The Business Times, 18 March 2000

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    Lock icon Singapore opens door to direct insurers
    810 1  -  New entrants to be spaced ont; 49% foreign ownership cap lifted Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] In a continuing bid to become a world class financial centre, Singapore yesterday lifted restrictions on the entry of direct insurers and brokers. It also lifted the 49 per
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    144 1  -  -Byi Christopher Tan sOKto am Malayan Motors, a unit of listed Wearnes International, has sold two Bentley Arnage Red Labels, each worth a JX? st f per ux J ir y s 75 -lttre carnages, the latest from Volkswagen-owned Bentley Motor Cars of Crewe, were snapped up within
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    Lock icon 'Old economy' stocks power S'pore market to 72-point rise
    602 1  -  Asian bourses mirror Wall Street's overnight surge By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The Singapore stock market yesterday ran up its biggest single-day surge this year as "old economy" stocks roared back with a vengeance, mirroring a record single-session leap by New York
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    Lock icon Nasdaq, Dow pull ahead
    117 1 [NEW YORK] The Nasdaq Composite Index yesterday morning extended its rebound from the 9 per cent plunge that it saw at the beginning of the week, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose for a third session. By 11 am EST, the Nasdaq was up 65.81
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    Lock icon From here to Edinburgh: S'pore dancers swing out with the Lindy
    581 1  -  By Koh Huiting [SINGAPORE] Add a bit of waltz, foxtrot and the Charleston to big band jazz music, a dash of colour and a pinch of African poly rhythms. Mix and shake well. The result? A true American vernacular
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    Lock icon New spin to Amazon share options worth US$2b
    468 1 The power is in the D&yD&ckate Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Amazon.com Inc awarded stock options that could be worth a combined US$2 billion (553.4 billion) in two decades to two top executives who joined the biggest Internet retailer last year. President Joe Galli, formerly
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      93 1 mauiE Top stories 40% of Clob investors accept Effective's offer. Pg 3 Delgro net profits jump to $66m. Pg 3 Dot-coms seen facing looming cash crunches. Pg 8 Pacific Century CyberWorks suspends trading after misleading profit I report Pg9 Sotheby's and Christie's said to swap confidential lists of super-rich clients.
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      27 1 It ain't over till the US tech lady swings, Pg 5 la the Wall St rally a bear market rally?Pg 5 Taipei stocks pull ahead, Pg 2
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Go figure
        111 2 MANY think of accountants as pretty boring people who spend their time poring over numbers. Well, at least two male members of the profession here have debunked those myths and unknowingly demonstrated that they are interested in other kinds of figures as well. Little did they know that
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      • Article
        Lock icon A dollar too many?
        57 2 QUOTE of the day from Tom Siebel, founder of US software vendor Siebel Systems: "Hell, in Silicon Valley, you can raise US$lO million (Ssl7 million) having breakfast at Buck's restaurant. There is so much money running around, and where are these people going to invest it
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        Lock icon Stock wrestling
        95 2 IN a stereotype-breaking interview recently on CNBC, World Wrestling Federation wrestler Bradshaw, aka John Leyfield, was asked about his winning stock picks. The burly wrestler had this advice for other investors: "Stay long-term, invest on a 10 to 15-year horizon and you'll be in the black." The CNBC
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        Lock icon Pilgrim's progress
        83 2 AMERICAN businesses used to look East for new ideas, but now the Harvard Business School is looking West. Led by Professor Bill Sahlman, some 500 students recently visited Silicon Valley and many expressed interest in moving there like Bill Gates, before finishing their studies—to catch the dot.com fever.
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      Lock icon SIA, Brierley fail to strike deal on AirNZ stake
      530 2  -  Breakdown could be over price; later deal not rilled out By Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] A disappointed Cheong Choong Kong, Singapore Airlines' deputy chairman and chief executive, is said to be on the way home after his latest round of talks with
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      Lock icon Taiwan shares up nearly 1% on govt buying
      483 2  -  NTs3ob to NTs3sb pumped into the market: analysts From Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN stocks rose almost one per cent yesterday on heavy government buying in the last trading session before today's presidential elections. Analysts estimated that the government pumped NT$3O billion
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      Lock icon Japan recession a phoney one? Data compilation to be reviewed
      901 2  -  Economists argue that official statistics are not giving a trne picture Promt Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN announced yesterday a review of the basis of compilation of some key economic statistics that should reveal whether or not the latest recession
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      Lock icon India outfits Clinton
      46 2 [NEW DELHI] US President Bill Clinton is shown in an altered photograph showing him in traditional Indian clothing in front of the Taj Mahal on the cover of the Indian magazine Outlook. Mr Clinton will visit India from tomorrow to March 25. AP
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      Lock icon No 2 CBOT official tipped to head HK futures exchange
      379 2 Fred Grede will replace I vers Riley next month Bloomberg THE Chicago Board of Trade's No 2 executive is preparing to quit the biggest US futures exchange to become chief executive of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, people familiar with
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Delgro net profits jump to $66m
      496 3  -  Exit from property business also brings in extraordinary earnings of $32m By\ Marissa Chew DELGRO Corporation, the parent of bus operator Singapore Bus Services, yesterday reported a massive 551 per cent jump in net earnings to $66.5 million last year from $10.2 million in
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      Lock icon 40% of Clob investors accept Effective's offer
      216 3 ABOUT 70,000 Clob investors, or 40 per cent of the estimated 172,000 total, have accepted Effective Capital's scheme to release their frozen Malaysian shares. In response to press queries, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) said last night that most of the acceptances were received
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    • Article
      Lock icon Intraco turns around with $9.2m net
      349 3  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling TRADING company Intraco returned to the black with net earnings of $9.2 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1999, compared with a $13.7 miUion loss the previous year. Turnover declined 12.3 per cent to $519.6 miUion, mainly as a
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Hwa Hoof earnings up 74% to $10m
        120 3 hwa Hong Corp announced a 74 per cent surge in group net profit to $10.2 million last year. Turnover rose by 14.5 percent to $172 million. The company attributed the higher earnings to higher offshore dividend income, write-back of provisions for reduction in
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        Lock icon Pan-United profit up slightly
        87 3 a 35 per cent drop in turnover, Pan-United managed to achieve an 8 per cent growth in group net earnings before minority interests to $11.5 million last year. Group turnover amounted to $196 million. The drop in turnover- was due mainly to weaker demand, lower selling
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        Lock icon Chosen gain dives 43% at half-time
        49 3 uuvei iuts ito to a per cent drop in interim group net profit of Chosen Holdings to $2.88 million. Turnover dropped by 17 per cent to $44 million for the first six months ended Dec 31. Its directors expect a better second half.
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        Lock icon Jaya interim earnings sliced by half
        78 3 ni B" er vessel repair costs, depreciation expense and lower exchange and sundry income, Jaya Holdings suffered a 50 per cent drop in interim group net profit to $6.1 million. But turnover rose by 41 per cent to $38.8 million for the first six
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      Lock icon Great Eastern shares at highest level in 6 months
      410 4 Surge follows insurer's first analyst briefing in 92 years Bloomberg GREAT Eastern Holdings Ltd, one of South-east Asia's largest life insurers, yesterday saw its shares rise to their highest level in six months after the company gave the first analyst briefing
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      Lock icon OUB and OCBC long way from walk down the aisle
      809 4  -  rrrrar lock siew catherine ong PETER Seah was in his element on Wednesday, holding court before a group of journalists hoping to wind him up on the persistent rumour of a merger between Overseas Union Bank (OUB) and OCBC Bank.
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      Lock icon Roly e-com site among top 50 in US
      189 4 ROLY International said its B2C e-commerce venture has been selected as one of the top SO e-com sites in the US, alongside Amazon and eToys. The regional distributor of lifestyle products owns 33.2 per cent of the site iHomeDecor.com, which supplies home
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  • DOW watch
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      Lock icon It ain't over till the tech lady swings
      518 5  -  Investors aren't ready to leave their latest love but when the beat changes, look out From, Andrew Marks in New York THE latest swoon has some looking out for the bear, but most analysts say investors are not ready to end their
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      Lock icon It's a rally, but is it a bear market rally?
      715 5 LATWP [NEW YORK] Can it last? Thursday's record-shattering surge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has Wall Street abuzz over whether long-neglected "old-econo-my" stocks can mount sustained rallies. The early assessment: The Dow's 499-point, 4.9 per cent romp offers hope
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      Lock icon From dots to bubbles...oO ?
      943 5 From dots to bubbles...oO Reuters {LONDON] How many people would put their money In "a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but no one to know what it is"? In the 18th century, 1,000 shares were sold in just such a London venture, raising £2,000 for its
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      479 6 Stock* Volume NOL 15,295,000 CEI5C 13,744,000 IPCCorpn5c.. 9,338,000 CXJBDBeCW*****3 9,279,000 CityOev GS CW*****3 8,032,000 DBS Land 7,603,000 ST Engg 10c 7,356,000 SingTel 15c 6,485,000 Ionics P$1.00 6,278,000 GoJdtron20c 6,004,000 Stocks SIAT. 64,386,545 DBSGrp 63,004,517 OCBC 46,075,600 OUB 39,990,306 SPH 35,373.676 Nat Etec 10c 34,963,645 CHyOev 50c 33,037,786 PacificCentury 31,567,204 Chart
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      Lock icon STI rides on Dow rally, but brokers stay cautious
      591 6  -  I comment STOCKS v.sreenivasan THE Singapore stockmarket yesterday ended the week with a bang, mirroring a sharp overnight pick-up on Wall Street. Banks, conglomerates and property stocks, which had played second fiddle to stocks of Internet upstarts for the better part
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      Lock icon Wrts: cheap route to bank stocks
      274 6  -  WARRANT WATCH Byy Ven Sreenivasan THE covered warrants issued on banks were among the biggest percentage gainers yesterday, mirroring a leap by their underlying stocks. This, in turn, comes as investors show signs of switching back from tech stocks to undervalued plays in "old
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      Lock icon Parkway: few signs of recovery
      238 6  -  HOTSTOCE By' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Parkway Holdings ended yesterday as one of the session's biggest losers, with the stock falling after its results foiled to meet market expectations. Parkway shares fell 20 cents or 4.1 per cent to $4.68. The stock opened at
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      Lock icon Market Notices
      157 6 ♦JURONG Cement has appointed Lena Tan Lei-Lyn as executive director of two subsidiaries, Jurong Cement Bulk Terminal and Jurong Cement Manufacturing, which constitute the group's cement division. Following her appointment, Ms Tan relinquished her position as an assistant managing director of Jurong Cement. PRESSCRETE Holdings will be going
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      Lock icon Dow's record gain, host of uncertainties hit currencies
      335 6  -  11 comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Dow's biggest one-day points gain in history on Thursday set regional stock markets on fire yesterday, but a host of weekend worries saw regional currencies beat a retreat against the greenback by the close of trading.
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon No plans to privatise NUS, NTU: Teo Chee Hean
      597 7  -  budget rremTa But both to be given more autonomy, flexibility, says education minister By Audrey Tan THE government has no plans to privatise the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), but it will give them more
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      Lock icon StarHub Internet GM leaves to start dot-com company
      334 7  -  PEOPLE By Teh Hooi Ling THE head of Star Hub Internet, the Internet service provider (ISP) arm of Star Hub, has resigned from the company to set up his own dot-com company Tan Tong Hai, Star Hub Internet's general manager who introduced
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      Lock icon Asia-Pac office vacancy on the mend in 4Q99: JLL report
      427 7 THANKS to their improving economies, office vacancies in the Asia Pacific headed south in the fourth quarter of last year and landlords are correspondingly less flexible in their negotiations, a report from Jones Lang LaSalle said. In its study of
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      Lock icon If CPF can trust stocks, why not education?
      220 7  -  MAIL I .TBI Ng Kar Fatt, Andy Singapore via Internet I AGREE wholeheartedly with Narayana Narayana's "Why so much fuss over use of CPF for education?" (BT, March 14). My mother, although poor and with less than primary education, invested her savings
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      Lock icon Why stop incentives, SGX?
      170 7  -  Tung Swee Law Singapore THE Singapore Exchange is a meddling exchange. When the market was being manipulated by short-sellers and stock companies six to eight months ago, there was nothing the exchange could do. Now when stockbroking companies encourage retail investors to trade through them by
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      Lock icon Singapore Rover firm expected to keep franchise
      701 7  -  Good sales will sit well with new Rover owner: observers By' Ven Sreenivasan The Rover car distributor for Singapore is unlikely to be affected in the medium term by BMW's move to sell loss-in-curring Rover to a British venture capital firm. This appears
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      Lock icon Curtains come down on Iridium service today
      223 7  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecom will close all accounts of Iridium the bankrupt satellite phone service—on March 31. Sing Tel said it would waive the Iridium subscription fees for the entire month of March. Any outstanding balance will be refunded to the
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      Lock icon ST Telemedia in Indon Net venture
      252 7 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Technologies Telemedia Pte, one of Singapore's biggest telecommunications companies, said it is forming a web and logistics centre in Indonesia with PT Astra Graphia, a diversified services unit of PT Astra International, the biggest carmaker in Indonesia. The venture will provide services
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Mobil, Esso pump prices up from today
        113 7 MOBIL and Esso petrol pump prices will go up from today. For Mobil, its revised pump prices (inclusive of duty) are 148.7 cents per litre (old price was 138.7 cents) for Synergy Nova; 136.9 cents (129.9 cents) for Synergy 98R, and 130.3 cents
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        Lock icon PCS shuts down ethylene plant 2
        88 7 Reuters THE Petrochemical Corp of Singapore (PCS) said yesterday it has shut down its larger ethylene plant No. 2 for urgent repairs since March 15, due to technical problems. A company spokesman said the PCS II complex, with a 515,000 tonne-per-year capacity, would resume
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        Lock icon Corrections & clarifications
        37 7 Corrections clarifications SINGAPORE'S catering trade sales in volume terms dipped 10.4 per cent in January from December, and not 3.6 per cent as reported in yesterday's Eye on the Economy column. We are sorry for the error.
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  • e News
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      Lock icon Dot-coms seen facing looming cash crunches
      871 8 NEW YORK It highlights how money-losing Internet companies with sinking shares are finding it hard to raise crucial new capital Bloomberg DEAN Daniels, president of theglobe.com Inc, is headed for crunch time. His Internet company, which had a market value of US$62O million (Ssl.l
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      Lock icon Kasparov makes opening gambit in Net chess venture
      613 8 NEW YORK Reuters GARRY Kasparov, the world No 1 chess player who was the game's first millionaire, has positioned his pieces for an e-commerce gambit starting an Internet chess company he hopes to make public within the year. At the heart of
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      Lock icon IBM discovery may lead to more powerful storage drives
      321 8 ARMONK, New York Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp said it has discovered chemical reactions that may lead to the development of data-storage drives that hold 100 times more information than devices today. Researchers at IBM, the world's largest computer maker, found
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      Lock icon Goldman banks on Silicon Valley
      381 8 MENLO PARK, California Transfer of analysts in anticipation of more IPO deals there GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc plans to transfer as many as 10 research analysts to its Silicon Valley office, expanding its crew of 14, in anticipation of more share sales by companies using
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      Lock icon Online exchange plan for consumer product makers
      377 8 NEW YORK Web marketplace to link all participants in supply chain Reuters FIFTY food, beverage and consumer product makers are planning an open, electronic marketplace to link all participants in the industry supply chain, the Grocery Manufacturers of America said on Thursday. The
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      Lock icon AOL to buy out Bertelsmann's stake in AOL Europe
      252 8 NEW YORK Reuters AMERICA Online Inc said yesterday it will buy out German media group Bertelsmann AG's 50 per cent stake in AOL Europe and AOL Australia in an option structured deal worth between U556.75 billion (5511.6 billion) and $8.25 billion
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        Lock icon Chinadotcom in deal with Softbank unit
        59 8 Reuters [HONGKONG] Chinadotcom Corp yesterday said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Softbank Investment Strategy to create a US$lOO million (Ssl7l million), 50-50 joint venture to provide business and technology consulting services. Softbank Investment Strategy is a subsidiary of Softbank Finance Corp
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        Lock icon Spain's Telefonica bids for Endemol
        72 8 Reuters [MADRID] Spanish telecoms group Telefonica yesterday unveiled a 5.5 billion euro (519.1 billion), all-share bid for Europe's top independent television producer Endemol to become a leading media-Internet player. Telefonica said it would offer 5.58 shares for each one in Endemol of the Netherlands, a
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        Lock icon CNN to launch Japanese Web site
        66 8 AFP [ATLANTA, Georgia] US news television station CNN is set to launch an Internet news site in Japanese, CNN.co.jp, Scott Woelfel, the editor in chief of CNN Interactive, announced on Thursday. The new site, based on the model of CNN.com in English, will offer
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        Lock icon HK's Sunevision up 46% on debut
        62 8 AFP [HONGKONG] Sunevision Holdings, the e-business arm of one of Hongkong's top property companies Sun Hung Kai, closed its first day of trade yesterday at a premium of some 46 per cent to the offer price. Sunevision shares closed at HK115.10 compared to their
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        Lock icon No listing plans for Internet unit:Toyota
        70 8 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp is not currently planning to publicly list its Internet business unit Gazoo, a company spokeswoman said yesterday. She was responding to a report in yesterday's edition of the Asian Wall Street Journal saying Toyota is considering
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Star to go solo in takeover of NCL of Norway for US$1.1b
      531 9 KUALA LUMPUR It is not prepared to allow Carnival to participate in the cross-selling of the Star, NCL brands Bloomberg Reuters MALAYSIA'S Star Cruises pic said yesterday it had ended its joint venture with US-based Carnival Corp to
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      Lock icon Renong-NSTP sale of Commerce could reap 30% premium
      443 9 Reuters MALAYSIA'S Renong Bhd and New Straits Times Press Bhd (NSTP) might reap a 30 per cent premium over Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd's current share price if they jointly sell their Commerce stakes, analysts said yesterday. Renong, Malaysia's most indebted conglomerate, and NSTP
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon US gains lift Malaysian bank stocks
        110 9 BANK shares gained as a rebound by US stocks eased concern about higher interest rates slowing down the world's biggest economy. A US slowdown could curb demand for Malaysian-made television sets, microwave ovens and other goods. Banks also gained on optimism that a faster
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        Lock icon Punters bank on Net stocks
        68 9 TECHNOLOGY stocks and companies with Internet-related ventures rose as investors bet on their online businesses boosting earnings. Renong Bhd rose 4 sen, or 1.4 per cent, to RM2.93. On Wednesday, the country's biggest industrial group became the latest to unveil an Internet strategy, setting up
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        Lock icon Dijaya, Digi up on recent deals
        64 9 Bloomberg DIJAYA Corp, which unveiled a plan to let people gamble over the Internet, rose 2 sen, or 0.6 per cent, to RM3.18. Digi Swisscom, which sold 3 per cent of its shares to Asia's biggest Internet investor Softbank Ltd, rose 5 sen, or
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      Lock icon Anger over Philipine oil price hike
      52 9 [MANILA] Militant groups burning logos of oil firms in the Philippines—Petron, Shell and Caltex—during a demonstration in Makati's financial district yesterday. The groups denounced the latest oil price increase implemented by Petron, Shell, Caltex, which followed a series of oil price hikes in past
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      Lock icon Plantation company eyeing Malaysia's KFC: report
      200 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters PLANTATION firm Johore Tenggara Oil Palm Bhd is believed to be considering buying a significant stake in Malaysia's biggest fast-food franchise, KFC Holdings Bhd, The Sun reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted sources as saying the shares are likely to come from
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      Lock icon PCCW suspends trading after misleading profit report
      509 9  -  SCMP had said it would 'book' USslb of unrealised gain From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong A MISLEADING report that Pacific Century CyberWorks may book US$l billion (Ssl.7 billion) profits in its results due Monday led to the company requesting a trading suspension to
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      Lock icon East Asia faces tough task in resolving bad loan problems: ADB
      472 9 MANILA AP EAST Asia's recovering economies face a major challenge in resolving the high level of bad loans still held by their banks, the Asian Development Bank said yesterday. "The non-performing loans are staggering," it said in a report
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      Lock icon Optimistic outlook for Malaysian economy: poll
      343 9 SINGAPORE Business execs see higher sales, profits in Ql, according to D&B survey Bernama OPTIMISM over Malaysia's strengthening economy remains high as business executives expect higher sales and profits for the first quarter of the year, according to the latest Dun Bradstreet (D&B) country
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      Lock icon Investors see mixed outlook in Taiwan polls
      1164 10 TAIWAN I. Mm TAIPEI Whatever the outcome, the victor is likely to face increased pressure from China Bloomberg THERE are plenty of reasons to buy shares in Acer Inc, United Microelectronics Corp and other Taiwanese companies. The outcome of this Saturday's presidential election
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      Lock icon Voters expected to switch allegiances after China's threats
      597 10 TAIPEI Pro-independence candidate Chen Shni-bian could be hurt in today's polls AFP, Reuters TAIWAN presidential candidates and political analysts forecast widespread changing of allegiances yesterday as voters took stock of China's war threats in the dying hours before crucial polls. Candidates, desperately
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      563 9 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 ANO IN THE MATTER OF PUNCAK INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that the Final Meeting of the Members of the
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Nasdaq Japan takes aim at Tokyo bourse, vows stricter standards
      609 10 TOKYO It hopes to attract half of the 240 IPOs expected this year Bloomberg NASDAQ Japan Planning Co said it's ready to take on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, gearing up to grab as much as half the city's trades and
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      Lock icon Telstra to issue A$4b bonds to fund Asian acquisitions
      294 10 SYDNEY Bloomberg TELSTRA Corp. Australia's No 1 phone company, will sell As 4 billion (554.2 billion) of bonds over the next two years to pay existing debt and help finance new acquisitions in Asian Internet and data communications companies. "We plan
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      Lock icon German set to head IMF as rivals bow out
      200 10 WASHINGTON NYT THE contentious five-month-long scramble to find a new leader for the International Monetary Fund came to a de facto conclusion on Thursday, as the Japanese and American rivals for the job formally withdrew their nominations and cleared the path
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      Lock icon Sotheby's and Christie's under investigation
      633 11 NEW YORK Auction houses shared confidential lists of super-rich clients NYT SOTHEBY'S and Christie's, the world's two most powerful auction houses, swapped confidential lists of super-rich clients who were spared from paying fees charged to other sellers, people close to the companies and to a
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      Lock icon Ford to buy BMW's Land Rover sports-utility unit
      494 11 MUNICH Bloomberg FORD Motor Co agreed to buy Bayerische Motoren Werke AG's Land Rover sports-utili-ty unit for almost US$3 billion (Sss.l billion), bolstering its luxury line-up while relieving BMW of the last vestige of a costly six-year foray into UK car-making. The
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        102 11 AP [BEVERLY HILLS, California] It's Hollywood's latest caper; Who took the Oscars? Nine days before the Academy Awards, police yesterday searched for the statuettes, which vanished from a trucking company. Spokesman John Pavlik said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said late on Thursday that
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        89 11 Reuters [nil w yukkj Deutsche Bank AG may be looking to buy a top US investment firm, said a source at Dresdner Bank AG, Business Week reported in its latest issue. Deutsche Bank is eyeing Merrill Lynch and Co Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Morgan
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        77 11 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] A House Banking subcommittee has approved a bill backed by the Clinton administration to require that hedge funds disclose financial information to regulators and the public. The measure approved by the Capital Markets Subcommittee would require hedge funds to report their financial
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        78 11 AFP [BONN] Germany's upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat, yesterday approved the lifting of a four-year embargo on British beef. The ban was imposed in March 1996 to prevent the spread of the so-called mad cow disease. France and Germany were the only remaining
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      484 11 NEW YORK Q4 net loss of US$BOO,OOO comes as more new listings go to Nasdaq, expenditure goes np Bloomberg THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it had its first quarterly loss in almost a decade, as new listings on the
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      320 11 TOKYO JAPANESE electronics giant Sony Corp faced fresh embarrassment yesterday when its new, hugely hyped Play Station (PS2) game console revealed another flaw, sending its share price sliding. Sony's game making unit Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) said it had found users of
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      553 11 WASHINGTON New inflation gauge seen as better tool for Federal Reserve Bloomberg PRICES US consumers paid for goods and services in February posted the biggest gain in 10 months as the cost of home heating oU
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      265 12  -  SGX Derivatives Tradlngßeports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stockmarket staged a magnificent rally yesterday, spurred by Wall Street's mammoth overnight gains and amid rekindled interest in "old economy" stocks. Both the property and finance sectors chalked up impressive gains,
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      217 12  -  MSGI Taiwan fatares Kelly Loh Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Weighted Stock Index rose 80.51, or 0.9 per cent, to 8,763.27 a day before the presidential elections. Large capitalisation stocks, such as Taiwan Semiconductor, were boosted by buying from government pension funds in
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      208 12 ENERGY REPORT Bloomberg [LONDON] Crude oil rose, after faUing in the last five trading sessions, on signs of dissent among top exporters ahead of a meeting by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to discuss output policy. Venezuela's energy and mines minister All
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      341 12 Reuters London THE US dollar was clinging onto its broad-based gains early yesterday, with traders refraining from betting too hard on the greenback ahead of imminent US inflation data. Although the data was seen as the focal point of a quiet trading session, analysts doubted the inflation release
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      2851 13 HONGKONG AFX-Asia PI Ham Seng +***** SHARE prices closed sharply higher, with the Hang Seng Index regaining the 17,000point level led by financials and properties after Wall Street's strong rally, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index closed up 723.99 points at 17,082.99 after trading in
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      1044 13 AFX-Asia, Reuters QShenzhenßlndex +4£3 CHINA stock markets closed sharply lower yesterday on talk that the government had encouraged domestic funds to buy shares, which have suffered from tensions between Taiwan and China, brokers said. In Shenzhen, the hard currency B Index soared 6.36 per cent or 4.83 points to
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      339 13 AFP rIWP Index +80.51 THE Taiwan stock market soared 0.9 per cent yesterday on strong government buying while foreign institutional investors and local retail investors took to the sidelines, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index yesterday rose 80.51 points to 8,763.27. The government yesterday closed the
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      1974 13 TOKYO AFP QNikkei 225 +313.09 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 1.6 per cent higher yesterday, benefitting from record gains on Wall Street and a bullish report on Japan's economy, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei 225 Index gained 313.09 points to close at
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      393 14 AFP, AFX-Asia Q Composite Index +1429 MALAYSIAN shares ended 1.6 per cent higher yesterday due to late institutional buying support on the back of overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 14.29 points at
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      781 15 AFP F1 SET Index +3JI THAI stocks rose one per cent yesterday, led by improved sentiment on global markets after the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its largest one-day gain in history, dealers said. Profits takers broke cover late in the session to bring the market down off its
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      292 15 AFP n Composite Index +1&31 PHILIPPINE share prices rose one per cent yesterday due to bargain hunting and the upturn on Wall Street, analysts said. The Composite Index rose 16.31 points to close at 1,646.28 points. Volume turnover fell to 7.27 billion shares worth 1.85 billion pesos. —AFP >hrlT
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      645 15 AFP rlCwnpostfl Index +3J6 JAKARTA share prices closed 0.7 per cent higher yesterday following Wall Street's gains despite selling pressure on second liners and profittaking in large-cap stocks, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 3.96 points at 590.85 points, off a high of 5,98.41 and
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      271 15 QMBE-40 +3SJI AFTER the Dow posted its biggest ever one-day rise of nearly 500 points, the NZSE--40 Capital Index pushed 35.06 points or 1.8 per cent ahead to 1,999.31. At one stage, the index hit 2,014.92 yesterday. Turnover was worth NZ$lO3 million. Mgff rm> Advantage HOS 4.50 -0.15 69
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      575 15 AFP HAHOrftmiM *233 AUSTRALIAN share prices jumped 0.7 per cent higher yesterday, boosted by strong gains in News Corp and Rio Tinto, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed 23.2 points higher at 3,203.4. Turnover totalled 1.01 billion stocks worth NZ$l.B5 billion, with 826 advancers, 811 decliners and 483
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      315 15 AFP Q Composite Index +14-35 THE Composite Index closed up 14.35 points or 1.7 per cent at 855.57, off a high of 869.82 and a low of 850.04. Volume was 298 million shares, worth 3.2 trillion won. —AFP mnr *fAftem Semi ***** -700 Br«MT*dl 1700 -70 Central Bank 2620
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      1049 17 Mm Central their lustful affair, but Palace. 830 Off The Beaten Track. oaa AM Ifi/Ic ppntrai q» disaster occurs when 5.30 Kingdom of Ginsen 0.00 One Hour News. fEV Roar's iSrhSLi Ben returns from a trip. (LastEp). 10.00 Headline News. i§J5 JVlftwN 830 The World Peter i?™ Jews S Tonight
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      1563 18  -  Some theatre companies are enjoying a boom in funding as credit card companies jostle to sponsor big-ticket shows, reports aabomlto AARON LYE CREDIT card companies, long known for their keen competitiveness in terms of offering the best perks and gimmicks to their card members in
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      122 19 They've (banks) been pretty open. I think a lot of factors {day into what they decide to sponsor. They don't want to sell their clients bad shows. But basically, banks are beginning to see the arts as a viable option for them.' —Fiction Farm's Ng Chin
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      692 19  -  DANCE REVIEW SDTs The Red Shoes' was a triumph for the dancers and choreographer Miller-Ashmole By\ Felicia Yap THE Red Shoes was a celebration of youthful innocence, a tribute to the power of love and above all, a gloriously transcendental work of art. This
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      1006 19  -  Recurring symbols in contemporary works help to cine in on artist's message By\ Felicia Yap WHY does Pablo Picasso use the bull or minotaur as a recurrent motif in his works? The answer is simple: he associated it with himself. Accompanying his father to
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      1429 20  -  Compiled by 1 M Yasotha MUSIC 8tafapora Symphony OrchMtra Baroque Classics/Bach 250th Anniversary Commemoration To commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the death of JS Bach, the SSO will present the Brandenburg Concerto No 4, following last season's Third Brandenburg Concerto. Conductor Michael Charry, a Baroque specialist, will add
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      145 20  -  By Felicia YAp The Rnrrr The exquisite sounds of the tabla synchronised perfectly with iheghatam, kanjtra, pakhawqj and other percussion instruments will leave you completely bewitched. Plot and plajner* From Bombay to London, classical phenomenon Ustad Zakir Hussain draws sell-out crowds with his brilliant tabla dexterity mwi his ensemble
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      747 21  -  TELSTM »nßi.>n« mwnnw. While the celebrations continue for yet another day, parvathz nayar looks back fondly on her sojourn at the Austrahan city's salute to the arts PARVATHI NAYAR IF there's a dominant impression to be gained from the Adelaide Arts Festival, it's that of
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      729 21  -  THEATRE REVIEW But Fiction Farm's rendition of Harbor's 'Closer' needs more bite By] Parvathi Nayar MODELS going nude in public has shock value, but when it's done to promote anti-fur sentiments, it also has a point to it. Shock can be a way
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      1119 21 FESTIVAL REVIEWS ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK Writers from both hemispheres met to discuss ink on paper at the Adelaide Writers' Week, which closed this year's chapters last week. At the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens, in tents and under sunshine, the literary personae at the word-fest included such well-known names
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      1289 22  -  Writer Nicholas Jose is seeing his novel being used as a theme for a visual arts show, and is now looking forward to having the book made into a Hollywood movie. He shares his thoughts on the exhibition and his book with FARVATHX NAYAR PARVATHI NAYAR A
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      49 19 The next talk in the series, "Who's Afraid Of Contemporary Art', is on installation art by SanjotKaur Sekhon. March 25 at 2pm This series is jointly organised by the Singapore Art Museum, the Department of Art Theory and Art History (LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts) and The Business Timer
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      81 20 The Sounds Of The BiiUennium, March 22, World Trade Centre auditorium, tickets at $50, 575 and *100 available firm •s static O The Average Size and Performance of a PruLink Fund. r m PruLink Singapore Managed Fund the largest unitised fund in Singapore. j> a fHfc JUit -V An unbeatable
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      25 22 The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia is on at Galleries 5-8, SAM, until April 2,9am-5.30pm. Closed on Mondays. Admission: adult S3, child/senior citizen $1.50
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