The Business Times, 3 April 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MfTA IP) 010/03/2002 65C SINGAPORE I Imarnet: http://bi;siness-times.asial.com.sg/ WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3, 2002
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    70 1 wmm U 1,19M8 (+8.19) MVMI U 737J6 (+3.02) plsrmnfvim (+12.00) fISBViIVIUIIB Usau»(+i.4o) stock kaur husoes Tuesday Chute KLSECOMP 7S&42. 1J7 NIKKEI 2tf _1U»4.« +176.79 HANG SENG ._10,87&84 -1R88 SET INDEX Sm» JAKARTA COMP_48fc<» *t« MANILA COUP .*****1 *3tM TAIPEI WPI 6043.46 +S7M 880ULC0MP —MU4 +mi SHENZHEN B 28.*
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    63 1 FOKEX KATES USI St US$(S$ peruse IS* £(US$/S$ per 8) L4J7 1864 EURO(USt/St/E). UTS 1.820 DM 2216 UM YEN 13U 7128 RM tm 1068 HKS im 4m HAHT KM SSJ7 8UPIAH MK 5411 PBIXE IATES SINGAPORE* Ut KUALA LUMPUR 140 BONQRONG fcltt JAKARTA »M TAIPEI tm TOKYO L871 SEOUL
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    Lock icon NTUC Income to pump $4b in 4 new core funds
    672 1  -  TexclusTve Policy-holders can also invest In mnlti-manager and low-fee funds By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] NTUC Income is setting up four new core fluids, to be managed partly by external fund managers, and the Insurance cooperative will invest $4 billion in
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    Lock icon 300 new E-class Mercs snapped up at soft launch
    410 1  -  Bnt overall car sales likely to dip this yean analyst By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Luxury car sales will get a long awaited boost this year, as several new products come onstream. Over the long weekend, Cycle Carriage invited about 6,000 prospects
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    Lock icon A Singaporean success story in Japan
    746 1  -  iexclusive By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Win son Lan may not be well-known in Singapore's business community. But he's made his mark in Japan. And he's probably the first and only Singaporean so far to make it to a public listing on the Japanese
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    Lock icon GK Goh sees 2-pt corporate tax cut hike in GST
    644 1  -  4-pt drop in top income tax rate, 10% employer GIT also possible Byi Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] Singapore's corporate and personal income tax rates could flail to 20 and 22 per cent, respectively, within three years, according to broking firm GKGoh.
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      299 1 iiwiini Top Stories Ex-Japan Asia equity funds top performers in Ql. 1^ Larry Wm: Mora cracks showing in greenback's structure. P9 9 E Embargo fears crude oil to highs. V Profiles of 8 companies Hkeiy to bag first Rnanciai Adviser licences. ttook Maverick motor man r Wjl!iam Tsui the straight-talking
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Discordant notes
        126 2 UiUKU oanK note designer Robert Kalina spoke recently about the national sensitivities he encountered working on the graphic design of the note. In financial newsletter Finanzplatz's March issue, Mr Kalina told how some English critics—the English are outside the euro zone—sought to locate the tiny Shetland Islands which
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        Lock icon Lose one, win many
        100 2 ASK a Citibanker what he thinks of OCBC hiring one of their own as its chief executive, you'll sense a certain satisfaction from the other side. "We are mentioned in all the headlines and all over the report," said Money K, Citibank's director of public affairs.
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      Lock icon Keen interest seen in Arthur D Little's Asian ops
      771 2  -  exclusive! Asian management buyout a possibility, offers from global rivals likely By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] The profitable Asian operations of troubled US management consultancy firm Arthur D Little are expected to attract strong interest when bidders put in their offers for
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      Lock icon Citibank dangles retrenchment rider for home loans
      679 2  -  It covers instalment for six months, or 19 to A of $30,000, in the event of layoff By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] Citibank has added a feature to its home loan scheme that attempts to address a widespread fear among borrowers in the
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      Lock icon China may allow forex savings to be invested in HK by Q3
      434 2  -  With USsl3ob held in China, move will lift HE markets Promt Audrey Tan in Hong Kong CHINA may put in place as early as the third quarter a scheme to allow its people to invest their foreign currency
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      192 2 Coaches WantedT) Great teams all use coaches to build their success. At Business Thinking Systems we will empower you to apply this to the business world. m John H— CEO mmd Fomtlrr Business ThtnJang Syttsmt Business Thinking Systems is an acclaimed planning and team building methodology that has helped over
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Comfort is now the largest private bus operator here
      373 3  -  Its ultimate aim is to jostle for a slice of fixed-route public transport market By Christopher Tan TRANSPORT company Comfort Group has emerged as Singapore's largest private bus operator with a fleet of 318 vehicles, giving it an estimated 9 per
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      Lock icon Auditors accept principle of new rules
      537 3  -  But they want PAB to ensure they are not draconian By, Angela Tan THE Public Accountants Board (PAB) should ensure that the rules surrounding the proposed move to put in place safeguards to segregate the audit practice from non-audit service are not too draconian,
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      Lock icon Ex-Japan Asia equity funds top performers in first quarter
      444 4  -  But tech, US stock fluids were among the worst hit By\ Serena Ng UNIT trusts focused on exJapan Asia equities were the top performers both for the first quarter of 2002 and for the 12 months ended March 31, latest figures
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank sees STI hitting 1,940
      211 4 Reuters SINGAPORE banks and cash-rich firms are expected to benefit from rising interest rates and drive the bellwether Straits Times Index towards 1,940 points. Deutsche Bank said in a report "In our view, rising interest rates are not a negative risk factor. Instead, we
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      Lock icon Property earnings could swing with deferred payment schemes
      723 4  -  lock siew kalpana rashiwala WITH the latest reporting season just over, the general line that seems to have emerged from property groups is that the worst is over, and performance this year will improve. The logic is simple. Having made hefty provisions
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      Lock icon Bulk of 55m Keppel T&T warrants unexercised
      279 4  -  TMiiaplimflm tfp«tcatUls63m cask iiOectkn By: R Sivanithy [SINGAPORE] Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation (Keppel T&T) yesterday said 47.7 million out of a total of 55 million of its warrants have expired unexercised depriving it of a potential cash injection of about $52.5 million based
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      Lock icon RH to sell Shanghai land to parent
      352 4  -  By] Kalpana Rashiwala UN a reiaiea party deal, Raffles Holdings (RH) is selling a Shanghai land parcel previously earmarked for a Merchant Court hotel to parent Capita Land, which plans to develop a Grade A office tower on it "Following a recent review,
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      Lock icon Jurong Tech sees strong growth this year
      484 5  -  It hopes to expand in China, tap new customers through Taiwan unit By' Teh Hooi Ling RIDING on the recovery of the hard disk drive market, Jurong Technologies Industrial Corp expects its shipments of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) to grow by 50
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Strike proposes 1-for-5 rights issue
        81 5 STRIKE Engineering yesterday proposed a l-for-5 rights issue at 5 cents a share. Each rights share will come with one detachable warrant exercisable at 7 cents. The company is planning to raise net proceeds of $7.07 million to $8.9 million to repay loans, expand its
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        Lock icon Horizon buys into Montessori unit
        70 5 HORIZON Education and Technologies will be acquiring a 40 per cent stake in Jakarta's Nasional Montessori School for $1.3 million. It will also pay another $1.1 million to develop the business into an Indonesia-wide franchise of pre-schools as well as provide training and IT programmes.
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        Lock icon Eagle Brand warns of profit plunge
        86 5 EAGLE Brand Holdings said its profits for the year ended Jan 31 are expected to decline by around 60 per cent because of intense competition in the ceramic tiles and sanitary-ware industry in China. It said its major customers had cut or held back
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        Lock icon Thakral revamp gain now at $203m
        68 5 THAKRAL Corp said yesterday it expects to book a one-off restructuring gain of around $203 million instead of $207.5 million for the year ended March 31, from the conversion of bank debt into equity and the injection of fresh funds. The latest figure is
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        Lock icon HTL signs US furniture deal
        65 5 HTL International has signed a deal to design and manufacture leather sofas with reclining mechanisms for US-based Berkline Corp. It said that under this deal, the furniture will be marketed under Berkline's brand in the US and under HTL's brand outside the US, adding that
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      Lock icon Lehman cuts investment banking in S'pore
      297 5 Bloomberg LEHMAN Brothers, the fourth-largest securities firm by capital, is cutting its investment banking unit in Singapore to focus on North Asia. Lehman is the second American bank to trim its investment banking presence in Singapore in as many weeks. Last week Goldman Sachs
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      Lock icon PSA completes Belgian purchase
      142 5 [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation has gained its long-awaited foothold in the prosperous Northern Europe trading hub, finalising its acquisition of 80 per cent of recently merged Belgian terminal operations giant Hesse Noord Natie(HNN). The deal gives PSA the lion's share of cargo handling at 22 existing terminals
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      721 3 Bordeaux vintage 2001 has emerged! We are pleased to extend our invitation to you to partake in this ritualistic practice set by a Bordeaux tradition Simply fill in the reservation form below with the chateau that you are interested in, together with the number of cases you intend to acquire
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      638 4 Seminar Details SAS 22 Business Combinations Date: 17 April 2002, 9am to spm SAS 30 Interim Financial Reporting Venue: Swissotel Merchant Court SAS 31 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets Qdeavcdc SAS 32 Financial Instruments: OFfcAKERS Disclosure Presentation Anders Dons Partner, Deloitte Touche SAS 33 Financial Instruments: Shariq Bermaky, Senior
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      84 5 MCT«^2gi RMffipMf |gj^£|WljQ] Cut Your Roaming Charges by Half [SINGAPORE] For example: You are in China and everytime I someone calls, you pay 551.89 per min or more. Using Anti-Roam service to receive this Singapore call, you i I pay only a mere 550.50. That's more than 70% savings. I
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      175 5 "Everything we build is based on a solid foundation. 0 Sing Tel Meg@POP proved to be just as reliable." s^^co^on Construction companies know all about the importance of a strong foundation. So when they need someone to build a Virtual Private Network (VPN), they look for the same level of
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      274 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES A*2 WlUE CLOSE WWW -216.00 -191.00 WCWI -*****.00 -43.00 -*****.00 -22.00 471.56 +0.59 »lp*>>ewl 171.93 +1.38 WpBwfli 1882.40 +9.01 «tt—Hhij 448.17 -4j60 WBftppw 226.38 40.67 —Iar+m*» 226.50 +1.40 MKVmpl. ffNKvsl& KLWHkJgs 10c 20,522,000 Difijtand 15c..... 15.405,000 IPC020C 12,937.000 UnlFood HK25c 9,579,000 NOL 9,295,000 Semom 5c 8,400,000 E»ipefc25c
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      Lock icon Brokers unfazed by falling liquidity, near-term setbacks
      836 6  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy MARKETS everywhere may be unnerved at the moment by rising Middle East tensions and the prospect of higher US interest rates in the weeks ahead. But as far as the medi-um-term outlook for the Singapore market is concerned, local brokers
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      Lock icon More cracks showing in greenback's structure
      668 6  -  ft comment CURRENCIES But well-traded low-yielders will still underperform larry wee PEOPLE are becoming less bullish on the US dollar, and it has gotten more obvious over the past week. To start with, the dollar has hardly budged compared to Tuesday last week even
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2415 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ou Japan om OtiBond Spore /C$ 1.20* OtJBondS'poreB/S i rroi AJN Amro M Mgt (5'pore) CJb Money Sing DoBar Qess > 1 03» Star Europe Eqty!* 0805/ CKi Pan-Europe Equity Find 1.1V StarE«*opeBd 0.95W OUSeiect Asia Tit Balanced 1» StarEuropeBal 0S7W OtiSalect Asw Tm Grow* iJV Star
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  • FOCUS enterprise
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      Lock icon Dared to make a difference
      1333 8  -  Ng Kok Loon, the versatile founder of CRM firm iCo-op.net, outlines his beliefs and the factors behind his success storv to cm ADELINE CHIA GO for it while you're young. There is no excuse not t( carve a niche for yourself if yoi are young,
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      78 8 CREATE INNOVATE MARKET IN SINGAPORE From seeds the exciting key ingredients industry our to Our new offers on innovative j n«I BP '..f '*£S& ,r ">" -JK;ImI v. v in Singapore tot the world The list keeps growing For more information on how you can benefit from the exciting new
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Fullerton area site sees $9.3m top bid
      285 9  -  WaterbMtHmuw site likely top to Sino Land unit By] Kalpana Rashiwala PROPERTY tycoon Ng Teng Fong continues to strengthen his interests in the Fullerton area. A unit of his Hong Kong-based Sino Land has emerged as the top bidder for the Waterboat House
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      Lock icon Exec hirings fell 57% in March
      423 9  -  (31 v\*4 on the economy jobs -By Serena Ng EXECUTIVE hiring in Singapore fell 57 per cent in March 2002 from the same month a year ago, but demand appears to be picking up faster in the current recession than the last, says search
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      Lock icon Why pick on civil servants?
      728 9  -  COMMENTARY A flood of criticisms from MPs must set civil servants pondering, says cbdamo peck umo CHUANG PECK MING Voices In Parliament Quotes from MPs In yastsala/s oeosion of the debate on the Presidents address THOSE in the civil service who listened to the speeches
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      Lock icon Paid maternity leave subject to conditions
      324 9  -  MAILREffiI Jean Tan (Ms) Director Corporate Communications for Permanent Secretary Ministry of Manpower PLEASE refer to the letter "Law should shield all pregnant staff" (Mailbag, March 25) by Judith Tan. The Employment Act provides for statutory benefits to be given by employers to their
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      Lock icon Right to look at funds' size, track record, fees
      281 9  -  Tan Kin Lian CEO, NTUC Income I REFER to the report by Genevieve Cua "CPF funds: handle with care" (BT, March 20). I agree with the views expressed in the article, namely that investors should look at the five-year track record
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      258 9 f University l|| of Michigan I Vf| Business «'°i n h Ada 2002 to tad aoMkw p ">- jmr tojnurbwinaasprotolainß The Michigan Buatoe« School totopbwlit—cuim Phmt,Th—id Senior EwUto Leadeitfrip Program in Aria September 18-27,2002 Management of Managers NtayB-10,20Q2 Efteccve Sates Management May 22-24 2002 Ktoman Reeource EaaAa Program October 7-11,2002
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  • BT motoring
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      Lock icon Driving home the
      923 10  -  3iexclusive He once called the previous generation Corolla 'a piece of shif. William Tsui, Inchcape's Asia-Pac regional head, shares more straight talk. Reports by CHRISTOPHER TAX CHRISTOPHER TAN ASK any authorised car distributor what he thinks of parallel importers and you will get the usual spiel. "They're
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      Lock icon Forging ahead in S'pore
      726 10 Inchcape Motors plans a fourth workshop, to expand its two showrooms ONE of the first things William Tsui did when he came on board Inchcape Motors Ltd (IML) was to raise salaries. He says he believes iiwdysnt pay because he doesn't want employees to worry about
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    • BUMPER to BUMPER
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        Lock icon Toyo Tire to cut ties with Continental
        81 10 JAPAN'S fourth-ranked tyremaker, Toyo Tire Rubber Co, win break offbuslneee tieawithOenani tyre and car parts maker Continental Ag thismonth, reported Reuters. The severihg of their 10-year technology exchange and cooperation accord follows Continental's formation of an alliance with Toyo's rival, Yokohama Rubber Co,
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        Lock icon Stanford secures ditribution deal
        91 10 SINGAPORE-LISTED Stamford Tyre* has secured the distributorship for continental tyres in Thailand and Indonesia. The brand, strong to upper-range products, will complement Stamford's line of mass-market tyres to these key vehicle markets. Continental of Germany is ateo said to be looking at a manufacturing acility, possibly
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        Lock icon Car output in Thailand may double
        125 10  -  Christopher Tan GENERAL Motors, Ford Motor and other vehicle makers with plmta in Thailand ny»y tVm Me output over the next three years because of an expected rise in domestic sales and exports, an industry executive told Bloomberg. Thailand's assembled car and truck exports
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      35 10 For the latest open maifcet value rates of passeoger can, go to http://app.iiiteniet.gov .sg/scripts/lU/3 2_OMV .asp F L E X 0 F FIC jjHMNHH I individual HF I excellence and productivity mmir -j I i
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      167 10 I A otices Lost your m Try finding it at Classification 821 (Found) of The Straits Times Classified. IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPAMES ACT, CAP. 50 AMD M THE MATTER OF SONG A SONS FRESH AND SEA PRODUCE PTE LTD On Creditor*' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon US, China ties head for rough patch
      757 12  -  bottom line OPINION frank ching The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. L TITLE more than a month alter President George W Bush's visit to Beijing seemed to have laid the groundwork for a more stable and cooperative relationship between the
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      85 12 The companies were unjustly enriched by a system that enslaved, tortured, starved and exploited human beings.' -Almm* it accused Aetna Inc. Fleetßoston Financial Corp and CSX Corp ofprofiting from slavery in the US. The companies were sued by descendants of African slaves. The idea is to concentrate
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      592 12 EDITORIAL INDONESIA'S law courts have been unusually busy lately as a slew of leading businessmen, prominent politicians and powerful generals have gone on trial for corruption, human rights abuses and even murder. The fact that these individuals who include parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung and Tommy Suharto, the
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      Lock icon Why so many fail in China
      1828 12  -  John Gee is a finance writer L f HE book, The China Dream, pubI lished earlier this month, describes X the pursuit by foreign businesses of the untold riches that they believed would i come their way if they could move into Chii na.
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      157 12 J THE PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMME PRESENTS P i E-h QJ The Origins and Growth I of Public Policy [1 DR ALVIN RABUSHKA David and Joan Tritel Senior Fellow O Stanford University CHAIRED BY PROFESSOR' MUKUL ASHER Professor of Public Policy I ■MBBH National University of Singapore LhJ Thursday, 11 April
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon YTL on the lookout for undervalued tech firms
      532 13 Move follows sealing of deals to list its technology investment arm KUALA LUMPUR Reuters FRESH from a stunning victory in its bid for UK's Wessex Water, Malaysia's YTL Corp yesterday signed agreements to list its technology investment arm and said it was
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Sumitomo sells 4% stake in RHB
        68 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Japan's second largest bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp has sold 80 million shares, ora4 per cent stake, in Malaysian banking group RHB Capital. Sumitomo sold the shares at RM2.30 each between March 28 and 29. No reasons were given for the
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        Lock icon M'sia Airports shares dive 6%
        61 13 Bloomberg {KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd stock had its biggest one-day drop since Sept 17 yesterday, after the government stopped talks to sell its 30 per cent stake in the nation's sole airport operator to Netherlands Schiphol Group BV. MAH shares fell 16 sen,
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        Lock icon HPF invested in 380 KLSE firms
        42 13 AFX [KUALA LUMPUR] The Employees Provident Fund has invested in 380 companies listed on the KLSE, including Technology Resources Industries Bhd and Naluri, the Bernama news agency reported, citing Deputy Finance Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh. —AFX
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        Lock icon Distressed KL firms to be delisted
        44 13 AFX [KUALA LUMPURJ Companies which fail to restructure within a time frame stipulated by the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange will be delisted, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said. He said the KLSE will continue monitoring financially distressed companies.— AFX
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        Lock icon SC reokes Metrowangsa's Hoenoes
        78 13 Dow Jones Newswires uujala lumpur] The Securities Commission said yesterday it has revoked the licences of (Und manager and futures ftmd manager Metrowangsa Asset Management. The commission said the company had failed to meet minimum requirements of the commission but did not specify ftirther. It also
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        Lock icon NST sale of CAHB shares completed
        33 13 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The New Straits Times Press yesterday completed the disposal of Its shares in Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd to the Employees Provident Fund for RM910.0 million.—Bernama
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      Lock icon Maybank to be on the prowl again?
      354 13  -  From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur MALAYAN Banking Bhd the largest bank in Malaysia is getting ready for the next round of banking consolidation. The bank said yesterday it has appointed Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase Co as its lead managers to
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      Lock icon KL urged to be more transparent
      338 13 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Rumblings of weak corporate governance in Malaysia are starting to build again, with a local champion for transparency yesterday calling for the state to act "fast, firmly and decisively" to prevent backsliding. "They must lead," Megat Najmuddin, president of the Malaysian
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      Lock icon Indon lawsuit worries foreign lenders
      507 14  -  Creditors bee 1-trillion rnpiaii suit by JSX bnMng owners Prom Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta A ONE trillion rupiah (SslBB million) lawsuit brought against a consortium of international creditors by the owners of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building is once again raising concerns about legal
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      Lock icon Taiwan govt to probe UMC
      81 14 TAIPEI AFX THE Ministry of Economic Affairs will coordinate with other agencies to conduct an investigation into whether United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) has invested in an eight-inch wafer plant in Suzhou. The United Evening News cited vice-minister of economic affairs Chen Ruey-long saying UMC would
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      Lock icon HK leans to private housing: daily
      128 14 HONGKONG Dow Jones Newswires IN a move to promote private housing, the Hong Kong government is expected to announce a new policy to cut public housing to one-third, from two-thirds, of the total housing supply, the Ming Pao reports. This signals that it hopes
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      Lock icon Jakarta eyes more generous terms from Paris Club
      279 14 It seeks to reschedule USs&£b dne opto Dec 2003 JAKARTA Reuters INDONESIA said yesterday that at an April meeting of official creditors it would seek debt rescheduling of more than 20 years, critical to help reduce its 2002 Budget deficit to 2.5
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      Lock icon Taiwan allows Chinese to invest in property
      204 14 TAIPEI Km to help reverse capital outflows to CUaa Reuters TAIWAN yesterday approved measures to allow mainland Chinese to invest in the island's property market, the latest in a series of economic openings to its political rival. Lawmakers also approved the final reading
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      Lock icon Is Indonesia doing a 'Tanjung Pelepas'?
      827 15  -  Hncomment ASEAN Jakarta wants bach a piece of the tr aw t M from FPpore yang razali kassim Even as Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas takes away some of Singapore's port business, Indonesia, to the south, is launching its own plans for a piece
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      270 15 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] US investment firm Farallon Capital Management said it will complete payment for a 51 per cent stake in Indonesia's Bank Central Asia (BCA) before April 15, a move that should farther help the rupiah over the short term. That would mean
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      283 17 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON! The International Monetary Fund scaled back its proposal to allow indebted countries to seek bankruptcy protection because of concern that the fund was giving itself too large a role, a top fund official said. Anne Krueger, the IMF's deputy managing director, said
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      112 17 Bloomberg [SACRAMENTO, California] Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, Pepsi Bottling Group Inc and other soft-drink bottlers would pay a total of US$342 million a year under a proposed tax in California to curb obesity in children. California would tax distributors, manufacturers and wholesale dealers of soft
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      395 18  -  Jump in Brent to over US$26 follows Israeli invasion of Bethlehem From Neil Behrman in London CRUDE oil prices soared to six-month highs yesterday on fears that the Israeli-Pal-estinian conflict could lead to supply embargoes from several Middle Eastern producers. Brent North
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      179 18 NEW YORK Dow Jones Newswires A SEAT on the Nymex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange was sold on Monday for a record U*****,000. The old record for a seat on the world's largest energy futures exchange was US$9OO,OOO set on March 25,2001.
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      367 18 LONDON Reuters A MERGER of embattled accounting firm Andersen's non-US operations with KPMG fell apart yesterday as Spain became the latest unit to defect, effectively signalling the break-up of Andersen's international business. A source close to the negotiations said the KPMG merger talks,
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      347 18 LATEST US INDICATORS Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] New orders placed with US manufacturers unexpectedly fell in February for the first time in three months, reflecting a decline in clothing, paper and other non-du-rable goods. The 0.1 per cent drop in orders
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        52 18 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/Shell Group agreed to buy the UK's Enterprise Oil pk for £43 billion (5f11.4 billion) in cash and assumed debt to expand outside of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and keep pace with growth at rivals such at
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        61 18 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Boerse AG chief executive Werner Seifort yesfday dismissed as "an April Fool's joke" a report in Britain's Sunday Telegraph that it was planning a fresh bid fbr the London Stock Rrrhmigß beginning afApril with April Fool's jokes. My best goeee is that this
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        41 18 NYT [WASHINGTON] The Overseas Private Investment Cofp (OPIC) has asked the Justice Department to examine whether Enron misrepreeentad its financial condition in obtaining more than USH billion in taxpayer-backed financing and insurance for international projects. NYT
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        46 18 Bloomberg I Washington] Qwest Communications International Incaaid it may take a charge ofOSHO billion to US$3O billion this year to write down the value of assets. The company made the announcement in a films to the US SBT ofrmmw*
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        68 18 Bloomberg inAMiL i vhn oercnuaaj mooai crossing Ltd, the data network operator that filed the fourth-biggest US bankruptcy, will loae a contract to provide US$9OO mWion of servicee to Swift, a group of global financial institutions. The company will sign a new agreement in
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      828 19  -  Lom Chang, He Bee shares np after buybacks; GES, L-J shareholders sell markets By Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Asia Insider. He is assisted by Ngia Soon Choi BhAKS continued to dominate with the Singapore Insider Sentiment closing at -32.6
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      555 19  -  Its balanced, equity and bond fluids are CPF-approved By Serena Ng HENDERSON Global Investors Singapore yesterday launched three new CPF-ap-proved unit trust products in a bid to woo investors back to core funds following two years of tumult in global markets. The British-based fund
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      751 19  -  ExpertSpeak EP^3! Growth of ex-Japan Asia Pacific could outstrip the rest of the world. VEN SREENIVASAN reports VEN SREENIVASAN THE US economic recovery has improved prospects for global growth, with Asia particularly well-positioned to benefit from the upturn, according to asset allocators at
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      181 20 I Henderson reveals I investment portfolio is as important as a balanced d I iet. introducing the Henderson Global Balanced Fund An essential ingredient for a healthy portfolio. iThe Henderson Global Balanced Fund is more than included J v i l profit from our global strength under just a balancing
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      823 21  -  Freight rates being restored on Asia to Europe trade By\ Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The global container shipping industry is hoping that tentative signs of a pickup in some of the world's major trade lanes will resuscitate the ailing industry as one
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      248 21  -  By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] An armed robbery hotspot warning has been issued to vessels calling at Balikpapan in Indonesia after three ships were attacked in just three days. The Kuala Lumpur-based International Piracy Report Centre recorded the robberies between March 19 and 21, prompting
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      487 21 They want tax based on tonnage and tax exemption for sailors Reuters [BOMBAY] Indian shipowners said on Monday they wanted the government to levy a tax on tonnage, instead of corporate income of shipping companies, and to sailors from paying personal income taxes. The
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      979 22  -  STRAIT TALK By Seafarer MANY in the shipping industry will have wondered what has been going on over the past few weeks. Why are the top people at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the various industry representatives so irritated by the recent behaviour
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        732 31 THIS report compiled by Cockett Ma rim Oil Ltd. itaow* price ranges in US dollar* instead of tingle price* for a more comprehensive description at the market Price* shown are baaed on sverageslxed stem. Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Hunker Price Index change and the individual
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        396 32 Australian Airlines to offer services to 6 Asian cities from Cairns Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Qantas Airways will start Australian Airlines, a budget airline that will offer services to Asia, from Oct 27 as the Australia's biggest airline tries to boost sales on overseas
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        330 32 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air Co, the country's largest carrier, estimates sales in the first three months of the year rose, helped by more demand for travel. Sales on the Seoul-based carrier's international flights in the JanuaryMarch period probably rose 7 per cent
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        336 32 It says there's insufficient evidence AP, Dow Jones Newswires [WASHINGTON] The union representing AMR Corp's American Airlines pilots says there is not enough evidence to ground the Airbus model that crashed in New York last November after its tail fell off.
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        224 32 Bloomberg [MEMPHIS, Tennessee] FedEx Corp pilots voted to abandon their independent union and merge their 4,100 members with the larger Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to improve their bargaining position for upcoming talks. The pilots at the largest overnight-deliv-ery
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        216 32 AFP [THE HAGUE] KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will buy 11 new Boeing airliners worth an estimated US$2 billion, and is looking to buy more aircraft as part of a fleet renewal programme, the Dutch newspaper Financiele Dagblad reported. KLM would not comment on
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        323 32 Local officers to be stationed at airport screening stations by next month Dow Jones [WASHINGTON] National Guard troops patrolling airports will be replaced by uniformed police officers, the new Transportation Security Administration government said. In a security directive to airports, the
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          118 32 Reuters [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines said a recent hike to (lid prices and weaker revenue recovery were making it challenging for the carrier to poet f second-quarter profit Continental, the No SOS -T airline, said its March unit revenues had strengthened since February, but it
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          46 32 AFX IBANUKOK] China's Yunan Airlines has opened a new route to Myanmar, state-run Myanmar media reported. Yunan Airlines is scheduled to operate twice-weekly flights on Monday and Friday between Mandalay in Myanmar and Humming in southern China, the report added. —AFX
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          91 32 Dow Jones [TAIPEI] EVA Airways Corp has ordered a simulator to prepare Itself for dell very of 10 Airbus3Bo-200 aircraft scheduled to start May3oo3, the Taiwanese airline said. The A 330 simulator will become fully operational in September2oo3. EVA belongs to the Evergreen Group, which
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