The Business Times, 9 June 2000

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  • 824 1  -  hitiexclusive Brokers appeal for setting up of3oob baht support fond From,l Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE moribund Thai stockmarket, which has plummeted some 30 per cent this year, is set to see some far-reaching changes as regulators grapple with the liberalisation
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  • 768 1  -  Technological ferment expected as rivals break free From] Leon Hadar m Washington THE landmark anti-trust ruling on Wednesday breaking up Microsoft Corporation into two companies could herald a major restructuring of the US high-tech sector, and have a profound impact on
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  • 609 1  -  Developers offer 3-year rental income upfront to cover half of downpayment By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] How would you like to have a guaranteed three-year rental income to pay for half the 20 per cent downpayment on your new home? Listed Guthrie
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    • 149 1 How K Jfr o are pampered How to profit from tracker funds IMtUINB Top sterlM SPH yesterday announced set-up of $50m broadcasting subsidiary, SPH Media Works. MmxtPmg* IPC awaiting SGX approval for debt revamp plan. Hmxt Pmg* •<* Carrefour HHPS net loss onl^^^ 80% to $2m last year. Pg 9
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    • 590 2  -  To qualify for tax credits, shareholders must have held shares for stipulated period By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange will implement its special trading counters (STCs) for share buybacks from today. And as announced by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) in
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    • 642 2  -  Former chief of MediaCorp to head new company By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Singapore Press Holdings yesterday announced the setting up of a $50 million broadcasting subsidiary, SPH MedlaWorks, paving the way for it to become a full-fledged media company with all forms
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    • 187 2 <. v > -i-vfe ni-trp^ [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange (SGX) said yesterday that it would continue to evaluate the possible tie-up between the New York Stock Rrrhany (NYSE) and seven other bourses to form a global 24-hour stock martlet. "SGX will continue to
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 55 2 WITH the keen competition in the telecoms industry these days, there's no telling who uses what A BT journalist paged a Star Hub employee, and guess what? The paging service went: "Thank you. Your page has been accepted by Mi's paging service." Ml sure has a
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      • 74 2 Hi, Jack no, this ain't a hijack CHAOS ensued at a suburban airport in Detroit, Michigan, yesterday when someone greeted the co-pilot on a corporate jet plane with "Hi, Jack". A microphone happened to be turned on, and a police SWAT team and the FBI were mobilised at Oakland International
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      • 79 2 A 39-YKAR-OLD bachelor in the US state of lowa has taken his search for a wife online. Joe Smith has set up SpouseQuestaooo.com, to help him find a soul mate. The Web site features photos of Mr Smith, a biography, a description of the
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  • BOURSES in alliance
    • 525 3 With technology allowing anyone to trade from anywhere, big markets have the upper hand as their bid and ask prices are likely to reflect true value IHT [NEW YORK] Although Wednesday's announcement by 10 stock exchanges, including the world's biggest, New York Stock Exchange, of
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    • 609 3 When time comes for Asian bourses to merge, it hopes to play key role; TSE official Reuters [TOKYO] The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) yesterday said it aims to boost its global profile, especially in Asia, by joining other top exchanges to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 289 4  -  Firm says it's awaiting S6Z approval for debt revamp plan By. Jennifer Lien RESPONDING to auditors' concerns about its 1999 results, IPC Corporation yesterday said it was awaiting the Singapore Exchange's approval for its debt-restructur-ing plan and expressed confidence that it would
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    • 245 4 CUSTOMERS who sign up for Sing Tel broadband services are given a choice to buy their modems from Aztech Systems from today. "With the Aztech ADSL modems being directly available in the marketplace, endusers will definitely benefit from the lower cost and at the
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    • 296 4 Official says listing will increase shareholder valne but no time frame given Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications Ltd said it may sell shares of its cellular unit to unleash its value. "There's a good possibility," Lucas Chow, chief executive of Sing Tel Mobile Pte, said
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    • 217 4 SINGAPORE Press Holdings' Internet arm Asia One is organising a series of human resource (HR) seminars as part of its services to users of its careers Web site. The seminars wUI give HR professionals a better understanding of corporate and strategic issues, Asia One
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    • 625 4 PEOPLE Bloomberg PHILIPPE Paillart helped double Standard Chartered pfc's profits by revamping its retail unit Can he do the same or better for DBS Group Holdings? The Singapore bank is betting on it It recently appointed France-born Mr Paillart to spearhead its consumer banking
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    • 739 4  -  lock siew harish mehta PO REIGN capital has fled the Thai stock market so decisively that the current sorry state of the bourse is in stark contrast to the stellar performance of the government in pulling the country out of the crisis and
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    • 363 7  -  7 -5m shares for pafcUe troche; firm sees profit this year By t Andrew Wee HOMEGROWN Adroit Innovations, which helps companies develop e-com-merce Web sites, yesterday launched its initial public offering of 50 million new shares at 50 cents each. The
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    • 360 7  -  Construction firm expects to raise net proceeds of $12m By\ David Boey DESPITE market volatility, construction firm Hong Lai Huat Group (HLH) yesterday kicked off its initial public offering of 47 million new shares at 28 cents apiece. The group said
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    • 138 7 CHEW Eu Hock Holdings and a Blangadeshi bank have teamed up to run a remittance business. The company said in statement yesterday that whollyowned subsidiary Chew Eu Hock Construction Co Pte Ltd and Prime Bank Ltd, a banking company incorporated in Bangladesh, have set
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    • 283 7 ADVANCED Systems Automation (ASA) achieved a turnaround for the year ended March 31, but its net earnings of $2.9 million was still iess than what analysts had expected. Analysts polled by Barra Global Estimates had made a consensus forecast of $4.2
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    • 275 7  -  By Andrew Wee ANALYSTS are generally cool towards mainboardbound Addvalue Technologies' IPO, citing current market volatility. When asked how the tech stock would trade when it debuts next Wednesday, the analysts polled by BT were of the general consensus that it might trade "a few
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 196 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan KEPPEL Telecom Transportation stock and its warrant have been rising sharply in the last two days, despite the absence of any news flows that appear to underpin the gains. And brokers seem clueless as to what is going
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    • 91 6 V?Be5 VCCorpnSc 30,047,000 AataOafaorHK18c 37,113,0)0 GESWIU120C 18,407,000 Tnrti 5c 15,481,000 SSfJfe?=:=:=\W OMtehmiOo-. 10,866,000 Nnqbo«tfU810c 8,463,000 NMBkIOB 8,781.000 Sta0T«itSe 8,180,000 8PH 172,881,901 DB8Qrp.» 54,198,873 Ntf EhcKfc *****,917 UOB— 47,490,492 0*rt Semiconductor 28c 41,466.028 SM5==ffl8S SjSjS i 1Mb Cot* WAri> Dehor HK15c 1*6 17J 4.3 ang^OLlCWDOOQa 2 20 17.0 ao UOBQSlCWtttOOB 7
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    • 589 6  -  comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan STOCKS climbed higher for the sixth consecutive session yesterday, boosted by a pickup on Wall Street and an upgrade of the Singapore market by a leading foreign investment house on Wednesday. The Straits Times Index rose
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    • 211 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of sport goods and apparel distributor Ossia Internationa] has been rising sharply in recent days, boosted by speculative interest and optimism over the group's Internet forays. The counter made it to the actives list yesterday as it gained another
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    • 502 6  -  comment CURRENCIES larry wee FOREIGN exchange markets In Asia took a breather yesterday, ahead of a key decision on euro interest rates later in the session and a Q1 Japanese GDP report, widely anticipated to be stronger than expected. Ahead of
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    • 426 6 KPMGSeminarSeries Accounting Standards 2000 Friday, 30 June 2000, 9.00 am to 5.00pm v Orchard Hotel Ballroom 3 Statements of Accounting Standard implemented for financial periods commencing on or after 1 January 2000: a SAS 1 (Revised 1999) Presentation of Financial Statements a SAS 23 (Revised 1999) Segment Reporting a SAS
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 505 8  -  Moltcolirtiid cellular biology institute a good start Stories from, Audrey Tan m Munich MAKING Singapore a biotechnology hub was clearly a key issue on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong*s mind when he visited Munich in the state of Bavaria on Wednesday. At a
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    • 345 8 SINGAPORE and Bavaria will work together to develop projects in modern technology, particularly in the life sciences, through closer cooperation between their universities, research institutes, companies and scientists. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber made a joint declaration
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    • 537 8 PM Goh cites local firms'networks, familiarity with Asia SINGAPORE small and medi-um-sized enterprises can add value to their German counterparts when the two become partners in Asia, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told a group of German businessmen yesterday. "Our local SMEs, with their
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    • 317 8 SEIKO Epson Corporation has transferred its consumer scanner development programme in Japan to Singapore, with the opening yesterday of its new Ss7 million scanner research and development centre here. Coupled with Epson's existing Ss4o million plant in Tuas, its only manufacturing location for
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    • 997 8  -  ON the sidelines of the Asia Development Forum which ended yesterday, one man was hotly pursued by the media Anwar Nasution. President Abdurrahman Wahid, despite himself being besieged by the "Bulogate" scandal, has demanded the resignation of the central bank governor, Syahril
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    • 673 9  -  1999 net loss falls 80%to$2m as sales improve 10% to $115 m Byl Kalpana Rashiwala FRENCH retail giant Carrefour slashed its net loss on its Singapore hypermarket at Suntec City by 80 per cent to $2 million last year on the back
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    • 295 9  -  By] Marissa Chew THE Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore's (Redas) portal will offer information and services targeted at both developer members as well as the public. A letter listing Redas.com's features was sent out to Redas members at the end of last month.
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    • 303 9  -  I 3on the economy services sector By< Anna Teo OPERATING income in the services sector rose a strong 17 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, with all the key industries except real estate reporting higher turnover. Business receipts index data released yesterday by
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    • 284 9  -  From' Wong Wei Kong in Perth THERE is a solid foundation on which Singapore and Australia can continue to work together to find new areas of cooperation, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. "There is much to gain
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    • 389 9  -  jnailL!il'l Narayana Narayana OVER the past few months, there have been a few takeover bids and proposed mergers. The ongoing battle in the proposed Vickers, GK Goh merger is exceptional in that holders of substantial interests have felt it necessary to voice their
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    • 317 9  -  Rowena Yeo I REFER to the article written by Jamie Ee, "Speak up, and keep the doctor on his toes" (BT, June 2). I ftilly sympathise with the writer on her experience with the dentist as described in the article. In every job that we do,
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    • 257 9  -  John Soh I AM aghast by David Ban's press statement (BT, "Ex-Vickers director clarifies position on merger", June 3) that he had bowed to pressure to vote for the Goh-Vickers merger, "fully aware that the merger was still ultimately subject to Vickers Ballas shareholders' approval". It
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  • COMMUNICASIA2000
    • THE Buzz
      • 88 10 IS there an information overload at CommunicAsia and are conference participants dozing off and needing to be woken up? One speaker at MobileComm 2000 resorted to telling what he warned was a rather bad Joke at the start of his presentation. He asked: "If a
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      • 42 10 SINGAPOREANS who complain about questionable billings by phone companies should consider themselves lucky. In China, subscribers have to pay up first before they can get an itemised billing of their calls, according to Ted Dean, partner of BDA (China). •>/'*
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      • 70 10 LOOKS like broking houses will have set up shop at another IT trade show. Lim and Tan Securities and Ong and Company have taken booths at CommunicAsia and have signed up an estimated 400 new accounts during the first two days of the show. At Comdex held
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      • 89 10 FT must have been an early Christmas for many of the trade visitors at CommunicAsia because Santa Panasonic was giving away free mobile phones. Yep, you heard it right first time. No gimmicks, no strings attached, all you had to do was to fill out a
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    • 508 10  -  As voice calls might be free one day, operators have to look at other sources like data traffic Byi Catherine Ong MOBILE operators are under pressure to find new sources of revenue to cushion their earnings against the day when voice calls may
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    • 99 10 FANCY a computer you can wear? IBM Corp is showing prototypes of its "wearable" computer (above) at CommunicAsia. The unit has a headset with a micro display, a one-handed controller with a Track Point and click button, and a processor unit about the size of a
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    • 305 10  -  By. Aaron Lye HOMEGROWN Internet company Wireless Interbiz Network (WIN) unveiled a range of wireless broadband multimedia devices at CommunicAsia 2000 this week. The first, the Winßoard, is a wireless electronic bulletin board that provides real-time information updates. It allows for interference-free reception in
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    • 365 10  -  It targets 10 per cent market share f»r its e-commerce solution By, Jane Cheong DCS Solutions has big ambitions with its "Quick Start ASF' package for small and medium enterprises, launched just two months ago. Within a year, this homegrown application service
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    • WHAT'S new
      • 61 10 ACES (Asia Cellular Satellite System), a satellite-based personal mobile telecommunications system, will start operating in September in Indonesia before its servioes are rolled out to the region. With an Asia-wide footprint covering about three billion people, the system offers dual mode (satellite/GSM)
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      • 51 10 LIGHTNING Instrumentation SA, the Swiss manufacturer of secure Internet routers and dedicated access, has launched the Pocket Multi Com, claimed to be the world's smallest ISDN Internet access router. It comes with a built-in firewall and optional 128 bit key encryption. To order, visit
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      • 53 10 MOVE over Palm Pilots, here comes the new Motorola Accompli A6lBB, a GSM dual-band cellphone cum personal digital assistant. Weighing 155g, the A6lBB is enabled with a WAP 1.1 microbrowser and features a touch screen with English and Chinese handwriting recognition. Available from late July. Fax 483
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    • 1063 10 Wassail Asia Pacific Ltd NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at The Dalvey Room, National University of Singapore Society, 9 Kent Ridge Drive, Kent Ridge Guild House. Singapore *****1 on June 30, 2000 at 11.00 a.m.
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  • eNews
    • 401 11 NEW YORK Reuters AFP THE five largest record labels are close to a settlement of a copyright infringement suit with MP3.com Inc that would allow the online music site to include their songs as part of an Internet-baaed database, record executives told
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    • 288 11 NEW YORK NYT THE carnage in the world of Web-based journalism continued on Wednesday as Salon, com, one of the highestprofile Web magazines, laid off 13 employees in an effort to make up an expected US$7 million (Ssl2 million) shortfoil in its US$35
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    • 575 11 SAN FRANCISCO Net Mictions giving life to old scams as they are hard to police: experts Reuters Bloomberg AFTER an online auction last month saw a painting listed for 25 cents go for U*****,000 (*****,200), the FBI has opened a probe into whether people
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    • 238 11 BRUSSELS Reuters THE European Union's executive body on Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited proposal to change the way value added tax is levied on software and music downloaded from the Internet in a move it said should help EU exporters. The proposal would also
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    • 65 11 [TOKYO] Japan's Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) president Ken Kutaragi displaying the new portable game console PSone during a press preview at a hotel hereyesterday. The PSone, equipped with 32-bit RISC processor on its CPU and 4-inch LCD display, can be connected to a mobile network. Sony
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    • 521 11 LONDON He predicts consumers in developing world will be mtst sophisticated Net vsers Reuters WASHING machines will soon be surfing the Internet and electronic paper will start making telephone calls, technology guru Nicholas Negroponte told the International Advertising
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    • 239 11  -  The 4-rtem HDB flat will be Net-ready round the deck By Tan Shi'an SINGAPORE'S first Internet home will be a reality soon. Cisco Systems, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Sing Tel Aeradio have joined hands to turn an ordinary four-room
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    • 258 11 SAN MATEO, California AP CHILDREN are fuelling the Internet explosion, according to a new US survey that found the number of two to 17-year-olds logging into cyberspace has tripled since 1997. "The notion that children are an emerging market is no longer
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 734 12  -  rim bottom line OPINION john miller Thewriter is head of Singapore affairs at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). The association contributed this article. THIS was the reaction of one veteran Wail Street trader after the recent sharp falls in the value of
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    • 120 12 'A year ago, everyone was talking about (revenue) growth and how they'd be huge 10 years from now. Now, it's whether they can survive the next 10 months with the cash they have.' -BriuQme an investment manager, on how a drop in the Nasdaq is making it
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    • 644 12 EDITORIAL IF there's a lesson to be learnt from the way financial markets behave these days, it is that things have a tendency to get overdone, only to reverse course eventually, and correct back to more realistic levels. The euro is a classic example of such
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    • 917 12  -  Japan in recession, weak regional currencies, slow reforms, an uncommitted US all these add np to quite a bleak prognosis *y Tom Plate LAT-WP IT'S a sad thought but the truth is that the Asian financial crisis is probably
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    • 833 12 The r«d motive MONEY, power, greed and political blackmail. This is the stuff that Jeffrey Archer's best-selling political novels are made of. These elements exist in the long-running confrontation between Bank Indonesia governor Sjahril Sabirin and President Abdurrahman Wahid. True to Archer's style, this story is
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 389 13  -  I exclusive Sob Ghee Wen's Indra Pesona is still the beneficial owner From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE spat between fugitive businessman Soh Chee Wen and Ling Hee Leong the son of Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik has worsened. Rekapacific Bhd, which is
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    • 543 13 KUALA LUMPUR ItisB&idtobe mjigiriftring galling 25-35% of Plus to raise RM4b Bloomberg UNITED Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM) plans to raise RM4 billion (SII.B billion) from the initial offer of shares in its toll-road arm by the end of the year, in what will be the
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    • 437 13 KUALA LUMPUR Such political uncertainty has hurt investor confidence in Malaysia Reuters A MALAYSIAN corporate leader yesterday urged the country's prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin to clear up rumours of a rift between them, saying that the
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    • MARKET moves
      • 193 13 STOCKS of construction and infrastructure group Gamuda made a slight recovery yesterday, regaining some of the ground the counter lost in the first three trading sessions this week when it shed close to 20 per cent of its share price. Analysts said fund managers unhappy
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      • 176 13  - motor stocks take a hit Compiled by Diana Oon Abdullah MOTOR dealers Edaran Otomobil Nasional (EON) and Cycle Carriage Bin tang were among the day's top losers yesterday, after managing to hold steady in the last few days of selling on the stock market. EON was the day's top loser,
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    • 530 14  -  He backs president; but will take Gus Dur to court should any evidence link him to Bulogate By' Yang Razali Kassim [SINGAPORE] INDONESIA'S low-key but combative Attorney-Gen-eral, Marzuki Darusman, may have taken on two presidents and won. But a new fund scandal is
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    • 288 14 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S industrial output posted its smallest gain in three months in April as production of electronics and other manufactured goods grew at a slower rate. Output rose 18.6 per cent in April from a year ago after expanding
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    • 357 14 MANILA Govt may try again as the sale is aa IMF condition for aid Reuters THE Philippine government yesterday declared its planned sale of PhUippine National Bank a failure because there was only one bidder. "There will be no more
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    • 317 14 JAKARTA Scion welcomes govt's decision despite ongoing dispute Reuters INDONESIA will recapitalise Bank Bali this month despite a legal dispute between the government and the founding family of the bank. The announcement yesterday by the government's Financial Sector Committee was greeted positively
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    • 501 14 JAKARTA AFP Reuters INDONESIAN Cabinet ministers are undermining investor confidence by voicing their differences in the open and should keep their arguments behind closed doors, IMF country representative John Dodsworth has warned. "The government has to be consistent in implementing its programmes
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    • 182 14 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIAN ftineral and cemetery company NV Multi Corp Bhd has received approval to list its shares on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. NV Multi, which describes itself as Malaysia's only integrated death care service provider, will issue 10.53 million new
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    • 74 15 [SEOUL] Employees of TechnoMart, an electronics shopping mall in Seoul, wear masks of South and North Korean leaders shaking hands in an event for customers yesterday to celebrate the historic June summit next week between the two Cold War foes. South Korean President Kim Dae
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    • 441 15 NEW DELHI Reuters FINANCE Minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday admitted the Indian economy faced the twin problems of a weakening rupee and rising inflation, but said such pressures were "temporary". India has enough foreign exchange reserves to weather the current pressure
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    • 493 15 HONGKONG HK group closer to pan-European mobile-phone network Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, Hongkong's biggest company, and Investor AB, the holding company of Sweden's Wallenberg family, said they will form a venture to bid for one of four third
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    • 504 15 UHONGKONG Mm may cause developers to give next govt land auction a miss Bloomberg SUN Hung Kai Properties Ltd yesterday said it will try to sell new apartments below market prices, hoping to lure buyers concerned that rising
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    • 223 15 HONGKONG Bloomberg SOUTH China Morning Post (Holdings) Ltd, publisher of Hongkong's main English newspaper, may spin off its job advertising source of 55 per cent of its revenue as a separate public company, said an analyst who met with management.
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    • 410 15 HONGKONG Its eatiae huUig businesses nay be bhei effaii Hated eaHKbenrae, says chairmu Bloomberg THE Bank of East Asia Ltd, Hongkong's third-largest publicly traded bank, said it is in talks to buy two regional banks in the US
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    • 341 13 Ballroom, Hilton Singapore Sunday, June 11, 2000 Viewing time 10.30 am -12 noon Auction sale From 12.15pm We are knocking an unprecedented 50% off the reserve prices of all our rugs for the opening bid. Only during the Great Singapore Sale! Up for bids are: highly collectible Persian Kashan circa
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  • WORLD news
    • 348 16 FRANKFURT European Central Bank's mm and fund allocation plan boost euro Reuters THE European Central Bank surprised markets with a bigger-than-expected half a point rate rise yesterday, saying it should clear the horizon for interest rates for some time. The move, combined with
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    • 243 16 LONDON Bloomberg THE founding family of Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd, the UK securities firm, stands to get about US$2.2 billion (Ss3.B billion) from the sale to Chase Manhattan Corp. Chase, the second-largest US bank, agreed to buy the London-based Fleming
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    • 144 16 WASHINGTON Reuters HIGHER oil prices pushed up US import prices by an unexpectedly high 0.6 per cent in May, the government said yesterday, strengthening expectations that there would be an increase in a broader range of prices. The Labor
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    • 534 16  -  He says it's Ungh for regional parties te dish out 'bitter medicine' From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday poured cold water on hopes that Japan's idea for an Asian Monetary Fund (AMF) can be revived, but
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      • 77 16 Prudential Insurance profit down Reuters [NEW YORK] Prudential Insurance Co of America, the No 1 US life insurer by assets, which 1s preparing to go public, said on Wednesday net profit tor IMB fefl 28 per cent as realised investment grins, boosted the previous year by real estate deals, tell
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      • 80 16 Reuters [TOKYO] Sony Corp's game-making unit, Sony Computer Entertainment yesterday said it will launch a portable version of its older 33-bit Play Station console in a bid to remain ahead of the pack in the lucrative video game market. The new product. PSone, can be connected to
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      • 60 16 Bloomberg [ZURICH] Credit Suisse Group, Europe's sixth largest bank, plana to split its retail and insurance businesses, The bank will create separate unite fbrttte insurance, banking. pers™*' management, private banking and Credit Suiaae First Boston, an investment bank. IT* overhaul the seeonftfci three months, oomesss
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      • 18 16 Nomura Securities, plan to tie up with a new bank to be
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    • 348 16 WASHINGTON Big 5 te declare if they owned steck in firms they audited Reuters THE Big S accounting firms kcve-rtflcUM an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to voluntarily report past violations of rules barring firms and their employees from owning
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    • 210 16 PEOPLE Reuters [CANBERRA] Former Australian tycoon Alan Bond, released from jail in March after serving three years for fraud, was back dabbling in television yesterday. This time, though, he was not working on a multi-million dollar takeover
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    • 544 18 TOKYO Data oat today will show growth of at least 0.4%, but fall in bank loans, rising yen remain a threat Reuters JAPAN'S government, facing an election in barely two weeks, sought to assure markets and voters yesterday that the economy broke a
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    • 78 18 [ULURU, Australia] Nova Peris Kneebone (right) and her daughter Jessica running with the Oiympic torch after its arrival here yesterday. In the background is Uluru, formerly called Ayers Rock. Ms Peris Kneebone, Australia's first ever indigenous Olympic champion when she won a gold medal at
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    • 362 18 SYDNEY Tkeecenemy added twice as many jobs as expected in Hay Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S jobless rate fell to a 10-year low of 6.7 per cent in May, matching February's rate, as the economy added twice as many jobs as expected and countered recent
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    • 223 18 SEOUL AFP SOUTH Korea's Hyundai Motor Co has put off a plan to form an independent group as its chief is staying abroad after a dispute with his father, the Hyundai founder, officials said yesterday. Hyundai Motor was to have sought
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    • 329 19 NEW YORK This is part of US securities industry's move towards decimalisation Reuters THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in September will begin quoting 50 stocks in pennies, as part of the US Securities industry's move towards "decimalisation", NYSE chairman
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    • 352 19 CHICAGO Chicago Mercantile Exchange members vote to demntnalise Reuters TUESDAY'S vote to restructure the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), an attempt to stay competitive in the electronic age, could help speed the demise of the colourful open outcry trading pits that have defined
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    • 110 19 NEW YORK Bloomberg MERRILL Lynch Co said it hired a group of seven bankers and analysts for the semiconductor industry from Rank of America Corp's securities unit, in an effort to bolster its technology investment banking business. Merrill said it hired investment bankers Rex
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    • 147 19 AFP [LONDON] A British Job centre manager sparked a furore on Wednesday after he refused to display an advertisement for a company seeking a "hardworking and enthusiastic" employee, ruling the wording could discriminate against disabled people. The manager tokl publishing Ann Midlands Media that its
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    • 663 17 Microsoft' mlcrosoft.com I To Our Customers, Partners and Shareholders, I Over the years, we've faced a lot of challenges at Microsoft. The toughest? Turning a good idea into great software. It requires perseverance, dedication to research and development and, most importantly, a commitment to listen to our customers. In partnership
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    • 1193 18 OB HOLDINGS LIMITED Fui-year financial statement on ooneußdaled reeuWa for the year mtad 31 March 2000. Theee flguree have not boon audited. Group Company SOOO rooo 2000 lifiS 2000 1999 1. (a) Turnover* 66.212 62.764 5 1,904 b J 4 11 (b) Investment income (4) 17 1,900 1,670 12 (c)
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    • 1374 20 NOTICE To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 Notice of Annual General Meeting BUM Nippecraft Limited (Incorporated In the Republic of Singapore) RiQ To All Shareholders NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Annual General Meeting of the Company will be hdld in the Board Room at 118
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  • ARTS festival
    • 854 21  -  liver wondered w hat it would he like to eo-e\ist with your aneestors? Love in the Title gives you a pretty good idea By Parvathi Nayar PEW of us can actually imagine our parents or grandparents as young people making the same mistakes we
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    • 237 21 TODAY Arturo Sandoval (US) Where: Ritz-Carlton MHlenia, Bpm, $85 Doppjo-ParaWek), Tracking Time (Australia) Where: Clifford Rer, Bpm and 10.30pm, tickets at $26 (free seating) Kuo Pao Kun: A Festival Double- biM In Chinese (Singapore) Where: Drama Centre, Bpm, limited tickets at $22, $32 Lune-ld Productions, Alice In Wonderless
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    • 40 22 k Breaking good news! Now f fortune will be really smiling on job seekers. Sunday RECRUIT in The Sunday Times brings you a feast of career options and opportunities, on top of the usual Saturday RECRUIT bumper. Bite into it!
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 231 23  -  SOX Derivatives Tmdln&Reports MSCI Singapore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market closed higher despite a lacklustre start, with Singapore Telecom and Singapore Press Holdings leading the way. The MSCI Singapore Index gained 2.86 points or 1.06 per cent to
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    • 288 23  -  HSC3 Taiwan ftitares Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market went into consolidation mode after four days of increase despite a small rally in the US market overnight The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index lost 47.59 points or 0.52 per
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    • 231 23 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Lofty oil prices eased modestly yesterday as dealers digested the latest twists in the saga of Opec agonies over the cartel's next output policy move. Officials made clear that the group would not act immediately to trigger a price stability mechanism
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    • 340 23 Reuters London THE euro jumped more than half a cent yesterday after the European Central Bank (ECB) surprised dealers by hiking key interest rates half a percentage point and saying it would switch to a variable refi rate from June 28. The euro rallied to twomonth highs around
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2612 24 HOHQEONO AFP -23J3 HONGKONG share prices dropped 0.1 per cent yesterday in consolidation mode following recent sharp gains, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 23.13 points to close at 15,876.93, ending seven consecutive sessions of gains. Turnover came up to HK19.27 billion.
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    • 1892 24 TOKYO AFP □NDdutfK -140J2 SHARE prices in Tokyo edged down 0.8 per cent yesterday as the release of Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) data to round off the fiscal year loomed large over investors, brokers said. The key Nikkei 225 Index fell 140.62 points
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      907 24 AFP DShwtoßMg -HOB CHINA'S hard currency B shares plunged yesterday as punters locked in profits after a rally of nearly three weeks that was spurred by hopes of a merger with domestic A shares. The A share market weakened due to four new share listings on yesterday and helped
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    • 298 24 AFP PWTMn -47.58 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.52 per cent lower yesterday as late profit-taking eroded early gains, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 47.59 points to 9,067.88, following a 1.8 per cent rise in the previous session. Turnover was NT1155.64 billion against NT1148.05 billion
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 349 25 AFP -13 MALAYSIAN shares closed 1.5 per cent lower yesterday led by foreign funds selling Index-linked stocks amid weak sentiment, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 13 points at 842.24. The Second Board Index was down 5.99 points at
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  • SGX clob & regional stocks
    • 1753 26 BOMDS& WARRAHTS IMtel u* "J* Urn Cmmm HZ. 4* hart Ca (Mr Mm mm I_'- 1 f M» Mm ImMIO MM mt l««%l U8 St 19 19.5 20 20 410 1 300 171 5.90 13 S3 12 t Armstrong *0-***** IS .> JJ-J H? M 1723 16 m I AitafoodP
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    • 266 26 AFP Q Composite lain -22.43 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 22.43 points at 800.11. Volume stood at 661 million shares worth 5.7 trillion won. —AFP Dwoc Tiltcom 3SSS 400 Oangbulns 1980 -70 DaOuTaC* 0950 850 OontKootM—I 700Q -205 GdMamlngSac MIS -JOS Han Kook Tlra ?455 -35
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    • 248 26 AFP Index +143 PHILIPPINE share prices closed almost one per cent higher in thin trade yesterday as investors picked up bargains after a higher close by US stocks, dealers said. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index closed 14.8 points higher at 1,537.13.— AFP *h cmm MRCAINad 0.50 uncf. 20
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    • 245 26 AFP H«SM» +&33 THE NZSE-40 Capital Index ended barely up by 0.33 of a point to 2,064.54, on total market turnover of NZ5135.23 million. Widespread gains were offset by losses in the market's dominant stock Telecom, which fell 18 cents at NZS7.BS.—AFP 1 mm AdvantapaXOS Ut 004 149 AlrNZA
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    • 491 26 AFP FlADOriiyulai +1H AUSTRALIAN shares closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday despite weakness in the banking sector, dealers said. The All Ordinaries Index finished 12.6 points higher at 3,063.4 while the SP/ASX2OO rose 14.1 points to 3,126.7. Preliminary national turnover was 468.18 million stocks valued at All .32 billion.
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      719 26 AFP BSEThin *175 THAI share prices rose 1.1 per cent yesterday in lacklustre trade as investors remained cautious, awaiting further indications of the direction of US interest rates, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index added 3.75 points to close at 344.58, and the select SET 50
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      573 26 AFP QCanp«te laiex ♦18.75 INDONESIAN share prices staged a surprise rally yesterday to close up 4 per cent, driven by heavy buying of blue chip stocks led by Merrill Lynch, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 18.75 points at 478.21 on a volume of 736.8
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  • MICROSOFT breakup
    • 641 28 NYT [ATLANTA] The biggest winners in a Microsoft Corp breakup may be the computer makers and customers who have been dependent on the software giant that dominates about 90 per cent of the world's desktops PCs. Manufacturers such as Dell Computer Corp should get more leverage in dealing
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    • 833 28 Reuters AFP [SEATTLE] He went from a high school computer whiz banging out simple programs on clunky machines to chief of the world's most dominant software company, overseeing a vast empire that made him the world's richest man. But Bill Gates watched on Wednesday as a federal
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    • 455 28 Reuters [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp's array of mostly young, devoted and wealthy workers saluted their embattled leader Bill Gates and thumbed their noses at the judge who on Wednesday ordered the company torn apart. Some who could take a breather from work bashed Federal Judge Thomas Penfield
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    • 517 28 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] In the end, after more than two years, 78 days of trial and thousands of pages of evidence, the final decision for the federal judge overseeing US vs Microsoft came with enormous reluctance. Thomas Penfleld Jackson, the US district judge who oversaw one of the
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 1842 29  -  Speech classes, drama school, computer lessons, ballet, designer clothes. You thought you had already splurged a small fortune on your kids. But the truth is you can never spend enough on your kids. What about (clockwise, from top right) organic baby food, sending them to a brain gym,
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      • STRAWS In The Wind
        • 68 30 INCREDIBLE but true. At a recent Arts Festival performance, what appeared to be a lump of human excrement was spotted on the carpet near the back of the concert halL Thankfully, it was removed during the intermission. Although we're still baffled, we reckon it could have been deposited
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        • 76 30 AFTER Monday's concert by L'Orchestre de Contrebasses, a member of the audience was overheard saying: "I have never ever fallen asleep at concerts, but tonight I found myself nodding off four or five times." The poor man was bored, perhaps? But no, he sounded quite pleased as
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        • 72 30 DURING the opening night performance ofKuo Pao Kun's doublebill by Jack Neo, the audience nearly got more of the limelight than they'd bargained for when a mystery photographer made his wayio the front of the seats, ife aimed his camera at the surprised audience who promptly started ducking.
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        802 31  -  German quality, Italian pizzazz and hard-to-beat value make the zesty Toledo an almost irresistible choice, says CHRISTOPHER TAN CHRISTOPHER TAN WHEN Volkswagen board member Robert Buechelhofer announced that group-owned Seat would one day rival Alfa Romeo, I held back a snigger and thought: "Right, and I'm gonna be
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
      • 794 32  -  But don't expect to see in Shanghai Noon, the eye-popping stunts and memorable action sequences found in his previous films By\ Susan Tsang |HH£ have come to Hassociate Jackie Chan films with goodhumoured action sequences and his own personal charm. Shanghai Noon, set in the
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      770 33 Any Given Sunday. Oliver Stone's bracing look at American football. A 1 Pacino stars as a coach who still believes in the magic of the game, which is slowly being ruled by financial considerations. Cameron Diaz is the ruthless owner of his team. R(A). Marina. Battlefield Berth. John Travolta
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    • EPICURE
      • 926 34  -  Tired of the same old har gao and siew mai? tax su ten finds out how Club Chinois has made them more exciting TAN SU YEN CLUB Chinois may have a glamorous edge over other Chinese restaurants with its formula erf stylish interiors enhanced by original artworks, an
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      • 305 34 CRAVINGS WITH an MBA on top of a Masters in Law, Beatrice Cointreau was making waves in advertising when her family approached her to work for the family firm Cognac Frapin, which her family has owned since the 13th century, and
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      • 197 34  -  Compiled by Tan Su Yen IF you are overwhelmed by the aromas of fresh bread and pastries outside Isetan Scotts, follow your nose to Sun Moulin Gourmet Bakery in Baaement On* far thut mr» of delectable pastries and lovely fluffy breads. Sun Moulin Gourmet is
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    • LEISURE
      • 634 34  -  GARDENING By' Thion HAVE you ever felt that with every square centimetre of your garden filled, you are entitled to sit back and relax, without lifting another green finger? Well that's what I would call a gardener's false paradise. I know because I have often been
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    • COVER STORY/UNIT TRUSTS
      • 514 35  -  By Shiv Taneja The writer is with Standard Poor's Fund Services in London. For more information on Standard Poor's Micropal Stars and Standard Poor's Fund Research Ratings, please visit www.micropalcom OVER the past few years, the size of the average tracker fund that follows the FTSE All
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      • 615 35  -  By\ Hon Cheung The writer is managing director, State Street Global Advisors, Singapore. State Street manages the SPDR, a US$l7 billion, fund tracking theS&P5OO THE two things that Investors find particularly challenging when investing in traditional unit trusts are the high up-front fees and the fact
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      • 3143 35 14. annn R- I" 1 1 3 mttie tmthi 1 year 3 yeers 5 yin Micropal launch 26-04-2000 29-02-2000 90-11-1900 31-06-1900 3046-1907 31-06-1906 atar data 31-06-2000 31-06-2000 31-06-2000 31-06-2000 31-06-2000 31-06-2000 ranking KappelSlngaporeBal"" Y 18/09/1995 -10.06 1 -6.82 1 -1.55 1 12.28 1 17.13 1 ABNAMRO
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    • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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        891 36  -  A recovery story strengthened by rising domestic investment and stable interest rates. That? s why you should get an exposure to Europe, Henderson Investors' Tim Stevenson tells ton srbbmxvasam VEN SREENIVASAN The .steady rise in status of European corporations has sparked growing interest among Asians in European equities,
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      • 597 36 XIV-/* So say two finance professors whose new research comparing corporate return on equity and stock market returns over the long term shows annualised returns are more likely to be 5 points less NYT [NEW YORK] It's a truism of the investing workl
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      • 920 36  -  MowEym The bond market in Singapore today is small relative to the overall investment market, and this shouldn't be the case. Bonds not only yield a higher rate of return than cash but help to reduce the overall risk level in your portfolio. christopher j
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      • 1423 37  -  Soros,Tii>vr. RlP'.* ■XQUBJEniBS peter douglas The writer is principal of GFTA Asset Management Consulting Julian Robertson, the manager of the legendary Tiger funds, has pulled the plug after a run of disappointing performance. Stanley Druckenmiller, key Soros money manager, and several of
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      • 900 37  -  aosiDEirrrrcTrei Robert Halili The writer is the managing director of Scorelab Asia (www.asiascores.com). Scorelab is a Primark company. SENTIMENT ettited fli negative territory for the fourth consecutive week. The index closed at -11.3 points, down from the previous week's score of -3.6. The negative score was
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      • 748 37 CSTOCKIftEEI Total Aooeee Oommneloßtloß TAC, Thailand's second-largest telecom company, should be rejuvenated by new shareholder Telenor. IDEAglobal.com thinks its shares could head higher. Telenor, Norway's leading telecom company, will pay $268 million for a 28 pa* cent stake in TAC, later topping this up to 30
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      1427 38  - Tracker funds allow you to invest in the world for a fraction of the costs of unit trusts. You'll be safe as long as the bulls are out but take a long term view to neutralise bearish markets. By GENEVIEVE CUA GENEVIEVE CUA UNTIL recently, there were no indexed or
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    • 128 38 mm mm ih How annual fees eat into investment returns On EM 7 320 M be a significant drag on performance This chart i H shows the value in March Investors in s^SSST" i Singapore now 280 I I SSKESKt have access to *> index funds from 240—■—B—I—I—iiv»»aw«cia«on H H
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 285 39 Reuters Bridge News PANAMAX shipping markets continue to bubble away beneath a calm surface, brokers said on Wednesday. Few spot grain fixtures have been reported in the past few days although Cargill was said to have taken an unnamed vessel from the US Gulf to Egypt for 55,000-60,000
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    • 260 39 mm#"#* Jmt a m CWT OtstrAutton.—0.82 unch 71 ChuanHup 0.36 0.01 W7 Coaca hvastmant— 0.02 t347 FrtfaMUMl 0.24 unch Ml 68HoMnga 04* aoi 7 H« Sun Hup. 0.32 unch a* I Hi:—5.60 unch 0 Jpyl 0.19 0.02 2424 KappelCorp. 3.70 OM 837 Klppll FTH U04 uncti 45 MMNtMfftW
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    • 362 39  -  Weekly service between Pelapas and Middle East begins •n Monday By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The new Malaysian port at Tanjung Pelepas' dream of becoming South-east Asia's premier transhipment hub moved a step closer with the signing on of Singapore-based mainline operator Neptune
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    • 139 39 [SINGAPORE] The Kvaerner FJellstrand Singapore shipyard has been acquired by Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards Group, it was announced yesterday. The Singapore yard, which has been languishing for some time with no buyer and no shipbuilding orders, is the most recent asset to be sold off by
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    • 636 39  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar A COURT in Pakistan has noted that it is not uncommon for pilferage and theft to take place while cargoes of oil are delivered by pipelines from ships at the port of Karachi and Port Qasim
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    • 293 39  -  Pipavav hopes to draw more major lines with equity offer From Rajendra Bajpai in New Delhi DANISH shipping giant Maersk Sealand is in negotiations to pick up a 12 per cent stake in India's Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd (GPPL) in
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    • 315 39 28-day Galax Service overs 8 pert* in 5 countries [SINGAPORE] Contship Containerizes is introducing a new Galex Service between ports on the Malaysian Peninsula, Indian sub-continent and Arabian Gulf. With a June 22 inaugural sailing, the port rotation of the weekly service
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      • 434 40  -  Port in Guangzi Zhiang seeks support to develop container transport By] P T Bangsberg in Manila ONE of China's often overlooked southern provinces aims to upgrade its maritime facilities into a regional hub for Indochina and South-east Asia, working with Australia's largest terminal
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      • 171 40 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Wah Kwong Shipping Holdings, which invests in marine transport and property, said its two major shareholders would buy back all of the company's shares at HK55.65 (551.25) a share and delist the company because trading in the stock was too
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        • 83 40 Reuters MALAYSIA'S Star Cruises has announced Barclays Capital and HSBC have underwritten a US$6OO million (Ssl billion) five-year term loan facility. The two banks are coordinating arrangers for the loan. The loan, with repayment to commence after three years, will refinance the US$6OO million bridge
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        • 99 40 SINGAMAS Container Holdings, which makes dry freight containers, has announced it has acquired an additional 15 per cent interest in Xiamen Pacific Container Manufacturing for USSZS6 million. Singamas previously had a 36 per cent stake in Xiamen Pacific, an unlisted dry freight container manufacturing factory
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        • 55 40 MEMBER lines of the Jeddah Service Group have joined the growing number of liner groupings to announce reduced bunker adjustment factors for freight rates in tha wake of felling ftiel prices. JSG lines, which include Maersk-Sealand, NYK, P&O Nedlloyd and Hapag-Lloyd, cut their bunker rate to
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        • 45 40 EXXONMOBIL Marine Fuels, the world's largest supplier of marine ftiels, has moved into e-trading. In the first of a number of planned agreements with e-commerce portals, KMM9 has signed a contract to participate in e-tradingafmarine fUels on BUNKERSTEM, with London-based Telemarlne.
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        • 78 40 THE Panama Canal Authority has signed a deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority tor the latter to provide technical and professional services. The watar resources of the Panama Canal and the Tennessee River are both managed for the multiple purposes of navigation, water supply, power
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        • 136 40 SWEDEN'S Svenska Orient Linien will complete its pull-out from shipowning with the sale of its remaining four Ro-Ro ships which will be chartered back for at least seven years to run the company's Scandinavia-Eastern Mediterranean liner service. The move is confirmed in the
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      • 1633 53 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Rjtls SI# Voy No Eti/ttr Ported Frwa T« Frm ACWMU 07*001 BftOO 07/BM 07/HM JM-00 U 07/I70C 34/0659 34/WK .•8 .-••"oc 04 0»'9 OHM J 00/0700 00/1W 34/UOC 4 mnm mnm mnm tS HUSKS 220 VMM 21 07/I7M 00/0454 NUM
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      • 169 53 Jmm 11 Germany: Whit Sunday. Sweden: Whit Sunday. Ja 12 Denmark: Whit Monday. Sweden: Whit Monday. France: Paris Bourse, Nouveau Marche and Monep equityoptions closed, Pentecost Monday. Germany: Whit Monday. Australia: Queen's Birthday. Philippines: Independence Day. Ja IB Malaysia: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday. Brunei: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday. Ml Hong
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      • 755 53 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Lti shows price ranges tn US dollara instead of single prices tor a more comprehensive daatilpOtm of the mar hat Prices shown are baaed on average* sized stem. Market movements are indicated. 11m Cockett Bunker Price Inrtai change and
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 614 54 Technical, aspects resohred, but question of Airbus revamp remains AFP [BERLIN] All technical and financial aspects of the projected Airbus superjumbo A3XX airliner have been solved, the main manufacturer for the aircraft said on Wednesday but analysts said that the sales launch
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      • 77 54 [BEIJING] A Chinese man on Wednesday looking at a Toyota Funcoupe concept car at the Auto China 2000 exhibition in Beijing. More than 400 cars and motorcycles are on display at the seven-day exhibition, which features exhibitors from 23 countries. Foreign auto makers have
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      • 188 54 Bloomberg [TORONTO] Air Canada and its 2,200 pilots broke off contract talks on Wednesday, raising the possibility of a strike or lockout at the country's dominant airline. Air Canada, which handles 80 per cent of Canada's domestic air traffic, said its final offer
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      • 148 54 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Ansett Holdings Ltd, Australia's No 2 air carrier, may acquire 12 Boeing 747 jetliners as part of a plan to start flying to the US, the Australian newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing industry sources. The plan to expand Ansett, of
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      • 198 54 Talks were introductory and exploratory: WSJ Reuters [NEW YORK] AMR Corp's American Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc held preliminary talks on industry consolidation earlier this week even discussing the possibility of a merger, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people
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