The Business Times, 31 October 2001

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) imeamji Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2001 85C
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  • 726 1  -  Worse than expected fall sends Wall St into fnrther retreat in morning From Catherine Ong in New York CONSUMER confidence in the US dived to its lowest level in almost eight years, reflecting concerns over mounting layoffs and fear of bioterrorism after
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  • 720 1  -  More companies expect prospects to worsen with drop in profits and orders By Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Pessimism among firms here has deepened after sales, profits and orders plunged in the third quarter, the latest business activity survey by BT and the National University
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  • 803 1  -  SM Lee's lawyers will also send a similar letter: PM By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's lawyers last night served Singapore Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan a letter of demand for a formal apology and payment
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  • 494 1  -  HTHOWTOBBOOMOIfT By Eugene Low SUPPOSE the price of an item you want to buy has been fixed by law at a minimum of $2, but you are only willing to pay $1. What would you do? You could find
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    • 64 1 DMPB BT Comment Christopher Tan: Taking the wheel out of the deal. Motoring Pg 11 Top Stories Hong Leong makes $140 m revamp In Qftina foray. Pg 6 Far East emerges as sole bidder for Enggor St site. Pg 10 Ford boots out president, CEO Jacques Nasser. Pg24 I Conference
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    • 33 1 Only 7% cashed out part of New S'pore Shares, Pg2 The battle/or Jurong GRC, Pg 4. What they say, Pg 4 HOI It Si FINANUAI JOBS IN TOWN _Jp|/ <~9t Executive Money, 2H
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    • 574 2  -  But it will be mild, with many uncertainties, says Gail Fosler By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The US economy could start to recover by the first quarter of 2002 rather than during the second half of the year, as most economists
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 83 2 AS China still struggles with the Falungong, Time magazine has reported the emergence of a fast-spreading new cult Lightning. The unorthodox group is said to be alarming Christian communities across China, often winning converts by abducting them. Its followers believe that Jesus has returned as a
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      • 89 2 A PROPOSAL was put up in the Malaysian Parliament yesterday that election candidates pay higher deposits to weed out those who aren't serious. It was suggested that the deposit for state seats be raised from RM3.000 to RMIO.OOO (554,800), and that for federal seats be
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      • 80 2 AS chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden continues to elude his American pursuers, some sources are apparently beginning to credit him with superhuman powers. "The notion that we can find bin Laden's 'fortress of solitude' and that all 5,000 of his henchmen are going to be down
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      • 51 2 BT ran a poll online asking if banks in Singapore should be given more leeway in giving credit to their customers. The results are as follows: Yes, many rules are outdated: 66% No, it is better to be conservative during a recession: 31% I don't know:
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    • 660 2  -  This shows vast majority have confidence in PAP govt, he says Byl David Boey, Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] Only 7 per cent of those who received New Singapore Shares (NSS) have asked to partly cash out, and this
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    • 337 2 US Budget surplus shrinks, Pg 21 Chee said Pwlf wfcahart «t f—d c—tm h n ■gnjjjg "Ttoy wiUtake the money and go and lend It to Suharto, $17 tMon of their money. Where is the justice?" I "Mr GohlCome here MrGoh! I want to taflraflft you. Come here. are you
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  • GENERAL election
    • 397 4  -  THE BATTLE FOR JUROMG ORC No easy solutions; so don't get taken in by opposition's promises By Andrea Tan NEW PAP candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday asked voters to choose between two approaches to politics, and said the People's Action Party's way of solving problems is
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    • 524 4  -  Lee Boon Tang's daughter lends a hand at Jin Besar By Teh Hooi Ling MANPOWER Minister Lee Boon Yang made the rounds of HDB blocks in Jalan Besar GRC yesterday accompanied by one of his staunchest supporters his daughter. Ms Lee, 26,
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    • 332 4 "I have apologised to the prime minister, and however he interprets it... I wanted you all to know that it comes from my heart The last thing I wanted to do was to be disrespectful to the prime minister. Not because he is the prime minister, but
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    • 422 4  -  By Serena Ng SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan last night said he had withdrawn his allegations about Singapore's loan to Indonesia and apologised to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Reading out his letter to Mr Goh at a rally in Bukit Gombak, he
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    • IN Brief
      • 98 4 ERIC Low has a good chance of narrowing incumbent Low Thia Khiang* s share of votes in Hougang—reducing it to 51 per cent, from 58 per cent in 1997. And if the People's Action Party candidate works harder, he may even cause
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      • 119 4 AN unemployment rate of 3 per cent is still considered full employment by world standards, said Communications and Information Technology Minister Yeo Cheow Tong, who is leading the Hong Kah GRC PAP team. He said the Jobless rate hovers at 3 to 4 per cent, and
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      • 102 4 IT would have been a first in Singapore—an election rally at a private condominium. An earlier schedule of last night's rallies included a PAP meet at Evergreen Park Condominium at Hougang Avenue 7. Yesterday afternoon, a police statement said the event has been cancelled. When
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      • 100 4 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said he was just being honest and objective when he gave a positive assessment of Singapore Democratic Alliance candidate Steve Chia, but that does not mean he thinks Mr Chia is going to beat PAP incumbent Low
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    • 489 4  -  MAILHTST?! Cheng Shing Chow Singapore MUCH has been said about the influx of foreigners, how there must be a need for balance, a need for clarity and transparency in this "foreigner recruitment policy". Much will surely be said in the days leading up to Nov 3.
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 372 6  - Hong Leong Asia gets 140m injection of China assets Move will transform group into regional player with focus on Chinese market By Angela Tan KWEK-FAMILY controlled Hong Leong Corporation will inject its China manufacturing operations into locallylisted trade and industrial arm Hong Leong Asia (HLA) for $140 million to position
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    • 505 6  -  By Loh Hui Yin THE Keppel Group has clinched against stiff international competition a US$92 million contract to build three tugs for Delba Maritima, a Brazilian offshore vessel operator. The order was won by Fels Setal, the Brazilian shipyard in which the
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    • 510 6  -  HQCKll.lJitjlil.lM neil behrmann SINGAPORE'S stock market investors wanting to get another finger on the pulse of the world economy might want to look for clues in the global commodities markets. This year's slump in the prices of global metals and other industrial commodities has been
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    • 217 7  -  ItH pay USsl4.4m for stake in China ship repairer By Beth Jinks COSCO Investment (Singapore) Ltd has agreed to buy a 50 per cent stake in one of China's largest ship repairers, Nantong Ocean Ship Engineering Co (Nosec), for US$l4.4 million.
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 50 7 Reuters ASIA Food Properties (AFP) group has rescheduled an additional US$65 million of outstanding debts this month and is finalising details of a proposed repayment plan. Singapore-listed AFP said the group's debts, including those of its unit Golden Agri-Resources, comprised bank loans, bonds and trade facilities.—Reuters
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      • 69 7 CHINA-BASED ceramic tiles maker Eagle Brand Holdings said net profit for the six months ended July 31 fell 49 per cent to 58.3 million yuan (5512.8 million). Turnover fell 32 per cent to 394.7 million yuan. Eagle Brand said it expects current year performance
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      • 49 7 CSC Holdings has sold 11 per cent of Excel Precast to Santarli Construction for $191,000, cutting its stake in Excel to 40 per cent. CSC said the disposal will facilitate a more efficient deployment of resources for the growth of its core business.
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      • 66 7 RETAILER Courts (Singapore) yesterday announced the issue of $20 million floating rate notes due in 2004. The issue is managed by DBS Bank and the net proceeds will be used to refinance Courts' existing short-term bank loans. The notes will bear interest at 0.86
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    • 390 7  -  B* Andrea Tan LISTED service residence company Ascott Group yesterday warned that it could write down the value of some of its properties, cutting its full-year earnings and net asset value as a result. However, Ascott said the impact on the net
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    • 392 7  -  It will pay USs22J>m cash, issne 53.8 m shares at 25.5 c each By Donald Urquhart AIROCEAN Group has signed a deal to buy Hong Kong-based freight forwarding and logistics company Wice Holdings for US$3O million. The mainboard-listed company will
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    • 270 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED ECS Holdings yesterday announced that its Chinese arm, Pacific City International (PCI), has won the sole distributorships for selected IBM and Oracle products in China. PCI will distribute IBM's Pentium 4 personal computers and notebooks, and Oracle's range of database products
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    • 511 9 It will sell its mobile resale subscribers to Optus as part of major revamp Reuters [SYDNEY] Loss-making Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd said it would sell its mobile resale subscribers to Singapore Telecommunications Ltdowned Optus Ltd for As 43 million (5539.8 million) as
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    • 382 9  -  Only formalities left before USssoom deal finalised: sources From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta SINGAPORE Telecommunications could be just days away from clinching a deal with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) to purchase a 22.3 per cent stake in the latter's cellular phone subsidiary
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      329 8 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Oct 30 VALUE CLOSE BTOMDS -6.00 -182.00 BfCW -*****.00 -100.00 ■T10-4aylM -*****.00 -l.QQ 06S50lMkx 447.96 -3.46 0GBC30 444.42 -3.66 369.97 -2.30 106.60 -2.47 SCCqUhifh 1174.19 -5.83 348.57 -1.29 MSCITIifip" i 169.46 -1.08 SMSCI Fatarss 169.30 -2.20 Stocfc» Votmmm FuYuMffclOc— 7,922.000 SingTel 15c 6,692.000 SMRTlOc 5,726,000 Surface MT
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    • 652 8  -  STOCKS Analysts say many bellwether stocks are severely oversold, but advise Investors to wait for prices to fall further ven sreenivasan A PLUNGE on Wall Street triggered by a sell-off in technology shares, fears of poor third-quarter GDP numbers and a looming debt crisis
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    • 713 8  -  CURRENCIES larry wee AFTER rising to levels just short of several key upside objectives we proposed a week ago, the greenback has swung back to lose most of its recent gains versus majors like the pound, Swiss franc and, to a lesser extent, the euro. Instrumental
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  • 3294 8 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.724 0.761 Asian Fixed income Fd 1.140 1.175 China Opportunities Fd!" 0.856 0.900 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.922 0.969 Global MNCFd 0.641 0.674 Global Technology Fd!** 0.494 0.520 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.596 0.627 Japan Eqty Fd!**
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 207 10 A 60,000 sq m National Library along Victoria St will be the largest library in Singapore when it is completed in 2004, said the chairman of the National Library Board (NLB), Tan Chin Nam, yesterday. "It will be the people's library for
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    • 700 10  -  $211 psf offer is 16% less than top bid for bigger plot last year which was rejected By Kalpana Rashiwala THE last residential development site in the government's confirmed list for the next 14 months yesterday attracted just one bid at a
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    • 404 10  -  It hopes to hasten US review for 2 drop to treat anthrax By Ronnie Lim PHARMACEUTICAL giant GlaxoSmithKline's Jurong plant will help supply antibiotics to the United States to treat anthrax, once US federal approval is given for their use. Company officials
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    • 151 10 SINGAPORE Press Holdings Classifieds is launching seven new advertisement categories this Friday aimed at bud-get-conscious consumers and advertisers. The new sections are: cars for sale below $30k; cars for hire below $50 a day; private apartments/houses for rent below $1.2k a month;
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  • BT motoring
    • 410 11  -  BTIJ'UHUMU But industry sources say no farther developments so far By Christopher Tan THE police have completed investigating the COE hacking case, and have handed it over to the Attorney-Gener-al's Chambers, but industry observers noted that there have been no fresh developments
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
      • 77 11 BIDDING for the SDP series of car plate numbers is now on until 4 pm Friday. Like all previous exercises, the minimum bid for a number you fancy is $1,000. Bids must be made on forms and submitted in envelopes obtained
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      • 67 11 VOLKSWAGEN said yesterday its pre-tax profit rose 13.6 per cent in the first nine months of the year to 2.5 billion euros (Ss4.l billion) amid worsening conditions in the global vehicle market. The company added it still expects 2001 pre-tax profit to top that in
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      • 134 11 NISSAN Motor and Renault are set to announce plans to strengthen their alliance through a possible cross-shareholding deal. News reports said Nissan is poised to take a stake in its controlling shareholder, with the Financial Times reporting that the firm will buy more than 10
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      • 80 11 PORSCHE has established a long-term partnership with Finnish company Valmet Automotive, which has been producing Boxster vehicles for the German sports car maker since 1997. The original contract, due to run until 2004, includes a clause whereby Porsche has the option to extend the
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      • 58 11 THIRTY vintage cars from Singapore and Malaysia will take part in this year's Gold Cup Horse Power Rally, held in conjunction with the New Zealand Bloodstock Singapore Gold Cup. The rally will start outside the Mandarin Hotel on Nov 10 at 1.15 pm and
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      • 57 11 FROM tomorrow, private buses will be allowed to use bus lanes during operational hours. These buses will be accorded the same right of way as scheduled buses along these lanes and at B-signal junctions. However, private buses are not allowed to stop at designated
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      • 86 11  -  -Compiled by Christopher Tan THERE will be no change to electronic road-pricing (ERP) rates for November. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will do a review next month to see if lower rates can be implemented for the year-end school holidays. The LTA reviews ERP
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    • 362 11 A MICRO-MINI, a gargantuan limo and a pick-up marque are some of the new brands from DaimlerChrysler that could debut here in the next few months. The urban runabout Smart, clad in changeable, funky-coloured body panels, is now being considered for the Republic,
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    • 456 11  -  AH reports by Christopher Tan THE car market is unlikely to collapse despite the deepening recession, thanks to the vehicle quota system, say traders and observers. "In a way, it actually generates demand," said an executive with Renault distributor Exklusiv Auto. "People are trading
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    • 593 11  -  MOTORING Consumers gain from the 'corporattslng 9 of motor trading, trat there's a downside too christopher tan THE days of car salesmen taking home pay packets that would make a partner in a law firm envious are numbered, as motor companies clamp down on
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 682 12  -  mr.i I bottom line OPINION dane chamorro The writer is an honours graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the US Army's Military Intelligence School A Mandarin-speaking former US diplomat, he is currently a regional business risk consultant based in
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    • 109 12 Those who do not know, and those who do not know they do not know.' John Kenneth Galbraith the renowned 93-year-old economist, diplomat and commentator, on economic forecasters. 'One of the first rules of supply-side economics is that you can't change behaviour after it's happened.' Stephen Moore
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    • 619 12 EDITORIAL THE substantial economic aid that is being pumped into the pipeline bound for Pakistan is essential, and probably long overdue. But extreme care needs to be taken to ensure that it does not go astray and that it is used productively. In the
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    • 1279 12  -  Start with the Customs Dept damping down on corruption there wonld be extremely reflationary By, James Castle, Peter Duncan James Castle is president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia and chairman of Castle Asia. Peter Duncan is senior economist at
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    • 558 12  -  COMMENTARY By Thomas L Friedman The writer is a New York Times columnist NYT IN April 1988, Saudi Arabia asked the US to withdraw its newly appointed ambassador, Hume Horan, after only six months. News reports said King Fahd just didn't like the US envoy. What the
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  • MAIL bag
    • 219 13  -  Foo Chee Kee Darren Singapore I REFER to your article "Downpayment deferment may up developers' risk" by Kalpana Rashiwala (BT, Oct 26). I don't think this scheme is new. When I visited the showflat at Costa del Sol some months back, they were
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    • 229 13  -  Chan Kah Cheong Hong Kong I REFER to your editorial "Shareholders must be wary" (BT. Oct 26). I agree with the message of your editorial that shareholders must be wary of companies without good fundamentals buying back their stock, as this rarely
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    • 107 13  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to your article "Wall St rally reels them in, but is it the real thing?" by Catherine Ong in New York (BT, Oct 26). This question must have been asked many times during the
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 525 15  -  Employers note key sectors in M'sia still allowed to recrnit foreign workers From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur A GOVERNMENT freeze on work permit renewals is not likely to substantially reduce the number of foreigners working in the country, as strategic sectors
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    • 304 15 KUALA LUMPUR Deal with creditors by year-end; Promet in rescue talks AFX, Bernama AYER Hitam Tin Dredging Malaysia Bhd is finalising its restructuring scheme and is confident of reaching an agreement with its creditors by year-end, CEO and managing director Nikmat Abdullah said. "We
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    • 264 15 BANGKOK Reuters THAI brokers are advising their clients to reduce exposure to equities and move into cash because of a bearish medium-term outlook for the local stock market. With the benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index languishing at nearly 17 per
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    • 296 16 JAKARTA A-G says both can be named suspects if future probe yields enough evidence AFP INDONESIAN prosecutors will today question Parliamentary Speaker Akbar Tanjung and former military chief General Wiranto over missing state funds totalling 50 billion rupiah (SsB.B million), an official said yesterday.
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    • 134 16 AP [JAKARTA] Taufik Kiemas, the husband of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, was admitted to hospital yesterday after suffering a heart attack, officials said. Mr Taufik, 58, was brought in after midnight after he complained of chest pains, said Erman Suherman, a spokesman at Harapac Kita hospital
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    • 327 16  -  Plan allows it to borrow op to USs2b in a currency crisis From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S Cabinet yesterday approved a landmark plan to sign a currency swap arrangement with China, enabling Bangkok to borrow up to US$2 billion from Beijing if
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    • NOTE Book
      • 81 16 AP [HONG KONG] China still plans to go ahead with on-again, off-again plans to set up a technology-focused secondary market similar to Nasdaq in Shenzhen, the city's mayor said yesterday. China's Cabinet, the State Council, recently restated its support for a second-tier market in
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      • 83 16 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] A new US$25O million fond will start Investing in Thai companies next year as part of an effort to provide capital for firms strapped for cash. Bangkok Bank Pel, Thailand's largest lender, other local banks, the Thai government, the California
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      • 41 16 Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] Standard Chartered Bank pic still intends to list in Hong Kong when the market conditions become "stable" again—which it said oould come in three to six months. Dow Jones Newswires
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      • 50 16 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR] Pahnco Holdings Bhd will call a board meeting in a week or two to decide on Sime Darby's representation after failing to resolve equity interest issues with the latter, Bernama quoted 101 Corporation executive chairman Lee Shin Cheng as saying. —AFX
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      • 60 16 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government said it would freeze assets suspected to be linked to terrorists, a mo ve requiring cooperation between agencies. The State Intelligence Agency is already investigating, said Minister of Communication and Information Syamsul Muarif. It is helping the central bank, police and
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      • 87 16 AFP [TAIPEI] Thirty-three people including an ex-minister and two former vice ministers were yesterday charged with corruption, fraud and forgery in one of the worst education scandals in Taiwan. The prosecutor sought life imprisonment for former vice education minister Lin Chao-hsien accused of illegally
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    • 462 18 BEIJING Asset management firm sees discounts of over 60%; foreign firms intend to bid FT CHINA is to hold its first auction of distressed state-owned enterprise assets to foreign investors in mid-November amid signals that Beijing is ready to accept bids at
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    • 239 18 HONGKONG Reuters HONG Kong's dominant air carrier Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said yesterday that it would not pay staff a 13-month bonus this year for the first time. "The primary objective is to preserve the business and what we hope to preserve to the
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    • 562 18  -  Shanghai bourse official says political, currency factors give city the leg np From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong HONG KONG'S future competitive advantage is not in the finance sector, because it cannot compete with Shanghai to be the financial centre of China. Shanghai
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    • 470 20 ISLAMABAD/LONDON It's seeking 40-year extension on maturity of debt FT PAKISTAN is seeking an unprecedented debt rescheduling agreement with the Paris Club of sovereign creditors, which would extend help on terms usually reserved for much poorer countries. If approved, Pakistan which received a less
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    • 326 20 LUXEMBOURG Reuters A EUROPEAN Union (EU) plan to give Pakistan generous textile trade concessions as a reward for fighting terrorism ran into criticism on Monday from European governments which fear their textile industries could suffer. Portugal, Spain and Greece all raised concerns about
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    • 368 20 TAIPEI It benefits as Dell, others farm out output to cot costs Bloomberg QUANTA Computer Inc, Taiwan's largest notebook computer maker, said third-quar-ter profit rose 41 per cent as customers such as Dell Computer Corp placed more orders. Net income rose to
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    • 283 24 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Intel Corp has chopped the price of some Pentium 4 per-sonal-computer processors by as much as 29 per cent, as the biggest chipmaker tries to jump-start sales of its newest PC chips. Rival Advanced Micro
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    • 533 24 Rifts reported between Nasser and chairman Bill Ford who will take ever his family's firm Reuters [DETROIT] Ford Motor Co has ousted president and chief executive Jacques Nasser, after more than a year of mounting troubles at the world's second largest automaker, and
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    • 403 25 LONDON Deal seen as a bitter blow for LSE which now looks vulnerable to a takeover Reuters PAN-EUROPEAN exchange Euronext clinched a £555 million (551.47 billion) deal to buy London derivatives market Liffe on Monday, ending the battle for supremacy between Europe's three leading stock
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    • 224 25 VIENNA AFP THE Opec oil cartel on Monday sought the support of non-Opec producers to cut output in a bid to boost prices that have slumped to two-year lows since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Experts from the 11-member Organisation
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    • 273 29 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) shed Ave points to 879, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) lost four points to 868, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHT) fell 19 points to 6,935 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was down 10 points to 996. TIME-CHARTER: ♦Fernie (built 1996) 122,*****.80n50ndas
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    • 717 29  -  Local residents nnhappy over new developments of port, in which PSA has major stake By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The expansion of Belgium's biggest port, in which PSA is soon to take a majority operating stake, is embroiled in a legal tussle as local
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    • 309 29 [SINGAPORE] The US Coast Guard has issued an alert for US ports and carriers following the discovery of a suspected alQaeda terrorist travelling in a shipping container bound for Canada. The Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, Amed Farid Rizk was arrested aboard
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    • 327 29  -  Vessels were for American Classic Voyages, which has filed for bankruptcy By. Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Northrop Grumman Corp has suspended work on the US$4OO million Project America cruise ship programme following the bankruptcy of the project's parent, American Classic Voyages. Aimed at
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    • 973 30  -  STRAIT TALE By Seafarer BOTH of the two largest open registers have been under fire for various reasons in recent months, so it is not surprising that people within and outside the shipping industry have been asking fundamental questions about
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      • 355 40 Victoria state govt persuades carriers to pick np slack after closure of Ansett Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Singapore Airlines Ltd, UAL Corp's United Airlines and three other international carriers will increase services to Melbourne after the collapse of Ansett Holdings Ltd, formerly
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        51 40 [DUESSELDORF] Airplanes of German airline LTU are seen at the Duesseldorf international airport. The charter company is on the verge of bankruptcy, the Financial Times Deutschland reported on Monday. According to sources close to the company, LTU's ability to meet its financial obligations might only last until mid-November.
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      • 319 40 Reuters [COLOMBO] SriLankan Airlines, partly owned by Dubai's Emirates airline, said on Monday it had posted its largest loss in recent years after being hit by higher fuel costs, a devaluation and suicide bombers. It said it had taken measures to turn around its
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      • 279 40 Bars on cockpit doors of aircraft already installed Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Delta Air Lines will begin testing a cabin surveillance video system and devices that will make it easier for air-traffic controllers to track airplanes in an emergency. The third-largest US carrier also said
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