imperatives learning and innovation. Training
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      284 28 AP [NEW YORK] Hoping to close the "digital divide" between whites and minorities, the United Negro College Fund announced a US$l3O million (Ss22l million) partnership with two computer industry giants last Friday to bring black colleges and universities into the Internet
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      264 28 FT AN unknown computer whizz kid has inflicted China's first serious hacker attack on a domestic Web site. The development is expected to fuel an intense debate on Internet security and regulation. Chen Yongjian, chief executive officer of 1T163.c0m, a large e-commerce Web site that
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      138 28 Reuters [NEW YORK] IBM sold nearly three times as many high-end servers for the Unix computer operating system as market leader Sun Microsystems Inc in the fourth quarter of 1999, market researchers International Data Corp said last Friday. International Business Machines Corp sold
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      638 29  -  exclusive The company will continue to make capital investments here as it automates its processes, COO William Watkins tells amdrea tam ANDREA TAN SEAGATE Technology, the world's largest disk drive manufacturer, stays committed to Singapore despite a recent spate of retrenchments, its chief operating officer
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      220 29 Reuters [BANGALORE, India] Indian computer software firm Infosys Technologies Ltd is considering funding a proposal from its employees to promote an online notification software, a company statement said. "Infosys is currently evaluating (to promote) 'Onscan', a comprehensive notification service for Web users, as
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      687 30  -  Content providers who attended meet in New York see rosy future for mnsic offerings on the Net, and say WAP is the way to go By] Frances Katz NYT [NEW YORK] The Internet: It's not just for desktops anymore. "Anywhere, anyplace, anyhow" was the
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      518 30  -  Govt policies in both Singapore and Hongkong allow for crossing and merging of media content on the Web By'. Toh Han Shih THE Internet allows different media to get into each other's space. This applies to film, television, radio or music, because different media are converging with the
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      810 30  -  A look at how Airbus and Boeing cockpits for pilots By 1 Laurence Zuckerman NYT [NEW YORK] In the 97 years since the Wright brothers made their first flight, aviation has progressed to the point where an airline pilot can now take off, push
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      487 31  -  Melissa was about 30 lines of Visual Basic code and did USsBom worth of damage By Elizabeth Su A COMMON operating system, common office applications, and common e-mail programs have created a digital monoculture that helps computer viruses proliferate and worms spread throughout the network.
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      646 31 Scientists can nse the program to map a person's gpnetic quirks Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp is testing software that can screen patients to help determine treatments and develop drugs, a move to profit from the increasing use
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      807 32  -  Top researchers are exploring how the power of the strange rules that prevail in the submicroscopic realm of the atom can be harnessed in a computer By\ Sara Robinson NYT [BERKELEY, California] SIX years ago, Dr Peter Shor, a researcher at AT&T Labs, galvanised
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        70 32 NEC Singapore has unveiled the NEC MultiSync LT 84 projector, its lightest and brightest DLP (digital light processing) projector yet. It weighs 2.5 kg, and offers 700 lumens' brightness at up to 1,024 by 768 pixel resolution for PCs, and at up to 1,152 by 870 pixel
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        82 32 HEWLETT-PACKARD has launched its DeskJet 950 C and 930 C colour inkjet printers, priced at $429 and $569, respectively. The 950 C lets users store up to 20 sheets of HP's snapshot-size photo media in its special paper tray. "Users can print ready-to-frame photo images
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        74 32 SUN Microsystems has announced the "Sun Developer Essentials" hardware package of systems, software and services for developers to speed up commercial applications for the Java platform and on Sun's Solaris operating environment. This new programme is part of the Sun Developer Connection programme. It will provide a
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        75 32 3COM CORP has unveiled the 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN 56K Global Modem CardBus PC Card to give users fast and reliable network connections from virtually anywhere in the world. The product features an innovative XJack connector that automatically reconfigures for a LAN (local area network) or dial-up
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        66 32  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam EPSON Singapore has introduced the Expression 1600 Pro, its new-generation flatbed scanner targeted at graphics professionals and businesses that need high-quality scans. It scans at 1,600 by 3,200 dots per inch resolution, features a 36-bit colour depth that recognises 68 billion colours, comes
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      210 32  -  By, Aaron Lye HOMEGROWN Net Tasking.com (Singapore) Pte Ltd last week launched its Webbased network performance and fault management service. A key element of the solution is MAX, a Web-enabled network management platform that offers real-time status monitoring and advanced reporting features. "It costs between
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      595 33  -  foodeasy.com is one of the most popular Web sites in Hongkong without spending on ads By- Toh Han Shih A PROFITABLE dotcom company foodeasy.com has become one of the most popular Web sites in Hongkong without spending on ads. "We've not spent a single cent on advertising,"
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      325 33 Bloomberg {ROCHESTER, New York] Eastman Kodak Co, the world's biggest photography company, said its technology enabling digital cameras to beam photos directly to home computers may be available by the fourth quarter of 2001. The technology uses radiofrequency waves and will
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        969 34  -  M i 'We use equity as a tool to spearhead some Singapore initiatives,' EDB Investments tells ELIZABETH SU ELIZABETH SU LAST month, the Economic Development Board said coinvestment funds managed by the Board doubled last year to more than $4 billion. EDB said it
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          93 34 IBM has unveiled its new Scroll Point Pro mouse that gives users a one-touch access to the Internet It comes with a programmable third button that is pre-set as the back-browser control and automatically returns to the previous link in the browser. It is made with
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          67 34 IBM Pacific Internet has signed up the Hindttfa Group and the Thakral Group as its new partners in its India joint venture, Pacific Internet India Pte Ltd. The deal involves Pacific Internet Ltd, Thakral Brothers Pte Ltd, and ln2Cable.Com (India) Pte Ltd. The venture offers Gfaup wffleach
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          90 34  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A NEW online auction site for specialised products required by the construction, building and manufacturing equipment industries in Asia will go live, at www.tradt-n-trade.com, in May. "The new trading environment is the first of its kind in Asia," said Trade-n-Tradexom's chief executive
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      406 35  -  -i (exclusive Thai fishermen saved 17 crew off Phuket but ship is still missing By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The crew of the Japanese tanker Global Mars, missing since Feb 23, have been rescued from an island off Phuket, Thailand, although the whereabouts of the
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      211 35 [SINGAPORE] The Port of Hamburg's top container terminal Burchardkai Container Terminal set a new throughput record in 1999, with a total volume of 1.88 million 20-ft equivalent units (TEUs), representing a year-on-year growth of 18 per cent. With this volume, the Burchardkai terminal, operated
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      103 35 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young farther trading BULK CARRIEBSi ♦'Farenco': 149,735 tdw bit 96 Dalian; rumoured to have been committed region US$25 million to undisclosed buyers. The vessel has a time-charter at U559,300 running until late this year. ♦'Rubin Iris': 22,000 tdw bit 92 Saiki Jukogyo crs 4/30
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      809 35  -  DOCKYARD By\ David Hughes THE classification societies are, as everybody in the shipping industry must surely know, under intense pressure to raise standards In theory, though, standards are already high. Yet sub-standard ships continue to exist, as the recent loss of the Erika has underlined. The
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        834 36 Government is introducing more comprehensive and integrated rules against spills and waste discharge by ships CleanSeas IN Korea, concern over environmental issues has been escalating in recent years. Marine pollution is becoming more and more important because of its catastrophic effects on biological ecology, fisheries
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      19125 43 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vnul Voyage T*ephane ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyeqe Tiliphone SIN Dest'n Nam Name Number Number SIN Destn Name Nam Number j*g>g 23/03 04/04 Evergreen JITRA BHUM 4*0 65-*****1 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvolre 24/03 20/04 cosco xibome 0020E 65-*****0 22/03 29/04
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        1893 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Manet Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Pwtod From _To From AC1 DAHLIA 0191 14/18:00 U li/WOO I2/HS9 12/***** *****00 12/1*59 12/1*001 2A 12/1700 tVMM 13/0900 n 12/1700 13/0*51 13/0*00 i anm mm u/moo 4 U/1200 D/MK 13/1700 mc "M-00 IWJM
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        205 49 MarM Indonesia: Hari Raya Haji. Malaysia: Hari Raya Haji. Singapore: Hari Raya HajiBrunei: Hari Raya Aidiladha. Mar 17 United States: St Patrick's Day Bank Holiday (Northern Ireland). MarlS Taiwan: Market Holiday for Presidential Election. Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Equinox Day. Apr 3 Taiwan: Women Children's Day. Apr 4
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        806 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine 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 average- sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        392 49 Cart*, 180 Mai 992.2 0.9 15.9 0.10 75 o.w Mar 9 P—ItT —Art S—w* E» Q j a 7 0 0 J <8 0.02 380 Mu 998.9 5.9 17.5 0.14 270 0.07 KM*] %«/V *11/11 hm/u rm Mtm Mo at—» 635 8 1 0 0 5
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        391 50 British carrier looking for person with broad intl, service industry experience after CEO's ouster FT [LONDON] The search is under way to find a successor to Bob Ayling as chief executive of British Airways after he was ousted in a boardroom coup led by a
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        312 50 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Airlines, the world's No 1 air carrier, AMR Corp's American Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc boosted some round-trip fares as much as US$4O (Ss6B) to match fuel cost-related increases by Continental Airlines Inc earlier
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          170 50 AP [SEATTLE] An Alaska Airlines jetliner bounpfor Southern California turned back and made an emergen cy landing over the weekend after a fake explosive device was found in a carry on bag. Chutes on the MD-80 series airliner were deployed and passengers slid to
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          61 50 Reuters [SYDNEY] Australia's flagship carrier Qantas Airways Ltd said it planned to form a code-share agreement with Taiwan's EVA Airways for services between the two countries. Under the terms of the agreement, Qantas would operate three direct services a week between Sydney and Taipei,
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          105 50 AFX-Asia [BEIJING] China plans to begin construction of a high-speed railway linking the capital with Shanghai by 2006, State Development Planning Commission Minister Zeng Peiyan. "We will speed up our current preparation work so that during the next five-year-plan period (2001-2005) we
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        298 50 Analysts likely to cnt earnings estimates to 30 US cents, down from 50 US cents Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co's profit could drop as much as 40 per cent in the first quarter as a strike by 17,000 engineers and technicians slashes
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        259 50 AP [BRUSSELS] The European Commission recently proposed that the 15 European Union governments tax commercial aircraft fuel, reviving an idea last rejected in 1997. The EU executive said it will put the proposal before a meeting of EU finance ministers today. The commission
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      238 35 I ASIA WESTBOUND RATE AGREEMENT I I (AWRA) I I NOTICE OF RATE RESTORATION IN THE ASIA/NORTH EUROPE TRADE I I ON 1 APRIL 2000 I Towards the end of the last year the Member Lines of Asia Westbound Rate Agreement I I (AWRA) issued a press announcement informing their
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      28 35 SingaPort 2000 Special Feature Shipping Times 29 March 2000 increase Your Hold On Wine Key fflaritime Hlarkets Tin-: 111 si\i:ssTi\ii:s Siniti\<;Ti.\ii;s 82 Genting Lone Ne*s Centie Sincjcipoie 3-*****
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      1164 36 I NORTH AMERICA I EXPORT I I OTHER DESTINATIONS I 88X SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS- MRECT TO LONQ BEACH WEST COAST Of CENTRAL AMERICA (MARGARITA SOttACE) wm m mm now u—mmm mum now okmo maim mmaan fp *iaa vot norm.! touwu sjmiumao cowwro nuamA WBywarmt an ■tl MUMS IIiSII 15/13 IS/M
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      628 36 Lines services represented by Members of the Registry of Members of the Accredited Shipping Agents, Singapore Logistics Association. S'pore Notional Shipping Assoc. NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBULK PROJECT CARGO TO DAMNER/FREHMNTU MV "TBN" ETA SIN 28/03/2000 BOOKINGS CALL MONKA/JUUA TEL 323 4374 CONTAINERS/ CONVENTIONAL CARGO PORT KUNG/SJNGAFOti/jAKAtTA C
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      1242 38 DSR SENATOR UNES TO UK/CONTINENT TOMEPnCTRANEANCANADA 1 vtaa vot *57" ia win mm hum bmm fu *o«a vor w in a nu im HMUHHen K4BW 17 H M M IIM M M 17.M KM CHOYAMG SUCCEM MOW 17 M K M M M M M M M M M HAMJM
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      677 38 EXPRESS CMMO ffflW FOR UM (CPS MUUMO. HMNMM ALSO ACCEPTING TO Ml NORTHERN MB WESTERN I.C.D. PUNTS M STONE N. SHEVA P KLANG CAPE CANAVERAL V.121W 19 MAR 28 MAR 02 APR M APR TULSIOAS ¥122 20 MAS MAPR MAPR IS APR CAPE CREUS VIMW 02 APR 11 APR II
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      767 40 f jgggpf# PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD I ■■i 140 Cecil Street, 403-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I CO NO **********0E I^—l |vb» w rw m i m m m m m m m rw Ml I I M-"' i» Ilfl f j =5= 00Q DM6OW 003 "/3 ,J M/
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      366 40 SI raOK BLANGAH ROM M 2-6? OTPOH! CBfTW STOM *****0 TEL *****11 (6 \km) FAX: *****06 TLX: RS ***** CR WO. 20C*****000W vena voir nt no obumui mum ii«ii7aM mmm For inqairtti ind bookings pins* cootact--BEASPACE SHIPPING (S) PTE LTD 133 Now Bridge Roed #00-06 OM I■■ tmnixown rotm Tel:
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