The Business Times, 24 October 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85* SINGAPORE Internet- >utp://business-times.asial com.sg/ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2000
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    75 1 SB VMM (-9.18) QfT-SU mm 770.70 (-4.06) ST INDEX FUTURES IjmM (+8.00) SMSCI FUTURES 248J0 (+1.90) STOCK HAKKET INDICES Monday Change ELSE OOMP 78JJ0 >4J1 NIKKEI 225 16,097.96 __.-IW.77 HANG SENG 11,101* +KJSt SET INDEX dosed JAKARTA COMP _417« -158 MANILA OOMP _L267.99 +16.46 TAIPEI WP! 5,689.96 *9\
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    76 1 FOBEX BATES us* ss USS 1.766 £(VS$/S$ per 1.466 U64 El RO(US$/S$/E) 0.84fl 1.471 DM 1328 L326 YEN 1W.0 6100 RM 1800 1164 HKS 7.7» 4.441 BAHT 44.08 26.10 RCHAfl 8976 6.111 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 1 8.50 TAIPEI
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    Lock icon Virgin won't bid for S'pore 3G licence
    770 1  -  Deutsche Telekom, SCV and Sing Power also not interested By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Richard Branson's Virgin Group wants a piece of the action in third generation (3G) mobile phones in Singapore but it will not bid for a licence either on its
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    Lock icon Banks reviewing loan practice for old leasehold properties
    591 1  -  Topping up leases of old properties •^exclusive By"B Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank is considering breaking with its current loan practice and giving loans for properties with less than 60 years left on their leases, a spokeswoman for the bank told
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    Lock icon US investments in S'pore post 10.8% returns
    524 1  -  Profitability higher than in Canada, Europe, bnt lower than HK, M'sia pllexclusive By i Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Income from United States direct investments in Singapore appears to have settled at a slower but steady pace. American corporations earned U552.67 billion (554.7 billion)
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      Lock icon New Estrada graft charges knock peso
      626 2  -  Currency slides on claims president used cronies to buy lb pesos worth of properties From Al Labita in Manila NEW corruption allegations yesterday against embattled President Joseph Estrada spooked edgy foreign exchange traders, sending the peso into yet another tailspin. The peso sank to
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        Lock icon Keeping it long and taut
        73 2 A BANKING analyst at last week's ING Barings investment summit noted that European and US bankers regard the return on equity (ROE) a key yardstick of financial performance that is often used by analysts—achieved by Singaporean and UK banks as "akin to an Indian rope
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        Lock icon Making out under guard
        114 2 SHOWFLATS may look good but think twice about resting on that bed or sofa; you never know what went on in there last night. One intrepid househunter was at a recently launched landed housing project after the showhouse closed to check out the location when she
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        Lock icon Peace and the bourse
        79 2 LAST week, BT Online ran a poll on the unrest m the Middle East and the effect it had on the stock market here. The question was: Will the deal between Israel and the Palestinians to end violence spur depressed Singapore stocks? And here are the
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      Lock icon Oil holds above US$31 as Middle East simmers
      434 2 Market waiting for Friday Opec deadline to boost production Reuters, Bloomberg [LONDON] High oil prices held steady yesterday as Middle East tensions simmered and markets resting on wa-fer-thin surplus stocks readied for a surge in winter demand. International benchmark Brent crude for
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      Lock icon SM Lee stresses need for world-class research
      342 2  -  He says foreign business schools will bring ii stimulation By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore needs world-class research and education to complement the use of English if it is to maintain its role as a natural node in the global network of banking
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  • SINGAPORE comapnies
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      Lock icon Could NatSteel and NEL have done more?
      591 4  -  HocKimmmw marissa chew PUNTERS and institutions continued to court Nat Steel Electronics (NEL) and Nat Steel Ltd yesterday. NEL rose 40 cents to $3.98 on heavy trading of 40 million shares, while parent NatSteel was traded up 26 cents to $2.34 with 29.5
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      Lock icon NatSteel may be selling its NEL stake, but just who is buying?
      586 4  -  Latest ramonr pits Celestica against Solectron; but price of $8 a share is 'baseless' By 1 David Boey NATSTEEL's plan to hive off all or part of its 33 per cent stake in Nat Steel Electronics to "enhance
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      Lock icon Market driver: US tech giants' results
      369 4  -  By. David Boey MARKET players should look to results from US electronics majors Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer due this week for clues on whether the rally in electronics stocks will fizzle. Although some punters are wondering if their excessively cautious attitude has caused
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      Lock icon IBM bags $100m SIA e-business contract
      188 4 THE Singapore Airlines Group has appointed IBM to consolidate its various systems into a common e-business platform using mySAP.com. The contract, worth over $100 million, includes the purchase of IBM services and associated software. IBM will partner SAP, Druid, Origin and Arthur Andersen to
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      Lock icon SIAEC signs $40m contract with Ong Beng Seng unit
      461 4  -  By Conrad Raj SLA Engineering Company yesterday signed a five-year aircraft maintenance contract worth $40 million with hotelier/businessman Ong Beng Seng's aircraft leasing arm Region Air. The contract covers the "total support" maintenance requirements of four aircraft from Region Air's A3lO-300
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      Lock icon Datapulse marks 20th yr with generous dividend
      345 7  -  Company posts 51% profit leap to $22m as revenue surges to $69m By, Andrea Tan TO celebrate its 20 years in the business, Datapulse Technology rewarded shareholders with a sterling set of results and proposed a generous dividend scheme. The disc maker yesterday
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      Lock icon Eagle's interim earnings rise 5%
      313 7  -  By Vivien Ng NET profit at ceramic tiles specialist Eagle Brand Holdings rose 5 per cent to 114.7 million renminbi (5524.2 million) for the six months ended July 26. Turnover rose 21 per cent to 577.2 milion renminbi on strong sales of prodlcts launched in
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      Lock icon JIT shareholders advised to accept Flextronics offer
      469 8  -  Merger advantageous, terms fair and reasonable, says adviser DBS Bank By] Ling Su Ann JIT Holdings shareholders have been urged by their independent financial adviser DBS Bank to accept the proposed merger with Flextronics because it is advantageous and the terms are "fair
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      Lock icon Smooth sailing at Ascott's EGM
      416 8  -  Shareholders' nod a quiet affair compared to DBS Land's EGM By Andrea Tan MINORITY shareholders of Ascott Holdings yesterday gave their blessings to the company's marriage with Somerset Holdings. All six resolutions were passed virtually unchallenged. The fireworks evident at parent DBS Land's extraordinary general
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      Lock icon Bank of S'pore, 3i invest $17.5m in Net support firm
      206 8 BANK of Singapore (BOS) and international venture capital firm 3i yesterday announced a $17.5 million joint investment in Internet support firm FairEx International Financial Systems. Fair Ex.com provides Web-based financial trading and risk management technology to financial institutions including banks
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      Lock icon SembCorp activates half of $500m note issue programme
      250 8 SEMBCORP Industries announced yesterday it will issue $250 million of five-year fixed rate notes under its recently established $500 million Medium Term Note Programme. The notes will bear a fixed rate coupon of 4.45 per cent per annum, payable sixmonthly. The mandate
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Compact Metal wrt: fair pick with decent numbers
      182 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy PENNY stocks and warrants have had a terrible run in the past few months as retail traders have avoided the market for one reason or another. As a result, warrant premiums have shrunk and gearings have risen
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      Lock icon Market fails to extend gains; turnover drops too
      543 6  -  I comment STOCKS r.sivanithy NASDAQ'S unconvincing rise last Friday and an equally timid session in Hongkong yesterday meant the local market was unable to extend its gains of late last week. Volume dropped significantly from the $1 billion done on Friday and
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      486 6 «*»»«>■ Volume Nal EJec 10c... 40,037,000 Nat9tod50c 29,482,000 Adroit 10c 10,*****0 QESIntf LM20c 10,266,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c.- 9,630,000 Omni Ind 10c 6,662,000 STEngglOc 6,334,000 ST Aaaamtoly2Sc 6,836,000 AddvrfTach 2.5c 6,321,000 MedtaWng 10c 6,074.000 Woetea I NatBaclOc 156,637,720 Chart Semiconductor 26c 77,206,736 NatSleei 50c 68,126,730 ST Engg 10c *****.200 0C8C 22,851,114
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      Lock icon GES attractive over 6-month period
      238 6  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of computer maker GES International has traded briskly during the past two sessions. It was the fourth mostactive counter yesterday, closing unchanged at $1.30 on 10.3 million units. The stock is trying to recover to the $1.40 level
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      121 6 REPUBLIC Hotels Resorts and City Developments have appointed Catherine Loh as their company secretary, effective last Friday. She replaces joint company secretaries Desmond Lee, who left on Friday, and Lye Chor Mei, who left on Saturday. Mr Lee has also resigned as company secretary of Hong Leong Asia.
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      Lock icon Asian units hammered on renewed Mid-East tension
      340 6  -  i i comment CURRENCIES larry wee RENEWED Middle East tension forced Asian currencies to some of their lowest points this year, with the Thai baht down to a 31-month low of 44.10 per US dollar by the close of holiday-thinned trading. All but
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      293 6 FEATURING KEYNOTE M ADDRESSES BY: liny Oilier, Chairman CEO, USA Networks, Irtc Manuel Pmplltnan. 2. O O O President CEO, The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company Singapore Expo November 15-17 2000 The ONLY Event in Asia where Media Joins the Broadband Revolution! It's ALL new media The conference addresses the
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      194 7 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. A. •w JTC JTC's fourth bond issue with a public offer Issue of 555,000,000 principal amount of 4.826% p.a. Fixed Rate Bonds due 2012 (comprised in Series No. 004) pursuant to 554,000,000,000 Medium Term Note Programme Lead Manager Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Citibank selling four floors at UIC Building
      554 9  -  It's $45m for its last remaining commercial property in S'pore By Kalpana Rashiwala CITIBANK is selling its last remaining commercial property in Singapore four floors at the UIC Building at Shenton Way and is asking for about $45 million. The four floors add
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      Lock icon Sept inflation up by a whisker to 1.7%
      257 9  -  r=M=l on the economy inflation By Anna Teo DESPITE the surge in oil prices, price pressures were fairly subdued last month. Inflation picked up just a whisker in September to 1.7 per cent, from 1.6 per cent in August. Compared month to
      Source: Dept of Statistics  -  257 words
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      Lock icon ST Telemedia unit to offer Microsoft applications
      379 9  -  By Tang Weng Fai I-STT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Telemedia, has struck a deal to bundle Microsoft applications with its hosting services. The deal is a first for Microsoft in Singapore with a local partner as part of its .NET business
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      Lock icon S'pore investments in US turn around with US$53m profit
      323 11  -  5% rate of return higher than average 3.4% for investments by Asia-Pac countries Byi Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S direct investments in the United States are starting to show profits. They earned US$53 million (Ss93 million) last year—after being in the red
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      Lock icon Sept visitor arrivals up 9.8%, mostly from Asia
      319 11  -  Indonesia the biggest source, with 94,512 arrivals, np 9.8% By Vivien Ng SEPTEMBER visitor arrivals rose 9.8 per cent over the year-ago period, with Asia chalking up the third consecutive month of double-digit growth, according to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) yesterday.
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      Lock icon Minister's wake-up call to building industry
      309 11 CONTRACTORS were yesterday urged by the National Development Minister to find new ways of doing business in the highly competitive construction sector. "While the construction industry is not at its lowest point in terms of construction demand over the last 25 years, there is
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      Lock icon Sing-US$ trading goes electronic
      81 11 AP IN a move that could threaten the livelihood of traditional currency brokers, dealers yesterday began trading the Singapore dollar against the greenback on an electronic system. Electronic trading made a smooth debut in Singapore but its true impact may not be seen for several months,
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  • MAILbag
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      Lock icon Priority in allocating restored CPF
      460 10  -  Elaine Swinn-Tan (Mrs) Assistant Director, Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Manpower Singapore I REFER to the letter "Who gains from CPF restoration?" (Mailbag, Oct 17) by Chow Chee Khang. Mr Chow raised the concern that CPF members will not benefit from the 4
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      Lock icon Open Category COEs provide flexibility
      434 10  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms), Manager, Media Relations, Land Transport Authority, Singapore I REFER to "Scrap Open COEs to stabilise prices" (BT, Oct 19) by Christopher Tan. We agree with Mr Tan that big swings in Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices are undesirable. In a closed
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      Lock icon Timing!
      66 10  -  Chow CK Singapore, via Internet SINCE market sentiment is so bad, why not suspend the $30 minimum brokerage fee? The broking industry might at least see some retail interest return which is better than none. When the market improves or seems to be able to sustain rallies, brokers could
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      Lock icon Help mid-career switchers
      223 10  -  Hu Lye Chye Singapore I REFER to the letters "Achieving lifelong learning" and "Subsidy will help IT career switch" (Mailbag, Oct 20). I am not trying to discourage the writers but to share my view based on the encounters of many in my age group. At the
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      Lock icon Ease loan restrictions on leasehold properties
      108 10  -  Pang Cham Shaing Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Govt studying whether to top up leases" (BT, Oct 23). I think the government should ease the immediate concerns of owners and buyers of m properties with land leases of less than 60
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      Lock icon How mill T+1 affect volume?
      199 10  -  Denis Distant Singapore I REFER to the article "From T+3 to T+l: Will it work in the S'pore market?" by Siow Li Sen (BT, Oct 18) and ask whether the supporters of this idea have given any thought to what the change to T+3 has
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Great Eagle poised to soar next year alter a flat 2000
      593 12 HONGKONG Both its office and hotel businesses will do well, suggests assistant director Reuters HONGKONG bluechip property investment firm Great Eagle Holdings Ltd expects its rental income for the year to remain steady versus 1999 and foresees strong increases
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      Lock icon River Valley site for sale by tender
      203 13 A SMALLISH site at the junction of River Valley Road and Kellock Road is up for sale, with an estimated price of $24.5 million. Marketing agent CB Richard Ellis said the price for the 19,979-sq-ft site at 433-443 River Valley Road, together with
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      Lock icon Allgreen to launch cluster project tomorrow
      385 13  -  Average price of $377 psf of built-up area for Horizon Green By] Marissa Chew ALLGREEN Properties will launch its Horizon Green cluster housing project tomorrow at an average of $377 per sq ft of built-up area. The launch comes amidst lukewarm response to the
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      Lock icon Rising price gap in prime, outlying Tokyo land: BOJ
      286 13 Prices are becoming 'bipolarised' depending on location, say bank's economists Bloomberg [TOKYO] The gap in prices between prime Tokyo office and residential property and older buildings and land in suburban areas is widening, two Bank of Japan economists said. Fast-growing information
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Zhu proves that he is a statesman
      692 14  -  bottom line OPINION anthony rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent CHINESE Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's official visit to Japan may not have produced the kind of theatrical "breakthrough" in relations that are beloved of certain national leaders and which often fail to
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      126 14 Truth is not always going to set you free.' -BfflJcf chief scientist and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, saying progress in the fields ofgenetics, nanotechnology (technology at the molecular level) and robotics raises the threat of nightmarish problems that could threaten the human race. 'It's very dangerous
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      Lock icon The Suzhou park's new phase
      573 14 EDITORIAL WITH less than three months before Singapore hands over to China majority shareholding and management control of the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), it was not unexpected that the sth China-Singapore Joint Steering Council meeting —co-chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Chinese
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      Lock icon Democrat Gore plays hawk to Bush Jr's dove
      1244 14  -  Gore advocates interventionist doctrine, while the Republican Candida ta takftg a more cautions stand By Leon Hadar The writer isßT's Washington correspondent THE political realignments in the US in the aftermath of the Vietnam War produced what became an axiom of American
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      Lock icon It's a New Economy, but it's not that new
      743 14  -  COMMENTARY By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at MIT LAST week. George Bush Jr accused A 1 Gore of "analogue thinking in a digital age". It's a terrific line; my compliments to whoever wrote it. It's also
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Debt-laden Lion Group opens RM2.5b steel plant in Selangor
      518 15 BANTING Full production to substitute for RM3b imports annually AFP PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday officially opened a RM2.5 billion (Ssl.2 billion) state-of-the-art steel plant, designed to cut Malaysia's import bill by millions of ringgit. The plant, owned by Megasteel Sdn
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      Lock icon KL to name foreign shareholder for MAS
      309 15 KUALA LUMPUR BTsian carrier to expand code sharing with ELM Royal Dutch Airlines AP Bloomberg, MALAYSIA may soon name a foreign shareholder for Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS), the national carrier, Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin said. "We have identified a few, we hope
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      Lock icon Intake of foreign workers cut
      213 15 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The government has halved the intake of foreign workers to 150,000 this year from 3204)00 Last year in efforts to check the outflow of the ringgit through their remittance of salaries. Finance Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Hashim Ismail told the Dewan Rakyat yesterday
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      Lock icon Merger of AMMB and Utama seen facing obstacles
      362 16  -  They issue conflicting statements to the Stock Exchange on the status of their proposed merger From} Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur CRACKS in the most troubled of Malaysia's banking mergers apparently widened yesterday as the Arab-Ma-laysian banking group and the Utama
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      Lock icon US has not complied with WTO rules: KL
      328 16  -  Shrimp-turtle trade dispute timing seen as having political dimension From] D Ravi Kanth in Geneva MALAYSIA yesterday took the United States to task at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the controversial shrimp-turtle trade dispute, alleging that Washington failed to lift the
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      198 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] The government will revive stalled project to build the massive Bakun power generation dam in Sarawak, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. "We will revive. Whether foil-scale or not, we have not decided yet," Dr Mahathir told reporters. He said the
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      195 16 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIA said it would allow companies to sell bonds and to use the proceeds to fund some real estate development that it previously considered as unproductive investment. By partially relaxing restrictions, Malaysia hopes to help spur real estate development
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      538 17 MANILA It will offer new shorter-term bills with higher yields to finance budget deficit Bloomberg THE Philippine government yesterday rejected all bids at a weekly Treasury bill auction for the first time in 34 months and said it would resort to even
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      176 17 JAKARTA AFP A SON of former Indonesian president Suharto, who is seeking presidential clemency for an 18-month jail sentence for corruption, cannot seek a review of his case at the same time, a minister said yesterday. Justice and Human Rights Minister Yusril
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      553 17 JAKARTA Reuters AN Indonesian government debt workout entity said it was confident it could restructure US$3 billion (555.3 billion) to US$5 billion in foreign debts by the year's end even though it had not restructured significant obligations since July. The Jakarta Initiative Task
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      251 17 MANILA AFX-Asia LINGERING political issues and the rise in interest rates caused by the sharp depreciation of the peso are likely to result in increased risks for the banking system. Standard Poor's said. "Heightened political tension, a depreciating Philippine peso, and the strong increase in
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      534 19 PALO ALTO, California' Bloomberg SUN Microsystems Inc planned to wait until the stock market closed on Wednesday to tell investors that fiscal first-quarter profit rose 88 per cent. It was beaten to the punch, though by its own website, where the numbers started
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      474 20 TOKYO Reuters JAPAN yesterday offered 1.24 trillion yen (Ss2o billion) of shares in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) at 949,000 yen each, a steep discount from last year's blockbuster sale. The Finance Ministry's offer price was near expectations, but
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      348 20 SEOUL Company posts 145% rise in profit to record 1.7t won Bloomberg SAMSUNG Electronics Co yesterday said its third-quar-ter net income more than doubled to a record on strong demand for its major product from personal-computer makers. The world's largest producer of computer memory chips
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      408 20  -  By Yang Razali Kassim moeow AS Asian and European leaders use information technology to bridge the political and economic divides between their continents, their ministers are looking at the potential offered by "e-arts". At a meeting in Kyongju near Seoul,
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        89 20 Reuters [LONDON] Three of the world's biggest mining groups yesterday announced an alliance with commodity trader Glencore International AG to set up global Internet marketplaces for trading commodities, starting with coal. Rio Tinto, Anglo American, Billiton and Swiss-based Glencore would join Internet firm
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        82 20 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Giant Intel Corp said yesterday it will invest some USs3oomillion (Ss3so million) to expend 1 capacity at its sole chip assembly and testing facility in Shanghai and fimd a shift to computer chipset assembly 4 over the next two years. "We've got
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        120 20 Reuters [LONDON] British Telecommunications pic said it had offered to give its Italian mobile Venture Blu 500 billion lire (Ss3B2 million) to continue bidding for a third generation licence but its partners had voted against staying in the auction. Shareholders representing a 52
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        79 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] The bonds of Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc are priced to reflect the high potential for default, according to the "Up A Down Wall Street" column in the Oct 23 edition of Barron's. Amazon has about US$2 billion in corporate debt and some
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      439 21  -  MOU signed for USsl.7b bridge and tunnel project with Gronpe GTM, Daewoo, local govts From Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong LI Ka-shing's global infrastructure empire has added another feather to its cap his Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) has clinched a joint venture agreement
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      342 21  -  Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong RICHARD Li's Pacific Century CyberWorks is again in the market for money, this time offering a combination of convertible bonds and rights issue to raise as much as US$l.B billion (553.15 billion), market players reported yesterday. The Internet and
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      402 22 TAIPEI Shares dive 3.2% limit; growth estimate for Q4 global PC demand cot to under 10% from 15% Bloomberg ACER Inc, Taiwan's largest personal computer maker, cut its profit forecasts by a third for this year on worse-than-expected fourth-quarter PC demand,
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      293 22 TAIPEI More high-margin products sold in Q3 than Q2 Bloomberg UNITED Microelectronics Corp, the world's No 2 chip subcontractor, said profit rose sevenfold in the third quarter as orders from electronics customers surged from the year-ago period. Net income for the third quarter
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      524 22 BEIJING Reuters CHINA and the European Union ended a summit yesterday stressing their commitment to overcoming snags in China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). But the discussions on China's WTO accession, which overshadowed political issues at the one-day summit, produced
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      397 23 COLOMBO But stock market slumps, depressed by a hong parliament AFP SRI Lanka's war-battered economy is headed for a "fairy-tale" recovery if Central Bank figures are to be believed, but investors remain unconvinced and a hung parliament has added to the
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      89 23 Reuters, AFP [COLOMBO] A Sri Lankan air force helicopter was shot down by Tamil Tiger rebels in Trincomalee yesterday hours after the guerillas attacked a nearby naval base in the north-eastern district. "TTiey have brought down a (Russian built) MI-24 helicopter in the Upparu area, which is
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      143 23 BOMBAY AFP GLOBAL private equity fund Warburg Pincus plans additional investments of around US$6OO million (551.05 billion) in Indian stocks by next year, reports said here yesterday. The Economic Times quoted EM Warburg Pincus and Co (Singapore) managing director Dalip Pathak as
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      894 24  -  Tie-up seen as the first in series of alliances likely in Japan's insurance sector From. Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A MAJOR shakeup in the Japanese insurance sector was heralded yesterday when the nation's largest life assurance company, Nippon Life, confirmed that it
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      629 24 NEW YORK Wireless unit and cable TV operation could be span off NYT AT&T's board plans to divide the company into four parts and focus more closely on specific segments of the fastchanging telecommunications market. Wall Street has been demanding evidence lately that the
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      310 24 I MURRAY HILL, New Jersey AP, Bloomberg LUCENT Technologies' board has forced out Richard McGinn as chairman and chief executive after a series of financial disappointments. Former board chairman Henry Schacht, 66, will replace Mr McGinn in both posts and will lead the
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      368 24  -  Incentives and facilities galore offered to foreign companies By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is offering a slew of incentives and facilities to attract information tech-nology-related businesses from around the world, officials said yesterday. At a breakfast
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      164 24 SINGAPORE Bloomberg SINGAPORE business executives will visit North Korea for the first time today to explore trade and investment opportunities as the isolated communist state shows signs of opening up. The Singapore Confederation of Industries, which represents more than 1,000 companies, is sending
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        146 24 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's Hyundai Engineering Construction said yesterday it would lay off 63 of its 256 executive-level employees and overhaul its business lines in what analysts called a desperate move to stay above water. The plan is a follow-up to a fresh
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        113 24 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Daewoo Heavy Industries Co completed its split into three smaller units, creating two financially sound companies in the aftermath of the near-collapse of what was once South Korea's second-largest industrial group. After a six-month delay, Daewoo Heavy was split into a shipbuilding
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        89 24 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Telekom is considering splitting the German and international operations of its Internet arm T-Online AG, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The move would convert T-Online, Europe's largest Internet service provider, into a holding company called T-Online International. The company would overlook
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        117 24 Bloomberg [ROME] Italy raised 12.2 billion euros (Ssl7 J billion), half what analysts had expected, from the sale of five mobile phone licences after British Telecommunications pic's Blu SpA venture withdrew on the auction's third day. Blu {Milled out after British Telecom refused to
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      535 26 LOS ANGELES It'll become world's biggest supplier of engines, electronics, systems for aircraft LAT-WP, NYT GENERAL Electric Co on Sunday agreed to buy Honeywell International Inc for about US$49 billion (5585.8 billion), creating a combined business that would include the world's largest supplier of
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      655 26 PROFILE GE chief will delay retiring to make sore the Honeywell deal goes well Reuters [HARTFORD, Connecticut] Leave it to Jack Welch, America's most respected corporate chieftain of the last 50 years, to pull off the biggest deal in General Electric Co's
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      758 27 Neither Gore nor Bosh seen to have power to win over undecided voters FOR nearly two months now, George W Bush and A 1 Gore have circled each other like a pair of journeyman boxers, both capable of jabbing and counterpunching, but neither possessing the raw knockout
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      372 27 WASHINGTON They talk about banning abortion, scrapping income tax, promoting TM, etc AFP AMERICAN voters got a rare glimpse of alternative politics on Sunday, as small-party presidential candidates took to the airwaves to explain their electoral platforms and possibly win over some
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      328 27 LONDON' Q3 GDP, Sept durable goods data scheduled for Friday Reuters FINANCIAL markets will look to US economic output data this week for clues to the Federal Reserve's next move on interest rates while first October inflation data will emerge in the euro
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      2021 28  -  Schools should not be like prisons for the minds of our young, if we are to groom them for survival in the New Economy, says PATRICE liflWßTj PATRICK LAMBE IN 1791, the 18th century social theorist Jeremy Bentham published a new design for a prison. He called
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      287 29  -  SGX Derivatives TnMagßeport ST Inde*/MS& STpore Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore SINGAPORE stocks ended lower yesterday after rising for three consecutive days due to profit-taking. Despite US markets closing higher on Friday, investors decided to lock in profits amid the rising tension in
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      243 29  -  MS& Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock index rose yesterday, led by semiconductor shares, on expectations of a better earnings outlook. The uptrend in US markets boosted sentiment. The MSCI Taiwan index ended higher for the third day in a row
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      196 29 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia is expected to import at least 4.3 million tonnes of wheat in 2001, up from an estimated four million tonnes this year, Indonesia's top wheat importer and miller, PT Bogasari Flour Mills, said. Bogasari said the increase was
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      315 29 Reuters London THE euro dropped to within half a cent of last week's record lows against the dollar yesterday in the absence of central bank intervention to support the beleaguered single currency. Caution prevailed ahead of today's Group of 20 meeting in Montreal, with dealers mindful of the
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      2872 30 HONGKONG AFP QHangSeng +57.83 HONGKONG share prices rose 0.4 per cent yesterday on follow-up buying amid a lack of fresh incentives, dealers said. They added that the market was led higher by financial stocks but with the gains capped by weakness in
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      1992 30 TOKYO AFP □Nikkei 225 -100.77 SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 0.7 per cent yesterday as investors dumped issues with credit risks following the collapse of Kyoei Life Insurance Co in Japan's biggest postwar corporate failure, brokers said. The market was also waiting for
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      1015 30 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -L2O CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed lower yesterday as a cautious mood meant there was no followthrough buying to sustain a short-lived rebound, analysts said. The Shanghai B share index ended down 0.89 per cent at 61.84. Turnover fell to U559.24 million from
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      370 30 AFP □fr In<fcx +BL2I TAIWAN share prices closed 1.6 per cent higher yesterday on government-led buying of technology shares, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 81.21 points to 5,680.95, on turnover of NT587.42 billion. Decliners led advancers 447 to 104, with 64 issues unchanged. "Bargain-hunting
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      423 31 AFP V% Composite Index +4J>l MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.6 per cent higher yesterday on buying of selected blue chips and other stocks with trading leads, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index finished up 4.51 points at 783.50. The Second
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      273 32 AFP POwnpoate Index -17.60 SOUTH Korean shares fell 3.2 per cent yesterday with the index down 17.60 at 528.37. Volume stood at 259 million worth 1.9 trillion won. —AFP Oct 23 »o« AnamSeml 5710 20 Brain Tech 645 -45 Central Bank 170 unch CheilComm ***** 2600 Dee Gu Bank
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      668 32 AFP Q Composite Index -2j£ INDONESIAN share prices closed 0.7 per cent lower yesterday in thin trade following signs of government weakness in upholding law in the country, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.88 points at 417.45 on volume of 416.2 million shares valued
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      547 32 AFP HI AD Ordinaries *2&3 AUSTRALIAN shares rose 0.9 per cent yesterday as investors sought blue chip stocks to add to their portfolios, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index rose 29.3 points to close at 3,217.1 points. The SP/ASX 200 index climbed 32.1 points to 3,267.9 points. National turnover
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      260 32 AFP V% Composite Index +16.46 PHILIPPINE shares rose 1.3 per cent yesterday with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index up 16.46 points to close at 1,267.69. Volume fell to 324.44 million shares worth 444.71 million pesos from 370.9 million shares worth 756.99 million pesos on Friday. —AFP Oct 23
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      97 37 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose four points to 1,740, the Baltic Panamax Index gained eight points to 1,606, the Baltic Handy Index was unchanged at 1,149, the Baltic Handymax Index shed three to 10,131 and the Baltic Capesize Index was up four points to 2,474. Biffex closed
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      497 37  -  Move made to provide a greater degree of control over vessel: DNV By. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The Norwegian classification society Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has asked the Singapore Registry of Ships to invalidate the International Safety Management (ISM) certificate issued to the troubled
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      268 37 [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) tripled its first-half throughput in the third quarter, chalking up a volume of 200,000 boxes since the year began. The port handled 48,668 TEUs (20-ft equivalent units) in the first-half and expects to handle 450,000
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      84 37 Xinhua [NAIROBI] Kenya will set up an open ship registry where foreigners can register their vessels flying Kenyan flags. This follows recommendations made at a recent workshop in Mombasa to identify laws which ought to be reviewed, the East African weekly reported. Kenyan
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        253 38  -  From Evelyn Duffy in Perth AN Australian university don has deplored what he believes is a lack of will across the maritime industry to seriously address the piracy problem. The issue demanded more attention as attacks continued to increase and pirates, who
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        116 49 Oct 29 Brunei: Israk Mikraj. Indonesia: Ascension Day of Prophet Muhammad. Oct 20 Malaysia: Deepavali. Nov 1 Philippines: All Saint's Day. Nov 3 Japan: Culture Day. Nov 4 Sweden: All Saint's Day. Nov 11 Canada: Remembrance Day. USA: Veteran's Day. Nov 23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day. USA:Thanksgiving Day.
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        805 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 kct Prices shown are based on sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        581 50 Bloomberg [HONGKONG] Cathay Pacific Airways, Hongkong's main long-haul carrier, will "soon" announce more aircraft orders as part of plans to spend HK$2O billion (554.49 billion) on new planes and maintenance by 2003, chief executive David Turnbull said. The
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        564 50 Concern growing over its safety and credibility AP [OSAKA, Japan] Just six years after its completion, Japan's second-largest airport is way ahead of expectations in one respect: it is sinking into the ocean much faster than planned. Spread out on an artificial island that
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