The Business Times, 3 August 2000

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 035/12/1999 Internet: iittp://business-times.asial com.sg'' SINGAPORE THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2000
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    76 1 sn 2 t OCSJ2 (-8.16) BT-SSI 80C3S (+3.72) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,081 (+4.00) SIHSCI FDTUBES 273J20 (+1.40) STOCK MAKKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE OOMP M2JU 106 NIKKEI m *****.19 +I06i2 HANG SENG 17.277J9__+379.94 SET INDEX J0L22 +6.73 JAKARTA COUP —490.44 4*76 MANILA COUP 1,412.77 +144 TAIPEI WPI 7J118I
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    75 1 FOREX RATES USt St USS 1.730 £(US$/S$per£) 1.494 1584 EUROfUS$/SS/E) 8.918 1J09 DM 1110 1131 YEN na? L»1 RM 1800 1197 HKI 7.79® 4*06 BAHT 4(187 OJ2 BUPIAH 8,920 §019* 'Stto loouniti 'Stto /flgunto FUME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPliR 7.67 •JAKARTA 39.60 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 1100 HONGKONG 8.50
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    Lock icon 80% of CPF unit trusts lost money in Q2
    816 1  -  Results not unexpected, given weakness in global equity markets By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Most CPF-ap-proved unit trusts performed badly in the second quarter of this year, with over 80 per cent producing negative returns and around 70 per cent underperforming their
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    Lock icon Li Ka-shing closes in on big Aussie electricity distributor
    359 1  -  Cheung Kong Infrastructure in talks to buy Powercor From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong FRESH from a spate of megadeals in the global telecoms market, Hongkong tycoon Li Ka-shing is now reportedly close to taking control of one of Australia's largest
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    Lock icon Standard Chartered to cut 6,000 jobs worldwide
    860 1  -  Geographical spread not mentioned; analysts stunned by size of £480 m cost-cutting plan By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Standard Chartered pic, which has a major banking presence in Singapore and Hongkong, plans to shed 6,000 jobs over the next two years as part of
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      73 1 mSTOE Corporate Tidbits A subdued one-man show at Haw Par. Top stories KLSE to cut share settlement period to T+3 in December. Pg 13 Stephen King's Net horror sells. Pg 17 Motoring Weames on aggressive acquisition trail. Pg 28 Roaring sales for Merc, Kia, Nissan and Ford. Pg 28 Exec
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      80 1 It's 19 to investors to check expense ratios, Pg 2 B V LG A R I < <> I I \l I* (> l\ II I I 1 I II R s t k K «> 4 <'/ u I*'- \> V/ v *V/ w» (""K Jt --x Sf-; m\»
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      Lock icon SFC reveals hearing on SingTel's HKT bid
      791 2  -  Goldman is said to have given impression Sing Tel was set to make joint bid for HKT with Murdoch unit From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong JUST when you thought the saga of the takeover of Cable Wireless HKT was all history, the
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        Lock icon Pressing their suits
        90 2 CHARLES Ormiston, vice-president of global management consultancy Bain Company, said he was in a Starbucks outlet in Silicon Valley last week and noticed one peculiar thing. Everybody's starting to be in suits again. His explanation? Before the (Nasdaq) crash, bankers were fighting over dotcom business. So they
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        193 2 DOES it make sense to have a market index where one player accounts for over 50 per cent of the weightage? Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) was faced with this dilemma when it started to compile its Asia Internet Index recently. The decision to weigh the 45 stocks
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        Lock icon Clash of the Wedding
        140 2 SOME luminaries, including Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, were said to be in a bit of a quandary several Saturdays ago. This arose when the respective sons of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's managing director, Koh Yong Guan, and the president of DBS Bank, Ng Kee
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      Lock icon A walk on the wireless side
      681 2  -  P comment TECHNOLOGY Mobile wireless Is set to blast ofl. What will our wireless devices look like? kenneth james TAKE a watch, a belt and a pair of spectacles. Put them together and what do you get? How about an incredibly cool mobile Internet
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      Lock icon It's up to investors to check expense ratios: consultant
      431 2  -  S'pore unit trusts' ratios high by global standards; considerable front-end load of around 5% Ny Serena Ng {SINGAPORE) Expense ratios of Singaporedomiciled unit trusts are high by global standards, and the onus is on investors to find out these funds' expense
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Keppel T&T posts 54% jump in interim net to $13.4m
      701 4  -  Turnover up 61%; Ml, its main profit contributor, could be listed this year By' Teh Hooi Ling KEPPEL Telecommunications and Transportation (Keppel T&T) yesterday announced a 54 per cent jump in interim net earnings to $13.4 million and said its
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      Lock icon Kep T&T, Israeli firm start venture fund
      368 4 KEPPEL Telecommunications and Transportation has formed a 50-50 partnership with Israeli investment group Shrem Fudim Kelner Group to manage a US$lOO million (Ssl73 million) venture capital fund. The partners and their strategic investors will commit US$lOO million to the fund, which will be
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      Lock icon Haw Par interim profit soars 40% to $29m
      399 4  -  EPS rises to 15C from 10.9 c while NTA per share edges up to S2JB7 from $2.82 previously ity< Andrea Tan LEISURE and healthcare group Haw Par Corp yesterday reported a 40 per cent increase in interim net profit to $29.1 million
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      Lock icon Show but no tell, by Haw Par
      464 4  -  Kvii :M i =1 tidbits tan suyen YESTERDAY'S half-time results presentation by Haw Par Corporation and its subsidiary Haw Par Healthcare promised to be a double bill, with intrigue, tradition and some razzle-dazzle all thrown into the mix. Or so one hoped. The
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      Lock icon MP3 player makers safe for a while
      609 4  -  ITOET lock siew andrew wee THE legal onslaught against web sites that provide free online music has begun. But Singapore companies dealing in the hardware that taps such Internet enabled entertainment are not trembling. After a US court ruled against MP3 some months
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      Lock icon FCC named as seller of F&N stock to Brierley last month
      421 5 Sale may have reaped $20m profit, say stockbroking sources Reuters PROPERTY group First Capital Corp (FCC) was the seller of a block of Fraser Neave shares to Brierley Investments and could have reaped a profit of up to $20
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      Lock icon Bill Chua moves over to OUB
      207 5 OVERSEAS Union Bank yesterday announced two senior appointments. It has hired Bill Chua as senior vice-president to head its operations division and Francisco J Dy as chief executive of OUB.com Pte Ltd. Mr Chua, a former Citibanker of some 20 years, takes over from
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      Lock icon Hotel Plaza to sell New Park Centra Hotel
      558 5  -  I-Id exclusive Cash from sale will bensedtobnymore regional hotels By Kalpana Rashiwala WEE Cho Yaw's listed Hotel Plaza has put up for sale its 531-room New Park Centra Hotel, which was valued at $135.4 million in last year's annual report. BT understands
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Pac Can to resume trading in Sept
        136 5 TRADING in shares of ma in board-listed Pacific Can, which has been suspended since April last year, could resume by mid-September (that is, in four to six weeks) now that the group has received shareholder approval for a debt restructuring plan. At an
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        Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
        67 5 IN yesterday's report, "Koh Bros pays $5.6 m to up stake in G&W", we said that Koh Brothers would raise its stake in G&W by buying 16.2 million new G&W shares. Koh Bros has clarified that it is not raising its stake as it is placing out
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      Lock icon Great Eastern posts 30.5% rise in interim net profit to $118.5m
      527 8  -  Sources say merger between GE, OAC on the cards, possibly within next few days By\ Ling Su Ann UNVEILING its first interim results as a holding company, Great Eastern Holdings (GE) yesterday posted a 30.5 per cent rise in
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      Lock icon EasyCall launches secondary listing
      322 8 EASYCALL International yesterday launched its secondary listing on the Singapore Exchange with an issue of 10 million new shares at 52 cents apiece. The issue will amount to 5.2 per cent of the Australian-listed company's enlarged share capital. Easy Call will raise just $4.26 million from
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      23 4 B The McGraw-Hill Companies jf* the sq ft Jj ji^ Asia Pacific Regional 8,-' 1 1 Headquarters TENANT REPRESENTATION SERVICES ASSET SERVICES www.cushwakeasia.com
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      486 6 Stocks Volume Stratech 5c 74,265,000 IPC020C 23,842,000 SMRT10C 23,217,000 TTInt15c 15,180,000 LianBeog5c 13,327,000 HongLaiH5c 12,556,000 Ionics P$1.00 11,273,000 ITechGrp4c 11,214,000 FHTK Hkjgs 20c 11,129,000 EzyheaJlh5c 10,350,000 Stocks Stratech 5c 96,630,810 PacificCentury 69,068,900 Chart Semiconductor 26c 22,972,874 DBSGrp 22,062,638 City Dev 50c 16,633,000 IPC020C 15,597,575 SMRT10C 15,107,720 S1A 13,904,150 SPH 13,796,878
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      Lock icon Tech stocks ease as focus falls on bank, property sectors
      548 6  -  hi I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan AS expected, technology stocks fell on the Singapore market yesterday after a 2.2 per cent overnight tumble in New York's Nasdaq Composite Index. And the broader local market remained sluggish as players searched for
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      Lock icon Keppel TatLee 2000 wrt: a super high-risk play
      209 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan IT is remarkable how much risks punters take to make a quick profit the Keppel Tat Lee Bank warrant being a case in point. The instrument rose half a cent or 50 per cent to 1.5 cents
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      Lock icon CityDev at discount to RNAV
      236 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan SHARES of property heavyweight City Developments gained another 25 cents to $7.75 yesterday, for a rise of 35 cents or 4.7 per cent this week. Trading volume has also been building up since Monday. Some 2.2 million units were done
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      148 6 CS A Holdings will hold its AGM on Aug 22 at 11.30 am, CSA Auditorium, No 221 Henderson Road, #064)1 Henderson Building. ♦ALLGREEN Properties announced that Isoo Tan has been made company secretary with effect from Aug 1. ♦KHONG Guan Flour Milling will be trading ex-dividend (first and
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      Lock icon US$ changes course after failing to breach 110 yen
      353 6  -  i comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar turned back down with a vengeance versus the Japanese yen yesterday, after three consecutive attempts to push through the crucial 110 yen ceiling between July 28 and Aug 1. Taken together with late
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      192 6 Easy Call International Limited (Incorporated in Bermuda on 31 May 1990) PUBLIC OFFERING 1 W~ 10,000,000 New Ordinary Shares of Aso.ol each Comprising:- I |Jj| (a) 2,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.52 each; and I 9| (b) 8,000,000 Placement Shares at 550.52 each I Applications for Offer Shares will be:- x
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      50 6 IYOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR CPF SAVINCS IN EICHT. important All applications for units m 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 rise $31 H'.SH -14
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      73 7 We're history. i We established our presence in Singapore as far back as 1902 to serve colonial businesses plying trade between East and West. Since then, we've played an intrinsic role in the growth of Singapore's financial sector. Over these nearly 100 years, we have stayed true to the commitment
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      400 8 Business Consumer Receivables O Management Today's 'Ayyroach cP^^SSeptember 2000 Organized by: 10 Co,eman StTcet > *****9 I MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY (asia) pie ltd J ofe^ 1 wRP Who Should Attend YOUR SEMINAR LEADER Riak Managers, Financial Controllers, Accountants Dominic Lee was the former Country Collections Receivables Managers, Credit Directors, Lawyers Head
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      Lock icon The $180m entrepreneur
      494 9  -  David Chew's Str&tech pats on 24% in strong debnt By* Andrew Wee STRATECH Systems chairman and chief executive David Chew was worth a cool $180 million yesterday, based on the 132.6 million Stratech shares he holds. His company made an impressive trading debut yesterday to close at
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      Lock icon Sunlight Group to launch offer this month
      273 9  -  Switchge&r maker's issue not expected to be big By] Bryan Lee SWITCHGEAR maker Sunlight Group Holdings will launch its initial public offer this month, having received in-principle approval to list on Sesdaq. The issue described as "not big" is primarily to raise the
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      Lock icon Nylect heads for Sesdaq listing
      116 9 MECHANICAL and electrical engineering services provider Nylect Technology has received in-principle approval for a Sesdaq listing. Overseas Union Bank will manage and underwrite the issue. Nylect's engineering projects include the Ritz Carlton Millenia Hotel, Jurong Point and Tuas Tech Park. It has also undertaken projects
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      Lock icon Look at share buybacks long-term
      538 10  -  John Francis Khng Singapore via Internet I SYMPATHISE with the frustrations and concerns raised by Conrad Raj in his article "Cash-rich companies should look beyond share buybacks" (BT, July 22) and Narayana Narayana in his letter "Forget buybacks, just give shareholders excess cash" (Mailbag, July
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      Lock icon There's need to re focus CPF scheme
      166 10  -  Calvin Yoke Lin Ho Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "CPF changes may be on the cards to cope with New Economy" (BT, Aug 1). Studies have been conducted extensively on the likely effects of the New Economy and it has
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      Lock icon Let shareholders keep compensation, SingTel
      75 10  -  Kevin Yap Singapore via Internet I HAVE invested in Sing Tel since its IPO. I did not know full telecommunications liberalisation would come so soon. The government has compensated Sing Tel, but the company should not keep the compensation money. Instead, it should return the
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      Lock icon Indonesia must adapt or face extinction
      272 10  -  Nik Hassan Nik Mohd Amin Malaysia via Internet I REFER to your article "Indon puppetmasters meet to decide who pulls the strings" (BT, July 31). Indonesia is disintegrating rapidly. Not much, perhaps, can be done to preserve this nation of more than 13,000 islands
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      102 10 1 -i Eh- t JBp jr HOW WE SEE While others see you as an SME. we see you as a partner with the potential to grow Strategise with a financial partner who can help those who dare to think big. Keppel Tat Lee Finance. We share your vision. Factoring
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      68 10 We welcome tetters. E-mail us at btletterQsph. 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
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Scient, Deutsche Bank launch US$300m fund
      309 11  -  It aims to build e-biz in Asia, bridging gap with US and Europe By' Toh Han Shih US Internet consultancy Scient and Deutsche Bank have jointly launched a US$3OO million (Sssl9 million) fund to build e-busi-nesses in Asia. The fund, e-millenium 2, will be
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      Lock icon April F&B revenues slide 7% to $113m
      286 11  -  rm =1 on the economy f&b revenue By\ Marissa Chew FOOD-AND-BEVERAGE revenue slipped 6.9 per cent in April as sales at independent outlets plunged 20.8 per cent and the number of cessable establishments fell 23.4 per cent. Figures from the Singapore Tourism Board
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      Lock icon Brunei officials to visit Singapore this week
      112 11 AP A DELEGATION of senior government officials and business leaders from Brunei will visit Singapore this week, Singapore's Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday. The Brunei group, due today, will meet with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and other officials during the three-day visit,
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      Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
      99 11 NTUC Fair Price Co-operative's food distribution centre in Upper Thomson will cost $20 million and not $80 million as stated in yesterday's report, "Fair Price building $80m food distribution centre". The centre will be completed by the end of next year. We are sorry for the errors.
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      Lock icon China's Huawei plans regional HQ
      505 11  -  l-i exclusive Top Chinese telecom equipment firm has applied to set np S'pore branch By' Tay Hong Seng CHINA'S most profitable electronics company plans to set up a regional headquarters in Singapore this year. Huawei Technologies' Singapore representative Teng Yun Fang said yesterday the company
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      Lock icon S'pore refiners ramp up heating oil output
      512 11 This is in response to unexpectedly strong prices Reuters MAJOR oil companies in Singapore, the region's swing refiners, are boosting output of heating ftiels due to unexpectedly strong diesel and kerosene prices, industry sources said yesterday. Refiners are ramping up production at secondary
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      Lock icon Nets enables cashcard users to top up online
      176 11 NETS has launched a free service that allows cashcard users to top up their cards using the Internet. Card holders will need a smart card reader, an Internet browser and connection and a software programme called E-Wallet, which can be downloaded free
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      Lock icon EDB sees doubling in microelectronics engineering size
      351 11  -  W Eugene Low THE market size of Singapore's microelectronics-relat-ed engineering services industry is expected to double in size to around $1 billion "in the foreseeable future", said Economic Development Board managing director Liew Heng San. Speaking at the presentation of EDB's business headquarters
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon For US$53b, you could buy Rhode Island
      895 12  -  bottom line OPINION michael lewis Michael Lewis, the author of' The New New Thing', isacolumnist for Bloomberg News. His opinions are not necessarily those of Bloomberg News Bloomberg ABIT more than a decade ago, the Japanese indulged their insatiable desire for American landmarks.
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      40 12 'I admit I am not perfect Sometimes we misjudge. I have never claimed I am a perfect leader who never makes mistakes, but the majority of what I did is right' Malaysia's prime minister, on his leadership.
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      Lock icon India gambles on the rupee
      616 12 EDITORIAL IF India's central bank had hoped that a hike in interest rates a fortnight ago would stem the rupee's slide, this week's renewed downward trajectory leaves it between a rock and a hard place. Not to do anything may send a wrong signal to
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      Lock icon Korean thaw offers N-E Asia path to prosperity
      1255 12  -  Whirl of diplomacy holds out possibility that regional adversaries could become strong allies Byi Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE great ice cap that has for decades frozen diplomatic and economic relations among the major powers of North-east Asia
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      Lock icon It's a relief to know that Bush Jr offers no plan
      748 12  -  COMMENTARY By\ Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT SOMETIMES, you just have to concede defeat. I read the Republican platform carefully, hoping to find some substance say, in the section on retirement security. But
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon KLSE to cut share settlement period to T+3 in December
      427 13  -  This will bring it in line with other major bourses; commissions will also be slashed Prom, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange will cut the settlement period for share transactions to three days after the trade
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      Lock icon Malakoff shares flat as investors discount news
      695 13  -  From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE share price of power producer Malakoff Bhd has barely moved two days after the announcements of changes to its shareholding, and that the company is taking a larger than expected stake in Malaysia's biggest power
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      Lock icon M'sia scraps access fees for mobile phone users
      193 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA said yesterday it has scrapped a 14-year-old regulation governing its cellular telephone industry, effectively removing an access fee for users. The ATUR (Automatic Telephone Using Radio) Regulations 1986 has been abolished with effect from Aug 1, the Ministry
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Teicos down as access fee is scrapped
        69 13 Reuters TELECOM shares were mostly lower after Malaysia said it had scrapped a 14-year-old regulation governing is cellular telephone industry, effectively removing an access fee for users. Telekom Malaysia was down 10 sen at RM12.10, while Technology Resources Industries (TRI) lost 18 sen
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        Lock icon Tech index sheds 4%
        63 13 Reuters TECHNOLOGY stocks were among the biggest losers with the sub-index down 4 per cent following losses on the US Nasdaq market on Tuesday. Chip maker Malaysian Pacific Industries shed RM1.75 to close at RM28.75 on 106,000 shares yesterday. The stock has lost over 26 per
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      Lock icon Amcorp unit to buy stake in MBf Card for RM19m
      171 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFX-Asia ARAB-Malaysian Corp Bhd (Amcorp) said its unit ArabMalaysian Capital Markets Group Sdn Bhd (ACMG) has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to acquire an 11.55 per cent stake in MBf Card Services Sdn Bhd from MBf
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      Lock icon Naluri confirms talks to sell MAS shares to government
      431 13  -  But it keeps mom on stake size, Q&ntas interest From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur NALURI Bhd has finally confirmed that it is in talks to sell its stake in Malaysian Airline System (MAS) to the government. But it was silent
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Ibra ponders sensitive sale of Salim group
      470 14 JAKARTA Issues include whether to sell the group in separate bits, or even back to its owners Reuters INDONESIA'S bank restructuring agency (Ibra), under pressure to boost dwindling government revenues, said yesterday it was looking at whether to sell the huge Salim group
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      358 14 JAKARTA The stocks recover from nervous reaction by investors AFX-Asia, Reuters PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia and Indonesian Satellite Corp shares were volatile yesterday following the government's announcement on Tuesday it was terminating their monopolies ahead of schedule, dealers said. Telkom was down
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      444 14 UJAKARTA Reuters INDONESIAN police said yesterday they would check all guests, especially Filipinos, in every hotel in Jakarta in their hunt for those behind a deadly bomb blast outside the Manila ambassador's home. "I have ordered the Jakarta police to
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        69 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Chief Economics Minister Kwik Kian Gie yesterday said the government's foreign debts, excluding that of state-owned firms, was U5575,036 billion (S$ 129.8 billion) as of March 2000. He said the corporate sector's foreign debt was U5569.2 billion as of March.
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        66 14 AFX-Asia [MANILA] The Philippine central bank has issued new guidelines requiring banks and non-bank financial institutions to report unusual foreign exchange deals in a bid to deter money laundering. Central bank deputy governor Armando Suratos said banks and non-bank financial institutions should report outward
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        63 14 AFX-Asia {JAKARTA] President Abdurrahman Wahid said he has agreed to revise the existing debt settlement agreements between the government and a number of prominent Indonesian business groups, Bisnis Indonesia reported. It cited Mr Abdurrahman as saying that it would be too much to
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        72 14 Reuters [PHNOM PENH] Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed Cabinet Minister Sok An to run the national airline after sacking the former chairman over a fuel leak from a jet King Norodom Sihanouk was about to board. Mr Him Sen fired Royal Air Cam
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        45 14 AFX-asia mm w mmm wmm T■Hiyjriin• —nil [MANILA] HSBC Holdings is in talks to acquire Equitable PC IBank unit PCIB Savings Bank, banking industry sources said. The sources said HSBC is currently conducting a due diligence review. -AFX-asia
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        48 14 AFX-Asia [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said it will sell food distribution company PT Pangansari Utama one of the assets pledged by businessman Mohamad Bob Hasan —this year as part of its effort to help fUnd the state Budget. -AFX-Asia
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      171 14 JAKARTA Reuters BANK Indonesia said yesterday it had moved to urge exporters to repatriate earnings, but admitted it could not force them to do so because it remained committed to a floating exchange rate. Indonesia on Tuesday announced strong export figures for the first six
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      416 16 HONGKONG Too rigid an arrangement would play into the hands of speculators; EFAC Reuters HONGKONG has decided not to offer an explicit undertaking to sell Hongkong dollars at a fixed rate against the US dollar, which would have put a lid on how far the
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      313 16 TAIPEI Taiwanese construction shares rise sharply on news AFX-Asia, AFP TAIWAN'S government is expected to introduce a stimulus package including lowinterest loans to revitalise the sluggish property market, officials said yesterday. Taiwanese construction shares rose sharply higher on the news. The
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      296 16 HONGKONG AFP DOZENS of people were injured when mainland Chinese protesters demanding the right to live in Hongkong attacked immigration officers with firebombs, officials said yesterday. A government spokesman said 47 people were injured in the violence, including 19 immigration
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        58 16 Reuters [HONGKONG] Hongkong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang said he expects Hongkong's economy to record slightly more than 6 per cent growth in 2000. Mr Tsang said in a radio interview in Australia that the first quarter's 14.3 per cent year-on-year rise in gross
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        68 16 Reuters [HONGKONG] The Hongkong government has invited investment banks to make proposals to participate in the government's next disposal erf* Hongkong stocks, a spokesman for government ftind manager Exchange Fund Investment said. It said the market value of its Hongkong equity portfolio was
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        57 16 AP [HONGKONG] A university-appointed panel yesterday opened an investigation into allegations the government pressured an academic to stop conducting polls showing Hongkong leader Tung Chee-hwa's declining popularity. Robert Chung of the University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Programme charged last month he was warned Mr
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        57 16 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's United Microelectronics Cap said yesterday its profit had shot up more than five-fold in the six months to June after the merger with its subsidiaries. Its net profit was NTJ19.51 billion (Ssl.l billion) in the January-June period, up from NTJ2.93 billion
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      393 17 SAN FRANCISCO It also announces a new multimedia search function for its site AP THE Internet search engine operator AltaVista announced another makeover of its popular website, but also disclosed that it remained in the red in the second quarter. CEO Rod Schrock
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      397 17 REDMOND, Washington Bloomberg, AP MICROSOFT Corp, the world's largest software maker, is slashing prices by almost 50 per cent for home users who want to upgrade to its new operating system, Windows Millennium Edition, also called Windows Me. Microsoft is charging Windows
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      267 17 Daily Telegraph, AP [LONDON] Stephen King, the world's most successful horror writer, is set to earn at least US$l million (Ssl.7 million) from his e-pub-lishing experiment, The Plant, a book he launched on the Internet a week ago. While the sum is way below the
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      279 18 NEWYORK Firms need to shift business models to other areas AFX-Asia AMAZON.Com Inc and Priceline.Com Inc's weaker-than-expected revenue growth suggests that the size of the online sales market may be reaching a plateau, while the key to future growth in
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      269 18 NEW YORK Reuters TIME Warner Inc, the world's biggest media company, unveiled its first batch of electronic books on Tuesday, marking a competitive turn with rival publisher Random House. Time Warner said its electronic publishing unit, iPublish.com, would begin to release the 23
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      429 18 TAIPEI But he still sees long-term value in bine chips in the telecoms sector Reuters DESPITE forecasts that wireless Internet access will overtake fixed line Web-surfing in mobile phone-loving Asia. Salomon Smith Barney's top telecoms analyst said the jury was still out on
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      263 18 NEW YORK Reuters SPEECHWORKS International Inc spoke the language of discerning investors in its initial public offering on Tuesday, winning them over with speech-recognition software and high-profile pacts that drowned out the day's other new issues. Stock of the company, whose software allows Millers to
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        47 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] Networking equipment giant Cisco Systems on Tuesday said it would buy wireless communications software maker IPmobile Inc for US$425 million (*****.3 million) in stock. IPmobile makes software for the next generation of wireless communications, or so-called 3G networks. —Reuters
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        63 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] Undersea fibre optic network builder Global Crossing posted a smaller-than-expected net loss as data sales surged. Global Crossing's second-quarter loss was U*****.2 million (*****.2 million), or a loss of 61 cents a share. Revenues fell to USss9lB.4 million, down about 2
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        72 18 AP [SANTA MONICA California] Kathryn M Downing, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, has been named CEO ofMyPotential Inc, a startup that will produce books, television programming and Internet content about health and well-being. MyPotential, co-founded by spiritual counsellor and author Deepak Chopra, will
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      523 19 SYDNEY Markets had expected rise to take place only at least a month later Reuters AUSTRALIA'S central bank surprised financial markets yesterday with a rise in official rates that many thought was at least a month away, and left the door wide open
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      327 19 NEW YORK Amount raised even more than what firm got from its IPO Reuters GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc, the premier Wall Street investment bank, said on Tuesday its partners and big shareholders sold about US$4 billion (556.9 billion) worth of shares, more than what
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      222 19  -  From] D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE World Trade Organization has dealt a blow to the European Union when it ruled that Brussels violated the trade body's rules in slapping anti-dumping duties on bedlinen imports from India. Analysts said the ruling may
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      243 19 The 101,000-sq-ft Toys 'R' store will be located in Manhattan NYT [NEW YORK] In an expensive bid to re-establish itself as the top retailer in its field, Toys 'R' Us announced on Tuesday that it would open the world's largest toy store amid the tourist-choked
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      75 19 AP INEW YORK] President and CEO of Urban world Film Festival Stacy Spikes posing on Monday before the start of the festival yesterday. A New York-based event. Urban world is a key venue for minority filmmakers big and small, and features approximately 70films ranging
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      434 20 His cabinet right-hand man has admitted receiving political funds beyond legal limits Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's embattled Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori received more bad news yesterday when a senior cabinet minister said he had received political funds that exceeded legal limits. In the second potential cabinet
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      261 20 AFP [TOKYO] A JAPANESE bank has frozen the personal assets of the former chairman of collapsed Sogo Co Ltd department store chain in a fight for US$lOl million (Ssl7s million), an official said yesterday. Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd (IBJ) Ltd secured the freeze
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      353 20 NEW YORK ExxonMobil, Shell gearing np to fight for investor support FT COMPETITION for investor support among the world's biggest oil companies has intensified after two of the "Three Sisters" in the oil industry super league signalled the start of large
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      610 21 HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania President desperate to have his legacy intact by getting A 1 Gore elected, he says NYT AFTER four days of subtle digs at President Bill Clinton, governor George W Bush of Texas took him on directly on Tuesday and
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      368 21 NEW YORK Sales of new US homes fell in Jnne to lowest level since December 1997 AP, Reuters AN important gauge of future economic activity remained unchanged in June, the latest indication that the US economy may be cooling down, a private
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      281 21 FRANKFURT Reuters COMMERZBANK AG's biggest shareholder CoBRa Holdings mbH yesterday denied a German media report that it had sold options on a 7 per cent stake in the German bank to HSBC Holdings. CoBRa director Hansgeorg Hofmann said that it made no sense to
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      321 22  -  SGI Derivatives TtaUiln^Reports ST Index/MSClS'pore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market ended just a little lower following a decline on the Nasdaq on Tuesday night. The Straits Times Index lost 0.39 per cent to 2,065.92 points. Within the index,
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      239 22  -  MS& Taiwan Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market ended down again yesterday after the Nasdaq failed to continue its upward climb on Tuesday. The MSCI Taiwan Index closed at 350.85 points, dropping 3.05 points or 0.86 per cent. Trading volume
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      200 22 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] OU prices jumped yesterday after a closely watched report showed a surprisingly big drop in US crude inventories in the world's largest energy market. The API report had been expected to show a modest rise in crude data. By
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      329 22 Reuters London THE euro was holding ground above 10-week lows it set against the US dollar earlier this week and was stronger against the yen yesterday, with fluctuations minor after the sharp swings seen on Tuesday. The single currency had dropped as far as U550.9128 on Tuesday and
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      2859 24 BON6KON6 Reuters HI Hang Seng +379.94 HONGKONG stocks rallied yesterday as interest rate fears eased, prompting institutional investors to pick up blue chips that had been depressed by the Hang Seng Index's consolidation over the past 10 days. Tech
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      2042 24 TOKYO Reuters Q Nikkei 22$ +106.52 TOKYO stocks ended firmer yesterday as high-tech manufacturers such as Pioneer Corp extended the previous day's rebound after last week's heavy selling was judged overdone by investors. Some stocks, especially chipmakers, were hurt by a 2.16 per
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      859 24 Reuters Shenzhen B Index »L6l CHINA'S hard currency B shares rose more than one per cent yesterday as domestic A shares reversed morning losses. The Shanghai B Share Index advanced 1.73 per cent to 62.61 points on marginally lower turnover of U5517.65 million. The Shenzhen B Share Index gained
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      385 24 AFP C 3 VP Index -67.80 TAIWAN share prices closed 0.9 per cent lower yesterday in a dull session as investors continued to avoid trading amid lingering political concerns, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index shed 67.80 points to 7,916.85 on a turnover of NT549.28 billion.
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      449 25 AFP CI Composite Index -2.06 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.3 per cent lower yesterday after a listless session on a lack of fresh leads. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.06 points at 802.53. The Second Board Index was off 1.10
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      254 26 AFP El Composite Index +2.44 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.2 per cent yesterday on bargain-hunting after a run of losses. The Composite Index finished 2.44 points higher at 1,412.77. Turnover rose to 3.26 billion shares worth 413 million pesos.—AFP nii room mrcammi 0.49 o.oa 1000 Abacus Construction 0.75 unch
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      271 26 AFP QNZSE-40 +19.27 THE New Zealand stock market closed up 0.9 per cent yesterday with strong demand for blue chip stocks. The NZSE-40 Capital Index rose 19.27 points to 2,125.50 on a turnover of NZ5156.6 million. Rising stocks led falls 53 to 39. ta«i *rt roooi Advantaga MDS iA*
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      559 26 AFP QaU Ordinaries +1450 AUSTRALIAN shares rose almost 0.5 per cent yesterday after investors shrugged off a quarter-point interest rate hike to go bargain hunting after recent falls in blue chips. After a dip at the open, the All Ordinaries Index recovered to close 14.50 points higher at 3,232.30.
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      786 26 AFP Pj SET Index +5.73 THAI share prices rose 1.9 per cent in volatile trade yesterday, breaching the key resistance level of 300 points with strong buying of construction stocks, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index rose 5.73 points to 301.22, while the benchmark SET 50
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      734 26 AFP Q Composite Index +0.76 INDONESIAN share prices closed up 0.2 per cent yesterday with gains capped by concerns over political instability ahead of next week's meeting of the national assembly, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.76 of a point to 490.44. Advancing stocks led
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      589 28 PM exclusive It's said to have agreed to buy 49% of Starsauto and is also aiming to take over SM Motors LISTED Wearnes International, which distributes Jaguar and Rolls-Royce cars, is on an aggressive acquisition trail to broaden its presence in the motor industry. BT
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      342 28 Tan Chong sells record 2,000 Nissans in July MERCEDES-Benz distributor Cycle Carriage has almost 600 bookings for the new C-class, according to managing director Cheah Kim Teck. "We're pushing that, we're not there yet," he said. The listed distributor held a threeday launch for the
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      314 28  -  All stories by Christopher Tan CALTEX has launched an in-house quick-service franchise to optimise returns from petrol kiosks and win a slice of the growing vehicle after-sales market. It has opened eight Xpress Lube outlets, with one of them a stand-alone unit in Kaki Bukit.
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        63 28 BMWs South Korea chief Karsten Engel will take over at BMW Thailand from Jesus Cordoba. After four years in Thailand, Mr Cordoba will take on a new role at BMWs headquarters in Munich. Mr Engel, formerly BMW Asia's area manager based in Singapore,
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        60 28 VOLKSWAGEN distributor Car Cars has been allocated two high-performance Beetle RSls—out of just 250 to be produced worldwide. All the cars will be left-hand-drive, have 18-inch wheels and will feature a new 3.2-litre engine and a six-speed gearbox. Output will probably range from 225
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        55 28 LOCAL Lotus distributor Eurosports Auto has sold 22 units in the past 12 months. Most were the Malaysian-assembled Elise, voted one of the best-handling products around. Eight were top-end Esprits and three were the radical 340 R—a topless two-seater capable of blasting to
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        93 28 VOLKSWAGEN will launch the Lupo GTi, which could redefine the term pocket rocket A 1.6-litre 125-horsepower four-cylinder engine will propel the mighty midget from zero to 100 kmh in &3 seconds, then on to 205 kmh. Weighing just 978 kg, this is the sporty version
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        126 28 NISSAN Motor has started selling what it rbifana to be the world's cleanest petrol-driven car. The 1.8-litre Bluebird Sylphy will discharge as little as 0.01 gram of hydrocarbon and 0.33 gram erf carbon monoxide for every kilometre it travels. "The hydrocarbon level discharged by the
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        73 28  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan SIME DARBY'S wholly-owned unit Sime Darby Eastern, bought a further 62,000 Sime Singapore shares of 25 cents each in the open market on July 31. The purchase raised the group's interest in Sime Singapore to 376.12 million shares or 69.17
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        780 30  -  Opportunities abound in S Korea, Japan, Spore, HK, China and Australia for properly investors. RICHARD BUTLER takes a look at possible buys RICHARD BUTLER The writer is executive managing director (investment properties, Asia Pacific division) at CB Richard Ellis THE Asia-Pacific currently offers a veritable smorgasbord of
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        454 30 BANKS/FINANCE COMPANIES YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 YEAR 5 YEAR MO YEAR 11-36 ABN-AMRO Bank (max of 30 yrs) 3.5000 4.2500 4.7500 4.7500 4.7500 4.7500 4.7500 Citibank* (max of 30 yrs) 4.5000 4.5000 4.5000 4.5000 4.5000 4.5000 4.5000 DBS 4.0000 5.0000 5.0000 5.0000 5.0000 5.7500 5.7500 Hong
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        407 31 DEVELOPED OWNER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNITS NO. OF PRICE TENURE (sq ft) LAUNCHED UNITS SOLD Queens Allgreen Prop 3 Stirling Rd 914-2,723 536 282 760 99-yr River Place FEO 3 Havefock Rd 678-3,229 509 380 950 99-yr Grange 70 FEO 9 Grange Rd 1,970-1,981 20
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      786 32 European property stocks are offering excellent value for Asian investors, analysts say, helped also by the 10 per cent fall of the pound from its dollar peak earlier this year. Despite reasonable commercial property price and rental growth in the past few years, European real estate stocks are
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      248 32 LEGENDARY CUISINE —>OUNDT sßL^"''m r- I; >-•: nr>l j 1 r r The table is setjor a feast tematio tial cuisine. m legendary voyage begins here the Conrad a F' k International Centennial Singapore. Where chefs M M f rom tG p Conrad International restaurants worldwide have come j/ together
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      303 33 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose three points to 1,645, the Baltic Panamax Index fell two points to 1,602, the Baltic Handy Index also shed two points to 1,122 and the Baltic Capesize Index was gained 14 points to 2,221. At 1230 GMT, Biffex was 10 points
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      293 33 sex 000 mt w CWT Distribution 0.77 0.01 12 ChoanHup 0.40 0.01 1237 Cosco Investment 0.20 0.01 225 Freight Links 0.20 -0.01 295 G6 Holdings 0.65 unch 0 Hai Sun Hi* 0.37 unch 240 IMC HoWtaigs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.17 unch 103 KeppeiCorp 3.92 0.10 814
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      482 33  -  Indonesia heads list with 56 cases out of worldwide total of 161 attacks By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] World-wide pirate attacks on international shipping are up 40 per cent for the first half of the year over the same period last
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      93 33 [LONDON] The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency has begun studying the wash from highspeed craft as part of a three-year collaborative effort with UK-based Marinetech South, academic institutions and shipping firms. The study will investigate the generation of wash waves, their propagation, ecological and
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      171 33 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] China Merchants Holdings (International) Co, an investment company controlled by China's Ministry of Communications, said it will invest 200 million yuan (5541.6 million) in a port in Guangdong province together with Shenzhen Chiwan Wharf Holdings Ltd. China Merchants will own 49 per
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        1054 34 As the industry consolidates, Europe has become the make-or-break market for a half-dozen top operators JOC Week EUROPE has become the make-or-break market for the world's leading air express companies. As the industry's consolidation gains speed, a half-dozen top operators are trying to stake out
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      191 34 PAGE Djak Lloyd 6 ACL 6 Oongnama 3 ANL 3 Ewtrans 6 Accord 8 ECl 4 Appenship 5 Line 6 Assets 8 6 Austral 8 J 00 5 8 Balaji Shpq 5 7 7 Gemartrans 6 B taog Mas 8 CCNI 7 Hanjin 3 CMA 8 Heung-A
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      15667 41 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vtssd Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Oest'n Name Name Number Number 10/06 02/09 Austral CAPE HOWE 12AS0 65-*****22 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'I voire n/oo 21/oa Evergreen feiyunhe s» 65-392im 13/08
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        764 44 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Xm Quflq VOW *J)8 02/08/5:45 03/08/300 Oumangang Jan-00 JOS 02/08/8:35 04/08/7 00 PTmi ren 1 O JU 02/08/8:50 02/08/23 59 larak 7 JU 02/08/8:15 03/08/8:00 8t Cj Indra3 ***** JOI 02/08/8:20 02/08/16:00 C Success 02 Aug J09 02/08/9:15 02/08/16:00 8t Tunas Wag
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        2038 44 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From MA SHUN 406S 3/14 00 2A 01/1700 02/065* 02/0*00 28 01/1700 02/0659 02/0*00 02/0700 02/1159 02/1400 4 02/1200 02/145* 02/1700 AIAMJAVA 2~~ 1702 4/13 00 2A 01/1700 02/065* 02/0*00 21
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        182 44 Aug 9 Singapore: National Day. Aug 12 Thailand: HM The Queen's Birthday. Aug 15 Germany: Assumption Day. Korea: Liberation Day. Aug 17 Indonesia: Independence Day. Aug 27 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aug 28 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Aug 31 Malaysia: National Day. Sep 12 Korea: Harvest Festival
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        783 44 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        561 44 Carbon 180 Max 990.8 0.4 18.1 0.08 79 0.04 Jul 27 Density Hater Residue Ash Aluminium Sediment *> above E25 0 0 6 0 0 1 380 Ave 987.0 0.4 13.9 0.06 36 0.02 380 Mai 993.9 17 18.2 0.09 73 0.05 «6/W3 %»/v Mi m/m
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        495 45 CONCORDE CRASH Air France's remaining fleet of five Concordes to remain grounded nntil farther notice AP [PARIS] Accident investigators discussed last week's crash of an Air France Concorde for the second day on Tuesday, after establishing four virtual certainties
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        572 45 Bnt glitches have delayed some flights, embarrassing airline AP [LONDONJ British Airways' decision to keep its Concorde fleet flying has backfired with a series of embarrassments involving the elite airliner. The airline said on Tuesday that it has detected no evidence of a
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        332 45 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines Inc's five highest-rank-ing executives signed fiveyear employment agreements aimed at keeping the management team in place as the industry faces consolidation. The new contracts for Continental chairman and chief executive Gordon Bethune and president Greg Brenneman would add about two
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          67 45 Reuters [PHNOM PENH] Singapore's Silk Air will begin direct flights to the Cambodian town of Siem Reap, home of the fabled 9th-12th century Angkor temples, on Nov 3, Minister of Tourism Veng Sereyvuth said. "They confirmed they will fly to Siem Reap on Nov
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          Lock icon Qantas to set up Internet portal
          76 45 AFX-Asia [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways Ltd plans to establish an Internet portal intended to maximise the commercial benefit of its 2.5 million-member frequent flyer programme, the Australian Financial Review reported. The airline has held discussions with potential alliance partners in the telecommunications, financial services, retail
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          Lock icon Infratil compensates former manager
          83 45 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Infra til Australia Ltd, a company that invests in Australian airports, seaports and power assets, has paid A 117.4 million (5117.42 million) to its former manager, New Zealand-based H R L Morrison Co Ltd. The payment is compensation for terminating Morrison's right to manage
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        69 45 [MILAN] Alitalia chief executive officer Domenico Cempella (left) and KLM president Leo Van Wijk shake hands as they hold plane models of their respective companies in this 1999 picture. Alitalia will pursue a 250 million euro (SS4OO million) damages claim against KLM Royal Dutch
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        232 45 Reuters [ATLANTA) Delta Air Lines, the No 3 US airline, said it has created an executive position to help attract and maintain employees from diverse backgrounds. Delta named Belinda Stubblefield to the post of vicepresident, global diversity, the company said. Ms Stubblefield currently serves as
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        630 46  -  Transportation, logistics firms will benefit from accord as more distribution channels will be opened up, reports P T BANGSBERG P T BANGSBERG Transport firms in Asia are weighing in behind the definitive US Senate vote on bestowing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR)
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        493 46  -  A new system, db-eßiils, allows airlines and cargo agents to cut down by 80% the time taken to clear transactions By Ann Toh ISINGAPORE] An e-commerce system allowing airlines and cargo agents to transfer and settle funds over the Internet was launched on
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      406 33 PFAPI F The European Community Shipowners Association (ECSA) has a new vice-president in Manuel Grimaldi. The sales manager of Grimaldi Naples Group, Mr Grimaldi will be joined by a new president, Knu<f Pontoppidan, from Maersk. He will assume the position next year. CftlJPAIHCC Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) and the CF
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      177 33 LOGISTICS PAGE Asia transport ssctor backs SI no-US trad* pactisKk^t {> imr Air express firms vie for European stakes Page 2 Events before Concorde crash Page 13 Aircraft schedule Page 13 f -%«> The movers and shakers of *>* shipping are sailing into j Singapore in September for MARTECH 2000
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