The Business Times, 21 September 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000
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    71 1 sn 2,0015* (-7.83) BT-SRI 788J9 (-9.43) ST INDEX FVTUKES 2,***** (-12.00) SHESCXFUTTJBES MOJO (-2.90) STOCK HABKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSE OOMP 710.04 +&51 NIKKEI 226 16,45&3t—+334.12 HANG SENG 15,665.62 -11.58 SET INDEX ***** -4.93 JAKARTA COMP -5.78 MANILA COMP _1,434.77 +1054 TAIPEI WPI 6,880.09—+145.19 SEOUL COMP 606.08 +34.91
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    77 1 POBEX BATES LSS S$ USS 1*46 £(US$/S$ per 1.410 1460 EUROfUSS/SS/E) 0.849 1.481 DM 1304 1.320 YEN 106.7 6110 RM 3.800 1177 HKS 7.798 4.468 BAHT 4153 24.36 RUP1AH 8,745 5,010 *Sf to 100 units PMME SATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA MM BANGKOK J.60 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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    Lock icon URA waivers for creative property projects
    1009 1  -  Plan to encourage outstanding city architecture being fleshed out By] Marissa Chew [SINGAPORE] Not just clean and green, but also the first city that comes to mind when people talk about memorable cities. That's what the Urban Redevelopment Authority seeks to achieve by waiving
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    Lock icon More taxpayers join the ranks of the million-dollar club
    502 1  -  Hy\ Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The ranks of million-dollar earners rose by 5 per cent to 785 in 1998, latest figures from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore show. Though that brought the number of millionaires to a record high, the rise
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    Lock icon S'pore firms see demand boost from US China trade vote
    609 1  -  Electronic contract manufacturers expect US demand for components to rise By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Electronics manufacturers here cheered the latest news that trade barriers between the United States and China would soon be lifted, saying that the development would raise
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      101 1 wsmE BT Comment Technology: Gotta have a broadband frame of mind. Next Page Sydney 2000 Jk j 1 Pieter van den Hoogenband (top) yesterday toppled Russian great Alexander Popov as 100 metres freestyle champion, ending his 8-year reign. Pg 24 Top Stories SGX in talks to put bond trading online
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      272 1 City with a view URA's plans for a more memorable cityscape I t tfin !f" Design Guidelines Waiver Committee to review designs which deviate from existing guidelines. A, |9 IUK&V Headed by Milton Tan. head of Department of Architecture at National University of Singapore. rf9 J 1 Total of 23
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      25 1 US-China ties on firmer footing, Pg 13 HK set to gain from China's WTO entry, Pg 13 Editorial: When China joins the WTO, Pg 14
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      Lock icon Large power users to get more competitive rates from next year
      810 2  -  New suppliers to end electricity retail market monopoly, says B6 Yeo By\ Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Large industrial and commercial consumers of electricity, which have been hit by the rising cost of power brought about by high oil prices, will
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Making a point at the expense of trees
        99 2 MR Hewlett and his founder partner, Mr Packard, must be turning in their graves. If they're not, they should be unless HP can convince us they've been using recycled paper. An invitation to their launch of a new WAP phone came in
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        Lock icon Heart in the wrong place
        122 2 DID you wonder why different companies have suddenly been tying red hearts on trees around town? Did you think companies like Singapore Power, Daikin and City Cab are saving on their promotion spending by having a similar theme? Well, they are actually sponsors of a
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        Lock icon Windfall for the chaperones
        108 2 WE'VE just been informed by the Singapore Tourism Board that a lucky young miss by the name of Mohanraju Sindhu, who lives in Jakarta, has won the holiday of a lifetime. The grand winner of the STB's Millenia Mania Visit Singapore campaign will be treated with
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      Lock icon Crude oil prices fire up to a new 10-year peak
      580 2 Rising fuel costs could dampen global economy: IMF Reuters AP [LONDON] Oil prices vaulted to another 10-year high yesterday prompting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to warn that rising fuel costs are casting a shadow over the global economic outlook.
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      Lock icon Gotta have a broadband frame of mind
      604 2  -  Mill TECHNOLOGY All the incentives won't count for much if service providers see broadband as just faster Internet access kenneth james Scott McNealy, the irrepressible head of computer giant Sun Microsystems, wanted to make a point about personal computers, and he did it
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  • TRIAL bob hasan
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      Lock icon 'Bob' Hasan charged in court with corruption
      781 3  -  Suharto crony accused of embezzling millions in state fonds through forest project scam From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA yesterday put on trial Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, reputedly one of the New Order's most visible symbols of corruption and abuse of power. A close
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      Lock icon Being Bob Hasan
      684 3 From truck driver to timber king, golf buddy to jailbird? Reuters TIMBER tycoon Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, who went on trial yesterday charged with corruption, will probably never play golf again with his famous partner, former President Suharto. Hasan faces the possibility of life behind bars and the
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      139 3 >i 4 BgSMk r m Mr WF 1 mam i" You can't reach new heights in todays eßusiness world unless you get all your ducks in a row. You need integrated i networks that let your employees, partners, suppliers and customers work together. And all their different operating I *WJ
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon DBS Land CEO details merits of Pidemco merger
      298 4  -  He explains plans to enhance shareholder valne of merged entity By] Kalpana Rashiwala DBS Land president and group chief executive officer Ed Ng has sent letters to shareholders explaining the merits of the proposed merger with Pidemco Land. The seven-page letter in
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      Lock icon SGX, eSpeed in talks over online bond trading
      646 4  -  BTrmTTE™ Nasdaq-listed financial services network plans to list SGX products on its electronic platform By' Toh Han Shih GLOBAL electronic financial network eSpeed says the Singapore Exchange is discussing a partnership to put its bond trading online. "We aim to list SGX
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      Lock icon Reality check for developers as home buyers play it cool
      963 4  -  HOCKIBHIMtWI kalpana rashiwala THE latest reporting season has confirmed the lacklustre state of the residential property market in the first six months a confirmation that is at variance with the brave front that many developers had been putting Gti since
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      Lock icon M1 sees 20-30% of sales from non-voice business by 2002
      415 7 Opportunities to generate the revenne abound, says GEO Montefiore Bloomberg MOBILEONE Asia Pte (Ml), Singapore's No. 2 cellular phone operator, said it expects revenue from non-voice traffic such as data and the Internet on its mobile phone network to rise
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      Lock icon Contractor Sim Lian headed for mainboard IPO
      415 7  -  It earned $l&sm last year, plans to nse fonds to expand By' Vivien Ng CONSTRUCTION firm Sim Lian Group will use the proceeds from its initial public offer this month for expansion, two new factories and upgrading machinery. The mainboard applicant yesterday reported
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      Lock icon Controls in treasury deals adequate: Prima
      210 7 PRIMA said its board of directors is satisfied that the group's system of internal controls in relation to corporate treasury activities is adequate and that the corporate finance team which manages the group's liquid assets is professionally staffed. The company had recently announced that
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      Lock icon E-business solutions firm gets nod to list on SGX
      237 7  -  By I Serena Ng E-BUSINESS solutions and services provider Novasprint has received in-principle approval to list on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. The company, set up in 1995, develops and implements solutions to help transform traditional business processes of
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      Lock icon Canary Wharf makes £54m profit on record rental income
      554 8 Performance for year ended Jane 30 a reversal of previous corresponding period's £43m loss Bloomberg [LONDON] Canary Wharf Finance pic, which is linked to Singapore's Pidemco Land and Hotel Properties, has posted a profit amid record rental incomes and its most
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      Lock icon Five banks in 2nd round bidding for FPB Bank
      483 8 Bank of East Asia, HKCB Bank and 3 others vying for it Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Bank of East Asia Ltd said yesterday that it and four other banks reached the second round of bidding to buy First Pacific Co's controlling stake in
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      Lock icon Asia Pac Breweries unit to sell Corban Wines stake
      140 8 AFX-Asia ASIA Pacific Breweries said its 76.63 per cent owned unit DB Group Ltd has agreed to sell its 100 per cent stake in Corban Wines Ltd to Montana Wines for a total consideration of NZ$l54 million (*****.4 million). If approved,
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Leong Hin trims H1 loos
        97 8 LEONG Hin Holdings reported a smaller loss of $444,000 for the half year ended June 30, compared to a loss of $1.4 million a year earlier. This was despite an 88 per cent jump in turnover to $11.9 million. The main culprit was depreciation and
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        Lock icon Superbowi reports 10% profit fall
        60 8 SUPERBOWL Holdings reported a 10 per cent drop in profits to $2.3 million for the half year ended 30 June. Turnover fell 6 per cent to $18.3 million. Earnings per share fell to 1.43 cents from 1.59 cents. Net tangible asset backing per share rose
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        Lock icon BRC interim earnings down one-third
        89 8 BRC Asia's profits for the half year ended 31 June dropped 33 per cent to $7.3 million, as turnover fell 15 per cent to $50 million. The company said it was affected mainly by the contraction in construction activities in Singapore and Hongkong. Earnings per
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        Lock icon Brierley to hold results briefing in NZ
        130 8 BRIERLEY Investments, an international investment company with a primary listing on the Singapore Exchange, announced that it will hold a shareholders' briefing in New Zealand on Oct 30, following the release of its 2000 annual results in Singapore recently. A complete presentation on
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      Lock icon Rabobank set to expand in Singapore and Asia
      721 9  -  It is keen to boost investment banking, treasury operations in the Republic Fromi Chuang Peck Ming, Siow Li Sen in Singapore DUTCH bank Rabobank, which will put its restricted banking licence in Singapore to use next month, is set to expand in
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      Lock icon A Philsdaq remains a pipe dream in Manila
      485 9 Philippine technology startups like Fastech find it easier to raise money offshore Bloomberg [MANILA] Fastech Synergy Ltd, a Philippine semiconductor maker, marks its first year on the Singapore stock exchange in eight days, vindicated in its decision to spurn its home market
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market jitters remain as STI ends at just above 2,000-level
      554 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan SINGAPORE stocks fell for the 12th straight day on thin volume as investors stuck to the sidelines amid uncertainty on the global and regional macro-eco-nomic fronts. Traders contacted by BT seemed more preoccupied with the Sydney Olympics
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      Lock icon KepT&T wrt offers cheap exposure to stock's upside
      198 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By 1 Ven Sreenivasan THE Keppel Telecom Transportation warrant fell six cents or 6.2 per cent to 91 cents yesterday on volume of 41,000, as the underlying stock fell nine cents or 4.8 per cent to $1.80 on volume of
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      Lock icon ST Engg poised for near-term rally
      257 6  -  HOT STOCK By\ Ven Sreenivasan ST Engineering stock was actively traded yesterday amid renewed optimism the company will clinch at least part of a lucrative contract to supply infantry vehicles to the US Army. The counter rose as high as $2.48 before ending the
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      143 6 W w** l, imk wgy <T' ppg^f ♦AEROCEAN Group announced that AOE Freight, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, has on Sept 15 subscribed for one share of HKS1.00 for cash at par in AOE Consolidations Ltd* a company incorporated in Hongkong. The main activity of ACL is
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      Lock icon Euro, A$ fall to new lows, N Asian units fare better
      345 6  -  CURRENCIES larry wee THE hapless euro and Australian dollar were again forced to new lows versus the Japanese yen, the greenback and the Singapore dollar in Asian trading yesterday. But a sharp 3.7 per cent recovery in the tech-heavy
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      514 6 Stock* Volume STEngg 10c 7,020,000 SingTel 15c 5,919,000 Cytech HK5c 5,334,000 DBS Land 4.972,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 4,823,000 TTInt15c 4,004,000 NOL 4,159,000 Eastern Asia 3,060,000 JSHUS5C500 3,363,500 DBS Grp 3,105,000 Stock* Chart Semiconductor 26c 62,795,200 DBS Grp 61,799.611 SPH 46,699,295 SIA 29,910,000 VeritureMfg25e 21,501,594 PacificCentury 10,655,500 U06 10,307,754 STEngg 10c
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      46 6 Grow Your CPF With eiBht Important All applications for units in eight must be made on the application forms accompanying the piospectus Investors must lead the prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as well as rise Ql >1 '.SbAI
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      244 8 2.9°10, (6 months'tenure, Ss3ooo min. deposit) The good news is, finatiQ's fixed deposit rate is higher than most out there. The great news is, it can get even higher. Thanks to our unique pooling system, the more funds we collect during the open period*, the higher the interest rate will
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      14 8 PROPERTIES The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 402 568. Buy H. Sell It. Find h.
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Audit valuable for firms regardless of size
      788 10  -  Don M Ho, FCCA President of the S'pore branch of ACCA via Internet I REFER to your editorial "Auditing private companies" (BT, Sept 14). Audits do not normally raise passions, but the issue of abolishing the statutory audit requirement for unlisted private companies
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      Lock icon SMEs see little use for audited report
      189 10  -  Norbert Wardana I REFER to the letter "No value in audit of unlisted firms" (Mailbag, Sept 20) by Pamela Pang. As someone who has been in the auditing industry since last November, I agree with what she said. Most private limited SMEs see
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      Lock icon Low CPF returns behind property buying
      555 10  -  Lai Hock Meng I REFER to the commentary "The CPF: Too much in propSept 19). One way or the other, all the residential properties in Singapore have to be financed and owned by someone. In the case of Singapore, the government and the availability
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      Lock icon CPF investment in property gives us economic edge
      278 10  -  Tan How Keng I REFER to the commentary "The CPF: too much in property?"(BT, Sept 19). I was indeed surprised and annoyed that Lee Han Shih considered putting CPF savings into property, mainly residential, a risk. The tremendous economic and social benefits
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      17 10 [www.ocra.com I I TODAY©***-* tt. I lianhe laohao S'pore's investments in Shanghai an update IPTjtaiSnSi ±M^M *a&&
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      157 10 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btietterfssph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in mind
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Arcasia to invest $450m in new projects over next 2 years
      553 12  -  JTC: 'Key decisions' needed before merger of Arcasia, JTCi can go ahead By* Teh Hooi Ling ARCASIA Land, the Jurong Town Corporation subsidiary that develops high-tech industrial land, will invest a total of $450 million in new land and
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      Lock icon The colour of big money in this charity duck race: red
      341 12 ON your marks, get set, GO! Adopt a rubber ducky and you could waddle away with more than $1 million. BT's sister paper The Straits Times is the main sponsor for this year's annual charity duck race, in which
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      Lock icon Hong Fok starts sales of Thomson project at $945 psf
      222 12 TEN@SUFFOLK, a freehold apartment off Thomson Road, will be released today at an average of $945 per square foot. The project, developed by Hong Fok Corp, comprises 35 two-bedroom apartments and two penthouses. The two penthouse units and a ground-floor
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      Lock icon S'pore to enhance infrastructure for franchise industry
      265 12 SINGAPORE will strengthen its infrastructure for the franchise industry in order to develop the country into a major franchise hub, Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lim Swee Say said yesterday. Speaking at the official opening of Global Franchising 2000 a conference
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      Lock icon PUB in joint research on water management
      291 12  -  Suez Lyonn&ise's water unit will help find oat how to up efficiency Vivien Ng THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) and French company Lyonnaise des Eaux will jointly carry out research to cut costs and find more efficient ways to manage water supply. The
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      Lock icon S'poreans' spending on health care up 5%
      351 12  -  By. Andrea Tan SINGAPOREANS are spending more at the doctors, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. National health expenditure rose $200 million or 4.9 per cent to $4.3 billion last year, the ministry said in its annual report yesterday.
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      Lock icon SIA to offer e-mail service onboard its planes
      231 12 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) is gunning for yet another in-flight service first. This time it is offering e-mail at 35,000 feet even when flying over water. SIA will conduct e-mail trials aboard two of its aircraft this year, making it the first airline
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      Lock icon Exports in coming months look strong
      250 12  -  By. Audrey Tan SINGAPORE'S exports look set to hold firm in the months ahead, going by the data for re-exports and retained imports. The latest figures from the Trade Development Board (TDB) show non-oil re-exports rose 34.4 per cent year-on-year in August, continuing the
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  • US-CHINA deal
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      Lock icon Senate vote puts ties on firmer footing
      727 13  -  Passage of the trade bill removes an irritant and paves the way for China and the US to forge new relations in commerce and politics From] Leon Hadar in Washington THE Senate vote on Tuesday to grant Beijing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR)
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      Lock icon Companies get set for boost in business
      734 13 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US companies are ready to take advantage of new opportunities for sales and growth in Asia, following the Senate vote to give China permanent access to US markets. The vote moves China a step closer to joining the World Trade Organization
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      Lock icon HK set to capitalise on China's entry to WTO
      566 13  -  Frotni Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG is all set to reap huge benefits from China's entry into the World Trade Organization, but the territory also faces new challenges in some industries which could put many out of a job, analysts
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      Lock icon Beijing hails new beginning for ties with America
      546 13 BEIJING Reuters CHINA has cheered the US Senate's approval of a trade deal as a potential new beginning for often tortured relations between the world's last major communist government and the foremost capitalist superpower. "We hope the passage of the Bill can
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      110 13 Editorial: When China joins the WTO, Pg 14 DANIEL ROTH "Premier" Exclusive Daniel Roth module. jMThe dragging retrograde hour hand advances 210* to return instantly to its point of departure before continuing its course. SINGAPORE THE HOUR CLASS Takashimaya SC. MALAYSIA THE HOUR CLASS Lot 10 Shopping Centre, Tel 734
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Why America should help stop euro's fall
      769 14  -  mS!Sn±!i3j^M OPINION paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT and the author, most recently, of 'The Return of Depression Economics' NYT ALAS, poor euro! Europe's new currency, proudly introduced less than two years ago at a value of US$l.l7,
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      Lock icon IN OTHER WORDS
      121 14 4 We had monsters that made the rest of the world's dinosaurs look like geckos.' Mike Archer director at the Australian Museum, on new discoveries that show that Australia was once a land of giants. 'What's behind it all is the mentality in this country that it
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      Lock icon When China joins the WTO
      590 14 EDITORIAL THE resounding vote by the US Senate to normalise trade relations with China adds the finishing touch to what must be one of the Clinton administration's greatest foreign policy achievements: bringing China into the global trading system The repercussions of this will be profound,
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      Lock icon Will 'new' IMF be pulled in too many directions?
      1121 14  -  With so many competing plans for its reform, the fond could end np being an 'omnibus' vehicle By. Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent A DESIGN for the "new IMF" will be launched in Prague during the annual meetings
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      Lock icon Capitalism on a collision course with culture
      823 14  -  COMMENTARY By Robert Samuelson Washington Post Writers Group THE World Bank recenUy issued a massive report on global poverty. The aim seems to have been to demonstrate that big reductions are possible, but it gives just the opposite impression: Large parts of the
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon KL to cut oil subsidies by not 'too large' an amount
      504 15 KUALA LUMPUR Consumers won't be over-hardened by a cost shift of 10%: NEAC official AFX-Asia THE Malaysian government plans to reduce oil subsidies but not by "too large" an amount as consumers may not be able to absorb the
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      Lock icon Less urgency seen in M'sian broking firm mergers
      654 15 KUALA LUMPUR Pace slackening with SCTs relaxation of deadline to merge AFX Asia MORE Malaysian stockbroking companies are moving towards mergers, under the government's plan to consolidate the industry, although the pace is still slow, analysts say. On Wednesday, Berjaya Capital Bhd
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    • MARKET moves
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        Lock icon Blue chips rise on tax cut talk
        94 15 BLUE chips rose on speculation the government may reduce some stock taxes. Investors also see that recent declines have made stocks cheap relative to their potential earnings. Tenaga Nasional, the largest publicly-traded company in Malaysia, rose 70 sen, or 6.3 per cent, to
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        Lock icon MAS slips over foreign partner fears
        57 15 Compiled from Bloomberg MALAYSIAN Airline System fell four sen, or 1.3 per cent, to RM3.04 over concern that it was taking too long to find a foreign partner. The Malaysia Business Times reported that the government had cancelled talks to sell a stake in
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      410 15 KUALA LUMPUR He leaves at 9.30 am, his release lasts about an hour AP Reuters JAILED politician Anwar Ibrahim was released briefly from prison to visit his sick mother yesterday, the second anniversary of his arrest in what he claims was
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      356 15 KUALA LUMPUR THE market war among mobile phone operators has seen increased advertising expenditure by the companies in the first seven months, The Sun reported yesterday. Industry sources estimate that their advertising spending increased by about 70 per cent to around RM7S million (5534.4 million)
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      892 16 It is among dozens of big Indon companies that have never been so cheap in relation to profits, following a 37 per cent slump in the key stock index Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Astra International, Indonesia's largest car maker in which Cycle Carriage
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      346 16 Reuters AFP [JAKARTA] The governor of Jakarta plans to call in the notorious Kopassus special forces to help restore security in the capital after a spate of unsolved bombings, the Indonesian Observer reported yesterday. "I will directly ask the TNI
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      164 16 MANILA Court awards Swiss deposits, deeming them ill-gotten wealth Bloomberg THE Philippine anti-corruption court, the Sandiganbayan, awarded US$627 million (551.09 billion) held in Swiss bank accounts by late president Ferdinand Marcos to the government after deciding the money was illegally acquired, the Philippine Daily Inquirer
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      414 16 BANGKOK Bloomberg BANGKOK Bank Pel and other creditors of Thai Petrochemical Industry Pel (TPI) will take a 75 per cent stake in the nation's biggest chemical maker in exchange for writing off US$756 million (Ssl.3 billion) of unpaid interest, officials said. TPI,
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      462 17 SINGAPORE S Korea was a major beneficiary, with a 6% rally led by Samsung Reuters NASDAQ'S nearly 4 per cent jump overnight propelled struggling Asian stock markets yesterday, boosting particularly hard hit Korean stocks. The Korean market put in a rousing performance, capped
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      148 17 TAIPEI Bloomberg PRESIDENT Chen Shui-bian and Vice-President Annette Lu will forfeit half their salaries come January in pay cuts meant to symbolise the government's commitment to rein in a budget deficit. The cuts ordered by the Cabinet need only perfunctory approval from the
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      313 17 HONGKONG Bloomberg HENDERSON Land Development, Hongkong's No 3 real estate developer, yesterday said its net income rose 7.4 per cent for the year to June, in line with expectations and reflecting healthy sales at two major residential projects. Earnings rose to HK$5.B billion (Ssl.3 billion),
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      199 17 NEW DELHI AFP INDIAN telecommunications services remained disrupted for an eighth straight day yesterday following an unprecedented technical breakdown, officials here said. Telephone users in the larger Indian cities of New Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta were the worst hit following unspecified snags
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      702 17 Analysts take the reported cue from regulators to mean the Nasdaq-style board may be up by year-end Reuters [SHANGHAI] THE Shenzhen stock exchange has urged domestic brokerages to complete technical preparations for trading on a planned second board by Nov 1, and analysts say
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      608 17 SHANGHAI Chong of Aberdeen shuns China B shares; he goes for HK stocks instead Bloomberg CHONG Yoon Chou, who runs the world's best-per-forming China fund, may have come up with the smartest way to invest in the mainland: Avoid Chinese stocks. Mr Chong,
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      507 18  -  fiIEBEBa Popularity of devices like digital TV recorders, andio jukeboxes will boost hard disk drive industry Prom. Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THE beleaguered hard disk drive industry, long dependent on demand from a relatively mature PC industry, is poised for a lift from an
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      242 18 MADRID It will control 30.5% of Spanish wireless phone company Bloomberg VODAFONE SA, the biggest wireless phone company, said it will pay about US$2.l billion (553.7 billion) in stock to buy another 8.5 per cent of Airtel, Spain's second-largest wireless company to
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      400 18 WASHINGTON Move puts pressure on companies to make concessions Bloomberg AMERICA Online Inc's US$l42 billion (Ss24l billion) buyout of Time Warner Inc may be opposed as soon as this week by US Federal Trade Commission lawyers, putting additional pressure on the companies to negotiate
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      254 18 BRUSSELS Reuters EMI Group pic and Time Warner Inc have made substantial concessions, including proposing to sell some record labels, in a last-ditch bid to win European Commission approval for their joint venture, an industry source said on Tuesday. The source
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      215 18 AFP [WASHINGTON] Music and book publishers cannot stop the proliferation of their works over the Internet, and should embrace the new technology or risk losing billions of dollars, a market research group said on Tuesday. Forrester Research said music publishers could lose
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        56 18 Reuters [MINNEAPOLIS] Telecoms equipment maker ADC Telecommunications yesterday said it would buy Broadband Access Systems, a maker of Internet access software and hardware, in a U552.25 billion (553.9 billion) stock deal. ADC said the acquisition would help it take advantage of an expected surge in
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        58 18 Reuters [LAS VEGAS] Compaq Computer Corp and electronic marketplace technology provider Commerce One said 011 Tuesday they would team up in a two-year sales and marketing agreement. Under the agreement, Commerce One has made Compaq its preferred hardware provider for computer servers. And Compaq will
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        44 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] NEC Corp said it will form an alliance with Intel Corp to jointly develop and manufacture components for computer servers in order to cut costs and ensure quality. The alliance will cover the development of motherboards. Bloomberg
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      489 19  -  Deal valued at np to USsl.3b, could put pressure on already bruised stock From( Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong CABLE Wireless pic, which sold its majority stake in the former Cable Wireless HKT to Pacific Century CyberWorks, was reported to be placing out
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      412 19 NEW YORK CEO hints at possible sale of the online financial news firm Reuters THESTREET.COM Inc warned on Tuesday that thirdquarter revenues would come in lower than expected, and chief executive officer Tom Clarke said he would consider selling the online financial news
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      262 19 TAIPEI Bloomberg VIA Technologies Inc, the world's No. 2 chipset designer after Intel Corp, introduced its first products enabling the use of high-speed memory chips in computers based on processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Via advocates double data rate, or DDR, memory
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      544 20 WASHINGTON New peaks were reached with China, Japan, West Europe as oil prices swell AP Bloomberg THE US trade deficit soared to a record US$3l.9 billion (Ssss billion) in July as oil prices climbed to a 10-year high. The
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      559 20 PEOPLE Reuters LATWP [WASHINGTON] US anti-trust chief Joel Klein, who announced on Tuesday he will leave office at month's end, once quipped Microsoft founder Bill Gates makes more in a minute than he makes in a year. That one-lin-er is vintage Klein
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      474 20 TOKYO Reuters Bloomberg JAPAN yesterday decided on a fresh spending package of a relatively modest 3.5 trillion to 4 trillion yen (5557.1 billion to 5565.3 billion) to ensure the economy maintains its course towards recovery. The government will flesh out spending
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      461 20 Tokyo Recall will cost Honda Motor 2.6 billion yen Reuters HONDA Motor has become the third major Japanese company in the last month to issue an extensive product recall, warning owners of some 557,000 vehicles that they might have potential oil leaks
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      400 20 TOKYO Reuters DAIWA Bank executives were ordered yesterday by a court to pay US$775 million (551.35 billion) in compensation for losses incurred through rogue bond deals by a trader in New York in an affair which rocked Japan's financial world
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      28 20 [CHICAGO] Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W Bush kisses talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday after appearing on her program. AP
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      428 20 FRANKFURT But Nasdaq head won't confirm the 2 will make joint LSE bid: report Reuters NASDAQ will continue its talks with Deutsche Boerse following the collapse of the planned iX merger between the Frankfurt and London Stock Exchanges, the head of the high-tech US stock
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        84 20 Bloomberg [PARIS] Total Fina Elf, the world's fourth largest publicly traded oil company, said it cut its stake in drugmaker Sanofi-Synthelabo to 33 per cent, raising one billion euros (5)1.48 billion) in the process. The French oil company sold 18.2 million Sanofi shares on the market
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        89 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Chase Manhattan Corp and J P Morgan Co agreed to a US$l.25 billion (5|2.2 billion) fee if either walks away from Chase's US$33 billion agreement to buy J P Morgan. The fee, disclosed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission,
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        57 20 FT [LONDON] Countrywide Credit, the largest US independent mortgage lender, is considering selling the company, which could fetch as much as US$5.9 billion (5110.3 billion). "We are looking at alternatives," said Angelo Mozilo, the 61-year old founder and chairman of the company, though he declined
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        64 20 Reuters [CHICAGO] Chicago Board of Trade directors on Tuesday approved a plan to cut one-third of its board as part of the ongoing restructuring of the member organisation into a for-profit entity. The plan would eliminate nine voting members from the board, including seven
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        80 20 Reuters [LONDON] Chase Manhattan Corp, the No 3 US bank holding company, yesterday said its takeover of US commercial and investment bank JP Morgan would iikely lead to fewer than 3,000j0b losses worldwide. "This is not about massive lay-offs. This is about
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        105 20 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's Thames Water yesterday said it was in advanced talks with a buyer willing to pay around £4.1 billion (Sslo billion), a move that could kick-start an anticipated consolidation in the sector. Britain's biggest water company did not disclose the bidder's identity but
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      616 22 Evan Greenberg's abrupt announcement shocks Wall Street sets off father-son rift rumours NYT [NEW YORK] After building the most powerful insurance company in America over three decades, Maurice R Greenberg apparently wanted nothing more than to leave one of his sons in charge when
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      314 22 NEW YORK Bloomberg Reuters COCA-COLA Co won the latest round in the cola wars, persuading a federal judge to dismiss an antitrust suit brought by archrival PepsiCo Inc. "PepsiCo's brew falls flat," US District Judge Loretta Preska said in a decision on Tuesday dismissing
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      550 22 NEW YORK Gains from these more than offset slowdown in underwriting NYT ANYBODY who has wondered why the world's biggest banks have been scrambling for a foothold on Wall Street need look no further than the Goldman Sachs Group's latest earnings report. Goldman, one of
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      520 22 Liberal Democrats join call for Parliament to investigate matter The Daily Telegraph [LONDON] Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, faced a call for his resignation on Tuesday over claims that he lied about a £1 million (552.44 million) donation to the Labour
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      396 22 SEOUL Bloomberg THE South Korean minister who brokered a landmark June summit with North Korea resigned over a bank scandal, further straining a government already struggling to reassure sceptical investors it is serious about reforming debt-laden companies. Saying he does not want to
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      777 24 While the US triumphs in the women's relay, US Open ace Safin falls in first round tennis and Bulgarian weightlifter is stripped of medal after drug find SWIMMERS Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn led a triumphant Dutch charge at the Olympics yesterday, while
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      492 24 AP Reuters MALAYSIA staged a remarkable sec-ond-half comeback to snatch a 2-2 draw with Britain in their men's Olympic hockey Pool A match yesterday, ending any chance Britain had of making the semi-finals. The defending champion Netherlands easily beat dark horse Canada
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      597 24 Defending champion Perec is a reclusive while Freeman has a public persona including kindling the Olympic cauldron AP ONE has prepared for their 400-metre showdown by hiding from teammates, coaches and reporters. The other performed the most public act imaginable,
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      461 24 The 19-year-old Indonesian was convincingly beaten by China's Ji Xinpeng in quarterfinals Reuters AP TOP seed Taufik Hidayat crashed out of the Olympic badminton men's singles at the quarterfinal stage yesterday when he was convincingly beaten by China's Ji Xinpeng 15-12 15-5.
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      204 24 Medal tally as of Wed, Sept 20 601P Sttffi BRONZE TWH United States 10 t 6 23 Australia 7 8 7 22 France 6 7 3 16 China 6 4 7 17 Italy 4 2 6 12 Russia 3 7 6 16 Germany 3 4 4 11 Japan
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      316 25  -  SGZ Derivatives Trading/fepor/ ST Index/MSCI S'pore Index Chan Yet San THE Straits Times Index declined again yesterday, by 7.83 points or 0.39 per cent to close at 2,006.59 points. Within the index, 24 counters advanced while 20 declined and 11 remained unchanged. The MSCI Singapore
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      240 25  -  MS& Taiwan Index Chan Yet San THE Taiwan stock market ended its three-day decline yesterday on the back of a strong rebound on the Nasdaq overnight. The MSCI Taiwan Index gained 7.45 points or 2.48 per cent to close at 307.48 points. Trading volume
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      207 25 Reuters (KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's rubber market was mosUy deserted yesterday after recent deals, but sellers believed prices could still go higher because of the tight supply, traders said. The Malaysian Rubber Board quoted October RSSI buyers at 255.0 sen a kg, up 1.5 sen
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      330 25 Reuters London THE euro dived to record lows against the yen and the Swiss franc yesterday as its already frail sentiment was shaken by a third monthly decline in Germany's key IFO survey. The softer-than-expected survey of Europe's leading economy was the latest negative blow for the euro,
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      2849 26 BON6KON6 AFP -ILSB P Hang Seng -ILSB HONGKONG share prices dropped 0.1 per cent yesterday as late selling reversed early gains, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 11.58 points to close at 15,665.62 on light turnover of HK$B.O6 billion. Dealers said
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      1058 26 FlStenrhftnß Index +&57 CHINA'S B shares reversed morning losses to close up slightly yesterday due to light technical buying in the afternoon sparked by news the US Senate had approved permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China. The Shanghai B share index ended up 0.83 per cent at 63.78
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      377 26 AFP QWF Index +145J9 TAIWAN share prices closed 2.2 per cent higher yesterday as investors went bargainhunting for financial and traditional industrial shares, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 145.19 points to 6,880.09 on turnover of NT5102.62 billion. Risers led decliners 416 to 146, with
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      2013 26 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 ****** SHARE prices in Tokyo rallied 2.1 per cent yesterday as investors snapped up high-tech issues following a Nasdaq rally, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index gained 334.12 points to close at 16,458.31. The Topix benchmark of
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      430 27 AFP Q Composite Index +&5 MALAYSIAN shares ended 1.1 per cent higher yesterday as local investors bought selected blue chips, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 8.51 points to finish at 750.04. The Second Board Index feU 0.15-point
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      753 28 AFP D SET fate -U3 THAI shares closed down 1.7 per cent yesterday because of continued selling of blue chip stocks by foreign investors, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index fell 4.93 points to 282.23 and the SET 50 was off 0.43point at 19.44. Decliners
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      266 28 AFP Q Composite Index +1034 PHILIPPINE share prices rose 0.7 per cent yesterday, with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index up 10.54 points to 1,434.77. Turnover fell to 451.64 million shares worth 707.55 million pesos from 887 million shares worth 731 million pesos on Tuesday.—AFP Sap 20 (000) MRCAItod
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      692 28 AFP Qftmporite Index -5.78 INDONESIAN share prices closed 1.4 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking led by cigarette-maker Gudang Garam and pulp and paper firm Indah Kiat, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 5.78 points at 419.35, off a high of 428.45, on volume of
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      268 28 AFP QNZSE-40 -L 22 NEW Zealand stocks slipped 0.1 per cent yesterday in light trade, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 1.22 points at 2,012.79 on turnover of NZ$73 million. Craig and Co broker Matt Willis said bargainhunters were taking advantage of previous falls. AFP s«»m «s
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      558 28 AFP Reuters BAP Ordinaries +18,3 AUSTRALIAN shares rose 0.6 per cent yesterday following two days of losses, with banking and telecommunications stocks leading the recovery, brokers said. The benchmark All Ordinaries index rose 18.3 points to 3,206.5 and the SP/ASX 200 index gained 18.0 points to 3,254.7. Volume stood
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      310 28 AFP Q Composite Index +34J)1 South Korean shares surged 6.1 per cent yesterday. The index rose 34.91 points to 606.08. Volume was 336 million shares worth 2.3 trillion won. —AFP Sa»20 A nam Sami 8100 500 Brain T*ch 750 30 Centra Ban* 640 unch ChwIComm ***** 3600 Dm Gu
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      787 35  -  The URA is gathering feedback on how this can be achieved for S'pore, reports mabissa chew MARISSA CHEW THE Urban Redevelopment Authority appears to have designated 2000 as the year for Singaporeans to shape their environment this time round, the planning authority wants ideas on how
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      397 35  -  DP Architects' proposed design embodies the landmark status By Marissa Chew DP Architects could well be the first firm to enjoy a freer hand in design when the Urban Redevelopment Authority puts in place its plan to encourage innovative architecture. The firm is
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      534 37  -  It wants to redress disparity between its revenues, investments in Asia By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Rolls-Royce International Ltd is eyeing a bigger slice of the estimated US$6O billion (*****.4 billion) world marine market over the next 20 years by upping its
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      230 37 Malaysian port operator to upgrade two wharves at Port inang Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Northport Corporation Berhad (NCB), the new investment holding company of two port operating companies, will be able to handle 3.6 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) of box traffic by 2002
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        789 40  -  MEWBUXLDS By] David Hughes THE real implications of the proposed accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers are beginning to dawn on its proponents and on the shipping industry. A study commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Transport suggests that the joint French/German/Belgian proposal and the
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        803 49 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        297 50 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Talks between loss-making flag carrier Malaysian Airline System (MAS) and Qantas on a possible investment by the Australian airline are "as good as abandoned", a report said yesterday. The Malaysian Business Times quoted a senior official of Khazanah Nasional
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