The Business Times, 27 March 2001

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Intemei: hitp://business-times.asial .com.sg/ TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2001 85C
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    76 1 □sn 1.71&19 (+2.88) BT-SBI •7.37 (+2.18) □ST INDEX FUTURES 1,718J0 (-1.00) SMSCI FUTTOES 21&20 (-0.40) STOCK MARKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP dosed NIKKEI 225 *****31 —+647.77 HANG SENG *****.49_+*7.I3 SET INDEX 291W >3.55 JAKARTA COMP —dosed MANILA COMP —1.44&37 +16.80 TAIPEI WH *****2 +96.77 SEOUL COMP 545.98
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    79 1 FOBEX BATES uss ss USS (SS per 15$) 1.7» £(USS/SSper£) 1.432 1561 EURO{l'SS/S$/E) 0.894 1699 DM 2.188 1223 YEN 123.0 68.80 BM am 2.124 HKS 7.800 4360 BAHT 4436 24.79 RUPIAH ***** 5300 *SS to 100 units FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK 9.IQ MANILA
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  • Article
    Lock icon SingTel offer values Optus at up to A$16b
    1169 1  -  Both Sing Tel and Optus share prices down sharply in knee-jerk reaction By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] In its biggest acquisition yet, Singapore Telecommunications yesterday announced that it has reached agreement to purchase Cable Wireless Optus, Australia's No 2 telecoms operator, from
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    Lock icon Nikkei soars on hopes of more monetary action
    599 1  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo Tokyo stock prices continued their strong recovery yesterday with a gain of nearly 5 per cent on hopes that monetary actions taken last week by the Bank of Japan and further official actions promised to aid the
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    Lock icon Dow up 136, Nasdaq 22 at 11am EST
    53 1 Bloomberg (NEW YORK] US stocks rose yesterday morning on optimism that recent declines have left them inexpensive compared with the outlook for profit growth. By 11am EST, the Dow was up 136.14 points at 9,640.92 while the Nasdaq Composite was up 22.05
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    Lock icon Can Optus offer enough to restore SingTel's price?
    780 1  -  OQMMHNTAftY Sing Tel will have to realise long-term potential of deal to prove bearish investors wrong, says Ootrad RqJ Conrad Raj WHEN Cable Wireless (C&W) ut out its information memorandum on its 52.5 per cent-owned Australian subsidiary Cable Wireless Optus in October
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      175 1 imgPE Top stories Lee Han Shih: Sing Land's sterling results belie rental storm ahead. Pg 11 SPH posts 8.5% dip in interim profits to $204.4 m. Pg 4 VTech to fire 16% of workforce. Pg 16 The US movie industry has finally learned to share. Pg 28 Analysts query SingTel's
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  • OPTUS deal
    • Article
      Lock icon Analysts question SingTel's overseas strategy
      545 2  -  Its share price falls 10% on news of Optus purchase By. Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) executives could barely conceal their delight yesterday at having beaten two international contenders to snare Australia's Cable Wireless Optus. After previous disappointments on the acquisition trail, Sing
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      Lock icon Options and reasons
      495 2 How Singtel will pay for Optus Share alternative: 1.66 new SingTel shares for each Optus share. This represents a 20.1% premium to Optus' closing share price of A$3.80 on Mar 9, 2001. the last trading day before SingTel submitted its final expression of interest, and a 17.1%
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      Lock icon MAS will step in to dampen volatility of S$
      479 2  -  Statement follows S$ dip on talk Sing Tel needs to buy forex for Optns deal By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Following yesterday's sharp drop in the Singapore dollar, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) reiterated that it will intervene to dampen
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      Lock icon Deal 'positive' for SingTel, Optus shareholders
      1616 2 Below are excerpts of the question-and-answer session from SingTel'spress conference yesterday to announce its proposed acquisition of Cable Wireless Optus. Sing Tel chairman Koh Boon Hwee and executive vice-president of consumer business Lucas Chow were in Singapore. Sing Tel CEOLeeHsien Yang, chief financial officer
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • Article
      Lock icon SPH interim net earnings slip 8.5% to $204m
      412 4  -  Group warns of weak second half amid slower economic growth Eugene Low MEDIA giant Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) posted an 8.5 per cent dip in interim net profits to $204.4 million, and warned that its performance for the second half would be
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      Lock icon Freesheets popular mainly because they are free: study
      280 4 CLOSE to half of the commuters recently surveyed said they picked up a copy of Streats and Today simply because they were free. However, 41 per cent of commuters picked up a copy of Streats, compared with just 20 per cent for
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      Lock icon Poh Lian to pay US$113m less for Indon mills
      305 4  -  By David Boey SESDAQ-listed construction firm Poh Lian Holdings Ltd said yesterday its proposed acquisition of Indonesianbased pulp and paper mills should be pared down by some US$ll3 million (Ss2o2 million), or 30 per cent, from US$3B5 million, now that the
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      Lock icon Leng Beng defends HLF revamp
      683 4  -  Move aimed at capitalising on deregulated financial environment, he says By\ Siow Li Sen KWEK Leng Beng, chairman of Hong Leong Finance and subsidiary Singapore Finance, yesterday defended the restructuring of the group, as shareholders gave the plan a mixed reception. Mr Kwek said the
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      Lock icon JP Morgan to include SGB Index
      230 4  -  By* Janice Lee THE Singapore Government Bond Index (GBI) will join JP Morgan's Government Index Broad (GBI Broad) this April 2, the first emerging Asian country to be represented. Singapore was included to broaden the index's range, said JP Morgan in a statement. The
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      Lock icon OCBC to disclose disposal plan in HI of April now
      601 4  -  It owns the most non-core assets among local banks By, Angela Tan OCBC Bank, which was widely expected by the industry to unveil details of its non-core banking asset sale by the end of this month, will now do so
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      Lock icon SembCorp, Keppel Fels keen on desalination project
      311 4 The plant will help S'pore diversify its sources of water Bloomberg SEMBCORP Industries Ltd and Keppel Fels Energy Infrastructure Ltd, two of Singapore's biggest governmentlinked companies, are keen to bid for a state desalination project that could cost as much as US$23O million
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      Lock icon Mergers of mining giants a worry for consumers
      667 4  -  H lock siew neil behrmann STEEL makers and manufacturers of metals, glass and electronics products must be feeling distinctly uneasy about the marriage between the mining conglomerates BHP and Billiton. If the US$2B billion (Ssso billion) merger goes through, BHP Billiton, Rio
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      Lock icon Income life insurance fund yields -1.4%
      819 5  -  But over 10 years, average annual yield stands at 7.9% Byi Genevieve Cua UNREALISED losses on the value of some assets in NTUC Income's life insurance fund caused the fund's total yield to dip into negative territory at minus 1.4 per cent last year.
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      Lock icon United Food in stale trading debut
      325 5  -  Counter closes at 25.5 cents or 19% below issne price By] Rachel Ong CHINA'S United Food Holdings made a disappointing debut on the main board of the Singapore Exchange yesterday, closing at 25.5 cents or 19 per cent shy of its issue price. But
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      Lock icon Chartered to offer up to US$402m of convertible bonds
      334 5 Issue makes more sense for investors in view of global stock plunge: analysts Bloomberg CHARTERED Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd plans to sell as much as US$4O2 million (Ss7l9 million) of bonds convertible into stock, a sale some investors said may be more
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon MCL Land bags land for $159m
        79 5 Reuters MCL Land, the property arm of Cycle Carriage, said yesterday it was awarded a government tender for a residential land parcel at a price of $158.7 million. The firm's bid for the 99-year plot at Choa Chu Kang Loop had emerged tops in
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        Lock icon Cosco profit jumps to $10.8m
        83 5 Reuters COSCO Investment (Singapore) said its net profit for the year ended Dec 31,2000 soared to $10.78 million from $820,000 previously. Turnover, however, fell to $161.93 million from $201.41 million. The group is engaged in shipping, shiprepair and marine-related businesses. It said the increased profit
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        Lock icon Lee Metal's profit drops 94%
        72 5 LEE Metal said its net profit last year fell 94 per cent to $343,000. Group turnover increased from $117.7 million to $134.6 million. The group said the profit plunge was due to the declining prices of reinforcement steel products as a result of continuing stiff
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        Lock icon MAE profit rises 27% to $3.2m
        86 5 MAE Engineering's net profit last year rose 27 per cent to -$3-2 million. The group's turnover increased $6 million or 10 per cent from $63.3 million to $69.3 million during the year. It said this was largely due to an increase in work for
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      Lock icon Market remains resilient despite SingTel selldown
      644 6  -  I=ll comment STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Straits Times Index battled to stay in positive territory yesterday as its biggest component stock, Singapore Telecommunications, lost 10 per cent. But Sing Tel aside, the broader market was more positive than it had been for days, as
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      Lock icon FLEH wrt: good for the nimble
      180 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By' Ven Sreenivasan THE warrant of logistics player Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) edged up half a cent to 1.5 cents yesterday on volume of 10,000 units. On the other hand, the underlying stock slipped half a cent to 8.5 cents on
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      Lock icon Omni makes healthy comeback
      160 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan OMNI Industries has rebounded strongly since the middle of this month. The stock gained another 13 cents, or 4.6 per cent, to $2.95 yesterday on 17.9 million shares, making it the third most active counter. It is poised to break out
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      Lock icon US$ up against yen in Tokyo trade
      481 6 Foreign investors bny the greenback after Friday's recovery on Wall Street AFP THE US dollar rose against the yen in Tokyo yesterday after a recovery on Wall Street at the end of last week, dealers said. The US unit was quoted at 123.06-09
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      Lock icon Correction
      60 6 IN yesterday's column we said the Singapore Exchange is paying a dividend of 10.4 cents per share. This is incorrect. SGX expects to pay a full-year gross dividend of about 7.4 cents per share. Of this, three cents a share has already been paid as an interim gross dividend
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      336 6 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 96.087.000 PacificCenturylOc 24.847,000 Omni Ind 10c 17,920.000 Vicptas 5c 16,049,000 Goldtron 5c 15,611,000 Vickers Capital 25c 11,735,000 PCI 25c 11,273,000 GES Intl Ltd 20c 11,145,000 Chart Semiconductor 26c 9,337,000 Frontline 5c 8,299,000 Stocks SingTel 15c 209,767,3CX) DBS Grp 94,327,937 Omni Ind 10c 52,068,160 Chart Semiconductor 26c
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2736 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss):Mar27 Abtfdwn Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNCFd 0.713 0.7S0 Global Technology Fd!** 0.618 0.650 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.712 0.748 American Opport Fd 0.773 0.812 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.992 1.043 Japan EqtyFdl** 1.181 1.241 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.084 1.118
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      30 6 EXECUTIVE mm* Get up-to-date on the property and look out f o' our nev. week!;, matters column, interior decot architecture ana Gardening slot *\jr In The Business Times every Thursday.
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      54 7 H I I I TAKASHI MURAKI RADM (NS) TEO CHEE HEAN TOK WEE LENG Managing Director. Hitachi Asia Ltd. Minister for Education and Second Minister tor Defence I Khoo Swee Chiow's Wife President. Singapore National Oiympic Council Patron of Hitachi Extreme North Expedition I HIM RECOVERY II v••■" -V A
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  • SINGAPORE news
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        Lock icon Not just any coffee
        74 8 HERS may not be Starbucks standard just yet, but the tea lady at the Hong Leong group could give the American coffee chain a run for its money. A group of journalists had gathered yesterday to meet Hong Leong Finance group chairman Kwek Leng Beng at
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        Lock icon Embrace gorgeous talent too
        82 8 WE know that Singapore is offering foreigners permanent residence or citizenship if doing so will help the country qualify for international sporting honours, such as a berth in the World Cup soccer tournament. So one local wit has suggested the country make similar offers to promising
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        Lock icon Poll results on US rate cut
        72 8 LAST week, BT ran an online poll after the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points. The poll said: The Fed rate decision will help pull the US out of recession. Here's how readers voted: Yes, this is what the economy
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      Lock icon SingTel, M1, StarHub and HK-backed firm in 3G bid line-up
      322 8  -  Expert Asia is backed by Sunday Communications; np to 4 licences may be issued By. 'Andrew Wee FOUR applicants for third-generation (3G) mobile telephony licences had declared their hand by yesterday's closing date for notification of intention to bid. The
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      Lock icon Rivervale Crest prices to be cut 'really soon'
      466 8  -  20 more Goldenhill Park units sold; at Binjai Crest, total sales are 104 anits By Kalpana Rashiwala NTUC Choice Homes Co-op-erative is expected to cut prices "really soon" for its Rivervale Crest condo in Sengkang now that rival Centrepoint Properties has sold
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      Lock icon M1 opens IDD to rivals' customers
      331 8 FROM next month (April), Star Hub and Sing Tel subscribers can access Mobile One's (Ml) international call services. Currently, only Ml mobile phone users can access its IDD 002 and Value Call 021 international call services. However, this will change following the resolution of
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      Lock icon UOB to offer authenticated payment system for credit cards
      361 8  -  fty Chua Hui Min UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) will offer an authenticated payments solution that will be available to its 460,000 credit card holders by the third quarter. At a briefing yesterday, Visa International Asia-Pacific said UOB will be the first
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      Lock icon Verbal agreement a fabrication: defence
      385 8  -  Raffles Town Club saga By\ Ling Su Ann EUROPA Holdings (EH) chairman Lawrence Ang yesterday testified that had Peter Lim asked for his 39.21 per cent beneficial stake in EH and the club, he would have agreed to it. Mr Ang, 49, said he would
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      Lock icon High Court winds up ailing Grandlink
      352 8 The Straits Times DEVELOPER Ricky Goh's ailing company, Grandlink Group, has been wound up by the High Court because it is in "a mess" it owes more than $18 million to creditors. Justice G P Selvam yesterday ordered liquidators to take over the company
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      Lock icon Feb manufacturing output up 13.3%
      319 8  -  1473 on the economy manufacturing By. Anna Teo AFTER a seasonal dip in January, manufacturing output rebounded last month with a 13.3 per cent increase, and calendar effects were again in play. Releasing the data yesterday, the Economic Development Board said the year-on-year jump was
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      Lock icon Governing Singapore in a new age
      1381 9  -  Under SM Lee, the country has made great economic progress but aspirations among younger Singaporeans are rising, DPM Lee Hsien Loong tells JOHN THORMHILL of London's Financial Times why it's important to keep them engaged JOHN THORNHILL IN spite of his 77 years, Lee
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      Lock icon PSB to boost profile with corporatised activities
      188 9 THE Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) aims to boost its regional and global presence through corporatisation. The corporatised activities will come under two new entities PSB Corporation and PSB Certification. The larger company, PSB Corporation, will handle training, consultancy, technology and testing
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      Lock icon Business ethics affect S'porean consumers' buys
      378 9 Survey shows they are more sensitive than consumers in US, Europe SINGAPORE consumers showed more concern for ethical factors in their choice of purchases than their counterparts in Europe, the US and Australia, according to a survey. Conducted by SWR Worldwide, the nine-country survey
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      Lock icon TDB launches logistics portal
      166 9 THE Trade Development Board (TDB) yesterday launched an online information portal, www.singaporelogistics.com, for the logistics industry. The board hopes to make it a one-stop resource for logistics and supply chain management in the region. "This information portal presents an overview of the Singapore logistics industry as
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      35 9 PIAGET Boutique: #01-11 Ngee Ann City Tower B, 391 Orchard Road, Singapore *****4. Tel: 732 6831. Authorised Retailers: Cortina Watch Deluxe Eastern Watch Roy Eastern Watch Sincere Fine Watches The Hour Glass (Scotts Shopping Centre)
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Members should get money back from RTC
      283 10  -  Gan Guat Heng Singapore, via Internet I AM one of the "lucky" 5,000 individuals who were invited to join the "prestigious" Raffles Town Club at $28,000 a membership in the initial offer package. The club had promoted a club-joining fee of $48,000 after
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      Lock icon Need for registered osteopaths
      344 10  -  David Tio, Andrew Haynes Osteopathic Treatment Centre Tanglin Shopping Centre I REFER to your article, "Health Check", by Yvette Flanigan and Rebecca Chew (BT. March 20). We would like to thank you for bringing this topic to the attention of the public with regard to statutory
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      Lock icon PCL deal a well-planned offer
      137 10  -  Denis Distant Singapore, via Internet I REFER to the current cash offer to acquire the shares in Pacific Carriers Ltd (PCL) It is an excellent example of a well-planned offer where there was no leakage of information as shown by the closing price of the
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      Lock icon Citibank personal banker not sufficiently trained
      245 10  -  Lim Yuat Peng Singapore via Internet I HAVE an account with Citibank where I maintain my mutual funds. With the poor market performance of late, my investments have dwindled by 50 per cent and now my balance has fallen below their minimum-sum requirement. Considering
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      Lock icon Govt should not stop land sales in Turn
      111 10  -  Tan Yong Seng, Alan Singapore, via Internet I REFER to your article "Glut on the Tuas industrial front" by Kalpana Rashiwala (BT, March 15). Are the developers a pitiful lot? Certainly not! During the good times, they would not hesitate to keep
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      Lock icon Act 3 children festival a success
      120 10  -  Ruby Lim-Yang Artistic director. Act 3, Singapore ACT 3 would like to thank The Business Times for being the official newspaper for Prudential Children First! Singapore International Festival For Children. The festival was a resounding success and Act 3 would like to thank BT
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      1983 10 Full-year financial statement on consolidated results for the year ended 31 December 2000. These figures have not been audited. The Group The Company Ss'ooo SS'OOO 2000 1999 Change 2000 1999 Change 1 fil J""™* 161.931 201,412 (20) 3.563 5.144 (31) (b) Investment income 0 41 (100) 0 0 0 (c
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      68 10 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletter® sph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: The Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify it came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon SingLand's sterling results belie rental storm ahead
      718 11  -  I I comment PROPERTY DBS' aborted Unity Tower 2 deal, which would have been the biggest in years, Is first sign of weakness in the office market lee han shih INVESTORS who read the results released by listed Singapore Land last week could
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      98 11 I I FOR SALE Legal Description Lot 2349N, Mukim 6 Land Area 25,796 sq m Tenure 30 years w.e.f 1 April 1988 30 years Total build-in area 13,193.4 sq m Description of Property Factory with mezzanine office 10,278 sq m Warehouse 1 393 sq m Warehouse 2 1016.4 sq m
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      315 11 100/000 sq ft of Strata Space Near Lavender MRT Station For Sale by Private Treaty Suitable uses: Corporate HQ for Trading Company f! Distribution/ XI S;: Jh Service Centre ■■■g g Showroom 1 Commercial School Church (High Ceiling) Entertainment HS Recreation Highly adaptable with many possibilities Asking price Ss3Bo psf
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Just cut the interest rate, guys
      732 12  -  OPINION ITTT^ bottom line david derosa David Deßosa, adjunctfinance professor at Yale School of Management and the author of In Defense of Free Capital Markets Bloomberg THE European Central Bank's policy board meets on Thursday to decide whether to follow the lead of the
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      101 12 "Fundamentally, it seems ridiculously cheap. Presumably, eventually, investors will notice Australia's having a half-price sale/' -Bory Robertson a New York-based strategist, on the weakness of the Australian dollar. "For the average Indian citizen, day-to-day existence is hard enough. He has to wait in a mile-long queue for
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      Lock icon India's latest bribes scandal
      667 12 EDITORIAL SADLY, it seems that Indians are resigned to the fact that the scandal involving India's army officers and politicians is unlikely to be the country's last They point out that allegations of bribery have emerged following the purchases of Swedish guns, German submarines and Russian
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      Lock icon Rising threat of global deflationary spiral
      1221 12  -  Heavy fallout seen if US, Japan and Europe depreciate together From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SUDDENLY, the world is beginning to look like a rather scary place as stock markets fall in unison, evidence of stagflation appears in the US, the Federal Reserve lowers
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      Lock icon How quickly the tide turns
      769 12  -  COMMENTARY w Barry Riley FT HEROES can so quickly slip down the league table of popularity. In the late *****, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, became adored by a new generation of equity market investors. His reputation, however, is being destroyed
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Meralco's profit falls 24.8%, lower than forecast
      173 13 MANILA Reuters PHILIPPINE power distributor Manila Electric Co (Meralco) posted yesterday a 24.8 per cent year-on-year drop in 2000 net income. Analysts said the income was lower than had been expected and was the result of a rise in interest expense, higher operating
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      Lock icon Lehman may invest in Thai asset management unit
      156 13 BANGKOK Bloomberg LEHMAN Brothers Holdings Inc has expressed an interest in buying a stake in a planned Thai asset management company, Deputy Prime Minister Pitak Intravitayanant said yesterday. The government plans to start Thai Asset Management Corp to buy US$3l billion (5555.3
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      Lock icon KL govt may subsidise MAS domestic routes
      256 13 KUALA LUMPUR Move is to ensure that airline returns to the black in 2 years time: reports AFP THE government may subsidise loss-mak-ing Malaysia Airlines' domestic routes to enable the carrier to return to profitability in the next two years, reports said. Transport
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      Lock icon Anwar is capitalising on his hurt back: KL
      289 13 KUALA LUMPUR Foreign minister calls it a political gambit AFP THE Malaysian government yesterday said jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim, who has been in hospital for four months with back pain, was making political capital out of his condition. "Anwar is making use
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      Lock icon Li & Fung profit up 51% at HK$870m
      431 13  - Li Fung profit up 51% at HK$870m Prom, Audrey Tan in Hongkong TRADING house Li Fung yesterday reported a 51 per cent jump in after-tax profit to HK$B7O million (*****.5 million) for the year ended December, and said that it expects little impact from the US economic slowdown despite its
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      Lock icon Call to strike off top Peregrine executives
      387 14  -  No fraud committed; but 4 ex-directors of collapsed group cited for incompetence Front* Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong THE Hongkong government yesterday revealed that it had found no fraud or dishonesty on the part of any of the directors, managers and advisers in
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      Lock icon Taiwan's '01 growth could fall below 5%
      140 14 TAIPEI Reuters TAIWAN'S economic growth could well fall below 5 per cent in 2001 if key data this week signals a third consecutive month of slowdown, the country's top economic planning agency warned yesterday. "In theory, if the domestic economy continues to flash
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      Lock icon Wharf earnings slide 30% to HK$2.5b
      426 14  -  From I Quak Hiang Whai in Hongkong HONGKONG-LISTED Wharf Holdings yesterday reported a 29.4 per cent fall in net profit to HKS2.4B billion (*****.7 million) last year, down from HK$3.5l billion in 1999, with the decline being attributed to the absence of exceptional items.
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      Lock icon Rubber band fight
      69 14 [HONGKONG] Kristie Phelps (left) and Lisa Franzetta, demonstrators from People for the Ethical treatment of Animals (Peta), staging a protest near the location of the Asia-Pacific Leather Fair yesterday in Hongkong. Ms Phelps and Ms Franzetta, from Norfolk and Oakland in the US respectively, were dressed in
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      Lock icon PCCW shares slip ahead of earnings report
      375 14 UHONGKONG AFX INTERNET and telecoms giant Pacific Century CyberWorks closed down 3.5 per cent to HK53.45, ahead of its 2000 earnings report tomorrow and increasing concerns that Cable Wireless pic may sell a 7.5 per cent stake in PCCW in the open market,
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      241 16 SANJOSE Bloomberg A GREATER-than- expected slowdown in personal computer sales this year will likely trigger a price war among PC makers such as Dell Computer Corp as they seek to preserve market share, Gartner Group Inc said. Worldwide PC shipments are
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      279 16 BOMBAY AFP INDIA'S Reliance group is investing 300 billion rupees (Sslo.B billion) to lay Asia's biggest broadband telecom network, reports said yesterday. "Reliance Infocom plans to connect 115 cities across India to create Asia's biggest broadband network," The Economic Times said, citing unnamed company
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      223 16 SHANGHAI Reuters ORACLE Corp's China and Asia Pacific businesses should escape a raging global technology shake out that has ravaged nearly every facet of a once red-hot industry, the firm's China chief said. The world's second largest software maker believes Beijing's accession
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        81 16 Reuters [PARIS] French telecoms equipment firm Alcatel declined to confirm a forecast for 2001 sales growth of 20 to 25 per cent for the company because of uncertainty in the sector. "For the first quarter we maintain a forecast of growth of above 20
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      281 19 BRISBANE AFP A FINANCIAL adviser who promised American investors loans worth US$4B3 million (*****.9 million) from a non-existent bank to finance projects in Hongkong and China was jailed for six months. Garry Peter Hamblin, 44, was yesterday convicted of laundering U*****,000 paid by
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      460 19 SEOUL They made provision for 10.3 trillion won loan losses in 2000, np from 9.9 trillion won in 1999 Reuters A CLUSTER of healthy South Korean banks posted bigger gains last year, but the sector as a whole continued to be affected
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      600 19 TOKYO Reuters JAPANESE ruling coalition powerbrokers were set yesterday to step up efforts to replace unpopular Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, after a stark warning that many voters are fed up with parties of all persuasions. In a poll widely seen as a
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      288 19 SEOUL Shake-np to rejuvenate ties with US, North Korea Reuters SOUTH Korean President Kim Dae-jung sacked his foreign minister yesterday in a sweeping Cabinet shake-up that analysts expect will rejuvenate diplomatic engagement with Washington and Pyongyang. Mr Kim named ex-ambas-sador to the United
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      323 20 Johnson Johnson in talks to buy Alza NEW YORK Price said to be more than USsl2b; talks at delicate stage Reuters JOHNSON Johnson, moving to bolster its drug pipeline and capture some important pharmaceutical technology, is in advanced discussions to acquire Alza Corp for more than US$l2 billion (5521.4 billion),
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      485 20 TOKYO Reuters LOSS making Japanese electronics group Aiwa Co Ltd yesterday said it would cut 5,000 jobs, close eight plants and get a capital injection from major shareholder Sony Corp, speeding up a restructuring that began last year. Aiwa, facing its second
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      315 20  -  From Neil Behrmann in London CABLE Wireless' shares yesterday soared on the London Stock Exchange, in contrast to Singapore Telecom shares. C&W shares surged 42 pence or 9.5 per cent to 485 pence as the market took the view that
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      439 21 WASHINGTON It must open up more potential domestic production sources, begin conserving LATWP WARNING again of possible blackouts in California, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham appealed on Sunday for a sweeping overhaul of US energy policies to ward off problems that could plague
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      240 21 LONDON FT FAMILY shareholders behind some of the world's biggest carmakers including Ford, PSA Peugeot Citroen and BMW are expected to receive combined dividend payments of almost US$47O million (*****.7 million) following a sharp increase in profits last year. The payments are likely to
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      479 21 WASHINGTON The US Treasury Secretary is bowing to criticism of his ties to company Reuters US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, bowing to criticism, said on Sunday he will sell his estimated US$9O millionplus (Ssl6o million) stake in Alcoa Inc, the aluminium giant he headed for
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      4299 22 s SHANGRI-LA ASIA LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) website: http://www.irasia.com/fistco/hk/shangrila 2000 FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT The Directors of Shangri-La Asia Limited (the "Company") are pleased to announce the audited The currency-mix of the bank loans and cash and hank »>.» 11 ->nnn t n consolidated final result! of the
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      273 23  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Report ST Indac/MSGI S"pore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco (Singapore) Pte Ltd THE Singapore stock market made moderate gains, helped mostly by computer-related stocks tracking Friday's rally on the Nasdaq. At the close, the benchmark Straits Times Index gained 2.88 points or 0.17
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      240 23 MSCI Taiwan Index THE TAIWAN stock market closed higher for a third consecutive day, tracking the gains made on Wall Street. At the close, the MSCI Taiwan stock index gained 2.89 points, or 1.10 per cent to finish at 266.63 points. Turnover for
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      2900 24 HONGKONG AFP yiHangSeng +367J3 HONGKONG share prices rose 2.9 per cent yesterday due to bargain hunting after a week of losses, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index gained 367.13 points to close at 12,950.49, after a 6.9 per cent loss last
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      1081 24 AFP Index ****** CHINA'S Shenzhen B Share Index yesterday advanced 4.59 per cent, or 15.03 points, to finish at 342.15, following a see-saw trading session, as turnover dropped by 30 per cent to a still-healthy HK$5.2l billion. Shanghai B shares surged 8.5 per cent with gains across the board
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      378 24 AFP □WP Index +95.77 TAIWAN share prices closed 1.7 per cent higher yesterday on strong buying following Wall Street's rally, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index rose 95.77 points to 5.896.32, on turnover of NT5135.05 billion. "Investors were more willing to trade with Wall Street stabilising,"
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      2077 24 TOKYO AFP PNikka22s ♦<47.77 SHARE prices in Tokyo soared 4.9 per cent yesterday to near the 14,000 mark, helped by a rebound on Wall Street and easier borrowing costs in Japan, brokers said. Information technology issues led the upswing as investors, anticipating longawaited
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      756 25 AFP Pi SET Index +£55 THAI stocks rose 1.2 per cent yesterday, with trade supported by the rally on US markets and ahead of the release locally of the government's new stimulus measures, dealers said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index gained 3.55 points to finish at 293.80
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      294 25 AFP Q Composite Index +1&80 PHILIPPINE share prices closed 1.1 per cent higher yesterday after gains on Wall Street and in most regional markets. The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index added 16.80 points to 1,448.37. Volume rose to 1.47 billion shares worth 586 mil lion pesos. AFP Hm *h
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      268 25 AFP □N2SE-40 -1190 NEW Zealand stocks yesterday closed down 0.7 per cent in quiet trading, dealers said. The NZSE-40 Capital Index fell 13.90 points to 2,044.80 on turnover of NZ5151.3 million. News of Sing Tel securing a deal to buy Cable and Wireless attracted market attention.—AFP Mar?* MS (OOP)
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      544 25 AFP All Ordinaries +18J THE Australian share market rose 0.6 per cent yesterday off a nine-month low but continued to be plagued by negative sentiment, brokers said here. The All Ordinaries Index added 18.1 points to 3,112.4, while the SP/ASX2OO closed 19.8 points stronger at 3,165.1 points. National turnover
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      1126 26 The unaudited results for the first half year ended February 28, 2001 are as follows A Results GROUP COMPANY 2001 2000 Change 2001 2000 Change HH S'ooo S'ooo $*000 $000 Turnover 529,612 493,031 496,737 464,653 Trading profit [See Note (a)] 205,091 220,062 213,834 213,065 Income from investments 5 620 Share
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      1335 28  -  No picture dominates this year s Academy Awards as a global view prevails, marked by films such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and the overseas actors nominated, says RICK LYMAN RICK LYMAN NYT THE movie industry has finally learned to share. The 73rd Annual Academy Awards
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      301 28 AFP [TAlPEl] There was disappointment in Taiwan yesterday as local director Ang Lee failed to grab Oscars for either Best Director or Best Film for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon even though the martial arts spectacle walked off with four awards. "After
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      948 30 From using a stuffed swan as an accessory to sporting period looks, Hollywood's beautiful people dress to kill at the 73rd annual Academy Awards Reuters [LOS ANGELES] THE Red Carpet was alive and in some cases crawling with highly personalised fashions, from singeractress Bjork with
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      917 31  -  Difficult market conditions offer opportunities for companies to strengthen relations with the media By Lou Hoffman The writer is president of The Hoffman Agency, an international tech and Internet PR firm. Email him at lhoffrnaniahoffman.com AS Chicken Little so articulately put it, "the
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        153 46  -  Beth Jinks Ngee Ann Polytechnic offers both a three-year full-time diploma m logistics, engineering and management and a certificate in logistics management The diploma course is conducted by the mechanical engineering, business studies and other departments m the polytechnic It combines the fundamentals of engineering. information technology, telecommuni
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