The Business Times, 3 October 2002

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    15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MITA (P) 010/03/2002 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 85C
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    72 1 m UfS.43 (-0.04) ST XRDBZ nmnußß U366M (-6.00) MFDnn 110.40 (-0.40) STOCK MAEZET INDICES Wednesday Change KLSECOMP 646.47 41.40 NIKKEI225 9,***** -***** HANG SENG 9,109.36 +37.14 SET INDEX 335.43 +1.74 JAKARTA COMP .***** +1.98 MANILA COMP .1,114.70 -1.08 TAIPEI WPI 4171.76 +(199 SEOUL COMP 648.10 -4.03 SHENZHEN B
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    65 1 FOREX RATES uss ss l"S$ (SS per l'S$) 1.787 £(l'SS/SS per 1.565 2.797 ElUOlUSS/SS/E). 0.963 1.757 YEN 1225 68.80 RM .1,800 2.126 HK$ 7.800 4.384 BAHT 43.51 24.35 RITfAH 9.015 5,044 PRIME SATES SINGAPORE* 6»s KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONGKONG 6.126 JAKARTA/ 3900 TAIPEI 8.625 TOKYO 1J75 SEOUL 916
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    Lock icon Hutchison drops 1.5b euro bombshell
    895 1  -  Fntnre funding for industry's 36 networks thrown into donbt By i Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd cancelled a 1.5 billion euro (552.6 billion) bond issue yesterday, a move that stunned the Asian bond market and raised serious questions over financing prospects for 3G mobile
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    Lock icon Japan drafting new law to speed up bank bailouts
    478 1  -  Public funds can be injected without declaring a crisis From< Anthony Rowley in Tokyo MOMENTUM is continuing to build in Japan towards a resolution of the problem of chronic bad debt in the nation's banking system. The official Financial Services Agency
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    Lock icon Troubled Indon tycoons pump billions into China
    756 1  -  Assets structured so creditors cannot lay hands on them From I Sboeb Kagda in Jakarta A NUMBER of Indonesia's most powerful tycoons, facing mounting debt problems J at home, are rapidly exI panding their business em- pires in China where the I government
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      88 1 INSIDE Top stories Datacraft rallies on talk CAD probe has ended. Mmxt Pmgm Gokongwel drops bid for two First Pacific units. Mmxt Pmgm CCL ups stake in MCL Land by 5.7%. Pg 8 Air-con food courts at kopitiam prices coming your way. Pg7 Singapore steel woman cashes out of Maruichi.
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      82 1 W >5rT ft Human error behind loss of S'pore-flagged tanker Heng San ■SHIPPING TIMES. PAGE 1 PATEK^^i^ \c n fV ad i^ .-J SB*! zyg jk t ijw^Tr m <W .^1 /^jjjjSflHHr wtjjS B Htfl *0m W* p vl look after it for the next generation. Complicated by Patek Philippe
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      Lock icon Datacraft rallies on talk CAD probe has ended
      430 2  -  Bnt analysts express scepticism, maintain their nnderperform call By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Datacraft Asia's stock rallied on strong volume amid rumours that investigators had ended their probe into the company. The stock topped the actives list yesterday with some 28.9 million shares
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      Lock icon Dell vows to gain market share
      448 2 It keeps inventories very low, tight control over manufacturing Reuters Bloomberg [AUSTIN, Texas] Dell Computer Corp executives yesterday said the personal computer company will gain market share in coming quarters as it keeps inventories at record low levels and tight control over its manufacturing.
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        Lock icon Toast to faith
        109 2 FRANCIS Yeoh, head of Malaysian electrical power group YTL, gave a speech in Hong Kong the other day at the Forbes Global CEO conference. This was what Mr Yeoh, a Christian who wears his faith on his sleeve, said in part: "What about my investments in wine?
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        Lock icon Game for foreign talent
        81 2 WHO says Singapore is alone in getting foreign talent for national sports teams? The Hong Kong national hockey team has four brothers who are of Pakistani descent. There are also Satpal Singh (a Sikh from India), Tom Ayers (an Oxford graduate and a British investment banker)
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      Lock icon Morgan cuts forecast of Singapore GDP to lower end of govt's call
      499 2  -  C=M =1 on the economy outlook It sees 3% growth for 2002; cites weak domestic demand amid slower rebound in mannfactnring and exports By I Serena Ng (SINGAPORE] Morgan Stanley has downgraded its forecast for Singapore's economic growth
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      Lock icon Gokongwei drops bid for two First Pacific units
      473 2  -  Talk is that Ayala Corp has emerged as a new suitor From< Al Labita in Manila PHILIPPINE taipan John Gokongwei yesterday dropped his US$6l7 million bid to acquire controlling stakes in two listed Manila companies of Hong Kongbased First Pacific Co Ltd.
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      119 2 ■V"TL The past inspiring the future." Notking sparks my passion more tkan putting tke top down and turning tke key of an antique roadster. It ii my love of watckmaking and tke classic cars tkat kas inspired tkis 1940 s style concept; tke Timemaster". Made ky eack Timemaster includes a
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Li Ka-shing link? I didn't ask: PSC MD
      413 3  -  So he doesn't know if new controlling shareholder H&nny has Li connection Byi Siow Li Sen PROVISION Suppliers Corporation's managing director, Foo Der Rong, yesterday said he does not know if the company's new controlling shareholder is connected to Hong Kong tycoon
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      Lock icon Thai stock market risks indigestion
      636 3  -  m:wa lock siew harish mehta THE window of opportunity is closing on Thai companies that have been hoping to make initial public offerings or rights issues. Thai Airways International said on Tuesday that the current mood in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and global
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      Lock icon Going beyond the Horizon for $35m deal
      403 3  -  By I Serena Ng NOT long after a govern-ment-appointed panel urged local companies to develop content for export through collaboration and partners, homegrown Horizon Education Technologies has clinched a multi-million dollar deal with a Malaysian telco. The mainboard-listed company yesterday said it has
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      235 4 OTHER SINGAPORE NONCES cSI *5 -557.00 +182.00 WC—I -*****.00 -<-39.00 -*****.00 -60.00 W *Wlll 355.92 -Q.3S I 103.86 +1.41 1196.90 -1.43 332.80 +0.42 167.17 unch —Oft*— 167.40 -0.40 OfcraftlQr SK22vr- 26.*****0 15,577,000 ™US*j 11*007,000 SWT* 15c 7,306.000 7.037.000 fWHh20c 6,600,000 UnftoodHK2Sc 6,796,000 TACBU0200 6.73SSo UMBOc 6,576j000 39.640^500 SU50c 30,236,700 OitMtlOc
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      Lock icon Analysts still upbeat on Citiraya despite retreat
      275 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of recently listed electron-ic-waste recycling specialist Citiraya Industries is now trading at about half what it was fetching about a month ago. It closed half-a-cent down at 34 cents yesterday, compared with about 64 cents
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      Lock icon Educated guesswork
      790 4  -  STOCKS r. sivanithy N Chapter 17 of his excel- lent 1928 book Sceptical tern says, the mathematician- philosopher Bertrand RusH sell wrote: "There are two ways of writing about the future, the scientific and H the Utopian." "The scientific way tries to discover what is probable; the Utopian
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      Lock icon Greenback hits 3-month high against S$
      601 4  -  CURRENCIES Help from Wall St rally, bat players advise caution ahead of US jobless data larry wee THE US dollar jumped to its highest level in more than three months against the Singapore dollar in Asian trading yesterday, after Wall Street soared overnight on
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    1808 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS CarnGtob 1 ***w 07* Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 332/ Com Global Intotec Index Fd! ***** A«e» Aaaat Mat (S"pere| Cora Global EnennmdexFd 0781/ Star Europe Eotyl" 0 56* Com Global TrsMl Index Fd 063» Star Europe Id 109W Com S'pore Bond FuntV* i 064< Star
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon CCL ups stake in MCL Land by 5.7%
      448 5  -  Cycle able to book $22L8m as 'negative goodwill' income over 20 years Byy Christopher Tan 01 carriage L,ia (CCL) yesterday agreed to buy 5.73 per cent more of subsidiary MCL Land for $23.04 million its first major stake-raising exercise since acquiring the
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      Lock icon Protecting your investment portfolios
      758 5  -  By Genevieve Cua INVESTORS can "war-proof* their portfolios, says dollarDEX Investments, by moving some of their equity assets "at the margin" into lower-risk instruments like bonds and alternatives like resource funds. In a paper for its clients, dollarDEX Investments said it reckoned assets in Singapore's unit
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      Lock icon Mentor share trading suspended
      336 5  -  By David Boey SHARES in software packaging firm Mentor Media were suspended from trading from 2.50 pm yesterday amid market speculation that the company's proposed deal with Banta Corp may not pan out as intended. Mentor's request for trading suspension came after a steady slide in
      Source: Bloomberg  -  336 words
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon New homes for sale
      601 6 developed owner district location size total units no. of price tenure fT?'I I* I 'J LAUNCHED UNITS SOLD psf) Blue Horizon FEO 5 West Coast Crescent 904-1,227 616 394 550 99.^ Kerrisdale AlgreenProp 8 Beatty/Stunctee Rd 990-2,787 340 187 480 99-yr Robertson 100 MCLLand 9 Martin
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      Lock icon Local players still cautious about Indonesia
      648 6  -  Developers like Keppel Land and City Developments tell Andrea Tan that they are monitoring the market Andrea Tan THE Indonesian property market may be showing signs of a revival, but Singapore developers are adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Since the Asian financial crisis hit, several
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      Lock icon Sembawang cluster units for sale
      197 6 FAR East Organization has priced its 99-year leasehold cluster terrace housing project at Sembawang Walk at about $900,000 per unit and is said to have sold at least half a dozen units since last week. The project, Springhill, is located diagonally opposite the Sembawang Shopping
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      105 6 GROUND Tfir FLOOR UNITS -IT W* XMF -piM^OAf£X /6 IW/7J Br J SALE/LEASING OF BIGGER JL UNITS (FACTORY TERRACE) H_ (T ARE AVAILABLE kl] n SUITED FOR OFFICE/STORAGE/ UjuUjii Tt^T PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION Your very own frontage at your doorste P s p—J Prime location between Non-Oestgnsted Paya Lebar Eunos (vehicle/20-ft i
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      187 6 f: SHOPS, OFFICES, APARTMENTS AND CARPARK FOR SALE BY TENDER Address High Street Centre. 1 North Bridge Road jMkft, Tenure :99 years from 2 |une 1969 Space for Ina hoi. strata Shops Units 25 -459 Offices 39 93 Apartments 20 230 Carpark 485 (1 strata title) Shops and offices are
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      201 6 ■■H CrfMtIMVKQ IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT. CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TRAS RESEARCH PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 308(1) of the Companies Act. Cap. 50 that the Final Meeting of Members of the
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon You're heard loudest here: DPM Lee
      753 7  -  S'pore's small size means people can make a difference more easily Reports by Chuang Peck Ming THOSE thinking of uproo ing because they find Singe pore politically stifling think again. According to Deput; Prime Minister Lee Hsiei Loong, while there is roor for Singaporeans
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      Lock icon Air-con food courts at kopitiam prices coming your way
      332 7  -  Byi Arthur Poon SESDAQ-listed Food Junction Holdings, a specialised F&B service management group, has marked its entry into the HDB heartland with the introduction of its new "food house" concept. Known as Family Junction (FJ) Square, it hopes to bring a
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      Lock icon Tap the Majulah Connection for help
      198 7 Companies heading overseas torn to network set np for ERC feedback LOCAL enterprises seeking to venture overseas may soon turn to another source for help. The Singapore Overseas Network (SON) set up to tap input from Singaporeans overseas for the Economic Review Committee is
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon High time for different tack in Japan
      868 8  -  mr.ii 1 bottom line OPINION anthony rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent THE announcement by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that it intends buying up shares being unloaded by distressed Japanese banks met with derision from some bankers, bureaucrats and journalists gathered
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      38 8 'It takes the blood bath of a French Revolution to make a change in a corporation's governance.' James HcUtcUe editor of online corporate-governance newsletter CorpGov.net, on making companies more democratic to avoid conflicts of interest.
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      Lock icon Tung's sop to developers
      597 8 EDITORIAL HONG Kong Chief Executive Tung Cheehwa seems to have lifted the mood of property developers and property owners with his announcement to "help push (the properly market) up a bit" last week Exactly how his government plans to "push up a bit" a market which
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      Lock icon When a recovery just doesn't feel like one
      903 8  -  The cnrrent state of the US economy is defying description. The only thing economists seem agreed on is that this' business cycle is 'different' By. Robert Samuelson The Washington Post Writers Group WE are at a loss for words. If nothing else,
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      Lock icon What if the US is worse than Japan?
      775 8  -  COMMENTARY Bad as Tokyo's economic policy has been, Washington may not do better By Paul Krugman The writer is a professor of economics at Princeton University NYT gut is starting to look as over-rated as those business samurai. And our political leadership
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  • MAIL bag
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      Lock icon Comfort boycott of journalist is 'extreme'
      181 9  -  Lu Kee Hong Singapore I REFER to the article "Comfort boycotts BT journalist" (BT, Oct 2). The BT article that provoked such a strong reaction from Mr Goh Chee Wee mentioned, I believe, compensation of other CEOs in Singapore as well. I am a
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      Lock icon Boycott not way to earn respect
      63 9  -  Looi Kok Yang Singapore THE episode between Comfort and BTs journalist reminds me of my Primary 6 daughter whose classmate would not "friend her" because she did not accompany her to the toilet. Comfort, you're in the public service. Stand up for what you
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      Lock icon Media help to ensure corporate transparency
      108 9  -  R Wong Singapore I REFER to "Comfort boycotts BT journalist" (BT, Oct 2). I would like to urge and encourage Christopher Tan to continue with his good work at The Business Times. The media has a duty to report on matters of public interest.
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      Lock icon Case for multiple asset allocation strategies
      212 9  -  Leong Sze Hian Singapore I REFER to "Three strategies for asset allocation" by Teh Hooi Ling (BT, Sept 28). Using different strategies within the overall asset allocation strategy is not very significant in the context of enhancing the probability of or the absolute value
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      Lock icon Allow 3-year licences for older drivers
      77 9  -  Denis Distant Singapore WITH the raising of the age from GO to 65 years at which older drivers have to undergo a medical check-up before renewing their driving licences, those already 65, who have passed the test before the change in the law, should
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Thailand's Shin in talks with SingTel over satellite use
      384 12 BANGKOK Satellite operator wants to tap capacity to sell high-speed Net services Bloomberg SHIN SateUite pic, owned by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family, is in talks to use Singapore Telecommunications' (SingTel's) ST-1 satellite to seU high speed Internet services. Thailand's
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      Lock icon S'pore woman cashes out of M'sia's Maruichi
      337 12  -  From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur A SINGAPORE businesswoman has sold her substantial stake in listed Maruichi Malaysia Steel Tube Berhad to the Negri Sembilan royal family. Yang Yen Fang, 71, has ceased to be a substantial shareholder of the company she founded
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      Lock icon US, Indonesia agree to reschedule $486m debt
      230 12 JAKARTA Reuters THE US and Indonesia have agreed on the rescheduling of U*****.5 miUion in principal and interest payments on Indonesian debt to Washington, the US Embassy said yesterday. It said in a statement that the agreement provides for lower debt service payments
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    • NOTE Book
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        Lock icon Benpres misses interest payment
        101 13 Reuters [MANILA] Debt-ridden Philippine conglomerate Benpres Holdings Corp said it would not be able to make its interest payment due yesterday for its long-term commercial paper. A Benpres spokeswoman said this would be the second quarterly default on interest payment on the 2 billion peso (5167.8
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        Lock icon NPC may borrow to repay debt
        112 13 Bloomberg [MANILA] National Power Corp may borrow as much as US$l.5 billion next year to help pay maturing debt should the Philippine state-owned company fail to sell assets, Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho said. He didn't say whether the company would borrow at home
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        Lock icon Siemens eyes China, Taiwan projects
        69 13 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Siemens AG said it will bid to supply power generating equipment worth at least US$3 billion in China and Taiwan. Siemens is bidding to supply twenty-three 400-megawatt combined-cycle gas units to China, mostly to be installed along the country's planned West-East gas pipeline,
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        Lock icon US regrets treatment of KL officials
        148 13 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] The United States yesterday expressed regret for any "inappropriate treatment" after it was revealed that Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had to remove his shoes for a security check on arrival in Los Angeles. "The US embassy sincerely regrets
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        Lock icon TOT's 9-month profit hits 20b baht
        82 13 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] TOT Corp, Thailand's biggest fixed-line phone operator, said nine-month net income exceeded profit for all of2ool. Net income surged to about 20 billion baht (SsB2o million) in the nine months ended June 30, compared with profit of 13 billion baht for all
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        Lock icon Bank Pertanian to sell CIMB stake
        64 13 Bernama COMMERCE Asset-Holding Bhd has entered into a share sale agreement with Bank Pertanian Malaysia (BPM) to acquire BPM's equity interest in Commerce International Merchant Bankers (CIMB), comprising 37.342 ordinary shares, for RM157.2 million (5573.9 million) in cash. This represents about 11.7 per cent
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      Lock icon Malaysia's Danaharta to stop buying foreclosed properties
      329 13 KUALA LUMPUR It doesn't want to be holding too many properties when it ceases ops in 2005 MALAYSIAN debt-restruc-turing agency Danaharta Nasional will no longer be a "buyer of last resort" for properties of financiallydistressed parties because it does not want to be
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      Lock icon HK economy shrank for 2nd straight month in Sept
      362 13 ■HONGKONG Bloomberg HONG KONG'S economy contracted for the second straight month in September as overall demand fell, a survey showed yesterday. The Hong Kong Purchasing Managers' Index, which gives an overall view of local business activity, fell to 48.4 in September
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      Lock icon CAHB passes test for Niaga bid
      320 13 ■JAKARTA M'sian bank almost certain to win 51% stake, says Ibra Reuters THE Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said yesterday that Malaysia's second-largest banking group, Commerce AssetHolding Bhd, was almost certain to win a majority stake in mid-size Bank Niaga. The remarks followed an
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      Lock icon Nasdaq listing likely for 10 Indian firms
      207 13 CALCUTTA Reuters TEN more Indian companies could be listed on the Nasdaq by end-2003 to add to the three firms whose shares are now traded there, an official of the exchange said on Tuesday. The Nasdaq already lists Indian software giant Infosys Technologies,
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      Lock icon Thai int'l telecoms monopoly seeks partner
      439 13  -  It wants to sell 25% stake before IPO to boost credibility From Hariah Mehta in Bangkok THE Communications Authority of Thailand wishes to sell a 25 per cent stake to a strategic partner before listing on the stock exchange, a move that will give
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    964 14 Transaction date: Oct 2 DITEEBAltg CE08S EATB8 ft— —iI m ns Nih H» St i— Sir OTS -M Hmi ws 0-*' 4518 0.554 4.246 24.327 49.070 0.(69 6.696 2.069 U44 32.(87 28.643 0.973 jtf? 0j09 19.041 23.695 0J46 0.544 1 e 1643 4.933 30.567 57.009 0.777 7.712 2.403 1329
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon DoCoMo to write down 573b yen on foreign stakes
      337 14 TOKYO Investments in AT&T Wireless, Hutchison 3G, KPN Mobile written down for HI Bloomberg Reuters NTT DoCoMo Inc, the world's largest mo-bile-phone company by sales, will write down 573 billion yen (SsB.4 billion) for the half year to Sept 30 on
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      Lock icon Weill to leave AT&T, United Tech boards
      265 14 NEW YORK LAT-WP CITIGROUP Inc chairman Sanford Weill said on Tuesday he'd step down from the boards of AT&T Corp and United Technologies Corp to avoid potential conflicts of interest, and that he was reaching outside the financial services world for a new
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      Lock icon SEC fines Dean Witter over broker supervision
      265 14 WASHINGTON Reuters WALL Street's top regulator on Tuesday fined Morgan Stanley's Dean Witter Reynolds unit US$5OO,OOO as part of a settlement which alleged the firm failed to supervise a broker who lost more than US$l5 million of his clients' life savings. Dean Witter
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    • WORLD Watch
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        Lock icon Credit Suisse boost for Winterthur
        71 15 Reuters [ZURICH] Credit Suisse has injected another 2 billion Swiss francs (552.4 billion) from its own liquidity into its ailing Winterthur insurance arm to boost the unit's weakened capital base, CS said yesterday. However, it said the insurance business would still report a "significant net
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        Lock icon Oracle denies accounting violation
        98 15 Bloomberg [MILAN] Oracle Corp chief financial officer Jeff Henley said a report the company may have broken accounting rules is "totally without merit". Oracle may not have met all necessary accounting criteria when it booked US$3l million in revenue on May 31, 2001, the last day
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        Lock icon KPMG Consulting is BearingPoint
        80 15 Reuters [NEW YORK] Consulting firm KPMG Consulting, often conftxsed with its former accounting firm parent with whom it shares the name, is striking out to forge a new identity by renaming itself Bearing Point. As part of its new branding campaign, the firm will also start
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        Lock icon BP cuts output growth target again
        72 15 Bloomberg [LONDON] BP pic, Europe's biggest oil company, cut its target for oil and gas production thta year for the second time in a month, after storms in the US Gulf disrupted output The company expects growth in the third quarter and ftill year
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      197 15 LONDON Change from 7 to 5 years takes effect in January Bloomberg UK audit partners can't oversee a company's accounts for longer than five years, the profession's rulemaking body has decided in response to concerns about US accounting scandals. The Institute of
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      169 15 LONDON Bloomberg, Reuters EMI Group, the world's third largest recorded music company, said it signed a new contract with British singer Robbie WUliams. It didn't provide the terms of the contract. EMI re-signed WiUiams to a "long-term, worldwide recording contract" that includes activities such
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        101 18 Bloomberg imuKKAi New Jersey] Lucent Technologies Inc sold its stakes in two Chinese optical-fibre ventures to Corning Inc for as much as US$225 million, completing a transaction first announced in July 2001. Corning, the world's largest supplier of optical fibre and cable, paid
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        79 18 Bloomberg SANTA CLARA J Sun Microsystems Inc said the US accused it of violating export rules for sales to Hong Kong in 1997 and to Egypt in 1996. Sun received a letter in February from the Commerce Department detailing the charges, Sun said in its
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        71 18 Bloomberg 1/A.ruYiumrv, I\ew lorKj IBM Corp won a 10-year, US$l.l2 billion contract to manage computers and telecoms for Boots Pic, Britain's No 1 pharmacy chain. IBM will run a data centre, corporate networks and databases, and in-store checkout systems and kiosks for Boots, the
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        81 18 AFP 3 jr»ui v/ieuini saia tne company has no plans to enter the DRAM business, rejecting a press report that the firm may construct wafer plants in Taiwan. Intel has "no intention to get into the DRAM business", Mr Otellini said. He also said the
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      111 18 Bloomberg [PLANO, Texas] Electronic Data Systems Corp, the world's second-biggest computer services company, whose shares fell 65 per cent last month, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has started an inquiry into EDS' slashed forecast and contracts to buy its own
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      289 19 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose four points to 1371, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained two points to 1316, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) firmed 25 points to 8,962 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up eight points to 1,801. CI TBN-(built 1995) 170,000 dwt
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      550 19 Extent of damage not known yet bnt appears to be significant; UK cruise operator Reuters [TOKYO] A major fire on a huge luxury liner being fitted out at a Japanese shipyard for Britain's biggest cruise operator was still smouldering yesterday, some 18 hours
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      894 19  -  ilexclusiv€ MP A releases report on explosion, sinking of VLCC Heng San last year By\ Donald Urquhart (SINGAPORE] Judgement errors by the master and chief officer were linked to the explosion and sinking of the Singapore-flagged su-per-tanker, MT Heng San, last year which
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      128 19 Bernama [JAKARTA] The Indonesian navy detained six Ma-laysian-flagged ships on Tuesday for allegedly transporting arms. The Antara news agency reported that the ships and their 18 crew members were held at the Karimun Naval Base, Riau, for investigations. "There is a possibility that these ships
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        79 19 Reuters [SINGAPORE] Singapore shipping firm Pan-United Corp Ltd said on Wednesday its unit Pan-United Shipyard Pte Ltd won two shipbuilding contracts worth $18 million. With the new deals, the order book for the company's marine group stands at more than $160 million, Pan-United said in a
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        113 19 Reuters {KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia International Shipping Corp (MISC) said it was looking to buy a shipping firm to help boost its energy business. "We are looking at opportunities to acquire a shipping company which is involved in the energy business. We hope to conclude
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      766 20  -  MEWBUILDS -By David Hughes LAST week, many of those involved in the shipbuilding and ship equipment industries gathered in Hamburg for the Shipbuilding, Machinery Marine Technology International Trade Fair SMM2OO2. While Germany may have been the venue for the gathering, many minds
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        286 28 Airline industry still experiencing tnrbnlence Reuters [TORONTO] CAE Inc, the Canadian flight simulation maker, said on Tuesday it expected its 2003 earnings per share to be 10 to 15 per cent lower than in 2002 due to turbulence in the airline industry. The
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        538 28 No cash grants; insurance may be extended, security restrictions eased NYT [WASHINGTON] A US House panel was due to vote yesterday on providing the hard-hit airline industry with some financial relief, while a Senate committee will question Delta Air Lines chief
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        338 28 Cost-catting seen boosting profits to 60mzlotys AP [WARSAW] Poland's national airline LOT said on Tuesday it expects better profits this year and plans to purchase 10 new planes, the latest sign airlines are emerging from a slump af- ter the
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          86 28 Bloomberg [HOUSTON] Continental Airlines said miles flown by paying passengers last month rose 24 per cent from a year earlier, when traffic slumped after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. Last month's traffic was 15 per cent lower than the September 2000 level, the fifth-largest US
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        220 28 AFP [HANOI] Construction on a second runway at Vietnam's Noi Bai International Airport will be completed by mid-2003, significantly increasing the capacity of flights into the capital, officials said. "Sixty per cent of runway IB has been completed and it will
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        262 28 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Indian Airlines, the country's biggest domestic carrier, is cutting fares on 12 routes for the second time this year as it tries to lure passengers away from the nation's railways. The carrier will offer discounts for travel to 53 destinations between November
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