The Business Times, 15 August 2002

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    15 1 MITA (P) 010/03/2002 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: nttp://business-times.asial .com.sq THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2002
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    76 1 Dsn iszun (-2 oo) ST INDEX FUTURES 1427-00 (+7.00) SDfSd FUTURES 190J0 (unch) STOCK MAKKET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSEIUMP 729.99 +0.70 NIKKEI 225 9,63*41 -50.20 HANG SENG 9,961.35 -13K71 SET INDEX JJ71.19 +4.72 JAKARTA COMP 4476H 3.29 MANILA COMP .1,134.31 +6.15 TAIPEI WPI 4.887.43 +69.50 SEOUL COMP 711.24
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    67 1 FOREX RATES LSI SS l"S$ |SS per CSS) 1.746 SH'SS/SS per S) 1.538 itW EL"RO(lSS/SS/E). 0.9K6 1.722 YEN 117.4 ***** R.M 3.800 2.176 HKS 7.800 4.466 BAHT 41.94 24.01 KIPIAH 8.835 5,059 PRIME BATES SINGAPORE* 5J5 Kl ALA LL'MPIR 6.40 HONG KONG 5.125 JAKARTA 390(1 TAIPEI 6.625 TOKYO 1.375
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  • Article
    Lock icon UOB set to stoke home loan war with 1.55% deal
    722 1  -  Bank expected to announce cnt that will pnt it back in pole position Byi Quak Hiang Whai [SINGAPORE] With the impending changes to home financing rules and an anticipated pick-up in housing loan demand. United Overseas Bank is wasting no
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    Lock icon CSA minority shareholder wants to be 'true' independent director
    594 1  -  By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] What do you do if you're an unhappy minority shareholder? If you were Lee Choong Onn, you would stand for election as an independent director of the company. Which is exactly what the shareholder and ex-stockbroker plans
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    Lock icon CPF housing grant can't be used for 10% cash payment on ECs
    663 1  -  Bat grant can go towards rest of downpayment By\ Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] The government has ruled that the $30,000 CPF housing grant for eligible executive condominium (EC) buyers cannot be used to pay the 10 per cent cash
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    Lock icon Disappointed Wall St retreats in morning again
    784 1  -  Bat market still hopeful of a rate cot before year's end By. Andrew Marks in Sew York Wall Street yesterday morning showed its lingering disappointment at the Fed's decision to keep rates unchanged. The blue chip Dow Industrial hit the skids and fell
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      101 1 INSIDE Top stories Singapore's exports back on growth path: analysts. Next Page 7-day cancellation period proposed for unit trusts. Next Page Jakarta preparing to cut itself loose from IMF. Next Page S'poreans more upbeat about economy: ACNielsen survey. Pg 7 Jurong Reptile Park up for mortgagee sale. Exec Suite, Pg
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      23 1 HOCK LOCK SIEW Mentor Media's volte-face raises many questions PAGE 4 J|l SembCorp Industries' interim down 40% PAGE 4 Analysts' views, Next Page
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      Lock icon Exports back on growth path: analysts
      558 2  -  Low base, improved outlook for electronics demand expected to help performance in H2 By rot Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Singapore's key non-oil domestic exports (NODX) are at last back firmly on the growth path, according to analysts polled yesterday. After a false start in
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      Lock icon 7-day cancellation period proposed for unit trusts
      597 2  -  MAS says this will result in greater investor protection Byi Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Investors who change their minds within seven days of investing in a unit trust could soon get their money back including the sales charge. The Monetary Authority of Singapore is
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      Lock icon What they say
      369 2  -  Compiled by Reuters Asia analysts' reaction to Fed's decision to leave US interest rates unchanged Geoflrev Barker, head of economic research, HSBC, Hong Kong The shift in the Fed's stance... places a question mark over the consistency of policy. It was only a month ago Greenspan was
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      Lock icon Jakarta preparing to cut itself loose from IMF
      564 2  -  MPK decrees that relationship should end in 2003 From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta HAVING leaned on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance and for its vote of confidence for the country's economic recovery programmes for the past five years, Indonesia
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        Lock icon Arafat worth US$1.3 billion?
        69 2 PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat has financial assets estimated at US$1.3 billion, Israeli army intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi told the Israeli parliament this week. Mr Arafat is alleged to have made his fortune through a "monopoly on importing" in the Palestinian territories. Israel has accused him of
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        98 2 IN Saudi Arabia, the government is very open about censorship. Try accessing a censored website and it will say the site is prohibited by the government. Censorship also goes beyond political content and pornography. It covers women's history, the American women's suffrage movement, women voting and women
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        Lock icon Litmus test for NEWater
        81 2 AT a Delhi club, a boy was found working wonders with his microscope-equipped PC. Apparently, he decided to bring in some samples of water people were drinking at home. When he put them under the microscope, on the computer screen he saw all the impurities in
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      7 2 Editorial: Indonesia without the IMF, Pg 8
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      108 3 .»!ta PATEK PHILIPPE GENEVE Be«ixi your own tradition. Tlk f""*, v: r\~ 'ji» m jjTf ■r a mP wM HP 1 ,^k-3l Ji!..Mr ji jfl M# Jflfc mm y il fc St AM B|^ K r it You never Hi actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely HKr look after
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon SembCorp H1 profit dives a surprise 40%
      633 4  -  $96m net below forecast $110-125 m; group says results creditable By i Conrad Raj SEMBCORP Industries yesterday disappointed the market with a 40.5 per cent drop in interim net earnings to $95.7 million way down from $160.8 million in the first half of
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      Lock icon SGX expected to post modest rise in net profit
      685 4 Analysts polled see a 14.3% rise to $56m from fiscal 2001 Reuters SINGAPORE Exchange Ltd (SGX) is likely to post a modest rise in 2002 net profit, with a dip in securities trading due to weak equity markets offsetting gains from
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      Lock icon Mentor's volte-face raises many questions
      747 4  -  lock siew r sivanithy TUESDAY'S announcement by software firm Mentor Media that its takeover by US-listed Banta Corp is now in doubt raises a host of questions which the company and the regulatory authorities must address. For one, how is it that a deal that
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      Lock icon APP claims backing from many creditors
      385 4 Bloomberg ASIA Pulp Paper, which is fighting an application in Singapore's High Court to have its management replaced, says more creditors oppose the move than back it, according to the company's lawyer. Drew Napier LLC's Davinder Singh told the court the company has the
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      Lock icon Astra optimistic of debt deal by October, says CEO
      356 5 Jnly total car sales including exports rose to 16,148 units from 15,109 in June Dow Jones Newswires. Reuters [JAKARTA] PT Astra International, Indonesia's largest car maker, said yesterday it plans to reach a debt restructuring deal .with creditors by October. "We
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      Lock icon CCL to put NZ$5m in Nissan truck venture
      133 5 It will import Nissan tracks, bases and parts Bloomberg CYCLE Carriage Ltd (CCL) said it will invest NZ$5 million (Ss4 million) in a new business for importing Nissan Diesel Motor Co's trucks, buses and parts. CCL's new New Zealand unit, UD Truck
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      Lock icon Royal Clicks bags franchise for Spain's Zara fashion line
      420 5  -  By 1 Rachel Ong SPANISH fashion brand Zara is coming to Ngee Ann City in early October when Royal Clicks opens the line's first store in this region. The sporting retailer better known as the Royal Sporting House group of companies
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    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Hotel Royal selling Castle Mall
        77 5 HOTEL Royal said yesterday it will sell Castle Mall Properties in Australia for As 22 million. The net book value of the asset at July 31,2002, was A 517.44 million. Hotel Royal said profit from the sale will be subject to capital gains tax in
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        Lock icon Loan facility for AMK Properties
        60 5 Reuters AMK Properties yesterday secured a $175 million syndicated loan facility to develop a condominium project in Singapore. AMK is 70 per cent owned by NTUC Choice Homes Co-operative and 30 per cent by property group Chip Eng Seng. The loan was arranged by Hong
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        Lock icon Colex's H1 earnings higher
        63 5 COLEX Holdings has reported interim net earnings of $363,000 on turnover of $18.4 million. This is an improvement on its previous first-half profit of $176,000 on turnover of $17.5 million. The earnings per share rose to 0.27 of a cent from 0.13. Net tangible asset backing
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        Lock icon Medtecs' interim profit up
        71 5 MH.UICAL consumables supplier Medtecs lifted interim earnings to end-June by 6 per cent to US$l.44 million, from US$l.36 million previously. This was despite a 17 per cent drop in turnover to US$22.l million, from U5526.6 million. The earnings per share rose to 0.48 of a US
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      69 4 The Royal Bank of Scotland pic W W SINGAPORE BRANCH THE KEY TO YOUR UK PROPERTY FINANCE For further information, please contact directly: Joyce Tan Tel: (65) 6416-8751 or E-mail: joyce.tandrbos.com Amy Wee Tel: (65) 6416-8757 or E-mail: amy.wee@rbos.com Eileen Tan Tel: (65) 6416-8756 or E-mail: eileen.tandrbos.com Main Tel: (65)
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      316 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 14 VALUE CLOSE BTOftOS -266.00 26.00 BTCMN -*****.00 +25.00 BT 10-day MA *****.00 -27.00 Aft-SG Equitm 409.12 -1.15 SGEqaftfesBM* 117.28 -0.41 S6 Fia 1343.14 -0.81 SGEqattatProp 404.62 -1.19 MSCISiisapor* 190.96 -0.41 SMSCI Futures 190.60 unch Slock* Voter* CMjfaya 2.5c 102,136,000 1AM 50c 21.632.000 Stnte Engg 5c
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      Lock icon Eastech rides on market expectations of better results
      281 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By' Ven Sreenivasan HOME theatre systems ODM/OEM giant Eastern Asia Technology (Eastech) announces its interim earnings today. And in anticipation of good news, the market has pushed the stock up steadily this week. It rose to a high of
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      Lock icon Defensive play emerges as fears persist
      758 6  -  I:l I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy JUDGING by how trading went yesterday, investors seem to be shaping up for a defensive play of sorts, targeting food stocks and cashrich blue chips while simultaneously punting a selected handful of penny stocks. Whether this lasts remains
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      Lock icon Greenback clobbered by Fed warning
      578 6  -  I-j ri comment CURRENCIES July lows such as 11&35 yen and 551.7275 could be re-tested larry wee WALL Street and the American dollar took it on the chin overnight after the US Federal Reserve left short-term interest rates unchanged but warned that conditions have deteriorated
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    3655 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS ABM Amro Asmt Mgt (S pore) Star Europe Eoty' A 0641/ Star Europe Bd 1 Ob/ Star Europe Bal 0*31/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0 709 Star Asia Bond 1.267/ Star Asia Balanced 0 8 35/ Star Global Technology Fund' 0 IS® Star Bhv Finance Japan Fund
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon H1 advertising spending up 0.9%
      327 7  -  ■414 on the economy ad spending -By] Rachel Ong SINGAPORE'S advertising expenditure is sluggish, even though there are signs of a pick-up in the economy. The latest ad-spend figures released by Nielsen Media Research show a first-half 2002 total of $760.4 million, up 0.9 per
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      Lock icon Task force to be set up to prevent power failure
      210 7 THE Energy Market Authority (EMA) said yesterday it will form a task force to identify additional ways to prevent power supply disruptions. The move comes after a 90-minute shutdown on Monday last week that affected 228 buildings across the island.
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      Lock icon Straits Times named Pacific's best newspaper
      352 7  -  By Ven Sreenivasan THE Straits Times was named the Pacific region's best newspaper last night at a conference of some 300 publishers in Adelaide, Australia. The flagship daily of Singapore Press Holdings was named Newspaper of the Year in the Pacific by the Pacific
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      Lock icon S'poreans more upbeat about economy: poll
      451 7  -  ACNielsen survey shows over 70% expect rebound by mid-2003 compared to 46% in Asia-Pac By\ Rachel Ong THE government's upbeat sentiment about the economy of late appears to have rubbed off on Singaporeans. Consumer confidence has taken a leap and Singaporeans are now rather
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Winging it and surfing the economy
      705 8  -  mnm bottom line OPINION maureen dowd The writer is a New York Times columnist NYT PRESIDENT George W Bush tried to fix the US economy before lunch on Tuesday. He managed to last for 20 minutes each in four economic seminars at Baylor University
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      110 8 'If production efficiency does not improve, commercially-based practical use (of the technology) will be difficult' AJdni Toshituke a Japanese/arm ministry spokesman, on the commercial cloning of cowsfollowing the ministry's pronouncement that beef and milk from cloned cows were safe to consume. Today, we have the conviction that
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      Lock icon Indonesia without the IMF
      610 8 EDITORIAL IT HAS been five years since Indonesia surrendered its economic sovereignty to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for financial assistance. To many Indonesians, the five years have been an ignominious blot on its history. But now the country is set to begin a
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      Lock icon S'pore's FTAs help Asean, not hinder
      1588 8 This is an edited version of the speech, "Will Singapore's FTAs affect Afta?", by Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia, K Kesavapany, at a CEO lunch talk on Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur WILL Singapore's free trade agreements affect the Asean Free Trade Area? The answer
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      Lock icon Trading volume has risen: SGX
      331 8  -  MAiLirm Raymond Chow Vice-President Head Corporate Communications Singapore Exchange WE refer to the commentary "Why does Asia still underperform US?" by R Sivanithy (BT, Aug 12), which says that reforms in Asian markets have not brought investors "flocking back". The commentary implies that changes made
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon Jurong Reptile Park up for mortgagee sale
      415 9  -  Several recreation clubs have indicated interest reports Andrea tm Andrea Tan Always dreamt of having your very own theme park? For $3 million to $4 million, the Jurong Reptile Park and its many crocodiles can be yours to keep. The beleaguered tourist attraction
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      Lock icon Appreciating ground-cover plants
      537 9  -  GARDENFR'Sim By Thien JUST like useful "fillers" the short, two- to three-paragraph stories which newspaper editors use to plug holes between main stories undergrowth and trailing plants help complete a garden. But given their "ground-cover" role, they are certainly not be the first things you'd notice. That's
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon DRB-Hicom picked for rail job: report
      592 10 KUALA LUMPUR It will design and build parts of double-track line with 3 other firms THE Malaysian government is believed to have awarded letters of intent to four companies, including DRB-Hicom Bhd, to undertake the design and construction of two portions of the double-track
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      Lock icon Survey shows 30-point surge in M'sia's consumer sentiment
      250 10 Bernama in. urn. a L,ujviruKj mastercard international's 19th Masterlndex of Consumer Confidence survey found a stunning 30-point surge in Malaysia's consumer sentiment despite the volatile business, economic and political developments across the globe. "Other key results for the latest Masterlndex survey include
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      Lock icon M'sia lifts curbs on Indon workers
      328 10 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIA yesterday lifted a ban on the recruitment of Indonesian construction workers in the face of serious labour shortages. Work on some construction sites had ground to a halt after a recent clampdown on illegal immigrants sent more than 300.000 workers
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      Lock icon China Mobile plans 8b yuan bond issue
      258 10 HONGKONG Reuters CHINA Mobile (Hong Kong) said yesterday that it had applied to mainland regulators for permission to issue 8 billion yuan (551.68 billion) in domestic bonds this year to help pay for part of its US$lO.2 billion purchase of eight networks from
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        Lock icon Telekom M'sia won't sell global bonds
        44 10 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia Bhd has no plans to sell global bonds to help buy rival Technology Resources Industries Bhd, an official at the country's biggest phone company and bankers that pitched for the sale said. Bloomberg
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        Lock icon Malaysia's CPI up 2.1% in July
        78 10 Dow Jones Newswires [KUALA LUMPUR] Consumer prices in Malaysia rose in July from a year ago but were flat on month, government data showed yesterday. The Department of Statistics said Malaysia's consumer price index rose 2.1 per cent in July from a year earlier,
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        Lock icon Jakarta sells 96t rupiah in bad loans
        53 10 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's bank rescue agency said it has sold 96 trillion rupiah (5518.9 billion) in bad loans, recovering about a quarter of their face value. The agency raised 23.5 trillion rupiah from the sales, said Mohammad Syahrial, deputy chairman in charge of
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        Lock icon JG Summit's Q2 profit up 4%
        68 10 Bloomberg [MANILA] JG Srnnmit Holdings Inc. which may join its controlling shareholder in a US$6l7 million takeover of the largest Philippine telephone company, said second-quarter profits rose 4 per cent. The Manila-based company, which makes snack foods and operates malls and a phone company,
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      Lock icon Taiwan banks eye mergers as competition rises
      485 11 TAIPEI Also lore of China as world's largest potential market opening np Reuters TWO large bank mergers in Taiwan, worth nearly US$6 billion, will force smaller rivals to speed up their search for partners in a crowded financial sector that has been slow
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      Lock icon The tussle within Islam
      670 11  -  ■l I comment ASEAN The doctrinal debate is between the 'substantive' and formalistic' schools in yang razali kassim A doctrinal debate is raging within Islam over how to govern Muslim societies in South-east Asia. Essentially, two schools of thought dominate: one stresses the substance of Islam,
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      Lock icon PepsiCo China wants out of JV
      180 11 BEIJING Dow Jones Newswires US food and beverages group PepsiCo Inc seeks to terminate a contract with one of its China joint venture partners in a dispute involving allegations of accounting irregularities and breaches of property rights. The row shows the difficulty foreign firms
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      Lock icon HK SFC probes contract: report
      229 11 Bloomberg Dow Jones Netvswires HONG KONG's Securities and Futures Commission appointed a committee to probe chairman Andrew Sheng's award of a contract to a former colleague without bidding, The Standard said, quoting executive director Mark Dickens. The investigation will be conducted by audit committee members
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        Lock icon Shin Corp Q2 earnings up 8%
        60 11 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's Shin Corp yesterday said its net profit for the three months to June rose 7.9 per cent year-on-year to 782.29 million baht (5532.5 million). Profit for the half-year to June soared by 45.9 per cent to 2.48 billion baht. Shin Corp
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        Lock icon ANZ may bid for Bank Niaga again
        68 11 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Australia New Zealand Banking Group Ltd said it will decide in the next few weeks whether to bid for a 51 per cent stake in PT Bank Niaga, after failing in its last attempt to acquire the lender in June. "Given
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        Lock icon China Petrochem plans Shandong hub
        70 11 Reuters IB&iJiNOj tnina Petrochemical Corp, parent of Sinopec Corp, plans to make the eastern province of Shandong one of its petrochemical hubs by investing in a series of projects, officials said yesterday. It signed an agreement with the provincial government last week on building a
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        Lock icon Taiwan bourse, FTSE to create index
        59 11 Reuters [TAIPEI] The Taiwan Stock Exchange yesterday said it plans to cooperate with Britain's FTSE to jointly compile a new index by the end of the year, creating a benchmark for ftiture index tracking funds. The index will be based on the weightings of
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        Lock icon Funds temper Asia-Pac outlook
        75 11 Dow Jones Newswires [HUNO KONG] Fund managers who actively invest in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan have tempered their expectations for both growth and inflation in the region, according to a Merrill Lynch Co survey. The fund managers' average 2003 forecast for earnings-per-share growth of companies in the Asia-Pacific
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        Lock icon Deutsche Bank to tap Indian M&A
        70 11 Bloomberg [MUMBAI] Deutsche Bank said it plans to set up an investment banking unit in India, as the bank seeks to profit from a market in which takeovers rose 66 per cent by value in the first half. The bank plans to form the
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      291 11 CRYPTO CROSSWORD 1 Service aimed to remove popular channels (4,5) 9 Early caller found nothing in LgJ duty-list (7) 10 Airman does not like trusted friend (7) JBL___JHMHI 11 Lady is able to return calen- P* j l3 H 12 Punishment such as hang--15 Author entered rural cottage jHHHHfTy 17
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  • WORLD news
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      359 12 LATEST US INDICATORS Economists believe stockpile liquidation is ending and this bodes well for production Bloomberg, AP [WASHINGTON] Inventories of unsold goods at US companies rose in June for a second straight month, reflecting more stockpiles of cars and clothing, a
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      347 12 ■LONDON Reuters OIL prices racked up fresh gains yesterday as a steep fall in US crude oil supplies added to concerns about a possible military strike against big Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) supplier Iraq. Brent crude oil for September settlement
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      251 12 Bloomberg, Reuters [PARIS] MEDIA giant Vivendi Universal yesterday reported a 12.3 billion euro (5521.2 billion) first-half loss after chief executive officer Jean-Rene Fourtou wrote down the value of businesses purchased by his predecessor. The company had a loss of 11.32 euros a share, compared
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      299 13 NEW YORK Reuters A GROUP of top US financial companies on Tuesday said its 18 publicly traded members would treat stock options as a cost, to rebuild faith in corporate America after Enron's collapse. Members of the so-called Financial Services Forum, many of
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      518 15 First product to be made with this technology will roll out in H2 2003 LAT-WP [LOS ANGELES] Intel Corp on Tuesday unveiled a new way of making the world's smallest commercial transistors, a critical advance in the manufacturing of semiconductors that
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      132 15 Bloomberg [WACO, Texas] US President George W Bush opposes taxes on high-speed Internet services because he wants to make sure more consumers will buy fast Web access from companies such as AT&T Corp. BellSouth Corp and other telcos. "In order to make sure
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        50 15 AP [NEW YORK] After months of surreptitious layoff notices, IBM Corp revealed that it is in the process of cutting more than 15,600j0b5, or 5 per cent of its workforce. The total layoff figures appeared in a Tuesday filing with the SEC. AP
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        Lock icon Few takers for 2.5G phones in HK
        61 15 AFP [HONG KONG] Despite Hong Kong's position as one of the world's most saturated mobile communications markets, cellphone users have been reluctant to buynew generation handsets. According to the Office of the Telecoms Authority, only 85,984 customers had purchased new generation 2.5G handsets
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        80 15 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hynix Semiconductor Inc said it had a loss in Q2 after the price of its computer-memory chips fell to less than their cost of production. The world's third-largest maker of computer memory chips had a net loss of 418 billion won
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        68 15 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Microsoft Corp has shown up in what may be the last place it was expected. It has set up shop, in a very modest way, at Linuxworld, the annual gathering of developers and users of the upstart Linux operating language. Microsoft senior director
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      523 16  -  |-ilexclusive| But similar jumps in demand in other countries will push the Republic's ranking in IP telephony services to Bth place by 2008, from 3rd in 2001 By, Leo Kee Chye INCREASING corporate demand for Internet telephony will enable Singapore's market for
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      630 16  -  II comment INFOTECH The next generation of wireless h&ndhelds has arrived. all ready for business kenneth james The writer is BT's Technology Editor WHEN we met Andy Haon at Microsoft Corp's Redmond campus in April, it was clear he relished having a job that, even within
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      273 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose seven points to 999, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) was unchanged at 994, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed 45 points to 7,556 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up 15 points to 1,161. TZME-CHABTER: Aquahope (built 1997) 167,102 dwt
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      577 17  -  Both Thai baht, S'pore dollar have made strong gains against US dollar By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] In a strong indication that intra-Asia freight rates have stabilised in the second quarter, Thailisted and Singapore-based feeder Regional Container Lines (RCL) has reported
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      214 17 Annual throughput capacity will rise to4mTEUs [SINGAPORE] Port Klang's Northport is set to launch its third container terminal by the end of the month, raising its annual throughput capacity to four million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units). The new container terminal will have an annual
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      189 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Cosco-HIT Terminals (Hong Kong), a 50-50 venture between Cosco Pacific and Hutchison Whampoa, handled 23 per cent more containers in July, marking the strongest growth this year. Cosco-HIT, which is also called Terminal 8 (East), handled 143,200 twenty-foot equivalent units, or standard
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      Lock icon West Coast port employers, union seem far from deal
      436 17 Talks have resumed, but major sticking points remain Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] Union workers and West Coast port employers returned to the bargaining table on Tuesday hoping to jump start slow-going contract talks covering longshoremen on the docks that handle half of
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      334 17  -  By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Europe's busiest port, Rotterdam, suffered a slight fall in total cargo in the first half of 2002, but managed to reverse a two-year trend of falling container throughput volumes. Total cargo fell 1.7 per cent to 159 million tonnes
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        859 18 That US aviation is not out of danger yet has been clearly demonstrated by US Airways' bankruptcy filing Reuters [CHICAGO] LAST weekend's bankruptcy filing by US Airways is a stark reminder of an industry still in peril nearly a year after the devastating
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        814 26 It aims to cut costs by USslb amid flurry of changes by big US carriers NYT [ATLANTA] Admitting they cannot endure huge losses forever, the big, ailing US airlines are making changes. American Airlines on Tuesday announced an overhaul that includes
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        543 26 Rival Air Asia says MAS' domestic fare cuts could pat it ont of business Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Airline System's (MAS) declaration of a price war on domestic air fares has forced the government to look into complaints from rival local carrier
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          101 26 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] DHL Airways chairman and chief executive officer Joseph O'Gorman has died of a heart attack. He was 59. Mr O'Gorman became chairman and chief executive officer of the operator of cargo aircraft for DHL Worldwide Express and other customers in March 2001, the company
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          99 26 AP [HONG KONG] Cathay Pacific Airways said it is adding two transportation executives to its board, including the head of the Orient Overseas (International) Ltd, Tung Chee-chen, the brother of Hong Kong's government leader Tung Chee-hwa. The other new Cathay director is Jack So Chak-kwong,
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        206 26 Dow Jones Newswires [SYDNEY] Australian Treasurer Peter Costello said yesterday that national interest factors played a role in Cabinet's decision to retain the 49 per cent foreign shareholding cap on Qantas Airways. Mr Costello, speaking to reporters during a tour of outback Queensland
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        96 26 Dow Jones Newswires (WELLINGTON] Air New Zealand said it will provide an extra seven flights between Auckland and Sydney a week from November to April in response to increased demand. Weekly flights between Sydney and Auckland will total 35 or five flights a day
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        314 26 Purchase to meet rising demand, route expansion Bloomberg (BANGKOK) Thai Airways International, Asia's sev-enth-biggest airline by market value, said it may buy as many as 13 new Airbus SAS planes and three new Boeing Co aircraft to meet rising passenger demand
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