The Business Times, 26 June 2001

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 SINGAPORE Interne*: !Vuo://business-times.asial.com.sg/ TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2001 85c
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  • 77 1 sn 1,707.57 (-9.31) BT-SBI M0l0? (-9.95) ST INDEX FUTUBES 1,***** (+1.00) SIMSCI FUTUBES ***** (-0.60) STOCK MAXKET INDICES Monday Change KLSE COMP *****3 +154 NIKKEI 225 12,896.47 -148.14 HANG SENG ekwed SET INDEX 319.81 +L14 JAKARTA COMP __.43a.75 -L84 MANILA COMP -lttt TAIPEI WPI doted SEOUL COMP 598.02
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  • 83 1 FOREX RATES uss s* USS (SS per USS) 1.819 £(USS/SS per 1.417 1677 EU80(L'SS/SS/E) 0.869 L66J DM 1276 1161 YEN 1210 6810 RM 1800 1089 HKS 7.800 4187 BAHT 4610 24-84 RUPIAH 11,362 6146 *SS to 100 units •SS to 100 units PBIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67
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  • 1108 1  -  Latest deal and bank mergers will shrink number of brokerages farther By Ven Sreenivasan and Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Kim Eng Holdings yesterday said it is poised to take over Ong Asia for $153 million, creating Singapore's largest independent broking house and
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  • 672 1  -  -^exclusive Agency will set np four holding companies within the next three months From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta IN a move that will further strengthen and broaden its hold on the Indonesian economy, the powerful Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) plans to set
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  • 603 1  -  Savings likely from OUB; hundreds of jobs at risk Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] A takeover of Overseas Union Bank (OUB) by DBS Group Holdings could generate major cost savings of as much as 49 per cent, going by the experience of
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  • 455 1  -  Indon asset sales programme expected to gather speed now From\ Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S new finance minister, Rizal Ramli, wasted little time in putting his stamp on the ministry by replacing the head of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra), Edwin Gerungan, in a
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    • 26 1 BT Comment Lee Han Shih: Time for a reality check on shop rents Page 11 Policy holders must look j for fall in yield ■Page S
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    • 614 2 Slump in manufacturing deepening, investment may show 3rd decline in Q2 Bloomberg, Reuters [WASHINGTON] No matter how much Federal Reserve policy makers lower interest rates this week, they are likely to signal that additional reductions are possible because the economy
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    • 565 2  -  i exclusive Enormons pressure on many companies By' Toh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] If the funding market for the global telecommunications industry doesn't revive by early 2002, there are going to be a lot of telecom companies in a lot of trouble. This
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    • 500 2  -  By\ Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Two of Jones Lang La Salle's (JLL) five national directors in Singapore are leaving the firm wellknown property pundit Steven Choo and residential chief Ong Beng Kheong. But the firm insists that there are no retrenchments. In fact, it
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 74 2 FOR years now there have been calls for a central credit bureau so Singapore banks can monitor multiple credit lines granted to the same customer by different banks. But with all the consolidation going on, such a scheme looks like becoming a moot point. Should Singapore end
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      • 52 2 EMIRATES airlines recently advertised for "confident and service oriented cabin crew" to join its rapidly expanding international network. The requirements were: "Fluency in written/spoken English and Singaporean is essential. Other languages and previous customer service experience are an added advantage." Seems like Singlish has finally won some
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 665 4  -  BANE MERGERS Bidding war seen to revolve around Eeppel Capital By. Angela Tan THE merger mania that has descended on Singapore's banking sector is inspiring a plethora of theories on who the real predators and preys are. One of the more strident suggestions has
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    • 610 4  -  Speculation of how they would unwind property holdings Byi Andrea Tan ANALYSTS and dealers went to town yesterday churning out scenarios of how Overseas Union Bank (OUB) and United Overseas Bank (UOB) could unwind their property holdings. Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE), United Overseas Land
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    • 402 4  -  By\ R Sivanithy TRADERS had a field day in the local share market yesterday, frantically bidding up the prices of bank-related stocks in the hope that mergers or restructuring will unlock hidden value. Shares of Keppel Corp. Haw Par, UIC and UOL
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    • 532 4  - A case for S'pore to open up banking sector fully lock siew siow li sen CONSUMERS who worry about a possible deterioration in service should DBS Group Holdings succeed in taking over Overseas Union Bank (OUB) may be missing a point. Rather, they.should be concerned at a possible curtailment of
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    • 395 4  -  Expense disclosures should not hit sales and revenues: CEO Ity Serena Ng GREAT Eastern Life's policy sales and revenue stream are unlikely to be negatively affected by the upcoming expense disclosures on insurance plans, its chief executive officer Tan Beng Lee said
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    • 435 7  -  Probe said to be focused on 2 major brokerages and their proprietary dealers By 1 Ling Su Ann THE Singapore Exchange is investigating a few broking houses and their dealers over the recent sharp rise and fall of Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceutical Group shares. Contacted by
      Source: Bloomberg  -  435 words
    • 226 7  -  By' Vince Chong CAPITALAND subsidiary Capita Land Commercial has formed a fund venture with Ergo Trust to invest in commercial property in Asia and Europe, including CapitaLand's commercial portfolio. The move is part of the Capita Land group's plan to trim its
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    • 268 7  -  By] Rachel Ong MAINBOARD-listed Metro Holdings yesterday posted net profit of $15 million for the year ended March 2001. Profits were down 17.4 per cent from last year's $18 million due to underprovision for tax. Turnover tumbled 23 per cent to $258 million
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    • 269 7  -  Byi Christopher Tan i nt, i uiuuui mai wuuian i die is making its rounds again, sending the stock price of Tibs Holdings to a 20-month high. Since late last week, whispers of the bus operator having revived an aborted merger
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 69 7 INNO-PACIFIC Holdings said yesterday that Dick Gwee Yow Pin and Wong Wai Kin have resigned as directors. It added that Yin Kum Choy, who retired at the annual general meeting on May 31, said last Friday that he will not be standing for re-election. A minority
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      • 130 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED Airocean Group yesterday posted a 7.5 per cent rise in full-year net profit to $4.95 million and revealed plans for a one-for-four bonus issue. Subject to approval from the Singapore Exchange (SGX), 76.5 million new shares will be listed under the issue, resulting in
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      • 96 7 UNILEVER Bestfoods, which manages such well-known brands as Lipton tea and Mazola cooking oil, has entered into a partnership with SPH Asia One's New Asia Woman. The Anglo-Dutch multinational, which had global sales of $75 billion last year, will work with NewAsiaWoman to create an online
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      • 130 7 Reuters, AFX-Asia CAM International Holdings said its net loss for the six months to March 31 narrowed to $1.03 million from $1.77 million a year earlier. Turnover was $13.35 million, compared with $12.03 million previously. CAM—which engages in component and contract manufacturing, trading and sales—does not
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      • 58 7 Reuters ELECTRONIC components distributor Enzer Corp said net profit for the year ended March 31 rose to $4.38 million, from $1.75 million previously. Turnover was $81.52 million, compared with $51.93 million. Enzer said the rise in net profit was due mainly to higher margins caused
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    • 10 4 Customers urged to focus on reduction in yield, Pg 8
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 332 6 Slocks Voluww OUB 30,496,000 DBS Grp. 21,900,000 Parkway H 25c 21,290,000 TopGlobal 10c 20,101,000 UniFood HK25c 20,021,000 North 22 USlc 18,653,000 MMI Hldgs 10c 18,447,000 UOL W*****2 15,681,000 UIC 15,262,000 Tianjin Zhong 13,729,000 Stocks DBSGrp 278,154,898 OUB 273,312,455 Keppel Capital 46,941,340 UOB 43,150,953 Keppel Corp 41,801,220 Omni Ind 10c 29,240,640
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    • 620 6  -  I-J i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT isn't often that local developments outweigh overseas concerns, but trading yesterday demonstrated this is possible under the right conditions. Merger and takeover speculation in the banking sector sparked hectic trading in these stocks. Enough to
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    • 163 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By] R Sivanithy THE last time we featured United Overseas Land's warrants in this column was June 14, when they cost 57.5 cents. Since then, merger and restructuring fever in the banking sector has propelled the warrant to 88.5 cents a gain of 54
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    • 218 6  -  HOT STOCK Wong Wei Kong PARKWAY Holdings shares performed strongly yesterday and finished among the top actives. The counter closed 5.5 cents higher at $0.99 on volume of 21.3 million a huge increase on the 10-day traded average of 2.7 million. It opened at 92.5
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    • 539 6  -  •i I comment CURRENCIES Euro &lso bounces from key 60 pence technical support in New York larry wee A REPORT late last Friday from the US National Bureau of Economic Research suggesting that the US economy may already be in recession put the
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    • 233 7 Time for a reality check on shop rents, Pg 11 r." I nfo your Travel AgerT||g| 735 fIL Email f?** l w w# m e d c on f Your child's age x SlO =an equation for a great re-holiday, lb \J Here's a simple formula for the most fun-tastic
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 460 8  -  LIA advises them not to dwell too mnch on the effect of deductions By Serena Ng INSURANCE policy holders should not focus too much on the large numbers that may be reflected in the effect of deductions on their policies, but should
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    • 238 8  -  By Vince Chong CAPITALAND has sold more than 60 per cent, or at least 160, of the 268 phase one units released at its Sun Glade condominium project. Seventy-odd units were taken up during the official launch at the weekend, after close to
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    • 296 8 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has awarded 13 undergraduate scholarships to youths pursuing various disciplines and is looking to diversify its talent pool still further. "Diversity in the educational and cultural background of our people will help MAS have broader perspectives
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    • 342 8  -  C=M 3 on the economy tounsm By Rachel Ong VISITOR arrivals in May 2001 increased 1.6 per cent over the same month in 2000 to 605,151, the Singapore Tourism Board said yesterday. And arrivals in the January-May period were 0.7 per cent higher
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    • 499 9  -  New regulator will adopt high standards bat won't impede industry's growth By Chuang Peck Ming THE new Health Sciences Authority (HSA) will be a health inspector that is industryfriendly. Public health and safety will come first but the new one-stop, multi-disciplinary regulator for healthcare
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    • 265 9  -  MAILIiEE^M Gerry de Silva Group Corporate Affairs Manager Hong Leong Group I REFER to your article "On a mission to become world-class hotelier" (BT, June 22). That feature, together with the front-page article, gave much attention to our chairman and companies in the Hong Leong
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    • 119 9  -  Richard Ivimey-Cook Group finance director Avimo Group Ltd, Singapore WE refer to the letter "Non-assenting holders: Avimo misses the point" by Denis Distant (Mailbag, June 19). As stated in our earlier letter, Avimo and Thales acted in accordance with 5215(3) of the Companies Act which
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    • 369 9  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE'S chip design community lacks "buzz" and a community spirit, making it difficult to attract and retain talent. So chip design companies, supported by the Economic Development Board, have decided to get together for monthly meetings to raise the
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    • 307 9  -  Price moves inclnde new plan offering lowest entry rate By\ Teh Hooi Ling IN a bid to increase its broadband market share, Singapore Telecom's Internet arm Sing Net said yesterday it is offering residential users unlimited access at speeds of up to 256
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  • FOCUS property
    • 744 11  -  1-11 comment PROPERTY Both public and private landlords must consider cutting rents to help shops weather a big drop In consumer spending- and fast lee han shih RETAIL rents could be in for a big fall, if anecdotal evidence from shopowners all
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 739 12  -  HI?T=I I bottom line OPINION paul krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University WHEN the European Commission indicated it was likely to block the proposed merger between General Electric and Honeywell, American politicians from George W Bush on down
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    • 104 12 He's deliberately making a display of the fact that he can come. This is quite a clever strategy to get his enemies on the back foot' Adrian Tickers of the University ofWollongong, on Indonesian President A bdufrahman Wahid's timing of his visit to A ustralia. Both of
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    • 567 12 EDITORIAL AFTER months of dithering, Tung Chee-hwa threw caution to the wind two weeks ago and declared the controversial Falun Gong group "an evil cult". As recently as last month, the Hong Kong chief executive called the movement "a bit of a cult". In February,
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    • 1372 12  - Bush's steely American hegemony with a smile Don't be fooled by all that bonhomie on his European tour; the president is bent on getting his own way Prom I Leon Radar The writer isßT's Washington correspondent in Washington NOW that President George W Bush can justifiably sport a European feather
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    • 746 12 COMMENTARY Gas Dur's visit to Australia will do both countries good Editorial in The Jakarta Post IF and when President Abdurrahman Wahid's plane touches down at Canberra airport on Monday morning, history will be made. In the often tumultuous relations between Indonesia and Australia, this will
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  • MALAYSIA news
    • 531 13  -  P7T exclusive Members withdraw savings to buy controversial annuity scheme and personal computers From l Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE monthly net contributions to the Employees Provident Fund the nest egg for Malaysia's 10 million workers have turned negative for the
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    • 309 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's economy does not appear to have refound its momentum in the second quarter and growth is likely to be similar to the first quarter, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Malaysia's GDP
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    • 133 13 AFP {CANBERRA] Australia yesterday sidestepped Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's latest barb, with the government downplaying his impersonation of the Australian accent. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer refused to be drawn on Dr Mahathir's weekend mimicry of the Australian accent during his United Malays National
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    • 353 13 He urges party to onite as the issue has been settled AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday that the controversy over an allied party's takeover of two Chinese newspapers has been settled and urged the party to
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    • 73 13 AFX-Asia IKUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he has finalised and will be announcing soon the appointment of a Chinese political secretary and press secretary. Bernama news agency reported. Dr Mahathir was quoted as saying that he needed to have such officers
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 355 14 BANGKOK Survey finds 33.9% of Thais unsatisfied, 17.5% nndecided AFP THAI premier Thaksin Shinawatra faces a potential loss of public support over his economic record, according to a poll which found that many Thais believe they are worse off than under the previous
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    • 73 14 [BANGKOK] One hundred Thai motorcyclists riding chrome-covered choppers wheeled up to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's office yesterday to add their support to a wave of public sympathy for the embattled premier. The motorcyclists are the latest group to publicly back Mr Thaksin at
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    • 198 14 BANGKOK AFP THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday rejected rumours that Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak will resign after just four months in the job. "N0... I am not going to make a change," he told reporters in response to rumours sweeping financial markets. Mr
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    • 375 14 JAKARTA Move delays opening of gas fields already closed for 3 months Reuters EXXON Mobil Indonesia said yesterday it has suspended repair work at vital gas fields in the rebellious Aceh province after a homemade bomb exploded in the area, injuring one
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    • 266 14 MANILA AP PHILIPPINE shares closed sharply lower yesterday, spooked by the government's warnings of an alleged destabilisation plot, traders said. The 30-company Philippine Stock Exchange Index lost 15.25 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 1.424.52. "As expected, the market traded cautiously amid reports of
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    • NOTE Book
      • 47 14 AFP [CANBERRA] President Abdurrahman Wahid became Indonesia's first leader to set foot in Australia's national capital in almost three decades yesterday. His plane touched down in Canberra at 5.10 pm after mechanical problems forced his jet to land in Darwin earlier. —AFP
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      • 37 14 AFP [MANILA] Philippine authorities will ask Congress to pass the "minimum requirements" to get the country off a global blacklist of money laundering havens, central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said. —AFP
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      • 63 14 AFP [THE HAGUE] The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia are to appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday for a round of public hearings over a territorial dispute. The ICJ has to determine if the Philippines can intervene in a dispute between Malaysia and
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 55 15 AP [WASHINGTON] The Bush administration has decided to remain neutral on China's bid to host the 2008 Olympics, The Washington Post reported. Citing unnamed officials, it said yesterday the administration hopes a neutral position will help defuse an issue China has called an
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      • 94 15 Reuters [KATHMANDU] Opposition parties vowed to step up pressure on Nepal's embattled prime minister to quit when parliament meets yesterday for the first time since the palace bloodbath in which most of the royal family died. Opposition parties have alleged that Prime Minister Girija Prasad
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      • 92 15 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's plans to close three nuclear power plants ahead of schedule may cost around US$lO billion, it was reported yesterday. The three power plants would be respectively shut down in 2001,2004, and 2007, or seven years earlier than planned, according to an
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      • 38 15 AFP {BEIJING] At least 150 people are dead or missing around the city of Fuzhou after Typhoon Chebi pounded the south-eastern coast of China over the weekend, state media reported yesterday. AFP
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      • 70 15 Reuters [BEIJING] China had 110 million mobile phone subscribers at the end of May, up by 25.81 million from the start of this year, the People s Daily Overseas Edition reported yesterday. Fixed-line users grew by 16.44 million in the first five months to
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      • 81 15 AFP IDivtd iiNvjj une ui uina s lup uanKS nas uecweu iu lenu 10 billion yuan (552.2 billion) to help establish the world's largest mobile phone network based on the US-developed Code Division Multiple Access technology (CDMA), state media said yesterday. The
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    • 372 15 BEIJING Move seen as govt bid to tighten control by uniting broadcast businesses Reuters IN the latest step to consolidate China's sprawling media industry, Beijing has merged its two leading television channels Beijing TV Station and Beijing Cable TV station, state media said yesterday.
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    • 506 15 BEIJING Negotiator seeks to wrap np discussions this week Reuters, AFX-Asia TRADE negotiator Long Yongtu said he hopes that multilateral talks on China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) can be completed this week in Geneva, allowing China to become a full member
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    • 331 15 BEIJING AFXAsia JAPAN is hoping to meet Chinese trade officials on Thursday for talks to try to resolve the escalating trade dispute between the two countries, a Japanese embassy official said. The Japanese side has requested a meeting with officials from the
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    • 529 16 TOKYO Possibility that Finance Ministry might sell its NTT shares also weighs down the stock Reuters, Bloomberg SHARES in Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp hit an eight-year low yesterday as newspaper reports heightened fears that Japan's dominant telecoms group would be broken
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    • 230 16 Reuters London THE euro staged its biggest rally against the US dollar in over a week yesterday and hit a one-month high against the yen after data showed euro zone inflation was slowing. The US dollar was already on the back foot after a report late on Friday
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    • 344 18 ARMONK, New York Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp, the largest maker of custom microprocessors, said it has found a way to make chips for optical networks run at least twice as fast on less power. The process reduces the height of microscopic transistors
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    • 463 18 TOKYO LDP wins 53 seats, five more than it held in the old assembly Bloomberg JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his plans to bring about a lasting economic recovery at the cost of two years of slow growth were given a stamp of
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      • 83 18 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] Washington Mutual, the largest US savings and loan, agreed to buy Dime Bancorp for US$5.2 billion in stock and cash, making its biggest push into the north-east US market. Dime shareholders will receive U5540.84 in either cash or stock for each common share
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      • 62 18 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US sales of previously owned homes rose in May to the second highest level of the year, a sign housing has kept immune to a slower economy. Resales increased 2.9 per cent to 5.37 million houses at an annual pace from a
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      • 81 18 AP [FRANKFURT] Two German cooperative banks have agreed to merge in a 24 billion mark (5519.2 billion) deal that creates the country's sixth largest bank in terms of assets. DG Bank and its smaller regional rival GZ Bank, both haaed in Frankfort, announced the
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      • 63 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] NEC Corp, which wants to raise money for overseas acquisitions, hired Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co to help list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, chairman Hajime Sasaki said. NEC, the third largest chipmaker, will list in New York as early
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      • 58 18 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Royal KPN, the Dutch phone company, will try to cut its 23.2 billion euros (5536.2 billion) in debt by selling assets and forming alliances, rather than selling stock to its shareholders. "We're holding alliance talks with several parties which may make
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      • 50 18 Bloomberg [TORONTO] Barrick Gold Corp agreed to buy Homestake Mining Co for C 53.5 billion (514.2 billion) in stock to create the world's No 2 gold producer. Barrick will pay 0.53 share for each of Homes take's 263.3 million shares outstanding, the company said. Bloomberg
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    • 374 19 FRANKFURT He says growth will pick up significantly by end of the year AFP GERMAN Economy Minister Werner Mueller rejected yesterday suggestions that the German economy, the biggest in the 12-country euro zone, was teetering on the brink of recession. Growth would
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    • 65 25 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose one point to 1,392, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 11 points to 1,422, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell three points to 8,988 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down six points to 1,755. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Mineral Century (built 1995)
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    • 328 25  -  Nine workers died last week in Pasir Gudang explosion cu n By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The explosion which killed nine Malaysian Shipyard and Engineering Sdn Bhd (MSE) workers on Wednesday morning in Pasir Gudang was not due to a lack of
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    • 244 25 AFP [BANGKOK] Thai police said yesterday they had arrested notorious sea pirate Viroj Buasuwan. better known as "Roj 100 Corpses" for his brutal treatment of ships' crews. Viroj, 50, was arrested on Saturday in the southern province of Ranong over an attack on the
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    • 133 25 [LONDON] Russia's largest shipping company Novorossiysk Shipping Group has recorded a net profit of U5514.51 million for last year, up from 1999's net loss of US$l3.lB million, and the year before's crippling deficit of nearly US$l6O million. Freight revenues climbed around 20 per cent on the back
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      • 852 26  -  LOVER SCENE By David Hughes THE recent news that Singapore's container throughput has dropped sharply made, of course, uncomfortable reading. However, these things have to be put in context and, right on cue, a new study does just that. UK-based Ocean
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        • 90 26 [SINGAPORE] Ecuador has launched a study into whether it should move the wreck of tanker Jessica, which ran aground on a reef off the Galapagos Islands, spilling 240,000 gallons of diesel fuel in January. The wreck remains stuck 1,500 feet offshore of San Cristobal Island,
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        • 72 26 [SINGAPORE] The Melbourne Port Corp will invite expressions of interest in a third stevedoring operation at Australia's busiest port. Victorian ports minister Candy Broad said the successful bidder for the proposed Westgate Internationa] Container Terminal will be required to finance its construction and operation on
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        • 71 26 laixxuAruKtj a snip carrying 170 Liberian refugees has turned towards Nigeria after being denied refuge to other African ports for two weeks. The ship's captain had earlier appealed for fuel, food and water for the vessel and its passengers, made up of predominantly women and
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        • 65 26 [SINGAPORE] Russia and the United States have signed a new five year bilateral maritime agreement, formally updating their previous arrangement which expired in 1996. The agreement includes a commitment to establish a formal consultation process, address merchant vessel crew visa requirements and improve port access
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      • 554 33 PARIS Am SHOW Pratt L Whitney, Rolls-Royce, General Electric studying potential engines for Boeing aircraft Reuters [LE BOURGET, France] Boeing Co's proposal for a high-speed airliner has sent the world's three major aeroengine firms rushing to their respective drawing boards, eyeing what
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      • 289 33 AFP [LE BOURGET] The Paris Air Show has been responsible for 64 billion euros (5599.2 billion) worth of business in the form of contracts signed and announced, organisers said shortly before the world's biggest air show closed. They said on Sunday the air
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      • 229 33 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand and the United States are nearing agreement on an air traffic pact after almost a decade of wrangling. The Nation newspaper said yesterday. Transport and Communications Ministry permanent secretary Srisook Chandrangsu told the daily that after several rounds of
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      • 413 33 Reuters [HANOI) Vietnam's national carrier Vietnam Airlines said yesterday it intended to buy five narrowbody Airbus airliners as part of a five-year plan to expand its fleet. Nguyen Xuan Hien, general director of the state-run airline, said negotiations on the terms would
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        • 77 33 AFX-Asia [HONG KONG] China Northern Airlines will launch several new domestic and international flights in the coming two weeks, Xinhua news agency reported from Shenyang. Xinhua cited a company source as saying that until Sept 15, China Northern will launch two daily flights from Shenyang
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        • 97 33 Reuters [BOMBAY] A new Indian domestic airline, Visa Airways, plans to begin flying to 12 cities within 450 km of two operational hubs Bombay and Bangalore. Executive chairman Vivek Sane said the start-up airline will soon begin flying from India's financial and commercial
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      • 253 34 THE Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) was formed on June 1 last year by merging the Maritime Technology and Transportation (MTT) Department of Singapore Polytechnic and the National Maritime Academy (NMA) of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, thus, giving birth to a centralised maritime
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