The Business Times, 22 May 2000

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    10 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2000 MITA(P) 035/12/1999
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    63 1 SnXXHAKKET INDICES Week (Tun# ST1 1.992.41 -34.23 SMSCI FUTURES _UNAY. BTSRI 751.26. 4.1! KLSE GOMP— 960.82. +57.96 NIKKEI 16,858.17 -499.69 HANG SENG. 14.*****. -633.68 SETCXDEX. 343.4®. -217 JAKARTA OOMP 589.41 -17.47 MANILA COMP 1,478.68.. -60.63 TAIPEI WPL 8,820.35...+259.91 SEOUL COUP 730.68.... -9.82 CLSA CHINA B._ .831.86. AlIST ALL
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    81 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ USS 1.728 £(l T S$/SSperS) 1.482 2561 EURO(US$/S$/E) 0.994 1.544 DM 2.189 0.789 YEN 107.7 1.604 RM 1800 0455 HM 7.790 0522 BAHT 3911 0044 RITLAH 8530 0.021 'St to 100 units FUME SATES SINGAPORE* J.. 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 767 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA
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    Lock icon Ibra lining up $1b property assets for sale
    814 1  -  -^exclusive Consultants being hired soon to package assets for offer to S'pore-based investors From I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) is lining up property assets estimated to be worth more than Ssl billion for sale to Singapore-based
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    Lock icon A top-class jeweller who's straight out of the Renaissance
    807 1  -  PEOPLE By i Corinne Kerk [SINGAPORE] He carries the famous Winston name and, like his late father, is making sure that a photograph of his face will never appear in the media during his lifetime. But for all the zealous protection
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    Lock icon Global code of conduct for financial pros unveiled
    536 1  -  exclusive Int'l panel headed by Singapore banker consolidates 5 codes By Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] A new global code of conduct and practice for financial market professionals was unveiled over the weekend, embracing the five different existing codes governing the business of forex
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      94 1 dibipe Web sites the internet ludtencc j-nl kllAWAft/ jgj WddekoffflM 4 f nn :r mtim wnn w top Top stories S'pore No 2 on US hi-tech funds' list. Pg 13 m Taiwan stocks this week are expected to follow Saturday's fall. Next Page Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal's US$l b investment
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      134 1 Singapore Arts Festival Wt 1 os W;tf'"hi::rr Whnt? Who's Bringing Tou What 7 A.EI: Who 5 Who And What What? With 10 days to go before the curtain rises on the Singapore Arts Festival, Executive Lifestyle brings you exclusive, behind-the-scenes coverage on what shows to watch, who's watching them and
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      276 1 ion Property? urrently experiencing its biggest housing boom since the late 1980s with cording a 30 percent increase in house prices over the past 12 months, ir interest rate increases in the last eight months. ctly is the London property market headed and should one be considering a ty investment
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      Lock icon Taiwan stocks expected to fall further this week
      773 2  -  Market reacting to Fed rate hike rather than Chen's inangnral address, say analysts From] Macabe Keliher in Taipei DESPITE restrained comments over the weekend by both Taiwan and China, Taiwan stocks this week are expected to follow Saturday's fall, erasing some of
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      Lock icon Saudi prince's US$1b buys mark move into New Economy
      745 2 Analysts adopt defensive posture as stocks slide and interest rates rise FT IF US equities are attractive to a Saudi prince, then maybe the rest of the world should also be tempted. Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal revealed to USA Today newspaper
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      7 2 Greater China markets relieved—but cautious, Pg 18
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  • GLOBAL markets
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      Lock icon Warning on New Economy euphoria
      449 3 Market players should not let it cloud judgment, including way hi-tech firms are being valued, warn regulators FT [SYDNEY] The world's leading securities regulators put financial markets on notice on Friday, warning them not to allow euphoria over the New Economy to cloud their judgment.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon E-commerce projects up and running at Keppel
      441 4  -  %eppel Harbour project jSpill be seamless jjrith business nnits forking together Wong Wei Kong VERAL key business units of KepSgfcl Corp are already planning and imSiementing their respective e-com-Mflerce projects, the conglomerate in its latest annual report. K While it has been reported
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      Lock icon Chinese trading site gets mixed reactions
      973 9  -  Phillip Sec says it will enhance system to meet expectations; remains optimistic By' Tay Hong Seng PHILLIP Securities' recently launched Chinese language online trading system for unit trusts, the first of its kind here, has met with mixed reactions. While several executives in the
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      253 4 TCommerce, Answers For Business and Technical Professionals *y~* ■«—< -ir-r— Mk oe^k m By j| V jp. E-COMMERCE E-COMMERCE il Bum/no** Approach A Technical Approach HOW DOES ECOMNERCE TURN YOUR 4 HOW DO YOU SET UP AN E-COMMERCE BUSINESS AROUND? f WEBSITE? Find out how e-commerce helps jfau G«t answers
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      406 6 May 10 Source: JM S oon Stocks Volume Hat Bee 10c 81,482,000 NatStee)50c 55,015,000 Avapias5c 41,915.000 ThaiVitage 5c 39,524,000 StnK9Engg5c 38,390.000 CEI5c 35,312.000 AkOcean5c 32,589,000 ChewEuHock 20c 31,520,000 Nudeus Elec 5c 31,479,000 SingTel 15c 29,155,000 Stocks Nat Elec 10c 489,759.289 Chart Semiconductor 26c 239,335.328 DBSGrp 166,531,584 NatSteeJ50c 158.742,572 TAG Bt*****.
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      Lock icon Interest rate, profit worries cloud market outlook
      601 6  -  I I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy AFTER knowing about rising US interest rates for weeks, it seems the market is now suddenly worried about rising US interest rates. And after largely ignoring average earnings growth forecasts this year of 22 per cent, it
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      Lock icon Long-dated Berjaya Group warrant hard to beat
      187 6  -  WARRANT WATCH -By R Sivanithy MALAYSIA'S upgrading in the Morgan Stanley Capital International indices has now refocused attention north of the border, so perhaps we should start looking anew at the market there. One popular theme that's proved its resilience time and again
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      Lock icon NatSteel: holding on to $2.50 crucial
      258 6  -  HOT STOCK Byy Wong Wei Kong SHARES of Nat Steel Ltd were among the stocks hit by changes to the MSCI Singapore Index last Friday, falling sharply after investors learned that the stock has been dropped from the market benchmark. Nat Steel shares plunged
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      133 6 ♦FRASER&Neafc announced that it has incorporated a wholly-Owned subsidiary in Malaysia, named Fannet Online Sdn Bhd, with an authorised capital of RMS million (552.3 million) divided into 5 million shares of RMI each and a paid-up capital ofRM2. ♦Cycle Carriage announced that it has on May 17,2000 entered
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      Lock icon Regional currencies seen falling prey to US$ bulls
      481 6 ASIAN currencies look likely to continue falling prey to US dollar bulls this week. The US Federal Reserve's aggressive interest-rate hike last week is likely to keep Asian currencies under pressure. Not only are returns in the US looking more attractive, investors
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  • ARTS festival
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      Lock icon Smorgasbord of talents
      1658 10  -  And the best way to savour the Arts Festival's various elements is to go with an open mind, Bernard Tan tells jaxme ee JAIME EE THE Arts Festival is like a box of chocolates. You never know what people are going to pick. And if they're going
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      Lock icon Caught in the crossfire?
      1035 11  -  Columnist Bob Novak got his facts wrong and wrote a load of gibberish on Fed chairman Alan Greenspan last week, says CAROLINE BAUM CAROLINE BAUM Bloomberg AIVE is one adjective never used to describe conservative Chicago Sun I Times political columnist and CNN I Crossfire host
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon BG Yeo: We need cosmopolitan workplace
      584 13  -  S'pore can learn from Silicon Valley to attract top talent Reports from Eugene Low in San Francisco HAVING a cosmopolitan work environment, like that of Silicon Valley's, is necessary if Singapore is to attract and retain top talent, said Minister for Trade and Industry
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      Lock icon S'pore to benefit if Asean is marketed as a region: BG Yeo
      345 13 Americans see S'pore as a natural hub for SEA BY marketing Asean as a region to foreign investors, Singapore also stands to benefit indirectly because an economically thriving Southeast Asia will create more business for Singapore as well,
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      Lock icon S'pore No 2 on US hi-tech funds' list
      527 13  -  ASEAN MINISTERIAL INVESTMENT MISSION It attracted USs7.sb in manufacturing investment in 1998, after UK's USsl2b From Eugene Low in Santa Clara DESPITE Asia's economic crisis. Singapore was the sec ond-most popular destinaticn for US high technology manu facturing investments in 1998 Singapore
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      Lock icon Don't ban multilevel marketing
      960 14  -  MAILITPn It's not the same as pyramid schemes bnt the most powerful way to reach info-overloaded consumers in the New Economy Patrick Liew I READ the article "Pyramid-selling loophole to be plugged" (BT, May 10) on the latest Multilevel Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act. As
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      Lock icon April export data won't derail GDP forecast: analyst
      547 14  -  on the economy trade H» Siow Li Sen UNEXPECTEDLY sharply lower growth in non-oil domestic exports (Nodx) in April should not throw a spanner into the works and upset the government's upbeat economic growth forecast for the year, according to one senior
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      Lock icon WorldCom matches year's biggest US debt issue
      475 15 NEW YORK It sells USssb bonds; firms issuing debt now as Fed rates are expected to go up Bloomberg WORLDCOM Inc, the No 2 US long distance telephone company sold US$5 billion (SsB 6 billion) of bonds, 43 per cent more than planned,
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      Lock icon Internet-phone users set to top 10m in Japan
      351 15 TOKYO Handsets with Web functions are bestsellers: paper AP THE number of Japanese who access the Internet by mobile phone is set to surpass 10 million by the end of May, just 16 months after Internetcompatible handsets first arrived in the country's
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      Lock icon Virus more dangerous than Love Bug thwarted
      466 15 SAN FRANCISCO Corporate systems updated to reject Herbie program Bloomberg CORPORATE computer users largely thwarted an email virus similar to the one disguised as a love letter that spread around the world two weeks ago, software makers said. The new program, called "Herbie"
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      Lock icon Pan Pacific Asia, Kumpulan Fima to team up: report
      252 16 KUALA LUMPUI PAN Pacific Asia Bhd (PPAB) and Kumpulan Fi ma fchd are teaming up to create a universal bro ker made up of their wholly owned stockbroking subsidiaries New Straits Times reported They signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday,
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      Lock icon KL: still committed to reforms?
      699 16 I -II analysis Officials say recent bailouts just indicate a need for some government involvement to keep things on track Reuters iKUALA I,iJMPUR] THE Malaysian gov ernment has rescued a string of debt-laden firms, setting back Prime Minister Ma hathir Mohamad's ambitious privatisa tion drive
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      Lock icon Philippine steel giant NSC seeks US$1b injection
      450 16 MANILA Ailing firm's plan also calls for debt restructuring Reuters AILING National Steel Corp (NSC) in which Halim Saad's Hottick Investments holds a majority stake has submitted a plan to the authorities calling for infusion of fresh capital of up to US$l billion
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        Lock icon EON Bank posts best results ever
        76 16 [KUALA LUMPUR] EON Bank Bhd has posted its best results to-date, turning in a group pre-tax profit of RM2O9 million (Ss9s million) last year, compared with a RM21.5 million loss in 1998, The Star reported. The bank itself chalked up a pre-tax profit of
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        Lock icon Industronics to list unit on Mesdaq
        60 16 [KUALA LUMPUR] Industronics Bhd is planning to list its associate company PDX Computers Sdn Bhd on the Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (Mesdaq) in the near future, The Star said. Industronics managing director Lim Jit Chow declined to elaborate on the
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        Lock icon PAS to hold rally next month
        74 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] A week after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling party wrapped up a closely-watched national convention, Malaysia's fundamentalist opposition party Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) has declared it will launch its own rally next month, news reports said yesterday. PAS officials say they
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Bomb blast in Manila mall set to unnerve jittery stock market
      627 17  -  Security woes, latest Fed rate hike, plnnge in peso knock investor sentiment Fronn Al Labita in Manila OVERSOLD Philippine stocks look headed for more panic selloffs as sentiments are weighed down by a worsening peace and order situation, surging
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      Lock icon Thai market hoping for Moody's upgrade
      346 17 BANGKOK Reuters THAILAND'S beleaguered stock market will be hoping for hints of a ratings apgrade this week to help push up historically weak share prices, dealers say. The Thai market needs all the help it can get at the moment after news last week
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      Lock icon Ratchaburi plant confirms share sale
      148 17 RATCHABURI. Thailand Reuters THE holding firm of Ratchaburi power plant, the largest in Thailand, confirmed on Saturday it woulo sell 40 per cent of 1.4 billion shares in the firm to the public m September Boonchu Direkstapon. managing director of Ratchaburi Holding, told reporters another
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon When the market can't be read, it's best to sit on cash
      782 18  -  H:iri comment HK STOCKS With real interest rates at 15%, a defensive strategy becomes attractive quak hiang whai IF investing is about timing, and if timing is about synchronising your stock purchases with what's important to the bourse
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      Lock icon Chen to consider lifting ban on direct links with China
      429 18 TAIPEI Taiwan says WTO could be forum to discuss issue AP SEEKING to calm China, Taiwan's new president promised yesterday that he would seriously consider ending a five-decade-long ban on direct air and shipping links with the neighbouring communist rival.
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      Lock icon Greater China markets relieved – but cautious
      413 18 Greater China markets relieved but cautious HONGKONG Reuters STOCK markets in Hong kong, China and Taiwan will breathe a sigh of relief this week over the flexibility seen in Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's inaugural speech, and rival Beijing's restrained response But analysts said the chance to boost ties across the
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      11 18 China eyes fcey £/S now with EU deal done, Pg 20
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Beijing warily eyes key US trade vote
      546 20 CHINA'S US TRADE STATUS US cannot block China's WTO entry, state media warns Reuters (BEIJING) China yesterday turned from celebrating its agreement with the European Union (EU) on Beijing's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession to warily watching a critical US vote on its
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      Lock icon US business wails for China's PNTR status
      407 20 U WASHINGTON They are convinced of a sharp rise in trade, profits AFP US business leaders, solidly behind expanded trade with China, have been all but salivating lately as they contemplate the massive profits they say await them in a nation of 1.3
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      Lock icon Japan stocks too low: Miyazawa
      223 20 TOKYO Nikkei revamp part of problem, says finance minister Bloomberg JAPANESE Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said share prices of Japanese companies are too low. having fallen excessively on the Nikkei 225 stock average's replacement of 30 members last month. Mr Miyazawa, speaking on Asahi Broadcasting
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      Lock icon ECB rate hike seen as euro hits record low
      542 22 Frankfurt Quickening economic growth; rising cost of imports fuelling euro-zone inflation Bloomberg THE European Central Bank is likely to raise interest rates in coming weeks, possibly as soon as Thursday, as the euro's slide to a record low fuels inflation in
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      Lock icon Blair believes he can sway UK to adopt euro
      268 22 LONDON Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Tony Blair believes he can persuade the nation's voters to scrap the pound and adopt the euro, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing excerpts from an interview with a US magazine. "If we decided to make
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      Lock icon Fidelity to open UK mutual fund supermarket
      364 22 LONDON It plans to offer at least 300 funds from 12 firms on the Net, rivalling Egg Bloomberg FIDELITY Investments plans to start a mutual fund "supermarket" next month in the UK to compete for online investors with Prudential pic's Egg unit and
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      Lock icon Prison was a hellhole: Alan Bond
      335 22 Casuarina maximum-security prison has worst prison environment in Western Australia, he says AFP [PERTH] Disgraced former Australian tycoon Alan Bond has described as "a hellhole" one of the prisons in which he served a sentence of just over three years for committing Australia's biggest
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      Lock icon Telefonica gets SEC nod to take control of units
      229 22 MADRID Reuters SPANISH telecoms giant Telefonica said on Friday that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared its US$lB billion (5530.9 billion) plan to win full control of subsidiaries in Argentina, Peru and two in Brazil. "The SEC approved the
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      Lock icon Economy may shrink again in Q2: Miyazawa
      519 23 TOKYO He puts Q1 growth at 2%, says continued expansion hinges on private consumption Reuters JAPAN'S stop-go economy could already be screeching to a halt once more after a quarter of runaway growth. Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday Speaking on a television
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      Lock icon Pfizer should get EU nod today on Warner-Lambert
      248 23 BRUSSELS USsllsb buyout will create world's No 1 drugmaker Bloomberg PFIZER Inc is likely to receive European Union approval today for its US$ll5 billion (Ssl99 billion) acquisition of Wrrner-Lambert Co, making it the world's No 1 drugmaker, lawyers and ana lysts said
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        69 23 Reuters [LONDON] Insolvent online sportswear retailer boo.cosi has to wait until today to know if a buyer will emerge to pick up the pieces, liquidators KPMG said yesterday. Boo.com last Thursday became Europe's first big dotcom failure due to lack of funds, six
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        64 23 NYT [TOKYO] Nissan Motor, Japan's third-largest carmaker, reported on Friday one of the biggest losses ever recorded by a non-financial company. Its losses widened to 684.4 billion yen (Ssll billion) on a consolidated basis for the year ended March, as Nissan erased outstanding pension
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      226 23 MEXICO CITY Reuters INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) head Horst Koehler on Friday said the volatility of US markets was of concern but he did not expect to see the US economy land with a crash "I do think there is some need for
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      544 23 WASHINGTON Economic statistics are also expected to show rising home resales Bloomberg US economic statistics set for release this week on overall growth, housing and consumer spending will show that the Federal Re serve's campaign to raise interest rates has yet to cool the
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      550 24 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP [LONDON) Fears of limited supplies drove oil prices higher last week, while coffee prices perked up after leading producers reached agreement on withholding stocks. In New York, the price of benchmark light sweet crude
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      789 25 NEW YORK Investors are returning to more reasonably valued areas after the speculative fervour Bloomberg THE Federal Reserve pushed short-term interest rates to their highest in nine years, and investors took cover, buying relatively inexpensive stocks such as Rite Aid
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      858 25 PI Sydney +L 4 THE Australian market is likely to focus on possible comments by Reserve Bank governor lan Macfarlane with little other stimulus expected this week, dealers said. Mr Macfarlane faces the Parliamentary Committee on Banking and Finance today with questions on the Aussie dollar and
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      445 25 TOKYO AFP THE Tokyo stock market is expected to receive limited buying support in the coming week amid concerns about the US market's prospects and Japan's economic health, analysts said. Investors expect the US Federal Reserve to further raise its interest rates
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      1921 25 □Pans -***** FRENCH stocks ended with a sharp losses on Friday with the CAC-40 Index finishing below the psychological 6,200 mark, as a fall on the US Nasdaq extended the bloodbath on telecoms, media and tech stocks as investors fled from New Economy stocks, rocked by Europe's
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      366 25 LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended the week lower as benign economic data, reinforcing sentiment that British interest rates have peaked, failed to dispel the gloom generated by fears of further US tightening. The FTSE 100 Index of leading.shares ended the week
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      140 25 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG shares are expected to move in narrow trade this week amid a string of uncertainties, dealers said on Friday. "The market may face narrow trade at the 14.300-15,000-point level" as investors await the results of trade talks between China and
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      434 26 AFP MALAYSIAN stocks may start trading today on an upbeat note after Friday's strong performance but the rest of the week could be volatile, analysts said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended Friday at 950.62, up 28.32 points on the day and
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      9256 26 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 2000 Last Vol Week Nat Cap High Low Company Sale 000 High Low P/C $mll 420 310 AJinomoto 372 -2 3 374 372 20.4 150.8 158 91 Angkasa 98.5 .5 78 99 145.2 670 290 Apollo Food Hlg 525 5 17 530 515 12.5 210.0 3300 2700
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      607 27 SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup THERE seems little during the week ahead that is likely to challenge the US dollar's general supremacy. The European Central Bank's meeting on Thursday is likely to be a focus for the ailing euro, as to whether the bank will raise
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      244 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 7 His music is sheer heaven (5) 1 Vital vessel, albeit of odd design Worthless weapon raised by a (8) right-winger (8) 5 Ape a famous historian (6) 9 Unusually, neither daughter is 10 Score without payment, yet lack overdrawn (2,3,3) esteem (5 37) 14 Reveal it
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      564 30  -  OBITUARY Virtuoso Jean-Pierre Rampal,7B, was credited with elevating the flute into the ranks of solo performance instruments, jon thurber delves into his life JON THURBER LATWP JEAN-PIERRE Rampal, the French classical flautist who brought the instrument into the soloist spotlight during a career lasting more than 50
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      482 30 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Reuters [CANNES] A bumper crop of ground-breaking films has made the 53rd Cannes Film Festival a year in which directing talent and emotional power have pushed back the frontiers of cinema. A strong selection of Asian pictures, two tear-jerkers from Scandinavia
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      178 30 AFP [CANNES] Japan's Aoyama Shinji won the International Critics (Fipresci) Prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his marathon movie Eureka, screened in the Official Selection. The Fipresci saluted "the extraordinary dynamism of Asian cinema as represented in the Official Selection" and singled
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      177 31 Singapore's Semiconductor Though the Republic is on an upward swing producing and using V <\ I V;V w 1 31 -I Vr AHn flfi H i-.itf -f" ..t -'>■/ J¥Bpb' f My T OTfrfe 7 '&i T 4. <•#'-- w. A, <i|f4Mi > n 3KW£V p|p •■•W-V*' "-£{s? .?>.*• r^ME.
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      52 31 Top stories 81ayer.com to invest Ssm in R&D here Page 6 S'pore call centre market to hit USS7O.4m by 2006 Page 7 Security in your hand: Sr" i^twcn r7* Smart tech and biometrics from Autostar Page 12 Commentary Info overload on the Web Pages Winning Asia's portal races Page 8
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      624 32  -  By 2004, the Asia-Pacific's semiconductor market will be just second to the US in demand. A Gartner research director and an industry player discuss Singapore's prospects Report* by' Toh Han Shih SINGAPORE has a good chance of becoming a strong semiconductor powerhouse in the AsiaPacific region,
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      601 32 Semiconductors, now on npswin& will see a downturn in 2003 THE world's semiconductor Industry is now on a euphoric upswing, but will peak in 2002 and see a downturn in 2003, according to research company GartnerGroup Inc. "The global semiconductor market will
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      155 32 Xinhua [SHANTOU] Shantou Special Economic Zone in south China's Guangdong Province is hoping to become a powerhouse of high-tech industrial development in a decade. According to a science and technology plan for the next 10 years, Shantou will focus on developing electronics and information, bio-engineering,
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        642 34 IBM Netfinity servers provide knowledge management infrastructure iPROPERTY is going places. David Leong, Chief Operating Officer of the rapidly expanding real estate network which started in August last year, is optimistic that IProperty (www.iProperty.com) will be profitable within two years. "Our aim is
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        475 34 eC-LINK.COM (www.e-bzz.com) is finding that it pays to have IBM as a technology partner. The specialist in supply chain software for businesses in Asia is now offering its eSupply Chain solutions in an ASP Model. eC-LINK.com Pte Ltd has also formed a Consortium comprising
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        651 34 WHEN ASPs launch their businesses, they think of going regional and international. They have visions of hitting it big and being success stories. But the journey is littered with a host of casualties. What are some of the pitfalls ASPs should watch out for? What
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      743 35  -  The tools to handle today's info revolution are already here. Master them kenneth james The writer is Technology Editor, BT. JOURNALISTS at Singapore Press Holdings now have access to Playboy magazine on the Internet. A reporter can sit down at one of a
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        56 35 HOMEGROWN Strategic Intelligence, a provider of Asian business intelligence solutions, said Jupiter Communications, a US Internet commerce research firm, has taken a 15 per cent stake in its business for about US$3.5 million (556.02 million). The investment will enable Strategic Intelligence to continue its
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        49 35 MAINBOARD-listed Informatics Holdings Ltd has tied up with Caldera Systems Inc to offer Linux education programmes through Informatics' network of IT training centres. Informatics will adopt Caldera's suite of Linux training and certification preparatory courses and deliver hands-on training to IT students across Asia.
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        44 35 NEW YORK-based Avation.net Inc, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Advent Television, has added five US TV stations to its global network. This is in addition to 10 international licensees of the subsidiary, which sells and produces TV ads through e-commerce.
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        81 35 NETWORK management service provider Net Tasking.com has appointed three new officials: Alfred Yim as executive vice-president of sales; Kelvin Wong as vice-president for South Asia; and Eric Chan as vice-president of finance and administration. Mr Yim was previously senior manager for IBM financial services in Hongkong,
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        57 35 US-based Linuxcare Inc last week opened its Singapore office, headed by Angus McDougall, managing director for the Asia-Pacific. Mr McDougall was previously regional managing director for Informix's South-east Asia and India operations. The company has also tied up with Singapore-based eLinux Pte Ltd to offer its
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        41 35 A SEMINAR on "Dotcom from speed, greed and uncertainty to rules and relationships", will be held on Wednesday at the Sony Auditorium in Keppel Towers. It is organised by The DotComßrokers. For details, e-mail cyndi. chua(aihedotcombrokers. com.sg.
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        35 35 A SEMINAR and exhibition on "Document imaging technology breaking the barriers" will be held on Thursday at the Inter-Continental Hotel. It is organised by Kodak. For details, go to www.kodak.com.au/go/registration.
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        37 35 A FORUM on "Crossing the concept to startup hurdle— in Internet time' will be held on Thursday at Merchant Court Hotel. It is organised by landl Asia (Singapore). For details, e-mail laychintan aiaridiasia.com.
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        30 35 A TWO-DAY exposition titled "Softworld supply chain" will be held from May 30 at the Grand Hyatt. It is organised by Imark Communications. For details, fax *****07.
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        48 35  -  Compiled by Tay Shi'an A TWO-DAY seminar titled "E-business conference and expo vital knowledge to energise your supply chain" will be held from June 15 at the Grand Copthome Waterfront Hotel. It is organised by Startup Events. For details, fax *****42, or go to www.startupevents.com.
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      363 36  -  Legend co-founder chooses Singapore as HQ for R&D Elizabeth Su HONGKONG-based Blayer.com, that provides ASP (Application Service Provider) solutions, has set up its R&D headquarters in Singapore and tied up with USbased Sybase Inc. Slayer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of North 22 Technology
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      1103 36  -  By Libby Copeland The Washington Post VIDEO and computer gaming is the fast-est-growing facet of the entertainment industry, and it occupies far more than our leisure time. Gaming is changing us: our technology, our art, how we learn, what we expect from
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      525 37  -  Ull exclusive! Bv then, the Republic's market share will drop to 7% in the top 10 Asian markets, says study iiu. Andrew Wee THE Singapore call centre market is expected to grow at an average 19 per cent a year to
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      493 37  -  By* Justin Mullins NYT IN the wake of the Love Bug virus attack, computer scientists are warning that future viruses aimed at intelligent mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) may be even worse. They could record your conversations and forward them to others, delete money
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      1172 38  -  Portal development can be a high-stakes, winner-takes-all game bram bout THERE'S a boom in Asia in Internet portal development. Low entry barriers and tantalising potential have triggered a spate of new portal launches throughout the region. Given the astronomical valuations attained by some US portals, it
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      216 38 AP [NEW YORK] As awareness about Internet security rises, virus writers are finding creative ways to trick computer users into opening harmful email attachments. To keep Internet users off guard, the latest virus changes the email's subject line to reflect recent files on the sender's
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      566 38  -  David Bloom LAT (LOS ANGELES] It's being billed as the first-ever feature film created specifically for the Internet, and it's debuting Thursday night, worldwide, from Hollywood. Whether some obscure film-school project beat "The Quantum Project" to the Net, it's safe to say this
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      638 39  -  A 64-bit processor can handle more than four billion times more addresses than a 32-bit C'Pl gary foong The writer is CEO, Donovan Systems AMID all the excitement that surrounds new technology today, one hot initiative is frequently overlooked: 64-bit computing. This powerful platform
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      575 39  -  For a fee, programs that will print 'authentic' certs can be downloaded By Marilyn Geewax NYT [WASHINGTON] From teenagers trying to buy beer to sophisticated criminals trying to defraud banks, thousands of Americans are turning to the Internet to obtain fake driver's
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      563 40  -  Dollardex.com's unique financial service catches Hongkong Monetary Authority's eye Hy Toh Han Shih Homegrown Doiiardex.com, which offers financial services over the Internet, is now expanding into Hongkong, Taiwan and South Korea. In Singapore, it will soon launch an online service called
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      185 40  -  Ry\ Elizabeth Su HOMEGROWN Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) and Siemens Information and Communication Mobile (ICM) will collaborate on a $1 million R&D project to design and implement a testbed for mobile, wireless Internet. The QoS (Quality of Service) project is for a
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      520 40 Purchases to hit almost USs4b this year Reuters [SEOUL] Compaq Computer Corp. the world s largest personal computer maker, said last week it planned to boost purchases of South Koreanmade computer components to nearly US$4 billion (557.6 billion) this year, up 50 per cent
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      281 40  -  By Kenneth Lee A NEW facilitation system which lists hotels' discount and excess capacity rooms for fast and anonymous clearance over the Internet, was launched here last week. The site at www.itsfair.com is the brainchild of Minh Hien Hua, CEO ofEzasia.com Pte Ltd,
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      360 41  -  Its Garage Program offers tools, services, and up to USs2m in funds, for startups in Singapore %< Joyce Koh He w PACKARD Singapore last week launched its threepronged strategy to help service providers, Net startups and companies reduce the time it takes to create and
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        67 41 GATEWAY Inc has launched its new notebook computer, its ultra-light Solo 3300 that is just an inch thick and weighs 1.7 kg. It comes with a metallic-blue case, runs on an Intel 500 MHz Pentium 111 and offers 128 MB RAM, 12 GB hard disk, 16-bit
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        68 41 INFOCUS Systems Asia has introduced its new notebook projector (above) targeted at mobile presenters, road warriors and notebook users. Called the LP335 Dragonfly, InFocus said it is the first to incorporate the DVI (Digital Video Interface) standard. The $11,000 device offers 1,000 lumens' brightness at up to
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        73 41 HEWLETT-PACKARD has announced its new IGHz HP Pavilion 8650 PC, calling it the fastest Pavilion Home PC for the Asia-Pac markets. It runs on the 1 GHz Athlon processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc and comes with 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard disk, 56
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        66 41  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam US-BASED eSoft Inc is ready with its Team Internet Model 100, a Linux-based Internet access solution for SMEs (small and medium enterprises). It is built with an automatic router and firewall, connects up to 25 workstations through a single Internet feed, and
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      175 41 Bloomberg [SAN FRANCISCO) HewlettPackard Co settled a lawsuit on Thursday with Encad Inc, which accused the No. 2 computer maker of unfairly selling large-format inkjet printers below cost. The companies reached the agreement just days before the case was scheduled to go to trial
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        690 42  -  Autostar's products that incorporate smartcard technology and biometrics promise more secure environments for network transactions, akdrew wee reports ANDREW WEE PICTURE this, a university student walks up to a "transaction kiosk", puts her thumb against a fingerprint scanner and after authentication, is able to call up
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      468 43  -  Economic recovery indicated by last year's 3.7% growth in cargo throughput From Alec Almazan in Manila [MANILA] Philippine ports handled a total of 142.28 million tonnes in 1999. up by 3.7 per cent over the 137.17 million tonnes recorded in 1998. The figures,
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      704 43  -  DOCKYARD By David Hughes POR obvious reasons accidents on passenger ships attract attention. This region has had, depressingly, quite enough experience of passenger ship accidents, including a number with large loss of life. But the problem of passenger
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      287 43 AFP [MUSCAT] The Omani port of Salalah posted losses of more than US$5 million (SSB.S million) in 1999, its first operational year, after taking into account start-up costs. Salalah Port Services Co said. The company reported total revenues of 7.141 million rials
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        1088 44 If the US$ 12b jumbo succeeds, the European group will be able to win a chunk of the profitable large-plane market Reuters [PARIS] Risky, high cost projects are nothing new to European plane maker Airbus Industrie. But after 30 years of battling archrival Boeing
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        297 58 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Indonesian Airlines, armed with licences for 46 domestic routes, plans to rent 10 jets and has hired British Airways pic to help it initiate flights in August. The airline, established less than a year ago. will rent 10 Boeing 737
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        289 58 Reuters [BRUSSELS] Flight delays at European airports were less severe in the first three months of this year than in 1999 but the level was still far too high, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) said The AEA said the
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        192 58 Bloomberg [MADRID] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Scandinavian Airlines System and British Midland Airways Ltd. said they started flights this month between London's Heathrow Airport and Madrid as their airline alliance boosts its services in Europe. Lufthansa's Star Alliance, a partnership involving 13 international airlines,
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        231 58 BA to hold takeover talks with KLM: report Reuters [LONDON] British Airways is due shortly to hold takeover talks with Dutch carrier KLM in a bid to create Europe's biggest airline and the fifth-biggest in the world. The Observer reported. In an early edition, the newspaper said negotiations over combining
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        425 58 Operating costs more than offset 16% rise in sales Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Co, South Korea's largest airliner, said it posted a first-quar-ter net loss as increased jet fuel, rental and depreciation costs more than offset an increase in sales.
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        213 58 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Co said it replaced four of its' five vicepresidents and hired nine chief pilots as South Korea's largest airline tries to overcome safety problems. The company did not say which vice-presidents were replaced or provide names of the replacements. Spokeswoman
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