The Business Times, 7 March 2003

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  • 15 1 MfTA (P) 024/03/2003 85C THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2003
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  • 290 1  -  Govt investment agency stresses it has also hired, and will continue to review and rationalise operations By Angela Tan [SlNGAPOßE] Temasek Holdings has been shedding staff over the last few months in the wake of a reorganisation exercise which started last year, following
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  • 688 1  -  Stocks slide after rallying analysts had expected 1/2-point cut From Neil Behrmann in London THE European Central Bank (ECB) cut its interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.5 per cent, the lowest level since April 1999. But
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  • 74 1 «TI 1,243.82 (-21.68) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,248.00 (-20.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 182.00 (-2.80) Tliureday Change KLSECOMP 642.43 4)64 NIKKEI 225 8.***** ***** HANG SENG 8362.26 146 92 SET INDEX 358.96 -0.94 JAKARTA COMP .393 99 +2.80 MANILA COMP 1,015.72 +604 TAIPEI WPI 4.397.44 2067 SEOUL COMP ***** 4.93 SHENZHEN B
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  • 75 1 FOREX RATES US$ L'SS (SS per I'SS) 1.734 £(US$/S$ per S) 1.602 1778 El'RO(lSS/SS/E). 1096 1.901 YEN 1175 67.60 RM 3.800 1191 HKS 7.799 4.497 BAHT 4162 24.58 RIPIAH 8,873 5,116 RENMINBI 8199 4.785 INDIAN RI'PEE 47 63 27 47 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 KUALA LUMPUR 6 40 HONG
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  • 478 1  -  \-ti exclusive By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] Citibank Singapore may soon be losing its well-known country head, Sunil Sreenivasan. And Singapore's loss may be Poland's gain. BT understands that the suave Mr Sreenivasan is to be posted to Warsaw to help manage the recently acquired franchise
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    • 58 1 EDITORIAL Hong Kong needs a GST now PAGE 8 m>v Jennie Chna W-f tipped to head Raffles f, Holdings SW- V NEXT PAGE STATISTICAL STOREHOUSE Go to http'7/busineBB-tfm6B.afiial.com.to l a free value-added service for BT newspaper subscribers. For others, ft will be a premium subscription service from 4am to 2pm
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    • 129 1 f The keeps saying S'poreans move their comfort zone. But do you see the government moving out of its comfort zone? I Dr Jennifer Lee, CEO of KK Hospital, in Raffles CovvwoUM 3mSKHKf The America's Cup Choice 6 I u w J e I 1 o The America's Cup: the
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 117 2 MANY will know about Warren BufTett's warning in Fortune magazine that derivatives are "financial weapons of mass destruction" that could cause a 'mega-catastrophe But few know that Mr BufTett's father, a Congressman from Nebraska, said in liHfl: "The paper money disease has been a pleasant
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      • 80 2 WE all know that Germans consider sauerkraut a national food. But how many know that this dish of acidified cabbage originated in China during the construction of the Great Wall in Third Century BC According to a BBC programme, workers building the wall came across certain bacteria
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    • 462 2 LATEST US DATA Sharp boost in car manufacturing behind order figure Reuters, AP, AFP [WASHINGTON] New orders to US manufacturers in January posted their biggest monthly gain since last summer, the government said in a report yesterday, propelled by a sharp boost
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    • 504 2  -  I :il exclusive Sources say she will replace Richard Heifer, who is leaving the group By Kalpana Rashiwala [SINGAPORE] Hotel industry icon Jennie Chua is slated to take over as Raffles Holdings' president and CEO from Richard Heifer, who is leaving the group
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    • 471 2 Consumer spending weak, businesses wary of hiring Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US economy was stuck in low gear in late January and much of February, weighed down by worries over the economy and a possible war, a Federal Reserve report said
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    • 832 2  -  NUS cohort takes home $28,000, NTTTs get $28,600 By Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] Half of last year's National University of Singapore graduates who found jobs felt they were underpaid, up from a third the year before. The proportion of graduates who were unhappy
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 453 3  -  Group rationalising cabling and i-commerce businesses Reports by Amit Roy Choudhury MAINBOARD-LISTED Datacraft Asia Ltd is to shed more jobs and rationalise some of its businesses in an effort to stabilise operations. The IT services company said yesterday it would take a
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    • 133 3 MINORITY shareholders may have their say, but they often don't get their way. At Datacraft Asia, minorities carried the day in a rare victory when they succeeded in defeating a resolution at the company's Extraordinary General Meeting last month. According to company sources, four
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    • 283 3  -  By Michelle Quah SINGAPORE investment firm BIL International is fighting back in its bid to take over Thistle Hotels pic, two days after the British hotelier dismissed the offer as "opportunistic and at a wholly inadequate premium". On Tuesday, BIL which is
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    • 665 3  -  locksiew r sivanithy THERE'S no doubt that Wall Street brokerages are doing their utmost to repair reputations soiled by revelations that all the major investment banks had pushed biased and flimsy research to clients during the heyday of the *****. "Chinese walls" have been
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    • 498 4  -  exclusive It's also considering a straight loan to repay the $330 m, given the soft interest market Ry\ Christopher Tan PREMIER auto group Cycle Carriage Ltd (CCL) is set to repay more than $300 million of debt incurred in financing its purchase of
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    • 613 4  -  DBS denies market talk that it plans to raise capital Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE banking stocks came under selling pressure yesterday, with the DBS Group falling prey to market speculation that it was planning to sell shares to raise capital and that major
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    • 260 4 Reuters {JAKARTA] A group of foreign creditors of Asia's largest corporate defaulter, Asia Pulp Paper (APP), have submitted a proposal to change a multi-billion dollar debt deal which is due to be finalised by the end of the month. Indonesia's Bank Restructuring Agency
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    • 203 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Airlines Ltd, Asia's most profitable carrier, will add capacity on some routes between March and October, partly by replacing smaller Airbus SAS A3lO-300 aircraft with Boeing Co's 777 planes. The carrier will add seats on flights to Guangzhou in China, Bangladesh's
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  • CORPORATE earnings
    • 435 5  -  Revenue expected to doable this year on strong order book, says CEO By. Elgin Toh WHEN you see Olivia Lum in the media these days, it can only be good news. The Hyflux CEO yesterday announced a 67 per cent rise in the firm's
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    • EARNINGSRoundup
      • 77 5 CHUAN Soon Huat Industrial Group reported a full-year net loss of $2.4 million, against a $1.5 million net profit previously. The poorer result was due to a 9 per cent drop in turnover to $56.9 million, increased staff costs due mainly to mandatory wage
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      • 77 5 SHINING Corporation's ftill-year group net loss fell from $527,000 to $362,000. Turnover rose 24.4 per cent to $47.8 million, contributed mainly by the construction division. However, due to a lower gross margin for ongoing construction projects, the group still suffered a loss. Realisation of additional costs
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    • 497 5  -  It's proposing a 5C dividend; works ont to a yield of 10.2% By Serena Ng ASJ Holdings, which manufactures and distributes leaded and surface mounted chip resistors for the electronics industry, yesterday proposed a similar dividend rate as a year earlier despite 2002
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    • COMPANYBriefs
      • 64 5 EDUCATION group Informatics Holdings embarked on an aggressive expansion plan in India, adding more than 100 new centres there in just eight months, bringing the total to 140. The group said yesterday that is has also tied up with the government of Mizoram, a north-eastern
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      • 56 5 ACMA Ltd's 70 per cent owned Australian-listed subsidiary, Acma Engineering and Construction Group Limited (ACX), has been awarded a contract worth $34.8 million. In a statement. Acma said Esperance Pipeline Company (EPC) has awarded Delco Australia Pty Limited, a wholly owned unit of ACX, the
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      • 55 5 WEE Cbo Yaw continues to boost his presence in United Overseas Land Companies linked to the Wee family which have been consistently buying more shares in the listed property group in the last few weeks added another 380.000 shares on March 4 and
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      • 57 5 HU AN Hsin Holdings Ltd said it will invest an additional sum of US$5.1 million in its 51 per cent owned subsidiary. Zhan Yun (Shanghai) Electronics Co Ltd. Zhan Yun's registered capital will double to USS20 million. Huan Hsin will fund the investment
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      319 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 6 VALUE CLOSE BTO&ttS 351.00 -135.00 BTCAM -*****.00 -92.00 WHMtayllA *****.00 -35.00 AMGMlM 335.16 SCEMtti-Ebct 113.58 -0.32 SGMuMMFIii 1023.21 29.99 SG Equities PViip 302.73 -1.67 MSggmapon 151.94 -2.85 SMSCtFatow 152.00 -2.80 Uadm Y+mm LAM 1c 44.lld.600 NOt 15.796.000 Oatscmft 10c 12.065.000 JK Tech 6c *****.000 Chart
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    • 270 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE stock of Eastern Asia Technology (Eastech) gained 1.5 cents to 50 cents as some six million units changed hands yesterday after the company announced a strong set of results for FY2002. The qpmpany announced
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    • 735 6  -  I-I i comment STOCKS r. sivanithy THE bear market of the past three years which now looks like extending into a fourth year has put paid to a lot of myths. One is the myth of "support levels" specific chart points that are supposedly unbreakable.
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    • 743 6 Geopolitical risks, rising oil prices are negatives for Asian currencies: National Australian Bank Reuters [SINGAPORE] Growing worries over North Korea's nuclear intentions drove Asian currencies lower yesterday against the US dollar which won some respite on signs that a conflict in Iraq may
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  • 3076 6 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Com Global Finance Index Fd 0672/ Com Global Lifestyle Index Fd 0 758/ Com Global Health Index Fd 0.73/ MN Amu Asset Mgt (Spore) c Com Global Telecom Index Fd 0 372/ Star Europe Egty!* 5 0.529/ Com Global mfotec Index Fd'" 0.253/ Star Etvope BdI. 1
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 650 7  -  t'-ii exclusive Founders of IP-based security firm reject trayont offer; plan expansion in region By. Angela Tan A MAJOR commercial security organisation wanted to buy a controlling stake in their company, but they said no. Had they accepted the offer
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    • 294 7 14i =1 on the economy business sentiment COMPARED with their counterparts in America and Europe, senior finance executives in Asia are more sanguine about their regional economy over the next 12 months. However, looking ahead five years, the Asian CFOs are as positive
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    • 359 7 Bloomberg ROYAL Dutch/Shell Group and other refiners in Singapore will use about twothirds of their crude oil processing capacity this year because output from new refineries and sluggish demand have caused a glut of fuel in Asia. Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp and
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    • 358 7  -  PC maker's S'pore revenue surges 43.7% in 2002 By< Tang Weng Fai DELL COMPUTER, the world's second-largest PC maker, revealed strong FY2002 results yesterday and said Asia-Pacific revenue is on track to hit US$l billion this quarter. The company's president for the
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    • 570 7  -  i exclusive It will be first insnr&nce firm from S'pore and Ase&n to get a foothold there From Harish Mehta in Hanoi ASIA Insurance of Singapore has won a licence to operate non-life insurance business in Vietnam, and plans to open its
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 758 8  -  OPINION i7TT3 bottom line frank ching CHINA has in recent weeks been in the global spotlight as the United States sought to solicit Beijing's support on both Iraq and North Korea At the same time, China has aligned itself with France, Germany
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    • 88 8 There is only a finite number of Al-Qaeda figures that he can capture and hand over to the United States. Once they're gone, what happens then?' Hosain Haqqani a former Pakistani diplomat, on the limits of President Pervez Musharraf s usefulness to the US. 'It's a complete
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    • 538 8 EDITORIAL HONG Kong requires a tax on goods and services sooner rather than later. That much was evident when Financial Secretary Antony Leung unveiled the SAR's latest Budget on Wednesday. The key challenge facing the Hong Kong government is to balance the books. The government
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    • 1216 8  -  Old municipal records show that the British colonial administration made water planning in Singapore a long-standing preoccupation. Things have come fall circle By Yang Razali Kassim DID you know that in the early years of Singapore way before the word "desalination" was even
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    • 471 8  -  MAILI.Tm Ang Hwee Suan Head (Public Relations), for Chief Executive Officer, Urban Redevelopment Authority WE refer to the article "A crippling blow for property owners" by Lee Han Shih (BT. March 4). The article alleges that the approach adopted to selectively intensify land
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    • 154 8  -  Denis Distant Singapore ON Feb 27, Datacraft Asia tabled four resolutions at an extraordinary general meeting, each of which was subject to a vote and could have been passed. But resolution No 4, which was to do with allowing stock options to be
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 343 9 HANOI He sees rise in commodity prices helping economies dependent on agriculture Reuters A WAR with Iraq would support a boom in commodity prices, benefiting Asian economies including Vietnam that are agricultural and resource dependent, contrarian investment adviser Marc Faber said yesterday.
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    • 349 9 KUALA LUMPUR Conntry needs to fond deficit, spnr growth: official Bloomberg MALAYSLA may announce a plan next week to sell global bonds for the first time since June, to help fund a spending package aimed at spurring economic growth, a government official said. "From
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    • 193 9 BANGKOK AFP THE Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) will split into separate telecommunications and postal companies next month as part of a privatisation plan, a report in The Nation newspaper said yesterday. The plan was approved on Wednesday by the State
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    • 478 10 BEIJING Ministerial system to be restructured on Western models; new regulatory body for banks AP, AFP, Bloomberg, Reuters CHINA yesterday announced a sweeping government reform that will consolidate trade operations, streamline its communistera economic planning apparatus and create an oversight agency for banks dealing with
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    • 295 10 BEIJING Reuters CHINA is relaxing controls on capital account transactions, but will not rush to make its currency fully convertible for fear of creating risks, the top foreign exchange official was quoted yesterday as saying. "The renminbi has achieved partial convertibility on the capital
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    • NOTEBook
      • 71 10 AFP [BEIJING] China's Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng yesterday announced a record Budget deficit this year and blasted extravagance, waste and corruption in government He said continued deficit spending was urgently needed to boost rural and impoverished urban wages, create jobs and stimulate domestic demand. The
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      • 76 10 AFP [BEIJING] China's top economic planner said yesterday job prospects were "grim" and acknowledged serious problems must be tackled to maintain social and economic stability. Minister for State Development Planning Zeng Peiyan predicted a 4.5 per cent jobless rate in 2003 but said
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      • 59 10 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Siam Cement Pel, Thailand's biggest industrial group, Land Houses Pel and 387 other listed companies posted combined profit of 198 billion baht (SSB billion) last year, up a third from 2001, the stock exchange said. The economy expanded at more than 5 per
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      • 39 10 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's software exports are expected to grow by 29 per cent to 470 billion rupees (SSI7 billion) in revenue in the fiscal year which ends March 31, an official said yesterday. —AFP
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      • 61 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Swire Pacific posted a 31.1 per cent jump in its 2002 net profit yesterday, partly due to robust earnings at Cathay Pacific Airways, but slightly lagging market expectations. Swire, which also has property, beverages and marine services operations, earned HK$5.4 billion
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      • 33 10 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) said on Wednesday some 15 investors had expressed interest in buying a majority stake in the nation's fifth-largest bank, Bank Danamon.—Reuters
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      • 92 10 AP [HONG KONG] A British former banker has been sentenced to four years in jail for accepting bribes from two companies for assistance in obtaining credit amounting to US$53.B million from the Standard Bank London, Hong Kong's anti-graft agency said yesterday. Peter Norman Elliott 51,
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      • 47 10 AFP [BEIJING] Rupert Murdoch's News Corp unit Star Group said yesterday it had won official approval to broadcast its Chinese language channel in China. The deal allows Star the right to broadcast to hotel rooms and foreign and overseas Chinese compounds. —AFP
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      • 57 10 AFP [BANGKOK] Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) plans to add 320 more 7-Eleven stores to more than 2,000 already in business across the country. CP Seven Eleven plans to pour 1.35 billion baht (Ssss million) into opening the branches and boosting its food business,
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    • 468 11 HONG KONG Govt aims to bring Budget back into surplus by fiscal year 2007 AFP SWEEPING tax hikes announced by Financial Secretary Antony Leung will not be enough to rein in Hong Kong's ballooning Budget deficit, local press and polls said yesterday.
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    • 174 11 MANILA Bloomberg PHILIPPINE President Gloria Arroyo will sign a law today amending the nation's anti-money laundering rules, changes that may enable the government to avoid international sanctions. Mrs Arroyo will endorse the amendments Congress passed on Wednesday, the president's spokesman Ignacio Bunye said. She declined
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    • 448 11 I Invitation To Certain Creditors I I With respect to the consensual debt restructuring of: I I PT Indah Kiat Pulp Paper Tbk I PT Lontar Papyrus Pulp Paper Industry I PT Pindo Deli Pulp and Paper Mills I 1 PT Pabrik Kertas Tjiwi Kimia Tbk I Certain creditor constituencies
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    • 509 11 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT (Cap. 50, 1994 ED) AND IN THE MATTER OF CONTECH-MEYER DEVELOPMENT PTE LTD (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) NOTICE Of FINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act (Cap. 50, 1994 Ed), the Final Meeting of the
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  • WORLD news
    • 375 12 LONDON US suggests Iraq only has days; UN resolution may be amended Reuters, Bloomberg, LATWP, AFP WORLD oil prices yesterday rose as the US suggested Iraq may have only days to decide to disarm or face war. Brent crude oil rose
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    • WORLDWatch
      • 90 12 Bloomberg (MADISON, New Jersey] Fibre-optic network operator Global Crossing Ltd had net income of US$l92 million in December, the first profit since it filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2002. The net income figure reflects income tax benefits, gains from terminating obligations to
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      • 69 12 Bloomberg [PARIS] LVMHMoet Hennessy Louis Vuitton returned to profit in the second half, helped by cost reductions and the opening of a 10-floor Louis Vuitton store in Tokyo. Net income was 342 million euros (Ss6so million) in the second half 0f2002, compared with a loss of
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      • 69 12 AP [WASHINGTON] General Motors Corp and Shell Hydrogen are bringing a fleet of ftiel-cell minivans to Washington for lawmakers and policy-makers to use. GM and Shell are forming a partnership to speed up the development of hydrogen technology. They plan to provide the
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      • 66 12 Reuters [LONDON] Anglo-Dutch oil firm Royal Dutch/ Shell Group yesterday announced the retirement of its fuel refining and marketing supremo Paul Skinner and elevated two directors to its top executive board. Finance director Judy Boynton and top US executive Rob Routs would join its committee of
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      • 76 12 Reuters [TOKYOI Sony Corp would be interested in buying the software business of Palm Inc, the largest maker of handheld computers, if it were up for sale, a web report quoted Sony chief executive Nobuyuki Idei as saying. In an article posted on its website,
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      • 70 12 LAT-WP [NEW YORK] Boeing Co and Hughes Electronics Corp on Wednesday agreed to a US$32 million settlement to resolve allegations by the State Department that a satellite unit illegally provided China with sensitive space technology in the mid-*****. Boeing and Hughes will pay the
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    • 451 13 WASHINGTON Data is buried in footnotes of filings; impact not clearly explained Bloomberg US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officials are concerned that companies are obscuring their pension losses in federal filings and giving investors incomplete information. "There was a
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    • 347 13 LAS VEGAS Bloomberg HOLLYWOOD studios spent an average of US$5B.B million to produce a film last year, 23 per cent more than the previous year. But marketing costs for the typical studio movie last year slipped 1.2 per cent
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    • 511 15 STOCK OPTIONS His 2002 package is 00%kssatUS$&5mdne to absence of restricted stock or options Bloomberg, AP {ATLANTA] Coca-Cola Co chairman and chief executive Douglas Daft's compensation tumbled about 90 per cent last year after the softdrink maker did not give him any restricted stock or options.
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    • 363 15 AP [WASHINGTON! High-tech executives swarmed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, hoping to persuade the White House and Congress to block accounting rule changes that would discourage the granting of stock options. Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer said a bipartisan group of senators is
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  • 1582 12 SICOM FUTURES Mar 6 RUB8ER Futures (Closing prices) RSSt (Scents/kg) Close Vofame Open Month High Low Sett (towns) Interest Apr 03 185.00 May 03 183.75 Jun 03 183.75 Jul/Sep 03 183.50 RSS 3 (US cents/luj) Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Apr 03 106.50 105.50 106.50 300
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  • EXECUTIVELifestyle
    • 2143 16  -  They're women in a man's world. But while the world celebrates International Women s Day tomorrow, these women eschew gender branding as they pursue their own ambitions on their own terms, and nobody else's. DAVID BOEY and CORINNE KERK talk to women in the decidedly macho fields
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  • PERSPECTIVE/CINEMA/ARTS
    • 682 17  -  it'aathe cuff Why blow $500,000 to rebr&nd the zoo and change its name? Afraid of losing visitors? Make it better from the inside ont, not outside in jaime ee IF you were a giraffe in Singapore, where would you want to live?
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    • 559 17  -  Till Human Voices Wake Us has hardly any meat to the story, and it drowns in the stuff surrounding it By Parvathi Nayar THE support structure of director Michael Petroni's romantic, supernatural tale Till Human Voices Wake Us is excellent lovely through-motifs like the
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    • 380 17  -  Cozmic Jazz's colourful fanfare is easily understood, reports AARON LYE AARON LYE WHILE most arts groups around the world do some level of community work, only a few like USbased Bond Street Theatre are completely dedicated to it. Founded in 1976, the company caters primarily
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    • 260 17  -  By Parvathi Nayar IMPACT doesn't always come from forceful action as anyone who has experienced people practising passive aggression will tell you. Similarly, the power of Cloud Gate Theatre Company's Moon Water arose from a centre of dynamic stillness rather than external flourishes. The acclaimed
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    • 412 17  -  Byi Cheah Ui-Hoon ARTISTS usually work through one pivotal question in their artwork or so, feels Australian-born Chinese artist Lindy Lee. Central to her work is the question of identity, the eternal who-am-I paradigm? Hence, something as simple as Lee's human faces and black ink "splats"
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    • 258 17  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon LIKE a good, strong cuppa, Dee Dee Bridgewater's one-night only tribute to Ella Fitzgerald was a full-bodied expression of jazz vocals, spiked with consummate Ja showmanship for an ultimate /f after-dinner vocal brew. It might be her first "date" with Singapore, but
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    • 231 17  -  Byi Frank DeMegilo AFTER so many cacophonous premieres of modern compositions over the years, it was a delightful surprise last Saturday to hear the world premiere of Memories by Phoon Yew Tien, the 2003 Composer in Residence of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. The SSO, led by
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    • 176 17 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 23 Denial, say, within the courtabout period of fasting (6) 26 Description of ancient civilisation conjuring up centaurs cellent! (8) Across: 1 Microbe, 5 Incisor. 9 (8) 13 Hopeless rep, teased unfairly Surreptitiously, 10 Azure, 11 (9) Perpetual, 12 Tangerine, 14 DOWN 14 Look to get round ice
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  • EPICURE
    • 541 19  -  Gourmet Cellar may look like a casual eatery, but its fine food can set one back heavily, discovers JAIME EE JAIME EE IF real men eat quiche, do real Japanese tourists eat caviar? Whether they do or not, they have the option of shelling out a couple of
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    • 416 19  -  211 Roof Terrace Cafe's main draws are its al fresco area and attentive service By l Corinne Kerk IT'S been compared to the popular Olio Dome chain of cafe and restaurants, but 211 Roof Terrace Cafe (the former Cafe 211) tended to pale
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    • 260 19 Buddha Jump t Over The Wall Mm. 2 pax Mini Jump Over The Wall Steamed Live Prawn with Chinese Wine Deep Fried Soft Shell Crab with Minced Pork 5 Head Whole Aba tone with Oyster Sauce Fried Rice with Abatone, Lobster and Crab Meat Red Bean Soup with Glutinous Dumpling
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    • 1166 20  -  What makes MP and Senior Counsel Indranee Rajah tick? She talks to PARVATHI NAYAR about her litigation work and the social issues that interest her PARVATHI NAYAR SHE doesn't wear a blue costume emblazoned with a red "S" but many alliterations of the letter
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 265 21 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index fell 5 points to 1749, the Baltic Capesize Index fell 10 points to 2440, the Baltic Panamax Index fell 8 points to 1663 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 30 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER: United Resolve (built 1995) *****9 dwt Hon 51.6 ndas
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    • 263 21 MX '000 a *h Ht CWT Distribution 0.58 -0.02 16 Chu*n Hup 0.39 -0.02 841 Cosco Investment 0.19 -0.01 38 Freight Links 0.03 unch 55 CB Holdings 0.59 unch 24 Jaya Holdlnqs _.0.28 -0.01 1T19 K*pp*l Corp 4 JO -0.02 2521 K1V*nture 0.14 unch 89 K*pp*IT*l* 0.83 -0.01
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    • 749 21  -  EU recognises need for global approach to single hull tanker issne Reports by Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the European Commission (EC) have apparently "kissed and made up" following a high-level meeting between the two aimed at averting any
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    • 302 21 [SINGAPORE] The European Commission (EC) has adopted a proposal establishing marine pollution by ships as a criminal offence under which criminal sanctions including jail can be applied on those found responsible. The sanctions apply to any person including the master,
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    • 246 21 [SINGAPORE] The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is monitoring the salvage of Singaporeflagged dry cargo ship Springbok. which was involved in a collision with a Panama-flagged LPG carrier last week. The two vessels remain stuck together, after the 1979-built, 9,027 gt
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    • 344 21  -  Deepw&ter berth will help develop port into major hub By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Jakarta moved a step closer to becoming a regional container port hub this week, as Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) wrapped up the completion of the new deepwater berth at its Jakarta
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    • 931 22  -  ADMIRALTY CASEBOOK Typhoon clause in hull policy didn't apply as master knew about typhoon only through synoptic charts which did not contain any warning or forecast By\ Selva Kumar JUST because a master knew about a typhoon through synoptic charts and could
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    • 602 22  -  MAlLirm Dr Nik Winchester Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) Cardiff University PO Box 907, Cardiff CFIO 3YP Wales, UK I REFER to the report "Open registers cannot be blamed for ills of shipping" (Shipping Times, Feb 19) by David Hughes. I
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    • 10579 26 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser VMS* Voyage Telephone ETA ETA Advertiser Vessel Voyege Telephone SIN Ont-n Name Name Number Number SIN Destn Name Name Number Number To BOMBAY (BOM) 2053 India To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* D'lvotre n/u 25/03 Hyundai mm word pol ow* ihww 14/03 25/04 Kief)
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      • 453 29 Vessel Voy Wo Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL UNIONSTAR 3 04/03J J3 A/SIDE 07/03 0600 ATLANTIS 7 A7138 J3 07/03 1800 08/03 0630 ATRIA JB0301 12 07/03 0945 07/03 2300 BAYSWATER228 M3052 J3 07/03 0800 07/03 1630 BT BINJAY 1 *****3 J1 07/03 0800 07/03 2000 BT
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      • 1752 29 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In Bth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ABU DHABI C224E C224E 1 094)3/*****7 30 09*03/2003 21:00 ACX MARGUERI 015S 015S 1 09*********** 104)3/*****300 ACX VIOLET 053N 053N 1 084)***** 1500 09*********** ALAMJAYA 2 8836 8836 1 07/*****3
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      • 134 29 Mar 8 Belarus: Women's Day Russia: Women's Day Slovenia: Preseren Day MarlO Cyprus: Ash Monday Greece: Ash Monday Mar 11 Lithuania: Lituania Statehood Mar 14 Brunei: Maulud MarlS Belarus:Constitution Day Hungary: Anni of 1848 Revo MarlS Thailand: Makha Bucha Day Mar 17 US: President's Day Ireland: St Patrick's
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      • 816 29 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 indi rated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 408 30 Flexible working arrangements will help it to weather decline in orders Bloomberg [LONDON] Airbus SAS, the only builder of large commercial aircraft besides Boeing Co, may cut production without firing workers, helping it weather a decline in the civil aviation industry, said chief
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      • 290 30 It will offer twice-weekly service from Muscat to London AFP [MUSCAT] British Airways (BA) announced it will resume flights from London to Oman on March 30 after a five-week suspension due to new travel warnings to British nationals. "The new schedule
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      • 451 30 It's meeting onions in bid to slash Cs3b annual labour budget by Cs6som Reuters [MONTREAL] Air Canada is pushing its unions to walk away from "outdated" contract agreements as the cash-strapped airline scrambles to chop its labour costs by more than 20 per
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      • LOGBook
        • 117 30 AP [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines' regional carrier Silk Air has cancelled flights to the troubled southern Philippines island of Mindanao after an airport blast there this week killed 21 people and wounded 117. Silk Air spokeswoman Corinth de Cotta said that two flights to Davao, the
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        • 68 30 [SINGAPORE] Electronic tickets for Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific flights are now available in Thailand. Singapore-headquartered and air-industry owned travel distribution group Abacus International this week rolled out e-ticketing in Thailand, the seventh Asian market to adopt the technology. Abacus e-ticketing is already available in Singapore,
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        • 91 30 Bloomberg [BRUSSELS] Virgin Express Holdings pic, a low-cost carrier owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, and a French shipping company may bid for assets of defunct French carrier Air Lib and try to start a new airline in France. Virgin Express and CMA CGM "have
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      • 218 30 Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China Eastern Airlines, the country's No 3 carrier, plans to start flying to London and Moscow from Shanghai for the first time, tapping increased demand for overseas travel by Chinese nationals. The Shanghai-based airline received approval from China's aviation regulators and
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      • 490 30 Popular routes running at capacity as passengers enjoy extra space [SINGAPORE] Singapore is the favourite destination for travellers flying on British Airways' (BA) premier economy class. Known as World Traveller Plus, this new cabin has proven to be a big hit
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