The Business Times, 6 November 2000

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  • 58 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week Change STI 2,661.66~_+160.46 SDfSCI FUTURES _J#7 JO. -4-11.60 BTSRI 817.82—+26J1 KLSEOOMP. 76M0 -*.78 NIKKEI KW7.78-+2K.58 HANG SENG 15#>4.12-...+«M.86 SET INDEX.. .287.84. +IU6 JAKARTA COME .4*18!_ -til MANILA COMP. 1,287.86l—+117 tMPHWH. 5,677 JO—-127.87 SEOUL COMP.. .660.41.—+46J7 CLSA CHINA B 1,174.15 +61.62 AUST ALL OBD .......3,266.50
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  • 76 1 FOBEX KITES US* 8$ USS 1-734 £(US$/S$ per 1.444 1M4 EURO(US$/S$/E) &8tt 1-496 DM ISffi 1J07 YEN mi 6140 RM MM 1195 HKS 7.717 4.497 BAHT 4164 17 RUHAH t,l» WO •SS to 100 units FUME BOTES SINGAPORE* 5.88 KUALA LUMPUR 7.87 JAKARTA 39M BANGKOK MANILA 1L00 HONGKONG 8.50
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  • 540 1  -  s exclusive Survey finds more firms porting profit falls for second straight quarter By Eugene Low [SlNGAPOßE] Companies operating here reported poorer results in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, causing business expectations to take a dip, according to a survey
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  • 772 1  -  -{■exclusive DBS, OCBC said to be most aggressive, charging flat $500 By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Don't despair if you are locked into a twoyear or five-year fixed housing loan and paying 5 per cent when all around you the new loans
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  • 395 1 mmmmamStock Challeftge THE first weekly winner of the Citibank Stock Challenge, Albert Tay, realised a net gain of $206,860 —or 20.6 per cent on his initial virtual capital of $1 million —from four days of trading on the Singapore stock market. The top female
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    • 674 2  -  Bnt the chief investigator says it's too early to assign blame From', Macabe Keliher in Taipei TAIWAN government officials handling the Singapore Airlines crash-said that the airline and the pilots must take full responsibility, but the country's chief investigator said it
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    • 471 2  -  Investigating team comprises officials firm aronnd the world, including S'pore, he says By Marissa Chew [SlNGAPOßE] Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the investigations into the Singapore Airlines crash in Taipei will not be biased as the investigators have been called
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    • 640 2 Signs of rising wage and price pressures role oat rate cut Reuters [NEW YORK] Wall Street expects the US Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady for the rest of this year as policy makers watch how slowing growth and persistent
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    • 1000 3  -  China-born author Adeline Yen-Mah breezes through Perth on a recent book tour. Dsa Sharp catches up with her and reflects on her work Ilsa Sharp "Falling leaves return to their roots" Chinese proverb ONE clue to the ancestry of Tianj in-born author Adeline Yen-Mah's indomitable spirit sits at
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    • 146 3 There are thousands of variables that affect what we hear in large buildings like sports stadiums, concert halls and airports. So in designing their sound systems, there are thousands of ways to do things wrong. That's why Bose engineers invested 10 years developing Auditioner audio demonstration technology: to hear the
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 814 4  -  hi I exclusive Pond will invest in about 25 tech businesses to diversify risk By\ Serena Ng INCUBATION management and investment consulting group Star Acquisition Holdings, headed by former investment banker Lai Hock Meng, will be launching a $50 million technology incubation fund
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    • 594 4  -  exclusive Indtniwrian-btni bngjnwrnman claims innocence, vows to fight it ont Byi Conrad Raj FLAMBOYANT businessman Sukamto Sia says he is innocent of all charges levelled against him by the US government and will fight them all the way. The 42-year-old Indonesian-born Singapore
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    • 287 7  -  JV will service hard disk-drive and medical sectors By Marissa Chew MAINBOARD-listed Unisteel Technology is investing $1.4 million to form a joint venture with its Japanese strategic partner Takumi Kogyo. The joint venture, called Takumi Unitech, will be in corporated in Singapore with an initial
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    • 588 4 ill AlultivChem MULTI-CHEM LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) ANNOUNCEMENT MULTI-CHEM LOTTED (THE "COMPANY") RENOUNCEABLE RIGHTS ISSUE OF 44,000,000 WARRANTS TO SUBSCRIBE FOR Ujmjm NEW ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.05 EACH IN THE CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY (Ml CONJUNCTION WITH A TRANSFERABLE LOAN FACILITY IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $23,000,000)
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      241 6 s UALMM* SIOCKi fOMW PaciflcCenturylOc 170,186,000 OmrilndlOc 163,246,000 IPC020C 105,606,000 MediaRing 10c 105,546,000 GES (nt! Ltd 20c 97,182,000 PQ 25c 90,878,000 NatEleclOc 85,649,000 NatSteal50c 80,917,000 ST Assembly 25c 53,719,000 Vjckare Capital 25c.... 45,464,000 Stocfca NatBeclOc 636,567,512 Omni Ind 10c 537,*****8 Chart Semiconductor 26c 379,381,186 NatSteel 50c 245,799,000 PacMcCanhxylOc 238,636,780 DBSGrp
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    • 585 6  -  comment I r.sivanithy IT was quite a week in the local stock market the tragic SLA plane crash, the Natsteel Electronics takeover that has now spread to the banks and brokerages and all sorts of other speculation which pushed daily volume above
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    • 184 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By r sivanithy TECHNOLOGY seems to be very much the flavour of the moment, thanks to NatSteel Electronics' recent takeover by Solectron. Apart from Omni and Venture, most of the other electronic counters are of the penny stock variety, costing
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    • 257 6  -  HOT STOCK By\ Serena Ng THE stock of Overseas Union Bank saw some frenzied buying in late afternoon trade last Friday on talk that the bank had found a strategic investor. i The counter surged a strong $1.06 or 12 per cent to dose
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    • 542 6 POLITICAL worries are likely to hobble the Thai baht and the Philippine peso this week, but the Indonesian ruplah could edge up on central bank support. The baht is likely to flounder on escalating political worries. The Thai parliament will be
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 482 8  -  Otherwise, it would be challenging Singapore's principle of multi-racial leadership, he says By] Eugene Low THE proposal by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) to form a new system of "collective leadership" for the Malay community here will undermine the position
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    • 417 8  -  By\ Kalpana Rashiwala FIVE Singapore hotels have made it to the world's top 80 hotels, with Raffles in the number two spot, according to the latest annual ranking by the Institutional Investor. The Four Seasons Singapore
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    • 470 8  -  Battanaiiirta industrial land eases in the quarter By) Marissa Chew BUOYED by strong mannfacturing growth, demand for high- and low-rise factory space owned by the Jurong Town Corporation rose in the third quarter. Demand for industrial land, however, was hit by
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    • 856 9  -  US medical devices manufacturer aspires to be household name like Red Cross, reports hubbub low EUGENE LOW JAMES Wessel, president (Asia Pacific region) of US-based medical devices manufacturer BD, has a simple vision for the company in Asia. He wants to make it
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    • 282 9  -  ■R a 4 on the economy f By 1 Eugene Low THE Singapore economy is expected to have expanded by 10 to 10.5 per cent in the third quarter, a DBS Bank report said. The bank said non-oil domestic exports had expanded
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    • 336 10  -  Ma Xiah Ying Singapore, via Internet GEORGE Washington, after having lost battle after battle, once remarked that leaders must never run away from accountability and responsibility. Accountability and responsibility, these are two powerful words. Being an investor in Singapore Airlines, I am extremely proud to
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    • 285 10  -  Christopher Lai Terk Director Head of Business Development American Express International, Inc I REFER to the letter "Amex customer ftirious over application delay" by Lai Voon Min (Mailbag, Nov 2). Firstly, I would like to apologise to Ms Lai for the inconvenience caused to
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    • 182 10  -  Harry Chia Kim Seng Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Does Singapore really need more golf courses?" by Lee Han Shih (BT, Oct 31). URA's reasons for having golf courses is a valid one. Why leave these open spaces for just public
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 284 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S national power utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd will look for renewable energy sources to boost its generating capacity, the Edge business weekly said. The weekly quoted Tenaga chairman Jamaludin Jarjis as saying that the company would revisit the hydroelectric sector. "We are
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    • 371 11 KUALA LUMPUR Wan Azizah joined by DAP, PAS leaders in anti-govt gathering AP MALAYSIAN police yesterday broke up an anti-govern-ment protest led by the country's top opposition leaders who are campaigning to oust Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Nearly two dozen people were arrested but no
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    • 171 11 KUALALUMPUR AFP MALAYSIAN police are investigating whether contract killers murdered a state assemblyman in broad daylight, reports said yesterday. Joe Fernandez, 54, died in hospital last Saturday after being shot three times by two men on a motorbike who pulled alongside his vehicle at
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  • SOUTH east asia
    • 645 12 SINGAPORE Singapore considered to be among the safest Asian countries, with a risk score of 1.29 ont of 10 AFP ASIA remains vulnerable to social unrest, particularly from violence in individual countries spilling across national borders, a political risk consultancy has warned. South-east
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    • 626 12 JAKARTA Another lawyer drain Suharto's son haaiM Jakarta AP, Reuters FORMER Indonesian president Suharto's fugitive youngest son will stay on the run until a crucial legal ruling clearing Hie way ft* his arrest is handed to him, his chief
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    • 642 13  -  Arroyo starts forming her own cabinet in anticipation of Mr Estrada's resignation From< Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE President Joseph Estrada, facing a losing battle to keep himself in power, is reportedly stepping down and is making arrangements with the opposition groups to
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    • 511 13 MANILA Analysts warn that stalemate will send economy into atailspin AFP THE beleaguered Philippine stock market and currency are expected to come under further pressure this week amid signs of a showdown between Philippine President Joseph Estrada and the opposition over his alleged
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    • 744 14  -  It's savvy businessman vs accomplished reformer From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok IT'S BILLED as the clash between one of the richest businessmen in Thailand, telecoms tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, who wants to run the country like a mega-corporation, and the country's Mr Clean, Prime Minister
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    • Article, Illustration
      142 14 Chuan Leekpai Bonn 1938 EDUCATION Bachelor of Law Degree, Thammasat University; Barrister-at-Law. Institute of Legal Education, Thailand; Ph D (honoris causa) Srinakharinwtrot University and Ramkhamhaeng University. 1979-19 MI Various ministerial posts such as minister of )i»stice, health, commerce, agriculture, and education. Minister. 1997 x Prime Minister since Nov Thaksin
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    • 719 14 U BANGKOK OMtralfauk governor Ghatn Mongkol Son&knl likdy tttaketbe post if TRT wins AFP WHILE Thailand's national elections promise an exciting contest for the premiership, investors are focused on the race for finance minister as they consider whether to reenter
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    • 202 14 AP [BANGKOK] In an attempt to curb rising theft, a police station in Bangkok has recruited junk collectors as crime-watching volunteers, a police officer said Saturday. The junkmen, known as sakng after the three-wheeled carts they pedal, are übiquitous in Thailand's cities, serving as
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    • 309 14 Looking for a Postgraduate Degree? If you are keen to advance your career by further study, the Singapore Postgraduate Fair offers you the best source of information on the latest postgraduate courses. Singapore POSTGRADUATE FAIR 2000 Meet senior representatives from leading education institutions in Hong Kong and Singapore as well
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  • EAST asia
    • 390 15 BEIJING Pace of reform 'closely linked'to opening of stock markets: minister AFP FOREIGN companies should not expect mergers and acquisitions in China to become easier overnight after the country's entry into the World Trade Organization, state media said on Sunday. Cross-border
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    • 192 15 AFP [BEIJING] China plans to raise local telephone call fees and lower long-distance charges as part of its preparations to enter the World Trade Organization, state media reported yesterday. Under the plan, which is likely to be implemented in the first half of next
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    • 601 15 TAIPEI Bnt it recommends five counters as good near-term buys Reuters TAIWAN'S battered stock market is likely to enjoy a short-term rebound at the end of this year, but Beyond Asset Management warns that a slowing economy could force a sharp retreat
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    • 732 15  -  icomment HK STOCKS Stock, has gained 8% in past two weeks quak hiang whai FUNNY how some fundamentals were conveniently forgotten when the Internet euphoria was raging and how many analysts at that time completely ignored a real gem like HSBC Holdings the
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    • 245 15 SHANGHAI Reuters THE cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Shenzhen are competing to set up China's first national gold exchange, the official China Daily Business Weekly said on Sunday. But the commercial hub of Shanghai was the strongest contender since the city's
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    • 291 16 HONGKONG SCMP's Lam says he would rather resign than accept change of job Reuters A VETERAN China watcher at Hongkong's main English-language newspaper said on Saturday he had resigned rather than accept a change of job after writing a controversial column on Beijing leaders
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    • 195 16 AP [BEIJING] Aspiring to host the Olympics and take its place among great world capitals, Beijing has ordered its buildings to assume a uniform colour scheme: grey. Designers and architects must stick to grey as the main exterior colour in new
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    • 140 16 BEIJING Reuters CHINA is planning to reform its state-run railway system by separating ownership and management, establishing a number of management companies, Japan's Kyodo news agency said. China would partly privatise its railway management and open the sector to foreign investment after Beijing's
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    • 202 16 BEIJING AFP A COURT in central China's Hunan province has given two former ranking officials suspended death sentences for corruption, state media reported. Ouyang Song, former head of the provincial industry and commerce administration, was sentenced by the Changsha
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  • CHINA car market
    • 558 17 Many have held off buying new cars in the hope prices will fall dramatically after WTO entry AFP [SHANGHAI] MOST drivers can only gaze with envy at the shiny automobiles gleaming in the showrooms of China's large cities, but manufacturers insist they are unfazed
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  • SOUTH asia
    • 738 18 MUMBAI Profits of software developers, however, almost doable Bloomberg SOME of India's biggest companies saw profit growth slow because of foreign competition, an economic slowdown and rising oil prices, latest earnings reports show. But software developers' profits almost doubled. India's top 50 companies saw profit
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    • 215 18 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] The Indian government is not considering changing laws to cut its stake in State Bank of India, the country's largest commercial bank, below 55 per cent, said Devi Dayal, banking secretary in the Finance Ministry. 1 While the government will change
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    • 384 18 AFP [NEW DELHI] Hie body that oversees the privatisation of India's state-run firms is pushing the government to move forward with the sale of its stake in the country's largest carmaker, Maruti Udyog Ltd. The Department of Disinvestment (DoD) said on Friday that it
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    • 379 18 NEW DELHI High cot wflldetar ■aayfrwßiwttcUig from caMce analysts AFP INDIA'S green light for di-rect-to-home (DTH) satellite broadcasts is being touted as a revolution for TV viewers, but experts here question bow many can afford the new service. Many believe the majority of
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  • WORLD news
    • 522 19 Bnmei meeting to aeak stable oil prices i interest, say offidtb^ AFP {TOKYO] Asia-Pactflc leaders meeting In Brunei this month fmx a balancing act to accommodate the rival interests of oil producers and importers as tite price of crude surges. Leaders of Asia-Pacific
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    • 547 20 NEW YORK Bloomberg MANY US companies waiting to go public may now have to hang on until at least 2001 before they can complete their initial public offerings (IPOs). Falling stocks and the poor performance of this year's IPOs, particularly
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    • 396 20 TOKYO Bankruptcies hurting borrowers' ability to pay debts AP NINE Japanese city banks wrote off about 1.1 trillion yen (5517.6 billion) in loans from April through September as bankruptcies hurt borrowers' ability to pay debts, a major business daily said
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    • 50 20 [LONDON] A Sotheby's security guard carrying an original oil painting of Winnie the Pooh painted by official book illustrator E HShepard across a road here last Tuesday. The painting is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000 at an auction next Thursday. AP
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    • 407 20 TEHERAN, Iran AP, AFP THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries will not hesitate to cut production by as much as necessary if crude oil prices drop below US$22 per barrel, Rilwanu Lukman, secretarygeneral of the cartel said on Saturday.
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    • 420 20 FRANKFURT Energy component to be left «rt meeirlnf eilrrkni are distorting overall rate Bloomberg THE EUROPEAN Central Bank will use a measure of inflation that excludes energy in making policy decisions because soaring oil prices have distorted the overall inflation rate, vice-president
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    • 213 20 WASHINGTON Reuters A GROUP of bipartisan US lawmakers is seeking a sixmonth delay before the Securities and Exchange Commission acts on a proposal to tighten auditor independence. In a letter signed by House majority leader Richard Armey and Democratic Congressional Campaign
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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      • 78 20 Reuters [ATHENS] Interpol is turning its attention to piwenting Internet crime, the newly-appointed chief executive of pirfr*? irpnimitV" MM, legislation was not keeping up with technology. Ronald f Noble said cyber-criminals caused untold damage «t little i coat to themselves and thatlsw enforcement lagged behind
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      • 80 20 AP WASHINGTON(AF)—The US government is raising salaries by as much as 33 per cent for thousands of technology workers in an effort to compete better with pffatte crawpantea ffa- amplnyflPß Tho rntjwfl, Wfclch tyko efifecton Jan 1, are targeted at hiring and retaining
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      • 101 20 Reuters (ZURICH] Britain's Vodafone Group Pic is poiaed to take ft minority stake to Swiss telecom provider Swisscom AG's mobile phone business, Swiss Sunday newspaper Sonntogs Zeitung said. A spokesman for Swisscom declined to comment on the report. Swiascom is6S.sper cent owned by the
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      • 89 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] BP Amoco Pic, the third-largest publicly traded oil company, will on Tuesday probably become the Industry's latest to report record third-quarter turnings, mainly because rfhighw mnig nil and natural gas prices, analysts said. BP probably made US$3.B2 billion (556.6 billion), excluding
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    • 315 21 Formal merger talks rather than hostile bid being planned, says business paper Reuters BRITAIN'S Abbey National Pic is trying to woo Bank of Scotland management to the negotiating table after the Scottish bank poured cold water on its takeover approach, Sunday papers
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    • 219 21 Bloomberg richest soccer club, saysltike Inc will pay £308 million inking its swoosh on the*shirts erf the Pr«S«rLeague champions. It's the biggest sponsorship agreement in soccer. Under the terms, Nike and Manchester United will share profits from retailing of merchandise. The agreement, announced
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    • 408 22 WASHINGTON Bitter rival told to join forces with three others Bloomberg SIDING with Microsoft Corp, an appeals court told America Online Inc (AOL) on Friday it must join forces with three trade groups if it wants to file a brief in the government
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    • 135 22 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S largest newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror pic is talking to the billionaire Indian-born Hinduja brothers over cooperating in a bid for tabloid Express Newspapers, Sunday Business reported. The paper said the Hindujas had made a formal bid of more than £120 million
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    • 465 22 It crald escape ceurt receivership if it accepts debt-for-eqnity swap Bloomberg HYUNDAI Engineering Construction Co, South Korea's No 1 contractor, could escape court receivership if it accepts its creditors' offer of a debt-for-equity swap, the Financial Supervisory Commission said. "If Hyundai's cash problems mount, then the
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    • 223 22 SEOUL AP INCREASING the pressure on ailing Daewoo Motor Co, South Korea's Finance and Economy Minister Jin Nyum said yesterday the car maker won't survive unless it comes up with a drastic restructuring plan. "For the past year, Daewoo's self-rescue efforts have been
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  • CAMPAIGN 2000
    • 1115 24  -  Gore, however, might ignore the region, diplomats say. Catherine Ong reports from New York Catharine Ong SOUTH-EAST Asia is likely to feature higher in the foreign policy agenda of a Bush administration while Vice-President A 1 Gore's penchant for attaching labour and environment standards
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    • 970 24  -  COMMENTARY By Frank Rich NYT IT'S now official: We have learned far more about George W Bush and A 1 Gore than they know about themselves. The press has at last plumbed the shallows of both men, and even
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    • 578 24  -  Byi Grethen Morgenson NYT MAYBE it's time to replace the flamed campaign slogan "It's the economy, stupid" with "It* the Nasdaq, numbskulls". The amazingly dose presidential race has puzzled investors accustomed to believing that as long as the nation's economy is strong* the incumbent
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  • COMMODITIES & futures
    • 569 25 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices drifted lower last week as tension eased in the Middle East and Opec nations offered another output hike to try and bear down cm prices. The price of a barrel of North Sea
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    • 274 27 HONGKONG Reuters HONGKONG'S key share index is expected to rise this week, supported by firmer telecoms and technology stocks, but gains are seen limited as a recent rally in inter-est-rate sensitive counters grinds to a halt following mixed US jobs data.
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    • 578 27 NEW YORK But analysts say any resulting moves in stock prices likely to be short-lived Bloomberg, AP SOME of the best-performing stocks in the Standard Poor's 500 Index this year, such as Philip Morris and insurer United Health Group Inc,
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    • 307 27 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo may fall this week as investors act cautiously over the direction of the US tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, analysts said. "Market sentiment is under pressure as the Nasdaq continues its correction phase," said Masaakl HigashIda, senior market analyst
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    • 450 27 LONDON AFP LONDON share prices moved sideways last week as a batch of corporate results and a modest rally on US markets foiled to inspire investors. Market players are turning their attention to tomorrow's US presidential election, which could set the
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    • 1433 27 Qprt ♦uu> FRENCH shares are expected to climb higher this week after closing little changed on Friday, as traders predicted cash-rich investors would seek financials like insurer AGF as a haven from slowing economic growth. The CAC--40 Index closed at 6,398.92 points, down 1.39 or 0.02 per
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    • 863 27 B| Sydney jjj THE Australian market must brace itself for a volatile week, with domestic interest rates, a sagging currency, high oil prices and uncertainty about the US economy threatening a roller-coaster ride for investors, brokers said. With central bankers due to meet tomorrow to discuss interest rates,
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    • 268 28 AFP U Composite hdg -***** MALAYSIA'S stock market is headed for another volatile week with the US election as a wild card, an analyst said on Friday. The market recovered on Friday after a week which saw mostly losses. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
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    • 8954 28 Coiiswntr products 2000 Last Vai Waafc Nat Cat High Low Company Sala 'OOP High Low P/E $nm 420 310 Ajlnomoto 340 18.6 1373 158 46 Angkasa 48.5 L5 49 49 47 713 670 290 Apollo Food Hlg 418 4 420 418 9.1 1673 3825 2700 BAT 50c 3650 -25 8032
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    • 173 33 CaJ^ng A raft of Indian talent expected to bring $400 million in added value to by TAUG WEMG FAI talks to the EDB's director of services development, Tan Chek Min, and chats with four players who are already here. Page 2. I Ml 1 I it PHOTOS SIEW YAW HOONG,
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    • 78 33 Top stories New consortium defines standards for mobile payment, on Page 4 Netlock to offer data encryption across platforms Pagelo It pays to understand e-shopping, Asian style Pagel4 Commentaries Lee Han Shih wonders if computers will harm kids if introduced too early Pageß COLLABORATION will be the next 828 wave,
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  • BIZIT
    • 953 34  -  i exclusive By end-2002,4000 Indian software and services staff could be generating an added $400 million Reports by' Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE is set to attract an additional $400 million a year in new value from services generated by Indian information technology
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    • 633 34  -  Sales of antivirus software booming in the US after the scare caused by the 'I Love Ton' vims By, Joanne Legomsy LIFE for Internet Romeos has become more complicated, now that the old staple, "I Love You", has been tainted. Those words, found atop e-mail messages
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      75 34 FILIPINO ooDege dropout Onel de Guzman (above) is suspected of creating the "Love Bug", one of the moot potent computer viruses in cyber history. The bug spread around the world, causing US$lO billion (8817.5 billion) in damage as it paralysed computers from the Pentagon to Britain's Parliament. The Philippine
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    • 1100 34 I nil hi il GOINO by the numbers alone, the Indian entrants to Singapore's IT services market are making themselves felt on the local scene. Some have been here for 19 to eight years, others fin* shorter periods, but all share the common dream of making Singapore
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    • 464 36  -  The handphone provides the ideal platform the for standard By' Tang Weng Fai A CONSORTIUM of mobile commerce players is hoping to win support for a standard that it is offering in an effort to jumpstart this promising market. The industry consortium, called
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    • 616 36  -  IT boom filtering down through less glamorous programmes to far-flung areas By\ Neelesh Misra AP [BANGALORE] On the remote Himalayan heights of north-eastern Sikkim state, awe-struck women from yakherding tribes sit before computers. In the farming heartland of the most populous Uttar
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    • 252 36 WASHINGTON Post WASHINGTON The government, which has faced widespread difficulty in trying to hire young people to fill its high-tech jobs, will increase salaries 7 per cent to 33 per cent for employees working in the computer arena, officials said on Friday.
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    • 674 37  -  comment INFOTECH Children here spend too much time with their schoolwork. With the addition of IT training, they will have even less time to learn from the real world lee han shih The writer is a BT Senior Correspondent WHEN he visited
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    • ITTAKES
      • 45 37 IBM Singapore has launched ShopffiM, a shopping portal for mM produces. The portal will carry the Ml range of Big Blue's products, including ThinkPad notebooks, Net Vista PCs and Netfinity servers. Delivery is guaranteed within Ave days, IBM said. For details, visit www.ibm.am/shop/sg.
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      • 31 37 US-BASED communications systems provider Avaya has appointed James Haensly as chief technical officer for the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously the chief operating officer erf Lucent Technologies Japan.
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      • 33 37 US-BASED evolutions provider Headstrong has appointed Jeremy Gwee Khee Heng as its principal for South-east Asia. He was previously executive director and CEO of Ernst Young's Financial Services Industry section.
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      • 52 37 SINGAPORE-BASED Stratsch 9y Bin n>irt if up develop a white paper for a world class transportation system for Shanghai. The $1.6 million proposal will draw on Stratech's knowledge of intelligent transport systems. TJie company will undertake this project jointly wife UK-based consultancy Colin Buchanan and
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      • 68 37 CREDIT Suisse First Boston (CSFB), a global investment i banidng&m, has provider of IP-outsourcing, data hosting and business continuity, to supply business continuity services for their Singapore operation. This means that CSFB will store replicated data at Fail Safe's data centre so that the J information can
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      • 15 37 networksusing broadband technology on Nov 15 at the Shangri-la Hotel v i www.scvmaxonline.com.sg/teleworking.
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      • 8 37 Research. FordeteOs, e-mail customersvc@iir.com.hk.
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      • 37 37  -  OoMpiMI by Siew Yaw Hoong A THREE-DAY seminar on "E-commerce technologies and business models" will be held from Nov 29 at the Marriott Hotel. It is organised by the ECommerce Institute. For details, fax *****88.
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    • 388 37 It says market remains strong despite the ahakeent among detcoms Reuters [BOCA RATON, Florida] Computer chip maker Texas Instruments Inc currently sees strong global demand for its semiconductors, particularly in Japan, despite signs that the US economy is slowing, its chief executive
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    • 615 38/39  -  The supply chain will become a key differentiator; competition will not be defined between companies, but between supply chains ng buck seng The writer is regional practice manager (extended manufacturing), Hewlett-Packard Consulting South Asia A GLOBAL revolution is changing businesses. Pressures to reduce
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    • 432 38/39 A crammer research grenp says radiation levels depend ra where yen position the phone and kit Reuters [LONDON] Hands-free mobile phone calls could more than triple the brain's exposure to radiation compared to a conventional mobile phone call, according to a report by British
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    • 656 40  -  For Singaporeans if s chatting, e-mail and instant messaging. Korea, strong in broadband, Doints the wav ahead By Siew Yaw Hoong ANEW Asia-Pacific survey that tracks how Web surfers actually use their time online finds that Singaporeans chat more than
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    • 737 42  -  There is no need for special user training for the software which offers end-to-end protection in a company's network By\ Siew Yaw Hoong NETLOCK Technologies, a US-based network security solutions provider, has brought to Asia the latest version of its flagship product Netlock,
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    • 358 42  -  By, Jim Wolf Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US National Security Agency said recently that it would seek bids in January for a contract valued at up to US$5 billion (SsB.7 billion) over 10 years to upgrade its non-spying systems,
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    • 538 43  -  3Com's strategy is to focus on wireless connectivity, security and home networking technologies, and it plans to use Singapore as test market By< Chen Huifen 3COM Corp, the US networking firm, plans to focus its efforts on wireless connectivity, security, and broadband solutions, and has launched
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    • ONTHESHELF
      • 102 43 CREATIVE Technology has released its Flay Centre 2 software, which lets users of its Sound Blaster Live! soundcards and Nomad digital audio players play DRM (digital rights management) protected music in Microsoft's Windows Media format. The format is half the size of MP3 fites but provides
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      • 30 43 HOMEGROWN Asiaooolnet has launched MyCoolCart 1.0. an e-commerce software that handles online shopping, inventory control, marketing, payments and logistics. Targeted at SMEs, the software costs $3,888. For
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      • 69 43 DELL Computer Corp has launched Power Vault 706N, a NAS (network-attached storage) targeted at small businesses and corporate workgroups. Under two indies high, the device comes with four disk drives and provides a total storage space of 120 GB. It connects directly to LANs instead of
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      • 46 43 SONY Corp has launched its Multiscan M5115.1-inch LCD screen. The panel is 48 mm thin and weighs 4.6 kg. It comes with integrated speakers and headphone jack, and displays maximum resolution 0f1,024 by76Bpixels at 75 Hz. It costs $1,899. Go to www.sony.com.sg/astanit.
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      • 136 43 XEROX Corp has unveiled two colour phaser printers. The Phaser 1235 prints 12 A4-size ppm (pages per minute) in colour with the first page out in 18 seconds; or 20 ppm in monochrome with the first page out in 13 seconds. It runs on a
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      • 85 43 FUJITSU PC (Asia) has unveiled two Lifebook C-series notebook computers: The C-6560 weighs 3.3 kg, runs on a 700 MHz P-111 processor and comes with 128 MB RAM, 15 GB hard disk, 14.1-inch display, DVD drive, 56k modem, with prices starting from $3,968. Hie C-6598 weighs 3.31%,
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      • 50 43 GERMANY-BASED Software AG has released Tamino 2.2, an XML (extensible markup language) database for SCO's operating system, UnixWare 7. The software can store, exchange and retrieve XML documents, and supports cluster technology which allows interruption-free system operation. It costs U5525,000. For details, check out www.softwareag.com.
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      • 37 43  -  by Siew Taw Hoong US-BASED WRQ Software has released its VeraStream enterprise application integration software suite. The product provides integration of enterprise hosts, databases and packaged applications. Priced from US$lO,OOO. See www.wrq.com/products/verastream.
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    • 518 43  -  Shareholders alleged it hid information on 1997 US Robotics purchase while execs sold stock By] Michael Liedtke AP [SAN FRANCISCO] Computer network equipment maker 3Com Corp said it will pay USs2s9m (Ss44o million) to settle a shareholder suit alleging that the company concealed
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    • 832 44 Companies like Sina.com, Sohu.com left in the dark as to how to apply for a new licence, or if they comply with censorship regulations Bloomberg [BEIJING] THE Chinese government is dragging its feet on letting Sina.com, Sohu.com and other Internet companies know whether they
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    • 642 45 Tie-up in mobile phone activities of Germany's Siemens and Japan's Toshiba will set off a wave of similar deals Reuters [LONDON] EUROPEAN cell phone makers cannot make the big leap to third generation phones alone and need help from Asian partners, many of
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    • 550 45 Will it beat estimates again or fall prey to network sector slowdown? Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] As Cisco Systems gets set to report its earnings today, worried high-tech investors are eagerly waiting to see if it can beat Street estimates as it has in
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    • 131 45 AFP [NEW YORK] The world's largest association of music composers and publishers is offering to negotiate with controversial file-swapping Web site Napster on a royalty agreement. ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers said in a statement Thursday it was willing to
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    • 326 45 Reuters [NORWALK, Connecticut] Shares of Priceline.com plunged 32 per cent on Friday after the "name-your-own-price" Internet commerce firm disclosed a sales slowdown and the departure of its well-regarded finance chief. Priceline shares fell 2 6/64, or 31.96 pei; cent, to 4 21/64 in morning
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    • 411 45 Dutch investigators raid offices of British Telecom's Tetfort and Dutch Versatek FT [VIENNA] Dutch investigators last week raided the offices of two companies, including a subsidiary of British Telecom. The investigators claimed they had "reasonable suspicion" that competition rules had been broken
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    • 150 45 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Margaret Whitman, chief executive of EBay Inc, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 600,000 common shares of the online auction company. Ms Whitman listed the value of the shares at U5533.4 million (Sss7 million) in a Form 144
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    • eBriefs
      • 141 45 Bloomberg [CUPERTINO, California] Portal Boftware Inc, a maker of products used to bill customers for Internet-related services, said it bought of Germany for about USs3oomillion (Ssslo million) in stock to gain its wireless and voice software. Portal will issue shares in a Gennanmihsidiary that may
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      • 123 45 AFP [FRANKFURT] Shares in Teamwork Information Mfmagpmtmt AO wnp* ryi tfrg Frankftirt stnrk exchange on Friday after the German software maker became the second company on the Neuer Markt of high-growth stocks to announce that it was insolvent. Trading in Teamwork shares was suspended until
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    • DOT com
      • 686 46  -  An IDC survey showing Asian online shopping rising sharply also contains cautionary lessons for e-retailers, kemmeth jambs learns KENNETH JAMES Convergence may be the buzzword of the Internet era, but when people buy over the Web, the reality is still "East is East
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      • BRIEFLY.com
        • 56 46 ZEE Interactive Learning System (Zils), an education servioe provider from India, wiUconducta trial of its interactive education content on the SingaporeONE broadband network. Users can watch demonstrations by scientists, witness role-play or catch an expert lecture whenever they want to. This protect is in collaboration with
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        • 64 46 YAHOO! Singapore has launched Yahoo! Broadcast, a webcasting service that provides live and on-demand Internet audio and video streaming services. It can be used for radio and TV broadcasting, marketing, corporate conununications, distance learning, online polling, etc. It can handle thousands of viewers simultaneously, and
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        • 99 46 YAHOO! and MSN were the most popular websites that surfers in Singapore and Hongkong most frequently accessed in September, according to the latest survey by Internet msasurement service, Niefeen/ZNetßatincs. Other popular sites wars AOL, Microsoft, and Lycos. Other findings: During the month, Singapore surfers q>ent
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        • 67 46 v > <,*ii> t\ ju \v~k-'****z y WEB-LOGISTICS.COM Asia-Pacific has acquired a 80 per cent stake in CargoEx Logistics, a subsidiary of homegrown WizOffice.com, for US$l million (5f1.73 million). The sale will provide WiaOfflce with freshcash as weU as accsae to Web4x>giaticB'regional logistics support network, said WizOfflce chief executive officer
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        • 45 46 AIRGATRWAY, a Singapore-based wirslsee solntinni provider, has tied up with BMC Software Inc. a US-based e-business systems management provider. Airgateway wmprovidethetechnotafythatletsßMC'scustoniers monitor their enterprise resources, corporate websites or WAP access performance and availability using WAP-enabied devices, soch as PDAs or mobile
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        • 54 46 GROWASIA.COM, a homegrown e-marketplace for interactive sales, purchase and development of regional buslueeses and corpornteaeoeta, has tied op with Beriijjr Smith, an international law firm. Under this deal, lforbertSmithwmprovlfeGrowasia.com content such as foreign investment rules, currency controls, trade regulations snd employment laws for iHiuliieeaee
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        • 41 46 IP ACS, a homegrown IT and e-commerce solutions provider, has traflsaction«**er the Internet TradeCardmemberscan nowaccess the lfikt ef logistics companies on IPACS' dadLogiadcs.com, and members of the latter can accees the online transaction servicee of Trade Card. v.,
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        • 59 46  -  Siew Yaw Hoong DOKNS Technology Consultants, a startup that provides e-commerce solutions, is offering its Site Builder toed free to companies and individuals that sign up with the firm. Site Builder, which has multi-lingual capabilities, enable* a user without any programming skills to feutid an e-commerce
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    • 399 47 USVOLI SUN SDVKDIG Doors wouldn't close, firefighting equipment faulty, outside hoses had no more insolation AFP [BREST, France] The Italian chemical tanker that sank off France's north-west coast earlier last week was badly maintained, an official who inspected the vessel said. "It is
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    • 342 47 GREAT IHEIB BEET QROUMDIMQ Reuters, Bloomberg [SYDNEY] The Malaysian container ship carrying dangerous chemicals which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef has probably damaged about 50 metres of the World Heritage-listed reef, state authorities said yesterday. Hie 184-metre Bunga Teratai Satu was
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      • 145 59 Nov 11 Canada: Remembrance Day. USA: Veteran's Day. Nor v 23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. Not 30 Philippines: Bonifacio Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. Dee 3 Japan: Culture Day. Dae 5 Thailand: H.M. The King's Birthday. Dm 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. DM 28 Japan: Emperor's Birthday.
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      • 790 59 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single price* for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are baaed on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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      • 596 60 British carrier's net income will triple, predict analysts, as market conditions improve Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airways will report a 37 per cent rise in operating profit and a tripling of net income for the second quarter, according to the average
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      • 478 60 ItH mn shuttle service between Phnom Penh and Stem Reap AFP [SIEM REAP, Cambodia] A new Thai-owned airline began domestic operations in Cambodia last Friday, taking advantage of efforts to liberalise the industry and setting itself up in competition with troubled national carrier
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      • 605 60 CONCORDE AP [PARIS] The legal wrangle over compensation for the families of those who died in the crash of an Air France Concorde three months ago continued in Paris on Friday, but as lawyers for the airline and for the victims'
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      • 191 60 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China will be the world's biggest commercial aviation market outside the United States over the next 20 years, US aircraft giant Boeing Co said. The official Xinhua news agency quoted Boeing's vicepresident of commercial marketing Randy Baseler as teUing a news
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      • 294 60 Bloomberg [LONDON] Rolls-Royce pic, the world's second-largest aircraft engine maker, says it's planning to cut up to 180 Jobs and close an engine parts plant in Derby, England by next June in a new effort to reduce costs. The factory makes glassfibre
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        • 105 60 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS} Virgin Express Holdings pic, Europe's No 2 low-fare airline, said traffic, as measured by revenue passenger kilometres, rose 15.7 per cent in the third quarter after new routes were added. The number of revenue peseengei kilometres climbed to 696J million from 600.9 million
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        • 116 60 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Co, Asia's largest airline by sales, said it would boost seat capacity on flights between Japan and Vietnam by about two-thirds, in partnership with Vietnam Airlines, to meet rising demand. Capacity is to grow with the addition of two joint
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