The Business Times, 3 November 2001

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    8 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend NOVEMBER 3-4, 2001 85t
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    Lock icon GE2001: It's economics versus politics
    890 1  -  SATURDAY SOAPBOX anna teo THE big question in this "recession election" is: Win economics out-do politics? In particular, will voters worry more about their jobs and their immediate livelihoods, or will they care more about venting their disenchantments with the government and about returning some
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    Lock icon PAP expected to score a big win
    1156 1  -  But It could see net loss of one or two single-member constituencies By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Voters are expected to deliver the Goh Chok Tong-led People's Action Party a big win at the polls today, giving it the mandate it seeks to
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    Lock icon PAP will win 60% of votes easily, predicts SM Lee
    372 1  -  Crossing 65% is uncertain, with small number of voters By David Boey [SINGAPORE] Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew expects the People's Action Party (PAP) to bag more than 60 per cent of the valid votes "easily", but is unsure if
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    Lock icon Ford Motor boss who checked his rear mirror too late
    1230 1  -  NEWS MAKER WWi Nasser's ex*, Ford will probably veer away from the glamour of premium brands and go back to the nuts and boHs of car-making By Christopher Tan WHEN William Clay Ford 111 made his inaugural address as chief
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  • Article
    Lock icon Merged banks in a knot over capon unsecured credit
    480 1  -  EXCLUSIVE By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Foreign banks could end up getting an unexpected bonus from local banks if the latter cannot get around the income cap rule for unsecured credit for their customers. United Overseas Bank and OCBC fresh from
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      Lock icon Datacraft contagion continues
      511 2  -  MARKET REVIEW r sivanithy ONE wonders what the economic landscape would have looked like if Sept 11 hadn't happened? Would the US have managed to avoid a recession, as Fed chief Alan Greenspan believes? Would corporate earnings have returned to the black? Or would they have stayed
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      Lock icon MARKETS
      71 2 ST! 1,341.57 (-5.94) BT-SRI 557.73 (-4.10) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,343.00 (-12.00) SIMSCI FUTURES (-1.40) Friday Change KLSECOMP .596.65 +063 NIKKEI 225 __10.383.78 +36.50 HANG SENG __10.186.06 +2721 SET INDEX 274.22 +0.58 JAKARTA COMP ..180.65 1.35 MANILA COMP —***** -1.79 TAIPEI WPI 3.998.48 +68.79 SEOUL COMP ***** +6.48 SHENZHEN B
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      Lock icon FINANCE
      68 2 FOREX RATES U8$ 8$ IIS$ (SSperl'SS) 1.833 £fl'S$/SSper£) 1.465 1684 Ei:RO(rs$/s$/E) 0.904 1.657 DM 116.1 1.180 YEN Bli 66,10 KM 3.800 2.073 HK$ 7.800 4156 BAHT 44.73 2440 RIPIAH 10,643 5,807 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 558 Kl'ALA LI MPTR 6 4» HONG KONG 5.50 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 692 TOKYO 1.375
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      Lock icon US jobless rate in biggest one-mth jump in 21 years
      653 2  -  415,000 jobs lost in Oct; data first *et off figures reflecting aftermath off Sept 11 From Catherine Ong in New York THE US unemployment rate soared to a higher-than-ex-pected 5.4 per cent in October, the biggest one-month jump in 21
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      Lock icon UOB to consider NTUC request to delay job cuts
      527 2  -  Retrenchment pay hinges on OCBCTs talks with onion By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank, which bought over Overseas Union Bank last month, said yesterday it will consider the request of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to delay its
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      19 2 Datacraft CEO defends sale of shares, Pg 4 Hock Lock Stow: The missing caveats in analysts' reports, Pg 4
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  • general election
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon 'I'll stay PM until crisis over'
      811 3  -  Mr Goh says he will make sure the economy has recovered and new team is in place Ru Serena Ng PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday called for a strong mandate from voters in today's election so that he can continue to tackle the
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon PM Gob faults WP's Holdden line
        117 3 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said he was disappointed with Workers' Party chief Low Thin Khiang for allowing Hokkien chauvinism to enter the party's campaign, albeit in a mild way. Mr Goh noted that at WP rallies in Nee Soon East, where it
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        Lock icon Tharman is a fighter: Boon Heng
        84 3 MINISTER without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng came out strongly to defend Tharman Shanmugaratnam (right), his teammate in Jurong GRC. The Opposition has questioned PAP's decision to field Mr Tharman who was convicted under the Official Secrets Act "The case was not about his honesty,
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        Lock icon Press not deaf and blind: SM Lee
        151 3 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew took a journalist from the Hong Kong's South China Morning Post to task yesterday for suggesting that the Singapore media had downplayed coverage of Opposition candidate Chee Soon Juan because Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has asked them
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      Lock icon SM Lee: Vote to ensure S'pore remains an island of calm
      555 3  -  He warns against complacency, says tough times ahead Bl David Boey SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew said continued American attacks against terrorist targets in Afghanistan through the Muslim fasting month could have repercussions in Malaysia and Indonesia. In the
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    • Article
      Lock icon What they say
      410 3 "tf the employees of these companies are members of a union, then the union will make sure that this kind of opportunistic employers will not have their way. They will have to justify every act which they want to take with the employees. This is the assurance
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      Lock icon Chua Chu Kang: PM says he's the issue
      394 3  -  F R 0 M THE RALLIES Voting for a PAP MP means problems will be looked after Bi Andrea Tan PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong last night made himself an issue in the battleground of Chua Chu Kang, saying it is not
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    • Article
      Lock icon 'Opportunistic' employers slammed
      307 3  -  Boon Heng ticks off profitable firms for cutting wages By Teh Hooi Ling TRADES union chief Lim Boon Heng last night took highly profitable companies to task for cutting wages, saying their actions were opportunistic and unjustified. "I am told that some employers are taking advantage," said
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      Lock icon Chiam calls for further HDB mortgages
      333 3  -  This would release cash, useful for hard times By Vince Chong SINGAPORE Democratic Alliance chief Chiam See Tong said he will call on the Housing and Development Board to allow second, and possibly third, mortgages on public homes if he is returned to Parliament
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      Lock icon Help for the retrenched: Chee claims credit
      349 3  -  By Ling Su Ann SINGAPORE Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan last night took credit for the government's moves to help retrenched workers, saying the party's plan to help laid off workers has forced the government to change its time. "In the nine
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  • in the news
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      Lock icon The missing caveats in analysts' reports
      617 4  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW Analysts should share blame with Datacraft for the nasty shock inflicted on investors angela tan SYSTEMS integrator Datacraft Asia a darling among Singapore tech stocks shocked investors on Thursday with a profit warning just 11 weeks after it said it would
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      Lock icon SingTel units to set up telecom 'carrier hotels' in India
      323 4  -  By Tang Weng Fai TWO Indian units of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Sing Tel) have teamed up to launch a joint venture, called i2i Gateways, to operate carrier hotels in seven cities in India. Commercial launch is slated by the end
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      Lock icon SIA said to be mulling $1b bond issue
      182 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, among the world's most weU-capitalised airlines, is considering a bond issue and has invited six banks to submit proposals, banking sources said yesterday. The carrier is said to be looking to raise up to $1 bUlion via a
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      Lock icon Datacraft CEO defends sale of shares before warning
      800 4  -  He says he sold the shares iri order to exercise his stock options Serena Ng AS Datacraft Asia's shares plunged for a second straight day, the group's chief executive Ron Cattell yesterday defended his share sales in late September after the terrorist
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      Lock icon SingTel unlikely to gain majority Telkomsel stake
      350 4  -  By Teh Hooi Ling SINGAPORE Telecommunications, which is in talks to increase its stake in Indonesia's biggest mobile-phone operator PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), is unlikely to gain a controlling stake, analysts said. "Telkomsel's parent PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) won't sell. They'd want to
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    • Article
      Lock icon Will SingTel's latest buy pay off?
      675 4 COMMENTARY It's a good investment but the hard work lies ahead, says SHOEB KAGDA FOR the second time in two years, a Singapore-listed company has ventured into a market most multinationals are afraid to even consider post-Suharto Indonesia. This week Singapore Telecommunications paid US$6O2
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      Lock icon M&C says H2 gain will be much lower than H1 profit
      522 5  -  Group has axed 500 in recent weeks; expects next year to be 'challenging' By Kalpana Rashiwala kwek Leng ueng s L*>naonlisted Millennium Copthorne Hotels (M&C) yesterday warned that second-half profits will be "very substantially lower" than those achieved in
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      Lock icon Some upturn in electronics sector
      368 5  -  EYE ON THE ECONOMY By Siow Li Sen THE local electronics industry has seen some improvements recently in disk drive shipments and the launch of new products and this could result in a smaller-than-expected decline in Singapore's gross domestic product in Q4, says IDEAglobal. The
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      Lock icon Siemens plans to increase its Singapore headcount
      309 5  -  By Leo Kee Chye AMID warnings of more job losses in Singapore, Ger-man-based multinational Siemens said yesterday it will increase its local headcount and spend $50 million on a new building to consolidate its operations. The chairman of the company's supervisory board, Karl-Hermann
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon PNE Industries warns of full-year loss
        73 5 PNE Industries warned yesterday that it expects to incur a loss before tax for the year ended Sept 30,2001. Poor economic conditions have resulted in lower-than-expected sales and lower selling prices. Profit margins have been hit by lower-than-expected usage of production capacity which the
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        Lock icon PCI subsidiary wound up
        69 5 PCI said yesterday its wholly owned subsidiary Polymkro Precision Technology Pte Ltd was yesterday placed under creditors' voluntary winding up after a scheme of arrangement placed before secured creditors foiled, although the unsecured creditors passed the scheme. As a result no court approval for the scheme
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        Lock icon Sunlight predicts H1 loss
        74 5 SUNLIGHT Group Holdings warned that it expects to incur a net loss for the first half-year ended September 2001. This is because of weak sentiment of the local construction industry and uncertain economic conditions which have resulted in lower turnover and profit margins. The group is
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      Lock icon S'pore to see prolonged low growth
      241 5 SINGAPORE is likely to have a saucer-shaped recovery with a prolonged period i of low growth, Wah Chang Group chairman Ho Kwon Ping said yesterday. Speaking at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs yesterday, Mr Ho said: "It will not be a U, V
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      Lock icon Tung Lok may open more outlets in 02
      409 5  -  But plans will hinge on how the economy shapes up: chief By Vince Chong TOURISM Entrepreneur of the Year and president of the listed Tung Lok Group, Andrew Tjioe, has revealed that more of his firm's specialised Chinese and Asian concept restaurants
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      Lock icon US$ hit by NAPM; S$ by job worries
      492 5  -  CURRENCIES But Sing could be nudging allowed lows on trade-weighted basis, analysts warn larry wee THE US dollar finished mixed yesterday after an overnight dip that ignored handsome Wall Street gains, while the Singapore dollar remained under pressure. Better-looking US Q3 GDP
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      Lock icon Do a good deed, donate a shirt
      215 5 THE Business Times and shirt company CYC will hold a charity drive starting today. Old shirts of any brand turned in at the CYC Custom Shop at Raffles Hotel Arcade (along with a coupon found in. today's BT) will be donated to the
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      Lock icon KL telecom watchdog tells M'sian telcos to shape up
      558 6 It wants national penetration of 30% by 2003 and greater rural coverage Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian telecom firms have to step up their service, as the country gears up for costly third generation (3G) technology, or the government will take action,
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      Lock icon TRI says share sale plan stands
      353 6 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Technology Resources Industries plans to sell new stock to local and foreign investors after the Malaysian government rejected part of its plan to raise US$474 million to repay bondholders. The Securities Commission this week blocked a key part of its plan
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      Lock icon Malaysian telcos hit by Sept 11 attacks
      143 6 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Demand for Malaysian telecommunications services has slowed in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks on the US, three mobile phone operators said yesterday. But the three DiGi.Com, Time dot Com and unlisted Maxis Communications Bhd were split on whether
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    • LATE BRIEFS
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        Lock icon HK takes HK$58b from fiscal reserves
        68 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) chief executive Joseph Yam yesterday said the government has dipped into its fiscal reverves to fund the territory's deficit for the six months to September. The withdrawal of HKISB billion (5513.5 billion) in fiscal reserves were
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        Lock icon Palmoll industry seeks work permit review
        70 6 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's palmoil industry has urged the government to review a three-year cap on work permits for foreign labour, warning it could cause a labour shortage, a report said yesterday. The industry faces the prospect of sending back 28,300. foreign workers and
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        Lock icon HSBC may invent in Chinese online trader
        75 6 Bloomberg [BEIJING] HSBC Holdings is in talks to invest an undisclosed amount in Sparkice.com, one of China's biggest online traders, the companies said. Sparkice will announce details of HSBC's "big investment" on Tuesday, according to a press invitation. HSBC spokeswoman Zhang Dan Dan
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        Lock icon China's GDP growth to slow further in Q4
        79 6 AFP [BEIJING] China's economic growth will continue to slow for the rest of the year but will not drop below 6 per cent in the fourth quarter, state media yesterday reported the deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics as saying.
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        Lock icon Security set-up being expanded: Arroyo
        89 6 AFX [BAGUIO] A planned security arrangement between the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia will be expanded to include Thailand and possibly Singapore, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said. She said Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri told her that she "would like to have Thailand and Singapore part of
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      Lock icon Jakarta to issue US$1b bonds to help BII
      191 6 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia said yesterday it would issue US$l billion in dollar-linked bonds next week as part of attempts to help troubled Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII), the country's fifth largest bank in terms of assets, stay afloat. The bonds will replace a
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      Lock icon Magnum asks for tax cuts, more betting games
      375 6 Firm seeks level field as rivals have been given tax breaks Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Magnum Corp, Malaysia's biggest number-betting operator, asked the government for permission to conduct more betting games and to grant it tax cuts to help the company compete with
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      Lock icon Malaysia's Tan Sris should help 'sell' the country
      970 6  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL In these uncertain times they need to step up to the challenge and assume greater responsibility karim raslam I have a message for Malaysia's business community, to all the Tan Sris out there. Basically, you're not doing enough. In the
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      Lock icon Jakarta challenges regional takeover of cement unit
      290 6 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's central government has rejected a provincial government's purported takeover of an affiliate of a major cement producer, which Jakarta is supposed to be selling as a major part of its floundering privatisation programme. On Thursday, the West Sumatra legislature declared
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      Lock icon Argentina to default on US$95b of bonds
      552 7 Move to slash interest payments could accelerate crisis, say analysts Bloomberg, AFP [BUENOS AIRES] Argentina plans to default on at least US$96 billion of bonds, more than twice the amount Russia failed to honour in 1996, by swapping the debt for securities that
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      Lock icon Microsoft agrees to restrictions
      409 7 Curbs, including having independent monitors on site, wiH end antitrust batUe AP [WASHINGTON] Microsoft Corp has agreed to a broad range of restrictions including a panel of independent monitors to oversee its conduct and books to settle antitrust violations and end its epic court battle, the
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    • WAR ON TERRORISM
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        Lock icon Anthrax surfaces in Pakistan
        68 7 Reuters [KARACHI] A Pakistan newspaper editor yesterday said a white powder in an envelope hand-delivered to his paper last week had tested positive for anthrax spores, the first confirmed case of its kind outside the US. An official and Western diplomats said there were two previous
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        Lock icon US to land more commandos
        70 7 AP Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US is urgently working to land hundreds more commandos in Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said. He said the extra troops are crucial to US efforts to improve the bombing campaign by pinpointing targets. Meanwhile, Taliban has arrested 25 followers of
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        Lock icon Attack feared on California bridges
        50 7 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] California Governor Gray Davis said on Thursday there was a "credible" threat that the state's major suspension bridges could be attacked between yesterday and next week. Mr Davis said he had authorised the National Guard to station additional personnel at major bridges.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Malaysia blocks plan to attack US sailors
        58 7 AP [PUTRAJAYA] Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar yesterday said "pre-emptive action" blocked a local militant group which the government claims is linked to the Taliban from attacking American sailors who visited Malaysia. He said that authorities received information about the group's plans
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      Lock icon Chip slump persists as Sept sales fall 2.5%
      289 7 But declines slow, indicating end of downturn is close Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The worst-ever slump in the semiconductor industry persisted in September as sales dropped 2.5 per cent, to US$lO.2 billion, but the magnitude of the month-to-month decline continued to moderate, suggesting
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      Lock icon Quiet times in the mecca for high-tech pilgrims
      746 7  -  VALLEY VI E W But Sand Hill Road will see them beating a path to VCs' doors once more when the economy turns and the stock market takes off again jennifer lien The writer is BT's Silicon Valley correspondent IT'S the hub
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      Lock icon US Treasury Secretary under fire from lawmakers
      404 8 Paul O'Nefl has lost the confidence of a lot of RapuMcans, says official Reuters (WASHINGTON] US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill received criticism on Thursday from Republicans on Capitol Hill, -where at least one lawmaker has publicly called on President George W Bush to
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      Lock icon US set on making a splash at Doha, but with smaller team
      423 8  -  Hopes rise Bush may get new trade powers before meet From Leon Hadar in Washington THE United States is refusing to allow major concerns over security to stand in the way of its taking part in the coming
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  • week in review
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      Lock icon Top stories this week
      1052 9 For the full stories, visit http://business-times.asial.com.sg Govt may allow retrenched workers to use CPF savings Nov 1 THE Singapore government is studying a proposal to allow retrenched workers to use part of their Central Provident Fund savings to meet some of their living expenses, Prime Minister
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      Lock icon What we said
      282 9 VIKRAM KHANNA Oct 29 Sept 11 will change economic thinking ECONOMISTS are viewing the world differently after the terrorist attacks of Sept 11. Apart from introducing "new sand in the gears of global commerce", the attacks have also made them look more closely at the backlash against
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    Lock icon KLSE
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  • in the money
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      Lock icon Tech stock investing not for beginners
      610 10  -  EQUITIES Investors must look at valuations, fundamentals to pick winners By Ven Sreenivasan DATACRAFT Asia's shock warning of a sharp fall in earnings highlights the point that the tech sector is not for the uninitiated investor. Amid falling demand, over-capaci-ty and thin margins, the
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      Lock icon Upgrades in analysts' ratings outnumber downgrades
      431 10  -  Prices of some stocks seen hitting bottom; seven upgraded to'buy* By George Lam The writer is a senior consultant at Paris-based JCF Group FOR the first time since this column began a month ago, there have been more upgrades than downgrades of recommendations. In
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • what's in style food
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      1260 11 t ENG KONG HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore (the "Company") Notice of Annual General Mutiny NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Albizia 1, Jurong Country Club, 9 Science Centre Road, Singapore *****8 on Tuesday, the 20th
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  • what's in style motoring
    • BRAVE NEW WHIRL
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        139 12 VOTE with care this weekend, vote for Jaguar's new X-Type. That could've been the tagline for distributor Malayan Motors' launch of the new junior Jag, which was finally unleashed on the local market yesterday. Initially scheduled for September, the X-Type was slated to have a grand
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        Lock icon Beetle + more juice
        134 12 Beetle more juice WHILE the 1.6-litre Volkswagen Beetle has been delayed, bug fans can look forward to the 1.8-11-tre turbo version just now. Just landed, the new car looks as cute as the 2.0-litre zipping around, but has one neat feature. The new model comes with a speed-actuated roof spoiler,
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        Lock icon Graz is greener
        82 12 BMW Group and Austria's Steyr-Daimler-Puch Fahrzeugtechnik Ag have signed an agreement to develop and make the new BMW X 3 a smaller and perhaps less pollutive version of the popular but huge X 5 all-roader. The Grazbased company will build a new assembly plant (capacity: 300 units
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        Lock icon Full of gas
        78 12 OPEL'S compressed natural gas (CNG) Zafira took part in the Michelin Challenge Bibendum a competition for green cars last weekend. With the Opel fuel cell concept HydroGenl and Astra Eco 4, the CNG Zafira covered the 350 km course from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Incidentally, the
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