The Business Times, 13 September 2000

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  • 74 1 sn 2,***** (-33.55) BT-SRI 808.72 (-15.99) 8T KDEX FUTURES 2,067.00 (-25.00) BDBCX FOIUBES 27QLS0 (-3.20) STOCK HAKKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE OOMP 7MJ6 +2J0 NIKKEI 226 10,040.23 -90.57 HANG SENG 16*28.78 -***** SET INDEX 288.93 -2J1 JAKARTA COUP 461.06 -1149 MANILA COMP _1.4*l89 -16# TAIPEI WP! ftord SEOUL
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  • 71 1 FOBEX BATES us$ s$ US$ 1.718 £{US$/S3per£) 1.401 1493 EUR0(US$/S$/E) Mil 1.495 DM 1271 1.307 YEN 106J 61.20 RM 1.890 2.187 HKS 7.799 1488 BAHT 41.43 28.88 8IJP1AH 8£35 <912 *SS to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK .9.5# MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50
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  • 558 1  -  But syndicated loan sector is still langnishing from the effects of the Asian crisis From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE value of debt issues in the Singapore-dol-lar bond market soared nearly 90 per cent in the first eight months in
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  • 1069 1  -  IDA urged to disclose assumptions made in the computation By Catherine Ong, Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Controversy raged yesterday over a nearly $2 billion cash payout the government is proposing to make to Singapore Telecommunications and Star Hub Pte Ltd
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  • 747 1 Reuters [LONDON] Half of the 13,000 petrol stations in Britain were running dry yesterday, provoking British Prime Minister Tony Blair to turn up the heat on oil companies by saying it was up to them to rescue the nation from its
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    • 227 1 DHBPB Top stories John Hancock Life Assurance's new investment-linked plan may herald a new breed of lowcommission products. Heart Page Sell CPF shares by i Sept 22 to cash out profit, say brokers. Fg6 Stowdcwn in M'sian property sales Rg 15 Robert Rubin excesses in Ujy i markets. Pg 11
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    • 51 1 IDA reveals arithmetic behind compensation package, Pg 9 StarHab plans to invest $2.6b in network, Pg 9 SAP sees growing business risks for Asia-Pac telcos, Pg 9 Pq 72 Editorial: No cause for alarm on oil prices, Pg 14 Prices near 10-year highs, Pg 25 More report*, Pg 25 Pg
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    • 832 2  -  exclusive First time a regular premium ILP can be directly compared to annit tra^fr Byi Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] John Hancock Life Assurance Co's share of the life insurance market is small, but its new invest-ment-linked plan (ILP) may well herald a new
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 99 2 FED up with the millennial madness that gripped Singapore last year? Well, we suggest you hide out in some deserted island again this year as the tourism industry plans another round of celebrations on the basis that there is no settled view as to whether 2000
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      • 105 2 THE financial markets are always trying to guess what US Fed chairman Alan Greenspan will do next. Here's an advice from an investment guru, Gary North: "Let it never be forgotten that Greenspan began his academic career at the Julliard School of Music, and then toured
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      • 101 2 SAUL Steinberg, one-time Wall Street bully, has to sell almost everything he holds dear to pay for the debts of his Reliance Group Holdings the insurance company he used to mount takeovers and which collapsed a few months ago. The sales included his 34-room triplex home in
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    • 409 2  -  (totting Personal By Corinne Kerk Who* Chua Koon Beng, co-chief executive officer, eerth9.com A»K27 Claim to fames Mr Chua was still working on his honours degree thesis in psychology when he set up the business with three secondary school friends in 1998. The company began
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    • 402 2 A Seminar at Marriott Hotel 4 October 2000 (Wed) 8.45 am to 3.00pm The IPO journey for companies eyeing the rich capital Speakers: markets of the United States and Singapore can be painful and Ben Iversen, Director, Equity Capital Markets, tough. Or it can be exciting, challenging and more Merrill
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 647 4  -  Earnings reversal blamed on lower crude palm oil prices and $18m forex loss By i Conrad Raj ASIA Food Properties, the Singapore-listed arm of Indonesia's Sinar Mas group, has reported an interim net loss of $48.24 million, compared with
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    • 342 4  -  Serena Ng ENGINEERING and trading company Lindeteves-Jacob-erg Ltd yesterday reported an 18 per cent increase in interim profit to $14.58 million on the back of higher sales from its motor distribution business. It said turnover for the period ended June
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    • 235 4 HEALTHCARE products firm Osim International achieved a 53.7 per cent rise in group net profit to $3.7 million for the six months ended June on the back of a 49.9 per cent increase in turnover to $63.7 million. The improvement in its maiden
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    • 555 4  - Pentex returns to black with 14.9m gain By\ Serena Ng PRINTED circuit board maker Pentex-Schweizer Circuits is back in the black. It reported a financial-year 2000 net profit of $14.97 million yesterday, against a $16.32 million loss the year before. The mainboard-listed company's profit for the year to June 30
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    • 551 4  -  I'r.Maiock siew toh han shih A couple of weeks ago, OCBC Securities made an announcement that gave a hint of how Singapore's stockbroking industry can respond to the changes come Oct 1, when stockbroking commissions will be liberalised. OCBC Securities announced it
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    • 509 6  -  They warn that unexpected hitches could delay settlement date Bf Ven Sreenivasan STOCK MARKET players who want to cash out net realised profits from their Central Provident Fund investment accounts will have to sell their shares by the
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    • 304 6  -  Low A$ means disposal will result in loss of Ssl.4m By\ Marissa Chew SOFTDRINKS maker Fraser Neave is selling its 20.78 per cent stake in Australian dairy company Peters Brownes Foods Ltd (PBFL) for A 543.1 million (5541.8 million). The
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    • 217 6  -  By. Marissa Chew SUPER Coffeemix Manufacturing yesterday announced a 2 per cent rise in interim net earnings to $2.95 million, helped by the better performance of its Myanmar operations. Turnover for the six months to June 30 grew 13 per cent from
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    • 217 6 AFX-Asia CATCHA.COM has received fresh investments from some of its existing shareholders, including Creative Technology and OCBC Bank, its chief executive officer Patrick Grove said. Other shareholders making investments include Arboc Investments, Axiom Investments, Imperial One, Wearnes Walden and members of the
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    • 690 7 Si&m Agro-Industry Pineapple and US' S&W Fine Foods among names bandied abont Bloomberg SINGAPORE-LISTED Del Monte Pacific, the world's largest pineapple products canner, may buy stakes in other canning companies after talks to purchase a key brand from Japan's Kikkoman
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    • COMPANYBriefs
      • 121 7 MEIBAN Plastic posted a 113 per cent jump in group net profit to $2.1 million for the six months to June 30, helped by a 153 per cent rise in turnover to $25.4 million. The improved performance was due mainly to more orders for
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      • 63 7 KEPPELTATLEE Bank said yesterday it has introduced online application and instant approval for its Keppelcard Visa credit card. Customers can fill in their particulars at www.keppelcard.com and will know soon after submitting their credit card application whether they are successful. The bank's move followed
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      • 108 7 Reuters WITTIS Investment (Holdings), a maker of tuners and modulators for audio products, plans to offer 24 million new shares at between $0.28 and $0.30 each in its initial public offering. The Hongkong-based company will place out 21 million shares and three
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    • 371 7  -  Tay Hong Seng ASA Ceramic Ltd yesterday reported a profit of $5.5 million for the six months ended June 30, an 11 per cent increase over the last interim, but was confident that the full year results would be better. Group turnover rose
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    • 2859 6 FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Ml NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company will be held at Level 2 Alexandra Point, 438 Alexandra Road, Singapore *****8 on Wednesday, 4 October 2000 at
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 482 8 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c ..14,990.000 IPCO 20c 13,794.000 Eastern Asia 8,770.000 ITechGrp4c 7,211,000 *TanChooglnt50c 5,211.000 PacCentMLCW*****5 5,013,000 CytechHKoc 4,358,000 MediaRing 10c 4,244,000 JfTHIdgs 10c 4,012,000 OCBC 3,490.000 Stocks DBSQrp 58,358,518 VentureMfg25c 43,579,410 SingTel 15c 42.648,790 Chart Semiconductor 26c 41,415.246 0C8C- 40,581,700 S1A 26.209.500 PacificCentury 25,850,400 OUB 18,441,695 JITHIdgs 10c 17,524.260
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    • 176 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By Ven Sreenivasan THE warrant of Guthrie GTS edged up half a cent or 10 per cent to 9.5 cents yesterday. Some 273,000 units changed hands, a rather good figure given the limp market. Meanwhile, the underlying stock closed unchanged at 29.5 cents
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    • 491 8  -  l I comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market stumbled for the sixth straight day, dragged down by growing worries over rising oil prices and margin calls. The Straits Times Index sank below the key 2,100 support level for the first time
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    • 237 8  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan SINGAPORE Airlines has been heading lower in recent sessions, weighed down by jitters over fuel prices. It fell another 40 cents to $16.20 yesterday its lowest level since end-May as some market players took the view the company's bottomline
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    • 146 8 ♦AVIMO Group will hold its EGM on Sept 22 at 10 am, 34 BukitPasohßoad. ♦L&M Group Investments will hold its EGM on Sept 29 at 3 pm, 20 Upper Circular Road, #02-21 The Riverwalk. ♦AIROCEAN Group announced it has entered into an agreement on Sept 8 with Richard
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    • 61 8 Grow Your CPF With eiBht Important All applications fo r units in eight must be made on the application forms accompanying the prospectus Investors must read *he prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may 'ail as well as rise 01 H'.SBA.'*- Larry Woe's currencies column
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  • TELECOMS payout
    • 472 9  -  It will nse fixed lines as well as cheaper wireless method By( Catherine Ong STARHUB Pte Ltd said yesterday that in the wake of the government's $1.08 billion compensation to the company, it plans to invest a total of $2.6 billion, its original
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    • 424 9  -  By Teh Hooi Ling TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies in the Asia-Pacific region face growing business risks, says Standard Poor's corporate ratings associate director Andrew Lee. Their revenues are more uncertain and their network and advertising costs are huge, which has made their yields more
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    • 580 9  -  Consultant Deloitte to be at media briefing tomorrow to explain earnings-based model By] Kalpana Rashiwala RESPONDING to queries from the media, analysts and members of the public, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) yesterday revealed details of how its consultant arrived at the
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 270 10  -  •ii exclusive By\ Siow Li Sen RECENTLY-merged entity BNP Paribas is looking at developing its retail banking business in the Asia Pacific and Singapore could be one option. Since it was awarded a Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence in October
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    • 213 10 It aims to improve delivery of building products, services HOUSING and Development Board subsidiary Cesma International yesterday launched a business-to-busi-ness portal for the building and construction industry. The portal HDBuilders. com aims to improve delivery of building and construction products and services.
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    • 331 10  -  ■RS7=Ton the economy outlook liy. Anna Teo BUOYANT consumer sentiment is expected to have kept up the pace of retail sales growth in July. But merchandise exports could be moderating, says DBS Bank's economic research unit. In a report outlining its forecasts for
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    • 508 10  -  S'pore chosen because of entrepot status and central location in the Asia-Pacific ty! Siow Li Sen FRENCH bank BNP Paribas has opened an international trade centre in Singapore to help boost its share of the burgeoning tril-lion-dollar trade finance business. International trade is slated
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    • 465 11  -  Complacency may be setting the stage for trouble later on in Asia, he says By Vikram Khanna FORMER US treasury secretary and current chairman of Citigroup's executive committee Robert Rubin suggested yesterday that there may be excesses in US financial markets that
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    • 411 11  -  Gronp aims to be more responsive to customer needs Tay Hong Seng FRENCH giant Thomson-CSF has chosen Singapore as its Asia-Pacific headquarters as it reorganises its international activities to get closer to customers. Based on 1999 figures, the Singapore office, inaugurated yesterday, will be
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    • 312 11  -  MAILI.U.B David Ho THE Singapore Exchange's system of allowing short selling enables you to sell anything you do not own. You can't do that with real estate. (Think about it, how about your calling Edmund Tie and asking him to sell two
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    • 76 11  -  Henry Sim Swee Bee I REFER to the article "Shrinking your IDD bills" (BT, Sept 8). The article is really helpful. I am overwhelmed with all these promotions by so many new IDD providers (some I have never heard of)- With BT's
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  • TECHNOLOGY startups
    • 1975 12  -  Seven startups are hoping S'pore can be the springboard for their expansion into Asia, reports JEMMinsi mw JENNIFER LIEN [SILICON VALLEY J WANTED: investors, customers and strategic partners. This is what seven Californian startups are hoping to find in Singapore at the Tech Venture Asia conference,
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 776 14  -  mnn bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent FOLLOWING US presidential candidate A 1 Gore's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, the conventional wisdom in Washington has been that America's middle class wasn't going to subscribe to the vice-president's
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    • 87 14 This is the Balkans and everything is possible.' Banko Krivokapic a leader of an independence minded party in Montenegro, on fears that President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia might move against Montenegro before or after Yugoslav federation elections scheduled for Sept 24. This new South Africa is a
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    • 615 14 EDITORIAL THE 800,000-barrel-a--day increase in output announced on Sunday by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is unlikely to lead to a significant softening of oil prices in the short term. Even so, and although most Asian economies will be hurt by
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    • 857 14  -  Leading investment banker preaches power of first person plnraL Is he serious? By] Lucy Kellaway FT WE HAVE seen the light. We have been converted. We are never, ever going to use the first person singular again. We have grasped the power of
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    • 889 14 U* dreams on ADMIRABLE but impractical. This must be the verdict on the declaration from the historic three-day millennium summit at the United Nations which concluded during the weekend. The summit will certainly be remembered for its symbolism, for bringing together a formidable array of presidents,
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 519 15  -  Market dogged by an overhang of RM2B.9b worth of properties at the end of June From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S property market showed unexpected signs of weakening in the first half of this year after a short-lived rebound in
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    • 291 15 THE Malaysian stock market barometer may hit 1,000 points an upside of 37 per cent by the end of this year, according to a junior minister yesterday. "We are thinking that investors would look at the fundamentals," said Deputy Finance
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    • MALAYSIABriefs
      • 58 15 [KUALA LUMPUR] Phone companies rose after the Malaysian Business Times reported that Time Engineering has narrowed Its choice for a foreign partner to Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA. Telekom Malaysia Bhd rose 10 sen, or one per cent, to RM9.75. Time gained
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      • 60 15 [KUALA LUMPUR] Some property stocks fell on concern earnings aren't recovering as quickly as expected after the government said property sales In the first six months of the year fell 5.2 per cent to RM17.9 billion (SsB.2 billion) from the July-December 1999 period. Mulpha
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      • 48 15 [KUALA LUMPUR] Technology Resources Industries Bhd rose 6 sen, or 1.5 per cent, to RM4.08 after the country's biggest cellular phone company said it expects revenue to rise 12 per cent to RM2 billion (Ss9l4 million) In the year ending Dec 31.
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      • 49 15 Compiled from Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Techno Asia Holdings Bhd rose 11.5 sen, or 18 per cent, to 76.5 sen, after it denied media reports it's planning to reduce Its outstanding shares by four times as part of its plans to reshuffle its businesses.
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    • 425 15  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S property overhang showed little improvement except for some sales in the residential sector from January to June this year, after a strong showing in the second half of last year. Some 45,500 residential units valued at RM6.31
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    • 292 16  -  Prom] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur CONSTRUCTION and infrastructure group Gamuda Bhd is tying up with US-based Telcordia Technologies Inc in a research and development collaboration, the first of its kind for Telcordia outside of the United States. The tie-up
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    • 421 16 KUALA LUMPUR Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom shortlisted: paper TIME Engineering Bhd has narrowed its search for a strategic partner for its unit Time dot Com Bhd to two candidates, Deutsche Telekom AG and France Telecom SA, the Malaysian Business Times reported, quoting sources
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    • 752 16  -  IVi :i 113 journal The change in the Malays affects the other races too karim raslan INDEPENDENCE Day or Merdeka generally provides columnists such as myself with a convenient point at which to reassess the past year (or years) as well as an opportunity
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 449 17  -  Analysts cite two failed ventures, talk of Cable Wireless share sale FYorni Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RICHARD Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks, which swallowed Cable Wireless HKT last month, has become a deadweight on the Hongkong bourse, taking the benchmark index down below
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    • 246 17 BEIJING AFP CHINA has formally agreed to merge its two stock markets into a single exchange in Shanghai to boost its fledgling securities industry, the Asian Wall Street Journal yesterday quoted exchange officials saying. A spokeswoman for the China Securities Regulatory Commission declined to
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    • NOTEBook
      • 71 17 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's plans for a national stock market Index to facilitate the launch of derivatives and index-linked securities fluids could be hammered out by the end of this year, the China Securities said yesterday. The index may incorporate 200 to 300 listed companies
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      • 85 17 AFX-Asia id/vinui\ui\.j i ne »anK oi l nauana nas rejected Citibank's buy-out proposal for Siam City Bank pic because the acquisition would only include the Thai bank's good assets, the Nation newspaper reported, quoting financial sources. Citibank's proposal would break the Thai government
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      • 93 17 Reuters (BANGKOK] Consumer confidence in the Thai economy declined for the fourth successive month in August to its lowest since October 1999, hit by high oil prices and doubts over economic recovery, a survey said yesterday. The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce said its
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    • 846 17  -  I-I comment ASEAN VIEW Dr M wants to concentrate more on the party thnn the government yang razali kassim THE news is significant. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has just announced that he would, from now on. be less conspicuous in his role as prime
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    • 340 18 TAIPEI Opening up of Kinmen, Matsn, Penghu islands on the cards: reports AP TAIWAN may ease a five-de-cade-old ban on direct air and shipping links with mainland China by year-end, reflecting a popular desire to further ease tensions between the
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    • 241 18 BEIJING Reuters INTERNET firm Sohu.com Inc has struck an agreement to acquire rival Chinaßen in a deal that creates the largest Web portal in China, sources familiar with the deal said yesterday. The deal, which the source said would be
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    • 499 18 HONGKONG Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP investing USsl.B3bin USs3b offer Reuters CHINA petrochemical giant Sinopec will start the roadshow for its multi-billion dollar global stock offering in Hongkong around Sept 25, with a Hongkong and New York listing in mid-October, a source close
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    • 338 18 NEWDELHI AFP HOTMAIL founder Sabeer Bhatia unveiled plans on Monday to team up with a group of Silicon Valley infotech professionals to launch a voicemail service company in India. India-born Mr Bhatia said the new company would offer international roaming voice-mail
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    • 470 21 TAIPEI Developers Everfortune, Tuntex, some banks are known to have KMT links AFP A SPREADING crackdown in Taiwan on business malpractices could see many conglomerates go under, just months after one of the world's richest political parties lost power, analysts said.
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    • 345 21 NEW DELHI AFP MICROSOFT founder Bill Gates, who arrives here this week on a whistle-stop tour, said in an interview published yesterday that his firm would continue to invest in India and tap the country's huge software talent. Mr Gates was quoted
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  • e-NEWS
    • 796 19  -  Operating business models are like the X-men of the comic series -the diversity of their shapes, capabilities and sizes is stunning By' Willie Cheng Willie Cheng (willie.cheng(wac.com) is the country managing partner of Andersen Consulting in Singapore. and chairman of ec. Think LAST week we
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    • 535 20 NEW YORK They say print world offers true business models attractive to online firms Reuters A YEAR ago, traditional media companies were rushing to create an online presence, but in recent months several online publications have decided to go the opposite route and get some
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    • 536 20 MELBOURNE TV, wireless applications seen a major source of Internet delivery Bloomberg THE number of Asians connected to the Internet, particularly in China, is poised to surge past the US in the next few years, executives told the World Economic Forum's
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    • eBriefs
      • 75 20 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Monex Inc, a Japanese online investing services provider, said it will start after-hours stock trading from January so that individual investors can trade stocks in the evening. Monex said it will start online trading from 5 pm to 11:59 pm on all stocks
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      • 76 20 AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Daiwa Securities Group Inc will set up a market that will allow individual investors to trade stocks late into the evening by next January, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun reported yesterday. Individuals will be able to use the Internet between 5 pm
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      • 73 20 AFP [TOKYO] Japanese electronic parts maker TDK Corp said yesterday it planned to take a controlling stake in US software firm Sound Source Interactive Inc for over US$5 million (SsB.7 million). TDK said it would make an initial investment of US$l.43 million for
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      • 72 20 Bloomberg [ROCHESTER, New York] US consumers aged 8 to 24 are currently spending a projected US$l64 billion (*****.1 billion) a year on the Internet, according to a survey by Harrislnteractive Inc. The survey, which interviewed about 3,900 respondents in July, also said electronic
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      • 100 20 Bloomberg [LITTLETON, Colorado] Time Warner Telecom Inc, a provider of telephone and Internet service to businesses, said it received US$l.2 billion (Ss2.l billion) in financing from three banks for its purchase of rival GST Telecommunications Inc. Time Warner Telecom received a US$525 million secured
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    • 370 20 m REDWOOD CITY, California Bloomberg Oracle Corp chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison received options to buy 20 million shares in the world's largest maker of database software as part of a new plan that gives him a single
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    • 269 20 NEW YORK ItH offer current singles, Net-only tracks on retail sites Reuters RECORD label Warner Music Group, making a belated first step into the hotly contested online digital music space, said on Monday it would join with streaming media company Real Networks Inc
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    • 106 20 U NEW YORK Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Groups, Merrill Lynch and five other securities firms agreed to create a website to provide institutional investors with research and other financial information in a single place. Other firms in the venture include Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co, Salomon Smith
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    • 313 22 TOKYO AFP MITSUBISHI Electric Corp said yesterday it was recalling nearly 100,000 television sets in Japan, after confessing that it concealed complaints about defective sets that could burst into flames. In shades of a huge recall scandal damaging group partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp,
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    • 425 22  - dives to 14-year low on fears UK may join euro zone FYom\ Neil Behrmann in London STERLING plummeted to a 14-year low of U551.3972 yesterday on fears that it would join the hard-pressed euro. The pound's weakness was blamed on a statement by Prime Minister Tony Blair, hinting that the
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    • 460 22 M NEW YORK AP RUMOURS that Chevron, the second largest US oil company, is courting Phillips Petroleum at a reported price tag of US$lB.4 billion (Ss32 billion) sent the stocks of both companies higher on Monday. But analysts say the deal may
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    • 227 22 GENEVA Reuters THE US on Monday asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to give it 15 months to change its laws on music copyright to bring them in line with a recent ruling by a panel of the trade body. But
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    • 560 22 BATTLE OF THE BOURSES Move comes after report of German bourse plans for £lb connterbid for LSE Reuters and The Independent THE London Stock Exchange yesterday scrapped its much criticised plan to merge with the Frankfurt bourse in order to fight
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    • 262 22 AMSTERDAM Reuters DUTCH financial services group ING Groep NV said yesterday it would sell 100 million shares in peer ABN Amro for about 2.7 billion euros (Ss4 billion) to fund recent acquisitions. The company said it would continue to
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    • 738 25 OIL CRISIS Dealers worried by low fuel stockpiles, dismiss cartel's efforts to cool price rally Reuters [LONDON] World oil prices bubbled just below 10-year highs yesterday as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' weekend deal to hike output failed to dent a
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    • 746 25 Impact of current energy costs seen as mere speedbump; many on Wall Street sees it as a hidden blessing Reuters ARE the 1970s back? Oil costs have nearly trebled in 18 months. Enraged Europeans are blockading fuel pumps. Markets worldwide are riveted to every
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    • 435 25  -  Oil price surge also seen creating false sense of security From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE surge in oil prices is a doubled-edged sword for oilproducing Indonesia, with the windfall boosting government coffers, but at the same time contributing to a
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    • 547 26 WASHINGTON Unregulated derivatives could also cause global instability, it says Bloomberg THE widening current account deficit could shake investors' faith in the US economy, triggering a withdrawal of investment that could endanger global markets, the International Monetary Fund warned on Monday.
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    • 39 26 AP [SYDNEY] Tourists looking at huge Olympic rings attached to the Sydney Harbour Bridgefrom the Sydney Opera House in the city centre yesterday. The rings will light up during the opening ceremony on Friday. AP
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    • 410 26 CHICAGO Carmaker is US subsidiary Firestone's biggest customer, accounts for 5% of global sales FT Reuters Bloomberg FORD Motor on Monday angrily rejected suggestions by Bridgestone, the Japanese tyremaker, that the design of the US carmaker's Explorer sports utility vehicle might have been
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    • 528 26 NEW YORK LATWP MAJOR US options exchanges settled federal price-fixing charges on Monday in the second price-collu-sion case brought against US financial markets since the mid-*****. Regulators allege that four options exchanges maintained an illegal agreement for years under which they granted one
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    • 435 26  -  Bnt observers say Senate majority will approve the PNTR legislation soon From Leon Hadar in Washington LEGISLATION to grant China permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) continues to face obstacles in the Senate, as critics of the Clinton Administration's policy of engaging China
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 292 27  -  SGX Derivatives Tradingßeport ST Index/MSCI S'pore Index Chan Yet San SINGAPORE stocks yesterday fell for the sixth day in a row on weakness in the technology sector. The Straits Times Index gave up 1.58 per cent to 2,086.06 points. Within the index, five counters
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    • 257 27 COMMODITY REPORTS Reuters [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's move to allow duty-free crude palm oil (CPO) exports and Indonesia's cut in export taxes will boost Asian palm oil demand at the expense of soft oils in the near future, a senior industry player said yesterday. But it
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    • 202 27 Reuters GOLD trading volume in London last month plunged to the lowest level in at least four years because of stagnant prices and a lack of demand, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said. The amount of gold traded daily in London fell
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    • 328 27 Reuters London THE euro fell to record lows against the US dollar and yen yesterday, drawing little comfort from verbal support by European officials without follow-up action. Analysts said there was no end in sight to the euro's woes, saying it risked further losses. "We are getting close
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    • 1857 27 SICOM FUTURES sepl'2 RUBBER (futures dosing *s at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT (S cents/ty) Close Voium* Open Month Low Sttt (tonnes) Interest Oct 00 n3.25 Nov 00 H5.00 Dec 00 J16.25 Jan/Mar 001 H9.50 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US cwts/kq) Volume Open Month High low Sttt (tomes) Interest Oct 00 63.75 2550
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2884 28 HONGKONG Reuters QHangSeng -37&20 HONGKONG stocks suffered a sell-off yesterday, closing down more than 2 per cent, tracking a decline in major global equity markets on concern about the high valuation of tech stocks and a rise in oil prices to
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    • 1988 28 TOKYO AFP PHikfca22s -9067 TOKYO share prices slipped 0.6 per cent yesterday as cutting-edge companies bore the brunt of a Wall Street dip, brokers said. "Investors sold high-technology issues because they were depressed by falls in the US market," said Nikko Securities senior
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      949 28 Reuters Q Shenzhen B Index -0.69 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed down yesterday as Shanghai's index ran into technical resistance and Shenzhen's was pulled down by investors flocking to debutante Shandong Airlines Co. The Shanghai B Share Index fell 1.08 per cent to 69.54 points on slightly lower
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 435 30 AFP Q Composite Index +180 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.4 per cent higher yesterday on selective buying by local institutional funds and small investors after recent losses. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 2.80 points at 729.95. The Second Board
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    • 8404 30 INDUSTRIALS Coflimntf prMvcts 2000 Last Vol Day Nat Cap U» Company Sale 'OOO High Law P/C $mll 420 310 Allnomoto 350 unch I 350 350 19.1 141.9 158 56 Angkasa 56 unch 52 57 56 82.6 670 290 Apollo Food Hlg 450 unch 4 450 450 9 8 180 0
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  • SGX clob & regional stocks
    • 3068 31 BOHDS WARRANTS sep, 2 W1 »™»s PnmJ Uatoy J?, L,rt *1 Bey Lasrtaata h| SUM Can bar One HUm *N» Le« C «er- Le» layer S* We* IMKIIIM Met (HI left 5 M iSTH-S'SpnifuJiT i'2 unch 78 9 5 J 0 11 12 410 300 190 70 10 I AIITtch
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    • 260 31 AFP n Composite Index -4^9 PHILIPPINE share prices fell 0.3 per cent yesterday, weighed down by rising local fuel prices and interest rates amid a prolonged hostage crisis in the south. The Composite Index slipped 4.59 points to 1,496.89. Turnover fell to 756 million pesos. —AFP Hm *h Wit
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      728 31 AFP Q SET Index -JL3I THAI shares fell 0.8 per cent yesterday amid a lack of fresh leads or foreign interest. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index declined 2.31 points to 288.03. "There was some shortterm and speculative buying in oversold shares but it was not significant enough
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    • 262 31 AFP QHZSE-40 -308 NEW Zealand stocks closed down 0.2 per cent yesterday on light turnover with a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 3.18 points to 2,087.92. Turnover came to NZ$69.B million. Telecom, however, rose 10 cents to NZs6.ss— AFP lapB MS *h (000)
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    • 547 31 AFP P| AH Ordinaries +2L3 AUSTRALIA'S benchmark stock index rose 0.7 per cent yesterday, led by News Corp and BHP. "It was all fairly quiet, in fact it was a particularly quiet day but those heavyweights shifted the index," Hartley Poynton's Tom Syme said. The All Ordinaries Index rose
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      673 31 AFP Q Composite Index -1L49 JAKARTA share prices closed down 2.5 per cent yesterday in line with declines in most regional markets and with sentiment dampened by a weak rupiah and planned fuel price increases. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index finished 11.49 points lower at 451.05. Turnover amounted
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 894 33 i iib ousiness i imes, weanesaay, aepiemDer 1 j, <:uuu Central 6 Wheel of Fortune. 5.30 Wanita Dan Pemuda 1.30 Gateway Asia. Qnn a 3o What Went Wrong?. Desa. 2.00 Headline Graphics. B AM Kids eentral. Sesa- 7.00 Singajpore At Work. 6.00 Dunia Haiwan. 2.02 to 6.00 am Real-time 10
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    • 283 33 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS a pained expression (3,2,5) 1 Disruption to scholars returning 6 Person of some authority at before time (8) Holmes's breakfast-table (8) 5 A youngster needs help in get- 7 Fancy having to do with coverting settled (4,2) ing up a bulb (8) 9 The account presented by
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  • EXEC lifestyle
    • 499 34  -  Indian tea consumption is falling and cheap imports are hitting prices. But the country's planters are planning to fight back, says MAVEENTHtnCRAL NAVEEN THUKRAL Reuters INDIAN planters said yesterday they want to switch consumers' perception of tea as a traditional beverage to that of a
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    • 323 34 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] Oscar-win-ning actor Kevin Spacey has donated US$lOO,OOO (*****,000) to an economic relief fund for union actors staging a 19-week-old strike against television and radio advertisers. The contribution from the star of such films as American Beauty, LA Confidential and The Usual
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  • MONEY matters
    • 982 35  -  l I comment CURRENCIES Exploding oil prices and weaker Nasdaq make US$ a buy on dips larry wee AN external environment of collapsing currencies, exploding oil prices and sliding US tech stocks has pushed regional currencies back lower and while a correction is possible and even
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    • 917 35  -  W Brian Verlaan THE Singapore government securities (SGS) market has been subdued in recent weeks after the successful auction of the new benchmark 10-year note on June 29 the largest sale of government debt to date. Since then, investor appetite has had to
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    • 921 35 iffi JIT HOLDINGS LIMITED I (Incorporated, in the Republic of Singapore) H NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of JIT Holdings Limited will be held at Harley Davidson Room 2 B Changi South Lane, Singapore *****3 on Thursday. 28 September 2000
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  • THE CEO speaks
    • 1786 36  - Lycos Asia the horizontal portal With a powerful global search engine as a key pillar, CEO Mary Ong is on track to set up a network all over Asia and make it the top on-line destination Ry Anna Teo SHE was a manager at 25 and went on to hold
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    • 200 36 UOB Jp RIVILEGE BANKING CEO SPEAKS. J UOB PRIVILEGE BANKING LISTENS. *'4 '.V i I J -1 -V did At UOB Privilege Banking, we translate every in deposits or unit trust investments. Admittedly, Privilege Banking m LEGE ftaHp' BAN K I N G ~stf* CEO's vision into results. Which is
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 205 37 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose five points to 1701, the Baltic Panamax Index rose five points to 1642, the Baltic Handy Index rose one point to 1163 and the Baltic Capes ize Index rose nine points to 2309. TOMB-CHARTER: ♦Pasquale Delia Gatta 1996 ***** dwtdely Surabaya
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    • 276 37 MX *000 ss CWT Distribution 0.70 unci) 2 Chum Hup 030 -0.01 352 Coko Investment—0.18 0,01 157 Freight LMu 0.T7 unch 88 G8 Holdings .0.62 unch 8 Hal Sun Hup a 39 uncfi 653 IMCHoMngs-HK —5.60 unch 0 Jay a Holdings 0.16 unch 72 KacpeiCorp 182 -O04 225
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    • 534 37  -  S Korea's main port upgrading facilities to alleviate chronic congestion From P T Bangsberg in Manila SOUTH Korea's main Port of Pusan is expected to get a deeper north harbour and access channel after approval by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs
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    • 241 37 Reuters [BOGOTA] Colombia's largest sea port was blockaded by striking truck drivers demanding higher freight rates for a sixth day on Monday, forcing private coffee exporters to begin rescheduling shipments, officials said. The Pacific Coast port of Buenaventura handles about 30,000
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    • 121 37 AFP [BANGKOK] About 2,000 protesters massed on Monday at Bangkok's port to rally against the appointment of two new executives to Thailand's Port Authority. The protesters, most of whom were dockworkers, were encamped outside the offices of the Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) and vowed to
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    • 302 37 Phase one of port caters to snper post Panama* vessels Bernama [JOHOR BARUJ Leading dredging contractor Ballast Nedam officially handed over its completed dredging works at the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Gelang Patah near Johor Baru on Monday. The work
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    • 230 37 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Three of Japan's biggest shipbuilders plan to formalise a business alliance this week following talks between the companies that could eventually lead to a three-way merger of their shipbuilding units. An agreement covering procurement and some shipbuilding activities is to be signed
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 916 38  -  STRAIT TALE By Seafarer MAJOR differences in the way flag states are implementing the 1995 revision to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW 95) emerged at the International Shipping Federation's Manning and Training Conference, held
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    • PORTShots
      • 91 38 ITALIAN ro-ro company Grimaldi has bought 33.95 per cent of fellow operator Atlantic Container Line (ACL), headquartered in Sweden. The Naples-based firm paid just over US$5O million (5586.6 million), mostly to US Holt Group for its 24 per cent stake in ACL. ACL operates five
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      • 63 38 DANISH shipping giant AP Moller has bought a 70 per cent stake in Buenos Aires' Terminal Four from Argentina's Gabriel family, who retain the minority holding. The shipping conglomerate had been interested in the nearby Montevideo concession in Uruguay, but decided instead to use the Argentine
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      • 63 38 THE Salvage Association (SA) has appointed John Edmonds principal surveyor at its office in Piraeus, Greece, from Sept 1. Mr Edmonds succeeds Keith Townley, although Mr Townley's official retirement date is at the end of the month. SA chief executive Roy Padgett said: "Piraeus is
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      • 1895 49 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Boofcing/Bolonct Rstts Stilp VoyNo Etb/Btr Period From To From ACI FALCON 005* 13/20:00 n/1500 IV16W IMH)0 a n/t/oo 12/0*59 12/0*00 n IV TOO 12/0*59 12/0*00 1 12/0700 12/I1W 12/1400 4 12/1200 12/1451 12/1700 ACX LILAC (jlU 14/1500 TVftOO n/*W Mn-OO
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      • 194 49 Sep 13 Hong Kong: The day following Mid-Autumn Festival. Sep 15 Japan: Respect for the Aged. Sap 23 Japan: Autumnal Equinox Day. Oct 1 China: National Day. Oct 2 Hong Kong: The day following National Day. Oct 3 Germany: The Day of Germany Unity. Korea: National Foundation Day.
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      • 762 49 THIS report, complied by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges In US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 583 50  -  First class cabin scrapped in favour of new combined class featuring new seat design Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Airline allies Northwest Airlines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced yesterday the scrapping of first class seating, and unveiled a new and improved business class. The
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      • 572 50 International rates to rise by 5%-10% next month Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co, Asia's biggest carrier, said it plans to increase international air freight charges next month by as much as to 10 per cent to combat a
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      • 171 50 AP [NEW YORK] A TWA plane bound for Hawaii aborted its takeoff at John F Kennedy Airport on Monday after the crew felt a rush of air coming through an open cockpit window. Six of the plane's 10 tyres were damaged as it
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      • 347 50 INDIA'S AVIATION SECTOR Reuters [MADRAS, India] Dubai's Emirates airline is keenly following efforts to privatise state-run Air India and considers it a strategic fit which would offer it good growth opportunities, the airline's chairman said. "We are interested but we will have to
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      • 374 50 German carrier will watch privatisation of Air India closely Reuters [NEW DELHI] German carrier Lufthansa is keen to increase weekly flights between India and Germany in an air bilateral accord to be signed next week, its chairman and chief operating officer said on
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  • MARTECH 2000
    • 811 51  -  The Singapore Maritime Academy takes its courses out of the classroom and onto the sea and the Internet. BY KAYLENE TAN Kaylene Tan is a freelance writer. For more information about the SMA, visit www.sp.edu.sg Sir Stamford Raffles got it right two centuries ago. Singapore is
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    • Future shipping trends
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      • 705 53 The concept of fully integrated electric propulsion has grown in popularity, particularly for military vessels and cruise ships. There is a worldwide shortage of high-ly-qualified and experienced seagoing engineers and this situation is set to continue. The increasing range and complexity of machinery found on
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