The Business Times, 29 May 2000

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES HtfMP) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, MAY 29, 2000
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    68 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Vfeek Change STL 1,820.63 -171.79 SIMSC1 FUTURES ...243.90 -22.40 BTSRL 683. IS -68.13 KLSECOMP 884.57 -6605 NIKKEI. 16,808.14 -***** HANG SENG...._ 13,722.70 -755.56 SEnNDEX..... *****. -30.32 JAKARTA COMP 482.07 -27.14 MANILA COMP 1,427 26. -51.42 TAIPEI WPI ...8,559.46 -260.89 SEOULCOMP 656.66 -74.02 CLSA CHINA B...
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    80 1 FOBEX BATES US$ 8$ US$ 1.733 £fl'SS/SS per 1.474 1864 EURO{l'S$/S$/E) 0.915 1.585 DM 2.138 0.811 YEN 1073 1.615 RM SJSM 0.45« HKS 7.790 0523 BAHT 39 08 0.044 RUF1AH 8,470 0.020 'St to 100 units PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .19.00 BANflKOK .9.50 MANILA 11.00
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    Lock icon Vickers dissenters entertain thoughts of third party
    551 1  -  rTlexclusive Ong faction believes Vickers deserves better than what GK Goh has to offer /fy Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The battle between the pro-merger and an-ti-merger factions over the proposed tie-up between broking houses GK Goh Holdings and Vickers Ballas Holdings has intensified with
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    Lock icon E Asian economies bouncing back strongly
    1267 1 But regional bourses are edgy with fears of more US interest rate hikes AP [HONGKONG] Less than three years after a plunge in the value of Thailand's currency triggered a devastating economic crisis across much of East Asia, the region is riding a wave
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    Lock icon Traditional Eu Yan Sang pills get Western stamp
    652 1  -  FTiexciusMve By' Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] Eu Yan Sang's famous Bak Foong pills, long a traditional antidote for womanly ills, could be patented and registered for sale in international markets. In a move widely seen as a prelude to a listing on
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    Lock icon Fire insurance rates down by 30-50% since Sept
    652 1  -  1 Jlexclusive Lifting of 13-year freeze spells gloom for industry By: Ling Su Ann [SINGAPORE] Rates for fire insurance the second biggest business in the general insurance trade have fallen by up to half since last September, when a controversial 13-year freeze
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      Lock icon S'pore online adspend to cross US$67m
      557 2  -  I si I exclusive This will be achieved by 2004; 80% annual growth higher than Asia-Pac average; IDC Jhj] Raju Chellam [SINGAPORE] Businesses in Singapore will splurge over US$67 million (*****.9 million) on advertising and promotions on the Internet by 2004, up sharply from
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      Lock icon BT Golf index at lowest level in a year on stockmarket woes
      407 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan ISINGAPORE] If there was any doubt that golf club membership prices track the stock market, that doubt should have been dispelled by the downtrend in membership prices over the last few months. The BT Golf
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Banks, other blue chips are best bets for now
      815 3  -  Experts feel accumulating gradually over time is the safest approach as no one can be sure when the market wonld bottom out By- Ven Sreenivasan INVESTORS who are keen to stock pick in the current weakened market conditions should stick to
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      Lock icon Better bottom lines
      211 3 Selected ST Index stocks EARNINGS ($m) CHNG COMPANY END 99 END 98 1 DBS Group 1,071.78 111.96 +057.3 2 Jardine Mat (US$) 207.40 50.50 +310.7 3 OUB 450.07 176.62 +154£ 4 UOB 760.21 331.68 +129.2 5 HK Land (US$) 267.10 125.80 +11Z3 6 CityDev 260 58 123
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      Lock icon S'pore stocks in PruBache's new Asian Select List
      456 3  -  Creative, Datacr&ft among 10 top stocks picked for ability to ride market turmoil By\ Siow Li Sen AMID a vicious bear market that continues to maul many investors, Prudential-Bache Securities has launched its Asian Select List of 10 stocks two of them
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      Lock icon Wing Tai sees $23m revenue from 4 London fashion brands
      444 4  -  Exclusive franchise will help posh up lifestyle arm's net profits by 20% Byi Andrea Tan WING Tai Holdings' exclusive franchise for four popular London fashion brands is expected to rake in up to $23 million in revenue in its first
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      Lock icon Shareholders approve Thai Danu rights issue
      536 4  -  Approval to raise l&sb baht both positive and cause for concern: analysts Froml Harish Mehta in Bangkok DBS Thai Danu Bank is going ahead with an 11 billion baht (*****.5 million) rights issue and a 2.5 billion baht private placement, in a bid to
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T clinches $10m cell phone deal
      240 4 LISTED Keppel T&T announced over the weekend that it had secured a $10 million turnkey GSM network roll-out contract from mobile phone supplier Nokia Philippines. The deal, clinched through a wholly-owned subsidiary called Keppel Communications, will see the group providing full turnkey GSM
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      425 6 'May 24 Source: JM S oon Stocks Volume IPCO 20c 86,835,000 NatElec 10c 61,881,000 Trek 5c 60,872,000 ST Engg 10c 43,357,000 PNE Ind 10c 41,558,000 SingTel 15c 39,473,000 NatSteel 50c 39,180,000 ChewEuHock 20c 34,654,000 NOL 34,124,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 33,127,000 Stocks DBSGrp 331,047,534 NatElec 10c 306.128.185 Chart Semiconductor 26c
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      Lock icon Fallout from bursting stock bubble is not over yet
      584 6  -  I-I I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A HOT question: How do you start a small dotcom business? Answer: You open a big dotcom business, then list it. The way things are going in stock markets these days, you wouldn't have long
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      Lock icon Credit Lyonnais' covered call on UOB worth watching
      184 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy TO say market sentiment is fragile at the moment might be a bit of an understatement. The dotcom bubble has deflated, property stocks have lost their lustre and the banks are back to their 52-week lows. Still,
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      Lock icon MediaRing stock may be near bottom
      244 6  -  HOT STOCK Byy Wong Wei Kong SHARES of voice over Internet services provider Mediaßing continued their slide last Friday, with the stock also finishing among the session's most heavily traded issues. Mediaßing shares closed down 4 cents or 8.7 per cent at 42 cents,
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      149 6 ♦WBL Corporation proposed a rights issue of up to 34,376,108 warrants in conjunction with a proposed issue of $100 million principal amount of 2.5 per cent 5-year unsecured bonds due 2005. OCBC has been appointed to manage the bond and rights issue. ♦Nippecraft Ltd announced that its chief
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      Lock icon Dollar bulls to put pressure on Asian currencies
      522 6 THE dust has yet to settle from the US Federal Reserve's aggressive interestrate hike this month. Most Asian currencies are still looking vulnerable to dollar bulls. The Indonesian currency is likely to be kept under pressure against the dollar this week, as
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      Lock icon Trade that won't wear out
      1051 7  -  A blend of technology and high quality product ensures that Oceanic Textiles will survive the New Economy By. Jane Cheong Suggest to Agnes Ng, general manager of Oceanic Textiles, that the textile manufacturing industry in Singapore is a sunset one and she will immediately debunk
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      Lock icon CCs to be made more appealing to younger set
      316 7 The Straits Times COMMUNITY libraries and child-care, training and recreational centres may soon come under one roof at community clubs (CCs) around the island as part of a plan to make them more appealing to younger Singaporeans. For a start, five
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      Lock icon eTown makes its debut in Tg Pagar, West Coast
      264 7  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan TANJONG Pagar-West Coast Town Council and Tanjong Pagar Community Development Council have become the first in Singapore to install eTown, an online town council management portal which enables residents to make online ehquiries, pay conservancy charges, book communal
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      Lock icon Wholesale trade soars in 1st quarter
      302 7  -  ■won the economy trade By' Ven Sreenivasan BOTH the domestic and foreign wholesale indices leaped by significant double-digit numbers in the first quarter, thanks to a strong pick-up in petroleum and electronics trades. Figures released by the Department of Statistics yesterday showed that the
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      Lock icon Diesel used in S'pore is too 'heavy'
      170 8  -  Ong Tiong Meng I REFER to ENV's letter, "Better test for diesel vehicles" (BT, May 25). Some time ago I wrote in this column that the root of the diesel particulate problem in Singapore lies in the specification of our diesel fuel. In
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      Lock icon Vickers' small shareholders get short end of stick
      566 8  -  Prithpal Singh MERGERS are meant to be good for increasing shareholder value. Well, that's what I, as a small shareholder, have always believed. But now, I see myself, together with other small shareholders, as having been given the short end of a
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      Lock icon Small shareholders, small fry
      240 8  -  Narayana Narayana WHILE I fully agree with the laudable sentiments expressed in the article "Take investor relations seriously" (BT, May 19), we also unfortunately have to accept the reality in the context of Singapore that small or unconnected shareholders are seen as a necessary evil or,
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      1212 8 LINDETEVES-JACOBERG LIMITED NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders of lindeteves-Jocoberg Limited (the "Shareholders") will be held at 15 Tai Seng Drive #05-00, Singapore *****0 on 20 June 2000 at 10:30 am for the purpose of considering and, if thought
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      Lock icon Thomson Travel to sack staff for viewing porn
      255 9 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S second-biggest tour operator Thomson Travel Group is to sack a number of employees for viewing and passing on pornographic images over the Internet, Travel Weekly said on Saturday. Employees at the company, recently acquired by Europe's top tour operator
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      Lock icon DoCoMo seeks up to 10% of Korea's SK Telecom: sources
      553 9 SEOUL Deal, expected this week, would be its second largest purchase after KPN Mobile in early May Bloomberg NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan's largest mobile phone company, is in talks to buy as much as 10 per cent of SK Telecom
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      Lock icon France Telecom to announce Orange purchase
      333 9 LONDON ItH pay 50b euros in cash, stock for UK mobile phone firm Reuters FRANCE Telecom plans to announce a 50 billion euro (5579.2 billion) cash and stock purchase of British mobile phone company Orange tomorrow, and to unveil a new European cellphone group
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      Lock icon Germany's T-Online leads bid for Freeserve: paper
      111 9 LONDON Reuters GERMANY'S T-Online, Europe's largest Internet service provider, is leading the race to bid for UK's Freeserve, 80 per cent owned by retailer Dixons, The Sunday Times newspaper said. It said T-Online would bid about 650 pence per share, valuing Freeserve, Britain's
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      Lock icon Fine-tuned breakup plan for Microsoft filed
      518 10 WASHINGTON Bill Gates only person barred from owning shares in both new companies Bloomberg GOVERNMENT lawyers submitted a fine-timed, final plan to split Microsoft Corp in two, setting the stage for the judge in the landmark anti trust case to issue a widely expected
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      Lock icon World Online founder lashes out at bankers
      336 10 THE HAGUE AFP NINA Brink, who founded the Internet firm World Online International, declared her fury Saturday at financial advisers ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs over a scandal in The Netherlands after the company's troubled launch on the stock market. The revelation, after
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      Lock icon Seagram CEO attacks Internet music pirates
      283 10 SAN JOSE, California Seagram will track users who download illegal mosic Bloomberg SEAGRAM chief executive Edgar Bronfman, who runs one of the world's largest entertainment companies, said the Internet will collapse if illegal pirating of music continues to thrive on the Web. Seagram, which
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      Lock icon Online Expo-sure
      33 10 [HANOVER] A man yesterday surfing the Internet at the T-Online booth on the Expo 2000 grounds in Hanover, Germany. The show will open its doors to the public on Thursday. AP
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      Lock icon DaimlerChrysler turns to Net to sell bonds
      216 10 NEW YORK Bloomberg DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG, the world's fifth-largest automaker, plans to use the Internet for the first time to sell US$l.5 billion (552.5 billion) of global bonds. The Stuttgart-based company is the latest in a string of well-known and higher-rated borrowers including Ford
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      1504 10 A INFORMATICS 1 P HOLDINGS LTD UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Informatics Holdings Ltd are pleased to announce the UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2000 Group II Company SS'OOO SS'OOO Latest year to Previous year Change Latest year to Previous yea/
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      Lock icon Bank Negara's hint of higher rates confuses markets
      474 11 KUALA LUMPUR Low interest rates have been central to Malaysia's recovery from recession Reuters MALAYSIA'S new central bank chief has raised the possibility of interest rate increases, stirring questions about the nation's economic recovery strategy. Bank Negara's governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz had
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      69 11 [KUALA LUMPUR] Clad in traditional Malay costume, dancers performed at Merdeka Square (Independent Square) during the Malaysian Culture Festival Parade in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The Colours of Malaysia parade reflects the unity and discipline of multi-racial Malaysia and was also an opportunity for Malaysia to
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      Lock icon Chief of largest M'sian newspaper group quits
      389 11 KUALA LUMPUR AFP THE editor-in-chief of Malaysia's largest newspaper group said yesterday he would be stepping down, four months after going on leave. In his weekly column published in the New Sunday Times, Kadir Jasin wrote he would quit the New Straits Times
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      Lock icon KL graft body to probe foreign firms: report
      251 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters AFP MALAYSIA'S Anti-Corrup-tion Agency (ACA) is investigating several multinational companies suspected of offering kickbacks to win tenders and contracts in the country, The Star newspaper said yesterday. It quoted ACA deputy director general Ahmad Said Hamdan as saying that
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      Lock icon Pick up M'sian stocks when market dips
      723 11  -  -11 comment KL STOCKS But watch out for rising rates, uncertainties eddie toh INVESTORS dumped Malaysian stocks last week despite news of higher-than-expected economic growth and confirmation of the re-entry of the country into the Morgan Stanley Capital International indices. The Kuala Lumpur
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Banks, developers tipped to take a beating
      542 12 SINGAPORE Investors fear profits will be hart as interest rates rise in Asia in the wake of US hike Bloomberg ASIA'S biggest banks, including Hongkong's HSBC Holdings, and real estate developers are expected to fall this week, on concern that rising interest rates
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      Lock icon Abdurrahman to try to gain credit with S&P visit
      290 12 JAKARTA Indonesian president to see credit rating agency in New York, says Jakarta Post Reuters INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid will visit one of the world's leading debt watchdogs next month to try to boost his country's sagging credit rating, The Jakarta
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      Lock icon Central bank probing speculation hitting peso
      300 12 MANILA Reuters THE Philippines central bank said yesterday that it was investigating speculative foreign exchange transactions by some banks that could have contributed to the peso's plunge against the US dollar. But governor Rafael Buenaventura said the bank was not planning any immediate action
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      Lock icon Thailand growth seen at 4.4-5%
      331 12 ■BANGKOK Govt projection comes ahead of meetings with IMF, Moody's this week Reuters Bloomberg THAILAND, which will this week showcase its growth prospects as it woos officials from the IMF and a credit ratings agency, is expected to project that its economy will expand 4.4-5
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      Lock icon Cambodia to receive US$548m from lenders
      245 12 WASHINGTON Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL lenders have pledged US$54B million (Ss94B million) to Cambodia to improve the functioning of the government, the fight against corruption and the prevention of illegal logging. At a conference organised by the World Bank in Paris that concluded on Friday, lenders
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon 7 Nasdaq-listed firms to trade on HK bourse
      422 13 NEW YORK Companies chosen for large presence in Asia; co-listing part of Nasdaq global plan Reuters Bloomberg IN a first for Nasdaq stocks, shares in seven high-profile companies, including Intel Corp and Cisco Systems Inc and Microsoft Corp, are set to start
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      Lock icon Swire sues over opium trade link
      140 13 AFP had r^mnlpfplv «nld ant. "It wm 1 vine around for a month hut todav. from about 12 o'clock onwards, we sold all our copies," one sales clerk at a Kowloon bookstore said. Faber said the company would make a formal declaration in London's
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      Lock icon Hongkong Standard becomes HK iMail, the new tabloid
      572 13  -  Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong AFTER more than half a century competing head-on with South China Morning Post, Sing Tao Holdings has finally dumped the Hongkong Standard and gone the way of the tabloid. The first issue of tabloidsized Hong Kong
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  • SOUTH asia
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      Lock icon US$ jumps in Pakistan as rupee is dumped
      440 14 KARACHI Drive to unearth untaxed income panics black money holders AFP Reuters DEMAND for US dollars has soared on Pakistan's kerb market, boosting the greenback's exchange rate as a government drive to unearth untaxed incomes panicked black money holders, traders said. The
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      Lock icon Infosys to raise foreign share limit to 40%
      393 14 ■BANGALORE Hike frwi 30* approved by shardwliers, bet ge-thead from govt ilse needed Reuters AFP SHAREHOLDERS of India's computer software firm Infosys Technologies Ltd on Saturday approved an increase in the foreign institutional investor (FII) investment limit in the company to 40
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      Lock icon Intel to help set up online trading in India
      173 14 BOMBAY Reuters COMPUTER chip maker Intel Corp will work with India's National Stock Exchange to create a new online trading infrastructure, senior officials of the two organisations said on Friday. "We think that it is important in two aspectsone is it
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      Lock icon Domestic private airlines may take Air India stake
      571 14 NEW DELHI Govt will allow them lip to 40%; 20% for institutions, investors, employees; Delhi to retain 40% AFP THE Indian government yesterday said the planned privatisation of state-run Air India meant domestic private airlines could accumulate a 40 per cent stake
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Weak euro poses inflation threat says ECB official
      422 15 FRANKFURT Reuters EUROPEAN Central Bank chief economist Otmar Issing said an undervalued euro was posing a threat to price stability in the euro area. "A weak external value drives import prices, there's no question about that. The risk to price stability associated
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      Lock icon Japanese listed firms' profits seen tripling
      251 15 TOKYO AFP GROUP net profits of Japanese listed companies will almost triple in the year to March 2001, marking a second consecutive year of increase, a business daily said on Saturday. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun surveyed 1,297 non-finan-cial firms and found their aggregate group
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      Lock icon Olivetti to buy rest of Tecnost for 6b euros
      266 15 MILAN Buy ont to give direct access to Telecom Italia dividends Bloomberg OLIVETTI SpA said it would pay about 6.1 billion euros (559.6 billion) in stock to buy out the 27 per cent of Tecnost SpA it does not already own
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      Lock icon Hyundai Engineering to sell assets
      528 15 Self-rescue plan calls for sale of 543b won in securities and property to avert liquidity crunch Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Construction released a self-rescue plan yesterday, saying it will sell 543 billion won (*****.6 million) in assets to help avert a liquidity crunch.
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      Lock icon US data expected to show economy remains strong
      422 17 WASHINGTON Labour market still tight, nonfarm payrolls likely to be inflated by Census hiring AFX-Asia Reuters Bloomberg ECONOMISTS expect data to be released this week to show that the US economy continues to expand, with the labour market remaining tight. "The economy
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      101 17 [SYDNEY] On a day where more than one hundred and fifty thousand people crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a sign of reconciliation an unidentified organisation had the word "sorry" written in the sky above the Sydney Opera House during Australia's Corroboree 2000 celebrations yesterday.
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      Lock icon US firms using loophole to keep political contributions secret
      368 17 NEW YORK Republicans have taken glrirting campaign fluids law to new level: report Reuters US corporations and trade groups are using an obscure tax loophole to keep political contributions secret, Newsweek magazine reported Saturday. An advance copy of an article by
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      Lock icon Deutsche Post plans 20b mark IPO
      288 17 BERLIN Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Post AG, Germany's state-owned mail service, said it's planning an initial offering worth as much as 20 billion deutschemarks (Ssl6 billion) to fund expansion ahead of the deregulation of Europe's postal industry. "The exact size of the stake has not been
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      329 16 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 PURSUANT TO SECTION 290(2N8) AND IN THE MATTER Of STS INVESTMENT PTE LTD (Members' Voluntary Winding Up) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above n omed Company duly convened and held at No. 1 Sophia Rood *****/03 Peace Centre Singapore
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      871 16 LINDETEVES JACOBERG LIMITED NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifty-second Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 15 Tai Seng Drive #05-00, Singapore *****0 on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 at 1 1.00 a.m. for the following business: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1 To
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      582 18 COMMODITY Weektyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Fears of dwindling supplies drove oil to a two-month high, while gold sank to levels last seen in September, as the latest Bank of England auction helped to depress sentiment towards the precious metal. In
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      619 19 NEW YORK Volume thins ahead of long weekend on concerns about inflation, Fed action Reuters Bloomberg STOCKS stumbled on Friday, ending just slightly lower, as traders closed their positions ahead of the long US holiday weekend. A measure of volatility in
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      373 19 ■LONDON AFP LONDON shares ended the week higher, defying Wall Street's weakness, as dealers predicted interest rates are near their peak on this side of the Atlantic and volumes thinned ahead of the long holiday weekend. The FTSE 100 Index of
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      428 19 TOKYO Reuters AFP TOKYO investors are bracing for another volatile week for high-tech stocks, which are expected to continue nervously tracking their US counterparts. "Some investors are now scared the market's scenario may shift from a correction in information technology stocks toward a hard-landing
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      290 19 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks will likely remain pressured by Nasdaq and interest rate gloom this week as well as the expiration of the May index futures contract tomorrow. Strong local economic growth figures released on Friday and positive trade developments for China were seen
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      874 19 n Sydney -4LI A CLUTCH of domestic data releases and continuing interest rate uncertainty will dominate the Australian market in the week ahead, brokers said. "An armful of data releases can either provide clarity or confusion for financial markets in the week ahead," said Colonial State Bank
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      1842 19 Q Paris -4WL9 FRENCH stocks ended flat on Friday as the closing bell caught a yo-yoing CAC-40 Index mid-way between moves, after it was jerked around all afternoon by jittery trade on the tech-heavy Nasdaq. The CAC-40 Index closed at 6,129.15 points, down 0.51 point or 0.01
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      429 20 AFP Q Composite Index -66.06 FEARS over interest rate hikes overseas and the sudden resignation of a top minister are expected to weigh down the performance of the Malaysian bourse this week, dealers said. A senior institutional dealer with a local brokerage said
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      9010 20 INDUSTRIALS Consumer products 2000 Last Vol Week Net Cap Wjj U» Company Sol* OOO Hlqh Um Pit $<"" 112 J?9 A i'nomoto 360 -12 20 378 360 >9.7 145.9 J5® 905 Angkasa 91 -7.5 60 98.5 90.5 134.2 670 290 Apollo Food Hlq 490 -35 76 530 490 11.7 196.0
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      590 21  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup Simona Soci Standard Poor's MMS This report does not constitute a solicitation to invest in any currency or Simex product. [LONDON] A short week ahead, with US and UK holidays today, is expected to revolve around the US labour data on
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      197 23 From Monday to Friday, the East West Semi Buffet serve? a great antipasto buffet including oysters and salmon with a la carte main course, local favourites and Japanese Sushi during lunch and dinner. On Saturday and Sunday, a delightful International buffet lunch and ainner with crisp BBQ. Lunch: #22 Dinner:
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      955 23 mi I, i H ■■I 2.00 Dangerous Minds. 330 Those Were The Days. 1030 Headlines. Wl u 3.00 Things People Do. 330 Sporty Spotty. 1030 Business Tonight. 9.00 AM Kids Central: The 330 Baby Talk. 4J5 Hong Kong Story. ILOO The World Tonight H Big Comfy Couch. 4.00 Boy Meets
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      249 23 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS 3 He makes a casserole with skill 1 Record is held bv district com- (7)* rT vv-,r A A kfi/>nrn «Km» .nr, ,tfr mission©r (4) AOS6DCB ot tnis rOQturs results 3 Some priors inevitably of- _j" total harmony (5,1,5,4). fencj (3 j; 5 Tnes hard to produce
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      959 24  -  GOH BOON TECK Two young writers from both opposite of the Causeway talk to KOH BUI TING about their work KOH HUI TING After a four-year hiatus. playwright Goh Boon Teck of the Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble is making a comeback and at the Singapore Arts
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      1052 24 YASMIN YAACOB MALAYSIAN playwright Yasmin Yaacob thought it was surreal when she saw her first play staged last year in Kuala Lumpur. Now, her debut effort, A Flight Delayed, has made it to the Singapore Arts Festival. "It's amazing and I've also been extremely lucky. 1
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      107 24 Nominations for the 2000 Enterprise 50 awards are now open Companies can nominate themselves by completing the official nomination form. Companies must be homegrown, J privately-owned and incorporated under j/nSyV V Singapore's Companies Act (1994 Revised Edition), with four years of r Celebrating Singapore s audited statements Enterprising Spirit V
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      107 25 Hk There's little truth in the hype that magic jjgjjrs, i money' is buying into old economy companies. -t Igfoet, the reverse seems to be true, as V ANDREW WEE finds OUt On PAGE 2 l \f' rz_ y Buying spree: Creative'sSim Wong Hoo (right) and Soundbuzz.com's Sudhanshu. Sarronwala (main
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      764 26  -  I exclusive More old economy companies are finding it crucial to jump-start themselves into the new economy Reports byi Andrew Wee DESPITE all the hype about 'magic money* buying into established 'old economy' companies, the trend in reality is the reverse: there are more
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      387 26 DATACRAFF ASIA DATACRAFT Asia, which specialises in networking and communications solutions, acquired three e-commerce companies earlier this year, which "could make a significant contribution to our revenue next year", Datacraft's CEO, Ron Cattell, told BizIT. In January, Datacraft took a 60 per cent stake in
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      385 26 KIAN ANN ENGINEERING CYBER Generation (CG), a wholly owned subsidiary of listed Kian Ann Engineering, has invested $8 million in four new economy companies Horizon.com, Fast-Foods.Net, MoreRewards.com Holdings, and Postkids.com which are expected to gross $40 million in revenue this year. "As Kian Ann has already
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      Lock icon B2B can boost S'pore e-com strategy
      659 28  -  FisTwesee TT 828 ©-commerce will grow a staggering 100 times more between now and 2004, than B2C toh han shih The writer is a BT journalist IN e-commerce, the North Asia region seems to have overtaken South-east Asia, going by current trends. To stay
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      342 28  -  eMarkets playing large part in this transformation, says PwC study By] Raju Chellam BUSINESS-to-business (B2B) e-commerce will boost the global economy's growth rate by over 10 percentage points over the next eight to 10 years, according to a study just released by PricewaterhouseCoopers
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        55 28 Asia-Pacific's largest infocomm event, CommunicAsia2ooo, will run for four days from June 6 at Sun tec City. This year it is 30 per cent bigger and will occupy 68,400 square metres of exhibition space. Specialist conferences running together during the event: MobileCommAsia, Network Asia, and Asia-Pac Satellite
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        67 28 The National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) will expand its polytechnic research programme to include the National University of Singapore, 13 research institutes and centres funded by NSTB, and industry partners. About 660 poly students will benefit from this initiative, NSTB said. The scheme was begun
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        50 28 AGILENT Technologies last week opened its Singapore Microelectronics Modelling Centre (SMMC) that aims to speed up the development of wireless products by improving the design of microelectronic components used in them. The $5 million centre has six staff and access to Agilent's resources around the world.
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        Lock icon First supply chain study
        53 28 THE first study to benchmark supply chain management (SCM) practices in South-east Asia will be undertaken by the Supply Chain Chapter (Singapore) that will be formed tomorrow. The four-month study will target 100 companies in five countries and will be spearheaded by Gintic Institute of Manufacturing
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        41 28 SWEDEN-BASED IFS AB, which provides business applications for the supply chain segments, has appointed Jan Brunaes as country manager for Singapore. IFS said it aims to double its sales revenues from Singapore over the next two years.
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        42 28 GLOBAL One, a member of the France Telecom group, has appointed Gopi Goplnath as head of the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Goplnath was previously vice president and deputy general manager for Global One's Asia Middle East and Africa regions.
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        38 28 lANDI Asia (Singapore) will hold the following forums on Thursday at the Merchant Court Hotel. For details, e-mail laychintan@iandiasia.com: ♦On "Crossing the concept to startup hurdle —in Internet time". ♦On "Building an online payment system".
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        29 28 A NETWORKING event for "Angel investors and startups" will be held on May 29 at Intermezzo Restaurant. It is organised by ITEC. For details, e-mail itec_com@pacific.net.sg.
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        43 28 PROFESSIONAL Development Associates will hold the following seminars at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. For details, go to www.pdatrain.com. sg~.+A three-day seminar on "TCP/IP networking in action" from Junu 26. ♦A two-day seminar on "Virtual private networks" from June 29.
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        33 28  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam THE National Science and Technology Board will organise its next 'Network event' for investors and venture capital firms on Jun 30. For details, go to www.techsingapore.com.sg.
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      364 28  -  It hopes to get 20% of global revenue from Asia in a few years, up from the cnrrent 10% By. Jane Cheong GERMAN-BASED Brokat Infosystems, which offers Internet banking solutions, is set to double its revenue contribution from the Asia region (including Japan) in the
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      633 29  -  \'ii exclusive A quiet revolution is allowing financial service providers to concentrate on their business, rather than on technology. Vlkram fflianna reports Vikram Khanna JUST a decade ago, the big thing in financial markets was fashioning complex new financial products like derivatives. Today, it
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      504 29  -  The new bug masquerades as a resume sent by a job applicant By Patrick Anidjar AFP [WASHINGTON] Amid reports of a new computer virus capable of ravaging information systems and spread worldwide via the US e-mail system, the FBI on Saturday downplayed its
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      Lock icon The WAP bang that will soon hit the Asia-Pac region
      620 29  -  By 1 Toh Han Shih THE Asia-Pacific region will account for 28 per cent of WAP (wireless application protocol) handphones sold worldwide this year; the figure will rise to 33 per cent by 2003. In unit terms, the Asia-Pa-cific region
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      268 30  -  The communications solutions are developed for its own corporate needs By I Seah Siew Hua SINGAPOREbased That Web.com Pte Ltd plans to expand as an ASP (Application Service Provider) and will debut its communications solutions Uni.Mail, Uni.WapMail, Uni.Verse, Load Magic, Msgl2l and Eagle
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      217 30 AFP [BEIJING] Desktop computer sales in China rose nearly 11 per cent in the first quarter year on year, while notebook sales were up 8.1 percent, state press reported yesterday. "The new trend is Internet surfing and personal computers are a necessary bridge for most
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      601 31  -  SAY Ik M There will be a billion wireless Information devices by 2006, from a negligible number now charles cousins The writer is regional manager, Psion Asia-Pacific THE wireless Internet is upon us. As the mobile phone has clearly shown, people prefer mobility and portability to
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      244 31  -  By] Marissa Chew NOVENA Square Shopping Mall will be wiring up its shop space with both wireless and wired broadband LAN (local area network) for retailers. The development, which is above the Novena MRT Station, will equip every shop with a high-speed cable network
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      591 31  -  By 1 Barnaby J Feder NYT SINCE the beginning of the Computer Age, microprocessors have been transforming mankind's machines, endowing them with memory, flexibility, precision and the ability to share information. Now, miniaturised machines, reduced to microchip dimensions, are working alongside or in place
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      263 31  -  By] Elizabeth Su INTERNAL auditors face new challenges in the emerging world of e-commerce and borderless trading, where traditional audit techniques may be too old to cope with the pace of change. These were some of the findings at the second Asia Internal Audit Conference
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      156 31  -  By\ Seah Siew Hua UK-based Invensys pic a large electronics and engineering group last week opened the Asian HQ of its subsidiary Invensys Energy Systems (lES) in Singapore. lES, which just turned one in April, specialises in power solutions for broadband, wireless and fixed-line
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      519 31 Bloomberg [SUNNYVALE, California] Shares of VA Linux Systems Inc, Red Hat Inc and Corel Corp have plunged more than 70 per cent this year even as rival Microsoft Corp grapples with a government plan that could force a breakup. VA Linux and
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      533 32  -  exclusive US energy giant's Web site, to be launched in S'pore on Thursday, is said to be firettooffer trading in a full range of energy products online BTBWraffi Elizabeth Su ON Thursday, US energy giant, Enron Corp will launch EnronOnline, offering crude oils products and
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      630 32  -  By Sabra Chartrand NYT IF you could take the central processor out of your computer and slip it in your pocket, you might have the ultimate in portability: a lightweight, digital brain, full of memory, storage and processing power, that could be carried everywhere.
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      195 33  -  It is based on S'pore school syllabus and has 10,000 registered users By, Joyce Koh HOMEGROWN i-tutor.net Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of iVenture Pte Ltd, last week launched its education portal targeted at primary school children. Its Web site at www.itutor.net is based
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      706 33  -  By( Craig S Smith NYT [SHANGHAI] Toshiba Corp's settlement of a class-action lawsuit in the United States last year has backfired in China, where consumers are charging discrimination because the Japanese electronics maker has not offered them the same deal. Toshiba, the world's largest
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        65 33 CANON Marketing Services has announced the Ixus, calling it the world's smallest and lightest zoom lens digital camera. It is as small as a credit card, works with PCs and Macs via a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port, comes with an 8 MB card that stores
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        45 33 IBM has announced a new software—WebSphere Commerce Suite, Marketplace Edition—to help companies create online marketplaces that interact with handheld devices such mobile phones, PDAs, and pagers. It works with WAP (wireless application protocol) and SMS (Short Message Services). For details, visit www.softioare.ibm.com.
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        47 33 ZENITH Computers has introduced its "Zenith 88" service for home PC users. For $88 for a year, the company said it will provide help with fault diagnosis, virus scans, seven-day carry-in service, telephone hotline, and upgrade consultancy. For details, fax *****85, ore-mail zenithpc@singnet.com.sg.
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        57 33 US-based Linksys has debuted its new Ether Fast print server with two printer ports that help share all network and parallel printers. The $418 device is a standalone printer server and doesn't need a PC to control it, works with Windows and NetWare, and can support
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        68 33  -  On—pfl+dby 1 Raju Chellam US-based Progress Software Corp is ready with its Version 9.1, an enhanced version of its suite of development tools, application servers and database products targeted at the ASP (Application Service Provider) market. It works on Windows and Unix right now; Linux
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        719 34  -  exclusive Smart card supremo Schlumberger says Asian card shipments will jump 60% this year. Elizabeth Sn reports Elizabeth Su LAST year, smart card shipments grew 35 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region, and accounted for 300 million of the 1.4 billion cards shipped
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        131 34 YAHOO! and MSN (from Microsoft) were the dominant portals across six markets where Nielsen/Netßatings' service is available. Even in Japan and other non-US markets, the two USbased portals dominate. In terms of reach, more than 56 per cent of surfers in the US went to
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          46 34 RAFFLES International Ltd said it has tied op with the 828 subsidiary of The Ixata Group Inc, Izata.com. The deal will give Raffles' hotels and resorts access to a sophisticated data-warehousing system and offn* automated solutions for corporate clients and travel agencies.
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          66 34 HERE'S your online guide to fine dining, entertainment and leisure across Asia. doAsiaxom, which will launch in the middle of next month, claims it will he the region's first WAP (wireless application protocol) service that win "give consumers the honest truth about Asia's bars, dubs and restaurants".
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          63 34 LOOKING to register your Web address and surf the Net in Japanese? This is now possible, following a tie-up between i-DNS.net International and ASCII, InterQand Crayfish. i-DNS.net, which provides multilingual Internet solutions, said it plans to get 100 new Japanese domain name registrations by this year-end.
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      296 35 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WHILST the tone of the market remains firm in most sectors, the lack Of serious sales candidates has seen little main-stream tonnage being sold. The sales now feature a high number of older ships, built 1970s or early 1980s. The main exception to
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      540 35  -  Philippine authorities decide to build new terminal on reclaimed land instead of upgrading present complex From] P T Bangsberg in Manila AFTER much wrangling and several law suits, authorities at Subic Bay have decided to build a new international container terminal on reclaimed land
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      206 35 AP [TOKYO] All 34 crew members of an empty Indian oil tanker were missing after the ship caught fire on Saturday off southern Japan, the Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) said yesterday. The 26,450-ton Pratibha Yamuna went up in flames on Saturday night
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      583 35  -  UMER SCENE r 1 David Hughes SHIPPERS may not be overjoyed by what the Far Eastern Freight Conference's Eastbound Management Agreement (EMA) lines had to say last week. Box freight rates from Asia to Europe will go up again, by US$25O (*****) per
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      279 35 THE dream of an international container port at Subic Bay may be floundering, but the sky is the limit for the bay's anchor tenant, Feder al Express, who saw their regional business growth rise from 14 per cent in 1999 to 28 per cent
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      215 35 Bloomberg (SINGAPORE) Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL), one of the world's largest shippers, said its efforts to computerise container shipping procedures is winning customers. By March, the proportion of monthly transactions made by customers using its Home Port Web site had risen to
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        297 36  -  False claims used to threaten ships with arrest in Egypt Reports by David Hughes in London SHIPS are being threatened with arrest in Egypt because of false claims for unpaid invoices while unauthorised bodies are attempting to impose fines for environmental
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        239 36 FINANCIALLY troubled shipowning company Golden Ocean is to become a wholly owned subsidiary of John Fredriksen's company Frontline Ltd following a deal agreed on Friday. This will give Bermudaregistered Frontline a fleet of 45 modern VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers), putting it in
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        177 36 CONTAINER freight rates from Asia to Europe are set to rise by US$25O per container (20ft or 40ft) on Oct 1. The announcement comes in the latest market review from the Far Eastern Freight Conference's Eastbound Management Agreement. The review also
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          163 36 BUNKER prices are likely to Increase significantly for low sulphur HFO sold In Europe when EU guidelines become law, according to Exxon-Mobil Marine Fuels (EMMF), the world's largest supplier of marine fuels. Sowmi Krishnamurthy, EMMF's general manager Europe, Africa and Middle East, said:
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          41 36 DUTCH crane specialist Van Seumeren has bought the Mammoet heavy lift shipping operation from Royal Nedlloyd. The deal is seen as strengthening the company by giving it the ability to provide complete civil engineering solutions to projects.
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          41 36 GERMAN ahipowning group Rickmers has bought two 31,500 dwt tweendeckers from Lief Hoegh for operation by Rickmers-Linie which has chartered the ships since 1997. The Rickmtrs Tianjin and Rickmers Houston will be handed over in June/August this year.
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          89 36 MUTUAL liability insurers UK P&I Club says its pr*empk>yment medical examination (PEME) scheme has succeeded in reducing medical claims. Since the scheme was started in 1996, some 15,000 applicants for sea-going employment have been screened and 5.2 per cent have felled. PEME covers seafarers from the
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          75 36 THE number of export orders for Japanese yards grew by two vessels and 229,060gt, to 405 vessels and 18.2 million gt, in April, according to the latest figures from Japan Ship Exporters' Association. During the month, JSEA members received new orders for 16 export ships:
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          74 36 CAPITAL-rich insurers offer no model for the future development of quality marine insurers, according to the managing director of The Swedish Club's Hongkong office. Tord Nilsen told delegates at the Marine Hull Machinery Insurance Conference in Singapore recently: "In our view, the impersonal, distant service
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        157 49 May 29 United Kingdom: Spring Bank Holiday. May SI Brunei: Royal Brunei Armed Forces Anniversary. AprS Brunei First Day of Muslim Calender. May 11 Hongkong: Buddha's Birthday. May 18 Indonesia: Vesak Day. tal Indonesia: Ascension Day of Jesus Christ Denmark: Ascension Day. Germany: Ascension Day. AmIB Indonesia: Prophet
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        741 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movement* are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        668 50 Key shareholder in Aerospatiale Matra asks for further talks with other Airbus consortium partners [SINGAPORE] A major shareholder of one of the partners of Airbus Industrie has met with chief executives of the four owners of the European aircraft maker in a move to get
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        453 50 Reuters [DALLAS] Airlines have learned their lessons from the spike in crude oil prices to US$34 (Sss9) a barrel earlier this year. In the best of times, on the crest of a decade-long economic expansion, carriers found themselves hit by the highest fuel prices
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        65 50 [BERLIN] People looking at a model named« Joe y' of a planned cargo air ship which can carry loads of up to 160 tons at the hangar of German Cargo Lifter AG in Brand near Berlin on Thursday. The model is eight times smaller than the original
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        368 50 Reuters [TAIPEI] China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) could open up a vast, lucrative market for Taiwan's EVA Airways Corp, but the carrier is playing safe and not rushing to buy aircraft or hire pilots. "The mainland market is very big," Nieh
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        Lock icon Virgin's Express Q1 loss widens to 13.83m euros
        326 50 Fuel costs and weak euro to blame for poor performance Bloomberg [BRUSSELS! Virgin Express Holdings, Europe's No 2 discount airline, said its loss widened in the first quarter when it wrestled with fuel costs and a weak euro. The company's shares fell
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        Lock icon US planes must replace Mylar-covered insulation
        195 50 FAA rnle seen to cost carriers a total ofUS$36B-4m Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US airlines must replace Mylar-covered insulation on 719 jetliners to reduce the possibility of in-fiight fires, according to a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rule. Carriers are required to conduct inspections to determine
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