The Business Times, 8 August 2000

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES mita (P) 035/12/1999 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2000
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  • 73 1 Dsn 2,050.32 (+6.59) BT-SRI 814.45 (+3.32) ST INDEX FUTURES 2,064 (+2.00) SmSO FUTURES 27L00 (-0.40) STOCK HASEET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COUP ***** 0.73 NIKKEI 226 16,***** +336.36 HANG SENG 17.727.26_+301i6 SET INDEX 306.72 -470 JAKARTA COMP 162 MANILA COMP —1,460.19 -LOG TAIPEI WP! 7,716.99 -***** SEOUL COMP
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  • 77 1 FOBEX SATES USI s$ USS 1.725 £(USS/S$ per 1.506 1898 0.907 1,565 DM 1156 1149 YEN 198.7 6100 RM 2.800 2102 HKS 7.799 4520 BAHT 4106 2180 RUPIAH 8,645 5,010 *S$ to 100 units PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 38.00 BANUKOK.. MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 850 TAIPEI
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  • 1022 1  -  Stake in Bharti will give Sing Tel access to India's cellular, fixed-line and Internet markets From Teh Hooi Ling in Sew Delhi SINGAPORE Telecommunications has clinched its third biggest investment abroad a US$4OO million (Ss69o million) stake in the telecoms arms of the
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  • 760 1  -  Progress report on his government rejected by House From Yang Razali Kassim in Jakarta FACING the threat of a possible impeachment. President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday apologised for his failings and declared his intention to share power with Vice-Presi-dent Megawati Sukarnoputri. Still, he
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  • 497 1  -  -ilexclusive| By Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Chan Keng Loke, managing director of Kim Eng Securities, has quit from the stockbroking firm but said the move is not related to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD)'s probe into the firm's dealings in iOne.Net shares. Mr Chan told
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    • 92 1 nrsroE Top stories Andersen Consulting wins battle to split from parent Andersen Worldwide. Next Page Acer plans over US$l b venture capital investments. Pg 8 Poh Lian expects big margins in columbarium projects. Pg 5 1 Si A A French partner for KPN Mobile. Pg 14 Daim's ally quits MPHB.
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    • 75 1 A well-timed long-term play •Next Page x CORPORATE TIDBITS Excuse me, is this a i ministerial function? running mate BT EXCLUSIVE K, retal/Znds t Ist minister: Susilo claims ignorance, Pg 19 jtk j y* li <i i<4n■•ir«■w.>l<hv»■v\v\v\ < .1 r! ir r < o m Si n po r t
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    • 575 2 ICC decision ends protracted dispute over poaching AFP, Bloomberg Reuters ACCOUNTING firm Arthur Andersen and sister consulting firm Andersen Consulting are to split under an arbitration ruling by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here, Andersen Consulting said yesterday. The decision by the Paris-based
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 122 2 UNITED Overseas Bank has hit on a novel way to sell itself to the National Day crowd. In the last few days, a huge banner several storeys tall and carrying the words "UOB salutes Singapore" was draped onto the facade of one of its skyscrapers facing the Padang.
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      • 99 2 GIVEN that more and more companies are going for a US stockmarket listing, investors may want to know some terms peculiar to the American financial market. One is red herring, which is a document that aspiring public companies must deliver to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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      • 84 2 IN 1999, which must rank as one of the craziest years for Internet investments, a staggering US$4B billion (5582.5 billion) worth of venture capital was put into nearly 3,700 companies, up 158 per cent in a year. A large number of these companies have already folded or are on
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    • 917 2  -  COMMENTARY Hy Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The US$4OO million investment by Singtel in India's largest private telecoms company, the Bharti Group, is, if nothing else, smartly timed. First, Singtel is tapping the Indian telecom market at a relatively early stage: India's tele-density is one
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    • 273 2 JL The Hull MBA OF HULL MBA (General) Information "Ranked Among MBA (Strategic Marketing) Session f ffiS? MB F CCl 15^00 Universities. 1999" MBA (Travel Tourism) 7.00 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA "Ranked Among Australia's Best Universities" PhD MA/BA Doctor of Philosophy in Business ft Mgmt BJffUJIffSH Communication Madia Management
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    • 241 3 Driven to succeed... Seven Summits Expedition Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa,Tanzania)-1994 Mt Everest (Asia, Nepa!)-1998 Mt Aconcagua (South America, Argentina)-February 2000 Mt McKiniey (North America, Alaska}-July 2000 Carstensz Pyramid (Australasia, Irian Jaya}-August 2000 a Mt Elbrus (Europe, Georgia)-September 2000 Mt Kosciusko (Austra!ia}-October 2000 Mt Vinson (Antarctica}-November 2000 I He has stood on
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 508 4  -  Improved results dne mainly to earnings from KepL&nd and KepTatLee Bank ffy Eugene Low KEPPEL Corp yesterday announced a healthy 41.6 per cent jump in interim net profit to $121.8 million. It expects earnings to grow 20 per cent a year for the next
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    • 426 4  -  CORPORATE II fti 3 jaime ee EXCUSE me, but do Keppel Corporation's PR people freelance as organisers of ministerial functions as well? Maybe it was because chairman Lim Chee Onn used to be a cabinet minister. Maybe it was the programme that specified what
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    • 719 4  -  hock rm'iA Fd'.'j conrad raj BY most yardsticks, the string of interim results released by the Keppel group of companies that culminated yesterday in the results of the parent Keppel Corporation would have been considered creditable. However, KepCorp, as in the
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    • 189 4 SESDAQ-listed Nucleus Electronics yesterday reported a 68.5 per cent jump in interim net earnings to $2.53 million. The components distributor, which went public in May, expects to remain profitable in the second half of the year. Turnover for the six months to June 30 came
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    • 138 4 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore has added three new directors to its board, bringing the total to 11. The new members are Goh Yew Lin, a GK Goh director; Low Check Kian, MerriU Lynch regional vice-chairman for corporate and institutional clients; and
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    • CORPORATEResults
      • 128 4 OVERSEAS Union Securities yesterday posted a marginally higher interim net profit of $1.69 million for the six months to June 30, supported by higher dividend income and a $2.22 million profit from the sale of investments. Earnings per share rose 3 per cent to
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      • 104 4 NERA Telecommunications said yesterday net profit rose 36 per cent to $4.71 million in the first half to June 90. Turnover increased 21 per cent from $57.7 million to $69.9 million. Telecommunications business in the Philippines and Malaysia posted higher turnover. And a $10 million
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      • 136 4 CEI Contract Manufacturing more than doubled its first-half net profit from $665,000 to $1.6 million as increased orders from new and existing customers pushed up turnover 118 per cent to $21.1 million Earnings per share increased to 91 cents from 50 cents, while net
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    • 561 5  -  That would provide returns to shareholders in 4-5 years: MD Fron> Harish Mehta m Bangkok UOB Radanasin Bank, the Thai unit of United Overseas Bank, aims to boost its loan book to about 100 billion baht (554.2 billion) in four or five
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    • 337 5 Reuters OCBC Bank shares fell as much as 6 per cent yesterday afternoon after several stockbroking research firms downgraded the bank on the back of weakness in its interim operating earnings. OCBC shares hit an intraday low of $12.00 before crawling back up 10 cents
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    • 500 5  -  FTT exclusive By Marissa Chew MARGINS are a grave matter for any listed company. And Poh Lian Holdings is no different except that the expected margins on its columbarium projects in Singapore and Malaysia are making its management smile. The company
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    • 268 5 FRENCH group Schneider Electric Industries has emerged as the buyer of 10.05 million Clipsal Industries (Holdings) shares, raising its stake in the company from 8.75 per cent to 15.2 per cent. The question now is whether Schneider win again lift its stake
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    • 574 8  -  Visiting US congressman boosts hopes Bionix may have a chance lib David Boey A VISITING US congressman has clearly ruled out political considerations as a factor when the US Army picks its new Interim Armored Vehicle, boosting the tender hopes of Singapore
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    • 207 8 ASIA Pacific Breweries (APB) will pay US$l2.2 million (Ss2l million) to acquire the exclusive rights to two beer brands in Hainan in a move to strengthen its position in the Chinese province. "This acquisition will boost APB's market share to around
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    • 353 9  -  By Bryan Lee GARMENT maker Sing Lun Holdings has received inprinciple approval to list on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange. The company, which ranked 33rd in last year's Enterprise 50, hopes to launch its initial public offer by the end
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    • COMPANYBriefs
      • 97 9 PACIFIC Carriers said that its associate, Malaysian Bulk Carriers Sdn Bhd (MBC), has entered into agreements to sell two product tankers currently under construction in Japan to OMI Corporation of US for US$3O.3 million (5552.3 million) per vessel. Completion of the sale of the
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      • 70 9 THE Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) has awarded its directory contract to i-One.Net International's wholly-owned subsidiary, Xpress Print Pte Ltd, for another year. Under this contract, Xpress Print will design, produce and distribute in hard-copy and electronic versions two of PSB's annual key directories.
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      • 130 9 DATACRAFT Asia is acquiring Multisoft (Singapore), which is engaged in server and desktop operating and applications software supply integration and support and works in close partnership with Microsoft Singapore. The purchase price is $12.1 million, subject to a 36-month expected profit after-tax (PAT) of $1.2 million
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      • 54 9 MEDICAL consultants Reed Group Holdings yesterday announced that all 50 million of its placement shares have been fully applied for. Of the five million shares available for subscription through the Internet, 4.9 million have been successfully allocated. The balance was used to satisfy applications by
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    • 400 9  -  Sesdaq-bonnd electrical company hopes to raise $5.7 m; PE ratio of 9.2 seen as low compared with closest listed rival SMB United's 12.5 By Serena Ng ELECTRICAL company Sunlight Group Holdings yesterday offered 25 million new shares at 26 cents each for a
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    • 226 4 August 2000 CYTECH SOFTWARE LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 9 June 2000) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 64,849,000 ORDINARY SHARES OF HK$O.O5 EACH COMPRISING 52,000,000 NEW SHARES AND 12,849,000 VENDOR SHARES AS FOLLOWS: (1) 6,485,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.68 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (2) 58,364,000
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 492 6 Stocks Volume SMRT 10c 31,063,000 MediaRing 10c 14,084,000 PNE Ind 10c 13,089,000 NOL 12,486,000 TTInt 15c 11,723,000 Briertey NZ10C 9,793,000 Liang Huat 10c 7,152,000 FHTK Hldgs 20c 6,986,000 EWSport 1c 6,935,000 Stratech 5c 6,920,000 Stocks OC8C 58,408,110 PacificCentury 40.399,889 DBSGrp 33,933,621 UOB 30.871,731 Chart Semiconductor 26c 25,024,357 NOL 22,111,308 SMRT
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    • 536 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy FOR several months now the pattern of trading in local stocks has been the same blue chips move within narrow bands and second-lin-ers enjoy vigorous churning by house traders and speculators. Despite encouraging signs from Wall Street late last week,
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    • 185 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy SMALL caps are still the rage in the local market, so we'll stay with this segment for the time being. There were a handful of relatively new names in the percentage gainers' list yesterday, one of
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    • 265 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of the land reclamation company Links Island has been in the limelight since last week, with the shares surging to record highs in frenzied speculative trading fuelled by various rumours. Links has told the exchange that it
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    • 119 6 ♦THE directors of Yongnam Holdings Ltd announced that Yongnam has on Aug 4 entered into an option and sale and purchase agreement with the majority shareholder, a Filipino individual, of The Power Generation of the Philippines, Incorporated. Yongnam was granted an option to purchase 80 per cent of
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    • 353 6  -  CURRENCIES larry wee A-WEAKER-than-expected set of US employment numbers last Friday allowed the euro to recover and selected high yielders to gain ground, but Asian units still looked distinctly soggy yesterday. Led by the yen's inability to progress beyond key US
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    • 248 6 Sunlight SUNLIGHT GROUP HLDG LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 9 December 1998) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 25,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.10 EACH AS FOLLOWS: (A) 2,500,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.26 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (B) 22,500,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.26
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    • 250 8 EASYCALL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda on 31 May 1990) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 10,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF Aso.ol EACH COMPRISING:(1) 2,000,000 OFFER SHARES AT 550.52 EACH BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (2) 8,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT 550.52 EACH BY WAY OF PLACEMENT, PAYABLE IN FULL ON APPLICATION.
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    • 810 9 Thakral Corporation Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an Extraordinary General Meeting of Thakral Corporation Ltd ("the Company") will be held on 24 August 2000, Thursday at 9 30 am in 20 Upper Circular Road. The Riverwalk #03-06. Singapore
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 506 10  -  It'll invest in startups in S'pore, Asia and US, and raise a second fond later By Toh Han Shih TAIWAN computer giant Acer plans to make more than US$l billion (551.72 billion) of venture capital investments over the next few years. The company is
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    • 259 10  -  Strategic buyer sought who can bring in new business By Tay Hong Seng TEMASEK Holdings announced yesterday that it will seU its entire stake in Indeco Engineers (Pte) Ltd (lEPL), a company which specialises in providing management and maintenance services for building
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    • 372 10 Bnt low-rise space hit by trend to lease instead of boy THE electronics and chemicals sectors helped boost demand for the Jurong Town Corporation's high-rise factory space and industrial land in the second quarter of this year. But figures released yesterday by
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    • 372 10  -  ■won the economy outlook By Anna Teo THE government's official full-year growth estimate is likely be raised to 7.3-7.8 per cent, says DBS Bank's economic research department. In a commentary ahead of the release of the second-quarter economic survey on Thursday,
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    • 742 11  -  BTia'MIIUWJ Keppel Land and Lend Lease also said to have similar plans ih Kalpana Rashiwala THREE property groups the proposed merged entity of DBS Land and Pidemco, Keppel Land and Australia's Lend Lease group are looking at setting up shopping mall property
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    • 321 11  -  By Chuang Peck Ming ASIA'S and the world's most pressing concern is the environment, and it's time that Asian governments, business and non-govern-mental organisations forge partnerships to tackle it, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last night. "Man's ingenuity is threatening our
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    • 60 11 WILLIAM M Mercer, consultant to the CPF Board on CPF-ap-proved funds, has clarified that the Schroder Balanced Growth Fund's performance relative to its benchmark should be minus 2.6 per cent, and not minus 9.7 per cent, in the one-year period to June 30. Mercer's CPF-approved funds performance tables were
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    • NEWSRoundup
      • 62 11 AP SINGAPORE held U5576.5 billion (Ssl32 billion) in official foreign reserves at the end of July, down 1.7 per cent from U5577.7 billion at the end of June, according to preliminary figures posted on the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Internet website yesterday. The July reserve
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      • 73 11 Finance Minister Richard Hu underwent hip replacement surgery yesterday morning. The operation was successful and his condition is stable, said a statement from the Prime Minister's Office yesterday evening. The operation was done at the Singapore General Hospital. Dr Hu has taken medical leave, up
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  • FOCUS property
    • 338 12 Manhattan property market loses momentum for now NEW YORK AP THE thrill is gone. Manhattan's over-the-top real estate market, on a fast roll for more than four years, has lost its frenzied upward momentum at least for now. Would-be buyers, who this spring seemed caught up in a grab-it-now-before-it's-gone panic,
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    • 697 12  -  comment PROPERTY Changing the formula for computing DP does not go Ear enough lee han shih Running a country. Confucius once said, is like cooking a delicate dish one must not rush things. Even so, the Singapore government is taking an
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  • MAIL bag
    • 616 13  -  Chan Khim Soo Singapore YOUR article "Weak rupiah wipes $64m from CCL's bottom line" and Hock Lock Siew column "Taking Astra bull by the horns is CCL's only way out" (both BT Aug 2) make for uneasy reading not so much about what has been
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    • 555 13  -  Chua Sek Chuan Singapore via Internet SHARK'S fin soup has been a prestigious dish at Chinese banquets and wedding dinners for what seems to be centuries. Indeed, it has become ingrained as tradition. As a high-priced item, it confers the host of
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  • e-NEWS
    • 491 14 AMSTERDAM Quoting DoCoMo chief, it adds that the link-up would be announced soon Reuters, AP JAPANESE cellphone company NTT DoCoMo expects its Dutch partner KPN Mobile to announce a link-up with a French partner soon, DoCoMo president Keiji Tachikawa told Dutch daily Financieele Dagblad
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    • 134 14 PARIS AFP FRANCE Telecom said yesterday it sold its 49.9 per cent stake in cable TV and Internet operation Noos to AngloUS cable operator NTL and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity for 1.35 billion euros (552.11 billion). France Telecom made a pre-tax
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    • 190 14 NEW YORK Reuters FIVE financial and technology companies including Citigroup and Enron Broadband Services said yesterday they formed an e-commerce venture to streamline the payments process in business-to-business transactions. The venture partners also include banking company Wells Fargo Co, software maker i 2
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    • 194 14 DENVER AP QWEST Communications International was set to file a lawsuit yesterday against AT&T Corp over the latter's efforts to temporarily prevent a former employee from working at Qwest. On July 18, AT&T threatened to sue Qwest and Charles L Ward,
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    • Article, Illustration
      52 15 [BEIJING] A woman talking on a mobile phone as she walks in front of an advertisement for a local Internet firm in Beijing yesterday. Chinese leaders have encouraged the use of the Internet as a tool for economic growth, although they are uneasy about its potential to spread
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    • 281 15 LONDON Online retailer to extend operations by one month Reuters TROUBLED British Internet retailer Clickmango.com, which sells health and beauty products online, said on Sunday that it would operate past its planned end-August closure date amid hoped that a rescuer would appear.
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    • 203 15 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE data telecoms firm Crosswave Communications Inc said yesterday it would invest more than 100 billion yen (Ssl.6 billion) over the next four years to set up a high-capacity network in Japan. The investment includes U*****.5 million (*****.3 million) raised last week
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    • 213 15 SYDNEY Reuters TELSTRA Corp said yesterday it would spend about As22o million (***** million) on infrastructure for its assymetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) network, with the investment expected to be cash flow positive in three years. "What I want to say is we expect it
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    • 328 15 HONGKONG Parent ITVentiires to pay CBC creditors in full to revive unit Reuters ITVENTURES Ltd yesterday proposed a rescue plan for Chinese Books Cyberstore Ltd, which last week was headed for liquidation in one of Asia's high-profile Internet failures to date. ITVentures chairman Gabriel
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    • 558 14 IHtS'.I'.TJI Corporation I I Keppel Corporation Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) 1. UNAUDITED RESULTS FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2000 I The Directors of Keppel Corporation Limited advise the following unaudited results of the Company and of the H Group for the half year ended 30
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 756 16  -  mi\\i bottom line OPINION rajendra bajpai The writer is a New Delhi-based journalist who contributes to BT A BIG political storm has broken out in India over whether the country's provinces have enough autonomy within the federal structure or deserve more freedom. Most
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    • 129 16 This is what the Republicans are calling a Wizard of Oz ticket. You see Cheney needs a heart and Bush needs a brain.' Jay Leno American comedian. on presidential candidate George Hush .Jr's selection of Dick Cheney as his running mate. 'It always amuses us when people
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    • 574 16 EDITORIAL PEW countries have embraced technology with as much commitment as Singapore, and the payoff has been handsome. With the Internet and new communications technology, the promise has become even greater. But riding the new technology tiger will also prove trickier from now on. Technology has
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    • 1058 16  -  Many feel members are to blame for making its dispute panels adjudicate non-trade issues D Ravi Kanth The writer is a Geneva-based journalist who contributes to BT IN LITTLE over five years, the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Undertaking has adjudicated more
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    • 866 16 Austrian backlash THE rashly decided symbolic actions (against Austria) have from the start backlashed against the 14 countries that introduced them. They have become a steadily heavier yoke to carry, but to revoke the sanctions without losing credibility is not easy. The one thing the sanctions
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 748 17 KUALA LUMPUR Creation of deputy chairman's post at power utility seen as step in this direction AFX Asia TENAGA Nasional Bhd's recent creation of a new deputy chairman's post is believed to be a precursor to executive chairman Ahmad Tajuddin Ali's departure
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    • 375 17 KUALA LUMPUR Deal near completion, not clear how mnch state oil firm's paying for the stake: report Reuters, AFX-Asia MALAYSIAN state oil firm Petronas is set to enter the power generation business by buying a stake in Tenaga Nasional Bhd's gas-fired
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    • 408 18  -  No new chairman named, no reason given for sndden departure hYinu Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur IN a surprise development, the man hand-picked by Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin to take over the Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd empire from an associate of ousted
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    • 244 18 KUALA LUMPUR The plan will help Malaysia's largest listed steelmaker to repay RMlO.2b of debt Bloomberg LION Group, owner of Malaysia's biggest publicly traded steelmaker, is seeking help from the government to convince creditors to agree on its plan to help repay
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    • 68 18 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters JAILED former Malaysian finance minister Anwar Ibrahim will finally hear the verdict in his sex trial today, his lawyers said. Anwar, who turns 53 on Thursday, faces up to 20 years in jail if found guilty but will be spared a
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    • 178 18 MELBOURNE Bernama PARTIES associated with Malaysia Mining Corp (MMC) are being investigated over share trading before De Beers' A 5522 million (*****.8 million) bid for Ashton Mining on July 31, The Australian newspaper reported on Saturday. MMC owns 49.5 per cent of Ashton and
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    • 287 18 KUALA LUMPUR This is because of fat spreads they enjoy on lending rates Reuters A SURPRISE move by Malaysian banks to raise deposit rates is set to only make a small dent in their earnings, thanks to fat spreads they
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    • 197 19 BANGKOK Reuters THREE Thai state enterprises yesterday signed a 1.2-billion baht (5550.4 million) contract to jointly set up a firm called ACT Mobile Co to launch a new mobile phone service due to start operating in the middle of 2001.
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    • 265 19 mJAKARTA 235t rupiah mishandled in last two years, he says Bloomberg INDONESIA'S audit agency chief told Parliament yesterday that about a quarter of the 902 trillion rupiah (SslBo billion) it reviewed has been mishandled, signalling a disregard for the rule of law. The Supreme
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    • 345 19 Petrol shortage feared as Pertamina closes 220,000-bpd unit Reuters INDONESIA Mines and Energy Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said there were indications of sabotage in an explosion and fire that caused the shutdown of a major oil refinery in the country yesterday. State oil
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    • 302 19 He says there is no connection to him as coordinator of the presidential speech Reuters, AFP INDONESIA'S mines and energy minister yesterday denied knowledge of a widely-speculated plan to make him a "first minister" to try to improve President Abdurrahman Wahid's heavily-criticised Cabinet. "I do
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    • 186 20 TAIPEI AP FOR the first time, Taiwan's largest annual military exercise will include drills in cyber warfare, one of the island's greatest threats, a military spokesman said yesterday. The 'Blue' and 'Red' teams that will square off later this month in the Han
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    • 161 20 TAIPEI AFX-Asia TAIWAN Premier Tang Fei is slated to call a Cabinet meeting today to discuss a proposal by the Ministry of Economic Affairs to deregulate investments meant for mainland China, the Economic Daily News reported sources as saying. According to the proposal, domestic businesses
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    • 335 20 GUANGZHOU Foreign lenders may have to accept losses of about 30% on their loans Bloomberg CHINA'S central bank will unveil plans to overhaul the country's 200-odd investment trust companies later this month and ask foreign lenders to accept losses on their
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    • 47 20 [SHANGHAI] Local Chinese women sitting in front of an advertisement for a skin care product by a foreign cosmetic company yesterday in Shanghai. The Chinese believe looks is as important as academic background in landing a better job in Shanghai. AP
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    • 319 20 ■HONGKONG It will issue 100 m new A shares to fond purchase Reuters CHINA'S Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd announced a plan yesterday to buy a coal mine with proceeds from a planned new share offer in an apparent oid
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      • 69 20 AP {TAIPEI] Taiwan's exports surged 36.5 per cent last month to a record high of US$l3.6 billion (5523.4 billion) because of rising global demand for computer and other high-tech products, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Imports rose 42 per cent to US$l3.5 billion, also
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      • 81 20 AFX-Asia [TAIPEI] The Executive Yuan, or Cabinet, is set to finalise a preferential financing scheme to help revitalise the property market, the Commercial Times reported a senior Ministry of Finance official as saying yesterday. Up to NT$3OO billion (5516.6 billion) in bank fUnds will
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      • 40 20 Reuters [HONGKONG] China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd yesterday denied a newspaper report that it planned to issue a US$5OO million (SsB6o million) convertible bond to fmance its acquisition of mobile phone networks in China. —iteuters
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    • 501 21 SEOUL First major task for new finance minister will be to speed up restructuring of Hyundai Reuters SOUTH Korea yesterday named its budget chief as the new finance minister in a Cabinet reshuffle in the midst of the government's battle with slow-reforming Hyundai Group.
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    • 337 21 Growth in China spurs interest in HE, S'pore and Korea Daily Telegraph EMERGING markets, discredited in the eyes of many investors in the wake of the Asian crisis of 1997-1998, are coming back into fashion with some economists, who are upgrading their
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    • 272 21 SAO PAULO Reuters AFX London Stock Exchange (LSE) chairman lan Salter and Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) vice-presi-dent Raymundo Magliano Filho have signed a cooperation agreement in London, the Bovespa said. The agreement aims at establishing long-term mechanisms which facilitate the development
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    • 859 22  -  But financial markets ignore remark by boosting stock prices, allowing yen to weaken From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE cat-and-mouse game between the Bank of Japan and financial markets continued yesterday as Bank of Japan governor Masaru Hayami again hinted that conditions are
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    • 158 22 VATICAN CITY Reuters MICHEL Camdessus, former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has landed a post with a Vatican department which has been campaigning for Third World debt relief. A brief Vatican statement yesterday said Mr Camdessus, a Frenchman who stepped down as head of
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    • 52 22 [SYDNEY] Model Michele Shannon, one of two "live" mermaids in the window of a central city jewellery store, waving to lunchtime shoppers in Sydney yesterday. The store is using models to liven up its display of South Sea and Tahitian pearls, which are best sellers among tourists in
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    • 291 22 SINGAPORE Low Opec output, US inventory declines lead to increase Reuters OIL prices rose above US$3O (5551.75) a barrel in Asia yesterday, building on strong gains in New York on Friday on concerns over large US inventory declines and Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries'
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    • 454 22 m NASHVILLE, Tennessee Reuters DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate A 1 Gore intends to name Senator Joseph Lieberman as his vice-presidential running mate, making the Connecticut moderate the first Jew to run on the national ticket of a major US party, Democratic sources said yesterday.
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      • 79 22 Reuters [LONDON] British property group Minerva pic said yesterday that it had received consent for a one million square foot shopping mall In south London worth around £700 million (Ssl .82 billion). The Park Place mall in Croydon will include a new
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      • 81 22 AFP {FRANKFURT] The Frankftirt and Vienna stock exchanges will launch a new exchange specialising in central and eastern European companies, to be called NEWEX, from Nov 3, the German stock exchange said yesterday. NEWEX will provide companies being set up and privatised in
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      • 80 22 AFP {TOKYO) Seibu Department Stores Ltd denied yesterday that it was planning to take over collapsed Sogo Co Ltd in an alliance that would create Japan's biggest department store chain. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported last Saturday that the two retail giants would agree this
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      • 69 22 Reuters {LONDON] British automotive services group Inchcape pic yesterday reported a first half pre-tax profit of £30 million (SI7B million), down from last year's £40.9 million, but said it had a strong balance sheet to fund its growth strategy. For the first six months
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    • 346 23  -  SGX Derivatives gßeports CT Index/MSCI S'pore Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market ended mixed despite starting the day on a positive note. The Straits Times Index gained 6.59 points or 0.32 per cent to end at 2,059.32 points. Within the index,
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    • 272 23  -  MS& Taiwan Index Chan Yet San Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market suffered its biggest decline in two weeks. The MSCI Taiwan Index lost 5.71 points or 1.64 per cent to end at 342.14 points. Trading volume within the index was 545.26 million shares with
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    • 164 23 Bloomberg [LONDON] Palladium feU almost 8 per cent to a two-week low after Russia, the world's top miner of the metal, offered it on the market after a month-long halt in deliveries which drove prices to a record last week. A major European user
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    • 343 23 Reuters London THE euro was bolstered near day's highs against other major currencies yesterday morning, clinging onto broad gains posted on Friday after tame US jobs data dented the chances of a US interest rate hike later this month. Softer-than-expected US payrolls data propelled the euro above US$0.91
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    • 2879 24 HONGKONG AFP PI Hang Seng +30L55 HONGKONG share prices surged 1.7 per cent yesterday as fears of a possible US interest rate hike this month eased following the release of benign US job data, dealers said. "The fears of a possible
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    • 2028 24 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 ****** TOKYO share prices rallied 2.1 per cent yesterday as investors bought back hightech issues following gains in the US technology-heavy Nasdaq late last week, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei 225 Index gained 335.35 points
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      984 24 Reuters Shenzhen B Index -*>101 CHINA'S B shares closed sharply higher yesterday, helped by an inflow of funds from foreign investors into the hard currency market, analysts said. The Shenzhen B Index rose 3.01 points, or 2.54 per cent, to 121.39 as turnover surged to HK5140.59 million from HK5119.44
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    • 353 24 AFP QWP Index -125.44 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.6 per cent lower yesterday on strong selling of technola gy stocks amid negative pros pects for the computer sector, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index lost 125.44 points to 7,715.99 on turnover of NT548.14 billion. Decliners led
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    • 448 25 AFP, AFX-Asia Q Composite Index -0.73 MALAYSIAN shares ended marginally lower yesterday on a lack of leads and ahead of today's verdict in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 0.73 of
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    • 306 26 AFP C 3 Composite Index -34.41 SOUTH Korea's Composite Index tumbled 34.41 points yesterday to 675.59. Volume was 217 million shares worth 1.3 trillion won. AFP *1*7 Woo ArumSaml 9770 -S30 Broin T»ch 780 -40 Ctntr«ISwk 755 45 ClwrfConwn *****0 2500 Dm Gu Sink 2060 -45 Owung Corp 1700
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    • 287 26 AFP n Composite Index -1.08 PHILIPPINE share prices dipped 0.1 per cent in thin trade as investors took profits after a three-day run-up last week. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index fell 1.08 points to 1,450.10. Turnover fell to 457.78 million shares worth 306.23 million pesos. —AFP *»«7 Nu
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    • 278 26 AFP ONZSE-40 +10.43 NEW Zealand shares closed up 0.5 per cent as market leader Telecom shot up after speculation it is looking to form alliances with Japanese and Australian companies, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index ended up 10.43 points at 2,139.89 on total turnover of NZ$B million.— AFP
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    • 564 26 AFP QADOrdiiaritt +28.70 AUSTRALIAN share prices ended 0.8 per cent higher yesterday after solid gains in the resources and banking sectors. The All Ordinaries Index closed 26.7 points higher at 3,265.2 while the SP/ASX 200 was up 27.8 points at 3,305. The All Industrials Index gained 35.9 points to
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      786 26 AFP Q SET Index -4.70 THAI share prices fell 1.5 per cent yesterday as profit-tak-ing hit the market after last week's sharp gains, and a weaker baht also dampened sentiment, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index slipped 4.7 points to close at 306.72. Volume totalled
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      715 26 AFP Q Composite Index -3.62 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent lower in thin trade yesterday amid caution over President Abdurrahman Wahid's plan to reshuffle the Cabinet, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 3.62 points at 490.54 with trade of 317.5 million shares valued
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    • 110 26 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I, HEOK GUAN SENG of Block 526, Bedok North St.3, *11-490 Singapore *****6, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop Licence in respect of M/s Jaffajuice Int'l Pte Ltd located at 262 Pasir Panjang Rd *08-10 Admin Blk Intl Theme Parks Singapore *****8, and that
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    • 2292 28  -  The organisations that survive will be those that resource the front line, and allow the front line to help define how the organisation sees the outside world Patrick Lambe IN part one of this series (The problem of digital illiteracy. BT, July 11), I
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    • 137 28 This announcement appears as a matter of record only August 2000 REED REED GROUP HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 2 November 1999) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF 50,000,000 NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.05 EACH BY WAY OF PLACEMENT COMPRISING:(1) 5,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.20 FOR EACH PLACEMENT
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      • 405 44 Financial crisis may be over but new obstacles lie ahead: Garuda chief AP [KUALA LUMPUR) Regional aviation leaders declared yesterday that while many airlines have soared out of Asia's financial crisis, closer solidarity was now needed to weather new hurdles which challenge
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      • 215 44 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Long waits for taxis at Malaysia's showpiece main airport are "very embarrassing" and authorities are considering opening the service to competition, Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said yesterday. Dr Ling said his ministry viewed problems
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      • 523 44 Airlines closing gaps on the price, structure and regulatory approach Reuters, FT [LONDON] British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington confirmed yesterday the airline had extended the exclusivity period for its talks with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on a possible "combination of
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      • 208 44 AFP [LONDON] British Airways' chief executive Rod Eddington said yesterday that the crash of an Air France Concorde two weeks ago was unlikely to have an impact on BA, the only other airline to fly the supersonic jets. Speaking as BA reported a pre-tax
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      • 232 44 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines Inc. the No 5 US carrier, plans to begin the First nonstop flights between New York and Hongkong, cutting three hours off the trip. Beginning March 1 next year, a Boeing 777 will leave Newark International Airport on 16 1 -hour
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      • 113 44 Reuters [TOKYO] Leading Japanese airline carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) said it had started talks with South Korea's Asiana Airlines over code-sharing flights linking the two countries. A spokesman for ANA said there was no set target for the timing to start codesharing flights, but media
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