The Business Times, 17 November 2000

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 035/12/1999 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2000
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  • 69 1 wmm U U63L34 (+24.66) w™ UlM.70 (+10.77) □siiioei Ferae MHO0 (+22.00) flfflHSFRDUB U 257JO (+3.00) STOCK HASXET DID90ES Thursday OMay KLSEOOMP 7IW -7.68 NttK|J226 14,187 JS—-***** HANG SENG l«9&*_+17t96 SET INDEX 289J9 *1JM JAKARTA COUP—.416.98. --1.74 MANILA COMP -9.78 TAIPEI WPI 6,464.1*—***** SEOUL COUP 666.94 144 CLSA CHINA
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  • 68 1 FO&EX1ATES 081 S$ USS i.?M per 1426 1498 EUR0(US5/SS/E) om 1J94 DM U7t lJWi YEN HHU5_.—CLtt RM im 2.172 HKS 7.799 4416 BAHT 4187 2M7 RUPWH 9*2 fi£4t P8DKE1ATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA MM BANGKOK 9.5* MANILA 11.60 BONGKDNG 8.56 TAIPEI 7.84 SYDNEY A» TOKYO 2M SEOUL
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  • 977 1  -  In surprise statement, President Clinton and PM Goh want negotiations to conclude by year's end before Mr Clinton leaves office From" Yang Razali Kassim in Brunei THE United States and Singapore pulled off a huge surprise yesterday at the end of the Brunei
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  • 656 1  -  Surprise move could give major boost to stock market liquidity: analysts W Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] In a surprise move that could give stock market liquidity a major boost, OCBC Securities has launched a share borrowing scheme for retail customers. Investors must put up
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  • 785 1  -  Trading is expected to start on Nov 23 one day after the offer closes By i Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Local investors are being offered 75 million shares at $1.10 apiece in the Singapore Exchange's initial public offer (IPO) which opened yesterday.
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    • 97 1 aura BT Comment Is SMRT realty streets ahead of bus operators? Pg 4 Top Stories Indonesia's three largest debtors tycoons Anthony Saiim, Sjamsul Nursalim and Bob Hasan have surrendered assets, following the deadline set by the chief economics minister. NmxtPmgm Stats, Datacraft surge on talk of MSCI inclusion. Mexrt Pmgm
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    • 33 1 No rash to copy OCBC's scheme: brokers, Pg 4 ># I tH qQ %U\ ,o r A \J J Time 3rid Money rV- 7 i s w. n i Executive Lifestyle cover story p
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    • 41 1 S nations make aviation history, Pg 20 I 16.4% j The 3rd quarter 2000 economic results will be released tod«y at Bam. Click on h ttpy'/busin* »*-times, asia 1 .com. sg wO^Vjr^^sßSwF dflf Pf v T >, .4 i ■offw' V"t9k'S^fe^S^ llaai^^^HH^^^^H^^B
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    • 826 2  -  Anthony Salim, Sjamsul Nnrsaiim and 'Bob' Hasan meet deadline to avoid legal action From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S three largest debtors have handed over an extensive list of assets to the government following a Wednesday deadline set by chief economics minister Rizal
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 159 2 THERE'S anew book in the market titled You're Too Kind: A BrHistory of Flattery, that makes an interesting observation: buttering up is the accustomed currency of modern-day interaction and people simply don't consider openness and frankness as a legitimate response in social situations any more.
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      • 52 2 INTERNET security breaches are costing businesses more than US$l5 billion (Ss26 billion) a year worldwide, according to a report by Datamonitor. The report warns that if the security issue is not resolved, e-commerce growth will be jeopardised. Seems theft and fraud via the Internet are no longer just
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    • 334 2  -  Omai, PCI also rise on similar rnmears tart dealers sceptical Byl R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Shares of ST Assembly (Stats) and Datacraft Asia rose sharply yesterday on speculation that 'both counters fcould be included in Mown Stanley "Capital Internattinal's Singapore Free Index when
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    • 144 3 VACHERON CONSTANTS Manufacture Horlogere. Geneve, depuis 1 755 i•. J j^-jg a^y'■ C£k~ Jmk M !QUL x •JW fc, M WM F^B^Wy^v^^ LfijP^^^w mSlm?,s£s/{'. fc' '^^BHraiE M^tt w& w*!m l ''w^^^AwEr JN */3<^^F m *^F SiW -'i| W- Chronograph with double date window. f Automatic movement. Screwed case back, crown
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 743 4  -  They argue that too mnch risk is involved, that such facility be left to sophisticated investors By\ Serena Ng SOME brokers say there won't be a rush to emulate OCBC Securities' new share borrowing scheme for retail investors because too
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    • 420 4  -  corporate rrmr 3 ling su ann THE launch of an IPO is always a mad rush— what with the last minute proof-reading of prospectuses, rush to meet print deadlines, the hectic roadshows, analysts' meetings. Singapore Exchange officials had a taste of all
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    • 762 4  -  ![•!•i'A locksiew paul thompson LAST month, SMRT Corporation reported a 20 per cent rise in interim profit before tax on the back of a 15 per cent rise in turnover for the six months to Sept 30. The results, at first glance,
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    • 212 4 MAINBOARD-LISTED GP Batteries International said its Lithium lon battery plant in Taiwan, Gold Peak Industries (Taiwan), is targeting a Taiwan listing in 2002. The company said in a statement yesterday that GPIC has entered into an agreement with Taisec Securities Inc, a full-licence stockbroker
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    • 317 6  -  Company says 340 m baht purchase key part of investment plans in Thailand By Marissa Chew HOTEL Properties Ltd yesterday said an associate company had agreed to buy the 262-room YMCA Collins International House in Bangkok for 340 million baht (5513.5 million). The property
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    • 269 6 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] TNT Post Groep NV, the UK Post Office and Singapore Telecommunications face a European Commission inquiry into their plan to form what would be the world's first global post office alliance, the commission said. The probe by the commission, the 15-nation European
      Bloomberg  -  269 words
    • 302 6  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling MAINBOARD-LISTED Horizon.com and Nasdaq-listed Educational Video Conferencing Inc (EVCI) has entered into an agreement to distribute each other's products in their respective markets. Under the deal, EVCI will purchase licences for Horizon's proprietary CD-ROM streaming technology and its school
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    • 246 6 ACE Dynamics (AceD) has exercised an option to buy a controlling stake In Omnidisc Manufacturing and also negotiated a lower price for a plot of land at Recreation Lane, near the proposed Serangoon MRT station. The industrial gas and equipment supplier said it
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    • 175 6 CWT Distribution said yesterday that it had fully placed out its issue of $30 million floating rate notes to local institutional investors. The notes are due in 2003 and bear an annual interest rate of 0.6 of a percentage point higher than the
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    • 14 6 PROPERTIES The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 402 568. Buy it. Sdl h. Find It.
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  • STAT BOARD revamp
    • 662 7  -  Corporatisation and management contracts make great sense, but will there be enough change in mindsets and enough gains in operational efficiencies? And just how 'private' should the new entities be? By' Vikram Khanna STATUTORY boards to be corporatised, run under management contracts,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 547 10  -  comment STOCKS r.slvantthy THANKS to a sudden surge in Singapore Telecom and a handful of speculative plays, the Straits Times Index scored a 24.66-point rise to close at 1,982.34 yesterday. Better-than-expected trade figures for October had only minimal impact. And Wednesday's US Federal
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    • 194 10  -  WARKAMT WATCH By R Sivanithy TINKERING with the terms of a warrant is a touchy business, as companies here found out a couple of years ago when proposals to extend the life spans of worthless warrants were shot down by the
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    • 242 10  -  HOT STOCK By I Serena Ng THE stock of property developer DBS Land, which will be renamed CapitaLand next week after the completion of its merger with Pidemco, is likely to consolidate at current levels. The counter closed five cents higher at $2.70 yesterday on
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    • 77 10 dayfortaying-in on a cum dividend of six cents) on k Dec ll.Lastdayforbuying-in on a cum basis is Dec 14. Date payable is Dec ♦WES Poh Holdings will hold its AGMonDec 8, at 10.00 am, The Grassroots Club, 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8. Holdings: t will go ex-dividend
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    • 412 10 AFP [TOKYO] The euro edged up against the dollar and the yen in Tokyo yesterday as investors sold the greenback on the US Federal Reserve's decision to leave interest rates unchanged, dealers said. The European single unit traded at U510.8588-91
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    • 279 10 Stock* Volume AddvaTTech 2.5c 37,221,000 GES lntiUd20c 23,630,000 PCI 25c 19,938,000 JSH US5c 500 17,327,500 Na!Staei50c 17,140,000 Omni Ind 10c... 15,855,000 ST Assembly 25c -13,453,000 PacificCenturyl Oc 12,722,000 SingTel 15c 9,676,000 GulTech W*****7 8,599.000 Stocks > JSHUS5C500 88,080,166 Chart Semiconductor 26c 56,372,000 Omni Ind 10c 56,657,688 NatSteet50c 47,484,100 ST Assembly
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 598 11  -  Shipments of ICs jump 51.5%, np from 44-5% in Sept; chemicals and chemical products grow a strong 65.6% By( Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S export growth continues to confound. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose a higher-than-expected 16.4 per cent year on year in
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    • 364 11  -  Apartments at the freehold Freesia Woods are going for an average price of $775 psf By. Andrea Tan WHILE some developers have started winding down for the year, Keppel Land will offer 30 units of its freehold Freesia Woods project at
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    • 293 11  -  I =1 on the economy retail By' Teh Hooi Ling RETAIL spending continued to grow in September, again revved up by higher vehicle sales. But the 16.9 per cent year-on-year rise in the retail sales index was down from 20.6 per cent growth
      Source: DOS  -  293 words
    • 72 11 In the table of housing loan rates on page 3 of the Executive Suite section yesterday, UOB's first and second year rates were incorrectly given. For completed properties, the rate for the first year is 3 per cent and that for the second year is 4.25 per cent. For
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    • 204 11 THE Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) and the Trade Development Board will stage the first public exhibition on intellectual property (IP) this weekend. "IP 2000 Intellectual Property Its Potential" will be held at Funan The IT Mall
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    • 609 12  -  Mngiv will be repositioned to focus on content aggregation By' Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE Telecommunications (SingTel) Multimedia will introduce new pricing plans for its broadband services and reposition its Magix brand to focus on content aggregation. Andrew Buay, chief executive of SingTel Multimedia, said
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    • 486 12  -  MMLrm Eric Tan Singapore RECENTLY, I encountered a very bad experience with a property listing information provider known as Infotools. I had put up my property for sale through The Straits Times for an asking price of $858,000. Through Infotools, I received numerous calls from agents trying
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    • 336 12  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Will computers harm kids if introduced too early?" by Lee Han Shih (BizlT, Nov 6). It was interesting to read Mr Lee's piece on the proposal for computer-based education from "womb to
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 803 14  -  L.I I Hi 111 "-1 bottom line OPINION paul samuelson The writer is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology LAT BY the time readers see these words, the gridlock between Republican presidential contender George W Bush and Democrat A 1
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    • 80 14 'A new arms race has started to develop. War is not far from us now.' a People's Liberation Army officer, writing in the magazine, 'China Military Science', the Chinese military's pre-eminent open-source publication. 'If Mori stays in power, our nation will disintegrate. Japan's image in the eyes
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    • 599 14 EDITORIAL WITHOUT taking sides in the political crisis facing President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines, one thing is very clear: unless there is a speedy resolution, the economy is going to take such a hit that it may take years to recover. The country's central
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    • 944 14  -  Letting China host the 2008 Olympics wwld be good for the nation as well as the world at large By I Chia Tse Chern The writer is an economics research analyst based in Singapore CHINA finished third in the medals tally in
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    • 786 14  -  COMMENTARY Democracy means sometimes having to take the risk of losing an election By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology NYT WHEN Mexico's peso plunged at the end of 1994, it didn't come as all
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 607 15 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Analysts see move by US giant to expand in Asia as growth slows in other markets Bloomberg GENERAL Motors Corp said it is in talks with Malaysia's national carmaker Proton on a possible alliance as the world's biggest
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    • 139 15 S«m an t* «Ar Mftmra advice; Pm lTsia one cfcdmsf" Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Postmen in Malaysia will deliver computers, and software advice when a government plan to boost computer literacy gets under way, the natfr»»»l Bernama news agency said on Wednesday. Fos Malaysia has 119
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    • 229 15 KUALALUMPUR Reuters Malaysia Mining Corp Bhd (MMC) said on Wednesday it expected its purchase of a controlling stake in the Port of Tanjung Pelepas to turn profitable between next year and 2002. MMC, which is buying a 50.1 per cent stake in the port
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  • THAI elections
    • 691 16  -  hi™ mehta looks at the front-runners as the guessing game hots up ahead of elections HARISH MEHTA SPECULATION is building up to a feverish pitch on who will be Thailand's next finance minister as the January election nears. The question is coming
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    • 231 16 BANGKOK AP FIRING the latest shot in a tit-for-tat political battle, the party posing the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai in upcoming elections has accused his finance minister of violating financial disclosure laws. Thai Rak Thai Party, widely tipped to upset Mr
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  • e-NEWS
    • 412 17 TOKYO Chipm&ker expected to cot foil-year profit forecast: analysts Bloomberg FUJITSU Ltd shares fell to a 20-month low on concern Japan's No 4 chipmaker will have to cut its full-year profit forecast because of its overly optimistic outlook on the performance of its
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    • 534 17 SEOUL UK firm's support is craci&l to its bid for one of Korea's 3 new cellnl&r phone licences Bloomberg LG TELECOM Co said it is still in talks to secure more cash from British Telecommunications pic (Brit Tel) even as Europe's second-largest phone
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    • 5 17 #fOKYO HDD combine f*Wiy«n<mW-A*r
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    • 529 17 PEOPLE Alwaleed langhs at loss on Priceline investment, aims to stick with it Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, sitting in his suite at New York's Plaza Hotel, watches a television report about his investments. The Saudi bilUonaire is grinning as the story details
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    • 294 17 Reuters [BElJlNG] China Netcom Corp (Netcom) launched a fibre optic network linking 17 cities yesterday that will drive down the high cost of Internet access while improving speed dramatically. Chief executive officer Edward Tian confirmed reports the state-owned company planned to take in US$3OO million
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    • 419 18 SANTA CLARA Company looks set to regain crown for the fastest processor from rival Advanced Micro Devices Bloomberg, Reuters INTEL Corp said the Pentium 4 processor will hit shelves on Monday, as the world's biggest com-puter-chip maker offers the latest version of
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    • 311 18 NEW YORK Reuters INTERNET music company MP3.com Inc plans to restart My.MP3.com by the end of November and, for the first time, will charge a fee for the once-contro-versial service, chief executive Michael Robertson told Reuters on Wednesday. My.MP3.com, which allows users
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    • 543 18 AP [MARINA DEL REY, California] As more individuals build their own websites, some privacy advocates now question requirements that the site owners disclose their personal contact information. Names, e-mail addresses, postal addresses and telephone numbers for more than 24 million domain names are stored in
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 569 19 BANGKOK They fear plan would lead to layoffs; creditors scheduled to meet again today Bloomberg MORE than 4,000 Thai Petrochemical Industry pel workers disrupted plans by creditors of the insolvent chemical maker to vote on a US$3.B billion (556.6 billion) debt restructuring proposal,
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    • 600 19  -  Despite a slight fan pw in Thailand, Tiger Woods us all set to correct his this weekend From* Geoffrey Eu Reuters, in Bangkok SPARE a thought for the leader of the Free World this weekend, when Bill Clinton become* the Art* sitting
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    • 297 19 ■JAKARTA AFP INDONESIAN police said yesterday they had formed a special team in yet another bid to track down the fugitive youngest son of former dictator Suharto. "The team has been specially set up to find Mr Tommy," national police chief
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    • 435 19 MANILA Central bank chief says inflation and peso have beam to stabilise AFXAsia PHILIPPINE central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said yesterday the bank planned to lower its key overnight rates before the end of 2000 given signs that inflation and the peso had begun
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    • 441 21 TAIPEI Benchmark stocks go limit down as stabilisation fond stays ont Bloomberg, AFP TAIWAN'S key stock index posted its biggest one-day decline in a month, paced by lenders such as China Development Bank after the central bank admitted bad loans are higher
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    • 227 21 TAIPEI Plan for np to 100% indirect ownership of local firms Reuters A SENIOR Taiwan official said yesterday the island planned to allow foreign investors to indirectly own up to 100 per cent of Taiwan telecoms firms. "Our initial idea is to
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    • 269 21 HONGKONG Bloomberg THE Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC), which controls the country's biggest group of state-owned airlines, is planning an initial public share sale in Hongkong for its ticket-booking unit. According to CAAC planning director Ding Weiping, the authority plans to
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  • APEC summit
    • 703 20  -  S'pore makes air transport history with four other countries as they signed the world's first multilateral open skies pact on the sidelines of the Apec summit, reports tamo b Miwiw YANG RAZALI KASSIM [BRUNEI] AIR transport history was made on the sidelines of the Apec
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    • 513 20 Apec ministers instructed to flesh out the Brnnei Vision with action by 2001 APEC leaders ended their summit yesterday with a carefully crafted compromise over two vexing issues confronting them the challenge of globalisation and the growing trend towards regional and sub-regional free trade areas (FT
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  • WORLD news
    • 696 22 WASHINGTON Rates unchanged for fourth time in row but FOMC sounds inflation warning Reuters, NYT US economic forecasters are split down the middle when it comes to predicting if the Federal Reserve's next interest rate move will be a cut or an
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    • 256 22 US CPI up 0.2% in Oct slower than Sept's rise WASHINGTON Bloomberg US consumer prices rose more slowly in October than a month earlier, restrained by declines in the costs of tobacco, gasoline and new cars, government figures showed yesterday. The consumer price index, the most closely watched gauge of
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    • 539 22  -  Tokyo explains new initiatives mark a departure from traditional FTAs From] D Ravi Kanth in Geneva THE United States yesterday cautioned Japan, saying that its new initiatives to enter into free trade agreements (FTAs) for example, with Singapore "must not result in higher trade
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    • 778 22  -  US ELECTIOM Bush turns down Gore's proposal for hand recount of all Florida votes From Leon Hadar in Washington THERE are growing indications that the political crisis over the outcome of the US presidential election is continuing to escalate and
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    • 385 22 MIAMI AP WILLIAM Rouverol watches the Florida ballot debacle with more than just a passing interest. After all, he designed the voting system at the centre of the whole mess. "It's sort of a matter of pride," the 82-year-old retired mechanical engineering professor
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    • 401 22 SEOUL AFP THE sons of the Hyundai Group founder yesterday gave in to government pressure to end months of wrangling and raise money to save the group's bankruptcythreatened engineering unit. Following a peace meeting between rival sons
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    • 478 23 NEW YORK SEC also adopts role making auditors' reports more reliable LAT-WP IN a move intended to reduce trading costs for individual investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled on Wednesday that brokerages and other market intermediaries must disclose more information to
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    • 462 23 Edoarde Agnelli had m intention of serving on carmaker's board Reuters [TURIN, Italy] The death of Edoardo Agnelli, the 46-year-old only son of Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli, is the second tragedy in three years to hit Italy's uncrowned royal family. Just three years ago, Giovanni
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    • 389 26 NEW YORK Bat the move hinges on favourable tax ruling Reuters AT&T Corp said on Wednesday it would spin off its Liberty Media Group television programming arm, pending a favourable tax ruling, in a move to reduce regulatory concerns over its
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    • 273 27  -  SGX Derivatives fadingReport ST Index/MSCIS'pore Index Lau Chee Keong Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market closed higher yesterday, led by banks and technology stocks as well as blue chips like Singapore Telecommunications. Local stocks took heart from a higher close on US markets
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    • 170 27 ENERGY REPORT Reuters [LONDON] Oil prices slipped below US$33 a barrel yesterday but many traders expect the recent rally to resume as fears resurface of winter cold and shortages in the US. "The cold start to this winter... has left traders fearftil
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    • 300 27 Reuters London THE euro barely moved against the dollar yesterday after the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged, as expected. The main market focus re-» mained on the indecisive US election and the possibility of ECB intervention to support the single currency. Meanwhile, political uncertainty in Japan
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    • 2647 28 HONGKONG AFP +170.95 HONGKONG share prices closed higher across-the-board yesterday in thin trade supported by rotational buying by regional fund managers, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained 170.95 points to 15,298.35, off a high of 15,319.21 and a low of
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      972 28 AFP FlShenzhenß Index +MI CHINA'S B shares rose yesterday as gains on the hard currency market over the past few weeks and an upward trend in domestic A shares strengthened positive sentiment, analysts said. The Shanghai B share index ended up 1.37 per cent at 75.85 points. Turnover was
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    • 322 28 AFP nWPhto -282J> TAIWAN share prices closed 5 per cent lower yesterday amid speculation that the government stabilisation fund had stepped out of the market, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 282.89 points to 5,454.13, following a 0.6-per cent decline in the previous session. Yesterday's
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    • 1901 28 TOKYO AFP -am SHARE prices in Tokyo fell 1.4 per cent yesterday as market sentiment remained depressed due to economic and political uncertainties at home and in the United States, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's key Nikkei 225 Index lost 212.11 points to
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 277 29 AFP D| Composite ladeg -7.68 MALAYSIAN shares yesterday closed 1.04 per cent lower, extending Wednesday's losses with investors sidelined due to a lack of fresh leads, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 7.68 points at 730. The
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      743 30 AFP n SET Intox +L 24 THAI share prices gained 0.4 per cent yesterday in listless trade, as investors awaited details of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index quarterly review, brokers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index gained 1.24 points to close at 289.99 points, and
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    • 259 30 AFP P Composite Index -0.76 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 0.1 per cent lower yesterday with the benchmark Composite Index losing 0.76point to close at 1,468.44. Volume rose to 934 million shares but value fell to 2.37 billion pesos, against 485.85 million worth 3.68 billion pesos on Wednesday. —AFP OmtcoCorp
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      615 30 AFP nominatelatai -L 74 JAKARTA share prices closed 0.4 per cent lower yesterday on profit-taking mostly in second liners and selected blue chips, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 1.74 points at 416.98 with 359.3 million shares worth 285.72 billion rupiah traded. Decliners led advancers
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    • 257 30 AFP QMBE-40 *<U NEW Zealand stocks yesterday closed virtually unchanged as dealers awaited a decision from the market regulator on a Shell takeover bid for Fletcher Challenge Energy. The NZSE-40 Index rose 0.6 of a point to 1,994.93 on solid turnover of NZ$l26 million.— AFP *m* «a *h ooo
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    • 508 30 AFP QinOrdmariM -15J0 AUSTRALIAN share prices were pulled 0.5 per cent lower yesterday by slumps in the media and transport sectors. The All Ordinaries Index fell 15.90 points to 3,251.50 while the S&P/ASX2OO was down 17.9 points at 3,302.50. Turnover was 553.22 million shares worth Asl.Bl billion. The All
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    • 305 30 AFP n Composite Indei -144 SOUTH Korean shares closed 0.4 per cent lowa* with the index closing down 2.44 at 555.01 Volume was 300 million worth 130 trillion won. —AFP MmM 9m kntm Saml 5380 30 Bratn Ttch 610 -tS Central Ban* 1T0 uneh Cheil Comm BIT00 400 Dm
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    • 668 32  -  She's staying away from the Chase Champion since the game is moving to Munich. She's still haunted by 1993 stabbing, reports selema roberts SELENA ROBERTS NYT AS always, Monica Seles' words tumbled out with the quick, breathless pace of a record played a speed too fast as
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    • 533 32 NEW YORK NYT AUTHOR Susan Sontag won the National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday night for In America, a post-modern novel about the attempt of a charismatic 19th-century Polish actress to establish a Utopian community in California. The book, published by Farrar, Straus
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      • 758 34  -  QFFuraanta The owner couldn't travel without the pig, so the pig flew First Class along with other hnman passengers. Now that certainly raises some interesting moral issues jaime ee SHOULD pigs fly? Therein lies the question. That a 135
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      • 1514 34  -  COVER STORY Snow is falling, reindeer are dropping in for tea and tonight, the lights go on in Orchard Road. But have you ever stopped to think about the amount of long-term planning involved in getting the city ready for the holidays? jaime hb reports JAIME
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    • TRAVEL
      • 1395 35  -  Throwing (some) caution to the wind, siktutax embarks on a marathon food-tasting session of Bangkok's indigenous delicacies SYLVIA TAN IDID IT. I followed my nose (and my stomach) and ate adventurously in Bangkok and did not fall victim to what I will call Bangkok
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      • 520 35 FOR THOSE less inclined towards food adventures, these restaurants (some air-conditioned, all with tablecloths and tasteful decor or views) should be comforting options: VIETNAMESE FOOD Le Dalat Indochine, 14, Soi 23, Sukhnmvit (Tel: 661-7068) Fine dining in an old, beautifully furnished bungalow house with art on the
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      • 385 36  -  But autistic children can be be helped. Here's how By\ Larry Wee AS A disease, autism does not rank among the more "obvious" afflictions like physical disability, cancers, kidney problems and the like. Autistic children, for example, look normal until they exhibit anti-social behaviour like violent
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      • 280 36 AMnhs Blk 381, Clement! Avenue 5, #01-398, Singapore *****1 (Trt: 77*8649; fex: 774-6967). tiagfeildren, and* admitted In 1907 as amembwr of the Na tional Council of Social Services. Donations to AA(S) are Patrons Ho Ching Staff strength: 18 ftill-time staff, excluding parent volunteers. *k- Donations sought
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        555 37  -  Aardman Animation spreads its wings with Chicken Run, its first feature-length film hatched in collaboration with Dream Works. And its a real coop d'etat, says ruTATnum PARVATHI NAYAR THE premise is as droll as it is dramatic: a bunch of lovable plasticine chickens need to escape their
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      • 605 37  -  Men Of Honor is the inspirational story of a black Navy diver in a starch-white institution By< Geoffrey Eu THE next time you're having a rough day at the office, consider the true story of Carl Brashear, a poor Kentucky sharecropper's son who suffers unspeakable hardships
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      • 567 37  -  Shakespeare and Singjish cone together in Chicken Rtee War, a local concoction that's a little hard to swallow By* Geoffrey Eu CONSIDERING that food is both an essential component of our culture and a recurring theme for moviemakers the world over, it was only
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      • 509 38  -  Lively things happen when Jereme Leiing breaks the rales at Jiang Nan Chnn By' Tan Su Yen SEA urchin, caviar, escargot and goose liver Jereme Leung, the newly-installed executive chef at Jiang Nan Chun Chinese restaurant at the Four Seasons, uses them
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      • 544 39  -  By i Cheah Ui-Hoon IT IS rare to have a dinner prepared by six top international chefs in one seating, so it was not surprising that the Kidney Dialysis Foundation's third charity wine tasting and gala dinner drew an overwhelming response at the Pan Pacific
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      • 627 40  -  Kidney disease is no respecter of wealth, sex or age, so don't get complacent about your health, and do watch that lifestyle, cautions ui-hoom. She also looks at the work of organisations like jH the Itidney Dialysis Foundation and National Kidney Foundation, and p§|HHLk- I finds
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      • 364 40 YOU YOUR KIDNEYS What is kidney failure? Kidney failure is a condition where the kidneys are incapable of performing its normal functions. As a result, certain toxic substances which should have been excreted, such as urea and creatinine, accumulate in the body. These levels, if high enough, cause symptoms like
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      • 635 40  -  PERSONALITY Meat the Ban behind the Bering 101 hair tank By\ Corinne Kerk HE started his career as a village doctor in China, working long hours at his clinic and going "on call" when villagers ran to him for help to treat their sick relatives
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      • 1117 42  -  Danny Loong and Trevor Jalla may not be household names in Singapore, but they recently caused quite a stir at Western Australia's most prestigious blues festival. OBomBTBV was in Bridgetown to catch their act GEOFFREY EU BRIDGETOWN, WA: Under the light of a silvery Australian moon
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 131 43 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDD and the Baltic Panama! Index (BPI) both slipped nine points to 1,723 and 1,554 respectively, the Baltic Handy Index (BHD shed five points to 1,104, the Baltic Handymax Index fell 32 points to 9,768 and the Baltic Capesiae Index (BCD dropped 14
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    • 352 43 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hyundai Merchant Marine Co, South Korea's largest shipping company, said third-quarter profit fell 37 per cent from the second quarter as increased demand was more than offset by debtservicing costs and a negative currency impact. The shipping line posted a net
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    • 801 43  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar CANADA'S transport department has been told by the Supreme Court of British Columbia that it is not enough to merely show that oil from a vessel spilled into the sea to successfully prosecute the
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      • 641 44  -  Hongkong carrier is in advanced talks to buy two of the next generation container ships, reports p t bamosbbro P T BANGSBERG THE next generation of huge container ships appears to be just over the horizon, with one big Asian player in advanced talks and another
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      • 133 55 Nor 23 Japan: Labour Thanksgiving Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. Hot SO Philippines: Bonifacio Day. USA: Thanksgiving Day. DM3 Japan: Culture Day. DmO Thailand: H.M. The King's Birthday. Dm 10 Thailand: Constitution Day. Dm 23 Japan: Emperor's Birthday. DM 20 USA: Christmas Day. Philippines: Christmas Day. Canada: Christmas Day.
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      • 783 55 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 baaed on averagesized stem. Market movements are Indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the individual
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 191 56 Xinhua [MACAU] The governments of the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China and Pakistan signed an air services agreement in Macau to cement their ties in civil aviation. Ao Man Long, secretary for transport and public works of the Macau SAR government, and
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      • 338 56 Six months to December profit will be similar to same period last year AFX-Asia [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways expects to record an operating profit for the six months to December at a similar level to the corresponding period last year, company chairman Margaret Jackson
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      • 405 56 Ground delivery service will help it meet competition Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Airborne Freight Corp, parent of No 3 air-delivery service Airborne Express, said it will invest about US$3O million (5552.2 million) next year in new ground shipments of packages between businesses, building on
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      • 304 56 AP [LISBON, Portugal] An Antonov airplane crashed on Wednesday near the Angolan capital of Luanda, killing all 30 people on board, according to a Portuguese news report. The plane crashed in an open area shortly after takeoff, the news agency Lusa reported.
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      • 270 56 Bloomberg [ST LOUIS] Trans World Airlines Inc (TWA), the eighthlargest US airline, and America West Airlines agreed to sell tickets for each other's flights starting in the first quarter of next year. TWA, based in St Louis, and ninth-ranked America West a unit of
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      • 160 56 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's BBA Group pic boosted its aviation business with the £106.2 million (*****.5 million) cash purchase of Aircraft Service International Group Inc (ASIG) of the United States. BBA recently undertook a restructuring to transform it from a diversified industrial and engineering
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        • 36 56 AFX-Asia venture with Fairchild Dornier Aerospace and two domestic aerospace companies to produce 32-ssat jet sa td the four partners recent signed a letter of intentvto Saircraft produoedbythe Joint venture.—AFXAsia
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        • 99 56 Reuters {MUSCAT] Oman Aviation Services Company, which owns Oman Air, said it suffered a net loss of 1.52 million rials (516.9 million) in the first nine months of2ooo after posting a profit a year earlier. A company report said the firm made a net profit
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        • 92 56 Reuters is majority-owned by Northwest Airlines Corp, said resumption of the trial has been delayed until yesterday. Northwest, the No 4 US airline, owns a controlling stake in Continental, the No SUS airline—a relationship the US Justice Department has charged limited competition between the two carriers. The
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