The Business Times, 17 July 2000

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    13 1 TheBusinessTimes MITA(P) 035/12/1999 85C SI NGAPORE Internet: http.//business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY, JULY 17, 2000
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    Lock icon MARKET SUMMARY
    63 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES W*ek Change ST!.__ 2,079.89 _.-12.74 SfMSCl FUTURES ....275.H0.... -5,10 BTSRI 803.97 -5.69 KLSE COMP .*****......+35.77 NIKKEI 17,142.90 -255.34 HANG SENG 17.586.1&...+756.20 SET INDEX. JliM— -7.29 JAKARTA COUP IK»£ ..-400 MANILA OOMP 1,58*88.... _<+3.29 TAIPEI WPI ijil8.ll .+345.05 SEOUL COMP .827.96. -13.79 CISA CHINA B 1,090.82
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    78 1 FOBEX RATES us* si tl»-L 1.741 £(US*SXper£) 1-500 1612 R1 ROp SS/SS/fiJ lL 0S35 1.628 KM 5M0 0.458 HK$ 7.7* 0225 BAHT 40.05 0.045 RUPIAH 9,447 6.018 •St to 100 units PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5. HO KUALA LTMPIR 7.67 JAKARTA ,1900 BANGKOK at r MANILA ll. tm fiONGKONf. 8.50
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    Lock icon Thai bourse unveils plans to stay fighting fit
    767 1  -  |:«riexclusive It will split into an operating company and a second entity to develop the capital market FYom Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), which is sitting on a stash of more than 10 billion baht (*****.6 million),
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    Lock icon How do you monitor prices of 5,000 items in the CPI?
    858 1  -  Rain or shine, a team from the Dept of Statistics hits the markets to collect prices Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] It won't be easy for any retailer or shopkeeper to try and fleece Chia Nga Teh or any of his
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    Lock icon Rift between US, Jakarta may undermine IMF's role
    852 1  -  rTlexclusive Indon politicians upset by what they see as US meddling From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta A PERCEPTION that the United States is interfering in Indonesia's domestic affairs, and is using its superpower status to extract promises, has caused a rift between
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      68 1 INSIDE Top Stories Technology replacing many non-executive bank jobs. Next Page Tan Chong examines options for its property development. Pg 4 Investors get online stock-pick tool. Pg 4 ST Kinetics on target with Bionix. Pg 8 Norwegian law firm to open Singapore office. Pg 8 Another milestone for Dr Mahathir.
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      277 1 Making it good I Getting on the train Hfs company operating y Aya si below 50% capacity, his Next station: EmESw v v'srr; f-rf workforce had little discipline Jp" A- snrf his rr<snagers displayed SMRT's IPC MKPH? -:r» productive behaviour Offer details: Will be released at 3pm today. Richard Eu
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      8 1 Indonesian* brace for rough rupiah ride, Pg 12
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      Lock icon Technology replacing many non-exec bank jobs
      616 2  -  Uil exclusive Need for staff with non-executive skills declining, BIAS survey shows, as banks resign themselves to poaching By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] "My bank is now staffed by only mercenaries and old-timers, and technology does he rest," a senior banker of a
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      Lock icon Eu Yan Sang reserves 15m IPO shares for VIP customers
      397 2  -  exclusive It's launching offer of 71.5 m shares at 30-35 cents each fiyi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Eu Yan Sang International Ltd, which launches its initial public offer today, is placing out slightly over 15 million shares to its Singapore VIP
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      Lock icon Merger of Thai, S'pore, KL bourses off: SET chief
      560 2  -  Thai roles, worries about losing national control cited as reasons f-Ymn 1 Harish Mehta in Ikmgkok THE proposed merger between the stock exchanges of Thailand, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur has fallen through because Thailand's exchange controls policy prevents Thai investors from
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  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE awards
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      Lock icon Logistics is more than just moving boxes about
      891 3  -  E-commerce can speed up business enormously. But that's only when reliable delivery keeps pace, epgeme low finds out as he talks to Bax Global EUGENE LOW WITH the growing proliferation of electronic business, having a good logistics system is now more important
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Tan Chong examines options for its property devt
      536 4  -  Firm is trying to sell freehold Wilby Residence by the September deadline By] Kalpana Rashiwala AS the September deadline approaches for Tan Chong International to dispose of its Wilby Residence freehold condominium in Bukit Timah, the company is weighing various options to
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      Lock icon Investors get online stock-pick tool
      529 4  -  Valuengine helps select stocks based on individual needs tiff Serena Ng VALUENGINE Inc (VEI), a company headed by a Yale University professor, has launched an online stockpicking tool to help retail investors. Found at the Valuengine.com website set up by VEI, the tool selects stocks
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      Lock icon Deluge of IPOs sparks 50% fee hike by PR firms
      739 4  -  45 listings in first half compared to 51 for whole of' 99 David Boey THE sizzling revival of the Singapore IPO market which in the first half of the year saw a total of 45 listings compared to 51 for
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      Lock icon SSB Citi fund targets low-risk investors
      351 4 INVESTING in healthcare is not necessarily high risk, which is what SSB Citi is banking on to differentiate its new healthcare fund from others in the market. To be launched today, the Citi Global Healthcare Fund is a feeder fund that targets low-risk investors
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      160 4 1 n Jr 17 July 2000 EZYHEALTH ASIA PACIFIC LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 14 August 1999) I 4 INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 50,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.05 EACH BY WAY OF:i v i (1) 2,500,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.40 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY
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      12 4 relationship |g|j results THE BREAKTHROUGH GROUP PROFESSIONALS IN INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
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      192 5 S-Class Keyless Go KEY (type: Mercedes-Benz) ■^^^Hll Early C2oth to early C2lst jj 111 Manually operated opening device II ff|l The 'cat key' tt w*« commonly known, mi throughout the twentieth century in conjunction companion devices, the 'door lode* and the The car key evolved rapidly at improved technology responded
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      424 6 •Jul* 12 Source: JM Stocks Volume Goodpack 1c 213,002,000 MediaRinglOc 184,909,000 Jadasonlc 173,450,000 Achieva 5c 161,657,000 IPC020C 161,272,000 AddvalT ech 2 5c 123.731 ,vXX) North 22 US 1c 119,769,000 PNE Ind 10c 82,097,000 TT Int 15c 76,457,000 CEI5c 75,775,000 Stocks DBS Grp 222,406,596 PacificCentury 198,053,825 Chart Semiconductor 26c 174,723,832 DBS
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      Lock icon ST Index expected to stay range-bound this week
      545 6  -  I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan AFTER kicking off on a promising note, the Singapore stockmarket's rally ended with a whimper last week, weighed down by regional political and economic uncertainties. With the Indonesian currency looking down the 10,000 rupiah per US dollar
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      Lock icon RF covered wrt provides cheap, geared ride on PCRD
      199 6  -  WARRANT WATCH Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Pacific Century Regional Developments rose sharply last week. There are two covered warrants issued on this stock. One is by Robert Fleming (RF), the other by Merrill Lynch. The former looks more interesting. It
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      Lock icon ST Engineering in strong uptrend
      253 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan ST Engineering last Friday reported a better-than-expected 36 per cent rise in interim net earnings to $132.2 million, from $97.3 million at end-June last year. Revenue for the six months was up 18 per cent to $1.09 billion, from $923
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      144 6 ♦Lung Kee Metal Holdings Ltd will hold its AGM on Aug 31, at 11 am, 333 Orchard Rd, Mandarin Singapore Hotel, Suite 831,8 th Floor, South Tower. ♦Metro Holdings Ltd will hold its AGM on July 28, at 11 am, 391 A Orchard Road, #26-01 Tower A Ngee
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      Lock icon Regional currencies close generally lower
      563 6 Ten loses ground as Sogo's collapse unnerves investors; A$ to keep watching weakening rupiah and peso AFP [HONGKONG) The prospects of an early end to Japan's "zero-rate" monetary policy faded after the collapse of major retail corporate, Sogo on Wednesday. The Aussie dollar, meanwhile, was
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      239 6 I Singapore Press W Holdings We are a dynamic and progressive public-listed company whose core business is in newspaper publishing. We are also an active player in the multi-media and telecommunications industry as well as in properties. We will soon be expanding into TV radio broadcasting. As a result of
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      49 6 YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR CPF SAVINGS IN EICHT. important All applications for units in eight must be made on the application forms accompanying the prospectus investors must read the prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as well as nse ©I hisbank
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  • COMPANY profile
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      Lock icon Pleasure after the pain
      1305 7  -  It wasn't the best of times to expand but Richard Eu's bold moves to build Eu Yan Sang's business during the regional crisis have borne fruit Reports by Catherine Ong WHEN Richard Euand his cousin Clifford wrested control of Eu Yan Sang (Hongkong) from their Hongkongbased
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      Lock icon Using science to validate ancient medicine
      468 7 ON the fourth-floor rooftop of Eu Yan Sang's head office in South Bridge Road, Yung Chei, 50, is frying the dried skin of chicken gizzard in an over-sized wok, undeterred by the resulting steam or the hot sun. The fruit of his labour will
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon ST Kinetics on target with Bionix
      1254 8  -  Even if company doesn't win US Army tender, it's the only Asia-Pac firm in the running and that's going great guns in itself, writes david boey DAVID BOEY SINGAPORE Technologies Automotive, ranked 269 th in the SlOOO list, is set to move several notches
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      Lock icon Norwegian law firm to open Singapore office
      196 8 NORWAY-BASED law firm Wikborg, Rein Co will open an office in Singapore on Aug 1. The office will be headed by Dag Rommen, a qualified Norwegian lawyer and master mariner who has spent four years practising in Singapore. A statement from the law
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      Lock icon May retail index up on vehicle sales
      288 8  -  P=sj=l on the economy retail Byl Marissa Chew RETAILERS continued to see sales climb in May, and as with previous months, motor vehicle sales were behind the 26.9 per cent year-on-year rise in sales volume. Figures from the Department of Statistics showed the
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      75 8 \.v k VETRUST PTE LTD jj We are now at: 10 Collyer Quay m #09-05/06 Ocean Building Singapore *****5 (65) 212 1388 (65) 212 1366 IS <iifaHwft®netnist.net To find out more, visit us at www,netrust.net lease note that: sof today, 17 July 2000. our new operating hours are "om 9am
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      Lock icon Serious about role in setting accounting standards
      425 9  -  Janet Tan Ag Executive Director Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore WE refer to the article by Paul Thompson (BT, July 12) and wish to clarify the institute's role in setting accounting standards in Singapore. The institute is a member of the
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      Lock icon SLA's inflight entertainment system is safe
      188 9  -  Rick Clements Vice-President, Public Affairs Singapore Airlines Limited I refer to AS Khaled's letter, "How about more leg room in economy class?" (BT, July 10). We wish to assure Mr Khaled that our inflight entertainment and communications system, KrisWorld, has been certified as safe
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      Lock icon Why so tardy on IDD promotion, Sing Tel?
      91 9  -  Alison Cousland I WONDER whether Singapore Telecom would care to explain why I have just received a notice in the mail regarding its July special on IDD rates. Yes, I received it on July 12, for a promotion from July 1 to
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      Lock icon Teneriffe sale complies with law
      138 9  -  Ho Tian Lam Executive Director DTZ Debenham Tie Leung Singapore I REFER to the articles "Teneriffe buyers offered $50,000 to resell options" (BT, July 12) and "Reselling purchase options is against the law: URA" (BT. July 13). As the sole marketing agent of The Teneriffe
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      Lock icon Bond-breakers take awards as birthright
      462 9  -  Janet Lim BOND-BREAKERS have been with us since the time scholarships began to be awarded. Why is there so much outcry now? The reasons I believe are: ♦The audacity of these new awardees who are likely to be from the top schools. They are groomed
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      67 9 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim 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
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      Lock icon Internet group approves addition of new domain names
      667 10 YOKOHAMA Bat move criticised for lack of guidelines on number of new names and usage AP REGULATORS who manage addresses on the Internet yesterday approved the creation of the first new top-level domain names on the computer network since the 1980s. The
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      Lock icon As Amazon.com turns 5, the question is: will Net pioneer survive?
      812 10 SEATTLE Reuters FIVE years ago. a feeling of dread gripped Jeff Bezos the day before he launched his new company: could his wild idea to sell books on something called the Internet succeed? His doubts vanished when Amazon.com Inc
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      Lock icon Too much money in Net ventures: Ballmer
      466 10 ATLANTA Bloomberg MICROSOFT president and chief executive Steve Ballmer said too much money has been invested in misguided Internet ventures without a prospect for expanding revenue or generating a profit. "A lot of people are over investing in dotcom startups," Mr Ballmer said
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      Lock icon Seagate, Veritas get govt nod for deal
      253 10 PALO ALTO, California With waiting period over, Seagate can become private after shareholder approval Reuters SEAGATE Technology Inc and Veritas Software Inc said on Friday that they had been granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart Scott Rodino Act. further
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      Lock icon ST Aerospace to build portal for aerospace parts and services
      182 10 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering said its subsidiary Singapore Technologies Aerospace will be building a portal for online buying and selling of aerospace parts and services. Called www.iShopAero.com, the portal will be developed together with Hong-kong-listed iMerchants. ST Aerospace will hold twothirds
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      762 10 1 RI Nobfe group limited (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) Notice of Special General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 18th Floor, Mass Mutual Tower, 38, Gloucestor Road, Hong Kong on 2 August 2000 at 12.00 p.m. for
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Another milestone for Dr M: 19 years in office
      608 11 KUALA LUMPUR He remains firmly in power after surviving his biggest tests in the last three years Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad quietly celebrated his 19 years in office yesterday, vowing to stay on until the nation has a firmer
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      Lock icon Indon forest fire haze engulfs half of M'sia
      270 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SMOG caused by Indonesian forest fires shrouded half of neighbouring Malaysia yesterday, sparking fears of a repeat of the 1997 disaster when thick smoke engulfed parts of the region. The smog has cut visibility in some areas to 1
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      200 11 Maserati. Steel Fire. £P, 3200 GT An emotional experience awaits the passengers of the four luxurious seats in this 3200GT With a twin turbo charged 370 hp engine to propel you. and an adjustable suspension and traction control system to guide you. a new Maserati has been born Experience the
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  • SOUTH east asia
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      Lock icon Thai stocks may see boost after baht battering
      696 12  -  But SET index unlikely to spike up in sluggish climate, loan woes: analysts Front Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE battering received by the Thai baht last week provides a welcome fillip for the stock market as foreign investors will make a double
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      Lock icon Indonesians brace for rough ride for rupiah
      429 12 JAKARTA Gas Dor due to face parliament over ministerial sacking AFP INDONESIANS are bracing for a showdown between the president and parliament this week which they fear could send the battered rupiah plunging further "Everyone is waiting for the 20th." said Business News
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      Lock icon Jakarta central bank gets new deputy chief
      189 12 JAKARTA AFP THE Indonesian parliament has chosen a new deputy chief for the central Bank Indonesia (BI) to replace Subarjo Joyosumarto who resigned earlier this month, a report said yesterday. A total of 22 members of the 39member parliamentary commission for banking voted
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      Lock icon Thai banks seen posting better earnings in 1st half
      470 12 BANGKOK They have lower bad loans level, better interest margins Reuters BRUISED Thai banks have crawled back from two disas trous years and are set to report improved second quar ter results, boosted by a fall in the level of bad
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  • EAST asia
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      Lock icon Will Hang Seng Index sustain its surge ?
      661 13  - Will Hang Seng Index sustain its surge P=H comment HK STOCKS Fundamentals are improving, but watch out for pitfalls quak hiang whai TRAPPED within the band of 14.500 to 16.500 for a month, the Hang Seng Index appeared to have decisively broken out into new trading territory last week. And
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      Lock icon Anson Chan urges calm in row over poll
      199 13 HONGKONG AP HONGKONG'S top civil servant asked for calm yesterday as politicians and students demanded an independent inquiry into allegations that an academic was pressured to stop polling the government's popularity. Chief Secretary Anson Chan told citizens to wait for results of
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      Lock icon Shenzhen aims for China's hi-tech crown
      313 13 SHENZHEN AFP WITH an old computer and a head full of good ideas. Xu Shaochun in 1993 launched a business making Chinese financial software in this southern boomtown bordering Hongkong. Today, he still holds a controlling stake in the private firm. Shenzhen Kingdee Software
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      Lock icon Waste oil poisons water supply
      152 13 TAIPEI AFP MORE than a million people in the southern Kaohsiung area were left without water after reservoirs were contaminated by toxic waste oil. officials said yesterday. At least 360.000 households in the greater Kaohsiung area were affected, and officials at Taiwan Water Co said
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon Pennies add up to profits for Ryanair chief
      715 14 PEOPLE Bloomberg [DUBLIN] Michael O'Leary is a long way from the family farm but the Ryanair Holdings chief executive still applies the same rule of business: Every penny counts. His frugality has helped him become a millionaire and turned Dub-lin-based Ryanair into
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      Lock icon Moody's says junk-bond default rate set to soar
      542 14 NEW YORK Rate will rise to 8.4% next June as credit quality drops, says rating agency Reuters THE rate of junk bond defaults rose to 5.43 per cent in the second quarter from 4.82 per cent a year earlier, and will soar
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      Lock icon Wall Street shrugs off US$145b tobacco verdict
      813 15 WASHINGTON Tobacco stocks dip only slightly; analysts expect years of appeals against the class-action award LAT-WP FOR decades. US tobacco giants fought desperately to avoid a judgment like the one delivered by a Miami jury on Friday. But when the enormous damage award
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      Lock icon US proposes to finish WTO talks on services by 2002
      530 16  -  Framework proposal spells out specific objectives and how to achieve them Prom. D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE US has tabled what a World Trade Organization senior official described as an "interesting and ambitious" proposal that calls for completing global
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      Lock icon All eyes on June CPI data and Greenspan's Senate testimony
      477 16 NEW YORK Reuters THERE will be two key events for the market this week. The first will be tomorrow's release of the June consumer price index (CPI), where the consensus is for an acceleration in inflation, thanks to higher gasoline
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      Lock icon Wanadoo IPO 16 times subscribed by institutions
      474 16 PARIS Bloomberg WANADOO SA, the Internet unit of France Telecom SA, received orders from institutions for 16 times more stock than was available in its two billion euro (553.3 billion) initial public offering (IPO), said people familiar with the sale yesterday. Retail investors
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  • COMMUDITIES & futures
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      Lock icon Oil rises again as Opec members keep the markets guessing
      564 17 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Crude prices firmed as the prospects of an early output increase by the world's leading oil producers receded, despite an earlier pledge by Opec heavyweight Saudi Arabia. The price had fallen sharply earlier this month after
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      1448 17 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SECURITIES INDICATIVE PRICES AND YIELDS \\Wk Prte# Prlc, Term Coupon Maturity Code Y T It Bid Offtr Tf CMfM Matartty fail VTM K Qffw 5YR 3.125 OI-AugOO N*****1V 6.20% 2.28% 99.84 100.04 7 YR 2.500 15-Jun-03 N*****0F 3.57% 3.50% 97.05 97.25 2YR 3.250 15-0ec-00 M*****2T 2.88% 2.40% 100.15
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      1958 17 SICOM FUTURES Jul it RUBBER (futures dosing as at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT(Scents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 00 112.50 Sep 00 116.75 400 Oct 00 118.00 Nov 00 118.75 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cents/kq) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Aug 00 64.25
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      283 18 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG stocks were expected to take a breather this week, with the Hang Seng Index seen initially edging towards support at 17,250 points, analysts said. "I think the market had a very good run last week and many stocks are
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      593 18 NEW YORK Investors will watch CPI report, earnings from over 200 companies this week AFP Bloomberg AFTER slipping for two weeks, the Nasdaq took off last week with a 5.54 per cent jump after high-tech companies like Yahoo, Motorola and Gateway posted earnings reports
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      380 18 TOKYO BO J expected to postpone ending its zero-rate policy AFP SHARK prices in Tokyo are likely to advance in the week ahead on expectations that the Bank of Japan will postpone ending its zero-rate policy at a meeting today, brokers said. "The
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      346 18 LONDON AFP THE leading London shares fell only slightly during a lacklustre week's trade noted for its thin trading volumes and muted market movements. The FTSE 100 index of leading shares fell by 22.1 points, or 0.34 per cent, over the week to
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      869 18 {Sydney *2.60 AUSTRALIAN investors will focus on events in the US in the week ahead, tip-toeing through a minefield of data releases, brokers said. US consumer price figures are due on Tuesday while Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan gives testimony on Thursday. "Provided these events do not
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      1976 18 PlParis +439 THE Paris Bourse ended on a firm note on Thursday ahead of the French Bastille Day holiday with the help of New Economy stocks cheered by the latest Nasdaq rally. The CAC-40 ended up 0.52 per cent at 6570.36 points which is a gain of
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      455 19 AFP Q Composite Index +35.77 MALAYSIAN stocks are expected to trade little changed overall in the week ahead as investors pick selected blue chip stocks, dealers said Friday. "Second and third liners have moved up. Investors may dabble next in index linked counters," an institutional
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      594 20 SGX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup [LONDON] The spotlight will be on the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) policy meeting to start off the week ahead, with some potential to support the beleaguered yen if the Japanese monetary authorities show their confidence in economic recovery prospects
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      1505 24  -  Yeo Chee long's decision to join the printing company in 1997 led to his transformation into a top manager By David Boey IF you were planning to quit your job to work for someone else, wouldn't you want to find out all you could about your
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        Lock icon Caroline Wong and Alvin Quah HBO Asia
        119 24 HBO Asia has promoted two of its staff in Singapore to directors. Caroline Wong has been promoted to director of marketing. She will lead the marketing team in building the brand equity of HBO and CINEMAX throughout Asia. She will also be responsible
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        Lock icon Rik Dovey ESPN STAR Sports
        94 24 RIK Dovey, formerly the senior vice-president of production, operations and engineering at ESPN STAR Sports, has assumed responsibility for day-to-day management of the company as managing director. In addition, he will oversee the company's new Internet venture which, as well as being a comprehensive international
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        112 24 Ray Lennox Bigger has been named senior director of sales erfHilton Asia. In his new position, he will take an active role in the sales activities for Hilton hotels in Asia, working closely with the hotels' sales directors. He reports to Michael Flynn, Hilton's vice-president
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        85 24 Discovery Channel has announced the appointment of Robert Birmacombe as director of regional advertising sales. Based in Singapore, he will be responsible for advertising sales management of sponsorships and commercial airtime in Asia for both Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. In addition, he will handle the
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        76 24 JEFFREY J Blatt (right), vice-president of business affairs of Measat Broadcast Network Systems in Malaysia, has left Measat to launch a regional consulting company X [Ventures], X [Ventures) will base its Asia-Pacific operations in Bangkok, and provide clients in the satellite, cable, broadcasting, Internet, film and entertainment
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      235 25 Top stories The eso.com award will reward best Net firms Page 4 Learn risk-taking, passion and emotion from dotcom startups, says Xerox's chief scientist John Seeley Brown Page 13 E-biz yet to touch SMEs Page 14 Commentary Why ERM is key for e-biz to excel Page 5 Cybersquatters can cost
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      Lock icon A B2B bridge for China, Taiwan
      510 26  -  Bex-com hus enteied into ji joint enture which will develop e-coninierce software and licence it to companies in China reports toh cwp TOH HAN SHIH IN an interesting political twist, a Singapore firm is setting up a joint venture in China which will enable
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      330 26 HOMEGROWN e-commerce firm bex.com, that aims to list on Nasdaq, dismissed rumours that its valuation has dropped significantly due to the Nasdaq crash in April. As at end-March, bex.com was valued at US$5OO million (SsB7o million), bex.com chairman Yong Voon Fee told BizlT.
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      1139 26 A very different pattern is emerging with mobile Internet services, bringing into question the notion of there being single 'global' markets for IT FT THE common wisdom has long been that new information technology trends begin life on the
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      Lock icon HP to invest $2m to help ASPs in S'pore
      246 26  -  By' Tang Weng Fai HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore will invest $2 million to help local ASPs (application service providers) take off. HP expects the funds to be invested by October in a maximum of 15 ASPs that qualify. Called the Go-APP (ASP Partner
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      Lock icon Rewarding the best Net firms
      754 28  -  The Enterprise 50 dotcom award will identify Internet companies which have strong business models to thrive in the New Economy liy t Andrew Wee ANEW list which high lights the best and brightest Net companies in Singapore was launched last week. Organised by The Business
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      Lock icon Motorola, AT&T to develop wireless links
      175 28 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Motorola Inc and AT&T Corp said they will work together to develop, test and license equipment that lets telephone companies provide voice and high-speed data to homes and businesses over wireless links. Terms weren't disclosed. AT&T, the largest US long-distance and
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      Lock icon Scour drops invasive search tool
      491 28  -  At issue was the way it looked for digital music, videos and photographs on Net !ty\ P J Huffstutter LATWP [LOS ANGELES] Scour Inc announced late on Friday that it has stopped a controversial Internet search engine tool that enabled outsiders to peek at digital
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      273 28 HERE'S a list of the criteria to be eligible to be an e5O dotcom: Must either be a "pure play" Internet company or one that does business primarily on the Net. Valuation for the company must be available. The company must have obtained at least one round of
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        55 28 UK-BASED Psion pic has appointed Tech Pacific as its distributor in Singapore to supply the full range of Psion palmtop computers including the Revo, Series smx and Series 7 and the Psion 56K Travel Modem. Tech Pacific is a broadbased distributor of IT products and is
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        35 28 XIRCOM Inc, which provides mobile data access solutions, has appointed Thong Siow Gek as marketing director for the Asia-Pacific region. Ms Thong was previously Asia-Pac marketing director for Philips Consumer Communications.
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        30 28 A FORUM on "E-security" will be held on Tuesday at Hotel Inter continental. It is organised by Heweltt-Packard (Sales) Pte Ltd. for details, fax *****05, or e-mail lester@jeannectic.com.sg.
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        32 28 A FORUM on "Bullet-proofing your IT business plans" will be held on Tuesday at the Merchant Court Hotel. It is organised by iandi Asia Singapore. For details, e-mail laychintan@iandiasia.com.
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        43 28 THE "3rd Optics/Photonics Forum" will held on Wednesday at the Marina Mandarin Singapore. It is jointly organised by nine organisations, including the Economic Development Board, Gintic, Productivity and Standards Board, and others. For details, fax *****63, or e-mail tangiek@edb.gov. sg.
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        29 28 A CONFERENCE on "Secure W@P and m-security" will be held on Friday at Suntec City. It is organised by Genovate Solutions Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****37.
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        45 28 9 A SEMINAR on "Mobile selling: business information right in your palm" will be held on July 27 at Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Auditorium. It is organised by Silk Technologies and Doml.com. For details, fax *****21, or e-mail contact(a)silktech.com.sg.
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        39 28 A TWO-DAY workshop on "Mastering cashflow for individuals and IT startups" will be held from July 29 at York Hotel. It is organised by Binet Resources Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****97, or e-mail binet(a wynnes.com.sg.
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        35 28  - E-marketing Web branding Compiled by Raju Chellam A TWO-DAY seminar on "Successful e-marketing and Web branding on the Internet" will be held from Aug 25 at the NUS Faculty of Administration. For details, fax *****08.
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      Lock icon Why ERM is key for e-biz to excel
      703 29  -  iiVj we see IT S'pore contributes the highest in the region with 41% market share of the Asean ERM software market raju chellam The writer is BizlT Editor NOW that companies of all sizes and shapes are rushing to transform themselves into
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      227 29 THE global market for ERM applications will grow at 11.4 per cent a year between now and 2004 to cross US$24.B billion (5543.2 billion) by then, according to the latest estimates from International Data Corp (IDC). It will be fuelled by companies that
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      Lock icon Christie's plans to integrate Net bids in live auctions
      563 29  -  /ty] Holly Hubbard Preston AP [LONDON) CHRISTIE'S International is about to throw all its eggs Faberge and otherwise into one basket. This fall, the auctioneer will introduce an ambitious service that will enable registered Christie's customers to participate in its live
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      Lock icon Low-cost WAP package for SMEs
      239 31  -  WebXEL's solutions cost about $5,000, compared to $20,000 from competitors, company savs By Daniel Buenas Homegrown WebXEL Consulting Pte Ltd last week launched what it claimed was "Asia's first bundled WAP package" targeted at SMEs (small and medium enterprises) seeking to offer WAP solutions. Called
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      Lock icon Sonera Smart Trust expanding Asian partnership network
      409 31  -  Byi Carrie Lee Reuters [HONGKONG] Sonera Smart Trust, the mobile security unit of Finnish mobile phone and Internet group Sonera, said it is seeking to expand in Asia with the addition of more business partners and manpower. Freddie Cheung, Sonera SmartTrust's area business
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      Lock icon Cybersquatters can cost you dearly
      690 32  -  say m They can dilute corporate trademarks and take away business from Its Intended target mickey beyer clausen The writer is co-founder vice-president (business development) with Speednames, Inc WHAT we feared most has happened. The recent case of "leekuanyew. com" being auctioned on Yahoo! Singapore
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      590 32  -  The main business hurdle for Russia's software industry is selling the goods By Ross Sorkin AP [MOSCOW] In the dimly lit Planet Hollywood in central Moscow, entrepreneurs are fishing for financing. Some carry business plans scrawled on single sheets of paper; others speak of
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      Lock icon Net firms get serious about stopping losses
      595 32  -  Internet-oriented companies are taking a fresh look at how they do business By John Moran LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] The answer: Now. The question: When will Internet companies have to start making money? Well, perhaps not "making money" exactly. Just showing that they have
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      Lock icon Sesami.com sees $10m revenue this year
      554 33  -  Uil exclusive SingTel's subsidiary processes over $550 m in e-commerce transactions a month now By Andrew Wee Homegrown se sami.com Pte Ltd. a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, plans to build industryspecific e-com-munities and expects to gross at least $10 million in revenue this year.
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      Lock icon Microsoft CEO opens window on a new Web world
      860 33  -  Microsoft .Net will transfer many of the PC's functions to Net By] Bill Husted NYT [ATLANTA] The chief executive of America's most important and controversial high tech company came to Atlanta on Friday with a hole in his shoe, a malfunctioning
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      Lock icon India to spur growth in telecoms, computers, Internet
      340 33 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] India, the second most populous country, will deregulate domestic long distance telecommunications next month. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said, and won't tax sales of computers and related equipment for three years. Mr Vajpayee said at a conference of
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      Lock icon B2B or not to be?
      1113 34  -  Kinsey Despite the mounting scepticism after all the hype, business-to-business e-commerce will reshape business in Asia and companies should be preparing for it right now Brad Gambill Karsten Schween Brad Gambill is a principal in McKinsey s Singapore office and a leader of (aMcKinsey Southeast
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      Lock icon Auto parts to jewellery: Online auction fever goes global
      969 34  -  By Holly Hubbard Preston NYT [WASHINGTON] Imagine yourself sweating away in an automobile repair shop in Jakarta. You are in a hurry and your 1965 Austin Healey Sprite's ignition system just gave out. The mechanic says it will take up to
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        Lock icon Kodak's rugged digital camera
        77 35 KODAK Singapore last week launched its DCSOOO digital camera (above) with a rugged, weather-proof body. The $1,299 device comes with a rubber and hard-shell body with a 1.8-inch colour LCD screen, has oversized controls which can be operated even with work gloves, offers up to 6x
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        92 35 EPSON Corp's high-end printer for photographic output is now available. Called the Stylus Photo 2000P (above), it offers a large printable area (13-inch by 44-inch), comes with Epson's Intellidge ink cartridge system with a built-in memory chip and an auto-resealing valve to track ink usage,
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        Lock icon Canon's new CanoScan
        88 35 CANON'S newest flatbed scanner that it claims offers "the highest resolution in the consumer scanner market" is now available. The CanoScan FBI2IOU (above) offers 1,200 by 2,400 dpi optical resolution, scans each colour at 14 bits, comes with a USB interface and five photo-editing software, and is
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        68 35 CREATIVE Technology is now shipping its stylish Nomad II MG portable digital audio player in Asia. The $649 MP3-supported player is "the first digital audio player in the market that lets users do real-time recording from any FM station", Creative said. It also offers voice
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        88 35  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam ADOBE Systems Inc has announced three new products: ♦Frame Maker 6.0: A solution for authoring and publishing long, structured and content-rich documents across common computer platforms. Costs $1,559. FrameMaker+SGML: For publishing in Standard Generalised Markup Language without having to learn the complexities
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      Lock icon Samsung and Hyundai slug it out over DRAM chips
      529 35  -  New report card from International Data Corp on PC graphics cards, flash cards and semiconductor modems shows fierce competition between the two Korean giants ity Raju Chellam SOUTH KOREAN giants Samsung and Hyundai are fighting for the top spot in the
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      Lock icon Scavenging for computer parts:
      44 35 A Taiuxinese military Hercules C130 transport pUine passing over a field of discarded computers in Taipei on Friday. Taiwan, the world's leader in computer manufacturing, allows small-time trusinesses to reap profits try scavenging the precious metals found in computers. AP
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      296 35 AFP [TOKYO) The world's two biggest electronics giants said on Friday that they were keeping an open mind on joining a newly launched Japanese consortium promoting the freely distributed Linux computer operating system. A total of 22 Japanese companies, including high-tech giants NEC Corp
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      403 35  -  Civil liberties group wants FBI to show how e-mail snooping system works Lan Hopper AP (WASHINGTON) The American Civil Liberties Union is trying to force the FBI to disclose details of the inner workings of its Carnivore system that can snoop on e-mail, officials announced. Carnivore is
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      Lock icon S'porean to head HP Asia-Pacific
      161 36 S'porean to head HP AsiaPacific US GIANT Hewlett-Packard Company has appointed Siaou-Sze Lien (above) vicepresident and general manager of Hewlett-Packard Asia-Pacific, making her the first Singaporean to fill that position. Ms Lien will represent all of HP's business in the Asia Pacific region, and succeeds Richard Warmington, who has decided
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      Lock icon S'pore's ERP mart to hit US$172m in four years
      275 36  -  The Asia-Pac region will see ERP sales touch US$l.4 billion in the next four years iiy Tang Weng Fai THE market for ERP (enterprise resource planning) solutions in Singapore will grow to US$l72 million (Ss3oo million) by 2004. from about U5572.3
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      412 36  - Coming —voice-capable PDAs They will be the wireless medium of the future, says applications developer By' Tony Munroe Reuters [HONGKONG] Sunday Communications Group is betting that voice-capable PDAs, or personal digital assistants not traditional mobile handsets will be the wireless medium of the future "We think the wireless PDAs will
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      100 36 \r Mode! Kumiko Hayano displaying Japanese toy maker Tomy's new "Yahoo! Digital Camera "in Tokyo on Friday. The new tote-price camera, which targets light users, is a tie-up project with Tiger Electronics and Yahoo. It features n ight mode that enables shooting with ultra red censor,
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      Lock icon Dotcoms will soon take hybrid forms
      1090 37  -  ism exclusive Learn risk-taking, passion and emotion from dotcom startups, Xerox's chief scientist John Seeley Brown tells eugene low EUGENE LOW THE future does not belong to pure dotcoms. Neither does it belong to so-called "old economy" companies. It belongs to companies which meld
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      299 37 IT BEGAN in 1970, when Xerox Corp brought together a team of world-class researchers and set up Pare (Palo Alto Research Centre). The scientists were given the mission of creating "the architecture of information". In the years since Pare was established, it has invented products
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      169 37 FACT Software International Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of India's Vedika Software, last week launched Fact Fire, a real-time accounting solution targeted at SMEs (small and medium enterprises). The solution has been developed on a thin-client, three-tier architecture, and is accessed via a web-browser interface.
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      Lock icon 3Com in deal on Eudora program
      138 37 Reuters [SAN DIEGO] Qualcomm Inc said on Thursday that 3Com Corp will bundle the wireless technology firm's Eudora e-mail program on CDs with 3Com's US Robotics branded modems worldwide, giving 3Com increased visibility for its US Robotics product. As part of Eudora's distribution programme,
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      481 37  -  Online image collection of more than hfrif a million galaxies fln< at least 162 million stars Ny Sarah Tippit Reuters [PASADENA, California] Stargazing is the latest activity to go virtual now that Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has started posting images of the
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      75 37 Sony Corp employee Yoko Dobashi displaying the company's new hand-held computer, the FKG-S501Kand a Memory Stick at its headquarters in Tokyo on Friday. The new demce, which will hit the Japanese market in late September, featuresa built-in Memory Stick media slot and a joy dial controller for
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        Lock icon E-biz yet to touch SMEs
        675 38  -  Up to 95% of small and medium companies in a survey have yet to adopt e-commerce, Joyce koh finds out JOYCE KOH MUCH of the dotcom hype about quantum increases in productivity, less paperwork, efficient consolidation of information and reaching out to the world seems
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        Lock icon Transparent trading is key at new portal
        435 38  -  Investors at m3rfondolllille.com will have full access to all trades By Tang Weng Fai A LOCAL financial portal has given new meaning to the word "transparency" by offering retail investors complete access to all the stock trades conducted by a team of investors
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          64 38 Homegrown CKS Property Consultants Pte Ltd has launched cqMobile, claiming it is Singapore's first local transactionbased WAP content service to provide real-time property value indication. The value indications are available for almost 90 per cent of private residential properties (both strata and landed) here. A property
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          54 38 Homegrown Omnibz Pte Ltd, that offers e-commerce and e-consulting solutions, has tied up with Hewlett-Packard Singapore to launch an ASP service for SMEs. Omnibz's ASP centre will offer a range of business applications, including ERP, SCM, HR and payroll, on a subscription basis. For
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          56 38 Local startup plasticscommerce.com has tied up with Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology to offer plastic's mould-makers an innovative service online. Called Product Data Exchange (Pdex), it lets plastics die, mould and precision engineering companies translate CAD (computer-aided design) flies between 13 major CAD and CAM (computer-aided
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          40 38 Local firm WizOflflce.com has tied up with Mitsubishi Corp, Goodwill Communications and Hikari Tsushin to launch its Japanese operation, at www.jp.wizoffice.com. WizOflfice offers integrated business services, office supplies, online and real-time purchasing records, and related services.
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          63 38  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam SCS Computer Systems Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary o[ Singapore Computer Systems Ltd, and CalendarONE Pte Ltd have tied up to offer e-calendaring solutions in Malaysia. CalendarONE, which develops events management and resource booking systems, will offer its products to a
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      281 39 ♦Contributed by Simpson Spence Young TANKERS continue to soar to new heights with reports that the Aframax Unisina (111.000/94) has achieved a level of US$3l.6 million. The buyers are reported to be clients of Thenamaris who seem to be following the recent trend of improved prices for larger
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      646 39  -  Portnet.com will help industry advance in this area: PSA exec By* Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The local shipping industry is aware of and open to participating in the Internet revolution, contrary to perception that it is slow to react to technology challenges, Robert Yap,
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      304 39 Proposal will worsen confusion rather than enhance safety on ships Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The cruise ship industry is resisting a US National Transportation Safety Board push to install alarms in every crew and passenger cabin to warn occupants of
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      253 39 Bloomberg [LOS ANGELES] Shipments into the Port of Los Angeles, the No 2 US seaport, rose in June, exceeding 200,000 containers for the third consecutive month and nearing a record set two months earlier. Exports also rose. Increased imports of consumer goods from
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      185 39 AFX-Asia [BRUSSELS] The committee of EU Shipbuilders Associations said it is ready to lodge a trade barrier complaint with the European Commission over unfair South Korean shipbuilding practices. The statement followed a CESA board meeting which looked at Korean capacity expansion and
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      478 39  -  Firms will be allowed to process goods before re-exporting them From] P T Bangsberg in Manila TAIWAN authorities are moving to expand the transhipment centre in the main Port of Kaohsiung by allowing firms working there to engage in manufacturing, which has the potential
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      916 40  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes JUST five years ago, Cammell Laird (CL) was a name from the past as far as the UK's shipbuilding and shiprepair industry was concerned. It was also a disused yard on the banks
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        596 53 Carton 180 Mai 990.8 0.5 18.9 0.08 78 0.04 M Dwtty Water HesMwe As* Aluminium Sediment No above £25 0 0 4 0 0 0 M/M 380 A*e 986.4 0.2 13.4 0.06 43 0.02 Eim« 380 Mix 993.9 0.6 18.2 0.09 99 0.04 M/Irl %,/v /M
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        267 54 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's airport regulator said on Friday it planned a fundamental overhaul of charges at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will refer the four airports to the Competition Commission in December 2001 as part of a
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        133 54 AFX-Asia (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System Bhd said Malaysia Airlines Cargo and Swisscargo have agreed to increase their cargo capacities between Europe, US, and the Far East under a specific route cooperation agreement signed on July 11, In addition to a new joint freighter
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        556 54 USpl&nemaker breaking job security pledges onion Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Boeing Co's largest union warned it will fight any attempt by the world's biggest aircraft maker to sell plants in the Seattle area and accused the company of threatening thousands of jobs. In
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        277 54 Reuters [WASHINGTON! The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday it had resolved a dispute with airlines and pilots over an air traffic procedure which many pilots had condemned as unsafe. Refusal by sceptical pilots to implement the landing procedure, known as "land and hold
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      76 39 Cammell Laird sets out to be global player aPag«2 EU to propose letting airports sell time slots BBackPag* Due to continued escalating operating costs, Members of Calcutta Feeder Operators (CALFO) have agreed to impose a minimum freight rate of US$2BO/teu FIO laden (subject to prevailing surcharges) effective 15th August, 2000.
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