The Business Times, 16 May 2000

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 h Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2000 85C
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    69 1 sn 201L4C (-15.19) BT-SEI 74&37 (-6.00) SQESCI FUTURES 264J0 (-1.90) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP ***** 1J2 NIKKEI 17J13.69 -44.17 HANG SENG *****5# -230.64 SET INDEX 888J7 -43 JAKARTA COMP 516.43 -10.46 MANILA COMP 1,517.09 -2252 TAIPEI WPI 8,465.02 -96.42 SEOUL COMP 728.67 -1L63 CLSA CHINA
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    79 1 FOREX SATES USI SI US$ 1.729 £(US$/S$ per 1515 2.619 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0517 1586 DM 1132 0511 YEN 106J 1587 RM 3.800 0.465 HK$ 7.790 0222 BAHT 39.1C 0.044 RUPIAH 8566 0.020 1 •Stto lOQunits SINGAPORE* 5.80 Kl'ALAU MFI R 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8 50
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    Lock icon Khazanah may pay less for Time dotCom
    523 1  -  Time Engg says Khazanah wants np to 30% stake, bat entry of 3rd party as strategic partner likely From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TIME Engineering will have to contend with a mystery partner, following its scuttled union with Singapore Telecommunications last week.
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    Lock icon CyberWorks secures US$12b syndicated loan
    456 1  -  Asia's largest syndication to be used to pay for CAW HKT From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RICHARD Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd yesterday secured the largest syndicated loan ever in Asia US$l2 billion (5520.6 billion) which will be used to finance its bid for
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    Lock icon GIC, two partners invest $14m in Asian online bond trading venture
    548 1  -  HE fond manager plans to launch multi-dealer trading system on Web site By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC), JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank have jointly invested about US$l4 million (Ss24 million) for a 47
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      112 1 DfSmE BT Comment Lee Han Shih on the implications of People's Association jumping on the property bandwagon. Pg 10 Top stories Effect of any Fed rate hike on S'pore rates seen muted. Next Page Short-sellers in 4 counters face $590,000 loss. Pg 4 Microsoft breakup will make PCs harder to
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      36 1 Cyber Works deal poses 'modest'risk: Telstra, Pg 15 The US Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates will be released later tonight after 2:lsam Singapore time. For the announcement, go to our website at: http://business-times.asia 1 .com.sg
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      69 1 Thai market may spread to the region Next Page The floundering -v Pine '4 v'Jrs x*: *J' 1 i \V;. ">S ■*>■' V"' .J <- K yl'&••' •'>'•*. -.V. ;i*- *-jV' i*..-' '""•■i.••••' 'ISref' r" ...v r.;c V- 1 4 I *w v. -A>. *n -V-.'\2>- •,>*• j> "vf >•-
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Still bullish
        145 2 WALL Street may be rocking, but US fund managers are still upbeat about US stocks. In a Barron's poll of 153 money managers, a whopping 58.6 per cent said they were either bullish or very bullish about the market's fortunes over the next six months. They see a
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        Lock icon Mandate for LTA bond soon
        54 2 THREE consortia, heard to be Citicorp Investment Bank; DBS Bank and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter; and JP Morgan and OCBC Bank are said to have been shortlisted for the $500 million bond for the Land Transport Authority, basispoint, a fixed-income newsletter, said a mandate is
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        Lock icon No light on Olympic torch bearer
        164 2 SYDNEY is keeping mum on the identity of the torch bearer for the Sept 15 opening of the Olympic Games. Our usually informed sources are putting their money on one of these three: Dawn Fraser, Australia's swimming legend, Ron Clark, the veteran sports personality
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        Lock icon Home for the Games
        101 2 THE athletes at this year's Sydney Olympics will be housed in a new suburb called Newington right next to the Games venue at Homebush Bay. The first phase of Newington has already been completed and the occupants are looking forward to the Games, said the developer.
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      Lock icon Effect of any Fed rate hike on S'pore rates seen muted
      699 2  -  High levels of liquidity biggest factor weighing against major rise By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Lending rates in Singapore are not expected to react immediately to a hike in US rates, but the tightening bias in the US money markets
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      Lock icon Thai market woes may spread to the region: analysts
      698 2 Investors believe SEA's economic, political reform is just a smokescreen AFP Bloomberg [BANGKOK] THAILAND'S stock exchange is rapidly falling through the floor, triggering fears in Southeast Asia that the region is heading towards another economic crisis, analysts said yesterday. "Foreign investors
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      Lock icon Thai companies post better first qtr results
      338 2 Analysts expect earnings to be sustained on recovering economy, bullish exports Reuters (BANGKOK] Thailand's recovering economy, bullish exports and revived domestic consumption have lifted corporate earnings and brightened the business outlook this year, first quarter corporate results showed yesterday. The broad-based improvement in
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      296 2 The Hull MBA OF HULL MBA (General) 28th Intake Starting Soon! "Ranked Among Starting in Singapore •29 May 2000 f Session MBA (Investment Finance) 10th Intake Universities, 1999" Starting in Singapore July 2000 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" PhD MA/BA Doctor of Philosophy in Business A
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      249 3 M^organ_£t^nley_6j_Co I J-^mU£d Limued_Morgan Stanley Dean Witter is a service mark of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co. >| fig"- -^iil BHBBSIK .x* r -4HV ,a lIhHK K J SI H V 4bIJUL»-- 11 fi x agßMn^^^^^^B^^Bß|^^SS^^3HH||rtHHl R' SS|B >• Si S jfV~ v.-,r .y- J >& You have a feeling
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Short-sellers of 4 counters face $590,000 loss
      355 4  -  Buy-ins in Chew En Hock, Parkway Lab, Medi-Rad&nd Nucleus Electronics Byy Ven Sreenivasan SHORT-SELLERS of shares in Chew Eu Hock, Parkway Lab, Medi-Rad and Nucleus Electronics four counters which drew intense speculative interest last week faced losses of up to $590,000 as a
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      Lock icon SCS launches 3rd-party call centre
      222 4 SINGAPORE Computer Systems (SCS), the IT business arm of the Singapore Technologies group, yesterday launched a $3 million thirdparty call centre. Named JuzCall, the 100seat facility is housed in SCS' Bedok premises and provides services such as handling inbound information and technical helpdesk enquiries through
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      Lock icon Boustead IT buys 18% stake in Maxamine
      335 4  -  USs2.sm investment is part of efforts to prepare Boustead IT for listing in 2001 By] Kenneth Lee BOUSTEAD Singapore, a diversified company with interests ranging from bakeries to marine insurance, has bought a strategic 18 per cent stake in US-based Internet firm and
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      Lock icon Keppel TatLee trebles high-tech fund size
      540 4  -  Commitment raised to $150 m; may doable to $300 m if conditions conducive By' Tay Hong Seng KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank's Tech Financing Centre will be increasing its lending fund for hi-tech start-ups from $50 million to $150 million. The fund size may further
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      Lock icon Ensuring relevance of SGX in age of Internet
      461 4  -  iWWH locksiew toh han shih THE Internet is forcing the pace of change in the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Singapore's Financial industry. This is highlighted by SGX bringing forward the liberalisation of stockbroking commissions to Oct 1 from the original date of
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      Lock icon Parkway plans IPO by Q3 for Shenton Medical chain
      408 5 Bloomberg PARKWAY Holdings Ltd, Singapore's largest owner of private hospitals, said it's planning an initial share sale for its Shenton Medical chain by the third quarter, to boost staff morale and finance expansion. "We want to motivate our employees to perform
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon WBL Corp subsidiary seeks SGX listing
        161 5 Reuters WBL Corp said its subsidiary M-Flex Singapore Pte Ltd has submitted an application to list on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. M-Flex would become the holding company of WBL's flexible printed circuits (FPC) and rigid printed circuit boards (PCB) design and
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        Lock icon TLB Land in HK housing project
        139 5 TLB LAND has altered into a joint venture to develop a luxury residential apartment in Repulse Bay, Hongkong. Its partners are Bondax Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of lead partner, Asia Standard International Group, which is listed on the Hongkong Stock Exchange, and Westrata
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        Lock icon Inno-Pac calls off Shenton House deal
        128 5 INNO-PACIFIC Holdings has pulled out of the deal to buy several office units in Shenton House as it has not been satisfied with the dOediligence exercise. The company had earlier entered into an agreement to issue new shares as consideration for two Singapore companies
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        Lock icon New GEO for Allied Components
        53 5 Reuters PRINTED circuit board maker Allied Components International has appointed Wong King Yoong, former vice-president and managing director of Compaq Asia, as its new chief executive officer. It also appointed Tan Zing Yuen chief financial officer. Mr Tan was formerly group chief financial officer of
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        Lock icon Ho Bee pays $23m for 2 industrial sites
        58 5 Reuters PROPERTY developer Ho Bee Investment said yesterday it had bought two industrial sites for $23 million. The firm bought a 29,000-sq foot prime industrial site with a 99-year lease at Jalan Kilang Barat for $5.4 million, and another 40,000 sqftof freehold
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        Lock icon Ascott director resigns
        14 5 ASCOTT Ltd said Christopher Tang Kok Kai has resigned as director.
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        Lock icon FHTK executive director quits post
        42 5 FHTK Holdings said Michael Goh Pek Yang resigned as executive director with effect from April 30 and has relinquished his executive function as chief operating officer. He will however remain on the board as a non-executive director.
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        Lock icon Nod for DBS preference share change
        105 5 Bloomberg DBS Group shareholders have approved a plan to buy back as many as 94.9 million preference shares, helping the bank rationalise its capital. Shareholders voted on a change to the non-redeemable status of convertible preference shares, paving the way for a buyback. DBS
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        Lock icon Chip Eng Seng bags $41.5m contract
        66 5 CHIP Eng Seng Corp said its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chip Eng Seng Contractors (1988), has won a $41.5 million contract from NCH (Tampines) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of NTUC Choice Homes Co-operative, to construct a 242-unit private condominium in Simei. The job, scheduled for completion
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      Lock icon Norway's Telenor takes stake in two Thai telcos
      573 7 ItH buy opto 24£% of Ucom and 30% of TAC unit in deal worth USs72om Reuters [BANGKOK] Norwegian state telecoms firm Telenor agreed yesterday to buy major stakes in two indebted Thai telecoms firms, the companies said. Thailand's United Communication Industry Pic
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      Lock icon Freight Links' HK unit completes placement
      195 7 FREIGHT Links Express Holdings said Freight Links Express Holdings (Hongkong) has successfuUy placed out 4.961 biUion new shares at HKIO.IO per share and the grant of options to subscribe for 1.124 billion new shares at an exercise price of HK$O.lO per option share for
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      Lock icon Trek 2000 launches 30.8m IPO shares at 32 cents each
      398 7  -  1 =\Vi listings By Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN Trek 2000 In ternational, a customised engineering solutions provider, yesterday launched its initial public offering of 30.8 million shares at 32 cents each for a listing on Sesdaq. The public tranche comprises 6
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      Lock icon PNE launches IPO at 26 cents apiece to raise $12.2m
      352 7 PNE Industries, one of the region's major integrated manufacturers of electrical and electronic devices, yesterday launched its initial public offering of 51.14 million new shares at 26 cents each, for a listing on the main board of the Singapore Exchange.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      480 6 Stocks Volume ThaiVitege 5c 20,218,000 Food Empire 5c 13,551.000 Strike Engg 5c 13.503,000 ChewEuHock 20c 11,771.000 Ban Joo5c 9,189.000 SiA Engg 10c 7,485,000 AnOcean 5c 7,059,000 GRP 20c 5,006,000 NatSteel 50c 4,925,000 Eastern Asia 4,640,000 Stocka DBSGfp 47,619,732 Chart Semiconductor 26c 28,346,931 ParificCentury 26,063,196 ST Assembly 25c 24,545,226 OCBC 20,944,757
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      Lock icon Same old story behind yet another weak session
      558 6  -  l-ll comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE fortunes of the local stock market continued to ebb yesterday as investors kept their distance from most of the stocks, leaving traders to try and keep interest alive in the second-lin-ers. Though today's US Federal Open
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      Lock icon New Toyo warrant: penny counter for die-hard punters
      194 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WITH institutions largely out of the market because of US interest rate worries and concerns over what the Morgan Stanley Capital International index reweightings might be, trading interest has centred mainly on penny stocks. So we'll keep
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      Lock icon UOB: immediate support at $10.50
      240 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of United Overseas Bank (UOB) suffered another poor spell yesterday, with the stock finishing as the session's biggest loser. UOB shares closed down 40 cents or 3.5 per cent at $10.90, after opening at their day-high of $11.20
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      Lock icon Market Notices
      131 6 ♦Brilliant Manufacturing announced that the company has incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary.eStraits Pte Q Ltd with an authorised capital ofSsloo,ooo/- divided into 100,000 ordinary shares of Ssl/- each and a paid-up capital of Ss2/. Th principal activity of sStraits is to carry on the business of an investment
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      Lock icon Few US dollar sellers ahead of tonight's Fed meeting
      344 6  -  l-l I comment CURRENCIES larry wee THERE were not too many US dollar sellers yesterday, ahead of tonight's muchawaited meeting of the Fed's Open Market Committee, when US interest rates are widely expected to be raised by as much as half
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      112 6 f Nominations for the 2000 Enterprise 50 awards are now open n Companies can nominate themselves by completing the official nomination form. Companies must be home-grown, privately-owned and incorporated under Singapore's Companies Act (1994 Revised Edition), with four years of i., j Celebrating Singapore's statements. Enterprising Spirit Nomination forms are
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Non-prime 99-year condos to stay affordable: DTZ
      520 8  -  But rush by upgraders not in sight, with HDB resale applications down 46% in Q1 By, Andrea Tan LEASEHOLD condominiums in the nonprime areas will stay affordable to public housing upgraders, even though private residential prices have risen 15 per cent and the
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      Lock icon Joining the Orchard Road crowd
      143 8 CELEBRATING their move to a prime, happening location yesterday are Singapore Press Holdings' marketing division staff. The Big Move for some 300 SPH marketing staff from News Centre on Genting Lane to Paragon shopping centre on Orchard Road happened yesterday. The staff, with the exception
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      Lock icon NTU to launch Masters in infocomm
      268 8 NTU will launch two Master of Science programmes in infocommunications starting in July under its School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This initiative aims to meet the manpower shortage in the infocomm sector. The programmes will be in communications engineering and communication software and
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      Lock icon Shell puts former petrol station site up for sale
      294 8 24,585 sq ft plot in Holland/Farrer area could fetch $13-15 m PETROLEUM giant Shell has put up for sale its former petrol station at the junction of Holland and Farrer roads. The 24,585 square foot freehold site can still be used
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      Lock icon March retail sales volume up 27.6%
      306 8  -  P=M 3 on the economy retail sales By Marissa Chew RETAILERS performed well beyond expectations in March, with the retail sales volume rising 27.6 per cent from the same period a year ago. Two estimates from DBS Bank and Salomon Smith Barney had put
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      Lock icon Construction sector to get $50m boost over next 2 years
      719 9  -  RAD will get SlOin,- $40m for financial incentive schemes including Project Website By Joyce Koh A SUM of $50 million has been set aside to beef up productivity and innovation in the construction sector over the next two years, Minister
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      Lock icon Pleasurable business
      454 9  -  A dotcom was born of a romance between a former ST reporter and a US software programmer at Lindy Hop classes By> Toh Han Shih FORMER Straits Times reporter Lim Li Hsien and her husband Eric Tachibana have started a dotcom, Extropia, thanks to love for the Lindy
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      Lock icon DBS, consider public's concerns
      362 9  -  1* IflMUbag Teo Kwee Bin DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's response in Parliament on the new DBS Bank charges is disappointing. I bank with DBS Bank not only because it is a good bank, but also because it is regarded as Singapore's national bank. DBS'
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      Lock icon Aborted deal will hurt KL more
      175 9  -  Eric Ang Teck Sin AFTER two failed bids, Singapore Telecom at least has one thing to be proud of it is still a cash-rich company looking out for business opportunities. If the Malaysian government's investment arm offers the same terms as Sing Tel to
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      Lock icon So long to close dormant POSBank account
      351 9  -  Ong Siew Yen I WOULD like to share my experience about closing a dormant POSBank account. Way before the saga over DBS Bank's $2 charge, I went to the Raffles Quay branch of POSB in November 1999 to close a joint account that
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      Lock icon Don't tax income from interest
      179 9  -  Ng Piak Hah Singapore I FIND it extremely timely that the government is proposing a scheme to help people save enough for retirement. There is another more pressing issue at present. For the last couple of years, interest rates have been so low that retirees,
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon People's Association in the property game
      692 10  -  •I comment PROPERTY Plans to lease out 70% of new community club In T&mpines to commercial tenants have serious Implications for private sector lee han shih THE poor owners of shopping space. After surviving a market glut in the mid-90s and the Asian Crisis
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  • eNews
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      Lock icon Startup to sell prepaid e-shopping cards
      374 11 LONDON Global Internet Billing will use 20,000 retailers to sell the cards FT Prepaid e-shopping cards, modelled on successful mobile phone cards, are to be launched this summer. Global Internet Billing (GIB), an Internet payment startup, will use 20,000 independent retailers to distribute cards
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      Lock icon India tables e-commerce bill, finally
      483 11 NEW DELHI Bloomberg WHEN Aditya Srinath bought books from an online vendor recently, he paid for his purchase with plastic, putting him among the few Indians to use a credit card in the absence of a legal framework for such transactions. Granted, he was only
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    • e Briefs
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        Lock icon US small business online spending soars
        66 11 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Online purchasing by US small businesses rose 12-fold to US$25 billion (5543.2 billion) last year as companies took advantage of the Internet's efficiency, a survey showed. Small businesses spent US$2 billion online in 1996, according to information technology and Internet consultants
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        Lock icon Softbank Tech rises on earnings report
        79 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Softbank Technology Corp shares rose 5.5 per cent after the unit of Japan's largest Internet investor said its first-half parent earnings tripled. The company, 63 per cent owned by Softbank Corp, gained 1,600 yen to 30,800 yesterday after earlier rising as much
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        Lock icon Recordable DVD player from M'shita
        126 11 Reuters [TOKYO] Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd said yesterday that it will launch its first recordable DVD player in Japan in June, mounting a challenge to rival Pioneer Corp and possibly setting off a DVD 'format war". Matsushita, whose brands include Panasonic, National and Technics,
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        Lock icon SAP ready to make acquisitions
        75 11 FT [LONDON] SAP, Europe's biggest software company, is ready to make acquisitions and strike reselling agreements with smaller software groups to reverse declining sales in the US, its second biggest market. Hasso Plattner, SAP's co-chief executive, said investors had agreed it could issue up to
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      Lock icon US venture capital spending soars to US$17.2b in Q1
      285 11 SAN JOSE, California Funding for Internet firms jumps five-fold to USslo.Bbe survey Bloomberg US venture capital firms invested a record US$l7.2 billion (5529.6 billion) in young companies in the first quarter, a four-fold increase from a year earlier, a survey showed.
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      Lock icon France calls for laws to crack down on 'digital havens'
      387 11 PARIS Reuters THE world's leading industrialised states, struggling against Love Bug-style computer attacks from the most unexpected places, opened a cybercrime conference yesterday with a caU to prevent lawless "digital havens" from springing up around the globe. French Interior Minister
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      Lock icon Microsoft admits flaw in browser
      127 11 Reuters [NEW YORK] Microsoft Corp has acknowledged a flaw in its popular Internet browser that could let hackers steal "cookies", or files e-commerce sites U9e to track and conduct business with online customers, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday. The browser flaw could be worrisome
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      Lock icon Calls to block MCI Worldcom, Sprint merger
      326 11 BRUSSELS Europe's Net traffic will end up in US hands, say opponents FT THE European Commission is coming under pressure to block the US$l3O billion (*****.2 billion) merger of MCI Worldcom and Sprint, which opponents say would put the bulk of Europe's Internet
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      Lock icon Sony has high hopes for Net device
      209 11 TOKYO Reuters SONY hopes its mobile Internet device to be launched this year could be a product as strategic as its Walkman, the firm's new president, Kunitake Ando, was quoted as saying by Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday. The world's second-largest consumer electronics
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      778 12  -  I i\\4 1 bottom line OPINION lee boon keng The writer is with DBS Market Research THE euro plunged to its all-time low of 88.5 US cents in the first week of the month, despite the 25-basis-point hike in the repo
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      128 12 'Japan is, in effect, a one-party gerontocracy where gerrymandering is rife, prevarication and procrastination are a way of life and patronage is dispensed with brazen vulgarity.' Rnssdl Jones chief economist at Lehman Brothers in Tokyo. 'I've got more black friends in this country now than Mugabe.' -lan
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      623 12 EDITORIAL THE idea of integrating the stock markets of Bangkok Singapore and Kuala Lumpur may not seem an immediately practical idea but it should not be ruled out as a medium-term possibility. If it does eventually come about, the proposal aired last week by Thailand's
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      1263 12  -  Pnblic cynicism over political manoeuvres could provoke 'landslide'against Japan's rnling party By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent WHO you believe will form the next Japanese government after the election which now seems certain to be held next
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      947 12 He*t <m Greenspan IN recent history, US Fed tightenings have aggregated about 3 percentage points... In this cycle, rates were first raised in June last year and have advanced in five steps of a quarter-point each, from 4.75 to 6 per cent. Now, though, the Fed
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      Lock icon Tajudin gets reprieve for Naluri, Celcom
      496 13  -  Creditors have agreed to the 2 firms' debt restructuring From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TAJUDIN Ramli has won a reprieve from creditors for two of his companies Naluri Bhd and Celcom but he may still lose control of Malaysian Airline System. As part
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      325 13 KUALA LUMPUR Govt's policy this year is to strengthen sector, promote IT Reuters MANUFACTURING will continue to be a driver for Malaysian economic growth this year, and the government plans supportive policies, a state report said yesterday. "The thrust of the government's policy in 2000
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        101 13 Bloomberg BANK stocks fell on concern that the government will not be able to push rates lower to stimulate loans growth. RHB Capital Bhd, which owns the third largest RHB Bank Bhd, fell 15 sen or 2.9 per cent to a more than three
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        65 13 Bloomberg PERUSAHAAN Otomobil Nasional Bhd (Proton) fell 10 sen or 1.8 per cent to RM5.40. This followed reports that Hicom Holdings Bhd had rejected Proton's offer to buy its 32 per cent stake in car retailer Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd at RMll a share because
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        Lock icon Investors' nod gives Naluri a lift
        46 13 Bloomberg NALURI Bhd rose 3 sen or 2 per cent to RM1.55 after its shareholders approved a plan to reschedule its RMI.2 billion (***** million) debt, including selling of its 29 per cent stake in Malaysian Airline System Bhd. Bloomberg
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      199 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg INTRIA Bhd, a Malaysian construction firm that United Engineers has agreed to buy, will sell RM7BS million (***** million) of bonds for the first time in four years. Intria is looking to repay debt of about RM6SO million. In
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      156 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFX-Asia THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange is launching a technology sector index to assist investors in identifying constituent companies. A statement from the KLSE said there would be separate technology sectors for the main board and the second board but they will be represented
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      717 14  -  Rupiah loses nearly 10% in value against the US dollar over past seven days From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AS the Indonesian rupiah continues to flounder, the country's economic reform programme threatens to unravel, possibly undoing recent progress on corporate debt restructuring and banking
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        Lock icon Abdurrahman backs plan for PM
        100 14 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has backed a proposal to appoint the equivalent of a prime minister .Achmad Tirto Sudiro, chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council, said he had welcomed the idea of creating a poet of "first minister", with the same authorities as
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        87 14 Reuters I JAKARTA] Indonesia's state corruption watchdog said yesterday it would look into the controversial appointment of President Abdurrahman Wahid's brother to the powerful Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra). The appointment ofHasyim Wahid as "expert adviser" to Ibra has sparked charges of a return to the
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        95 14 Reuters [MANILA] Philippine conglomerate Benpres Holdings reported yesterday that its first quarter net profit fell 50 per cent from a year earlier, mainly due to a decline in profits by its utility units and media affiliate. It said net income was 24 million pesos (*****,400),
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        101 14 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Bad loans at banks and finance companies in Thailand fell in March, the tenth consecutive month-on-month decline, as more companies restructured debt with lenders, the central bank said. Delinquent loans fell to 37.2 per cent of total loans at the end of March,
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      344 14 ■JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIA slashed its economic growth forecast for this year by more than half after reporting lower-than-expected growth for the first quarter. Sugito Suwito, chairman of the Central Bureau of Statistics, said the government cut its forecast to 1.5 per cent from 4
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon CyberWorks deal poses 'modest' risk: Telstra
      694 15  -  CEO's stand contrasts with analysts' perception that Telstra was risking USs3b By Catherine Ong TELSTRA Corp said its US$3 billion deal with Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) pose "modest" risk to the company and the operations to be created from the alliance could account for
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      Lock icon Tom.com Q1 loss jumps 12-fold
      328 15 Bloomberg TOM.COM Lid, tycoon Li Ka-shing's Internet venture, yesterday said its first quarter loss widened more than 12-fold even as sales roee more than 50 per cent. Reporting results for the first time since it sold shares, Tom.com said it lost HK545.4 million (Sslo.l million),
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      368 15 TAIPEI Govt gives it extra year to repay NTs24.sb in loans as customers panic Bloomberg PANICKED depositors rushed to pull money out of Taiwan Development Trust Corp yesterday, prompting the finance ministry to broker an agreement giving the firm an extra year to repay
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      510 16 NEW DELHI Fundamentals are strong, with robust growth in industrial and export sectors Reuters INDIAN shares have slumped in recent months, the rupee hit a record low last week and inflation is running at near 18-month highs but the country's economy is a
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      296 16 BOMBAY Bloomberg AUSTRALIA and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, Australia's fourth-largest bank, will sell co-branded credit cards in India with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and may expand the alliance to the rest of Asia. Mr Murdoch's Star TV, the largest
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      515 17 TOKYO Decline first in 3 years; surplus showing signs of ticking np again Reuters JAPAN'S current account surplus, the broadest measure of trade in goods and services, dipped in the year that ended on March 31, reversing course after two
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      555 17 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan laid out plans yesterday for an official funeral for former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi with an eye to minimising political disruption while capturing a sympathy vote in elections next month. The death on Sunday of the party machine politician, who had
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      323 17 TOKYO Bloomberg INDUSTRIAL Bank of Japan Ltd (IBJ), Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd and Fuji Bank Ltd are setting up a 30 billion yen (*****.7 million) fund to buy shares in privately-held Japanese companies. The banks, which plan to
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      240 18 BOSTON Reuters UNICREDITO Italiano Group, Italy's second largest banking group, said yesterday it would buy US investment management firm Pioneer Group Inc for a total of about US$l.2 billion (Ss2.l billion). UniCredito said it would buy all the outstanding shares of Pioneer Group
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      464 18 WASHINGTON Consumers will get more choices, says US Justice Dept in companion article Bloomberg THE US Justice Department's proposed breakup of Microsoft Corp would "destroy" the consistency of the way the company's Windows operating system works on personal computers, making computers harder
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      391 18 WASHINGTON There were claims innovation would be stifled and research stnnted NYT COMPARING the proposed breakup of Microsoft to the AT&T case of the 1980s, Brad Smith, a Microsoft lawyer, said he saw one big difference. "AT&T was mostly a national company," he said,
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        83 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US industrial production recorded the largest gain in April in 20 months, as factories, mines and utilities stepped up output to keep the US economy humming along, Federal Reserve figures showed yesterday. Production increased 0.9 per cent last month after rising
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        44 18 Bloomberg [DUSSELDORF, Germany] Veba AG and Viag AG, merging to form Europe's fourth biggest power company, said they will cut 3,ooojobs and sell units with sales of five billion euros (Ss7.B billion) by combining their chemicals activities. Bloomberg
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        67 18 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] National Australia Bank Ltd said it sold US$l.6 billion (Ss2.B billion) of notes to help pay for its acquisition of MLC Ltd —the largest ever sale of debt by an Australian company. Australia's second biggest bank sold US$9OO million of 10-year non-call fixed
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        77 18 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese audio equipment maker Pioneer Electric Corp posted an 11-fold increase in net profit in the year to March after successfully floating a subsidiary on the Tokyo market. Pioneer said its December launch of the world's first DVD recorder and re-recordable DVD
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      575 19 NEW YORK Stock market slide already delays or derails plans by many IPO aspirants Reuters STRUGGLING US companies seeking to raise funds are being caught between a rock and a hard place as the Federal Reserve is expected to
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      531 19 HANOVER, Germany Bloomberg AP EUROPE'S largest tourism firm Preussag AG has agreed to buy Thomson Travel Group for £1.8 billion (554.7 billion), beating a rival bid from C&N Touristic. Preussag offered 180 pence a share, 12.5 per cent above C&N's
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      277 19 WILEN, Switzerland Bloomberg BILLIONAIRE financier Martin Ebner of Switzerland says he's recommending that investors buy shares in ÜBS AG a day before Europe's third-biggest bank begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Mr Ebner, the founder of BZ Bank, a
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      376 19 LONDON Latin America will be biggest loser: fund managers Reuters ASIA will emerge as the big winner from Morgan Stanley Capital International's quarterly index changes, to be formally announced tomorrow, while Latin America will be the biggest loser, say strategists and
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      238 20  -  SGX Derivatives Tradingßeports MSCT Singapore Index Daphne Tay THE Singapore stock market finished lower amid light trade yesterday, weighed down by the ongoing interest rate worries as the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting draws nearer. Banks were pressured, with UOB shedding 3.5 per
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      277 20  -  MSCI Taiwan fatores Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market ended lower yesterday as the US Federal Reserve's interest rate setting FOMC meeting draws near. The Taiex fell 95.42 points or 1.11 per cent to close at 8,465.02, with electronics stocks leading the way. Turnover
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      157 20 ENERGY REPORT AFP [LONDON] Oil prices slipped below the US$2B-per-barrel mark in London trading yesterday, although dealers said the market remained artificially high. Benchmark Brent crude was trading at U5527.61 a barrel, 44 US cents lower. The market has been driven to levels last
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      334 20 Reuters THE dollar surfed higher yesterday, most visibly against the yen, finding support ahead of a US Federal Reserve policy meeting today which is widely expected to sanction a 50 basis point rise in interest rates. Analysts said the dollar's advance was more pronounced against the yen as
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      Lock icon HK shares fall on caution ahead of Fed meeting
      2841 21 HONGKONG AFP CllLuttSeng -23(164 HONGKONG share prices dropped 1.5 per cent yesterday on profit-taking amid cautious sentiment ahead of an expected US interest rate hike, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 230.64 points to close at 14,881.30. "It is
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      991 21 Reuters P Shenzhen Blade *0144 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed up slightly yesterday as some domestic investors bought textile issues on the resumption of talks with the European Union on Beijing's bid to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Shanghai B Share Index ended up 0.67 per
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      360 21 AFP □WPlnte -96.42 THE Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 1.11 per cent or 95.42 points to 8,465.02, as investors took to the sidelines ahead of the presidential inauguration on May 20, dealers said. Turnover was NT593.95 billion. Decliners led advancers 309 to 225, with 59 issues unchanged.
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      2060 21 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225-4417 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.3 per cent lower yesterday as Investors grew wary of the New York market ahead of a US Federal Reserve meeting, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index lost 44.17 points to end at 17,313.69.
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      367 22 AFP kJ Composite Index -L 92 THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended 0.2 per cent or 1.92 points down at 910.74 in cautious trading ahead of the Fed's interest rate-setting meeting. The Second Board Index feU 4.89 points to 255.09. "The
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      789 23 AFP CI SET Index -<L 3 THE Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index fell 1.8 per cent or 6.3 points to 339.37, while the select SET 50 was down 0.51 at 23.79. "Volume remained thin as many investors are sidelined waiting to see" what happens tomorrow (Tuesday), said ABN-Amro
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      274 23 AFP n Composite Index -2122 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 1.4 per cent or 22.22 points to close at 1,517.09. A total of 1.4 billion shares worth 1.7 billion pesos changed hands, down from Friday's 2.12 billion shares worth 1.06 billion pesos. AFP Hay IS P»w 000)
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      705 23 AFP Q Composite Index -10.46 THE Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index ended 2 per cent or 10.45 points down at 516.43, off a low of 512.78, on 206.4 million shares valued at 328.18 billion rupiah. Declining stocks led advancers 91 to 26. Dealers said market sentiment was undermined by
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      282 23 AFP QNZSE-40 -28.42 THE NZSE-40 Capital Index closed down 1.4 per cent or 28.42 points at 2,001.95 on turnover of NZ$9B million. The market was led lower by Telecom Corp which lost 24 cents to NZ$B.2B. The firm's third quarter profit results are due today, with news of spin-offs
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      571 23 AFP nADOrfauVt AUSTRALIAN share prices closed slightly higher in thin trade yesterday after Wall Street's firmer close on Friday, dealers said. The All Ordinaries Index closed up 14.6 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 3,018.6. The SP/ASX 200 index closed up 16.3 points at 3,051.1. Volume was 415.6 million
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      308 23 AFP Q Composite Index -1L63 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 11.63 points at 728.67. Volume was 191.8 million shares worth 1.7 trillion won AFP Mat IS "KW A nam Skui ***** 1800 Brain Tacit 1155 195 Centra* Bank 1305 -165 Chert Comm *****0 -4500 Dm Cu
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      622 26  -  McGraw-Hill computer-based learning division to focus on companies rather than individuals By 1 Marissa Chew WITH lifelong learning becoming the buzzword among companies and individuals in Asia, McGrawHill Lifetime Learning (MHLL) couldn't resist the opportunities and early this month became the latest computer-based learning
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      833 26 Schools and teaching are set to change dramatically, thanks to new technology "Shirley zips into her skintight school uniform which on the outside looks something like a ski suit. The lining of the suit in fact contains cabling that makes it a communication system.
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      139 29 Bridge News Reuters RISING demand for panamaxes in the Atlantic was the principal feature of the dry cargo freight market on Friday. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) gained two points to 1,616 and the Baltic Panamax Index rose 10 points to 1,544, while the Baltic Capesize Index shed
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      645 29  -  High cost of transponders a concern among members of shipping community By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPOREJ The local shipping community is generally upbeat about the Maritime and Port Authority's (MPA) masterplan for port development announced recently. The primary aim of the Port Improvement Plan for
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        67 29 [LONDON] A Cambodian-flag bulker has sunk after a collision with another bulk carrier in the lower Yangtze River. The 11,600 dwt 1976-built Conan and the 28,450 dwt Panamanian-flag Rubin Forest collided in the early hours of the evening and while the 1992-built Forest was able to continue,
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        44 29 [LONDON] Norwegian tanker and bulk operator Bergesen has reported a 48.5 per cent drop in first quarter after-tax profits to US$lO.2 million (5517.34 million), compared with US$l9.B million in 1999, and a 17.5 per cent fell in its operating profit.
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      308 29 [LOS ANGELES] Imports and exports soared to record highs at the Port of Los Angeles in April, as US retailers began stocking up early for the fall shopping season and Asian economies continued to improve. Inbound shipments were up 45 per
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      261 29  -  Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] APL, the container shipping arm of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), will deploy its own vessels on the North-South America service, departing from serving this trade lane by chartering space in its partners' vessels since entering the market
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        853 30  -  UKERSCEME By\ David Hughes THE European Commission (EC) recently confirmed the exemptions the liner shipping companies have from European Union (EU) law. That pleased the lines but not the shippers. The UK shipper organisation, the Freight Transport Association (FTA), has not given
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        210 30 Reuters [LONDON] British shipping company P&O last Friday lost an appeal against the taxman on whether val-ue-added tax (VAT) should be charged on items that are sold on journeys between European Union (EU) member states. P&O had claimed that sales of non-consumable goods
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      197 30 PAGE Detmas 4 ACL 6 D >* Lloyd 8 ANL 3 Dongnama 3 Accord 8 Eastrans 6 Appenship 5 ECl 4 Austral 8 ECU line 6 Baiaji Shpg 5 Evergreen 6 BSA 7 FoooqSun 8 B'tang Mas 8 Glink 4 CCNI 7 Gemartrans 6 CMA 8 Hangli
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      16473 37 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 31/05 10/0* Hanjin ITHA BHUM MO *5-32*0235 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'I voire 31/05 n/Ot Evergreen ITHA BHUM 500 *5-*****11
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        761 41 "'Ml VoyHo Berth Arrival Departure J»»1 Pert *rtklWp«n 5A/00 J02 15/06/8:10 IV05/1740 ra MSA J16 15/05/6:15 15/05/23:59 **copolo 22 PUW179 J16 15/05/6:30 6/05/6:00 Harcopolo 26 JMB047 J6 15/05/6:45 6/05/2340 Tg Johor 18 V *****) XT 15/05/8:10 16/05/0:14 C Progress 15-MAY JOT 15/05/8:30 15/05/16:00 Bt Moo* Usa May-15 J01
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        1913 41 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCI CARGO Boofclnq/BoUnco Rstts Ship V°y Mo Etb/Btr Ptriod From 2° Fro* acxuac ota M/1200 u h/hm iv»m n/im tci SUCUU i N/DsM M BM WW MM AlAMJAYA 2 MM MM H B/BM H/MM H/MM B/BM B/MM BM U H/17M M/0659 HAWIO
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        178 41 May 17 Thailand: V isakha Bycha Day. May 18 Malaysia: Vesak Day. Singapore: Vesak Day. May 19 Denmark: Great Prayer Day. May 29 United Kingdom: Spring Bank Holiday. May 31 Brunei: Royal Brunei Armed Forces /Anniversary. Apr Brunei: First Day of Muslim Calender. May 11 Hongkong: Buddha's Birthday.
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        785 41 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 average sized stem. Market movements are lndl cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        493 41 Carbon 1M Max 909.9 0.6 15.4 0.09 89 0.05 May T1 Density Water InMat Ask AIwMwh hfcl No tort E25 0 0 2 0 3 0 T %M<M 390 Aw 985.9 02 12.0 0.06 38 0.02 380 Mu 991.4 2.0 17.0 0.08 70 0.06 W) %w
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        265 42 Poor weather in some areas also reduced services over weekend Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Airlines, the world's largest airline, said it cancelled 130 of its 2,400 scheduled US flights because of a shortage of pilots and poor weather in some areas.
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        365 42 Reuters [ZURICH] Swissair said the US Department of Transport had issued a key waiver which would allow the Swiss airline and its Belgian subsidiary Sabena to more than double codeshare flights with new ally American Airlines. The immunity will allow the three airlines
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        425 42 It will decide this week whether to follow US move to suspend carrier from parts repair Reuters [CANBERRA] Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said yesterday it would decide this week whether to follow US regulators and withdraw approval for Qantas Airways Ltd to
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        403 42 Reuters [CANBERRA] Canberra airport officials accused carrier Qantas Airways of using bullying tactics yesterday to try to get airports to turn against Impulse Airlines, the new player in Australia's domestic airline market. Qantas has launched a turf war over terminal space
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        270 42 Bernama [RANTAU PANJANG, Malaysia] The Malaysian railway KTMB (Keretapi Tanah Melayu Bhd) expects to transport five million tonnes of cargo this year via the landbridge service. Exco chairman, Mohd Nor Idrus, said that last year, 4.3 tonnes of cargo
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      517 29 UPS Logistics Group has appointed Michael Gildea (right) as executive business development manager for its Asia Pacific operations. Singapore-based Mr Gildea is responsible for account development and management of Asia Pacific clients. Prior to this, he was vice-president, Australasia and account di-Bf rector of REL Consultancy Group. Mr Gildea has
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      759 30 NORTH AMERICA QULF/INDIA SUB-CONTINENT SUPER SHUTTLE EXPRESS (BSX) lOULF KARACHI EXPRESS (QKX) VKSa VOY LGO ""TT"" 1 PRUNG VISSEI VOT MM "Tlh RWT JU MO CM |PRIANG 00d CALIFORNIA 44W516 24/04 14/05 H/05 PtOMiDUOTDMEUOURNE IK 05/05 05/05 07/05 Of/OS 10/05 15/05 If/05 20/05 OOa NfW YORK 04W517 03/05 21/05 23/05
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      668 30 Lines services represented by Members of the Registry °f Members of the "'^Si5 Accredlted Agents, Sin 9 Log'^cs Singapore Shipping Association Association ULY LINE MALE I VESSEL VOY ETA Ett Tlu P. KLANC SPORE MALE Princess Lily VO3OO 14/05 16/05 24/05 Empress Uly VO5OO 02/06 03/06 11/06 Princess Uly VO4OO
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      1633 31 @HANJIN SHIPPING !Ikl-| 4. >fc Mn< Lo. -We *****30 mmn swpiw, (S) rn lip iooking ********** sales *****24 731 nocunfm ********** o«uno»fs ********** mainune *****55 fu 53*1145 ano iismmoooou TO NW USA A CANADAI CANADA* R ¥St/VOY r~srj nw I dbi |wI oo J msp ml on I«a1 m I
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      190 31 ACCEPTING LCL CARGOES TO JAPAN, CHINA, KOREA AND HONG KONG FOR ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CALL 220 8558 CONSOLIDATION, WAREHOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HOUSEHOLD REMOVAL AND CAR TRANSPORTER LCL CONSOLIDATION SERVICE An ilfiliite of Mitsui OSK Lines Hai Sun Hup Group r— r^— Co*§m Express Logistics Pte LM <+> dcsti nation 30 Boon Lay
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      1573 32 DSR-SENATOR LINES TO UK/CONTINENT TO MEDITERRANEAN/CANADA gßa WW WW la HIM ANH HAM OHV FIJI VESSEL TOY "si!!"" Gff 1 FOS I VLC I MTw" PWUAO SENATOR 0012W lIM KM MM MM MM 17 M MM PAlf HMO SENATOR OOMW ISM 01M MM MM 17 M 14 M HAMiM BREMEN
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      735 32 EXPRESS CONTAINER FEEDER FOR N SHEW (CFS MULUNO. MUMBAUCOLOMBO ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALL NORTHERN AND WESTERN 1.C.0. POKTS v S PORE N SHEVA COLOMBO P KLANG CAPE CANAVERAL VI23W 22 MAY M MAT 03 JUN HJUN TULSIOAS ¥.125 28 MAY M JUN 11 JUN 11 JUN CAPE CREUS V.117W 04
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      47 39 j^rj* Shantou, Dongshan, STL CONTAINER LINE ZhangZhou For Services To Vietnam Calcutta Tum to Pg 3 Mon/Wed/Fri Pg 7 Woridgate Express Lines STANDARD SHIPPING Wallenius AGENCIES PTE LTD Wilhelmsen Offers Weekly FCL/LCL New Europe To EAST MALAYSIA L AST/ d*t* service DETAILS Pg 8 Pg 1 (Barwil)
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      121 41 V LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm Showers S^\ Rain Temperature C„/ Wind direction and speed in knots Cloudy Day Weather (><J Hazy Wind speed symbols Sea Conditions O Pull circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable winds I 1 -2ni -»—One half fleche represents 5
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      368 42 NOTICE OF A RATE RESTORATION IN THE ASIA/NORTH EUROPE TRADE ON 1 AUGUST 2000 In October 1999 the Member Lines of the Asia Westbound Rate Agreement (AWRA) issued a press announcement giving an early indication to their Customers in the Trade from Asia to North Europe of their intention to
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