The Business Times, 6 November 2002

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  • 16 1 MITA fP) 010/03/2002 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE I Internet: l".t\p //business-times.asial.com.sa WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2002
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  • 71 1 Dsn 1,***** (+6.44) ST INDEX FDTUIES 1,*****0 (+10.00) SOISGKTJTDSES 177J0 (+1.90) STOCK MABKET INDICES Tuesday Change KLSECOMP 653JM -3.44 NIKKEI 225 .8,937.56 +25I&I HANGSENG 9.665J6 -65.47 SET INDEX 355.77 3.03 JAKARTA COMP _***** 8.96 MANILA COMP .1,042.31 -8.67 TAIPEI WPI 4,566.10 -1758 SEOUL COMP 664.90 -7.78 SHENZHEN B
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  • 811 1  -  Panel sticks to trigger rule even though DBS asked Oei to make offer By Loh Hui Yin, Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] The Securities Industry Council says that businessman Oei Hong Leong will need to make a general offer for Nat Steel only when
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  • 560 1  -  ■exclusive By Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Long-suffering Pinetree club members, having been in limbo when the club went through its recent troubles, are now Finding themselves in the enviable position of being courted. Sources told BT that some clubs, mostly members' clubs, have
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  • 759 1  -  He paints stronger future for country in 10 years' time By Yang Razali Kassim in Fhnorn Penh THE Asean summit in Cambodia, which ended with a string of significant free trade links with key powers the latest being India, has
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  • 665 1  -  High-level panel had been split by the thorny issue By Angela Tan [SINGAPORE] The issue of mandatory quarterly reporting was so contentious that it split the high-level panel reviewing it, but it was "national interest" that carried the day. Speaking in his personal capacity,
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    • 80 1 msroB Top stories CapitaLand Q3 profit up 72%. Pg 3 APLL sells lossmaking e-logistics arm for US$4.5m. Pg 4 L, —1■ China Telecom slashes IPO size by half. Pg 18 US losing US$50b to tax evasion: study. Pg 20 Winnie Disney deal. Pg 23 Asian equities expected to outdo US,
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    • 224 1 r Done Deal EON to take over dictation of VW, Audi cars fromTaifChong unit V"'- V tv Daring under-declaration of import value of VW Beetles First-half ranking of top funds EXECUTIVE MONEY. PAGE 28 Chiw, Japan, S Korea move towards free trade area, Next Page interested in a low interest
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    • 9 1 Maflhag: Quarterly reporting: try this new approach, Pg 12
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    • 287 2 Sanion says IF you thought moves towards simpler English had made company documents easier to understand, read this statement put out by Oei Hong Leong's San ion Enterprises over the weekend. "Sanion will keep its position under review, having regard to, inter alia, further developments relating to
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    • 485 2  -  Big confidence dive in Asia, while US sentiment picks np By Anna Teo [SINGAPORE] The global economic outlook appears rather more bleak to CEOs and other senior executives in the Asia-Pacific region than those in North America and Europe. Findings by market information
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    • 641 2  -  Koizumi signals it could lead to giant N-E Asian FTA linked to Asean By' Yang Razali Kassim in Phnom Penh SOMETHING big is building up on the sidelines of the Asean summit in Phnom Penh. China, Japan and South Korea despite
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    • 492 2  -  Bnt intensive reform can return Japan to 1.5% annnal real growth, he says From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPAN'S economic and financial services "superminister", Heizo Takenaka, formally acknowledged yesterday that the nation's economy is caught in a "vicious circle" of debt and deflation,
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 727 3  -  lock siew serena ng TpUS time last year, the soundcard giant defied the odds and the weak PC market when it successfully convinced its customers to upgrade to its improved range of Soundßlasters during the holiday season. It also made a concerted effort
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    • 762 3  -  Results lifted by float of CMT; analysts raise fall-year forecasts By Kalpana Rashiwala PROPERTY giant CapitaLand yesterday posted a $141.7 million group net profit for Q3 a 72 per cent rise from $82.4 million in the same period last year. The result
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    • 237 4  -  Tang Weng Fai IN another sign of its growing clout in the region since it took over Australia's Optus, Sing Tel announced yesterday that it has won a "multi-million dollar" deal with insurance firm Marsh Inc to manage a virtual private network (VPN)
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    • 396 4  -  NOL will take hit of USs4m from sale; it's lost USs7.6m due to nnit so far By Beth Jinks NEPTUNE Orient Lines' logistics arm API, Logistics (APLL) has sold its lossmaking US on-line consumer delivery business to Connect icut-headquartered mail order company Newßoads
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    • 280 4  -  By Wong Wei Kong NEW York-listed Banta Corp has started court action to terminate its proposed takeover of Singa-pore-listed supply chain management company Mentor Media. In a statement yesterday, Mentor said Banta has commenced legal proceedings in the Singapore High Court
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    • 258 4 SESDAQ LISTED VibroPower Corporation has secured $6.8 million in new orders for generator sets, including winning a contract for the Biopolis biomedical project in Singapore. The assembler and distributor of generator sets said the 19 units for the Biopolis project were worth $3.6 million and would
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      358 4 Hua Lok closes Bin tan operations MAINBOARD-LISTED construction and building materials firm Hua Kok International has closed its precast concrete components manufacturing operations in Bintan, and retrenched more than 660 workers, mainly based there. It said it will focus its concrete production in Singapore. The moves are part
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    • 255 4  -  By Serena Ng THUMBDRIVE creator Trek 2000 International is suing several companies, including two subsidiaries of listed Flextech Holdings, for allegedly infringing its portable data storage device patent. The engineering services provider said yesterday its subsidiary Trek Technology has started legal action
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    • 648 8  -  Diversified tenancy of trust's properties seen as buffer to any downside Ky Vince Chong THE initial public offering of Singapore's widely-antic-ipated second property trust has been launched, with analysts giving it the thumbs-up for at least the first two
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    • 250 8 LISTING aspirant Mobile One yesterday refuted rival Star Hub's claim to be the first telco in Singapore to offer a multimedia mes saging service (MMS) to Hong Kong, reflecting the growing battle in next-gen-eration services. "We wish to clarify that Ml is, in
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      296 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Nov 5 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -104.00 4-17.00 BTCMN -*****.00 -26.00 ST10-4ayMU -11.00 375.75 +1.93 SSEpiiliMDMt 119.40 +3.46 1269.90 -3.44 ttEpflbsPrap 347.56 +0.60 Mtf1Ti«Ki»Bi« ***** +0.92 SMSCIFatarts 177.20 +1.90 Cftiraya2.5c 14,788,000 NOL 9.077.000 PacificCentufylOc 8.962.000 Bit «n*J US20c 8.613.000 Datacrafl 10c 8.342.000 Chart SomCond 26c 7.945.000 TPVUSlc_,
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    • 806 6  -  [longer view CURRENCIES larry wee Currency players continued to hammer the US dollar yesterday, ahead of US congressional election results today, and a key decision on US interest rates later tonight in New York time. Some chart patterns are warning that odds are
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    • 792 6  -  comment STOCKS r. sivanithy IT was a case of deja vu in the local stock market yesterday as players found themselves grappling with the same issues they have faced many times before. Will the US Federal Reserve cut its shortterm interest rate?
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 390 10  -  When completed, expansion will take its investment to about USslb By\ Eugene Low US pharmaceutical giant Schering-Plough, which opened US$225 million of production facilities at Tuas yesterday, will pump in a further US$2OO million to expand its manufacturing operations here. With the expansion expected to
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    • 336 10 IN a fresh effort to consolidate its heavily splintered research groups, A*Star (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) yesterday announced another merger of two of its research institutions, creating the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). Lawrence Wong, now heading the National University
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    • 422 10  -  SBF teams up with lES'poreto facilitate them By I Chuang Peck Ming i ml business outlook may be cloudy but many enterprises here are now more keen to venture abroad, a Singapore Business Federation survey shows. And the SBF is teaming up with
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    • 438 13  -  PROPERTY FOCUS 101,800 sq ft plot includes 2 collective sales; site may fetch $100-108 m By' Vince Chong JONES Lang Lasalle has placed a 101,800 sq ft site along Jervois Road on the market. The freehold site comprises four parcels, which can be bought
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    • 236 13  -  on the economy terms of trade By Eugene Low SINGAPORE'S terms of trade the ratio of export prices to import prices worsened again in September, figures from the Department of Statistics show. The export price index dipped 0.1 per cent year on year, while
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    • 166 13 THE former Chinese Embassy freehold site in Dal vey Road has been sold for $12.3 million, or about $480 per sq ft on a land area of 26.000 sq ft. According to Colliers International director Ho Eng Joo, whose firm brokered the deal, the
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    • 185 13 MORE than 70 of the 120 units launched by Far East Organization in the first phase of its White Water executive condo at Pasir Ris were sold during the long weekend. The 99-year leasehold project is priced at $355 per square foot
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 729 12  -  mum bottom line OPINION frank ching AFTER years of shadow-boxing, Taiwan and mainland China appear to be making progress towards establishing the "three links" direct trade, transport and postal links. As usual, political considerations continue to hold up what are basically economic decisions. The
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    • 53 12 'China's (moves) will turn the Mekong into a biologically degraded, badly polluted, dying river like the Yangtze and other big rivers of China/ -Tyson Roberts of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, warning of social and environmental disaster as China dams and blasts one of the world s
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    • 596 12 EDITORIAL THIS week, Indonesia is aiming to convince the international community and global investors that the country is still an attractive investment destination by hosting an investment conference in Bali. The venue is both a symbolic gesture of support to the shell-shocked Balinese following the
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    • 1438 12  -  The much-touted Takenaka Plan hopes to achieve a 'final resolution' of the long-numing NPL problem, but there are many pitfalls along the way From Anthony Rowley The writer is BT's Tokyo correspondent in Tokyo ARMED with little more than an outline I map,
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    • 286 12  -  MAILI.TTH Hwang Soo Jin Singapore It is a pity that DBS Bank chairman S Dhanabalan should have spoken up belatedly over the controversial issue of quarterly reporting CTemasek chief hits out at govt move on quarterly reporting," BT, Nov 1) His views are shared
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    • 159 12  -  Shauna Li Roolvink Managing Director Brand Hub I REFER to Lee Han Shih's comments in his Hock Lock Siew regarding the DBS naming dilemma. ("What's in a name? Plenty, in the case of DBS", BT Nov 4). It does appear that DBS is in a
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  • BT motoring
    • 404 14  -  ■oßxclusivel Grey-import VWs found with grossly diluted import values among latest cases All reports by Christopher Tan THE authorities have unearthed what must be the boldest vehicle tax evasion cases to date with one parallel importer having under-declared the import
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    • 479 14  -  l»ll exclusive It is set to sign deal with Volkswagen Group to import and distribute VW and Audi marques in Malaysia, reports CHRISTOPHER TAN CHRISTOPHER TAN National car dis tributor EON (Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd) will soon sign a letter of intent with the Volkswagen
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    • 355 14 It'll only be able to sell less than 40% of its shares, bnt this won't affect its expansion plans PROTON distributor Edaran Otomobil Nasional Bhd (EON) won't be able to sell off its stake in Singapore's Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL) completely, but that
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    • 307 14 RENAULT distributor Exklusiv Auto will offer a passenger version of the bestselling Kangoo commercial van from next month. The move is contrary to its previous stand that there is no demand for such a vehicle here, and is believed to be prompted by recent
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    • 557 14  -  -Compiled by Christopher Tan LTA attains SQC status THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) has attained Singapore Quality Class (SQC) status. It joins the ranks of nearly 300 organisations here which have gained SQC membership since Spring Singapore launched the initiative in 1997. The award is conferred on
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  • TERROR fallout
    • 606 15  -  It wants domestic consumption to lead economic growth By\ Shoeb Kagda in Bali INDONESIA is adopting a different tack to push economic growth in the wake of the devastating Bali bomb attacks three weeks ago. Instead of depending on foreign investments to drive the economy,
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    • 328 15 TABANAN. Indonesia Int'l load factor now below 40% after Bali blast AFP INDONESIA'S national carrier Garuda said yesterday it could take two years for its international sales to recover from the Oct 12 terrorist bombings in Bali. The average passenger load
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    • 102 15 JAKARTA AFP INDONESIAN authorities said yesterday they have ample evidence against terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir. including witness statements from Singapore and Malaysia, despite his refusal to answer police questions. "His refusal to answer questions will harm his own case. I think
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    • 475 15 BALI Bloomberg GARMENT maker Rusmati Dudi will not know until December how badly the bombs that killed at least 190 people in Bali last month will damage an industry that employs an eighth of the island's population. Mr Dudi, whose
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 319 17 ■HANCKOK Reuters SHARES in Thai credit card companies fell sharply yesterday on fears that new regulations to control the country's fast-growing credit card industry will hurt their revenues. The Bank of Thailand has said it wants to control the industry
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    • NOTE Book
      • 92 17 [KUALA LUMPUR] A suit by the Union Bank of Switzerland (ÜBS) against Tenaga Nasional Bhd is likely to be settled out of court as early as the end of this year, Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. It cited sources saying that meetings between the companies'
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      • 65 17 AP [KUALA LUMPUR] A crisis-ridden political party in Malaysia's ruling coalition was deregistered yesterday for failing to resolve a protracted leadership feud. The decision does not jeopardise the ability of the 15-member National Front to govern, but could extinguish the career of one of the country's longest-serving
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      • 77 17 AFP [rifciiJiJSKjj China s Communist Party yesterday ejected the disgraced ex-head of its biggest commercial bank. Notice of the expulsion of Wang Xuebing, formerly in charge of the Bank of China, was given after a top-level party leadership meeting ended in Beijing. The
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      • 68 17 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's insurance industry grew 13.4 per cent in the first six months of this year from the same period a year ago, central bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said. Premium income from life and general insurance rose to RM7.B billion
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      • 60 17 AP IHANUIJ Vietnam slaw-making National Assembly will open next week its second and final session for the year, drafting economic and social targets for 2003, a government official said yesterday. During the month long session, which starts on Nov 12, legislators also are expected to
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      • 48 17 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] PT Bank Danamon said profit in the first nine months rose 26 per cent to 725 billion rupiah (*****.8 million) from the year-earlier period. Net interest income fell to 1.44 trillion rupiah from 1.57 trillion rupiah, the company said. Bloomberg
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    • 507 17 HONG KONG Investors impatient as govt fails to deliver a plan to stabilise sector Reuters SHARES of Hong Kong property developers fell yesterday as investors waiting for an imminent government announcement on measures to stabilise the ailing property market began to run out of patience, analysts
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    • 405 17  -  Move is aimed at swinging the airline back into the black From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur THE revived Malaysian Airline System (MAS) will scrap first-class seats on some of its regional flights as it re-invents itself to return to the black.
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    • 346 17 JAKARTA AFP MAJOR international creditors have withheld U*****.8 million in loans pledged to Indonesia since 1999 because the government has failed to meet economic reform commitments. Finance Minister Budiono said. The total withheld includes US$4BO million pledged by the Asian Development Bank, US$l5O
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    • 245 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong companies cut staff pay for the first time in at least 18 years as falling prices and sagging economic growth eroded company profits, a survey showed. Take-home pay. including discretionary bonuses, fell 0.1 per cent
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    • 315 17 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters SHARES in Maybank fell yesterday on fears that a possible round of govern-ment-mandated mergers could erode the Malaysian bank's long-held market dominance. But shares of Maybank's closest rivals rose as investors speculated on potential winners and losers from consolidation. Malayan
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    • 399 18 HONG KONG institutional orders to close and price fixed today: sources Reuters STATE-OWNED China Telecom slashed the size of its initial public offering yesterday in a last-ditch effort to prevent one of Asia's biggest stock offerings this year from falling apart. The
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    • 333 18 SHANGHAI Listed firm's senior officials suspected of corruption Reuters SMALL electricity generator Shenzhen Nanshan Power Co Ltd said yesterday China's securities investigators are probing the listed firm for suspected corruption among senior officials. The news caused B shares in Nanshan Power, the third state-owned power
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    • 268 18 HONG KONG Reuters CHINA has backed down from a decision to sharply hike fees for telephone calls from Hong Kong by agreeing to reimburse major phone operators in the territory. the South China Morning Post reported yesterday. The
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    • ASIA Notes
      • 68 18 Reuters 11 ALrhlj Nanya Technologies, Taiwan's largest memory-chip maker, yesterday posted a 400 per cent rise in October sales thanks to recent product price hikes due to rising demand for more advanced memory chips. The company has said the market was likely to be
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      • 71 18 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Haitong Securities Co Ltd, China's most profitable brokerage last year, said yesterday it has obtained regulatory approval to expand its capital to become the country's largest securities house. The company, based in Shanghai, would more than double its registered capital to 8.734
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      • 67 18 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Wipro Ltd, India's second-largest software developer, plans to hire more than 300 former Ericsson AB employees as part of a September agreement to take over software development centres from the largest maker of cellular networks. Talks on the purchase of three Ericsson centres
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      • 49 18 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Fubon Financial Holding Co said it's interested in buying a stake in South Korea's Chohung Bank, as Taiwan's second-largest financial company seeks to expand overseas to boost earnings. "We have expressed an interest," Fubon chief financial officer Victor Kung said. Bloomberg
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    • 340 19 HONG KONG Officials don't have experience to make decisions, he says Reuters THE Hong Kong government lacks strategy and experience in transforming the territory's sagging economy and integrating it with that of the mainland, a senior Chinese government researcher said yesterday. "I feel
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    • 308 19  -  From] Macabe Keliher in Ta ipei FINANCE shares are soaring, thanks to recent announcements that the government may lift foreign ownership of commercial banks, as investors hope that better managed banks will boost profits. Vice-Finance Minister Susan Chang said on
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    • 470 19 HONG KONG Commnni cations chips demand helps offset weak orders from PC makers Reuters AFTER a rough earnings season, semiconductor makers are looking to a rebound in the telecoms sector to drive fresh growth and offset weak demand from PC manufacturers. Top
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    • 239 19 HONGKONG CLSA emerges most independent in Asiamoney survey Bloomberg GOLDMAN Sachs Group provides the least independent stock research among investment banks in Asia, according to Asiamoney magazine's annual poll of fund managers. The magazine asked 915 fund managers and analysts to cast
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    • 591 20 WASHINGTON Firms, individuals falsely report import-export prices and it may be helping terrorists Bloomberg US COMPANIES and individuals avoided more than US$5O billion in taxes last year by falsely reporting prices for imports and exports, according to a study that says the practice
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    • 365 20 Democrats face tough challenge in retaking House Reuters (WASHINGTONJ US voters headed to the polls yesterday to decide a tight strug gle for control of Congress, with President George W Bush's Republicans pushing to retake the Senate and make history by expanding their
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    • 251 20 LATEST US INDICATORS Reuters, Bloomberg [NEW YORK) The massive US services sector expanded for the ninth straight month in October, though at a slightly slower pace than in September, a report said yesterday, in another sign the economic recovery has lost momentum.
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    • WORLD Watch
      • 67 20 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japanese trade officials are in talks with counterparts from China to head off a trade dispute over Beijing's plan to extend steel import tariffs for three years, Japanese steelmakers said. China said on Monday it told South Korea and Japan it plans
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      • 61 20 Bloomberg l w AdHiNO iunj Morgan Stanley corrected a US$4.5 billion overstatement in the amount of derivative contracts it wrote for companies with junk bond ratings. It amended a report with the SEC to show derivatives sold to customers with non-investment grade ratings rose to
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      • 44 20 Bloomberg [SANTA CLARA, California] Applied Materials will cut 1,750j0b5, or 11 per cent of its staff. The cuts will reduce earnings for the maker of semiconductormaking equipment in the first quarter ending Jan 26. a spokesman said. —Bloomberg
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      • 47 20 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korea issued a warning on a computer virus which spreads through Outlook Express e-mail program. The virus, called "bride", may slow down computer systems, the government said. Users should delete any e-mail that contains a "readme.exe" attachment, it said. —Bloomberg
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    • 272 20 UNITED NATIONS Reuters THE United Nations is close to agreeing on a resolution on Iraq that gives Washington scope to act alone if Baghdad blocks arms inspections, US Secretary of State Colin Powell was quoted as saying yesterday. He told the
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    • 329 20 LUXEMBOURG Parts of air-traffic pacts are violating EU law, it says Bloomberg EUROPE'S highest court limited the scope of national "open skies" treaties with the US, trying to build a single transatlantic air travel market to end a half-centu-ry of
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    • 507 21 NEW YORK It has no budget and maybe no chief, raising donbts of its effectiveness Bloomberg, NYT NINE days before the first scheduled meeting of the Public Accounting Oversight Board, the group has no budget, no office, no stafT and maybe no leader. Four
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    • 223 21 WASHINGTON It'll look into their role and possible conflicts of interest Reuters TOP executives from major credit ratings agencies and some large US companies are expected to participate in two Securities and Exchange Commission public hearings on the agencies and their role in
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    • 232 21 Reuters [NEW YORK) State and federal regulators are considering banning investment banks from doling out new share issues to client executives, a practice known as "spinning". The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. As part of an effort to overhaul Wall Street stock research,
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    • 428 23  -  This is dne to sharp rise in monetary liquidity, says Crossßorder From. Neil Behrmann in London ASIAN stock markets, especially those outside Japan, are expected to outperform US and European stock markets in the coming year, according to the analysis of a
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    • 253 23 NEW YORK Reuters GOLDMAN Sachs Group Inc. a top Wall Street firm, on Monday said its analysts now rate 22 per cent of the stocks they cover with its lowest ranking, a steep increase under a new ranking system. Goldman, which
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    • 575 23 LOS ANGELES Bot existing copyright holder disputes deal AP IN the latest twist in a long and bitter royalty dispute over the billions of dollars generated by the sale of Winnie the Pooh merchan dise. The Walt Disney Co said a new deal
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    • 374 24 Reuters Bloomberg [NEW YORK] World Com Inc and federal regulators are in talks to settle fraud charges against the company, as investigators made more damning accusations about its practices, newspapers reported yesterday. Citing people familiar with the matter. The New York Times
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    • 496 25 LONDON With bursting of tech bubble, they are now turning to steady gains Reuters AFTER years of relative neglect, dividends are making a comeback among investment funds seeking returns from shares in a depressed market. Money managers say many have begun to search
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    • 682 25 Investment clnbs are heading where fands fear to tread NYT [TOKYO] They pore over their spreadsheets as if they were studying racing forms at the track swapping advice and boasting about their best picks. But, as they nibble on baked fish and sip green
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    • 182 25 Bloomberg [NEW YORK) US telecom munications funds in October had their biggest one-month increase in at least 16 years, boosted by gains in the shares of AT&T Wireless Services Inc and Nextel Communications Inc, according to Lipper Inc. The mutual funds
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    • 2565 22 ne Business Times. Wednesday. November 6. 2002 T. xlvcnlx call ..11-frw 1800 289 8822 Email rtcr.lteu>h.om i. I Hm datapulse technology limited I (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) I I NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ol Datapulse Tethnolocv Limited (the I I -LgaWDi") will be
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    • 294 26 I Hh I THE AAARSELLA For the royals of your heart. I The Marbella, Singapore's only South facing condominium rnr mnm*r i Tim—a—mmit a*Mifi i hi—an irm J l I §-i« r '111 T *.♦>* >•,K TV* r Hi YT^f ■|i 7 i r 85% of site area devoted to
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  • PERSONAL investment
    • 764 27  -  The supply and demand for securities do not follow the same curves as those for petroleum or corn, argues Kenneth L Fisher Kenneth L Fisher CAN YOU predict which way the market is headed by looking at the average price-earnings ratio? Some investors think that you
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    • 874 27  -  ll?WI»]3 markets Robert Halili The writer is managing director of Asia Insider BUYERS were active in the four days to last Friday, with construction and property firm Lum Chang Hold ings' aggressive buybacks making it the top buyer byvalue. Altogether. 23 firms
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    • 799 27 289 8821 Eauul recruit@>ph com sg QXD£NM|UINNIUMG*CHJP GMG GLOBAL LTD (Incorporated In The Republic Of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING !w HE^ EBY GIVEN ,hat ,he Annual General Meeting of GMG Global Ltd ("the Company") will be held at 108 Robinson Road #12-00 i GMG Building, Singapore *****0 on
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  • EXECUTIVE money
    • 976 28  -  They sweep nearly half of the $2.6b unit trust subscriptions in the first half-year, reports GENEVIEVE CUA GENEVIEVE CUA CAPITAL-secured funds continued to rake in the bulk of money invested in unit trusts this year, but what may be surprising is that equity funds
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 282 29 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index (BDI) rose two points to 1,430, the Baltic Panamax Index (BPI) gained two points to 1,350, the Baltic Handymax Index (BHI) eased two points to 9,643 and the Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) was up five points to 1.868. TIME-CHARTER: Formosabulk Energy (built 2002)
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    • 260 29 sex 'ooo SS vol CWT Distribution 0.72 unch 0 ChuanHup 0.47 unch 440 Cosco Investment 0.18 unch 77 Freight Links 0.04 0.01 150 GB Holdings- 0.66 unch 15 Jaya Holdings 0.25 unch 320 Keppel Corp 4.26 -0.04 747 Keppel Marine 0.17 unch 90 Keppel Tele 0.96 unch o
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    • 487 29  -  Its other feeder operations with Maersk between M'sian port, S'pore Indonesia will still continue By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Evergreen Marine Corp has pulled out of a joint feeder service with Maersk Sealand connecting their regional transhipment hub, the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), to Thailand.
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    • 244 29 USnrgingittodo more in fight against terrorism [SINGAPORE] The Japanese government has approved another six-month extension of its dispatch of Maritime Self-Defence Force ships to the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, with the United States pushing for it to do more in
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    • 180 29 AP [JAKARTA] Police arrested the skipper of the ferry that sank in central Indonesia with scores of people aboard heading home for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The skipper told authorities the 30-ton wooden boat was carrying 125 passengers and crew. But police believe
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    • 386 29  -  Reasons include use of high-speed technology for military, freight purposes From 1 Evelyn Duffy in Perth AUSTAL Ships managing director Bob McKinnon has forecast a rebound in the high speed ferry market, to be spurred on by new and emerging markets in Asia
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    • 880 30  -  STRAIT TALK -By David Hughes CRUISE operators probably do not need to buy a large, expensive report to know that times are hard right now. Nevertheless, quite a few of them will probably buy the latest report from Ocean Shipping Consultants (OCS) to find
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    • 207 30 PACE Gemartrans 4 Msw Ship 5 RCL 4 Avant tO #CLmk 10 MANII io Rickmers 3 B'tanqMas 5 Ctory Na« tC Meqastar K> SCI 4 BSA 6 4 MOt 3 Seaward 4 BSC K> Hamburg Sud 5 MURShpg K) Senlim 3 BTL 10 Heung-A 3 Myanma 3
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    • 10731 34 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT Vessel Voyage Telephone Advertiser Vessel Voiige T»i.nh~.. Nim S-SS Number SIN Destn Name Name Number L S fig gT Jg g g, fig 'ST U/n *«"cOSCO <ABJ) FRANCE 0009W nffl M PACC COn PAC B N GKA 5,29 '"tSVJHW */H 27/n TRIUMPH MUMBIA 209 45******1? ,T*
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      • 673 37 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT ADVANCE PESC 5 J5 A/SIDE 06/11 060C AMRTA JAYA 1 212 J16/17 A/SIDE 06/11 090C AS SPLENDOR 203 J7 A/SIDE 06/11 220C CEC DAWN 06SA J25 A/SIDE 06/11 230C DELIMA3 JB1101 J11 A/SIDE 06/11 030C HARAPAN SAJA JB1101 J11 A/SIDE
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      • 1389 37 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un Berth Vessel Out in 7T~ Name Voy V»y seq berthing Nmbr Name Voy Voy seq berthing NnTbr nU£' 2 Bth Un- Beth rtm9 Nmbr Ham v ®y Voy w, berthing Nmbr A P MOELLER 0209 0209 1
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      • 151 37 Nor 6 Brunei: First Day of Fasting. Nov 11 Italy: Remembrance Day. France: Remembrance Day. Belgium: Remembrance Day. Canada: Remembrance Day. USA: Veteran's Day. Nov 12 Taiwan: B day of Dr Sun Yat Sen Nov 15 Belgium: King's Day. Nov 23 Japan: Thankgivings Day. Dec 5 Thailand: King's
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      • 831 37 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma nne 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 sued stem. Market movements are indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 759 38  -  Bali bomb attacks have sparked concerns abont tourism; airlines may be hit By rci George Joseph [SINGAPORE] Major AsiaPacific airlines now have to weigh the impact of terrorism on tourism in the region, just as they showed signs of recovering from the Sept
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      • 438 38 It may also cut wages of remaining pilots in bid to stave off bankruptcy Bloomberg (CHICAGO] UAL Corps United Airlines, trying to head off a bankruptcy filing, may lay off an additional 600 pilots and cut wages by 18 per cent for the ones
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      • 418 38 AP [WASHINGTON] Airport security screeners are about to begin opening hundreds of thousands of pieces of checked baggage every day. but key questions about security and liability have not been resolved, government officials and airline and airport executives say. The Transportation Security Administration, created
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