The Business Times, 9 July 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http7/business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE MONDAY. JULY 9. 2001 85®
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  • 69 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week Change ST! 1,660.76. I-6&74 SIMSCI FUTURES...200.10.. SM BTSRL— 638.33 -2952 KLSE COMP ...626.81 +38.82 NIKKEI 225 12,306.08...._.-662.97 HANG SENG 12,999.48. -43.05 SETINDEJL .324.88. +2.33 JAKARTA COMP. 432.88 .-4.74 MANILA COME 1,396.92 -13.15 TAIPEI WP1 4,707.01 -176.42 SEOUL COMP. .578.54 -16.59 SHENZHEN B .381.64 47.71
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  • 77 1 P01EX RATES us$ s$ USS (SSper USS) 1.827 £(USS/S$ per 1.403 2.564 EUBO(USS/SS/E) 0.839 1532 DM 1382 1177 YEN 125.7 6&80 RM 3.800 2.080 HKS 7.800 41® BAHT 4518 2414 RUPIAH ***** 6107 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5.80 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA .39.00 BANGKOK 9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG 8.50 TAIPEI
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  • 936 1  -  Japan premier says govt will avoid emergency steps to boost market From />V TV* J Anthony Rowley in lokyo TOKYO Stock prices could go into free-fall this week after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi warned yesterday that his government will avoid emergency action to boost
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  • 1037 1  -  Ftxmii Catherine Ong in New York US COMPANIES are expected in the coming weeks to report their worst second quarter earnings in a decade. "It will be gruesome," predicts Joseph Kalinowski, equity strategist at First Call/Thomson Financial. Tom van Leuven,
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  • 840 1  -  ffiexcTusive BAMS TAKEOVERS Foreign banks could benefit from bank mergers By Kalpana Rashiwala jumu pi upei uevciupcis may realign their banking relationships ahead of the impending mergers of Singapore's banks, and foreign banks here may be among the beneficiaries. One analyst noted that the
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    • 72 1 IMMIffl TOP STORIES Making sure internal controls work, Pg 5 Shell, ExxonMobil step on the gas in price war, Pg 8 Speculation persists that Halim will take UEM private, Pg 9 US interest rate cuts make Asia's dollar bond market hum, Pg 10 Taiwan economy needs drastic changes: analysts, Pg
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    • 8 1 G-7 says US will lead rebound, Pg 13
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    • 111 1 SIVIEs fear mergers will cut Soaii acess Next Page Analysts rule out excitement for property earnings Pg 4 BT COMMENT BizlT SHIPPING TIMES R SIVANITHY i EDDIE TOH Mobile Commerce Special mpa blocks After recent falls i /top.; »u<om to begin Pg 1 are locdl stocks mi'Or 'A ll' t
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    • 879 2  -  Analysts warn US$ can go higher still, perhaps np to 551.95 By] Larry Wee SEVEN out of eight analysts polled by BT late last week do not expect the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to announce any official change in its
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    • 377 2  -  f=ii exclusive BANK TAKEOVERS They feel bigger banks may prefer to deal with bigger companies By Eugene Low SOME small and medium enterprises are worried that planned mergers in the banking sector could reduce their access to loan finance. For SMEs dependent on
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 685 4  -  Interim results seen boring surprise provisions expected for full year By. Andrea Tan THE corporate reporting season is almost here again. But those hoping or praying for excitement on the property front may be disappointed, analysts say. With few launches by listed developers, trading
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    • 225 4 Reuters DBS Group Holdings Ltd said over the weekend it had secured in-principle approval from the Singapore stock exchange to list new shares which would fund its hostile takeover bid for Overseas Union Bank Ltd. The government-linked DBS said in a
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    • 474 4 Dow Jones Newswires HIT by dwindling demand for microchips beleaguered semiconductor stocks in Singapore have shed up to 40 per cent of their value from highs this year. And analysts warn the worst may be yet to come. Lim
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    • 1254 5  -  CORPORATEI.I.WJJ.M.UJ This is part of a series on corporate governance contributed by Ernst Young Singapore pbtbr Wallace looks at the various issues that should be addressed when assessing their adequacy PETER WALLACE The writer is practice leader, enterprise risk management, Ernst Young Singapore. His e-mail
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    • 350 5 SECURITIES house UOBKayHian is keeping its "buy" call on Flextech Holdings following a meeting with Flextech CEO Tang Pen San, citing a possible re-rating by the market on potential asset sales. The broking house also points out that although the company's electronics component distribution
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 650 6  -  I-l< comment STOCKS r. sivanithy JUST how cheap is the local stock market? Or put differently, is there any scope for contrarians who might be tempted to buy now while the rest are selling? After all, the Straits Times Index ranks high
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    • 180 6  -  WARRANT WATCH By\ R Sivanithy AFTER a brief run-up on the back of the "'unlocking value" theme a couple of weeks ago, property stocks have since lost their way. Singapore Land has been one of the victims of this sell-off, falling for
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    • 251 6  -  HOT STOCK By Serena Ng CREATIVE Technology's stock was volatile over the past two trading sessions but the counter looks likely to register gradual gains over the medium term. The stock last Friday fell a sharp 70 cents or 4.1 per cent to close at
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    • Article, Illustration
      1284 6 Source: JM Susoon Slocks Votums Fischer 15c 108,582,000 WMas-Array HK20c 89,874,000 Tianjin Zhong 67,151,000 PNEIndlOc 65,995,000 Frontline 5c 41,888,000 People's Food HGK 50c 41,360,000 AEM-Eveitech 5c 40,823,000 PKTech5c 39,138,000 OUB 37,784,000 Keppel Capital 35,089,000 Stocks > OUB 361,701,063 UOB 273,779,284 DBSGrp 152,940,446 DatacraftlOc 142,522,562 Keppel Capital 121,980,100 Omni Ind 10c
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    • 142 6 ♦LUNG Kee Metal Holdings Ltd will hold its AGM on Aug 8,2001, at 11.00 am, Mandarin m Singapore Hotel, Suite 831, Bth Floor, South Tower, 333 Orchard Road. ♦LUNG Kee Metal Holdings Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of HKIO.O cents, tax not applicable) on Aug 16, 2001.
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    • 555 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Some major units in the Asia-Pacific region were down against the greenback, with the yen plunging below the psychologically significant 125 mark. Japanese yen: The yen lost ground against the dollar during the last week as selling pressure
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 318 8  -  M U I un the economy foreign reserves By I Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S official foreign reserves have contracted for the third consecutive month, sliding further away from the $140 billion mark that was lost in May. Preliminary figures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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    • 407 8  -  Both make farther reductions after Caltex, BP, SPC join the fray By Serena Ng THE petrol price war advanced another round over the weekend with more cuts by the two largest pump operators. Both Shell and ExxonMobil sliced another one cent
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    • 381 8  -  A charity wants to be renamed in former president Ong Teng Cheong's hononr By. John Gee FORMER president of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong, was in for a surprise when he attended Friday night's Love and Music in the Air charity gala dinner. Jannie Tay, organising
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    • 617 8  -  mail ran Chia Hui Ping Singapore HONG Leong Finance (HLF) has proposed to transfer its finance business undertakings to Singapore Finance (SF), leaving behind only its property business. HLF will receive 231 million new shares from SF in exchange for the finance business.
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    • 311 8  -  Michael Ong Pang Chuan Singapore TWO weeks ago, I received a letter from one of the distributors of ABN Amro Funds informing me of an increase in annual management fees and the change of name from "ABN Amro Global Info Society Equity
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 710 9 KUALA LUMPUR Analysts say he may do so in order to avoid repaying RM&2bdebt Reuters A WEEK before a muchwatched instalment on a RM3.2 billion (Ssl.s billion) debt falls due, speculation persists that tycoon Halim Saad may avoid repaying it by taking
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    • 634 9 KUALA LUMPUR Call comes after exporters posh for a ringgit float within narrowband AFP SOME businessmen and economic pundits favour Malaysia to maintain a fixed currency peg for at least two years to enable companies to plan ahead and to avoid
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    • NOTE Book
      • 72 9 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Authorities are tracking down nearly 100,000 Indonesians who entered Malaysia legally but did not leave the country after their visas expired. The Star quoted a senior immigration official saying that more than 300,000 Indonesians checked into Malaysia through Johor and were given month-long
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      • 75 9 Reuters [JAKARTA] Exxon Mobil Indonesia said on Saturday it hoped to resume production at vital gas fields in the rebellious province of Aceh within weeks. It is the first timeframe given by the oil giant to restart output at the fields, shut down in
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      • 60 9 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday warned university students that they face expulsion if they take part in anti-government activities. He said he found that student activities were becoming bolder and at times were threatening national security. Malaysian police detained two students
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      • 75 9 AFP [BANGKOK] A choking smoke haze has floated across southern Thailand in recent days, causing traffic delays and stinging red eyes, a radio report said yesterday. Residents of Satun, a province in southern Thailand bordering Malaysia, have reportedly suffered a loss of visibility and eye irritations
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    • 702 9  -  KL STOCKS Perc has chosen to ignore the country's efforts to raise corporate governance standards eddie toh HONGKONG-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) raised eyebrows recently when its survey ranked Malaysia ahead of Singapore in terms of corporate governance. But surprisingly, Perc pooh-poohed the
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    • 402 9 JAKARTA AFP INDONESIA'S largest party is likely to ignore an invitation to a meeting today of party leaders from President Abdurrahman Wahid as he seeks to stave off impeachment, a senior member said. "So far the party has not received any
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    • 347 9 JAKARTA Reuters A HIGH level IMF mission has cautioned Indonesia over the planned takeover of troubled Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) by the country's largest bank, state-run Bank Mandiri. The team of IMF officials is in Jakarta to revive a US$5 billion
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    • 468 10 HONGKONG Flow of banks'spare cash narrows Asian bonds' spreads Reuters ASIA'S dollar bond market has had its busiest month in almost three years after a flurry of new deals burst through an issuance window opened by sharp cuts in US
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    • 294 10 MANILA Reuters THE Philippine central bank said yesterday it had approved the planned foreign bond offering of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT), the country's largest telecommunications firm. Central bank governor Rafael Buenaventura said, however, that the bank would prefer PLDT to offer long-term
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    • 725 11 TAIPEI Slowing growth has exposed cracks and both govt and industry most act to remain competitive AP WHEN the Asian financial crisis hit two years ago, Taiwan braced itself for hard times, but the island escaped the turmoil that rattled many of the region's
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    • 371 11 TAIPEI AFP TAIWAN'S "Silicon Valley" has felt the pinch of the global IT slump with at least 5,000 workers laid off in the first half of this year, officials said yesterday. At least 2,800 domestic employees at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in
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    • 333 11 HONGKONG Typhoon ends up as tropical storm bnt cost of closing businesses runs into HKs4b AFP HONG KONG is estimated to have lost lions of dollars during the 18 hours when the typhoon eight signal was hoisted for Typhoon Utor. Fears of a
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  • WORLD news
    • 542 12 LONDON Improving US economy seen outweighing dismal earnings news; bnt stock gains seen to be modest Reuters AN improving US economy will win the battle over a flow of dismal corporate earnings news but for global stock market investors the spoils of
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    • 304 12 WASHINGTON AFX-Asia US economic indicators to be released this week will show that June retail sales were notably stronger than May's 0.1 per cent increase, despite this week's second quarter profit warning by retail giant Federated Stores, economists said. Economists will be
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    • 412 12 LONDON Reuters THE British government will block the £18 billion (Ss46 billion) bid by Lloyds to buy mortgage lender Abbey National, partly because of concarns about the lack of competition in small business banking services, the Sunday Times reported. It
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 96 12 Bloomberg [BOSTON] Barclays Global Investors, Janus Capital Corp and other top mutual fund company holders of EMC Corp shed almost US$2.6 billion in assets as shares of the maker of corporate data storage systems plunged 28 per cent. Barclays ranked as the
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      • 75 12 Reuters [TOKYO] Overseas capital spending by Japanese companies through their foreign units rose 9.2 per cent in the six months to March, rising for the second straight half-year period, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. That compared with a mere 2 per cent rise in
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      • 63 12 AFP [STRASBOURG, France] The switch to euro cash is running on time with 90 per cent of the euro notes to be released in 2002 already printed, the European Central Bank says. "I can report that the Eurosystem's (ECB and the 12 euro zone
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      • 80 12 AFP [TOKYO] Peru's ousted president Alberto Fujimori has denied allegations that he had about US$l2.5 million stashed away in a Tokyo bank account, Jiji Press said yesterday. "I do not have such a personal account," Mr Fujimori said in a letter sent to the agency.
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    • 468 14 LONDON Over half of new issues launched this year have lost money for investors Bloomberg THE number of European companies planning initial public offerings in coming weeks will dwindle to the lowest in two months as investors shun share sales amid declining stock
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    • 396 15 NEW YORK Investors fear 'contagion' may hit other regional nnits NYT BRAZIL'S currency plunged to a record low on Friday and some analysts said they did not expect the fall would stop until the country's central bank pushed interest rates even higher
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    • 730 13 ROME Treasury Secretary O'Neill says US economy will expand 2% in Q4 and more than 3% next year Bloomberg THE Group of Seven industrial nations said they expect the US will lead a rebound in world economic growth after six interest rate reductions and
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    • 476 13  -  Out-of-court deal said to need consent of main creditors From Neil Behrman in London HEDGE fund creditors hold the key to the final settlement of a £1 billion (552.56 billion) London High Court lawsuit relating to the collapse of Barings Bank in February
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    • 255 13 LONDON Reuters BRITAIN'S Buckingham Palace set out strict guidelines yesterday to rein in royal family members who exploit their status to engage in lucrative business activities, a palace spokeswoman said. The rules, meant to ensure royals keep official duties and business careers separate,
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  • FINANCE & commodities
    • 697 12 AFP [LONDON] Market jitters, slack economic data and a strong dollar conspired to weaken precious and base metals last week, while oil prices remained firm despite expectations of a resumption of Iraqi exports. Base metals continue to founder, with
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    • Article, Illustration
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  • STOCKS sgx
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    • 571 14 SOX Derivatives Trading Weeklyßxmndup Reuters [CHICAGO] IMM currency futures closed mixed on Friday after the euro contract reversed from a fresh contract low to end higher, bolstered by weaker-than-expected US job data. The euro contract touched a low of U550.8342 overnight but began
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  • BIZ woman
    • 582 16 And Torrente salutes women with lovely clothes AP JOHN Galliano opened the fall-winter haute couture collections for Christian Dior on Saturday with a cartoon-like salute to ethnic globalisation. Wearable clothes? Not really, unless you count a luxurious, costumey jacket or two with ample sparkling embroidery, or one
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • BIZIT
    • 677 17  -  By end-2004, the Asia-Pacific region will have 370 m mobile phone users, compared to Western Europe's 324 m and North America's 144 m. bajugbbuam reports RAJU CHELLAM THE proliferation of handphones and mobile devices across the Asia-Pacific area will enable the region to
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    • 766 18  -  But it's only a matter of time before all manner of services will be available on the mobile, making it invaluable lor business pmiT exclusive Reports byl Vikram Khanna IT hasn't hit the big time yet, it has its sceptics, and for once, the US
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    • 519 18  -  New avenues for revenue will open np, propelled by increasing access speeds By, Joslin Vethakumar The writer is a manager with Lucent Technologies Asia-Pacific WHILE mobile networks have so far focused on voice communications, it is becoming clear that data services are equally
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    • 762 18  -  Most new handheld add-ons are being built for Palms and the rival Handspring Visor line By, Jim Krane AP [NEW YORK] As computers shrink from the size of an outhouse to the dimensions of a pack of cigarettes, inventors are hatching scads of uses for
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    • 620 18 A FEW months ago. Irish rock band U2 held a concert in Dublin. As an experiment, the organisers decided to sell some of the tickets in a way that had never been tried before: they accessed prospective concert-goers on their mobile phones using SMS (short
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    • e Biz Infrastructure
      • 1150 19  -  David mob considers how the various components the hardware and software base, the basic applications, and the advanced integrations contribute to making e-biz a reality DAVID MOK The writer is CEO of Internet consultancy MyEwizard.com LAST week, we discussed the three stages to developing
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    • 869 20  -  Bid comment INFOTECH Prospective financial information is important because stock markets value companies on expectations of what they can do in the future paul thompson The writer lectures in accounting at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. WHEN a post mortem is
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    • 348 20  -  By Raju Chellam DESPITE the Internet having changed the face of business today, most businesses still do all their financial reporting on paper, even though this is expensive and cumbersome, compared to hosting their reports on the web, for instance. The ICPAS (Institute
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    • 361 20 LAT [WASHINGTON] It is clear that Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan wants to be remembered as the man who brought the high-tech revolution into the mainstream, the godfather of the New Economy. In speeches, congressional testimony and central bank policy statements over the last
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    • IT TAKES
      • 55 20 SOLOMON Software South East Asia Pte Ltd said it will continue to support Temasek Polytechnic's accounting and finance course by donating the latest version of Solomon IV accounting package to the Poly. The Windows-based software is Internet-enabled and Solomon will provide 55 user licences to
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      • 43 20 SINGAPORE-BASED Omnibz Pte Ltd has tied .up with China's Jin Mao Group, to expand into the Chinese market. Jin Mao will invest U*****,000 in Omnibz, and Omnibz will expand its team in China. For details, visit www.omnibz.com, and www.jinmaoBB.com.
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      • 61 20 US-BASED Unisys Corp has appointed CSA Automated Pte Ltd as Unisys' value-added reseller for the Unisys ES7OOO Server in Singapore. The ES7OOO is a high-end engine for e-business, targeted at medium to large companies, especially those in the finance or air travel industry, and is based
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      • 67 20 GERMANY-BASED SAP AG has appointed Chen Wai Leong as managing director of its Asia-Pacific operations; and Ruth Connolly as senior vice-president of marketing and regional support. Mr Chen, who was previously vice-president of business development and strategy at Gateway, replaces Bob Armstrong, who was acting managing
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      • 32 20 PEOPLEsOFT Asia Pte Ltd has appointed Tan Wee Pin as director of enterprise sales for Singapore. Mr Tan was previously sales manager at Oracle Systems South East Asia.
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      • 26 20 UK-BASED World Pay, that provides multi-currency payments solutions, has appointed Adam Kerr as business development director, to head its Asian operations from Singapore.
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      • 39 20 UK-BASED financial solutions provider, Coda Group, has appointed Cliff James as commercial director for Coda Systems Asia-Pacific. Mr James was previously director of Godiva Consultancy Services, which provides consulting services to Coda and Coda's customers.
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      • 32 20 KAZ Computer Services (SEA) Pte Ltd has appointed Chong Kwek Yoong as data centre manager in its regional head office. Mr Chong worked previously with IBM Singapore.
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      • 30 20 HONG KONG-based search and recruitment firm, Job Access, has promoted Judy Howison as regional director, based in Singapore; she is currently managing director of Job Access Singapore.
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      • 36 20 ASP Outsourcing Asia 2001 A TWO-DAY conference on 'ASP and outsourcing Asia 2001', will be held from July 24 at the Sheraton Towers. It is organised by Envision International and Telefocal Asia. For details, e-mail noelyii@envisionintl.com.
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      • 32 20 A TWO-DAY workshop, on 4 e-CRM developing a customer contact plan', will be held from July 25 at Carlton Hotel. It is organised by Conference World. For details, fax *****82.
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      • 36 20 A THREE-DAY exposition, 'Cleanßooms Asia/DataStor Asia 2001', will be held from July 25 at the Raffles City Convention Centre. It is organised by Times Conferences Exhibitions Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****54.
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      • 40 20  -  Compiled by Trina Foo A TWO-DAY exposition, 'Internet Business 2001 —the evolving Net economy', will be held from Sept 6 at Suntec City. It is organised by Cnet Networks Events. For details, fax *****66, or visit www.internetbusiness2ool.com.
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    • 215 21  -  The Thumb Drive Touch incorporates biometric technology By* Andrew Wee LISTED Trek 2000 International last week announced two new portable storage devices which debut commercially in September. Called the Thumb Drive Touch, and the Thumb Drive Smart, the two thumb-sized devices provide storage capacities from
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    • 160 21 THE International Institute of Communications (IIC) will hold its 32nd annual conference in Singapore for four days from Oct 1 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. The theme will be 'Governance and cyberspace the substance after the sizzle'. It will be the first such lIC conference in Singapore
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 74 24 IBM SINGAPORE has launched its Work Pad PC Companions with the c5OO series. It comes in either monochrome or with a colour display and runs on the Palm OS (operating system) 4.0. It is bundled with enterprise-ready software from IBM, including Lotus Easy Sync Pro, and
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      • 61 24 NASDAQ-LISTED Unix solutions supplier, Red Hat Inc, has introduced Red Hat Database, an open source database solution optimised with Red Hat Linux 7.1. It is targeted at mid-sized organisations. It is available now for U552,295 and includes Red Hat Database 7.1, Red Hat Linux 7.1, web
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      • 70 24 BRITAIN-BASED Psion pic has unveiled its first Chinese language palmtop, the Psion 618 C. It runs on the Chinese EPOC OS and comes with a built-in ROM-based Chinese system, multiple Chinese input methods, and Chinese handwriting recognition. It offers two versions—the Simplified Chinese version, and the
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      • 85 24 HEWLETT-PACKARD Singapore has announced its new HP Workstation—the b2600 —that HP says provides mid-range workstation performance at an entry level price. It runs on a 500 MHz PAB6OO RISC processor, can hold up to 4 GB of memory, and is targeted at users in CAD, mechanical
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      • 67 24 UK-BASED Coda pic, that provides financial accounting and procurement solutions, has launched Coda-Intelligence, "the first fast-track business intelligence solution from a specialist application vendor", Coda said. The product gives the CFO rapid access to up-to-the-minute financial information from anywhere in the world, using devices like PDAs, mobile
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      • 73 24  -  Compiled by Rachel Ong NASDAQ-LISTED Macromedia Inc has announced Macromedia Sitespring, a new web-based application for managing the website production process. It enables professional web teams to reduce cycle times, eliminate file rework and decrease time spent on non-business-focused activities. It will debut here in September;
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    • 683 24  -  E-marketplaces are predicted to be the fastest growing segment within B2Be-comm6rce In the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan quek mei hsien The writer is CEO, plasticscommerce.com Pte Ltd E-marketplaces form an integral part of today's businesses. By bringing together buyers and sellers on
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    • 730 24  -  Apple is poshing a multimedia standard to boost QuickTime. It better hurry By Dorothy Pomerantz IT was a PR coup: in April of last year Apple Computer announced that its QuickTime software would handle the Internet promotion of the movie adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic trilogy. The Lord
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    • 683 25  -  I=ll exclusive The Republic is also responsible for more than half of Agilent's Semiconductor Products Group manufacturing turnover Byi Andrew Wee SINGAPORE has played a key role in the development of Agilent Technologies' semiconductor products, and the US giant is now exploring life science
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    • 264 25  -  Accenture, Parametric, Sun Micro offer Collaborative Product Commerce solutions By Yap Wy-En IN a bid to boost product development management and foster cross-company connectivity, three US-based companies Accenture, PTC (Parametric Technology Corp), and Sun Microsystems have tied up to offer customers here with comprehensive
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    • 145 25 AFX-Asia [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer Inc said it is recalling AC power adapters sold with its Powerßook G3 notebook computers from May 1998 to March 2000, after receiving six reports the adapters overheated and posed a potential fire risk. No injuries have been reported, Apple
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    • KNOWLEDGE management
      • 1494 26  -  KM has to be an enterprise-wide project At the end of the day, the entire mindset of the company has to change. That's often the hardest part By Val Chua I. an economic downturn, some companies may obviously think the adoption and deployment of KM
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    • 535 27  -  NEW YORK Their bond prices have fallen to levels of others that have filed for protection By Lee Theodoros Bloomberg level, a communications Inc, Covad Communications Group Inc and Williams Communications Group Inc may be the next telecommunications firms to file for
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    • 446 27  -  BOSTON By Tim McLaughlin Reuters ROCKED by a second profit warning in four months, shares of data-storage giant EMC Corp fell 28 per cent on Friday after the company said price cutting failed to budge slowing demand for machines that store corporate digital information. "You're
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    • 378 27  -  WASHINGTON By Andy Sullivan Reuters US officials scrambled to assure businesses Friday that their confidential data had not been compromised by a government web site that allegedly contained security holes. Ironically, the web site encouraged businesses to sign up for
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    • 330 27 LONDON Reuters BELEAGUERED British telecoms equipment 1 maker Marconi is aware of the risk of a takeover bid, chief executive George Simpson told the Sunday Telegraph in an interview. "I think we are going to see consolidation and in the short term
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    • NET impact
      • 939 28  -  B-li exclusive By 2006,40% of voice calls in S'pore will be VoIP-based compared to 5.5% last year. Andrew Wee has the details Andrew Wee THE Net telephony market in Singapore looks set to explode by 2006 when "call minutes" touch 1.4 billion
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      • Briefly.com
        • 73 28 SINGAPORE'S Supreme Court will implement a system of secured remote access to the Supreme Court Computer Network, enabling all judges and judicial commissioners, led by the Chief Justice and Judges of Appeal, to access the network from home. Judges and judicial commissioners will be given
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        • 60 28 HOMEGROWN Buzz City Pte Ltd has launched Gamma, a delivery and payment collection platform for wireless content and service providers. "Gamma is the first initiative in the world that lets providers create, deploy and collect payment for new fee-based wireless service to all mobile service subscribers,"
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        • 55 28 TEMASEK Polytechnic has tied up with WAPworkz Technologies Pte Ltd to use "WAPbean", that enables WAP pages to be created without any prior programming knowledge. Under the deal, WAPworkz will licence the use or WAPbean as an introduction to students to WAP and Web deployment. For
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        • 48 28 THE first batch of 22 students have graduated from an Icus-Insead e-learning course. The students were from organisations—including DBS Bank, IDA, Chevron, and National Computer Systems and took an intensive, month-long "Exploring e-business" course to understand key issues of the Internet in commerce today.
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        • 54 28 SINGAPORE Telecommunications said it will use US-based EMC Corp's E-Infostructure, a suite of information storage hardware, software and services, to provide information infrastructure for SingTel's managed hosting services. The new business, called Sing Tel SXPAN, will let Sing Tel capture new revenue streams by outsourcing IT
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        • 43 28 SINGAPORE-BASED Poh Lian Realty Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Poh Lian Holdings, has launched a web-based tool for the management of property development documentation transactions. Developed by i-Knowledge Technologies Pte Ltd, the concept site can be viewed at propertydocportal.com.
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        • 60 28 RSA Security Inc, based in the United States, has launched its RSA BSafe wireless core encryption software. It lets software developers build wireless solutions to communicate with applications or networks. The software is designed for wireless applications, and works with systems from vendors like Ericsson,
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        • 54 28 DATASTREAM Systems Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Datastream Systems Inc, has launched the Datastream Network, its online network for asset lifecycle management. Customers have a single entry point to the network, from which they can access tools, applications and services designed to aid capital asset management.
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        • 79 28  -  Compiled by Liew Hanqing THERE'S a positive correlation between the extent of Internet penetration and the proportion of active, reactive and future e-shoppers, says a study by Taylor Nelson Sofres Interactive. "Adult Internet users in Singapore have increased by 18 per cent during the past year,"
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 196 29 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young WITH crude prices slipping to a 14-month low and VLCC rates sliding below W4O it comes as no surprise that another modern vessel has been rumoured to have found buyers. AP Moller's Else Maersk 308,300 tdw/2000 bit vessel is said to be nearing
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    • 506 29  -  Proposed acquisition is anti-competitive for domestic towage sector By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has confirmed it blocked PSA Marine's planned acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in Jurong Marine Services because the move was
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    • 357 29  -  Chartered vessel for rapid-deployment operations Prornl Evelyn Duffy in Perth AUSTRALIAN shipbuilder Austal Limited has scored a world first for the high-speed ferry industry with the signing of a contract to supply a vessel to the United States Marine Corp. The Marine
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    • SHIPPING news
      • 732 30  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes THERE have been indications over the past few weeks that the liner shipping sector is going to have a difficult year. Nobody appears to doubt that in the longer term, the container ship market will continue to
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      • PORT Shots
        • 73 30 [SINGAPORE] The supply chain management arm of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) APL Logistics has completed its purchase of German freight forwarding distribution specialist Mare Logistik Spedition GmbH (Mare). APL Logistics has taken an initial 51 per cent stake in Mare, the remainder to be transferred
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        • 87 30 [SINGAPORE] The Pakistan Government last week agreed to lift import duties on ships and other vessels in an effort to boost the industry. The changes also include a decision against excise duties or any other tax on the import of ships to help increase the
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        • 76 30 (SINGAPORE] A seven-day strike planned to begin today at the Ports of Auckland in New Zealand was called off on Friday by the NZ Waterfront Workers Union. The group called a 24-hour strike last week over employment contract negotiations which had broken down after five
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        • 56 30 [SINGAPORE] Sri Lanka's parliament last week cracked down on piracy, passing tougher regulations and punishments for sea crimes in its waters, reports say. Offences which fall within the new Anti Piracy legislation cannot be bailed, and carry harsher penalties, including big fines and jail
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    • 284 30 PACE Ahrenkiel 10 Appenship 5 Assets 5 Austral 6 Avant 10 B'tang Mas 6 BSA 7 BTL 10 Balaji 4 Batamindo 9 Bayswater 10 CCNI 7 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 CSAV 3 Central Ex 6 Chahaya 10 China Shpg 5 Confer 10 Colony Log 5 It Cougar
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    • 10181 36 THEBUSINESSTIMES Page 8 EXPORT MONDAY, JULY 9, 2001 ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Dest'n Name Name Number Number To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cote D'lvoire K/07 19/06 Kien Hung PROSPERITY CONTAIN PC103S 65-*****33 14/07 20/08 Setramar VILLE OE GEMINA 3S4W 65-*****33 18/07 08/08 MOL MOL MONO 9002A
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      • 558 39 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure Jarwf Part Santa Suria 07-JAN J22 08/07/1:55 11/07/23:59 Shannon E«p 13-JAN J03 08/07/9:20 09/07/17^0 Bt Sri Megat ***** J01 08/07/21:00 Xuanchenq 35 J06 08/07/1800 10/07/6.00 Spc Capricor 75 J12 09/07/630 09/07/1900 C Success 09-JUL J09 09/07/800 09/07/1700 Bt Lemang Ja ***** J01
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      • 1971 39 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCL CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls Ship Voy Wo Etb/Btr Pwlod From To From ACHIEVER 404 10/12:00 IA 08/1500 00/1659 06/1900 IB 06/1500 06/1659 06/1900 2A 06/1700 09/0659 09/0900 21 06/1700 09/0659 09/0900 3 09/0700 09/1159 09/1400 4 09/1200 09/1459 09/1700 auscotum me n/i*oo
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      • 205 39 July 9 Argentina: Independence Day July 11 France: National Day Belgium: Flemish Community July 14 France: National Day July 17 South Korea: Constitution Day July 20 Japan: Marine Day July 21 Belgium: National Day August 1 Switzerland: National Day Anguit 9 Singapore: National Day South Africa: National Women's
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      • 797 39 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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      • 453 40 deep vein thrombosis Susceptibility to excessive clotting known to occur among 1%-2% of population AFP [PARIS] European scientists reported yesterday they had shed light on why some people are more vulnerable than others to "economy class syndrome", the risk of developing
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      • 232 40 AFP [LONDON] Boeing and Airbus aircraft will compete head-to-head to win a multi-billion-pound British tender for an air-to-air refuelling service, the British government said. Two consortiums, one based around US giant Boeing and British group BAE Systems and the other centred around
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      • 174 40 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines has cut its first-half operating profit estimate as slowing economies reduced demand at Korea's second-largest carrier. The carrier expects to report an operating profit of "more than" 20 billion won (Ss2B million) in the JanuaryJune half, chief financial officer Ghil Byung
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      • 415 40 Reuters [BERLIN] Compensation payments worth about US$l2O million to victims of last year's Concorde air crash outside Paris will begin this week, German lawyers said. "The deal has been completed," lawyer Gerhart Baum, who with a group of other lawyers represents
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      • 367 40 CATHAY PILOTS' INDUSTRIAL ACTION AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways said it had been forced to cancel more flights yesterday and would reduce scheduled services by 20 per cent owing to a work-to-rule protest by its pilots. Cathay said that as
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      • 425 40 Global carriers offering 25%-30% discounts AFP [NEW DELHI] International airlines flying to and from India have been hit by a steep fall in passenger volumes in the usually busy summer season, triggering a round of fare cuts. Airlines are offering discounts
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      • 263 40 Reuters AFP, [NEW DELHI] Singapore Airlines (SIA), with its Indian joint venture partner Tatas, remains the sole bidder after the Indian government disqualified UK-based billionaire Hinduja group from bidding for a stake in state-owned national carriers. Privatisation Minister Arun Shourie said the
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