The Business Times, 29 April 2003

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    15 1 MITA (P) 024/03/2003 850 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE j htV://business-times.asial .com.sg TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2003
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    Lock icon Three promoted to acting ministers, David Lim to step down
    801 1  -  Tony Tan to be Coordinating Minister for Security and Defence By* Audrey Tan [SlNGAPOßE] Three of the so-called "Super Seven" Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Khaw Boon Wan and Ng Eng Hen will be promoted to Acting Ministers in a reshuffle that will
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    Lock icon Global finance firms plan huge jobs reshuffle
    764 1  -  Top 100 firms want to move USs3s6b of operations, 2m jobs insyears \-%i exclusive Byi Catherine Ong [SINGAPORE] The world's 100 largest financial services companies plan to move an estimated US$356 billion of their operations and two million jobs offshore over the next
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    Lock icon Sars has peaked in S'pore, HK, Canada: WHO
    676 1 Vietnam contains outbreak bat it's on the rise in China Reuters Bloomberg AFP AP [BANGKOK] Outbreaks of the deadly flu-like Sars have peaked in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam, but not in China, where the virus first emerged last year, the
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    Lock icon Blissville buyers get full refund so developer can split project
    564 1  -  I-id exclusive By- Kalpana RashiwalA [SINGAPORE] Orchard Parade Holdings and Wing Tai, developers of the Blissville condo in Bukit Timah, have taken a creative and unconventional approach to repositioning their project in a tough market. In an unusual move, they
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    73 1 STI 1,241.04 (+11.90) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,246.00 (+18.00) SIMSCI FUTURES ISS.SO (+2.90) Mondav Change KLSECOMP 624.18 -3.55 NIKKEI 225 7.607.88 -9162 HANG SENG 8.435.04 -2603 SET INDEX 368.85 +032 JAKARTA COMP _430.92 413 MANILA COMP _1.U36.29 1110 TAIPEI WPI *****0 94.04 SEOUL COMP ***** +2.39 SHENZHEN B 216.0 *5.33
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    74 1 FOREX RATES US$ 6$ ISS (SS per USS) 1.779 £(US$/SS per 1JM 1835 El"RO(t"SS/SS/E). 1.104 1-963 YEN 120 1 €7.60 KM 1600 1136 HKS 7 800 4185 BAHT 4194 24.14 RIP1AH 8.737 4*12 RENMINBI 8199 4.666 INDIAN RITEE 4716 26 63 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 525 Kl'ALA Ll"MPl"R 640 HONG
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      Lock icon Pay rises scaled back as Sars hits regional firms
      578 2  -  S'pore is among the countries that will have the lowest increases: poll Byi Chuang Peck Ming [SINGAPORE] THE Sars outbreak has forced regional businesses to scale back plans for pay increases and cuts in Singapore are among the biggest, according to
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      Lock icon Citigroup CEO faces restrictions on analyst contact
      535 2 Bloomberg NYT FT [NEW YORK] Citigroup Inc chief executive officer Sanford Weill, who asked former stock analyst Jack Grubman to reconsider his rating of banking client AT&T Corp, is expected to be barred from talking to the bank's analysts without lawyers present, under
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      Lock icon SIA seen gearing up for layoffs in downturn
      504 2  -  Management in talks with unions to cut staff costs By' Ven Sreenivasan [SINGAPORE] In a sign that retrenchments are just around the corner, Singapore Airlines is in talks with its employees' union. However, the company has denied market rumours that it has
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        54 2 EMPLOYEES at Singapore Airlines are bracing for the worst as the company grapples with one of its worst slumps because of the Sars outbreak. But some staff aren't letting the grim news destroy their sense of humour. Sars, according to the grapevine at SLA, stands for
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        Lock icon Barring the unforeseen...
        104 2 LIKE SIA employees, the head of marketing at a prestigious regional hotel group is also trying to stay sublime amid the devastation Sars has wreaked on the hospitality business. Before the Iraq war, the executive made impressive presentations to top management on his plans ahead of an
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        Lock icon Sars and ratio-cination
        125 2 BY using the "Markov Process Model", a group of graduate students at Stanford University has estimated that the death rate of Sars in Hong Kong should have been about 16 percent at April 20, as opposed to the government's claim of 6 per cent. The Hong Kong
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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      Lock icon Sars fears hit China stock markets
      441 3 Shanghai, Shenzhen bourses may extend holiday break Bloomberg [SHANGHAI] China may close its stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen for the first time in their 13year history to disperse some of China's 69 million stock investors from crowded trading halls amid the worst outbreak
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    • INBrief
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        Lock icon Roche aims for Sars test by end-July
        65 3 Reuters [ZURICH] Roche Holding hopes to launch a diagnostic test for the Sars virus by the end of July, the Swiss healthcare group said yesterday. "We are developing now a Sars-specific test We believe this will be developed by the middle of June
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        Lock icon Hong Kong reports 14 new cases
        77 3 Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Hong Kong reported 14 new Sars cases yesterday, the fewest additional infections this month. There were five more deaths from the virus, bringing the total to 138. The new cases bring the total for the city to 1,557, said Liu Shao-haei
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        Lock icon Taiwan hunts 25 hospital workers
        80 3 AFP [TAIPEI] Taipei city authorities yesterday vowed to track down 25 staff who have fled from a city hospital at the centre of a Sars outbreak, as 11 new cases of the disease were confirmed. The workers from the Hoping Municipal Hospital, including doctors, nurses,
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        Lock icon Global cost approaching US$30b
        98 3 AFP [WASHINGTON] The global cost of Sars is already approaching US$3O billion, according to a report in the latest edition of Time magazine. In Canada, JP Morgan Securities estimates that the city of Toronto is losing US$3O million a day as a result of the outbreak,
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        Lock icon Big dent in Chinese retail sales seen
        68 3 AFP [BEIJING] The Sars virus is likely to have a large negative impact on Chinese retail sales this year, government economists warned. As tourism, catering and transport take a hit, retail sales growth may be cut by two percentage points this year, the
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        Lock icon M'sia reports 3 more suspected cases
        72 3 AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia yesterday reported three new suspected Sars cases, including a four-year-old Singaporean boy and a British engineer, and said it had quarantined 728 people nationwide. The health ministry is also racing to track down 76 people who had visited a Sars-infected
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        Lock icon Holding period for Taiwan currency
        77 3 Bloomberg [TAIPEI] Taiwan's central bank asked the Bank of Taiwan to hold notes and coins collected from banks and the public for at least 24 hours before reuse to help allay concern about the spread of the Sars virus. Bank of Taiwan will seal notes
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      Lock icon Life goes on
      101 3 THERE'S nothing like happy thoughts to push back those Sars fears. A bridal show held at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on Sunday saw a surprisingly large turnout of more than 1,000. The hotel, part of the Hong Leong group's Millennium Copthorne chain, even had to raise
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      Lock icon Pasir Panjang market to close until May 5
      320 3  -  No new cases in S'pore for second straight day By Andrea Tan [SINGAPORE] The Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market will open on May 5 instead of May 1 to ensure a "high level of confidence" even as Singapore reports no new Sars cases
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      298 4 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Apr 28 VALUE CLOSE WOMtt -363.00 +49.00 iTCOW -*****.00 +28.00 -*****.00 -36.00 jlUQTinMii 335.85 +3.23 WttnwMnBKk 115.77 -0.20 SQC|*hlRn 1050.67 +14.81 lQMhiHpU 290.05 -*4.49 ■WMwow 152.48 *2.11 iBCIMpw 153.50 4-2.90 Stocks Voham •StarCruiaes 10c 39,596.000 HiapHoeOSc 24,955,000 JK Yarning 20c 24,235,000 rrmtisc i9.6i4.ooo Mediastream 5c 15,583,000 MedtecsUS5c
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      Lock icon Tianjin Zhong Xin may rally on China devts for its Sars product
      239 4  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan SEVERAL weeks ago, this column highlighted a company whose stock could soar in the wake of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). Sure enough, the stock of Medtecs International which makes disposable
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      Lock icon Hopeful Sars news cheers market
      702 4  -  STOCKS li comment r. sivanithy IT'S amazing what a little bit of good news or the absence of more bad news can do. Brokers said yesterday's one per cent gain by the Straits Times Index was due largely to the fact that there were no
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      Lock icon US$ weakens all round ahead of tricky week
      610 4  -  i i comment CURRENCIES Traders play it safe ahead of major holidays and key statistics larry wee THE US dollar yesterday closed lower all round, but is off its worst levels, as currency traders elected to play it safe ahead of what
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon MISC close to buying NOL unit American Eagle
      547 5 An announcement on sale of the profitable nnit is expected soon Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia International Shipping Corp is close to buying Singapore's American Eagle Tankers, which carries more than 10 per cent of US crude oil imports, people involved in the
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      Lock icon SembMarine Q1 net profit down 37% to $18.5m
      419 5  -  But if one-off gain from Q***** is not counted, net earnings grew 23% By: Donald Urquhart SEMBCORP Marine reported a 37 per cent drop in first quarter net profit to $18.5 million as a $14.3 million exceptional gain inflated earnings in the
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      Lock icon Make quarterly reporting voluntary
      631 5  -  lock siew wong wei kong LESS than four months after it came into effect, the implementation of mandatory quarterly reporting for all listed companies has already been diluted. Last week, the government extended the one-year waiver from quarterly reporting to more companies by lifting the threshold
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      Lock icon OCBC puts foreclosed property up for sale
      403 6  -  By. Andrea Tan THE hotel sector may be struggling with the Sars outbreak, but that has not stopped OCBC from putting up for mortgagee sale the former Asia Radio Hotel at 41 Bencoolen Street. The 14-storey building used to belong to former Geylang
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      Lock icon Centrepoint Prop in $105m enbloc purchase: sources
      360 6  -  |Tfi exclusive It boys Jervois Court, adjacent Goldhill Mansion, 2 neighbouring sites By Kalpana Rashiwala FRASER Neave's property arm Centrepoint Properties has bought Jervois Court and the Goldhill Mansion next door in collective sales deals that sources say are worth about $105 million
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      Lock icon Last traces of OUB name go with OUT
      297 6  -  By: Michelle Quah THE last traces of Overseas Union Bank seem to be vanishing, following its merger with United Overseas Bank in late-2001. OUB's finance arm Overseas Union Trust (OUT) was officially merged into UOB yesterday and ceased to exist as a
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      Lock icon Keppel's Q1 profit seen rising 6% on strong orders
      448 6 Reuters KEPPEL Corporation Ltd, one of the world's biggest oil platform builders, may report a 6 per cent rise in first-quar-ter net profit today due to its strong order book, analysts said. The Singapore conglomerate, sitting on around $1.9 billion worth
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      Lock icon Leong Hin share hits 6.5C as fall continues
      377 7  -  TTI gains a modest half a cent but recovery eludes JK Taming By] Kenneth Lim THE stock of Leong Hin Holdings continued to fall yesterday as the company said four million shares that two directors were forced to sell on Friday had
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      Lock icon SGX postpones investors fair
      134 7 Reuters THE Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) said yesterday that it has postponed a three-day fair for retail investors scheduled for June due to the poor investment climate and spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars). An SGX spokesman said the event was originally scheduled to
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    • Article
      Lock icon John Lee to replace Goh Chee Wee
      279 7  -  rrr exclusive By\ Christoper Tan NEWLY-FORMED transport giant ComfortDelGro Corp has named the successor to Goh Chee Wee, who ends his short-lived term as chief executive of the group's Comfort taxi division tomorrow. Stepping into Mr Goh's shoes will be John Lee, previously
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon New Spindex substantial shareholder
        103 7 BOUTIQUE fund manager Chartered Asset Management (CAM) has emerged as a substantial shareholder of precision engineering component maker Spindex industries Limited. Spindex received notifications from CAM that its fund CAM-GTF Limited and client accounts now collectively hold 6.16 per cent in the company. CAM is 51
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        Lock icon Heshe faces $2.38m court claim
        59 7 HESHE Holdings Ltd said its unit, The Geo-Tele Heartland Pte Ltd, has filed a writ of summons in the High Court against it claiming a total of $2.38 million. The claim is related to refunds of earlier payments made by Geo-Tele to Heshe and its
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        Lock icon Norelco heads for mainboard
        51 7 CONTRACT equipment manufacturer Norelco Centreline Holdings Ltd is headed for a malnboard listing. Norelco was listed on Sesdaq in May 2001. Its executive chairman and CEO Peter Koh said a malnboard listing would raise its profile and put It on the "radar screen" of foreign institutional
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        Lock icon Giant Wireless' Sars measures
        64 7 HONGKONG-BASED Giant Wireless Is dealing with Sars on two fronts. It has In place "stringent preventive health measures" at its two China manufacturing facilities and head offices in HK and is drafting a contingency plan to ensure continuity of operations and to minimise disruption. Giant said
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        Lock icon Hiap Hoe posts 5-mth loss of $9.5m
        62 7 HLAP Hoe, the former Chew Eu Hock Holdings, posted a net loss of $9.5 million for the five months ended January, against a net profit 0f1676,000 previously. Revenue, however, Jumped from $5.2 million to $19.7 million. Property and construction group Hiap Hoe took
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        Lock icon Int'l Factors buys ECICS units
        92 7 INTERNATIONAL Factors (Singapore) has agreed to pay $100,000 to buy the insurance and guarantee businesses of ECICS Credit Insurance Ltd (ECIL) and ECICS Credit and Guarantee Company (Singapore) Ltd, both owned by Temasek unit ECICS Holdings. ECIL provides domestic and export credit insurance, credit protection
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      Lock icon APP hits back at Japan export credit agency official
      363 7  -  By i Catherine Ong ASIA Pulp Paper (APP) yesterday dismissed criticisms by a senior official of a Japanese export credit agency who had slammed the controlling Widjaja family's no-show at a creditors meeting last week as "so rude". In a statement,
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      Lock icon Esmart aims for third quarter listing
      344 7  -  By Kenneth Lim ELECTRONIC parts design-and-supply company Esmart Holdings Is aiming for a spot on Sesdaq by the third quarter. The company the second to announce its initial public offering intention this month has directors including venture capitalist Denis Low, of Low Low Holdings.
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      Lock icon DBS Thai Danu to redeem hybrid debt
      169 7 Reuters [BANGKOK] DBS Thai Danu Bank Pic, a unit of Singapore's DBS Group, said yesterday it planned early redemption of 6.7 billion baht (*****.4 million) of hybrid securities next year to reduce expenses. President Pornsanong Tuchinda told reporters that the redemption would help
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      1574 6 Of semiconductor manufacturing NOTICE OF FIFTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS To Be Held on May 14,2003 To Our Shareholders: You are cordially invited to attend and NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the fifteenth Annual General Meeting of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd (the "Company") to be held in Singapore on
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      1281 7 VENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in The Republic of Singapore with limited liability) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of VENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED ("the Company") will be held at the Board Room, 5006, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5. #05-01/ 12 TECH Place 11. Singapore *****3 on 23 May
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  • FOCUS property
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      Lock icon Price war stewing in private home market
      680 8  -  I >11 comment PROPERTY This time, It's between developers and their former customers lee han shih THERE'S an old saying that goes something like: "Your best friend can become your worst enemy." Now tell it to the developers. Developers in Singapore, once a
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      Lock icon StanChart relaunches mortgage package
      714 8  -  By\ Siow Li Sen STANDARD Chartered Bank yesterday became the first bank well, sort of to charge higher interest rates on the relaunch of a home loan package probably reflecting the popularity of its special netted interest feature. StanChart's relaunch will be closely watched by mortgage
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      1460 8 DEL MONTE PACIFIC LIMITED (Incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with limited liability on 27 May 1999) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Fourth Annual General Meeting of Del Monte Pacific Limited ("the Company") will be held at Ballroom 3. Hotel Inter-Continental Singapore, 80 Middle Road, Singapore *****6 on Wednesday.
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon March output up 6.5% but outlook is gloomy
      432 9  -  EYE OH TOE ECONOMY Byi Anna Teo REVERSING an unexpected drop in February, industrial output grew 6.5 per cent in March but analysts are unimpressed. The Singapore Confederation of Industries (SCI), for one, was quick to point out that it is "too
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      Lock icon Lenders, motor traders hit by car loan scam
      415 9  -  Forged, duplicate logc&rds used; police probe on Byi Christopher Tan ANOTHER multimilliondollar car loan scam has hit at least half a dozen financial institutions, and possibly just as many motor traders. This is the second major fraud case to have rocked the
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      Lock icon Nod for Hong Leong to build huge Pasir Ris condo
      253 9  -  By] Kalpana Rashiwala THE Hong Leong Group, which includes mainboard listed City Developments, obtained provisional permission in the first quarter to develop a massive condo project 0f2,994 units on a 2.1 million sq ft site at Pasir Ris. "The project
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      Lock icon Search for new NAC chief executive
      241 9  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon THE search is under way for a new chief executive officer for the National Arts Council (NAC) now that incumbent CEO Choo Thiam Siew has confirmed his resignation from Aug 1. Mr Choo, 53, is leaving to head the Nanyang Academy
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      Lock icon Govt, business urge wage reform plans
      384 9 TACKLING Sars may be the priority right now, but the challenges now confronting the economy also require that further impetus be given to implement the wage measures proposed by the Economic Review Committee. This is a key theme in this year's May Day messages.
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      1963 9 asp =Tnetcentre Your total (T mutton* It service* provider aspnetcentre Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore on 31 December 1999) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Third Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at 11 Tampines Street 92, Singapore *****2 on
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Plutocratic democracy bodes ill for US
      761 10  -  ITTT^ bottom line OPINION paul samuelson MY UNIVERSITY colleagues are better judges of my merits and demerits than I am. Similarly, a more accurate appraisal of where the US is going can come from experienced, objective observers in Japan or Spain or France. As
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      50 10 The crackdown is long overdue. It's time the message came out loud and clear to Wall Street: ethical management or jail.' Anthony Honrihan professor of financial institutions management at University College. Dublin, following the surrender of Frank Quattrone, former head of Credit Suisse First Boston's technology-banking unit.
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      Lock icon The regional battle against Sars
      692 10 EDITORIAL THE emergency Asean summit on Sars, which gets under way in Bangkok today, will be closely watched around the world. And for good reason. Not since the Asian economic and financial crisis of 1997/98 has the region faced a collective challenge that is as
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      Lock icon The key figures behind bid for Bank Danamon
      1134 10  -  Which party wins could well depend on final moves made by ex-IMF man Hubert Neiss, and Indon businessmen Tomi Winata and Chairnl Tanjung By: Yang Razali Kassim AS the bidding war for Bank Danamon enters the final stretch and gets more heated,
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      Lock icon SingTel keeps business, charity apart
      665 10  -  MAILISTTTI Andrienne Tho Corporate Communications Manager Sing Tel I REFER to "Sing Tel, waive charity call charge" by Leong Sze Hian (Mailbag, April 25). The mass phone-in system popular with charitable organisations is the Telepoll service. It is a different service from the 1900 Audioline
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  • REGIONAL news
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      Lock icon Intel to make new chipset component at Penang plant
      476 11 ■PENANG Indian IT firm S&ty&m launches global solutions centre in Cybexjaya Bernama INTEL Corp, the world's largest chipmaker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, has chosen its Penang plant to make its Mobile Input/Output Controller Hub 4
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      Lock icon MAS to lose RM130m in sales due to Sars
      362 11 KUALA LUMPUR Bloomberg MALAYSIAN Airline System Bhd will lose RM131.2 million (5J61.6 million) in sales from April 14 to May 28 after cancelling flights, and will add routes to countries not affected by a deadly new virus. The Malaysian national carrier
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      Lock icon Maxis denies interest in PT Excelcomindo stake
      344 11 KUALA LUMPUR Indon firm doesn't meet investment criteria, it says Bloomberg Reuters MAXIS Communications Bhd, Malaysia's biggest mo-bile-phone operator, said it is not interested in buying a stake in PT Excelcomindo Pratama because the Indonesian company did not meet its investment criteria. "We
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        Lock icon Indon utility PLN to import oil
        69 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesia's state power company may import fuel supplies itself, bypassing the state oil company to cut costs and ensure adequate supply to its power plants, president director Eddie Widiono said. PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, or PLN, which currently buys ftiel only from
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        Lock icon IMF review team in Jakarta for talks
        107 13 Reuters [JAKARTA! IMF officials began arriving in Jakarta yesterday ahead of a two-week review of Indonesia's economic reforms, said the Fund's Indonesia representative David Nellor. Indonesia has a loan programme of around US$5 billion with the IMF which expires at the end of
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        Lock icon Bank Niaga Q1 profit falls 15%
        65 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA! PT Bank Niaga, a local lender controlled by Malaysia's Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd, said profit in the three months ended March 31 fell 15 per cent because of a deferred tax expense. Bank Niaga posted a 48.8 billion rupiah (Ss9.B million) profit in
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        Lock icon China Merchants Bank Q1 leaps 65%
        113 13 Reuters [SHANGHAI] China Merchants Bank, the biggest of four mainland listed banks, yesterday said net profit surged 65 per cent in the first quarter as it rode a boom in lending to domestic consumers. A swelling loan portfolio helped the bank's earnings jump to
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        Lock icon Indon March consumer confidence up
        75 13 Bloomberg [JAKARTA] Indonesian consumer confidence rose in March from a record low because household incomes are rising and inflation is easing, a survey showed. Consumer confidence rose 7.9 per cent to 88.8 points from 82.30 in February, Danareksa Research Institute said in a monthly survey
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        Lock icon Philippine output rises 1.8% in Feb
        62 13 AFP [MANILA] PhUippine manufacturing output grew 1.8 per cent in February from a year earlier in the second straight month of expansion after a long period of decline, the National Statistics Office said yesterday. The growth was mainly in basic metals, wood products, leather
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      Lock icon Blasts fail to rattle Indon markets
      758 13  -  analysis Rnpiah holds steady against US dollar; benchmark JCI closes at 430.9 points From Shoeb Kagda in Jakarta CONTRARY to expectations, Indonesia's financial markets did not go into a tailspin yesterday following the bomb blasts that ripped through Jakarta's Sukarno Hatta Airport on early
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      194 13 KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA'S largest listed chipmaker, Malaysian Pacific Industries (MPI), is transfering its lower-end manufacturing operations to China soon to better compete with other low-cost makers and to service clients that have relocated there, the Malaysian Business Times reported yesterday. Citing sources,
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      343 13 BANGKOK April's consumer spending still 'normal': minister AP THAILAND'S strong exports will largely compensate for the expected revenue loss to the tourism sector resulting from Sars, the country's finance minister said yesterday. "Exports are still doing well, that should compensate," Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha
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      348 13  -  SINGAPORE By Walton Morais PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Asean colleagues will join leaders from China and Hong Kong in Bangkok today for a crisis meeting aimed at sending a signal to the international community that the region is fully committed to
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      380 14 HONGKONG Bnt exporters brace for impact of Sars virus in coming months Reuters THE value of Hong Kong's total exports rose 15.4 per cent in March year-on-year as it continued to gain from China's growing trade, but exporters were bracing for the impact
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      263 14 TAIPEI GDP may be trimmed by OJS to 0.25 point Reuters TAIWAN'S March index of leading indicators shrank 0.8 per cent from February and the island's economic planning agency yesterday expressed concern over the impact of the spreading Sars virus. The March index of leading
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      169 14 HONGKONG Bloomberg WARREN Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc bought PetroChina Co shares for a third time this month, bringing his stake in China's top oil producer to 9.1 per cent. Berkshire Hathaway bought 85.37 million PetroChina shares on April 11 and 31.41 million more four days
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      592 17 LATEST US INDICATORS Bat figures still fell short of economists' forecasts for 0.5% increase Reuters Bloomberg {WASHINGTON] US consumers increased their spending in March at the fastest pace in three months as better weather and a pickup in income growth helped bring them
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      337 17 TOKYO Reuters SHARES in Sony Corp slid another 15 per cent yesterday, bringing its loss in market value to U557.65 billion since it reported earnings well below targets last week and warned of a profit slump to come. The world's top consumer electronics
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      397 17 NYT [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Computer plans on Monday to introduce a digital music service, said industry analysts. It is a move that thrusts the company into the middle of a contentious and technologically challenging area of digital commerce.
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      308 17 OSAKA, Japan Rising sales of DVD players, flat panel TVs boost results Bloomberg MATSUSHITA Electric Industrial Co, the world's biggest consumer electronics maker, narrowed its fourthquarter loss on rising sales of Panasonic and Technics brand DVD players and flat panel televisions. The group loss of 58.2
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        75 17 Bloomberg [MUNICH] Siemens AG, Germany's biggest engineering company, agreed to buy French rival Alstom SA's industrial turbine unit for 1.l billion euros (552.2 billion) to tap a growing market for small gas turbines and shore up earnings at its power generation division. The purchase
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        70 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] HSBC Holdings said profit at its US unit rose 20 per cent as it boosted revenue from charging interest and set aside less money for bad loans. Net income rose to US$254 million from US$2ll million in the year-ago quarter. Bad
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        55 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] US credit card issuer American Express Co made an offer to buy Threadneedle, the London-based money manager owned by Zurich Financial Services, sources said. Threadneedle, with £44 billion (5J124.5 billion) of assets under management, may sell for US$75O million, said Tim Dawson, an
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        86 17 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Sales of semiconductors in March rose 13 per cent from a year earlier, their slowest pace in seven months. Worldwide sales totalled US$l2.l billion last month, up 13 per cent from US$lO.7 billion in March 2002, the US-based Semiconductor Industry Association
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        82 17 Reuters [TOKYO] Japan's Hitachi Ltd yesterday said cost cutting helped it return to profit last year and it joined its main rivals in forecasting it will stay in the black this year. However, analysts say it still need more drastic reform and should withdraw from loss-making
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        61 17 Bloomberg [LONDON] GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the price of Combivir and other Aids treatments by half for 63 of the world's poorest countries. Combivir, part of the World Health Organisation's recommended standard treatment for HIV, will cost 90 cents a day for non-profit groups. After
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        57 17 AFP [SYDNEY] Australian authorities yesterday ordered the largest recall of pharmaceuticals in the nation's history after suspending the manufacturing licence of a herbal medicine firm for safety breaches. The Therapeutic Goods Administration ordered the urgent recall of 219 products manufactured by Pan Pharmaceuticals, Australia's largest maker
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        66 17 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] Pacific Investment Management Co, bought three years ago by Germany's Allianz AG, is increasing its dominance over Fidelity Investments in the US$2.5 trillion global market for mutual funds that invest in bonds. Pimco last year attracted a net U5525.2 billion to its
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      558 19 LONDON Pnndawumtfll analymg seen as better indicator than simple ratios now Reuters THE collapse in stock prices has posed a tough test for many conventional tools used to value shares to assess whether they are worth buying. Some analysts say the
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      1670 20  -  Whether tracking terror networks or virus outbreaks, a multi-faceted approach is essential, says Patrick Lambe Patrick Lambe IN the first part of this article last week, I looked at how contact tracing can help you to build network maps of how a contagion spreads, and to try
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      273 21 Reuters THE Baltic Dry Index rose 9 points to 2124, the Baltic Capesize Index rose 8 points to 2781, the Baltic Panamax Index rose 11 points to 2117 and the Baltic Handymax Index rose 83 points to *****. TCIIE-CSIABTI2R: Tian Sheng Hai (built 1997) *****9 dwt delivery China
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      740 21  -  S'pore, placed first by many, uses freight tons, European port metric tonnes By Beth Jinks [SINGAPORE] Europe's top port of Rotterdam has repeated its claim for the title of the "uncontested world's biggest port" over Singapore in cargo tonnage terms,
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      300 21 Bloomberg [MIAMI] Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world's second-larg-est cruise line company, said first-quarter profit rose 1 per cent, as an increase in the number of ships it operates helped make up for a drop in bookings. Net income was U5553.2 million, or 27 cents
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      76 21 [DHAKA] Bangladeshi ferries sitting idle in the river Buriganga at Sadarghat terminal. Ferry operators went on strike to protest against government order to suspend operations for five hours in the evening every day to minimise accidents in the months of April and May, when storms are common
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      Lock icon Daewoo yard wins US$350m in orders
      137 21 Bloomberg [SEOUL] South Korean shipyards continued to clinch new orders, filling up order books for tankers and container vessels. Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering, the world's second-largest shipbuilder, won orders to build nine liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and oil tankers worth US$35O million from five
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      Lock icon Hapag Lloyd orders 3 mega box ships from Hyundai
      282 21  -  By Beth Jinks {SINGAPORE] German shipping line Hapag Lloyd has continued its aggressive capacity expansion, ordering three 8,000 TEU container ships, following similar orders placed by some of its Grand Alliance partners. The 330 m long, 43m wide giants will be
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        1013 22 Boeing going all out to win European business as rival Airbus snaps dangerously at its heels Bloomberg [CHICAGO] BOEING Co chief executive Phil Condit began 2003 facing the prospect that Airbus SAS would overtake his company as the biggest maker of commercial aircraft.
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        762 27 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine 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 individual
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        405 28 AIRLINES' SARS WOES Taiwan introduces stringent measures for passengers from Sars hotspots AFP AP [TAIPEI] Airlines cancelled flights to Taipei from Hong Kong yesterday while Taiwan set stringent travel restrictions and began a 10day mandatory quarantine for passengers arriving from Sars-stricken areas.
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        198 28 AP [NEW DELHI] India's national carrier suspended 15 more pilots on Sunday after they refused to fly with management staff who had been to Sars-hit countries in the past 10 days, news reports said. Some Air India pilots have refused to fly to countries hit
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        436 28  -  Centre will coordinate efforts to contain spread ofvirns By\ George Joseph [SINGAPORE] The International Air Transport Association (lata) has set up a Sars Operations Centre here to help co-ordinate efforts in the region to introduce measures to contain the spread of
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        323 28 Reuters [AMSTERDAM] KLM, Europe's number four airline, will reduce the number of flights to Asian destinations and fly smaller planes on many routes to the region after the Sars virus depressed demand for tickets, it said. KLM, which along with other airlines, has seen the
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        496 28 ÜBS, Credit Suisse most honour their commitments made in 2001, it says Bloomberg [BERN, Switzerland] Swiss Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger wants ÜBS and Credit Suisse to renew the credit line to Swiss International Air Lines, the national carrier that's suspending some
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        338 28 Largest plane orders since last year came from low-fare carriers Bloomberg [TOULOUSE, France] Airbus SAS, the world's sec-ond-largest maker of aircraft, won an order from jetßlue Airways Corp for as many as 115 airplanes valued at US$6.4 billion, sources said. jetßlue, with a
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