The Business Times, 12 October 2000

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  • 695 1  -  Singapore stocks slump 3.5% while plunge in Korean market tops 5% By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Asian bourses haemorrhaged yesterday following yet another Wall Street profit warning, which in turn sent the Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes tumbling again on Tuesday. In Singapore, the
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  • 719 1  -  exclusive By. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] Five Singapore companies have made it to Forbes Global's latest list of the 300 best small companies in the world, with one listed electronics manufacturer GES International among the top 20. The other four are:
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  • 648 1  -  By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Coming hot on the heels of stronger-than-ex-pected third-quarter GDP figures, the announcement yesterday of a 4-point hike in the employers' Central Provident Fund contribution rate came as no surprise. And other than hitting employers' pockets, any impact elsewhere particularly in
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    • 87 1 ntaPß KxscSuK* Property experts on why they think land sales for private homes and executive condos will come down next year. *99* S'pore economy Is the recovery patchy? Pg 9 BT Comment When will the US dollar be hit by Wall St*s woes? Motoring Over 30 C&C staff led by
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    • 92 1 Get a free copy or Forbes Giobal tomorrow with your ST Tomorrow's issue of The Business Times will come with a complimentary copy of Forbes I Global. It will be the first issue of the US publication to be printed in S'pore. Make sure you get your copy of both
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    • 208 1 Se&gate results, outlook for Creative, Pg 4 HK, Tokyo markets: Fuller reports, Pg 4 Master of S'pore tanker west 9 f. if p Forbes Global targets 50,000 Asia circulation by early 2001, Pg 11 k Vk HL JH w jflMll M v '-v» 1 "^^r?s£ls*?S£ IS? v.iA f TBbJSr £l£Hfc
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    • 713 2  -  No major economic, business initiatives unveiled in HK Chief Executive's speech Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong AFTER focusing on environmental issues last year, Hongkong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa yesterday turned the spotlight on education and public accountability in his fourth Policy Address which
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 150 2 A LITTLE bird told us that the WPP group which includes a host of advertising and PR firms, including the O&M group, Hill Knowlton and J Walter Thompson plans to house all its companies in Singapore under one roof. The venue that had been suggested is
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      • 159 2 WANT a great snapshot of the state of the financial markets? Here's one from Financial Insights, a US newsletter based in New Jersey: "We are presently in no-man's land. Are we in this process of building an important base from which a new major advance
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      • 58 2 WHEN the STI crashed to close below 1,900 points on Monday, BT Online asked its readers to respond to various statements the following day. The poll results are as follows: This is the beginning of the end: 43% It's not so bad because volumes
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    • 468 2  -  Members' arrears hit 35% of current year's outlay By D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE World Trade Organization (WTO) is in dire straits as its cash reserves are barely sufficient to keep the organisation ticking for the next 18 days no
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  • SINGAPORE economy
    • Is the recovery patchy?
      • 732 3  -  By I Siow Li Sen FOR Ms Foong, the sizzling growth numbers tell a very selective story. It ignores the army of struggling small-time businesses which went under during the Asian crisis because their markets were Indonesia or Thailand. According to the government's latest estimate,
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      • 517 3  -  RETAIL By I Serena Ng FAR from being a laggard, the retail sector has seen improvement in line with the robust economic growth in the first three quarters of this year. But buying sentiment is expected to turn cautious in the fourth quarter, economists
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      • 513 3  -  CONSTRUCTION By\ Marissa Chew GDP growth may look rosy this year, but the construction industry is not breaking out the champagne yet as players battle for a small pool of contracts. Construction activity usually lags the wider economy by one to two years
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  • TECH bust
    • 379 4  -  But its earnings guidance fails to stop shares falling 5.9% to $28.70, the lowest since Feb Reports byl David Boey IN a move apparently designed to shore up flagging confidence in its shares, Creative Technology Ltd, the world's biggest soundcard maker,
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    • 491 4 Bat component shortages could limit sales growth in Q2, it says CALIFORNIA-based disk drive giant Seagate Technology yesterday posted strong first-quarter earnings of US$75 million (*****.3 million), but warned component shortages could cap sales growth in the next quarter. Speaking via tele-conference yesterday morning
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    • 476 4  -  David Boey ELECTRONICS stocks took a pounding yesterday after Lucent Technologies Inc, the world's No 1 maker of phone equipment, told investors its third-quarter results would fall below market expectations. In a by-now familiar routine for market players who take their cues from
      Source: Bloomberg  -  476 words
    • 517 4 NYT Bloomberg [NEW JERSEY] Lucent Technologies warned investors on Tuesday that earnings would fall short of already lowered expectations as competitors gnaw away at the company's business in several areas, sending its shares down as much as 27 per cent to
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    • 511 4  -  Froml Anthony Rowley eri Tokyo TOKYO stock prices slumped by nearly 2 per cent yesterday to their lowest level in 19 months as investors reacted to Tuesday's sharp fall on the US Nasdaq market and to the collapse this week of Japan's Chiyoda Life company. The
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    • 412 4  -  From< Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong SPOOKED by overnight losses in the US market, Hongkong stocks plunged yesterday with technology and telecoms stocks leading the way. The Hang Seng Index inched nearer to the key 15,000-level when it retreated another
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 551 6  -  Healthcare group's HK-listed associate pays USslo2m for indirect 56.4% stake By] Lee Han Shih LISTED Parkway group yesterday confirmed news reports that it had bought a controlling stake in the luxurious Amanresorts chain, at a price to earnings ratio that is one-third
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    • 788 6  -  lock siew paul thompson LOCAL analysts and investors should thank their lucky stars they don't live in the UK. Why? For the simple reason company announcements in the world's third largest stock market by market capitalisation are usually timed before the start of share
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    • 115 6 IPC Corp will buy Centrix Distributed Computing Protocol Solutions and the rights to the software for US$5 million (558.75 million) from New York-based Centrix Solutions Inc. IPC said yesterday the acquisition is meant to complement its Thin Computing core business. Centrix DCP enhances access to
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    • 371 7  -  HK-listed group to open restaurants, entertainment complexes in Asian cities By Conrad Raj PLANET Hollywood, one of the most famous celebrity-themed restaurants in the world in which Singapore hotelier Ong Beng Seng holds a stake, is planning to sell its
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 97 7 INTERNATIONAL rating agency Fitch has assigned an "AA-" rating to Goldman Sachs' $130 million debt issue. The Singapore dollar issue comprises two tranches. The first totals $60 million and matures in 2005. The second totals $70 million and matures in 2010. Goldman said strengths
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      • 99 7 PROPERTY firm Raffles Holdings has appointed Wong Toon King a director. Mr Wong is the founder and co-chairman of Silkroute Holdings, a group of Internet and e-commerce service providers in Asia. He is also chief executive of e-commerce provider ECnet. Before setting up Silkroute, Mr
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      • 59 7 FRASER Neave said yesterday Brierley Investments has bought another 120,000 of its shares in the open market at $5.97 apiece through Inscribe Investments.. This raised Brierley's stake in the food and beverage firm to 7.56 per cent from 7.52 per cent. Brierley has said it plans
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    • 239 7 WATCH any movie you fancy in the comfort of your home. That's what Cathay Organisation Holdings (COH) will be offering Singaporeans soon. The company said it had been granted a licence by the Singapore Broadcasting Authority to provide video-on-demand (VOD). The five-year
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    • 339 7  -  Ryi Cheah Ui-Hoon LISTED ABR Holdings, which runs the Europa chain of pubs, Swensens' Restaurants and the Raffles Town Club, has invested $1 million in Cine Art Pictures as it ventures into the movie making industry. The move is in keeping with
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 198 8  -  WARRANT WATCH By 1 R Sivanithy IN times of extreme bearishness, warrant premiums tend to contract as investors bail out of what is basically a bullish instrument. Such is the haste to exit the instrument that often we see a fall in the
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    • 524 8 Stocks Volume SimLian 10c 23,652,000 NatElec 10c 13,271.000 NOL 8,678,000 PacificCenturylOc 8,004,000 Chart SemiCooductor 26c 7,838,000 DBS Land 7,136,000 SMRT10C 6,185,000 ST Engg 10c 5,840,000 KianAnn20c 5,756,000 ST Assembly 25c 5.704.000 Stocks Chart SemiCooductor 26c 62^382,480 NatElec 10c 42,464,500 DBSGrp 42,232,038 SPH 35,991,377 Datacraft 10c 25,683,747 VentureMfg25c 23,391,418 DBS Land
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    • 529 8  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy MORGAN Stanley's Barton Biggs recently wrote in a strategy piece that "Nasdaq is driving the world's economies". Perhaps he should have written "Nasdaq is driving the world's stock markets", given the way the local and regional markets collapsed
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    • 708 8  -  CURRENCIES larry wee THE US dollar remains relatively unscathed despite continued sharp falls on Wall Street, and the likelihood of yet more to come. So how much more will Wall Street have to fall before the US dollar starts
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    • 138 8 ♦LEE Metal Group will acquire 5.5 million ordinary shares of $1.00 each, fully paid, of Lee Welded Mesh Singapore for $3 million. This represents 50 per cent of the total issued capital of Lee Welded Mesh. The acquisition will make Lee Welded Mesh a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lee
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    • 501 8 BILO Brierley Investments Limited BRIERLEY INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Registered in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of Brierley Investments Limited ("the Company") will be held in the Paget Suite, Elbow Beach Hotel, 60 South Shore Road, Paget, Bermuda on
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    • 52 8 Grow Your CPF With eiBht Important All applications for units in eight must be made on the application forms accompanying the prospectus Investors must read the prospectus The value of the units and the income from them may fall as I well as rise Ol M»SBATJK TiuMiKiNtssTiMrcs Shipping Times sdays
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 623 9  -  They can take leaf from Danes and Swedes in funding varsity research Reports from Eugene Low in Copenhagen PRIVATE sector companies in Singapore should follow the example of their Danish and Swedish counterparts and play a more direct role in funding university
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    • 257 9 FOR a fledgling biotechnology start-up like Exiqon, locating in Medicon Valley one of Europe's leading life science hubs clearly has its advantages. The company is among more than 80 biotech firms that have set up shop in Medicon Valley, which incorporates Copenhagen in Denmark
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    • 343 9  -  fit/' Teh Hooi Ling DAVNET Singapore, a facilities-based telecoms licensee, has wired up Suntec City, which means it now can offer broadband access to 442 customers who are tenants in the building. It has also established its second hub in Shaw House in Scotts Road,
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    • 166 9 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) have set up a centre to help smalland medium-sized enterprises. The centre, set up with a $2.3 million grant from the Enterprise Development Fund, will be administered by PSB. Called
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    • 530 9  -  From I Catherine Ong in New York SINGAPORE was elected yesterday to a two-year term in the United Nations Security Council, winning all but four of the votes cast. The Republic received 168 votes from 172 member countries which voted for five new non-permanent
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    • 612 11  -  URA price index long overdue for sharp correction, he says By Kalpana Rashiwala IN the bleakest report so far on the Singapore property market, Colliers Jardine's new research head yesterday said private home prices may have dropped as much as 5 per cent
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    • 616 11  -  Singapore is now its biggest market outside UK By. Audrey Tan FORBES Global is expecting its circulation in Asia to hit 50,000 by early next year, and it has begun printing in Singapore to accelerate distribution to its Asian readers. The
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    • 343 11  -  By Teh Hooi Ling CHALLENGING work and opportunities for promotion are more important to New Economy employees than base pay, according to a joint study by human resource consultant Towers Perrin and the Economist Intelligence Unit. "The key is to provide
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    • 247 11 AP LAWYERS yesterday gathered evidence in a Singapore court for two British lawsuits against former bank auditors accused of failing to warn their client about Nick Leeson, the high-flying young trader who brought down Barings Bank with more than US$l billion (551.75
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    • 539 11  -  Fixed-income, regional currency businesses to stay By] Ling Su Ann ABN Amro Bank, one of the four qualified full banks in Singapore, is the latest to move its Group of Seven currency and fixed-income trading operations out of the Republic. The
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  • MAIL bag
    • 355 10  -  'lndividual(s) are free to decide if they want to engage the services of housing agents.' Tan Heng Huay Head, Public Affairs Housing Development Board Singapore WE refer to the recent letters to Mailbag published in The Business Times regarding the commission charged by
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    • 182 10  -  Lee Hock Soon EVERYONE seems to be running scared with earnings warnings from companies in the US. Relentless selling of stocks here is not only damaging the market but the economy as well. I am not convinced that all the selling here is from people
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    • 199 10  -  Denis Distant I REFER to the letter, "Simplistic to say directors not worth their pay" from Philip Loong Tien Choon (Mailbag. Oct 9), and am amused by this comment of his: "In addition, independent directors ensure good corporate governance without fear or favour. It is for
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    • 155 10  -  Peter Wang I REFER to the reply from the Central Provident Fund Board, "Net CPF fund flow deficit not unhealthy" (Mailbag, Sept 28). I applaud the government for allowing more money from our own account be used to invest in unit trusts. However,
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 806 12  -  Ci;i=i bottom line OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent AS a new cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence flares in the Middle East members of the foreign policy establishment in Washington, pursuing the unipolar mission of the World's Only Remaining
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    • 50 12 The Clinton-Gore administration has been excellent on the soapbox, excellent at talking about global warming—but in practice, the United States has been almost the most counterproductive nation, a leader of the forces of delay.' -John PamuanUndo executive director of Greenpeace USA, on tougher regulations on energy use.
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    • 610 12 EDITORIAL THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) is apparently stepping up the pace in its attempts to clean up Indonesia's long-suffering banking system and debt-drowned corporations. At a roadshow in Singapore on Monday, Ibra vice-chairman Arwin Rasyid claimed that the agency was on a
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    • 874 12  -  That is the pressing question to consider, since it appears that good times can breed their own undoing By. Robert J Samuelson THE most uncovered business story today may be corporate mega-merg-ers and, particularly, cross-border mergers. It's not that they've gone unnoticed. Quite
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    • 759 12  -  COMMENTARY By\ Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT NYT THERE once was a land where people lived only two years. In the first year, they worked; in the second year, they lived off their personal savings. There came a time
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 563 13 KUALA LUMPUR Courts' unpromising debut yesterday portends tough times for strapped firms Bloomberg Reuters INITIAL share sales planned by United Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM) and Time Engineering Bhd, two of Malaysia's biggest companies, may be at risk after the slumping stock market took
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    • 405 13 KUALA LUMPUR It sees its subscriber base hitting 1.4 m by early 2001, overtaking TRl's Um Reuters MAXIS Communications Bhd says it expects to be the leading Malaysian mobile phone operator by early next year, following strong gains in subscriber numbers over the
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    • 361 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MEMBERS of Malaysia's largest private-sector trade union picketed yesterday for the first time in 13 years to protest the government's slow handling of labour complaints. Some 500 workers and supporters picketed for an hour outside the Human Resources Ministry
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    • 232 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama BRITISH Airways yesterday announced the suspension of its services between Kuala Lumpur and London with effect from the end of March 2001, as part of global adjustments to the airline's network. "The London HeathrowKuala Lumpur route has unfortunately
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 518 14 MANILA Governor also accuses Estrada's sons, aides; move to impeach president today AFP A PHILIPPINE provincial governor, who accused President Joseph Estrada of taking bribes from gambling bosses, yesterday implicated the leader's two sons, some of his aides and ruling party senators in the deepening scandal.
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    • 219 14 AP [JAKARTA] Prosecutors are investigating new corruption allegations involving ex-president Suharto's youngest son as he tries to avoid a prison sentence for an earlier graft conviction. Attorney-general spokesman Yushar Yahya yesterday said they had confiscated three helicopters leased from the Indonesia's Forestry Ministry to
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    • 296 14 BANGKOK He says Bank of Thailand will move to stop baht slide as it hits two-year low AFP THAILAND'S Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai yesterday blamed the fall of the baht to a two-year low on the decline of the Philippine peso over a
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    • 862 15  -  China has made efforts to ease friction as it wants to stop fall in Japan investment, aid Fromi Anthony Rowley in Tokyo CHINESE Prime Minister Zhu Rongji will arrive in Japan today to begin a five-day official visit which is designed
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    • 265 15 TOKYO Bloomberg CHINA'S Hainan International Trust Investment Corp failed to make payment on 14 billion yen (***** million) of bonds mainly owed to Japanese investors, a day ahead of Zhu Rongji's first visit to Japan as China's premier. The Hainan provincial government's state-run
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    • 707 19 WASHINGTON B&rshefeky to meet Premier Zhn today to iron ont disputes over joining WTO Reuters US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton signed into law on Tuesday a historic bill granting permanent normal trade relations to China and dispatched his top trade negotiator for
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    • 317 19 SHANGHAI Analysts dismiss talk of ynan devaluation, say speculators are spreading rumours Reuters CHINA'S central bank yesterday said there had been no change in policy on its yuan currency, responding to rumours Beijing was considering a devaluation. Analysts said China was taking a
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    • 262 19 NEW DELHI AP A PROSECUTOR urged a special court yesterday to sentence former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao to "the most rigorous punishment" possible for bribing lawmakers to side with his government in a crucial confidence vote in July 1993. Rao's attorney argued
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  • e-NEWS
    • 569 17 SAN FRANCISCO But it hints at tough days ahead with fall in advertising spending by dotcoms NYT UNDER close scrutiny from jittery technology investors, Yahoo posted quarterly earnings on Tuesday that narrowly beat expectations, but the company also suggested that failures and scaling back among
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    • 242 17 MADRID Bloomberg J' TELEFONICA SA, Spin's largest telephone company, has agreed to buy IfcNvireless-phone businesses from Motorola Inc for US$2.6 billion (554.55 billion) to gain at least 1.4 million customers in Mexico, latin America's No 2 economy. Telefonica said in documents filed with Spanish securities regulators
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    • 424 17 NEW YORK Gain boosted by strong sales of broadband equipment, computer chips NYT MOTOROLA Inc, the big telecommunications and semiconductor company, said on Tuesday that its thirdquarter profit rose 66 per cent, in line with Wall Street estimates, on strong sales
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    • 513 18 A rivalry ends Event hailed as dawn of new era in cooperation between the computing giants Reuters [SEATTLE] Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it was launching the latest and greatest version of its Office software for Apple Computer Corp machines, and
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    • 634 18 another begins Top chipm&ker says Pentium consumes less power than Transmeta's and that it has new technologies in store NYT [SAN JOSE, California] In a Silicon Valley rendering of The Empire Strikes Back, Intel Corp executives took the stage at an industry gathering on
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    • 425 18 SAN FRANCISCO FT IBM is to spend US$5 billion (SsB.7 billion) to expand chipmanufacturing capacity, its biggest chip-in vestment programme ever. The world's largest computer company is to spend US$2.5 billion on a new plant at East Fishkill, New York; existing
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    • 125 18 SANTA ANA, California Bloomberg THE Orange County Register said its website was infiltrated on Sept 29 and that an article was changed to say Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates had been arrested for breaking into Nasa computers. The story was about Jason Diekman's arrest for
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    • 179 18 MUNICH Bloomberg SIEMENS, Germany's biggest electronics company, said it will invest 1 billion euros (Ssl.s billion) in a new centre in Munich to coordinate its electronic commerce businesses, from marketing to procurement. The move will allow it to save at least 1 billion euros a
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  • WORLD news
    • 539 20 JERSEY CITY, New Jersey It's offering US$49 a share for NDB against its Monday close of U5525.25 Bloomberg DEUTSCHE Bank AG offered to buy National Discount Brokers Group Inc for about twice Monday's closing price, a purchase that would give Europe's largest bank
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    • 503 20 AFP [DETROIT, Michigan] Bridgestone/Firestone announced on Tuesday that chief executive officer Masatoshi Ono had been replaced at the helm of the embattled tyre company by one of his lieutenants, John Lampe. Mr Lampe, 53, who was approved as CEO and president at a board meeting earlier
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    • 300 20 LONDON It faces loss of £10b Scottish Provident Institution account Bloomberg ABERDEEN Asset Management pic has agreed to buy Scotland's Murray Johnstone Holdings Ltd for £150 million (Ss3B2 million) as the UK money manager faces the possible loss of a £10
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    • 298 20 NEW YORK Bloomberg PAINE Webber Group Inc, which is being acquired by ÜBS AG, has hired outside help to run 19 of its 25 mutual funds in order that it can focus on its strongest areas. Brian M Storms,
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    • 532 21 PARIS Paris accuses principality of shady banking practices Reuters FRANCE warned Monaco on Tuesday to clean up shady banking practices or face tough counter-measures but the Mediterranean principality flatly denied it was lax in fighting against money laundering and tax evasion. A French
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    • 367 21 SEOUL It wants to avoid another Seattle or Prague incident AFP SOUTH Korean authorities yesterday mobilised 29,500 police in a bid to stop an Asia-Europe summit next week from becoming the next battleground for an-ti-globalisation protesters. The huge contingent, 20 per cent of the
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    • 275 21 SEOUL Move aimed at helping firm speedup restructuring AFP THE top 135 executives of South Korea's bankrupt Daewoo Motor Co resigned yesterday to help the troubled firm speed up its restructuring, officials said. The resignations of the Daewoo Motor chiefs at home and
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    • 466 22 BRUSSELS EU clearance given on condition that AOL cuts all links with Bertelsmann Bloomberg AMERICA Online Inc has won European Union (EU) approval for its US$l47 billion (***** billion) purchase of Time Warner Inc by agreeing to cut all links with Bertelsmann
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    • 461 22 AFP Reuters [PARIS] How do people as individuals and as members of big populations choose where to live, how long to study, how much to work and how far to travel? The search for economic principles to explain and use the factors at work
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    • 368 22 FRANKFURT Reuters Bloomberg CONCERNS about junk bond losses at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co that dragged down US broker shares overnight were hitting German bank shares last night. Shares in Deutsche Bank fell 3.5 per cent in early trade yesterday amid
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    • 425 22 LONDON Dealers see Brent testing 10-year high of U5534.98 soon Reuters Bloomberg OIL prices pushed higher yesterday, boosted by falling US fuel stockpiles and forecasts of more cold spells heading to North America. Tensions in the Middle East, where intense
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    • 467 22 COLOMBO Call for coalition between ruling, main opposition parties AFP SRI Lanka's ruling party and its main rival were bidding against each other for the support of minority groups, as initial results in the presidential elections pointed to a
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    • 772 22  -  COMMENTARY By\ Paul Krugman NYT THERE once was a land where people lived only two years. In the first year they worked; in the second year they lived off their personal savings. There came a time when the government decided to help
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 294 23  -  SGI Derivatives Tr&dln&Report ST Index/MSd S'pore Index Lau Chee Keong THE sharp fall of Nasdaq overnight, a profit warning by Lucent as well as a chip sector downgrade by Wall Street analysts, sent the Singapore Straits Times Index crashing yesterday. The technology stocks in Singapore
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    • 231 23  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong TAIWAN stocks tumbled yesterday after Tuesday's close for a public holiday. The lower overnight Nasdaq and firming oil prices sent the MSCI Taiwan Index down more than 2.5 per cent yesterday. Most of the Asian markets were in negative territory
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    • 187 23 Bernama AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian rubber prices ended lower yesterday as market players remained inactive amid lack of fresh leads and weak sentiments, a dealer said. He added the traders were awaiting the outcome of the on-going International Natural Rubber Organisation (Inro) governing council meeting
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    • 322 23 Reuters London THE dollar fell to one-week lows against major European currencies yesterday amid growing concerns that the recent sell-off in US stocks could have negative implications for economic growth in the US. The Swiss franc, which has been traditionally seen as a safe-haven currency, benefited most from
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2851 24 HONGKONG AFP Q Hang Seng -427.11 HONGKONG share prices slid 2.7 per cent yesterday as already negative sentiment was further dampened by overnight losses on Wall Street, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 427.11 points to close at
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    • 2067 24 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 22S -***** SHARE prices in Tokyo slumped 2 per cent yesterday to a 19-month low after Wall Street suffered heavy falls, with the Nasdaq Index down 3.43 per cent, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index lost 314.15
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    • Article, Illustration
      1028 24 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index jil CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed lower yesterday under pressure from a fall on the Hongkong stock market, analysts said. Investors shrugged off news that US President Bill Clinton signed into law a historic bill granting China permanent normal trade relations as the
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    • 373 24 AFP QWP Index -16&87 TAIWAN share prices closed 2.7 per cent lower yesterday on selling sparked by Wall Street's overnight losses, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 168.87 points to 6,040.55, on turnover of NT524.78 billion, the lowest level in 11 months. Decliners overwhelmed advancers
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 419 25 AFP F1 Composite Index *100 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday due to buying of selected blue chips, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 3.00 points at 714.25. The Second Board eased 0.84 points at 163.30.
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    • 9129 25 INDUSTRIALS Cmmhmt products 2000 Last Vol Day Net Cap HH> Law ClUMy »IH 'OOP Ht» Low PfW. %m» 420 310 Ajlnomoto 134 unch 4 334 334 16.3 135.4 isa 46 Angkasa 46 unch 24 46 46 70.6 670 290 Apollo Food Hlg 416 9.0 166.4 3725 2700 BAT 50c 3650
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  • SGX clob & regional stocks
    • 3076 26 BONDS A WARRANTS oan M tiptn 32-Vaak LMt M Day La»l8»ili Can Cur Mk 1Mb M# Lot Ma «ar- 0001 M«ft Lot <aa»*«2 Laft 51.5 5 s Acma W*****4 5 unch 20 5 5 4 6 6 41.0 J 300 286 15.80 9 38 2.5 s AIITach *******7 3.5 3
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    • 309 26 AFP QOomposite Index -3L16 SOUTH Korean shares fell 5.3 per cent yesterday with the index down 31.16 at 557.18. Volume was 309 million worth 1.9 trillion won. —AFP Oaawoo Tatocom 2150 -345 Djryjtxj Ins 2020 -80 Daou Tach 5300 -540 Dorxj Kook StMl 2235 -55 Gd Morning Sac 2700
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    • 268 26 AFP Q Composite Index -&96 PHILIPPINE shares fell 0.5 per cent yesterday with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index down 5.96 points to 1,326.26. Volume fell to 942 million shares but value rose to 4.37 billion pesos from 1.32 billion shares worth 607.57 million pesos on Tuesday. AFP Ocltt
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    • 262 26 AFP DMEE-40 -29.48 NEW Zealand shares closed down 1.5 per cent yesterday as investors nervously followed the fall of overseas markets, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index was down 29.48 points at 1,918.96 on total market turnover of NZ5175.92 million. ocin m coop) Advantage HOS 1.85 -0.09 185 Air
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    • 559 26 AFP □AH Ordinaries -3.80 AUSTRALIAN shares eased 0.1 per cent yesterday after Australia's dominant telecommunications carrier Telstra led the market to its sixth consecutive fall, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index closed 3.80 points down at 3,213.1 and the SP/ASX 200 index dropped 4.5 points to 3,260.7. Turnover came
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    • Article, Illustration
      746 26 AFP n SET Index -&38 THAI stocks closed 2.5 per cent lower yesterday, dragged down by the depreciating baht and falls in other regional markets, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index dropped 6.38 points to close at a two-year low of 250.60 and the SET
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    • Article, Illustration
      673 26 AFP P Composite Index -0.59 INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.1 per cent lower yesterday amid a technical rebound in selected major stocks, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 0.59 of a point at 412.33. Volume came to 325.63 million shares worth 216.96 billion rupiah. Declining
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  • 9546 27 SGXMAXNBOARD Transaction date: Oct 1 Or Or M Wt 52-Wk Lnt Vol Day Lilt Quota Wv Ot» VM Nat Cap Avg Htfli Low Company Sala COOP) Hjjfc Low Buyaf Saltar Cw W $mM Prtca MUiTHNOUSTVY 163 75.5 IB c Ac ma 50c 79 unch 336 79 75.5 78.5
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  • MOTORING page
    • 492 28  -  They will move to D&imlerChrysler's regional office next week All reports by Christopher Tan ABOUT three dozen Cycle Carriage staff including managing director Cheah Kim Teck and divisional manager Gilbert Kwek will leave the listed Mercedes-Benz distributor at the
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    • 405 28 Gar maker also denies meeting traders, says it is happy with Kah Motor HONDA distributor Kah Motor, part of Malay-sian-listed Oriental Holdings, denies its exclusive franchise-agreement with its Japanese principal is in jeopardy. General manager Tan Kheng Hwee told The Business Times: "There is
      ARTHUR LEE  -  405 words
    • 344 28 TOYOTA has garnered more than 25,000 bookings for its new Lexus LS43O flagship since launching it in Japan where it is known as the Celsior in late August. The figure, which LS43O chief engineer Yasushi Tanaka says represents a six-month waiting period for customers in
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    • 277 28 JUST six weeks after the order book was opened. Toyota distributor Borneo Motors has secured about 1,500 bookings for the new Corolla. That's roughly 35 cars a day or three-and-a-half cars an hour, based on a 10-hour day. The response is the best Borneo Motors
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    • 332 28 THE Land Transport Authority's one-stop portal for the motorist went online this week. Located at www.onemotoring.com.sg and revealed by BT in February the site is attractively laid out and looks more polished than most professional or commercial sites. LTA's so-called "gateway to all
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
      • 76 28 CYCLE CARRIAGE recently cleared 50 MercedesBenz A-class cars at around $106,000 apiece. That*s a significant drop from the Baby Benz's $130,000 launch price in mid-1996. COE premiums for the car then wore actually slightly softer than they are now. Nonetheless, the week-long promotion
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      • 101 28 LISTED Nissan distributor Tan Chong International will be the main beneficiary of the 66 per cent plunge In the big-car COE premium, according to G K Goh Research. Maintaining its Outperform call on the dobquoted, Hongkong-listed counter, the firm said this to because Tan
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      • 55 28 RENAULT of France has started a training centre here for Its after-sales technicians In the region (tee of a handful of centres around the world, the facility, at Übi, offers the latest syllabus to keep trainees up to speed in the newest technology. The centre is
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      • 73 28 THERE are on average 8,000 road diggings a year here, or 22 a day. These works, called road openings, are the result of a decision made more than two decades ago not to have overhead electrical or telecommunications cables that "mar the skyscape", according to
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      • 84 28 MAZDA will showcase several interesting products at the Singapore Motor Show in November. These include the latest MX-5 (Miata), which boasts a 1.8-litre sequential valve-time engine and six-speed gearbox. The Premacy (shown in photo), a 1.8-litre mini-MPV brimming with new technology, will also debut Singaporeans will
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      • 81 28 VOLKSWAGEN is expected to roll out Its D 1 flagship in the second half of next year sooner than its original 2002 time frame. Its most ambitious project ever, the D 1 challenges high-end incumbents such as the MercedesBenz S-class. BMW 7-series, Lexus
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      • 74 28 A MALAYSIAN company is offering an insurancebased scheme for motorists here who drive in Peninsular Malaysia. In case of breakdown, accident or otlwr travel-related emergencies, Gesa Motoring Partner promises hassle free towing services, repair claims, medical evacuation, alternative travel aid and hotel accommodation
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      • 72 28  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan WANT a piece of Formula One for a keepsake? Mattel's Hot Wheels has just launched its F-l edition. The 1/18 scale models include teams like Williams, Ferrari, Jaguar and Jordan. There is also a 1/24 scale of a McLaren, complete with
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 920 29 I ne Business Times, Thursday, October 12, 2000 Central Kids. 6UJO Sajian: Kek Seantero LOO Headlines. B* oo Survivor: Too Little Dunia. LO2 Business Tonight. 9.00 AM Kids Central. Ses- Too Late. 7.00 Fikir-Fikir. L3O Gateway Asia (r) 1A me St et n 0.00 Tonight With Gurmit. 7JO Tirai: Ikatan
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    • 245 29 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS rural America (7) 1 Institution superintendent to re- 7 Under a corrupt government is trace his steps perhaps (4,3,4) suffering dreadfully presumably 9 Turn one into uncharged particle (2,1,3,5) (7) 8 Give up and go inside (4,2) 10 There could be little behind this 11 Dishonest narrator
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  • HOUSEHUNT
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    • 26 30 Classified First. Looking for a holiday destination? Or limply getting away from it all? Check The Straits Times Classified First. Bay M. Sdi It Had It
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    • 19 30 Own a Beautifully Conserved Commercial Shophouse s i-8i v-m Road HEP 4; f«E T.* ■*orfWi t 2«w. w -2*-'
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    • 61 30 f)Kr I 12-22 Hawkestone St Wellington, New Zealand I An Investment Govt. Lease to 2008 I boosted by low NZ$ Double Digit Net Yield I CBD Investment 6000 m 2 Office Tower I Offers Close: 27 Oct. 2000 at 4pm I Tim Rosenberg tim.rosenberg@ap.ionesianglasalle.com I Alistair Robertson abstair.robertson§ap.|oneslanglasaile.com I level
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    • 98 30 Collective Sale I W 5, U Prime Residential Redevelopment n at ß° a< 7 Close proximity to Dhoby Ghaut MRT station U r\ I ear to Orchard Road 2nd future Singapore Jf AA Management University < Site area 19,521 sf, freehold )*j wSgZ,/ Residential, plot ratio 2.1 ft H Building
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  • COMMENT
    • 2105 31  -  That seems to be the attitude of some people living in condos. tat it tuam considers how the Land Titles (Strata) Act helps to ease communal living TAY IT TUAN The writer the director (asset services) at CB Richard Ellis MANY years ago,
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    • 148 31 LOGISTICS CENTRE FOR SALE Location Pioneer Sector vicinity Description A 3-storey warehouse building with a container depot with 4,200 TEU capacity Land Area Approx. 511,828 sq ft GFA Approx. 412,433 sq ft Tenure JTC Leasehold 30+30 yrs wef Dec 1990 Please contact Sole Marketing Agent Industrial Department Bernard Goh DID:
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  • EXECUTIVE Suite
    • 1313 32  -  Property experts tell kalpama rashjwala why they think land sales for private homes and executive condos will come down next year KALPANA RASHIWALA SOMETIME this quarter, the government will make known an important decision that will impact private residential prices how much
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    • 573 32 Prime retail rents along Orchard Rd up 15%; prime CBD office rents up 25% WITH the pick-up in occupancy and rental rates for office and shop space, there is scope for the government to release more commercial space next year, say
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 280 33 Reuters THE Baltic indices presented a mixed front on Tuesday, although they indicated the dry cargo freight market was basically steady. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) was unchanged at 1,719, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) fell five points to 1,596, the Baltic Handy Index (BHD shed one point
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    • 283 33 sox Oct n n W CWT Distribution. 0.60 unctl ChuanHup 0.37 -0.01 1392 Cosco invastmant 0.17 -0.01 33 FrttaM Links 0.15 uncft 160 OB Holdings 0.56 unch 0 Hal Sun Hup 0-34 -0.01 86 IMC HoWngs-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jay* Holdings 0.15 -O.OI 217 KappalCorp 3 3* -0.14
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    • 788 33  -  JI exclusive Captain faces charges of falsifying logbook; vessel detained By'. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The Greek captain of the Singaporeflagged oil tanker detained in San Francisco Bay since Sept 24, has been arrested by US federal authorities over safety and environmental violations. Captain
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    • 385 33  -  By, Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Two major international port operators, PSA Corp and UK-based P&O Ports, have taken equal stakes in a Singaporean start-up, P-Serv Technologies, which develops track-and-trace software. PSA International, the international arm of PSA Corp, and P&O Ports,
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    • 230 33 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian authorities plan to enroll some 500 fishermen in efforts to clean up an oil spill from a tanker which ran aground just south of Singapore, an official said yesterday. A spokesman for the mayor's office on
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    • TAIWAN logistics
      • 920 34  -  Taipei's planned global-logistics centre should allow companies on the island to save distribution costs of lib From, P T Bangsberg in Manila TAIWAN is dead set on becoming a global logistics and transhipment hub, with a broad strategy based on geography and what it
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    • 21613 40 THEBUSINESSTIMES THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Nam* Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number 06/Tt 28/n COSCO ZHEN HE 00(5W 65-*****00 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire ot/n jo/ti msc Agy msc sophie oour 65-*****50
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 123 44 Oct 23 Thailand: King Chulalongkorn Day. Oct 26 Brunei: Israk Mikraj. Indonesia: Ascension Day of Prophet Muhammad. Oct 26 Malaysia: Deepavali. Nov 1 Philippines: All Saint's Day. Nor 3 Japan: Culture Day. Not 4 Sweden: All Saint's Day. Not 11 Canada: Remembrance Day. USA: Veteran's Day. Not 23
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      • 677 44 Vtjs#) Voy No Barth Arrival Departure J»r«1 Pmt Grand Ocmk 0CT-00 JI7 n/W/0 45 12/10/18:00 Taaias** D ****** J03 H/W/845 n/W/1500 n tiooo joi n/w/Btt) n/w/2040 IMa Ultra OHXT X2 11/10/6:55 n/W/2340 Winstar 1 *)3SOO J03 11/10/7:20 11/10/2140 Iayswattrll8 U0249 J02 n/W/8:35 11/W/16:00 Ef 23 197 J02 11/W/B:50
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      • 1897 44 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Mane* Rstts Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From *U FAl.COM 00M 12/tOO II B/1500 10/1659 Oct-OO u n/mn n/0659 n/om 2* WTO TV0659 n/woo ti/otoo n/nst n/vtoo *a U**CT 05S 13/tOO 10,"MC B/1659 0ct-00~ a wro n/out nmoo
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      • 788 44 THIS report, compiled by CockeM 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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      • 444 44 Carton WO Mai 990.7 0.9 6.4 0.09 72 O.OS Oct 5 ONslty Water HsMm Ask AImbMmi Silwt No above E25 0 0 0 0 0 0 M0 *5-5 OJ 12.8 0.06 27 0.02 tin* 380 Mai 993.1 0.8 18J 0.10 65 0.05 Wirj u* %mfli mi
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 595 45 Low-fare European airline hit by sliding euro, rising fuel prices Reuters [BRUSSELS] European airline Virgin Express, hit by the weakness of the euro and expensive fuel, hopes to deliver a profit next year after losing money in 1999 and 2000, the
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      • 359 45  -  Hazelton family's sale of 20% stake in airline to Ansett last week cuts its holding to 13.11% From i Surinder Singh in Sydney ANSETT Holdings has launched an A 515.3 million (5514.2 million) takeover offer for Hazelton Airlines, a regional airline
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      • 305 45 AFXAsia [KUALA LUMPUR] The proposed FSB Asian Regional Aviation Training Centre in Kuala Lumpur is expected to be upgraded and expanded to cater for the Asian region, according to Flight Safety managing director for flight training Paul Hinton. The training centre is a joint-venture
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      • 277 45 AP [ATLANTA] Seven US airlines hoping to launch new or expanded flights to China next year will have to keep waiting. The Department of Transportation still had not decided late on Tuesday which airlines will be awarded up to 10 weekly
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      • 139 45 [SINGAPORE] DHL Worldwide Express has announced plans to build a new IT centre at Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). The facility, located at the heart of Cyberjaya, will replace its current centre in Puchong, south of Kuala Lumpur, which serves as one
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      • 217 45 Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Qatar Airways ordered an Airbus Corporate Jetliner and took an option for a second, making Qatar the first airline customer for the European planemaker's business jet, derived from its A 319 model. Qatar Airways, 70 per cent owned by the Qatari
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      • 57 45 AP [WICHITA] A Bombardier Challenger 604 rests on Tyler road at the south-west end of the Mid-Continent Airport after crashing. The crash killed two and critically injured a third person. Authorities did not immediately know whether the craft was approaching or leaving the airport, nor did
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    • LOGISTICS page
      • 458 46  -  Management has yet to be folly committed to application of e-business within the supply chain, US stndy finds Byi Ann Toh [SINGAPORE] Senior logistics and supply chain managers do not place e-business at the top of their priorities, a recent US-based study
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      • 288 46 [SINGAPORE] The Georgia Institute of Technology is interested in stepping up its collaborative efforts with local institutions in supply chain research, said provost and vice-president of academic affairs Dr Michael Thomas in a visit to local research think-tank Gintic Institute
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      • 264 46  -  From P T Bangsberg in Manila CHINA is moving all import and export permits to electronic processing to improve the efficiency of its customs service and the government's supervision of trade. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation said (Moftec) all the country's customs
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