The Business Times, 11 March 2002

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    14 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P\ 010/03/2002 85C SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg/ MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002
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    70 1 STOCK MARKET INDICES Week Change ST1 1,***** +77.47 siMsa FTjnjiE_a75# +iw BT-SBI ***** +32.75 KLSE COUP ***** >96.06 NIKKEI *****.79-+1.073.79 HANG SENG —11,***** +***** SET INDEX JKL66 +10.00 JAKARTA COMP_47U2 +2236 MANILA 1,432.11 +21.77 TAffH WP1 6,***** +390l87 SEOUL COUP ***** +638 SHENZHEN B 241.18 +2464 AUST ALL
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    64 1 FOBSX BATES US$ SS US$ (SJperUSS) L822 £(IS$/SS per 1426 2*97 HJRO(US$/SS/E). 0.889 1.603 DM im L220 YEN 127.8 79.19 RM ***** 1969 HKS 7.899 4281 BAFT 4126 2174 MJPIAH 9,986 6,480 PRIME EATES SINGAPORE* bM KUALA LUMPUR 6.40 BONO KONO 6.125 JAKARTA 139.00 TAIPEI 6.728 TOKYO L375 SEOUL
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    Lock icon Market's up, but Wall St bulls not the boss yet
    999 1  -  Optimists see rally; bears see danger in earnings, political nnrest From Andrew Marks in New York WITH the economy on the rebound, the bulls are saying Wall Street's recent rally has only just begun, but others worry that investors have
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    Lock icon Continued flow of nice data keeps US economists busy
    418 1 Forecasters in Blue Chip's March poll upgrade Q1 growth to 2.6%, up fall point from Feb Reuters [WASHINGTON] US economists are rushing to ratchet their economic forecasts higher as favourable data keeps flowing in, the closely watched Blue Chip Economic Indicators
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    Lock icon End of the road for law firm Haq Namazie & Selvam
    437 1  - End of the road for law firm Haq Namazie Selvam Jlexclusive Court orders firm to be wonnd up after action by Namazie By rot Conrad Raj loiwunruKfij rarinerships are very fragile entities, more so when they comprise lawyers. Until the middle of last year, Murgiana Haq and Farah Namazie ran
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      110 1 msPB BT Comment R Slvantthy: Looking at market from both sides. *94 Audrey Tin: Antony Leung's Budget keeps them guessing. Pg 9 -;i\ -*f><-"- Top Storlos Ringtone industry battles it out with Sing Tel, Ml. Noxi Pag* y t*T n> >?ii* mhhmm WbP* L<XJ| Recession has not killed Singaporeans' big
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      15 1 Investors most do their sums, Pg 13 End of US production slump seen, Pg 15
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      Lock icon US scores an own-goal on steel
      924 2  -  -li comment ECONOMICS The Bush administration's tariffs will backfire, but they have some sobering implications for America's tradp nartnprs vikram khanna THE most reassuring thing about the tariffs on imported steel imposed recently by the reputedly free-trade-minded administration of US President George W. Bush
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      Lock icon Ring tone providers accuse SingTel, M1 of feet dragging
      586 2  -  i exclusive They want billing for SMS platform; bnt Sing Tel fears copyright problems By Adeline Chia [SINGAPORE] Independent mobile phone content providers are accusing Singapore Telecom and Ml of delaying premium Short. Message Service (SMS) billing for third parties offering
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      Lock icon Case shocked at hike in petrol prices
      251 2 [SINGAPORE] The Consumers Association of Singapore yesterday expressed shock over petrol companies' move to raise pump prices over the past week. "There appears to be little justification for these increases," Case president Yeo Guat Kwang said in a statement. Mr Yeo said Case
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      Lock icon S'poreans still eating out despite recession
      635 2  -  pTTexclusive By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] The recession has not killed Singaporeans' big appetite for eating out they spent an average of $1,900 at hawker stalls, cafes and restaurants last year, says a study by Sydney-based research firm BIS Shrapnel. That works out to
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      323 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 8 VALUE CLOSE BTO&OS 398.00 4162.00 STCMN -*****.00 -10.00 BT 10-day m -*****.00 +40.00 AS-SGEqmMM 474.34 +0.98 SC IhMMQHI 171.15 +0.65 SG EqaMM Flu 1543.76 +12.64 472.16 -4.50 MSanuppm 227.16 +0.57 SMSCtFatarw 227.80 -0.10 Stock* Volume IPCO 20c 191.055.000 GES mt) Ltd 20c 109.29e.000 Chart Semiconductor
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      Lock icon A stronger NatSteel is worth considering as a value play
      271 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan WITH the US economy having bottomed out and corporate earnings for FY2OOI being gradually upgraded, now is a good time to start sieving through the market for value plays. One obvious choice, according to
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      Lock icon Looking at market from both sides
      797 4  -  I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy MOST investors read stock market reports for two simple reasons. The first is that they all want to make money. Very few read a market commentary such as this purely as an intellectual exercise. After all, why bother investing
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      Lock icon Yen surges and other Asian currencies follow
      673 4 AFP [HONG KONG] Most Asian currencies maintained a steady rise during the past week as the greenback weakened and the Japanese yen surged. The rise in the Thai baht and the South Korean won was attributed to the strengthening yen whUe the Australian
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      127 4 CYCLE and Carriage will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 12.0 cents) on May 17. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is May 22. Date payable is July 4. Tong Meng Industries Ltd will hold its AGM and EGM on March 26,2002, at 2.00pm, Esplanade Room 1,
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    2770 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ot,j<p n o* CitiBond S pore A/1 1.20& CitiBond S'pore B/$ 123/ AB* Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Citi Money Sing Dollar Claa B *****/ Star Europe Eqtyl* 0.807/ Citi Pan-Europe Equity Fund 1.08/ Star Europe Bd 0.954/ CitiSetect Asia Tilt Balanced 1.* Star Europe Bal 0.877/ CmSeiect
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SembCorp Industries tops latest BT transparency poll
      989 5  -  It scores an additional 18 points this year, garnering 79 points ont of 100 By Angela Tan, Juliana Tay MARINE-BASED conglomerate SembCorp Industries Ltd (SCI) has nudged its way to the top spot in BT's Corporate Transparency Index (CTI) for the week ended
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      Lock icon SG Securities to focus only on corporate equity research in Asia
      443 5  -  By. Ling Su Ann SG Securities aims to become a niche player in Asian equity research by focusing solely on corporate coverage a new bottomup strategy prompted by the group's recent downsizing in the region. "The last few years
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      205 5 Jjjj[ J) ASEAN Federation \Py Industries CDI A Singapore Plastic x l3i l/A. Industry 1 0 D mtemitKxm f»> !i ASCANKUMSt wm EUROMAP ASEANPLAS 2002 H=~ Rubber Industries International Trade Fair pM for Plastics and Rubber Plastics Machinery 12-15 March 2002 na "f* e r- Assoaation Singapore Expo www.aseanplas-singapore.com J/®
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      Lock icon CityDev rents out Kim Lin Mansion
      509 6  -  Student hostel takes up one block at enbloc sale site By] Kalpana Rashiwala LISTED City Developments has leased out ail 124 apartments at Kim Lin Mansion, which it bagged in a collective sale in late 1999. Waterlite Engineering Systems has taken a two-year headlease
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      Lock icon DPM Lee to visit KL, Kuantan this week
      184 6 DEPUTY Prime Minister L«e Hsien Loong will meet top Malaysian leaders this week at the invitation of his Malaysian counterpart. Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that Mr Lee will be visiting the Malaysian capital and Kuantan in Pahang on March
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      Lock icon Manufactured products prices down 6.1% in Jan
      323 6  -  3on the economy prices By\ Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S manufactured products price index fell 6.1 per cent in January compared to a year earlier as crude oil prices continued to slip. Latest Department of Statistics (DOS) figures show that the index's year on year
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      155 6 I Steal our cash and I you'll he caught red-handed A r Most financial transactions are carried out electronically those days. Hul I hero comes ;i point when Liriio sums of monev ha\o to phvsieallv change hands. So how do \ou niako mho that should aiiMhni'j lo wron». >ou'ro noi
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      32 6 TRAVEL GUIDE ri. The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 573 587. u. s*h rw it S _Lianhe Zaobao j I Singapore I I Electronics I Equities Index I benchmark index I I I
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      140 7 l I USA I I Football I I Football I (Ik I AUSTRALIA I I Football I I Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge. I To truly understand a country and its culture, you have to be part of it. That's why, at HSBC, all our offices around the
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      Lock icon Take investor relations seriously
      333 8  -  Andrew Pirie Co-President Asia Pacific Ng Chip Keng Associate Director Financial Communications Capital Markets Practice Weber Shandwick DAVID Boey ("IPO firms abuse PR process at their peril", BT, March 6) has raised some excellent points in the Hock Lock Siew column about the way too many
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      Lock icon Case for 'pay taxes as you earn'
      490 8  -  Tang Fook Meng Singapore THERE is one area which I am not sure if the Economic Review Committee's Sub-Committee on Taxation will touch on and that is the "pay as you earn" approach. Currently, payment of taxation is "deferred", that is, the tax
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      Lock icon Set up a Bureau of Audits in Singapore
      287 8  -  Tan Kok Tim Singapore I REFER to your article "Creating a new bureaucracy will not prevent another Enron" by Andrew Marks in New York (BT, March 2). I applaud Senator Dennis Kucinich. Member of the House of Representative from Ohio, for his
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      Lock icon IFA issue: Don't forget other equally vital Cs
      162 8  -  David Choo Singapore I REFER to the recent articles in The Business Times on the Financial Advisers Act by Genevieve Cua. It strikes me that there has been a preoccupation with two Cs the cost of setting up and manning an independent
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      Lock icon New Act pragmatic and forward looking
      374 8  -  Kenny Low Singapore I REFER to your article "FA Act seen operational in Q2" by Genevieve Cua (BT. Feb 28)". Regulators have to take into consideration many factors in crafting both acts and regulations to ensure the nation's and consumers' interests are best served,
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      243 8 HHBBMky,- M l y yf- i •s. ssr "'raff# I Adrian ten Singapore Discovery Centre lg||| 44 The Gnuu ha* enabled BCCS to ;4 engage external health consultant for a much ::K'-*' ®o« pwft«onal programme. iVf t' Poh J tew Min Human Resource Manager tewd of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore
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      Lock icon Antony Leung's Budget keeps them guessing
      795 9  -  iri comment HK STOCKS Some pandits believe the HK financial secretary will ditch the dollar peg if the economy to recover audrey tan IT could hardly be his intention, but Hong Kong Financial Secretary Antony Leung's maiden Budget last week raised speculation once again
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      Lock icon PNB and EPF eye stake in cement firm
      240 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S largest staterun fund manager Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) and the country's biggest pension fund Employee Provident Fund (EPF) are in talks to buy the United Engineers (UEM)'s stake in a local cement maker, a weekly said in a
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      Lock icon More Taiwan manufacturers head for China
      601 11  -  But thin marging result in only 18% of their China plants making money From Macabe Keliher in Taipei THE latest statistics on the migration of Taiwan's manufacturing companies to China show that not only is the move picking up speed but also that the
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      Lock icon China legislators rap securities watchdog
      182 11 BEIJING Its lax supervision blamed for Shanghai bourse's 1,200-point dive Dow Jones Newswires REPRESENTATIVES of China's top legislative body blamed the country's official securities regulator for a more than 1,200 point drop in the composite index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in the last half
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        Lock icon Indon fraud suspects return funds
        93 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Two men suspected of involvement In a fund embezzlement case involving Indonesia's parliamentary speaker, Akbar Tanjung, have returned 32.5 billion rupiah (555.9 million), reports said yesterday. The two men are Dadang Sukandar, who chairs the private Raudlatul Jannah foundation, and Wilfred Simatupang, who
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        Lock icon Kedah fires may spread to Thailand
        72 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Firefighters are hattitng to douse a blaze that has engulfed about 200 hectares of mountain forests in northern Malaysia and could spread to neighbouring Thailand, the official Bernama news agency said yesterday. It quoted government officials as saying some 160 firefighters
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        Lock icon China tops regional ad market again
        84 11 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] China once again topped the AsiaPacific advertising market with US$ll.2 billion spent in 2001,16 per cent above the previous year, a recent survey by ACNielsen Media International shows. The survey, which looked at last year's global advertising revenue and expenditure, found China's
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      629 9 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAT. 90 AND IN THE MATTER OF IMS INVESTMENTS PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the members of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 2 Havelock Road #07-05 Apollo Centre
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      18 9 I Her wisdom. I Her experience. I Your business I advantage. With 15 years of experience as I
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      Lock icon Investors must do their sums
      2105 13  -  Those who did would have easily seen as early as two years ago why Enron was such a bad bet, says Lutz E Kr&usha&r Lutz E Kraushaar The writer is senior partner andfund manager of a privately-held investment fund in Germany WHAT'S the big deal
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      6 13 The r 4 Partnership ower PROPERTIES
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      300 13 W You wiN plan for the man P° wer needs of the economy. This will involve forecasting W jM anpower requirements of industries through the use of econometric forecasting -I techniques, identifying emerging manpower issues, and conducting research into these t issues. Based on the manpower forecasts and research findings,
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    842 14 FINANCE COMMODITIES Week ended: Mar 8 MHttiPOEB OvTMdIUiaiV SBUURITIIMIMMOAT1TE PMBBi AMD WUMI TfCwp— U» K OWw TtnCwpw MrtwrHy Co* f T M WU^^OIHt 112 ZZll N20 100H 7M 100,0 ***** 7VR 5,25 '5-"°V-04 N797KWE 2.2®* 2.24% ,07.35 K>745 ill I™ X l45% 0 W8% 100 32 ***** 5YR 4 000
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      Lock icon Dealers wary of run-up in Japanese stocks, yen
      397 14  -  Foreign traders say rally sparked by hedge funds' short-covering From Neil Behrmann in Ijoudoti LONDON and New York fund managers, currency traders and market strategists are wary of the Japanese stock market and yen following their sharp gains in the past fortnight.
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      Lock icon European cities enjoy best quality of life: poll
      199 14 LONDON AFP EUROPEAN cities top the world rankings for quality of life even if the cleanest tend to be in North America, according to a survey released by human resources consultancy William Mercer. Using 39 different criteria, it put eight European cities
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      Lock icon Oil, base metals gain on optimism
      927 14 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP [LONDON] Signs that the US economy is on the road to recovery helped shore up world commodity markets last week, with oil and base metals emerging as the main winners. Oil prices rode up to new five-month high points above US$24
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      Lock icon US economic stimulus package adopted
      427 15  -  But compromise bill signed by Bosh falls short of Republican tax cut proposals From Leon Hadar in Washington SIX months after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks and following a bitter legislative and political struggle over how to revive the economy, the US Congress passed and
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        Lock icon Andersen seeks to avert prosecution
        67 15 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Arthur Andersen LLP is negotiating with the US Justice Department to head off criminal charges from the collapse of Enron Corp that may threaten the accounting firm's survival, people familiar with the talks said last Friday. Lawyers for the fifth largest auditing firm
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        Lock icon ECB indicates no more rate cuts
        83 15 Reuters [FRANKFURT] European Central Bank watchers can book long summer holidays as the bank has made it clear it will not cut interest rates further, and declining inflation means a rate hike is a safe distance away. The ECB last Thursday signalled its easing
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        Lock icon Berkshire Hathaway's net worth dips
        67 15 Bloomberg [OMAHA, Nebraska] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway Inc's net worth fell for the first time in 37 years and future gains won't match past performance. Berkshire's net worth rose an average of 22.6 per cent a year between 1965 and 2001. In
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      Lock icon End of US production slump seen
      368 15 WASHINGTON Industrial ontput, retail sales expected to return to positive territory AFX US ECONOMIC indicators to be released in the coming week will show that industrial production is poised to break out of its 16-month downturn, and that retail sales gained fresh impetus from
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      Lock icon Calpers says it'll vote against HP-Compaq merger
      451 17 Pension fund's decision could sway undecided investors before March 19 vote Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] US pension fund eiant Calpers said last Friday it will vote against Hewlett-Packard Co's US$22 billion bid to buy Compaq Computer Corp dealing an unexpected blow to HP chief
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      907 14 1800 299 8812 B—ll rrcrnitSQsph com IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF AILERGAN PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting ofthe members of (he abovenamed Company duly convened and held at Unit 3001 Metropliza, Tower
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      394 14 In Dm Montr of The Componm Act Cop. 50 And In The Mdttr of THE WRIGHT COMPANY |S) PTE LTD (In Members Voluntary Liquidation) MEMBERS VOLUNTARY WINDING UP Al on Extraordinary General Meeting of it* Mtmbtrj of the obovenomed Company duly convened and held on 8 March 2002 ol level
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      385 14 In The Matter of The Companies Act, Cap. 50 And In The Matter of DIAMOND RACING PTE LTD (In Voluntary Liquidation) MEMBERS VOLUNTARY WINDING UP At on Extraordinary General Meeting ol the Members of the obovenomed Company duty convened ond held at 55 Hume Avenue •02 10 Pore Palais Slngopore
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      166 14 THE HONG KONG COMPANIES ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 32) THE FAR EAST INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (IN CREDITORS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (Company Incorporated in Hong Kong) NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO PROVE DEBTS Notice is hereby given that the Creditors of the above-named company, which is being wound up voluntarily, are required on or before
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      207 15 rMt- __jM Corporate Risk Advisory Division I STONE FOREST CONSULTING PTE LTD 3 A member of Horwath International Business Advisors to Growing Businesses P I Wednesday, 20 March 2002 MO** to 1.00 pm I I Ballroom Levi 2 I J A practical 'how-to 1 guide to implementing the Code of
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      159 15 CKVFTIC CROSSWORD 27 He sees robes are laid out before clergyman returns 7 Opposed to a drink (4) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION P f Across: 4 Nightowl, 8 Gannet, 28 To put one at nsk on pur- 12 UFO, for example, gyrating 9 Tolerant 10 Admonish 11 pose is a sin (8)
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      Lock icon Singapore banks moving towards account aggregation model
      793 19  -  American Express and Citigroup started offering such facilities at their portals in the US last year. Asia can look forward to similar services later this year, reports chew miiftm CHEN HUIFEN BANKS in Singapore will move towards an Internet-based account aggregation model in
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      573 20  -  But even this foray may not help tide the San Francisco-based e-broker over its current rough patch By Paul Chan PIONEER online broking service provider Charles Schwab Company is ready to launch e-banking services later this year and is waiting for a banking charter. The company,
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      172 20 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Datek Online Holdings Corp, the seventh biggest online broker by client assets, could command US$l.l billion if sold by its private equity owners, a Putnam Lovell Securities Inc analyst estimated. w Datek, based in New Jersey, is worth four-fifths as much as
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      766 20  -  IH comment i f INFOTECH Most banks are merely using the Net as an alternative delivery or ad angela tan The writer is a BT Senior Correspondent. JUST a couple of years ago, Internet banking was touted as the next big hope by
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      Lock icon Visa launches new verification service for e-biz
      263 20  -  It aims to give customers more assurance when shopping on the Net By Chen Huifen VISA Asia-Pacific last week launched a new verification service that gives consumrjeC3.greater assurance when shopping on the Net. Called "Verified by Visa", it involves Visa-car-dholders enrolling with the
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      481 22  -  Despite a turnaround in operations, its stock price stays near all-time lows By Reshma Kapadia Reuters [NEW YORK] Priceline.com Inc may soon try to name its own price. The company that lets users name their own price for everything from plane tickets to car
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      646 22  -  There Is an urgent need for banks to have good CRM strategy and deploy It across the enterprise tom cheong The writer is regional managing director (Asean), Avaya Asia-Pacific. A HIGHLY competitive environment is developing as the banking industry consolidates in Singapore.
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      Lock icon IBM to sell its expense system through Amex
      359 22 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] IBM and American Express have agreed to jointly sell software letting mid-size companies use Web browsers to automate the filing and payment of employee expenses. Terms were not disclosed. The software was developed for IBM's internal use. IBM
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      385 22  -  China will see the largest rises in domestic payments in Asia, says BCG By < Chua Hui Min REVENUE from payment services such as credit cards and cross-border fund transfers is expected to rise to US$3B7 billion worldwide by 2009, with Asia and
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      215 22 Reuters [LONDON] Germany's Infineon says it expects DRAM memory chip prices to rise further, while risks of oversupply were minimal. The company also told investors at a conference here organised by Lehman Brothers that it expected to grow its market share
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      763 23  -  James Chu's View Sonic has surpassed some giant makers of computer screens. Next he foresees a new generation of smart, wireless ones, russeuflamiery reports RUSSELL FLANKERY IN A US economy rich with immigrant, hightech success stories, James Chu has few peers. His View Sonic in
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      186 23 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] IBM Corp narrowly edged Sun Microsystems Inc in Q4 2001 to become the world's top seller of server computers using the Unix OS (operating system). IBM hadn't led Unix market sales since Q4 1998. IBM's market share
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        90 23 SINGAPORE Computer Systems said it has teamed up with IBM and Red Hat to set up an SCS Linux Competency Centre in Singapore. The three companies will invest $500,000 in the project The centre will use IBM eServers running on the Red Hat Linux and
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        89 23 NATIONAL Computer Systems (NCS) has teamed up with seven service providers and four merchants to offer "a wireless lifestyle with YWB's offerings of mobile payments services", NCS said. "Users can register at www.yw&com.sg free and start making mobile payments." The pilot programme will rim from March
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        60 23 iNAbUAy-LJb rfcD Brio Software said United Overseas Bank (UOB) has deployed Brio Portal and Brio Reports to enable the UOB Call Centre to increase knowledge sharing, improve business performance, and enhance customer satisfaction levels. The project was managed by Sentient. Brio's technology partner in Singapore, and
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        55 23 A TOTAL of 16 finalists in two categories have been announced by the main judging panel of the first National Infocomm Awards. Of the 347 nominations received in two categories, the winners in two categories Most Innovative Infocomm Product/Service, and Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology
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        35 23 COMVERSE, a unit of Nasdaq-listed Comverse Technology Inc, has appointed Daniel Liew as vice-president and managing director, Comverse Asia South Pacific. Mr Liew was previously president of Comverse South-east Asia.
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        36 23 SINGAPORE-BASED Accton Technology Corp has appointed Ah-Sin Ang as its strategic development and marketing vice-president for Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr Ang was previously business manager with Quadtel Asia Pte Ltd.
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        39 23  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A TWO-DAY exposition, "DocuShow Xtraordinaire 2002", will be held from March 21 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. It is organised by Fuji Xerox Singapore, with Singnet and Celestix Networks. For details, fax *****802.
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      245 23 New hearing date set for March 18 LAT-WP [WASHINGTON! The federal judge overseeing the Microsoft antitrust case expressed misgivings on Friday over a bid by nine states to expand the scope of the trial to include restrictions on the software giant's expansion into new markets such
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      161 23  -  mailflfl Zubi Khawaja managing director Sybari Software Asia-Pacific. THIS refers to the article, "Dangerous Klez.E Internet worm making its rounds" (BizlT, March 7). W32/Klez.e<£MM is supposed to activate its payload on March 6. Sybari's multiple anti-virus scan-engine technology has been detecting this since late January. The real
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      930 24  -  With no factories, no engineers and Chinese labour, two US entrepreneurs are making the cheapest DVD players on the planet. Sony doesn't like it one bit By Daniel Lyons THESE days Sony's biggest villain isn't some freakish alien from Men in Black II (its upcoming summer movie);
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      142 24 Bloomberg [REDWOOD CITY, California] Napster Inc, the Internet music-swapping service, laid off 10 per cent of its workforce last week, citing longer-than-expected licensing negotiations with the major record labels, CEO Konrad Hilbers said. Napster may fill the positions in the future, he said. Napster
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      Lock icon Tyco Telecom may build undersea cable link to S'pore itself
      422 24 DishnetDSL, its partner, may be unable to finance the project Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Tyco Telecommunications, formerly Tycom Ltd, the world's largest maker of undersea fibreoptic cable, may build a link connecting India to Singapore itself because its Indian partner may
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      338 24 AFX [HANNOVER, Germany] The main focus of attention at this week's CeBIT trade fair will be the readiness of 3G hardware, on which the fortunes of Europe's troubled telcos depend. The eight-day event, which runs from March 13, is expected to draw nearly
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      830 25 Internet link makes compnter-like 'sm&rtphones' the most vulnerable to virus attacks AP [NEW YORK] For malicious computer hackers and virus writers, the next frontier in mischief is the mobile phone. A phone virus or "Trojan horse" program might instruct your phone to do extraordinary
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      589 25 AROEMTDIE CRISIS Reuters [CHICAGO] Some of the world's biggest telecom equipment makers, including Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks, have millions of dollars of exposure in troubled Argentina, according to industry analysts. Most firms have already taken reserves for any potential Argentine losses
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      Lock icon 'Fee' replaces 'free' as websites start charges
      665 25  -  Paying for online content raises questions of how much, and who will collect By] Leslie Walker LATWP ANUEajbaj Hold on to your wallet: This may go down in Internet history as the year millions of people started paying for online content My digital
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      653 26  -  ii exclusive The Yankee Group says revenues from wireless usage in Singapore will reach US$ 1.05b by 2006. LEO SEE CHYE reports LEO KEE CHYE SINGAPORE will have 3.2 million wireless subscribers by 2006—from about 2.6 million last year—due mainly to increased usage of
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        Lock icon NEC's new IP server here
        62 26 JAPAN'S NEC Corp has launched its NEAX 2000 IPS Internet Protocol Server, its first IP telephony system to support peer-to-peer connectivity and offer reliability and features associated with traditional TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) PBXs. It is targeted at SMEs and the enterprise branch office market,
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        Lock icon 2-in-1 MPEG card now
        59 26 SINGAPORE-based V One Multimedia Pte Ltd has launched its Snazzi*m AV.DV, a two-in-one digital video encoder card that allows crsating and editing f videos from both analogue and digttal video sources. The internal PCI card lets users encode in MPEG-1 for VCD output, costs $649 and
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        Lock icon Sony's new Clie handheld
        60 26 SONY Singapore has unveUed its Clie hanHhoM PEG-5360/G. It costs 1369, runs on a DragonbaU VZ 33 MHz processor on Palm's OS 4.1, weighs 138 grams, and comes with 16 MB RAM, 4 MB Flash memory and a backht (320 by 320 pixel resolution) monochrome display.
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        Lock icon Intel's new mobile processor, chipset
        65 26  -  Compiled by! Leo Kee Chye INTEL Corp has introduced its Pentium 4 processor-M, and its mobile 845 chipset for mobile PC usage. "Together, they deliver a significant boost in performance while maintaining low average power consumption," Intel said. In 1,000 unit quantities, the 1.7 GHz
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      649 26  -  Case over Java language is the most sweeping suit so far against Microsoft By, Joseph Menn LAT-WP [SAN JOSE] Sun Microsystems Inc opened a new front in the burgeoning legal war on Microsoft Corp on Friday by filing a private antitrust lawsuit accusing the top
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      255 26 AP [SAN JOSE] The technology at the heart of Sun Microsystems' new lawsuit against Microsoft Corp lets programmers write software that can run on all manner of computers regardless of the OS (operating system) they run. Ordinary, non-Java software is written for a specific computer running
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      162 26 AFX [SAN FRANCISCO] Computer Associates International Inc was named in a class action lawsuit that alleges CA made materiaUy false and misleading statements to the market in violation of the Securities Exchange Act, law firm Marc S Henzel said. The lawsuit seeking to
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      311 27 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young ANOTHER week of positive activity in the dry bulk sector has seen further sales concluded, reflecting the recent improvement in this area. The 94 Built Cape, World Action, is reported sold to clients of Alpha Tankers at US$2l.5 million. In October of last
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      625 27  -  Lloyds' underwriters decide to scrap premiums following security survey By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] London-based international insurance underwriters have withdrawn war risk premiums on ships calling at Sri Lanka's main Port of Colombo from the end of last week, ending nearly
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      488 27  -  By 1 Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] On budget and ahead of time to boot. That's what Keppel Fels has achieved again, this time with the delivery of Chiles Discovery, a new generation of deep-well drilling rigs. The feat earned KFELS an early
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      Lock icon Carnival turns the screws on Caribbean
      612 27 It wants to discuss details of its hostile bid with Princess Reuters [LONDON] The world's biggest cruise operator, Carnival Corp, has raised the pressure on its largest rival, Royal Caribbean Cruises, as they compete for the hand of smaller British cruise line P&O Princess.
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      66 27 [SAGUNTO, Spain] Greenpeace activists from the Rainbow Warrior boarding the vessel 'Meltemi' early last Friday to protest against its cargo of ancient forest Africa tropical timber exported from Liberia. The 'Meltemi' was heading into Sagunto harbour, eastern Spain, when Greenpeace forced the ship back out to
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      Lock icon P&O to axe 1,000 staff at shipping venture
      297 27 Reuters [LONDON] Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Co, the world's biggest port operator, said it was cutting 1,000 jobs at its P&O Nedlloyd shipping joint venture as it battles a slowdown in trade. P&O reported a 25 per cent drop in annual operating
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      831 28  -  DOCKYARD By] David Hughes LAST week the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) tackled a wide range of issues facing the shipping industry. Among them was the worldwide ban on anti-foulings containing organotin compounds (usually referred to as TBTs).
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        543 37 Voy No Bwth Arrival D*p«rtur CITRA ABACI J***** J02 KV03/KW0 M/03/2359 PUIAUINOAH J***** J02 KJ/03/1040 10/03/23:59 MAUIANAI M***** JB 10/03/1040 n/03/3:00 *10) AGUNG J BO303 XT 10/03/10:15 11/03/0:15 «*AOA 5 206 JB 10/03/13:00 KV03/I740 BT SURUTI4 Mw-10 J01 10/03/1140 10/03/2300 ETERNITY 21 JOT 10/03/1340 11/03/1640 ZIM YWE2IA2 51
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        168 37 March 15 Malaysia: Islamic New Year (Awal Muharram) Brunei: Islamic New Year (Awal Muharram) March 20 Singapore: Good Friday Australia: Good Friday Canada: Good Friday France: Good Friday Germany: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday Indonesia: Good Friday New Zealand: Good Friday Norway: Good Friday Philippines: Good Friday
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        821 37 THIS report compiled by Cockett Ma rine OU Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        335 38 BAA says 0-3% gain bnoyed by rising traffic from low-fare carriers Bloomberg [LONDON] British Airport Authority (BAA) pic said the number of passengers travelling through its seven UK airports rose 0.3 per cent in February from a year ago, the
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        553 38  -  By George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Top European airline Air France has some 300 small and medi-um-sized airlines operating in the Asia-Pacific in its sights for air transport con- sultancy services. By offering its expertise, Air France hopes these airlines would grow and help feed the
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        Lock icon Police jobs open to ex-Ansett staff
        172 38 AP [SYDNEY] Workers from failed airline Ansett should consider serving the public in a different way by becoming police officers, New South Wales state Police Minister Michael Costa said. Mr Costa said many of the 4,000 Ansett workers, who lost their jobs last week
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        Lock icon UK against airline insurance fund
        256 38 British air transport body disappointed over govt's opposition Reuters [LONDON] The British government is opposed to the setting up of a global mutual insurance fund for airlines to cover third-party war and terrorism risks, the British Air Transportation Association (Bata) said. Insurers cancelled such war
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        67 38 [COURMAYEUR, Italy/France] The driver (above) of a bus carrying journalists being guided by a security car as he crosses through the Mont Blanc tunnel in Courmayeur, on the border between Italy and France on Saturday The 12km tunnel was reopened after three years of rebuilding following a fire
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        Lock icon Boeing in talks to buy Fairchild: UK report
        136 38 AFP [LONDON] US giant Boeing is in talks to launch a US$2 billion bid for regional aircraft company Fairchild Domier, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported. It said the move would signal Boeing as re-entering the market for smaller jets which it left a
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        Lock icon Rolls orders rise to record on naval, service work
        434 38 Bloomberg [LONDON] Rolls-Royce Pic, the No 2 aero-engine maker, said orders rose 3.6 per cent last year to a record as contracts for naval engines and repair services helped offset a slowdown in airliner orders after the Sept 11 attacks. The
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        293 38 Reuters [HANOI] Vietnam Airlines is interested in using two former US bases in central Vietnam dating back to the Vietnam War for civil aviation. The weekly Saigon Economic Times magazine quoted Vietnam Airlines general director Nguyen Xuan Hien as saying the US-built airfield
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      57 27 INSIDE Shiprepair industry faces the heat of green rules P*2 UK airports' traffic up for first time since Sept 11 ■Pg 12 Air France expanding consultancy to Asia-Pacific P*l2 "Clients want to know that they matter... I And to QBE Marine they do." SPECIALIST INSURANCE SOLUTIONS Lm,ed Tel: (65) 224
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      538 30 W SGifA weekly express sailing schedule ALSO ACCEPTING TO ALI NORTHERN AMO WESTER* CO POINTS FCL TO COCHM. TUTCORM Ma COLOMM 4 KANDLA rt» NHEMA SHEVA WHB WT STOW COUMO UM COMCIK OHOK ||y DUPBUU Will? 71IMI M 71 MM MMO SCUM vob iis «n naFN.cn ns 7snm »mi Tin
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      482 31 Rf^l UK CONTINENT SERVICE Loading far OCEAN ISLAND RDM/ATW/BMN/UK/LPt DtMfTHA RDM/ATW/BMN/UK/MAN Lowct» Sngyoni, EJ*I MMwyMa. InrVmo— MIDDLE-EAST SERVICE Loecing tor JIN SHUN HODEIDAH/JEDDAH/AQABA JOHNNY L DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT UON GLOWY JDH/AQA PAN QUEEN DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT DON FRANE BUUC JDH/AQA/DMT HANDY ESPERANCE DBI/ABU/DOH/BRN/DMM/KWT RAINIER JDH/AQA/DMT •LoaM Sngapore. E7W. Matey** hdonH USA SERVICE Loadng tor
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      498 32 WEEKLY SERVICE TO SOUTH AFRICA* SOUTH AMERICA TDBO6«AM)t. y>ORU«IOSCO DO SU AM) fUMI VU MOWTTVPa) s—« J'Wti let— I stu uh» r*Mw Ir tap** (mm* K2015 I 12/03 7V03 25/03 25/03 27/03 OVtM M/M iivS 1*25 ~!g —g? —rcs —38 C"* r (T7O2S fJM ***** w/M W/fi im H7B g7B
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