The Business Times, 20 June 2000

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  • 12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JUNE 20. 2000 tjps
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  • 60 1 □sn INUB (-16.02) OBT-SU 7*183 (-5.56) is atut (-no) STOCK MARKETINDICES Monday Change NIKKEI 11»L*_+***** HANG SENG 11*7.47 -1NJ1 SET INDEX MAM -188 JAKARTA COMP _490.«9 +167 MANILA COMP 128 TAIPEI WP! *****.1 -1*7 SEOUL COMP 75M8_-U6 CLSA CHINA B IM1JI -SJ6 AUSTALLORD S.104J +7J Noon EST Ckage
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  • 75 1 FOBEX BATES ust ss LSI 1.729 £(US$/S$ per 2) lil< 1820 BUSOflJSS/SS/E) 0.969 1474 DM 1019 0.856 YEN tOe.8 1634 RM 1800 0.465 HKS 7.7*4 8522 BAHT 39.18 0.044 RUP1AH 8626 0.020 'Sttowouma PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .J9W BA.N(iW)K J.56 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI
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  • 377 1 Antara reports deal; NOL warns of higher charges if Hutchison Port wins bid Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Hutchison Port Holdings of Hongkong has likely won a bid to take a 48 per cent stake in a container port in Tanjung Priok, Indonesia for
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  • 1257 1  -  Merger proposal fails to win 75% approval needed for it to proceed OOH-TIGKBRS MERGER By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE! Flamboyant hotelier Ong Beng Seng yesterday blocked the creation of what would have been Southeast Asia's largest securities house with over $1 billion in shareholders' funds
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  • 674 1  -  m lock siew catherine ong IT isn't everyday In Singapore that a minority shareholder takes on the management of a publicly-listed company, especially one substantially owned by the government and wins. Ong Beng Seng's victory yesterday over the controlling sharehold era of
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    • 75 1 DBUDB Property Grenville condo: Majority owners pressuring Pidemco. Pg 10 Why Lee Han Shih thinks SGX will soon put the Singapore Exchange Centre space up for sale. P*9 Top stories Nasdaq, Japan off to smooth start. Mtif Pmgm Ipco targeted for takeover by Ruby Millenium. 4 Adroit beats expectations with
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    • 85 1 What the parties say, Pg 3 Industry opinions, Pg 3 Thombs down from the market, Pg 3 For every door that closes, three more doors will open. We'll look at every one of those doors carefully before G K Goh executive director Goh Yew Lin ijr I think at this
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    • 106 1 DANIEL ROTH t -s -^4 "Premier" Exclusive Daniel Roth module. The dragging retrograde hour hand advances 210° to return instantly to its point of departure before continuing its course. Date o'clock. to*** SINGAPORE THE HOUR CLASS Takashimaya SC. >\ MALAYSIA THE HOUR CLASS Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Tel 734 2420
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    • 49 1 He's the h'? LN of golf. If the other pros could find a judge who would split him in two, j they would. 'IT «J f> Jf J l( ill I' ir: if, |.i iiy (<, < f \'>( Manhattan's retail business Pgi and corruption charges win be dropped. I
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    • 760 2  -  It dismisses charges of being a vehicle for Softbank units From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo NASDAQ Japan an offspring of the US Nadaq automated securities trading market got off to what was described as a "smooth" start yesterday with a modest
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 68 2 w FROM the online magazine. The Standard, repeating what Tim Richardson erf The Register has to say about the business plan of British company Silicon Smart, which sells domain names that are common words separated by hyphens, like www.c-e-l-e-b-r-i-t-y.com: "No one from Silicon Smart was available for comment.
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      • 75 2 9 REEL.COM, the Internet arm of Hollywood Video, knows how to treat customers right The second largest video rental chain in the US, Hollywood Video is selling its e-commerce business to online superstore buy.com. Reel.com has sent out e-mail to all its customers offering free shipping to customers on
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      • 45 2 THIS takes the cake for a fancy name. Guoco Land, listed in Hongkong, is transforming itself into a New Economy company with the name of imGo. "1mG0... invests in high-growth opportunities throughout the wireless sector." the company said in a statement Good luck.
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      • 119 2 A RECENT survey of US Internet and technology companies has found that nearly 80 per cent of newly-hired workers receive stock options at their hiring, and a third receive a sign-on bonus. A study for News Alert Inc revealed that if you worked for a US
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    • 56 2 fctndtwtry understands tto grow froa| tower margins, and the need to to Investment Research Ltd I? we will continue to engage all the major shareholders constructively. So we have not worked out the details. Some of your questions are in anticipation of change that we will have
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    • 288 2 rn ftHie Hull MBA OF HULL MBA (General) 28th Intake Starting Soon! "Ranked Among Starting in Singapore •28 June 2000 f DivisS* j M BA (Investment finance) 10th Intake 200 y Universities, 1999* Starting in Singapore July 2000 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" PhD MA/BA Doctor
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  • GOH-VICKERS merger
    • 199 3 Tfw following are the press statements issued by the various parties yesterday: *mvQ our vwws. vmUuttn*hta ftstftllll)MlHil I ll>ls^'li3lil^ Balks Holdings Limited shareholders to decide or the merger scheme with QKGoh Holdings 1 Limited, V ickers Bailas failed to achieve the required 75 per cent approval
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    • 639 3  -  By\ David Boey [SINGAPORE] The market yesterday gave the thumbsdown to news that the proposed merger of broking houses Vickers Ballas and GK Goh had fallen through. Market players instead homed in on shares of fellow brokerage Kay Hian on expectations that it would dominate
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 523 4  -  pT^xclusive It may have to spend at least HKs6.7b; main attraction is US bank's profitable credit card business From* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong DBS Group could be spending more than Ssl billion again on yet another acquisition as the Singapore banking
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    • 339 4  -  Analysts cite small float, expect farther upside By Andrew Wee ADROIT Innovations surpassed analysts' expectations to close its debut trading on the mainboard yesterday with a gain of 41 per cent over its offer price of 50 cents. The share opened at
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    • 518 4  -  It will be used as investment vehicle to explore new opportunities By\ Eugene Low IPCO International, an infrastructure and construction group, has been targeted for takeover by investment firm 3a Investment Partners and Malaysian businessman Mohamad Desa Pachi, who is chairman of Bumiputra-Com-merce
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    • 562 4  -  Earnings from Aussie property arm A? Jennings boost performance By Serena Ng MPH Ltd yesterday posted a 46 per cent surge in full-year net profit to $16 million, riding once again on strong sales and higher profits from its Australian property arm AV Jennings
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    • 270 4 SIME Singapore is taking a 49 per cent stake in the Balmoral Park residential site which Steven Soh of the Land Resources group bought in March, their second deal together. The partners are paying a purchase price of $66 million for the
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    • 318 5  -  Deal exceeds SCs 25% limit on acquisition of foreign assets by listed firms From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur FOOD and beverage maker Yeo Hiap Seng (M) yesterday said that the Securities Commission has disallowed its proposed plans to buy into sister
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    • 411 5  -  Construction, building ma terials firm has contracts worth $30m By Andrea Tan SHINING Corporation, the latest construction-related firm to hit the listing trail, will offer shares at between 21 and 23 cents apiece at the end of the month. "We'll
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    • 374 7 OUB will be co-lead manager for Singapore retail tranche Bloom berg, AFP PSA Corp said yesterday it has appointed DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co and ÜBS Warburg as global coordinators and bookrunners to handle its planned
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    • 60 7 Corrections clarifications IN our report on June 15 headlined "Former banker starts Asia's first secondary loan auction site", we reported that debtdomain.com operated with the approval of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The company has clarified that that is not so, and that it has only been working with the
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    • COMPANYBriefs
      • 67 7 JADASON Enterprises, one of the leading PCB equipment and supplies distributors in Asia, has received in-princ.iple approval from the Singapore Exchange for a mainboard listing. Overseas Union Bank is the manager, underwriter and placement agent for the I IPO. Jadaeon was founded in Hongkong
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      • 154 7 AFX-Asia AY ALA International Holdings, formerly know as TLB Land, said its whoUy-owned unit Foflet International, together with Grosvenor Estate Holdings unit Grosvenor Ltd and Uni-Asia Finance Corp, win jointly invest 180 million in the performance notes being issued by AP Real Estate
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      • 70 7 HAI Sun Hup (HSH), which has the sixth-largest portfolio of hotel rooms In Australia, has acquired yet another hotel—Brisbane's Heritage Hotel—for Ass 3 million (5165.5 million). The purchase of the 252-room, five-star hotel In the central business district caps an aggressive buying spree by
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      • 74 7 FRASER and Neave (FAN) has successfully acquired Times Publishing. At the close of its general offer at 3.30 pm yesterday, FAN owned 87.5 per cent ofTPL. FAN said it will immediately review with TPL management all aspects of TPL's business. The beverage and property
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      • 59 7 SESDAQ-LISTED knitting machine manufacturer Falmac yesterday said it had completed the acquisition of England's Camber International for £881,250 (123 million). Camber is amongs* the world's leading manufacturers of circular knittimg machine. Falmac directors believe the acquisition will have a positive effect on the net
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      • 58 7 MAE Engineering, an integrated provider of mechanical and electrical engineering services and aquarium specialist works, has diversified into the aqua-culture business. Its subsidiary, Sunsparkle Pte Ltd, will hold a 70 per cent share in Aqua Ocean Marine Technology Sdn Bhd (AOMT). AOMT cultivates and produces
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 173 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan ALTHOUGH the Kuala Lumpur stock market is currently undergoing a consolidation, there are some nuggets to be found, especially amongst the warrants. Take the Gamuda Bhd warrant, for instance. This instrument expires in December 2006.
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    • 426 6 Stocks Volume AdrotlOc 06,332,000 AddvafTech 2.5c 18,806,000 Kyoaha HK50C 13,806,000 CMiNilOc 13,800,000 NOL 10,641,000 IPCCo»pn5c 8.979,000 POO 20c 8,618,000 TV»tnwood5c 6,801,000 FHTKHHga20o 6,153,000 L&M50C ....5,159.000 9tocfc» S Adreft 10c 46.354.475 PacMcOanlury 32,590,500 DBSGrp 32,612,336 SPH 19,661,165 Chart Semiconductor 26c 18,887,788 NOL 17,600,800 NatEtodOc 14,639,650 UOB 14,200,800 OCBC 13^63,530 3tA. 12,779,464
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    • 559 6  -  comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market started this week the same way it closed the last on a lacklustre note with investors showing little or no appetite to take positions. Weighed down by banks and selected component stocks,
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    • 214 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong SHARES of property developer Keppel Land rose in active dealing yesterday, with the stock finishing among the session's most heavily traded issues. Keppel Land shares rose 6 cents or 2.7 per cent to $2.30. The stock opened at $2.20
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    • 46 6 t on a cum basis ison June 22. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on June 27. Date payable is on July 4. ♦ASIA Pacific Breweries Ltd will be trading ex-dividend (interim dividend at cents) on June 23. Last day tor
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    • 349 6  -  comment CURRENCIES larry wee BOTH the euro and the Japanese yen rose against the US dollar yesterday on news of a weaker outlook on the US front, but the region's currencies fell as the threat to its export-led recovery rose. Citing the
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    • 265 6 THIS ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS AS A MATTER OF RECORD ONLY 19 June 2000 o FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) has acquired an 87.5 per cent, interest in TIMES PUBLISHING LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) SG acted as Financial Advisor to Fraser and Neave, Limited
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    • 46 6 YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR CPF SAVINGS IN EICHT. Important All applications for units m eight must be made on the application forms accompanytng the prospectus investors must read the prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as weiiasnse SJlH'.s
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    • 325 7 Page Ballroom, Hilton Singapore Sunday, June 25, 2000 Viewing time 10.30am-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: an outstanding and valuable collection of
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 370 8  -  US-based firm offers medical test and data management services By Eugene Low SINGAPORE'S life sciences industry got a shot in the arm with the opening of Covance's drug research facility yesterday. The facility which houses the US-based firm's central laboratory and clinical development
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    • 299 8  -  It expects projects to compete on quality as prices stagnate By Marina Chew THE residential property market may be dominated by resale transactions now, but this is set to change as developers are pushed by upcoming supply and higher interest rates to launch their
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    • 285 8  -  Broadband networks to be developed for valne-added services By Teh Hooi Ling STARHUB is teaming up with Australia's TransACT Communications to jointly develop high-speed broadband networks for the delivery of a wide range of value-added services such as video, telephony and Internet services. Singapore's
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    • 325 8  -  By, Joyce Koh WHILE the income gap might widen in the future, the government will still work to maintain a minimum standard of living, said Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lim Swee Say yesterday. He said that despite the growing gulf in
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    • 296 8  -  the economy outlook Byi Anna Teo SINGAPORE'S May trade data is likely to show a "dramatic bounce" in year-on-year terms, says J P Morgan, forecasting a 11 per cent jump in the month's non-oil domestic exports. The market consensus seems to expect a return
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    • 185 8  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore UNITED Overseas Bank has launched "MOST—Mapping Out Strategies for Tomorrow" which states "in line with the current government initiatives to promote the use of CPF funds for investment and retirement planning, UOB is the first CPF Agent Bank to implement several
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    • 467 8  -  li'"Hbag With online bidding now, there is no need for dealers to bid on buyers' behalf anymore Patrick C H Tan Singapore THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is working towards an open COE bidding system soon. It is perhaps timely to review whether
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    • 161 8  -  Leong Weng Tat Singapore IT appears the Visa Electron cards issued by the local banks cannot be used for online payments. The response given to me by a local online bookstore was that "the local banks are not too willing to accept Visa
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    • 331 8  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore ACCORDING to media reports, the SGX announced earlier this month that it had doubled the tick value or the value of the minimum price movement of a contract from the $5 to $10, to make trading and hedging "more cost-effective". (Incidentally, it also
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    • 17 8 1M GARAGE SALES Rummage here for a treasure trove of great finds. fif The Straits Times Classified
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    • 66 8 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btfetterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind
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  • FOCUS property
    • 746 9  - A white elephant to be shot fast PROPERTY To solve Its 'legacy' problem, It Is likely that SGX will soon put Its Singapore Exchange Centre space np for sale lee han shih IN the next few months, Messrs JY Pillay and Tom Kloet will have to make a major decision,
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    • 495 10  -  Condo owners are now trying to hold Pidemco to the deal, claiming STB may yet approve the sale Reports by] Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The majority owners of Grenville Condominium are trying to hold Pidemco Land to a deal it inked in January to buy the property. Their
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    • 181 10 THE Strata Titles Board (STB) has approved the $122 million collective sale of Tat Lee Court in the West Coast to listed City Developments. With this sale, the STB has to-date approved 12 applications made by majority owners for collective sales since the amended Land
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    • 148 9 /WKv Jones Lang W LaSalle. For Sale Harrison Road Freehold 8 storey warehouse building with 2 basement levels Land area approx. 16,388 sq ft Floor area approx. 40,570 sq ft Brand new condition Ideal for corporate headquarters Separate entrances for car and truck For enquiries, please contact Sole Marketing Agent
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    • 59 9 /WR\ Jones Lang w LaSalle. TUAS AVENUE 2 INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR SALE •Gross Area: Approx 171,862 sq. ft •Site Area Approx 191,600 sq. ft •Tenure: Expiry March 2055 Purpose-built part 1 part 3 storey factory with a 2 storey ancillary office block •Ideal for MNCs For enquiries, please contact Sole
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    • 965 10 PRIME INDUSTRIAL BUILDING FOR SALE BY TENDER •Address 2 Tai Seng Avenue Description A 7-storey purpose built corporate building with f I Tender Closing: Wednesday 12 July 2000 For enquiry and tender document, please contact Sole Marketing Agent CB Richard Ellis (Pte) Ltd Industrial Department Tel: 224 8181 Fax: 221
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    • 155 10 hAUOkV ■■■■■I Built in: 54,692 sf U VJIM £9 Land area: 52,4975f Tenure: 60 yrs from 1961 p I Sale with vacant possesion For more details, kindly contact Joint Marketing Agents: Knight V* Tan Kok Eng Frank Property Consultants 228 6894 251 7387 4-Storey Detached Industrial Building No. 9 Sin
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    • 328 10 Jones Lang W LaSalle, Prime Mixed-Landed Prime Bungalow Site Site in Bukit Timah along Dalvey Road Site area: 34,473 sq ft Site area: 65,416 sq ft Zoned for two-storey mixed-landed housing Zoned for Good-Class Bungalows Close to prominent schools like Swiss Cottage U n 'fl ue c n e k
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  • eNews
    • 204 11 Reuters [LONDON] Handheld computer maker Psion pic yesterday tried to dampen excitement over a reported plan to float its Symbian joint venture soon, saying it had taken no decision on whether to list the operating system developer. Psion shares rose 16.7 per
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    • 518 11 BOSTON AP TRADE Whitney for Britney, or Cream for Korn. A new Internet company hopes to make it easier for people to get rid of CDs they no longer want and get hold of used CDs that they do. Swapit.com may lack the cozy
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    • eBriefs
      • 69 11 Reuters [NEW YORK) Microsoft Corp was to announce later yesterday that it will buy Bungle Software Products Corp to create cutting-edge gamee for its forthcoming X-Box video game console, the Wall Stmt Journal reported yesterday. Terms were not diecloeed. according to the article. Some analysts
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      • 69 11 Daily Telegraph [LONDON] Mobile phone users in Britain will be able to receive real-time share pricee on their phones when iTouch launches its new WAP portal today. The portal is backed by United News Media, which has a 70 per cent stake hi iTOuch.
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      • 73 11 Bloomberg [PARIS] Credit Lyonnais BA, France's third-largest publicly traded bank, started an Internet brokerage that aims to break even in 2003 with 30,000 to 80,000 clients. Credit Lyonnais Interactif, the bank's Internet bank, already offers brokerage services. The new brokerage, dubbed Top Trades, will offer
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      • 79 11 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Beeni.com Inc said it has started a joint venture in Japan with Oracle Japan and units of Softbank Corp and Hikari Tsuahin to provide Japaneee companies with its online incentive marketing service. Beensxom Japan, capitalised at US$2.7 million (554.6 I million), said it
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    • 330 11 DULLES, Virginia Billed as cheaper alternative to buying a second PC, it will compete with Microsoft's WebTV Bloomberg AMERICA Online Inc, the world's largest Internet provider, will introduce an interactive television service that combines e-mail and other activities with TV broadcasts in a
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    • 264 11 DUBLIN Reuters INTEL Corp, the world's largest maker of computer chips, said yesterday it planned to almost double semiconductor wafer manufacturing capacity at its European manufacturing site in Leixlip near Dublin. Intel said it would add 50,000 sq ft initially to the plant,
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    • 477 11 TOKYO Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp, the world's No 1 computer-services company, said it won a 10 Vi-year contract to run information systems for Nissan Motor Co, Japan's third largest automaker by sales. Beginning in October, IBM will manage maintenance and
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 878 12  -  bottom line OPINION rajandra bajpai The writer is a New Delhi based journalist who contributes to BT IT wasn't long ago that taking a bribe for performing one's duty was considered repugnant in India Now it is a way of life and it is
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    • 87 12 This notion of lightness is totally missing the point There are many smart people, intellectually smart as well as street-smart, who don't have the energy or motivation at times to act smart, but that doesn't mean they're not smart' -Lamy Davis a fraternity brother of George Bush
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    • 627 12 EDITORIAL DESPITE three rounds of re-polling because of rampant cheating, a full 200-member Senate is still not in place in Thailand. A fourth re-poll in four constituencies is slated for some time soon, but the Election Commission fears more dirty tricks, perhaps forcing a fifth re-poll.
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    • 1077 12  -  Fnrther credit tighteningi will take place that will eventually slow Main St activity By Paul Samuelson The writer is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology LAT-WP AS mid-year 2000 approaches, there is a noticeable change in American and global financial
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    • 903 12 THERE is an ongoing debate among economists, engineers and futurists about whether we are really living in a golden age of technological progress. Nobody questions that digital technology and its consequences including the Internet, cell phones, smart appliances and all that have made and will continue
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 504 13  -  jTi^xciusive Sale to Khazanah expected before creditors' meeting next month From'. Eddie Toh m Kuala Lumpur TIME Engineering will proceed with its earlier plan to float Time dot Com even if Khazanah Nasional pays less than what Singapore Telecommunications had offered for
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    • 207 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA and two of the nation's biggest banks said they will invest RM3OO million (5H36.4 million) in new companies related to telecommunications, biotechnology and high-technology manufacturing. Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) and BumiputraCommerce Bank Bhd will each put in RMSO million,
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    • 186 13 KUALA LUMPUR AP THE government has extended the term of Malaysia's top judge for another six months despite a mounting debate over whether he compromised his duties during a vacation in New Zealand, a senior official said. Malaysia's King granted Federal Court
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    • MARKET moves
      • 189 13 FURNITURE-MAKER Tat Sang Holdings Bhd managed to buck the market trend yesterday, posting a modest gain of 12 sen or almost 5 per cent above its offer price of RM2.50 on its debut on the second board of the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday.
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      • 111 13  -  Compiled by Diana Oon Abdullah SECOND-BOARD construction and property group Pembinaan YCS Berhad saw both its shares and warrants actively traded yesterday as it was relisted after an 18-month trading suspension following the conclusion of its debt workout plan. YCS, which currently has a
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    • 454 13 MANILA It also expects better Asian bond performance in H2 Reuters PROSPECTS for Asian sovereign bonds are better in the second half of the year, with Malaysia and South Korea likely to get credit rating upgrades on the back of improving
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    • 364 13 MANILA Analysts expect healthy export demand to continue Reuters THE Philippines yesterday reported a hefty 204.5 per cent annual growth in trade surplus in the first four months of this year and analysts expected the trend of slowing imports and healthy export demand
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    • 575 13  -  From 1 Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid has embarked on a risky strategy of attempting to strike a deal with former president Suharto to drop corruption charges if he agrees to return US$25 billion (Ss43 billion) to the government.
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    • 305 14 f* HONGKONG AP mTWO lawyers appeared in -Court yesterday on charges that they tried to cheat a bil- lionaire businesswoman out r ,qf HK$lO million (552.2 millfj lion) in a scam relating to her late tycoon husband's will. p Thomason Mo and Ailey
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    • 600 14 BANGKOK Year-on-ye&r, however, growth slows to from (15%, raising concern about recovery Bloomberg, AFP THAILAND'S economy expanded in the first three months of the year as surging exports of cars and electronics offset declines in financial services and agriculture.
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    • 261 14 HONGKONG Bloomberg HONGKONG'S unemployment posted its biggest drop in more than IS years in May as the city's double-digit economic growth generated more manufacturing, construction and service jobs. The jobless rate declined to an average 5.1 per cent in the three months to May,
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    • 369 14 BEIJING Gangs cause rock collapse, pose as kins to claim payments AFP THE Chinese authorities are moving to smash a chilling but common scam in which criminal gangs have murdered up to 100 miners in order to steal their death compensation payments.
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    • NOTEBook
      • 68 14 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong yesterday said its holding company, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEx), has appHed filiating on the exchange. It did not give a target date for the listing. The Hongkong government has previously said the listing couki
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      • 79 14 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Quanta Computer Inc, the Taiwan notebook computer maker whose shares have fallen 28 per cent since early April, has withdrawn an application to sell shares overseas. It has received regulator approval to delay a sale ofglobal depositary receipts, said an official ofthe Securities
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      • 71 14 Bloomberg [KUALA UJMPUR] Malaysia and two of the nation's biggest banks said they will invest RM3QO million (5113&2 million) in two funds to focus on the Internet, telecommunications and high-technology manufacturing. Malayan Banking Bhd and Bumiputra Commerce Bank will each ooctribnteßMSO million, white
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    • 176 14 HONGKONG AFP CHINA'S flagship investment group China Everbright Ltd yesterday said that it has appointed Wang Mingquan as executive director and chairman to replace Liu Mingkang. Mr Wang has also been appointed executive director and chairman of China Everbright Technology Ltd and China Everbright International
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    • 403 13 |y wharton-sMu Wharton un„ersit, conference UnhwnKy of PtwnylvMlt Professor Jerry Wind Leonard Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School. University of Pennsylvania Q A Session Moderator Dr Y.Y. Wong, Chairman, WyWy Group Professor Tan Chin Tiong, Provost. Singapore Management University Professor Patrick T. Harker Dean, The Wharton School.
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    • 891 15  -  The British Open and a career grand slam are waiting next month for the formidable Tiger Woods. Dave Anderson reports on the unstoppable golfing phenomenon T'S 6.000 miles from hpif» fPph- rptirpH nilpr of thp Rnval anH A nriont AnHrouic WnnHc
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    • 424 15 SYDNEY Money from rights offer to pay for new wireless licence Bloomberg HUTCHISON Telecommunications Australia Ltd said it raised As7o2 million (*****.5 million) from a share sale to investors, who purchased 85 per cent of the stock on offer. The money will be used to
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    • 287 15 I OBITUARY 'Shadewshegnn'earned his nickname far fnndraisingclct, kingmaker «hflb 1 AFP {TOKYO! Former Japanese prime minister Noboru Takeshita, known as the "shadow shogun" and kingmaker of politics, died yesterday at the age of 76, a party official said. He died of respiratory failure at a Tokyo
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    • 704 18 LONDON FOMC No 2 cites housing data and consumer durables Reuters, AFX FEDERAL Reserve Bank of New York president William McDonough said yesterday that recent reports from the US economy suggested it was beginning to slow. "The economy, according to data which
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    • 398 18 NEW YORK They claim they were forced to close oat position* at fire-sale prices Bloomberg ELLINGTON Capital Management LLC and five of Its hedge funds sued ÜBS Warburg LLC, claiming the investment bank forced the funds to close out investment positions
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    • 699 18 BONN Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Telekom AG shares fell as much as 3.2 per cent after the German government sold 15 billion euros (Ss2s billion) worth of shares in Europe's biggest phone company to help reduce debt and fund a tax reform. Telekom shares
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    • 412 18  -  Diplomats say glitches can't be ruled oat as they study Bering's plans to remove trade barriers From D Ravi Kanth in Geneva CHINA began yesterday what its chief trade negotiator described as the "final stage of multilateral negotiations" towards
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    • 425 18 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US banks' earnings rose to a record US$l9.5 billion (5533.7 billion) in the first quarter, up 8.8 per cent compared with the same period in 1999, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. At the same time, the agency warned
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 61 18 Bloomberg [CALGARY, Alberta] Husky OU Lid, a closely held Canadian oil producer controlled by Hongkong billionaire Li Ka-shing, agreed to buy rival Renaissance Energy Ltd for C 54.42 billion (555.17 billion) in cash, stock and assumed debt. The purchase will form the Canada's
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      • 43 18 AFP [LONDON] British financial services group Old Mutual yesterday said it had acquired United Asset Management Corp of the United States for USI2S per share in cash, valuing the company at US$l.46 billion (552.5 billion). AFP
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      • 72 18 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Germany's Commerzbank AG and Dresdner Bank AG yesterday confirmed they were holding preliminary talks about possible cooperation. The banks said in a Joint statement they would have to assess carefully whether a link-up was feasible. They said no further statements regarding the talks were
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      • 67 18 Reuters [CAIRO] Leaders of the third world's G-15 group met in Cairo yesterday to lobby for better trade terms and more aid from rich nations to cushion the cost of globalisation. Members of the G-15, which combines 17 countries from Asia, Latin America and
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      • 62 18 Reuters [LONDON] Swedish furniture retailer Ikea yesterday confirmed that it would create more than 10,000 new lobe in Britain over 10 years as part of a £700 million (Ssl .83 billion) wide-ranging expansion strategy. Ikea, which currently has 10 stores in the
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    • 245 19  -  !SGX Derivatives TnAlagßeports MSCI Singapore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market started the week lower as other regional markets, with the exception of Japan, feU. The MSCI Singapore Index lost 3.14 points or 1.18 per cent to end the
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    • 245 19  -  MSCI Taiwan tatores Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market ended a little lower as electronics stocks fell. The MSCI Taiwan Index fell 1.29 points or 0.33 per cent to end at 384.71 points. The volume traded within the index
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    • 261 19 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON! World oil prices headed lower yesterday as dealers priced in expectations of a rise in supplies in the third quarter from the powerful Opec producers' group which meets later this week in the Austrian capital of Vienna. North Sea benchmark
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    • 317 19 Reuters London THE yen was buoyed against the dollar and the euro yesterday, as the focus shifted to prospects of a near-term Japanese economic recovery and amid expectations of a possible end to Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy. Analysts said the yen was underpinned by ongoing expectations that the
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2798 20 HONGKONG AFP QHangSaig -166J1 HONGKONG share prices dropped one per cent on selective profit-taking following a recent rally and declines on Wall Street on Friday, dealers said. "There is selling pressure on property and banking stocks," said Ricky Tarn, research director at Pacific
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    • 2009 20 TOKYO AFP Ql§dßai226 +***** SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 1.7 per cent yesterday as the opening of a new hightech stock market and hopes of economic recovery improved sentiment, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nik-kei-225 Index rose 273.04 points to end at 16,591.35,
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    • 330 20 AFP □WP Index -H. 7 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.2 per cent lower yesterday in lacklustre trade amid cautious sentiment, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index eased 19.7 points to 8,751.1, with turnover hitting this year's low of NT564.70 billion. "Investors are reluctant to trade since
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      965 20 Reuters QShenzhenßlndex -3iO CHINA'S stock markets closed lower in slow trade yesterday as investors dumped shares of firms with poor earnings after Beijing signalled it was moving closer to delisting underachieving firms. The Shanghai B Share Index fell 1.33 per cent, or 0.74 of a point, to 54.82 on
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    • 348 21 AFP Q Composite Index -219 MALAYSIAN shares closed 2.7 per cent lower yesterday on heavy selling pressure with sentiment weakened by Wall Street's fall late last week, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index feU 22.9 points to finish at 813.29,
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    • 278 22 AFP CI Composite Index -3.66 THE Korea Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 3.66 points at 755.38. Volume came to 264 million shares, worth 2.1 trillion won.—AFP JmH *fAAMISMHI—— ***** imrt •ratnTacft *08 5 COTtr«t«nt WO »0 CMCtm. IMOOO 7500 Dm Cu tank 2Q70 uncft Dmim Corp WOO -45
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    • 280 22 AFP Q Composite Index -9.28 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday in reaction to the fall in the US market and concerns over US interest rates. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 9.28 points to 1,560.62. Turnover fell to 2.54 billion shares worth 1 billion
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    • 272 22 AFP QNZSE-40 -12J7 THE New Zealand share market dipped 0.6 per cent yesterday. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 12.17 points at close to 2,035.74 on low total market turnover of NZ$57 million. Market giant Telecom fell 11 cents to NZ$7.5B. —AFP j»w w *h rmm Advantaga HOS 2
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    • 540 22 AFP FlADOrdmtriM +7J THE Australian stock market defied falls on Wall Street to rise 0.2 per cent yesterday, underpinned by a stronger News Corp, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index rose 7.6 points to 3,104.5 while the SP/ASX2OO rose 10.3 points to 3,151.1, after earlier dropping to 3,119.8. Turnover
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      726 22 AFP PSETbJg -3JB THAI shares closed 1.1 per cent lower yesterday on thin and range-bound trading, as investors ignored the release of positive first quarter economic news, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index dropped 3.83 points to close at 340.66, while the select SET SO
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      629 22 AFP FlCmpogtelaiex +U7 INDONESIAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent higher yesterday on heavy volume, mostly driven by speculation in Lippo group stocks, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 6.67 points at 490.69 on a volume of 916 million shares worth 634.41 billion rupiah. Advancing
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      827 24  -  The much-hyped Hot Water disappoints P Y VAN with the pianist's erratic performance and graphic portrayals of violence P Y VAN ALAS. Hot Water, that much-hyped encounter between the forces of a traditional European music piano recital and a modern son et lumiere show was ill-matched. It was
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    • 569 24  -  Hot Water feels like a work-in-progress, despite having some resonant visnals Byl Parvathi Nayar AFTER the disappointing reactions to the controversial Desde mono, the first Singapore Arts Festival 2000 (SAF) co-commis-sion, the wait was on for the festival's other co-commission: Robert Wilson's Hot Water. The
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    • 194 24 TODAY Sloka, The Ctiandralekha Qroup (India) Where: Victoria Theatre, 8pm, tickets at $22. $32, $42 and $52 Experimentum Mundi (Italy) Where: Victoria Concert Hall, 8pm, tickets at $22, $32, $42 and $52 Mel em Qetaran Jiws, Perksmus (Singapore) Where: Kallang Theatre, 8pm, tickets at $16, $22 and $32
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    • 1027 26  -  These new institutions of education portend a new trend in continuous learning reports ammateo ANNA TEO IT may well be, in some cases, an overgrown training department rebranded with a highfalutin name. But the corporate university whether built of bricks and mortar or virtually has, like
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    • 460 26 Go to school while at work ABB ON the banks of Lake Zurich sits Forum Horgen, the state-of-the-art training centre of Credit Suisse. It also houses the ABB Academy, the corporate university of the global engineering and technology group. Convinced that a corporate U would help the group set the
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    • 277 27 Hie freight market report has been dropped doe to pressure on space j»i> a m CWT DtetrtbuHen 079 -0.01 9 Co»co £!*5ftman<.-..ol20 uncO 10 FnluM LMl 0-23 0.01 197 G6 Holding* 0.63 uneh 0 Hal Sun Hup 0.34 -0.01 47 IMC HoMngs-HK —5.60 unch 0 JayaHoidtags arr -0.01
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    • 389 27 Victims thought to be illegal immigrants from Asia; Dutch-registered truck came from Belgium AFP [DOVER, England] Fif-ty-eight people, thought to be illegal immigrants from Asia, were found dead early yesterday inside the container of a Dutch-registered truck at the port
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    • 187 27 [SINGAPORE] Interrogations of the 10 Iranian and four Iraqi stowaways who attempted to hijack the Italian cargo vessel Med Star by claiming they had a bomb have revealed that they are part of a human smuggling ring, said a senior Indian Coast Guard
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    • 313 27  -  Fromi Alec Almazan in Manila PHILIPPINE education officials estimate that at least 50 or 42 per cent of the country's 118 maritime colleges will eventually pass the government's new accreditation requirements and be allowed to continue offering maritime courses. Commission
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 701 28  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes THERE is a nice irony about the story of the holes appearing, and getting bigger, underneath the main engines of some modern VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers). As readers of this newspaper will surely be aware,
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      • PORTShots
        • 75 28 NORWEGIAN owner Bergesen plans to replace about 600 of its 1,060 Norwegian and 200 British officers with Filipinos, Indians, Latvians and Russians to cut costs and stay competitive. The move could save about US$2O million (5534.4 million) a year and will be Implemented over the next two
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        • 64 28 CHILEAN line Companhia SudAmerica de Vapores has bought the name and liner services of Swiss-based carrier Norasia. CSAV is reported to have paid US$3B million for Norasia's global network. Now Norasia Is to be the ma)o>" shareholder in aExpress Container Service which will run a fast
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        • 72 28 ITALIAN classification society Rina is likely to have more explaining to do to the International Association of Classification Societies (lACS) following the detention of the 1976-built, Maltese-flag tanker Nunkl in Amsterdam for a large number of deficiencies. Rina has reportedly suspended the class and all the
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      • 724 39 THIS report compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices fbr s more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 629 40 Dutch carrier's hnb-and-spoke network at Amsterdam can offer transfer services to British airline Reuters [LONDON] Amsterdam's Schiphol airport would be a major prize for British Airways pic if it succeeds in its planned takeover of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Analysts
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      • 825 40 European consortium has finally set terms for corporate restructure IHT [PARIS] Airbus Industrie has cleared the final corporate hurdle prior to launching its longplanned superjumbo jet to compete directly with the Boeing 747, a French aerospace executive said over the weekend. The go-ahead
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      • 259 40 SWISSAIR CRASH AP [HALIFAX, Nova Scotia] A second map light from Swissair Flight 111 has been found without burn marks in the plane's wreckage, investigators said. A Transportation Safety Board spokesman said the small halogen light that rested above the observer's seat was
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      • 486 40 Bloomberg [BERLIN] Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's No 2 airline, said it expects 10 per cent profit growth this year to be driven by an increase in the number of business travellers and by growth in cargo shipments as companies fulfill orders placed over
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