The Business Times, 15 November 2000

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 850 SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 2000
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    61 1 Qai, r UOQJS (+42.58) il BT-SRI UJTOLBB (+14.45) □ST XHDEZ FOTOBES MM* (+41.00) W% SOBCI nmwES U ***** (+5.50) SPOOK HAKKET UUNlflflp nil* IIMIIM 1. >-» M AAA A A A M NIKKEI 288 _—14jM&M -4Jt lUffG SENG *****.62— SET INDEX M8JB +Lt» JAKARTA COMP _«8JI jg* SEOUICOMP
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    65 1 FtBSXIATES 0» '< 81 uss —vm £(l"S$/S$per£) 1-440 tM» DM 1376 HQ# YEN 197.7 11-80 RM 18* 1181 HKS 7.7f» 4.476 BAHT 4US 28.88 Rl'PlAH M» M» PUB BUS SINGAPORE* 5J# KUALA LUMPUR 7J7 JAKARTA MM BANGKOK fit MANILA |Hl HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI 1M SYDNEY 8JI TOKYO IM SEOUL
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    Lock icon Backlash feared over move on Indon tycoons
    769 1  -  Crutch time for Anthony Salim, Sj&numl Nnra&lim and 'Bob' Hasan From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S economic czar, Rizal Ramli, is playing a high stakes game. He is forcing the country's most powerful conglomerates and their controlling tycoons into a corner as a
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    Lock icon Omni punters deaf to denials
    527 1  -  Price soars, despite third takeover denial by CEO By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Shares of eleotronics contract manufacturer Omni Industries Ltd shot up 11.4 per cent to $3.72 on heavy volume yesterday despite the disastrous showing of theiNasdaq Composite Index onHiaN day, which saw the index
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    Lock icon Taiwan, Korea, HK still have edge over S'pore in wages
    621 1  -  I ifi exclusive Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] When it comes to wage costs, Taiwan, South Korea and Hongkong still have a competitive edge over Singapore as a manufacturing hub, according to the US Department of Labour. But the gap
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      79 1 DfSIDE Money Matters continues. Top Stories of people raffled Estrada. Wxf Page HP Shock; PwC weighs options for Its consulting business. Risk choices: Is it a gender thing? 1% 13 Earn PERKS everytime you spend. With greater choices and greater HHBPli^'' in I rewards, you can redeem your PERKS for
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      46 1 BT COMMENT HP can no longer bask in the of iis CEO alone The latest 7^^ investment funds J j Pq 20 ■flHMHHyiifnuflMvu >. frßf\ ,v lf ii' i tfMiß MBBBBWF u j* *1 For related Omni stories recently published in BT, go to: httptf/bu*lno**-tlmo9.aßim 1 .eom.Bg
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      31 1 BNP baying up to 20% of OUB: report, Pg 4 Ill* a thorny issue when premiums crash //Mp Motot inc). Pg 3ti ...■■■■■ii. ■■in -ac... i .ait, ,'f lift iiimmuMi i—r—■
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      Lock icon Less glamorous prospects for HP
      820 2  -  -I i comment HP SHOCK For now, company will have to concentrate on building its services business organically jenifer lien [SILICON VALLEY] MONDAY morning was "somewhat of a long morning" for HewlettPackard, according to its chief executive, Carly Fiorina. And so it was. First, the
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        89 2 THE latest heaviest element known to science is managerium. This element has no protons or electrons, but has a nucleus composed of 1 neutron, 7 vice-neutrons, 30 junior vice-neutrons, 60 assistant vice-neutrons, and 125 junior assistant vice-neutrons all going in circles round the neutron. Managerium has a
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        Lock icon New Economy guys and gals
        66 2 FOR students of the New Economy and semeiology— that's the study of symbols—here's something to think about. The male and female toilets in the offices of Icon Media Labs, a recently-opened e-commerce consulting and implementation company at 5 Kadayanallur Street, are marked "Ah Beng" and
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        47 2 JOURNALISTS sometimes forget how suspicious other people can be of them. A reminder came recently when a reporter asked what she thought was an innocent ice-breaking question after a press briefing. "Are you new to the organisation?" was met with "Is this a trick question?"
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      Lock icon State-run funds move to shore up peso and stocks
      583 2  -  Phisix edges op 13.64 points; Central Bank's selling ef US dellars lifts peso From Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE state-run funds yesterday intervened in the financial markets to give a much-needed boost to both stocks and the peso which, in turn,
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      122 2 ZENITH Swiss watchmakers since 1865 complete calendar, moonphases. El Primero, the first automatic chronograph movement in watchmaking history, was developed in 1969 and its creation represented the last great challenge in the art of watchmaking. To this day it is the most accurate chronograph in the world, measuring time intervals
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      19 2 HP execs in the dark regarding profit shortfall, Pg 29 PwC weighs options for its consulting business, Pg 29
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon GSI shareholders opt for cash; rule out unit trust
      617 4  -  Actual amount to be distributed will be known after all assets liquidated By Serena Ng GENERAL Securities Investments shareholders yesterday killed any hope of the company turning into an open-ended unit trust. An overwhelming majority of shareholders of the closed-end fund
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      Lock icon Salomon sees 20% profit growth by SIA
      409 4  -  Any adverse impact from crash tragedy would be short term, it says By< Conrad Raj US securities house Salomon Smith Barney says Singapore Airlines is on track for earnings growth of 20 per cent a year for the next two years despite the
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      Lock icon BNP buying up to 20% of OUB: report
      649 4  -  Baaed on $8 a share, a one-fifth stake weald cost French bank $1.6b By\ Siow Li Sen OVERSEAS Union Bank (OUB) and BNP Paribas SA yesterday added fuel to the speculation that the French bank may buy a minority stake of up
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      Lock icon OCBC may still feature in a new OUB blueprint
      796 4  -  lock sir w siow li sen WHEN Overseas Union Bank (OUB) announced recently that it was talking to a potential buyer of a minority stake in the bank, that became the pin that pricked the bubble in its share price. After
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      Lock icon Harvey Norman sees $100m first year sales
      593 5  -  2 S'pore stores at Millenia also aim to break even operationally in first year By Kalpana Rashiwala AUSTRALIAN furnishing and electrical goods retail giant Harvey Norman expects first-year sales of $100 million at its two maiden Singapore stores which open at Millenia Walk
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      Lock icon Chew Eu Hock cites industry slump for $7.9m loss
      396 7  -  It stays mum on talks to acquire industrial developer By. Andrea Tan CONSTRUCTION firm Chew Eu Hock Holdings (CEH) yesterday explained its worse-than-expected full-year net loss of $7.9 million. It said the poor result —after a $1.3 million gain previously was
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      Lock icon Allied Components plans bonus, warrant issues
      249 7 SESDAQ-LISTED Allied Components International yesterday proposed a l-for-2 bonus issue. It is also offering three warrants for every 10 shares held, to be issued at 10 cents a warrant. The proposed warrant issue is in conjunction with a term loan facility which together will
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      Lock icon JIT takeover gets green light
      84 7 JIT Holdings said yesterday that its merger with US-based Flextronics International Ltd was approved by shareholders at an extraordinary meeting yesterday. The merger will take effect from Nov 30. The tentative date when trading of the JIT Shares on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange
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      Lock icon PanpacMedia buys M'sian mags, quits HK
      162 7 PUBLISHER PanpacMedia.com said yesterday it has bought and sold several magazines in Malaysia and Hongkong in a rationalisation programme. In Malaysia, it has bought the publishing rights and business assets of Golf Times magazine, which is published under licence from US-based Times Mirror Magazines.
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      Lock icon TV Works secures studio in CBD
      221 7 TV WORKS, the English channel of SPH Media Works, yesterday said it had secured the lease for a studio in the business district. The studio will be located at what is now the Pavilion, a glass-sided structure at the Far East Square conservation development,
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      Lock icon Teledata inks tech MOU with Big Blue
      309 8  -  By David Boey TELEDATA (Singapore) which has just come out of a twoyear bar on bidding for government contracts made good progress with an IBM deal yesterday. The mainboard listed data-voice communication systems integrator signed a memorandum of understanding with IBM Singapore to
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      Lock icon GK Goh sees PCRD stock moving up
      489 8  -  60% discount should narrow to 25% with major deals By' Teh Hooi Ling PACIFIC Century Regional Development's (PCRD) 60 per cent discount to its fair value will narrow in the coming 6-18 months as the company steps up its profile with a few
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  • SINGAORE markets
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      362 6 Stock* Vo*um» Omni Ind 10c 45,969,000 PCI 25c 37,710,000 OUB DB eCW*****3 34,837,000 I PCX) 20c 23,681,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 21,908,000 MediaRing 10c 18,197,000 AddvaJTech 2.5c 17,746,000 PacificCentwylOc 16,828,000 OUBCL0CWOO1215 13,087,000 QuiTech W*****7 10,573,000 Stocta > Omni Ind 10c 167,248,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 161,746,050 PCI 25c 55,523,680 OU8 36,470,200 VentureMfg25c
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      Lock icon Takeover plays give market energy to rebound
      547 6  -  comment STOCKS r.sivanithy THE local market proved surprisingly resilient yesterday rebounding smartly from the bashing it suffered on Monday thanks mainly to one major theme: takeovers. Renewed speculation that Omni Industries and PCI would soon be suspended and taken over at a huge
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      Lock icon DB's OUB covered call appears overvalued
      209 6  -  WARKAKT WATCH By] R Sivanithy THE Deutsche Bank covered call on OUB yesterday rose four cents to 13 cents on huge volume of 35 million units, thanks to speculation that French bank BNP may take a 20 per cent stake in OUB. It was
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      Lock icon Omni Industries poised to ride higher
      226 6  -  HOT STOCK Byy Ven Sreenivasan OMNI Industries shares have continued to soar despite the company denying a takeover is in the wind. The stock headed the actives list yesterday, jumping a hefty 11.4 per cent, or 38 cents, to $3.72 as 46 million units
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      87 6 ♦COMFORT Group will go ,r M* M ML Wsßtosar 1 day for buying-in cm a cum basis is Dec 12. Date payable is Dec 2 *r v "V.V,; ♦SINGAPORE Telecommunications will go ex-dividend (special dividend of 7.5 cents) on Dec 5. Last day for buying-in on a cum
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      24 6 Grow Your CPF With eiBht well as n* fiS >1 '.SIV Larry Wee's currencies colomn appears on Page IB A i £j: 'Mon©ond qILjI
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      Lock icon MPs unsure about govt's focus on family
      472 10/11  -  Some question its motive while others worry it's just paying lip service Reports by Chuang Peck Ming THERE appears to be scepticism about the government's move towards family-friendly work practices and its shows. When the topic was debated in Parliament yesterday, in the
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      Lock icon Corrections and clarifications
      70 10/11 IN yesterday's report "Accounting corporations now allowed", we misquoted Finance Minister Richard Hu as having said in Parliament, "The errant public accountant will still be liable under the law with a statutory cap on his liability." What Dr Hu said was. "The errant public accountant will still
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      Lock icon CPF used for private homes up in Q3
      305 10/11  -  1=473 on the economy cpf withdrawals Hi/} Marissa Chew REFLECTING the better mood in the property market, the amount of Central Provident Fund savings withdrawn by members to buy private residential property rose in the third quarter. Members took out $853.9 million
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      Lock icon It's up to bosses to recognise Chinese doctors' MCs
      443 10/11 PARLIAMENT But govt will not recognise thorn, at leant for now WILL medical certificates issued by traditional Chinese doctors be recognised by employers, now that they are required to register under a new law? This and other related questions will workers
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      Lock icon CPF soon can't be used for regular premium insurance
      517 12  -  This takes effect in Jan, bnt existing policies can still be paid with CPF By- Ling Su Ann THE Central Provident Fund Board yesterday announced that CPF members will no longer be able to use their CPF savings to subscribe to
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      Lock icon HDB to offer 3 EC land parcels by tender today
      460 12  -  The three sites will yield aboot 1,200 nnits: consultants By Vince Chong THE Housing and Development Board will offer for tender today three parcels of state land for executive condominium (EC) Development. Consultants told BT the sites at Ang Mo
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      Lock icon S'pore, New Zealand ink free trade accord
      490 12  -  Deal will liberalise trade in goods as well as services By] Eugene Low SINGAPORE and New Zealand have inked a free trade agreement (FTA) which will eliminate tariffs on goods traded between both countries. The agreement on closer economic partnership, signed yesterday by
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      Lock icon Free Internet access may not last long: IDC
      332 12  -  M Tang Weng Fai THE days of free Internet access may be numbered, according to the latest International Data Corp (IDC) refltSPs). Although the ISP market In Asia-Pacific is still healthy, the free access model is not HJ- v, E$ if. Last
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      Lock icon GE Life launches new annuity polity
      317 12 Aimed at the ageing population, it pays annuity and covers medical needs too NOW you can plan for your retirement with an annuity policy that also takes care of your medical needs. Great Eastern Life is the first to introduce such a plan to
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      Lock icon Improving attractions is vital
      381 10/11  -  Thomas Ng Meng Heng Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the column "Singapore faces a tourism quandary" by Lee Han Shih (BT, Nov 14). I would like to disagree with the negative tones/views of Mr Lee on Singapore Tourism Board's (STB) efforts to revive local theme
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      Lock icon Dividends: Minorities have little say
      337 10/11  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Plough back or pay out?" (BT, Nov 8) by R Stvanlthy. The point that "one major school of thought (who) holds that dividends are irrelevant" obviously refers to speculators who enter the market to participate
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      Lock icon S'poreans too dependent on govt? Not so
      181 10/11  -  Chan Heng Long Singapore, via Internet I REFER to Vincent Tan's letter "Singaporeans, change your mindset and grow up" (Mailbag, Nov 10) and K Ravindran's "Public indifference puts govt in tough situation" (Mailbag, Nov 11). The writers believe that Singaporeans have become too
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      68 10/11 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@ sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear
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      Lock icon Risk choices: it's a gender thing?
      834 13  -  SERENA MO detects a different approach between male and female players in virtual investing SERENA NG WHILE the top male investor for the Citibank Stock Challenge at the end of last week made almost all his gains from trading a single counter, the women
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      Lock icon ANYTHING YOU CAN DO...
      345 13 Market surveys have revealed the following: 1. Men and women invest differently Sometimes, research takes forever to prove what women know intuitively to be true. 2. Women trade less than men but achieve better returns on average. Men tend to be overconfident about their judgment. They
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Tammy's arrest crucial to heal Indon wounds
      743 14  -  ■TTTqI bottom line OPINION shoeb kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent POWER and money had always reigned supreme in Suharto's Indonesia Even now, it seems, the spell of the rich and the formerly mighty is hard to break. The wealthy son of
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      119 14 'Business and war have different objectives but the North Vietnamese army has much to teach software developers. We're applying the lessons of the People's War to the computer business.' -tagffiaßiah son-in-law of Vo Nguyen Giap, the general who masterminded Vietnam's campaigns against the French and the Americans.
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      Lock icon The Mexican connection
      624 14 EDITORIAL BY committing to a free trade agreement (FTA) with Mexico, Singapore has taken a major step towards establishing a vital economic foothold in the Americas. The commitment, which was set out in a joint declaration on Monday by visiting Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and Prime Minister
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      Lock icon Don't be blinded by free market rhetoric
      998 14  -  Do the majority of citizens on modest incomes have a right to query the outrageous remuneration of top executives? By] Michael Prowse FT THE pay of top British executives rose 20 per cent in the past year to an average of £717,000 (Ssl.B
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      Lock icon Stalemate suits business just fine
      706 14  -  COMMENTARY By Robert Reno LAT-WP THERE is a tired old saying that markets hate uncertainty and respond negatively to it. If you carry this concept to its logical conclusion, you'd assume that if Wall Street had its way we'd never have another election. But stocks
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  • MONEY matters
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      Lock icon US impasse may leave euro a winner
      926 15  -  11 comment CURRENCIES But the currency's recovery will not be without its hiccups larry wee Messy politics ail over the place left international financial markets fidgety during the past week, with near-term direction heavily dependent on the outcome of the US elections not
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      Lock icon Fate of Asia's US$ bond issues hinges on US developments
      922 15  -  Uncertainties over presidential polls. may pose risks to expected rally By- John Tan The author is a fixed income strategist with Standard Chartered Bank. This article is not an invitation to invest. BT and its contributors will not be held
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  • PERSONAL INVESTMENT
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      Lock icon Bearish sentiment continues to prevail
      945 16  -  n>fwTiT=miarßets But robbrt expects buyers to return to the market now that the STI is below 2,000 ROBERT HALILI The writer is bureau chief at > Score Lab Asia Ltd (www.asiascores.com). He is assisted by Ngia Soon Chai, Singapore News Desk. J SENTIMENT ended in
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      Lock icon Upside seen for Gul Tech and KepFels
      555 16 STOCK fTTESI Qui Teohnotogfaw THERE is renewed interest in Gul Technologies as its shares are benefiting from a re-rating sparked off by the merger and acquisition (M&A) fever currently gripping the market. IDEAglobal sees the stock climbing higher in coming weeks. As its
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      380 16 Europe is entering an exciting new era of change and offers Henderson Horizon European Fund O attractive potential to investors. (Luxembourg fund) e Ranked No 1 in its category over 1, 3 and 5 years. 2 The development of the single currency; the removal of trade tariffs; the increase in
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  • PERSONAL FINANCE
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      Lock icon Income aims to raise another $200m next year
      543 17  -  en»w* mo looks at the three new investment products launched by the company recently SERENA NG NTUC Income has recently added three new foreign equity funds to its stable of insurance-linked funds, bringing the total number to nine. It currently has around
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      Lock icon S'PORE insurance funds
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      Lock icon No sharp fall seen in number of insurance agents
      417 17  -  Reports by 3 Errol George THE number of life insurance agents is unlikely to drop dramatically following the implementation of the new disclosure and training requirements next year, says David Beynon, chief executive of John Hancock. This is because the insurance
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      Lock icon Financial planners set up new body to lift standards
      311 17 CALLING all financial planners. A new association has just been launched to help beef up the standards of this fledgling community of advisers. Launched last weekend, the Society erf Financial Service Professionals (SFSP) is a grouping of financial planning practitioners, with
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      434 18  -  By I Genevieve Cua FRANKLIN Templeton Investments, the newly rebranded asset management firm of Templeton, has expanded Its office here to become the hub for fund management and marketing for India, South Africa, Singapore and the Middle East. Managing director Vtyay Advani, who
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      740 19  -  I -11 comment YOUR MONEY The yawning gap In penetration between insurance products and unit trusts looks set to stay genevieve cua TALK to any fund manager about their targets in the Singapore market, and almost uniformly, they salivate over the billions of dollars
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      249 20 UOBAM's United Capital Guaranteed Funds Series 1 UOBAM's new offering, which is CPF-approved, follows broadly the 80-20 investment ratio at the outset that is, 80 per cent in global fixed income and 20 per cent in global equities directly or through options. This ratio may change
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      691 21  -  Where the Internet and genomics intersect that's where the action will be By] Eric Goh Eric Goh (eric.goh@compaq.com) is managing director, Singapore, Compaq Computer Asia. LIFE sciences is the hottest field in town. Even engineers are being challenged to adapt their skills to inter-disciplinary
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      542 22 But Son, Oracle and mm analysts believe the industry is moving tea server-centric model Bloomberg [LAS VEGAS] Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said personal computer sales will continue to be robust, criticising the view put forth by some competitors that servers
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      263 22 WASHINGTON AFP, Reuters A STAFF report released on Friday from the international organisation that assigns the domains used in website suffixes is giving a thumbs-down to websites ending in .kids and .xxx. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is still
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      407 22 TOKYO Thanks to i-mode, it now expects net profit of 347b yen Reuters JAPAN'S largest wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc boosted its net profit forecast for this business year to 347 billion yen (***** billion), up 12 per cent from its prior estimate, reflecting
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      398 22 HONGKONG Bloomberg HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd and Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd, two of Hongkong's biggest mobile phone operators, criticised the city's plan to force winners of thirdgeneration cellular licences to share their networks. Hutchison Telecom, and CyberWorks told legislators yesterday that they disagreed with a
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      162 22 EXETER, New Hampshire Bloomberg TYCO International Ltd, the biggest maker of connectors used in everything from cellular phones to circuit boards, agreed to buy Lucent Technologies Inc's power systems unit for US$2.5 billion (554.4 billion). The unit makes products that ensure reliable power
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      190 21 About ec.Think ec.Think is a series on key issues facing businesses in the e-economy. The series takes its name from a private sector consortium formed recently with the aim of helping define and promote Singapore's e-economy. ec.Think currently comprises Andersen Consulting (to be renamed Accenture from Jan 1), Cisco Systems,
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      336 23 KUALA LUMPUR Tabling Haji head says without control, it would not have a voice Reuters MALAYSIA'S pilgrims' fund is eyeing a controlling stake in national carrier MAS which the government is negotiating to reacquire from the airline's chairman, the official Bernama
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      672 24 Some analysts fear central banks may lose their patience with volatile markets and slap on tighter controls Reuters ASIAN central banks are clearly getting frustrated with declines in their currencies, but short of imposing draconian capital controls, there seems little they can do. What will force
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      45 24 [BANGKOK] US golfer Tiger Woods smiles while he shows his honorary doctorate in sports science from Kasetsart University in Bangkok yesterday. Tiger Woods will participate in the Johnnie Walker Classic2ooo, one of the world's top golf tournaments, from Thursday to Sunday. AFP
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      391 24  -  Tough controls on banks that lend baht to non-resident customers who are not genuine investors bear frnit From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Bank of Thailand has successfully reined in baht speculators by penalising banks that lend baht to non-resident customers who are not genuine
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      313 24 AP [JAKARTA] As former president Suharto lay ill in bed hooked up to oxygen, police stepped up the manhunt for his fugitive son yesterday and searched both of their houses for a second time. Mr Suharto's lawyer Felix Tampubolon said
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      110 24 MANILA AFX-Asia THE central bank said it has not received any report of heavy withdrawals from banks amid rumours that Equitable PCI Bank and Philippine National Bank are experiencing a bank run, deputy governor Alberto Reyes said. "We are monitoring the banks but
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      186 24 JAKARTA Reuters THE Indonesian government yesterday pledged to stick to its plans to break up the country's telecommunications monopoly and allow the two state firms which control the sector to compete directly. "(We will) leave the monopoly era and apply competition," the government said
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      200 24 m MANILA The move comes a day after Estrada impeachment vote Bloomberg PHILIPPINE National Bank's credit rating was cut by Moody's Investors Service, which said it may also cut ratings for several other lenders amid the fallout from the impeachment of Philippine President
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      925 25  -  Challenges facing Apec leaders are far greater than free trade or the WTO, reports tamo biiiij kisctm from Bandar Seri Begawan YANG RAZALI KASSIM ASIA-Pacific leaders today begin a two-day summit here in Brunei Darussalam, the peaceful oil-rich state whose name means the "Abode
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      254 25 AFP [BANGKOK] Thaksin Shinawatra, the tycoon tipped to become Thailand's next prime minister, has refused a request to appear in front of an anti-graft body to answer corruption allegations, one of his aides said yesterday. The National CounterCorruption Commission (NCCC) has issued Mr
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      283 25 LONDON He cites increasing competition in the banking sector Bloomberg HSBC Holdings analyst Michael Lever has cut his recommendation on his own bank for the second time in two months. Mr Lever is recommending clients "hold" shares, the lowest the bank's analysts will go
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      598 26 BEIJING They will have to release financial info 2x as often every 3 months AP, Reuters CHINESE stock market regulators, seeking to increase transparency on the nation's unruly bourses, are placing loss-making listed firms under stricter scrutiny, the official China Daily newspaper
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      48 26 [BEIJING] Chinese lining up to buy tickets for a sports lottery on a Beijing street corner yesterday. The lottery's top prize has jackpotted to more than 10 million yuan (ss2.l million) after two weeks with no winners. A ticket sells for 2 yuan. AP
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      502 26  -  It praises the economy but also raises concern Fromi Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given the thumbs up to the Hongkong economy, including making an upbeat GDP growth forecast of 9.5 per cent for this year.
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      168 26 BEIJING Reuters THE Royal Dutch/Shell Group said yesterday it had signed an agreement to buy 20 per cent of the initial public offer (IPO) of the China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) Ltd for up to US$3OO million (***** million). Shell
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      1005 27  -  I=ll comment US PRESIDENCY Is political stability giving way to a weakened presidency? leon hadar POLITICAL science textbooks inform you about the three branches of the US government: the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. But what those books don't tell you is, there's
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      293 27 Asia Miles r~ i"j I Weekly from Singapore to Hong Kong Weekly from Hong Kong to Singapore I CX7IO Dep. 0805 Air. 1150 Daily CX2073 Dep. 0300 Ait. 0630 Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 1 CX736 Dep. 1040 Art: 1420 Tue, Wed, Thu CX7I3 Dep. 0900 Arr. 1500 Daily (via Bangkok)
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      646 28 SEOUL Saltan to speed up USs3Bm project payment and Korea Land to give 210b won advance for reclaimed land Reuters CASH-STRAPPED builder Hyundai Engineering and Construction yesterday got a lifeline when the Sultan of Brunei agreed to speed up reimbursement on a construction
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      756 28 US ELECTION Judge to role yesterday on whether to extend a deadline for Florida vote recounts AFP, Reuters [PLACELINE] A judge was to rule yesterday on whether to extend a deadline for Florida vote recounts that could decide the US presidential election, while one
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      316 28 NEW YORK Reuters, Bloomberg ABBY Joseph Cohen, one of Wall Street's most widely watched strategists, on Tuesday attempted to ease investors' concerns about the recent stock market sell-off, saying economic and profit growth rates are slowing to sustainable rates. Goldman Sachs
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      431 28 ■FRANKFURT It wants to capitalise on tax cuts in 2002 by scaling back on its 20.2b euros holdings Reuters DEUTSCHE Bank AG said yesterday that it would speed up the sale of its industrial holdings, valued at around 20.2 billion euros (5530.2 billion),
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      340 28 Reuters [SEOUL] A court yesterday ordered the South Korean debts of bankrupt Daewoo Motor frozen, relieving the cash-strapped automaker of payments on its hefty debts as a first step in the country's biggest ever receivership. Analysts expect the court will
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      411 30 CHICAGO The 102-year-old bourse is first US futures exchange to issue shares to its members Bloomberg, AP THE Chicago Mercantile Exchange became the first US futures exchange to make the switch to a for-profit company, issuing about 26 million shares of stock to its members.
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      415 30 LONDON Results help lift telecoms shares across the board Reuters VODAFONE Group pic yesterday announced strong interim results, reassuring the market it could continue to raise profits in the face of intense competition and expensive licence bills. The world's largest cellphone operator reported
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      330 30 MEXICO CITY Reuters CENTRAL bankers from the world's msyor economies said late on Monday the impact of lofty oil prices has so far been modest, and that they expect prices to abate in early 2001 after the northern hemisphere winter. Bank of
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      409 28 projecteyeball. Mita (P) 077/02/2000 MONDAY TO FRIDAY Bringing you the issues that matter ss v r The Newspaper tor the Wired Generation mrohafl -4s? W GVeha Singapore's first integrated online/offline newspaper 2! 4 4 eywux- Project Eyeball brings you the latest in News&Views, Technology, Sports and Leisure every morning before
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      389 29 NEW YORK IBM, Son Microsystems and Dell seen as likely buyers Reuters PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PwC), the world's biggest accounting and professional services firm, was left pondering options for its consulting business on Monday as technology firm Hewlett-Packard Co pulled out of talks to buy
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      630 29 SAN FRANCISCO They were unaware of missing financial targets dne to changes in internal reporting Reuters HEWLETT-Packard Co executives were unaware until the weekend, just days before their third-quarter financial report was due, that they would substantiaUy miss financial targets, a company
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      86 31 Proposed Fairs/ Missions Infrastructure Mission to East Timor I Dales November 2000 ft-. I S ts f \l r-* v: Comdex Fall 2000 Date 13-17 November 2000 Intellectual Property 2000 Date 18 -19 November 2000 Mission to India Date: 26 November 3 December 2000 ri--::, ~4 Mission
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      577 31 ITIS Business learning in the digital age Venturing overseas is now a lifeline for many companies, and succeeding in today's fast-changing business environment requires a continual sharpening of business and management skills. This is the era of the global marketplace and the International Trade Institute of Singapore (ITIS) is committed
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      556 31 Eye on China Singapore's 6th largest trading partner is on the rise Since the initiation of economic reforms in the late '70s, China has become one of the world's largest trading nations and fastest growing economies. The 2000 annual report published by the World Trade Organisation ranked China as the
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      422 31 Comdex Fall 2000 IT strategies and solutions for the new economy Comdex Fall, the world's largest information technology trade show, will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, this November 13 17. Considered a leading marketplace for the information technology community, Comdex Fall 2000 brings buyers, sellers and the latest technologies
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      592 31 The new global economy has transformed the international trading environment from a physical market into a borderless virtual realm. TDB has long been a proponent of information technology to achieve greater savings and efficiency in the trading system. Since reporting under the Trade Dial-Up system
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      48 31 For more information, please call TDB Tele Trade Information includes Information on Import Export m W Ck TDB Business Library Services JHfc m m M TDB Trade Fairs Missions, Business Seminars and Courses 24' hour hotline Setting up a Representative Office in Singapore or Visit our website: www.stdb.com
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      1927 32 NOTICES NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fifth Annual General Meeting of WEE POH HOLDINGS LIMITED (the "Company") will be held on Friday, 8 December 2000 at The Grassroots Club, 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, Singapore *****6 at 10.00 a.m. for the following purposes:
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  • FINANCE & commodities
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      279 33  -  SGZ Derivatives TrsMngßeport ST Index/MSClS'pare Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday on expectations of a rebound in Nasdaq on Tuesday trade after the latter had recouped more than half of its losses on Monday. With that optimism, investors
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      223 33  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore INTERVENTION by state funds and bargain-hunting yesterday helped the MSCI Taiwan Index close almost unchanged after early falls. Despite Nasdaq's 2 per cent decline on Monday night, investors jumped in to buy technology stocks on hope that
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      170 33 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices rose yesterday as the market reacted to the prospect of colder weather in the US set against a decision by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) not to hike output further this year. Brent crude oil was
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      332 33 Reuters London THE euro was steady against the dollar yesterday amid wariness that the European Central Bank could intervene in the single currency's support and continued legal wrangling over the US presidential election. Traders were particularly mindful of the risk of intervention as officials from the Group of
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  • STOCKS east asia
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      2845 34 HONGKONG AFP H Hang Seng +J.WLB3 HONGKONG share ]:>rices closed sharply higher 3-ester-day on bargain-hunting: after the previous day's dec lines, with sentiment bolstere d by a late rally on Wall Strc iet on Monday, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index
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      2021 34 TOKYO AFP Q Nikkei 225 -MO SHARE prices in Tokyo edged downwards yesterday as investors took their cue from weak US stocks and political uncertainties in the United States and in Japan, dealers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 index lost 4.60 points
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      1005 34 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -M 2 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed a touch lower ye sterday, but rises in Hongkong and domestic A shares underpinned the indices and pushed them off intra-da y lows. The Shenzhen B In dex inched down 0.02 per cent, or 0.( )2
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      384 34 AFP □WPlnto -2XOI TAIWAN share prices cL osed 0.4 per cent lower yestei -day in thin trading follov /ing overnight losses on Wall Street, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Iri dex fell 21.01 points to 5,772.51., following a 4.8 per cent plunge in the previous session.
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      343 35 AFP, Bloomberg Composite Indei +8-06 MALAYSIAN shares closed 1.1 per cent higher yesterday on local institutional support amid a rebound in regional markets, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended up 8.05 points at 745.25. The Second Board Index declined
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      2016 36 BONDS WARRANTS Nov 14 ■t Mi *m/ tJ*H Last NT UiIBiHi lm M Cm> lar Mm Mts J, y, I Ml «ar- mm I— m >|« I* W» caatoHaMa w law -2 1 unch 42 4 3 53 38 2S MO 3 2 »S 23 2« 2S 29.1 1 39
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      278 36 AFP 11 Composite Index ■*•14.06 SOUTH Korean shares rose 2.61 per cent yesterday with the index up 14.05 at 552.99. Volume was 251.7 million shares worth 13 trillion won.—AFP m« Anam Stmi 5450 250 Brain Ttch 625 unch Cantral Bank 170 unch Chatl Comm ***** 600 Daa Gu Bank
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      255 36 AFP, Reuters Q Composite Index +13.64 PHILIPPINE stock prices closed 0.94 per cent higher yesterday with the Composite Index rising 13.64 points to close at 1,469.58. Volume turnover fell to 164 million shares worth 337 million pesos from 322.17 million worth 686.34 million pesos on Monday. Nov 14 Peso
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      269 36 AFP PIBSE-40 *&31 NEW Zealand's share market held up well yesterday in the face of offshore weakness and a slightly disappointing quarterly result from dominant stock Telecom. The NZSE-40 capital index firmed 5.31 points, or 0.27 per cent, to 1,976.75 on turnover worth a mild NZ$6O.l million. —AFP »i4
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      543 36 AFP AD Ordinaries AUSTRALIAN share prices rose marginally yesterday, pushing into positive territory despite falls in key blue chip stocks, brokers said. The benchmark All Ordinaries Index gained 0.5 of a point to 3,241.3 while the S&P/ASX2OO put on 0.7 of a point to 3,291.5. Turnover totalled 530.7 million
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      744 36 AFP fISET Index *LlO THE Thai stock market edged up 0.4 per cent yesterday on the back of selective buying in blue chip issues, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index added 1.10 points to finish at 288.28, and the SET 50 index was up 0.05
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      674 36 AFP F1 Composts Index +IJ6 JAKARTA share prices closed 0.5 per cent up yesterday, with profit-taking eroding earlier gains but boosted by the firm performance of regional markets after Wall Street's late rally on Monday trade, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed up 1.95 points at
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      919 38  -  CARH^ihh One trader shares windfall with its customers; another sticks to its contractual guns christopher tan WHEN the big-car COE price crashed last month to $12,888 (or a third of the prevailing rate), an often ignored element of car-buying came to the
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        154 38 ASIA'S motor industry is not yet out of the rut Graeme Maxton, an industry expert with The Economist Group, said "despite the feverish optimism of the last few years, there are growing signs that the recent recovery is fialse". The last two
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        170 38  -  Oampitodby Christopher Tan FROM showings over the weekend, BT understands the Millennium Motorshow at Suntec City is not as jam-packed as before. One reason for this could be that the show is now spread over two floors (from one previously). As at Sunday, over 50,000 tickets
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      375 38  -  By. Christopher Tan THE fortunate few who landed their cars with the phenomenal $50 COE (certificate of entitlement) at end-1997 are finding it harder to sell them now, according to trade sources. And if they manage to unload their vehicle, it's often at
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      127 38 [BEIJING] General Motors' Opel HydroGenl, a hydrogensourced fuel-cell prototype based on the Zaflra minivan, attracts curious onlookers outside Beijing. The zeroemission Opel was one of the exhibits at a four-day ftiel-cell symposium organised by GM and attended by 300 participants from China, Japan, Korea,
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      1414 38 Average open mafaet value (OMV) of cars registered in September. MOOEL/MAKE CC AV€OMV($) ALFA R0M30 A156 2D 1.370 24.361 ALRA ROMBO A156 25 2.492 2&441 AURA ROMEO A166 3.0 2359 J3542 AUDIA31.6A3DR 1506 19X177 AUDI A316A5DR 1596 ***** AUDI A41.6A40R 1.506 ***** AUDI A41 8A40R 1.781 *****
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      284 41 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) lost five points to 1,742, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) shed 10 points to 1,577, the Baltic Handy Index (BHI) dipped one point to 1,113, the Baltic Handymax Index fell 17 points to 9,833 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down
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      299 41 sex me&mmm Ww 14 W CWT Distribution 0.60 WCh 0 Chuan Hup 0.42 002 5175 Cosco investment—0.18 unch 25 Freight Links 0.15 O.ffl 30 CB Holdings 033 unch 0 Hei Sun Hup 0.27 -0J1 1051 IMCHaMkws-MK—5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings 0.16 -0.01 191 KappelCorp 3.58 0.12 1341 Keppei
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      611 41 Number of attacks in Malacca Strait at an all-time high due to political instability in Indonesia AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Rampant piracy in Asian waters often organised by international syndicates could undermine the region's economic development, an expert warned yesterday. Inter-Asian shipping is now busier than
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      368 41 AFP, AP [BEIJING] At least two sailors were feared dead after a Chinese vessel carrying oil sank yesterday following a collision with a Norwegian ship in the Pearl River in south China, state media said. The Dehang 298 and the
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      857 41  -  STRAIT TALE By I Seafarer AFTER 20 years we now know what happened to the ill-fated combination carrier Derbyshire. Or at least we now have as good an idea as we ever will have. The 169,044 dwt ship and the 44 people on board
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      500 41  -  It will also launch new website during 3-day event By. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Aiming to grow the overall size of the cruise market, the Singapore Cruise Centre (SCC) is working with leading industry players to promote the cruise industry with a
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      297 41 OEODKPDTO AT GREAT BABBIHB BEET Bloomberg [SYDNEY] A Malaysian container ship that spent 12 days aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was refloated after a controversial operation to blast away part of the coral. Four tugs pulled the 21,000-ton Bunga Teratai Satu free at
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        1022 42 Europe's inland shipping nations have signed a draft convention to place their waterways on the same legal basis ITJ AFTER years of wrangling, at a final nine-day meeting Europe's inland shipping countries have signed a draft document to place European inland water transport on a uniform
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      295 42 PAGE ECU Line 5/6/7 Accord 6 En 9 Le< 10 Ahrenkiel 11 Lines W Appenship 5 Ever rm 6 AsmOCL W foonqSon 5 Assets 7 Frt Links 11 Austral 6 Fuh 7 Avant 11 GLink 4 B'tang Mas 6 Gemartrans 6 BSA 7 Genshpg 10 BTL II
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      13208 48 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number SIN Dest'n Www Name Nunfr ittBilira 23/11 02/12 NYK HARUNA MARU 0250 65-*****23 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot# D'lvolre 23/n 04/12 Evergreen patsy n ks 65-392im 22/lt 03/01
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        763 52 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure G H Pioneer P***** J M 'j06 M/11/9:15 14/11/17^)0 Winstar t 1MS00 J03 14/11/7:00 14/11/21:00 Bayswater118 M0277 J02 M/11/8:20 Sinq L H11 01-Nov J02 14/11/8:10 15/UQ7:00 Ef23 220 J02 M/n/855 14/11/17:30 Bt Afrizal mOO J01 14/11/9:20 M/H/20D0 Bt Sumber Rb H100 J01
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        1681 52 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AND LCI CARCO Booking/Balancc Rstls Ship Voy Mo Etb/Btr Period Front JTo From ACX DAHLIA 028A 16/12:00 W U/HOO U/1659 U/J900 2A 13/1700 14/0*59 14/090C 29 U/1700 M/0659 M/0900 J M/0700 M/IB9 M/MOC 4 M/BOO 1VM59 M/1700 Acx"iwscus m/2*oo I SSw 5& 21
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        136 52 Nov 23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. Nov 30 Philippines: Bonifacio Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. Dec 3 Japan: Culture Day. Deo S Thailand: H.M. The King's Birthday. Deo 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. Deo 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. Deo 20 USA: Christmas Day. Philippines: Christmas Day. Canada:
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        795 52 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars Instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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        515 52 Carle# MO Max 991.2 0.7 12.3 0.10 79 0.03 a qamji. Water Residue Ash AIumMwh Sedlaient No above E25 1 0 0 0 22L2 380 Ave 967.0 0J 13.2 0.06 27 0.02 J** 380 tax 993.2 0.8 16.7 0.10 57 0.04 HWW3 W> M/M -H— Ho
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        293 53 AP [ATLANTA] The proposed merger of United Airlines and US Airways will survive, but not in its current form, the chief executive of Delta Air Lines predicted on Monday. "Most mergers get approved with very substantial modification," Leo Mullin said in
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        610 53 Deal will let express shipper ship large cargo items in all but two US states Reuters [MEMPHIS, Tennessee] FedEx Corp, the world's largest air express shipper, said it would buy heavy-cargo trucker American Freightways Corp for about US$95O million (551.66 billion) in cash and
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        341 53 Domestic carrier Indian Airlines can also be privatised by that time Reuters [NEW DELHI] India said yesterday the high profile privatisations of national flag carrier Air India and domestic carrier Indian Airlines could be completed by the end of March. "The
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        198 53 It will use its OnStar in-vehicle communications and navigation system Bloomberg [DETROIT] General Motors Corp, the world's largest car maker, said it would begin offering drivers traffic information through its OnStar in-vehicle communications and navigation system beginning next year. Tele Atlas BV's
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        1968 53 QTT FU6HT CT* FU6WT Q» SOOM MB MM* MR30 MO NMl OB SO/VW176 UBS LM6381 1900 WH B35 *****0 MB soao WO ***** 645 T6480 IMS Ajnsttrdm ****** 0530 H.0030 2335 HrtiMI AT97 1910 AY90 2220 6*979 1135 S024 2340 0T3196 1910 0F3195 2220 g» BKI,
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        59 53 [LAS VEGAS] Scott Carson, president of Connexion by Boeing, sits in a mock-up of a jet as he demonstrates Connexion during thefirst day of the Comdex convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Connexion will allow breakthrough high-speed Internet and data communications from commercial airlines and private
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        261 53 Service will resume on Dec 2, conducted 4x a week with S'pore stopover AFP [MANILA] Philippine Airlines (PAL) said yesterday it is resuming regular flights between Manila and Jakarta next month after a hiatus of more than two years following the Asian currency crisis.
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