The Business Times, 4 August 2000

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  • 849 1  -  :j| exclusive High expense ratios pay off with strong inflows, but eat into returns By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] See an ad, buy a fund. That's increasingly what fund managers and distributors of unit trusts hope Singaporeans will do. In a sign of
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  • 581 1  -  Gos Dur attempting to rid country of corruption From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE government of President Abdurrahman Wahid formally charged former president Suharto with corruption yesterday, but BT has learnt that some of the children of the former strongman as well as
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  • 673 1  -  Surprise snrgje lifts fall-year earnings to a record USslBlni By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Creative Tech nology yesterday posted a surprise 153 per cent surge in fourth quarter net earnings to U5537.4 million, bringing its fiscal year ended June 30 to a record US$lBl million. The
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 115 2 JUST in case you've missed out on the Microsofts, Inteb and Ciscos that have made so many so rich over the past 10 years, the latest issue of Fortune magazine has drawn up a new list of 10 buy-keep-and-get-very-rich names for you to consider. Not
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      • 68 2 HERE'S a view of the New Economy from the perspective of an Old Economy stalwart. Ken-Air Leisure group managing director Kenny Goh told an infocomm conference that Internet commerce can be very dangerous. "When you go to Comdex (the international IT show), you can't tell real
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      • 110 2 DBS corporate relations boss Chuck Newton recently made quite a few cogent observations about corporate "writing" at DBS which probably could apply elsewhere too. Why say: "The passbook was returned to the branch by one of the customers" when "The customer returned the passbook" will do
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      • 91 2 BT Online ran a poll earlier this week following news reports that there could be changes in the pipeline for the Central Provident Fund scheme. The question was: Should the CPF scheme be changed to suit the New Economy? And it looks like people with stock options
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    • 392 2  -  Recent govt policy reversal appears to have stimulated market Frotni Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong government's recent reversal in housing policy and various market-propping measures appear to have stimulated the property market, with a huge increase in transactions last month. The Land Registry
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    • 476 2  -  HiT exclusive Companies are finding it worthwhile to volunteer to help the needy in society Tan Su Yen [SINGAPORE] As companies ponder the national call to mobilise their staff and their resources for the greater good of the community, the quiet life
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 899 3 GEH shareholders most realise that b&nc&ssnrance Is the way of the fature, says CATHERINE ONG A STORY goes that in 1972, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), under its legendary and now retired president. Tan Chin Tuan, tried unsuccessfully to buy out the minority shareholders of
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    • 600 3  -  Both associates of OCBC; combined entity worth estimated $4*35b By Ling Su Ann GREAT Eastern Holdings (GE) finally announced yesterday it will merge with sister company Overseas Assurance Corporation (OAC) but the two companies will continue to function separately "for the time
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    • 695 4  -  CORPORATE RESULTS Gains come on the back of a 46% jump in home loans, lower provisions; 4% interim dividend declared By Siow Li Sen KEPPEL Tat Lee Bank yesterday posted a 20 per cent rise in interim net
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    • 654 4  -  From' Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong JARDINE Matheson Holdings unveiled yesterday a share buyback scheme to return cash from the sale of its stake in Robert Fleming to shareholders, after reporting a 94 per cent jump in earnings to
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    • 288 4  -  Turnover jumps 50% as all business units perform better By I Serena Ng TECHNOLOGY company Aztech Systems returned to the black in the year to June 30, with net profit of $2.1 million on a 50 per cent
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    • 681 4  -  p:»:< lock siew| lee han shih IN keeping mum about the sale of Its Fraser Neave (F&N) shares to Brierley Investments, First Capital Corporation (FCC) has not breached the code governing listed companies in Singapore. But has it breached the
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    • 316 5  -  This comes a week after staff were allowed to cash ont By] David Boey MICROCHIP tester ST Assembly Test Services (Stats) sank below its $3,554 issue price for the first time yesterday barely a week after staff were allowed
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    • 315 5  -  By] Marissa Chew RUMOURS that land reclamation company Links Island Holdings had obtained an electronic-banking licence or was being taken over were nonsense, its managing director said yesterday. Links Island shares have soared in the past four days, going as high as
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    • 364 5  -  Portal for trading agricultural products over Internet draws traders from 57 nations By' Toh Han Shih LONG ago, farmers used to barter pigs for goats. Now, Zagro Asia is enabling agricultural products to be traded over the Internet. The company, which is listed on
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    • 273 7 To be branched at the end of the month, they will work with BT to develop investment sites on Asia One.com, Zaobao.com SPH Asia One and Asian Bourses Corporation have joined forces to develop an Internet investment and finance portal. Asia One
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    • 320 7 Reuters LOSS-MAKING Internet telephony company MediaRing.com Ltd expects to break even and turn a profit sooner than forecast with its new focus on the business instead of consumer market, its chief executive officer (CEO) said yesterday. "We expect to break even sooner than the three
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    • 327 7  -  Guangzhou-based firm has set HI next year as target date By Bryan Lee GUANGZHOU-based IT service provider China Weal Business Machinery wants to list on the Singapore Exchange. President and chief executive Meng Ltti told a news conference in Singapore yesterday
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 93 7 DBS Bank said yesterday Easy Call International's secondary offer of 10 million new shares at 52 cents each was taken up on the day of launch. DBS placed 8 million shares with institutional investors and offered the remaining 2 million shares to retail
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      • 49 7 Reuters SINGAPORE Food Industries said yesterday its Australian subsidiary had been awarded a five-year contract worth As3o million (Ss3l million) by the Singapore Armed Forces. The contract is to provide catering, canteen services and logistics support for troops stationed at Australia's Shoalwater Bay.
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      • 79 7 GOLDEN Agri-Resources has announced the acquisition of PT Agropalma Sejahtera, through its Indonesian subsidiary Ivo Mas Tunggal. Agropalma Sejahtera is an investment holding company with a 95 per cent stake in Usaha Malindo Jaya and Satrindo Jaya Agropalma. The cost of the acquisition was 1.3
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      • 105 7 STRATECH Systems filed a civil action yesterday in the High Court of Singapore against Guthrie Properties (S) Pte Ltd and Mall Management Pte Ltd, formerly Guthrie M E Consultancy, for allegedly breaching confidential information and passing off an intelligent carparking system created and developed by Stratech. Stratech
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    • 152 4 Easy Call International Limited (Incorporated in Bermuda on 31 May 1990) J PUBLIC OFFERING 10,000,000 New Ordinary Shares of Aso.ol earti Comprising:(a) 2,000,000 Offer Shares at 550.52 eac^^D (b) 8,000,000 Placement Shares at Applications for Offei^n Available ONLY through and POSBank ATMs in accordance with the terms, set out in
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 469 6 Stocks Volume ISoftel5c 45,111,000 G&WGrp20c 39,033,000 SMRTIOc 33,724,000 Stratech 5c 23,248,000 Links Island 10c 18,770,000 PNE ind 10c 11,531,000 AddvafTech 2.5c 10,588.000 FHTK Hklgs 20c 10.370,000 TTInt15c 8,437,000 IPC020C 8,081,000 Stocks ISoftel5c 56,586,830 PacificCentury 51.705,200 DBSGrp 30,723,860 Stratech 5c 30,675.735 Chart Semiconductor 26c 26,869,390 Links Island 10c 22,911,800 SMRT10C 22,544,325
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    • 510 6  -  -l I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market slid yesterday as interim results failed to spur follow-through buying. Activity remained largely speculative, with players shifting out of stocks that had risen in previous sessions into others that had under-performed. Technology counters
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    • 167 6  -  WARRANT WATCH Ven Sreenivasan SUPERBOWL warrants rose one cent to nine cents yesterday as 30,000 units changed hands. But no trades were done in the underlying stock, which closed at 30 cents on Wednesday. The warrant expires in September 2002, which means time is not
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    • 244 6  -  HOT STOCK By- Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of international trading group Jardine Matheson Holdings drifted 2 US cents lower to U554.56 in relatively light trading yesterday. A total of 260,800 units changed hands. The technical charts show the counter is still in an upward channel
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    • 143 6 ♦SINGAPORE Food Industries' wholly-owned subsidiary in Queensland, Australia, Primary Industries, has been awarded a five-year contract worth AS$3O million (about Ss3l million) by the Singapore Armed Forces to provide food catering, canteen services and logistics support for its troops in Australia's Shoal water Bay. ♦POPULAR Holdings will be
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    • 342 6  -  lti comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Indonesian rupiah powered its way to its best showing in more than one month yesterday, breaking through key resistances along the way, as the US dollar lost further ground ahead of what is expected to be relatively
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    • 51 6 I YOU CAN NOW PUT YOUR CPF SAVINGS IN EIGHT. important All applications tor units m eight must foe made on the application forms accompanying the prospectus investors must read the pro. pectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as well as rise SSI
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    • 242 7 im MNKQF NEW \ORK hires PjH Chan Poh Kiat as Vice President New York, NY, August 01, 2000 The Bank of New York announced today that Chan Poh Kiat has joined the bank in Singapore as a Vice President and is heading up the investor services sales team for the
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    • 104 9 0 BP, Amoco, ARCO, Castrol. What does it add up to? It means a new company able to offer global energy solutions. It means the retail presence to serve 10 million customers a day. It means a company that makes petrol and diesel that produce lower emissions. It means the
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 534 10  -  I-1 exclusive Finet.Com, set np by 20 entrepreneurs, will help young businessmen foothold abroad Tay Hong Seng INSPIRED by the enormous opportunities that will open up with China's pending entry into the World Trade Organization, 20 entrepreneurs in Singapore have pooled their resources
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    • 610 10  -  I exclusive It plans to expand via franchisees with 828 system By Kalpana Rashiwala HOME-GROWN retailer Mo hamed Mustafa Samsuddin has bought a $33.5 million freehold site in MacPherson on which it plans to build a 120,000 sq ft warehouse and showroom at
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    • 192 10 THE Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) will be auctioning off a petrol station site in Boon Lay next month as the lease for the current tenant runs out. The site is now occupied by a single-storey Esso kiosk. It will be leased
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    • 287 10  -  I =*\i on the economy money supply Ling Su Ann AFTER several months of slow growth, Singapore's money supply is again expanding strongly. Latest figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore show Ml, or so-called narrow money comprising cash in circulation plus current accounts,
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    • 507 11  - 30,000 trained way below SRP's target NTUC working closely with industry partners By* Chuang Peck Ming ALMOST four years after it was launched, only about 30,000 workers have been trained under the Skills Redevelopment Programme far short of its target. But the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), which kicked off
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    • 134 11  -  MAlLrm Leong Sze Hian I SAW an advertisement for the "Best of Breed 3" unit trust portfolio, comprising 93 per cent equities and 7 per cent bonds, which had a rate of return of 23.44 per cent a year from December 1996 to
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 749 12  -  E7TM bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent WHEN comedian Jerry Seinfeld was asked for the secret of the success of his American television sit-com, Seinfeld, he explained: "Well, it's all about nothing." Apparently, a script about a
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    • 85 12 'Why am I here? I wanted to observe this thing in action. This is the most spectacular display of cash-register politics in the history of our country.' -Ralph Nader consumer advocate, professional gadfly and himself a candidate for president of the United States, at the Republican Party
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    • 619 12 EDITORIAL THE headline news that 80 per cent of CPF-ap-proved unit trusts lost money in the second quarter is hardly a good advertisement for an investment vehicle that badly needs more promotion in Singapore. While lacklustre performance may have been expected given the tumbling global equity
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    • 1080 12  -  The more uncertain environment raises question of whether traditional growth strategies still apply By, John Miller The writer is head of Singapore and New Market Development, ACCA Singapore IT IS now just over three years since the momentous decision to bail out
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    • 914 12 Bush bothers Europe GERMANS speak with considerable admiration of the stellar foreign-policy team George Bush Jr has assembled. Some worry that VicePresident A 1 Gore has not managed to put together anything comparable. "Is he (Gore) a man who's attracting the best and the brightest brains,
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 509 13  -  Central bank plans swap facilities to protect exporters against currency loss Prom Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a bid to halt the rupiah's recent slide, Indonesia's central bank yesterday tried to tempt exporters to bring home their earnings by offering them swap facilities
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    • 497 13 KUALA LUMPUR Not ready, new date to be set; police warn supporters Reuters A MALAYSIAN judge yesterday postponed a verdict in the sodomy trial of sacked deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, originally set for today, saying it was not yet ready. The postponement came as
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    • 246 13 KUALA LUMPER AFX-Asia RENONG Bhd executive chairman Halim Saad said Time dotCom Bhd will make an announcement "quite soon" on a strategic partner, a Bernama news agency report said yesterday. Time dot Com, a unit of Time Engineering Bhd, has to secure a
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    • 214 13 KUALA LUMPUR Operators likely to agree to maintain prices, say analysts Reuters THE scrapping of a 14-year-old Malaysian regulation which fixed mobile phone access fees and call rates will not lead to a price war between service providers, the communications minister said
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    • 270 13 HONGKONG Govt has recouped HKs72.sb of the HKsllBb invested Reuters HONG Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) chief executive Joseph Yam said yesterday the government has recouped more than 60 per cent of the controversial HK$llB billion <Ss26 billion) it poured into Hongkong equity
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    • 422 13  -  Q&nt&s quashes talk that it's on verge of baying a stake From 1 Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur QANTAS Airways has quashed talk that it is on the verge of buying a stake in Malaysian Airline System, but the Malaysian carrier is
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    • 793 14  -  6ns Dor starts nsing defensive New Order tactic of co-option Yang Razali Kassim [SINGAPORE] With a bomb blast working against the dividends of a peace meeting of Indonesia's divided leadership, President Abdurrahman Wahid fights for survival by emulating yet again his predecessor Suharto. Using
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    • 137 14 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN'S Sumitomo Bank Ltd is expanding trade-relat-ed lending to emerging markets, including its first new credits to Indonesia since Asia's 1997 financial crisis, the bank said yesterday. Sumitomo Bank said it saw signs that Indonesia's economy was recovering and that the
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    • 550 16  -  Li Ka-shing's unit seals purchase of another Australian power plant From< Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong FLUSHED with its staggering successes in the global telecommunications market, Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong group has opened up a new front the world's infrastructure business when the
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    • 230 16 HONGKONG AFP CHINA'S President Jiang Zemin, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, Taiwan's President Chen Shui-ban, and tycoon Li Ka-shing topped the list of the 50 most influential figures in China, Hongkong and Taiwan, a survey showed here yesterday. The poll was conducted
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    • 245 16 HONGKONG AFP SOME 15 multinational companies have signed up to become anchor tenants in Hongkong's ongoing Cyberport project, a government spokesman said yesterday. The companies included Cisco, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Hikari Tsushin, IBM, Legend, Oracle, Softbank and Hew-lett-Packard, he said. They were among
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    • 910 16  -  Indonesia foils way behind, restructured Thai loans could turn bad again Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] South Korea remains ahead of other crisis-hit Asian countries in banking reform but Indonesia has fallen way behind, says Bank of America (BofA). Doing almost as well
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  • e-NEWS
    • 465 17 HONGKONG They most spend to grow, keep pace with competition bnt this will make it harder to reach profitability Reuters THE quarterly results posted recently by greater China's newly-public Internet portals show up a dilemma that the firms and their investors must wrestle with:
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    • 220 17 NEW YORK AFP THREE major music industry players, EMI, Sony Music and Universal Music, have announced plans to launch music subscription services online between now and the end of the year. EMI plans to launch its subscription sales before September, according to EMI
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    • eßriefs
      • 72 17 AP [TOKYO] A computer virus that could cause e-mail servers to malfunction has made its way from the US to Japan, with more than 200 cases reported in July. The virus, called "Stages", invades address books in Microsoft Outlook programs through an attachment labelled Life—Stages.Txt.Shs, said
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      • 50 17 Reuters [LONDON! UK telecommunications firm Cable Wireless and Reality, the logistic and e-commerce business of Great Universal Stores, have joined to provide e-commerce services for online retailers, capitalising on a European market that may be worth over US$lO billion (5517.3 billion) in five years. Reute
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      • 59 17 Reuters [CUPERTINO, California] Apple Computer said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against an unknown individual who posted pictures of its dual-processor G4 computer and its Apple Pro mouse on the Net before their official introduction. The complaint seeks an injunction against further disclosure of Apple's trade
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    • 388 17 HONGKONG Reuters VALUING fast-growing but cash-haemorrhaging Internet companies is an art, not a science, with share prices typically fluctuating more on market sentiment than fundamentals. "It's very subjective," said Internet analyst David Cui of Merrill Lynch in Hongkong. While traditional companies
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    • 451 18 NEW YORK It issuing e-mail service providers for blocking its e-mail to survey participants NYT HARRIS Interactive Inc, the US' largest online market research company, has filed a lawsuit against America Online (AOL) and other e-mail service providers charging those companies unlawfully blocked e-mail from
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    • 265 18 SEATTLE Reuters AMAZON.COM Inc has granted new stock options in a move designed to reward and retain employees following a steep drop in the online retailer's share price. Last Friday, Amazon chief executive JefT Bezos said in an e-mail
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  • TRADE talks
    • 1804 20  -  EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy tells vnaum kbamma why there is an urgent need for a new round of trade talks and what the obstacles are VIKRAM KHANNA Qt Why do we need a new round of trade talks? Ai There are basically three
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    • 466 20 I I Ull .1 .fJlTatl.ee Finance I Keppel Tat Lee Finance Limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 30 JUNE 2000 I Directors are pleased to advise the following unaudited results of the Company and of the Group for the six H
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  • WORLD news
    • 499 22 SEOUL Main creditor bank wants Chang family to let go of management control of conglomerate Reuters THE main creditor of South Korea's Hyundai Group demanded yesterday that the group's founder and his two sons get out of management completely to enable the conglomerate to
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    • 324 22 NEW YORK Giacchetto used the money to support his own lavish lifestyle Reuters A FORMER financial adviser to Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz admitted on Wednesday that he skimmed off US$lO million (Ssl7 million) of his clients' money to
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    • 294 22 BRUSSELS Microsoft is accused of abusing its market leader position AP THE European Union (EU) opened an antitrust case against Microsoft yesterday, claiming it is abusing its market position in computer operating systems software to dominate the market for server software. The European Commission,
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    • 562 23 PHILADELPHIA Running mate Cheney ignites convention, saying the Clinton-Gore era has passed AP Reuters REPUBLICANS awarded Texas Governor George W Bush their 2000 presidential nomination and chanted in unison as running mate Dick Cheney ignited the convention with a partisan spark,
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    • 363 23 PHILADELPHIA Reuters DICK Cheney's speech to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday sounded a lot like payback for President Bill Clinton and Vice-Presi-dent A 1 Gore's election victory in 1992 over former president George Bush. The former defence secretary, who became Republican
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    • 598 23 analysis TOKYO Trade is one area where there could be major changes, says expert Reuters FROM the level of interest rates to relations with China, the outcome of November's US presidential election promises to have far-reaching consequences for Asia. Both George W Bush,
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    • 511 25 FRANKFURT Germany's biggest bank plans to create Ist pan-European retail bank Reuters DEUTSCHE Bank AG yesterday reported a 115 per cent jump in its first-half net profit, beating analysts' expectations, and announced plans to create the first pan-European retail bank. The
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    • 279 25 WASHINGTON Reuters AP A RECORD surge in demand for new transportation goods during June, especially for new aircraft, drove US factory orders up at the sharpest rate in nearly nine years, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Total orders rose 5.5 per
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    • 480 25  -  Asian steel makers root for Anglo to ensnre competitive pricing of iron ore From] Neil Behrmann in London RIO Tinto and Anglo American Corp, the world's largest mining corporations, are locked in a multi-billion dollar takeover tussle for a sizeable slice of the
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    • 449 25 Hmalysis LONDON FT A KIND of hush has fallen over the European Central Bank (ECB) of late. Earlier this year, the decline of the euro to record lows against the US dollar was accompanied by a stream of sometimes
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    • 1238 22 A INFORMATICS V HOLDINGS LTD Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of INFORMATICS HOLDINGS LTD will be held at Singapore Marriot Hotel, Lengkuas Room, Level 2, 320 Orchard Road, Singapore *****5 on Wednesday, 23 August 2000 at 10.00 a.m. to transact
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    • 1097 24 NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 for IDT HOLDINGS (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an extraordinary general meeting of IDT Holdings (Singapore) Limited (the "ComDanv") will be held at 95 South Bridge Road, #09-00
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    • 1390 24 Mr IDT HOLDINGS (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore with limited liability) SSS^fo!KSS&WitCSr" wll De hew at 95 Soutt Bridge Road. #09d0 Pidemcd Centre. As Ordinary Business 1 JwSwT* and 3<JOPt tJ,reCI<XS rep(xl and hnanaal statements tor the year ended March 31, 2000 together with the auditors report
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    • 1030 26 wnTiPFQ 1U To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, LIM KEE SOON LIM KIM SOON of Blk 340 Jurong East Ave 1 #02-1648 Singapore *****0, have applied for a Beer House Second Class Licence in respect of M/s Morning Star Food
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 314 27  -  SGX Derivatives TrsMngßeports ST Inde*/MSCI S'pore Index Chan Yet San THE Singapore stock market yesterday fell again on weakness in the Nasdaq market. The Straits Times Index fell 20.89 points or 1.01 per cent to close at 2,045.03 points. Within the index, only
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    • 235 27  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market yesterday fell for the fourth day in a row. The MSCI Taiwan Index lost 3.74 points or 1.07 per cent to 347.11 points. Trading volume within the index was 681.14 miUion shares with
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    • 187 27 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices added to recent gains yesterday, spurred on by traders fretting over a sharp drop in crude stocks in top consumer United States. By 1120 GMT, Brent blend futures for September delivery were up 53 US cents a
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    • 340 27 Reuters London THE euro was roundly battered yesterday, racking up its biggest losses against the yen and also hitting 10-week lows against the US dollar and sterling. Broad-based euro weakness was triggered earlier in Europe, with euro's slide against the US dollar leading the way amid expectations that
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      1282 27 DITEBBAMg CROSS RATES Aug3 C gBib Eiro Ffr P« HK$ Ind »s Bupiah Yon Won KM NZ$ Pak Its Peso S$ »and Sfr MT$ BUt Pownd US$ Australia 0.867 4.864 0.640 4.200 1.252 4.570 26.590 50.836 0.637 6.532 2.227 1.287 31.254 26.185 1.012 4.093 0.989 18.279 23.847 0391 0 586
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    • 1808 27 S100M FUTPRBS Aug 3 RUBBER (futures ctosioq as it 130pm) RSS1 CONTRACTS cwtiAf) ClOM VotaM Opofl High Law Sott (toiwot) Intorort Sop 00 119.75 400 Oct 00 121.00 Nov 00 122.25 Doc 00 123.50 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cMts/kf) Votomo Obm U5j| Low Soft (towm) brtornt Sop 00 68.50 3000
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2875 28 HONGKONG Reuters P Hani Seng -3JI HONGKONG stocks were flat yesterday as investors considered Wednesday's surge of more than 2 per cent to be overdone, analysts said. Telecom stocks were firm, however, with Hutchison Whampoa on course to secure a German third-generation
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    • 2008 28 TOKYO Reuters Q Nikkei 225 -391.75 TOKYO stocks stumbled yesterday as high-techs like Sony Corp and Pioneer Corp lost their upward momentum of the past two sessions and investors bet the risk of a prolonged market downturn remained. "I have to say the market's in
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      983 28 Reuters fl Shenzhen B Index *L9O CHINA'S hard currency B shares went on rising yesterday as rare foreign buying helped them to close nearly 2 per cent higher. The Shanghai B Share Index advanced 2.4 per cent to 64.12 points as turnover surged 60 per cent to a strong
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    • 374 28 AFP QjWP Index -71.92 TAIWAN share prices yesterday fell for the fourth straight day, declining 0.9 per cent amid concerns over China's high-level meeting on Taiwan as well as Chinese military exercises. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index closed down 71.92 points at 7,844.93, following a 0.9 per
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 319 29 AFP H Composite Index +7.34 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.9 per cent higher yesterday on bargain-hunting In selected stocks, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 7.34 points at 809.87. The Second Board Index gained 1.84 points to 214.49. Volume
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    • 3150 30 BONDS WARRANTS n m> rmrnj i+n U-Maak Last M Bay LJ1IH.HI H fcaaad Um bar Mk mom M# Las Caaaaay Wi *«r- <*00©> a# las »«T* Mkr Met MUMk fttoa 111 ll|T UN 51.5 14.5 I Acma ******4 14.5 -0.5 88 15 143 14 14.5 16 41.0 1 300 181
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    • 307 30 AFP n Composite Index -4L25 SOUTH Korea's Composite Index yesterday fell 6.25 points to 722.08. Volume was 258 million shares worth 1.5 trillion won. AFP ft*} Won Antm Sunl ***** -250 Brstn Ttch 850 30 Central Bank 620 15 ChoMComm *****0 1000 Dm Gu Bank 2145 15 DMSonq Corp
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    • 272 30 AFP Q Composite Index+23L29 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 1.7 per cent yesterday on bargain hunting, boosted by the firming up of the peso. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index gained 23.29 points to 1,436.06. Volume fell to 1.72 billion shares but value rose to 533 million pesos. —AFP >mi
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    • 280 30 AFP QHZSE-40 +5.62 THE New Zealand share market rose 0.25 per cent yesterday, boosted by interest in Fletcher Energy. The benchmark NZSE-40 Capital Index closed up 5.62 points at 2,131.12. Turnover was healthy at NZ5187.6 million. Risers outnumbered falls 61 to 42. AFP Hi jhj Adventage MOS 2.75 OH
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    • 550 30 AFP AD Ordinaries +3JO AUSTRALIAN shares closed up slightly yesterday as takeover speculation and a rise in metal prices switched attention to the resources sector, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index drifted in and out of positive territory, before closing up just 3.50 points at 3,235.80, while the SP/ASX2OO
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      768 30 AFP PI SET Index +6,75 THAI share prices rose 2.2 per cent yesterday in heavy trade on strong retail buying in the financial sector, supported by limited foreign interest, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index rose 6.75 points to 307.97, while the benchmark SET 50
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      709 30 AFP Q Composite Index +L 55 INDONESIAN shares closed 0.3 per cent higher yesterday led by a rebound in large-cap stocks with sentiment boosted by news that former President Suharto has been charged with corruption. The Composite Index closed up 1.55 points at 491.99. "Progress in the Suharto case
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  • ON THE move
    • 999 32  -  To Singapore Computer Systems' exec vice-president e-commerce is just business enabled by IT. bryam lee finds out more from the man whose first love is still technology development BRYAN LEE Mention 'technopreneur' and images of young, brash, school dropouts working in garages most likely come
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    • IN Brief
      • 67 32 Asian Tigers KCDat has appointed Patrick Tan senior general manager of its household goods division. Mr Tan, formerly deputy managing director of Sante Fe Movers, will oversee the division and help chairman and managing director Eric Lim deal with agents and overseas alliances.
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      • 73 32 Shailesh Kotwal has been appointed American Express Bank's head of personal financial services for Asia/Pacific/Subcontinent Based in Singapore, he will be responsible for businesses in Hongkong, India, Indonesia and Taiwan, as well as the offshore personal banking centre in Singapore. Mr Kotwal was previously regional
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      • 71 32 Asiatravelmart.com, an Internet travel reservation yjh system, has appointed Suzan Koa managing director of its new Singapore office. She reports to chief executive Alex Kong and has overall management responsibility including recruitment business development and Singapore operations. Ms Koa has more than six years of travel-related experience
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      • 70 32 RICHARD ONG, Raffles Int'l Hotels Resorts Richard Ong has been appointed general manager of the I Merchant Court Hotel in Singapore, part of the Raffles < International Hotels Resorts chain. He was previously j deputy general manager of Raffles Hotel, where he helped general manager Jennie Chua handle day-to-day operations.
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 2185 33  -  COVER STORY It could be as ambitious as building a water purification plant in Cambodia or as down-to-earth as a cookout for the lonely elderly, but what is certain is that community work, when backed by corporate might, can make that much-needed discernible difference. Once they embark
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    • PERSPECTIVE
      • 705 34  -  (•jaa the cuff For starters, firms should calculate everything in multiples of 10 and explain stuff like EBITDA in layman terms; failing which, just serve good snacks jaime ee IT'S corporate results season and I've had the opportunity to see some of them firsthand
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      • STRAWS In The Wind
        • 42 34 A passenger in a taxi asked the driver for the cab company's phone number. To which the taxi driver replied: "552-four-ple-2 or 552-four-ple 1". Uh, what? "552-2222 or 552-1111". Oh. Well, if there's single, double and triple, why not fourple?
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        • 108 34 These are actual statements captured in American courts: <fc What is your date of birth? hi July fifteenth. What year? Ai Every year. Q: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? At Gucci sweats and Reeboks. Q: This myasthenia gravis, does
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    • MOTORING
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        936 35  -  Bigger isn't always better, speed isn't always swiftness and there are some things money just can't buy, as CHRISTOPHER TAN finds OUt CHRISTOPHER TAN Bond BREAKERS would not like the Peugeot 206. They need a bigger car for their egos; they know they'll be making enough money for
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    • GOLF: BRITISH OPEN
      • 391 35  -  By Ven Sreenivasan WHILE Tiger Woods was chasing the British Open Claret Jug at St Andrews, OUB Platinum Circle card holder Henry Tan and his wife Kim were stalking the Tiger. Mr Tan had won an all-ex-penses paid trip to Scotland and Northern Ireland after clinching top
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      • 961 35  -  If the answer is no, then predictability is going to turn golf into a boring game, reflects ton sheemtvasax VEN SREENIVASAN POR several electrifying minutes after Tiger Woods completed his 17th hole and prepared to tee off on the 18th, the leader board at the
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    • BOOKS
      • 1039 36  -  REVIEW Blading A Writing A Personal Account By? SN&ipaol New York Review Books •4 pages, $25.24 Between Father and Son Family Letters By V S Naipanl Alfred A Knopf, 297 pages, $43 Reviewed by Chuang Peck Ming VS NAIPAUL has a lot to thank his
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    • ENTERTAINMENT
      • 775 37  -  U CINEMA Director Roland Emmerich has never been noted for his subtlety, but The Patriot is so insultingly manipulative that it is a film only a dyed-in-the-wool patriot could love By Susan Tsang THE PATRIOT is a drum-beating, flag-waving film about the War of
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      • 584 37  -  CINEMA Byi Aaron Lye YOU don't need to be a movie-phile to know that action flicks are a dime a dozen these days. Like a pile of ersatz diamonds, they sport the same cookie-cutter qualities special effects, "bang-pow" explosions, corny dialogue and so on. But in
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    • RETAIL
      • 505 37  -  LUXURY GOODS Montblanc views China as an extremely lucrative market By' Tan Su Yen CHINA may be a young market for European luxury goods but the people from the civilisation that gave the world such wonders as fine silk, porcelain and jade, have an inherent instinct for
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    • EPICURE
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        673 38  -  There's a new watering hole at Time 2 and it's certainly attracting a lot of attention. jaime be tries to find out what's drawing the crowds to The Blue Elephant JAIME EE IS The Blue Elephant a new Thai place at Time 2 in Millennia Walk a spin
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      • 609 38  -  INTERVIEW Phil May, founder of Dome Coffees, talks abont coffee, its future, and its relationship with Singaporeans By] Daniel Buenas COFFEE. It's been trendy for six centuries. There's nothing new about it, and there's nothing new about the way it's being presented. It's here to stay. So
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      • 502 38  -  By Tan Su Yen RAFFLES Place may have its growing ranks of expensive foreign talent recruited to work promised wonders in financial services. But in the F&B industry, foreigners and locals have worked the hot stoves side by side for years. And some of these
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    • TRAVEL
      • 550 39  -  New York may be where the world goes to shop, but there is also good food aplenty in this Babylon on the Hudson, oboxtbet En tells you where you can eat well without taking out a second mortgage GEOFFREY EU THEY may be on opposite
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      • 548 39 BABBO 110 Waver lay Place (between MacDoogal St A 6th Ave), Tab 777-0303 (All telephone numbers are preceded by the Manhattan area code 212, unless otherwise indicated.) If you don't have a reservation and your name isn't Julia Roberts, forgeddaboutit! Getting into this Greenwich Village restaurant
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    • Article, Illustration
      805 40 Big Momma's House. Cop Martin Lawrence disguises himself as an old lady to catch a crook in this black version of Mrs Doubt/ire. Oriental, Sun, Eastpoint. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Director Ang Lee's lyrical tale of middle-aged martial arts exponents Chow YunFat and Michelle Yeoh, who try to get
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    • 100 40 can133&3400 Easbhore 346-1816 Orchard 235-8386 PWurehouse 338-3400 Yangtze 223-7529 &npress 777-5867 Jubilee 454-1640 Mandarin 292-940J Marina 338-9719 mtaaria 585-1782 332*6096 tor group bookings wheelchair facthbes Bohan Boon Lay Marina Tampines8 TtongBahnj Ytshun OvaraMa Movie L tememAx)weav 777-0669 GokkrtHtmlom 296-5466 HCrom 459-9575 Princess 443^4965 QueenstownAJVey 479-4187 StiawCkv Capitol
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    • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
      • 916 41  -  For the wary investor, the middle ground may be stocks in conglomerates in the region that are making inroads into the high-tech arena, a GK Goh researcher tells serema mo SERENA NG IF listed dotcom companies make you nervous but you still want to
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      • 1037 41  -  INSIDEBI'.UmU Bnt no positive scores have been recorded in past 12 weeks By. Robert Halili The writer is bureau chief at Asiascores.com THE sentiment fell in both the buy and sell sides, resulting in a neutral score of -1.6 points. The index, however, is up
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      • 802 41 stock wregi Stratech Systems DESPITE generally poor market conditions, Stratech made a strong trading debut on the Singapore bourse on Wednesday, closing 23 per cent above its IPO price at $1.36. IDEAglobal thinks this stock is likely to attract farther investor interest. Stratech, an
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    • UNIT TRUSTS
      • 834 42  -  -id comment YOUR MONEY As new distribution channels come up, fond managers will be In a better position to negotiate with bank distributors genevieve cua The writer is BT's Executive Money editor PSSST...Has anyone pulled out of finatiQ yet? Yes, that has
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      • 2217 42 S%nr- MM. I 3Y^ R 5J ,RNS 1 YEAR RETURNS QUARTERLY RETURNS CPF-approved unit trusts 3YEARS 3YEARS (julvw- caprvooJUN 3°' °°> JUN 30,' 00) JUN 30, 00) Performance Evaluation Summary for Periods Ending 30th June, 2000™ i, J i r cc 55 c-> o P o-J
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    • PERSONAL FINANCE
      • 218 43 WEAK and volatile global equity markets caused the majority of CPF-approved unit trusts and insurance-linked products to fare badly in the second quarter, with over 80 per cent having negative returns and 70 per cent underperforming their benchmarks. William Mercer, which provides quarterly
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      • 863 43  -  wise With so many options available, those planning their retirement will find solutions to suit their needs, writes low ISAAC LOW The writer is principal partner of First Principal Financial Planning ALTHOUGH most people will pay lip service to the idea of planning for retirement,
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 195 34 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS p-j tions of commercial mal- H H H 23 H 22 I depart right after the op--26 Round Tabler taking drink cation without protest YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION is booked (8.6) (4A5.4) Actom: 5 Copeck. 8 Acid test, 9 DOWN 8 Fast river trapped journal- Compare, 10 Basil, 11
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 2272 40 TODAY'S TV mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (T—tfl f~ BJO B Tonight. BHCWHHnwpBP Tiawiwu 9.00 AM Kids Central: Sesa 2*22 NA Toni^, t ma Street. Corporate Watch. tjV Q rilrl\r angelic cousin (Macaulay 10.00 Jamboree: Num J®-®® Headlines rrailKiy miking has a sick spnse of bers/Meeow!. "J-®* Singapore Tonight^ UUlKinj nas a SICK sense
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  • Executive money
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      1366 44  -  The William M Mercer rankings of CPF-approved funds are out again. Do eyes glaze over at the deluge of information or can the ordinary investor find meaning in the parade of numbers? Mercer's Rich Nuzum shows GENEVIEVE CUA what to look out for GENEVIEVE CUA JUST how meaningful
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    • 131 45 Reuters C APESIZE chartering rates firmed again as the market responded to the Bocimar fixing spree of the last few days, brokers said on Wednesday. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose one point to 1,646, the Baltic Panamax Index fell one point to 1,601, the Baltic Handy Index
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    • 135 45 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hanjin Shipping Co, the world's third-largest container shipping company, said yesterday first-half profit rose fivefold to a record as the country's economic recovery led to increased shipments overseas. Net income surged to 60.7 billion won (Ss94 million) in the six months ended in
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    • 357 45 Sunken ocean liner is deteriorating rapidly, salvage company warns AFP [WASHINGTON] Salvage experts have recovered the first from inside the doomed Titanic ocean liner, nearly 90 years after it sank in the north Atlantic, the company RMS Titanic revealed The US-based recovery firm owns
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      • 717 46  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar THE owners of a vessel have been told by an English court that they cannot hold their time charterers responsible for delivering more cargo then what was stated in the bill of lading. Instead, any loss
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      • 265 46 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Klang Container Terminal Bhd, which runs part of Malaysia's biggest port, expects container volume handled to rise 13 per cent to a record this year as more electronics firms open plants in the country. Klang Container, the largest container-handling company in
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      • 181 59 Amg Singapore: National Day. An| 12 Thailand: HM The Queen s Birthday. Aucia Germany: Assumption Day. Korea: Liberation Day. Aaf 17 Indonesia: Independence Day. Aaf 27 Philippines: National Heroes Day. Aaf 28 United Kingdom: Summer Bank Holiday. Ai|3l Malaysia: National Day. Sep 12 Korea: Harvest Festival Day. Taiwan:
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      • 776 59 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 indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 456 60 US aviation body may fine airplane maker USsl.24m Reuters [SEATTLE] The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it might penalise Boeing Co US$l.24 million (Ss2.l million) for allegedly failing to meet standards on quality control and deadlines for reporting airplane defects. The FAA said
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      • 566 60 Bnt pilots cannot expect more in contract offer Reuters [MONTREAL] Air Canada reported a strong surge in its second-quarter profits, largely due to improved operating margins, but its chief executive warned the airline's pilots not to expect a penny more in the contract offer now
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      • 392 60 CONCORDE CRASH AP [PARIS] Investigators on Wednesday removed two engines from the site of the crash of Air France's supersonic Concorde in hopes the wreckage will help determine the cause of the accident that killed 113 people. Some 100 technicians carried out the delicate
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      • 328 60 Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways pic's two-year-old low-fare unit Go said it is adding four routes to its schedules, including London Stansted to Glasgow, making it the only carrier to offer that service. The airline said the Stansted to Glasgow service will begin on
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