The Business Times, 24 April 2002

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    13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2002 MITA (P) 010/03/2002
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    Lock icon Syed Mokhtar moves in on Senai Airport concession
    710 1  -  Plan part of grand scheme to tnrn Johor into a major transport hnb |Ti7excTiisive From. Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur FAST-RISING Malaysian tycoon Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary, who already controls the two ports in Johor, plans to take over the Senai Airport concession,
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  • Article
    Lock icon Don't buy your home without it: Amex
    625 1  -  Tie-up with FEO, CityDev lets buyers use card for part of downpayment BT By < Quak Hiang Whai [SINGAPORE] The tagline could well be "Don't buy a home without it". Plastic card specialist American Express is tying up with Singapore's two leading developers
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    Lock icon No evidence of Dayen cornering: SGX
    404 1  -  It notes significant interest from proprietary traders and contra players By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange yesterday said it has not found evidence to suggest that the stock of Dayen Environmental has been cornered, following a week-long probe into the counter's trading activity.
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      77 1 Exk Money How to trade the STI-tof profit *2* Microsoft I Bill BBP Gates paints Um dooms■K I day J scene. ft*Top ttOflM Rotating external audttors is not necessarily good: PWC. Nmxt Pmgm Creative shares up 7% on analysts' profit upgrades. P*4 Far East tops bids for Pashr Rls EC
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      39 1 p3*, INNOVATE W OR DIE &&m How does a company achieve breakthrough innovations? jMßfo%?diL v |Pg|2 Does ROI matter in the new economy? INFOCOMM AWARDS, our special SflF pullout, today examines these issues, iSE! and profiles 5 innovation winners
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      365 1 Tech turnaround Next Pacje 1 n M iM i>l-l L^g£9B Care to give your overseas property loan a check-up? Interested in saving money on your overseas property loan? Smce the start of 2001, the US dollar Federal Funds rate has been reduced an astonishing 11 times and has reached its
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      Lock icon Order figures hint at upturn for tech sector
      593 2  -  First time in 16 months US chip equipment orders outpace shipments By David Boey [SINGAPORE] The battered technology sector appears poised for a turnaround, going by figures that show orders booked by semiconductor equipment makers in North America have outpaced the value
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Halal investing is SRI
        111 2 WHO says Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a newfangled form of investing? Malaysian national news agency Bernama pointed out in an article on Monday that Malaysian institutions had been practicing SRl—also known as ethical or values-based investing—for almost 40 years. The pilgrimage or Hay fund (Lembaga
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        Lock icon One hand gives, the other takes
        43 2 RESULTS of a recent online poll: Lowering income tax and raising GST should be good for Singapore. Yes, most people will be better off: 30% No, most people will be worse off: 64% I don't know: 6%
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      Lock icon PwC issues memo to clients arguing against mandatory auditor rotation
      619 2  -  lolexcTusive This view reflects that of the US'Securities and Rrchangft Commission Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] Rotating external auditors is not necessarily good for you, auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has told its listed clients here. "We do not agree that (rotation)
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      Lock icon US chip stocks up on demand rebound report
      205 2 [LONDON] us semiconductor stocks rose in Europe after an industry report showed demand is rebounding. Intel Corp, Applied Materials Inc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Micron Technology Inc climbed. Ifttel, the world's largest computer chipmaker, gained 18 US eents to U5530.24 in
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      Lock icon Citigroup and 6 other global banks lose US$8.5b in Argentina
      480 2 Amount is 60% more than what they posted in Jan Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Citigroup Inc and six other international banks have lost US$B.5 billion in Argentina, 60 per cent more than what the banks reported in January, an analysis of
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      335 2 =U Ernst Young From Thought to Finish.» ANDERSEN 10 May 2002 (Friday), L3opm to &00pi Riffles Ctty Convention Centre, Stanford BJpiib, Level 4 (Formerly known as the Westia Stamforl aa4 Westla Plaa) 2 Stanford Road, Singapore *****2 This year's Budget can be expected to clarify the extent to which the
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      291 3 H^HGreatLINK Charity Golf Challenge Fund raising for Golden Care, a Great Eastern project for the Community Chest Guest of Honour: Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Acting Minister for Community Development and Sports Straits Lion Asset Management fe. Rothschild Asset Management (Singapore) Press Singapore Pte W SPH Media Works Ltd Gorat Media Services
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Creative shares up 7% on analysts' profit upgrades
      551 4  -  Q3 earnings triple y-o-y, margins hit 15-month high of 33 per cent By Serena Ng CREATIVE Technology shares soared yesterday after many analysts upgraded the soundcard giant's earnings forecasts following another impressive quarterly showing. The counter surged 551.50, or 7 per cent,
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      Lock icon Telkomsel raises bond size to US$150m
      545 4  -  Helped by Sing Tel link, original issue of USsloom3.6 times subscribed By. Angela Tan SINGAPORE Telecom unit PT Telekomunikasi Seluler (Telkomsel), Indonesia's largest mobile phone operator, has raised its bond issue from US$lOO million to US$l5O million after it was 3.6 times subscribed, sole
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      Lock icon Small investors worse off with deregulation
      711 4  -  1 lock siew r sivanithy IN theory, investors as a whole would benefit from the deregulation of the stock market, freeing of broking commissions, consolidation of the industry and increased competition. For retail investors, the biggest gain was supposed to be a levelling of
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      Lock icon Australand guns for higher recurring income
      918 5  -  It plans to 'staple' shares with trusts to cot dependence on volatile development cycles Reports from Kalpana Rashiwala in Melbourne IN a move that should boost Australand's appeal to investors, the listed Australian property development arm of Capita Land is planning to transform itself
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      Lock icon Australand, Sunway tie up for Sydney project
      594 5 They will develop 4m sq ft of industrial space in 50e50 venture AUSTRALAND Holdings will tie up with Malaysia's Sunway group to develop about four million sq ft of net lettable industrial space next to Sunway's Wonderland Theme Park in the Eastern Creek
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      Lock icon Cutbacks hit services of investment banks
      415 7  -  Sales coverage poorer, say fixed-income in vestors in survey By* Angela Tan THE global cutbacks by investment banks have started to affect their services to global institutional investors, a survey by Asset Benchmark Research (ABR) revealed. "Fixed-income investors say sales coverage has deteriorated. Banks
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      Lock icon CSE and ING units in IT solutions tie-up
      293 7  -  They will market management, risk control systems By Adeline Chia EBWORX, a financial solutions provider owned by listed CSE Systems Engineering, and ING Financial Institutions, a division of Dutch-owned ING Group, signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to co-market each others products
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Yongnam seals $54m in orders for Q1
        66 7 MAINBOARD-LISTED Yongnam Holdings, a specialist engineering and construction firm, announced that it has bagged $54 million worth of contracts for the first three months 0f2002. In December 2001 and January 2002, Yongnam secured several contracts in the new markets of India and China.
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        Lock icon Keppel bags contracts worth US$46m
        69 7 KEPPEL Corp, through its subsidiaries, has clinched contracts worth US$46 million from repeat customers. The upgrading and repair of two jack-ups owned by ENSCO Offshore Company account for US$23 million, while US$l6 million worth of contracts come from Keppel's Brazil unit, FELS Setal, and the
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        Lock icon BBR gets $16.6m industrial project
        42 7 BBR Holdings (S) said Singapore Piling Civil Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary, has secured a $16.6 million contract for an industrial development at Übi Ave 3/Paya Lebar Road. It will design, build and maintain a 7-storey multi-user development.
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        Lock icon TEE in China aviation joint venture
        67 7 TEE International has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai International Aviation Trading Company to set up a joint venture (JV) company in Shanghai. The JV will provide aviation services for the aviation market in China. The JV will have issued and paid-up
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        Lock icon Tong Meng to be delisted tomorrow
        42 7 Reuters STEEL products maker Tong Meng Industries said yesterday its shares would be delisted from the Singapore Exchange tomorrow. The move comes after parent Tong Meng Pte Ltd completed its acquisition of the the subsidiary. Reuters
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        Lock icon Sunright in the red with $9.4m loss
        73 7 CHIP testing services provider Sunright Ltd swung into a net loss of $9.4 million for the first half ended Jan 31, from a profit of $3.9 million previously. It said the Sept 11 incident exacerbated an already bad situation Within the industry. Turnover
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      Lock icon Good time to buy into HK banks: analyst
      302 7 S'pore banks should take the chance to widen their greater China footprint Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] With midcap Hong Kong banks currently trading at 0.8-1.1 times the price to book value, now is an opportune time for Singapore banks to "widen
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      Lock icon New OCBC CEO David Conner given 300,000 share options
      265 7  -  Amount is one-third below that for Alex An when he signed on by Siow Li Sen OCBC Bank's new chief executive David Conner has been given 300,000 OCBC share options with an exercise price of $13.66 per share. Mr Conner's 300,000
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      37 4 9 A leading International Pulp, Paper Converting Event for Asia our horizon Realize new possibilities for your business at Asian Paper 2002 CMM Asia showcasing the latest developments and exhibits in the dynamic paper converting industries. ,r(r
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      298 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 23 VALUE CLOSE V86.00 ♦110.00 if CW -*****.00 449.00 WlfrigMft -*****.00 +9.00 WIWfpJhB 460.48 ♦2.83 MEpMwBwl 167.13 ♦2.34 MlpMwHi 1515.45 ♦ll.ee 428.00 +3.36 ■tafclUli 218.75 •WWwn 218.30 *>C020c 29.186,000 North 22 USlc 21.182.000 Goldtron 5c 20.042,000 Europtron 10c 13.047.000 Asia Dekor HK15c 9.958.000 KLW HWgs 10c
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      Lock icon What exactly does the Straits Times Index represent?
      819 6  -  i i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy HOW representative is the Straits Times Index of what goes on in the local stock market? Should the index represent the market, the economy, or both? What's the best means of constructing the index? In theory,
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      Lock icon Most Asian units retreat on intervention fears
      1000 6 Taiwan central bank seen buying dollars, players fear others may cone In soon Reuters, AFP [SINGAPORE] Most Asian currencies took a step back from multi-week gains late yesterday as dollar-buying intervention fears prompted players to cover their short dollar positions. Analysts said despite
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    2404 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ObBond S'pore A/$ 1.21/ CitiBond Spore B/$ 1.23V Cfti Money Sing Dollar Qass 8. *****/ Ml* tat Mft ts'pora) on Part-Europe Equity Fund 1 1/ Star Europe Eqty!* 0 794/ CitiSelect Asia Tilt Balanced 13V Star Europe Bd 0.969 CitiSelect Asia Tilt Growth 127/ Star Europe Bal
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      255 7 m k H H|Hl I I IjjM I 1 I I M I I H h s M I Mr\l\ e\ t\ i\s\l e 3. Balance your risks (5) 10. Keeping your assets safe (7) I B 7. Security transactions (6) 13 Having commcrcial value (6) I Shared funds (6)
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon March consumer prices down 0.9%
      299 8  -  on the economy inflation -By Vince Chong SINGAPORE'S consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.1 per cent to 101.5 points in March against the previous month. The dip follows its first monthly increase in February after a long slide. Year-on year, it dipped 0.9 per
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      Lock icon Far East tops bids for hot Pasir Ris EC site
      440 8  -  It tenders $72m or $139 psf ppr for plot, which will be its first EC project Byi Andrea Tan AFTER several attempts at breaking into the executive condominium (EC) market. Far East Organization is likely to succeed this time with
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      Lock icon Lincoln Modern seeking average $1,200 psf
      370 8  -  By' Vince Chong SC Global Developments will launch the remainder of its Lincoln Modern project this weekend at an average price of $1,200 psf, with showflat viewings by appointment only. Two-bedroom units averaging 1,200 sq ft in size are priced at $1.2-11.7 million, while
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      Lock icon StarHub rides on World Cup fever in South Korea
      308 8  -  Bsi Angela Tan STARHUB customers planning to watch the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea can now rent a CDMA handset from the operator and ei\joy roaming in all the Korean cities where the games are being held. Star Hub,
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      Lock icon Acquiring an MBA on the move
      620 9 BT/Henley award winner says that's the beauty of e-learning IN the essay that won him the second Business Times/ Henley Management College Bursary Award last month. Tan Wee Meng conveys with a personal touch the great flexibility and beauty of an e-Learning MBA course.
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      Lock icon Tuas Power to issue $300m note
      312 9 ItH help refinance a $525 m revolving credit facility, says mwipaity nffir.ial Dow Jones Newswires TUAS Power Ltd, a Singapore government-owned power generation company, plans to issue Ss3oo million worth of medium-term notes, a company official told Dow Jones Newswires yesterday. It will be
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      1199 8 FDS NETWORKS GROUP LTD. (Incorporated in Bermuda) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of FDS NETWORKS GROUP LTD, an exempted company incorporated with limited liability in Bermuda (the "Company*) wiH be held at 77 Bencootonfeaet #02-01 Singapore *****3 on Thursday. 16 May
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      504 8 Oakwell Engineering Limited Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GfVBM that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of the Company wiM be held at the lUcrwoon Room of Oakwell Engineering Limited. 8 Aljunied Ave 3, Oakwell Building. Singapore *****3 on Fnday. 10 May 2002 <X 10.00 am to transact
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      32 9 I Lianhe Zaobao I Iklse I Composite Index I I looks set I I to breach the I 1,000 I point mark? I I 11*81 I I s**©? I I HHHwHHHIifII I
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  • FOCUS enterprise
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      Lock icon Moulding success
      1619 10  -  Flexibility in people management and relentless pursuit of goals mark the leadership style of Manusoft's CEO, adeunb cma learns ADELINE CHIA DO you want foreign talent or foreign papers? This was the question posed by Victor Gan, chief executive officer (CEO) of local start-up Manusoft Technologies, to the
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      21 10 n tL Sr v"ii-' Hw*.' Crazy Idea? Maybe Not. Produced and marketed to the world by Aero-Green Technology (S) Pte Ltd
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      144 10 From the seeds of wild ideas are bom the first fruits of innovation And our lives are the richer from such exciting breakthroughs Singapore has the key ingredients for enterprises to innovate and grow A nght mix of pro enterprise environment vibrant venture capital industry and diver se talent Throw
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Telenor set to buy Deutsche Telekom's TRI stake
      244 11 KUALA LUMPUR TECHNOLOGY Resources Industries Bhd chairman Tajudin Ramli is believed to have finalised arrangements for Norway's Telenor ASA to buy Deutsche Telekom AG's 16 per cent stake in TRI, the Malaysian Business Times reported. "We have good reason to believe that
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      Lock icon Maxis seen to be launching public listing next month
      368 11 KUALA LUMPUR IPO likely to be one of KL's two largest this year, raising np toUSs6oom Reuters MALAYSIA'S No 1 mobile phone company, Maxis Communications, is expected to hold one of the country's largest initial public offerings next month, analysts said
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      Lock icon Nod for IOI's Palmco shares plan
      233 11 KUALA LUMPUR It mats U give 4L4m shares sf Palmes ts 101 sharahslders Dow Jones Newswires MALAYSIA'S Securities Exchange has approved 101 Corp's plan to distribute up to 41.4 million shares of its oleochemical producer unit, Palmco Holdings Bhd to 101 shareholders for free.
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      Lock icon BCA sale bodes well for Indon banks' recovery
      833 12 JAKARTA SnccMafnl talis seen as positive sign and there are hopes it will help speed np other asset sales Bloomberg PT BANK Central Asia (BCA) shares are up by almost half since its sale six weeks ago to a US hedge fund,
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      Lock icon Bank Bumiputera Indonesia plans IPO
      283 12 JAKARTA It will offer 500 m shares, equal to 25% of total equity Dow Jones Newswires PT Bank Bumiputera Indonesia, a small Indonesian bank, announced yesterday that it plans to offer 500 million common shares, or equivalent to 25 per cent of its total equity,
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      Lock icon Indonesia unfazed by S&P demotion
      255 12 JAKARTA No impact on borrowing costs as debt already below investment grade, analysts say Reuters, Bloomberg INDONESIA'S central bank said yesterday that it was unfazed by a downgrade on the country's long- and short-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings by Standard Poor's and saw no
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        Lock icon Sale not due to Argentina woes: HSBC
        88 12 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] HSBC Holdings Pic said its decision to sell its 7 per cent stake in Chile's Banco Santiago SA wasn't taken because of the economic crisis in neighbouring Argentina, where the UK bank has lost US$l.l billion. HSBC plans to auction
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        Lock icon Ho Wah shares climb on stock sale
        60 12 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Ho Wah Gentlng Bhd shares roar as much as 7.3 per cent toa two-month high after the* t Malaysian wire and cable maker saldihe securities regulator approved its plan to sell ne* stock. Ho Wak shares rose as much as
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        Lock icon Arroyo remains on peso note
        52 12 Bloomberg [MANILA] Philippine central bank governor Ra&SP* Buenaventura said President Gloria Arroyo's image will remain on a new banknote even though critics have said it is inappropriate to feature a livHV 1 personality, especially as Mrs Arroyo is expected to run for election in two
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        Lock icon NST expects higher sales
        67 12 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] The New Straits Times Press mmsi (Malaysia) Bhd said yesterday that it expects sales after the incorporation of the Malaysian y Business Times daily as a section in the New StnMu'r Times. This isn't expected to have any material impact on
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        Lock icon Sinar Mas assets may be sold in June
        86 12 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesian bank restructuring Ibra said it will sell some assets pledged by the TT? debt-laden Sinar Mas Group in June to cover some payments the group misaed under a US$l.3 bflliop»*»*debt workout deal. "We would sell in June but.. would
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      Lock icon Palm oil, rubber prices may rise
      558 13 S S-E Asia fears El Nino weather which disrupts crops, is coming back Bloomberg PALM oil and rubber prices may extend recent gains as droughts in South-east Asia and ocean warming in the Pacific raise speculation that El Nino, the weather pattern that disrupts
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      Lock icon At least 8 Thai brokers to list in next 2 yrs
      318 13 W BANGKOK Move will boost their financial positions before sector's opening op Reuters 'AT least eight brokerages plan to list on the Thai stock market over the next two years to take advantage of local investor appetite for new
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      Lock icon United Plantations to buy oil palm firm for RM441m
      263 13 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg UNITED Plantations Bhd said it will buy an oil palm company from its chairman and the state government for RM440.6 million (SI2IO million) in cash and stock, to expand and boost its earnings. The firm will buy 90
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    • ASIA Notes
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        Lock icon Taiwan export orders in surprise rise
        78 13 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's export orders and factory production unexpectedly rose in March as rising global demand for computer chips and flat-panel displays fuelled the island's recovery from (me of its worst recessions. Overseas orders rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier, the Ministry of
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        Lock icon China issues bank guidelines
        74 13 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China's central bank has issued guidelines on intermediary business, re-affirming a ban on commercial banks conducting stock broking to prevent bank funds from illegally flowing into the share markets. The central People's Bank of China has repeatedly cracked down on illegal bank money in
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        Lock icon Thailand set for faster growth
        77 13 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thailand's economic growth is set to accelerate as spending, investment and exports rebound. Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said yesterday. "The economy is showing clear signs of recovery," said the minister. "All economic indicators, including consumption, investment and exports, are Improving" Economic growth will
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        Lock icon Philippine Q1 growth as much as 4%
        87 13 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] The Philippine economy may have expanded as much as 4 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago, boosted by domestic demand and rising fitrm production, Finance Secretary Jose Camacho said on Monday. "1 wouldn't be surprised If
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        Lock icon HK$6b plan to convert ex naval site
        82 13 Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] The government {dans to proceed with a long-awaited proposal to convert a former British naval base into a new government headquarters and Legislative Council building at a cost of about HKJ6.I billion (Sfl .42 billion), the Hong Kong
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        Lock icon Peso will stay stable:Buena ventura
        88 13 Bloomberg [MANILA] The Philippine peso will remain stable at 51 pesos to a US dollar, and wont be affected by bombings in the southern city of General Santos, central bank Governor Rafael Buenaventura said yesterday. "We will not try to interfere with the market," he
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      616 14 EDITORIAL IT is welcome news that Thailand's economy is showing signs of recoveiy. Sales of cars, homes, consumer electronics and even cement are picking up. The Thaksin government correctly identified the Thai consumer as the main thrust for recovery when it began overhauling the economy
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      1436 14  -  A spirit of mutual respect and give-and-take leads to better integration of the different religions communities in a celebration if diversity W Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor. E-mail: yangraz@sph.com.sg IN the wake of Sept 11, I was invited
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      412 15 TOKYO March consumer confidence rebounds with huge gain Reuters JAPANESE consumer confidence rebounded in March, logging its biggest gain in three years after sliding steadily since September, suggesting a patchy export-driven economic recovery. was finally reaching consumers. The Cabinet Office said in a
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      228 15 AFP [SHANGHAI] One of China's leading banks has eased foreign exchange rules for people buying Korean won ahead of an expected exodus of tens of thousands of Chinese football fans for the World Cup, it was announced yesterday. The Bank of China (BOC)
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      441 15  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo RISKING further ire of Japanese authorities, a senior International Monetary Fund official yesterday urged the Bank of Japan to reconsider its decision not to adopt a formal inflation target now. The call by senior IMF economic adviser
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      462 16 ENRON SAGA It says in a filing that earlier fiscal results given on Nov 19 not reliable Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Enron Corp may have overstated the value of its assets and financial contracts by as much as US$24 billion late last year, the company sqid
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      432 16 NEW YORK Its partnerships in Malaysia and the Philippines to merge with Ernst 4 Young Reuters BESIEGED accounting firm Andersen said on Monday that it had hired a top restructuring and bankruptcy specialist as doubts spread about the firm's ability to survive the Enron Corp crisis.
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      478 17 NEW YORK He's also fined USs7J>m; judge unmoved by 90 letters of appeal NYT REBUKED by a federal judge for failing to show remorse, A Alfred Taubman, the principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, was sentenced on Monday to a year and
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      413 17  -  Republicans making concessions on health care benefits for workers From Leon Hadar in Washington THE US Senate is expected to approve in the coming days a legislation that provides the White House with the authority to negotiate trade deals without
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      424 19 WASHINGTON Bloomberg THE Justice Department will conduct criminal investigations into how securities analysts report on their stock research to the public, a government official said. "We're going to be doing a lot of cases involving financial reporting," including the work
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        104 19 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Williams Communications Group Inc, which amassed more than US$7 billion in debt building a fibre-optic network, agreed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors. The company will convert its debt into equity in a reorganised business to be owned
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        99 19 AFP [TOKYO] Japan's domestic shipments of PCs dropped 13.2 per cent to 12.14 million units in the year to March—the first fall in four years—due to a deep recession, Multi-Media Research Institute Ltd said yesterday. In value, shipments plunged 19.1 per cent from the previous
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        83 19 AFP [SEOUL] Hynix Semiconductor Inc workers and minor shareholders yesterday rejected an accord with Micron Technology Inc, with unions threatening a strike to stop the US company taking over Hynix. The threat created a new obstacle to Micron's ambitious bid to become the world's biggest
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        64 19 Bloomberg [PARIS] STMicroelectronics NV, Europe's biggest chipmaker, said first-quarter profit dropped 90 per cent as demand for products that power mobile phones and digital-video disc players slumped. Net income fell to U5532.9 million, or 4 US cents a share, from U*****.8 million, or 38 US cents,
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        87 19 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) on Monday posted a fiscal third-quarter net profit boosted by a big tax benefit but hurt by slower than expected sales to non-defence clients that it said were still cautious about technology spending The company posted
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      197 20 CKVPTIC CROSSWORD 21 Change corK^m the East (8) lectures (5) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 28 The government, say, em- 8 Army reservists must return Across: 1 Makewaves 9 Twinbraced by returning Arab rtf- here now (2,7) We, 10 Scruple, 11 Pageant 12 er 14 Put a label on weapon imme- Financial, 14
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      698 21  -  bbt m Going by the miserable sales of hybrid cars, current incentives are tnsufflctent to make CMG cars h.ki. christopher tan FOR the first time in overacentury.it seems motorists here are given a chance to break away from the stranglehold of oil companies. They
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      508 21  -  Ml repute by Christopher Tan TECHNICALLY, you can fill up your car with compressed natural gas (CNG) piped to your home. And technically, CNG pumps can be attached to convenience stores or fast-food outlets. It has been done in other countries. But
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        106 21 THE auction of Kwik-Fit heated up last week as it emerged that French bank BNP Paribas had made a £800 mfflion (Stl.6 billion) bid for the car repair chain, the Financial Times reported. The offer by Paribas Affidres Industrielles, the bank's private equity arm, raises the
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        90 21 FORD'S Premier Automotive Group (PAG) chief WaMfeang Reitzle has left to become chief executive of Linde Ag, a German industrial company. Previously with BMW, Mr Reitzle was recruited in 1999 by deposed Ford boss Jacques Nasser. He will be replaced by Mark Fields, president of
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        78 21 TOYOTA Motor has received approval to invest in a plant to make auto transmissions in India, reported Bloomberg. "We have received an approval from the government to invest 3.6 billion rupees (Sfl34 million) in the automotive transmission plant," said Sripad Bhat, a spokesman for
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        65 21 RENAULT, the second-largest French automaker, is in talks with Brilliance China Group to make the Kangoo van, according to Bloomberg. The signing ceremony for the venture wffl he held in China in the second quarter, said Blaise Bertrand, Renault's Asia-Pacific communications manager based in Tokyo.
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        167 21  -  Compiled by Christopher Tan THE European Commission is to investigate a 418 million euro (Ss67o million) subsidy by the German government to BMW towards a new 1.2 billion euro car plant in Leipzig, in a move that could reopen a simmering dispute between Berlin
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      413 21 YOU can easily halve your car fitel bills if you switch to compressed natural gas (CNG). Under the current pricing structure, premium petrol is retailed at $1.24 a litre. CNG is currently sold at 40 cents for "an equivalent to a litre".
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      231 21 VEHICULAR consumption will contribute to only a fraction of SembGas' CNG sales. Senior vice-president Francis Gomez reckoned if Singapore's entire vehicle population was to convert to CNG, it would account for about 170 mmscfd (million standard cubic feet per day). But even without any vehicular
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      763 22  -  Telemetry sees right through racing drivers and their cars By Heike Hientxsch The writer is a freelance journalist specialising in motorsports. She also prepares motorsports press releases for BMWA& This series is sponsored by BMW THERE are some things you just can't get away with
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      675 22  -  Froml Adrian Low The writer is a freelance journalist based in Germany in Germany A EUROPEAN Commission directive in 1998 was supposed to spell the end of tobacco advertising in the European Union by July 2001, with an extension to October 2006
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      814 23  -  Australian group Navigator's *wrap account' platform could bring structural changes in advisory services and insurance portfolios. By GENEVIEVE CUA GENEVIEVE CUA NAVIGATOR, one of Australia's largest providers of master trust and wrap account structures, will invest $40 million over the next five years to expand in Singapore and
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      1231 23  -  Profit taking in QAFi surprise deal in Hnan ll?WI»]3 markets By\ urn Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Asia Insider. He is assisted by Ngia Soon Choi WORRIES over the changes in CPF policies for property purchases and weightings downgrades in the
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      401 25  -  -By Chen Xuifen THE significance of th 4 National Infocomm Awards could not have been illustrated at a more crucial time. As Singapore's once turbo-driven economy drifts into neutral, government and corporate leaders are re-evaluating growth options. Neighbouring countries are turning up the heat as they become
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      613 26  -  People assisted by technology make the system work, a Yong tells simome Erasmus SIMONE ERASMUS "JUSTICE delayed," says Chief Justice Yong Pung How, "is justice denied." In an email interview with BT, CJ Yong described this mantra as part of his impetus to re-organise
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      160 26 Simone Erasmus GONE are the days of the Supreme Court being saddled with a massive backlog of cases and mountain-high filing cabinets. Beginning with their earliest effort in the start of the 1980s the creation of the bankruptcy system which permitted faster searches on bankruptcy matters via
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      740 26  -  Byi GRACE TAN ENOUGH gushing about the technology, Fuji Photo Film (Singapore) shows us it is how you use it that really matters. Jun Nayyni. managing director-** Fuji Photo Film here, feels all that digital pyrotechnics is nothing without practical implements- tion
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      902 28  -  Video editing need no more be a painful task, thanks to muvee, says ftnn iwr chia ADELINE CHIA PUT one bored video editing teacher with a doctorate in electronic music and seven trained engineers and musicians together and what do you get? The answer
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      694 28  -  Tired of hearing 'Press 1 if you want English...'? Help is at hand, grace Tim tests the new system GRACE TAN TIRED of being put on hold for hours on end? Info Talk has come up with a winning solution that will
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      439 30  -  We must leverage our infrastructure to launch the next phase of growth, says david um, Acting Minister for Information, Communications The Arts DAVID LIM SINGAPORE'S vision of an intelligent island has yif;lded results. Today, all businesses and households enjoy a wide range of infocommunications services at competitive
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      1706 30  -  Remedy for ineffective innovation is not always more spending, says katrina helmkamp, rkmard lesser and thomas lutz KATRINA HELMKAMP, RICHARD LESSER,THOMAS LUTZ Katrina Helmkamp is a vice-president in the Chicago office of lite Boston Consulting Group. Richard Lesser is a vice-president in the firm's New York
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      1469 34  -  The full potential of IT hasn't been realised. Internet's pioneer tells chua hui min that industry must understand the need for a well-designed information system CHUA HUI MIN DrEngelbart is also the guest speaker at the IDA's Distinguished Infocomm Speaker conference tomorrow at Marina Mandarin
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      683 34  -  Singapore should promote non-conformity and a change of mindset the nigh-tech guru tells leo kee chye LEO KEE CHYE SINGAPORE'S infocomm companies should create their own vision, and not Just implement ideas thought out by others, said high-tech guru Guy Kawasaki. "The
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      2099 38  -  It is experience and good judgment, not numbers, that eventually win the day, writes Patrick i amw PATRICK LAMBE Patrick Lambe is Founder of Straits Knowledge (wiow.straitsknowledge.com), a Singapore-based consulting and researchflrm specialising in knowledge management, e-learning and innovation. His articles can be found at
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      941 39  -  Patrick medley discusses the importance of customer-centric ideas in innovation PATRICK MEDLEY Patrick Medley (patrick.medley@sg.pwcglobaL com) is managing partner, PwC Consulting. Products— Asia-Pacific. COMPANIES hoping to export their way out of the economic downturn have to face one reality: what sells in one market doesn't
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      426 41  -  Expert panel finds discrepancies in accounting of registry income By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Liberia's maritime authorities have once again come under fire in yet another damning United Nations (UN) Security Council report detailing the West African country's flagrant violation of international sanctions against it.
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        131 41 AP {TAIPEI] A Greek shipping company has paid Taiwan NTS6I.3 million (553.19 million) in compensation for the cleanup of oil spilled from a cargo ship off Taiwan's southern coast, an official said. But Taiwan is demanding more money in damages from the Nissos Amorgos
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      115 41 [TAKAHAMA, Japan] A steel case of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide fuel being unloaded from the British-flagged cargo ship Pacific Pintail at a Kansai Electric Power Co Incport in the Sea of Japan, some 400 kilometres west of Tokyo. The environmental group Greenpeace said that a planned
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      174 41 [SINGAPORE] Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC) has made a foray into the Middle East through a joint venture with Saudi Arabian firm Bakri Navigation Co Ltd. The equal split joint venture will enable MISC a unit of Malaysian state oil company Petronas to
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      308 41  -  By\ Beth Jinks {SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is still awaiting a formal approach by US Customs over its box pre-screening plans, but says port security is a shared priority. The Port of Rotterdam announced last
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      313 41  -  -By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Europe's third busiest container port, Antwerp, got off to a flying start in the first quarter of 2002, achieving 11 per cent container throughput growth year on year, with record figures in March, prompting talk of a turnaround. However,
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      937 42  -  STRAIT TALE -By] David Hughes OWNERS of ships of more than 5,392 displacement tons will have to pay an extra US$4OO from June 1 to transit Panama Canal following the Panama Canal Authority's (ACP's) decision to impose a security fee. It says the
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        171 51 April 28 Australia: Anzac Day Italy: Liberation Day Day April 29 Japan: Greenery Day Mayl Singapore: Labour Day China: Labour Day Germany: Labour Day Hong Kong: Labour Day Italy: Labour Day Norway: Labour Day Philippines: Labour Day Sweden: Labour Day France: labour Day South Korea: Labour Day Taiwan:
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        538 52 The dno are expected to be forced to shed 10 or less H&neda slots Bloomberg Dow Jones Newswires [TOKYO] Japan's anti-mo-nopoly watchdog is widely expected to approve a revised merger plan later this week for Japan Airlines Co (JAL) and Japan Air System
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        344 52 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's dominant airline, Cathay Pacific Airways, said that it plans to restructure its cargo operations along with those of subsidiary, Air Hong Kong, but the move will not result in any forced redundancies. Asia's fourth largest airline by capacity said
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        333 52  -  By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] United Parcel Service (UPS) Inc recorded a slight rise in first quarter profit, due in part to growth in its non-package division, which includes its logistics business. While the transportation and logistics company recorded only a slight 1.3
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        695 52 But smaller carriers may be edged out by giants Reuters [SHANGHAI! China's top airlines are expected to fly in brighter skies this year as global economic recovery lifts overseas revenues while a massive domestic consolidation helps lower costs at home, analysts said.
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        137 52 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's national carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has sought the Indian government's approval to operate more flights between the two countries to improve tourism, Malaysian officials. MAS wants to introduce a weekly route between Calcutta and Kuala Lumpur and boost its flights
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        459 52 More execs buy leisure fares, use low-fare airlines, video conferences Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Sixty per cent of US companies plan to spend less on air travel this year as executives buy leisure fares, use low-fare carriers and hold video conferences instead of flying. a
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