The Business Times, 29 March 2000

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    9 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES est SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2000
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    71 1 D™ Vtrua (-9.44) BT-SRI 18& M (-2.79) SIMSCI FUTURES 28SJ0 (+1.40) STOCK MARKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COMP 861 £7 -6.80 NIKKEI 20,374.34 ♦•Ml HANG SENG 18J01.09 +&83 SET INDEX ***** +421 JAKARTA COMP —-588.7* +149 MANILA COMP 1,701.06 *UBi TAIPEI WPI 9,866.60 +49.03 SEOUL COMP ***** +4J8
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    76 1 FOREX RATES uss ss US$ 1-715 £(US$/S$ per 1.587 2.721 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0.966 1.667 DM 2.024 6.847 YEN 106.5 1.611 RN I860 0.451 HKS 7.786 0520 BAHT 17.80 0.046 RUF1AH 7.515—0.023 'St 10 100 units rem sates SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA ».W BANGKOK 9.M MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50
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    Lock icon Five more Indon firms up for grabs
    875 1  -  Companies include those previously owned by S&lim Yang Razali Kassim [SINGAPORE] Why stop at Astra International? Buy more. On the table are five holding companies, including assets previously owned by giants like the Salim Group and the controversial timber king Bob Hasan. That
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    Lock icon Let BT take you to the dance
    223 1 [SINGAPORE] Ballroom dancing doesn't just improve your social skills or increase your premium as a party guest. Taken to a higher level, it becomes a sport that in 1997 was accorded Olympic status. On Saturday, Singapore will play host to the International Dance
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    Lock icon SingTel, StarHub face stiff fight from brash newcomers
    1103 1  -  By 1 Teh Hooi Ling, Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom and Star Hub, which have pumped in billions of dollars into their telecoms networks, could be facing some very stiff competition from brash newcomers who will deploy newer and cheaper infrastructure.
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    Lock icon Kay Hian, UOB Sec merging to create 2nd biggest S'pore broker
    368 1  -  Merger would lead to son of UOB dttirti presiding over bank's stockbroking business Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Stockbrokers Kay Hian Holdings and UOB Securities (UOBS) have become the latest firms to merge ahead of next year's full liberalisation of
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      172 1 INSIDE Corporate results CityDev turns in sterling results up 110% to $260.6 m. Sing Land up 72% to $94.4 m. UIC up 52% to $71 m. Reports, Pg 4 Ibra deputy chairman sacked, Pg 18 3 days to go Sin(|l(.'l secures $4!»0m corporcontracts No expense spared <tl celebration parties 111(11
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      Lock icon CyberWorks' offer gets HKT nod
      610 2  -  HKT board also agrees to recommend a scheme of arrangement to shareholders From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong PACIFIC Century CyberWorks moved one step closer towards clinching Hongkong's dominant phone company after the board of directors of Cable Wireless HKT decided yesterday to recommend CyberWorks* offer
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      Lock icon Richard Li wants to lord it over whole Internet arena
      542 2 AP [HONGKONG} A deal to buy Hongkong's top phone company made Richard Li famous, but the 33-year-old billionaire's real ambition is to dominate the entire Internet food chain. Mr Li, the son of Hongkong's wealthiest man, LI Ka-shing, wants to
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      Lock icon Ranking on the written word
      541 2  -  Faber-Castell's STpore office set to see sales of $&i>m in first year By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] Wooden colour pencils sitting at the bottom of your grubby schoolbag in the age of dot-com companies, that childhood memory seems to speak of a gentler world fast
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        Lock icon Incubating baby.com
        45 2 WE spoke to a female communications executive in the IT industry yesterday, who said she was leaving in a month. Asked which start-up she's moving to, she vehemently protested: "I'm not quitting, I'm downloading." Turns out that she's going to have a baby.
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        Lock icon Creative music to the ears
        108 2 A SERIOUS investor bought some Creative Technology shares recently, but not after careful analysis of the company as she would normally do, but because her 14-year-old nephew showed her the wonders of the MP3 digital music player. "He showed me how easy it was to
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        Lock icon Hip hotel's helpline
        74 2 W HOTELS, a chain of boutique hotels aimed at the hip, young business traveller, takes its quirky image right down to the details. Instead of the standard housekeeping, reception and laundry buttons on the room phones, the phones have a button labelled "whatever, whenever" for guests to
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        Lock icon Sleight of handphone
        79 2 THE latest handphones, smaller than many men's palms, take some getting used to, especially if you are doing more than one thing at the same time. "I was in the toilet when the guy next to me started gesticulating," said a public relations executive. It turns out
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  • TELECOMS big bang
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      Lock icon SP gears up for April 1
      309 3  -  It plans to let new telecoms operators run fibres through the underground ducts it built for Star Hub Byi Catherine Ong SINGAPORE Power (SP) is planning to let new telecoms operators run their fibres through the underground ducts it has built for Star Hub
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      Lock icon SingTel nets $450m deals, StarHub gets $60m
      463 3  -  Byl Teh Hooi Ling THREE days before the floodgates are thrown open, Singapore Telecom said it has secured $450 million worth of three-to-five-year contracts from corporate users. Newcomer Star Hub, meanwhile, has inked $60 million worth of one-to-five-year contracts. The corporate market is
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      Lock icon Party time for some, pensive moment for others
      496 3  -  Byi Catherine Ong SOME Very Important People in Singapore may have a tough decision to make this Friday: get themselves stone drunk at Mi's expense or spend the evening with Lee Kuan Yew and Vanessa Mae at Star Hub's launch party. The
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon CityDev's net profit soars 110% to $261m
      561 4  -  Earnings, helped by strong demand for condos, way above those of rivals By\ Lee Han Shih BOOSTED by strong demand for condominiums, City Developments yesterday turned in a set of results that put it head and shoulders above the other listed property companies.
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      Lock icon SingLand and UIC beat profit forecasts
      465 4  -  Sing Land gain np 72 while parent reports 52% surge By Kalpana Rashiwala BOTH Singapore Land and its parent United Industrial Corp yesterday reported much better-than-expected full-year results. Sing Land's net earnings surged 72 per cent to $94.4 million, while UIC posted a 52
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      Lock icon Brierley chief sees good debut on Singapore Exchange tomorrow
      654 4  -  By i Conrad Raj BRIERLEY Investments chief executive Greg Terry is confident that his company's shares will do well when they make their debut on the Singapore Exchange tomorrow. The reason for his optimism? "Because they are cheap and I expect
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      Lock icon MPH needs to bond with investors
      677 4  -  lock siew carol eng MPH, until recently known as Jack Chia-MPH, has finally broken its silence on its plans to transform itself into an ißteCMtplay. hat also signed on an invests* relations con- eultancy called Weßl to u£ investor support J for Its move
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      Lock icon DBS plans US$500m 10-year debt issue
      431 6  -  Price and yield to be set at the end of this week or early next week w Wong Wei Kong DBS Group Holdings will be tapping the international capital markets again, this time with a US$5OO million (*****.3 million) 10-year subordinated debt issue. The
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      Lock icon DBS doubles IT spending to $200m a year
      397 6  -  By Ling Su Ann DBS Bank yesterday said it has doubled its yearly spending on information technology to $200 million and is aiming to expand its Internet user base from 100,000 to 200,000 by December. "As long as our business keeps growing,
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      Lock icon Singapore least liquid stock market in region
      424 9  -  Bnt indicator shows liquidity cycle may turn around in next few months: economist By Wong Wei Kong SINGAPORE is the least liquid equity market in Asia excluding Japan, but a leading indicator, the output gap, suggests that there may be a turnaround in
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      Lock icon World No 7 asset manager to open office in S'pore
      498 9  -  State Street Global Advisors is now recruiting staff By Ven Sreenivasan STATE Street Global Advisors, the world's 7th biggest asset management company, is in the process of setting up a Singapore operation. Its Hongkong-based investments director, Hon W Cheung, who
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      Lock icon Creative soars to $69.50 before closing at $64
      537 10  -  Steep climb fuelled by rival Aureal's woes; analysts offer mixed price targets By> Jennifer Lien CREATIVE Technology shares yesterday staged a dizzying climb to almost hit $70 before falling to close just 40 cents higher at $64. The stock rose steadily during
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      113 10 As of yesterday, 203 SGX-listed companies had released their financial results for full year ended Dec 31,1999. They recorded a combined $8,716.68m in group earnings, compared to a gain of $606.46m in 1998. The total included 19 foreign companies listed here. If they were excluded, total earnings would
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    • EARNINGS Briefs
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        Lock icon SM Summit proposes bonus issue
        56 10 SINGAPORE compact disc maker SM Summit Holdings has proposed an Issue of 74 million bonus shares to enlarge its capital base. The l-for-4 issue was announced along with its results yesterday. Turnover for 1999 rose 15 per cent to $44 million white net profit jumped
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        Lock icon UEL trebles earnings to $17.6m
        65 10 GROUP net profits of United Engineers soared by 211 per cent to $17.6 million last year, thanks to substantial improvements in all its core businesses except the information technology division. Turnover rose 16 per cent to $434 million. The company predicts better net earnings for
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        Lock icon Amara ups profit on lower sales
        62 10 AMARA Holdings has reported a 6.1 per cent rise in group net profits to $2.3 million last year. But turnover slipped 19 per cent to $24.4 million, due largely to the ongoing renovation of Amara Hotel Singapore and the construction of the office tower
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        Lock icon San Teh posts 293% higher gain
        98 10 SAN Teh has announced a 293 per cent jump in group net profit to $12.8 million last year, on the back of a 17 per cent rise in group turnover to $143.7 million. The company attributed the higher earnings and turnover to better performance
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        Lock icon Seksun explains higher turnover
        68 10 SEKSUN Precision Engineering yesterday said in elaboration that its 41 per cent jump in group turnover to $99 million last year, reported on March 22, was mainly due to higher orders and more value-added services derived from the sub-assembly of computer peripheral components. Sates to the
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      Lock icon Bonvests plans bonus issue with swing back into black
      343 11  -  Bat directors expect the current year to be weaker than 1999 By Audrey Tan BONVESTS Holdings yesterday said it was back in the black with a $34.9 million profit for the year ended Dec 31, reversing a $71.3 million loss a
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      Lock icon PCRD sees net swell to $14m; warns of higher costs this year
      229 11 Bloomberg PACIFIC Century Regional Developments, which owns Asia's third-largest Internet investment company, said 1999 profit rose 20 times, led by its insurance business and higher rental revenue. Profit from operations rose to $14 million, or 4.08 cents a
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      Lock icon Lafe Technology offers 250m IPO shares at 46 cents
      320 11 LAFE Technology, a Hong-kong-based maker of magnetic heads for computers, yesterday launched its mainboard initial public offering of 250 million shares at 46 cents each. Half the shares are new shares and the balance are vendor shares. The public tranche comprises
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon RMG chairman underwrites rights
        141 11 RAFFLES Medical Group yesterday said substantial shareholders Dr Loo Choon Yong and Raffles Medical Holdings Pte Ltd have undertaken to take up their entitlements in its proposed rights issue of up to 89 million shares. Their entitlements total 59 million shares representing 65 7 per cent
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        Lock icon Natuna line may be ahead of schedule
        121 11 [JAKARTA] Indonesia's state oil company Pertamina said yesterday the construction of a natural gas pipeline from the Natuna field to Singapore may be completed ahead of schedule. Under a 22-year agreement, Singapore's Sembawang Gas (SembGas), a unit of Sembawang Corporation, will import 325
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      1025 4 LUM CHANG HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of Lum Chang Holdings Limited will be held at 38 Kim Tian Road #03-00, Kim Tian Plaza, Singapore *****2 on 19 April 2000 at 10.30
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      381 4 ML HAI SUN HUP GROUP LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Hal Sun Hup Group Ltd (the "Company") will be held at 200 Cantonment Road #09-01, Southpoint, Singapore *****3 on 19 April 2000 at
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      2707 6 0 SHANGRI-LA ASIA LIMITED <Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) website: http://www.irasia.com/listco/hk/shangrila 1999 FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors of Shangri-La Asia Limited (the "Company") wish to announce the audited consolidated BUSINESS REVIEW final results of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group"), and associated companies for the year ended 31
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market pulls back on lack of follow-through buying
      568 8  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy THERE was a disappointing though not totally unexpected lack of fol-low-through in the local market yesterday, as prices came under pressure in the afternoon session after a fairly steady morning showing. Gravity-defying stocks like Creative Technology finished way off
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      Lock icon L-Jacob wrt: short-term returns unlikely to be big
      181 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy AFTER a massive recent surge, Lindeteves Jacoberg shares have stalled badly and seems to be headed down almost as quickly as they rose. The company is still on the buy list of many brokers and although its
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      Lock icon PCRD: short-term resistance at $28
      245 8  -  HOT STOCK By\ Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) fell sharply yesterday before the group announced its 1999 results after the close of trading, with the stock finishing as the session's biggest loser. PCRD shares closed down $2.00 or 7.2 per
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      187 8 LUM Chang will hold its EGM on April 19 at 1030 am, at 38 Kim Tian Road, #03-00 Kim Tian Plaza. SSANGYONG Cement will be trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 7.5 cents) on June 9. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on June
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      Lock icon Greenback strengthens against euro, but slides against yen
      564 8 AFP [SINGAPORE] The US dollar was higher against the euro and lower against the yen in Singapore trade yesterday, dealers said. The euro closed here at U550.9656, down from its close the day before of U550.9760, according to rates from Banque Nationale
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Sing $ could firm up 10% with rising inflation
      587 12  - Sing could firm up 10% with rising inflation This will cap upward pressure on interest rates, benefiting borrowers By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE'S inflation numbers are creeping up and that could provide the impetus for the authorities to let the Singapore dollar appreciate by about 10 per cent by year-end
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      Lock icon NTUC gears up for the new economy
      235 12 THE National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) said yesterday that it supports Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan's call to embrace change. The new economy will require a mindset change among policy makers, as well as within the union movement, it said in a press
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      Lock icon 160 SMEs sign up for e-commerce
      347 12  -  Local firm DCS offers service to help SMEs |et into e-business cheaply By' Toh Han Shih ABOUT 160 small and medium enterprises have committed to adopting electronic commerce over this month and the next using a service by DCS On-Line Information Technology, a Singapore
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      Lock icon Lianhe Zaobao offers free ad space in 2-week promotion
      303 12 FOR the first time in Singapore Press Holdings' history, one of its newspapers is offering free advertising space, under a two-week promotion which started on Monday. Call the Lianhe Zaobao Classified hotline between 8.30 am and 12.30 pm from Monday to
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      Lock icon Net surfers prefer reliability over free services
      263 12  -  By Andrew Wee SINGAPORE Internet users will rather pay for dependable Internet access than accept free services, according to a just-released Internet service provider (ISP) poll. The poll, taken by Internet content provider Singapore.CNET.com (CNET), covered 806 Singapore Net users for the week
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      Lock icon Electronics exports: mismatched figures
      341 12  -  Pon the economy electronics exports By Anna Teo ABOUT a year ago, a disturbing divergence between recovering industrial output and still-weak exports persisted for a few months. The gap has since been closed the two indicators are back in sync. But lately another divergence has emerged,
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      127 12 I The I Preferred Choice Located within the prime residential district of Mount Elizabeth, yet within easy access to the shopping and entertainment haven of Orchard Road, makes The Elizabeth a preferred choice amongst many discerning travellers. Now, there are more reasons for us being the preferred choice. Accommodation at
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      210 12 de Montport F T M S university ■L AI training tomorrow's I professionals today. Among the ten largest business schools and research groups In UK Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Achieved •EXCELLENT" rating for the quality of its teaching by the HEFCE (UK) AMBA (UK) accredited; 24-month
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      Lock icon URA always uses latest data for index
      336 13  -  Ang Hwee Suan Head, Public Relations for Chief Executive Officer and Chief Planner Urban Redevelopment Authority WE refer to Lee Han Shih's column yesterday, "One glaring drawback in URA's new index". We thank Mr Lee for his general support of URA's change in
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      Lock icon OUB did well, as operating profit shows
      227 13  -  Chong Wee Lian Vice-President Head Public Relations Overseas Union Bank WE refer to Bob Anderson's letter that a Business Times article did not dig enough into the numbers when reporting the "great turnaround" at Overseas Union Bank (Mailbag, March 25). We certainly do
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      Lock icon Are smart condos prepared for power failure?
      138 13  -  Narayana Narayana IT is fascinating to read how much the advances in technology and "smart condos" are about to revolutionise our everyday life in the near future. Without intending to pomcold water on these projects, hopefully the enterprising developers will not forget to
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      Lock icon CyberWorks is as real a company as Measat
      225 13  -  Philip Tulk Vice-President, Asian Equity Research Lehman Brothers Asia Hongkong THIS has reference to The Business Times article "KL satellite broadcaster hits the Nasdaq trail" (March 3). In this article I was quoted as saying: "Pacific Century CyberWorks is an access company,
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      Lock icon SGX decision makes the playing field uneven
      158 13  -  Allan Wong Singapore I REFER to the reports in your newspaper on incentives offered by stockbrokers to attract business to their online trading services, and to Tony Lee's letter (Mailbag, March 23). I feel that the Singapore Exchange's decision sends out a mixed
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      Lock icon Any refund for unused valid toll coupons?
      172 13  -  Seah Leng Teo THE announcement that cash cards will have to be used for toll payments for vehicles leaving for Malaysia via the Causeway and Tuas was not accompanied by any mention on the fate of those excess valid toll coupons which many
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      Lock icon US doing to China what it did to Japan after the war
      565 13  -  Joe Fernandez Sabah, Malaysia NOW that US President Bill Clinton has gone to India, like Richard Nixon to China several decades earlier, what kind of fate is Washington planning for New Delhi and Beijing? No doubt this is
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  • eNews
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      Lock icon Donovan aims to be Asian Linux powerhouse
      985 14  -  FAST Builder of high-performance computer servers targets Asian SMEs, reports ANDREW WEE ANDREW WEE Homegrown Donovan Systems Pte Ltd, which builds highperformance computer servers, expects Linux, a popular operating system, to play a big part in its plans to become a global IT
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      Lock icon NTT to introduce new wireless Net service in the US
      548 14 DETROIT It is negotiating with AT&T, SBC Comm, Bell Atlantic, among others Bloomberg NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc, Japan's biggest mobile telephone company, said it was talking with several large US telephone companies to bring its wireless Internet service to
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      Lock icon China Web site applies to list on Nasdaq
      325 14 BEIJING Sina.com says proceeds will be used for working capital AFP SINA.COM said yesterday it has become the first mainland China-based Web site to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list shares on the Nasdaq market in New York.
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      238 14 PARIS AFP Reuters THE Paris stock exchange announced yesterday it was launching two new high-tech indices to make it easier for investors to follow New Economy Internet and communications stocks. The IT.CACSO index will group 50 Internet and new technology stocks which are
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        72 15 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's mobile telephone leader NTT DoCoMo Inc said yesterday its mobile phone-based "i-mode" Internet service broke down for just over three hours, affecting up to 5.46 million users nationwide. "Users have been unable to access our i-mode service since the computer server
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        96 15 Bloomberg [DENVER] Qwest Communications International Inc and International Business Machines Corp said they signed a US$5 billion (SsB.s billion) seven-year agreement to sell services for maintaining company Web sites at 28 new computer centres. Qwest, the No 4 US long-distance telephone company, will pay IBM
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        79 15 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Coles Myer Ltd, Australia's largest retailer, has created an Internet unit to offer on-line shopping and may sell shares in the new business. The Melbourne-based retailer said the new on-line business, e.colesmyer, will combine a range of existing and new on-line activities.
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        56 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Lucent Technologies Inc said yesterday it and several partners are launching a venture called GeoVideo Networks Inc which will build a video network designed for the Internet. The new GeoVideo networks will provide high-quality video services for various business-to-business functions in the financial,
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        82 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] NEC Corp, Japan's biggest personal computer and chipmaker, seeking to clarify how each of its divisions are performing, will form three in-house companies to take over current NEC group business operations. The company on April 3 will begin operating under the new structure. NEC
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        113 15 Reuters [FARMINGTON, Connecticut] Air-conditioning giant Carrier Corp, a unit of United Technologies Corp, said it is expanding its Internet push in Asia in a bid to cut costs and boost profits. Carrier, the world's biggest maker of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment, said
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      453 15 HONGKONG Sale coincides with Koos Group of Taiwan's acquisition of Fung Cheung Kee Bloomberg Reuters HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, Ericsson AB and Investor AB will pay US$l77 million (Ss3o3 million) for control of Guoco Land Ltd, the latest purchase of a Hongkong
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      364 15 NEW YORK It integrates voice and computer communications over a single network AP CISCO Systems Inc unveiled on Monday a new office telephone system aimed at meeting the desire to integrate voice and computer communications over a single network, using the standard language of
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      64 15 [TOKYO] Japan's electronics giant Sharp unveils a neckband-style IC recording audio player "e-musee" at the company's showroom in Tokyo yesterday. The "e-musee" enables to store digital music contents on the IC memory card "Magic Gate Memory Stick "to be downloaded through the Internet. Sharp
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      740 16  -  wm bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent HUMAN rights activists would describe it as another example of the double standards Western leaders apply to the breakdown of nations-states in Europe on the one hand, and to ethnic
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      1331 16  -  Govt should review 183 rnle to welcome them home and to woo foreign talent Byi Chay Yee Meng The writer is chief financial officer, Nat Steel Electronics. IN early October 1998, Davinder Singh, MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, asked a very important question
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      996 16  -  COMMENTARY By. Floyd Norris NYT AS the oil ministers met in Vienna, Austria, there was great concern about whether the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would give the rest of the world a break and do something to restrain high oil
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        109 17 THE Lion group, which is controlled by Malaysian tycoon William Cheng, came alive yesterday on expectations that it will soon unveil its long-awaited restructuring plan to retire over RMIO billion (554.5 billion) of debts. Lion Land rose by a hefty 70 sen or 22 per cent
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        65 17 WHILE Lion struggled with its debts, Malaysian Tobacco Company (MTC) is having a headache with its mounting cash pile of more than RMI billion (Ss4sl million) from the sale of its tobacco business to Rothmans Industries last year. Meanwhile, investors pushed up the counter yesterday by
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        46 17  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh LTKM Berhad, which supplies chicken eggs, more than doubled on its debut yesterday. The counter jumped RM1.87 to RM3.22. Although margins are low in the business, LTKM has secured some long-term deals. Maybe, it will also venture into cyberspace.
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      465 17 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg AKN Technology Bhd, a Ma-laysia-based maker of electronic parts, agreed to acquire three closely held semiconductor companies from businessman Loh Soon Gnee as it looked to tap rising demand for semiconductor chips. AKN will buy Pacgem Enterprises Ltd,
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      288 17 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) will maintain its current oil production level of 610,000 barrels per day throughout the year 2000, said its president and chief executive Mohd Hassan Marican. "We will maintain production of about 610,000 barrels per day (bpd), with
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      121 17 KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA will come out with its own car in one or two years, the Sun quoted Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Kerk Choo Ting as saying. He said the project will be undertaken by Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional (Proton). Although the country
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      694 17 KUALA LUMPUR KL Net-based stocks could suffer a free-fall should Nasdaq correct sharply AFX-Asia INTERNET stocks, or companies seeking to re-position themselves as Internet plays, have begun to attract considerable attention. This is likely to continue for some time despite questions about the underlying fundamentals
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      126 17 AFX-Asia [KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange said that from April 1, listed companies making announcements on Internet and e-commerce related ventures must meet minimum disclosure standards, including a description of risks involved. The exchange said in a statement companies must furnish details
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      111 17 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's Telekom Malaysia Bhd has lived.UP tp all its performance guarantees under the government's ambitious high-tech Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) project, according to its chief executive, Mohd Said Mohd Ali. The Malaysian Business Times yesterday said Telekom had reacted with
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      149 17 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S national asset management company Danaharta Nasional Bhd said yesterday it will hold its second sale of foreclosed properties worth 276.43 miUion Malaysian ringgit (Ssl2s million) today. Danaharta said 123 properties would be up for sale, including 52 industrial
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      112 17 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama INVESTIGATIONS are continuing on the alleged kickbacks of RM 10.64 million paid by Mitsui Co of Japan to Telekom Malaysia for a switchboard supply contract, said Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) director general Datuk Ahmad Zaki Husin. The investigations are half-way through, he
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      706 18  -  Move follows delays in restructuring of the agency's huge loan portfolio From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta BARELY four days after it clinched its biggest asset sale to date, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) was plunged into uncertainty yesterday when its deputy chairman in charge of
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      409 18 Jakarta Country has failed to implement key reforms Bloomberg INDONESIA'S next US$4OO million (Ss6Bo million) loan from the International Monetary Fund will probably be delayed because the country has failed to implement key reforms that were agreed in January, an IMF official
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      75 18 JAKARTA AFX-Asia The International Monetary Fund is expected to meet on Indonesia's economic programme on April 15, President Abdurrahman Wahid said. "What I know is that the executive board will hold a meeting on April 15," he said. He was responding to questions on
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      Lock icon Suharto crony Bob Hasan arrested in graft probe
      337 19 JAKARTA He's involved in alleged wrongdoings in aerial mapping of forestry concessions AP STATE prosecutors yesterday arrested a former economic minister and close associate of ex-president Suharto as part of a wideranging corruption probe. "I have been named a suspect," Mohamad "Bob"
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      256 19 Bangkok Bloomberg THAI Petrochemical Industry pel, Thailand's biggest defaulter, is proposing a new restructuring plan that would allow the current management to continue to run the company jointly with a leading international accounting firm. The chemicals producer, ruled insolvent this month by the Bankruptcy
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      Lock icon Bank of China, HK affiliates to merge
      429 20 HONGKONG Restructuring move comes as group's Hongkong profit dives by a third Bloomberg AFXAsia THE Bank of China, China's leading foreign exchange and trade bank, will merge with its 11 affiliates in Hongkong as part of a restructuring of the group after it
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      391 20 BEIJING Reuters EUROPEAN Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy arrived in Beijing yesterday for the third round of talks this year on China's entry to the World Trade Organization. All signs pointed to very tough talks with Beijing saying it was in
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      302 20 TAIPEI Another report says former Taipei deputy mayor may get post Bloomberg TAIWAN central bank governor Perng Fai-nan may remain in his job after Presi-dent-elect Chen Shui-bian forms a new government, the United Evening News reported, contradicting earlier reports that
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      Lock icon Taiwan's Bank SinoPac to raise US$150m in Q2
      235 20 TAIPEI Bloomberg BANK SinoPac, a consumerfocused bank founded eight years ago, said it will raise about US$l5O million (*****.2 million) in the first direct sale of overseas shares by a Taiwan bank. SinoPac is already 27 per cent owned by overseas investors
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      403 21 BEIJING Central bank will oversee qualification and performance of senior officials Reuters CHINA yesterday issued a regulation aimed at tightening controls over top managers in its shaky financial industry. The regulation, issued by the central bank and published in the Financial News, does
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        78 21 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] China's State Development Planning Commission has prepared a White Paper setting out principles for the development of domestic equity markets, Shenzhen's Securities Times said. A key aim of the document's proposals is to ensure that the markets become more vigorous, the report
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        Lock icon China to standardise air ticket prices
        55 21 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China will standardise air ticket pricing to stop "chaotic" discounting, the official Wenhui Daily said yesterday. From April 1, the Civil Aviation General Administration of China will set a unified ticket price for each route with domestic airlines agreeing to abide by
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        Lock icon China Strategic embraces e-commerce
        59 21 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG] China Strategic Holdings chairman Oei Hong Leong said the company is in the process of moving its ewe business towards e-commerce and logistics centres from property and telecommunications, the Hongkong Economic Journal reported. He said the company plans to launch business-to-business and business-to-government e-commerce
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        45 21 AFX-Asia [HONGKONG) Hongkong Cyberport Development Holdings, which is part of the Pacific Century Group, has withdrawn plans to build a ferry terminal at PokAilam, the Hongkong Standard reported. The report gave no reason for the change in plans. -AFX-Asia
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      499 22 Its military leader, Gen Musharraf, asks M'sian companies to help rebuild Pakistan Reuters Bernama PAKISTAN'S military leader Pervez Musharraf said yesterday his government was focusing on economic recovery and trying to restore investor confidence. Speaking at a business lunch in Malaysia's capital, Gen Musharraf, in power
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      495 22 NEW DELHI US investments and contracts have started coming in AFP INDIA'S IT sector reaped the lion's share of the economic windfall from President Bill Clinton's state visit last week, and industry insiders say the long-term rewards will be even greater. Mr Clinton's visit
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      458 22 NEW DELHI AFP INDIA'S subsidies issue is again rocking the coalition government, with key partners of the dominant Hindu nationalist BJP party demanding a rollback of recent price hikes in cooking gas and kerosene. New Delhi increased the price of liquefied petroleum gas
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      677 24 TOKYO Newbridge Capital, Schroder Ventures among scores trying to break into market Bloomberg NEWBRIDGE Capital Ltd, Schroder Ventures KK and Coller Capital Ltd, are among scores of investors trying to break into Japan's cozy world of venture capital as foreigners try to capture
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      227 24 TOKYO Reuters CONTROVERSIAL reforms passed by Parliament yesterday will help shore up the finances of Japan's pension system but merely postpone tough public-policy choices dictated by a rapidly ageing society, experts say. The sensitivity of pensions is clear from a glance at financial projections
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      67 24 [NEW YORK] These priceless examples ofJapanese art are part of the exhibition "Masterpieces of the Mary Briggs Burke Collection which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here yesterday. The statue of'Fudo Myoo (left) is from Japan's Kamakura period (1185-1333) while "Kanbun Beauty "is from the Edo period
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      248 24 TOKYO Sector still haunted by poor investment returns Reuters JAPAN'S life insurers, mauled for years by recession, can expect no letup in the business year starting on April 1, which could be the last for some smaller firms, analysts say. Though Japan's economy seems
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      314 24 TOKYO Govt should act qnickly if economy sags again: EPA chief AFP JAPAN'S economic planning chief indicated yesterday that the government may launch a fresh set of economic stimulus measures if necessary. "We cannot loosen our grip now," Economic Planning Agency director-general Taichi Sakaiya
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      Lock icon Korea's KT Freetel plans to raise US$500 in the US
      373 24 SEOUL Bloomberg KOREA Telecom Freetel Corp, Korea's second-largest mobile phone service provider, said it aims to raise US$5OO million (SsBsB million) in the US to develop new services to survive in the nation's crowded market. The Korea Telecom Corp affiliate
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      Lock icon 2 Yamaichi execs convicted of covering up losses of 260b yen
      289 25 TOKYO AP TWO executives of collapsed brokerage Yamaichi Securities Co were convicted yesterday of helping to cover up 260 billion yen (554.19 billion) in losses. Former Yamaichi president Atsuo Miki, 64, who was also accused of making illegal payoffs
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      347 25 Fears over inflation, unemployment and economic growth on the rise [NEW YORK] Investor optimism about US stocks and the economy declined in March amid concern about inflation, unemployment and continued economic growth, a survey by PaineWebber Inc and the Gallup Organization said.
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      336 25 Football club gains market value of £lb, stock price up 95% this year Bloomberg [MANCHESTER, England] Manchester United pic, the world's richest soccer club, said first-half profit rose 13 per cent, boosted by revenue from the team's success in the European competition
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      472 25 SAN JOSE, California Reuter REVENUES for the worldwide semiconductor industry grew 22 per cent in 1999, exceeding the growth rate previously indicated by preliminary data and breaking the record revenue level set in 1995, according to an industry report issued on Monday by
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      298 25 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea had a 40 per cent share of the world's DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip market last year, a US-based semiconductor research institute said on Monday. 1 ilriaJw si i/« /A it:l i snOttMfti pittMOOtn
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      509 27 LONDON Saudi Arabia refuses to budge from call for substantial production rise Reuters AFP OIL markets hung on tenterhooks last night as the powerful Opec producers returned to the negotiating table to hammer out a new production agreement, a day
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      491 27 LONDON Reuters BRITISH software group, Autonomy Corp pic, launched a consumer product yesterday which it said would consign Web search engines "to the dustbin". The Easdaq-quoted company, which a week ago unveiled plans to list on Nasdaq, said the new product, called Keryin,
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      561 27 LONDON NYT AT first glance, the commercial seemed like a spoof, a comedy skit that could appear on Saturday Night Live. Nicholas Leeson, the rogue stock trader who caused the collapse of Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings Pic, is appearing in a campaign
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      259 27 NEW YORK Bloomberg RESPECTED Wall Street strategist Abby Joseph Cohen has changed tack for the first time since January 1999 on how investors should view stocks. Goldman, Sachs Co's chief investment strategist said that clients should cut the percentage of their assets invested in
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      518 27 WASHINGTON Lawyers seeking to reach out-of-court settlement: sources Bloomberg Reuters THE judge in Microsoft Corp's antitrust trial was asked to delay for 10 days the release of his verdict to give lawyers more time to discuss a possible out-of-court settlement, people
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      272 28  -  SGX Derivatives TraJlngfieporte MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay THE Singapore stockmarket ended lower yesterday as profit-taking set in following Monday's hefty gains. Cycle Carriage continued its advance, gaining a further 5.65 per cent after winning a stake in Indonesia's largest automobile maker, PT Astra
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      195 28  -  Kelly Loh MSCI Taiwan fatures TAIWAN stocks managed to close up 0.5 per cent after a roller-coaster session in which investors chose to lock in profits from recent gains. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 49.03 points to 9,856.6. The index hit
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      221 28 AFP [LONDON] Possible French central bank gold sales sent nervous ripples through the buUion market yesterday, analysts said. Gold feU to an 11-week low in Europe after heavy fund selling triggered by an unsourced weekend report in French newspaper Le Monde that raised anew the
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      347 28 Reuters Lootoi THE euro was early yesterday trapped near the day's lows as the German union IG Metall's acceptance of a modest pay deal in a key region dampened expectations of a near-term euro zone interest rates rise despite strong economic data. The single currency rose initially on
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    2744 29 HONGKONG AFP HHansSens +&83 HONGKONG share prices rose slightly on selective buying yesterday, dealers said. "The market is mainly driven by strong buying on Hutchison Whampoa and its parent Cheung Kong," said Marco Mak, analyst at Tai Fook Securities. The key Hang Seng
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    908 29 Reuters Q Shwnhwß latex -IJO CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed mixed yesterday as Investors booked profits from recent gains driven by hopes of government policies to boost the markets. Domestic A share indices hit record highs for a second day on expectations of a strong rally in the
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    358 29 AFP Q VP Index *49.03 THE Taiwan stock market rose 0.5 per cent yesterday in active trading as late profittaking eroded early gains led by strong buying of technology shares, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index moved up 49.03 points to 9,856.60, following a 3.4 per
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    1905 29 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 +9131 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.5 per cent higher yesterday at their highest point for two years and eight months, led by gains in Internet and high-technology issues, brokers said. The key Nikkei-225 Index rose 93.31 points to
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      400 30 AFX-Asia 3 Composite Indfix -CBO MALAYSIAN share prices yesterday closed lower on weakness In blue chips, with retail Interest concentrated in lower liners amid relatively high turnover, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 6.80 points or 0.69 per cent at
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      761 31 AFP AFX-Asia gsgr Index +iao THAI stocks closed up one per cent yesterday as investors purchased bank and finance shares amid new details about Thai Military Bank's plan to increase its capital. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand Index closed up 4.20 points at 412.44 while the select SET
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      263 31 AFP Q Composite Index +3£3 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.2 per cent yesterday in lacklustre trade. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index added 3.83 points to close at 1,701.08. Volume reached 10.5 billion shares worth 1.8 billion pesos. —AFP Umtt hw nm MRC Alliad 0.58 unch 0 Abacus Construction
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      747 31 AFX-Asia Q Composite Index +3.49 JAKARTA share prices closed mixed, with falls in second liners offset by a rebound in selected big caps, dealers said. The Composite Index closed up 3.49 points, or up 0.6 per cent at 588.73, off a low of 582.216, on 446.9 million shares valued
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      283 31 AFP QNZSE-40 -MJj NEW Zealand stocks yesterday fell 0.7 per cent on lacklustre trade, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 14.99 points to 2,030.10 on turnover of NZ5126.4 million. Telecom Corp held its ground at NZ$9.lO having fallen 4 per cent a day earlier. AFP mm us root)
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      557 31 AFP Ordinaries +Hl2 THE Australian Stock Exchange's benchmark All Ordinaries Index rose 15.2 points or 0.5 per cent to 3,240.8. The All Industrials Index rose 23.2 points to 5,769.8, while the All Resources defied weaker overnight metals prices to close 10.5 points higher at 1,181.7. National turnover totalled 1.38
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      305 31 AFP PI Composite Index *458 SOUTH Korean share prices inched up 0.5 per cent on foreign interest in semiconductor blue chips, dealers said. The Composite Index rose 4.58 points to 891.29. AFP Mar 21 *h Anam S»m( WOO 550 Brain Toe* 1720 W Central Bank .2640 235 CheMConu* *****0
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      382 33 OSCARS AFP [NEW DELHI] The Indian media cried foul yesterday after Oscars' night, saying racism was behind the failure of the blockbuster The Sixth Sense directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan to win a single award. Mr Shyamalan, an American of Indian origin, was nominated
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      297 37 Reuters Bridge News THE dry cargo freight market got off to its customary quiet start to the week on Monday, which applied especially to capes izes due to a lack of both fresh inquiry and reported fixtures. The Baltic Dry Index BDI rose five points to 1,623, the
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      381 37  -  Plan to encourage local industry in its push towards new frontier of e-logistics Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The government will spend $20 million over the next three years to formulate programmes boosting IT adoption and e-com-merce usage in the local logistics
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      160 37 AFP [MIAMI] Carnival Corp, the world's biggest cruise operator, said it ordered a new 2,974-passenger ship from Italian shipyard Fincantieri SpA for about US$5OO million ($B5O million) that Carnival said will offer more shipboard amenities. The Miami-based company also said it will increase by 60
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      605 37  -  By\ Donald Urquhart (SINGAPORE] In an anticipated turnaround, Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL) has rebounded from its dismal 1998 performance to post an overall net profit of US$94 million (Ssls9 million) for the full year ending Dec 31,1999. The recovery from the
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      797 51 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Erics Index change and the individual
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      337 52 Cockpit and cabin attendants onions, management fail to agree on wage terms Bloomberg [TOKYO] Unions representing flight crews at Japan Airlines Co, Asia's largest airline, have begun a limited, two-day strike after JAL management and unions failed to reach agreement during the current round
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      409 52 Reuters [MONTREAL] The Canadian government said that Canada's two major airlines had gained better access to the Hongkong market after negotiations with the Chinese territory. Also, Ottawa said negotiations with Japan confirmed plans by Air Canada, the country's No 1 airline, and
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      228 52 [WASHINGTON] Talks between UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and US Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater could produce an agreement to resume negotiations on improved market access for the two countries' airline industry as soon as this week, a UK embassy official here
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      179 53 SINGAPORE hosts SingaPort this year under very different circumstances. In 1998, when the biennial event was last held, Asia was buckling under a severe economic and currency crisis. I Today, as the sixth presentation of Asia's 'X premier dedicated maritime event opens, participants and visitors will no doubt be
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      1010 56 IN 1998, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ranked Singapore as the 11th most important maritime nation in the world, eight notches above our 1991 ranking. Singapore's merchant registry has also grown substantially to become the seventh largest in the world. Singapore is also
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      964 58  -  This year's SingaPort may be addressing hot topics such as e-commerce but it has not forgotten shipping concerns. DAVID HUGHES highlights interesting debates DAVID HUGHES IT is difficult to think of a more topical theme than the one chosen for this year's SingaPort conference. Every
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      900 62  -  Screen filtration technologies show promising results in a Study. DR JOSE MATHEICKEL outlines other findings DR JOSE MATHEICKEL The writer is an industrial research scientist with Singapore's Environmental Technology Institute. THE International Maritime Organisation (IMO) is proposing new regulations to address the environmental damage caused by
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      920 63 Bigger better ■:v jg* V i 1.-• i j j to date with some 400 firms from 40 countries taking part. Among the new features are Net products and services, 1 and information on port rules and rates SINGAPORT 2000, Asia's leading maritime exhibition and conference event, will have the
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      498 64 fei/es of the SingaPort2ooo conference industry address: Positioning for the dot.com era Sooho Cho,vice-chairman, Hanjin Shipping Asia in recovery —Where is the industry heajig? Asian container port volumes set to triple by 2012. ports will see container volumes grow from 33 million TEU next 85
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      153 55 Asia's Premier Maritime Event SingaPort 2000 6th International Maritime a week you can't afford to miss! Exhibition and Conference 2000 ii«MMliMlMHlffffiiiai 4, OPENING HOURS 29 31 March2ooo 10:00 hrs -17:30 hrs i>ii m^BBsII*^BMr t3BliSP^ with "the experts. Maritime Nite jKBH 4nE Borne 400 companies from 32 countries will be showcasing
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      10 57 This article was contributed by the Singapore Trade Development Board
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