The Business Times, 14 August 2003

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    12 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE Internet: hUp://business-times.asial com.sg THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2003 850
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    Lock icon Protected funds draw $6b, and still counting
    777 1  -  BT exclusive Investors pile into safe funds despite disappointing returns so far By Genevieve Cua [SINGAPORE] Money parked in capital secured funds shot past $6 billion at endJuly, as paltry deposit rates pushed savers towards structures that appear to promise the best of
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    Lock icon Morgan Stanley: S'pore banks will be hot
    518 1  -  It also urges potting twice as much in SGX shares as MSCI's call By Wong Wei Kong [SINGAPORE] US investment bank Morgan Stanley is recommending that investors put twice as much money into Singapore stocks as is recommended by the benchmark Morgan Stanley
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    Lock icon DBS, UOB join home loan rate hike
    707 1  -  All local banks now levy 4-5% for 2-yr By Siow Li Sen [SINGAPORE] DBS Bank and United Overseas Bank yesterday raised their home loan rates for private property just a day after rival OCBC Bank set the ball rolling by announcing increases on
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      Lock icon George Ting quits KFC amid talk of boardroom tussle
      409 2  -  BT exclusive Battle for firm seen as a little-known company bids for stake held by EPF From Eddie Toh in Kuala Lumpur GEORGE Ting, who has been instrumental in the success of KFC Holdings in Malaysia and Singapore over the years,
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      Lock icon Fed's hint it won't up rates lifts markets
      646 2  -  Fed discounts risk of inflation despite signs of growth From Andrew Marks in New York THE US Federal Reserve's decision to leave short-term interest rates unchanged at the historically low level of one per cent was widely anticipated across Wall Street and
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      Lock icon Union members enjoy above average pay rise
      491 2  -  2.8% hike last year beats national figure of 2%: NTUC By Chuang Peck Ming (SINGAPORE] It pays to be a union member. Despite slow business, unionised workers received a 2.8 per cent rise in basic pay last year higher than the 2 per
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      Lock icon The Fed statement
      191 2 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The following is the Federal Open Market Committee's statement on interest rate policy issued at the close of its meeting on Tuesday: "The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at one per cent. The committee continues
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    • ON THE grapevine
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        101 2 SEEMS some analysts were "downgraded" recently by United Overseas Bank. Last week, when the bank invited them to lunch to review its half-year results, UOB president and deputy chairman Wee Ee Cheong wasn't there to grace the occasion. "But he met the press when UOB announced its results," grumbled
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        Lock icon What you see ain 't what you get
        98 2 NOW that the government has signalled a more tolerant stance, carmakers seem to be jumping on the gay wagon. First it was Subaru, which sponsored the Nation party, a popular gay event, here last week. Now DaimlerChrysler has an ad in The
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        139 2 WANT to hear Zoe Tay on your handphone? Ml is introducing a service this month that allows callers to listen to customised connecting tones, in the form of a music clip, a joke, a sound effect or a celebrity greeting. Called Bye Bye Ring Ring, the service will
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  • SINGAPORE companies
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      Lock icon S'pore firms fight shy of disclosing directors' pay
      409 3  -  Only eight in 30 companies follow recommended practice: survey By Wong Wei Kong ONLY a handful of listed companies are disclosing the pay of individual directors, although they are encouraged to do so under the code of corporate governance, a survey by
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      Lock icon Salim son makes offer for QAF at 50¢ a share
      416 3  -  Andree Halim's move follows exercise of options for 55% control By Serena Ng THREE weeks after he was granted options to buy more than half the shares of food group QAF, a scion of Indonesia's Salim Group has exercised them
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      Lock icon Good start by Ipco minorities, but patience needed
      618 3  -  HOCK lock siew r sivanithy IT'S often said that Singapore shareholders are apathetic creatures with little or no interest in the running of companies they own shares in. It's also said that minority rights are an important feature of the local market,
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      Lock icon Food producer brings 'Pork Luck' to Sesdaq table
      303 4  -  By Serena Ng WHEN it comes to raising corporate profile, you can't leave it to luck. Not when you're out to promote your "Pork Luck" brand. For China Food Industries (CFI), whose activities include pig farming, a Sesdaq listing is the answer.
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      Lock icon Parkway's Q2 earnings down 52% due to Sars
      442 4  -  But strong Q1 results keep slide for interim period at just 20% By Vince Chong PARKWAY Holdings saw its sec-ond-quarter bottom line slide 52 per cent year on year following the Sars outbreak in March. The group, which is South-east Asia's largest
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      Lock icon JEL offers mainboard issue at 21 cents a share
      441 4  -  By Ven Sreenivasan PHOTOGRAPHIC and con-sumable-products trader and distributor JEL Corporation launched its mainboard initial public offer of 42 million new shares at 21 cents each yesterday. Of this, 40 million shares are for placement, including two million via Internet website
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      Lock icon Ocean Sky earnings up but margins shrink
      285 4  -  By Kenneth Lim REPEAT sales and new orders helped garment manufacturer Ocean Sky International lift net earnings 8 per cent in the half-year ended June 30, despite a market plagued by Sars and the war in Iraq. Net profit margins, however, fell to
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    • COMPANYBriefs
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        Lock icon Achieva posts $1m interim profit
        49 4 ACHIEVA Limited, a distributor and solutions provider focusing on electronics and IT-related products, has turned around with an interim net profit of about $1 million compared with a net loss of $4.4 million for the previous first-half. Turnover was marginally up at $232.7 million.
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        Lock icon Chia Shi Teck loses appeal
        103 4 THE former executive chairman of garment company Heshe Holdings, Chia Shi Teck, lost his appeal against bankruptcy yesterday in the High Court. He was represented free-of-charge by Drew Napier senior counsel Jimmy Yim. Heshe had said, after Mr Chia was made bankrupt that it would
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        Lock icon SingTel links op with China Telecom
        84 4 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Telecommunications, South-east Asia's largest phone company, said it will offer joint data services with China Telecom Corp, China's biggest fixed-line phone service provider. Sing Tel and China Telecom will help companies link data networks between China and cities such as Singapore, Sydney,
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        Lock icon Globe stake: Ayala seeks better price
        94 4 Reuters [MANILA] Tap Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp yesterday Mid it wanted a better price for a Globe Telecom stake that debt-laden German phone giant Deutsche Telekom wants to unload. Ayala and another key Globe stockholder Singapore Telecom refused an offer from Deutsche to sell
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        Lock icon NH Ceramics sees higher H2 less
        72 4 NH Ceramics Ltd has given further update on its profit warning for the financial year ended June 30, 2003. The listed group said turnover for the second half was $9.59 million, a 33.5 per cent fall from the corresponding period in FY2002. The company,
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        Lock icon Hua Kok sells 13% stake to investor
        86 4 CONSTRUCTION listed group Hua Kok International Ltd has agreed to sell a 13 per cent stake to an individual investor, Zhao Zhen, at seven cents apiece. It will place 43.7 million new shares or 12.96 per cent of enlarged capital which will raise
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        Lock icon Fu Yu directors sell shares
        70 4 FU Yu Manufacturing Ltd said four of its executive directors have sokl a total of 12.8 million shares at 60.5 cents per share to institutional investors to enhance the liquidity of the stock and to raise institutional holdings. The placement was from the company's four
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        Lock icon Sets reports better July figures
        84 4 Reuters SINGAPORE Airport Terminal Services (Sats), the ground-handling and catering arm of Singapore Airlines, said yesterday that it handled 36.3 per cent more passengers in July over June as flights were restored after the Sars virus outbreak. Month-on-month recovery is expected to continue as airlines
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      Lock icon CityDev buys 36 homes for $52m from CapitaLand
      422 5  -  Purchase of units at The Imperial seen as move to get tighter hold on prices in area By Kalpana Rashiwala IN a move seen as giving it a tighter grip on prices in the area, City Developments has bought 36 apartments in
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      Lock icon Freight Links in debt revamp pact with OCBC
      308 5  -  Agreements with the bank and UOB extend maturity of $43m of loans By Kenneth Lim LOSS-MAKING Freight Links Express Holdings (FLEH) has entered into a debt restructuring agreement with OCBC, about three weeks after a similar deal with UOB for outstanding facilities
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      445 4 CGFRC-ICPAS-SID Conference on Design, Valuation and Accounting of Stock-Based Compensation Wednesday August 27, 2003, 9:ooam s:lspm institute of Certified Public Venue: The Regent Singapore Accountants of Singapore Cuscaden Road, Singapore CT"T\ S$ 416/-for Non-Members S$ 312/- for Members SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS corp«r«t» Recent corporate scandals in the U.S. have
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      19 4 Lianhe Zaobao I Local I I company I I launching combined I I Chinese I [software r*tt*uv I Iwrifj
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  • SINGAPORE markets
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      311 6 OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES Aug 13 VALUE CLOSE WOMB 208.00 +139.00 BTCm -*****.00 +208.00 -*****.00 +21.00 430.55 +7.26 MCfdbnOail 152.73 -0.54 W6pWwRi 1349.56 +36.99 394.20 +2.94 MSCIflf pin 196.23 +3.70 195.90 +3.90 UntFtber 10c 74.903.CXX) Sucminedate 15c 56.373.000 IPC020C 53,820.000 Rj Yu Mfg 10c 46.047.000 Smgpu 25c 42.105,000 HorizonEduc 5c 40,521,000
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      Lock icon Positive news, strong liquidity may push TPV higher
      287 6  -  HOT STOCK/ WARRANT By Ven Sreenivasan THE shares of computer monitor maker TPV Technology have responded positively to news of a change in major shareholder. The stock has rallied since last week's announcement that Fields Pacific plans to sell a 26.36 per
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      Lock icon Interest rate changes boost market
      754 6  -  BT comment STOCKS r. sivanithy INTEREST rates in two different forms played a central role in trading in the local stock market yesterday, during a session marked by hectic punting of penny stocks, recent IPOs and China plays. The value of stocks traded rose above
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      Lock icon US$ recoups losses as Fed calms bond market fears
      614 6  -  BT comment CURRENCIES larry wee US stocks and the greenback recovered smartly in overnight trading after the US central bank kept shortterm interest rates unchanged and left little doubt that it will pursue an accommodative monetary policy stance for a "considerable
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  • SINGAPORE news
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      Lock icon Wage reform painful but critical: DPM
      390 7  -  Restructuring will make economy fit for competition, says Hsien Loong By Andrea Tan DEPUTY Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday drove home the urgent need for Singapore to restructure its wage system to keep ahead of regional rivals. "Wage restructuring is painful medicine but
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      Lock icon Teambuild to finish Marine Terrace upgrade
      298 7  -  HDB awards $24.3m deal for unfinished work after three contractors left the project By Vince Chong THE Housing and Development Board's contingency contractor Teambuild Construction has been formally awarded a $24.3 million contract for remaining upgrading works at Marine Terrace, where three previous contractors
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      Lock icon Int'l HQ Award benefits local firms too
      456 7  -  By Kenneth Lim WHEN ornamental fish hot-shot Kenny Yap, managing director of Qian Hu Corporation, first heard about the Economic Development Board's International Headquarters Award, he thought to himself: "Hey, I should be getting this too." So Mr Yap got his company to
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      Lock icon Analysts see H2 rebound for S'pore exports
      387 9  -  EYE on the econom exports But they put average NODX growth for July at only 11.6% given the high base By Chuang Peck Ming SINGAPORE'S exports are likely to have kicked off the second half on a happy note. Analysts' estimates of growth
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      Lock icon End is near for Asia's export-led growth
      423 9  -  US cannot sustain demand for exports, says analyst By Amit Roy Choudhury THE inability of the US to indefinitely expand its indebtedness to the rest of the world at the rate of a million dollars a minute means that Asia's era of export-led
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      Lock icon MOE unveils private school guidelines
      264 9  -  By Vince Chong THE Ministry of Education released its first guidelines on privately-funded schools yesterday, revealing that such schools will not be able to offer prima-ry-level education. A government review committee said last year there was room for such institutions at the secondary and junior
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  • EXECUTIVE suite
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      Lock icon First Sentosa homes in North Cove
      834 8  -  Almost two-thirds of 2,600 waterfront homes planned for Sentosa Cove will be there, reports Kalpana Rashiwala Kalpana Rashiwala IF you're hankering after a seafront bungalow overlooking the Southern islands, you're a step closer now. Master developer Sentosa Cove Pte Ltd is understood to have
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      884 9 w Circuits Plus Holdings L.td (Incorporated in The Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Circuits Plus Holdings Ltd will be held at 8 First Lok Yang Road, Singapore *****1 on 29 August 2003 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business: AS ORDINARY
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      220 9 < imvimmmmmmmmmmam I i i 4 w A resilient t performance Highlights of our interim results for 2003: Profit attributable to shareholders up 25% Earnings per share up 17% I* Moving to quarterly dividends First interim dividend of US 24 cents, up 17%, payable on 7 October 2003 Proposed second
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  • EDITORIAL & opinion
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      Lock icon Europe's slick new-look state bailouts
      834 10  -  THE bottom line OPINION matthew lynn Bloomberg CORPORATE finance work is thin on the ground. Mergers and acquisitions are about as fashionable as shoulder pads and power lunches. Initial public offerings are as popular as fur coats on the Costa del SoL Even rights offers
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      45 10 'A few months ago, fears of deflation were extraordinary and, in my opinion, overdone. Now, the markets are going in the opposite direction, and I think some of that is overdone as well.' -Kennit L Schaeahattz chief economist at Citigroup Global Markets.
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      Lock icon Tung regains his footing
      576 10 EDITORIAL AFTER a frenetic July, during which Hong Kong was rocked by massive protests and a government in disarray, the territoiy appears to be calming down Beleaguered Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is picking up the pieces and has promised to hold dialogues with prodemocracy groups in
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      Lock icon Not-so-bright prospects for the Doha Round
      1019 10  -  The real issues in liberalising global trade are at risk of getting sidelined in big-power plays in Cancun next month By Raseen Sally THE Doha Round of multilateral trade talks has made next-to-no progress since its launch. All major deadlines have been missed. The
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      Lock icon Multilingual reviews may be waste of money
      209 10  -  MAIL bag Narayana Narayana THERE is nothing intrinsically wrong with Simon Ng Yap Peng's suggestion ("Have company reviews in other languages", Mailbag. Aug 7) that corporate operating and financial reviews (OFRs) be published in other languages as well as English. But one wonders
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      Lock icon Set up a resource centre, Sias
      296 10  -  Chen Zhen Lin Singapore I REFER to your report "Sias lines up team for independent research" (BT, Aug 4). The sustainability of equity research depends upon the willingness of investors to pay for it. $7.5 million is not a big amount, and by the
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  • REGIONAL news
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        Lock icon Stop blaming yuan, China tells Japan
        65 11 Reuters [BEIJING] China, on the defensive for months over its fixed currency policy, yesterday switched tactics with a call for Japan to stop blaming others for its woes. A commentary in the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily said Japanese politicians and economists were trying
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        Lock icon Bill to make Batam FTZ coming soon
        76 11 Xinhua [JAKARTA] The Indonesian government has hinted that it will soon draft a bill declaring the industrialised island of Batam in Riau province as a Free Trade Zone, a local official said yesterday. "Let us wait and see, but the People's Consultative Assembly
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        Lock icon Proton denies talks with Naza Kia
        98 11 Reuters [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia's national car maker Proton yesterday denied a newspaper report saying it may sell a stake in its distribution arm to Naza Kia Sdn Kid, the country's distributor of Kia vehicles. "Proton wishes to state that there had been no negotiations
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        Lock icon China's FDI drops 38% in July
        98 11 Reuters [BEIJING] Foreign direct investment in China plummeted 38 per cent in July from a year earlier to about US$3.l billion, partly because the Sars outbreak had delayed effects on a key driver of the country's economic engine. Actual foreign direct investment was U5533.35
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        Lock icon China's July exports up 30.6%
        77 11 Reuters [BEIJING] China's exports rose 30.6 per cent in July from a year earlier, slowing from the previous month in a sign the Sars epidemic had a dampening effect on orders. July exports were US$3B.ll billion, while imports were U5536.51 billion, up 35.3 per cent
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        Lock icon Jakarta to scrap regional laws
        86 11 AFP [JAKARTA] Indonesia's finance ministry is trying to scrap more than 200 laws passed by regional authorities under a huge decentralisaion programme because they hamper business and investment, an official said yesterday. "We have submitted a list of 206 regional laws that we deem hinder
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      Lock icon DBS may join team for Measat IPO
      427 11  -  SINGAPORE UBS, Goldman arranging US$400m share sale by M'sian satellite TV operator By Vince Chong DBS Bank may be roped in to help ÜBS and Goldman Sachs with the initial public offer of Malaysia's only satellite television operator, Measat Broadcast Network System. According
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      Lock icon Australia, US warn of fresh attacks
      326 11 JAKARTA BLAST Reuters AP [JAKARTA] The US and Australia yesterday told their nationals to stay away from soft targets in Indonesia like international hotels or shopping centres, saying new intelligence pointed to a risk of fresh attacks. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and the
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      Lock icon Indonesia needs global bond drive, say analysts
      441 11 Issues likely as govt has to plug debtheavy budget deficit Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia must launch a major loan plan, which may include its first global bonds issue since the Asian crisis, to help fund its 2004 budget as it tackles the impact of
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      Lock icon Investors bet on growth to fuel India's stock rally
      508 12 MUMBAI They are upbeat about strong economic forecast, corporate earnings Reuters CHARTERED accountant Bharat Sanghvi's 800,000 rupees ($30,640) investment in Indian stocks has jumped 25 per cent since April, but he does not plan to take profits. "We are in a
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      Lock icon India's GDP to double by '10: Merrill
      125 12 MUMBAI Bloomberg INDIA'S economy will double by 2010, as companies such as General Electric Co and Accenture Ltd hire from the country's pool of young educated workers, helping create a new generation of spenders, a Merrill Lynch Co report said. In India, seven
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      Lock icon Motorola plans to beef up research ops in India
      350 12 NEW DELHI AFP US telecoms group Motorola is to hire more people in India to make it a research and technology hub, a report said yesterday. Motorola chief Mike Zafirovski told the Hindustan Times he was hoping to save money by
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      Lock icon HK hotels raise rates as China eases travel rules
      427 12 HONGKONG Rise in tourism also bolstering shares of hotels and airlines Bloomberg [HONG KONG] Sino Hotels Holdings Ltd and Regal Hotels International Holdings Ltd are among Hong Kong hotels raising rates for the first time since March, buoyed by a Chinese
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      Lock icon Cheung Kong eyes mainland buyers
      123 12 SINGAPORE Bloomberg BILLIONAIRE Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd plans to start selling apartments at two luxury projects in Hong Kong to visitors from China for at least a 10th more than earlier units. The developer will sell a remaining 670 apartments at One Beacon
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      558 14 LATEST US DATA 1.4% gain in July lends credence to forecasts for sharp pick-up in growth Reuters Bloomberg AP [WASHINGTON] America's shoppers splurged in July on cars, appliances and clothes, boosting sales at the nation's retailers by 1.4 per cent, the
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      368 14 ZURICH Bank benefits from rising markets and declining costs Bloomberg ÜBS AG, Europe's largest bank by assets, says the worst is over for the banking industry, after reporting the highest quarterly earnings since 2000. President Peter Wuffli said yesterday that the Swiss bank may
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      272 14 NEW YORK Reuters NEWS Corp, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, yesterday swung to a quarterly profit from a year-earlier loss, helped by stronger performance at its television and cable units. The company reported a fourth-quarter profit of US$37O million, or 28 US
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        87 14 Bloomberg [MELBOURNE] Foster's Group shares rose after the company said it plans to spin-off its pubs and gaming unit in a AJI.4 billion (Ssl.6 billion) share sale, fuelling speculation the money will be used to fund a wine acquisition or stock buyback. Foster's, Australia's
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        60 14 Reuters [PHILADELPHIA] World Com Inc said yesterday it plans to name Rick Roscitt, a former long-term executive of rival AT&T Corp, as its president and chief operating officer to oversee the day-to-day operations of the bankrupt telephone and data services company. Mr Roscitt will
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        78 14 AFP [LONDON] British Airways announced yesterday it was immediately suspending flights to Saudi Arabia until farther notice, after Britain's government said there was "credible intelligence" of a threat in the country. BA's decision followed discussions earlier in the day with the Department for Transport,
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        111 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] E-mails given to regulators by Verizon Communications indicate some employees at competitor World Com knew WorldCom's call data had been altered, creating "pseudo" phone numbers that may have helped the company save money. The Wall Street Journal said yesterday. Verizon's filing
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      410 15 SEOUL Its Q2 loss widens to 530b won on fall in prices and DRAM demand Bloomberg HYNIX Semiconductor Inc, the world's No 3 maker of computer memory chips, reported its 10th loss in 11 quarters after prices fell further below the company's cost
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      244 15 NEW YORK Reuters MERRILL Lynch Co chief executive Stan O'Neal said on Tuesday there will be no president appointed at the firm for at least five years, effectively ending an issue that had become nettlesome. "Stan told the board that he does not
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      176 15 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD a revealing view (8,4) removed (7) 9 Party leader H| |H| 11 Prize awarded to steer, perfor example (7) wire? No point (7) 26 Brass bands? Hopefully notl (7 5) "Ciao" (12) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 10 Bandits with stolen cash? Across: 1 Flat race, 9 Reliance. DOWN rm off!
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      631 16  -  BT exclusive Region's sales contributed 30% to BenQ's total revenue in 2002, finds Amit Roy Choudhury Amit Roy Choudhury TAIWAN'S BenQ expects to see a 50 per cent jump in revenues from the sale of its branded products in the Asia-Pacific region this
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      465 16  -  But SingCert has no reports of infection from S'pore public By Raju Chellam The MSBlast "worm" that began infecting computers worldwide two days ago has gone on to infect more than 180,000 computers globally as of yesterday, and may have infected corporate networks more
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      348 16 Bloomberg [TAlPEl] Quanta Computer Inc, the world's largest maker of notebook computers, and rivals face shortages of memory chips and other parts because suppliers haven't invested enough to expand production capacity after a more than two-year slump in demand, according to some parts makers. Computer
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      760 17 Ship attacked in Indon waters, US$10,000 ransom said to be demanded [SINGAPORE] Pirates have struck in Indonesian waters again attacking a Malay-sian-owned ship carrying fuel oil and taking its captain and two engineers hostage. It is believed the pirates sought a
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      281 17 AFP [BRUSSELS] Two cargo ships, both carrying cars, collided early yesterday in the estuary leading to the Belgian port of Antwerp, the port authority said. Although nobody was hurt in the collision, the two vessels were blocking access to the port, spokeswoman Ann
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      204 17 AFP [DHAKA] Thousands of people were stranded on Tuesday at ferry terminals across Bangladesh as vessel owners enforced a wildcat strike to protest stricter safety rules. The Bangladesh Launch Owners Association called for the indefinite strike from Tuesday night demanding the
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      233 17 Greek ship begins to crack in low tides; booms pot in place to protect port Reuters [KARACHI] An oil tanker grounded off Pakistan's Karachi port has started cracking and officials said yesterday they feared a major oil spill in the next 12
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      116 17 AFP [NEW DELHI] Twenty-eight Chinese nationals were rescued in the Andaman seas off India's east coast Tuesday after their ship sprung a leak, a report said. The Indian coast guard picked up a distress signal from the Chinese ship, the Yujia, reporting heavy flooding, the Press Trust of
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        1043 18 Europe's third largest airline is boosting its no-frills unit in a bid to fend off budget carriers encroaching its German market Bloomberg [MUNICH] DEUTSCHE Lufthansa, Europe's third-largest airline, is expanding its low-fare unit Germanwings and reducing regional partnerships to cut costs as chief executive officer
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        788 23 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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        486 24 German carrier bounces back from the red in Q1, but expects operating loss for fall year AFP Bloomberg [FRANKFURT] German airline Lufthansa said yesterday it flew back into profit in the second quarter of the current year thanks to prudent capacity
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        339 24 Bookings op after initial slump, says Abacus but hotels see low occupancy Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Abacus International Pte, Asia's largest travel and airline ticket reservation company, said last Tuesday's bomb blast in Jakarta had "minimal impact" on travel bookings to the country and
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        224 24 AFP [JOHANNESBURG] The South African government has given a guarantee of US$472 million to key lenders to South African Airways (SAA) and its parent company Transnet because of concern about expected losses, a media report said on yesterday. The Business Day newspaper said SAA
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          65 24 Bloomberg [LONDON] Ryanair Holdings pic, Europe's No 2 low-cost airline, plans to add three European routes and scrap another as it expands its network across the region. Ryanair will begin flights between Glasgow-Prestwick, Scotland, and Gothenburg, Sweden; Bournemouth, England, and Barcelona-Girona, Spain; and Frankfurt-Hahn and
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          79 24 AP [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Dragonair will launch two daily passenger flights to Bangkok, Thailand, in November as part of efforts to expand its reach in Asia, a newspaper reported. The Standard said on Monday Dragonair will first fly Airbus A 320 jets with 150 seats
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          81 24 Reuters [HONG KONG] China Eastern Airlines Corp Ltd said passenger traffic rose 6.99 per cent in July from the same period last year as the effects of the Sars outbreak faded. It carried 1.04 million passengers in July, up 151.6 per cent from June when
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        201 24 Bloomberg [LONDON] .Virgin Atlantic Airways, the UK's secondlargest airline, said it will add flights to Australia should British Airways stop serving the routes. British Airways (BA), Europe's largest airline, is considering cutting flights to Australia in the event the country's regulators
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        294 24 Reuters [HONG KONG] Passenger traffic at Hong Kong's airport rocketed 114 per cent in July from June to 80 per cent of its pre-Sars level, the airport operator said. The deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) virus began to strike Hong Kong with
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