The Business Times, 29 October 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MiTA (P) 107^03/2001 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2001 85C
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  • 68 1 STOOL MAMffiT INDICES Week Chance ST1 1,411-26 +22.48 SMSa FCTOffi 174-60 +110 BT-SRI 593.02 +8S7 KLSECOMP ***** -161 NIKKEI 10,796.16__+26«17 HANG SENG 10,404.74—+67&90 SET INDEX 280.60 -4.12 JAKARTA COMP 187 St -9M MANILA COMP _1,***** -1612 TAIPEI WPI 4,***** -197J6 SEOUL COMP ***** +1117 SHENZHEN B 26L7I +1166
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  • 68 1 FP8EX BATES uss s$ USS (S$ per OSS) 1-828 £(USS/SS per 1.427 1606 EUBO(US$/SS/E) mi L580 DM 2.196 1200 YEN 1211 87 JO RM 1800 1078 HKS 7.799 4268 BAHT 4488 24» RUPIAH 10,260 5,612 FUME BATES SINGAPORE* 5J» KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 JAKARTA .39.09 HONGKONG 5.50 TAIPEI 6.92 TOKYO
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  • 796 1  -  SDP chief mast be defeated and denied entry to Parliament, PM Goh says By Chuang Peck Ming, David Boey [SINGAPORE] Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew last night slammed Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan as a "political gangster"
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  • 863 1  -  COMMENTARY Mr Goh makes clear the PAP is only prepared to lose seats to opposition candidates of good character and motivation By Anna Teo NO more than two. That's how many seats out of the 29 being contested Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong says
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  • 372 1  -  Bna'miL-u'jj Depressed market makes them attractive buys By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] Property developer NTUC Choice Homes, which has focused on massmarket residential projects, is said to be keen on buying into niche prime developments, given the low prices at the moment.
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  • 708 1  -  By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Safety, capital preservation, a flight to quality and more professional advice. That's what investors are looking for in the postSept 11 world, according to Clark Winter, chief global investment strategist of the Citigroup Private Bank. In
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    • 223 1 DBBPE BT Comment R Sivanithy: Trading-oriented activity may continue to dominate. Pg 6 Eddie Toh: PAS cloud over M'sian market recedes. Pg 10 Top Stories IE Boost for Asian financial systems on the cards. Pg 11 Opec moving towards output cuts. Pg 15 First Equity Enterprises missing USslosm and some
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    • 35 1 S'pore eqjoyed 4.3 average annual growth: BG Lee, Next Page Chee challenge* SM to account for loan to Indonesia, Pg 3 More reports, Pg2& 3 Tt US operstioas to 1. JJ^49rafomoaAiii M|^Hf but Pm 1
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    • 17 1 Centrepoint'a Lilyd&le: 28 units sold, Pg 7 Vlkram Khanna: Sept 11 will change economic thinking, Next Page
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    • 524 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] The Singapore economy has grown by 4.3 per cent on average in the past five years despite a very unstable environment "quite a creditable achievement", said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday, old former central
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    • 581 2  -  It's a creditable achievement over last five years in a tough environment By David Boey, Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] THE Singapore economy has grown by 4.3 per cent on average in the past five years despite a very unstable environment "quite a creditable
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    • 745 2  -  ECONOMICS vikram khanna ITS now become de rigueur to contrast the world pre-Sept 11 the date of the terrorist attacks in the United States with post-Sept 11 circumstances. The change is radical, almost a paradigm shift. Policymakers are thinking differently about national security and
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  • GENERAL election
    • 466 3  -  SDP chief may have to answer for the 'reckless' allegations: SM Lee By Serena Ng SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan apparently unaware that action is being considered against him for comments he made on the subject last night challenged Senior Minister Lee
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    • 481 3  -  Opposition helps to act as check on govt: SDA's Steve Chia By Eugene Low, Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPOREANS should be allowed to withdraw a portion of their CPF savings to tide them over the economic downturn, Worker's Party chief Low Thia
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    • 208 3 "This morning, he (Dr Chee) confronted the PM with a loudhailer, ran around all over the place, shouting 'Suharto 17 billion dollars!'. The man is mad! On one occasion, he said that 1.8 billion (dollars) was given personally to Suharto. We're going to check this because that's
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    • IN BRIEF
      • 63 3 DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last night singled out the four new Malay PAP candidates for praise. The Malay newcomers show two things, he said at the PAP rally in Tampines: that Singapore's meritocracy and equal-opportunity system works, and that able Malays
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      • 112 3 THE PAP has long been the butt of many a "Pay and Pay" joke. BG Lee Hsien Loong last night turned the line around. Noting that the opposition has been offering voters all sorts of "goodies", such as retrenchment pay for up to 18 months, without saying where
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      • 61 3 NATIONAL Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, who is leading the PAP's Tampines GRC team, showed his linguistic skills at the PAP rally last night. He started off addressing his constituents at some length in Hokkien, then switched to a few sentences in Hainanese, before wrapping up in Mandarin
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 614 4 Analysts cite KepL&nd and different cultures as obstacles to tie-np AFX A MERGER is the most desirable outcome of ongoing discussions between state-controlled conglomerates Keppel Corp and SembCorp Industries but such an undertaking may be difficult to achieve, analysts said. The market has
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    • 221 4  -  By Andrea Tan FOUR Overseas Union Bank executives have made it to the new 15-member senior executive team of the enlarged United Overseas Bank. Among the four in the team announced by UOB over the weekend is Gracy Choo,
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    • 456 5 Move comes as US slowdown hits passenger and cargo operations hard Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said on Saturday it was in talks with aircraft manufacturers to defer delivery of billions of dollars worth of new plane orders as part of a bid
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    • 462 5 It thinks strength of China market will outweigh poor investor sentiment Bloomberg CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore), which supplies 99 per cent of the jet fuel China imports, may increase a planned Singapore share sale, betting the strength of its market will outweigh poor
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    • 454 4 Pricq/vaTeßhousEQopers i About The Seminar As financial institutions and corporates become increasingly involved in debt capital market activities, there is a need for greater awareness of the risks that can arise from involvement in such activities, and the controls that may be employed to manage such risks. This seminar is
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    • 1213 4 <A> 0c A Registered Office: 3rd Floor. ABSA Towers East, 170 Main Street, Johannesburg, 2001 Al5 jA ABSA Bank Limited, Singapore Branch: 7 Temasek Boulevard #16-01 Suntec Tower One. Singapore *****7 CROUP LIMITED All amounts an In Rand million Balance Sheets Income Statements as at 31 March for the year
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      313 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 26 VALUE CLOSE ■TOMB 223.00 -6jOO TCAPJ -*****.00 +39.00 BT 10-day MA +22.00 PWSOIwto 458.44 +0.12 0GSC30 455.01 +0.21 OHIpllw 376.17 +0.38 S8 EpMM Bad 111.91 +3.65 SQEpriHMFh 1178.03 -0.66 IBTpJillPlM 352.75 -4.99 Wqfcpiwi 173.43 -1.33 SJMSCJ Futures 174.50 +0.60 Stocks Vokam SingTe) 15c 68,674.000 FuYuMfglOc
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    • 302 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan CREATIVE Technology shares surged last Friday on reports that the stock could be revalued upwards based on its stake in US graphic chipmaker Nvidia. The stock jumped by as much as 13 per cent to $11.50, before
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    • 712 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan JUST what does Wall Street see that the rest of the world doesn't? That is the question perplexing many market watchers as the key US market indicators continued to power northwards despite the increasingly grim economic numbers that are hitting the
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    • 570 6 But uncertainty over the rebound in US economy caps greenback's upside, say dealers AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies had a mixed reaction to last week's encouraging economic data from the United states, with the yen losing ground but other currencies showing a slight rise. Japanese
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  • 3487 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Alia LM Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.716 0.752 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.138 1.173 China Opportunities Fd!'* 0.855 0 899 ContEuroEqtyFd!** 0.925 0.972 Global MNCFd 0.634 0.667 Global Technology Fd!** 0.490 0.515 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.592 0.623 Japan EqtyFd!** 1.059 1.113 Malaysian
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    • 117 6 Market Notices Trek 2000 International will hold its EGM on Nov 8 at 11am, Conference Room, 30 Loyang Way, #07-13/14/15, Loyang Industrial Estate. Broadway Industrial Group will hold its EGM on Nov 8 at 4pm, 18 Enterprise Road, Jurong. Singapore Press Holdings will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 50 cents)
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 302 7  -  r\/r (vwmvmmhm By Andrea Tan INDICATORS are pointing towards a weak industrial output for October, JP Morgan said in a recent note. The US investment bank is also expecting a 6 per cent decline in GDP in Q4 over the previous
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    • 221 7  -  By Andrea Tan IN a launch keenly watched by all in the property market, Centrepoint Properties has sold 28 units at its Lilydale executive condominium in Yishun since Thursday. Priced at an average of $360 per square foot, the 318-unit Lilydale is the first
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    • 294 7  -  MAILIiTTH Vincent Tan Chee Kian Singapore I REFER to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's fears and concerns that there has not been any real baptism by fire in many electoral wards for the party's candidates. SM Lee is a great leader and thinks very
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    • 147 7  -  Alvena Tan Jin Ling Singapore I REFER to your article "SDP to unveil its economic blueprint" by Eugene Low (BT, Oct 23). Ridiculous plans! Yes, we do have money in the reserves but it should not be used to just help
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    • 557 7  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore THE question of the usefulness of an odd-lot board in a totally automated trading system has been raised sporadically in your columns, with SGX maintaining its usual stoic silence, and refusing to be drawn into a discussion that
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    • 26 7 fttTeTl Liarrhe Zaobao I Exclusive interview with I I Olivia Lum I I Hyflux Q*Abo I I raises Its oMHv I I mChina I |2g| I
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    • 1595 8 A INFORMATICS J HOLDINGS LTD HALF YEAR FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT The Board of Directors of Informatics Holdings Ltd is pleased to announce the Unaudited results for the period ended 30 September 2001:Group Company stoop srwo Latest Previous Latest Previous year to year to Change year to year to
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    • 1420 8 4& THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED 70 DES VOEUX ROAD, CENTRAL HONG KONG CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2000 Moo" 7 L<>SS ACC L NT F R E YEAR ENDED ?nnn iooo 2000 1999 HKSOOO HKSOOO HKSOOO HKSOOO ASSETS Interest income 10,*****1 9 *****2 Cash and short-term
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  • MAIL bag
    • 398 9  -  Wen Yixiang Singapore I REFER to the letter 'Advice led to a 12% loss" by Anne Goh (Mailbag, Oct 17). The writer's encounter is not unique. I feel there are some basic aspects of investment we all should consider carefully before making the decision to
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    • 388 9  -  Vasu Menon Chief editor finatiQ Bank of Singapore I REFER to the letter 'Advice' led to a 12% loss" by Anne Goh (Mailbag, Oct 17). The letter highlighted a number of interesting issues that need to be addressed. Ms Goh said she lost
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 773 10  -  KL STOCKS The ruling Barisan's deft handling of the Sept 11 aftermath helps it recover ground from PAS, and will likelv lead to a ffood mandate in thp npvt pWtinn eddie toh MALAYSIA'S political elite has never been returned to power on a nomination
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    • 482 10 JAKARTA AFP The shining hopes that surrounded Megawati Sukarnoputri's elevation to the presidency 100 days ago this Wednesday have dimmed as economic and legal reform moves stalled, analysts say. "When Abdurrahman Wahid (Ms Megawati's sacked predecessor) was removed from office, we were all
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    • 330 10 JAKARTA Anti-US sentiment keeping out foreign investment, she says AFP PRESIDENT Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday warned Indonesia could "become the Balkans of the eastern hemisphere" if her countrymen did not work harder at keeping their nation together, the state Antara news agency reported. Ms Megawati said that
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    • 255 10 TAIPEI Companies most set up HQ, have at least 500 staffi report AFP TAIWAN'S government is hoping to encourage inbound investment by offering a five-year tax break to any multinational company setting up its headquarters on the island, it was reported yesterday. Eligible
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    • 432 11  -  Some states prefer large agenda, others want to exclude new issues outside trade From Ravi Kanth in Geneva MEMBERS of the World Trade Organization from Asia yesterday said the final blueprint aimed at launching new trade negotiations at Doha next month is
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    • 818 11  -  Over-dependence on banh financing and weak bond markets led to crisis study From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo IN the coming months, Asian finance ministers and central bank governors will be subjected to a campaign aimed at developing and strengthening financial systems across
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    • 388 11 BEIJING Statistics bureau sees 43% still losing money by year-end AFP REVENUE growth at China's decrepit state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector has all but dried up this year, official figures show, throwing into question the efficacy of a three-year reform effort.
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    • NOTE Book
      • 96 11 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he wanted to revive Hopewell Holdings' railway project in Bangkok but added the state's share of the cost must be limited to under 10 billion baht (Ss4o6 million). "It is the government's plan to have the
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      • 72 11 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia said cm Friday it would seek more than US$5.3 billion in loans and grants from international donors next month, adding it would be unable to reduce its huge foreign debt burden in 2002. Chief economics minister Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti told reporters the government also
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      • 98 11 Reuters [BOMBAY] Lenders to a power plant in India majority owned by Enron Corp have called a meeting this week in London to discuss ways of reviving the beleaguered project, a banking source said. They will examine offers that two Indian companies have
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    • 3222 14 f HL Bank I (A limited liability company incorporated in Malaysia) I I *0 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS AFTER THE FINANCIAL YEAR Income stMemanta tor the IwH yaar anded X June 2001 I I Group TWg d AMb The Bank had. on 9 August 2001. announced the proposal lo dispose its 100%
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  • WORLD news
    • 624 14 WASHINGTON Economists also see no sign of when it might end AFX, Bloomberg US indicators due out this week are expected to show that the economy is in recession, with no sign as to when it might end, economists said. "The good
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    • 369 15 ABU DHABI Non-Opec member Oman also ready to cat production Reuters OPEC Gulf heavyweights Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have said the group stands ready to slash output, and has enlisted Oman as the first non-Opec recruit in the battle to shore up
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    • 943 15 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Oil prices pulled away from two-year lows but remained weak, as the market began to wonder whether Opec might agree to another output cutback next month. Dire predictions of price warfare and five-dollar oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met
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    • 377 17 NEW YORK News' move comes after GM fails to pick buyer; Echo Star sole bidder left Reuters RUPERT Murdoch's News Corp said it was withdrawing its proposal to take over satellite television company Hughes Electronics Corp, after Hughes parent,
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 58 17 Dow Jones Newswires [NEW YORK] About 160 Japanese companies are recalling over 1,500 products made from cow parts as a precaution against the spread of mad-cow disease, Kyodo News reported yesterday, citing a government survey. The move foUows the government's decision to tighten regulations on
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      • 51 17 Bloomberg [NORTHFTELD, Illinois] Kraft Foods Inc, which is integrating Nabisco Holdings into its business, is offering some US workers early retirement in efforts to eliminate I,ooojobs. About 1,400 workers are eligible for the voluntary plan, spokesman Michael Mudd said. The company has 117,000 workers
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      • 44 17 Bloomberg [STOCKHOLM] Electrolux AB has named Hans Straaberg chief executive and said it will cut 2,100 jobs after a 41 per cent drop in third-quarter profit. Mr Straaberg, 44, has been head of Electrolux's US vacuum cleaner business. Bloomberg
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    • 349 18 TOKYO Finance Minister looking at taxes of small to mid-sized firms AFP JAPAN is considering tax reforms to boost the economy as Tokyo's self-imposed fiscal discipline leaves little room for major pump priming, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said yesterday. "We cannot launch economic stimulus
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    • 310 18 WASHINGTON Reuters FEDERAL regulators continue to see companies engaging in "smoke-and-mirror" accounting tactics to boost earnings and stock prices, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission official. Despite a well-publicised crackdown on accounting fraud begun several years ago, the SEC "has recently noticed certain worrisome
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    • 209 18 NEW YORK Bloomberg THE Nasdaq Stock Market plans to raise the fees it charges for companies to list, in some cases tripling them, as the plunge in technology stocks curbs share sales. The second-largest US stock market generates most of its revenue by
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  • WAR on terrorism
    • 433 16 Several First Equity execs also vanished following attack on World Trade Center NYT [NEW YORK] When 2 World Trade Center collapsed after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, the employees of First Equity Enterprises all escaped from their 15th-floor offices. But a few weeks later
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    • Political front
      • 92 16 AFP [WASHINGTON] In a break with long-standing US foreign policy, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is contemplating clandestine missions aimed at killing specific individuals, according to a report yesterday in the Washington Post If true, the new policy would represent an about-face from a
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      • 89 16 AFP [BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan] At least 18 Pakistani Christians were massacred as they attended a church service here yesterday in what police believe may have been a terrorist attack in revenge for the US bombing of Afghanistan. Police said three gunmen entered the church just before the end
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      • 100 16 AFP [PESHAWAR, Pakistan] Thousands of Pakistani tribesmen armed with automatic weapons, swords and axes were camped on the Afghan border yesterday ready to join the Taliban while other militants blocked the "Silk Route" to China in protest at the US-led military campaign. A source told
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      • 83 16 AP [LONDON] A British television journalist said last Saturday that a US fighter jet mistakenly fired a missile into Afghan territory controlled by the Northern Alliance, reportedly killing a family and wounding as many as 20 other people. Jeff Meade of Sky News said
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      • 155 16 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has accused the US media of spewing propaganda and laying the groundwork to justify spreading America's war cm terrorism to Iraq. The Malaysian leader, quoted in yesterday's edition of the New Straits Times, cited American news reports
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    • 828 19  -  BTM'MIIUmj Cost considerations and the continuing downturn has forced the supply-chain services firm to shut down its US operations, the company's chairman Wong Toon King tells Jennifer lien in Silicon Valley JENNIFER LIEN IN March last year, supplychain services firm Advanced Manufacturing Online changed its
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    • 565 20  -  The crunch in corporate IT budgets has led many companies in the Asia-Pacific region to buy more low-cost Direct Attached Storage or Network Attached Storage, says a new IDC study ft, Raju Chellam DESPITE tight corporate budgets and weak business sentiment, the market
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    • 362 20  -  From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley LAST year, Silkroute Ventures, ECNet's parent company, was riding high. But since the dotcom crash, the company has been lying low. As a venture capitalist-cum-incubator, its portfolio of nine companies has now shrunk to five. The
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    • 977 20  -  Gary Winnick's fortune soared and plunged, but he still reaped USs6oom. His investors weren't so tacky By Robert Lenzner, Victoria Murphy BY betting on bandwidth, Gary Winnick, the chairman of Global Crossing, amassed a US$4.7 billion fortune at the speed of light. His fibre-optic stake has shrunk almost
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    • 583 20  -  The experience at USlnternetworking Xnc the industry's woes By Paul Chan A FEW years ago when ASPs (application service providers) started appearing, analysts hailed them as the next enterprise "killer app" (geek for a sure-fire hit). Now the "killer-app" is being killed. Many
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    • 224 20 AFP [WASHINGTON] Australianborn media mogul Rupert Murdoch late on Saturday withdrew his company's bid to purchase satellite television company Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV subsidiary. "We have no option but to withdraw immediately our fully negotiated and financed proposal," he said in
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    • 199 20 AP [NEW HAVEN, Connecticut] Francis John Anscombe, a mathematician who helped computerise statistical analyses while seeking to avoid flawed interpretations of such data, died on Oct 17 at his home in New Haven. He was 83. The cause was Alzheimer's disease, according to Yale University, where
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    • 366 21  -  Gartner sees industry growing at 30% compound annual rate in the next 3 years despite poor implementation By Tang Weng Fai Poor investment in user education and software failures are responsible for the disappointing track record in CRM (customer relationship management) implementation, according
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    • 852 21  -  Predicting what customers want and when is business' biggest problem By Chana R Schoenberger TAYLORMADE, an Adidas subsidiary, has three titanium drivers in its 300 Series, the most popular line with professional golfers. But the company doesn't know which US$499 club will score best with plain old
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    • 311 21 AP [TOKYO] It's not the fancy software package that's attracting computer buyers these days. Instead, as makers are learning, it's something decidedly low-tech: customer support. But in today's stagnant computer market, the problem for makers is providing better service with limited resources.
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    • 692 21  -  Most IT managers had bad experiences with heavy, Intensive software that are hard to nse with little or no visible return on investment sam lin The writer is CEO, Net Tasking Inc AFTER basking in economic expansion over the last several years, IT managers need
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    • 713 22  -  [LESSSSmM INFOTECH Both the process and the technology for Web-enabled services, universal access, e-servlces and other grand schemes have to evolve before users feel they have a standard they can trust tang weng fai The writer is a BT Correspondent. MICROSOFT'S grand scheme
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    • 410 22 Reuters [BEIJING] Gao Xiaoguang glowed with excitement after watching himself on the screen of the latest video-en-abled mobile phone, shown at China's top wireless fair over the weekend. "This is the first time I've ever seen this kind of thing!" said Mr Gao, 47,
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    • 255 22 LAT-WP [CALIFORNIA] The co-found-er of computer chip maker Intel Corp. Gordon Moore, and his new foundation have pledged US$6OO million to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), by far the largest donation ever given to a US college or university. The twin contributions,
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    • 647 23  -  Fears are rising that hacker-terrorists could take control of air, rail or banking systems Bui Anna Marie Stolley, John Hughes, Rip Watson Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] US companies and government agencies are evaluating their cyber-security over concerns that hackers and computer viruses will play a part in future
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    • IT TAKES
      • 55 23 SIEMENS Dematic Pte Ltd, which offers logistics and factory automation equipment, opened its Advanced Manufacturing Technology Lab in Singapore last week. The lab will see investments of $25 million over five years and will provide high-end turnkey manufacturing solutions to electronics manufacturers in the Asia-Pacific
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      • 48 23 SINGAPORE'S Nets (Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore) has tied up with SchlumbergerSema to provide comprehensive regional credit card processing services to financial institutions here. "Both companies will jointly market and provide Managed Card Services together with other value-added services," Nets said. For details, visit www.nets.com.sg.
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      • 47 23 SEAGATE Technology has set up its Consumer Electronics Testing and Engineering Centre (Cetec) at its Ang Mo Kio facility. The centre will help Seagate's customers in consumer electronics (CE) to integrate hard drives into new classes of consumer devices, the company said.
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      • 54 23 DELL Computer has launched the Dell Asia-Pacific Affiliates programme that allows businesses with an online presence to earn a one per cent commission on the sale of Dell products by driving traffic to Dell's home and small business websites across Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia.
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      • 36 23 GERMANY-BASED Software AG has appointed Singapore-based Genovate Solutions Pte Ltd as its first authorised XML Academy partner in Singapore. The XML Academy will be launched on Nov 5 at Genovate's training facilities.
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      • 52 23 US-BASED Mobile Way Inc, which provides global wireless data access, said it has raised US$27 million in its second round of funding. Mayfield and 3i lead this round with others, including Investcorp, Citigroup and Vertex Management. Mobile Way said it plans to expand into new geographies and
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      • 27 23 SWITZERLAND-BASED Stratus Technologies Inc, which provides server technologies, has appointed CSA Automated Pte Ltd as Stratus' master distributor in Singapore. For details, visit www.csah.com.
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      • 42 23  -  Compiled by Juliana Tay A CONFERENCE on "Winning with intelligence in an uncertain economy" will be held on Nov 8 at Hotel Intercontinental. It is organised by the Society of Competitive Intelligence. For details, fax *****22, or e-mail eventsCoscipsgp.org.
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    • 296 23  -  The linenp includes models which are designed for home as well as corporate use By Leo Kee Chye CANON Marketing Singapore has launched four new bubble jet printers, targeted at home to corporate users. S100SP: This $139 USB printer is targeted at home users,
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    • 438 24  -  The lineup includes two of the world's slimmest LCD monitors and three CRT displays with Light Frame 2 technology By Leo Kee Chye PHILIPS Electronics Singapore has unveiled two liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors, three standard cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors, and three multichannel
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      • 62 25 EPSON Singapore has unveiled Its Stylus CBO Inkjet printer, calling It the world's fastest business Inkjet. The $429 device prints up to 20 ppm in black text and up to 10.5 ppm in colour text It offers 2,880 by 720 dpi resolution, conies with four ink
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      • 55 25 NEC Singapore has launched its MultiSync VT4S projector, which it said "is bright enough for use in meeting rooms, classrooms and conference rooms, and light enough to be carried by mobile users". The $4,999 projector offers 1,000 lumens' brightness at SVGA resolution, and weighs 2.5
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      • 54 25 IPC Corp's subsidiary Austin Federation (S) Pte Ltd has launched Win Connect—a Remote Desktop Protocol client for the Linux operating system. The 195 software lets Linux-based computers, terminals and Internet appliances connect to a Windows Server to run Windows applications over a network or via the Internet.
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      • 165 25  -  i/oznpuea uy Leo Kee Chye HEWLETT-PACKARD has its introduced three new Pavilion home PCs with the new Windows XP: The 8962 costs $2,099, runs on a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, comes with a 17-inch monitor, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB hard disk and
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    • 511 25  -  It can't protect itself by sneaking on t product before conrt issues an iqjonction By Dina Bass Bloomberg [REDMOND, Washington] Microsoft Corp's Thursday release of Windows XP, its new operating system, doesn't mean the product will escape court-ordered changes as part of
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    • 298 25 AP [SALT LAKE CITY] Ideally, the computer system for the Winter Olympics will run flawlessly and unnoticed in February. The first test run last week was not ideal. When the system was turned on on Sunday, starting three days of simulated competition, one
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    • NET impact
      • 1052 26  -  BIIJ'MIIUWJ With $750 million left in its coffers, the National Library Board plans to have at least three more library premises and automate more of its services, its CEO Christopher Chia tells chua bdx mdv CHUA HUI MIN WHEN he was first handed a
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        • 48 26 US-BASED e-auctioneer eßay Inc has launched eßay Singapore to let individuals and small businesses trade goods and services locally. All items located in Singapore are grouped together in a dedicated area, featuring promotions with a Singaporean flavour. eßay said. For details, go to www.ebay.com.sg.
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        • 48 26 MAINBOARD-LISTED SNP Corp's subsidiary, myepb.com, has tied up with China's joyo,com, an online 1 VCD, DVD and CD retailer. This deal lets myepb.com's current retail database include an additional 5,500 audio-visual and other multimedia products from China, the company said. For details, visit www.myepb.com.
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        • 62 26 STARHUB Pte Ltd has tied up with UK-based Peramon Technology Ltd (which provides corporate mobile data solutions), to offer Star Hub's corporate customers Cast access to their e-mail and PIM (personal information management) via their GPRS-enabled phones or PDAs, through Peramon's theMOBILIZER solution. This service
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        • 45 26 BUZZCITY Pte Ltd, which provides wireless and Internet communications, has launched gßoom, a cross-operator SMS chat room application. Riding on its Gamma platform, gßoom users can chat with people and with Buzz City's AI chatbot, Sally. For details, visit http:/ /gamma, buzzcity.com.
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        • 43 26 US-BASED Worldspan, which offers global travel reservations, has tied up with Singapore-based Book-n-go.com Pte Ltd, to enable the Singapore firm and its partners to transact over the Net using Worklspan's online booking and transaction processing technology. For details, see www.book-n-go.com.
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        • 41 26 THE MasterCard Global Service Guide for PDAs is now available at www.mastercard.com.sg. It is an nniim* version of the MasterCard Global Service International emergency phone list for PDAs, including Palm OS ami Microsoft CE-powered pocket PC devices.
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        • 47 26 BUSINESSWEEK has tied up with Singapore-based Business to Business Broadcasting Pte Ltd (B2Bcast), which provides streaming media solutions, to webcast Business Week's Fifth Annual CEO Forum held in Hong Kong last week. It costs US$295 and is available at www.businessweek.com or www.bZbcastxom.
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        • 70 26 GSM phone users will exceed 630 million globally by this year-end, says the UK-based GSM Association. "The figures underline the global leadership of GSM and its family of evolutionary technologies—including GPRS, EDGE and 3GSM—developed through unprecedented international cooperation," the Association m "GSM is the system of
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        • 25 26 SAP Asia Pie Ltd has bandied mySAPCRM for customers m Asia. **lt goes beyond traditional CRM by to 1 *c6ismc business
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        • 73 26  -  Juliana Tay IBM Corp has launched its ne*» portal application— called IBM Web Sphere Portal—which comes in three solution packages. It provides a single point of interaction with applications, pi w rsmsand people to build B2E (business to employee), 828 and B3C portals, and supports both
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    • 291 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young VERY firm reports have been circulating that the handymax bulker Laut Wira (46,000/95) has been sold to Middle East buyers at around US$l2.6 million. The price itself looks very Arm for this type of vessel and is certainly higher than many buyers are
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    • 526 27  -  Booming local industry short of workers; ASMI chief answers critics By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Singapore's shiprepair and shipbuilding orderbooks have hit an all-time high of $5 billion, leading to an industry-wide labour shortage, according to the Association of Singapore Marine Industries (ASMI) president
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    • 192 27  -  Bui Alec Almazan THE Philippine crewing industry has raised concerns over the alarming number of legal claims being brought against local manning agencies and their principals. "From an average of 700 cases filed with the National Labour Relations Council in 1996, the number doubled
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    • 332 27  -  From Alec Almazan in Manila RISING pay rates of Philippine seafarers are threatening their competitiveness, a study made by the Filipino Association for Mariners Employment (FAME) indicated. The study entitled "State of the Philippine Seafaring Industry" noted that although the Department of
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    • 245 27 [SINGAPORE] Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line) has forged ahead with its Singapore-centred aframax operations, concluding an agreement with Taiyo Oil Co last Friday. K Line will transport the South-east Asian crude oil imported by Taiyo equivalent to about 30 voyages each year
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    • 907 28  -  LDVERSCEME -By David Hughes AFTER the frantic activity in the insurance market immediately after the Sept 11 terror attacks, there has now been a period of relative calm. Last week, a number of conferences were able to ease back the extra charges they
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      • 426 38 New planes will be phased in Jan to July; carrier has options on 60 more AFP [SYDNEY] Boeing has been favoured over its European rival Airbus to provide Qantas Airways with 15 new jets in a Asl.s billion (Ssl.4 billion) expansion
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      • 385 38 Union warns of a 'national day of action' if their demands are not met Reuters [ATLANTA] Charging that recent moves to tighten airline security have left cabin crews defenceless, a national flight attendants union has called on airlines to screen all checked baggage,
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      • 235 38 Bloomberg [ROME] Alitalia SpA, Italy's state- controlled airline, said passenger traffic declined 17 per cent last month as demand for North Atlantic travel fell in the wake of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US. The Rome-based company said in an e-mailed
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      • 279 38 US planemaker still hopes to play a role despite losing to Lockheed AFN, Reuters [SEATTLE] Boeing said it cannot rule out layoffs in the wake of the Pentagon's decision to award the multi-bil-lion dollar Joint Strike Fighter contract to
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      • 307 38 Bloomberg {ATLANTA] Delta Air Lines Inc and US Airways Group Inc said more than 12,000 workers offered to leave the companies, reducing the involuntary layoffs the carriers will need to make after the Sept 11 attacks reduced demand. More than 10,150 workers applied
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      • 284 38 Reuters [CANBERRA] The world's first test flight of a hypersonic "scramjet" engine, which scientists believe could one day allow people to fly at eight times the speed of sound, was delayed on Thursday for five days, project leaders said. Windy weather and last minute technical
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      • 236 38 AFX [BEIJING] China will allow foreign companies to take stakes in joint ventures in the railfreight market, offer build-operate-transfer contracts for railway construction, and separate the ownership and management of the railway system over the next five years. Citing a Ministry of Railways
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