The Business Times, 27 March 2000

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MCTA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SIN GAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2000
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    55 1 OTMXKABKETDtmCES Week Change sn 2.1*20 +51.73 SMSC1 FUTURES__277.60. +2.W SKI .767.35. +8.63 KLSBOOMP 970.27 +35.49 NIKKEI HAH08HIQ 17,784^>7....+701.58 SETINDEX. 404.1ft +4.42 JAKARTA COUP 481.47 -»J8 MANILA COUP 1,681.71 +35.43 TAffEI WPI. 9,482.64._.+***** SEOUL (XW 889.24 +33.67 CLSA CHINA B 823^1„„.+67.13 AUST ALLOW) .3,247.40 +44.08 DOW JONES 11.112.72_.+617.49 NASDAa
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    71 1 F0KEX1ATES uss ss USI 1.711 £(US*/S$per£) 1J88 1714 EUR0(U8i/St/E) 9J72 1.666 DM Mil MU YEN 1171 1.601 KM 18N 0.461 HK» 7.7# 0120 BAHT 17.79 Q.M* HJHAH 7,441 0.028 ■own PHHEIATES SINGAPORE* 5.86 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .19.00 BANGKOK Manila 11.00 HONGKONG 8.80 TAIPEI 714 SYDNEY .8J» TOKYO 1M
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    Lock icon S'pore seeks $60 m in biotech investments
    752 1  -  exclusive EDB, NSTB want more global biotech firms to set np regional hubs here By] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] The Republic wants to attract about $600 million in investment commitments in the biotechnology and life sciences cluster this year, given the growing interest in
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    Lock icon Govt may open SingTel, SCV networks to competitors
    855 1  -  Open access to broadband system being considered to drive down cost: Cheow Tong By I Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The government is mulling over a policy that will require Singapore Telecom and Singapore Cable Vision to open up their networks to competitors for
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    Lock icon South Asians moving up the Rich List in UK
    1001 1  -  54 of them had assets of over £30m last year Byi G Panicker [SINGAPORE] South Asian enterprise is doing just fine in Britain. More than £31 billion (SsB4 billion) was added to the wealth of the richest 1,000 residents in Britain
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      105 1 DHttPB Top stories Cisco beats Microsoft in market cap. Next Page DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi agree to tie-up. Next Page Dairy Farm signs lease tor Giant hypermarket at IMM. Pg 3 Last week's corporate results at a glance. Pg 4 Cuscaden Residence condo block up for eo bloc sale. Pg 8 Chemicals
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      199 1 Global giants swoop down on corporate telecoms market, Pg 8 Good response to teleeoms Big Bang a pleasant surprise: Yeo, Pg 8 AAA 1 H A 11. A I) jL. If If V 9 vjy L n.c h-fi'n thi o'n l \o i th <•. ni 4 x t thousand
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      Lock icon Cisco beats Microsoft in market cap
      761 2 Its surge to USss79b makes it the world's most valuable company Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Cisco Systems Inc on Friday topped Microsoft Corp as the world's most valuable company, the latest signpost of the shift to what analysts are calling the Information Age from the
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      Lock icon DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi agree to tie-up
      481 2 German-US auto giant to buy 33.4% stake in Mitsubishi: report Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp has agreed to sell a minority controlling stake to DaimlerChrysler in a deal which would create the world's third biggest auto group, Japanese media said yesterday. The German-US auto
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Dairy Farm signs lease for Giant hypermarket at IMM
      652 3  -  -idexclusive The 100,000 sq ft hyperm&rt is scheduled to start operations in Q3 By. Kalpana Rashiwala THE Dairy Farm International (DFI) group recently inked a lease for a 100,000 sq ft hypermarket at the IMM Building in Jurong East and it
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      Lock icon Will CCL survive in the big pond?
      687 3 COMMENTARY With Astra deal sealed, It will have to focus on turning the firm aronnd, says Christopher tam IT'S a deal of considerable proportions the swiftness of its completion (barely two months), the size of the transaction (SsB7o million), its star-studded Field of
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      Lock icon Last week's results at a glance
      1511 4 Full year results (Dec year-end) announced in the period Mar 20 Mar 24, 2000 COMPANY FULL YEAR EARNINGS CHNG 1ST HALF EARNINGS CHNG 2ND HALF EARNINGS CHNG TURNOVER CHNG FULL YEAR EPS CHNG FULL YEAR DIVIDENDS CHNG KHH ■EHl KH wmm KLLU Hill Kim
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      Lock icon S'pore stocks to take cue from Opec moves this week
      498 4 Transport stocks sensitive to the expected output increase by oil producers, say analysts Reuters SINGAPORE shares will likely take their cue this week from Opec's meeting in Vienna, with transport stocks particularly sensitive to any moves by major crude producers
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      165 3 ••>f-A 22* is i y ft l i SIEMENS There is more to us than meets the eye. Though the 'how' is not always immediately apparent, the results are obvious. As a global knowledge-based company and systems integrator, we are well-poised to meet today's demands for knowledge-intensive solutions. At Siemens,
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      48 4 > This announcement appears as a matter of record only. Qxv) aii Ji£ pi &b] ISO TIBS HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 5580,000,000 5.05% Unsecured Fixed Rate Bonds due 2003 Joint Lead Managers Q DBS BANK HSBC <Z> THE DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SINGAPORE LTD March 2000 >
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      407 6 *MarB Source: JM Sassoon Stocfca Vo<um> NOL 92.458.000 Fastech USlOc 75,990,000 Med»-Rad5c 71,456,000 Vckera CapitaJ 25c 66,170,000 IPC Cofpn 5c 55,715,000 MedtaRing 10c 51,522,000 GoWtron 20c 49,993,000 MMI Htdgs 10c 45,318,000 Kyosha HK50c 44,357,000 STEngg 10c 40,102,000 Stocks PaqpficCenturyT. 436,062,616 DBSGrp 192,888.247 Na!Stee<50c 142,965,658 UOB 135,912,931 OCBC 131,574,294 NOL 120.601.805
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      Lock icon Market still suffering from lack of resilience and depth
      578 6  -  Elfcomrnent STOCKS r.sivanithy AS expected, the US Federal Reserve delivered its fifth 25-ba-sis-point interest-rate hike last Tuesday and as expected, it turned out to be a non-event. Markets all over shrugged it off and in the US, Nasdaq continued its winning
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      Lock icon IGB warrant offers some attractive features
      186 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy ON Saturday, we highlighted an old Clob favourite, 101 Corp's warrants, probably one of the most innovative warrants around with its four possible exercise prices. Today's feature is another exClob member, the warrants issued by IGB, but other than
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      Lock icon GES' next resistance is around $3.40
      233 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of GES International rose sharply last Friday with the stock finishing among the session's biggest gainers and most active issues. GES shares rose 21 cents or 7 per cent to $3.20. The stock opened at $3.02 and
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      Lock icon Yen likely to slide but other Asian units may strengthen
      493 6 Ten may already have reaped gains from profit-repatriation THE yen is likely to droop this week, as players wait for funds to flood out of Japan. But that won't stop other Asian currencies rising. What has been driving the currency
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      689 6 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 MNH MARINE PTE LTD (In Liquidation) At a general meeting of MNH MARINE PTE LTD duly convened and held on the 24th day of March, 2000 the following special resolution was passed: SPECIAL RESOLUTION
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      445 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF DAI-ICHI KIKAKU (S) PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 306(1) of the Companies Act, Cap.so, that a Final General Meeting of the abovenamed Company will be held at 8
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      270 6 IN THE MATTER Of THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF ORIENTAL HOUGANG SUPERSTORE PTE UD (IN MEMBERS VOLUNTARY UOUtDATION) NOTICE Of MEETING Of CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Sechon 295( I) olthe Compomes Acl, Cap. 50 dial a Meeting of Creditors of the Company
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Chemicals sector drags down Feb industrial output growth to 9.4%
      787 8  -  I =l T d 3on the economy manufacturing Bat electronics grows strongly by 32.7% TOT, outpacing Jan's 19.5% By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE'S industrial output growth slowed sharply in February, falling to a single-digit number, dragged down by steep declines
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      Lock icon Global giants swoop down on corporate telecoms market
      601 8  -  i exclusive Equant and Concert apply for Services-Based Operator licences that will pitch them against Sing Tel in the fight for bine chip customers Reports byi Catherine Ong COME April 1, at least two global operators will be giving Singapore Telecom a
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      Lock icon Good response to telecoms Big Bang a pleasant surprise: Yeo
      669 8 THE good response to the government's telecoms Big Bang has been a "pleasant surprise", with some 10 applications for Facilities-Based Operator or FBO licences, says Minister for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong. In an interview ahead of the
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      Lock icon Cuscaden Residence condo block up for en bloc sale
      461 8  -  HiT exclusive Indon owners want $1,500-sl,aoopsffor the block, comprising half the project By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE 75-unit Cuscaden Residence condominium block snapped up early last year by an Indonesian party at $1,028 per square foot is being "marketed discreetly" on an
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      Lock icon It's much better to prevent crises than try to solve them
      1024 10 Solving financial crises is actually not very difficult Preventing risk, avoiding it is more complicated William JMcDonough, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, fielded questions from bankers at the inaugural MAS lecture last Friday. We reproduce
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      Lock icon En bloc sale of Quelin Gardens may net $140m
      303 10 The St Thomas Walk site can be developed into 30-storey condo THE owners of Quelin Gardens at St Thomas Walk are going for an en bloc sale that could fetch about $140 million. The four-storey, 40-apart-ment complex sits on 65,827 sq
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      Lock icon Financial stability panel drafts recommendations
      278 10 REGULATORS working to enhance stability in the global financial system have come up with several recommendations, some of which they hope will be adopted through moral suasion and market discipline and others with the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Holding its third meeting
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      Lock icon Clob: CDP asked S'pore brokers to accept cheques
      203 10  -  MAiLiisrn Raymond Chow Vice-President Head, Corporate Marketing Communications Singapore Exchange YOUR reader, Narayana Narayana raised a few issues concerning the Clob solution in his letter "Why is Clob solution based on S'pore (BT, March 16). The Central Depository (Pte) Ltd (CDP) has
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      Lock icon Need to out benzene pollution from high-octane gasoline
      232 10  -  Ong Tiong Meng Singapore I READ with interest that Caltex in Singapore has decided to withdraw its 100 Octane gasoline. I wrote some time ago that the higheroctane gasoline does not contribute to any increase in power of the car but, on
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      499 10 Trends In E-Learninq B3* invent It has been said that education and the Internet are collaborative tools are developed to help form two great equalizers in life and that e-learning would relationship in e-mentoring. The interaction can be the next killer application in the Internet even occur during pre-learning and
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      Lock icon Wireless Internet is here but who's going to pay for it?
      734 11 PALO ALTO, California Dilemma for firms is whether to charge cell phone makers or consumers or come np with new scheme Reuters IT could be the biggest Internet breakthrough since the Internet itself. The wireless Internet is here, freeing
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      Lock icon IBM develops new chip for TV set-top boxes
      453 11 NEW YORK Its next-generation system-on-a-chip to offer fast Net access Reuters INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp is developing a next-generation "system-on-a-chip" for television settop boxes aimed at bringing the power of the Internet into the living room. Demand for digital set-top boxes, which
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      Lock icon A look at new digital TV concepts
      55 11 p EI RUTI Arab telecoms ministers (from left) UAE's Ahmad Hamid al-Tayyar, Palestinian Imadal-Falouji, Lebanon's Issam Naaman and Kuwait's Ahmad Abdullah al-Ahmed al-Sabah listening to an exhibitor demonstrating a new digital television concept and data delivery system at the 3rd Arabcom 2000 telecoms
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      Lock icon Big four defence firms poised to form e-commerce exchange
      301 11 NEW YORK LAT-WP THE world's four largest military contractors will announce tomorrow the formation of a joint Internet commerce exchange for buying supplies and selling products, sources familiar with the details said on Friday. Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co, Raytheon Co
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      Lock icon Quebecor in C$6b bid to break up Canadian cable takeover
      285 11 mTORONTO FT QUEBECOR, the Canadian printing and publishing group, has moved to break up an agreed Css.l billion (Ss6 billion) cable acquisition by launching a rival C 55.9 billion bid for Le Groupe Videotron, Canada's third-largest cable company. The offer
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      Lock icon Domain name watchdog gets first country site case
      379 11 GENEVA AP AN Internet address registered on a remote Pacific island is at the centre of the first dispute expanding a new procedure to curb abuse of trademarks on the Internet, the United Nations said on Friday. The "cybersquatting" case involves the
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      Lock icon Shrinking rubber industry worries KL
      444 12 Ministries to study limiting conversion of rubber estates into oil palm plantations AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik has expressed concerns over the shrinking rubber industry due to a decline in planting area and output, a report said yesterday. Dr Lim
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      Lock icon KL sees 2000 growth over 5.8%; currency peg to stay
      320 12 BANDAR SERIBEGAWAN Reuters MALAYSIA'S Deputy Finance Minister said yesterday that the country's economic growth could exceed the official target of 5.8 per cent in 2000 and that he expected the currency peg to stay for a while. Shafie Salleh, attending
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      Lock icon M'sian firms finally join Internet gold rush
      536 12 KUALA LUMPUR 800,000 Net subscribers now, doubling annually Reuters MALAYSIAN companies have taken longer than their regional counterparts to jump on the Internet bandwagon, but now they are scrambling to transform themselves and cash in on a technology boom. Malaysia has about 800,000
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      Lock icon Mahathir remains party chief
      106 12 U KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday retained the post of president in his ruling party after 117 divisions which have held their meetings nominated the 74-year-old leader. The official Bernama news agency said 118 divisions of the dominant United Malays National Organisation
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Asean shelves fund plan, to expand swap scheme
      608 13 W k I meeting BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN But finance ministers could re-open AMF debate at next meeting Hn Reuters SOUTH-EAST Asian finance ministers yesterday shelved a plan to create a regional crisis fund and agreed instead to expand an existing currency swap
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      Lock icon Thai political adviser linked to fuel smuggling
      245 13 BANGKOK AFP POLICE are investigating whether a top Thai opposition party adviser charged with conspiring to sell illegal oil was involved in large-scale international ftiel smuggling, reports said yesterday. Thai police are examining whether Surasak Nananukul, allegedly caught last Tuesday buying Iraqi oil
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      Lock icon Philippine bourse agrees to turn over BW probe records
      280 13 MANILA The SEC had threatened a fine of 50,000 pesos a day Reuters THE Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has agreed to turn over documents pertaining to its price-fixing probe into BW Resource Corp to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon PetroChina details global offer of 17.58b H shares to raise US$3b
      569 14 HONGKONG A 5% tranche will be offered in HE, 35% in Asia, 35% in Enrope, 25% in US Reuters AP, Bloomberg PETROCHINA, the listing arm of China's largest oil and gas producer, unveiled yesterday details of a global offer
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      Lock icon Chen in talks to shape Cabinet policies
      211 14 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN'S president-elect Chen Shui-bian was to meet his advisers yesterday to decide on cabinet and national policies for the first nonKuomintang (KMT) govetnment in the island's history, an official said. "As far as I know the meeting will be held this
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      Lock icon EU trade boss to restart China WTO talks
      431 14 BEIJING An accord with the EU is seen as crucial to China's accession to the trade body AFP EUROPEAN Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy will fly into Beijing tomorrow for a new round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks that may end
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      Lock icon Firms scramble to invest in China
      426 14 Taiwan polls TAIPEI AFP TAIWANESE businesses are bolstering their investments in China on a promise by president-elect Chen Shuibian of direct transportation and commerce links with the mainland after both sides enter the World Trade Organization (WTO). The business detente comes after Mr Chen
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      Lock icon Li's paradise, but do investors mind?
      726 14  -  I i| comment HK STOCKS Bis firms have paid high dividends in tough times quak hiang whai LI Ka-shing spent much of his press conference last week refuting claims by the media and his critics that his family is dominating the Hongkong business community.
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon Clinton's S Asia trip focuses on business
      403 14 ISLAMABAD Deals worth USs4b with India gignal rhango in ITS priorities in the region AFP, AP US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton ended a six-day visit to South Asia on Saturday with few rewards, except for US$4 billion (516.9 billion) worth of business deals in
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      Lock icon Pakistani banks urged to merge
      170 14 KARACHI Reuters PAKISTAN'S central bank governor Ishrat Hussain last Saturday urged local financial institutions to seek mergers in order to position themselves in the competitive global financial market. "The financial sector requires mergers and restructuring, massive infusions of capital, human resource strengthening and technological upgradation
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Japanese workers face wage freeze and pension scheme cuts
      896 16  -  Bill to raise retirement age from 60 to 66 as pension schemes are nnder-fnnded From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE grim situation facing Japanese workers is symbolised by legislation expected to be passed this week cutting benefits in the state pension
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      Lock icon Opec expected to pump up crude quota by 1.5m bpd
      475 16 VIENNA Bloomberg, Reuters OPEC today is expected to boost its crude-oil production quota by about 1.5 million barrels a day April 1, officials and analysts said, as more members respond to US pressure to let oil prices fall. The 11
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      Lock icon Microsoft's offer to settle antitrust case fails short
      587 16 WASHINGTON Sources say it failed to admit wrongdoings or agree to curb Windows LAT-WP MICROSOFT Corp's llth-hour bid to settle its antitrust case appeared to have fallen short on Saturday, leaving the outcome of the biggest antitrust case since the breakup of
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      Lock icon France's Vivendi denies it's in talks with Seagram, Cox
      306 16 PARIS Report says merger would form USsloob media monolith Reuters FRENCH conglomerate Vivendi firmly denied yesterday a British newspaper report that it was in merger talks with Canadian drinks and media empire Seagram and US Cox Communications. "I deny the content
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      Lock icon Teenage hacker got credit card details of Bill Gates
      297 16 LONDON Reuters A TEENAGER arrested in Wales for allegedly hacking into e-commerce Web sites had obtained the credit card details of Bill Gates, head of Microsoft and the world's richest man, newspapers said yesterday. Raphael Gray, 18, was arrested on Saturday
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      Lock icon Hyundai heirs feud over top post
      228 16 SEOUL Reuters THE elder son of South Korea's Hyundai group founder yesterday said he was group co-chairman, declaring a previous announcement appointing his younger brother sole group chairman "invalid". "I received an approval from my father on coming back to the group chairman post,"
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      Lock icon Regulators worry as investors borrow more to buy stocks
      831 17 NEW YORK Many of those buying stocks on margin don't understand how dangerous it can be, say experts NYT BORROWING money to buy stocks has become immensely popular among individual investors in the US today. And who can blame them? When
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      Lock icon Who's the fairest of them all?
      68 17 [BERLIN] Russian citizens in Berlin yesterday reading an election advertising poster with all 11 candidates for the presidential election prior to casting their votes at the Russian embassy. Russians living in Germany voted yesterday to pick their second post-Soviet leader, widely expected to be
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      Lock icon Computer, telco stocks may drive up Nasdaq
      641 17 NEW YORK They're seen posting faster profit growth this quarter than other industries Bloomberg THE Nasdaq Composite Index, headed for its best firstquarter performance in nine years, may rally further, some investors and analysts say. Computer-related and telecommunications companies, which make up 72
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      Lock icon It will be a 25-point hike in May, say Wall St economists
      489 17 NEW YORK Though minutes of FOMC meeting put them on alert for tougher action later this year Reuters WALL Street economists still expect the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates another quarter of a point in May
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      256 17 Bloomberg [PURCHASE, New York] PepsiCo Inc chairman and chief executive Roger Enrico received U552.42 million (554.2 million) in compensation last year, giving up his salary for the second straight year to scholarships for children of company employees. Mr Enrico, who became CEO of
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      305 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Chase Manhattan Corp almost tripled the pay of chairman and chief executive William Harrison Jr last year, giving him U5535.6 million (Ss6l million) in cash, stock and stock options, more than many of his rivals on Wall Street. Mr
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      286 17 WASHINGTON Bloomberg AOL Time Warner Inc, the company to be formed when America Online Inc acquires Time Warner Inc, disclosed that the investment banking fees for their record-setting merger could rim as high as US$l35 million (Ss23l million). Citigroup Inc's Salomon Smith Barney,
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      591 18 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] International oil prices were stable ahead of today's Opec meeting in Vienna which is widely expected to agree to a modest increase in world production levels. Sliding oil prices also weakened gold prices, which fell over
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      290 19 HONGKONG AFP THE Hongkong stock market is expected to move higher in the week ahead depending on the strength of US markets, after a local interest rate rise was factored into equities, dealers said. "The market is set to rise
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      360 19 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S FTSE 100 surged to its highest close of the year on Friday as swirling bid rumours stirred up the banking sector and telecoms stocks continued to march ahead. Posting its second biggest points gain in 2000, the FTSE
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      379 19 TOKYO AFP TOKYO share prices are expected to rally in the week ahead on expectations the Japanese economy will show clear signs of recovery, brokers said. The biggest danger, they warned, would be investors selling shares to lock away profits.
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      873 19 Q Sydney -*44.40 AUSTRALIAN financial markets will focus this week first on the outcome of today's Opec meeting and later on the domestic retail trade data, due out Friday, analysts said. The February retail trade numbers will set the scene for the next Reserve Bank of Australia
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      372 20 AFP n Composite Index +35.49 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to rise in the coming week after consolidating over the past month, analysts said. Buying in advance of Malaysia's reinstatement in May in the Morgan Stanley Capital International indices will also push up the market,
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      315 26 AP Some winners of key movie awards and honors tor 1989 filmi, (XUMH Dramatic picture: American Beauty Muaioal or comedy picture: Toy Story 2 jM Dramatic actress: Hilary Swank, Boys Don t Cry Dramatic motor. Denzel Washington, The Hurricane Mualenlor samiiij anli Janet McTeer, Tumbleweeds M—Wl or nomady
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      49 27 Top stories Feeding bandwidth hunger with fibre optics Page 2 Cisco Systems guns for 95% e-sales in Asia Page 4 E-Catalyst gives initial momentum to e-biz Page 8 S'pore pivotal to Red Hat says Linux developer PageS K Commentary 828 seems to be the best bet yet Page 3
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      999 28  -  hi I exclusive Commerce Exchange is committed to creating e-biz hubs in the region's major markets. And soon By Kenneth James Homegrown e-commerce start-up Commerce Exchange (Comex) is poised to expand outwards on the back of an impressive first-stage report card: eight e-business hubs created in
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      896 28  -  t-ii exclusive Optical networks can offer unlimited bandwidth at extremely low cost Val Chua The writer is with asiaone.com, SPH's English -language portal OPENING up the broadband market to technologies like high-speed fibre optics can drive broadband prices down and meet the growing
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      556 29  -  we see IT The Asla-Paclflc market for buslness-to-buslness e-commerce will reach USslt by 2004 raju chellam The writer is BizlT Editor NOW that the dot-com fever has reached some sort of a plateau, both corporate executives and market analysts are stepping back
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      228 29  -  SMEs will be able to IhmM inH mflfiago corporate databases nnder a single directory structure By, Jane Cheong DATAONE (Dl), Singapore's fourth ISP, has joined hands with Novell Inc to deploy its latest Internet and directoryenabled applications for Data One's business services.
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      597 29  -  By. Lawrence M Fisher NYT THE modem industry had one of those handwriting-on-the-wall moments last week as the market leader, the 3Com Corp, announced that it was getting out. The company said it wanted to concentrate on higher-growth markets like broadband communications and Internet
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      353 30  -  Last year, 90% of Asia sales were done online, compared to 87% globally By< Andrew Wee US NETWORKING giant Cisco Systems Inc is aiming for 95 per cent of its Asia sales (including Japan, China and Australasia) to come via the Internet
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      484 30 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Quite possibly, Cisco Systems Inc, the biggest maker of equipment that powers the Internet, will become for the Internet what Microsoft Corp, the biggest software company, was for the personal computer. Judging by Cisco's market capitalisation it
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    • IT TAKES
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        41 30 AUSTRALIA-BASED accounting solutions provider Sybil Software wffl open Kb Singapore office tomorrow to provide local support for both customers and resellers for its suite ofprodacte.lt will be beaded by KohTakYang, who was previously Sybil's business development manager.
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        44 30 SESDAQ-LISTED health-care group Asia Medic Ltd has appointed medical specialist Dominic Er Kong Kiong, a shareholder of Asia Medic, as director and CEO. Former director and CEO Ronnie Tan moves over to focus on AsiaMedk's 60-per-cent owned Internet-baaed health-care portal, HeaUhWho.com.
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        49 30 COMMONTOWN Pte Ltd sit www.cximmontoum.com has named Kevin Khoo as its new CEO. Joel Loo, the founder and interim CEO, takes over as the chief technology officer. Common Town is a large-scale online community software platform, which works side by side with Web browsers.
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        100 30 ASIAPAPERMARKETS.COM (APM) said it aims to be the number one digital marketplace for the papaindustry in the region and capture at least SO per cent of all online transactions for raw materials and finished goods by 2003. APM is a 828 (business-to-business) digital marketplace targeted at the US$3OO
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        72 30 THE first regional tnfocom conference on "Generating revenue in an increasingly convergent economy" win be held for two days from March 29. It is supported by EDA (Irifocommunication Development Authority of Singapore), organised by Ad-Mart Communications Pte Ltd and sponsored by Autodesk, Alcatel, CAP Gemini, CSA Automated,
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        26 30 SOFTWARE AG will launch Tamino, the world's first XML-based Information Server, cm April 6 at Suntec City. For details, fax *****81, or e-mail: teri@techmex.com.sg.
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        57 30 HEWLETT-PACKARD Asia-Pacific has announced its E-Learning-on-Tap (ELoT) service and a partnership with Docent Inc. that provides e-learning solutions, to supply Learning Management systems. ELoT lets training providers to move their business models to the Web, and combines HP-hosted online infrastructurecalled the HP Virtual Classroom—with content management,
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        40 30  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A TWO-DAY conference on "Web site content management" will be held from May 29 at the Grand Copthome Waterfront It is organised by IQPC Worldwide Pte Ltd. For details, go to www.iQpc.com/asta.
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      446 31  -  |:il exclusive Republic's role as a clearing house for the region could help company sales Reports byi Andrew Wee ASIA will be an important market for USbased Linux developer Red Hat Inc and Singapore is pivotal in its expansion plans the company chairman
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      141 31 Reuters {PARIS] Most French think the Internet is minority activity and one in five of them have only a vague inkling of what the word means, a survey said last week. A poll by the daily newspaper Le Parisien showed 58 per cent of French thought
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      365 31 Users' group here £ives out six awards a first in Singapore 'MORE than 10,000 visitors at- tended the first LinuxWorld 4 2000 exposition held here last •week, the organisers International Data Group Asia, said. The three day exhibition saw Linux-based solutions from 50 vendors
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      Lock icon Corel's Linux launched
      157 31  -  By, Aaron Lye CANADA-BASED Corel Corp launched the Corel Linux operating system (OS) last week, claiming it is easier to install and use compared to other Linux versions. The basic Corel Linux OS is available as a free download at www.cnet.com. "The downloaded file needs to be
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      Lock icon Brace yourself far Bluetooth devices
      504 32  -  SAYIil There are 20 Bluetooth special interest group members in Singapore toh fook seng The writer works at the Process and Product Development Centre, PSB CONSUMERS in Singapore can expect to see products based on the new Bluetooth technology in the second half of this
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      Lock icon beenz.com sets up shop, ties up with eight partners
      271 32  -  By. Felicia Yap US-BASED e-marketing firm beenz.com last week set up its South Asian operations with its headquarters in Singapore. It also announced tieups with eight online partners Compaq Computer, Allegro, Audio Load.com, Zing Asia, Arthursbook, GohDirect, Makansutra and CoolConnect. The
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      356 32  -  The second largest cruise operator now has the largest digital cruise fleet By, Jane Cheong IMAGINE this: It's a lovely morning and you're tucked comfortably in bed, back propped against soft pillows while gazing out upon the vast icebergs of the lonely Alaskan
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      153 32 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, said that Internet sales of its computers, software and services will double to almost US$3O billion (Sssl billion) this year. IBM's Web sales more than quadrupled to U5)14.8 billion
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      582 33  -  By directly linking buyers with sellers, the Net threatens to bypass traditional channels of distributing goods and services By Toh Han Shih THE Internet will force old economy firms to reinvent their businesses, causing some to clash with their traditional channels. By next
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    • ON THE SHELF
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        66 33 EPSON Singapore has launched the Epson PhotoPC 660, a $559 digital camera targeted at home, school and workplace users. It weighs 417 grams, comes with 8 MB Compact Flash memory card that can store up to 88 standard pictures, a 1.8-inch LCD display and a 1.1
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        95 33 HEWLETT-PACKARD has introduced HP Net Server LC 2000 and LH 3000 systems targeted at the growing network requirements of workgroups and departments. The $4,800 LC 2000 runs on up to two Intel Pentium in processors at 733 MHz, offers up to 144 OB internal storage, and
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        Lock icon AltaVista Search Engine 3.0
        62 33 ALTAVISTA Company—at www.aUauista.com—has launched the AltaVista Search Engine 3.0 for e-commerce firms, portals and global enterprises. It is designed for demanding Web environments and comes with new technologies to "dramatically improve the search experience people have online", the company said. Nasdaq-listed CMGI Inc owns majority stake
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        70 33  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam MALAYSIA-BASED Frontx CPX Sdn Bhd has introduced its CPX (Computer Port Extension) product to relocate computer ports to the front of the PC system. AH the ports can be relocated via an extension cable which connects to the PC's innards. The extended
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      447 33  -  By 1 Tan Gek Huan in Sydney WHO has an iTulip.com stock certificate? Collectors of works of art, if you believe the founders of iTulip.com, a "company" whose Web site is a spoof on the current craze for any dot-com stock. The company at www.itulip.com
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      221 33  -  If yon have a phone line, yon can make use of this service By] Koh Huiting HAVE there ever been days when you remind yourself to do something but forget what it is the next second? Your days of being ignored will soon
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        622 34  -  exclusive BCG's new service helps large companies to get onto the e-business bandwagon, as toh bam shih finds out TOH HAN SHIH THE Boston Consulting Group (BCG) aims to help established companies speed up their entrance into the eeconomy, through a new service called BCG
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          71 34 SWSOFT, which supplies application development products and services, has launched a Web portal and information centre for ASPb (Application Service Providers) and their customers, at wwwjlSPstreet.com. It offers ASP-related news and views, and brings together different players such as independent software vendors, data centres, infrastructure providers,
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          71 34 WANT to learn a foreign language, or pick up culinary skills or new hobbies? You can, from April l,at www.pcLgov.sg. Members of the public can enquire and register for self-enrichment courses at all 106 community centres and clubs (CCs) on the Net "The public can also find out
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          Lock icon CalendarONE, Yellow Pages deal
          61 34 CALENDARONE.com—at wwwxaiendarone.com and SingTel's online Yellow Pages—at www.yellowpages.com.sg have tied up to publish major Asia-Pac events on the Internet The co-branded pages will be hosted by CalendarONE.com and will be customised to have Yellow Pages'look and feel. CalendarONE.com will provide Sing Tel with an events' directory
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          72 34 THE HSBC Group has Joined bolero .net, a new electronic system to help customers conduct business online. It lets banks finance trade using e-documents, and lets participants integrate their logistics with their proceasing and financing systems. Launched in Sept 1999, bolero.net is a global initiative, is owned
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          54 34 EVENTS organiser and onlne publisher Milter Freeman has launched CMPnetAsia.com, a 828 technology resource portal with search and personalisation features for FT and business professionals looking for information on almost any technology issue. The free Web site targets the projected23o million technology and business users in
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          Lock icon Yahoo! S'pore Chat
          68 34 YAHOO! Singapore has launched Yahoo! Singapore Chat—at http://chaLyahooAomjg—a community area where users can gather online to discuss a variety of topics from current events to sports and other lifestyle interests. Yahoo! said the new site features the latest real-time, multimedia, Web-based chat technology and includes local themed
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          Lock icon Intercontinental Exchange launched
          80 34  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A GROUP of leading US and European financial institutions have tied op with energy and natural resource conglomerates to launch Intercontinental Exchange, a new Internet-based e-marketplace to boost over-the-counter trade in energy, metal and other commodities. Based in Atlanta, the group includes BPAmoco,
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      490 33 Exptore Tlm WmU Of l»fw«tl— Ami CNnulatiwi MMtagfAtOnHm H COMDEX A A at Sinqapore www.comdexasia.com.sg JMHIIM, Asia Informatics 2000 llBliP' Southeast Asia's #1 Information and Communications Technology Marketplace iHHBv 5-7 April 2000 j'jJyf 1 1 Exhibition Centre COMDEX/Asia is the show more people attend to sec technology's most significant developments,
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      265 35 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE newbuilding sector has continued to be active, especially for tankers, reflecting the lack of availability for sale of modern second hand tankers with double skin. Vessels sold for farther trading ♦Lika: 118,733 tdw bit 5/76 Mitsui Chiba reported sold region U554,000,000 to
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      476 35  -  Asia Pacific maritime agencies to set up gronp to look into this area as industry grows By, Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The Asia Pacific region will place greater focus on search and rescue operations for new-genera-tion cruise vessels, a meeting of 50 top
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      177 35  -  Rajendra Bajpai [NEW DELHI] The former French colony in India, Pondicherry in the south, is being developed into a deepwater port. The state government of Pondicherry has invited local and international entrepreneurs for private investment in the project. The state controls this minor port which
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      Lock icon Fewer older tankers, more competition in prospect
      588 35  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes THE debate on whether old tankers should be compulsorily phased out is heating up. Last week, both the European Community Shipowners' Association president Knud Pontoppidan and the well known president of Concordia Maritime, Lars Carlsson, expressed fears about European
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        548 36 13 men rescued after ship sank in heavy seas in mid-Atlantic AP [HAMILTON, Bermuda] Survivors from a Greek bulk carrier that sank in high seas in the mid-Atlantic told their rescuers that an enclosed life raft filled with crewmen was
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        306 36 AP [SEOUL] South Korean ferries gingerly resumed sailing across disputed waters in the Yellow Sea, despite North Korean threats to attack. Tensions rose in the waters along the contested western sea border when North Korea announced new movement restrictions on Thursday for southern vessels and
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        168 36 Reuters [LONDON] Western clean tanker markets slowed last week while Eastern were busier, but several ships failed to be fixed, brokers said on Friday. "Many vessels were put on subjects for Eastern voyages, however very few of these were ultimately fixed," broker
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        251 36 Bloomberg [VALPARAISO, Chile] Workers are pressing the government to fulfil promises made on severance packages in Chile, shutting down ports with strikes that threatened to delay shipments of copper and other exports. Cargo handlers went on strike at the country's two biggest ports, San
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      19692 43 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vnsd Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIM Desfn Nam* Nam* Number Number SIN Dest'n Nam* Nam* Number Number ■HMMMMMMMMHMNMMMHHBHHHBHMWMi IIMinMHnBMnMMHBnMMPPHBMHHM 05/04 21/04 NGPL ITHA BMUM V492 45-*****00 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvolre 04/04 b/im Hamm itha
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        195 49 Apr 3 Taiwan: Women Children's Day. Apr 4 Hongkong: Ching Ming Festival. Indonesia: Hari Raya Nyepl. Taiwan: Ching Ming Festival. AprS Korea: Arbor Day. Apr# Indonesia: Muslim New Year. Malaysia: First Day of Muslim Calender. Apr* Philippines: Day of Valour. Apr 20 New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange
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        793 49 THIS report complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Inataad of aingle pricee for a more comprehensive description at the mar M. Prices shown are baaed on averapestsed stem Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Banker Price Index chant and the
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        537 50 Aussie carrier aims to blunt increasing threat of domestic competition AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways has been talking to key stakeholders about acquiring a controlling share in Air New Zealand to stymie the increasing threat of domestic competition, a report said. The
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        221 50 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Scandinavian Airlines System said on Saturday it had discovered a fault in the engines of several new Boeing 737-600 passenger jets. SAS technical director Lennart Appel told the Swedish news agency TT that the fault was not affecting flight safety.
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        202 50 AFP [COLOMBO] Sri Lanka's civil aviation authorities began a probe of a cargo plane crash near the international airport in which two people on the ground and six crewmen were killed, officials said. Five of the crewmen killed in the Friday evening crash in
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        129 50 AFP [WASHINGTON] US Airways and flight attendants have reached a tentative accord on a package of wages and benefits, preventing a threatened shutdown of airline operations. "US Airways and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) reached a tentative agreement on a new contract this morning,"
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      531 36 !*>•» larvicw represented by Members of the Registry of Accrediled Shipping Agents, S'pore National Shipping Auoc Mmbm of ihe Singapore logistics Association. NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBUtX PRCMECT CARGO T0... DAMPIER/FREMANTIE MV "TBN" ETA SIN 31/03/2000 BOOKINGS CALL MOMCA/JUUA TB. 323 4374 ss/ CMVMWM cargo ETAPKL ETA SIN
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