The Business Times, 13 June 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85c SINGAPORE Interne': nttp://business-times.asial .com.sg THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 2002
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    73 1 811 ymjm (-10.57) ST IMDEX FUTURES MB (+2.00) nanxFvnnss mm mm (-0.10) STOCK MAKKKTIJUMJKS Wednesday Change KLSE COMP 750.67 +#.18 NIKKEI 226 —*****.06 -***** HANG SENG _11,147*? 47J* SET INDEX 429.61 +4.76 JAKARTA COUP _5»9? +7.14 MANILA COMP _do»i TAIPEI WPI SJ99.96 4.46 seoul comp aa«_ +7.7# SHENZHEN
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    71 1 FOBEX BATES uss St l*S$ (S$ per USS) 1.788 £(l SS/SS per 1.476 2.637 El"RO(US$/SS/B). 0.%0 1.698 DM 2J16 1140 YEN 1»5 7010 RM 1800 1126 HKS 7.800 4.363 BAHT 4213 2168 RITIAH 8,720 4^78 PUKE SATES SINGAPORE* KUALA LUMPUR _640 HONG KONG 5125 JAKARTA 39 eo TAIPEI 6.72a
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    Lock icon Financial Advisers Act delayed till Q3
    826 1  -  New expected date takes some advisory firms Iqr surprise By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] The longawaited Financial Advisers Act (FAA) is now expected to take effect in the third quarter of this year a delay that has caused some advisory firms to see red. The
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    Lock icon SEC wants CEOs to certify financial reports
    594 1 Role may be ready for next year's annnal reports Dow Jones Newswires Reuters, [WASHINGTON] Chief executive officers of US listed companies will have to personally certify the accuracy of their company's quarterly and annual financial statements under a proposal being considered by federal
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    Lock icon Japan lawmakers grill Moody's over debt rating
    706 1 Japan lawmakers grill Moo dy's over debt rating Antygt nukes unprecedented appearance in Diet Reuters i [TOKYO] Officials from ratI ing agency Moody's Investors Service made an unprecedented appearance in Japan's parliament yesterday to respond to anger over its downgrading of Japai nese debt to the lowest level among leading
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      89 1 Drama Hock Lock Slow Angela Tan: It's still touch-and-go for MediaRing. Pg 3 BT Comment Van Sreenlvaaan: Another day, another slide. Pg 4 Top Storios Inno-Pac settles lawsuits by Shakey's franchisees in US. Pg 5 Portable medical plans based on groups. Pg 6 Jakarta makes new pledges to IMF. Pg
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      73 1 S'poreans cut back on US investments Time to go contrarian on property •Tonight time docs not exist. .9. BLANCPA IN MANUFACTURE DE HAUTE HORLOGERIE U/-C*»v"C y*-*. VH^' I^V""" 4 w Azzedine ALAIA. Fashion Designer. Paris. The world's thinnest Flyback Chronograph. Water-resistant to 100 meters. Raffles City #01-36 Tel: 6339 9185
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      8 1 Japan's debt —a rediscovery of risk, Pg 8
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      Lock icon S'pore investors cuffing US stock trades
      626 2  -  Ponds seen moving out of US to seek better returns in Europe, Asia By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] It seems that Singapore investors are finally joining other Asian players in winding down their trading activity on Wall Street. The volume of US corporate stocks
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      Lock icon Financing of US debt not sustainable: report
      721 2  -  Serosal of capital inflows Into US from Asia coold precipitate a crisis By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] The United States, by far the largest indebted nation in the world, is being bankrolled by thrifty Asian savers like Japan, China and Singapore. But this
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      334 2  -  By Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Care for Australian wines at discounts of 30 per cent on their regular prices? And, without lifting a finger, would you like the wines delivered to your doorstep? In a unique arrangement between Singapore Poet and Australia Post, Singapore
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      Lock icon Prof Koh lobbying for EU-S'pore FTA
      440 2  -  By Adeline Chia [SINGAPORE] Singapore is lobbying several European governments to set up a European Union-Singapore free trade agreement or EUSFTA, Ambassa-dor-at-Large Tommy Koh said yesterday. "There's a campaign on and I'm just one of the many salesmen," he said, speaking after the annual
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      47 2 IN yesterday's report "ST Engg unit wins Mexican deal", we said the initial contract was for $4.7 million and that ST Engg expects to win as much as $50 million of orders. The amounts should be denominated in US dollars. We are sorry for the omission.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Loo with a view
        113 2 SUWON, the South Korean city that is hosting some of the World Cup games, is determined to makp an international name for itself by having the world's most beautiful public toilets. Step into one and the strains of Vivaldi's Four Seasons float through perfumed air. Look
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        72 2 EVEN before the race begins in October, Singapore's Eco-Challenge team has to overcome a major hurdle— a financial one. The team of five Singaporeans taking part in the gruelling adventure race in Fiji this year is seeking a sponsor. Teams have to complete a 500 km
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Buy property stocks: Kim Eng
      377 3  -  It advocates taking a contrarian approach to ride the rally ahead Reports by Andrea Tan PROPERTY stocks have been trending down for almost five months. Are they ripe for the picking or will they fall further? Kim Eng-Ong Asia reckons investors should take the contrarian
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      Lock icon Some developers go ahead with project launches
      814 3 NEVER mind the impending Central Provident Fund policy changes. While some property developers are holding back launches, for others it is business as usual. Today, First Capital Corp (FCC) is holding a special viewing at its Le Crescendo showflat along Paya Lebar Road
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      Lock icon Virgin Blue seen catching SIA's eye
      541 3 Analysts say SIA better iff with discount airline than starting new carrier in Australia Dow Jones Newswires WITH Singapore Airlines (SIA) still mulling its options in Australia—a lucrative market key to the airline's long-term growth analysts are betting SIA will wind up purchasing a
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      Lock icon It's still touch-and-go for MediaRing
      617 3  -  angela tan SINCE hitting a high of $2 after its debut in 1999, MediaRing.com one of the pioneers in providing voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services has yielded 95 per cent of its market value over the years to trade around 12-13 cents these days.
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      Lock icon Inno-Pac settles lawsuits by Shakey's franchisees in US
      277 5  -  The firm also expects Shakey's unit to contribute to second-half results By Serena Ng LISTED Inno-Pacific Holdings, which owns the Shakey's pizza franchise in the US, said yesterday it has settled lawsuits brought against it by two Shakey's franchisees. Inno-Pac also said
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Tun Sing buys Shanghai property
        70 5 Reuters TUAN Sing Holdings has purchased a high-end residential property development in Shanghai for $41.78 million. It said it had built more than 1,200 residential housing units in the Shanghai area. The project would be constructed in three phases over three years till June 2004.
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        Lock icon KepLAnd acquires land in Bangkok
        85 5 Dow Jones Newswires KEPPEL Land has acquired a freehold site in eastern Bangkok for $7.5 million that it will develop into 178 houses. It said yesterday the 82,332 sq m site in a residential district was bought through its Thai-listed unit Five Stars Property Public
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        Lock icon Asia Dekor expects poorer results
        75 5 Dow Jones Newswires ASIA Dekor Holdings said yesterday it would fall short of its own financial expectations due to a tougher competitive environment in China. It said its results were unlikely to meet earlier expectations for the second half, as well as the full year,
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        Lock icon Addvalue Tech slides into the red
        86 5 ADD VALUE Technologies swung into the red for the year ended March with a $3.9 million net loss compared with a $412,000 net profit the previous year. Turnover fell 18 per cent to $10 million while loss per share stood at 0.94 cents against
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        Lock icon Prebon Yamane's profit soars
        79 5 PREBON Yamane (Singapore), a money broker, said for the year ended March 31,2002, it posted an operating profit of $1.9 million, a big jump from the previous year's $412,000. Revenue rose 16 per cent to $40 million, mainly from increased activity in the derivative markets of
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      Lock icon Top Global buys 50% stake in TG China
      173 5 CONSTRUCTION company Top Global yesterday said it could win a one per cent market share of China's US$24 billion environmental protection market in 2005 through its newly acquired subsidiary. If it does succeed, the revenues from its new business in China would
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      Lock icon JTC unit takes major stake in building firm
      378 5  -  By i Vince Chong JURONG Consultants has taken a major stake in local general construction firm Synergy Construction to enable them to capture bigger projects overseas as construction firms look outwards for growth. Despite the stake, Jurong Consultants a JTC Corp wholly-owned
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      261 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jun 12 VALUE CLOSE ITOMS -200.00 +124.00 IT CADI -*****.00 -68.00 TIH«yMA -*****.00 -20.00 XBEpiii 437.30 -3.76 141.57 -2.96 1456.54 -7.82 MMtePtay 409.01 -3.50 WOiiPUn 204.74 -1.68 aaaww• 205.80 -0.10 pco 2<fc poo 8(UnOUS20c S3&000 klw^IOC"—ITS Sn*T«xi5c lira/So Chart Semiconductor 26c 3,374,000 **■1 > Vwwu«Coip25c. 21.935 251
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      Lock icon Upside seen as Aussino spreads its wings
      292 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WABBAXT By Ven Sreenivasan GARMENT maker Aussino has just reported that its earnings for the nine months to end-March rose 38 per cent to $6.1 miUion on group turnover growth of 9 per cent to $32 million. In short, its earnings
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      Lock icon Another day, another slide
      710 4  -  STOCKS ven sreenivasan WITH Wall Street still heading south, there was little chance that the local market would do anything but slide yesterday. And slide it did. The Straits Times Index crashed through key support at 1,650 points to finish a net 10.57 points weaker at
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      Lock icon Euro, £ at 2002 highs as Wall St fall hits US$
      588 4  - Euro, at 2002 highs as Wall St fall hits US$ ■KUMaUaHBaial CURRENCIES But heavy selling of yen for euros indirectly helps US$ back above key 125-yen level larry wee GOOD news out of Germany and the UK overnight pushed the euro and the sterling pound to 2002 highs in Asian
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    2220 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Energy IndeiFd 0.95V Com Global Travel Index Fd 0.77V Com S pore Bond Fund/* 103V MM Amto Amtt M* (S'pora) Star Europe Eqty!" 0.7V 95* *>"• uStar Europe Bd 1.009T lndocam*6M Vfaool** 0.941/0.9*9 Star Europe Bal O 07« Star Asian TigerEqty 0 *12/ MS taat
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Portable medical plans based on groups
      548 6  -  This might be a solution to the dearth of such plans for professionals By\ Genevieve Cua AN insurance brokerage, Cornerstone Planners, believes it has found an answer to the dearth of professional "portable" medical plans. The firm's managing director, Michael Lee, has structured hospital
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      Lock icon SBF should cap fees at $10,000 for corporate groups: SICC
      290 6  -  By, Adeline Chia CAP the Singapore Business Federation's (SBF) maximum membership fees for a group of companies at $10,000 and exempt dormant and inactive companies from them. This was the call by Patrick Wale, who was yesterday re-elected chairman of
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      Lock icon 15-year bonds reopening hailed
      441 6 It addresses fears of excess supply; keeps longer bonds liquid: dealers Dow Jones Newswires SINGAPORE government bond market players lauded the decision to reopen an existing 15-year bond in September. instead of issuing new paper, saying the move addresses concerns over excess supply and will help
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      Lock icon April exports up 6.4%, ending slide
      347 6  -  By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S non-oil domestic exports grew 6.4 per cent year on year in April, ending 13 months of decline. Hidden behind the headline number is a sharp increase in exports to China up 69 per cent. It would be easy to
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon S&P's property bond portfolio outside US swells
      548 7  -  Value of commercial mortgage-backed securities soared 57% to USs2ob in 2001, reports VIKGE CHONG VINCE CHONG THE value of Standard Poor's international portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) outside the US rose 57 per cent year on year to US$2O billion in 2001.
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      Lock icon Property auctions too fall victim to World Cup fever
      334 7  -  ■BUAUHAmmmi By Andrea Tan IT'S not just the stock market that's afflicted by socceritis. The property auction scene too has been hit, as the World Cup combines with the traditionally slow June holiday period to slash the number of properties on
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      Lock icon Japan's debt – a rediscovery of risk
      748 8  - Japan's debt a rediscovery of risk THEwm^m Kmasasa OPINION robert samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group A DECADE ago, the idea that Japan might default on its government debt was a crackpot notion Since World War 11, no major industrial country had repudiated any of its debt, and Japan —the
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      49 8 'Madeleine, Madeleine, sometimes I'm not sure how much more of your friendship we can stand/ -Yevgeny Primakov Longtime Soviet intelligence chief, on former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, quoted by former US Deputy Secretary of State. Strobe Talbott, in his book A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy.
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      Lock icon Tweaking KL's Malay rights
      577 8 EDITORIAL IT would be naive to think that the current debate in Malaysia on special rights for indigenous races heated as it may be —is going to lead to a serious review of the constitutional guarantees for these rights. The debate was sparked by a column
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      Lock icon Indonesia's Muslims: syncretistic no more
      1116 8  -  Growing piety affecting whole community but won't generally lead to radicalism, say moderates By Yang Racali Kassim The writer is BT's regional editor SENIOR MINISTER Lee Kuan Yew, in recently urging the US to support Indonesia's moderate Muslims, was careful not to paint Indonesia as
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      Lock icon Temasek backs efforts to create value
      366 8  -  Eva Ho (Ms) Vice-President, Corporate Communications Temasek Holdings WE refer to the column 'Nat Steel MBO: An inspiring bid to be encouraged* (BT, June 10) by Catherine Ong, and the letter 'Support similar buyouts like that for Nat Steel* (BT Mailbag, June 11) by
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      Lock icon NatSteel MBO: good initiative, but is price fair?
      405 8  -  Wee Hian Kok Singapore I REFER to the column "Nat Steel MBO: An inspiring bid to be encouraged" by Catherine Ong (BT, June 10). 1 agree that the Nat Steel management buyout is a good initiative and can be the trailblazer to
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  • ARTS festival
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      Lock icon The art of sponsorship
      628 9  -  By, Adeline Chia TWO million dollars may be a lot to spend on image, but where this year's Singapore Arts Festival corporate sponsors are concerned, it's money well spent. After all, sponsorship is hip, it makes you a good corporate citizen, and it's in line with
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      Lock icon FESTIVAL PICKINGS
      116 9 The Chieftains Ireland's most famous traditional music export has been performing Celtic tunes for nearly forty years. The uplifting and jaunty world music is accompanied by traditional toe tapping dances that celebrate the wonder of The Chieftains' Irish origins. Reason to watch it: World music lovers unite! Reason
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      Lock icon Hot! But not for all
      697 9  -  Intricate layerings of complex rhythmic patterns captivated the ear, but Cubanismo! had a hard time getting the audience on its feet, says FRAME DEMIXILIO FRANK DEMEGLIO ON Tuesday evening, the Latin band Cubanismo! burst onto a make-shift stage in the ballroom of the Pan Pacific
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Jakarta makes new pledges to IMF
      641 10  -  It promises to posh ahead with asset sales, slash Budget deficit From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA has made a slew of new promises to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to push ahead with asset sales and slash its Budget deficit in a new
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      Lock icon Shareholders' grouping moves to oust Tajudin
      403 10 KUALA LUMPUR It urges Naluri minorities to vote in new blood Reuters A SHAREHOLDER rights body yesterday urged minority investors of Malaysia's Naluri to vote out chairman Tajudin Ramli and two associates if they wanted new blood to revive the cash-rich but dormant shell.
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      Lock icon HSBC's Asian arm sees US$90b in online trading
      298 10 Dow Jones Newswires [HONG KONG] HSBC Holdings's Asian arm said US$9O billion worth of online foreign exchange and money market transactions have passed through its Hong Kong hub in the first year of operation, and that figure could hit US$2OO billion by
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      Lock icon DRB-Hicom eyeing Hyundai's passenger vehicle business?
      362 10  -  From, Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur DRB-HICOM has clinched a deal with Hyundai Motor Company to distribute commercial vehicles in Malaysia, but it could still vie for the Korean auto-maker's passenger car business, a franchise currently held by the late Loh Boon Siew's Oriental
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        Lock icon Indofood sells US$280m Eurobonds
        45 10 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's PT Indofood Sukses Makmur said it sold US$2BO million worth of five-year Eurobonds, 40 per cent more than planned, because of higher demand. It is the biggest such sale by an Indonesian firm since the 1998 financial crisis.
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        Lock icon Publisher offers to take over MBT
        114 10 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR} A Malaysian publisher said yesterday it has made an offer to the New Straits Times Press (NSTP) to spin off its business news and revive the country's sole business daily, which was shut down last month. The English-language New Straits Times
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        Lock icon BNI forecasts 30% profit jump
        98 10 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Negara Indonesia expects profit to jump 36 per cent this year as Indonesia's largest lender by market value receives more interest income by increasing new loans, the bank's president Saifuddien Hasan said. Net income is forecast to rise to 2.4 trillion
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        Lock icon Stanchart to open 4 China branches
        106 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Standard Chartered Bank said it would open four retail branches in China in the next nine months and launch a telephone banking service in wealthy Shanghai in July. Peter Wong, head of Stanchart's Greater China operations, also said the London-listed bank
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        Lock icon Maxis IPO seen oversubscribed
        105 10 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Max is Communications Bhd expects its initial public offering to be oversubscribed before the final pricing is determined later this week, financial executives close to the listing plan told The Asian Wall Street Journal. "It's well in excess of 830 million
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        Lock icon M'sian inflation remains tame
        96 10 AP, Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's inflation remained tame in May despite higher fuel prices, official figures showed yesterday, suggesting that the central bank will not be under pressure to increase interest rates any time soon. The consumer price index—the official barometer of inflation rose
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        Lock icon Low-making Vietnam state firms
        90 10 AP, Dow Jones Newswires [HANOIJ Vietnam's state-owned enterprises have accumulated a total of US$3.9 billion in bad debts, and half of them are operating at a loss, state-controlled media reported yesterday. The Law newspaper, citing figures from the government's Board for Enterprise Development and Reform, reported
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      Lock icon HK regulator said to face conflict of interest
      492 11  -  Ex-SFC director blames new listings' low quality on listed status of HKEx From Audrey Tan in Hong Kong A MONTH after Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) defended itself against complaints that it was not intervening in companies' controversial transactions. Hong
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      Lock icon US$ peg 'partly to blame' for HK deflation
      256 11 HONGKONG Dow Jones Newswires HONG KONG Monetary Authority deputy chief executive Tony Latter said the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US currency carries some blame for Hong Kong's persistent price deflation. Hong Kong's consumer prices have been falling since November 1996.
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      Lock icon Phoenix chairman to buy 24% stake in Asia TV
      325 11 HONGKONG Broadcaster's move may help Asia TV in China foray Bloomberg LIU Changle, chairman of Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd, will take control of Asia Television Ltd, giving Asia TV a possible advantage over other foreign media companies angling to enter
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      Lock icon Chinese regulators probe Kelon
      275 11 SHANGHAI Authorities trying to stop firms from using listed units as sources of funds Bloomberg CHINA'S largest refrigerator maker and its biggest motorcycle manufacturer have become test cases in an attempt by regulators to prevent companies from using listed units as personal piggy banks. Guangdong Kelon
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      Lock icon Coming: China 'A' shares for foreigners
      195 11 HONGKONG Reuters BEIJING has drafted detailed plans to allow overseas investors to buy yuan-denomi-nated A-shares through the so-called Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) scheme, the official China Daily said. The newspaper quoted a senior official of the China Securities Regulatory Commission as saying the
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      461 12 ATLANTA However, slide by other indexes could also be final bear purge, analysts say LAT-WP NEARLY nine months of gains by an index of the 100 largest technology stocks were wiped out on Tuesday, leaving the index lower than it was on
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      321 12 LATEST US INDICATORS Automobile costs post biggest decline since Dec 1992 Bloomberg, Reuters [WASHINGTON] An index measuring the prices of goods imported to the US was unchanged in May, reflecting cheaper computers and the biggest decline in automobile costs since 1992. Food and fuels
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      189 12 AFP [PARIS] The US economic recovery is spreading to other countries, marking the start of a full-fledged global rebound, US Treasury Under-Secretary John Taylor said here on Tuesday. "What we are seeing now with information well into the second quarter is that the US recovery
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        115 12 Reuters [WASHINGTON] US regulators yesterday removed the last remaining hurdle to German utility E.ON*s acquisition of UK peer Powergen pic, a deal that would give E ON a foothold in the lucrative US power market. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted
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        74 12 Reuters [STOCKHOLM] Swedish teiecoms equipment wmk»r Ericsson said yesterday it is selling its chip unit to Germany's Infineon in a 400 million euro (*****.8 million) deal, but its shares fell on disappointment payment was to stock not cash. Telefon AB LM Ericsson said it
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      568 13  -  Sentiment also depressed by BOPs unchanged monetary policy From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo TOKYO stock prices dropped to a five-week low yesterday as the latest sell-off on Wall Street added to concern about the strength of the recovery in the United
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      343 13 WASHINGTON Bloomberg MORE than 50 major US corporations are objecting to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plan to speed up companies' financial disclosures as a response to Enron's bankruptcy. They include companies such as Coca-Cola and Eastman Kodak. The SEC proposal would give
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      204 14 Dow Jones Newswires, AP [NEW YORK] Although the economic environment remains tough, Dell Computer Corp still expects business to grow this quarter, its CFO Jim Schneider said. Speaking at Bear Stearns' technology conference, he said the Texas-based company expects the computer market to be
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      251 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] Palm chairman Eric Benhamou said new products should boost sales this year in the moribund handheld computer industry, but he expects growth of about 10 per cent in 2003, short of analysts' expectations. Mr Benhamou said during the Bear
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      241 14 Bloomberg [COPENHAGEN] Microsoft Corp's planned US$l.3 billion purchase of Danish software maker Navision AS is too small to fall under Danish or European merger regulation, the Danish Competition Authority said. Sage Group Pic called for a European Commission ruling on the merger last month,
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      314 15  -  B\ Raju Chellam THREE major infocomm events iX 2002, CommunicAsia2oo2 and BroadcastAsia2oo2 are scheduled to start early next week in Singapore, and wUI attract a slew of high-tech professionals and trade visitors from around the world. The two-day iX 2002
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      558 16  -  1* IJSWh i»n j Growth of 11.9% second highest in region, but revenue falls 9.5%, mainly due to lower end-user prices By Leo Kee Chye A SURGE in demand for inkjet and laser printers from consumers and SMEs (small and medium enterprises) led to
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      617 17  -  BTta'^IIUlVJ Don't rely on littoral states alone for upkeep of busy Malacca Straits By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A Japanese foundation has proposed an international framework covering maritime safety and burden sharing between coastal states, users and donors of the busy Malacca Straits. "We should
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      482 17 Salvors reposition hnlk after it sank on its own earlier Reuters [KEY LARGO, Florida] Salvage crews used giant airbags and steel cables to reposition a retired US Navy ship that sank upside down off the Florida Keys during an
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      420 17  -  Collision rnptnres tank of folly laden bunker tanker By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Oil spill cleanup operations and monitoring continue in Singapore waters today after a locally-registered fully laden bunker tanker and a Thai-registered freighter collided early yesterday. The 1.45 am collision ruptured
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      314 17 S Korean carrier to call at Oregon port from Aug 1 Dow Jones [PORTLAND, Oregon) Hanjin Shipping, the international ocean freight carrier that pulled out of the Port of Portland last year, will resume sending its ships on Aug 1. Officials at Hanjin, one of the
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      842 18  -  MEWBUXLDS -By\ David Hughes CHEMICAL and products tank ers still seem very much in fa vour. The orders for these type noted here represent only a por tion of contracts fixed in a re cent flurry of ordering, quite a bit
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        379 26 Fingerprinting, background checks needed before they can start lessons NYT [WASHINGTON] The Justice Department announced on Tuesday a new screening programme for foreign students in the United States learning to fly large jets that requires fingerprinting and background checks before students
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        330 26  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] The aviation industry will experience a "soft recovery" with up to 4 per cent passenger growth in 2002, according to Singa-pore-headquartered global travel ticketing distribution firm Abacus International. Chief executive Don Birch said his estimates were based upon year
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        218 26 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Three investor groups submitted final bids to buy Sydney Airports Corp, the country's biggest airport company, to the Australian government, Finance Minister Nick Minchin said in a statement. The bids may raise as much as A 54.7 billion (554.74 billion) for
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        507 26 No-frills airlines add routes, winning clients from traditional carriers Bloomberg [LONDON] Easy Jet and Go Fly, the no-frills rival which Easy Jet plans to take over next month, said passenger counts surged in May as they added routes and travellers defected from
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        317 26 They are vulnerable to financial health of carriers that nse them: Moody's Reuters [NEW YORK] Some North American airport hubs will experience credit turbulence in the wake of Sept 11, says Moody's Investors Service in a newly released report. However, the rating
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        253 26 Dow Jones [NEW YORK] British Airways (BA), which counts on passengers to pay for tickets with their American Express cards, filed a lawsuit claiming American Express Co has threatened to end their business relationship as a form of retaliation. British Airways
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