The Business Times, 13 January 2003

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Internet nttp://business-times.asial com.sg SINGAPORE MONDAY. JANUARY 13. 2003 MfTA (P) 010/03/2002 85C
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  • 581 1  -  Japan, KL also throw weight behind scheme; Thaksin sets Jane target Reports by George Joseph in Phuket A THAI proposal to set up an Asian bond market has won the backing of six countries including Singapore, Japan and Malaysia and Prime Minister Thaksin
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  • 727 1  -  piiexcTusive Hiang Kie asset goestoHK-based Snmipac Hospitality for $7m Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] Coffee Club has emerged intact from eight months of uncertainty during which its parent Hiang Kie came under judicial management. Hong Kong-based Sumipac Hospitality has become the new owners of
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  • 418 1 Wrong impression created by recent departures, he says A COINCIDENCE of events leading to the premature exit of the foreign chiefs of some government-linked companies may have led to the impression that Singapore does not welcome foreign talent. And Prime Minister Goh Chok
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  • 370 1 Saudi Arabia says members are pumping more oil to replace lost Venezuelan output Bloomberg [VIENNA] Members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) yesterday agreed to raise output at a special meeting in a bid to replace lost Venezuelan supplies and
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    • 530 2  -  iH exclusive AnSust Consulting wins 15 clients on retainer, helping 7 firms plan IPOs Reports by Serena Ng [SINGAPORE] Less than a year after they quit en masse from public relations firm Golin/Harris Forrest following a clash of working styles, a team
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    • 387 2 Sharelnvestor.com, PR firm start new service targeted at listed firms [SINGAPORE] Internet technology firm Sharelnvestor.com has teamed up with public relations company AuBust Consulting to launch a new service to facilitate timely and fair disclosure of announcements and news releases by Singapore listed
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    • 857 2  -  Koizumi's choice likely to have great psychological impact on market Fronil Anthony Rowley in Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who is expected to nominate a new central bank governor this week, is likely to go for maximum political impact. This is to
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 446 3  -  It wins in the Home Audio section at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show By 1 Teh Hooi Ling CREATIVE Technology's Creative Prodikeys has on Saturday won the TechTV "Best of CES", an award that recognises and honours the most outstanding new consumer technology
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    • 195 3 SINGAMAS Container Holdings yesterday announced it has entered into an agreement with Xiamen Superchain Logistics Development to set up a container depot in Fuzhou, China. The total investment cost for the depot, named Fuzhou Singamas Warehousing and Trading Co, is US$6OO,OOO. The depot will
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    • 955 3  -  ■Baa lock siew anthony rowley THE Tokyo stock market will be no bears' picnic in 2003. In fact, it could turn out to be the best performer among all major markets this year. This may seem an odd prediction
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      327 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Jan 10 VALUE CLOSE ■TWOS 399.00 +153.00 ITOUX -*****.00 +135.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +40.00 M-SGE**>m 354 92 +3.78 MEjJhiEhd 119.18 +0.76 SG Fh 119lioi +4.85 SCr«rihnft»p 318.65 +5.01 165.57 +1.57 Stma Fatam 165.-40 +1.90 1 Slocks Vohm L&M lc 109.792.000 MuttiYis HK7c 95.218,000 Chart SemiCood 26c
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    • 260 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THIS column noted a week ago that Fraser Neave's stock, which had been stuck at the $7.60-$7.80 range for much of last year, was poised for an upside breakout following BIL International's
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    • 808 4  -  1-11 comment STOCKS r. sivanithy AFTER a rally that has taken its major indices up around 5 per cent since the start of the year, it's crunch time for Wall Street this week. Yes, it's that time of the year again
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    • 711 4 AFP [HONG KONG] North Korea's withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), announced last Friday, sent the yen falling to a fresh three-and-a-half-year low against the euro over the past week, but it was steady against the US dollar as concerns about
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    • 128 4 ♦WEARNES International Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 3.00 cents tax exempt) on March 10. Last day of buying-in on a cum basis is March 13. Date payable is March 25. ♦WBL Corporation Ltd will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 3.00 cents) on March 21. Last day
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 435 5  -  1 exclusive It wants to capture the lion's share of Thailand's property management sector Reports by Vince Chong FEW would doubt Premas Thailand's potential to capture the lion's share of the country's property management and consultancy sector, given the joint venture includes Thailand's biggest
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    • 240 5 PREMAS International chief executive Anthony Seah is not ruling out a management buyout if conditions are right. The company is a whol-ly-owned subsidiary of property giant Capitaland, which belongs to Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm. Mr Seah said: "For a company
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    • 359 5  -  EYE on the economy outlook By. Anna Teo OF all the downside risks facing the Singapore economy, perhaps the single most serious factor is a slowdown in electronics demand, according to two university economists. Not only would the manufacturing sector be hit directly through
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    • 292 5 The Straits Times THERE may be hope yet for those from the lower-in-come group who missed the earlier deadline to claim their Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS). Despite earlier official statements that the Dec 31 deadline was final, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 473 6 JAKARTA Indon president defends moves for Ist time after spate of protests Routers AFP INDONESIA President Megawati Sukarnoputri defended for the first time yesterday her government's unpopular increases in fuel and power prices, arguing they were needed to end the country's reliance
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    • 338 6 KUALA LUMPUR AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling coalition will call general elections before he retires in October, an opposition party predicted yesterday. Information gathered by the Democratic Action Party (DAP) indicated that contrary to earlier belief, Dr Mahathir would lead
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    • 299 6 BELABOUR WOES AP {HONG KONG] About 1,200 foreign maids working in Hong Kong marched from a downtown park to government headquarters yesterday in the latest protest against a proposal to cut their wages. "Migrants of the world unite," read one of the
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    • 310 6 HONGKONG AFP US fast-food giant McDonalds has come under fire from Hong Kong unions for hiking hamburger prices while handing out below market average wages to part-time staflF, a report said yesterday. McDonalds lifted prices by an average 4 per cent just before
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    • 217 6 ■PENANG Two ministries to jointly prepare strategies Bernama THE Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs and the International Trade and Industry Ministry will jointly prepare strategies to increase domestic investment and generate economic growth. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the
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    • 407 6  -  Gunpuy cxpocts common in March From] Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur ANOTHER Genting casino is set to emerge but it is not linked to the sole casino with the same name in Malaysia. Just last week, listed Ho Wah Genting announced it
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      • 78 6 [PENANG] Tourists will soon be able to hop on a helicopter from Penang International Airport to get to a private beachfront in Teluk Bahang in 20 minutes, if the authorities okay the move, The Star reported yesterday. Mutiara Beach Resort general manager Peter Gibbons said
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      • 95 6 AFP IMANILAJ Most Filipinos oppose amending the Philippine constitution to change the system of government from a presidential to parliamentary form, a survey showed yesterday. The Independent polling firm Pulse Asia said 42 per cent of 1,200 respondents surveyed last November supported constitutional amendments, up six
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      • 66 6 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian police said yesterday they have arrested two more suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), bringing to nearly 80 those in custody for links with the South-east Asian terror group. The two detained in the timber town of Sandakan in
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      • 62 6 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Saturday directed the 10 local banks to establish a special department or section to deal with small borrowers. Dr Mahathir said the consolidation exercise has resulted in the banks getting big but there were complaints
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      • 72 6 AFP l MANILA J rnuippine oniciais yesteraay protestea a US travel advisory warning Americans to take extra precautions here due to terror threats. Foreign secretary Bias Ople said such advisories paint "a very unfair picture" of the Philippines especially as authorities have been working
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      • 60 6 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Issues such as terrorism and a possible war in Iraq are expected to dominate the 11th Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF), to open today in Kuala Lumpur. The three-day meeting will be attended by some ISO delegates from 27 member nations which
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    • 514 6 OWENS CONTAINER UNE (S) PTE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) LOSS OF SHARE CERTIFICATE NOTICE is hereby given that the following Certificate has been reported lost, mislaid or destroyed: Name ot Shareholder Certificate No No. of Shares Karamjeet Singh Brar s/o Sardara Singh Brar 21 5,400 NOTICE IS
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    • 182 6 CYBERCREST PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING UP) NOTICE OF FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN purpart to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Cap. 50 that a Final Meeting of the Members ol the abovenamed company will be held at 7500 A Beach Road #16-322 The Plaza Singapore *****1
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    • 236 6 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 TAN KAY GUAN (PRIVATE) UNITED (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company held on the 6th January 2003 the following Special Resolution was passed "That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 290(1 Kb) of the Companies Act
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 539 7 HONG KONG Set to open in 2006, it is expected to draw at least 5.6 m visitors a year AP AFP Bloomberg TOP executives of Walt Disney Co expressed confidence at yesterday's groundbreaking for Hong Kong Disneyland that its first theme park on Chinese
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    • 247 7 ÜBANGKOK Bnt planning body's growth forecast is between £5-4.5% Reuters THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday the government will push for gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2003 of 6 per cent year-on-year, higher than official forecasts. "I am
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    • 94 7 BANGKOK AP THE top administrative court on Friday upheld a ruling blocking the creation of a new telecom regulatory agency, a decision that could delay by at least a year the liberalisation of Thailand's telecoms sector. The ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court upheld
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  • REGION world
    • 611 8 lrnppiw ffgicis Pyongyang most be convinced it has nothing to gain, suggests Japan Reuters AP [SEOULJ With the world gripped by fear of a nucleararmed North Korea, a US envoy arrived in Seoul yesterday to try to calm the crisis that
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    • ASIANotes
      • 96 8 AP [NEW ueljiij inaia plans to send its tirst unmanned mission to moon in the next four years at a cost of nearly 3.5 billion rupees (Ssl27 million), Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation, said in an interview published yesterday. A
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      • 90 8 Bloomberg [oain r KAiMuisuuj a uaiuornia man was cnarged with illegally exporting technology to China that can be used in missile guidance systems. Qing Chang Jiang, 51, of Cupertino, California, was arrested for sending microwave amplifiers to a company in China that has the
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      • 56 8 AFP [NEW DELHI] US energy giant Unocal has proposed to build a gas pipeline connecting two eastern Indian states through Bangladesh, the Press Trust of India news agency said yesterday. The project's goal is to move unused gas from India's north-eastern state of Tripura
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      • 58 8 Xinhua [SHANGHAI] Shanghai (above) is set to attract three million overseas tourists this year, earning US$2.6 billion in foreign exchange, according to Yao Mingbao, director of the city tourism committee. The city also aims to receive 95 million domestic tourists for an income of
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      • 61 8 Reuters [TAIPEI] Taiwan's largest personal computer company, Acer Inc, yesterday said it has targeted an 18.9 per cent rise in consolidated revenue this year, with consolidated earnings per share of between NT$3 and NT$5. The company was also considering selling its 20 per cent
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      • 46 8 Reuters [BEIJING] China's power generation rose 10.5 per cent in 2002 from the year before to 1.64 trillion kilowatt hours, the Economic Daily said yesterday. China consumed 1.62 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity in the year, up 10.3 per cent. Reuters
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    • 545 8 Per capita income is likely to doable within a decade Reuters [SINGAPORE] A crisis over North Korea's nuclear plans is failing to dim optimism that South Korea's economy will continue to outperform its peers and serve as a model for the rest
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    • 247 8 BEIJING AFP CHINA is facing a serious shortage of mineral resources and will be forced to drastically increase its imports to meet demand over the next 20 years, a state-run newspaper said yesterday. The Workers Daily said a report by the Chinese Academy
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    • 458 8 TAIPEI It will sell its 30% stake after Mosel took board control Reuters GERMAN chipmaker Infineon Technologies said on Saturday it would walk away from Taiwan venture ProMos Technologies and sell its 30 per cent stake after partner Mo*sel took control
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    • 210 8 HONGKONG Bloomberg HSBC Holdings and its Hong Kong rivals will urge China'a regulators to open its financial markets at a faster pace to lenders from the city, where an economic slump has crimped bank profits. The Hong Kong Association of Banks will
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    • 238 8 NEW DELHI AP INDIA announced a series of steps last Friday aimed at easing the country's restrictive currency controls, including allowing Indians for the first time to buy shares in companies listed on stock exchanges overseas. Such purchases by individual investors
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  • FOCUS oil
    • 1041 9  -  New laws and pipeline problems worry them while smaller firms make headway, says Brace Stanley Bruce Stanley AP WHEN Conoco Inc developed the Ardalin oil field in northern Russia, coping with the arctic weather and total absence of supply links to the outside
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    • 912 9 COMMODITY WeeklyRoundup AFP I LONDON) Oil prices fell back last week after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) oil ministers signalled they were ready to pump more oil to ward off an oil price spike threatened by a strike in Venezuela and the
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  • WORLD news
    • 639 10 NEWYORK Investor focus will likely be on tech giants IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Son Reuters EARNINGS season heats up in earnest this week, and while the cards have been dealt for companies' fourth quarter results, investors are anxiously awaiting a peek
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    • 527 10 LONDON Pentagon orders thousands more troops to the Gulf Reuters AP BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is to meet US President George W Bush after UN arms inspectors present a key report on Iraq late this month amid European anxiety to
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    • 264 10 LONDON Bloomberg SAFEWAY Pic investors expect a higher bid for Britain's fourth largest supermarket chain after William Morrison Supermarkets Pic agreed to buy the company for about £4 billion (5511.2 billion) in stock and assumed debt. Potential buyers include Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Asda
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    • 391 10 WASHINGTON Bloomberg US President George W Bush plans to ask Congress to almost double funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) next year to help the agency hire accountants and investigators to fight corporate fraud. The president's call for
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    • 249 10 LONDON Reuters THE world's largest financial information provider, Reuters Group Pic, is set to shed a further 1,000 jobs as part of a new cost-cutting drive, The Sunday Times newspaper said, citing industry sources. Chief Executive Tom Glocer is expected to announce the
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 69 10 Bloomberg r*<muuai rtusumia doua, liumi wmi cash after it sold two US units for US$6 billion and then failed to buy Abbey National, is targeting its own stock. Australia's largest bank, whose buybacks cost All .8 billion (S$lJ billion) in 2002, plans to
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      • 46 10 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] Philips said on Friday it would sell its Business Communications Group unit to privately-held US Gores Technology Group for an undisclosed sum. The unit which has 1,300 employees and sells voice communication solutions, is being divested as a non-core activity.—Reuters
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      • 67 10 Bloomberg [LAS VEGAS] Dell Computer Corp, the world's largest maker of personal computers, ended 2002 with strong holiday season sales that met the company's expectations, said chief executive Michael Dell (above). "We expected to have strong sales in the holiday season, and they were kind
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      • 59 10 Reuters [FRANKFURT] German postal giant Deutsche Post plans to take over Italian parcel service Casa di Spedizioni Ascoli from Jan 15 to expand into southern Europe, German magazine Focus reported. Hie Italian company, which is to be integrated into express unit DHL, has 400 workers
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      • 59 10 Bloomberg [HELSINKI) NoKia ujrj will prooaoiy say 11 increased its market share in the fourth quarter when the company reports earnings on Jan 23, Deutsche Bank analyst Keith Westhead said. Nokia will probably "surprise positively on handset market share and disappoint on average selling prices",
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      • 71 10 Reuters [KUWAITI Kuwait's stock exchange will open a special female dealing room this month to allow women to trade shares directly rather than rely on a male relative or broker, bourse officials said yesterday. Women are allowed to own shares in Kuwait but they
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    • 507 11 Chicago Move comes after German company plans to setup US derivatives market Bloomberg THE Chicago Board of Trade will dump an electronic trading system made by Eurex AG after the German exchange operator revealed plans to start a competing derivatives market in the
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    • 429 11 LOS ANGELES LAT-WP IN a surprise move, Sony Corp named television executive Andrew Lack as chief of its massive music operations. The appointment comes amid expectations of wrenching change both for Sony Music Group and an industry wracked by rampant piracy and falling sales.
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    • 400 11 OBITUARY Reuters [MIAMI] SINGER Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, one of the disco sounds of the *****, has died after undergoing abdominal surgery last week, his family said yesterday. He was 53. Gibb, whose high-pitched harmonies with his twin Robin and older brother
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    • 349 13 LISBON It cites differences between US and European accounting rules AFP Bloomberg PORTUGAL'S largest private bank. Banco Comercial Portugues (BCP), will delist from the New York Stock Exchange because of differences between US and European accounting rules. The differing sets of rules
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • CHINA focus
    • 684 12  -  The environmental protection market in China is huge. Lob Bui Yin looks at two water-treatment firms taking different routes to the market Loh Hui Yin WHEN you are new and want to break into the China market, find yourself a business partner from either China
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    • 210 12 THE Shanghai branch of DBS Bank is one of four foreign banks which have been given an "overall best ratings" assessment by the Chinese central bank. HSBC Holdings, Citibank and Bank of America were the other banks which earned the top assessment for the
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    • 288 12 TAKING a different strategy from Darco Water Technologies in tackling the China market is Chemitreat, another Singapore-based water-treatment company. Chemitreat, which began to look at the China market in a serious manner about two years ago, is considering taking on foreign partners to fund
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 270 17 AFP [BRUSSELS] Marine salvage experts resumed efforts yesterday to tow a Turkish-flagged tanker to port 11 days after it hit a wreck in the English Channel, battling a last-minute anchor snag and worsening weather. Divers failed overnight to burn through the anchor
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    • 277 17 There is no sales report as the market was closed for the holiday season MX '000 j»w s$ ra CWT Distribution 0.70 unch 51 Chuan Hup 0.44 unch 1477 Coscolnv*stm*nt__0.20 0.01 52 Fr*lqM Links 0.03 unch 0 GB HoiOings _0.60 unch 55 Jaya Holdings 0-24 unch 566 Kappai
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    • 601 17 HE port operator eyeing Yangshan deep-water port project Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Modern Terminals Ltd plans to invest as much as 5 billion yuan (Ssl billion) in Shanghai as one of Hong Kong's biggest port operators expands outside southern China for the first
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    • 385 17 Strike in Venezuela worrying US crude importers Bloomberg [OSLO] Oil tanker rates rose as companies and traders booked ships to carry oil from the Persian Gulf to the US at a faster pace to offset the halt in imports from strike-hit
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    • 163 17 [SINGAPORE] Singapore has opened a new maritime fire base at West Coast Pier (WCP) to strengthen its shipboard fire fighting abilities. Two newbuild fire fighting craft the Api Api 1 and Api Api 2 were also commissioned at the base opening ceremony,
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    • 307 17  -  US Customs rejects repeated appeals by Asian shippers By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] US Customs has ruled out extending the Feb 2 deadline for 24-hour pre-submission of maritime cargo manifests on all USbound shipments, despite repeated appeals by Asian shippers. In Washington at
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    • 604 18  -  DOCKYARD -By 1 David Hughes WHEN witnessing a monumental foul-up of some kind or other, do you ever think to yourself: "If only they had asked the people who know?". Well, that is what independent tanker owners' group Intertanko has decided to do.
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      • 512 25 Vessel Voy No Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT AS SPLENDOR 0206A J8 A/SIDE 13/*****0 JINGHONGHAI 01/03 J10 A/SIDE 13/01 0100 AKASHIA 2031 J6 13/01 0900 13/01 1800 BAYSWATER118 M3009 J3 13AJ1 0800 13/01 1630 BTBPUTRA JAN 13 J1 13/01 0930 13/01 1400 BTBTJAYA1 JAN 13 J1 13/01 1430
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      • 146 25 Jan 13 Japan: Com ing-of- Age-Day. Jan 31 Hong Kong: Lunar New Year': Day. Korea: Lunar New Year's Day. Feb 1 China: Lunar New Year's Day. Hong Kong: Lunar New Year': Day. Korea: Lunar New Year's Day. Malaysia: Lunar New Year's Day. Singapore: Lunar New Year'! Day. Ft*
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      • 745 25 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Ma rine 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 indi cated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change
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      • 560 26 The French planpmakAr fflina market share on US rival Boeing Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Airbus SAS. the world's second largest maker of commercial aircraft, delivered 303 planes to airlines last year, topping its target and gaining market share on Boeing Co, people familiar
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      • 201 26  -  By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plans to incorporate Airbus A3BO aircraft as a "key part" of its fleet after its parent company agreed to lease six of the mega-jets on Friday. The memorandum of understanding will see scheduled deliveries of
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      • 277 26 46 people were on board the TANS airlines plane AFP [LIMA] There were no signs of survivors on Saturday as rescuers located the wreckage of a passenger plane that disappeared over a mountainous region of the Peruvian jungle two days earlier with
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      • 198 26 Reuters [ISTANBUL] Nine foreign nationals were among the 75 people who died in Wednesday's plane crash in southeast Turkey, the local Anatolian news agency said. Only five passengers survived the accident, which officials said appeared to have been caused by dense fog. The
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      • 212 26 Growth seen in flights, cargo, passenger traffic AFP [HONG KONG) Hong Kong last year enjoyed its best year so far in aviation with records set for flights and cargo and passenger movements, the territory's air authority said yesterday. The strongest growth was seen
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      • 178 26 Reuters [ATHENS] Greece's advisers on the sell-off of cashstrapped Olympic Airways's non-core assets said they had opened a tender for the sale of a majority stake in electronic ticket reservation company Galileo Hellas. Deloitte Touche Finance, which advises Greece on the sale of
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      • 339 26 Reuters [CHICAGO] A US bankruptcy judge on Friday ordered temporary 13 per cent pay cuts for unionised machinists at United Airlines, buying the airline more time to negotiate broad concessions at its entire unionised workforce. United, a unit of UAL Corp and the
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