The Business Times, 15 May 2001

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY. MAY 15, 2001 850
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  • 78 1 □sn MBOJO7 (-23.28) BT-SRI 657.31 (-10.66) ST INDEX rifTUKES M«7jOO (-31.00) SMSQ FUTDBES 20&00 (-4.30) STOCK MABKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP 566.89 -4J3 NIKKEI 225 *****02 -179J0 HANG SENG 1*259.17 477.14 SETLNDEX ***** -8.40 JAKARTA COMP _86&28 -2.08 MANILA COMP dosed TAIPEI WPI 6.170.45 -56i7 SEOUL COMP
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  • 80 1 FORK SATES us$ ss DSS (SS per USS) L816 £(L'SS/SS per L418 1575 EUKO(USS/SS/E) 0.874 1-588 DM 2137 1132 YEN 122.7 67.60 RM 3.800 1093 HKS 7.800 4196 BART 45.47 25.04 RUPIAH 11,388 6171 *S$ to 100 writs PUKE SATES SINGAPORE* a.90 KLtALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA 39.00 BANGKOK 9.50
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  • 875 1  -  Funds seen switching to stocks like OCBC, SPH with higher free floats Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Government-linked blue chips with low free floats like SIA, ST Engineering and Sing Tel are likely to be penalised by provisional free-float adjustments by Morgan Stanley
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  • 746 1  -  Merrill chief had set market alight by saying a merger would make sense From Quak Hiang Whai in Hong Kong OFFICIALS from HSBC Holdings yesterday moved quickly to scotch persistent rumours about a merger with Merrill Lynch Co, which gained credence after
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  • 664 1  -  si g exclusive ft/' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] A combination of interest rates cuts and fiscal stimulus will save the US economy from sliding into a recession this year. But low capital expenditure, rising job losses, falling consumption and increasing savings rates will send
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    • 50 1 i The R-word index, and it's not recession Paue 9 Lee Han Shih: Bleak prospects for office space 11 Tank Americaine watih sin| »«>r«• Ngee Ann 1 1\ I«*I 7<4 2427 Hilton International Ihe Shopping t. all <■ r lei 2?". t»2«)> Vtillenia IMS lei f 12 21>U v\ vvw.earlier.t
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    • 515 2  -  But recovery seen as temporary, with exports expected to have resumed slide this month Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] After slipping in March, exports of Singapore-made goods bounced back to growth territory last month, according to analysts polled yesterday. But the rebound
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        64 2 JEFFREY Heng (right), who recently left Centrepoint as CEO, made a guest appearance at a Fraser Neave (F&N) function over the weekend. Mr Heng and Centrepoint's current CEO and deputy chairman, Han Cheng Fong (left), performed a duet delivering an unrehearsed rendition of the Bee Gees number, Don't Forget
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      • 154 2 IF you like fine wines, here's an investment opportunity you may want to check out. SG Asset Management has set up a fund based on the trade in top-class French wines. SGAM Premier Cru, a venture capital fund, will be 80 per cent invested
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    • 436 2  -  Chairman says it's more nimble as a privately held firm By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing last year's top Enterprise 50 (E5O) firm and one of Singapore's most successful privately held companies is in no
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    • 212 2 HUBLOT CHRONOGRAPH that Sensational Phi-ling I Si I'l'l I M SI I K! Iv I.M 1 S!I- M' Ul Ms I' < I I; 11 Si KI Wll ii KM i W K; *isi I< ■!<*o \l > ■<< 111 I > S< il'l lln Il< \l lI>Ml 1 II
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 434 3  -  Finance director says report of parent seeking to privatise firm is speculative By Christopher Tan INCHCAPE Motors yesterday dismissed a report that its London-based parent was seeking to buy out minority shareholders of its Singapore operations. Finance director Mark Choong said the
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    • 779 3  -  lock siew| siow li sen Directors of Singapore's listed companies who become hot under the collar when minority shareholders question their paychecks will not relish the latest suggestions in the United Kingdom to let shareholders vote annually on boardroom pay. Directors' fees and share reward
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    • 528 3  -  Bank acted after finding compensation was behind world standards By Siow Li Sen THE compensation of HSBC's two top executives in the news after it was revealed they receive considerably less than head honchos at much less profitable DBS Bank is
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    • 932 5 Analysts cite slowing demand for cargo, passenger services Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd's second half profit probably fell 28 per cent as Asia's largest airline by market value was hurt by slowing demand for both cargo and passenger services. Implied net income in the six
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    • 165 5 SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services Ltd (Sats), a unit of Singapore Airlines, said yesterday it has increased its stake in Evergreen Airline Services Corporation (EGAS) from 19.21 per cent to 20 per cent. Sats acquired another 1.2 million shares in EGAS from Evergreen International Corporation
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    • 234 5  -  Unit will focus on providing hedge fond products By, Janice Lee NOBLE Group Ltd yesterday announced the setting up of financial investment arm Noble Investments SA to focus on providing hedge fund products for its customers. "Our intention is for the group to
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    • 360 7  -  It signs MOU with US-listed Mad C&tz which has a 15% market share By. Melissa Sim DESIGN house Addvalue Technologies has been appointed by First Luck Inc a San Diego based marketing company to design and supply a wireless game controller for Amex-listed Mad
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    • 219 7 Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings Ltd's $700 million issue of preference shares has been rated Aa3 by Moody's Investors Service, the rating company's fourth highest investment grade. South-east Asia's largest lender by assets is raising funds to pay for its US$5.3 billion acquisition of Hong
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 79 7 BOUSTEAD Singapore said yesterday it has completed the acquisition of a 45.2 per cent stake in Easy Call International. Boustead bought the shares from Beheer-en Beleggingsmaatschappij Amstelhoek BV and has paid the cash consideration of about A 17.01 million (516.5 million) to Beheer-en. Boustead will
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      • 68 7 DOVECHEM Terminals Holdings said yesterday a wholly owned subsidiary, Imperial Metal Plastic Product (Shenzhen) Co Ltd, intends to acquire the land use right to an industrial plot and building in Shenzhen City, China. The property is now rented by Imperial, which makes and sells
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      • 43 7 LINDETEVES-Jacoberg said its plans to restructure its engineering business through an IPO have been deferred because of poor market conditions. It is considering other options, including divesting the engineering business, to focus on its core motor operation.
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      • 42 7 SINGAPORE Aircraft Leasing Enterprise has signed an agreement with Emirates to lease two new Boeing 777-300 S. The aircraft are expected to be delivered in July and September 2002, each for a 10-year lease term.
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      • 49 7 THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) posted net earnings of $81.8 million in the nine months to March 31,2000 —not $82.8 million as reported in Saturday's article, "SGX Q3 bottomline down 89%". Also, revenue in that nine months was $182.8 million, not $187.8 million. We are sorry for the errors.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 318 6 Slocto Vol— AddvalTech 2.5c 25,647,000 AEM-Evertech 5c 16,204,000 SingTel 15c 15,464,000 Golden Agri USIOc 14,162,000 Asia Food&Prop 8,978,000 TPVUSlc 7,892,000 Strike W*****5 7,712,000 PacificCenturylOc 7,679,000 Lankom US2c 7,497,000 Parkway H 25c 6,562,000 Stock* Datacraft 10c 31,956,723 SingTel 15c 25,922,940 Chat Semiconductor 26c 24,822,450 DBSGrp *****,707 UOB 18,470,052 SIA 14,406,584 SPH
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    • 626 6  -  I-J I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy TO say that we live in confusing times is an understatement. Markets, it appears, are unable to decide whether it's better to have a strengthening US economy (with less of a need for
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    • 179 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy WE'VE featured the ÜBS covered call on Cable Wireless Optus in this column before, but since it was listed yesterday, we'll have another look at it. It's worth recalling that this is a zerostrike warrant aimed at giving Singapore investors
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    • 230 6  -  HOT STOCK By' Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has rebounded strongly from April lows, but seems to be losing steam lately. It closed 10 cents down at $5.80 yesterday, when a total of 4.3 million shares changed hands. The technicals indicate that the
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    • 556 6  -  hid comment CURRENCIES Less talk now of MAS selling US dollar; political concerns weigh down rnpiah, peso larry wee THE US dollar re-established its dominance ahead of another likely US interest rate cut tonight, testing key resistance levels versus the Japanese
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  • 2786 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Manager's prices (Ss):May 15 Ab«nh«w Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNCFd 0.776 0.816 Global Technology Fd!** 0.698 0.734 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.794 0.835 American Opport Fd 0.863 0.907 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.107 1.164 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.282 1.347 Asian Fixed Income Fd
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    • 119 7 Balanced Scorecard Deployment Workshop 24 25 July 2001 Be trained by Asia's Leading Expert on Balanced Scorecard Deployment Trainer: Balanced Scorecard is a comprehensive strategy deployment methodology that translates a company's Professor Takeo Yoshikawa business objectives into a set of coherent performance Professor at Yokohama National measures. University and Visiting
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    • 395 7 unidux UNIDUX ELECTRONICS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 29 November 1989) INVITATION IN RESPECT OF ORDINARY SHARES OF $0.06 EACH COMPRISING (A) 900,000 OFFER SHARES AT $0.20 FOR EACH OFFER SHARE BY WAY OF PUBLIC OFFER; AND (B) 18,300,000 PLACEMENT SHARES BY WAY OF PLACEMENT, COMPRISING:(I) 17,865,000
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 318 8  -  New withdrawal limit is 40% of ordinary acconnt By\ Liew Hanqing A REVISED CPF Education Scheme will be introduced from June 1 under which the minimum sum requirement for the education scheme will be removed. Instead, a new withdrawal limit 40 per cent
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    • 390 8  -  Firms will be forced to do business differently, he says By] Eugene Low SEVERAL key shifts including the move from re-source-based to innovationbased growth will alter Singapore's economic landscape and force companies here to fundamentally change how they do business, said Lim Boon Heng, chief
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    • 390 8  -  By Vince Chong THE Madeira at Bukit Gombak drew fairly good response over the weekend. Over 50 of the 144 units released were sold. OUB Centre Ltd's 99-year leasehold condo was launched at an average price of about $500 psf last Thursday. Marketed by
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    • 204 8 A SMALLISH residential site in the prime Grange Road area has been put up for sale with a likely price tag of around $30 million. Marketing agent CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) says the freehold site now houses a nine-storey
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    • 492 9  -  137W on the economy R-word Number of stories with 'retrenchment' word in BT, ST shows economy isn't too badly off By< Janice Lee A DECADE ago, The Economist the people who came up with the Big Mac index invented the Rword index
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    • 322 9  -  Bat members should look beyond region, s&ysCheowTong By 1 Teh Hooi Ling THE key mechanism for Asean to develop a regionwide infocommunications industry is through the e-Asean programme, Communications Minister Yeo Cheow Tong said yesterday. But he also urged Asean members to look beyond the
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    • 573 9  -  Byy Conrad Raj SINGAPORE investors should take advantage of opportunities in India now and not let others steal a march on them, Indian Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha said here yesterday. India is opening its economy further and allowing foreigners to take 100 per
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    • 359 9 Reuters [TOKYO] A group of Japanese oil companies, trading houses and foreign firms will launch an Internet-based futures market to trade oil products starting as early as July, participating companies said yesterday. A joint venture to run the new market, to be
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    • 1089 8 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd ("the Company") will be held at No. 2 Senoko South Road, Super Industrial Building, Singapore *****6, on 30 May 2001 at 10.30 a.m. for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1.
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  • FOCUS property
    • 421 10  -  THE 20% DOWMPAVMISIIT Ang Meng Hua, Richard Singapore I REFER to the letter "Call to ease 20 per cent downpayment rule" by Tan Suan Mong (Mailbag, May 3). Like Mr Tan, I am a young professional and also aspire to own a private
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    • 422 10  -  Chua Seek Ann Singapore I AGREE that lifting the 20 per cent down payment rule for property purchases would probably give a big boost to the current weak demand in the market. However, I feel the original intentions of the government when they introduced the
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    • 256 10  -  Chan Wing Kee Singapore I REFER to letters calling for the easing of the 20 per cent downpayment rule on mortgage financing of residential properties. Rules are made for specific purposes. In this case, it is to deter speculation in properties. However, this
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    • 138 10  -  N Grandhi Sydney, Australia via Internet IN Australia, "switching fees" on all types of housing loans are publicly available to improve transparency in the housing loan industry and to avoid the big banks squeezing the small borrower when "negotiating" such a matter on an "individual
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    • 163 10  -  Seow Eng Ghee Singapore I REFER to the letter "Try thrift for a change" by Vincent Tan Chee Kian (Mailbag, May 10). I agree in principle with the writer that saving is the right way to go. But I think he is missing the
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    • 650 11  -  1-11 comment PROPERTY Blame It on a convergence of three factors lee han shih IN just three months, the outlook for Singapore's office sector has changed from cautious optimism to one of barely-concealed pessimism. But there may be worse to come. Political unrest is
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    • 82 10 GUL FACTORY FOR SALE Description JTC Type D 5 factory with extension Land Approx 88,000 sq ft Gross Floor Area Approx 43,000 sq ft Tenure JTC 30 30 yrs wef Feb 1981 Sole Marketing Agent Tel: 224 8181 For Sale ByPte Treaty MURRAY TERRACE Nos 2to 28 (even nos) Murray
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    • 53 11 FOR SALE BY TENDER COLDROOM at 231 A PANDAN LOOP Strategically situated at the bend along Pandan Loop Within the Pandan Industrial Estate Single storey coldroom/warehouse with a 2-storey office annexe Land area approx 97,514 sft Gross Floor Area approx 65,564 sft Tender Closing: 30 May 2001 Tel: 224 8181/
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 798 12  -  mum 1 bottom line OPINION shoeb kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent AS President Abdurrahman Wahid's government struggles to stay afloat amid growing calls for the 60-year-old Muslim leader to step down, Indonesians from all levels of society are now anxiously waiting for
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    • 109 12 'I'd like to be thought of as the mother of my people, and it's a mother's job and a mother's duty to provide all the needs of her children.' llut -JayalafithaJayanun an Indian politician convicted six months ago on corruption charges, who led an alliance of parties
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    • 653 12 EDITORIAL IT was fitting that the idea of helping Cambodia devise a 10-year master plan to boost tourism should have come when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was visiting the famed Angkor temples. No one could have remained unmoved by their great beauty —or
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    • 1232 12  -  It'll take three, maybe five, years for Singapore companies to know if their foreign M&As are worthwhile ventures By] Loh Hui Yin The writer isaßT senior correspondent "CUTTING the deal is one thing; making the deal work in future is another." The sober
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    • 933 12  -  COMMENTARY Information has been free all along it's the Internet that wants to enslave it By] Michael Kinsley The writer is the editor of Slate (www.slate.com) and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post THE first great cliche of the Internet, carbon-dated to
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 554 13 KUALA LUMPUR Zeti says interest rates are'about right', dampening hopes of rate cat Reuters MALAYSIA'S central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said yesterday the ringgit exchange rate was at about fair value and there were no emerging pressures on the
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    • 201 13 PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia Reuters INDIAN Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee signed a raft of bilateral economic agreements yesterday at the start of a three-day visit to Malaysia. Mr Vajpayee, who arrived on Sunday with Information Technology Minister Pramod Mahajan and a 75-member business delegation,
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    • 155 13 KUALA LUMPUR AFP THE Malaysian government may miss a June 30 deadline to repay the RM6 billion (552.9 billion) debt it took over from two light railway operators, a newspaper said yesterday. The Malaysian Business Times, quoting banking sources, said the
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    • 370 13 KUALA LUMPUR Revenue loss set at RM2OOm but CEO says impact not significant Reuters TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd said yesterday leased line and other charges for the country's high-tech multimedia super corridor area (MSC) would be lowered by as
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    • 144 13 KUALALUMPUR Bloomberg TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd, Malaysia's largest phone company, said it dropped plans to buy a rived Internet service provider after assessing the proposal. Telekom wanted to buy part of the operations of Jaring, a unit of state-owned Mimos Bhd that sells Internet access to
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    • 3589 14 [NOTICES To advertise call toll-free 1800-741 1883 Fax No: 741 1298 I -sf JL %II KOH BROTHERS GROUP LIMITED KQH BROS (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventh Annual General Meeting of Koh Brothers Group Limited will be held at Oxford Hotel.
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 689 15  -  Violence continues with death toll reported at 83 in bloodiest election Prom Al Labita in Manila BOTH the ruling coalition of President Gloria Arroyo and opposition supporters of detained former president Joseph Estrada yesterday claimed victory based on unofficial exit polls in the crucial
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    • 525 15  -  He rejects suggestions to re vamp tax base Prom, Audrey Tan in Hong Kong NEWLY-appointed Financial Secretary Antony Leung yesterday rejected suggestions that he revamp Hongkong's narrow tax base, saying that he was more concerned with "boosting growth first". "I'm confident that
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    • 229 15 JAKARTA Reuters, AP INDONESIAN Vice-Presi-dent Megawati Sukarnoputri said yesterday efforts to hold an impeachment hearing against President Abdurrahman Wahid were unstoppable, a Muslim leader quoted her as saying. During a visit to Bangkok, Indonesia's first democratically elected president displayed his standard defiance, again insisting
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    • 495 15  -  T-am jfin-ming allegedly conspired to inflate price of renovations contract From Quak Hiang Whai in Hong Kong PROMINENT businessman Lam Kin-ming, a son of Lai Sun Development Group founder Lim Por-yen, has become the most high-profile figure in recent months to be
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    • 355 16 SHANGHAI Accounts for trading in shares of HK-listed Chinese firms opened during visits FT CHINA'S share market regulators are cracking down on a scam used by mainland investors attempting to profit from the eventual convergence of the assortment of listings of
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    • 175 16 BANGKOK Reuters THE Thai government, struggling to jump start the economy, yesterday said it intends to spend at least an extra 50 billion baht (Ss2 billion) to boost domestic demand. The scheme, which would widen the government Budget deficit by about a third
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    • 609 16 Taiwan's VP promises in-depth probe into the incident Bloomberg, AP, AFP [TAIPEI] Shares of Acer Inc, which makes computers under its own brand and for other manufacturers, plunged yesterday after fire destroyed offices of five of its units in a 26-floor building
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    • 322 16 BEIJING It says Premier Zhu rejects plan to split company into 2 nnits Bloomberg CHINA Telecommunications Corp declined to comment on a report that Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji has rejected a plan to divide the company, setting back its proposal to raise
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 105 16 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] China began marketing as much as US$2 billion of bonds, its first international debt sale in more than two years, seeking to set a benchmark for Chinese companies looking to borrow money overseas. Vice-Minister of Finance Jin Liqun gave a 45-minute presentation
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      • 85 16 Reuters [MADRAS] Indian film star-turned-politician Jayalalitha Jayaram was yesterday invited by Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi to become chief minister of the southern state after her party won a landslide victory in last week's election. Ms Jayalalitha, chief of the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,
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      • 76 16 AFP [BEIJING] Chinese police have arrested 98 people over a huge scam involving some 409 million yuan (5589.2 million) in phony inter-bank acceptance bills, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. Most of the fake bank acceptance bills were tied to the Heyuan branches of the
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  • WORLD news
    • 508 17 WASHINGTON Inventories at US businesses fall in March: Commerce Department Bloomberg US industrial production declined in April for a seventh straight month as the manufacturing of business equipment, appliances and metals dropped, Federal Reserve statistics showed. The Commerce Department meanwhile said inventories at
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    • 350 17 ROME Reuters BILLIONAIRE media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi and his cen-tre-right coalition looked certain yesterday to sweep back to power by winning Italy's general election with majorities in both Houses of Parliament. Partial results pointed to Mr Berlusconi securing a comfortable margin in the
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    • 217 17 AFP [LAUSANNE] Beijing's position as firm favourite to win the battle to host the 2008 Olympics risks being severely challenged here today when the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) evaluation report is released. Beijing had been touted by many lOC members as a near certainty to
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    • 159 17 LONDON Reuters LEHMAN Brothers said yesterday it cut exposure to global equities by 10 per cent and shifted the money into bonds and cash, turning neutral on stocks only seven weeks after recommending an overweight position. In a research note, Lehman said it put 5 per
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    • 393 17 Reuters, Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Sun Trust Banks Inc, the ninth-largest US bank, said yesterday it launched an unsolicited US$l4.7 billion bid for Wachovia Corp, topping an earlier offer from First Union Corp, in a drive to strengthen its south-eastern presence by expanding in North Carolina.
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    • 151 20 WASHINGTON Reuters AMERICANS are closely watching the nation's rapid population growth and are not convinced it is a good trend, a poll suggests. Some older citizens and whites who are not Hispanic were more uncomfortable with the nation's rapid growth and changing demographics that
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    • 690 20  -  COMMENTARY By< Andrew Hill FT [LONDON] If the US economy is indeed reaching what the pundits like to call an inflection point, then statistics will make an important contribution to policymakers' attempts to call the turn correctly. But recent data have been confusing. What is one to
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    • 573 20 SYDNEY Govt pledges substantial funds to cover claims on the insurer as regulator comes nnder fire Bloomberg AUSTRALIA'S biggest insurance failure is threatening the government's Budget surplus and calling into question the effectiveness of the nation's insurance regulator. The federal government, which on Sunday
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    • 264 21 SYDNEY Bloomberg AMP Ltd will begin selling insurance and funds to individual Japanese investors through a link with NEC Corp that gives Australia's biggest money manager access to customers of the third-largest chipmaker. NEC will take a 10 per cent stake
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    • 810 21 NEW YORK Banks press us to back unappealing IPOs to win access to good ones: managers FT HEDGE fund managers may have been surprised to learn that US regulators have convened a grand jury to investigate the way Wall Street's leading investment
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    • 421 21 TOKYO It's the 4th consecutive y-o-y decline; economist sees farther falls ahead AFP JAPAN'S current account surplus in March fell 0.6 per cent from a year earlier as a slowdown in the global economy curbed overseas demand for the country's exports. The current
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    • 388 18 SAN FRANCISCO It can provide a multitude of Internet addresses for each person in the world NYT HERALDING a world in which even a refrigerator will have multiple Internet addresses, Cisco Systems was due to unveil software yesterday for a next-generation Internet
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    • 278 18 HONGKONG It trades part of its stake in Pacific Century Convergence into 270.2 m QyberWorks shares Bloomberg INTEL Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, swapped more of an Internet venture with Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd for a 1.2 per cent stake in
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    • 418 18 Reuters [LONDON] British Telecommunications pic angered its shareholders further yesterday by disclosing it will pay chief executive Peter Bonfield up to £3 million (557.7 million) this year despite leading British Telecom into a debt crisis. The award was revealed in a prospectus
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    • 225 18 SEATTLE Reuters HOTMAIL is hot. That's what Microsoft Corp said yesterday when it announced that Hotmail, its free Web-based e-mail service, now has more than 100 million users worldwide. Microsoft also said its instant messenger software, which lets users type messages to
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    • 462 19 Analysts say costs will be limited, and the firm's strong brand name will help recovery AFPJ Reuters [TOKYO] Sony Corp has become the latest victim of cellphone software glitches, but analysts said yesterday the cost of recalling its faulty handsets would be limited. They
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    • 196 19 Reuters [LONDON] British telecoms company Cable Wireless pic dipped into its war chest yesterday to buy struggling US Web services firm Digital Island for US$34O million in cash, including some US$49 million of net debt. C&W, which has been under pressure from
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 294 23  -  SGX Derivatives Trading Report ST Index/MSClS'pore Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco Singapore Pte Ltd SINGAPORE stocks tumbled yesterday as cautious investors unwound positions ahead of the FOMC meeting today. The benchmark Straits Times Index fell 23.28 points, or 1.37 per cent, to end at 1,680.07,
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    • 248 23  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Wong Ann Chuen Refco Singapore Pte Ltd THE Taiwan stock market fell yesterday amid a lack of interest in a bearish market. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index dropped 3.29 points, or 1.37 per cent, to close at 236.22 points. The turnover for
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    • 215 23 Reuters London THE dollar rose to two-week highs against the yen yesterday and tested three-week peaks against the euro, underpinned by expectations that the US Federal Reserve would deliver another growth-boosting interest rate cut. At 1153 GMT, the euro was mired near Friday's threeweek lows around US$0.8730 and
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    • 1933 23 SICOM FUTURES May 14 RU88ER (futures closing *s at 5.30pm) RSS1 CONTRACT(S cents/kg) Close Volume OpM Month Mffc Law S«tt (towns) Interest Jun 01 109.25 Jul 01 109.75 250 Auq 01 110.00 250 Sep 01 m.50 250 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US ceirtsAg) Volume OpM Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest
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  • STOCKS east asia
    • 2803 24 HONG EON G AFP QHangSeng -377,44 HONG Kong share prices fell 2.8 per cent yesterday following losses on Wall Street, dealers said. The key Hang Seng Index lost 377.44 points to 13,259.17, on a turnover of HK$6.B4 billion. Dealers said sentiment was
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    • 2073 24 TOKTC AFP Qffikura -170J TOKYO share prices fell \2 per cent yesterday as investors sold hi-tech and other major shares following a decline on Wall Street, brokers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's Nikkei--225 Index closed 170.90 points lower at 13,873.02, falling below 14,000
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      1070 24 Reuters Shenzhen Bladei 406 CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed firmer yesterday as speculators bought firms with poor earnings records after regulators gave moneylosing retailer Zhengzhou Baiwen a grace period to turn around. Chinese investors frequently target loss-making companies in the hope that they will be bailed out by
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    • 379 24 AFP QjVPlnlex -5&27 TAIWAN stocks fell 1.1 per cent yesterday in the wake of a huge blaze that wiped out dozens of high-tech company offices worth tens of millions of US dollars over the weekend, dealers said. The Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Price Index fell 56.27 points to 5,176.45
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  • STOCKS klse
    • 431 25 AFP, AFX-Asia njOwnpoateMgi -C 33 MALAYSIAN shares ended 0.8 per cent lower yesterday, as equities were largely sidelined before today's meeting of US central bankers to set interest rates. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index ended down 4.33 points at
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    • 8620 25 INDUSTRIALS CnsflMf prWvcts 2001 Last Val Day N«t Cap Wgh Low Company Sala 'OOP HH> Low Pfc 340 290 Ajinomoto 292 8.8 118.4 45 24.5 Angkju 29 -0.5 2 29 29 42.8 342 282 Apollo Food Hlg 304 unch 16 306 302 6.6 121.6 356 266 Asia File 280 113
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  • SGX clob & regional stocks
    • 2665 26 BOMPS&WARRAMTS May 14 m M free/ |*by K M Urt MB* Urianli Avf iMMi Cm law Mk Mm I— Mi f989) U" Mfcr Whi (—»8rtle W (%> tmrtml U* 37 0.5 S Acma W*****4 0.5 0.5 1 41.0 1 300 661 79.00 2 22 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 3 2
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    • 313 26 AFP F1 Composite Intel *1,02 SEOUL'S Composite Index yesterday ended up 1.02 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 584.08. The volume fell to 524 million shares. —AFP m»t4 wo Arum Semi 4795 185 Brain Tecti 605 20 Central Bo* 170 unch Cheil Comm *****0 unch Dm Cti Bank 1425
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      744 26 Reuters, AFP Q SET Index -3.40 THAI stocks closed lower yesterday, with gains in some electronics shares failing to compensate for losses in state-owned Bank Thai. The benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index ended down 1.09 per cent, or 3.40 points, at 307.53 points. The SET 50 closed
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    • 261 26 AFP □kse-40 -iaa» NEW Zealand shares closed down 0.5 per cent yesterday. The NZSE-40 capital index ended down 10.29 points at 2,080.63 on light turnover of NZ563.77 million. Telecom Corp fell 16 NZ cents to NZ$6.O9 following last week's disappointing third-quarter results. —AFP MayM COOP) Advantage HDS 0.89 0.02
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    • 554 26 AFP nAH Ordinaries -7JO AUSTRALIAN shares eased down 0.2 per cent yesterday amid lacklustre trading, brokers said. The All Ordinaries Index fell 7.1 points to 3,319.2 while the SP/ASX 200 shaved 6.8 points to 3,382.2. The All Resources Index fell 14.8 points to 1,541.9 and the All Industrials eased
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      751 26 AFP Q Composite Index -106 INDONESIAN share prices closed down 0.6 per cent yesterday on losses in major stocks due to the weakening of the rupiah and ongoing political concerns, dealers said. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed down 2.08 points at 368.28, with 357.9 million shares worth
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  • New Asia Biz Woman
    • 1215 29  -  At 78, writer Li Lien Fung still possesses a zest for life and a fiesty personality By] Rachel Ong 'We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise, And then, if we are true to plan, Our statures touch
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  • KNOWLEDGE economy
    • 2678 31  -  Innovation is more than just creativity. PATRICK f MBP looks at other components and finds out Creative's approach from Sim Wong Hoo PATRICK LAMBE WHEN we think of innovation, the temptation is to think about creativity happening in teams, resulting in new products in the
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    • 102 31 This is the first of a two-part article. The writer is chief learning officer at Knowledge Platform, an e-learning consultancy (www.knowledgeplatform.com). He welcomes visits to his website at www.greenchameleon.com; feedback can be e-mailed to plambeiagreenchameleon.com. Mr Lambe is among the lineup of speakers at KM Asia 2001, to be held
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  • CAMPUS life
    • 1040 32 Campus administrators and teachers are tapping computing to uncover computer-aided cheating Reuters [MlAMl] THE scandal at the University of Virginia last week has focused attention on the battle against "copy-and-paste" plagiarism, which has made academic cheating in the Information Age easier, faster and until
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    • 651 32  -  from Massachusetts By Koh Huiting Koh Huiting is a first-year student at Amherst College AS the school year draws to a close, I find myself having to allocate my time even more wisely than before. Before I realised how close the end of the school year
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    • 1302 33  -  Some top students decline overseas offers to 'go local', mainly for family reasons and future networking ties, reports Janice Lee. Campus Life also talks to two top students who opted to study in Singapore Janice Lee WITH all the attention this page has
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    • 628 33  -  Top student Joanna Xne picks a local U because of dose ties to family, friends By Rachel Ong FOR Joanna Xue, a straight As student from National Junior College, home is where the heart is. Scoring As in physics, economics, computer science and mathematics,
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    • 563 33  -  Success in life ultimately depends on oneself, not the university one attended By Trina Foo A GOOD student will succeed in life, regardless of whether he or she goes to a local or an overseas university and that's why Caroline Ong has
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 268 35 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose six points to 1,478, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 13 points to 1,561, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed 22 points to 9,520 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up three points to 1,813. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Meynell (built 1995) 185,688
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    • 817 35  -  Stevedore dispute at India's second largest port costing industry US$l million a day By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A labour dispute has brought India's second largest container port to its knees costing the industry including local trade and shipping lines an estimated US$l million (Ssl.B million)
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    • 307 35  -  From. Alec Almazan in Manila KEPPEL Smit Transpacific Inc, the towage and salvage unit of the Keppel Philippines Group, reported that it had clinched several charter contracts for the Malampaya natural gas development project in offshore Palawan. The towage and salvage company said
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    • 275 35 UN THE MALACCA STRAITS] On board the Malaysian Maritime Police patrol boat KPD Balong, officers uncap cans of 7.62-mm ammunition and load machine-guns mounted on the control tower before setting off on an overnight patrol. "It's just a precaution," executive officer Salim
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    • 179 35 AFP [ANTANANARIVO] Hopes faded of finding any survivors 72 hours after a shipwreck off Madagascar in shark-infested waters, French consular officials said. Twenty-seven people have been missing since the sinking of a cargo vessel, the Samsonnette, last Thursday off the east coast of Madagascar
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    • PORT Shots
      • 54 35 [SINGAPORE] A new 40 metre fast catamaran will be built for service between Hong Kong and Macau by Damen Shipyards. Due for delivery to owner New World First Ferry in December, the new vessel will be a sister ship for New Ferry Vdelivered to
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      • 116 35 [LONDON] The upper-tier management at Russia's largest shipping firm, Novorossiysk Shipping Co, are facing an uncertain future after government officials discovered the secret sale of a three quarters stake in a subsidiary investment firm. The Russian government owns 35 per cent of Novoship, and the subsidiary
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      • 98 35 [LONDON] Exxonmobil Marine Fuels (EMMF) is increasing its production and supply of bunkers in and around the US Gulf, with expansion initially centred around its 400,000 bpd plant in Beaumont, Texas. The company is working to increase refinery supply at its other Gulf facilities.
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      • 876 36  -  Economic woes in Indonesia are driving poor villagers to commit more crimes on the high seas By] Rohan Sullivan AP [lN THE MALACCA STRAITS] TWO small fishing boats draw a rope across the path of a freighter, letting the big ship's motion pull them forward and swing
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      • 190 45 May 10 Thailand: Royal Ploughing Ceremony May 17 Norway: Constitution Day May 24 Belgium: Ascension Day Finland: Ascension Day Netherlands: Ascension Day Indonesia: Christ Ascension Day May 28 US: Spring Bank Holiday UK: Memorial Day Canada: Victoria Day Jane 2 Malaysia: King's Birthday Jane 4 Malaysia: Birthday's of
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      • 420 46 ASSAM AIRLINE RESULTS Weak baht forces Thai national carrier to book foreign exchange loss Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International pel said the loss in three months to March exceeded the loss in the previous quarter because the weakness of the baht forced
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      • 380 46 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines, Korea's sec-ond-largest carrier, reported a firstquarter loss as the weaker won raised the cost of buying jet fuel and servicing foreign-currency debt. The airline's loss was 103.4 billion won (*****.7 million) in the JanuaryMarch period, compared with net income
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      • 346 46 AP [WELLINGTON] Virgin Blue, the cut-price Australian airline owned by British tycoon Richard Branson, yesterday formally applied to fly passenger services in New Zealand and between New Zealand and Australia, officials said. The 20-page application arrived in Transport Minister Mark Gosche's office yesterday morning
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      • 293 46 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Co, the fourth largest cargo carrier, posted a wider first-quarter loss than analysts expected, as the weaker won raised the cost of servicing foreign-cur-rency debt and jet fuel. The airline's loss widened more than five-fold to 230.82 billion won
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      • 392 46 Reuters [SYDNEY] Bidders for Sydney's main airport had until the close of business yesterday to submit their expressions of interest, but sources says it is lining up to be a three-horse race. A mix of investment banks and overseas airports are pooling
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      • 212 46 AP [HANOI] The government has approved a plan by Vietnam Airlines to spend 15 trillion dong or USSI billion (Ssl.B billion) over the next five years to enlarge its fleet, official media reported yesterday. The airline plans to increase the number of planes
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