The Business Times, 16 February 2002

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  • Title Section
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    8 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend 85C FEBRUARY 16-17, 2002
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    Lock icon Global shakeup for NOL's container arm
    514 1  -  'Powerhouse'off 3 key execs formed in bid to strengthen regional presence By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines' global container arm, APL, is undergoing one of its biggest management shake-ups since the Singapore-listed shipping group took over the former US company. The roles of
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    Lock icon EU studying free trade pact with S'pore: Lamy
    774 1  -  Strong case made, L.a n mi,,.. Dm some conavnons must be met first Byi Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The European Union is considering a bilateral free-trade agreement (FTA) with Singapore, EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said here yesterday. But he indicated that several
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    Lock icon L P Thean to quit Appellate Court to join Khattar Wong
    485 1  -  EXCLUSIVE He will start worii ss a corporate law consultant on Mar 1 By\ Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The judiciary will lose one of its leading lights with the departure of Appellate Court Judge L P Thean at the end
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    Lock icon Don't paint a rosy picture of jobs
    759 1  -  lee han shih THE past few weeks have seen two highly-placed doctors, Professor Lim Pin and Dr Ng Eng Hen, make what amounted to policy statements on labour issues. Both statements bear further scrutiny. Prof Lim, long-time vice-chancellor of the National University of
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    Lock icon European companies are next to own up to loose accounting
    793 1 Firms, including UK's Guardian FT and C&W, admit to inflating earnings and hiding debt [LONDON] In the world of accounting in the United Kingdom, realism may be back in fashion. In recent days, companies including software makers Guardian iT pic
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  • in the news
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      Lock icon Stock market still on a roller coaster ride
      583 2  -  MARKET R E,V I E W r sivanithy LAST week, worries over the veracity of US corporate earnings overshadowed domestic bullishness and dragged the Straits Times Index down 45 points. This week, Wall Street's stability and the apparent easing of US accounting
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      75 2 «n 1,76*27 (-6.36) FJ BT-SRI 737.47 (-0.46) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,767.00 (-6.00) n SIMSCI FUIURES M 221.90 (-0.50) Friday Change KLSECOMP 721.98 +7.17 NIKKEI 225 10.0+810 3199 HANG SENG +129.14 SET INDEX 373.02 +7.72 JAKARTA COMP _***** +9.979 MANILA COMP .1,416.88 +914 TAIPEI WPI Closed SEOUL COMP ***** 1159
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      Lock icon FINANCE
      66 2 KMKXItATU m$ 1$ L'S$ (S$ per US$) 1.828 £(US$/S$ per 1.429 2608 EURO(US$/S$/E). 0.873 1593 DM 1240 1528 YEN 1330 72.90 RM 3.800 2083 HK$ 7.800 4274 BAHT 4356 23.88 RUPIAH 6,620 PftMME RATES SINGAPORE* 518 KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONGKONG 5125 JAKARTA 39.00 TAIPEI 1725 TOKYO 1J75 SEOUL—
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      Lock icon Members may act to replace Pinetree president
      592 2  -  Some unhappy members thinking of unseating proprietor at AGM By\ Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Several members of the Pinetree Town Country Club are considering action to remove the club's proprietor, Chng Heng Tiu, as president of the club's society of members. Pinetree Club, a
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      Lock icon Stanchart, Farallon in close fight for BCA stake
      636 2  -  They're competitive oa price but other factors iriicoMt too From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE two international consortiums bidding to buy Indonesia's Bank Central Asia (BCA) are neck and neck as they head towards the finishing line with very little to choose
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    • Article
      Lock icon Correction
      87 2 IN yesterday's report "MPA cancels licences of ship fuel supplier Meridian Petroleum", as a result of an editing mistake, we erred in saying the charges the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will press against the owner and masters of two bunker tankers were for allegedly supplying contaminated
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      Lock icon News of Nvidia probe takes 4% bite off Creative's shares
      426 3  -  Regulators looking; into US graphics chip maker's accounting practices By\ Serena Ng CREATIVE Technology shares slid about 4 per cent yesterday after graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp's shares plunged in the US on news of a probe into its accounting
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      Lock icon SIA load factor up 2 points in Jan
      366 3  -  load factor unchanged at 7&3%; cavgo load factor ap to €42% By David Boey SINGAPORE Airlines' (SIA) overall load factor—a measure of how efficiently an airline uses its passenger and airfreight capacity rose two percentage points last month from a year ago.
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      Lock icon Foreign banks muscle in on home loans market
      817 3 HOCK LOCK SI E W qaak hiang whai This is spurring some local players to seek business abroad A RECENT BT report on the home loan market unveiled some interesting figures on the changing landscape of the banking industry. Industry data collected
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      Lock icon Jurong Tech posts 47% jump in 2001 profits
      215 3  -  By] Shoeb Kagda MAINBOARD-LISTED electronics contract manufacturer Jurong Technologies Industrial Corp (JTIC) yesterday reported a 46.5 per cent jump in full-year group net profit to $8.3 million, and said it expects profits and turnover to grow this year. It cited projected increased
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Teledata loss on write-
        86 3 TELEDATA (Singapore) has reported a 2001 net km of till million, op dramatically!from a 13 million lees inaooor/Tumpiui ensed6J per cenftolT J million. The company said that the much bigger loeearoee mainly from Inventory writxflb and writedowns of $8.6 million, fixed and intangible assets disposed of
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        Lock icon Metalock unit in deal to sell assets
        105 3 METALOCK (Singapore) said yeeterday its wholly-owned subsidiary MTQ Engineering has entered into a conditional agreement to seQ assets relating to its marine repair, spare parts and sefvloe businesses to Cissrv fflngsporefor IRgmfllkai Metalock has also entered into a conditional agreement to sell its
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        Lock icon BIL sells stake in Costas Hire
        116 3 Reuters INVESTMENT firm BIL International said yeftsrday it has sold Its $.71 per cent stake in Australian plant hire firm Coatee Hire for AsKiß million (S$M3 million). BIL, formerly the Brieriey group, said the deal generated Agio J million over its AIISJB million book
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        Lock icon ABN Amro gets a new bond team
        56 3 Bloomberg ABNAMRO will hire the three-person bond team flnom OCBC Bank next month. Singapore government bond traders Daniel Kong. Julie Tay and YoHwae Choo win start'atAßNAmro on March* They will Join the emeiging-market team headed by Zafer Alam, ABN*s regional head of credit
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        Lock icon CCL lifts stake in Astra
        169 3 Bloomberg CYCLE Carriage hae paid US$6.7 million to lift ita etake in Indonesia's largest automaker, PT Aatra International. The Singapore company has bought a farther 27 million shares, or about 1.1 per cent of Astra, at 2£60 rapiah each. It will ftmd the purchase fhxn
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      Lock icon Bank results will provide signposts to economy
      734 3  -  Analysts time iii for NPLs, effect of competition as DBS kicks in malts seasoaoa Monday By\ Siow Li Sen DBS Group Holdings will kick off the results season for local banks on Monday at spm and surprises, if any, are likely to come
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      Lock icon Analysts see Jan exports falling 9%
      510 4  -  Improving economic indicators should translate into better performance, they say Byi Chuang Peck Ming THE economic indicators have been looking up recently and this should be reflected in a further improvement in Singapore's non-oil domestic export performance in January, according to analysts polled yesterday.
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      Lock icon MAS issues consultative paper on mobile banking, payments
      358 4  -  It invites public comment between now and March 15 Byy Chen Huifen SINGAPORE needs to set up a framework for safe transactions on wireless terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants). To enable this to happen, the Monetary Authority
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      Lock icon Is HDB stifling entrepreneurship ?
      325 4  - Is HDB stifling entrepreneurship Mark Lee Kah Hui Singapore I REFER to your article "HDB resale might soon not be the same" by Lee Han Shih (BT, Feb 12). While I do not share Mr Lee's opinion that real estate agents will be phased out by HDB's e-Resale site, he
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      Lock icon EDB names 10 more start-ups for Seeds funding
      333 4  -  It tees a high level off i_ a!. interest in uie scheme from obrood By Simone Erasmus THE Economic Development Board (EDB) yesterday named 10 start-up companies for Its Startup Enterprise Development Scheme (Seeds). Launched last September, the scheme provides equity financing
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      Lock icon PSA must face up to storm
      164 4  -  Dr Tho Kam San Singapore I REFER to your article "K Line, PSA talks hit snag over price" by Donald Urquhart (BT, Feb 6). It is obvious that cost is a major factor in any business. Although PSA can claim to offer better connectivity
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      Lock icon Value of retail sales fell 3.1% in December
      434 4  -  EYEONTHEECONOMY retail satos -By Kalpana Rashiwala SINGAPORE'S overall retail sales index at current prices slipped 3.1 per cent year-on-year in December, with telecoms and computer-goods shops taking the biggest hit of 18.5 per cent. But compared with the preceding month, December's retail
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      Lock icon US$ falls to 3-month low of $1.8180
      489 4  -  CURRENCIES Solid support at 551.8270-90 convincingly broken larry wee ASIAN units and the Australian dollar continued to lead currency gains versus the US dollar yesterday, with the Sing soaring to a three-month high in overnight trading, and the yen challenging sub-132 territory for
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      Lock icon Manila bourse returning to afternoon trading
      532 5 Stockbrokers to say goodbye to long lunches, weekday golf Reuters [MANILA] Philippine stockbrokers next week bid goodbye to leisurely lunch breaks and weekday afternoon golf, but few say they will miss them as the bullish market returns to afternoon trading after a gap of
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    • IN BRIEF
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        Lock icon Jakarta drops case against Manulife
        100 5 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Canada's Manulife Financial Corp said Indonesia's attorney-general's office dropped a lawsuit against it, ending a 16-month dispute over who owns a firm formerly owned by Manulife and its bankrupt former partner. The case was brought by Roman Gold Assets, a British Virgin Islands-registered
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        Lock icon SingTel among seven eyeing Indosat stake
        93 5 Dow Jones Newswires [JAKARTA] Seven international telecoms companies, including Singapore Telecoms, are interested in buying a majority stake in state-owned Indonesian Satellite Corp, a government source g«id yesterday. State Enterprise Minister ijkgflmanfl Sukardi said this week the Indonesian government will sell its entire 65
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        Lock icon Ibra concerned over APP units'results
        74 5 Reuters [JAKARTA] The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, one of the creditors of debt-laden Asia Pulp ft Paper (APP), yesterday said it was concerned over the poor 2000 financial results issued by two erf the firm's key units. The results are considered vital to APPs US$l2.2
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        Lock icon Thai firm PCL denies bid to avoid tax
        80 5 Dow Jones Newswires {BANGKOK] Thailand's oil and gas conglomerate PTT PCL has denied in a filing to the Stock Exchange of Thailand yesterday that it falsified documents to avoid paying import taxes on refined products. The Customs Department is investigating a vessel
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        Lock icon Bangkok Bank cuts Interest rate
        68 5 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Bangkok Bank, Thailand's largest lender, cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point yesterday, joining smaller rival Siam Commercial Bank in responding to a central bank rate cut last month. Bangkok Bank will cut the minimum retail loan rate by 25
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        Lock icon Manila may lease out power network
        63 5 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines may privatise National Power Corp's transmission assets by contracting out its operations rather than selling the state-owned network outright. Edgardo del Fonso, head of the government company overseeing the sale of National Power, said a concession would be a better
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      Lock icon Sony offers severance plan to 3,500 M'sia staff
      429 5 Malaysia's manufacturing sales feN 16% in Dec Bloomberg, AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Sony Corp after earlier saying it would not fire staff yesterday said it offered severance payments to 3,500 workers at its operations in Malaysia to quit, part of the second largest
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      Lock icon Taiwan eases China trade, hanking
      391 5 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan made it easier to remit money to and from political rival China, and opened its doors to 2,058 new Chinese imports yesterday, making good on promises to businesses as well as World Trade Organization commitments. Taiwan banks with domestic banking units (DBUs)
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      Lock icon Will Bay Area still welcome Asians?
      993 5  -  VALLEY VIEW It i# home to a large Asian population, but anti-immigrant sentiment is growing jennifer lien [SILICON VALLEY] CHINESE New Year in the Bay Area was a surprisingly festive time for me. It started last Saturday with the Chinese New Year plant sale
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      Lock icon Thai hillside may become ski resort
      195 5 AFP [BANGKOK] The hillsides of northern Thailand will become the unlikely venue of Asia's newest ski resort under a plan hatched by a Thai-Japanese joint venture, reports said yesterday. Leisure Patine International Co Ltd said it planned to use Japanese snow-mak-ing machines to turn
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      Lock icon Japan heading for record corporate bankruptcies this year
      486 6  -  19.3% surge in number of corporate failures in January puts pressure on Koizumi ahead of Bush visit Fromj Anthony Rowley in Tokyo PRESSURE on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government to move rapidly into crisis-management mode intensified yesterday when it was reported
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      Lock icon Dell's net rises 5.1% on consumer PC demand
      334 6 Bloomberg [AUSTIN, Texas] Dell Computer Corp, the largest per-sonal-computer maker, on Thursday said fiscal fourthquarter net income rose 5.1 per cent as consumer sales got a lift from new advertising. Net income in the period ended Feb 1 rose to US$456 million,
      Bloomberg  -  334 words
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      Lock icon IBM Q1 profit bolstered by US$300m asset sale
      732 6 Company failed to Mghßght item whM ii J«—■—■ it Qisctvsco resuns NYT [NEW YORK] When IBM announced in mid-January that it had beat Wall Street's profit forecasts in the fourth quarter, it did not disclose that the sale of a business had
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      Lock icon US industrial production down 0.1%
      424 6 Snurikrtkin expected drop points to recovery in manufacturing AP, Bloomberg, Reuters, AFP [WASHINGTON] US industrial production fell just 0.1 per cent in January, the best showing in six months, suggesting that the manufacturing sector may be pulling out of a long slump. The tiny decline
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      Lock icon Bush announces new air pollution plans
      203 6 NYT, Reuters [WASHINGTON] President Bush moved on Thursday to shift the country's approach to controlling air pollution and global warming towards programmes that would rely heavily on voluntary industry action instead of regulatory mandates and international treaties. He said he would submit to Congress
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  • accounting under scrutiny
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      Lock icon Probe into PwC's role in Enron
      110 7 Reuters [NEW YORK] Top accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) may face scrutiny for past work with collapsed Enron Corp, Businessweek magazine reported on Thursday. Investigators are starting to gather documents to determine the firm's role, the magazine quoted congressional sources as saying. Investigators are looking
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      Lock icon Officials kept Lay in the dark, says Enron whistle-blower
      447 7 Wittdiif contradicts ®x-COO SkMag's testimony Md uyi Im fcmnn J ahoif IHjiniifiini ihipi LAT-WP [WASHINGTON] Enron whistle-blower Sher nm Watkins painted a picture of duplicity and deceit at the company, telling congressional investigators on Thursday that two top company officers kept
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      Lock icon US board acts to plug accounting loopholes
      242 7 N6w rules to cow treatment of special partnerships AP, Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The board that sets US accounting rules is taking steps to close reporting and financial loopholes that Enron used to boost profits and hide debt that led to its collapse. New regulations
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    Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
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  • week in review
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      Lock icon Top stories this week
      1122 8 For the full stories, visit http://business-times.asial.com.sg Govt ups 2002 growth forecast to 1-3% Feb 11 THE government has raised upwards its economic growth forecast for this year to between 1 and 3 per cent from the previous official projected range of minus 2 to plus 2
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      Lock icon What we said
      281 8 Lee Han Shih Feb 12 HDB resale market may not be the same THE Housing and Development Board has cut back on its building programme drastically, and if talk of it privatising some functions materialises, it will likely be looking to transfer employees to new areas. A
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    Lock icon KLSE
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  • in the money
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      Lock icon SIAS helping investors to make sound decisions
      640 9  -  Recognising the need lor education, SIAS launches investment clinics By Simone Erasmus SENTIMENT, rumours and "hot stock" these are just a few of the popular but unreliable indicators retail investors count on to make investment decisions. If the Securities Investors Association of Singapore
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      Lock icon Upgrades continue to lead the way
      467 9  -  By George Lam The author is a senior consultant with JCF Group in Stockholm MARKET sentiment has certainly improved since this column made its debut last October. Upgrades continue to outpace downgrades as we celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Horse. Reflecting
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      Lock icon The case for a shallow US recovery
      1367 9  -  Morgan Stanley's US economists, RICHARD BERNER and DAVID GREENLAW, do not believe the US economy will see a 'double dip'. This is in contrast to the US investment house's own chief strategist, Stephen Roach, who predict the US economy will see a sharp
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  • what's in style food
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      Lock icon Old world charm
      1844 10  -  GEOFFREY EU revisits the culinary landscape of yesteryears and finds that there are still restaurants that serve up nostalgia GEOFFREY EU OLD restaurants never die they just fade away. Some, however, remain firmly lodged in the collective memory of Singaporeans who grew up a generation ago a
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  • what's in style travel
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      Lock icon think SPICY in SHANGHAI
      1802 11  -  While the Shanghainese like their food spicy, sweet and oily, there are places that have modified their cooking for other palates. StfLVIA TAN is overwhelmed by the painstaking food preparation that seems to be the norm in Shanghai SYLVIA TAN HE smell of sesanie W and
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    Lock icon FINANCE
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  • what's in style motoring
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      Lock icon Big, strong and
      839 12  -  Japanese executive cars are seldom more than dull also-rans, but CHRISTOPHER TAN discovers quite a gem in the Toyota stable CHRISTOPHER TAN IT is common industry knowledge that Toyota's Lexus ES3OO is based on the platform of the Camry. But the man in the street will be
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    • BRAVE NEW WHIRL
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        Lock icon Viaduct to open today
        73 12 THIS afternoon, Singapore's latest viaduct along Upper Serangoon Road opens for traffic. The viaduct, stretching from the Yio Chu Kang junction to Aljunied Road junction, is one of the longest here. At the Braddell Road junction, it forms part of Singapore's first four-tier interchange (viaduct, road-level,
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        Lock icon Award for Audi's A4
        81 12 AUDI'S A 4 has been voted best mid-sized car by readers of auto motor und sport, Germany's leading motoring publication. About 27 per cent of the 162,000 polled picked the A 4, among 29 cars lined up. The car has been popular with fleet operators too.
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        Lock icon Peugeot unveils 307 SW
        85 12 PEUGEOT has just officially unveiled the 307 SW, a chic stationwagon with seven seats and a glass top. Available in 1.6 or 2.0-litre form, the car offers the benefits of a stationwagon and an MPV. The third row of seats can be removed easily to free
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        Lock icon Powerkit for Porsche 911
        119 12 MOST manufacturers leave the job of "souping up" cars to tuning companies, but not Porsche. The Stuttgart sports-car maker has just introduced a "powerkit" for its 911 range. The kit increases the 911 Turbo's output to 450 horsepower, from 420. Torque goes up from 560 new-ton-metre
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        Lock icon Chrysler recalling 1.6m Jeep Grand Cherokees
        147 12 CHRYSLER is recalling 1.6 million Jeep Grand Cherokees after a series of accidents in which the vehicles unexpectedly lurched into reverse, causing at least Ave deaths and more than 150 injuries, AP reports. A US federal safety agency investigating the problem has received more
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      1134 14  -  While the competition has had to hold back in the aftermath of Sept 11 and global recession, Giorgio Armani surges ahead in Asia CAT ONG takes a look CAT ONG WITH profits up 23 per cent to 1,270 million euros (552,020 million) for 2001, the Armani
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        108 14  -  Compiled by i Corinne Kerk YOU can ditch your old dive computer with Citizen's Promaster Cyber Aqualand. This is a timepiece that combines all the features of a diver's watch (for example, depth sensor, thermometer, and water resistance to 200 m) with those of a dive computer
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