The Business Times, 10 April 2000

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 85C SINGAPORE Internet, http: business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, APRIL 10. 2000
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    Lock icon Japan trades more with Asia, but invests less
    784 1  -  Jetro finds firms waiting for consumer and capital pods demand to recover From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AS the effects of the Asian crisis have faded and most economies in the region have rebounded from deep recession, trade between Japan and other
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    Lock icon Soldiering on in the dotcom world
    1117 1  -  PEOPLB Retired army chief Ng Jni Ping is all set to take his Horizonxom to higher ground By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] In the Old Economy, old soldiers never die; they just fade away. In the New Economy, they join dotcom firms. Lieutenant-General (Retired)
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    Lock icon New job data doesn't change Wall St's view of rate hike
    683 1 Qnarter-point hike in Kay am, followed by another in Jane Reuters [NEW YORK] Leading Wall Street firms have found no reason in the latest US employment data to alter their expectations of another small Federal Reserve interest rate hike
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      297 1 dtside Ms It EDB willing to fuel auto industry. P9 4 Multilingual domain names. Pg 12 v: A :■s' v BT Comment i.; Rules for the New Economy, Version 2.0. MmxiPmgm Top stories in Q1 raise mmk?; Centurion Club Members are the best of the best each averaging $11 million
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      53 1 ne You want to sell a service to the world any service. from entertainment to stockbroking to travei. you could have it up rantfrunnipg in just hours from ttienime you have IheWffea. as Vikram Khanna* out in Bat/galore Bizlt. Pp 2 I I*l Ya Inflation «tfll a threat to US:
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      Lock icon Rules for the New Economy, Version 2.0
      858 2  -  I-I I comment ECONOMICS A new vision seems set to usher In a very different global e-business environment from what we have been led to expect vikram khanna MAYBE the word "revolution" is over-the-top, laced with marketing hype. But there's little doubt that
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      Lock icon Taiwan's corporate scene headed for post-KMT shakeup
      602 2  -  rT^xclusive Firms that backed Chen expected to come to the fore From Macabe Keliher in Taipei THE Taiwanese corporate scene appears headed for a major shakeup as Chen Shuibian settles into his presidency, the first in the post-Kuom-in tang (KMT) party era. Investors
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      Lock icon Slower growth seen in Asia-Pac economies till 2010
      577 2  -  Aussie study says most will see 5-6%, down from 8-9% in '86-'96 By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Economic growth in most of the Asia-Pacific economies will slow to 5-6 per cent in the decade to 2010, down from 8-9 per cent between 1986
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      120 3 I South-East Asia's leading I network of localised portals. V r 7TT- i "Catcha.com is now one of the largest "Catcha.com consists of a group of Internet companies in the region" websites that is a merger of three Business Times, 1 November 1999 major regional search engine portals" The Straits
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      149 4 Are you ready for the 2000 I CFA examinations? I I The Financial Training Company (FTC) is the market leader for CFA training =j in Singapore and is widely recognised as the most effective and broad based examination assistance training company. 5 FTC Lecturers and Materials F~Z 7" I I
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      11 4 Virgin on track for no-frills Aussie airline, Shipping Times Pg 16
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon 13 initial public offers in Q1 raise staggering $1b
      914 4  -  Tech-related companies accounted for more than half of the IPOs in Ql, reflecting the growing shift towards New Economy stocks, un su um reports LING SU ANN THE initial public offer (IPO) market had a busy run in the first three
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      Lock icon Virgin, SIA mulling orders for Airbus A3XX
      448 4 Commitment could spur production of world's biggest passenger aircraft Bloomberg [LONDON] Virgin Atlantic Airways and Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA) may place an order for Airbus Industrie's planned superjumbo A3XX, bringing the planemaker's goal to build the world's largest passenger aircraft closer to reality.
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      Lock icon Lee Metal faces uphill task in local steel market
      466 8  -  Nat Steel declares it will give no quarter in jealously guarding its turf w Ling Su Ann METAL trader Lee Metal, due to make an initial public offering next week for a Sesdaq listing, has been promised a strong challenge by
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      Lock icon Metalock reaches settlement with Jordanian firm
      328 8  -  Firm to pay H6G USsl.7Bm in out-of-court agreement Byi Jennifer Lien MARINE engineering firm Metalock yesterday said it had reached an out-of-court settlement with a Jordanian company which had sued it over some ship repairs. The Jordanian company, Hijazi Ghosbeh Co (H&G), had sued
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      Lock icon OSK to launch Malaysia's first e-broking portal
      344 8 MBT MALAYSIA stockbroking group OSK Holdings Bhd expects to kick-start the country's first Internet portal to provide e-broking and related financial services in one or two months' time, said group managing director Ong Leong Huat. In collaboration with IT&e Ltd in Australia, OSK
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        Lock icon Internet Appliance gets US$15m funding
        134 8 INTERNET Appliance Inc (LAI), a subsidiary of Amtek Engineering Ltd, has successfully secured a second round of funding of US$l5 million (5525.7 million). The amount comprises US$B million from venture capitalists, US$2 million from a private investor and US$5 million from Amtek. In conjunction with
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        Lock icon UPS takes up 10% of Airocean placement
        57 8 Urb international nas suDscrioea tor 4.3 million new shares or 10 per cent of the placement shares offered by freight company Airocean in its IPO. Airocean said the purchase of shares by UPS, the world's largest package delivery company, is positive because of
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        Lock icon Metchem to tray 11m new ACI shares
        124 8 ALLIED Components International (ACI) has entered into a subscription agreement with Metchem Engineering SA for Metchem to subscribe for 11 million new shares in ACI at $1 each. The issue price represents a discount of about 4.4 per cent to the weighted average
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market sentiment has yet to take turn for the better
      620 6  -  I :i i comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THERE seems to be a strange dichotomy in the local market at the moment quality blue chips in the index seem to be in demand but the rest of the market isn't. This is
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      Lock icon Little gearing advantage in Malaysian penny warrants
      190 6 WARRANT WATCH THE Malaysian market is filled with penny warrants whose life spans have been extended by five to 10 years. Yet despite the rally in the market recently, many are still out-of-the-money or have exercise prices above the underlying share prices. The
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      Lock icon Outlook for NOL stock still uncertain
      238 6  -  HOT STOCK Wong Wei Kong SHARES of national liner Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) rose last Friday and finished among the session's most active issues, but the outlook for the stock remains uncertain. NOL shares closed up seven cents or 5 per cent at $1.47.
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      127 6 ♦ZAGRO Asia has appointed Lim Aik Bin, 41, as chief financial officer and general manager-designate. Mr Lim will be responsible for general management of Singapore operations and will have financial responsibility for the group. ♦LABRO Y Marine will be holding its EGM on April 28 at 11.30 am,
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      Lock icon Yen may gain from US markets' wild swings
      521 6 THE yen could benefit this week from turbulence on Wall Street as skittish investors bail out of US markets. But a foundering rupiah is likely to drag other Asian currencies down with it. The wild ride on Wall Street may have some
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      58 9 96% of the FORTUNE e-50* a a. w <■ jjf. W run Oracle. t K i j Now tell us again where the business Internet begins? ©2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle and Software Powers the Internet are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of
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      Lock icon S'pore seeks $4b in fresh IT investments this year
      698 10  -  BTM'MHUl'/J Semiconductors, wafer fobs may account for over 70% By. Raju Chellam SINGAPORE hopes to attract at least $4 billion in fresh investments this year in the electronics sector, with over 70 per cent of that amount in the semiconductor and
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      Lock icon Strong winds delay Goh Chok long's arrival in Beijing
      303 10  -  Scheduled tennis diplomacy, dinner had to be cancelled From Quak Hiang Whai inßeijing A PLANNED third round of "tennis diplomacy" here between Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and senior Chinese leader Li Ruihuan was cancelled yesterday after the plane carrying the
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      Lock icon Taxi firms must not fix prices together, says Cheow Tong
      310 10 The Straits Times TAXI companies here should not meet to fix prices together, but should offer their own range of services and set their prices separately, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. Speaking to reporters
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      Lock icon Foreign reserves down for second month in March
      249 11  -  I on the economy foreign reserves By. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S foreign reserves fell for a second consecutive month to $128.1 billion in March from $128.8 billion in February, latest preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) show. But in US
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      Lock icon Cash deposits at ATMs must be verified first: DBS
      135 11  -  MAIL! ITEM Wan Mei Ling (Ms) Vice-President Centralised Services DBS Bank WE thank Li Zhen Ji for his letter headlined "Why the wait to clear ATM cash deposits?" (BT, April 4). Cash deposited at the ATM is not immediately available for
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      Lock icon Support for family ties at UOB
      76 11  -  Tay Sing Poo Sydney I REFER to the article headlined "Bank of the rising sons" (BT, April 7). I feel it has always been a Chinese tradition of passing on to our next generation, so, let's give our fellow Singaporeans some support at United
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      Lock icon Let investors have more info on funds
      147 11  -  Chan Wing Kee Singapore I WOULD like to express my agreement with the viewpoints of both R Sivanithy and Davis Hong ("Fund managers must ensure adequate returns", BT, April 6), particularly on the idea of setting up different types of mutual funds. In
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      Lock icon Feng shui has parallels in Hindu system
      152 11  -  Narayana Narayana, Singapore I AM not a sceptic, and do not intend to denigrate feng shui, which has an increasing number of adherents. It is natural for the predominantly Chinese population to turn to their ancient system and disciplines. It may not be
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      Lock icon Morgan upbeat on B2B but advises selectivity
      394 13 NEW YORK Traditional firms pose threat as they set np Internet exchanges in their own industries Reuters MORGAN Stanley Dean Witter says it is optimistic about busi-ness-to-business business opportunities but cautions investors must be selective because many 828 firms and business ideas may
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      Lock icon NexTel suspends plan to list on Tokyo startup market
      332 13 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE mobile telephone subscription agent NexTel Corp has suspended its plan to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's (TSE) Mothers market for startups, reflecting the sudden chill in investor interest in IPOs. NexTel was the first to back away
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      Lock icon Hotmail founder Bhatia rolls the high-tech dice
      468 13 AFP California) Sabeer Bhatia, ata. ,g§jj| COMBO ®VW Btt toe fodla bora founder of Hotmail 1» still hungry far one thing-the buxz of living on the edge of the high-tech revolution. r be oo tha Intonwt," frqdt yot here, 100 kßometree south of
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      Lock icon Telefonica to list mobile unit: chairman
      393 13 MADRID Reuters SPAIN'S Telefonica will float its mobile unit estimated by some analysts to be worth over 70 billion euros (5)114.9 billion) before the autumn, but would delay the listing of its media unit. "We have discussed the listing of Telefonica Moviles before autumn,"
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      Lock icon Spotlight falls on News Corp-Vivendi
      510 13 Pearson-CLT-Ufa merger starts media consolidation Reuters [LONDON] It has been slow coming but pan-European media consolidation is finally picking up pace and the spotlight is back on the big boys like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and France's Vivendi to make the next move. UK-based Pearson
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      Lock icon American teen startup wired for business
      656 13 RIVERHEAD, New York Two 18-year-olds beat 5 finns to ran school district's computer system NYT THE executives of the company running the school district's computer system don't need to be told a thing about the network or fibre-optic cables or even which teacher is
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      Lock icon Microsoft buys 60% stake in Japan's No 2 cable company
      358 14 SEATTLE Titos deal takes US giant's posh into high-speed Internet access Reuters [SEATTLE] Marking an overseas push, Microsoft Corp, which has invested in the US cable Industry, is buying a 60 per cent stake in Japan's No 2 cable television
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      Lock icon Tiny Pacific island nation cashes in on Internet
      284 14 PASADENA, California AP THE tiny, cash-strapped nation of Tuvalu hit the jackpot with the sale of its Internet country code. Now the startup Web company that bought the rights to .Tv is hoping to do the same. The alphabetic quirk giving Tuvalu—made
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      Lock icon Intel seen lifting spending to US$7b
      419 14 SANTA CLARA, California Its chip equipment orders surging recently: analysts Bloomberg, Reuters INTEL Corp may boost capital spending this year by as much as 40 per cent to US$7 billion (5511.9 billion), as the world's biggest computerchip maker looks to raise production to meet
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      Lock icon World Online loss much smaller: ABN Amro
      270 14 AMSTERDAM Bloomberg ABN Amro Holding NV, the largest Dutch bank, said last Saturday that it had only made "tens of millions of guilders" in losses on the share sale of World Online International NV, rebuffing a report which said the loss was far
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      89 14 W$M Director Eric Khoos films may well be known to movie buffs at home and around the world. But unlike an actor, a director spends most of his time behind the camera. That's why Eric carries the American Express* Card. So now, he will always be sure of instant recognition
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      Lock icon Time Engg hopes tie-up will help group to expand in Asia
      448 15 SINGTEL-TIME rrsn I KUALA LUMPUR Analysts say deal may help smoothen sometimes rocky M'sia-Singapore ties MALAYSIA'S struggling phone company Time Engineering Bhd hopes the tie-up with global player Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will help its Asian expansion plans, Time's parent
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      Lock icon Time dotCom to tap SingTel expertise, says Halim
      355 15 HALIM Saad, the boss of Renong and managing director of Time dot Com Bhd, spoke to Star Business on Saturday. Question: Will Sing Tel increase its stakes in Time or its subsidiaries in the future? itmllwm no, that is all they ran
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        Lock icon Mitraya lans bonus, rights issues
        73 15 Reuters Malaysian construction firm Spaitrstfaya Holdings Bhd plans to make bonus and rights fffissueaaoon, The Edge business weekly said. The Edge ■mid the rights issue was likely to raise 50 million ringgit (5522.5 million), depending cm the Ellrioe of the rights, to help finance business.
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        Lock icon KLSE reprimands Jasatera
        91 15 Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR] The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange I' (ELSE) said on Saturday it had reprimanded and fined I property and construction firm Jasatera Bhd for breaching listing rules. The KLSE said it imposed a fine iOfRM78»000 (8135,000) on Jasatera after the company iVfttfted to submit its
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        Lock icon Anwar anniversary may spark riot: Dr M
        98 15 Reuters liivu/uja Lumrunj maiaysian rnme Minister Manatnir Mohamad said yesterday a planned opposition march on April 16 to mark the first anniversary of the jailing of former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim could spark a I Hot "I heard Keadilan is going to hold
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        Lock icon Malaysia's forex reserves fall
        58 15 AFP [KOALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's foreign exchange f reisrvea fell to RM128.89 billion (SssB billion) at the end j. of March, from RM130.82 billion two weeks earlier, the central bank said on Saturday. It said as of end-March, i assets and liabilities stood at RM158.9 billion against
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        Lock icon MTC to explore new business
        77 15 [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Tobacco Company, which is being acquired by General Public Utilities (GPU), will explore new businesses in the near future, the New Straits Times reported on Saturday. GPU chairman Dr Abdul Hamid Pawanteh said the company may venture Into areas he is familiar
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      Lock icon Telekom M'sia not worried about losing market share
      475 15 Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia, Malaysia's largest phone company, is not worried by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd's (Sing Tel) debut in the Malaysian market, the Telekom chief was quoted as saying on Saturday. Chief executive Mohamad Said Mohamad Ali dismissed investor fears that Telekom would
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      Lock icon Malaysian stocks poised for rebound in months ahead: analysts
      633 15 KUALA LUMPUR They cite return to IKSCI indices, low interest rates, economic recovery Reuters MALAYSIA'S stock market is set for an upward ride in the coming months on the back of the country's re-entry into an international benchmark index. The market
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Philippine stock market reform bill to become law by June
      506 17 MANILA Proposals delayed by BW Resources share scandal AFP THE Philippines is swiftly moving to adopt long-delayed stock market reforms, which analysts say are crucial to lifting the gloom caused by the country's worst share scandal. Both regulators and legislators
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      Lock icon Abdurrahman: Cabinet changes in the offing
      213 17 PRETORIA Reuters INDONESIA'S President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that there would be changes in his Cabinet, but did not elaborate on which ministers faced the chop. "Certainly there will be ministers resigning, but that is not because of our pressure from the government, it
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      Lock icon San Miguel doubles Jan-Feb profit to 1.03b pesos on strong sales
      283 17  -  From. Al Labita in Manila BUOYED by surging consumer spending, food and beverage giant San Miguel Corp (SMC) more than doubled its after-tax profit in the first two months of this year to a higher-than-expected 1.03 billion pesos (5542.9
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      Lock icon Tarrin set to fire central banker: aide
      402 17 BANGKOK Their ties worsen after move to transfer excess reserves to cut debt AP FINANCE Minister Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda was reported yesterday to be gearing up to fire Thailand's central bank chief in a worsening dispute over managing the country's debt. The Bangkok Post
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon Taiwan says no fixed time for state stock fund holdings sale
      328 18 TAIPEI Official allays sell-down fears, saying sales won't affect stock market Reuters ALLAYING investors' concerns over a possible stock sell-down this week, the committee managing Taiwan's NT$5OO billion (Ss2B billion) state stock stabilisation fund asked investors last Saturday to
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      Lock icon HK govt to tighten rules on sale of unfinished apartments
      247 18 HONGKONG Developers to be required to disclose host of details Bloomberg THE Hongkong government wants to tighten rules on the sale of yet-to-be-finished apartments, subjecting the city's powerful developers to big fines if they mislead buyers. The proposed Uncompleted Properties
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      Lock icon HK's Sun Hung Kai building Snoopy theme park
      297 18 HONGKONG AP SNOOPY has a unique place in the hearts of many people in Hongkong, especially the hordes who once lined up for hours to get promotional figurines. Now a property developer is betting that similar devotion will draw millions to its
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      Lock icon Crucial decision for HK investors
      705 18  -  HK STOCKS Is tech euphoria over or will sector keep rising? quak hiang whai HONGKONG investors are fast approaching a crossroads do they think the tech euphoria is really over or do they believe that there will be more astronomical market surges in the rise
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      433 21 Company plans to raise money to acquire more properties, sell shares to the public Bloomberg [RIYADH] Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who owns stakes in some of the world's top luxury hotels, is consolidating those investments in a new firm that will raise money
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      447 21 LONDON BAe, Boeing in £29b negotiations, Shell may bid £9b for BG's overseas assets Reuters, AFP TWO British multinational companies are discussing mergers which could involve more than £38 billion (Sslo3 billion), The Sunday Telegraph said. In the bigger of the two deals,
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      570 22 ST LOUIS Waning suggests more moves likely to keep economy from overheating Bloomberg DEFENDING the central bank's rate increases over the past nine months, US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned on Friday that inflation remains a threat though
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      675 22 NEW YORK NYT NOW that the stock market's death-defying act of last Tuesday is receding into memory, can investors return to their tried-and-true bull market ways? Or was the sickening plunge and remarkable rebound in both the Nasdaq and the Dow a
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      419 22 EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois It's too hard to predict, says Poole, and its rapid growth may not continue Reuters US policy-makers should not focus on a target productivity growth rate when setting monetary policy because it is too hard to predict productivity growth, the
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      234 22 NEW YORK Bloomberg INVESTMENT banks led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc plan to take 25 companies public this week, testing the appetite of investors who are facing a record number of initial stock sales this month. Five of the IPOs were held over
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      697 22 NEW YORK What analyst Thomas Bock did with QZLxom was a tactic used by an ex-colleagne last Dec Reuters IT'S the latest stunt for obscure Wall Street analysts: predict that the price of a hot stock will hit US$l,OOO (551,710)
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        93 24 Reuters [AMSTERDAM) A newspaper report on Saturday said Dutch KPN Telecom was in talks with partner US regional carrier Bell South Corp about being acquired. Giving no source for the report, the Tekgranfnewspaper said one proposal on the negotiating table would give Bell
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        82 24 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Billionaire Warren Buffett, who has recently bought stakes in several real estate companies, reported holding a 5.1 per cent stake in JDN Realty Corp, an Atlanta shopping centre developer. Mr Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, reported holding 1.7 million JDN shares
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        79 24 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT) Eurex, the world's largest derivatives exchange, will extend trading to until 8 pm from June 2 in line with its manager Deutsche Boerse, to give investors more chance to respond to US trading. Eurex said it will lengthen trading times for
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        96 24 Reuters [MUNICH] BMW yesterday dismissed a report that its main shareholder, the Quandt family, planned to sell its 48 per cent stake after BMW ditched its loss-making UK unit Rover. After consulting the billionaire Quandt dynasty, BMW spokesman Richard Gaul said the report in
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      504 24 TOKYO AP ENVIRONMENTAL ministers from the world's leading industrialised nations ended a conference yesterday without agreeing on a deadline for ratifying a key agreement on global warming. Ministers from the Group of Eight industrialised countries concluded two days of talks in
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      367 24 WASHINGTON Reuters THE International Monetary Fund, raising cash to pay for debt relief, has completed planned sales of 13 million ounces of gold in a complicated deal which revalues the gold and does not depress the market. An IMF statement released
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      392 24 LONDON Price tag originally £3b; deal likely today or tomorrow Reuters, Bloomberg BRITISH investment bank Robert Fleming is poised to agree to a takeover by US bank, Chase Manhattan for around £5 billion (5113.5 billion), a person familiar with the deal
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      552 24 FRANKFURT IHT WHEN the International Monetary Fund searched far and wide last month for a new leader, one name that surfaced was Rolf-Ernst Breuer, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG. Mr Breuer may now wish he had gotten the job. After Mr
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      588 25 COMMODITY Weeklyßemndup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices slipped back to levels last seen in January as the market continued to digest last month's Opec decision to pump more supplies onto the market. On the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE)
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      261 26 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks, shaken by the correction in the telecommunications and technology sectors, are likely to move sideways or lower this week but downside should be limited, analysts said. "I really don't see any strong forces moving the market either way this
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      545 26 NEW YORK Nasdaq down just 2.76% for the week, Dowrisesl.74% Reuters AFP, A WEEK of dizzying falls and equally spectacular recoveries sparked by a court ruling against Microsoft left the tech-heavy Nasdaq down just 2.76 per cent and the Dow up 1.74 per cent.
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      469 26 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to hold firm this week on hopes of an economic recovery, although high-profile losers among Internet-related companies may discourage investors, brokers said. "The economy is finally entering a recovery phase and there are better
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      261 26 LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended a turbulent week higher, as hightech stocks bounced back after extreme volatility triggered by a court ruling against Microsoft and as the stock exchange itself recovered from its worst breakdown in history. The FTSE 100
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      857 26 HSptney +36J0 AUSTRALIAN financial markets will have little to focus on this week, with only consumer sentiment data due for release Wednesday and inflationary expectations due out Friday, analysts said. The key All Ordinaries finished the week up 35 points or 1.1 per cent, at 3,168.2, while the
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      1511 26 O Paris +ZLM PARIS shares ended higher on Friday when runaway gains in telecoms equipment maker Alcatel and news of a major TV merger spiced up an otherwise lacklustre session. The benchmark CAC-40 index closed up 1.35 per cent at 6,308.04 points. Gainers outpaced losers 26 to
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      327 27 AFP P| Composite ladei -2453 THE Malaysian stock market is expected to drift sideways this week amid lack of fresh leads after falling 2.5 per cent last week, dealers said. A dealer said a conditional agreement by Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) to take a
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      500 28  -  SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup Steve Cerier Standard Poor's MMS This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. INFLATION data will be the highlight in the US with March producer price index (PPI) due on Thursday and
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      774 30  -  Synopses of Singapore International Film Festival movies being screened today Compiled by Aaron Lye KtouJlro (PG) —Takeshi Kltano (Japan) Grand Prince, United Artists, Beach Road, 7pm, 116 mins Tickets: Available Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro hardly seems to be the ideal companion for little Masao who is determined
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      663 30  -  Soloist and orchestra's listless performances mar Mozart's Oboe Concerto, Mahler's Fifth Symphony By] P Y Van FOR a 1914 performance of Mahler's Symphony No 5 in C-sharp minor, a Boston music reviewer invented a little boy named Peterkin who With programme book
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      555 33  -  New dock will allow Yantai Raffles Shipyard to build oil rip of sizes net even designed yet Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] A small shipyard in Yantai, China, will soon have the world's widest dry dock in operation, allowing it to build oil rigs
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      701 33  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes THE value of trade exhibitions is always a contentious issue. Many companies feel that they must attend relevant trade shows to "show the flag". Essentially attendance is driven by the fear that if the firm stays away but its competitors
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      216 33 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Three employees of Carnival Corp's Holland America cruise line were each fined US$lO,OOO (S$17,000) and sentenced to two years' unsupervised probation for dumping oil into the Alaskan Inland Passage. The Dutch nationals had pleaded guilty in a US federal court in
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      459 33  -  Honey will finance oil spill clean-ups, pay for damage to environment Fromi Alec Almazan in Manila PHILIPPINE lawmakers angry over the release of the Neptune Orient Lines-owned NOL Schedar are planning to pass a law requiring all oil tankers passing
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        1007 34  -  There is a solid procedural infrastructure for international arbitrations, with minimal judicial intervention By Neale Gegson The writer is partner at international law firm Watson, Farley and Williams. This is the first part of an article which first appeared in The Port of Singapore Magazine
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        353 48 But deadline forSlAto jein venture still unclear Reuters [SYDNEY] Virgin Group said yesterday it was on track to launch its no-frills Australian domestic airline by July, but the deadline for Singapore Airlines to decide whether to join was still unclear. The Singapore carrier,
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        63 48 [LEIPZIG] Visitors taking a closer look at the "PT Cruiser" of US carmaker Chrysler during the current Automobile Fair in Leipzig, on Saturday. The compact car—combiningfeatures ofa mini-van and limousine—was one of the eye-catchers at thefair dueto its attractioeretrodesign which pays tributeto car designs cf the
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        212 48 AFP [HONGKONG] North Korean airline Air Koryo has sought to open an air route between Pyongyang and Hongkong, reports said yesterday. North Korea had approached Hongkong about opening the link and the request is under consideration, the South China Sunday Morning Post cited an
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        170 48 AP [SEATTLE] A visit to Tokyo last week by Boeing senior vice-president Alan Mulally included "routine business discussions" but no specific or new agreements, a Boeing spokeswoman said on Saturday. Two Japanese newspapers had reported on Saturday that the Boeing Co and Mitsubishi Heavy
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        246 48 Video to be screened on domestic and international flights Bernama-Kyodo (TOKYO] Japan Airlines (JAL) has started showing a video featuring the famous Japanese animation character Astro Boy on domestic and international flights to encourage passengers to observe good manners during flights, airline
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          50 48 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] The China Aviation Development Foundation, which holds a 71 per oent stake in China Airlines Co Ltd, is set to elect a new board of directors after its tenure ;J# expires In June, the CommuxkU Times quoted GADF sources as saying AFX-Asia
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          89 48 Reuters [NEW YORK] The Federal Aviation Administration has decided aircraft maker Boeing Cos commercial jet unit needs to keep tighter quality control ova: its supply network, the Watt Street .fourna/reported in its online edition on Thursday. The paper quoted Liz Otis, Bodag*s vice-president of quality
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        131 48 Reuters [DOHA, Qatar] Qatar Airways said yesterday it will take delivery of a second aircraft from Airbus Industrie in June. "This is part of a supply order of 11 aircraft which we have placed with Airbus. We have already received one
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        548 48 Dneertaißty abMt fuel prices adding nrgency to talks Bloomberg [MILAN] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines NV is stepping up efforts to merge with Alitalia SpA of Italy, as a resolution of troubles that beset their joint Milan hub, and their alliance, approaches. The Dutch carrier
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      202 49 pgr- If you want to sell a service to the world —any service, from entertainment to stockbro/cing to travel, you name it —you could have it up and running in just hours from the time you have the idea, as VIKRAMKHANNA found out in Bangalore from, Rajiv Gupta, HFs US-based
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      67 49 Top stories Agilent will use Singapore as the company's customer base and supply chain hub Pag© 6 Bex.com, bolero.net in tieup to push e-commerce Page 6 Si-. gevi h HM i Jl^n I wy*¥» 'BBTIR jas H UMM |HBm mm V Stockbrokers steal some Comdex glitter Page 8 Multilingual domain
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      1785 50  -  I-it exclusive It is the ultimate gift for the small guy with the good idea for whom the Net was supposed to be in the first place Prorri\ Vikram Khanna m Bangalore IT took Amazon.com two years and some US$3O million (5551.3 million) to build the
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      284 50 Reuters (BANGALORE] India's state-run Software Technology Parks of India and the government of the southern state of Karnataka are setting up a cyber park to nurture computer software firms. "The Cyber Park Technology Incubation Centre will be set up in Bangalore's Electronic
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      497 50  -  By Vikram Khanna HAVING sat on the sidelines during much of Chapter I of the Internet, HP now aims to be a star player in Chapter n, which it believes will be about e-services. "E-services will happen anyway," said John Fogarasi, HP's Singapore-based South
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      628 52  -  The dilemma for IT Arms Is choosing which exhibition to place their money and bets on andrew wee The writer is a BT journalist ONE grouse that seems to be slowly creeping out, especially from exhibitors, is that there seem to be too
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      382 52  -  It wants automotive firms to group together to form e-commerce portals By Eugene Low THE Economic Development Board (EDB) is banking on e-commerce to boost the value added of Singapore's automotive industry. It is encouraging companies in the industry to group themselves together to
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        80 52 INDIAN software firm NOT Ltd has won two large software contracts worth $14 million. One is from Singapore's LTA (Land Transport Authority) for $44 million for its road information management cjntwt; the Other is from a Thai cement mannhrtMriny fry $8.5 million for outsourcing and
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        51 52 SINGAPORE-BASED digital TV developer Advent Television said it is splitting off its Data One business to form a new operating business imtt r-aihrf Data Commerce, which will provide its services in the Asia-Pacific region. Datacastlng involves delivery of data, including rich multimedia, news, financial information and
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        44 52 NASDAQ-LISTED Vignette Corp that supplies e-business applications has appointed AngMiah Boon as vice-president and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. The company, which has offices in Singapore, Hongkong and Australia, will set up its Asia-Pac HQ to Singapore, Vignette said.
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        50 52 COMPAQ Computer Asia has appointed Lee EngTtaqr as director, e-business and e-government He will develpp and drive e-strategies and devise new business to ensure Compaq makes its mark in the new economy. He was previously head of the enterprise solutions and services group for Compaq Singapore.
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        36 52 A FORUM on "The knowledge decade" will be held on April 18 at the Grand Hyatt It is organised by die Enterprise Solutions Division of Alcatel For details, Hut *****00, or e-mail registrxUton@apac-event.com.
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        45 52 INTERNATIONAL Data Corp's review and forecast conference fa- the Asia-Pacific IT markets, "Directions W, will be held on April 19 at the Westtn Stamford. The theme this year is "Value propositions for e-business 2.0". For details, fex *****16, or e-mail directionssg@iehxjp.com.
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        42 52 DA Consulting Group will hold a seminar on "Digital exchanges: the future of business" at Hotel Intercontinental, on April 25. Hie keynote address will .be delivered by Kaizad Heerjee, asst CEO, IDA flor details, fax *****35, or e-mail apmarkettng@dacg.com.
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        25 52 PEOPLESOPT Asia will hold a seminar on-Buiklingtfee e-customer enterprise" on April 28 at the Weetin Stamford. For details, fax *****21, or e-mail asiamktg@peopUx^tcom.
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        40 52  -  Compile* bj Raju Chellam A TWO-DA Y conference on "Asia Webcast2ooo" will b# held at the Grand Hyatt from May 29. It is organised by the Centre for Management Technology. For details, fex *****28, or e-mail christina@cmtsp.comjg.
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      426 54  -  Company says partnership with bolero.net will have global impact By' Toh Han Shih Bex.com, a Singapore e-commerce firm, has tied up with bolero.net, a major global network for e-trading, to build a global 828 (business-to-business) e-commerce system. Bolero.net is jointly owned by Swift a banking cooperative
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      337 54  -  ■i i exclusive! By Elizabeth Su HEWLETT-Packard's spunoff test and measurements subsidiary, Agilent Technologies, plans to add 400 more employees in Singapore by this year-end; it currently has 3,100 staff here. It will focus on two main strategies: grow its current products, and do more in
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      157 54 Bloomberg [PALO ALTO, California] Hewlett-Packard Co, the world's No 2 computer maker, said it will distribute the rest of its stake in Agilent Technologies Inc, the test and measurement unit the company is spinning off, on June 2. Hewlett-Packard will give shareholders as of
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      Lock icon Inter-touch chooses S'pore as its launching pad
      247 54  -  By Jane Cheong AUSTRALIA-founded inter-touch (previously called Net Port Hospitality Systems), last week set up its regional HQ here and said it will invest US$l4 million (Ss24 million) in Singapore and US$5O million in the Asia-Pacific region over the next three years. The
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      352 56  -  The Technology Investor Forum made its debut, allowing technopreneurs to court investors. ANDREW WEB reports ANDREW WEE YOU could be forgiven for thinking you were at a financial investment fair, judging by the booths of stock brokers at this year's Comdex Asia at Singapore
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      162 56 HERE'S a shortlist of products and services at Comdex Asia this year: AtoZaila.com: A portal offering five services: recruitment, property, Webmall, auction and leisure info. Visit www.atozasia.com. A Net marketing product called 121. DRAgON, which provides intelligent profiling and Web site analysis, will be
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      Lock icon Long way to go for Asia in e-security
      412 56  -  RSA Security to pump USslom to beef np staff, add RAD centre Reports In Val Chua The writer is with asiaone.com, SPH's English-language portal UNLIKE the United States and Europe, where companies have corporate budgets for e-security and deploy secure solutions, the
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      168 56 Jft. MORE than 60 exhibitors showcased their wares at CardsAsia2ooo and ISEC Asia 2000 last week. Here's a glimpse of some e-security products: RSA Security: Secur ID two-factor authentication identifies users before they access confidential data on corporate networks and the Net. A
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      Lock icon China to lead Asia's growth in smart cards
      388 56  -  Lite mainland accounts far over 51% of the market in the region By Elizabeth Su CHINA will continue to lead the Asia-Pacific region in smart-cards, in both unit shipments and revenues. Currently, mainland China accounts for over 51 per cent market share
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      567 57  -  SAY IIJ Internet computing raises a nnmber of new Issues and Imperatives for the corporate network kong chee hoh The writer is general manager, Novell Singapore Pte Ltd WITH the Y2K problem safely behind us, most organisations are now turning their corporate might
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        78 57 SYMANTEC Corp has introduced WinFax Pro 10.0 software for tending, receiving and managing faxes from the desktop. It works with Windows and is targeted at mall business**, home users and mobile workers. It afAw* photo-quality fines that can be sent to e-mail ■rtrtnwrn in a self-viewing
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        70 57 MICROSOFT Corp has launched Bizconnect E-pak, a comprehensive software solution to help SMEs (small enterprises) build their e-business infrastructure. Priced at about J9.800, it is 52 per cent cheaper than baying the components Individually. It inc&des SQL Server 7.0, Site Server Commerce Edition, SQL Server Internet Connector,
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        898 60  -  An Internet domain name in Thai, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, or some other language is now just a mouse-click away, val chua finds out about the plans of i-DNS.net, which is barely four months old but already offering 52 languages and has some 100,000 registered non-English domain names
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          101 60 muivti man 2,500 Singapore at-home uaers have agreed to join the Internet measurement panel by NielsenZ/Netßatings, to provide an accurate picture of Internet behaviour across the Republic. Title Singapore panel is a part of the firm's global panel, which is now the largest in the world
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          73 60 EDUCATION portal InQuisitive Mind Pte Ltd (IQjmind.com) Jbs tied up with Yahoo! Singapore to provide KfedfyLcom users access to resources from YahqQfSingapote.lthas also tied up with Third Voice Inc. tooflfer a co-branded version of the new lUrdVoke 2000, which lets IQmind.com users click on any
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          48 60 OVERSEAS Union Bank (OUB) has selected Avesta Technologies' eWatcber to help minay end-to-end service availability of its Interna# hanking hugjrwqa eWatcher, a Web application management solution, will help monitor Web transactions and the individual IT resources that support them, 24 hours a day.
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