The Business Times, 8 February 2002

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITAifiUO7/03/2001 85c SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg/ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2002
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  • 79 1 m 1,***** (-31.50) BT-SRI 71L66 (-9.62) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,72L00 (-37.00) smsa FUTURES ***** (-5.80) STOCK MARKET INDICES Thursday Change KLSE COMP 707.68 -7.54 NIKKEI 225 9.588.27 +162.42 HANG SENG _10.409.68 -182.71 SET INDEX 346.77 -1.40 JAKARTA COMP _***** -13.04 MANILA COMP .*****4 -2754 TAIPEI WP1 dosed SEOUL
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  • 66 1 FOREX RATES US$ SI t"S$ (SS per US$) 1.832 £(l'S$/S$ per —1.412 1587 ElHO(l'S$/S$/E). 0.867 1.588 DM 1257 1132 YEN 134.0 73.10 RM 3.800 1074 HKS 7800 4156 BAHT 43.90 23.95 RIT1AH ***** 5,613 NUMERATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 Kl'ALA LfMFTR 640 HONGKONG 5.125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 6725 TOKYO 1.375 SEOIL
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  • 644 1  -  l-iriexclusive Parent's $2-30-&-share offer to delist unit could pave way for Toyota Byi Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Inchcape Motors may be snapped up by Toyota Motors should a proposed delisting of the company go through. Yesterday, its London-based parent Inchcape pic offered to buy
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  • 725 1 ALLIED IRISH SCANDAL Nothing learnt if Barings collapse didn't prevent Allied Irish scandal Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP [LONDON] Nick Leeson yesterday slammed the financial industry for failing to learn from his US$l.4 billion trading losses which brought down Barings Bank seven years ago and prevent
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  • 695 1  -  StarHnb Mobile, Sun Page, ZONEISII in the fray By Andrea Tan, Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] A price war has broken out in the international direct dialing (IDD) arena with Star Hub Mobile firing the latest salvo, waiving IDD charges for
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 156 2 ECONOMISTS may be predicting a recovery this year, but at least one feng shui expert seems to have a different view. Master Ong Thiam Peng of the I-Ching Geomancy Centre who claims to have done feng shui readings in, among other places, Silicon Valley says the
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      • 83 2 AN officer representing DBS on the phone was very excited when pushing the bank's new credit line to existing customers. In a phone call to one customer, who was "selected as a pre-approved candidate for the new cash line", he fixed an appointment to
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      • 83 2 THAILAND may ban the use of handphones by motorists to reduce road accidents, which on average kill about two Thais an hour. Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has told the Koo Sod newspaper that "a driver, even using a hands-free set, may bump into another car in
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    • 502 2  -  Showflats, brochures are to clear its backlog and not to compete with developers, says its chief By* Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Despite fancy showflats and glitzy sales brochures, the Housing and Development Board says it is not out to compete with private
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    • 609 2  -  Pro-tem committee looking at $72m from members, $28m from loans By I Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The pro-tem committee set up by several members of Pinetree Town and Country Club yesterday said it hopes to raise around $72 million from around 6,000 club members
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    • 702 2  -  Moves to make clients disclose ratio of audit, non-audit fees By I Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The government is studying whether it is necessary to apply singlecustomer limits a common requirement in the banking industry to auditors in order to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 425 3  -  Venture, D&tacr&ft among counters hit By' Ven Sreenivasan US technology giant Cisco Systems stumbled on Nasdaq on Wednesday, sending tremors through regional technology stocks. In Singapore, the SGX Electronics index fell by 3 per cent or 5.07 points to 152.5 points
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    • 593 3  -  lock siew lee han shih THE Singapore government's rush to limit possible conflict-of-interest situations involving auditors might only be as useful as George Bush attacking Afghanistan a great deal of sound and fury but, at the end of the day, not exactly effective. Osama
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    • 468 3  -  Ny Teh Hooi Ling HELPED by its success in the broadband and corporate sectors, Nasdaq-listed Pacific Internet yesterday reported its fifth consecutive improved quarter, with increased revenues and operating earnings and narrowing net losses. Management is now aiming to return to profitability by
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    • COMPANY Briefs
      • 65 5 ASA Group Holdings has Invested a further US$lO million In Its China unit, Shanghai ASA Ceramic Co, which It set up with Shanghai Xixiang Industrial Co in 1906 to make and trade in high-end ceramic tiles. Shanghai Xixiang is owned by the Chinese government
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      • 81 5 LIAN Beng Group says its subsidiaries Deenn Engineering and Lian Beng Construction have secured two construction contracts worth a total of $129.97 million. Deenn has won a contract to design and build a military camp. Lian Beng Construction has won a contract from Blue
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      • 76 5 Reuters INVESTMENT firm BIL International yesterday sold shares in beverage group Fraser Neave for a third straight day, cutting its stake to 9.909 per cent. BIL sold 1.46 million shares at $8.1013 each through its unit Inscribe Investments. The sales mark a reversal by BIL,
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      • 126 5 VERTEX Venture Holdings has proposed a two-for-five rights issue at 25 cents a share to raise as much as $89.6 million. The venture capital arm of government-controlled conglomerate Singapore Technologies says the funds will be used to finance investments, reduce short-term borrowings and for working
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      • 67 5 Reuters TREK 2000 International said yesterday its unit Trekstor USA has formed a partnership with iGo Corp to market its Thumb Drive mobile data-storage device. Nasdaq-listed iGo, a US mobile and wireless-accessory solutions provider, will market the Thumb Drive under its Road Warrior
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    • 509 5  -  Share placement to buy sites, develop properties only for Anssie institutions By\ Kalpana Rashiwala CAPITALAND subsidiary Australand Holdings is raising at least Asso million (5546.5 million) through an underwritten share placement to Australian institutions. The funds will be used for site acquisitions, continued development of
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    • 410 5 Bloomberg, LAT-WP [HAMILTON, Bermuda] The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining accounting practices at Global Crossing Ltd, the fi-bre-optic network operator that filed for bankruptcy protection last week, people familiar with the investigation said. Investigators are probing claims by former Global Crossing vice-president of
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    • 254 5  -  By Adeline Chia The Singapore fund management industry has contributed $10,000 to help Afghan refugees. The donation was made yesterday through the Investment Fund Awards (IFA) Committee to the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) for its Singapore Afghan Refugee Relief Mission. Euleen Goh, chief
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    • 324 6  -  Earnings boosted by B&t&m plant, better product mix and cost efficiency By. David Boey BEYONICS Technology's half-time earnings shot up 116 per cent to $8.6 million, buoyed by a new plant on Batam, a better product mix and greater cost-effi-ciency. The mainboard-listed
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    • 208 6  -  By Eugene Low VENTURE capitalist kl Ventures yesterday announced a US$l4.2 million investment in Prime Co Wireless, the fourth largest wireless company servicing Chicago and the surrounding area, kl has also formalised a previous understanding with GIC Special Investments (GICSI) to form
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      309 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 7 VALUE CLOSE BT OMOS 27.00 >203.00 BTCAM -*****.00 -176.00 BTlt-*vMA f3347.00 +2.00 jMgjpjfc; 451.31 -7.29 SQ EpHn Elect 152.50 -5.07 SC Fta 1515.71 -32.74 SC Equfbe* Fr»f 450.45 4.85 MSCI Singapore 215.29 -4.02 SMSCIFatavM 214.80 -5.80 Stocks Volume IPCO 20c 40,407.000 RcXy IrttUSlOc 21.368,000 PacfficCeoturylOc
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    • 246 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan NERA Telecom slid 4.5 cents to 78 cents yesterday after it announced lower-than-expected earnings for the year to Dec 31,2001. Some 9.9 miUion shares changed hands significantly more than the 10-day moving average of
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    • 742 4  -  l I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE Straits Times Index sank 31.5 points to 1,717.11 yesterday as Wednesday's shortcovering momentum petered out and the tech sector came under pressure following Cisco Systems' downbeat assessment of its third-quarter prospects. The market was also said to
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    • 556 4  -  I-I I comment CURRENCIES Yen the overwhelming choice for the short leg, especially against the Korean won larry wee CROSS-trading strategies became the bias for currency players yesterday as the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan met, and ahead of this
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 695 7  -  BIOTECH INDUSTRY Firm with top scientists will also offer consultancy to investors, lawyers Reports by Eugene Low TRIAJ, a US-based professional services firm whose consultants include over 40 of the world's leading biotechnology scientists, has set up operations here to offer consultancy to the
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    • 390 7 But finding them will be a challenge, says entrepreneur FOR Singapore's biotechnology industry to take off, it needs plenty of good quality managers who understand both the science as well as the mechanics of running a business, a leading US biotech entrepreneur said yesterday.
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    • 307 7  -  I=M=* on the economy consumer confidence Byi Chua Hui Min HOBBLED by last year's economic plunge, Singaporeans are among the most dour in AsiaPacific about growth in the near future, an Internet survey in December found. Almost two-thirds of the 1,000 people surveyed here said
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    • 336 7  -  Marine needs 4,000 in 2002; aerospace, 1,500 over 3 years By] David Boey COMPANIES in Singapore's Logistics and Transport (L&T) cluster still have thousands of professional and skilled jobs to offer even though investment commitments the cluster is expected to attract this year could hover
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    • 164 7 SENTOSA Development Corporation has appointed Darrell Metzger chief executive with immediate effect. Mr Metzger, 55, replaces Pek Hock Thiam, who retired from the civil service last year after 32 years. Mr Pek first served SDC in 1988-89 as general manager. He rejoined in October
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    • 259 7 It will focus on molecular and genetic research, collaborate with other institutes THE government's investment holding company Temasek Holdings has teamed up with the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University to set up a life sciences research laboratory.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 690 8  -  ***** bottom line OPINION robert samuelson HERE is a parable for America's budget predicament Every year, the US government sends out cheques to about 700,000 to 900,000 farmers. Since 1978, federal outlays to support farmers' incomes have exceeded US$3OO billion How large is that?
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    • 104 8 'In the end, the company's collapse is an old-fashioned example of theft by insiders.' -BfflyTiuzzin a US congressman, on the evidence of illegal activity by Enron and its executives. 'I'm shocked nothing has been learned from my case and the same thing has been allowed to happen.
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    • 572 8 EDITORIAL THIS year could well turn out to be ayear of renewed regional activism—at least in terms of headline-grabbing ideas. Whether these big ideas come to anything remains to be seen, but if they help keep Asia on the investor's radar screen, then it's no bad thing.
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    • 1951 8  -  And its belligerent stance signals that the world is in for a long and bumpy ride as Bnsh decides to go after just abont any state he deems 'evil' From] Leon Hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent in Washington IT'S official! The Bush administration
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 323 9  -  Group will also rationalise branches following merger with OUB From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur UNITED Overseas Bank, which has emerged as one of the largest foreign-owned banks in Malaysia, will shed up to one-fifth of its workforce and rationalise its branches following
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    • 420 9  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THE Thai unit of United Overseas Bank yesterday said it may return to profits this year by growing its loan book by 60 per cent, and that it would further strengthen itself as a lender
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    • 361 9  -  Net interest income up marginally at RMl.96b From, Eddie Toh m Kuala Lumpur MALAYAN Banking Berhad has registered an interim net profit of RM753 million (***** million) for the six months ended December 2001, compared with the RM701.3 million a year ago. Earnings per
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    • NOTE Book
      • 80 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Technology Resources Industries Bhd, Malaysia's second biggest mobile phone company, said it raised about RMBBO million (*****.2 million) from the sale of stock to investors to help it repay bondholders. TRI sold 473 million new shares in its restricted offer to
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      • 67 10 Reuters [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said it is unlikely to name the winner of a majority stake in Bank Central Asia (BCA) in mid-February, signalling a fresh delay in the closely watched sale. The disposal of BCA, which Jakarta has struggled
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      • 61 10 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Standard Poor's yesterday said it may downgrade Indonesia's long-term sovereign debt rating to "selective default" if Paris Club creditors insist on equal treatment for private lenders in rescheduling its hefty official debt. Indonesia is seeking to restructure more than US$l4O billion owed both
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      • 71 10 AFP [JAKARTA] Flood-related insurance claims are forecast to exceed US$2OO million, higher than the pay-outs after the May 1998 riots, a report said yesterday. "The amount of flood-related claims could be higher than the claims resulting from the May 1998 riot... which reached US$2OO million,"
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      • 71 10 Reuters [CANBERRA] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has flatly refused to attend a summit of Commonwealth leaders in Australia next month, highlighting for the second time this week Canberra's testy relations with its Asian neighbours. A spokesman for the Malaysian High Commission in Canberra
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    • 687 10  -  New package of economic recovery policies soon, VP says Prom Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA will turn its back on the huge corporate empires built up by wealthy tycoons during the 32-year rule of former president Suharto and focus instead on helping
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    • 458 10  -  Flats see 90% occupancy rate thanks to a 2% rise in number of expat workers From] Harish Mehta in Bangkok EXPATRIATES living in Bangkok are sparking a healthy demand for rented apartments that saw an average occupancy rate of 90 per cent last year,
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    • 259 10 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S industrial output fell 4 per cent in 2001 as orders from international high technology giants shrank but economists say a better year lies ahead. The Department of Statistics blamed last year's fall on lower manufacturing activity, which overshadowed gains
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 89 11 Reuters [CHICAGO] Two big biotechnology-related companies are ready to take action against China if it implements controversial rules on genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, a US lawyer said on Wednesday. China plans to implement the rules which could curtail the US$l billion in annual
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      • 74 11 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] The Shanghai Stock Exchange last October told its staff to sell all their stockholdings as part of a clampdown on illicit practices, according to a memorandum to employees. The four-page memorandum, "Notification of Revisions to Shanghai Stock Exchange Employee Policies", gave staff
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      • 78 11 Bloomberg [BEIJING] China's industrial production may grow 9 per cent this year, slowing from a 9.9 per cent increase in 2001, as rising imports reduce the market share of Chinese companies, the State Economic Trade Commission said. China's petrochemical and steel industries will be
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      • 61 11 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Government and industry officials from China and Japan started two days of talks in Shanghai yesterday aimed at setting guidelines for bilateral trade in farm products, a Japanese official said. The guidelines are aimed at preventing a repetition of a bitter trade
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      • 58 11 Reuters [BEIJING] Chinese Internet portal company Sina.com yesterday said its revenues grew 12 per cent in its second fiscal quarter from the first quarter as sales surged in wireless and paid services. Sina and fellow loss-making portals Sohu.com and Net Ease.com Inc have turned to
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      • 82 11 Bloomberg [BOMBAY] ABN Amro Holding has shortlisted six Indian banks for possible acquisition when the government eases foreign ownership regulations, the Financial Express reported, citing unidentified sources. JM Morgan Stanley, a unit of Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Co, was appointed by the Dutch bank to
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    • 368 11 BEIJING Top-level meeting gives more powers to central bank Reuters CHINA ended a top-level financial meeting yesterday by calling for reform to ailing state banks and boosting the supervisory role of the central bank, delegates and state media said. The three-day meeting, shrouded
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    • 391 11 HONGKONG AFP MACAU'S government will announce today the winners of three lucrative casi-no-operating licences in the territory, a government spokesman said. This move will finally open up Macau's gaming industry, which has been operated as a monopoly since the *****, the government spokesman said.
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 427 14 BOMBAY Study cites price factor, but Indian firms say China strategy in place AP, Bloomberg CHINA'S ability to provide software services at low costs could pose a threat to India's supremacy in the global software industry, an international consultant firm said on
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    • 219 14  -  By' Teh Hooi Ling [SINGAPORE] PWD Consultants has set up its first master-planning joint venture in Suzhou, China. The 60-40 joint venture Xin Yi Yuan Planners and Consultants is a collaboration between PWD Consultants and the survey department of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). It
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    • 510 14  -  l»ll exclusive VW board member says 80% of a 2.5b euro budget will be spent on China Byi Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] China's pas-senger-car market is set to double to 1.5 million units as early as 2006, fuelled by the country's entry into
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      • 76 15 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The number of US workers seeking jobless aid fell last week, the government said yesterday in a report suggesting the worst of the labour market's deterioration might be over as the economy shows signs of emerging from recession. The Labor Department said the number
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      • 75 15 Reuters [BRUSSELS] The economy in the 12-nation eurozone may have hit its trough in the last quarter of2ool and is set to grow only moderately in the first quarter of 2002, European Commission estimates suggested yesterday. The Commission's indicator-based model for gross domestic product
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      • 50 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/ Shell Group said fourth quarter profit fell 47 per cent, more than analysts expected, because of lower energy prices and declining earnings from refining oil. Profit excluding one-time items fell to US$l.9l billion from US$3.5B billion a year ago, Shell said.—Bloomberg
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      • 65 15 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Dutch Philips Electronics plunged to a record net loss of 2.6 billion euros (Ss4.l billion) in 2001, but the company said yesterday it expected to return to profit this year as cost cuts bear fruit. Philips said a severe decline in the
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      • 67 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] American International Group, the largest insurer by market value, yesterday said its quarterly net profit rose 3.5 per cent as higher premiums offset claims. AIG reported a net profit of US$l.B7 billion, or 70 cents per share. That compared with US$l.BO billion,
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      • 64 15 Bloomberg [MUNICH] Allianz AG, Europe's No 2 insurer, said earnings last year fen 29 per cent, dragged down by a 1.5 billion euro (552.4 billion) charge tied to the Sept 11 attacks, and predicted a rebound this year as prices rise. Net income
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      • 37 15 AFP [TOKYO] The Japanese insurance arm of US conglomerate General Electric yesterday said it will merge with Saison Life Insurance Co by buying the Tokyo firm's shares in April. —AFP
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      • 61 15 Reuters [LONDON] A slimmer BT Group yesterday reported third quarter earnings that beat forecasts and said it planned to cut wholesale broadband costs as British consumers have been slow to take up high-speed lines at current prices. Pre-tax profit before exceptionals and goodwill amortisation was
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    • 450 15 EMIIOM SAGA Enron alleged to have withheld crucial documents for 4 years NYT, LATWP, Bloomberg. Reuters [NEW YORK] Enron Corp executives withheld several crucial documents from Arthur Andersen auditors for four years, causing the accounting firm to approve inaccurate financial reports, the Los
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    • 323 15 FRANKFURT Reuters EUROPEAN Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg yesterday made the surprise announcement that he would cut short his tenure and step down in July 2003, with French candidate Jean-Claude Trichet widely seen as heir apparent. Mr Trichet, governor of
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    • 515 15  -  Overseas S'poreans have role to help make Republic a cohesive home base liy, Loh Hui Yin in London DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had a special message when he met a group of Singaporeans living in London. "We want to involve
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    • 600 16 ALLIED IRISH SCANDAL Players doubt watertight system could ever be implemented Reuters [LONDON] A suspected US$75O million fraud case involving a trader at a US subsidiary of Allied Irish Bank has raised fresh concern about foreign exchange industry regulation but many in the
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    • 393 16 LONDON Concern about economy jumps to No 2 from No 8 Bloomberg, Reuters BAD debts are the banking industry's biggest concern, a survey by the Londonbased Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation said. Credit risk rose to No 1 at the end
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    • 201 16 CHICAGO Reuters THE top executives of the big three US auto manufacturers have sent a rare joint letter to the White House, asking President George Bush to appeal to the Japanese government to stop weakening the yen to boost the
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    • 469 16 Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK] J P Morgan Chase on Wednesday squashed market rumours that it sustained a loss during Tuesday's powerful gold rally, saying instead it made a profit on the metal's run to two-year highs. "We had a very
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    • 610 17  -  Politics, principles set to clash at meeting of finance chiefs next week From Shada Islam in Brussels WITH last week's European Commission early warning shot on Germany's rising budget deficit still echoing across Europe, eurozone finance chiefs meeting in Brussels next week face an
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    • 561 17 CHICAGO It sees Q3 revenues flat and says it's hard to give a clear picture of outlook Reuters NETWORKING giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday posted lower fiscal second quarter earnings due to the communications spending slowdown that were still almost twice what analysts
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    • 231 17 SAN JOSE Bloomberg, NYT CISCO Systems Inc waited nine hours before disclosing to investors what as many as 12,000 employees already knew: fiscal second-quarter results were positive. At 11 pm New York time on Wednesday, an unidentified employee sent an e-mail to colleagues characterising
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    • 551 18 NEW YORK Women in New York area hedge funds form association to help each other Reuters GENTLEMEN, take note: Women are banding together to make fresh inroads into the clubby and predominantly male preserve of the hedge fund industry. Lawyers,
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    • 326 18 Bloomberg (PALO ALTO, California) Hewlett-Packard (HP), the second-larg-est computer maker, filed almost 5,000 patent applications worldwide in its 2001 fiscal year, a 67 per cent increase over the prior year. It received 1,050 US patents in 2001, ranking it 15th among corporations, according to the
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  • CINEMA
    • 625 19  -  I Not Stupid is a well-layered film, with the many story-strands skilfully woven together. Bnt it does become sentimental and preachy at times By\ Parvathi Nayar JACK Neo's Money No Enough (1998) was the stuff local film legends are made of, grossing as it did, $6
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    • 657 19  -  Green Dragon is a highly personal film on the Vietnamese refugee experience By Geoffrey Eu IT is difficult if not impossible to fully imagine the hardships endured by displaced South Vietnamese people who arrived in the US at the end of the
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    • 504 19  -  It's too formulaic, with a narrative that meanders in a linear fashion By 1 Parvathi Nayar TIMING, as they say, is everything. Recognising this, Andrew Davis' Collateral Damage was pushed back from an October release last year, to allow for post-Sept 11 sensitivities.
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  • THE ARTS
    • 611 20  -  By\ Parvathi Nayar, Cheah Ui-Hoon LOVE, as they say, is a many-splendoured thing. And not just when it comes in a safe suburban package of the two-parent, professional family living in a nice house. In Toy Factory Theatre Ensemble's rendition of British
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    • 1097 20  -  gheah ot-hook has reason to be elated Cirque du SoleiTs 'Alegria' is coming to town CHEAH UI-HOON IT'S not just that the circus is coming to town. It's the world's biggest circus that's coming to town. But without animals in tow. And you might have seen one
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    • 434 20  -  By Frank DeMeglio SINGAPORE has enjoyed a recent surge of performances featuring early music and original instruments. While providing an interesting topic for discussion, ie how early music should be performed or how "original" instruments alter a musician's approach to familiar compositions,
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    • Article, Illustration
      499 20  -  Compiled by Aaron Lye PERFORMANCES AkanDatang A series of dramatised readings of scripts by local emerging playwrights Jean Tay, Natalie Hennedige, Ng Yi Sheng, Kenneth Kwok, Tom Thawnley and Darren Chiam. Two scripts will be read each night by actors Nora Samosir, Serene Chen and Adelina Ong. +Until
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    • 135 20 Winners of The Legends Goff Country Resorts Make your Friends Green with Envy contest in BT onfriday, Feb 1. 360-djiy term mtmbtfiMp Foo Suan Peng l/C: S*****10/H Six-month torm mtmhtwhlp Lee Soo Eng l/C No: S*****85/E Chia Kui Meng l/C No: S*****99/G Jeremy Low l/C: l/C No: S*****42/H
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 200 20 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD AC Dogma 27 Fictitious tale in foreigner (5) 28 Chase case containing casu- 7 Supportive member with 25 Called forest warden without al clothing (5, 4) swaggering gait (5) hesitation (4) 29 Facts given to us in class (5) 10 Self-restrained after night-fall YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION kind-hearted local 14
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  • BOOKS
    • 905 21  -  Anthony Bourdain's 'A Cook's Tour' rips through bone, intestine, blood and guts to get to the heart of the perfect meal, says pakyathi kayak PARVATHI NAYAR THERE'S something fascinating about taking things to the very, very extreme. Whatever it is the so-doomed-to-destruction love affair, the artist
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    • 297 21 Where to wine, dine and entertain... Diners Club Credit Card t„ w 416 0980 Mt (Bojflifil A World of Exclusive Privileges Treats Never Say Never on A Sunday Sunday Lunch with Dim Sum At The Marriott Make your Sunday with unlimited complimentary champagne accompanied by our celebrated international cuisine. Dim
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    • 154 21 Mt i Especially for the Auspicious Year of the Horse, Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant presents a medley of Prosperity Yu Sheng and Lunar New Year Cakes 'Nian Gao' Prices for Lunar New Year Cakes Yu Sheng begin from $9.80 and $30.00 respectively Takeaway options available. Please call 311 8188/9, fax:
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    • 147 21 The master chef of Hua Yuen Chinese Restaurant has proudly put together 8 delightful set menus for your celebrations In the Year of the Horse. From $498 $998 for a table of 10 persons. For reservations, please call 432 5543/46. Pncei subject to 10% temce charge prrt taxes mHaJmg GST
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    • 159 21 A Date With Loved One This Valentine's At Oxford 218 Queen Street. Singapore *****7 Tel: 332 2222 Fax: 334 9533 or the (TTTJkom brothers group t at Pine Court Chinese Restaurant 2 to 26 Feb 2002 Lunch: 12.00 noon to 2.30 pm m.) r Dinner 6.30 pm to 10.00 pm
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  • EPICURE
    • 762 22  -  It passes cheah ui-hook s litmus test for a Spanish restaurant despite some hiccups CHEAH UI-HOON i OMBRES, if food of the passionate Latin kind is what you're hankering after, trot down to the Riverside for one of the rarer restaurant finds in the city. The all-nuevo Andorra
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    • 300 22  -  Senb&zuru has come np with an idiot-friendly treatment of its menu By 1 Tan Hwee Hwee IF you're new to Japanese cuisine and have no idea whether Zaru Soba is a type of noodle or a J-pop star, the Hotel New Otani's new Seven Wonders
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    • 64 22 CARAN d ACHE OF SWITZERLAND J t VAR|US COLLECTION MODEL IVANHOE MAKE YOUR MARK fMIr mWSole Distributor: SILVAROYAL PRIVATE LIMITED 27 Loy.ingW.iy Singapore *****8 Ache i j .iv.vinblc .it MPH Stamford Road. Parkway Parade JOHN LITTLE Spcc.il.st Centre (Level 3) TAKASHIMAYA (Level 3i IMES NEWSLINK Changi An port T I
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    • 133 22 Let's Toast Singapore's Top Fund Managers m s fv f J" > Guest of Honour: Mr Ng Kok Song t Managing Director (Public Markets) a Government of Singapore Investment Corporation J The annual Investment Fund Awards is here M again to honour the top-performing funds and the dynamic managers behind
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    • 306 23 How about a romantic treat and a movie after? p^yll ainternatkxia* < >n Valentine's Day, dine at Meet Cupid at Tuscany Diet M TPS Tuscany, Keyaki, Hai Tien Lo, For a little romance, start speaking Italian. Charm The Third Floor, Summer House or Aromaz Bakery your special one in our
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    • 478 23 Off The Cuff vrill return on Feb 22 The Data! lAMIAVI 40% OFF RAINFOREST Langkaw's exclusive resort is offering 40% off our normal room rates Call now before it disappears 11* offer that is. Promotional Price Per Nigkt Deluxe room RM76O nett per nifkt Offer valid until 30th |nne 2002
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  • EXECUTIVE Lifestyle
    • 2681 24  -  COVER STORY What will the year of the black Horse bring? CHEAH UI-HOON finds out from two geomancers. CHEAH UI-HOON THERE are lots of names to describe many kinds of phobia, but surprisingly, there isn't one for fear of the future. Since "it's possible that
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 39 25 THE Baltic Dry Index rose 2 points to 911, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 4 points to 899, the Baltic Handymax Index dropped 13 points to 6,616 and the Baltic Capesize Index was up 12 to 1,098.
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    • 262 25 MI 000 *»T a »w CWT Distribution 0.53 oloi 377 Chum Hup 0.41 unch 784 Cosco lnv*jtmant —0.24 -0.01 359 Frrtaht Llnki 0.07 unch 92 G8 Holdings aS4 0.01 28 IMC HokMgs-HK 5.60 unct) 0 Jaya Holdings ai9 -0.01 285 Kapp*iCorp 4.24 0.12 ***** K*pp*i Martna Oil unch
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    • 564 25  -  Republic will do all it can to keep customers, win back others that have been lost By. Beth Jinks, David Boey [SINGAPORE] Singapore's ports may offer added incentives to win back lost customers and hold onto existing shipping lines, a senior Economic Development
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    • 205 25 Dow Jones [SYDNEY] An Australian navy ship captured a boat suspected of leading an illegal fishing operation, the government said yesterday. The Lena was suspected of raiding stocks of the rare Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters near Heard Island, about 4,000
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    • 167 25 [SINGAPORE] PSA Marine has recently commissioned four new locally built harbour tugs touted as the most powerful in Singapore to date. The ASL Shipyard-built tugs have a bollard pull of between 55 and 60 tonnes and a running speed of up to 12 knots
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    • 137 25 [KARACHI] The war risk surcharge (WRS) on shipments to and from the US has been reduced from US$l5O to US$l25 for a 20foot container and from US$3OO to US$25O for a 40foot container, reports daily Business Recorder. This is the first time that
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    • 752 26  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK By Selva Kumar THE US Supreme Court has clarified the relationship between two federal regulatory agencies, namely, the Coast Guard and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), on incidents involving health and safety on vessels in US waters.
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    • 214 26 PACE FulMi 4 Appenstiip 5 Gemartrans 4 Avant to C Link 10 B'tangMas 6 GtoryAav 10 BSA 6 BSC 9 Hamtorg-Sud 6 BTL 10 9 Bataji 4 Heung-A 3 CMACCM 3 10 COSCO 3 HOAl 10 Central Ei 6 Hyundai 4 Chahaya 10 >"*<* 9 China Shpg
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    • 13489 31 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyage Telephone SIN Otsfn Name Nam* Number Number SIN Dast'n Nam* Nam* Number Number 24/02 15/03 Hyundai MM ELBWOLF 3Z7W *5-*****44 TO ABIOJAN (ABJ) 2003 Coto D'I voir* 24/02 15/03 NSCSA CMA COM NEPTUNE 4MW 85-*****57
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    • SHIPS IN PORT
      • 722 35 Vesse 1 Voy No Berth Arrival Departure WHSTAR1 I6S02 *M3 t 07/02/8:10 07/02/20 00 D SEJAHTERA J80W1 J03 07/02/8:20 07/02/2100 •I MKAR ***** JOI 07/02/1210 07/02/23:00 HMU 02-JW J06 07/02/850 08/02/000 TERANG M2041 J03 07/02/770 07/02/16.00 ROYAl FREIGH 26 *3 07/02/9:30 07/02/T7J0 BT CAMAY* R ***** JOI 07/O2/TUO
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      • 1922 35 RECEIVING OF EXPORT FCt CONTAINERS AND LCL CARGO Booking/Balance Rstls SMp Voy No Etb/Btr Period From To From •a rwco* om woo ot/noo 04/145* mux 2A 0t/m)0 07/049* 01 MOO n 04/1700 07/045* 07/0*00 1 07/0700 07/18* 07/1400 4 07/1200 07/145* 07/7700 AOMOUT om VMS 06/1500 04/145* Jw-00
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      • 210 35 February U Japan: National Foundation Day Taiwan: Chinese New Year Eve Vietnam: Chinese New Year Eve February 12 Brunei: Chinese New Year China: Chinese New Year Hong Kong: Chinese New Year Indonesia: Chinese New Year Malaysia: Chinese New Year Taiwan: Chinese New Year Vietnam: Chinese New Year February
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      • 797 35 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 indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 496 36 Rival Qantas also in court over wage dispute with onions Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways, Australia's largest carrier, and rival Ansett Holdings are going to court separately over issues ranging from a wage dispute to safeguarding the revival of a failed carrier.
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      • 464 36 Opting for Airbus will be too costly for low-cost carrier Reuters [PARIS] Moving to a split fleet of both Boeing and Airbus planes is not an economically viable option for European no-frills airline easy Jet, a top executive at the US aerospace giant
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      • 498 36 EADS says new orders were worth 60.2 billion euros last year Bloomberg [PARIS] European Aeronautic, Defence Space Co's orders rose 4.4 per cent last year as Airbus SAS, its biggest unit, began signing purchase contracts for the 550-seat A3BO super-jum-bo plane, which
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      • 351 36  -  By 1 Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A new joint venture aimed at offering complete one-stop cargo handling services was established yesterday between CIAS Enterprises Pte Ltd and Singapore-listed Airocean Group Ltd. CIAS Enterprises, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Changi International Airport Services Pte Ltd,
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      • 247 36 Bloomberg [FORT WORTH, Texas] AMR Corp's American Airlines said it will pull in-flight telephones from 653 airplanes because passengers are using their own cellular phones. American, the largest airline, joins Southwest Airlines Co in agreeing with AT&T Wireless Services Inc to remove the
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    • 216 25 Marine MAKING WAVES WITH SINGAPORE'S MOST POWERFUL HARBOUR TUGS WIS/ 1 ■■MKt T r. °^r? |iMifflv r j. > 4 t A, TCZB »v Net fi^nQ^QSEZEII^H PSA Marine has just commissioned four top-of-the-range harbour tugs These tugs, built to specifications drawn from PSA Marine's extensive that are designed for the
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    • 15 25 Admiralty Casebok: On health and safety in US waters Pg2 Ansett goes to court BackPage
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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