The Business Times, 3 June 2000

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES wjwmm 85® SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2000
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    Lock icon Govt sends signal with generous land sales
    1173 1  -  Full-year supply of nearly 9,000 onits at higher end of target By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The government yesterday sent a clear signal that it wanted a stable private housing market by announcing a surprisingly generous land sales programme for the second half-year. The
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    Lock icon Temasek in palm oil deal with Cargill, Golden Agri
    491 1  -  Venture to awn, develop, operate Indon plantations From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta TEMASEK Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm, has entered Indonesia's lucrative crude palm oil market by teaming up with two leading palm oil companies. In a statement yesterday, Singapore-listed
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    Lock icon Calls for Indon central bank chief to quit ring louder
    770 1  -  Sjakril is alleged to havepeijnredinthe lUitk lUII fnf From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta PRESSURE is mounting for Indonesia's central bank governor, Sjahril Sabirin, to step down amid allegations he committed perjury in the politically charged Bank Bali scandal last year.
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      91 1 DHHPB Top stortM Rigging probe underway, says SGX. Next Page SJMSCI index futures trading up. Hmxi Ex-Vickers director explains support for merger. Pg 3 Asia One IPO 1.7 times subscribed. Pg* Savings of as low as $10 attract no charge atSBS.*M NTUC Income shareholders to get 15% extra bonus. Pg
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        62 2 TIME for some overdue perspective on the Internet business. Comparing the life sciences industry to the dotcom business, Economic Development Board chairman Philip Yeo told reporters after a press conference yesterday: "If you look at the priority of things, life sciences is more important than the dot, dot, dot
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        Lock icon Tailor-made
        98 2 FOR the sartorially-challenged, the dress-down culture which is invading the local financial industry is proving quite a challenge, it seems. One bank thought it had removed much of the guesswork by issuing clear guidelines for dress-down days which included "tailored pants, no bermudas, no holes, nothing scanty and no
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        Lock icon Poor Man Yau
        112 2 MALAYSIAN-LISTED Man Yau Holdings is so poor that it cannot afford permanent support staff. "Please be informed that due to financial distress faced by the company and the group, there is no permanent support staff to oversee the daily administration and management of the company and the
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      Lock icon Probe on share rigging underway: SGX
      398 2  -  STI, MSCI component stocks saw erratic trading only minutes before Wed's closing bell By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] A probe is underway to determine if there was concerted index rigging in the stock market minutes before trading closed on Wednesday. Confirming a BT report on
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      Lock icon SiMSCI index futures trading up
      466 2  -  Strong growth augurs well for STI futures contract launch, say futures players By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] While punters have retreated from the stock market to lick their wounds from the bear mauling, trading of the Singapore index futures contract has stepped up, because shorting
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      Lock icon Prime 'white' site seen getting good response in Nov
      493 2  -  Marina South site will yield LSmsq ft of gross floor space By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] It attracted no bidders when launched three years ago, but the largest-ev-er site in the New Downtown can now expect much better response when it is
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Ex-Vickers director clarifies position on merger
      460 3  -  David Ban says directors were under pressure to make a merger announcement Byi Conrad Raj FORMER Vickers Ballas Holdings director David Ban has broken his silence to explain his role in the controversy over the firm's proposed merger with fellow stockbroker GK Goh. Despite
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      Lock icon JIT earnings up 29.5% to $27.2m, revenue rises 57%
      470 3  -  Company to continne to expand its overseas operations By Andrew Wee JIT Holdings' earnings rose 29.5 per cent to $27.2 million for the year ended March 31, 2000, up from $21 million. Revenue grew 57 per cent, "well above the industry
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      Lock icon Jade Tech's interim net gain up 22.5%
      307 3  -  By Eugene Low DESPITE a 9 per cent year-on-year dip in sales to 132.7 million, Jade Technologies' net profit rose 22.5 per cent to $3.2 million for the half year ended April 1. Sesdaq-listed Jade said lower interest cost and depreciation, as well
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      Lock icon M&As:IFA should be sought and advice needs to be timely
      753 3  -  shock iBBPUum r sivanithy WHAT price independent financial advice these days? Not much, if you happen to be a Times Publishing shareholder, since the advice given by independent financial adviser (IFA) Rothschilds not to accept F&N's takeover offer was ignored.
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      Lock icon AsiaOne IPO 1.7 times subscribed
      339 3 SPH Asia One Ltd's public offer drew a subscription of 1.7 times when it closed on Thursday. Its placement tranche did better with applicants seeking three times the number of shares available. Asia One, the Internet arm of Singapore Press Holdings, had offered a total
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      Lock icon Savings of as low as $10 attract no charge at SBS
      362 6  -  S'pore Building Society says its move not directed at any bank in particular By Kenneth Lee THE Singapore Building Society has launched a campaign that should interest disgruntled depositors offended by DBS Bank's move to charge small depositors. Its
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      Lock icon DBS to close more branches
      131 6 Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's largest bank, said it will shut about 24 more branches this year as it finishes streamlining operations following its acquisition of POSBank. DBS Group has closed 44 branches in Singapore this year, 40 of which were POSBank outlets, said Chuck
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Cosco expects profit to go up 5 times
        83 6 Bloomberg COSCO Investment (Singapore),la unit of China's shipping company, said it expects annual profit to rise k five times this year as freight rates improve. The company, which is owned by China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co, earned profits of $815,000 on revenue
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        Lock icon Wing Tai proposes $250m note issue
        81 6 Reuters PROPERTY developer Wing Tai Holdings said yesterday it has proposed a $250 million medium-term note programme to fund its working capital needs and investments in Singapore. The company said in a statement that Citicorp Investment Bank (Singapore) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
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        Lock icon HSH inks deal for Sydney airport hotel
        60 6 AFX-Asia HAI Sun Hup Group said it signed an agreement to acquire the Sheraton Sydney Airport Hotel and Airport Central Tower for A|92 million (Ss9o million). The deal was done through its wholly-owned unit, Ovenard Trust The 314-room hotel will be operated by
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        Lock icon Jardine sees strong H1 earnings
        95 6 Reuters [LONDON] Jardine Matheson Holdings h*a forecast strong first-half earnings despite continuing rHfflm fries at its Dairy Farm and Jardine Motors arms. "The overall result for the first half to June 30 should show a strong growth in earnings," chairman Henry Keswick told the annual
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      Lock icon Funds' Asian stock holdings rise 34% as at end-May: report
      514 6 Institutional investors held U*****.44b worth of stocks, np from U*****.64b in April Reuters GLOBAL institutional holdings of Asian stocks were higher at the end of May compared with the prior month, showing a gain of 34.36 per cent to U*****.44
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      Lock icon KepTatLee wrt: 3-cent price may appeal to risk-takers
      193 4  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy ALL the covered warrants featured in this column over the past week have done well, thanks mainly to the sharp rebound over the past couple of days. Specifically, yesterday's rebound was led by the banks. But since
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      304 4 Stocks Voksna QESIntf Ltd20c..— 37,221,000 MediartnQlOc 24,716.000 Faatech US10c 20,636,000 KepTatLee Bk D6SCW00 13,784,000 Vk*WBCapM2Sc 12,832,000 NOL 12,638,000 CS5c 10,580,000 IPC020C 10,189,000 L&M50C 9,166,000 JurongTech 10c 8,188,000 i DBS Grp 77,794.329 Chart Semiconductor 26c 71,706,836 QES Wl Ltd 20c 58,664,060 SPH.... 52,064,816 SiA 38,115,992 N*E)ec10c 34,091,701 PsefllcCentury 32,488.033 Ventu«Mfg25c 28,969,417
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      Lock icon Talk of'short squeeze' as STI shoots past 1,900 points
      541 4  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy NASDAQ'S 5 per cent rebound on Thursday lifted the Straits Times Index further away from the threshold 1,800 level yesterday, breaking through the 1,900 barrier in a fairly convincing manner. All the major blue chips rose sharply, thanks to
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      Lock icon PCI rebounds from oversold levels
      261 4  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong THE share price of electronics manufacturer PCI Ltd recovered sharply yesterday, with the stock finishing among the most actively traded issues of the session. PCI shares rose 11.5 cents or 13 per cent to 99 cents. The stock opened
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      90 4 ♦POH Lian Holdings: Bonus Issue of 130,960,440 new ordinary shares on tbe basis of one bonus share for every two existing shares held. Ex-date is on June 29. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on July 4. ♦ASJ Holdings: Bonus Issue erf 45,633,427 new ordinary
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      Lock icon Indon capital control talk holds markets in suspense
      303 4  -  HII.I.UI.IIJLII CURRENCIES larry wee RUMOURS of Indonesian capital controls continued to hold Asian currency markets in suspense yesterday, but not too many players feel anything drastic would happen over the weekend. That said, they also reported that a market quite overbought of
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon NTUC Income shareholders to get 15% extra bonus
      382 7  -  Its annual life premiums rose 77% in first three months of this year, single premium sides grew 437% while general premiums jumped 80% By Ling Su Ann SHAREHOLDERS of NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative will get a bonus of up to IS per
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      Lock icon EDB invests US$30m in biotech research firm
      355 7  -  Tie-up with Chiren will work on cancer, infectious By Eugene Low THE Economic Development Board (EDB), through its Pharmßio Growth Fund, has invested US$3O million (SISI.B million) to form Singapore's first biotechnology research company with USbased pharmaceutical firm Chiron Corp. The joint venture,
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      Lock icon Price war? Fight defects, developers
      174 7  -  Margaret Kwok I REFER to the article "A war waiting to break out" (BT, May 30) and find it a little incredulous that developers are out of ideas to attract buyers. Developers will fight shy of a price war. Why? It is a war. Win
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      Lock icon Income takes stake in ST Kinetic's used car Web site
      314 7  -  By Kenneth Lee NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Ltd has taken a 15 per cent stake worth (300,000 in Juzclickcar.com.Bg, Singapore Technologies Kinetic's online certified used car bidding system. It is expected to develop the site, launched in February this year,
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      Lock icon BroadcastAsia2000 comes with seminar on digital TV
      183 7 BROADCASTASIA2OOO, Asia's largest and most important broadcasting event, will be held at the Singapore Expo in Changi from Tuesday to Friday. More than 10,000 visitors are expected to attend the show, which has about 200 local and overseas participating companies. The Singapore Broadcasting
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      Lock icon More S'poreans living in bigger HDB flats
      447 7  -  Survey also shows increase in mean monthly household income By t Jane Cheong BUOYED by an increase in the standard of living over the past few years, more and more Singaporeans are living in bigger HDB flats than before. According to the Housing
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      Lock icon Parts shortage: PMI had indicated it since October
      636 7  -  By Anna Teo ONLY In recent weeks, it seems, have local analysts sat up and taken note of the global shortage of electronics components, presumably after Nat Steel Electronics called attention to the problem in a profit warning on May 16. They
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      Lock icon PSB to lead business matching teams to Europe and Japan
      229 7 THE Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) will be leading two business matching missions to Europe and Japan in the next two months. The missions are the latest under its Bus inessConnect programme, which helps local enterprises seek out potential
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      Lock icon Web hijackers pilfer domain name of Canadian charity hosting site
      543 8 TORONTO 'Spoofing of e-mail account heralds start of international domain n«»m> laundering Reuters CYBERSPACE hijackers have stolen the Internet domain name Web.net, a hosting site for 700 charities, from its Canadian owners, exposing yet another of the Internet's security flaws
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      Lock icon Here's your change...
      83 8 [ATLANTA] CNN founder Ted Turner and America Online chairman Steve Case are seen at a luncheon meeting during part of the CNN 20-year Anniversary Convention on Thursday in Atlanta. Mr Case, who will become chairman of the merged companies, said he and Mr Turner would be "fried
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      Lock icon Enron's Internet business handled US$50b in online sales
      256 8 HOUSTON Enrononline's ran site, set up in Nov, is world's biggest e-commerce site Bloomberg ENRON Corp, the world's largest energy trader, said the Internet business it formed in November has handled US$5O billion (*****.9 billion) in transactions, making it the world's largest
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      Lock icon Ring-bidding may cast dark cloud over cyberauction
      361 8 NEW YORK Reuters INTERNET auction company eßay Inc and the cyberauction world in general may be facing a deeper problem than lone self-bidders the prospect of rings of shill bidders acting as partners the New York Times reported yesterday. Shill bidding is the
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      Lock icon IBM teams up with 8 on wireless content
      205 8 ARMONK, New York Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp is teaming up with eight firms to create Web sites offering travel, banking and e-mail services that can be tapped into with cellular phones and other wireless devices. IBM, the No 1 computer maker,
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      Lock icon Restraining order on Yahoo lifted
      135 8 NEW YORK Bloomberg YAHOO Inc convinced a federal judge to lift a temporary restraining order barring the No 1 Internet portal from blocking the e-mail account of a subscriber who refused to provide his credit card number. At a hearing on Thursday, US District Judge
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      Lock icon New laws needed as music industry embraces Internet
      395 8 HONGKONG Reuters THE world's music industry could triple its profits if it abandoned its technophobia and embraced the Internet, industry leaders said yesterday. But new regulations were needed to ensure piracy did not erode those potentially massive increases in returns, they told
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      Lock icon Fashiomnall.com buys collapsed boo.com
      353 8 LONDON US e-retailer intends tomakebooxom ultimate global fashion portal AFP BOO.COM, the high-profile clothing e-retailer which entered Internet history last month as the first major British dotcom collapse, has been bought by US portal Fashionmall.com, the US site said yesterday. In an interview with AFX News,
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        Lock icon Fujitsu to get auto-related
        66 8 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese computer giant Fujitsu Ltd said yesterday that it would team up with gasolins station operator Idemiteu Co Ltd to oAr auto-related information online. The two companies will lbrm a joint venture and set up an Internet Web site where customers can get information
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        Lock icon WorldCom experts stock to
        55 8 Reuters [CLINTON, Inceaid onjlmriday its lacklustre share price rebound once regulatory concerns about ifgpending acqiitattionofSprtnt Corp are resolved. "Once the Sprint issue is over, the stock will take care of itself." World Com CEO Bernießbbers told Reuters before the long-distance telephone company's annual shareholder meeting here,
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        Lock icon Techtronic buys Ryobl unit for US$
        78 8 Bloomberg [HONGKONGI Techtronic Industries Co, the world's largest maker of cordless home power tools, aaid yesterday that it would buy the power-tool business of Japan's RyobiLtd for shout US$B6 million (SUM million), expanding its share of the US market Ryobi. which also makes printing
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        Lock icon Hilton to set up purchase portal
        66 8 Bloomberg [BEVKftLY HILLS. California] Hilton Hotala Corp and V Purchase Pro.com Inc have agreed to create an Internet exchange where Hilton wffl spendaa much as U3IL6 billion (552.6 billion) annually buying supplies for its more than 1300 hotels. The site will link hotels in
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Asian markets in brighter spirits on US hopes
      623 9 SINGAPORE Sentiment in the markets, with their focus on US May jobs data, is cautious Reuters Bloomberg ASIAN markets ended the week in brighter spirits, heartened by gains in US stocks and hopes the Federal Reserve may be reaching the end of
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      Lock icon Indon May inflation accelerates to 0.8%
      222 9 JAKARTA Bloomberg INDONESIAN inflation accelerated in May, led by higher electricity and transportation costs, and the government said the weakening rupiah will drive consumer prices up further this year. Prices rose 0.8 per cent from a month earlier, faster than April's 0.6 per cent
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Lumbering Telekom
        82 9 MOHD Khir Abdul Rahman—the new chief executive officer of Telekom Malaysia—will meet the press on Monday afternoon but investors are not expected to be too excited about its shares, which eased 20 sen to RM 13.40 yesterday. The shares are perceived to be fairly valued at this juncture
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        Lock icon Resorts World's premature rise
        137 9 RESORTS World succumbed to selling pressure yesterday, easing 30 sen to RM11.30, after a short-lived recovery. The counter has fallen by over 20 per cent following its move to gear up for the first time to help finance associate Star Cruises' expansion. The fall has prompted
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        Lock icon New kid on the block
        82 9  -  Compiled bj Eddie Toh JERASIA Capital, which has taken over the listing status of troubled MCL Corporation, jumped RM2.10 to RM3.10 on its trading debut yesterday. MCL has been delisted Traders said the counter may rise further due to a high trading limit ofsoo per
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      Lock icon New talk of Daim quitting denied
      316 9 KUALA LUMPUR Rumours send KL stocks down another L 5% Reuters MALAYSIAN Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has not resigned, an aide said yesterday, dismissing fresh rumours in business and diplomatic circles that the powerful minister had quit. "They can say what they want," the
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      Lock icon Gus Dur asked for funds: sacked Bulog official
      308 9 JAKARTA AFP A SACKED Indonesian official implicated in a multi-million dollar embezzlement scandal said yesterday President Abdurrahman Wahid asked for the funds to finance humanitarian projects In Aceh province. Sapuan, the former deputy chief of the state logistics agency (Bulog), said Mr
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      Lock icon Star TV, C&W HKT end pay TV and Net tie-up
      274 9 HONGKONG Reuters STAR TV, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, and Cable and Wireless HKT have terminated their plans for a pay TV and Internet joint venture. "We have come to a mutual and amicable decision to part ways,"
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      Lock icon TSMC share sale nets US$822m
      331 9 HSINCHU, Taiwan Bloomberg TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), Taiwan's largest computer chipmaker, raised US$B22 million (511.4 billion) in a long-awaited international share sale that underscored its ability to command premium share prices even amid less-than-ideal market conditions. TSMC, which already has American depositary receipts listed
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      Lock icon Berjaya takes 55% stake in e-commerce firm
      186 9 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S diversified Berjaya Group yesterday said it bought a controlling 55 per cent stake in an e-commerce company which would serve as a business-to-bus iness hub for the group's activities. The stake in My2o2o.com Sdn Bhd was bought for RMI23
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      Lock icon New Taiwanese justice minister targets graft
      695 10  -  Anti-corruption unit set np to fight entrenched rot in public life From Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN has a new sheriff and he is planning to crack down on the country's rampant corruption and waste, which reportedly costs the government an estimated NT$5OO billion
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      Lock icon Crisis-hit Asia's debt could deter investors
      512 10 WASHINGTON Growth of five nations could be hit, says World Bank Bloomberg HIGH government and company debt could scare off investors and crimp economic growth in the five Asian countries whose economies collapsed in 1997 and 1996, according to the World Bank. The Malaysian,
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      Lock icon China's growth set to hit 7.7% seen by OECD
      337 10 BEIJING Consumer price slide expected to end, export growth to continue Bloomberg CHINA'S economy will grow faster than earlier forecast this year as consumer prices stop sliding and exports continue to grow, a Chinese government official said. The economy is on
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      Lock icon Disk drive makers to make Thailand parts hub
      299 10 BANGKOK Reuters GLOBAL manufacturers of computer disk drives and components in Thailand are teaming up to make it the hub for drive parts and components in Asia, the head of a Thai industry body said yesterday. Pornchai Piemsomboon, chairman of the Thailand
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon New World to pursue legal action
        83 10 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] New World Development Ltd said it will pursue legal action over statements made by Davnet Ltd of Australia, which on Thursday scrapped talks to buy three-quarters of New World's telephone unit Hong Kong's No 4 developer denied Melbourne-based Davnet's claims that the
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        Lock icon CyberWorks units in alliance talks
        112 10 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd said one of its subsidiaries is in talks with China Telecom Group. (Hong Kong) Ltd, parent of Hongkong-listed China Telecom (Hong Kong) Ltd, about a possible alliance. An announcement is expected soon, said CyberWorks spokeswoman Rebecca Leung. "One of
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        Lock icon HK savings deposit rate unchanged
        70 10 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] The Hong Kong Association ofßanks (HKAB) left benchmark short-term savings deposit rates unchanged at 4.75 percent, indicating that Hongkong hanks will probably hold their prime lending rates steady as well. HKAB meets every Friday to set Interest rates on current accounts and some
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        Lock icon Lewis-Templeton group prequalifles?
        99 10 AFX-Asia [MANILA] The group of TLC Beatrice LLC president Loida Nicholas Lewis and Templeton Asset Management has been prequalifled to Join the bidding for 80 per cent of Philippine National Bank, Finance department sources said. The group's prequaliflcation, however, is subject to the condition that they disclose
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        Lock icon India trade deficit more than doubles
        97 10 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's trade deficit more than doubled in April from a year earlier due to spiralling oil imports, the commerce ministry said on Thursday. The deficit jumped by 112 per cent to US$l.l billion (Ssl.9 billion) from U*****.54 million in the same
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      677 11 WASHINGTON Jobless rate rises to 4J% in Kay; data helps lift interest rate hike worries Reuters Bloomberg THE red-hot US job market cooled off In May as the unemployment rate rose and private-9ector hiring stalled, the government said yesterday in a report that
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      582 11 WASHINGTON Reuters Bloomberg CENTRAL bankers on Thursday indicated that they were not done raising US interest rates, saying there were still signs that demand for goods and services was outpacing supply in the US economy. In separate appearances throughout the country.
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      340 11 NEW YORK Bloomberg SOROS Fund Management chief executive Duncan Hennes resigned, the third top executive to leave the world's biggest hedge fund group in the past six weeks. Mr Hennes' resignation, coming so soon after the departures of top money managers Stanley Druckenmiller and
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      333 11 NEW YORK The US bookstore is set to be valued at USs2b, given its US$l J3b market cap Bloomberg BUYOUT firms Bain Capital Inc, Apollo Management LP and Blackstone Group LP are considering making separate bids for Borders Group Inc,
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        71 11 Reuters (WASHINGTON) The US Export Import Bank said on Thursday it plans to form an alliance with Citigroup Inc CN, the first ever such partnership with a private business in its 65 years of operation, under which fi Citigroup would make financing available to
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        42 11 AFX-Asia (TOKYO] Takashimaya Co Ltd will reduced subsidiaries from GO to 12 in key areas such as retailing, real estate and services over the next thro*to four years, the Nlhon Keizal newspaper cited company sources as
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        82 11 Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong Internet Arm e-New Media Co Ltd said yesterday it had joined hands with US-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc to set up a multimedia production facility in Singapore which would start business in August. The 50-50 joint venture facility which cost US$2
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        72 11 AFP {SOFIA) International media magnate Rupert Murdoch used Aster lx cartoons on Thursday to launch broadcasting by the first private television network In Bulgaria. Bulgarian authorities gave Mr Murdoch's IJ Balkan News Corporation the green light on Jan 20 to create the first private TV
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        86 11 Bloomberg [TOKYOj Japan Energy Corp, Japan's flfth-biggest oil company, is in talks with Nippon Mining Metals Co, the country's biggest copper refiner, to merge under a holding company, the two companies said in separate press releases. Hie talks are preliminary and if successful would
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      498 11 ST PAUL, Minnesota Bloomberg AMR Corp's American Airlines and Northwest Airlines Corp are in talks to merge, a television station reported yesterday, citing "wellplaced sources". Spokesmen for the two companies declined to comment. According to KSTP TV here, AMR's chairman and chief
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      530 12 TOKYO LDPs ruling coalition will lose seats but retain power, say analysts AFP JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, betting that concern over the fragile economy will override his plunging popularity, dissolved Parliament yesterday for elections on June 25. "The House of
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      293 12 LOS ANGELES Reuters NIKE Inc launched a major offensive on Thursday against critics who charge it with poor labour practices by posting details on its Web site from the inspections of some of its 700 factories worldwide. While the Beaverton, Ore-gon-based athletic shoe
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      266 13 BMBBOTBBPOBT Reuters [LONDON] Jittery oil prices eased yesterday as Opec reiterated plans to adjust output to take the edge off a steamy market Benchmark Brent Blend crude futures for July delivery slipped 37 US cents to U5528.82 pear barrel, while US crude futures traded
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      335 13 Reuters THE US dollar consolidated below two-week highs set earlier against the yen yesterday and stayed soft against the euro as the focus shifted to key US jobs data for further signs of whether the economy was cooling down. The US May unemployment and average earnings data were
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      2636 14 HONGKONG AFP HflMgSeng 434H1 HONGKONG share prices surged 2.3 per cent yesterday on improved sentiment following strong overnight gains on Wall Street dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained ***** points to close at its fifth consecutive gain on turnover
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      1717 14 TOKYO AFP QnWW +M 6.71 SHARE prices in Tokyo closed 0.6 per cent higher yesterday as strong gains in US shares encouraged investors to hunt bargains, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei 22S Index rose 106.76 points to end at *****.06.
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      314 14 AFP QWPlafax +41L82 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.46 per cent higher yesterday on buying In the technology sector sparked by Wall Street's overnight gains, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 40.82 points to 8,883.45, on turnover of NT5122.45 billion. "Sentiment was boosted by the Nasdaq's
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      282 15 AFP Qj Composite Index -1228 MALAYSIAN shares closed 1.5 per cent lower yesterday on Institutional selling of blue chips and with most other investors sidelined, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 13.28 points at 891.25. The Second Board Index
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      260 16 AFP F1 Composite Index *4122 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 2.9 per cent higher yesterday as investors hunted for bargains amid a firmer local currency and sharp gains on Wall Street, dealers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 42.22 points to 1,512.75. *t- f— MKAMad OS1 0.01 310
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      253 16 AFP PIBBE-40 *3432 THE NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 34.22 points to 2,027.53 cm turnover worth NZ$B3 million. Mike Hare of Salomon Smith Barney said the sentiment of the New Zealand share market had been improving throughout the week. m cw» Advantaga MOS 101 0.t4 I9S AlrMZA LSI -002 63
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      505 16 AFP Hilfrfctriw *4&£ AUSTRALIAN share prices closed 1.5 per cent higher yesterday reflecting rises in Wall Street stocks and signs that interest rates may not have to rise much higher in the US, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 48.5 points to 3,096.3 while the newly-introduced SP ASX
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      253 16 AFP Q Composite Index >212 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 22.2 points at 760.69. Volume came to 428.3 million shares worth 3.8 trillion won. —AFP tmt *fknmSM# >4000 TSO Brain T«dl WW 25 Central 1420 30 MCwm *****0 -2900 DaeGuBank 2280 280 DaatantCart 1820 20 P—8i
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      1014 20  -  INSPIRIT CROSSING By Felicia Yap PICTURE this: Wrapped snugly in a button blanket, you are crouched in front of a blazing Are feeling deliciously warm despite a howling cold wind. Recounting an ancient story of Mama Bear and her cubs, the hypnotic voice of a wizened
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      442 20  -  SSO REVIEW By P Y Van WHAT better way to whet the appetite for more delicious musical entrees than to listen to a programme of concert favourites Beethoven's happy Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, "Pastoral" and Tchaikovsky's passionate Violin Concerto in
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      749 20  -  I EMMAAWARDS By Parvathi Nayar NEGOTIATING London, I realised, is about experiencing cultural diversity, whether eating Greek mezzes in Covent Garden, viewing Indonesian artist Heri Dono's work in an exhibition on Sound Art at the Hayward Centre, or exchanging a greeting in
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        827 21  - A graceful mix of SILAT DANCE Internationally acclaimed choreographer Boi Sakti talks to felxgxa tap about the work he has conjured for the SDT and about his passion for dance FELICIA YAP 801 Sakti is definitely not your average sort. You might mistake him for a bohemian visual artist by
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      127 21 This week's prize 2 Leman 18k gold red lacquer ball In celebration of the Arts pens wo,th 5238 each 11 The tuglme fot Caran d Ache is Make Your Mark 1) True 2) F.ilsc TB m -a w a -m 2) What instrument does Leslie Tan of the T anq
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