The Business Times, 19 March 2002

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    17 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 E- Internet http: /business-times.asial corn sg SINGAPORE TUESDAY. MARCH 19. 2002
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    73 1 U 1,***** (+8.22) □ir-on mm (+1.78) Plains man U 1,***** 3.00) flaD«inrmEB U an (+0.10) STOCK KABKETIXDHBg Monday Qwne KLSECOMP 717.44 +430 NflBH m -U.4MJ8 -149.(3 HANG SENG _11.2M.84 +3ftj» SET INDEX S7i.7l_._-1M JAKARTA COMP -49I.S8 +L» MANILA C0MP.UBU3 +1.72 TAIPEI WPI M71I1 *tm seoul coup m.n SHENZHEN
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    64 1 phi urn uss St BS(SSprUSS) L8S4 £(U»«$ per 1.422 2JC2 EUBO(UM/S$/E) 9jm i.m DM t2W L21S YEN mi 7L6# KM tm 1081 HK$ 7.7» 4276 BAFT OJ3 2J.76 BDPIAH Vm 1,467 PMMK RATES 81N0AP0RE* 13k KOALA LUMPUR 8.40 HONGKONG Utt JAKARTA »M TAIPEI 1726 TOKYO 1176 SEOUL Mi FRANKFURT
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    Lock icon Andersen's Asia, Australia units huddle in S'pore
    572 1  -  iiexclusive Best deal sought for regional ops from rivals Ernst, KPMG andDeloitte By* Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The Asian and Australian offices of stricken audit firm Andersen are meeting in Singapore to discuss possible tieups with either KPMG, Ernst Young or Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
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    Lock icon Asian banks warned: segment your customers or lose them
    521 1  -  One-size-fits-all approach will push consumers to foreign banks: Xckinsey report By' Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE! Asia's domestic banks should stop treating consumers as if they all wanted the same personal financial products. Such an approach will only push more consumers into the
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    Lock icon No 1 is not enough for Michael Dell
    870 1  -  Rivals will feel the heat as PC maker seeks new markets By Kenneth James (SINGAPORE] The company he founded as a university student is today the unquestioned champion of the world's toughest technology market. But that's not enough for Michael Dell, chairman
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      98 1 DfSZDB Top Storiot S'pore's Feb exports tell a sharper than expected 23.4%. Nmxt Pmgm Seiyu Singapore poets first full-year ■> AMUJta nw pfOfiu Nojct ftji UBs3Sm Keppel write-off shocker. Pg S i Time to pick up tech second-liners: DBS Vlckers. Pg 4 M*slan officials voicing concern over 3-bddge project RHB,
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      15 1 govt's anger, Pg 17 Oversea* nnlts can't 'avoid liability', Pg 17 FOMC meeting Page 16
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        103 2 IF you're out of sorts on the job front, there's something that may interest you tonight at the Paddyfields restaurant in Alexandra Road. It's time for that eAngelNite again. Jobs on offer include a sales rep to be based in Malaysia for a French ceramic
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        Lock icon More at home now
        67 2 HOW times have changed. United Overseas Rank, which took over former rival Overseas Union Rank last year, launched its new business credit card last night at a bash attended by 500 guests and hosted by president Wee Ee Cheong. The location? The Mandarin—beloved flagship hotel of
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        Lock icon Of land and monetary advice
        87 2 IN a recent online poll, BT said: The land reclamation issue shows Singapore-Malaysia ties will always be strained. This is how readers voted: Yes, the problems will crop up all the time: 84% No, the dispute will blow over soon: 12% Don't know: 4% In
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      Lock icon Feb exports fell a sharper than expected 23.4%
      603 2  -  Chinese New Year distorted ffeares, but analysts expect streamer performance ahead By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) shrank 23.4 per cent year-on-year to $6.3 billion in February much more than the 16.5 per cent analysts expected and a
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      51 2 IN yesterday's Eye on the Economy column, we erred in saying that retailers were the hardest hit in January, with sales at current prices dropping 37.8 per cent from the previous month. The 37.8 per cent fall was only for the recreational goods segment. We are sorry for the
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      Lock icon Seiyu Singapore posts first full-year net profit
      603 2 pl^xcTusive It's closing unprofitable Parkway Parade outlet next month By bhMB Raahiwala [SINGAPORE] Seiyu Singa pore postal Its first Hill-year net profit last year, but has decided not to renew the lease for its Katong store at Parkway Parade as it could not
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      Lock icon New BCA owner Farallon is in for the long haul: Ibra chairman
      547 2  -  BCAggrra From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta COUNTERING rumours that Farallon Capital Management was fronting for the Salim Group when it successfully bid for Bank Central Asia (BCA) last week, Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) chairman I Putu Gede
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      533 2 KPMGSeminarSeries Goods Services T iii Wu||t ihniHi 1 9.00 am to 5.00pm, Orchard Hotel Singapore i Qi i r\C I what Urtditional Runsj od iiiii, iii i Practice of KPMG Tax Services will be conducting a series orZ-day GST seminars. These newly developed 2-day seminars are in response to feedback
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      6 2 Feb nhrtmaka exports down 28%, PglO
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon US$35m Keppel write-off shocker
      601 3  -  BTIiiJIIUUJ J Minority shareholders see red over KTAT privatisation plan which favours big US shareholder Friedmans By\ Serena Ng KEPPEL Corp stands to write off around US$35 million stemming from an inter-est-free loan it gave in October 2000 to a substantial shareholder of subsidiary Keppel Telecommunications
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      Lock icon UOB's regional strategy banking on credit card
      324 3  -  Byi Quak Hiang Whai GROWING its credit card base in the region would form a key part of United Overseas Bank Group's strategy to expand its consumer business overseas, said the bank's head of credit cards. UOB and Visa International yesterday launched the
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      Lock icon Did UOB have a choice?
      745 3  -  quak hiang whai IN the week after United Overseas Bank released its 2001 results on March 8, analysts were divided in their assessment of the bank's performance. There are those that were attracted by UOB's ability to beat the market's expectations with its net profit
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      Lock icon Time to pick up tech second-liners
      595 4  -  DBS Vickers picks Beyonics, Seksun, Magnecomp, Jurong Tech for strong growth potential By] Loh Hui Yin ITS time to take profit from big technology stocks and invest in second-liners which will yield better returns, said DBS Vickers in a presentation to high net worth
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      Lock icon KLW narrows loss; seeks to restructure loans
      175 4 SESDAQ-LISTED KLW Holdings, which narrowed its FY2OOI net loss to $7 million from $11 million a year earlier, is trying to restructure loans and raise additional funds. The door maker, which also owns furniture retailer Barang Barang, says it is negotiating with banks
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Jaya winds up
        23 4 announced the votuntan liquidation of 30 per cent owned unit, Nl-Jaya Oflfcfaore Investment Pte Ltd. after the safe of its
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        Lock icon Eng Keng shops investing via Furrell
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        21 4 Ifrtt jumped go pgromltto ts'immaifuMteT towar advertising expenditure and foreign exdw^s r ijj •Whelped qitcoete. The prtMffll liM.
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        Lock icon SIMN profit rises 11.%
        25 4 Reuters SMB United *«aoei net profit was up ILA per coot to yr r iiimiitfißiiiioiiji ■> V JJ^o^^Baimooail^L^fl^taSieSßerti 06 XSpecfcMJlil o*ll IU
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        Lock icon Armstrong narrows losses in 2001
        44 4 Reuters ARMSTRONG Industrial's2ool net km narrowed to $2.48 million from $&4T million a year mo. Turnover Iril to 184J6 million fr**Jo7.oe mfflkm InMmi k wigagert in information technology, alectronioe. J Tnlinti Inl iihlbimßib leaseefor the first half of 2DOL
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        Lock icon Vietnam gets
        32 4 AFP SINGAPORE Tetoootnmun trati/mn Ltd has ripad an said yesterday. Under the agraeme^StSrW^D^ 1 provide Vietnam Datacammunicetions Co a fclicatad lias via submarine cable as a link between Vietnamand Singapore—AFP
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        Lock icon Hartford renamed Tenart
        71 4 THE Hartford bxstuance Company (Singapore) Ltd was yesterday renamed Tenet Insurance Company known as The People's Insurance Company, the Ann later became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hwa Hang Corporation Ltd in the mid-00*. In 1907. the Hartford International Financial Services Group Inc bought a stake in
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      Lock icon Xpress Holdings trims loss to $9.5m
      339 7  -  Itiscrafidantof returning to the black soon By\ Serena Ng XPRESS Holdings yesterday posted a much narrower interim net loss of $9.5 million down from $31.4 million and said it is confident of returning to the black soon. The company did not give a time
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      Lock icon Portek launches IPO at 30c a share
      284 7  -  By Adeline Chia PORTEK International Ltd, a homegrown container leasing company, yesterday launched its initial public offering (IPO) of 36 million new shares at $0.30 each for the first mainboard listing of the year. The offer, which comprises 30 million new shares and
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      Lock icon Tiong Woon interim profit jumps to $2m
      267 7 LIFTED by better cost management and higher margins, construction services firm Tiong Woon Corporation yesterday reported interim profit of $2 million, up sharply from $70,000 a year earlier. Turnover for the halfyear ended December 2001 rose 19 per cent, or $3.1 million, to
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      516 3 I i W IM WiW^^Mß 'la-K* t; industncs are seen as the catalysts. Taiwan continues to Technology Fund provides the right supplement to your rw sw -c. benefit from outsourcing by global technology players. Asian investments. CMC rvvt Stati o• .f- Asis-Padflc Growth Fu4 Aata iiimdN a Technology Fiad Singapore
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      118 4 I Steal our cash ami I you II be caught red-handed A Most financial transactions arc carried (nit electronically these d;i\s hui there coiiks pom! when Lime miih> ol mone\ lu\e to pliNMc.illx eluinye IkiihK So »w do \ou nuike Mire that should .in\thin_! -o wion-. \ou re noi the
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      33 4 For Lease AIA Tampines Prime office space opposite "ftunpincs Bus Interchange Close proximity to Tunpines MRT station 18,000 sf per fir with raised floors provided Efficient floor plate Attractive rents IlJlfjJ Debenham mneenLi
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      265 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mvl8 VALUE CLOSE wwm 222.00 -49.00 WWW -*****.00 ♦14&00 yjMgl -*****.00 +22.00 MilBliMli 472.93 +2.32 IMUfcilMl 174.12 +3.99 Mp«Wtfc 1549.71 +3.56 WilOitNp 477.76 +3.65 ■Wwppw 226.11 +1.27 —BMw> 225.90 40.10 *>C020c 39.424.000 Food Empire 5c 31.309.000 LafcTech US4c 17,806.000 Str*aEn*5c 17.490,000 S*r*Te(15c 11.926.000 JurongTech 10c 11.745,000 Mlyoani
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      Lock icon Seksun's technical indicators remain bullish
      264 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WABRAMT By Ven Sreenivasan THE 9tock of disk drive maker Seksun Corp has been in the limelight after the firm unveiled sterling results recently. The counter gained another nine cents to close at a record 88 cents yesterday. Volume was strong, with 10.2
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      Lock icon Market starts week on anaemic note
      688 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan THE Singapore stock market remained range-bound yesterday as players stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve's interest-rate meeting today. Interest was confined largely to small caps and situational stocks, depriving the Straits Times Index of fresh leads. Liquidity
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      Lock icon US$ rebounds smartly after strong numbers
      524 6  -  JIiMJIUiyUI CURRENQte Ten tumbles, euro disappoints again, but A$ and NZ$ do well larry wee THE US dollar was impressive yesterday, jumping back above 130 yen after strong numbers on Friday raised prospects that US central bankers will remove an easing bias at their
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    1959 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CM Japan n —< GtlBond S'pora K/% ijf OtiBond Sport 1.22b y/"" *N* P>wJ Oti Money Sing DoBardaaB 1.038b Star Europe Eqtyl* 0J11/ Oti Pan-Europe EquityFund 1j09 Star Europe M 0l9» GtiSelect Asia Tilt Balanced 1.29 Star Europe Bal 0J8V GtiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 1.29 Star Asian
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      35 7 PIAQET Boutique: #01-11 Ngee Ann City Tower B, 391 Orchard Road, Singapore *****4. Tel: 6732 6831 Authorised Retailers: Cortina Watch Deluxe Eastern Watch Roy Eastern Watch Sincere fine Watches The Hour Glass (Scotts Shopping Centre)
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      189 7 I w Jf I ME&■ I I I Relaxed I H I I I I fl I I THAILAND I I Never underestimate I I the importance I I of local knowledge. I I To truly understand a country and I I its culture, you have to be part of
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon What's provisional approval worth ?
      566 8  - What's provisional approval worth I M PROPERTY Nothing, going by a recent court rilling which has alio opened m. lee han shih A RECENT court judgment has raised the question of whether provisional approval for a property project is worth the paper it's written on. And unless this is resolved,
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      Lock icon Bangkok's downtown condo sector sees revival
      304 8  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok BANGKOK'S downtown oondos are witnessing a revival with the launch of new developments and resumption of projects suspended during the crippling 1997 financial crisis, analysts said. Signs of recovery were encouraging with the resumption of construction activity, a limited
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      397 8 KM=7[i(e[Kl C=a FOR SALE -n, AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY j O cll_ 1 71 TUAS AVENUE. SINGAPOm Land area approximately 191.000 sq ft Built-in area approximately 171,000 sq ft Description :A 2 storey office block with a I storey factory and a part 2/3 factory Class 10 -10,000 clean-room facilities
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      60 8 When the market at its what happens to the money you put in now? msi I H Head Office Cecil St 6 880 0688 Email: enquiry@sbsl.oom.sfl Website: www.sbsl.com.sg ClilO A ID A Our Branches Ang Mo Kio *****222 Beach Road 6292 1459 Bedok *****255 OIPHIMIUIIM Bukrt Timah 6 467 1916
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon M'sia officials turn concerns to plan for Changi bridges
      575 10  -  Tekong-UMn links with main island would affect navigation: Report From Eddie Toh, Donald Urquhart in Singapore MALAYSIAN officials are now voicing concern about another project within Singapore's territorial waters the plan to build three bridges linking Pulau Übin, Pulau Tekong and
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      Lock icon Feb electronics exports down 28%
      299 10  -  Byi Chuang Peck Ming DELAYED shipments because of the Chinese New Year holidays coupled with still-weak global demand knocked back February's electronics exports by 28.7 per cent from a year ago. This came after January's decline eased to minus 9.1 per cent, from a 20.2
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      Lock icon Boost for Chinese media on SPH TV ad today
      140 10 SINGAPORE Press Holdings newspapers Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao and Shin Min Daily News have joined forces with the group's Media Works Channel U to produce a television commercial that promotes SPH Chinese media as the all-encompassing source of Chinese news and
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      Lock icon Pinetree Club value seen diving
      352 10  -  Club value put at $60-60 m after govt rejects condo plans By\ Serena Ng THE market value of Pinetree Town Country Club is likely to have plunged because the Urban Redevelopment Authority has ruled out rezoning its prime Stevens Road freehold site for residential use
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      Lock icon Business confidence among SMEs soars: poll
      305 11  -  80% in Dec, np from 40% in July, say they'll be aronnd for next 7 months Byi Geraldine Lor A SURVEY by the Productivity and Standards Board has revealed a dramatic improvement in sentiment among small and mediumsized enterprises. It found that twice as
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      Lock icon GST charged, on brokers' handling fees, not dividend
      277 11  -  MAIU.TTTI Mrs Lee Leng Kiong Manager (Corporate Communications) Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore I REFER to the letters by Denis Distant (Dividends that come to nought) and Narayana Narayana (Problem of charges exceeding dividends a common one) which appeared in Mailbag on
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      Lock icon Private home market quiet over the weekend
      381 11 Newly launched Pasadena sells 9 of its 36 units THE residential market was quiet over the weekend as the only new launch was the smallish, 36-unit Pasadena at Derbyshire Road. And as long as the spectre of further retrenchments hangs over the market,
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      Lock icon SGX deadline for F&N 100 most puzzling
      351 11  -  Narayana Narayana Singapore FRASER Neave's proposal for capital restructuring was adopted without much dissent last week. The end-result would, however, result in shareholders who now own shares in multiples of "board-lots" of 1,000 shares ending up with corresponding multiples of 900 shares, which
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      Lock icon Review Singapore's lopsided HR policy
      220 11  -  Chang Nan Shen Brisbane, Australia I AM happy to read your editorial (Drawing on the S'porean diaspora, Editorial Opinion, March 7) regarding Minister of State Ng Eng Hen's visit to Hong Kong. It is good the government is trying to reach out to the many
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      Lock icon MAS, banks should clear air over FDs
      227 11  -  Alex Tham Bentong, Pahang I REFER to the letter "Concern for fixed depositors" by John Yong (Mailbag, March 14). Mr Yong has raised a very pertinent point. I myself have wondered for years about the safety of my ACU (Asian Currency Unit) deposits.
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon We have seen the enemy— and he is us
      712 12  - We have seen the enemy and he is us OPINION frank ching The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator LAST week, a top official declared that, as a result of the market economy, "people's jobs and status keep changing" in China today, and there are "differences and contradictions
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      67 12 'It is frequently said to be unthinkable that Britain should leave the European Union. But avoidance of thought about this is apoor substitute for judgment' the ex-British prime minister, on BritaUi'^mvtU^h^U. 'During my lifetime, most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion
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      Lock icon Does Jakarta finally mean business?
      562 12 EDITORIAL THE sudden detention of Indonesia's Parliamentary Speaker Akbar Tandjung for alleged abuse of power has certainly come as a shock to most observers. What is the international business community to make of it? After what seemed like months of indecision, the Megawati administration may
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      Lock icon A novelist brings together two worlds
      1082 12  -  The Intense and at times bloody engagement ef Islam and Christianity becemes a tear de force in the hands eff a talented Tnrkish writer By Karim Raslan The writer is a Kuala Lumpur-based lawyer and author AFTER Sept 11, bookshops around the globe quickly
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      Lock icon Quit playing the 3 Ds
      465 12 COMMENTARY [BANGKOK] The administration of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra seems to have adopted an obtuse public information policy based on three Ds: double standard, disdain, and denial. Mr Thaksin has refused to come clean with the country over the troubling and continuing murders of police
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Malaysian unit trusts chafe at capital controls
      256 13 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA'S unit trust funds, frustrated by the central bank's refusal to authorise their efforts at overseas investment, pledged yesterday to keep pushing for it. "As long as we continue to invest (only) in the Malaysian market, there might not be
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      Lock icon Dharmala creditors delayed by Indon suit
      85 13 JAKARTA Bloomberg INTERNATIONAL Finance Corp and Manulife Financial Corp are being sued for US$52O million by Indonesia's Dharmala group over claims they caused its unit to fail. The move may delay repayment to its creditors. Dharmala claims that the World Bank's investments arm and
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Workers seek to scrap Indosat sale
        69 13 Dow Jones Newswires [JAKARTA] The union for employees of Indonesia's state-owned tekscoms companies yesterday said it ha asked the government to cancel a plan to sell a majority stake in Indonesian Satellite Corp to a foreign company. "Ifthe government doesnt cancel the plan, we
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        Lock icon Iran gasfield on Petronas
        64 13 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR] Fetronas and its partners TotalFinaElf and Gazprom have brought on stream phases 2 and 3 of the Sooth P*rs gaafleld, located in the Persian Gulf, offlran. Fetronas said the two phases ofthe US|2 bilhon gas project are expected to produce two billion cubic
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        Lock icon Caĺ to reopen M'sian steel plant
        62 13 Bernama relieve it from the higi costs of imported raw materials, government for the early re-opening and operation ofthe National Steel Corp." the Metalworirtng Industry Association said. Heavy debts forced the Malaysian-owned NSC to shut down more than two years ago and both Malaysian
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      Lock icon RHB,Utama to ink deal tomorrow
      142 13 B^SRPj^ IP aid It will make an annooncapem which will nan* In th.comp.ny being a mafor shareholder of a liatad company wfik autfor banking flfxi flniw* concert* I htese lima from mythic a general o£hr. And to hdp finance the two major acQfriattkna far aknoat
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      Lock icon KL orders probe into pilgrim fund's losses
      258 13 KUALA LUMPUR Tabnng made a bad deal with a local fond manager Reuters MALAYSIA has ordered a probe into its pilgrims fUnd, which is one of the stock market's biggest investors, following reports that it had lost millions in a high-risk deal, the
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      Lock icon Thailand expects 2-3% growth
      331 14  -  From Harish Mehta in Bangkok THAILAND'S struggling economy is forecast to grow Just 3 to 3 per cent this year, as key drivers begin recovering from even slower growth of 1.8 per cent last year, the government said yesterday. The National Economic and Social Development Board
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      Lock icon Indon Speaker due to stand trial next Monday
      398 14 JAKARTA Protests mark trial for graft and abue«fpaw«r Reuters INDONESIA announced yesterday that parliamentary Speaker Akbar Tandjung would stand trial next week in a case viewed as a critical test of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's commitment to fight corruption. Amid protests by thousands
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      419 14 TOKYO Reuters CHINA'S banks are bust and the government should bail them out sooner rather than later to help restore momentum to an economy that is clearly flagging despite the impetus of WTO membership, the OECD said yesterday. In a
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      323 15  -  No joint feasibility study agreed to or touched yet: MTI By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore is still in the "preliminary stages" of considering Taiwan's proposal to negotiate a free trade agreement, the government said yesterday in response to a BT
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        42 16 AFX [SEOUL] Creditors of Daewoo Motor Co have agreed to 9ell Daewoo Motor assets to General Motors Cap for US$l.2 billion, the amount specified in the MOU signed in September, the Korea Economic Daily reported.—AFX"
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      435 16 BASEL, Switzerland Bloomberg WORLDWIDE derivatives trading grew 10 per cent to an average US$l.4 trillion a day by last April, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said, raising its earlier estimate. In October, the BIS put the size of the market at
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      711 17 NEW YORK Prosecntors move to crack down after its flawed audits of other major clients NYT ANDERSEN'S pleading phone calls to federal prosecutors started almost immediately. Soon after the accounting firm discovered that its Houston office had shredded thousands of documents related to its
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      281 18 Innogy acquisition will make it largest supplier of water, power in Britain Bloomberg [ESSEN, Germany] RWE AG, the world's third biggest water company, plans to offer as much as £5.45 billion (5114.1 billion) for Innogy Holdings to become the largest
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      140 18 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japanese watchmaker Seiko Corp, which is forecast to make its third ftill-year loss in five years, may raise about 46 billion yen (*****.6 million) selling shares in Seiko Epson Corp to avert insolvency. Seiko is considering selling some or all
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      258 19 TOKYO They want tt form a 560b yen joint venture for their system chip ops Bloomberg HITACHI Ltd and Mitsubishi Electric Corp said they may merge part of their chipmaking businesses, creating a company with 550 billion yen (Ss7.B billion) in
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      273 19 SEOUL AFP, NYT MICRON Technology Inc has agreed in principle to pay US$3.B billion to buy the memory chip operations of South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc, news reports said here yesterday. Micron will also invest US$2OO million in the remaining Hynix operations, Yonhap news
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      592 21  -  Alliances good avenue to better use capacity: OOCL chairman By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Industry driven capacity cuts are the key to a liner shipping freight rate recovery, according to OOCL chairman and chief executive C C Tung. In his full year results
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      278 21 Port operator confident of reaching labour pact at Brazilian port of Snape [SINGAPORE] Philippines-based port operator International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) has said that, contrary to press reports, its Brazilian subsidiary Tecon Suape SA (TSS), is still in negotiations to reach an
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      253 21  -  Port to operate by end of month the first of three new super post quay cranes due by mid-year By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Jurong Logistics Hub has secured two major new tenants cosmetic giant L'Oreal and the distributors for computer maker Dell. The
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        908 22 Concerned by the state of air travel, many US companies are collectively seeking ways to secure lower fares AP [DETROIT] LARGE corporations, frustrated by the cost of travel from airports dominated by a single carrier, are teaming up in several cities
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        233 30 AFP [HONG KONG] A record number of flights are expected to arrive and depart Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok International airport during Easter, the government said, a further sign the local aviation industry is recovering from the Sept 11 terror attacks. Flight movements at
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        597 30 Purchase threatens alliance to which Wuhan Air belongs Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Eastern Airlines Corp, the nation's No 3 carrier, plans to use its cash hoard to invest in a second regional airline, threatening to undermine a rival six-carrier coalition.
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        396 30 Terminals, maintenance operations are np for sale Bloomberg, Reuters [SYDNEY] Ansett Holdings Ltd's administrator, Andersen, was scheduled to give potential bidders for the failed carrier's assets a document listing all items for sale, an Andersen spokesman said. Andersen, which operated Ansett until
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        272 30 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea's Incheon International Airport in Seoul handled 1.6 million passengers in February, 11 per cent more than the old Gimpo airport handled in the same month a year earlier. Incheon, which opened in March 2001 and took over international flights
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          68 30 Reuters [CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands] Appeals judges have upheld the murder conviction of a former Libyan agent for the 1988 Lockerbie mid-air bombing. Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, 49. was sentenced to life in January 2001 for killing the 270 passengers, crew and residents of the Scottish town of Lockerbie
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          85 30 AFP [HONG KONG] China-controlled Citic Pacific Ltd said its 2001 net profit slumped 35.9 per cent to HK12.11 billion (*****.63 million), weighed down by lower contributions from its part-owned associate Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. Analysts had forecast a net profit of HK|2.lO-HK52.43 billion for 2001,
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          92 30 AFP [TAIPEI] China Airlines (CAL) has appointed senior executive Philip Hsing-hsiung Wei as the new president of Taiwan's largest air carrier. CAL board of directors approved the nomination of Mr Wei by its largest shareholder China Aviation Development Foundation, it said in a statement, arfHing
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          168 30 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] European airlines' international traffic fell 3.6 per cent from a year ago in the week through March 3, reversing the previous week's recovery. Traffic in the week through Feb 24 had fallen 2.4 pacent. European carriers' traffic on North Atlantic routes in the
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        346 30 Reuters [BERLIN] German airline Lufthansa said on Sunday it expected firmer demand and increased market share over the coming months as it restores capacity cut in the wake of the Sept 11 hijack attacks. Lufthansa has seen the sharp fall in passenger numbers sparked by
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      207 21 ANSmyWSTIMJM^j PEOPLE ABS has appointed Diana Diattrich as director of technology integration in its Texas world headquarters. Ms Diettrich joined ABS as a field surveyor in 1981 and worked her way up to survey manager with ABS's corporate technology division. Dirk Gindl has been appointed manager of Rickmers Linie agency
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