The Business Times, 3 March 2003

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    13 1 MITAiEUJaUQ3/2003 85* THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2003
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    63 1 Week Change STI *****5 -41.18 KLSECOMP 646.80 -7 69 NIKKEI 225 8363.04 -150.50 HANG SENG 9122.66 -128i0 SET INDEX 361,12 +1.79 JAKARTA COMP .399.22 -3.02 MANILA COMP _1019.33 +3.63 TAIPEI WPI 4432.46 -115.89 SEOUL COMP 575.43 -28.17 SHENZHEN B _..__206.73 +2.49 AUSTALLORD J778.40 -30.00 DOW JONES 7891.08 -127.03 NASDAQ
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    78 1 FOREX RATES US* SS USS (SS per I S$) 1738 £(l'S$/SS per 1.579 1745 EUR0(1SS/SS/E). 1.075 1.868 YEN 117.7 67.70 RM 3.800 1186 HKS 7.799 4.488 BAHT 4174 24.59 RUPIAH &887 5.113 RENMINBI 8199 4.775 INDIAN RITEE 47 68 27.43 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* hih KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONG
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    Lock icon S'pore shaping up as disaster recovery hub
    853 1  -  IDC expects market here to be worth $230 m by 2006, np from $72m in 2001 |:iri exclusive By Raju Chellam, Amit Roy Choudhury [SINGAPORE] There's a new mantra in town. It goes by various names, such as business continuity, disaster recovery, data
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    Lock icon High alert for classic oil-shock recession in '03
    710 1  -  I-\i exclusive Asia is in the firing line, but recovery likely by 2004, says Morgan Stanley's Roach By' Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] The global economy looks set for a classic oil-shock-induced recession in 2003, intensified by war fears. And Asian economies are unlikely
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    Lock icon East Asia sets course for local currency bonds
    786 1  -  Ase&n+3 finance officials agree to proceed with plan From, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo HIGH-LEVEL financial officials from the Asean+3 group meeting in Tokyo at the weekend agreed to move ahead with plans that would see regional governments and corporations issuing bonds in
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      79 1 |> j 1 J I 1 l i >i»=! 1 3 GIC steps lip investment in China V 4 ..A Capital <H1(I S Lievv is riuht on track Rougher tllllCS for S pore companies in H2 than H1 last year Prj v OCBC i;ra hs °>4 of nf'W home loans
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      62 1 Microsoft's push into Singapore education mPgl2 Ultra wide band: saviour through stealth? Tang Weng Hd,Pg 13 ItSj jjjij <_ Mm I mm *m K. s IM d 5 I^, *m 1 IM Br 2 uv V ▼»*M«« or UNOi C•▼ AT IM ffl •IM Pi. I t»t MU■ I tOf
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      Lock icon GIC steps up its China exposure
      889 2  -  Latest investment is&st&kein developer Bering Capital Land By\ Loh Hui Yin [SINGAPORE] From oldeconomy brick and mortar to risky high-tech ventures, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is stepping up its exposure to China. It is also tapping into the China market in
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      Lock icon CapitaLand's Liew is right on track
      994 2  -  \-H exclusive CEO has confonnded critics by turning in maiden profits forthegronp By* fCT Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] CapitaLand's chief executive officer Liew Mun Leong wants to prove his critics wrong. And the company's recent profit its first since emerging from a merger as Capita
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  • CORPORATE earnings
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      Lock icon Rougher times for companies in H2 than H1 last year
      1133 3  -  Results point to more turbulence in Q1 this year, say analysts By\ David Boey COMPANIES with fiscal year ended last December faced a rougher time in the second half of 2002 than in the January to June period. This, some
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    • EARNINGSRoundup
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        Lock icon Goodpack profit up 20% at $15m
        43 3 GOODPACK Ltd, a transport equipment firm, said its profits last year rose 19.7 per cent to $15.02 million, or 3.82 cents per share. Sales gained 26.5 per cent to $51.2 million. Goodpack expects a better year ahead.
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        Lock icon Jurong Engg profitable again
        69 3 JURONG Engineering returned to the black in FYO2 with profits of $4.78 million. It expects to remain profitable through a difficult year. The company credited its turnaround to "improved margin of projects as a whole and more efficient cost control". Sales during the period jumped 21.6
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        Lock icon Presscrete back in the black too
        70 3 PRESSCRETE Holdings also turned around last year with profits of $2.29 million, or 1.93 cents per share, reversing losses of $22.87 million previously. Its return to profitability came despite a 29.04 per cent fall in turnover to $10.88 million. Presscrete said that due to
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        Lock icon Lian Beng posts interim loos of $2.9m
        67 3 LIAN Beng Group swung into the red with an interim net loss of $2.91 million compared to net profits of $555,000 a year ago. It pinned its losses on projects managed by its wholly owned Deenn Engineering. Lian Beng's sales dipped 2.1 per
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        Lock icon Strike Engg slips into red in H1
        61 3 STRIKE Engineering, a provider of mechanical and electrical engineering services, has posted interim losses of $12.03 million. This reverses gains of $586,000 made in HI 2001. Turnover at half-time dived 57.6 per cent to $18.72 million. Strike's losses pa- share were 1.37 cents,
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      318 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Feb 28 VALUE CLOSE ■TOMB 6.00 -2.00 BTCW -*****.00 +2.00 BT 10-riayMA -*****.00 1 M-SGEqbMM 341.42 +0.35 SG Eqaifes Elact 113.74 +0.23 SGEqaftto Fin 1079.30 -3.95 307.27 +0.59 MOShvpm 156.05 +0.18 SMSaFatow 156.00 -0.70 Stocks Volume Wwfci C—Is Stocks Cents Chart SemiCond 26c 56,978,000 Penguin W*****0 4
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      Lock icon Gamuda wrts worth a look, given promising M'sian market
      275 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By) R Sivanithy VIRTUALLY all the world's stock markets are down for the year so far. In this region, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the Philippines are negative but interestingly, Malaysia has managed to keep its nose just
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      Lock icon Chickens have replaced bulls, bears
      831 4  -  -l i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy > EOPLE think that there are only two kinds of animals in the stock marH ket bulls and bears. They are wrong. There is a third kind that only emerges under extreme conditions. The way Iraqi war fears are
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      Lock icon Tokyo admission reins in yen; US$ forced lower too
      716 4 Reuters [NEW YORK] Japanese finance authorities on Friday confessed to the open secret of selling yen to stop the currency from rising, and their admission was rewarded as the yen fell against the US doUar and euro. The US dollar was
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      117 4 ♦NUCLEUS Electronics will hold its annual general meeting on March 18 at 10 am, OCBC Centre, #33-01 Executive Club. ♦CENTRAL Properties will go ex-dividend (final dividend of 30 cents) on April 2. Last day for buying-in on a cum basis is on April 7. Date payable is on
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
    3086 4 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS com Global Finance Index Fd 0 668/ Com Global Lifestyle Index Fd 0 766/ Com Global Health Index Fd 0 728/ AW MHO Aaaet Mgt (S>u*J Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 373/ Star Europe Ecrtyl** 0.532/ Com Global mfotec Index Fd!" 0.253/ Star Europe Bd. 1.192/
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon Sending the best overseas reaps China dividend for CapitaLand
      469 5  -  By Andrea Tan IT pays to heed the advice of a seasoned corporate man. Capita Land CEO Liew Mun Leong said: "This is the advice I got from Lim Chin Beng: 'Send the best people out to man the operations.' I
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      Lock icon Quotation of Singapore Government Bonds (February 28, 2003)
      238 5 NUMBER VOCATIVE GROSS MATURITY YEMtRMSS) COUPON AMOUNT INTEREST OF DAYS OF INDOLE PRICES REDEMPTION RATE (SM) PAYMENT ACCRUE) (EXCLUDING YIELD ISMCOOE PA) DATES MTEREST ACCRUED INTEREST) (%PA) 01.*****3 N*****06 2001 21/4 2600.00 1/4 1/10 150 100.12 0.88 SG********** 15.*****3 Lo&\ 1 1983
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      Lock icon OCBC grabs 34% of new home loans in Jan
      792 5  -  m exclusive St&nch&rt second with half of OCBCs caveats; UOB in third place By Siow Li Sen THE relentless onslaught mounted by OCBC Bank in the home loan market has given it an eye-popping 34 per cent share of new loans,
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon A Budget to revitalise the economy
      809 6 Key initiatives will help S'pore firms compete better, writes Ernst Young THE Singapore Budget 2003 dealt with the current economic climate head-on by boldly liberalising certain practices to revitalise the economy. It is clear evidence that the government is taking significant initiatives to do
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      Lock icon S'pore firm uneasy over Hanoi JV
      364 6  -  Ant&ra Koh project held np after delay in getting approval for new licence From, Harish Mehta in Bangkok SINGAPORE'S Antara Koh Development Pte Ltd and the Hanoi Housing Development Investment Co have expressed concern over continued delays to their joint venture project on the
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      Lock icon Asia-Pac's growth prospect is best: poll
      407 6 on the economy outlook AFP THE Asia-Pacific region offers the greatest opportunities for growth in the next three years, according to a survey of the world's top corporate executives by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Sixty-six per cent of the 681 executives covered by
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      Lock icon Relative lurid performance is key
      696 6  -  Daniel Chan Managing director chief investment officer UOB Asset Management WE refer to Leong Sze Hian's letter, "Award-win-ning loss-makers" (Mailbag, Feb 6). One of the questions Mr Leong raised is whether an award should be given for a manager of a fund which lost the
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  • CHINA focus
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      Lock icon Satyam pins N Asia hopes on China office
      545 7  -  Chinese's understanding of Korea and Japan is the key, Satyam's chief tells Lob Bnl Tin Loh Hui Yin AN Indian software firm using its China office to tap the Japanese and Korean markets? It may sound like an unlikely strategy to some,
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      Lock icon Picking his way through cultural minefield
      251 7 SATYAM Computer Services wanted to give a stylish radio as a door gift to its Chinese business associates when it hosted an event in China. But the particular model that Satyam executive Harsh Vardhan had in mind was manufactured in China for export and
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      Lock icon China's GDP stats are deflated: Goldman
      555 7  -  Byi Chuang Peck Ming YES, China's official growth figures for the economy could well have been tinkered with. But not always in the direction you think. Rather than being overstated, according to Goldman Sachs, China's growth in the past two years actually outpaced the
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Mixed report card for KL-listed companies
      681 8  -  I:l I comment KL STOCKS Stock market likely to remain lethargic In the short-term eddie toh THE latest batch of earnings from major Malaysian companies has come in below par. Telekom Malaysia recorded a net profit of RMI billion for 2002, but saw a
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      Lock icon Iraq war could derail KL's growth target: Dr M
      172 8 KUALA LUMPUR AP, AFP MALAYSIA hopes to post economic growth of at least 4 per cent this year, but could fall short of that target if a war erupts in Iraq, according to news reports. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said a
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      Lock icon HK seen cutting Budget deficit via wide-ranging tax hikes
      745 9 HONGKONG Also expected are cuts in civil service pay and staffing, welfare payments Reuters SHUTTERED shops with peeling posters along some of Hong Kong's busiest thoroughfares speak volumes about the territory's painful economic restructuring. They also point to the dilemma facing
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      Lock icon China bank in talks with HSBC
      243 9 BEIJING Bank of Communications keen on stake sale Bloomberg BANK of Communications (BOC), China's fifth-largest lender, said it is in talks with HSBC Holdings Pic to sell a stake in the bank, helping it compete with rivals. "We are in talks with HSBC," said
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      Lock icon China brokerages in for punishing shake-up
      382 9 SHANGHAI Reuters CHINA'S brokerage industry, awash in red ink after years of losses, will embark on a massive consolidation this year that might see most securities houses leave the business within five years, analysts said. Many of the country's 120 securities houses are expected
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        Lock icon Soong rejects graft allegations
        69 9 AFP [TAIPEI] The chief of Taiwan's opposition People First Party James Soong yesterday rejected former French foreign minister Roland Dumas' allegations that he had taken US$4OO million in bribes in Taiwan's worst kickback scandal. "Mr Soong had said on different occasions before that he was not
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        Lock icon Manila may see trade surplus erased
        40 9 Reuters [MANILA] The Philippines could see its 2002 current account surplus evaporate after initial adjustments to trade data showed imports were US$2 billion to US$3 billion higher than previously reported, the government said yesterday.—Reuters
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        Lock icon Maruti cuts car prices
        37 9 Bloomberg [NEW DELHI] Maruti Udyog Ltd, India's biggest carmaker, cut prices after the government reduced the excise tax to 24 per cent from 32 per cent in its annual budget announcement last Friday.
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        Lock icon HK maids: Manila may seek ILO help
        38 9 AFP [MANILA] The Philippines yesterday threatened to seek mediation from the International Labor Organization (ILO) to prevent Hong Kong from implementing a decision cutting the minimum salaries of foreign maids. —AFP
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        Lock icon Make Langkawi state capital: Dr M
        49 9 [LANGKAWI] Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has suggested that the Kedah government should consider making Langkawi its administrative capital, the New Sunday Times reported. He said the island was capable erf 1 taking over from Alor Star as it was "far more" developed.
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        Lock icon Mega slams polls quota for females
        39 9 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has criticised a new law, requiring at least 30 per cent of parliamentary candidates in elections be female, as demeaning to women, a report said yesterday. —AFP
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    Lock icon Oil prices rocket to 12-year high
    984 8 COMMODITY Weeklyßoundup AFP (LONDON] Oil prices spiked up to within a whisker of US$4O per barrel this week on world markets for the first time in 12 years as fears of an impending war in Iraq spooked commodity traders. But gold prices failed to
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  • WORLD news
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        Lock icon Alinghi sweeps America's Cap
        176 10 Reuters [AUCKLAND] Swiss challengers Alinghi became the first European team to win the America's Cup when they beat holders Team New Zealand by 45 seconds in the fifth race yesterday to claim the series SO. Alinghi led from start to finish in the six-leg, 18.5 nautical
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        Lock icon Lehman to cut Japan investment
        101 10 AFP [TOKYO] US investment bank Lehman Brothers plans to sharply cut its initial investment in a Japanese trading company to be formed in a merger of two debt-ridden firms next month, a press report said yesterday. Lehman may only buy a 10 billion yen (Ssl47
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        Lock icon SEC sees fewer enforcement actions
        113 10 Reuters [WASHINGTON! The US Securities and Exchange Commission will probably bring fewer enforcement actions in the future than it did in the most recently ended fiscal year, said a top SEC enforcement official on Saturday. SEC enforcement division deputy director Linda Thomsen told hundreds of
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        Lock icon Korea's card bad debts hit new high
        91 10 Reuters [SEOUL] The delinquency ratio at South Korea's credit card companies at the end of January reached its highest level since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, YTN television news said yesterday, quoting the country's financial regulator. At nine independent card companies, an average
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        Lock icon Tesco 'surprised' at Ahold bid report
        75 10 Reuters [LONDON] Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco Pic expressed surprise yesterday at a newspaper report that said it was considering spending £10 billion (5527.4 billion) on assets of Dutch counterpart Ahold. The report in Britain's Independent speculated that Tesco might bid for the Dutch
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      Lock icon Iraq attack seen in mid March
      712 10 BAGHDAD Bnt US suffers setback after Turkey's refusal to admit US troops Reuters AFP, IRAQ destroyed more banned Al-Samoud 2 missiles and was to sit down for talks on germ weapons yesterday, apparently hoping last-minute compliance with UN disarmament demands could avert a seemingly
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      Lock icon Lehman cut CEO's pay in 2002 as profit sank 18%
      285 10 NEW YORK Texas Instruments gave CEO raise, restored bonns LEHMAN Brothers Holdings Inc cut chairman and chief executive officer Richard Fuld's pay by 22 per cent last year to US$l2.5 million as the company's profit fell 18 per cent. The
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      Lock icon Soros decries Bush's 'imperialist vision'
      79 10 AFP [WASHINGTON] US financier George Soros blasted President George W Bush and top aides for their "imperialist vision" and "aversion to international cooperation", according to a media report on Friday. "President Bush is push- ing the wrong buttons when he says, "Those who are not
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      Lock icon US tycoon buys Man Utd stake
      225 10 AFP [LONDON] US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer has quietly bought 2.9 per cent of Manchester United, raising speculation that the English football club could foil into US hands, the Sunday Telegraph said. It said Mr Glazer, 74, owner of Super Bowl champions Tampa Bay
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      Lock icon Hutchison may curb its role at Global Crossing
      466 11 WASHINGTON This is part of a revised bid to win US nod for its purchase Bloomberg, NYT HUTCHISON Whampoa Ltd, as part of a revised bid to win US approval for its purchase of bankrupt Global Crossing Ltd, may agree to limit
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    Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
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      246 11 CBTPTIC CROSSWORD 8 As mature as laymen can be 11 Measured progress of owls "jBB 13 Ships' officers going around 8818 MB |MBB I Angered about article, so incomplete (3) appea 23 The leading lady maybe says |BM BB BB mistake (7) 30 ?8?' 12 Means to buy but not
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      731 12  -  I-id exclusive The company has invested $65m in the Singapore education sector over the last 18 months. This year could be bigger, reports Rqjn Chellam Raju Chellam SOFTWARE supremo Microsoft Corp plans to make an aggressive push into the education and training sectors in
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      262 12  -  By\ Raju Chellam LAST week, a team of four students from NTU won the Asia-Pacific Student .NET Competition held in Beijing. This year's event attracted about 15,000 students in 3,000 teams from 11 countries in the region. The four winning students Kapil Vaidyanathan, Anumeha Bisaria,
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      662 13  -  111 comment INFOTECH UWB promises a cheap revolution, literally; but it threatens the status quo tang weng fai KUDOS to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) for making the quiet moves that don't always make big headlines but do have a large impact. Last
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      112 13 Xinhua [HONG KONG] The narcotics division of Hong Kong's Security Bureau has launched an interactive role play game entitled Beautiful Life at its updated website to enhance anti-drug preventive education on the Web. "In view of the popularity of the Internet among young
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        47 13 UK-LISTED Exel, a global leader in supply chain management, says Sing Tel wiU be the strategic regional data communications provider deploying its Asia-Pacific Wide Area Network (WAN) using IP-VPN technology. The company plans to invest $6 million to enhance its regional data network.
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        34 13 RESPONDING to increased demand for flexibility, Singapore Airlines' website www.singaporeair.com has a fresh interface developed by interactive consultancy XM. The online booking service now allows travellers to make multi-city bookings.
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        51 13 HP SERVICES, one of the core business groups of HP, has signed a strategic partnership with BEA Systems for the China market. HP Services' Asia-Pacific operations are run out of Singapore. According to HP, this partnership will deliver enhanced comprehensive enterprise applications and support services to
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        51 13 HEWLETT-PACKARD has organised a regional contest featured in SlA's in-flight magazine Silver Kris. The contest is part of HP's mission of encouraging people to "share their digital lifestyles". Users can submit their best "themed" digital photographs at www.hp.com/apac/phoUKontest and get a chance to win an HP photosmart
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        77 13 iASPire, a leading enterprise Managed Services Provider in the Asia-Pacific region, has launched Instant Exchange in Singapore. According to the company, this makes it one of the first few service providers to offer fully managed application hosting of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. The company said the launch
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        69 13 IDG World Expo (Asia) Ltd, a business unit of IDG, will soon release a glossary of Linux applications to be featured in LinuxWorld Singapore and Malaysia. The events, both slated for May 2003, will include a two-day conference. Presentations will showcase the most compelling business
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        27 13 IBC Asia will organise the two-day seventh annual Asia Pacific Optical Networking 2003 summit from April 21 in Singapore. For details, email phyllis.goh@ibcasia.com.sg.
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        52 13 PACIFIC Conferences is holding a two-day conference, Inter@ctive Marketing, from May 8. According to the organisers, the conference will provide marketers with new concepts, fresh approaches and real case studies that will challenge the traditional views on how companies market and reach out to their customers. For details,
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        33 13  -  Compiled by Amit Roy Choudhury A THREE-DAY conference on speech technology and applications, Voice World Asia 2003, will be held from March 12 at Suntec Singapore. For details, email camie.chua@terrapinn.com.
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      250 13  -  By Elgin Toh AXAPTA 3.0, the latest version of Microsoft's business solutions software, has new capabilities and enhancements aimed at serving the needs of medium-sized businesses. According to Microsoft, this latest version gives customers "greater access to the business information and processes
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      Lock icon S'pore's server market grows 4.3%, outperforming region
      540 15  -  Strong Q4 bumps up tepid Asia-Pac server growth, says Dataqnest By. Amit Roy Choudhury THE Singapore market for computer servers weathered the sluggish economic conditions to grow 4.3 per cent to US$l97 million in 2002, according to Dataquest, a unit of Gartner. The
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      438 15 AFP [TOKYO] A weekend glitch in Japan's air traffic control system, which disrupted 1,600 flights and affected 270,000 passengers, was seen yesterday to have dealt another blow to the credibility of the country's high-tech industry. The failure, the largest computer outage in
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      297 15 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sony Corp, the world's No 1 maker of video-game machines, has teamed with International Business Machines Corp and Butterfly.net Inc to support a service to connect millions of Play Station 2 players at once. IBM and Butterfly.net, a closely held US developer
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      209 15 Bloomberg [ARMONK, New York] International Business Machines Corp, the world's largest computer maker, extended its lead in sales of server systems in the fourth quarter, according to market researcher IDC. IBM increased its share to 36.2 per cent of the market, based on
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      332 15 Reuters (NEW YORK) Microsoft Corp unveiled a test version this week of threedegrees an instant messaging product aimed at 13- to 24-year-olds that lets them hang out online together as part of the software company's efforts to target the set that grew
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      115 15  -  Sueanne Mocktar-Ng Assistant Director marketing communications, Suntec Singapore THIS refers to the article, 'Branding the Samsung Way' (BizlT, Feb 24). The article mentioned that Samsung erected "a giant electronic billboard on top of the Suntec Convention Centre" where it is "a prime location indeed for billboards,
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      681 17  -  It accuses port authority of reneging on prior deal for it to operate west bank terminal By] Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation's Belgium subsidiary has slammed as "deceptive" Antwerp Port Authority's (APA) talk of transferring a "reserved" terminal concession to one of
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      236 17 It and partners will operate first phase ofWaigaoqiao port Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, controlled by Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, formed a 1.9 billion yuan (*****.7 million) port venture with the Shanghai government and two China-backed companies, its port unit said.
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      173 17 Xinhua [TIANJIN] Tianjin Port, the largest port city in north China, opened a direct container shipping route to Europe. Dai Xianglong, the new-ly-elected mayor, on Friday attended a ceremony celebrating the first voyage on the new route. The fifth generation container ship has a maximum
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      226 17 [SINGAPORE] Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) tanker arm American Eagle Tankers (AET) has won a US$22O million long-term contract to transport oil from Venezuela to Asia. The seven year contract comes with a three year extension option, and will see AET add three new
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      242 17 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Ships plying the narrow Malacca Straits are advised to be on a look out for dozens of floating containers that fell into the sea after two ships collided off Malaysia's southern Johor coast, an official said. "The containers are
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      Lock icon RCL steams into the black on forex gains
      309 17  -  Cost-cutting, lower provisions also help in 1.23b b&ht profit By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] A favourable exchange rate enabled Sin-gapore-headquartered and Thai-listed feeder operator Regional Container Lines (RCL) to turn around its 2002 bottom line, posting a 1.23 billion baht (Ssso million) profit
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      Lock icon Lines, shippers coping well with US' 24-hour rule
      817 18  -  LINER SCENE By David Hughes REMEMBER the cries of anguish last year when the US Customs announced it wanted to have details of all cargo loaded on vessels bound for the US at least 24 hours before loading? At first, many in
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        126 25 Mar 3 Australia: Labour Day Bulgaria: National Day Luxemburg: Carnival Mar 4 Malaysia: Awal Muharram Indonesia: Moslem New Year Day Portugal: Carnival Mar 5 Brunei: Hijriah Mar 8 Belarus: Women's Day Russia: Women's Day Slovenia: Preseren Day MarlO Cyprus: Ash Monday Greece: Ash Monday Mar 11 Lithuania: Day
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        770 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 averagesized stem Market movements are indicated. The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and the
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        244 26 AP [TOKYO} Over 1,000 passengers woke exhausted from Sleeping on chairs and the floor at Tokyo' 9 main airport yesterday after a computer glitch the day before continued to delay flights and paralyse Japan's air traffic. Japan's central air traffic control system
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        284 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] BAA pic, the world's biggest airport operator, can increase airline fees as much as 35 per cent at its London airports to help fund an 11-year, £8.1 billion (5522.2 billion) expansion, the UK Civil Aviation Authority said. BAA's biggest customer, British Airways chief
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        354 26 It plans to increase services into Kota Kinabaln en route to China, HE Bernama [KOTA KINABALU] Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will focus more on Asia-Pacific destinations and beef up its eastern hub operations. In a statement released yesterday, MAS said its
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        415 26 Agreement includes three-stage wage hikes, cost-saving measures Reuters [FRANKFURT] Deutsche Lufthansa AG has on Friday agreed on a two-year pay deal with its 55,000 cabin and ground staff, ending a months-long conflict that has added to already tough conditions facing the airline industry. In addition
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        185 26 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Asiana Airlines' customers will have to accumulate more air mile points before they can exchange them for a free flight starting from March 2004. The South Korean airline plans to reduce its mileage benefits to bring it into line with its partners in
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        103 26 Reuters [ALEXANDRIA, Virginia] A federal judge ruled on Saturday night that US Airways Group Inc could terminate its pilots' pension plan, saying it was a disheartening option to help save the bankrupt carrier. Judge Stephen Mitchell of the US Bankruptcy Court for the
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        178 26 Xinhua [HONG KONG] The Hong Kong Airport Authority said that i| plans to acquire an aviation fuel facility from a group of companies that includes China National Aviation Co. Wong Sau Ying, senior communications manager at the Airport Authority, said that according to
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        172 26 Xinhua [KATHMANDU] The Royal Nepal Airlines Corporations (RNAC) is to operate regular flights to Kuala Lumpur via Singapore from March 31, according to a RNAC statement. The flight will leave Kathmandu for Singapore at 11.30 pm local time every Monday and Thursday,
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      136 26 SOUTH EAST ASIA AND SOUTH ASIA AUSTRALIA TRADE FACILITATION AGREEMENT NOTICE TO TRADE BUNKER ADJUSTMENT FACTOR (BAF) The following Lines wish to inform the trade that, having reviewed the bunker prices, they have to revise the Bunker Adjustment Factor (BAF) to US$lB5.OO per 20' Ctr/ U*****.00 per 40' Ctr. This
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