The Business Times, 28 September 2001

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  • 14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ SINGAPORE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2001 85C
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  • 79 1 sn U1&87 (+33.16) BT-SEI 598.77 (+12.55) ST INDEX FUTUKES ly3OLOO (+28.00) smsanmntEs 156.70 (+2.60) STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP 612.64 ****** NIKKEI 225 3,***** +6483 HANG SENG 9,600.79 +229.04 SET INDEX 274.76 -Oil JAKARTA COMP —396.04 -657 MANILA COMP 1,***** -2L69 TAIPEI WPf 3567.63 -67.90 SEOUL
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  • 75 1 FOBEX RATES us$ s$ USS (SSperUSS) 1.760 £(l'SS/SS per fi) 1.476 2.596 El"BO(US$/SS/E) 0321 1.820 DM 1124 1_207 YEN 118.7 67.40 RM 1800 1160 HKS 7j800 4433 BAHT 44.35 25 il RUPIAH 9,675 5,499 NUMERATES SINGAPORE* 5.675 KUALA LUMPUR 7.67 JAKARTA ...a.M BANGKOK 950 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG R50 TAIPEI
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  • 675 1  -  Planes now only one-third fall; Delta, SIA expected to lower ticket prices Byi George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Beleaguered global airlines are hoping that substantial fare cuts will lure travellers back into the air. Those hit hardest by the fallout from the Sept 11
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  • 603 1  -  -^exclusive After 7 years, it still hasn't handed over Bt Tinggi bungalows By I Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] As many as 160 Singaporeans could be waiting for properties they bought from a major Malaysian developer seven years ago. And there's still no sign of a
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  • 979 1  -  COMMENTARY By\ Barton M Biggs The writer is global chief strategist at Morgan Stanley AS you would expect, bearishness is rampant. The consensus has abruptly swung. I read a number of strategists, economists, and columnists, all of whom say it's a
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  • 540 1  -  From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad may have shelved the tunnel project to link the southern city of Johor Baru to Singapore a move that could complicate negotiations for the two countries' new bilateral agreement. Citing an
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    • 197 1 DTSTOE Top stories Brierley: Plan to exit Air NZ still stands. Pg 7 Hock Lock Slew: Transport stocks more bullet-proof 1 than some blue chips. Pg 7 Banks in HK warn of more layoffs soon. Pg 16 Jiang Zemin chalks up a draw in battle with party elite. Pg 17
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    • 42 1 HEADLINE HOGGERS JIM SLATER SLATER WALKER GEORGE lAN CARRiAN GROUP TAN KOON SWAN PAN-ELECTRIC KHQO TECK PUAT NATIONAL BANK. OF BRUNEI NICK LEESON BARINGS The men who couldn't have liked hogging the news The Business Times, 25th Anniversary Issue. Monday, Oct 1
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    • 486 2  -  I exclusive Fears as insurers refuse to extend war risk coverage for 3rd party liabilities By. Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] After weathering the initial storm caused by the terrorist attacks on the US, banks are looking vulnerable again. But this time the threat is
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    • 930 2  -  Military empowered to shoot down threatening commercial jets as a last resort From Catherine Ong in New York THE United States will soon put armed guards onboard commercial planes under new measures to bolster security and to woo back frightened air
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    • 329 2  -  ■11 exclusive About 2,000 COEs will be available for on-line tender Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Open bidding for the two largest COE categories for cars will kick off next month, completing an exercise aimed at making COE tenders "transparent".
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  • FALLOUT from terrorist attack
    • 917 4 It dismisses bid for Rev Jesse Jackson to mediate as delaying tactic AFP AP, Reuters [ISLAMABAD] US investigators tightened the intelligence noose around suspected terrorist chief Osama bin Laden yesterday as diplomatic efforts to prevent full-scale military confrontation gathered pace.
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    • 551 4 Intelligence officials say it will endanger sources and methods NYT [WASHINGTON] A public accounting of the evidence against Osama bin Laden and his allies has been delayed indefinitely by an internal struggle over declassifying secret information, officials said on Wednesday. Secretary of
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    • LATE Briefs
      • 115 4 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Grim news from French business and British consumers provided fresh evidence yesterday that a world recession may be looming as shoppers and companies reel after the attacks in the US. Polls showed that French business confidence fell in September to its lowest level
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      • 72 4 Bloomberg [LONDON) British Airways pic said it will cut 190 round-trip flights a week, mainly at London Gatwick airport, reducing capacity by 9 per cent as demand for air travel falls following the Sept 11 attacks in the US. Europe's largest airline will eliminate
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      • 74 4 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Internal Revenue Service said taxpayers who suffered property losses such as damaged vehicles or buildings in the Sept 11 terrorist attacks may qualify for a quick tax refund by filing an amended year 2000 tax return. Individual or business taxpayers in a
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      • 104 4 AP (BRUSSELS] The European Union distanced itself yesterday from comments by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose claims that Western civilisation is superior to Islam have embarrassed other EU leaders seeking to reach out to the Muslim world. "We certainly don't share the views expressed
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      • 65 4 Reuters [CANBERRA] Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday said it was possible that next week's summit of Commonwealth leaders could be scrapped if key participants pulled out following the attacks in the US. The Oct 6-9 meeting in Brisbane would be the largest gathering
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      • 56 4 AFP (ABU DHABI] The central bank of the United Arab Emirates yesterday ordered the freezing of accounts and investments of 26 individuals and organisations suspected of financing terrorist activities. Among the list of account-holders are Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the Sept 11 US
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      • 73 4 AP [PARIS] Clues on who carried out the Sept 11 attacks in the US cast suspicion not only on Osama bin Laden but also on other groups, France's prime minister said in a newspaper interview published yesterday. "Afghanistan seems like a sanctuary for terrorism,"
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      • 101 4 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines said yesterday it was willing to hand over to the US captured local Muslim extremists believed to have had links to Osama bin Laden. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo also said she was ready to freeze assets the extremist Abu Sayyaf group
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    • 988 4  -  There is no final victory but the threat can be considerably reduced By' William Bodde Jr The writer was thefirst executive director of Apec and served as a US ambassador under three presidents. He now teaches at Johns Hopkins and the University of Hawaii
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    • 664 5  -  Move comes amid Muslim leader's warning of war against Christians From! Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE United States yesterday advised all non-essential government staff and their families to leave Indonesia and advised Americans to avoid travelling to the world's most populous Muslim nation
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    • 421 5 Members to focus on enforcing past agreements Bloomberg Reuters [VIENNA] Opec yesterday approved an accord to leave oil sales unchanged, putting off until November any effort to lift crude prices out of a slump. Boxed in by political constraints after the Sept 11
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    • IN Brief
      • 94 6 AFP [BRUSSELS] At least 100 million euros (Ssl62 million) in assets suspected of being used to finance Afghanistan's Taliban regime have been frozen across the European Union since March, a European source said on Wednesday. The assets have been frozen in accordance with
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      • 78 6 FT [NEW YORK] International banks were scrambling yesterday to find accounts linked to Osama bin Laden or the Taliban regime in Afghanistan amid confusion over the targets in the drive to seize terrorists' assets. Several big financial institutions denied they had connections with banks
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      • 84 6 AFP [GENEVA] Financial networks linked to Osama bin Laden do not use Swiss banks, but terrorist groups may have misused Switzerland's financial system, the president of the Swiss bankers' union said yesterday. "Switzerland is not a refuge for terrorists' millions," its president Urs
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      • 61 6 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday approved the final tranche of a USSS96 million stand-by loan for Pakistan, IMF sources said. The third and final tranche of the loan is around US$l3O million. "It went through without any problem," said one source
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      • 103 6 AP [BANGKOK] Thailand is planning to reduce the number of nationalities who can get visas on arrival as part of a measure to keep out terrorists, officials said yesterday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the ministries of foreign affairs, interior and
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    • 794 6 It may also act to try to help distressed airlines and insurance firms Reuters [WASHINGTON] The top US securities regulator said on Wednesday he stood ready to ensure orderly markets by continuing special trading rules in place since the Sept 11 attacks and possibly
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    • 113 6 AFX [LONDON] THE New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market have held high-level talks to develop a disaster plan in the event that one of the markets gets knocked out of business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with
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    • 814 6 The two companies and other defence contractors are in talks with Pentagon Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Boeing Co. Honeywell International Inc and other defence contractors said they're in talks with the US military about speeding up production if there is a protracted war against
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    • 321 6 AFP [WASHINGTON] The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) on Wednesday called for urgent tax cuts, saying US consumers and businesses urgently need relief in the wake of the Sept 11 terrorist assault. "I understand the concern of those who urge caution,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 443 7  -  It sees injection of NZs3oom into Air NZ as not enough Report* by. Andrea Tan BRIERLEY Investments said yesterday the NZ$3OO million of fresh equity to be injected into Air New Zealand is not enough and its plan to exit the troubled
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    • 504 7 Travel industry turmoil makes prospects uncertain BRIERLEY Investments' hopes of returning to the black were dashed by a U*****.2 million writedown of its indirect stake in troubled Ansett Australia. And the investment group warned that the turmoil in the travel industry has made it
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    • 603 7  -  iiSrafflock siew christopher tan Transport-relat-ed stocks like DelGro, SMRT and Comfort seem to have weathered the devastation that swept across the market in the days following Sept 11. If anything, these "defensive" plays have just gotten more defensive. And there's one good
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    • 527 9  -  Global experience shows cost-savings not simple to realise without losing customers Angela Tan FAMILY ownership of Singapore banks will dwindle over time, says Monetary Authority of Singapore chairman Lee Hsien Loong in an interview with a financial magazine. "It is not tenable,
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    • 384 9  -  Good response from brokers, investors at training programmes By Ven Sreenivasan THE Singapore Exchange expects strong retail interest in its single stock futures despite the lukewarm response it has received from investors for its index futures. Benjamin Foo, the SGXDT's
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 76 9 THE Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) said OCBC Bank will assume the chairmanship of the association from Overseas Union Bank (OUB) with effect from Oct 1. The decision was taken following the merger of OUB and United Overseas Bank (UOB), in
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      • 104 9 THE Central Provident Fund said CPF savings can now be invested in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). With immediate efTect, product providers of ETFs can apply to the CPF Board for inclusion of ETFs under the CPF Investment Scheme (CPFIS). CPF members will be
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      • 84 9 DBS Securities Holding, an in direct wholly-owned subsidiary of DBS Group Holdings, and DBS Thai Danu Bank Public Company, a partly-owned subsidiary of DBS Group, have each agreed to sell their respective 49 and 51 per cent stakes in DBS Thai Danu Securities
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    • 403 9  -  E-banking service launched for corporate customers By Chua Hui Min FRENCH bank BNP Paribas one of the first four foreign banks in Singapore to obtain a qualifying full bank (QFB) licence said yesterday it intends to strengthen its operations here in trade financing,
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    • 270 9 Reductions effective Monday; St&nch&rt to follow next week MORE foreign banks in Singapore have decided to trim their prime lending rates in the wake of similar cuts by all the local banks and Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation this week. Maybank and ABN-Amro
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    • 371 9  -  Instead of selling to UOB, they sell in buying-in market liy\ Siow Li Sen THE few remaining Overseas Union Bank (OUB) shareholders who have dragged their feet in selling their shares to United Overseas Bank (UOB) appear to be making a small windfall now by selling
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    • 464 9  -  Takeover of China unit to be completed by end-October Hy\ Teh Hooi Ling ECS Holdings said yesterday it had won two China contracts totalling $52 million through PCI-SLR Technology, a China company it is in the process of acquiring. One of the
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    • 141 9  -  By Siow Li Sen ALEX Au, vice-chairman and chief executive of OCBC Bank, yesterday exercised 420,000 OCBC share options at $3,349 per share. If Mr Au, 54, had sold his OCBC shares yesterday which closed at $9.30, he would have made
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  • SINGAPORE markets
    • 333 10 Stocks Volume SingTel 15c 26,545,000 Fu Yu Mfg 10c 20,596,000 Surface MT HK20c 17.495.000 Tianjin Zhong 15,030,000 Autron 12.509.000 Beyonics 10c 11.648.000 CapitaLand 11.567.000 Eagle Brand HK75c 10,739,000 UniFood HK25c 10.698.000 SingTel UBSeCW *****6 8.520,000 Stocks SingTel 15c 46.691.189 DBS Grp 32,129.692 OCBC 26.449.918 UOB 24.132.725 S1A50C 19.035.410 CaprtaLand 14.733.047
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    • 617 10  -  FiT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE local stock market's two-day consolidation ended abruptly yesterday as house traders stormed back into the second line, reviving China and technology plays as they swept prices higher. Almost all blue chips also finished firmer, although
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    • 178 10  -  WARRANT WATCH By R Sivanithy EVEN though the Straits Times Index surged yesterday, only three warrants made the top 20 percentage gainers list. Players are still very risk-averse and are not prepared to trade in instruments with finite life spans. Such an approach is understandable, given
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    • 262 10  -  HOT STOCK By Ven Sreenivasan ONE stock which has bucked the broad market trend in recent weeks is People's Food. This stock was heading higher last week even as the Straits Times Index was plunging to new post-1998 lows. It closed 7.5 cents higher yesterday
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    • 530 10  -  I=il comment CURRENCIES S$ jumps and Aussie dives; Swiss franc sheds some refnge-currency larry wee THE Japanese yen slipped further after the Bank of Japan again sold it in Asian trading yesterday. And the Australian dollar fell sharply against the greenback and
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  • 3709 10 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AWd— *mt Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio. American Opport Fd 0.659 0.693 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.110 1.144 ChinaOpportunitiesFd!** 0 804 0845 Coot Euro Eqty Fd!** 0 823 0.865 Global MNC Fd 0.567 0.596 Global Tethnology Fd' 0 406 0 427 Indonesia EquityTd'** 0.631 0 664
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 468 11  -  Govt defers launch of Ulu Pandan plot; URA seen doing same for two 'white' sites By. Kalpana Rashiwala IN what analysts say could point to a suspension of its land sales programme, the government said yesterday it will defer this month's intended
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    • 276 11  -  I'll exclusive It plans to focus on its two profitable stores: sources By] Kalpana Rashiwala JAPANESE retailer Daimaru plans to pull out of Plaza Singapura next year, although it will stay put at its two other locations at Liang Court and Junction 8
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    • 406 11  -  /<'/ Vince Chong DECREASING consumerism may result in pressure on retail landlords to introduce rental rebates or conduct more promotional activities, despite the government's off Budget measures due out next month. Currently, according to Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) research, the shortage of
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    • 347 13  -  the economy training By I Chuang Peck Ming THE skills gap in the services sector is set to widen, if the scenario revealed by the Ministry of Manpower's first survey of employer-supported training persists. The survey, carried out in March-May, suggests managers, executives and
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    • 399 13  -  M/' Teh Hooi Ling THE Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (ASME) has urged the government, multinational corporations and government-linked companies to expedite payments to its members for purchases of goods and services. This, said ASME president Diana Young, will help SMEs with
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    • 273 13  -  Biomedical grid linking high-performance computers to be ready by 2003 Ry Eugene Low UNIVERSITIES and biomedical research institutes in Singapore will be able to share their information and data by 2003 through a nationwide information technology-based network. Called the biomedical grid, it
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  • FINANCE
    • 309 13  -  ST S"pore Index Daniel Wong Refco (Singapore) THE rise in major regional markets and some bargainhunting lifted the Singapore share market yesterday as it ended higher by more than 2 per cent. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed at 1,310.87 points a gain of
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    • 236 13  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Daniel Wong Refco (Singapore) VIA Technologies led a slide in Taiwan stocks yesterday with news of Intel extending the scope of a patent lawsuit against the company. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index declined 3.74 points, or 2.28 per cent, to end
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    • 227 13 Reuters London THE yen held more than one per cent lower against the US dollar and the euro yesterday after Japan intervened for the third time this week to halt export-damaging yen strength. The Ministry of Finance confirmed that the Bank of Japan bought US dollars for yen
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      1284 13 IMTEEBAME CROSS RATES Sep 27 A$ C$ Birt) Euro Ffr Dm HK$ ind Bs Bupiah Yen Won Ml NZ$ Pit 8s Peso S$ Band Sfr HT$ Blrt PowO US$ Australia 0.764 4.034 0.528 3.463 1.033 3.792 ***** 47.035 0.577 6.341 1.847 1.211 31.235 24.966 0.855 4.344 0.781 16.806 21.561 0.330
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 801 14  -  ■TTTT4 bottom line OPINION anthony rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent AMERICA is living up to its superpower image by building a global coalition designed to defeat terrorism through military and economic actions. Support has been pledged by a broad spectrum of nations, few
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    • 83 14 'All women want to look pretty, and poorer women want it even more. Without good education or rich parents, appearance is what they count on to move up the social ladder.' Tsai Yen-ping a Taiwanese entrepreneur, who has I. (MM) cosmetic chain stores with 10,000 workers in
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    • 615 14 EDITORIAL CHIEF Executive Tung Chee-hwa's administration lacks the support of Hong Kong"s legislators. That much was obvious when he proposed to help the aviation industry. The matter before the Legislative Council was simple: Hong Kong's three airlines, its airport authority and ail the air services
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    • 1091 14  -  Battling recession, Washington is now re-adopting many policies that it said for years would be Asia's doom By) Patrick Smith The writer is a former Bloomberg correspondent in Asia and the author of'Japan.Aßeinterpretation'. The opinions expressed are his own. Bloomberg I'VE never actually
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    • 727 14  -  COMMENTARY That is, to a point that's somewhere between hysteria and resignation Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group WE are now slowly returning to "normalcy", though we don't know what that means and can't know. Americans will find readjustment full of contradictions and.
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  • 1873 15 SICOM FUTURES RUBBER (futuresctosmg «s it 5.30pm) RSS1CONTVACT (S centsAq) Close Volume Open Month Hlqh Low Mt (tonnes) Interest Oct 01 99.00 No* 01 100.00 Dec 01 101.00 Jan/Mar 02 102.75 RSS 3 CONTRACT (US ccnts/kg) Volume Open Month High Low Sttt (tonnes) Interest Oct 01 53.25 53.25 5125
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 402 15 KUALA LUMPUR It will seek new US markets away from coasts, aim to double exports to S-E Asia AFX MALAYSIA will try to find new export markets in the United States and South-east Asia to offset the worsening economic downturn following
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    • LATE Briefs
      • 81 15 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Six more banks in Malaysia announced cuts in their lending and deposit rates yesterday, following similar moves by other lenders in response to last week's reduction in the central bank's benchmark rate. The Malaysian units of ABN Amro, Bank of
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      • 76 15 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian MPs yesterday urged President Megawati Sukarnoputri, currently in Tokyo, to convince Japanese creditors that revising a debt restructuring deal for the Chandra Asri petrochemical operation is vital for the economy. "Japan is one of the biggest foreign investors here and
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      • 54 15 AP [MANILA] Lawyers for ousted Philippine president Joseph Estrada asked the Supreme Court yesterday to postpone his trial on a capital offence of plunder until it has ruled on their petition questioning the constitutionality of the country's anti-plunder law. The trial is scheduled to
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    • 249 15 ■JAKARTA AFP INDONESIA needs a fixed exchange rate regime for its fluctuating rupiah currency. National Development Planning Minister Kwik Kian Gie has said. "If the rupiah (value) is not fixed, it will continue to fluctuate. There will be no stable exchange rate against
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    • 432 16  -  Economic woes aggravated by attacks on US and are expected to hit banks' performance From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG KONG banks yesterday warned that the outlook for their industry has worsened further since the terrorist attacks on the US and
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    • 424 16 SHANGHAI Six granted licences to start operations, 2 others can expand Bloomberg SIX European insurers have been granted licences to start operations in China and two others authorised to expand business as the world's largest untapped insurance market opens wider to foreign firms. The
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    • 421 16  -  FYomi Audrey Tan in Hong Kong SUN Hung Kai Properties, one of Hong Kong's largest developers, yesterday reported a 23 per cent fall in net profits to HK$B.3 billion (Ssl.9 billion) for the year ended June, as its revenues fell 31 per cent to
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      • 89 16 Reuters [HONG KONG] Travel agents in Hong Kong said yesterday that as many as 6,000 people in the industry could lose their jobs amid a sharp decline in bookings, adding to the territory's economic gloom. "There are over 20,000 staff employed by travel
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      • 85 16 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Government offices, schools and businesses in the south of Taiwan were closed and some domestic flights cancelled after Tropical Storm Lekima hit the island, TTV Television said yesterday, citing a government announcement. Three people have been reported missing, the China Times said,
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      • 83 16 AFX [SHANGHAI] The Ministry of Finance, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the People's Bank of China are considering ways to improve the system for the sale of government stakes in listed firms, CSRC chief adviser Anthony Neoh said, according to Shenzhen's
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      • 63 16 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan is expected to officially become a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in March 2002, Vice-Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen said yesterday. "March appears to be a more reasonable estimate while earlier admission cannot be entirely
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    • 438 17 BEIJING Party endorses platform, but refuses to promote protege AFP A MEETING of the Chinese communist elite has ended in a hard-fought draw for President Jiang Zemin, who was forced to make concessions to his rivals in return for key backing
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    • 108 17 BEIJING Bloomberg CHINA may push through restructuring of the telecommunications industry using a new high-level commission set up for the stated purpose of encouraging information technology use by state-run companies. The group, headed by Premier Zhu Rongji, aims to encourage industries from coal
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    • 487 18 WASHINGTON And jobless claims hit highest level in 9 yrs in the week after Sept 11 attacks AP Reuters, Bloomberg ORDERS to American factories for big-ticket manufactured goods edged down in August, in a further sign that the economy was weakening
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    • 373 18  -  Meeting tooted as a way to revive global economy From D Ravi Kanth in Geneva EFFORTS to launch new trade negotiations at Doha gathered momentum yesterday after the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Council chairman issued a draft blueprint to kick-start the global
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      • 86 18 Reuters [TOKYO] Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday expressed determination to press ahead with his economic reforms, saying Japan owed it to the world to revive its economy, particularly after attacks on the US. But Mr Koizumi said he would remain flexible in implementing
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      • 58 18 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank yesterday kept its benchmark interest rate at 3.75 per cent. Money supply growth, a gauge of future inflation, accelerated in August, the ECB said. "We will need a few more weeks to understand what happened to the world
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      • 90 18 Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] OM AB, the owner of the Stockholm bourse, agreed to take over Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Co's stake in Jiway, their pan-European exchange, as the US investment bank pulls out of the venture amid a slump in trading. OM shares fell
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      • 60 18 NYT [ATLANTA] Coca-Cola and Procter Gamble have abandoned a proposed joint venture which seemed like a logical deal to them when it was announced in February. But a deeper look prompted some analysts to warn Coke would get the short end of the deal by pairing
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      • 45 18 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co yesterday slashed its 2001 net profit forecast to NTsll billion (*****.8 million) from the previous estimate of NT525.7 billion. TSMC also cut its full-year sales forecast to NT5121.9 billion from NT$l49 billion. Reuters
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      • 89 18 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp started building a flash-memory chip that it says is four times faster than current offerings, as it beefs up its products for cell phones and electronic devices. The new synchronous flash reads data faster because it works continuously
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    • 309 19 TOKYO Reuters, Bloomberg HITACHI Ltd will spin off its consumer electronic products and industrial equipment businesses next April as two new companies. It said yesterday the move is part of group-wide restructuring measures to maximise the competitive strength of each business sector. One of
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    • 484 19 TOKYO The company will procure cheaper parts from China, Taiwan and Malaysia Bloomberg SONY Corp, the second largest consumer electronics maker, plans to cut its component suppliers in Japan by 1,500, or 60 per cent, seeking cheaper parts from China, Taiwan
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    • 273 19 Reuters, Bloomberg [SYDNEY] News Corp Ltd's Rupert Murdoch has warned in an internal memo of dramatic cuts in the global media giant's capital expenditure plans and of tough times ahead, the Australian Financial Review said yesterday. The newspaper said it
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    • 494 19 PALO ALTO, California It will close some operations and pitch for debt-equity swap Reuters, Bloomberg WEB hosting company Exodus Communications Inc has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to gain protection from creditors while it tries to eliminate the massive debt it racked
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      • 716 24  -  !•'a a the cuff Ton got green tea. Snowskin. Dried scallop. Dorian in flowery perfumed snowskin. Newfangled mooncakes may be a cnlinary challenge, but what's wrong with good old-fashioned tradition? jaime ee I WISH I was a child again. It always happens around this
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      • 631 24 AFTER a career which included six years with Swedish furniture giant, Ikea, Gunilla Brorstrom stopped work in 1996, when she had her first baby. Two years later, she felt the need to get back to work and opted to be a home-based
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      • 547 24 WHEN Christine Chen decided to start a home-based business selling dinosaurthemed educational toys and products, many people thought it was a strange concept. But Ms Chen was convinced that there was a market for the merchandise and registered Totally Dinosaurs in October 2000.
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      • 604 24 CHEN Man Lee had always had a thing for art. For several years, she was a pro-ducer-presenter for an arts radio channel, before leaving to help manage an art gallery. In 1991, she stopped work to start a family. But in 1998, she started
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      • 754 24 AS a secondary school student, Dora Yaw "failed miserably" in her home economics sewing lessons. "I dichmeally enjoy it at that remembers. "I just knew that whatever my grandmother sewed for me was different from what we learnt in school." So, it's funny that the mother
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      • 602 25  -  Sharon Leece's book offers insights into the contemporary Chinese look, reports oeoitbeyed GEOFFREY EU THE successful blending of classic Chinese elements with contemporary interiors to create a unique modern aesthetic China Style has, in its current incarnation, been growing in popularity and influence on a global
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      • 818 26  -  Nick Hornby's latest book impresses ui-hoom with his sensitive insight into human relationships CHEAH UI-HOOH How to be Good By Nick Hornby Published by Viking 244 pages, $31.67 HAS Nick Hornby the guy who popularised football to non-footballers gone "spiritual"? One imagines that
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      • 561 27  -  'Original Sin' is a visual treat with its lavish settings, bnt the plot twists and turns itself into a sad tangle By. Parvathi Nayar IT'S a sin that a movie that looks this good, views so bad. Based on the noir novel Waltz Into
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      • 691 27  -  The exciting race scenes in 'The Fast And The Furious' are not enongh to salvage this car wreck of a movie By\ Geoffrey Eu NOT only is The Fast And The Furious the clear front-runner for soap opera title of the year,
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        1394 27  -  By Susan Tsang AS we brace ourselves for the dull month of October, when the school exams put our screens into limbo, we can comfort ourselves with America s Sweethearts, which previews this weekend. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Julia Roberts aren't exactly funny, but they look great, as does
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      • 924 28  -  Peter Carl Faberge who spawned the famous Russian 'Imperial Easter Eggs' and created a luxury goods empire rivalling that of Cartier and Tiffany's had an opulent style, at once controlled yet perfectly designed. PARVATHI NAYAR reports PARVATHI NAYAR IT is true that some corporate collections are a dollar-and-sense
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      • 1006 28  -  The Christie's and Sotheby's auctions will face a test in these troubled times Reports by Parvathi Nayar ECONOMIC times were bad anyway in our interconnected global village; the US tragedy sent further ripples through the world of art too. Many New York-based auctions had to be
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      • 641 28 It's being auctioned in Christie's antnmn sales FOR the first time, ever, Christie's Autumn sales are being held as two separate auctions, one of which is devoted to the Leo Haks collection of Pre-War Balinese Modernists. It's a collection put together with love and scholarship, but
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      • 447 29  -  Ever wished you had a pro lead you by the hand into the perfect grip? VEW SREENIVASAM finds a gadget that does just that VEN SREENIVASAN FAULTY grip can be the stacle to improving your Hi game. Besides losing distance, a poor grip causes
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        1140 30  -  Food is only half of the magic formula at Tung Lok's most adventurous effort jadke ee finds out what's the other half JAIME EE Check this out: March 1999, Paris. A group of French nationals of Asian or mixed Asian descent create Asian, an achingly hip bar and
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      • 477 30  -  Wholesome additions prepared with vegetarians in "iinH By 1 Cheah Ui-Hoon PREPARED the right way and with the best of ingredients. North Indian food can be healthy and not loaded with as many calories as one thinks, as the chefs at Rang Mahal demonstrate.
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    • 272 31 Reuters SRr THE Baltic Dry Index KBDI) fell eight points to 963, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost 12 points to 961, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) dropped 45 points to 7,428 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down seven points to 1,162. TmE-CSARTEK: ♦Grand Trader (built
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    • 708 31  -  IMO aiming to reduce human error in shipping related accidents By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] In his annual World Maritime Day message, the head of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) said seafarers are a vital component of globalisation, something which must be made
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    • 447 31  -  Purchase of vessel for sail under Cruise Ferries name By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Setting its sights on the mainland China market, Star Cruises has created a new brand and purchased a nine-deck, 250-cabin vessel to sail under it. Representing
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    • 350 31  -  Korean carrier gears up for more business with China's WTO entry By 1 P T Bangsberg SOUTH Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine is broadening its presence in China, in anticipation of a boost to business following its entry into the World Trade Organisation, expected in
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      • 667 32  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By\ Selva Kumar Tl HE English Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by its Admiralty Court to award a terminal operator the resale value of a damaged crane rather than the much higher cost of replacing the
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      • 82 32 AP [ATLANTIC OCEAN] A boarding party from the Coast Guard Cutter Diligence returns after conducting a two-hour search of the Saudi flagged tanker NCCMekka off the coast of North Carolina. The role of the Coast Guard has changed dramatically after the terrorist
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      • 478 42 Philippine Airlines, Air Philippines, Cebn Air want to charge passengers on intl flights US$6 more Bloomberg, Dow Jones [MANlLA] Philippine air carriers have asked the government for permission to charge passengers US$6 more on each leg of international flights to make up
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      • 429 42 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Hong Kong's dominant carrier, told employees it may be forced to reduce staff, cut salaries and defer investments as demand slows faster than earlier expected. The airline's chief executive David Turnbull said in a
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      • 433 42 It is seeking USs3b of govt aid to boost security as ridership rises after attacks Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Amtrak is requiring passengers to show picture identification when buying tickets or checking baggage as the railroad tightens security in response to the
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      • 675 42 AVIATION HI CRISIS AFP [CHICAGO] Aerospace giant Boeing said that it was looking at equipping aircraft with onboard surveillance systems and remote navigation systems in the wake of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The commercial aircraft maker said
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      • 427 42 Potential in space and communications business: chairman Reuters [CHICAGO] Boeing Co chairman and chief executive Phil Condit said the aerospace giant, looking for ways to grow amid a downturn in commercial jetliner production, sees areas of growth outside its six current business units.
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