The Business Times, 1 June 2000

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    16 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MtTA (P) 035/12/1999 SINGA PORE Ipterret: http://business-times.asia 1 com.sg/ THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 2000
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    66 1 El 1/*6J3(-410) BT-SRI 974J6 (+0.34) smsa FUTDIES 244J0 (+5.90) STOCK MARKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 911.51 +&3 NIKKEI 1M32.«_+10U6 BANG SENG 14,***** _+72l96 SET INDEX mn +18.47 JAKARTA COMP 454.33 -1438 MANILA COMP +8.69 TAIPEI WP! &J3S9Si +1751 SEOUL COMP 731.88 +44.62 CLSA CHINA B 1.04SJ1 +8181
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    75 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ US$ 1.734 £(US$/S$ per 1.496 1594 EUR0(US$/S$/E) 0529 1.611 DM 2.104 0.824 YEN 1075 1.616 RM *800 0.456 HKS 7.790 0.223 BART 39.15 0.044 WJP1AH 8,625 0.020* •SttolOOuniß PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 580 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA Ji.OO BANGKOK 950 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 850 TAIPEI 7.84
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    Lock icon S'pore unlikely to follow UK in 3G spectrum sale
    598 1  -  -iriexclusive Anction, 'beauty contest' system likely to be favoured by IDA By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Singapore is unlikely to go for an auction-only system for selling third generation (3G) mobile phone spectrum despite the tempting example set by the UK which
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    Lock icon Generation gap
    98 1 Unravelling toe terms TMnrf generation or 3G technology will allow mobile devices Hoe handphones, laptop computers and personal digital assistants to receive voice, video images and data at 2 megabits per second, or 200 times faster than today's rates. Second iwntioß mobile'technology provides digital services used by most
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    Lock icon SGX to probe wild price swings of MSCI stocks
    366 1  -  Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] In what many market watchers suspect was blatant index manipulation, stocks being added today to the widely-followed Morgan Stanley Capital International index saw severe volatility and inexplicably erratic trading during the final minutes of trading yesterday. Brokers were
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    4 1 Source: Bloomberg
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    Lock icon Bank Central Asia's good debut fails to lift Jakarta bourse
    577 1  -  Sentiment hit by fears over political, social instability From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE much-awaited listing of Indonesia's largest private bank yesterday, Bank Central Asia (BCA), drew mixed reactions as the stock managed to hokt onto its listing price, but
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      87 1 DCSTOE BT Comment Nurturing our teenage dotcom stars. fig 3 Spat over Vickers merger raises investor awareness. Top stories Govt likely to stick to lower end of its land sales programme. Next Page :T' DBS offers retail investors short-term interest notes. Mmxt Pmgm S'pore market capitalisation at its lowest level
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        150 2 BARRON'S Thomas Donlan is obviously not a big fan of US Fed chief Alan Greenspan. In his editorial commentary in the May 22 issue of the US financial weekly, he says that the American public has been lulled into a false sense of security by its central bank
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        Lock icon Speedy staffing
        79 2 DESPITE the number of Internet companies announcing hitches in their listing plans, the number of staff at Old Economy companies jumping ship to join dotcoms still surprises us. But what surprises us more is the speed with which replacements are found. One BT staffer called a contact to
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      Lock icon Sharp cut in H2 land sales unlikely
      770 2  -  Analysts cite price hikes and strong economic growth for govt to at least stick to 7,000 units By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The government is likely to stick to the lower end of its land sales programme to release sites for 7,000 to 9,000
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      Lock icon DBS offers retail investors short-term interest notes
      517 2  -  $2b asset-backed scheme makes DBS first bank to securitise loans By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank yesterday announced the launch of Singapore's first shortterm interest bearing note for retail investors, signalling the start of a programme to free up to $2 billion
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      Lock icon Nasdaq spurs Asia shares, but bounce seen short-lived
      706 2 Solid gains as investors in region go for key high-technology stocks Bloomberg Reuters [SINGAPORE] A record Nasdaq surge overnight inspired most Asian stock markets yesterday as investors piled cash into key high-technology counters in Tokyo, Hongkong, Seoul and Taipei. But despite solid
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  • FOCUS technology
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      Lock icon Nurturing our teenage dotcom stars
      661 3  -  I-li comment TECHNOLOGY They dont qualify for stock options. They're not even seen as economic contributors. Time for a rethink? kenneth james YOU'VE probably heard this one before. Question: Why are American high-tech companies hiring 13-year-olds? Answer: Because all the good 12-year-olds are taken. Like
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SGX market cap sinks 11% to $290.5b
      600 4  -  Falling $37b from end-April leaves it at lowest point since mid-1999 Ven Sreenivasan WITH the benchmark index thrashed to a 13-month low by interest rate jitters and volatility on Wall Street, the Singapore stock market capitalisation has sunk to its lowest since mid-1999.
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      Lock icon Flextronics signs US$30b Motorola deal
      471 4  -  By, Andrew Wee SINGAPORE-BASED Flextronics International has signed an outsourcing deal with Motorola to produce US$3O billion worth of consumer electronics for *he American telcjoms giant over the next five years. The Wall Street Journal Interactive (WSJ) yesterday reported that Nadaq-listed Flextronics w 11 supply
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      Lock icon SingTech re-affirms support for merger of Vickers, GK Goh
      256 4 SINGAPORE Technologies, which owns around 40 per cent of Vickers Ballas, has reaffirmed its support for the merger of the stockbroking house with GK Goh. In a statement yesterday, Singapore Technologies stressed that it had voted in favour of the proposed
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      Lock icon SingTel doubles HK satellite firm stake
      299 4  -  By Ling Su Ann A STRONGER-than-expected demand for satellite capacity has led Singapore Telecom to double its stake in Hongkong's largest listed satellite operator. Sing Tel yesterday said it had paid US$3O million (Sss2 million) for an extra one-seventh interest in APT Satellite International
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      Lock icon Spat over Vickers merger raises investor awareness
      643 4  -  locksiew conrad raj THERE may be more than meets the eye in hotelier Ong Beng Seng's opposition to Vickers Ballas Holdings' merger with fellow broking house GK Goh Holdings. While there has been talk that Mr Ong had been peeved by the failure
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      Lock icon F&N bags more than 50% of Times Pub
      565 5  -  Offer unconditional; advice to reject bid may have come too late, says analyst W Ven Sreenivasan FRASER Neave has majority control of Times Publishing's shares having bagged more than 50 per cent of the publishing company making its general offer unconditional. Notwithstanding
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      Lock icon Two Keppel TatLee Bank directors retire
      126 5 KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank said yesterday Lee Kim Yew and Goh Eng Chew will retire as directors of the bank, with effect from today. Mr Lee, 74, has served as a director since 1998 and was also chairman of the bank's nominating committee. Mr
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      Lock icon Ho Bee expected to reap $50m gain from London project
      609 7  -  Group aims to boost profit contributions from overseas Stories bu] Kalpana Rashiwala LISTED Ho Bee Investment will reap a pre-tax profit of nearly $50 million from its Parliament View development in London. This will help boost overseas' contribution to its
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      Lock icon Company may get $23m profit from 3 industrial projects
      402 7 HO Bee has been turning its attention to the industrial market recently in building its landbank, as this sector offers better opportunities to pick up sites at low prices compared with the residential market, says its executive director Desmond Woon. Demand
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      Lock icon SembMarine unit enters repair deal with BP Shipping
      329 7  -  />'/ Ann Toh SEMBCORP Marine subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard yesterday entered a long-term ship repair alliance with BP Shipping Ltd that may be worth around $60 million over each five-year repair cycle. The contract is to refit and drydock the oil major's Far
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      Lock icon Quotation of Singapore Government Stocks (May 31, 2000)
      306 7 INBCATWE UMBER UlllFlwn MATURITY YEAR RAISED COUPON MEREST OFOMSOF (OCCUJDMG GROSS RATE AMOUNT PAYMENT ACCRUE) ACCRUH) VEXWlOi <%PA) (Ml DATES MBSST NTBCST) VfLD(%«) 01/07/2000 H*****1H1998 31/4# *****0 1/7 1/1 tS1 100.00 321# 15/07/2000 loan 2 I 960 61/4* 116,67 15/115/7 "'137 *****
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      270 6 Slooto Volume Chart mSSSSSt 26c 21,461,000 Nat Bsc 10c.... 14,578,000 Omni ind 10c. 14,128,000 SnQTei15o.. 12,900,000 IPC020C.- 11,118,000 FHTKHHqb20D. 10,002,000 QE8 Mi Lk) 20c 10,080,000 NaiStMiSOc 9,001,000 ChewEuHock 20c 8,908,000 Trek 5c 8,880,000 8>ocka 8 Chart SamiConductor 28c 306,578,536 DeSQip 74,314,311 NatBaelOe 74,267,302 SiA 70,665,573 SPH 57,823,038 VentUfeMlg2Sc 45.731,214 Omni
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      Lock icon Brokers puzzled as late selling wipes out STI gains
      556 6  -  1-1 i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A LAST minute surge in Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's share price and highly suspicious movements in a handful of stocks like Omni Industries, NatSteel Electronics, Nat Steel, Singapore Computer Systems and Wing Tai had brokers up
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      Lock icon CL's SingTel wrt: fair price, but time is running short
      183 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy COVERED warrants have all done well in the past week, thanks mainly to rebounds in the underlying shares. Their issuers, apparently, also have been mopping them up. After all, the warrants were all issued at
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      Lock icon Charts point to 'buy' for GES
      207 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE technical charts indicate that the stock of computer maker GES International is currently in a buy zone. After testing an intra-day high at $1.47, the counter fell back to its previous day's levels to close unchanged at $1.38.
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      41 6 ♦NERA Telecom will be trading ex-dividend (first and final of 1.36 cents) onJon&S. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on June 27. pat® TyHfffVni mi _jfr* I* a -a|P "4, tljltiWAji* ju-L.tiiLtixlW BQttCv r Wind»orl,TheEhzal>eth 2
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      Lock icon US dollar rises against G-7 counterparts on stocks' surge
      330 6  -  comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar made a decent comeback against its G-7 counterparts yesterday in Asia, after a surge in US stocks overnight. Following an extended weekend break, the Nasdaq closed 7.9 per cent higher, while the Dow gained
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Move over, MP3 – the super-fast Z-Station 1 is here
      374 9  - Move over, MP3 the super-fast Z-Station 1 is here By\ Kenneth Lee HOMEGROWN Cyberlnc yesterday launched the Z-Station 1, a portable personal karaoke player that downloads tracks from the Internet without software installation. Cyberlnc executive director PK Tan claimed it is the world's first Net-based personal digital entertainment product for
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      Lock icon Diners raising up to $100m from card payments due
      359 9  -  A first by a credit card issuer in S'pore; amount to be raised over three years By\ Ling Su Ann IN line with the Monetary Authority of Singapore's efforts to promote the local debt market, Diners Club yesterday unveiled a move
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      Lock icon Villas Holland bungalows priced from $12.3m
      270 9 FAR East Organization yesterday said it has released "good class bungalows" collectively known as Villas Holland in the Holland Road area for sale, with price tags starting at $12.3 million. One of the five detached houses available was sold last month for $11.1 million
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      Lock icon Free the kid's mind, the rest will follow
      470 9  -  Sculpture event lets kids' imagination build a new world By Joyce Koh RIP it. Fold it. Twist it. Crush it. And voila! The sheet of paper morphs into a fish. The possibilities are endless to a child's unfettered imagination. Starting today, the
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      Lock icon 35-year-old cars need pay just 10% of COE premium
      306 9  -  But new classic car scheme curbs their use to 28 days a year By Eugene Low FROM July, owners of cars which are at least 35 years old will be able to register their vehicles as classic cars and pay a
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      Lock icon Loans growth falls at slower pace
      266 9  -  I on the economy bank loans By Ling Su Ann LOANS growth continued to shrink in April though at a slower pace, according to the latest figures released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The year-on-year rate of decline in lending eased further
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      13 9 VEHICLES The Straits Times Classified. [caSJ Classifications 302 393. Bay sdiit fu it
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  • ARTS festival
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      Lock icon Rousing start
      1394 10  -  It's finally here. The Singapore Arts Festival kicks off with a bang today as wild drummers and frenetic tribal dancers go off on a cultural rampage at Fort Canning to welcome the first arts extravaganza of the new millennium. To bring you a brief recap of what to
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Why object only at the eleventh hour, OBS and related parties?
      598 11  -  Bin Hee Heng I REFER to the reports and letters on the proposed Vickers Ballas-GK Goh merger published in BT in the past three days. In particular, I would like to take issue with Prithpal Singh's letter (Vickers' small
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      Lock icon Stockmarket alliance: the mute response
      504 11  -  Narayana Narayana HAVING read your Hock Lock Siew column "Compelling reasons for SGX to strike regional alliance" (BT, May 13) and noted the indifference and deafening silence with which it appears to have been met, it seems apparent that, at least as far as local
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      Lock icon Who really 'owns' our homes and cars?
      249 11  -  Denis Distant I REFER to the Ministry of Finance's letter "House and car prices: govt puts it in perspective" (BT, May 27) and wonder just how the word "own" is defined in the context of the 91 per cent house ownership and one-in-three-families
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      Lock icon Keppel: We made timely, adequate disclosure
      507 11  -  Teri Liew Keppel Group Public Relations Manager WE refer to your Hock Lock Siew column, "Don't withhold material information in Keppel Harbour deal" (May 27). Your column says that the key factor that can help shareholders of Keppel Corporation Ltd and Keppel Land Ltd
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  • AIR & LAND transport
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      Lock icon No running from problem of ageing workers
      836 12  -  bottom line OPINION robert samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group GEORGE Bush recent speech on social security (mildly courageous) and A 1 Gore's quick response (aggressively self-serving) provide a discouraging commentary on the state of political discourse in America Few issues are as
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      90 12 4 We as a union deserve to participate in growth.' -Elliott Gould actor, during a Screen Actors Guild protest at AT&T's annual meeting in Chicago. Gould and Joseph Bologna led a group of a dozen actors protesting against the company's use of non-union members in a recent
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      Lock icon Hope for Middle East peace
      606 12 EDITORIAL LAST week's dramatic move by Israel to end its 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon is an indication that despite recent setbacks in the Arab-Israeli peace process, there is a willingness among Israelis and Arabs to maintain the momentum needed to resolve the conflict Israeli
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      Lock icon Air India sale marks end of era of state firms
      1187 12  -  Govt pulls ont of producing goods and services with decision to sell off 60% of Air India By Prem Shankar Jha The writer, former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT AFTER almost a decade of wavering
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      880 12 China's path to WTO WITH the European Union (EU) clinching a trade agreement with China, the decks have been cleared for Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), probably before the year-end. Only five out of the 136 WTO members have yet to wrap up
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  • REGIONAL news
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        Lock icon Riding high after fall
        105 13 RESORTS World rose 30 sen to RM11.90 on the back of strong "buy" recommendations by almost every research house in town. Analysts tracking the stock said the price of Resorts World the parent of Genting Highlands casino and Star Cruises is now highly attractive following its
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        85 13 PHILEOALLIED Securities has called a buy on seldom tracked Padiberas Nasional or Bernas, which rose one sen to RM2.75 yesterday. The brokerage said management of the country's sole licensed rice importer was confident of delivering up to 15 per cent annual earnings growth over the next three years
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        77 13  -  Compiled by Eddie Toh AMMB Holdings rose 50 sen to RM15.70 foUowing news that its banking arm Arab-Malaysian Bank wiU repay RM34O million (*****.1 million) in loans from Danamodal Nasional, which had recapitalised the bank in 1998. At the same time, the bank recorded a pre-tax profit of
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      Lock icon Sime Darby plans dotcom, power plant investments
      445 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S Sime Darby Bhd plans to tap its sizeable cash reserves to bid for a stake in a power plant and invest in e-com-merce. "We are looking at some aspects of the so-called dotcom business," Sime group chief executive Nik
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      Lock icon Thaksin's firm buys into TV station
      467 13 BANGKOK Mews staff fear he will press for fevonrable coverage for hie party AP THE telecommunications giant founded by the top challenger to head Thailand's next government has taken a large stake in a major TV news station, raising fears by journalists of political
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      Lock icon Short-lived MSCI boost for KL stocks
      404 13  -  Foreign funds take profit; 27-point early surge ends in just 8-point ELSE Froml Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Malaysian stock market failed to sustain its surprise surge yesterday following its reinstatement in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices. The Kuala Lumpur Stock
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      Lock icon Gus Dur denies any wrongdoing in Bulogate
      530 13 JAKARTA Reuters AFP INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday denied any wrongdoing in a scandal over the theft of 35 billion rupiah (Ss7 million) from state commodity regulator Bulog. Mr Abdurrahman popularly known as Gus Dur—told Indonesia's Kompas daily he had examined the possibility
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      Lock icon Hutchison wins key telecom foothold in China
      524 15 HONGKONG USs4oom deal to buy shares in China Unicorn's pending initial public offer Reuters HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd yesterday won a key foothold in China's rapidly expanding telecommunications sector with a deal to buy US$4OO million (*****.6 million) worth of shares in China Unicom
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      Lock icon 7 Nasdaq firms in tepid HK debut
      321 15 HONGKONG Volume done totalled jnst HKslBm on an HKslBb day Bloomberg MICROSOFT Corp, Cisco Systems Inc and five other US companies traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market rose in their debuf on Asia's secondbiggest stock exchange, even as they saw few sellers and
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        Lock icon Thai power firm to go regional
        47 15 Reuters [BANGKOK) Thai «tate-owne<f power producer it plannedtb bid for power privatisation projects in Singapore $nd the Philippines. Managing director Sitthipora Ratanopas said the firm also planhed to join Singapore Power in investing in power projects in other country -i* Reuters
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        Lock icon More Indon state firms to be sold
        67 15 Bloomberg it pians to sell this fiscal year to help flnmcfran&qwcttd budget deficit of 44.1 trillion for share offers or saWtfslrategic partners** fhe government's bid to false 6.5 trillion rupiah Initially, the ministry of investment enterprises placed eight companies dt! the selling block.
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        Lock icon Relliance in talks with Indian govt
        73 15 AFX-Asia [BOMBAY] The group is in talks with the Indian natural gas to take over state-run*il company, IBP Co Ltd, The Financial Express reported. The report quoting government sources said that Reliance officials have held informal discussions with the ministry on acquiring a controlling
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        Lock icon Taipei may cut incentives to 2 sectors
        80 15 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] The Industrial Development Bureau may remove the Internet and software sectors from its list of major emerging strategic industries that are qualified for tax incentives, the Economic Daily News reported sources as saying. The country's Ministry of Economic Affairs has directed
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        Lock icon BNI denies missing US$5m payment
        64 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Negara Indonesia yesterday denied a Euroclear statement that the bank had missed a US9S million (SJB.7 million) payment on a floating rate certificate of deposit due yesterday; According to the Indonesian bank's corporate secretary, Sudlrman, the US$5 million "has been paid".
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      Lock icon Indonesia to move judges suspected of graft to remote areas
      504 15 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN Judges suspected of graft will be transferred to remote provinces in a bid to overhaul the legal system after a series of dubious verdicts which have hit investor confidence, the justice minister said. However, Yusrll Ihza Mahendra
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      Lock icon Thai exports surge a robust 12% in April
      481 15  -  Doubts remain on sost&in&bflityof economic growth From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S exports grew a robust 12 per cent in April, setting the stage for a likely 11 per cent annual export growth, but a slowdown in manufacturing production and rising government
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      Lock icon Tarrin's brother subject of corruption probe
      127 15 BANGKOK AP THAILAND'S anti-corruption agency said yesterday it would investigate the banker brother of Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda over allegations of lending irregularities. Sirin Nimmanahaeminda has been dogged for a year by accusations that poor lending practices at state-owned Krung Thai Bank when he
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        70 17 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Softbank Corp and its partners failed to reach an agreement with the Japanese government on the sale of the failed Nippon Credit Bank Ltd, a member on the government's committee selling the bank said. The Financial Reconstruction Commission and the Softbank-led group
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        52 17 Reuters [SACRAMENTO] The California Assembly narrowly approved an Internet tax measure on Tuesday that could rake in tens of millions of dollars for a state whose economic good times have been largely driven by high-tech. The bill clarifies state law regarding the taxation of Internet
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        39 17 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp is cutting about 1,000 US services employees, or less than one per cent of the division's workers, as contracts to manage other companies' computer networks end.
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        48 17 Reuters [TOKYO] Shares in Japanese Internet investor and mobile phone subscription agent Hikari Tsushin Inc plummeted yesterday after its 10th-largest franchise cell phone agent filed for bankruptcy. Advance International became the third Hikari agent to fail when it filed for bankruptcy, a Hikari spokesman said.—Reuters
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        75 17 Reuters [LONDON] Tradepoint Financial Networks Pic confirmed it would launch Europe's first continent-wide trading service in blue chip equities on July 10. "The launch of the European platform is consistent with both Tradepoint's and the Consortium's objective of developing Tradepoint, on its own or in
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      516 17 ROUND ROCK, Texas Bulk of decline comes from fewer stock options; 14% fall in share price this year Bloomberg DELL Computer Corp founder and chief executive Michael Dell's pay tumbled 85 per cent to US$l6.6 million (5528.7 million) as the No
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      274 17 LONDON It will be useful for information bnt not for completing deals: EIU Reuters THE Internet's potential to revolutionise car retailing has been exaggerated, a report published yesterday said. Car sales over the Internet, far from being the all-conquering
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      253 17 LONDON Reuters QXL.COM pic, Europe's largest online auctioneer, yesterday said use of its Web site steamed ahead in the fourth quarter and losses stabilised as it started charging sellers and moved away from direct retailing. Dismissing the possibility of
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      490 18 NEWYORK Bat rates will still rise, economists say Reuters ECONOMIC reports and corporate data suggest the US Federal Reserve is succeeding in its year-long quest to slow red-hot growth, but this does not rule out the need for higher interest
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      195 18  -  From. D Ravi Kanth in Geneva CAR makers in Japan and the European Union member nations will not face market barriers in Canada after the World Trade Organization yesterday ruled against Ottawa's discriminatory automotive policies. Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, Volkswagen and BMW, among others,
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      382 18 MURRAY HILL. NJ AFX LUCENT Technologies Inc said it will acquire privately held Chromatis Networks, a leader in metro optical networking systems, for US$4.5 billion (Ss7.B billion) in Lucent stock. The acquisition, including the performance-related contingent payments, is expected to dilute Lucent's pro forma
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      193 18 NEW YORK Reuters AT&T Corp plans to carry The Hot Network, a hard-core adult movie channel, In a programming deal that could leave AT&T with a big share of profits from sexually explicit movies, according to the Wall Street Journal. AT&T's decision to carry
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        44 18 Reuters [BERLIN] German Chancellor said his cabinet yesterday endorsed a overcome an acute shortage of computdEM9HH9b, temporary visas to specialists from Union. Under the plan, watered-down aforcfq from India and eastern Europe, will be eHflible for the new"green card".—Reuters
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        109 18 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson may face an official investigation into her ta* aarirs. her spokeswoman said yesterday. The possible investigation by Inland Rewftfc inspectors would centre on payments the dacha* fhnnefwif! of Queen Elizabeth's second son Prince Andrei. inadeto her staff.
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        68 18 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Broken Hill Proprietary Conjoint venture with Brazil's Companhta Vale do Rio Doce r (CVRDX the world's No. 1 iron ore producer, will bring strategic benefits for Australia's largest resources company, analysts said. BHP has increased its stake to 90 per cent in Brazilian
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      621 19 SEOUL Restructuring includes founding family members quitting but autos head balks at plan Reuters SOUTH Korea's Hyundai Group unveiled plans yesterday to sell more than US$3 billion (555.2 billion) in assets, but the head of its flagship carmaker refused to join
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      376 19 LONDON Bloomberg ROYAL Bank of Scotland Group pic is offering a bank account for offshore investors with returns tied to the health of the Nasdaq 100 Index. Royal Bank's Channel Islandsbased branch said it will pay investors a minimum total return of
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      123 19 WASHINGTON AP AN appeals court has ruled that a retired Saudi government official must pay more than US$l billion (551.73 billion) in damages to the courtappointed liquidators of BCCI, a now-defunct foreign bank that was at the centre of an international scandal. In
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      474 21 TOKYO LDP bigwigs said to be pressing NTT to cot access fees to appease US NYT SPECULATION is increasing among some informed Japanese that a deal may be in the works to end a stalemate in talks between Japan and the
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      361 21 LONDON Mining giant moves to raise sales to Asian customers Bloomberg ANGLO American pic, the world's biggest mining company, has agreed to buy the Australia-based coal unit of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group for as much as US$9OO million
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      170 21 CANBERRA Reuters AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday he had full confidence in the board of the nation's dominant telecoms group, Telstra Corp Ltd, as he continued to push for its full privatisation. But he declined to comment on the
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      265 22  -  SGX Derivatives TrtMa&Reports MSGX Singapore Index Daphne Tay THE Singapore stock market closed on a discouraging note yesterday, hit by a late bout of programme selling. The benchmark Straits Time Index, after collecting more than 55 points at its peak, surrendered ail its gains
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      275 22  -  MSCI Taiwan fatnres Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market continued its upward move after a record gain on the Nasdaq overnight. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 175.1 points or 2 per cent to end at 8,939.52 points. Turnover was much
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      199 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices romped near 11-week highs yesterday, in an advance sure to goad angry US consumers, as Opec contemplated the idea of cooling the market by lifting supply. Crude prices were stoked by a robust US gasoline market and
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      343 22 Reuters London THE yen sustained losses against the dollar and the euro yesterday after the apparent collapse of a Japanese mutual life insurance firm, which analysts said dented prospects of an imminent hike in Japan's interest rates. Japanese news agency Jiji reported that Daihyaku Mutual Life Insurance Co
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      2834 23 HONGKONG AFP HHangSeDg ****** HONGKONG share prices soared 5.2 per cent yesterday to breach the 14,000 level following overnight gains on Wall Street, dealers said. "It's another good day trading, mainly due to sharp gains on Wall Street, particularly Nasdaq," said Alex
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      889 23 Reuters P Shenzhen B Index +BLO9 CHINA'S B shares closed sharply higher yesterday on expectations that securities regulators were considering policies to support the hard currency markets. The Shanghai B Share Index ended up 9.2 per cent or 3.65 points at 54.15 on heavy turnover of U5534.65 million. Turnover
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      360 23 AFP QWP Index +175J TAIWAN share prices closed 2 per cent higher yesterday on strong buying of technology stocks following an overnight rally on Wall Street and the end of mainland military drills opposite the island, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 175.1 points to
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      1993 23 TOKYO AFP QlOduiUS +103.55 SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 0.6 per cent yesterday following strong gains on Wall Street but the advance was limited as two major Internet investors took a beating, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index closed up 103.55 points
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      389 24 AFP Q Composite Index +&3 MALAYSIAN shares closed up 0.9 per cent yesterday before the market's reinstatement today in the influential Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) indices, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended 8.3 points higher at 911.51. The Second
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      776 25 AFP P SET lata *15.47 THE Thai stock market soared 5 per cent yesterday in active trading in line with other major regional markets and gains on Wall Street, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index surged 15.47 points to finish at 323.29, and the benchmark
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      232 25 AFP Q Composite Index +8.60 THE Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index climbed 8.69 points to close at 1,478.76. Turnover rose to 1.88 billion shares worth 617.6 million pesos from 1.79 billion shares valued at 740.26 million pesos on Tuesday. *>■ 'tW MRC Alllad 030 unch 10 Abacus Construction 1.04
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      674 25 AFP P Composite Index -14,38 INDONESIAN share prices fell 3.7 per cent yesterday amid ongoing domestic political concerns and a lack of interest in the market debut of Bank Central Asia, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 14.38 points at 454.33, off a high of
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      267 25 AFP OIBSE-M +1L53 NEW Zealand shares rose 0.6 per cent yesterday in a muted reaction to the Nasdaq's sharp rise, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 11.53 points to 2,003.15 on turnover of NZ$l3l million. Rises outnumbered falls two to one. in row Advantage HOS 2 84 0.t7
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      537 25 AFP HAnOrtnurieg jjjj AUSTRALIAN share prices rose one per cent yesterday on the back of an overnight surge on Wall Street, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index added 29.8 points to 3,040.6 while the newly-introduced SP/ASX 200 put on 30.4 points to 3,061.0. Turnover totalled 615.49 million shares worth
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      291 25 AFP Q Composite Index +40.62 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 40.62 points at 731.88. Volume was 495 million shares worth 4.2 trillion won. —AFP m>« Anam Stmt ***** 1800 Brain Tocti 970 40 Control Bar* ISOO 55 CM) Cam *****0 .***** Dm Cm Bank 2135 uncfi
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      845 32  -  Property portals jostling for cyber-hits arc in a bind when it conies to selling online, lawyers and industry players tell amdreatan ANDREA TAN Property portals maybe mushrooming, offering browsers anything from listings of properties for sale to valuation services and information on mortgage rates. But there's
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        1097 30  -  Singapore homeowners are more than happy to fork out money for quality surfaces for their kitchens and bathrooms, tamsuten finds out TAN SU YEN HE chemistry matters," declares Rebecca Chan, regional marketing HH Hi II manager Du Corian, the maker of solid surfaces used in homes and commercial
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        2567 31  -  With the Internet becoming a pervasive aspect of life, cyber-sawy players are changing the property industry, writes to lax boon YU LAI BOON The writer is chief innovation strategist for Asia-Pacific at Jones Lang LaSalle THE e-biz shock wave will create a new electronic landscape with
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      131 33 Bridge News Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index shed seven points to 1,569, the Baltic Panamax Index slipped two points to 1,562, the Baltic Handy Index eased six points to 1,130 and the Baltic Capesize Index fell 13 points to 2,023. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Anangel Splendour (built 1993) 161,587 dwt 14.5
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      1183 48  -  Something old The fact that Kuo Pao Kun's Festival Double Bill is one of the top sellers in the festival attests to the notion that oldies can still be goodies. SUSAN TSANG speaks to the doyenne of Singapore theatre about his "most produced" work SUSAN TSANG
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      936 48  -  Perkamus' tribute to P Ramlee looks set to be a magical evening, says TAY swan TAY SHI'AN UNLIKE other performances that strive to be abstract, eclectic, or high-brow, the artistic team behind Malam Getaran Jiwa have only one goal in mind to pay tribute to
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      1315 49  -  1 should have done this a long tlmo ago, been a Pao Kun... but perhaps It's never too late to catch up with lost time.' Krishen Jit has finally done it; the longtime academic is now a full-time theatre director. PARVATHINAYAR probes his past and his
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      983 50  -  Something New It's something we've all been waiting for. Or have we? Robert Wilson's heavily shrouded world premiere of Hot Water finally comes to fruition, but what is it all about? LIZ GAY tries to find out from enigmatic musician Tzimon Barto LIZ GAY LISZT S Transcendental Etudes
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      926 50  -  Something Borrowed There is no such thing as an original idea, but there is such a thing as borrowing an idea and giving it a whole new interpretation. Ong Keng Sen does exactly that in Theatre Works' Desdemona. AARON LYE finds out from an
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      886 51  -  Something Blue Arturo Sandoval plays the blues and wins Grammies for it. He tells KENNETH LEE about his music. KENNETH LEE ARTURO SANDOVAL is not much of a household name in the parts of the world that are overrun by blonde bouncing Britneys, but his arrival next
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      992 51  -  The Movers and Shakers What does it take to move the earth? Choreographers and dance companies from Hongkong to Australia tell their tales. LIZ OAY talks to a multimedia artist who hates to restrict himself LIZ GAY A GUITAR PLAYER who graduated with a first from
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        1297 52  -  Serious music Isn't Just Brahms and Mozart, and It needn't Be elitist. Singapore's homegrou chamber quartet to composers making use of themes from the commonplace to the surreal, ind Mozart, and It needn't be elitist. Singapore's homegrown musical talents from a aking use of themes mom the
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        882 52  -  Composer ErYenn Chwen tells AARON LYE how he hopes to win new audiences with some familiar sounds AARON LYE IT certainly l&n't every day that you find a group whose stated purpose Is bringing ria«air«i music to the masses. Yet, one such group exists the Tang
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        1349 53  -  Composition is like cooking, Kelly Tang tells FELICIA YAP So that's why there's suckling pig in his piece FELICIA YAP ON entering an ancient caffeeshop, one sees a pianist friend at the back, grinning and cuddling a cute but thoroughly roasted suckling pig. The pig has been
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        806 53  -  FELICIA YAP talks to Joyce Koh about cats and composing FELICIA YAP NINE Lives Of A Cat sounds intriguing for a concert piece, and its composer turns out to be equally so. Speaking on the phone from Paris, the 32-year-old Joyce Koh chirpily launches into a conversation
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      981 55  - Hongkong's CCDC melds the best of Chinese talent in modern dance with innovative and abstract interpretation, koh hui TING reports KOH HUI TING MENTION CCDC in Hongkong and expect to be greeted with a barrage of "oooohs!" and "aaaahs!". It is, after all, one of the region's major dance companies.
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      986 55  -  Raw, edgy, and almost violent —that would be Chunky Move on the go, jane CHEONO finds out JANE CHEONG IN a world where the word "dance" invariably brings to mind the graceful fluid movements of ballet or the hot swinging style that is salsa, Melbourne-based dance group Chunky
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      972 56  -  Misplaced travellers land at Clifford Pier in Doppio Parallelo's Tracking Time.. KENNETH LEE learns that there's no place like home KENNETH LEE Running through the list of Arts Festival theatre events, one realises that a certain group will not be performing in air-conditioned comfort, but will instead rough it
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      676 56  -  Women on the verge of a generation gap band together in a surreal take on family relations, writes CHEN HUIFEN CHEN HUIFEH IF you have a mother, you'll like this. So says an actress from Love in the Title, one of the highlights in the Arts Festival.
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      814 56  -  Ombra traces the life and links of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, La Fura's Miki Espuma tells AARON LYE AARON LYE MENTION the name "La Fura dels Baus" in Singapore, and you'd probably be greeted by a vacant stare. Not unexpected, of course, but definitely the opposite
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      1034 57  -  Music Religious music is makes for r Tallis Scholar Francis Steele tells AARON LYE AARON LYE NO matter what your personal beliefs are, there is one thing that can be said with utmost certainty religion, in all its various forms and styles, has played a decisive role in
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      945 57  -  Madurai Mani makes no compromises in preserving his performances of Indian classical music, says ootfl SU UN GOH SU LIN FOR 45 years, Madurai G S Mani has been performing Carnatic music, the classical form originating in southern India. It is one of the two main streams of
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