The Business Times, 14 April 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ FRIDAY, APRIL 14. 2000
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    70 1 Dsn f ?4t3JO (+28.51) wmvT-su U ***** (+18.85) W% satsa fottjies mm ***** (+4.90) STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Chance KLSECOMP mm. -475 NIKKEI 20,526.42 -***** HANG SENG 16J62J6 -224JS SET INDEX dosed JAKARTA 00MP £65.11 *427 MANILA COUP 1,***** -18.59 TAIPEI WH 9,662.60 -M&7» SEOUL COMP dosed CLSA
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    82 1 FOBEX BATES USI SI US$ 1.717 £(l!S$/S$ per \Mtl 17H EURO(USS/SS/E) OJW l.M DM 2. (Ml H841 YEN 105.8 1.623 RM MM 0.452 HKS 7.788 0m BAHT TIM 0.041 RUP1AH 7,122 0.023 St to 190 unto PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .3900 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA 11.00
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    Lock icon Cyberparks set to sprout in Philippines
    981 1  -  |-j<exclusive| Led by Ayala, property giants plan at least five huge sites for IT firms From Al Labita in Manila THE Philippines' largest and most profitable property developers have clambered on board the technology bandwagon and are spending billions of dollars to develop so-called
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    Lock icon The happening place for dotcoms – Telok Ayer
    938 1  - The happening place for dotcoms Telok Ayer liiexclusive Chic and cheap, shophouse offices there have much to offer By Marina Chew [SINGAPORE] Once the domain of towkays and, later, small professional businesses, shophouses in the Telok Ayer area have become the home of a new breed of businesses the dotcoms.
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    Lock icon DBS Land senior staff leave ahead of revamp
    675 1  -  ll Restructuring by new major shareholder Pidemco expected By Kalpana Rashiwala, Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] Several senior management staff at DBS Land have headed for the exit just days before Pidemco Land, the group's new major shareholder, is due to announce a restructuring
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      118 1 DBBPE Exec Money pfl ET. Navigating the array of financial planning Web sites. EM 12 Top stories Asia One forms joint venture with Fantastic Corp. Next Page A love affair with foie gras that's turned into big bucks. Next Page Pressure mounts over Batam tax.Pg 3 Lee Metal to fully
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      Lock icon AsiaOne forms joint venture with Fantastic Corp
      370 2  -  Fantastic One will provide broadband multimedia content in Asia Pacific By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] SPH Asia One, Singapore Press Holdings' soon-to-be-listed Internet unit, has teamed up with Switzerland-based The Fantastic Corp to offer broadband multimedia content. Fantastic One, the joint venture company which
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      Lock icon A love affair with foie gras that's turned into big bucks
      901 2  -  PEOPLE Michael Ginor's Hudson Valley Foie Gras is the biggest US producer Byl Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] In the mid-1980s, when Michael Ginor was a bond trader, foie gras was almost unheard of on Wall Street. Now, "each and
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      Lock icon Megabucks to be made in m-commerce
      679 2  -  TECHNOLOGY The force' Is abont to pass from the personal computer to the mobile phone raju chellam THE last time the big three mobile phone giants Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola got together, they gave birth to the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, to set
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Taxing experience
        79 2 A COLLEAGUE was attracted by the computers and other prizes offered by the IRAS to taxpayers who file their returns electronically. However, he had a question he needed answered before filing. So he tried sending e-mail as well as calling the toll-free helplines. Three days later, he hasn't
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        Lock icon What the Radar Screen shows
        112 2 WHEN picking or recommending stocks, Salomon Smith Barney uses a combination of fundamental analysis and a quantitative, momentum-based model. The model also plugs in relative value (based on price-earnings ratios) and is called the Radar Screen. In its April 7 report, the US investment bank
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        Lock icon The StarHub exclusive
        81 2 IF you're a conscientious reader of Telescope, Singapore Cable Vision's TV guide, you would have noticed in the April issue that there was only one advertiser in the entire magazine Star Hub. The telecommunications provider had bought up all the space for the launch of its services.
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  • FOCUS batam
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      Lock icon Pressure mounts over Batam tax
      649 3  -  VAT unfair, claims S'pore, Japan; both lobby IMF for its withdrawal From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INTERNATIONAL as well as domestic pressure is building up for the Indonesian government to rescind its decision to impose a value-added tax (VAT) for Batam island. Sources told
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Ascott to spend $80m-$100m to build more service apartments
      418 4  -  Byi Conrad Raj THE Ascott Ltd has revived plans to build an extension to its Scotts Road property and will finance the construction through a $350 million medium-term loan facility being arranged by Citicorp Investment Bank and DBS Bank. The extension
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      Lock icon Lee Metal to fully place out IPO shares through brokers
      347 4  -  Sesd&q aspirant will offer 67.5 m shares to the public at 19 cents each through placement agents By] Ling Su Ann STEEL trader Lee Metal yesterday became the first company to distribute all of its initial public offering (IPO) shares
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      Lock icon Auto stocks stuck in neutral gear despite better earnings
      439 4  -  Release of more COEs, premium slide fail to draw interest By Christopher Tan AUTO stocks seem to be stuck in neutral gear these days. Despite creditable earnings all round and the promise of an enlarged market and new business ventures, investors
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      Lock icon Can SingTel's regional moves make up for the local slack?
      750 4  -  locksiew ven sreenivasan TO say that this has been an unhappy year for Singapore Telecommunications would be an understatement. The shock announcement by the government to throw open the local telecom market two years ahead of schedule, the failed bid
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      Lock icon SingTel buys back 4m shares at $2.43-$2.49
      134 7 Reuters SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel), the city state's biggest listed firm, said it bought four million of its own shares yesterday, almost one-third of the total acquired through buy backs to date. With the latest purchase, Sing Tel has bought 12.62 million
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      Lock icon Citibank to launch $1b NCD programme
      235 7 CITIBANK yesterday launched a $1 billion negotiable certificate of deposit (NCD) programme to expand its depositor base. The NCDs will be available to local and international institutional investors resident here. Citicorp Investment Bank is the arranger and sole dealer of the NCD programme. This
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Capital ups Creative, Venture stakes
        91 7 The Capital Group Companies has raised its stake in Creative Technology to 8.52 per cent from 8.11 percent. It bought34o,3oo Creative shares on the open market for between U5526.25 and U5529.90 each, and from $46 to $47.43 apiece. The purchases were carried out over a
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        Lock icon Hor Kew IPO 3.2 times subscribed
        34 7 CONSTRUCTION company Hor Kew's 23.07 million public offer shares were 3.2 times subscribed. The company offered 153.8 million new shares at 20 cents each for a Sesdaq listing.
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        Lock icon Commerzbank makes $100m bond issue
        54 7 ABN Amro Singapore and DBS Bank yesterday launched a subordinated (Lower Tier Q) bond issue in Singapore dollar for Commerzbank AG. The $100 million bond issue has a maturity of 10 years and a coupon of 5.08 per cent payable twice a year with an
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        Lock icon Excel to buy 30% of mould base maker
        33 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED Excel Machine Tools said yesterday it would acquire a 30 per cent stake or 578,600 new shares in Mould Base Manufacturer Singapore for 1666,900.
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        Lock icon I-One gets nod for China Net business
        88 7 iUNJs.N&r international nas received tne necessary regulatory approvals for its Internet business in the People's Republic of China. The company said yesterday that i-One.Net (Beijing) Internet and Technology Co Ltd has been incorporated with a paid-up capital of five million renminbi (Ssl million).
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        Lock icon No reason for sharp rises Inno-Pac
        43 7 INNO-Pacific Holdings yesterday said in response to a query from the Singapore Exchange that it was not aware of any reason for the sharp increase in the trading price or turnover of the company's shares on Wednesday.
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      Lock icon China-based Eagle Brand posts 21% rise in earnings
      377 7  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Demand for new polished ceramic tiles boosts turnover 16percenttotonch 1.29 billion renminbi By Andrea Tan TILE and sanitary ware maker Eagle Brand Holdings posted a 21 per cent rise in net profit to 304.6 million renminbi (5562.8 million) for the
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      Lock icon Big jump in Low Keng Huat profit
      205 7  -  W Marissa Chew CONSTRUCTION and hotel group Low Keng Huat yesterday turned in a big jump in net profit of $3.55 million for the year ended Jan 31 against profit of $261,000 in the previous year. Turnover improved 22 per cent from $157.6
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      Lock icon S'pore likely to benefit from MSCI changes
      252 7  -  Reweigh tings make Asia too important to be ignored: analyst By Siow Li Sen ADDITIONAL international funds are likely to flow to Singapore as a result of changes in the MSCI indices to accommodate increased weightings from other countries, said John Schofield, a
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      Lock icon Freight Links in e-logistics tie-up with Link Philippine
      336 7  -  Ven Sreenivasan FREIGHTLINKS.COM Pte Ltd (FL.com), the subsidiary of listed logistics company Freight Links Express Holdings, is tying up with Link Philippine Holdings to engage in Internet e-commerce logistics ventures. The two have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to set up a
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      484 6 Stock* Volume AiiOcean5c 20,571,000 STEngg 10c 16,710,000 SingTel 15c 16.560,000 PacificCentury 13,631,000 Fastech US10c 10,439,000 LateTech US4c 9,854,000 Jurong Tech 10c 9,443,000 GES tnti Lid 20c 7,154,000 MediaRing 10c 6,495,000 PacCentMLCW*****5 5,496,000 Stocks PacificCentury 239.466,665 (JOB 64,067,884 DBSGrp 46,356,603 SingTel 15c 41,083,348 STEngg 10c 37.206,600 SIA 36,827,516 Creative T 25c
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      Lock icon Bank stocks surge, taking the cue from Wall Street
      569 6  -  I=ll comment STOCKS r.sivanithy A RESURGENCE of interest in banks, in line with a shift of funds out of technology stocks into banks on Wall Street on Wednesday, helped the local stock market to hold its ground, despite heavy selling early
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      Lock icon CL's Chartered wrt – case of wrong timing, high pricing
      207 6  - CL's Chartered wrt case of wrong timing, high pricing WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy THE latest covered call to debut is Credit Lyonnais' issue on Chartered Semiconductor. Like the two covered calls on Pacific Century Regional Developments (PCRD) listed here over the past week, the CL warrant has flopped. Offered
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      Lock icon ST Engg: resistance at $2.46-$2.50
      241 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of defence and technology group ST Engineering (STE) soared yesterday, finishing among the session's most active stocks. ST Engg shares closed up 29 cents or 14 per cent at $2.40, the day's high, after opening at $2.08 and
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      Lock icon Market Notices
      155 6 VICKERS Capital will be holding its ACM on* April 27 at 11.00 am, at VIP Lounge B, 4th Floor, Raffles City Convention Centre, Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza, 2 Stamford Road. PARKWAY Holdings will be holding its EGM on May 4 at 11 am, at Level 3, Gleneagles
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      Lock icon S$ pulls clear of crucial S$1. 72 test vs greenback
      345 6  -  I Ml comment CURRENCIES larry wee AFTER three successive days of probing the crucial 551.72 barrier against the US dollar, the Singapore dollar finally broke free to finish 0.2 per cent firmer at 551.7150 in Asian trading yesterday. But what
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      95 6 IBS LEE METAL GROUP LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 27 December 1982) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING Placement of 67,500/000 Shares at $0.19 each and 7,500,000 Reserved Shares at $0,171 each comprising 60,000,000 New Shares and 15,000,000 Vendor Shares of par value $0.05 each Members of the public interested
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      26 6 Access to IPO placements. lust one more reason to on DBS investor Cni ir e Call us at 323-3955 to find out more S3 DBS BANK
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon No choice but to embrace New Economy: Boon Heng
      462 8  -  NTUC chief urges workers to adjust ftnH adapt; training, retraining is the key By Eugene Low EMBRACE the New Economy and the layoffs and restructuring that come with it, or face certain decline in living standards, labour boss Lim Boon Heng
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      Lock icon Hotel occupancy rate at bursting point
      620 8  -  m exclusive Higher visitor arrivals, recovery boost room demand By I Carol Eng IT seems incredulous but it is true Singapore hotels are having to turn away guests. A check with nine hotels revealed that all of their rooms were booked yesterday. According to
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Lock icon SICEC's business up 76% in 1st qtr
        63 8 THE Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SICEC) said yesterday that its meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions business surged a whopping 76 per cent in the first quarter of this year, thanks to better economic conditions this year. SICEC held 252 events from
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        Lock icon 19% of stallholders yet to chill up
        69 8 WITH only two weeks to go before the cold chain system becomes compulsory for poultry stallholders here, 149 out of the 774 stallholders who are required to install chillers or freezers have yet to do so. According to the Ministry of the Environment,
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        Lock icon Ho Bee to launch Chelsea Lodge project
        50 8 HO Bee Developments Pte Ltd will be launching tomorrow its residential project Chelsea Lodge at Tanjong Katong Road. This freehold apartment development has a total of 78 units, of which 67 will be put up for sale tomorrow. Eleven units were sold earlier.
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      Lock icon Maybank unveils new Visa credit card
      319 8 LOOK out, consumer banks. Malayan Banking (Maybank), which has kept a low profile until now, is muscling in on the billion-dollar credit card business with an annual fee-free card that charges 15 per cent interest on rollover credit, compared to the industry's current 24
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      Lock icon Bonvest, Far East top bidders for 3 HDB sites
      388 8  -  By Marissa Chew BONVEST Holdings, an Overseas Union Bank-linked company and two firms in the Far East Organization stable have emerged as top bidders in the tenders for three Housing and Development Board sites, which drew fierce bidding from many developers.
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      Lock icon ABN Amro sees modest S$ rise
      368 8  -  By Audrey Tan IMPORTED Inflation stays a key concern for Singapore which may lead the monetary authority to tighten the exchange rate, resulting in a modest rise in the Singapore dollar in mid-year, ABN Amro Bank research head Chan Chia Lin said yesterday. Her
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      Lock icon Job market becoming more gender-blind
      411 8  -  By Anna Teo THE Singapore job market has become slightly more "gender-blind" over the last decade, a Ministry of Manpower report suggests. It finds Singapore women have over the years made inroads into traditionally male occupations, but stay underrepresented in higher-skill jobs. The report on
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      Lock icon Proposed Seagate delisting won't hit operations: CFO
      590 8 He declines to say if there would be more layoffs or plant shutdowns THE proposed buyout and delisting of disk drive maker Seagate Technology will have no direct impact on the company's operations, its chief financial officer said yesterday. "The evaluations and considerations
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      Lock icon Ties with Shandong growing
      500 9  -  PM stresses need for cost-effective training programmes to reach out to people From* Quak Hiang Whai in Qingdao SINGAPORE-LINKED investments in the Chinese province of Shandong surged from 141 projects in 1993 to at least 578 projects at present, Tang Guan Seng, Senior Parliamentary of Trade
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      Lock icon MOE's new part-time scheme to tap pool of former teachers
      177 9 A PART-TIME teaching scheme was introduced yesterday by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to tap the pool of trained and experienced former teachers. Minister for Education Teo Chee Hean said the scheme was one of the ways to expand the
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      Lock icon IDA reviews broadband service
      178 9 THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) said yesterday it was reviewing the minimum quality of service framework for broadband access services to raise the performance of service providers. IDA said service providers would be held accountable for failure to meet the minimum requirements. This also applies to
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      Lock icon WTO's Appellate Body selection is based on merit
      703 9  -  mail ran S Narayanan Ambassador/PR to WTO Permanent Mission of India Geneva THIS is with reference to your report "Bid to appease developing nations in WTO" (BT, April 7). Normally, I would not consider it appropriate to react to such a factually
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      Lock icon 'Night vault'for cash deposit half century ago
      137 9  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to Li Zhen Ji's letter (BT, April 4) and DBS Bank's reply (April 10) on the subject of ATM cash deposits. Half a century ago, it was possible to put your excess cash into a small leather bag
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      Lock icon US e-tax report embraced by Republican leaders
      587 10 WASHINGTON Opponents include leaders of all political stripes, many large retailers Reuters A REPORT urging tax advantages for Internet-based businesses was officially delivered to Congress on Wednesday where it was welcomed by members of the Republican leadership. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and
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      Lock icon Nasdaq's fall hurts debut of Asiacontent.com
      347 10  -  SINGAPORE CEO pleased with response, volume high on Wednesday By Toh Han Shih ASIACONTENT.COM, a Hongkong Internet company with a strong component in Singapore, finished its first day on the Nasdaq below its IPO price. On Wednesday, it debuted on Nasdaq with an IPO
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      Lock icon Bidding war for Orange looms as EC Slows outright sale
      444 10 NEW YORK Company seen as attractive to players eyeing Europe-wide mobile network FT THE prospect of a bidding war for Orange moved a step closer on Wednesday as the European Commission (EC) left the door open for Vodafone AiiTouch to
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      Lock icon eLong wait for the bus?
      66 10 [SHANGHAI] A Chinese woman waiting for a bus at bus stop in front ofan advertisement of eLong.com Ltd, a Beijing-base Internet portal site, on Wednesday in Shanghai. Chinese professionals who received advanced education in the US mostly manage China's Internet business. The Internet business is
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      Lock icon E-commerce software maker Ariba's Q2 loss widens
      366 10 MOUNTAIN View, California Bloomberg ARIBA Inc. which makes software to process e-commerce orders on the Internet, said its second-quarter loss widened as its expenses surged fourfold, particularly sales and marketing costs. The company's net loss widened to U*****.9 million (Ss2l6 million), or 70
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  • CYBERWORKS-TELSTRA deal
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      Lock icon CyberWorks-Telstra deal creates Asia's Vodafone
      796 11  -  Investors give thumbs up to CyberWorks, with counter surging 7% even as HK stocks slide 1.3% From Meera Tharmaratnam in Hongkong AN Asian mobile giant which will be a match in the region for Vodafone Air Touch pic the world's largest mobile phone operator will
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      Lock icon Telstra plans to sell US$3b bonds
      457 11 Funds to be used for investment in CyberWorks, says a source Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Telstra Corp will sell US$l.5 billion (552.6 billion) of bonds as early as June, a record for an Australian company, to fund its investment in Hongkong-based Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd, a
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      Lock icon Jury out on Telstra's PCCW deal
      511 11 Cost, unclear details, choice of partner seen as negatives AFP [SYDNEY] Telstra's multi-billion dollar alliance with Hongkong-based Internet firm Pacific Century CyberWorks received a mixed reception from market watchers yesterday, with many aspects of the deal still unclear. Analysts said the cost of the
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Now Wall St suits are just the hired help
      723 12  -  OPINION bottom line michael lewis Michael Lewis, the author of' Liar's Poker'and 'The New New Thingis a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own Bloomberg THE revolt by Salomon Smith Barney Inc's junior analysts that led to their
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      153 12 'Quite simply, rapid, market-led growth is the most potent weapon against poverty that mankind has ever known.' -Larry Sohmts the United States Treasury Secretary, on the importance of globalisation. 'Gold is becoming another commodity and it's a commodity with an enormous inventory problem.' Ward a gold equities
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      Lock icon S Africa shames the game
      622 12 EDITORIAL IT IS hard to decide who committed the bigger offence this week when the cricket world was stunned by match-fixing allegations —former South African captain Hansie Cronje who admitted taking bribes or its cricket authorities who saw it fit to field one of the
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      Lock icon Asian nations wide open to another hard landing
      1133 12  -  Current recovery depends too much on export demand, and capital investment is still depressed By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THOSE of a nervous disposition might be well advised to avoid reading to the end this year's World Bank
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      Lock icon The New Economy is a vulnerable state of mind
      820 12  -  COMMENTARY By 1 Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group LAST week was interesting for the "New Economy". On Monday last week, federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared that Microsoft had violated the antitrust laws by engaging in predatory tactics that discouraged
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  • REGIONAL news
    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Tenaga re-charged
        86 13 MALAYSIAN utility giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd is back in favour following the sharp overnight fall of US technology stocks, which also pulled down prices of New Economy stocks in Malaysia. TNB rose 10 sen to 13.10 Malaysian ringgit with more than 10 million shares changing hands a volume
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        Lock icon Better luck next time for YTL
        69 13 YTL Corporation eased 15 sen to 7.10 Malaysian ringgit on disappointment over its failed Kapar power plant bid despite the bullishness of its managing director Francis Yeoh. YTL has planned a major cash call to bid for other power generation assets of Tenaga but
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        Lock icon MAS still grounded
        82 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh INVESTORS did not pay much attention to Malaysia Airlines System although its captain Tajudin Ramli said the Malaysian carrier is set to join one of the global alliances by next month in a bid to become more competitive. The counter eased 2 sen
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      Lock icon Samart sells entire interest in Digital to Shin
      224 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFX-Asia TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd unit Samart Corp Pic has sold its entire equity interest of 45.58 per cent in Digital Phone Co Ltd to Shin Corp Pic. No purchase consideration was given. Samart is a 24.9 per cent owned unit
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      Lock icon Bank Negara to allow e-banking from June: report
      455 13 KUALA LUMPUR Local banks will be given an 18-month head start on foreign banks to offer full Net banking services AFXAsia Bernama BANKS will be allowed to offer a full range of Internet banking services from June, The Star newspaper reported, quoting
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      Lock icon A show of weaponry from 21 nations
      57 13 [KUALA LUMPUR] A visitor looking at different types of Russian-made ammunition at the Defence Services Asia exhibition here yesterday. The annual event is the world's second largest defence exhibition and the largest in Asia. Twenty-one countries from all over the world took part
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      Lock icon Gemtech aims to buy The Sun, The Edge
      239 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters. AFX-Asia MALAYSIA'S Gemtech Resources Bhd, recently acquired by prominent banker Tong Kooi Ong, aims to buy two media groups, the Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. The report said unlisted Net Edge Online Sdin Bhd, controlled by Mr Tong and
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      488 15 I JAKARTA Probe touched; six commercial coort judges sell verdicts regularly: report AFP INDONESIA'S Supreme Court was red-faced yesterday when newspapers splashed the transcript of a tape recording in which one of its clerks could be heard saying that a verdict was
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      256 15 JAKARTA AP, AFP FRUSTRATED by months of non-cooperation by a reportedly ailing ex-president Suharto, corruption investigators said yesterday they are turning the screws on the former strongman by threatening to freeze his assets. Indonesia's president also suggested that former dictator Suharto be placed under house
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      106 15 I JAKARTA AFX-Asia POLITICAL divisions within the Indonesian cabinet and a lack of political support for agencies charged with implementing financial reforms are hampering changes in the financial sector, the World Bank said. "The cabinet's difficulty in building an internal consensus and providing the political
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      543 16 BEIJING Investors will own a piece of only its offshore Web sites AP THE first of China's leading Internet companies was set to go public in the United States yesterday sort of. The initial public offering, from Sina.com, is the first of
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      76 16 [TAOYUAN, Taiwan] Acer Group chairman Stan Shift holding a robot baby that reacts to feeding and cuddling at his company's "e-Life exhibition —a five-day Internet symposium and showcase of their strategy as an Internet enabler—in Taoyuan County yesterday. Local newspapers have reported that Beijing refused
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      519 16  -  Located near Kaohsiung, Lnchu park will have 750 hectares available for development From Macabe Keliher in Taipei WITH Taiwan's high-tech industry experiencing explosive growth, the government has established yet another science park to cope with the overflow from two existing parks. "Within four
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      473 16 HONGKONG Reuters TUMBLING US technology stocks have sent a chill through Hongkong's initial public offering (IPO) market, forcing companies to slash prices to jump-start deals or yank them altogether. Steel trading Internet portal iSteelAsia.com Ltd is the latest victim, scaling down
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      702 17 SEOUL Results could speed pace of asset sales and give Kim a boost to shake up chaebol Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's ruling party gained seats in parliamentary elections held yesterday, according to exit polls conducted by local television networks. The
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      187 17 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA Netcom Corp, the third entrant in the nation's state-owned telecommunications industry. said it may seek to sell shares overseas next year to finance future growth. The company, which is establishing an 8.000-kilometre broadband network to cover large Chinese cities such
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      415 17 HONGKONG Earnings down first time since listing with &2b yuan written off for old equipment Bloomberg CHINA Telecom (HK) Ltd, a unit of China's largest mobile phone operator, said yesterday that earnings dropped for the first time since its October 1997 listing as
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        81 17 AFX-Asia [SHANGHAI] The yuan's closing level on the Foreign Exchange Trading System yesterday was the result of market forces and does not signal a change in the country's exchange rate policy, a spokesman for the People's Bank of China (PBoC) said. The currency yesterday
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        90 17 Reuters [HONGKONG] Thomson Bank Watch said yesterday that it had raised its outlook on China's 888-plus sovereign risk ratings to stable from negative due largely to the country's improving trade performance. China's state television reported on Wednesday that exports rose a year-on-year 36 per cent
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        75 17 AFP [TAIPEI] The London-based FTSE International is to announce inclusion of Taiwan stocks in its world indices in two weeks, the China Times reported yesterday. The paper, citing an FTSE official, said 50 per cent of Taiwan's market value will be included in the
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        83 17 Bloomberg [BOMBAY] Zee Telefilms Ltd, India's biggest non-state television broadcaster, will spend 4 billion rupees (Ssl64 million) to buy a majority stake in rival Asianet Communications Ltd. The company, founded and managed by its chairman Subhash Chandra, will acquire 51 per cent
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      322 17 ■KARACHI Reuters PAKISTAN'S booming stock market is up nearly 40 per cent this year, but analysts said yesterday that worries over multilateral funding and the slow pace of economic reforms were now clouding its direction. They said investor concerns stemmed from
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      514 19  -  Company's basic problem is deregulation and rising competition From Neil Behrmann in London BRITISH Telecom is launching a msuor spin-off and restructuring programme to fight off competition and lift its share price which has performed poorly this year, although analysts believe that
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      457 19 WASHINGTON Reuters, AP and Bloomberg FEDERAL Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan declined yesterday to directly address the recent swings in US markets, but said investors appeared to be "groping" for the correct balance between tech stocks and traditional Old Economy stocks. "I don't
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      393 19 LOS ANGELES LAT IT could get worse before it gets better. That was the sentiment among shaken Wall Street professionals on Wednesday after another technology-sec-tor bloodbath yanked the Nasdaq Composite Index down a jarring 7.1 per cent, and put it
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      663 19  -  4J5% growth in 1999 on Asia recovery, strong US demand From, D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE World Trade Organization yesterday forecast a likely growth of 6.5 per cent in global merchandise trade this year, after Asia's recovery and strong demand
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      488 21 WASHINGTON Fischer denies Fond programmes benefit rich nations; he also sees bright prospects for world economy Bloomberg THE International Monetary Fund's acting director said open markets and foreign investment help poor countries, rejecting criticism that the Fund's lending programmes are intended to benefit
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      430 21 NEW YORK Move will help create a freer market in the baying and selling of pricing data Reuters THE New York Stock Exchange has told regulators it wants to drop out of the national system that supplies brokerages and data vendors with
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      196 21 SYDNEY Share price has fallen 122% since Feb 10 to A 520.79 Bloomberg RUPERT Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp, the world's fourth largest media company, has sold 2.7 million common shares in the company in the last
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      310 21 SAN FRANCISCO NYT DRIVEN by strong sales of its Athlon microprocessors. Advanced Micro Devices Inc posted first-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were nearly double even Wall Street's revised estimates. Although Advanced Micro said last week that it expected to report sales of more
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      384 21 FRANKFURT People are leaving despite offer of extra bonuses, equity Bloomberg DRESDNER Kleinwort Benson is losing bankers, traders and analysts around the world following the failed purchase of Dresdner Bank AG by Deutsche Bank AG, raising pressure on Dresdner to find a new partner.
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      328 21 BRUSSELS FT THE European Banking Federation has warned the US Federal Reserve that new financial services legislation discriminates against European banks and makes it harder for them to continue operating in the US. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill opens up the US banking sector
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      37 19 CHRISTIE'S The Imperial Sale Yuanmingyuan Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Auctions: Hong Kong, 30 April 1 May 2000 at the JW Marriott Hotel t Viewing in Singapore: A Fine and Rare Copper-red and Underglaze-blue-Decorated Meiping
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      243 22  -  SGZ Derivatives Traflkagßeports fflngapnno fwitov Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stockmarket finished higher yesterday, boosted by an onrush of interest in banking counters in the afternoon. Conversely, the electronics sector fell 3.24 per cent, spooked by the shocking 7.1 per cent overnight plunge on
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      211 22  -  MSCX Taiwan fatores Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index (TWSE) continued its downward spiral for the third day in a row, dropping 248.79 points or 2.51 per cent to 9,662.6 points. As is the case for this week,
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      244 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil markets dipped yesterday as dealers took profits from a rally spurred by signals that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) might alter output volumes to defend a price band target. North Sea benchmark Brent was 32 US cents weaker at
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      323 22 Reuters London THE euro weakened broadly early yesterday after the European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates steady at its regular policy meeting. While the ECB's decision to leave its key refinancing rate unchanged at 3.50 per cent for now had been widely expected, the ECB's policy announcement
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      2821 23 HONGKONG AFP PlhngSeng -***** HONGKONG share prices slipped 1.4 per cent yesterday following overnight losses on Wall Street and especially the high-tech Nasdaq Index, dealers said. "With no fresh news, the market follows the declines on Wall Street," said Patrick Yiu, research
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      983 23 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index +Ll7 CHINA'S B shares closed up solidly yesterday as a meeting in Shanghai on the development of the hard currency market triggered hopes of possible official market-boosting measures, brokers said. The Shanghai stock exchange convened the meeting of local and Shang-hai-based foreign brokerages yesterday
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      383 23 AFP QWPlnfcx -248.79 TAIWAN share prices fell 2.5 per cent yesterday with sentiment weakening after another plunge on the Nasdaq overnight, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 248.79 points to 9,662.60, following a 1.6 per cent decline in the previous session. "The bourse was hit
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      2023 23 TOKYO AFP □llikkaag -30*7* SHARE prices in Tokyo tumbled 1.5 per cent yesterday with high-priced Internet issues dragged down by a plunge in the technology-heavy US Nasdaq composite, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Average fell 306.79 points to end at 20,526.42, offsetting the
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      151 24 H Today's investment opportunity is not just i n I.T. It's in i I.Q. S .>. ,> "-■> '''^i^Hfalife a v.; y^s j j n FUND A New.Economy is emerging. An economy driven by knowledge rather than just pure information. Dynamic groundbreaking companies in knowledge driven industries like information technology,
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      421 25 AFP, AFX-Asia P Composite Index -6.75 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday due to continued foreign selling of selected blue chips amid a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 6.75 points to
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      600 26 AFP nOnwateMg *<137 INDONESIAN share prices closed up 0.1 per cent in mostly rangebound trade yesterday amid buying interest in selected blue chips, dealers said. A dealer at a regional brokerage said falls in Telkom and Indosat on the back of their decline in the US weighed on the
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      286 26 AFP OMBE-M -3174 NEW Zealand stocks closed down 1.6 per cent yesterday following falls in US stocks. The NZSE-40 Capital Index closed on its low, down 34.74 points at 2,064.28. Turnover was light at NZ579.7 million. Telecom Corp had the biggest impact, falling 20 NZ cents to NZ$9.2O. —AFP
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      528 26 AFP QAnOrdmu-iu -48.7 THE benchmark Australian Stock Exchange All Ordinaries Index was 48.7 points lower, or 1.55 per cent, at 3,064.7. The Standard and Poors/Australian Stock Exchange 200 Index was 49 points lower or 1.56 per cent at 3,099.7. The All Industrials dropped 91.9 points to 5,449.9. The All
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      259 26 AFP □Compositelndex -1&59 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 1.1 per cent yesterday due to a weak peso and a sharp fall on Wall Street, brokers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index lost 18.59 points to close at 1,725.98. Turnover rose to 3.35 billion shares worth 1.1 billion pesos. —AFP
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      884 28 CEO hits out at rivals' short-term approach to shareholder value Bloomberg [LONDON INVESTORS don't know what to make of Peter Bra beck. Since taking the helm at Nestle SA in June 1997, he's boosted profit by 13 per cent and been rewarded with a
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      2364 29  -  CORINNE KERK meets the enterprising people behind the Internet cafes that are sprouting up all over Singapore CORINNE KERK MALCOLM OOI THEY'RE all over the island now, growing at an almost alarming rate. But a few years ago, who would have thought cybercafes (or Internet cafes) were going
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        665 30  -  [•'aa the cuff IT may appear to be controlling everything in today's world, bat leave humanity out of the equation and there will be little more than a virtual fntnre ahead of ns jaime ee I HAD a conversation with my
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          108 30 KIDS say the darndest things. A family found an injured bird and tried to nurse it back to health. The bird was soon on its way to recovery but unfortunately, it hopped onto a window ledge, lost its balance and plunged to its death. The children
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          34 30 WORDS can have so many different meanings, as these anagrams show: Dormitory Dirty Room Evangelist—Evil's Agent Desperation—A Rope Ends It Slot Machines Cash Lost in 'em Mother-in-law —Woman Hitler
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          37 30 EVER wonder why you're always tired at work? It must be because you've been: Jumping to conclusions Running down the boss Beating around the bush Running around in circles Passing the buck Climbing the ladder
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        1630 31  - Inspirational menus... and the joys of Quag's WORLD GOURMET SUMMIT Great cooking is all about daring to be different, yet striving for harmony. And about surprising the diner along the way, as tan su ten finds out during an unforgettable week of feasting TAN SU YEN IT HAS been a
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        573 32  -  CINEMA Real life catches up with reel life for the cast of the intergalactic television series Galaxy Quest By 1 Susan Tsang Showing at Cathay, Eng Wah, Golden Village and Shaw cinemas. Rated PG. YOU'VE heard of fans who can rattle off the entire
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        346 32  -  TOURISM ilic BTA is leading a drive to promote sport as one of Britain's greatest tourist attractions By 1 Koh Huiting BRITAIN is known for its culture, countryside and deep-rooted heritage, which is what most people visit it for. However, sports is also a major draw,
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        1076 33  -  The films of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf may be somewhat abstract, but they reflect a surreahsm that, he tells susam tsang, 'has legs on the floor and hands reaching the sky' SUSAN TSANG Mohsen Makhmalbafs The Silence will be screened at 9.15pm tonight at Grand Prince. See Box
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        524 33  -  synopses ot Singapore international Film Festival movies being screened today Compiled by Aaron Lye Crazy English (PG) —Zhang Yuan (China) Grand Prince, United Artists Beach Road, 7:oopm, 90mins Tickets: Available Zhang Yuan takes a direct approach to his subject Li Yang, China's most famous motivational speaker—filming him speaking
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        966 35  -  He tomb has some essential tips for those visiting wine growers for the first time N K YONG THE FOLLOWING suggestions are offered to those who, if they are like me when I first visited wine growers, are totally ignorant regarding the dos and don'ts of cellar
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      207 29 Gallic gall: -1 the latest challenge from France el e Galaxy Quest: when reel life becomes reallife EL Gourmet Summit: Walsh at Club Chinois EL3 B iriTTir mi i irrr n ——r———i m mtmmmmmmmmmammmmmmm 1 I'. 7 H KW .Si:A.SOX IGSSSSStSSiSI Wm^mu S|.l ,11." Art in'.|>l r I n <|
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      72 30 CAST YOUR VOTE: Go to the BT Online website (business-times.asial.com. sg) and take part in the interactive poll based on this column. RESULTS OF THE LAST POLL: What does the chewing gum ban say about Singapore? We are a clean and tidy country 24.7 per cent We have always been
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      346 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 1 Determination with which we BB MB Ml MB BB 9 Fashionable young bird loses p j j a kilo (4) 11 Nobly involved with English queen who lost her head (6) 12 Drama writer barred for the Hi j j very young (7) Hf ~I I llfll
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      428 40  -  By\ Ling Su Ann YOU'VE heard of financial planning portals for the man in the street. Now here's theplanner.com, which claims to be the first business-to-business financial planning portal. www.theplanner.com aims to be the one-stop shop for the 1,300 certified financial planning professionals and 34,000
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        752 37  -  I-\i comment YOUR MONEY Online fand distributors may offer lower fees but the ball is still firmly in the big boys' court genevieve cua AT first flush, the news that two online financial services companies will offer unit trusts with substantially discounted upfront fees seemed
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        490 37  -  JLISIDEIIIEIIZ23 By. Robert Halili The writer is director of Asian Ownership Research at Primark THE Singapore sentiment ended in semibullish territory for the third consecutive week, with the index closing at +40.9 points, down slightly from the previous week's close of +45.6.
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        488 37 INVESTORS looking for stock picks should look at companies where purchases by directors and substantial shareholders are accounting for a large proportion of their shares' trading volume. This method has been especially effective in the Hongkong market even for companies where directors' purchases are accounting for as little
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        889 37 STOCK IT: JIT to rise on earnings boost from telecom business while OUB's e-b&nk venture is seen to expand customer base JIT Originally a producer of computer peripherals, JIT Holdings is refashioning itself as a contract manufacturer for telecommunications products. IDEAglobal.com
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        713 38  -  A new firm Netresearch.com aims to help the small retail investors via its Web site, by providing opinions on small to mid-cap stocks, oeneviete cua finds out more GENEVIEVE CUA IF YOU've gotten burned pursuing a hot stock tip from one of the numerous online chat
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        780 39  -  UK research reports show it pays to invest in stocks rather than let money languish in deposit accounts, shxvtambja details why unit trusts are a good starting point SHIV TANEJA The writer is with Standard Poor's Fund Services in London. For more information on Standard Poor's
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        531 39  -  Look beyond current volatility as Asia, especially Japan, will offer high returns: SSB Citi By\ Genevieve Cua IF stock markets' volatility is making you nervous, hang in there. Asian markets, particularly Japan, will continue to generate double-digit returns, says Eric Swats, SSB Citi Asset Management
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      280 41 Bridge News News, Reuters PANAMAXES rates were mixed in the Atlantic and the east, although so far rates held steady in the Middle East. Capesize rates remained strong in the east, but uncertain in the Atlantic. Biffex continued to firm, rising 20 points across the board, helped by
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      286 41 sn iSMMMI »n a <■/- y CWT Distribution 0.99 a03 202 Chuan Hup 0J9 0.01 893 Cosco Investment 0.19 -0.01 74 FraMit Links 0.26 -0.01 170 08 Holdings 0.69 -0.01 9 Ml Sun Hup 0.72 0.01 36 MC HoWngs-HK —5.60 unci) 0 Jaye Holdings 0.17 -0.01 208 KeppeiCorp
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      666 41  -  PSA 1999 RESULTS Growth aided by rebounding Asian economies, PSA's overseas operations By 1 Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The PSA Group announced an 18 per cent increase in net profit before tax to $1,103 billion for 1999, helped by the rebound
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      366 41 AFP [SUVA] The Fiji government was seeking parliamentary approval for funds to bail out the country's financially stricken shipyard. Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry sought approval for 3 million Fiji dollars (557.69 million) to clear the mortgage on Shipbuilding Fiji Ltd held by the ANZ
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      185 41  -  Fromi Alec Almazan in Manila LOCAL beer and food conglomerate San Miguel Corporation is set to establish a logistics and port complex south of Manila. The complex which is estimated to cost between 8 billion pesos and 10 billion pesos will house world-class
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      192 41 AP [ZAMBOANGA, Philippines] A boat bound for Malaysia with scores of illegal passengers capsized in the southern Philippines, killing at least 56 people, officials said yesterday. As many as 65 others were missing and feared dead. Local fishermen helped rescue 79 people, including 19
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      262 41 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation will continue to seek out business opportunities abroad, said PSA chairman Dr Yeo Ning Hong. With a target of one-third of the PSA Group's business emanating from its international business ventures, Dr Yeo says the PSA has looked at more than
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        798 42  -  Selva Kumar THE English Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court's decision that an exclusion clause in a bill of lading did not protect the carrier for misdelivering goods against forged bills of lading. The court refused to extend
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      293 42 PACE ECL 4 •AM. 3 ECU line 6 Accord 8 ESPUnes 12 Aftrenfciel 13 6 Appetnlup 5 F °o«flSun 8 AsiaOCL 13 FrtLin,ls 13 Austral 8 C L nk A torn* 13 t martrans 6 BtangMas 8 tt BSA Global 12 BTL 13 WoryKav —v* s tarn
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        195 54 Apr 20 New Zealand: Market Holiday, Stock Exchange Closes at Noon. Denmark: Maundy Thursday. Philippines: Maundy Thursday. Apr 21 Denmark: Good Friday. France: Good Friday. Germany: Good Friday. Thailand: Market Holiday. New Zealand: Good Friday. Hong Kong: Good Friday. Indonesia: Good Friday. Philippines: Good Friday. Singapore: Good Friday.
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        783 54 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 based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        466 54 Crt,, 180 Max 9912 0.7 15.9 0.10 90 0.06 u &»siduc i«h ihiaMua J«aiw«nt No atoOM E25 3 0 5 0 30 DmHty Wit* awihiiw Aw 9(7j 0J 0.9 0.06 38 0.03 *£2 380 Max 995.5 0.8 17.9 0.09 87 0.07 tt»l %W M/M M/M WW
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        519 55 Talks with prospective buyers of Airbus superjumbo going well Bloomberg ISA INT NAZAIRE, France] Airbus Industrie will definitely build the proposed 600seat A3XX airliner, said Philippe Camus, chief executive of Aerospatiale Matra, and the only question is when production will start. Mr Camus, who
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        279 55 AFP [LONDON] The venture capital firm which plans to buy the bulk of the ailing British Rover car group from German automaker BMW hinted yesterday that it will axe thousands of workers in one fell swoop. Alchemy Partners said it believed a
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        386 55 First joint airline effort to gain better bargaining clont with suppliers Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Scandinavian Airlines System and their Star Alliance partners aim to create an exchange to buy supplies online, the first joint airline effort to gain better bargaining
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        215 55 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian government has asked Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) to cut fares between Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on Borneo Island, a Transport Ministry official said yesterday. The request comes amid newspaper reports that the
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        565 55 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US National Transportation Safety Board called for cockpit video recorders in all commercial planes, saying many recent accidents could have been solved more quickly with the devices. "The safety board is today recommending the Federal Aviation Administration
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        1953 55 CITY atGMT ETA FLIGHT ETD S***** 2335 AMaM« BA7381 1930 BA7382 2055 FakaokJ S0969 1530 S0990 0110 1,30 .0«2 2055 Gmh«Z1KM $0603 WIO C2352 0910 C2351 2045 _S0604 1020 $0229 2230 Haaoi VWS0741 1310 VNS0740 M10 Aatstarta* K108W MB 0130 TM07 T&4M $Q24 2335 M995 2155
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      88 51 1M RICKMERS-LINIE Agent: Hapag-Ltoyd (S) Pie Lid B rrakbulk -Oversize 200 Cantonment Road #08-02 Southpoint Project Cargo •Container Singapore *****3 Heavy-lift e Regular Break-Bulk Project-Service Services to: 2 US-Gulf East-Coast (Houston, New Orleans, Savannah, Camden, Baltimore) Europe Med (Alexandria, Savona, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, UK) Interasia (Haiphong, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dalian,
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      44 51 MITROPORT SHIPPING SDN. BHD. I SINOKOR MERCHANT it >««■<• <2000p#n ik»«. I MARINE CO LTD utoj-usitH/mi/tw he NNHI iaSßi|>ip^ FARWIDE SNIPPING AGENCIES PTE LTD EXPORT M: 221-M22 (S Ums) F«: 226-1514 ML: POtT KIANC SIM: SINGAK)tI HUG: HONG KONG USN: UtSAN PUS: fUSAN KWT: KWANGYANG
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      54 51 SHIPPING* WAREHOUSING IdM: Singapore Loading DuK Man lo Sal (BATAMIMX) I/UI) Accepting KTL/Ccaivertianal/Pltiject/Heavy IJft Cargo Reefer Container thrtaa: Singapore Loading Moru Wed &Fn (BATAMINDO IT) Accepting Heavy Lift Cago T«fc 227 0322 Fax: 222 9330 i J m u| ,t_ |&J MiOMNO It VWINVM| rlt LW 7A fapH ltd la|n|
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      878 52 SSAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD 72 tasM Im4, #04-01 to 03, Un««p«r« *****1 MAM UNI/OUTWARD: S3? Ml INWARD (MDh 437 2360 MfOCT STATUS (DH>h 437 2371 MVINTOtT (MOh 437 2420 VMilto kttp//nn.Nß«d*ra.(M CR NO. **********00 BOOKINGS UNI: 535 6266 (Celia/Jessica/Mei Chon/Jettynn/Dora/Honim) nn3ZMEi3ESEEM 8 SIGS/WEEKLY I IHHI.H.'.WM H!« 3SIGS/WKKIY Ivcsa I vot
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      750 52 SIN TO SRI LANKA, INDIA, CANADA, US/EC/GULF, MEXICO WG SI MT SMI jg W (M M» HM WTI <*t SAY WEW W MOM NOWHPT«/OOS4 09/04 15/04 11/04 70/04 30/04 75/04 07/0$ W9L MM. 10/00 11/0* 14/00 IQ/00 73/00 ?7/Q> —UMBLfIBt a4/o< »/os ls/os i;/os mos ??/os 02/0* os/M Pl/Q7 Qi/o;
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      567 53 mKmBMMEnBmM vessel voy sin maa sin TIGER STAR 790N 14 15*04 2023/04 28^29/04 TIGER RHYTHM 791N Ifr 19/04 24-27/04 02 03/5 TIGER BRIDGE 792N 21-22/04 27 3004 o^o6/05 TIGER METRO 793N 2&26,04 0104/05 09-1005 TIGER STAR 794N 2fr29/04 04 07,05 12 13WJ5 TIGER RHYTHM 795N 02-03/05 08-11/05 16-17/05 I" VESSEL
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      936 53 JV FREIGHT LINKS EXPRESS Tel: *****11 Fax: *****77 E-mail: flesin@singnet.com.sg DIRECT CONSOLIDATION SERVICE TO •OSAKA/NAGOYA *LAEM CHA BANG -LAE/PORT MORESBY •PASIR GUDANG «CEBU ADELAIDE/BRISBANE •TAICHUNG/KAOHSIUNG SHANGHAI/XING ANG *MAHE •INCHON HAIPHONG/PHNOM PENH «YANGON SEMARANG/BELAWAN SUVA/NOUMEA MALTA FOR BOOKING: *****51/3/6/60/61/62/67/68/69/79 PROJECT SHIPMENT A HEAVYUFT CARGO Bobby Lee *****71 bobby@flesin.com.sg Lawrence Lim *****78
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      134 54 J l ~<Sbfe 12I0E LEGEND: lisued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm A Showers R a j n Temperature Wind direction and speed in knots m Weather w Cloudy Day t><3 Hazy Sea Conditions Wind speed symbols I slight. < 12m 0 Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light
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      168 55 INFORMAL RATE AGREEMENT (IRA) FAR EAST/MIDDLE EAST EMERGENCY BUNKER SURCHARGE (EBS) OF USDIOO/TEU Arising from a recent review, the Member Lines of the Informal Rate Agreement (IRA) wish to announce that the Emergency Bunker Surcharge (EBS) will be increased to USDIOO per 20' and USD2OO per 40' with effect from
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      85 56 CoKCjrattdations J to our Alliance Partner :.V,V. 1 •t.• "ji v .'V- AAM m A I Shell International Trying and Shipping Company Ltd. On the occasion of the Naming of m IT *i J_ Mm.v. Oscilla -t A A i AAAA 1/1 Annl /liilil I*+ jnLllill iUVA/ PI ks%-A% ■-'*■>
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