The Business Times, 27 November 2000

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 035/12/1999 85C SINGAPORE Interne:: intp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ MONDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 2000
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    59 1 ST0G1[ HAKKET INDICES W*k Chuge STL lJ84J6.._....+80.82 S1MSCI FUTURES--268J0.—+7.20 BTSR1 796.53—+10.70 KLSECOMP. 71JJS -21.46 NIKKEI 225.. 1441&35.—-2S8.96 HANG SENG. 1447SJ© -308.95 SET INDEX 285.42.. —-9JS JAKARTA COMP- 4St2L-.+13.97 MANILA COME. 1,*****. -28.25 TAIPEI WPI 5,445.93—+278.58 SEOUL COME„„ „„5»84_..„...-20.42 CLSA CHINA B 1,*****—.-48.84 AUST ALL ORD -44.91 DOW JONES
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    71 1 FOREX RATES us> ss USS 1.718 £(US$/S$per£) 1.460 2.461 EURO(US$/S$/E) 1841 1.478 DM 1327 1.323 YEN 1118 6100 RM 1800 2.161 HKS 7.80 4.436 BAHT— 410 24.86 RUPIAH 1466 6188 PUKE BATES SINGAPORE* 6.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 31.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.60 TAIPEI 7.84 SYDNEY -8i»
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    Lock icon HK housing market soft, govt assurances notwithstanding
    549 1  -  Moves by SHKP, Cheung Kong suggest analysts justified in being bearish From Audrey Tan in Hongkong HONGKONG'S property market seems firmly mired in a slump with a new round of price cuts last week, even as Financial Secretary Donald Tsang sought to clarify
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    Lock icon Gus Dur says S'pore has only profits on its mind
    675 1 His blnnt comments come out of the bine and could re-ignite bilateral tensions Reuters, AFP, AP {JAKARTA] Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has accused Singapore of pursuing foreign policies only for profit and of underestimating the indigenous people of its neighbours,
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    120 1 Top Performers: Week 4 HflBi awwit) 1 Mr Chaw Kok Urn 2 M» Chal Ptn Ping MM>Q 3 MrLeeChee Kpong 1>OtW 4 Mr Uang Soon Chal 11,121 5 Mr James Yeo 8Q f >1l 6 MrUam Meng Fooij 'f-'] 90,9t>4. v ''t Mr Tan Kok Um 77,691 1
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    Lock icon Online stock game nets 10,000 players in its fourth week
    195 1 [SINGAPORE] Four weeks into the game, the Citibank Stock Challenge has attracted its 10,000 th participant. And one of them will walk away with the $20,000 grand prize on Dec 8, at the end of the six-week online investment game.
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      85 1 msmE Top stories Royal KPN of Holland bows out of Asia. Next Page Asian economies soaring this year, confounding economists. Next Page V Comfort to raise daily taxi rental from Dec 4: sources. Pg 7 Unisteel clinches fastener deal with Textron. Pg 8 Manufacturing output up 18.8% in Oct year-on-year.
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      82 1 Will Indonesia break ranks with Asean?, Pg 4 BIZIT j Billion- go&l I for Fujitsu PC's Asia ops Pg 2 Asia's nascent IP telephony markets J, m' Syr f jr* 301 c€r IfO I 4 r i Page 7 Homegrown plans Nasdaq listing WHILE many dotcoms are crashing and burning,
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      Lock icon Royal KPN of Holland bows out of Asia
      528 2  -  It joins a growing list of European telcos to leave as pressure mounts at home By Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Royal KPN, the biggest Dutch telephone company, is bowing out of Asia, the latest in the growing number of European telecoms companies
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      Lock icon Asian economies soaring this year, confounding economists
      746 2 But they could be hit hard by soaring oil prices, turmoil in financial markets: IMF NYT [HONGKONG] For most of this year, Asia's economies have performed a sort of levitating act growing by doubledigit rates month after month even as economists predicted they
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  • US election
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      Lock icon Bush's lead shrinks as deadline nears
      704 3 Reuters, AP Republican George W Bush's official lead in Florida's presidential election shrunk to under 500 votes early yesterday, hours away from a deadline for amended returns in the Nov 7 vote. Broward County, one of three predominantly Democratic Florida counties which launched into
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  • ASEANE summit
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      Lock icon Will Indonesia break ranks with Asean?
      1409 4  -  ASEAN Gus Dor's critical comments about Singapore suggest an upset Jakarta yang razali kassim AT THE tail-end of the Asean summit on Saturday, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid confounded his audience. Going into an intellectual spin of how it was necessary to strengthen the southern-most
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      Lock icon Goh defends non-Asean FTAs
      272 4 AFX-Asia [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday defended the country's move to forge free trade agreements outside the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean). He said he was aware of criticism by an unnamed Malaysian minister that Singapore's launching of bilateral free trade arrangements (FTA)
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      320 4 I ADVANCED HK H O* I A M' renowned overseas institutions, mm I |l/| brings you a series of tap rate programmes for senior I w lßian«9efBinlheABtoP»c»c. I PEE=[T¥SI I STRATEGY IN ACTION K February 12-16,2001 K Strategy that is not implemented is not strategy at all. Led by an
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      239 5 The Ascott and Somerset are now The Ascott Group, Asia-Pacific's largest serviced residence company i J THE ASCOTT GROUP Ihe merger between Ihe Ascott Limited and Somerset of otter from Somerset Land Pte Ltd, .1 subsidiary ot C.apital and Moldings Limited has created an industry leader and giant. With Limited,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Will the stock market turn from defence to attack?
      589 6  -  STOCKS r.sivanithy TRADING mode", "defensive mode", "aggressive mode" are just three of the many euphemisms used by fund managers and brokers to either sell an idea to a customer or to explain what's going on in the market. These and other
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      Lock icon New Merrill warrant on PCRD: stay clear for now
      187 6  -  WARRANT WATCH R Sivanithy THERE'S a school of thought that believes a stock split automatically means a rise in the share price. For some unfathomable reason, punters often pile into a company about to announce a split, or has just done
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      Lock icon Kim Eng may correct in near term
      246 6  -  HOT STOCK By Wong Wei Kong SHARES of listed broker Kim Eng were actively traded last Friday, with the stock hitting its highest levels since March. Kim Eng shares closed up 3.5 cents at 91 cents, near its day high of 92 cents.
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      131 6 ♦KEPPEL Telecommunications Transportation Ltd announced that Mr Chung Chee Kit has resigned as a Director of the Company with y effect from Nov 21 A VIMO Group Ltd announced that Helio Mirror Company Ltd, a subsidiary of AvimoGroup Ltd has&cured a contract from a major European armoured vehicle
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      Lock icon Asian currencies likely to see mixed performance
      553 6 ASIAN currencies should see a mixed performance this week, but attention will likely focus on the Philippines, where calls for the president's resignation are mounting. The Philippine peso should be weighed down by the uncertainty surrounding President Joseph Estrada's im- peachment. He has
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      434 6 Nov 22 Source: JM S Stocks Volume SGX1c 255,184,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 80,241,000 Pa 25c 77,468,000 AddvaJTech 2.5c 63,217,000 PacificCenturylOc 60,182,000 CXJBDBeCW*****3 58,849,000 Omni Ind 10c 55,971,000 MediaRing 10c 51,426,000 GES InM Ud 20c 43,292,000 tPCCorpn5c 39,268,000 Stock* Chart Semiconductor 26c 541,415,232 SGX1C 341,859,389 Omni Ind 10c 184,443,820 DBSGrp 112,781,919
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      544 6 I NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 CHNG SEAH PTE LTD (In Vol. Liquidation) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the above-named Company which is being voluntarily wound up are required on or before the 29th day of
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      482 6 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF COMMUMCADO ASIA PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At the 6th Annual General Meeting of COMMUNICADO ASIA PTE LTD duly convened and held on the 22nd day of November 2000 the following special resolutions were passed:RESOLVED:
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Comfort to raise daily taxi rental from Dec 4: sources
      514 7  -  BTM'HIIHLUj But $2 hike will be offset by $1 rebate for filling up at its six diesel pomp sites By i Christopher Tan SINGAPORE'S largest taxi operator Comfort Group will raise rental rates by $2 a day on Dec 4,
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      Lock icon Ascott to expand into N Asia, Europe, US
      141 7 Reuters THE newly-merged Ascott Group plans to expand its serviced residence business into North Asia, Europe and the United States. Having established itself in the Asia Pacific region, the conjpany would promote its service in other international cities, said its managing director
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      Lock icon Unisteel clinches fastener deal with Textron
      349 8  -  Contract will boost company's strategy to diversify into non-hard disk drive industry By Siow Li Sen UNISTEEL Technology has clinched a contract with USbased Textron Inc that will boost its strategy to diversify into the non-hard disk drive industry. In a statement, main board
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      Lock icon Banks, property stocks likely to be in focus this week
      302 8 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Bank and property shares could attract investor attention this week after Singapore eased its takeover and merger code to allow partial takeovers of a firm without having to buy the whole company. Singapore banks, some loaded with heavy
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Manufacturing output up 18.8% in Oct year-on-year
      370 9  -  Positive growth in electronics, chemicals and engineering clusters By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE'S manufacturing output in October grew 18.8 per cent year-on-year, boosted by positive growth in the three major clusters of electronics, chemicals and engineering. On a three-month moving average basis, growth
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      Lock icon Amex offers guarantee for Net transactions
      223 9 AMERICAN Express has decided to address the fear of online shoppers with the launch yesterday of its Online Guarantee for all Singapore cardmembers, guaranteeing against fraudulent use. In a statement yesterday, Amex said all cardmembers, as well as DBS American Express credit cardholders, will
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      Lock icon What it takes to attract top talent
      327 9  -  By Chuang Peck Ming A CHANCE to pick up new skills is almost as important as pay in attracting top talent in Singapore, says a survey by global consulting firm Watson Wyatt. But most bosses failed to meet this aspiration, according to the
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      Lock icon GIC buys major Sydney site for redevelopment
      340 9 It forms JV with Valad to bny International Broadcast Centre JUST two days after sealing a RM9B million (5545.3 million) deal to buy into a 40-storey office block in Kuala Lumpur, the Government of Singapore Investment Corp yesterday said it is purchasing a
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      Lock icon Tolaram sees huge potential in Europe
      975 10  -  Singapore companies have the ability to make it there, says MD Sajen Aswani Reports by Chuang Peck Ming MOHAN Vaswani is not a man of many words. But when asked about the business opportunities in Europe, he offers a simple answer that speaks volumes:
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      Lock icon Gaining a head start in new places
      190 10 MORE Singapore companies are venturing into unfamiliar terrain in Europe—in places like Russia, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic. The move could not have been more timely. "The governments of these countries are fast implementing reforms such as increasing transparency, deregulation and priyatiwtfion
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      156 10 TNIIII»IRADIIQMIIOI.NUrM. itdb/d&li SINGAPORE TRADE DEVELOPMENT BOARO MTtMUTtONM. DAY MRI |HBH r *P But auove ail, oe i? *%j* I I Imb HH I Information gives you a running start. But ideas only take off conditions tough, but the deal closed oversubscribed with 25 banks II Q Ikl It Iff [J
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      Lock icon NEL a good buy at $8 a share considering growth
      575 11  -  Richard Tan Tee Huat Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the article "Local developments will set tone for the market" by R Sivanithy (BT, Nov 6). I was puzzled by Mr Sivanithy's remarks against Nat Steel Electronics Ltd (NEL). As
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      Lock icon Making provision for In-Vehicle Unit
      190 11  -  Han Liang Yuan Manager, Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE REFER to Brian Ang Ping Chuan's letter "Is it fair we have to face glare?" in BT's Motoring page (BT, Nov 25). Mr Ang seemed to suggest that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) requires car
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      Lock icon Multi-Purpose wrt has double or nothing aspect
      255 11  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore, via Internet 'I REFER to the article "A case for reducing exercise price to stimulate interest" by R Sivanithy (BT, Nov 17). Although I am in agreement with much of what Mr Sivanithy has written in his column, there are
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      Lock icon Looking at the world without bias is difficult
      180 11  -  Mike Tan Shanghai, via Internet I REFER to the article "Israel put on trial by satellite TV" by Karim Raslan (BT, Nov 18). If you are an avid watcher of CNN, you would have perhaps caught the infamous footage of the Israeli
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      68 11 We welcome letters. E-mail us ait btletterQ 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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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon KLSE reprimands six firms
      76 12 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SIX Malaysian firms were publicly reprimanded and five of them fined over the weekend in a routine roundup by the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) of companies breaching listing regulations. Property developers Kelanamas Industries and Penas Corp, watch retailer Woo Hing Brothers, Quality
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      Lock icon Mahathir says RM8 a good price for buying 29% MAS stake
      327 12 SINGAPORE Govt negotiating with Tajndin Ramli; stock closes at RM3.22 on Friday Bloomberg MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir has said that RMB "could be a good price" per share for buying a 29 per cent stake of national carrier
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      Lock icon Will Halim Saad have upper hand again?
      734 12  -  KL STOCKS Bid to sell pledged Renong assets raises many questions eddie toh HALIM Saad, the boyish-looking boss of Renong Bhd and associate United Engineers Malaysia, has an unusual line on his palm, according to one of his associates, that indicates his ability
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      Lock icon Investors deserve better broking firms: Daim
      271 12 KUALA LUMPUR NST THE securities industry should have bigger and better stockbroking companies as investors deserve them, Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin has said. "Investors will shun us if we can't offer better prices and services than our competitors," Mr Daim said. "We have sound
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Wal-Mart shelves plans to expand in Philippines
      597 13  -  Political turmoil sparked by Estrada impeachment trial prompts change of mind by retail giant From Al Labita in Manila FEARS of a protracted impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada have cast a pall of gloom on the Philippine economy amidst signs of a
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      Lock icon Manila balance of payments shrinks in first 8 months
      148 13 MANILA AFP THE Philippines recorded a balance of payments surplus of US$65 miUion (*****.8 miUion) in the first eight months of the year, down from a surplus of US$3.O6 bUlion in the same period in 1999, the central bank said yesterday.
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      Lock icon Philippines plans to offer US$1b San Miguel bonds
      338 13 MANILA Proceeds will help ailing coconut industry and dollar inflow will help peso: Pardo Reuters THE Philippines is considering raising US$l billion (551.76 billion) from a convertible bond issue overseas next year backed by its shareholding in food-and-beverage firm San Miguel Corp,
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      Lock icon Taiwan to sign bullet train deal with TSC of Japan
      406 15 TAIPEI The NTs9sb project is Taiwan's largest single export order from Japan AFP TAIWAN will be one step closer to getting its first ever "bullet train" when it signs a US$2.9 billion (Sss.l billion) deal with Taiwan Shinkansen Consortium (TSC)
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      Lock icon China's top mobile firms preparing for new fee system
      479 15 HONGKONG Calling-party-pays system likely to cnt their revenues Reuters CHINA'S top two wireless operators China Mobile (Hongkong) and China Unicom are already preparing for a gov-ernment-proposed phone service fee system that could potentially slash their revenues, according to a regulatory authority
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      86 15 [BEIJING] A Nov 10,2000, file photo showing Chinese tourists looking at a Starbucks coffee shop which has opened in the heart of Beijing's historic Forbidden City, once the exclusive preserve of China's emperors. Heated debate and criticism over a Starbucks being allowed to open in the Forbidden City
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      Lock icon TPI workers plan new protest to disrupt restructuring vote
      339 15 BANGKOK AFP MORE than 10,000 employees of Thai Petrochemical Industry (TPI), the country's largest corporate debtor, plan to stage a rally today to disrupt a vote on the company's future, reports yesterday said. The disgruntled employees are pushing for the company's
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      Lock icon Post-crisis Asia still grappling with weak transparency
      581 16 SINGAPORE It's getting worse in big IMF borrowers S Korea, Thailand and Indonesia: Perc AFP PRESSURE by global investors on Asian countries to raise the level of transparency and strengthen corporate governance appears to have failed, a regional survey shows. Three years after
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      Lock icon China plans special bank to help SMEs
      332 16 BEIJING Lack of financing makes it difficult for them to expand AFP CHINA is considering setting up a special bank charged with lending to small and me-dium-sized enterprises to fUI a gaping hole in its financial system, state media reported yesterday. New government
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      Lock icon 6,800 people apply for 85 jobs in Taiwan
      328 16 TAIPEI AFP SOME 6,800 Taiwanese yesterday applied for just 85 jobs at a steel firm as the island's unemployment rate hit a 15-year high. The state-run China Steel Corp said reaction to the jobs advertisement was higher than expected. "I have a
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      Lock icon Colombo weighs closing casinos
      228 16 COLOMBO AFP SRI Lanka was considering closing down casinos amid protests that the gambling operations had led to international prostitution rackets and money laundering here, the state-run Daily News said on Saturday. Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake told Parliament on Friday a government decision to license casinos
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      Lock icon Sri Lankan interest rates soar as war budget begins to bite
      496 16 COLOMBO One-month interbank rate hits 25% compared with 13% a year ago AFP SRI LANKA's interest rates have begun rising sharply as aftershocks of unprecedented military spending six months ago to contain Tamil Tiger rebels take a heavy toll
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      Lock icon India's infotech capital is considered more Silicon alley than valley
      588 16 BANGALORE, India AFP Nov 26 THE IT showcase city of Bangalore has long been touted as India's Silicon Valley, but comparisons with the Californian cradle of the infotech revolution are optimistic at best. Contrary to its over-hyped reputation, industry insiders
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      635 18 FRANKFURT Schrempp either ignored or foiled to recognise firm's vulnerability NYT AS he looked out over the room of more than 400 managers at Chrysler headquarters In Michigan, Juergen Schrempp knew that many of them viewed him as the enemy. Still, as the
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      Lock icon Juergen Schrempp: a gradual change in rhetoric
      378 18 NYT IN THE last two years, as the fortunes of Daimler-Chrysler have dimmed, the statements of Juergen Schrempp, its chairman and the architect of the trans-Atlantic merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, have gone from bullish to bearish. Nov 18,1906: As DaimlerChrysler shares are
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      411 20 Growing US enrrent acconnt deficit could lead to sudden ihlft in market sentiment Reuters KEY finance officials warned against global economic imbalances on Saturday, saying they could lead to an abrupt reversal in currency trends that have flavoured the dollar versus the
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      855 20  -  letter^. 1 .uiv/-urn;MM.i Wot even Hollywood conld have scripted the present presidential cHffhnngor leon hadar ON the eve of the 2000 presidential votef, a television network reporter was trying to get the advice of a movie producer on how to spice up what
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      435 20 CHICAGO in exec forecasts holiday sales to rise 4% compared with kit Tear's 7% Reuters SHOPPERS have begun crowding US malls and surfing websites, but a nation of procrastlnators will likely spend the bulk of their gift-buying budget the weekend before Christmas, economists said on
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      496 20 Reuters, AP [THE HAGUE] The failure of UN climate talks has dashed business hopes for clear rules over potentially lucrative technology transfer to the developing world and the emerging market of trading greenhouse gas emissions. The latest worldwide effort to tackle global warming ended in
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      Lock icon US hedge funds trail Dow, S&P in October: survey
      366 20 NEW YORK Reuters US hedge funds underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard Poor's 600 Index in October, suffering losses as short-sellers took centrestage, a survey found this week. The average US hedge fund lost 1.5 per oent of
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      578 21 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Coffee endured a black week, as prodigious supplies continued to swamp the market, pushing prices to a 30-year low point. Producer nations have still to implement a planned supply retention programme which could rein
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      Lock icon Hang Seng seen hanging on US polls results
      270 23 HONGKONG AFP HONGKONG'S stocks will continue to look to Wall Street and the result of the US presidential election for direction this week, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 803.95 points, or 5.3 per cent, last week to close at
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      744 23 NEW YORK Mid- and small-cap stocks have been gaining attention with good valuations FT THE long weekend after Thanksgiving is supposed to be the busiest shopping period of the year in the US. With their stomachs lined with turkey and pumpkin pie, Americans lurch out to
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      439 23 LONDON Profit warning by 8m hits other infotech stocks AFP THE London market was dragged down by a rout in the technology sector last week leaving few winners in sight besides the first successful contestant on Britain's most popular million-pound-prize quiz show. The
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      Lock icon Dealers see Tokyo shares stuck in range-bound trade
      294 23 TOKYO AFP SHARE prices in Tokyo are likely to be stuck in a range this week amid a dearth of incentives, dealers said. Imbalance in supply-de-mand conditions might pressure the Nikkei Index to move sideways at the lower end of the range,
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      843 23 P Sydney jU THE drawn out saga of the US election combined with concerns for its slowing economy are expected to be the driving forces behind Australian shares this week, brokers said. The market barely moved at all last Friday because of a lack of direction from a
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      1850 23 Q Paris -1&27 PARIS shares closed higher when banking stocks led by Societe Generate spearheaded a rebound from a dramatic morning sell-off triggered by earnings warnings from computer firms Sagem and Sema. The CAC-40 Index closed at 6145.65 points, up 92.61 or 1.53 per cent. This was
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      380 24 AFP P Composite Index -2L46 MALAYSIA'S bourse is expected to trade mixed in the coming week amid volatility in regional markets and on Nasdaq in the United States, an analyst said on Friday. "I don't think it will be a very attractive market next
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      Lock icon US election to remain market's focus
      613 25 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßoundup [LONDON] The incredibly drawn-out US election quagmire will still be a focus for FX markets and financial markets in general. The US dollar has managed to hold onto its strength despite plummeting tech stocks and election uncertainty. But unless the
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      1511 28  -  From the sacred to the salutory, wedding customs are many and varied. MEREDITH MOSS collects a sampling of worldwide traditions MEREDITH MOSS NYT [DAYTON, Ohio] THE African-American custom of "jumping the broom" symbolises the creation of a shared home and dates to the days of slavery in
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      42 29 Good things that come in small packages are fuelling Fujitsu PC's billion-dollar Asian goal and keeping big boss Satoshi Imokawa (left) beaming. PASS 2 Plus, an exclusive preview of Fujitsu's smallest-ever notebook PC, which uses Transmeta's revolutionary Crusoe chip.
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      125 29 IE —Sfoi 9 I I 1 The promise of e-business is every hit as robust today as it was when the g. "new economy" was declared. It's just that things that were labeled passe and I J irrelevant when IPOs were soaring have returned with a»vengeance planning, .E S infrastructure,
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      60 29 Top stories K ftJwM »*^w Nascent IP telephony markets are set to explode, with the ISP market to triple to US$22 billion by 2004. Our report on an IDC forum on Page 7 Firms jumping clueless into e-business: Meta, Pages Commentaries How to manage investor relations through the web, Page
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      Lock icon Billion-$ goal for Fujitsu PC's Asia ops
      1165 30  -  BTisvmmwj With a proven strategy, a hot range notebooks and major parts of Asia still untapped, it's ready to take on the best, its top execs tell EBMMETB JAMES KENETH JAMES TALK about confidence. Practically a non-player just three years ago, Fujitsu PC
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      251 30 EXCIIISIVE PREVIEW BELIEVING that good things can come in small packages, Fujitsu PC is all set for the Asian release next month of its smallest-ever notebook PCs. The Asian version of the Fujitsu Lifeßook PlOOO series will be slightly different from the model currently available in Japan.
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      Lock icon Investor relatios can be a breeze
      674 31  -  INFOTECH Online XR gives Investors that much-prized feature they perpetually clamour for; a level playing field paul thompson The writer is a BT correspondent THE past few years have witnessed an unprecedented rise in the number of retail investors in Singapore bringing popular capitalism
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        29 31 A SEMINAR on e-business tax will be held on Nov 28 at the Orchard Hotel. It is organised by the KPMG Tax Services. For details, fax *****97;
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        90 31 XCHANGE2I International Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based e-business services provider, has made the following appointments: Hor Shoon Chan (right) as the general manager for Asia-Pacific; he was previously the business development director at the Singapore office of Organic Inc. Koh Weng Him as director of professional services for
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        Lock icon eMecca ties up with RightNow
        41 31 eMECCA Consulting Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based e-biz solutions provider, has tied up with Right Now Technologies, a US-based Internet customer service solutions provider. The deal enables'eMecca's regional network to distribute RightNow's Web products in Asia-Pacific region.
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        Lock icon Itsfair.com partners Pegasus
        55 31 ITSFAIR.COM, a travel website managed by EZasia.com Pte Ltd, has partnered Pegasus Solutions Inc, a US-based hotel reservation solutions provider, for use of its real-time online booking capabilities and hotel database. The database lets users of itsfair.com choose from more than 37,000 hotels from around the world,
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        Lock icon LGA gets ISO 9002
        56 31 LGA International, a subsidiary of Little Green Apples Pte Ltd which provides internet services and infrastructure, has obtained the ISO 9002 certification for its Internet data centre operations—making it one of the first in Singapore to do so, LGA said. It now has two data centres
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        Lock icon InnoMedia interoperable with Cisco
        60 31 INNOMEDIA, a homegrown IP telephony provider, has announced that its IP telephony solutions are now interoperable with Cisco Systems' products and services InnoMedia's products such as gateway, gatekeeper, customer premise equipment, edge devices and billing servers are now interoperability with similar Cisco products; and InnoMedia products
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        Lock icon Maybank adopts Exchange 2000
        47 31 MAYBANK Singapore said it is the first financial institution in Singapore to implement Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. The software will enable the bank's employees to access their e-mails anytime anywhere, and process customers' e-mail queries even when they are on leave or away.
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        Lock icon eCentre by PeopleSoft
        45 31  -  Compiled by Siew Yaw Hoong PEOPLESOFT, an Australia-based e-business applications provider, will open its eCentre in Australia to offer ASP services, such as human resources management, Financials, e-procurement and supply chain management, to companies in the Asia-Pacific region. For details, visit www.peoplesoft.com.
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      Lock icon 50% of all HK households have PCs
      292 32 Census Dept survey also indicates high nsage of electronic business services Xinhua [HONGKONG] Some 1,051,100 households, or 50 per cent of all households in Hongkong, have personal computers (PCs) at home, a survey released Wednesday by the Census and Statistics Department shows. Among
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      Lock icon Osim to go online
      449 32  -  Get your massage chairs at a click, thanks to a tie-up with Navision Software, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard By Erin Toh NICE chair! And it won't be too long before customers of Osim International's massage chairs and other healthcare and healthy lifestyle products are able to order
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      Lock icon New patents filed for online ad tracking system
      201 32 interQ says its software ideal for free-access ISPs JAPAN-BASED interQ Inc, a medium-sized ISP (Internet Service Provider) with 1.2 million members, said it has filed five patents in Singapore for software it had developed for the tracking and management of online advertisements.
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      Lock icon Data overload! Who ya gonna call?
      768 33  -  SAY IH Companies have become masters at capturing and storing data. Unfortunately, they are still novices at retrieving and distributing critical information relevant to the individual. One powerful solution to chaos in intranets is an "enterprise portal" which serves as a single universally accessible
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      Lock icon India software firms hit by talent squeeze
      429 33 WI Can* sees severe shortage of skilled professionals Reuters [BOMBAY] India's buoyant computer software sector is likely to experience a severe medium-term shortage of skilled professionals as tech colleges are unable to cope with soaring demand for trained graduates, a study has said.
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      Lock icon Wipro staff worth millions in stock
      175 33 Indian software leader has given options to 6,568 of its 8,900 employees AFP [BOMBAY] Stock options handed out by Indian software leader Wipro Ltd have made dollar and rupee millionaires out of many of its staff, the Business Standard reported on Friday. Wipro is
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      Lock icon IT names contribute to e-Asean initiative
      360 34  -  Asean Secretariat okays IBM as tech adviser By Kenneth James ASEAN could use an Oracle. Some Sun would also help. But colour the Asean Secretariat blue. Big Blue. Last week's Asean Informal Summit in Singapore saw the firming up of the e-Asean initiative, an
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      Lock icon Inlumen to sign up 50 firms here
      198 34  -  Business da ta provider targets financial portals, online brokers By Andrew Wee INLUMEN Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, a real-time business information and market data provider, said it plans to sign up 50 customers here by the end of next year. Inlumen Asia Pacific,
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      Lock icon Web-based savings helping to boost IBM profit
      515 34  -  By Paul Horvitz Bloomberg lARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp, which is facing investor criticism for missing sales forecasts, says there is another, equally valid path to profit: harnessing the Internet to cut costs. Top executives at the world's largest computer maker
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      Lock icon IP telephony markets set to explode
      595 35  -  me FORUM ON ASIAN MET SERVICES Optimistic projections of USs6.9b from an estimated USs2l3m in 2000 assume continued investment in infrastructure Repartsby Elizabeth Su THE Asia-Pacific IP telephony markets are still in a "nascent stage" but are set to experience explosive growth, a report
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      Lock icon ISP market to triple to US$22b by 2004
      364 35 Number of Net subscribers expected to grow from 27.5 m this year to 82.5 m, says IDC THE Internet Service Provider (ISP) market in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) will more than triple to US$22 billion (5538.7 billion) by 2004, from about
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      Lock icon Firms jumping clueless into e-business: Meta
      832 36  -  CRM has its place, but it is more critical to have strong business leadership By Elizabeth Su ONE-THIRD of American companies do not know what their e-business budgets are and over two-thirds have no idea of expected income or no expectations of a return
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      Lock icon Playstation mania 2
      42 36 [KREFELD, Germany] Men struggle to get the Sony Playstation 2 at the electronic supermarket Mediamarkt, over the weekend. Sony started selling the computer game at midnight on Thursday. The selling price of the computer is 869 deutschemarks (Ss6so). AP
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      Lock icon SCV pushes broadband Internet access package
      496 36  -  It says broadband VPN provides remote users with a level of performance similar to that of an office LAN By Jane Cheong A YOUNG man is sitting in front of his computer and participating in an on-go-ing teleconference. He is dressed in an immaculately
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      Lock icon PayCheque Pro S'pore edition launched
      387 38  -  Software helps to make the payroll process much easier by making it user-friendly and flexible Fhi Errol George A PAYROLL software package designed to meet the specific needs of Singaporean companies has been launched by Kuala Lumpur-based MYOB Asia Sdn Bhd, the Asian hub of
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      Lock icon Apple may open retail store in April
      393 38  -  By Peter Henderson Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer Inc is preparing to open a retail store in Palo Alto, California, city planners said, igniting speculation that the firm is planning its own chain of stores to expand its loyal legions. The legendary following
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        99 38 THERE is still time to bid for Gateway's latest Pentium-4 PC at an online auction at Asia One.com. Only one unit is up for bidding and the auction ends at 6pm tomorrow Hie machine retails at $4,999 and bidding started last week at $1. The Performance
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        Lock icon New desktops from Dell
        74 38 DELL Computer has launched its Pentium-4 Dimension 8100 family of desktop PCs (above). Prices start at $3,688 for a Pentium-4 1.4 GHz system, which comes with 128 MB RDRAM, 10 GB hard drive, 32 MB ATI Radeon 4X AGP graphics card, 48-speed CD-ROM drive, 17-inch monitor,
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        Lock icon Monochrome iPAQ now here
        115 38 COMPAQ has unveiled the monochrome version of its iPAQ pocket PC, the H3lOO, which is targeted at corporate professionals. It runs on a 206 MHz Intel processor and comes with a one-touch button, speaker, audio jack, and connects to the PC via a serial port. Software
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        Lock icon New NEC monitors
        72 38 NEC Singapore has launched two flat screen monitors: the 17-inch MultiSync 75F displays a maximum resolution ofl2Bo by 1024 pixels at 66 Hz, and costs $488; the 19-inch MultiSync 95F displays a maximum resolution ofl6ooby 1200 at 76Hz, and costs $888. Both are ultra flat, project better
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        Lock icon Audio player from Iomega
        116 38 lOMEGA Corp has launched HipZlp (right), a palm-size digital audio player that plays music in the Windows Media and MP3 formats. It lets users download audio files from the Web, store tracks from CDs and play music protected with digital rights management (DRM) technology as well.
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        Lock icon Benchmarking by Hyperion
        53 38 HYPERION, a US-based business analysis software provider, has released its Hyperion Performance Scorecard, a benchmarking software that features full Web-deployment and benchmarking capabilities that allow users to evaluate themselves based on fixed time, fixed cost implementations and best practice capabilities. It costs U5599,000 with two licences. For
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        Lock icon Protect your PDA
        62 38  -  -Compiled by Siew Yaw Hoong JCHS Media Pte Ltd has unveiled its self-adhesive Palmlifestyle PDA (personal digital assistant) clear screen protectors. They are more transparent, non-sticky, and enhance graffiti recognition and reduce glare, JCHS Media said. They are available in various sizes to fit different PDAs. Prices
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      Lock icon New workstations from IBM at PC prices
      394 39  -  A look at the latest models in its IntelliStation series By\ Siew Yaw Hoong IBM last week announced the release of new models in its IntelliStation workstation series, which it claims deliver the power of workstations for the price of PCs. The "PC-workstations"
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      Lock icon The roar of two-wheelers online
      98 39 FANCY buying a motorcycle online? Now you can. Speed ei-nets' Speed.com, one of Singapore's first car portals, now has a section for two-wheelers at its www.speed.com.sg site. From December, visitors to the site will be able to buy or sell their bikes online, check out
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      Lock icon Going to the workplace to sell business casual
      915 39  -  By Abby Ellin NYT ONE evening in September, employees at Scient, an Internet business consulting firm in Manhattan, gathered for a party. They sipped green-apple martinis delivered to their desks and snacked on hors d'oeuvres served on fancy platters. A DJ spun
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      Lock icon 'Tis the season to rejoice for Internet e-tailers
      477 40 Yahoo, eToys see burst of business; online holiday sales expected to double to USsl9.sb worldwide: Garner Gronp Reuters [PALO ALTO, California] The day known as "Black Friday" by retailers was a bright day for several Internet e-tailers who kicked off the holiday
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      Lock icon NTT DoCoMo set to unveil foreign tie-ups: report
      335 40 AFP, AFX-Asia [TOKYO] Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will announce multi-billion-dollar deals with two overseas operators this week, a report said on Saturday. NTT DoCoMo reached an agreement with major Taiwanese cellular phone company KG Telecommunications last Thursday over a
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        89 42 A HOMEGROWN e-marketplace service provider Commerce Exchange (Comex) has tied up with Druid, a UK-based IT management consultant, to develop InterOpX, a software solution based on the Microsoft's Biz Talk Server. The software will link customers' enterprise resource management (ERM) systems in areas like sales,
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        59 42 POSTKID.COM Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of homegrown e-business services and e-learning content provider Horizcm.com, will market its K-12 learning products in Taiwan through a 40:60 joint venture with the Wisdom International Group, a Taiwan media resources and kindergarten education provider. The joint venture is in line
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        64 42 THATWEB.COM Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Aztech Systems, has added new features to its Mobile Office, a WAP service that includes scheduling and e-mail. WAP.Task lets the user set his to-do list; WAP.Notes allows the user to jot notes in his WAP phone; and Email
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        71 42 THE 2001 Asian Internet World Awards, organised by US-based Penton Media, is now open for nominations until Dec 15. There will be 15 awards this year, Ave of them new. Besides the panel of judges, online voting by industry players will also help determine this year's
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        64 42 LOCAL e-business service provider Adroit Innovations will partner Temasek Polytechnic in the latter's Human-Computer Interaction Centre. The agreement involves the testing of commercial applications, R&D and also the possibility of setting up a certification body. The centre will test websites developed by Adroit for
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        62 42 FINESSE Alliance International Pte Ltd a homegrown financial services software provider, hasianpounced UStt China Trust Commercial Bank in Taiwan has adopted its r a cross management enterprise software, to launch the country's first online credit card service. The service includes 24-hour online enquiry into credit accounts,
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        80 42  -  Compiled by Siew Yaw Hoong SUNTEC City has teamed up with VChain Solutions, a homegrown e-commerce solutions provider, and Atos Origin, a Holland-based IT solutions provider, to launch an online office supplies procurement service for its tenants. VChain Solutions will provide the e-procurement platform and
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      360 43  -  by Andrew Wee Technology and Internet-related stocks used to be the rage, with buzzwords like 828 e-commerce and one-to-one marketing peppering conversations among the techno-sawy. However, the plunge in Nasdaq, seen as a barometer of interest in technology counters, from a high of 5,048 in March, to 3,321
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      584 44  -  The e-supply chain management services firm expects to be profitable by 2002, reports TANG WENG FAI TANG WENG FAI ECNET, a global provider of e-supply chain management services for hightech manufacturers, has quietly doubled its business from the US$5OO million (SsB7s million)
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      581 44  -  By Pearleen Chan The writer is head, 828 enterprise, Bank of Singapore. Bank of Singapore launchedflnixis, its financial and business solutions hub, on Oct 19,2000. SINGAPORE'S move towards e-business is gathering pace, especially in the manufacturing and trading sectors, according to a
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      674 44  -  Internet provided the ideal vehicle for consolidation of a fragmented travel industry, writes TANO WENQ FAI TANG WENG FAI If at first you don't succeed, try again. That seemed to be the message from Asiatravel.com Holdings Pte Ltd as it almost
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      306 45 the inaugural Enterprise 50 dotcom list, In order of rank I a Description* Taking lop spot in the inaugursi 2000 E5O dotocr tet is ECnet Ud, a global provider of e-suppiy chain managemer services for the high-tech manufacturing Industry. Founded i 1995, ECnet provides *24/T services and support
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      1174 45  -  Where do you begin and where do you go next in getting your business on the Internet? KOH SIEW HOON gives some guidelines KOH SIEW HOON The writer is associate partner, Andersen Consulting THE example of Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble in the US is now
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      561 45  -  Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) applies a rigorous but nonetheless 'out of the box' attitude to the science of identifying and incubating young technologies, writes A DESAI NARASIMHALU A DESAI NARASIMHALU The writer is vice-president of IP Generation at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (http://www.krdl.org.sg) IDENTIFYING promising technologies
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      1007 48  -  WONG JEAT SHYAN considers the benefits of working with a payment service provider that can offer a global banking network with multi-currency transactions and native currency settlement WONG JEAT SHYAN The writer is a director and the general manager of Cybersource Pte Ltd
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      1097 48  -  To take advantage of the booming business-to-business market, banks are positioning themselves as financial hubs, says CHUA LAI CHWANG CHUA LAI CHWANG The writer is the chief technology officer of Finesse Alliance. Information about Finesse Alliance is available at wwwfinessealliance.com E-COMMERCE,. both business-to-business (B2B)
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      1172 52  -  It's important to ensure that the unjustified optimism seen before the bubble burst won't repeat itself, writes ROBERT CHEW ROBERT CHEW The writer is partner, Andersen Consulting ON April 14, the Nasdaq came crashing down to earth with a hefty 355-point loss. The Internet bubble
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      855 52 Internet companies may have lost some of their shine, but there is real value in the changes that they are bringing to the way business is done E5O DOTCOM is an idea whose time had come 12 months
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      1343 54  -  Focus on service quality, economies of scale and tying up with a good logistics partner are important, says PETER YIN PETER YIN The writer is vice-president, FedEx South Pacific IT was December 1999. Christmas shoppers waiting for their deliveries from Toysrus.com got the short end of the
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      819 54 IDA'S iLIUP scheme helps the firms forge strategic partnerships with multinationals while eBIDS aims to prepare them for e-commerce TECHNO-SAWY Singaporeans are giving the top multinational infocommunication companies a leading edge in establishing themselves in the Asian marketplace. Though these multinational heavy
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      1363 57  -  There is no single knowledge management strategy that works for all companies. Organisations must carefully evaluate their business needs to ensure that they embark on the right KM initiative, says CHERYL TANG CHERYL TANG The writer is a manager in Andersen Consulting's Financial Services
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      1135 57  -  KACE ONG explains how start-ups can deploy appliance servers to build their essential infrastructure more quickly and cost-effectively KACE ONG The writer is the director of strategic planning for Celestix Networks, a leading developer of appliance servers for small and medium companies TEN years ago, it
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      186 43 Contents Winning profiles pg 2 E-payment across borders pg 6 Lessons from the Net pg 10 E-commerce challenges pg 12 KM strategies pg IS Coordinator: Andrew Wee Editor: Elaine Koh Sub-editors: Achuthan TK, Michelle Low, Gouw Huat May, Yu Chin Fun Photographer: Chris Loh Artists: Jennifer Chua, Ben Cruz fr
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      103 58 1 The box is only as good as the thinking outside of it. superdome is more than an enterprise server, it's an enterprise solution. It's a team of thoughtful people and smart hardware that adjusts to a very specific future yours. This is the first generation of a new, more
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      594 59 Norwegian made his name during 'tanker war' of 1980s in the Iran-Iraq conflict Reuters [LONDON] The golden days of the great Greek tanker owners, men like Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos, may be over. But now a new shipping tycoon has taken charge on
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      719 59  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THE levoli Sun, which sank recently off the French coast, was a small chemical tanker. At first sight, therefore, it would seem that its sinking, whatever the cause, has little relevance to the container shipping
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      353 59 Marine resources will supplement China's limited land resources Xinhua [ZHANJIANG, China] China will give a major boost to its marine industry in the 21st centuryChen Lianzeng, vice-director of the State Oceanic Administration, told a seminar here on Saturday that
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      528 59 Bernama [PORT KLANG] The Klang Container Terminal Bhd (KCT) has emerged as Malaysia's top container terminal operator when it became the first in Malaysia to handle one million containers of twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs). Besides accomplishing the one million
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        383 60  -  It says snags cast doubt on govt's seriousness, with parameters making project unviable From David Hughes in London PHILIPPINES-based.lnternational Container Terminal Services has savaged the Philippine government's approach to the project to privatise and refurbish Manila's North Harbour. ICTSI had been bidding
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        461 60 FRENCH classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has rewritten its class rules for tankers to include "ah of the tanker safety initiatives currently under discussion in the IMO and EU". The BV 2000 rules, effective from Jan 1 next
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        775 71 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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        72 72 All our bags are packed, we're ready to go but not our flight [BUENOS AIRES] Two unidentified passengers taking a rest as they wait to get their rescheduled flight at Buenos Aires Metropolitan Airport, on Friday. A general strike by tens of thousands of workers gained momentum as Argentina's largest
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        385 72 AFP, AP [SINGAPORE] Air travellers went through two incidents over the weekend that point to concerns over airline safety in Asia. Late Friday night, some 146 passengers were evacuated from a Thai Airways jet after its nose landing gear col- lapsed as it taxied off
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        297 72 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] Shanghai Airlines Co, an airline controlled by Chinese President Jiang Zemin's son Jiang Mianheng, said it's planning an initial share sale to fund its fleet expansion to take on rivals such as China Eastern Airlines Corp. The Shanghai-based carrier plans to sell
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