The Business Times, 25 July 2000

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  • 518 1  -  5-year plan will connect offices, homes, schools via high-speed cable or relay stations By Toh Han Shih [SINGAPORE] The government yesterday unveiled a five-year plan to connect the nation's offices, homes and schools via high-speed cables or wirelessly through relay stations
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  • 679 1  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Singapore plans to award between four and six licences for third-gen-eration (3G) wireless telecommunication networks by the year-end. 3G networks are capable of pumping massive amount of data at high speed over the air up
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  • 634 1  -  This swells gains made by Li Ka-shing In telecom market From Quak Hing Whai in Hongkong LI Ka-shing has done it again. Proving beyond doubt that he is far ahead of the pack in Hongkong, the territory's most famous multi-billion-aire has
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  • 230 1 He feels like leaving the government, he says to laughter AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad jokingly bemoaned yesterday his low pay. "If I may I would like to complain," he told a conference. "I'm the CEO of the whole of Malaysia Incorporated
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    • 164 1 mgntt Top stories Expect bad results from brokers. Pg4 Halim Saad to buy Renong shares from UEM?Pg 17 Asean risks being sidelined in global economy. Pg 16 BT Comment '"**\-i 1 '< vi. 1 Internet guidelines meant to be flexible, give comfort. Pg 4 M Cost per minute to call:
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    • 93 1 Singapore's nse of broadband and wireless to soar, Pg 3 A tip for S 'pore airwave sale, Pg 3 Singapore s roadmap to anytime, anywhere broadband access to issue 4-6 high-speed wireless or 3G telecoms licences: and 3-6 fixed-wireless broadband or LMDS licences by year end auction or beauty contest
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 97 2 WE found this piece of late-night wisdom on wallstraits.com (the Internet website whose tagline is Investing is Serious Fun). What are the top five IPO prospectus danger signs? N0.5: The price/earnings ratio has four digits. N0.4: The 'Company History' section starts from three months ago. N0.3: The
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      • 96 2 THE share price of Carlsberg has been rather stable despite disclosure that there was an attempted bombing of its plant in Malaysia by a deviant Muslim group early this month. In fact, Overseas Assurance Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad, the insurance arm of Singapore's OCBC Bank, has been nibbling
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      • 78 2 WE'RE used to former bankers and computer scientists giving up their jobs and setting up Internet companies, but radio disc jockeys? Joe Augustin, best known for his morning radio programmes on the Class 95 radio station, will be speaking at the networking event this Thursday, according
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      • 69 2 WE received a gift from technology startup, Iteru.net, which promised to be better than any mobile phone in the market. Among its advantages, it doesn't require batteries, is shockproof and is lighter than any other mobile phone. We were just slightly disappointed to find
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      • 57 2 WITH an average of 2-3 technology companies announcing their initial public offers every week, Stratech Systems Ltd is going the extra mile. Believed to be the first company to announce its public offer today at the open area at Change Alley, Caltex House, it could start
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      • 79 2 HERE are the results of BT Online poll last Friday, following the news that DBS Bank would give each of its staff two days off each year to do community work: Question: What would you do if your company gives you time off for community work?
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    • 611 2  -  sllexclusivel Common identity for group with market valneofUSs2oob Reports by] Lilian Ang [SINGAPORE] BP Amoco, the world's third largest publicly listed oil group, last night unveiled a new, unified global brand to bring the string of companies it has tied up
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    • 232 2 [SINGAPORE] BP Amoco is likely to revamp its 31 petrol stations in Singapore by the end of this year or early next, to give them the fresh look planned for its retail outlets worldwide. The stations with revamped green, white and yellow
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  • IDA roadmap
    • 570 3  -  By 2005, 2.2 m Singaporeans will be broadband users and 1.2 m will surf Net wirelessly: studies By Toh Han Shih LOCAL use of high-speed broadband and wireless Internet services will soar during the next five years, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA)
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    • 291 3 ATM or Asynchronous Transfer Mode: A technology that enables Internet to be transmitted at high speed. It enables providers to offer different services at different levels of quality and speed on the same network. Broadband: High-speed Internet, faster than 64 kilobits per second (kbs), that enables
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    • 887 3  -  British expert recommends multiple rounds of ascending auction for objectivity, transparency By I Catherine Ong AN adviser to the British government on the sale of Third Generation (3G) mobile phone licences said Singapore should consider multiple rounds of ascending auction for its upcoming sale
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 634 4  -  R^xclusive Results hit by plunge in market turnover and lower commissions By Ven Sreenivasan THE first-half earnings of stockbroking firms are expected to dive as much as 60 per cent, weighed down by plunging market turnover and lower commission earnings.
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    • 353 4  -  DBS Bank, Sing Tel among corporates moving to boost disclosure By\ Ling Su Ann MORE companies are switching to quarterly reporting to improve disclosure to investors. DBS Bank, for one, will report on this basis in the foreseeable future. "Quarterly and businesssegment reporting signifi-
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    • 416 4 SYDNEY LISTED Australand Holdings yesterday reported flat interim net profit of A 532.18 million (5533.1 million) for the half-year to June 30, after an abnormal item related to a law suit ate into most of its gains. Australand, a subsidiary
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    • 383 4  -  Global component comprising 80% of issue folly subscribed Byl Kenneth Lee HOMEGROWN telecommunications solutions provider iSoftel Ltd yesterday launched its initial public offering of 56 million shares at $1.06 each for a listing on the main board of the Singapore Exchange.
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    • 763 4  -  ilocksiew siow li sen IF Sim Wong Hoo wants to set up an Internet bank in Singapore, he might have a better chance by first doing so in the US and then trying to apply under the current admission rules for foreign
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    • 380 5  -  By Conrad Raj KEPPEL Corporation is issuing $250 million in fixed rate bonds to raise money to part finance its massive Keppel Harbour residential project. The five-year bonds are being lead-managed by Standard Chartered Bank for Keppel Corp's wholly-owned investment holding subsidiary
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    • 375 5  -  Group becoming investor and backer of high-tech ventures By* Conrad Raj KEPPEL Marine Industries (KMI), now transforming itself into an investor and backer of high-tech ventures, does not expect to turn a profit in ffye second half of this year. The group,
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    • 289 5  -  By I Serena Ng SINGAPORE conglomerates are behind their Hongkong counterparts in terms of e-commerce and multimedia strategies and should tie up quickly with strong overseas players, a regional analyst said yesterday. But Ng Kong Yong, vicepresident of research for GK Goh
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    • 339 5  -  Sing Tel also secures capacity purchases of over USsl.4b for the submarine cable By 1 Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecom yesterday said over six telecom companies worldwide will pay more than US$5OO million (SsB7o million) for a 40 per
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    • 133 5 Reuters INTERNET firm Horizon.com Ltd said yesterday a consortium it formed with 1Net Singapore has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Taiwanese group to run a broadband project The company said in a statement that Taiwan's Shin Kong Group had commissioned the
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    • 418 8  -  Venture also rallies after analysts' briefing but Stats slides on chip fears By David Boey WHILE the general market awaits Wall Street's next move, some punters have apparently made up their minds about where packing firm CarnaudMetalbox (CMB) and microchip tester
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    • 408 8 [KUALA LUMPUR] AffinUOB Securities Sdn Bhd, the stockbroking arm of listed Affin Holdings Bhd, is believed to be courting Klang-based Amsteel Securities Sdn Bhd with a view to a merger, The Sun reported yesterday. It quoted sources saying the courtship intensified following
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    • 301 8 WITH its substantial stake in China's biggest motorbike company, listed Lion Asiapac is poised to gain substantially from China's pending entry into World Trade Organisation (WTO). Lion Asiapac acquired 24.23 per cent of Zhejiang Qianjiang Motorcycle in 1997. In March
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    • 661 9 KUALA LUMPUR Selling could come later; no rush by Clob shareholders to sell as local bourse is now weak: analysts THERE has been minimal impact so far on the Kuala Lumpur bourse from the release of frozen Central Limited Order Book (Clob)
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    • 313 9 IPC's rescue plan is nearing completion, giving the company a net value of $200 million, from a negative net worth previously. The PC company yesterday said white knight Infomatec AG has given notice to take up 137.36 million new shares for
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    • 239 9 MEDIARING COM's early move into eWorld of Sports.com Ltd has put it in good stead The company is paying for a 4.99 per cent stake in the sports goods retailer's post-flotation capital with 10 per cent cash and 90 per cent in
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    • 492 4 I GST a simple tax? More than 5 years after the introduction of GST, there is still a degree of uncertainty amongst businesses about the application of GST. In its basic form, GST is a simple tax. Yet, it must deal with a wide spectrum of very complex business transactions
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 182 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Wong Wei Kong TECK Wah Industrial warrants were one of the best performing warrants yesterday in percentage terms, although volumes remained light. The warrant closed half a cent up or 4.17 per cent at 12.5 cents on 103,000 units. It opened
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    • 454 6 Stock* Volume BRC Asia 2.5c 23,775,000 HongLaiH 5c 16,030,000 Ionics PS1.00...- 15,038,000 IPC020c 14,053,000 AddvaTTech 2.5c 13,920,000 ST Assembly 25c 11,373,000 AirOcean 5c 10,662,000 FHTKWdgs20c 10,216,000 North 22 US1c 10,198,000 ITech4c 10,048,000 Stocks_ < Chart Semiconductor 26c 51,507,718 ST Assembly 25c 47,237,310 VentureMfg25c 40,928,375 S1A 28,470,670 NatEleclOc— 25.144.338 SPH 23,541,818
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    • 551 6  -  I :'i comment STOCKS david boey Regional markets started the week on a sour note yesterday, weighed down by Wall Street jitters as stock market players took their cue from Friday's fall in key US indices. The benchmark Straits Times
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    • 246 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Wong Wei Kong MEDIARING.COM continued to lose ground yesterday with the stock finishing among the session's most active issues. Mediaßing shares closed down 2 cents or 3.36 per cent at 57.5 cents. The stock opened at the day high of 59 cents
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    • 135 6 ♦♦SEMBCORP Industries announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembawang Corporation, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire 40 million shares of 10 cents each in the capital of SembCorp Marine from Ishika waj ima-Harima Heavy Industries. The cost amounts to $28.7 million or 71.63 cents per share.
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    • 332 6  -  (comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Thai baht yesterday hit a 10-month low after falling through key support at 40.50 baht per US dollar, as Thai stocks succumbed to a new bout of selling which saw the key SET stock index hit a
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    • 219 6 Next-Gen Carrier Solutions SOFTEL LTD (incorporated with limited liability in the Republic of Singapore) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF GLOBAL OFFERING OF 56,000,000 ORDINARY SHARES (the "OFFER SHARES") OF 550.05 EACH COMPRISING 6,000,000 VENDOR SHARES AND 50,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARE AS FOLLOW:(1) AN INTERNATIONAL OFFERING OF 44,800,000 ORDINARY SHARES; AND (2)
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    • 46 6 YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR I CPF SAVINCS IN EICHT. 'important All applications for units in eight must be made on the application accompanying the prospectus investors must read the prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as weilasnse >I<l
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    • 743 8 CREDIT LYONNAIS FINANCIAL PRODUCTS (GUERNSEY) LIMITED (Incorporated In Guernsey) To: All holders of Call Warrants issued by Credit Lyonnais Financial Products (Guernsey) Ltd relating to the ordinary shares of Ssl.oo each in the capital of United Overseas Bank Limited Dear Sir Madam, EXPIRY OF WARRANTS The rights comprised in the
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    • 438 8 Marine I Industries I I Keppel Marine Industries Limited I I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) H 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2000 The Directors of Keppel Marine Industries Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Company and H the Group for the
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    • 8 8 SIT falls 1.3% on Wall Streetjitters, Pg 5
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 383 10  -  raw ontneeconomy money supply By\ Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S money supply continued to grow despite shrinking domestic bank loans over the past year, as it was supported by rising net foreign assets in the banking system, according to a DBS Bank research report. Ml or
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    • 360 10  -  Singapore loses out as IBM opts for IT talent pool in Australia From Surinder Singh in Sydney COMPUTER giant IBM has chosen Sydney over Singapore as the base for its AsiaPacific e Business Innovation Centre. Announcing this yesterday, New South Wales Premier Bob
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    • 404 10  - Queens: of 502 units offered sold Allgreen's project at Stirling Rd is next to MRT station f¥ Marissa Chew ALLGREEN Properties' Queens ruled the residential market over the weekend, with another 73 families signing up to become owners at the condominium. Queens first went on sale last Monday during a
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    • 252 10  -  By\ Marissa Chew THE first collective sale of a project for redevelopment into landed housing has been closed, with the site going to Hoi Hup Realty. Hoi Hup will pay $21 million about $316 per square foot for the 66,304 sq
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    • 45 10 Corrections clarifications OUR July 7 report, "Citibank sees home loans rise 3.7 times in 4 months", was accompanied by the wrong photograph of Edwin Khoo, business director of Citibank's global consumer banking. Here's the right picture (right) of him. We are sorry for the error.
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    • 505 11  -  mailittm Geraldine Low Chief Operating Officer www.theopenarena.com Singapore via Internet ALLOW me to reply to Joycelyn Lee's letter "Must Singaporean investors get burnt just to learn?" (Mailbag, July 8), Narayana Narayana's letter "That endless unit trust debate" (Mailbag, July 12) and in light of your
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    • 226 11  -  Denis Distant via Internet PLEASE refer to your report "F&N share sale triggers general offer for CMB Asia" (BT, July 22). I note that Claremont Heights has since indicated it will make a general offer to all CMB Asia (CMBA) shareholders at
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    • 249 11  -  2-tranche loan to help finance Power Net purchase By] Eugene Low SINGAPORE Power has launched a A 5772.5 million (*****.8 million) loan syndication to help finance its As2.l billion purchase of the Australian electricity transmission network Power Net. The loan, launched late last week,
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    • 159 11 SINGAPORE Land's flagship building, Singapore Land Tower, will be given an $18 million facelift from August. The 74-storey building, located in the prime financial district of Raffles Place, will be upgraded in two but overlapping phases. The phases overlap so as to reduce
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    • 197 11 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btietterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore*****s. 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 libel
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  • FOCUS property
    • 190 12 8-storey office block issued TOP early this year [SINGAPORE] ENG Yick Building, an eight-storey office block off Paya Lebar Road, was put up for sale by private arrangement yesterday. The building, which obtained its Temporary Occupation Permit early this year and is
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    • 440 12  -  Bold strategy may reap rich rewards Froml Surinder Singh in Sydney Accord Pacific Holdings, the Australian arm of the Lian Huat Group in Singapore, last week released four penthouses at its Darling Harbour Garden Towers development in Sydney. The penthouses are located on the 19th
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    • 430 12 DISTRIBUTION CENTRE FOR SALE Location Toh Guan vicinity Description A 3-storey warehouse and office complex with 2 mezzanine floors Land Area Approx. 273,318 sq ft Built-in Area Approx. 253,992 sq ft Tenure JTC Leasehold 30 30 years w.e.f. 1/12/1990 Please contact Sole Marketing Agent Industrial Department Bernard Goh DID: 326
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  • e-NEWS
    • eBriefs
      • 53 13 Reuters [TOKYO] Major investment bank Goldman Sachs said yesterday it had launched an Internet-based Japanese government bond (JGB) trading system for institutional investors. The service, eJGB, will enable Goldman's clients to trade a total 170 issues in four-, five-, six-, 10and 20-year JGBs during Japanese
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      • 44 13 Reuters [DUBLIN] US Internet equipment company Cisco Systems is to locate a new manufacturing plant in Dublin, creating up to 3,000 new jobs, Irish media said yesterday. The proposed plant is part of its major European expansion. —Reuters
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      • 53 13 Reuters [LONDON] British Sky Broadcasting said yesterday that it had appointed former Adidas-Salomon executive Bob McCulloch to build its online sporting goods retail business. BSkyß said in a statement Mr McCulloch would head up skysportsstore.com—BSkyß's firststand-alone e-commerce venture —and has taken a minority stake in
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      • 97 13 Reuters [WASHINGTON] A Web site has posted CIA documents revealing a 1996 briefing for visiting Japanese security officials about the structure and focus of US intelligence but experts said on Sunday that the most exciting thing about it was probably its "secret" designation. The
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      • 89 13 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd said it, Sumitomo Corp and BP Amoco PLC will jointly build an extranet to handle data on the steel pipe business by the end ofthis year, confirming Nihon Keizai Shimbun report. An extranet is an internet-based information system
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      • 47 13 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp said yesterday it plans to launch an online weather derivatives market in September, enabling companies to hedge against weather-related risks. It expects leisure and beverage firms, department stores and utilities to be major potential buyers.—Reuters
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      • 69 13 Reuters [LONDON] The global development of e-commerce in financial services could be stifled by the current lack of coherence among regulators of the fledgling industry, a report published yesterday said. "Protect and Survive Regulation of e-commerce in the financial services industry", produced by accountancy
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    • 298 13 PALO ALTO, California New fund reflects keen interest in Net infrastructure firms Reuters SPECTRUM Equity Investors, a venture capital firm focused on the technology that supports the Internet, was scheduled to announce yesterday that it has closed a US$l.75 billion (Ss3 billion) fund,
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    • 345 13 U NEW YORK NYT IT may not be Sex and the City, but relationships in the computer industry often run from frosty to passionate awfully quickly. Just look at that old yin-yang pair, Apple and Microsoft. In the Microsoft anti-trust
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    • 625 13 Deutsche Telekom-VoiceStre&m deal Senators have called for a review of national security implications AP DEUTSCHE Telekom's takeover of US mobile telecoms operator Voice Stream Wireless Corp gives Europe's biggest phone company an international reach to 375 million customers. The company also gets its
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    • 225 13 CAPETOWN Reuters A TOP South African private hospital is auctioning a range of plastic surgery operations, from breast reductions to fat removal, over the Internet with a starting price of one rand. "The bidding will be open-ended for one operation per day
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    • 113 15 p r BP, Amoco, ARCO, Castrol. What does it add up to? It means a new company able to offer I global energy solutions. llt means the retail presence to serve 110 million customers a day. llt means a company that makes petrol I and diesel that produce lower emissions.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 579 16  -  pWiT^I bottom line OPINION sree kumar The writer is a development economist and partner in a consulting firm WHEN George Speight and his supporters overthrew the elected government of Fiji, it lent full force to Mao's dictum that power grows from the
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    • 199 16 'Should any serious disagreement surface at the meeting, it is most likely kept secret That is part of the reason why summit communiques are so dull.' Morihiro n—kiwa a former Japanese prime minister onG-7 summit meetings. 4 I think I'm just going to call up my dad
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    • 647 16 EDITORIAL BANGKOK seems to be in the grip of "Samak Fever". That is how the people of Bangkok describe the phenomenon of Samak Sundaraveja who, at age 65 and on the verge of political retirement, swept the governorship of the capital with a handsome victory in
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    • 945 16  -  There are a range of vital functions that can only sensibly be performed by local accounting bodies By John Miller The writer is head of Singapore affairs of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA Singapore). The ACCA has some 250,000 members and
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    • 951 16 Giddy rash to cot tax THERE is a disturbing, almost willfully irresponsible quality to the giddy rush by politicians to enact huge federal tax cuts without regard to how much of the projected surpluses are real, and with little or no debate about other, better ways
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  • REGONAL news
    • 440 17 H&lim S&ad will then have to pay UEM RM3b for the 32.3% block of shares From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN tycoon Halim Saad now faces a strong prospect of having to buy a block of Renong Bhd shares from United Engineers Malaysia
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    • 351 17 ■KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation Bhd (Mesdaq) will launch its new trading system on Friday, Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. This will be with or without the consent of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), MBT
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    • MARKET moves
      • 107 17 Reuters MAIOANK, tne tnira Diggest stock in the key Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange index, shed 60 sen or 4 per cent to RM14.10, its lowest finish since Jan 6. Volume was a moderate 1.6 million shares. "Foreign funds are taking profits, and we
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      • 71 17 Reuters GAMING firm Magnum Corp ended down 13 sen at RM2.72 on 5.7 million shares traded yesterday. The drop came after the counter soared 16 per cent last week on talk a new shareholder would buy the company. But after the market close, Magnum
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    • 418 17 KUALA LUMPUR Time hopes to sign op tech partner before unit's listing Reuters MALAYSIA'S Time Engineering Bhd is on track to list its key telecoms unit Time dot Com by October, the managing director of Time dotCom said yesterday. "The October deadline remains," Halim
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    • 149 17 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd yesterday declined to say if it was seeking a new partner after Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) aborted talks for a stake in the company last week. "I don't want to comment," chairman Radzi Mansor told
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    • 581 18  -  He suggests 4 measures to rid the perception of Asean being 'ineffective' FYom\ Harish Mehta in Bangkok ASEAN risks being sidelined in the new global economy because international perception about the grouping remained negative despite signs of economic recovery, Singapore Foreign Minister
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    • 145 18 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said yesterday he will revise the government's earlier estimate of 6 per cent for the territory's 2000 economic growth, saying the revision would reflect a "significant improvement" in economic performance. "The conclusion 1 have drawn is that
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    • 622 18  -  Rupiah, bourse rise but recovery seen as only temporary From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta AFTER days of nerve-wrack-ing uncertainty, Indonesia's Parliament yesterday eased political tensions in the nation by delaying its response to President Abdurrahman Wahid's refusal to submit to
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    • 479 20 NEW YORK USsloob deal may result in Nortel owning more than 50% of Corning, while Corning will own optical parts nnit Reuters, AP, AFP NETWORK equipment companies Nortel Networks and Corning Inc are in talks about a deal worth more than US$lOO
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    • 337 20 LONDON Share price started at £28 bnt then fell to £24 after a while Reuters THE London Stock Exchange, which plans to merge with Frankfurt's Deutsche Boerse, was given an £834 million (552.21 billion) price tag yesterday as its shares became
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    • 324 20 TOKYO Reuters FEARS of more failures lurking in Japan's restructuring economy after the collapse of Sogo Co Ltd have led to a rise in the premium charged to banks doing business in the overseas interbank market, traders said yesterday. The three-month
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    • 335 20 FRANKFURT AFP THE planned tie-up between HypoVereinsbank and Bank Austria, announced at the weekend, will enable the sec-ond-biggest bank in Germany and the leading Austrian bank to cut costs by 500 million euros (*****.6 million) a year from 2003, they said yesterday. At
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    • 289 20 BOMBAY AFP, Reuter SHARE prices on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) plunged 6.2 per cent yesterday as investors took fright at a weekend interest rate hike by the central Reserve Bank of India (RBI), brokers said. The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensitive Index
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      • 77 20 AFX-Asia [SEOUL] SK Telecom Co Ltd said it has bid for a 5 per cent stake in Korea Electric Power Corp unit Powercomm Co Ltd which is currently in the process of being privatised. SK Telecom is considering applying for a further stake when a
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      • 91 20 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Fujitsu Ltd will set up a new company to provide public and financial web system solutions by merging two wholly-owned subsidiaries with a total capital of7oo million yen (5111.2 million). The subsidiaries to be merged are Fujitsu Financial Systems and Fujitsu Social System
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      • 70 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] Vodafone Airtouch pic said chief executive Chris Gent will invest a "significant" portion of his £5 million (5113.3 million) cash bonus in the company's stock. The decision may help cool shareholder protests that are expected at a meeting tomorrow. Mr Gent
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      • 69 20 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Samsung Securities Co, one of Korea's most profitable brokerages, said it's considering merging with Samsung Investment Trust Securities Co, a fellow member of the Samsung Group of companies. "We are considering a merger with Samsung Investment Trust, but nothing has been finalised," said
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      • 71 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] DaimlerChrysler AG will issue a warning about financial performance for the rest of the year when it announces second quarter results tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal reported in yesterday's electronic edition. Company treasurer Thomas Capo has told colleagues he plans to step down
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      • 57 20 Bloomberg [SEOUL] The Bank of Korea appointed assistant governor, Park Cheul, as the Korean central bank's new deputy governor. Mr Park, 54, will replace Shim Hoon, who was recently appointed head of Pusan Bank, a provincial bank. The new deputy governor has worked at
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      • 69 20 Reuters [LONDON] Mexico was expected to launch a US$l billion (511.7 billion) global bond maturing in January 2006 yesterday, an official at joint lead manager JP Morgan Securities confirmed. JP Morgan will lead the deal together with fellow US investment bank Bear Stearns.
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    • 187 21 AFP [LONDON] British managers are the most stressed and overworked in the world, according to a survey published Sunday comparing the working lives of managers in 24 countries. Britain's managers complain most about their work, and are most likely to suffer illnesses related to their
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    • 284 21 LONDON The package amounts to nearly £15.5 m or 20 times his base salary Reuters LEADING institutional shareholders are to protest at plans to give Jean-Pierre Garnier anointed head of the Glaxo Wellcome pic and SmithKline Beecham pic merger share options worth 20 times his
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    • 299 21 TOKYO Reuters ON a custom-cleared basis, the trade surplus in Japan rose 3 per cent in June from a year earlier to 1.198 trillion yen (5519.3 billion), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said yesterday. Most economists had forecast a decline. "The
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    • 538 21  -  Greenspan's testimony to Senate Banking Committee seems to suggest that Americans may have finally hit the consumption ceiling, says Andrew Hill Andrew Hill FT AFTER nine-and-a-half years of non-stop economic growth, Americans may be hitting the consumption ceiling: they finally have enough stuff. That at
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    • 1324 22  -  Frank Russell has evolved from a small brokerage into a global force, Jennifer Lien reports Jennifer Lien THE headquarters of the Frank Russell Company in Tacoma, Washington, bears no trace of the grand, marble-lined halls of its Wall Street counterparts. Understated,
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    • 314 23  -  SGX Derivatives Tradingßeports ST Xnde*/MS& SPpore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market closed lower yesterday as it could not escape being hit by the declines in global equity markets. The Straits Times Index lost 1.3 per cent to
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    • 239 23  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore TAIWAN stocks fell yesterday for the third straight day. The MSCI Taiwan Index lost 1.22 per cent to 354.48 points. The volume within the index was moderate at 524.41 million shares with 11 stocks up,
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    • 187 23 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] OU prices tracked sideways yesterday after slumping last week amid evidence that Saudi Arabia was leaking more exports. Fast fading from summer highs, traders said prices could quickly faU towards the US$25 a barrel target, which would satisfy both Riyadh
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    • 315 23 Reuters London THE yen was mired within half a per cent of last week's two-month lows against the US dollar in early trade yesterday amid lingering doubts about the sustainability of Japan's economic growth and renewed weakness in Japanese stocks. Fears of an imminent downgrade of Japan's credit
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      1233 23 ntTBRBAMKCTQgg RATES ,ful24 A$ a W tw Ffr M w iKhYen Wow >M NKmi Pwo S$ Bud Sir HT$ 8*t Hmi USS Australia 0.865 4.880 0.629 4.127 1231 4.583 26.286 52.172 0.640 6.550 2234 1.270 ***** 26.242 1028 4.056 0.978 18.250 ***** 0.387 0.588 Canada 1.157 5.644 0.728 4.774 L423
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    • 2864 24 HONGKONG Reuters PHangSffltf -26L17 HONGKONG stocks fell yesterday, led by a depressed telecoms sector following a profit warning from Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson. Banking and property stocks fared better but some weakened after the benchmark index tested but met firm resistance at
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    • 1959 24 TOKYO Bloomberg Diekhias -man JAPANESE stocks fell yesterday, paced by NTT DoCoMo after Agilent Technologies and America Online said profit and sales rose less than expected, pulling the US Nasdaq Composite Index down 2.2 per cent on Friday. Lenders such as Sumitomo Bank also declined
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      977 24 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -120 CHINA'S hard currency B shares weakened yesterday as the Shenzhen debut of Shandong Zhonglu Oceanic Fisheries Co led to an outflow of funds from established issues, brokers said. The Shenzhen B Share Index closed down 1.96 per cent or 2.20 points at 110.25
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    • 356 24 AFP QWP Index -103J7 TAIWAN'S share prices closed 1.3 per cent lower yesterday in lacklustre trade as investors stayed on the sidelines. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index lost 103.17 points to 8,064.20. Turnover amounted to only NT550.24 billion, the lowest this year. There is growing market distrust
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    • 427 25 AFP n Composite Index -BJ9 MALAYSIAN shares ended one per cent lower yesterday on selling of selected blue chips amid weak regional markets, dealers said. The Composite Index closed down 8.19 points at 822.89. The Second Board Index dropped 3.34 points to 220.13. Volume
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    • 2743 26 BONDS WARRANTS Jul 24 wt Mi **m! 1*1 LMt M Day UHfcili kn Cot bv Mm MIb f Mi raM> M* LOT »w Mkr Mm ImM Mk M» <*> laart*! UM j» 'S ts 32 328 It? 1 24 f ;gggBBg= UnCh 4 27 27 26 i! ,S S S
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    • 300 26 AFP n Composite Index -45J7 SOUTH Korea's Composite Index closed down 45.17 points at 737.89. Volume was 391 million shares worth 2.4 trillion won. —AFP J«24 WW AnamSwnt *00 -1SSO Br tin Tech 850 -25 Central Sank 720 -125 CheH Comm *****0 500 Dae Gu Bank 2130 -115 Daesanq
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    • 269 26 AFP Qtompoate Index -L 66 PHILIPPINE shares were hardly changed yesterday, falling a mere 0.1 per cent amid domestic political and economic concerns. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index shed 1.66 points to 1,477.80, in yet another day of losses. Jul 24 PtM 000) MRC Alliod 0.50 0.04 960
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    • 277 26 AFP Dhee-40 -am NEW Zealand stocks closed down one per cent yesterday in a thin market, dealers said. The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index declined 22.06 points to 2,101.79 on turnover of NZ$B5.7 million. Telecom, shedding 15 cents to NZ$7.3O, accounted for half the fall. AFP mm «a nm Advantage
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    • 549 26 AFP PAnOrJmariag -210 AUSTRALIAN shares eased 0.7 per cent yesterday amid lacklustre trade weighed down by falls in key media, technology and banking stocks, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 24 points to 3,266.3, retracing much of its 3,290.3 record close on Friday. Preliminary turnover totalled just 502.78
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      784 26 AFP Q SET Index -1X53 THE Thai share market nosedived 4.1 per cent yesterday to its lowest point in almost two years as Thailand continued its record as Asia's weakest performer. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index tumbled 12.53 points to 293.13 its lowest since October 1998. The
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      682 26 AFP Q Composite Index -LB5 INDONESIAN share prices closed marginally lower yesterday on profit-taking in selected large cap stocks and regional market weakness, dealers said. They said declines in some large caps around midday wiped out early morning gains. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 1.85 points,
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    • 461 31  -  Portal to be launched on Aug 15; other Application Service Providers to be brought in Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] The Singapore National Shippers Council (SNSC) and Asiaship.com have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop an e-freight portal for shippers. The move comes
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    • 133 31 Reuters [OTTAWA] Canada vowed to crack down on substandard ships after finding that more than half the foreign vessels it inspected last year had faults with their lifesaving, firefighting and navigation equipment "Substandard ships are a threat to the safety of all seafarers, our environment
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    • 270 31 Reuters [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) said its affiliate Puerto Rosario SA (PROSA) had signed an agreement that terminated its 30-year concession to operate the port of Rosario in Argentina ICTSI told the Philippine Stock Exchange that PROSA signed an agreement last
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    • 194 31 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, Japan's thirdlargest shipping company, said the robust US economy and a recovery in freight charges will boost earnings for the year ending March 2003. The company said it now expects group pretax profit forecast of 33 billion yen (SJS2B
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      • 782 32 Many of Europe's port operating companies are realising that networking, not location, is the key to future growth Journal of Commerce [FRANKFURT] FOR thousands of years, European seaports have built their reputations and businesses primarily by virtue of their locations in protected harbours, near major
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      • 344 44 Six other jets still flying; cracks pose no danger to passengers: British carrier Reuters [LONDON] British Airways (BA) said yesterday it had detected cracks in the wings of its seven supersonic Concorde aircraft causing one plane to be grounded but insisted there was
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      • 373 44 Reuters [OXFORD, England] Airbus will start the industrial phase of its A4OOM military transport project by March 2001 when orders are received from the seven states which laid down specifications for the aircraft. Adolfo Revuelta, programme chief at the European Aeronautic
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      • 596 44  -  HeadofS'pore operations believes in having a personal relationship with customers George Joseph [SINGAPORE] With a record 38 weekly Cathay Pacific flights linking Singapore with Hongkong and increasing passenger and cargo load factors, Cathay's Singapore manager Chung Mak must be a happy man. In fact,
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      • 224 44 AFP [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced yesterday it would join an aviation electronic commerce exchange whose transactions are expected to hit US$45 billion (5*78.3 billion) annually. Aeroexchange, which will be officially launched in the next few months, will offer airframe, avionics and engine components,
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      • 537 44 FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW Boeing, Airbus will be battling for orders at aerospace industry's premier air show Reuters [FARNBOROUGH, England] The United States and Europe went head to head yesterday in a dogfight for orders at one of the aerospace industry's biggest show cases Britain's
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