The Business Times, 10 April 2003

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  • 15 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES MUA (P) 024/03/2003 Internet: http://business-times.asial .com.sg SINGAPORE THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2003 850
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  • 1124 1  -  It projects S'pore figure at 3%, but Sara may alter scenario Frorr, Anthony Rowley in Tokyo THE International Monetary Fund has cut its growth forecast for the global economy to only 3.2 per cent, down from an earlier prediction of 3.7
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  • 766 1  -  Parkway puts overseas expansion plans on hold By Vince Chong [SINGAPORE] The healthcare business in Singapore is estimated to have plunged by a hefty 20 to 30 per cent across the board so far from the Sars fallout, according to Parkway Holdings managing director Lim Cheok
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  • 71 1 1,***** (-25.27) ST INDEX FUTURE! 1,280.00 (-37.00) BIMSCI FUTURES 188.80 (-4.20) Wednesday Change KLSECOMP ***** -5.67 NIKKEI 225 8.057.61 -73.80 HANG SENG a636.85 -169.81 SET INDEX 376.20 +0.38 JAKARTA COMP ..430.27 +8.16 MANILA COMP .1,***** -12.11 TAIPEI WPI 4,537.39 -15.06 SEOUL COMP ***** -17.85 SHENZHEN B ***** +3.17 Al'ST
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  • 73 1 FOREX RATES |JS$ t$ L'SS (SS per US$) 1.784 £(l'S$/SS per 1.552 1769 EURO(L'SS/S$/E). 1.077 1.921 YEN 119.8 67.20 RM 3.800 2.130 HKS 7.799 4.372 BAHT 42.94 24.07 Rl'PlAH 8.873 4.974 RENMINBI 8.299 4 652 INDIAN RlTEE 47.45 26 60 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 5.25 Kl'ALA UKFl'R 6.40 HONG KONG
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  • 431 1  -  PM Gohalso discloses Cabinet reshuffle on the way Frorr Chuang Peck Ming in New Delhi PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said the government is due to unveil a financial package to help the economic victims of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) within two weeks.
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    • 49 1 MORE REPORTS AIA sets up fund for Sars-hitfamilies. Pg 2 BTaia ban China tourists. Pg 3 Cab companies to disinfect taxis. Pg 3 Dying for the world. Pg 10 San spun roaming and hotspots. BizlT, Pg 16 Kennetb James: Blessings from the blights ofSars and war. BizlT Pg 16
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    • 70 1 ,Y A></ \jl' f\ g Hi V 9^99'"' i w In REUTERS Saddam gets the heave-ho [BAGHDAD] A US soldier watches as US troops pull down this 6-metre high statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad yesterday. Iraqis later stomped on it in contempt for the man who ruled them
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    • 362 2  -  Feb figure up 36%; easy credit, bad financial planning also blamed By. Audrey Tan [SINGAPORE] The number of bankruptcies jumped 36 per cent in February from a year earlier, as the poor economic climate continued to affect people's ability to
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    • 551 2  -  Trade-weighted value takes beating amid deflationary conditions By Larry Wee [SINGAPORE] The US-dollar pendulum swung to its weak side again in Asian trading yesterday, but locally, currency traders and analysts also highlighted a noticeable weakening of the Singapore dollar. This time around, the
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    • 460 2  -  From Chuang Peck Ming in New Delhi A SERIES of early harvests in the India-Singapore free trade talks should convince sceptical investors that India is intent on economic reform, according to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Wrapping up his official
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    • 216 2  -  Lower-income households can apply, agents encouraged to contribute to fond By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] American International Assurance Co (AIA) yesterday unveiled a $50,000 fund for lower-income families hit by Sars. The six-month-long financial assistance programme aims to ease the burden of such
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    • 684 2  -  Bnt businesses are determined to stay engaged By Yang Razali Kassim [SINGAPORE] American businesses in South-east Asia are bracing for a backlash from the war in Iraq, ranging from boycotts to a possible loss of market share. Some were already sensitive to
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    • ON THE grapevine
      • 91 2 HERE'S a poem making its rounds on the Internet: "Congratulations, Mr Tung Chee-hwa, What a year you've had so far. Things have certainly been bizarre, Starting with Antony Leung's new car, And now we even have a disease named after the HKSAR. Oh Mr Tung, please
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      • 82 2 A SOUTH Korean hat company is buying a Daewoo Motor bus plant in Pusan for 148.3 billion won (Ss2lo million), one of the assets not bought by General Motors when it took over the ailing firm last year, Reuters reported. It will not be hat company Young
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      • 46 2 A SINGAPOREAN in Shanghai tried to book a hotel room for a client coming in from Singapore. He was met with a stare. Singaporean? Sars land? And this from a country which is alleged to be the mother of all Sars cases.
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      • 116 2 IN another sign of the tiroes, we've Just received a press advisory titled: "How to lose friends and alienate people seminar postponed." The organisers, US-based software firm Interwoven and XM Asia-Pacific, a professional services organisation, take pains to explain that the seminar was actually meant
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    • 49 2 IN our report "Jail for tax-evading car salesman" (BT, April 9), we said Ng Seng Chye's sentence took into account four other counts of evasion totalling a further $84,393.68. In fact, the sentence took into account six other counts that totalled $107,452.98. We are sorry for the error.
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • 527 3 HK reports cluster of new cases in housing complex AP AFP Reuters Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia became the first country yesterday to bar tourists from mainland China as Hong Kong reported a new cluster of cases of the Severe
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    • INBrief
      • 165 3 Reuters [WASHINGTON] An enzyme test that detects lung damage could help determine which patients are more likely to die from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), Hong Kong doctors said on Tuesday in a report that gives fresh insight into the mysterious disease that has
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      • 44 3 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's suspected cases of Sars rose to nine. Seven of the patients suspected of carrying Sars are quarantined at hospitals in Jakarta. The other two cases involve one patient in Solo and another in Banyumas. Bloomberg
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      • 82 3 AFP [TOKYO] Stocks in cockroach killers and other insecticide makers surged in Tokyo yesterday as the Hong Kong authorities announced they were investigating whether the bugs were spreading the Sars virus. Fumakilla, a major insecticide maker, jumped 22.15 per cent, or 33 yen, to close at
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      • 67 3 Bloomberg [GENEVA] People carrying a new strain of pneumonia who show few signs of it may be responsible for spreading the Sars disease. "There is some evidence of that," lain Simpson, a spokesman for the WHO's communicable disease programme, said. "It's something we're exploring but we
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      • 100 3 AFP [MUMBAI] Pilots of Air India have refused to fly to Hong Kong following the Sars outbreak, a company official said yesterday. "The pilots have refused to fly to Hong Kong," Air India spokesman Jitendra Bhargav said. "They are saying they will
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      • 72 3 AP [BIRMINGHAM] Aston Villa called off its tour of China and Hong Kong on Wednesday because of the Sars outbreak. Villa was scheduled to play against Shenzhen in Guangdong, China, on May 23 and then Shandong in Hong Kong two days later in a
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    • 502 3 Reuters AP AFP [BEIJING/WASHINGTON] A Chinese doctor has taken the unusual step of accusing China's health minister of covering up the number of people in Beijing who have been infected by the Sars virus. The flu-like disease has killed more than
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    • 218 3  -  By David Boey [SINGAPORE] THE Sars outbreak has sunk plans to hold the Asia-Pacific's largest naval exhibition here from May 6 to 9. The Imdex Asia 2003 show has now been pushed back to around mid-July. Aquarama 2003, the world's biggest tropical fish and
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    • 427 3  -  But there's still strong demand for many shows on By Daniel Buenas [SINGAPORE] Seven Sistic events have been cancelled and eight postponed since late March, according to the Sistic website. These range from performances by world-renowned artists such as David Gray and Carlos San
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    • 381 3  -  Gab taking* down 15-20%; bus and train ridership falls By Christopher Tan [SINGAPORE] Two taxi operators have joined the bus and train companies in the battle against Sars here, announcing yesterday that they will systematically disinfect their cabs. Despite the all-round effort seen by some
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  • WAR IN IRAQ
    • 739 4 US says war is not over as flowers greet Marines; no word of Saddam and his aides Reuters AFP AP [BAGHDAD] Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed in chaos in Baghdad yesterday as elated Iraqis welcomed US forces while looters and gunmen ran wild. But
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    • 339 4 AFP [LONDON] Iraqi opposition groups will meet in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Saturday, a representative told a press conference here on Tuesday. The opposition appeared at odds with each other over the role the UN and the An-glo-American coalition should
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    • 530 4 Reuters AFP AP [WASHINGTON] Amid signs of Saddam Hussein's regime crumbling, global attention is turning to the post-war Iraq and rebuilding its shattered economy. Finance chiefs from the world's richest industrial nations will discuss rebuilding its economy this week though it
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      394 4 Saddam Hussein: w J i Mystery surrounds fate -3 > of f/i© Iraqi president )S Ju/y 16: Saddam. f/J kW fV vice-president of the Revolutionary Command y Council (RCC), becomes Iraq's president, secretary-general of w i i the Baath party and president March 16: New law National Assembly elected
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    • 331 4 AFP [MOSCOW] US forces may have fired at a Russian diplomatic convoy leaving Baghdad at the weekend during a battle between Russian and US intelligence services to seize Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's secret archives, a Russian newspaper said yesterday. But Russian intelligence sources
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    • 336 4  -  From Anthony Rowley in Tokyo AMERICA'S action in Iraq could alienate Muslim majorities in some South-east Asian nations and weaken the regional coalition against terrorism, former Philippine president Fidel Ramos warned in Tokyo yesterday. Mr Ramos spoke of "growing anti-American-ism" in East and South-east
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  • SINGAPORE companies
    • 503 5  -  BTEWSTFgfWg It plans to issue 30m new shares to raise abont $10m for expansion By Loh Hui Yin FROM afar, they look like colourful M&M's sweets but looked at more closely, they are actually plastic precision gears used in devices as varied as cameras, audiovideo
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    • 365 5  -  By\ Siow Li Sen THE shares of DBS Group Holdings plunged almost 5 per cent in heavy trading to $8.95 yesterday a victim of market concerns over its exposure to Sars-hit Hong Kong and China as well as Singapore. The share also took
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    • 390 5  -  By Vince Chong SOURCES believe friction between Koh Brothers' old guard and the mainboardlisted group's younger management led to veteran TC Koh taking the reins from nephew Francis Koh. TC Koh who founded the group with his brothers, including the younger Koh's father
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    • 714 5  -  HOCK It'll ill El wong wei kong TWO major companies, Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), unexpectedly announced senior management changes in the past week. How should investors read these changes, beyond initial surprise or shock? Management changes essentially come in two forms:
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    • 408 7 DPM Lee admits requirements here are tighter than BIS standard THE government will study whether there is a need to review capital adequacy requirements for Singapore banks, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with The Banker.
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    • 500 7  -  Bk Loh Hui Yin SARS or no Sars in China, Thai Village restaurant chain opened three new restaurants there in as many weeks. Lee Tong Soon, chairman and managing director of Thai Village, which derives 60 per cent of its turnover from its
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    • 306 7  -  By Angela Tan THE Singapore Exchange yesterday said its president Ang Swee Tian will be wearing an additional hat and replace Jimmy Ang as the head of its derivatives department following the latter's resignation on Tuesday. In a circular to all SGX members, SGX's chief
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    • 186 7  -  By Daniel Buenas MEDICAL consumables maker Medtecs International Corp saw a 12.5 per cent jump in its share price yesterday, closing two cents higher at 18 cents. The rise was attributed largely to an expected boost in sales caused by the outbreak of Severe
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    • 258 7  -  By Michelle Quah MAINBBOARD-LISTED Autron Corporation has strengthened its foothold in China, having secured US$53 million worth of sales contracts with various electronics manufacturers based in the mainland. This comes a month after the electronics equipment distributor said it would use Temasek Holdings'
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    • 1903 5 PEOPLE'S FOOD HOLDINGS LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of People's Food Holdings Limited ("the Company*) will be held at The Fullerton Hotel, EDB Room, 1 Fullerton Square, Singapore *****8 on Friday, 9 May 2003 at 10.00 a.m. for the following purposes: AS ORDINARY BUSINESS 1.
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      305 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 9 VALUE CLOSE BT08/0S -95.00 -217.00 IFCMI -*****.00 -79.00 -*****.00 -9.00 OHQE«dMM 347.35 -6.54 SQtMMiiEbct 117.79 -1.56 SC Fto 1099.24 -20.73 waiymuPtn 308.50 -5.33 158.36 -3.25 SMtar+mm -156.50 -4.20 8*dm ¥rt— Chart SemiCond 26c 16,675,000 ComfortDefcro 25c 12.222,000 OBSGrp 11,790,000 Medtecs US5c 9,908,000 STEngglOc 9,075,000 Datacraft
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    • 277 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE precision component industry is a very fragmented one. It is also a very under-rated trade. It makes the widget that goes into a wide variety of products ranging from the übiquitous telephone to the
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    • 759 6  -  BTRSTnTITHm STOCKS r. sivanithy THE economy has always been lurking in the back of everyone's mind, but for the best part of three weeks now it has been shoved aside by fear of being left out of any rally that might materialise in a post-Sad-dam
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    • 780 6 But it held steady against the yen at 119.98 Reuters [LONDON] The US dollar retreated against the euro yesterday as US troops strengthened their grip on the Iraqi capital, leading investors to look beyond the war and refocus on the straggle
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
    • 797 8  - Sold six ECs below 5-yr occupation ruling Kalpana Rashlwala finds out how they fared on the resale market Kalpana Rashiwala SIX executive condominium (EC) apartments have changed hands in the secondary market since this hybrid housing concept was introduced here seven years ago. ECs have to be occupied for at
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    • 836 8  -  Sars, Iraq war do not seem to have dampening effect, classified ads reveal By\ Stephanie Yap ASKING prices of resale private properties in prime districts in Singapore have stayed surprisingly resilient despite the Sars epidemic and the Gulf war, classified advertisements in The
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  • SINGAPORE news
    • 218 9 LOCAL drug company MerLion Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday a two-year tie-up with Swiss-based Athelas to identify candidate drugs in the new area of antivirulence anti-infectives. Anti-virulence drugs are a class of drugs that prevent infection in cases where conventional antibiotic drugs are ineffective, for
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    • 409 9  -  Bids outnumber certs nearly 2d despite supply rise By Christopher Tan COE prices traded marginally higher in the latest tender, except for the motorcycle and Open categories, which rose significantly. The first bidding exercise of the new quota year drew strong interest from
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    • 312 9  -  Investment is to expand capacity of Jurong Island plant By Daniel Buenas SUMITOMO Chemical Singapore, a subsidiary of Japan's Sumitomo Chemical Co, yesterday unveiled plans to invest US$lOO million over the next two years to expand the production capacity of methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomers
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    • 471 9  -  David Montgomery says paranoia is good for firms By Anna Teo "I WANT to be so paranoid about my competitors that they never surprise me," Intel boss Andy Grove wrote in his book. Only the Paranoid Survive. "It turns out that Andy's
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
    • 760 10  -  OPINION H33I]^ETB3 frank ching CHINA'S hope to be accepted as one of the world's leading nations has suffered a severe setback as a result of its mishandling of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) disease now sweeping tiie globe, which the World Health Organisation
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    • 43 10 'I have been working in this field for more than 20 years and I have never seen such a bad situation before, not even after 9/11.' -Peter Chan a retailer of artifacts in Hongkong, referring to the ongoing Sars epidemic.
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    • 634 10 EDITORIAL IF A COMPANY chief makes an outrageous profit forecast but fails to deliver on this promise later, he can be expected to pay a hefty price, either in the form of an official censure, or selling pressure on his shares, or both. In this
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    • 1642 10  -  He was the epitome of the caring doctor a man with a mission, a true warrior against disease. An unselfish man, Carlo Urbani alerted the world to the dangers of Sars By Donald G McNeil Jr NYT WHEN the microbe that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome
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    • 173 10  -  Loh Kok Choy Secretariat Pro Enterprise Panel Singapore I WOULD like to thank CK Harvey for his letter "Need channels to offer feedback" (Mailbag, April 3). I would like to invite Mr Harvey to give his feedback to the Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP). The panel welcomes feedback
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    • 239 10  -  MAiLirrm Hwang Soo Jin WITH Sars fast threatening to become the gravest crisis since the Asian financial crisis. Singaporeans need to maintain a sense of balance by adopting the right attitude so that life can go on as normally as possible and not grind to
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  • REGIONAL news
    • 473 11  -  Ibra to take tighter financial control of operating firms within group From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta INDONESIA'S largest ever corporate debt workout could be in danger of collapse following the Texmaco Group's default on a US$25 million Letter of Credit facility from
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    • NOTEBook
      • 67 11 Reuters [BEIJING] China will impose an anti-dumping tax on acrylates imported from South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia for five years from today, Xinhua news agency said. It said an anti-dumping investigation found the imports caused substantial damage to Chinese industries. In December, China imposed
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      • 70 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Telekom Malaysia obtained a RM4 billion (Ssl.BB billion) bridging loan, while it prepares the country's biggest bond sale of the year to fund its takeover of former rival Celcom, sources said yesterday. A source said that almost all of Malaysia's 10 domestic
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      • 105 11 Reuters [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government has proposed a six-month extension for PT Kaltim Prima Coal's planned 51 per cent stake divestment after prospective buyers failed to confirm they would buy the shares, a spokesman of the Mines and Energy ministry said yesterday. Under an agreement
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    • 318 11 KUALA LUMPUR Reuters MALAYSIA will next week invite bids for 32 per cent of Naluri Bhd, the cash-rich firm formerly used by fallen tycoon Tajudin Ramli to control Malaysian Airline System, a financial news website said yesterday. Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional
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    • 339 11 KUALA LUMPUR 2003 growth now predicted to range from 3.5% to 4.0% Bloomberg JP Morgan Chase Co cut its forecast for Malaysia's economic growth for the second time in less a month, joining other brokerages that have slashed forecasts because of falling
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    • 192 11 KUALA LUMPUR THE Securities Commission (SC) has proposed that legal protectiaiibe extended to include all company officials who blow the whistle on listed companies or directors involved in illegal activities, the Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. Chairman Ali Kadir said the legal provision for whistleblowers,
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    • 393 12 BEIJING But govt is worried potential gluts in red-hot sectors conld dent growth Reuters CHINA said yesterday its industrial output rose 16.9 per cent in March from a year earlier, slowing from a sizzling 19.8 per cent rise in February, the fastest pace in
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    • 332 12 HONGKONG It cites gloomy prospects for city's rental market Bloomberg HYSAN Development Co, Hongkong Land Ltd and Wharf (Holdings) Ltd three of Hong Kong's biggest office and retail landlords had their outlooks cut by Moody's Investors Service, which cited gloomy prospects for the city's
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    • 281 12 HONGKONG Bloomberg SUNDAY Communications Ltd, SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd and rivals said a fresh round of price cuts by Hong Kong's mobile-phone operators and the outbreak of a killer respiratory disease have hurt sales. SmarTone, Hong Kong's No 3 operator, said revenue from
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    • 181 12 SHANGHAI AP SHANGHAI plans to merge the parent companies of the country's largest retailers to meet growing competition from foreign retail giants expanding rapidly in China, sources said on Tuesday. The merger will combine the parent companies of Lianhua Supermarket Holdings, Hualian Supermarket, Shanghai No
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    • 263 12 HSINCHU, Taiwan Bloomberg TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and United Microelectronics Corp, the world's largest suppliers of made-to-order chips, said first-quarter sales rose on demand for their advanced technology. Taiwan Semiconductor said its first-quarter sales rose by 9.9 per cent from a
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  • 1557 11 SICOM FUTURES Apr 9 RUB8ER Futures (dosing prices) RSS1 (S cents/kg) Close Volume Opt* Month Hlqti Low Sett (tonnes) Interest May 03 178.25 Jun 03 176.50 Jul 03 ***** Aug 03 ***** RSS 3 (US cento/kg) Volume Opm Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Merest May 03 98.75 1200 Jun
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  • REGION world
    • 267 13 NEW DELHI AFP THE growth of India's software exports will be lower than the projected 30 per cent this year because of a sharp rise in the rupee against the dollar, an industry official said on Tuesday. "As the rupee has
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    • 379 13 SAN FRANCISCO Cardholders were misled for years about conversion fee, US judge rules AP CREDIT card giants Visa and MasterCard were ordered on Tuesday to refund an estimated US$BOO million to US customers who paid a hidden fee on purchases made in
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    • 497 13 TOKYO Recovering Japan exports could be hurt: central bank AFP THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) warned yesterday of new economic risks for the nation from the war raging in Iraq and worldwide outbreak of a killer strain of pneumonia. In its economic
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    • 501 13 HONGKONG Reuters THE Hong Kong government is under intense pressure to assuage stock exchange opposition to its plan to transfer the bourse's listing approval function to the government-backed Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). But while Hong Kong may ofTer the
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  • WORLD news
    • 507 14 NEW YORK It involves controlling stake in Hughes, DirecTV for about USs&Bb Reuters NYT RUPERT Murdoch is poised to finally crack the US satellite television market with a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Hughes Electronics Corp and its industry-lead-ing DirecTV business for
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    • 123 14 LONDON Reuters SHE was created by biotechnicians, debated by theologians and finally put to sleep by veterinarians. Now Dolly the sheep has been stuffed by taxidermists and put on public display. The stuffed remains of Dolly the first cloned adult mammal were unveiled yesterday
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    • 336 14 ZURICH Bloomberg SWISS billionaire Thomas Schmidheiny is surrendering control of Holcim Ltd, the cement company his family has rim for 89 years, trying to rebuild investor confidence after an insider trading scandal and falling profit. The world's second-biggest cement maker is creating a single
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    • 458 14 WASHINGTON Economists cut '03 growth estimates to 2.4% in April Bine Chip survey Reuters Bloomberg US FEDERAL Reserve vicechairman Roger Ferguson denied on Tuesday that the US central bank has forged an emergency rescue plan for the economy. "The Federal Reserve as a
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    • 275 14 LONDON Reuters AP BRITISH Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown yesterday used his annual Budget presentation to cut his economic growth forecast for 2003 and pointed a finger of blame at EU economies. "I now expect growth this year will be 2
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    • 326 15 LONDON New strategy to compete for share trading sought to confront rivals IHT THE London Stock Exchange's choice of Chris Gibson-Smith, a veteran of the oil industry and an outsider to the financial community, as its new chairman, comes at a time
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    • 175 15 Reuters [LONDON) The Corporation of London gave the green light on Tuesday to the redevelopment of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) site in what will be one of the largest urban regeneration projects in the capital's financial district. "This is the latest milestone for
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    • 271 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 7 Motherhood has a bad name 8 Disgusting to take such a LmJ m^^ large quantity* (5) Nice, once the rustic has left gin after 17 Perform live with rector on hJ inj the organ (5) 26 Measurements Hi small islands (6) BP PB PBI PB BH JHi
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  • BIZIT
    • 702 16  -  BTisvmmmj IT industry benefits as travel curbs lead to increased use of roaming, hotspots services, reports Rqju Chellam Raju Chellam THE Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus, which is now forcing more people to restrict both local and foreign travel, has led to "hotspots" and Internet roaming
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    • 517 16 NYT [HONGKONG] With telecommuting taking on a sudden attractiveness, the computer industry is benefiting in the short term from the panic in East Asia over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). But some executives are nervous about how they will manage if the disease continues
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    • 686 16  -  TECHNOLOGY S&rs Is validating technology In ways unimaginable before kanneth james FROM tomorrow, almost half of The Business Times' reporters won't be coming in because of Sars. Before alarm bells start ringing, let me clarify that this is nothing more than prudence on the part of BT,
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • 266 17 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 11 points to 2022, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 4 points to 2699, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 21 points to 1972 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 59 points to *****. TIME-CHARTER! Tianshunhai (built 2000) *****7 dwt delivery Dunkirk 20/25 May
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    • 255 17 MX '000 «r» t$ w CWT Distribution—0.55 unch 0 ChuanHup 0.39 uncti 274 CHOffshoro 0.19 -0.01 73 Cotco investment Oil -0.01 242 Fraight Links 0.03 unch 50 G8 Holdings 0.56 -0.01 5 Jay* HoKSngs 0.33 0.01 1551 Koppol Corp 4.32 -0.08 1712 K1 vanturo 0.16 unch 607 KappolTtl*
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    • 478 17  -  Overseas terminals contribute 35% of throughput volumes By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] PSA Corporation has enjoyed its strongest first quarter since its record throughput in the boom year of 2000, with Singapore volumes bouncing back more than 5 per cent on last year's recovery. Singapore's
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    • 582 17  -  NOL unit targeted for its military deals with US govt By Donald Urquhart [SINGAPORE] Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators blocked access to the Oakland container terminal used by Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container division APL on Tuesday before being violently dispersed by riot police. According to
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    • 98 17 Bloomberg [SEOUL] Hanjin Heavy Industries Construction Co, South Korea's fifth-largest shipbuilder, won an order to build two container ships worth 110 billion won (*****.2 million) from a German company. Hanjin Heavy signed a contract with the German company on Tuesday, the Korean
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    • 167 17 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Star Cruises Ltd, the world's No 4 cruise line operator, said it will borrow as much as 298 million euros (***** million) to help fund the purchase of a US$35O million cruise ship. The loan will be payable in
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    • 174 17  -  MAiLirm Capt Edwin Wong I REFER to your report "Navy officer blamed for RSS Courageous' collision" (BT, April 5). Although the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) had attributed the cause of the collision to a series of "errors of judgement" committed on the
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    • AIR cargo
      • 985 18  -  Many goods flowing between S'pore and US are time-sensitive and rely greatly on airfreight By Peter Yin SINGAPORE is leading Asia in the trade liberalisation movement. Already under its belt are free trade agreements (FTAs) with Japan, Australia, New Zealand and
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    • 113 18 PAGE BSA 4 B'tang Mas 6 CMACGM 3 COSCO 3 Columbus 5 China Shpg 5 Cougar 5 CWT Globelink ...4 Delmas 4 Dongnama 3 ECL 3 Foong Sun 5 Fujitrans 4 Gemartrans 4 Goodway 2 Hangli 4 Hyundai 4 Heung-A 3 IRISL 5 Kapal Kris 4 Kien
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    • 9673 22 THEBUSINESSTIMES EXPORT ETA ETA Advertiser VMS* Voyaga ETA ETA Advtrttsar Vassal VoyaQt T*to*on. SIN Otst'n Namt mw Numbtr NumDtr SIN D«t n Htm* Warn 03/05 21/05 IRISL IRAN HERMAN PCI JOT *****0*44 To ABIDJAN (ABJ) 2003 Cot* DM voir* V/05 24/05 IRISL IRAN ISFAHAN PCL iv 6^42»*44 V/04
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      • 556 25 Vessel VoyMo Berth Arrival Departure JURONG PORT/MULTI-PURPOSE TERMINAL BT LESTARI *****3 J1 A/SIDE 10AM 0500 JINHUI 73 J11 A/SIDE 10/04 0700 SEA MAPLE V019 J16/17 A/SIDE 10/04 1700 SIANTEK 02EA)3 J12 A/SIDE 10/04 1700 WINSTAR 7 23S03 J2 A/SIDE 10/04 0630 WINYEONGT136 ***** J6 A/SIDE 10/04 2300 BAYSWATER118
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      • 1938 25 CONTAINERS TERMINAL AND VESSEL SCHEDULES Vessel Out In tth Berthing Un- Berth Name Voy Voy seq berthing Nmbr ACXULAC 051S 051S 1 **********00 **********00 ACX MARGUEM 016N 016N 1 **********00 **********00 ALFARAHIOI C237W C237W 1 **********00 *****003-0800 AL MUTANABBI C229€ C229E 1 12/*****312:00 1304/2003-0200 ALAMJAVA 2 8841 8841
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      • 147 25 Apr 13 Thailand: Thai New Year Apr 14 Thailand: Thai New Year Australia: Bank Holiday Apr IB Thailand: Thai New Year Apr 17 Philippines: Maundy Thursday Apr 18 Australia: Good Friday Hong Kong: Good Friday Indonesia: Good Friday BraziL Good Friday U.K.: Good Friday Philippines: Good Friday Singapore:
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      • 764 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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    • AIR & LAND transport
      • 520 26 This is in addition to the 3,000 temporary job cnts announced earlier AFP [SYDNEY] Qantas will axe 1,400 of its 35,000-strong workforce by June because of the combined impact of the deadly pneumonia virus and war in Iraq, the Australian
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      • 358 26 Thai Airways will buy 8 Airbus planes while Boeing wins USs2.2sb ANA order for 45 single-engine planes Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Airways International plans to buy eight new Airbus SAS planes in the next five years to expand its route network, while Boeing beat its
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      • 178 26 Reuters [CHICAGO] Delta Air Lines said that it has retired the last of its Boeing Co 727 jetliners and plans to stop flying McDonnell Douglas MD-11 jets later in 2003 under a fleet simplification plan. Atlanta-based Delta, the No 3 US air carrier, said
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      • LOGBook
        • 97 26 Reuters [PARIS] Airbus said on Monday that US carrier US Airways, which last month emerged from bankruptcy, will replace an existing order for 19 of its planes with one for 10 Airbus A 330-200 aircraft. The new order— worth US$l.43 billion based on list prices
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        • 90 26 Bloomberg [LONDON] BAA Pic, the world's largest airport operator, said the number of passengers travelling through its UK terminals in March fell 3.1 per cent because of the war in Iraq and the timing of Easter this year. BAA handled 9.7 million passengers at its
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      • 274 26 It expects traffic volumes to continue to grow this year Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Beijing Capital International Airport Co's second-half profit rose by more than a third as the country's surging economy encouraged more people to travel. Net income for China's biggest airport operator rose
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      • 327 26 AP [WASHINGTON] Mistakes that could cause aircraft to collide in the air or on the ground were reduced last year, partly because there were fewer flights, the Transportation Department's inspector general reported. The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic controllers made 1,061
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      • 199 26 Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] Europe's third-largest airline Deutsche Lufthansa said March passenger traffic rose 2.9 per cent, slowing from the previous month, as the carrier cut fares amid the Iraq war and the spread of Sars. The number of passengers carried in March rose 3.3 per cent from a
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    • 18 17 Qantas to axe I*4oo jobs PAGE 10 US-S'pore free trade pact a boon for cargo carters PAGE 2
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    • 130 17 G8 (ASIA SOUTH AFRICA) FORUM Rate Restoration effective on Ist July. 2003 Members Lines of Asia/South Africa Discussion Forum, as listed below, having made a thorough review on the present market, have come to the conclusion that the current rate levels do not sustain the Lines' services. They have therefore
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