The Business Times, 8 March 2001

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA(P) 028/12/2000 S INGAPOfIE ternet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 2001 85*
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    72 1 mmm U 1410.74 (+10.68) n™ U mm (+5.09) P| ST INDEX FOTUIES U MOM (+7.00) ■flmviuiißi ■I MttO (unch) STOCK MABKET INDICES Wednesday Cdsmb KLSECOMP 7VIJK -«8 NIKKEI m 11,72X81 *K HANG 8ENG 14,177* -143* SET INDEX Mill 4M JAKARTA COUP _4*K 4*1 MANILA OOMP —1*3* -7* TAIPEI
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    74 1 FOUSKKATES USS 81 U8t(8»perUS$) 1.7W SfUS&SSperS) 1.471 IfW EURO(US$/S$/E) 0JJ4 IM9 DM 2.094 1183 YEN 1IU V7JC KM UN lMt HKS 7 m 4.443 BAHT 41H 14.71 KUPIAH 9JB07 Mil *SS to too unit* PUB MRS SINGAPORE* §.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.87 JAKARTA AN BANGKOK lie MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG J
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    Lock icon Hongkong Budget springs no surprises
    955 1  -  Tsang offers no major spending initiatives or tax concessions From Quak Hiang Whai, Audrey Tan in Hongkong IN his sixth and final Budget speech before taking over as Hongkong's top civil servant in May, Financial Secretary Donald Tsang yesterday unveiled a conservative budget which offered
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    Lock icon Demeaning to compare MPs with company directors: Vasoo
    296 1  -  The Taqjong Pagar MP adds that public office should be held in high esteem -by Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] It is demeaning to compare Members of Parliament with company directors, Tanjong Pagar MP S Vasoo said yesterday. "I am sure you don't
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    Lock icon No offer made on Subic Bay: Temasek
    222 1 TEMASEK Holdings has denied BT's report yesterday that it has offered to redevelop Subic Bay and Clark Air Base in the Philippines. In a letter to BT, the government investment holding company said: "We wish to categorically state that Temasek Holdings has not
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    Lock icon Budget could lift growth 0.2% this year, 0.4% next year: Dr Hu
    818 1  -  On Up of tax cots and rebates, government will do more if economy falters By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] The package of tax cuts and rebates in the latest Budget could add 0.2 per cent to economic growth
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      90 1 IMSIDE BT Comment Kenneth James: Call me on my PDA. Pg Siow U Sen: DBS's long slog ahead to regain the dazzle of yore. Pg 4 Top Stories Thaksin threatens to sack top officials over bombing. MmxtPmg* Hayami unnerves Tokyo forex markets with remarks on yen. M>it Pmgm r ft?
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      Lock icon Thai regulators, bankers on verge of debt deal
      522 2  -  S&P maintains participating banks still exposed to same credit risks From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI regulators and commercial bankers almost wrapped up last night their closely-watched negotiations on the price the government is prepared to pay to buy 620 billion baht
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      Lock icon Markets watch not just Greenspan's lips
      262 2 Septuagenarian has 'a bad head cold' Reuters [WASHINGTON] It's anybody's guess whether the US economy is sneezing, but Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has definitely caught a cold. He has cancelled a scheduled trip to Las Vegas because he has "a bad head cold",
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon To fish or not to fish
        61 2 Here's something for weekend anglers at Macßitchie Reservoir to ponder while they fish. Near the bandstand on the water is a sign that says: "Warning: No Fishing. By Order: PUB". Less than a metre away is another sign: "Designated Fishing Ground." There must be
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        Lock icon Tokyo needs it all
        54 2 LAST weekend, The Business Times ran an online poll with the following statement: "The ailing Japanese stock market will rebound only if..." This is how readers voted: Prime Minister Mori steps down: 14% The Japanese economy turns around: 25% The US economy stops sliding: 11 All
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      Lock icon Thaksin threatens to sack top officials over blast
      400 2  -  Thai Airways, Airports Authority chiefs given two weehs to find answers From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to fire the chiefs of Thai Airways International and the Airports Authority of Thailand in two weeks if they
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      Lock icon Hayami's talk of driving down yen unnerves forex markets
      721 2  -  Ten stabilises after official clarifies no policy of engineered depreciation of yen has been decided From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO foreign exchange markets suffered a bout of panic yesterday after Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Masaru Hay ami acknowledged publicly
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon DBS plans US$500m, S$100m Tier 1 issues
      379 4  -  Hybrid securities help bank lower overall cost of capital By Ling Su Ann DBS Bank yesterday announced plans to issue US$5OO million and Ssloo million in Tier 1 capital securities to lower its borrowing cost. The instruments are perpetual securities, redeemable after 10
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      Lock icon Slower growth forecast for DBS
      299 4 Reuters ANALYSTS expect DBS Group, South-east Asia's largest banking group, to post lacklustre growth this year but see limited downside for the stock after a recent slide on fears its 2000 results would not meet forecasts. DBS shares ended unchanged at $18.50 yesterday after hitting
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      Lock icon Divestments hold up OCBC shares
      411 4  -  Impending asset sales soften impact of sombre profits By Serena Ng OCBC Bank's upcoming asset divestments appear to be cushioning its share price against its lower-than-expec-ted full-year profits and the scrapping of its plans to set up a regional standalone Internet bank. Most analysts said
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      Lock icon DBS: long slog ahead to regain the dazzle of yore
      693 4  -  I lock siew siow li sen ALTHOUGH DBS Group Holdings' 30 per cent increase in 2000 net profit to $1,389 billion announced on Monday was bang on target, no one is uncorking the champagne. For the bank, by its own
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      Lock icon Panpac axes two-thirds of Asiastockwatch.com staff
      515 5  -  It also shuts Asian Entrepreneur, plans to streamline Smart In vestor By Serena Ng MAGAZINE publisher Panpac Media.com has axed about two-thirds of the workforce at its financial portal Asiastockwatch.com, which had a monthly burn rate of half a million dollars. In a bid
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      Lock icon Haw Par posts 2% earnings rise to $42m
      337 5  -  Its performance is below analysts' expectations of $49m By: Marissa Chew HAW Par Corporation (HPC) yesterday posted a modest 2 per cent rise in full-year net earnings to $41.7 million on a better performance by its listed subsidiary Haw Par Healthcare (HPH).
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      Lock icon Auric profit up 80% despite dip in turnover
      176 5 AURIC Pacific Group said yesterday FY2OOO net profit rose 80 per cent to $8.17 million from $4.53 million a year earlier. Despite a 16 per cent fall in turnover to $125.5 million, earnings per share increased to 6.5 cents from 3.6 cents.
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      Lock icon SingTel sees lower profit from accounting changes
      311 5  -  By Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE Telecommunications yesterday said its adoption of new accounting standards will lower recorded profits, but it will continue to monitor revisions to the standards to determine the impact and applicability to the group. For the current fiscal period ending
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      Lock icon SIA's overall load factor falls to 67.7% in Jan
      346 8  -  Figure down from Dec's 71.8%; SIA cites global economic slowdown By Conrad Raj THE slowing economy appears to have started to flow through to Singapore Airlines' operations, with January load factors down significantly from the previous month. The national carrier reported
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      Lock icon Globe to buy over Philippines' Isla Comm
      340 8  -  The STI unit will issue shares to DeTeAsia, Asiacom By 1 Rachel Ong GLOBE Telecom, a unit of Singapore Telecom International and Ayala Corporation, has signed agreements with Asiacom Philippines and DeTeAsia Holding to facilitate the acquisition of Isla Communications. After approval from
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      Lock icon Frontline launches IPO of 190 m shares
      416 8  -  By Janice Lee E-SERVICES company Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd yesterday launched an initial public offer (IPO) of 190 million shares at 22 cents apiece for listing on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. The offer, representing 25.1 per cent of Frontline's enlarged
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Fa Yu's net profit surges 141%
        76 8 FU Yu Manufacturing's 2000 net profit rose 141 per cent to $27.8 million from $11.5 million a year ago. Turnover was up 61 per cent at $346.1 million. Fu Yu said it benefited from higher demand and better capacity utilisation. But with the electronics
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        Lock icon Eastern Asia Tech wins major contracts
        61 8 EASTERN Asia Technology Limited has secured two new major contracts with electronics giants Sanyo and Singing Machine. The total value of the contracts is US$43 million, with the Singing Machine contract worth US$lB million and the Sanyo contract, US$25 million. Delivery of products to
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        Lock icon Lindeteves-Jacoberg in deal with Elexis
        57 8 LINDETE VES-JACOBERG has entered into an agreement with Elexis AG, which is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange, to acquire the entire share capital of Schorch Elektrische Maschinen und Antriebe GmbH for 23 million Deutschemarks (Ssl9 million). Schorch *s main business is the manufacture and
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        Lock icon NH Ceramics slips into the red
        91 8 NH Ceramics has slipped into the red with an interim loss of $451,000 for the six months ended Dec 31,2000, mainly due to a foil in revenue. The company had recorded a profit of $1.2 million in the previous corresponding period. Turnover fell 15
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      424 6 Stocto Www Integra 5c 20,108,000 PacificCenturylOc 12,869,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 12,216,000 Omni kid 10c 9,621,000 Lantom US2c 8,198,000 PCI 25c 7.943,000 Hyflux5c 6,652,000 MMI Hldgs 10c 6,239,000 NOL 4,759,000 BenefunHKIOc 4,604,000 9>ocfc» t Chart Semiconductor 26c 66,682,350 DBSGrp 65,916,469 VentureMfg25c 57,675,200 UOB 32,845,560 Omni Ind 10c 26,367,010 Datacraft 10c— 20,880,368
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      Lock icon STI stays above 1,900 as battered tech stocks rise
      622 6  -  1-1 i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE terms "trading ranges" and "rotational playing" aren't normally associated with blue chips or institutional funds. But judging by market movements in the past few months and the sentiment in dealing rooms that has evolved
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      Lock icon Mulpha wrt: a good speculative M'sian play
      181 6  -  WARRANT WATCH fly R Sivanithy ONE of the more popular Malaysian speculatives among the many that used to trade on Clob International was Mulpha International, a diversified firm with interests ranging from leisure to property. What's interesting about its warrant is that like
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      Lock icon A$ dives in Asian trading as yen falls prey to confusion
      352 6  -  g comment CURRENCIES larry wee THE Australian dollar joined the ranks of the walking wounded in Asian currency trading yesterday, while confusion weighed down the yen after the latest in a series of sometimes contradictory official statements about its
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      Lock icon Charts show more weakness for Omni
      226 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan VOLATILITY on Nasdaq and worries over earnings have taken the wind out of technology stocks worldwide. Omni Industries has been one of the leading local casualties, with its shares sinking 15 per cent since the middle of last month.
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      143 6 COT Conti aajMnnnfntf living final dividend of?49o£t) on April 24. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is r April 27. Date payable is May 9. ♦OVERSEAS Union Bank will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 7.00 cents and special dividend of 4.00 cents) on May 8. Last
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      120 8 Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 26 March 1998) INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OF 190,000,000 NEW SHARES COMPRISING 15,000,000 OFFER SHARES AND 175,000,000 PLACEMENT SHARES AT $0.22 FOR EACH NEW SHARE (SUBJECT TO AN OVER-ALLOTMENT OPTION OF UP TO 28,500,000 NEW SHARES AS DESCRIBED IN THE
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      143 9 k thF Faces. We are Garner International, a new force in Executive Recruitment in Asia. A new name perhaps, but we are staffed by a team of seasoned executives, many of whom will be familiar faces, having had extensive experience in Singapore and the region. In fact, our combined experience
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      274 10 Recipient of two Enterprise 50 Awards ASIA S PREMIER e-SERVICES COMPANY (1999 and 2000) and the Knowledge Management Award (2000) llll^ Today, we herald a new phase in our development. We are proud to announce that we are soon to be a public listed company, henceforth known as Frontline Technologies
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Biotech International takes 31% stake in PhytoProtein
      414 11  -  pl^xcTusive Infusion of fnnds will help local start-up's protein production By] Eugene Low PHYTOPROTEIN Biotech, a homegrown life sciences start-up, has attracted foreign investor interest, with Aus-tralia-listed Biotech International taking a 31.25 per cent stake in the company. With the injection of funds
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      Lock icon PSB earmarks $16m to boost retail
      669 11  -  Retail 21 Fond to finance initiatives for the industry By Marissa Chew THE Productivity and Standards Board has set aside a $16-million Retail 21 Fund to be used to fund initiatives recommended by the Retail 21 committees which were set up to revitalise the
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      Lock icon Northwest opens e-booking in Singapore
      391 11  -  The system enables even economy class passengers to choose seats via Net by Trina Foo US airline Northwest yesterday launched for Singapore travellers a booking system that enables even economy class passengers to choose their seats via the Internet. In an industry first here, the
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      Lock icon Official reserves up $95m in Feb
      294 12  -  ll=fc74on the economy foreign reserves By Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S official foreign reserves continued to expand in February, rising $94.6 million or 0.06 per cent to $140.2 billion from $140.1 billion in January, preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore show. The reserves crossed
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      Lock icon Bridgestone, Hong Leong to part ways
      239 12  -  By Conrad Raj THE world's largest tyre maker is severing its link with the Hong Leong group as sole distributor of its tyres in Singapore. Confirming a recent BT report, Bridgestone Corporation said yesterday it will sell its own tyres from May 1 with
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      Lock icon Just call me on my PDA
      637 12  -  |:j i comment TECHNOLOGY Our cellular superhighways are getting smoother. Looks like if s time to pay more attention to the devices that will ride on them. kenneth james POOR DulcieChan. For the past few months, the amiable corporate communications manager of the Infocomm
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      Lock icon Govt promises certification for secure e-commerce companies
      326 12  -  IT minister Yeo announces formation of NTC to look into issues on e-business By Andrew Wee E-COMMERCE companies got a boost yesterday when the government announced those with sound security and privacy practices will receive official certification. "For e-business to flourish, it is
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      Lock icon Singapore banks intrinsically sound: US agency Moody's
      235 12 It rates OCBC, DOB B-plns; DBS B; OUB, EepTatLee C-plns AFP MOODY'S Investors Service yesterday adjusted the financial strength ratings for Singapore banks and said all five were in "very good intrinsic financial condition". The ratings were adjusted to implement new minus sign
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      Lock icon Far East unit to raise $150 m from bonds
      412 13  -  Net proceeds to be used to help repay $155 m term loan By Kalpana Rashiwala A UNIT of Far East Organization which owns the Orchard Parksuites luxury service apartments is issuing $150 million in bonds. All the net proceeds from the
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      Lock icon Dividends can offset CPF interest costs
      126 13  -  [bag Teo Chwee Hock I REFER to your article "More listed companies cut dividends than raise them" by Andrea Tan (BT, March 7). Dividends are important to investors who use their CPF for investment in shares. It helps to offset the CPF interest costs
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      67 13 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter@ sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390Kim 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 in
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon A few things I'd, like to tell you, Mr Greenspan
      884 14  -  P7TT3 bottom line OPINION caroline baum The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own. FEDERAL Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan turned 75 years old on Tuesday. I wasn't invited to his party. In fact, he
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      69 14 'I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for (sic) predecessors as well.' George W Buh the US president, on Bill Clinton's free use of the presidency's power to grant pardons in his last days in office. 'I see the light at the
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      Lock icon Malaysia's cautious liberalisation
      598 14 EDITORIAL 'MANAGED liberalisation" H was how Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz described the approach being adopted by Malaysia towards its banking and insurance sectors under the Financial Sector Masterplan unveiled by Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin last week The description fits. However, many would suggest that
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      Lock icon Reality check for Bush's diplomacy
      1047 14  -  Bnsh and his foreign policy advisers are having some difficulties in devising a coherent diplomatic agenda By] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent AS George W Bush takes his first steps in international affairs, including in the volatile Middle East and in managing
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      Lock icon Kudos for TNI's hands-off stance
      691 14 COMMENTARY Disassociating from day-to-day politics shows military professionalism Editorial in The Jakarta Post IN the current climate of uncertainty and confusion, the assurance given last week by Indonesian Army Chief of Staff General Endriartono Sutarto that the army would refrain from ever forcefully taking power
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  • MALAYSIA news
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      Lock icon Rashid Hussain gets lenders' nod to reschedule RM1b debt
      461 15  -  mm exclusive Short-term debt now has longer tenure, move part of restructuring exercise From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur TYCOON Rashid Hussain is set to reschedule a major portion of his group's debts by the end of this month, but the
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      Lock icon Govt cost projections for Bakun dam too high: critics
      392 15 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S plan to revive a multibillion dollar dam drew the fire of critics yesterday who said government cost projections were too high and predicted a heavy toll from the project on the economy and environment. Construction of the
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      Lock icon Trading in Time dotCom shares to start next week
      176 15 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg SHARES of Time dot Com Bhd, manager of Malaysia's biggest fibre optic network, will begin trading on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange on Monday, March 12, the exchange said. The stock will be traded on the stock exchange's
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      Lock icon Public Bank to seek clarification on shareholdings
      213 15 KUALA LUMPUR It has not discussed shareholding limits with Bank Negara Bloomberg PUBLIC Bank Bhd, Malaysia's fourth largest lender by assets, said it will seek clarification from the central bank on its plan to enforce limits on shareholdings in banks. As part of
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Gus Dur will fight back: supporters
      695 16 JAKARTA Expect a new round of political manoeuvring, says official of his party Reuters Xinhua INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid will fight back against attempts to topple him, said his supporters yesterday. "This is all about a political conspiracy now. We can expect a new
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      Lock icon Rafidah on Manila mission to heal wounds
      354 16 KUALA LUMPUR Bernama MALAYSIA'S International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz is leading a high-powered mission to Manila for four days beginning today to revive bilateral trade and investment relations which has sunk to a low point. It coincides with a visit here
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      Lock icon Moody's ratings downgrade worries Indon minister
      267 16 ■JAKARTA Prjjadi says any such move is a bad indicator Reuters INDONESIA'S Finance Minister Prijadi Praptosuhardjo yesterday said he had not heard of the recent change in Indonesia's rating outlook by Moody's but conceded it would be worrying. Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday changed
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      Lock icon Mighty march
      39 16 [JAKARTA] Indonesian soldiers from the Army Strategic Command (Kostrad) marching during a celebration marking the 56th Kostrad anniversary. Political tension is on the rise in Indonesia with increasing calls for President Abdurrahman Wahid to step down. REUTERS
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      222 16 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA'S embattled state electricity firm PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) said yesterday its president director Kuntoro Mangkusubroto had been sacked by the government but it gave no reason for the move. Finance Minister Prijadi Praptosuhardjo denied local media reports that Mr Kuntoro's departure
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      173 16 LONDON Bloomberg PIN Chakkaphak, a financier who fled Thailand three years ago after the bank he ran collapsed and criminal charges were filed, must return to the country to face some of the charges, a UK court ruled yesterday. District Judge
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      465 20  -  Results beat expectations; turnover up 20% From Audrey Tan in Hongkong CATHAY Pacific Airways yesterday reported a 130 per cent jump in after-tax profits to a record HK$5 billion (551.13 billion) for the year ended December 2000 as its revenues from almost
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      179 20 HONGKONG AFP LI KA-SHING, the Hongkong tycoon famous for his Midas touch in picking investments, is moving into gold, it was reported here yesterday. According to the South China Morning Post, Mr Li's flagship companies, Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa, have
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      521 20 MANILA Reuters FOREIGN banks cut off credit lines to the Philippines at the height of the country's political crisis in December, central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said yesterday. The country would have been heading towards declaring a debt moratorium if the crisis had
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      332 20 TAIPEI Reuters TWO days after cutting key interest rates, Taiwan's central bank governor yesterday said the government would continue to maintain a loose monetary policy to help boost the slowing economy. "The central bank will continue to maintain a loose
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      516 17 SEATTLE Price of Amazon shares loses 6% after a report says any tie-up unlikely anytime soon Reuters AMAZON.COM Inc shares sank 6 per cent on Tuesday, reversing earlier gains after a report poured cold water on investor optimism that the online superstore could join
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      299 17 And then there was light from silicon LONDON UK success shows chips can get smaller, faster Reuters BRITISH scientists said yesterday they have squeezed light out of silicon, overcoming a decade-old obstacle holding back the computer industry and assuring that microchips can get smaller and faster. Until now, making light
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      447 17 FRANKFURT AFP INTERNET credit card fraud rose dramatically in Germany last year as more people began shopping online, the country's leading credit card company Euro Kartensysteme said on Tuesday. It said it had seen a 32 per cent increase in fraud on the Internet with
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      211 17 WASHINGTON AP A DESTRUCTIVE computer virus hit at least 30 organisations and one federal agency on Tuesday, security experts said. Like the most recent widespread virus that used the name of tennis star Anna Kournikova, this new programme called "Naked Wife" takes advantage of
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      691 18 SAN FRANCISCO Music industry scores as swapping service will now be able to distribute only unknown labels Bloomberg A US federal judge, handing the recording industry a victory, ordered Napster Inc to remove all copyrighted files from its online music-swap-ping service
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      417 18 MELBOURNE Reuters AUSTRALIA'S largest telecoms group Telstra Corp yesterday reported a double digit rise in first half profit to A 52.62 billion (5J2.36 billion), sparking a 4 per cent jump in its share price. And Telstra said the growth would continue
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      151 18 SAN JOSE, California AP THE man accused of stealing the Web address sex.com is an international fugitive after a San Jose federal judge issued an arrest warrant and ordered him to come from Mexico to face trial. US District Judge James
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      326 18 TOKYO Jumbo offering exposes high cost facing the operator Reuters NTT DoCoMo Inc. Japan's dominant mobile operator, launched a jumbo 180 billion yen (552.6 billion) debt issue yesterday to help fund an aggressive push into overseas markets and drew eager interest. The
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      243 18 PARIS AFP FRANCE Telecom launched on Tuesday the first tranche of a multi-currency corporate bond issue with a value of US$l6.4 billion (5528.7 billion), a source close to the deal said here. The issue was worth more than double France Telecom's original figure
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      274 18 TOKYO It'll let players download animated characters Reuters JAPAN'S NintendoCo yesterday began whetting game players' appetite for its next generation hand-held player, unveiling plans to create a high-tech interactive game system for the successor to its best selling Game Boy player. Nintendo announced
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      503 21 NEW DELHI Finance minister allays fears as talk sends stocks plunging (L 5% in 2 days Reuters INDIAN Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said yesterday that Indian stock markets were not facing a payment crisis and the markets were not in danger. The Bombay
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      390 21 NEW DELHI Govt will go ahead even if there is no consensus, he declares AFP INDIAN Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said yesterday he would weather all political opposition to push forward with socially sensitive economic reforms introduced in the Budget. "We shall do our best
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      344 21 BOMBAY Reuters INDIA said yesterday its exports were expected to exceed targeted growth of 18 per cent in the current fiscal year ending March 31, but a slowdown in the US could affect the outlook for next year. "I am confident we
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      207 21 NEW DELHI Reuters SHARES of Global Trust Bank Ltd fell as much as 14.9 per cent yesterday on newspaper reports that a stock market watchdog has informed the central bank of evidence pointing to insider trading ahead of the announcement that GTB
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      1368 21 (m) AURIC PACIFIC GROUP LIMITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 st DECEMBER 2000 The Directors of Auric Pacific Group Limited announce the following unaudited results for the year ended 31" December 2000 PROFfT A LOSS STATEMENT GROUP COMPANY 2000 1999 Change 2000 1999 Change SS'OOO SS'OOO SS'OOO STOOO Turnover
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      684 22  -  Credit firms used 'predatory lending and'deceptive market practices' From Catherine Ong in New York THE US' Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged two consumer credit companies acquired by Citigroup Inc last year with deceiving borrowers in a systematic manner about the terms of their
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      574 22 NEW YORK Reuters PROFITS at top Wall Street firms fell sharply in their fiscal first quarter from record levels a year earlier as stock offerings and merger activity dried up, leaving investors searching for signs that the worst is
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      487 22 NEW YORK Judge disputes NASD claim that the two anits are separate NYT IN the three years since executives at the regulatory arm of the National Association of Securities Dealers created a unit to help federal prosecutors pursue criminal fraud cases against brokerage
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      678 23 LONDON From Barclays to Deutsche, alliances and profit pressures prompt cutbacks by the thousands Bloomberg EUROPEAN banks, insurers and securities firms ranging from Deutsche Bank, the region's biggest bank, to Britannic pic, the No. 7 UK insurer, have announced plans so
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      355 23 IRVING. Texas Reuters DESPITE some "terrible" news on US inflation recently, the Federal Reserve remains focused squarely on steering the US economy clear of recession, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank president Robert McTeer said on Tuesday. So far, Mr McTeer said, the world's
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      140 23 NEW YORK Reuters GOLDMAN Sachs chief investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen told clients yesterday to use their cash to buy stocks, reversing the call she made in March, 2000. Ms Cohen, one of Wall Street's most respected strategists, raised the equity allocation
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      339 23 LONDON Oil guuit says it will go hostile after tomorrow Reuters OIL giant Royal Dutch/Shell made a grab yesterday for more exposure to the booming US natural gas market with a US$2.2 billion (SS3.B billion) bid for Barrett Resources. The world's second largest oil
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      125 23 PARIS AFP A BRITISH firm has filed a patent for a talking cigarette packet which delivers a cancer warning to a smoker every time he opens the lid. The gadget comprises a stiff plastic strip which connects the hinged lid
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      209 23 LOSANGELES LATWP LAWYERS who represented California cities and counties that shared part of a massive national tobacco settlement were awarded U*****.5 million (Ssl.l billion) in fees on Tuesday by the National Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel. The fees, which amount to about 5 per cent of
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      157 23 LONDON AFP A BRITISH cabinet minister forced to resign amid a row over his role in an Indian tycoon's passport application has been cleared by an official inquiry, the BBC reported on Tuesday. If confirmed, it will be an embarrassment for Prime
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      555 24 SYDNEY Farther reductions expected as economy is weakening markedly Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S central bank cut its key interest rate a quarter percentage point to 5.5 per cent in a bid to stave off recession after the economy's nine-year expansion came to
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      407 24 CANBERRA Predictions of poll debacle, recession devastate Anssie PM Reuters THE political death knell sounded for Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday, with a horror poll predicting his coalition will be wiped out at the expected year-end election and the economy in sharp
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      293 24 AFP [MELBOURNE] Australia is in danger of becoming a branch office of the world's major economies as globalisation gathers pace, a leading corporate chief said yesterday. Tlie chairman of global reeources giant BMP Ltd, Dm Arras, urged Australia to rethink its immigration policies by welcoming highly-skilled
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      352 24 WASHINGTON AFP THE Bush administration appealed on Tuesday for expanded authority to negotiate trade pacts and warned US interests could suffer if Washington were left out of international trade agreements. President George W Bush made his position known in the administration's 2001
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      406 24 NEW YORK CNN, WB, TNT and Cartoon Network put under new network Reuters MEDIA and Internet giant AOL Time Warner Inc said on Tuesday it would combine all its TV properties into a new TV network group, which it said would be world's
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      364 25 NEW YORK Suit claims Motorola effectively operated Iridium to latter's detriment NYT A BANKRUPTCY court on Tuesday cleared the way for creditors of Iridium to sue Motorola Inc for billions of dollars, lawyers at the hearing said. Creditors of Iridium, which went bankrupt after failing to
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      280 25 Reuters [LOS ANGELES] THE Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it was probing a plot to kidnap film actor Russell Crowe, the New Zealand-born, Oscar-nominated star of Gladiator. No details of the plot were given, but an FBI spokeswoman in Los
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      350 25 2000 Hollywood blockbuster disaster year LAS VEGAS Production costs, np <L 5% to an average of USss6m a film, is main reason Bloomberg THE US movie industry had a disastrous past year with production costs rising sharply. Hollywood studios spent an average of US$54.B million (Ss96 million) to produce a
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      244 25 CHICAGO Reuters US PRESIDENT George W Bush nominated veteran career diplomat John Negroponte on Tuesday as US ambassador to the United Nations. Mr Negroponte had a 37-year career that included tours as ambassador to Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines and a spell
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      245 26  -  SOX Derivatives TnMagßeport ST Index/MSClS'pore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco Singapore THE Singapore stock market rose yesterday as technology stocks were back in favour after Nasdaq's rise. The benchmark Straits Times Index added 10.68 points or 0.56 per cent to close at 1,910.74
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      212 26  -  MSCX Taiwan Index Joseph Lim Refco Singapore THE Taiwan stock market rose yesterday, led by advances in technology and semiconductor stocks. The MSCI Taiwan stock index gained 6.57 points or 0.72 per cent to finish at 264.23 points. Turnover was high at 1.005 billion, with 38
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      225 26 Reuters f.—ylm THE yen fell beyond 120 to the US dollar for the first time in 20 months yesterday as expectation grew that Japan would tolerate a weaker yen to bolster its flagging economy. Comments from Japan's Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa that it would be acceptable for the
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      2849 27 HONGKONG AFP □HugSaig -143J1 HONGKONG share prices fell one per cent yesterday led by China Mobile on concerns that the tariff rate cuts in its new pricing scheme will trigger a price war in China's mobile phone market, dealers said. The key
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      2048 27 TOKYO AFP Qmhig *3115 SHARE prices in Tokyo rose 0.3 per cent for their third straight daily gain yesterday as investors chased bargains following last week's plunge to a 15-year low, brokers said. "Players were sidelined in the morning, but resumed buying back
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      1089 27 Reuters n Shenzhen B Index -&54 CHINA'S hard currency B shares ended sharply lower yesterday after a week of frenzied buying by new local punters fizzled out while a surge of profit-taking pushed more than a dozen firms down to their 10 per cent limit. Analysts said they expected
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      372 27 AFP QWPlnfax +142X7 TAIWAN share prices closed 2.5 per cent higher yesterday on strong buying of semiconductor stocks following Wall Street's gains, analysts said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index surged 142.07 points to 5,777.13, on turnover of NT1108.99 billion. Risers led decliners 312 to 202, with 71
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      407 28 AFP POompoate Index -438 MALAYSIAN shares closed 0.6 per cent lower yesterday as investors stayed on the sidelines amid weak underlying market sentiment, dealers said. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index finished at 701.65 points, down 4.38 from Monday's close. The market
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      298 29 AFP Q Composite Index +0.49 SOUTH Korean shares rose 0.1 per cent yesterday with the index up 0.49 at 568.64. Volume stood at 361 million worth 1.8 trillion won. —AFP mm 7 *h AnemSemt 4215 65 Brain Ttcb 60S -5 Central Bank 170 0 ChetlComm *****0 4500 DeeGuBant 1485
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      290 29 AFP CI Composite Index -7J62 PHILIPPINE shares closed 0.5 per cent lower yesterday with the Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index down 7.62 points at 1,603.85. Volume rose to 714.4 million shares worth 307.7 million pesos from 350.25 million shares worth 327.04 million pesos on Tuesday.—AFP Mar 7 NM COM)
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      257 29 AFP *ue NEW Zealand's stock market rose 1.9 per cent yesterday after Fletcher Challenge shareholders approved the break up of the group, dealers said. The benchmark NZSE-40 index closed up 38.05 points at 2,061.36. Turnover was 58 million shares worth NZ5184.5 million.— AFP ■vt «a rmo> Atf»*nt«g* HOS 1U
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      522 29 AFP HinOrtoiriM ♦iSJO AUSTRALIAN shares rose 0.8 per cent to reach their second highest closing mark for the past year yesterday, brokers said. The All Ordinaries index closed 25.9 points higher at 3,306.2, less than 30 points under its record high posted in August last year. The SP/ASX2OO index
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      746 29 AFP User Intel +C 54 THAI stocks rose 2.2 per cent yesterday amid buying ahead of an announcement on the government's proposed asset management corporation to buy bad debt from banks, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Composite Index gained 6.54 points to 306.35, and the SET
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      710 29 AFP Composite Intel -OJ7 INDONESIAN share prices closed marginally lower yesterday on late profit-taking amid concerns over the country's economic outlook and the rupiah's weakness, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index was down 0.97 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 430.55, off a high of 435.37. Traded
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      740 31 TVF:*7?rsrTa— ■.■I. «fMßantif <■ iwimim cords Primetime. 102 Quick Chat/Knowing 1240 MN The World To- 100 Upfront With Najip- Asia. night. 9.00 AM Kids Central: 040 News 5 Tonight. 130 Business Breakfast. IZ3O AM Business Tonight. H Blues Clues. 10J0 The Practice. 740 The World Today/ LOO Headlines. •-30 Nim
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      350 31 CKVFITC CROSSWORD ACROSS 5 One twice gets the bird here (4). 1 Standing out. painter troubled 6 The required sum? (7) (10) 7 Migratory urge of adult wrens, 9 Couple of quiet appearance (4) whirling (10) 10 Miner's daughter in a looee jack- 8 Like that neat jumper in the
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      1229 32 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Hot as a triumph of suffrage, or victory against as part of a society with an Important role, says JAIME EE WHY can't a woman —be more like a man? Or so lamented Professor Higgins as he tried to transform Eliza Doolittle
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      1574 32  - Gung-ho over family business She struck gold in the male-dominated IT industry. She bucked convention by having four children. She defies time management by cooking breakfast each day. coamME berk looks for the superwoman in Pamela Lim CORINNE KERK HER first job was as an air stewardess with Singapore Airlines.
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      507 32  -  But IT category catching up fast, says Job Street poll By Corinne Kerk IT'S probably no surprise. Marketing, sales and business development are favourite career choices for women in the Singapore work force. The second most-popular job category among women here is administration and
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      1015 33  -  Once the pillar of Singapore's economy, the construction industry is now a laggard with contractors barely breaking even, amdrea tax reports ANDREA TAN THEY used to be big tippers back in the *****. Today, the kitty has shrunk as contractors face up to tough times.
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        1096 34  -  The furniture and home accessories store will boast 11,000 sq ft of space when it opens at Pacific Plaza by May. chew reports MARISSA CHEW WHERE once music-lovers sought the top tunes from Tower Records, the house proud will soon go to seek design
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        428 35  -  The duster housing project is priced at $L2sm to $1.7 m By Andrea Tan ALLGREEN Properties will launch its 99-year leasehold cluster housing project Binjai Crest tomorrow. Priced at $1.25 million to $1.45 millionfor the 123 terrace houses and around $1.7 million for the semi-detached
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        518 35 DEVELOPER/OWNER DISTRICT LOCATION SIZE TOTAL UNfTS NO. OF PRICE TENURE (aqft) LAUNCHED UMTS SOLD ($prf) Queens Allgreen Prop 3 Stirling Rd 914-2,723 536 289 760 99-yr River Place FEO 3 Havelock Rd 678-3,229 509 420 950 99-yr Caribbean at Keppel Bay Keppel Land 4 Keppel Bay
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        1578 36  -  Simplicity was the keyword at this year's Furniture Design Competition and the finalists interpreted the theme in fresh and exciting ways. ikabissa chew checks out the winning entries MARISSA CHEW THE finalists in this year's Furniture Design Competition took the theme of simplicity to heart, coming up
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        2122 38 New York's World Trade Center, which was recently sold for USs3b, may be the world's largest commercial facility but to its citizenry, the vertical metropolis is more than a grade-A chunk of real estate NYT [NEW YORK] SO it turns out that the World Trade Center
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        334 39  -  Pare Haven is conveniently located near a wet market and hawker centre and has easy access to both the CTE and PIE expressways By Rachel Ong LOOKING for a low-commit-ment freehold property to live in or for investment purposes? Tucked away at Lorong Limau, in the
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        3169 39 PROJECT NAME/ PROF CONTRACT TENURE BULTHN/ PIKE PSF STICETNMlE TYPE OWE LAND MCA* (SOFT) (8T000) (S$» District 14 Astoria Park Apt 15/10/00 99 1195 756 633 Astoria Park Apt 02/02/01 99 936 450 481
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        797 40  -  Gingers, which used to be associated with food, are coming into their own as landscape plants and ornamentals By Thien COCOA Delight, Ice Blue and Ice Green sound like great ice-cream flavours. But don't be fooled, they are in fact just cool names for new,
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        178 40 SITING: Plant tall, leafy ginger species like the Torch Ginger (Etlingera elatior) or Zingiber spectabile at the sides or the back of the garden. They become effective screens, and will not take up too much of the garden space that way. They can tolerate full sun. Use smaller
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      62 39 FACTORIES IN GUL VICINITY Description Comprises 2 adjoining JTC Type D 5 lactones with mezzanine office. Production and office areas are fitted with ceiling board and air-con Land Aroe Total 16,825 sm (181,103 sq ft) Grose Floor Ana Total 6,300 sm (67,812 sq ft) Tenure JTC Leasehold 30 30 yrs
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      73 39 MORTGAGEE SALE BY TENDER Address 113 Neythal Road Description A single-storey detached factory building, and a 2-storey detached factory building with a mezzanine floor and a single-storey annex Land Area Approx. 5.143 5qnV55.354 sq ft Gross Floor Ares Approx. 3,181 sqm/34,240 sq ft Tenure JTC Leasehold 60 yrs wef 16
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      42 39 FOR SALE BY TENDER Near Still Recast Coast Rd Very convenient location, Land Area: 33,150 Sq Ft near reputable Pri/Sec Sch, Zoning: Residential Parkway Parade, F&B Outlets Plot Ratio: 1.4 Suitable for 5-storey TENDER CLOSING: Residential Development 27 MAR 01 (TUE), 12PM
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      39 39 FOR SALE BY TENDER Land Area: 3,894.7 Sqm Very convenient location, (41,922.1 Sq Ft) near reputable Pri/Sec Sch, Zoning: Residential Parkway Parade, F&B Outlets Plot Ratio: 1.4 Suitable for 5-storey TENDER CLOSING: Residential Development 18 MAR 01 (THUtt), 4PM
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      285 41 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell 10 points to 1,527, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost five points to 1,626, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed 37 points to 9,111 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCD was down 30 points to 1,941. TIME-CIIABTOb ♦Successor (built 1965) 170,603
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      272 41 mmmmmam. ■*t v- w CWT Distribution 0.48 unch 0 Oman Hup OJ6 0.01 324 Coacs Maaatmant—o.t9 weft 36 FraMMLMu 0.10 001 230 GBHaMngs 0.46 unch 0 IMC HoUlngt-HK 540 unch 0 JayaHoMnqs 0.15 0.01 290 KappalCarp 3JJ unch 630 KappafFELS UH -0.02 219 Kappal Marina——0.16 unch QM KappalTate
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      543 41  -  Icons urges Japan to take lead through Apec to stop abuse By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The International Commission on Shipping (Icons) released its report on international shipping at an Apec symposium in Sydney on Tuesday, painting a dismal picture of a global industry where
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      85 41 [DUBLIN] Dubliners gather at Dublin Port's South Wall upon the arrival of the world's largest car ferry Ulysses. The 100 million euro (SSI 63 million) car ferry can carry 1,342 cars or24oarticulated trucks per sailing in its 4km of vehicle lane parking
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      148 41 [LONDON] The world's largest shipmanagement firm, Mona-co-based V Ships, has opened a new office in Shanghai under the name of Silver Line Consultants. "The new office has been created to take advantage of the growing shipping and consultancy business being generated in China," the company
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      317 41  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Indonesia's efforts at re invigorating much of its ailing shipping industry received a boost last week when the Japanese government provided a US$l.B million (Ss3.l million) grant to study and formulate a new national shipping strategy. The grant was
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      860 42  -  NEWBUILDS By] David Hughes MOST types of vessel feature in this week's newbuildings list, except passenger ships of any sort. That is rather ironic as this is the week of the cruise industry's big get-together, the Seatrade Cruise Convention at Miami. There, the
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      174 42 PAGE Appcmiup 5 Assets 5 Austral 6 Balaji Shpq 5 BSA 7 B'tang Mas 6 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 It Central Ex 6 Clw Yanq 5 China Shpg 5 Cougar 7 CWTGM*to* 7 Oetmas 4 D»ak Lloyd 6 Dongnama 3 Eastrans 6 ECL
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        1962 51 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCl CONTAINERS AMP ICL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy No Etb/Btr Ptrtod Fro* To From AC I SWAN 442$ »/15<X) N 06/1500 06/165* JwOO 2* otmo mntst or/woo 21 Oi/TTOO 07/0659 07/0*00 3 07/0700 07/115* 07/1400 4 07/1200 07/M5* 07/1700 ALAMJAYA 2 (Til Ktlt M/BOO
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        204 51 Mar 17 Ireland: St. Patrick Day. United Kingdom: St.Patrick's Day. Mar 20 Japan: Vernal Wquinox Day. Mar 21 Mexico: Benito Juarez Day. Mat 20 Brunei: Hijrah. Indonesia: Awal Muharram. Malaysia: Awal Muharram. Mat 29 Taiwan: Youth Day. Apr 1 Australia: Good Friday. Argentina: Good Friday. Apr 12 Argentina:
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        789 51 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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        491 51 Carton WO Mm 981.5 0.4 15.9 0.06 42 0.03 Fab 22 Density Water ktUgi Ash UmMin MRHt Ho above E2S 0 0 10 =1 m »w.niu« Aw 965.7 0J 0.0 0.06 27 0.01 ti, 380 Max 989.7 0.7 14.8 0.09 52 0.03 M/IT3 MAI M/M w*
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        479 52 Supeijumbo to cost about USslo.7b to develop; Airbus consortium Bloomberg [TOKYO] Airbus Industrie said the development of its A3BO passenger plane will cost about US$lO.7 billion (5518.7 billion) after the world's second-largest commercial aircraft maker completed an assessment of the superjumbo project.
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        397 52 Carrier will not rush into any deal with Continental: chief executive Reuters [LONDON] Delta Airlines does not plan to jump into any deal with Continental Airlines until the US government rules on other proposed airline mega-mergers, Delta chief executive Leo Mullin said. In
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        289 52 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] The chief executive of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was quoted as saying the firm had made a conditional bid for British Airways' low-cost carrier Go. But it was not clear how significant the conditions were or how close a deal was
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        219 52 Leasing firm buys 25 planes, European airline eight AP [SEATTLE] Boeing announced that commercial leasing company CIT Aerospace has ordered 20 737-700s and five 757-300s, and European leisure airline Air 2000 has ordered eight 757-200s in separate deals that total nearly
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        163 52 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] An association of 18 Asian airlines said it would meet in the Malaysian capital this month to discuss a medical condition commonly known as economy-class syndrome. Some doctors and air passenger groups claim that sitting in cramped airline seats on long-haul
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        395 52 Reuters [SACRAMENTO] California unveiled a 20-year, US$lO.l billion (5517.7 billion) rail system improvement plan on Tuesday, calling for ridership to quadruple over the next two decades and the establishment of the first direct Los Angeles-San Francisco rail service in more
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      243 41 SPECIAL FEATURE 27 MARCH 2001 W -itIMP ~mml W f Make waves in a knowledge-based MR Singapore's position as a major maritime hub t I w^P has never been more important, especially j, now that the Trade Development Board ■MM| to step up its efforts towards HH efficient trade system,
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