The Business Times, 19 August 2002

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  • 13 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2002 MITA(P) 010/03/2002
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  • 70 1 STOCK MAKET INDICES Week Change ST1 1522.60 +35.79 SMSCI FUTURE_1$L10 +530 KLSE COMP 736.60 *13.42 NIKKEI 8,788.13 -211.66 HANG SENG _10i65.04 +250.98 SET INDEX 373.03 +5.96 JAKARTA COMP_450.99 +0.75 MANTIS 1,143.57 +4130 TAIPEI WP1 4519.02 +67.58 SEOUL COMP ***** +25 84 SHE.NZHEN B 243.23 +0.49 AUST ALL ()RD_3,084i0
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  • 64 1 F0BEX1ATES ust ss USS|SSj*r USS) 174* KU8S/8S ptr 1AM «7» El*BOtUS«.'5$/E). OJ77 1.707 YEN: 117.0 K.!W R* a 800 2.173 HKS 7800 4.461 BAHT 41J2 23 JB WTP1AH MM 6.0M FUME KATES SlVdAPOKE* fijj Kl ALA LlUFl'B 40 HONO KONO felti JAKARTA UM TAIPEI lajj TOKYO ,J7i SEOU._ FRANKFl'RT
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  • 1175 1  -  Welcome competition, see China as an opportunity, but remake the S'pore economy By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Urging Singaporeans not to lose confidence in their future, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said they should welcome regional competition and also see China as an opportunity
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  • 616 1  -  Need to create a culturally vibrant city, says PM By] Eugene Low [SINGAPORE] Singaporeans can become an entrepreneurial people. But to achieve this, Singapore needs to develop a creative as well as a culturally vibrant society. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said. And it
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  • 731 1  -  Ang Kong Hua rules ont retrenchment after takeover Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The revised $350 million management buyout offer (MBO) for NatSteel Ltd was "the best deal on the table", knocking out a competing bid for shares in the company at
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    • 97 1 mHPE BT Comment Vikram Khanna: SEZs are the new gateways to India. Next Page R Slvanlthy: It's tough modelling for investors. Pg4 Karim Raslan: Americans just don't get it. Pg 13 Top stories SIA pilot row bound for court arbitration. Next Page The Esparis leads in weekend home sales. Pg
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    • 62 1 MORE STORIES Govt has set aside land for 20 more berths: PM Goh, Shipping Times Pg 1 Remaking effort also about making changes to society, Pg 3 Can S'pore's top-ranked schools produce a Bill Gates 7 Leo Han Shih, Bi/IT Pane Mm CQ Doing IT the Wipro way Vikram Khanna.
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    • 681 2  -  Sodden setback shows how quickly the sector is affected by the economy From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley THEY thought the industry was on its way out of the doldrums. Inventories had been drawn down, orders were beginning to roll in, and
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    • 527 2  -  i exclusive MOM expected to ask airline and union to go to court Byi Conrad Raj [SINGAPORE] The dispute between Singapore Airlines' pilots and the carrier's management over seating arrangements for extra pilots on long-haul flights is likely to end up in the Industrial
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    • 652 2  -  l-ilcomment ECONOMICS And some of them may spell huge opportunities for Singapore vikram khanna CAN Singapore build a "Singapore in India"? That's a question Singapore leaders have often been asked over the years by Indian businessmen whenever they visit the subcontinent. The question
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  • PM's rally
    • 540 3  -  This will help bind Singaporeans to the country, so they won't just pack up and leave when times are bad By Eugene Low THE remaking of Singapore goes beyond economics it's also about making changes to society to make Singapore the
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    • 293 3 (There is) a silver lining in the loss of two shipping lines to Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas. Grassroot leaders finally understood the meaning of competition. We welcome competition. And we will compete. We will create new strategies. We cannot be locked in old thinking and
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    • IN Brief
      • 197 3 A GROUP of bilingual Chinese elite in every cohort that's one way to ride on China's economic growth, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. "As China grows, the economic value of the Chinese language will increase," he said. But the Chinese elite must ndt just
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      • 189 3 WHETHER Singapore Muslims choose to adopt a moderate Islam or choose an extreme form will affect the country's cohesion, Mr Goh said. It will also decide whether the Malay/Muslim community continues to progress or stagnates. Mr Goh said Singapore Muslims, like their counterparts around the world,
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      • 223 3 THE government does listen to feedback on its policies, but the government can't run a country based just on feedback. "On any one issue, there are a hundred and one opinions, and many involved parties," Mr Goh said. "The government must consider all views, the
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      323 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 16 VALUE CLOSE BTOMDS 155.00 -40.00 VTCMM *****.00 -19.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -16.00 AA-SG 408.07 -1.72 SC EqmMm Elact 116.61 -0.29 SCririUnFh *****1 -11.61 412.15 +3.19 MSC1 Singapore 190.70 -0.83 SMSCI Faterts 191.10 +0.30 Stocks Volume 314.283.000 SngT«H15c 93.622,000 SnteEngg 5c 83.704.000 TPVUSlC 66.000,000 NOL—
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    • 284 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By\ Ven Sreenivasan IT was not long ago when food and beverage companies like Want Want were touted as good defensive plays for investors to retreat to amid volatile and uncertain market conditions. So it was something
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    • 829 4  -  I:l I comment STOCKS r. sivanithy WHERE can you find more models than the Ford Model Agency? The stock market of course! Unfortunately, the models here aren't swimsuit-clad but are instead of a more technical, quantitative and often sentiment-driv-en nature. Still, although some mar-ket-based models
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    • 662 4 Aussie dollar, Korean won are expected to strengthen this week AFP [HONG KONG] Most currencies in the region strengthened against the US dollar over the past week even as markets digested the US Federal Reserve's decision not to cut interest
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    • 111 4 ♦RAFFLES Lasalle will release its results for the year ended June on Friday. ♦YEO Hiap Seng will have its annual general meeting on Friday at 9am at Raffles Country Club, Albatross Room. ♦GES International will have its extraordinary general meeting on Thursday at 3.30pm at 28 Marsiling Lane.
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  • 3437 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AM tan Am* Mgt (S'part) Star Europe E«y1* 0.644/ Star Europe Bd 1.051/ Scar Eirope Bal 0.828/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0715/ Star Asa Bond 1.252/ Star Asia Balanced 0.83V Star Global Technology Fiaidl** 0.167/ Star Bhv Finance Japan Fundi** 0.704/ Star Asia Bond(USD) 0.71 V AIB
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 1160 5  -  After much soul-searching, Mr Ang believes it's the best option, Catherine One reports Catherine Ong ANG Kong Hua didn't look like he was in a celebratory mood 40 hours after a $350 million management buyout offer (MBO) he is leading was accepted
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    • 509 5  -  lock siew harish mehta THE best and biggest customers of Thailand's banks are defecting to the bond market. As a result, they are having a tough time growing their loan books at a time when lending avenues are scarce. Five years ago, this
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 534 6  -  Homebuyers snap up 60% of CityDev's EC and flock to other showfl&ts By\ Kalpana Rashiwala HOME buyers continued to flock to showflats over the weekend, with City Developments selling about 60 per cent or 160 units of its 274unit The Esparis executive condo
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    • 642 6  -  They help safeguard integrity, says a Morgan Stanley MD Byl Catherine Ong THE back-end operations in a financial institution are often seen as mind-numbing and unglamorous. But with corporate shenanigans reaching new heights especially in America the role of the beck-end in keeping
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    • 304 6  -  on the economy jobs -By] Rachel Ong EXECUTIVE hirings are on the rise and have already returned to the July 2001 level, indicating an uptrend, according to the E.L Index. The index has risen from 93 in March to 124 last month. Except for a dip
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  • MAIL bag
    • 230 7  -  Dennis Yeo Colliers International (Singapore) Singapore THE recent government announcement to allow the use of monies from the Central Provident Fund to pay half of the 20 per cent downpayment has provided much relief to many home buyers and first-time home owners. However, I
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    • 304 7  -  CEO, A V Jennings L F Milkovits THE headline for Ven Sreenivasan's column "AV Jennings is a good story" (Hock Lock Siew, Aug 13) is commendable. However, some parts of it are not an accurate representation of either the company's history nor its current
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    • 172 7  -  Han Liang Yuan 1 UU/» Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, LTA I REFER to Denis Distant's letter, "Centrepoint claim hard to believe" (Mailbag, Aug 13). I wish to clarify that we do not advocate levying a surcharge on taxis picking up passengers at Centre point.
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 705 8  -  |»ll exclusive Talks soon on prospects for deals modelled on accord with S'pore Fronu Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN will soon begin discussions with the Philippines and Thailand on prospects for reaching broad "economic partnership" agreements, modelled on the pioneering agreement which
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    • NOTE Book
      • 81 8 [KUALA LUMPUR] The Securities Commission has warned job seekers lured by the prospect of making fast money that they may be walking into a trap when they register with certain companies claiming to be trading firms. Many graduates and housewives out to earn some
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      • 77 8 Bernama, AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the cabinet will study counter-proposals on the move to teach science and mathematics in English. "We'll study everything," he said when asked to comment on several counter-proposals made including from Barisan Nasional component
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      • 87 8 AFP. Bernama [JAKARTA] Indonesia's national assembly chairman Amien Rais yesterday slammed Malaysia over what he called the "inhumane" caning of several illegal Indonesian migrant workers. "I urge the Indonesian government, in a dignified way, to demand Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to stop playing. Mahathir
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      • 69 8 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's government has sent more troops to boost security in the restive district of Poso in Central Sulawesi which is gripped by sectarian violence, a report said yesterday. The head of the military command overseeing security in Central Sulawesi, Major General Amirul
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      • 59 8 AFP [JAKARTA] Tommy Suharto was among more than 35,000 prisoners—almost half of all Indonesian inmates—who had their sentences cut to mark the 57th independence day, a report said yesterday. The reduction in sentences vary from one to six months. Tommy is serving 15 years
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      • 64 8 Reuters [KATHMANDU] Senior officials frQm the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) met in Kathmandu yesterday to prepare the ground for a ministerial meeting to boost economic cooperation in the region. Nepal planned to submit a proposal to make Saarc a more
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    • 250 8 mBANGKOK Dow Jones Newswires THAILAND'S Industry Ministry will seek approval from the Cabinet this month for a 1 billion baht (5541.8 million) budget to establish an integrated rubber industry estate, which will be called "Rubber City", in Hat
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    • 63 8 [PATHUM THANI, Thailand] Fake designer watches being examined before they were destroyed in Pathum Thani, north of Bangkok, yesterday. More than 360,000 fake pieces, including video CDs, designer watches and handbags and clothes, with an estimated street value of U552.75 million, were destroyed publicly in an ongoing operation
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    • 1048 8 AFP [SINGAPORE] Want to make a few million dollars in public service without having to steal anything? Enter politics or the civil service in Asia's richest economies, where heads of government, ministers and top bureaucrats are showered with high salaries and lavish perks to
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    • 722 8  -  f I comment KL STOCKS Latest debt revamp, management drive may yltdd tninawmnd remedy eddie toh THE share price of Malaysian Airline System has not taken off even though the company unveiled a scheme last month to return to the black and wipe out its
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    • 647 9 ■YANGON Fall blamed on new money-laundering law, reopening of Thai border AFP MYANMAR'S currency, the kyat, has plunged more than 17 per cent against the US dollar over recent days, in the latest shock to hit the military-run nation's crippled economy, traders and
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    • 321 9 ■YANGON No plans to meet Suu Kyi unless ruling junta him to AP, Reuters MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is likely to focus more on economic matters than political change on his two-day visit to Myanmar that began yesterday. He will hold talks
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    • 509 9 HANOI Bloomberg VIETNAM must cut taxes, improve power supplies and let foreigners buy bigger stakes in state and public companies to reverse a "dramatic decline" in foreign investment, a senior government official said. The value of approved foreign-invested projects in Vietnam fell more than
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    • 681 10 BEIJING They say social unrest will intensify without these changes Reuters PUT aside worries about broken banks, rising public debt and the fall-out of faltering US growth: a much greater risk to China's economy, analysts in Beijing say, lies in the
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    • 249 10 BEIJING AFP CHINA'S largest city Shanghai may be facing a devastating real estate bubble as housing prices soar Car beyond most local residents' means, state media said yesterday. Investment in real estate tnrmaftd by mors than 50 per cent In the first six
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    • 277 10 BEIJING Dow Jones Newswires MONTHS after joining the World Trade Organization, China is already seeing the benefits of membership in booming trade and foreign investment, the country's foreign trade minister was quoted as saying on Saturday. Imports and exports both grew by double
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  • WORLD news
    • 374 11 TOKYO FSA move to protect banks before deposit guarantee is lifted Reuters JAPAN'S Financial Services Agency (FSA) will ask all financial institutions in September to introduce in-terest-free deposits for settlement purposes, a newspaper said yesterday, amid fears the end of a blanket deposit
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    • 359 11 TOKYO Reuters SHINSEI Bank, Japan's first bank run by foreign investors, has asked the government to buy back loans extended to a failed local bank under an arrangement to sell back to the state debt that falls by a certain
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    • 247 11 SEOUL US slowdown will hit H2 GDP growth, says official Reuters SOUTH Korea's economic growth this year is expected to be slightly lower than forecast due to a faltering US economy, Yonhap News said yesterday quoting an unnamed finance ministry official. The finance ministry
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    • 493 11 MOSCOW The trade pact seen as a setback to US plan to oust Saddam Reuters RUSSIA yesterday said it was set to sign a US$4O billion economic and trade cooperation agreement with Iraq in a move that could complicate Washington's plans to deal with
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    • 886 12 COMMODITY AFP Weeklyßoundup [LONDON] Oil prices stormed to their highest level in three months last week, buoyed by a spectacular drop in US oil inventories, renewed optimism on Wall Street and ongoing speculation of a US-led attack on Iraq. By Friday, Brent crude for October
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    • 380 13 FRANKFURT It is focusing on German joint venture Nasdaq Dentschland Reuters THE Nasdaq stock exchange its plans for a 24hour global stock market in tatters after it pulled out of Japan is focusing aggressively on the German market and still has high
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    • 968 13  -  WRITER'S JOURNAL Misplaced hard-headedness In White Bouse wont do karim raslan RECENT events in the Middle East the carnage at Jerusalem's Hebrew University and the earlier attacks on Gaza City appear to have confirmed American fears about the wisdom of engaging with the Islamic world.
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    • 431 14 WASHINGTON Group includes well-known names like World Com, Enron, Adelphia Reuters TOP officers of nine US companies have failed to meet a government demand to swear by their financial results, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission website on Friday. The SEC site cited shortcomings
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    • 229 14 FRANKFURT AP GERMAN companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange are seeking exemptions from tough new US regulations designed to prevent any repeat of the recent accounting scandals, a German newspaper reported on Friday. The Federation of German Industry said it
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    • 215 14 WASHINGTON Reuters TWO board members of bankrupt World Com Inc are urging other directors and creditors to fire chief executive officer John Sidgmore, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. It quoted board members Max Bobbitt and Stiles Kellett as saying Mr Sidgmore's vision for
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    • 634 15 CRAWFORD, Texas Raising deduction for capital loss, higher retirement plan contribution among his ideas Bloomberg PRESIDENT George Bush said he's considering new tax breaks for small investors to help spur the flagging US economy. "Interesting ideas" such as increasing the amount of
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    • 368 15 NEW YORK Bloomberg THE four-week rally in US stocks may fade as investors temper their expectations for a rebound in corporate profits. A decline in earnings forecasts and a rise in stocks have made equities more.expensive. The Standard Poor's 500 Index traded
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 93 15 Dow Jones Newswires [LONDON] Telecom's equipment maker Marconi pic will put itself up for voluntary liquidation this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The company owes £4 billion (5510.7 billion) after embarking on a spate of mergers during the height of the technology boom. The management
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      • 91 15 Reuters [SEOUL] South Korea is expected to choose Hana Bank, the nation's sixth largest lender, over US fund Lone Star as the preferred bidder for nationalised Seoulbank, Yonhap News said yesterday. Last week, Hana offered improved terms to its initial bid for Seoulbank following
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      • 69 15 Dow Jones Newswires [OSAKA] Kyocera Corp has developed modules that enable mobile phones to use the Bluetooth short-distance wireless communication protocol, Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday quoting company sources. The firm will start sample shipments of the modules for 1,500 yen (Ss22) each to mobile
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      • 76 15 Bloomberg (ZURICH] Swiss Life, Switzerland's largest life insurer, denied a newspaper report that it will have a first-half loss of as much as 3 billion Swiss francs (553.5 billion) because of a slump in investments. SonntagsZeitung earlier said the company may have
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      • 84 15 Dow Jones Newswires [LONDON] British Airways has accused BAA pic, the airports group, of exaggerating its capital spending plans by more than £1 billion (552.7 billion) in a bid to increase airport charges, the Sunday Times reports. The Civil Aviation Authority is planning to
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    • 228 15 LONDON Bloomberg MORGAN Stanley has fired 150 employees from its division that handles investments for individuals, people familiar with the situation said. About 100 worked in the US helping to process trades and provide other support services to brokers and other employees at the second biggest
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    • 167 15 LONDON AFP VIVENDI Universal is considering a possible demerger and initial public offering of its US entertainment assets dominated by Universal Studios, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The option is one of several likely to be presented to the Vivendi
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    • 864 15  -  Strong presence of Sun, IBM and HP at LinuxWorld conference hints at major changes, says Jennifer uen Jennifer Lien THE life story of an innovation is by now a familiar one. In the case of the Macintosh computer, two un-hip guys tinkering around
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    • 1183 16  -  Former Shell Singapore chairman Simon Lam tells Lob Hal Tin about his approach to managing a USs4b petrochemicals nrniert in Phi™ HEN Simon is referred to ha«s I 1 ujaim, Loh Hui Yin WHEN Simon Lam Chung Kai came back from his assignment in Holland
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  • BIZIT
    • 736 17  -  The regulator wants pricing proposals for backhaul interconnections to be in force by the end of this month, reports tamo wemg fai ■exclusive TANG WENG FAI THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has asked Singapore Telecommunications to set up a cost-based pricing
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    • 113 17 REDUCTION in backhaul costs are likely to impact existing corporate users who are heavy users of data and voice, and who tend to buy leased circuits on a long-term basis at a fixed price with the service provider. With more attractive prices from the service provider,
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    • 621 18  -  111 comment INFOTECH School ranhlnrn won't produce innovators who can think see connections In unrelated things, and pigim lee han shih The writer is a BT Senior Correspondent. IF anyone wants to know why Singapore cannot produce a Bill Gates, or a
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    • 156 18 Bloomberg (WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush renewed an order that restricts exports of some computers, advanced electronics, chemicals and machine tools that could be converted into weapons. Controls aimed at keeping commercial goods that also have potential mUitary applications have been renewed
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    • 607 18 Reuters [NEW YORK] lomega Corp chief Werner Heid has over the past year moved the computer data storage company's HQ, slashed jobs and introduced a host of new products, for which investors have applauded him. But he knows those cheers
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    • 236 18  -  By Tang Weng Fai SINGAPORE Power Ltd has sold its money-losing subsidiary, can.com, to GreenDot Internet Services Pte Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Can.com www.can. com was developed a few years ago as a then-trendy extension of Sing Power's basic business of selling and
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    • IT TAKES
      • 96 18 STARHUB has set up its first Wireless Broadband Hub at Suntec City. It covers an area of 180,000 sq m 28 soccer fields and is Singapore's largest public wireless "hotzone" (encompassing numerous buildings and indoor and outdoor areas). "Using the Wi-Fi standard, the Hub allows
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      • 98 18 NETS (Network for Electronic Transfers Singapore) has tied up with Meps (Malaysian Electronic Payment System) to link each other's e-payment systems. Under the deal, shoppers will be able to use their debit cards to seamlessly make electronic payments from either country by 2004. "This
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      • 63 18 SINGAPORE-BASED GridNode Pte Ltd and Sonic Software, a business unit of US-based Progess Software, said they have won a deal to set up a seamless business integration solution for Ryder-Ascent Logistics. The solution is based on open standards such as XML and RosettaNet and was
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      • 88 18 COMEX GeneSys, a subsidiary of Commerce Exchange Pte Ltd, has launched two financial solutions "to address the unique financial challenges of card-based transactions faced by Asian banks". One is called Performance Fraud Monitor (G-MON). The other is Cardmex Virtual Distribution Card (VDC). "G-MON helps banks monitor
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      • 60 18 MICROSOFT Singapore said Natasha Kwan will take over as general manager of its customer and partner experience for the Asia-Pacific region from Oct 7. Ms Kwan joined Microsoft in 1992 as a business systems manager. In 1998, she took over as director of its enterprise business group.
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      • 39 18 NASDAQ-LISTED Citrix Systems Inc, which provides virtual workplace software solutions, has set up its regional HQ in Singapore, headed by Yaj Malik, regional director for Asean. Mr Malik was previously vice-president with Vignette Asia-Pacific.
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      • 35 18 A SEMINAR on "Sybase PowerBuilder client-server to Web migration" will be held on Wednesday at Spring Singapore at Bukit Merah Central. It is organised by ewak software Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****494.
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      • 41 18  -  Compiled by Raju Chellam A SEMINAR titled "Stay afloat with SunSystems during the budgeting cycle" will be held on Friday at the Four Seasons Hotel. It is organised by Systems Union Software Pte Ltd. For details, fax *****231.
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    • 1643 19  -  id exclusive mOH^IOIT COmpanies fte world and one of them be Wipro, India's richest man VIKRAM KHANNA IN 1967, a 21-year-old electrical engineer fresh out of Stanford University returned to Bombay, to take charge of his family's edible-oils firm Wipro, after his father died. With
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    • 131 19 SINGAPORE Network Services (SNS) Pte Ltd Last week said it had officially changed its registered name to Crimson Logic Pte Ltd, exactly one year after it had announced its new corporate brand, Crimson Logic. "This is in line with our efforts to push our global branding
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    • 823 20  -  But its move into the Linux market for now, remains confined to the 'edge' of an Internet network, where servers perform simpler, less critical tasks From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley AFTER years of touting a philosophy of thin clients and powerful central servers running
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    • 430 20  -  Asia-Pac will be a major contributor to the surge in Linux shipments IDC study By\ Raju Chellam GLOBAL corporate spending on Linux-based systems and applications is set to rise more than three-fold in the next four years as more companies jump
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    • 341 20 LATWP [WASHINGTON] Another publisher is aiming to charge people money to read news on the Internet. Can they make it stick this time? The latest organisation to try is Freedom Communications Inc. which publishes four Florida newspapers. The newspaper chain
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    • 556 21  -  WXi IT Many international organisations view the Asla-Padflc as the final frontier tor call centra ted tan The writer is chairman. Call Centre Council of Singapore. GIVEN that e-com-merce has now taken off globally, organisations are increasingly changing the way in
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    • 255 21 Bloomberg [NEWARK, New Jersey) Unisys Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have been accused in a lawsuit of supporting South Africa's former apartheid regime by selling computer equipment to the whitedominated government. The suit, filed in federal court in Newark, claims that the
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    • 138 21 AFP [TORONTO] A C 57.2 mUlion (SsB million) computerised, bulletproof courtroom is ready for the trial of three men accused of the 1985 downing of an Air India jetliner that kiUed 329, The Globe and Mail reported on Saturday. The trial is to open
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    • 392 21 Charges above 30,000 yen will be cat by 33% Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's top wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc, will offer a discount from Sept 1 to subscribers who pay more than 30,000 yen (*****) a month for its innovative iMode Internet access mobile
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    • 426 22 Security firm breaches networks, highlighting thfir lax security Reuters [WASHINGTON] Tens of thousands of US military and government computers containing sensitive information are easily accessible over the Internet, a computer security firm that cracked the networks said. Military encryption techniques, correspondence between generals,
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    • 154 22 AP [HUNTSVILLE, Alabama] Italian police have arrested 14 people accused of hacking into an Army computer at Redstone Arsenal last fall, authorities said. An investigation began in October when someone tapped into the system and gained access to the arsenal's main website, according to
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    • 295 22 AFP [MOSCOW] The Russian counterintelligence services FSB intends to summon FBI officials to Moscow after accusing a US agent of luring two Russian computer programmers into hacking illegally into Russian computer networks. The FSB has filed an application to the US Justice Department
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    • 520 22 Electronic gadgets will help to trace users accurately AFP [WASHINGTON! Recent reports of kidnappings have sparked parents' fears and the imaginations of US inventors, who have responded by offering "personal locators", a kind of electronic chaperone. One apparatus resembles a bracelet, another is
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    • 502 22 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's ambitious flat-panel screen makers are gaining on worldleading Korean rivals, but hurdles ahead will force the island's major players to consider merging before they can vie for the top spot. Taiwan's LCD makers will be hard-pressed to turn
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    • 267 22 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Sony Music Entertainment Inc is among 13 record labels that are asking a judge to order four ISPs to block access to a Chi-na-based website that offers free downloads of popular music. The labels want a federal judge to
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    • 522 23  -  The need for secure networks is higher in certain parts of Asia where the telecom infrastructure is being ramped up, its founder-CEO tells PAUL CHAM PAUL CHAN ISRAEL-based Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, which specialises in Internet security solutions, wants the Asia-Pacific region outside
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    • 270 23  -  Byl Tang Weng Fai LOCAL online education portal Inquisitive Mind Pte Ltd (iqMind) has folded after burning through more than $13 million raised through three rounds of funding. In November 2001, iqMind's CEO Leslie Wong had predicted that the company would break even by Ql
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    • 164 23 Bloomberg [SEOUL] A report on Hynix Semiconductor Inc's finances will be delayed a week further because Deutsche Bank AG asked for more time to evaluate data from the world's No 3 maker of memory chips, Korea Exchange Bank said. Deutsche completed a
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    • 164 23 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Fledgling Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) said it had become the first China-based foundry to mass-produce advanced microchips with line widths of 0.18 microns. SMIC, in which blue-chip conglomerate Shanghai Industrial Holdings holds 17 per cent, had turned out
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    • NET works
      • 711 24  -  The firm, which produces 100,000 software CDs a day, will use electronic resource planning to boost efficiencies, its general manager Peter Karlsson tells bacbelomo RACHEL ONG MAINBOARDIisted EastGate Technology Ltd, which prints, packages and distributes products like compact discs, audio and video CDs,
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      • 905 24  -  The ability to deal with contradictory rules is essential for any entrepreneur with international ambitions By\ Rob Wherry THE most daunting task confronting an entrepreneur may not be inventing something but making sure that no one steals the idea. The world's
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      • ON THE SHELF
        • 90 24 CANON Marketing Singapore has unveiled two new digital video camcorders. The details: MV5i: Costs $2,290, weighs 380 grams, offers lOx optical zoom and 200x digital zoom, and comes with a 2-inch TFT LCD display at 113,000 pixel resolution. MV5i MC: Costs $2,490, offers the same features
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        • 49 24 lOMEGA Corp has launched two externa hard disks: the 80 GB HDD External Hard Drive costs $469; the 120 GB version costs $589. Both support USB 1.1 and 2.0, and "data transfer rates as high as 48 Mbps", lomega said. For details, visit www.iomega.com.sg.
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        • 144 24 THREE companies—Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corp and KLSE-listed Palette Bhd have jointly introduced two notebook PCs and a palmtop. They come with three months of unlimited wireless broadband access (from Palette) and a Compaq wireless LAN card. The details: EVO N800v: This notebook PC costs $3,319, runs
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        • 50 24 HONGKONGbased Tele Eye Group has debuted its Tele Eye DM326, a remote digital surveillance camera. It costs $880, offers up to 64 programmable preset positions, comes with 6mm zoom lens, and transmits images via the Internet with TeleEye HI+ Video Transmitter. For details, fax *****965.
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        • 90 24 FUJI Xerox Singapore has launched two desktop colour laser printers. The details: DP C1618: Costs 13,888, offers 000 by 600 dpi (dots per inch) print resolution, prints at 16ppm (pages per minute) in black and in colour, and comes with 64 MB RAM. DP C831: Costs
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        • 55 24  -  Compiled by! Leo Kee Chye SYMANTEC Corp has unveiled its Client Security software targeted at workstations and remote users. It includes anti-virus, firewall and intrusion detection software, and lets administrators manage the solution from one platform. A licence for 500 to 999 users costs 191 per
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    • 553 24 business on the net Open Net Environment y M Frequently Asked Questions on Network Identity What is Network Identity? Provide consumers with a choice of identity provider(s), the ability to link accounts through account Network Identity refers to the global set of attributes that are contained in an individual's various
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    • 287 25 Contributed by Simpson Spence Young THE dry bulk sector has remained active. Vessels sold for farther trading BULK CAKRIEBBc ♦Starman: 34,038 tdw bit 12/78 Usuki crs 5/25 ts reported sold region U551,650,000 to undisclosed buyers. ♦Cape Keppel: 25,150 Tdw Bit 83 Howaldtswerke abt 1,229 Teu Crs4/36 reported sold
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    • 259 25 Stx '000 «t«* *h w CWT Distribution 0.73 uncti 0 ChuanHup 0.44 -0.01 783 Coseo Investment 0.19 0.01 150 Freight Links. 004 -0.01 14 GBHoWmos..- —0.73 uneh 7 Jaya Holdings 0.23 uneh 471 Kappel Corp 4.44 -0.06 975 Keppel Marine 0.16 uneh 7S6 KeppalTHe 0.98 uneh 37 Labroy
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    • 627 25  -  They will be open to other port operators and lines 'whoever can best ran them', he says By l Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The government has set aside land for 20 more berths at Pasir Panjang for "whoever can best
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    • 439 25  -  This is scenario unless surge in newbuilds ceases By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] A blunt warning to the industry that it should expect "years" of depressed freight rates unless the surge in new ship deliveries ceases, was issued on Friday by an Orient
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    • 308 25 One-time gains from assets sales fall by 60% to 2b pesos Bloomberg [MANILA] International Container Terminal Services Inc. the Philippines' biggest port operator, said second-quarter profit fell by half as one-time gains from the sale of assets dropped by almost 60
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    • 312 25 It aims to invest as much as USslb to add four vessels Reuters [HONG KONG] Star Cruises, the world's fourth largest cruise line, said yesterday it expects a 10 per cent increase in capacity next year which could give its bottom line
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    • 835 26 LINER SCENE LAST week saw second quarter results posted by two carriers; one is a major global player the other a big Asian regional line. There is a stark contrast between them. Anglo Dutch carrier P&O Nedlloyd (PONL) made an operating loss for the quarter of US$46
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      • 783 35 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma line Oil Ltd. shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market Prices shown are based on average sized stem Market movements are indicated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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      • 527 36 It will negotiate repayment terms of debts as bankrupt airline reorganises Bloomberg [ARLINGTON, Virginia] A 13-member panel of US Airways Group Inc's creditors was named by a Justice Department official to negotiate repayment terms of billions of dollars in debts as the bankrupt airline
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      • 262 36 AP [SYDNEY] Staff at Australian flag carrier Qantas are scheduled to stage their second strike of the month today, walking out for 24 hours over demands for better pay and job security. About 6,000 clerical, catering and engineering staff will stop work,
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      • 273 36 AFP [BERN] Unqualified instructors passed 50 pilots to fly a particular type of aircraft for Switzerland's troubled new airline Swiss, according to a statement by the country's civil aviation authority Ofac, which cancelled the tests. It said that between late March and mid-July,
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      • 167 36 [BEIJING] Lijiang airport in China's south western province of Yunnan has reopened after being closed for 24 hours, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The airport was closed after China Southwest Airlines flight 5Z4451 ran off the tarmac due to unspecified technical
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      • 157 36 Bloomberg GENERAL Electric Co, the biggest maker of jet engines, will eliminate more jobs this year because the airline industry has not recovered as much as the company expected. GE Aircraft Engines cut 4,000 positions, or about 13 per cent of the
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      • 403 36 It aims to use 879 m yuan of proceeds to acquire 3 jets Reuters [SHANGHAI] Chinese carrier Hainan Airlines posted a 9.4 per cent rise in firsthalf net profit on Saturday and said that it would issue shares to raise 1.34
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      • 314 36 It adds four new destinations, increases frequencies to 8 others AFP [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International said last week that it planned to start flying to four new destinations, and increase flight frequencies to eight others to meet rising demand. The announcement of the substantial boost
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