The Business Times, 16 April 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85* SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg TUESDAY, APRIL 16. 2002
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    75 1 811 1,W7J4 (+5.79) n»« U 7M43 (+4.01) □nmanvmum I,IBXOO (+3.00) W% sntaa potoeb fcj MHO (+0.40) STOCK MAIKET DIDICSS Monday Change KL8EC0MP mu +aa NIKKEI 225 _1UJ7.I0 +***** HANG 8ENG —10,727J8 +17J0 SET INDEX __C)oaed JAKARTA COMP J4184 >19i7 MAMLAOOMP .1*138 -8J8 TAIPEI WPI 11*l» +1141 SEOUL COMP
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    68 1 FOBEX KITES uss s$ USS fS$ per US$) L8M i(USVS$ per 2) 1.437 1S» EURO(USJ/S$/E). 0.882 1.619 DM 1216 L2Q7 YEN Uli 7L70 RM 18H 1#70 HK$ 1M* 4JM8 baft km turn HJHAH 9J78 SJ07 PUKE KATES SINGAPORE* m KUALA LUMPUR 1.40 BONO KONG ,1.12$ JAKARTA TAIPEI .17tt TOKYO
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    Lock icon Jakarta stocks, rupiah enjoy huge rally
    549 1  -  Investors cheered by much improved political and economic climate From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta THE good times appear to be rolling again in Indonesia with the country's stock and currency markets testing new highs with each passing week. Buoyed by a dramatically improved political
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    Lock icon Oil prices rise as Chavez returns to presidency
    570 1 Market sees it as a sign that Venezuela will stick to Opec production quotas Reuters, AFP OIL prices rose again yesterday as Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez returned to power, which the market took as a signal that his country would abide by
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    Lock icon Medium-sized brokerages drawn into fee cut war
    668 1  -  Bi Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The scramble to keep customers picked up momentum yesterday as medium-sized retail brokerages moved swiftly to slice their online commissions to as low as 0.266 per cent for trades below $50,000 in the case of one house. Yesterday, GK
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      98 1 DISIDE Hock Lock Stow Stocks: Getting out of no-man's-land. P9* Top Stories Air China's first crash sets back listing plans. Nmxt Pmgm UOB did not award stock options last year. Mmxt Pmgm HK land auction: Sino Land pays HKsl.64b for choice Kowioon site. Mmxt Pmgm Dutch property fund Rodamco Asia
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      10 1 Bright recovery for global economy seen this year, Pg 17
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      Lock icon Air China's first crash sets back listing plans
      675 2 AIR CHDf A CRASH Tragedy comes just 6 weeks before World Cap finals Reuters [BEIJING] China's flagship carrier Air China yesterday grappled with the fall-out from its first-ever plane crash after one of its Boeing 767s smashed into a mountain in fog
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      Lock icon UOB did not award stock options last year
      728 2  -  The bank's payment to exec directors also falls while DBS payont rises 40% By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] United Overseas Bank, Singapore's largest banking group, did not award any share options last year, according to the group's 2001 annual report. Towers Perrin
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Everything to make a lady Tiger growl
        92 2 HERE'S some good news for lady golfers: RSH Golf House is organising Singapore's first ever Ladies Golf Fair this weekend. The event's message is that golf is more than just a man's game. It will feature the latest in ladies' golf apparel, accessories
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        Lock icon Easier game to play yesterday
        67 2 'TODAY Not Worried About Tomorrow". This headline in Malaysia's The New Straits Times' business section yesterday made some readers do a double take. The report was actually about Singapore's Today newspaper, whose chief executive PN Balji was quoted in the Reuters report as saying he
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      Lock icon SinoLand pays HK$1.64b for choice Kowloon site
      556 2  -  Price reflects expected 15-20% rise in heme prices From Audrey Tan tn Hong Kong ROBERT Ng*s Sino Land yesterday beat six other developers to secure a West Kowloon site for HK11.64 billion (SS3BS million), a price which analysts say reflects his expectation of
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      547 2 KPMGSeminarSeries Goods Services Ta> r Muil(3liMjL,, ta Jfl 9.00 am to 5.00pm, Orchard Hotel Singapore iMF\A/* 1 What I increase J In our continuing efforts to provide proactive, practical and clients, the Indirect Tax Practice of KPMG Tax Services will be conducting a series of 2-day GST seminars. These newly
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Dutch properly fund may join local REITs
      408 3  -  Rodamco Asia eyes listing either in S'pore or Hong Kong by early 2003 Bu Andrea Tan DUTCH property fund Rodamco Asia may join Singapore's list of potential Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Rodamco Asia, which manages 750 million euros, is eyeing a listing
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      Lock icon Finance sector wants more tax reform details
      615 3  -  By Quak Hiang Whai THE financial services sector is eagerly awaiting more details on the recommendations of the Economic Review Committee's subcommittee to promote the sector. While initial reception has been warm, many players say they need more details from the finance minister
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      Lock icon UOB gets over 90% ICB acceptances
      266 3 Bloomberg UNITED Overseas Bank Ltd said more than 90 per cent of other shareholders in Industrial Commercial Bank Ltd agreed to sell their shares, clearing the way for it to make the finance unit a wholly owned subsidiary. Singapore's second largest bank said 90.06
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      Lock icon SIA load factor up 5 points in Q1
      385 4  -  80% seat occupancy in lUrch a major factor By Conrad Raj THINGS appear to be improving fast at Singapore Airlines, judging by the rising load factors of the last quarter, and especially the national carrier's performance in March. The overall load factor
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      Lock icon Asian airline stocks poised to resume climb
      466 4 Rise in traffic will more than offset fuel price increase, say analysts Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines, Korean Air and other Asian airline shares, which rose almost half from postSept 11 lows, are poised to resume gains as investors bet a spurt in travel will
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      Lock icon SingTel's Telkomsel move criticised
      601 4 Dow Jones Newswires [SYDNEY] Once the mere hint of exposure to any of Asia's emerging mass markets was enough to send share prices skyward, but Singapore Telecommunications Ltd's decision to increase its stake in Indonesia's PT Telekomunikasi Selular, or Telkomsel, has had the opposite effect Several
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      Lock icon SGX, brokerage joint venture scores a first
      449 5  -  Asia Converge processes over a fifth of local equity transactions By Grace Tan THE consolidation of the stockbroking industry and the focus on streamlining operations are creating opportunities for firms like Singapore-based Asia Converge which offers cost-ef-fective settlement solutions to brokers. "In a
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      Lock icon Genemedix hopes to break even by 2004
      326 5  -  Product launched in China, new plants being set up By Vince Chong GENEMEDIX, the British bio-generic pharmaceutical company listed on the Singapore and London bourses, said yesterday it expects to break even by 2004. A year after listing on the Singapore Exchange, the
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon CEI signs MOU with ST Group unit
        69 5 CEI Contract Manufacturing has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Chartered Electro-Optics Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Group, under which CEI will supply technical and manufacturing services relating to PCB assembly for a new project secured by Chartered Electro-Optics. Chartered
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        Lock icon SMB's plumbing unit wins contracts
        94 5 SMB United said its move into the sanitary and plumbing business through its acquisition of A's Associates two years ago is beginning to pay off, Bidding aggressively for projects in both the public and private sectors, A's Associates, which is 50 per cent owned by
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        Lock icon Mediastream to issue 20m shares
        76 5 MEDIA STREAM Ltd has entered into a placement agreement with UOB Kay Hian under which UOB Kay Hian will subscribe or procure subscriptions for 20 million new Mediastream shares representing about 4.1 per cent of existing capital. The subscription price is $0.05, a premium of
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      Lock icon Getting out of no-man's land
      778 5  -  wong wei kong MUCH has been said about the lacklustre stock market. But the real problem could be that the Singapore market is neither developed nor emerging. Singapore is classified as a developed market by influential index constructors such as Morgan Stanley Capital International while
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      292 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 15 VALUE CLOSE "I® 1 -311.00 +84.00 WCIW -*****.00 -55.00 W -*****.00 -31.00 462.11 +1.07 MEpMwBid 159.23 -1.93 SCr<iWii Flw 1566.24 +12.79 MrpMuPwp 427.60 -6.48 MSCtSfappora 220.05 +0.56 SMSaFabra 220.10 40.40 Stock* VotMw, DayenSc 51,819.000 RoJy IntUSlOc 21,039,000 Europtron 10c 17,413.000 KLWHWgslOc 10,540,000 LantroVts2c 10,049,000 People's
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      Lock icon Want Want looking a little tired after sustained run-up
      240 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan CRACKER and snack foods maker Want Want Holdings has received inprinciple approval from the Singapore Exchange for its proposed l-into-2 stock split. The exercise is stiU subject to shareholders' approval. The stock, which has seen
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      Lock icon Uncertainties give STI Monday blues
      754 6  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan IT was a case of the Monday blues for the Singapore stockmarket as investors brushed aside the Economic Review Committee's (ERC) proposals for significant corporate tax cuts and fretted over uncertainties on the corporate, economic and geo-political fronts. A last minute uptick
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      Lock icon Yen strengthens against US$ as Nikkei rises
      560 6 Report of 6E Gap taking a major stake in Sony Life also boosts Japanese nnit AFP [TOKYO] The yen rebounded against the US dollar yesterday as local equity prices rose and uncertainty over events in the Middle East sapped interest in the US
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    2745 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CitiBond Spore A/$ 1 20b Crt'Bood Spore B/S 1.231/ Citi Money Sing Dollar Class B *****/ r Aaaet Mgt (S port) Citi Pan-Europe Equity Fund 1 08/ Star Europe Eqty!" 0.787/ Citi Select Asa Tilt Balanced 1 29/ Star Eirope Bd o 968/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon March exports seen shrinking 15%
      543 7  -  Ql's expected slide of 14.4% is better than Q4's 16.7% fall but brings no cheer By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports are likely to have dipped 15.6 per cent last month from a year ago, bringing exports for the first three months down
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      Lock icon Slide in retail sales narrows
      305 7  -  Bi Serena Ng SINGAPORE'S retail sales index slipped by a smaller 3.9 per cent in February from the same month a year ago, after falling some 6.4 per cent year on year in January. Figures released yesterday by the Department of Statistics also show that
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      Lock icon Shell GPA positions business devt team here
      234 7 SHELL Gas Power (North) Asia, or GPA, has located its business development team in Singapore to grow regional opportunities ranging from supply and trading of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to developing power plants and marketing electricity. "With many Asian countries in the early
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      Lock icon Afta will ensure better fit with China: Swee Say
      417 9  -  Regional FTA offers similar version of nnified economy China is becoming By Loh Hui Yin SINGAPORE has told Asean that it must prevail as a single unified economy if it is to better complement China's growing economy, said Environment Minister Lim
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      Lock icon S'pore gets 11 bids for third air terminal
      198 9 Bloomberg SINGAPORE has received 11 bids for its proposed $1.5 billion third terminal at the the country's international airport The bidders include Obayashi Corp and Shimizu Corp, two of Japan's largest construction companies, and other ventures led by Japan's Kajima Corp, South
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      Lock icon Prof Koh sees end to S'pore-US FTA talks soon
      322 9  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE and the US have yet to settle labour, environment, investment and dispute settlement issues in their free trade talks, but Singapore's chief negotiator Tommy Koh is still hopeful the discussions will be wrapped up "in the
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      Lock icon A*STAR to guide scientific research
      318 9 IT'S not just a change in name and logo. The Agency for Science, Technology and Research or A'STAR in short will bring scientific research efforts in Singapore under one umbrella, tighten focus, bring about synergy and actively help science to move "from mind to market".
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    • NEWS Roundup
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        Lock icon EDB fund buys into engineering firm
        82 9 EDB Investments said its PLE Investment Fund has taken a 20 per cent stake in homegrown engineering solutions Arm CNA Engineers for $5 million. The other shareholders of the company include CNA investments Pte Ltd and Japan-listed pngimwing firm Dai-Dan Co Ltd. CNA Engineers
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        Lock icon 2 more ERP gantries by month-end
        147 9 TWO more electronic road-pricing (ERP) gantries will be erected at the end of the month, bringing the number of ERP points to 44. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said the first additional gantry will be at Dunearn Road before the flyover at Whitley Road.
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      Lock icon HK still as dynamic as ever
      218 9  -  Rex Chang Director Hong Kong Economic Trade Office Singapore IN his Bloomberg column ("Is HK a city fraying at the edges?", April 4), William Pesek said Hong Kong had lost its dynamism and that it lacked vision for its future development. The facts tell
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon It's land costs that need to come down
      750 8  -  PROPERTY Govt must sell land according to Its economic value lee han shih IF the government is serious about cutting costs, it should go after land costs rather than personal and corporate taxes. Last week, a subcommittee of the Economic Review Committee
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      Lock icon URA offers 8 more online services
      228 8  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) launched another eight online services yesterday and aims to offer, by end-June, electronically all 93 of its services that can be delivered feasibly online. And in time to come, all "qualified persons" (QPs) like architects and
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      Lock icon Small Cecil St office building for sale
      312 8  -  Vince Chong IN the midst of a slow investment sales market, a smallish 15-storey office block on Cecil St offering yields slightly above market average is up for sale. Sole marketing agents CB Richard Ellis said in a press statement that the 99year
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      149 9 s/jy Willi II I I i i i You can either keep up with a changing world. Or overtake it. Markets change, people change, global development makes our visions become reality and is shaping the future. Change is an on-going process that is getting faster and faster, but it does
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Time for US to pull plug on Arab oil pals?
      765 10  -  THEHB OPINION leon hadar The writer is BT's Washington correspondent SADDAM Hussein announced last week that he had decided to halt Iraq's oil exports immediately for one month to protest Israel's incursion into Palestinian areas on the West Bank. Iran,
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      93 10 'Fifty years from now, there may not be a textile industry in this country at all. We may be importing everything.' -Jay Bryan an economist, after Levi Strauss closed six US plants as the jeans maker shifts production to countries like Mexico with lower wages. The whole
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      Lock icon Raising the 'India fever'
      553 10 EDITORIAL SOON after the launch of India's economic reforms in the early *****, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong talked of creating a "mild India fever" in Singapore as a signal to local investors to get more involved in India With India's reforms now having deepened although
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      Lock icon The grim message from IBM and GE
      1347 10  -  Morgan Stanley's resident bear, STEPHEN ROACH, says the two giant corporations' recent profit woes are warning signs that should be heeded STEPHEN ROACH The writer is global economist at investment firm Morgan Stanley in New York THE latest message from Corporate America is
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      592 10 Sharon's chalkatfß WITHOUT a doubt, the American president believed he had built up trust with the leader of the Israeli government, and thought that if he so much as spoke, action would follow. That shows little understanding of a man who thinks he has nothing left to lose, and
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Halini Saad makes comeback – in Pakistan
      430 11  - Halini Saad makes comeback in Pakistan He's set to invest in infrastructure and utility projects Frorn Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur FALLEN tycoon Halim Saad is set to make a comeback in the infrastructure development business this time in Pakistan. According to Malaysia's Business Times yesterday, the former boss of
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      Lock icon KL gaming stocks surge on talk of tax breaks
      307 11  -  Sports Toto, Genting, Magnum among top gainers From] Diana Oon Abdullah in Kuala Lumpur THE focus on gaming stocks continued on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday, as excitement over hopes of an increased network for numbers forecast operator Tanjong pic
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      Lock icon Petronas eyes China gas pipeline
      101 11 Bloomberg [BOAO, China] Malaysia's state oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd said it's in talks with Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina Co to buy a stake in a pipeline that would pump natural gas from western China to Shanghai. Petronas, said it wants to be a
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      Lock icon Documents show Ibra's clear bank sale procedure
      414 12 JAKARTA Bnt they also reveal criteria are only partially dependent on price Dow Jones Newswires INDONESIA'S Bank Restructuring Agency, or Ibra, often criticised for its unclear practices, has published documents detailing how it plans to sell a majority stake in PT Bank Niaga
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      Lock icon Petronas may sell rest of Proton stake
      204 12 HAINAN, China Bloomberg PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's state-owned oil company, may sell its remaining Proton stake, to help the govern-ment-owned investment arm consolidate shares in the country's biggest carmaker. Petronas, as the oil company is called, swapped a 15.4 per cent stake in
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      Lock icon BG Yeo leads business team to Malaysia
      190 12 SINGAPORE AP SINGAPORE'S trade minister will visit Malaysia this week with a business team as ties between the neighbours have become increasingly strained partly over the Republic's land reclamation on Pulau Tekong. Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry said George Yeo will leave
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Jakarta bourse elects new president
        45 12 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Jakarta Stock Exchange said shareholders chose Erry Firmans yah as president of the bourse to replace the outgoing Achmad Daniri. Mr Firmansyah, currently head of the securities depository at the exchange, previously worked for the Lippo Group. Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Andersen Indon unit talking to Ernst
        80 12 Dow Jones Newswires [SINGAPORE] The Indonesian affiliates of Arthur Andersen and Ernst Young are negotiating on a plan to merge, the managing partner of the Andersen affiliate said. Soemarso Slamet Rahardjo, country managing partner ofPrasetio Utomo- Andersen, told the Asian Wall Street Journal that
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        Lock icon Philippines to start bond exchange
        76 12 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippines will start a bond exchange to encourage trading in debt sold by companies, banks and the government, aiming to make it easier for Philippine corporates to attract more investors. The Philippine Bankers Association, which represents 44 lenders, will own 20 per
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        Lock icon Cyber Works venture to lay off 229
        77 12 AFP [HONG KONG] Reach Ltd, the joint venture between Pacific Century CyberWorks and Australian giant Telstra Corp, yesterday said it plans to lay off a total 0f229 staff as part of its new strategy. In a letter to employees, chief executive officer Alistair
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Ex-minister testifies in Indon trial
        89 13 AFP I JAKARTA] A former Indonesian minister gave evidence yesterday in the corruption trial of Parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung, who is accused of misusing some US$4 million which was allocated to feed the poor. Rahardi Ramelan, (right) who is himself on trial for corruption in
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        Lock icon China eases entry into bond market
        60 13 Dow Jones Newswires [SHANGHAI] The People's Bank of China scrapped a rule requiring financial institutions to get approval to participate in the interbank bond market, a central bank official said yesterday. Now financial institutions only need to register with the National Interbank Funding Centre
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        Lock icon No timetable to unify taxes: Beijing
        45 13 AFX [SHANGHAI] China retains the ultimate aim of unifying the tax regimes for domestic companies and foreign-invested enterprises, but still has no timetable for this, State Administration of Taxation director Jin Renqing said, according to China Securities Journal. —AFX
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        Lock icon PetroChina earnings fall 15%
        60 13 Bloomberg [BEIJING] PetroChina Co, China's biggest oil producer, said its 2001 net income fell 15 per cent as the price of crude oil declined PetroChina's profit fell to 46.8 billion yuan (5110.5 billion), or 0.27 yuan a share, from 55.2 billion yuan, or 0.32 yuan, in
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      Lock icon China B shares dive on fears of money outflows to HK
      173 13 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA'S hard currency B shares closed over 4 per cent lower yesterday on liquidity fears after a state newspaper reported that regulators were looking into allowing its citizens to invest in Hong Kong's stock market Shanghai's B-share
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      Lock icon Business trust lacking in China: managers
      284 13 BEIJING Broken promises, fake products, false information are some problems cited AFP A LACK of trust in doing business is one of the biggest headaches for Chinese managers, with over 90 per cent saying they have been engaged in at least one contract dispute
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      Lock icon HK may lift negative equity mortgage cap
      153 13 HONGKONG AFX THE Hong Koot Mortar Oocp (HKMC) is considering introducing scheme to allow homeowners hi negative equity to refinance mmigapiu by bumming up to 140 per cent of the value of their property, the South China Morning Poet reported, citing unidentified corporation
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      309 13  -  Talks are on to supply glucose monitoring products By Macabe Keliher in Taipei IN what will be the first major outsourcing contract for a Taiwan biotech company, Taiwan's Apex gy Corp is negotiating a NT$lOO million (5J5.2 million) deal with medical giant Bayer to
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      451 14 SEOUL 3b won gain may raise purchase price for Micron Reuters, Bloomberg SOUTH Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc yesterday posted its first net profit in 15 months, a turnaround that may embolden creditors to seek a better bargain in sales talks with US
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      231 14 Bloomberg [SCHAUMBURG, Illinois] Motorola Inc, the world's second-largest mobile-phone maker, will supply No 3 Siemens AG with a complete package of chips for new handsets that provide faster Internet access, the companies said. It's the first time a rival phone maker
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      470 15 NEW YORK It made USsl.o6b on sale of stake in Travelers Property Casualty unit Bloomberg CITIGROUP Inc said firstquarter profit rose 37 per cent after the largest finan-cial-services firm made US$l.O6 billion on the sale of a stake in its Travelers Property Casualty
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      264 15 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US inventories fell in February for a 13th straight month, reflecting declines at wholesalers and manufacturers. The 0.1 per cent fall to U551,133 trillion matched January's revised decline, the Commerce Department said. Business sales fell 0.9 per cent
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        65 15 Bloomberg [CHARLOTTE, North Carolina] Rank of America Corp, the third-biggest US bank, said first-quarter earnings rose 17 per cent on gains in consumer and mortgage lending. Net income rose to US$2.lB billion, or US$l.3B a share, from US$l.B7 bfflkm, or US$l.l6 a
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        71 15 Reuters {HOUSTON] Continental Airlines, the No 5 US airline, yesterday posted a first-quarter loss, on tower revenues from ticket sales, tocluding a special charge, It posted a toes of US$lB6 million, or US$2.6l a diluted share, oompared with a year-earlier profit of US$B million,
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        80 15 Reuters ISOMERS, New York] Pepsi Bottling Group, the world's largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola drinks, yesterday said its first-quarter earnings rose more than 17 per cent, led by solid volume growth in the US market The company earned US$64 million, or 19 US cents a share,
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      261 15 Bloomberg [NEW YORK) Citigroup Inc chairman and chief executive officer Sanford Weill spent more than US$lO billion buying companies each of the last two years. With US$3.9 billion in cash from the sale last month of insurance unit Travelers Property Casualty Corp,
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      578 16 WASHINGTON US think tank lIE cites strong US rebonnd but London group warns US may see double-dip Xinhua, AFX PROSPECTS for the world economy have brightened following a stronger-than-expected rebound in the US, says a report by the Institute for International Economics
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      149 16 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea's central bank raised its 2002 forecast for growth and inflation yesterday, prompting talk of tighter monetary policy in the offing to head off any signs of overheating in the economy. The Bank of Korea hiked its gross domestic product (GDP)
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      213 16 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] ABN Amro Holding NV chief executive officer Rijkman Groenink took a 20 per cent pay cut in 2001 and other executives' salaries were slashed up to 45 per cent. Profit fell 24 per cent at the largest Dutch bank
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      365 16 TOKYO Reports suggest dealceoldbe with 6E Capital Reuters ELECTRONICS giant Sony Corp is in final talks to seU a majority stake in its insurance subsidiary, media reports said yesterday, a move that would open up Japan's stagnant life insurance market to greater
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      335 16 TOKYO It is suspected of not having reported problems correctly AFP THE Japanese government yesterday criticised Mizuho Holdings Inc, the world's largest financial group in terms of assets, for opening two new banks despite knowing they may encounter computer glitches. "If they
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      308 17 PRINCETON, New Jersey Operations outside US not included in filing by battery firm weighed down by debts Reuters EXIDE Technologies, the world's largest automotive battery maker, yesterday said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was weighed down by debt incurred from an aggressive
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      223 17 SACRAMENTO, California Consulting work by "Siting fifg >1m to be restricted AP CORPORATIONS would be required to change auditing firms every four years, under legislation to be proposed yesterday by key California lawmakers in response to the Enron Corp and Arthur
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      142 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD DOWN dismissed (5.3) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Way to overcome an Af- 14 Record in advance either half Across: 1 Badpatch 9 Onehorse 9 han? (6) of chorus-girl routine (3) 10 Bevy, 11 Commensurate 13 2 Encourage to voice intuition 16 Like a word about the future Edpees, 15
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      1443 18  -  In these uncertain times, libraries and librarians hold out the best hope for us to navigate and map terrains of new knowledge and discovery, says Patrick lambe PATRICK LAMBE The writer is founder of Straits Knowledge (www.straitsknowledge.com), a research and consulting practice. He also has a website
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      277 18 The task was near impossible. As the business hub in Asia with full responsibility for sales and marketing operations, Hitachi Asia needed quick and easy access to all its regional offices. And vice versa. Connecting 40 offices with the least possible capital expense meant maintaining the old network infrastructure for
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      274 19 Reuters TIME-CHARTER: Rafaele luliano (built 1996) 75,473 dwtdely Ghent Apr 19/22 trip via Baltic redelivery China US$lO,5OO dailyTransfield. ♦Danae (built 2001) 75,105 dwt dely Gibraltar retro Apr 9 for 5/7 months trading redelivery worldwide U559,450 daily. ♦Nirefs (built 2001) 75,000 dwt dely Cape Passe ro prompt 5/7 months
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      645 19  -  Germanischer Lloyd chief defends society's lack of consultation with other parties By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The head of class society Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has said criticism of major societies for their lack of consultation on bulk carrier safety measures were "probably
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      906 19 Longshoremen starting contentions contract with shipping and terminal companies Dow Jones [LOS ANGELES] Businesses across the US are taking steps to protect the flow of their goods as West Coast longshoremen and shipping and terminal companies enter their most contentious
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      285 19 China group has made losses three years in a row Dow Jones [SHANGHAI] Xiamen Marine Industry (Group) Co reported over the weekend its third straight year of losses putting it at risk of being delisted from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The company posted
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        929 20 Seven months after the Sept 11 attacks on the US, there are still 300-odd commercial jetliners mothballed at the Mojave desert m California, and not many are set to return to the skies anytime soon Reuters [MOJAVE, California] A US Airways Boeing 737 glides across
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        465 28 It may grab 50% of domestic market within five years, and fly to Asia Reuters [SYDNEY] Richard Branson said yesterday that his Virgin Blue discount domestic carrier could list on the Australian Stock Exchange within two years and is set to expand
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        368 28 Deal for 196 A4OOMs should be effective soon: UK Bloomberg [PARIS] Airbus Military Co's 19 billion euro (5530.78 billion) contract for 196 A4OOM transport planes is in the process of winning final approval from the eight countries involved and should be effective soon, the UK
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        164 28 Dow Jones [ZURICH] Aviation company Swissair Group will not appeal against a recent Zurich court ruling which upheld Crossair use of the brand name "Swiss" for the country's new national carrier, Swissair Group's estate administrator said. Swissair decided not to challenge the ruling after it
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        403 28 aisumb Buumras But insurers' profit will soar on rate hikes: analysts Bloomberg [NEW YORK] AMR Corp and Delta Air Lines Inc, airlines reeling from a travel slowdown that followed the Sept 11 attacks, are expected to report the biggest pershare losses
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        278 28 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Korean Air, the country's largest carrier, said it expects to report net income and an operating profit for the first quarter, rebounding from a loss in the previous year, as demand recovered. The airline expects to report an operating profit of 20 billion
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          63 28 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it will introduce six weekly flights between Tokyo'® main International airport at Narita and Munich, starting on Friday. The services will be operated using an Airbus SAS A340-300jetliner. T jifUmnw «i«n plan* increase the number of weekly flights between
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          73 28 AFP [HONG KONG] China Southern Airlines has announced an operating profit of 1,401 miiHnn yuan (SS3O6 million) for 2001, an 18.5 per cent rise from the previous year. The company said operating revenue rose 11.2 per cent to 16,880 million yuan and passenger revenue
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