The Business Times, 7 January 2002

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES IMTA /n\ 4A^/AO/OAA4 85* internet. .com.sg/ MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2002
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  • 67 1 STOCK IAIKET DOUCES Week duuife STI 1478.67 +62.69 SMSCI FLTLTtE.-210.60 +7.90 BT-S8I ***** +2LK KLSE COMP .683.47 +L83 NIKKEI l()L871.49_+328.87 HANG SENG _*****.16 +270.5« SET INDEX 315.73 +1L88 JAKARTA OOMP_386iO 484 MANILA 1,189.89 +J1.81 TAIPEI WPT 3,638.53 +240i5 SEOUL COUP 747.71 +64.02 SHENZHEN B 261.62 -3.49 AUST ALL
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  • 66 1 FOBEX BATES uss ss USSpSperUSS) 1.846 £fUSS/S$ per 1.446 1671 EUBO(US$/S$/E). 0 902 1.666 DM 1168 1J74 YEN 1J1J 7110 RM 1800 1066 HK$ 7.798 4120 BAFT 4406 2184 RUPIAH ***** 5,621 PUKE SATES SINGAPORE* 515 Kl'ALA LUMPUR 6.40 BONO KONG 5.125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6.79 TOKYO 1.375 SEOUL
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  • 823 1  -  Recent manoeuvres by Suharto-linked conglomerate worry Megawati aides /Vara I Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THREE years after being forced to hand over the bulk of its vast corporate empire to the Indonesian government, the Salim Group seems poised to regain its position as
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  • 664 1  -  Forecasters expect it to trade in 88-92 US cent range From Neil Behrmann in London THE euro is expected to outperform the yen this year, say the vast majority of foreign exchange forecasters. But the euro rally will be mooted and most forecasters expect
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  • 910 1  -  I i comment ECONOMICS Yes, tbere are some for Hongkong and Malaysia vikram khanna IS the ongoing, slow-motion economic implosion in Argentina of any relevance to Asia? If recent market developments are any guide, the answer is no. Global markets seemed to have shrugged the whole thing
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    • 107 1 BT Comment The new spirit of Malaysia Inc. PgB News' Analysis Japan to play catch-up on Asean moves. Mmxi Pag• Top stories Mini rally sparked off by cheerier outlook. Pg 4 Analysts see ST Engg profit at $339m-s36lm. Pg 5 Thai govt plans 30b baht fund to lift stocks. Pg
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    • 26 1 Why collaboration is key to S'pore's growth Will the infocomm sector recover only in H2 2002? What are the e-commerce challenges for S'pore this year? >A
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    • 469 2  -  DPM: Embassies ami military bases among targets of the 15 arrested Byl Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan yesterday disclosed that a new national security secretariat has been set up within the Ministry of Defence to strengthen coordination between the security
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    • 750 2  -  analysis Koizumi expected to woo Asean with initiatives Fromi Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE prime ministers making official visits to South-east Asia normally come bearing gifts such as offers of increased financial aid, cooperation in infrastructure building or new cultural offerings. This time,
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    • 11 2 Jtpan to inject public funds into banks if needed, Pg 10
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  • FOCUS us economy
    • 923 3 US president spars with Democrats over plans to tackle recession even as there is optimism economic recovery may be under way in the US PRESIDENT George W Bush stepped up his battle with Democrats in the US Congress over how best to deal
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 550 4  -  Liquidity boost for China-linked plays, tech stocks and selected bine chips By* Ven Sreenivasan IMPROVING economic numbers and the resultant Arming in market sentiment has helped kick off a mini rally, with Chinalinked plays, selected blue chips and technology stocks riding a wave
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    • 203 4 IN a statement detailing how the funds raised from its rights issue have been used, Presscrete Holdings said $600,000 has gone to the partial repayment of a secured term loan extended to its troubled subsidiary Ceramic Technologies (CT) by a financial institution. The
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    • 265 4 Although average mm rates have come down slightly Reuters RAFFLES Holdings is upbeat about its occupancy rates despite slackening visitor arrivals after the Sept 11 terror attacks in the United States. "Our occupancy has held very well. We're in the high 70 per
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    • 241 4 THE High Court has ordered Wee Poh Holdings subsidiary W&P Piling (WPP) to convene a meeting of its creditors by Feb 8 to seek their approval for a proposed scheme of arrangement. In a hearing last Friday, the court also
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    • 523 5 Sept 11 impact not folly felt on core aerospace business, they add AFXAsia ST Engineering Ltd is expected to report tomorrow a net profit of $339 million to $361.3 million for 2001, up from $288.1 million the previous year, with the impact of
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    • 657 5 Bloomberg WHENEVER analyst Peggy Mak makes the wrong call on a stock, she prefers to walk down 29 flights of stairs to avoid meeting clients in the same office building. Last week, she took the elevator. Since reversing her recommendation on Singapore Airlines Ltd
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    • 41 4 January 2002 b SinGAPORE AIRLinES LIITHTED 0 *****,000,000 Fixed Rate Notes Due 2011 Joint Lead Managers HSBC<X> ©OCBCBank The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited Corporation UmitpH Paying Agent HSBC<X^ This announcement appears as a matter of record only
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      289 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES J«n 4 VALUE CLOSE ITOBrttt. 660.00 183.00 WOW -*****.00 +198.00 *****.00 +66.00 443.18 ->-7.13 Btd 146.32 +5.55 1418.42 ->-13.78 ttrpWnhM 462.14 +11.47 mtammmn 210.15 +3.79 muar+mm 210.60 +3.30 ChinaAvCHt 5c 137,918,000 PacifteCenturylOc 59.243,000 Pentonl2c 56,145.000 Acma 50c 55,300.000 •StaiCruises 10c 54,004,000 Surface MT HK20c 49,501.000 GES Intl
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    • 244 6  - Extremely bullish momentum indicators seen for Elec Eltek HOTSTOCE/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market seems to be launching into a liquidity-driven rally in the wake of improving US manufacturing numbers. Many leading local tech stocks have already risen sharply, chased up by institutional players and trading-orientated funds.
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    • 698 6  -  f i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy SOME readers have suggested that the outlook for the stock market should be described as hugely optimistic, instead of the cautiously optimistic stance that The Business Times has taken. Two readers for instance, recently wrote in to say
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    • 712 6 AFP [HONG KONG] Asian currencies ended the first week of 2002 higher against the US dollar although dealers said the outlook was for the yen to remain weak against the greenback. Japanese yen: The yen rose against the US dollar last Friday on the first
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    • 153 6 ♦SINGAPORE Press Holdings will hold Its EGM V on Jan 11 at 11.00am (or as soon thereafter following the conclusion or adjournment of the 17th A6M of SPH), The venue is Hie Auditorium, 1000 Toa Payoh North, 1st Storey, Annexe Block. ♦CEREBOS Pacific Ltd will go ex-dividend (first
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  • 2795 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS crneond Spore a/s i.i» CrtiSond Spore BSS 1.221/ Citi Money Sing DotlarCtassB 1.035* AM Amro M M«t (S'pore) Qti Pan-Europe Equity Fi**J 112/ Star Europe Eqtyl* 0.857/ OtiSetect Asia Tilt Balanced 12» Star Europe Bd 1.006/ CitiSeiect Asia Tilt Growth 1241 Star Europe Bal 0 92/ CitiSeiect
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 275 7  -  on the economy terms of trade By] Eugene Low SINGAPORE'S terms of trade the ratio of export prices to import prices deteriorated again in November, dragged down by weaker prices for oil products. A poorer terms of trade means Singapore has to sell
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    • 641 7  -  MAILKETrM Chia Hui Ping Singapore EXTRAORDINARY items are incomes and expenses arising from events or transactions that are distinct from the ordinary activities of the companies, and are therefore not expected to recur frequently or regularly. In calculating earnings per share (EPS), extraordinary items are
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    • 349 7  -  Ghim Peng in Geylang sold for $7m, but sales still evade other owners By Andrea Tan WHILE the owners of Ghim Peng budget hotel in Geylang got lucky with a $7 million sale, others are still trying to find buyers. The four-storey hotel,
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    • 246 7 ONE of Singapore's youngest millionaires, Adam Khoo, will be among the key speakers at this week's "Money-Making Ideas" ex-hibition-cum-seminar at the Singapore Conference Hall Auditorium. The 27-year-old, who owns and manages five companies with a combined turnover of over $20 million, will be speaking
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    • 312 7 16 January 2002 (Wednesday), 8.30 am to 6.00 pm The RKz-Cartton, Millania Singapore Grand Ballroom, Ist Laval Registration Fee: Ss3oo per person (no GST) (indusive of materials, coffee breaks and lunch) The Perspectives conference series is the annual flagship conference of The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Singapore. The conference
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    • 172 7 We welcome letters. E-mail us at btletterQsph.com.sg or fax us at *****71, or write to: Thy Business Times, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5. We need your full name, address and telephone number, so we can verify It came from you. Please use temperate language, and bear in
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 371 8  -  ItH have 5-yr time frame to invest in undervalued stocks From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Thaksin Shinawatra government is launching a new 30 billion baht (Ssl.3 billion) Thailand Opportunity Fund to invest in good quality undervalued stocks in a bid
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    • 665 8  -  11 comment KL STOCKS eddie toh Malaysia inc has undergone more than a cosmetic change. In less than one year, the government has engineered major changes to move away from the old privatisation model, in which individuals were handpicked to own and manage conglomerates.
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    • 928 8 COMMODITY Weekly Roundup AFP (LONDON] Oil prices scaled to US$2l a barrel, heights not seen for two months, as cold weather in the United States and Europe kept demand firm while supply was being reined in by the world's leading producers. But activity
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    • 251 9 DHAKA AP BANGLADESH yesterday devalued its currency against the US dollar by 1.58 per cent to try to boost the country's falling exports and foreign exchange reserves. Under the new exchange rate, one US dollar will buy 57.90 takas instead of 57 takas, the central
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    • NOTE Book
      • 78 9 AFP [TAIPEI] The Taiwanese government is ready to remove a decades-old ban on investment in certain petrochemical plants in China, permitting investments of up to NT$lOO billion (555.3 billion), it was reputed yesterday. Economic Minister Lin Hsin-i, qubted by the Oommercial Times as saying
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      • 56 9 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's government has completed a decree authorising a rise in domestic call rates charged by PTTelekomunikasi Indonesia, said 9JamliariSirat,director-generalafpostand telecommunications. Local telephone charges are set to rite by 17 per cent aad domestic longdistance charges by 13 per cent, although no date
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      • 59 9 Bloomberg I&ATHMAMiJUi leaders orsoutb Asian countries ended their meeting with a declaration to comb* terrorism and with little progress on trade and development because of tense relations between India and Pakistan. They agreed to draft a South Asian free trade agreement by the year-end,
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    • 627 9 BANGALORE Delegations visit software firms to find out what makes them tick NYT IN the battle between India and China over the software business, India holds the edge. But if the recent invasion of Chinese trade and information technology delegations to Bangalore, India's
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    • 258 9  -  Thai banks will be able to lend to non-residents in Indochina states Froml Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Bank of Thailand (BOD is beginning to relax its strict capital controls, by allowing Thai financial institutions to extend direct baht loans to non-residents in Cambodia,
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    • 255 9 JAKARTA AFP FORMER Indonesian first lady Sinta Nuriyah Wahid plans to file a libel suit against a police general and a lawyer for alleging that a foundation she heads received part of a bribe paid to secure the release of an
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  • REGION world
    • 318 10 TOKYO Suchastepwill ensure stability of financial systems, says LDP official Bloomberg THE Japanese government will inject public funds into banks, when it is necessary, to prevent a financial crisis, said Taku Yamasaki, secre-tary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. "We'll inject
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 79 10 NYT, AFP in/wmnuiunjrne us nas taken custody of one of Osama bin Laden's top paramilitary trainers, the most senior member of A 1 Qaeda seized in the three-month war in Afghanistan, a US official said on Saturday. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a Libyan, was captured
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      • 93 10 AP [IAMrA, r lorida] A 15-year-old student pilot took off in a small plane without permission and crashed into a skyscraper after ignoring a Coast Guard helicopter's signals to land, authorities said. Officials quickly discounted terrorism, but the televised of a plane blasting a
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      • 79 10 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's IshikawaJ ima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) plans to build the world's first floating liquefied natural gas plant, the Ypmiuri Shimbun said yesterday. The company hoped to complete the plant as early as 2006, it said. The floating plant, which would be as
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      • 67 10 Reuters UX>NDON] Barclays Bank has held talks over taking a stake in the offshore arm of Bank of China, The Bustrms newspaper said yesterday. Talks are at an early stage, but Barclays has made it onto a shortlist prepared by the Chinese bank,
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    • 273 10 LONDON AFP FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney is Britain's first ever pop billionaire, according to a newspaper survey of the country's 300 wealthiest people, published yesterday. McCartney has amassed a fortune of £1.1 billion (552.9 billion) more than 30 years after the Beatles
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    • 684 10 fT-M FRASER AND NEAVE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING DATE Thursday 31 January 2002 PLACE Level 2. Alexandra Point 438 Alexandra Road. Singapore *****8 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 103 rd Annual General Meeting of FRASER AND NEAVE LIMITED, will be held
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  • WORLD news
    • 363 11 ROME Ruggiero was 'saddened'by the lack of govt interest in the euro's launch FT, Bloomberg RENATO Ruggiero, Italy's foreign minister, resigned on Saturday after a week in which the divisions within Silvio Berlusconi's centreright government were exposed over the launch of the euro. Mr Ruggiero, a
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    • 486 12 BUENOS AIRES Lower House hill. Senate concnrreiice seems imminent Reuters Bloomberg ARGENTINA'S Congress yesterday pushed closer to allowing a currency devaluation as its Lower House approved sweeping powers for new President Eduardo Duhalde to overhaul the economy to turn around deepening
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    • 727 11 TYRONE CO PTE LTD (Hi Vol. Liquidation) FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act (Cap 50) that the Final General Meeting of the Members of the abovenamed Company will be held at the Office of M/s Wee Seng Tiong Co., 1 Coleman Street
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    • 565 11 SHOWA LEASING SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. NOTICE OF SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENEBAL MEETING OF THE COMPANY DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN HELD PUBSUANT TO SECTION 179(0) OF THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP 50) AT 10 HOE CHIANG ROADOIMO KEPPEL TOWERS SINGAPORE *****5 ON THE JIM DAY
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    • 334 11 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CHAPTER 50 OATX TERMINALS ASIA PRIVATE LIMITED MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION At an Extraordinary General Meeting o( the Company deemed to be held on 1 January 2002, the following resolutions were duly passed 1. SPECIAL RESOLUTION WINDING-UP That the Company be wound up voluntarily
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 186 12 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 32 Be most noticeable in a redemption. possiWy (11) 13 Hippy disposition of arms? YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 9PUi*w» Q«iri* Across: 1 Left-hand drive, 10 5) 15 Sprouts, possibly, in grand Realism, 11 Several, 12 Vats, 3 Fare from Holland forced up 16 that one can see the DdSted 4
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  • BIZIT
    • 189 13 DESPITE the continuing gloom and fears that the global economy may not turn around anytime soon, market analysts and industry experts seem to be quite optimistic about Singapore's infocomm prospects this year. That's what six key contributors say in this special 2002 BizlT issue. "Crises and
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    • 677 13  -  The IDA is focusing on five specific areas e-talent, e-ideas, e-capital, e-infrastructure and e-markets. leovokeno thai has the details LEONG KENG THAI THE global economic slowdown made last year a particularly challenging one for Singapore's infocomm industry. Yet, analysts are optimistic about the industry's
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    • 723 14  -  Companies are still looking to invest in Internet-related technologies and in basic IT solutions, despite the uncertain economic environment, says piyush sdtob PIYUSH SINGH The writer is managing director, IDC Asia -Pacific THE Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan is expected to see economic
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    • 157 14 1. The Asia-Pacific's IT markets will recover in H*****. 2. The region's telecom services market will grow 20.6 per cent to US$l6l billion. 3. China's IT market may grow 25 per cent to U5525.6 billion. 4. Bright spots for IT spending in the region
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    • 596 14  -  Let companies get access to all Net, broadband sites inS'porefor aflat rate Byl Mock Pak Lum The writer is managing director, 1-Net Singapore PteLtd DESPITE the overall slowdown in the economy, this year will be a period of exponential growth for broadband. Despite losing the broadband
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    • 793 14  -  Infrastructure, high penetration rates of PCs, mobile phones not fully utilised here By Willie Cheng The writer is chairman, Singapore IT Federation, and country managing director. Accenture t Singapore THE most crucial question that many infocomm companies are asking these days is: when
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    • 528 14  -  Asia-Pacseen as region with the most business opportunities for vendors By\ Phua Sin Hun The writer is an analyst for IT services at Gartner Asia-Pacific THE fallout of Sept 11 and the continuing economic downturn have not significantly affected the outlook
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    • 744 15  -  lii comment INFOTECH It would be a shame if this shot at competition flgleg out without a market tang weng fai The writer isaßT Correspondent SINGAPORE Power's decision late last month to begin commercial trials of a little-known technology called PLC (powerline communications)
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    • 92 15 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's largest computer maker Fujitsu Ltd plans to pull out of the development of supercomputers. It will halt development programmes for a leading type of supercomputer, once the symbol of fierce US-Japan trade battles in the 1980s and *****, the Yomiuri
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    • IT TAKES
      • 82 15 SINGAPORE-BASED Nexus Edge Technologies said it has won a $500,000 project to migrate Fundsupermart.com from its existing Web-based system to a Java environment. Fundsupermart.com, a joint Venture between SPH Asia One and DMG Partners Securities, is a unit trusts' dealer and investment adviser. The new
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      • 68 15 FAILSAFE Corp (Singapore), which provides data infrastructure services, said Virgin Mobile has appointed FailSafe to provide and manage secure, scalable and technology resources, including connectivity, Win NT and Sun servers, storage and security. The services, valued at almost $1 million, are for a contract period of
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      • 80 15 SINGAPORE-BASED Genovate Solutions Pte Ltd said it will offer training for the bioinformatics sector here from this month. It will offer courses in bio-XML, bio Java, and bio-Peri. "Bioinformatics encompasses many aspects of mathematics, IT and biology to reveal patterns and links within and among sets of
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      • 40 15 SIEMENS AG has appointed Guenther Braeuning as senior vice-president and head of its ICN (Information and Communication Networks) group in Singapore. Mr Braeuning was previously vice-president and head of Siemens Carrier Sales in Munich. i
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      • 43 15 in Aauay-ua i eju manugistxcs uroup inc, wnicn provides solutions to simultaneously optimise a company's supply and demand side business processes, has appointed Michael Christensen as president of its Asia-Pacific operations. Mr Christensen was previously vice-president of Manugistics Europe.
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      • 34 15 US-BASED BMC Software Inc, which provides enterprise management solutions, has appointed Sabrina Koh as country director of BMC Software Singapore. Ms Koh was previously sales director of BMC Software Singapore.
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      • 37 15 a IWU-UAY Corporate Portals Asia 2002" exhibition and conference will be held at the Westin Stamford from Jan 10. It is organised by Applied Research Knowledge (Ark) Pte Ltd. For details, visit www.cjxisia.com.
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      • 34 15 A TWO-DAY Wireless World Conference and Expo Singapore 2002" will be held at Suntec City from Jan 15. It is organised by IDG World Expo (Asia) Ltd. For details, visit www.wirelessworld.com.sg.
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      • 39 15  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A TWO-DAY forum on "Enterprise transformation: creating value through IT" will be held from Jan 21 at Suntec City. It is organised by International Data Corp Asia-Pacific: For details, visit www.idc.com.sg/Apit2oo2.
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    • 169 15 Reuters [FORT WORTH, Texas] Leading online travel firm Travelocity has warned that its Q4 revenues would slip below its previous guidance due to the effects of the Sept 11 attacks, but said its Q4 earnings remain on track. Travelocity said it expects quarterly revenues
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    • 887 16  -  With its stock losing about half its value since the merger, AOL is finding that the real world does not always go according to script By Paul Chan On Jan 11, AOL Time Warner Inc celebrates its first anniversary as the
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    • 201 16 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] AOL Time Warner Inc won US approval to open Time Warner Cable systems to four Internet rivals, an endorsement AOL needs as a step towards selling fast Web service using its own cable-TV network. The Federal Trade
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    • 861 16  -  For consumers and for some Asian manufacturers, flat-panel screen revolution has reached a pivotal price By 1 Russell Flannery raueu witn a plunge in prices for its flat-panel displays, Japan's Sharp last year came up with a plan: sell more of them as television screens. After all,
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    • 203 16 AP IBOSTON] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a California company have filed a lawsuit in Texas, claiming that 94 companies including Microsoft Corp illegally used their patented image editing software. MIT says Electronics For Imaging Inc of Foster City, California,
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    • 248 16 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] A Hewlett family foundation headed by the chief opponent of Hewlett-Packard's merger with Compaq Computer recently sold 5.5 million shares of HP stock, the foundation's finance chief said. The move marginally shrinks the bloc of shares committed in
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    • 549 16  -  By P Peter J Brennan Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Compaq Computer Corp's Q4 results probably won't help Hew-lett-Packard convince critics that its planned US$24.B billion purchase of Compaq is the right move, investors said. "I don't think it will make a
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    • 757 17  -  SAYIhM Xt will be a win-win situation for local e-businesses and telcos if they work together to develop and deliver the next killer apps and services Darryl McKinnon The writer is regional program manager, e-business service provider, EMC South Asia. Technological innovation has never
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    • 813 17 23 of 25 polled expect it to miss profit target of 15 US cents a share Bloomberg [SCHAUMBURG, Illinois] Motorola Inc said last month that it will earn 15 US cents a share this year, before certain items. Many investors and analysts,
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    • 402 17 Reuters [NEW YORK] Personal computer sales, long a laggard in the technology sector, came back to life in December as holiday shoppers took advantage of low prices, but sales to businesses failed to reappear, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Fortuna said on Friday. "The
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    • 571 18  -  Lower prices, competition in long-distance calls force cnts which will affect 6% of phone-business workforce By I Dana Cimilluca AT&T Corp, the largest US long-distance telephone company, had US$l billion in pre-tax costs last quarter mainly for job cuts and will eliminate
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    • 526 18  -  Bloomberg's firm donates 35 terminals for nse by the mayor's staff By\ Edward Wyatt NYT [NEW YORK] As Mayor Michael Bloomberg sat in his office-without-walls in City Hall last week and posed for photos with his staff among the cubicles, New Yorkers and others
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    • 709 18 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] AOL Time Warner Inc, which lost a bid to double its cable television customers through an acquisition, will try to stem a slowdown in subscriber growth by selling new products such as movies on demand, the chief executive officer of
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    • 883 18  -  Industry expects fed IT budgets to go np by 15-20% By\ Renae Merle LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Uncle Sam may have been overshadowed by the dotcom mania of the late *****, but the recession and the war on terrorism have raised his profile. Government
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    • ON THE SHELF
      • 62 19 SAMSUNG Electronics has unveiled its first mobile phone— SGH-A4oo—targeted at female users in Singapore. "It comes with special functions like a calorie counter, a fatness calculator, a period cycle schedule and a bio rhythm gauge," Samsung said. The WAP-enabled phone costs $550, weighs 80 grams
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      • 51 19 US-BASED lomega Corp has unveiled its lomega Predator 24x10x40 USB 2.0 external CD-RW drive. It costs $459, supports USB 2.0 and USB 1.1, and provides near-universal connectivity with PCs. The CD-RW burns a 60-minute audio CD in less than four minutes, lomega said. For details, fax
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      • 48 19 CREATIVE Technology Ltd has launched its audio CD player CD-MP3 Player— which also plays music in MP3 format on CD-R and CD-RW media. It costs $189, weighs 205 grams and comes with a 130 by 40 pixel resolution display. For details, visit asia.creative.com.
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      • 80 19 HEWLETT-PACKARD has launched its HP Server tc2100 targeted at SMEs. It costs $2,399, runs on an Intel Pentium in 1.13 GHz processor and comes with a SCSI hard disk. HP also unveiled its extended battery pack for the Jornada Pocket PC 560 series. It
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      • 54 19 IBM Singapore has introduced its ultra-portable notebook ThinkPad s3l. It costs $3,500, weighs 1.41 kg. runs on an Intel Pentium m 600 MHz processor, and comes with a 15 GB hard disk, 128 MB RAM and a 10.4-inch XGA (1,024 by 768 pixels resolution) TFT display.
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      • 38 19 BORLAND Singapore has unveiled its Enterprise Studio 3 for Java. It helps streamline the modelling, development and deployment of Java applications, Borland said. Prices start at $8,552. For details, visit www. boriand.com. sg.
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      • 38 19 TAIWAN-BASED Lite-On IT Corp, which provides optical storage devices, has unveiled its 32-speed CD-RW drive—LTß-*****5. The drive costs $250 and offers 32-speed CD-R writing, 12-speed rewriting and 40-speed reading. For details, fax 276-0991.
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      • 46 19  -  Compiled by] Leo Kee Chye SINGAPORE'S Mobiwave Pte Ltd, which provides mobile wireless technology, has unveiled its Bluetooth Protocol Analyzer, BPA-D10. The US$6,500 product will shorten the time-to-market period for developers and manufacturers of Bluetooth-enabled devices, the company said. For details, fax 296-6670.
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    • 794 19  -  Talk about a good call Frank Lanza started L-3 before demand climbed for black boxes and spy gadgets By Michael Freedman FRANK C Lanza seemed to have picked an awful time to start a defence company. It was 1997, and the US government's defence budget
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    • 190 19 AP [NEW YORK] Thousands of Internet users who installed popular software for sharing music and other computer files also unwittingly accepted a program that tracked their Web-surfing habits. The companies that produce Lime Wire, Grokster and KaZaA have since posted new versions of their
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    • 350 19  -  By\ Nichola Groom Reuters [NEW YORK] Hopes that trading of bandwidth could turn out to be the next big thing have collapsed amid a glut of fibre optic cable and the bankruptcy of Enron Corp, its biggest proponent. Bandwidth the capacity of
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    • NET impact
      • 741 20  -  Until other governments accept our e-documents, we may well be living in a highly-wired world of our own, says v mathxvakam V MATHIVANAN The writer is CEO, Crimson Logic ABOUT 90 per cent of Singapore's businesses are run by SMEs (small and medium enterprises),
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      • 337 20  -  There were Net defacements worldwide in May 200 L This dropped to 815 in Sept: study Reports by Raju Chellam THERE was a marked decrease in global website defacements after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the US "as hackers realised the dangers
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      • 249 20 INTERNET Service Providers (ISPs) in the Asia-Pacif-ic region outside of Japan spent a record U552.24 billion on IT last year, up 41 per cent over 2000, according to researcher IDC (International Data Corp). Spending on IT by ISPs saw annual growth rates of
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    • 43 15 Make Microsoft Email Unbreakable Run Microsoft Outlook on Oracle Database Clusters. Cant break it. Cant break in. oracle.com Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation Other names may be trademarts of their respective owners 1
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    • 136 16 AOL plans new products to stem slowdown, Pg 6 vl. >1 NEW CHEQUE CLEARING SYSTEM! TRUMCMOB In September 2002, the banking industry in Singapore will be launching a new cheque clearing system called the CHEQUE TRUNCATION SYSTEM, using image technology. gjgj JP JP We haVe specia y re<,es '9 necl
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 628 21  -  MPA joining forces with other parties to trace source of fuel contamination Reports by\ Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has teamed up with the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) to draw up an accreditation scheme for
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    • 131 21 NEW legislation known as Singapore Standard CP 77 came into effect on Jan 1 requiring all bunker surveyors be licensed by MPA. On the same day, longfought for amendments to existing legislation came into effect requiring all bunker barges in Singapore to provide approved
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    • 380 21  -  In earlier incident tanker spilled chemicals in S'pore waters By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] A Vietnamese cargo vessel capsized at Jurong Port late on Saturday night, spilling part of its cargo and stopping traffic at affected berths just hours after cleanup crews had finished
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    • 237 21 AFP [PARIS] The outlook for the world's shipbuilding industry does not appear encouraging, the major body concerned with the state of the industry said in an official statement released following two recent workshops. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) Council Working Party on
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    • 790 22  -  LZMER SCENE By David Hughes T| WO major container ports were in the news, one because of what it said about its prospects and the other for what it might have said but decided not to, for now at least. Port of Rotterdam's
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      • 208 31 January 14 Japan: Adulthood Day Jtmury 21 United States: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday January 24 Australia: Australia Day February New Zealand: Waitangi Day February 11 Japan: National Foundation Day Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve Vietnam: Chinese New Year Eve February 12 Brunei: Chinese New Year China: Chinese
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      • 791 31 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 590 32 Its im&£9 bus suffered, rivals are polling ahead and planned 13% stake sale is delayed AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International has started the new year by re-launch-ing the quest for a leader who can get the airline to shrug off
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      • 235 32 AFX [TAIPEI] EVA Airways said the company does not plan further salary or job cuts after cuts initiated in 2001. "Salary and job cuts stop here," EVA Air president Kitty Yen said. Ms Yen also reaffirmed her confidence
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      • 326 32 Drop of 10.4% in passengers carried in Dec an improvement AP [LONDON] British Airways (BA) announced that it carried 10.4 per cent fewer passengers in December than a year earlier, but said the steep decline triggered by the Sept 11 terrorist attacks had
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      • LOG Book
        • 113 32 AFP [LONDON] A private business jet burst into flames on the runway before crashing on take-off on Friday at Birmingham International airport with five people feared dead, an airport spokesman said. The twin-engined Canadair Challenger was bound for Bangor, Maine in the US
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        • 83 32 Bloomberg [LONDON] Go Fly Ltd, a low-cost airline sold by British Airways in June, said December passenger numbers rose 57 per cent after it grew capacity. Go is owned by venture capital company 3i Group pic. Passengers rose to 340,384 last month from 216,413 in
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      • 315 32 Reuters [CHICAGO] Boeing Co, the world's largest maker of commercial airplanes, said on Thursday it delivered 144 jets in the fourth quarter, boosting its total for the full year to 527, five more than it projected after the Sept
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      • 95 32 WASHINTON] This image courtesy of American Science and Engineering, Inc shows a Backscatter X-ray of a man. The recent bomb scare aboard American Airlines Flight 63from Paris to Miami in which the suspect attempted to blow-up the plane by igniting C-4 explosives hidden in his
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