The Business Times, 10 October 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 107/03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORB- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2001 85C
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  • 79 1 Dsn U8&56 (+33.55) □BT-SRI 58&30 (+4.55) □ST INDEX FUTUBES UBOOO (+27.00) smsci FDTUBES ***** (+2.70) STOCK MARKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSE COMP 609.66 +9.89 NIKKEI 225 10.011.77 -194.10 HANG SENG 10J58.93_+391.10 SET INDEX 286.60 +9.32 JAKARTA COMP 369.80 +172 MANILA COMP __1.033.19 -15.48 TAIPEI WPI 3,618.93 +98.58 SEOUL
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  • 77 1 FOREX RATES l'S$ s* I'SS (SS per USS) 1.799 £(USS/SS per 1.474 1650 El"RO(USS/SS/E) 0.921 1.657 DM 2.123 1.180 YEN 120.1 66.80 R.M 3.800 1113 HKS 7.799 4.337 BAHT 44.82 2452 RIPIAH 10.110 5,621 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.275 Kl ALAIi MPTR 7.67 JAKARTA ...:19.00 BANGKOK .9.50 MANILA 11.00 HONGKONG
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  • 496 1  -  B I i ii" ii i M Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The income tax authorities will soon take action against three of the former directors of Raffles Town Club (RTC) over loans of about $65 million extended to them by the
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  • 707 1  -  Q4 numbers expected to be even worse, as fallont from Sept 11 attacks on the US kicks in By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Singapore's economy may have shrunk by as much as 6 per cent in the third quarter and fourth-quarter performance is expected
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  • 1292 1  -  Frrmt Catherine Ong in Aetc York THOMAS Anderson poohpoohs the idea of buying the hottest-selling item in America today a gas mask. "No, man. I say my prayers. When my time comes. I will go." the chatty Afro-American cab-driver declared. "I get the feeling
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  • 110 1 Reuters. [NEW YORK] WaU Street managed to recoup some of its early losses yesterday morning, but was stUl lower by midday as investors braced for the worst corporate earnings quarter in a decade and the possibUity of fresh attacks on the US. "You're going
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  • 214 1 Bloomberg Reuters A VIRGINIA man who was tested for a possible anthrax infection does not have the deadly bacterial disease that two people in Florida have been exposed to in recent days, a doctor at the hospital where he was treated said. "Right
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    • 552 1 INSIDE Exec Money Financial planning: The one murky area where client interests and sales targets clash. Pg 22 Top stories Further S$ slide fuels talk of MAS shift to weak bias. Pg 2 Air NZ president and chief executive Gary Toomey resigns. Pg 8 COE premiums fall on poor demand
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    • 10 1 USS holds strong in face of Afghan strikes. Pg 2
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    • 94 1 —mm\ AMERICA STRIKES; More reports tftaffltijlHk mm USS holds steady after Pg Travel agents prepare for tough times, Pg 2 Just deserts.for airline, V tourism industries, Pg 14 US attacks for 3rd day; 4 UN staff killed, Pg 3 Asian markets stage rebound, Pg 4 Bush appoints cyber-security adviser, Pg
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  • AMERICA strikes
    • 916 2  -  BTiaUIILI.UJ Some firms have introduced variable wage component Hi! Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Layoffs. Paycuts. More and more travel agents are bracing themselves for the day when they need to utter those dreaded words to staff. Already, Ambassador Tours Travel has collapsed under a pile
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    • 824 2  -  BT CURRENCIES larry wee [SINGAPORE] The US dollar has emerged relatively unscathed so far after initial retaliatory strikes against Afghan targets, and even jumped to a threemonth high of 551.8025 yesterday but we remain biased towards capital preservation in this period of uncertainty. Despite a
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    • 428 2  -  ryr pypvi nvOTMHMMM Siow Li Sen (SINGAPORE] The continued fall of the Singapore dollar yesterday fuelled talk that the Monetary Authority of Singapore may shift to a weak bias from the present neutral stance as the economy slips into
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    • 386 2  -  Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Singapore's key three-month interbank interest rate on the slide since August has fallen to 1.31 per cent. Putting pressure on the rate has been the continued easing of global interest rates. The money market where banks lend their surplus
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 179 2 HERE'S a selection of winners from the annual Ig Nobel Prize, an award given to people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced". The prizes were handed out last Thursday. Oct 4, at Harvard University. Economics: Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk. of the University of
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      • 68 2 VJ TIMES has just sent us a copy of their their latest release "Megabest Jokes: Business". Here's a sample: Q. If you see a consultant on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him? A. It might be your bicycle. Those who don't get it should
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    • 817 3 Northern Alliance claims 40 Taliban commanders with 1,200 men defected AFP, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires [KABUL/WASHINGTON] US planes and missiles pounded Afghan targets for a third day yesterday during the day and night. An early wave killed four civilians working for
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    • LATE Briefs
      • 58 3 [NEW DELHI] The Director General of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Mahmud Ahmed was replaced after FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999, Pakistan's leading English-language
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      • 35 3 AFP [LONDON] Prime Minister Tony Blair, who ordered British forces into action in Afghanistan, "has become a legitimate target" for Muslims, the A 1 Muhajiroum fundamentalist group said yesterday. AFP
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      • 41 3 AP [KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia] As investigations continued into the explosion that killed one American and another expatriate, a top official would not rule out a link between the bombing and the Sept 11 attacks. —AP
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      • 46 3 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian police fired warning shots, teargas and water cannon to try to disperse 400 Muslim protesters near the US embassy in Jakarta yesterday. None of the protesters, demonstrating over US-led strikes against Afghanistan, appeared to be injured. Reuters
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      • 86 3 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Officials from Malaysia's powerful Islamic fundamentalist opposition party yesterday asked the United Nations to declare the United States a terrorist state for attacking Afghanistan. Members of the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party delivered a letter to the UN Office in Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 681 4  -  Rise helped by stable Wall Street close; Tokyo bncks trend with 1.9% fall Hi Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Asian stock markets rebounded yesterday as investors took heart from a relatively stable overnight close on Wall Street. But sentiment remained cautious after a
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    • 536 4 US govt confirms USSIOm funding for war against on-line terrorism LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush yesterday appointed a special adviser for cyberspace security as the government confirmed it will spend US$lO million to launch a newly intensive war against cyber-terror-ism. Mr Bush named Richard
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    • 640 4 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Larry Silverstein, who acquired the lease to operate the World Trade Center in July, is seeking US$7.2 billion from insurers for the destruction of the building double the amount insurers say he can claim. The two hijacked airliners that slammed into the
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    • 743 4 AFP. Reuters [WASHINGTON) Hundreds of millions of dollars of suspect funds have been blocked during investigations of terrorist financing, a senior US official said on Monday. "The total across the world already reaches several hundred millions dollars." said White House national security adviser
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    • 682 5 Two forces are divergent: uncertainty gripping the nation and government stimulus NYT, Reuters Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Given the nature of this new conflict with terrorism, the US economy is not likely to be revived by the developments that fuelled previous wartime booms, like surging orders
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    • 739 6 Strategy combines air strikes, commando raids and attacks by Afghans LAT-WP. NYT Reuters [WASHINGTON] When the US bombing campaign in Afghanistan starts to wind down at the end of this week, the Pentagon plans to begin the next phase of
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    • 175 6 AFP [WASHINGTON] US authorities have arrested or detained 614 people in connection with the Sept 11 terrorist strikes on the United States, Attor-ney-General John Ashcroft said on Monday. "We have arrested and detained 614 persons and we continue to look for 229." he said
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    • 465 6 AFP, LAT-WP, Reuters (WASHINGTON) The head of the Taliban airforce has reportedly been killed during the second night of allied air raids on Afghanistan, but the attacks resulted in civilian fatalities too. Air attacks caused "significant damage" to terrorist
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    • 703 7 But debate rages over how to handle hazardous debris Reuters [NEW YORK] While much of New York may be uniting in the wake of the Sept 11 air attacks, catastrophe specialists and janitors are engaged in a fierce battle for contracts to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 547 8  -  He will be replaced by govt-appointed director Roger France Beth Jinks AIR New Zealand's president and chief executive Gary Toomey resigned yesterday, the latest casualty of the collapse of the airline's Australian subsidiary, Ansett. A statement released by Air NZ said the resignation decision was mutually
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    • 395 8  -  Sources say their opponents may get more support for today's meet Ky Serena Ng INNO-PACIFIC Holdings' extraordinary general meeting today is expected to be a lost cause for ousted directors seeking to regain their board seats. But the meeting is only part
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    • 531 8  -  "u Kalpana Rashiwala CAPITALAND is going full steam ahead with plans to launch an initial public offering of over $500 million in units for the maiden Singapore Property Trust (SPT) early next month notwithstanding the US and British bombing raids on Afghanistan. Despite concern
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    • 640 9  -  lee han shih NAME a listed investment company that has been masquerading as a property company. The answer is easy: First Capital Corporation (FCC). A medium-sized player, FCC has a more chequered history than most. Formerly called Sealion, it was
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    • 289 9  -  61% stake comes nnder KepFels in move to raise profile Ky Conrad Raj KEPPEL Corporation is transferring its entire 61 per cent stake in Keppel Hitachi Zosen (KHZ) to Keppel Fels Ltd the rig-building and repair arm of Keppel Fels Energy and Infrastructure (KFEI) as part
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    • 121 9 FOLLOWING the spate of mergers involving Singaporelisted companies in the past few months, two changes wiU be made to the component stocks of the Straits Times In dex tomorrow. Omni Industries, which has been taken over by Canada's Celestica, will be delisted on
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    • 392 12  -  Chartered, Stats up 6%; analysts say Sept figures may be misleading Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S semiconductor stocks yesterday outperformed the wider market, as higher month-on-month September sales by Taiwanese chipmakers made investors hopeful of a sector rebound. But an- alysts remain sceptical about the
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    • 394 12  -  Share bnybacks using net cash seen as adding value By Andrea Tan BUY cash that's the advice of SG Securities in the current low-growth period. But it has to be cash that's being put to work. In his latest report "No growth, buy cash
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    • 342 12  -  Fronr Al Labita in Manila THE Philippines is eyeing a $300 million bond float in Singapore as part of a buffer fund in case the US-led war against terrorists triggers a liquidity squeeze. Proposed by three foreign investment houses, the sovereign
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    • 252 12 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Optus, the Australian unit of Singapore Telecommunications and the nation's second largest phone company, may fire 850 people to cut costs, said a communications union spokesman. Sydney-based Optus had called meetings of its Sydney and Melbourne employees
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 67 12 DATACRAFT (Hong Kong) and American International Underwriters (AIU) have formed a partnership to provide risk-management solutions for e-businesses in the Chinese territory. Under the deal said to be the first in the Asia-Pacific region to combine Internet-specific insurance coverage with network security services AIU
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      • 99 12 AFX MEIBAN Group says its Malaysian subsidiary Meiban Plastics has agreed to buy a 100,000 sq ft property in Johor Baru for RM6 million (Ss2.B million) from another Malaysian firm, Crescendo Development. A RM600.000 deposit was paid on the signing of the sale-and-purchase
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      • 91 12 Reuters SINGAPORE Exchange Ltd's move to double the maximum clearing fee to $200 for securities trades above $200,000 from Dec 1 is seen boosting its earnings per share (EPS) 3-5 per cent in the next two years. "Our adjusted earnings suggest a lower
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  • FINANCE
    • 275 8  -  ST Index/MSCI STpore Index K C Sum Refco (Singapore) SINGAPORE shares closed higher yesterday as Singapore Technologies Engineering paced gains after the state-controlled defence equipment maker said earnings this year will improve. The benchmark Straits Times Index closed at 1,382.56 points, up 33.55 points or
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    • 223 8  -  MSCI Taiwan Index Daniel Wong Refco (Singapore) TAIWAN stocks yesterdayposted their biggest gains in two weeks as chipmakers tracked gains in their US counterparts. The MSCI Taiwan Stock Index climbed 5.14 points or 3.17 per cent to close at 167.27 points. Turnover totalled 714.61
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    • 213 8 Reuters London THE dollar was steady yesterday as expectations that Wall Street would hold its nerve, after a second night of US-led military strikes on Afghanistan. eased recent selling pressure. US stock futures indicated a steady to firm opening later last night. Wall Street's muted reaction on Monday
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 438 13  -  Call for an SME Bank and, where feasible, a use 'Made in S'pore' policy By Anna Teo THE Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI) has called for "drastic action" to help local businesses ride out the economic slump. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs),
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    • 537 13  -  By" Christopher Tan WEAK demand following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks on the US sent COE premiums lower in the latest auction. This was despite the sooner-than-expected implementation of open bidding for the mainstream categories that halved the quota for the
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    • 318 13  -  MAiLran Raymond Chow Vice-President Head of Corporate Communications Singapore Exchange I REFER to your Hock Lock Siew column, "It's time to scrap buying-in", by R Sivanithy (BT, Oct 2). The column argued that local market needs "would actually be better served by bringing back the 'cash
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    • 450 13  -  Overall forex volumes lower, but more S$ derivative activity By Larry Wee SINGAPORE has maintained its position as one of the top four centres in global foreign exchange trading since 1992 after the UK. US and Japan although total volumes traded
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    • 297 13  -  By Teh Hooi Ling THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is reviewing SingTel's controversial move to offer 50 per cent discount for all outgoing and incoming calls within Sing Tel Mobile's networks. IDA, which regulates the telecom industry. will make a final
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    • 225 13 POWER Supply yesterday announced a much-welcomed reduction in electricity tariffs for all customers from next month. Prices for low-tension (LT) supplies to both domestic and non-domestic customers will be cut by 4.4 per cent to 16.46 cents/kWh. Rates for high-tension (HT) supplies during peak hours,
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  • 3671 13 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.702 0.738 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.116 1.150 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.838 0.881 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0 856 0 900 Global MNC Fd 0 605 0 636 Global Technology Fd!** 0.435 0 458 Indonesia Equity
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 898 14  -  THEHHB KSOB OPINION prem shankar jha The writer, based in New Delhi and former editor of The Hindustan Times, contributed this article to BT THE Vajpayee government is in serious trouble, not because it has done something its supporters do not like, but because
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    • 54 14 It's like a must-have ornament. You keep buying a new model to keep up with the trend. The phones are getting lighter, smaller and prettier, with new features like a bigger colour screen.' Kim Kyong-sim a Korean university student, on wireless technology being deployed by South Korea's
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    • 635 14 EDITORIAL UNLESS the Bank of Japan gives a clear signal this week that it is prepared to adopt more radical actions —to pull the Japanese economy out of its dangerous slide into deflation and recession the central bank might end up forfeiting at least
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    • 1063 14  -  They have allowed themselves to become mass-prodnction industries rather than basic service providers By Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent WHAT a pitiable state the world airline industry is in, with Swissair grounded and a host of other nearbankrupt airline companies
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    • 605 14 COMMENTARY As the US fights the Taliban, it most respect Musharraf s fragile position Editorial in The New York Times THOUGH Afghanistan has become the first battleground in America's war against terrorism. Pakistan could well be the political epicentre of this unfolding conflict. The United States
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 641 16 SINGAPORE Growth forecasts cut back as impact hits region Reuters. Bloomberg AFX BARELY a month after the events of Sept 11, evidence is emerging of just how much that tragedy has hurt economies in the Asia-Pacific region. While it is still far too
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    • 487 16  -  Analysts expect limited impact from fiscal stimulus From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is expected to unveil today a package of fiscal measures to ease the pain of the current downturn, but analysts have already pointed
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    • 360 16 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SHARES of Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB). its broadcaster and publisher units fell sharply yesterday after unveiling a complex debt revamp plan that disappointed market expectations. MRCB owns 49 per cent of TV3, the country's oldest private television station, and
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    • NOTE Book
      • 100 16 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] The Lion group, owner of Malaysia's biggest publicly traded steelmaker, is revising its plan to sell assets and bonds to help repay RMB.6 billion (SS4.I billion) of debt as the economy slows. The revamp, Malaysia's biggest corporate make-over in five years, is
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      • 106 16 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] A Malaysian court has struck out a petition to shut down Tan Chong Consolidated Sdn Bhd, which controls the Tan Chong family's auto empire, a decision that will lay to rest market expectations of shareholder changes. "There is nothing in the
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      • 72 16 Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] Members of the Institute of Securities Dealers unanimously rejected a proposal to extend stock market trading hours into the evening, the iMail reports. Instead, the organisation suggested that the trading hours be changed to 9.30am-lpm and 2pm-spm to match
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      • 74 16 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian state development and investment agency Johor Corp said yesterday it hopes to unveil plans to restructure debts totalling RM7 billion (553.3 billion) by the end of the year. "Johor Corp's restructuring programme has not yet been approved by the Finance Minister
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      • 109 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] A close ally of jailed Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim announced yesterday he would quit a key opposition party post, striking another blow to the struggling opposition coalition. Chandra Muzaffar said he would not run again as deputy president of the National
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    • 630 17  -  But BO J stays defiant against political pressure From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hinted yesterday that he may be planning to use renewed concerns about the health of the global economy, caused by strikes on targets in Afghanistan. as
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      • 38 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/Shell Group said it would become the largest US gasoline retailer through a US$3.B billion agreement to buy Texaco Inc out of two oil refining joint ventures. Bloomberg
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      • 27 17 AFX [TOKYO] Sony Computer Entertainment will take an 18.60 per cent stake in independent software developer Square Co Ltd. AFX
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      • 99 17 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Three physicists who "made atoms sing" won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for freezing matter into a new state that may help make microscopic computers and revolutionise aircraft guidance. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of the US and Germany's Wolfgang Ketterle
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      • 35 17 Reuters [PALO ALTO] Sun Microsystems will slash the price of its Web server software by 37 per cent in a bid to win market share from Microsoft's platform. Reuters
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    • 236 17 LONDON Reuters GLOBAL index compiler Morgan Stanley Capital International is unlikely to shock when it unveils changes to its widely tracked indices this morning but some surprises could be in store. MSCI will announce the final shape of its standard indices to reflect a
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    • 411 18 ZURICH Parent Credit Suisse reports Q3 loss of 300 m Swiss francs Reuters. Bloomberg INVESTMENT bank Credit Suisse First Boston will chop 2,000 jobs to cut costs after poor market conditions drove parent Credit Suisse Group to a third-quarter loss of around 300 million Swiss
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
      • 102 19 THE US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating about 248,638 Nissan Altimas made between 1994 and 1995 after 75 people said they were hurt by the force of a deploying air bag. Most of the injured passengers said they were wearing seat-belts. Dierdre
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      • 143 19 FIRESTONE, the US arm of Japan's Bridgestone, has succumbed to pressure from US safety regulators and agreed to a further recall of the type of tyres linked to hundreds of traffic accidents in the US. The company will recall varieties of Wilderness tyres made
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      • 135 19 THE European Commission is expected to fine the German-US car-maker DaimlerChrysler about 70 million euros (Ssl 15.8 million) one of the largest penalties levied by the regulator for breaching European Union competition laws. The Financial Times said the fine follows a five-year investigation into
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      • 104 19 NISSAN, 36.8 per cent owned by Renault, will acquire the transmission operations of rival Mitsubishi Motors Corp (MMC). In return. MMC will take a 20 per cent stake in the merged transmission company. The move will create the world's largest transmission company, with an
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      • 56 19 GENERAL Motors and Toyota Motor have agreed to conduct a feasibility study of telematics services in the Japanese market. Under the eight-month pact, the two companies will explore collaborative opportunities in telematics services in the Japanese market based on the business scheme for Toyota's
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      • 76 19  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan DELPHI Automotive Systems has launched an after-market product division to target Asia's vehicle and consumer electronics markets. It will offer Delphi products such as brakes, brake fluid, brake test equipment, spark plugs, spark plug cables, lubricants, batteries and shock absorbers. To mark
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    • 267 19  -  There's a quota shortfall due to more vehicle deregistrations All reports by Christopher Tan THE government is likely to issue more COEs in the coming weeks, apparently to make up for a shortfall in this year's replacement provision. In other words, the quotas do
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    • 236 19 A MASSIVE car centre will open soon in Turf City, at the former Bukit Timah Turf Club site, which will rival established motor hubs in Kampung Übi and Leng Kee Road. Lead-managed by a consortium of motor traders including BMW
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    • 432 19 But this is unlikely to drive premiums mnch higher NEXT year's COE supply could be marginally lower than this year's quota, but that's unlikely to alter the overall influence the economy has had on premiums thus far. Based on the current formula, the quota
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    • 575 19  -  CARa.^rn:* Japanese marqne poised to take best-seller's spot for third straight year christopher tan ONE in every four cars sold this year has been a Nissan and the Japanese marque is set to secure the best seller's spot for the third consecutive year.
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  • FORMULA ONE
    • 600 20 Controlling stake could help it channel parts of car-racing series to its loss-making pay-TV station Reuters [FRANKFURT] GERMAN media group Kirch has raised its stake in Formula One holding company SLEC to a controlling 58.3 per cent share from 36.8 per cent previously. Kirch
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    • 351 20 Mateschitz plans to remake British F1 team into an all-American outfit Reuters [VIENNA] The driving force behind the Red Bull drink phenomenon, Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz, plans to take over British Formula One team Arrows and turn it into an American team with American drivers. Mr
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      • 144 20 THE designated chief executive of Volkswagen Ag has hinted that he is eager to see the German group become involved in Formula One racing. Germany's Stern magazine quoted Bernd Pischetsrieder as saying he's a 'big fan" of F-l. "Every one knows that I am
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      • 67 20 FORMULA One's governing body rejected speculation on Monday that this Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix was in doubt after the air strikes on Afghanistan. "Information circulating on the Internet suggesting that the Japanese Grand Prix is in doubt is completely untrue." the International Automobile Federation
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      • 136 20 BENETTON is hoping for a points-scoring finale to its Formula One story in Japan this weekend, according to Reuters. The season-ending race is the team's last under the name that brought it the 1995 constructors' championship. It will change its name to Renault next season.
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      • 83 20 GERMAN Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher has married girlfriend Cora Brinkmann in a private civil ceremony at home in Austria. Heiner Buchinger, the 26-year-old Williams driver's spokesman, confirmed to Reuters that the marriage had taken place last Friday at the couple's new home in Hallwang, outside Salzburg. The
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      • 84 20  -  Compiled by l Christopher Tan CANADIAN Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve has confirmed his engagement to girlfriend Elly Green. His official website (www.jv-world.com) said a representative from his management had confirmed that they were officially engaged, reported Reuters. The Canadian won the Formula One title in 1997
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    • 457 21  -  MAILPm Lim Say Boon Director, OCBC Investment Research THE debate stirred by BT's recent article "Fund management vs wealth management" in particular, the validity of the traditional "buy and hold" strategy and the performance of unit trusts highlights the lack of choices available
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    • 204 21  - Gone fishing —for small caps By Peter Brimelow WHERE'S the bottom to this ugly, terror-ridden market? We don't hazard a guess; that walk is too random. But we can offer a fairly persuasive plot of the rhythms of sector rotation. The chart (right) displays the performance of small-company stocks relative
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    • 1005 22  -  YOUR MONEY Who's to blame for poor performance? That's one murky area where client interests and sales targets clash genevieve cua AT a financial planning conference this week, someone in the audience stepped up to the microphone to ask a simple, confounding question: What should an
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    • 447 22  -  Genevieve Cua DIVERSIFICATION across asset classes does help to cushion some downside loss, as average returns of broad asset classes of unit trusts and insurance-linked funds generally show. Fixed income unit trusts, for instance, actually delivered an average 0.61 per cent return in the third quarter,
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 281 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) fell seven points to 893, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost six points to 890, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) dropped 33 points to 7,209 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down 13 points to 985. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Spartia (built 2000) 75,000
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    • 291 23 S6X '000 Oct 9 8 Vol CWT Distribution 0.52 -0.02 40 Chuan Hup 0.32 unch 1401 Cosco Investment 0.16 0.01 56 Freight Links 0.06 0.01 115 CB Holdings 0.36 unch 0 IMC Holdings-HK 5.60 unch 0 Jaya Holdings __0.15 unch 80 Keppel Corp 2.97 0.06 644 Keppel FELS
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    • 574 23 EU also urged to file trade complaint against Sonth Korean support for shipyards Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European shipbuilders appealed to European Union governments to resume subsidies and file an international trade complaint against South Korean public support for shipyards. Reinhard Lueken, secre-tary-general of the Committee
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    • 490 23  -  WFP wants more charter vessels to carry food to Afghanistan By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The United Nations is seeking funds to charter ships and support re-gion-wide logistics centres to move some 52,000 metric tonnes of food in its humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Responding
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    • 325 23  -  Beth Jinks (SINGAPORE) Communicating around the globe is set to become simpler after the launches of two world-first shipping telephone services designed for seafarers this week. The Crew Link system was launched on Monday by the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) offering seafarers a
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    • 691 23  -  STRAIT TALE By Seafarer THE International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is organising two weeks of action in support of its anti-open register campaign. Union activists will be checking open register vessels for ITF-ap-proved collective agreements in the Asia-Pacific region this week. Next week, a
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    • 216 23  -  Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The Tripartite Shippers Group concluded its eighth annual meeting recently with a declaration stating its preference for a free and open liner environment over one governed by regulation. The joint declaration was issued by the Tripartite Shippers Group made up of
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      • 1250 24 Passengers find different requirements for boarding depending on which airport they are using after the attacks NYT [AUSTIN. Texas] EVEN as airport security remains the tightest most travellers have ever seen, the type of checks that passengers must undergo can be as varied as the
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      • 218 33 October 10 Japan: Health and Sports Day Taiwan: National Day October 12 Argentina: Columbus Day Mexico: Columbus Day October 15 Brunei: Meraj October 22 New Zealand: Labour Day October 23 Thailand: Chulalongkorn Day October 25 Hongkong: Chung Yeung Festival Taiwan: Retrocession Day October 29 Ireland: Halloween Weekend October
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      • 836 33 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the mar ket Prices shown are based on averagesized stem. Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 538 34 But carriers will lose up to USs7b in 2001 as traffic drops and safety costs rise Reuters [HONG KONG] The International Air Transport Association (lata), the umbrella group for the world's airlines, said yesterday that the industry would bounce back within about
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      • 356 34 The airline will offer cut-price tickets in an attempt to lore customers back to crisis-hit flag carrier Swissair AFP [ZURICH] The beleaguered Swissair Group announced on Monday that it would cut 9,000 jobs, nearly 13 per cent of the workforce, after receiving a US$l
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      • 53 34 [SOCHI] Yulia Savich, wife of a steward of the Russian Sibir airlines TU-154 which exploded in mid-air on Thursday killing 78 people, throwing roses into the Black Sea, south-west of Sochi, on Monday. Relatives of the crew members sailed to the crash site to pay their
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      • 189 34 Bloomberg [BRISBANE] Richard Branson's Australian discount airline. Virgin Blue, has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc for advice on raising funds to expand its Australian routes. The carrier said it would retain Goldman Sachs and hire JBWere Ltd if it decides to sell shares
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      • 62 34 [MILAN] Rescue workers sifting through the remains of the wreckage at Milan's Linate Airport after a Scandinavian Airlines System MD-87 crashed into an airport hangar after colliding with a Cessna Citation in heavy fog, leaving 118 dead. Italians were outraged yesterday, saying that the disaster could
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      • 534 34 Capacity on routes to Japan, US, Britain may be reduced Reuters [WELLINGTON] National carrier Air New Zealand was likely to need to make further cuts to its schedules beyond the axing of 10 per cent of its flights if global air
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      • 174 34 AP [BANGKOK] A consortium led by Italian-Thai Development won a tender for the construction of Thailand's new international airport after submitting the lowest bid of 36.67 billion baht (Ssl.s billion), the Transport Ministry- said yesterday. The consortium, known as ITO Joint Venture, also consists
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