The Business Times, 24 March 2003

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  • Title Section
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    10 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: http://business-times.asial.com.sg MONDAY, MARCH 24. 2003
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Looking beyond the blitz
    1021 1  -  By Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] EVEN as we watch the dramatic TV footage of the "shock and awe" blitz on Baghdad, market watchers and participants might do well to heed the words of retired General Wesley Clark, former supreme allied commander in Europe during the war on
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    Lock icon Tax authority next to review its operations
    428 1  -  |=1 i exclusive IRAS looking into number of staff it needs; unknown if layoffs on the cards Byi Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] The tax authority is scrutinising its $100 million-a-year wage bill as it reviews the number and type of staff it needs. While
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    63 1 Week Change STI 1326.15 +7557 KLSE COMP 632.17 +3.62 NIKKEI 225 8195.05 +192J36 HANG SENG 9179.19 +223.02 SET INDEX .363 62 +5,18 JAKARTA COMPJ94.04 +6.16 MANILA COMP .1032.15 +28.16 TAIPEI WPI 4586.92 +110.75 SEOUL COMP 575.77 +38.12 SHENZHEN B 197.13 -1.39 AUSTALLORD .*****0 +115.20 DOW JONES 8521.97 +662.26 NASDAQ
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    Lock icon FINANCE
    69 1 FOREX RATES US| M <S$ per 15S| 1 <« S(fS&SS per I »61 i"M EtRO<VS&SS'£) I MO M72 YES 1204 S*2i> KM 2.1 S3 HKS "799 4.4U BAHT 4192 2*32 BLPIAH 9.000 MW RENMINBI «2» 4.702 INDIAN RUPEE 47 27 PfBME RATES SfiWAKMF Kl'ALA LDMPT1 *4u MONO KONG &1*»
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    Lock icon Golden parachutes getting more common in S'pore
    994 1  -  P-ll exclusive! A properly designed pay structure can prevent excesses By' Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] So Richard Heifer will walk away from Raffles Holdings $2.05 million richer. Just in January, Flemming Jacobs was told by loss-making Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) to leave, but
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    Lock icon War's progress set to fire up Wall Street further
    652 1  -  But some analysts wonder if rally is dne for a breather Fromi Andrew Marks in New York A STOCK market that has proven itself highly sensitive to the headlines coming out of the war in Iraq is likely to get assuring
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  • WAR IN IRAQ
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      Lock icon Coalition ground forces could reach Baghdad by tomorrow
      871 2 Iraq might then resort to chemical, biological weapons, warns UK minister AP, AFP, Reuters [Near AN-NAJAF, Iraq] The Allied ground offensive could reach Baghdad by tomorrow, as US and British forces surged across several fronts yesterday to within 160 kilometres of the
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      Lock icon Politicians call for reversal of Japan's accounting reforms
      454 2  -  From i Anthony Rowley in Tokyo SENIOR politicians from Japan's ruling coalition parties staged a minor revolt against the government yesterday when they demanded a reversal of recent accounting reforms that have made banks and other Financial institutions more vulnerable to a
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      Lock icon US, UK forces tighten grip on Iraq's oilfields
      386 2 Damage from fires at Romaila limited; 85% of southern oilfields secure Reuters, LAT-WP [KUWAIT CITY] Tightening their grip on Iraq's southern oil region, US and British forces yesterday began assessing how to restart exports from fields holding more than half of Iraq's
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      Lock icon UK tourist, retail businesses reel from war fallout
      600 3  -  But they could recover quickly once sentiment improves: officials From] Neil Behrmann in London BRITAIN'S tourist and retail businesses have not escaped the uncertainty caused by the war, but they could bounce back quickly if the conflict ends soon. Such is the
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      Lock icon French wine industry paying for Paris' stance
      237 3 AFP [PARIS] Anti-French feeling in the US over the Iraqi war is already hitting the French wine industry and producers could suffer even further when the fighting is over, according to top US wine critic Robert Parker. Interviewed in the forthcoming issue of
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    • WARBriefs
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        Lock icon Reconstruction contracts delayed
        110 3 AFP [WASHINGTON] US President George W Bush's administration delayed the award Friday of a contract to a US firm to run Iraqi seaports after the war, an official said. US Agency for International Development (USAID) spokesman Luke Zahner said the announcement of the winner of the seaports
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        Lock icon Up to 450,000 have fled N Iraq: UN
        59 3 AFP [GENEVA] An estimated 300,000 to 450,000 people have fled their homes in northern Iraq, the United Nations said in its latest humanitarian situation report on Iraq obtained on Saturday. Most had fled the cities of Kirkuk, Erbil and Dahuk to head
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        Lock icon US renews Indonesia travel warning
        86 3 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The US renewed a travel warning for Indonesia first made in October because of the start of the military conflict in Iraq. As a result of the war, "Indonesia's frequent political demonstrations may escalate, increasing the potential for anti- American violence and for
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        Lock icon US gives up Turkey approach
        61 3 Reuters [ISKENDERUN, Turkey! US forces in Turkey appeared to begin packing up equipment yesterday, a firm sign Washington has given 14) hopes of attacking Iraq through Nato ally Turkey's territory. Instead, the US will send the 4th Infantry Division from Texas to Kuwait to join
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        Lock icon Arab diplomats to meet in Cairo
        76 3 Reuters [CAIRO] Arab foreign ministers will seek ways to end the US-led war on Iraq at a meeting in Cairo today, which diplomats said would try to bridge Arab divisions and forge a unified anti-war position. The meeting will also try to convince restive
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        Lock icon The Oscar show must go on
        81 3 AFP [HOLLYWOOD] Hollywood was poised to fete Oscar's diamond jubilee on Sunday night (morning Singapore time) in war-muted style and under unprecedented security amid fears that cinema's top honours could still be derailed by conflict in Iraq. But while war may have stolen some
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      296 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Mar 21 VALUE CLOSE ■TOM* 254.00 +194.00 WOW -*****.00 +97.00 -*****.00 +25.00 jyHQEpJiw 355.53 +5.57 122.35 -0.03 WriilnFh 1131.50 +23.33 WririMiirm 322.78 +8.01 163.60 +2.51 WSCIF1—« 164.90 +2.40 Accord Customer 2.5c 135,954,000 Chart SemiCond 26c... 132.226,000 UniFood HK25C 67,634,000 Datacraft 10c 63,020,000 SingTel 15c 54,297,000 TPVUSlC *****,000
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      Lock icon Good upside seen for rejuvenated People's Food
      298 4  -  HOTSTOCR/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan PEOPLE'S Food, which had been out of favour with investors for much of the second half of last year, last week announced that it had posted a 34 per cent increase in full-year net profits to 823 miUion
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      Lock icon Greenback gains against many regional units as war begins
      1039 4 Bnt it eases as Washington warns of possible retaliatory terror attacks AFP [HONG KONG] Many currencies in the Asia-Pacific region weakened vis-a-vis the US dollar as the US-led war on Iraq commenced with full force. Japanese yen: The yen lost ground
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      Lock icon Longer-term risks taking a backseat
      788 4  -  I-li comment STOCKS r. sivanithy A BLOOMBERG columnist recently wrote that rarely has there ever been a war in which the outcome is known with such certainty beforehand, yet the longer-term implications are almost completely unknown. There's a lot of truth in that statement the
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    Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • COMPANY Briefs
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        Lock icon Liens raise stake in UOB to 5.23%
        60 5 OVERSEAS Union Bank founder Lien Ying Chow and his wife Margaret have raised their deemed interest in United Overseas Bank. Following their purchase of 250,000 shares on March 18, the Liens bought another 392,000 shares in UOB at $10.50 each on lAarch 20,
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        Lock icon IPC slips into the red with $1.4m loss
        53 5 INFORMATION technology group IPC Corporation has slipped into the red, posting a loss of $1.4 million for the year ended Dec 31,2002, against earnings gains of $5.1 million in the previous year. The group attributed this partly to worsening market conditions in
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        Lock icon PDC Corp loss widens to $15.4m
        44 5 LOSSES at construction group PDC Corporation widened to $15.4 million in 2002, up from losses of $3.3 million in the previous year—no thanks to provisions of $14.9 million set aside for "foreseeable losses relating to certain building projects".
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        Lock icon MTT narrows loss to $6.8m
        36 5 SEMICONDUCTOR group Manufacturing Integration Technology narrowed its losses last year, reporting a deficit of $6.8 million, against net losses of $11.7 million previously. Turnover dipped 29.5 per cent to $17 million.
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        Lock icon Kyodo-Allied profit plummets 88%
        52 5 CLEAN room specialist Kyodo-Allied Industries said it expects to improve on its performance in the first half of this year after posting an 88 per cent dip in net profit to $159,000 for the year ended Dec 31,2002. Revenues came to $4.6 million, down from $7.7
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      Lock icon Full-time score
      98 5 In the black 142 In the red 42 As of yesterday, 194 SGX-listed companies had released their financial results for the full year ended Dec 31,2002. They recorded a combined t$4,423.4w» in group profits, up 10.7% over the same period last year. The breakdown is as foflows MoeW>ldlt»
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      Lock icon Paving the way for a new OCBC?
      702 5  -  ■TOW!* locksiew quak hiang whai THINGS are certainly moving fast at OCBC Bank, the smallest and often seen as the most conservative of Singapore's banking groups. Even as the market was digesting its announcement that outgoing Singapore Airlines chief Cheong Choong Kong would
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      Lock icon Turnaround ace Wong Fong Fui
      776 5  -  His restructuring successes include QAF, Airways Intl and Sunshine Allied By I Serena Ng WONG Fong Fui has been working quietly on a craft he has honed over the years: moulding loss-making companies into viable businesses. The energetic 59-year-old made headlines in the early 1990s
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Fuji Xerox to move Asia-Pac HQ to China
      309 6  -  It joins other MNCs shifting to tap lower costs, huge China market By' Vince Chong JAPANESE multinational corporation Fuji Xerox will move its Asia-Pacific headquarters to China from Singapore as part of a 36 billion yen (***** million) investment. According to unnamed
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      Lock icon Creative chief raises $90,000 for charity
      194 6  -  Byy Vince Chong CONTINUING his charitable exploits, Creative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo raised over $90,000 in a sale of more than 2,000 ceramic vases for the Geylang East Home For the Aged. The sale was conducted over the weekend on Creative's grounds at
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      Lock icon 7 new cases bring SARS My to 51
      144 6 SEVEN more cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been reported in Singapore, bringing the total to%l, the government said yesterday. "As of March 23, 2003, a total of 51 people with SARS have been reported to the Ministry of Health
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      Lock icon STI lurid is neither open nor closed-end fund
      580 6  -  IkVJH bag Hon Cheung Managing Director State Street Global Advisors Singapore I REFER to the letter "STI funds are open-ended only in name" by Tok Choon Boon (Mailbag, March 20). As the manager of the streetTRACKS STI Fund (STI ETF), I would
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      Lock icon Simple, fixed method to determine car transfer fees
      326 6  -  Han Liang Yuan Senior Manager Corporate Communications Land Transport Authority I REFER to the letter, "LTA should change car deregistration scheme" by Goh Hiang Fong (Mailbag, March 17). The transfer fee levied when a vehicle is transferred from one owner to another
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      26 6 I DaimlerChrysler South East Asia Congratulates m Kimi Raikkonen and Team West McLaren Mercedes on winning the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix on Sunday March 23, 2003
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Port Klang gets US$200m expansion plan
      80 8 Bernama [PORT KLANG] Westport will be investing US$2OO million to expand its port facilities in Port Klang over three to four years, its executive chairman, G Gnanalingam, said. Despite the war in Iraq, "there will still be growth in transhipment services particu- larly for
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      Lock icon Bankruptcies in M'sia hit a high of 12,268 in 2002
      294 8 KUALA LUMPUR Govt may introduce new financial package to control impact of Iraq war AFP, Bernama A TOTAL of 12,268 Malaysian companies and individuals went bankrupt in 2002 the highest yearly figure since 1985 and up 5 per cent from
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      Lock icon Foreign investment in Vietnam down 32% in Q1
      129 8 HANOI AFP PLEDGED foreign direct investment in Vietnam slumped 32.3 per cent during the first three months of the year to U*****.6 million, state media said yesterday. The number of projects also feU, by 48 per cent, with only 79 projects licensed,
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        Lock icon Raikkonen wins Malaysian F-1 race
        64 8 Bloomberg [SEPANG, Malaysia] Kimi Raikkonen (above) yesterday won the Malaysian Grand Prix, his first Formula One success on his 35th start and the McLaren team's second straight victory. The 23-year-old Finn led from before the halfway stage to beat Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello. Fernando Alonso of
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        Lock icon Jakarta to look into barter trade
        42 8 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia plans to explore the possibility of using counter-trade with China to fund railway development in Sumatra, a report said yesterday. A team from the communications ministry will go to China next month. —AFP
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      • Article
        Lock icon 4 bid for RM6b power plant deal
        48 8 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Siemens AG, Alstom SA and Japanese rivals Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Sumitomo Corp are bidding for a RM6 billion (Ss2.B billion) contract to build a power plant for closely-held SKS Power San in Malaysia, sources said. —Bloomberg
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    • Article
      Lock icon Philippine firms cut diesel prices, more expected
      300 8 MANILA The Ist price cat this year welcomed by Mrs Arroyo Reuters MAJOR oil companies in the Philippines, which imports all its crude oil needs, will cut prices of diesel products by 40 centavos (1.3 Singapore cents) per litre following a sharp fall
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    • Article
      Lock icon India was top Asian destination for private investment
      419 12  -  Byl Vikram Khanna [SINGAPORE] Thanks to the boom in business process outsourcing (BPO) largely various back-office operations India-based companies were the largest recipients of private equity investment in Asia last year, according to a report in the March issue of the Hong
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      Lock icon Bollywood looks to new sunrise
      415 12 It expects compounded annual growth rate of 19%, says KPMG report AFP [BOMBAY] The struggling Indian film industry is expected to return to profit by 2004 as consolidation cuts the number of film makers and productions, a report by management consultants KPMG International said. The
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      Lock icon HK scientists identify virus behind deadly pneumonia outbreak
      229 12 HONGKONG AFP A TEAM of scientists in Hong Kong said yesterday they had identified a new virus believed to be behind the global outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness. An eighth person died in Hong Kong yesterday, health officials said, taking the
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  • CHINA focus
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      Lock icon A low-risk venture in China
      728 9  -  Boustead's industrial park strategy in Wuxi cuts down the gestation period, writes Serena Ng Serena Ng A PROJECT to develop an industrial park in China is hardly what most people would consider a low-risk venture for a Singapore company, given the heavy investments that have
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      Lock icon No payment problems in education business
      549 9  -  By Serena Ng A GLEAMING Merlion has popped up in another location in China, this time as a nine-metre tall sculpture in Tianjin. It is on the campus of a full-fledged university that is expected to house some 4,500 students by October this year.
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  • WORLD news
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      Lock icon US$100b setback for Bush as Senate trims tax cut plan
      462 13 WASHINGTON Honey will be pat into reserve fond to cover cost of Iraq war Reuters IN a setback for President George W Bush's economic plan, the US Senate on Friday voted to trim US$lOO billion from his US$726 billion tax
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      Lock icon EDS to pay ousted chief US$37.4m
      351 13 PLANO, Texas Bloomberg Reuters COMPUTER services company Electronic Data Systems Corp will give U5537.4 million in severance pay to ousted chief executive officer Richard Brown. The severance pay will reduce its first-quarter earnings by 6 US cents a share, the company said. Mr Brown
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        Lock icon Korea govt to buy US$4b in bad loans
        74 13 Reuters [SEOUL] The South Korean government will buy US$4 billion in bad loans from struggling credit card companies to calm market fears that the firms may face liquidity problems, Yonhap News reported yesterday. State-run Korea Asset Management Corp plans to purchase some
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        Lock icon ISM factory index makes big impact
        68 13 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] The Institute for Supply Management's reports on manufacturing conditions had the biggest market impact of any economic data in the last six months, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Stock, bond and foreign exchange markets swung more widely after
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        Lock icon Shell expects sluggish US recovery
        77 13 Bloomberg [LONDON] Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe's largest oil company, expects a sluggish recovery in the US economy this year, potentially limiting growth in demand for energy. A "slow" world recovery this year would produce growth in oil demand of no more than one million barrels
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        Lock icon Fiat to sell insurer for 2.4b euros
        54 13 Bloomberg [TURIN, Italy] Fiat SpA has agreed to sell its insurance unit to Finanziaria De Agostini, an investment company, for 2.4 billion euros (554.5 billion), raising cash for its unprofitable auto business. The sale of Toro Assicurazioni SpA will cut Fiat's net debt
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        Lock icon US exempts more steel products
        44 13 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The Bush administration on Friday said it has excluded another 295 foreign steel products from tariffs President George W Bush imposed one year ago. The action closed the administration's current review of steel product exclusion requests. Reuters
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        Lock icon Saudi firm to pay Exxon US$400m
        56 13 Reuters [NEW YORK] Exxon Mobil Corp said on Friday that it has won a jury verdict of more than US$4OO million in a contract dispute with Saudi Arabian business partner, Saudi Basic Industries Corp. The Saudi company must pay Exxon Mobil for overcharging licensing
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      Lock icon Awesome Aussie
      43 13 [JOHANNESBURG] Australian captain Ricky Panting raising his arms after hitting a majestic undefeated 140, inspiring his team to victory in its Cricket World Cup final match against India yesterday. Australia beat India by 125 runs to retain the championship. Reuters AP
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      Lock icon Californians descend into pessimism with job cuts
      418 14  -  560,000 high-tech jobs lost in US since tech slump began in 2001 From Jennifer Lien in Silicon Valley WITH 10 per cent of hightech jobs slashed nationally, the country at war and the state facing deep Budget cuts, Californians are a sober lot
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      127 14 Reuters [SAN FRANCISCO] The assessed value of property owned by International Business Machines Corp in Silicon Valley fell US$2B2 miUion last year, making the computer services giant the hardest-hit landlord in a collapsing real-estate market, an official said on Friday. Overall, Santa Clara
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        46 15 OLYMPUS has introduced a new 3.2 megapixel digital camera. CAMED1A C-350ZOOM Priced at >499 (excluding GST), it has 3X zoom lens and image optimisation functions such as Pixel Mapping and TruPic, as well as several precision photographic modes. For details visit: www.olympus.com.sg.
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        74 15 CREATIVE Technology has added the PC-CAM 850, a 3 megapixel camera with LCD display, to its camera line. The camera, with a 4X digital zoom and a 1.6-inch LCD display, sells at a retail price of S289 (including GST). With 16 MB erf built-in memory, the
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        69 15 IBM has launched its completely redesigned flagship notebook computer, the ThinkPad T4O. The new T4O is now 30 per cent thinner and half a pound lighter. The battery life has almost doubled, from 2.8 hours to up to 5.5 hours. New battery solutions create an all-day computing solution
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        80 15 HP has introduced two new DVD writers that allow users to easily preserve, edit and share video and data fester. The HP DVD 300 i and HP DVD 300e are built on the +R/+RW format. The 300 i, an internal DVD writer has an estimated
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        59 15 DELL has introduced the next generation of its desktop replacementnotebook line, the Inspiron 8500 designed for mobile customers who demand high performance. With a choice of Pentium 4-M processors with speeds from 2Ghz to 2.4 Ghz it has a wide aspect (15.4 inch) Ultra Sharp
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        70 15  -  Compiled by. Amit Roy Cboudhury SHARP has introduced Zaurus SL-5600, the latest addition to the Zaurus PDA family. The Linux-based SL-5600 is expandable and wireless capable. The device, which has an integrated Qwerty mini-keyboard, has a 400 MHz Intel XScale processor and 96M8 of total memory—32Mß
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      688 15  -  Asia-Pacific accounted for 10-12% of group's '02 total revenue Byi Amit Roy Choudhury CANON expects its latest enterprise-level offerings to help it increase its share in the Singapore office systems solutions market from around 30 per cent currently to 40 per cent
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      547 16  -  'ii exclusive! It is offering direct bank-to-client forex trading from clients' desktops over the Net Reports by Tang Weng Fai AFTER a dismal year, British media and financial systems provider Reuters Pic is pinning its hopes on the Internet and is moving to
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      217 16 THE growth of the online currency trading portals over the last two years has seen its share of casualties. The demise of online forex trading portal Atriax in April last year underlined the depth and speed of consolidation of the global forex industry. Atriax was launched
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      791 16  -  PMvJ IT The arrival of Java applications could trigger dramatic change within the mobile valne chain cyrille even JAVA phones emerged in the market during 2002 and the ARC Group estimates that there will be over 400 million Java handsets by 2004,
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      309 17  -  By Elgin Toh THE mobile data applications market will drive the future growth of the mobile phone industry in Singapore as the voice applications market matures, according to international marketing, consulting and training firm Frost Sullivan. "Operators (in Singapore) are beginning to see
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        66 17 SAMSUNG Electronics has appointed Kwang-Soo Kim as president and chief executive officer of Samsung Asia. Mr Kim, who will be based in Singapore, will oversee Samsung Electronics' businesses across 14 divisions in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, the Philippines and Australia. Prior to this
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        40 17 SOFTWARE major Computer Associates International has appointed Fiona Hee as marketing director for Asia South. Ms Hee joins CA from Citrix Systems. She will be responsible for heading the company's marketing strategies in the region.
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        54 17 FREEMARKETS, a leading provider of global supply management (GSM) solutions, has appointed David M Morgenstern as general manager, Free Markets South-east Asia. Based in Singapore, Mr Morgenstern will be responsible for developing and delivering commercial business in the region. Prior to this appointment, he was regional sales
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        61 17 iPARK Singapore, which promotes Korean IT technology in South-east Asia, has appointed Kent Huang as marketing director for South-east Asia. Mr Huang will be responsible for fostering ties between Korean and South-east Asian IT companies. Prior to this appointment, he was regional manager for the
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        71 17 GCE "O" Level holders and Institute of Technical Education graduates who have completed the Cisco Networking Academy Program may be granted partial or full exemptions in 17 diploma courses at the four leading polytechnics in Singapore. These are Nanyang Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek
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        98 17 Ml will launch Singapore's first sports news service on MMS in April. In a tie-up with IMG, the world's largest sports marketing and management company, Ml will deliver regular news updates of some of the most popular sporting events from around the world.
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        57 17 HIGH-PERFORMANCE computing company SGI has appointed John Kan as managing director for Asean. Based in Singapore, Dr Kan will provide strategic direction and management for the Asean region. The countries covered will include Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Pakistan. Dr Kan was formerly
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        49 17  -  ConpOedby Amit Roy Choudhury IDC will organise its annual Directions 2003 conference at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Ballroom 2, on April 24. The theme for this year's conference is Computing Communications: Preparing for the New Landscape. For information and registration details visit www.idc.com.sg/directions2oo3/register.htm.
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      869 17  -  Cost savings for EDGE seem compelling, bat will telcos risk upsetting the regulator? lii comment INFOTECH angela tan The writer is a BT senior correspondent A telecom operator recently did a survey which showed that of the three major applications that consumers want, video-telephony and video-messaging can
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      742 18  -  WAR IX IRAQ On balance, assessments are more positive than negative, Amlt Roy Choudhury and Tang WengFai find out Amit Roy Choudhury, Tang Weng Fai WHO knows? Sit tight. Hope that it's short. Keep on plugging. As war finally erupted in Iraq late last week,
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      697 18  -  Telcos most manage risk, not technology By* Angela Tan REGULATORS should not force a technology on telecom companies and risk pushing commercial entities into failure in the name of national interest, Geoff Johnson, Gartner's research director of Asia-Pa-cific telecom and networking, told BT in
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      192 19  -  by Simpson Spence Young THE market has continued to firm for both wet and dry tonnage with a number of significant sales, including capes ize bulk carriers and VLCCs. ■mwiian Bavang: 161,059 tdw bit 96 Hyundai Hi reported sold region U5527.5 million to clients of Anangel Shipping. Donau
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      578 19  -  Identification is key as hostile ships risk being destroyed by coalition forces By] Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] The US Navy has warned that coalition naval forces will take "decisive action" including destroying commercial vessels suspected of being hostile, irrespective of their flag, as the US-led war
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      123 19 AFP [ROTTERDAM] A Belgian-Dutch consortium led by the Dutch salvage firm Smit Internationale is to recover the sunken cargo ship Tricolor, which went down in the English Channel in December and has since constituted a major hazard for shipping. "The owner of the Tricolor has chosen
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      364 19  -  By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] No-go zones and restricted tanker movements in Singapore's waterways, extended following the outbreak of war in Iraq, will have minimal impact on commercial shipping, observers say. Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) circulars detailed new restrictions announced by the
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        604 20  -  DOCKYARD -By David Hughes THOSE of us who worked with wooden hatch covers and thought the steel sin-gle-pull MacGregor to be the ultimate in ship's equipment design are showing our age a bit now. Hatch cover design has become a sophisticated business but the basic
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        769 27 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 cated The Cockett Bunker Price Index change and
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        401 28 WARD! IRAQ They're considering adding premiums for planes flying to Iraq's neighbours AFP [PAßlS] Several major insurance companies are considering adding an extra charge for airlines flying to Iraq's neighbouring states because of risks linked to the war. "We are discussing ways of adding premiums
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        540 28 War-related slomp in travel to blame; shares of major airlines up on hopes of short war Reuters [CHICAGO] Two more major airlines, bankrupt United Airlines and Dutch carrier KLM, said on Friday that they would slash flights because of a decline in travel, underlining
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          53 28 Bloomberg [SYDNEY] Macquarie Airports, the largest shareholder of Sydney airport, said traffic at Australia's biggest gateway rose 0.4 per cent in February from a year earlier. However, concern about the war in Iraq curbed the number of tourists from the UK, US and
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          106 28 Bloomberg [CHICAGO] UAL Corp's United Airlines will put 1,148 mechanics at an Indianapolis maintenance facility on temporary leave because the war in Iraq is hurting air travel, the workers' union said. The company is asking 468 mechanics to take the leave by tomorrow
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          81 28 AFP [HELSINKI] Finnish airline Finnair said it will launch a cost-cutting programme likely to involve job cuts in an attempt to adjust to a slump brought on by the Iraq crisis and a weak economy. "The weak global economy and the long duration of the
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          75 28 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] AT&T Corp, the biggest US long-distance telephone company, has won a contract to provide data-network services to Air China, the country's largest international airline. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The contract covers Air China locations in Asia, Europe, the Middle
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        155 28 AFP [NEW DELHI] India's Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussian announced on Thursday that state-run Indian Airlines will increase its domestic air fares on all routes by 15 per cent. Although Mr Hussian did not link the increase to the war on Iraq, the carrier
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        138 28 AFP [KUWAIT CITY] Kuwait Airways said yesterday it is suspending service to the US and Europe due to the Iraq war and will only fly in and out of the emirate during daylight hours. An official told the state Kuna news agency
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        163 28 AFP [BEIJING] China's first domestically designed private business plane is undergoing final tests ahead of its maiden flight, state media said yesterday. The Xiaoying 500, or "Eagle 500", developed by Shijiazhuang Aircraft Industry Co in northern China was sent to an aeronautics testing
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        217 28 AP [SEOUL] Korean Air said on Friday it will temporarily suspend a number of international flights because of weakened demand for travel due to the US-led war in Iraq. The airline also said it will cut the number of flights to
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        245 28 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's two leading air carriers are raising their fares for Europe-bound freights by up to 50 per cent, it was reported yesterday. Both EVA Airways and China Airlines have notified freight forwarders that the fares for their Eu-rope-bound cargo
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