The Business Times, 17 January 2002

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  • 12 1 MfTA (P) 107/03/2001 85* SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial com.sg/ THURSDAY. JANUARY 17. 2002
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  • 631 1  -  It sees contraction in first two quarters and rebound in H2 Byi Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Economic growth this year could well come in within the positive half of the official forecast that is, between zero and 2 per cent says the Monetary
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  • 618 1  -  Banks h66d unionists'appeals to postpone retrenchments By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Thousands of bank employees have won a month's reprieve, with United Overseas Bank and OCBC Bank agreeing to hold off retrenchments until after Chinese New Year (CNY). UOB said yesterday there
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  • 506 1  -  Analysts link quick resale to deferred payment scheme By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] A handful of recently launched apartments some sold barely a month ago have surfaced in the secondary market a clear sign that owners are aiming for a quick buck from the improved sentiment
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  • 55 1 Bloomberg INEW YORK] Stocks fell across the board in early trade, led by chip and computer shares after No. 1 chipmaker Intel said it was slashing capital spending this year. The Nasdaq Composite lost 26.28 points to 1,974.63. The Dow Jones shed 95.35 points, or 0.96
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  • 524 1  -  By\ Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] Ho Ching has been appointed a director of Temasek Holdings, the government investment holding company. A Temasek statement yesterday also said Khaw Boon Wan stepped down as a Temasek director on Oct 22. Mr Khaw, a former senior
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    • 87 1 Top stortes Venture set to lead tech firms with stellar profit again: analysts. P9* SlAEngg shares jump a sharp 10%. Pg 5 Economic restructuring needs political reforms? Pg 9 y v \y* Qenttng unit shortlisted for Macau licence: report Pg 12 China prof warns of stock market collapse. Pg 12
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    • 10 1 Acia-Pao office locations among world's cheapest, Executive Suite, Pg 8
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    • 47 1 Silicon Valley chiefs upbeat fJ! X? ITUit Biz IT Tech workers still earning big bucks New impetus for tech ties BVLG A R I i I Ik* m I I i i! I IE Ml iJn V ii m l"i i' I! t i a I />/</, i
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    • 16 1 MAS REPORT r vW'l MAS explains forecasting errors EU'< tronics iiulir.try outlook Labour market to Aorse
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    • 860 2  -  Teeh firm CEOs see better times soon; but consumers in region still wary Front, Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THE mood in Silicon Valley received a lift over the weekend, with the publication of two optimistic reports on its economy and outlook,
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    • 663 2  -  Fond unhappy with debt extension plan, say sources From 1 Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA is set on a collision course with the International Monetary Fund this time over the government's lenient treatment of former bankers who owe the state billions of dollars. Although
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 122 2 HEDGE funds used to be open only to the well-heeled entry was usually restricted to those willing to invest at least US$lOO,OOO. This year though, things look set to change in the US, with hedge funds tailoring products for the small investor willing to part
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      • 88 2 CHINA is attracting a host of foreign R&D institutes that see the country's pool of scientific personnel and huge market as a great opportunity. Last year, 55 items of technology worth 2.659 billion yuan (SssBs million), developed by foreign R&D firms, were sold on the Beijing technical
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      • 142 2 IF a colourful flyer now circulating on the Net is to be believed, Microsoft Corp has a new version of its Windows operating system specially for Singapore users. It's called Windows KS and anyone who needs to have that spelt out can't be Singaporean, right?. In this
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    • 12 2 Imdon recovery hangs on Ibra's sincerity, Pg 10 More reports, Pg 14
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  • FOCUS mas report
    • 615 4  -  It will work with other government agencies to identify database gaps and weaknesses By. Anna Teo THE Monetary Authority of Singapore is out to improve its forecasting ability, following the need to keep revising the official economic growth projections in the past two
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    • 517 4  -  Byt Serena Ng THE Monetary Authority of Singapore remains cautious on whether the tentative signs of improvement seen in the global electronics industry are sustainable, or if they are due merely to the seasonal year-end demand pick-up. But it noted in a report yesterday
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    • 243 4 Reuters [SINGAPORE] The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has said it will not rule out widening the band within which the local currency is allowed to trade if the yen should turn more volatile, market sources said yesterday. But economists who attended the
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    • 625 4  -  By i Chuang Peck Ming IT will get worse before it gets better on the job front this year, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore in its latest Macroeconomic Review report. More layoffs are expected in the coming months while wages,
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    • 436 4  -  By< Christopher Tan THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has discovered what motorists here have long suspected: Car retail prices do not necessarily move in tandem with currency rates. In its January 2002 Macroeconomic Review, the MAS Economics Department makes the observation in a
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 581 5  -  For 2001 results, most will straggle to cat loss or stay profitable; worst conld be over By I Serena Ng HIGH flier Venture Manufacturing is expected to be the star of the coming results reporting season for tech companies,
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    • 295 5 SINGAPORE Telecom's Australian subsidiary Optus said yesterday its chief financial officer and deputy chief executive Norman Gillespie will leave the company at the end of next month. Optus is conducting a worldwide search for a new CFO. And chief executive Chris Anderson said an
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    • 323 5  -  Company nn&w&re of any reasons for the sodden hike By Conrad Raj INVESTORS appear to have taken a sudden interest in SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC), pushing up its stock a hefty 10 per cent in active trade yesterday. More than 5.8 million shares
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    • 160 5 Dow Jones Newswires FRASER Neave Ltd (F&N) expects to invest more than US$4O million over time in its Vietnam dairy business, the food and beverage company said yesterday. The main-board-listed firm broke ground at its six-hectare site there, on which it has
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    • 425 7  -  But analysts still calling a'boy'on potential positive earnings upgrade By Angela Tan SHARES of meat producer People's Food Holdings, a hot China play among punters, ended almost 11 per cent lower at 88 cents yesterday after GK Goh's 50-million-share placement triggered fears of
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    • 366 7 Invited bankers quoted as saying listing could be as early as March CAPITALAND said yesterday that it has set up a supervisory team to review the structure for the proposed listing of its Sing Mall Property Trust (SPT). Bloomberg quoted bankers who have been
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    • 257 7  -  Vasuki Shastry Director (Corporate Communications) Planning. Policy Communications Department Monetary Authority of Singapore WE refer to the letter "Need also to look at costs of retail fund managers" from Wen Yixiang (BT Mailbag, Jan 11, 2002). While generally welcoming the recent MAS rulings
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 76 7 AFX-Asia INNO-PACIFIC Holdings said it will not proceed with its proposed acquisition 0f320,000 shares, or a 20 per cent stake, in Health One Pte Ltd. The company said Health One had failed to provide certain information needed to complete due diligence on the company. Inno-Pac
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      • 102 7 GENEMEDIX pic, the UK-based Singapore-listed biopharmaceutical products company, has made the initial sales of its first product GM-CSF (granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor) in China. Sales began in December 2001 under the product name Neustim. Following consultation with the Malaysian National Pharmaceutical Central Bureau, a clinical trial
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      • 110 7 Bloomberg GES International shares suffered their biggest decline in seven weeks after the electronics maker said it has no immediate plans to sell shares in its Digiland International in the US following the Sept 11 attacks. GES has surged 27 per cent since December
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      • 120 7 Reuters DBS Vickers Securities has upgraded Keppel Corp (KepCorp) to an outperform due to new contracts secured by Keppel FELS Energy, its utilities services arm. DBS said in a report it has raised KepCorp's earnings by 25 per cent for 2002 and 20 per cent for
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    • 190 7 MILLENNIUM Copthorne, the hotel arm of tycoon Kwek Leng Beng's Hong Leong Group Singapore, has expanded into the Middle East. It has won contracts to manage two five-star hotels in the United Arab Emirates Millennium Hotel Abu Dhabi and Millennium Hotel Sharjah. Both are scheduled
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    • 201 7  -  Ong Khiaw Hong Director (Taxation) Ministry of Finance I REFER to the letter "Lift tax load on all annuitants" by A K Tay (Mailbag, Jan 14). The writer claimed that because income from annuities unlike returns from single-premium insurance policies is not completely tax-exempt,
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    • 781 7  -  hock I f.!J !U W)M quak hiang whai IT WAS exactly five years ago that "Red Chip fever" swept across Hong Kong on the eve of the handover of the former British colony to China. Red chips that is, Hong Kong companies
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    • 124 7 CREATIVE design and management education group Raffles LaSalle yesterday clarified its growth figures. In an article based on an interview with the company's founder and chief executive officer, Chew Hua Seng, BT wrote that Prof Chew was confident of a 30plus per cent rise
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      304 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 16 VALUE CLOSE BTOWDS 253.CX) -310.00 BTCAtt -*****.00 -195.00 BT10-*ayMA -*****.00 +25.00 WWM»I1 441.05 -4.72 Ebct 143.20 4.67 SCI EqmMM Fta 1428.69 -19.39 SQrpjMiihM 460.65 -10.19 HCHlBgip in 208.98 -2.73 SWCIUni people's Food HGK 50c 92.214.000 MfS Tech 10c 52.915,000 Vikaylnd5c 47.804.000 ChinaAvOil 5c 21,658.000 Keppel
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    • 262 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WABRAMT By Ven Sreenivasan THE performance of Keppel Corp's stock in the past week is nothing short of amazing. It has soared a whopping 17 per cent in five sessions, closing eight cents higher yesterday at $3.44 its best finish
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    • 713 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy HAS Wall Street fully discounted the poor fourth-quar-ter earnings that US companies will surely report? Or has the desire to buy into a liquidity-driven rally overshadowed fundamental considerations? Just how prepared is the Singapore market for the likelihood that local firms will
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    • 585 6  -  BTM.I.'.I.'.MUM CURRENCIES Those with near-term US$ requirements may want to lock in part of needs larry wee THE release of better-than-expected US retail sales figures overnight stemmed the greenback's recent slide, and while Intel's warning of lower 2002 expenditure limited its gains, it survived an
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  • 2796 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Cltiflond Spore A*t 1 20V CitiBond Spore 8/1 122» Oti Money Sing Dollar Class B 1 0359/ ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Citi Pan-Europe Equrty Fund 1.07/ Star Europe Eqty!* 0 80& CrtiSetect Asia Tilt Balanced 129/ Star Europe Bd 0 99*1 CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 123/
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    • 486 7 CHEW EU HOCK HOLDINGS LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at 58 Kalang Pudding Road. C.E.H. Industrial Building, Singapore *****0 on 8 February 2002 at 3.30 p.m. (or as
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
    • 711 8  -  Others like S'pore, Tokyo, HE and Taipei see falls in office occupancy costs: DTZ poll By Kalpana Rashiwala ASIA-PACIFIC cities dominated last year's ranking of 10 most competitive global office locations as office occupancy costs in the region slid 11 per cent during
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    • 621 8  -  STpore firms need not compete In the overcrowded home sector when opportunities In Asia beckon By i Choe Peng Sum The writer is the chief operating officer of Fraser Serviced Residences, a Singapore-based management company for five-star serviced apartments CHINA. China. China. It seems like the only
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    • 211 8 Bloomberg [LONDON] DTZ Holdings pic, a UK real estate company that provides investment and consulting services from Kiev in Ukraine to Bogota in Colombia, said firsthalf profit rose 7 per cent on higher revenue at its consulting business. Net income rose
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    • 440 8 John Hong credited with doubling Wharf stock in 93-94 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] John Hung, one of the few executives to stay after Wharf Holdings Ltd changed to Hong Kong Chinese ownership from British control in 1980, will retire as executive director on Feb 1,
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 472 9  -  IPS ANNUAL CONFERENCE NUS don wonders whether a dominant one-party system can withstand nuyor crisis By. Eugene Low CAN the remaking of Singapore's economy be truly successful without accompanying political reforms? This was the question posed by National University of Singapore professor Hussin Mutalib yesterday
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    • 348 9  -  By. Loh Hui Yin THERE is now much better understanding between the Singapore and Chinese partners in managing the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), after sorting out their earlier differences, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. "Our interactions and exchanges have enabled
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    • 329 9  -  By < Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S ardent pursuit of free trade pacts was yesterday likened to that of a promiscuous lover. But there's nothing morally wrong with Singapore's trade policy, argued Tommy Koh, its chief negotiator for the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA). "To be
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    • 163 9 BUSINESS park and industrial space provider Ascendas announced yesterday that Stanbridge International managing director and former member of parliament Lew Syn Pau has taken over as chairman from Major-General (NS) Lim Neo Chian. Ascendas is a unit of JTC Corporation, where MajGen (NS) Lim
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 766 10  -  HEHSira OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent THE US-led anti-terrorism campaign and the growing tensions between Pakistan and India have ignited a serious debate in Washington on the direction of US policy towards Islamabad US officials and lawmakers have been focusing
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    • 78 10 'For the viewers, for Larry, for us, for everybody, it's a great decision to know that Larry will be there in that position for years to come.' Jamie Keflner chairman of CNN parent Turner Broadcasting, after CNN agreed to a four-year contract extension with talk-show host Larry
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    • 540 10 EDITORIAL EVEN though Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji arrived in New Delhi when India's armed forces were —and still are —in a state of high alert on the country's border with Pakistan, the main intent of the Chinese leader's six-day visit is clear: to boost bilateral economic
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    • 969 10  -  Suspicions that the agency is favouring ex-owners of assets it controls will impede the country's economic recovery From Shoeb Kagda The writer is BT's Jakarta correspondent in Jakarta THE new year could not have got off to a worse start for the Indonesian Bank
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    • 820 10  -  COMMENTARY That's one Tigpr that'll likely leave almost all of Aria trailing this year By' William Pecek Jr The writer is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. FOUR years ago, it took just two words to inspire panic among
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 372 12 KUALA LUMPUR 8 others said to be in list, but Macau says 18 still in race GENTING Bhd has been short-listed in the fierce race to secure one of the three casino licences in Macau, according to a report yesterday. The Star said
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    • 392 12  -  From Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur PULAU Tioman, an island off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, will soon enjoy duty free status, in a bid to increase visitor arrivals to the popular diving and holiday resort. Federal authorities are understood to be working on
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    • 196 12 SHANGHAI AFX THE Chinese stock markets are now at a "critical point between life and death", and the government should immediately halt all share issues via the markets, in order to protect them from the risk of a sudden collapse, Fudan University professor
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    • NOTE Book
      • 56 12 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the government plane to expand all its ports. "We want to expand all our ports, notjuBtPTP(PortofTaitfungPelepas). We are as strategic as Singapore," he said. He was asked to comment on Evergreen Marine shifting its regional transshipment
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      • 68 12 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] A group of companies led by New World Development Co has won rights to develop a HK42 billion (***** million) property project with MTR Corp, next to the new Tseung Kwan O rail station the subway operator is building. I%e group
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      • 50 12 Reuters [BEIJING] China will allow China Construction Bank, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Agricultural Bank of China to Issue long-term bonds and list stock in a major financial reform aimed at boosting their capital, state television said yesterday.—Reuters
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      • 82 12 AFP [JAKARTA] An Indonesian body charged with monitoring business practices yesterday began investigating reports of alleged collusion in the government's bid to sell its shares in the country's largest private bank, Bank Central Asia (BCA.) "We will summon the parties concerned including the Indonesian
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      • 93 12 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysia is unlikely to change the ringgit's peg to the US dollar for some time, International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said in a report yesterday. "Businessmen should concentrate on doing business. The ringgit peg will not be changed—at least
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    • 417 14 JAKARTA He is charged with corruption after giving funds to 3 non-eligible banks AFP, AFX A FORMER director of Indonesia's central bank was accused yesterday of causing some 6.3 trillion rupiah (Ssl.l billion) in losses to the state by abusing his powers. Prosecutor Firdaus
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    • 298 14 AFP [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government is planning to set up a new institution to replace the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) when its terms end in 2004, the country's top economic minister said yesterday. "There are already some thoughts to form a new institution to
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    • 475 17 BEIJING Rate cut, more govt spending aimed at keeping growth at last year's 7.3% Bloomberg Reuters CHINA may cut interest rates as soon as next month and plans to pump more money into the economy as it aims to keep growth close to
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 91 17 Reuters [BEIJING] China has sentenced a former city vice-mayor to death for pocketing millions of yuan in bribes, some of which he lavished on a teenaged girlfriend, the China News Service said yesterday. Li Yushu was convicted on Tuesday by a court in the Sichuan
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      • 68 17 Oana-Koydo [TAIPEI] Taiwan's cabinet yesterday decided to free up imports of some9oo agricultural and more than 1,200 industrial product categories from China in the first liberalisation of Chinese imports since the island became a formal member of the World Trade Organization. The cabinet also
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      • 85 17 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] United Microelectronics Corp of Taiwan, which said 55 per cent of its chip-making operations were idle in the fourth quarter, expects to sell about a third of its equipment as part of an effort to return to profit The second largest maker of
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      • 69 17 Reuters [BOMBAY] Unlisted Indian companies win be allowed to list on the country's bourses through initial public offerings of debt instruments, market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India said yesterday. But the debt issue should have an investment-grade rating and should be rated
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    • 438 17 BEIJING Integrity issue could dissuade foreign investors FT AN investigation into alleged wrongdoings by the former president of the Bank of China is set to delay the stock market listing of the bank's Hong Kong subsidiary, official sources and analysts said yesterday.
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    • 255 17 AFP [BEIJING] China's celebrated army of terracotta warriors, already under attack from mould and mildew, could be feeing an even greater danger—being Hated on China's atock exchange Yesterday's English language China Daily reported that a debate has been raging for three years on whether or
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    • 243 17 HONGKONG Bloomberg ANDERSEN defended its audit of a Hong Kong-based printing firm that failed in a bid to sell shares last year, after regulators asked the industry association to investigate the audit. Arranger DBS Asia Capital Ltd pulled out of the US$B.3
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    • 586 18 WASHINGTON Analysts say Fed may cat rates again even as industrial output falls in Dec Reuters, Bloomberg AFX, AFP US consumer prices fell in December amid plunging energy costs, the government said yesterday in a report that may bolster expectations for a cut
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      • 128 18 Reuters [DETROIT] General Motors Corp yesterday said its fourth quarter earnings before one-time items dropped 58 per cent due to higher marketing costs and cuts in production as a result of the weakening US economy. The world's largest automaker said earnings fell to
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      • 123 18 Bloomberg [FORT WORTH, Texas] American Airlines parent AMR Corp had a record loss of US$796 million in the fourth quarter as a US recession and the Sept 11 hijackings reduced travel demand and led to lower fares. Its loss of US$5.l7 a share came
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      • 127 18 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines, the fifth largest US carrier, had a US$l49 million loss in the fourth quarter as ticket sales and flares declined after the Sept 11 terrorist hijackings. The loss on a per-share basis was US$2.5B, compared with net income of US$44 million, or
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    • 502 18 NEW YORK USsBo7m Enron write-offs bring Q4 loss to USs332m Bloomberg JP Morgan Chase Co, the second-largest US bank, said it lost US$332 million in the fourth quarter as it wrote off loans to bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp and in
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    • 258 18 NEW YORK Bloomberg CITIGROUP Inc named Robert Willumstad president of the biggest financial services company, making him the leading candidate to succeed Sanford Weill, who is 68, as chief executive officer. Mr Willumstad, 56, will remain head of the company's consumer group, which
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    • 728 19  -  It will also step np govt bond purchases in efforts to boost liquidity From* Anthony Rowley in Tokyo IN a further sign of the fragility of Japan's financial system, the Bank of Japan is to extend the range of collateral it will accept in return for
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    • 744 20 ENRON SAGA It says he ordered destruction of documents as SEC began Enron probe NYT [WASHINGTON] Accounting firm Andersen fired its partner in charge of auditing the Enron Corp on Tuesday, saying he had ordered the destruction of thousands of documents and email
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    • 109 20 LAT-WP. NTT [HOUSTON] Sharron VUkim, «,becene a national figure in the Bnronsifirir this week after th»dieck> sore of hsr August totter warning Mkm company executives of questionable accounting mwu'ii.^ In the cutthroat business culture of now-bank-rupt Boron Corp, where tonghnsas and a sharp tongue
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  • BIZIT
    • 657 21  -  Silicon Valley CEOs want Bush administration to help enable all 100 million US homes and small businesses with broadband access at 100 Mbps by 2010 Reports from Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley IN a conference call on Tuesday, a group of
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    • 519 21 Average pay of U5576,800 in 2001 mere than twice the national average THINK there's no more money in tech? Think again. A report to be released tomorrow by a Silicon Valley civics group shows that average pay in high-tech industries is
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    • 349 21 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] 3Com Corp is cutting 500 jobs, or about 8.5 per cent of its workforce, to help the maker of networking gear return to profitability, excluding some costs, by its fiscal fourth quarter. 3Com also said it is transferring
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    • 241 21  -  By I Serena Ng APPLE Computer yesterday introduced its new, flatscreen iMac in Singapore, its first in the first Asia-Pa-cific, a week after its unveiling at Mac World in San Francisco. Potential customers here, however, will have to wait a few weeks before the sleek systems
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    • 331 21 Bitneteiriiip still dewi 77% from a year agt AP [SAN JOSE, California] Intel Corp's Q4 earnings easily beat Wall Street expectations, suggesting the world's largest chip maker has hit the bottom of the economic slump. But even with stronger-than-expected results, especially in the sales of
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    • 617 22  -  INFOTECH Suttee's deal with Malaysia's MLabs shows why It's time to step op technology collaboration between the two neighbours Kenneth James The writer is BT's Technology Editor SUNTEC City, Singapore's largest integrated office-retail-exhibition complex, bills itself as Asia's Vertical Silicon Valley. And
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    • 577 22  -  By Paul Chan ONCE the superstar of the Hong Kong stock market. Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd has been unusually subdued in the past year. Its low profile is in stark contrast to its halcyon days in 2000 when CyberWorks, headed by wunderkind Richard
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    • 293 23 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose eight points to 964, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained 16 points to 1,061, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) fell five points to 6,810 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up eight points to 1,052. TtMB-GHARTER: ♦Sanko Oasis (built 1996)
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    • 630 23  -  'Commercially aggressive policy' being pursued to win back some of the feeder traffic Reports by 1 Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Europe's busiest container port at Rotterdam suffered a similar fate to Singapore over the past year after Maersk Sealand moved its feeder
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    • 158 23 [SINGAPORE] Despite a global economic slowdown and the US war on terrorism unfolding next door, Pakistan's main port of Karachi posted a 3.54 per cent rise in overall cargo handling for the second half of 2001 year-on-year. The figures released recently by the
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    • PORT Shots
      • 76 23 AFX [SEOUL] Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd said it has signed a final contract to sell its three local container terminals to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd unit Hutchison Pot! Holdings for US$2l5 million as part of its corporate restructuring. Hyundai Merchant Marine will continue to provide container
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      • 49 23 [SINGAPORE] The Republic of Moldova has become the 161 st member of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The landlocked Balkan country deposited an instrument of acceptance of the Convention on the IMO as amended, with the Secretary General of the United Nations, a statement said.
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      • 52 23 [SINGAPORE] Italian shipping line Lloyd Triestino has introduced on online cargo tracking facility. Using either the bill of lading or container number, customers can track the physical location of their cargo via the LT website, enabling them to estimate the time of arrival at the ultimate
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    • 194 23 [SINGAPORE] The French Port of Le Havre has recorded "a very significant rise in transhipments" in 2001, accounting for 25.9 per cent of its container trade compared with 20.6 per cent in 2000. Reflective of a growing worldwide attraction to smaller regional ports
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    • 391 23  -  20 countries, including S'pore, call for new measures to fight marine pollution Frorrn Anthony Rowley in Tokyo A ministerial conference on transport issues ended in Tokyo yesterday, calling for the eliminating of substandard ships in the fight against marine pollution. The two-day meeting
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    • 596 23 But correction seen in Asian rates as charterers balk Reuters [LONDON] Freight rates for transporting large cargoes of grain and other bulk commodities have continued to surge for a second week this year, boosted by strong trading conditions in the Atlantic, brokers said. However,
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      • 792 24 Commercial air travel may be down but demand for air charter services has been growing since Sept 11 Reuters [CHICAGO] RECESSION and terrorism may have dented many segments of business travel but not the air charter industry and for reasons that may not be
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      • 210 30 January 21 United States: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday January 28 Australia: Australia Day February 1 Malaysia: Federal Territory Day February 6 New Zealand: Waitangi Day Februai? 11 Japan: National Foundation Day Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve Vietnam: Chinese New Year Eve February 12 Brunei: Chinese New Year
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      • 818 30 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 averagesized stem Market movements are indi cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 584 31 AMERICAN AIRLINES CRASH More tests needed to determine if it occurred before or after accident AP [WASHINGTON] US Federal safety investigators said they have discovered internal damage in the tail fin of the American Airlines jet that crashed last November in
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      • 218 31 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp chairman and chief executive officer John Creighton told United Airlines employees that they must provide cost reductions of several billion dollars in coming years. The company laid out that goal in presentations last week to a presidential board reviewing a
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      • 207 31 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's sec-ond-ranked Asiana Airlines is considering a long-term jet fuel deal at a fixed price with local refiners, Asiana said yesterday. "We've been considering a long-term jet fuel buying in an effort to hedge oil price risk and talking to local
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      • 312 31 Bloomberg [TOKYO] IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Ltd (IHI), Japan's biggest jet engine maker, has agreed to supply parts for an engine being developed by the UK's Rolls- Royce pic to power Airbus SAS's proposed 555seat A3BO jetliner. The Japanese machinery maker has partnered
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      • LOG Book
        • 94 31 AFP [KARACHI] A Pakistani airline flight to New York with 250 passengers on board was forced to land minutes after takeoff yesterday when a fire alarm went off in the cockpit, an official said. "Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-721 scheduled for New
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        • 39 31 AFP [BANGKOK] Heavy smog hanging over Bangkok International Airport forced several flights to be diverted and delayed early yesterday, officials said. The fog eased after an hour, allowing normal services to resume, they said.—AFP
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      • 308 31 Bloomberg [ROME] Alitalia SpA said it may fire workers if unions fail to agree by the end of March to reduced hours, pay cuts and other ways to scale back the workforce at Europe's fifth-biggest airline by 11 per cent. The carrier
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      • 452 31 Creation from old Swissair checking to see if selected name is already registered Reuters [ZURICH] Air Swiss, Swiss Air Lines or Swiss Airways? The brand name of Switzerland's new national airline being created from the rump of collapsed Swissair remained shrouded in
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      • 607 32  -  Shekou Container Terminals and Shenzhen Chiwan Kaifeng Terminals will feed 40 liner services using the western Shenzhen terminals, reports p t bamosbero P T BANGSBERG CHINA'S southern Port of Shekou is now offering dedicated barge services to and from western Shenzhen terminals along
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      • 163 32 [SINGAPORE] Maersk Logistics has completed its South American coverage, opening new offices in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela before the new year. Signalling the completion of a 12 month roll-out plan to cover the continent, Maersk Logistics has added a single office in
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      • 190 32 Bloomberg [AKRON, Ohio] Roadway Corp, owner of the second-largest US trucking company, began arranging air- freight shipments, entering an estimated US$5O billion annual market to expand ways to provide faster service to customers. The new Roadway Air service, which will use other companies
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    • 131 30 3lO^r^?THFß W^^^t 17 jan 2002 vmi T Sar^! LEGEND: Issued by Meteorological Service Singapore K Thunderstorm Showers X\ Rain Temperature 'C-V Cloudy Day Weath <* W,nd d.rect.on and speed in knots k*" o Hazy Wind speed symbols Sea Conditions O Full circle w/o line indicates calm or light and variable
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