The Business Times, 21 April 2000

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) WStL2OW9 85c SIN GAPORE Internet: http. business-times.asial com.sg/ FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 2000
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    65 1 □m (+21.36) ■PVBT-SRI U 787.31 (+11.04) □SHISCI FDTDBES 28U0 (+5.00) STOCK HASKET INDICES Thursday Chance KLSE COUP 8W17 -LSI NIKKEI 18JHJ2 -127 JO HANG SENG 1SJ67.14 -M.06 SET INDEX ____JW.48___-1.74 JAKARTA COUP _B*4® +116 MANILA OOMP Owed TAIPEI WPI 9.109.06 +4.flJ SEOUL COMP 76L26 *117 CLSA CHINA B
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    74 1 FOKEX BATES US* SI US$ 1JM MM 2.979 EUBO(UB$/SS/E) 0.838 Lttl DM 2986 MIS YEN 194.7 M19 «M 3-890 9.446 HKS 7.788 1218 BAHT 3753 9046 BUPIAH 7J41 9.021 •SttOWOuntU FUME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 Kl'ALA U r MPT'R 7.67 JAKARTA J8.Q8 BANGKOK J.M MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 830 TAIPEI 7.84
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    Lock icon Value of SGX shares not determinable yet
    543 1  -  Number of new shares not decided yet, says SGX; reports say {prey market value of existing shares soaring By R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Traders who bought Singapore Exchange (SGX) shares on the grey market have been warned that they are buying something whose value
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    Lock icon No change in price of SingTel's Time stake: Halim
    430 1  -  Bat Sing Tel says whole deal is subject to negotiations pending due diligence From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur SINGAPORE Telecommunications' tentative purchase of a 14.48 per cent stake in Malaysia's Time Engineering Bhd remains at RM6 per share despite the
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    Lock icon Very bankable: S'pore bankers see generous pay rise
    725 1  -  Some banks as much as doubled their remuneration over 1998 By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Directors of Singapore banks had it good last year, with some banks doubling their remuneration over 1998. The only exception was OCBC Bank, where total remuneration fell
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    Lock icon March exports up 17%, a lad below expectations
    513 1  -  Economists see angle-digit growth towards year-end By\ Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Thanks to robust regional demand, Singapore's non-oil domestic exports grew 17.1 per cent year-on-year in March but this was still slightly below economists' expectations. For the first quarter of the year, non-oil
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      82 1 imnPE Exec Lifestyle The Art Deco legacy in Singapore. EL 1 rW| f Jaime Ee: I am not Ananova, hear me roar... SL 2 wwr-* Exec Money Time to look at India funds. KM 7 Analysts mixed on SingTel's outlook. Off Top stories Bus, train fares up from June 1
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      25 1 Pull text of SGX statement, Pg 5 igji H|V— 1 jsBQ TTTTisllTBfiiT»i^lWffT B ffTflßMßfffßSiSfciTwCi7Mi3Bi Ik 4 irVijF How to profit from Nasdaq's volatility Executive Money.
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      Lock icon BG Lee: Unions' CPF call understandable
      323 2  -  Faster restoration of cut not ruled out if economy stays strong From Audrey Tan in 110 Chi Minh City THE Singapore government will keep faith with the unions, and fully restore the Central Provident Fund (CPF) cut within five years and maybe faster if
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Bye-bye, all that pie in the sky
        318 2 FROM the Internet comes this refrain in the wake of the recent crash in US high-tech stocks. It's supposed to be sung to the nostalgic tune of Don McLean's classic '70s anthem, American Pie: A long, long week ago lean still remember how
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        Lock icon High time
        58 2 WITH the return of better times in the property market come thoughts of leisure. All the staff from the CB Richard Ellis property consultancy are headed for Phuket over the long Good Friday weekend, on company subsidy. Lucky them. Said one staff though: "But it's after a two-year
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        Lock icon Just say I'm over 21
        69 2 SUDDENLY, it seems directors' ages are in the news and not everyone wants to disclose when they were born. One company secretary, when pressed for the information, said: "They're shy; it's a little sensitive, how old they are." The present spotlight on ages follows a
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        Lock icon For some, it's time's up
        78 2 HERE'S hoping that there weren't any superstitious people at the press launch of a certain travel Web site's new initiative on Tuesday. This is because a blue wall clock with the company's logo on it was given out together with the press kit. For some
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      Lock icon Bus, train fares up from June 1
      501 2  -  Increase will be 5-20 cents; rise in taxi fares also expected later this year Reports by Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] In what should be good news for transport stock investers, bus and train fares are going up by 5 to 20 cents from June
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      Lock icon Oil companies reduce petrol pump prices
      311 2 7 cents down; S'pore Petroleum first, then G&hex and Shell [SINGAPORE] After what seemed like an unstoppable barrage of escalations over the past several months, pump prices are softening. It started with Singapore Petroleum Co, the smallest player here, which lowered petrol prices by
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      Lock icon Arcasia Land to develop $600m, 15-ha Science Park III
      357 2  -  It'll house infocomms and life-sciences industries By Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE) Arcasia Land will develop another technology park to cater to the infocomms and lifesciences industries, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lim Swee Say said yesterday. Mr Lim, who is
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon MCL turns Robertson Quay project to full condo
      508 3  -  It decides against mixed project because of too mnch re tail space in area By Carol Eng BECAUSE of too much shop space in the area, MCL Land is converting its Robertson Quay mixed project into a full private condominium instead. The
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      Lock icon Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan to arrange PSA Corp issue
      216 3 Major step to prepare for access to domestic, global mtrkittg chairman PORT operator PSA Corporation yesterday said it has appointed US banks Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and JP Morgan as the arrangers for its proposed Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) programme.
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      Lock icon SIA to launch IPO roadshows for 2 units on Monday
      147 3 Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd (SIA) said yesterday it would commence roadshows for the initial public offerings (IPOs) of two of its subsidiaries, Singapore Airport Terminal Services (SATS) and SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) on April 24. The statement from the carrier
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      Lock icon No Air NZ 'A' shares for foreigners
      299 3 Talk not trne; govt has no intention to rhango mles Bloomberg [WELLINGTON] New Zealand's government said it won't allow Air New Zealand's Class A shares to be owned by foreign investors. Air New Zealand, the nation's No.l carrier, has Class A and B
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      Lock icon SIA: flying from strength to strength
      755 3  -  hock ibbt mam conrad raj THINGS have never looked better for Singapore Airlines. Having recently completed the purchase of 49 per cent of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic airline and also having succeeded in getting approval from the New Zealand government to buy 25 per
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu Bank's Q1 loss halved to 175m baht
      432 5  -  Income surges 75.5%; it aims to break even on operating income basis this year By Carol Eng DBS Thai Danu Bank's (DTDB) net loss in the first quarter of this year halved to 174.7 million baht (Ss7.B million) compared to
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      Lock icon NEL in tie-up with Taiwan's LiteOn
      299 5  -  This will extend its supply chain in Asia, Mexico and Enrope By Carol Eng NATSTEEL Electronics (NEL) has tied up with Taiwan's LiteOn Enclosure to expand its supply chain capabilities. In a statement yesterday, NEL said the joint venture will come under the name
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      Lock icon Mandarin Oriental buys Rafael for US$142m
      274 5 Mandarin will own 9 hotels in Asia, 7 in North American and 4 in Enrope Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Mandarin Oriental International, an operator of luxury hotels in Asia, the US and London, has agreed to buy deluxe hotel chain Rafael Group for U*****.5 million in
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      Lock icon SGX looking at strategic tie-ups with other bourses
      190 5 THE new for-profit structure of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) allows it to respond to opportunities to tie up with other exchanges and the SGX is considering strategic alliances with like-minded partners both within and outside the region, the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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      Lock icon Full SGX statement on trading of its shares
      652 5 ORDINARY shares ("Member Shares") in the Singapore Exchange have reportedly been recently traded for up to $15,000 per share. Intending purchasers of Member Shares should note that through a proposed future offering ("Offering"), Member Shares will be diluted. An adjustment mechanism will
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon ST Index up 21 points, but broader market languishes
      535 4  -  STOCKS v.sreenivasan ARISE to a new high in non-oil domestic export in March did little to spur market interest yesterday as Singapore stocks sleepwalked through a lacklustre session while investors stayed sidelined ahead of the long weekend. The 21.36-point gain by
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      Lock icon Bonvest wrt: decent buy going by the numbers
      180 4  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy OTHER than the top blue chips, liquidity in most other stocks has dried up considerably. The recent cracks in Nasdaq is one reason; while as far as the retail player is concerned, the shorter settlement period has
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      Lock icon ST Engg: next test is $2.45
      245 4  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of ST Engineering rose sharply yesterday and finished as the session's most actively traded stock. ST Engg shares closed up 13 cents or 5.7 per cent at $2.43, the day high, after opening at the day low
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      122 4 TOTAL Automation will be trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 0.50 cent) on May 5. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is May 10. Date payable is May 22. LEE Kim Tah Will be trading ex-dividend (first and final dividend of 0.60 cent) on July
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      Lock icon Euro plumbs new depths against greenback, S$
      473 4  -  ■flMHHBMHMjJLaJLlJaMjJLiB CURRENCIES larry wee THE euro was forced to news lows versus both the US and Singapore dollars in late Wednesday trading, while traders described as good-sized interest in the greenback forced the Indonesian rupiah to a six-month low in Asian trading yesterday.
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      442 4 Stock* Volume STErtgg 10c 22,487,000 DBS Land 7,761.000 NOL 7,494,000 SingTel 15c 7,398.000 ChuanHup 20c 6,251.000 ParkwayLab 5c 5,203,000 Fastech USlOc 4,946,000 JSHUS5C500 4,081,500 AirOcean5c 4,069,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 3,952,000 Stocks STEngg 10c 53,535,529 Chart Semiconductor 26c 50,135,414 DBSGrp 37,924,167 PacificCentury 37,657,320 UOB 35,854,001 SIA 30,934,489 SingTel 15c 17.838,765 DBS
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon US Feb electronics orders jump 40%
      276 6  -  By Jennifer Lien NEW orders for electronic components in the US bounced back in February, jumping 40 per cent year-on-year against January's revised 10.4 per cent drop. January's preliminary figure, released last month, was a negative 11.3 per cent. All year-on-year comparisons are in
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      Lock icon Don't judge us by black sheep, say Singapore jewellers
      374 6  -  By Tay Shi'an SINGAPORE is still a good place to buy jewellery, according to the Singapore Jewellers Association (SJA). But the image of the local jewellery trade has taken a hard knocking in recent weeks, thanks to negative letters and reports
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      Lock icon Viet-S'pore industrial park may turn around within two years
      654 6  -  Flagship project expected to have a 'critical mass' of tenants within a year Reports from Audrey Tan in Ho Chi Mirth City SINGAPORE'S flagship project in Vietnam, the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP), is seeing a pickup in the number of
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      Lock icon S'pore firms in Vietnam for long haul
      557 6 SINGAPOREAN businessmen still see potential in Vietnam's economy, even as they are frustrated by immediate difficulties. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday in summing up his four-day visit. "Singapore companies are here for the long term. In the short term, they're
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      Lock icon SingTel to invest $60m in e-content centres to meet demand
      563 6  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecom yesterday announced it will invest $60 million in a bigger e-content centre in Comcentre and four others around the region, as it officially opened its $10 million e-content centre in Telepark, Tampines. Such centres
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      Lock icon Are unit trust managers more likely to succeed?
      883 6  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore I REFER to the articles "Cheaper funds? Not just yet" and "Let your savings grow" (BT, April 14). It has become fashionable in recent months to extol the virtues of putting your money into unit trusts, even to the
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      Lock icon HP partners online firms to offer printing via the Internet
      475 8 SAN FRANCISCO Company sees huge e-commerce opportunities for its printer business FT, Reuters HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP), moving to add e-commerce glamour to its US$lB billion (5530.6 billion) printer business, has alliances with seven companies that will offer printing services via the
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      Lock icon EU unions gather to block MCI-Sprint merger
      237 8 BRUSSELS FT UNIONS representing 7.5 million EU telecommunications and IT workers converged on Brussels on Wednesday to urge the European Commission to block MCI Worldcorn's US$l3O billion (Ss22l billion) merger with US rival, Sprint. They are concerned that the new company will dominate
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      Lock icon Chipping into the market
      66 8 [SEOUL] An employee of South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co showing 512 megabit dynamic random access memory chips in Seoul yesterday. The world's largest memory chip maker said it expects to market the new chips in 2001 with initial world demand estimated at Us2o million. Annual demand
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      Lock icon DoCoMo struggling with i-mode traffic
      339 8 mTOKYO The mobile Internet access provider is considering restraining sales FT NTT DoCoMo, Japan's leading mobile phone operator, is considering curbing sales of its popular i-mode mobile phone service after being unable to meet demand for Internet access. DoCoMo on Wednesday denied that it had
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      Lock icon In praise of irrational exuberance
      792 8  -  Tech Investors are helping to blaze new e-tralls, says MICHAEL LEWIS MICHAEL LEWIS Michael Lewis, the author of Liar's Poker and The New New Thing, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. IN its April 1 edition, the Economist published
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      Lock icon Sun ready to fuel startups with 2nd US$200m fund
      436 8 BEIJING Asian firms with sound business plans eligible; exec Reuters SUN Microsystems is ready to fuel startups, including some in Asia, with an additional US$2OO million (Ss34o million) of venture capital despite recent Nasdaq volatility, a senior company executive said yesterday.
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    • e Briefs
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        Lock icon Sumitomo Realty auctions on Yahoo site
        64 8 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese Internet portal Yahoo Japan Corp has agreed with Sumitomo Realty Development Co Ltd to hold real estate auctions on the Yahoo auction site from early next month. Yahoo said it has appointed Sumitomo Realty as its first selected merchant that would
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        Lock icon Sakura, NIT in TV-based Net banking
        98 8 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Sakura Bank Ltd and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corp, a unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp, will collaborate on TV-based Internet banking, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. As part of the alliance, NTT East will buy a 5 per cent
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        Lock icon Commerce One Q1 loss less than forecast
        92 8 Reuters [PALO ALTO] Commerce One Inc, a maker of software to link buyers and sellers on the Internet, on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss on an operating basis that was narrower than forecast as sales soared. Commerce One said that for the period
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        Lock icon Reuters launches Net delivery system
        68 8 Reuters [LONDON] Reuters Group pic said yesterday it had launched a state-of-the-art delivery mechanism for news products, making it easier for Web sites to publish its text, photos and video files. The Internet Delivery System enables the news and information company to deliver content in
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon DRB briefs investors on restructuring
      534 9 KUALA LUMPUR Fresh from its stake sale in Proton, it will focus on five main businesses Bloomberg DIVERSIFIED Resources Bhd met about 60 domestic fund managers yesterday to win investor support for its new business plans after the sale of its stake in Malaysia's biggest
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      Lock icon End of the road for Razaleigh ?
      757 9  - End of the road for Razaleigh ASEAN VIEW Politics has boon a series of setbacks for the Kelantan prince yang razali kassim POLITICS isn't politics if it's not without frustrations. No one knows this better than Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. The veteran Malaysian politician had spent time in the political wilderness
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      Lock icon Rich nations using e-commerce to keep developing nations poor: Dr M
      380 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP. Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that electronic commerce was a globalisation tool planned by rich nations to impoverish developing countries. "Modern trade through dotcom companies will make our local companies dysfunctional as dotcom
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Smooth road for UEM
        59 9 UNITED Engineers Malaysia rose 25 sen to RM9.75 following a tie-up with International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday to help jumpstart its Internet ventures. UEM's deal on the information superhighway will be handled by Teras Teknologi, which is slated for listing this year. UEM also plans
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        67 9 SAPURA Telecommunications dropped 70 sen to RM9.50 on the back of the weakness of Time Engineering's share price. Time fell 26 sen to RM4.54 yesterday 27 per cent below its peak of RM6.20 earlier this month. Sapura, which is a minority shareholder in two of Time's telco companies,
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        73 9  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh TELEKOM Malaysia and Tenaga Nasional the two largest companies in Malaysia enjoyed some buying support yesterday but it was not enough to shore up the market barometer. Telekom and Tenaga gained 10 sen each to close at RM12.80 and RM13.10 respectively How ever, the
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      Lock icon KL securities regulator to get more power
      225 9 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA'S Securities Commission will get more authority over the capital markets under proposed legal changes, reports said yesterday. Under wide-ranging amendments to the Securities Commission Act, it can initiate civil action and criminal proceedings against errant companies or shareholders on
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      Lock icon No decision yet on central bank chief: Dr M
      291 9 KUALA LUMPUR Change will not affect monetary policy, he says Reuters, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on yesterday that the government has not yet decided who will be named new central bank chief. "We still haven't decided,
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Rupiah falls on S&P downgrade, political tension
      608 10  -  Analysts expect Indon currency to weaken further next week to below 8,000 to US$l bY(W) Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta RISING political tension and a downgrade of Indonesia's sovereign debt by Standard Poors (S&P) combined to drive the rupiah to its lowest level in
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      Lock icon Siam Commercial posts 3rd quarterly profit in Q1
      270 10 BANGKOK Bloomberg SIAM Commercial Bank pel, the country's fourth-largest lender, posted its third consecutive quarterly profit, bolstered by wider interest rate margins. Siam Commercial earned 609 million baht (5527.2 million) in January-March, from a 222 million baht loss in the same period
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      Lock icon Court approves TPI management change
      537 10 BANGKOK Prachai to help Ferrier draw np rehab plan Bloomberg, AP, Reuters THAILAND'S Bankruptcy Court yesterday upheld a vote by creditors to install new management at Thai Petrochemical Industry pel (TPI), which was ruled insolvent last month. The ruling comes a day after creditors led
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      Lock icon Govt may not recap Bank Bali unless lawsuit is dropped
      480 10 JAKARTA AFX-Asia, AFP THE government can provide no guarantee it will recapitalise PT Bank Bali unless the institution's former owner, Rudy Ramli, withdraws a lawsuit against the state, Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governor Subarjo Joyosumarto told reporters at the National
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      Lock icon Jakarta replaces head of Suharto probe team
      365 10 JAKARTA AP AFP, Reuters FACING mounting pressure to take stronger action against ex-president Suharto, the Indonesian government said yesterday it had replaced the head of the team investigating corruption allegations against the former dictator. A spokesman for the attor-ney-general's office said the removal
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      Lock icon You can help economy recover, Gus Dur tells Hakka convention
      348 10 JAKARTA AFP PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday called on members of the Hakka Chinese ethnic group in Southeast Asia to help contribute to the recovery of Indonesia's economy. "I hope that Hakka people can help efforts for a recovery of the
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      Lock icon Indonesian protesters throw eggs at S'pore embassy
      145 10 ■JAKARTA AP DEMONSTRATORS threw eggs at the embassy of Singapore yesterday to protest against allegedly unfair business practices by Singaporean businessmen on Indonesia's Bintan island. About 60 students gathered in front of the building to accuse Singaporean investors of buying plots of land
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon Temasek to buy 10% of CyberCity Holdings
      659 11  -  S'pore government arm becomes third largest shareholder of investment holding company Reports froti ww i Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong TEMASEK Holdings has become the third largest shareholder in CyberCity Holdings shortly after Singaporean businessman Allan Ng emerged as the second largest shareholder.
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      Lock icon 'Sense of crisis' drives Qiao Shi's son
      1091 11 PEOPLE SIMON Jiang was doing all right in the US, helping to manage US$25 billion (Ss43 billion) worth of funds as the deputy chief of the United Nations' pension fund. As if that was not enough, he counts among his cachets a PhD
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      Lock icon China's Cinda in asset-sale talks with foreigners
      297 11 BEIJING Reuters CHINA Cinda Asset Management Corp is in talks with dozens of foreign investors on selling them non-performing assets it has taken over from state banks, Cinda president Zhu Dengshan was quoted yesterday as saying. "Some negotiations have been concluded with detailed
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      Lock icon Profit fall shows listing no cure-all for China banks
      521 11 SHANGHAI Lower '99 earnings for Shenzhen and Pndong Developement Bank Reuters CHINA'S two listed banks have reported lower 1999 earnings, boding ill for other banks in their scramble to list before the onslaught of competition comes with China's entry into the
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      Lock icon Faster China entry for investors
      215 11 HONGKONG They'll be able to bay Cinda's stakes of state enterprises AFX-Asia FOREIGN investors will soon be able to deal in non-performing assets of state-owned enterprises, the president of China Cinda Assets Management Cooperation, Zhu Dengshan, said yesterday. The Xinhua news agency quoted Mr Zhu
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      Lock icon A US$1.8m gleam in her eye
      38 11 [TAIPEI] A Christie's official yesterday demonstrating a pear-shaped diamond weighing 30.7 carat to be auctioned in 7 aipeifrom today to Sunday. The diamond is worth up to US$l.B million (Ss3.l million). AFP
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      Lock icon China easing rules for listing of high-tech firms on second board
      470 11 UHONGKONG Second board market expected to be launched this year AFP. AFX-Asia CHINA'S securities watchdog is sweeping away bureaucratic hurdles to make it easier for hi-tech companies to list on a second board market expected to be launched later
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Former UK banking watchdog is new LSE chairman
      289 12 LONDON Reuters THE London Stock Exchange (LSE) said yesterday it had hired former banking and telecoms watchdog Don Cruickshank as its new chairman, who confirmed that the LSE was in merger talks with Deutsche Boerse. Mr Cruickshank joins the LSE board immediately
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      Lock icon Investor group surprises with largest stake in Commerzbank
      399 12 FRANKFURT Group says 9.9% purchase is for financial purposes, not prelude to takeover FT A GROUP of German businessmen surprised the stock market on Wednesday by announcing that they had become the largest shareholders in Commerzbank, Germany's fourth biggest commercial bank. The
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      71 12 [TOKYO] Arianespace chairman and chief executive officer Jean-Marie Luton standing beside a replica of Ariane 5 rocket at a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. He announced that Japan Satellite Corporation (JSA T) has selected Arianspace to orbit its JCSA T-8 telecommunications satellite in late 2001. JCSA T-B's
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      Lock icon Tokyo may bar Goldman from next NTT share sale
      378 12 TOKYO FT, Bloomberg JAPAN'S Ministry of Finance (MOF) is considering barring Goldman Sachs, the US investment bank, from advising it on privatisations notably the next sale of government shares in dominant telecoms group NTT. At current prices the sale of one
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Fewer new claims for dole in US
        89 12 AP [WASHINGTON] The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in nearly 27 years, indicating that businesses are scrambling to find workers. The Labor Department said yesterday that 257,000 Americans filed new claims for
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        81 12 Reuters [LONDON] US electronics company Motorola Inc said yesterday that it would spend US$2 billion (553.4 billion) to develop a major silicon chip-making factory in Scotland that Hyundai built four years ago but never opened. It will buy the mothballed plant near Dunfermline, north
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        76 12 Bloomberg [LONDON] Glaxo Wellcome pic, the world's fourth-biggest drugmaker, said yesterday that first-quarter sales rose 12 per cent, boosted by demand for new asthma therapies such as Seretide and Aids medicines including Ziagen. Revenue rose to £2.13 billion (555.7 billion) from £1.9 billion
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        81 12 AFP [PARIS] France Telecom said yesterday that it would start negotiations to buy Britain's third-largest mobile phone operator Orange from Vodafone Air Touch once the current auction for British mobile licences ends. France Telecom and Orange are both candidates for a third-generation British mobile
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        82 12 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCOJ Apple Computer has reported earnings that handily beat analysts' estimates for its second fiscal quarter. Not counting a one-time gain from a stock sale, Apple reported earnings per share of 88 US cents. Analysts had expected 81 US cents, according to First
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      233 12 WASHINGTON Reuters FINANCIAL and development experts on Wednesday accused international lending institutions and the US of having inefficient and self-serving policies, saying politics hampered help for nations besieged by financial crises. Eisuke Sakakibara, former Japanese vice-fi-nance minister for international affairs, said: "The US would
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      691 13 Bat if market stagnates, growth could slow to 3.6% by summer, down from 4.6% last year NYT [NEW YORKJ Stock prices have regained some of their lost ground, but the enormous knock on wealth last week is likely to put the nation's
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      427 13 LONDON Aberdeen, Henderson fnnds increase liquidity Bloomberg MANAGERS of the two biggest UK mutual funds that concentrate assets in telecommunications, Internet and computer stocks are keeping higher levels of cash, betting that last week's market slump may be repeated. "We're going
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      712 13 LONDON Commuters have proved the key to success FT FROM Stockholm to Santiago, commuters now have access to a daily free-sheet produced by a Swedish company that claims it is doing for newspapers what McDonald's did for fast food. The success of Metro, the
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      348 12 NEWDELHI Demand expected to outstrip supply by 2003, says study Bloomberg INDIAN software companies from Wipro to HCL Technologies may face a shortage of technicians by 2003 if the country is not able to put out quality programmers at a faster rate, an
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      266 12 NEWDELHI AFP A GLOBAL animal rights group said on Wednesday that three leading US retailers Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic have agreed to stop using leather from India after a strong protest from international celebrities. Jason Baker, spokesman for the
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      218 12 NEW DELHI Bloomberg HCL Technologies Ltd, India's second-largest software developer by sales, said yesterday that profit for the fiscal third quarter ended March more than doubled, boosted by new orders. Profit for the three months ended March 31 surged 150 per
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      552 12 BOMBAY Bloomberg SALOMON Smith Barney, the securities arm of Citigroup, is expanding its India staff, betting on an increase in business in the world's second most populous country. The investment bank hired 13 sales, research and back office staff from Indosuez W
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      241 14  -  SGX Derivatives TmdhigReports MSCI Singapore Index Daphne Tay, Jardine Fleming THE Singapore stockmarket ended firmer yesterday lifted by buying in select blue chips namely UOB, Singapore Airlines and ST Engineering. Turnover was modest, however, as investors kept to the sidelines ahead of the long weekend.
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      293 14  -  MSCZ Taiwan fatores Kelly Loh Refco Singapore TAIWAN stocks ended the day moderately higher after a choppy session, which saw the Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index (Taiex) dip below the 9,000 support level before electronic shares recovered their losses caused by Nasdaq's
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      170 14 ENERGY REPORT Reuters WORLD oil prices drifted lower yesterday, a day after impressive gains spurred by strong products demand in the United States, the world's biggest oil consumer. Benchmark Brent crude was 17 US cents down at U5523.60 a barrel by 1300 GMT, below an
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      331 14 Reuters London THE euro was roundly beaten early yesterday, dangling perilously close to record lows against the US dollar it hit a day earlier, as the market's patience grew ever thinner about its bleak recovery prospects. Political turmoil in Italy after Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema's resignation on Wednesday
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      2876 15 HONGKONG AFP Q Hang Seng -60.06 HONGKONG share prices fell 0.4 per cent in cautious preholiday trade yesterday following the overnight decline on Wall Street, dealers said. "There is no major buying support following overnight falls on Wall Street", and ahead of Easter
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      975 15 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index jjJ6 CHINA B shares yesterday ended mixed, while domestic A shares made gains. The A share rise failed to lift Shenzhen's B share market into positive territory. The Shenzhen B Share Index fell 0.95 of a point, or 1.03 per cent, to 91.19 as
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      366 15 AFP QWP Index +4.65 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.1 per cent higher yesterday in lacklustre trading, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index edged up 4.65 points to 9,109.05, following a 2.2 per cent decline in the previous session. "The market was volatile and trading volume dropped
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      2011 15 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 22S -127J0 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday as investors locked in profits on high-tech issues just before the closing bell, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index lost 127.30 points to end at 18,959.32. But the Topix
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      446 16 AFX-Asia Q Composite Index -LO3 MALAYSIAN share prices closed lower after a volatile session on a lack of follow-through buying following Wall Street's falls and ahead of the Easter break in other major markets, dealers said. The KLSE Composite Index closed down 1.03
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      790 17 AFP Q SET Into -L 74 THAI stocks edged down 0.4 per cent yesterday with many investors sidelined ahead of the release of corporate results, dealers said. The SET Index closed down 1.74 points at 389.48. The SET 50 Index was down 0.19 point at 27.87. Volume was a
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      743 17 AFX-Asia PI Composite Index +OJO JAKARTA share prices yesterday closed mixed with a rebound in select big caps in the last minutes of trading driving the index back into positive territory after earlier falls on the weaker rupiah and political manoeuvring ahead of the annual General Assembly in August,
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      279 17 AFP QNZSE-40 +148 THE New Zealand sharemarket rose 0.5 per cent yesterday in a shortened session ahead of the Easter break, on strong volume of NZ574.2 million. The half-day session saw the NZSE-40 Capital Index rise 9.48 points to 2,012.42, after some adjustments for post-close trade. —AFP Km 20
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      581 17 AFP n AD Ordinaries -03 THE Australian Stock Exchange All Ordinaries Index closed 0.8 point lower at 3,041.5. The SP/ASX 200 Index ended 0.5 point higher at 3,069.7. The All Industrials was 3.9 points lower at 5,365.5, while the All Resources was 3.0 points stronger at 1,173.0. Volume was
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      311 17 AFP Q Composite Index +6J7 THE Composite Index rose 6.17 points to 761.25. Volume was 202 million shares, worth 1.9 trillion won. Kosdaq fell 0.98 point to 168.68. AFP Apr«) Mm Anam Semi ***** -300 Brain Tech 1230 -55 Central Bank 2250 95 ClwilConMn- *****0 3000 Da* Gu Bank
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      32 17 A master of cooking. Or one who just knows his carats The Manila market was closed yesterday Lunch Guide Your weekly guide to good food The New Paper Fastads, every Monday. fystacfs
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      1606 19  -  The Art Deco legacy in Singapore Next time you're in town, take a good look around you'll be surprised at how many buildings there are that reflect the Art Deco fg influence. ""J JOHN gee points out some of the more fjjflt'* notable examples Cover Story: The Art
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        735 20  -  OFFHrETarTiI What is the world's first virtual newscaster but brand new technology shaped in an old-fashioned package by MCPs who think they can create a perfect hnman being? jaime ee WELCOME to ananova.com. With a few flicks of an electronic paintbrush, a jiggling
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        840 21  -  WORLD GOURMET SUMMIT Tetsnya Wakuda and Pierre Herme brought the weeklong feasting to a perfect finish By Tan Su Yen LIKE good wine, some of the finer moments of the World Gourmet Summit which ended last weekend impressed with a long, memorable finish. Two chefs in particular,
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        703 22  -  CINEMA October Sky transcends the 'inspiring true story', formula to leave viewers with an enduring glow Susan Tsang ON THE surface, October Sky looks like a plodding TV movie an inspiring tale of reaching for the sky, literally, from a rural backwater, and beating all the
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        1305 24  -  don drqohart heads north for the lush green Mae Rim valley in Thailand, and loses himself in the Zen-like calm of the Regent Resort DON URQUHART AS FAR AS the eye can see, the land is dusty brown, parched by the dry-season sun to
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        284 24 Food in the north of Thailand comes with lots of chillies and sugar, bat no coconnt milk FOR A great many people, a trip to Thailand is as much about food as anything else. The resort's Thai restaurant Sala Mae Rim manages a skilful compromise between authentic Thai
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        685 24  -  INTERVIEW Raffles, Farqnhar shared an avid interest in plants and it led to some interesting disputes Aaron Lye THE BOOK is primarily about the flora and fauna discoveries of the Malay penin sula. So what does author John Bastin's The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings
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        806 25  -  Fund manager Sanjiv Duggal tells gemevieve cua why it makes sense to invest in the HSBC Indian Growth Fund GENEVIEVE CUA IF you've long sat on the fence on whether you should put some money into an Indian single-country fund, the latest Indian fund
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        251 25  -  By Genevieve Cua ASIAN equities excluding Japan should return between 15 and 20 per cent this year, with higher returns from countries like Taiwan and China of as much as 30 per cent, says HSBC Asset Management's associate director (equities) Richard Wong. The firm, however,
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        560 25  -  European sto€ks seen as more attractive now with recent Nasdaq correction Genevieve Cua AT a time when technology theme funds, and even single-country funds, have caught many people's fancy, you may well turn your nose up at a European equity unit trust.
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        415 25 UNIT TRUST/SECTOR (6 MONTHS 30AUG99-31MAROO) CHANGE BENCHMARK CHANGE Top 10 funds 1 Henderson Global Tech/Tech Global* ***** Wired Index! 61.37 2 UOB Uted Global Tech/Tech Global 83 61 Wired Index! 61.37 3 OCBC Savers India/EQ India 82 53 MSCI India 33 63 4 UOB United Global
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        679 26  -  Don't expect a quick turnaround in the telco's share price, reports teh hooi ling, but there are some bright spots on the horizon TEH HOOI LING SINGAPORE Telecom's share price performance has been rather dismal. In the last five years, it underperformed the Straits Times
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        1051 26  -  A disciplined plan ensures that yonr investments are diversified Nicholas Hinds The writer is managing director and head of regional sales of Invesco Asset Management Singapore Ltd HISTORY shows that successful investors achieve good returns by setting goals,
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        962 27  -  YOURImM.M'I Investors love the Internet far more than businesses or consumers do, and It's a matter of time before the tech bubble bursts kwek sing cher The writer was with the fund management industry before he joined a dotcom. He can be contacted through the Website,
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        801 27  -  By Robert Halili The writer is director of Asian Ownership Research at Primark STRONG buying continued among directors and substantial shareholders as the DBSSO index continued to trade at or below 700 points. Directors and substantial shareholders toted up purchases worth
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        909 27 SembCorp SEMBCORP Industries is breaking its Old Economy shackles with new acquisitions and online forays. IDEAglobal.com thinks its stock should shrug off its current weakness and move higher in coming months. SembCorp. the region's largest engineering group, saw its stock tumble 30 per cent
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        1176 28  -  When Wall Street took a dive last Friday, its impact was sorely felt in markets elsewhere, including Singapore where stocks received one of their worst thrashings on Monday. Although the Nasdaq has since recovered some of its losses, the Singapore market is still feeling the
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      139 29 Bridge News Reuters THE capesize sector of the dry cargo freight market continued to decline. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) lost nine points to 1,661, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 23 points to 2,281, the Baltic Handy Index shed four points to 1,178, but the Baltic Panamax Index
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      377 29  -  It will team up with Americana Ships to begin services from July 4 From David Hughes in London THE Grand Alliance (GA) container shipping consortium has reached a deal with Americana Ships to operate transatlantic services from July 4. Yesterday's announcement
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      290 29  -  From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi INDIA'S Cochin Port Trust (CoPT) is now trying to sort out some tender-related problems with P&O Australia Ports before giving it a privatisation project at the South Indian port. P&O is the lone bidder for the
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      93 29 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Shareholders of port operator Klang Container Terminal Bhd (KCT) approved its proposed merger with Klang Port Management Sdn Bhd and Kontena Nasional Bhd, Klang Container said in a statement. The New Straits Times newspaper said the merger would create the
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        905 30 Rising traffic and fares offset higher fuel prices to allow Delta, Southwest to post better-than-expected profits Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Higher fuel prices have squeezed firstquarter earnings at two major US airlines. Delta Air Lines, the third-largest US airline, and Southwest Airlines, the country's biggest discount carrier, however, still
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        197 42 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. United States: Good Friday. Apr 22 Hong Kong: Holy Saturday. Apr 23 Germany: Easter Sunday. Apr 24
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        763 42 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 mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indl cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        363 42 C«tM NO Ha 9912 0.4 0.4 0.09 90 0.05 OMSitr Water BnMw Ask UmmMum SottMtrt No*owE2S 2 0 1 0 3 0 380 Aw 986.9 0.2 13.4 0.07 31 0j03 him 380 Ma 991.4 0.9 17.9 0.09 72 0.06 M/ltl %tUU mi mom* N»«owG35 I 0
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        544 43 aviation earnings Engineers strike caused limited damage to planemaker's turnaround Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co, the world's biggest planemaker, said profit fell a less-than-ex-pected 23 per cent in the first quarter as a 40-day strike by engineers and technicians slashed production.
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        286 43 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Alaska Air Group Inc, parent of Alaska Airlines and regional carrier Horizon Air, reported a firstquarter loss as higher fuel costs outweighed the benefit of higher passenger traffic. The owner of the lOth-larg-est US airline had a loss of US$7.5 million (5512.8
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        472 43 Bloomberg [SYDNEYJ Qantas Airways Ltd, Australia's No 1 airline, said it plans to raise domestic fares by an average 3.5 per cent on May 3 to help offset higher costs. The Sydney-based carrier said costs have increased almost 6 per cent
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        346 43 Easter holiday affected as industry workers threaten to cut fuel supplies Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Australian air and road transport will be interrupted over the five-day Easter holiday period as petroleum industry workers threaten to cut fuel supplies as part of labour disputes. Caltex
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        426 43 FT (ROME) The Italian government has gone ahead with plans to transfer European passenger flights from Linate airport in Milan to Malpensa despite a last minute warning from the European Commission that it has "grave doubts" about the operation. In a
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        179 43 AIR PHILIPPINES CRASH AFP [SAMAL, Philippines] The "black box" flight data recorder of the Air Philippines Boeing jet, which crashed on Wednesday killing 131 people, was recovered yesterday, an army official said. It was recovered at 10.15 in the morning and turned over to Reynaldo Ramos,
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      25 29 US airlines weather turbulence pg 2 Boeing's profit down 23% pgls Aircraft schedule pgls Admiralty Casebook has been held over due to pressure on space
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      728 30 Lines services represented by (*OX& Members of the Reg.stry of Members of the USSWS Accredited Shipping Agents, S,n 9 a P° re Singapore Shipping Association Association NORTH WEST EXPRESS UNE ACCEPTING CONTAINERS, BREAKBULK PROJECT CARGO TO DAMPIER/FREMANTLE MV "TBN" ETA SIN 28/04/2000 BOOKINGS CALL MONKA/JUUA TEL 323 4374 CONTAINERS/ CONVENTIONAL
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      1631 34 EUROPE/UK/SCANDINAVIA/FINLAND/RUSSIA SERVICES EXPORT IMPORT Lw Iwm I hrg Jtmp j vissa/voTA« «v [h .Imp l«mr Ink sot L DEVELOP gZM 11/05 1 TO/OS OS 23/05 ,24/05 74/05 E. REWARD RE 038 Ok 04 07, 04 08/04 09.04 0!/05 L 6ENERALRW-070 08/05 78, 05 30/05 T 31/05 01 06 E. RtFIWI
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      788 34 PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL UNES (PTE) LTD 140 Cecil Street, *03-00 PIL Building, Singapore *****0. I CR NO **********06 I lIYISSH vor ns T sro wa tgt mwmwe UH HOT* PtK Win A PWROSS 25.4 I 26/4 3/5 9/5 H/S i7/S 24/S MaT I i. ,'jlJiiLiL—J w/t afr sk MB I 1
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      408 34 nui SO TELOK BLANGAH ROM) #02-02 OTPORT CENTRE S PORE o*B2o TEL: *****11 (6 lines) FAX: *****05 TLX: RS ***** CR NO. **********0W VESSa WY ETD OESTMI» MABUKWA 16 2000 23 U 2000 24U***** PALEMBANG/PKL BALAAI ILMAMUI 03 2000 24****** 2V14.2M PONTIANAK INABUKWA 17 2000 29 W 2000 31V4.2M PALEMOANG/PKL
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      407 35 BSfl x mm. MYANMA pBBk FIVE STAR LINE wT (Myonmor National line) Loading for Yangon VESSEL VOY SIN PKI PEN POU HPA-AN 26m SU> SAGAJNC MW SU) MALAYSIA AGENTS: 80USTUD SHIPPING AGENCIES KUL TEL (03) *****00 PKL: m (03) *****01 PEN: TU (04)26)2402 PGU: HI (07)*****21/4 BANK LINE (A service
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      653 35 vOOv WALLENIUS WILHELMSEN TO NORTH AND LATIN AMERICA "CAR RORO HEAVYUFT SERVICE' IVESSIt VOY RAMP HEIGHT SIN L»( MAO MIA SAV BAL ORE NYC NCW MOt ITOBA AHOO9 400 Tom 6.3 M 29/04 25/05 02/06 05/06 07/06 09/06 10/06 12/06 16/06 19/06 TAROMGA AHOIO 400 Tons 6.3 M 10/05 09/06
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      405 36 INDONESIA NATIONAL LINE TO AUSTRALIA I FULL CONTAINER SERVICE y* wrt_ me <m f* jw std xo ta m usuui Jos omr x/m n/n */os io/os ij/osT" KMMHM m <m 01/*S 13/*5 14/15 it/OS If/05 T tfiwonr IST W/05 W/05 15/05 ?l/tt n/M »/0S tflEMßUlfi ZS 15/05 It/05 74/Oi M/
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      83 39 M RICKMERS-LINIE Agent: Hapag-Lloyd(S)PteLtd Brrakbulk 'Oversize VT 200 Cantonment Road #08-02 Southpoint Project Cargo •Container Singapore *****3 Heavy-lift Services to: Regular Break-Bulk Project-Service US-Gulf East-Coast (Houston, New Orleans, Savannah, Camden, Baltimore) Europe Med (Alexandria, Savona, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, UK) Interasia (Haiphong, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dalian, Xingang) Loading: Singapore, Port Kelang,
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